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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Baseball - History Has A Home Field (Episode 719) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, baby, we're in and it is time for three
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  Speaker 1: guys before the game. I'm not gonna call it an
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  Speaker 1: emergency episode, but I would say there was fluid scheduling.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I want to give you. I want to
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  Speaker 1: say it was fluid scheduling. We were gonna decide. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll tell you here in a second.
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  Speaker 2: It's episode seven nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: If you're charting the numbers at home, we're bouncing around
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, but we're at seven nineteen. Seven eighteen
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  Speaker 1: comes actually next week, but it's okay, we'll be all right.
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  Speaker 1: The title of the program is WVU baseball History has
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  Speaker 1: a home field.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they shouldn't have a number. It should just be
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  Speaker 2: a bonus, like.
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  Speaker 3: Nah, you gotta convene. I gotta put it in the book.
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  Speaker 3: You know you got to you gotta put it in
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  Speaker 3: the book. It's all right, seven nineteen, and let's do
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  Speaker 1: all mountaineers, including you. All Right, so here we go,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. I just got a text here. Did
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  Speaker 1: off like live during the show. Yeah, we're recording. It's
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  Speaker 1: very early, well, I mean it's early early, it's not
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  Speaker 1: not very very early is when it's still dark.
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  Speaker 2: I was very I couldn't sleep. I couldn't I was
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  Speaker 2: up like three o'clock this smip being up since like
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  Speaker 2: three thirty. I just couldn't sleep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've had uh so West Virginia obviously just puts
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  Speaker 1: this miraculous series of games together. There have been nights
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  Speaker 1: in my mountaineer dumb, mountaineer dumb that we have some
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  Speaker 1: situations where we have lost games and when you go
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  Speaker 1: to bed and you roll over at night, it hits
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  Speaker 1: you like an absolute I can't believe that happened, right that.
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  Speaker 1: I oh, and I had one of those last night,
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  Speaker 1: but it was the other side of the spectrum there.
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  Speaker 1: It was, oh my goodness, that did happen. And as
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  Speaker 1: a result of that, West Virginia.
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  Speaker 4: It's movie likes the way to say that it's a
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  Speaker 4: movie and not done yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, done yet.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's still well, just guys, I often say to
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  Speaker 5: be a mountaineer fan is to suffer because mountaineer fans
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  Speaker 5: are so invested in what happens and it's so personal brand.
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  Speaker 5: The loss is hurt and the winds feel good. But
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  Speaker 5: then occasionally, if you stick with it.
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  Speaker 2: There will be moments. There will be.
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  Speaker 5: Moments where it's not just a win, it is historic
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  Speaker 5: where what happened this weekend takes its place in mountaineer
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  Speaker 5: sports history. Amen, And and the people who were there
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  Speaker 5: and the people who listen and people watch.
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  Speaker 2: Will always remember that.
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  Speaker 5: And it was just such a There was so much drama,
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  Speaker 5: so much it was like, because you know sometimes baseball's oh,
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  Speaker 5: the finals nine to one. No, there was so much drama.
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  Speaker 5: And Tony and I talked about this, and Tony was
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  Speaker 5: anguishing over you. Every pitch, Every pitch hurt your stomach,
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  Speaker 5: every pitch.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, and the crowds reacting to every pitch, They're going, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's just oh, it's a ball.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was enthralling.
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  Speaker 5: You couldn't if you were listening on the radio, you
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  Speaker 5: couldn't turn it off. Watching TV, you couldn't look away.
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  Speaker 5: You were mesmerized.
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  Speaker 4: Well well said, perfectly said. In fact, it and baseball
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  Speaker 4: does that close tight.
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  Speaker 2: Big stakes.
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  Speaker 4: Baseball gives you that because the natural slowness of the
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  Speaker 4: game like draws you in a little bit more basketball,
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  Speaker 4: you're going up and down. Things are going to happen fast.
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  Speaker 4: Even football, once you're going things are going to happen fast.
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  Speaker 4: Baseball just has that its own pace. Yes, and it
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  Speaker 4: just goes and you're you're exactly right. So the story
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  Speaker 4: in itself to get to your third super regional is
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  Speaker 4: simply stunning. For this part. This program is rolling and
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  Speaker 4: is a national program. This is no longer hey Wes
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  Speaker 4: for Day's into the super regionals. This is like, all right, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you're in super regionals. Of course, why wouldn't you be
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  Speaker 4: in super regels? But then to have the games shake
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  Speaker 4: out the way they did with those last two nights
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  Speaker 4: in particular, amazing, And this crowd collectively, all of the
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  Speaker 4: people that attended, we've all been to thousands of events,
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  Speaker 4: so per capita, you don't have the volume of fans,
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  Speaker 4: but noise level per capita, that's just good. As I've
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  Speaker 4: been around each of the last two nights and absolutely
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  Speaker 4: on its ear and guys, and it affected the game,
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  Speaker 4: and it's affected both of those games that was a
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  Speaker 4: near impossible environment for Kentucky. You saw some mistakes late,
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  Speaker 4: especially on Sunday night, that I think you can attribute
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  Speaker 4: directly back to what that atmosphere was like.
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  Speaker 5: And about the crowd and you guys were there. I
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  Speaker 5: was going back and forth between watching and listening to Andrew,
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  Speaker 5: who did.
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  Speaker 2: A wonderful job.
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  Speaker 5: Tony, your son did a really wonderful job on the podcast,
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  Speaker 5: and they could I mean, Andrew was talking about it,
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  Speaker 5: but the TV guys couldn't stop talking about it, and
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  Speaker 5: they kept showing shots of people on the hill side
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  Speaker 5: and people jammed in there, and the crowd became.
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  Speaker 2: A big part of the story of that weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it validates the perception that we have
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  Speaker 1: and that I think a lot of people have about
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  Speaker 1: the passion of WV fans. It was like on full display.
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  Speaker 2: And what do you always say about manor fans.
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  Speaker 1: They'll show up, They'll show up, right. And as a
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  Speaker 1: result of that, it became what it basically became, was
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  Speaker 1: it Friday Saturday? It became a four day infomercial for
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia University, no question, it became a four day infomercial.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that flying WV, which sits right behind where
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  Speaker 1: the catcher lines up off the left there on the pads, Like,
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  Speaker 1: you can't buy that. That's not available for sale. You
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  Speaker 1: can't buy that from a marketing standpoint, right, That's one thing.
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  Speaker 1: There are so many different offshoots to what just happened.
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  Speaker 1: The Max Yale story to me is an all time
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  Speaker 1: And I know we're all prisoners of the moment because
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  Speaker 1: this happened less than twelve hours.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry, we're less than twelve hours ago. But for
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  Speaker 1: Max Yale to have the start that he had in
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  Speaker 1: his opener for him on Saturday, and then to come
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  Speaker 1: back on Monday and at five innings of baseball, that
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  Speaker 1: is movie like, Like you you cannot go out there
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  Speaker 1: and clunk a couple of guys right and being a guy,
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  Speaker 1: and get victimized in the field and get been victimized
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  Speaker 1: by the first base umpire who didn't give you those
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  Speaker 1: strikes that were that were check swing strikes which probably
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  Speaker 1: would have got you out of the inning, which probably
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  Speaker 1: would have got you into the second inding and you
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  Speaker 1: would have been comfortable, and you would But for him
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  Speaker 1: to come back, that's an all time class. You talk
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  Speaker 1: about hard edge.
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  Speaker 4: That's well and then just from a macro with a
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  Speaker 4: macro within that micro story for West Virginia to be
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  Speaker 4: in a position in a deciding game when everybody's gone
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  Speaker 4: through all the pictures they have and you're coming back
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  Speaker 4: santals all right, big twelve picture the year will take
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  Speaker 4: the mound for us tonight, Like what a what a?
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  Speaker 4: What a psychological boost to that? Dugout to know, like
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  Speaker 4: our dude is back and there ain't no way he's
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  Speaker 4: not gonna perform. They're not gonna be back to back nights.
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  Speaker 4: Maxiel doesn't have his stuff and he comes out and
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  Speaker 4: pitches and that's that was great. That's not even the
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  Speaker 4: best pitching performance of the weekend by guys you had
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  Speaker 4: to have and you're talking about Dawson Montesa and Ben McDougal.
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  Speaker 4: Would I'll get into and spreads on stats, but guys,
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  Speaker 4: we could spend the next hour and this is what
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  Speaker 4: happens when you win in advance on. The individual performances
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  Speaker 4: that added up to the collective team marching on are
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  Speaker 4: simply jaw dropping. Guys that just said, multiple guys hop on,
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  Speaker 4: I got youa led by our guy Gavin Kelly that
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  Speaker 4: was just everything you want to say about Gavin Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: It's true and it's probably not enough. That exactly right there.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that coach Snaven said that there's so
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  Speaker 5: many storylines to it, and you mentioned Dawson Onntessa. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: what did you need after Maxiell struggled? What did you
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  Speaker 5: need the next day?
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  Speaker 4: You didn't just you didn't just need as you're on
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  Speaker 4: the brink of elimination and you've got a lot of
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  Speaker 4: games in front of you, but you gotta win the
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  Speaker 4: first one or the second one doesn't matter, and then
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  Speaker 4: you don't get to the third.
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  Speaker 2: You not only needed a like you.
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  Speaker 4: Say, all right, I gotta have a good pitching perform today,
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  Speaker 4: I would argue, and Steve can Ansers I would argue,
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  Speaker 4: you didn't just need a good pitching performance. You needed
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  Speaker 4: exactly what Montesa gave you, and that was a season
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  Speaker 4: long seven and a third appearance. Right, if he had
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  Speaker 4: given you four good ones, you would have been thrilled.
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  Speaker 4: He gave you seven. And then footnote, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: last night last night, oh give me the ball. I know,
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  Speaker 4: I just say yesterday, give me the ball. I'm coming
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  Speaker 4: back in and coming back in and I'm gonna throw ninety.
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  Speaker 5: Six still yeah, just remark we threw one hundred and
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  Speaker 5: twenty pitches the other night.
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  Speaker 1: Unreal.
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  Speaker 2: I know, it just just.
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  Speaker 5: A million millions. And baseball is you know, Brandon, you
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  Speaker 5: played college baseball. Baseball is I think, unlike any other
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  Speaker 5: sport in this and that things are going along, going along,
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  Speaker 5: going along, going along, and then something starts to happen,
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  Speaker 5: and the whole dynamic shifts. And I'm thinking of Sunday
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  Speaker 5: night there right where you're rolling along, you're down, you're trailing,
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  Speaker 5: and then a third baseman for Kentucky makes an error
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  Speaker 5: and then things start to trend in a different director.
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  Speaker 2: There's a there's.
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  Speaker 5: A bulk, there's a hit, there's a guy walked in,
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  Speaker 5: and the whole dynamic changes.
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  Speaker 2: Then last night, last night.
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  Speaker 5: Brody starts off with the base you're up. Well, I
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  Speaker 5: was gonna say you're up big. Oh yeah, you're up big.
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  Speaker 5: And then they get a couple and then say okay,
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  Speaker 5: and and you're starting to think, okay, four outs away.
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  Speaker 5: Four it's away, which is dangerous for it's away. And
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  Speaker 5: then they get a couple dingers and the whole thing
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  Speaker 5: changes and you got a bad vibe, right, yeah, you
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  Speaker 5: got a bad vibeay, oh, Kentucky's got the momentum.
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  Speaker 4: And then it switches back the swings in vibes. So
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  Speaker 4: I was just gonna say that to your point on
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  Speaker 4: that first little squibber to start the ninth on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: So you're you're into it, and the crowd is into it,
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  Speaker 4: and you're still believing like that this is gonna be
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  Speaker 4: a tall task. You're down three, you got three outs.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go, but okay, here we go, where that's fine.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go and the balls hit and it's not
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  Speaker 4: hit real hard, and that you could just feel the
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  Speaker 4: tightness and the collective disappointment, right because it wasn't drill,
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  Speaker 4: just a collective disappointment. And then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 4: he boots it. Yeah, and then it just erupted and
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  Speaker 4: then it went all right, here you go. Now, now
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  Speaker 4: get on the mound, try and pitch through this incredible,
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  Speaker 4: just incredible, and and the job Steve Sabans did, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: the because it's it's one of the the really difficult
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  Speaker 4: sports to coach or manage. There are so many things
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  Speaker 4: happening simultaneously, right, And I thought he just had some
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  Speaker 4: master strokes this weekend in a couple of different categories,
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  Speaker 4: including the wind to send runners, when to butt, when
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  Speaker 4: to run. Armani Guzman was an absolute menace on the base,
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  Speaker 4: which he has been all year, the in and out
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  Speaker 4: of players.
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  Speaker 5: Think if he gets doesn't beat the tag when he's
• 12:33
  Speaker 5: going to second steal in second base.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we could do the whole thing on the moments
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  Speaker 4: Guzman had in this event, and we'll get to him
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  Speaker 4: and spreads on stats on some of these, but it
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  Speaker 4: just remarkable. Back to your point, also going to circle back,
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  Speaker 4: I know we're all over the place here. You love
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  Speaker 4: to say this, you love to say become nationally relevant.
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  Speaker 4: Do something to be nationally You're nationally relevant right now.
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  Speaker 4: Not only the wins, not only the weather. To Tony's point,
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  Speaker 4: the brand was great. All this was wonderful. The singing
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  Speaker 4: of country roads, welcome aboard national baseball media that didn't
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  Speaker 4: know about that tradition. It is getting so much attention
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  Speaker 4: this morning and it should. And add in Armani Guzman
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  Speaker 4: as well as he played for him to be on
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  Speaker 4: the TV, had set Mike as singing and credit ESPN
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  Speaker 4: some of those shots he's singing but you can see him,
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  Speaker 4: you can see the team lined up. It is some
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  Speaker 4: unbelievable visuals and audio in the moments that came out
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  Speaker 4: of that.
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  Speaker 5: And look, props to TV for staying with it, right
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  Speaker 5: because the other game was going on. They had to
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  Speaker 5: go to the other game, but they stayed with it
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  Speaker 5: because they were smart enough to realize that.
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  Speaker 2: Was a moment.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, so they stayed with it and Guzman is singing along.
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  Speaker 5: Then Guzman does the interview and at the end, before
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  Speaker 5: they say okay, thanks, thanks our money, celebrating with your team,
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  Speaker 5: he goes, wait a minute, my mom's over here, and
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  Speaker 5: then they focused on her mom.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out my mom.
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  Speaker 4: There was so much emotion, but he So there's some
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  Speaker 4: iconic moments, so Owen Schmid and the Fiesta Bowl, right
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  Speaker 4: this thing afterwards when the band starts up righting his
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  Speaker 4: interview on the whole thing, I think Armani singing was
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  Speaker 4: one of those. There was a moment where you could
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  Speaker 4: see like the emotion caught right, it caught, it caught
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  Speaker 4: in his throat and you had to pause from it
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  Speaker 4: and Kid from Brooklyn, Yeah, that's that's what we always
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  Speaker 4: say about the state. Come in, welcome, in You're forever
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  Speaker 4: remembered here question. Yeah, how do we how do we
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  Speaker 4: get an outside line?
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  Speaker 1: There's a caller there, No, he's not.
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  Speaker 2: We're trying to This is don Don nine first, So
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  Speaker 2: that what you.
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  Speaker 1: Need to do sometimes?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, right, this is so this is excuse us for
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  Speaker 5: a minute. Was are the phone line switched?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: Well, work on it. See what you can do? You
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  Speaker 2: do nine? Nine?
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  Speaker 1: Did three?
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  Speaker 2: You just do one?
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: Why would you use one?
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  Speaker 2: Just try it?
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you used one before. We've never hello?
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  Speaker 6: Hello?
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  Speaker 2: Is this my guy?
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Dude, let me just tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just tell you something. Let me just tell
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  Speaker 1: you something. I sweat. I just swept more in the
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  Speaker 1: last eight minutes than I think I sweated all weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to get you on. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Three Guys Before the Game live recorded podcast with
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  Speaker 1: the Skipper Mountaineer baseball coach Steve Sabins. Dude, thanks so
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  Speaker 1: much for giving us a little bit of your time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry about the chaos. Yeah, we don't have a secretary.
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  Speaker 1: It's basically it's a low budget operation. But we got
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  Speaker 1: to get through. But you know about that, you get adversity.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: What do you do you battle through it?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? Good, good weekend, really really special. I don't think
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  Speaker 6: you can draw it up any better. Playing five games
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  Speaker 6: and four days and extra innings and come from behind
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  Speaker 6: victories and posting the regional for the first time since
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: twenty nineteen and then being able to bring a super
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: regional here is special. There's only two programs in the
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: nation that have won three straight regionals US in North Carolina. Wow,
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  Speaker 6: two pretty historic programs. And I'm just very very excited
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  Speaker 6: for the for the entire state, our club, our staff,
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  Speaker 6: they pour a lot into it.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I said this to Mark Kellogg a while back,
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  Speaker 1: the basketball coach, obviously, and I said, you guys deserve this,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, you know, my wife says, actually, we
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  Speaker 1: don't deserve it. We earned it. And I want to
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  Speaker 1: say that to you, your entire staff and obviously everyone involved,
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  Speaker 1: every single players. You guys, you talk about earning it,
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  Speaker 1: You talk about hard edge. You couldn't do a better
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  Speaker 1: job of defining what this is and what this program
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  Speaker 1: is and what the school's all about. It's just like
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: refusing to quit.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: I appreciate that. I think there's a lot of people
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: that put in a lot of work and a lot
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: of programs and situations, and you don't always get rewarded
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: for it. There's got to be a lot of things
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: go your way along the way as well. But the
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: work is not something that lacks in our program and
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: with our staff and with our players. That's that's for sure.
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: There's there's not people that get after it every day
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: and are more appreciative to be somewhere and get better.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: And I think we're all just exceptionally blessed to be
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: here and have each other and have a university that
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: supports us and wants to see us be great. Things
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: have changed so dramatically in the last eleven years that
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: I've been here. I tell a story at at one point,
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: you know, we had lost some assistants, and there was
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: a different athletic director and at one point, being major,
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: were the only two employees for West Virginia Baseball. There's
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: two let's standing in the room and it was basically like,
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: how do you how do you go higher and find players?
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: And what do we need to do? And now we
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: have a staff of twenty, We have thirty five student managers,
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: we have first rounders, and biomechanics and performance centers and
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: meal rooms and off this and we've built every single year.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: But that doesn't happen without the support of the athletic
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: department and athletic directors and the university behind into a
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: vision and seeing something and saying why can't we go
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: be the best at baseball here? And so all that
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: stuff work work and great edge and all that stuff
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: is real, but it takes more than that. It takes
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: a whole lot of people on the rope in the
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: same direction. So pretty grateful for it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Man, I think you just gave me the answer. But
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: what I was going to ask you is, there's so
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: many teams that want to get to where you are
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: right now, very few do. There has to be a
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: secret special sauce to do what you've just been able
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: to do. As you mentioned, you and North Carolina are
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: in a group of your own right now. Did you
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: just describe to us what the secret sauce is? Is
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: it just an overall total commitment from every facet of
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the department.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's total commitment from everybody and fans and supporters
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: and people thinking that they can make a difference because
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: they can because eleven years ago when I got here
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: and they hadn't been to regional in twenty years, and
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: we didn't have a weight room, and our guys turned
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: in the laundry at the Colisseum and drove to the
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: IPF through the ice and the snow, and then back
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: to the stadium and then the coliseum to lift. And
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: then we didn't have covered indoor cages until last year.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: We're the only Big twelve school in the only Big
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: twelve school in the conference that didn't have covered outdoor cages.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: And we train in the snow in the sleep right,
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: and so like all that stuff is adversity. All that stuff,
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: it's things that our peers did not struggle with. We
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: have the smallest state population in the league by far.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: There's more people in Dallas Metro than there are in
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: our entire state. So there's a thousand reasons to stuck
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: up of why you can't be good, and there's another
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: million why you can be good. Our start with the
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: people and the support and dollars matter, Tony like hate
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: to talk about it, but we have people that have
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: less that give more, and we have guys that are
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: keeping great players in our program via fundraising in nil
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: and scholarships. Two years ago there wasn't more than four
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: people that had given fifty thousand dollars to the program,
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: and today we're at over sixty in the last two years,
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: and so people are finding ways to say, like, how
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: do I get part of this thing?
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: How do I help? And that stuff matters.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: And there's the beauty of this state in this fan
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: base is that it cares.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Steve.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: The other part that you know, well, we don't have
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: to tell you, but we'll talk about it here. Often
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: say baseball is the most individualistic team sport that exists. So, yeah,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: you're a team and you're all out there together, but
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: guys are up there by themselves. When the balls hit
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: to you, there are anybody helping you. You better make
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: the play yourself. And it's remarkable the group that you've
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: assembled here. We could do it for an hour. The
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: individual performances pitching, fielding, hitting that came out of this
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: talk to us just a little bit about the makeup
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: of this team and these guys, and we've had multiple
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: of your guys on this program, and they've been tremendous.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: What's that say about the character of these guys. The
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: performances we saw up and down that lineup this weekend.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's insane. I think the beauty of like what
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: just happened was we got punched in the face so
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: many times in a weekend. I mean, everybody's there was
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: a boxing match, right, we'd all be concussed with black
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: eyes and still kind of swinging out there. But there
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: were so many heroic individual performances that it's kind of
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: hard to wrap your head around it. So then you
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: just go like, team was incredible. The team did it right.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: So it's like normally it's like maybe it's one game
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: or something, you like point the finger, like, oh my god,
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: can you believe I did that? But it was like
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: go down the list like Guzman, Cresser, Lumsden, grab Line,
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: Kelly Yale, Cole Montesa, corn Bat, like you just like
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: go down the yeah, yeah, you forget about mcdu yeah.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: So it's so it's like, yeah, team build it. You know,
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: it's like you can't really even fathom what the hell
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: just happened, so you just give credit to each other.
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: And those kids aren't looking for credit. That's the beauty
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: of the team r showing failed. Yeah, like all these
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: storylines so it's just who cares and all those kids
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: they're not looking for. Like, I think I was the
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: superstar of the of the like no one cares showing
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: Feld like wasn't more or less important. But he's the
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: reason we're still playing. Every one of those kids is
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: the reason we're still playing.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, coach, have you looked I hate to ask you this.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: You know, if you looked at cal Poly. I mean
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: this time of year, teams get hot. I know, well,
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: you guys are famous.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, night, Oh did you you look at Hell?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Hell know.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: You got time.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: We got a couple of days.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: We had a couple of days for that.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: But tell me the first to let you know. By
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the way, John Madden's alma mater, cal Poly.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: All right, well cal Poly came.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: I mean they won the Big West and they came
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: out of that region where everybody Pencil and UCLA. But
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: you see, only had a couple of injuries and they
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: got knocked out by Saint Mary's and cal Poly beats
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: Saint Mary's. Okay, you don't know anything about cal Poly yet,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: but you'll start to somebody else started.
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, nothing yet, just because every every day, I mean,
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: you're trying to find the most the most minutia of
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: the game of how to impact the game as a coach, Right,
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: you're looking at like times of the plate and how
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: many times a guy blinks before he picks off and
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: stuff like. You're just in the weeds of all these
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: minutia of the game and you're like, Okay, they're starting
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: the reliever and you're you're getting into just is there
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: any tells? Are there any patterns? Are there any thing
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: that you can do to get an edge? Is there
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: certain counts or certain times you could take advantage of anything?
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: So certainly didn't look at it. I don't even know
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: if cal Pauly won yesterday or did they finalize the
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: Sunday say they.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Were done Sunday. Yeah, they beat Saint Mary's after Saint
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Mary's had beaten UCLA.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: But let me let me just build on that then,
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: because you're you're talking about really breaking this thing down.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: And maybe casual fan doesn't realize that, but it literally
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: comes down to the behavior of each of their players.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: What what they're likely to swing at and not swing at,
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: What pitches they can hit and not hit. What do
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: you I mean every pitch matters, right, every pitch matters?
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that's exactly right. And so there's a
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: there's a thousand tendencies, and everything that happens in a
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: baseball game is documented not only the result of every pitch,
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: but also what the pitch does. The pitch moves left, right, up, down,
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: velocity spin, and so you're trying to figure out how
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: to identify essentially hitters to hit weak ground balls and strikeout,
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: and so what are those pitches and what counts, how
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: does the hitters approaches change. All of those things are factors.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: And then yeah, you can't can't stress it enough. Every
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: every pitch matters. It's always one pitch away from taking
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: the leader or giving up the lead, or and so yeah,
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: and then when pitchers pitch right, everybody's human out there.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: So the bigger the moment, the more they basically turn
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: into their training. And so can trolling the run game
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: on the basis and how long they paused for and
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: how many times do they look back at second base
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: and how often does their hat tip? And there's a
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: thousand things that go into these games and just have
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: people dissecting every human movement. And when the crowd gets louder,
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: which is the best crowd I've ever seen in a
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: college baseball atmosphere. We need it to be bigger and louder.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: When the crowd gets bigger and louder, competitors often just
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: turn into what they are. There's less thought going into it.
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: And so I think our guys are more prepared than
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: a lot of people because we've played in front of
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: those crowds.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Steve, this is only your second season as the head coach,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: and yet you have been at this for many, many years.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: You had a moment in the hallway there after your
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: press conference yesterday with Amanda Mazy, Randy's wife, who not
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: only is the former coaches why, but the mom of
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: one of your current players, and she was overcome by
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the emotion of it all. What to you did this
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: weekend mean to you individually and this program as to
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: what your your direction and your thought is as to
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: what this can become.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: The reflection is tough this time of year because you
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: really are kind of wired for sound. Like came into
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: the locker room after we'd won the regional and literally
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: like as I opened the locker room doors into the
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: coach's locker room, and I was I was having fun
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: with the coaches, but I said, who we pitching tomorrow,
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: because literally for the last three days it's been like
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: a battle of who you pitching, who's healthy, who's got
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: bullets left? And you just you live in that state.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: You live in it when you're cereal and when you're
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: taking a shower and when you're writing lineups and you're preparing,
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: and you're like living in this state of preparation basically,
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: And so the reflection side is tough. But I think
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: what you saw in the field yesterday and this week
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: was belief. So people can't fight like that if there's
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: not a deep rooted belief that they can be the
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: best in the world at something. So you don't fight.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: You don't accidentally win games like that. You don't win
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: four games and out of five and four days and
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: come back and beat an SEC opponent twice an acc
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: opponent wants both World Series teams within the last decade.
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: You just don't do that unless there's a pretty deep
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: rooted belief that you can be the best in the
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: world at something. So that's the goal. That's been the
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: goal since we've been here.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: All right, buddy, you've got fifty two things. He also said,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: you got a recruit coming in transfer portal guy. Was
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: he is he just coming today or was he? Did
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: he take part and watch last night?
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: So brutal rules. We can't get recruits tickets to NCUBLEA events.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: Yesterday was a dead period, so we weren't allowed to recruit,
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: but they can drive in on a dead period. So
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: we actually have a junior college player coming in today
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: and we have a transfer portal player coming in today.
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: Jaygar before last night's game, win or Lose, he texted me,
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: he said, I don't have dinner played with you tonight
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: with the recruit So I'm more fired up to get
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: these recruits and get them here. But having dinner with
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: my family sounds pretty good after this weekend. So Jaygar
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: tells me what to do on the recruiting scid. But
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: we're yeah, we're fired up for these guys, and Steven
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: goes sign a couple of good players, keep building next
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: year's roster.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: All right, brother, we wish you the very very best
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: this coming week and going forward. Thank you, thank you
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: so much for your time.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Buddy, Congratulations, you're the best. Thanks brother, congratulations, there is you.
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: Just say to the recruit like, can't spend a lot
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: of time with you. Got to prepare for the super regional.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, you just got to build on it, right.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: It never gosh, it never ever ever stopped, you know, Tony.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: One of the things that he talks about, we know
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: that's about this staff. I mean they just they're dogs.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: They just work it, work, work, work, and this team,
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: the teams that they have put on the field are
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: just incredibly prepared.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Baseball. You think baseball has changed it all Like twenty
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: years ago. Twenty years ago, you go to a baseball
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: game and the coach and like his third base coach,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: like they'd be in the dugout or they'd be like watching.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: They'd be like, now, all of a sudden, I don't
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: know when this transition and when this happened, But now
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: they bring out fifty two binders like they're getting ready
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: to take the bar. I love it, and it's like,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know how it started. Now they've basically got
• 30:55
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• 30:59
  Speaker 1: and they're just cond it's amazing.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: Well interestingly enough, and we don't have all day to
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• 31:07
  Speaker 4: It has gone from baseball to all the other sports.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: But he's talking to you about is exit V low
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: and launch angle and all those things. I mean, the
• 31:15
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• 31:18
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• 31:20
  Speaker 4: it's yeah, now it's trickled down into the college part
• 31:23
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• 31:25
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• 31:27
  Speaker 4: charting different things that had him instant feedback and the
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• 31:32
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  Speaker 5: How about the how about the much, uh, the little,
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  Speaker 4: Funny you said that, I said to somebody last night
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  Speaker 4: at the game, when when it was in that last
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• 33:29
  Speaker 4: It's amazing how college has brought the bunt back. It's back,
• 33:33
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  Speaker 2: Thank right.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Well, have some numbers, yes, and listen, I you know
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: this is difficult for me. Hop I tried to pare
• 34:27
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• 34:30
  Speaker 4: those individual performances we talked about. So let's go through
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: a few of these. Let's start with Ourmani Guzman. This
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: program has some dudes that when it turns into regional time,
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: like look out, they're just gonna be monsters. We're gonna
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: talk to Armani and Ben Lumston are two guys that
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: have just been awesome in regionals each the last two years.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Guzman was such a difference maker in every facet. I
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: am still blown away, hoy. I've watched him now for
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: how two years? I don't know why I'm still blown away.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: I'm blown away at what he is able to.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Do during a game.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: So if I've got the numbers right, and hopefully I'm
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: on this. Some of this was on the fly with
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: little sleep.
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: So starre with me.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: I've got Armani for ten of twenty two in the
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: regional seven RBIs. He drove in at least one run.
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  Speaker 2: In every win.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Five stolen bases and much like a shot blocker, where
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: it's not just the block shots, but it's the shots
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: you alter. Five stolen bases. How many disruptions did he
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: cause when he's on the base. Yeah, I've said, an
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: absolute menace. That's just the offensive side. And again, one
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: of the buttons that Steve pushed that was a masterstroke
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: was shaking that lineup up after the loss and moving
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: some things around. Moving him back to the top of
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: the lineup was a great stroke of genius there that
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: really paid some dividends. So that's the offensive side. He
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: was as good as anybody in the entire regional on
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: the offensive side. And then defensively at two different positions
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: that play that he made it first on the overthrow
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: when the ball bounces off the dugout and he goes
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: in the number of things that had to be executed
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: perfectly to then throw the runner out at the plate.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: He goes flying in slides, hoppy slides perfectly, and in
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: one motion, picks up the ball as he's turning, delivers
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: a strike to Gavin, who then had to turn the
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: proper way, which how do you know what the proper
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: way is? He turns the opposite way. There's not time
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: to make the tag. Gavin catches turn makes the tag.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: You turn what would have been a disaster of a
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: play into a momentum changing moment. That's not just a
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: great play. You can't make that play as a normal
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: first baseman. All due respect to first basement, they're normally
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: the bigger nowhere near as athletic as what Armani Guzman
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: brings to the table. And that happened to be the
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: guy in that moment to make the play. And did
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: I say he was in first base at that time, Yeah,
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: because then you put him in right field and he
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: shows a cannon of an arm and throws the guy
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: out at home by maybe thirty feet the bases are
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: only ninety feet. I think my man was only two
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: thirds of the way down the line when Gravelin caught
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: the ball.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: What a cannon.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: And then Armani came about that far if you're watching
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: on TV, about that far from Robin at home run.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: What a remarkable athlete, that dude is he was incredible.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well, well well said.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: And by the way, he wentn't even the MVP of
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: the regional. That's how many performances you had that that
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: guy that we could have spent an hour on was
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: not the MVP. Who was our guy, Gavin Kelly.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's a reason Baseball America just put out
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: right before the tournament that he's the number one prospect
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: in the twenty seven draft. Absolutely, he is. In all
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: great players, guys we've seen a lot of them have
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: that gene that they step up in big moments. And
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: our guy did three bombs in this tournament. He hit
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: four hundred for the event, eight rbhis had one in
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: every game. You don't advance on unless your superstars play
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: like a superstar, and Gavin Kelly did. Whether he was
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: at second to stabilize what's been a great infield all
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: season or behind the dish, he was great everywhere he's been.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: That's not a surprise. Schoenfelt, I mean, Paul Schoenfeld another
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: and hop if you want to get to the building
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: blocks of why this program has been great, certainly you
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: talk Gavin Kelly and you talk Alec Manoa, and you
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: talk Victor Scott, and you talk JJ Weatherhold, there has
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: been superstars. You don't get here without superstars, but you
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: also don't get here without the guys West Virginia has
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: rolled in from the D two level. You talk about
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: an A plus plus plus job of taking guys that
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: can just play baseball. I don't care where you're playing baseball.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: You've heard me say this before. I think it's the
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: most transferable from other levels up to the highest level
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: of any sport we have. And West Virginia has done
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: this better than anybody else. Will talk about some other
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: D two guys because the staff is the same way.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: But Showenfeld's a dude that has come in and shown
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: he belongs at this level. Four and nine, four for
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: nine and four RBIs just in the last two nights,
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: including the game winning home run. He should never pay
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: for another drinker meal when he steps foot in Morgantown.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: And that was his first home run at Kendrick this season. Right,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: good time for it? Yeah, good time for it.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: Ben Lumpston continues to be a guy that comes in
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: and fought through some injuries. Didn't play a toun during
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: the regular season, and you put him in the regional
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: and he makes All Regional team for the second year
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: in a.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Row, mister May and Joelton June.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Mister May, it's unreal. Six to fourteen on the regional
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: for him. And then let's talk this pitching. Yale, Cole,
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Corn have all been great all year and all had
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: moments in this chance. And Cole goes out and gives
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: you a gem in Game one against Bengaton when you
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: had to have it, made that a non worry of
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: a game. You went out in front of a great crowd.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: You put a dude out there that's been outstanding, maybe
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: the second best pitcher in the Big twelve, behind only
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: Max El And he goes out and he delivers a
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: gym And what's he do last night? Oh, by the way,
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: you need me, you want me to come back in,
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna come in, throw one and two thirds scoreless
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: last night on short rest when you needed him. Another
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: guy that just pitches. I don't care where he's been pitching.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: I don't care where he is pitching. Hop you put
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: him anywhere. Dude can pitch. Dawson Montesa. You can't lose
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Montesa's performance against Wake you had to have it. You
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: had to have seven and a third innings. You had
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: to have him go deep to get you through. You
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: had to have him give you some momentum back and
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: give you some confidence back. And that's where baseball's different
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: than all these other sports. It's so contingent upon who's
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: on the bump. And he just took it against wake Forest,
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: a top twenty team, a great program, and just said
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: was ever, hey, give me the ball, give me the ball.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: I got you seven and a third. And then last night,
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: as we said, he comes back, He comes back after
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: doing that on Saturday, and he's still clocking that thing
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: at ninety six miles an hour and just comes in says,
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: here's some gas. You want to try and hit this.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: Here we go, Dawson Montesa. Absolutely incredible, incredible. Ben McDougall,
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: what a story Ben McDougall was. You're not sitting here
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: this morning talking about this. Without McDougall. He'd pitched five
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: and two thirds innings all season. He pitched five and
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: two thirds inning this weekend. Five of them came in
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: the one game against Kentucky when you had to stabilize,
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: you had to find an arm down there that you
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: hadn't seen all season. You had to find an arm
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: that would come in and say I got it all.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Hold the line, bats, go to work. I've got this
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: five and two thirds on the regional but five against
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: Kentucky on Sunday, just allowed three hits and struck out six.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: Dude from Bridgeport and Potomac State, hats off man.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: That was awesome. Yeah, just awesome.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: I read his lips after his performance there on Sunday
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: and I sabans embraced and it had something to do
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: with did it for the state? You could see him
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: say it. And that's a lifer, right, I mean that
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: you talk about never never having to buy another meal
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: or another drink, like you once a mountaineer, always a mountaineer,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: and especially if you're from here, like it carries on,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: like baseball of all college sports, is the most bizarre
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and crazy at this time of the year. Like you
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: got dudes, not just West Virginia, but you've got dudes
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: that have been in witness protection programs since like February,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, at the pinnacle of the
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: most important moment of your season, they go like bring
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: him out, and these dudes go out there and go like,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: all right, here we go. It's just it's breath taking.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: How that's the drama of this thing. It's it's bizarrely crazy.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: It remains undefeated. I'll say again, We've been doing this
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: a long time. It remains undefeated. How many just unbelievable
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: stories exist in college athletics and within your program, and
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: it's awesome to see those moments come to light, and
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: when these guys can shine and do those things, it's
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: it's just awesome.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: I did what a weekend? Did you do the math
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: on this? I just did some public math here. So
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Kentucky West Virginia played three times in this regional total
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: number of runs West Virginia twenty six, Kentucky twenty five.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: That's how tight the whole Kentucky is.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Now, Kentucky's gonna have to ask you this, yes, go ahead.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: Well, I was going to say, Kentucky is elevated to
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: one of our biggest, if not the biggest, non traditional
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: rival rival.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: I was going to ask you if the past Clemson
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: pass Clemson, is that.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: Three of the last four years in the regional and
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: what you did you may forget last year in this
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: you were down five to them two different times in
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: the regional final to get through that. I mean, there's
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: been some great games. This isn't just a team you're playing.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: This has been some great back at this awesome real
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: quick before we get out of a couple of last
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: numbers just for cal Poly. Don't have a total breakdown
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: for you, but that's a remarkable US ahead.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Jake cass Steele, who's now the head coach at Glenville,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: who was here with a Mountaineer football staff last year,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: was a former assistant coach at cal Poly just two
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: seasons ago. Of course he was and John Madden's alma mater.
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah that so, guys, are you appreciating you're hosting a
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: super first of all historic your two wins from Omaha again,
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: but your two wins from Omaha at home in front
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: of that crowd you just saw. And the number one
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: seed in the region is not available. But I would
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: caution you what I just gave that whole big thing
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: about baseball's baseball. No matter what, Cal Pauly is gonna
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: be very good. Like you're not coming in here just
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: gonna roll over cal Poly. They're not laying down. They're
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: doing the same things. West Virginia's they're sandels out right.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: We're going on the road. Don't care, let's go. Just
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: took down the number one seed. We're fine and baseball,
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: let us go.
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: You don't get to where they are without being hot,
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: very incredibly hot, and just very good.
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: The numbers though, coming out of the Big West. As
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: you mentioned, they entered the tournament seventy three in RPI,
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: So it's just coming in the number seventy three team
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: in the RPI. They're coming out of the UCLA region
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: and they'll be here this weekend and it's just another
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: awesome opportunity. O Maha, straight ahead. Hope these guys keep.
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