Dedeaux Download: Hot Trojans head to Pac-12 Tournament playing best baseball of season
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
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🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Shotgun Spratling and Jack Smith return on the Dedeaux Download Podcast to wrap up the regular season, breaking down USC baseball's sweep of Utah in the final weekend of the regular season to get above .500 for the first time this season while climbing to 17 Pac-12 Conference wins and the No. 4 seed in this week's Pac-12 Tournament.
The Trojans got outstanding pitching all three games, led by the continued excellence of ace Caden Aoki, who threw four scoreless innings as he continues to work his way back to full strength after missing more than a month with a shoulder injury.
Shotgun and Jack break down all the action from the weekend before previewing the Pac-12 Tournament, including chatting with USC head coach Andy Stankiewicz as he joins the show from a Scottsdale hotel room after the Trojans' six-hour bus ride.
Stankiewicz talks about what the return of Aoki as well as Bryce Martin-Grudzielanek has meant for USC as it moved some other players back into more comfortable roles. He also discusses how things change going into the tournament in desperation win-or-go-home mode this season and what it means for the program to climb up to a fourth-place finish in the Pac-12 for the second year in a row.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hello and welcome to the Dado Download podcast a part of the Paris |
| 0:18.9 | Outcast family shows I'm your host Shotgun Spratling along with my co-host Jack Smith who has |
| 0:24.2 | gotten up early today. It is 7 a.m. on the west coast as we record this. |
| 0:30.3 | Jack had to get up early because it is conference tournament time. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm all over the place this week. |
| 0:36.0 | You know, the Big East is reaching out to me trying to get me to do a Zoom Jack. |
| 0:40.0 | They're like, can we get 10 minutes? |
| 0:41.0 | I'm like, sure. |
| 0:42.0 | They're like, how about this time? I'm like, nope, I'll be at this tournament. |
| 0:44.5 | How about this time? Well, I might be going to this other tournament. |
| 0:46.8 | Okay, what about Tuesday? I'll be on a flight going out to Scottsdale to go to the |
| 0:50.1 | Pack 12 tournament. Anytime free there? Not really, I'll be at the ballpark all day, literally. And so it's that time of year. So we had to squeeze it in early. We got a special guest coming up later that we were able to get last night for a quick interview. |
| 1:04.2 | So it is conference tournament time. |
| 1:06.0 | You just gotta squeeze things in when you can. |
| 1:07.7 | So Jack, thanks for getting up early. |
| 1:09.8 | I know it's tough for you in your youth. |
| 1:12.4 | You know, the kids like to |
| 1:13.4 | sleep in on Saturday mornings and whatnot you know and watch their cartoons but |
| 1:18.1 | it I'm appreciative that you took this time to get up today. |
| 1:26.5 | Of course shotgun I feel like I pay in this way for being a journalism major. We've had easy classes, but you don't sleep in sports. |
| 1:29.5 | That's very true. There's always something popping off and it can be the most random times a night like Lane Kiffin getting tarmac at 3 a.m. in the morning after the Arizona State law, so you just never know. You never know when things will pop up or you know if you're a golf |
| 1:44.8 | in Scotty Sheffler at 5 a.m. in Louisville you know running just barricading barging |
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