Episode 14

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7th May 2024

S1E14 - Texas Rattlesnake

CB and Gary recap the weekend series at Texas State then take a look at the Sun Belt standings. Plus a preview of VCU and App State.

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Gary: Hello, Monarch fans and welcome to the Hudson homers podcast.

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I'm Gary, joined as always by CB.

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We go one and two this weekend

down in San Marcos, Texas.

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CB, how are you feeling

after this weekend?

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CB: Well, you know, personally, I went and

saw some really good high school baseball.

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Uh, got to see some really great programs

like Cox and Greenbar Christian and K.

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Penry and even got to see the

Miller School with a future Hall of

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Famer, Billy Wagner as a head coach.

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So the baseball I experienced

in person was great.

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The baseball that I had to, uh, Keep

up with through live stats and some

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radio, uh, could have been better.

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, it wasn't a great weekend for ODU.

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Unfortunately.

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Gary: Yeah, I had the

house to myself on Friday.

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I was really excited to try out

the radio broadcast once I got

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back from being out to have the live

stats, watch the end of the game.

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But by the time I got home, I

That thing was basically over.

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And I think we were in the

third or the fourth inning.

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So, uh, that one was tough.

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I was a good ball game on Saturday the

final, the second game of the doubleheader

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on Saturday, they come back and win it.

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But man, that Friday one that's one

of the ugliest baseball games I've

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seen from ODU in a long, long time.

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CB: Yeah, things just got away

from, you know, Jay Cassidy has been

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extremely solid for ODU all year and

he just did not have a very good start.

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I mean, we, he gave up six

runs and ending in two thirds.

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Uh, Kellen Davis came on a relief.

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I think Kellen that honestly this

point in the season, I'm sure

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he's probably just getting tired.

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You know, he didn't pitch last

year, but like a couple of games,

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he was a red shirt the year before.

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So it's been a few years.

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And who knows how much he

pitched in the high school.

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Honestly, uh, I think he's just

getting to a point where he's tired.

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So he's kind of losing that magic.

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I'm sure that that, uh, amazing breaking

ball isn't breaking as much as it used to.

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Uh, Stephen Trone, who I was

kind of hoping would maybe fill

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in some of that slack for, for

Kellan, is having the same thing.

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He's come into games and, and hasn't

quite, uh, he's had some struggles,

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uh, even after having some good times.

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Um, and just pretty much anybody

who went to the mound for ODU

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on, uh, on Friday just struggled.

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Gary: It was a tough go

of it for the pitchers.

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Uh, but we did have a great

way to start the game off.

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TJ Aiken.

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Recent guests of the podcast leads

off the game with the solo home run.

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And you see that and you're like,

all right, these boys are here to

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play on a road series on the weekend.

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We've really struggled on those

Friday away games to get going early.

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But he hit one and that'll kind of lead

me here to the dollars for dingers update.

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Uh, we are now at 43 home runs on the

seasons, 43 for dollars for dingers.

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And on the bucks for bag side, we are at

72 stolen bases, 72 for 91 on the season.

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So we stole some bags this weekend.

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We hit some home runs.

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We did not get the three wins,

but TJ Aiken starting us off with

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that solo shot got my hopes up.

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But then, it was some tough

sledding from there on.

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I mean, the second inning kind

of melt down there where Texas

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state put up seven on the board.

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We just could not get an out.

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It didn't matter if they hit the ball

hard, soft, it was, it was landing in

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somewhere, just a really tough go of it.

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So you're, you're going into the

top of the third at seven to one.

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And that changed some

pitching plans for ODU.

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CB: Typically they've used John

Hollibets on, in the Friday games.

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I, I like Not using him in a game.

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You're down seven to one.

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Let's be real I'm, uh using my best arm

in that kind of game doesn't make a lot

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of sense So, you know throughout the

guys who are who are not, you know The

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guys you go to in in the the midst of

the the high pressure situations every

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time Uh letting some of the younger

guys like hudson trobaugh marco lavari

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and nick salpizio get in there um And

unfortunately, they all got rubbed down

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at all at times throughout the season.

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Sapizia have all thrown great.

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They just unfortunately didn't, didn't

have, they all had a bad day on the same

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day, and that just is going to happen

sometimes, but the good news is they

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were able to save, uh, some of the arms

that were, are the more established arms.

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And sometimes you got to

wear it and that's your job.

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Gary: I will say there was one point there

in the fourth when I thought we had a

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good chance to come back because we knew

that Texas state would give up some runs.

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Maverick Stallings hits a two

run shot to left center to make

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it eight to four in the fourth.

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But just Texas state is what

they did the whole game.

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They just kept coming back and they

kept putting more runs on the board.

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They answered with two of their own in

the bottom of the fourth, three in the

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fifth, five in the six, and then this one

ended, uh, early, uh, 18 to four, just.

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Just a brutal game that I think

I put it out there on Twitter.

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They just have to flush

that and go to the next day.

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Because also at the end of the game

Friday, we found out that Saturday

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was going to be a double header

because of all the crazy weather

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that has been going through Texas.

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It was forecasted for Sunday.

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And some of that has been up in

North Texas around my parents are.

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Uh, there have been some tornadoes and

all kinds of crazy things, so I'm glad

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the guys are able to get out of there

a little bit early, make sure they got

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back, so that way they are good to go

this week, but rough, rough way to start.

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CB: Yeah, and like you

said Maverick Stallings.

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He had a nice, we had a couple

of home runs the weekend.

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Um, we'll get some deeper, some

stats, but Kyle Edwards and Ken

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LaVarra continue to stay hot.

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They both had two hits in the Friday game.

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And tj, you know, he kept

him he kept himself going.

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Well, so, you know a hitting

side Obviously four runs.

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I think it's never going to be enough in

a college game But when you give up 18, I

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think it bats change whether they should

or shouldn't but so Yep, so let's flush

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it also and let's move forward to saturday

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Gary: Well, there is one other thing

I want to mention from the game on

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Friday because it had an impact.

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CB: said flush it move on.

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How dare you?

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Gary: Well, this one's a

one you can't just flush.

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Uh, Evan Holman was removed from

the game on Friday in the fourth.

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Uh, appeared to be some sort of injury.

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I don't know what it is.

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Certainly not a doctor.

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I think it's a shoulder situation.

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Uh, but he was pulled from the game Friday

and we did not see him at all on Saturday.

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Uh, Jack Slater, Jackson Tone,

uh, kind of stepped in there

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and did a pretty good job.

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Tone had a good day in the second game

on Saturday, but Evan has just been

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so strong for us behind the plate.

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His bat has been great in the lineup.

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His on base percentage is actually

pretty high, especially for a

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catcher, seeing a lot of good pitches.

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Uh, he is someone that we are,

are hoping gets well very soon.

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I doubt we'll see him Tuesday against

VCU, no matter how he's feeling, but he's

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someone that we could desperately use to

be back in the lineup this next weekend.

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All

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CB: You were right.

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We need to mention that.

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Yeah.

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No evan.

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Yeah, I I hope he I hope it's okay I hope

it was just a little a little something.

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He's played a lot of games.

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Um, and, and hopefully, they

said, definitely, I'd be sure it

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won't be out there Tuesday but

hopefully, it'll be Friday night.

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We play App State at the Bud.

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Evan will be back in there because he

has definitely been by far our best

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defensive player and just an absolute

shutdown catcher been outstanding for us.

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Gary: right.

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We can officially flush Friday now and go

on to Saturday and kind of in a similar

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fashion here, we get on the board early

with the solo home run, from Luke waters.

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So Waters gets a solo shot.

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We're up one to nothing.

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I'm like, all right, we're in good shape.

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Kept it one nothing until the fourth.

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We get another run on the

board at the top of the fourth.

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But then the bottom of the

fourth, things kind of fell

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apart a little bit defensively.

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CB: Yeah, we had, you know,

had some errors, kicked the

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ball around a little bit.

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And, you know, Ben Moore,

he's been very good this year.

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I think he was just probably

out there a little bit longer.

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And then part of that is probably having

used so many pitches the day before.

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Um, so maybe the guys like Kellen Davis

and Steven Trone that you might've

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brought in and that when runners on

base, he didn't have to bring in.

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Uh, I know, uh, Bailey Mattel has

still been a little banged up.

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He hasn't pitched in a while.

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So you kind of found

yourself, which I do like.

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Still having some of your

young guys figure it out and

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try to work through things.

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But just didn't uh, he kind of gave

up some runs and then Jacob Gomez

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had probably his worst game of the

season Honestly four runs and three

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innings we got six runs got a couple

there in the ninth Uh, but you know

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again if you give up eight this this

was one of the few weekends where the

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pitching Did not lead the way and you

really can't blame the hitting You

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Gary: And I was a little surprised

with the pitching approach because

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typically on the Saturday game or

the second game of a weekend series,

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we've seen Blake Morgan start and

then Ben Moore come on in relief.

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And then either Jacob Gomez or someone

else coming in the back end, if we

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need to, to go into a save situation.

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So I thought it was interesting that

Ben got the start, uh, obviously

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starting was not a problem for him.

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Cause he looked great through the

first three innings, uh, but he started

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getting in that 40 plus pitch count.

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And that's when they started hitting

them a little bit there in the fourth.

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And then Jacob, I mean, I thought

he actually pitched pretty well.

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He just made a couple of mistake

pitches and Texas state was

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absolutely hammered him on it.

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Uh, so it was.

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It was tough to see those 2 guys go out

there and we were not able to get the win.

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Uh, we did not lay down though, which

I think was really important that

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we didn't just lose that game 8 2.

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Like we got another run in the 8th, we

had the tying run on 1st base in the 9th.

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Uh, Luke Waters was batting and he

absolutely smoked one to the left side.

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Uh, it just happened to one hop

directly to the third baseman.

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He stepped on third for the

force out to end the game.

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Uh, but we put pressure on them there

in the later innings, they had to go

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to another arm and their bullpen, which

is obviously great when you have a

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second game of double header coming up.

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So they, they fought back.

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Uh, it was eight to six,

both teams had 10 hits.

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I thought the pitching was improved

from the standpoint of they did not

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have nearly as many walks and hit by

pitches as we saw on Friday, because

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that was a huge problem on Friday.

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Uh, but the pitching staff,

you know, through eight innings

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only had one walk, didn't hit

anybody, just give up the 10 hits.

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So not a terrible pitching performance.

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It's just, they weren't that normal

elite high level that we're used to,

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where they're only given up, you know,

three, four, maybe five runs a game.

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We're just not built offensively

to score double digits with

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any kind of consistency.

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CB: Yeah.

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I mean, as you break it down, Saturday is

a day where sometimes, sometimes they beat

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you and you know, we, it seemed like, uh,

the Bobcats were a pretty good hitting

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team and, and could pitch a little bit.

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Um, I wonder if Ben Moore pitching

that game and then Blake pitching the

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second game, if part of this is maybe

trying to move Ben into rotation.

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Cause you notice we didn't see

Dylan Brown pitch this weekend.

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Um, he's had some struggles.

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He's had, he's hadn't really

gotten out of, uh, the second or

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third inning a few times here.

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Uh, so maybe that was the, the thought

process was they were just believing

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Ben gave him a better chance to, to

win and it didn't matter necessarily.

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Maybe they assumed Blake was

the guy they really wanted if we

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really needed to win a third game.

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Um, whether it was to salvage a game like

we had to or to try to win the series.

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Gary: Yeah, and Ben has been great.

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Even with giving up those

runs, he still had a 2.

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61 ERA over 31 innings.

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He's got 32 strikeouts in just nine walks.

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So he's been fantastic.

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Maybe got stretched a little long

or just, you know, second time

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through the order, Texas state had

him squared up a little bit more.

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Uh, we also did not see

Trent Buchanan this weekend.

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Uh, John Holabat's kind of.

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Slotted into his role in game

three coming on in relief.

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Uh, so there should be some fresh

arms, which is good because we, we

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do have a midweek this week and we

have a huge series against app state.

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But you dropped the first two, you

were at least competitive and close

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there in game one on Saturday.

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Uh, but I felt really good going into

that final double header game because

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I knew the arms that we had left.

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We knew that Blake was going to start.

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We knew hollow bets was available.

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We knew Dylan Brown was available.

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Trent Buchanan, Vincent

Bechera, Brandon Pond.

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We had some amazing arms going into

the third game of that double header,

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which is a blessing and a curse

from getting blown out on Friday.

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CB: Yeah, and, the pitching

was able to hold them.

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Texas state got a couple of garbage

runs there in the last inning.

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Uh, but you know, Blake did a

good job starting off hollow bets.

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I mean, he two runs in five and two thirds

innings, four walks and one strikeout.

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That's actually one of his

worst performances in a while.

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Uh, hollow bets has been on a roll.

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Um, he's been, that's actually,

I pulled up his stats.

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If you look at him since

he's gone in relief, Yeah.

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Um, he's thrown 34 and two thirds innings,

11 walks, 29 strikeouts, 11 earned runs.

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So that's a 286 ERA.

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If you take out the coastal

game where he threw only two

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innings, gave up eight runs.

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So we just say that did never happened.

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He would have 32 and two

thirds innings, only three runs.

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That's a 0.

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83 ERA since he's been in relief.

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So even with that one terrible

game his numbers look pretty great.

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Um, but his his era would be a full run

lower Uh as a reliever than as a starter

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Gary: He's had some nasty stuff lately.

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And both the runs that scored, uh,

on his stat line were actually,

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uh, inherited runners when he

came out of the game there late.

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Uh, so when he left the game, it

was nowhere in runs, but he had

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some, some ducks left on the pond.

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There didn't strike out.

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A lot of guys only have one

strikeout and in four walks.

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Uh, but he was pitching a contact and

they weren't able to get solid contact on.

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I think is.

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Is great, especially when you're trying

to keep your, your pitch count low.

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I mean, he ended up at 86 pitches

in just under six innings.

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I'll take that from a starter

reliever from anybody.

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Bash came in, uh, he did hit one batter,

but he was able to get two outs and

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then Brandon Pond finished it off.

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Uh, it says he only got the, the one

out there, but in reality, he actually

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got two because he struck out the first

batter, uh, but it was a wild pitch

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and the runner reached, and then he got

a fly out to center to end the game.

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Uh, but I thought he did a good job coming

into a true high leverage situation.

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We haven't had a lot of those this

year where a reliever comes in directly

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into high leverage in the ninth inning.

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I think we've maybe only had

two or three this whole season,

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which is really kind of weird

considering how many games we played.

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CB: Yeah pond has been

doing really well lately.

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He had that one game.

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I don't remember who we were facing

He gave up like seven runs in like

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an inning Um, and just was terrible

and since then he's been outstanding.

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I think I said at the time on our

podcast here I said, you know, he's

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gonna be a guy we're gonna need to step

up and play well And I fully believe

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he would and he's proved me right.

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Um, he's A big army.

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The guy pitched a huge game last year

and helping his team win the division

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three, uh, world series championship.

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He's a big arm with a lot of

experience and he's coming up

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big and he's a good situation.

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So it's really nice to see that.

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Gary: Yeah, absolutely.

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And I also liked the way that our

offense came to life late in that game.

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Uh, cause we scored one in the second

and then we were kind of down two to

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one for a good portion of that game,

tied it in the sixth, but in the

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seventh and the eighth, we had three

runs in the seventh, two in the eighth.

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Uh, none bigger, I think, than

Alex Boucher's two run home run.

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Nice to see him break out finally

after coming back from injury and

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providing that big pop in the lineup

that we'd been missing a little bit.

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Jackson Tone.

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He went one for two in the

game with a double and a walk

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subbing in there for Evan Holman.

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That's great production at the plate.

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I will take that all day long.

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Uh, but just the offense pieced it

together, the pitching staff, in my

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opinion, just kind of returned to

form of the great high level pitching

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they've had, uh, this year, and

they were able to come out of there

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with a, a seven to four victory.

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It got a little sweaty there in the night.

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That I'm not going to lie.

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CB: At this point in the year,

nobody is fresh, nobody's healthy.

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And you really do get a little

more into like, who knows what's

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going to happen in any given pitch.

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The guys who you've counted on all

year, it could not be their day.

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You know, we, we saw

that, uh, this weekend.

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It was nice to see Boucher get back.

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Uh, TJ Aitken had a really nice

weekend with a three hit game in the

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first game of that double header.

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Uh, Kyle Edwards stayed hot.

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Lavarie, he finally had his hitting

streak snapped, in that final game.

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What I say 16 game hitting streak he

hit 381 with seven doubles five homers

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and 17 rbis over that stretch So that's

and that's why uh, kenny finds himself.

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I think he's now the second highest

batter on the team I mean going from

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where he was to theirs is kind of crazy.

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Gary: His turnaround this

season is, is fantastic.

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And even though he didn't get a hit, he

still drove in a run in that final game.

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So if you still have

productive at bats, uh, which.

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I think for him and after talking to him

and getting to know him a little bit,

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if he goes over four, but he's able to

do some things that helps the team win.

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That's all he truly cares about.

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Sorry to see the streak in,

but Hey, good, good time to

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start your next hitting streak.

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As we go into these last couple

of conference weekends, then

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into the Sunbelt tournament.

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CB: Yeah, we're gonna need it Um, and

so another so while i'm throwing out

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stats, uh, kyle edwards had another good

weekend Just kind of two weeks in a row.

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He's done great.

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So the last two weeks Kyle is 13 for 33.

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That's a 394 average, five

doubles, a triple and four steals.

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Um, and again, TJ, TJ Aikins

continued to play well.

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So in about the last 14 games

since he's been a starter.

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17 for 54, 3 15 average, a double

triple, two homers, and nine rbis.

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So there's a, freshmen kind of,

we, we need it all season for

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somebody to take over left field

and, and TJ here has done it,

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Gary: I think the coach

family would still agree.

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He needs to get a little bit better

defensively out in left field.

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I think there were a couple

of balls that may have dropped

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in on him over the weekend.

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Uh, not enough that would have swung

the results of any of these games.

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But I know that he's going to continue

working at that, but happy to see him

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hit, you know, worst case scenario.

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substitute in left, you can have him.

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of production from that DH spot this

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year, uh, aside from, you know, when

Boucher has been there because of injury.

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So it just gives you another bat

that can be in that lineup that

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can produce for you, and he has

taken that leadoff role quite well.

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You start off a weekend series

with a solo home run, typically

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good things will follow that.

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It wasn't in this case, but if he keeps,

uh, keeps hitting leadoff bombs, that

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is going to be a huge bonus for this

team going into the final stretch here.

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CB: you know, and I was actually talking

to my dad about this, uh oh, it was

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other day or yesterday about What I

like so much about TJ is I don't think

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he's trying to hit a lead off bomb.

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I think he's just trying to

put a good swing on the ball.

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He's had a really good approach.

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He just wants to go up and be productive.

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Like you just said about LaVarie, right?

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You know, he, if I do something

productive, it doesn't really matter

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if I hit the big home run or not.

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And so that's, I think it's, it's been

good with TJ because I'm sure he, when

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he hit those home runs, just a case of,

he was trying to put a good swing on the

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ball, um, and that kind of approach is

exactly what we need every guy to do.

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Gary: Absolutely, and definitely

shout out to Maverick Stallings.

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He has really come on at the plate lately,

uh, adding a lot of power and pop to the

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lineup, uh, which is, if you're getting

that from your second baseman, that is

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fantastic, because that's typically not

a spot that's going to produce a ton

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of runs for you, uh, but he's got his

average up to 266, uh, 777 OPS, he's

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got six home runs driven and 16 runs,

so it's been nice to see him develop

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a little bit more of a power game.

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Uh, to fill in where maybe some other

guys are not hitting for the power that

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they have, uh, in previous seasons.

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CB: Yeah, Maverick's an excellent hitter.

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Um, I think he was four for 11 of

the weekend with two homers, uh, and

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his defense has been really good.

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I think the start of the year he was kind

of coming out of games and that's not

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a thing that's been happening lately.

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I think he's, he's worked his

butt off to make sure he's even

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better at second base than he was.

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So it's, yeah, Maverick's a very

good player and, uh, and if he

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could keep peaking here at the

end of the year, that'd be great.

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Gary: Unfortunately this weekend

there was no video stream.

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Uh, I'm not sure what Texas

State was broadcasting instead.

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I'm sure they had some

other sports going on.

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Uh, so we were stuck with a, a student

run radio broadcast in the live stats,

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but for as much as we bagged on Marshall

and they're pretty terrible student

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radio, uh, Texas state did a fantastic

job with their radio broadcast.

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It was great to listen to

you can tell that they care.

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They know the game.

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They know the sport.

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They know the teams.

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They were even getting our pronunciations.

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Right?

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Uh, so if I'm going to bag on

Marshall for being bad, I'm going to

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give Texas State credit for having

a really great radio broadcast.

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CB: absolutely.

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I think I said this on friday.

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I said there's nothing wrong with the

broadcast other than how it's going

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Uh, they're they were doing great.

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I think and what we say was cameron

was a uh wheel I think that's how

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they said it wasn't that it the their

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Gary: Yeah, it was, it was actually wild.

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So I went, so, I mean, even my

unintentional pun was, was incorrect,

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but you know, I'm one, one on one

on guessing the pronunciations.

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I guess I could just go to the roster

and find the pronunciation guide,

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CB: Where's the fun in that we're not

we're not on this on the broadcast.

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We don't got to do that

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Gary: Exactly.

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I know, uh, Pierce was a little nervous

to put out the radio, uh, link on all

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the social media and I don't blame

him after Marshall, but we're both

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like, ah, these guys are pretty good.

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They're good.

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Listen.

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So that couple with the live stats

was, was at least the best substitute

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you can have for not having video.

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But at some point, the Sunbelt's

got to figure this out.

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CB: Yeah, they might have

been graduate students.

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I didn't sound like uh sophomores to me

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Gary: No, they had some radio voice too,

which was nice to hear, but the Sunbelt's

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got to kind of step up a little bit.

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I think on the enforcement piece,

like, I know, you know, we're kind

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of in the same boat where there's

2 sports going on at the same time.

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We can only broadcast 1, uh, but we

have broadcasted every single home

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Sunbelt baseball game that we've had.

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Maybe some non conferences we don't put

on there, but every Sunbelt games on

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there and I would love to see the rest

of the conference jump on board with

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that because we've essentially missed 6.

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ODU games, being able to see them when,

that's kind of one of the key perks of

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being in the Sunbelt, is that ESPN deal.

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So hopefully those schools

are able to figure that out.

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CB: I thought that was the whole

selling point of the sunbelt was

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you'd be able to watch all the games.

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Uh, so when you can't, it's extremely

frustrating and not to say, you know,

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something like yesterday, I didn't really

get to watch or listen to much because I

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was out doing things, you know, it's, it's

fair that sometimes we got to go live our

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lives, but I also, if I knew I could sit

there and watch, I might've made different

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choices and be sitting at home watching.

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So it's, it's frustrating not to

be able to, to, to watch your team.

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Gary: Luckily the radio broadcast was good

and they were able to provide some color

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to what was actually going on in the field

and kind of have a better understanding.

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But you just miss so much of

baseball when you can't see it.

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It's the little things that are happening

away from the play, the positioning.

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What does a pitcher look like when he's

throwing like is he getting shelled

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because his fastball is flat his sliders

is a cement mixer It's really hard to tell

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that without seeing it unless you have

some good Good radio, people describing

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it, but even then you can only do so

much on the radio without spending 500

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words to describe one single pitch.

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CB: And it's not like most

of the broadcasts, uh, the

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streaming is that good anyway.

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They got like three or four cameras.

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These aren't big league broadcasts.

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So it's, you know, we're not, I'm not even

asking for you to go out and, add in some

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more cameras, absent production value and

do so, you know, just give me one over

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the center field and one to show the feed.

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Give me, just a couple of angles.

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Uh, I'm really not, I'm

not sitting here like.

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Yeah, I do.

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I think everybody needs to step it up

a little bit, but it's like I get it.

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All right, that's that's a lot.

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So just just put some

on give me something.

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Gary: I agree with you on that.

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Give me something.

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So I know if that single to

left was just a bloop or if it

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was actually, a hard hit ball.

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So, we'll put the weekend in the books.

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We went one and two would have

loved to have won that series.

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It would have helped us out considerably

because I want to talk a little

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bit about the Sunbelt standings.

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Where we're at what's attainable

and what we really need to

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be looking to going forward.

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So, uh, we're recording this

on Sunday instead of Monday.

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All of the Sunbelt games have finished.

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Uh, Louisiana was able to salvage

the final game against Troy, so

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they remain in 1st at 18 and 6.

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Troy is 16 and 8.

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They're the number two team right

now, uh, Southern Miss and Georgia

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Southern are both 15 and nine.

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So they're tied for third.

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So really, I think you're top four

there are, it's going to finish somehow

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with those top four there on top.

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And then you jump to five, you've got

App State at 13, 10, and one JMU at

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13 and 11, and then ODU at 12 and 12.

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So that's kind of the

top half of the league.

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Still pretty close.

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Anything can happen, but with ODU

being at 12 and 12 and Georgia

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Southern and Southern Miss being at

15 and nine, I don't think we have

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any real chance of getting into the

top four of this league, trying to

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make up three games with six to go.

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CB: That's If that's how that goes,

that's how that goes What they really

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need to be focused on at this point

is staying out of seven through ten

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Because as we know, seven through

ten in the tournament have to play a

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single elimination game to get to play

in the double elimination part of it.

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So, you really want to finish,

if they can't be in the top

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four, you want to be five or six.

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Right now, they're only a game behind

JMU, who they have a tiebreaker against.

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And they're, uh, what, I guess it's

a game and a half behind App State

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because of this weird tie they have.

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Um, And that they're going

to play upstate this weekend.

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So they very much could

leapfrog those teams.

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ODU's future in the, in the

tournament is in their hands.

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They got to go out and win games.

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They got six conference games left.

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I really think you'd probably need to

win five of them to be sure yourself.

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You're not going to be

down in that seven spot.

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Gary: Like you said, App

State's still on our schedule.

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We've got the tiebreaker over JMU.

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But it wasn't all bad news for us this

weekend, uh, because coastal Carolina

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is in absolute free fall and they

are actually a game behind us now.

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So if we can stay ahead of them,

we don't have to worry about not

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having the tiebreaker against them.

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They've lost eight straight games.

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They got swept by Southern

Miss over the weekend.

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They're 11 and 13 now in conference or

27 and 20 overall did not anticipate

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coastal falling off a cliff.

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And they are tied with South Alabama and

Georgia state at that 11 and 13 mark.

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And then Texas state is kept

themselves alive at 10 and 14.

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So the bottom three, pretty much out this

point, Marshall, Arkansas state, ULM.

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Thanks.

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Thanks for playing.

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Uh, wish we would have gotten two

more wins off of a Marshall and

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ULM, but kind of is what it is.

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But coastal Carolina losing

eight straight South Alabama lost

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the last two of their series.

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Uh, Georgia state, uh, I think

they took one of two, uh, this

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weekend against James Madison.

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So not all bad news for us.

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If we were going to have a weekend

to kind of stink it up and go one

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and two, we got some help from

our other friends in the Sunbelt.

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CB: Yeah, Coastal, uh, their record in

the Sun Belt being 11 13 tells you how

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tough it is to win games in the Sun Belt.

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Coastal, I mean, we saw them, they

are an extremely good baseball team.

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They were a top 25 team for the

first half of the year, uh, and

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they are in a free fall and like I

said, they're currently, what, 10th?

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Uh eighth in the conference,

uh, so that's that's crazy.

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That just tells you like you

said, it's it's a meat grinder.

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It's hard to win.

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Gary: And I misspoke earlier, Georgia

state was at Marshall and they

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went one and two against Marshall.

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So they dropped two games against a team.

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That's pretty much out of

contention at this point.

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Uh, JMU took two out of three

from Arkansas state at home.

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I know one thing though.

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If I'm the 7th seed, if ODU ends up with

that, and Coastal is somehow the 10th,

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that's probably the most dangerous 10th

seed in any conference tournament ever.

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So, uh, really important, I think, for ODU

to focus on, try to get to 5, get to 6.

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We got 6 games left, 3 at home, 3 on

the road, and the 3 on the road are

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against a team that's been struggling a

lot here in the back half of the season.

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Five in one will get you the five seed.

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CB: The goal doesn't change the goal is

still every single pitch every single

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at bat win And if you win every single

at bat you win every single pitch

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you'll win the games So the goal remains

the same for us sitting here on the

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outside looking out about, you know,

prognosticating what needs to happen.

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Yeah, they're really, they

need to win both series.

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They, I think winning, if you

win five out of the six would be

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really put you in a good position.

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Like I said, at least get

those five or six spot.

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Stay at that single elimination.

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The single elimination is just too tough.

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Baseball is not a sport to

be played in one game series.

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Um, you see that with midweek games.

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Anybody can win a midweek.

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You see a team to be tough.

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Top 10 in the country and they'll

go play some random school and

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lose because you know, it's I mean

that happened with uva, right?

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I mean technically we're the

odu to as far as most people

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in the nation are concerned.

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We're just some random school

Uh, and we beat uva So that's

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why a single game is never good.

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So anything you do to avoid

those those last four slots

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Gary: Absolutely.

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But I would even set the

first goal a little bit lower.

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Uh, ODU is only two games up on not

being in the tournament with Texas state

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is currently out if it ended today and

they're at 10 and 14, we're at 12 and 12.

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And we no longer have a

tiebreaker over Texas State.

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So, uh, winning at least three

or four of these games is

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going to be really important.

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Winning five is almost a luxury

to get out of that, that single

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elimination, but it's still very tight

in that like seven through 11 range.

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Like one, one of those teams I

just talked about is not going

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to make the Sun Belt tournament.

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You're going to get one hell of a fight

from all of them to make sure that

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that does not happen, including ODU.

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I think we got a good chance to go fight.

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We've got a midweek this week,

but then app state rolls in.

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And that is a critical,

critical series for us.

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CB: So our midweek, we got VCU again, we

are going up to the diamond to play VCU.

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Uh, you may remember a few weeks

back we, uh, beat them seven to

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one and it wasn't that close.

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Uh, but we always know, VCU is

a very or competitive team, uh,

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think that I saw they lost this

weekend to George Washington.

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Um, who you remember ODU

swept to start the season.

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We said when we played George Washington,

they were pretty good hidden team.

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They've got Greg Ritchie as their coach.

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They're, they're very well coached.

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Uh, so it was interesting

to see that, um, VCU,

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at the diamond lost two

out of three this weekend

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Gary: Yeah, really?

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Since they played us, they took a two

out of three from George Mason, who I

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don't think is very good, but a lot of

good close games, uh, losses by one run.

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Their final win was by a one run.

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They lost at home to UVA.

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Eight to four, then lost

two out of three to G Dub.

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I think I said, after we played GW in

that series, that they did not look

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like a team that was going to finish

in the bottom half of the eight, 10.

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Uh, well, they are like smack dab

in the middle at nine and nine.

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I think they're, they would

be the tied for the six seed.

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Right now in the A 10.

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So, maybe that GW game, uh, wasn't

as much of a cupcake as we thought

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because they, they've, uh, played out

pretty well within the A 10 there.

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CB: I mean, it'll always make me happy

if they go and win the tournament

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and then this looks good for you

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Gary: Well, we would need every bit of it.

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I think, uh, it's a pretty foregone

conclusion that our large hopes

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are, are gone out the window.

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We left them somewhere

on a smoker in Texas.

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CB: Yeah, I we I think they might have

been left before that But they definitely

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uh, they they may have finally gotten

killed in texas But I think they were

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critically wounded well before that

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Gary: yeah, there's no, no doubt

now it's when the tournament or,

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or bust, but, want to beat our

rivals with VCU, we should still

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have some, some arms available.

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I don't know what the pitching plan is.

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I imagine it'll be like what we've

seen for a lot of our recent midweeks

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with guys getting 1, maybe 2 innings.

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I wouldn't be totally shocked if

Trent Buchanan or Dylan Brown got

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an ending since they did not throw

this weekend, but it's going to

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be a good time of the diamond.

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I know there are a lot of fans coming out.

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I'm going to be over there.

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Uh, just realized on the VCU schedule

that it's dollar hot dog night.

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So.

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Uh, going to be getting after

that pretty, pretty good there.

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They sell alcohol all

throughout the ballpark too.

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So that's another perk.

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Uh, but if you're coming to reach out

to me on social media, the, uh, first

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base side is typically where ODU is at.

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It's where the visitors

are for VCU games there.

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So, uh, if you do come in head

over that first base side, I'm sure

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you'll see a big crowd of ODU fans.

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Uh, the idea is to do what we did

last year, where we actually have

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more fans there than VCU does.

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That is always a lot of fun, uh, to be

able to kind of take over the diamond.

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And hopefully deliver

another loss to the Rams.

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CB: Yeah, it's kind of unfortunate

that they don't really get you know,

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they don't really have An atmosphere

for their baseball team, they play

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in the diamond, which is cool.

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You know, you play in a pro park Um,

I mean the place is kind of a dump but

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it's still better than a lot of college

Experiences, especially the seating

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wise for fans, but it's not on campus.

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It's not really near campus You

just don't really have any kind

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of, college fanfare about it.

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So it is very easy to, you're

right to go up there and, and

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take over the place, especially if

you're a, another Virginia team.

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So it's, it's kind of a shame.

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They always have a good program.

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They always have good guys playing

for them and coaching with them.

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And so it's, it's hopefully, I

know they're talking about maybe

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building a new place, maybe when

they build, if they, if they build a

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new place, they can.

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You know get that to be a little

more Juiced up for their fans.

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Gary: a lot of stuff going on

about the future of the diamond.

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I think the public was led to believe that

there was a deal done for a private group

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to come in and basically redo that whole

area and call it the diamond district,

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which is going to include a new ballpark.

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Um, I don't think there's been

a whole lot of movement on that.

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I don't know where it currently stands.

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But I believe at the start of the

:

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to meet a certain set of standards

for your minor league ballparks.

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I can't remember if it's 26, it

might be 27, but right now the

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diamond does not meet many of those

standards, including locker rooms and

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in different kinds of practice areas.

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So I don't know what's

going to happen with that.

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If they don't meet those qualifications

and the squirrels are relocated.

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I don't know what that

does to the diamond.

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I don't know what that

does to VCU baseball.

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So they're kind of at the opposite end

of the spectrum from ODU where we know

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we're getting a

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new ballpark.

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We know that it's going to start being

built as soon as this season is over.

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And we're going to have it on

campus where VCU is kind of stuck

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in this middle ground of, okay.

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do we play in a potentially

new minor league

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stadium?

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We have to try to find some

space somewhere in the city

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of Richmond to play baseball.

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Are we going to have to call

in a favor with the spiders

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down the road and Henrico,

they're in a really

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difficult spot right now.

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So I feel for the people that I

know support that program, like that

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sucks as a fan and there's not really

anything you can do about it, but

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hopefully that there's a positive

outcome for them and something

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crazy doesn't happen there for VCU.

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CB: Yeah, when they redid the

minor leagues a couple years

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ago, I remember it was kind of

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crazy, but they kept it the the squirrels

there in Richmond because I mean

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they've been you know I used to go to

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up there to Richmond Braves games all the

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time and that's been 15 years

since they they left because the

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place was a dump Um, and so when they were

redoing the minor league saying, you know,

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there's a

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standard we're only going

to keep teams and And on

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top of that we're going to keep

them all geographically kind

718

:

of you know moving teams So

719

:

they're closer to

720

:

their

721

:

major league affiliate Well, so you

kept the team in richmond playing in a

722

:

dump that doesn't meet any qualifications

And there's still a giants affiliate

723

:

which is on the other side of the country

724

:

like none of it made any sense

725

:

Uh, so yeah, I mean I do i'm with you.

726

:

I feel for that.

727

:

I hope they I hope

728

:

they figure something out.

729

:

I hope they get themselves a

new stadium and in some way,

730

:

shape or form.

731

:

And again, hopefully it's something

that can help get a lot more

732

:

atmosphere going because I, I

733

:

maybe I need to go up to a

weekend game of the games.

734

:

I've been to at the diamond for VCU.

735

:

It is very easy to go in and

take over as a visiting team.

736

:

Gary: It, and it's wild because the

squirrels have some of the highest

737

:

attendance in all of AA, like Parney

and that crew that run the squirrels.

738

:

They do such an amazing job with

739

:

CB: They still have those

nuts that are so good.

740

:

Gary: Oh

741

:

CB: Oh my God.

742

:

Anybody who's at the diamond on

Tuesday, go to the nut stand.

743

:

It's like right there behind

744

:

home plate on the upper deck.

745

:

It's they're amazing.

746

:

They're so good.

747

:

Gary: Oh

748

:

yeah, I can, uh, I,

749

:

can try and track

750

:

those down for you, the Bavarian nut

guy that's there Um, yeah, we'll be

751

:

there Tuesday, hope, uh, anyone who's

in the 804 will, will swing by there

752

:

as well, the game's at 6 o'clock,

if you're not, I wanna say it's

753

:

actually on ESPN Plus.

754

:

CB: Says ESPN Plus.

755

:

right here on the schedule.

756

:

Gary: So if you can't make it up,

definitely check it out on, ESPN

757

:

plus and watch it, but we got to

758

:

talk about the big

759

:

one, the weekend

760

:

series

761

:

against.

762

:

Appalachian state.

763

:

And let me tell you, they are playing

some damn good baseball right now.

764

:

And their last nine conference

games, they are seven,

765

:

one, and one, six of those

games were on the road.

766

:

They're playing some good.

767

:

ball right now.

768

:

CB.

769

:

CB: Yeah.

770

:

it's, uh, I mean, this is a team

like a cupcake early in the year.

771

:

And,

772

:

uh, as we said, the

773

:

Sun

774

:

belts of meat

775

:

grinder and every team

will go in and compete.

776

:

And so, Yeah.

777

:

App State is, I was watching,

778

:

uh, some of one of their games today

and they were absolutely killing.

779

:

uh, South Alabama, which, you

780

:

know, we saw

781

:

South Alabama.

782

:

They're not the best team.

783

:

Uh, and that's why

784

:

they got beat, uh, 10 to two, uh,

785

:

and 13 to one and the

786

:

double header today.

787

:

Uh, but yeah, the app states go in the

788

:

right

789

:

direction.

790

:

So ODU is going to have

a fight in their hands.

791

:

Yeah.

792

:

Gary: And just going through some

of their stats to give you an idea.

793

:

They are a prolific hitting

team and they're pretty awful.

794

:

On the mound pitching, uh,

but these are all based on

795

:

stats from the end of the day,

Thursday on the 2nd, the conference has

796

:

for, like, the

797

:

conference leaderboard app state is

2nd and team batting average hitting

798

:

302 2nd and slugging at 519

2nd, and on base percentage

799

:

with 426 3rd and run score with

800

:

387, uh, they're, they were 3rd with

801

:

70 home runs, Uh according

to this, and I don't know if

802

:

this is

803

:

just going Counting like

conference home runs or what?

804

:

Uh, but they have a few more

805

:

than Uh 70 home runs.

806

:

They are at 83 home runs on the season

They are doing their best impersonation

807

:

of the bud bombers So far this year

808

:

CB: Banks Tolley, uh, has,

809

:

he's

810

:

hitting 385.

811

:

He's got 10 doubles,

812

:

21 homers and

813

:

62 RBIs.

814

:

So a 775

815

:

slugging, you got Austin St.

816

:

Laurent, which is a fantastic

name, all name team, uh, 372.

817

:

He's got eight doubles,

12 homers, 51 RBIs.

818

:

And then they got

819

:

another kid, CJ Boyd.

820

:

That's got 16 homers

821

:

and also drew Holderbach hitting 351.

822

:

So, I mean, they got some

guys that are really.

823

:

Uh, really.

824

:

hitting the ball and hit the ball hard.

825

:

Uh, but as you said, their

ERA as a team for the pitching

826

:

is 713.

827

:

So their pitching

828

:

has not

829

:

been great.

830

:

I mean, what it comes down to,

if you're playing a lot of your

831

:

games there in the mountains,

832

:

um, you got that high altitude,

833

:

the

834

:

ball

835

:

flies, and I, like I said, I was watching

836

:

some of the games that I

837

:

saw that happening, so I'm sure,

you know, they're getting some

838

:

home runs out, obviously not

just because of the ball flying,

839

:

I'm sure they're good hitters anyway, but.

840

:

They'll happen.

841

:

You're pitching staff too.

842

:

They've got, they've got some

guys that are giving up some runs.

843

:

You know,

844

:

their best, best era for the whole

team is Uh, Jackson Steensma.

845

:

It looks like he's one of the weekend

846

:

starters.

847

:

He's got a 417 innings

848

:

Um they also have another kid

with 52 innings as 872 era.

849

:

So, ODU's had a weak offense

at certain times this year.

850

:

this would be the weekend to

851

:

bring the bats out.

852

:

These are guys who you can hit against.

853

:

Gary: This could be an action

854

:

packed weekend series Uh, The bud bombers

could very much be back in full effect and

855

:

you could see some going out

the other way, too Uh, you

856

:

talked about the starters.

857

:

They've been pretty consistent

with their three weekend guys.

858

:

the

859

:

Jackson, steins Ma, Dante Ko,

and Bradley Wilson have really

860

:

been their three weekend guys.

861

:

All of 'em are over 50 innings pitched.

862

:

Uh, and I think they, they

constitute like 33 of the teams.

863

:

45 starts this season.

864

:

Uh, so clearly there they're

top three arms there.

865

:

not an E.

866

:

R.

867

:

A.

868

:

Under four in

869

:

sight.

870

:

And if you scroll down to some

of the guys have only pitched a

871

:

few innings, you're getting some

872

:

12 27 59.

873

:

4.

874

:

Uh, we've got to bring the bats this

875

:

weekend because we're gonna be

served up some pitches I think

876

:

we'll be able to put in play.

877

:

CB: Yeah, for comparison, ODU

878

:

only has one pitcher with

50 innings, and that's John

879

:

Halibetz, who, he's only started

880

:

four of

881

:

12 games, even though he's been

882

:

logging starter innings.

883

:

Um, and then we, we

884

:

actually have two guys over 40 innings.

885

:

Jacob Gomez has 41 in two thirds innings.

886

:

He's only started one, one

887

:

game.

888

:

Uh, we've got one, two,

three, four, five other

889

:

guys with 30 or more innings.

890

:

So, our

891

:

inning's a little more spread around,

um, as you, as you pointed out here.

892

:

All right.

893

:

But

894

:

it is going to be interesting.

895

:

One way that I

896

:

think,

897

:

especially

898

:

in college ball, where you win

899

:

is getting in the bullpen.

900

:

That's

901

:

probably especially true with this team.

902

:

Uh, not one of their

903

:

relievers has the ERA.

904

:

I mean, 524 is the lowest one

905

:

than 590 and the rest

of them all above six.

906

:

So you, you got a group of guys

who you can score some runs off of.

907

:

Gary: The key matchup this

weekend is definitely our

908

:

pitching versus their hitting.

909

:

Our pitching has only allowed

910

:

24 home runs this entire season,

which is pretty crazy considering

911

:

that we have played a boatload of

912

:

games at this point.

913

:

I think we're at 46 or 47

games So only giving up 24

914

:

home runs is huge.

915

:

Going up against the team that's hit 83

916

:

home runs this season.

917

:

Uh, and they've given up a boatload,

uh, from their pitching staff as well.

918

:

I believe that their pitchers

have given up 76 home runs.

919

:

So 76 versus 24 from the

pitching staffs there.

920

:

So.

921

:

There's going to be some pitches to

922

:

hit.

923

:

I think it's important that

we don't get too over our

924

:

skis, trying to

925

:

think about that stat

and hit a whole bunch

926

:

of home runs, just play our

927

:

game, get guys on, get pressure.

928

:

Uh, but if you get served up

929

:

something that's, that's pretty,

especially like two Oh one Oh,

930

:

Uh, crush it because you're going

to be able to hit it a long way.

931

:

If the wind is blowing out at the

bud this weekend, we could have a

932

:

bunch of home runs going out of.

933

:

that ballpark.

934

:

CB: Yeah, this could be a

very interesting weekend

935

:

And so this is, uh,

936

:

this is also gonna be the last weekend

of the current iteration of the

937

:

bud.

938

:

So it's gonna be, I'm sure we'll have a

939

:

graduation ceremony.

940

:

I would

941

:

imagine on Saturday, I'm

sure we'll have the senior

942

:

day along

943

:

with

944

:

Mother's Day on Sunday.

945

:

So I mean, there's a lot of, a lot of

excitement, a lot of, last moments, a

946

:

lot of emotion about this weekend anyway.

947

:

And on

948

:

top of that, you've got the potential for

949

:

a very interesting offensive weekend.

950

:

Gary: It's going to be a huge one

at the bud, uh, all weekend long.

951

:

I know, I'm going to get

down there Friday, be

952

:

there for all three games.

953

:

Our good friend, Liz.

954

:

Is on vacation, so she will not

be down at rally alley, but the

955

:

rest of that, crew hasn't covered.

956

:

I'll be dumping the remainder

of the koozies we have.

957

:

So make sure to swing by, uh,

and at least pick up a koozie

958

:

and put something cold in it

959

:

to go cheer on the Monarchs.

960

:

Because this is a huge series.

961

:

If

962

:

we can somehow find a

963

:

way to get our 1st sweep of the season,

we're going to be set up very, very

964

:

well for that 5th seed And

965

:

that 6th seed, uh, with the road

966

:

trip, uh, ending there at Georgia State.

967

:

But got the guys got to do it.

968

:

They got to go

969

:

out and play.

970

:

They hoping the pitching

returns to the form

971

:

and we're looking really

972

:

sharp there.

973

:

The bats get going.

974

:

Uh, let the crowd get into

a little bit, but, uh, these

975

:

guys have had a good season.

976

:

They solve a lot on the line.

977

:

And like you said, this is it

for this iteration of the bud.

978

:

We don't get to watch

games there next season.

979

:

CB: Yeah, next season

is going to be weird.

980

:

I assume we'll have an end of the

981

:

season podcast and we'll

probably spend some time talking

982

:

about, uh, how

983

:

weird next year is going to be.

984

:

Uh, but this is, this is winning time.

985

:

You know, you got two weeks

left in the regular season.

986

:

You got your conference tournament and

987

:

that's kind of all you're, you know.

988

:

Guaranteed with quotations around

because you're really not guaranteed the

989

:

tournament.

990

:

You got to win your way into it.

991

:

So, uh, You know going all

the way down to alabama and

992

:

playing

993

:

one game last year I'm sure it wasn't

very fun so hopefully they're gonna

994

:

do everything they can to avoid

995

:

that and get to play at least a

couple and And win a game or two and

996

:

play three or four or five six games

997

:

Gary: get down there early

998

:

enough that they can watch the seven,

eight, nine and 10 seed struggle in

999

:

their single elimination games, and

then go back to the hotel instead

:

00:43:16,229 --> 00:43:17,729

of being the ones going back to the

:

00:43:17,729 --> 00:43:18,799

hotel And getting on the bus.

:

00:43:19,914 --> 00:43:20,274

CB: Yep.

:

00:43:20,274 --> 00:43:22,574

So, uh, as always, I'm

:

00:43:22,574 --> 00:43:23,094

excited.

:

00:43:23,094 --> 00:43:24,484

I think this week's going to be fun.

:

00:43:24,494 --> 00:43:29,294

I think we're gonna pick up a nice win

of our rival VCU and hopefully come to

:

00:43:29,294 --> 00:43:31,624

the bud and take all three and win a

:

00:43:31,624 --> 00:43:34,764

series and be looking good going

to the last week of the season

:

00:43:34,764 --> 00:43:35,144

Gary: Definitely.

:

00:43:35,144 --> 00:43:35,834

Well, thank you

:

00:43:35,834 --> 00:43:36,954

so much for listening.

:

00:43:36,974 --> 00:43:38,914

Hope to see you either at the diamond

:

00:43:38,924 --> 00:43:42,844

on Tuesday or down at the bud

Friday through Sunday, but

:

00:43:42,844 --> 00:43:44,214

that'll do it for us today.

:

00:43:44,534 --> 00:43:45,414

I'm Gary go

:

00:43:45,414 --> 00:43:45,974

Monarchs.

:

00:43:46,069 --> 00:43:47,659

CB: I'm CB go Monarchs.

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