This GatorCountry podcast has a lot different things to offer Florida Gators fans as we take you recruiting questions, plus talk Florida diamond sports on this edition.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down the Gators recruiting class, while answering your questions about certain positions and when the next commit will happen.

Andrew and Nick also talk about how the Gators softball team did in the Gainesville Regional, plus how the baseball team finished last weekend heading into the SEC tournament.

TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:​What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here. Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, successful weekend for softball; okay for baseball. Tough weekend, and very unfortunate for baseball, but, all things considered, good weekend.
Nick:​Yeah. Baseball ends up dropping. It was a weird weekend due to weather, but baseball ends up dropping two of three at LSU. The team hasn’t been swept since 2013, but that was also at LSU, so that was something we were watching there as the series ended on Saturday. The season is done. A school record 44 wins in the regular season, so the team accomplished a lot, even though you don’t get what you expected or hoped for in that last weekend of the year.
Andrew:​Here’s my take on things, real quick. We can discuss this more here in a minute, but kind of the way that the circumstances of the game, and then Puk being sick, just basically took away Florida’s biggest strength, and that’s their starting two, or their first two starting pitchers. When you throw Shore out there you’re expecting him to go seven or eight, and one or two runs, and then that game gets shortened, and it’s like we just lost possibly our best player on the team for the whole weekend.
Nick:​Look at it. You get two and a third from Logan because of weather, and then Puk has the stomach issue, so your #1, your #2 pitcher give you less than five innings.
Andrew:​Without getting rocked.
Nick:​Nothing you can do about it. Shore hadn’t given up a run. Puk had given up one run. No, Puk had not given up a run, but he left with a runner on base that ended up being charged back to him. The weather, it’s baseball. You can’t really help it, but it’s tough to win games, especially at LSU. That’s a tough place to play. They packed the Alex Box Stadium, 10,000; there were almost 11,000 people there on Saturday, 10,900 people there to see a baseball game. That’s a crazy environment. When you only get that kind of limited performance from guys that you expect to be able to go five, six, seven. In Logan Shore’s case, seven, eight, maybe even working into the ninth, and you only get a couple innings out of them; that really hurts you. Not just from hurting the bullpen, but also hurts you mentally, because these are guys that you feed off of, and they throw zeros on the board, and you’re able to bounce back and build off of what they’re doing on the mound.
Andrew:​That’s kind of what I was at. It’s just, Florida’s starting pitching is really good. Their relief pitching is really good, but when you’re asking guys like Shawn Anderson, when you’re asking Snead, those guys, to come in and start off a game or pitch multiple innings, you definitely make the limit of effectiveness go down a little bit.
Nick:​Especially weird when you play, you start a game Thursday, and then you kind of have to forget that, then play a game, a full game, Saturday, and then turn around 12 hours later and go back to we’re playing Thursday’s game, and then we have another game after. It was just a weird weekend. Florida, obviously, I’m not going to say LSU handled it better; LSU’s a very good team, but it is what it is, and Florida, who was #1 in the country all year long, who was if not #1 then #2 and then back up to #1, they’ll be the fourth seed in the SEC Tournament. That’s just kind of how it goes.
Andrew:​It is. Let’s talk a little softball real quick. We can get mor