Welcome to this week's real conversations.

Chase Farm Ben Craddick here with you.

He is in Jackson, Mississippi.

I had a wedding this morning recording this afternoon.

As I am in Omaha, Nebraska, Ole Miss is in between game one and game two.

They fell to North Carolina Tar Hills 6 to 2 on Friday evening for the Troy Trojans tomorrow 1 o'clock.

You will hear this prior, or we hope you hear it prior to the game tomorrow.

We'll load it up tomorrow morning and get it ready for you as it's been a busy few days.

It's been a good days.

I love this event.

I love, I really do.

It's not just, you know, I have such an affinity and an affection for the college

role, for the college role series, for college baseball in general.

And this still feels like a very pure event.

I will say that, that, you know, in the college athletic space that we have with the

portal and NIL and everything else that goes along with it, this still feels like college athletics either used to feel or like what we hope

them to feel.

Because you want to win, you're here to win a national championship, but there's a lot of

reward in just simply making it and to getting to this point and to being one of the aid and taking this trip

and there's camaraderie between the fan bases.

I was at breakfast this morning,

and there was an Ole Miss fan

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