Starting 9 Episode 167 - Austin Meadows & John Savage
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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 163 minutes
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Summary
Barstool Sports presents the Starting 9, featuring Jared Carrabis and Dallas Braden - the baseball podcast everyone wants but no one else will give you. This week's episode is stacked with good stuff: Tampa Bay Rays star outfielder Austin Meadows joins for an interview (28:00); UCLA head baseball coach John Savage chats with Dallas and Jared in yet another interview (1:35); a surprise guest (and current star Major Leaguer) drops in for the next installment of the 'Next Decade Draft' (56:30); the crew talks a little KBO and, of course, answers Twitter questions (2:14)!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, starting nine listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. |
| 0:05.6 | Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon music. We've had a whole week in between right now. |
| 0:11.8 | And the start of the next decade draft, a lot of people talking out there, Dallas, a lot of people |
| 0:18.3 | talking out there in the streets, breaking down the first two picks that us three have made to this |
| 0:23.3 | point. We will be continuing the next decade draft in this particular episode. We also |
| 0:30.8 | have Austin Meadows, Coach Savage from UCLA. We've got a lot of folks who are asking questions about |
| 0:38.0 | what their senior season in high school going into college looks like. Same thing for those college |
| 0:43.4 | juniors and seniors. What does the rest of their life and the rest of their baseball career look like? |
| 0:48.6 | We get some answers to those questions from folks who are in the prime position to handle said |
| 0:54.3 | questions. Head Coach of UCLA, John Savage, we've also got head coach of the Texas Tech University |
| 1:01.3 | Red Raiders Tim Tadlock coming up for you later as well. So we're grinding. We're in the cage. |
| 1:08.3 | We're working hard folks. Yeah. Both pins are in throwing program ramped all the way up here on |
| 1:13.8 | starting night. Yeah. We, uh, I mean, I think we can all agree here. We're probably busier now |
| 1:19.6 | than we would have been if the season was actually going on. We're doing more interviews now. |
| 1:24.1 | During the season or during what would have been the season, you're right. Then we would if we were |
| 1:28.0 | actually playing baseball, we get to wake up every day to an alert or an email of some sort that |
| 1:33.8 | whoever we've reached out to has followed up and is ready to roll. So I get up every day waiting |
| 1:39.5 | for the knot. Like, yep, we're locked in. We're talking to another kickass individual. Let's get it |
| 1:44.7 | going. So I couldn't be happier about how busy we are right now knowing that there's so much |
| 1:51.5 | just kind of up in the air. There's a lot of questions and folks are just looking for any kind of |
| 1:57.4 | any kind of break, any kind of light and we're providing that. We're trying to, yeah, we're trying. |
| 2:03.9 | We're trying and I think this is something that I've gone back and forth on a number of times |
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