1544 Miles to Omaha

1544 Miles to Omaha

1544 Miles to Omaha offers insight, opinion, rumors and stories from the past with special focus on Cal State Fullerton Titan Baseball, the College World Series and college baseball in general. 1544 miles is the distance from Fullerton, California to Omaha, Nebraska, the home of the College World Series. The Cal State Fullerton baseball team has visited Omaha during the College World Series so often, the Omaha locals tabbed the team "Cal State Omaha". The natural progression to take CalStateOmaha.com to a podcast was inevitable due to the popularity of the Titan Baseball program and the expanding fan base's insatiable appetite for more information on the four-time national champions.

Episodes

August 28, 2024 29 mins
Welcome into Episode 86 of the 1544 Miles to Omaha Podcast. Today's guest is once again, Cal State Fullerton Baseball Head Coach Jason Dietrich. 

In today's episode recorded a week prior to classes starting, coach Dietrich touches on the MLB Draft, which recruits made it to campus, staying competitive in the face of NIL and the transfer portal along other topics.

Highlights include:

🎙️ Overcoming the dreadful 2024 Season (3:11)
🎙️ No...
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A lot of great short stops have come through the doors at Cal State Fullerton, Christian Colon is arguably one of the best to have ever worn the Blue and Orange. A three-year player at Fullerton, Colon played for the Titans from 2008 through 2010 and was drafted fourth overall by the Kansas City Royals in 2010. (What's notable about that 2010 draft, Colon and teammate Gary Brown were both drafted in the first round. That is the onl...
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January 10, 2024 74 mins
Welcome into Episode 84 of the 1544 Miles to Omaha Podcast. Today's guest, Spencer Oborn, is arguably one of the greatest "one and done" players to have worn the Fullerton Orange and Navy Blue uniform.

Oborn played for the Titans for the 1999 season and is ranked in the top ten in numerous single season achievements for the Titans. For that one season, Oborn hit .395, blasting 14 home runs and driving in 82 runs. His 104 hits in 199...
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Welcome into Episode 83 of the 1544 Miles to Omaha Podcast. Today's guest is once again, Cal State Fullerton Baseball Head Coach Jason Dietrich.

In today's episode we'll touch on heading into his third season as the head coach of the storied Titan Baseball program, updates from the summer, getting his thoughts on the MLB Draft, incoming transfers and signees along with what to expect with the upcoming fall practices.

Highlights incl...
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Welcome into Episode 82 of the 1544 Miles to Omaha Podcast. Our guest is once again, Cal State Fullerton Baseball Head Coach Jason Dietrich.

We'll be discussing with coach the 2023 season, his second complete season as head coach of the historic and tradition rich program.

The 2023 Titans finished the year 32-24, 20-10 in the Big West Conference and earned the automatic bid into the postseason playing in the Stanford Regional in Pal...
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In Episode 81, Cal State Fullerton All American Mike Parisi joins Dave Lamm via Twitter Spaces to discuss the final regular season weekend series vs. Cal Poly and gaining a berth into the NCAA Regionals after a 5 year layoff.

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Warning - This podcast contains foul language and discusses adult subject matters that some may find objectionable. Listener discretion is advised.

In Episode 80, we brought together members of the 1993 Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach State baseball teams that took part in one of the most infamous brawls in college baseball history.

30 years ago on April 16, 1993, a brawl broke out in the top of the fourth inning, when Long Beach ...
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In Episode 79, Cal State Fullerton All American Mike Parisi joins Dave Lamm via the phone to discuss and recap the weekend series vs. TCU and also the UCLA game.

Despite losing two out of three in Fort Worth and dropping the mid-week game at UCLA, the non-conference losses have not affected Cal State Fullerton's standing in the Big West Conference.

The Titans enter the weekend series vs. UC San Diego with a magic number of 7, meanin...
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April 21, 2023 39 mins
In Episode 78, Cal State Fullerton All American Mike Parisi joins Dave Lamm via the phone to discuss and recap the weekend series vs. UC Riverside and also the Loyola Marymount game.

Cal State Fullerton sits atop the Big West Conference standings at 12-3, with a 2.5 game lead over the next postseason-eligible team in the standings, CSUN.

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Episode 77 of the 1544 Miles to Omaha podcast features a conversation with former Titan Baseball player, Assistant Coach and Head Coach, George Horton.

On Friday, April 21, 2023, George Horton's number 8 jersey number will be retired during a pre-game ceremony prior to the opening of the Cal State Fullerton vs. Cal State Bakersfield series.

As player, Horton wore the number 8 from 1975 and 1976 and as a coach from 1991 to 2007. After...
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April 14, 2023 37 mins
In Episode 76, Cal State Fullerton All American Mike Parisi joins Dave Lamm via Twitter Spaces to discuss and recap the weekend series vs. UCSB during the final innings of the USC game. The Titans currently sit in second place behind UC San Diego in the Big West standings and have won six consecutive weekend series.

Dave and Mike have made this type of conversation recapping the week that was and previewing the next week's opponents...
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In Episode 75, Cal State Fullerton All American Mike Parisi, joins Dave Lamm via the phone to discuss and recap the weekend series vs. Hawai'i. The Titans record sits at 14-9 (7-2 in the Big West) with a 2-1 series win over HAwai'i.

The Titans open up a crucial three-game series, hosting UC Santa Barbara in a match-up that will determine the leader in the Big West Conference thus far.

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In Episode 74, Cal State Fullerton All American Mike Parisi, joins Dave Lamm on Twitter Spaces to discuss and recap the weekend series vs. UC Davis and the UCLA Mid-week game. At the end, both preview what to expect out of the Titans' next weekend series opponent, the University of Hawai'i.

The Titans record sits at 12-8 with a series sweep vs.UCD and a win on Tuessday vs. UCLA. The Titans are tied with UC Santa Barbara for second ...
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In Episode 73, Cal State Fullerton All American Mike Parisi, joins Dave Lamm on Twitter Spaces to discuss and recap the weekend series vs. UC Irvine. The Titans record sits at 8-8 with a two out of three series win vs.UCI. The Titans are tied for second place in the Big West Conference after the first week of conference play. The Titans hit the road for the third time in 2023, traveling to Davis to take on UC Davis in a three game ...
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In Episode 72, Cal State Fullerton All American Mike Parisi, joins Dave Lamm on Twitter Spaces to discuss and recap the weekend series vs. Texas and the mid-week game vs. Utah. The Titans record sits at 4-6 with a two out of three series win vs. Texas but a loss to Utah during the mid-week. The Titans hit the road for the first time in 2023, traveling to Malibu to take on Pepperdine in a three game series.

Dave and Mike hope to make...
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In Episode 71, Cal State Fullerton All American Mike Parisi, joins Dave Lamm on Twitter Spaces to discuss and recap the weekend series vs. Michigan. Due to weather and field conditions, the Titans only played two games, a double header on Sunday, and had to cancel the final game along with reschedule the mid-week contest with USC. The Titans record sits at 2-4 losing both games of the doubleheader with Michigan.

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In Episode 70, Cal State Fullerton All American Mike Parisi, joins Dave Lamm on Twitter Spaces to discuss and recap the weekend series vs. Stanford and the mid-week game vs. Tulane. The Titans record sits at 2-2 with a Friday night win vs. Stanford, losses on Saturday and Sunday and then a walk-off win vs. Tulane on Tuesday.

Dave and Mike hope to make this type of conversation recapping the week that was and previewing the next wee...
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In Episode 69 we chose to interview Mike Rooney, ESPN and D1Baseball analyst, to discuss the upcoming Titan Baseball Season.

We conducted the interview live using Twitter Spaces and have taken the recording and it is now available as a podcast.

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February 16, 2023 45 mins
Today's guest is arguably one of the best one and done player in Titan Baseball history, Joe Fraser.

Fraser played just one year for Cal State Fullerton, that year... 1995, the year the Titans won their third national championship, defeating the University of Southern California 11-5 in the final game.

The 1995 Titans squad is widely considered the greatest college baseball team of all time going 57-9 and became the first No. 1 seed...
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December 27, 2022 30 mins
This is Part 2 of our conversation with Head Baseball Coach of the TCU Horned Frogs Kirk Saarloos. We highly suggest listening to Part 1, Episode 66 prior to listening to this episode.

For Titan Baseball fans that may not be as well versed on Titan Baseball and history, Saarloos pitched four years while at Cal State Fullerton from 1998 through 2001. His name is littered throughout the Titan Baseball Media Guide, appearing 40 times,...
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