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GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast

Tennessee College World Series preview

GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

GoVols247's Wes Rucker goes over some quick news and notes before clearing the floor for interviews with Vols' senior outfielder Evan Russell and head coach Tony Vitello from the College World Series in Omaha.

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0:00.0

What's going to happen tonight? What's going to happen?

0:05.0

What's going to happen? We're going to whoop this. Welcome in the Diamond Vols podcast on Gold Vols 24-7.com. I am Ben McKee joined by the one the only

0:25.3

West Rucker and also the one and only former Tennessee pitcher, Will Heflin.

0:31.5

Gentlemen, it has arrived. The College World Series is here. Tennessee plays LSU on Saturday

0:37.3

night. It's as big as it gets and I know you all are as as fired as I am to get Saturday night here and rolling.

0:48.0

For sure, yeah, I actually need to finish packing right after we get done with this. I got to do this, got to record one more thing

0:56.7

with someone else and then hopefully can get packed before I got to go to the airport so yeah getting into getting into

1:04.0

Omaha around midnight or 11 p.m. or so I guess midnight central and ready to rock.

1:09.5

I'm doing good as well I'm actually headed back to Lake Point down close to Atlanta for another

1:16.0

one of those AAU tournaments, the same spot that I was at when the balls beat Clemson in the regional, I guess beat Charlotte as well.

1:25.0

So, you know, baseball guys are a little bit superstitious, so I can't say that I'm,

1:31.0

you know, not at least taking that into account as we play LSU tomorrow it also wouldn't

1:36.4

surprise me if the balls are wearing those black jerseys again but yeah all is good. I'm excited. Yeah, it's gonna be a fun weekend that that

1:49.1

matchup is brand names is as good as it gets. I know Tennessee's a little newer to the college

1:57.7

baseball landscape compared to LSU, but still just in general in terms of the amount of people that love Tennessee and the amount of people that love LSU I mean that that match up brand name wise on Saturday night is as good as it gets and I imagine ESPN is licking its chops thinking about the number

2:16.4

that that game is going to draw on top of you know not not just the brand names, but obviously you have Paul Skeen's going.

2:24.6

LSU baseball is LSU baseball in Tennessee baseball.

2:28.8

They're the villains of the sports, so they're going to draw the hate watchers as well and drive up that ESPN number and it should be a really, really fun a baseball game that that game against Paul Skeen's in LSU back in I guess it was

2:45.1

March early April it was a close one with Skeen's on the mound and it's one that

2:52.2

Tennessee to a certain extent let it slip away late in that baseball game.

2:57.8

I wonder and we'll start here because obviously that's the first thing that everybody's talking about

3:02.1

is Paul Skeen's, Paul is Paul schemes, Paul schemes,

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