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Ryan McGee Talks Omaha & CWS, Justin Moore on LSU vs Arkansas · Off The Bench

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Speaker 3: It's off the bench, all right, welcome back in our
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Speaker 3: number three O t V one, O four five, ESPN
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Speaker 3: Baton Rouge. Gonna catch up here with Ryan McGhee ESPN
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Speaker 3: SEC Network here in hopefully a couple of minutes, and
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Speaker 3: gonna you know, continue to break down the matchups there
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Speaker 3: in omahall. But one of the things Ryan does such
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Speaker 3: a fantastic job of is really painting the picture and
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Speaker 3: doing a deep dive into the details of like wherever
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Speaker 3: he's going, whatever he's covering there. So looking forward to
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Speaker 3: that and let's go ahead and get into it now.
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Speaker 3: Ryan McGee, my guy, joins the show. What's up, sir,
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Speaker 3: how we doing.
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Speaker 2: We're good, We're busy, you know, Benzy's good and it's
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Speaker 2: time to get on with it. Man. It's I spend
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Speaker 2: you know, I'm really fortunate I got this ridiculous work calendar,
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Speaker 2: and you know everybody else does Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter or
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Speaker 2: whatever I do, National Championship, Daytona five and five Omaha,
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Speaker 2: So it's time time to get on with it.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, man, And you just dropped another great article road
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Speaker 3: to Omaha, how the Men's College World Series became a
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Speaker 3: town's pride and joy.
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Speaker 4: It's on ESPN dot com. Now go check that out.
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Speaker 3: And one of the reasons, man, Ryan, I want to
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Speaker 3: have you on because you do such a great job
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Speaker 3: of just detailing and explaining like what this event means
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Speaker 3: to Omaha. And you just laid out like what you
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Speaker 3: get to do, and and look, you and I are
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Speaker 3: very unfortunate and we get to do very very cool
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Speaker 3: stuff like that. But like Omaha, when you go there,
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Speaker 3: like it does feel different, Like it feels like a
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Speaker 3: place that is special. It feels like everybody there is
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Speaker 3: just so happy to be there. Where would you put
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Speaker 3: Omaha in all the experiences that you get to have
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Speaker 3: throughout the sports calendar. Where would you place Omaha kind
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Speaker 3: of in the pecking order there?
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Speaker 2: Man, It's tough, but just personally, like emotionally, it's my
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Speaker 2: favorite event. Yeah, And there's a lot of reasons for that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I grew up you know this. I grew
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Speaker 2: up in the Triangle in North Carolina, Raleigh, and you
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Speaker 2: know that's a college area. And so I grew up
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Speaker 2: and my dad played college baseball East Carolina. Ye, And
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Speaker 2: so I grew up going to college baseball games at
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Speaker 2: NC State and UNC and you know East Carolina wake
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Speaker 2: Forest Duke, and there'd be fifteen people there. It'd be me,
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Speaker 2: my dad, my brother, like some girlfriends and the players
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Speaker 2: and a couple of scouts. That's it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I'm sitting watching Duke in North Carolina
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Speaker 2: Super Regionals, and so I would just I would hear
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Speaker 2: about alex Box Stadium and I would see you know, uh,
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Speaker 2: you know obviously Rosenblat Stadium on ESPN, and just it
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Speaker 2: all just felt so giant. And so my dad and
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Speaker 2: I first got to go to the Caberal Series together
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Speaker 2: twenty five years ago. It was Father's Ay weekend. It
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Speaker 2: was perfect, and so I wasn't there working. I was
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Speaker 2: there as a fan. My dad and I went several
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Speaker 2: years in a row, and I've been almost every year
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Speaker 2: since and getting paid for it, and I just it
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Speaker 2: just feels different. I mean, LSU fans know that because
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Speaker 2: they're a huge part of it, and you know which
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Speaker 2: is just it's like homecoming. It really is. You go
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Speaker 2: there and if you've been once or if you've been
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Speaker 2: twenty times, you know, like like lsu Has you know
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Speaker 2: the guy at the hotel, right, and you know the
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Speaker 2: bus driver, and you know the people at the drover
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Speaker 2: of the steakhouse, and you just it's people at the stadium.
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Speaker 2: It's just it's homecoming. And that's why I love us
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Speaker 2: so much.
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Speaker 3: And not a lot of times like can you survive
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Speaker 3: you know, changing things up when you have an event
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Speaker 3: like go but there was a new stadium and I
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Speaker 3: remember being worried, like, oh Man Rosenblat is like so
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Speaker 3: iconic and like all my childhood memories of watching and
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Speaker 3: Warren Morris in the home run against Miami, like are
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Speaker 3: you gonna lose that? They've done a really nice job
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Speaker 3: ran of still being able to keep that same magic
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Speaker 3: even though they're in you know, a newer kind of
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Speaker 3: state of the art facility there, which is not always
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Speaker 3: easy to do.
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Speaker 2: No, and in the first couple of years was tough. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you know the you know, they turned the stadium for
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Speaker 2: this beautiful view of the city, but the problem is
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Speaker 2: wind blows in that way, right, So there's no home runs,
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Speaker 2: and you know in the ballpark's very you know, Rosenblat
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Speaker 2: was quirky, but but you know this too, man, Rosenblat
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Speaker 2: was the best. I missed it. I have a seat
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Speaker 2: in my house, you know, I go up to the
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Speaker 2: site and if folks don't know, you can go to
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Speaker 2: the Rosenblat site and there's home plates there, Warren Morris's,
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Speaker 2: you know, right field Falpole still there. It's all still
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Speaker 2: there in the parking lot. And it's great. But I
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Speaker 2: was worried about the new ballpark, and the first couple
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Speaker 2: of years were great. But now all the neighborhood has
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Speaker 2: grown in around the ballpark, and you know, downtown Omaha
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Speaker 2: has become really what Thirteenth Street the area around Rose
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Speaker 2: Black used to be. And so we've grown into the place.
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Speaker 2: And now it's got its moment, right I mean now,
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Speaker 2: I mean the lsu Ight Forest game in some of
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Speaker 2: my finals was three years. That's the best game ever
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Speaker 2: been to in my life, maybe the best sport of
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Speaker 2: it ever been to. And so now it has these moments,
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Speaker 2: and it has its champions, and it has all these things,
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Speaker 2: and so it's grown up. I was worried about it too,
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Speaker 2: and quite frankly, so were the people of Omaha. You know,
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Speaker 2: to Aha, they want to build that stadium. NCAA was like,
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Speaker 2: you to build a new stadium or we're out right,
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Speaker 2: And so to the mayor's credit at the time, even
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Speaker 2: though he just got crushed by the public, it was
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Speaker 2: the right thing to do. And now, yeah, I still
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Speaker 2: we all still call it the new Ballpark. And that
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Speaker 2: thing opened in twenty eleven, right, I mean it's got
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Speaker 2: it's got almost almost a decade and a half end.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: You know, and I love the fact that it's in
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Speaker 3: the same spot every year, and we we you know,
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Speaker 3: we cover events like the National Championship, and I'm not
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Speaker 3: going to call names, but there's some places that it
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Speaker 3: feels more of, Hey, I am here.
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Speaker 4: For the National Championship.
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Speaker 3: There's some places we go to and it's like, does
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Speaker 3: anybody in this town know that the National Championship is
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Speaker 3: being played in this stadium coming up in a couple
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Speaker 3: of days, right, But I think when you have it
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Speaker 3: in this you know, I don't wanst say it's not
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Speaker 3: small town. It's not a small town, but you know
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Speaker 3: what I'm saying, it's like this town that cares so
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Speaker 3: deeply about having this event and they cater everything to
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Speaker 3: this event. Right, Oklahoma City does it for the Women's
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Speaker 3: College World Series. I understand moving things around, the dollars
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Speaker 3: and cents of it, but Ryan, when something is constant
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Speaker 3: and it's there and the people care so much about it,
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Speaker 3: even if you don't have a dog in the fight,
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Speaker 3: you can go to that event and you can appreciate
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Speaker 3: everything is put into the event seventy five.
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Speaker 2: Years that it's been at Almah, which is crazy. And
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Speaker 2: so listen to the greatest sporting events in my mind,
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Speaker 2: and are the ones where you can't separate the city
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Speaker 2: or the town from the event and vice versa. So
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Speaker 2: you know, it's you can't imagine the Rose Bowl anywhere
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Speaker 2: other than passing it. You can't imagine the Masters anywhere
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Speaker 2: of it. Augusta, you can't imagine. I mean, it's the
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Speaker 2: Indianapolis five hundred, It's the Daytona five hundred, right, I mean,
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Speaker 2: so you just when you can't separate it, you know
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Speaker 2: it's important. And that's why I think that that it
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Speaker 2: won't ever move. And part of the reason for that
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Speaker 2: is the end the people of the Ncuba they love
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Speaker 2: it as much as the people in Omaha. I remember,
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Speaker 2: I wrote my New York Times worst selling book, you know,
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Speaker 2: back in two thousand and nine. I wrote Omaha, and
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Speaker 2: one of the whole chapters was the insurance Man in
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Speaker 2: the Pope. And it was Denny Pope, who was the
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Speaker 2: baseball administrator for the n Cuba forever, a great football
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Speaker 2: player at Missouri. And then it was you know, Jack Deeson,
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Speaker 2: whose father founded you know, the hometown corporation that runs
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Speaker 2: the Omaha side of the caulderwal series. And now he
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Speaker 2: runs it and one day his daughter will run it. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and they're like brothers, you know, their kids, babies at
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Speaker 2: each other, you know, and so you just it's just family.
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Speaker 2: It's just just the best way to describe it. And
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Speaker 2: I don't think that even though it's definitely more corporate
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Speaker 2: and it's definitely downtown versus being in the meat packer
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Speaker 2: neighborhood where it used to be Rosenblat, it still has
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Speaker 2: that feeling. And you can't again, you can't separate them.
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Speaker 2: You can't imagine one without the other. And I mean, listen,
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Speaker 2: we're living in this kind this wacko time where money
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Speaker 2: runs everything. I get it, But I think that's part
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Speaker 2: of why, even if you don't have a team in
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Speaker 2: the series, you go because it kind of taps into
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Speaker 2: what we all love about college sports. It's one of
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Speaker 2: the last places left, like Oklahoma City and the Women's
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Speaker 2: College wal Series, one of the last lite stuff where
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Speaker 2: you go and you're like, all right, this is what
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Speaker 2: college sports is supposed to fill at right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree wholeheardly with you.
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Speaker 3: And it's one of the many things that makes it special,
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Speaker 3: Like another part of the College World Series that I
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Speaker 3: always enjoy. And look if las who's in it, come on, Like,
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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna act like I'm not rooting for my Tigers,
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Speaker 3: but like also when a team like Murray State makes it,
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Speaker 3: and you know, we've seen teams make runs before me
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Speaker 3: and Fresno State finished the deal in two thousand and
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Speaker 3: eight Coastal Carolina.
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Speaker 4: The run that they go on.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's one of the best parts about college
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Speaker 3: baseball is because like we get these Cinderella teams that
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Speaker 3: just get hot and they find a way and they're
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Speaker 3: throwing eighty eight on the mound in not ninety six,
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Speaker 3: but it's working for them, and they got the ultimate belief.
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Speaker 4: Like this Murray State team.
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Speaker 3: I know that you have to, you know, kind of
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Speaker 3: enjoy kind of getting ready to cover them. I mean,
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Speaker 3: the coach is still mowing his own grass. He was
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Speaker 3: only making two years ago sixty eight thousand dollars to
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Speaker 3: be the head baseball coach there, and even with the
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Speaker 3: bump and pay he got, it is not even a
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Speaker 3: fraction of what some of these other coaches are making.
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Speaker 3: Like what a great story Murray State is. And Murray
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Speaker 3: State's had moments in other sports, but for the first
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Speaker 3: time their baseball program gets to the College World Series.
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Speaker 2: And it's perfect that in this seventy fifth anniversary of
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Speaker 2: the series in Omaha, that there that Murray State then,
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Speaker 2: because if you know your history of the series, there's
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Speaker 2: almost always one team, I mean almost everything. That last
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Speaker 2: year was the all where it was all SEC versus
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Speaker 2: all ACC And that's fine, and it's certainly great for
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Speaker 2: business if you're the co host of Martin McGee, right,
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Speaker 2: I mean, but but I kind of was sad because
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Speaker 2: you want but almost every single year, right Stonybrook, just
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Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, Fans to this day talk
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Speaker 2: about when the Citadel made it and upset the number
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Speaker 2: one team in the nation in the College World Series,
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Speaker 2: and that was thirty forty years ago. And so I
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Speaker 2: mean you go back to the history of it and
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Speaker 2: its main in Hawaii and Harvard, and you know, even
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Speaker 2: Southern Myss who's always had a great baseball program and
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Speaker 2: had never made to Omaha. There's always there's always one
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Speaker 2: almost every single year. And so I was glad Murray
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Speaker 2: State made it, and I hope they make a little noise,
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Speaker 2: And yeah, I don't. I don't root against teams, you know,
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Speaker 2: I stay neutral, But there was and I got a
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Speaker 2: lot of friends who work at Duke, but there was
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Speaker 2: definitely a part of me that wanted Murray State to
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Speaker 2: win that game oney night, just because I wanted an
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Speaker 2: underdog at the Caudal too.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, no, I mean, I'm right there with you.
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Speaker 4: It's like, I got nothing against do it.
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Speaker 3: I'm the same way, like I know people that worked
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Speaker 3: there and and different athletic departments, was like, how do
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Speaker 3: you not root for what Murray State's trying to do
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Speaker 3: right now? In the path right and that they went through,
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Speaker 3: I mean not just old missing Oxford, I mean Georgia
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Speaker 3: Tech had a real case to be a regional host
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Speaker 3: as well, and they go through them. I mean they
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Speaker 3: were not given anything too, which makes it even you know,
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Speaker 3: that much better. I think in the fact that who
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Speaker 3: they had to go through, they earned the right to
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Speaker 3: be there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a good question about it. And and they
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Speaker 2: you can't take the road they're taking. It's funny talking
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Speaker 2: to my friends down at All Miss they were all
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Speaker 2: rooting for Murray State because the team that you lose to,
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Speaker 2: you want them to at least make it to Omaha. Right,
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Speaker 2: you don't want you don't want to lose to them.
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Speaker 2: And then they go to Duke and get swept. Right,
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Speaker 2: that's the beauty of it. And man, let's say something. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I understand there are people that have kind of got
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Speaker 2: their nose been out of shape because it's LSU in
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Speaker 2: Arkansas in the first round and the only two SEC
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Speaker 2: teams that dude, Saturday night in Omaha, and you've given
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Speaker 2: all those art to me. The two most fun ballparks
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Speaker 2: in the nation to go see a game are Bob
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Speaker 2: Walker and Fable and the Box. And now you take
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Speaker 2: those fans and you put them all in a bunch
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Speaker 2: of pickup trucks and drop them to Omaha, and you
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Speaker 2: give them all day to get lubricated, and now we're
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Speaker 2: gonna play a game, baseball game. It's gonna be I'm
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Speaker 2: so mad because I don't. I don't go till next
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Speaker 2: week I go. I'd always go in for the second half.
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Speaker 4: Yea, right, Yeah, it's a long trip.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. But and so the one year I convinced
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Speaker 2: them to let me go for the for the opening
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Speaker 2: weekend a few years ago, the morning I left was
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Speaker 2: the morning the North Chrona state popped every COVID test
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Speaker 2: and stayed in Nebraska. And so I was like, soose,
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Speaker 2: So you know, I'm stuck in North Carolina. So they
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Speaker 2: were like no, no, no, no, You're going for the championship.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, but it's but the atmosphere on Saturday night
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Speaker 2: is going to be off chart, and this will not
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Speaker 2: be the last time that these two teams play in
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Speaker 2: this tournament.
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Speaker 4: I'm right there with you.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I actually just got chills thinking about it,
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Speaker 3: like I would be in that number. That number is
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Speaker 3: going to be loud. It is going to be two.
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Speaker 3: I think I agree with you. I think like you
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Speaker 3: throw Mississippi State in there, like whatever rotation you want.
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Speaker 3: Three best fan bases in college football. Two of them
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Speaker 3: playing against each other. Yeah, rivals, I mean opening you
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Speaker 3: know night for them in the College World Series prime time.
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that's going to be an electric, electric
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Speaker 3: atmosphere there. Any other like another, any other games, any
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Speaker 3: other teams kind of catching your interest there because I
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Speaker 3: can't get away from Coastal Carolina, even though like they
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Speaker 3: have already won a national championship. They're on the scene,
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Speaker 3: they're you know, they've turned themselves into a blue blood
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Speaker 3: of college baseball. For as much as you possibly can
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Speaker 3: you win a national championship, you're consistent.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to give you that title.
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Speaker 3: But something still feels like little disrespect whenever Coastal's brought
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Speaker 3: up because they play in the Sun Belt, people don't
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Speaker 3: understand it's a really good baseball conference. And so Coastal
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Speaker 3: is a team too that you went over fifty games.
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Speaker 3: I think that's a team in bracket number one to
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Speaker 3: I hustle a little bit.
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Speaker 2: They had a loss of a month, a last state
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Speaker 2: baseball game in a month, and so coach Shnall, who
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Speaker 2: was a catcher there and played for so folks that
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Speaker 2: don't know I wrote a huge story about him a
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Speaker 2: year ago. But Gary Gilmore was the head coach at Coastal.
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Speaker 2: He's the one that led them to the national championship
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Speaker 2: at twenty sixteen, and coach Gilmour retired at the end
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Speaker 2: of last season. At the end of during the NCLA Tournament,
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Speaker 2: battling two different forms of cancer simultaneously, one of the
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Speaker 2: all time great guys I've ever known in college sports,
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Speaker 2: and he called coach Schnall and said, I need you
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Speaker 2: to come home and take over of this program. And
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Speaker 2: all he did is getting into the College World Series
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Speaker 2: in his first year. And he was so so chippy
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Speaker 2: last weekend after they clinched their spots, saying, this team
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Speaker 2: is not a Cinderella. Everybody needs to get over that
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Speaker 2: because the reality was I thought this should have been
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Speaker 2: a top eight theeyeh, I really did believe that. Kyle
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Speaker 2: Peterston and I said that on our pre tournament special
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Speaker 2: in ESPN. We said, I don't understand why they're not
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Speaker 2: a top top eight seed, a national seed, and so
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Speaker 2: for them to be there, it is not a surprise
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Speaker 2: if you actually follow college baseball. But it's a great
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Speaker 2: story and I am I'm not gonna lie and tell
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Speaker 2: you that I've watched a lot of Oregon State baseball
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Speaker 2: this year, but this is the team that's won three
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Speaker 2: national championships, you know, in this century. And they have
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Speaker 2: four or five guys with double digit home runs like
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Speaker 2: and they have you know that their their shortstop is
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Speaker 2: probably going to be the highest pick college baseball player
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Speaker 2: in the draft next one. So it's it is, there
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Speaker 2: is so much talent in this thing. And all right
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Speaker 2: to that point too, you Oregon State, you have Arizona,
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Speaker 2: and you have UCLA all in the College Rule Series.
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Speaker 2: They were all in the Pac twelve what a year
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Speaker 2: and a half ago. Yeah, And it's just it just
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Speaker 2: adds to the frustration to the entire West coast of
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Speaker 2: what are we doing? You know? And you've got one
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Speaker 2: team in Oregon State that's in the pack too, you know,
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Speaker 2: that's about to become a bigger conference. It's so weird
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Speaker 2: seeing them play with a big PAC twelve logo in
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Speaker 2: their backstop. And then you've got UCLA, who's in the
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Speaker 2: has a chance to win the Big Tens, first Cultural
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Speaker 2: Series since nineteen sixty six. And then you got Arizona,
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Speaker 2: who is a who's an Omaha blue blood and they're
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Speaker 2: playing out of Big twelve. It's just I just don't
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Speaker 2: see how the Pack twelve people sleep at night because
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Speaker 2: they have just burned this thing to the ground and
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Speaker 2: they could be dominating the Couderal Series this year.
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Speaker 4: You're right, you're exactly.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they would have three teams and it yeah,
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Speaker 3: it is man Oregon State story. And then you know
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Speaker 3: they have been left lonely on the dance floor because
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Speaker 3: at least those other teams did find like a major
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Speaker 3: conference to go to. I mean, Oregon State playing an
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Speaker 3: independent schedule, like that's like in football that it's kind
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Speaker 3: it's difficult, but you can find a way to find
16:59
Speaker 3: some games. Obviously they're Dame's in it for a long time.
17:02
Speaker 3: Yukon's going through it right now. But like once conference
17:06
Speaker 3: play starts in baseball, like those teams are playing, but
17:09
Speaker 3: they had to find somebody that might happen to be
17:11
Speaker 3: off and they had to go to them. They played
17:13
Speaker 3: like seventy eight percent of their games like on the
17:16
Speaker 3: road as a national blue blood college baseball program. Like
17:20
Speaker 3: that's just wild to me.
17:22
Speaker 2: Now, and it made it work, and I give them
17:24
Speaker 2: a lot of credit. I really Then in Washington State
17:27
Speaker 2: both in every sport of putting this thing together. While
17:30
Speaker 2: they are managed that they're also overseeing this, you know,
17:34
Speaker 2: this reconstruction of the Pack twelve. But it's just for
17:37
Speaker 2: folks that don't know. Forever the College Would Series was
17:42
Speaker 2: dominated by the Pack back then the Pack eighth, even
17:46
Speaker 2: West Coast Conference originally, and it was you know, USC
17:49
Speaker 2: still holds the record for the most titles. Everyone won
17:51
Speaker 2: a long time, but they still hold a record. You know, Arizona,
17:54
Speaker 2: Arizona State, cal State Fullarton, you know, all these California schools, Pepperdine, Stanford, California,
18:02
Speaker 2: and Arizona dominated the College World Series no matter what
18:05
Speaker 2: conference they were from for decades. And so it always
18:09
Speaker 2: makes me a little sad when there's this. There's a
18:11
Speaker 2: big map that's in the the what the call of
18:14
Speaker 2: baseball village next to the ballparks, all the souvenir stands
18:17
Speaker 2: and be a beer garden off, but there's this big
18:20
Speaker 2: map that shows where every one of the eight schools
18:23
Speaker 2: of that year series is from. And again, it's great
18:27
Speaker 2: for me, it's great for Marty McGee when when the
18:30
Speaker 2: SEC dominates the lineup, but I don't think it's great
18:32
Speaker 2: for college baseball. And when I look at that map
18:36
Speaker 2: and it's got three or four teams from west of the Mississippi,
18:39
Speaker 2: that's great for the sport. And this year, this year,
18:42
Speaker 2: that map is the most evenly distributed that it has
18:45
Speaker 2: been in a really, really long time. And again it's
18:48
Speaker 2: not great for the SEC co host of the show
18:51
Speaker 2: me but but it's but it's pretty good for college
18:54
Speaker 2: baseball as a whole a.
18:55
Speaker 3: Case, right right, I am right there with you. I
18:58
Speaker 3: totally agree. This year it feels right all right. He
19:01
Speaker 3: is Ryan McGee good enough to join us ESPN SEC Network,
19:04
Speaker 3: Marty and McGee does it all. Also ESPN dot Com
19:08
Speaker 3: Road to omahall how the men's College World Series became
19:12
Speaker 3: a town's pride and joy is on there now. It
19:14
Speaker 3: is a must read. Go check it out, Ryan Man.
19:17
Speaker 3: We always appreciate the time. Look forward to our next conversation.
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Speaker 2: All right, appreciate you, buddy, see letter.
19:21
Speaker 4: All right, there is Ryan McGee good enough to join
19:23
Speaker 4: us here.
19:24
Speaker 3: And Ryan is so good at going somewhere like Omaha
19:31
Speaker 3: and just really telling the story of where he's at
19:35
Speaker 3: and what it means and the people that make something
19:39
Speaker 3: like this happen. Every single year, So go check his
19:43
Speaker 3: article out again. It just dropped earlier this morning on
19:46
Speaker 3: ESPN dot com. All right, we will take a break.
19:48
Speaker 3: We do have country music superstar Justin Morris set to
19:52
Speaker 3: join us in ten minutes from now. Going to go
19:55
Speaker 3: ahead and let you know. He is a razorback, he
19:57
Speaker 3: is an Arkansas fan. He has promised not to call
20:00
Speaker 3: the Hogs on the interview. We'll see if he gets
20:03
Speaker 3: that done. More OTB when we come back, your way
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Speaker 1: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown L s
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Speaker 1: U football like only champions can.
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Speaker 3: Okay, wait all right, welcome back in OTB one oh
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Speaker 3: four five ESPN baton rouge, keep that going in background line.
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Speaker 3: If you want inside the boy, you four chat. Let
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Speaker 3: us know what the the bet should be. Justin Moore
21:42
Speaker 3: hopping on with us obviously big country music star.
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Speaker 4: Uh good friend of mine hosted radio with him.
21:49
Speaker 3: I mean the guy is locked in like no sports
21:52
Speaker 3: and certainly the SEC as well as anybody. Uh So
21:55
Speaker 3: he gets the game, is my point, Like he gets
21:57
Speaker 3: what it means to root for your team.
22:00
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm thinking the one y'all laid out earlier.
22:04
Speaker 3: I think it was a Landra nice job him wearing
22:06
Speaker 3: an L s U shirt to one of his concerts. Yeah,
22:09
Speaker 3: me and me our jersey Hey, we can send him
22:12
Speaker 3: an eighteen or fifteen. You can wear either one of
22:15
Speaker 3: us or gosh, all right, are like who broke Arkansas's
22:22
Speaker 3: heart like one time or somebody like you know what
22:24
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like, what would be like a deep cut
22:25
Speaker 3: of somebody Jarvis Landry that catch he had.
22:28
Speaker 5: I mean Flynn kind of well, I don't know about heartburn.
22:33
Speaker 3: Flynn lost because he was in the locker room getting
22:35
Speaker 3: shut up thirty yard hill mayor Actually that wasn't Flynn's fault.
22:39
Speaker 3: We couldn't stop a notice bleed that game. Not better
22:42
Speaker 3: about it. I think Jarvishry might be a good one.
22:45
Speaker 3: Remember Tyrone had to catches. We'll come up with it. Uh,
22:54
Speaker 3: but if I lose the bat, I've got to at
22:58
Speaker 3: SEC media days.
22:59
Speaker 4: Sit there an Arkansas shirt on and called the Hawks.
23:02
Speaker 6: Anthony Jennings, Right, Matt gets hurt, he goes in there,
23:08
Speaker 6: he hits Trayvan Drell to win it.
23:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was twenty fourteen, twenty thirteen, that was Matt.
23:16
Speaker 6: That was Mets last year. It was last game, yeah,
23:19
Speaker 6: twenty thirteen, Yeah, acl yeah, tour it right there.
23:23
Speaker 4: It was actually Anthony.
23:24
Speaker 6: Okay, remember the catch the Jarvis had over that dB.
23:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was that play.
23:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, Justin did just reach out to me. He's gonna
23:36
Speaker 3: have to do phone instead of video, he said, I
23:40
Speaker 3: just wanted to grab my computer and it's on my
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23:46
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Speaker 5: You know, our guy gold chain cowboy, Parker mccollory. Yeah,
23:53
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23:56
Speaker 4: He just wore one, did it? Yeah? And I love it?
23:59
Speaker 4: What jersey you go?
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Speaker 5: Well, I don't remember what number it was, but it
24:02
Speaker 5: was a baseball jersey. It was a couple of years
24:05
Speaker 5: ago when he was here in Baton Rouge and we
24:08
Speaker 5: went to go see him and he was wearing an
24:10
Speaker 5: LSU jersey on stage. It was great because he's a
24:13
Speaker 5: Texas fan, right, Yeah, I think so.
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Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna see if I can find this picture,
24:19
Speaker 3: park McCollum LSU baseball jersey.
24:22
Speaker 4: It's a purple one.
24:24
Speaker 3: I don't really see the number there, but we're gonna
24:26
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Speaker 4: Justin Moore was gonna do video.
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Speaker 3: It's all right, still gonna have him on the phone,
24:35
Speaker 3: and look, we can make a bet be at audio
24:37
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Speaker 1: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn breaks down LSU
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Speaker 4: Justin? What's going on?
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Speaker 2: Man?
26:28
Speaker 4: How you doing?
26:30
Speaker 2: Hi?
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Speaker 6: Good morning?
26:30
Speaker 8: How are you, buddy?
26:32
Speaker 2: Uh?
26:32
Speaker 4: Doing fantastic? I'm getting excited about Oma Hall. I know
26:36
Speaker 4: you are as well.
26:37
Speaker 3: Of course, you know our teams you're gonna meet up
26:40
Speaker 3: Saturday night Primetime. I mean, how we feeling like we
26:44
Speaker 3: got to get a perspective from the other side of
26:47
Speaker 3: the table. How we feeling for the Hogs heading into Omaha?
26:51
Speaker 2: Heah?
26:51
Speaker 8: Well, first of all, it's a travesty. I think baseball
26:56
Speaker 8: is my favorite sport. I don't know if you and
26:58
Speaker 8: I have discussed that or not, but and I love
27:02
Speaker 8: the formats great, I'm fine with that, But I think
27:06
Speaker 8: we need to recede after the Supers because what I'm
27:11
Speaker 8: saying is a travesty. In my opinion, I think LSU
27:14
Speaker 8: and Arkansas are the best two teams in the field.
27:17
Speaker 8: That's my opinion at least, So for them to have
27:21
Speaker 8: to face each other game one be on the same
27:24
Speaker 8: side of the bracket, I think is it's tough drawl
27:27
Speaker 8: for both of us. Really, you know, it's just it's
27:31
Speaker 8: just kind of unlucky. Plus, man, we played an SEC
27:34
Speaker 8: team for the Supers soonious, I'm like, good night, can
27:37
Speaker 8: we please? Can we please get out of But no, man,
27:43
Speaker 8: I think it's gonna be a great game. I mean,
27:45
Speaker 8: both teams I think are playing a really good ball
27:48
Speaker 8: right now. I think you guys would probably have the
27:52
Speaker 8: edge in my opinion, and pitching, especially starting pitching and
27:57
Speaker 8: probably closing pitching. We've got a lengthy.
28:02
Speaker 2: Bulk in but you never know.
28:05
Speaker 8: You know, Zach Rut, who will start against you guys,
28:07
Speaker 8: is our ace, and man, when he's good, he's really
28:11
Speaker 8: really good. But he's been somewhat inconsistent, you know, over
28:17
Speaker 8: over the course of the year. But but I would
28:20
Speaker 8: probably give the edge to our lineup just but not
28:24
Speaker 8: by much. I mean, I just think we may be
28:27
Speaker 8: a little a little longer in our line maybe seventh
28:32
Speaker 8: through nine. But but man, it'll it'll be a great
28:35
Speaker 8: game and and I hope it's a great game at least.
28:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm expecting it to be that. And you're right,
28:42
Speaker 3: justin I didnt even think about that. Like, you go
28:44
Speaker 3: through another SEC team in super Regionals and you will
28:47
Speaker 3: talk about, like Zach Row's somebody that's, you know, an
28:50
Speaker 3: incredible guy on the mound. It doesn't always have like
28:53
Speaker 3: the most emotion, but he had all the emotion against
28:56
Speaker 3: Tennessee like that.
28:58
Speaker 4: That series, Like obviously.
29:00
Speaker 3: Tony V and David Horne the history there and Tony
29:02
Speaker 3: V's at Arkansas for a long time. It's been chirpy
29:04
Speaker 3: over the last couple of years. I mean, that was
29:07
Speaker 3: a series where Arkansas wanted to like show their dominance
29:10
Speaker 3: in a big way.
29:13
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, the first game was a really good game.
29:17
Speaker 8: I think it's four to three, and it really could
29:19
Speaker 8: have gone either way, and they their catcher. They were
29:25
Speaker 8: starting a backup catcher due to an ejection the game before,
29:30
Speaker 8: and uh, I think we scored on a pass ball
29:34
Speaker 8: that uh maybe the starter don't uh don't have that
29:38
Speaker 8: pass ball, which he had a pretty tough game in
29:40
Speaker 8: game two. But but then yeah, in game game two, man,
29:45
Speaker 8: we just we we had a couple of balls fly
29:49
Speaker 8: out of the park. Maybe one of them shouldn't have
29:53
Speaker 8: kind of backspun out the left and and the win
29:57
Speaker 8: was blowing out a little bit. And so yeah, it
29:59
Speaker 8: was good. But like you said, that's been a chirpy series.
30:03
Speaker 8: I don't know if you guys remember a few years ago, Uh,
30:07
Speaker 8: coach Bytello and and D d H got into it
30:11
Speaker 8: pretty pretty hardcore on the field and and then you know,
30:18
Speaker 8: they're totally fine, I'm sure, but the fans never forgot it.
30:22
Speaker 8: In other words, and and you know, the way Tennessee
30:25
Speaker 8: plays ball, they're there. They've been great under Tony obviously
30:30
Speaker 8: and and supremely talented, but they can be a little bush.
30:34
Speaker 3: League, you know, you know, with the we're here only
30:38
Speaker 3: in baton rouge. You're not gonna lose about Tennessee.
30:43
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're uh, you know, I just don't personally like
30:46
Speaker 8: the way they play the game. I just I just
30:49
Speaker 8: personally don't. But so that that that's kind of I
30:53
Speaker 8: think what happened as far as route going off on.
30:58
Speaker 8: They call Fish is Fisher I think is his name,
31:01
Speaker 8: who's a great player but a little a little bit
31:05
Speaker 8: of a smart ass, you know. And I think he
31:09
Speaker 8: gave it to Root, and then Root gave it back
31:11
Speaker 8: to it, and so or vice versa. I don't know
31:14
Speaker 8: who started it, but it was it was well finished it.
31:17
Speaker 4: Whoever started it.
31:18
Speaker 8: He finished exactly exactly after eybody feeling down there. I mean,
31:24
Speaker 8: I think we're going into it as a whole.
31:28
Speaker 2: We're like, yeah, we.
31:29
Speaker 8: Got as good a chance as anybody, but you know,
31:32
Speaker 8: we've been so heartbroken over the years when we thought
31:34
Speaker 8: we had really good well we did have really good teams.
31:37
Speaker 8: It's just hard to win out there. Yeah, and so
31:40
Speaker 8: we're like, yeah, I think we can do it, you.
31:43
Speaker 3: Know, Yeah, I guess, yeah, exactly exactly.
31:49
Speaker 1: That's the thing.
31:49
Speaker 8: But anyway, I asked you a question and I started talking.
31:53
Speaker 3: Again, how do you guys feeling That's what I was
31:55
Speaker 3: going to say, Like, until you've actually until you like
31:57
Speaker 3: finally do it, there's probably always going to be that feeling,
31:59
Speaker 3: and certainly Arkansas, I mean, they've been a pop.
32:01
Speaker 4: Up away from winning a national championship.
32:04
Speaker 3: But I think LSU fans probably feel like Arkansas fans
32:07
Speaker 3: like it is a very tough matchup. It's two teams
32:10
Speaker 3: that know each other incredibly well. And I don't know
32:13
Speaker 3: that there's ever been like you always want to win
32:14
Speaker 3: in Omaha, obvious, but I don't think there's ever been
32:17
Speaker 3: a more point of emphasis got to win this game,
32:20
Speaker 3: because a lot of us, just like you, think that
32:23
Speaker 3: this is a matchup between the two best teams, and
32:26
Speaker 3: if you win this one, man, it really sets you
32:29
Speaker 3: up for a nice path and then the other team's
32:31
Speaker 3: got to come out of the losers bracket. Now it's
32:33
Speaker 3: been done before. The last time LSU won a national championship,
32:36
Speaker 3: justin it was out.
32:37
Speaker 4: Of the losers bracket.
32:39
Speaker 3: But I don't remember like such a point of emphasis,
32:41
Speaker 3: My goodness, you win this one, Like what that feeling
32:45
Speaker 3: would feel like and how good of a spot you
32:47
Speaker 3: would feel like you're in, because this just feels like
32:51
Speaker 3: the two best teams. It's not just us saying It's
32:53
Speaker 3: not you saying it, it's Vegas saying it. I mean
32:55
Speaker 3: it is no doubt Arkansas LSU the two clear favorites
32:59
Speaker 3: here in Omaha, because after that is a big drop
33:02
Speaker 3: off before you get to Coastal Carolina.
33:05
Speaker 8: Yeah, I would agree with that, and I've said it.
33:08
Speaker 8: You know. I don't even know if I've talked to
33:10
Speaker 8: you about it, but I do a radio show in
33:12
Speaker 8: Little Rock with David Basil. Oh yeah, I know, you know. Yeah,
33:15
Speaker 8: And as matter of fact, I jumped off our show
33:18
Speaker 8: to jump on with you guys. I told Bath, I said,
33:21
Speaker 8: I'm going to talk to hester.
33:22
Speaker 2: He goes, you turn the back off.
33:25
Speaker 8: So maybe we can get you on our show. Absolutely
33:28
Speaker 8: after the game, maybe next week or something. But I
33:31
Speaker 8: think you're right. But I've said this on our show.
33:34
Speaker 8: I think this is the first of two games that
33:37
Speaker 8: l shoot all play regardless of who wins and who
33:42
Speaker 8: loses this game.
33:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm right there with you. I think the
33:46
Speaker 4: same thing.
33:46
Speaker 3: I think these teams have to go through the other
33:48
Speaker 3: one another time, and that's going to be maybe even
33:51
Speaker 3: more of an intriguing matchup because who knows what the
33:53
Speaker 3: pitching is going to be like. And that's why, like
33:55
Speaker 3: winning that first one just feels so important. But I
33:59
Speaker 3: do have to say and so throughout the show. So
34:02
Speaker 3: we're also like on YouTube, we're on TV, and so
34:04
Speaker 3: we have interaction with like a little chat during this
34:07
Speaker 3: show and they're always great in you know interactions have
34:10
Speaker 3: been through the roof today trying to come up with
34:13
Speaker 3: a bet for us, for you and I to come
34:17
Speaker 3: up with a bet.
34:18
Speaker 4: Now, well, well we got some time to work it out.
34:21
Speaker 3: But the best one that I've seen so far today,
34:25
Speaker 3: And I know you've got a couple of shows coming up.
34:27
Speaker 3: I know you're going to be in Minnesota here coming up,
34:30
Speaker 3: So maybe it's not right now. Maybe we see who
34:33
Speaker 3: ends up going, you know, the farthest down the road
34:35
Speaker 3: in the College World Series. But the best one I've
34:38
Speaker 3: seen is if LSU wins and moves on, you got
34:43
Speaker 3: to wear an LSU shirt jersey at one of your
34:46
Speaker 3: shows for at least like a song.
34:49
Speaker 4: And then if Arkansas wins, I've.
34:52
Speaker 3: Got to wear an Arkansas shirt at SEC media days
34:56
Speaker 3: and also call the Hogs.
34:58
Speaker 7: Wow.
35:00
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's that's it's gonna be brutal for everyone.
35:05
Speaker 3: Look, I mean, I know your wife's family has you know,
35:08
Speaker 3: some l s U gear they can send. Look, we'll
35:10
Speaker 3: send you the gear if we have to. I mean,
35:12
Speaker 3: I know it's later around the house there at your
35:13
Speaker 3: in law, like somebody's got to know you.
35:15
Speaker 8: Sure they can send you Yeah, yeah. Likewise, yeah, yeah,
35:20
Speaker 8: you know my my I think I talked about it
35:22
Speaker 8: last time I was on with you, But yeah, my
35:25
Speaker 8: wife's from home, and so over the years there's been
35:28
Speaker 8: a lot of trash talk. But between us now, at
35:32
Speaker 8: the time we started dating, which was twenty three years ago,
35:36
Speaker 8: our football program was winning a few more games and
35:41
Speaker 8: and so we haven't had a whole lot of stuff
35:45
Speaker 8: to talk trash about over the past few years, except
35:50
Speaker 8: for a couple of seasons. But but yeah, man, it's
35:54
Speaker 8: it's always fun to give it to each other. I
35:57
Speaker 8: think that's what to me college sports or uh it
36:01
Speaker 8: kind of makes them so fun. And I mean you
36:04
Speaker 8: and I are on opposing side and and good friends
36:08
Speaker 8: at the same time, So to me, that's kind of
36:11
Speaker 8: what makes the sports so fun and why everybody invests
36:16
Speaker 8: so much into it and uh emotion wise, and uh so, yeah,
36:21
Speaker 8: it's it's a good time and uh so you got
36:24
Speaker 8: are you going to omall?
36:25
Speaker 3: So if they make it to the championship series is
36:30
Speaker 3: when we're thinking we're going to try to get up there,
36:32
Speaker 3: uh you know with the other with the afternoon series
36:34
Speaker 3: x SIM show, Like trying to figure out how to
36:37
Speaker 3: get there, how to do both shows is a little tricky,
36:40
Speaker 3: but we said, if they make it to the final series,
36:43
Speaker 3: then we are going to drop whatever we've got going
36:45
Speaker 3: on and find a way up there.
36:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
36:48
Speaker 8: That's exactly my my deal. I've got to play shows
36:52
Speaker 8: unfortunately this weekend and and then let's see, I would
36:59
Speaker 8: miss game one if we happened to Mad made the championship,
37:03
Speaker 8: but I could catch Game two, and if there's a
37:05
Speaker 8: Game three, but you know, there's a there's a lot
37:08
Speaker 8: of a lot of ball at the play before that,
37:11
Speaker 8: I can make those plan you know.
37:14
Speaker 4: I know.
37:14
Speaker 3: I'm sitting here and I'm like looking, I'm like, all right,
37:16
Speaker 3: it is June the twelfth.
37:18
Speaker 4: I'm sitting here looking at Justin's tour dates.
37:22
Speaker 3: Oh man, I mean right like in the middle of
37:25
Speaker 3: the Championship series like you would.
37:27
Speaker 4: You're not far away though.
37:29
Speaker 3: It looks like you're going to be in Cedar Rapids
37:31
Speaker 3: in the twenty first and so you can maybe play
37:35
Speaker 3: that show and then pop down to Omaha, like at
37:38
Speaker 3: least you're somewhat close.
37:40
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's the plan.
37:41
Speaker 2: I think.
37:41
Speaker 8: I looked and it was four or five hours or
37:44
Speaker 8: something like that, So I could I could just pop
37:46
Speaker 8: over in the bus and and uh catch catch the
37:50
Speaker 8: next game or two or whatever. Uh, So we'll see.
37:54
Speaker 2: Uh.
37:55
Speaker 8: But last time we went to Omahall, it was actually
37:59
Speaker 8: Father's Day weekend again, and I came home on the
38:02
Speaker 8: bus from the show and exhausted and just ready to
38:06
Speaker 8: hang out with the kids and my wife. As soon
38:08
Speaker 8: as I walk in the door, she goes, happy Father's Day,
38:11
Speaker 8: I got your backpack. Go get back on the bus.
38:14
Speaker 8: We're going to Home Hall. And I'm I mean, I
38:17
Speaker 8: was thrilled, but I was like, I want to kind
38:20
Speaker 8: of hang out with the kids, and she goes, well,
38:22
Speaker 8: you can't. We're going there. Man, what a great experience.
38:25
Speaker 8: I'm sure you've been, but.
38:28
Speaker 2: I could.
38:29
Speaker 8: I couldn't believe the magnitude of what they do. I've
38:34
Speaker 8: never been to the super Bowl, but that's what it
38:36
Speaker 8: seemed like to me. I mean, just how how great
38:38
Speaker 8: a job that city does. And the atmosphere was awesome. Now,
38:43
Speaker 8: we went to and out, which was not a whole
38:46
Speaker 8: lot of fun, but we had a really good time.
38:50
Speaker 4: Yeah.
38:50
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and this one, like you want to whatever the
38:54
Speaker 3: peak attendance is and whatever, like the peak crowd noise is, whatever,
38:59
Speaker 3: like the standard is. I think it's going to be
39:01
Speaker 3: broken by Saturday night. L s U and Arkansas two
39:05
Speaker 3: of for my money, two of the best fan bases
39:08
Speaker 3: in college baseball. I think it is going to be incredible.
39:11
Speaker 3: It is going to be packed to the gills, It's
39:13
Speaker 3: going to be loud. It's at night, justin those fans
39:15
Speaker 3: are going to be well hydrated. They're gonna have all
39:18
Speaker 3: day to get their mind right ready for the game.
39:20
Speaker 3: And so man, whatever like the best atmosphere in that
39:23
Speaker 3: stadium is, it's going to be passed up, I think
39:25
Speaker 3: by what we see on Saturday night.
39:28
Speaker 8: Yeah, I totally agree. And I think both of our coaches,
39:32
Speaker 8: Coach Johnson and coach Van Horned both mentioned that you know,
39:36
Speaker 8: it's it's gonna be great, and I agree with you,
39:39
Speaker 8: so that I don't see how there's two better, more passionate,
39:45
Speaker 8: well traveled college baseball fan bases in the country. And
39:52
Speaker 8: so it's it's going to be a leade as far
39:54
Speaker 8: as atmosphere goes. And uh, you know, for for a
39:58
Speaker 8: few years man, you know, until the last few years,
40:01
Speaker 8: and we've had some really good basketball runs. But you know,
40:04
Speaker 8: we've we've had baseball for the past twenty years with
40:07
Speaker 8: coach Van Horn or whatever it's been. So that's what
40:11
Speaker 8: Razorback fans have had and they go, Okay, take a
40:15
Speaker 8: sigh relief. At least this baseball season. We know we're
40:17
Speaker 8: gonna be good in baseball at least, and we can
40:20
Speaker 8: compete with anybody, and we get you know, high level
40:23
Speaker 8: recruits and all that, and uh so, uh, I think
40:27
Speaker 8: that that's part of it for us at least, And
40:29
Speaker 8: obviously you guys with the legendary coach coach skip Bertman
40:37
Speaker 8: started that. It may have been somebody before that that
40:40
Speaker 8: I'm unaware of.
40:43
Speaker 2: And we had a.
40:46
Speaker 8: Coach, Norman O'Brien who did that for us before Dave
40:49
Speaker 8: got there. And and so it's it's you know, we've
40:53
Speaker 8: had a lot of tradition, you guys more because y'all
40:56
Speaker 8: have gotten over the hump. Uh what is it seven
40:59
Speaker 8: times seven?
40:59
Speaker 4: Yes, seven times?
41:00
Speaker 8: Yeah, so you know that obviously is part of it
41:05
Speaker 8: as well, a huge part of it.
41:08
Speaker 4: All right there.
41:08
Speaker 3: He is good friend country music superstar Justin Moore rooting
41:13
Speaker 3: on his hogs there in Omahall, Justin, let's talk some
41:16
Speaker 3: trash to the text thread. Let's come up with a
41:18
Speaker 3: bet the man looking forward to it.
41:22
Speaker 8: Get this bet lined out. And uh and I'm sure
41:25
Speaker 8: you and I will be texting during the Yeah.
41:28
Speaker 4: No question about it. Man.
41:30
Speaker 8: Well, hey, good luck to you guys. Not too much,
41:33
Speaker 8: but good luck to you guys. And and uh, it'll
41:36
Speaker 8: be It'll be fun regardless. Like I said, I'm just
41:39
Speaker 8: hope it's a great game and a great tournament and
41:42
Speaker 8: and uh and uh, well we'll roll it out there
41:45
Speaker 8: see what happens.
41:46
Speaker 3: Man, Yep, no question about it. Man, truly, do appreciate
41:49
Speaker 3: your time, justin, Man, I know how busy it is.
41:51
Speaker 3: I mean, you've got tour d eights coming up, so
41:52
Speaker 3: we appreciate a couple of minutes here.
41:55
Speaker 8: Hey, thanks brother, Always good to talk to you.
41:57
Speaker 4: All the best, all right, you as well again.
41:59
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42:05
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42:09
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42:21
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42:24
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42:26
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42:30
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42:31
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42:33
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42:35
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42:37
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44:31
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44:34
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44:38
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44:39
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44:42
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44:44
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44:49
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44:56
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44:59
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45:03
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45:06
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45:09
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45:12
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