North Florida Sports Network Podcast
North Florida Sports Network Podcast
Cursed Seminoles, Surging Pacers, and College Baseball Chaos
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all right, welcome back. How's everybody doing? It's great summer, it's hot, the north here, everybody's doing their job. We, we understand that and we're going to wind down. We're going to wrap up the baseball seasons as our teams Florida State and Miami got eliminated and the Super Regionals put a bow on that Big fucking bow. And then we have the NBA Finals are heating up right in the climax of that. Uh, we got game four tonight. We're going to talk about that. We're going to go over the series so far. It's going to be fun. We also who knows when we will talk a little recruiting. See what's going down as we're getting closer to the bottom.
Florida State Baseball Elimination
Speaker 1Yeah, it's about to be the dead period. Maybe some ufc talk if we have time. But if you haven't done so, download, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Podcast is available everywhere. So, uh, let's get started, we'll see you next time. Is that the excitement that was the air leaving the building after game one in Oklahoma City? Oof, as Halliburton did it again. As we come to you late in reactions, we're at the game one before game four and we react to the end of the Super Regionals a week later. First off, florida State went out to Corvallis Oregon State, three-time national champion. It was a good series. I guess the game one is where it was decided, as FSU blew a 4-1 lead in the bottom of the ninth.
Speaker 3With two outs and only one strike to go.
Speaker 1With one strike away. They just got, and then they were able to win game two.
Speaker 3You want to talk about everybody doing their jobs. Florida State baseball did their job, the same thing they've been doing for the last 35 years.
Speaker 1Right, I don't. That was a frustrating one, that game one.
Speaker 3They all are man.
Speaker 1They bounced back, but then they got shelled in game three.
Speaker 3They did. You saw your game three starter. Get his ass whooped in like the first two in the third inning.
Speaker 1Yeah, first inning.
Speaker 3Well, yeah, he didn't even last.
Speaker 1He scored two in that top of the first, but then that was over. They scored seven, right.
Speaker 3And that was it.
Speaker 1Yep, maybe you go to Joe Charles a little bit too soon.
Speaker 3There's all kinds of things you can nitpick.
Speaker 1Or you leave Valini in for one more. I mean when you go out there and you have to, when you go out there still in the seventh inning and you're expected to finish the game. That's a tall tale for any relief pitcher. They don't do that anymore. That's like 1970s baseball right there, yeah. Or maybe relief pitcher, they don't do that anymore. That's like 1970s baseball right there, yeah.
Speaker 3Or maybe even further back, and it was just like hey, you bring in the closer after the starter, the whole series, the whole super regional comes down to not having a bullpen the guy that pitched and uh on saturday, peyton prescott.
Speaker 1Yeah, who's now hurt? Right, he got injured in game three. Why don't you bring that guy in for a little bit, maybe an inning, and then you can have. But that's the Right, then you don't have him for game two.
Speaker 3That's what I'm saying, dude. It all comes down to not having a bullpen.
Speaker 1Well, what you did have was you had a good season. It's just something that happens consistently over and over for fsu baseball, but you know that they were. They had a really good team last year, and there wasn't the only last, last. This is the first time that not one team from the college world series made it back right in like 50 years right.
Speaker 3It's never happened. We'll also have to mention that, that there are only two sec teams right and there's only one.
Speaker 1So you have college baseball parody have all over the place. You got a team that's coach mows the lawn right in the in the outfield. That made it to the college world series. If that, if you don't have a dog in the fight, I'm sure that's got to be your team. I mean, that's just cool story. But miami, they lost to louisville, almost got almost snuck in the college world series. I'm so glad that didn't happen.
Speaker 3Got it one, run man god you would have been sitting.
College World Series Outlook
Speaker 1so pretty you had to come on here in the college world series just like snuck in in the back door.
Speaker 3But Louisville makes it for the Louisville sneaks in in the yeah the lone representative from the ACC and so they had.
Speaker 1The ACC was a big loser in the super regional round. After being having the most teams in the super regionalals, they come away with just one.
Speaker 3Yeah it's not really surprising.
Speaker 1You got arkansas and lsu, the only two teams in the sec. They're going to face each other in the college world series, so right battle for the boot right. So on one side you got oregon state and louisville, and then you have arizona, arizona and coastal carolina, and then you on the other side, you have arkansas, lsu, and then you have murray state and ucla, ucla so who knows man?
Speaker 3and it one thing to note there. You know, three of eight coming from the west coast is kind of that's significant. It hadn't been like that the last few years, and Omaha has been dominated by the SEC.
Speaker 1Well, it's good to see honestly, yeah, because.
Speaker 3And I got to. I mean, you know, I think you grew up with teams from the West Coast, always there.
Speaker 1Right, you had your Stanford, your Santa Barbara.
Speaker 3Arizona State Pepperdine, all those teams. Fullerton, all those kind of teams.
Speaker 2Yeah, cal was late and I was going to throw out Cal State Fullerton. I always remembered them as a kid. They're like who the hell are these guys?
Speaker 1Yeah, it's like your baseball, because in baseball, if that's where you put all your money in, you can do something. And that's kind of what Oregon State. You can see that as being kind of like a state university, but that's their number one sport.
Speaker 3And they get the best players from California at Oregon State.
Speaker 1I mean, if you want to go, I don't see why not. If you're a baseball player, you want to go to. I mean, that's like you're the big man on campus. That's like not many places ever.
Speaker 3Right and the tradition. You know, in the last 30 years they've had the best facilities, the best coaches. So 30 years They've had the best facilities the best coaches.
Speaker 1So I would say they're probably the favorite. They're the favorite on that bracket.
Speaker 3And whoever comes out of.
Speaker 1LSU and LSU is going to be the favorite in the other bracket, so it's that's who you're going to have. It's going to be Oregon state LSU.
Speaker 3Personally rooting for Murray state.
Speaker 1Of course somebody like coastal of course just get weird with it, but you know coastal is a good team, so so is ucla, so I wouldn't be surprised if either of those two teams made it. So it'll be fun to watch. You don't really? You know, I'm kind of rooting against the big guys. In this sense, I would like to see murray state and, if not them, somebody who hadn't won in a while right at you know, dave van horn in ark, they've never won it.
Speaker 3Well, I can't have that. Yeah, can't have that.
Speaker 1If anybody's, that's Florida State's position.
Speaker 3That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1They've been locked into that for like 30 years already. They've already got. It's fascinating. When you actually look at the College World Series appearances, they're number one by far and it's over teams that have won championships it predates.
Speaker 3Mike Martin, that's the thing. It went back into the late 60s and early 70s, so they've had just a ton Accursed Pretty much.
Speaker 1But anyway, good season, though it was fun to see some new faces.
Speaker 3Miles, bailey, man Miles.
Speaker 1Bailey, big freshman season.
Speaker 3He's going to play for team usa um jamie arnold yeah, player of the year arnold is and lodice farty, jamie arnold really, really got hot at the end of the year.
Speaker 1He really turned it up. Yeah, he'll go top five. So the program's in good shape and I like link. It's fsu baseball it'll. I mean it's almost like we got another Martin.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's pretty much the expectation is going to be the same. Yeah, I mean you got. If you don't make it super every year, people are going to be pissed. This is the expectation to at least get to that round For me like dude, I would take a couple of just like kind of dog shit seasons if I knew we were going to win some titles, right Like, but whatever.
Speaker 1Well, I mean they he's liked what. It's a shame that the injury bug hit it, but you're still getting players. They already got a guy committed.
Speaker 3Yeah, they got the putting them kid.
Speaker 1So I mean they're going to keep, keep rolling it in.
Speaker 3You got to keep giving it a shot. Yeah, they're going to get a freshman All-American arm, most likely from FAU, so they'll be new faces but they're still going to have a lot of their power back next year.
Speaker 1Is there any other sport that a program like Florida State baseball like? Is there one in basketball or football?
Speaker 3That has been so dominant and not won. No, yeah, the closest thing was when the Cubs couldn't win it or the Red Sox couldn't win it Well.
Speaker 1Yeah, but in college sports there's nothing like it, right, every team that's yeah I mean maybe Boeheim back in the day was there.
Speaker 3Yeah, you're right, that's a good comparison.
Speaker 1But you just don't see it. It seems to be that eventually you know you.
Speaker 3Eventually you got a breakthrough right.
Speaker 1Right, we'll see. There's your college baseball talk for the year. For the year, wrap it up. Well, we'll get back.
Speaker 3Unless Mary State wins it yeah.
Speaker 1We'll win the college world series.
Speaker 3I'm going to be too busy bitching about Mike Norvell.
NBA Finals Series Breakdown
Speaker 1Well, the NBA Finals are in. Game 4 coming up, indiana took a 2-1 series lead over OKC, which was the betting favorite, and it happens to be still the betting favorite. Okc and 7 is your most probable outcome, according to Vegas.
Speaker 2Oh, dude, hammer Indiana dude. That's such a good bet.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean you could get Indiana at plus before game three. You could get them at like plus four, something to win the series and that they had a home court advantage then, but still, I think it comes down to tonight. Whoever wins tonight will win the championship.
Speaker 2You love that game. Four is going to win it all I do.
Speaker 1I've been thinking that way since I was a kid man.
Speaker 3It's all about game four.
Speaker 1It is Because it's going to be 2-1. Somebody's going to be up 2-1. And somebody's either going to tie the series and it's usually that um team that can tie it, especially now with okc having the home court advantage. If they can get that back, they're going to win, and if indiana can go up three one with only having to win one game, they're going to win it in six, which one's more of a lock to you, though, indiana being up three, one, or the series being two, two.
Speaker 3What was the saying? Who's going to win tonight in six? Which one's more of a lock to you, though, indiana being up three, one, or the series being two, two what was I saying?
Speaker 1who's going to win tonight? Oh god, this, this is going to be an epic game. It's going to be like I'm saying if there was going to be a team, you're going to get, you're going to get okc's best tonight on the road but they're a different team on the road and they're a young team. They pull, they feed off that college atmosphere that they provide in okc. They're not going to have that. I don't think they're in a championship coach's house.
Speaker 3Who coached?
Speaker 2jj beret.
Speaker 3I was about to say man, I don't, I don't think the pacers give a shit about the best right and I, I, they're that.
Speaker 1You see, they're like halliburton their best player, he's going to the hot guy, he doesn't care. And they have more of a system in place where they're going to run it and they're going to run it no matter what, as, whereas sometimes okc you saw it in game one where at the end you're what do you get?
Speaker 3you get, you get your maybe this is a little bit.
Speaker 1Maybe this is the whistle's not going to blow at the end like that. They're not going to have that, and that's what how game one ended, and I think that that was kind of like how the series is going to be decided it. Okay, see, we'll have a chance to steal it back tonight is what I'm saying will they? Yeah, they got to do something about that indiana bench?
Speaker 2yeah, they. I mean they've got no answers for that indiana bench man, they did it. Game three the little guy Game was decided in the second quarter of game three dude, yep and with Obi Toppin, with Obi Toppin and freaking.
Speaker 1Dayton right.
Speaker 3Yeah, having a guy like him coming off the bench this dude at Dayton was insane.
Speaker 1As athletic as anybody.
Speaker 3That year, that COVID year, that team was for real and yeah, man he's been one of my faves for a while Anyway.
Speaker 2He's all gas, no brakes, dude. The way he plays man, he kind of reminds me of Birdman back on the heat, back in the day, where you bring him off the bench and he's just nonstop energy, pure energy, pure, yeah, with more offensive skills. Playing defense, grabbing rebounds, throwing down dunks, running all over the place firing up the crowd.
Speaker 3man Obi Toppin's fun as hell to watch man, that Dayton team was the one team I thought might beat FSU in 2020.
Speaker 1I just man, but they wouldn't have. This is a great story for you know, indiana, they're able to pull this off so yeah I mean just on. Nobody saw this coming.
Indiana's Bench and Coaching Edge
Speaker 2If they're like they're the fourth best team in the east right, I mean rick carisle.
Speaker 1what he did now with Dallas in the West, then over the Heat, that first time with JJ Barrera and then now with Indiana, I mean this is Hall of Famer. Oh, definitely.
Speaker 2He's already in there, even if they don't. He's cemented.
Speaker 1Yeah yeah, oh yeah, he's cemented, I think so he's been a winner everywhere. He's gone and now he's.
Speaker 3If he goes on to win this, he's gonna have you got a guy like barrera backing for you.
Speaker 1Man, you, you got you, you, you establish championships in two franchises that never had it before, it's true. So there you go there you go I mean that's a statue right there in two places. If they're, where do you put the statue?
Speaker 2I don't know if you did it like Alabama football that's right you throw that statue at JJ Barea's house is where you put it.
Speaker 1That's right oh man, I'm kind of rooting for it now he's got a figurine indoors I picked. Okc, I believe, to win it. But I mean I'm, I want Indiana to pull it out. Yeah, the story's just too good.
Speaker 2I like the way they're playing oh, dude, it was great to see reggie miller. Uh, courtside, yeah, just going nuts for his pacers at game three man and I, you know I always loved reggie back in the day. I everybody loved jordan, I loved reggie miller well, I would just see how that it.
Speaker 1I remember the story like just a month or two ago and playoffs are starting, the story released about halliburton being the most overrated player on a player's poll in the league and just like there's a little like to see him kind of slap back and then I don't know, I just he's got a good attitude. I didn't complain. He was on the, he was on team usa, he didn't play, but he wasn't bitching about it at all. I mean, he's a confident guy.
Speaker 2He actually made a really funny tweet.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think he's got a tweet yeah, I think he's very confident, but he's very humble in the same time and he wants to win overall and you kind of like that in a player oh, his tweet from uh, when they won the olympics.
Speaker 2He's got a picture of him holding his gold medal and he's like yep, when you do nothing on the group project and still get an a, that's right. I mean like that's just. That's a great attitude to have, for a professional athlete to just joke about himself, not getting any play time right.
Speaker 1But I mean that's, you don't mess up the winner. You know you can do that you can change your role. It's about the ultimate goal. That shows me maturity and that's a guy I want leading the team. And now he's kind of getting his you know flowers now and well, yeah, he keeps hitting game winners. But you saw it in game three he only had nine points right, he's not, he's not trying.
Speaker 2No, it doesn't have to be, it's whoever I mean.
Speaker 1Look who's the little guy, who's the guy? The spark plug off the bench, a little white dude. He calls him yeah, mcconnell takes over and it's just like, all right, let's go. Let's. I mean, that's what you need, you need. But it takes the leadership from your best player to have that attitude and he's got all of it and he can do whatever they need. He can rebound, he can assist and he can obviously hit the game winner. This is definitely a coming out party for Tyrese Halliburton. I'm gonna laugh my ass off.
Speaker 3Next year he's gonna be the most underrated player voted by the players. Well, yeah, he, he's already won that.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh god, he's already shoved that one and there's a little bit of I. Who knows what the players vote on. If that's actually more of just Hayden, maybe because of how he handles himself, who knows.
Speaker 3Man. I don't believe anything. That's anonymous. It's all made up by a journal. Who knows?
Speaker 1But it's 2-1 Pacers, they're going into game four. Like I told you, whoever wins tonight wins it all, so it's going to be a good one.
Speaker 2All right, what else?
Speaker 1we got Huh.
Speaker 2You got anything. You got something Anything. I got some WWF. I can talk, oh my God, or WWE.
College Football Recruiting Update
Speaker 1We got to get on out of here, a ride's here, but before we go, before we go, high school recruiting hit, oh god.
Speaker 3It hit once. Do we have to?
Speaker 1No, we will.
Speaker 3It hit guy. It got a guy Right. Fsu actually got a guy.
Speaker 2That's what I was referring to Right.
Speaker 3I guess he's a four-star wide receiver, Brandon Bennett, out of Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 1Yep.
Speaker 3We'll see if he actually shows up to play. All right.
Speaker 2I was just about to say he's going to transfer.
Speaker 1He'll transfer before the semester starts. Yeah, it's just totally wild wild west. They had the deal the thing with the Congress.
Speaker 3Right Congress. They passed a House settlement. It's already being sued and challenged. You know it was pretty lazily put together in terms of being bulletproof in court. So I think there's still a ways away from that shit happening. But whoever spends the most is going to be the best, right, right.
Speaker 1So I think there's still a ways away from that shit happening, but Whoever spends the most is going to be the best. Right, right. That's just bottom line. That's how you go.
Speaker 3But apparently Florida State is not the poorest in the conference. No, no, no, and they spent last year and they sucked Right.
Speaker 1So, it doesn't mean you're going to be good, so you Florida State fans out there.
Speaker 3you just got to worry about hiring somebody else to spend the money, and that won't be for a few years.
Speaker 1We'll see if Miami and Florida they spent the money. But we'll see.
Speaker 3I mean they got the quarterback.
Speaker 1It's going to be on the quarterback.
Speaker 3Right, same thing with Florida.
Speaker 1They'll both be in the conversation for the next few years, and that's how big the position is.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's premier.
Speaker 1They hit it with Cam Ward. They needed every damn throw they had with that defense. Will they get the same? I don't think he's as good as Cam Ward.
Speaker 2Well, he may. All you got to do is win the ACC.
Speaker 1So you're going to have to have a better running game and a defense. All you got to do is win the ACC, which is the worst.
Speaker 2Running game is not going to be a problem, dude, our backfield is stacked.
Speaker 3Yeah, miami's got the best offensive line in the country Top two, depending on what service you're fucking looking at Florida's number four.
Speaker 1Well, geez say it with some Florida's number four. Well, geez, say it with some. Just you know.
Speaker 2It's going to be a fun year in Tallahassee for you boys.
Speaker 3Right, I'm expecting some fireworks out of FAMU, you know.
Closing Thoughts and Expectations
Speaker 1Yeah, we have the AD getting arrested. All right, we'll watch the NBA Finals and we'll react to it, all of it, and we'll talk to you next time right here on the North Florida Sports Network. Bye.
