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Big Donkey hypes national champion Oklahoma, Drops college perspective on MLB’s Draft cutting proposal · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Vera days, Oklahoma takes it. Stephen Shock joining us right
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Speaker 1: now Big Donkey forty seven on x follow um across
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Speaker 1: social media channels. He is one of the really, really
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Speaker 1: great parts of college baseball in terms of showing you
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Speaker 1: what's going on both on and off the field.
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Speaker 2: Stephen.
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Speaker 1: Great to catch up with you man, how you been
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Speaker 1: and rate this entire Omaha experience just now in terms
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Speaker 1: of entertainment for.
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Speaker 2: Us, I gotta say I'm clearly a biased person. I've
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Speaker 2: been great. Thank you for having me. First of all,
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Speaker 2: sorry I think about the last part of the question first,
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Speaker 2: but you know, Omaha was it was one of those
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Speaker 2: where it's just okay, which team is going to be
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Speaker 2: the hottest and they're going to take the cake and
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Speaker 2: we got a lot of hot teams clash and I think,
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Speaker 2: you know, overall, the field was really cool to see
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Speaker 2: having Troy and West Virginia making it out to Omaha
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Speaker 2: for the first time in history for those programs, So
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Speaker 2: it was just really cool to see a bunch of
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Speaker 2: different new faces while seeing a good amount of familiar
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Speaker 2: faces where you know, we have ou coming back after
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Speaker 2: being there in twenty twenty two and following in finals
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Speaker 2: and then you and see I mean, what Scott Forbes
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Speaker 2: is doing with that team has just been incredible to watch.
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Speaker 2: So it was a really good one. You know, I'm
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Speaker 2: happy anytime it goes to game three. I hate when
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Speaker 2: it's you know, decided early and then it's just kind
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Speaker 2: of a rollover, especially because College World Series wise, game
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Speaker 2: two is always at like noon on a Sunday, which
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Speaker 2: not the most exciting time to win a championship. If
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Speaker 2: you're a team, you do get a good amount of
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Speaker 2: extra time to of course go party with your friends,
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Speaker 2: which is great. I love that for them. But winning
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Speaker 2: a College World Series under the lights, I've never done it,
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Speaker 2: but it seems like a really cool feeling. So I'm
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Speaker 2: glad fans got to see that this year.
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Speaker 3: You said something the rhetoric that it kept hearing all
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Speaker 3: the time throughout, you know, lead up to games, during
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Speaker 3: the games. The team that's the hottest is that? Is
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Speaker 3: that rare in the College World Series? Because yes, we
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Speaker 3: get what the you know, I think, oh home, it
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Speaker 3: was eleventh or something in SEC and they made it
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Speaker 3: all the way and won the championship. But it's the
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Speaker 3: playoffs all the time. Who's the hottest or Is it
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Speaker 3: the fact that maybe some of the talent has gotten
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Speaker 3: dispersed out of some of the teams and throughout the
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Speaker 3: rest of the game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think a lot of it has to
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Speaker 2: do with just again catching fire. I mean, my experience
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Speaker 2: is a little different because with my Virginia team, there
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Speaker 2: was a point where I think we were like thirty
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Speaker 2: three and it was not good. It was we had
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Speaker 2: a really bad record, and we all ultimately ended up
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Speaker 2: making it to Omaha. It was just a matter of,
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Speaker 2: you know, there's more talent than ever in the college
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Speaker 2: game right now, especially with the portal helping teams just
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Speaker 2: you know, kind of pick and choose who they want
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Speaker 2: to have representing their university for a year, however long
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Speaker 2: it may be. And I think this year we got
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Speaker 2: to see that, you know, if those kids aren't meshing well,
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Speaker 2: if they aren't going out and doing stupid college baseball
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Speaker 2: things like going into the woods, playing paintball together, whatever
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Speaker 2: whatever you may choose for your team bonding activities, it's
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Speaker 2: a matter of the talent is there, but if it's
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Speaker 2: not clicking, if it's not firing on all cylinders in
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Speaker 2: college baseball, it's it's not a very forgiving game. So
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Speaker 2: if the other team's not giving you free nineties, and
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Speaker 2: you know, the top half of your lineup's hot like
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Speaker 2: U and C's was, but the bottom half isn't producing
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Speaker 2: as much, it's gonna it's gonna get shown in the
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Speaker 2: team that's you know, pitching it well and also has
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Speaker 2: that offensive prolyss or you know, is finding that offensive
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Speaker 2: paralysis like Oklahoma was throughout the postseason. It'll really spark
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Speaker 2: a fire for that team. And you know that sometimes
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Speaker 2: is all it takes. Where you have good pitching. You know,
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Speaker 2: they had a lot of freshmen step up for them,
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Speaker 2: but the bats were there. It's you know, it's comfortable
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Speaker 2: pitching with a six to seven run lead, especially even
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Speaker 2: if it's a winn or go home situation. It can
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Speaker 2: it can really put a pitcher's mind at ease, where
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Speaker 2: you know, in Omaha, you aren't necessarily going to have
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Speaker 2: the calmest mind out there on the mound. You if
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Speaker 2: you're a freshman, anytime you're on the mound, it's going
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Speaker 2: to be a little bit harder. But having that support
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Speaker 2: and having that hot line up behind you, it'll really
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Speaker 2: just help propel the boat forward.
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Speaker 3: Did you see I mean you follow College baseball, So like,
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Speaker 3: so in depth getting tours and all that stuff, do
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Speaker 3: you feel like all the freshmen that contributed We see
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Speaker 3: other freshmen other years, but do you feel like all
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Speaker 3: the freshmen that contributed through this run from different teams?
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Speaker 3: Is a is kind of based on what you have
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Speaker 3: helped college baseball become in a sense that you give
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Speaker 3: tours behind the scenes. You like, before kids even make
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Speaker 3: it to college baseball, you are like, hey, you want
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Speaker 3: to see their training facility, and now these guys are
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Speaker 3: now joining the program, you're like, oh, yeah, I saw
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Speaker 3: a big donkey head and I remember going through this,
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Speaker 3: And so is it more of a comfort level for
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Speaker 3: freshmen now to be able to then just go out
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Speaker 3: and play baseb and not worry about like all the
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Speaker 3: other crap that you have to worry about as a freshman.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just having that familiarity, Like I don't
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Speaker 2: want to take a credit for oh, you know this
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Speaker 2: freshman came into it really well, I don't. I don't
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Speaker 2: think that has much to do with my Twitter. I'd
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Speaker 2: be honored if that is the case. And you know,
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Speaker 2: if you are a freshman, you're like, hey, I wanted
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Speaker 2: to come to do college baseball because of your tweets.
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Speaker 2: Fire me up, send me a text message. I'll send
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Speaker 2: you a free hat, whatever you want. But just the
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Speaker 2: fact that you know, these kids can really know what
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Speaker 2: they're getting into. And I think in the era of
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Speaker 2: the transfer portal, there's more value than ever in coaches
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Speaker 2: being transparent and just kind of showing who they are.
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Speaker 2: Like you know, sometimes you would go to a program
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Speaker 2: and it's like, Okay, you get there as a freshman
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Speaker 2: in this coach. You know, on paper, when they're recruiting you,
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Speaker 2: it's like they're giving you the horse and pony show.
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Speaker 2: Everything's great, and then when they get when you get
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Speaker 2: to campus, it's like this guy's a complete hard Oh
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Speaker 2: that is not who was recruiting me. And I don't
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Speaker 2: think that's the case anymore because it's like, look, you
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Speaker 2: got to reach retain these players a year after year
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Speaker 2: because the option is there to go home or not
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Speaker 2: go home, but go to a school that they want
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Speaker 2: to go to next year. And you know, if they
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Speaker 2: go out and play sommer ball, for example, with a
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Speaker 2: bunch of kids from LSU, and they're like, yeah, Jay Johnson,
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Speaker 2: he's dope. It's sick playing for the Tigers, which obviously
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be if I'm a freshman who just had
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Speaker 2: a really good freshman year, but I don't like my
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Speaker 2: coach or you know, he's more of a heart owe
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Speaker 2: and he's not meshing with who I am as a person.
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Speaker 2: There's more incentive than ever to just go, Okay, well,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to go get my bag playing somewhere else.
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Speaker 2: And I think just having that transparency and knowing what's
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Speaker 2: out there, what it looks like at the next level,
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Speaker 2: is really important for these kids because you know, for
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Speaker 2: some guys, they're picking college ball over going to the
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Speaker 2: draft now because you know, on the converse side of things,
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Speaker 2: seeing what's going on in the minor leagues. Back when
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Speaker 2: I was growing up, you know, back in twenty ten,
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Speaker 2: what the minor leagues looked like way different than what
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Speaker 2: it looks like now. But it was a lot of Okay,
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Speaker 2: after this game, we're getting fed a plate of beans
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Speaker 2: and rice. It's not very fun. It's not as fun
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Speaker 2: as that college experience you could be getting. And now
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Speaker 2: there's that financial aspect of it too, where you know
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Speaker 2: you aren't missing out on a signing bonus. And I
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Speaker 2: think in some cases people will be making more money
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Speaker 2: than they would make from going to pro ball, just
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Speaker 2: through the nil side of things. So I think it's
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Speaker 2: just having that comfort level and understanding, like, Okay, look
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Speaker 2: when I get to this facility, it's something that you know,
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Speaker 2: four years from now or three years from now, if
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Speaker 2: I get drafted, I'm gonna miss a heck of a lot.
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Speaker 3: You miss a good time. I hear that. All right,
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Speaker 3: Let's hit Oklahoma. What's your favorite what's your favorite story
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Speaker 3: or storyline from this Oklahoma run? Is it a player?
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Speaker 3: Is it Jackson Willitts? Is it the Branch brothers? And
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Speaker 3: then the Branch ends up hitting a homer to end
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Speaker 3: his season, just like his brother did. What is your
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Speaker 3: favorite storyline that we should as fans focus in on?
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Speaker 2: All right, So the Branch Brothers, that's a story. You
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Speaker 2: can't write it any better, you know. Growing up as
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Speaker 2: a little brother, it's like, look, I wanted to play
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Speaker 2: baseball because I saw my older brother do it, and
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Speaker 2: I want to do it better than him. And it's like, okay,
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Speaker 2: but I'm out here winning the College World Series, so
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Speaker 2: I really don't want to overshadow my brother too much.
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Speaker 2: So in my last a bat of the season, I'll
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Speaker 2: pop one over the fence, but it won't be the
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Speaker 2: most crucial one or anything like that. So he's not
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Speaker 2: taken anything away from his older brother. But one thing
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Speaker 2: that I think not many people paying much attention to
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Speaker 2: was early on in the postseason. So in regionals, when
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Speaker 2: they're in that do or die game versus Georgia Tech
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Speaker 2: winner advances to Super Regionals, Dayton hockey, the first baseman
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Speaker 2: he fouls a ball right off the plate, corner of
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Speaker 2: the plate, hits him in the nuts. I don't know
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Speaker 2: that's something as a pitcher, I wouldn't wish that upon
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Speaker 2: my worst enemy. I would be fearful to throw the
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Speaker 2: next pitch inside, just because I'm looking out for the kid.
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Speaker 2: That's how I am as person. But then you know,
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Speaker 2: two three innings later, he pops a four hundred foot
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Speaker 2: while or four hundred and fifty foot home run dead
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Speaker 2: center over the batters. I to send his team to
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Speaker 2: supers keep the season live. I think that's one point,
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Speaker 2: especially looking back now seeing what they were able to
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Speaker 2: do after that, and see how they were able to
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Speaker 2: turn around their postseason. That's something that I think deserves
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Speaker 2: more light because you know, I'm not to say that
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Speaker 2: I'm not a tough individual, but if that happens to me,
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Speaker 2: that's a pretty good excuse for, you know, me not
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Speaker 2: to perform well. And he was just playing care free.
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Speaker 2: He was like, hey, look, people will understand if I'm
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Speaker 2: not performing well, but I'm going to go ahead and
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Speaker 2: be the hero we all need.
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Speaker 3: Who made a name for themselves in this series that
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Speaker 3: we didn't really know about before this.
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Speaker 2: So I think Deeting the chance the catcher for Oklahoma.
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Speaker 2: You know a lot of people knew about him already,
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Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, but just what he was doing
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Speaker 2: with pitches outside of the strikes, and I believe he
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Speaker 2: had six hits on pitches out of the zone, my
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Speaker 2: favorite of which was a home run about you know,
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Speaker 2: right out his eye and watching the kids set up
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Speaker 2: as a hitter, it's like he's very Armbarie. His hands
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Speaker 2: are like almost in the left hand batter's box. It
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Speaker 2: looks like because he is a gigantic fella. And for me,
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Speaker 2: he's a Canadian guy. He's down here from Quebec. He
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Speaker 2: learned English about a year ago and he's got great English.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: He did great with the media, But for me, I
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Speaker 2: loved watching that swing because it feels like, Okay, this
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Speaker 2: is a big Canadian lumberjack and it was made to chobwood.
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Speaker 2: He absolutely crushed the ball, but I think just showing
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Speaker 2: the raw power. He has not many walks on the season.
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Speaker 2: I think he only walked like twenty two times this year.
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Speaker 2: But with what he was doing with pitches outside of
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Speaker 2: the zone, it makes sense because you know, hitting pitches,
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Speaker 2: they call it the strike zone for a reason. Pitchers
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Speaker 2: are designed to throw it here so hitters at least
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Speaker 2: have a chance. And this guy's like, I don't care
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Speaker 2: if you know on paper this is a bad pitch
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Speaker 2: to swing at. I know I can make hard contact.
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Speaker 2: That's something I'm always rooting for because I liked the unconventional.
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Speaker 2: I like the weird.
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Speaker 3: How about it? How about an arm? How about an
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Speaker 3: arm we didn't know about that possibly popped on the
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Speaker 3: scene here. I get everybody knows a lot of people,
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Speaker 3: but somebody that really opened your eyes.
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Speaker 2: So someone that opened my eyes. I guess it was
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Speaker 2: just something I missed throughout this season. But UNC freshman
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Speaker 2: Jackson Rose, he had a two point five to five era,
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Speaker 2: and this was a stat I didn't know untill they
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Speaker 2: brought it up on the broadcast. But he threw one
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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty eight sliders and gave up zero hits
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Speaker 2: on that. Coming into the College World Series, I don't
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Speaker 2: recall if he gave up a hit on the slider.
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Speaker 2: I feel like I would have heard it if he did,
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Speaker 2: but I don't think he did during that game. So
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Speaker 2: going the whole season throwing one of your pitches and
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Speaker 2: not giving up a hit on it, that's just something
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Speaker 2: that you know, I don't think that happens that often.
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Speaker 2: That's probably a stat that's a little bit harder to track,
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Speaker 2: a little bit harder above my pay grade. I don't
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Speaker 2: think they tracked out at the college level. In MLB.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure they have all sorts of different metrics about
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Speaker 2: what happens on every pitch, but just to be able to,
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Speaker 2: you know, put on that performance as a freshman, he
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Speaker 2: didn't necessarily do phenomenal in the game he started against Oklahoma,
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Speaker 2: but it's Oklahoma's offense. You aren't supposed to do great
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Speaker 2: against that. So I think he was one who really
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Speaker 2: opened a lot of eyes. And then the older mercurious
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Speaker 2: brother l Jamier Curious. I mean, every time he went
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Speaker 2: out there, he just looked like a big league pitcher
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Speaker 2: like it was a mature approach. Any of his misses,
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Speaker 2: they weren't too bad, but he really tunneled well off
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Speaker 2: those misses. You know, he yanks a slider for example,
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Speaker 2: he's throwing a back door to Seemer to a writing
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Speaker 2: And I love when we can find pictures like that
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Speaker 2: because it's just like, Okay, this is the pitching coach
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Speaker 2: literally playing MLB the show in the dugout. He's hitting
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Speaker 2: the button on the PitchCom. You know, I used to
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Speaker 2: make that joke before we had PitchCom but now he's
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Speaker 2: literally hitting those buttons and just playing a video game
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Speaker 2: with this guy out there on the mound.
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Speaker 3: That's that is That is a solid joke. And I
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Speaker 3: was trying to look it up. What picture did you say,
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Speaker 3: because we do you have stats on the fact that
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Speaker 3: did he give up a Who was it again? What
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Speaker 3: was his name?
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Speaker 2: Jackson Rose, freshman left on the pitcher from Lenci.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna look it up to see if he
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Speaker 3: gave up a hit, see if my statistician can can
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Speaker 3: find it or not. But I want you to hit
15:14
Speaker 3: while i'm looking it up. I want you to hit
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Speaker 3: on the possible or the proposal that owners gave the
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Speaker 3: other day to not allow high school players to be drafted.
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Speaker 3: You also tweeted after that that would be a huge
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Speaker 3: influx of talent for NCAA baseball all across the game.
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Speaker 3: What is your true feeling on that and how that
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Speaker 3: will Yes, it'll improve the college game, but do you
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Speaker 3: feel like it will diminish a little bit of value
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Speaker 3: that some of these guys can get.
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Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, Like, I don't know how many bright I
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Speaker 2: think Bryce Harper had two MVPs before he would have
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Speaker 2: been draft eligible under these new rules, So it's like,
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Speaker 2: that's insane stuff. I would love to see what sort
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Speaker 2: of nil money Bryce Harper would be bringing in on
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Speaker 2: a contract. I'm sure he'd probably be down in baton
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Speaker 2: rouge at LSU, but just the amount of talent that
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Speaker 2: college baseball would see from that. I mean, even in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty when the draft got cut down to twenty
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Speaker 2: rounds from I believe it was like forty four to two.
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Speaker 2: Don't quote me on the numbers. Again, I pay attention
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Speaker 2: to college, and when the cut happened, I was in
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Speaker 2: college hoping to get drafted, and I was like pretty
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Speaker 2: upset about it. So I didn't think about it too much,
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Speaker 2: but just the amount of talent we've seen from then
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Speaker 2: until now. Like in twenty twenty one, for example, I
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Speaker 2: believe the home run leader was Wes Clark. He had
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Speaker 2: twenty four home runs. Now it's like twenty four home
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Speaker 2: runs is your average second basement in the SEC. So
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Speaker 2: I love seeing the talent level in college baseball go up.
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Speaker 2: I think this would obviously force those kids to have
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Speaker 2: to play in college baseball, so you'd have to have
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Speaker 2: more talent. But I think as a whole, I don't
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Speaker 2: think that's the best thing for the game of baseball
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Speaker 2: because there are so many talent in high school where
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Speaker 2: you know, you see guys playing college baseball and it's like,
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Speaker 2: you know, Caden Globber, for example, from UNC, he was
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Speaker 2: a freshman, he went twenty nine. They went twenty nine
17:10
Speaker 2: and to zero in games he pitched until the College
17:12
Speaker 2: World Series. He came in for about six pitches. He
17:15
Speaker 2: was clearly tired, clearly labor and twenty nine and one
17:18
Speaker 2: in games he pitched after that, So what, that's a
17:21
Speaker 2: great season. I don't think we get that if we
17:24
Speaker 2: have this rule, especially considering the fact that that kid
17:27
Speaker 2: is seventeen years seventeen going on eighteen. He's supposed to
17:31
Speaker 2: still be in high school this year. He graduated early
17:34
Speaker 2: to do it. So I think it would be cool
17:36
Speaker 2: to see the amount of talent. I would think we
17:38
Speaker 2: would have to shift to something like wood bats, just
17:41
Speaker 2: because it would be getting down right dangerous. Like I
17:43
Speaker 2: think about Mike Trout with a you know, drop three
17:46
Speaker 2: BB core bat, I wouldn't I wouldn't want to be
17:48
Speaker 2: playing third base. I'd probably pitch with a face mask
17:51
Speaker 2: on because you know, my semer cut fastball is not
17:54
Speaker 2: necessarily going to the back of the catcher's mit more
17:56
Speaker 2: often than not against a guy like that. So I
17:59
Speaker 2: think it's something that you know, the owner or whoever's
18:02
Speaker 2: throwing it out there is just kind of throwing it
18:04
Speaker 2: out there. It's all that, you know, made up hypothetical
18:07
Speaker 2: situations right now, so who will know what it'll actually
18:11
Speaker 2: look like, what they'll actually agree upon. But I think
18:14
Speaker 2: taking away the high school element of the draft is just,
18:17
Speaker 2: you know, not really cool in my opinion, because as
18:19
Speaker 2: a high schooler, I always thought about how cool it
18:21
Speaker 2: would be to get drafted, you know, like playing in college.
18:23
Speaker 2: It's a great thing and for a lot of guys,
18:26
Speaker 2: it is a goal, but ultimately the goal for a
18:28
Speaker 2: lot of these guys is playing baseball as long as
18:30
Speaker 2: they can, which you know, playing in a beer league
18:33
Speaker 2: is fun, don't get me wrong. But playing it for
18:36
Speaker 2: money and getting you know, to make a living out
18:38
Speaker 2: of it, that's the dream for all these guys. So
18:40
Speaker 2: I think it would kind of take away from what
18:43
Speaker 2: we have, especially in the minor leagues. I think the
18:46
Speaker 2: minor leagues are a lot better than people give it
18:48
Speaker 2: credit for, like just being able to go and see
18:51
Speaker 2: the amount of development that these kids go through. There's
18:54
Speaker 2: a reason why when minor league coaches get hired by colleges,
18:57
Speaker 2: they make really great head coaches, even if they were
18:59
Speaker 2: just like cleaning minor league shoes at that point, because
19:03
Speaker 2: the amount you learn there is just insurmountable because you
19:07
Speaker 2: aren't focused on what's going on in chemistry class if
19:10
Speaker 2: you're you know, a higher learner, or like me, you
19:13
Speaker 2: know your communications and business administration classes. But either way,
19:18
Speaker 2: it's one of those things where I don't want to
19:20
Speaker 2: see minor league baseball go away, especially because you know,
19:23
Speaker 2: growing up, I love going to Boobie Baysks in Frederick
19:26
Speaker 2: Keyes games. It was so fun. I remember watching Dylan
19:29
Speaker 2: Bundy debut for the Frederick Keyes next to Jim Tomay
19:33
Speaker 2: and you know, that wasn't something that I was ever
19:35
Speaker 2: used to. And you know, Jim Tomey is sitting four
19:38
Speaker 2: or five seats away from me and it cost our
19:40
Speaker 2: family like twenty five bucks to be there. That's something
19:43
Speaker 2: that you know, the game actually needs more of, in
19:45
Speaker 2: my opinion. So while college baseball is great and I
19:48
Speaker 2: love it more than anything, don't get me wrong, I
19:51
Speaker 2: think that, you know, minor league baseball is extra important
19:54
Speaker 2: for these guys and just extra important for baseball as
19:57
Speaker 2: a whole.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope they realize that because long term it
20:01
Speaker 1: could really hurt the next generation of fans if you're
20:04
Speaker 1: not like me too, falling in love with you know,
20:07
Speaker 1: going to a Somerset Patriots game for fifteen bucks, you know,
20:10
Speaker 1: to bring a couple people, the whole deal. I'm the
20:12
Speaker 1: same way, dude so Well stated, The answer was perfect.
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