Episode 48
Softball Is Going Dancing, Baseball's Tough Weekend In Tucson, Men's Hoops Looks To Right The Ship, There Is A New Bebes HOFer, And Golf Heads To Regionals
In this episode of the Belligerent Beavs Podcast, we cover Softball's big series victory over Utah to close their conference play and land a spot in the NCAA Regionals, recap Baseball's rough weekend against Arizona and set the stage for wrapping up conference play in a big series against UCLA, update on Men's Basketball's newest assistant coaches and transfers, nominate a brand new Belligerent Beavs Hall of Famer, and take a look at regionals play for both Men's and Women's Golf.
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Speaker A: I can hear your kids screaming from three stories away from two blocks down the street.
Speaker B: Yeah, they're at Salon Straw, actually right now.
Speaker B: So you can hear them from there.
Speaker A: What am I hearing?
Speaker B: No, I'm joking.
Speaker B: We can't hear you like that's fast.
Speaker B: We weren't joking.
Speaker C: Can you hear now.
Speaker A: What'S up?
Speaker C: There we go.
Speaker C: Not much, man.
Speaker C: I'm not mad, by the way.
Speaker A: Betty is always mad.
Speaker A: Betty is the one who throwing studio issues headphones across rooms.
Speaker A: That's why he has to wear those breaking the nice ones because he's so mad.
Speaker B: That's right.
Speaker C: All the time.
Speaker C: I have two other sets of very nice headphones right here that I cannot figure out how to get to work.
Speaker A: Really?
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: I mean, I haven't tried that hard.
Speaker B: Did you try plugging them in?
Speaker C: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker C: That's as far as I got all troubleshoot them before next week.
Speaker A: Welcome to the 48th episode of the Blizzard Beef's podcast, where Betty is still trying to figure out headphones that he didn't find in the bottom of a Cracker Jack box that he got at T Mobile Field or whatever the h*** they're calling the Mariners ballpark now.
Speaker A: And he's wearing a Mariner's hat, which is covering up the good coffee.
Speaker A: But that's okay because the Mariners one to day or yesterday and he's wearing a chop them shirt and he just got up and left.
Speaker A: When I'm introducing Benny, he just gets up and leaves.
Speaker A: Like, there's not.
Speaker A: Hey, Betty, say Hi to the listeners.
Speaker A: So that guy not greeting you listeners is Benjamin Laurence Sebastian Weebly Hage.
Speaker A: We are skipping right over to JP Bertram, whose kids are at Sultan Straw and screaming their heads off from six blocks away.
Speaker A: Jp, how are you?
Speaker B: Good.
Speaker B: It was a fun weekend.
Speaker B: My family was in town.
Speaker B: We celebrated early birthday for my dad's birthday today.
Speaker B: So happy birthday, Jimbor.
Speaker C: Jimbo.
Speaker B: And my mom, she told me that she'll listen again if I talk about her.
Speaker B: So.
Speaker B: Hi, mom.
Speaker A: Your mom has been listening.
Speaker B: She said they haven't been keeping up.
Speaker C: Oh, that's okay.
Speaker A: That's all right.
Speaker A: Happy birthday to your dad.
Speaker A: Happy birthday to my mom, whose birthday was on Friday, went out to dinner with the belligerent parents over here.
Speaker B: Nice.
Speaker A: I don't know if they are still listening, but shout out mom and dad if you are.
Speaker A: I think we talked about this at one point where my dad is very fun.
Speaker A: But whenever my entire writing career, he's always been like, I like this, Terry, but do you need to be so profane?
Speaker A: Like, do you need to swear so much?
Speaker A: Yes, dad.
Speaker A: It's called language.
Speaker A: It's colorful language.
Speaker A: So when we started this, I remember being like, oh, my dad is going to listen.
Speaker A: He's going to listen and probably going to send the link to all of our relatives who don't care about Oregon State sports and don't care for profanity or whatever.
Speaker A: And I remember after maybe the fifth episode or something, when I think we really started rolling and we overcame the Belligerent Babes takeover fiasco.
Speaker A: We're really getting our confidence.
Speaker A: And my dad was like, Terry, I've been listening to Belligerent behavior, and I was like, oh, no, here it comes.
Speaker A: And he went, It's very entertaining.
Speaker A: I love you, dad.
Speaker A: I love you, mom.
Speaker A: Happy birthday, mom.
Speaker B: Happy birthday.
Speaker A: 70Th birthday for my mom, the OG Katy Perry.
Speaker A: Jp, how old is Papa Jimbo?
Speaker A: 66, 60 plus.
Speaker C: 60 plus.
Speaker A: All of our parents are technically in the 60 plus, right?
Speaker B: That's where we get all our listeners in that demographic.
Speaker A: Exactly.
Speaker C: To all the 60 plusers, right?
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker A: And maybe with all of your following retirement time, go take a vacation to Japan and listen to all of that podcast while you're there so we can keep moving up the top rated sports podcast in the great nation of Japan.
Speaker A: We haven't heard from Carlos yet since he informed us that we were number 96.
Speaker A: But we'll just assume we're still on the upscale.
Speaker B: Either there or higher, for sure.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker B: You know what I've actually seen on our website?
Speaker B: I've seen traffic in Japan recently increasing.
Speaker C: I wonder if it's Yuri's grandma.
Speaker A: Maybe Yuri's grandma is the sole reason for traffic increasing.
Speaker B: And the city plus demographic, we're just checking all the boxes.
Speaker A: Like, JP is just on the traffic page of the website, constantly clicking, refresh, refresh, refresh.
Speaker A: And then it says, there's one more visit in Japan.
Speaker A: And he's like, Yuri, we got it.
Speaker A: What did you guys do?
Speaker A: All your parents were in Portland, Jay.
Speaker B: Oh, man.
Speaker B: What do you do in Portland?
Speaker B: You eat and drink.
Speaker B: So we did that.
Speaker B: I have a beer tonight from one of the venues that we went to.
Speaker B: We had Gabriel's Italian Food on Northeast 30th and Killingsworth, and it was phenomenal.
Speaker B: So check out Gabriel's in the old Yakuza restaurant space right next to the old Beast space across from Expatriate.
Speaker B: So if you guys are familiar with the intersection of 30th and Killingsworth, they have a really cool spot.
Speaker B: We sat outside.
Speaker B: It was wonderful.
Speaker B: Amazing Italian food.
Speaker B: So check it out.
Speaker B: We also went to Urban German yesterday, and we had some German food.
Speaker B: It's out in St.
Speaker B: John's, like, right below the St.
Speaker B: John's Bridge by Cathedral Park.
Speaker A: Oh, wow.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker B: So there's Occidental Brewing right there and across the parking lot.
Speaker B: It's like an old, I don't know, like, 60s warehouse.
Speaker B: It's got, like, an office with the flagstone wall, like, entry.
Speaker B: And then the rest of it is just, like, kind of like run down windows.
Speaker B: But Occidental Brewing has one side of that building and then Urban German.
Speaker B: It's the worst house, and they have the other side.
Speaker B: And it was delicious, too.
Speaker B: So we went from Italy to Germany and drank everything in between.
Speaker C: That's awesome.
Speaker C: That place sounds amazing.
Speaker A: We need to have a Belligerent Beavers gathering at Urban German, since the three of us all have German a** last names.
Speaker A: So it would be very appropriate for the Whihage, Bertram and Horseman Triumphant, an urban verse house.
Speaker A: It would be just like back in Berlin.
Speaker B: Yeah, I had the Bavarian beer versed, and it was, like, amazing on Spencer.
Speaker B: It was wonderful, right.
Speaker C: When I was growing up in Portland, finding German food in general was hard, but finding really good German food was almost impossible.
Speaker A: Really good German food is tough.
Speaker C: I feel like it wouldn't be hard to find in Minneapolis.
Speaker A: Yeah, there's a few spots, but also just even really good German food.
Speaker A: Even, like, say, in Berlin.
Speaker A: In Germany, it's like, that is literally.
Speaker B: It's a short runway.
Speaker A: The threshold of being like, I'm over.
Speaker A: German food is like one worst at lunch.
Speaker C: That's true.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: You can't do it every day.
Speaker B: That's a celebration.
Speaker A: Sausage, mustard.
Speaker A: I mean, the beer lasts a lifetime, obviously, right?
Speaker A: But it's like, oh, what sausage?
Speaker A: Should I get to differentiate from the sausage I had at lunch?
Speaker A: I remember when I visited our friend Hannah Page in Copelands, Germany, we made, like, a breakfast.
Speaker A: Obviously, you can have sausage for breakfast, but I remember there being a very braty kind of.
Speaker A: I think it was like vice versa or something like that.
Speaker A: That was just like, oh, here's a giant brat for breakfast.
Speaker A: It wasn't like the sausage links you'd see at Denny's.
Speaker A: And I'm like, I don't know that I can have sausage for another year and a half.
Speaker B: Dude.
Speaker B: When I lived with Benny, he ate so much summer sausage, he would just buy it like the five pound roll from Fred Meyer and just, like, eat it right off of it was so satisfying.
Speaker C: Cutting it because it had a little wrapper around it and just pulling a little wrapper off of real skinny pieces.
Speaker A: By wrapper, do you mean sausage casing?
Speaker C: No, it had a wrapper.
Speaker B: Also, like, you talked about not having brought you can't do it very often.
Speaker B: And I agree now, but there was definitely a point in my life in College where I grilled brought, like, twice a day all the time, like, months.
Speaker A: Grilling brots is different.
Speaker A: Like, authentic German sausage at first house.
Speaker B: That's true.
Speaker A: They're delicious, but it's, like, easy.
Speaker B: They're much richer.
Speaker A: F***.
Speaker A: I forgot how I got on this, but I think I was a friend of mine this weekend.
Speaker A: We were talking about getting plans together to grill someday, and somehow I ended up quoting, they just lit a joint, listeners.
Speaker A: That's what that sound was and why we started laughing.
Speaker A: He never does it subtly, but it's okay.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker A: Benny's muted for the foreseeable future.
Speaker A: But remember that episode of Workaholics where they end up going out with their boss's brother, who's really fun and delightful and they get in trouble, but it's like, we're going to go back home and enjoy.
Speaker A: You guys got beers at home, right?
Speaker A: And one of them goes, got a twelve or yesterday.
Speaker A: And then I think Adam was like, oh, actually, we don't.
Speaker A: Because I beer battered some brats and then drank eleven beers.
Speaker A: I don't know why, but that quote popped in my head this weekend.
Speaker A: Just talking about grilling.
Speaker A: So we're talking about brats and grilling.
Speaker A: When you grilled brats for probably six meals in a row, JP, we're probably watching six episodes of Workaholics in a row for sure.
Speaker B: I was like, hooked on brats.
Speaker B: Dude, I don't even know if this is safe.
Speaker B: I would roll my gas grill into the garage in the pouring rain.
Speaker A: That's not safe for sure.
Speaker C: Safe?
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: I don't know.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: I would do it.
Speaker B: I would crack the garage door a little bit, but not enough that the grill would get wet and not enough that I would asphyxiate myself with propane.
Speaker A: But you generally want to be turning on propane tanks in wooded areas.
Speaker B: Fully wooded, unfinished garage.
Speaker B: I'm glad I survived, I think.
Speaker A: Am I dead?
Speaker C: Me, too.
Speaker A: Okay, good.
Speaker A: You're tricky.
Speaker B: Me.
Speaker A: If Heaven is the Belligerent Beef's podcast, we're all in luck.
Speaker B: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker A: Nice.
Speaker A: Well, Benny, I kind of gave you the silence treatment earlier, but you're back now.
Speaker A: Your microphone is working, you're sitting in your chair, you're looking at me with a deer in the headlights look.
Speaker A: But you got a nice Mariner hat on.
Speaker A: You were tweeting about the Mariners this weekend.
Speaker A: I hope that we have a lot of Mariner.
Speaker A: I think we have a lot of Mariner fan listeners, probably.
Speaker A: But apart from the Mariners, how is your weekend?
Speaker C: Well, the Mariners were part of it.
Speaker C: They won the series against the Mets, so that was good.
Speaker A: And the Mets are good.
Speaker A: And you discovered that the NL has DH now?
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: Jp didn't want to talk about it on the group chat, but I feel like this could be fun because JP is such a purist.
Speaker C: I have to say, my girlfriend Yuri is a very big baseball fan, too.
Speaker C: We had a conversation about this.
Speaker C: Both of our favorite teams play in the American League.
Speaker A: But she's a Yankee, both of us.
Speaker A: Right?
Speaker C: She is.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker C: But both of us were very disappointed that the NL does not has the DH now.
Speaker C: Not a fan of it.
Speaker B: It's permanent now.
Speaker C: Yeah, I know, because they did it for COVID.
Speaker B: And I kind of understood that you got to keep pictures healthy because they are a limited supply.
Speaker B: And if you got a guy getting exposed out in the field more and more along the base path at home plate, you're asking for trouble.
Speaker B: So I got that.
Speaker B: But the MLB was very opportunistic with leveraging a global talent.
Speaker A: Now it's just here.
Speaker B: Yeah, like the run around.
Speaker A: Second extra innings, all the 180 year old ML heads who have hated this for years.
Speaker A: I want to call myself a fan, but I'm in favor of it.
Speaker B: Yeah, but you're a fan of the although it's Betty.
Speaker B: I'm not a fan of the Alpha but you're more likely to think it sounds.
Speaker B: It feels normal, I know.
Speaker A: But I also just think it's like they should have just done it all at once whenever the Al got the designated hitter.
Speaker A: It should have just been an Al thing.
Speaker B: Well, I knew it was destined to happen.
Speaker B: When Edgar Martinez gets into the hall of Fame, it's like, okay, if you're going to put a shout out edger, if you're going to put a DH in the hall of Fame, then that legitimizes that they are truly a baseball player.
Speaker B: They're not just a specialist doing one thing and playing half the game, which is what they're doing.
Speaker B: And the stupid voting committee of the Baseball Hall of Fame, which is a whole another topic I don't want to get into.
Speaker A: Is it another topic?
Speaker A: We tend to agree on more things there if we open it up.
Speaker A: Just for fun.
Speaker A: Let's imagine this across other sports.
Speaker A: What if the Eastern Conference just got rid of the three point line, four point line, or added a four point line?
Speaker B: I had a play that only could shoot three.
Speaker A: What if the AFC had to go for two after every touchdown or they just weren't extra points?
Speaker C: I think that there is something to be said about, like baseball is the only sport that had two conferences.
Speaker A: Baseball is the only sport that made zero sense.
Speaker A: And I like that.
Speaker A: Interrupting.
Speaker A: I hate that.
Speaker A: It makes a little bit more sense, though.
Speaker A: Sorry for interrupting.
Speaker A: Continue.
Speaker C: I have tried to make ten points.
Speaker C: I have successfully made one.
Speaker C: Thank you, Terry.
Speaker C: I was saying that baseball was the only sport that had two leagues that were like sort of their own.
Speaker C: They were unique from each other, and now they're not anymore.
Speaker C: And so anyways, that's sad.
Speaker C: That was my point.
Speaker A: You said you had ten points.
Speaker C: Before in the show, maybe give or take nine.
Speaker A: I've interrupted you from making 90% of your points throughout the whole history of belligerent beefs today.
Speaker C: They're all solid points, too.
Speaker C: So if my points are poor going forward, then you ruin the good one.
Speaker A: Are we including the episodes you skipped?
Speaker C: I was thinking of good points.
Speaker A: What else did you do this weekend, Benny, other than yell about discovering that the DH contained the NL six weeks into the season?
Speaker A: Yeah, I know.
Speaker A: You follow team and we're not watching MLB TV until the wee hours of the night.
Speaker A: Well, it made me JP is.
Speaker C: But yeah, I finished the stone wall that I was building in my front yard, which is a major accomplishment.
Speaker C: It was one of those tasks that I took on that I thought I could finish in a couple of days, and it took way longer than I thought.
Speaker C: But I like the finished product, so it's a successful and productive weekend.
Speaker A: How is your drip system doing?
Speaker C: Drip system is still yet to be built.
Speaker A: Oh, s***.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker B: There's something poetic about you building a stone wall.
Speaker B: I just think about you being stoned.
Speaker B: Building a stone wall.
Speaker C: I was.
Speaker C: I knew I can sit there and make sure that a level is actually level.
Speaker C: I get too.
Speaker C: I'm over this.
Speaker C: I'm done.
Speaker C: The wall will be crooked if I'm sober.
Speaker C: But when I'm stoned, I can take the time to make sure it's perfectly level.
Speaker C: It worked.
Speaker C: Building my stone wall stoned was.
Speaker C: Yeah, it was a success.
Speaker A: Wait, this isn't a level.
Speaker A: It's a Butterfinger.
Speaker A: I'm starving because I'm hungry because I just ate the level.
Speaker A: Well, if I just angle the picture different, I'll look level on Instagram, and that's all Yuri cares about.
Speaker C: Use the butterfingles to level the picture going forward.
Speaker A: Nice.
Speaker A: Well, that's really fun.
Speaker A: In other news, we want to give a special thank you to everyone who showed up to our birthday Twitter spaces on Wednesday.
Speaker A: You all are the s***.
Speaker B: Yeah, that was fun.
Speaker A: That was so much fun.
Speaker A: I got drunk.
Speaker A: I was hungover.
Speaker A: The next day, I didn't even realize how much.
Speaker A: I was like, I'll do a whiskey drink for the Twitter spaces, because if it's beer, I'm just going to keep cracking beers.
Speaker A: Whatever.
Speaker A: It's going to become too much.
Speaker A: And whiskey.
Speaker A: It's like, I'll pour a stiff whiskey.
Speaker A: I'll probably have one more, and I think I had maybe, like, three more.
Speaker A: I was thinking I'll drink whiskey more slowly than I would drink a Ham, per se, or the other beer that I have as my beer of the episode that we'll get into in a short few here.
Speaker A: But then I was having so much fun, and I was just at my kitchen table chatting with everyone.
Speaker A: So, like, the whiskey bottle was there.
Speaker A: So I kind of would just throw another cocktail ice Cube in it and then fill it up a little bit more.
Speaker A: Chat a little bit more.
Speaker A: It's like, oh, now we're doing men's basketball with the Payton years.
Speaker A: Like, yeah, let's get into and then fill it up a little bit.
Speaker A: Now we're talking about NFT nil with PM and s***.
Speaker A: Started with, like, Marcus Graves and Ashton, and now Tim U.
Speaker A: S.
Speaker A: Is here, and Alexis Stern is here.
Speaker A: This is so much fun.
Speaker A: And it's like, all right, let's open up to the whole Beaver family in between.
Speaker A: It's just like, I don't know how many times I kept pouring.
Speaker A: And then I woke up at 07:00 A.m.
Speaker A: On Thursday and was like, dude, did you go on a raging party last night?
Speaker A: I was like, no, I just went on Twitter.
Speaker C: That was such a good time, though.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker A: It's so much fun.
Speaker A: Yes.
Speaker B: It's on YouTube now.
Speaker B: By the way, if you guys haven't seen oh.
Speaker A: Yeah, check out the YouTube.
Speaker A: I'm still loving JP.
Speaker A: It's one of my favorite things you've done.
Speaker A: The one full year of belligerent Beaves intros.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: Honestly, if you want anyone, it's like, you're like belligerent beef.
Speaker A: I don't know if I need to get into this.
Speaker A: What's this podcast like?
Speaker A: Well, this is a 48th episode, so there's like there's probably close to 75, 80 hours of us just talking nonsense on here.
Speaker A: But the intro compilation video is 25 minutes, so 24 minutes, 24 minutes.
Speaker A: Give your friends like 24 minutes of your time.
Speaker A: You can even stop halfway through, a quarter of the way through an 8th of the way through.
Speaker A: You'll get the idea, but it was just such a great snapshot of everything.
Speaker A: I love it because we started so many intros already laughing from what we were talking about beforehand.
Speaker A: And then we end so many intros just laughing about what was discussed in the intro.
Speaker A: So many of the intros are hard to decipher, like when they start.
Speaker B: Without the intro music kicking in.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's like the intro music is just like on a loop for the most part.
Speaker B: It was fun to put that together for sure.
Speaker B: It was pretty hilarious because I mean, if you've been listening since the beginning or near the beginning, first shout out to you.
Speaker A: Yes.
Speaker A: Second narrative podcast.
Speaker A: If you haven't started with episode one, go back and catch up.
Speaker A: There's so many Easter eggs.
Speaker A: We mapped out the first 800 episodes and there's a narrative arc that you're not going to want to be out of the loop on.
Speaker A: When we hit episode 800, go back, take notes.
Speaker B: There is something though about the intros that makes you remember the episode, and it's pretty funny to think about the topics that were covered and the ways we broke into them, how these episodes began.
Speaker A: Occasionally becoming a robot.
Speaker B: That one was the best.
Speaker A: Oh my God, that was so funny.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: At any point during that episode did you guys think that this is going to turn full Westworld and I was going to come through your computer and kill you like a host?
Speaker B: I think you were angry enough to do that, but I knew that wasn't physically possible.
Speaker C: I probably could have convinced myself that that was possible.
Speaker A: But I was angry enough for 4 seconds and then I found the humor in it.
Speaker C: Dude, my stomach hurt so bad the next day from laughing so hard.
Speaker C: I was like, that was the first time in so long that I gotten to a point, you know, when you laugh so hard that your mouth is open and your belly is shaking.
Speaker A: But no, that literally happened to all three of us.
Speaker C: Laughs I happened to be for so long I think I strained some muscles with my tummy.
Speaker B: It really this is why you need to crush your core with Emma Lovewell on Peloton.
Speaker A: Exactly right.
Speaker A: Exactly.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've been slacking, but I've had a good couple of days now.
Speaker A: I really f***** my knee up this weekend, you guys.
Speaker B: Oh, here we go.
Speaker B: That was an excuse for me.
Speaker B: It's not lapping you on the annual challenge.
Speaker A: You were lapping me before that.
Speaker B: No, you were the lead for like the first month.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm a January boy.
Speaker A: You want a New Year's resolution?
Speaker A: Dude, I get a good solid month out of those new Year's resolutions.
Speaker A: But my new Year's resolution wasn't to beat JP in the annual.
Speaker A: I think I just talked a bunch of s*** that it might happen, but I was joking.
Speaker A: Anyway, the year is not half over yet.
Speaker A: You could still break your leg and then you would do 4 hours of meditation per day, which I would argue would make you the healthiest you've ever been, JP.
Speaker A: Because I don't put any of the peloton workouts in the hierarchy, which is obvious given the 200 plus stretches I've done, which is still my number one category, which is probably why I was able to recover from f****** my knee up so bad quickly.
Speaker B: I was helping a rubber band, man.
Speaker A: I was helping a friend.
Speaker B: Jp, play 5 seconds of Rubber band man by Ti.
Speaker A: Now play 5 seconds of Rubber Bandman by The Spinners, the song that Ti sampled.
Speaker A: They're both great f****** songs, though.
Speaker C: Nice.
Speaker A: I f****** love Ti.
Speaker B: Yes.
Speaker B: Why is Ti not doing it anymore?
Speaker A: I think he's fine to kick it.
Speaker B: That's the arc of a rap career.
Speaker B: You literally just put out songs about five years and you have a couple of number one hits and then you just sit.
Speaker C: No, but even he was an actor too, right?
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker A: Robert Brown had wrote an article for The Ringer.
Speaker A: I'm going to ask you to link to this, JP, if you can.
Speaker A: It's called the incredible run of the four album Run of Ti.
Speaker A: It's amazing.
Speaker A: It talks about, I'm serious trap music.
Speaker A: F***.
Speaker A: What's the other one in King.
Speaker A: So four albums over like six years that had like 16 bangers on them.
Speaker A: We could do an entire episode of just 5 seconds of like cuts, straight cuts by Ti, and that would fill the entire.
Speaker C: That reminds me of urban legend.
Speaker A: So King came out like my freshman year at Oregon State.
Speaker A: So that was the end of the run.
Speaker A: But a lot of those songs kept getting more and more popular later, right?
Speaker A: I remember every single basketball team in high school had bring them out as their oh, yeah, Jim Eddie song.
Speaker A: Jp, please play 5 seconds.
Speaker A: Bring them out, bring them out.
Speaker A: It's hard to yell when the bad rails in your mouth.
Speaker A: I'm not going to ask another moratorium on five second Ti request for the rest of the episode, but please bring them out because it was like every single freshman team and JV team thought they were as clever as f***.
Speaker A: It's like, oh, you staying bringing them out while we're running out.
Speaker B: We're running out of the locker room.
Speaker B: Makes so much sense.
Speaker A: Get Loose was amazing.
Speaker A: God, just so many.
Speaker A: And what you know about that?
Speaker A: Which was Joe Mowers.
Speaker A: Joe Mowers played a period song for his entire 700 year career.
Speaker A: When they retired Joe Mower's number.
Speaker A: Both Ti and Buster Posey were included in the same tribute video.
Speaker A: Congratulating Joe Mauer.
Speaker A: I think that's the first and only time that Ti and Buster Posey have been technically collaborators on the same project, which makes this notable.
Speaker A: How do we start talking about CI Rubber Bandman?
Speaker A: Oh, because I broke my knee.
Speaker A: Long story short, moving a heavy a** mattress into, Uhaul, in an apartment parking lot where I didn't know one of those thick a** divider parking lot poles was that come out of the ground to stop you from driving into an area that you're not supposed to drive into.
Speaker A: And I couldn't see the pole at all.
Speaker A: Not ran because I was holding the heavy.
Speaker UNK: Yeah.
Speaker A: When I walked basically as fast as I could straight into it, my knee took the yellow paint off of the pole and I keeled over.
Speaker A: And then the top of the pole, because they're not very tall, went straight in my stomach.
Speaker A: So I hit my knee really hard and simultaneously had the wind knocked out of me on Saturday morning.
Speaker A: Exactly.
Speaker A: I can hear when she's like, engage your core.
Speaker A: Like brace.
Speaker A: Like, you're about to be punched in the stomach by something really hard.
Speaker A: I was like, this was what I got my wind back, thankfully, pretty quickly.
Speaker A: But my knee for like, until this morning.
Speaker A: I went running today and it was fine.
Speaker A: So it got back pretty quickly, but nice.
Speaker A: I tried to help him move.
Speaker A: Like, I tried to pick up a dresser, like 30 minutes later, and my knee was like, who do you think you are?
Speaker A: I just exploded.
Speaker A: You're trying to pick up a dresser?
Speaker A: You mid 30s f***.
Speaker B: Are you sure you didn't just sabotage the moving assistance by purposely running into the first piece of furniture?
Speaker A: I woke up hungover.
Speaker A: Listen, one thing was like, F*** this.
Speaker A: You know what?
Speaker A: I'm running into Europe.
Speaker A: Carried his head straight into it with his head down.
Speaker A: It was weird.
Speaker A: We're not sure how helpful of a moving buddy I am or the condition of my knee or the designated hitter in the National League or Tiki talking about Ti.
Speaker A: Can we just have a Ti episode?
Speaker A: I'm going to put it to listeners because we got summer coming up.
Speaker A: We'll probably take that's true, I'd say, when we're planning to still be a weekly podcast even once baseball and softball season are over and then throughout the summer, I'll say we'll probably take a one week break once all of the sports are done and then go into weekly whatever, but won't be a long break.
Speaker A: So we're going to have a lot of air time to fill listeners.
Speaker A: Whether you're a Patreon subscriber, whether this is your first show listening, you can find us on Twitter, on Instagram.
Speaker A: You can email us to Belligerentbees@gmail.com.
Speaker A: What are some random asked topics like the rapper Ti or German food or the best food to eat a lot of beers, other s*** how annoying his voice is.
Speaker A: Who is the angry who's?
Speaker A: Clearly the angriest Belligerent be between Terry Benny and JP?
Speaker A: Just random a** topics.
Speaker A: Anything you'd like us to do, like deep dive in, we'll pick a few and we'll just have random episodes, even if it's something we don't know anything about.
Speaker C: Which would be so fun.
Speaker A: What if we chose something we'll probably be recording on Monday evenings throughout the summer, it sounds like.
Speaker A: What if we just got a topic at noon on Sunday and by recorded time on Monday, we had to learn as much as we could about it and just like put a good episode together, we could do it.
Speaker C: I'm so down for that.
Speaker A: Absolutely could.
Speaker A: So listeners, let's start just compiling good ideas now.
Speaker A: Use the rapper, use TI's wrapping career as a template for random things you want covered on Belligerent Beef Summer school, and we'll start brainstorming on them.
Speaker A: But we've got a lot to get to tonight.
Speaker A: A lot of fun stuff to get to.
Speaker A: Not 100% good news across the board, but really a lot of exciting things happening.
Speaker A: A lot of reason for optimism within the Beaver FAM expanding on the great spaces sessions that we had on Wednesday night.
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Speaker A: I know we're not mathematicians.
Speaker C: A very noisy amount.
Speaker A: The noises, it's not a number.
Speaker A: It's just.
Speaker B: Noist.
Speaker A: All right, we got to stop before you start doing Australian accent.
Speaker B: Let's not go that route again.
Speaker A: Offend Travis Bazana's whole family.
Speaker A: Let's go to the Diamond Sports.
Speaker A: But first, let's talk about beers.
Speaker A: Why didn't any of you stop me before I started reading JP?
Speaker A: What are you drinking today?
Speaker B: No, this is a good segue and I'll tell you why.
Speaker B: So the spot we went to on Saturday that I didn't mention yet was Level Brewing.
Speaker B: It's like right off of Sandy.
Speaker B: I think it's Buckman Kerns Level Brewing beer house or something.
Speaker B: Anyway, it's really cool.
Speaker B: I have not been there yet.
Speaker B: I've had a lot of Level beers.
Speaker B: They do all their stuff, like themed, right, for video games, classic video games or any sort of old eighty s.
Speaker B: Ninety s pop culture they tried to incorporate into their branding.
Speaker B: Very cool spot.
Speaker B: They've got Olympia Provisions there.
Speaker B: They've got another like Mexican food cart there.
Speaker B: All outdoor area, big indoor area.
Speaker B: They had Ninja Turtles.
Speaker B: Not even Turtles in Time at the Ninja Turtles Arcade, which me and the Mini Bay Bay.
Speaker B: Wait, yeah.
Speaker A: Not Turtles in Time.
Speaker B: No.
Speaker A: Does this game predate Turtles in Time?
Speaker B: This is the original Ninja Turtles Arcade.
Speaker B: It was cool.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: And if you're from the 60 plus demographic, you'll love the fact that there is a pong tabletop game that isn't a screen.
Speaker B: It's mechanical, which I've never seen before.
Speaker B: Literally, you look down and there's real pieces sliding in the balls, actually like a little Cube moving across the table under some plexiglass.
Speaker B: It's very sick.
Speaker B: Anyways, back when games made sense.
Speaker A: The mechanical POG of my childhood.
Speaker B: I picked this beer for tonight because I actually grabbed it from Level.
Speaker B: So again, shout out Level Beer.
Speaker B: They did this in partnership with Crux Fermentation Project and Bend.
Speaker B: Shout out Central Oregon.
Speaker B: Shout out the Cascades Oregon State campus.
Speaker A: But we love Central Oregon.
Speaker B: Yeah, we do.
Speaker C: It's the best.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: But this is picked because it felt like this is becoming like the what the beer is called Boss Battle.
Speaker B: For all of our athletics, this is like the final challenge for their spring seasons are approaching.
Speaker B: We've got softball head and off.
Speaker B: We've got baseball with a big series coming up.
Speaker B: We've got golf finishing up their seasons, hopefully extending their seasons.
Speaker B: So this is the Level Bureaucrats partnership.
Speaker B: And it is the Boss Battle IPA.
Speaker A: Dude, I love it.
Speaker A: We could do a whole episode on Boss Battles with old video games.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, for sure.
Speaker B: You know what's really hard, by the way, is Mario 64.
Speaker B: When you have to throw Bowser into those bombs that are like off the ledge.
Speaker B: If you throw them off the ledge and you miss the bomb, he just comes back and just ruins everything over and over again.
Speaker A: I never beat Mario 64, but I did watch older kids do it back when it first came out.
Speaker C: I didn't either.
Speaker B: Oh, I did.
Speaker B: You got stuck.
Speaker C: No, I didn't have a Nintendo 64, but my cousin did.
Speaker A: I think the only 64 game might be with Starfox.
Speaker C: That was fun.
Speaker A: Use the boost to get through.
Speaker A: Love that s***.
Speaker A: All right, well, you got to give us your untapped score.
Speaker B: 3.8.
Speaker A: So the boss level is not beating the boss level.
Speaker B: Yes, it's losing to me, the IPA boss, but it is a single IPA, not a double.
Speaker A: You are like the untapped boss.
Speaker A: Like, beers are just like trying to get Bowser to give them a 5.0 rating and you're just throwing them back into the bombs with faces on them.
Speaker B: Yeah, you lose.
Speaker C: That just sounds hard.
Speaker A: But it does sound hard.
Speaker A: Yeah, Mario Kart was a great game.
Speaker C: Oh, that was really good, too.
Speaker C: And just the Super Mario Bros.
Speaker C: Was a great game as well.
Speaker B: The original one, the Super Mario Bros.
Speaker B: Three.
Speaker B: Okay, this is a total tangent.
Speaker B: I feel like we're prone to this.
Speaker B: The Super Mario Three, which is on Nintendo.
Speaker A: Someone's listening to this for the first time.
Speaker A: Talk about Wayne Meckler.
Speaker A: You're getting there.
Speaker A: We're setting it up.
Speaker C: This is all set up.
Speaker B: But Mario Two was like the worst game, and it's because.
Speaker B: Do you remember the game?
Speaker B: Do you remember it at all?
Speaker A: That's where you, like, pulled radish.
Speaker B: You like plucked radishes out of the ground.
Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
Speaker A: Super Nintendo ones all kind of run together for me.
Speaker B: No, it was Nintendo.
Speaker C: Yes, but it was like an up game.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker B: You'd go up and down it's left and right, and it was like you could be like Toad or Mario or Luigi or Peach and Peach could Hover and Luigi could jump a little higher or something.
Speaker B: But either way, it's because when Japan released Super Mario Bros.
Speaker B: Two, it was actually just like.
Speaker B: Because, you know, with Super Mario Bros, the original one, it gets progressively harder every level.
Speaker B: Right?
Speaker B: Of course.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker B: That's just a classic arc of a video game back then.
Speaker B: But then they just kept going with difficulty from the end of Mario Bros.
Speaker B: To Mario Two, and they deemed it too difficult for the Western world to be able to accomplish in a game that is such a slap in the face.
Speaker B: You can play it now.
Speaker B: It's called Mario Two, the lost levels, and it is super hard.
Speaker A: People won't be able to figure this out.
Speaker B: They weren't wrong.
Speaker B: It was so hard.
Speaker B: Can you imagine?
Speaker B: I'm sure Nintendo is thinking this is going to ruin us, because if they can't beat the game, it's probably more about our fragile egos than it is about our skills on the DPAD.
Speaker A: But I've never thrown electronic across the room out of frustration, for it not working.
Speaker A: That is a Super Mario from the Nintendo company out of Japan.
Speaker A: Where the belligerent piece are the 96 podcasting.
Speaker A: We should move forward.
Speaker A: Benny, get us on track.
Speaker A: Which is always a sentence that I regret saying, Benny, get us on track.
Speaker A: But hey, I'm kicking it to you, buddy.
Speaker C: It's going to be hard.
Speaker A: You're that Mario Cart back onto the track at Wario Stadium.
Speaker C: I feel like there's turtle shells being thrown at me left and right.
Speaker A: Red and green.
Speaker C: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker C: I don't have a drink, but I do have a joint and I would give it five.
Speaker C: Benny the Beaver Heads, I guess is what my ranking is.
Speaker A: Twelve Butterfingers out of nine levels.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's good.
Speaker C: It's mellow.
Speaker C: And it is putting me in a laughing mood, which I like.
Speaker C: Nice.
Speaker C: Highly recommended.
Speaker C: I don't know the brand or the strain or anything like that.
Speaker A: Was it purchased legally?
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: Does it legally even happen in the Pacific Northwest anymore?
Speaker B: No.
Speaker C: Why would you like getting in the back car back seat of a car with a stranger versus just walking back to a store?
Speaker A: I knew we're going to go to the top cigarette a bit.
Speaker A: Explaining to when our kids are like weed smoking age, explaining how we got weed when we were teenagers versus what their life is going to be like at teenagers.
Speaker A: Why are you just going to store and buy it like I had to get in cars with strangers, Tommy.
Speaker A: That was the only way to do it.
Speaker A: Well, it sounds lovely.
Speaker A: Is mid May.
Speaker A: Thank you for tuning into the Village and Peace Podcast.
Speaker A: We're recording this on Monday, May 16, 2022.
Speaker A: I got the word and the day guys.
Speaker B: Nice job.
Speaker A: And this sort of Orange kinted beer with Paul Bunyan and bathe.
Speaker A: The blue box on it is called a Cabin Crusher Coal style Ale with lime and it's from Summit Brewing, Titan of the brewing industry here in the Twin Cities and just the Midwest overall.
Speaker A: And it's a great summertime beer.
Speaker A: I'm glad it's back and stocked all over my local liquor store.
Speaker A: So I'm going to give it a nice crack and tastes like baseball season.
Speaker C: Love that.
Speaker A: Dirt sign and sunburn.
Speaker A: I've gotten pretty toasted a couple of times already.
Speaker A: This May.
Speaker A: Lucky you.
Speaker B: We've had like the most rainy May of all time.
Speaker C: It's been so bad.
Speaker C: Yes.
Speaker A: Is it going to be nice for the.
Speaker B: It'S going to be like 70 something on Saturday.
Speaker A: Nice.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Are you going to make it sound at all, Jay?
Speaker B: I'm going on Saturday.
Speaker B: You clearly had too much whiskey because at the end of our birthday party I reminded everyone I didn't remember the end of our own birthday party.
Speaker A: Who has ever done that?
Speaker B: Well, I'll be there.
Speaker A: Nice.
Speaker A: I had so much fun at the birthday party.
Speaker A: I feel like we got a little too personal at the end there.
Speaker A: But anyway, JP will be at the game on Saturday, so say Hi to JP will Everett be with you?
Speaker B: He will.
Speaker A: Will your awesome wife and daughter be with you?
Speaker B: They will not.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker A: Boys Day?
Speaker B: Yes.
Speaker C: Will it harvest a ticket?
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker C: I feel like they're selling out a gossip for every game.
Speaker B: It was expensive to grab a ticket.
Speaker B: We're section four.
Speaker B: We're in section four.
Speaker B: So if you're listening, you want to come say Hi.
Speaker B: We're section four, row four.
Speaker A: And they got the temporary seating at it as well.
Speaker A: So it will probably be new records.
Speaker A: All three games, I would guess.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: We're going to talk more softball, too.
Speaker A: More baseball?
Speaker A: Sorry, because we need to start talking about softball.
Speaker A: Softball took two out of three against Utah at home to end the regular season on a good note.
Speaker A: And what a good note it turned out to be because it was enough to hear their name called during the selection show to the Knoxville Regional.
Speaker A: We go where we will start our postseason road to Oklahoma against the Ohio State.
Speaker A: Buckeyes Campbell will be the fourth seed in the regional.
Speaker A: But the interesting thing to note in this four team double elimination regional is the one seat and host Tennessee Volunteers, who we've already beaten.
Speaker A: Yeah, it was months ago, but we did it.
Speaker A: I was nervous.
Speaker A: I have to admit I thought that the losing streak throughout the meat of the schedule would have held the team back.
Speaker A: But at the end of the day, Lauren Berg's crew 33 and 19, a really impressive Mark.
Speaker A: And back in February, we talked about the Mary Nutter Classic on the show.
Speaker A: We talked a lot about Mary Nutter.
Speaker A: That was one of those random topics where we tried to figure out if that's where Butter came from and turns out it wasn't.
Speaker A: But the more important part of the Marionette Classic was a five two victory against the Tennessee Volunteers, where our loan senior shout out to Mariah Mazone, who is the loan senior recognized on senior Day.
Speaker A: She's had a phenomenal season and part of that season was pitching a complete game, Wayne against the Tennessee Volunteers.
Speaker A: And that five two victory struck out eleven against just two walks, allowed just five hits, only one earned run, and at the dish, hit three for four, drove it in two late yards, scored another two.
Speaker A: So just guessing, to move on, we're going to have to play the burnt Orange Tennessee Volunteers again.
Speaker A: So hope for the same thing out of Mariah.
Speaker A: But yeah, we've had a lot of fun following this team all year.
Speaker A: So I'm just so happy for this group that the dream is not done yet.
Speaker B: I just love pitchers who rake.
Speaker B: And it's so nice that we can still watch the sport where pitchers can rake.
Speaker C: My mind went to where your mind went.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker A: Can we talk about the actual softball team and not manager League baseball?
Speaker B: No, I am.
Speaker B: But what I want to say is this is that game one against Utah wow.
Speaker B: I mean, like, what a finish.
Speaker B: It was definitely one of those games where they could have just let again, they could have let the weight of the losing streak take them down and they clawed back into it.
Speaker B: They stood up strong and like in the 10th inning, put on the three run drop in the triple by Kalan Nelson with the two outs.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker A: That whole rally started with two outs, right?
Speaker A: The bases were empty.
Speaker A: We're down seven to five.
Speaker B: Yes.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: First and foremost, I said this team needed to sweep Utah to have a chance.
Speaker B: They took two or three.
Speaker B: They got in, and I'm Super excited for them.
Speaker B: But one thing I want to continue around myself and the listeners is that this team, like you said, Terry, they've already beat Tennessee.
Speaker B: It's established that they are highly talented team.
Speaker B: The way of the illusion streak was hard to shake.
Speaker B: They shook it in probably the most dramatic fashion you really can by winning an extras after being down and also being up, they had the lead, they had the game in the bag, and Utah came back.
Speaker B: So the fact that they were able to pull that one out, they won the next day and they didn't close the season with the W, but they did enough to get in.
Speaker B: Now they're in.
Speaker B: Their talent can shine.
Speaker B: I'm hoping for big things.
Speaker B: I'm expecting big things from them.
Speaker B: I think they'll make a lot of noise.
Speaker C: Not only that, and I agree with everything you said, but the fact that they've already beaten Tennessee and Tennessee is the number one team in the regional and hosting, I feel like that's exactly what they needed.
Speaker UNK: Right.
Speaker C: Because they need that boost of confidence or they need that added confidence.
Speaker C: Utah definitely got them on the right track, but now they're in a regional where they've already beat the number one team.
Speaker C: So they know that they can do it again.
Speaker C: And I think going into a regional as a three seed, typically the team believes in itself, but it's pretty slim chances that you're going to go through.
Speaker C: I think it's different for Oregon State going into this Knoxville regional, and they can certainly capitalize on the momentum that they were able to build against Utah in trying to be unbiased as possible here.
Speaker C: I wouldn't be surprised if Oregon State made it through.
Speaker A: Yeah, neither would I.
Speaker A: We've got a stack that team.
Speaker A: And I think Tennessee, if I'm not mistaken, the 11th overall seed in the whole tournament.
Speaker A: So that Wayne back in February.
Speaker A: I know it was back in February, but I think the committee kind of realized that this team has put a pretty stacked schedule as well and has some pretty impressive wins even with that losing streak considered, it's the first time we're going to the tournament since 2018, 5th time overall for us under Laura Berg, but first time since 2018.
Speaker A: So Congrats to you, Coach, for getting the team back to the big dance.
Speaker A: Yeah, the 33 win regular season total is the highest for this squad since 2013, so it's kind of hard.
Speaker A: It's a double edged look at that and be like, yes, 33 in season.
Speaker A: Awesome.
Speaker A: Obviously was strong enough to get to the tournament, but it's also a little where you had near records in season that included a ten game losing streak.
Speaker A: But it's one of those things where seasons are long for a reason.
Speaker A: Teams go through up and downs and someone's going to win the whole d*** thing at the end of this thing and they're not going to be an undefeated team who didn't go through any adversity.
Speaker A: And I think just with how young this team is and what they've gone through and just how they've kept playing their a**** off and the end of the Utah game showed me everything that I need to see to just completely believe in these young ladies.
Speaker A: So I'm excited as h***.
Speaker A: That game Friday, May Pacific time.
Speaker A: I'll be on the beach in Cancun trying to find a place to watch it.
Speaker A: I love how I was going on this trip to relax and I'm just going to be screaming at my iPhone somewhere.
Speaker A: But anyway, be sure to find a way.
Speaker A: I haven't seen TV or whatever if it's all going to be ESPN plus I would imagine probably most coverage, I think.
Speaker A: So get ESPN.
Speaker A: Plus, if you haven't yet, get a friend's password.
Speaker A: Further, shout out to the team are you needed?
Speaker A: Prior to the selection show, five players were selected to you all past twelve teams, including senior Mariah Mazone and junior Frankie Moody.
Speaker A: Frankie Vibes named to the first team.
Speaker A: Our freshman Kiki Escobar and Sarah Handy guest both earned second team and we're on the all freshman team while fellow freshman Eliana Gottlie was also on the all freshman team.
Speaker A: So that's just a great combination of veteran leadership and also the future of looking bright while the President is also bright.
Speaker B: Yeah, let's get it now.
Speaker A: Let's get it now.
Speaker A: Let's beat Ohio State.
Speaker A: F*** them.
Speaker B: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker B: I think that if you look at the historically we've played Ohio State seven times, we're five and two against them all time.
Speaker B: None of this means anything other than we did play them two years ago at a tournament in Tempe and we split the two games.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: There might be some holdovers, of course, from that season that have the experience I honestly think is this.
Speaker B: You don't win 17 games in a row and all of a sudden get figured out like you won that many games because you're talented.
Speaker B: You're highly talented.
Speaker B: There might be some part of it.
Speaker B: That said, it got stifled because some team figured out a way to beat you, which is what happened of course, and the winning streak.
Speaker B: But you can't overlook a team like ours that could pull off a run like that.
Speaker B: That has the youth and the drive and desire that they do and the fight that they do in a tournament style setting.
Speaker B: And I really think we're going to show Ohio State who is the real V.
Speaker B: Osu.
Speaker A: Yeah, we should bet that the on this game.
Speaker B: Fine, let's do it.
Speaker B: Find someone who will bet with us.
Speaker B: We have nothing to lose.
Speaker A: All right, I don't know if there's a Belligerent Buckeyes podcast, but if there is, you can tell Brutus.
Speaker A: You can tell that f*** Brutus that we're coming for them and we're taking the g****** thug.
Speaker B: What are you eating?
Speaker C: Beecher's Mac and cheese.
Speaker A: I love how you were muted and then unmuted yourself to eat Mac and cheese into the microphone.
Speaker C: Could you hear it?
Speaker C: Yeah, man, I hope it sounds as good as it tastes.
Speaker A: It sounds pretty delicious.
Speaker A: I can't lie style, though.
Speaker A: I love me some aging.
Speaker C: Yes, this stuff is good.
Speaker A: Shout out.
Speaker C: Beechers Beechers cheese.
Speaker A: I made some cheese with some leftover steak recently.
Speaker C: You guys ever put hot sauce in your Mac and cheese?
Speaker B: Oh, yes.
Speaker C: Okay.
Speaker C: Yeah, I thought that was a sort of normal thing, but I wasn't sure it's the s***.
Speaker C: If you haven't done it, put hot sauce in your Mac and cheese.
Speaker A: Sriracha is one of those hot sauces, too.
Speaker A: Where when we were in College, everyone just had a thousand things with Sriracha, right?
Speaker A: And then five years ago, everyone decided to spontaneously agree that Sriracha was bad.
Speaker A: So everyone started hating on Sriracha.
Speaker A: It was like the older so overrated it became underrated type thing.
Speaker A: I've always just been kind of like good on good.
Speaker A: I like Sriracha.
Speaker B: It's in our fridge all the time.
Speaker A: Yeah, I use Sriracha.
Speaker A: I don't think it's God's gift to Earth because that is you JP Halloween costume.
Speaker B: It was God's gift to women, but yeah.
Speaker A: Is it two women from God?
Speaker B: Yeah, probably not.
Speaker A: Okay nowadays, but that's surprising any of our listeners.
Speaker A: This was 2008 anyway.
Speaker B: You know what?
Speaker B: It's better, though, that it's better all around as a hot sauce artbark.
Speaker B: Secret art of our sauce is never heard of that.
Speaker A: What?
Speaker C: Dude, Penny, I said I've never heard of that before.
Speaker B: Yes, you are from Portland, are you not?
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker B: Secretarbox is like the thing, dude.
Speaker C: I'm a Tapato head.
Speaker C: Like, that's the only hot sauce that I use.
Speaker A: I like tapatillo.
Speaker A: I have tapatillo.
Speaker A: I have a local hot sauce.
Speaker A: I try to have about a rotating of five to six different hot sauces.
Speaker A: I am richer and shop at all times.
Speaker B: This is the thing you get, like, every breakfast place in Portland is arvark sauce.
Speaker A: Oh, then I've had it.
Speaker B: It's like on every table.
Speaker B: No, it's not new.
Speaker B: No.
Speaker C: I'm sure I've seen it.
Speaker C: I've been to breakfast places in Portland.
Speaker B: Ardvark sauce sponsor, The Pod.
Speaker B: Even if they don't understand how good your hot sauce is.
Speaker A: Either in September or before, we are for sure all going to that Oregon State Montana State football game in Portland, which will include several hungover breakfast with much hard work.
Speaker A: Sauce.
Speaker B: There you go.
Speaker A: I'm sure I've had this JP, but I just haven't registered the names of Portland hot sauces I've used.
Speaker B: Well, this is definitely a staple in my fridge.
Speaker B: And it goes on eggs.
Speaker B: This is not a sponsored statement, but it goes on eggs.
Speaker B: It goes on pizza, it goes on Mac and cheese.
Speaker B: It goes on chicken, it goes on whatever you want for hot sauce.
Speaker B: It goes in your burrito.
Speaker B: It's amazing.
Speaker A: I put a little bit of hot sauce on a bowl of ice cream.
Speaker A: Give it a little kick.
Speaker B: That's a nice salt and straw flavor.
Speaker A: Next.
Speaker A: Salt.
Speaker A: I've never actually tried that.
Speaker A: You were just listing very conventional things to put hot sauce on.
Speaker A: So I was trying to come up with something weird.
Speaker C: I had the weirdest flavor of ice cream when I was down in Mexico a couple of months ago.
Speaker C: It was chicharron's flavor of ice cream, which is like it's like pig skin, right?
Speaker C: Like fried pig skin.
Speaker C: And I thought that the ice cream was going to taste not like chicharones for some reason because that would just be weird.
Speaker A: But it tasted exactly like chicharrons and it was tasting exactly what the flavor said it would taste like.
Speaker C: Yeah, but, you know, I also had avocado ice cream down there, and it doesn't matter.
Speaker C: Yeah, it's different.
Speaker C: And lavender flavored ice cream.
Speaker B: I had honey lavender from salistrate yesterday.
Speaker B: I did nice.
Speaker B: Yes.
Speaker A: When I was listening to one of the I was listening to the intros, and I think it was episode 24 when we were talking about Kobe and Ben was talking about throwing pistachio shells into the garbage can and just how he ate, like, a bunch of pistachios at night.
Speaker A: There's a brewery here that does a pistachio cream ale.
Speaker A: That's really f****** good, man.
Speaker C: That sounds really good.
Speaker B: Stalking me, literally.
Speaker B: Yesterday at Salt and straw, the mini Babe asked for a pistachio.
Speaker B: They have a pistachio ice cream.
Speaker B: It was a pistachio rose water.
Speaker A: It was not good.
Speaker A: Pistachio ice cream.
Speaker A: That was weird.
Speaker A: It was weird.
Speaker C: Ptaccio rose water.
Speaker A: We're getting back into our intro thing.
Speaker A: We need to go back to Oregon State sports.
Speaker B: Was the ice cream spot Mexico called Sali PAJA, because that is salt and straw in Spanish.
Speaker C: No, it was definitely just like a random table that some locals had up.
Speaker C: I don't think it had a name.
Speaker B: Terry is so disappointing.
Speaker A: Terry, when you go to Mexico.
Speaker B: You open up a Soli Paha ice cream parlor.
Speaker A: I'll find some Chichiro's ice cream down there this weekend for you.
Speaker A: We age and we'll compare notes.
Speaker C: Yeah, sounds good.
Speaker B: Speaking of comparing notes.
Speaker B: I don't know.
Speaker B: That's what I say.
Speaker A: Waiting.
Speaker A: Speaking of comparing notes, Terry's going to go back to the show notes here we have to talk about the other diamond sport.
Speaker A: And since it was more on the losing end and the winning end this weekend.
Speaker A: That means it gets placed as the other diamond sport while softball was the headliner.
Speaker A: See how we do that there?
Speaker A: Oregon State baseball drops a week in series at Arizona.
Speaker A: One win and two losses and tumbles all the way down the rankings to second.
Speaker A: We're still second in the country and we won our 40th game, another 41 season.
Speaker A: I don't think that happens very often.
Speaker A: I had the note looked up and I didn't enter into the show notes because I was doing something else.
Speaker A: I think it's the fourth time we've won 40 games in the regular season.
Speaker A: That gives us we still hold a one game lead over Stanford, but the Cardinal do hold the title breaker by virtue of the series that they beat the Beaves in by two.
Speaker A: One tally.
Speaker A: So this March is just the second series.
Speaker A: We've dropped another couple of crazy games.
Speaker C: It was hot.
Speaker A: It was hot down there in Tucson.
Speaker A: Ball carried a pitching look, great for stretches, but then just kind of unraveled.
Speaker A: I think I know the answer, but we got to ask it, guys, is this disappointing series something or nothing?
Speaker C: I think it's something, but not in the way that you are asking the question.
Speaker A: Top shelf podcasting listeners, unbuckle the restrictions on your thought processes because I'm going to blow your mind.
Speaker B: That's right.
Speaker C: And I'll blow your mind with this.
Speaker C: I think that we needed this.
Speaker C: We needed to be humbled a little bit.
Speaker C: Not humbled.
Speaker C: I shouldn't say that we needed to face some sort of adversity because I feel like when you win as many games as we had won consecutively and just that winning streak that we were on, it becomes almost like you're not giving your 110% when you're going out there just because you have that confidence and that's sort of good.
Speaker C: But I think Oregon State needed to face adversity and they'll remember this when they go into the postseason, they host the regionals and hopefully the super regional.
Speaker C: So you can never take a day off.
Speaker C: And I think that was a good reminder for Oregon State of that Lexus.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker B: We had the Sunday scaries again where we just could not figure out the pitching on our Sunday rubber match, the Friday game.
Speaker B: It was entertaining.
Speaker B: I mean, it wasn't the 8th inning where we just exploded.
Speaker B: Right.
Speaker B: And we had the Forester Grand Slam.
Speaker B: We had the rally with different hits to break the tie.
Speaker B: It was great.
Speaker B: Of course, it got a little bit worrisome still the bottom half of the 8th and obviously the bottom of the 9th.
Speaker B: But I don't know I don't know where to take this performance.
Speaker B: I feel like pitching wise.
Speaker B: It was very disappointing.
Speaker B: It was very hot.
Speaker B: As you alluded to Terry.
Speaker B: I think at first pitch on Friday evening was 87.
Speaker B: 1st pitch on Saturday evening was 99.
Speaker B: It was an hour earlier, so it still was pretty early before sunset and then I don't see the first pitch temp for Sunday's game, but I know people are saying we got up to over 100 and we were in our all black alternate.
Speaker A: Why is the Pact Twelve tournament in Scottsdale?
Speaker B: I don't know.
Speaker B: Because it's baseball weather and they don't have to worry about.
Speaker B: I mean, La or somewhere like that would have been probably fine, but you have to have the facilities for one.
Speaker A: Sure, I get that.
Speaker B: You also need the weather.
Speaker B: And so it makes sense as like a first run, just like the Pack Twelve football Championship used to be in San Francisco.
Speaker A: I'm just worried we'll get matched up with Arizona, who plays in it all the time, and it's going to be like, oh, your semi final game is at 04:00 p.m..
Speaker A: 1st pitch is 193.
Speaker A: Good luck, Beavers.
Speaker A: And they're at the road team for this match up and they're in the all black.
Speaker C: I'm not terribly worried about the Pac Twelve tournament.
Speaker A: I'm not too worried.
Speaker C: As long as we get a four seed or higher, like, I'm okay.
Speaker A: Yeah, we'll be more than a four seed.
Speaker C: Well, no, I mean.
Speaker A: Like, I want that overall.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker B: Well, here's what I want to take away from this weekend, though.
Speaker B: The bats are still hot, melting, still hot.
Speaker B: Bizana is coming back on insanely hot right now, which is very, very, very great for this offense.
Speaker B: Mekler is just still crazy good.
Speaker B: So this team is stacked offensively and that is starting to peak again right now.
Speaker B: When it comes to pitching, the starters have looked fairly good.
Speaker B: Komatsu got his first loss of the season on Saturday.
Speaker B: Sunday's Bull pan just did not look ready or they look tired.
Speaker B: What I want to say is this is that these guys have, especially the starters, have been throwing a lot and it's just late in the season.
Speaker B: You're bound to have fatigue in the arm.
Speaker B: I hope, I hope that they have some very easy outings from now until regionals.
Speaker B: They need them, they need some quick innings, they need some low pitch counts.
Speaker B: Fedex came in on Sunday and just didn't have it and the pitches just weren't there.
Speaker B: They just weren't there.
Speaker B: He still threw 67 pitches and two to two thirds.
Speaker B: Not efficient at all.
Speaker B: Tunnel walks.
Speaker B: So as long as pitching can get some rest, starters especially, I'm feeling confident for this team to run even in the Packaging tournament.
Speaker A: And beyond that, a is hitters park down there in Tucson, too.
Speaker A: Nothing you ever want to just be like, oh, that's the reason why.
Speaker B: But the hitters part for both teams.
Speaker A: Yeah, it is part for both teams, obviously.
Speaker A: So that's part of our success at the plate is credit to that as well.
Speaker A: But this isn't anything to panic over.
Speaker A: I think Oregon State baseball Twitter is kind of divided into it's kind of amusing, especially as someone who's not a College baseball expert, but has just been following this as closely as I have since prior to last year.
Speaker A: But just being like, oh, this is a clearly really good team.
Speaker A: We're doing great.
Speaker A: But also there's this half of the fan base that like, itty weird.
Speaker A: Pitching, substitution just come rains down, fire on Mitches decision making.
Speaker A: And I'm not hating on any fans either, but it's just like that shows.
Speaker A: It's like the crazy expectations that are there with this team.
Speaker A: We picked up our 40th when we're still ranked number two in the country.
Speaker A: We played a really good conference.
Speaker A: Arizona, I think has something of a disappointing season and they're still d*** good.
Speaker B: And they're probably going to pick fourth by some publications.
Speaker C: Yeah, I thought it was Arizona and Stanford that were supposed to be Arizona and Stanford.
Speaker B: Some had UCLA ahead of us, too.
Speaker C: Maybe that's what it was.
Speaker A: It's a good conference and guys are strong.
Speaker A: Guys are good.
Speaker B: Arizona's, you can't be forth a conference to be second in the rankings overall.
Speaker B: So I'm happy with where we're sitting.
Speaker B: I'm happy where we're sitting.
Speaker B: I wouldn't trade it for what the expectations were by any means.
Speaker B: And I don't think we're falling short.
Speaker B: By the way, I was speaking of just like weird s***, like the whole Burburg thing.
Speaker B: Did you guys see that?
Speaker A: When I'm still confused as to what happened there, Carter Bayne tweeted out some explanation that with the bases are empty, that call legally isn't supposed to be made.
Speaker A: So verbal isn't the right.
Speaker A: But I'm still kind of ministered as to everything that happened with that whole sequence.
Speaker B: Yeah, and then he just he's in there and hits Tarot Tremba on the next pitch.
Speaker B: I don't know if that was just out of like, total annoyance or he got thrown out of his rhythm or what.
Speaker B: But also the reason I bring this up is it was weird.
Speaker B: I don't know if anyone really has an answer for what the f*** happened, but Tanner O?
Speaker B: Tremba is a baseball name.
Speaker B: I have to just say there is no better name for the shape of that player or a baseball player than Tanner O?
Speaker B: Tremba.
Speaker B: I have to know what is Otremba.
Speaker B: I mean, we've talked about some of the guys that are Oregon athletes with different unique last names.
Speaker B: But is O?
Speaker B: Tremba really Irish?
Speaker B: Like, oh, Tremba?
Speaker C: No, it sounds like an Italian person that moved to Ireland and tried to assemble it.
Speaker C: Their name was like Francisco Tremba and then they moved to Ireland and it became like Terrono Tremba Kelp.
Speaker B: There's literally nothing on the Internet.
Speaker B: I'm doing this at the part of the pocket.
Speaker B: So we looked these up.
Speaker B: There's nothing on the Internet that talks about the origins of the surname O?
Speaker B: Tremba.
Speaker A: Tanner, this isn't a disk or anything, so I don't want it to sound like one, but there's been a thing.
Speaker A: I won't be able to credit this to where the first place I saw it.
Speaker A: But there's this great sort of Internet meme thing of people who look like their names.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Tanner O?
Speaker A: Tremba.
Speaker A: Looks exactly how you think.
Speaker A: Tanner O?
Speaker UNK: Tremba.
Speaker A: This is a College baseball player in every sense of the way.
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker B: You don't even have to look at him to know what he looks like.
Speaker B: If you read his name, that's it, right?
Speaker A: It's a baseball player name that's up there with Dizzy Dean in terms of being born to play baseball with those names.
Speaker A: Oh, my God.
Speaker A: Tanner O?
Speaker A: Tremba.
Speaker A: I know we're going to see him again.
Speaker A: In the past twelve conferences tournament, we did just have to.
Speaker A: But yeah, Tannero Tremba is definitely all American name team.
Speaker C: Who is the golfer that played for Alabama?
Speaker C: What was that guy's name?
Speaker A: Oh, Canon Claycomb.
Speaker C: Yeah, Canon Claycomb.
Speaker C: That's right.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker C: Shout out to Cannon Clay Comb.
Speaker C: He apparently is a very, very good golfer.
Speaker A: We got on our radar because he was like going to Frigging Nationals.
Speaker C: Yeah, it's true.
Speaker C: Yeah, good point.
Speaker A: We weren't just looking at random golfers.
Speaker B: No, I would do that.
Speaker A: I guess you would.
Speaker C: But kind of random.
Speaker B: All right, so When's the next game?
Speaker B: When's the UCLA series be God, Tanner O?
Speaker A: Tremba, you fake Irish man.
Speaker A: Tanner O?
Speaker C: Tremba.
Speaker A: I'm trying to come up with better baseball.
Speaker A: This is a nickname, but the best baseball nickname I've ever got.
Speaker A: So I read that book by Jonah Kerry, national baseball writer, about the Montreal Expose, and they had a related to Jenny.
Speaker A: Not related to Jade.
Speaker A: Different spelling.
Speaker A: He wishes.
Speaker A: Shout out Jade Carey.
Speaker A: We can't go an episode without mentioning you.
Speaker A: Some of those great Expos teams, they had a player named Mike Scott who is sort of there like Kenny Lofton, but even more of like a Willy Maze.
Speaker A: Speaking of great names like base stealing specialist and as a speed guy, his nickname was Cool Breeze.
Speaker A: I feel like if people call you Cool Breeze because of how fast you are, you've got to be the coolest person on the planet.
Speaker A: Or at least top five.
Speaker A: Yes, maybe top seven.
Speaker C: You know what name I really loved in baseball, just in general or like sports in general was?
Speaker C: Coco Crisp.
Speaker C: Oh, cocoa.
Speaker B: I mean, there are modern players.
Speaker B: I guess they're not modern anymore, but there are semi modern players, technically modern, who have great baseball names.
Speaker B: Show hail Tani.
Speaker B: That's a great baseball name.
Speaker C: Hammer and Hank Aaron.
Speaker A: Very modern.
Speaker C: Betty, Mickey Mantle.
Speaker B: Jesus Christ.
Speaker B: He's probably playing a few games a ball.
Speaker A: It's a major League.
Speaker A: Jesus Christ.
Speaker A: I like him very much, but he's no help with curveball.
Speaker A: Are you trying to.
Speaker A: Christ can't hit a curveball.
Speaker B: Hey, you know what?
Speaker B: Jesus Christ had to have been a big part of Angels in the outfield.
Speaker B: There's no way they're there without them.
Speaker C: That's true.
Speaker A: Jesus Christ.
Speaker B: Baseball name.
Speaker A: Jesus Christ.
Speaker A: Matthew McConaughey, Adrian Brody.
Speaker A: Danny Glover.
Speaker A: Joseph Gordon.
Speaker A: Levert.
Speaker A: I believe those are all of the Apostles.
Speaker A: Sunday school is a long time ago.
Speaker A: Boof Bonzer, Daryl Strawberry Mikki Wilson.
Speaker C: Sausage.
Speaker B: Raleigh Fingers dude, I feel like I met Raleigh Finger's son.
Speaker C: Did he have a mom?
Speaker C: Did he stash that curled up?
Speaker B: No, I think he's friends with Sandwich Greg.
Speaker C: Shout out sandwich Greg.
Speaker A: Sandwich Greg.
Speaker A: Is that a friend of ours or classic baseball player?
Speaker A: Sandwich.
Speaker A: Greg is a Depression era baseball player.
Speaker A: He's an extra in Field of Dreams.
Speaker B: With a sailor hanging out one side of his mouth, a cigarette in the other.
Speaker A: And a bad man.
Speaker A: Maybe that's why Sandwich hasn't aged a day in the years we've been friends with him.
Speaker A: Because he's just a baseball playing ghost from the 19th 20 games that year.
Speaker A: God d*** it, Greg, that was 104 years ago.
Speaker A: Get over it.
Speaker A: So, JP, you asked, when does the series start?
Speaker A: It starts on Thursday, May 19.
Speaker A: Kevin Garnett's birthday.
Speaker A: That's how you'll remember seeing as possible P.
Speaker A: M.
Speaker A: Pacific Time, Kevin Garnett's birthday, the official day of May 19 and Year of our Lord and Goosekasage.
Speaker C: Oh, man, this is great.
Speaker C: This is funny.
Speaker A: I can't wait until the summer episodes with literally no sports.
Speaker A: We're getting to the point where my stomach hurts.
Speaker A: Men's basketball.
Speaker B: Speaking of stomach hurting.
Speaker A: In a different way.
Speaker A: Over under.
Speaker A: How many times do I vomit because of Oregon State men's basketball in Year of our lower 2022 goose gossip.
Speaker B: No, I feel good about this season.
Speaker A: I'm vomiting to Christmas.
Speaker A: Goose already.
Speaker B: Look at the show notes.
Speaker A: Gosh, I hardly knew her.
Speaker C: What?
Speaker B: I think that Tinkle is turning this around fast.
Speaker B: I really, honestly think that potentially loyal.
Speaker B: Do not laugh at me.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker A: Self imposed mute for the next.
Speaker A: Okay, there you go, man.
Speaker C: Honestly.
Speaker C: And not to cut you off, but I was just thinking in my head how passionate you were and how much that was convincing me that we are going to be really good soon.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker B: I don't think we're going to be in the Elite Eight next season.
Speaker B: I don't think we're going to be twelve next season.
Speaker B: But I do think what Tinkle is doing is hitting the reset button in the right ways with the right people, and he's replenishing the talent pool fairly quickly.
Speaker B: And look, last year we talked about the talent pool being like, oh man, we are deep.
Speaker B: We've got all these great transfers.
Speaker B: We've got all these returning players.
Speaker B: The returning players clearly had their own issues and it just didn't work out.
Speaker B: The transfer players had their own issues and it didn't work out.
Speaker B: Both of those things colliding did not work out.
Speaker B: Then you've got an overarching coaching staff that clearly was unsuited for the new era of collegiate sports.
Speaker B: Now we've got some new assistance.
Speaker B: Now we've got some new players ready.
Speaker B: Tim Shelton coming in.
Speaker B: He's got Oregon State ties.
Speaker B: Oregon State ties.
Speaker B: His dad, Lonnie Shelton, Beaver legend.
Speaker A: He's on the mural.
Speaker A: He's on the mural.
Speaker A: My limits up, and I'm fired up.
Speaker B: There you go.
Speaker B: And he's also an NBA champion.
Speaker B: And so bringing Tim Shelton in from Fresno State is a big get for us.
Speaker B: You know why?
Speaker B: Because I think that he talks about himself, especially as a guy they can get players to mold together.
Speaker B: He sees himself as a mentor.
Speaker B: He sees himself as a motivator.
Speaker B: He's one of those guys who talks about like, I've just done all of this that you're doing now not that long ago.
Speaker B: I mean, you played at Fresno State like the mid odds.
Speaker B: So he knows what it's like to be a more modern College basketball player.
Speaker B: He also knows what it's like to be in Corvallis.
Speaker B: He talks all the interviews that I've read or seen from him.
Speaker B: He's saying my dad talks about all the time.
Speaker B: He loved it in Corvallis like this.
Speaker B: It's like one of his best memories as a basketball player.
Speaker B: He was an All Star, he was a defense player of the year.
Speaker B: He was an NBA champion.
Speaker B: It makes it seem like he's been kind of groomed to understand what it's like and what it takes to play in Corvallis without actually doing himself.
Speaker B: So I feel like the Shelton hire fills a big void that could have really probably fixed a lot of things last year.
Speaker B: The other one I think that's interesting is the Eric Ravino hire, because he knows the Northwest.
Speaker B: He was the up coach for like ten years, whatever.
Speaker B: He was a Western Coast coach of the year on his third year with up after he kind of turned that program around for a bit and eventually got let go.
Speaker B: But that's another one that's very interesting because it's like a local tie.
Speaker B: So maybe we're starting to look more locally for talent.
Speaker B: Right?
Speaker B: And I think that that's another interesting guess where it's not just like one of Tinkle's guys.
Speaker B: It's somebody again who played in the pack.
Speaker B: He played at Stanford, who is coached in the Northwest and recruited in the Northwest, and it could be some great experience to kind of fill the void that's left.
Speaker B: Now you got Coach Bubba, you've got Coach Shelton, you got Tinkle, and then you get some experience in there with Robino.
Speaker B: So I like that higher a lot as well.
Speaker B: What do you guys think?
Speaker C: Yeah, I didn't know all that about Tim Shelton, so I think that he's a great fit.
Speaker C: I do think that Eric Ravino, when I saw that name pop up, that's a massive get.
Speaker C: I remember when he was at up and that his trajectory was sky high at the time.
Speaker C: So the fact that they both do have Northwest ties, and specifically the fact that Tim Shelton views himself as someone who can bring people together is huge because I think the one thing that I'm still super worried about is that Tinkle is bringing people in via the transfer portal and if he doesn't learn from his mistakes last year, he's going to have the same problem where you have two very separate groups of people who have been at Oregon State and people who haven't.
Speaker C: And I think that he's bringing the right people in to capitalize on those mistakes that he made last year.
Speaker C: So, yeah, I really hope that he finds what that magic is and turns that part of things around.
Speaker A: Chicago Cubs catcher Pickles Dillhoffer.
Speaker B: God, here we go.
Speaker A: Pickles the Chicago guy.
Speaker A: There is a Chicago Cubs catcher named Pickles Dill.
Speaker A: Hoffer.
Speaker A: I think all of the tires from this off season, I think our steps in the right direction and kind of reversing the mistakes that Tinkle made going into last year where I'm not going to call Elite Eight Ron fools gold, because when you go to the Elite Eight, you go to the Elite Eight.
Speaker A: There's no kind of luck or parlor tricks that get you there.
Speaker A: You have to get there by being good at basketball, whether it's in half full arenas and still in the pandemic or not.
Speaker A: I like Shelton a lot.
Speaker A: I think everything you said about Shelton's familiarity with the program, JP, is huge for him.
Speaker A: Echo for Ravino.
Speaker A: I'm intrigued by the Christian right transfer from Georgia as well.
Speaker A: We talked a bit with Sam on the Payton years during the birthday spaces and on the discord.
Speaker A: I'm just in kind of.
Speaker A: All right, prove it.
Speaker A: This is very much like this is some rules of horse, but you lose on the last letter.
Speaker A: There's sort of that option.
Speaker A: And based on the way you play, I don't know how you guys were playing horse, but you get Ho R-S-E.
Speaker A: If you miss, you get a chance to prove it.
Speaker A: And if you make it again, the E gets taken off and you get to keep playing here.
Speaker A: I think Tinkle knows how to coach basketball.
Speaker A: I think Tinkle can be a successful College basketball coach.
Speaker A: We can't have another just garbage season from a Winston losses standpoint.
Speaker A: But I think we can learn a lot from my favorite TV show, Ted Lasso, and understand that the animal that has the shortest memory is a gosh darn goldfish.
Speaker A: And I think we can take what happened last year, be mad about it, be sad about it or whatever, and figure out what there is to learn about it, and then be a gosh darn goldfish and not think about it anymore and just go out and hoop.
Speaker A: We're going to roll the ball out and go out and hoop at a certain point here, and we need to not worry about the Elite Eight.
Speaker A: We need to not worry about three and 28 any of that s***.
Speaker A: And it's just going to come down to the guys that are here and what's going to happen moving forward.
Speaker A: And I think we need to think as much about this season as a clean slate, as possible and then analyze it as such.
Speaker A: But I think it's smart to bring in young blood and people who understand at least the program.
Speaker A: And from a geographical standpoint, just the College basketball landscape in the Pacific Northwest is smart.
Speaker B: Are you calling Wayne Lasso?
Speaker A: If there was like a Ted Lasso equivalent in men's collegiate basketball, probably would be the Oregon State program.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: So maybe he'll put a homemade Believe sign in the locked room.
Speaker A: Maybe he'll have everyone watch the show together.
Speaker A: I don't know.
Speaker A: I think that would be helpful.
Speaker A: They need to start believing themselves.
Speaker B: I don't know, though I agree that they should do something like that.
Speaker B: But what I'm thinking is this was like a missed opportunity, a closed window that had maybe one year of magic left, potentially where the modern state of basketball College basketball and our program just did not overlap.
Speaker B: And so I don't think that this is him fixing last year any more than it is, of course, correction where he realized in one year, which is like, really, from my perspective as a fan, they say, like, hey, this guy figured out in one year he's making the right moves.
Speaker B: I don't know if they're the right calls yet, but he made a Swift decision, multiple Swift decisions after one year, realizing this is not working now in today's collegiate athletic environment.
Speaker B: And he made some quick moves.
Speaker B: And I think the moves right now, on paper, at very least that he made are good ones.
Speaker B: I don't know if the right ones are the best ones yet.
Speaker B: I'll put my name on it and that they are good ones for where we were last year, for where it was potentially missing, whether it's from our perspective or rumors.
Speaker B: And I think that is a sign of somebody that's willing to adapt and not stuck in their ways.
Speaker B: And which is why I still have faith in Wayne Tinkle going forward, because I know that his response to last season, which was a clusterfuck, by all means, is showing that he's not going to be like just an old stick in the mud.
Speaker B: He's going to be doing what he can to bring his program into the modern era, and he's bringing in the right people to do so.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker C: And I would say one thing that Sam brought up on our Twitter spaces that I think goes unmentioned.
Speaker C: Typically when we talk about Oregon State basketball, Oregon State men's basketball is that they dealt with a ton of injuries last year, too.
Speaker C: So I think that Tinkle sort of did the best that he could with the cards that he was dealt.
Speaker C: And also, if you look at it, they didn't have the talent to stack up with other Elite Eight teams when they made that run.
Speaker C: That was a matter of a team filled with three star, mostly athletes, one four star that learned how to play together and win as a team over individuals and bad coaches don't make it to the Elite Eight with sub tier talent, and I think that's how it goes.
Speaker C: But good coaches certainly can have a real s*** season.
Speaker C: So I'm with you.
Speaker C: I think that points to Wayne being much more of a really good coach that had a bad season than a bad coach that got lucky and made it to the Elite Eight.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's a really good point.
Speaker B: And I think that's something that I want our listeners to hear and reiterate to them is that we didn't have an insane talent pool.
Speaker B: Like, yeah, we had Ethan, we had Zack and we had some healthy team and we had a couple of transfers that came in and were impact players where each knees were good.
Speaker B: We had all of that, the stars aligned, but it doesn't mean that they were five star dudes.
Speaker B: That Tinkle coasted to the Elite Eight, right.
Speaker B: They were who they were.
Speaker B: And the guys we brought in last year were.
Speaker B: The guys we brought in last year were, I don't know, arguably better than the Elite Eight team for sure.
Speaker B: When it comes to their evaluated talent levels, they were better.
Speaker B: And I think the difference from the Elite year to last year was strictly outside of injuries because the injuries, yes, they happened, and that's what really derailed the season midway through.
Speaker B: But the W's weren't there from the beginning.
Speaker B: I can't write off the whole season due to just the injuries.
Speaker B: And Della was really the only injury to start the season.
Speaker B: And Shawl was never playing.
Speaker B: He was an injured, but he wasn't even on the team the year before.
Speaker B: So that was really the early turmoil that they had faced, but they just couldn't get the guys to mesh.
Speaker B: They had better talent, they were deeper team before the injuries where they should have been stockpiling WS.
Speaker B: They didn't do it and they just couldn't get the guys to mesh.
Speaker B: Tinkle said that's on him, but I really think he's realizing it's on me because I am the head coach, but it wasn't on me because I got other s*** to worry about.
Speaker B: Right.
Speaker B: And that's the change in the assistance.
Speaker B: That's what's happening.
Speaker B: It's not a talent thing.
Speaker B: It's not a scouting thing.
Speaker B: It's bringing the guys together, getting the right roles to buy in.
Speaker B: And I think that's what he's changing with these hires.
Speaker C: I also don't think that it's necessarily the coaches job at most of any Division one basketball programs to be the mediator of culture.
Speaker C: Right.
Speaker C: That comes from the assistance or like the graduate assistance.
Speaker C: They're the ones who are spending the majority of the time with the student athletes and the coaches, I think more X's and O's and on the recruiting trail, that sort of thing.
Speaker C: So to your point, if you're going to make a culture change, it definitely starts with the assistance.
Speaker B: Yes.
Speaker B: Terry, final thoughts of men's basketball.
Speaker A: Let's f****** go.
Speaker A: Where the win the PK 385.
Speaker A: And so it's Oregon.
Speaker A: Oregon is going to win their bracket of the PK 385 because we are on opposite dude.
Speaker A: The f****** because they bought their victories.
Speaker A: I know you asked me to talk about the actual team, but I think you guys kind of nailed it on the head there.
Speaker A: And I don't have any more insight to offer.
Speaker B: No.
Speaker A: Which is not new for this podcast, but buying tickets to the PK 385 is very frustrating.
Speaker A: And there are two brackets on both the men's and women's side.
Speaker A: So I think when it was initially set up, which was immediately after our elite run, they're kind of, I think maybe hoping to have both Oregon and Oregon State be close to winning their respective brackets.
Speaker A: So my understanding of it is that we cannot play Oregon in that thing.
Speaker A: So I think both of us are going to win on both the men's and women's sides.
Speaker A: This is the Weh equivalent of going through the entire football schedule and projecting 14 straight, 42 to 14 wins.
Speaker A: And then that's going to be the Pac Twelve Championship preview.
Speaker A: And I think no matter what happens, we make a pack to be at the Pack Twelve tournament in Las Vegas in March this year.
Speaker A: That's what I think about organization.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: Here we go.
Speaker C: Down.
Speaker B: Here we go.
Speaker A: Live shows, more live shows.
Speaker B: More plans that we have a hard time fulfilling.
Speaker A: How about this for plans?
Speaker A: I just booked my flight for the Montana State football.
Speaker A: I booked Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaker B: Drive or Uber.
Speaker C: Yeah, I got my truck ready.
Speaker A: Thank you, guys.
Speaker A: Jp, I'm coming for Thanksgiving.
Speaker A: I'll eat in the basement by myself.
Speaker B: But you can join me at the table.
Speaker A: Whatever family kids table plans.
Speaker A: Whatever.
Speaker A: I love the kids table.
Speaker A: We should move on.
Speaker A: Jpm, lean on you for the golf segment.
Speaker A: I know men's golf ends day one in their regional in fifth place, and that's in position to advance, so pretty good day for them to start.
Speaker A: What else is going on with the Oregon statements?
Speaker B: Yeah, it was a good day in Texas.
Speaker B: Texas style, baby.
Speaker A: Brian Texas.
Speaker B: Good name, Brian.
Speaker B: Texas, Texas style.
Speaker B: Oh, yes, fifth place.
Speaker A: They haven't hung out with that dude since we were with Franklin, Tennessee, and Sammy Ford.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker C: All you need is those four and a Cannon clay comb and your day is made.
Speaker A: Yeah, I can't have nights like that anymore.
Speaker A: I had to go to jail anyway.
Speaker A: Talk about the actual golf team.
Speaker A: Sorry.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker B: So they're in fifth through the first 18.
Speaker B: They need to be in fifth to advance.
Speaker B: We've got two golfers in the top eleven, so we got Mateo Fuen Mayor, who is minus four to the first 18.
Speaker B: Great.
Speaker B: He's tied for third overall in the regional.
Speaker B: And then we've got Carson Barry, minus two, tied for 11th, but the rest of the team still hanging around.
Speaker B: They can make some moves over the course of the next few days.
Speaker B: By the time this episode comes out, we'll probably know a lot about the positioning of the golfers and the team.
Speaker B: So keep it up.
Speaker B: Men's golf.
Speaker B: Way to go.
Speaker B: Do it.
Speaker B: Texas style.
Speaker B: Chop them Texas style.
Speaker C: Texas style.
Speaker A: Hey.
Speaker C: I'll just ask what I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker C: Where's Canon Claycomb in those rankings of the border.
Speaker C: Brian Texas.
Speaker B: I don't know.
Speaker B: This is where I'll have to go back and look it up.
Speaker B: Let me see.
Speaker A: Ken Claycombe is going to become the first non Organ State athlete to sign an Nil deal with the Belgian and Beavers.
Speaker A: Comcast.
Speaker B: I have no idea.
Speaker A: I can't figure out where the h*** is our new dream is to play golf with Cannon Clay combat at Tristing Tree during the Belligerent Peas Golf Scramble with him wearing the Belligerent Beaves Tristan Tree swag while JP is looking stuff up.
Speaker A: That is belligerentbeeves.
Speaker A: Commerch.
Speaker B: No, I have no idea.
Speaker B: We'll update one next week with how Canon Clay Comb did in the regionals, but moving into women's golf.
Speaker B: Unfortunately, their season has come to a close.
Speaker B: They did finish 8th in Franklin where the only the top four advanced for women's golf, which left us on the outside looking in.
Speaker B: But shout out to the team for all of them other than La Salmo is their first experience other than missing because of Cobbt in 2021 because of the fake inclement weather bullshit.
Speaker A: Hey, NCAA, f*** you.
Speaker A: And also Franklin, Tennessee.
Speaker A: F*** you too.
Speaker A: Yeah, you're hiding under the guise of being a town.
Speaker A: We know you're a real person and we're never smoking pot with you again.
Speaker B: Never.
Speaker C: You're fun.
Speaker A: We are.
Speaker A: Brian Texas and Cannon Claycomb heads.
Speaker A: Now your time and our crew has come to an end, pal.
Speaker C: But.
Speaker B: I want to give all the time a big shout out that she's definitely been one of the greatest golfers in Oregon State golf history.
Speaker B: I mean, she played for five years, won three individual titles, earned All Pack twelve honors three times, holds the Oregon State records for career scoring average, top ten finishes in a season, lowest single round score, lowest three round score, and a total number of subpar scores.
Speaker B: That's insane.
Speaker B: What a badass.
Speaker B: Good on you.
Speaker B: Ellie, thank you so much for all you've done for our program.
Speaker B: Much appreciate it.
Speaker A: You know what this means, Belligerent Beaves.
Speaker A: It's been a while since we've had suction.
Speaker A: Jp, I need the Belligerent Beast Orchestra struck up right now.
Speaker A: I need the air Horn going.
Speaker A: I need lasers.
Speaker A: I want helicopter noises.
Speaker A: I want the second section of the Belligerent Beast Orchestra coming on over that.
Speaker A: I need pop and circumstance, and I need fanfare for its own sake.
Speaker A: Ellie's Flamma, welcome to the Belligerent Beaves Hall of Fame.
Speaker C: H*** yeah.
Speaker B: H*** yeah.
Speaker A: You deserve it.
Speaker A: We are a Humble Lowly podcast that we don't have much to give, but we can give you this that no one else can.
Speaker A: Sure, some people think the NCAA hall of Fame is more prestigious than they're right.
Speaker A: But you know what?
Speaker A: They use a bullshit, fake, inclement weather excuse to steal the 2021 season away from the organization women's golf team.
Speaker A: So f*** them.
Speaker A: We would never do that.
Speaker A: We'd let it play.
Speaker A: We'd do it live and live from my drip system.
Speaker A: Ellie Slammer newest inducting to the Belligerent Beasts Hall of Fame.
Speaker A: Let's have a round of applause.
Speaker A: Selection committee for the Belligerent new Belligerent Beaves Hall of Famer.
Speaker B: I love.
Speaker A: H*** yeah.
Speaker A: Ellie Slammer.
Speaker B: Great nomination, great induction.
Speaker A: Well sold Queen s***.
Speaker B: Yeah, boss a**.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker B: She's the top of the pyramid of great golfers to come through our program.
Speaker B: Thank you.
Speaker A: Ellie Slamma is so much cooler than Franklin, Tennessee.
Speaker A: Ken is still cool with me, but Ellie's better.
Speaker A: But Franklin, Tennessee.
Speaker A: F*** him.
Speaker A: If you guys try to bring Franklin Tennessee around anymore, I'm out.
Speaker A: I'm done.
Speaker A: I don't hang with that dude anymore.
Speaker A: He's crazy and not in a good way.
Speaker B: We should make sure we align on how we feel about Franklin Tennessee because if he does come around, this is a story for a different day.
Speaker B: You don't want Benny shouting at him that he wants to fight him when things are already calm.
Speaker C: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker C: And I will also say this is just one of the many competitions that we have with Tennessee.
Speaker C: So I think Franklin Tennessee is going to be hating us by the end of the month here.
Speaker B: D*** right.
Speaker A: That's right.
Speaker B: Well, let's go.
Speaker A: More shout outs.
Speaker A: We have to give a shout out to the number 13 ranked Oregon State women's rowing team which earned a fourth place finish in the Pack Twelve Championship for the second consecutive year, maintaining its place in the top third of the conference.
Speaker A: Now awaiting to find out if it qualifies for an AtLarge bid for the 2022 NCAA Rowing Championships which will be May 27 to the 29th in Sarasota, Florida.
Speaker A: Sarasota, Florida does not sound like the name of someone we may be hang out with so we won't hate on it for now unless you wrong us.
Speaker A: Sarasota, Florida.
Speaker A: So good luck ladies.
Speaker A: Way to hold it down.
Speaker A: Way to keep finishing in the top of tough conference for rowing is my understanding.
Speaker A: And Oregon State men's rowing which finished in third place on Sunday, the Pack Twelve Championships Sunday at Dexter Lake.
Speaker A: And we will also be awaiting what happened their fate for the selection show.
Speaker A: So good luck to both Oregon and State rowing teams wishing nothing but the best.
Speaker A: I hope you get into the respective NCAA tournament fields and that you keep holding it down for our great programs.
Speaker A: We love the Willamette River.
Speaker A: We've floated it a time or two.
Speaker A: Not nearly as fast as you all go down it, I imagine much slower with more beer and more beer.
Speaker A: Well, we can't say that for sure probably.
Speaker A: And then also women's check and field at the Pac Twelve Conference Championships, but Kaylee Mitchell had a very good weekend.
Speaker A: Fifth place in the 5000 meters for Oregon State and Anneca Morris Dwarf also scored big in the long jump and the triple jump.
Speaker A: So that wraps up the season for Oregon State women's track and field, but with a couple of athletes scoring high and those Championships as well.
Speaker A: Well done, ladies.
Speaker A: Chop them.
Speaker A: Keep holding it down.
Speaker A: We're proud of you.
Speaker A: Good s*** all around for all Oregon State athletics this weekend.
Speaker A: And we've got some exciting stuff to look forward to this week with softball, baseball, these rowing selection shows, maybe some football drama.
Speaker A: Probably not.
Speaker A: I think that's kind of done.
Speaker A: Betty is already not paying attention and just planning bonus Belligerents to be recorded after this.
Speaker A: And yeah, good episode.
Speaker A: Do you guys got anything else you want to add for the people to put a bow on episode 48?
Speaker C: June is going to be fun.
Speaker A: June is going to be fun.
Speaker C: June is going to be fun.
Speaker A: Hot beef summer.
Speaker A: That's right.
Speaker B: Is that the antithesis of your like f*** December or whatever it was when you talk about your cut off shirts?
Speaker B: December f****** sucks.
Speaker B: That's what it was.
Speaker C: Forgot about that.
Speaker A: When did you do that?
Speaker C: What?
Speaker A: When did you do that?
Speaker B: Episode 30.
Speaker B: Like, it was like we talked about Benny cutting the sleeves off every T shirt he owned, and then he said, December f****** soft.
Speaker A: Benny is not really a sweet.
Speaker A: Benny is not even really a clothes guy.
Speaker A: I can't believe you still live in the Pacific Northwest given how much you hate clothing.
Speaker C: I just cut off the pieces I don't like.
Speaker A: Which is all of them.
Speaker A: Oh, man.
Speaker A: Well, DD Gregorius, thank you again.
Speaker A: If you made it this far in the episode.
Speaker A: You're a real Belligerent Beaver and we appreciate you.
Speaker A: Thank you so much for listening.
Speaker A: Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker A: Thank you so much to all of our Patreon members for hanging with us to the discord and for helping support us to make the show happen and make it better little bit each episode of time.
Speaker A: Thank you to our friends at Seamheaded for sponsoring the show that is seemheaded.com for all of your baseball apparel needs.
Speaker A: Once again, one more time.
Speaker A: Best of luck to Oregon State baseball and softball this weekend.
Speaker A: We will be watching Belligerent as all h***.
Speaker A: I will be not relaxing on the beach in Mexico because I will be too into these games.
Speaker A: So if you're a beach fan in Mexico, hit me up.
Speaker A: I'm down to clown and watch these games together, all of us here at the Blue and Beavers.
Speaker A: My name is Terry Horseman at Terry Horseman on Twitter, at Terrencehorseman on the IGS joined by my co host, JP Bertram at thetreelj on Twitter.
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