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Hey, everybody, we'll come into another week of talking Lounges
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High Vikings Baseball, and it is playoff time and we're
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going to get into that with the coach as we
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talk about, look do a quick recap of the season,
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how things ended up, and then of course looking forward
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to the first round of the Class six A state
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playoffs and joining us now of course as always hit
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coach Ryan Page, coach, how are you, brother?
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Good Phil? How are you, sir man?
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I'm doing great, coach, Ready for a little postseason baseball
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before we get there and talk about who you guys
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have got in the first round. Of course, I want
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to give it big thanks to the Carrigan Group. Dan Carrigan.
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What a trooper he has been sponsoring our weekly conversation
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with you, Coach Page. We appreciate Dan Carrigan and everybody
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at the Carrigan Group for sponsoring our weekly Lounges High
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Baseball Coaches show.
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So big thanks to Dan Carrigan.
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For that.
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Coach you guys end the season. Of course, you guys
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have wrapped up the number one seed for a while.
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Uh did that? Uh?
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In any way knowing kind of where you could be
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going into the playoffs, Did that alter the way you
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managed this team down the stretch or as far as
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you know, maybe giving some guys some rest, or maybe
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taking a look at some guys that you wanted to see,
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you know, how they would perform, maybe that you didn't
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get a chance to see all season long. What was
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the style of kind of managing the team down the
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stretch as you get ready.
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For the playoffs? Well, reason wise, we did.
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We you know, we played every game to win and
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obviously in reason didn't matter whether we had it wrapped
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up or not.
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We were playing to win.
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Now last week, you know, playing those few games, we
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we gave some guys some opportunities, some pitchers, some innings,
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and yeah, trying to build some depth and some experience
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obviously with those younger guys and giving them an opportunity
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and some big games. So you know, we we want
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to keep our hitters fresh, you know, and I don't
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like giving hitters off too much.
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We didn't do too much with the with the bats.
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Friday night at Lee.
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We got some younger guys in the game and you know,
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got them to you know, get a little bit of aeriens,
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but not a whole lot of different just other than
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the pitchers, you know, trying to give those guys some
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opportunities there, Okay, and.
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That's kind of what I thought.
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So you guys in the season twenty one and nine,
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thirteen and two, of course in the region, as we said,
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you guys did well, did a great job of getting
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that thing sewing up, getting that number one seed coming
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out of Region one six A. So that is behind
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us now, by the way, you ended the season on
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a great note. You talked about the leak County game
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twelve nothing shut out, don't know what was that three
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field goals or anyway, you guys got it done. Great
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way to end the regular season.
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Yeah, it was we needed that bad. You know.
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We went four in a row there and just you know,
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started putting little pressure on ourselves and started trying to
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do too much and kind of got away from who
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we were or and what we want to do. And
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swings got really big, and so it was good Friday night.
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We started to barrow some more balls up and you know,
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playing more like we need to play in order to
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make a run in this thing.
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Hey, listen it before I'll say it again. You know,
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sometimes you need a little taste of humility, and I
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know that's kind of what you're talking about, but good
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to get it out of the way when it really
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didn't count in the big picture. So anyway, we'll flush
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that one, take advantage of the big win coming off
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Lee County.
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And now as you get ready for the playoffs, coach,
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you guys are going to.
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Be hosting this Friday Mountain View from up in the
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tough Region eight six A, which they finished as the
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number four seed. But don't let that fool you for
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those of you out there watching this, and I'll let
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coach talk a little bit more about that Mountain View.
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Not your typical four seed coach.
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No, they're definitely not. They got two really really good arms.
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One of their probably I'm guessing we'll get game one,
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is a young man I've tried to get with us
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for Team Georgia the last two years.
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He's a Georgia Tech commit.
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He's actually eighth in the country right now in strikeouts.
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He's got one hundred and seven strikeouts in five innings.
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You know, really really good picture.
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And you know they'll probably I'm guessing, throw him game
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one and then game two.
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Starter. You know, their coach actually reached out to me
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before all. This was settled a couple of months.
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Ago about their number two guy going with us the
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team Georgia. He's going to be an upper eighties, low
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nineties type guy that that can spin it as well.
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So you know they they're gonna.
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Pitch it really well, and you know we're gonna we're
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gonna have to take good, you know, discipline at bats
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to put the ball in play.
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And you know, they run really well. I think they
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got over.
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An eighty something stolen bases or they got some team
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speed and so yeah, they're not your typical for for
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you know four uh see team up there. But all
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those teams up in Atlanta, Man, those those conferences are
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those regions rather, they have.
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So much depth in some of them.
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So that's a really good reagion up there with Collins
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Hill and Beuford and Hill Creek who we faced last
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year in the playoffs, and Mountain Hugh is just an.
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Extension of those.
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Yeah, absolutely, And I was going to mention the other
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three teams and that in at eight six A. So yeah, man,
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that is a four solid team. So you know, don't
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lift up for the fans out there, you know, listen,
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bring out your best, in your in your loudest voice
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to support the Vikings Friday. They are gonna need you.
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So you talked about Mountain View throwing the Georgia Tech
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commit in game one most likely, and you're probably right.
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What's the lineup looking out looking like for your team
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in game one Friday.
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Well, it'd be very similar to what we've been doing
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down the stretch.
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You know, you'll have you know, our our big dogs
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up at the top, and you know Case and Fletcher.
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We kind of moved him to the leadoff spot. I
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don't know about halfway through the year when Carrigan got hurt.
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And man, he's done a tremendous job up there. You know,
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leadoff guy's got to be fearless. You know, you can't
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be afraid to run, and you got to be able
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to go, and you can't be afraid to get thrown out.
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And that fits Case into the bill. He's he ain't
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scared enough.
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As a matter of fact, I have to tell him
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to hold up sometimes.
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I mean, if I give him the green light or
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or something, he's gonna go there, ain't no you know,
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he's gonna make a decision. He's just gonna go and
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so he's done a tremendous job for us up there.
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You know, we moved Heith Davis up into the two hole.
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He's been swinging it really really well. Well, we'll talk
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about that. I think that's the right fit for him
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and for us in general. It just helps extend the
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lineup a little bit further down there.
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You know, we get some guys that we can hide
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down there.
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You know, Derek Carter uh Man, he's been hammering the
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baseball and Tyler h. Parker's done really well too, So
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moving them down just a spot hopefully gives them a
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few more fastballs. And you know, we moved Kerrigan too
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the three hole and he's he's been really good as well.
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So Hank, I like Hank in the four hole.
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You know, he doesn't the first inning, or if he
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does come up in the first inning, is.
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With a runner on.
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If not, then he's gonna lead off the next inning
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and he's on base all the time.
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He's got really good on.
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Base percent and so uh that that looks like, you know,
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we're gonna kind of stay with that kind of line
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up there. And then you know we got the bottom
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half down there as well, with Dawkins Parker's been down there,
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and you know, broken Steven is a little little freshman man.
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He just keeps getting better and better, and uh, we
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look forward to, you know, seeing how his season ends
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this year and look forward to getting him back. He's
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going to be you know, even better next year as well.
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And what coach, I'm sorry.
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He plays left field for us and he pitches a
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little bit as well.
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Okay, okay, you know, so just just a great player.
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He's gonna be a tremendous player for US and West
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and Hancocks is down there. I mean, that sucker man.
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He can pick it at third base. He's by far
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one of the best defensive third basements I've ever had.
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And you know, hittings not as forte, but that sucker man,
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he finds a way to get on base. And he
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in last year in the playoffs, he came up with
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some big hits for us and extended some innings that
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got our top of the lineup back up. So hopefully
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he can do that for us as well.
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So you know that that will We'll stick with what
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we've been kind of doing. And you know, the runs
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have been there.
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For the most part, with the exception a couple of nights,
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but we've.
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Had the ability to score runs.
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We just got to keep pitching it well well and
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coach even in the stretch. And I really wasn't gonna
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be even focused on this, no need to.
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Uh.
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You know, you mentioned you guys had a little bit
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of a rough stretch down the down the end there
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last part of the season before you ended the season
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with the twelve nothing shut out winever Lee County, but I.
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Think it was three one run losses.
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Now, you don't like to lose, I get it, But again,
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it's not like your team's getting blown out. So you
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guys were right there nipping tuck. Really, I think if
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you look back on the season, it's been almost that way.
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Every game that didn't go your way, you still was
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right in the game right to the end.
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Yeah, we we have we've you know, those those four
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games in a row, you know, three of them were
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by one run, the other one by.
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The two runs, right, you know, the two of them
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there last week, we had we had the lead in
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both games and you know, went to some guys in
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the bullpen that just you know, couldn't throw strikes for
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whatever reason. And that hadn't been an issue up to
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that point, and I don't think it'll be an issue
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going forward. It's just in that moment and that day,
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they didn't happen and it just didn't work out for us.
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So I'm not worried about those guys.
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They're going to be there when we need the most,
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and not worried about our guys. This is the time
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of year where you know, this is our time, this
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is Viking time.
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As we say, one.
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Percent again, and I'm right there with you, coach. I'm
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glad that it was going to happen. You got it
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out of the way when it didn't really count. So
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that's the good news there. So I'm assuming and I
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feel like you're okay to talk about that. You're gonna
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go with the Carrigan in game one.
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Yeah, we hope. So he's been out, he's been sick
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and dealing with.
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Some issues, and hopefully we'll have him back and healthy.
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And obviously if he is, he's our guy on the mound.
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And it's looking like probably round three in game two
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and Easton Blant in game three or you know, look
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at here.
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It depends on what happens in that game one. You know,
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if you lose one Game.
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One somehow, then you know, it's all you got to
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get that second game, whatever it takes. So we got
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enough depth. I feel good about that. I doubt there's
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a whole lot of teams in the state that have
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the depth we have, So that's an advantage for us
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if we have to get to that third game.
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Well, let's talk about that.
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You know, and I'm sure most people watching this probably familiar,
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but for those aren't, it's the best two out of three.
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And coach, I tell you what that means is that
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the margin of air is very, very pencil. Then how
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much importance does that make game one? I mean you
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got to manage to like it's the game of your life, right.
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Yeah, Game one is important. Obviously the winner of that
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game has a huge edge. And you know, a couple
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of years ago, we lost game one to North Guinnette
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and ended up winning game two. In game three, and
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we're actually down in game two until the fifth inning
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in some little runt called Carson Page ended up hitting
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a two run home and uh kind of turn that
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game around for us, and we ended up sneaking that one,
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and then you know, one pretty easy the next day.
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So you know that Game one is important. It's very important.
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You don't ever want to be in that situation where
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you're in a must win game two, you know, because
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it definitely changes your pitching rotation, and you know you
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got to use everybody you got. You know, we got
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we got the secret weapon there with Derek Carter on
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the mound, and hopefully we don't have to use him
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in game one, our game two. And if you get
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in the situation in game three and you know Easton
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doesn't have it or we you know he's he's using
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up his pitches or whatever. You know, DC is going
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to be there for us, and man, he's been lights
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out as well.
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Go to him in game one or two to win,
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we will, But you know, he just gives us a
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ton of depth.
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Coach, you talked about the depth, and I want to
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talk about that or ask you about that.
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You know, I like to kind.
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Of ask coaches about the kind of the makeup of
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the different teams from year to year. Obviously, you know
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you've been the coach here a long time. You've seen
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the different personalities of every team. Uh, I would say
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that that depth and I've heard you talk about it
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all year long. Is that is that what you would
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say is the number one overall strength of this year's
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Viking team. And how does it compare to some of
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the other, you know, championship caliber teams that you have managed.
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Well, it's it's last few years.
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I mean, we have been able to our starters have
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been able to have complete games and that's huge in
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a series like this because you saved those arms and yeah,
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you know the first state championship run, you know, Thik
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Penn had to come out of the bullpen for us.
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He was coming off of, you know, an arm injury.
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So you know we went with Ashton.
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Bowler and Caleb Thornton and win in Game two and
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you know, both of those guys thro a gym and
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then thig Pen closed for us, you know right there,
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and we didn't have to use Luke Register in the
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Game three, but you know, he ended up winning a
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huge game for us.
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But that was our depth that year.
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I mean, those four guys were the guys that we
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pretty much relied on to win that state championship and
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they were able to do it. And you know the
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following year, you you have thig Pen as you're number
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one there, and then Kerigan was our number two and
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and if he don't go out there and blow his
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arm out in game two of the state championship game
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there and Thomas ra came in and did a great job.
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But we didn't have a ton of depth that year
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as well, and so this year I would say the
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depth does help for sure, and we definitely got more arms.
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We just we got to show up and fill up
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that strike zone.
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That's the key for us right now.
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Absolutely, we're finishing up with the coach Ryan Page as
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the twenty one win Vikings will be hosting mountain View.
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I think they're the Bears if I'm not mistaken. And
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mountain View sixteen and fourteen overall they finished again, they
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finished ten and eight, won ten games in that tough
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region eight six A. So again they are not going
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to be, as we mentioned earlier, your typical number four seed.
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What do you see?
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What are the things you talked about their starting pitches?
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They got a couple of big arms mountain View. Have
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you had a chance to scout them otherwise? What are
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some of the other things that you could pose a
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potential problem or a challenge at least for your Viking team.
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Well, they do everything well.
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I mean, you know, right now, we know that they
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got two or three guys in the lineup they can
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swing it pretty well. That you know, still bases they
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get on base, they run. You know, they put pressure
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on you that way, and you know, that'll be a
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challenge for us to make sure we keep those guys
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off base and when they are on base, our pitchers
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being able to hold them. That's one of the issues
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we've had this year is holding runners. We've got to
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do a better job of that. But the biggest thing
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is just being disciplined at to pay at the plate
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with these pitchers and you know, letting their velocity and
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their velo provide the power for us sometimes, you know,
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high school kids are high school kids. You know, when
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you get a lot of velocity on the mouth, sometimes
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you know, they feel like the ball's coming hard. They
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got a swing hard and it's complete opposite. So you know,
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we got to get off a lot of our bet
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swings and make sure we're barreling balls and you know,
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get our a swings when we can. But then you know,
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obviously make this guy throw a lot of pitches, both
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of them, you know, as sooner.
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We can get them out of the game, the better.
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I don't know how much depth they have in the bullpen,
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so you know, if we can run their pitch counts up,
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that would definitely definitely help us there at the end
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of the ball game, if.
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We can keep it close.
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Got you, all right?
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So tell the fans out there watching this, what are
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game times for games one and two and if necessary three?
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Yeah?
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Game game one on Friday will start at five o'clock.
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And man, we need everybody out there. We need to
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be a crowd. And you know, one of the things
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that you'll never convince me is we win a lot
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of coin flips and it's because we put a lot
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of people in the stands. So please y'all come on
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out and support the boys. Starting at five o'clock. Game
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two will be thirty minutes right after that, and then
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if game Saturday will be.
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At one o'clock.
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All right, well, let's hope that we don't have to
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worry about Saturday at all. But what we do need
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to worry about, like coach just said, get out there
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Friday five o'clock. Look, most of you are going to
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be off work. The teammate work on Friday anyway around
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this town.
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From the dog around Valdosta at thirty people like it.
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Ill it is just not to say the same thing.
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By the looks of the traffic man, it seems like
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everybody knocks off at lunch on Friday. So hey, if
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that's the case, get out there. You have plenty of
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time to get ready, to get your chair, sit in
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the bleachers. They'll have the concession stands rocking and rolling.
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Get out there and support the Vikings. If you haven't
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been to a game all year, make this the first
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one because this is the big one.
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Gotta win this one to move on.
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So and as Coach is described, with this Mountain View team,
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it's not going to be that easy.
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Need your support.
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Get out there five o'clock Friday, and then stick around
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for game two, as coach said, which will immediately follow
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thirty minutes after the completion of game one. What as
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you got to do on a Friday, Get out and
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support the Vikings in their first round matchup. Coach, Let's
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go get them in. We're rooting for you. All of
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us here at itg next really support you, and let's
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go get them and get that first round win. What
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do you say.
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That's the goalfill.
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We appreciate your man as always and hope to see
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everybody out there Friday. Man, it's gonna be a good
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one and Noel George will be packed and rocking as usual.
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Yep, weather, it's going to be good. No rain in sight,
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So let's get out there and support the Vikings. Coach,
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we'll talk to you next week. All right, Thank you, Phil,
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all right, see you. Coach is Ryan Page giving us
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the lowdown on the opponent, his team, what we're looking at,
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and again listen, it's both teams right now. Oh and
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going into this game, nothing that has happened to this
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point matters. And you can scratch the slate clean, wipe
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it clean, because this is when it all begins Friday afternoon. Guys,
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we've got the home field advantage in this that is huge.
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So getting your car, drive five to ten minutes over
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to Noel George. Support these boys, support these coaches, and
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let them know that you are in the stands loud
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and proud. So Friday afternoon, five o'clock, get out there
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and support the Vikings. We'll come back next week and
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talk with coach Ryan Page all about it right here
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at itg next and the Lowndes Eige Coaches Show, brought
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to you again by Dan Carrigan and the Carrigan Group.
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Go get Them Vikings, best of luck, we'll talk to
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him next week.
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Hey, everybody, we'll come into another week of talking Lounges
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High Vikings Baseball, and it is playoff time and we're
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going to get into that with the coach as we
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talk about, look do a quick recap of the season,
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how things ended up, and then of course looking forward
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to the first round of the Class six A state
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playoffs and joining us now of course as always hit
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coach Ryan Page, coach, how are you, brother?
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Good Phil? How are you, sir man?
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I'm doing great, coach, Ready for a little postseason baseball
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before we get there and talk about who you guys
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have got in the first round. Of course, I want
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to give it big thanks to the Carrigan Group. Dan Carrigan.
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What a trooper he has been sponsoring our weekly conversation
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with you, Coach Page. We appreciate Dan Carrigan and everybody
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at the Carrigan Group for sponsoring our weekly Lounges High
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Baseball Coaches show.
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So big thanks to Dan Carrigan.
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For that.
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Coach you guys end the season. Of course, you guys
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have wrapped up the number one seed for a while.
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Uh did that? Uh?
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In any way knowing kind of where you could be
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going into the playoffs, Did that alter the way you
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managed this team down the stretch or as far as
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you know, maybe giving some guys some rest, or maybe
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taking a look at some guys that you wanted to see,
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you know, how they would perform, maybe that you didn't
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get a chance to see all season long. What was
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the style of kind of managing the team down the
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stretch as you get ready.
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For the playoffs? Well, reason wise, we did.
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We you know, we played every game to win and
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obviously in reason didn't matter whether we had it wrapped
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up or not.
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We were playing to win.
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Now last week, you know, playing those few games, we
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we gave some guys some opportunities, some pitchers, some innings,
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and yeah, trying to build some depth and some experience
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obviously with those younger guys and giving them an opportunity
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and some big games. So you know, we we want
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to keep our hitters fresh, you know, and I don't
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like giving hitters off too much.
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We didn't do too much with the with the bats.
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Friday night at Lee.
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We got some younger guys in the game and you know,
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got them to you know, get a little bit of aeriens,
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but not a whole lot of different just other than
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the pitchers, you know, trying to give those guys some
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opportunities there, Okay, and.
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That's kind of what I thought.
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So you guys in the season twenty one and nine,
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thirteen and two, of course in the region, as we said,
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you guys did well, did a great job of getting
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that thing sewing up, getting that number one seed coming
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out of Region one six A. So that is behind
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us now, by the way, you ended the season on
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a great note. You talked about the leak County game
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twelve nothing shut out, don't know what was that three
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field goals or anyway, you guys got it done. Great
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way to end the regular season.
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Yeah, it was we needed that bad. You know.
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We went four in a row there and just you know,
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started putting little pressure on ourselves and started trying to
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do too much and kind of got away from who
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we were or and what we want to do. And
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swings got really big, and so it was good Friday night.
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We started to barrow some more balls up and you know,
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playing more like we need to play in order to
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make a run in this thing.
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Hey, listen it before I'll say it again. You know,
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sometimes you need a little taste of humility, and I
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know that's kind of what you're talking about, but good
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to get it out of the way when it really
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didn't count in the big picture. So anyway, we'll flush
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that one, take advantage of the big win coming off
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Lee County.
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And now as you get ready for the playoffs, coach,
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you guys are going to.
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Be hosting this Friday Mountain View from up in the
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tough Region eight six A, which they finished as the
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number four seed. But don't let that fool you for
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those of you out there watching this, and I'll let
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coach talk a little bit more about that Mountain View.
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Not your typical four seed coach.
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No, they're definitely not. They got two really really good arms.
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One of their probably I'm guessing we'll get game one,
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is a young man I've tried to get with us
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for Team Georgia the last two years.
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He's a Georgia Tech commit.
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He's actually eighth in the country right now in strikeouts.
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He's got one hundred and seven strikeouts in five innings.
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one and then game two.
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Starter. You know, their coach actually reached out to me
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before all. This was settled a couple of months.
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Ago about their number two guy going with us the
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team Georgia. He's going to be an upper eighties, low
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nineties type guy that that can spin it as well.
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Pitch it really well, and you know we're gonna we're
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gonna have to take good, you know, discipline at bats
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to put the ball in play.
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got over.
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An eighty something stolen bases or they got some team
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speed and so yeah, they're not your typical for for
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you know four uh see team up there. But all
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those teams up in Atlanta, Man, those those conferences are
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those regions rather, they have.
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So much depth in some of them.
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So that's a really good reagion up there with Collins
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Hill and Beuford and Hill Creek who we faced last
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year in the playoffs, and Mountain Hugh is just an.
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Extension of those.
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Yeah, absolutely, And I was going to mention the other
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three teams and that in at eight six A. So yeah, man,
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that is a four solid team. So you know, don't
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lift up for the fans out there, you know, listen,
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bring out your best, in your in your loudest voice
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to support the Vikings Friday. They are gonna need you.
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So you talked about Mountain View throwing the Georgia Tech
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commit in game one most likely, and you're probably right.
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What's the lineup looking out looking like for your team
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in game one Friday.
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Well, it'd be very similar to what we've been doing
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down the stretch.
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up at the top, and you know Case and Fletcher.
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don't know about halfway through the year when Carrigan got hurt.
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And man, he's done a tremendous job up there. You know,
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leadoff guy's got to be fearless. You know, you can't
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be afraid to run, and you got to be able
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to go, and you can't be afraid to get thrown out.
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scared enough.
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to hold up sometimes.
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or something, he's gonna go there, ain't no you know,
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he's gonna make a decision. He's just gonna go and
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so he's done a tremendous job for us up there.
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He's been swinging it really really well. Well, we'll talk
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about that. I think that's the right fit for him
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lineup a little bit further down there.
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down there.
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baseball and Tyler h. Parker's done really well too, So
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moving them down just a spot hopefully gives them a
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few more fastballs. And you know, we moved Kerrigan too
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the three hole and he's he's been really good as well.
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So Hank, I like Hank in the four hole.
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does come up in the first inning, is.
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and he's on base all the time.
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He's got really good on.
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Base percent and so uh that that looks like, you know,
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we're gonna kind of stay with that kind of line
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up there. And then you know we got the bottom
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half down there as well, with Dawkins Parker's been down there,
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and you know, broken Steven is a little little freshman man.
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He just keeps getting better and better, and uh, we
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look forward to, you know, seeing how his season ends
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this year and look forward to getting him back. He's
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going to be you know, even better next year as well.
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And what coach, I'm sorry.
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He plays left field for us and he pitches a
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little bit as well.
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He's gonna be a tremendous player for US and West
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and Hancocks is down there. I mean, that sucker man.
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He can pick it at third base. He's by far
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one of the best defensive third basements I've ever had.
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he finds a way to get on base. And he
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in last year in the playoffs, he came up with
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some big hits for us and extended some innings that
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got our top of the lineup back up. So hopefully
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he can do that for us as well.
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we've been kind of doing. And you know, the runs
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have been there.
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but we've.
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Had the ability to score runs.
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We just got to keep pitching it well well and
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coach even in the stretch. And I really wasn't gonna
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be even focused on this, no need to.
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of a rough stretch down the down the end there
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last part of the season before you ended the season
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with the twelve nothing shut out winever Lee County, but I.
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it's not like your team's getting blown out. So you
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guys were right there nipping tuck. Really, I think if
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you look back on the season, it's been almost that way.
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Every game that didn't go your way, you still was
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right in the game right to the end.
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Yeah, we we have we've you know, those those four
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games in a row, you know, three of them were
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by one run, the other one by.
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The two runs, right, you know, the two of them
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there last week, we had we had the lead in
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both games and you know, went to some guys in
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the bullpen that just you know, couldn't throw strikes for
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whatever reason. And that hadn't been an issue up to
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that point, and I don't think it'll be an issue
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going forward. It's just in that moment and that day,
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they didn't happen and it just didn't work out for us.
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They're going to be there when we need the most,
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and not worried about our guys. This is the time
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of year where you know, this is our time, this
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is Viking time.
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As we say, one.
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Percent again, and I'm right there with you, coach. I'm
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glad that it was going to happen. You got it
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out of the way when it didn't really count. So
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that's the good news there. So I'm assuming and I
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feel like you're okay to talk about that. You're gonna
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go with the Carrigan in game one.
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Yeah, we hope. So he's been out, he's been sick
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and dealing with.
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Some issues, and hopefully we'll have him back and healthy.
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And it's looking like probably round three in game two
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and Easton Blant in game three or you know, look
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at here.
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It depends on what happens in that game one. You know,
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if you lose one Game.
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One somehow, then you know, it's all you got to
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get that second game, whatever it takes. So we got
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enough depth. I feel good about that. I doubt there's
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a whole lot of teams in the state that have
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the depth we have, So that's an advantage for us
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if we have to get to that third game.
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Well, let's talk about that.
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You know, and I'm sure most people watching this probably familiar,
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but for those aren't, it's the best two out of three.
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And coach, I tell you what that means is that
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the margin of air is very, very pencil. Then how
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much importance does that make game one? I mean you
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got to manage to like it's the game of your life, right.
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Yeah, Game one is important. Obviously the winner of that
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game has a huge edge. And you know, a couple
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of years ago, we lost game one to North Guinnette
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and ended up winning game two. In game three, and
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we're actually down in game two until the fifth inning
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in some little runt called Carson Page ended up hitting
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a two run home and uh kind of turn that
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game around for us, and we ended up sneaking that one,
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and then you know, one pretty easy the next day.
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You don't ever want to be in that situation where
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you're in a must win game two, you know, because
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it definitely changes your pitching rotation, and you know you
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got to use everybody you got. You know, we got
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we got the secret weapon there with Derek Carter on
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the mound, and hopefully we don't have to use him
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in game one, our game two. And if you get
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in the situation in game three and you know Easton
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doesn't have it or we you know he's he's using
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up his pitches or whatever. You know, DC is going
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to be there for us, and man, he's been lights
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out as well.
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Go to him in game one or two to win,
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we will, But you know, he just gives us a
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ton of depth.
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Coach, you talked about the depth, and I want to
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talk about that or ask you about that.
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You know, I like to kind.
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Of ask coaches about the kind of the makeup of
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the different teams from year to year. Obviously, you know
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you've been the coach here a long time. You've seen
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the different personalities of every team. Uh, I would say
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that that depth and I've heard you talk about it
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all year long. Is that is that what you would
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say is the number one overall strength of this year's
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Viking team. And how does it compare to some of
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the other, you know, championship caliber teams that you have managed.
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Well, it's it's last few years.
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I mean, we have been able to our starters have
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been able to have complete games and that's huge in
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a series like this because you saved those arms and yeah,
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you know the first state championship run, you know, Thik
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Penn had to come out of the bullpen for us.
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He was coming off of, you know, an arm injury.
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Bowler and Caleb Thornton and win in Game two and
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you know, both of those guys thro a gym and
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then thig Pen closed for us, you know right there,
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and we didn't have to use Luke Register in the
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Game three, but you know, he ended up winning a
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huge game for us.
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But that was our depth that year.
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I mean, those four guys were the guys that we
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pretty much relied on to win that state championship and
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they were able to do it. And you know the
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following year, you you have thig Pen as you're number
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one there, and then Kerigan was our number two and
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and if he don't go out there and blow his
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arm out in game two of the state championship game
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there and Thomas ra came in and did a great job.
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But we didn't have a ton of depth that year
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as well, and so this year I would say the
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depth does help for sure, and we definitely got more arms.
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We just we got to show up and fill up
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that strike zone.
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That's the key for us right now.
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Absolutely, we're finishing up with the coach Ryan Page as
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the twenty one win Vikings will be hosting mountain View.
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I think they're the Bears if I'm not mistaken. And
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mountain View sixteen and fourteen overall they finished again, they
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finished ten and eight, won ten games in that tough
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region eight six A. So again they are not going
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to be, as we mentioned earlier, your typical number four seed.
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What do you see?
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What are the things you talked about their starting pitches?
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They got a couple of big arms mountain View. Have
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you had a chance to scout them otherwise? What are
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some of the other things that you could pose a
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potential problem or a challenge at least for your Viking team.
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Well, they do everything well.
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I mean, you know, right now, we know that they
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got two or three guys in the lineup they can
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swing it pretty well. That you know, still bases they
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get on base, they run. You know, they put pressure
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on you that way, and you know, that'll be a
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challenge for us to make sure we keep those guys
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off base and when they are on base, our pitchers
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being able to hold them. That's one of the issues
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we've had this year is holding runners. We've got to
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do a better job of that. But the biggest thing
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is just being disciplined at to pay at the plate
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with these pitchers and you know, letting their velocity and
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their velo provide the power for us sometimes, you know,
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high school kids are high school kids. You know, when
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you get a lot of velocity on the mouth, sometimes
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you know, they feel like the ball's coming hard. They
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got a swing hard and it's complete opposite. So you know,
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we got to get off a lot of our bet
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swings and make sure we're barreling balls and you know,
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get our a swings when we can. But then you know,
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obviously make this guy throw a lot of pitches, both
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of them, you know, as sooner.
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We can get them out of the game, the better.
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I don't know how much depth they have in the bullpen,
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so you know, if we can run their pitch counts up,
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that would definitely definitely help us there at the end
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of the ball game, if.
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We can keep it close.
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Got you, all right?
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So tell the fans out there watching this, what are
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game times for games one and two and if necessary three?
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Yeah?
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Game game one on Friday will start at five o'clock.
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And man, we need everybody out there. We need to
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be a crowd. And you know, one of the things
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that you'll never convince me is we win a lot
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of coin flips and it's because we put a lot
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of people in the stands. So please y'all come on
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out and support the boys. Starting at five o'clock. Game
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two will be thirty minutes right after that, and then
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if game Saturday will be.
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At one o'clock.
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All right, well, let's hope that we don't have to
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worry about Saturday at all. But what we do need
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to worry about, like coach just said, get out there
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Friday five o'clock. Look, most of you are going to
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be off work. The teammate work on Friday anyway around
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this town.
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From the dog around Valdosta at thirty people like it.
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Ill it is just not to say the same thing.
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By the looks of the traffic man, it seems like
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everybody knocks off at lunch on Friday. So hey, if
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that's the case, get out there. You have plenty of
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time to get ready, to get your chair, sit in
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the bleachers. They'll have the concession stands rocking and rolling.
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Get out there and support the Vikings. If you haven't
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been to a game all year, make this the first
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one because this is the big one.
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Gotta win this one to move on.
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So and as Coach is described, with this Mountain View team,
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it's not going to be that easy.
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Need your support.
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Get out there five o'clock Friday, and then stick around
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for game two, as coach said, which will immediately follow
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thirty minutes after the completion of game one. What as
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you got to do on a Friday, Get out and
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support the Vikings in their first round matchup. Coach, Let's
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go get them in. We're rooting for you. All of
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us here at itg next really support you, and let's
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go get them and get that first round win. What
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do you say.
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That's the goalfill.
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We appreciate your man as always and hope to see
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everybody out there Friday. Man, it's gonna be a good
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one and Noel George will be packed and rocking as usual.
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Yep, weather, it's going to be good. No rain in sight,
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So let's get out there and support the Vikings. Coach,
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we'll talk to you next week. All right, Thank you, Phil,
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all right, see you. Coach is Ryan Page giving us
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the lowdown on the opponent, his team, what we're looking at,
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and again listen, it's both teams right now. Oh and
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going into this game, nothing that has happened to this
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point matters. And you can scratch the slate clean, wipe
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it clean, because this is when it all begins Friday afternoon. Guys,
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we've got the home field advantage in this that is huge.
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So getting your car, drive five to ten minutes over
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to Noel George. Support these boys, support these coaches, and
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let them know that you are in the stands loud
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and proud. So Friday afternoon, five o'clock, get out there
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and support the Vikings. We'll come back next week and
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talk with coach Ryan Page all about it right here
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at itg next and the Lowndes Eige Coaches Show, brought
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to you again by Dan Carrigan and the Carrigan Group.
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Go get Them Vikings, best of luck, we'll talk to
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him next week.
