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Episode 9: Midwest Region Preview Feb 21, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 9 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. This is the eighth and final regional preview podcast -- this one focuses on the Midwest Region. We discuss the best teams from each of the four Midwest conferences.

WIAC (at 0:34): *extremely Seinfeld voice* What's the deal with the WIAC? (No, seriously, does anyone know what's going on here? Do they have an automatic bid this year or not? Please let us know.) Anyway, we offer the not-so-hot take that Whitewater is going to be ridiculously good again, and why La Crosse and Oshkosh could be the Warhawks' biggest competition.
NACC (at 9:09): Concordia-Chicago looks primed for a huge year with an even more loaded roster than the one that went to the World Series in 2017
MIAC (at 12:19): St. Thomas and their outrageously talented pitching staff will look to avenge their surprise conference tourney loss last year, with Bethel, St. John's and Macalester all in the running as well
UMAC (at 18:17): St. Scholastica has won this conference every single season since 1998. Need we say more?

We conclude (at 21:13) by shouting out some other notable players to watch in the Midwest Region, before giving our official TEAMS TO BEAT and our Player and Pitcher of the Year contenders. Finally, we give some final thoughts on completing the regional preview podcasts and prepare for the real season to get under way.

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Episode 8: Mideast Region Preview Feb 20, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 8 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. This is the seventh of our eight regional preview podcasts -- this one focuses on the Mideast Region. We discuss the best teams from each of the six Mideast conferences, featuring a few of the best teams in the country heading into the 2018 season.

NCAC (at 0:58): Jordan offers his totally not-at-all biased preview of the Wooster Fighting Scots, and which teams could challenge them for the conference title
OAC (at 10:24): What used to be a powerhouse conference is now somewhat of a mess, with Mount Union and Otterbein now at the top
PAC (at 16:50): Why Washington & Jefferson should still be feared even after losing *a lot* of hitters
AMCC (at 20:12): Don't mess with La Roche -- they'll probably win
MIAA (at 22:54): Adrian is hosting the Mideast Regional; are they the favorite to win it?
HCAC (at 27:17): Earlham took the crown last year, but can another team emerge in a crowded conference race?
UAA (at 29:30): Case Western's case for a Pool B bid

We conclude (at 33:54) by shouting out some other notable players to watch in the Mideast Region, before giving our official TEAMS TO BEAT and our Player and Pitcher of the Year contenders.

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Episode 7: New York Region Preview Feb 19, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 7 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. This is the sixth of our eight regional preview podcasts -- this one focuses on the New York Region. We discuss the best teams from each of the five New York conferences, four of which have an automatic bid.

SUNYAC (at 0:53): Cortland gonna Cortland...and how will the Oswego State Lakers perform in their final season before LeBron arrives?
Empire 8 (at 9:53): St. John Fisher and Ithaca up top
Liberty League (at 14:12): How far can RIT's tremendous pitching staff take them?
Skyline (at 16:46): Can anyone challenge SUNY-Maritime?
CUNYAC (at 17:37): Why are they called the Staten Island Dolphins?
UAA (at 18:26): NYU has a baseball team, and it's pretty good

We conclude (at 22:48) by shouting out some other notable players to watch in the New York region, before giving our official TEAMS TO BEAT and our Player and Pitcher of the Year contenders.

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Episode 6: New England Region Preview Feb 19, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 6 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. This is the fifth of our eight regional preview podcasts -- this one focuses on the New England Region. We discuss the best teams from each of the eight (!) New England conferences.

LEC (at 0:43): Are UMass-Boston and Southern Maine the two best teams in the whole region?
NEWMAC (at 7:14): The magic of Wheaton (Mass.)...and don't sleep on Babson
CCC (at 13:20): Salve Regina's got arms on arms on arms
NESCAC (at 16:02): Jumbos Jumbos Jumbos
GNAC (at 18:36): St. Joseph's (Me.) or Suffolk, you tell us
NAC (at 23:30): Castleton is really good, and Davis Mikell is even better than really good
NECC (at 26:28): Lesley and Mitchell will square off after their epic conference tourney ending last year
MASCAC (at 27:37): Westfield State should rebound after losing the conference tourney last year (also we didn't mention Salem State but they should also be considered)

We conclude (at 28:36) by shouting out some other notable players to watch in the New England region, before giving our official TEAMS TO BEAT and our Player and Pitcher of the Year contenders.

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Episode 5: Central Region Preview Feb 17, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 5 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. This is the fourth of our eight regional preview podcasts -- this one focuses on the Central Region. We run through the best teams from each of the four Central conferences, as well as two other teams in the region competing for a regional spot (one of which is kind of a big deal).

CCIW (at 1:19): How will North Central (Ill.) follow up its incredible 2017 season? Which other teams could compete with the Fightin' Matejas?
MWC (at 8:34): It's St. Norbert's world, we're all just living in it
SLIAC (at 10:54): Will Webster reload after losing some premium talent? Can Greenville repeat as surprise conference champions?
IIAC (at 19:10): Is Wartburg actually the best team in the entire region? Also we explain why Nathan Schneiderman is so important.
UChicago (at 25:36): Assessing the talent in their final year as an independent school
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS BEARS (at 29:21): Jake offers his preview for his alma mater for the first season of the Post-Jake Mintz Era.

We conclude (at 34:45) by running through some other notable players to watch in the Central region (mainly Jimi Keating), before giving our official TEAMS TO BEAT and our Player and Pitcher of the Year contenders.

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Episode 4: Mid-Atlantic Region Preview Feb 15, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 4 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. This is the third of our eight regional preview podcasts -- this one focuses on the Mid-Atlantic region. We run through the best teams from each of the seven Mid-Atlantic conferences.

NJAC (at 2:25): It's TCNJ, Ramapo, and Rowan at the top. Who will emerge as the favorite?
Centennial (at 8:20): How good is Hopkins? Can anyone challenge them? (plus a Haverford mascot tangent)
CSAC (at 14:48): Keystone Against the World
Landmark (at 16:36): We have no idea who the favorite should be...Susquehanna, Drew, Catholic, and Elizabethtown all in the mix
MACF (at 18:50): Misericordia looking good again
NEAC (at 20:22): The favorites are all Penn ___________
MACC (at 21:19): Alvernia or Arcadia? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We conclude (at 24:57) by running through some other notable players to keep an eye on in the Mid-Atlantic region, before giving our official TEAMS TO BEAT and our Player and Pitcher of the Year contenders.

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Episode 3: South Region Preview Feb 11, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 3 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. This is the second of our eight regional preview podcasts -- this one focuses on the South region. We run through the best teams in the four South conferences -- the USA South, the SAA, the ODAC, and the CAC -- before giving some love to the UAA southern representative as well.

We begin (at 1:43) with the USA South and the reigning conference champs, the LaGrange Panthers, and whether they can remain on top after losing much of their pitching staff and a few big bats. Next (at 5:10), we discuss the SAA and the perennial power known as the Birmingham-Southern...Panthers...and why we think these are the Panthers that could truly contend come regional time. We then move (at 10:14) to the all-powerful ODAC, which features perhaps the two strongest teams in the region in Shenandoah and Randolph-Macon, as well as one of the stories of the 2017 season in Roanoke. We then turn to the CAC (at 18:34) and discuss how good Salisbury could be even after losing Player of the Year Pete Grasso. Finally (at 22:18), we discuss the Emory Eagles, and how they stack up in a UAA conference that lost a lot of talent to graduation.

We conclude (at 28:00) by running through some other notable players to watch down South, before giving our official TEAMS TO BEAT and our Player and Pitcher of the Year contenders

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Episode 2: Kanye West Region Preview Feb 10, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 2 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. This is the first of our eight regional preview podcasts -- this one focuses on the West region, AKA the region that has weather nice enough to start their seasons in early February. First, we lay out the obvious disclaimers and caveats about whatever flaming hot takes we present about teams in the West -- mainly that we haven't seen any of these teams, so we're giving the most educated and researched insight we can give based on the information we've got. We discuss the strongest regional contenders from each of the four West conferences -- the ASC, the NWC, the SCAC, and the SCIAC.

First (at 4:14), we talk about the favorites in the ASC, and why we love Texas-Dallas this year (despite their inconveniently timed 0-2 start!). Next (at 11:03), we discuss the teams of the beautiful Pacific Northwest, AKA the NWC, and whether any other teams have what it takes to take on Linfield. Next (at 16:36), we discuss the SCAC and Centenary's chances to dominate the region (especially after their hot start). We then head to California (at 22:54) to discuss the favorites way out west, including that purple and gold team that may or may not have won the national championship last year. Finally (at 31:10), we run through some other notable players to watch in the West, before giving our official TEAM TO BEAT and our Player and Pitcher of the Year.

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Episode 1: Five Perfect Games and You're Actually Good Jan 31, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 1 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. It may be hard to believe that this is something we are actually doing, but here it is, in real life, free to be consumed by the public. We wanted to spent the first episode of setting some very clear expectations about what we want this show to be for us, the lunatics who are deciding to host it, and you, the listener, the fellow D-III baseball enthusiast.

Our first official segment (at 10:20) is a discussion about a particularly preposterous hypothetical: what would a D-III player have to do to get invited to the MLB Draft? Next (at 20:06), we read a couple e-mails, one about the remarkable story of the Lesley University baseball team, and another about an outrageous (and surely unhealthy) in-game ritual performed by the Linfield College pitching staff.

We concluded the inaugural podcast (at 26:30) with the ultimate cop-out for the inevitable complaints from people that "we don't talk about their team." (Sorry it took so long. It was a long list. Usually the podcast will stay under 30 minutes).

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