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Brian Heydad and Robbie Falk here with you on a Thursday morning.

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and you're like, I like this podcast, but I don't like it when Robbie talks, today's going to be

a great day for you because I've got two interviews already preloaded that we'll get to in just a

minute. And later in the show, former Diamond Doll Chris Str Stratton, joins the show for a really good conversation. I think you guys will enjoy that. And he may have broken some news in that conversation. So we'll get to that in just a bit. But I want to start here, Robbie, and we'll just go right into the interview. Because we are coming off of a night. I guess we'll talk about this a the interview because we are coming off of a night.

I guess we'll talk about this a bit. We're coming off of a night where college baseball took

some upsets. Four of the top six lost, including the number one team of the nation, UCLA,

who Mississippi State will be playing on Sunday. LSU loses at home, Georgia Tech loses at home,

and Arkansas loses at home.

Texas and Mississippi State were only to survive this terrible Tuesday.

I am taking a lot, and maybe I shouldn't, but I'm taking a lot from the fact that in the three midweek games, State has scored 13, 19, and now 16 runs.

They are pounding midweek pitching.

In the last, now I guess in their last six games, they've scored 68 runs.

So they're averaging just over 11 runs per game.

I thought for week one, I thought the way the bats performed was a bit of an outlier.

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