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Speaker 3: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball here
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Speaker 3: today is Dave Silver Back to back? Hello, Dave, back
Speaker 3: to back? Goad to be back again? Yes, yes, we
Speaker 3: love to talk about. Have we got Ray handling the board?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I hate handling that board. Too many teams
Speaker 3: to look at going away, coming back, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Just good to have someone who can handle it. Yes,
Speaker 4: Dave's kind of like those screws up a. We're gonna
Speaker 4: be on right. Yeah. Well, welcome everybody.
Speaker 3: If you want to call, please do five two zero,
Speaker 3: four one, six seventy four forty. We've gone some pretty
Speaker 3: good calls. We had pretty good day yesterday, Dave. Yeah,
Speaker 3: good callers.
Speaker 5: What's going on? Good?
Speaker 6: Good guess I know. We got good guests again today. Yeah,
Speaker 6: lot to talk about. I mean baseball. Great to have
Speaker 6: you a baseball still for this next week or so at.
Speaker 3: Least, right right, so we'll see what happens. They played
Speaker 3: tomorrow at eleven o'clock, we have Tommy Lloyd. We did
Speaker 3: you kind of screw queue that up. Screw that up,
Speaker 3: queue that up, just kind of go to YouTube.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: Tommy Lloyd talked about a lot of things today. He's
Speaker 3: going to coach the younger groups that you you eighteen eighteen, yeah,
Speaker 3: in Colorado Springs and then go to Switzerland with the team.
Speaker 3: You know, Tommy was being Tommy a little snarky in
Speaker 3: a good way.
Speaker 6: Doesn't he have a couple of the recruits are going
Speaker 6: to be part of that team.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be on the team. He's gonna be on that team,
Speaker 3: or he's going to try out to be on the team.
Speaker 3: But we'll make it. Yes, I think you'll make it
Speaker 3: very good team. So we'll look at that. His thing
Speaker 3: today lot went. We went everywhere for like thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: A lot of different topics from the media that was there,
Speaker 3: from the people returning, the people who.
Speaker 4: Left, his roster. I asked him about the roster.
Speaker 3: I asked him about the the possibility of any of
Speaker 3: the Internet players having difficulty coming in to the United
Speaker 3: States to play. He says he was not sure about
Speaker 3: that until it happens right, you don't know untill know,
Speaker 3: but they're doing everything they can to get them on campus.
Speaker 3: I think a couple have already here. Yeah help, yeah there.
Speaker 3: So they don't know exactly, but that's part of it.
Speaker 3: A lot of different things than the roster, I mean,
Speaker 3: not the roster. The schedule. Did you see that? It
Speaker 3: came out today? The official schedule, at least some of
Speaker 3: the key things. I didn't see it. I missed it.
Speaker 3: Did they come in an email? I'm not on the
Speaker 3: email list. You go see apparently get everything. And I
Speaker 3: didn't see it in an email. So why don't you
Speaker 3: go to Asy Desert Swarm if you could? And maybe
Speaker 3: because they're playing Kansas twice? He talked about that and
Speaker 3: b Yu twice, right, and you know my boy Bruce
Speaker 3: who asked the questions that are crazy, he says, you know,
Speaker 3: you know he talked about that and said, well, everybody
Speaker 3: has it tough because everybody kind of plays each other.
Speaker 3: Go to the easy detish one. Maybe they just to
Speaker 3: see if if they talk about the schedule.
Speaker 8: So I like just on the Twitter, I don't have
Speaker 8: a like schedule with dates, but it gives you the
Speaker 8: home and the ways for the conference.
Speaker 3: Yes, is that from the conference? Yeah, okay, maybe maybe
Speaker 3: the conference. You're gonna play Kansas twice this time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's good. Yeah, that's good. And but he said, you know,
Speaker 3: they're a pretty good good program. I'm gonna try to
Speaker 3: paraphrase and not be stupid. Paraphrase, are a pretty good program.
Speaker 3: But we know who runs the roost now, Houston.
Speaker 4: Houston.
Speaker 3: It's a it's an Eastern Texas team that they have
Speaker 3: to surpass. You know, Kansas was good, that's not today,
Speaker 3: it's Houston.
Speaker 4: It's true.
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously the conference was quite good this last year. Yes,
Speaker 6: Iowa States also in the mix there, in the top ten,
Speaker 6: I think, yeah, most of the season. So yeah, it
Speaker 6: turned out to be kind of as we expected. But
Speaker 6: there's no easy easy weekend. Actually talks about that easy
Speaker 6: games at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. He talked about that being, you know, the
Speaker 3: non conference being crazy good. But he says, yeah, the
Speaker 3: conference is going to be just as good as it
Speaker 3: is what it is.
Speaker 8: Did he say anything about going to a tournament this year,
Speaker 8: the NCAA tournament, No, like a preseason tournament.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no no, because they're playing too many
Speaker 3: good teams. They opened the season with Florida, right November.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they're not going to play any kind of
Speaker 4: turn Yeah.
Speaker 3: November third, I think that's a Monday. I think that's
Speaker 3: like the weekend after the Breeders Cup, so it's going
Speaker 3: to be kind of busy. And then November December, so
Speaker 3: we're waiting for the official announcement from U of A.
Speaker 3: But that that one came from the Big twelve. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that you're seeing.
Speaker 4: Oh no, it came from the U of eight.
Speaker 8: Like it's just showing the Big twelve opponents though, like
Speaker 8: ol coman, who's away?
Speaker 4: Or did you get who? Did you see that twitter
Speaker 4: on their schedule on the website?
Speaker 5: Twitter?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Twitter? Yeah, the all important Twitter. It's the fastest thing, man,
Speaker 4: did you see it? I'm just looking at some of
Speaker 4: the games.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean Florida first November third in Vegas and
Speaker 6: they play UCLA in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: That's going to be at the Clippers. What day is that?
Speaker 6: November fourteen? Fourte one of that and then Yukon on
Speaker 6: the road.
Speaker 3: That's it's gonna be fun Vegas that you.
Speaker 6: And then Auburn here which will be a big game,
Speaker 6: and then Alabama in Birmingham. So won't be on campus,
Speaker 6: but it'll be in yeah, in the state, in San
Speaker 6: Diego State, in Phoenix. And then that's it. Well, these
Speaker 6: are game. It's on December twentieth, before Christmas. Yeah remember that.
Speaker 6: You remember the Christmas game always with loot Oh oh yeah,
Speaker 6: the December twenty third, twenty four or twenty yeah, second
Speaker 6: that week right before Christmas.
Speaker 3: Never could win, could win, they always it didn't matter
Speaker 3: who they played. Yeah, we want to get the hell
Speaker 3: out of Dodge and and and get out and come back.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, it'll be good to have the astecs. My
Speaker 6: my school will be playing. So yeah, they've had pretty
Speaker 6: good games in the last decade. They have been the finals,
Speaker 6: what two three years? Well, yeah, they made the championship game.
Speaker 6: It almost won the thing. Now they're gonna play in Phoenix.
Speaker 6: Kind of a I guess I'll these are all like
Speaker 6: made for TV situations. But yeah, it's gonna be a
Speaker 6: great non conference, right and then on then you turn
Speaker 6: right into the did.
Speaker 4: You is it on the on the press conference from
Speaker 4: from him today?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's on there. It's just I just don't know,
Speaker 8: like if the sound's gonna come through. Oh, on the
Speaker 8: on the on here. Okay, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I've just never you've never done it, Okay, okay, do
Speaker 3: it like a caller. I think that's what I was
Speaker 3: told to do. A caller calls in and you put
Speaker 3: it to that microphone and it'll pop in.
Speaker 4: But we won't do it now. We'll do it later.
Speaker 4: Only have time. I'll try it, like on the break
Speaker 4: or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So to mention the break, we'll go to
Speaker 3: break in about five minutes probably. Yeah, we're gonna have
Speaker 3: Jerry Stitt at three seventeen, former U of A baseball coach,
Speaker 3: assistant coach and the head coach after after Kendle, he.
Speaker 6: Was on the He was on the staff obviously when
Speaker 6: when Chip won the championship in eighty six.
Speaker 4: He was one of the assistant.
Speaker 6: Coaches along with Jim Wing I was one of the
Speaker 6: one of the greatest coaching staffs in college baseball history
Speaker 6: of Kendle and yeah and Wing instead.
Speaker 4: Another good guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, another good guy, very bookish, very bright Jerry, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: is it am I correct?
Speaker 4: I think so? Yeah, very very studious he was. He
Speaker 4: was just a great hitting coach.
Speaker 6: That was kind of this thing, you know, win was
Speaker 6: the pitching coach, and Jerry Stitt was the hitting coach,
Speaker 6: and they, together with the leadership of Jerry Kendall, had
Speaker 6: it working for a long long time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny because you know, you and I played
Speaker 3: a game or two softball, baseball, whatever it was many
Speaker 3: years ago and hosting a pool hitter. I pushed it
Speaker 3: to write and I asked, Frank Cota, can you teach.
Speaker 4: Me that hit? How do you?
Speaker 3: If I had that answer, Steve, I'd be you know,
Speaker 3: because it's so difficult, right, but you know there's an
Speaker 3: art to it. There's an art to it, and Jerry state,
Speaker 3: I guess and Francota could probably teach a lot of
Speaker 3: people how to hit.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean it was interesting because both baseball and
Speaker 6: softball had had really good hitting coaches at one point.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they still do. But when we were recovering them.
Speaker 6: Who's the baseball Larry Ray was, oh yeah, yeah, football
Speaker 6: coaches and he was like the master of the swinging
Speaker 6: bunch whatever they call you, lefty slapers, the slappers. So
Speaker 6: he was I mean, he was like world famous for that.
Speaker 6: They would have kids from all over the world would
Speaker 6: come in and learn from him and back in the day.
Speaker 4: That was how you play. You don't try to move
Speaker 4: base to base, you know.
Speaker 6: It doesn't do as much I don't think, I mean
Speaker 6: every but all the most teams seem to have, you know,
Speaker 6: somebody who.
Speaker 4: Can do it, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He eventually got a job at Florida and then got
Speaker 3: released there afterwards. Yeah, yeah, Larry Ray. Yeah, So we'll
Speaker 3: have Jerry still at three seventeen. It will be good
Speaker 3: to talk to him. And at four seventeen we're going
Speaker 3: to have who do we talk about, Oh, Dave road Roady.
Speaker 3: He was mentioned yesterday with our guy Clark christ Right,
Speaker 3: So Dave Roady's going to be on at three four seventeen.
Speaker 4: You know how many errors he had in his major
Speaker 4: league career three years? How many tickets? One?
Speaker 5: One?
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally guess because I probably how I asked
Speaker 3: the question. Yeah, yeah, because he was so steady with
Speaker 3: the glove, you know, nothing got by him. So we'll
Speaker 3: talk about that in the u of A. The u
Speaker 3: of a's presence in the World Series.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's exciting, it really is.
Speaker 6: I think it's always good to be playing kind of
Speaker 6: at the end of the season when that's really the
Speaker 6: only game in town, and people are going to be
Speaker 6: paying attention. It's not like they're going to be stuck
Speaker 6: on you know, ESPN plus, you know, in the middle
Speaker 6: of the afternoon somewhere here they are. It's going to
Speaker 6: be on the big ESPN. And we'll see how they do.
Speaker 6: If they win, they well, they're they're definitely not going
Speaker 6: to play Saturday. Everything goes up to Sunday. They win,
Speaker 6: they play at one time. If they lose, they play
Speaker 6: it one time on Sunday.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So eleven o'clock, first game probably of the whole series
Speaker 3: game ye against the team, and there are other underdogs
Speaker 3: going in.
Speaker 6: Still underdogs. You're gonna put some money on a U
Speaker 6: of A so we can. Yeah, we'll line to change.
Speaker 3: But no, that's that's Jay's job. Okay, you got to
Speaker 3: go the other way with it so they can.
Speaker 6: By the time you guys hit the air tomorrow, it'll
Speaker 6: be over.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well that Jay might do it today, you know, or not,
Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens. What you got everything, Ray,
Speaker 3: did you find it? You found it right, So we'll
Speaker 3: do that later. Yeah, we'll do that later. Anything else,
Speaker 3: Senor David Silver.
Speaker 6: No, just looking forward to talking to the coach and
Speaker 6: talking to to Dave Roady about his his time as
Speaker 6: a Wildcat. No, it's just another chapter in Arizona baseball.
Speaker 6: Hopefully it's something that you know, extends into next week
Speaker 6: at least and they can get through the weekend and
Speaker 6: start seeing maybe maybe facing LSU somewhere along the line
Speaker 6: with the old coach or UCLA or Oregon State teams
Speaker 6: that you know they're somewhat familiar with having just played
Speaker 6: them the last couple of years.
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 6: Sure, it's definitely got a little West Coast flavor. And
Speaker 6: again some of the teams that were used to seeing
Speaker 6: and that tournament are not there, so it's kind.
Speaker 4: Of wide open. I had it.
Speaker 8: I thought about this earlier because you know, everybody's making
Speaker 8: a point of you know, three old Pack twelve teams
Speaker 8: getting in like a couple only a couple of SEC teams.
Speaker 8: How much do you think like And it was one
Speaker 8: of those things in college football too, where it was
Speaker 8: like the Pac twelve, the pack always just eighty like
Speaker 8: itself up, you know what I mean. I could get
Speaker 8: to the championship game and like the favorite to go
Speaker 8: to the playoffs would get upset and like.
Speaker 4: They would or no football football, But so do you
Speaker 4: like do you? I don't know.
Speaker 8: It's just it's it's funny to see it now because
Speaker 8: it's like now that they don't have to play each other,
Speaker 8: they don't beat on each other, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Is that a thing? Is that what you're trying to
Speaker 4: think that now?
Speaker 5: It could be? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well they're in the Big two Big Oregon States
Speaker 3: by itself, right, uh, pack twe and or the Big
Speaker 3: ten right right, that's a possible especially in baseball.
Speaker 4: Baseball was such a difficult.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Big twelve is a pretty good baseball conference,
Speaker 6: better than I thought it was gonna be. And Arizona
Speaker 6: what they finished fourth, and it kind of stumbles a
Speaker 6: little bit at the end. But some of those teams
Speaker 6: are pretty decent. West Virginia, Cincinnati, Houston, No, I guess
Speaker 6: Houston wasn't very good, but those others, he was good.
Speaker 6: But yeah, they managed to get through.
Speaker 4: To your point.
Speaker 3: Probably in baseball, I don't know, but in foot Paul
Speaker 3: they were not good. They were not that good. I
Speaker 3: just at least by the naked eye and what they did,
Speaker 3: they weren't that good. You know, usc maybe every time
Speaker 3: every now and again. But yeah, it was not like
Speaker 3: basketball where they beat up each other and they got
Speaker 3: ready for the what it was ahead.
Speaker 6: I thought it was amazing in Arizona, you know, going
Speaker 6: on the road in baseball here and getting through both
Speaker 6: these you know, the regional and super regional on the
Speaker 6: road and teams home fields.
Speaker 4: I mean, that was pretty impressive. I mean we're kind
Speaker 4: of like it's.
Speaker 6: Happened so fast you don't even have a chance to
Speaker 6: kind of, you know, look at it.
Speaker 4: From a distance. But I mean that was that was
Speaker 4: very impressive.
Speaker 3: In Oregon, well, I don't know what crowd you hang
Speaker 3: out with, Dave, and I know the crowd I hang
Speaker 3: out with what.
Speaker 4: Your old older dudes. I don't have a crowd you do.
Speaker 3: So so a bunch of older dudes who don't talk
Speaker 3: about baseball. Just what they're talking about baseball because you know,
Speaker 3: no one pays attention to you to really do really well.
Speaker 3: They couldn't tell you whose short start. I couldn't tell you,
Speaker 3: But now you know I'm doing it because of the show.
Speaker 3: But before it was like, oh that baseball team pretty good.
Speaker 3: Well you never asked me about that a month ago. Now,
Speaker 3: and that's not a criticism. It's just how this city is. Right,
Speaker 3: you don't pay attention to until you till you have
Speaker 3: the news all of.
Speaker 4: A sudden, you know, a top story.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: It's interesting too because when they're on TV all of
Speaker 6: a sudden, like I had no idea what even these
Speaker 6: guy's even looked like. Right, No, I know that the
Speaker 6: games have been on here and there, but you know
Speaker 6: there's just something special when they get on you know,
Speaker 6: national TV, and you learn about them and their hometowns
Speaker 6: and their stats and their history and the stories it
Speaker 6: will be coming out that many many of us probably
Speaker 6: had no idea about until tomorrow.
Speaker 3: It's funny. I'm not like Jake because Jay's over the
Speaker 3: top with this. You know, he's a guy who you know,
Speaker 3: you walk out and if you're six foot five and
Speaker 3: you you look good in the uniform, he says, God,
Speaker 3: that guy must be a good player.
Speaker 7: Dude.
Speaker 3: Give me a five foot ten dude who looks like this,
Speaker 3: grunty dude who can play scrappy dude. So yesterday they
Speaker 3: they were the first team in Omah out of their
Speaker 3: bus and do you remember bad newspapers coming out of
Speaker 3: their and they kind of look like ragtag group. This
Speaker 3: team was just a bunch of dudes. This a bunch
Speaker 3: of dudes. Like, how is this team a good team?
Speaker 3: Because they're good players? Yeah, And it goes to my
Speaker 3: point again as I always try to do. Everyone says,
Speaker 3: if you dress good, you look good, you play good.
Speaker 3: Just give me dudes that can play. Yeah, does it
Speaker 3: make sense? Nough for sure?
Speaker 4: And you played wrestle against those dudes? Yeah yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean he looked tough. But guess what, Yeah, they're tall,
Speaker 4: that's right, they're dogs.
Speaker 8: No, yeah, man, so and that's just how sports is,
Speaker 8: you know what I mean exactly. It's like you see
Speaker 8: upsets all the time, and that's why we love it.
Speaker 8: That's why loves it.
Speaker 4: You know, how did that big dude get beat? Because
Speaker 4: the other dude was tougher? Andy Ruiz and Anthony Joshua,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: It's like you see like this big old, you know,
Speaker 8: kind of chubby gag getting into the ring box. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 8: with a six pack. Yeah, and it's just like, yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Tough to beat a whale, then gonna get through that
Speaker 3: that fat That's right. Okay, we gotta go because we
Speaker 3: can get a call from Jerry Stitt.
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Speaker 2: Steve now went five two oh four one six seventy
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Speaker 3: FI the Ball Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty part Steve
Speaker 3: Rivera in with me to day.
Speaker 4: Dave Silver Now on the phone.
Speaker 3: We have former You have a baseball coach assistant coach
Speaker 3: Jerry Stitt now the assistant a d at Pima coach.
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 5: You're good? Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3: Of course we love having you on. You've been on
Speaker 3: a few times. This must be a pretty good time
Speaker 3: for Jerry Stitt. You know you have a program there
Speaker 3: at Pima that did a fantastic job this year in sports,
Speaker 3: and then you get to see your former school do
Speaker 3: really well.
Speaker 15: Right now, Yeah, yeah, first to go with the Wildcats. Yeah,
Speaker 15: it's and this is one of the things that the
Speaker 15: Wildcats face, not not to correct you, but it's it's
Speaker 15: never my former school.
Speaker 4: It's still my.
Speaker 15: I'll always be a Wildcat, the old born and bred
Speaker 15: be a Wildcat.
Speaker 5: So I'm dead that one. That's me. That's that's how
Speaker 5: we feel about it. You know, we're very proud of.
Speaker 15: The Wildcat, Chip and the whole staff and everything those
Speaker 15: guys have done.
Speaker 5: It's been incredible.
Speaker 6: It's been so cool to see Chip, you know, rise
Speaker 6: to this level and you've known him. Did you help
Speaker 6: recruit him here as a player back what in nineteen
Speaker 6: eighty one ish?
Speaker 5: Yes, I helped.
Speaker 15: Uh, it was mainly coach Waning that got him. Uh,
Speaker 15: he was up scouting Dave Carly. He was he was
Speaker 15: a six nine right hander playing high school teammate at
Speaker 15: Chips and they're playing summer ball and Coach Wing went
Speaker 15: up to.
Speaker 5: See him and and he's watching.
Speaker 15: Carly and and from the minute he got to the park,
Speaker 15: he couldn't take his eyes off Chip and and he
Speaker 15: told old coach Kennel, we got to get this guy.
Speaker 15: You know, he's he's going to be a great one
Speaker 15: and h And we got both of them, carly And
Speaker 15: and Dave, carly And and UH and Chipper and Uh.
Speaker 15: And he came in and started every game played ever
Speaker 15: he came from his freshman year through what.
Speaker 1: Was what do he have?
Speaker 4: What did Wing seeing him back then?
Speaker 5: You know, he was one of those guys.
Speaker 15: And you know, I've done a lot of clinics of
Speaker 15: all sides all over the country and and internationally, and
Speaker 15: and that's one of the.
Speaker 5: Questions I get you.
Speaker 15: The greatest players I ever coached, one, of course, was
Speaker 15: Tito and the other one was Chip. And one one
Speaker 15: was great and made himself very great. The other one
Speaker 15: was was fairly average and made himself great.
Speaker 5: And that's that's what we all loved about Chip.
Speaker 15: And that's what Coach Wing saw in him, is that
Speaker 15: he didn't he didn't have the uh, the tools, the
Speaker 15: basic tool they're all pretty average. You know, a couple
Speaker 15: of his his hands were above average, and he was
Speaker 15: a great contact hitter, and but but it just how
Speaker 15: he played the game and how.
Speaker 5: He led his team and his his.
Speaker 15: To effort, uh, not only to improve, but but to
Speaker 15: help his team win.
Speaker 5: Is what what uh?
Speaker 15: What we got out of Chip and what the Cats
Speaker 15: are getting out of Chip Right now?
Speaker 6: I was going to say, what about the leadership? Where
Speaker 6: did that come from? Did did he have that even
Speaker 6: before he got here or did he pick that up?
Speaker 6: You think maybe from you guys with Vane, Well, all
Speaker 6: I can say is.
Speaker 5: Chip.
Speaker 15: Chip just had it and that old thing, I'm not
Speaker 15: sure what it is, but he has it, you know,
Speaker 15: that that thing where people are just drawn to him.
Speaker 15: And he's very well respected, as you know, you've talked
Speaker 15: to him and interviewed him, very soft spoken and never
Speaker 15: says anything about how great he is or what he's done.
Speaker 15: It's always about what people around him have done and
Speaker 15: what the team has done. And and and he he
Speaker 15: grew up with that and and and you know was
Speaker 15: his high school and and summer coaches Uh always told
Speaker 15: us that that's your leader right there, and and and
Speaker 15: and as Steve Strong, who's still his best friend, he
Speaker 15: roomed with Chip is all four years when they were here.
Speaker 5: And we still laugh about this.
Speaker 15: He's the only one we've ever known that you go
Speaker 15: in and tell coach Kendall what he thought, and coach
Speaker 15: would take it to heart.
Speaker 16: Yeah it was. It wasn't well let me think about that. Well, Chip,
Speaker 16: you know what, You're right, we need to do this.
Speaker 16: It was just one of those things about him is
Speaker 16: that he's he's very smart. You know, he had had
Speaker 16: an appointment.
Speaker 15: To the Naval Academy and a bigger scholarship than we
Speaker 15: gave him to Santa Clara, and and he chose us,
Speaker 15: Thank goodness.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, what, you know, as a as
Speaker 6: a former coach or as a coach, what do you
Speaker 6: like about this year's team?
Speaker 4: What do you like about the Wildcats of Omaha?
Speaker 5: Right now?
Speaker 3: If I could answer that question, because I was going
Speaker 3: to ask the same thing, and how do you look.
Speaker 4: At the game? You know you won't play for the couch,
Speaker 4: but do you watch it as a fan?
Speaker 3: Do you watch it? This kid's great, this kid's not?
Speaker 3: You know, what do you see?
Speaker 5: Well? You know, we go to just about every.
Speaker 15: Home game, you know, it doesn't matter conference, non conference,
Speaker 15: big game or.
Speaker 5: Not so great.
Speaker 15: And and uh, you know, I said, or seats the
Speaker 15: right behind her plate, and we sit there and I
Speaker 15: said I sit there right next to Steve Strong and
Speaker 15: and I just watch I watch as as a coach,
Speaker 15: and and things that I see that could be improved
Speaker 15: or see that things I think are great and just
Speaker 15: and and and as a fan of course, you know,
Speaker 15: uh just really really want the Cats always to succeed
Speaker 15: and chip, especially with this this group of Wildcats. But yeah,
Speaker 15: so it's just from a lot of different perspectives. I
Speaker 15: watched the game and kind of see what the coaches
Speaker 15: are doing, and just just to appreciate how well they've
Speaker 15: done this year after some really low, very low spots
Speaker 15: in the season where he wondered, God, or we even
Speaker 15: going to get into a regional, let alone host one.
Speaker 5: And they just kept battling, just kept battling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to maybe to Dave's question again, when you look
Speaker 3: at the players, specifically the guy that the kids from
Speaker 3: White from South Point, the local kid, what do you
Speaker 3: see in him?
Speaker 15: Well, you know, his grandfather, Tim played with when I
Speaker 15: was with me at when I was at the uvert
Speaker 15: and played together, i should say, and I coached I
Speaker 15: coached many his dad when he was in the early
Speaker 15: nineties when he was wild And I've known Mason uh
Speaker 15: and known of him since he was very young, and
Speaker 15: that first time ever saw him.
Speaker 5: He is eleven years old.
Speaker 15: I think cornaught a little league and he's the best
Speaker 15: player on the field. And then watched him all the
Speaker 15: way through high school, and you know, watched him at
Speaker 15: South Point, you know, where I coached for a good
Speaker 15: number of years, and went to the home games in
Speaker 15: some away games, and just he was just.
Speaker 5: A different player.
Speaker 15: You know, he just could elevate himself and the team
Speaker 15: to the moment and and and it's interesting that and
Speaker 15: he could hit the ball a long way, and you
Speaker 15: know he can still do that, but in high school
Speaker 15: he could hit the ball line the line and just
Speaker 15: and you know, fell off eight nine pitches before he
Speaker 15: got the one he wanted and then ith'd hit a
Speaker 15: single to left.
Speaker 5: Or a home run onto.
Speaker 15: The softball field or something. But yeah, and he just
Speaker 15: showed that. And he could he always had real good hands,
Speaker 15: good feet, and a strong arm and just just as
Speaker 15: lightning and a barrel. And we've seen that through his
Speaker 15: three years as a Wildcat.
Speaker 4: How about playing on the big stage.
Speaker 6: You think these guys are ready to go into a
Speaker 6: place like Omaha where you know you were there, what
Speaker 6: four times with the Wildcats. It's a big It's a
Speaker 6: big difference, isn't it.
Speaker 5: It is a big difference.
Speaker 15: But as as as a trip couch and Chips, Doumber,
Speaker 15: one assistant and recruited coordinator, says, we're just playing baseball.
Speaker 5: The game doesn't change.
Speaker 2: You know, the.
Speaker 15: Venue or the crowd or who we're playing against might change,
Speaker 15: but it doesn't matter who you're playing, You're You're still
Speaker 15: playing baseball.
Speaker 5: And I think that's one of the things.
Speaker 15: That this team has done very well, and just battery
Speaker 15: want of chips, teams.
Speaker 5: Have done well. They play the game and and don't.
Speaker 15: Let the the moment get in the way of what
Speaker 15: they're what they're trying to do as an individual to
Speaker 15: help the team win.
Speaker 3: It's funny you say that, because baseball is baseball, right
Speaker 3: and everybody plays it the same but different. Let me
Speaker 3: ask you, does his style of coaching kind of emulate
Speaker 3: Jerry's at all or maybe a little similar?
Speaker 4: And I reason I ask is I have another question
Speaker 4: for that.
Speaker 15: Well, the one thing that we all learned from coach
Speaker 15: Kindle was was that the fundamentals never changed, you know,
Speaker 15: you know, as much as the way baseball seems to
Speaker 15: have changed. It really hasn't you Still you still need
Speaker 15: to throw strikes and play catch and put the ball
Speaker 15: play to win. And the constant repetition of the fundamental
Speaker 15: And you heard it on the broadcast when Wes Clements
Speaker 15: was was doing the commentary.
Speaker 5: He would talk about coach.
Speaker 15: And how and it was like, oh, no, we got
Speaker 15: to do this again.
Speaker 5: When are we going to hit?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 15: So it was just yeah, and that's what the chip
Speaker 15: just pounds into them.
Speaker 5: I know you've been practices.
Speaker 15: And you've seen them the infielders down on don on
Speaker 15: their knees. Uh, field in the ground balls with with
Speaker 15: with no glove, and you've see the outfield taking their
Speaker 15: their route steps and you know the pictures just just
Speaker 15: practice and just throwing easy and getting their mechanics right. Yeah,
Speaker 15: that's that's just the way it's he's he teaches it.
Speaker 15: The fundamentals don't change, and in order to win, you
Speaker 15: have to you have to do the fundamentals correctly over
Speaker 15: and over again.
Speaker 3: So you have a lot of games in a season. Uh,
Speaker 3: and and they gets more intense, like they're going to
Speaker 3: get this week? Uh did Jerry? And I probably know
Speaker 3: the answer to this have a Rockney speech. Did he
Speaker 3: have something that got the guys going? My guess is no,
Speaker 3: but maybe I'm wrong. And would Chip have that in
Speaker 3: his pocket?
Speaker 5: Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 15: You know it was never over the top. It was
Speaker 15: is not the raw, raw type of type of speech.
Speaker 15: It was just more of a and Chip does this
Speaker 15: very well. It's it's more of a confidence building moment
Speaker 15: where you know we're up to this.
Speaker 5: You know we can do this.
Speaker 15: We just remember where we've been and what we've done
Speaker 15: to get ready, and we can do this. And that's
Speaker 15: that was Coach's message all the time. And it didn't
Speaker 15: matter who we were playing or where we were playing.
Speaker 15: It was the same and of course different ways of
Speaker 15: saying it, but it was basically the same message.
Speaker 5: You guys are good.
Speaker 15: You know you're good. You've worked hard for this moment.
Speaker 15: Now just go out and do what you do. And
Speaker 15: I think that's where the cats have been and you know,
Speaker 15: the doubters and the haters have been out there all
Speaker 15: along with Chip and the Wildcats when they're down or
Speaker 15: this guy can't coach in the pros. You didn't know
Speaker 15: what he's doing, and you know, okay, all right, keep
Speaker 15: saying that it's funny. It's never been done, never been done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny you say that because even you're saying this,
Speaker 3: and Pete, we know that because people are negative, negative, negative,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, Oh, the guy's great because
Speaker 3: he's here. But it's funny that you say this because
Speaker 3: you you must have heard it or saw it somewhere. Right.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's so true, so true. Thank you for saying.
Speaker 4: That, bringing back some memories.
Speaker 15: I guess, yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, And I know
Speaker 15: it's well, I was saying that.
Speaker 5: I was kind of counting up the number of.
Speaker 15: Reasons we went to when I was coaching. There's sist
Speaker 15: in our head coach. We went nine times. You went
Speaker 15: to all four and one two, And you know that's
Speaker 15: that's a when you look at it at oh man,
Speaker 15: that's all that's a that's a pretty good uh average.
Speaker 5: You know, that's a pretty.
Speaker 15: Darn good average that for a program over the years.
Speaker 15: And you know it's we went to we went to
Speaker 15: nine and in my uh twenty three years and ship's
Speaker 15: already gone to four.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: So well, you talked about something yesterday, Dave, the good
Speaker 3: team that didn't make it the Oklahoma State I can't
Speaker 3: remember the year.
Speaker 4: Oh the ninety three team.
Speaker 6: Was it ninety three when when you guys lost fight
Speaker 6: at Oklahoma State? Was such a great team you had
Speaker 6: like having guys drafted or something, nine guys drafted.
Speaker 4: That was such an awesome team.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that was in fact, just since you mentioned that
Speaker 15: they were, that team was here this past weekend room
Speaker 15: reunion and a huge number of guys came in and
Speaker 15: played golf and hung out. And I went up to
Speaker 15: OMNI on Friday afternoon with Bobby Benzing or.
Speaker 5: Equipment man, and.
Speaker 15: When they all those guys were here and just talked
Speaker 15: about stuff. And that was truly a great team. Was
Speaker 15: It was across the board pretty much considered one of
Speaker 15: the greatest hitting teams in the history of college baseball.
Speaker 5: And and.
Speaker 15: It came down to the to the regional at Oklahoma State,
Speaker 15: and and we had a pitcher who who went down
Speaker 15: and couldn't pitch, and and that's when the beloved Todd
Speaker 15: Brown came in and just you know, pitched on fume
Speaker 15: and we we lost in the in the championship game
Speaker 15: and late in the game. That was a great, great
Speaker 15: team and if our pitching would have held together, I
Speaker 15: think we would have won. We at least competed for
Speaker 15: the national championship.
Speaker 5: And look at the eighty nine team, you know, with
Speaker 5: all those.
Speaker 15: Greats that went on to pro ball, and you know,
Speaker 15: they're great here and they're great in pro ball, you know,
Speaker 15: Trevor's and Jts and just what a team that was,
Speaker 15: Alan's Inner and just a great, great team Scott Erickson
Speaker 15: and and we lost in our own regionals.
Speaker 5: You know, it's like holy cow, and that was you
Speaker 5: know what happened. It happens right.
Speaker 3: In fact, I think I had Andy on last weekend
Speaker 3: it Lopez, and I think baseball, you know, we know
Speaker 3: how difficult is to get to the final four and
Speaker 3: when maybe win a softball title. But to me, baseball
Speaker 3: is one of the harder ones because there's so many
Speaker 3: land mines and so many good teams, and and baseball
Speaker 3: is kind of different because you never know what's going
Speaker 3: to happen with pitching or hitting or whatever. Would you
Speaker 3: agree that it's just kind of like a difficult, difficult
Speaker 3: thing even with a good team.
Speaker 5: It is, even with a great team.
Speaker 15: It is so hard, you know, And in eighty nine,
Speaker 15: you know that our center fielder Kevin Long who was
Speaker 15: our hit third or our leader, our team captain.
Speaker 5: And you know, the first game.
Speaker 15: Of the regional, he he breaks his finger diving into
Speaker 15: back into first base and can't play the rest of
Speaker 15: the rest.
Speaker 5: Of the regional.
Speaker 15: And he always said we'd have won the national championship
Speaker 15: if I hadn't got hurt, And I say, well, we'd
Speaker 15: at least played for it.
Speaker 5: But it's things like that.
Speaker 15: And you look at that game Sunday where that second
Speaker 15: basemin makes an air just a ground balls, as we say,
Speaker 15: there there really are no routine ground balls. You know,
Speaker 15: they're all tough and you all you have to make
Speaker 15: the play. And then the great bunt where the third
Speaker 15: basement threw it away and all of a sudden, Mason
Speaker 15: drives to it and we win. So it's it is
Speaker 15: You're right, there are land mines, you know, a blop
Speaker 15: single here, a walk, a hit by pitch, an error
Speaker 15: by a really quality second basement. You just never know.
Speaker 15: That's that's part of the beauty of it.
Speaker 4: Definitely. Yeah, well that was great, great to catch up.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's gonna be a fun weekend, I hope
Speaker 6: for you and for your your alumni group.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, let's.
Speaker 4: See if they can. Who do you advance? Keep on going?
Speaker 3: Maybe one last quick question because we've got to go.
Speaker 3: So where do you watch the game? And do you
Speaker 3: hang out with some of the ex guys maybe locally?
Speaker 4: It is what do you where are you watching the
Speaker 4: game from? And will it be with a bunch of
Speaker 4: X guys.
Speaker 15: Yeah, we'll be We'll be watching it at home and
Speaker 15: you know, we'll have a small watch party. You know,
Speaker 15: I not one to go to a big watch party
Speaker 15: because I don't like to be distracted what I'm wating.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know it makes sense.
Speaker 15: But yeah, no doubt we'll be watching and just just
Speaker 15: rooting the Cats on.
Speaker 4: Great. Thank you coach, Thank you, Jerry, yep, thanks thanks
Speaker 4: for having me. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: On the Ball with Steve Rivera on Block Sports sporteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to my on the Ball here of
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Dave Silver
Speaker 3: got ready at the controls. That was a good interview
Speaker 3: with Jerry Stitt.
Speaker 4: Good to catch up with him.
Speaker 6: He was He was always a good one to talk to,
Speaker 6: even when he was an assistant under kindle. We would
Speaker 6: have talked to Jerry. They were always available. And yeah,
Speaker 6: it was great.
Speaker 3: Very smooth minded, very you know, controlled voice.
Speaker 4: You know how you doing today, Steve.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Just very just not always
Speaker 3: under control. Yeah, not excited like.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 4: That was kindled too, he was. They were all like
Speaker 4: that in those year.
Speaker 3: Yes, well let me say when he when I asked
Speaker 3: him about the speeches and things like that, I'm sure
Speaker 3: it's all generational. Loot was that guy. Yeah, And I've
Speaker 3: never really asked any of the guys. Didlut have something
Speaker 3: that he kind of said? No, it was everything, kind
Speaker 3: of like you know, every game's the same, gentleman, it
Speaker 3: will be good. You know you're good, kind of like
Speaker 3: you're good. Just go out and prove it, right, yeah, YadA.
Speaker 3: Some people kind of criticize that because of some of
Speaker 3: the first round losses, you know guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, I'm all excited. They were all
Speaker 4: pumped up right right.
Speaker 3: I think he had guys like Phil Johnson that they
Speaker 3: would get on them, you know, just crazy coaches that
Speaker 3: you know, got on them for that.
Speaker 6: Well, there's also too because Kendall and Lout were you know,
Speaker 6: from the Upper Midwest. There was that thing too. There
Speaker 6: were they both Norwegian or something. I maybe there's some
Speaker 6: of that yah, you know, so they kind of came
Speaker 6: out of the same culture. They're probably around the same age.
Speaker 6: I think, you know, they all were kind of you know,
Speaker 6: grew up in the fifties and stately, very stately, didn't
Speaker 6: you know, didn't have a lot of attention on themselves,
Speaker 6: and that's kind of where they led their programs. And
Speaker 6: you know a lot of these guys have gone on
Speaker 6: to become coaches themselves and and look to Loot and
Speaker 6: look to Kendall as you know, they're their first real
Speaker 6: big mentors in the coaching business.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think I don't know sometimes because like I've asked coaches,
Speaker 8: like well, high school coaches, but like still as coaches.
Speaker 4: If they've like given speeches and a lot of them
Speaker 4: tell me that.
Speaker 8: It's just like the players that like they like, they
Speaker 8: either understand or they'll be the ones to talk to
Speaker 8: their own right.
Speaker 3: Right, If you don't know the magnitude of the game,
Speaker 3: he shouldn't be told that the magnitude of the game, right.
Speaker 6: And it's not like they're not hearing it from their
Speaker 6: family and their friends. Hey, come on, this is the
Speaker 6: biggest game you've ever I mean, there's a lot on
Speaker 6: the line and everyone's going to be there putting pressure
Speaker 6: on these guys.
Speaker 4: Dave, you're going to come on the rad of tomorrow.
Speaker 3: You better be good at this, and I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: you fired up, he said, Steve, I got this.
Speaker 4: Shut up. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: You already know, You already know the situation. We're going
Speaker 3: to Omaha. We don't need anybody telling us this is.
Speaker 4: Important and we've proven ourselves.
Speaker 6: We've won in some hostile environments and we're going to
Speaker 6: go and play you know, the national TV, and it's
Speaker 6: going to be a big moment for them.
Speaker 4: They should be looking forward to.
Speaker 3: Well to your question that you asked them about the
Speaker 3: stage and all that is. Baseball is baseball. It's just
Speaker 3: a different facility. I don't know if I believe that.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 6: I do, I guess I do. Still got to be
Speaker 6: it's got to be in the back of their mind.
Speaker 6: Hey wait a second, you know, pinch me. I'm here
Speaker 6: in Omaha, have made the major leagues.
Speaker 4: It's a big deal. I think I think there's some
Speaker 4: of that.
Speaker 3: But and I've argued this with Jay, and maybe I'm
Speaker 3: completely wrong, whatever, but you know, these the guys who
Speaker 3: get to the major leagues and you saw one the
Speaker 3: other night, first at bat or second at bat, they
Speaker 3: get their thing, and the family's teary eyed and blah
Speaker 3: blah blah. The dude's been doing it all his life.
Speaker 3: To him, it's just another game. Maybe inside he's got
Speaker 3: but it's what you do. You know you drive. If
Speaker 3: you drive a truck across country, what do you do?
Speaker 3: You drive across across gutters? You don't say that's what
Speaker 3: you do. These guys play ball. To you and me,
Speaker 3: it might be like, wow, crap, I'm gonna poop my pants.
Speaker 3: But it's called Tuesday.
Speaker 4: I agree. We'll see.
Speaker 6: Hopefully they can respond and it won't you know the
Speaker 6: bright lights won't be a big deal.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: I don't know about you, but didn't you guys to
Speaker 6: get pumped up when you had a big story to cover,
Speaker 6: like a final four or championship.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, but it didn't. I wish it would have
Speaker 4: maybe right better? Maybe I'm Maybe I'm because it didn't
Speaker 4: involve me. It didn't involve me.
Speaker 3: Although you know the nick day when you kind of
Speaker 3: you write it and you read it next day, anythink cool?
Speaker 4: I was there.
Speaker 3: I was there, like for the national title game and
Speaker 3: they win the title. You're thinking maybe I should have
Speaker 3: written it a little bit differently.
Speaker 5: Whatever.
Speaker 3: It's always second guessing or god, every you know Bruce,
Speaker 3: when we have Brusson and we were on the road
Speaker 3: a lot together cover the team, I used to finish
Speaker 3: my story and he'd be still hacking away and I'm thinking, God,
Speaker 3: your story sucks.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna start again. Yes, yeah, there's no way. And
Speaker 4: then you wake up say you got a ninety seven.
Speaker 4: That's pretty damn good. Right right, Well, let's see.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, they've they've been Grays on the
Speaker 6: road and they're you know, away from High Corbett. They're
Speaker 6: gonna be back in like a major league stadium. It's
Speaker 6: gonna be the big dimensions like high Corbett.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think they kind of got lucky by playing in
Speaker 6: an Oregon where the field was didn't play organ when
Speaker 6: they were in Oregon, you know, and like, whoa, we
Speaker 6: get have some home runs here by just hitting some
Speaker 6: high fly balls in the wind.
Speaker 4: I don't know how the weather is going to be
Speaker 4: in Omaha.
Speaker 3: Also, remember, Dave, they're not played against themselves. They're playing
Speaker 3: against pretty good teams, right, So the other team is
Speaker 3: thinking the same thing.
Speaker 4: You know, we gotta do this, we do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and at the other day maybe maybe, if not,
Speaker 3: the other team could be better.
Speaker 6: Right, Well, I'm in Coastal Carolina was the one that
Speaker 6: beat them in twenty sixteen. So it doesn't matter in
Speaker 6: terms of you know, the players, but you know they're
Speaker 6: gonna say, hey, wait a second, we can win.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure we can beat these guys. Sure, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: And in this tournament itself, all the big names aren't there, right,
Speaker 3: you mean the powers that were used to see.
Speaker 4: So someone's gonna sneak it, sneak through? Why not Arizona?
Speaker 5: Why not?
Speaker 4: You know you hear that everywhere you you were mentioned,
Speaker 4: what's the T shirt? Going for five?
Speaker 3: Going for five some type of I saw that yesterday
Speaker 3: in the story that I told you about TV.
Speaker 4: Yeah, cool shirt. Where do you get it? Bookstore? Bookstore? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, shirt?
Speaker 4: Is that what it is?
Speaker 5: Probably?
Speaker 3: Probably they ain't cheap anymore. Anybody you want to call.
Speaker 4: That, we we got like thirty four minutes.
Speaker 3: Okay, if you want to call, please do five to zero, four, one, six, seventy,
Speaker 3: four to forty your your thoughts on the baseball team.
Speaker 4: You're gonna have breaking news on the other side. Oh yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: And then at four to seventeen we're gonna have Dave Roady,
Speaker 3: another one of those kind of stable dudes. Good dude,
Speaker 3: we gotta call perfect timing. Hello, you're on the air.
Speaker 3: Nine on the ball?
Speaker 4: Who's this?
Speaker 20: Rick? How are you doing?
Speaker 3: Hey? Rick?
Speaker 4: What's the word?
Speaker 20: How are you doing?
Speaker 5: Dave? Hey?
Speaker 20: Just thinking about this the other day. Baseball is the
Speaker 20: hardest game to predict from one day to the next.
Speaker 20: And I say that because number, when you have nine
Speaker 20: people on the field, you have so many different variables
Speaker 20: going on. A pitcher can be on, a great pitcher
Speaker 20: can be totally off, and it just and your bats
Speaker 20: you could be missing the ball. It is, so you're
Speaker 20: so vulnerable when you play baseball. Unlike basketball or football,
Speaker 20: and I'm talking about the primary sports, they're much more
Speaker 20: predictable because there's a certain level of consistency that you
Speaker 20: can develop. Baseball is the most unpredictable game you can
Speaker 20: you can play. And that's just from watching it. From
Speaker 20: playing it. You know, one day you're you're hitting three fifty,
Speaker 20: the next day you're barely swinging the back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Rick, I totally agree with you, totally agree
Speaker 3: with you, and I never the kids, and I never.
Speaker 8: Agree with I know you never.
Speaker 20: You never agree with me unless.
Speaker 4: You want to give me some money, and I definitely
Speaker 4: don't agree. There we go ahead, but no.
Speaker 20: And just and that's the one greatest thing about baseball.
Speaker 20: It's like, and here's the other flip side of that
Speaker 20: whole deal. You can strike out a dozen times, and
Speaker 20: all of a sudden you're hitting three hovers in a row.
Speaker 3: Right, white kid, he had kind of been slumping before
Speaker 3: you got that base hit, right, be came a shortened
Speaker 3: just swinging, got got that base hit.
Speaker 4: Well, look what happened?
Speaker 15: You know?
Speaker 6: The first game of that regional I get destroyed, what
Speaker 6: eighteen to two, and they come back the next day
Speaker 6: and it's like they just totally forgot about it, move
Speaker 6: on to the next.
Speaker 20: Game, and it's it's crazy. But that's why I love
Speaker 20: baseball so much, because it is so unpredictable, and uh,
Speaker 20: being a coach, you gotta want no wonder most of
Speaker 20: them don't have much hair left.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, you're right, you're right where you watching the game?
Speaker 4: What are you watching the game? Are you?
Speaker 20: And yeah, I'm taping it. Actually I meant I'm hosting
Speaker 20: a conference.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow, but okay, I'm not.
Speaker 20: I'll watch it. I got him, I got him all taped.
Speaker 5: Okay, re good, Thanks Rick, So appreciate you guys.
Speaker 4: Thanks for the call.
Speaker 3: Got about not enough time for another call, right, five
Speaker 3: fifty four?
Speaker 4: Got about two minutes.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I agree with him though, because wasn't starting pitching right?
Speaker 3: Starting pitching. One of the things that enlightened me a
Speaker 3: little bit more when I have Blake on you know,
Speaker 3: former picture, former you know pro picture, Uh, and you
Speaker 3: it's gonna be game ones are always tough because you're
Speaker 3: gonna face the number one guy, the number one guy,
Speaker 3: and depends how good that number one guy is. Either
Speaker 3: you're gonna stretch you down or you get you know,
Speaker 3: get to him, right, But if you can get get
Speaker 3: to him, that'll be great because then you don't have
Speaker 3: to face him again Game two, Game three.
Speaker 6: Which kind of made last weekend even more remarkable because
Speaker 6: the number one guy got shelled. You know, Kramkowski gave
Speaker 6: up all those runs and they just you know, there
Speaker 6: was nothing they could do to stop who they lose
Speaker 6: to that North Carolina. Yeah, I mean, you're right, and
Speaker 6: so the other there was some depth in the pitching
Speaker 6: staff that we saw this past weekend, which was great.
Speaker 3: Well, let's go back to Oregon. They faced the number
Speaker 3: one guy from They got two hits and all they
Speaker 3: needed to survive, right, you know, so that guy was
Speaker 3: pretty damn good.
Speaker 6: So I'm sure Coastal Carolina is gonna throw their number
Speaker 6: one guy and we'll see how they react to him.
Speaker 6: And how much scouting can you do really against the
Speaker 6: player You've never really seen him personal, right.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they're scouring the tapes, you know, how to hit,
Speaker 3: how to pitch these guys.
Speaker 6: So yeah, but that number one starter generally is your
Speaker 6: best picture. Generally you're you know, you're hoping you're gonna
Speaker 6: get a great performance, and uh, you know, in the
Speaker 6: regionals so far, it's been the other pictures who've kind
Speaker 6: of carried the load.
Speaker 3: Right right, Are we good to go? Yeah yeah, all right, okay,
Speaker 3: and we can come back early if you want. Let's
Speaker 3: take a break, come back, we'll get your break, your
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