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Speaker 2: All right, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Every pitch is your pitch.

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Speaker 2: The greatest show on dirt.

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Speaker 3: Now they can add college baseball to their trophy case.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Big Bets on Campus College Baseball Edition.

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Speaker 3: Joining me Colin Wilson at Underscore Colin one is Brad

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Speaker 3: Audreine at Real Brad Audraine, who has been money on fire. Brad,

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Speaker 3: I think you've picked every regional, every super regional.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Super regions did not go well for me.

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Speaker 3: Essentially, if you took chalk and thought that those seeds

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Speaker 3: that are hosting were gonna win out, it really didn't

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Speaker 3: play well. Un that's your Stanford, Texas A and M fans.

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Speaker 3: So I will introduce Brad.

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Speaker 2: Brad. How's it going after super regionals?

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Speaker 1: Man? It's good. I don't. I don't feel like I

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Speaker 1: picked them quite so great. Luckily, the ones that I missed,

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Speaker 1: I think most people did. You know after watching uh

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Speaker 1: Notre Dames sneak up on Tennessee. There and Oregon State

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Speaker 1: get get handled, get handled by the SEC West. Like

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Speaker 1: everybody else that went up against the SEC West. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't feel like it did well. But I think having

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Speaker 1: for four teams in the uh, you know, from the

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Speaker 1: because it's a it's a different pool out there this year.

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Speaker 2: I've never questioned the SEC, Brad.

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Speaker 3: I've never questioned when South Carolina was hot, when Georgia

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Speaker 3: was hot. All the teams are in right now, I've

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Speaker 3: never questioned Arkansas, like if we're better than everybody else.

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Speaker 3: But for some reason, Brad, like I was questioning, are

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Speaker 3: we really good against the ACC? Remember I was, you know,

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Speaker 3: I was trying to throw bets across the table saying

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Speaker 3: ACC would I.

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Speaker 1: Tried to take one of those bets. I need to

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Speaker 1: hear it there.

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Speaker 2: So, but we are legitimately good.

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Speaker 3: I think we're backed up by the fact how many

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Speaker 2: But SEC is not going away anytime soon.

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Speaker 3: And legitimately, would you be surprised if one of the

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Speaker 3: four teams didn't win the national Championship?

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Speaker 1: I mean, at this point, it'd be a little bit

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so, I think you know one thing from the

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Speaker 3: supers is we we kind of looked at a lot

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Speaker 2: Brad and I watched all of the games and all

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Speaker 3: There is going to be a full College World Series

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Speaker 3: preview coming out on actionnetwork dot Com this round if

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Speaker 3: you don't if you're not familiar with what happens in Omaha.

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Speaker 3: There's two different brackets. There's Bracket one, there's Bracket two.

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Speaker 3: Four teams are assigned to a piece and they essentially

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Speaker 3: played double e limb. It's back to regional rules two

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Speaker 3: weeks ago where you got to lose two to get

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Speaker 3: kicked out. Whoever wins those two brackets meets in a

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Speaker 3: super regional type rules of best two out of three

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Speaker 3: to start on Saturday, June twenty fifth. Brad and I

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Speaker 3: will have a very short podcast on that championship round

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Speaker 3: once we get there, but for today, we're gonna break

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Speaker 3: June eighteenth, and from there, Brad, I'm going to start

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Speaker 3: I plays to one hundred and fifty to one on

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Speaker 1: No they haven't. The question is gonna be because it's

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Speaker 3: Honestly they should be as a seeded they're the only

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Speaker 1: But all that to say, we may see it anyways,

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Speaker 1: but give me Texas A and M. But yes, the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's a couple of points that we

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Speaker 3: First off, it's supposed to be triple digits. Now, I've

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Speaker 2: Fact that Brad I don't, I don't. I can't remember

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Speaker 3: I don't think the umpires want to be out there

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Speaker 3: Brad's gonna go Texas A and M, and he's going

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Speaker 3: But I'm going to go with Jake Bennett Oklahoma. But

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Speaker 2: Hurt oe you in the long run.

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Speaker 3: Here, all right, moving on to Game two, I don't

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Speaker 2: Dead to rights, Texas is dead two rights, six outs

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Speaker 2: Texas finds the long ball to tie it up. Texas

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Speaker 3: To take the lead, and then East Carolina a no

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Speaker 3: When teams get on a run like this and they

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Speaker 2: For them, Lucas Gordon.

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Speaker 3: But this game is about strength on strength. Notre Dame

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Speaker 2: It's given up too many runs.

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Speaker 3: But I do think Texas is a turn is a

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Speaker 3: I know they can over Notre Dame. Do you have

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Speaker 1: Well, Colin, how many times do we have to have

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Speaker 3: So Brad's going to bank on Jacob Palash being the

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Speaker 3: it's what got me into their futures in the first place.

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Speaker 3: I'm actually siding with Texas, and it's not because of

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Speaker 2: That's not going to get it done. I am betting

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Speaker 3: I just you know, they're the ones that have the

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Speaker 3: If Melindas puts one past the walkway over left, you know,

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Speaker 2: All Right, We're gonna We're gonna move into bracket too.

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Speaker 3: And you know this is where we might get a

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Speaker 3: Razorback alum locally tied to the Razorbacks they're taking on Stanford. Brad,

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Speaker 2: I like that a lot against Stanford. I mean, you're

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Speaker 3: A Stanford team that's tenth and slugging seventeenth and homers

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Speaker 2: So let me ask you this question.

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Speaker 1: Well, we are not top heavy, that's what I would

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of changes in the last

436
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Speaker 3: two weeks with this team.

437
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Speaker 1: I mean a ton. I mean, you know, it took him.

438
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Speaker 1: It took him like five games in a row of

439
00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,560
Speaker 1: Gregory and left not getting a hit until he finally

440
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 1: DHD for him at the end of the game to

441
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,320
Speaker 1: win with our hot young freshman kendalled Diggs. I mean,

442
00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:13,280
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense whilst Dig's not been playing, Gregory

443
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,840
Speaker 1: hadn't got a year. For God's sakes, Dave, how many

444
00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:16,720
Speaker 1: times you have to yell.

445
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:17,119
Speaker 2: At the screen?

446
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,919
Speaker 1: Should have been real, Carolina. What was I doing? But

447
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 1: it was driving me crazy? Man? And yeah, he starts

448
00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,399
Speaker 1: McIntyre now in game two. You know, I guess we

449
00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,520
Speaker 1: have Wiggins for game three. I think Davis finally realized

450
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:36,200
Speaker 1: that the ninety nine mile an hour fastball means nothing.

451
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 1: Just don't win against good competition with ninety nine mile

452
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,120
Speaker 1: an hour fastballs. So you know, you gotta have these

453
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 1: off speed pitches. You've got to have the guys that

454
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Speaker 1: can throw long innings, hit their spots, and because of that,

455
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,760
Speaker 1: it's kind of changed our focus a little bit on

456
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,919
Speaker 1: starting pitching is important. And yes, it'd be great to

457
00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 1: have a big outing from Connor Nolan. He's hard to

458
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Speaker 1: hit man if he's locating that curveball.

459
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Speaker 3: I think it goes back to Oklahoma State, right, So

460
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:07,679
Speaker 3: Oklahoma State rockerygo and the rest of that lineup just

461
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,120
Speaker 3: sits dead red in the box and looks for fastball

462
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,119
Speaker 3: down the middle, which is where Jackson Wiggins is going

463
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:12,679
Speaker 3: to get torn up.

464
00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 2: But Connor Nolan comes in, he's just slider, slider, curve slider,

465
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 2: slider change. Like I mean, that's yeah a lot, but.

466
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Speaker 1: It's all the good teams of college baseball do that.

467
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 1: And the problem is the SEC is realized over the

468
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 1: last five, you know, five or six years, and so

469
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,400
Speaker 1: about three years ago it changed. They changed the focus

470
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,440
Speaker 1: on Look, it's great if you can throw it hard,

471
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Speaker 1: and yes, Tennessee has a circus side show. They could

472
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Speaker 1: throw at one oh five. But the pitchers that really

473
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Speaker 1: dominate are ones that can locate and the ones that

474
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Speaker 1: have the good off speed pitches, and that's why the

475
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 1: numbers are so far down in the SEC outside of Tennessee,

476
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,679
Speaker 1: nobody hit the baseball. I mean, you know, all of

477
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 1: these teams that were ranked in the top ten in

478
00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,719
Speaker 1: home runs and everything else outside of Tennessee, we're not

479
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Speaker 1: in the SEC. It's we're going up against pictures that

480
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 1: you know, yes, a lot of them can throw ninety

481
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 1: five to ninety seven, but maybe they're using their two

482
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 1: seam fastball that goes ninety three instead. It's got a

483
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: little bit more movement that they can locate on the

484
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 1: outside corner. So it's granted. All this to say, Stanford

485
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 1: beat us in the first game of the season. I'm

486
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 1: sure Connor or one of the first games of the season.

487
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure Connor Nolan was pitching then, but I think

488
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: Connor Nolan at the time was a different pitcher too

489
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 1: than he is now. I know we're a different team

490
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 1: because we're a different team than we were a week ago.

491
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Speaker 1: Dave's boy, it takes Dave some time, but he's starting

492
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Speaker 1: to figure it out. I'm so interested to see who's

493
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 1: gonna be playing left field. I know I'm very long

494
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 1: winded on this one. I have a lot of thoughts.

495
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 1: I apologize to everybody out there. That doesn't give two

496
00:23:55,160 --> 00:24:00,200
Speaker 1: shits about Arkansas, But I'm very excited that we made

497
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 1: it this far. I did pick us as far because

498
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: I knew that we had the talent and we had

499
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: we had the pitching and the hitting and the hitting

500
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 1: to stick around in these situations. So I'm going to Arkansas. However,

501
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: Stanford was my original pick in this bracket to win it.

502
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 1: But after watching them play a lot of baseball this

503
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 1: last weekend, because every game that was on the West

504
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 1: Coast started four hours after any of our games ended,

505
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 1: I was able to watch Stanford or Work and State

506
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 1: play a fair amount, and I just I wasn't as

507
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,399
Speaker 1: impressed as I thought I would be. Either Yukon and

508
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 1: Stanford are number one and two teams, best teams in

509
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 1: the country, or Stanford leaves a little bit to be

510
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,400
Speaker 1: desired and maybe maybe one hundred and five degree heat

511
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,120
Speaker 1: of Omaha make it to him a little bit.

512
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think, yeah, because you're not You're definitely

513
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 3: not getting that out in Palo Alto, that kind of weather,

514
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,439
Speaker 3: And I think you're not even getting that if you

515
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 3: go to San Jose.

516
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 2: You got to go over to Modesto to get that

517
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 2: kind of heat.

518
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 3: But you know, I mean, I think what's important here

519
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 3: is the stats are telling me one thing, Brad, but

520
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 3: my eyeballs are telling me another, and that is is

521
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,439
Speaker 3: a five base as staff era, a bullpen era, FIP

522
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,679
Speaker 3: whip everything. And I make a projected line like I

523
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,640
Speaker 3: do with MLB, like I do here with college. It's

524
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 3: Stanford minus one sixty, but the market opened up minus

525
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 3: one twenty both ways, giving Arkansas a ton of respect.

526
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 3: Now let's talk about the pitchers. Alex Williams starter for Stanford.

527
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,879
Speaker 3: He's absolutely been terrible lately over his past three games

528
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 3: fifteen earned runs and ten point two innings spanning back

529
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,880
Speaker 3: to the PAC twelve tournament over three games. I mean,

530
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,879
Speaker 3: he's just been absolutely annihilated. So is their second starter

531
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 3: in Quinn Matthews. Now you go and look at Connor Nolan.

532
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 3: Doesn't have the best RA, doesn't have the best FIP,

533
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,400
Speaker 3: doesn't have the best whip, But right now he's on fire.

534
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,199
Speaker 3: He's being called in to close out Oklahoma State. I

535
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 3: mean he is nibbling the corners. He's getting them. And

536
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 3: if we think these umpires are out out there like

537
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 3: they have a big marathon of a game and one

538
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 3: hundred degree heat in the middle of the day. Connor

539
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 3: Nolan's probably gonna get the corners, all of his sliders

540
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 3: and his curves. So I love Arkansas on this game.

541
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 3: I've already bet him minus one twenty. I'm going to

542
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 3: keep on betting them. I also took under eleven and

543
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 3: a half in here, because if Connor is getting those corners,

544
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 3: Stanford's not gonna be able to put this out of

545
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 3: the park, especially with that wind blowing in over fifteen

546
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 3: miles per hour. I do worry about our bats heating up,

547
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,160
Speaker 3: but at the same time, you know, we're the kind

548
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 3: of team that I don't think Dave has any problems

549
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 3: and not looking for the long ball and maybe you know,

550
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 3: just trying to you know, do it, you know, hitting

551
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 3: the gaps and doing whatever we got to do on

552
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 3: the base pass because getting it over the wall is

553
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 3: not going to be really a strong point this weekend.

554
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,880
Speaker 3: So all right, I'm taking Arkansas, Brad, you and I agree.

555
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 3: Let's move on to the last of the four games

556
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 3: to start off, and this is in Bracket two sec

557
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 3: West Baby Auburn versus Old Miss. We got Sonny Dashara

558
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 3: maybe hitting jacks over Dylan de Lucia. We've got all

559
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 3: kinds of things in here. These teams know each other

560
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 3: so well. They already played each other earlier this season.

561
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 3: All three games were it was two wins for Auburn,

562
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 3: one win for Old Miss. But like I said, I

563
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 3: think all all the games were decided by eight or

564
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 3: more runs, so it's almost.

565
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 2: Like they gave up.

566
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 3: And Plus the series was back in March, so Brad,

567
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 3: I take nothing from what happened in this series earlier

568
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 3: in the year. Do you have early opinions on this,

569
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 3: because yes, Auburn. I didn't expect them to go out

570
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 3: and hit against Oregon State. I didn't expect them to

571
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 3: go out because they haven't hit away from home all year.

572
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 3: But they did against Pac twelve pitching, which makes me

573
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,880
Speaker 3: feel good about us playing Stanford Arkansas.

574
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 2: I mean Ole Miss.

575
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 3: At the same time, they're way out doing their stats, Brad,

576
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 3: I mean one hundred and forty six at OBP. They're

577
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 3: They're insane right now. So Ole Miss is the hot

578
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 3: team out of all eight by far. They're the ones

579
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 3: you throw the stats away and say this is the

580
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 3: hot team. Am I wrong?

581
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you're talking to a guy that picked

582
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,640
Speaker 1: a three set to make it to Omaha. So I'd say,

583
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: I agree with you, you know, and not a whole lot

584
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:58,479
Speaker 1: of people picked Ole Miss to get through Miami and

585
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 1: then get through But I did you know, I've got them,

586
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: had them all the way and and man they are

587
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 1: they're playing so well. You laughed at me about Dylan

588
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: DeLucia and I who was he going up against that

589
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: Friday night? I can't remember. It is one of the

590
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: best starters in the country according to the statistics, And

591
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: I was like, man, Delucia's oh it was Hall Hall

592
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:27,199
Speaker 1: for uh yeah, and Dylan DeLucia has been on absolute fire.

593
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 3: He went me five two five, five point two innings

594
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 3: and like what one or two earned runs?

595
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: I mean he was, I mean, and it was it

596
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 1: was like one hundred and five degrees that day. It

597
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 1: looked like hell in Hattiesburg.

598
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 2: Looks I got.

599
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: I had to like turn the fan up in my

600
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: living room and turn the A C on high just

601
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: just because it was so hot. Watching the games in Hattiesburg,

602
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,479
Speaker 1: I was like those poor people. You could just feel

603
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: the humidity.

604
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 3: In the air.

605
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: It was like the loss losing yeah exactly, well no,

606
00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: I mean, but I meant like for both fans. I

607
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: was like, that just sounds like hell. I mean it

608
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: was packed. They were packed in that stadium, and Dela

609
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: DeLucia did not care. He came out and that was

610
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 1: after doing it doing Miami originally in the in the

611
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: regional and then what he did against Southern Miss. So

612
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: in a one game show, Yes, I'm gonna take the

613
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: hottest picture in the country, who I do not believe

614
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: will throw to Sonny Deshara and make the mistakes that

615
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: organzas why are.

616
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 2: We still throwing Tony Djara?

617
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: What were they thinking with the one man on and

618
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: two outs? You you just teed one up for Sonny desjar.

619
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,959
Speaker 2: Was like, these coaches get paid to make this decision.

620
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was bad. It was a bad coaching decision,

621
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: big time. I mean he should have it should have

622
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: been an intentional walk, if not the unintentional intentional walk.

623
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: And it was just a giant mistake. So I don't

624
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: Old Miss is not going to be that stupid. They've

625
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: they've been there, they've seen this, and you know their

626
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: biggest holes are fielding percentage and on base percentage and

627
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: those two stats have been out the door since they

628
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: started postseason play. Not talking about the SEC tournaments that

629
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: is not postseason play, but fielding percentage on base percentage,

630
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,479
Speaker 1: I couldn't I couldn't tell you what the number is.

631
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: But old Missus played some phenomenal defense. They have the

632
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: best shortstop in the country, so you know, center field,

633
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: who could get to anything. And Elko, if I got

634
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: to have one batter up in a in a moment,

635
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,719
Speaker 1: that matters. So I got him a couples in their

636
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: series at home. But yeah, Elcho's who.

637
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 2: I want, or Tim Elkow who you taking in a

638
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 2: in a.

639
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: One af bat situation. Give me, gimme Elcho in a

640
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: in a series, give me Sonny D. Elko has been

641
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: around a little bit longer, you know, like he's old,

642
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: he's a but it's.

643
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 2: It, I mean, coming to it, coming to a beer

644
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 2: softball league next year.

645
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: Tim, Yeah, I mean, like Sonny D's got this little

646
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: baby face and he's like chubby. Elko looks like a monster.

647
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: He's a different sort of dude. I mean, he was

648
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 1: on the other team in Space Jam. So yeah, I'm

649
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna go with Elko in that argument. But

650
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: I think you know, just but seriously, gonna know that

651
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: I'm harping on this, but seeing that there's four teams

652
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: from the SEC West in here just goes to show you, like,

653
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, Tennessee choked on apple sauce, but outside

654
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: of that, LSU was the only other team in the

655
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: SEC that was in the that was even in this thing, right,

656
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,719
Speaker 1: and they didn't make it, but we got, you know,

657
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: showing these four teams from the SEC West, this is

658
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: who we played every day, and they all made it

659
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: to the Cult World Series, which the.

660
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 3: One team we're not talking about is a national champion,

661
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 3: Mississippi State Bulldogs, right all.

662
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: Right, exactly, and that you know, they lost their number

663
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: one pitcher and the heart of their heart and sold

664
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: their team. Of course I still bet on them, but yeah, man,

665
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: I mean it just it's hard to pick when you

666
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: got to pick from these teams from the West. But

667
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: knowing what we've been going up against all year long,

668
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: I mean, they've just been playing really good baseball. They

669
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: didn't win by outscoring everybody. They didn't win by just

670
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: out pitching everybody. They won by doing both. And it

671
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: was really impressive last weekend to watch what both Auburn

672
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: and ole Miss did in this series. So I'm rolling

673
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: with Hotty Toddy yet again. I know I've got Stanford

674
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: winning the bracket, but I'm gonna come down to I'm

675
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: gonna come down to Arkansas and Ole Miss and all

676
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: my friends from growing up. It's gonna be gonna be

677
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: gonna be head to head of the College World Series,

678
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be a lot of fun if it happens.

679
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: You know, I've been wrong just as much as I've

680
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: been right here, but I did. I am excited about

681
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: the potential for this one.

682
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 2: Let's put some numbers behind this.

683
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 3: Auburn projects to be minus one ten, almost a pick

684
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 3: when you take in Auburn starter Trace Bright against Illandalusia total.

685
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 2: Of about ten point one.

686
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 3: This is the one game out of the opening four

687
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 3: where I think it can go over, and a big

688
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 3: part of that is I don't like Auburn's pitching staff whatsoever.

689
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 3: Trace Bright. He pitched the March weekend series against Ole Miss.

690
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 3: He gave up five runs, sloppy defensive performance, it got ugly.

691
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 2: But that was March. So let's look at what Bright

692
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: has done lately. Not good.

693
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 3: He's posted three starts of fewer than three innings, and

694
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 3: three of his last five games. Three of his last

695
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 3: five games, he can't get past the third. So that

696
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 3: tells me that they're going to be deep into Tommy

697
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 3: she and they're going to be deep into Carson Skipper.

698
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 3: They're going to tax this bullpen before they get to

699
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 3: the loser's bracket. I don't like Auburn whatsoever. The pitching

700
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 3: is not good enough to be here. They're living on

701
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 3: those sticks and great. They deserve to be here, right,

702
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 3: They didn't deserve to be a regional host. I should

703
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 3: have been Notre Dame. Notre Dame proved themselves out. But

704
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 3: I think the sticks for Auburn, you know, have put

705
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 3: them in this spot. But oh Miss, there is hot

706
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 3: as the sun right now. Brad's right, Timocho best hitter

707
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 3: out of all eight teams. I am not fading old Miss.

708
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 3: I am fading trace bright of Auburn pitching. So I'm

709
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 3: gonna go Ole Miss minus one thirty in the first game, Brad,

710
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 3: how are we gonna finish up bracket too? We're taking

711
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 3: our hogs against red hot, white hot Ole Miss and

712
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 3: the winner's bracket. What do you see happening here in

713
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 3: a game that's probably a combination of will McIntyre, Zach Morris,

714
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 3: Hagen Smith, Brady Tiger going up up against you know,

715
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 3: Ole Miss and throwing against their staff, which they don't

716
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 3: have near the deep pockets and pitching that Arkansas does.

717
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 1: Now they don't, but they actually have some good arms

718
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: out of the pen that just don't get much love.

719
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: Maybe their eras are a little bit higher than what

720
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: they would have been if they'd have been in one

721
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: of these other conferences where somehow they were able to,

722
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: you know, have one point l eras, hit twelve home

723
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: runs a game.

724
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 2: But Hunter Elliott's been a game two stud for Ole Miss.

725
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 1: He has and and truly when Arkansas and oll Miss

726
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: not that long ago, it was the best series I

727
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,280
Speaker 1: saw all year. It was two teams that didn't make

728
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 1: huge mistakes. They played good baseball. The pitching outdueled the hitting.

729
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: But we won the series, I think. But we were

730
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,280
Speaker 1: at home, mind you. Yeah, and it was two games

731
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: to one. I mean, it wasn't like it was hard

732
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: hard wins. And that was when I decided, Hey, this

733
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: is the best three seed I've ever seen play the sport.

734
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,720
Speaker 3: So, I mean, Elliot, we're probably gonna get Huntre Elliot.

735
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,240
Speaker 3: He's a lefty pitcher. Now that flips Robert Moore around

736
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 3: a lot of you know, the Kendall Diggs, the lefties,

737
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 3: the big bad lefties on our That gets neutralizes some

738
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 3: of our lineup.

739
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: It does, it doesn't, And what it turns into is

740
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: hitting your spots on your off speed stuff in those circumstances.

741
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: And then you know, once you get to that point,

742
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: when you're in the win the bracket phase or win

743
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: or go home phase in Omaha, it comes down to

744
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: who's who's just got it? You know, who shows up,

745
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: and it's hard to pick Arkansas and that who shows

746
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: up moment right. And then again it's hard to pick

747
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,320
Speaker 1: against this based on what we've done so far this postseason.

748
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,760
Speaker 1: I think both Arkansas and Auburn, I mean both Arkansas

749
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: ole bits have gone through a lot to get to

750
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: where we are right now. So I'm just not going

751
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: to pull against Arkansas because for one, you know, I'll

752
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: cry myself to sleep if Arkansas loses a game like that.

753
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: But but now I'm I'm gonna roll with Arkansas. We

754
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: we did win two of three. Yes I do like

755
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: counter Elliott against Arkansas. Yes I do like Elko, Yes

756
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: I do love Gonzales. I think he's one of the

757
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: coolest players in the country, and you know, I hope

758
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: he gets drafted number one next year. But you know,

759
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: I wish this was on the other side of the bracket,

760
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: but they're not. And I'm gonna roll with Woopig because

761
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: I've got tickets if we if we can get it done.

762
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.

763
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 3: Sunday Father's Day, Arkansas is gonna either be playing in

764
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 3: the loser's bracket at one, or they're gonna be playing

765
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 3: in the winner's bracket late at night at six, and

766
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,760
Speaker 3: then move on from there, hopefully in the Winter's bracket

767
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 3: up to Wednesday. But I agree with Brad. I think

768
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 3: it's gonna be Old Miss in Arkansas in this bracket.

769
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 3: I think they're each gonna give each other a loss.

770
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 3: I think this is gonna go the distance, and it's

771
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 3: gonna come down between who's got the most left on

772
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 3: their pitching staff and what I think is going to

773
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 3: be just outstanding baseball. I am gonna take Arkansas to

774
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 3: beat Old Miss. I think it's gonna be as close

775
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 3: as nails. I think it's gonna be, you know, ultra entertaining,

776
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 3: highly competitive. But I have purchased Arkansas plus eight fifty

777
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 3: in the market as a future to compliment my Texas

778
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 3: A and M one hundred and fifty to one. You know,

779
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:51,240
Speaker 3: So that's that's the direction that I'm gonna go, Brad,

780
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 3: you got any who you taking in this bracket?

781
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 2: Again? I heard Otle Miss, I heard Stanford, it'll miss.

782
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 2: Then there's Arkansas. Who you taking in bracket two?

783
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, wopig Suey, We're going, We're going

784
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: tried true on this one. Eventually we got to get

785
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: over the curse of Carson Chatty and in fairness, I

786
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: have a future on Old Miss and Arkansas both to

787
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: win the Cult World Series. Actually have a future on

788
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: like five teams that were Yeah, you did, teams that

789
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: were in the they were they were in the super

790
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: Regionals and Arkansas, Ole Miss, at Texas A and M

791
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: were three of them. So you know, you max out

792
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: your bet here on Betley Arkansas at fifteen hundred dollars.

793
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: So you know, it didn't it didn't take much to

794
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: get get to those odds. But I'm I'm I'm excited

795
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: about about the baseball that we're about to see, and uh,

796
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit devastated that I'm not going to

797
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,399
Speaker 1: be there out of the gate, but I'll be there

798
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: in the spirit, and uh, you know, I think I

799
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a lot of fun.

800
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 3: All right, that's gonna do it. Brad and I are

801
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 3: taking Arkansas and bracket too. We both have futures on them.

802
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 3: I think a plus eight fifty is still good value. Brad,

803
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 3: I are gonna disagree on the top bracket. I'm gonna

804
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 3: go Texas. He's gonna go Texas A and M. That

805
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 3: is strength on strength. That is Texas A and m's

806
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,280
Speaker 3: bullpen with Jacob Palace going up against the long Horns,

807
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 3: unbelievable offense and the rank number one in defensive percentage,

808
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 3: which is extremely important considering the wind is gonna be

809
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 3: blowing in hard.

810
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: And impressive, hard to believe as well.

811
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And I tell you what, Brad, if you

812
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,240
Speaker 3: and I are faced with a Texas Arkansas Southwest Conference

813
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 3: Championship round, I mean that's a hot ticket, right, that's

814
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 3: gonna be.

815
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: At Honestly, Arkansas versus versus Texas, or Arkansas versus Texas

816
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: A and M. I mean it's gonna it's gonna get heated.

817
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 1: So I'm super glad that my older brother gets married

818
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: on June twenty fifth, thank you. And I'm sure Arkansas

819
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: will lose right out of the gate so that none

820
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: of this will matter, but man, it should be fun.

821
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: I think that our chances are our chances are good.

822
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: Stanford is Stanford's good, but there's a lot of good

823
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,760
Speaker 1: baseball teams here, so it'd be interesting.

824
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 3: You're talking to a guy that has a nine month

825
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 3: reservation for three thousand dollars of golf abandon Dune, so

826
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 3: I can't get out of June twenty fifth either. So

827
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 3: if Arkansas makes I'm gonna kill myself. What kind of

828
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 3: fan am I? That I'm golfing on the West coast?

829
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: And now I have to hope that they lose game

830
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: one because because I'm not gonna, I would have to

831
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,800
Speaker 1: leave at three am to make it about two thirty

832
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:25,879
Speaker 1: to Omaha from Memphis. So I really have to hope

833
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: that we lose game one and win Game two so

834
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: that I can make it to Game three. I do

835
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: have tickets for Game three already if they make it,

836
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: but we'll see what happened.

837
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 2: Well, all of you going.

838
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 3: To Omo for the first time, have a great time.

839
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 3: It is a cluster of eight fan bases all fighting

840
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 3: each other. You get your good fans, you get your

841
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 3: bad fans, and they clash with each other trying to

842
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 3: get those standing standing on baseball.

843
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: College baseball fans are the best because there's just not

844
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 1: that many of them, and you you really have to

845
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: love sports, you know, like if you're a college baseball fan,

846
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 1: then odds are you also love football, and you all

847
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 1: love a lot of other things that we love, and

848
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: you love gambling and you love all these other things.

849
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: If you're this into college baseball, then it almost just

850
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:08,399
Speaker 1: makes you a good guy.

851
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

852
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 3: Well, I can't wait to hope the Texas fan that

853
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:13,399
Speaker 3: drank a beer out of his shoe last year shows

854
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 3: up in Omaha.

855
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to seeing that.

856
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 3: So that's gonna do it for Brad and I woopig Suey.

857
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,399
Speaker 3: On the bottom half of the bracket, we're gonna split

858
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 3: it between the Aggies and long Ones. On the top,

859
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 3: we're going for a Southwest Conference championship round.

860
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:27,879
Speaker 2: We are going to be back next week to do that.

861
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 3: Championship round best two out of three. A real short

862
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 3: podcast to give you guys some betting advice. Thanks for

863
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 3: joining me, Brad. It's been a great season so far.

864
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 3: I'm really excited about the College World Series. I hope

865
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 3: both of us are up to be able to make

866
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 3: it up there for a couple of games. I'm excited

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Speaker 3: over the fact I don't see any rain in the forecast,

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Speaker 3: but everybody please check your weather daily. It looks like

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00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 3: the winds that we've blown in hard. That's gonna do it.

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Speaker 3: Big bets on campus college Baseball version on the road

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Speaker 3: to Omaha. We're there, baby, See you next week.