GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we talk about the affects of the Cornavirus on the Florida Gators athletics program.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre talk about how this affects the Gators football team and which guys it hurts the most.
Andrew and Nick also look around the SEC to breakdown which teams are hurt the most by spring practice being pushed back.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. We’re quarantined. We’re keeping our six foot apart. We’re doing our part there, Nicholas.
Nick:                         Yeah. This is unprecedented times.
Andrew:                 Let’s just call it what it is. It’s boring as hell.
Nick:                         Shoot. I mean, there was times during like football season when we’re in the middle of it, and we’re doing all kinds of … I was literally about to get into like my busiest time, because I was covering basketball, baseball, and spring football was about to start. I was like I’m doing three sports. There’s five games a week, seven games a week was about to be. Then football practice. I was like, man, I’d love for a little bit of a break. So then, when all this stuff happens, my buddy was like, I bet you’re happy. I’m like, what do you mean? There’s nothing going on. I’m not happy. I wanted a little bit of a break, not nothing.
Andrew:                 Yeah. I mean, we’re taping on Thursday. It should have been Opening Day, Nick. It should have been Opening Day. I should have been getting ready.
Nick:                         I think our favorite day of the year.
Andrew:                 I should have been getting ready to tweet Braves win. Braves win. I should have been able to tweet that today.
Nick:                         They probably lost today out in L.A., Anaheim.
Andrew:                 They’re out in Arizona.
Nick:                         Out in where?
Andrew:                 Arizona. They were going to face MadBum.
Nick:                         Arizona. Diamondbacks. MadBum. His first start with them?
Andrew:                 Yeah. It was going to be good. I mean, listen, there is a lot of uncertainty around the world, and we get that, but it’s not a fun time at all for us. Like you said, I know a lot of people say, it’s a vacation for you guys. I think I speak for both of us in saying we’d much rather, much rather be working, stressed about having too much to do than having nothing to do.
Nick:                         Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, Ryan on Twitter said, I think it was like Tuesday or Wednesday, and he was like, I bet you’d love to have a midweek extra innings right now. I said, sure would.
Andrew:                 Yeah. I would take multiple softball games going extra innings. I would take multiple Junior Days. I would do whatever. Just give me my Braves. I mean, listen, just give me Braves baseball. You could have everything else. Give me Braves baseball.
Nick:                         It’s weird. Opening Day for me should be a national holiday. Take the whole day off, watch baseball. Baseball’s all day long. We should be in the middle of spring practice right now. Florida, the start to the season they had, a 16-1 start on the diamond. That would have been an incredible season to watch.
We’re sitting here bellyaching about ourselves, but I can’t imagine what it would be like to Austin Langworthy, Kirby McMullen, Tommy Mace, Jack Leftwich, any of the seniors. I think it’s a little bit less for softball. You don’t have really the same kind of professional league for softball that you do for baseball. But for any senior across the country to have their season kind of ripped away from them, or even the Draft eligible juniors and Draft eligible sophomores that now have decisions to make. It’s not as simple as, I got an extra year of eligibility,