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j What a boy. Well, welcome back. First of all,
it's been a weird week. No show monday Right
me and dom tuesday. Yep, steve and I yesterday.
Yeah, and now you're back. So and i'm here tomorrow's
friday like how about that and we race into the
weekend in big bets tomorrow on the program today
stitch head eric sorenson is going to join us
from d1 baseball. He's uh had a up close and
personal view of oregon state baseball not yet
oregon as our ducks the ducks not our ducks whether
your ducks as well have moved up their start
times today and tomorrow against youngstown state
a four game set and it will be 205 first pitches
so in just a few moments from now the first pitch
at pk and then tomorrow the same thing obviously
because of the weather and it's going to get
even more frigid weathery as we go into the evening
So we'll talk a lot of baseball with Stitch Head,
but there's lots of things to go around the Hornet.
Of course, we'll have our Olympic update as there
was some excitement today in Italy. We'll talk
about that in the last part of the program as
well as Oregon women's softball is down at the
Mary Nutter. We'll give you an update on their
progression today. Lots of basketball around
the region, including Oregon women taking on
the Huskers. the dreaded Cornhuskers tonight
at Matt Knight Arena, 6 p .m. tip. Ducks are
looking to end a two -game slide. The Cornhuskers
come into Thursday's game, that's tonight's game,
having lost five straight and eight of their
last ten. In the standings, Oregon's one game
up on Nebraska in the Big Ten. Oregon's 18 -9.
They've hung there after that tough loss against
Washington on Sunday. Nebraska's 16 -10 and 5
-10. Ducks are looking to improve their home
record to 12 and four overall and then four and
four in conference play What do you want to see
out of the Oregon women tonight? I want to see
some consistency No consistency wildly yeah inconsistent
shooting wise that last game against Washington
was just one of the games Yeah, weird game. I
mean Katie fee. I mean all of the big players
You know Katie Fiso and he said to Tay and such
just had you just say yeah Off -night shooting
and the thing is Justin you and I have watched
this over and over again throughout the years
Sometimes you'll have a star player or a lead
player I don't say star player a lead player
have an off -night, but then other people on
the team pick them up It's very rare that you
have basically your top three players all have
off nights Yeah, it almost never happens But
it's so weird just even looking at the box score
of this game because yeah first quarter Washington
22, Oregon 9 second quarter Oregon 19 points
Washington five points, so you can't sit there
and say there was nothing good in this game They
let they've killed Washington an entire quarter
with five points so really really weird game
Obviously up in Seattle, so I think you got to
just turn the page on that one obviously There's
been a lot of games like that where you kind
of just have to learn your lessons And this is
another team in the Big Ten it feels like with
Nebraska that They're nothing crazy. They're
below oregon in the big 10 standings, but they're
16 and 10 overall like this is a good team The
big 10 is deep. There's almost no gimmies in
this conference. You've mentioned. They lost
five in a row, so It's gonna be another Test
for them, but I like their chances And I think
that there's a decent shot that they can win
the last four of these games And you always talk
about getting those 20 wins. They're 18 right
now Probably I need to win just two of these,
but they're probably sitting in that eight nine
spot right now that was the latest bracketology
i saw on tuesday at least and we want to be the
eight instead of the eight or seven no you don't
want to be eight or nine because they play each
other and that's right they play the one they
play the one and they want to be seven or ten
Exactly. Yeah, it's crazy how that works, right?
But I think it's important for Oregon women's
basketball to have a really nice stretch in these
last four games Cornhuskers are one in six in
true road games this season So they've they've
got that going against them And by the way, we
were talking about that Washington game for Kelly
Graves squad when we get the big Kuna back on
next time I want to ask him about How this team
sometimes? Doesn't start flipping the light switch
on until they get behind because they were down
15 points in the first quarter And then they
closed the first half against washington on a
15 -0 run and they actually had the lead at the
half 28 27 Yeah, I believe they had the lead
in the third quarter a little bit too But they
just could not hang on and it was one of those
games that the final score Did not indicate how
close it was at the end. I think but do you see
what i'm saying though? It doesn't seem like
this team all of a sudden Gets the urgency until
they look up at the scoreboard and they're down
by seven or ten points You know what that feels
like to me danny what a young team There we go.
So tonight let's pack the mac uh mka that's why
the new mac mka 6 p .m. Tonight is the macaw
the macaw I love that. Uh, well Pack the macaw
6 p .m. Tonight corn huskers And the ducks as
kelly graves got looks to end that two -game
slide By the way ducks have been no stranger
to close games this season they had a double
overtime contest at Wisconsin just the second
time this season the Ducks have gone to double
overtime they have also played two other extra
periods against of course Michigan and then Illinois
so there we go so we'll see what that shakes
out um there is golf by the way Oregon men's
and women's golf have already started their season
The Oregon women's golf team, of course, after
that deep run just one away from making the finals
in the match play for the NCAA championship.
They put together their best round of the week
earlier this week in the Therese Hessian Regional
Challenge earned a top five finish in its first
tournament at Palos Verdes Golf Club in California.
Tong Anh finished two under. She's just a sophomore.
Number three Ducks fired a one under 283 in the
final round. UCLA won the team title at eight
under. followed by Texas, Texas A &M and Florida.
Oregon finished four strokes ahead of number
two USC and number 18 South Carolina secure fifth
place. And they will return to action. They're
going to have a little bit of a break. The Chevron
Challenge in Humboldt, Texas will be the 23rd
and 24th. So that's coming up, I believe that's
this weekend. And on the men's side, Aiden Kraft
earned individual medalist honors at the Prestige.
Today's final round was canceled in La Quinta.
California due to high winds craft fire to 368
leading the field by five strokes after the first
two rounds played third round was canceled and
So he won his second tournament of his career
finishing five under after 36 holes head coach
Casey Martin said This event was great for us
and aiden displayed a ton of maturity during
brutal conditions yesterday. He played beautifully
Ducks men's are back in action. They will head
to Bandon and play in the Bandon Dunes Championships,
three -day tournament beginning March 8th, so
a little bit longer of a layoff for Casey Martin's
squad. Oregon State women's basketball, and then
I want to get to Mick Cronin. I know you and
Goose talked about this. Oregon State women's
basketball has four extremely important games
for the WCC tournament seeding. As they battle
Portland, it's a game behind the Beavers for
fourth in the WCC standings. And then Washington
State, Beavers are a single game out of first
and second. Gonzaga lost to LMU and they're tied
with Santa Clara at 10 and 4. The Broncos though
hold the tiebreaker over Oregon State so they've
got 6 p .m. start tonight at Gill against Portland
and then Saturday 1 p .m. at Gill against Washington
State. Genevieve, Kennedy Shuler, Tiara Bolden
are enjoying career years. They're one of two
WCC teams, Beavers are, that have three players
averaging 12 points a game and all three have
scored at least 25 points once this season. I
like their chances. They had a nice win against
Pacific over the weekend. So I think this team,
I don't know if they're necessarily, unfortunately,
because the WCC in the grand scheme of things
might not get the oomph from the NCAA tournament
committee. So I think you got to finish either
first or second in the regular season and then
get to the championship game of the WCC tournament
to get yourself kind of locked in to the NCAA
tournament. Just I'm just talking reality here,
and they've they've had a really nice season
under Scott Rook But again some inconsistency
is down the stretch that Santa Clara lost stung
right so the the winner though It gets an automatic
birth though. They do the first the regular season
champ and then the regular season does as well
No, I don't think they're no no the tournament
champ is the only one that gets to know but if
you win the regular season championship I Think
the NCAA tournament looked at that and goes yeah
That's what I'm saying. First or second. Is that
what happened last year? Do you remember? I can't
remember. Because Oregon State obviously won.
I can't remember what I had for breakfast. I
can't remember who won the WCC regular season
title in women's basketball last year. The Danny
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The old stitch head is going to make his first
appearance from D1 baseball, Eric Sorensen. In
just a moment we'll talk a lot of baseball. I
want to talk to him as well about how or where
the transfer portal has affected baseball? And
is there a mitigation in players now taking a
check from Major League Baseball because they
can get paid to stay in college? That's a good
question. Thank you. I just came up with that
myself. So don't take that question from me.
You're normally the one that asks the smart questions.
I'm trying to catch up with you. I just want
to do my job. All right, so you and Goose talked
about Mick Cronin the other day. Mick Cronin
went ballistic. Again, this is not the first
time in his career. This is not the first time
this year. This is not the first time in the
last three weeks Mick Cronin has gone off. What
was your thoughts on the student section chanting
Booker's name? I could give a rat s***. about
the other team's student section. I would like
to give you a kudos for the worst question I've
ever been asked. Did you like the preparation?
You really think I care about the other team's
student section? No, I don't think you care about
the other team's student section. Are you raising
your voice at me? No, I'm just talking to you.
Yeah, you are. Yeah, you are. Come on, dude.
No reason. Yes, you are. Everybody's standing
here listening to you. Everybody. This is on
camera. They can hear you. I answered the question.
I could give a rat's ass about the other team's
student section. I coach UCLA. I don't care about
Michigan State students. Who cares? I think,
okay. Who cares, Danny? I think, one, the question
could have been phrased a little bit differently.
Did the student section affect your team's play
at all? In your estimation, did the student section
affect the way that your team played? instead
of the way that was phrased. Okay, I'm not gonna
give any shade to Mick Cronin. He was being a
jerk right there. And... He was not being the
adult in the room. He could have answered the
question with that first comment and then next
question. That could have been it. And then he
calls out the reporter and then says, giving
you kudos for the worst question I've ever been
asked in my career. I guarantee he's been asked
worse questions. That was not a... That was not
an out -of -bounds question to ask because of
the atmosphere and because of the actions that
he displayed on the court by yanking a player
off the floor and basically sending him to the
locker room. And it was a former Michigan State
player who had a ton of family there and such.
It's like, how does this affect the game? Those
things, emotions, affect the game. I think it's
a legitimate question. It could have been phrased
a bit differently. It wasn't asked very specifically.
I guess is is that what your point is? That's
kind of my point. Yeah, I think that's fair.
I also think that mick cronin Was a baby like
there's no other way to put it I think that you
have to be the adult in the room and one of the
things that goose and I talked about yesterday
was that that's like The kind of thing you're
never going to get from dana altman He's always
been the adult in the room. You're never gonna
get any sort of reaction a lot of coaches I mean
tom iso can get fired up mike sheshevsky Got
fired up roy williams got fired bill self gets
fired up a lot of great coaches kelvin samson
gets fired up But there's a difference between
being fired up and that you don't call out somebody
who's doing a job And he didn't raise his voice
at him. No, you can take him aside Afterwards
and say and he called any dude at him by the
way as well in there, dude It's just like come
on. Let's Show some professionalism. There are
professionals here. Right. Let's act like it.
Everyone's just doing their job. You're trying
to do your job, which is trying to win basketball
games. And yeah, you got humbled by Michigan
State. Michigan State's not the powerhouse it
has been in the last few years. Michigan State's
an up and down. You want to talk about up and
down? We just talked about it a little bit ago.
You want to talk about an up and down program
right now? Michigan State, it's just like they're
Jekyll and Hyde. You know what time is though.
But they put it to UCLA. And this is not the
first time UCLA got pounded a little bit. So
I know McCrone is probably frustrated, but don't
take it out on a reporter. It's also his job
to go and answer questions. That's right. He
knows what his job is, his requirement. So if
he wants to answer him with two syllables or
whatever, he can do that. He's still there and
he answers the questions. I think what you said
was a good point, that he could have answered
the question the first time, the way he did,
and it probably wouldn't have made a headline.
It would have made a little bit of a soundbite.
People would have thought, well, okay, you know,
fine. But then he drew it out and he was taking
out, it's called a... He made it personal. Well,
and it's taking out his frustration on somebody
else who had nothing to do with how his team
played on the floor. So what I also just wanted
to touch on real quick is the yanking of the
one player who's obviously probably getting paid.
And honestly, I don't have his name in front
of me again. But it brought up this whole idea
again of this question of... College athletes
being employees and being treated like employees
And if they're not performing on the floor Do
you go to the extent of just saying I know I'm
not gonna put you back in so you might as well
Just go to the locker room But you don't see
other people don't know okay what else was going
on if there was some other conversation or going
on and That player could have been a distraction
if they were gonna be sitting on the bench I
guess then the only thing we can do is to compare
this to a real -life workplace environment if
this was a kitchen and somebody Did someone off
the line supposed to do you is it the same thing
as like sending them home? Or like because it
was embarrassing for him. Yeah, it was an embarrassing
And I think that was a message that Mick Cronin
was trying. I'm not gonna get Mick Cronin said
My perception is that was the message Mick Cronin
wanted to send, not just to that player, but
to everybody on his team. So maybe there's some
disarray that we're not aware of within the UCLA
basketball program, that Mick Cronin, as the
leader of that program, needs to get under control,
because that's a bad look all the way around.
But is that the same thing? Is it the same thing
as sending your employee home because they made
a mistake? It is, but to do it, but it's different.
I don't have cameras on me. Because I think it's
different too. It because of that. Yeah, I don't
have cameras on me at my workplace, right? So
I mean, I'm not gonna be publicly embarrassed
or shamed by that and there again I just think
it's about the delivery of the message that is
is tripping Mick Cronin up is He could have said
you're gonna go sit at the end of the bench.
You're not gonna say a word I'm not putting you
back in the game, but to publicly make that display
of It's basically escorting the player off the
floor towards the locker room Was I don't know
how that player necessarily comes back from that
within this program I Well psychology is everything
You know and listen wins and loss mick cronin
has has been a rising star in college basketball
He grabbed this job at ucla every other stop
he's been and he's been successful. He's been
fairly successful at ucla But this is just a
bad look But it still goes back to that employee
-employer relationship that I think is now giving
coaches more, in some respects, more power to
do things like this. I don't think it's necessarily
good luck. It is interesting. And I think that
we have done a good job detailing these things,
like we have for a lot of college sports. And
let's detail some more. College baseball next
with the old stitch at Eric Sorensen on the Danny
and Justin radio program. Hang around. Danny
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three Welcome in our good friend his first appearance
on the program He was a regular last baseball
season and so you know what we roped him back
into it again It's our good friend the stitch
head you can follow him on Twitter stitch underscore
head And he is the great Eric Sorensen who's
got that 6 '2 height with a 6 '8 wingspan. So
he could play goalie with the best of them. How
you doing, boss? That's it. Doing all right.
It also helped me dunk a basketball in high school.
So I'm kind of happy about that. It's one of
my life's great accomplishments with that wingspan.
Did you ever windmill a dunk? No, I mean, yeah,
on an 8 -foot goal. Not on a 10 -foot. You just
got your basic whiteboard. One hand slam dunk
on it up for from me on a 10 -foot goal. Oh,
that's fantastic about extension Did you get
did it give you some good extension on your pitching?
Great extension on pitching. I'm better at Frisbee
than I am baseball, though. All right. Well,
let's dive into it. I mean, the busy time of
the year now starts and all the previews are
done. Now everybody starts to play each other.
So I want to start with this because it's kind
of an overreaching question. And it's one that's
been sticking in my brain. So I don't know if
I'm going to start you out with a tough one,
Stitch, or not. But here we go. So the portal,
everyone's talking about the transfer portal
and NIL money. and how it affects certain sports.
In baseball, it's kind of unique because where
kids might have had the lure of going and signing
a pro contract and leaving their team early because
of $150 ,000, $200 ,000 signing bonus and start
working, they're trying to work their way up.
Isn't there more players you see staying in collegiate
baseball because they can get paid to stay and
play in college? Oh, you mean as far as instead
of going pro. Yeah, instead of going pro. Yeah.
Yeah, I think you see I think you see a little
bit more of that in in college baseball, certainly
because college baseball, if you're a good college
player and you're not necessarily you can still
be a good college player, not necessarily be
a pro prospect. I think you see that a little
bit more in our sport. A good, solid guy that's
that just plays, you know, errorless ball or
something like that or just is a good glue guy
for a team. You know, why not stick around and
play another year of college instead of trying
to, you know, go into the minors and try to make
a team and, you know, you might not last that
long if you're not that heralded of a prospect.
So I think that's one of the good things about,
one of the few good things about this whole NIL
era and the transfer portal era. One of the few
good things about it is that, yeah, you get guys
that stick around a little bit more, and the
quality of the game goes up a little bit, I think,
from that alone. So, yeah, I think that makes
perfect sense. Where's the strength in college
baseball again this year? Is it still steeped
in the SEC? Oh, yeah, I mean, it certainly is.
I mean, there's pockets of others, like the Big
12. I think they had eight teams in the NCAA
tournament last year. They're kind of in line
to do that again this year. The SEC... arguably
was probably better than the SEC two years ago,
I thought. But they're always gonna be good still.
But yeah, unfortunately it goes to who has the
most amount of money and who cares about it the
most. And that's gonna be the people in the SEC
are always gonna be good from now until the rest
of our lives probably. And the Big Ten, obviously
not one of the major conferences in comparison
in baseball and college baseball, but it feels
like those teams out west that have come in,
obviously, UCLA, top ranked team in the country,
Oregon coming in very well regarded as well.
And USC and Washington are also solid programs.
How do you think they've kind of remade that
conference now that we've gotten to see a year
of it? Oh, yeah. In fact, how you just look at
this past opening weekend. Michigan State winning
two of three at Louisville, Michigan. I saw them
personally out there in Arizona, went three and
one. Minnesota went unbeaten over the week. I
think we're seeing these teams in the, whatever
you want to call it, the traditional Big Ten
or whatever. They're starting to come around
too. I think last year the West teams dominated
and that was kind of expected. I kind of expect
them to do it again this year, especially with
Oregon, UCLA and USC. I think this year, so far,
I mean, it's a short, small sample, whatever,
but yeah, I'm seeing Big Ten teams from the traditional
footprint doing really well, and it's encouraging.
I mean, Nebraska's gonna be pretty good again,
too. I saw them as well this past weekend. I
think the Big Ten in general is climbing a lot
just in this, and we're seeing that already just
in this first few days of the season. Jumping
from the Big Ten in Oregon to the other side
of the pond with the Beavers. I know you got
a chance to see the Beavers play a really good
game against Stanford with a walk -off hit by
Josh Proctor. What were your initial impressions
of seeing the Beavers in person? It's kind of
interesting because there wasn't a lot of offense
in that game. And both Stanford and Oregon State,
I think, are capable of putting up good size
numbers. But yeah, I was impressed with Eric
Segura, the starter for Oregon State. And even
the guys that came in after, Isaac Yeager and
Wyatt Queen got into a little trouble early and
gave up the two runs for Stanford. It was just
kind of like, okay, well, I didn't see Dax Whitney
pitch, but I'm seeing some pretty good pitching,
you know, besides him, which is encouraging for
Oregon State. And I wasn't there for the walk
off home run on Monday by Bryce Hubbard, but
I know that it was. Well, first of all, it's
just an electric atmosphere that we can talk
about the crowds. I saw down there all right
all day But yeah to see eric hubbard or i'm sure
that bryce hubbard to see him Uh on on twitter,
so I saw the replay of that and that was just
exciting So yeah, I think it's just kind of another
good oregon state team again I don't think there's
going to be a whole bunch of fall off from them
this year stitch head org eric sorensen with
us here on the danny and justin radio program
from d1 baseball and eric It's so interesting
you have two walk -off hits in a row and I think
that the identity of your team is something that
it can be built and You see teams sometimes the
early narrative becomes they can't get the big
two out hit They can't get that walk -off hit
and then some teams they do it Do you think that's
the case where if a team has some early success
that that's something that can be built upon
going forward? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean that's
certainly that that's kind of the staple of our
sport it seems like sometimes I know they they
say that momentum is tomorrow's starting pitcher,
I guess, or whatever. But, you know, hitting
is contagious. There's all these added, all these
little things that we have. Which we love. But
which we love. Yeah, of course. But now I project
good things from, I mean, it was a good showing
for Oregon State for the opening weekend. Good
showing for Oregon for that matter, too, as far
as maybe not quite the competition that OSU faced,
but they still came through solid. Yeah, this
is gonna be a hell of a season, I think, for
both of those teams. Too bad they're not in the
same conference and can't play each other, right?
Well, but they do get to play each other twice
this season. One at PK Park, which is great,
one at PK Park, and the other one they just added
to the schedule in the middle of April up in
Portland at the brand -new Hop Stadium, a single
-eight long season in Portland. So that should
be a great matchup as well. That should be outstanding.
Yeah, it should. So let's talk about scheduling
a little bit for both teams. You just touched
on it a little bit. Oregon State with... with
a tough opening weekend down in Arizona, and
now they turn around, head to Texas. Baylor,
Southern Miss, Purdue on the docket, and then
they stay down there for the Frisco College baseball
class at Houston, Alabama, Iowa, and then before
they come back and take on Oregon. And then Oregon
starts out with George Mason, Youngstown State,
and then they play... On the d1 baseball TV stream,
Arizona. There we go. Little little plug there
for you, Arizona You see Irvine and Vanderbilt.
So talk about early season scheduling Can it
be overthought or do you want to see teams playing
elite competition? Because there's a lot of schools
of thought in this stitch. Yeah Yeah, and it's
interesting some teams some coaches have different
thoughts about it because like like Dave Esker
at Stanford when they got done with their weekend
that went two and two had two losses on the last
plays of games, but what looks pretty good elsewhere.
And he was like, you know, we could have scheduled
somebody and just gone 4 -0. But that, you know,
in essence, he meant, you know, a tomato can
team that didn't give him any problems or any
kind of challenge. He said, but we didn't want
that. We wanted to, you know, we wanted to challenge
ourselves every weekend of the season. So kind
of different philosophies as far as coaches,
you know, just in their thinking on scheduling.
But I love what Oregon State has done the last
few years where they start off down there in
Surprise, Arizona. play really good teams. It
just kind of gets the blood flowing a little
bit early on. And of course, Oregon State kind
of has to schedule better early on because of
their independent status and some of the teams
that they play later on aren't going to be as
strong. So I'm glad they're doing this for the
first three weekends. And Oregon actually, and
I see that they, again, they played solid. They
had no problems with George Mason, but they also
just played clean. It wasn't that they beat them
by one or two runs. So And I look forward to
that. I'm actually going to be at that at that
Vegas tournament against when they're playing
Arizona, UC Irvine and Vanderbilt. So I really
look forward to that. And so there's two different
thoughts there, but I think it's out of necessity.
Oregon State has to has to schedule a little
bit tougher this time of year. The great stitch
at Eric Sorensen joining us on the Danny and
Justin radio program as we wind through the beginning
of this season. Oregon and Oregon State back
on the diamond this weekend. Oregon at home against
Youngstown State while Oregon State is in Texas
to take on Baylor, Southern Miss, and Purdue
in the Ron Rock Classic. So let's talk a little
bit more specifically about off the field on
the field. And I say it that way is because Matt
Flohr is the new pitching coach at Oregon as
Blake Hoxing heads to Oklahoma State. So would
it be fair to say that the pitching coach is
probably the second most important position on
the bench beyond the head coach in a college
baseball environment? Yeah, most of the time
that's the case. It's usually the pitching coach
sometimes sometimes in a case of like John Savage
at UCLA. He's his own pitching coach, so that
kind of takes care of itself, but. Yeah, I mean,
I know that floor. I've I've known the name.
I've known him from being at San Diego for a
number of years under Rich Hill and got a good
reputation. And I'll tell you this much, guys.
Yeah, I'm just kind of looking at the stat sheet.
Three of the starting pitchers did not give up
a single earned run, so Matt Flore must be doing
okay so far in Eugene. That's my point with him.
But yeah, he's got a good reputation about him,
so I'm excited to see what he can do for Coach
Waskowski and that staff this year. All right,
I'm going to put a kid on your radar right now
if you haven't already put him on your radar.
All right, Angel Lyah. Is a freshman came out
of the weekend 7 of 13. He's batting 538 a 1
.0 7 7 slugging percentage He pounded a couple
of home runs for RBI's a double as well in that
This kid and he's got a glove as well. He can
flash the leather put him on your radar for for
the University of Oregon Here's okay. I'm gonna
tell you a little bit. Oh, by the way, first
off. I love the linebacker number He has 53.
I love that But here's here. I'll stop you a
little bit. I knew from Angel I I knew of him
and I saw him play and they have this this kind
of high school All -Star tournament every summer
in Long Beach called the area code games where
the best high school players from all around
the country play for six days for scouts and
college coaches. And I actually saw him play
two years ago when he was in that before his
senior year. So I did have him on my radar already,
but yes, I did read that he had two home runs
in one game. Yeah, this is a guy that comes in
and he's not weak in the knees. He's not wobbly
at all as a first year guy. So that's an impressive
start. I hope he can keep it up. But yes, I was
aware of what he did this past weekend and look
forward to seeing more from him this year. Eric
is there any story or player or team out there
that you know, we're so early on in the season
We're kind of getting to know the landscape of
college baseball Is there something out there
that you think that people really need to be
paying attention to? Well, first of all, I okay
I'm gonna space on the dudes name But there's
the guy for for Baylor and Oregon State's about
to play them this week guy for Baylor that hit
three grand slams in one Oh, that's right. Yeah
tying, tying a national record that was set by
Jim LaFountain of Louisville back in 1976. I
remember his name, but not the guy. That's him.
Yeah. So that was coming out of the gate. That's
a, that's a pretty good first story of, of college
baseball. But yeah, it just, yeah, that was off
to it. That got off to a great start and it'll
be interesting to see how Oregon State handles
him and the rest of Baylor Baylor looks like
a team that that might be a bit of a surprise
this year, too So yeah, there's my early story
for this college baseball season. All right.
He loves whiskey. He Does not like anything that's
superstitious So he doesn't mind he doesn't mind
saying a guy's got a no -hitter into the into
the seventh inning or eighth inning Yeah, and
he is a college baseball Junkie and addict. It's
the great Eric Sorensen stitch head. Thanks.
It's a long season buddy We're gonna be happy
to have you along for the ride again this year
Really appreciate your insight and your dedication
to this sport for everybody throughout the country
sure, man I appreciate you right back and let's
talk again after I get the chance to see the
Ducks here in two weeks Absolutely. Take care
buddy. All right. Thank you. There he goes the
great stitch head Eric Sorensen. I Mean when
you got a guy that you can just bounce stuff
off of like I mean I knew he probably knew who
Julio was. He knows everyone. All right. Sorry.
Pardon me. I'm still still working on the case.
No, no, we are not. We'll wind up the show here
might even bring in intern Dom into the old fun
and frivolity Olympic minute as well. All right.
All right. Coming up on the Danny Justin radio
program. If you missed any of the interview with
Eric Sorensen, otherwise known as Stitch Head,
if you follow him on Twitter, Stitch, S -T -I
-T -C -H underscore head. It's a great follow,
by the way, as is D1 Baseball, as he's a part
of that, the organizing crew of that Bible for
college baseball throughout the country. You
can go back to the podcast, which is going to
be uploaded in a little bit as intern Dom will,
his little fingers will just tap away, upload,
download, edit, boom, it's up on the. on the
pod you can follow us Danny and Justin on wherever
you podcast. Thanks for tuning in friends here
for a Thursday my first show of the week because
we were off on Monday and then you and Dom we're
doing things on Tuesday and then you and Goose
yesterday. Goose is going to be on Memorex tomorrow
for Big Bets. He's not going to be live in the
studio. It's always unfortunate. We always enjoy
a good Danny Justin and memes So he was he asked
me says you want me to call in because he's going
to the Newport Seafood and Wine Festival Which
you just heard if you were listening to the program
and all of our friends out there and Fox Sports
Newport. Hello So he's heading out there to sample
He's taking Kim his beautiful bride who I'm still
haven't met so She's very lovely And very real.
Very lovely and very real. Is that what you just
said? Yeah. Okay. So speaking of big bets, I
sent this to you, but you apparently didn't get
to it on Tuesday. I didn't get to a lot of things
on Tuesday. It was really, it was maybe the fastest
60 minutes we have ever had. Okay. The fastest
60 minutes in a fast 60 minutes? Is that what
you're saying? I prepared for an hour and 20
minute show. So here's the thing, is that freaking
goose again goes four and one. But so does intern
blaze I Went two and three you went two and three.
I always go two and three. So we're now mired
Every single time you have I had one three and
two week Then I had that horrific one and four
week which pulled you even with me So we're both
languishing at 10 and 15 were five games under
the Mendoza line the 500 line Goose is sprinted
out to an 18 and 7 record. He is Unbelievable.
He has eight games in front of us. A lot of basketball
left. There are not zeros on the clock yet. But
Chris, the listener, Steve Mim's best friend,
Goose's best friend who has a chair next to him
at the Viking Inn in Junction City, he also went
4 -1. So we had three people go 4 -1. However,
Blaze saves the day for the hosts as he picked
1 -37. for the tiebreaker total points between
Michigan State and Wisconsin, so he won the tiebreaker.
Chris had 133, Goose had 135, the total, what
was the total? 163. So he came closest. And Chris?
Yeah. Do you remember that he switched his pick?
He did. Sorry Chris. We remember. And... I picked
157 so I was actually the closest you had a hundred
and five points I know listen there was a I went
with the traditional big ten basketball game
I went with the game that Oregon and Minnesota
had Let me update you on Oregon softball and
Oregon baseball they're playing right now at
the Mary Nutter in a Cathedral City, California
the Lady Ducks have lost their first game to
Auburn 10 -5 We'll give you a full recap on that
game tomorrow. And right now in the top of the
fifth, they're the home team against Texas A
&M. It's all knotted up at 1 -1. And was it Elon
Butler who just hit a home run to tie it up for
the Ducks solo shot? And they're batting. Texas
A &M is in the top of the fifth. Oregon men,
now they moved up the start times for the series
for today and tomorrow against Youngstown State.
Oregon 4 -1 in the bottom of the second. ending
right now as they move those first pitches up
to 205 for today and tomorrow. So if you're planning
on going out to PK tomorrow for the single set
game against the Youngstown State, do you know
the mascot? Penguins I look you know what you
you knew I was gonna ask you so I Pointed I didn't
even ask you if you looked it up, but I knew
you had looked at the Youngstown State Penguins
How many penguins do you see rolling around the
streets in Ohio? Do you know where in Ohio cuz
I've lived in Ohio? No Didn't you look that up
when you were looking at what their mascot was?
I did not I'm pretty sure it's northern. I'm
sure it's outside of the Cleveland area somewhere
pretty sure Well, I was near Cincinnati kind
of near the Kentucky border. No, that's where
I was Okay, so there we are so we'll update those
one more time maybe before the end of the show
by the way big bets again tomorrow I think we're
gonna have both Dom and blaze in the studio.
So both the interns will be picking and Justin
you're picking the games this week, baby Jay,
right? Yes, I am. Okay, and I'm excited about
it. I'm gonna hopefully get some home cooking
We're watching the Olympics here in the studio
from the Bigfoot Beverages Studio on Fox Sports
Eugene, Fox Sports Newport. So let's do our Olympic
update. All right. It was a big day for the U
.S. of a women's hockey wins gold in overtime
over Canada, two to one. And here's how it sounded.
Megan Keller with the overtime goals. She snuck
it through the five hole, as they say. And the
U .S. defeats Canada for gold. Canada takes silver.
And these two teams have been going at it in
the Olympics for many, many years and many years
to come. It's the third Olympic gold for women's
hockey. Women's curling made it to the semifinals.
Men's hockey also into the semifinals. Is it?
No, they play for gold. What am I telling for
gold going for gold the Olympic medal count?
Looks like this actually let me give you a little
bit more US gave up the tying goal to Sweden
with 91 seconds left in the quarterfinal game
they are in the semifinals as US beat Sweden
2 to 1 that was in hockey Jordan Stoltz takes
the 1500 meters But it's not gold It's silver.
He was going for his fourth Olympic gold medal.
His streak ends. He finishes with three golds,
one silver at the games. And here's the Olympic
count. Norway with 16 golds, 34 overall medals.
United States, nine golds, 27 overall. Italy,
nine golds, 26 overall. France, six golds, 19
overall. And the Netherlands, six golds and 16
overall. And there's your Olympic update. Thanks,
Dom. as we will continue with that through the
Olympics, which I think run through this Sunday.
So our last Olympic update on the air, well,
we'll do one Monday to kind of recap the entire
games, the Olympiad in Italy. So what else we
got going on? We got tonight, we got basketball,
Oregon women taking on Nebraska, 6 p .m. start
at MKA and... It will be only the third time
these two teams have met as, of course, Big Ten
members. They've both won one game. The Ducks
are 2 -1 overall, though, against Nebraska, including
1 -0 in Eugene. Oregon is going for their 26th
win in the last 27 home games against unranked
opponents as Nebraska comes in to this at 16
-10 and 5 -10. And Justin, you and I talked in
the first segment about what we want to see out
of Kelly Graves' squad tonight. And for Oregon,
to me, I would like to see a fast start. I would
like to see Oregon jump out to a 12 -6, 15 -7
lead and then just kind of step on the gas a
little bit more. There have been few games in
the last month and a half, and you can correct
me on this, Justin. Few games in the last month
and a half that I can remember where Oregon kind
of raced out to a big lead and held on to it
for the entirety of the rest of the game. They
built a big lead against Illinois, let that one
slip away, but they ended up with the win. They
had other leads in games, but they haven't seemed
to be able to sustain and extend those. Am I
wrong in that? No, I think there's some truth
to that. I think there's some truth to that for
sure. And as I said in the first segment, it's
a young team. I mean, it's a team that keep forgetting
that, don't we? We do. And they've had it's because
they've had some Big moments against good teams
haven't quite pulled off some of those games
michigan michigan state This team could already
be 20 wins. I know they could I think it's a
really good team I think what they lack is that
is that seasoning like they just feel like they
don't have the quite the savviness that a veteran
team will when They need a bucket and you somehow
have that player that's gonna go and get that
bucket You know like they they at times it seems
like Let emotions get the I don't want to get
the best of them, but they They've heard them.
They're very momentum based. I guess is what
I would say They're streaky and it seems like
that happens even in games where they're hot
or they're just completely cold And that's what
happened against Washington. So we'll be keeping
our eye on that We'll obviously talk about that
tomorrow on this program by the way as we end
the fifth inning Oregon and Texas A &M at the
Mary Nutter softball. They're all tied up at
one bottom of the third now at Oregon at the
bat. It's 4 -1 Ducks in that first game of a
four game set against the Penguins of Youngstown
State. Has anybody looked up where Youngstown
State is? It is in Youngstown, Ohio. Okay. Surprise,
surprise. That just like, that tells me nothing.
Give me another big landmark since I don't know
where Youngstown, Ohio is. Pardon me. It's southeast
of Cleveland. Say closer. Yeah, I think that's
what I said between Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
Oh Southeast interest. Yeah. All right. Okay.
Well, you know who was east of Akron, you know,
who was the athletic director there for years
and years No, another famous Ohioan Jim Trussell.
Oh, I've heard after he left Ohio State. He was
and that's where Trussell came from when he went
to Ohio State was Youngstown State and he won
national championships there and then it was
the ad for a long time at Youngstown State. There
you go. Nice little trivia question for you.
Now speaking of other things off the floor and
off the field in college athletics, there's some
more kerfuffle down in the state of Georgia.
And the Bulldogs, I don't know if that's part
of the recruiting deal, is just like, if you've
got a lead foot, come to Georgia. Come to Athens
because we will welcome you with open arms. The
police department might not, but we will because
yet again, more players have been cited for Basically
reckless. I don't know if it's reckless driving
was one of the official charges But what was
the official charges are misdemeanor charges
of speeding at? Maximum limits and they didn't
list all of them is just as other traffic related
charges. Can you stop right there for a second?
I read that the first time and it's like what
is the maximum limit? Like that makes your car
can't go any faster. Literally what I was thinking
is that you literally can't go any faster, which
is unbelievable How is there even a stretch of
road that you can get to that speed? I've been
completely reckless obviously which is but they
don't list the the actual miles per hour speed
that they were I could not find an actual miles
per hour so this is not an isolated incident
there have been in fact there was a Fatal crash.
It was just a few years ago involving some Georgia
players if I'm not mistaken That in it there
was a off -the -field lawsuit. There was a lot
of stuff flying around and alleged, you know
There was a player kicked off the team because
they had two misdemeanor counts of It was not
only just it was him and his mother They got
basically arrested for 17 criminal charges include
two felonies after fleeing the police that exceeds
speeds of 150 miles per hour Can we just can
we just say what how does this happen so much
at one university? Well, I just don't I don't
get any sense. There's lack of accountability
It seems like within the program and again That's
where I just point right back and I hate to keep
pointing it back this way But you don't hear
about these things in Eugene you don't hear about
these things in Corvallis now There was one off
field that is still going through the process
of a now former player for the University of
Oregon Oregon State are not infallible No, they're
no no no not perfect, but this is like multiple.
Oh did I didn't hear the word of the week yet?
We had memes yesterday So is that you can work
it in but infallible will be your word of the
week for this week, okay? Well, let's give it
its rightful. Do and let's do it right tomorrow,
okay? We got a production meeting about this
when I'm not here Would you guys please stay
on schedule on what we're supposed to do? Thank
my problems see I see Dom I can chide my co -hosts
too. That's all right So I guess the accountability
portion of that is where I think the university
administration Needs to step in and it starts
with the football program it starts with Kirby
smart it absolutely starts with Kirby smart because
he's the one that's making decisions there and
Doesn't it just feel like there isn't any accountability
if it's the same story year after year after
year I mean we're talking all the way back to
Jordan Davidson or not Jordan Davidson Jordan
David is that the defensive lineman for the Eagles?
I think that's his name. Yeah, so I don't want
to throw Jordan Davis in this at all. No outstanding
young man. Yes, but it's been a trend for Georgia
football For it seems four or five years. Are
they just bored down there? Do they not do do
they not know how to play video games? I don't
know. We know it wasn't Dan Lanning because he
left and it's still going on Yeah, there you
go. All right Well to be determined see how it
all shakes out for those two young men. Thank
goodness that nobody got hurt Oh, a joke! I got
fired from the bank today. A woman asked me to
check her balance, so I pushed her. Dad jokes!
Why can't pigs play soccer? Ah, something about
their feet, hooves? I don't know. Can't pigs
play soccer? Got anything? I would go with the
feet also. It's gotta be the... Nah, they hog
the ball. Alright, I like it. I like it. It wasn't
too obvious. They hog the ball. Maybe I should
have gotten it. You know, Mims would have gotten
it. Well, because, you know, I've got to cover
stuff. I think Mims has very good eyesight. He
can see some of these that are written here on
the wall. I'm pretty sure he can. He has better
eyesight than I do. Does he? What's your eyesight
with your glasses on? With my glasses on? Not
20 -20. I'll tell you that. It's more like 20
-30. I don't know. Whichever the way that it's
bad. Okay, what about with them off? Off? My
prescription is like minus... 250 or something
like that. It's pretty bad. It's pretty bad tomorrow
on the program Friday big bets. Everyone's gonna
be here It's gonna be a party Hopefully you can
join us put a smile on your face someone else's
they deserve it. So do you God bless? Thanks
for listening for intern Dom for my partner,
baby, Jay. I'm doc peace