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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Basketball - Steve Sabins Visits (Episode 708) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Showtime in the big city. Welcome in everybody. It's time
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  Speaker 1: for three guys before the game, and all three are
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  Speaker 1: present and accounted for. And there's gonna be a special
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  Speaker 1: in just a matter of seconds. Gonna be a special guest.
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  Speaker 2: What is in this league? Yeah, you have to get
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  Speaker 2: an overseas call in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, delighted. We're gonna be joined here by Mountaineer baseball
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  Speaker 1: coach Steve Sabins after West Virginia wins yet another big
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  Speaker 1: twelve Conference series this weekend, victorious over the sun Devils
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  Speaker 1: we are going to talk baseball right off the bat here,
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  Speaker 1: no pun intended with Steve, but also we've got mountaineer
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  Speaker 1: basketball spreads on stats. West Virginia getting ready to take
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  Speaker 1: on the Cardinal of Stanford. I mean, just another typical
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  Speaker 1: West coast I mean that's what West Virginia does now.
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  Speaker 1: We just basically play in the West. If it's not
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  Speaker 1: three hours away from home time wise, then we don't.
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  Speaker 1: We just don't go.
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  Speaker 3: Big twelve conference game again. Just got done getting a
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  Speaker 3: series in the Pack twelve there, We'll just go basketball
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  Speaker 3: Pac twel.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna have to.
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  Speaker 4: West Virginia's gonna have to open like a satellite campus
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  Speaker 4: in yes, I don't know, pick a Midwest city, Saint
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  Speaker 4: Louis or something that's.
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  Speaker 5: Not far enough West.
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  Speaker 1: I just got out to the West.
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  Speaker 2: Got to go further Denver, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Half further. You're not even close in Denver. You're just
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  Speaker 3: getting warmed out in Denver.
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  Speaker 1: Please welcome to the program the head baseball coach of
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  Speaker 1: your West Virginia University Mountaineers, Steve Sabans. Good afternoon, our time.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Morning boys.
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  Speaker 1: How's it going good? Have you? I mean, heck, you're like,
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  Speaker 1: are you You have to file taxes now out there?
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  Speaker 1: And now have you guys been out there so long?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been It's been a good trip. It took
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  Speaker 6: a couple of days to get used to. On Saturday,
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  Speaker 6: it was like the first time in ten years we
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  Speaker 6: had a night game after the time change. You're up
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  Speaker 6: till two am. You lose Friday night, so you're you
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  Speaker 6: don't sleep great. So I took an on Saturday for
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  Speaker 6: the first time in ten years. But I feel like
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  Speaker 6: I'm adjusted. I'm on West Coast time, or eating burritos
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  Speaker 6: and tacos. We're chilled out here, and then tomorrow we
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  Speaker 6: get to play Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what a weekend. As you said, Friday night, you
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  Speaker 1: didn't sleep well into Saturday. You equaled the amount of
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  Speaker 1: hits with Arizona State on Friday night. Each had thirteen hits,
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  Speaker 1: but they had a couple of big boy bangers and
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  Speaker 1: they win that first game and fourteen to four. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: you got ten run. After ten running by you and
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  Speaker 1: Baylor in the previous two weekends you had a ten run,
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  Speaker 1: You get ten run, and then you go out and go, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: gotta win the middle game to at least be able
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  Speaker 1: to have a chance to salvage and win the series.
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  Speaker 1: And you go out on Saturday and you absolutely you
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  Speaker 1: put two hands around their throat early and then just
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  Speaker 1: began applying pressure. You choked them out early.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, And it was this huge, huge weekend, and the
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  Speaker 6: ten run game probably looks a little bit worse than
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  Speaker 6: it was. We certainly did some great things and Montesa
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  Speaker 6: competed well. And when you get down early in the
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  Speaker 6: first game of a series, you got to use your
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  Speaker 6: bullpen wisely. And so if you run out some of
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  Speaker 6: the most successful or experience pitchers early, you don't necessarily
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  Speaker 6: give yourself a chance to win a series. And when
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  Speaker 6: you show up on the road against top twenty five
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  Speaker 6: opponent and one of the greatest programs all time, you're
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  Speaker 6: just playing to win that series. You're playing to do
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  Speaker 6: everything to showcase what our team is and what we're
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  Speaker 6: about and to win ball games. And so we had
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  Speaker 6: to pitch some guys that didn't have a lot of
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  Speaker 6: experience on Friday night, which is awesome for them. Allows
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  Speaker 6: them to grow, allows them to be in those moments
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  Speaker 6: to get better, and if they pitch great and they
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  Speaker 6: kick ass, then you're in the game and you got
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  Speaker 6: a chance to win the game. And we didn't do
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  Speaker 6: that necessarily, and so that's where the game gets stretched
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  Speaker 6: out a little bit. But our bullpen was ready for
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  Speaker 6: Saturday and Sunday we are started or ready for Saturday.
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  Speaker 6: Sunday Maxiell came up huge once again winning that middle game,
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  Speaker 6: and we said after Friday night it was just we
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  Speaker 6: got one focus. That's the win Saturday, and when we do,
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  Speaker 6: we got a chance to win a series and win
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  Speaker 6: a big one on the road, and that's exactly what
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  Speaker 6: we did.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so you come back on Sunday there to
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  Speaker 3: go ahead and win that series, Steve, and we'll get
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  Speaker 3: into that one because I thought there were some unbelievable
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  Speaker 3: individual performances, but just team wise, coming down one nothing,
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  Speaker 3: you get the big grand slam from Sean Smith. But
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  Speaker 3: even more than that, how about the showcase of that
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  Speaker 3: game on the first Sunday with no Sunday Night Baseball
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  Speaker 3: on ESPN. This game's on ESPN two ranked on ranked,
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  Speaker 3: and you walk out of there with the big win.
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  Speaker 3: So heck of a showcase. In addition to getting the
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  Speaker 3: win and winning the series.
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  Speaker 6: It was cool. I think for me it was especially
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  Speaker 6: cool Sunday because we really did what we do. We
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  Speaker 6: played the highest level defense that somebody could ask for.
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  Speaker 6: We ran the bases as well as anybody could run
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  Speaker 6: the bases. I think we had four stolen bases, stole home,
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  Speaker 6: we showcased our speed, and then we had these relentless
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  Speaker 6: at bats that just continue to stretch. We barreled balls
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  Speaker 6: up that were caught. We had awesome at bats. Nothing
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  Speaker 6: really fell for us early, and then we had this
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  Speaker 6: kind of nasty, gritty inning where we got bases loaded,
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  Speaker 6: Sean Smith came up, and then our first hit with
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  Speaker 6: a runner in scoring position was a grand slam. So
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  Speaker 6: it's kind of that like just wear you down where
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  Speaker 6: you down. Honestly, this team is shaping out to be
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  Speaker 6: a little bit like old school West Coast teams, where
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  Speaker 6: just the at bats are good one through nine, the
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  Speaker 6: defense is super solid, the pitching is crisp with experience
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  Speaker 6: out of the bullpen. So I think it was good
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  Speaker 6: for me because I just it felt like we showcased
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  Speaker 6: who we were inarguably for us, probably the biggest game
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  Speaker 6: of the season, right it's a game, a series deciding
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  Speaker 6: game on national TV against a opponent coach.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, West Virginia is leading the league in pitching
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  Speaker 4: era three point nine to nine.
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  Speaker 2: That's at the top.
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  Speaker 4: You've given up one hundred and three runs, that's the
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  Speaker 4: fewest of anybody in the league. You've given up twenty
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  Speaker 4: two home runs. That's the fewest of anybody in the league.
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  Speaker 4: Going into the season, you had to go out and
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  Speaker 4: get a lot of pitchers, and one of the pitchers
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  Speaker 4: that you were counting on you all part of company with.
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  Speaker 4: So are you surprised that your your pitching efficiency is
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  Speaker 4: as good as it is at this point?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if you'd ever expect to be best
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  Speaker 6: in how many teams are in this league now?
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  Speaker 1: Fourteen or yeah, just a couple.
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  Speaker 6: More today, A big couple couple. I don't know if
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  Speaker 6: you ever expect that. But we knew we were going
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  Speaker 6: to be talented. We knew we had some returning arms.
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  Speaker 6: There are some things that maybe the outside didn't see, right,
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  Speaker 6: like Max Yell, who didn't even pitch last year. I
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  Speaker 6: don't think he's on anybody's radar. He's on nobody's draft board.
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  Speaker 6: The fans don't know he's even in the program still.
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  Speaker 6: But us getting him to return and turn down the
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  Speaker 6: draft this summer was one of those moments where you're going, okay,
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  Speaker 6: that just put us in a different stratosphere compared to
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  Speaker 6: some of our peers. So we certainly had an idea
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  Speaker 6: that the pitching was going to go was going to
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  Speaker 6: be okay. But then you add three Division two starters,
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  Speaker 6: you add portal guys, and you're banking on upside and
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  Speaker 6: what our staff stability to develop guys are and the
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  Speaker 6: staff that we have here is special. We need to
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  Speaker 6: keep these guys in Morgantown. We need to keep them
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  Speaker 6: motivated to be here because we just have a special
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  Speaker 6: group of people that enjoyed what they're doing and are
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  Speaker 6: in it for the right reasons and so fired up.
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  Speaker 6: For the pitching staff, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk about a couple more individual performers as we'll
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  Speaker 3: stay on the pitching staff there, because Perez has been
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  Speaker 3: an unbelievable dude for you guys so far, and man,
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  Speaker 3: how about him last night you've been using in a closer. Well,
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  Speaker 3: he closed the thing, but he did it over three
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  Speaker 3: plus and two thirds came in. His stuff's electric. How
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  Speaker 3: did how where did this guy come from? And how
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  Speaker 3: good has he been?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's out of control, guys, He's he's totally totally
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  Speaker 6: out of control. We saw it in the kind of
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  Speaker 6: once we got back from Christmas break leading up to
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  Speaker 6: the season, he had like six or seven incredible appearances
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  Speaker 6: in a row against our own team, and it wasn't
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  Speaker 6: just good. It wasn't like a freshman. Yeah, he's showing strikes,
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  Speaker 6: he's got big v low. It was like the Crispas innings,
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  Speaker 6: striking out three guys every outing. I was going, I
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  Speaker 6: think we have a pretty decent offense, and he's just
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  Speaker 6: absolutely mauling our own team on a consistent basis. And
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  Speaker 6: so you eventually see enough where you don't care that
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  Speaker 6: he's a freshman or that he was a shortstop in
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  Speaker 6: high school or any of those details. It's just your eyes.
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  Speaker 6: Your eyes aren't lying at a certain point. And so
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  Speaker 6: we've just put him in some games early on, and
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  Speaker 6: then we put him in bigger moments, and it's just
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  Speaker 6: you watch enough baseball in this league, and you watch
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  Speaker 6: enough film, you're just going like, you don't see this
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  Speaker 6: very often. So we need to make sure that we
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  Speaker 6: get our best pitchers in the game the most often.
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  Speaker 6: And so we ripped that band aid off with the
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  Speaker 6: freshman that was a shortstop with limited experience early and
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  Speaker 6: we've been kind of riding it and it's worked out
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  Speaker 6: great because just from a pitch count perspective, being a closer,
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  Speaker 6: you don't throw as many pitches. But we've got him
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  Speaker 6: some multiple outings and then we've got his pitch count
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  Speaker 6: up a little bit. And then he didn't pitch the
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  Speaker 6: first two games. And so when we got in our
• 10:39
  Speaker 6: first jam of the night on Sunday, when we were
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  Speaker 6: up four to one and we had some base runners on,
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  Speaker 6: we went to Perez because we said, well, what are
• 10:49
  Speaker 6: we gonna wait around until they hit the two or
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  Speaker 6: three run homer. Let's end this now if we need
• 10:55
  Speaker 6: to go to somebody later in the game. And it's
• 10:57
  Speaker 6: nutcrunching time. That's fine, but we're going to go to
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  Speaker 6: pres here early and he kind of started cooking and
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  Speaker 6: got going. Then we were able to stretch that lead,
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  Speaker 6: and so he finished out the game and saved our
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  Speaker 6: bullpen for important Tuesday game that we have tomorrow against Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you go out there and chat with him,
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  Speaker 1: you had to make a visit to him. What's when
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: you look into his eyes? And I'm sure it varies
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  Speaker 1: all the time, like you say a little something. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you got a little dog there, don't you.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, there's a He hasn't.
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  Speaker 1: To leave them. He hasn't ashy to leave the mound yet,
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  Speaker 1: has he.
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  Speaker 6: No. He he's a sweetheart man. He's like big energy, sweetheart,
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  Speaker 6: happy but fiery, like he wants to kill the opposing team.
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  Speaker 1: And you saw that.
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  Speaker 6: After that first inning when he got out of it,
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  Speaker 6: he had like an out of body experience. He's always
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  Speaker 6: with our team. He's always rooting for us. When he wins,
• 11:51
  Speaker 6: it goes directly to the West Virginia on the Jersey
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  Speaker 6: and our dugout. He's not in the other dugout. But
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  Speaker 6: yesterday he got the big strike out in the big moment.
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  Speaker 6: He had some words to say to the opposing hitter,
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  Speaker 6: and he actually got warned last night, So one more warning,
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  Speaker 6: he would have been ejected, and I would have been ejected.
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  Speaker 6: But that's a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I guess.
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  Speaker 6: I was happy to see that because it wasn't like
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  Speaker 6: a free determined I'm gonna, you know, be an idiot
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  Speaker 6: to the other team. It was just like this raw
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  Speaker 6: emotion came out where he was like letting that particular
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  Speaker 6: hitter know that he was better than them.
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  Speaker 1: In the moment.
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  Speaker 6: When I go out there and I tell him the situation, Hey,
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  Speaker 6: it's bases loaded, the winning runs up, you have one out,
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  Speaker 6: he just says bet and he looks at me in
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  Speaker 6: the eyes, and then I walk off the mount. Coach's
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  Speaker 6: where that guy is that?
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  Speaker 4: That's good to hear, Coach Gavin Kelly. I think he
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  Speaker 4: had three hitch yesterday. He's betting four. I got a
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  Speaker 4: four thirty one. I think he's number three in the
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  Speaker 4: league right now. He has a slugging percentage of seven
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  Speaker 4: sixteen on base percentage of five sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: Is he seeing the seams now? What's going on with him?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: He's Uh, he's in a great spot. The craziest thing.
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  Speaker 6: He just says he's hitting four thirty one and he's
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  Speaker 6: third in the league. I'm not sure how that happens,
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  Speaker 6: but we saw one of those dudes leading off for
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  Speaker 6: Arizona State that.
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  Speaker 2: He was on a different planet.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's like, Babe, Ruth, I haven't seen
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I haven't seen that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, solid move on your part to give him a
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: walk there. We don't want anything to do it, just ahead,
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  Speaker 1: yeah movement.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, at a certain point, it's like negligent could throw
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  Speaker 6: him astrike. Seriously, four homers, and I mean we were
• 13:40
  Speaker 6: we put a guy in scoring position by walking him,
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  Speaker 6: Like you don't see that very often, as like and
• 13:46
  Speaker 6: Barry Bonds' asses on the wall. Yeah, you know, Arizona State.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going like, that's how we're treating this guy right now.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, Hey, let's do one more defensive performance because I
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: still continue to be amazed. I don't know what else
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  Speaker 3: we can do to talk about Armani Guzman and all
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  Speaker 3: the different things he's done. But another stroke of genius
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  Speaker 3: by you guys. You move him over at first base,
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: and I know that's in order to get his speed
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  Speaker 3: and his bat in the lineup and he came through
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  Speaker 3: with hits again. But dude, how about the defense on
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: this guy last night? He makes a diving catch from
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: first that might as well have been in left field,
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  Speaker 3: he had to run so far. And then I listen
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  Speaker 3: that short hop he made and the turn and throw
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: to Perez to get the guy in first. That's a
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: veteran Gold Glover has trouble with that play. And this
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  Speaker 3: dude banged out some defense for you last night.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, bred, That's what I told the team last night
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  Speaker 6: in the huddle. And I don't ever use this term.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's the first time I've ever used it
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  Speaker 6: to the team. I was like, that was a Gold
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: Glove performance. That was one of the best first base
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: performances that I've ever seen. The ball that he caught
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  Speaker 6: around second base, just no other first basement in the
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  Speaker 6: country gets to it. I mean there's also no other
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: NFL running backs playing first either, But but yeah, getting to
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: that ball, and then then that's that spin throw, and
• 15:03
  Speaker 6: it's like one of those short touch feels where it's
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: not like you can just be a raw athlete with
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: a good arm. You have to have feel in your
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: fingertips and you have to be it's a precision throw.
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  Speaker 6: And then the pick that he had late in the
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: game when Tyris Hall short hopped him up the line.
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  Speaker 6: Those are just kind of like the three check marks
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  Speaker 6: of could you do this to be the best first
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  Speaker 6: baseman in the country. And like I said, he had
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: never played first until we put him at put him
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: over there this year in the spring, and it was
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  Speaker 6: more I don't know if stroke of genius might be
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: a little bit generous there. I think it was more
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: based on trying to get the right nine guys in
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: the lineup and on the field with the right athletes,
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: and so we weren't afraid to do it, certainly, but
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: it was like, hey, we need how do we make
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: this work? And to his credit, it's it's the ego
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: list kind of mindset. It's the Yah, what do I
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  Speaker 6: need to do for the team?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 6: Cresher's at first, and Guzman's at first, and Kelly catching,
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  Speaker 6: and Kelly's at second, and grab one's catching and he's
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  Speaker 6: in left, and you have these kids that are like, yeah,
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to skin the ballgame. Skip, just just put
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: me where you need me, right, And that's not always
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  Speaker 6: the case. I think that's probably the bigger story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Guzma might think is just the greatest thing in
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: the world. Like you said, hey, you get to use
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: this big fat mit now, and he goes, hell, heck
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: I get to use right, I got to use this one. Oh,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: this will make it even easier for me.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: Well it has been. I'm at Scoot, he's been awesome.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that Scoop was big boy was that was? That
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: was huge? All right? So tomorrow non conference game against
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: a conference school, why not? Because Hoppy's really struggled with
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: this concept. I'm having to bring it to him twice
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: once on flash cards. But it's a single game against
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Arizona that doesn't count in the league's standings. But it's
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: certainly and I know they're they're they're a little bit
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: down right now, but it will certainly enhance your conference
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: or your non conference schedule, your overall schedule strength.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: I should say, yeah, and it's it's actually the world
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: had to align for a to workout. We had to
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: be playing Arizona State. We had to have not have
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: them schedule for a conference series this year, so they're
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: one of the three teams that we miss. It had
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: to be easter weekend because and we had to have
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: not been able to get home late change times from
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: a three hour time change to then want to play
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: on a Tuesday. We couldn't get home in time, and
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: no one wanted to play us on a Wednesday because
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: they're all playing Easter starting a Thursday series in our region.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: So we just, yeah, there's literally no choice to unless
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: you wanted to play a ballgame. They're straight, So that's
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: kind of where Arizona's at.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: It would have been easier to schedule the Diamondbacks for
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: a game, there's no doubt.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, And even finding an opponent out here, it was
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: awesome and it's good for our team. It's it's we
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: didn't get a spring break. Our spring break games got
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: scan canceled because of a terrible thing that happened inside of
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: that Radford program, and so this felt kind of like
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: a trip. The guys are getting to hang out and
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: we have night games each night, so it's kind of
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: like that Big League feel where they get a breakfast,
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: they get a workout, they go, I'll have lunch together,
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: and then you get to play all night, and so
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: it's it's a cool trip for them. I think bringing
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: our team together as well.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one last thing for you. But by the way,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I think if you would have looked far enough around
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: like Tempe, you could have spotted the Canisius bus because
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: they're just rolling around. Yeah they're on a lou window. Yes, yeah,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: they're just toting around, just waiting for a team to play.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: But as beside the point anyway, Uh, it sets up
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a unbelievable opportunity this Easter weekend. You've got UCF currently
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: in first place. West Virginia's currently in second place. Oh,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: these are the kind of games in series you dream.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: About, right, Yeah, great, two great teams going at it
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: at home. We need we need to place packed. I
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: don't think there's any reason why that's not a sold
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: out crowd and we're jamming guys in there and fire
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: marshals making sure that no more bodies can get in there.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: It's just an awesome opportunity for our program this upcoming weekend.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, my friend.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: We're going on hold on real quick for we let
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: him go. I know he's got to get out of
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: there real quick. Your thoughts on the MVP performance of
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: JJ Weatherhole to start his career in the show.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Let's go what in the world. Man.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, just you want to talk about Perez being a
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: dog and Kelly and those kind of guys. He just he's, Uh,
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: he's a kid that rises to the occasion, the moment
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: isn't a thing, and it's it's humble, and it's rooted
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: in faith, and it's comfortable in his own skin. And uh.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: He surrounds himself with the right people. And I just
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: couldn't say enough good things about him. But he's a
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: he's a special, special person and I think he's a
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: very very special person for WVU and WVU alumni. He's
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: he's the right guy to root for. He's everything that
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: you want your son to be, and he's he's somebody
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: that I think for Mountaineer Nation, Like that's a pretty
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: special thing that we're getting to watch right now. And
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: you see you see in these videos with the Cardinals
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: and their players, how they talk about them. They're like,
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: this is a little brother that I'm going to protect
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: because he's better than everybody. He's more grounded than everybody.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: He's as smart as anybody. It's like people root for him.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: He's got that charisma and that that energy that's just
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: so new, unique, so he's kind of that gift that
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: keeps giving to all of us.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, absolutely, well said, all right, well man, thank again,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: thank you again so much for your time. We appreciate
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: best of luck tomorrow and then we'll see you here
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: this weekend.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: All right, guys, thanks gall right, thank god.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: That there is Steve Sabans. West Virginia will climb, you
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: would think in the national rankings. Now there's like thirty
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: two different organizations, right that have polls in baseball. Well,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: West Virginia was we're seventeen last week, and so you'll
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: elevate up. Arizona State was twenty two. And uh, just
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: just some great, great theater, some great stuff. And again
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: strongly encourage if you do have the opportunity this weekend.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I know it's eastern, but Friday Saturday, even if it's
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: not Sunday, Friday Saturday, come on in the weather is
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: supposed to be idyllic.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Don't underestimate that platform last night either. You know, Sunday
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Night Baseball on ESPN has been a thing for how
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: long it's not anymore. They don't they don't have the
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: package on Sunday nights. That game on ESPN too. There
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: was a lot of chatter nationally about just the showcase,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: the production value of that having a Sunday night baseball game,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: even though it wasn't Major League Baseball, it was two
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: ranked teams. And then for Westford, I need to be
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: the one that walks out of there heck of a
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: heck of a showcase.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: They can't buy that. You can't buy that. And then
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the way they did it, they had the breakout inning
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: with the Grand Slam and then they just kept then
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: they just kept punching them ding ding and the ding ding
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: ding ding. At the end they see you later. Our boy,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Jason Bennetti, by the way, has the new Sunday Night
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Baseball package on nb I like what they're doing. NBC
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: is using the visiting and home teams analysts to work
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: with Bennetti each week. So like last Thursday, he was
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: doing a Dodgers game and Oral Herscheiser came in and
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: served as color and I forget who else they had
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: brought in from the other team, But that's a good
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: way of doing that because that's perfect for Benetti because
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: he can he can talk with anyone and he gets
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: us that that'll be good stuff.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: So that's on Peacock here for the first few weeks,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: it was Peacock last night.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: If I'm not mistake, I was it. So it's not
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: on the Big Boy.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Because NBC has the Sunday Night bask NBA package there
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: that that guest analyst thing. I think Apple's the one
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: that started that a couple of years ago. It's an
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: interesting move and a way to bring some hometown people
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: into the national broadcast.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: So you used to do it on radio, and I
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: think they might have done it when back in the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: day when Joe Garregiola and Tony Kubback. I think maybe
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: they would bring a middle inning guy from the different
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: team would come in. He's like, hey, Bef, tell us
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: about your ball club.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they did.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Apple just did it here in the last couple of years.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: That's where that idea came from.
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  Speaker 4: I was took the mule trip pretty good down about Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Think of the things you've done away from home with
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  Speaker 3: Well, he got that horrific sickness with the damn monkey
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  Speaker 3: on his sick.
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  Speaker 2: Patient zero had a snake around my neck. David Rims not.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: I think Rins still he's a little under the weather.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: I still think he still might be a little bit.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Let's do this right he's got thoughts that sound brandow.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, hoppies obvious observations. That's right, look at that
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  Speaker 1: pull the light. Heaven knows.
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  Speaker 6: I take it quick before he's obvious. Ovation.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have three maybe four about this basketball game
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: coming up, and you know Brad will break down this
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: tat you know, coach Hodge said, or you guys, he
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: picked up on what you guys. It's like a bowl game.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: The season's over and then there's layoff. Brad, then you
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: go play the bulls bull season, so you have a
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: chance to end on a winning note. I'm gonna say
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: something that that's going to be somewhat controversial here.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: In obvious observations. You're going contra troverse.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Heal WVU is better off this season playing in this
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: tournament than the NCAA tournament in the nc If they
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: had gotten an n CUAA tournament, they would have just
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: barely gotten in, probably got a really bad seed, probably
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: not gotten past the first round. I'm not saying they
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: wouldn't have. I mean, you don't know what's going to happen,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: but it would have been a tough draw. You might
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: have been odds are you would have been one and
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: done after the crowded first day. You get lost in
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: the shuffle, it just is okay, you made the tournament,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: but you're only there a few hours.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Really, if you if you lost in the first round.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: He made a lot of leaps right there, I did.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: There are there are a lot of assumption I don't do.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: We have to agree with those, you don't.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe a few these are just no, you don't. May
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: have made a few generalizations, but it's his opinion, and
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: this is his opinion time. But in this tournament, obviously.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: You got a chance for these players to pick up
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: three hundred thousand dollars.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: You're obsessing on this money.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: That's I'm not real money now. I know some of them.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: I mean they're getting paid money now, but I mean
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: I don't care how much you're getting paid.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: You never have enough money.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, this could help Honor cover the cost of
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: getting number three or number whatever it was.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: It probably would help defer that expense that you had.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, if he gets if he gets ni owl
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: money from this, like oh good, now, that helps cover
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: the jasper expense of getting this money. So you got
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: a chance to get some real money here for these
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: players in an environment where you're evenly matched with these teams.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Now, Brad will.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Break this down, but you're pretty evenly matched. You're not facing.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Duke. Although it may not be the best analogy.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: So this is Michigan. Yeah, yeah, okay, but both pretty
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: good and.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: You're gonna be on Your first game is going to
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: be on Thursday. You guys will be there in your
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: FS one. There's no other games that, no other no
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: NCAA games at night. So you've got a good platform.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: So I think for this team, for this season you had,
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: you were better off in this tournament now than in
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: the n C Double A. That's gonna be my argument.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Brad will counter that. I'm sure second might scream at you,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: but go ahead, second point, and Brad will talk about
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: a bouquet Cory. I mean it starts with him and
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: he's what I'm.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Not just listening to you. Go ahead, No.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not gonna give any a status. You
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: can handle all of that.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Continue in that he's he's a dude.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: He's a dude, and you know can make the three
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: can penetra give stats. I'm not giving stats. I'll leave
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: that to Brad.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Three.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, well, he's a player.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: He's a he's a player, and as his coach Todd
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: said on this program, on the last program, just make
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: it hard for him. So Brad will explain how you
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: make it hard for him. I'm not gonna get all
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: up in your zone. Had to well, when I was
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: checking stats, I had to I first think, I did
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: review my ignorance.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I went to the went to the Big Ten because
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I forgot Stanford was in the A CEC.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: It isn't unusual. It is an unusual pairing. I will
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: give you that.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: At I went to the Big Ten, I thought, well
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: they left them out. Why Okay, for.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Sure they would be Why wouldn't they be in the A.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: So they had road trips to Virginia Tech, Virginia I
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: guess they combined those Miami, Florida State, Boston College, Wake Force,
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: NC State.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: So stupid.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Those were the road games.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So stupid, crazy, just the stupidest of stupid.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: Can you imagine up and down season? You guys will
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: get into that. I mean, had some good wins, I
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: had some bad losses. I thought, listen to this. So
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Kyle Smith, their head coach in the second year. This
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: is what Kyle Smith emphasizes defensive efficiency, slower pace, good
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: shots late in the clock, fewer possessions.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Does that? Did some put up a mirror on that?
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Is that just like it's not an unusual play. Iowa
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: did pretty well with that in the tournament. Connecticut does
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: pretty well with that in the tournament. So Kyle smiths
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: a todd Golden disciple. They like to do that.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: So, yeah, that's a popular theory.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: His uh, he's accused of doing nerd ball. That is
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: a thinking man's game.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: So this is going to be a fascinating matchup just
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: to sit and watch the chess not checkers, but chess
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: that goes on in this game. The only other thing
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: was you guys mentioned me Weatherholt.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: You can't. That would be a great start for a veteran.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: All star crazy Disney movie.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: I mean to come out hit a dinger and then
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: have a game winning hit. The second game had a
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: hit yesterday. Walk off, Yeah walk off, so walkoff.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: Stole a base, had a great leaping catch. Defenses did
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: at all.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: I mean just literally displayed every skill that he brought
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: to the table.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: And this is so bittersweet for you.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: Oh it bumps me out.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Not bettersweet, but it's a challenge, yeah, because I mean
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: I've before it seems like every Mountaineer that gets drafted
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: ends up at the Cardinals. I'm a giant Cubs fan
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: for those who don't know, So, yeah, when Jed was
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: playing for the Cardinals, it's a curve step back and forth.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Want them to do extremely well. There's a way for
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: them to be great and the team to not be good.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: That'd but I like when he gets game winning hits.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: He beats the wait till he beats the Cubs for
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the first time, smashes one out of Wrigley and just
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: does a bat drop, looks over so up.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: I need some of my guys to get up with
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: the Cubs there, then we can really roll.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: So you want, what you want is for Weatherhol to
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: go three of five and I a dinger, but the
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Cubs win nine to seven.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, he'd be all right with that.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: Okay, that's what I like of a start for him.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: That's what I got.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Hoppy. We certainly certainly do appreciate that good
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: weekend overall. You had a good weekend.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, great, had a great week.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I had a big cooking weekend.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Had I had to text he had a good cooking.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: It's a good cooking weekend, which is which is fantastic.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: I had to text you, Yeah, I think I told
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: you too, right, I may have overeaten this weekend.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: The ice cream. You didn't. You didn't need all that yourself, right?
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I did? And the picture did not do it justice.
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  Speaker 2: How did you eat all of that?
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: It was? It was? It was absolutely dude, if you
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: could have seen that picture does not show how big
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: that is. You know, I went to Cerru's up in Cannonsburg.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't been a Syrus, you gotta go to
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Cyrus get ice cream. But I'm doing the mass on this.
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  Speaker 1: One of their scoops I think is three regular scoops.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I really do. I think three one of their scoops
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: is three regular scoops I had. I had what was
• 32:34
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• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I had nine scoops ice cream, but not only that, oh,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the fudge, the strawberries.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you something.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm I'm serious about this because you know
• 32:46
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• 32:49
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• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Jones' birthday. So you.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: That is the worst excuse I've ever heard.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: That's right, that's right on brand for him.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I brought it ice cream. And she was born in.
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• 33:05
  Speaker 3: how it was, right, Yes, her birthday, and here's what
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: we're gonna do. I'm gonna go get this and I'm
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: gonna eat more than anybody else gets. Yes, exactly, her
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: birthdays about him.
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  Speaker 1: If she was here right now, I should say, you're
• 33:13
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• 33:15
  Speaker 2: But the question stands because you get into cooking and
• 33:19
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• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I did that. I mean I went off the wagon.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: What do you laught? You've been off the wagon? I mean,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: what do you like?
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: I don't profess to be on the wagon like you like.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: He had to be all ex might with us.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna have that.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: Well you have that, I'm not gonna have that. I
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: can't have that.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: I watch my right.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, shames everybody else.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: And then when it's time for him to eat, then
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: he goes bananas.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: Yes, exactly, I got it.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: If they were to put bananas on that.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Would but but I mean no, I mean one. I
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: don't want to drop. I mean at that moment, I
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: what are you thinking?
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell you dude, Okay, it was three scoops
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: of ice cream. I forgot that they do stupid sizes
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: of ice cream. It was a myth and you can't
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: ask her could you put more back? I mean once
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: it's there, and I'm not going to not.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Eat it, so you would not leave any It.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Was about it was about five thirty or six o'clock. No,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: it was about five o'clock at night. I did not
• 34:16
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• 34:22
  Speaker 1: ten thirty. I was like, I did not feel right
• 34:24
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• 34:26
  Speaker 3: It's also him not paying attention to details exactly he
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: goes in. It just orders something right, doesn't know what
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: they're giving him. It gave him half the store.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: I'm at least you felt bad for five hours.
• 34:37
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  Speaker 5: Did look good?
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, until the next time.
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  Speaker 1: I'll never do it again.
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  Speaker 5: Looked really good.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all get some keys. Let's start though, which I normally
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: don't do. Usually we go team down into individuals, but
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: I do think you have to start with a core corey.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, my goodness, guys. First of all, Duke basketball
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: is heavily in the news here today as we record
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: this on Monday. He looks like a young Tommy Emmacker.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Have you seen a straight on shot of this guy?
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: Looks very similar facially to Tommy Amicker did at Duke Dude.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: This falls under Hoppies obvious observations. He can score at
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: all three levels. He is electric, his stop and start
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: is outstanding. So he's difficult to stay in front of.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: But if you give him any space, he'll stick the
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: three right on you. This is going to be a
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: real challenge. You're gonna have to show him a lot
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: of different jerseys. Can't let him split gaps. This will
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: this will be a challenge, and it's another good freshman.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: I think every player in college basketball this year is
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: a freshman, and they're all going to be lottery pass
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: exactly one everyone. It's unbelievable.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: This is this Kid's ninety five people in a lottery
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: He's either a multi million dollar player in college next
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: year he goes in the pros.
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: I mean he's he's dynamically.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Sandford's worried to death.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: He's he's a two plus million dollars I said, multiple million,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: two plus million dollar guy next year.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Let's stay on him for a second. He just does
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: everything well. He's great in transition. He's top ten nationally
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: coming out of a timeout, so look for him to
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: be used out of that timeout, and he's hard to
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: stop in those situations. He's top ten points per possession
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: off pick and rolls. He's top thirteen percent nationally in
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: points per possession in ISOs. So he's going to ISO,
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: He's going to pick and roll you. He's thirty seven
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: percent from three. He's outstanding. Here's something to keep an
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: eye on. Hopy Ready Yeah, go on getting the weeds. Yes,
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: likes to drive left, and when he does, he's going
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: to the basket. Eighty percent of his drives left go
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: to the basket, shoting it. When he goes left to
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: the basket, eighty percent of his left hand drives and
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: in shots. Here's a concerning stat. He's only turned it
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: over once when he goes left to the basket.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, excuse me?
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: Pretty good.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Well, so hey want to say so when you say
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: a drive that doesn't that's not necessarily meaning a paint touch.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: It's just he's gonna go left. So he could pull
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: up mid range, he could pull up sixteen feet away.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: He's gonna go left. He's gonna shoot it.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's trying to get to the basket if he can.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: He likes to go left when he does that. This
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: is where this guy in particular, So this is where
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: you watch the EMRR injury and you watch it defensively.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: So Jasper is, as I've said all season long, as
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: good as there is on ball defender. It's not like
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: he's seen lottery picks in front of him at the
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: guard position. We've seen it almost every night a pro
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: at the point guard position, and Jasper's done exceedingly well
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: in those matchups, He's going to need some help in
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: this one. You're gonna have to pack that lane on
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: him and make him shoot it on a mid rangeer three,
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: and if.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: He does, so be it.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: But if Jasper has either early fouls or just foul
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: try trouble in general, that's where it gets a little
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: bit more difficult is there's no Amir to come in
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: and try and harass him as a backup, either to
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: spell Jasper or to choose some clock if Jasper gets
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: into foul trouble. I would expect Mo yugus Ugasouk to
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: get some significant minutes here and match up against a
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Corry quite a bit. Mos My god, there's a guy
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: in the league that may surprise you that's number one
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: individually against the pick and roll defensively.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Who would that be?
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: B the name I just said, moe Ugasouk. Now, it's small,
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: it's limited possessions, I get it. So that's one of
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: those stats that might be skewed a little bit. But
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: I think you're going to ask Mo to be the
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: guy that comes in and matches up on a Cory
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: when Jasper's not on him, So that's something to watch.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: If you're looking for a way to victory, you've got
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: to make it difficult. As coach Hot says, if he's
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: six of twenty two from the floor, you're probably in
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: this game and have a good shot to win it.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: If he goes off on you and you're having trouble
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: contain him, then obviously you're looking the other way.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Can I say this, Yeah, Mo, you just made the
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: defensive stat there. Offensively, I want to go to bed
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: with the one I'm saying is two things. One. He
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: hit forty six three pointers last year at South Carolina.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know what he's got this year, maybe ten
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: or twelve, but in practice here over the last several days,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: he is scorching it. So I want to be the first.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I want to be the remember where you heard this first.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: If Mogo's off, it's because he's been practicing really, really well.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Don't be surprised because he's going to have to play
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: twenty plus minutes.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, keep an eye on it.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: High usage for a Cory. It's basically two guys for them. Offensively,
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: he is one and then Benny Geeler's another guard. Six
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: to one, He's more of the shooter. We talked about
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: this stat earlier. There's twenty two players in college basketball
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: that have played four years at the same school. This
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: dude's one of them. Been at Stanford for four years,
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: so he's one of those twenty two in Power four
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: that have played for all four years.
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: He was had the.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Eleventh best offensive rating in the ACC during conference play,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: twenty third nationally in all games. So he's a high usage,
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: high sho shooter. He's a three point sniper forty two
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: percent from three. He's the top one percent nationally in
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: points per possession in the last four seconds of the clock.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna get to that because that is generally
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's defensive advantage. They force these teams into final
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: second shots in the clock. Stanford's pretty good at it,
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: and this guy's really good, so that's gonna be an
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: area to watch. He's also big coming out of timeouts,
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: again no surprise because it's he and Corey that are
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: coming out of timeouts. So you're gonna have to watch
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: watch these guys in particular. Team overall, Let's get into
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: some Stanford stuff. They are very good from three point
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: land this season, fifth in the ACC thirty five percent
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: shooters in conference play. West Virginia is one in six
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: on the season when teams shoot thirty five percent or
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: better from three. Again, one in six when teams shoot
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: better than thirty five percent from three. That's right on
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: what Stanford's conference game a Bridge was, So watch the
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: three point line. West Virginia held eleven conference opponents to
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: thirty three percent or less from three. So this is
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: one of those hop if you were listening to national
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: guys on this breakdown, they're gonna look at West Virginia
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: and say West Virginia doesn't guard the three very well.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: It's in the bottom one hundred teams in opponent three
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: point percentage. And there were certainly some games this year
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: Xavier being won where we saw teams light West Virginia
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: from three. But if you look at that stat, I
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: just gave you eleven of the eighteen opponents you held
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: under thirty three percent, which is where you want to be.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: So this team does guard the three pretty well, but
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: there has been moments when we've seen the three really
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: hurt West Virginia. That would be something to watch. Stanford
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: not good from two, however, fourteenth in the ACC and
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: two point percentage, and they're getting a West Virginia defense
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: that was elite in this area all season eleventh nationally
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: and two point percentage defense. West Virginia held ten out
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: of eighteen conference opponents to less than fifty percent from
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: two point. Land's hard to do guys. Ten of the
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: eighteen under fifty percent. That includes nine of the last
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: twelve conference opponents you held under fifty percent from the floor.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: So important again, just do what you do and make
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: Stanford do what it does and struggle from two and
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: make them have to beat you from three point.
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: Land, you have a question, just who does Accrey remind
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: you of in the league?
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Kingston Flemings, but better stop and start.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: So his physical attributes are like Honor, You know how
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Honor's impossible for anybody to guard. The teams just can't
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: stay in front of him. Now, he may miss the
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: shot when he gets by you, but you're not staying
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: in front of him. That's what this guy's like.
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: But finishes.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: Is used to finishing inside the arc, so he's got
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: those physical attributes the athleticism of an Honor fast and stop,
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: start and quick and twitchy, but can finish just extremely well.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: You know, he's an interesting story because he's from the
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: like New Hampshire, Connecticut or Massachusetts somewhere and committed to Harvard.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Correct, they got Harvard. Then they went to him and
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: he was at Brewster Academy, which is a basketball factory,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: and they went to him and they said, hey, they're
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: not going to Harvard, but yeah, you can play a
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: higher level of basketball and get the same academic you know, curriculum.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: And so that got him there. And now it is
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: an absolute what's going to happen with this CAF. Like
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: if he wants to sit this out and just put
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: his name into the portal like today, be great. I'd
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: be open for that. But like Stanford, like he might
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: if he stays at Stanford, Stanford is gonna have to
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: pay him two million dollars or more. I don't know
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: if they're where they are with that world. But if not,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: he can go anywhere he wants to go and make
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: two plus million dollars next year anywhere, or go to
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: the NBA. There're gonna be NBA scouts at this event
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: because you got several NBA guys at the Baylor's got
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: its two guys. He got a cat here as well.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: So there's some NBA guys.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: This team in Stanford did not get to the free
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: throw line very much. Guys fifteenth in the ACC and
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: free throw at temper rate. So again, hop do which
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: do guard without fouling? Don't give them any freebies at
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: the line. They are very good in transition. When they
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: decide to push, they're super efficient. But as you mentioned,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: they like to play it in the low sixties in
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: terms of possessions. Great, right, where West Virginia wants to
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: be in that particular side of things. Here's the last
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: four seconds of the clock thing I was talking about.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: So let's watch this carefully on Thursday night. Eleven percent
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: of Stanford's possessions end in the final four seconds of
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: the clock, and their top twenty five percent nationally in
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: points per possession in those situations. They had seven games
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: this season with double digit points in the final four.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: They went five to two in those games. A lot
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: of that is due to a Corey shot making ability.
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: Right, It's just like Honor.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: West Virginia is really good in the final four of
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: the clock because Honor can make shots and get open
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: at any point. That's why I think that's the comparison
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: for a Cory, even though he's a guy with the
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: ball in his hands. More, here's the specific stat to
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: watch as you're listening to the game on Thursday, Stanford
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: three to zero on the season when a Cory gets
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: seven or more points in the final four seconds of
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: the clock. So watch specifically how he is doing in
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: late clock situation. If those shots are missing, good sign.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: If he's starting to make a couple, look out. He's
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: just watching some of his highlights. As you said, Brad,
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: he has all phases. I mean he can step back
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: and then when he goes to break down the defense,
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: it looks like the defenders are in cement.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: I mean he's that quick. He's really good.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: Yep, pick and roll. He's very good on the pick
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: and roll. Stanford is a team was second in the
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: acc and points per possession off the pick and roll,
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: fiftieth nationally. West Virginia's defense, though, guys third in the
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: Big twelve and thirty fifth nationally against the pick and
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: roll ball handlers. Again, as we said, Jasper's elite and
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: excels in that area. Harlan has been elite, especially down
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: the stretch in that drop coverage where he shows he
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: slows the guy coming off the screen and then gets
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: back to protect the big So that's going to be
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: important here too. I mentioned they're very good in ISO, again,
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: a lot of this due to a Corey top ten
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: nationally points per possession in isolations situations. They can shoot
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: it as well, forty percent from three when they're on
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: darted on catch and shoots, and again very good just
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: in three point land in general. They're top twenty percent
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: of teams nationally in points that come from the three
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: point land percentage of points, so thirty six percent of
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: their total points come from three, more than a third.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: So you're gonna have to guard the perimeter as well.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: They like threes off of offensive rebounds hoppy eighty third
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: percentile and three point attempt rate off and offensive rebounds,
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: So West Virginia's got to control the glass or they
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: like to catch it, turn and kick out. Most coaches
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: love that. They say that's one of their favorite shots
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: in basketball is a three off an offensive rebound. Got
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: to protect the lane. As we talked about, they like
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: shots in the lane, but they're not very good at it,
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: so that's going to be a battle. They don't make
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: a lot as I just told you, But they do
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: take a bunch. They like to put their bigs in
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: the lane. And I'll just tell you now, I'm already
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: going to lose my mind about three seconds in the lane,
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: So just be prepared. They're going to camp in the lane.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: I'm going to say there should be getting three second calls,
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: which I'm not even sure that's a violation anymore.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: I'm sure the officials will watch.
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: I don't even know if that's called anymore.
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: Well watch street second if it. If it's called, it
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: would be it'd be the first time this season in
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: any game.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think think we had it once. I think
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: we had it twice this year.
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's very rare.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well call it in this one.
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: Whoever the crew is, be ready.
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: Defensively, they love to get steals. They have three players
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: in the top twenty percent of all players nationally in
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: steal percentage. They're excellent when they get those steals off
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: live ball turnovers ninetieth percentile nationally and points per chance.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: So you want an early key, there's one right there.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Protect the basketball, which is always a West Virginia key.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: But if you're giving up live ball turnovers, here they're
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: probably going to hurt you in that area. Let's go
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: to the Pit game where Pitt beat them there in
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: the big in the ACC tournaments, they were a bubble
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: team and then Pitt slammed the door on that Pits
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: spread them out defensively, and then drove the ball right
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: at him, got a bunch of rim shots with no
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: help coming over defensively. Pitt scored seventy percent of its
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: points in the paint in that game. West Virginia has
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: been very good at that hop. What did we do
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: when we did our film breakdown? You put Honor and
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: Trey on the wings? What are they going to do?
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: They have to make a decision. Are they going to
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: hug up on them? Are they going to sag off
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: if they hug up on them? Look for be Low
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: and Harlow to be attacking inside the paint. Chance more
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: get him in some ISOs on that wing or diving
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: to the basket. Pitt rebounded nearly fifty percent of its
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: missshots against Stanford in that game. So West Virginia has
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: been pretty good on the offensive glass. Get in there
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: and get after it. That's something to keep an eye on.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: Three point defense. They're one hundred spots better nationally in
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: three point percentage defense than West Virginia's. But I just
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: gave you that West Virginia stat. That stat's driven by
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: a few poor games from West Virginia defensively, where the
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: body of work shows you that's not really a true stat.
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: Stanford is flipped. They're better when you look at it
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: overall on a season basis as a one liner. But
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: if you dive down in twelve acc opponents shot better
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: than thirty three percent from Stanford from three So they
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: had a couple games where they really had some three
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: point luck where shots weren't going in, But for the
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: bulk at the time, teams shot better than thirty three percent,
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: which is the benchmark you want to be, So keep
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: an eye on that.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: That's about it.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: That's a good breakdown. Two arenas host this event. You
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: play one place on Thursday, and if you win, you
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: move to a different arena on Saturday, and then for
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Sunday for the champion.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: I thought you yeah, MGM to start and then it
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: goes to T Mobile for the next two.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: If you're right, where's team? Where's TEA Mobile?
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: I know where MGM is down the strip. There somewhere.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know, not far. You're right in the whole sphere,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: no pun intended.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: I couldn't have play in the sphere, are you?
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: I was thinking about going with the Wizard of Oz
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: at the sphere?
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: Is that still there? Or the Eagles who's their.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: Nameagles there in the weekend, but they play the Wizard
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: of Oz during the.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Week I like to see that too.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Let's see.
• 51:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, let's go play some games.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: See what happens. Roster games.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Roster composition is super interesting nowadays in this world of basketball.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Their starting center AJ Roose six nine two and thirty
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: pound grad student, they're at Stanford. Here's his road to
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: get to Stanford. Okay, he's a walk on and plays
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: one game at Washington State as a freshman for Kyle Smith.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Stays there the second year as a walk on at
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Washington State, gets nominal action, leaves Washington State, goes to
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Division three Claremont mud Scripts. I'm sorry, Claremont mud Scripts,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know that college in California D three, becomes
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: a D three All American double doubles, jumps from D
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: three up to this year. He goes to Stanford and
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: he becomes their starting Center, so pretty wild. You normally
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: don't see the D three guy. Colorado had that dude, right,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: he was D three. Remember the big Malone. Yeah he
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: was an AI. He was an AI.
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I mean they got a couple, they got
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: a couple of grad guys. I got a guy from
• 53:06
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• 53:09
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  Speaker 5: Oh good, that'll be fine looking forward to that. That's
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  Speaker 1: Correct, And we're gonna be at the University Town Center
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have some special guests, okay, but not one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
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  Speaker 5: Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And so the gang will be there. Now, we had
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  Speaker 6: He was?
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  Speaker 5: That's right, he'd be great. He'll get to meet great
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Coach Kellogg, his staff, they'll all be front and center.
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  Speaker 1: So so the coaches will be like this, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they'll be all over there. But anyway, so we invite
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  Speaker 1: He's get in there early. I'd probably get in there
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  Speaker 1: about noon. Just probably get in there about noon and
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  Speaker 1: then just kind of hang out and then walk over
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• 57:38
  Speaker 1: so you can shoot against WV women.
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  Speaker 3: Tuesday, April seventh, four pm, University Town Center, Buffalo Wild Wines.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, correct, that's correct.
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  Speaker 5: Free free of charge.
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  Speaker 1: Would you pay? Yeah, there's nothing to pay for. You
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  Speaker 1: I bet your girl Carey is going to be there
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she was a great event. Looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 3: And then the baseball game against Marshall Game two, Game two.
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  Speaker 1: Of the series. Yeah, they still got to go to
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  Speaker 1: Gomart Park eventually. Here we go. Guys, it's George from
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Mingo County. Senator. I knew you're giddy about Will Wade
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  Speaker 1: heading back to LSU. Hashtag clown show it is. I
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: know we talked about that on a show this season,
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  Speaker 1: and we called it early that he was going back
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: before anyone knew it. And we've tried, Jack tried, jumping,
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: Jack tried. I looked into transcripts, couldn't find. I wanted
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: to bring it back and say, hey, we told you,
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: but anyway couldn't find it.
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  Speaker 2: That's just it. I shouldn't be shocked because that's that's
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  Speaker 2: the world in which we live.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: Now. Well, that's our next text, he says. Hey, guys,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Will Wade to LSU. NC State's athletics director says he
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: felt lied to after Wade left. Really what did he expect?
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  Speaker 1: Man College Athletics? Just wild?
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: If you I think it's in the book him by
• 59:01
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• 59:05
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• 59:07
  Speaker 2: Not the snake's fault.
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: So if you get solid, if you if you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: go that direction, don't be surprised if the guy leaves
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: you hanging.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: Here's the thing, though, guys, we should not be surprised
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: about anything that happens.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: We started the show with a discussion with the West
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: Virninia baseball coach out in Arizona from a conference game. Right,
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: and as we've said, Rich is returned as the head
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: football coach here. Like every everything's on the table, thing's employed. Yeah,
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: everything's in table. So I'm not surprised, but not surprised.
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  Speaker 3: But the difference is I mean he was I just
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: read a piece about way this point. No, he cheated,
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: he was a bad cheater. I mean he got caught
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: is a wire tap. It was like paying somebody, just
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: like really just not good stuff.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: Some some may have construed his operation is a bit overt.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, or he was just ahead of the ahead of
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  Speaker 5: the times.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Visioner bud In Lexington rights whatever. Bud In Lexington
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  Speaker 5: Excellent.
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  Speaker 1: It's really good, very good. Texter says, this is Uncle Chuck.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Fantastic episode with coach Ije. Also a ton of respect
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: for Emir Jenkins and the fortitude he showed this season.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: The future is bright. From out near Basketball, we recently
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  Speaker 1: told you about a young ten year old by the
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  Speaker 1: name of Cayden Gillespie from Grafton. He's battling childhood cancer.
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  Speaker 1: Really super neat event last week, Grafton was playing Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: baseball and Cayden was able to make it out to
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  Speaker 1: by the name of Max Abrosino who's a catcher. He
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  Speaker 1: also had battled childhood cancer and Cayden was diagnosed with
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  Speaker 1: a form of lymphoma back in February, released from the
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  Speaker 1: hospital to make it to the game and threw the
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  Speaker 1: him the very best. Nat Any good news, Texter Hey,
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  Speaker 1: After looking up West Virginia on line, seeing gorgeous pictures
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  Speaker 1: from across the state, he decided to take a week's
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: vacation to come see for himself. Said he absolutely had
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  Speaker 1: and interacted who had who he had, and interaction with
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  Speaker 1: ending with a prepositional phrase. I tried my best to
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  Speaker 1: up to Morganton. Yeah, we'll see how that'll work. Keep
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: up the great work. Always looking forward to the next episode.
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  Speaker 1: the ballpark where West Virginia played this weekend. A mothman
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: sighting at Sun Devil's Ballpark could be a momentous development
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  Speaker 1: for the Mountaineers. There he was front and center on
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  Speaker 1: top of that scoreboard.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: We lost man taking in road games.
• 1:02:29
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  Speaker 1: Good to see Chuck recently he was at the women's game.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: Was he yeah, Charles was their front center. Had a daddy,
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  Speaker 1: had a daddy date with his with his young lady.
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  Speaker 1: Very good, Yeah, Texter, better tell Brad to stock up
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  Speaker 1: now before we hit a shortage or big candy jacks
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  Speaker 1: the prices up. To hear the situation, guys, I did.
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  Speaker 1: A truck was carrying twelve tons or over four hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand bars of KitKat chocolate was stolen traveling from Italy
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  Speaker 1: to Poland, leaving both the vehicle and its cargo missing
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: and prompting an investigation by Nestle and authorities. How about
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: that company did warn the theft could lead to temporary shortages,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: especially ahead of Easter, and noted the stolen products may
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: appear in unofficial markets, though they can be tracked using
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  Speaker 1: unique batch codes.
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  Speaker 3: Two things, Yes, as first reported, I told you there
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  Speaker 3: was heavy production of kit Kats a year and a
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  Speaker 3: half ago.
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  Speaker 2: I told you right, yes you do.
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  Speaker 3: Number two, I actually saw a statement from the company
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  Speaker 3: that said this is amazing.
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  Speaker 5: This also tells you how much production there is.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: Also is first reported that there is no no problem
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  Speaker 3: with the distribution markets here.
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  Speaker 5: This will be fine. There will be no shortages. They
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: have so many.
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  Speaker 4: Oh wow, I would have liked to have been in
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: that meeting of the gang that's plotting their next robbery
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 4: when the guy stands up and says, no, hear me out.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 4: I know we focus on televisions and various things. But
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: kit cats. Okay, kit cats, nobody's expecting that. And there's
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 4: a big market probably like ship it over somewhere, But
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: they don't have kid cats. Did they ever come up
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: with them?
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 5: No, they're still on the loose Efforty, I can't.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: I just noticed I pasted one of these in here
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  Speaker 1: and it was I can't use it right now, so
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  Speaker 1: skip to the next one. I need to confirm with
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  Speaker 1: the guy how he wants that to be done.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yet I could have ruined something big there.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Texter Baseball, Now Gavin Kelly has a gun for an
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: arm A single handily killed a rally with a seed
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: throw to third and a save of a dirt and
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: a bomb throat a second, would you agree that we
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: now own Pittsburgh area recruiting for baseball. I'll tell you
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: what Steve Sabans took a shot at. And did you
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: see Steve get interviewed during the game yesterday and they
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: asked him about that, Well, that's that we own that area.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: He may not have said that verbade him a basically
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: indicated like, yeah, West Virginia is Pittsburgh. We take up
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: players there. We take all the players. Obviously, Hey, Jake,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: can you show me the picture of that young man
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: standing in front of his locker. A lot of people
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: may have seen this last week, but that is jj
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: weatherholt as A was that fifth grade holding up what
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: he was going to do fourth grade when he that's
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: what he was going to be when he grows up
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: an MLB play.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the mar school district put that out and had
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: the name of the teacher that found that picture there
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: on career day. With that little chalkboard there, it might
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: be hard to see, but yeah, what are you going
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: to be when you grow up? A lot of kids
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: put that down their hobby. Yep, he came through with it.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: You few have the unbelievable gift of athleticism and then
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: more importantly the determination to get through it and do it.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: And also I thought it was interesting.
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  Speaker 4: And we've you guys know him better than I do,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: but we've had him on the program and met him.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 4: He's just and as coach Saban said, I mean just
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 4: just take You got to be in the right headspace, guys,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: right to be able to deal with that stuff.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I'm trying to see if I don't think
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: I didn't forget anything else. Okay, one last one, Joey
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: being probably did Joey b in Princeton, West Virginia, always
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: a West Virginia connection. After the NASCAR race this weekend
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: in Martinsville, we met a man that works for NASCAR
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: from Welch, West Virginia. He gave us a let's go mountaineers.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: Thought you guys would think that was cool. We do, Joey,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: We do all right?
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: Next Tuesday, April seven, four pm, Buffalo Wild Wings University
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: Town Center.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Wen's team will be there. Are you going to
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: be here next week?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, well you guys do.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: How about how about how about his deal? Yeah? Like
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: a stun like why would we win?
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: Not that you've ever missed well, wait a minute, you
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: guys are getting ready to go on it. I don't know.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 4: Speaking of road trips, you guys are taking off tomorrow.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 4: Who knows when you'll be back. I hope it's a
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 4: long time because I want the Mountaineers to keep playing
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: m hm.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: So when when's the earliest?
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 6: No?
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: No, when's the latest?
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: You might be back next Tuesday morning? I guess right,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: and I'm sorry, Monday would be the earliest. The latest
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: that would be the late.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: Thursday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, could come home Sunday.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: You don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Well, have a great trip. We'll be listening. It's
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: eight o'clock Eastern, I think on Thursday.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: That's correct. Okay, first game of two that night, right.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: Our good friends from Rutgers will be there. We got
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: familiar We got familiar buddies at Rutgers, our friends from Baylor,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: our friends from Colorado, they're all going to be there.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: Who else do we know? That's Oklahoma?
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 5: Oklahoma is there?
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma is there?
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: Did you do you know the announcer for Duke Do
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: you know him?
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yes, casually I do.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, he was calling for them. It should be a
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: technical foul that came off the bench.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, he got ripped for saying that. That's
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: something probably I would have done.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 5: Oh what have been right there a lot longer than
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 5: the duke guy did. Please, I had no criticism for
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 5: him on that.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: Let it go?
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: He let it go?
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 5: What a finish? What a game?
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, sometimes goes in? Would you agree? I wrote
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: this to some buddies today. I think basketball this is debatable.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: Basketball is the sport that has the most brutal finality
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: of all sports. And I said that, I said this,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: it's debatable. I'm not sure there's a sport with the
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: brutal finality of basketball. You can go from offense to
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: defense in a split second. It can provide unbridled joy
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: or the breathtaking gut punch. Baseball, you know, you normally
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: load guys on bases and you can kind of feel
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: it unless it's just a solo walk off. The only
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: other sport I think would be hockey that you can
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: go from offense to defense, but like on football, you
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: have to be normally on So basketball is that one
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: you saw yesterday? Ball gets turned over and in a
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: split second you go from defense you're on offense and
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: game's over.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: And you go like, what just happened to meckling?
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: That's what makes it.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, You're You're exactly right to it because it's the
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 4: pace at which fortunes can change.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: Yes, football is a tsunami like when some when a
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: team a team is like driving the ball, you feel
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: like everything is a cut. It's a thousand cuts.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: You can feel it and feel it and the kid
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: in your stomach is there for for a while that yesterday,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: for Duke, you are, you are celebrating and maybe you're
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: holding your breath a little bit. But what and Duke
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: just with some epic collapses over the last.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 5: Couple of years.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: You remember last year in the National semifinals they were
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: up six with under a minute ago, like nine with
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: a minute and a half to go. Lost that game.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: They also blew what else? They lose the Elite eight game.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: They had a nine point lead in twenty twenty four.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: They yacked that as well. They're on a historic run
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: of yaks.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: They are. Now. Let me just also point this out,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: and I was thinking of this yesterday. Teams lose leads.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: It's not just West Virginia. Teams lose leads nineteen. Yeah, Now,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: yesterday's was the greatest in the history of the tournament.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: Number one seeds were one thirty four to oh all
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: time when they led by fifteen points or more at halftime,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: So that never happened before yesterday. However, it's a game
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: of runs, it's a team. So we oftentimes we all
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: of us do, right, we hyper focus when it happens
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: to us, But it happens like basketball is a spurt game,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: it's a run game, and hopefully the spurts go West.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: Virginia's way here in Las Vegas.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 3: I just gave you three for one team, get them
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: to get to a final four, I understand. Of those
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: in the last two seasons to get to a final four.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: The other one happened in the final four to get
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: to a World championship. And one other point that is
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: that is some hard So that's in three years with
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: John Shire. That's all three under Shire. He's been the
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: coach for three years. Amazing to get to two Elite
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: eights in a final four. So you take that, but
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: that is three unbelievable yacts in that situation, back to
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: back to back.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh wow. Here's another thing. Here's another thing, And
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: I sent a text to you guys yesterday about this.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: How hard is it to get to the final four?
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: Do you see the teams that don't make it like
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: you take and it can happen again like this Iowa
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: State US loses Joshua Jefferson three minutes into their opening
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: round game. He done, iver comes back in the tournament.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: So this team and this program in these this fan
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: base that had this like unbelievable dream, like this is
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: the year we crack it. We go to find foy
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: that ends like that.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 5: Built for this year.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they put some extra money behind this roster for
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: that reason, to get to a championship.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it was too forty two.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: He went down, Yeah, seventeen forty two on the clock
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: less than that two twenty eight one.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: So and then Texas Tech JT topping it ends for
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: you like that, and then all of these other super
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: good teams. You're not going anywhere. You're not getting out
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: of the second weekend. It's hard. So you look back
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: on it and you really truly do appreciate the runs
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: that West Virginia has gone on, whether that be when
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: John bee Line was here, whether that was when Huggs
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: was here, and you made it all the way to
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: the final four. Like you look at that and go like, gosh, dang,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: you cherish those moments.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: Well, or even go back to ninety eight with coach Catlin.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: Here's why I say that, So Iowa's had a pretty
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: consistent program over time. Right under Fran McCaffrey, they made
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: a bunch of nca tournaments. They were playing to go
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: to a final four for the first time since nineteen
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: eighty Ronnie Lester, Bobby Hansen coach by loude Olsen in
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: nineteen eighty. They hadn't been to a Sweet sixteen since
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: ninety nine Hoppy until this year. And I thought this
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: this year's really highlighted this tournament. So take those numbers
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: from just Iowa for a second. In their first year
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: with Ben McCullum, that's a team that was five hundred
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: in their league. They were nine to nine in the conference.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, people thought they were having a good year,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: but they weren't. Oh my god, Ben McCollums the second
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: coming and they get right and they get some good
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: matchups and they advance on and they were leading at
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: half to go to the final four for the first time,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: but it had been since nineteen eighty and no sweet sixteens?
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: So how many sweet sixteens had West Virginia been since
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: that time frame? Right went to one in ninety eight
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 3: and then how many others since then? With coach b
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: Line and hugs.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 5: A ton of them?
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 3: Illinois, Illinois great basketball program, tremendous tradition hadn't been there
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: had been to sweet sixteen since so five? Right, final
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: fource and SO five final fource and so five? Yeah,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 3: asw long is that twenty one years?
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah? It's hard. It is freaking hard.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 5: That's why you appreciate it.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 3: And that's why when you win those games, the uphouria
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 3: is like unlike anything else because it is hard to
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: advance in that thing.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed. All right, thanks very much everyone for being
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: with us.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: Again.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: We remind you we're gonna be on location next Tuesday.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: Next Tuesday at Buffalo Wild Wings at the University Town
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: Center across from the Kendrick Family Ballpark in advance of
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: West Virginia and Marshall And and that game goes at
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: six pm. We're going to be there from four until
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: five thirty. Hoppy will be singing some of his favorite
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: songs singing.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: But I'll be there.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: We're doing trivia. We're just going to have a big.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: Time women's basketball team. Will be there. Yep, looking forward
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: to that.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: Is that Golden Blue Enterprise making that happen?
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 1:15:18
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• 1:15:21
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• 1:15:22
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