Brew and Orange

Episode 21

Lightning to Cup Final, Rays Clinch, 1 wk from Gator football

Beer

· Juicy Hazy from Crooked Stave, NEIPA, 7%, rated it a 4, 3.89 global 495 ratings

· Tonight, tasted a Palm City Brewing, Hazyify, NEIPA, 6.5 abv, rated it a 4, 3.94 global 2700 check ins @IBG

· Destihl Brewery, Haze of the Dead Hazy Double IPA, citra and simcoe, 8.5 abv

o Awesome can art, part of the deadhead iPA series, 9,269 check ins, global 4.08, I rated this a 4.25

Gators

· Henderson, Jags CB rookie of the week

o 3 pbu, 1 INT, last pbu, 5 tackles, (game winning pbu)

· One week from Gator football

o Team did a walk through, entire game day experience

§ 17,000 fans will be in attendance for home games

o Team has been doing individual position interviews

§ Christian Robinson, LB Coach was a good interview had a lot to say

· Likes the young guys wingo, hopper, diabte

o This is going to be a deep position with a lot of guys who can play all over the place.

o Ventrell Miller is the leader right now at the position, middle

§ Houston and Brunson rotating

· Jeramiah Williams set his commitment date, and its trending toward home state team Auburn

o Mother was never able to get on campus

· Sorey has two teams that contact him the most.

§ 64th National in the composite, 5 OLB, 11th in the state of Fl

· I like Christian Robinson to get his guy this class.

§ Georgia and Florida

· Bama still in it

§ Guy plays LB 4 star top 100 player, would be the cherry on top for the LB position

· Trask and Pitts 1st team, 2ndteam Miller, Elam, Wilson, 3rd team Carter, McPherson, Toney

o Is there anyone you would shift around?

· Hill names starter over Hilinski for Gamecocks

o Hiliniski was alright last year, Hill transferred in from CSU

§ 8th in passing yards last year as a freshman.

§ Hill threw for a little over 800 yards last year, 8 tds and 2 ints for CSU

Lightning

· Finals start tomorrow at 7:30 against the Dallas Stars

· No time to get healthy, does this worry you?

· Couple guys with 9 goals in this playoffs, they have 2 guys with 9 goals and the Lightning have 2

o Who do you think our 9 goal guys are?

· Their goalie with a save percentage of .920

o Vasey with a .931

Rays

· Clinched play off

· 33-18 right now

· 8 games left

· Meadows out for 4 to 6 weeks

· Yandy still coming along slow

· Won the double header

Free style

Bucs free style

Godwin….etc…limited evans….predictions

· Beer

o Copper Point Brewery

§ Boynton Beach Fl

§ Founded in 2014

§ They have a rabbit espresso stout that looks delicious

§ Indoor 50% capacity

§ Out door seating and curb side pick up

o Ravenous Pig Brewery

§ This is something I have not seen

· High Class dining room

· Brewery

· Tasteful dishes, fine dining

· Winter park, Fl

o Got these beers from Total Wine N Dale Mabry

· Gators

o 15 days until Florida plays

o Justin Shorter had his waiver approved.

§ 2018 number 1 wide receiver number 8 over all

· Transferred from Penn State

§ Added depth at te and wr, I believe he will be used in both positions

o Brewster Interview

§ Says of TE room, “hard pressed to find a better te room in the country”

§ Looks for players to be tough, first thing he looks for when he is recruiting someone.

§ Has the most admiration for Dan Mullen and it did not take long to say yes to taking the job.

o Safety’s are going to be good, freshmans looking good.

§ McDaniel, Torrence and Johnon

· Athletic hard hitters

§ They are going to rotate multiple people in and our of the star position and at safety

§ Trey Dean seems to be making himself at home at safety.

· Tampa Sports Round up

o Rays

§ Tonight for the first time in baseball history the rays line up is made up entirely of left handed batters

§ 5-5 in the last 10 games,

· 0-2 against the Nationals

· Dropped first one vs Boston

o Struck out 17 times in game 1 vs Boston

· Currently in a 4 game series with boston and then turn around and play the nationals

§ We still have no seen meadows, lowe get on the streak we know they are capable of

· Get it out of their system now, now is better than hitting your bump in the road closer to the playoffs

§ Adames is leading the team in hits

· He is having a good season batting 289.

§ Brasseau and Arozorena are having awesome seasons for guys who aren’t starting every game.

· Good to have guys like this when some of your hitters fall into a slump

§ Up this point Snell is having a good season

· Sub 4 ERA 33.2 IP

§ Injuries

· Alvarado was playing catch could be not too long before he is back

· Diaz is still feeling soreness

· Sometime this weekend Drake will make an appearance

o What do you think needs to happen for the Rays to finish strong

§ 16 games left

o Lightning

§ Up 2-0 in the ECF

· Last seconds kuch with the clutch goal

· Game 3 tonight

o If Lightning win do they sweep?

· Still to be seen how bad is pointes injury

· Killorn suspended

o How big of a deal is this for tonights game

o Killorn and pointe out at same time could be bad, but this team is more talented.

· Kuch and pointe

o Pointe, leads in series, points and goald

o Kuch, leads in assists.

· Who steps up, Palat?

o Bucs

§ How big of a deal is it if Evans is out Sunday

· Are you concerned?

§ Brady seems really enthusiastic.

· I don’t know why but I like the bucs to surprise this weekend

§ Is the first touch down going to be a pass or a run

· Who gets carry/catch

· Over/Under int for Brady, 2

· O/U TDs for Brady, 3

· O/U missed kicks, 2

§ Prediction

· Gators

o 16 days until game day vs Ole Miss

o Florida did have a positive test for covid

§ Makes it 22 total player since may to have it.

§ Florida front loaded practices so this is not as horrible as it sounds

· Of course speedy recovery for the player who contacted it

o Couple players “banged up” in the second scrimmage

§ Mullen wont say who and what until the seriousness of the injuries are known

o Another sloppy scrimmage but getting better. Mullen expects sloppiness in the first few games

§ He is always stressing the amount of practice time lost.

§ One more week before game prep starts in earnest.

o Wants to see more consistency with the qbs

§ One source with eyes on the scrimmage said the qbs threw 3 ints

o Defense did not have a single three and out

§ Couple ways to look at this

· Running game must be keep drives alive

· O line must be holding their own

o This season success, imo, is predicated on 3rd down

§ Get off the field on 3rd down and extend plays

o Running backs continue to be a position group that is showing out, mullen mentioned nayquan wright as someone running hard

§ Malik davis is looking like the davis of old, his freshman year he was a threat to break on everytime he touched the ball.

o Jean Delance is playing well on the OL

o Evidently Toney has made a transformation into an all-around wr

§ Will be interesting to see if he provides more than a gadget guy.

· Need more plays like the one against Kentucky or Miami that we saw last year

o Last year he only had 10 catches for nearly 20 yards a catch

o I imagine he gets more catches this year if he stays healthy

o Gators have the 4th most active 53 man roster players.

§ Behind bama, osu and lsu

§ Big deal! 4 receivers from last years team made 53 man rosters

· Swain, Hammond, Cleveland and Jefferson

o This should go a long way in recruiting

o Some Power 5 coaches were asked which team(s) could surprise and end up in the CFP

§ Gators were mentioned frequently amongst the anonymous coaches.

· Bucs

o Bucs vs Saints

§ Predictions

§ Take it or leave it?

· Who is scoring the first td?

o Lots of talk coming up on Friday

o Saints 3.5 point favorites

o ESPN FPI gives the Saints a 60/40 chance of winning this game

· Lightning

o Game 2 of ecf tonight

o Dominate in every facet in game 1

o Nearly every shot hit the net during that game

o Lightning were 3/6 on power plays during that game

§ We talked about it coming out of the jackets series and they have really turned it on and its now a strength in their game

o Like most teams when their stars are shining its hard to beat them

§ If Hedman, Pointe and Kuch are playing at a high level, who can beat the bolts?

o Kuch to pointe to kuch was great.

o The defense is being active in the offensive zone and that is huge to the success of the bolts.

o Islanders will make adjustments and the lightning must do it too.

§ What got you 8 goals wont work tonight

§ Lets see if Coop can counter what ever trotz comes out with

o In sports there is always a saying “have a short memory” this could be a pitcher, a quarter back, in this case both teams need a short memory

Rays, 6-4 last ten, need to finish strong last 20 games. Up 3.5 on the  Blue Jays.

· Happy Labor Day

o Safe, fun labor day weekend

§ Toast to family friends

§ Celebrating 8 years with now wife

o 3 years marriage next month

· Coppertail Hop Skull

· Went to Zydeco, filed trip hazy ipa

o gumbo

· TBBCo

· Bernini pizza

o Bottle itialian red

o Marcus Burke and Jacurri Brown had first games of highschool season and showed out

§ Marcus Burke 4 star wr commit 2021 class

§ Brown dual threat qb 2022 class 4 star

o 19 days until Florida travels to Ole Miss for game 1

o Grantham has talented depth across the dline and in the defensive backfield

§ Even after replacing talent and production along the dline, there should not be a decrease in stats talent. Lost 3 quality players from a year ago. But return 28.5 sacks the most in the SEC.

§ Remember this team was in the top of the conference in missed tackles and lack of practice could mean this becomes a problem. (137 missed tackles last season)

§ Florida was 5th in sacks.

o Rays are 28-13 1st in the east

§ 5.5 up on the yankees

§ 23-6 since August 7th

§ Nationals, Sox, Nationals

· Next 8 games

· Nationals 14-25

· Redsox 11-22

· 25-47 combined

· Pitchers are starting to get healthy

o Yarborough will start Tuesday vs the Nationals

o Yandy diaz has no timetable to return with right hamstring injury Oliver Drake about a week away

o Lightning game one of the ECF tonight vs the Islanders

§ Lightning only team going into conference finals with a full week off

· Copper was quoted saying that the time off is needed but you never want to “lose your edge”

§ Regular season played them only 3 times, 1-2 record.

§ Islanders first trip to the ECF since 1993

· Outscored them 11-4

· Wouldn’t read much into this.

· New teams at this point in the season

o Kuch is practicing

§ ESPN with interesting article, lightning in 7 is their prediction

· Goalie advantage “tie”

· Coaching advantage “islanders”

o The rest were mostly in favor of the lightning

· I like lightning in 6

o USF Bulls play the citadel @ Raymond James

§ Time was changed from afternoon game because of heat to 7 pm

· ESPN FPI predictor has USF with nearly a 95% chance to win this game.

· Jeff Scott debut, I want to start getting into a little more detail regarding the Bulls this week leading up to the game.

· Green Bench, Sunshine City IPA

· Scrimmage updates

o Trask limited reps looked sharp

o Pitts, Grimes and Copeland did not scrimmage

§ Mullen knows what Pitts is capable of

§ Maybe the lack of Practice for Grimes Toney and Copeland is why they did not scrimmage?

§ Will look for updates

o Pierce limited but scored a td

§ Lingard looks good and runs hard

· Just needs to learn the playbook

o Young receivers look good

§ They have gotten a lot of reps.

§ It evidently wasn’t the easiest day for qbs with all the young receivers.

· Timing may be off.

o Torrence is going to be a beast, had 13 tackles in the scrimmage

o Brad stewart working at star

§ He is very athletic and should thrive in an active role like STAR

· Multiple people will play this position.

· Like offense Mullen said he is going to look to create mismatches with that position

· Mullen also wants to get marco Wilson at this position as well, Mullen says he is playing very well.

o Wingo had a interception off of Emory

o Jalen Lee had a pick, not sure off who

o Nothing really ground breaking here. Need to eventually find out what kept toney, grimes and Copeland out.

o Again Mullen is going to keep everything he can from the media at this point I don’t see it changing anytime soon

· Gervon Dexter named to preseason all American

· Terrion Arnold and Tunmise slow playing their recruitment

o I would expect to not see any commits until the season picks up

o 247 did crystal ball updates and there really hasn’t been a change

· Florida has first game in 26 days!

· Bolts look to take the series tonight

o Lead series 3-1

o They won 3-1 Saturday

o Palat continues to be a machine as of late, 2 goals saturday

o Kuch with 2 assists

o Vassey with 29 saves

o They have really picked it up on the power play and had another pp goal on saturday

· Rays continue to win

o Morton threw a bullpen and should be back soon

o Beeks is having tommy john and is out for the season

o On a 5 game winning streak

o Yankees 3 game road trip starting tonight

o 24-11 3.5 games up on the yankees

o Traded Martinez for pltbn

· Rays and bolts tonight! Cheer them on!

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