College World Series

And somehow it ended with Puerto Rican Sooners' fiance telling them they'll go next year, which just is an absolute javelin to the heart.

It's like my whole family saying, Dad, we want to go to the College World Series next year.

I'm like, yeah, me too.

Me too.

It's not 1956 where the Yankees win six titles in a row.

I liken it to when I went to USC and Rod Dado has like 20 College World Series championships.

It's a little different today.

The SEC is a lot tougher than the pack.

And I was like, well, we'll buy a flight there and a flight back.

What's to see in Omaha? It's during the College World Series.

So we'll go see a game, but that's probably it.

Just corn other than that, right? That was my thought.

And then we, we went to the Omaha baseball village.

I saw like the vendors there and the cool experience of that.

And I saw the college world series and thought to myself, I got to come back and watch this.

This is like such a cool event.

You know, it's a, a, a two or a four-seater.

One of my favorite memories is at the, is in Omaha, Nebraska at the College World Series.

Hudson did not wanna get on the Ferris wheel with us 'cause he was in a batting cage, unlimited free batting.

Yeah.

So Sydney, Cade, and I got in the f- in the Ferris wheel, and it's huge.

I don't know how high it was, but it...

And if you ever watch the College World Series, you can see it in the outfield.

Yeah.

The most important start of his professional career for the Mariners specifically.

You, you'd point to College World Series start probably being bigger for him as terms of scale, but in a Mariners uniform specifically, this is the biggest start of his career.

And like you mentioned, s- that, getting through that sixth inning a big hurdle for him.

81 pitches, good on the day.

In his first year in pro ball.

Last year he was pitching in the College World Series for LSU.

So, uh, the future is bright for this organization, and, uh, we saw that years ago when they started drafting Logan Gilbert in the first round, George Kirby in the first round, Emerson Hancock in the first round.

The following year in 2021, we got Bryce Miller in the fourth round and Bryan Wood in the sixth round.

And then they'd shut it down.

Those were back in the days where if you made your run all the way to the College World Series, you played like 80 games a year.

That too, that too.

Talking to Kevin Saul.

And it is going to be a circus.

The amount of alcohol that LSU fans put away by themselves, even looking at the College World Series days and that, they party.

LSU fans know it.

The Grove is the ultimate party.