Ep 524-Lets Talk About It: College Baseball Madness with KVUE's Bryan Mays

We talk our way through college baseball madness, from the regional bracket to the super regional paths that could send Texas and Texas A&M on very different roads to Omaha. We also hit the biggest selection surprises, detour into the Women’s College World Series buzz, and finish with a Thunder Spurs check-in and some old-school baseball memories at the Dish. 
• why May and June college baseball feels like its own holiday 
• how the NCAA baseball regionals and super regionals work 
• Texas’ regional draw and why Tarleton and UC Santa Barbara matter 
• pitching decisions that can win or wreck a weekend 
• Texas A&M’s tough regional and why familiarity cuts both ways 
• the Kentucky in, UTSA out debate and what it says about SEC strength of schedule and RPI 
• regionals that look like coin flips from day one 
• Women’s College World Series storylines and what Texas needs to repeat 
• the strange hot mic moment that had everyone rewinding 
• Thunder Spurs turning into a best-of-three and why experience matters late 
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Transcript

College Baseball Fever Kicks Off

SPEAKER_04 0:27

All right, this may be the first or second best time of the year. College baseball madness, May and June. If you've never experienced college baseball, the regionals, super regionals, and of course Omaha, you've got to put it on your to-do list, to experience list, and in places like Austin, Texas, College Station, in the past, Fort Worth, Baton Rouge, which strangely enough will not be experiencing it this year. And I've got one of my good friends and uh former guy that's been in the trenches with me in my former career, and he knows a lot about college baseball. In fact, we've experienced a lot of college baseball together, especially in the great city of Austin, Texas.

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Welcome B Maze Back

SPEAKER_04 2:24

Hey, college baseball madness with our good friend, and he is an alumni of stories inside the man cave. We call him B maze. College baseball madness. Let's talk about it. B Maze, we shrunk. Now you see everything. I've never looked better. It's great to see you, my friend. Man, it has been a long time. You've got uh your daughter who grabbed hey, both your kids have now graduated college. That's a big deal.

SPEAKER_03 3:04

That is a big deal. Yes, my daughter graduated a couple of weeks ago, my son a couple of years ago. I can now afford to eat again. I can afford to uh buy a cold drink every now and then.

SPEAKER_04 3:15

It's amazing. I have a feeling a couple of the cold drinks you're referencing will occur at one of the college baseball venues very soon.

SPEAKER_03 3:24

It's the best you said it, it's one of the best times of the year. I love May baseball at Dishfolk Field. It's gonna be toasty. I know you like those 90-degree days, it's gonna be toasty out at the dish this weekend. A good, I think a good draw for Texas. This it's a great time to be a college baseball fan.

SPEAKER_04 3:42

Oh, it is a good time. And our friends that occupy left field, we might as well give them a shout out. They hey they provide a good atmosphere at Dish Fox Field. And um I'm uh like you, I'm very anxious to see with the new temporary bleachers what all that does for the dish. Chris Del Conte, the AD, has

Top Seeds And Host Sites

SPEAKER_04 4:00

done a phenomenal job of uh let's let's SEC this thing. Let's talk about the host sites in the national top eight. Here they are, and I'll remove this graphic. I mean, it is SEC heavy. I mean, you've got Athens, Georgia, and Atlanta, Georgia within an hour of each other. This is not unheard of. We've seen this happen in Austin, Fort Worth, Houston before, um, college station. You've had, I think there's been a time where you've had four of them in the great state of Texas.

SPEAKER_03 4:31

Yeah, it's you know, it's a I think it's an interesting uh top 16, and then obviously top eight um are at home throughout as long as they survive. And those, I think, are the best eight teams. I think you know the postseason tournaments kind of helped a little bit. Some teams maybe hurt a couple of teams, but all in all, I think you've got the best eight teams at the top of this thing. I'm glad they didn't match uh Texas and Texas AM. I thought that would be lazy to do that, and they didn't, thank goodness. So uh if they can both get out of the regionals, they'll go different ways. Texas will get Oregon, and I can't remember uh who AM gets, maybe Auburn. But it's it's I think a great setup for Texas. I think they've got a good draw in the regional, and these 16 teams, I think, you know, those are the class. You'll see 12 to 14 of them advancing, I think, out of this out of this top 16.

SPEAKER_04 5:20

Yeah, and I noticed a typo. It's not Auburn GA, it's Auburn, Alabama, not Auburn, Georgia. So there are two regional hosts of the 16 regional host sites in the state of Alabama, Tuscaloosa and Auburn. Um, I like this. I mean, if you count it this for people who this may be new, it's it's kind of like March Madness, field of 64. This is a double elimination tournament. So each there's 16 host sites. They have four team regionals at these 16 regional host sites, and the winner advances to the super regionals, and the national top eight seats, and I another typo, this is what happens when you're on Memorial Day and you're working furiously, so you can get back to having fun, but it's not national, it's national top eight. So the top eight, if they advance, they will have a home field advantage or get to play at home until Omaha. Texas and AM, and you mentioned it. So Texas being a sixth seed will play the 11th seed, which would be Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. So part of me, and I agree with you, it would have been lazy just to match up AM and Texas in the super regionals, which is a sweet 16. They did so by one seed. AM is the 12th seed. So a lot of people say, well, why couldn't you just put AM at 11? This is to what Brian said. Let them play in Omaha if they make it that far. Um, here is what that setup looks like. So we talk about these right here, the super regional potential pairings. And you look at this

Texas Regional Matchups And Pitching

SPEAKER_04 7:10

as I get all these graphics. So you and I watching regionals goes back a long way. UC Santa Barbara, if I remember right, uh came to Texas for a regional a couple times in the 80s, maybe early 90s. But look at this for the first time ever, as a Division I program, Tarleton State from Stephenville, who beat Texas in a Tuesday game, will come back to Austin.

SPEAKER_03 7:37

Yeah, uh, and and I don't think it was a fluke. They've got a great team there in Stevenville. And you know, it's it's Holy Cross, obviously, they they got in because they won their their league tournament with a losing record. So the opener for Texas is going to be interesting to see how they handle their pitching. I just I feel totally different. Last year they were a higher seed, but I feel totally different about this team compared to where Texas was last year with the pitching staff with three weekend guys. I think any of those three can win in the postseason. Uh, but Santa Barbara's got one of the best ERAs in the country. They've beaten teams uh like UCLA already this year. USC, they play uh really good West Coast. They're kind of like the Texas state of the West Coast, right? They're not scared to play anybody, and they beat a lot of them. So UC Santa Barbara, the gauchos, don't start season. That's gonna be, if that is the Saturday night game, that's gonna be a special postseason game uh at the dish. You're gonna have two really, I would guess Valantis goes on Saturday. You're gonna have their first rounder. I would think, I would think they're gonna pitch him, but then they got to beat Tarleton too. So it's gonna be interesting with their pitching staff, the way their ERA is and their their top, their floor, their top guy. Uh do they pitch him on Friday and guarantee a win against Tarleton? Or do they hold him back and wait for Texas and try to beat Tarleton without him? They might not be able to beat Tarleton without him. Tarleton's a good team.

SPEAKER_04 8:56

Yeah, I that's a tough, that's a really good question. Um you can't look past Tarleton. The Texans, the Tarleton State. Well, how that would be cool, though. The Texans versus Longhorns championship round. Uh, of course, one of them, and then they've had to come out of the losers bracket. And let's say Texas advances to Sunday um in the first championship game. Um, whoever works out of the losers bracket has to be, and we would think it would be Texas twice, but we saw what happened last year with UT San Antonio. Um, so there's the Eugene regional in Eugene, Oregon. To me, that's it's not an easy route. I mean, I know Oregon State is is is they're still a great ball club. Um, you know, because of the dissolving of the Pac-12, they don't face all those West Coast programs like they used to because of the Big Ten taking in UCLA, USC, and other programs. But you know, you got yeah, hey, the bushes played there.

SPEAKER_03 10:04

Yeah, Ivy League baseball, man. You never know what you're gonna get with Ivy League baseball. You can you could get an arm or two, and you know how it is in the postseason. If you've got a guy that can give you six, three, four, five hit, two run, you know, a start to a game, you can win in the postseason these days. And Yale, these Ivy League teams, we've seen them before, they can make a run. These east coast teams that don't play much in the early part of the year because it's so cold. Uh, when they catch their rhythm, they get going, and you know, we'll see what happens. Holy cross might be one of those teams, they might get hot at just the right time.

SPEAKER_04 10:38

I think they're like 24, 28. Hey, congrats to them. And uh, yeah, another typo at the very top. Regional, not Regional. Hey,

Oregon Path And Aggies Draw

SPEAKER_04 10:49

how about AM? I mean, AM got to me, got a bad draw.

SPEAKER_03 10:53

Yeah, that's a good Texas State and Lamar, who are gonna, you know, they're gonna be chomping at the bit to get at those Aggies. And then if they if the Aggies win that opener, they're gonna get likely USC. Uh man, that's gonna be tough.

SPEAKER_04 11:08

That's a tough regional for AM. That is significantly tough. And even Michael Early, the head coach who was an assistant under Sloshnagel at when he was at AM before going to Texas. This was early, Michael Early, his response on this field because they they have seen these teams before.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

Really quality teams. Uh, we've played Lamar in Texas State, have a couple against Texas State. So, yeah, there's definitely some familiarity there. Definitely different on a Tuesday versus a weekend. So uh it'll be a different challenge just with different pitchers going for each team, but obviously really good teams that deserve to be there.

SPEAKER_04 11:42

No doubt. They they you know, Lamar back in when you and I were much younger, Lamar was going to these NCAA tournaments and winning games, yeah. Uh often. Uh how about Texas State? A multi-bid league. They they get in, they deserved it. I think so. They deserved it. And Coach Trout, who succeeded our friend Ty Harrington. You know, Ty Harrington took him to the promised land, and now Texas State, who had a great team a few years ago. They're back. And it would not surprise me if Texas State is in the championship round at all. And USC, Ace Whitehead, who retired from baseball transfer from Texas to USC, will kind of make it a homecoming here. Um they're paired up, the Aggies are the College Station regional winner with Chapel Hill. North Carolina's there every year. And you've got Tennessee, a new head coach, their head coach from Round Rock, Texas, by the way. And that is I see Virginia Commonwealth. Remember that regional championship from uh what year was that? They gave Texas all they can handle back in the 90s. I still see VCU. Yeah. And then we know about East Carolina.

SPEAKER_03 12:58

That's a tough one, man.

SPEAKER_04 13:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:00

I mean, we saw Tennessee. Tennessee uh gave Texas all they wanted in Knoxville earlier this season. Um, that's a those are those are pretty stacked on that side uh of the uh of the bracket, I think. And that was the one I circled actually, the Chapel Hill Regional to me. I think three of those teams could win it. I really do. I think East Carolina, when they get hot, they're as good as anybody. Tennessee, we've seen the pitching that they have. Uh, and then North Carolina, obviously a top eight, a top eight national seed. That man, this is why college baseball is so fun because you know you could you could point to any of those three of those four teams, and I don't know much about Virginia Commonwealth. Maybe they've got arms too, but man, when you're you're talking about North Carolina, the ACC runner-up in the tournament, and I guess in the regular season to Georgia Tech, who's again the second best team in the country. I don't know, man. I I it's just it's just so fun because it could really go in a lot of different ways.

SPEAKER_04 13:52

It's fun, and that's why we love it so much, and that's why we're trying to encourage you, the non-traditional fan, get out to the dish wherever you're watching this, Alabama, uh, college station, and and and let's let's face it, let's throw down the rivalry talk. Uh Bluebell Park or Olson Field at Bluebell Park is a great place to watch uh postseason baseball, college baseball in general. Um, some

Snubs And Regionals To Watch

SPEAKER_04 14:16

notables from for the regionals here that I thought you know, I think the selection committee gets it right almost every year in college baseball. But this Kentucky in, UTSA out. Kentucky clearly, SEC strength of schedule. UTSA wins that regular season of the American Conference. And I think they played played in the American Conference Tournament Championship game, and they're not in. I mean, Hallmark's done a great job. And I when what do you think about that? I mean, it's I'm shocked, kinda.

SPEAKER_03 14:56

I was shocked too. I think that goes to the strength of the SEC when you're talking about if if if they truly did, and it seems like they did, have to pick between Kentucky and UC, that was the matchup they were looking at as far as who got those last few bids to get in and at large. Um, I think you're just going, you're going SEC. Now, UTSA, of course, won the Austin Regional last year, made it to the super regional. I think U UCLA, I think, beat them in the super regional out there. But UTSA is one of the stronger teams, I think, right now, year after year after year, kind of like Texas State has developed. It's not a Cinderella story anymore. They've got good pitching, they've got good players. Um, I was shocked. I really thought in Kentucky, didn't they cancel? They canceled a couple of midweek games. I hate that. And and so their RPI wasn't affected. I don't know. I just I thought that should have been taken into consideration when it came to those teams. And UTSA played every midweek game, they they weren't scared to come to Austin, they went to college station, they they played all those teams in the state that they could to try to get that RPI up. And I don't know, I guess they just didn't win enough of them this year.

SPEAKER_04 16:00

Well, look at Lincoln, Nebraska, former Corn Husker from their great days when they started going to Omaha. We got to see them early 2000s. They had some great teams. Uh, they're they're hosting, and they're some people calling this the quote regional of death with both Arizona State and Ole Miss going to Lincoln, Nebraska. And that's that's that's where you can just toss a coin on that one. Yeah, that's what it feels like.

SPEAKER_03 16:26

Yeah, and watch Kansas. I think Arkansas's in Kansas's regional. You watch that when they play in that in that winter's bracket game. How many, how many fans from Fayetteville, Arkansas, and and and the suburbs make the drive up to Lawrence Kazans? That's gonna be a wild, wild regional with those Arkansas because Arkansas feels like they got stubbed, they felt like they deserved to be hosted.

SPEAKER_04 16:46

Should have hosted Mississippi State, got it.

SPEAKER_03 16:48

Yeah, yeah. So I don't know. There's some regionals, man, that are gonna be really, really interesting to watch, especially those first two days on uh elimination Saturday, of course, with that first game usually being played. Uh, and then you know, you got the winner's bracket game. And of course, you win three, you go on. You don't if you don't lose one and you win three in a row, you're on to the super regionals. That's what Texas, that's what everybody wants to have happen. Um, but that Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska with Ole Miss, those those are gonna be interesting regionals. I guarantee you there's gonna be a lot of games on Monday uh with with a lot on the line this year.

SPEAKER_04 17:21

It's gonna be fun. I mean, it's it's I I think home field does mean something. Sure, it really does. Kansas Hogland Park, I think that's the name of it. They it's smaller, uh you know, but they to win at Kansas. I mean, I remember was it 1993? Kansas went to Omaha, yeah, and a pretty good team. So the Big 12 TCU didn't make it, Big 12 got six in, SEC 12. And you know, it's still good baseball and the Big 12 minus Texas and Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and OU and OSU both got in as well. So it's it's gonna be fun. And it I cannot wait.

Women’s College World Series Outlook

SPEAKER_04 18:01

And up in Oklahoma City, we've got the Women's College World Series field. You're defending national champs, Texas earned it, got back. I think what is this, the third straight year? Third straight. Third straight. And here is the field of the women's college world series. And if you've not been to Oklahoma City for that, first of all, the city of Oklahoma City has done a phenomenal job of maintaining that Hall of Fame stadium and adding on to it. It's a great environment. But look at this. You got Texas Tech. This is on there's two different 14 brackets. Tech, Mississippi State, and the two UTs on the same side. You think Texas can repeat?

SPEAKER_03 18:44

I think it all depends on Kavon. Look at the way she pitched yesterday in that closeout game. Um, they're a different team when she throws like that. And that's how she threw in Oklahoma City last year. And if they can get her, if they can get her on that level, um, I don't think that I don't think there's a a doubt in my mind they can't make it to the championship series. Now, when you get there, depending on how the bracket, don't they alternate the losers switch sides or something? I can't remember it's kind of weird. Yeah, but Texas Tech obviously has has a great offense and a great pitcher in Mississippi State. Texas played them at Mississippi State this year, so it's a really balanced. I don't know who's the favorite, to be quite honest with you. I would I would think UCLA, just because of the pure numbers they put up offensively, they would be the favorite.

SPEAKER_05 19:29

Right.

SPEAKER_03 19:30

Uh, same goes for baseball, I guess, but uh Texas and I would love to see Texas and Texas Tech play in that second. This is cool because they'll all play Thursday. There's four games, everybody's on the field Thursday, uh, and then they kind of filter out from there. But that opening day at the Women's College World Series to me is one of the great days in sports because you get every game right there. You get 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. You're playing softball. It's seems like every game is good, and that's gonna be the case. Texas plays the second game at I think around 1:30. They'll play the the after the Texas Tech game. So it's gonna be a fun day on Thursday in Oklahoma City, and that's another place.

SPEAKER_04 20:06

Six-hour drive, you're there, and it's a it's so much fun. And the tailgating, everything, and it's just the atmosphere is off the charts. Those two weeks in OKC, phenomenal.

The Hot Mic Broadcast Moment

SPEAKER_04 20:16

Um, when Texas won two straight over Arizona State to win their super regional, uh, there was a broadcasting uh error, and I I thought Brian Robison captured it, the former Texas Longhorn Football defensive ingrate, his reaction on um was it Instagram? Yeah, he caught it, and I think we all thought, did is that what I just heard?

SPEAKER_05 20:41

If you said when you come along, did they tell you?

SPEAKER_04 20:46

Wait, wait, wait. What he what did he just say?

SPEAKER_01 20:49

Whoa, we gotta watch that again.

SPEAKER_04 20:51

Did they tell you?

SPEAKER_05 21:00

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_04 21:05

What was that? You know, so I think is it the parabolic mic that captures crowd noise outside the broadcast booth? I think somebody figured out that that was that mic, put his mouth to it, and said, Lick my ball sack. I heard it too yesterday, and I thought that was odd. I don't know what it was. I thought somebody was outside my door. I'm like, why would somebody go to my front door and and and yell, lick my ball sack?

SPEAKER_03 21:37

That was something else. I didn't know what that was all about. I I never saw ESPN mention it though, so maybe it was I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 21:44

That's that you know, that's uh that's an FCC violation. I would think so. I don't I don't think you can say that, but I like hey B Rob, his that was funny.

SPEAKER_03 21:56

Yeah, that was he's uh he was a good player, I know that much. I like to see these uh former Longhorns continuing to support the school and and watching games and paying attention to what's going on, not just in football, but everything else is is really having a moment, especially on the women's side between volleyball, basketball, and softball. There's not a better trio of women's athletic uh teams in the country at any school, I could I'd be willing to bet.

SPEAKER_04 22:29

All right, B Mays.

SPEAKER_03 22:31

Yes.

Thunder Spurs Series Chess Match

SPEAKER_04 22:32

Western Conference Finals, the Thunder Spurs, it's tied two all. It's now a best two of three. They go back to OKC, and I've got to admit it. I stayed off social media. I didn't say a thing. I can't say anything, but the Spurs whipped my Thunder's ass last night. Big time. And there have been injuries on both sides. What happens in these last three games if it goes to a game seven?

SPEAKER_03 23:04

Yeah, I Oklahoma City, I think, when they play at their best like they did Friday, uh, I think their best is better than San Antonio's best. Wow. But San Antonio defensively is so unique with the guys they can guard and the way they can guard, I just I don't know. I feel like if if, like I said, if if Oklahoma City's scoring like they scored on Friday, if they get guys off the bench that hit threes and can and can score like that, I think they win the series. But if San Antonio can somehow figure out a way like they did in game one to put pressure on the MVP to keep those big guys from beating them in the paint. Um, you saw the way it started yesterday. I think Hartenstein had the first eight points on that little teardrop jump shot.

SPEAKER_05 23:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:51

If they find the unique ways like that to score, Oklahoma City is going to win. But San Antonio, there's just something about this team, and you've seen it before. You saw it in the 90s and the early 2000s when when uh when Duncan and Robinson and Parker and Ginobli kind of gelled as a unit. We're seeing that right before our eyes. These guys are all 25 years old and uh and younger, yeah, very young. Um, and so this is their first time doing this to this level. Any of those guys, except for except for Harrison Barnes, nobody's really got any experience like this. So Oklahoma City did it last year. So I think in the end the experience is gonna play out, but man, I'd like to see it go seven. I think if it goes seven and goes back to Oklahoma City, all bets are off. If the Spurs somehow win tomorrow night and get back to San Antonio with a chance to close it out, they will. I think they will, but it's uh tomorrow night's gonna be a big, big task.

SPEAKER_04 24:39

OKC needs J Dub, the other Jalen Williams, uh, to you get that hamstring healthy. I would say put full length, full leg length compressions, compression pants on, and wrap that bad boy because they it they are a different team without him. 100%. And that's the way it is. And so I'll say this I I think I think OKC responds in game five, and I think I don't think they can close them out in San Antonio. That is you're looking at two of the best venues in the NBA fan bases, and these young teams, I mean, they're gonna be going at it for years, I think, at least for the next two or three years.

SPEAKER_03 25:25

I agree. I think that I think that the Spurs are set up, but they won't be able to keep everybody, obviously. They can't pay everybody. Right. But the big three, I think, you know, you're talking about uh Darren Fox is injured, he's not 100%. We see we see that, but I don't know that Harper's not a better option, to be honest with you. Once he gets his once he gets that experience and gets his feet under him and kind of gets the pace of the game a little bit better, uh, I don't know that he's not a better option, uh, you know, one for the long term, not for this series, but I feel like if if Wimbanyaba plays like he played yesterday, if you get scoring from Castle like he's scored, especially in the opener in game one, San Antonio might might just give them a run for their money in game five tomorrow night. And if that happens and they come to San Antonio with a closeout, that's that town. I mean, I was there in 2003 when they won the championship uh against the Nets. They beat the Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals, and they beat the Nets in the championship series.

SPEAKER_04 26:19

And that town is different, it's just it is different, it is it is um, and they're very similar like that. Um, when I was there, I god, that was so much. And for you, being a when you were in the media in San Antonio, and when I was in OKC, we both at different time frames got to experience how special that is. Yeah, those two towns are similar in the way they they embrace the playoff season in that team. San Antonio, much longer history, and they they've won so many championships. But man, you're looking at I think what we're witnessing is good for the NBA, these two uh special fan bases and NBA cities, small market. I know that's I hate that narrative, but it is what it is.

SPEAKER_05 27:07

Hey

Tell Me Something Good And Wrap

SPEAKER_05 27:08

Ben, tell me something good.

SPEAKER_02 27:15

You know who that voice is of? No, I didn't I didn't I couldn't hear it. I didn't hit the button fast enough. Who was it?

SPEAKER_04 27:20

Tell me something good. DJ Hards, he's gone through he's gone through puberty, and it doesn't sound like that anymore. So Mike Hardge's son, he's one of the better basketball players in the Australian. Good kid.

SPEAKER_03 27:30

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_04 27:31

Hey, B Mazer, so much in this world of negativity, there's so much positive that uh goes unnoticed. Tell me something good, my brother.

SPEAKER_03 27:40

Well, it's May 200 2026, and we're about to enter a stretch of uh of athletics and and championships, and I feel like we're headed toward the summer. That's it's gonna be just a fun. I think this is just gonna be a fun four-week period between now and the end of the college world series in Omaha. I just love this time of the year. Uh, I think the fans appreciate the hard work that's gone into it and just being at the dish, man. There's something good about being at the dish on a Saturday night in May with a chance to win a regional tournament game. I went to my first one in 1986, and that's 40 years ago, and I've been going ever since, man. And it's just something good about being at the dish.

SPEAKER_04 28:31

You and I were probably there together. I I think my first was 1984, that run where Texas was going to the playing for the championship almost.

SPEAKER_03 28:40

Should have won it all that year.

SPEAKER_04 28:42

83, 82, 83, 84, 85. They should have won all four. They won in '83. Yep. 86. Were you there for the game against when Arizona, who was the eventual national champion? I sat out in the old bleachers and we lost Texas lost 93, broke my heart. Yep. And then lost team, though. Oh my god, Swindell. God, there were too many, too many names to list that were legends in our mind. Yeah. Um, and then the right to get out of the winner's losers bracket. Texas lost to Pepperdine in 10 innings with a thunderstorm on its way. You can see it coming. You could hear it with those little metal bleachers and metal chairs out there. You could hear it coming. It's gonna be fun, man. And I B Maze and I both purchased our all-session tickets. First of all, amazing 75 bucks for all of those games.

SPEAKER_03 29:43

That's good. Potentially seven games. That's that's just over ten dollars a game if it goes seven. That's crazy, man. That's like 1980s prices. There's not a better value in in sports. I don't care who you are.

SPEAKER_04 29:55

No, and we'll be there. We're gonna have fun and we'll we'll we'll we'll get a report together from Occupy Left Field before the game. Hey Banks, that's a good group. Hey, Tease, what's coming up on your morning show on the channel of Champions K?

SPEAKER_03 30:10

Well, tomorrow's election day, so they're moving me back to evenings tomorrow. So we're gonna do the the primary runoff election. So check out K View tomorrow night for all the election results. We're gonna be streaming on our app, K View Plus, and then of course we'll be live. I'll be there to help out with the election coverage. So that's what we got going on this week. Once we get through that, I'm all about baseball.

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Let's go. I'm gonna have to work a half day on Friday. And speaking of elections, a shameless plug for a friend of mine, uh fellow SFA alumni, the Allison Bush. Vote for her in a runoff, a primary, a runoff. Allison Bush State Board of Education. Nice. Well, good luck. Let's go, A B, representing the Lumberjack Nation. B Mays, I appreciate you, my brother. Always fun to talk to you, my friend. We're ready for some baseball this weekend. It's coming, it's coming. So, whenever you get a chance to hang out with B Mays and talk about college baseball madness, the postseason, that is so special. It's always good to talk about it.