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Christmas Wishes for NCAA Teams | Ep. 006 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: Happy holidays, one and all. At Christmas time, the boys
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  and girls across the land are making their Christmas wishes.
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  But what are the country's top college baseball teams wishing for?
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  Stay tuned because we're about to find out. Yeah, there
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  ain't no problems.
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  Speaker 2: There ain't no problems.
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  Speaker 1: That don't want problem with me? No, yeah, let me.
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  Speaker 3: Tun to the check.
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  Speaker 4: They know what was gone For a minute.
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  Speaker 1: I had a bet, bet grab a couple wins with
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  a D. It's even on the kid. I had to
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  do a big.
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  Speaker 4: News I can never be average and they want to
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  pull them with the boy.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want no status. I don't need so coach
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  sign run a week guy. I want to test that
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  Tom was standing to control. Run the game. Best believe
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  in signing dogs counting now my wins? Yeah, I love
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  it when they count me y out.
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  Speaker 2: Counting on the lease, shut and shame why men at dogs?
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  Speaker 1: Best believe I run the game? You know want con truly?
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  Speaker 2: LL just let me.
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  Speaker 1: And Happy December to all of you watching at home.
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  It is college baseball Now. Prospects Lives only podcasts focusing
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  on n C double A baseball in and right here
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  out of season, even in the holiday season. We're always
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  ready for a season of some kind. If I had
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  to pull this group of gentlemen we're with today, I'd
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  say the season we're most ready for baseball season question mark. Nonetheless,
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  it is good to be with you today. I am
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  your host, your friend, your boy Drew Wheeler, happy to
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  be with you as always, joined by three of my friends,
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  three of my contemporaries. We're gonna start with mister Jake,
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  Barjerie Jake. When you think about your favorite Christmas gift
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  you've ever gotten, let's say, from Santa Claus, what do
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  you what do you have in mind from Santa? What
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  was the best gift you ever gave you?
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  Speaker 5: Wow, this is a this is a tough question for you.
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  Started out. Let's start us out with a doozy here.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Favorite Christmas present. I'll keep it. I mean, I'll keep
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  it baseball related. I got a I got an Easton
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  Mako one time for Christmas. I don't know that bat
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  might be a little too old for some of you guys.
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  It's it's like an orange Eastern bat. I was begging
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  for it for so long. It's like not one of
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  my best friends had one, and I wanted one so
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  bad and I got it.
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  Speaker 5: For Christmas, so I was. I was super excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome, man. Those kids didn't know what hit them.
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  Shout out Brandon deg Naguard. I'm sure you knocked a
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  couple of him, although you might have been at that
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  past the Mako at that point, shout out degna guard.
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  Either way, all right, all right. Next to him, we
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  have got Josh Catlet Josh. When you think about old
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  Saint Nick, what's the best gift the Big Man ever gave.
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  Speaker 2: You, Buddy, I'd say mine's probably more of a well
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  I used the gift a lot too, but more of
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  the presentation of how I got it.
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  Speaker 4: I was well two a rounds here.
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  Speaker 2: I got chickens to the championship game for football and
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  twenty ten out in Phoenix.
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  Speaker 4: That was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: But the next year I had asked for a PS
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  three and Santa had left the game Madden twelve on
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  the couch where one of those families were like, our
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  presents are laid out without like being wrapped up from
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  Santa the Boy, of course they are exactly of course,
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  the game, the Madden game itself was laying on the couch,
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  but I didn't see the PlayStation anywhere, and I was
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  really confused. And you know, my parents were like, oh,
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  I guess, I guess, and I just left it, and
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  I guess he lost it, whatever happens.
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  Speaker 4: And then as my parents are going to give our gifts.
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  Speaker 2: Out to each other, I look behind the tree and
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  the PS four, I mean, the PS three is sitting
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  behind the tree, and I just lost it, like running
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  around the house going ballistic.
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  Speaker 4: So that that's that's a memory that'll that'll always stick
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  with you. That's probably my favorite.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great story. I love that. And yes, of course,
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  of course Santa didn't wrap his gifts. He left them
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  sitting there. He's he's got things to do, cookies to
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  eat and other houses. He's got stuff to do. JB. Sebastiano,
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  good to see you, sir. Nice hat as usual. It's
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  the CWS. I like that one. When you think about
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  what jolly old Saint Nicholas the best gift he's ever
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  brought you. What do you get in mine, buddy?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a few of them in GET over the years,
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  but last year I'd say it was one that I
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  really like.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm a big Anthony Bolpy guy.
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  Speaker 4: He's been a guy that I really like.
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  Speaker 6: Not a popular player for everybody, but been to somebody
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  I've always liked. And last year I got a really
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  sweet Fanatics frame sign photo sixteen by twenty with his
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  MLB debut inscription on it.
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  Speaker 1: So that was that was sweet.
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  Speaker 6: That's something my man cave here at home. So that's
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  that's one for me I really liked.
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  Speaker 1: That's all. Some great gifts, Great gifts, guys. I'm trying
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  to think of a really good one right off the rip.
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  You know, whenever I was a wee lad, I do
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  remember coming into the living room early one morning and
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  stumbling upon what else but the Turboman action figure from
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  Jingle all the Way, the figure that Arnold Schwarzenegger is
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  looking for for his son. And there he was Turboman
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  for me. A good time, a very good time. It
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  was truly turbo time in the Wheeler household that day.
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  And today, for you all, it is time to talk
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  about what college baseball teams may be wishing for. This
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  is an odd this is an odd topic, guys. I
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  pitched this to you all the other day saying, what
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  about guys, what about for the holidays, if we say
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  Christmas wishes for some top teams across the country. Now
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  you all got to give you credit, great sports, You're
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  great sports. We've all come up with five teams and
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  a wish that they would for the twenty twenty sixth season.
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  So you at home, obviously you may be like, this
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  is bizarre. What does he mean by this? Let's let's
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  give an example, shall we of a team that is
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  unassociated at all? Josh, I see behind you, you have
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  the old OKC flag just over your left shoulder. If
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  we were to do this exercise for the thunder, what
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  would the thunder be wishing for for Christmas?
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  Speaker 5: Sir?
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  Speaker 4: Break the all time regular season wins record.
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  Speaker 2: There were twenty four and one right now, that's probably
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  the direct goal besides going back to back.
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  Speaker 1: But so all right, so that would be an acceptable
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  Christmas wish for the team. That sets us up for
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  our discussion today. Obviously a bit of a lifehearted discussion,
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  but I think it's going to provide some really interesting
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  conversation points for a couple of the major teams across
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  the country. Not to get into it and spoil it,
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  but this is a good group of twenty teams, guys,
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  So we have got a lot of good teams to
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  talk about. We're going to get right to it, and Josh,
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  we are going to stick with you because you are
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  the first name on this list. It is a pretty
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  simple process. We're going to stick with it because it works. Josh,
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  your first team, who is approaching Santa Claus?
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  Speaker 5: Please?
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  Speaker 1: And what is their wish on Christmas?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? My first team is going to be the Georgia Bulldogs.
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  I'm sticking mostly SEC today. You know, shocker, what's new?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's a lot of different routes I can go
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  with this team and the transfer class they brought in.
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  But I think the key to this team's success with
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  the most question marks behind it, is Wes Johnson's ability
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  to turn this weekend rotation into a cohesive unit. So
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  under the tree on Christmas morning, Georgia fans want to
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  see this staff develop their pitchers like they've been promised.
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  I mean, like I've seen countless people talk about the
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  ceiling of this pitching staff. But at the end of
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  the day, let let me read you their eras from
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  last year at Power Conference Programs six oh one, three, nine, four,
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  twenty five six oh two not the best, and I
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  mean that that's no easy fix, but it goes to
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  show you the trust that players and other people around
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  the country have in West Johnson to be able to,
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  you know, fine tune these new guys and get the
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  most out of them. Specifically the two Stanford guys and
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  Joey Bulgeko Matt Scott, they've yet to put the production
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  that everyone knows they have the potential to. So it's
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  more like, can Georgia turn them into guys that are
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  reliable enough where the dogs don't have to just out
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  hit everybody to win games?
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  Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be critical. I certainly agree with
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  you on that one. As a matter of fact, when
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  you picked Georgia first, it was a little bit of
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  a bummer, Josh, because I had that same thought in mind,
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  is can Wes Johnson work the magic? Maybe Santa can
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  deliver a little bit of his magic to Wes Johnson.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, those are two very Christmas miracle.
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  Speaker 1: Two very powerful wortches of nature, Santa Claus of Wes Johnson.
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  So yes, Alas that's a great wish, and Georgia fans
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  and fans of any team that we talk about today,
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  shot it down below. If you think that that is
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  maybe what your team would hope for, say so. If
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  you think it's something different, let us know what the
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  comments below. And of course if we didn't talk about
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  your team, obviously we can't talk about one hundred and
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  thirty two teams. That will be a several hours long podcast.
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  Maybe we'll do this again, who knows, maybe we'll do
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  New Year Resolutions. If you guys are into this episode,
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  we'll see what happens. But let us know in the
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  comments below. But JB. James, we're going to tick it
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  to you here for your first team. What's the wish?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I'm going to go with the usual, the
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  North Carolina tar Heels, and against Josh. I'm going to
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  be taking most of the acc today to go right
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  up against them. So the tar Heels, I'd say there's
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  a lot of new transfers in the lineup, but I
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  think that's not really the concern. I think most of
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  it's going to be how the rotation shakes out. You know,
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  only one returner technically in the rotation with the Caro.
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  I think it's praying on a bill of health and
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  for the guys to take a step forward in the
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  pen and behind them as well. You know, you got Lynch,
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  She's gonna move the rotation. You look well at the
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  end of the year, but over the longer up, what
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  do you hope it holds up? And also fold Trebow
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  as most likely moving back in along with possibly Kidding
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  Globbery the freshman. So I think it's mostly health for
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  them and just seeing strides from guys out of the
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  pen like Flannery or c Graves and McDuffie obviously to
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  come back and do well and Matthias off injury. It's
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  guys that they're all going to count on. But if
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  those guys can come back and do it, we think
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  they're gonna do North Carolina can find himself back in Omaha,
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  I think.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's odd a similar wish to Georgia's, but
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  maybe maybe not. Obviously the transfer flavoring is off of
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  that when it's more we need to see these steps.
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  I'm with you though, JB. I think that's a great point,
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  and certainly when we're gonna be watching very closely over
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  the next year, you know, Lynch stepping into this role
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  is certainly going to be an interesting thing. And as
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  always I will shout out the bespectacled, bespectacled homie Walker
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  McDuffie as well. Jake, You've been awful patient as any
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  good Southern boy would be waiting to speak to Santa Claus.
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  Not that I'm saying, I'm not saying clause I'm not saying,
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  but who's your first team? What's the wish year, pal?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, my first team is the Texas A and m Aggies.
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  I have their wish as to just kind of put
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  everything together. I know that's a bold statement there, but
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  for that avoid injuries and to live up to the hype.
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  Last year, they were universally recognized as the nation's top
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  team in the preseason. I think, you know, I think
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  everywhere you looked, you saw Texas A and M at
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  the top. They ended up going you know, ended up
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  going thirty and twenty six, eleven and nineteen in the SEC,
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  and they were eliminated by the national champions in the
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  SEC tournament. I think going into this season, one big
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  thing for them they're gonna need someone to kind of
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  step up and lead the pitching staff. They lost a
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  lot of innings with Justin Lampkin and Ryan Prager going
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  in the draft brought in Ethan Darden from Clemson. I
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  think he could give him a lot of innings and
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  then you know, some of these bullpen guys from last
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  year could step up into some starting roles and the
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  kind of the second part from my wish for them
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  was to avoid injuries. As much as we kind of
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  maybe talk bad about their season that they had last year,
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  it wasn't It wasn't for you know, lack of injuries
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  like they had.
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  Speaker 5: They lost a lot of innings to injuries.
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  Speaker 3: To Laviolet Grohova, Caden Cerell, Hayden, shot, a lot of
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  the guys, big hitters in their lineup that they were
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  missing for a big chunk of the season. They have
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  their core this year with you know, Bear Harrison, Grohovic's
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  coming back. They brought in Chris Acopian from Maryland, potential
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  top five draft pick Cadencerell, like I said, he's coming back.
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  As long as they stay healthy and perform, you know,
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  the way they think we're going to they could definitely
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  make a statement and go as far as that group
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  could carry him.
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  Speaker 5: But you know we said that last year too, so
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  we'll see interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. The health is the wish here. I think that
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  that's You're right on track if I had to guess
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  what it would be for A and M. Like you said,
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  a lot of injury kind of woes up and down
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  that team, and certainly guys who may may have carried
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  some of the excess weight that the injuries set on
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  the team. Now with professional teams, so it's gonna be
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  interesting to see where they step up. Josh, you've got
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  some thoughts on A and M.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's this year it could be an
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  interesting spot for A and M because you're gonna see
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  a lot of people nationally that if you know A
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  and MS ranked at a certain place preseason, you're gonna
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  be iffy about it because of how it ended up
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  last year. But it's a lot of guys with power
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  over hit profiles that are really prominent in their lineup,
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  and I think that's just natural that it's gonna be,
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  you know, like I last year it was seen as
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  like the best lineup in the country going into it.
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  By going into the season, I think that it could
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  pan out that way. But it's morehouses the staff developed
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  like the hit, like the bat and ball stuff, and
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  help them on that front instead of just focusing all
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  on power and like flashings.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, here comes the train. The A train is wrong.
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  Speaker 4: I tried to stop talking just as I heard it
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  coming through. I've found the way. I'm gonna mute myself
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  in case it keeps coming.
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  Speaker 1: So bad. It's so, that's okay, the A and M
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  train coming through. All you aggies, you better show out
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  in the comments that if that's not the Lord saying
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  there's health coming on that train, then I don't know.
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  Comment below. All right, I'll jump in here, guys, talk
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  about my first team with a Christmas wish, and we
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  are going across the country. I'm gonna talk about UCLA,
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  them old dirty Bruins. It's gonna be simple, guys. This
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  is a simple This is a simple wish. We need
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  Rock Cholowski to just be Rock Scholowski from Tive, not
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  significantly worse. We'll accept better. I'll accept better on behalf
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  of you CLA. I need to see a repeat. I
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  think that UCLA. What we've seen from them this offseason
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  is they're going to return some talent. Obviously, they're gonna
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  see some good transfers come in. We obviously saw some players,
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  you know, turned down some opportunities in the draft, you see,
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  Lai has got a loaded team, but the lynchpin of
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  the entire operation is the man at the top, the
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  guy who everybody's eyes are focused on, Rock Schulowski, and
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  I want to say that I think it is critical
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  for him to continue what he did in his sophomore season.
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  If you are unaware, if he happened to miss those
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  final numbers A three, four to seven slash lines and
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  insane stuff, twenty three home runs, seventy four RBIs walked
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  more than he struck out, and that's by roughly fifty percent,
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  So forty five walks to thirty strikeouts incredible. It's solid defense.
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  I think if we just see Rock, if he posts
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  this exact line again, nothing has changed and I would
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  dare say his draft stock, but even increase from the
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  consistency UCLA. On the other hand, with a downturn, this
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  could be a tragic turn of events for the Bruins
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  and their hopes for Omaha. So I'm hoping on behalf
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  of them. Their wish is let's just be the same
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  old Rock, Rock solid. If you will, JB. You've got
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  some thoughts on UCLA or Rock Shlowski.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I agree with the Rock thing.
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  Speaker 6: I think another thing for them too, I think that's
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  big and a big wish for them for Rock to
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  repeat what he did is for the transfers really to
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  step up in some of the guys they have too.
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  I think Gasperin knows the biggest one that's really important there.
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  He would provide the protection that he really needs. It's
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  either him or Leavou need to step up to be
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  the protection. And I think also Dean West is very
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  important as well ahead of him, just to be a
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  guy that's going to be able to be driven in
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  for him and if he gets on base, lote he
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  gets in scoring position. Rock Shawski's in a great position too,
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  So I think it's those three guys around Sholawski as
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  well that I think for UCLA are really important as well.
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  But I agree it's it's a one man show with Rock,
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  but those other guys can help ease that load on him.
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  Speaker 1: The supporting cast JB. You're absolutely right. The supporting cast
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  for Chilawski is gonna be huge. Uh So let's play
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  a quick game really quickly. One word answers from all
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  of you. Between West batting in front, obviously getting on
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  base to be driven in LaVoo and Gasparino kind of falling.
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  I'm assuming gonna be in the three four behind him
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  in whatever order. Which of those has potential to be
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  the biggest sneaky contributor, like as in, this guy is
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  the Robin to Chilowski's batman. No response, just one word response,
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  just the name, maybe not any even detail. JB who
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  you got of those three?
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  Speaker 4: Lovo Josh, I'd say yes, Breno.
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  Speaker 5: Jake, I had Lovoo.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Okay, so two to one it is Lavo.
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  Shout out Dean West. I believe in you, all right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Gasprino would be like a sneaky one
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  per se, but I think he's the most like he
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  could fluctuate the most, whereas like he's the guy where
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  if he's performing as well as he did last year
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  at Texas better, I think that's what makes this team
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  go because he does have a little like, you know,
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  higher ceiling, lower floor type of.
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  Speaker 1: Profile without a doubt guess we're you know. At times
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  last year was one of the most electric players in
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  the country. For weekends he looked like, I mean a supernova,
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  and then other weekends absolutely and then other weekends he
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  looked lost. So I mean, you know, it happens. He's
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  younger and it will happen. Uh, Josh, we are going
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  to go back to you here for your second team.
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  I'm curious. Uh the line is still pretty long to
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  get to Santa Claus. Who's next? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: The Auburn Tigers right here where I am right now. Uh,
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  They're gonna be next in line. Stop me if you've
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  heard this before, but under the Christmas tree on Christmas morning,
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  Auburn wants to see some consistency from the weekend rotation.
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  That's the best way I can find out how to
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  word this. I mean, this is the issue last year,
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  and it's, to be honest, a Christmas miracle that Sam
• 18:58
  Dunton panned out as well as he did in that
• 19:00
  Friday spot, so there was at least some consistency tocy
• 19:04
  there from week to week. I mean, besides that, Christian
• 19:08
  Chatterton was like the only real mainstay throughout the year,
• 19:11
  and even he got the boot at some point, like
• 19:13
  for a little bit in the middle of the year.
• 19:16
  Drew Whalen and Chatterton look to be the most likely
• 19:19
  guys to take on weekend roles, but there's been up
• 19:21
  to like six other names that have been mentioned for
• 19:24
  that last lot, like everyone from Andreas Alvarez and Jake
• 19:27
  Marciano all the way down to Griffin Graves and last
• 19:31
  year's closer Ryan Hetzler. Could I mean, they've all been
• 19:34
  mentioned as pieces that could step into a bigger role
• 19:36
  this year. I mean, it's a really similar story to
• 19:40
  what we've seen recently from this club. It's lots of
• 19:43
  parts to fill into, like middle relief slots, but a
• 19:47
  lack of star power at the top. I guess is
• 19:50
  a good way of putting it. I mean that said,
• 19:51
  it's very possible for an unexpected guy to take a
• 19:53
  step up like Dunton did last year.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: So I guess what the wait and see?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: So Josh, let's say hypothetically that you're your assumptions are correct,
• 20:01
  that we're going Whaling and Chatterton for Friday Saturday. Two
• 20:05
  prong question here, who's your pick? Who would you choose
• 20:09
  to be the Sunday guy? And then if you had
• 20:11
  to put money on who it is, who would you say?
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I would It's it's so tough because there's been a
• 20:17
  lot of different people saying different things that you really
• 20:20
  don't know what I think the safest bet, based on
• 20:23
  what we've seen last year, would probably be Alvarez, just
• 20:25
  because he was one of the guys that alongside, you know,
• 20:29
  someone like Cam Tilly took on a starter role in
• 20:32
  the postseason when you know, it was still the same
• 20:34
  kind of issue where there's not like an established charter
• 20:37
  or like multiple established starters. But Andrea step into that
• 20:40
  role and didn't do terribly, So I think that could
• 20:43
  be a safe bet. Marciano, for my money, is gonna
• 20:46
  be the midweek guy. I I don't know, I'm gonna
• 20:51
  I'm gonna. I'm gonna assume it's gonna be Andreas Alvarez.
• 20:55
  But I would watch out for someone to likes of
• 20:58
  like Griffin Graves or maybe even like Mason Cook who
• 21:01
  didn't play a lot last year because of injury. He
• 21:03
  came from Creighton before last year. I think I think
• 21:06
  those are guys to keep your eye out for. But there,
• 21:08
  I mean, there's It could really go any way and
• 21:11
  not much would totally shocked me at this point.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Understood well, said JB. We're gonna go back to you, buddy.
• 21:17
  Uh the second team in line here, they're up?
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Who is Yeah?
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: I got a UVA. I think, you know, Pollard moving
• 21:25
  over to UVA. I think it's one thing. It's gonna
• 21:27
  be really interesting for them, and they kind of have
• 21:29
  a mix of guys that decide to stay with Becker
• 21:31
  and guys that jumped ship and go to Missippi State.
• 21:35
  I think for them, the big key there the guys
• 21:36
  coming from Duke and the two in particular being Kyle Johnson,
• 21:39
  who I think they need to get back to his
• 21:41
  freshman year after really struggling last year, and then Grossia.
• 21:45
  I think Garssia, a lot of people probably forget at
• 21:47
  the beginning of last year, had a very awful slump
• 21:50
  at the beginning of the season, sub seven hundred ops.
• 21:53
  They played against us ye at Unc hit a homer
• 21:55
  on Sunday and it kind of catapulted him a little
• 21:57
  bit into that second half of the season and that
• 21:59
  kind of even out his numbers. I think for them,
• 22:01
  Gracia needs to continue that second half surge that he
• 22:04
  had and Johnson needs to get back to his freshman year.
• 22:06
  With the numbers pulled up here, he had a seven
• 22:08
  to one to nine EARRA last season and only eleven starts.
• 22:11
  Also lost that game against Murray State that they really
• 22:14
  needed when he was out there, and the year prior
• 22:17
  he had a four to thirty eight ARRA and ten starts.
• 22:19
  But I think the numbers don't do a justice. He
• 22:21
  had a one run, six or seven inning outing against
• 22:25
  UNC on the Friday night start and he was just
• 22:27
  a dominant presence for them. So I think Johnson just
• 22:29
  needs to get back to that level and it'll help,
• 22:31
  even not the rotation.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I think that's a really logical Christmas wish on their
• 22:36
  part for Virginia. I think JB, Josh Jake, none of
• 22:41
  you would disagree that Virginia has certainly been as much
• 22:44
  of powerhouse as any other ACC school over the last
• 22:47
  ten twenty years to see them kind of go through
• 22:52
  such a transitionary period. But you add talent, you get
• 22:56
  that huge influx of talent from Duke, whether it's commits
• 22:59
  or players who, like you said, like Johnson and and Grascia.
• 23:03
  It is a huge influx of talent that you know,
• 23:06
  you you almost look at Virginia now and you're like,
• 23:08
  I mean, are we better or worse than last year?
• 23:11
  I guess that's to be determined, but certainly interesting, and
• 23:14
  I'm with you, there's certainly gonna be one of the
• 23:16
  most interesting teams to watch and hopefully their Christmas wish
• 23:19
  will come true. Jake, to you, sir, who's next to
• 23:24
  see the big Man? And what's the wish?
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going with the Tennessee Volunteers.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: My wish for them is just Josh Lander to have
• 23:35
  first year of success with the team, both on the
• 23:38
  field and with retaining his recruiting commitments. You know, I
• 23:43
  could talk for the I could talk about the players
• 23:45
  for a very long time, and I think we have
• 23:47
  a ton of confidence in the players getting the job done.
• 23:51
  But my focus is going to be on coach Lander
• 23:53
  here for this wish. So far, so good on the
• 23:57
  commitment front, a ton of guys tweeted out that they
• 24:00
  were gonna stay both in the twenty six and twenty
• 24:03
  seven class like the day after he was announced as
• 24:06
  the coach, So that's a really good sign for that.
• 24:08
  But as we know, things can change minute to minute,
• 24:11
  even in the recruiting world. These guys could decommit at
• 24:14
  any point in time. But moving on from that, you know,
• 24:18
  it might be crazy to say, but he has to
• 24:21
  kind of prove to himself and to everyone else that
• 24:25
  he can one handle run in the program taken over
• 24:28
  where you know Tony v left off, and also just
• 24:32
  can't he win games as the head coach?
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Right? You know, we have them ranked.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Top five, so the expectations are high. But there's a
• 24:40
  reason that so many of the current players, former players,
• 24:43
  people on the outside were rooting for Josh Elannard to
• 24:46
  get the job. I think everyone has a ton of
• 24:48
  confidence in him, and just hearing some of the you know,
• 24:50
  some of the players, some of the players that moved
• 24:52
  on to the pros that played under him, just talk
• 24:54
  about their confidence that they have in him. I think
• 24:57
  he was certainly the right fit, but he's still none
• 25:00
  the list has something to prove, and he just has
• 25:03
  to prove everyone right at this point.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think in the in the most unbiased, non
• 25:12
  team centric way, I could say this, GBO, I totally agree. Jab.
• 25:17
  You've got some thoughts on Tennessee and coach Landers stepping
• 25:20
  into the role.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: What do you think I not to I just want
• 25:23
  to throw out a little a quick line here, not
• 25:26
  anything long. We saw Michael Earley do a similar thing
• 25:30
  last year at A and M. With everybody at A
• 25:31
  and M. They all love Mike Arley great coach there,
• 25:35
  and everybody thought, you know, he'd have a lot of
• 25:36
  success with a very talented team, and it kind of
• 25:39
  went sideways. So I know, it's just kind of not
• 25:41
  saying it's an elander thing. I think that he's a
• 25:44
  great coach as well, and I think that he could
• 25:45
  have it right in shape from the start.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: But it's just one thing that I.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Would always throw out as a concern for them. But
• 25:51
  I agree that's a good wish, just a thought to
• 25:53
  think about.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Certainly, you make a good point. Obviously, it could be
• 25:58
  something like, you know, like it was with with Early.
• 26:00
  Maybe it is injuries, you know, like with.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: A and M.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's something where just the whole season just kind
• 26:05
  of has a funk about it, and it's not really
• 26:06
  an elander thing, but it's just an unfortunate turn of events.
• 26:10
  So to say that is a great point. I really
• 26:14
  really like that and resonate with that point. Online good point.
• 26:18
  There's a good point for you as well. All right,
• 26:20
  let's talk about another team I'm gonna present walking up
• 26:23
  to Santa Claus. How about the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Speaking
• 26:30
  of speaking of teams in transition, speaking of teams with
• 26:34
  new coaches. Ironic, we just heard about Virginia because let's
• 26:38
  talk about Brian O'Connor twenty years casually, as long as
• 26:44
  just about as long as some of you cats have
• 26:45
  been alive coaching at Virginia. Hired at Mississippi State June first. However,
• 26:53
  that's not the wish, not the wish. I think that
• 26:56
  the wish needs to be for Mississippi State to capitalize
• 26:59
  on huge talent infusion they have under the new coach.
• 27:04
  O'Connor is not the concern. I think what we really
• 27:07
  need to see for Mississippi State is the more pressing newcomers. Now,
• 27:12
  whether that's transfers like Thomas Balcios, Aidan Teal, not only
• 27:18
  Tyler Pittser whoever, we can talk about these guys. They
• 27:20
  had a pretty freshman coming in Jack Bauer, Jacob Parker,
• 27:28
  all joining with a team who's bringing back the ace
• 27:31
  races of the world. I really feel that these guys,
• 27:37
  how can all of these players come together? How will
• 27:40
  they mold as a team under this obviously veteran winning coach. However,
• 27:47
  it's just a lot of new faces in a new place.
• 27:50
  What's gonna be the the gel and I think for
• 27:54
  Mississippi State. They're gonna need to find that gel relatively
• 27:57
  quickly to make waves in a very difficult conference. So
• 28:04
  that's that's the wish for Mississippi State as far as
• 28:07
  Drew would see it, Josh, we're gonna go to you
• 28:09
  and Uh with regards to you and JB going very
• 28:14
  strict ACC and SEC. You are the first to bend.
• 28:17
  I believe, I believe that's an ACC team approaching it is.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna take the Georgia Tech yellow jackets. I'm gonna go.
• 28:24
  You know, it's still at the southeast, It's still in
• 28:27
  my territory.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: It happens, yeah, for Christmas this year. I think it's
• 28:33
  it's a basic cancer. But I think Georgia Tech just
• 28:35
  wants to see a smooth transition from Danny Hall to
• 28:37
  James Ramsey and boys is the roster to do it with.
• 28:42
  I mean, they have draft talent, maybe more than any
• 28:46
  other ACC team, guys like Von Lackey, Drew Burris, you know, Jared, Jenny,
• 28:52
  Vin Kilo, Alex Hernandez, other guys too. Ramsey has his
• 28:56
  work cut up for him for sure, since offense is
• 28:59
  like more of his strength. Anyways, there are definitely some
• 29:02
  question marks for Georgia Tech on the bump, once you
• 29:04
  get got past guys like Taate McKey justin Shitdek, I
• 29:09
  mean like, there's a good enough chance, there's a good
• 29:12
  chance the offensive unit is good enough to overcome any
• 29:15
  of the trepidations that you might have about the pitching
• 29:17
  staff though. So yeah, coming off a year that GT
• 29:22
  felt like they were screwed out of the host opportunity,
• 29:24
  I think the main hope is James Ramsey just like,
• 29:29
  keep the ship afloat in the same kind of spot
• 29:31
  they were in at the end of the regular season
• 29:33
  last year.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I think that's I love that wish because it feels
• 29:38
  very natural. Like you said, it might seem obvious, but
• 29:41
  sometimes the obvious answer is the right one, and that's
• 29:45
  for a reason. JB. Again referring back to this sec
• 29:50
  ACC thing you guys are doing, Josh goes Georgia Tech.
• 29:54
  You hold strong. It looks like it looks like we're
• 29:56
  seeing another ACC team approach here.
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah. For me, it's going to be the wake Forest
• 30:01
  Demon Deakins is going to be our next team up.
• 30:03
  And for Wake Force, it's really trying to get back
• 30:05
  on track. Really known for the pitching lab and all
• 30:08
  that stuff for a while with Louder and Burns, and
• 30:12
  before that they had Cusick and Jared Schuster, a lot
• 30:15
  of first round arms, a lot of big arms that
• 30:16
  had come out of Wake Force, and then it kind
• 30:18
  of trickled down last year and especially now this year,
• 30:21
  they're trying to bounce back. They have to get the
• 30:22
  rotation back on track. And it starts with morning Star
• 30:25
  at the top. I mean, he was a stud, he's
• 30:26
  got the stuff to do. It just been a kind
• 30:28
  of inconsistent year last year. And then behind him it's
• 30:31
  you know, a three million dollar man, you know, turned
• 30:34
  down a second round pick from the brush, crystalavanas he
• 30:36
  really struggled last year at the five to ninety one
• 30:38
  ear RA and had some injury issues, but hopefully you
• 30:40
  can bounce back and show the true big stuff that
• 30:43
  he has. And then Duncan Marson as well, another guy
• 30:45
  to deal with a lot of injuries and he's a
• 30:47
  guy that had an over ninety ARRA last year. But
• 30:49
  two guys that are high draft profile players that didn't
• 30:52
  get selected come to campus really struggling and they're hoping
• 30:54
  to get back on track. And not to mention they
• 30:56
  had Grant Nicholson, one of the best prep arms here
• 30:58
  in North Carolina from Charlotte.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: It's a big deal for them.
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: They really just need to get the arms back on track,
• 31:04
  especially with Mescal leaving for Duke, so big test for
• 31:08
  pitching staff.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: It will be certainly like you said, you know, the
• 31:12
  pitching with Wake has been the narrative, the narrative for
• 31:15
  such a long time. So to see them rebound in
• 31:17
  that way is something I think all the Deeks fans
• 31:21
  are gonna want to see, and they're probably gonna get
• 31:22
  a lot of agreement from the Wake supporters to that point.
• 31:27
  Well said Jake, which team do we have approaching Santa now.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Sir, Yeah, we have another ACC team. I'm going with
• 31:37
  Florida State. My wish for them is just the stars
• 31:43
  on that offense performing the way that they need to perform.
• 31:47
  So they lost they lost a ton of guys in
• 31:49
  the draft. They lost big contributors like well, they lost
• 31:52
  Jamie Arnold obviously on the pitching side, but they lost
• 31:54
  you know, Alex Lodze and so many other guys on
• 31:58
  both sides of the ball. They bring in some big
• 32:02
  name pitchers. Uh, They're bringing in Trey Beard. He's one
• 32:06
  of my personal favorites from FAU.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: They're bringing in Bryson more from from UVA, who could
• 32:11
  both give them a ton of valuable innings this year.
• 32:15
  But when I talk about the stars, it's mostly on
• 32:17
  the offensive side. You know, catcher Hunter Carnes, first baseman,
• 32:22
  Myles Bailey, Cal Fisher at third, Chase Williams in the outfield.
• 32:27
  They all have experience, and they all have postseason experience,
• 32:30
  which I think is a good note. I think if
• 32:33
  those guys kind of carry the way to the offense,
• 32:37
  not to say that they're the only hitters, but they're
• 32:39
  the bigger name guys. I think they kind of lead
• 32:41
  the path for this offense, UH to get going. And
• 32:44
  you know, as we've we've mentioned so many ACC teams
• 32:47
  at this point, it's gonna be tough, not just with
• 32:50
  Florida State, but you know there's some heavy hitters like Virginia, Georgia, Tech,
• 32:53
  North Carolina, you know, Clemson, Miami, Wake, Forest, all these teams.
• 32:58
  It's gonna be tough to see who you know, comes
• 33:00
  out on top. But I think the FS, you guys
• 33:03
  got a chances any of them?
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Well said absolutely, Uh, I love that, just to see
• 33:10
  see the stars align, so to say, right, Jake, I
• 33:13
  think that would be really huge for the Seminoles. I'll
• 33:17
  keep it. I'll keep it in Florida with my next
• 33:19
  team approaching, and we'll just go with the pure Florida
• 33:23
  Gators here. Although pure, you know, depending on which newspapers
• 33:27
  she listened to, may not be the right hatit there,
• 33:30
  which is again a perfect perfect transition. I think Florida
• 33:35
  we need to see this very talented team overcome inconsistencies
• 33:42
  in the coaching staff, and that is defined in a
• 33:45
  lot of ways. I'm gonna say the first inconsistency that
• 33:48
  we need to see this team jockey with is check
• 33:51
  Chuck Gerlman. Uh, he's going to another team in the SEC.
• 33:56
  I'll leave that to you all to look up. Far
• 34:01
  be it for me to have a favorite team or
• 34:03
  be biased?
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Not?
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: It ain't me that said. Obviously, this is a big
• 34:08
  blow top assistant recruiting coordinator for Florida for the past
• 34:13
  I think it was five or six years, even recently
• 34:16
  had been named the interim coach for reasons I'll get
• 34:19
  to in just a moment. Just just tricky stuff. Of course.
• 34:25
  The second part of that. Kevin O'Sullivan a longtime coach
• 34:31
  in Florida. Obviously, he is under currently a leave of
• 34:35
  absence suspended the first three games due to his actions
• 34:39
  at the Conway Regional last year at the end of
• 34:41
  the season. Did want to point out read an interesting
• 34:44
  article from the Gainesville Sun that said that he was
• 34:47
  subject to a child welfare investigation made by one of
• 34:51
  his teenage children. A six page report from the Alchua
• 34:55
  County Sheriff's office. No evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Guys, you
• 35:00
  guys know this being that I work in newspaper, these
• 35:04
  reports that they're referring to. This is like a legitimate
• 35:07
  police report that you can glean a lot of information
• 35:09
  from if you know where to look. So the fact
• 35:11
  that they're saying no evidence from either officials nor the
• 35:15
  reporters indicates to me that this leave of absence might
• 35:19
  be one that and far be it from me to
• 35:23
  pry or project or assume, But it sounds like a
• 35:27
  serious situation that the O'Sullivan family is dealing with. So
• 35:31
  obviously that sucks, and you know, we're wishing them all
• 35:33
  the best. But the team is it's gonna be something.
• 35:36
  The team will jockey with Hopefully this is something that's
• 35:38
  resolved very quickly into twenty twenty six. We do know
• 35:42
  that on Halloween, an exhibition game for Florida, some assistants
• 35:46
  Taylor Black and David Kopp shared head coaching duties. Those
• 35:50
  dudes who are in their fourth and fifth seasons with
• 35:54
  the team, so they've got some leadership still to lean on.
• 35:57
  But with O'Sullivan going on his leave and then all
• 36:01
  this stuff going on with his family and then Gerleman,
• 36:04
  both of them now kind of off off the grounds,
• 36:08
  so to say, in Gainesville, a lot of uncertainty. Josh,
• 36:12
  You've got some thoughts about these Gators. I'm curious, what
• 36:14
  are you thinking?
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of the talk
• 36:17
  surrounding Florida is everything you've hit on this offseason. It's
• 36:20
  a lot of negativity, which it's probably pretty valid because
• 36:23
  I'm not here to speculate on what did or didn't
• 36:26
  happen with Kevin O'Sullivan, But like, there's been a history
• 36:30
  of stuff there that when the report came.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: Across, it wasn't the most shocking thing to a lot
• 36:34
  of people.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Sure, But another thing I wanted to hit on is,
• 36:39
  like you mentioned losing someone from the pitching staff. Losing
• 36:43
  a pitching coach that's so relevant. It's a blow to
• 36:46
  a lot of like most teams obviously like No Dub.
• 36:51
  But if there's any team that's going to recover from it,
• 36:54
  I think it might be this one. Because we've talked
• 36:56
  about this pitching staff time and time again. I mean,
• 36:59
  like it's so star studded with you know, and anywhere
• 37:03
  from proven college guys all the way to like high
• 37:06
  level draft prospects and everywhere in between.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: A lot of those guys. Both applies to them.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: I think if there's anyone that's going to actually be
• 37:13
  able to overcome something like that amongst all the turmoil
• 37:16
  that's going on with this program, I think they're set
• 37:18
  up very well. So like Florida fans listening to this,
• 37:21
  where we're only talking about, you know, like the negative
• 37:25
  and all the coaching changes and switch ups and whatever,
• 37:28
  there is something pretty reliable to fall back on no
• 37:31
  matter what happens.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Josh, and that's a that's something that I guess
• 37:36
  I had implied, but I'm really glad you said it
• 37:38
  because it definitely does need to be said that we've seen.
• 37:42
  I mean, when you talk about you know, pitching factories
• 37:46
  of NCAA schools. Florida's got to be at the top
• 37:48
  of the conversation, certainly in the first first paragraph of
• 37:51
  discussion at least, because, like you said, we've seen guys
• 37:56
  with promise get drafted. We've seen frontline guys get drafted,
• 37:59
  dating back as far as I can think of in
• 38:03
  terms of pitchers in Florida, I name a more iconic duo.
• 38:07
  I'll wait, Josh, let's go to you, though, Bud for
• 38:11
  your fourth team approaching Santa Claus Papa Noel? Who is it?
• 38:16
  And what do they want?
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna go to the I'm gonna go to
• 38:22
  the defending champs next. And this is like the LSU
• 38:26
  fans are gonna like this one. It sounds crazy at first,
• 38:29
  but is it too soon to have the dynasty talks?
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: I mean.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: LSU's at the point.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: As a program where they can like comfortably set their
• 38:38
  sites on something bigger than every other program is driving for.
• 38:42
  And three championships in a four year span is widely
• 38:46
  considered to be a dynasty. And I mean that said,
• 38:50
  the difficulty of this is very well known, considering it
• 38:52
  hasn't been done since USC in the early seventies and
• 38:56
  act actually the closest we've seen to it is probably
• 38:58
  LSU in the nineties. But this team seems to have
• 39:02
  a better chance to pull off that feet than anyone
• 39:04
  we've seen in a while. And it wouldn't entirely seem
• 39:08
  like I wouldn't really feel like all these teams in
• 39:10
  the transfer portal, considering all that's been going on year
• 39:16
  over year, especially from last year. This year, I mean,
• 39:19
  like the entire outfield the season is filled with returners
• 39:22
  from last year. The starting shortstop Steven Milin coming back,
• 39:26
  I mean, also on the bump. Sure they lost two
• 39:29
  first round guys in their Friday and Saturday starters, but
• 39:32
  I don't think a soul has doubts that Case and
• 39:35
  Case and Evans and William Schmidt and like, whoever fills
• 39:39
  in that last spot is going to feel right in,
• 39:41
  whether it be Maverick Rizzy or Jaden Newt or whoever.
• 39:44
  I mean, I think the easiest thing possible for me
• 39:47
  to come on here and say is obviously like, oh shocker,
• 39:50
  the defending Chance won another championship under the tree, you know,
• 39:53
  like groundbreaking analysis. But I think at a certain point
• 39:57
  you've got to look at the bigger picture and acknowledge
• 39:58
  that they have the chance to do so thing that
• 40:01
  none of the four of us have seen happen in
• 40:03
  our lifetimes.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: No, I agree with you, and I think that that
• 40:07
  is that does go beyond the you said kind of
• 40:10
  the chalk pickup team repeats championship. It definitely goes beyond
• 40:15
  kind of the ease of that to say this can
• 40:17
  come into an all time dynasty conversation. Jake, you've got
• 40:22
  something about the LSU Tigers. Man, what are you think?
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, first of all, I don't think it's
• 40:27
  too soon to call it a dynasty. I think they're
• 40:29
  certainly at that point. But one thing you touched on
• 40:33
  a little bit, one thing that you know comes along
• 40:36
  with that is just being able to almost almost kind
• 40:40
  of pick and choose which, you know, which transfers you
• 40:42
  want to get. At this point in this world, you know,
• 40:44
  everyone's transferring place to place, and like you look at
• 40:48
  some of the guys that LSU lost last year, like
• 40:50
  obviously you know, like they lose Kate Anderson, Anthony Irons
• 40:54
  and like you know, Jared Jones, Chase Shoores, like Ethan
• 40:58
  it just goes on and on guys they lost in draft,
• 41:00
  and you think, like, like, those are some heavy hitters.
• 41:02
  How are they gonna, you know, replace some of that
• 41:05
  in their line up, Like they're gonna have to, you know,
• 41:07
  take a hit a little bit.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: But but they don't.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Like you see, just some of these names they bring in,
• 41:11
  they have like infinite options on both sides of the ball.
• 41:15
  Just just the amount of games that Jay Johnson's able
• 41:19
  to win and the way that he's been able to
• 41:20
  carry this program is just allowing them to just set
• 41:23
  themselves up even better in the future too.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, man, It's like you said, it's it's a
• 41:30
  never ending fountain of talent for this team. And so
• 41:33
  that again, when you think about kind of what Josh
• 41:36
  was alluding to a minute ago, the classic Dynasties, it's
• 41:39
  like they just don't stop. I mean, I think about
• 41:43
  like the New England Patriots. It seems like when you
• 41:45
  lose a player, you get two more that they're going
• 41:47
  to develop into stars in their wake. It's just one
• 41:51
  of those things.
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: You deal with.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: One of those things. JB. I'm curious who is next
• 41:57
  to approach The line's getting a little a little thinner.
• 41:59
  We've got a fewer teams here in line, So who
• 42:02
  is the patient team that's been waiting.
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, for me, I'm going to go to the other
• 42:06
  guys that I really like the Big West. I'm going
• 42:08
  to UCSB and the Gauchos. I think for them it
• 42:11
  really comes down to after losing Bremner, can Flora take
• 42:14
  the step up to replace him as the ace there
• 42:16
  and then also kind of trying to fill in the
• 42:18
  rest of that rotation. Obviously, they got Triba, who's going
• 42:21
  to be a big piece there they had in the
• 42:23
  pen last year. But I think one guy that's really
• 42:25
  big for them is a three year Big West start
• 42:27
  at Long Beach State and Kellen Montgomery. Montgomery has made
• 42:31
  He made fourteen starts a year ago, fifteen year prior.
• 42:34
  He had a four ninety seven year a last year,
• 42:36
  but he owned a three ninety five year prior. I
• 42:39
  think for UCSB, it's really trying to tap into what
• 42:41
  Montgomery's got there and trying to get him back to
• 42:43
  his sophomore year's form for his senior season at UCSB
• 42:47
  and trying to help him slide into either Saturday or
• 42:48
  Sunday and kind of fill out that rotation.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: With Flora makes sense honestly with what Santa Barbara, you
• 42:55
  know you're talking gauchos. I think that that's the key
• 42:58
  things that I would expect to see for them. On
• 43:00
  a Christmas Wishland said, I'm glad to see that you were.
• 43:03
  You and I are on the same page there, Jake,
• 43:06
  your fourth team, who is it? Who's coming up to
• 43:08
  Santa Now?
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going back to the AC or the SEC
• 43:13
  one more time. I'm gonna go with Arkansas. And my
• 43:16
  wish for them is similar, but in a slightly different
• 43:19
  way than than what you said, Drew about Mississippi State earlier.
• 43:24
  It's just the new group being able to mesh as
• 43:26
  well as last year's team did. They're another team that
• 43:29
  lost a ton in the draft. I think I counted
• 43:31
  ten draft picks, two udfas, not to mention some of
• 43:35
  the seniors that graduated. So they lost a lot and
• 43:40
  you know, coming into this season, you know on the
• 43:42
  pitching side, Gackle is going to be likely the leader
• 43:46
  of the group there. But you know a question about
• 43:48
  that is who else is going to step up? They
• 43:50
  have some returners in uh, you know, Parker Coyle's coming back,
• 43:55
  Cole Gibler's coming back. They bring in Ethan mcelvain from Vandy. Uh,
• 44:01
  Jackson Kircher from Oklahoma, James da Kramer from Oregon State. Like,
• 44:05
  they have a lot of names there, but who's gonna
• 44:07
  step up and you know, perform in that rotation and offensively? Uh,
• 44:13
  Like they have their guys in Hellfrik cam kochul Elloy
• 44:17
  also coming back. Uh. They bring in some big transfers
• 44:21
  in college baseball now favorite t J. Pompey coming over. Also,
• 44:28
  Zach Stewart's gonna give him some big juice. They bring
• 44:30
  in michaeh new the he was the Cape League MVP
• 44:33
  this past summer. It's just a lot of newness on
• 44:36
  both sides of the ball for them, you know, with
• 44:40
  a team that just made it to Omaha a year ago,
• 44:42
  those new guys have some big shoes to fill. But
• 44:45
  you know, if they all messed together like I think
• 44:48
  we think that they will, they're probably gonna find themselves
• 44:52
  at or near the top of the SEC and hosted
• 44:53
  another regional at the end of the year.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Yep, It's it's difficult to count out the Hogs. J
• 45:00
  I'm getting I'm getting word from my headset that you've
• 45:03
  got something on Arkansas. What do you got?
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, Jake already hit it.
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: But for me, it really comes down to replacing the
• 45:10
  power production, especially with Iredale and what he will Lloyd
• 45:14
  leaving for me, and that's TJ. Pompei who can really
• 45:17
  get in there like he was talking about and just
• 45:19
  fill that role in I think Pompeii is the perfect
• 45:22
  guy for Arkansas. He fits in really well. They're a
• 45:24
  big bat that they really needed. And I think you
• 45:26
  showed improved contact numbers last year and a better approach
• 45:29
  all around. So I think Pompey is going to be
• 45:31
  the key for Arkansas this year offensively.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: When we get when we get to the preseason, something
• 45:39
  that just hit me and this is really off the
• 45:41
  cuff for the middle of the episode, y'all forgive me
• 45:44
  the All College Baseball Now hype team. I think TJ.
• 45:47
  Pompeii may be the number two pick for that team,
• 45:50
  behind behind our group favorite player at number one, behind
• 45:54
  the dish. So all right, very good. I love that
• 45:57
  about the Hogs, Jake. I think you're right man, Arkansas
• 46:00
  as a team who's always in the mix and like
• 46:03
  you know, like you said, it's another another squad that
• 46:05
  needs to find their find their unity, but it's a
• 46:08
  team that can do it and do it quick and
• 46:10
  be dangerous. So I'm on the same page with you there.
• 46:13
  Let's talk about another team. It's interesting. JB talked just
• 46:17
  a moment ago about Jackson Flora and how he needed
• 46:20
  to hold form essentially or step up essentially. I'm gonna
• 46:25
  go a similar route with with Coastal Carolina. I want
• 46:29
  to talk about Cam Fluky. Josh, may I just say
• 46:33
  I think when you said in our last episode that
• 46:37
  excuse me an episode a moment ago that Cam Fluky
• 46:39
  had two arguably double plus pitches, three at least plus pitches,
• 46:44
  that has just corrupted my brain since I can't stop
• 46:47
  thinking about it. And you're right, You're absolutely right. It's
• 46:50
  it's an incredible fastball and slider. The curveball is big,
• 46:55
  it's it's I would still call it maybe just another look,
• 46:57
  but again it's it's an advanced other look where it is.
• 47:00
  Plus I didn't really need to change up yet, which
• 47:03
  is kind of dumb. This guy is just nasty. I'm curious, though,
• 47:08
  so the wish for me beyond Fluky just again kind
• 47:10
  of like what we said with Chulowski earlier, just just
• 47:12
  hold form what rises around him to get Coastal, maybe
• 47:17
  back to Omaha, if not back to the finals. So
• 47:21
  it's gonna be curious to see what they do. But
• 47:23
  it all kind of hinges again. I think it's the
• 47:25
  lynch pin with cam Fluki, who is just the prototype
• 47:29
  and certainly my number one college arm for twenty twenty six.
• 47:36
  Let's keep going though, guys. Four teams remain in line.
• 47:40
  This is the they've been patient. Josh, who is next
• 47:45
  to see Santa.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna take a little bit of a different
• 47:48
  route here kind of I'm just taking on the sec
• 47:51
  with South Carolina. But most of the teams I've talked
• 47:54
  about are real contenders or they have been contenders recently.
• 47:58
  South Carolina is an interesting one because they're not in
• 48:01
  as good of a spot as some of these other teams,
• 48:04
  but they feel like they should be. So I don't
• 48:08
  really know how to word this, but I'm gonna say
• 48:09
  under the tree, South Carolina fans want Paul Maniery to
• 48:14
  finally take their program to the spot they hired him
• 48:17
  to get to, Like he's approaching seventy years old, but
• 48:22
  they were aware of that when they hired him a
• 48:24
  couple of years ago.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: So that's no excuse in the eye of game Cock fans.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, they've gone out and gotten a great group
• 48:31
  of arms from the portal to put behind the likes
• 48:34
  of Jake McCoy and Brandon Stone, but the lineup is
• 48:37
  kind of like a like an island of misfit toys
• 48:40
  in a way right now, and that's not nearly the
• 48:42
  position that I wants. Proud program feels like they should
• 48:46
  be in at year three under the current staff. So,
• 48:48
  like I know, most of their fans are a little
• 48:51
  fed up already and pretty much want him gone. If
• 48:54
  we're it's being blunt, but ultimately I think if they
• 48:57
  had the choice, they would want him to turn things
• 48:59
  around and turns South Carolina back into SEC contenders like
• 49:03
  they know they can be.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: I think any South Caro, any self respecting South Carolina fan,
• 49:09
  let me start with that, And that's not that's not
• 49:11
  a dig at all. That's just me saying, if we
• 49:14
  really are to be for to be direct and honest
• 49:21
  with one another, I think they believe, I think they
• 49:24
  have to believe that this is one of the elite
• 49:27
  coaches in the game. Now. Granted he is older, sure,
• 49:31
  but he's a winner and and with this program, who
• 49:34
  needs to take that step forward. Obviously, they'd much rather
• 49:38
  have him leading than like you said, Josh, they'd much
• 49:40
  rather have him leading them to success than to leave Altogether.
• 49:44
  I'm with you. I think that's an excellent Christmas wish
• 49:46
  for the game.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Poab Well, it's a little different, Like I think you
• 49:50
  see these kind of things in other sports where you'll
• 49:52
  have an older coach that's had a lot of success
• 49:55
  at certain places when he's younger gets out of the
• 49:57
  game for a little bit, or it kind of starts
• 49:59
  to decline at that's and these other programs, Like this
• 50:04
  is off the top of my head, this is probably
• 50:06
  not the world's best comparison, but I think about John
• 50:09
  Kyler Perry and basketball, where like he won a championship
• 50:11
  at Kentucky in twenty twelve, had some solid seasons but
• 50:14
  started to go downhill a little bit. Arkansas too, get
• 50:17
  shot on him, and they're making postseason runs and they're
• 50:19
  like right there in the middle of things already. That's
• 50:21
  what South Carolina kind of wanted to happen, and they've
• 50:24
  seen the exact opposite, like they're right down there at
• 50:26
  the bottom.
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: With Missouri, it seems like pretty consistently at.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: Least last year. Yeah, so I feel like what they
• 50:32
  saw happen with other places. There's not always obviously a
• 50:35
  one success rate, but it's a path that they thought
• 50:39
  was reliable enough and they're just not getting the guys.
• 50:43
  And it's also like in game stuff like Manarreya is
• 50:46
  very clearly not who he used to be. So it's
• 50:48
  just a matter of can he turned it around at
• 50:50
  what at like the upper sixties whatever age he is
• 50:53
  at this point, you.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Know, thinking about that kind of same thing, Like you said,
• 50:56
  just we can draw the parallels to other sports. I
• 50:59
  think as specifically of a coach in college football who
• 51:03
  was highly successful went to a new opportunity and it
• 51:07
  just didn't really work out. JB. Do you know much
• 51:09
  about that?
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: I thought that's where we were going.
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: I'm getting that.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: I just shout out Bill Belichick at home, our number
• 51:16
  one listener. We know you're listening. Thanks for your supporting
• 51:18
  prospects live Bill.
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: Hey, Mack Brown did for the same thing at Carolina.
• 51:21
  Caroline's got a lot of experience on that front.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: That's actually a great point. Well, you know Mac Brown
• 51:27
  does apply. That's a that's an excellent point. As a
• 51:29
  matter of fact, JB. We're not gonna dog on UNC
• 51:33
  football anymore. I'm gonna pitch it to you, sir, and
• 51:37
  let you crank this one out of the park. Who's
• 51:38
  the last kid in line for you?
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm gonna go with the Texas Longhorns. And on
• 51:43
  the opposite end of the boat of what you guys
• 51:44
  are just talking about, they went and poached the best
• 51:47
  coach on the market that they could find at the
• 51:48
  time and got Schlass. Now Schloss a year ago he
• 51:51
  swung in this big on the portal. They got some
• 51:54
  solid guys there, but not the names that everybody thought
• 51:56
  they were going to get from A and M with
• 51:57
  Lavaalette and you grow hoe back and the gutting that
• 52:00
  they thought they were gonna do. But this year they
• 52:03
  did a really good job. They get Tinny they go after,
• 52:05
  and they also get Aiden Robbins, they get a few
• 52:09
  and Ethan Marson as well, or Ashton Larson. They went
• 52:13
  after a lot of guys and then bringing a lot
• 52:14
  of big names and now for Texas is kind of
• 52:16
  putting the pieces together and really just trying to help
• 52:19
  these guys take the next step. If Tinny and Robbins
• 52:21
  can really replicate what they had a year ago, that's
• 52:23
  huge for Texas and that's what they really need. So
• 52:26
  I think that's what's big for SLOSS to get the
• 52:28
  next level.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Certainly, Hey, that makes sense, man, you know, just tick
• 52:32
  the boxes we didn't tick last year. It seems so simple,
• 52:35
  but it's such an obvious and effective wish for that reason. JB,
• 52:39
  I'm with you, Josh, you got something on the long Corns.
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's more like a comment.
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: I think.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: They're in a really weird spot with a lot of
• 52:48
  teams that I mean, you also see this across sports,
• 52:51
  but they're in a spot where they did so well
• 52:56
  last year in their regular season with this current coaching
• 52:58
  staff and with everything surrounding the team last year, and
• 53:01
  then it just bottom out really fast in the postseason.
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: They're in a position where you almost feel like the
• 53:10
  regular season.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: I don't want say it doesn't matter, because, like you know,
• 53:12
  having a national seed and everything is super impactful and
• 53:14
  super important, but it's like you just want to fast
• 53:17
  forward to the postseason because we've already seen what they
• 53:19
  can do.
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: At the highest level throughout the course of an entire
• 53:22
  sec schedule.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: I think they could be at the point where they
• 53:25
  just like are focusing on the postseason, and you like, like,
• 53:29
  for this is on a completely different level.
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: But just like, for example, the Dodgers.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: This past year, that team is way more talented than
• 53:36
  the whatever like ninety three games they won in the
• 53:38
  regular season, but that didn't matter to them because all
• 53:41
  their sites are set on is the postseason, because they
• 53:43
  know what they can do with that roster and with
• 53:45
  that staff. I think Texas is in a somewhat similar
• 53:47
  spot where like you can sleep walk through the regular
• 53:50
  season at a certain extent because that pitching staff is
• 53:52
  good enough to help you just sleep walk through the
• 53:54
  regular season and still you be like, you know, fine
• 53:57
  enough to get a national seed or something. I think
• 54:00
  their sites are set on something beyond. Man, It's just
• 54:03
  a really odd spot as a fan as a player,
• 54:05
  because I feel like after last year doing what they
• 54:08
  did and then it bottoming out really.
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: Fast, there's just like a different perspective to look at
• 54:12
  the season three.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: That is really interesting, And you're right, it could be
• 54:17
  something like that for Texas, where they are almost aiming
• 54:21
  They're aiming beyond where other teams might be aiming right now,
• 54:24
  and they certainly have the personnel to do it, whether
• 54:27
  it's on the field or from the dugout. Good point
• 54:30
  Josh and JB as well. Excellent stuff there. Jake the
• 54:35
  second to last kid in line, he has been patient.
• 54:39
  What does he want for Christmas?
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm moving away from the ACC and SEC finally
• 54:46
  with Arizona State. For them, I don't think there's a
• 54:50
  doubt that they're going to be able to hit. But
• 54:53
  my wish for them is going to be a pitching
• 54:55
  staff that can compete with the with the tops of
• 54:57
  the Big twelve. So the first thing I noticed about
• 55:01
  this team is that there are some really tough name
• 55:04
  pronunciations on this team. So I'm sorry Arizona State players,
• 55:09
  if you're listening, you might want to close your ears
• 55:11
  when I say your name.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: But so the biggest returners I got for them, top
• 55:17
  of my least second baseman Newo Contrade as I think
• 55:21
  I think I nailed it. I really think I did.
• 55:24
  An outfielder Landon Harriston. They also bring in some big
• 55:28
  time transfer bats with UNLV's Dean Toygo. Then the cal
• 55:33
  duo shortstop Pja mountain Zeritis in first baseman Dominic Smaaldino,
• 55:39
  both coming over from from Cal is going to be
• 55:42
  able to contribute in that lineup for sure. And also
• 55:45
  they bring in a catcher from Oregon, Cohen nick Lai.
• 55:48
  He wasn't their starter last year for the Ducks, but
• 55:51
  I think he's gonna be able to instantly contribute for
• 55:54
  them behind the plate and at the plate in the lineup.
• 55:57
  But on the pitching side was the thing I'm mention
• 56:00
  is the bigger question marks. I think they definitely have
• 56:04
  potential to be a really good staff. They lost a
• 56:06
  lot of innings with Ben Jacobs and Lucas Kelly going
• 56:09
  in the draft last year. They're returning Jaden Alba and
• 56:15
  Easton Barrett who could make up for some or even
• 56:18
  a lot of those innings. They also bring in TCU's
• 56:20
  Cole Klicker with the cross conference transfer there, but who knows,
• 56:26
  maybe reliever prospect Cole Carlin could carve out a role
• 56:29
  in the rotation for it's all said and done. But
• 56:32
  right now, I personally have TCU as the top team
• 56:36
  in the Big twelve. But you know, Arizona State certainly
• 56:40
  in that group with with Arizona and West Virginia is
• 56:42
  the ones that could knock them off the top spot.
• 56:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, well said JB. You've got some thoughts on Arizona State,
• 56:52
  and I'm sure it's gonna start with my first thought,
• 56:54
  as man, Jake killed those pronunciations. He even sorted himself short,
• 56:57
  but he did great.
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Jake, you did incredible. I was proud of you
• 57:02
  there from the pre warm ups that we had earlier.
• 57:04
  But uh, you know, to hit on that too. It's
• 57:06
  funny that you mentioned his name. Dean Twygo. Played high
• 57:10
  school ball with Dean Twygo. That's where I'm going with
• 57:12
  this comment. He played all four years of Dean he
• 57:15
  is in my class all four years of high school.
• 57:17
  Two years at Cyprus JC, and then he woned Natty
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  at Hope International, I believe the NAI school there, then
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  went to U N l V and he went crazy
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  last year. So shout out Dean, you know from back
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  in the Yorblando Mustang days.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's what we got there, man.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that was that was that was the one
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  that I was most confident in being able to say right,
• 57:38
  and you just you just completely ruined it.
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  Speaker 5: For me right there, So I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: So what we need to have happened here is, obviously
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  we need to get him on the show and get
• 57:47
  him to explain what he's going to do is in
• 57:50
  a state in the coming year. And that way, uh,
• 57:52
  you guys can talk. You guys can stop it up,
• 57:54
  talk about your time in your Belinda, and then Jake
• 57:56
  can be like, hey, man, I told you. I told
• 57:58
  everybody you were gonna you were gonna kill this year.
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  So yeah, Josh and I will also be there. Josh
• 58:04
  and I will also.
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: Be there, will be the pretty faces. It's okay, that's.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're here for about. I mean, we know
• 58:09
  what we're here for. We know our roles. Speaking of
• 58:11
  knowing our roles, the last kid in line, I have
• 58:14
  brought them here. Guys, we're going to talk about an
• 58:17
  elite again. We're talking Stanford the Cardinal and what in
• 58:22
  the world could this team want go with me on this, Jentz.
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  Some people I might be in that group. Maybe not.
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  Some might argue that no other school is better than
• 58:35
  getting its top flight, big name prep guys to campus
• 58:42
  than Stanford. I would say maybe them in LSU I
• 58:47
  read earlier that since twenty fifteen, only one guy they've
• 58:51
  had committed has been lost to the draft. In terms
• 58:53
  of prepsters, I think that might be tested this year.
• 58:58
  There's a gentleman, a shore stop, Tyler Spangler, certainly an
• 59:03
  exciting player in this class from the prep pool. He
• 59:07
  could be. He could have his name called pretty early
• 59:10
  day one. I mean, I'm thinking potentially a first rounder
• 59:13
  if you happen to listen to what some crazy folks
• 59:16
  at Prospects Live might say, could be a top ten pick.
• 59:20
  We'll see how that goes. But I think for Stanford
• 59:24
  their wish needs to be for Tyler Spangler to make
• 59:26
  it to campus. Which is interesting because this is gonna
• 59:29
  be a completely different wish than we've had on the
• 59:32
  show this far. But I like this one. Obviously. We
• 59:35
  know that Spangler has a lot of a lot of projection, certainly,
• 59:40
  but still some work to do, still some work to do.
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  Speaker 5: JB.
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  Speaker 1: I know you have a lot of thoughts on Spangler,
• 59:44
  and I'm gonna let you do the major talking about
• 59:47
  his work to be done, if that's okay. In addition
• 59:50
  to what I know you're gonna say that said, I
• 59:53
  think that if Spangler is maybe the exception rather than
• 59:57
  the rule still hopefully, and we'll bring in some guys.
• 1:00:01
  I mean, they've got archer Horn, who's a two way guy,
• 1:00:04
  a lot of batspeed, some solid defense in the dirt,
• 1:00:07
  and I mean he's got a fastball it's up to
• 1:00:09
  ninety five and change up with I'm pretty sure two
• 1:00:11
  plane movement at this point. I mean for a prep,
• 1:00:13
  that's pretty impressive to have two solid pitches. And then
• 1:00:16
  Bryce Hill fastball up to ninety nine miles an hour
• 1:00:19
  on a six to five frame. Hello, I mean that's
• 1:00:22
  premium Clay. I think Stanford would be happy to have
• 1:00:25
  both of those guys, but certainly to have them with Spangler.
• 1:00:29
  What a what a delicious three tiered cake of freshmen
• 1:00:32
  that they could have joining the Cardinal JB. Let's talk
• 1:00:36
  about Spangler and then make your thoughts on Stanford as well, sir.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, So Spangler saw him a lot this summer at USA.
• 1:00:43
  Really talented kid. You know, he looks the part, honestly.
• 1:00:46
  You know, he's got the big frame, long wiry, moves
• 1:00:49
  really well.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 5: Up the middle.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: And we'll stay it short.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 6: You know, everybody was pretty comfid outside Adrian Uweez He's
• 1:00:54
  probably the best defender that was there in that prep class.
• 1:00:58
  Great defender.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: He's got the frame.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: Just really struggle pulling the ball in the air, which
• 1:01:02
  is kind of a concern, but you know, he's got
• 1:01:05
  all the stuff that you would like there. That's just
• 1:01:07
  some swing changes need to be made, but he's got
• 1:01:10
  the frame and everything you dream on with a short
• 1:01:11
  stop to compare him to Corey Seger like people did,
• 1:01:14
  but he's more athletic than.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: Seeger, I think.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 6: So it's kind of a great frame and projection that
• 1:01:19
  you'd love to have there. Tind to build off of that.
• 1:01:22
  I was going to say a rare decommitment from them
• 1:01:26
  this summer as well. James Tronstein, a big commit that
• 1:01:29
  they had, went to Vandy late in the cycle after USA.
• 1:01:32
  Actually he moved on in another wish for them that's
• 1:01:35
  kind of in a different direction with the current staff.
• 1:01:38
  It's Charlie Bates. I think Charlie Bates is a big guy.
• 1:01:41
  They need to take a step forward to high prep
• 1:01:43
  draft prospect that makes it the campus and I think
• 1:01:45
  this season, you know, he shows some flashes last year,
• 1:01:47
  but more consistency is what they really want.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: And obviously Sasaki. They hope for a big year.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 6: But for me, Charlie Bates is a guy that they
• 1:01:53
  really really are going to hope to take a big
• 1:01:55
  step up to replace guys like Bisera and Charlie Som
• 1:01:58
  and some other guys they lost his past.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: I agree. I think that's a great point that man,
• 1:02:04
  maybe Stanford's got two things they're wishing for. Maybe, because
• 1:02:07
  I don't know now that you say that about Charlie Dates,
• 1:02:09
  I think that would have been just as good of
• 1:02:11
  a Christmas wish, honestly for him to take that step forward.
• 1:02:14
  Maybe we'll give it to Stanford. They're the last kid
• 1:02:16
  at the They're the last kid at the dish. They
• 1:02:17
  get double the meal. Good for you. It's like tiny
• 1:02:21
  tim guys. God bless us every one. Twenty teams, twenty
• 1:02:26
  wishes guys. A lot of good discussion here. I've had
• 1:02:29
  a good time spreading the Christmas spirit to all twenty
• 1:02:33
  of these teams. But alas our time together, much like
• 1:02:37
  the ghosts and the Christmas Carol, our time on this
• 1:02:40
  globe draws mine, and so we must say a do you.
• 1:02:44
  But before we do, I'm going to ask you guys
• 1:02:46
  to tell the folks at home where they can find
• 1:02:48
  you between our episodes of College Baseball Now and also
• 1:02:51
  what you're working on right now at the site and beyond, JB.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 6: Go ahead, yeah, JB Undersports of Bostia on Twitter. Obviously,
• 1:03:00
  we we worked as a group on that mock draft
• 1:03:02
  the other day, so I'll be exciting for everybody to
• 1:03:04
  get out. Also going to be working on our our
• 1:03:06
  last under the radar draft prospect list, and hopefully for
• 1:03:10
  for myself a couple of personal prep in college lists
• 1:03:13
  to put out there for everybody to chew into as well.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: So that's what we got going on.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to all of that. It's gonna be some
• 1:03:21
  good stuff. Jake, you're up. Tell the folks where to
• 1:03:24
  find you and what you're working on. Man, you had
• 1:03:25
  an article drop and had a had an interesting bit
• 1:03:28
  of feedback. If you want to share that I did,
• 1:03:32
  you can.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: You can follow me on Twitter at Jake Barge. I
• 1:03:36
  talked about it last time at the end. But we're
• 1:03:38
  actually releasing our conference previews now. First one was was
• 1:03:43
  released a couple of days ago the Southern Conference. He
• 1:03:47
  mentioned the feedback the the commissioner of the Southern Conference
• 1:03:52
  reached out and uh, you know, let's give gave us
• 1:03:54
  some of his thoughts on the on the articles. That
• 1:03:56
  was pretty cool to see. So get out, So get
• 1:03:59
  on there and check that out. I got, you know,
• 1:04:00
  the next two or three already lined up. The next
• 1:04:03
  one's gonna be the swack uh, and then there's a
• 1:04:06
  couple more coming, so stay tuned for that, Stay.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Tuned for the swack attack indeed, and Josh, tell the
• 1:04:14
  folks where they can find you what you're working on.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: Yep, you can follow me on x at Josh Catlet three.
• 1:04:21
  I've been working on the same kind of stuff that
• 1:04:23
  JB mentioned. We're about to get that new mock draft
• 1:04:26
  put out pretty soon, probably by the time this is released.
• 1:04:30
  It will probably be out based on the draft lottery
• 1:04:32
  that was put out, yeah, or that was announced yesterday.
• 1:04:36
  I wrote probably like a third of the blurbs of
• 1:04:38
  those picks in there, so I have that going out.
• 1:04:41
  We have the College Top one hundred coming out pretty
• 1:04:43
  soon too. I've written a few things in there. I'm
• 1:04:45
  excited to get that list fully polished and everything so
• 1:04:48
  we can you know, improve upon our last list. And
• 1:04:52
  I'm excited that the more we the more we expand
• 1:04:54
  these lists the more we develop and.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: Put them out this early. It's good stuff and so
• 1:04:58
  we're we're always working on good things around here.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: Agreed, wholeheartedly agreed. If you were interested for whatever, for
• 1:05:07
  whatever reason, you can follow me on the socials that be,
• 1:05:10
  the Twitter Machine, on Instagram, on Blue Sky at drew
• 1:05:13
  is Okay, I want to remind you all to please
• 1:05:16
  check out Prospects Live.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: You've got a couple couple more days as of December tenth,
• 1:05:21
  when we're recording this to lock in your price for
• 1:05:25
  prospects Live dot com for the coming year. As of
• 1:05:27
  right now, you can sign up for all of our
• 1:05:29
  college baseball stuff for his low as five dollars a
• 1:05:31
  month and lock in that rate over the foreseeable future.
• 1:05:36
  I'm pretty sure it lasts at nauseum rather than when
• 1:05:39
  it goes up to still the lowest in class rate
• 1:05:42
  of seven dollars per month. Incredible value. But you can
• 1:05:46
  get it all at prospects Live dot com. Please check
• 1:05:48
  that out. As the boys alluded to, we've got a
• 1:05:50
  ton of stuff coming out. Jacob is killing the conference previews.
• 1:05:53
  I know he is really exerting himself and it's outstanding,
• 1:05:56
  So proud of that work. JB, like he said, is
• 1:05:58
  working on under the Radar Dudes. Those are that article
• 1:06:01
  series is just amazing. I love reading that. It's it's
• 1:06:04
  like a refresher on dudes for me even I love it.
• 1:06:07
  And as Josh alluded to, we have got the Top
• 1:06:11
  one hundred list coming out very very soon in addition
• 1:06:14
  to the mock draft. Wow, just a ton of content
• 1:06:17
  in December. I'm so proud of this team. It's a
• 1:06:20
  it's a real treat to work alongside you guys into
• 1:06:23
  and to see the content that you guys put out.
• 1:06:26
  It's truly truly special. But speaking of truly special, you
• 1:06:30
  watching it home truly special. And at this time of year,
• 1:06:33
  the Christmas season on behalf of Josh and Jake and
• 1:06:37
  JB and everybody at Prospects Live, we want to wish
• 1:06:40
  you the happiest holidays, imagement. We will thank you for
• 1:06:43
  watching or listening to the podcast and to all of
• 1:06:46
  our podcasts for supporting the site, supporting us. We appreciate it.
• 1:06:51
  We love you. Happy happy holidays. Boys. Do we have
• 1:06:55
  a quick carolin us? No, all of you are shaking
• 1:06:57
  your heads. No, no caroll like Okay, well that's fine.
• 1:07:00
  Maybe next year we'll talk about it more. But until
• 1:07:02
  next time. For JB, for Jake, for Josh, I'm Drew
• 1:07:06
  and we'll see on the next episode of College Baseball
• 1:07:09
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