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Why LSU's Recent Scrimmages Signal a Potential Heating Up Season · JustIN Time

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Welcome back to another edition of the Just in Time podcast.
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I'm your host, Justin, and with me is my guest, Will.
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My guy. How's it going?
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I'm doing well, I'm defensive now since after the the CSC or
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whatever they call themselves try to make make LSU look bad.
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This clean bait nothing burger. Yeah, with the, you know,
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putting the football helmet on. Yeah, look, it's all.
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It's all click bait driven. That's all it is, brother.
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It's. The way they get views, it's the
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way they get the views. You know, I love it's a 2 fold
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thing. You know, it's funny because
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like you said, she was the most high profile university
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mentioned in that article, whatever they call it.
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And not only that, you put like you said, they put the football
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helmet. So you got the big brand name of
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the university and the and the program.
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In the most gym, especially since they came out a couple
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weeks, I think it was 2 weeks ago with it saying how the LSU
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football team brought in 61 million in revenue.
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Yeah, clickbait, but I know we said last week we touched
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baseball, but how about an us going in the Senior Bowl and
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getting MVPI? Love it man.
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Just any any possible minimum. Especially for a guy who had a
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rough last year in college. Just any possible minimum is
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massive and I was happy before. Yeah, I know, I know.
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Yeah, I know. He said he wasn't going to, you
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know, dog the LSU medical staff. But you had him like that for
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months. How you couldn't tell AB injury?
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Why did it take you to figure out it was an AB injury?
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That's that's the thing, Like I'm just, I need to know more.
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And just like, you know, scroll was always saying like, you know
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this, you know, that's the type of stuff like if it's really
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your core injury or anything in your core X-ray should pick up
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on that MRI should be picking up on that.
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He'd pick up on that stuff. Exactly.
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So it's it's something you're not telling us.
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Yeah, exactly. You know, Brian Kelly was big on
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playing his players if they were hurt, you know, he's got into
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trouble. He's still in trouble with the
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Greg, Greg Brooks thing, you know.
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Yeah, I mean, Brian Kelly could have cost that kid is pro career
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definitely didn't help him not, you know, get healthier, you
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know, but he's a class act. He didn't dog anybody.
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He didn't say anything. He was what LSU football needed
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but didn't deserve at this point because when he was hurt, all
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the fans was yelling he sucks, he sucks, get him out, get him
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out, you know, But finally we got somebody who I'm not dogging
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Van Buren, but finally LSU fan us as LSU fans and the ones that
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were calling for and us to be sad but better quarterback got
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what should have happened with, you know, Anthony Jennings and
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Jordan Jefferson, all that. They weren't necessarily the
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best quarterback. I will say this, I don't know if
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it was the scheme or not because he did look very good.
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I thought the future was bright when he announced he was coming
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to LSU because I saw what he did in Mississippi State.
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But you know, I'm gladness went out and balled out.
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But another big one that came out, how you like Pavi is they
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gave and he gave that boy three extra inches.
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He couldn't even see over his offensive line at the Senior
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Bowl and you already knew his height when he went to the
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Heisman Trophy ceremony and you got all these actual 6 foot
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something quarterbacks and stuff.
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And then Diego Pavia, at six foot, is almost a head shorter
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than every other one of them. That is so funny.
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Yeah, and his draft, his draft stock tanked because these
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families got a attitude. Apparently they caught him out
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at a bar before the same the night before the Senior Bowl and
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he took somebody's fault, took a picture of him and slammed it on
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the ground. He already like he was already
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in hot water with the Heisman stuff from just calling out the
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voters. I said, brother, just keep that
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to yourself. Yeah, I mean normal people.
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Yeah, normal people get mad at stuff then they don't complain.
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Why are you complaining? You lost.
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You lost to the national champion quarterback who came
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out and show what he was made of.
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Not the mission you play for Vandy.
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Y'all had y'all Best season in forever.
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Calm down. Probably why you missed.
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Calm down, you're smart. You'll get a job.
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What's what's in the field? Where where you thinking going?
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You said you already said BK going he's going to work at BK.
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So we're we're probably. Going I don't know at this rate
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his attitude he might end up working with BK who going.
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To be The Who going to be the crack?
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I don't know. I don't know what it takes.
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He's probably cooked the manager.
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We're going to Krusty Krab. He can go unplug the ice cream
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machines and tell everybody the ice cream machine's broken and
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charge his phone. Every every joint supplies
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brother what you got to do know you're.
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Old brother. Oh yeah, no, you're wrong and
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shut your mouth. I like that.
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Remember when we were in high school, Adam White used to
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always say that he used to quote The Rock.
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He was a big wrestling fan. He always used to come in there
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and quote The Rock. And it was know you're rolling.
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Shut your mouth. The one quick thing, you know,
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they got National Signing Day going on today with this.
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I think we yeah, we got the updated, you know, we got the
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number one class as far as combined recruits and transfers
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going to 247. And obviously just can't say
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enough of what Coach Kiffin has done to this point.
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We always say that you have to also have to put it together on
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the field, but just just to turn the momentum around, you know,
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just you just building up good equity with the fan base.
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Yeah, I mean, he came in here and he's doing exactly what
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people thought Brian Kelly was going to do, except, you know,
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Kiffin jokes about a fake accent and Brian Kelly used a fake
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accent. But yeah, I mean, what you going
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to do if you come in here and he's got the number one portal
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class? And I love how Ole Miss was
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like, tampering this, tampering that.
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He's tampering, tampering, tampering.
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And what does their coach do? Of course.
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With the receipts from two different schools.
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Like I said last week, I had fun with that.
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Yeah, well, that ain't my problem.
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But. Hopefully with all this talent
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we're getting in, he can develop it even more or take 323 stars
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and develop them. So that's the biggest thing.
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We haven't had a coach lately that developed talent.
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You know, all of our stars, OK, with the exception of Joe
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Burrow, all of our talent in our big names have been four or five
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star recruits when they came here.
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Yeah, that just the brand alone is going to get you higher in
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talent more time than that. But like they, you know, we've,
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you know, we've been, you know, I've been fans for 20 plus
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years, you know, just like they've there's so many great
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guys that were unbelievably talent.
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I remember Russell Shepherd when we was we just started a
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Catholic just, you know, he was like the no more player of the
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country or one of the top players at least just signed
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with us. I said I knew we wouldn't go
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work hard because they just don't play like that.
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They don't tend it to the quarterback.
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And you know, back then it was before the you looked at the
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quarterback the wrong way or you looked at a defenses player the
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wrong way. And you know, I say defenses
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player, but if you aren't a football field, you're not
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defenses unless you're doing something crazy mid air.
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But I'm you look at that. And that was back when you could
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hit. You can go to the games and you
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can sit in this. A bond man can sit in the stands
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and know what was happening because they hit so hard.
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Now you don't get as many big hits.
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But I saw a tweet from Lane Kiffin talking about let's see
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if I can pull it up. What exactly he said It's a good
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little segue, OK? He posted a lot of stuff.
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Sound about. Right, we go from one coach who
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post one tweet in a blue moon when we get a something good to
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a coach who post every day, 50 times a day.
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Here we go. February 2nd, first pitch in BR.
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Just different down here with Marucci.
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Sports bats at LSU baseball 14, two offense at coach Blake
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Baker. It's a video.
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It looks like him, maybe not him.
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I'm giving him too much credit. It's tiny, but maybe it is him
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smacking to piss out the ball. Maybe it was a home run.
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Yeah, but you know, Elaine Kiffin smashed his home run
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during LSU football offense versus defensive coaches game.
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Look at that. We finally got a coach that
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might not. We might go to the baseball game
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and don't curse the team and have the fans yelling to go
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home. But that's a great little segue
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into you must start on the 23rd scrimmage.
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Let's do it. All right, so I'll start with
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pitching, hitting. Newt went three and a third,
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gave up one hit, one run and had three KS.
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That's looking pretty good. Right.
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For sure. You know, we're going to look at
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this lately later when we start the season and we're going to be
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like, we're either going to be like, oh, our guys can hit or
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our guys are really good hitters in the scrimmages.
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This is what our pitchers did against our guys and compare
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them based off of that to what I think we played Milwaukee first.
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Yep, three games. Be like, oh, that's what
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Milwaukee did our guys, you know?
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Who we saw off last year? Was it like Fort Wayne last
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year? The math it was the mastodons.
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I forgot the. Where they're from, that was the
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airport. But the Mastodons, like I would
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hope for their sake that they're feeling is much better.
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But I remember watching game one last year.
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Yeah, yeah. I'm hoping we get the good we
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got a good start like that where we went 14 and nothing 10 to 1/8
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to 1/13. You know, I'm hoping we get
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that. I would love that.
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But you know, we've got these and he's go we got Dax death.
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I think that's how you say his name.
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I should learn how to say his name.
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We got time. Yeah, ending in 2/3.
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Zero hit, zero runs and two strikeouts.
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DJ Primo 1 inning, 0 hits, no runs, two strikeouts.
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The awfulest. I wish they had more stats on
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what the our defense looked like out there because I hadn't been
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able to make it to scrimmages. I'm not going to sit out there
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for scrimmage ball and 30° weather.
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And that's the thing, like I remember we go out the games,
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man, this, but we had all we it was always a blast.
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We was freezing out there in like January, February.
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We'd have different Dodge Challenge.
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Josh would get us kicked out to outfield.
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Oh man, those are the days, man. Which is now the new student
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section. Those were the days, you know,
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the good old days. I mean, I say good old days, but
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they don't get much better than two national championships in
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three years. Absolutely it doesn't.
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You know, and then competing a few games, a few innings away
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from competing to host two years in a row, a super regional at
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least. Yeah, you know then so hitting
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wise, you got Mason Braun, 3 for four, Eddie Yaman, 2 for three,
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Hannah Reeves, who I'm hoping comes and has a big one big
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year, was 2 for four. Derek, you yell one for four
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with a home run, Zach Yorick one for four with a home run.
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You know, I think we're gonna, we're looking pretty good, you
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know, then on the trying to keep up.
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Yeah 'cause like the main ones I've seen for stats wise is from
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the first. Yeah, I don't think they had
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any. Yeah, because I know it's the
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first and today's the 4th. So I'm looking at the LS, the
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LSU official website. You know, we got scheduled.
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They got more scheduled this week.
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Probably should be third. Thursday at 2:00 and Friday at 1
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and Saturday at 1. Thursday they got Thursday.
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Saturday, yeah. Week, Yeah.
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I was like, yeah, the 1:30 on Thursday, I'm sorry.
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I got the days. Yeah.
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So it's the base of this whole weekend.
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Yeah. We can probably use that for
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next week's material. Yeah.
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So. This week we've got Cooper
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Moore. Eric Cooper's Cooper Moore, 4
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innings pitch, four hits, no runs and eight KS Cooper
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Williams four and 2/3 gave up one hit, one iron run and eight
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KS. The Coopers are putting in work.
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Then we've got again, Mason Braun, 3 for four, home run.
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Omar Serna, 2 for three. Braden Simpson, 2 for four.
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Trent Carraway. That's probably a name we're
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going to hear a lot of transfer. From Oregon, I.
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Think I saw somewhere on, I think it was on WBRZWAFB, They
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were, he said that he swapped, he'd been back in a certain way
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his whole life and he came in and he swapped the way he
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approached his, he swapped his approach and I think he swapped
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some of his mechanics. So hopefully we get a good
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offensive year out of him because I think that's all he's
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missing. I've seen clips of him at third.
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He's going to be one of those ones we need to step up big if
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we're going to go back-to-back. He.
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Was one in three with the. Home what you were going to say?
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No, I'm just going to say about any you said one for three,
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right For with a Homer, that's what you said.
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Yeah, one Homer. Yeah, so just like any, any
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contribution, like, you know, I always go back to what I said
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several weeks back to just, you know, one of the guys coming,
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you know, with Stanfield coming back, you know, obviously
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curious to the fold. Just any and like I've been like
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I said, Caroline just he's going to be like one of the big
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players at least expected to be. Like I said, just any
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consistency from the bats. Yeah, so here's one with from.
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I start with the pitching again, Jaden, Newt Rannings pitch,
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three hits given up 5K's and somebody I'm happy to see back
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because I think we missed his presence.
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It was weird not having the number 8 on the field last year.
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To me, you know #8 is like #18 and #7 for football.
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It means leadership. And we didn't have that on the.
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I mean, we didn't have that on the field last year.
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But hopefully he's healthy enough.
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He won't get hurt again before the season.
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Gavin Guidry, 3 in three in a third innings pitched, two hits
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in six case. Then we had, yeah, I love it
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because you know what, you talk about who every year, season,
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you hear people talk about what do we need from this?
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Who do we need to step up? You know what guy's going to
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step up Every championship season we have a guy step up 23.
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Gavin Guidry stepped up when we needed him in the on the
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pitching staff, wasn't practicing at pitch, who came
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recruited as a shortstop and came in and told Jeh Johnson,
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coach, if you need me to pitch, I'll pitch.
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And he recorded the last out of the national championship game,
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then came in clutch. You know, he had a good ish
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season in 24. We just didn't mail well in 24.
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We couldn't do nothing right? We were like, yeah, we were like
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3 and 15 in the SEC at one point.
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We just couldn't do nothing right.
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Man, when I tell you like it was so frustrating that first
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happened to seats. Oh my God, Oh my God, it was
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that was like the worst I've seen them like and I've watched
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for a I mean, I I don't ever watch many like other older
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generations of tiger tiger ball fans, but just it was like the
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worst I've seen them. I.
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Can only think of one other season where I thought I'll be
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bad and it was the 2007 season. I think it was Minari's first
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year. That's correct.
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Yep, because it hired in the following 2007 season.
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Yeah, well, we were so, so bad. You know, we've got Steven Milam
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was 2 for two with a triple and two walks.
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Tanner Reeves was 2 for four with two walks.
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Aiden Simpson was 2 for five with a 88, Brown 2 for five with
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a double. Daniel Hardin was one for four
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with a home run. You know, if I look at these
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names, the one in the pitching staff that I'm not seeing, but
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I'm hoping he it'll pop up because especially after what
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happened last year in Omaha, you know, you look at it, we
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essentially played, we won throughout the winner's bracket.
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We didn't lose in the Omaha at all.
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But that UCLA game where we played, what, 3 or 4 innings?
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Right, because they burned, they had to burn the pitch.
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I was like, damn, that's that's a terrible time when it
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happened, man. So.
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Ineffective. Yeah, it didn't affect him.
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It only pumped ISON up because ISON came back for that second
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game of that national championship and showed out.
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But you know, we're going to need a fourth starter and I
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think that 4th starter, 4th we need really you need a like 5.
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You got to have five guys, four to five guys who can come up
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there and, you know, pitch as a starter.
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Especially the first two of the first three series are Friday
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through Monday series, SO4 games.
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So you need 4 starters. That's it.
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Yeah. And I think I'm comfortable with
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saying like what I got off of this a couple weeks ago.
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Payson Evans Friday night, Zach Cowan Saturday, Cooper Moore on
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Sunday now, OK, will it be Gavin Guidry who steps up?
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And is that 4 starter Cooper Williams or William Schmidt?
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Thing about William Schmidt, like maybe #4 I mean because
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that's the that's the thing like the whole season in general, I'm
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interested to see what the pitching is all together because
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like you lost a lot from last year.
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I mean obviously you got those are elite players so they're
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going to get drafted I and send of course OK, you know just
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shows is such a physical unit himself just.
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But this is where I'm focused on the most and I'm going to get to
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the February 1st is scrimmage stats and a second.
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But I'm just eager to see what they do.
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Like you said, that's perfect. You said that four or five man
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guy and that's not even including the bullpen so.
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Yeah, just need four or five. I feel like 4 starters are, is
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solid because you normally play maybe four games a week, threes
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weekend, you know, three-game series in the that midweek
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start. But I feel like you need, you
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know, 456 guys, especially with the way the weather is down
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here, you know, I mean. You.
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Might start a game. Yeah, you might start a game
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out. I mean, I've stayed at the box
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till 1:00 AM last year too many times, but there's a rain delay.
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I had a great time. You bless.
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You man, goodness gracious. Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, if you start one of those games out and then rain
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and lightning come and you have to push it back to the next day,
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was it Johnson's first year was 20?
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Yes. Yeah, it was in 22.
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We played Ole Miss that year. They won a national champion
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here. And what got them in the got
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them in the tournament to begin with is they came to Ellis.
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We had them beat. We went in the rain delay and
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then we didn't have the pitching to come back that rest of the
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weekend and we got beat. You know, you got to have four
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or five guys. But just for those rain delay,
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you play in the Southeastern Conference, it's going to be wet
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and rainy no matter where you go and hot and hot and you are
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going to have some. And knock on wood, we don't have
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it this year, but you got it. You got a battle injuries too.
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You need or maybe 6 more than six guys that can start a game
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out and give you at least five good innings and then can turn
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it over to the bullpen. Still man.
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But it's not. All that being said, though,
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it's not all on the pitching. You've got to have the defense
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and you got to have offense. You got to be able to play
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complimentary baseball. Yeah.
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Man, that's the form. I mean, that's the team.
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That's the team suggests in a nutshell, like you said, yeah.
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You've got to be able to do the little things right.
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You don't have to be great at everything, but you've got to be
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great at most things and trust you.
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Guys next to you, your teammate who's the next to you. 2 Pick up
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where you. Left off, you know, just like we
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talked about, you know, just having the guys, you know, just
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looking at February 1st is a scrimmage stats, you know from
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the batting. We have the Seth Dardar one for
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three, two walks in the RBI, Ethan Claus one for three also
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and another RBI. Cater Rumbai is 1 for three.
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Thank you for so much. That's why you.
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That's my host brother. Ada Aaron, BD.
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And BD. One for three.
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Yeah, I know Key, but you got Zion.
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Zion the Office Fiat. Now I'm going to run out the
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office. Three hit pitch, 3 innings and
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five strikeouts. He's in plug 1/3 and three KS
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Deborah Shereen 1 inning, 2 KS and Grant Fontenot, 1 inning, 2
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KS as well. So you're not getting the guys
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you're not. Yeah, Grant.
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Fontenot's another one. We need to come up.
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You know, these pitches that have been around long enough to
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where they've had, they've been with Yesky for a couple of
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seasons now. They need to come around yet
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since he's been here for This will be his third season.
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We pretty sure in 24 we led the country in strikeouts and then
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we would lead the country again last year.
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Yep. Just looking at the schedule,
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what do you think is going to be our first big test?
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That's a good question. I like you said the one, the one
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that, you know, just with like the commonality in the past, you
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got Notre Dame. But really the worst.
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Like, you know ULLI remember one of the memories I have of ULL
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you know, they were 12th in the country.
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We were #1 and they came in the to the box and beat us midweek.
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So it was just, you know, they, they were, I know that was, that
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was years ago. But just like I said, Vandy
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Vandy's always boxed office for me.
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March 13th. So a week from the start, just
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acted exactly a month from the beginning of our season.
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That's going to be in Nashville. I think one of the.
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Bigger, yeah, I've got them circled, you know, two of the
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bigger ones, couple of three of the big ones for me is OK how
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are we going to handle the second week of the season going
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to the Jacks College Baseball Classic?
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It'll be because normally when we play these games and when we
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played in Texas in the past, the last two years we played in 23,
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we played a midweek game versus Texas.
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Then we went to the Round Rock Classic and won that.
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Last year we played Dallas Baptist in, played him and Don.
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Yeah, I was parked, but let me hear you, I can.
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Look at which part. Yeah, we're gonna pull it up.
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We played globe like field. You know, it was Arlington.
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Yeah, we won seven to three. So, you know, we won seven to
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three. We played in away game, you
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know, we play home, home, home, home, home, 5 home games and
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then we go to Jacksonville. You know, we don't have that
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game against the Florida like a Texas team or Florida team
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before. It'd be like let's see what we
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got before. You know, we jump straight into
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Indiana at 1, Notre Dame at 11, in Central Florida at two.
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I will be there and hopefully I can get some good stuff.
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Yeah, I know you will by running the move so too.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, I've been running doing
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before, then right next. To me, I enjoy the live streams.
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Yeah, we've got, I think Vandy's going to be our first big test.
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It's all listen, I think, I think there's increases in #18
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right now, which is low. Yeah, let's see.
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Well, I think it goes off of a lot of how they, you know,
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finished last year, what they've got coming back.
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You know, they didn't finish too hot last year.
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I remember that. Yeah, I'm not finding that.
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You're not giving me no updated ones.
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I know, I know, they don't do a PS and baseball.
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I think they did. But not for a like they don't
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have the eight people and base base they got like I know
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Baseball America, D1 baseball as well, but like.
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Speaking of that, I think the coach's pole LSU was preseason
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#1 Derek Curiel, preseason, first team, All American D1
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baseball. That might be something we pull
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up. I got baseball miracle at least
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from mid January. They got Vandy at 17 by News
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News it right inside the top 20. Looking at D1, they've got Vandy
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at 25 from mid January. Yeah, here we go.
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USA TODAY Sports is LSU as of yesterday.
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Preseason number one. There we go.
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Got 15 of the 1st 15 of the 31st place votes.
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UCLA got 14. Missed.
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They got one. Yeah, that's what I was looking
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at. OK, Yeah, because they got
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conflicting reports. Yeah.
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So Texas 3, Georgia Tech 4. They are really high on, really,
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really high on what you call it. They're really high on UCL.
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Yes. Rightfully so, they've got a lot
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back. WS Finalist.
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You know, yeah, looking at it, they.
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Posted 7. They posted the top 200 draft
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prospects. We've got Curiel at #8 Milam at
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84 and then Jake Brown at 1:36 and top 52nd baseman.
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We've got Braden Simpson, you know, we've got a few good ones,
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Top 50 shortstop, we got Milan. Just is.
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That a good team. Trustworthy player but you know
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just yeah, it it never I never get too concerned about, you
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know, just the roster, you know, just as far as like, you know,
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people talk you know Scott was talking about recently just the
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last year's team. You could make an argument that
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there was like the least talented team as far as you
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know, got pro prospects. But like you said, I mean,
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they're going to get somebody to contribute regardless.
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And because that's their history.
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So I don't, I don't get too worked up about that.
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Yeah. Yeah, every year we have guys,
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you know, pop up. I mean, look at the manary
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years. You know, I can go on a limb and
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say or at least five, no, not 5, maybe three years straight.
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We were top 8 national seed. We just depends.
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When you get hot, you got to get hot at the right times.
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Absolutely, you know, But you know, we got guys where you got
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guys like Cheerios, Stanfield and Brown.
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Those are your 3 outfielders hands down.
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You know, I feel good about them.
28:58
I feel good about Caraway, Milam Simpson and York and Aaron
29:05
Beatty. I feel solid that that's going
29:08
to be your five in fielders and then Evans, Evans, Cowan and
29:13
more I think is going to round up your top three, you know, for
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your starting rotation. Could be wrong, could be wrong.
29:22
Just like I mean, because. You Schmidt, there's.
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Two guys to make right. You can make an argument for
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Schmidt. I just like it's been.
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I mean, we'll find out next week for sure.
29:33
Yeah, just like I said, I'm, I'm good with the outfield in the
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field. I mean, I'm just, I think that's
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pretty safe. Yeah, I'm good with that.
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I like that. I like the outfield.
29:42
I think the outfield might be one of the most talented
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outfields in the country. Because like, I mean, having
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getting, getting Stanfield back was massive to me.
29:52
I can't say that enough. But obviously even, yeah,
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technically more of a luxury, but.
29:58
What you were saying? I'm just saying like, you know,
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just having Stanfield back, I can't say enough how valuable I
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was because he was testing the waters professionally.
30:05
But you're able to come back, you know, obviously Curiel, just
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off the prospect alone and just, I mean, that's some more luxury
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on paper for sure. But yeah, yeah, I mean, you
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know, you get these guys back. Having Stanfield come back is
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huge. You know, having Curiel,
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Stanfield and Brown moving Stanfield, being able to move
30:24
Stanfield from the left to, I mean, from center to left is
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real good. Yes, Sir.
30:28
Wasn't it back? You go see me do my hands.
30:32
Weird but trying to zoom this out.
30:35
Oh yeah, I saw, I saw it kicked. In On You way too big on my.
30:42
But the Riverside shallow to Riverside like they they zoom in
30:44
on the start. Charles aren't bright brother
30:46
star shine bright brother KL. But yeah, I know.
30:52
But, you know, we'll be back for another episode next week and
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we'll talk more. Yeah.
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We'll get in more to it, but you got any thoughts?
31:04
Yeah, like I said, you know, just we're going to definitely
31:06
get into more next week. We should have some more that
31:09
especially with the scrimmages for one.
31:11
And then obviously next Friday is when the when it all starts.
31:14
That's when the show starts. So, you know, it's just I'm
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really looking forward to another title defense.
31:19
It's a lecture. To have Yeah.
31:21
And hopefully this year we can, you know, get back into it and
31:26
at least make it back to Omaha. I'll settle for this season as
31:30
making it back be the first team in a while who defending
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national championship. At least make it back to Omaha.
31:38
You know, you become a permanent resident in in Omaha.
31:41
You get a good you pretty you pretty well off.
31:44
You set them boys up. The freshmen get there, They
31:47
find out what it means to be there, you know?
31:49
No doubt, yeah. But like you said, yeah.
31:55
He said we'll be back next week, We'll talk a little bit more of
31:58
it, then we'll get back into it and the when we do the show,
32:03
we'll know a lot more. We'll know what this team has as
32:06
far as seeing from live competition, you know, and
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hopefully both make it out there at 1:00 going February 18th.
32:16
I'll be intrigued, brother. Look, I gotta get back to my
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box, brother. Yeah, you ain't been back in a
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little while. 23 on the place and on the trip.
32:24
Like I think it's like this race season finale.
32:26
It won the last regular season series of that of the 23 season,
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, don't.
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Worry I'll be. Good to be back.
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Let's see, do I have a quote? You know, I don't have another
32:39
quote this week, so we'll just leave it right here, you know?
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Please like, share, comment, subscribe, come over to school
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and we'll talk baseball. You know, we'll get into it.
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We'll try our best to answer any questions anyone may have.
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Always a pleasure, Will. Thanks for coming back on.
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Appreciate you having me as always brother.
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Can't wait for the season. Oh, this season's going to be
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great, you know, like always. Have a great day, great night,
33:14
great morning. Whatever you have, just make it
33:16
a good one. Till next time.
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Love you guys. Happy brother.