Hurricane talk for Florida Gators/LSU postponement: Podcast

Gator Country brings you a new podcast as we breakdown the postponement of the Florida Gators game against LSU and what this means going forward.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down what the Gators options were and when the game could possibly be played down the stretch.

Andrew and Nick also predict some of the key games around the country this weekend, plus talk a little playoff baseball.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, it’s Friday. We’re not doing a prediction podcast. Instead, we’re talking about a massive hurricane coming this way, and a postponement in a game. Much like any Florida/LSU game, it has storylines and plenty of noise.
Nick:I think there’s more trash being talked right now than there was, more trash being talked about the game not being played than if the game were to be played.
Andrew:It wouldn’t be Florida/LSU if it wasn’t some kind of controversy. Treon being suspended. Grier being suspended. Now this game being postponed. What happens next year?
Nick:Stop it. Don’t do that to me. There is never a dull moment when you cover the Florida Gators.
Andrew:Especially this Florida/LSU game.
Nick:Maybe it’s some of that voodoo. What do they do down there?
Andrew:I don’t know. It’s something crazy. Something crazy going on down there. Let’s just dive right on into this game, because there is a lot of shit being talked between the two schools. I guess, both schools do have an argument of this. I don’t know. We’ll just throw it out. LSU had offered for Florida to go play the game in Baton Rouge, of course they did. It was going to be an extra home game for them.
Nick:Listen, the reason we’re not playing football this weekend is because Florida didn’t go to Baton Rouge. I can’t blame them for not wanting to do that, but that’s the reason. We weren’t going to play. The way it started to look Wednesday, we weren’t going to play football in Gainesville. It just wasn’t going to happen.
Andrew:According to you, Mr. Weather Man, you said Florida was…
Nick:I am a noted and celebrated amateur meteorologist.
Andrew:Then you wrong, like a regular meteorologist, because you called me crazy when I told you on Monday and Tuesday this game was not happening in Gainesville. You said, “We’re prepared.” Well, you were wrong.
Nick:It’s not the first time.
Andrew:Yeah. I mean, you’re right. Florida didn’t go to Baton Rouge. That’s why the game’s not being played. Now, I don’t blame Florida for not going to Baton Rouge. They lose a home game, you play in LSU three straight years, you lose your biggest recruiting weekend. You lose the home game. You take your team there, you’re in a no win for Florida. LSU, their fans are saying, “We were trying to be nice.” Of course you were, you’re about to get a home game. Let’s not act like you were about to give your second born kid or your kidney to someone. You were offering to host the game, so you could get a home game in Baton Rouge.
Nick:Yeah. What does LSU stand to lose by getting the game at home?
Andrew:Exactly. Nothing. Here’s the thing. Now LSU is the bad guy in the situation as the world turns, because now Florida has offered to cancel the Presbyterian game, allow LSU to come in on November 19 and cancel their South Alabama game, which my Jags would probably win, but anyway. They don’t want to cancel the game, because they would lose money, plus they would be traveling three straight weekends within a 12 day period. So they’re saying they’re not doing it. They’re refusing to do it. So it kind of looks like this game is not going to be played. Now, I agree with LSU not wanting to lose their home game, not wanting to go three straight weekends, but it’s the way things go.
Nick:From a Florida standpoint, Jeremy Foley made it a point to say, “Listen, this isn’t about money. It’s not about paying schools to move a game around. This is about Florida.” Florida’s going to get hit really hard by this hurricane. Florida has 55 players from counties on the east coast that are in a hurricane warning. Jeremy Foley’s saying it’s about, even if we move the game to Baton Rouge, we have players that are going to be worrying on Saturday, what happened to my mom back at home? What happened to my uncle, cousins, family back at home? If they’re out without electricity, now you’re trying to have a team play a game on the road in a tough environment worrying about the health and safety of family back at home.
Andrew:That’s what I was going to say.
Nick:That’s being lost on everybody saying, this is dumb; we should be playing a game. People are going to be without a house, be without electricity. God forbid. This is a serious storm. Not everyone handles it as well as south Florida does where my dad called today and said that he was happy to have his hurricane shutters, which he bought 10 years ago. First time he’s been able to use them.
Andrew:We’ll see. You don’t know how bad it’s going to be. We’ll see how bad that is. It could move east, and if it does, then you salute everyone for being on the safe side. It’s like you say, there’s too many moving pieces, and this is a point that I even thought about after Foley said this, but let’s just say, play devil’s advocate, Florida does get hit bad. Would Florida be able to travel back into Gainesville Sunday or Saturday night? You don’t know.
Nick:LSU was being very amenable to having the game. They offered to pay, offered to send a plane. You and I were talking about this, I asked Jeremy Foley, “When would you have had to make that decision?” Because he said by the time, as we stand here today on Thursday, we can’t move 100, 150 people, because it’s not just the players. It’s players, coaches, trainers.
Andrew:Equipment trucks.
Nick:Equipment trucks. I’m forgetting cheerleaders. Can’t forget cheerleaders.
Andrew:Band.
Nick:The band. You’re moving 100, 150 people, 175 people. When would you have had to make that decision? I think you would have had to make it Tuesday. On Tuesday it looked like the storm would be up the coast by Georgia, South Carolina by Saturday, and you’d be fine. Now it’s slowed down, but you would have had to make that decision Tuesday. You would have had to make the decision Tuesday. Then if the storm track doesn’t change, now you’re going to get a bunch of pissed off people tweeting you pictures of 75 and sunny in Gainesville. Why the hell aren’t we playing here?
Andrew:You’re in a no win situation. The thing about it is is even if you did know about it on Tuesday, don’t give up your home game. Don’t give up your home game. It is what it is. The SEC has went as far as doing the insurance policies, that kind of stuff, to prepare for this stuff. Basically, the ball’s in LSU’s court.
Nick:Neither school is worried about paying. LSU doesn’t pay $1.5 million.
Andrew:They’re not paying it.
Nick:Florida would have to pay $500,000, roughly. The SEC has a blanket umbrella insurance policy that would cover that. So the League is paying that. To me, what the League isn’t paying for, and what can’t be made up, is the economic impact that Baton Rouge has for a home game, with people coming in, hotels, food, liquor. It’s something Jeremy Foley talks about of why Florida wants seven home games.
Andrew:LSU wasn’t worried about the economic impact that Florida was going to lose this week if they had to go to Baton Rouge.
Nick:Because LSU’s not worried about the economic impact of Gainesville. They’re worried about the economic impact of Baton Rouge.
Andrew:That’s what I’m saying. That’s why you have a bunch of angry fans who are not taking into account for anything. Then, guess what, Nick? Guess who else weighs into this situation?
Nick:Oh no.
Andrew:Our damn friend up in Knoxville, Butch Jones. That moron decides he wants to weigh into this game. What a titty baby. What an idiot. Butch Jones comes in, weighs in, talking about how this game has got to be played. Bro, go up there and win your own game on Saturday. Don’t worry about this game.
Nick:What did you call Butch?
Andrew:A titty baby.
Nick:Okay.
Andrew:The guy’s a moron. What is this guy even worried about?
Nick:Where were these comments, so people can go find them?
Andrew:They were a comment on a radio show, 3HL1045 was tweeting about it. He said, “They have to play that football game. I know the SEC will do the right thing.” Butch, shut up. Just shut up, Butch. Get your nose out of this.
Nick:I guess then, here’s the question. Florida runs the table, which means they would beat Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina. Am I forgetting someone?
Andrew:I’m refusing to talk about this situation.
Nick:I’m here. So if Florida wins their remaining SEC games, I feel like I’m forgetting someone. Am I forgetting a game in there?
Andrew:Missouri, South Carolina, Georgia.
Nick:Georgia. That’s who I was forgetting. I was forgetting Georgia.
Andrew:The four games.
Nick:If they win those four games, go 6-1, and Tennessee loses, they’re going to lose to Alabama, and if they lose one more along the way, a 6-1 Florida team is your SEC East champion over a 6-2 Tennessee football team. That gets Florida back to Atlanta.
Andrew:Maybe they should worry more about either Hillary Clinton or Matthew giving back Josh Dobbs’ eyebrows.
Nick:Oh, no.
Andrew:Did you see that sign? I sent you this, so you did. A frat house at Texas A&M said, “Hillary Clinton deleted Josh Dobbs’ eyebrows.” It was just awesome to me. That was just awesome to me. That’s just so awesome to me.
Nick:This poor guy. He’s got alopecia.
Andrew:He’s got something more than that.
Nick:He’s got alopecia.
Andrew:He’s from another planet. I’ve already warned my good friends over in Aggie land that a space shuttle will be landing Saturday. They know. It’s coming.
Nick:What could have been done differently?
Andrew:Don’t know there is much you can do differently. I mean, unfortunately you can’t predict this storm. When you looked at it on Monday or Tuesday, it was the eye was supposed to be 150 miles off the coast. You’re thinking the coast is just going to get the west side of the storm. They’re not going to get much damage off of it. You’re going to be able to play a game. You may not have as many coastal fans cover over, because they were going to get a little bit of rain and that kind of stuff, but you just couldn’t predict it. Now, only thing I will say is this. I think everybody in the world knew. Jeremy Foley said he thought on Wednesday night game was going to be played. I don’t know what he was watching, but on Wednesday night I could have told him this game wasn’t going to be played.
Nick:You told me on Wednesday night it wasn’t going to be played.
Andrew:I don’t know what he thought there. I think the only thing that could have been done differently is maybe an earlier decision on Thursday to do it. I don’t blame them for not going to Baton Rouge. I don’t. I think that Mac did a good job of stepping in and not wanting to take his team to Baton Rouge. I think that that’s there. We all talk about what LSU could have done differently. Why didn’t LSU pony up and say, “Hey, we’ll give you your home game back next year for the rivalry”?
Nick:Then what do you do? That messes everything up. That’s something that has to be signed off on by the SEC.
Andrew:I’m sure if they go to Sankey Sankey isn’t going to do deny that. I’m just saying.
Nick:That was never an option.
Andrew:They wanted Florida to go, I don’t think it was an option. I’m just saying, they said they did everything in their power. No, you did not. You didn’t bring every option to the table. They wanted Florida to go to Baton Rouge three years in a row. Just saying. Let’s not make LSU the winners in this whole situation.
Nick:I think the reason we’re not playing is because Florida didn’t go to Baton Rouge, and I can’t blame them. I can’t blame LSU for not wanting to come to Gainesville on November 19 either.
Andrew:I can blame LSU more for not coming in on the 19th more than I can blame Florida for not wanting to go on the road two years in a row, or three years in a row, to Baton Rouge in the middle of a hurricane.
Nick:There was no way.
Andrew:I think there’s a lot of things that you and I, and a lot of people, did not think about at the beginning. I’ll be honest, and I feel bad for saying this, but I didn’t think about the mindsets of what the players were going to be like had they went to Baton Rouge and played in that game. I didn’t think about that mindset at all. I mean, it’s like I said. What happens if it does make a direct hit somewhere? If it hits on the coast, you’ve got a lot of guys that are on the coast, from the coast. What happens if it takes out their home, and they get that news? You can’t do that. LSU fans are saying, “You wanted us to come to Gainesville.” No. Nobody was telling you to come to Gainesville in the middle of the storm. That’s why things are still being negotiated. That’s why things are still being talked about.
Nick:Florida’s saying, “The game’s being played in Gainesville,” means we want you to come to Florida for the storm.
Andrew:What I’m saying is they were saying that, and then when they figured out it wasn’t going to be possible to have people come over, then they cancelled it.
Nick:It’s just a mess. It’s just a damn mess. I don’t think the SEC would force LSU. LSU does not want to give up that November 19 home game to South Alabama.
Andrew:This is where the SEC has to force them.
Nick:I don’t think, I could be wrong, but I don’t think the SEC will force them to do that.
Andrew:They could. Very easily they could, because that’s why they got this blanket of an insurance policy.
Nick:Ross Dellenger, who was on with us Wednesday, says that the buyout is $1.5 million, and that LSU typically makes about $3 million. So would the umbrella policy do that?
Andrew:I don’t think you get it all back, but you get some of it. Just like, I mean, you’re sitting here talking about the impact there. Who’s paying the impact to Florida’s economic thing for losing another home game? I mean, we’re not just talking about one school affected. We’re talking about two schools affected, and I feel like you’re making it into Florida’s the bad guy here.
Nick:No. I’m saying the reason the game’s not being played is because Florida didn’t want to play in Baton Rouge, but I’m saying I don’t blame them. I get that. I get the economic impact. You don’t want to have the economic impact of not having a home game in Gainesville. It’s a logistical nightmare as far as tickets and stuff like that. I’m not blaming anyone. I think it’s a fact, though. The reason we’re not playing football is because Florida refused to go to Baton Rouge. I don’t blame them for not going to Baton Rouge though.
Andrew:The reason we’re not playing football this week. The reason we’re not playing this game in general right now is because Florida wouldn’t go to Baton Rouge, and now LSU won’t come to Florida November 19.
Nick:I can’t blame them for not wanting to do that.
Andrew:That’s what I’m saying. The weather is the weather. It’s unpredictable. I mean, there’s been several things happen that’s been affected by weather over the years. Someone brought this to my attention, and I don’t know the full story behind this, but something about LSU made Tennessee travel to them during Katrina or something. It seems like Florida’s not the only one that has ever went through this situation.
Nick:LSU played a home game in Arizona State because of Katrina.
Andrew:No, they made Tennessee come down there the week after, or something like that. I didn’t know the whole story. I didn’t look up the whole story, but it was just crazy. I don’t know.
Nick:Oh, the SEC has said now, as we tape this, that a 6-1 Florida team would go to Atlanta. They confirmed that, what we had said.
Andrew:Right. It’s a winning percentage.
Nick:Right.
Andrew:I have things that I want to say about that, but I will save them until after Saturday, because I will not jinx Texas A&M.
Nick:Won’t jinx them.
Andrew:I will not. I will say this. I have sent good luck that way, and it has been passed on to their team.
Nick:What’d your boy, Paul, say about it?
Andrew:Paul’s pissed.
Nick:Paul’s pissed?
Andrew:Paul wants to play football. He’s talking about how…
Nick:How do I know you know what Paul said?
Andrew:Because I had to watch it, because that’s how I got to listen to Jeremy Foley today. I had to watch Paul. Then Paul has some California guy come on, and, Lord, it’s just Paul for it. It’s Paul. Here’s the thing, Nick, that I think we’re missing. Florida lost huge this weekend in recruiting.
Nick:Michigan fans, my Michigan friends are not happy with Florida, because now Donovan Peoples-Jones is going to Ohio State.
Andrew:They should be thrilled.
Nick:Michigan fans don’t want him going to Ohio State.
Andrew:Right, but he was going to Ohio State anyway. Would they rather him do it now, and then have two and a half months before he makes a decision, or go later in December right before?
Nick:They think he’s all but signed, sealed, and delivered to Michigan.
Andrew:Right. That’s what I’m saying though. You would think they would be happy, because they should want him going there earlier, that way it’s a longer time, and that’s what I even told Florida fans. Donovan Peoples, it’s cool. He’s going to come in later. Same thing with Anthony Hines, the biggest thing is you had Leatherwood coming in. You had some big names coming in on unofficial visits that was going to start helping the momentum a little bit. That is why I think that Florida’s probably rooting very hard to have this game rescheduled, because it is a significant atmosphere of a game that they get. Really now they’re looking at Missouri and South Carolina being their two home games, and the crowd will be decent for those, but they’re not seeing a great football game. I’m not saying this LSU game was going to be a great football game either, but even if Florida blows LSU out, the fans are going to be pumped. People at Missouri or South Carolina, it’s like, maybe not. South Carolina, that one they would be crazy if they did blow them out.
Nick:Florida’s home schedule is hot garbage. Flaming garbage. You potentially now have lost your one palatable game. This is devastating for recruiting.
Andrew:Yeah. As our good friend, Chad Wilson, said to you and I, he said, “Only thing is winning is the best recruiting tool.” So go win, and get some prospects on campus for that. Nick, I wanted to say this real quick. It just came up in my Twitter. I know when LSU and South Alabama can play. They can make that game up while teams are in the SEC Championship game. Why not?
Nick:Hit me with that again.
Andrew:Why not?
Nick:What’s your scenario?
Andrew:LSU and South Alabama can play during the SEC Championship game weekend. Just play it early in the day.
Nick:They ain’t doing that.
Andrew:Why?
Nick:The SEC ain’t going to let another game happen that day. Not a chance.
Andrew:Just don’t put it on TV. Nobody’s watching.
Nick:Literally, not a chance.
Andrew:Nobody’s watching it.
Nick:You’re talking nonsense. Do you have a fever?
Andrew:I just was thinking about it. I don’t like LSU fans very much anyway, but they’re just in my Twitter being stupid. It’s frustrating.
Nick:Can we get this other thing out? I’m about to tweet it.
Andrew:What?
Nick:LSU is not afraid to play Florida. Florida’s not afraid to play LSU. These are football players. They play football for a living.
Andrew:Absolutely.
Nick:Not for a living yet, or at least not supposed to. No football player is afraid to play. LSU is not afraid to play Florida. Florida is not scared to play LSU. This has nothing to do with being scared. That’s just nonsense.
Andrew:These are two teams that love to play each other, love to play each other. It would be great.
Nick:I love this game, too.
Andrew:I do too. I don’t know. It just couldn’t happen. I mean, it is what it is. It just couldn’t happen. It was not aligned to happen this weekend. It just wasn’t.
Nick:Doesn’t make me feel any better.
Andrew:It just doesn’t. Nick, let’s go. We still got some football to talk about. We’re going to guess that this Miami/Florida State game still gets played, since the worst of the weather is supposedly going to be north of Miami. Nick, first game, who you got out of the Hurricanes and the Noles?
Nick:Miami stays undefeated. They will take down the Seminoles. The Seminoles, that defense is atrocious. I think Florida State might want to take some of Florida’s players.
Andrew:You’re saying Bud Elliott was wrong?
Nick:Yeah. I think there’d be more than a handful of Florida guys that would be starting at FSU right now.
Andrew:He told me the only one that would start was Jalen Tabor.
Nick:I think there would be several more.
Andrew:Okay. Just making sure. I’m going to go Florida State.
Nick:Alright.
Andrew:I’m going to go Florida State. I think Florida State wins their seventh in a row against Miami. Miami, their schedule’s been hot garbage for the beginning of the year. Let’s not sit here and act like their schedule has been good. Their schedule has been horrendous. Florida A&M, FAU, and App State and Georgia Tech.
Nick:Butch did tell us that App State was a good football team.
Andrew:Butch is a liar too.
Nick:Good football team there.
Andrew:Just like that clown ass getting involved in the Florida/LSU game. Shut the hell up, you hillbilly. Shut the hell up. Let’s go to the SEC. Alabama/Arkansas, up in Fayetteville, Nicholas. Alabama end the eight in a row streak, or is it nine in a row?
Nick:Say that again.
Andrew:Is it nine in a row for Alabama over Arkansas this weekend, or do they end the eight game losing streak to Alabama?
Nick:They really have an eight game losing streak?
Andrew:Yeah. Alabama has beaten Arkansas eight straight years.
Nick:It’s going to be nine. I’m going with Alabama.
Andrew:Nick Saban has never lost to Arkansas as the Alabama football coach. So you’re going nine in a row?
Nick:Nine in a row.
Andrew:I’m also going Bama. I’m going to say they end up winning by 21.
Nick:You say the Tide rolls.
Andrew:Tide rolls. I’m not buying that they’re a good football team.
Nick:Arkansas?
Andrew:Yes.
Nick:Okay.
Andrew:Not buying they’re a good football team. I’m going to say that they roll, and roll big. Now, my favorite one, down in Aggie land, Butch and the space shuttle versus A&M.
Nick:I’m going with the Aggies. I think Texas A&M wins a game at home. LSU, it’s been a long week, Tennessee, I think they’re luck runs out this week.
Andrew:You think it runs out. Any idea on a score?
Nick:I think it’ll be a close game. A&M scores late. They win by 10.
Andrew:I’m going to say they win by a field goal, Texas A&M does.
Nick:Okay.
Andrew:That’s what I’m going to go with. I’m going with they win by a field goal. I think A&M’s really good. My question is who’s blocking Miles Garrett?
Nick:That’s a grown man.
Andrew:I mean, he’s a monster. Then here’s my other thing. Who guards Speedy Noel?
Nick:That’s a good question.
Andrew:No clue. That’s what we got there. Nick, we wanted to talk baseball for a few minutes. We’ve got about five minutes.
Nick:I love the new wildcard.
Andrew:Absolutely.
Nick:The one game, I mean, it’s not new this year, but it’s newish. I love it, especially when your team’s not in it. That kind of drama would maybe give me a heart attack though.
Andrew:Can you imagine me when the Braves lost the wildcard game with the infamous infield fly rule? It was not fun.
Nick:I remember that.
Andrew:My heart probably is still weak from that moment.
Nick:I think you just need to get over that.
Andrew:No. Baseball playoffs, Nick, are quite possibly my favorite thing, outside of the Masters.
Nick:I love the Masters.
Andrew:There is nothing better than the Masters.
Nick:Probably not, but baseball, playoff baseball is whoo yeah.
Andrew:It is awesome. It’s special to see the walk off homers, just the craziness. I mean, Joey Bats gets things going with the homer. Encarnacion gets that. It’s an even year, so Giant magic is happening.
Nick:We talked about that, what was it, Wednesday? We talked about the Giants winning World Series from the wildcard in even years.
Andrew:Yeah. It happens.
Nick:Who do we, are we ready to make our pick?
Andrew:Let’s go. Let’s make our pick. Who do you got in the National League?
Nick:Let’s see. Why don’t we do, let’s pick every series?
Andrew:Okay. Let’s go. Who do you got on that Chicago/Giants series?
Nick:I am tempted to go away from it. I’m pulling up the bracket right now. I’m tempted to go away from our Giants talk, because I think I’m really all in on the Cubs this year. I’m going to say I think the Cubs beat the Giants in the NLDS.
Andrew:This is tough for me, Nick. Jake Peavy’s a 251 boy from down in Mobile, went to San Francisco. So it’s tough for me. Real tough for me to go against the Giants, but I’m all in with the Cubs. I got Cubs. Then when you move over to the next National League series.
Nick:Washington and LA.
Andrew:Yeah. I will not, never, ever, ever, ever pick Washington. LA wins.
Nick:I think LA wins too. I think they’ve had a better season. They have four less wins, but I think they play a tougher schedule. When you look at how bad the Marlins were and how bad the Braves were, that’s 36 games the Nationals get to play against really bad teams.
Andrew:You talk shit about my Braves, they had a winning record against everybody in the East except for Washington.
Nick:Did they have a winning record?
Andrew:Did you? Did the Marlins?
Nick:I didn’t play any baseball.
Andrew:Did the Marlins?
Nick:I think so, yeah.
Andrew:I absolutely do not think so.
Nick:No. They did not. Three games under 500.
Andrew:Absolutely. They didn’t have a winning 500. Get the hell out of here. Get out of that mess. So we got, did you go Washington?
Nick:No. I’m picking LA.
Andrew:So we both got LA, Chicago. Moving over, Texas and the Toronto.
Nick:This is a fight.
Andrew:Really, or just on the field?
Nick:Yes. This is Odor, Joey Bats. I think there’s something to be said about winning that wildcard game and moving in, and moving into the rest of the schedule with momentum. I’m going to go with Texas though.
Andrew:You’re going with Texas?
Nick:Yeah.
Andrew:I’m going Toronto. The bats in Arlington, and then in Toronto, are just going to be too much. Toronto wins. I’m going to say Toronto wins 3-1.
Nick:Wow. Okay.
Andrew:Then the next one is going to be a fight, in my opinion, might be the best series of them all, Boston and Cleveland.
Nick:That’s got seven games written all over it.
Andrew:Five.
Nick:Sorry, five games written all over it.
Andrew:Who you got?
Nick:I think I’m going to go with Boston. The way they kind of got in on the last week of the year, I think I’m going to go with Boston.
Andrew:I’m going to go Boston, because of Big Papi.
Nick:It would be a storybook ending.
Andrew:Yeah. I think it is. I think Cleveland is good, but Cleveland’s pitching worries me. Their pitching worries me with the depth of their starting rotation. So I’m going to go Boston. I got Boston and Toronto in the series.
Nick:I’ve got Boston and Texas. Who do you think is going to win, who is going to be the AL champion then?
Andrew:Boston.
Nick:You’ve got Boston winning the ALCS.
Andrew:I got Boston beating Toronto in the ALCS.
Nick:I’m going with Texas beating Boston.
Andrew:Okay. Who do you got on the other side, Chicago or LA?
Nick:The Cubbies. I’ve got a Texas/Chicago World Series.
Andrew:I’ve got a Chicago/Boston World Series.
Nick:I would like to see that more.
Andrew:The amount of money going to be made in those two big market teams. Who wins, Theo or Frank Wren over in Boston? Two guys that were just shown the door.
Nick:That would be interesting with what’s his name, the GM?
Andrew:Theo. That’s who I said. Theo.
Nick:Yeah.
Andrew:Then Frank Wren was the one that screwed Atlanta up. He went up there with the Toronto GM, and the two of them are there. I will say this. It was very tough for me to pick Boston over Toronto. I would love my boy, Josh Donaldson, to get a ring. Love for my 251 boy to get the ring, but I did go Boston. I want to go Chicago so bad, but it’s the same reason I didn’t pick Tennessee, and I wouldn’t have picked Florida against LSU. Until you win it, you can’t. Big Papi goes out with a ring.
Nick:Big Papi, man. That’s a storybook ending for Papi. If the Cubs win, the billy goat. They would probably bring a billy goat out to the field and sacrifice it right in center. Just kill some poor billy goat in center field, and they win the World Series. Lord knows what the city of Chicago will do.
Andrew:Never mind. I’ll some animal rights people calling us. Never mind. That would be funny. So who do you got?
Nick:I’m going to go with the Cubbies.
Andrew:Man.
Nick:I’ve got the Cubbies winning the whole thing this year.
Andrew:I would love to see Rossy go out with a ring. He’s never won a ring. Retiring from baseball. I would love to see former Gator, David Ross, go out, but I got Big Papi.
Nick:That’d be really cool too. I’d like to see that. I’ve got them beating Texas anyway. I got no one really on Texas that I’d…
Andrew:I don’t root for Cole Hamels. I don’t like Cole Hamels. He’s a Philly. Don’t root for Cole Hamels. Sorry. Nick, tell everybody where they can find us. We’ll get some news coming out, hopefully on Sunday.
Nick:One more. There’s a UFC 204 on Saturday.
Andrew:I’m going to be honest, Nick.
Nick:I’m going to tell you.
Andrew:Okay.
Nick:Dan Henderson versus Michael Bisping. Who you got?
Andrew:I’m going to go Henderson, but I’m not sold.
Nick:Dan Henderson. Dan Henderson is my favorite MMA fighter of all time. This is his last fight, and they’re doing it over in England. Bisping is the champion, middleweight champion. Henderson, it actually is a championship fight, but Henderson will be retiring after this fight. I think he’s 45 years old.
Andrew:Need Henderson to go out.
Nick:46 years old.
Andrew:I’m just ready for my girl to come back.
Nick:No one cares about Ronda.
Andrew:I do.
Nick:Here we go. www.GatorCountry.com for all your Florida Gator news. We won’t have a game this Saturday, but anyway. Follow us on Facebook @GatorCountry. Follow us on Twitter @GatorCountry, and on Instagram @TheGatorCountry. I am @NickdelaTorreGC on Twitter. He is @AndrewSpiveyGC. Sorry about the game. Stop saying people are afraid to play each other. No one’s afraid to play football.
Andrew:Yeah. Be sure to follow us on Twitter, especially around that 3:30 Tennessee/A&M game. I’m sure my Twitter will be hot fire. Follow along with us. Be safe if you’re in Florida or Georgia or Carolina, or anywhere in this storm. Be safe. Listen to us while you’re chilling and having your hurricane party.
Nick:Yeah.
Andrew:Definitely. Guys, we really appreciate it. We’ll see everyone back on Monday with a new podcast. This will be Missouri week. As always, chomp, chomp, and go Braves.
Nick:You stay classy, Gator Country, and you stay safe, everyone in Florida.
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Andrew Spivey
Andrew always knew he wanted to be involved with sports in some capacity. He began by coaching high school football for six years before deciding to pursue a career in journalism. While coaching, he was a part of two state semifinal teams in the state of Alabama. Given his past coaching experience, he figured covering recruiting would be a perfect fit. He began his career as an intern for Rivals.com, covering University of Florida football recruiting. After interning with Rivals for six months, he joined the Gator Country family as a recruiting analyst. Andrew enjoys spending his free time on the golf course and watching his beloved Atlanta Braves. Follow him on Twitter at @AndrewSpiveyGC.