Welcome into a special live inside the lines.

I'm Tommy Ashley.

That's Grace Nugent in the middle.

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We got Monty Taylor here with us.

Just baseball.

What a great place to work.

Just baseball.

I mean, that's all we're going to talk tonight is just baseball.

And Monty, I'm going to skip over the star in the middle there and go straight to you.

We haven't talked to you on these shows about North Carolina this season.

And to get your take, people always ask me, is Carolina for real?

Are they good or this and that?

I said, it's a pretty good ball club. And they've

kind of shown that. What's your overall take on this team as you followed them here in 2026?

I've gotten the same kind of messages. And I mean, it's, I remember some reason like,

somebody at SEC person was like, hey, why is North Carolina rank number two? Are they that good? And this is, I mean, obviously, this is after they've, they've already dismantled Georgia Tech. So I'm like, yeah, they're that good. They don't lose. So that's, I mean, and they're playing in a premier conference. And their progression, they've gotten better. I think one of the concerns I had early on in the season, I thought the offense was going to be more balanced maybe than past years, but I also saw that early in

the season they had some inconsistencies from game to game sometimes. But over the last month,

that offense has turned to another level and they've become a very serious national championship

contender. It's interesting because I've wanted to talk about them a lot more,

but I also, on the other hand, know that coach Forbes kind of loves going under the radar.

So it's like, how do I balance, like making sure North Carolina gets talked about without going

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