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Summary: GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we break down what happened at SEC Media Days last week, plus much more.<br> Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down what Florida Gators head coach Jim McElwain had to say, plus we break down Friday Night Lights and the big week of recruiting camps this week.<br> Andrew and Nick break down which prospects are visiting Florida this week and who to watch for.<br> Also we break down the Florida Gators baseball season and which players are returning to school and who went pro.<br> TRANSCRIPT:<br><br> Andrew::​What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, back with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, we took our summer hiatus. You took a little vacation. I took a little vacation. Now it’s time. It’s time to go. The GC Podcast is back, and we’ll be going weekly. Let’s do this.<br><br> Nick:​Covered 70-some baseball games, so I took a little time off after that. Went on a cruise with the family. My liver is recovering, and I got a nice little tan.<br><br> Andrew:​That’s all that matters.<br><br> Nick:​Yeah.<br><br> Andrew:​That’s all that matters. I think I speak for you when I say that we will cover 70-some baseball games every year, if it results in a Natty.<br><br> Nick:​Yeah. That was my first time out there. My first time out in Omaha, ever, and being a baseball guy, being someone who played college baseball, that was always a dream, to see it. I never got to see Old Rosenblatt, but it’s such a cool experience. If you have the chance to go out there, it’s such a well-run event, and, obviously, if you’re a Gator fan, last year would have been the year that you’d like to go out, other than the first six trips that they made, 10 trips that they made. Last year would have been the one to do it, but it’s a great event, win or lose.<br><br> Andrew:​Did you get a chance to go see the little miniature Rosenblatt that they put up?<br><br> Nick:​Yeah. That’s over by the zoo, and I think, if I remember correctly, it’s like exactly where home plate was. It might even be one of the home plates that they used, and then it’s the miniature field. I didn’t go to the zoo. Everyone’s telling you, “Go to the zoo. Go to the zoo.” I’m not a zoo guy.<br><br> Andrew:​If I want to see animals I’ll just go to the woods.<br><br> Nick:​Yeah. I don’t want to go to the woods or see animals. You do you.<br><br> Andrew:​I’m just saying, if you want to see animals, don’t pay. Just go out to the woods and see a deer. Drive down the interstate. You’ll see a deer.<br><br> Nick:​Those scare the hell out of me. You were in the car, I think. We were driving through Alabama, I think Media Days or something. Driving with David Bowie, our photographer, I saw like 10 of them on the way home from FSU last year. Those things would wreck my car. Not even trying to see a deer on the side of the road.<br><br> Andrew:​We’ll go ahead. Let’s just go ahead and talk about that real quick, before we move into Friday Night Lights, Media Days, and everything. Let’s just go ahead and talk a little bit about that baseball team. We talk about this, and you and I are two of the guys that know baseball well. Baseball is a game of failure, a game of luck. I mean, let’s just call it what it is. You can have Texas Leaguers. You can have a ball that’s hit just a fraction not on the nose, and it’s caught.<br><br> ​The pieces fell Florida’s way this year, maybe not the best team Florida’s ever had, and I think you would agree with me, but there was something different about this team. It was a team, I guess I can say that. It was a team, and it didn’t seem like there was one guy that strayed away from the others like in years past. Not calling any names, but even guys like JJ, who were the superstar, kind of seemed to build into that team aspect.<br><br> Nick:​It really was a team. At some point of the season they started talking about Mike Rivera called home,