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Speaker 2: Baseball wrapped up its road trip out west with a

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Speaker 2: the entire country. He hit seven in a week this year.

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Speaker 2: He may have hit one during the commercial break we

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Speaker 2: just had. He's hitting three point fifty four for the season.

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Speaker 2: What a pleasure to welcome in from the UC Bearcats.

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Speaker 2: Quinton Coats, Quentin Lance McAllister, how are you? I'm great?

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Speaker 2: Are you having fun? This has got to be a blast.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is great. The whole team is having fun

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Speaker 3: and I'm sure I'm sure as well having fun.

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Speaker 1: It's it's been a great season so far. Man. What's

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Speaker 1: it been like the run ye're on.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you're getting more and more attention in buzz

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Speaker 2: and people want to talk to you. I'm reading about

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Speaker 2: you every website. What's it been like this start of

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Speaker 2: the season from that standpoint, been.

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Speaker 3: A little crazy for sure, seeing all the stuff on

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Speaker 3: social media, but right now just trying to focus on playing.

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Speaker 3: Keep playing good baseball. We're doing a really good job

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Speaker 3: that goal of hosting regionals here in Cincinnati come late

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Speaker 2: Fifteen home runs in twenty three games. I think last

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Speaker 2: year you had six and thirty four games. Have you

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Speaker 2: tapped into something? Have you changed something? What has led

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Speaker 3: I think just kind of believing in myself and trusting

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Speaker 3: just I know everyone here is good, and you know

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Speaker 3: it's I haven't really felt like I tapped into anything,

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Speaker 2: I was reading my guy, Keegan Nicholson, a Bearcat journal

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Speaker 2: I wrote a feature about you, and you said, and

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Speaker 2: I believe your quote was flow state has been reached.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about flow state.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess that's the term for the teenagers and

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Speaker 3: But yeah, just kind of playing baseball with the empty

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Speaker 2: When you hit seven home runs in a week, what

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Speaker 2: The reaction from the team, I mean, it's gotta just

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that that's kind of going on inside my mind too.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know where this all came from, but like

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Speaker 3: I said, you know, just keeping it all going, hitting

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Speaker 1: Yeah how much of that, Quintin is?

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Speaker 2: We hear the term a lot when it comes to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know baseball is a game of failure. Everyone

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Speaker 2: Talking with Quinton Coach of the UC Bearcats, he's hitting

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so coach Tom Winsky thow me up in Iowa

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Speaker 2: We hear a lot about Bischol ball, Jordan Bischol, your coaching. Geez,

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Speaker 2: you guys stole seven more bases yesterday. You have sixty

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Speaker 2: two steals in the season, your opponents only have seventeen.

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Speaker 2: You are fast, aggressive, you guys push the limits. How

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Speaker 3: It's a blast, you know. I want to say My

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Speaker 3: You know, it's really cool to see everyone's stealing bags.

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Speaker 2: So I don't want you to sell yourself short. For

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Speaker 3: That's all. That's all.

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Speaker 4: Coach this, well, he knows when to put on a

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Speaker 4: all kudos to him and what the coaching staff has

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Speaker 1: I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 2: I was looking at the I don't want to get

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Speaker 2: The team earned run average is sub four right now.

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Speaker 1: Hasn't it.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned I mentioned it earlier in our conversation about

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Speaker 3: It would mean the world. I mean, we got some

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Speaker 3: here in Clifton would be truly a blessing. And that's

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Speaker 3: what we're working forwards. We know we want to get there.

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Speaker 2: The Bearcats return home this weekend. They host Utah first

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Speaker 2: Big Twelve home series of the year. Friday's game at six,

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Speaker 2: Saturdays at three, and the finale on Sunday is at one.

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Speaker 2: Check them out. It is fun baseball. Hey, I really

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Speaker 2: enjoyed this. Congrats on just an unbelievable start. I know

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Speaker 2: There you go. Quentin Coates, you see Bearcats. Now, let

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Speaker 2: me say this up front. I've never talked to Quinton.

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Speaker 2: He's a sophomore. He sounds like like a wily veteran,

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Speaker 2: Does he sound like a sophomore? Maybe it's just me.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'm just old. Well that's true, but he sounds

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Speaker 2: He hits seven in a week. If you're wondering, he

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Speaker 2: When we come back the night that was last night

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Speaker 2: Sporting News is put together a list. They are one

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Speaker 2: years is to compile they're all time Team USA Baseball

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Speaker 2: and Team World from a historical perspective. Wait, here's some

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Speaker 2: some of the names not on the list. That is

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