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Florida Gators combine and diamond podcast

March 01, 2016

This GatorCountry podcast breaks down on the Florida Gators football players did in the NFL combine this past weekend, plus the latest buzz around these players.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre also break down who the Florida Gators baseball and softball teams did on the diamond this past weekend as both teams are ranked number 1.

Andrew and Nick break down the Florida Gators basketball team as the head into the last week of the season, plus they talk about the women's basketball team that has had a successful year this year.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Once again, this is your man, Andrew Spivey, with my man, Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, what’s up from Miami?

Nick:                         Just loving life with some Mark Light shakes. Those things are out of control. If you’re ever down there, go ahead and grab yourself one. I ordered an apple pie shake, and there was just a piece of apple pie in it. Fantastic.

Andrew:                 This is something I meant to ask you off the air this weekend, but who’s Mark Light? It’s Mark Light Stadium at Alex Rodriguez Field. Is that how they say it?

Nick:                         Yeah. Alex Rodriguez just recently donated a bunch of money. I’m trying to remember how long ago that was.

Andrew:                 I think it’s been about three or four years ago. Mark Light, is that a former baseball player? Who is Mark Light?

Nick:                         I’m not sure.

Andrew:                 I have you stumped. Okay. It was a good series. What was it? 4-1 this week for baseball?

Nick:                         Yeah. Florida took care of, they played five games, so 4-1. They took down Florida Gulf Coast first. It was at home. Then they took them down out in Lakeland, and then other than A.J. Puk it was really a very good week for Florida. I think on Friday and Sunday with Logan Shore going a complete game shutout, and Alex Faedo leaving after six and a third of no hit baseball, those are kind of like two of the best starts you’re going to see by any college player, across college baseball. That’s right there the best you’re going to see. For me, to be able to be there, it was a treat.

Andrew:                 We’ll go a little bit more in detail here on baseball in a few. Softball as well, 5-0. Two more Top 10 wins, and Kelly Barnhill pretty impressive this weekend. Nick, I was having a little fun with that on Twitter with your A.J. Puk deal. I have the Kelly Barnhill kind of deal. That was good.

Basketball though, not so good. Go to LSU and play. Nick, you had the argument the other day, and I respected your opinion. You said the team played hard. The team played unhard on Saturday at LSU. They played like a team that had no interest in being in Baton Rouge, and it showed until the last really minute and a half of the game, when they tried to make a comeback.

Nick:                         They played unhard.

Andrew:                 Yeah. They played soft.

Nick:                         Unhard. I didn’t get to see the game. I was at Florida’s baseball game, keeping track of it a little bit on Twitter, but we had a four and a half hour game on Saturday. I will take your word for it. It’s kind of what I said before this four game stretch. I said I’d be more surprised if they went 4-0 than if they went 0-4. With Kentucky coming in on Tuesday, I don’t expect that to be a win. Then you got to travel out to Missouri. Missouri is a very bad basketball team, but that is still a tough trip to make it out there.

Andrew:                 We’ll see. I don’t know. Definitely can’t go 0-2 these next two games. They need to find a way to win the next two and find a