The Sports Objective

After dominating the American's regular season, East Carolina looks to solidify a national seed at this week's conference tournament in Clearwater.

How many games must the Pirates win to wrap up one of those coveted top-8 spots? That's unclear, but if this club manages to bring home the program's third tourney title in five seasons, it's tough to fathom they would be on the outside looking in.

The American Digital Network will broadcast every game with the exception of Sunday's Championship which will be on ESPNews. We hear from ADN's Hali Oughton, who is an ECU alum, to get an inside look at this week's event.

We're also joined by "Coach O", as Learfield IMG College Pirate Sports Network color analyst Dr. Gary Overton shares his thoughts on the Pirates who received recognition from The American on Monday and ECU's bracket in Clearwater.

2017 co-Captain Eric Tyler, who made three trips to Clearwater for this event, makes his debut on the show to give us a glimpse behind the scenes and reflect on his excellent career in the purple and gold.

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No. 6 ECU wrapped up the regular season with a series win over Memphis (19-10, 5-3, 9-10). The Pirates (42-13, 20-4) will begin play in the American Tournament in Clearwater on Tuesday against 8th-seeded Wichita State. We discuss it with play by play voice Corey Gloor!

Anyone who has been to Clark-LeClair Stadium since it opened in 2005 are aware of the Left Field Megaphone guys!

ONE UP, ONE DOWN!! 60 FEET 6 INCHES, MEAT!! TAKE HER OUT, LEAVE HER OUT!

Well, we catch up with the original megaphone guys as Brian Dilday and Todd Viverette joined the show to talk about their passion for the Pirates and some great Jungle memories from down through the years!

Longtime East Carolina Basketball color analyst Si Seymour joins us to breakdown the Pirates abnormally large recruiting haul.

Plus, Pirate Baseball great Darryl Lawhorn, who ranks fourth in career batting average (.353) and home runs (43), talks about his time in the purple and gold from 2002 to 2004. Those three years included 3 regional appearances and a super regional berth in 2004 when ECU won a school record 51 games!

Following a thrilling 4-3 mid-week win over Campbell, the 6th ranked Pirates will close out the regular season against the Memphis Tigers so we caught up with their 15th year Head Coach Daron Schoenrock!

We were also joined by Stephen Igoe of Hoist the Colours as we talked ECU Athletics!

No. 6 East Carolina (39-12, 18-3) will conclude the regular season with a four-game homestead beginning on Tuesday night when Campbell visit Clark-LeClair Stadium!

We caught up with the Camels' HC Justin Haire on Monday to get his thoughts on his ball club as it will look to sweep the season series from the Pirates. CU took a 7-6 win in Buies Creek back on February 20.

Additionally, the Pirate Armada circuit is in full swing and with the Charlotte Armada stop being Thursday night at the Visulite Theatre, we chat with Chase Blake of the ECU Pirate Club to get the lowdown on the latest from Greenville and the Queen City.

The Pirates went to Wichita State with a magic number of one and wasted no time in clinching the American Athletic Conference regular season crown.

ECU, which rose to 7th in this week's D1Baseball poll, topped the Shockers, 6-1, on Friday and won Sunday's rubber match, 7-3, to take the series.

We recap the weekend and take a look ahead with Corey Gloor PLUS catch up with ESPN/SEC Network analyst Kyle Peterson. The Stanford great and former MLB 1st round pick gives us his thoughts on East Carolina and other teams from the nation's top leagues.

Following a huge mid-week win at No. 10 North Carolina, the 7th ranked Pirates will look to wrap up the regular season championship in The American at Wichita State.

ECU (37-11, 16-2), which took 2 of 3 from the Shockers in Greenville a year ago, is seeking to build its resume' into one worthy of a national seed come Selection Monday!

We catch up with Wichita State Baseball Beat Writer Taylor Eldridge of the Wichita Eagle to take an up close look at the Shockers.

Plus, we take a trip down memory lane with Chad Triplett. Triplett played for the Pirates from 1991-94 for ECU's all-time winningest coach Dr. Gary Overton AKA "Coach O", who now serves as the color analyst on the Learfield IMG College broadcasts.

With the 7th-ranked Pirates traveling to No. 10 North Carolina on Wednesday night, we caught up with the play by play Voice of the Tar Heels, Dave Nathan!

We also catch up with a distinguished alumnus of East Carolina, Dr. Jerry McGee!

Dr. McGee, who is a member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame and several other halls of fame, played baseball for the Pirates during the NAIA days in the early 60's.

He went on to a tremendous career as the President of Wingate University from 1992 to 2015 while also establishing a great reputation as a college football official where he had a chance to interact with some of the game's best coaches!

During his time at Wingate, the Bulldogs experienced tremendous growth and success both academically and athletically!

His son Ryan is an excellent senior writer and podcast co-host (Marty and McGee) for ESPN.

Volume 167 of The Sports Objective Podcast features former longtime ESPN Senior Producer and current host of The Sports Spectrum Podcast Jason Romano and Admin for the ECU Football Facebook page Steve Parker.

Romano, who spent 17 years with ESPN as a talent booker and producer, played a pivotal role in producing shows such as Monday Night Football, College GameDay, Mike and Mike In The Morning and more!

Jason's faith is of the utmost importance to him, which led him away from ESPN to host the Sports Spectrum Podcast where he has conversations with notable athletes, coaches, entertainers and more re: their faith in God through his son Jesus Christ! He also authored the book, "Live To Forgive" and has another book on the way for 2020!

Hear him discuss those ventures PLUS re-live nearly two decades of working with guys like Stuart Scott, Dan Patrick, Kenny Mayne, Scott Van Pelt and more!

Steve Parker is a 1990 alum of East Carolina University. Steve, who makes his home in Raleigh, is a passionate Pirate and does all he can to advance everything ECU. He is "admin emeritus" for the ECU Football Facebook page that is approaching 7K members. The group led an initiative entitled "The Difference $2 Dollars Can Make" that raised $10,610 over a six-week period during the 2018 football season.

If you haven't listened to our 1983 Roundtable with the Adams Brothers or our others, which feature a chat with Earnest Byner, those are shows you don't want to miss.

The 7th ranked Pirates are on their way to hosting an NCAA Baseball Regional for a second straight year--what would be a first in program history!

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The 8th ranked Pirates improved to 36-11, 16-2 with their road sweep of the second-place Cincinnati Bearcats.

The sweep, which is ECU's 7th of the season, when combined with Tulane dropping its series to UCF in New Orleans has the Pirates' magic number at 1 with 6 league games remaining as they look to wrap up their first regular season title in The American!

We are also joined by Mike Rooney, who is a long time color analyst on ESPN and also works for Perfect Game. Roons gives us his thoughts on Cliff Godwin's club plus takes a conference by conference look at what to expect come Selection Monday for The Road to Omaha!