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Weekend 4 Preview: 2026 NCAA Baseball | Ep. 016 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: What's a midweek without a major upset? Mississippi State fans,
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  l s U fans, Georgia fans. You may have an
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  idea by now. Anyway, when we know the answer to
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  that question, we'll let you know. But until then, we've
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  got plenty of midweek action and upsets to discuss, plus
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  some crazy series to come in a busy slate of
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  weekend pick them. We've got all of it. Had a
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  little bit more on today's episode of College Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, there ain't no problems, no problems.
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  Speaker 3: Don't want you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, let me not then know what was going for mine?
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  Hit to be out dat didn't grab a couple of
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  wins with a B I D just even known the kid.
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  Speaker 5: I had to do a B I G B.
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  Speaker 4: We can never be average, and they want to problem
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  with the point they don't know. No static, I don't
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  need so coach time run a week. God, I want
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  to test that to them? Was standing run the game?
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  Speaker 1: Be leave them signing dogs, County. I know my wins.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I love them.
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  Speaker 4: When they count me out, count I'm the least sudden shame.
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  Speaker 3: Why win a God? Believe I run the game?
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  Speaker 4: You believe I.
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  Speaker 1: Want stand this magic.
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  Speaker 4: Believe I want that's stand stand it is that magic
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  wand about really don't want to stand it.
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  Speaker 1: You're here, we're here, and that means it's college baseball. Now,
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  thank you finally for showing up. We were ready to
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  talk ball and we're waiting on you. All right. It
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  is your hosting team, starting with your friend, your boy,
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  the director of Amateur Scotty in Prospects Life. Hi, I'm
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  Drew Wheeler, happy to be here with you, and I'm
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  with my friends tonight, and let's talk about them. Starting
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  with the gentleman to my right. You know him as
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  Josh Catlet. I know him as cross Country Catlet. Now, Josh,
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  I'm curious if you could make the perfect taco. Describe
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  like your perfect taco plate to me.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, one of my least favorite things about myself
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  is I don't like a lot of like, let usten
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  tomato and all that on my sandwiches, burgers, tacos, all
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  that meaning vegetables, on on that, like on that subspecifically, yes,
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  like I'm fine with it in other places. I don't
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  know why I wish I did. I hate being the
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  guy to go to a restaurant and be like I
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  just want cheese, ketchup a mustard on a burger. But
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  it's just how I am. But just taco would just
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  be like I don't know, beef and cheese, and like
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  I like sour cream salsa. I'm cool with that too,
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  but like, I don't know none of the other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I appreciate that. Josh. We are We're
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  thrilled to have you with us tonight. Wow, God's crazy anyway. JB.
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  Sebastiano JB. Or California boy, I'm ready to hear. Uh,
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  what's your favorite taco is? Because I'm sure you've got
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  some interesting taste.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, my favorite's got to be an outpass to or tacto,
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  A good outpasst or tacto. Nothing beats it to me.
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  So that's my favorite for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Good call, good call. I've been told previously on the
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  West Coast you can find tacos and crazy places, gas
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  stations even sometimes. Is this is this so? JB?
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  Speaker 6: I'd say it is so. I mean, depending on what
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  area you're in, but one hundred percent, I'd say the
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  gas station taco is a thing. There is definitely taco
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  carts at the gas station. You can find and they're
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  pretty fire too. So that's no no hate on the
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  gas station taco cart.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, no shape, no shape whatsoever. I mean, we've
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  all spent a lot of time in the American South.
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  Gas station cuisine can be expensive. We'll leave it at that.
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  Depending on the place they can get expansive. Uh, Jake Bargery, coach,
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  you're back. We're glad to have you with us. Man,
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  thank you for thank you for clearing time on your
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  busy schedule. The road trip has ended and you're back
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  with us on college baseball. Now, Jake, tell us about
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  your ideal taco situation.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, my ideal taco I like.
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  Speaker 7: I like a good steak taco and I'll put some
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  usually I'll go like lettuce, cheese, salsa, and then maybe
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  a little lime juice on top. Uh, goes pretty well
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  with it. If I had to make up my taco,
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  that's probably what it would be.
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  Speaker 1: I love it all right. I'm going to pitch this
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  to Josh first, because I think there's a chance you
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  would really be into this. Do you like fish tacos?
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  Speaker 5: Josh?
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  Speaker 1: I do, My boy, I knew you would. I just
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  had a feeling that Josh, you'd be a fish taco
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  got jab fish tacos.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, big on them, huge, Jake.
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  Speaker 7: I have honestly never had fish tacos. I've heard good
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  things about it, but I've never had it before.
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  Speaker 5: Jake. Let me tell you where I I cannot I'll
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  tell anybody this. Anyone who knows me knows that I
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  cannot stand this. I come from a mobile. But there
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  is one thing, one singular thing I like like the city,
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  and it is the seafood. The seafood is awesome. So
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  I can vouch for anything seafood wise. Fish tacos right
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  up your alley, I can tell. I just have a feeling, Jake.
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  Speaker 7: I do like seafood so and I like tacos. I
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  don't know why I wouldn't like fish tacos, but never had.
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  Speaker 8: It, like a like a nice like live cilantro, aoly,
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  a little bit of cabbage, maybe some light chi and
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  a nice breaded white fish.
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  Speaker 1: M Yes, I say that because tonight I actually enjoyed
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  chicken crock pot tacos. So my sister in law made
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  chicken in the crock pot with like you know, different
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  seasonings and stuff, shredded it out. She was phenomenal, guys.
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  It was delicious, and I was very much enjoyed prior
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  to recording, prior to survivor anyway, not here to talk tacos.
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  I know this is not tacos now, confusing as it
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  might be the first three minutes of our recording. College
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  Baseball Now, we've got plenty to talk about. So, in
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  case you've been living under at chelawski for this week,
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  crazy stuff has happened. Starting with a couple of SEC you.
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  Speaker 5: Like that, that was good.
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  Speaker 1: Starting with a couple of SEC teams that have had
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  a bit of a stumble, one of which I think
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  was a I'll just go ahead and maybe maybe I'll
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  bury the lead. Guys, I'm sorry. I think it was
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  not only an excusable loss, but an acceptable loss. The
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  other I'll go with stumble. It's probably the politest way
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  to say that about the Tigers.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: That being said, mister Catlett will go to you, because
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  obviously we're gonna talk about your favorite baseball team and
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  all of the NCAA college drinks, and that's gonna be
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  the Southern Miss Golden Eagles. They came away with a
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  victory seven to six. If my mind serves me correctly,
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  it usually does not seven to six over the Mississippi
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  State Bulldogs. Josh, my first question to you is gonna
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  what I'm gonna ask all three of you before I
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  come back to you. Is this the best game of
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  the season thus far?
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  Speaker 5: Uh? I would like this. I mean, for the sake
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  of this, I'd like to say yes. But let's be honest.
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  We saw a game on Sunday that was better than
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  this one, so they both conveniently happened to evolve Missippi State.
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  But like, I don't know, this was one of the
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  rare midweeks. I think Jake was the one that set
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  to us yesterday. This is one of the rare midweeks
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  that came into the week with a lot of hype
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  and that actually lived up to it. But the UCLA
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  Mississippi State game on Sunday had more hype than this
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  and it went above and beyond what we could have imagined.
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  So that has to be the answer. At this point.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, so JB best game of the season.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe I agree, I think it's gotta be UCLA Mississippi State.
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  But I guess the one point I hit on with
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  it in this game that I thought was really interesting
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  was the deciding factor being a miss fly ball in
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  the infield by Mississippi State, bringing in a run which
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  ultimately ended up being the losing run. If you're going
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  a roundabout way, that run ended up losing the game.
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  So kind of interesting. And Brian O'Connor, I think after
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  the game, talked about their defensive miscues a little bit
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  so interesting.
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  Speaker 5: Can I want up you and say that it's even
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  more fun that the two deciding runs were both dropped
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  third strikes in the same inning, Like how a game
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  swung by drop third strikes that bring an also run?
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  Like how often does that happen?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: That the inning from hell for missis State.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Jake, I'll go to you here because when
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  I in my head, it's funny because I.
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  Speaker 1: Think of best games I've watched thus far this year, right,
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  definitely the one that I would have put maybe at
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  or above this one Josh and JB have mentioned. It
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  was Sunday Nights u c LA Mississippi State. Just an
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  incredible game. Loved Southern Mississippi State from last night. Also
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  the other one that comes to mind was during the
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  Coastal excuse me, you see Santa Barbara Southern Myss series.
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  Uh some some excellent baseball played there. Those are probably
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  at the top of my list, Jake, if I missed.
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  Speaker 3: Any, yeah, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, if you were going to ask me what
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  my what I think the best game was, I would
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  have gone right with what they said. But like, I
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  mean this, this one was right up there with it too.
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  I mean, just like the both both games had like
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  just a ton of back and forth, like one team
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  got up early, the other team crawled back, and then
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  then then they went back and forth again. Like it
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  was just that's just what makes a good game. And
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  both of them had had all that in it, that
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  had homers, that had weird stuff happened to score runs.
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  Speaker 3: It was just it was just a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 5: We're going midweeks that are like great games. Can I
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  give an honorable mention to the UCF Miami game a
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  couple of weeks ago that was like.
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  Speaker 6: I think that should be a matter true And if
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  we're getting that too, like I guess in your point,
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  drew the best series of the year, in my opinion,
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  I think would be the UCSB Southern Myths series that
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  you talked about early in the year. I think it was.
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  If we're not counting to tournaments, I would say best
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  series of the year probably that.
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  Speaker 1: So thus far, without a doubt, that would have been
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  what a series. I mean, what a series, just front
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  to back, just can't miss baseball, like and I mean
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  we said it would be. I think every outlet said
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  it would be, and I mean that's true. But you know,
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  Mississippi State Southern Miss an incredible game. It's it's weird
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  that it came so close after the already crowned you know, Wow,
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  it's the best game we've seen thus far of the season,
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  because I think had this happened to say, I don't know,
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  two weeks from now, it might have been what what
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  a game? You know, Mississippi State can't miss baseball, and
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  I think they have an argument for being that. Anyway, Josh,
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  I'm gonna come back to you for actually breaking down
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  some analysis here. What was it that worked for Southern
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  Miss in this humongous top ten battle.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it was the offense coming up in big spots. Again,
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  We've talked about it. It feels like ad nauseum on
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  this podcast about it. But that's just what they do best.
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  I mean, they got themselves out to a big lead,
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  stumbled for a little bit, and then if we're being honest,
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  kind of like JB mentioned I touched on that seventh inning,
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  they had a couple of breaks go their way like
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  drop fly ball two drop third strikes in big spots,
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  Like it wasn't necessarily the offense firing on all cylinders.
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  It kind of was things following their way, but the
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  offense got to such a hot start that it really
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  ended up not mattering at the end of the day.
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  I mean, like getting a five spot early on going
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  into the I guess sixth thenning it was up five
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  to zero. I mean, like that's about as comfort like
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  about as comfortable as leader as you can possibly ask for.
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  I mean, they just had their bullpen or sorry, their
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  pitchers by committee, using their bullpen heavily in the midweek
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  games like they have been, and they were all working
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  really well early and so I don't know, get that
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  kind of consistency out of your midweek guys. They threw
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  like I think nine guys, what it was something like nine?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, six, I mean total Josh seven for Mississippi State,
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  nine for Southern mess.
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  Speaker 5: That's just average midweeks these days. It feels like, especially
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  with these teams. That's really just what they do. And
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  I mean, if you're gonna have guys that you feel
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  comfort about going out there and throwing an inning of
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  a scoreless ball, I mean like that that's gonna get
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  you a win enough times, and you know, a little
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  luck ball bouts in the right way every once in
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  a while that can't hurt.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, Josh, I'm gonna stick with you. Actually, before
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  we go back to JB and Jake here, you talked
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  about the pitching and that's a great segue. Again, you're
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  getting very good at reading my mind. So into my
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  next question for you, is the play by play team
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  the other night was discussing the stuff on one Camden
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  Clark closer for Southern miss. Now you're gonna have to
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  correct me, because again I've had a whole day of
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  newspaper work and life in between now and then. But
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  if I remember correctly, twenty something inches induced vertical break
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  and ten inches of JB's trademark tours I crazy numbers
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  also shout out to JB's favorite stat but just I
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  mean insane numbers on this guy's on this guy's fastball.
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  Four saves on the year for Clark crazy stuff out
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  of the sophomore.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he says, like mid nineties too. I'm pretty sure
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  it's like ninety four to ninety six. You're getting that
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  kind of fastball out of the bullpen, and that's going
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  to be a pretty pretty reliable guy for you down
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  the road, if I had to imagine, I mean, he
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  has he has solid stuff too, if he can just
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  throw strikes. I mean, like it's good shape on the
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  curve ball he doesn't throw often. You know, change up
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  separates really well off the fastball, especially when you're sitting
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  Like I said, like mid nineties. Everything plays really well
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  off of that, especially in some belt play when they
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  get into it. But even again, he's the SEC competition too.
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  I mean, the break chart looks really good for a
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  guy that you just see in a you know, in
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  high leverage spots for a some belt team. You don't
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  get that very often.
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  Speaker 1: Without a doubt, without a doubt. JAB turning our attention
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  to Mississippi State, Uh, looking at look at how they performed.
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  Obviously you can you can talk about a bunch of
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  different guys. I think I want to talk about Reedstalloman though.
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  Gentlemen who came into this game and really delivered for
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  Mississippi State in the middle, in the middle innings the
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  FI the seventh, with some big singles to score some runs.
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  Three runs batted in in those two innings. I mean,
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  that's half of Mississippi State's output for a guy like Stallman,
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  who's gonna bat you know, in the in the heart
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  of the order, maybe just outside. What are performances like
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  from him and Ryder Woodson, guys who are core glue
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  guys for Mississippi State, maybe not necessarily as highly talked
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  about in the draft circle as say in ace Rees.
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  What does that kind of performance mean for a Mississippi
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  State and really any team who's going to make a
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  deep run.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think Stallman especially, you know, three hits.
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  It's back to back nights for him. Where he or
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  back to back games, I guess I should say where
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  he had three hits and he told seven RBIs told
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  over those two games. It's then fro Mississippi State that
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  you know, when guys like Aceries don't perform up to
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  what you need, sometimes you need guys like that to
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  step up. And when we've seen it with UCLA as well,
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  they've had a lot of guys not to segue off
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  of that, but another team where other guys have stepped
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  up for them to help them win games when Schilast
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  Year Gasprino don't play well. So I think it's something
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  that for every team you need those guys to be
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  able to kind of back up your stars. The one
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  headed dragon that we've talked about a bit with other teams.
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  You know, if they have that one headed dragon, it's
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  not really gonna pay off well on play postseason play.
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  You need a lot of different pieces. And Mississippi State
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  shown that they have that.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Jake, gonna come to you here now talking about
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  Mississippi State proving they've got this stuff. I mean, two
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  heartbreaking losses on Sunday on Tuesday? What does that do
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  for Mississippi State? And I'm asking you this from again
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  my favorite perspective, asking about from a coaching perspective. If
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  this was you, guys, how do you take two tough
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  losses like Arcadia has taken very recently. If you don't,
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  if you're not familiar at home, they have, But that's
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  just because the other teams are throwing their aces out
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  against Arcadia. Quit it cowards anyway, uh, Jake, I'm just
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  I'm curious what does the team do to rebound, because
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  I don't think my perception of Mississippi State has been
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  damaged at all. Really, I think this is a top
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  ten team comfortably.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so too. I mean you do it.
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  Speaker 7: I mean you have to take into account, like you know,
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  like like who they're going against. I mean, they're going
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  against the number one team in the country and UCLA
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  and they go ten innings and it takes it takes,
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  you know, the crazy stuff that happened in that game
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  to beat them, and then even more craziness in the
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  Southern miss game, who you can argue is playing just
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  as good as anybody else in the country right now.
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  I mean I think like as as a team, like yeah,
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  like the loss, there's no like you know, we talk
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  about it, there's no such thing as like a good
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  loss necessary, Like you want to win every game, Like
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  you don't want to even in these close ones against
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  good teams. You still want to come out with wins.
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  So like there's things to learn from it. I think,
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  you know, if anything, it's kind of this, if you
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  can take something from it, like this can kind of
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  like bring the team together a little bit more like
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  you know to know that, Like I don't know if
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  I don't want to say the word humble, but like
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  you know, they're not just an unbeatable team in the
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  SEC right They're they're they're capable of going down to
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  a good team. So I think just kind of figuring
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  some things about theirselves in that way is something they
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  can take away from.
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  Speaker 1: It, maybe some kind of like a boxing analogy here, right, Jacob,
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  and you get punched and keep fighting means that you're
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  stronger than you thought theoretically.
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  Speaker 3: Right, yep, exactly like it, well.
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  Speaker 1: Said, excellent game if you haven't seen it, highly highly
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  worth the replay. If not, go contribute to Wheels Wheels's pocket.
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  He's got the video up and I've watched it at
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  least once once and a half since the fabulous game. Guys,
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  got to check it out. All right, let's move on
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  talk about some tigers, shall we. And we're talking about LSU.
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  Like we alluded to at the jump, Mississippi State loses
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  to Southern Miss. I don't think that they're just tarnished
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  in my brain. I can't say the same about LSU. Who, guys,
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  you know you've been ranking with me all year It's
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  took till this week for me to move LSU out
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  of my top spot. I think that LSU is still
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  highly regarded for me, but it's the concerns are starting
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  to rear up a little bit more. Jake, what do
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  you think the key thing is with LSU and these
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  two losses to Northeastern and then tonight to your Louisiana Darlings.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I kind of want to go back
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  to like last week's midweek. So they lose the game
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  to McNeice, you know, tough loss, really close one, and
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  then they get so they get Dartmouth in Northeastern this
• 18:26
  next weekend and just like three really close games, Like
• 18:30
  they only scored five runs on Friday, and then Saturday
• 18:34
  they played Northeastern only score three. Then they get Dartmouth
• 18:36
  again on Sunday, only score three, and then get in
• 18:39
  a little bit of a shootout with this Northeastern team
• 18:41
  whose offense just went crazy at the beginning of this game,
• 18:45
  and like it just seemed like, you know, they were down,
• 18:47
  they were down ten to nothing in the after the
• 18:50
  third inning, eleven to one in the six, like they
• 18:53
  just they just couldn't catch up until it was just
• 18:55
  unfortunately a little bit too late. Like I'm kind of
• 18:58
  with you, I don't want to.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know.
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: Obviously, we know what LSU has, we know that they're
• 19:05
  a good team, but it's like you said, it's hard
• 19:07
  to not be a little bit concerned over the stretch
• 19:09
  of tough games for him.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, JV will go to you talking about the concern
• 19:16
  level for LSU. Where do you sit in terms of
• 19:20
  your opinion of LSU now and what did games like
• 19:23
  this McNeese. Jake brought up McNeese from last week about
• 19:27
  this time Northeastern, the old Cajun's, like, what does this
• 19:31
  mean to your opinion of LSU.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: I think the most concerning thing is when you watch
• 19:37
  that Northeastern game, especially at the beginning, the quality of
• 19:40
  the bats just started going downhill really quickly once Northeastern
• 19:44
  started putting it on them. And I know later in
• 19:46
  the game they started coming back and they made it
• 19:48
  a close game. But a lot of that had to
• 19:50
  do with a lot of guys coming into the game,
• 19:51
  pinch hitting, you know, a lot of guys trying to
• 19:54
  fight for spots getting in the lineup. A lot of
• 19:56
  the core the order just really didn't do much. You
• 19:58
  watched Caraway and your can dard Oar and Curry out.
• 20:02
  Guys like that go up there to the plate and
• 20:04
  really just look lost and have some pretty bad at
• 20:06
  bats besides a couple of hits in there. So I
• 20:09
  think it's really concerning. In R and b D two,
• 20:12
  I forgot about him. It's really concerning to see your
• 20:15
  top guys go into the box and look that lost,
• 20:17
  and when they start getting put down that they kind
• 20:19
  of quit. Especially against a team like Northeastern, you gotta
• 20:22
  think that you're staying in the front, in the hunt
• 20:24
  with the team like that kind of the whole game
• 20:26
  of your LSU. You know, it's not saying they're a
• 20:28
  bad team, but you're LSU. I mean, you gotta think
• 20:31
  you're in the hunt with anybody an SEC play. You
• 20:33
  gotta believe that too. So I think that's the most
• 20:35
  concerning thing for me.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: It is critical. I mean it's critical for LSU two
• 20:39
  almost And I don't ever want to use the word swagger.
• 20:42
  I feel like it's kind of cocking at this point,
• 20:45
  but they do need to have that attitude about them.
• 20:47
  We are who we are, we know who we are.
• 20:51
  I don't know. I mean, it's just maybe again it's
• 20:53
  the boxing analogy. Like we were talking abou Misissippi State
• 20:55
  a minute ago, maybe going into this weekend and beyond,
• 20:58
  they say, hey, you know, we've taken in our lumps,
• 21:00
  but now we know what we need to do because
• 21:03
  I think I said it in our group chat. This
• 21:04
  is the offense that I think I might trust more
• 21:07
  top to bottom in a bottle than any other in
• 21:10
  the country. Now, granted this is being tested as we speak.
• 21:14
  I need to clarify that at home this is being tested.
• 21:17
  But you know, first week of the season, I was like,
• 21:20
  you know, okay, we've got Kurry Hill Brown, you know,
• 21:23
  dard Ar Mile of York, like just Doude, Doude, DoD DoD, dude, dude.
• 21:27
  N Aaron Beattie, siRNA, I mean the dudes, tons of dudes.
• 21:31
  And I'm with you, JB, that maybe some of that
• 21:35
  people stepping up that we saw for Mississippi State for instance,
• 21:39
  Josh was talking about that, or I think you were
• 21:40
  talking about that earlier.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: JB.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: It's it's just we need to see that from LSU
• 21:43
  going forward.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: I agree that.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, And like you were saying, they're one of the
• 21:46
  most experienced offenses in the country. I think it is
• 21:48
  a big part of that too, and that's kind of
• 21:50
  concerning that a very experienced offense like the way they did.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: That, that is true, Josh. I'm gonna let you talk
• 21:56
  about tonight's or I guess today's action. The Raging Agents
• 22:02
  Louisiana puts seven on LSU, who scored two. An interesting
• 22:07
  statistic I'm reading here, Josh two walks, two walks in
• 22:13
  the game for LSU. Derek Curryell walked, are and Beating walked.
• 22:20
  Are we up here trying to play hero ball? What's
• 22:22
  what's what's happened? Josh?
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Honestly, Yeah, that's a good way to put a JV
• 22:26
  hit on like almost every single point I was gonna
• 22:29
  touch on, and it rolls over from game to game.
• 22:31
  It's the same kind of thing that happened on Monday
• 22:33
  the tonight. I think a lot of guys tonight it
• 22:37
  was mostly like Steven Mylin, Zach York. Zach York is
• 22:40
  the main one I'll hit on. It's not quality at
• 22:44
  bats at all when they're in tough spots, and it's
• 22:46
  kind of concerning because, as JB also said, they're super experienced,
• 22:50
  you wouldn't expect this kind of stuff out of them.
• 22:52
  But I saw an at bat from Zach York and
• 22:54
  I think it was the ninth it might have been
• 22:55
  the eighth to night, and it was just like pitiful.
• 22:57
  It is the only word I can come up for it.
• 22:59
  It's like so like strike one down the pipe, soord
• 23:04
  half hearted swing on strike two down the pipe, takes
• 23:07
  strike three looking and it's like, what are we doing
• 23:09
  in a tough spot like this. It's just stuff like
• 23:11
  that that I feel like I've seen over and over again.
• 23:13
  And they tried to fight back a little bit tonight
• 23:15
  at the end, but it was ultimately too late. Just
• 23:17
  poor at bats, guys not stepping up. I don't think
• 23:20
  like Jake Brown looked really good tonight. Derek Curry all
• 23:23
  looked really really good tonight, like no extra base hits,
• 23:25
  but he was I think three for three. I want
• 23:27
  to say, yeah, so, I I don't know if no
• 23:32
  one in the bottom of that lineup at all can
• 23:33
  do anything. It is a bit of a concern long
• 23:36
  term because I kind of wanted to push back on
• 23:38
  what you were saying about. You know, this is the
• 23:40
  offense you trust the most in the country before the
• 23:43
  season started, like it looked a little bit like that maybe,
• 23:46
  but right now, like I can't think near that because
• 23:49
  of how bad it's looked, not only in the midweek,
• 23:51
  because you don't want to take these overarching takeaways away
• 23:54
  from the midweek, like I've said, but it's it's been
• 23:57
  like weekend series. A midweek into the weekend series would again,
• 24:01
  it's just consistent, and it's just to the point where
• 24:04
  you have to do a little more than a phrase eyebrows.
• 24:06
  You kind of have to look into it and be like,
• 24:08
  is this lingering thing? Are they getting cold just too
• 24:12
  early and they're gonna figure it out? Who knows, But
• 24:14
  it's just I don't know for guys that are as
• 24:16
  experienced as this, it is concerning for especially a team
• 24:21
  that's in disputed top three, top five team.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, I love that, and I love what you said
• 24:28
  about York because he specifically is a gentleman. I mean, obviously,
• 24:31
  if you're unaware transfer from Grand Canyon up portly gentlemen,
• 24:39
  I'll say this, what hold on? That is not so?
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: I really do. I'm gonna look this up. I actually
• 24:47
  don't even know.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm sure now listen, Josh, I was about to
• 24:50
  compliment if if Zach York wants to become my next
• 24:54
  man crush in the sec in the ken of a
• 24:57
  sunny d'chara, he's gonna have to make that bet that's
• 25:00
  better than this one, son was.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: I looked it up and he's six two three hundred actually,
• 25:05
  so I wasn't terribly far off, and the grand.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: You were off by thirty.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: But if you're looking at the vision of a guy
• 25:12
  that's like that's shorter than me and almost double my way,
• 25:15
  like that's not saying much because.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Like it's kidding as six three Okay, of course, yeah,
• 25:23
  of course, yeah.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: I appreciate the Sonny to share low like I'm never
• 25:26
  gonna turn that down.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but to share, he has to be right, Sonny
• 25:33
  d had he pushing three bills check it out, okay,
• 25:36
  because I.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Hit on outside to one more lsu point. The most
• 25:41
  concerning thing in the game for me tonight was Gavin Gittrie.
• 25:44
  I think he's one of their most surefire guys they've
• 25:47
  had over the past two seasons. We've seen and three
• 25:50
  earned and two innings of work is kind of something
• 25:53
  that would be of concern to me if you're watching
• 25:54
  it as a Tiger fan, that's the biggest thing. He's
• 25:56
  been lights out otherwise the season. But that's not a
• 25:59
  great out from him to keep it, by the way,
• 26:04
  thank you very much.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I think look, I think that's a build weight situation.
• 26:09
  But that's something for us to discuss off the year. Also,
• 26:11
  Sonny Deshera, come onto the podcast. I might be your
• 26:14
  biggest fan to ever exist. We'd love to have you
• 26:16
  on the show. Uh, JB. I'm gonna piggyback on what
• 26:19
  you're saying with another concern with l s U that
• 26:22
  I I can't believe I didn't mention a minute ago.
• 26:23
  It is the bullpen. I've seen so many dudes in
• 26:26
  this bullpen who I expected to be threats look threatened.
• 26:31
  I guess this is kind of the quickest way to
• 26:33
  say it. Yeah, Maverick, Rizzy, Danny Lock and Meyer font
• 26:36
  new Newton. None of these guys have really stepped up
• 26:39
  to impress. And all four of them actually pitched back
• 26:42
  to back tonight. I mean one of two thirds third
• 26:48
  and inning two thirds an inning just shaky, shaky and Yeah, anyway,
• 26:56
  I guess I guess what I'm getting at is, uh,
• 27:00
  there's concerns in baton rouge, and I think that brings
• 27:03
  us pretty comfortably to game time. And so I'm gonna
• 27:07
  have all three of you think about this for a minute.
• 27:10
  Name the name the lowest ranked offense that you would
• 27:14
  put toe to toe with l s U in terms
• 27:16
  of trust right now? So like, look, bulls, I'm talking
• 27:21
  about our polls, baby, I'm talking about our poles. The
• 27:23
  only poll that matters. Come at me. Uh So, LSU
• 27:28
  adn't recall we had ranked at four. I mean, just
• 27:33
  going through. If I say an offense you think you
• 27:37
  trust right now more than LSU's, y'all stop me at
• 27:39
  any given point, Kansas State, Kentucky, Michigan, Coastal West Virginia.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Stop you if you say one that we like less than.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: That, you that you trust as much right now offense
• 27:54
  as yours. Excuse me, L s U.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Kansas State probably okay, our.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Third fifth ranked team. I'm just gonna point that out.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: John, Who did you say after Kansas State?
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Like right, I'm just going up up our rankings Kentucky.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: Kentucky and now Kansas but like Michigan.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: Now Coastal Definitely not Miami. I mean Miami, I'm looking at, like,
• 28:20
  at number twenty four, Miami is probably maybe the first
• 28:23
  one I consider personally. NC State I think at nineteen
• 28:27
  is i'd seriously consider. I think it's the first.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: One I would take. N C State with LSU definitely, NC.
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: State's probably my first one. I give the stampard.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Approval Miami to the season.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, the point that I'm making, and Jake, Jake, feel
• 28:41
  free to chime in if you've got any teams that
• 28:43
  are just like coming to mind right off the rip.
• 28:45
  I know these guys are naming you know, several and
• 28:47
  that's not a knock on y'all because you're playing the
• 28:49
  game as you should. But I just, Jake, I guess
• 28:51
  the point I'm getting at here, and I'll let you
• 28:53
  piggyback off. This is LSU's offense at this point to
• 28:57
  again have gone from and the first week the season
• 29:00
  me saying this is the offense I trust the most
• 29:02
  to do well game to game to game. Now I'm
• 29:06
  sitting here seriously questioning, like, do I like like do
• 29:12
  I like Arizona State's offense more than LSU's right now?
• 29:17
  I don't know. I don't know. That's a tough question.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean I don't know either.
• 29:22
  I mean you guys, I mean you guys.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Named all the like a lot of a lot of
• 29:25
  teams there.
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: But just looking at the offense play, like I think,
• 29:29
  just over these past few games, I feel like we
• 29:32
  I don't want, I don't want to think that it's
• 29:33
  going to be a lingering thing, but like the like
• 29:36
  the desperation of the offense just really just isn't there.
• 29:41
  Like there's there's a there's a good desperate, and like
• 29:44
  there's a bad desperate. Like there's a desperate in terms
• 29:47
  of like you want to get guys on, get them
• 29:49
  overscore in any possible way you can, and then there's
• 29:52
  a the bad desperate of just like you guys mentioned earlier,
• 29:55
  taking bad at bat, swinging at bad pitches and you know,
• 29:58
  maybe selling.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Out for for a.
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: Six run homer, trying trying to put that many runs
• 30:03
  on the boards one swing when it's not possible. Right, Like,
• 30:05
  I don't know, I think we've learned. I think LSU
• 30:09
  may be learned, like how to potentially handle some of
• 30:12
  these situations when they get down. But I think just
• 30:14
  from the outside looking at it, it is like you've
• 30:16
  all like we've been saying this entire time. I think
• 30:18
  it is somewhat concerning and it'll be telling to see
• 30:22
  like kind of how how do they react if they
• 30:24
  get down against like like the arkansass or the Tennessee Is.
• 30:27
  Like you've talked about some of these other offenses that
• 30:29
  are really good, Like how do they how do they
• 30:31
  respond when they get down to some of these good
• 30:33
  SEC teams.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting, to say the very least. And
• 30:37
  you know you said it. No team can hit a
• 30:40
  six run homer, but if anybody could, it'd be Sonny
• 30:43
  to Shara. Seriously, Sonny, come on the show. We'd love to.
• 30:46
  All right, let's talk about Hickham, shall we. I'm gonna
• 30:49
  get Sonny Dashara on this show.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: Happen, Like I'm not even this is my.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: This is my new this is my new number one
• 30:55
  goal for the season. We got to get Sonny d
• 30:57
  on the show.
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: I'm not even just saying that, like I can genuinely
• 30:59
  I feel confident I can make that happen. So we'll
• 31:01
  talk afterwards.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: We'll talk after this. Can't wait? All right? All right, Josh,
• 31:07
  we're gonna keep it with you. Not to talk Sunny
• 31:09
  d But to talk about our pick up, Let's talk
• 31:13
  about last week's picks, who did how, and our totals
• 31:17
  on the year, because if I'm not mistaken, the overall
• 31:21
  rankings are getting a little interesting, at least in terms
• 31:23
  of the duality of it.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, I'd say so. I won. I won the
• 31:30
  week again. Shocker. Everyone give me props in clatform it.
• 31:35
  I went six and two. JV and Drew went five
• 31:38
  and three. Jake went four and four on the year,
• 31:42
  I am I am six. Well, I'm blinking there we go.
• 31:45
  I'm fourteen or nine, Drew is twelve and eleven, JB's
• 31:49
  eleven and twelve, and Jake is done in fourteen, so
• 31:51
  we all even out to it even five hundred.
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: I blame Drew for convincing me to take tennessee last week.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Listen, still look good processed batter results. I maintained good
• 32:03
  processed batter results. Taking coons did well, just like I
• 32:06
  said he would.
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: I'm just kidding, my fat I picked him. I just
• 32:12
  say something there.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: JB did say he like wasn't even considering U C
• 32:16
  l A as one of his teams. I think that's
• 32:17
  on record on the pod, So it's not like it
• 32:19
  mattered anyways.
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: I know I just had a gaslight threw for ten
• 32:22
  seconds after the last session.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: But listen, it's fine. I deserve to be gas lit
• 32:27
  a tiger too, and also to be fair, I mean, JV,
• 32:33
  I think I made a convincing argument and it was factual.
• 32:36
  Coons pitched well.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: U c.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: L A is just really good, good process, bat results.
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: I should have believed in West Coast Baseball more. I
• 32:44
  don't know why I did it that I went away.
• 32:47
  It bit me in the butt.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: But it's a guy that is a you think, JV.
• 32:51
  Speaking of what never, I'm not gonna get into this.
• 32:53
  If you didn't see the video of the Pelican at
• 32:54
  U see Santa Barbara. As I said on Twitter, that
• 32:58
  is some JB specciato. Not Let's go all right, Josh.
• 33:02
  So this week we've picked a couple of a couple
• 33:05
  of interesting ones, and I think you said, we may
• 33:07
  have a couple of sweeps here, but you're thinking there
• 33:10
  may be a little bit of discourse on some of these.
• 33:12
  Let's round it out and get to it, because we're
• 33:14
  starting with a team that one of you loves, one
• 33:17
  of your claims to love in the North Carolina. North
• 33:20
  Carolina Tsariols. They're gonna be taking on Virginia acc matchup
• 33:28
  of superpowers. I mean, let's call it what it is, guys.
• 33:31
  These are two of the blue bloods this year. We're
• 33:34
  we're seeing them with Omaha and no other no other
• 33:39
  outcome is going to be accepted right now by these
• 33:41
  two fan bases. JB. We are gonna start with you,
• 33:46
  what do you think is gonna be the most pivotal
• 33:48
  thing to define the outcome of this series this week?
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: I think it's the North Carolina offense and how they perform.
• 33:55
  I think it's you know, the Virginia pitching staff has
• 33:58
  shown fairly poorly so far this season has been the
• 34:00
  biggest question with them. But I think it's also how
• 34:03
  can North Carolina capitalize on the poor pitching staff of Virginia.
• 34:07
  I think is gonna be the biggest key because we
• 34:09
  know North Carolina's pitching has been what's been so far,
• 34:11
  I mean, it's been, as advertised, very good. It kind
• 34:14
  of comes down to how can the offense try to
• 34:16
  take a leap forward and take advantage of some poor
• 34:18
  pitching to open up ACC play.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: That's it's gonna be interesting. Obviously, I think that you
• 34:24
  hit the nail on the head. Virginia's pitching has not
• 34:27
  been It's the weak link here of these teams and
• 34:31
  kind of their constructs. So it's gonna be interesting. I
• 34:33
  don't know what I was doing in my hands there.
• 34:34
  We'll just cut that from the final line. Jake gonna
• 34:38
  go to you talking about Virginia and North Carolina. Is
• 34:42
  there any aspect of this series that you think is
• 34:44
  gonna play up to maybe affect the win loss totals
• 34:49
  more than we're thinking.
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll kind of talk about the other side of
• 34:53
  things that JB didn't mention for. For for Virginia, like
• 34:57
  their offense, A J. Garssia is swinging the back really
• 35:00
  well right now, like he's got he's got six homers.
• 35:03
  He's also he's hitting for average, He's got twice as
• 35:06
  many walksing up by pitches as he does strikeouts. He's
• 35:09
  just seeing the ball really well as a good approach.
• 35:11
  All the things are working well for him. Also, Eric Becker,
• 35:16
  Zach Jackson, Sam Harris are also hitting really well in
• 35:19
  that lineup, and like they're starting, pitching has been a
• 35:22
  little bit questionable, like you mentioned, but like John Paone.
• 35:26
  He's been their Sunday starter. He's been really good, like
• 35:29
  especially in his last outing it's VCU. He went six
• 35:32
  scoreless there. But they are going to need the bullpen
• 35:36
  to help back him up a little bit. This is
• 35:37
  a talented, you know, UNC lineup, and they have really
• 35:41
  talented pitching as well. So who knows if the offense
• 35:43
  is going to be able to produce the way that
• 35:45
  they have been. But I think it was worth worth
• 35:48
  mentioning some of their big hitters, for sure.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: I think so.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Man, Absolutely, you can't ignore what Grossia has been doing.
• 35:56
  And you know, we had questions about I think anybody
• 35:58
  who was willing to be a had questions about Garssia
• 36:02
  coming into this season. Immensely talented, but some things that
• 36:04
  iron out. But man, if you can just stick strap
• 36:07
  alight this year into the last week, the skyrocket of
• 36:12
  stock for sure, Josh, I might should have asked this
• 36:15
  question to a one of our analysts who is aware
• 36:19
  of North Carolina Baseball. So I know that you're a
• 36:21
  little bit you're a little bit on the shady side
• 36:23
  of just knowing this program, but I'll ask either way
• 36:26
  North Carolina's offense, if you didn't know Josh has. Some
• 36:29
  of these players have come out of not obscurity and
• 36:32
  not nowhere. We talked about them, but a guy like
• 36:34
  Jake Shafter has really stepped up for this team. Paulson
• 36:38
  stepped up a ton for this team. What do you
• 36:41
  think it means that these guys are throwing heavy enough
• 36:45
  blows on the field to match up with that Virginia
• 36:48
  offense we just talked about with Grossia and Eric Becker,
• 36:51
  who we haven't talked about in like three weeks. Guys,
• 36:54
  we gotta get on that more. But just what's it
• 36:56
  meant for you and c to have these guys step
• 36:58
  up in such a big way this year?
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: I think it means the world to him, honestly, because
• 37:03
  a guy like Gavin Gallaher, for example, hasn't been bad
• 37:06
  per se certainly hasn't been great, and that's what you
• 37:09
  expected to be the backbone of this lineup. But instead
• 37:12
  it's guys like you mentioned, Eric Paulson, Jake Schaffner, favor
• 37:15
  of the Pod making winslow. I mean, those are like
• 37:18
  shock they're shockingly good starts from guys that we didn't expect.
• 37:22
  I mean, like Paulson is a four to forty two
• 37:24
  batting average right now with a fourteen to twenty four
• 37:26
  ops and five home runs I mean Jake Shaffer three triples,
• 37:30
  six dolen bases, making Winzo is only striking out seven
• 37:32
  percent of the time six I mean three sixty six
• 37:35
  average right now. These are like starts that we didn't
• 37:39
  expect from guys like this. Colin Heinek has been producing
• 37:41
  really well, I think, picking up some of the slack,
• 37:44
  and to be fair, there hasn't been much slack, but
• 37:46
  you know, for when there is, when there are spots
• 37:49
  that there has been a little bit of slack, those
• 37:50
  guys are and filling in the holes in the question
• 37:53
  marks we kind of had coming end of the season,
• 37:55
  I think.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be an interesting series, one that I'm
• 37:59
  I'm pretty much giddy for at this point. Guys, I
• 38:02
  think you have you guys have done your best to
• 38:04
  convert Jake and I into u NC fans. But we'll
• 38:08
  see how far those loyalties lie when we start picking them,
• 38:11
  shall we.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: JB.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling I know Where're going with this one,
• 38:15
  but I'll ask anyway, what's the pick.
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: I'm taking the North Carolina it's our heels once again.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: No way, surely not.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Jake.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: What are you thinking here?
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: What which way are you leaning?
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: I'm going you and see as well. It's at Chapel Hill.
• 38:30
  I like their pitching staff, so I'm gonna go with them.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, Josh, are we going three? Or are you gonna
• 38:36
  be the dissenting vote?
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: All this all this southern myss talk, all this lander.
• 38:41
  You see the shirt, you see where my loyalties lie?
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: Come on, his grandparents would kill him?
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: No kidding. I think they're they're finding an uphill battle.
• 38:51
  Friday Saturday zach Kalski and Stan while going up against
• 38:54
  the Caroll and Lynch is just a really tough uphill
• 38:57
  battle compared to how they both started this year.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I will be the dissenting vote. Then I'm
• 39:04
  gonna take against a little bit of my better judgment.
• 39:06
  I'm gonna take Virginia. I think that if the offense
• 39:08
  can just show out now it is I get and
• 39:13
  it will be an uphill battle. I still like that
• 39:17
  offense a lot.
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: Drew went the Jake Barjorie way this week, So he's
• 39:21
  going to Jake strategy this week, And yeah, I don't know,
• 39:24
  Jake will be the first one to tell you that
• 39:25
  didn't go too well last time.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: There's a big risk involved.
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: Before the five and I said, They're like, there's probably
• 39:34
  a few sweeps on this. This is one of the
• 39:36
  ones I expected to be a sweep. So this is
• 39:38
  shocking to say the least.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Well, Josh as you well, nobody ill. It's not all
• 39:45
  about the graphic for me. But in this case, I'm
• 39:48
  not mad at being that. I'm not mad at saving
• 39:50
  the graphic. We'll say, let's let's keep let's keep it
• 39:54
  on the east coast and talk about some more Carolinas,
• 39:56
  not north south. We're gonna talk about East Carolina out
• 40:00
  of state and Coastal Carolina not a state. This is
• 40:05
  gonna be an interesting matchup, guys. Before some unfortunate incidents
• 40:10
  with the Coastal's two main pitchers Camp Flunkey Hayden Johnson,
• 40:15
  this could have been a really nice pitching series. Still
• 40:19
  think there's chances for it to be an interesting series,
• 40:22
  And yet I can't help but think about the looming
• 40:25
  what if there? Josh, looking at this series ECU Coastal,
• 40:30
  what catches your eye?
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: I think it's funny because these teams have been kind
• 40:34
  of similar to start the year, just in terms of
• 40:37
  really struggling offenses for the majority, and then well, pitching
• 40:42
  staff is a little different because ECU's rotation hasn't looked bad.
• 40:47
  Coastals for the guys that have available right now, kind
• 40:49
  of has quick shout out Sean Jenkins out of the
• 40:53
  pen for EACU. That's gonna be a big piece for them,
• 40:55
  I think. I mean, he's pitched fifteen innings this year
• 40:58
  with a one to seventeen ERA looking out forty percent
• 41:00
  of guys. That's gonna be a huge piece of maybe
• 41:03
  be able to pitch once or twice in a big spot.
• 41:06
  I don't really know what the key for this would be.
• 41:09
  Besides as simple as it sounds like Coastal's pitching a
• 41:13
  Coastal's rotation, someone's got to step up. I mean, Luke
• 41:16
  jerdans Hat pitched terrible this year. He's running a three
• 41:18
  to five to five ERA right now. However, on Saturday
• 41:22
  Ross Norman Wolf, it's not it's not great. Right now,
• 41:26
  He's pitched only eight innings in three different starts with
• 41:29
  a sixteen to twenty ERA, allowing a batting average of
• 41:32
  four thirty nine. It's just I heard promising things in
• 41:35
  the fall. It wasn't great at Georgia State last year,
• 41:38
  and it's not seeming to get better. So you're just
• 41:40
  kind of throwing in the towel on a Saturday game
• 41:42
  when you're going up against Gavin van Kempen. So, I mean,
• 41:45
  I don't know. They gotta find ways to for their
• 41:47
  veteran bats to start putting it together. Blake, Barthol, kolbe Thorndyke, Walker, Mitchell,
• 41:52
  none of them have particularly looked really good this year.
• 41:55
  They gotta start stepping up. Barthol looked good yesterday again
• 41:57
  since he stayed, but and the weekend series, like, they
• 42:01
  haven't really put together consistent outings, and they got to
• 42:03
  start doing that if they want to pull together. Some
• 42:05
  leins think so too.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Jake looking at this battle of Carolina teams, neither of
• 42:11
  whom are states, both of whom have been powerhouses. Though,
• 42:15
  I'm curious, what is it with JP? Thank you? What
• 42:18
  is it when you look at this matchup of ECU
• 42:20
  and Coastal, Jake that makes you stop and say, this
• 42:23
  could be a deciding factory here.
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: I just I think it's I think it's interesting. Like
• 42:29
  how like ever, since the Xavier series lost to open
• 42:33
  the year, Like, ECU's really turned around and they've looked
• 42:36
  like a lot better since then. It seems like each
• 42:38
  weekend they've they've kind of gotten a little bit better.
• 42:40
  Like they obviously had the series tie against U n C.
• 42:43
  And then and then last weekend they took care of
• 42:45
  business against Rutgers, won a big one against Troy. They
• 42:48
  lost a weird one against Western Carolina. But uh, like
• 42:51
  Josh talked about Ethan Norby and that rotation, who has
• 42:55
  Gavin van Kempen in it, a member of my all
• 42:57
  transferred team by the way, But those two Kobe Weber, uh,
• 43:03
  they've been they've been at a really good trio of starter,
• 43:05
  especially these last two weekends. And then he mentioned Sean
• 43:08
  Jenkins Nick Moran's also been really good out of the
• 43:11
  pin for them.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: I just like the way that ECU's playing. And then
• 43:15
  like for for Coastal, I think it's just going to
• 43:18
  continue to be the big talking point with them is
• 43:20
  just who's going to step up with after all these injuries,
• 43:22
  like they have the huge pitching injuries that's been widely
• 43:26
  covered by pretty much everybody. I think it's just going
• 43:28
  to be something that we track until either once someone
• 43:31
  steps up or until they all come back.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Understood. Hey, JB, going to you here. You've gotten to
• 43:38
  see ECU. I don't think you've seen Coastal yet in person, though,
• 43:42
  but I suspect you. I suspect that you believe Coastal
• 43:47
  is a little better than they've played, and you think
• 43:48
  that they can maybe send past this point of kind
• 43:51
  of injury purgatory. Can you tell me why?
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: I mean, I guess the two things there is that
• 43:57
  the two guys in the rotation. I know, like Josh
• 44:00
  was hitting on some of the struggles on the Saturday
• 44:02
  game with Ross Norman, but Luke Jones five innings, three
• 44:05
  earned against a really good Texas lineup is really promising
• 44:09
  for them, and you're facing an ECU lineup that doesn't
• 44:11
  stack up anywhere near what Texas has out there. And
• 44:14
  then on Sunday they had Scott Dorn make his first
• 44:16
  start and he went six innings to earn against Ole
• 44:19
  Miss team which a lot of outlets had ranked fairly highly.
• 44:21
  So I think that's a promising sign for them. Maybe
• 44:24
  we see a switch up on Saturday and what they
• 44:27
  decided to do there. But I also just think that
• 44:30
  this weekend as well, there's talks about Ryan Lynch coming
• 44:33
  back to throw for the first time. I think that's
• 44:34
  huge for them if that's true. And I just don't
• 44:38
  see a world where you know that pedigree of a team.
• 44:42
  I know they're gonna be really hungry going into this,
• 44:44
  and I think the offense has more to step up
• 44:46
  than we've seen so far, and I think could really
• 44:49
  outpace that ECU offense, especially at home this weekend. So
• 44:54
  I think this Coastal teams a lot better than what
• 44:55
  they've shown.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Honestly, interesting, Josh, neither of these teams are states one
• 45:03
  of them will be a winner. Who do you pick?
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: I think I'm gonna go with the Pirates on this
• 45:08
  one because I just am finding myself to be more
• 45:13
  and more out on this Coastal team by the week.
• 45:17
  There's just something about, like I mentioned, the vets on
• 45:21
  this offense, as poorly as they're performing as compared to
• 45:24
  on the complete polar opposite side, ECU's vets are performing
• 45:29
  really well. The guys that are returning for them on
• 45:32
  the road, I mean, on the lineup are really really
• 45:35
  performing way way better than anyone else at the bottom
• 45:38
  with that lineup, and I would rather rely on a
• 45:41
  team where you're established guys you know they're gonna pick
• 45:44
  it up, compared to a team where you're established guys
• 45:46
  are really struggling right now. I know it's on the road.
• 45:50
  Coastal is a tough environment, nothing ECU is not used to.
• 45:53
  I think I'll take my chances.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: There, JB. I believe you said it a minute to go,
• 45:58
  but you are going Coastal. Correct.
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna be taking Coastal.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, interesting, Jake, it's a split vote right now. Curious
• 46:07
  what you're thinking here.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: I think both teams do kind of match up pretty well.
• 46:12
  I think like we like we just talked about. I
• 46:14
  think that there's there's not really much power going on
• 46:18
  right now in either lineup. I think both offenses has
• 46:20
  more in the tank. I I think I'm I think
• 46:25
  I'm gonna pick Coastal.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: As well.
• 46:28
  Speaker 7: I do like the way that this ECU, especially the
• 46:30
  pitching staff, is trending right now.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: But uh, I think Coastal getting to play at home. Uh.
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: JB talked about Lynch maybe coming back and throwing for
• 46:38
  him a little bit this weekend. I like I like
• 46:41
  Coastal playing at home.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: I think, Josh, you you very nearly said my exact opinion.
• 46:50
  I'm so I was so close this past week and
• 46:52
  to be just done with this Coastal team until you know,
• 46:54
  we see something from them, but a couple of impressive wins,
• 46:58
  it's a round off the weekend for them. I something there,
• 47:03
  and yet I trust E cu More. I'll be taking
• 47:07
  ECU will split the split the votes here. I think
• 47:10
  I trust E cu More. But Lynch returning would certainly
• 47:14
  be an interesting well I was gonna say a Lynch pin,
• 47:16
  I'm not gonna be that cheesy. It will be an
• 47:17
  interesting uh stone on the stone on the scale to
• 47:21
  maybe tip it a little bit closer to leven. But
• 47:24
  ECUs bats are the ones I trust right now. All right,
• 47:28
  moving on to a battle of two of you guys, darlings. Jake,
• 47:34
  you're Louisiana raging Cagent's taking on Josh's. Uh dear DBU
• 47:39
  patriots and Jake, we're gonna start with you here. Uh.
• 47:42
  These two teams, if I'm not mistaken, stalwarts on your
• 47:46
  mid majors rankings. Who do you like better? In the way?
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: So yeah, DBU has been in there for a little while.
• 47:54
  Louisiana just kind of just kind of broke into it
• 47:56
  this past this past rankings.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: But I'll talk about them.
• 48:01
  Speaker 7: I'll leave DBU for for someone else, But Cop Brown
• 48:06
  and Rigoberto Hernandez are both both hitting really well. They're
• 48:09
  the two kind of biggest bats in this lineup right now.
• 48:11
  But the in my opinion, like the rest of this
• 48:13
  offense just kind of needs to find an identity.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: I think, like the power isn't really there.
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: Like you're you're hitting for a team bat dvers barely
• 48:20
  above two fifty or not. You're getting on base at
• 48:23
  a at a clip that's kind of bottom third of
• 48:25
  the country. But like they're coming off back to back
• 48:30
  series wins over San Diego UH in Maryland and then
• 48:34
  and they had a midweek sweep over Kansas State, and
• 48:36
  we just talked about them beating LSU right before we uh,
• 48:39
  right before we got going for these weeks games. So
• 48:43
  but the the main the main arm I want to
• 48:47
  talk about is Andrew Herman. He pitched against UC San Diego,
• 48:51
  I think it was the Saturday game last weekend. Nine innings,
• 48:57
  thirteen strikeouts, one hit, three walks, no runs. He went
• 49:02
  one hundred and seventeen pitches. If he can build off
• 49:06
  of that in any way, it's gonna be just a
• 49:09
  ton of fun to watch. And they got other starters
• 49:12
  Jared Tallett, Ty Roman, they've been kind of not as good.
• 49:16
  T Tallet had a nice start against UC San Diego
• 49:20
  last Sunday. But they're just need a bit a little
• 49:22
  bit more consistency in the rotation, especially when you're not
• 49:25
  getting an abundance of production from their offense.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: Here you, Josh, we're gonna let you tag in to
• 49:33
  talk DBU. What is it that they can do to
• 49:36
  silence Louisiana coming off of a big win tonight.
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're starting pitching just has to pick things up.
• 49:42
  It's been not great to start the year to at
• 49:45
  least on Friday, Russ Smith starting ten innings running a
• 49:50
  ten eighty ERA, walking seventeen percent of guys. On Sunday's
• 49:54
  Ryan Borbert just pitched six and two thirds innings on
• 49:57
  the year with a eight ten ERA. I mean, and
• 50:00
  the offense has been pretty well rounded, you know, guys
• 50:03
  like Jake Bennett twelve sixty six ops, six home runs,
• 50:07
  Ben try On and right Field eleven o eight ops,
• 50:10
  Chaydon Krouse at first base. He's a returner from last year.
• 50:13
  Four home runs, nine to ninety ops. Those are guys
• 50:15
  that you expected to see these things from, and you've
• 50:17
  gotten it from them as well as other guys in
• 50:20
  the line In the lineup have stepped up at different times.
• 50:22
  The position players seem to be doing their part most
• 50:25
  of the time. The starting pitching just has to step
• 50:27
  it up. Jered Shaffer has been pretty solid. He's got
• 50:29
  a four of IPRA. He's been good enough on Saturdays,
• 50:33
  Friday and Sunday. You got to be a little bit
• 50:34
  scared coming into those games because Ryan Borberg, to be honest,
• 50:38
  like before the season started, that was the guy you
• 50:40
  were probably the most confident in I'd say I was
• 50:43
  at least, and he's just been kind of a dud
• 50:45
  on Sundays. So you're gonna need a little bit more
• 50:47
  of that, you know, even though you are lucking out
• 50:50
  kind of like Jake mentioned, facing Harriman on Saturdays, it's
• 50:55
  good against good and then Friday Sunday is kind of
• 50:58
  rough against rough. So you've just got to see tax
• 51:00
  advantage the most.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: JB in the battle of rough against rough. Which of
• 51:05
  these teams do you think has the edge?
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's tough. I'm really split right now. I
• 51:11
  don't know if you could see in my doc, but
• 51:12
  I already I already deleted my pick because I don't know.
• 51:15
  I've been slayed already by looking through the stats one
• 51:17
  more time. So one team's coming in hot, the Raising Cajun's.
• 51:21
  I mean, they've been really really lightning hot. But this
• 51:24
  DBU team, if there's every weekend that you need to
• 51:26
  turn around and get it together, this would be the
• 51:28
  weekend to do it for them. So, I don't know,
• 51:31
  it's kind of a tough draw right here.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: I'll let you pick last. We'll go to mister Barjery coach.
• 51:37
  What are you thinking, Louisiana DBU.
• 51:42
  Speaker 7: Man, this is this is a tough one, I think.
• 51:45
  So I've kind of had a theme with my first
• 51:46
  two picks, like I've kind of gone I've gone with
• 51:49
  I've gone with the home team over two teams that
• 51:51
  I think are pretty pretty closely matched in both matchups
• 51:55
  that we've talked about already. So I think I'm gonna
• 51:57
  go with DBU. I mean, I like both teams mostly,
• 52:01
  it's it's mostly because they get to play at home
• 52:03
  and have that advantage.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: But I don't. I don't, I don't.
• 52:06
  Speaker 7: I don't know that I have like a true, true
• 52:08
  favorite between these two teams right now?
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Interesting, Josh, I expected it to be one and one,
• 52:14
  and yet it's oh to one towards you and DBU
• 52:17
  right now? Are you taking DBU?
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: I am, and for the second series in a row.
• 52:22
  On the opposite end of the spectrum is Jake. I'm
• 52:25
  gonna take the road team, who I believe in just
• 52:28
  a little bit more, and I'm hoping the home environment
• 52:30
  doesn't affect them too much. Although I am more hesitant
• 52:33
  about this one than I was EASYU. But I can't
• 52:36
  not pick DBU in this situation.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: I feel like I understand JB. Curious, are are you
• 52:42
  gonna break this streak? Or are you gonna be another
• 52:45
  one for the Pats.
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: I was talking to myself into going DBU, but you know,
• 52:52
  seeing the first two, I'm gonna take the z in
• 52:53
  and now I gotta go the other way. I'll take
• 52:56
  Louisiana and go against them. I gotta be the odd
• 52:58
  man out there.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Not the odd man out JB. That's right, I'm gonna
• 53:03
  stick with the hot hand let's take Jake, I'll take
• 53:06
  your on.
• 53:06
  Speaker 6: The Andrew Road together. Didn't go very well.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: Hopefully this time he did not second times the jar,
• 53:13
  second times the jar.
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: I think this is the first time I've been I've
• 53:16
  only been by myself on a pick on the entire year.
• 53:19
  So we'll see how this goes.
• 53:22
  Speaker 6: Did yourself.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: Took?
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: Oh? I completely heard him wrong. Never mind, Welcome to
• 53:30
  the club, Ja, I'm I'm completely I heard him so wrong.
• 53:35
  Speaker 6: This guy's out of it over there?
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: What I have in the cup?
• 53:39
  Speaker 6: As usual?
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Rum? Tonight's drink of choice. Uh, let's see a cross
• 53:47
  country catlet. We're gonna have you run to the Atlantic
• 53:50
  coast and walk us through. What you think The major
• 53:52
  storyline is as Notre Dame takes on Duke.
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be really fun to see this
• 53:59
  Duke rotation against the Notre Dame offense. Notre Dame's offense
• 54:03
  has really started to turn it on. They've averaged thirteen
• 54:06
  runs a game through their last five guys we expected
• 54:09
  to do really well. First of all, Marcochranny has done
• 54:13
  way better than we would have expected. He is a
• 54:16
  five fifty nine batting average with a sixteen forty three
• 54:19
  ops and a five seventy four Whoba for those of
• 54:22
  you interested in that. Noah koy b No Waters done
• 54:25
  pretty well too so far. But this duke quotation has
• 54:28
  done way better than I expected. Aiden Weavers running a
• 54:31
  three eighteen era through seventeen innings, striking out thirty three
• 54:35
  percent of guys. Ben Dean on Saturdays as a two
• 54:38
  four five era, striking out forty percent of guys. Andy
• 54:41
  Leon had like a perfect outing a few times, or
• 54:44
  I guess it was two outings ago. He threw four
• 54:46
  perfect innings on the year. He as a one five
• 54:48
  to four era, only allowing a one to fifty four
• 54:51
  batting average. These are performances that have stacked up upon
• 54:54
  each other, and I'm starting to believe it's not just
• 54:57
  the competition they're playing. It could actually be they are
• 54:59
  just that and they've really polished themselves that well. I mean,
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  with Poler to come in, that's kind of what you expected,
• 55:05
  if we're being honest, But I don't know. I think
• 55:09
  that I'm very interested to see how Notre Dame can
• 55:14
  face a step up in competition from a picture perspective.
• 55:17
  I know they faced LSU already. That's really about it.
• 55:20
  This is definitely the best competition they face besides that,
• 55:23
  so I'm intrigued to see how that matchup actually plays out.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be an interesting one for sure. And Josh,
• 55:30
  we're gonna stick with you to make your pick, Notre
• 55:32
  Dame of Duke. What are you leaning here? Another ship?
• 55:35
  Speaker 5: Is this? This is the toughest one for me. I'm
• 55:39
  kind of like JB on this one. I'm I my gosh,
• 55:45
  I don't I know you know what I got. I'm
• 55:49
  gonna go with Notre Dame. I'm gonna go with counter
• 55:51
  Dame just because I think I'm trying it. If you
• 55:54
  can't tell, I'm trying a theme this week. I'm disregarding
• 55:58
  who's home who's away, and we're gonna see what happens.
• 56:00
  I'm taking who I just think is the flat out
• 56:02
  better team, and I think Notre Dame's rotation is good
• 56:07
  enough to be able to handle that Duke line up,
• 56:10
  and the offense is most certainly good enough compared, I mean,
• 56:13
  relative to what we've seen from them, So I'm just
• 56:16
  gonna trust they can go into a notably not really
• 56:19
  rucous environment or crowd in Durham and see if they
• 56:22
  can handle business.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: Speaking of notably not very ruckus filled in Durham, JB.
• 56:29
  Sounds like something that you'd say, what are you taking
• 56:31
  in this game? And why?
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: Well, that was pretty funny. I'm gonna take Notre Dame
• 56:37
  into Josh. I mean, I don't think he's given the
• 56:39
  pitching staff enough credit. Honestly, Tyuber and Jack Radell have
• 56:43
  both looked very, very good so far, and Kat and
• 56:47
  Crowell has kind of been the only guy struggling. But
• 56:49
  you know, it's a chance for him to bounce back.
• 56:51
  I think that this is a team that will show
• 56:53
  well against Duke.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: So, Jake, looking at Notre Dame and Duke, which way
• 56:58
  are you leaning, sir?
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 57:02
  Speaker 7: I mentioned already what kind of my strategy was gonna
• 57:07
  be with these tighter matchups. I'll go do Josh just
• 57:11
  talked about all their starting pitchers and then didn't take
• 57:15
  them and how well they've been pitching, and then he
• 57:17
  picked against the rotation.
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go with them at.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Home, all right, Well, Jake, this is an opportunity for
• 57:24
  you to make up some picks. Buddy, I'm gonna go
• 57:26
  with under Dame as well, so we'll stack three to
• 57:29
  one against against you, coach, but I'm curious to see
• 57:32
  how you make it out of that one. JB. I'm
• 57:35
  gonna have you walk us through this one. Cal Poly
• 57:37
  and Hawaii as it has become known at the Wheeler House.
• 57:41
  What kind of West Coast late night baseball can put
• 57:44
  me to sleep tonight? Tell me what we're looking forward
• 57:46
  to this weekend?
• 57:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's a typical West Coast Big West
• 57:52
  matchup here. Cal Poly will be traveling to Hawaii, which
• 57:57
  is the first gauntlet of this schedule here. That's a
• 58:00
  nice six hour flight for them to get over there
• 58:02
  five and change maybe if they're lucky. I think this
• 58:07
  Hawaii team has looked very, very very very strong to
• 58:10
  start the year, and I think that it's gonna be
• 58:12
  another series for them where they're kind of kind of
• 58:15
  show why this small ball tactic that they've used for
• 58:18
  a few years now can really trip up some of
• 58:20
  their bigger opponents that they usually have to face. So
• 58:23
  I'm gonna take well, I guess we haven't been gone there,
• 58:25
  but I'll take Hawaii in this matchup.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: So Hawaii a team that I find myself liking more
• 58:31
  and more every time I watch them. I'll w there.
• 58:33
  I'll take Hawaii as well. Uh, coach, what are you
• 58:36
  thinking here?
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: I like Hawaii too.
• 58:40
  Speaker 7: It's there, it's like the it's got to be one
• 58:42
  of the toughest places to play it in all the
• 58:44
  college baseball. Like their their their home splits or are insane.
• 58:48
  And they got three really good starting pitchers as well
• 58:51
  to get to pitch in that ballpark.
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go with Hawaii.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: Josh, we have three on the side of the Rainbow Warriors.
• 58:58
  Are you gonna make it a clean.
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: I will make it a Queens clean sweep. I will
• 59:03
  take Hawaii. I mean both these offenses have been just
• 59:07
  horrendous so far, but I trust Hawaii's pitching across the
• 59:11
  board to be able to just pound cal Poly and
• 59:14
  keep it that way. Another another thing worth noting, little
• 59:18
  thing that I noticed. Tate Chimau for Hawaii is a
• 59:22
  cal Poly transfer. He's been to be quite frank terrible
• 59:26
  this year. He's a two or six average and a
• 59:28
  fine five ninety ops. And maybe he gets his get
• 59:31
  back a little bit and like you know, elevates a
• 59:33
  little bit this weekend. I don't know.
• 59:35
  Speaker 6: Look, sorry, why don't I just see the meme. Have
• 59:38
  you guys seen the get back? That's exactly what I
• 59:43
  heard of my head.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Between between Josh with the get back and JB saying
• 59:47
  five and change. If they're lucky, you both hit me
• 59:50
  really hard just then in that series with some some
• 59:52
  good laughs. H Jake, We're gonna let you walk us
• 59:55
  through this one as Virginia Tech will take on Georgia Tech. Curious,
• 1:00:00
  what do you think is going to be the deciding
• 1:00:02
  factor here? Is Is this gonna be lamb meeting slaughter
• 1:00:07
  or is it something a little more than that?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 7: I mean, honestly, I mean, I think it could be
• 1:00:13
  the way that Georgia Tech's hitting the ball right now. Man,
• 1:00:15
  Like this lineup top to bottom is just killing baseball's
• 1:00:19
  right now. Like I'll save everyone the time of naming
• 1:00:22
  all the names, but if you look at like any
• 1:00:24
  starting lineup for Georgia Tech right now, you can pick
• 1:00:26
  anybody in at one through nine and they're hitting well.
• 1:00:31
  Like even looking at the depth of the offense, there's
• 1:00:33
  only one player on their entire team hitting less than
• 1:00:36
  three thirty three and he's only got like a handful
• 1:00:38
  of at bats on the year. But one guy, do
• 1:00:40
  want to highlight for Virginia Tech on the pitching side
• 1:00:44
  is Ethan Grimm. He's a freshman from PA. I got
• 1:00:48
  to see him in high school last year.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: Really good.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 7: He's been like he's been their Sunday guy these last
• 1:00:53
  couple of weeks. Was really good against Tennessee on Sunday.
• 1:00:57
  The offense didn't really get going for there, and that's
• 1:01:00
  just that's kind of my biggest concern going into this
• 1:01:02
  weekend with Virginia Tech. But they are facing a you know,
• 1:01:06
  a Georgia Tech uh pitching staff that hasn't been just
• 1:01:10
  lighting the world on fire. But it's hard for me
• 1:01:12
  to pick against Georgia Tech right now the way they're hitting.
• 1:01:15
  So I'll I'll go ahead and make my pick with
• 1:01:16
  Georgia Tech.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Very good JB Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 6: What's your pick, I'll say Georgia Tech. I'm sorry to
• 1:01:28
  my one of my good friends, he goes to Virginia
• 1:01:30
  Tech is a baseball guy, Ferris. You know, I'm sorry,
• 1:01:32
  but I don't think they can stand a chance with
• 1:01:35
  that GT offense. You know, we've seen it in the
• 1:01:37
  past weekend kind of Virginia Tech having a rough go
• 1:01:40
  of it with some tough competition, but I think it's
• 1:01:42
  Georgia Tech all the way.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Farise spent right in your eye. Wow, no Christmas card
• 1:01:47
  for you, JB. Josh, what are you thinking? Two on
• 1:01:50
  the line for Georgia Tech? Alright? Are you thinking three?
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: Probably?
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 5: I mean Virginia Tech. Like the one thing I will say,
• 1:01:58
  they've had a couple of freshmen that have been balled out.
• 1:02:01
  Jake mentioned one of them, Ethan Graham. Ethan ball Their
• 1:02:04
  second baseman is a He's betting three seventy this year,
• 1:02:07
  has three home runs. He and Sam Grub have been
• 1:02:10
  like the only really promising guys in the lineup. The
• 1:02:13
  bottom has not been holding their weight. I don't expect
• 1:02:15
  it to this weekend either. On Georgia Tech's offense, I
• 1:02:18
  will mention one point and that's it. I know they
• 1:02:21
  haven't been playing the best competition, but there's a stat
• 1:02:23
  that I saw. You might have seen it. I don't
• 1:02:25
  take a lot of research. Just look at a box
• 1:02:27
  score for the team as a whole and you can tell.
• 1:02:29
  But this is like an unfathomable stat to me. Every
• 1:02:33
  single player on their team with twenty five played appearances
• 1:02:37
  or more has an OPS over one thousand. I can't
• 1:02:41
  I can't process that. That's that's nuts. I don't care
• 1:02:44
  who you're playing. That's insane.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: It is, it is truly astounding. I'm gonna take Georgia
• 1:02:52
  Tech as well, will sweep the board two straight series,
• 1:02:56
  and that's gonna bring us to another interesting ACC matchup
• 1:02:59
  in I'm gonna have you walk us through that one.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that'll take us down to Stanford and wake Forest.
• 1:03:06
  Stanford is kind of falling off from their early season
• 1:03:09
  highs that we've talked about a lot. They've fallen a
• 1:03:13
  five and seven on the year, and they split a
• 1:03:16
  series of the Calciate Fortune team, which kind of put
• 1:03:18
  up some shocking play against UCLA number one seed, but
• 1:03:22
  you know, UCLA in midweek seems to be kryptonite right
• 1:03:25
  now for whatever reason. And then they played against was
• 1:03:29
  Sada University and won that game, and then they lost
• 1:03:32
  a series to Fresno State and lost to Nevadas, so
• 1:03:35
  they've kind of cooled off. Sasaki, Jimmy Nady, Tatum Marsh,
• 1:03:40
  they've all kind of cooled off as well. Hitting below
• 1:03:43
  two thirty, the three guys that they really really were
• 1:03:45
  relying on going into the year, but wake Forest, on
• 1:03:48
  the other hand, has kind of gotten firing on all
• 1:03:50
  cylinders after that first game that we kind of all
• 1:03:52
  talked about some concerns with them. They're twelve and one now,
• 1:03:55
  and I think it's a very interesting weekend to follow.
• 1:03:59
  I guess to say, Lease Stanford's last time coming out
• 1:04:01
  here to North Carolina in the first week in acc play,
• 1:04:04
  they did something not so nice to some team that
• 1:04:07
  me and Josh are very familiar with. But I think
• 1:04:11
  besides that, I will still take the wake Forest Demon
• 1:04:14
  Deacons on the weekend.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: Jake, We're gonna go to you. Wake is wo JB's taking.
• 1:04:19
  I'm curious or are you gonna make it two for
• 1:04:20
  wake or are you taking Stamford.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 7: I am gonna pick wake Forest. One guy I want
• 1:04:27
  to mention for them. Chris Lavonis pitching for for wake Forest.
• 1:04:32
  He's gone fourteen to two thirds innings this year with
• 1:04:34
  thirty three strikeouts and a point six y one ERA.
• 1:04:38
  That's just one earned run allowed in those fourteen and
• 1:04:41
  two thirds innings. He's going absolutely crazy right now. I
• 1:04:44
  just wanted to let that be known, But yeah, I'm
• 1:04:47
  gonna go Wake Forest.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you shouting ab out I was gonna shout out
• 1:04:50
  lavonus if nobody did Jake that a boy? That a boy.
• 1:04:54
  Josh see, you're already writing it down, but you're taking
• 1:04:56
  wake forest. Can you tell me why?
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 9: Uh?
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 5: I mean yeah, the rotation, I mean morning Star has
• 1:05:04
  been allowing some hard contact, but I think he'll pull
• 1:05:06
  it back together real himself back in Dunkan Marson, I
• 1:05:10
  think is the number one I was wrong guy in
• 1:05:13
  the entire country. I mean, I was like, I don't
• 1:05:17
  know if you'll remember having conversations with me JB. I
• 1:05:20
  know did in the preseason. I was so out on him.
• 1:05:25
  He currently has pitched twelve and a third innings of
• 1:05:28
  the year, not allowed a single run, and it's striking
• 1:05:31
  out fifty four percent of batters. I was way wrong
• 1:05:35
  on that one. That's on me. I mean, I mean,
• 1:05:38
  do you got morning Star Marson lavonas as your rotation?
• 1:05:41
  That's I mean, like, I don't a top five rotation
• 1:05:46
  in the country at this point. It looks like I
• 1:05:48
  don't think it's crazy to say before the year started,
• 1:05:50
  you wouldn't have even like hinted at that. But I
• 1:05:53
  think off the top of my head it's way up
• 1:05:56
  there at least.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: I can't argue with that. I'm also gonna take wake.
• 1:06:01
  I think that Josh, you hit it. I mean, this
• 1:06:05
  is an offense that's sputtering against a pitching staff that's dealing.
• 1:06:08
  It seems like a pretty cut and dry outcome to me, Jake,
• 1:06:13
  gonna have you walk us through our last series Xavier
• 1:06:16
  and Oregon State. Now you will recall from listening to
• 1:06:19
  past episodes of college Baseball now, we have said that
• 1:06:23
  if you were to merge these teams, they would be
• 1:06:26
  some sort of vultrime super squad with an Xavier offense
• 1:06:30
  and an Oregon State pitching staff. Sadly enough, my lawyers
• 1:06:34
  have not been able to get either team to agree
• 1:06:36
  to this. So Jake, we are gonna have this midway
• 1:06:39
  excuse me, this weekend's series between them. What's gonna be
• 1:06:43
  the deciding factor here? And does it start and end
• 1:06:45
  with a gentleman of the sture? What's his name? Whitney?
• 1:06:49
  Is that right?
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it kind of does.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 7: I mean, when you talk about Oregon State, you have
• 1:06:55
  no choice but to talk about Dex Whitney. But like
• 1:06:58
  I've said it on here before, and like I'll keep
• 1:07:00
  saying it about Ryan Peach for for Xavier, I.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: Mean, he's he's a dude.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 7: Man, he's got he's got a one nine three e
• 1:07:07
  r A and three starts, struck out twenty one guys
• 1:07:10
  in fourteen innings. He's he I'll say a little bit
• 1:07:13
  more confidently now than I do at the beginning of
• 1:07:15
  the year. But he's I mean, he's a legit. He's
• 1:07:17
  a legit ace on this staff. And like Xavier, they
• 1:07:20
  were the they were kind of the talk of the
• 1:07:22
  sport at one point after you know, winning that ECU
• 1:07:25
  series on the road. They kind of shocked everybody there.
• 1:07:27
  But since then they've been like they still haven't been, like,
• 1:07:31
  not bad at all.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: Since then.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 7: They held their own against Arkansas in two or three
• 1:07:35
  two of those three games there. Then they won a
• 1:07:37
  series against the Fullerton But yeah, for Oregon State, I
• 1:07:42
  mean just the pitching staff, I mean we've talked about them, Whitney,
• 1:07:47
  Clein Schmidt, Segura, uh but like Clein Schmitt, Segura, and
• 1:07:52
  and the pen guys though they have to kind of steal.
• 1:07:54
  I mean, I feel like they're pitching on I guess
• 1:07:56
  pitching on eggshells a little bit.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: The way the offense.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 7: Still, it's still kind of isn't producing the way that
• 1:08:01
  we want him to as a whole. They picked up
• 1:08:03
  a little bit this past weekend, Galloway, Todd Adam Hate
• 1:08:07
  got things going a little bit, but the power is
• 1:08:09
  still basically non existent. And I think this weekend like
• 1:08:13
  we'll learn things about both teams and it'll be interesting
• 1:08:16
  to see which which of these two offenses kind of
• 1:08:19
  steps up going against a couple of good pitching staffs.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: Jake, we are running a little long, but I am
• 1:08:25
  going to ask you another question here. It's got to
• 1:08:27
  be incredibly gratifying for you to have said Ryan Peach
• 1:08:30
  multiple times in the preseason early going, and now you're
• 1:08:34
  seeing other outlets kind of catching up to what you've
• 1:08:37
  been saying all along. That has to be very gratifying
• 1:08:39
  for you.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, Yeah, it does feel good.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 7: I mean going into the ECU, I don't know. I mean,
• 1:08:46
  I feel like everybody kind of knew, like his name
• 1:08:48
  if you just looked up, like who's like Xavier's best pitcher,
• 1:08:51
  But like going into I don't think anyone anyone thought
• 1:08:53
  like he was going to be performing the way he
• 1:08:55
  is right now. So I'm pretty proud, proud to see
• 1:08:57
  he's doing well.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear you say that because I've been
• 1:09:00
  proud of any time I hear or see Ryan Pach
• 1:09:03
  I think of you, and I'm proud because you called
• 1:09:05
  that from deep downtown before the rest of the world
• 1:09:07
  had caught up. So I wanted to give you your
• 1:09:09
  props there. Who is you gonna be your pick between
• 1:09:12
  Xavier and Oregon State?
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: Jake, I think I think I'm gonna go Oregon State
• 1:09:17
  just the pitchers.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 7: The three pitchers are just gonna because I think they're
• 1:09:22
  just gonna be too much and the bullpen's been good too,
• 1:09:25
  Like I think the staff's going to be too much
• 1:09:27
  for Savior jb.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: Immovable object, irresistible force who comes out on top.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 6: I'm taking Oregon State and I think the key for
• 1:09:37
  this one, and it's going to a four game set,
• 1:09:39
  which I don't know if we've mentioned so far, but
• 1:09:42
  not Kleinschmidt, I think is the key factor in this
• 1:09:46
  Really what clein Schmidt do we get? We've kind of
• 1:09:48
  seen him struggling times, we've seen him be dominant at times.
• 1:09:51
  I think he's one of the key factors and also
• 1:09:53
  kind of that fourth game. Who do they trot out
• 1:09:55
  there for the fourth game and hows to extend both
• 1:09:57
  pitching staffs. I think it's gonna be key to.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: Gonna be interesting, Josh, looking at this one, the offense
• 1:10:03
  we like against the offense we don't, and a couple
• 1:10:08
  of really solid pitchers on both sides. Which way are
• 1:10:11
  you leaving?
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 5: I was like Oregon State, and I think it's because
• 1:10:15
  at the very least they split this too too, and
• 1:10:18
  that's the very worst because of two particular matchups. Are
• 1:10:22
  two guys, I guess I'll just say in particular, Dax
• 1:10:25
  Whitney being one of them. Obviously we've harped on him
• 1:10:27
  enough the other one. This is such like a niche,
• 1:10:30
  small specific grape I have. But like on Sunday, I
• 1:10:34
  do not understand why Zager keeps trotting out Jack DTN
• 1:10:39
  to be their Sunday guy. He pitched eighteen innings last year,
• 1:10:42
  ran a fourteen ERA. This year he's their Sunday guy
• 1:10:45
  and he's running a sixteen four to three ER allowing
• 1:10:49
  a batting average of four point fifty two. I don't know,
• 1:10:53
  Like he doesn't have a lot of swing and miss stuff,
• 1:10:55
  doesn't extend on the mound particularly, well, there's none of
• 1:10:57
  these things that are really coming together. I don't see
• 1:11:00
  the vision. So Eric Sieger versus that there's a good
• 1:11:03
  chance Orgon State just comes out there. Look yeah, I know. Look,
• 1:11:06
  I'm just coming out a random dude. I understand that.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: What if he's a load bearing piece of this rotation.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 5: I just don't. I truly don't understand it, and it's
• 1:11:15
  probably gonna come back to bite them again, even if
• 1:11:17
  though like organ State's off at struggling, like we know,
• 1:11:21
  that's a really good spot to get your get back in.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: So I don't know, JB, JB, that's your cue.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah, josh On a poor guy right there. I got
• 1:11:34
  no idea, but the one thing I'll hit on I
• 1:11:36
  guess to go back to answer my own question I
• 1:11:38
  had was I think Oregon State's got the more depth
• 1:11:40
  on the pitching side to be able to extend to
• 1:11:42
  that fourth game than Xavier will have.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 6: So I think that's where they kind of come out
• 1:11:46
  with the series.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: Pitching depth is the crux of my pick as well.
• 1:11:50
  And you guys know it. I've been really critical of
• 1:11:53
  Oregon State because I I don't see it, but I
• 1:11:56
  do think the depth is here. I would love nothing
• 1:11:59
  more than that.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 6: You don't see the vision trademark Catllan.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: Trademark Catlan. I just don't see the vision for Xavier
• 1:12:06
  right now. I'd love a split series. I think that
• 1:12:08
  would be an amazing outcome for Exavier. But I will
• 1:12:11
  complete the sweep. That's gonna be our fourth sweep in
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  a row. So, uh, Josh, you predicted before we started,
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  do you can? You said we may go half and half,
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  maybe four sweeps, maybe four. That has some some back
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  and forth. Did you think this would be the four
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  sweeps that we got?
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  Speaker 5: Mostly I thought someone would take cal Poly over Hawaii,
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  and I didn't think anybody would take Virginia, So that's
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  the difference. But I expected these last three to be
• 1:12:35
  pretty undisputed, clean sweeps.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody had to go and take Virginia and screw it
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  all up, drew it all up, if you will. Anyway,
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  all right, that's gonna wrap us up for this week's episode.
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  Let us know who you pick for these eight series,
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  and the comments below let us know who you think
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  is gonna win as well. What series did we not
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  pick that you think that maybe we should have given
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  our thoughts on because give them if you comment it
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  down below, we will try to chime in. Let you know,
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  Uh before Josh, your face is doing some crazy things.
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  He is picture the room has caught up to mister.
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  Speaker 6: Josh microsh We were.
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  Speaker 1: Tell where they can find you between Josh you have something?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I was gonna say, my internet is so bad
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  at this apartment. I have to use my hot spot
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  for this podcast.
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  Speaker 6: Uh oh.
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  Speaker 5: This is wrong. Yeah, my internet. No, We're good, all right,
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  I'm just I'm tapped out. I guess afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: While you're around, joshy, don't you tell us where we
• 1:13:52
  can find you between episodes of what you're working on?
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  Speaker 5: Uh, you can find me on Twitter at Josh catlet three. Yeah,
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  work on the same old, same old pretty much? Am
• 1:14:03
  I losing me again? No, you're good, We'll figure okay,
• 1:14:07
  we'll figure this out loud. Well, the thing I got
• 1:14:09
  is a text from AT and T because I've used
• 1:14:13
  my hot spot for this podcast because the internet is
• 1:14:15
  so bad in my apartment. And I got a text
• 1:14:17
  saying I use one of the data for my hot
• 1:14:20
  spot for this month. So whatever, I'm out, I'm done talking.
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  Speaker 1: I'm done jab Where can the folks find you between
• 1:14:32
  our episodes? What are you working on?
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  Speaker 7: At?
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  Speaker 6: Jb Underspot underscores to Bostiono on Twitter right now will
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  probably be the same old, same old. They'll probably be
• 1:14:42
  at this point at UNC Baseball Live looks from the
• 1:14:46
  first three weeks of the season or whatever. It is
• 1:14:48
  so big in depth, look there, I guess for them,
• 1:14:51
  and then hopefully some stuff on the UVA series this weekend.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: So yeah, awesome, it's gonna be a lot of fun
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  to read, uh, coach Jake Barjori vers so glad to
• 1:15:00
  have you back with this man. We loved having Brandon,
• 1:15:02
  but it's good to have the crew, the boys back
• 1:15:05
  in town. As they say, Jake, where can they find
• 1:15:08
  you between episodes? And what are you working on?
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been a lot of fun. You can. You
• 1:15:14
  can follow me on Twitter at Jake Barge. I've been
• 1:15:18
  saying it the last it feels like months now that
• 1:15:22
  it's been cold and snowy, but there's finally baseball going
• 1:15:25
  on up here where I'm at, So I think I'm
• 1:15:29
  gonna be able to get out to a game probably Sunday.
• 1:15:33
  My plan is to go to the to the highly
• 1:15:35
  touted matchup of University of Pennsylvania versus University of Maryland
• 1:15:41
  Baltimore County. I think I'm going to go to that
• 1:15:43
  Sunday matchup game. I don't know that there'll be a
• 1:15:46
  live look after, but I'm just ready to get out
• 1:15:49
  and watch the ball so and the mid major power
• 1:15:51
  rankings on my Twitter as well.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: Check those out. First of all, check out the mid
• 1:15:55
  major power rad He's getting a lot of play, as
• 1:15:57
  they should. But second, well, you're trying to tell me
• 1:15:59
  that you're not gonna live looks article from penn and
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  u NBC.
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  Speaker 7: I mean I might. It'll just be one game. There
• 1:16:05
  have to be a lot of fireworks, I think, but
• 1:16:08
  I'm not discounting them. I'm just I'm just this is
• 1:16:15
  my first game. I'm trying not to not to get
• 1:16:17
  too excited about it yet.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: I understand, I understand. Just blowing you up as much
• 1:16:21
  as I can, Jake, just blowing That's when I can.
• 1:16:23
  If you're interested in following me for whatever reason, you
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  may do so on the Twitter machine that Drew is okay,
• 1:16:28
  Instagram and Blue Scott, same guys. The crew, the Amateur
• 1:16:32
  Draft Crew is going to be working on top two
• 1:16:36
  hundred college prospects coming up soon. So that's gonna give
• 1:16:39
  us a little bit of new ammunition to talk about.
• 1:16:41
  I get the list refreshed. Some guys gonna be moving up,
• 1:16:44
  some guys are gonna be moving down. More than likely,
• 1:16:46
  it's gonna be a good, good project to tackle. Lots
• 1:16:50
  going on the College Daily sheet going on. If you
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• 1:17:01
  But until next time for Josh, for JB, for Jake,
• 1:17:05
  and Drew with a J in the document at least
• 1:17:08
  with a D on here on the screen. Anyway, we
• 1:17:11
  will see you next time for college baseball. Now take care,
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  bye bye. Remember to be nice to yourself, be nice
• 1:17:16
  for each other.