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2026 Super-Regionals Review | Ep. 042 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: The field is set. Eight teams have emerged from the
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  twenty twenty sixth Super Regional Round, and now all eyes
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  are set on Omaha. Well, scratch that, all but ten
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  eyes are set on Omaha. As we're taking a look
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  back at both our projections and the results from one
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  of the year's most electric weekends of amateur baseball in
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  this episode of College Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, there ain't no problems, no problems.
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  Speaker 3: Don't want.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not they know what was gone for then
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  they had to be out beat.
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  Speaker 1: Did to grab a couple wins.
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  Speaker 5: With a be I d if it's even known the
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  kid I had to do a b I GDS.
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  Speaker 4: We can never be average and they want to problem
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  with the point they don't want no status?
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  Speaker 3: How don't need so?
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  Speaker 4: Coach time run a week God, when to test that
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  the standing strong run the game best.
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  Speaker 1: Believe them shigning.
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  Speaker 4: Doves, counting them my wins. Yeah, I love it when
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  they county yacht, counting up the lease God, misbelieve una, cleanup,
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  believe stand this lang, believe that's dead that I want
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  dad one knock them out.
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  Speaker 1: Really don't want to stand. Returning to your ears and
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  screens and is college Baseball now presented by Prospects Live,
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  and we are thrilled to be here with you to
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  break down the twenty twenty six Super Regional weekend. Your
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  host and crew is back, all four of us. It's
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  starting to be a little bit of a rare thing,
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  but we're glad to be here with you all together
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  to chop it up, starting with me and your friend,
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  your host, your boy, Drew Wheeler, director of Amateur Scouting
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  at Prospects Live. So glad to be here with you all,
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  joined by my three co hosts. We're gonna start with
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  the gentlemen. In the top right is mister Josh Tallent. Josh,
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  I know we're gonna get into it a little bit later.
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  Sorry about your luck this past weekend and at least
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  one way, but I'm glad to see you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it could be better with me in terms of
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  the Omaha field compared to what it could have been,
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  what it should have been, some would say, But it's
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  all right. You get used to it. At a certain point.
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  There's one team that will be there that I can support,
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  and then I can pull against a couple others, which is,
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  you know, maybe not as fun when you're used to
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  them winning so often. But like I said, do you
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  get used to it?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely? Absolutely? You know I would not be a guy
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  that would kick you while you're down. If I was
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  that guy, I would say, though, I don't know what
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  team you're gonna support, because Southern miss isn't there either,
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  But uh no, I'm not that guy. I'm not gonna
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  be the guy to kick you while you're down.
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  Speaker 6: I'm your palate, So I appreciate that if this past
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  weekend the results kicked me while I was down. Anyways,
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  it just kept getting worse and worse, even rolled into today.
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  Didn't even need a game three in one of them
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  and it rolled in today. So funny how that works.
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  Speaker 1: Funny, Hell it works, man. We'll get into that a
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  bit later. We're glad that you're here with the Josh.
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  Thanks for being here. I know you got a lot
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  going on right now. In the bottom right corner it
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  is mister j B. Sebastiano. He has got an awfully
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  ominous cap on his head. We'll get into that a
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  little bit later, but JB, it's glad to see you too, sir.
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  Speaker 5: It's great to see you too, Drew. You know it
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  was it was a good weekend after a rocky start
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  here in Chapel Hill, but couldn't finish any better.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't finish any better. You guys avoided a lot of
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  the weather, got three the weekend pretty scot free.
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  Speaker 5: We did, yeah, besides the heat, we dodged any with it.
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  But yeah, it was a great weekend for baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what about the heat though, I know you you
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  said you did pretty well to beat the heat. But
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  I saw some video of some folks looking an awful hot.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of people were. They were not in
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  great in great shape. There's a few old ladies that
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  had to come take a seat on press row with
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  me and you know, cool off for a little bit.
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  One fainted.
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  Speaker 1: So it was.
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  Speaker 5: It was a brutal weekend for the heat on. Honestly,
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  there's a lot of people are struggling with the heat
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  out there. But you know they okay, I think so
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  at least. I mean, you have got some nice cools
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  on them and they got they got some gatorade and
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  they look like they're okay afterwards. But you know, some
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  people were a little dehydrated to say.
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  Speaker 1: At least, yeah, I gotta stay up on the fluids, man. JB.
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  I hope you're staying up on your fluids as well. Buddy,
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  it's good to have you here. Bottom left, number four,
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  it is coach Jake BARGERI yeah, not sponsored by body,
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  are they could? Jake Barjory coach. It's good to see
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  you pal. Nice hat.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks man. I went with the p love head again.
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  Really really fun weekend of baseball I got out on
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  the a little bit of that, a few showcases for
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  Arcadia this weekend, and battling a little bit of a
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  of a cold as well. So my voice is kind
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  of struggling a little bit tonight, but hopefully we'll get
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  through this one.
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  Speaker 1: I think we'll get through it pretty scott free.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 1: We're glad you're here with us. Anybody you want to
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  shout out from your showcases while looking at stuff for
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  the nights.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need to show any favoritism. There were some
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  good players out there, though, for sure there was a
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  There were some guys we'll be staying in touch with.
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  Speaker 6: I can't show your cards, eat your recruiting battles to
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  be just our kadie out the whole way.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. I wasn't. I wasn't the only team there,
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  so we don't need to. We don't need to give
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  out all the information.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, there we go.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, none of that. So if you want
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  any of that, you're gonna have to pay Jake the
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  big bucks and we'll get on all that later. Anyway,
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  plea to talk about super Regionals. As the guys have
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  alluded to one by one by one, this has been
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  one of the best weekends of baseball all year long.
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  I feel like there were probably two or three times
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  I'd be watching a game and say, well, that's gonna
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  be the best game I watched all weekend, only for
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  it to be out doing only hours later. Guys, I
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  think that we could get into it right now, but
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  I'd rather us talk about this through the episode. So
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  I'm going to task all of you with a bonus
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  objective for this episode. As we get to a game
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  you would say is a top three game of the weekend,
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  I need you to call it out as such. Okay,
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  no pressure. As we get to a game you would
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  call it top three of the weekend, just call it out,
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  No big deal, no pressure. Let's start in Morgantown. Jake,
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  you wrote about this for the College Daily Sheet, which
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  is going to be premiering very soon on the website.
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  It didn't take West Virginia very long and the Mountaineers
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  looked about as effective as they could, out scoring cal
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  Polly by a pretty broad figure twenty nine to three.
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  I'm curious, Jake, what worked for the Mountaineers this weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, unfortunately we're not We're probably not going
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  to get any top three Games of the Weekend votes
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  from between this between this super. But yeah, West Virginia,
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  you know, they didn't they didn't mess around, like you mentioned.
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  I got to watch every bit of this dominant performance
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  from West Virginia, like I had it on the daily sheet.
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  And I've kind of fallen in love with this West
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  Virginia team a little bit. I've been watching them since,
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  you know, regionals. I was covered their regional end, their
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  super and like, I got to watch a lot of
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  ball and Armani Guzman is becoming one of my favorite
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  players to watch, at least right at least right now.
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  He's been he's been hitting the ball like crazy. He's
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  found a little bit of juice here recently, and you know,
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  he had a really he had a couple of really
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  strong games here. But he's also now Todd with Victor
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  Scott for the West Virginia single season record for stolen bases.
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  I think he's up to thirty eight. He gets one
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  in Omaha, then he will have that single season record
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  for West Virginia. But there was I mean, obviously you
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  mentioned the score. There was a ton of big performances.
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  Tyres Hall Sean Smith both had strong weekends. Gavin Kelly
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  Homer and doubled uh in that second game, and then
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  on the mound, I mean, Chance and Cole and mac
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  chill put together back to back just lights out starts
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  on the mound and the bullpen continued it. I mean
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  like coming into it, you know, like Kentucky kind of
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  gave West Virginia everything they wanted in that eaching on.
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  You know, there were some questions about and maybe being
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  a little fatigue coming off of those long nights, but
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  you know, they they just were not they saying, you know,
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  they saying Country Roads. Pat McAfee was in attendance. Every
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  everything was on their side, and you know, West Virginia
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  finally made it to the College World Series for the
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  first time in their programmed history.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely they did. It was it was kind of all
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  West Virginia. Everything was coming up Millhouse for the Mountaineers,
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  and so we got to give them credit. They they
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  executed with you know, with it all on the line, Jake,
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  and like you said, this is their first time to
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  punch that ticket. And you know, the Mountaineers are going
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  to be all gas, no breaks when it comes to Omaha.
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  Speaker 5: They are.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna have a very interesting first task once you
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  get to Nebraska, JB. On the flip side of this,
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  we have to talk about cal Poly. This was a
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  team that I think all of us would have called
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  one of our darlings, especially after the regional round. This
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  was a team that I think we all kind of
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  collectively said, this staff could really really pitch. If the
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  offense can stick around, maybe they could make a little
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  noise against West Virginia. And JB wasn't necessarily how the
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  plan did not go to fruition for cal Poly.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Griffin Nass in the first game three and two thirds,
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  eight earned runs, not the start that they needed.
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  Speaker 1: A guy.
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  Speaker 5: There was just one of those dudes that could fill
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  up the zone, but West Virginia was all over him.
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  And then kind of a darling first Carson Turnquist brutal
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  outing only was able to go one inning six earned runs.
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  Just was not a great showing from this cal Poly
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  pitching staff. But you know, honestly, if the offense can
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  only score I think it was three runs in two games,
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  that's also just not going to be something that's going
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  to win you a lot of ball games. So yeah,
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  cal Pauly, it was kind of they met their match
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  there in West Virginia. But as we said, you know,
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  and I think all of us picked that way, West
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  Virginia was due. I mean, two years of heartbreak, they've
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  gone through a lot. It was kind of just the
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  inevitable was coming through there. So good for West Virginia
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  that cal Pauly team. Also, you know, I know you're
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  not happy with the result, but you should be proud
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  of where they got because nobody expect them to be
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  where they were. So it's a great turnout for them.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I think for cal Poly JB. You said, it's
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  it's difficult to be proud after a loss, but this
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  is one where really you have to consider the grand
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  scheme of things. If you're cal Poly or a fan
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  of cal Poly, I guess we should say as well
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  to make it here is to be better than ninety
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  five percent of teams, and that's even probably undershooting it.
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  In America and cal Poly, they probably made many more
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  fans than just the four of us as it came
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  to this weekend. JB love that point, and yeah, it
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  just wasn't really clicking for them this weekend, Josh as
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  JB alluded to the four of us all chose West Virginia,
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  so points for all four of us. That's a good thing.
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  I do have a specific question for you though, If
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  that's okay, I'm curious if I can two prong it
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  with you. Are you down for that? Go for it?
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  First question on behalf of West Virginia, which play do
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  you think are going to need to continue and carry
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  their momentum over into Omaha if these Mountaineers want to
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  continue to make big splashes in their first shot at
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  the Big Dance.
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  Speaker 6: I would say probably offensively Sean Smith, just because we
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  know there's like three four really talented guys in that
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  lineup that are probably gonna come through for them. But
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  Sean Smith has been one that you could put him
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  in that group. But this past weekend he showed that
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  he's in that upper echelon of guys in that lineup,
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  especially with the way he performed on Friday. Chance and
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  Cole probably similarly. I don't think that he's gonna be
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  able to exactly replicate what he did on Friday, but
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  Troy has a pretty formidable lineup, and then whoever they
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  would go up against on I guess Sunday of this
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  week it would be in game two. It's gonna be
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  the same kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: So I assume.
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  Speaker 6: I guess they might start Yale again on Friday this week.
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  I don't really know, or they would just stick with
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  Chance and Cole on Friday in that first spot. But
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  regardless which I've lineup, he's facing is gonna be way
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  more intimidating than whatever cal Poly was, So he's gonna
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  need to, you know, at least put out similar results.
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  It probably won't be the same thing, but at least
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  somewhat similar.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, talking about Chance and Cole, I think it's important
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  that we note he was absolutely dealing. It's probably the
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  most tame and concise way we can say this. Cole
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  has a very interesting pitch mix though, guys, it's not
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  a lot of heat with the fastball, but it's such
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  precise It's like a surgeon's control up there. The man
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  can dot those secondaries and really has a good understanding
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  of his pitch arsenal and where and when to use them.
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  It was. It was masterful on Friday to see Cole
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  just carve cal Poly. That was a full performance that
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  was on my TV and I loved every second of it. Josh,
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  I'm gonna start with you for the second point I
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  wanted to make here. Guys in all three of you
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  are gonna get to answer this, but Josh is gonna
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  get to go first, So credit to you, Josh. You
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  we'll get to go first on this one. So easy,
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  easy for you. Thinking about both of these teams, West
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  Virginia and Polly, Josh, in your opinion, which individual player
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  from either team did the most to uh put an
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  upward surge in their MLB draft stock from this super.
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  Speaker 6: That's a great question.
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  Speaker 3: I would say.
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  Speaker 6: I would say Max Yale because he did perform really
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  well on Saturday. But that's we already kind of expect
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  that from him, or like what he did specifically, we
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  kind of expect from him at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I'm trying to think that a bad answer though. No,
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  I'm trying to think of a.
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  Speaker 6: Cal poly guy that like could maybe like make castle on.
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  Maybe he looked pretty good this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, like.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, I asked Maxiel is the answer, because
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  I mean, like he performing in the postseason really well
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  is kind of what continues to get guys from Lake helium.
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  And if you're gonna throw five innings of one run
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  ball that can't hurt by any means, there's not a
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  lot of like a lot of hugely high profile guys
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  on either of these teams. Besides that, I mean, like
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  showing fields had like it's not gonna be like a
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  ton of late helium, but enough to get him into
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  the first I don't know, like ten rounds maybe something
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  like that, which is way is higher than he was
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  at the beginning of the year probably, so that could
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  be absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I should have clarified, Josh. I think that those
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  are great responses, And I mean, obviously we're not looking
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  at guys like Chilawski or Traverse or von Lackey in
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  these games. This is gonna be guys who are likely
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  building on little to no national pedigree and elevating their stock. JB.
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  Similar question to you, buddy, who who in your mind
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  raised their draft stock in this super.
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  Speaker 5: This is like a random one that I'm gonna pull
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  out here, But it was a second game standout Ben Lumsdon,
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  the senior rightfielder for West Virginia. As it POSSI senior
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  sign guy, like he's projectable six three, two hundred. You
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  hit two homers in that game. You know down the stretch.
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  If you show you got some juice down the stretch,
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  somebody might take it as a senior sign guy. So
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  you never know. He's like elevating himself from a guy
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  that's probably out of the fold to maybe getting a chance.
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  So that's that's where I'll go with it, to be
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  different than where Josh was because Yale obviously that's the
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  guy you got to take there, but they give someone else.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's a good call. I liked that shout for
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  a right fielder that wasn't getting much loved nationally. JB.
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  Glad to see you plug in a West Virginia guy, Jake,
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  same question to you, man bring us home. Who raised
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  their draft stock the most out of this group?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, like they mentioned, I mean, there's not
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  like a ton of just like super high caliber like
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  prospects necessarily, I will shout out. I guess Dylan Cordick
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  for for cal Poly, he had he had a he
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  had a solid weekend. I mean there's not really any
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  standout bats I guess, at least in the box score
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  for cal Poly all but Dylan Cordick was kind of
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  the guy that stood out. I think he had a
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  couple of doubles. I mean on the year. You know,
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  he's a low strikeout guy. He's kind of an older guy.
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  Could see him maybe sneaking onto a team, Uh maybe somewhere,
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  probably after the draft. But uh, I mean the power
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  has been up for him this year. Like I said, slow,
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  low strikeout guy, he's gonna put the ball in playoff.
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  I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't be completely shocked if
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  he caught some some guys' attention, especially in that second game.
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  Speaker 1: Love it, love it, love it all Right, Josh, I
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  want to go to you here because we're gonna move
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  on from Morgantown to Troy. Uh. Some were calling it
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  the Trojan War. We're not so lazy. Uh, We're gonna
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  call it Troy versus a Little Rock because that just
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  rolls off the tome just easy. It's the treasure part,
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  doesn't It. Kind of similar though to West Virginia cal Poly.
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  Troy really put their foot either on the accelerator or
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  on Little Rock's throat, and no matter where they put
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  their foot, they didn't let it up. Man.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Weirdly enough, it was both sides of the ball
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  for Troy that came through. And the pitching has been
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  an issue all year, but it wasn't really this weekend.
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  Ben Stubbs and crotchfelt were dealing on Friday. Tommy Egan
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  did the same exact thing on Saturday. I mean seven
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  and a third. I would assume it's his longest outing
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  of the year, but I'm not really sure. Talk about
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  a guy who probably increased some of their draft stock,
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  Tommy Egan probably did some of that this postseason, especially
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  in such a depleted pitching staff that's had issues with
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  you know who. They're going to try it out in
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  various spots his entires most season because they don't have
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  a lot of options. Tommy Egan certainly helped his stock
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  out a lot, and it's gonna be he's gonna need
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  to come through big for them in Omaha to offense
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  same thing. Drew Nelson was awesome on Friday, three for
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  four with an RBI triple in the second that really
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  got things going for them. Jay Boroff or Drew's favorite nickname,
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  should I say Jabe Ruth as they were calling them
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  a couple home runs with six RBI on Friday, that's
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  just a ridiculous outing to continue what he did from
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  the regional weekend. He's just caught I mean, saying he's
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  caught fire feels like not doing him a service at all.
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  It feels like he's he's beyond caught fire. It's it's
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  it's always the long ball too, Like he's not even
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  just putting the ball on the play. Every time he
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  gets ahold of one, it's going over the fence. It
• 18:12
  seems like, uh, the whole team just really executed. Though.
• 18:16
  Troy was seven for seventeen with runners on on Saturday.
• 18:19
  That's how you get that's how you get runs around that.
• 18:21
  That's pretty good stuff. But on the other side of that,
• 18:24
  little Rock was only two for eleven with runners on.
• 18:26
  They were, you know, zero for seven with two outs.
• 18:29
  It's stuff like that, like those are kind of very
• 18:30
  indicative stats of how the game is gonna go as
• 18:32
  a whole, and I mean with the games being as
• 18:35
  much of blowouts as they were or they felt like
• 18:37
  they were, it doesn't really seem like it's gonna come
• 18:40
  down to just that one staff. But they certainly can't
• 18:42
  hurt those Troy bats have been hot though. I'm gonna
• 18:47
  I think West Virginia could be a pitching staff they
• 18:49
  could exploit and knock around a little bit in Omaha,
• 18:52
  North Carolina and Ole Miss we would see. But regardless,
• 18:55
  it's been a great run to this point and just
• 18:56
  a phenomenal story last four end and they're one of
• 18:59
  the last eight standings.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Absolutely beautifully, said Josh Jake, I want to go to
• 19:04
  you here next because Little Rock is a team that
• 19:06
  you obviously a mid major team. I'm gonna throw it
• 19:09
  to coach uh not the outcome that these Trophan, this
• 19:13
  brand of Trojans were hoping for, Jake, and yet four
• 19:17
  runs in a super they made it there one of
• 19:19
  the last sixteen standing. To kind of mimic what Josh
• 19:23
  was saying about Troy Little Rock. It's it's a season
• 19:25
  to be proud of. But were there any performances you
• 19:27
  can kind of tip a cap two as we wave
• 19:30
  goodbye to that that certain color of Trojan.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean, first of all, I mean
• 19:36
  there was no there was there was no rubber match
• 19:39
  in this Trojan matchup, which is a little a little disappointing,
• 19:44
  but there was a I mean, this was an outstanding,
• 19:48
  an outstanding run for a little rock. I mean, in
• 19:50
  super regional games, there wasn't uh, there wasn't a ton
• 19:53
  for him to celebrate, to be completely honest, Kate Smith
• 19:56
  had a pretty good first game, Jerdy Lopez had a
• 19:59
  nice game too. The pitching kind of kind of fell
• 20:02
  apart there and in those two games, but for them
• 20:05
  to make it, you know, this far is just so impressive. Like,
• 20:08
  you know, they finished the year thirty nine wins, which
• 20:11
  I believe is a program record for win total. Coach
• 20:16
  Chris Curry, you know, he led this team to back
• 20:18
  to back OVC championships and has made a lot of
• 20:21
  noise in both of their regional appearances when the only
• 20:25
  other regional that they made it to in their history
• 20:27
  besides these two years was twenty eleven. They've won thirty
• 20:32
  games or more, and you know, three of the last
• 20:34
  four years under coach Curry, like this is now a
• 20:37
  winning program, and I'm not like predicting them to be
• 20:40
  like a like a perennial top of the mid major
• 20:43
  world team, but they're certainly trending in the right direction.
• 20:47
  And then you know, these these players and coaches obviously
• 20:49
  have nothing to hang their heads about. This was a
• 20:51
  really successful season and when they should be really proud of.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I think so well, said Jake. I think Little Rocks
• 21:00
  almost true. Their whole trajectory is being improved by seeing
• 21:04
  this kind of postseason results. I think that now obviously,
• 21:08
  UH players looking to get into the D one, you
• 21:11
  know ranks, we'll see Little Rock as Hey, this is
• 21:14
  a team that gets into the postseason and makes some noise.
• 21:17
  I want to be a part of that. And why
• 21:19
  wouldn't they because that's really good. Also, Jake, gotta give
• 21:21
  you credit, Love Love what you said at the beginning
• 21:23
  there about there being no rubber match very clever. So
• 21:26
  what you're saying is Troy wrapped it up early.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they did, they did, they wrapped it up.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Love it good. T Thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 21:36
  I'll be here. I'll be here for at least another
• 21:38
  forty minutes. JB. I want to come back to you, man,
• 21:42
  because we talked about it just a minute ago. Well,
• 21:44
  Josh in Morgantown, I'm gonna do the same with you.
• 21:46
  Thinking about this Troy regional, any specific players stand out
• 21:50
  is maybe having increased their draft stock, whether it's for
• 21:53
  this year or next, whether it's anything in your mind
• 21:56
  that just kind of says this is a dude. Yeah.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Probably the two starters Benjamin Stubbs and Tommy Egan both
• 22:05
  you know, six plus innings, six or less hits for
• 22:09
  both of them, two runs a piece, you know, both
• 22:12
  of them, two quality starts when deep in games. Two
• 22:15
  guys that show it they have a field to pitch,
• 22:17
  they can go deep into games and really give you
• 22:19
  quality inning. So that's something that teams always look for,
• 22:21
  at least late in the drafts. Tommy Egan struck out
• 22:23
  eight as well. Him specifically, he really was nails in
• 22:28
  game two. So something you love to see.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you certainly do love to see it. Uh, good stuff. JB.
• 22:35
  I'm gonna stick with you because we're moving on to
• 22:37
  a different regional. It's when you have some intimate knowledge
• 22:40
  of Chapel Hill. I think there is there is but
• 22:46
  one other regional are super Excuse me that I would
• 22:49
  say has it beaten in this category, But Chapel Hill
• 22:53
  was probably one of the closest regionals we saw, at
• 22:55
  least in terms of the score. I know that when
• 22:58
  you think about it, at least considering that Game two
• 23:02
  was a four to nothing blowout. Only one run separated
• 23:05
  these two teams across the three games. Thirteen runs scored
• 23:10
  for the University of North Carolina, who would take a
• 23:12
  two to one series victory over the University of Southern California,
• 23:16
  twelve runs for USCJB let's talk about North Carolina, buddy,
• 23:20
  what was it that most stood out for your Tar
• 23:24
  Heels as they have now punched another ticket to Omaha.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so second time in three years. A fun fact
• 23:31
  to kind of open up with. This is the exact
• 23:34
  opposite of last year Super Regional where we won the
• 23:37
  first game lost next to this year. Also, the same
• 23:40
  guy who made the last out got the big hit
• 23:42
  to keep thinning going this year. So a lot of
• 23:45
  weird stuff that happened, a lot of drama. Jason mccaero
• 23:49
  first of all, complete game, best outing of his career
• 23:53
  by far, two hits, eight k's, I mean, an incredible
• 23:57
  outing from him going out there with the season on
• 23:59
  the line, back up against the wall. He was the
• 24:01
  reason why we were in that game. That game, it
• 24:04
  felt a lot tighter than it looks you saying it
• 24:06
  was a blow out. Honestly, being there in the crowd,
• 24:09
  it just it didn't feel like we were pulling away
• 24:11
  until the end when we put up a couple insurance runs.
• 24:13
  It was just scratching and Klon for runs early. So yeah,
• 24:17
  even though Dakara was dealing, I think it was one
• 24:18
  nothing for like four or five innings, and it just
• 24:20
  felt like it was really really close the whole time.
• 24:22
  And then you move into Sunday. Obviously Globra was saved.
• 24:26
  It was nice to have him. Kaden went out there.
• 24:29
  He pitched very well, but the two homers in the
• 24:31
  Bach that scored a run in the first inning kind
• 24:34
  of had everybody on edge. And then obviously the dramatic happens.
• 24:38
  We get all the way down to the end of
• 24:40
  the ball game, this scratch across run in the eighth,
• 24:42
  we get to the ninth, everybody saw what happened, you know,
• 24:47
  just Adam Troy completely lost his own and then beyond that,
• 24:54
  the foul home run to start inning just put everybody
• 24:57
  on edge. I'd say Cooper Nicholson hit a ball probably
• 24:59
  four one hundred and thirty feet that was ten feet foul,
• 25:02
  every bit of it, and that just had everybody, you know,
• 25:05
  your heart's singing, but him walking French with the hit
• 25:08
  and then obviously the sackfly from shafter and then Owen
• 25:11
  Hole to finish it off. It was just you can
• 25:14
  write up any better for USC. You feel bad for them.
• 25:18
  They're that close to getting back to them off for
• 25:19
  the first time in decades now. And you know Andrew
• 25:24
  Johnson too. Amazing outings from him, uh seven and two
• 25:29
  thirds innings I think he only allowed to yesterday and
• 25:33
  then three and two thirds scoreless on Friday to help
• 25:35
  them get the win in Game one. Grankavell also had
• 25:39
  a nice outing for them, only one run in five innings.
• 25:42
  Mason Edward struggled and that was a question yesterday that
• 25:45
  they asked and they said Edwards was not hot yesterday,
• 25:48
  which I was surprised. On Sunday, No One, he only
• 25:51
  won eighty pitches. So yeah, probably one of the best
• 25:55
  Super regionals that has ever happened here at the Bosh maybe,
• 25:59
  and probably of the weekend might be the best. So yeah,
• 26:04
  I thought it was a great weekend.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, Josh gonna go to you next because JB
• 26:10
  did a great job of leading into it. But when
• 26:13
  we're talking about USC, I think that now that their
• 26:18
  season has concluded, mister Cally, I think it's fair to
• 26:21
  say that some of the criticism that we and bye, well,
• 26:24
  I'll take the credit for a lotter I guess the
• 26:26
  blame for a lot of that. I feel like I've
• 26:28
  levied a lot of criticism at USC, saying they were fraudulent,
• 26:31
  saying that I didn't believe in them. I think they
• 26:34
  answered some of those questions this weekend with some strong
• 26:37
  performances with a lot of gutsiness. What's your overall final
• 26:42
  takeaway on this USC season? Were there any performances from
• 26:46
  their team beyond the ones JB said did you want
• 26:48
  to highlight?
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: I mean, Kevin Tacuci looked pretty good most of the weekend,
• 26:52
  except for the final effort on the last play of
• 26:55
  the game, which is kind of being criticized online, which
• 26:59
  I see both sides of it, But regardless, I think
• 27:02
  he looked fine this weekend considering what they did last
• 27:05
  weekend in the regional and that last series of the
• 27:08
  year against Oregon and the way they competed this weekend.
• 27:11
  I don't think there's really much of a overrated tag
• 27:15
  that still attached them. I think they kind of overcame
• 27:17
  that a little bit. It's it's very a very different
• 27:24
  team that we thought we would see in the postseason,
• 27:27
  considering like, yes, it was not a very offensively driven
• 27:31
  game on Saturday and Sunday from them, but we saw
• 27:34
  the bats last weekend, we saw the bats on Friday
• 27:36
  of this week. We know it's possible. But I do
• 27:40
  want to mention for your little game you talked about
• 27:43
  off the top game three of this top three game
• 27:46
  of the weekend. For sure something that JV to Shawn
• 27:49
  not not one part of me thought that Cooper Nicholson
• 27:53
  ball was foul off the bat, Like I don't know
• 27:55
  what it was, but the way it looked on TV,
• 27:57
  I didn't think there was a chance of it being foul,
• 27:59
  and I I like, feet oh, I physically jumped off
• 28:05
  my couch and then I was like by the fact
• 28:08
  that it was foult. It was ridiculous. I don't know
• 28:10
  how they clawed back from that, because like, in terms
• 28:13
  of sheer momentum, Like, in my mind, you got the
• 28:15
  crowd all amped up, everyone's on their feet, you think
• 28:18
  it's gone, you think it's a tie game, and then
• 28:20
  it's not. And then at that point you have to
• 28:22
  regather yourself. Also credit to Cooper, that was a phenomenal ab.
• 28:25
  I think it went like eight pitches. I don't know
• 28:28
  how you composed yourself after that high of a high
• 28:31
  getting into an O two count and then you collect
• 28:33
  a walk from it. That's ridiculous composure from someone like that,
• 28:36
  I will say. I mean, overall, it was just a
• 28:40
  I can harp on forever about Carolina, what a weekend
• 28:42
  this was. If you don't believe in the Bosh magic,
• 28:44
  I don't. I don't know what to tell you at
• 28:46
  this point, because I fully, I fully fully, Like I
• 28:50
  was next to my dad this I thought Carolina was
• 28:53
  out of it. Like in my mind, I'm like, this
• 28:54
  is over, it's in the eighth the inning. I just
• 28:56
  have bad feelings, and then I realized this is not
• 28:58
  Auburn sports on wat gets Bosh magic, and we see
• 29:03
  what happened. They even overcame a lot of like they
• 29:06
  overcame a lot of things that teams don't overcome a
• 29:08
  lot over the entire weekend or for the first two games,
• 29:10
  Carolina was one for eight team with oars and scoring position.
• 29:13
  They were only two for eight on Sunday, and they
• 29:16
  still overcame it and were able to score enough and
• 29:18
  claw a cross enough runs to go it through with
• 29:21
  the win. But I mean, like McDuffie bounce back after
• 29:24
  the way he performed on Friday, there's a lot of like,
• 29:27
  you don't want to overuse the term grittiness, but that's
• 29:30
  really what it felt like. This This Carolina team never
• 29:32
  gave up. They never went away, and they slowly clawed back,
• 29:35
  and the pitchers did what they needed to and they
• 29:37
  slowly clawed back one run at a time. Nothing flashy
• 29:41
  except for Owen Hall getting four doubles in an elimination
• 29:44
  game like good Lord like it. It wasn't exactly the
• 29:47
  you know, the fanciest doubles in the world, but they came.
• 29:50
  They were in big spots, it felt like, and four
• 29:52
  doubles is four doubles. I mean that you can't really
• 29:53
  say much about that besides that it's I don't know.
• 29:56
  It's also this could have been a sweet because people
• 29:59
  forget that this was talked about on social media a
• 30:03
  little bit. But in that first game, there was a
• 30:05
  call in the sixth inning that was a bad call
• 30:08
  by the umph that ended up loading the basis for
• 30:10
  Walker McDuffie. If it was called a strike correctly, that
• 30:12
  ending would have been over. The next day, b USC
• 30:15
  gets a Grand Slam. What was the final score of
• 30:17
  that game? I think USC won by what it was
• 30:19
  for Yeah, that's the four run difference that games and
• 30:23
  extras otherwise, So this could have been a sweet but
• 30:26
  part of me is glad it's not, because the theatrics
• 30:28
  of the last game were way better than.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: What it would have been.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: You also forget, and we haven't mentioned seeing this is
• 30:32
  my fold for Also I mentioned it the flyball down
• 30:35
  the left field line that was just Arkansas deja down
• 30:38
  the left field line, that they missed the extras right
• 30:42
  there and.
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: Then change made to like put that guy on third
• 30:46
  base who hadn't been there all game. It was just
• 30:49
  I don't know every little piece everything you can. You
• 30:52
  can come away from this game with some people thinking
• 30:54
  like Carolina was bailed in a sense because of the
• 30:57
  effort that Tucci made in the center field you gotta
• 30:59
  run through a for that ball instead of sliding or whatever.
• 31:02
  And then the defensive change that was made in order to.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: Them flipping Takeuchi out. It's like the thing too, that
• 31:08
  both the guys that made the bad players are both
• 31:10
  subbed in that moment.
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: Right exactly. That's I see both sides. But also that's baseball.
• 31:16
  That's just how it works. I mean, like, if you're
• 31:17
  gonna nitpick every little like oh if this wouldn't have happened,
• 31:20
  and that would have happened, and like you're just gonna
• 31:22
  break the game down to a point where you can't
• 31:24
  break it down anymore, and it's just no fun at
• 31:26
  that point. That's I don't know. It's maybe Bosh magic
• 31:29
  can finally get taken to Charles schwab Field for once
• 31:33
  considering this is there. I think I haven't looked this
• 31:35
  up before him, but if I remember off the top
• 31:37
  of my head correctly, I think Carolina now has broken
• 31:40
  the tide. They have the second most Omaha appearances without
• 31:44
  winning one, only behind Florida State by about a million.
• 31:48
  But I think they broke the tie for second now,
• 31:50
  so maybe they can come through this time.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Rip Florida State.
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: Maybe so what's the I think the numbers like twenty four.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: I think I was gonna I'm not gonna hazard agains.
• 32:01
  I knew it was twenty something anyway, Thank you, Josh.
• 32:04
  Love that. We'll have to see what happens with you
• 32:06
  and see as they take it to Omaha. Jake, gonna
• 32:10
  wrap up with you here and ask any specific players
• 32:13
  who might have might have increased their draft stock out
• 32:17
  of this series.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Sir, I'd like to take like a next year guy,
• 32:24
  if that's all right. We JB talked really good about him.
• 32:26
  Andrew Johnson for USC we were talking about him before
• 32:30
  the show started. JB had some some numbers on him.
• 32:32
  I don't remember like the metrics and all that off
• 32:34
  the top of my head right now, but just to
• 32:36
  see him, you know, go in length and out of
• 32:40
  the bullpen in that first game, go three innings, thirty
• 32:43
  four pitches. I mean, he's been a guy that they've
• 32:45
  used in like long relief roles and starts different situations
• 32:49
  throughout the season and in the postseason. But for him
• 32:51
  to bounce back and start that third game and pitch
• 32:54
  as well as he did, and it wasn't like a
• 32:56
  wasn't like a shortened outing either. He went ninety nine
• 32:59
  pitches almost eight inning, went out away from getting through
• 33:01
  eight innings after just pitching two days ago for three
• 33:04
  So like just just you know, he showed some some
• 33:07
  some gutsy performances out there, and you know the stuff
• 33:10
  was also playing really well against that against that lineup.
• 33:14
  So I'll go Andrew Johnson for a twenty seven guy.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Mighty impressive. And yes, Jake, I think that that makes
• 33:20
  two of us who JB's one man hype train has
• 33:25
  worked on thus far from Andrew Johnson without putting too
• 33:29
  much spoiler on it, JB. If you had to give
• 33:32
  a number top blank player thus far for the twenty
• 33:37
  seven college class, where might you slot mister Johnson?
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: Oh that's tough. I was really bought in on the weekend, honestly,
• 33:48
  I said. I said he's a top three round talent.
• 33:51
  So I mean, I think he's probably, aggressively I top
• 33:57
  fifty college player maybe for me right now, somewhere in there,
• 34:00
  I don't know, something like that. It'd be in the
• 34:01
  top fifty to seventy five probably for me. I love it.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Good call, Bud, A good call all right? Well from
• 34:07
  Bosh magic to well Josh I'm gonna call it Josh
• 34:11
  tragic because the rhyme is right. Then let's talk about Auburn, man,
• 34:16
  because this is a series. Obviously you got to watch
• 34:19
  really closely what happened here, man, I mean obviously, obviously
• 34:26
  this is two SEC teams just beating each other in
• 34:29
  the face. We can start by saying that.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: We might have to edit some of this out before
• 34:36
  we post it. I'm gonna do my very best to
• 34:39
  not say things that will get me in trouble with
• 34:41
  people within that program, but i we'll see what happens.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Try really hard.
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: Okay, this is now the second year in a row
• 34:54
  where Auburn has been swept at home, and that's super regional.
• 34:58
  As the number four over national seed both years combined
• 35:04
  in those four games averaging three point five runs per game.
• 35:08
  That's not going to cut it. Not only that the
• 35:11
  entire year. What has been the thing that's been the
• 35:14
  pushback on this Auburn team the inconsistency of the bats, right,
• 35:18
  and they picked up later in the season, so you
• 35:21
  can kind of convince yourself, oh, they're getting hot at
• 35:24
  the right time. They figured things out, right. Well, that's
• 35:26
  when you remember what the definition of the word inconsistency means,
• 35:31
  I mean they can be really good here but not
• 35:33
  really good here. And that's what's happened two years in
• 35:35
  a row, really three, but the twenty four year was
• 35:37
  so badly just kind of push it to the side.
• 35:40
  Actually four now that I think about it, because twenty
• 35:42
  three that's how we got swept in our home regional.
• 35:45
  You see where I'm going with this. I do some
• 35:49
  changes probably need to be made because the talent is
• 35:52
  way too good in that dugout in that clubhouse for
• 35:56
  this to keep happening. Butch has built way too good
• 35:58
  of a program for this to keep happening. This weekend
• 36:01
  was just a microcosm of everything that we've seen over
• 36:04
  the past four years, five years, I don't want to
• 36:07
  say five years, but really four years at this point.
• 36:11
  Auburn on Friday left ten runners stranded. On Saturday one
• 36:16
  for ten with Roberson scoring position oh for eight with
• 36:19
  two outs, just no clutch gene at all, no timely
• 36:22
  hitting whatsoever. The moment felt too big, even though they
• 36:25
  were at home, which is weird because of how much
• 36:28
  that home environment has really pushed them and how well
• 36:31
  they've played there all year. That said, I have on
• 36:34
  Friday's game, I have genuinely never in my life seen
• 36:37
  so many hard hit balls hit straight to defenders. It
• 36:40
  was ridiculous. It was off the bat, you think it's
• 36:43
  going to be a big hit and nope, it's straight
• 36:45
  to the second basement. It is straight to the centerfield
• 36:47
  or whoever I think it was. I think it was
• 36:49
  the right fielder. There were like three or whatever hit
• 36:51
  straight to them.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: There was a phenomenal play made by Federico in center
• 36:56
  field in Saturday's game, which in hindsight, it saved them
• 36:59
  too runs and the final differential of that game ended
• 37:02
  up being two runs. And of all people, I'm not
• 37:05
  expecting Federico to be a stellar defender in center field
• 37:09
  and shift the game. But that's Auburn's luck. That's kind
• 37:12
  of how that works out at this point. I mean,
• 37:14
  Game two, the bottom third of the lineup went over
• 37:17
  ten with three strikeouts combined. Not great. I mean, like
• 37:22
  if you can't even blame it onto pitching, which four
• 37:25
  months ago, if you would have asked me, all right,
• 37:27
  we're back in this spot.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: What happened?
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: I would have said the pitching gave out on us.
• 37:30
  That wasn't really the case. I mean, Andreas couldn't locate
• 37:34
  his secondaries again, but that's been the story for the
• 37:36
  past thirty Andrea starts, so I mean you can't really
• 37:39
  say it's a much different Petrovic was pitching, mixing his
• 37:43
  pitchers really well, and it seemed to work for him
• 37:46
  for the most part on Saturday. Then Sanders came, then
• 37:50
  hung two sliders and the rest of history. I mean
• 37:52
  that as symbol as that. I mean, even the old
• 37:55
  Miss issues, Like on the old Miss front, they've had
• 37:58
  strikeout issues all year, they've had assistant hitting issues. They
• 38:01
  struck out fourteen times on Friday, and it didn't matter.
• 38:05
  I mean, when one team can't capitalize, and you can't capitalize,
• 38:08
  something's got to give. Sure, I don't know, very frustrating.
• 38:13
  It's hard to have any faith with this team in
• 38:16
  a late game situation because just there's something about the
• 38:19
  pedigree this team. I don't know what it is like
• 38:20
  when you're watching Carolina for example, they have mature hitters,
• 38:24
  they have older guys, and there's just something about you
• 38:26
  can tell they're not phased. It's something with like a
• 38:28
  mental thing. You can see it.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Sure, well, you've got.
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: Freshman and sophomores walking up to the plate that I
• 38:33
  know what their approaches are. I know I could say names.
• 38:36
  I'm not going to say names, but there's like three
• 38:38
  four guys that just have terrible approaches or they're really young,
• 38:40
  and you just know how it's gonna go. Weirdly enough,
• 38:43
  Bob Terrell is one of the ones with the poor
• 38:45
  approach most of the time, and he had a hit
• 38:47
  in the nine. It's just across the board. You tend
• 38:51
  to lose confidence at a certain point. Auburn Sports has
• 38:53
  done nothing but disappoint me forever. It's my fault for
• 38:56
  getting my hopes up in the first place. Hand up.
• 38:59
  That's on me. At least. I'm Carolina to root for
• 39:02
  in Omaha because I really thought I was gonna get
• 39:05
  the chance to see my own team in Omaha, my
• 39:09
  alum How do you say that my alum my, I'm
• 39:13
  an alumnus. I think as I think as I say
• 39:16
  that my alma mater. Sorry, it's like, wow, I thought
• 39:21
  I was gonna get to see them in Omaha. Not
• 39:23
  so much same story, different years, Sam, Auburn team. I'm sorry, Josh, Yeah,
• 39:29
  I did you get used to it? Literally I had
• 39:31
  so many people text me and literally just say like
• 39:34
  I'm sorry or something along those lines. In my response
• 39:37
  every time was you get used to it?
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I guess so, uh well, JP, I'll tell you something
• 39:44
  you don't get used to, and that's seeing old Miss
• 39:46
  make it back to Omaha. Right. Yeah, and boy the
• 39:50
  Rebels certainly they did their best. And like Josh said,
• 39:54
  I love the way that he coined this, if they're
• 39:56
  not doing things right, not capitalizing, you're not doing things right,
• 39:59
  not capital something has to give. And what gave was
• 40:03
  now Ole Miss is going back to the to the
• 40:05
  promise land JB who stood out for Ole Miss across
• 40:08
  this weekend.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: To you, Yeah, I mean, I guess I know Taylor Rabe.
• 40:15
  You know that's one that's gotten a lot of you know,
• 40:18
  attention recently. He had a great outing shout out to
• 40:21
  fellow Charlotte native. I guess and where I used to
• 40:24
  work out when I played ball at Charlotte, Christian jud
• 40:26
  Udermark having a nice little nuke on the weekend. But yeah,
• 40:33
  I mean, probably Raby. He's picked up a lot of steam.
• 40:35
  If we're going with you know that raising draftstock thing.
• 40:37
  A lot of people have talked about him surpassing Townsend now,
• 40:39
  so that's kind of an interesting debate that we'll probably
• 40:43
  see play out come into July. But yeah, for ole Miss,
• 40:48
  I know I picked it. I honestly hope that I
• 40:50
  was wrong for Josh's sake. I was really I as
• 40:55
  much as you think I hate you, Josh, I was
• 40:57
  really hoping that we'd have a little fun rivalry matchup
• 40:59
  in and almost you know, and also that you know,
• 41:02
  you get to see your team player, because I know
• 41:04
  it's fun, it's a cool thing. But yeah, I felt
• 41:08
  I did feel bad because I know the pain and
• 41:10
  I know you've got it double as bad as I've
• 41:12
  had it now, So yeah, it's it stinks. But yeah,
• 41:16
  I think Ole Miss, you know, for them, it just
• 41:19
  finally they get back, you know, after that national championship,
• 41:23
  and they've been kind of clawing at it for a
• 41:24
  while and they've come under so much scrutiny since that happened.
• 41:27
  And Bianco, you know, he's he really needed this one.
• 41:30
  After being one of the premier coaches in college baseball.
• 41:34
  He was really struggling for a bit now, so it's
• 41:37
  big to put under his belt. Probably saves his job
• 41:39
  for a bit longer, you know, if it was even
• 41:41
  in any trouble, but for sure saves him a few
• 41:44
  more years and probably a contract extension now if he
• 41:46
  wants it. So we'll see how it goes. No Mo
• 41:49
  and I think these two teams are very similar once again,
• 41:52
  USC I thought was a similar ish matchup with the
• 41:55
  pitching and how their offense worked. I feel, like, you know,
• 41:59
  Ole Miss the offense different, but it's kind of a
• 42:00
  similar pitching situation to us once again. So it'll be
• 42:03
  interesting to see how it plays out in Omaha.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: It is gonna be interesting. That's going to be a
• 42:07
  very compelling match. Jake, let's go to you man wrap
• 42:10
  us up. I do want to talk draft stock again
• 42:13
  of this weekend. Who do you think is draft stock
• 42:15
  either increased or decreased? And why?
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say Taylor Rape just because just
• 42:23
  because of you know, the performance that he had. He's been,
• 42:26
  like JB mentioned, he's been trended in the right direction there.
• 42:28
  He kind of kind of took the words out of
• 42:30
  my mouth when he started talking about him. But you know,
• 42:32
  if you go seven innings, eight strikeouts, I mean, one
• 42:35
  hundred and four pitches and like you know, he's been
• 42:37
  pitching really well down the stretch. He's going to have another,
• 42:40
  obviously another opportunity in Omaha to pitch well again on
• 42:44
  that national stage, especially if he performs there. I would say,
• 42:48
  you know, he's going to continue trending up. But if
• 42:51
  I could make one note here about oh Miss. In
• 42:57
  twenty twenty two, they went and done in the SEC tournament,
• 43:02
  They swept their regional on the road, and swept their
• 43:06
  super regional on the road and won the national championship.
• 43:09
  And this year they went one and done in the
• 43:12
  SEC tournament, swept their regional on the road, and swept
• 43:15
  their super regional on the road.
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: So don't please don't speak that into existence. Please.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I wow, Jake, that's crazy work, man.
• 43:28
  I love that.
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: Josh mind they said that USC And I think we
• 43:34
  brought this up last time. The last time they won
• 43:36
  a regional after losing the first game, they won the
• 43:39
  Natty in nineteen seventy two or whatever. So he doesn't
• 43:44
  tend to repeat itself all the time.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: So we're gonna we're.
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: Gonna get like an old Miss Bama or old Miss
• 43:49
  Georgia National championship and it's gonna kill me. I just
• 43:52
  I witness who Bama Georgia football game that is in
• 43:58
  my life, So like, what's one more? Also, I will
• 44:01
  say on the draft stock front, if we're talking about that,
• 44:03
  I will vouch from my guy Alex Petrovic for a
• 44:05
  little bit. Sure, he's been a staple of consistency down
• 44:09
  the stretch this year. I mean like he's been who
• 44:13
  I feel the most confident in in terms of starters
• 44:17
  on the weekend for the past month or two. Like
• 44:19
  between Marciano Alvarez and Petrovic, who do I want on
• 44:21
  the mound? It's Patrick for sure. He's got a starter's
• 44:24
  frame as a strike thrower. He's a little older, but
• 44:27
  like midnighties fastball, it's a plus change up nineteen inches
• 44:30
  of horizontal break. I mean like it's you're gonna get
• 44:33
  a potential starter at the big league level. I think
• 44:35
  on the upside, at.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: Least some people think that track man app you got, Josh,
• 44:41
  we know from this weekend it didn't get a.
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: Little I've said, hey, look, I've seen It's not just
• 44:46
  me being fed stuff from other stadiums. I've seen these
• 44:48
  numbers up front for a while that that change up
• 44:51
  gets north of twenty inches of horizontal break pretty consistently.
• 44:54
  Let me tell you, even though I don't know just
• 44:59
  I'll vouch for my guy there because he's been a
• 45:01
  stable of consistency. Yeah, I love them.
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: Rave is definitely up there. I've had a lot of
• 45:07
  Rave conversations recently because it's a fascinating profile. Ole Miss
• 45:11
  fans would tell you that they like his They think
• 45:14
  he's more talented than Townsend because Townshen's been really cold lately,
• 45:17
  but Townsend has upside in other places. Rave is certainly
• 45:21
  he's going to be a top two to three round
• 45:23
  guy for me. Probably he's really pushed his way up there.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: I think his his stock versus Townsend is going to
• 45:29
  be an incredibly interesting, compelling thing to follow as we
• 45:33
  get into more draft adjacent conversation on the show, Jake
• 45:38
  want to go to you to talk about Lawrence an
• 45:39
  incredibly midwestern we're super regional here, and I'll tell you, buddy,
• 45:46
  this is one that really disappointed me. I've had a
• 45:49
  lot of this, not quite to the Josh Cattle level
• 45:51
  of just outright misery. I'll say this postseason, but I've
• 45:55
  been pretty sad about several results. This was one of them.
• 45:58
  Kansas drops two games to Oklahoma. If I could buy,
• 46:04
  I think eighteen runs across two games. Oklahoma for real?
• 46:08
  Question mark, is this the ultimate hot cold hot?
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: I mean I think, I mean there's no I don't
• 46:15
  think we can't say that Oklahoma is for real at
• 46:17
  this point. And they've been playing well all postseason and
• 46:21
  that obviously continued in the Super Regional. I mean, they
• 46:23
  went into Kansas's house, where they've been playing really, really
• 46:27
  well all year long. Oklahoma took those first two games
• 46:31
  and got out of there. I mean, they were just
• 46:32
  excellent on both sides of the ball. Like Trey Gamble
• 46:35
  Dayton Hockey. Both had a couple of homers apiece, Jason
• 46:39
  walk had had a couple of multi hit games with
• 46:41
  Brendan Brock as well. Son Harris had a couple extra
• 46:44
  base hits with a homer like that. That lineup has
• 46:47
  has caught fire, and I don't I mean, I don't
• 46:50
  know what it's gonna take to necessarily slow them down.
• 46:56
  But like you know, all year long that the pitching
• 46:58
  has been what's been like a wild card for for Oklahoma.
• 47:02
  But uh, you know, Cord Raker, Chord Rager, and uh
• 47:05
  in game One's Andrew mccurius in Game two set them
• 47:08
  up for success with both of those strong starts.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: L J.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: Mccurreus gave them three scoreless out of the pen in
• 47:15
  Game one. The bullpen only allowed one run in five
• 47:18
  innings of work. In the second game, I mean, this
• 47:22
  Kansas offense, it's been it's it's been so good all
• 47:25
  year at scoring runs, and they, you know, this Oklahoma
• 47:28
  pitching staff just put a total stop to that. And
• 47:32
  you know Oklahoma's heading back to Omaha. They did it.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they sure did, Jake. I want to throw something
• 47:39
  to you a little bit different. I saw today Oklahoma's
• 47:41
  kind of we're going to Omaha graphic. They went with Oaklaw.
• 47:46
  I mean, Oklahomaha was right there, and I think they
• 47:50
  ended up doing what was it Oaklaw? Okla Omaha just
• 47:55
  not near like wat Oklahmaha.
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: I think makes sense.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Oklah is right there.
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: I don't know, I see, I see, But do we
• 48:06
  know what Bama went with? By the way, I saw
• 48:08
  like three different proposed ones. I don't know. I will
• 48:14
  I will.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: I no favorite here, no favorite here, No favorites here
• 48:20
  at all.
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: It's actually really good though, like some of the Bama
• 48:24
  fans wanted like Oma tied or no I saw Roha,
• 48:29
  which I hate that because it's kind of good. I
• 48:34
  think would make the most Like I don't know, I
• 48:37
  really know. Right the moment, my mom was asking me,
• 48:44
  what like West Virginia's is gonna be? They're going with
• 48:46
  Oma Nears I think or something. I don't know, but
• 48:49
  spur the moment, the first thing that came to mind
• 48:53
  for me was Country Romaha, And I don't I don't
• 48:57
  know if we can get those printed somewhere, but I
• 48:59
  think it's way better than omen Ears. So let someone
• 49:01
  get on that.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we need to see your your proposal for
• 49:06
  art in the comminent section below asap. Uh, Josh, let's
• 49:10
  stick with you while we're here. Kansas. Jake did a
• 49:14
  good job setting them up, but I mean they just
• 49:16
  kind of fell flat. And that Home of all places.
• 49:20
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's the lineup kind of like Auburns was,
• 49:23
  but in a different situation. In game one it was Tyson.
• 49:28
  The Bloc's been their biggest battles entire year, went over
• 49:33
  the here's here's one big thing not only not only
• 49:37
  was it guys that Tyson le Blanc that first game,
• 49:39
  the four through nine in Kansas's lineup, you know, pretty
• 49:43
  wide stretch of guys right one for twenty with eight strikeouts,
• 49:47
  and Oklahoma's pitching staff that hasn't exactly been seen as
• 49:51
  formidable this entire year. Like, not bad, but that's certainly
• 49:55
  not the strength of their team. I mean, they went
• 49:58
  over ten with two outs in that game at psolutely
• 50:00
  nothing clutch, not trying to scrap back at all. It
• 50:05
  sucks to see them go out with a whimper like that, truly.
• 50:07
  I mean, like, like you said, they've been so good
• 50:10
  at home and in front of that crowd. It was
• 50:14
  over the course of two games, stretched over the course
• 50:16
  of three days, and it was just pathetic three different times.
• 50:20
  And it sucks because, like, I don't think it's indicative
• 50:23
  of the Big Twelve, because West Virginia showed themselves, you know,
• 50:25
  they've proved themselves for the conference on that front. I
• 50:28
  don't know what happened, because I feel like this team
• 50:30
  has been pretty legit all year. Oklahoma has just gotten
• 50:33
  hot as I mean as pure as it gets. I mean,
• 50:37
  to beat Georgia Tech twice in their house. If that
• 50:39
  didn't prove to you that they're legit at this point,
• 50:41
  then I don't know what would Sweeping Kansas and that
• 50:44
  kind of dominant fashion, I think does it even more.
• 50:46
  I'm not gonna say they're gonna come out of that
• 50:49
  right side of the bracket. I guess that's how you
• 50:51
  would say that. I don't know if they're gonna come
• 50:52
  out of it per se, because they technically would be
• 50:55
  the fourth best team of the four. But it's kind
• 50:59
  of hard to look at them as a pushover at
• 51:01
  this point.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Truly, it's getting to be practically impossible. I would even
• 51:06
  make the fight to look at them as a pushover
• 51:10
  for sure, Josh. And yeah, like you said that, four
• 51:12
  through nine for Kansas, that's a group who's been incredibly
• 51:15
  consistent in terms of, let's produce runs from the bottom
• 51:18
  of that order. It's been very again, just very productive
• 51:23
  all year long. And now to see them what you say,
• 51:27
  one for twenty, just very disappointing stuff. JB. Let's wrap
• 51:30
  up this conversation with you, sir. The number one player
• 51:34
  who most improved their draft stock from the Lawrence Super Regional.
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: Is I feel you probably take cord Razer. I mean,
• 51:44
  I think you have the best outing on the mound.
• 51:46
  The Mercurious Brothers also look strong. I can tell you
• 51:50
  tank their stock the most out of this group, and
• 51:53
  that would be our favorite future Nick Kurtz going a
• 51:56
  whopping over five on the weekend.
• 51:58
  Speaker 6: So I knew this was coming.
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: Not a great weekend for the future, mister Kurtz. Don't
• 52:03
  think he's yelling with the third pick, So I got
• 52:07
  to watch out there.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: But happens, you hate to hear it. For Brady Ballinger,
• 52:13
  kind of a disappointing season altogether for him after having
• 52:16
  such a emetrically sound and impressive twenty five twenty twenty six,
• 52:20
  A little bit of a a little bit of a
• 52:23
  wet part, if I may be so bold to say it. Anyhow. Yeah,
• 52:28
  let's let's roll forward, guys through another one that may
• 52:31
  be a bit of a quicker discussion, Tuscaloosa Super Regional.
• 52:35
  And this is, of course not because we've just established
• 52:37
  Alabama as our favorite team on the pod. Let's tell
• 52:41
  you what, JB. We'll let you start with this one, sir.
• 52:43
  Alabama ended up taking this super in pretty decisive fashion.
• 52:48
  I think the longest thing that this super included was
• 52:51
  a rain delay in Tuscalusa that kept them until finishing
• 52:55
  earlier today. Fifteen runs for Alabama against two for Saint John's.
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was definitely not pretty for the Johnny's, and
• 53:05
  sadly it came to an end for our friend Jake there,
• 53:08
  who is going to have someone nice to root for
• 53:10
  in Omaha. But Alabama they were just they were way
• 53:15
  too much and you know, the fighting justin Lebron's they
• 53:18
  find their way through. So we're gonna we'll see what
• 53:21
  they got in Omaha. You know, this group, they played
• 53:24
  really well through the regionals. If I'm correct, I believe
• 53:28
  they went five and oh so they're on a five
• 53:31
  game winning street rolling in Omaha. And as much as
• 53:34
  we may have talked down on them, this team's gonna
• 53:37
  get going. So I think they'll be a fun one
• 53:39
  to watch.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: I think so too, Josh want to go to you
• 53:42
  really quickly. In terms of Alabama, I think that we've
• 53:45
  all kind of criticized justl Lebron for being something of
• 53:49
  a draft darling who I think people are almost seeing
• 53:53
  hype and seeing what could be without seeing what is now. Granted,
• 53:56
  prospecting is a little bit of column A and a
• 53:58
  little bit of Colum B. We need to, but we
• 54:00
  also can't ignore the stats. But at the same time,
• 54:03
  we can't see stats without thinking about projection. When I
• 54:06
  see Justin Lebron, I see a whole lot of both
• 54:09
  of those things, and issues in both. But we're not
• 54:10
  talking about Lebron. Josh who impressed you for Alabama that
• 54:14
  is not named Justin Lebron out of this suit.
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: It's gotta be Tyler Fay. I think he's had a
• 54:20
  lot of performances like that this year, but I mean
• 54:23
  to go seven and a third nowhere and runs allowed
• 54:27
  two hits on nine strikeouts. Again, it's a lineup that
• 54:29
  was putting up like twenty runs a game last week
• 54:32
  or not a game within a game, you know what
• 54:33
  I mean. That's very impressive no matter who you're facing.
• 54:37
  That's the same guy that no hit Florida earlier this year.
• 54:41
  I think I currently have him grayed out as like
• 54:45
  a like a six to eighth ish round guy. He
• 54:50
  could sneak his way higher, though maybe it's a low
• 54:53
  three quarter slot guy with high pitch ability, long arm action.
• 54:57
  Slider has some sweeper shape to it to get some
• 55:00
  swing and miss I think he's got pretty good command.
• 55:03
  I think there's a lot of there's a lot of
• 55:04
  upside there possibly, and he's shown that time over time.
• 55:07
  This weekend was just fully indicative of it. Zane Adams,
• 55:10
  you can say the same thing about too. I just
• 55:12
  to a lesser extent maybe, but he looks really good
• 55:14
  in the second game too.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: We talked a lot about Faye Josh. I feel like
• 55:18
  it was whenever I was writing his report, if I'm
• 55:20
  not mistaken, but we had a lot of internal conversations
• 55:23
  between the four of us about Tyler Fay that kind
• 55:25
  of led us to that similar conclusion. You know, this
• 55:27
  is actually a kind of the kind of a compelling
• 55:29
  draft case for Tyler Fay, who's had the big moment,
• 55:33
  but the underlying, you know, the underlying shapes of his pitches,
• 55:36
  some of the some of the metrics internally not too
• 55:39
  bad for mister Fay. Love that call, Jake your poor
• 55:43
  Johnny's the red storm. They could not get it done.
• 55:46
  But again, kind of like we did a minute ago,
• 55:48
  can we wrap up Saint John's season in a boat?
• 55:52
  What was the most impressive thing for them this season?
• 55:54
  And as their season ends here in TU schools.
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, to see it. I was really looking forward to
• 56:02
  root and for him next weekend. But you know, in
• 56:05
  this one, I mean, I mean Adam mcgresty, he did
• 56:08
  his thing here. I mean, like he's been kind of
• 56:10
  doing it all season. But obviously, you know, we talked
• 56:13
  about it. They didn't have the best showing in Tuscaloosa overall,
• 56:16
  but they've had you know, they're they're a really successful program.
• 56:19
  They had a really successful season and it's been fun
• 56:22
  to get to see them get back to their you know,
• 56:25
  like their winning ways these past few seasons. This was
• 56:27
  their this was their fourth straight year with a winning
• 56:30
  record under coach Mike Campton. They won thirty six games
• 56:33
  this year, won the Big East, obviously, swept that Florida
• 56:36
  State regional, and came just a couple of games short
• 56:39
  of making it to Omaha this year, you know, Saint John's,
• 56:44
  I mean, they exceeded expectations as much as you know,
• 56:47
  i'd love to see to be watching them in Omaha
• 56:49
  next weekend. You know, we can appreciate how well they
• 56:52
  performed in twenty twenty six, and like they you know,
• 56:54
  they're playing a solid uh, you know, a solid Big
• 56:57
  East conference. That's that's a that's one of the top
• 56:59
  you know, I would say seven or eight conferences in
• 57:01
  the country pretty consistently. Uh But you know, I don't
• 57:05
  I don't think they're really going to be going away
• 57:06
  anytime soon. We saw the way they performed this year
• 57:09
  against the top competition in that conference. In the last
• 57:11
  like I mentioned, in the last few years, they've been
• 57:14
  really trending up. So I think the Saint John's team
• 57:17
  is here to stay. In the conversation with one of
• 57:19
  the top teams in that Big East, I think so.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Too, man. Obviously, the Big East. I think we talked
• 57:24
  about them a pretty good bit in one of our
• 57:26
  earlier episodes this season. A biggast, deceptively good conference, and
• 57:30
  I think that Saint John's is going to be a
• 57:31
  force moving forward through that. We'll talk Austin, Fellas, let's
• 57:35
  talk about Austin and uh JB. We're gonna lead off
• 57:38
  with you. Oregon is a team that I've levied a
• 57:41
  whole lot of unfair criticism to kind of in that
• 57:43
  same vein with USC. I don't know what my bias
• 57:45
  is against the West Coasting, it's not intentional. And yet
• 57:49
  Oregon they fall here after I select them for the
• 57:52
  first time all year. I probably should have known better, JB.
• 57:55
  But at the same time, I come away impressed with
• 57:58
  the Oregon impressed with their young core. I'm curious, Jbie,
• 58:01
  can you kind of put a bow on Oregon season?
• 58:03
  What did we most learn about the Ducks in twenty
• 58:05
  twenty six?
• 58:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I think, you know, for the Ducks honestly, going
• 58:09
  in we talked a lot about some of the returning
• 58:11
  bats and what we thought about that, but the pitching
• 58:13
  kind of stood out for most of the year. Obviously
• 58:15
  this weekend it didn't really show up necessarily from the
• 58:17
  starting guys, but their rotation kind of held together for
• 58:20
  most of the year, and it was kind of the
• 58:21
  focal point we got to talk about a bright spot
• 58:24
  for them and my personal pick for a draft rise
• 58:27
  guy on the year, I guess senior sign again. Drew
• 58:30
  Smith ended up with sixteen homers on the season, hit
• 58:33
  three thirty eight. He had a nice homer this weekend
• 58:36
  in Game one, I believe. But yeah, for Oregon, honestly,
• 58:39
  it was it was just kind of a culmination of
• 58:41
  things for them, at least getting over the hump of
• 58:43
  you know, the regional. Getting to a super regional to
• 58:46
  play against Texas, you know, that's something that's great to
• 58:49
  see and you know eventually you run into that bus saw.
• 58:51
  But Oregon, it's a great season for them in the
• 58:53
  Big ten to especially fight at the top with a
• 58:55
  juggernaut team like UCLA and be right into their neck
• 58:58
  and neck.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Absolutely well, said Man. Got to give credit to Drew Smith.
• 59:02
  Great name, great performance down the stretch. He'll probably make
• 59:05
  a little money there, Josh. Texas is a team you
• 59:08
  have talked about. You have ranged the bell for them
• 59:11
  all season long, and I'm curious, let's highlight your favorite
• 59:15
  pitching performer of the weekend for Texas your favorite batting
• 59:18
  performer of the weekend for Texas.
• 59:21
  Speaker 6: All Right, batting has to be a rod, he went.
• 59:25
  I think it was four for eight on the weekend,
• 59:27
  a couple of doubles, seven RBI. I think it was
• 59:31
  nice to him come through in spots when you know
• 59:34
  it wasn't looking great for him all year and he
• 59:36
  was seen as like a slam dunk top five, top
• 59:39
  ten pick next year. And it's really been going down
• 59:41
  ever since then. But he's starting to work his way
• 59:42
  back up because the bat ball is getting there. He's
• 59:47
  a lot of intangibles you look for in a guy,
• 59:49
  and he his stock has really really gone up. Just
• 59:52
  I don't even mean like just in draft stock, but
• 59:54
  just in terms of favorite for you know, preseason SEC player,
• 59:58
  the year next year, for if you're in if your
• 1:00:00
  name isn't Brendan Lawson or Chase Frederick or something like it,
• 1:00:05
  certainly raising that stock again. Pitching, you know what, I'm
• 1:00:11
  gonna take us a funky rout Drew cover your ears.
• 1:00:16
  I think I'm not gonna go with just one pitcher.
• 1:00:18
  I'm gonna go with Jim Schlossnagel and the way he
• 1:00:22
  handled the pitching staff on the weekend. Uh, him and
• 1:00:26
  Wazaikowski were not shy at all with how they used
• 1:00:29
  the bullpens. They were not messing around. In Game two,
• 1:00:33
  it was who he bring in. It was I think
• 1:00:36
  Ethan Walker in the middle of an at bat, Schloss
• 1:00:39
  brought in a guy to just get through an app bat,
• 1:00:42
  worked out perfectly, punched out the guy, and then later
• 1:00:46
  on and just throughout the end of that game. In general,
• 1:00:48
  Thomas Burns and Sam Cozart looked awesome. Like Sam Cozart
• 1:00:52
  through two perfect innings and he was lethal to end
• 1:00:55
  the game. Just to put it lightly, Valantis had a
• 1:00:57
  good start too. It was just yeah, I mean like, also,
• 1:01:01
  I haven't even mentioned. On Saturday. In Game one, Luke
• 1:01:05
  Harrison was put in in the sixth inning as a reliever,
• 1:01:08
  and that's been their second starter for most of the year.
• 1:01:10
  But they need they knew they needed to win that game,
• 1:01:12
  and they need to close it out with an affirm
• 1:01:16
  What am I trying to say, with authority? There's there's
• 1:01:18
  the word. They need to close it out with authority,
• 1:01:21
  and so they put in one of their starters, like
• 1:01:22
  a lot of teams have kind of been doing. But
• 1:01:25
  to do that so early with the lead they had
• 1:01:27
  was bold, but it worked. Everything ended up working out
• 1:01:30
  in the end. So the management of the bullpen and
• 1:01:32
  that pitching staff is probably where I would go to.
• 1:01:35
  But credit to all the arms that actually went out
• 1:01:37
  there and performed too.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, I like I like that that concept. I
• 1:01:42
  like that thought. Jake, We're gonna go to you. Let's
• 1:01:45
  talk about from the Austin Super Regional which prospect most
• 1:01:50
  raised their draft stock in your mind after these two
• 1:01:54
  these two.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: Games, Yeah, I think I want to go again to
• 1:02:01
  next year. Tanner Bradley for Oregon, he's as we've been
• 1:02:07
  watching him like in the postseason and pitch, I've kind
• 1:02:09
  of it's an interesting like delivery, interesting profile on the mound.
• 1:02:14
  Just like his change up is really good to the eye.
• 1:02:16
  I haven't like looked at the metrics or anything, but
• 1:02:19
  like watching him throw his change up and he gets
• 1:02:21
  guys to you know, he's obviously getting chased out of
• 1:02:23
  the zone with it and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:02:25
  But I like Tanner Bradley. I think he's gonna be
• 1:02:27
  an interesting one to dive into next year. You know,
• 1:02:31
  we'll see if he ever has a chance to start
• 1:02:33
  for Oregon or anything like that. But uh, I think
• 1:02:35
  Tanner Bradley, he looked really good this weekend and he
• 1:02:38
  has been for a little while now.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, every metric on that change and stuff too fully
• 1:02:44
  backs it up everything you'd see. Like you don't even
• 1:02:46
  need to see the metrics. The eye test can tell you.
• 1:02:48
  When he throws his sinker, it goes like this just
• 1:02:51
  to the pure eye, and the change up is the
• 1:02:53
  same our motion, but like a twelve mile hour drop off.
• 1:02:56
  It's beautiful.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: That will play, that'll preach, Thomas Ray will say so yeah.
• 1:03:02
  Quote shout out Thomas Ray. All right, let's move on
• 1:03:05
  to Athens and Jake, we're gonna stick with you. As
• 1:03:08
  I told you, buddy, the Bulldogs were winning and Jake,
• 1:03:12
  the Bulldogs ended up winning. I was correct on that front.
• 1:03:15
  Georgia takes the series. And this is guys, I'm gonna
• 1:03:19
  go ahead and tell you, Josh, you acknowledged it earlier.
• 1:03:22
  I think you all agreed that two are the you know,
• 1:03:24
  the one game of the weekend. This is my other
• 1:03:26
  two in terms of the top three.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 6: I meant to mention my second one, one of them
• 1:03:30
  is in this series. My second one is probably game
• 1:03:33
  two of the series. We just talked about last night's
• 1:03:35
  Texas Oregon game. That's probably my second.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: That was a good game as well. I'll give you
• 1:03:40
  credit there, Jake. The tough, tough, tough series for either team,
• 1:03:48
  tons of lead changes, tons of bombs. If I'm not mistaken,
• 1:03:51
  we were talking twenty plus homers as of my last check.
• 1:03:55
  Between Georgia and Mississippi State in two games and Jake,
• 1:04:00
  George's Bulldogs the Dogs now the Dogs. The Dogs come
• 1:04:04
  out on top and Jacob Curious if you could walk
• 1:04:06
  us through who stood out most to you for Georgia.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I guess, I guess besides the unc
• 1:04:16
  one where because that was the only one that went
• 1:04:17
  to three games. I mean, this was the most exciting
• 1:04:19
  two games of the weekend. I mean there was a
• 1:04:23
  combined forty runs score between the two games, and the
• 1:04:27
  team the two games were decided by a combined three
• 1:04:30
  runs total. Like this was two teams that were just
• 1:04:33
  punching each other back and forth. For Georgia, you know
• 1:04:37
  Michael O'Shaughnessy, he was the hero in that first game
• 1:04:40
  with that three run home run to give him the
• 1:04:42
  lead in the eighth, and then Daniel Jackson was the
• 1:04:45
  hero in the in the in the second one to
• 1:04:47
  give him that to give him the lead there in
• 1:04:49
  the tenth, to set up Justin Bird who was really
• 1:04:52
  good in his adding and he obviously closed that one out.
• 1:04:56
  But the offensive production, I mean, obviously it didn't stop
• 1:04:59
  with those two guys is Ryland Lujo, Kobe Brandt. He
• 1:05:02
  she had a couple of homers. Brendon Hudson was fired
• 1:05:04
  for eight on the weekend with a home run in
• 1:05:05
  the second game. The offense was just relentless on both sides.
• 1:05:10
  And like you mentioned, I mean, it was the Georgia
• 1:05:12
  Bulldogs who outlasted Mississippi State and they're headed to Omaha
• 1:05:16
  for the first time since they were the national runner
• 1:05:19
  ups in two thousand and eight.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to see what Georgia does with
• 1:05:23
  this opportunity. A lot of people might say that they
• 1:05:26
  and North Carolina two of certainly the big betting favorites.
• 1:05:31
  I was gathered for that series, Josh, Let's talk about
• 1:05:34
  Mississippi State. As I said to Mallory, a lot of
• 1:05:38
  my time this year has been put into watching the
• 1:05:40
  Mississippi State team and then making it to Omaha would
• 1:05:42
  have justified a lot of those decisions financially and time
• 1:05:46
  wise for me. I still feel very I still feel
• 1:05:50
  very content with my decision making, knowing that Mississippi State
• 1:05:53
  had to be put down in some of the most
• 1:05:56
  inhumane ways. These Bulldogs thought and bit and ratched until
• 1:06:01
  the bloody.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 6: Would you agree, definitely?
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 6: They had different games both days that went very separate ways.
• 1:06:10
  It felt like, I mean, the first game it was
• 1:06:13
  Joey Voltshko's first curve ball. The entire day it was
• 1:06:15
  home to Reed Stallman for a three run shot, and
• 1:06:18
  they were off and running and it was scary times
• 1:06:20
  for Georgia. I mean, Voltshko was leaving pitches over the
• 1:06:23
  plate instead of producing swing and miss, and they just
• 1:06:25
  kept taking advantage. There was the drop ball by Ishikawa
• 1:06:29
  that kind of felt like it blew the game open.
• 1:06:32
  Then it all came pouring down the opposite way for them.
• 1:06:35
  It led to a great game home run for home
• 1:06:37
  run back to back for a while. It was the
• 1:06:40
  first Supers or the sorry, the fourth Supers game in
• 1:06:42
  fifteen years with ten or more combined home runs, and
• 1:06:46
  it felt like, I don't know what the number ended
• 1:06:48
  up being, it felt like way more than whatever it was.
• 1:06:50
  I promise game.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 5: Huh, twenty one total homers the weekend, That's.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 6: About right it was. I saw it was the most
• 1:07:00
  home runs combined in a Super Regional ever and they
• 1:07:03
  only played two games.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: Crazy.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 6: Also, this is off topic, but I just thought about
• 1:07:07
  this that should go mentioned. This has to be super
• 1:07:10
  rare that there was only one Super Regional series that
• 1:07:13
  went to three games. That has to be rare, right,
• 1:07:17
  Like I just I don't know what it would do.
• 1:07:18
  Like ever, regardless. The next day was super I mean
• 1:07:25
  it was the polar opposite of the first game with
• 1:07:28
  the same result, unfortunately, but I mean Mississippi State in
• 1:07:31
  the middle of the game felt like they were, you know,
• 1:07:33
  one out away from being able to really put pressure
• 1:07:36
  on Georgia. I think it was the seventh that felt
• 1:07:38
  like and then they just I mean, Kobe Branch had
• 1:07:41
  a second home run of the day and it kind
• 1:07:43
  of was like, well, that was it until the next ending.
• 1:07:45
  Ace Reese, Noah Sullivan, Jacob Parker back to back to back,
• 1:07:49
  three peet of home runs and it's like, oh, we're
• 1:07:51
  doing this again. Awesome. I mean, it was a really
• 1:07:54
  bad start for Ryan McPherson that certainly didn't help them,
• 1:07:58
  but the bats were there. Obviously, the bats are indisputable.
• 1:08:03
  I was just for fun Earlier I was kind of
• 1:08:05
  looking through and seeing, like even before Omaha's over and
• 1:08:08
  the transfer portals in like who are the way too early?
• 1:08:12
  Top twenty five teams next year, Like what's the top
• 1:08:14
  of that? Looked like Mississippi's date is firmly in the
• 1:08:17
  top five. So if you kind of want to give
• 1:08:19
  yourself a little bit of confidence, I think they'll be
• 1:08:21
  fine on that front. They have plenty of young talent.
• 1:08:24
  They'll be all right. But it sucks to lose this
• 1:08:26
  way because they were so talented and those were just
• 1:08:28
  such fun games. Game one of this is definitely the
• 1:08:31
  best game of the Superrituals by far.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: I agree. I would put it probably. I think one
• 1:08:37
  of you guys even said probably a top five game
• 1:08:39
  on the season.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 6: I think, I mean, in the moment I think it,
• 1:08:44
  there's like, ironically, I think, I don't know if I
• 1:08:47
  said this to y'all. I think I might have immediately
• 1:08:51
  when I was thinking games of the year, like off
• 1:08:53
  the top of my head, this one came to mind.
• 1:08:56
  And the first two that came to mind also involved
• 1:08:59
  one of these two teams in a separate way. So
• 1:09:02
  lots of fireworks on for the Bulldogs across the board.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: JB. Let's let's finish this off looking at more individual approach.
• 1:09:11
  Whose draft stock improved from the Athens Super Regional in your.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 5: Opinions, Yeah, I think it's a guy that we've been
• 1:09:19
  waiting to hear a lot more from. He got hot
• 1:09:21
  at the end of the year. But Jacob Parker, I
• 1:09:23
  mean he came in being a guy a lot of
• 1:09:25
  people speculating being a top two round pick in the draft.
• 1:09:27
  Then obviously he fell out, goes to campus after his
• 1:09:31
  brother got drafted, and then he has just been on
• 1:09:33
  a tear recently and especially in this series. He was
• 1:09:36
  an absolute difference maker for Mississippi State. He single handed
• 1:09:39
  he kept him in that second game, which was amazing
• 1:09:42
  to see. Also, on that note, in a weekend that
• 1:09:45
  was lacking of a lot of pitching, Kid and Aoki
• 1:09:48
  gave an incredible start for Georgia. Yeah, in a game
• 1:09:52
  that it was just complete home run derby. That was
• 1:09:55
  another one that really stood out to me. Five and
• 1:09:56
  two thirds with nine K. So those two are definitely
• 1:09:59
  the two names. Ace Reese is the obvious, you know,
• 1:10:02
  top performer, but he's the guy I think everybody's gotten
• 1:10:05
  the first round and probably in the top half of
• 1:10:07
  the first round too, So it's hard to really do much,
• 1:10:09
  but maybe he pushed himself up a few picks. But
• 1:10:11
  the other two are definitely my two draft stock risers,
• 1:10:15
  think so JB.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: I think so well, said Buddy Love That yes, guys,
• 1:10:20
  that wraps us up. That brings us to the conclusion
• 1:10:23
  of our super regional review. If y'all don't mind to
• 1:10:28
  have a little bit of an announcement I think we
• 1:10:29
  should make on air, just since we're an hour and
• 1:10:31
  ten minutes into the pod and we've kind of dropped
• 1:10:34
  some subtle hints to it just all all episodes long,
• 1:10:38
  maybe the folks that have listened all the way through
• 1:10:40
  deserved a little bit of some news.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 6: You think, possibly, I go for it, Drew.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well, well Matdine before we do that, well
• 1:10:48
  we'll get a little bit more information. Jake, tell the
• 1:10:51
  fine folks at home where they can find you between
• 1:10:53
  our episodes and what you're working on.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: Uh. You can follow me on Twitter at Jake barr
• 1:11:00
  Arch posting every now and then over there. Nothing too
• 1:11:03
  crazy happening for the moment, but we do have some
• 1:11:06
  pretty uh, some pretty fun omaha content uh on the way,
• 1:11:10
  and that's what I'm gonna be working on for the
• 1:11:12
  next you know, a week or two probably.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: We got a lot, we got a lot planned.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: Awesome jb Uh, where can the people find you between episodes?
• 1:11:21
  What are you working on right now? Yes?
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 5: It's a jbnerscoorse Sbastiano on Twitter. Just wrapped up all
• 1:11:27
  my super regional stuff from covering that should be out soon,
• 1:11:32
  and then, like Jake said, we're gonna be working hard
• 1:11:34
  on some Omaha content to come here real quickly before
• 1:11:38
  we get there, before we get to that point.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. How that's gonna work? Josh? Where can
• 1:11:44
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• 1:11:52
  Speaker 5: I meant, date wise, what are you talking about, Josh?
• 1:11:54
  There's a deadn on these dates. There's a date there.
• 1:11:59
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• 1:12:02
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• 1:12:06
  Speaker 6: No, you can find me on Twitter at Josh Catlet three.
• 1:12:09
  I've been grinding out some drafty valves in my free
• 1:12:12
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• 1:12:14
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• 1:12:18
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• 1:12:21
  you can find that there and at the Prospects Live website.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. It's funny because if you want to follow
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  Drew and we'll see you next time on College Baseball. Now,
• 1:14:05
  remember be nice to yourself, be nice to each other.
• 1:14:08
  We'll see you soon.