Oxford Eugene. I love growing the game. I can
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watching this, I'm sure USC is gnashing their
teeth right now saying, how come we couldn't
have thought of this first? Interesting guests.
Kelly Graves, Mike Parker, Coach Mark Waskowski,
Melissa Lombardi, Max Torres, El Toro, joining
us. Sharp opinions. I think if you're a supporter
of the NBA, that you should at least have some
level of interest in the WNBA because the things
that interest you as a NBA fan should still interest
you as a WNBA fan. And some smiles can you guess
a position I played in football left out? No,
I did not. Yeah Goose trying to kill me today
on the golf course advanced warning was given
it just apparently was not heard I will dispute
that in a court of law It's Danny Havell if you're
driving and you're trying to do this in your
head pull off the side of the road I don't need
any accidents Justin gross whiner. I love to
hear coach go We're gonna focus on that bad for
game stretch the rest of the season season. We
will never do that again. That might be a good
point. I don't know. I mean, maybe you could
do that. Maybe that's another strategy. Danny
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magic. It's Monday, friends. We made it through
the weekend. What a quick weekend it was. My
wife turned and looked at me last night and said,
where'd the weekend go? I said, I don't know.
look behind you it's right there it's a monday
kids thanks for tuning in right over there in
the producer's chair after a short time off enjoying
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various i'm doc and right over here to the right
you know if you love him he is a world cup fiend
Justin alexander rooster on air baby. J. What
a boy. I have been feening I specifically like
I've been feening feening as the kids say I literally
today so the Argentina The Argentina match against
Austria was on at 10 a .m. Okay, and I had to
drive from Portland to Eugene which is like a
two -hour drive A little bit longer maybe with
the 8 a .m. traffic. So I left at like 8 in the
morning because I wanted to specifically, I usually
would leave a little bit later because I know
our show is at 2 p .m. So I don't have to get
here super early but I tried to leave earlier
today because I wanted to see Messi play and
it was awesome. I made it, yeah, I made it right
in time. I even got a little bit of breakfast
from McDonald's first. Wow, look at you go. Good
for you. Lionel Messi becomes the highest goal
scorer in Men's World Cup history. Moving up
to 17 breaking a tie Moving up to 17. It says
right here. Okay, I'll be wrong. Oh So maybe
it was that he only had one goal, right two goals.
Okay, so then he's up to eight now total Yeah,
he broke it with 17. Okay. Yeah that lines up
He's now scored in six consecutive World Cup
games since 2022 He could have had three he actually
missed a penalty within the first ten minutes
of the game Which everybody was like, oh here
it is the big moment where best he's gonna overtake
and then he misses it It just shows he's he's
human But he almost had three goals after scoring
three goals in his first match, right? I mean,
this is an unbelievable run that he's going on
and he's already setting himself up to be the
golden boot winner Come on. This is his last
one though, isn't it? It has we thought last
time Well, I know but he'll be what 40 years
old he's turning 39 in this book up 43 years
old. There's no way I Wouldn't put it past him.
Okay. The reason why though is because his game.
He's he's one of those guys He's like Kobe when
Kobe learned how to do the post -up and bait
away and just change his game like he's done
that where he doesn't have to Have the ball all
the time and make an impact like you can just
get him the ball Every not like once in a while
like you're kind of always gonna funnel it through
him eventually But he doesn't need to run around
with the ball all the time at this point like
you can just get him the ball And he'll just
make his magic happen. So I could see it's it's
short spurts. So that's why I can see He's not
like this endurance guy. He makes this magic
happen. So I wouldn't be shocked I do think that
this will be his last World Cup though, especially
if he wins which that'd be two back -to -back
then be crazy I'm telling you this other day.
This is like to put into context for people LeBron
level longevity with Michael Jordan level of
winning. It's just what this is. I mean, he's
38 years old He's still the best player in the
world in a sport where if you're 30 years old
That's it's kind of like running backs in the
NFL. I'm here 30 years old. You're getting there.
You're almost done I'm glad you related it back
to things that somebody in this country can tell
me I'm looking over at Vegas and his eyes are
glazing over a little bit the longer you and
deeper You talk about World Cup. I know I'll
just I did You just can't get me started. I'm
okay every four. Well, I had to though. I know
it's history We always have to touch on history
and it's not about what we want. It's about what?
The fan base is gonna listen to and there's again
We discussed this before the World Cup started
every four years all of a sudden the American
North America gets interested in soccer again
a Football the beautiful game. We always will
watch I love see English premiere stuff love
it, but especially now it's on US soil We'll
see the arc. Again, let's see how long MLS is
going to be able to ride this. When it's done,
and I think it's good. I think it's great for
the game. Internationally, the stronger you get,
if you have the U .S. bought in, the stronger
you will get internationally. Well, and the stronger
the U .S. team plays in this tournament as well,
I think will help. And the fact that they have
a star now. There's a guy that you can look to
on the team and go, hey, flow. Balogon that's
our guy like that's our guy that can be the star
Did you hear the story about how Christian Pacific
becomes a US citizen Balogon? No about how his
apparently his mom. Yeah, that's Balogon Yeah,
okay. Well such is great, but that was I don't
kind of you were throwing something out there
He's kind of blanked for a second was that couldn't
get on a plane didn't want to travel back The
doctor said you can't go yeah, and so she has
Him here and he grew up in london. His parents
is for but he was but he had but he was born
in new york So by circumstance, yeah, he I don't
know how much time he spent there crazy. That
is Yeah happenstance that is all right So we'll
talk about we'll talk about world cup as we go
through the week because right now it's france
and iraq france wins they advance in group i
Automatically us with the paraguay win. Thank
you paraguay They now get the they didn't get
the top spot yet still but they advance So they
did get the top spot. Okay, so that that was
the debate We thought I had misspoke and I said
they had the top spot when they didn't have the
top spot with Paraguay winning Then right they
got they got the top spot Mark Garland is going
to be on the program. He is in Omaha. It is the
championship game the last event in NCAA athletics
for this academic year Tonight four o 'clock
in Omaha, Oklahoma, North Carolina for all the
marbles North Carolina comes back with I was
a six two six three win The other night and so
they force the third in a deciding game We'll
hear from Mark Garland or returning guests of
the program. You can follow him on see baseball
three six five He's the analyst writer and podcast
host for the college baseball show We have some
Katie Fiso news. I think we touched on this a
bit. We'll talk about Katie here in a minute.
Big news out of NCAA basketball. Now it hasn't
been, I think it's been confirmed by enough people,
don't you, that Dusty May is leaving after a
NCAA championship with Michigan basketball, turning
that program around in two quick years to a title
in 2026. He's 49 years old. He's heading to the
show. Going to the NBA, he's going to coach Cooper
Flagg. Dallas Mavericks fired Jason Kidd after
a 26 -56 season last year. They got rid of Nico
Harrison earlier than that. And it's now Dusty
May, who led Michigan to a 64 -13 record over
two seasons in Ann Arbor. Before that, it was
at Florida Atlantic. And now he's coaching into
Big Shoe. I'm not sure about this. I mean, I
hope he's making a ton of money. Oh, I'm sure
he is. If Shams tweets it out... It's probably
real. That's the first thing. The second thing
is apparently they went after John Shire before
they turned their attention to Dusty May. Isn't
that interesting? Really? And he said no. And
I always thought that was interesting whenever
that stuff's reported. Like, how does Dusty May
feel about that? Like, oh, I was their second
choice. So I know it was kind of tongue in cheek.
And you can dive in here any time you want, Vegas.
I mean, I'm not going to keep the microphone
off for you. By the way, we're going to have
good, bad, and ugly in just a few moments as
well. And I want you to stay tuned. In the last
part of the program, we've teased before, we've
had big announcements, and they've been big announcements.
This one is the biggest and most impactful announcement
that's related to this radio program since we
signed on the air almost two years ago. And that
is no joke. So I'd like you to hang on to the
end of the program, get all your friends, neighbors,
the kids together, and gather around the radio
or however you consume our show online or through
Alexa or whatever it is. And we'll talk about
that in the last segment. We're going to hug
it out. So I kind of threw it out to you, baby
Jane. I'll let you guys jump in. If you can think
of one that jumps to the top of your head. When
was the last college coach who was like Enfuego
on fire that translated that to the NBA? Because
I've got one. I've got one. OK, do you have one?
Do you care? I think I have the same ones that
probably we probably have. We'll go one, two,
three and say the name at the same time. OK,
one, two, three Brad Stevens. He said you said
Brad Stevens. I said Brad Stevens. I think I
think and I say this is a bulls fan I think our
coach was better than we do So why Billy Donovan
you think because I mean in terms of if you're
so you can't be basing it off of a title because
he Didn't win a title in the NBA yet, right?
He has another job now because he's got Brad
Stevens won a title though. He did as a at least
as a general manager as a general No, but took
it took his team to the final again. Yeah, but
but Billy Donovan also won He won two championships
and also took in the NBA I think it's fair to
say that Billy Donovan. I know in college basketball
Okay, no I say in ambulate and in the NBA what
College Coast has translated to success in the
NBA, right? Because my theory is is that while
Dusty May did it? Incredibly you can't argue
with the job. He did at Michigan Is it is it
too quick? Is it too quick of a jump? to go from
where you're at now because the other side of
this is that college athletics become pros anyway
so maybe he's just like you know what pay me
more and i can i can really you know get into
it with with these guys and teach them some things
that maybe would translate to the program i just
don't know i don't feel that whole the jump from
college to the pros you can say the same thing
in in college football name me except for pete
carolin took them three times before they won
a super bowl You know? Yeah. Tell me, I mean,
I'm throwing it out there asking the question.
I mean, I'm with you on that. I don't like the
move personally. I also, it rubs me the wrong
way. I really like Dusty May. I kind of don't
like him as much anymore. I thought I really
valued his coaching style and there's something
kind of wrong to me about when you're recruiting
players to come play for you and then all of
a sudden it's almost July. And you're leaving
them. Yeah, that's tough. I mean, they're in
off season workouts right now. They're getting
ready and the season is going to be honest before
you know it. Baby J, what do you think of this
whole thing? So I whatever I think about the
transition from college to the pro in either
football or basketball, my question is always
what's the thing that makes them a good pro coach?
Because a lot of times what I think makes a good
college coach is somebody that knows how to recruit
and someone else that relates to the players
and be like a leader. But I think in the pros,
it's different. You're talking about kids. You're
not talking to kids in the pros. You're talking
about almost every single player on your rosters
making more money than you. 100 percent. And
so I think that if you look at the history of
the NBA. couple other guys we missed layer Brown
the only guy to ever win an NCA title and a NBA
title he did that know for with the Pistons and
With Kansas in the national championship game
in nineteen as a player. No as a coach as a coach
Yeah, so he's he's he's done Both as a coach.
That's right. Yeah, Larry Brown. Okay, that's
a good one Yeah, I should have thought about
and then he had like he changed jobs like he
changed right? Well, he and he ultimately I don't
know if he has a great reputation as a coach
because of you know He had all this stuff with
Allen Iverson and I don't know if he basically
I think he had a lot of really good assistance
That's fair. I don't think I'm gonna sit here
and say he's one of the greatest coaches of all
time or anything like that But he's a good example
of a championship. That's made it work Yeah,
I mean and then Fred Hoidberg is another maybe
example of like not great guy that was really
going to win something that one almost kind of
made sense though because it was like he had
his like system he had his I'm gonna bring in
this system and so that's to me whenever the
question is like Chip Kelly didn't work because
he just personally I don't think is meant to
be a head coach for pros but I could almost understand
a coach like that more where it's like, oh, you're
bringing in like a scheme or something like that
versus like, oh, I'm just a really good guy plan.
Yeah, we're going to make sure that you're consuming
these many calories and you're going to be on
this. I'm like a father figure to you. You know
what I mean? Like, I just think that that's a
different style of coaching. Yeah, absolutely.
I agree. So it's just to me now. What does Michigan
do? I mean, it's like, OK, I don't know. It's
like you got your football coach. It's like football
right now, too. I mean, I would say it happened
a couple of years ago, but. How does a program
that has won national championships in football
and basketball seem like they're in such disarray?
What people would say is because they do their
deals with the devil basically I mean they did
their deal with the devil in in football with
prick their finger and blood With the scandal
there and then I would say that a lot of people
were not upset But looked at michigan as one
of those teams in the transfer portal. I was
like, okay. Yeah, this is like the epitome of
These guys are just going for one year and they're
basically pros. They're all in a certain age
Like 24 years old. So I think people don't like
michigan because the line between pro and College
is now permanently blurred I agree and and that's
probably why we're gonna see this happen more
often Ready to be getting ready for the Super
League. And by the way Mbappe just scored. It's
France 1 -0. Oh, so he's right behind Messi now
I think. Yeah, they're in a race right now. This
is gonna be fun to watch the rest of the World
Cup. We got the on -the -pitch teams themselves
and then the individual and that was a great
goal from outside the box with a left foot into
the corner. Wow, that's, wow is right. All right,
by the way, big bets this weekend. Hosted not
too bad. Goose finished under 500, so did Lora,
both two and three. Woody and de Jong the listeners
went two and three baby J You and I went three
and two you got you got the draw with the Belgium
and Iran That was a good call. Thank you. I was
happy to get at least one I was feeling good
about Paraguay and did I call Paraguay in Turkey?
It was like seeing that was gonna be a draw as
well Yes, I didn't get that one. I felt really
good about it, but it did not come to fruition
as we'll talk about overall 31 and 29 on the
season, baby J. I'm Even I'm back to five hundred
now thirty and thirty you realize I was like
seven games under five hundred Yeah, okay, so
we've made some crazy runs. I've made yeah, so
I'm back I'm only one game behind you goose now
is sitting in third But if you're not first your
last 28 and 32 so he's two games behind me three
behind you so our strategy In my strategy for
the games, I think worked Yeah, I think I baited
him you're above five hundred. Well, yeah, although
he did get Kansas City, right? I did get Kansas
City, right? So it was I think that's like kind
of a theme now is that we try to trick each other
into picking against our own That's why I let
you guys battle it out. You're in the octagon
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good bad and ugly let's get through this My good
from the weekend. It's pretty obvious anytime
you get a duck winning a major championship in
any professional sport, you gotta say that's
the good of the weekend, and it certainly was.
So congratulations, Wyndham Clark, a two time
now US Open champion. And man, did he grind that
thing out? He was all over the place. He was
playing Army golf right left right left. Couldn't
find a fairway made clutch 910 12 foot par putts
in a slick track at Shercooke. kills and that's
my good for the weekend congratulations Wyndham
Clark another us open championship congratulations
to him and i think our good bad and uglies will
show what we were paying attention to over the
weekend mine was Lino Messi what a surprise he
takes two goals today he almost has a third he
misses a penalty but here he is he's the all
-time leading goal scorer in world cup history
continues his go case so I love watching Lionel
Messi, I'll talk about him anytime I can. So
I'm, and I'm on World Cup for my bad, okay? What
is this thing with penalizing players and issuing
yellow cards and putting their hands over their
mouth? What is that all about? Yeah new rule
apparently it is a new rule and just by muscle
memory They've done that in the past and maybe
what it is is what they're saying And I think
that's what the interpretation is is that they
could be swearing or saying something else to
the official, right? And they're covering it
up. So you got to have your hands down to your
side at all times What kind of society are we
living in right? So in a way, it's like okay.
We want to make sure that people aren't saying
bad things, but also I don't know, it's weird,
right? That's silly to me. I think it's taking
it too extreme, which is bad. My bad is gonna
be... And they go right into your ugly. Okay,
Simon... Adonagra. I didn't grow I don't know
how to pronounce. He's not here He's from Ivory
Coast who had an opportunity to beat Germany
late in the 89th minute It was a 1 -1 tie and
got a perfect ball across and just hesitated
didn't one -time it took a couple extra dribbles
and he missed the opportunity to score Germany
comes down and scores right after that It was
one of those it was one of those balls was like,
ah, like what are you doing? Just shoot it man
that you had a goal And then my ugly, you know,
not all games, not all 1 -0 games are created
equal. So my last one is also a World Cup. Turkey
and Paraguay was one of the worst matches I've
ever seen. It was three, sorry, third minute
goal scored. It was 1 -0. And then Paraguay loses
a man about, I don't know, 30 minutes in, and
they spent about 60 minutes of the game packed.
in the box, not letting Turkey do anything, but
it was so boring to watch. There was no scoring
opportunities. Not making a case for watching
the World Cup here, buddy. Listen, not every
game is going to be exciting, just like in Major
League Baseball, just like in the NFL. It's not
all exciting. It was a dud. It was a dud, and
it happened sometimes, but it was a particular
dud. So that's the ugly. My ugly is going back
to the U .S. Open. I thought the gentleman's
game, golf, was a little bit more, you know,
I don't want to say kind. The crowd? that was
getting up into Wyndham Clark's face and cheering
for so Scottie Scheffler, the People's Champion
and Wyndham Clark were in the last pairing in
the US Open. The fans, and I don't know what
the affiliation with Scottie Scheffler is, he's
not from New York area, New Jersey area, they
were all up in Wyndham Clark's face. In fact,
two fans had to be removed from the premises
because they were getting so much into Wyndham
Clark's face. It was audible. The cheers were
muted when Wyndham Clark made a big run and were...
out of their minds for Scottie Scheffler get
a little bit stand behind a champion the guy
just won something that very few people have
done and especially a repeat winner in the US
Open do better do better fans that's all I'll
say All right, here's our good bad and the ugly.
All right, we're gonna race aside here. Mark
Garland from the college baseball show is in
Omaha, is getting ready for the final game, the
championship game, Oklahoma and UNC. Is there
going to be a surprise tonight? The daddy of
them all gets finished up a winner take all national
title game. That's what we wanted. That's what
we wanted. We'll talk about it with Mark next.
Returning guests on the radio program here, Danny
and Justin for a Monday. Big announcement about
this program coming up in the last segment so
stay tuned for that Coming up in about 20 minutes
from now we got some business to take care of
though first I Misspoke he's not in Omaha right
now. He's nestled back home in Central, Oregon
He's becoming a good friend of ours here on the
program Mark Garland from the college baseball
show you listen to him you love him Three times
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BSB show and Just BB underscore media best college
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it's in this title It's Mark Garland joining
us on the Oregon man clinics hotline live from
the Bigfoot beverage studios Fox Sports Eugene
Fox Sports Newport. So mark The atmosphere for
The Gritty Show on Dirt has always been electric.
But we were talking off air before we got on
there, so I wanted to talk about it. First, welcome
to the program. Yeah, happy to be here. Love
coming on the show, guys. Love what you guys
do and love being able to promote the game of
college baseball. That a boy. So the crowds can
sometimes for the first day be, I mean, good,
but not like the way it gets crazy. Especially
when you get teams from certain regions that
come up, you know, like from the SEC You know,
they travel well wherever they go and they can
be quite vociferous But so tell us what the atmosphere
like from the jump in, Omaha Man, yeah, usually
that first game on Friday that Friday afternoon
game is really pretty slow It's kind of a slow
start fans are still trickling in and not all
eight fan bases are there yet usually but I gotta
say Usually it's about 15 ,000 people 14 ,000
that first game. There was 25 ,000 people there
was 7 ,000 more people than the entire city of
Troy, Alabama and that was wild yeah, and it's
been a great World series and it's kind of climaxed
here at the game three which is of course unless
you're a fan of one of these two teams What we
are all looking for, of course and you know coming
down to a game three Oklahoma man, I mean it's
not a program. I would have expected to be in
this game I mean you'd be a huge surprise if
they won this thing wouldn't it? Oh, it'd be
a massive, I mean, this was a team that was three
and seven in May. So like usually sometimes teams
get hot at this time. That was not a team that
was hot. They were playing their worst baseball
at the end of the season. They just figured it
out. Skip Johnson, tremendous coach, tremendous
guy. I love what he's doing with that program,
but it would be a shock. It would definitely
be a shock. North Carolina, I think a lot of
folks had them in this position once the brackets
came out, but Oklahoma was the surprise of the
entire tournament. So how has Oklahoma done this?
Oh, pitching and defense. Honestly, like this
is the team that showed up. Their pitching was
not great. They made a complete change of their
weekend rotation. They went to three true freshmen
and said, hey, we're going to give you guys the
ball. Go get us some wins. And they've done it.
Like it feels like the moment has not been too
big for these three freshmen, where a lot of
times you put these guys in, in these big situations,
they kind of crumble or they have some stumbles.
These guys haven't done it. And now we're seeing
the fruits of all the labor. They're going to
say, hey, three freshmen turn the ball over,
and then they played really good defense. This
team has fielded like 980 down the stretch here,
975 on the field, like ridiculous fielding. They
don't make errors, they don't make mistakes,
and they put a lot of pressures on defense. They
steal a ton of bases, which is something that
we just don't see a lot in the college game anymore.
And, of course, game three is going to be all
hands on deck, but I always think it's interesting
looking at the bullpens coming into these games.
Oklahoma, I think they used, let's see here,
one, two, three, four, five, like six guys yesterday,
six or seven guys. North Carolina used their
guy Glauber, and obviously he came through with
five innings and no earned runs there, eight
strikeouts. Who do you think has that advantage
right now? Is it North Carolina and the bullpen
coming in tonight? I think it's still North Carolina's
bullpen because I talked to Forbes and he's gonna,
he said he'll use Glaber if he has to tonight.
Like if they're in that situation, he can go
to him again. Maximum about 50 pitches, so maybe
two max innings. I'd see more like a one inning
thing, but they still can turn the ball over
to Walker McDuffie. He was a fantastic bullpen
piece where he's had his ups and downs as of
late. The guy is still tremendous and I think
he'd give them the edge there, but. flip side
of that, Oklahoma's L .J. Mercurius has been
really, really good since they switched into
the bullpen out of that starting rotation. They
moved him from there, gave him the bullpen arm,
and he gets to go out there and throw 100 % for
about four or five innings, which has just changed
his game. So I still lean North Carolina's bullpen.
But I do like that LJ is the one who's going
to be coming out of the bullpen there for Oklahoma.
The Men's College World Series wraps up tonight.
4 p .m. here on the left coast, North Carolina,
Oklahoma. Winner take all game in Omaha at Charles
Schwab Field. And we're joined by the always
eloquent Mark Garland from C Baseball 365 on
the old Twitter handle from the college baseball
show. You can follow, like and subscribe at collegebaseball365
.com. So I was reading some of the articles and
it didn't until I started getting a little bit
deeper into this. The College World Series normally
starts around Father's Day weekend, but this
year it ends because they moved it up a weekend.
So, I mean, Father, Son, you know, go out and
have a catch and everything else. There's a lot
of great parallels to what's going on here, but
none are better than what's going on at North
Carolina. Can you speak to that a little bit
for the people that might not know the storylines
that go on with North Carolina and their team?
Yeah, I mean I think the biggest thing is like
Eric Paulson whose dad wanted him to transfer
and wanted to be a Tar Heel and passed away this
offseason and He's been able to be there and
be a part of this and then Scott Forbes has kind
of known that the whole time He's gonna have
to take over kind of his father figure and it's
been a big deal for him and then Eric Paulson
Tremendous hitter tremendous player great young
man there for North Carolina. Just meant a lot
and then On the other side of it, Jackson Willis,
who's a ball player for Oklahoma, is a first
-time father. So he had his kid at the game,
which was pretty cool to see that on Father's
Day, to see those two going back and forth in
that ball game. It really just means a lot. A
lot of people tie memories to their parents or
their dad, especially in ball games. And I think
a lot of us can look back and be like, man, that's
a pretty cool thing to be able to celebrate dads
on Father's Day. So with this game coming up
and you talked a little bit about some of the
matchups, is there too much to be said about
teams that might have momentum? And if you think
one team or another does, because it seems like
it's a toss up. Oklahoma takes down North Carolina
in the first game by almost the identical score
that North Carolina comes back and bests Oklahoma
in game two. So I mean, is this really a coin
flip game? It's as close to a coin flip game
that I've seen in the championship series in
a very long time Like this feels like two very
even teams and I wouldn't have said that two
weeks ago These two teams are playing very good
baseball. They're playing their best baseball
at the right time They both have a lot of pitching.
They both have a lot of defense I think it's
gonna come down to who can get on the board first
what team can kind of strike first and get that
momentum on their side because Going into it.
They're gonna be equal momentum wise and the
fan base is split about 50 -50 there, too So
also I want to talk about adrenaline because
it's going to come into play, especially if teams
have to go deep in their bullpen. And I know
we've had some classic games at Charles Squab
Field Rosenblatt Stadium with the College World
Series in years past, but this year it all comes
down to one game. As Justin said, you know, there's
no tomorrow. You don't have to worry about, you
know, hurting yourself or you always have to
worry about hurting yourself. I'm going to take
that back. You don't have to worry about trying
to get your recovery faster for tomorrow. So
what strategy? think changes for both managers
in those dugouts when you have that type of,
I know this is it. I got to lay everything out.
Does it change? I think it changes more for North
Carolina in the fact where they could even turn
to Lynch, who came out of the game yesterday
with the injury and the oblique. It turns out
it was just some cramps due to dehydration. They
got him hydrated back up. They say he's good
to go maybe for an inning. Even like a Jason
Decaro could go for an inning. I don't know if
he'd get Kord Rager to go for Oklahoma because
he threw so much in game one for Oklahoma and
he's not used to that much work. But I think
that it just kind of opens up the door to where
anybody can go an inning. Like if you need an
inning from somebody, Everybody's all hands on
deck everybody's ready to go that adrenaline
is pumping especially for these young guys where
it's like This might be their last opportunity
to throw in a college games guys like a Jackson
Cleveland where he's been at four schools in
five years This is his last opportunity to pitch
and you might see him go a little bit harder
and a little bit more than he would normally
One thing that's fascinating about this Oklahoma
team is just their offense has been awesome I
think I saw something like in their 11 postseason
games They scored eight runs and all but two
or three of those games and they've really turned
it on over the last part of the season Like you
said didn't start off great But who's the guy
in their lineup right now that if you're North
Carolina and the bases are loaded You don't want
to see that guy up Dating the chance the junior
college transfer like this catchers six foot
six He can make any mistake pitch leave the yard
in a big ballpark that we're talking about Charles
Schwab like it's a big ballpark He's made it
look small this week And he's one guy that you
don't want to be facing because he can hit it
out the breaking ball We've seen him hit out
changeups and curve balls But he gets on top
of 97 mile an hour fastballs and sends them the
other direction real real hard Becoming a good
friend of the program here, Danny and Justin
live from the Bigfoot Beverages Studios, Fox
Sports Eugene, Fox Sports Newport, as we're discussing
the College World Series final game in Omaha
as he coverage college baseball for the college
baseball show. It's Mark Garland joining us back
home in central Oregon. He was in Omaha earlier
this week and I know weather comes into play.
I used to live in the Midwest High Plains so
it can turn on a dime, but it seems like the
weather has been pretty good. But one thing that's
curious to me is that there's quote unquote an
heat warning in Omaha right now, but I'm looking
at the temperatures and it's like 7779 degrees.
Is that considered excessive heat with a humidity
at 52 % mark? Honestly, for these guys, no. And
even myself, who's up here from the Northwest,
right? Like, it wasn't that bad. Like, people
say, hey, it's hot because of the humidity. On
the field, it's not that bad. It really is not.
There's a pretty good breeze going most nights,
so you don't feel it as much. I think that they
were more concerned about the dehydration issues
for the fan bases and folks that were at the
ballgame because of the high humidity levels
that the folks might not be used to. But last
year, we had temperatures up to 100 degrees.
That was hot. This is just like a normal midwest
summer. Well, I think maybe the hydration thing
comes more what you're drinking rather than,
you know, how hot it might be outside. I'm just
guessing. I'm not sure. It could come into play.
So as we look forward again, and you broke it
down very well for us, so I don't know if we
want to talk too much more about, you know, matchups
and such. I think we've kind of exhausted that
line of questioning. Is the X factor, and is
there an X Factor that you're going to be looking
at in tonight's contest. I think it comes down
to the two true freshman starters that we're
going to see on the mound. Jackson Rose for North
Carolina and Nick Wazlowski for Oklahoma. I think
it depends on who comes out more like just ready
to go. Like these two young men tremendous arms.
I think that Jackson Rose has seen a lot more
innings this year, given up a lot less home runs.
I think that you're going to look at him and
say, Hey, can this guy be that stability we need
as a North Carolina fan? Whereas Wazlowski is
kind of playing on house money. How long can
they go for Oklahoma? How long can he go out
there? I think that's the big difference here
for X factors for me is which one of these young
guys can last the longest without giving up that
lead Crazy to have two freshmen out there and
it's you know, it's great We know with one of
these two programs is gonna win tonight Oklahoma
hasn't won since 1994 of course a very good baseball
program as is North Carolina who has never won
a college World Series Does that mean it means
a little bit more for North Carolina? I mean
really for both of these teams. It feels like
it'd be a huge deal It feels a little bit more
for North Carolina. Honestly, being around them
all the last 10 days and kind of just being around
the locker room and being in the dugout with
those guys, like, it feels like they kind of
know that there's a little bit of history here
with North Carolina. You know, back to back 0607
championships, they lost to Oregon State. This
team has had some really good teams get to Omaha
and just stumbled when they got there. This team
finally getting to a national championship team
and only one title for the ACC in the last 68
years, like, It feels like there's a little pressure
on them to kind of perform as that ACC slash
North Carolina team that kind of goes out and
finally gets that title. Well, I know there's
a lot of Oregon fans hoping that they get to
make a trip back to Omaha next year, so we're
going to give them a little travel advice now,
because we always ask this on the Danny and Justin
radio program. And Mark, we trust you. You're
now in that inner circle. You're in the circle
of trust. So tell us where in beef country in
Omaha, Nebraska, do you go for the best steak?
Listen. people are going to tell them the drover
don't listen like this drover it's a fine steakhouse
you want the real prize jewel it's garots go
to garots the tremendous little steakhouse they
have plenty of seating you don't even have to
make reservations but if you do make a reservation
you're in better shape go down there go get yourself
a tremendous steak they're very reasonably priced
get all the sides Personally, I get the lobster
mac and cheese on the side because it's fantastic
along with my steak. So if I get a T -bone and
that I'm set really well for the week. So every
time I hear someone talk about size, the only
thing I can think of is Wolf of Wall Street and
Rob Reiner coming in talking about $26 ,000 in
sides. You're not going to spend that at Garots.
So hey, buddy, we really appreciate I'm glad
we got hooked up in the last part of the year.
Thanks to Baby J for connecting us together.
You're in the again, you're in the circle now.
So we'll be leaning on you as we head into next
baseball season as well. And in the off season,
we're going to talk transfer portal with you
when the window closes here in a few days. Sounds
good. Yeah, call me up. We'll talk more about
the transfer portal and everything that's going
on there. All right, buddy. Thanks, Mark. Take
care. Appreciate it, guys. Have a good one. There
he goes, Mark Garland. 77 degrees in Omaha, Nebraska
right now. It's warmer here than it is in Omaha,
Nebraska. Yeah, and it's only about that. I'm
when it said excessive heat I was I went straight
to the humidity because I think I miss 80 % humidity
with 77 Yeah, that that feels like you're in
a sauna. It's 52 % humidity. So Come on. I thought
they were a little tougher in Nebraska You know
mark to get his nickname as well the next time
we talk to him. Yes Oh, by the way, that's that's
a great point because I'm changing the nickname
for Chris Burkhardt They put me on the spot Vegas
and I I actually I fumbled the ball I was at
the two yard line and I fumbled it backwards
so I'm gonna correct it I'm gonna correct it
next and also the big announcement concerning
the Danny and Justin radio program next here
on Fox Sports Eugene Fox Sports Newport Is Giannis
not gonna be a buck anymore before the NBA draft
which is tomorrow night kind of sounds like it
And it looks like the Celtics and the Heat are
the finalists for the Buck Superstar. So it turned
into... He's gone. He's gone. So... So if you
are not following Shams right now, he better,
because he's gonna have it first. Jalen Brown
is supposed to be a big part of this, no matter
what happens, according to Shams. Is that what
you're reading as well, Baby J? I think the Blazers
will be a part of it in some way. Well, I was
talking about Jalen Brown being a part of it.
Not necessarily Jalen Brown. I mean, could be.
I think it's possible. I think that the Celtics
seem to me to be the most likely destination
for Giannis. Celtics are coming off a 56 and
26 campaign number two seed in the Eastern Conference,
despite playing most of the season without Jason
Tatum. And the heat is that could that be their
last significant piece that they need? No, I
don't think I think they're gonna give away too
much if whatever they have they're gonna have
to give away and have a couple pieces left But
that's the thing about trading for guy like Yanis.
You're gonna have to give up so much You got
to have enough left to win with him when you
have them So I think it's time to bring in the
mayor. So we're gonna throw up the bat signal
and see if we can get Travis Demers on Tomorrow,
you know right before the draft starts or Wednesday
right after the draft Because I think we need
somebody smarter. Well smarter than me one of
my favorite quotes. Yes deadlines spur action
Ever heard of that quote before now Andrew Brandt
great follow on Twitter. He's an ex -packer Andrew
Brandt. I know yeah, yeah ex -packer Yeah, that's
his big saying it deadlines say it again deadlines
spur action deadlines spur action simple the
true Good you both remember that in the next
couple of weeks What I'm gonna say big announcement
coming up on the program. I'm gonna unveil it
here in a couple of minutes So stay tuned See
if I can get through it. So Katie Fiso named
to the 2026 USA three by three women's nation
leagues team that will compete in the FIBA three
on three three by three three on three Nations
League America's conference that starts this
weekend June 27 through the July 3rd in Chile
And she is joining other D1 athletes coached
by Todd Muncie including Amari Barry McKenna
Brackens Danny Carnegie and Tori McKinney She
was also in May participating in the three on
three developmental camp in Phoenix coming off
a breakout sophomore campaign Leading ducks fifteen
and a half points six point two assists earning
her second team all big honor all Big Ten honors
by the way one thing we didn't touch on with
the whole dusty May if he does actually finalize
that contract With Dallas in the NBA staying
on college sports all of those players that he's
got at Michigan right now They can all jump to
the portal. You guys realize that now? And why
wouldn't they? They came for Dusty May, right?
So was there anybody that Oregon lost out on
that went to Michigan? I don't think so. I don't
think they're playing in the same pool. That's
the problem. I think that's what people are worried
about with Oregon. How much money is going to
shake out in other pools right now? Everybody's
got their lineup set, basically. They've already
gone out and spent their money. This is definitely
a... Came out of nowhere type of thing where
it does change the trajectory of some some people's
offseason And how crazy is that that we're talking
about it like that not like well I like the coaching
philosophy and I like the schooling roses fight
Well, what what salary slot are you gonna get
put into in college sports? That's normally what
we talk about in the pros Yes, you can shake
our head it's the it's the reality we can just
shake our head we move on one last thing Put
this one in the old news pile, Oregon lacrosse
head coach Jess Drummond Last week added Sophie
McLaughlin as an assistant coach. She comes from
Keen, New Hampshire Bonus points for any listener
who knows where Keen New Hampshire is without
looking it up Brad probably does it in New Hampshire.
It's Smart Alec that was my dad joke for the
day I'll let you do that. I think you got a good
one today. I do I've got it memorized It's not
very long McLaughlin joins Oregon after spending
the past five years with the 802 lacrosse club
including three seasons a head coach from 2023
through 25. She was a goalkeeper instructor and
came from the University of Vermont where she
coached from 2019 to 2024. So congratulations
and welcome to Oregon all the way across. I mean,
I don't know if you can go much further in the
country from Keene, New Hampshire to Oregon.
It's pretty far maybe Florida if we're I don't
know how it's straight line like as a crow flies
I'm not sure Eastern most point in the US is
upwards in like Maine Delaware It's up in the
eastern part of the seaboard not down south but
up here in Oregon. We're up in you know I mean
we're up in the northwest so maybe the southeast
is the furthest is what I'm thinking I'd have
to look at Washington State has the western most
point in the US I believe Besides Alaska in the
continental United States and besides Hawaii
That's why we called them the Lower 48 when I
was up in Alaska. Okay. All right kids, we're
gonna take the last few minutes for a little,
a little announcement here on the Danny and Justin
radio program. Justin, when did you and I meet?
We met in July of 2024. Has it been, has it been
that long? It's probably, for you seems like
a lot longer. It does. It has for me. Yes. So
never knew you, never even knew what your name
was, never knew how to pronounce it, and of course
- Hard to do. The first - No, it wasn't hard
to do I got it but and then immediately I the
first time I met you You had your nickname you
made you literally immediately said it said your
baby J And I call him baby J more than I call
him Justin And a lot of other people do as well
and it's taken and I know you weren't and we
actually had a listener Call in and say that
I was like belittling justin and it was very
sweet defending my honor It was very sweet. It
wasn't the case. I appreciated it. Yeah, I hope
you're still listening I'm sure they are we've
uh grown the audience over the last couple of
years It's hard to believe that we started the
program in september Of 2024 and it's grown exponentially
and the reason it's grown is because of you The
people who listen we do this program because
of you I mean, yes, we we drive the machine a
little bit, but when we sit down and talk about
what we want to talk about and we mix it up.
Sometimes it's about life in general, and a lot
of it's about life. You've heard about our lives,
you've heard about our families, our animals,
our love for food. our allegiances to pro teams
and our likes and our dislikes, movies. We talk
about life, because if we could do one thing
in an hour for everyone, and I think you would
agree with this, is that we want this to be a
happy place. We want this to be an informative
place. We want this to be a place where you can
set aside whatever else you might be going through.
And even if it's setting aside the water that
you're carrying for an hour, that's one less
hour you have to carry that water. And so maybe
you can recharge your batteries. Yeah, entertain
and inform. And we're always thinking about,
like, what are you guys going to care about?
Like, we have the stuff that we want to talk
about. We want to talk about our lives and the
things that we care about in sports. But it's
always about, what is our audience going to care
about? Right. And so that's where we drive the
program. So if we've missed things at times where
it's like, well, why aren't they talking about
that more? Sorry, it's an hour and we so we try
and do the best we can and that's one thing I
regret about this show is that we weren't able
to interact more with the audience on like a
caller level like opening up the phones and getting
you have to you have to keep doing that for people
to get trained to do it and With an hour program.
There was just never enough time to be able to
do it They're just rarely unless we didn't have
a guest and then we would blather on for an hour
anyway, and then we've we've grown podcast YouTube
channel getting out in the public, you know weekend
Eve at the wood was great All of those things
so I'm circling all the way back to this This
for me as well has been kind of like a child
I I did this full time for more years than you've
been alive definitely more years than you've
been alive blaze and So when I did this and I
came back to doing this it was because of labor
of love and I wanted to I think There was a part
of me who wanted to prove to myself that I could
still do it. I think there was that because I
had been out of it for a little while, full -time,
although I've been doing my play -by -play thing
for 40 -plus years. And doing this is not as
easy as you might think. It's not as easy as
just sitting down and talking. And the people
that are going to start to learn how to do this
a little bit more, they're understanding that.
It's not easy to be conversationalist. It's not
easy to be serious, not serious. It's a balancing
act. It's a juggling act. We've proven we can
do it again and it's because of you and the feedback
you give us and So it is bittersweet that I say
that on July 3rd At 4 p .m. This will be the
last Danny and Justin radio program There will
be no more Heading into Independence Day Which
I'm just thinking about right now You'll be free
of us And I say that tongue in cheek because
we have loved the interaction we've got to meet
people that come up to us in the local pub. Brad,
Steve, Graham, the other Steve, a third Steve.
You become friends, you become family. And it's
sad to say goodbye, but that's what's gonna happen.
We'll be out at Hayward Field doing, well, I
won't be at Hayward Field, I keep saying that.
We'll be at the graduate on July 3rd from, we're
gonna do a special edition of the Danny and Justin
program from one to four. We're gonna have a
ton of guests, ton of athletes that are gonna
be participating in the pre. It is going, you
want to talk about going out with a bang? We
are gonna go out like a rocket ship. So, I'll
leave it up. So, you knew this was coming. So,
I mean, what are your thoughts? Like you said,
all good things come to an end. And Danny and
Justin has been one of my greatest honors to
be a part of. I never thought I'd have a radio
show with my name on it. Never cared, to be honest
with you. I think it's great. I love being able
to show people the billboard and say, look, here,
I'm on the Danny and Justin radio program. But
no, it's been a blast. And I think that... You've
seen me grow a lot. I hope the audience has heard
me grow a lot. I've seen you grow a lot in the
time that you've been here Maybe you've seen
that maybe you haven't the whole station is a
hole It feels like we're growing and so, you
know, it is it is bittersweet But I think there's
a there's a lot of good things to come and I
don't think people are gonna be disappointed
Yeah But but just so you know and we we're gonna
be talking about over the next couple of weeks
because we're gonna give you an opportunity to
Say hi to us and say goodbye to us as Danny Justin
after July 3rd. That'll be our last program.
So Friday July 3rd 1 to 4 from the Graduate Hotel,
we will have our swan song here on Fox Sports
Eugene of Fox Sports Newport. So I'm getting
I'm ready for us to call it the Justin and Danny
program Never big change. Never gonna happen.
And I'm never gonna say that ever. You don't
have to change all the imaging. You don't have
to do all that work. I'm sure you'd do it though.
All this is to say, it's gonna be the Justin
and Danny show. I am sure you would do it. Okay,
let's do dad joking. Oh, a joke! I got fired
from the bank today. A woman asked me to check
her balance, so I pushed her. Dad jokes! What
do you call James Bond in a bathtub? You're called
James Bond in a bathtub. Bubble07? No, you jerk.
Did I get it? Yes. Yes! I think this is the first
one! Let's go! I knew it! He slowly takes over
the world. I feel like Steve Moons. Listen, tomorrow's
probably going to be the Justin and Danny program.
And then by the end of next week, my name's not
even to be on the program at all. That's true.
All right. That's a factual statement. Wow. Talk
about going out on a high. Maybe I should say
we're quitting the show earlier. That's it for
me, guys. Just do a Costanza mic drop it. Boom.
All right. We're gonna talk a lot of NBA draft
tomorrow. We'll be talking about the college
world series. If you missed the podcast, it'll
be up because it's not yet. Mark Garland is going
to be on there from the college baseball show.
Go back and give that a listen. We've got a good
stake place advice for you in Omaha and all of
that. But until then, God bless. Put a smile
on your face. Someone else's. They deserve it.
So do you. For Blaze. For Justin. I'm Danny.
God bless. Be well. Peace.