This GatorCountry podcast recaps week one of the Florida Gators spring football practices as the Gators are still in just shorts and shirts until Monday's practice.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down the quarterback position so far through two practices, plus look at the receiver position and offensive line play.

Andrew and Nick also take a look at some baseball and softball updates as the Gators continue to roll in the diamond sports this spring.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey here with Nicholas de la Torre. What’s up, Nicholas?

Nick:                          I am coming to you live on a Sunday with no baseball. It is almost an off day for me.

Andrew:                 You did have to pay for it on Saturday with about a seven hour trip at the Mac on Saturday night.

Nick:                         I’m watching baseball, so it’s not really work, but I went straight from, on Friday went straight from football interviews about 5:30 to the Mac, was at the Mac from about 5:30 till 11:30, so about six hours there. Then spent just shy of nine hours at McKethan on Saturday. Friday Saturday spent a lot of time at the baseball field, started to go a little crazy towards the end of Game Two on Saturday, Game Three of the series.

Andrew:                  I also heard that someone jinxed it on Saturday.

Nick:                         Listen, I grew up playing baseball, and baseball has these unwritten rules. You hit our big hitter, you hit our #3 hitter, we’re going to retaliate. A bunch of unwritten rules. When you’re covering a baseball game the biggest unwritten rule is if a game is moving quickly you don’t talk about it. It’s like fight club, first rule about it, you don’t talk about it. Somebody turns to me, we were in the top of the 5th, and it was 45 minutes. That is a dream. That is a quick baseball game. Somebody turns to me and goes, “This game’s moving along pretty well.” We played the next four innings in two hours.

Andrew:                  There is a couple rules. You never talk about that. You never, ever talk about a perfect game or a no-no. Never. I know someone on Twitter, I won’t call names, believes that it’s stupid, but you do not talk about it. Baseball is the most superstitious game there is. You do not talk about it. If you have to talk about it, you say, something special is brewing.

Nick:                         Here’s how strong the superstitions run with baseball. My dad, I think I might have 13 years old, dad buys me a pair of batting gloves, probably $45, $50. Those things aren’t cheap. Use them, first game, brand new. I go 0-3. My fourth at bat without the batting glove on, hit a double. When I came back into the dugout, grabbed the batting gloves, threw them in the trash. Dad says, you didn’t use your batting gloves that fourth at bat. I told him what had happened. Told him what I did. He says, good. He was the one that paid for them. $50 for three at bats, but they were 0-3, and I got a double without them on. Good. That’s the kind of superstitions we’ve got in baseball.

Andrew:                  Time to go in the trash if you’re not hitting. If your team’s not hitting well in one spot, you move to the other spot as a coach. There’s a lot of superstitious things there is in. Contrary to belief, they do work.

Nick:                         We’ll get into football real quick. I’m just going to recap baseball. Florida sweeps Harvard. They move to an 11 game winning streak. Logan Shore actually not his sharpest on Friday. Gave up five runs, all of them earned, but Saturday in the 4:00 start you got probably A.J. Puk’s best start of the season. He’s kind of a put a good start against Dartmouth, a