1544 Miles To Omaha

Josh Fellhauer played for the Titans during the 2007 through the 2009 seasons. Fellhauer was drafted in the seventh round in 2009 after completing his junior season with the Titans. He headlined the 2009 MLB draft for Fullerton and was drafted ahead of future big leaguers Khris Davis and Dustin Garneau. A member of the 2008 Collegiate National Team and playing for Team USA, Fellhauer was a National College Baseball Writers Association All-American and named 1st Team All-Big West in 2009. His Junior season batting average ranks tied for 10th with Jeremy Giambi and Reed Johnson for a single season, batting .396 in 2009. That batting average led the 2009 team, a team that went to Omaha that season. In this conversation with Josh Fellhauer, he discusses his path to Cal State Fullerton, playing in the College World Series in Omaha twice, the fact that during his three years on campus he never played a regional or Super Regional game away from Goodwin Field and even discusses Mustache March and admits that if he co

Paul Fiarkoski is the author of the book "Romancing the Blatt: Memoir of a Love Affair with Omaha’s Field of Dreams.Paul joins Dave for a conversation remembering the iconic stadium where Cal State Fullerton played 16 of its 18 College World Series in and the site where all four national championships were won.Listeners will learn of the history of the College World Series, Rosenblatt Stadium and its ultimate demise and how the event has since moved to the new downtown ballpark. Paul shares the unique experiences Rosenblatt had to offer while touching on how Cal State Fullerton's imprint will be forever felt for those that knew "the Blatt".▶️ Visit our website: https://www.calstateomaha.com/▶️ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CalStateOmaha▶️ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calstateomaha/▶️ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calstateomaha/▶️ Suggest a guest: CalStateOmaha@Gmail.com▶️ Buy the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/30Fnj9g▶️ Visit Paul's website: https://romancin

Today's guest is Sahid Valenzuela who most recently played for the Titans from 2017 through 2019 and was drafted by the Oakland A's in the 13th round of the 2019 MLB draft. In his freshman season in 2017, Sahid played in 57 games, 55 as a starter, including both games in the College World Series primarily playing second base. He finished his freshman campaign batting .314 and received numerous awards and accolades including named to the All-Big West First Team, Big West Freshman of the Year and named to the Collegiate Baseball All-American Team.His sophomore season saw Sahid slide over to the shortstop position with the graduation of Timmy Richards, a position he would play both his sophomore and junior seasons, teaming up with best friend Hank LoForte playing second base to make up a lethal double play combo. Sahid's junior season in 2019 was cut short due to an injury that required Tommy John surgery midway through the season. Despite the injury and the subsequent surgery, Sahid was drafted in the 13th roun

Ricky Romero played for the Titans from 2003 to 2005 and was selected 6th overall in the 2005 MLB draft. Romero would make his Major League debut with the team that drafted him, the Toronto Blue Jays on April 9th, 2009, becoming the 46th Titan to play in the Major Leagues. During his professional baseball career, Romero would pitch two opening days and was selected to the 2011 MLB All-Star game. In 2011, Romero finished 10th in the Cy Young voting, a year he went 15-11 with a 2.92 ERA and 178 strikeouts. Romero's career at Cal State Fullerton was equally impressive. He was a member of the 2004 National Championship team pitching in Game 2 vs. Tulane in the Super Regional, getting the start in Game 2 in Omaha against Miami and taking the mound in Game 1 of the championship series vs. Texas, recording the win all of those games. Romero's 30 wins in three years on Fullerton's campus ranks 8th all time. Romero's 30 wins ranks third all time behind Todd Simmons and Wes Roemer of Titan pitchers who stayed for three

Guest: Associate Head Coach and recruiting coordinator, Sergio Brown. Sergio joined the Titans in July 2019 after coaching at the University of Arizona for four years. Coach Brown is currently in his third go around with Titan Baseball having served on the staff in 2001-03 and 2007-10. He also was a member of the 1995 Titan Baseball team that won the National Championship, the third of the four national championships for Cal State Fullerton.As the recruiting coordinator at Fullerton in 2009, Coach Brown reeled in the nation's fifth-best recruiting class. In 2010, his group was ranked eighth and in 2008 it was tabbed 14th nationally. Some notable names from those recruiting classes Coach Brown was able to convince to come to Cal State Fullerton include current Major Leaguers Matt Chapman, JD Davis and Michael Lorenzen.Before returning to Fullerton's campus last summer, Brown spent four seasons in Tucson coaching under Jay Johnson at the University of Arizona. Brown's second recruiting class at U of A in 2016 w

Conversation with Cal State Fullerton Titan Baseball Head Coach Rick Vanderhook.Currently in his ninth year at helm of the baseball program he played for and was an assistant coach for years, Hook recently surpassed 300 wins as a head coach with a 6-1 victory over Stanford on February 15th. His win total ranks third all-time in Titan Baseball history behind George Horton at 490 and the legendary Augie Garrido who won 875 while at Fullerton. Since the 2020 Titan Baseball season was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down all major sports college and pro, we caught up with Coach Vanderhook via telephone in order to practice proper social distancing. Hook was in the car driving during our conversation and we apologize for any silence in the audio due to the call dropping in and out. In our conversation we discuss how he, the players and the staff are coping during this unprecedented times and how the roster may shape up next season with so many players expected to return. We also discussed how the play

Conversation with Titan Alumnus and Major Leaguer Dustin Garneau. Garneau played at Cal State Fullerton for four years, from 2006 to 2009. Nicknamed Drago for his uncanny likeness to actor Dolph Lundgren who played Ivan Drago, the imposing Soviet Union boxer in the film Rocky 4, Garneau is currently with his fifth Major League Baseball club, the Houston Astros. A 19th round draft pick of the Colorado Rockies, it took Garneau nearly seven years to get the call up to the majors. During his career while at Fullerton and in professional baseball, Garneau has experienced numerous highs and lows. From being a part of three teams to advance to Omaha in his four years on campus, to the loss of Nick Adenhart and the near death of teammate Jon Wilhite, to being called up to the majors, to the loss of teammate Tyler Skaggs, to catching the combined no-hitter after Skaggs death, Garneau's career in baseball has taken some wild turns. Make sure to visit our website: https://www.calstateomaha.com/Follow us on Twitter: http

The 2020 Titan Baseball season is right around the corner, opening up February 14, 2020 at Stanford. We preview how the team is shaping up and make our predictions as to who will be starting on the mound on the weekends and the closer role. We'll also preview the bullpen contributors.The second half of the episode, we preview the positions players including what looks to be the designated hitter spot being split between two different players.Pitchers (2:11)▶️ Weekends starter predictions (5:43)▶️ Mid-Week starter prediction (10:57)▶️ Closer (13:14)▶️ Bullpen (14:22)Batters (19:56)▶️ Infield (22:12)▶️ Outfield (29:55)▶️ Designated Hitter (33:25)Make sure to visit our website: https://www.calstateomaha.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CalStateOmahaFollow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calstateomaha/Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calstateomaha/Suggest a guest: CalStateOmaha@Gmail.com

Special guest: Eric Sorenson, staff writer for D1Baseball.comKnown as Stitch Head, Eric Sorenson grew up in Omaha, Nebraska but has since moved to Southern California. He covers college baseball for D1Baseball and frequently covers Southern California college baseball teams due to his close proximity. He also covers other college baseball teams and wrote the fall preview on the 2020 Cal State Fullerton Titan Baseball team and will soon publish the preview of the 2020 Big West preview to also appear on D1Baseball. (He did give a few hints as to how he sees the Big west Conference shaking out in 2020.)In this episode. Stitch Head talks about growing up in Omaha and becoming a college baseball fan, his disdain of CBS for ruining college baseball, the transition from Rosenblatt to the new TD Ameritrade stadium, the new assistant coaches to join Cal State Fullerton's staff in Sergio Brown, Dan Ricabal and Andy Jenkins. Eric also touches on previewing the Big West Conference for 2020 and discloses that Cal State Fu

Connor Seabold played in the 2015 - 2017 Titan Baseball seasons going to Omaha twice, the first in 2015 as a freshman and 2017 as a junior. Seabold from Newport Harbor High was selected by the Baltimore Orioles in the 2014 MLB draft in the 19th round but elected to attend Cal State Fullerton. In just three years he would improve upon that draft position and was selected in the third round (83rd overall) by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2017 draft. As a freshman, Seabold assumed the Sunday starter role later in the season and took over the Friday night starter role a month into his sophomore season. The Friday night starter is the role traditionally reserved for the team's ace and Seabold held that Friday night starting spot for two years. His junior year, Seabold went 11-5 with a sub-three ERA and would go on to strikeout 122 batters compared to issuing 22 walks. Seabold was named an All-American by Collegiate Baseball and first team all Big West Conference in 2017.Seabold's name appears in the Titan recor

Cal State Fullerton President Fram Virjee has been on the job two years and has the tall task of balancing athletics expectations along with academic excellence. We visited with President Virjee at his office that overlooks the Cal State Fullerton campus to discuss his background, his ascent to being named interim President and falling in love with the job to eventually becoming the 6th President of Cal State Fullerton.President Virjee discusses rich tradition of Titan baseball and how the storied program is just one of the many facets of overseeing a university from his position. His passion for not only the baseball program but for the entire University is unmatched.Make sure to visit our website: https://www.calstateomaha.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CalStateOmahaFollow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calstateomaha/Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calstateomaha/Suggest a guest: CalStateOmaha@Gmail.comFollow President Virjee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TitanPre

Our conversation with former Cal State Fullerton and University of Oregon head baseball coach, George Horton. Call him King George or Saint George, we're calling this episode "Breakfast with the King" Because we met coach and shared breakfast at a local establishment. We met to discuss the influence Cerritos College has had on the Cal State Fullerton baseball program, the incredible run to the national championship team in 2004, the eventual decision to leave Fullerton and take the head job at Oregon and also discussed a few former Titan players and coaches along the way.Please like, rate and share this podcast. Every little bit helps.Make sure to visit our website: https://www.calstateomaha.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CalStateOmahaFollow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calstateomaha/Fallow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calstateomaha/

Cal State Fullerton Pitching Coach Dan Ricabal took time out of his schedule to discuss his role with the Titan baseball program.Ricabal was a right handed pitcher transfer from Cerritos College and earned All-American honors at Cal State Fullerton in 1993 and was an integral part of the Titans' 1994 College World Series team. He played professionally for the Dodgers and Giants organizations before landing coaching jobs in the Cape Cod League, College of the Canyons, UC Santa Barbara, The Angels minor league system, Loyola Marymount, Long Beach State and now at Cal State Fullerton.We discuss Dan Ricabal's path back to campus from being a young man in the San Gabriel Valley and playing baseball, through his college and professional baseball career, getting into coaching to coming full circle and joining the Titans in 2019. We also discuss his approach to coaching pitchers, how recruiting differs from a high school athlete to a Junior College athlete, his first impressions on this year's Titan Baseball pitching

Cal State Fullerton Titan Baseball Assistant Coach Andy Jenkins joins the podcast. Jenkins breaks down what he has seen and experiencing since joining the Titan baseball staff, reflects on his time as a player and coach at Oregon State along with the rigors of recruiting the right athlete to fit into a college baseball program. Coach Jenkins also discusses current players on the roster Kameron Guangorena, JJ Cruz, Cameron Repetti, Joe Magrisi along with his thoughts coming out of the weekend exhibition games with UNLV. Stay to the end to hear the word association game when Coach Jenkins is asked to say the first thing to come to mind when asked about Augie Garrido, George Horton, Omaha, Cape Cod, the word Dirtbag and Hooky.Please visit our newest sponsor, Milam Chiropractic & Sports Therapy at: https://www.gotspine.net/ Mention the podcast and get your first consultation and spinal adjustment free.

Our conversation with Darric Merrell, right handed pitcher for the Cal State Fullerton Baseball team from the 2001 - 2003 season. Merrell played in Omaha twice in 2001 and 2003 and was drafted by the Colorado Rockies following the 2003 season. He currently is the head coach for Temecula Valley High School. Darric discusses his career at Cal State Fullerton, minor league baseball and eventually taking the head coaching position at his Alma Mater high school. If you know of someone who would make a great guest for future 1544 Miles to Omaha Podcasts, please email: CalStateOmaha@Gmail.com or visit: https://www.calstateomaha.com/

Our conversation with Stu Murray, Perfect Game USA contributor and host of the On Campus to the Cape Podcast.Stu lives on Cape Cod and follows the prestigious Cape Cod League throughout the summer and keeps up on all things college baseball. We talk about returning Titans catcher Kameron Guangorena and right handed pitcher Tanner Bibee about their time this summer on the Cape playing for the Wareham Gatemen. Stu also shares his thoughts on west coast baseball, the coaching changes within the Cal State Fullerton Baseball program with Sergio Brown, Dan Ricabal and Andy Jenkins coming on staff this year. Stu also previews how not only the coaching changes at Fullerton but the coaching changes at Long Beach State and Cal State Northridge looks to improve the clout of the Big West Conference.Please rate and review this podcast so that other college baseball fans can find and enjoy this podcast. If you have question or comments and believe you would make a good guest, please email us at: CalStateOmaha@Gmail.com. Vi

Our conversation with Titan Baseball alumnus Jared Clark who played for Cal State Fullerton from 2005 - 2009 and went to the College World Series while a Titan. Clark played in the prestigious Cape Cod League, for Team USA and was drafted by the Colorado Rockies. He offers insight into what it was like playing for Cal State Fullerton in the mid-to-late 2000's, experiences in Omaha, playing for Team USA and what he is doing now in life after baseball.

Our conversation with incoming freshman infielder JJ Cruz, a highly regarded short stop out of Gahr High School. Cruz is expected to arrive on campus and compete immediately for the short stop position that was vacated by Sahid Valenzuela who was drafted by the Oakland A's.

Our conversation with Titan Baseball pitcher Tim Matz who played at Cerritos College before coming to Cal State Fullerton for the 1974 season while the Titans still competed in Division 2 Baseball. He also played for the 1975 Cal State Fullerton team that was the first team to play at the Division 1 level and also the first Titan Baseball team to play in the College World Series in Omaha.During the intro, we mention a contest give away of a Cal State Fullerton T-Shirt. Listen to how to enter and email your screenshots to: CalStateOmaha@Gmail.comVisit: https://www.calstateomaha.com/ for more information and updates on the Cal State Fullerton Baseball team.

After the completion of the 2019 Titan Baseball season, a number of fans had an opinion on the team, the season and the coaching. We wanted to let those fans have a voice and express themselves.We offered the opportunity to a number of fans but only four were willing to call in and let their opinion be heard. Here are their takes and opinions regarding the 2019 season and the state of the program moving forward.