Episode 45
Benny Is Back From Mexico, Baseball Sweeps Washington, Women's Golf Finishes 2nd In The Pac-12 Championship, And Softball Hits A Rough Skid
In this episode of the Belligerent Beavs Podcast, we welcome Benny back from his Mexican vacation, recap Baseball's weekend sweep of the Washington Huskies, restart the Melton Record Watch™ talk, congratulate Women's Golf for finishing 2nd in the Pac-12 Championship, their highest finish of all-time, discuss the tough sweep Softball endured at the hands of UCLA, and shoutout the Women's Track and Field and Women's Rowing teams!
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Speaker A: Let's not get enough, JP.
Speaker A: Let's not get enough of a mic check.
Speaker A: Yeah, I guess Betty's not Jetsetting across the country or across the world anymore.
Speaker C: What's up?
Speaker B: Good to be back.
Speaker A: Our ratings plummet.
Speaker A: When you're not on the show, no one listens.
Speaker A: We're still waiting for our first listen from episode 44.
Speaker A: You can't leave us high and dry again.
Speaker A: No one cares if it's just JP and I.
Speaker A: You hold the whole thing together.
Speaker B: Yeah, like the word gets out and then it's just over as soon as somebody realizes that you're not on the episode.
Speaker B: Yeah, and I think we may be feed that you wouldn't be on it.
Speaker B: So that's our listen.
Speaker A: It's 1 second in the intro.
Speaker A: They can tell these guys don't got good Quap.
Speaker A: There's no quaff detected.
Speaker C: Well, in your guys'defense, there was not a whole lot going on in terms of not as much as there's always something going on you missed.
Speaker B: Our units were in Mexico, so of course you didn't know what's going on.
Speaker B: Where do you mean?
Speaker C: There is no news.
Speaker A: You turned off the DMs for Benny's scoops.
Speaker A: Any scoops today, Benny?
Speaker A: No, nothing.
Speaker A: Haven't checked.
Speaker C: I have to tell you, I tried to unplug as much as possible when I was down in Mexico, and I was just doing that.
Speaker C: It was amazing.
Speaker A: You still post it on Instagram, like, everyday?
Speaker C: Yeah, for the most part, I am plugged it.
Speaker B: Do you guys remember when we thought Benny had been murdered?
Speaker A: I do remember.
Speaker C: That one of the only reasons why I was like, I don't think I responded a whole lot back in our text, Jane, but I wanted to make sure that something was being put out there in the ethosphere to make sure you guys didn't go on a search for me again.
Speaker B: I feel like we should get into this, because we should.
Speaker B: It was, I don't know, maybe a year ago.
Speaker A: It was over a year ago.
Speaker A: It was during 2020.
Speaker A: Like, the pandemic was still.
Speaker A: The pandemic still is raging.
Speaker A: It was still newly raging.
Speaker A: Yeah, it was.
Speaker A: So you didn't tell us that you are going out of town?
Speaker B: No, we knew you were out of town.
Speaker B: I think we knew you're going out of town.
Speaker B: But what happened was I had posted an image to our group chat that was like, hey, guys, if I got my father in law to make these Oregon state shirts, would you want to order one?
Speaker B: And everyone was like, really quickly.
Speaker B: Yeah, except for you, Benny.
Speaker B: And then at four in the morning Pacific time, not even three in the morning Pacific time, we got, like, hand raised emoji, and that was it.
Speaker B: And I was like, what?
Speaker B: That was weird.
Speaker B: And then a couple of days went by and I'm finally like, has anyone heard from Benny in a while?
Speaker A: You texted me in a panic and I was like, I'm sure it's fine.
Speaker A: Why do you think Benny is in trouble, and you're like, Chuck his Twitter.
Speaker A: He hasn't tweeted anything.
Speaker C: No.
Speaker B: I went super investigative reporter on you, Benny, because I was like, you hadn't tweeted anything.
Speaker B: You hadn't liked anything on Twitter, which is also very rare.
Speaker B: You hadn't replied to anyone in a trolling tone, which was even more rare.
Speaker C: So rare.
Speaker B: And then I got really concerned.
Speaker B: So I was like, I know one thing that he wouldn't.
Speaker A: Oh, no.
Speaker B: This all kind of started because you hadn't did not set your fantasy football lineup.
Speaker A: That's how you know something's wrong.
Speaker B: Yeah, but the final nail in the proverbial coffin that you weren't laid in was the fact that you had not made a pick on street for the cash.
Speaker B: And that's when I was like, oh, no, Benny is in a lot of trouble.
Speaker B: And I rounded up everybody.
Speaker B: We had, like, an emergency FaceTime.
Speaker A: I know I got on, and people are like, Where's Benny?
Speaker A: What's happening?
Speaker A: And I was just like, I'm sure it's fine until I started giving you my evidence.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker A: And we reached out.
Speaker A: I think we sent.
Speaker B: I sent you a message.
Speaker A: Yeah, we sent messages to all of your social media accounts, Benny.
Speaker A: And then I don't even think we knew Yuri's last name at this point.
Speaker C: But I think you did.
Speaker A: Jp's full investigative reporter mode was able to find out.
Speaker A: And I remember your message was priceless.
Speaker A: It was.
Speaker A: Hi, Yuri.
Speaker A: This is JP.
Speaker A: We haven't met before, but I'm friends with Benny.
Speaker A: We haven't heard from him in a while, and we're starting to worry.
Speaker A: Do you know where he is?
Speaker A: And within seconds, her response was like, yeah, f****** dumbass.
Speaker A: Left his phone and an Uber in Chicago, and JP took a screenshot and sent to me, and I was like, I like, Erie, this one can stay, please.
Speaker C: Compared to what she told me, she was like, you f****** idiot.
Speaker C: You didn't reach out to anyone to let them know that I was enjoying, like, being disconnected.
Speaker A: It's like, well, I guess I'll unplug for eight days.
Speaker C: And that's the other thing.
Speaker C: It's like, number one.
Speaker C: Thank God the guy in the Uber answered and bothered to take my phone to a FedEx and get it shipped out.
Speaker C: But I didn't expect them to, but he definitely didn't ship it the quickest way.
Speaker C: So it was like two weeks.
Speaker A: What an a******.
Speaker C: No, he's very nice.
Speaker A: I'm just saying that I know where you're going.
Speaker A: Shout out to the Chicago Uber driver who found base phone and got it right.
Speaker C: That is right.
Speaker A: Shout out to Yuri.
Speaker A: And you're still Yuri's name on Zoom.
Speaker A: You have been for the last 20 episodes, and I hope it never changes.
Speaker A: I hope this doesn't incriminate her at any point where somehow all doom activity goes public and it stops her from getting an employment opportunity because they find the transcripts from all of these episodes.
Speaker A: That's funny, but how is Mexico, man?
Speaker A: Let's talk about that for a second.
Speaker A: Where in Mexico were you?
Speaker A: What was the occasion?
Speaker A: It looked awesome.
Speaker C: Yeah, Mexico was great.
Speaker C: I was in a little town called San Miguel dayend day, which I didn't realize this, but it's sort of popping up like the New York times did an article about San Miguel and a couple of other publications.
Speaker C: So it's gaining some notoriety.
Speaker C: But I'd never really heard of it before until my mom brought it up and I went down with my parents and my sister and her husband and my girlfriend, and it was a great relaxing time.
Speaker C: It's a gorgeous town with a lot of history.
Speaker C: So for those of you that have not heard about it, check it out.
Speaker C: Definitely worth the long journey it takes to get there.
Speaker C: There's no direct airport, so you have to fly into the Leon airport, and then it's about an hour and a half drive from there.
Speaker C: But it was cool.
Speaker C: Like a lot of new experiences.
Speaker C: I'd never really taken, like, a road trip in Mexico before, so that was fun.
Speaker C: And then San Miguel is close to where the Mexican war for independence started.
Speaker C: Like I said, a ton of history there.
Speaker C: So if your history buff, definitely check it out.
Speaker C: But yeah, disconnected.
Speaker C: It was great.
Speaker C: Then I set it up great because I came back on Wednesday night.
Speaker C: I took Thursday off from work.
Speaker C: Friday was a super relaxed day, and Yuri is in Denver for work.
Speaker C: She flew into Seattle and then right out to Denver.
Speaker C: So I had the house myself for four days and then flipped on grand theft auto five, which I had not played in a long a** time and just binge gamed for the last couple of days.
Speaker C: The best last two weeks.
Speaker A: Get your GTA on, dude.
Speaker B: That's right.
Speaker A: I love how the highlight of this whole thing is playing grand theft auto five.
Speaker A: What year did grand theft auto five come out?
Speaker C: 2013.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's been out for a long time.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: The last GTA I played, I believe, was San Andreas.
Speaker A: I was still in high school when that came out.
Speaker A: Big CJ fan.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker B: Did you make them fat or did you make them buff?
Speaker A: I made them buff for sure.
Speaker B: Of course.
Speaker B: Shocker.
Speaker B: I like to make a fat guy in a tank top.
Speaker A: Yeah, that was great.
Speaker A: Running around that fictional la fat guy in a little tank.
Speaker A: Nice.
Speaker A: Well, good to have you back, Benny.
Speaker A: You missed out.
Speaker A: Jp and I got to have the JT Daniels is not coming to Oregon State discussion.
Speaker A: And since I know you did not listen to the episode where JP and I discussed our points about JT, why don't we give you an opportunity to sort of just JT Daniels is not coming to Oregon state.
Speaker A: Your quarterback room is essentially chancenel and Tristan Jebia and Bengal Branson, what are your thoughts?
Speaker C: Yeah, I can't say that it's not a disappointment.
Speaker A: Definitely.
Speaker C: If the listeners go back and listen to a couple of episodes back where we are really hyped about it, especially me.
Speaker C: But I do think that chances is going to improve.
Speaker C: There were a couple of things that were said in our sort of season preview late after the season started, once we knew that Chance had the job where it was mentioned that Chance has blown expectations out of the water everywhere that he's been.
Speaker C: And I think that D one College football is obviously a different game than JUCO or high school, but I think with a year under his belt, he's sort of primed to be in the position to do historically what he's done at every program he's been at, which is to exceed expectations.
Speaker C: So that is definitely a glass half full way of looking at it.
Speaker C: But I do think that there are some legitimate anecdotes in there that would indicate that that is a realistic possibility.
Speaker A: Well said.
Speaker A: And JP and I definitely discussed this in depth, so we won't get into this any further, but our birthday is coming up.
Speaker A: We need to promote this a little bit more.
Speaker A: May 11 the Bays turned one a full a** here old, so maybe that's an excuse for us to get Benny some functional podcasting headphones the one year birthday of our Podcast So May 11 on Twitter, Twitter Spaces 08:00 p.m.
Speaker A: Pacific Time it's going to be fun.
Speaker A: We're going to have a lot of special guests.
Speaker A: We're just going to bullshit talk any Oregon State sports you want.
Speaker A: Obviously the baseball and softball will be kind of the focus, just given the time of year that it is.
Speaker A: But we'll be talking spring football, men's women's basketball, whatever anyone wants to talk about.
Speaker A: And we'll just be drinking and having a good old digital time.
Speaker A: All of the best birthday parties happen digitally.
Speaker A: As my 22nd birthday party on Chat Roulette proves, it's not a party if it's not in a digital space and flirting with breaking the law a little bit.
Speaker B: I know we talked about this already, but we should just confirm that you didn't have a birthday party on Chat Roulette where you sat there with a cake as random people cycled through your website.
Speaker A: I don't even care what anyone thinks about this anymore.
Speaker A: It's out in the world.
Speaker A: It was my birthday, a party at the fraternity that I was living at, the same fraternity I was in with you two and JP set up a laptop, turned on Chat Roulette, and then projected his screen onto a large screen as Chat Roulette users both got to witness us playing beer pong and other College birthday activities that are common in the place like Corvallis, Oregon, aka the Paris of the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker A: And their activities were then broadcast all of the tens of partygoers for my 22nd trip around the sun.
Speaker A: So Chat Roulette will not be involved with this birthday celebration at all.
Speaker A: It will be entirely Twitter spaces.
Speaker A: No visuals other than the Twitter avatars of the various people tuning into the spaces.
Speaker B: Good.
Speaker B: It'll be a good time.
Speaker B: We also have an undisclosed amount of free s***.
Speaker A: Really?
Speaker B: Well, supplies last.
Speaker A: And we're not saying undisclosed to be like we're giving it away to two people because we're cheap.
Speaker B: Oh no, there's a lot.
Speaker A: We're saying undisclosed because there's a lot and we don't know the actual number and we don't want to get in trouble by guaranteeing 50 and it ends up being 65 or whatever.
Speaker A: We're going to have a lot of merch to give away.
Speaker A: So if you tune in, you'll have a very good chance at walking away with free s***.
Speaker A: And who doesn't love free s***?
Speaker A: I love free s***.
Speaker B: I mean, especially with our logo on it.
Speaker A: It's sick.
Speaker A: I know.
Speaker A: For real.
Speaker A: That's better than most free s*** you'll get out of like a Cracker Jackbox.
Speaker A: What are you going to get out of there?
Speaker A: Like an army man?
Speaker A: A sticker or a headphones?
Speaker A: The headphones that Benny's using.
Speaker A: Come on, worthless s***.
Speaker A: This is usable.
Speaker A: Cool branded stuff.
Speaker C: I'll second that.
Speaker C: Hey, I forgot to tell you guys while I was in Mexico, it was my dad's birthday and my mom got him happy 60 plus birthday to J-O-E-H.
Speaker C: Yeah, just 60 plus plus.
Speaker A: No.
Speaker B: Do you know exactly the age or did you just tell them happy 60 plus?
Speaker A: I think I know exactly the age based on the last time we give you s*** for this.
Speaker C: Yeah, 66.
Speaker B: Happy birthday, Joe.
Speaker A: Happy birthday, Papa Joe.
Speaker B: You're three away from a nice year.
Speaker A: Yeah, I hope he has three nice years in this.
Speaker A: A very nice year after that.
Speaker C: That's right.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker C: Well, my mom got them tickets to the Civil War this year.
Speaker C: Two tickets and the other one he gave to me.
Speaker C: So I'm officially going to be going down for isn't that the same weekend as the PK 85?
Speaker A: Like it's that Saturday.
Speaker A: Actually.
Speaker C: Friday.
Speaker A: I think Friday.
Speaker A: Okay, so this is the part of the podcast where we make plans that we haven't made yet, but do it over the podcast.
Speaker A: This means I'm spending Thanksgiving in Portland away from all my living relatives and family members.
Speaker A: But you guys are my chosen family.
Speaker A: So as long as someone can be like JP, can I have Thanksgiving at your house?
Speaker A: Is that cool?
Speaker B: Sure.
Speaker A: I'll make sure you don't slice your thumb off again or whatever the f*** I will be on JP's fingertip watch.
Speaker A: But that's always when we're hanging out.
Speaker C: Yeah, well, and my dad gets into Portland on Thanksgiving, so I'll be spending the night before Thanksgiving in Portland and maybe a couple of days before if the PK 85 is this will be the best Thanksgiving ever.
Speaker A: H*** yeah.
Speaker B: It will be funny when we win the PK 85 and the Civil War, fill nights and have the worst Thanksgiving ever and you're never going to invite us to anything ever again.
Speaker C: Right.
Speaker A: Well, we're not on the same.
Speaker A: We're in a different bracket from Oregon and the PK 85, so I don't think we can really ruin that.
Speaker B: Well, if we win, it's still probably if we win our bracket.
Speaker C: If they win their bracket, we don't play each other.
Speaker A: I don't think so.
Speaker A: The dumbest tournament, it's not even a tournament.
Speaker A: It's just a showcase.
Speaker C: We'd like to award the 2022 PK 85 to Oregon Sara Beavers.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's just set up so he could put the Ducks in like the worst field and then that way guarantee they'll win and look just as good as some other like.
Speaker A: That'S why we have.
Speaker A: Yeah, we have like, Duke and Kentucky on our side.
Speaker C: They have like, Portland State.
Speaker A: But yeah, that's real, though, because all these older people, like, b******* about our generation as the participation trophy generation.
Speaker A: It's PK 85, Phil Knights 85.
Speaker A: And he's setting up this tournament to not even have a winner of the tournament.
Speaker A: It's just, hey, everyone come to Portland and play basketball, which I'm not mad at, but just don't call it a tournament because that's not what it is.
Speaker A: But it looks like the first games of that tournament.
Speaker A: We don't know exactly when or who the Oregon State men's and women's teams play and what order, but I think the first games of that tournament take place on Thanksgiving, November 24, and through that Sunday the 27th.
Speaker A: And then Civil War football is in Corvallis on Friday the 25th.
Speaker A: So f****** sports ball weekend.
Speaker A: We're going to have a lot of tickets to buy and I don't know if we'll get to stay in Corvallis overnight.
Speaker A: We might be able to.
Speaker C: Hopefully I am, but my mom also booked us a hotel room in Corevallis.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: Which hotel?
Speaker C: I don't know.
Speaker C: I'm not sure.
Speaker A: Hopefully it's the Guardian and across the parking lot from Research, because those rooms, as I remember, those rooms all have couches.
Speaker A: So JP and I can go and share the couch and you're in your dad's room and then we can just walk across the parking lot.
Speaker UNK: Yeah.
Speaker C: Or the hotel where Marcel Jones?
Speaker A: I was just going to bring this one up.
Speaker A: There's a plaque in the parking lot that commemorates when he jumped up.
Speaker C: And started screaming like a mad person at 03:00 A.m..
Speaker A: The picture of the plaque is a ball falling well short of a hoop.
Speaker A: Oh, come on, the lizard.
Speaker A: We're haters.
Speaker A: Speaking of basketball, I was at the Timber Wolf game last night, which tipped off unconsciously.
Speaker A: Late, really, 09:00, p.m..
Speaker A: But still, that's a late time for a playoff basketball game.
Speaker A: It didn't get out.
Speaker A: I would leave Target Center like 12:30 A.m., and I had had a drink or two.
Speaker A: I'll just say that.
Speaker A: So again, my voice not 100%, but it's still podcastable, I think.
Speaker C: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker C: I saw the shirt that you posted on Instagram that I love Pat Bev shirt and let it be known I am not a Patrick Beverley fan, but it got me thinking how amazing and how great it would be if Oregon States basketball team, men or women's, had someone like Pat Bev on their team because he is one of the players.
Speaker C: You hate them if you're playing against them, but, man, do you love him if he's on your team?
Speaker A: That's why I don't think I love Path at first, but for years it's like, similar to, like, Matt Barnes on the Weebly Warriors and so many other good teams.
Speaker A: It's like just the professional pest and natural antagonist.
Speaker C: He reminded me so much of Bruce Bowen.
Speaker C: Yeah, he doesn't wear a bow tie.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker A: His broadcasting career hasn't started.
Speaker A: He inevitably will be all over NBA TV when his career is over.
Speaker A: Yeah, because that dude is f****** hilarious.
Speaker A: But yes.
Speaker A: So I was at that basketball game.
Speaker A: Jp, your warriors did not quite finish the job today.
Speaker A: Had a chance to sweep Denver in Denver gate money.
Speaker B: Man, you can't just win the series.
Speaker A: I know you want to win at home.
Speaker A: You want to come back, win game five at the Crib to close out the series.
Speaker B: Yeah, and your owners want that, too.
Speaker A: So throw this one.
Speaker A: There you go.
Speaker A: And Benny, your favorite basketball team in the NBA is not currently playing, unfortunately.
Speaker A: But you are wearing a cool retro blazer shirt.
Speaker B: Look at that.
Speaker B: We got our finals gear on yours.
Speaker A: Where is my sick f****** burn?
Speaker A: I will go put a Minneapolis Lakers Jersey on right now.
Speaker A: Do not make me flip this.
Speaker B: That's sick, though.
Speaker A: 19.
Speaker C: Is that a hoodie?
Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I know.
Speaker B: Is mine a hoodie?
Speaker A: Jp is wearing a T shirt hoodie, of course.
Speaker C: Oh, man, that looks like something Steph Curry would wear first.
Speaker B: This is team issue, dude.
Speaker B: It's my father in law for finding me one that he made for the team.
Speaker A: If JP were an NBA bench player, you would only wear warm ups with hoods and no sleeves.
Speaker A: The hood would never come down.
Speaker A: No matter what.
Speaker A: You'd be hoodie mellow in full effect.
Speaker C: Warmup pants tucked into your socks.
Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker B: But they'd be tear away with only the bottom button on and the top button on and then tucked in the socks a bit.
Speaker A: That was the late 90s, early 2000s look like that top bottom button action.
Speaker B: You can see the short.
Speaker A: That was sweet.
Speaker B: Yeah, it was sweet.
Speaker B: That led to zip off pants, to be honest.
Speaker A: You could rip those pants.
Speaker A: There's like four different pieces of the pants.
Speaker A: I wonder if players ever, like, equipment managers, ever lost track because they always ripped them and they'd, like, go flying in like several different directions.
Speaker A: Anyway, welcome, listener, to the 45th episode of the Budget Beasts podcast.
Speaker A: We're here not to talk about different kinds of pants that detach very easily in several different pieces.
Speaker A: Although that would be a good episode too.
Speaker A: We're here today to talk about Oregon State sports and Oregon State sports adjacent things.
Speaker A: I am your cohost, Terry Horseman, joined as I always am, by JP Bertram.
Speaker A: And welcome back.
Speaker A: Fresh and Tan from Mexico, Benjamin Laurence Sebastian.
Speaker A: Wehave Benny with the Good Coffee.
Speaker A: Benny scoops a million other nicknames.
Speaker A: That's how you know your legend is growing, Benny, because you have by far the most nicknames out of all of us.
Speaker C: I love all of them.
Speaker C: Each and every one.
Speaker A: Absolutely.
Speaker A: We should get into our beers for this evening.
Speaker A: Oh, look at that.
Speaker A: Instead of intros, I wrote into.
Speaker A: So we should get into introing.
Speaker A: Introducing some alcoholic beverages for this evening.
Speaker A: And whatever Benny is doing.
Speaker A: I know April is not quite over yet.
Speaker A: If you want to light a joint with a three foot long lighter again, that's a way to announce your return to the show.
Speaker A: But, JP, why don't we go to you?
Speaker A: You always have something good.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker B: This is still from the same Road Beers PDX delivery service.
Speaker B: I haven't made it through all twelve beers that were delivered last week.
Speaker B: I'm pacing myself, but this is called the Slay with three YS IPA from Stoop Brewing, which is based in Seattle.
Speaker A: Brewing.
Speaker A: Benny, have you ever been.
Speaker C: I've never even heard of it.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's on Northwest 52nd.
Speaker C: Oh, that's up in Ballard.
Speaker A: Nice.
Speaker C: That's where I used to live.
Speaker B: Shut up, Ballard.
Speaker B: It's there.
Speaker B: And this isn't good.
Speaker C: That's probably why I haven't heard of it.
Speaker A: You are so happy when you opened that beer and didn't like it because it was from Seattle.
Speaker B: I didn't know it was from Seattle.
Speaker A: Look on your f****** face right now.
Speaker A: I don't even need to try to say something negative about Seattle.
Speaker A: I'm just going to do it.
Speaker B: It's not very good.
Speaker B: To be Frank, I've really not had any good beers that are from Seattle.
Speaker A: Seattle listeners.
Speaker A: We have listeners in Seattle.
Speaker A: This is what you guys don't understand is we have a lot of listeners in Seattle and a lot of listeners in Eugene.
Speaker A: And neither of you hold back about either city.
Speaker A: I like Doko, too.
Speaker A: And Burrito boy.
Speaker B: I don't know.
Speaker B: I feel like all the beers I've had from Seattle or just taste kind of sad.
Speaker C: Hey, it's where I stopped drinking, for all intents and purposes, with Seattle.
Speaker C: So there's a scene.
Speaker C: How dare you?
Speaker A: Seattle made Betty make the healthiest choice of his life.
Speaker A: That's how bad the beer is.
Speaker A: Do you think it would be better if they spelled it with more wise or fewer wise?
Speaker B: I don't know.
Speaker B: It just tastes like dirty water.
Speaker A: So the question you have is simply why?
Speaker B: Why?
Speaker B: There are three Y's.
Speaker A: That's why there are three.
Speaker A: Why?
Speaker A: So that you can ask with an accelerated level of urgency.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker C: It doesn't slap like Jimmy like.
Speaker B: No, it does not.
Speaker A: Jesus, Benny.
Speaker A: God, I thought you were going to laugh.
Speaker C: Terry, that joke was directed at you.
Speaker A: Let's f****** move on.
Speaker A: Not a good beer from Seattle, but maybe if you're in the Ballard area, check out Suburia.
Speaker A: Maybe their other stuff is good.
Speaker A: And I like the Ballard neighborhood.
Speaker A: I've had some good times there.
Speaker A: I am not drinking a beer.
Speaker A: I have a nice alcoholic beverage.
Speaker A: Don't worry.
Speaker A: I'm not copying out.
Speaker A: But I had a long conversation with a woman who was giving away samples at a liquor store recently of this distillery.
Speaker B: I wanted you to leave her alone so bad.
Speaker B: You had a long conversation with someone giving out samples.
Speaker B: Do they literally want you to walk up, take a sample, go away, and buy the alcohol?
Speaker A: She had ten different types of alcohol, and she was telling me about each one of them.
Speaker A: I hate you both with a fiery passion, which is why I'm drinking fireball.
Speaker B: Keep going.
Speaker A: Do Nord Social Spirits.
Speaker A: It's an incredible distillery, local to the Twin Cities on here.
Speaker A: It is advertised as America's first legal blackowned distillery.
Speaker A: Legal is in parentheses.
Speaker A: So I think during the Prohibition days, there's probably some blackowned distilleries then.
Speaker A: So this is the mixed blood whiskey.
Speaker A: This is their flagship whiskey, and I am mixing it with a subtle Apple liqueur that they also make.
Speaker A: And this is an incredible just whiskey drink on the rocks that has a hint of tasting, like Apple pie.
Speaker A: So if you like Apple pie and you like whiskey, it's not overly sweet.
Speaker A: It's not sugary or anything like that.
Speaker A: It's got that little Apple hint to it.
Speaker A: Enough of a whiskey bite, but it's smooth.
Speaker A: It's delicious.
Speaker A: It's a cold, windy April night in the Twin Cities, so it's making me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Speaker A: I'm excited to get into the rest of this podcast episode, even though you guys are breaking my balls already.
Speaker A: Shout out Due Nord Social Spirits order their s***.
Speaker A: And it's great.
Speaker A: And we talked for 20 minutes, which was a perfectly socially acceptable time.
Speaker A: Talk to someone.
Speaker A: I got like, five different samples.
Speaker B: Yeah, but how many of those bottles did you buy?
Speaker A: Those two?
Speaker A: I bought two total bottles.
Speaker B: Probably a better conversion rate than most of the people she talks to or give samples, too, surely.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker B: I'm not tossing that poor woman with you any times.
Speaker A: Hey, my presence is a present to anyone who comes in contact with it.
Speaker A: Let's be true.
Speaker B: That's true.
Speaker B: Go ahead.
Speaker B: Benny.
Speaker C: I was just going to say.
Speaker C: You were saying that that is the first legal blackowned distillery.
Speaker C: That is a story that I'd want to hear is blackowned distilleries during Prohibition.
Speaker A: Prohibition?
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker A: I'm sure there's some research to be done and some good books to be read, so that piques my interest, too.
Speaker B: Benny, you know what would be a really good book that you could write about that?
Speaker A: Is it called Beard of the Unseen Punch?
Speaker B: Yes.
Speaker B: And punch is like a slang for alcohol unseen.
Speaker A: I don't think my white a** is the one who should write History of Blackowned Distilleries in America.
Speaker A: It's a project that happily read and support.
Speaker A: But another alcohol you can sell.
Speaker A: The title story is possible.
Speaker A: And yes, beard of the Unseen punch it's at the bottom of the to do list, and that's where it shall remain.
Speaker A: Jp still on the to do list, though.
Speaker A: Benny, are you drinking tea or CBD water?
Speaker C: Coffee.
Speaker A: Wow.
Speaker C: It's 100% Kona coffee from my trip to Hawaii, and it is the opposite.
Speaker C: Kona to coffee is the opposite of Seattle to beer.
Speaker C: It's really good coffee.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've had Tony coffee before.
Speaker A: It's f****** fantastic.
Speaker C: It is.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Dude, Hawaii does, like, everything, right?
Speaker A: Yeah, they really do.
Speaker A: Shout out to Marvin Beaverman, friend of the pod Beaver loyalist native.
Speaker C: Already Beaver fans, right?
Speaker A: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A: He's the best one.
Speaker A: F****** chocolate macadamia nuts, coffee spam.
Speaker C: Missoubi Masubi misobee.
Speaker A: Marvin will forgive you for that.
Speaker A: Shout out, local Boys best Hawaiian food.
Speaker A: They don't have sandwich on the mainland.
Speaker C: I had some amazing food on the island, but I don't know, local boys might take the cake.
Speaker C: Still, it's just so good.
Speaker B: Nothing says authentic, like, authentic Hawaiian food, like Corvallis, Oregon.
Speaker C: It's true.
Speaker B: Over the authentic restaurants on the actual Islands.
Speaker A: That's how good local boys is, man.
Speaker C: It's true.
Speaker B: Yeah, true.
Speaker B: Hey, before we move on, can we.
Speaker B: Cheers to us being the 96th.
Speaker B: Oh, that's right.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: In Japan, the proud nation of Japan, we are the 96 ranked sports podcast in Japan.
Speaker A: There wasn't like an English language qualifier with that either.
Speaker A: It was just all sports podcasts.
Speaker C: I asked Yuri, because you had made the hat that says chop them in Japanese.
Speaker C: And I asked Yuri how to write chop them in Japanese.
Speaker C: And I was watching her brain explode in her head as she was trying to figure it out.
Speaker C: She eventually said, there's not there's no real.
Speaker C: But I showed her she's like, if there was, that would be it.
Speaker A: It's a direct translation to chop them up, right?
Speaker B: No, that was the first hashtag we use.
Speaker B: It was like chop them all up.
Speaker B: So I put chop them and nothing came up and I put chopped them and that came up and I was like, oh, perfect.
Speaker B: And then I did a reverse translation on it and it was like chopped them all up.
Speaker B: I was like.
Speaker A: While the intent maybe is that's like some areas Target and Game of Thrones burned them all.
Speaker A: S***.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Chopped them all up.
Speaker B: I separated the two soloed translations and chop and them, and that's what we got.
Speaker B: It translates, actually, to chop them.
Speaker B: So it's a cool beanie.
Speaker A: It's cool.
Speaker A: You can find it.
Speaker A: Belligerentbeeves.
Speaker A: Commerch, along with all of our other merch.
Speaker B: It's really our first non English language merchandise, which is kind of interesting.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: It's funny because you guys know my girlfriend Yuri is from Japan.
Speaker C: She was born and raised there until she was in grade school.
Speaker C: And she loves to give me s*** for the podcast.
Speaker C: Like, whenever I go in and record, she's like, are you going to go record with your little friends?
Speaker C: But this time she had to acknowledge that what I was showing her was cool about the podcast.
Speaker C: She couldn't hold it back any longer.
Speaker A: We're not stopping at 96 either.
Speaker A: We're going to be Japan's favorite sports podcast by the time all over live show at the top of Mount Fuji, baby.
Speaker A: Thank you.
Speaker A: Sahi super drives.
Speaker A: Love Japan.
Speaker A: Beautiful country.
Speaker A: So if you are listing Japan, thank you for helping make this happen.
Speaker A: Thank you to Carlos from whatever podcast researching agency he works for.
Speaker A: But hey, Carlos knows we trust Carlos for informing us of this great news.
Speaker B: So if you're a listener in Japan, let us know.
Speaker A: If you've let us happen.
Speaker B: The first person does.
Speaker A: I'll send you a free beanie that's inexpensive with international shipping.
Speaker A: But yeah, that's limit to one.
Speaker A: We'll send one internationally.
Speaker A: Well, a very popular sport in the great nation of Japan is the sport of baseball, which also happens to be a sport that Oregon State University, also known as the Harvard of the Pack Twelve happens to be pretty good at and is good at again this year.
Speaker A: As of right now, after sweeping the University of Washington Huskies while the University of Oregon lost a series to the Washington State University Cougars, your Oregon State Beavers baseball team stands alone in first place in the Pack twelve baseball standings.
Speaker A: Many rankings have us as number two in the country.
Speaker A: Some of the other dozens and dozens of baseball rankings have us dipping as low as number seven, et cetera.
Speaker A: But a sweep of Washington, two of them in very decisive fashion.
Speaker A: Very productive weekend at the ballpark for your Beaves.
Speaker A: Jp, what do you think?
Speaker B: I'm glad I have to win on Friday with the performance that Jerpy had.
Speaker B: I mean, there was nothing that the Huskies could do to try to stymie his pitching prowess.
Speaker B: Ended up with a twelve K over a full six innings.
Speaker B: He did get a little while with a hit by pitch and had a couple of earned runs giving up against them.
Speaker B: But oh man, I mean, the DJ Carpenter came in and just pitched lights out as well for two and two thirds and they eked out the victory in the bottom of the 10th, of course, with the force or single after the bases were loaded and everyone's kind of commenting on the UW choice to walk Melton and Boyd after Bizana got the triple to lead off the inning.
Speaker B: And I don't really fault them on that, to be honest.
Speaker B: You have to do that because it's one run.
Speaker B: So you got a guy at third.
Speaker B: All you need is all you need is like a stack fly at that point.
Speaker B: So trying to set the double play wasn't actually a bad idea and walking two guys to face boy isn't really that you're picking the lesser of two evils when you're going up with that.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think they gambled and I guess, I'm sorry, walking into face force or they gambled and it didn't pay off.
Speaker B: It paid off for us, which is wonderful to see.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker A: I don't even think of it as like it's not a disrespect thing for Forester.
Speaker A: It's just them trying to create as many chances to get out.
Speaker B: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A: And with this line up, too, if you're more.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Even if you're just a little bit more scared of bizarre than you are a Forester, then you make the two intentional walks because there's no other way you're going to win without it.
Speaker B: But let's say you could just keep walking, guys, where do you stop in this lineup?
Speaker A: You really can't.
Speaker B: You can't be like, all right, this is the guy we'll choose to pitch to.
Speaker B: So they had to.
Speaker B: The bases were loaded and Forester, as we said, confirmed with the calls of forestry.
Speaker B: Foresters are known to chop them, just like our friend Be recruiting pointed out that carpenters are also known to chop them.
Speaker B: So the team is full of chop them enthusiasts just chopping all around.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker C: Also, how about Wade Meckler being able to get on base safely in 38 straight games?
Speaker C: That would be certainly every game this season.
Speaker C: That's an incredible feat that I didn't realize until I saw Marcus.
Speaker A: I told you guys that Wade Meckler was going to get on base safely in all of the first 38 games.
Speaker A: You both said, no f****** way.
Speaker A: We're wet blankets.
Speaker A: We're negative, Nancys.
Speaker A: This unbreakable feat can't happen.
Speaker A: And I said, yes, he can.
Speaker A: Who's the negative Nancy now?
Speaker A: Speaking of which, Jacob Melton homer again.
Speaker A: I believe he needs twelve more to break the school record, and I hope he gets there and I think he will get there.
Speaker C: H***, yeah.
Speaker B: He just needs to keep in a couple every series or else it's going to be tight.
Speaker B: I don't know.
Speaker B: I was all about it at the beginning.
Speaker B: I thought I was going to do it.
Speaker B: The little lull of home runs and the illness has made it really tough.
Speaker B: But 22, baby, let's get there.
Speaker B: Let's do it.
Speaker A: Yeah, he can do it well.
Speaker C: And our upcoming schedule is going to be so tough.
Speaker C: Five out of our next eight games are against the Oregon Ducks and then we have at Arizona and against UCLA.
Speaker C: That is going to be a really difficult stretch for us.
Speaker C: I think that we set ourselves up nicely where we control our own destiny at this point.
Speaker C: And I think Tennessee is sort of solidified in there as the number one seed.
Speaker C: Like, they would have to f*** up royally for us to be able to get the number one overall feed.
Speaker C: But I think it's ours to lose the number two overall feed, host regionals and host super regionals if that goes well.
Speaker C: And guys, I know you are aware of this because I was texting you about this, but I watched the 2018 recap of the College Baseball World Series, which was a good one.
Speaker C: It was a pretty good one.
Speaker C: If we go to Omaha, we're going.
Speaker C: I know we've talked about it, but I just have to reemphasize.
Speaker C: We are going.
Speaker A: If that happens, we should get tickets now.
Speaker A: For real.
Speaker B: I know.
Speaker A: And then just sell them if things go pear shaped.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker A: Quick note.
Speaker A: Meckler has actually reached in all 39 games this season, more than 38 big shout out to the Beaver FAM per the Oregon State notes from Ocbeavers.com.
Speaker A: Today's game drew 3933 people to Gossip Stadium at Coleman Field.
Speaker B: It's a beautiful day.
Speaker A: 8Th largest crowd in the Gospel era and the fifth largest for a regular season game there.
Speaker A: So keep showing up, showing out and supporting these student athletes.
Speaker A: Awesome turnout, great atmosphere.
Speaker B: Getting hard to get tickets.
Speaker A: Exactly.
Speaker A: Well, you mentioned that obviously we're a superior team to Washington, and the game on Friday night was a little bit of a squeaker.
Speaker A: I'm not saying we underestimated Washington, but at this level, everyone's good.
Speaker A: You can't underestimate anyone.
Speaker A: So for them to get through, you know, you're going to at least in a series like this, to take at least one pretty tough game, maybe two and possibly three.
Speaker A: So for them to get through the tough one on Friday night and then take care of business and lead, no doubt, with an 871 decisions on Saturday and Sunday, I had a beautiful day in Corvallis in front of a big crowd.
Speaker A: That's where things just start to feel like they're aligning for a special year or for a special group.
Speaker A: It's hard not to be super excited right now.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker B: I think these next eight are going to be really interesting because we talked about this last time or two times ago.
Speaker B: We were kind of giving the schedule makers some s*** about the whole split road series with Oregon bookending the road series against Utah.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker B: So I'm still very curious to see how the team performs in this stretch.
Speaker B: This is like a pretty grueling stretch of baseball.
Speaker B: The game against up on the 10th, which they look pretty decent, too, even when we played them up here in Hillsborough.
Speaker B: So when we get through that, I'll feel pretty good about where we're probably going to land in the standings.
Speaker B: And right now we are in sole possession in first place in the conference, which is awesome.
Speaker B: But there's a lot of games to be played still and what five of them are against our rival, who would love nothing less than to spoil our season.
Speaker A: And I have to point this out.
Speaker A: We were one in five against Oregon last year or one in four, however many times.
Speaker A: But we only beat them once last year, and they're a talented team.
Speaker A: They are in the top 25 as well.
Speaker A: And they for sure want to play the spoiler and knock us down a peg or two.
Speaker A: These two Oregon games, do these count for conference record?
Speaker A: Do we ever get clarity on that?
Speaker A: Because I know one year that this happened.
Speaker A: They didn't.
Speaker B: No idea.
Speaker A: All right, Mike Rooney, I know you are.
Speaker A: If anyone know, obviously we're not experts on this s***.
Speaker A: We're just fans and we're stoked on the scene.
Speaker A: But also.
Speaker A: Yeah, these random one off, I guess.
Speaker A: Two off.
Speaker A: Tuesdays, April 26 in Eugene and May 3 in Eugene.
Speaker A: It feels weird for that to be included in conference.
Speaker A: Are the other local team like do calendar?
Speaker A: Do this?
Speaker A: Do uwazu do this?
Speaker A: I don't know.
Speaker A: I get that it makes sense for games because they're just up the road and it's a minimal travel time, but it seems dumb.
Speaker A: The whole thing seems dumb.
Speaker A: But next five at Oregon, at Utah, at Utah, Utah at Oregon.
Speaker A: Then home series against Oregon, baby.
Speaker A: So a lot of beef Ducks in the next two weeks here.
Speaker A: So Civil War baseball.
Speaker A: Hopefully chopping down some Ducks.
Speaker C: Not the Ducks.
Speaker A: I might have a peaking duck for dinner one of these nights.
Speaker A: Or a duck conefi sandwich.
Speaker B: Dude, I had a dream that I was eating duck like two days ago.
Speaker B: Yeah, why is that?
Speaker B: I've never really had duck before I tried it, but not like the feast that I had in front of me in my dream.
Speaker A: Just feasting on duck.
Speaker B: Yeah, it makes sense now.
Speaker A: Making Dan Landing watch.
Speaker A: Yeah, you just go another bite.
Speaker A: That one was all fat, but I ate it anyway.
Speaker B: Yeah, I just chew on forever and just keep chewing on.
Speaker A: And while we're on this topic, I didn't do any research beyond reading one tweet, and it was a tweet about Oregon football from Nick Dashell, who is an Oregon State reporter.
Speaker A: I've never thought Dashl to be much of a homer.
Speaker A: I think he's just a journalist who does his job and does it well.
Speaker A: Said the Oregon spring game was sloppy as h*** and just nothing really look good.
Speaker A: And even though I'm watching the NBA playoffs, I'm watching my own team.
Speaker A: I'm concerned with my own life and my own goals, not worrying about what other people are doing.
Speaker A: We are the 96 best sports podcasts in Japan right now.
Speaker A: The University of Oregon does not concern me, but it does a little bit because I felt a little bit of shot in Freud when I heard how s***** their spring game was.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's all I got.
Speaker A: Thanks for keeping the people informed, Tatchell.
Speaker B: Yeah, all I got was Bo Nix.
Speaker B: Looks like he's their guy.
Speaker B: So have fo that one.
Speaker A: I guess he's got to be somebody's guy.
Speaker A: The silver lining of JT Daniels not coming to Oregon State.
Speaker A: Is that bonek's also not coming to Oregon State.
Speaker A: There is good news, Beaver fans.
Speaker A: Anything else on baseball before we move on a little bit?
Speaker B: I sent it to you.
Speaker B: Actually, the Josh Warden note about the game yesterday, which just highlights the dominance of this program and the team right now, where in the first inning of the Saturday game, the first 20 pitches to OSU hitters were zero outs recorded, six batters faced, three runs scored, which was more than UW scored in the entirety of the game.
Speaker B: So these guys are disciplined.
Speaker B: They can strike at the right opportunity, and our pitching can hold up to make sure that these leads stay ours.
Speaker B: And that just exemplified everything that I think about this team for this season in that one first inning, right?
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker C: This team, like I said, it's primed up to make some noise in the post season.
Speaker C: The pitching got figured out, seemingly, and the bats are getting hot at the right time.
Speaker C: Like you were saying, Terry, it's like you have to pick your poison when you're pitching to the lineup that we have.
Speaker C: There's no easy outs and every battery is going to make those pictures work.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker C: So those are the two things you want going into postseason.
Speaker A: Well, shouts to Josh Warden for a couple of reasons.
Speaker A: Fine.
Speaker A: Being just a fantastic resource for things to say, play balls you had all season.
Speaker A: But that also talked about the smart batch this team has a few times and we've nerded out about twelve pitch, bases loaded walks that they take.
Speaker A: It's awesome.
Speaker A: It's not just guys who are super talented and can just f****** rake because you can get far by doing that and trying to outslug teams.
Speaker A: But they'll heat up, they'll cool down.
Speaker A: And I haven't watched every out of every game, but I haven't seen a bad at bat yet.
Speaker A: They'll get out pitched sometimes when they face good pitching, they've not gotten to pull the ball the right way, made certain mistakes.
Speaker A: But there hasn't been a bad no one's swaying at garbage or no one's really laying off meatballs either.
Speaker A: They just know themselves incredibly well.
Speaker A: For a College sports team, the wisdom beyond this kids ears is on full display when you watch them play.
Speaker A: And that's really exciting because that is something that does make a huge difference when you're playing teams like Tennessee and Arkansas on a national stage and not just in your home ballpark.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker B: Dope h***, yeah.
Speaker A: I know you have watched this before, but since you're on this 2018 College World Series kick, have you watched the video that's during the game two Oregon State rally, but just from the point of view of the Arkansas TV, I'm going to watch that tonight.
Speaker A: There's not showing the game.
Speaker A: It's just him reacting.
Speaker A: He's getting the score reported in his ear.
Speaker A: He's like totally set up to be like in front of the Stadium just so that they can get the and the Hogs have won the College World Series.
Speaker A: It's pandemonium here.
Speaker A: And he's just like he's ready to do it.
Speaker A: He's like, yeah, and Oregon State just tied the game.
Speaker A: Oh, my God.
Speaker A: Telling me Oregon State tied the game.
Speaker A: That's brutal.
Speaker A: But you know what?
Speaker A: We've got our guys coming out.
Speaker A: It's just a tied game.
Speaker A: And what's that?
Speaker A: Oh, they hit another home run.
Speaker C: Okay.
Speaker A: D*** it.
Speaker A: I don't know what to say.
Speaker A: I hear Oregon State's hands going crazy and he's a pro until the end.
Speaker A: But it's like episode of The Simpsons with Ralph Wiggum.
Speaker A: You can pinpoint the moment.
Speaker A: The heart breaks just on camera.
Speaker C: And it's beautiful.
Speaker C: I have seen that.
Speaker A: Oh, man.
Speaker A: Well, we got to keep the good news and good vibes and happiness rolling to women's golf.
Speaker A: Oregon State Women's golf.
Speaker A: We are a golf podcast.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: And a golf school.
Speaker A: And a golf school.
Speaker A: Plug the Belligerent Beavers and Tristan Tree Merch on our Merch store.
Speaker A: Women's golf.
Speaker A: One of the best finishes in conference tournament history ever.
Speaker A: Finishing second in the pack.
Speaker A: Invading the country club.
Speaker A: The Eugene, Oregon Country Club Eugene, Eugene.
Speaker A: And played one of the best rounds tournaments that this team has ever played.
Speaker A: All five Organ State players finishing in the top 25 in the conference.
Speaker A: Big up to you ladies.
Speaker A: Our podcast started in the infantile days of our podcast is when the NCAA ripped you all off and f***** you guys over and we felt kinship since that moment.
Speaker A: So I love to see this.
Speaker A: I dare the NCAA to try and pull some s*** like this, like this again this year, but second in the pack.
Speaker A: Oregon State Women's golf.
Speaker A: Big f****** deal.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker C: I'm coming back with vengeance.
Speaker A: I know.
Speaker B: And what's funny is we fault the packed twelve a lot, but they let them play through I guess.
Speaker B: A fairly wet final day.
Speaker B: So at least the grounds were.
Speaker B: And the lady showed out and did great.
Speaker B: I think there's a note that none of the golfers had anything worse than a bogey in that final rate.
Speaker C: Wow.
Speaker B: Which is just mind blowing to me.
Speaker B: Right?
Speaker B: I think to most even par golfers or scratch golfers would probably assume or would claim the same.
Speaker B: That's a very good round as a team especially.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker B: This is our best finish since we finished 6th in the conference 30 years ago.
Speaker B: Almost.
Speaker B: So this team is on the rise.
Speaker B: I think it's really cool to have seen this the last few years, but it's remarkable what they've done this program so far this last couple of seasons.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: And JP, you mentioned the grounds weren't in great shape.
Speaker A: It was a soggy foggy, wet day and Kelsey Webster, Alice Lama and Isy Taylor all fired that's directly from the release that I'm reading.
Speaker A: But all fired one under 71 a bit better than my game.
Speaker A: Just by a little bit.
Speaker A: And Chase Gomez, it was even none of them scoring worse than a bogey.
Speaker A: And we came into this ranked 28th in the nation by golfdat.com on Wednesday.
Speaker A: This coming Wednesday, April 27, we'll find out where we play in the first round of NCAA Division One women's tournament.
Speaker A: That will be made at 01:00 P.m.
Speaker A: On Golf Channel Pacific Time and stream on the website as well.
Speaker A: And there's playing a bunch of features and videos and news on Pack twelve.com this whole week, so you can see a lot more of the action from the conference tournament.
Speaker A: See this incredible finish that we had.
Speaker A: We tied with Stanford, who came into the competition as number one in the f****** conference.
Speaker A: So, yeah, exciting stuff.
Speaker A: And like we mentioned, this was a team that didn't get a chance to play in the NCAA Division or NCAA tournament last year.
Speaker UNK: Yeah.
Speaker B: Is that bad?
Speaker B: Rouge?
Speaker A: I think so, yeah.
Speaker B: I don't see Baton Rouge on the locations this season, so hopefully when it comes to regionals, they'll be able to play regardless of how the grounds are determined to be.
Speaker B: It looks like the regional play won't happen until May 9, so they have some time off to come back, warming up in the Northwest to get back, practice that legendary Tristan Tree and work on their game to start May 9 through 11th.
Speaker B: And it looks like it could be either at Stanford or in Tennessee Franklin Legends Club.
Speaker B: They could go to Albuquerque.
Speaker A: Which would be pretty sweet.
Speaker B: They could go to Ann Arbor, Stillwater and Tallahassee.
Speaker B: So all around, those are great locations to play golf.
Speaker B: I would love to play any of those spots, but I would love for them to be close to home.
Speaker B: That'd be cool there at Stanford.
Speaker A: Yeah, that'd be awesome.
Speaker A: Huge contingent down there to show up and show up.
Speaker A: Well, great job, ladies.
Speaker A: On the bad news front of good news, bad news from Winslow standpoint.
Speaker A: Good news from an effort standpoint.
Speaker A: Oregon State Softball, one of our favorite teams to cover and talk about, drops three straight to UCLA, one of the best teams in the country, all at home and all by one run again, shows us that this team is right there competing with the best of them.
Speaker A: They got the right attitude.
Speaker A: They carry themselves the right way.
Speaker A: They have great energy.
Speaker A: If you saw the tweets from our friend Davis Nicola and Frankie Hamudi, the Frankie Vibe suites were awesome.
Speaker A: They've got their own little mini chainsaws and stuff in the dugout.
Speaker C: I love that.
Speaker A: I love this team so much.
Speaker A: And UCLA is always making runs to Oklahoma in the postseason.
Speaker A: They're currently ranked number four in the country, and you can't go toe to toe with them three games in a row and call that a fluke.
Speaker A: It sucks that they're taking three losses from this weekend, but those three losses easily could have been three wins or one and two or two in one.
Speaker A: It just sucks that it's a three game sweep at the hands of the Bruins.
Speaker A: But d***, this team is close and they're fun.
Speaker B: I think that this list lends to I'm trying to spin this in like a positive light because it's heartbreaking.
Speaker B: We talked to this last week.
Speaker B: I literally said I want to see how they respond against UCLA.
Speaker B: That was a tall ask clearly to see if they could win a series.
Speaker B: And we said if they would have won that one against UW, the final game and that bad call to plate, then it would be okay if they only took one against UCLA as well.
Speaker B: They have been swept in both instances and all one run losses.
Speaker B: The part of that I like, the part that I like is this like half the roster are freshmen.
Speaker B: Literally 90% of the roster are underclassmen.
Speaker B: This is such a good learning experience and just gaining that experience of what's it going to take to win these close games against these great ball clubs in crunch time of conference play.
Speaker B: And I think it's going to sting this year.
Speaker B: I think that this team rode a lot of highs and they've quietly had some lows too with some of these losing streaks.
Speaker B: I only see some upward trajectory from this program with this squad.
Speaker B: And so I think that this is going to be one of those years where they get to a point.
Speaker B: They just can't go any further because they just don't know how to do it yet.
Speaker B: And I think this last two series have kind of been the foreshadowing of what's to come.
Speaker B: I wouldn't be surprised if they go on a huge run because they're streaky and they are really talented.
Speaker B: However, they just don't have that experience yet.
Speaker B: And so the adversity of losing these last six this closely, I mean that's just a heartbreaker.
Speaker B: So again, we'll see how things go through the year.
Speaker B: I said they need to get one at least from UC, talked about sweeping Oregon and Eugene and that would help.
Speaker B: They should take the series against Utah, but it's a rough Dower spot right now because of how close every game was and how they fought for all these games and made it a game every single time.
Speaker B: Right again, we'll see how they reply.
Speaker B: That's it.
Speaker C: I would tend to agree with you, Jay, but I will reiterate what you said about them being streaky.
Speaker C: They've only had one instance where they've either won or lost the game and have that shy away from their streaks of they're on a winning streak, losing one and then winning the next.
Speaker C: It's all just runs like they had six wins in a row followed up by this seven game losing streak.
Speaker C: So if there is a team to do it seems like this team is sort of potentially a team.
Speaker A: I don't know if all of this will be for this year or confirmation this year or if this is Land Foundation for next year and beyond, but it does say a lot that there hasn't been the frustration.
Speaker A: I'm sure they're frustrated as h*** I would be, but to lose six straight games by one run.
Speaker A: I'm kind of shocked that there wasn't a blowout in there.
Speaker A: You would expect a young team playing against some of it the best competition it'll see and just not like that game against UdeM, not getting the call that can turn a result your way where it should have.
Speaker A: Like you sort of expect it to be 1100 in there.
Speaker A: That's just like, oh, this is just the moment's too big.
Speaker A: Whatever.
Speaker A: The fact that these six straight one games against teams that will likely be in Oklahoma, that shows a lot of fortitude, that shows a lot of heart.
Speaker A: That shows a lot of skill, too, just to hang with those teams beyond your years.
Speaker A: So I think it is overall, it's a good sign with a bad taste and hopefully we see this bear fruit in the coming series and the rest of this year.
Speaker A: But I think when you see this team crushing it next year and the year after that is to come, you'll be able to attribute a lot of that to the positive and negative experiences of this 2022 season.
Speaker C: Yes, agreed.
Speaker B: Yeah, 100%.
Speaker B: That's what I was trying to get at.
Speaker B: These are tough losses and it wasn't always that they just blew the game.
Speaker B: They were fighting back a lot of the time.
Speaker B: So even today, right, like they got two in the bomb the 7th.
Speaker B: They tried to make it a game and they just couldn't make it even.
Speaker B: They've got a lot of fight in them.
Speaker B: They've got a lot of inexperienced and youth and they also have a lot of fight.
Speaker B: And that's why I wouldn't count them out at all this season.
Speaker B: But it wouldn't surprise me either if it just became a moment that they aren't prepared for just because of the fact that they're young.
Speaker B: You don't gain experience without going through it first.
Speaker B: And I think that's kind of where this team is at is they're going through it right now and it's only going to bode well for future years.
Speaker B: But it also would not surprise me at all if they just said f*** it, we're going to run off like twelve straight.
Speaker B: I mean, they have the capability to do that.
Speaker B: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker A: We will see what happens again.
Speaker A: Big series against Oregon coming up team is currently 31 and 15 on the season, but yes, with that ugly seven game losing streak.
Speaker A: So hoping that Lore Berg and the squad can turn it around.
Speaker A: If you're in Oregon, if you're in Eugene, we have, like I mentioned, lots of listeners in Eugene.
Speaker A: We love our Eugene listeners.
Speaker A: April 29, April 30, and May 1 at Oregon.
Speaker A: Those games will be on Pack Twelve Networks.
Speaker A: But if you're around, get there in person.
Speaker A: A little birdie on my shoulder mentioned that fans aren't turning out for duck baseball games and maybe that's true for softball.
Speaker A: So let's go swell the scene with some black and Orange and some Belligerent Bees gear.
Speaker A: Those are three games against Oregon next week, then the regular season, May 12 to the 14th against Utah at Kelly Field at home on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.
Speaker A: The Paris of the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker A: Get out.
Speaker A: You got six more chances to guaranteed to see this amazing softball team in person, all in state.
Speaker A: So get your a** to the field.
Speaker A: Be loud.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: Do it.
Speaker A: Tell them the baby I sent you.
Speaker A: They probably won't say anything in response to it.
Speaker B: But tell them anyway.
Speaker A: Tell them you can't sell shopping without hope.
Speaker A: And they'll say, okay, I didn't say you couldn't.
Speaker A: And they said, yeah, don't even try.
Speaker C: You ever search for podcasts in Japan before?
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: The 96th one about sports was us.
Speaker A: Page five.
Speaker A: Page five is where the good s*** is.
Speaker A: Everybody knows that.
Speaker B: I guess we need page four.
Speaker B: I don't know how that works.
Speaker A: I don't know.
Speaker A: And moving on a little bit, Anneka Morrisdorf from Oregon State women's track and field set a school record in the triple jump.
Speaker A: That's pretty exciting s***.
Speaker A: Not the single jump or the double jump, Benny.
Speaker A: The triple jump.
Speaker UNK: D***.
Speaker A: The junior from San Luis Obispo posted a Mark of 48 point 25, breaking Michelle Tony's former record and taking second place in the meet.
Speaker A: So shout out a neck of good stuff.
Speaker A: Also, Oregon State women's rowing sweeping the Dexter Lake.
Speaker A: Invite your number 14 Oregon State women's rowing team.
Speaker A: All four Beaver boats finishing ahead of the field of Gonzaga, Loyola Marymount, Portland and San Diego.
Speaker A: All of those sound like schools that should be good at rowing.
Speaker A: I've been using Benny's logic because Gonzaga and Portland are above the Mason Dixon line.
Speaker A: But I bet Gonzaga is good at rowing.
Speaker UNK: Probably.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker A: There's a river that goes through Spokane.
Speaker A: I believe they row on that s***.
Speaker C: I feel like it's like a pretty cold, right?
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: I did get a chance to visit the Olympic training facilities down in San Diego one time, and one of the people that we got to meet was one of the women rowers on the US Olympic team.
Speaker C: And that has to be the hardest sport in terms of physical exertion.
Speaker C: When they were showing, it's just like constant, right?
Speaker C: You think soccer.
Speaker C: They're running constantly all the time.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker C: It's just like giving 110% for way longer than what the human body should.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker A: And you got to be totally in sync with the other nine people in the boat with you.
Speaker A: I want to be the Cox, Wayne.
Speaker A: The one who just yells at everyone.
Speaker B: That's what I do.
Speaker A: Do it.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: You're the Coxwain of this podcast, JP.
Speaker B: I would yell at the other boats.
Speaker A: Exactly.
Speaker B: Is there a position where I could just sit in a boat and yell at all the other boats?
Speaker A: Right on this.
Speaker A: If anyone needs a book recommendation, The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown is the story about the US men's rowing team that won gold in N*** Germany ahead of World War II.
Speaker A: It's a fascinating read.
Speaker A: And JP, just for you, it was the team from University of Washington.
Speaker A: So Oregon State adjacent pack twelve.
Speaker A: Whatever.
Speaker A: Not us, but good for you.
Speaker UNK: Huskies.
Speaker A: I guess they had a Coxwain who talk s***.
Speaker A: And I guess they beat Syracuse and like the final regatta or whatever it was to qualify for the Olympics.
Speaker A: And as they're passing Syracuse's boat, he leaned over and sit into the ear of the cocksmain of their boat.
Speaker A: Go to h***, Syracuse.
Speaker A: And in 19, how close were they?
Speaker A: I don't know.
Speaker A: I wasn't there, but it sounded like they were pretty close.
Speaker A: But to say go to h***, Syracuse in 19, 35, 36 is like the equivalent of blasting Dreams and Nightmares by Meek Mill at your foe.
Speaker A: Jp, please play 5 seconds of Dreams at nightmares.
Speaker C: Nightmares control.
Speaker B: It was time to marry the game.
Speaker B: And I said, yeah.
Speaker A: That'S some top shelf s*** talking for the 1930s, baby.
Speaker B: Great book, Coxes.
Speaker B: They actually have a thing that's called a Cox box.
Speaker A: We are eleven years old.
Speaker C: Jp.
Speaker C: Play 5 seconds.
Speaker C: Check in a box by that smell.
Speaker C: People.
Speaker B: Take a look inside.
Speaker A: We have got unhinged.
Speaker A: We should wrap this up before it gets much more unhinged than this.
Speaker A: Thank you again for tuning in to the 45 episodes of this s***.
Speaker A: Now, we won't hit 50 before the first birthday, but that milestone is coming up to you right now.
Speaker A: We're like Jordan on The Comeback, number 45.
Speaker A: Thank you for rocking with us for all 45 episodes of this unhinged bullshit of Beaver love and fandom.
Speaker A: It's an honor to rock with you every opportunity we get for my esteemed cohost, JP Bertram.
Speaker A: That is the trill J on Twitter to trill to be real.
Speaker A: And at JP Bertram on Instagram and my other co host back from Mexico, back not for the first time.
Speaker A: He will miss another show and he will come back from that show.
Speaker A: Don't do it with more dopecloth with high top fade, throwback blazer, s***.
Speaker A: Drinking coffee at 08:30 p.m.
Speaker A: On a Sunday.
Speaker A: It's Benny with a good Coff, Benjamin Lawrence Sebastian.
Speaker A: Weh at Benny L 1986 on your social media channels.
Speaker A: And me, Terryhorseman at Terryhorseman on Twitter, at Terrancehorseman on Instagram.
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Speaker A: Join the Patreon to get into the discord and hang out with all of us.
Speaker A: It's popping off in there.
Speaker A: It's a great time.
Speaker A: Remember that.
Speaker A: You can't spell shop them without hope.
Speaker A: Remember May 11, May 11.
Speaker A: Twitter space is our first ever birthday party.
Speaker A: Our first and only first birthday party.
Speaker A: It can only happen one time.
Speaker A: And unlike one year old, we will remember this birthday party always.
Speaker B: We'll probably have like one year old.
Speaker C: The birthday isn't for us.
Speaker C: It's for everyone else.
Speaker C: It's for you.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's a great time.
Speaker A: There's going to be some special guests.
Speaker A: So remember mail and tell all of your friends and hey Oregon state University bring back Bernice.
Speaker A: Beaver the people have spoken.
Speaker A: Bring her back.
Speaker A: And while you do that, also remember that no matter how hard you try in any language you cannot spell.
Speaker A: Chop them without hope not and 96 in Japan, baby.
Speaker C: Chop them.
Speaker C: Chop them.
Speaker C: Chop them.