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On today's starting nine, Jake and Carl get into some of the College Baseball action that's

coming up this weekend with special guest Steven Shock College Baseball Insider, Steven Shock,

you should say. There's also some power rankings, some major headlines, including a former manager

of ours that just got fired. And we're gonna do a little heat check for the first time ever,

and maybe talk college bats because we need to talk about the metal bats. Let's get into it,

let's have some fun. It's starting nine. Action! Welcome back to starting nine at your host, Carl

here in Chicago. We've got Kyle Cooper out in New York, out of one to two. And my guy Jake

is sleeping back, back to the sleeveless. I mean, it's 104. It's gonna kind of be this way for

the next week or so. And I took the dog on a run before I sat down to do the show, and I was still

like, still very sweaty beforehand, so I was gonna put a real shirt on. What's your pace when

you do a run 104 in Texas? Are you like, if you were on a treadmill, what are you, seven and a half,

eight, eight and a half? Yeah, around there. I've never claimed to be a really good runner.

I'm good at running long distance, but my pace isn't great. I think it's more about just keeping

your feet moving. I wouldn't send any records. Yeah, I'm not a phenomenal speed runner by any means.

Short burst distance, short distances, I'm great. If I'm running a mile, I can run a mile around six,

low sixes, lower sixes, but then every mile after that is progressively getting much slower.

So I typically, I like to run three or four, I'd say two and a half to three miles routinely,

sometimes up to five with the dog, but not going for time, just trying to get a nice sweat on.

So running is one of those things like reading a book. I see someone reading a book. I'm like,

man, I should read more books. And I'm like, I'm going to read more books and I never read a book.

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