Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Say Hester and Hester got it fa fa from carrying
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Speaker 2: Welcome back here.
Speaker 3: I'm Bench number three live from the Raisin Kine Studio.
Lynn landra taite Cane, tiny baby Cane. Oh broke leg.
Speaker 4: Who did that to her?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think she was born that way.
Could be could be a little birth defect. She didn't
like to talk about it too much. Guys.
Speaker 4: She can't talk yet.
Speaker 3: She can't even see her talking about That's why she
got the glasses on. Pubby's eyes don't open for a.
Speaker 2: Couple of days. Congratulations, by the way, Kane, you hit
it very well.
Speaker 5: You can tell it's her baby too, because like perfect
bandana match.
Speaker 2: Past that down. Huh m hmm. Don't blink, it's yours confirmed.
Speaker 4: There is now an orange cat outside of Laundre's house
in the chat.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4: He missed it straight cat that broke my heart yesterday.
Speaker 3: And that and I don't know if it's confirmed, but
we believe that Alandra kicked it.
Speaker 4: I did not.
Speaker 2: She like literally kicked it to shove it with your foot.
Speaker 5: No, out of the way, give it a little head tape.
Speaker 4: I definitely pet it.
Speaker 2: I give a little m h out of disgust. By
the way.
Speaker 4: I mean, I was grossed out when I dry heaving.
I literally was like this and then I washed my
hands immediately.
Speaker 2: Landra, this might be a topic that you would like.
Speaker 4: Is it about the Mexican cartel?
Speaker 3: A local correspondents on the cartel?
Speaker 2: I'm always scared that this is right up your alley.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then it's always the most insane headline ever.
Speaker 3: No, this is actually sporty. Okay, we're getting a rematch
eleven years later Mayweather Pack.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, I did see that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have agreed.
Speaker 3: Stupid September nineteenth, twenty twenty six. They will be fighting
in the sphere in Vegas on Netflix.
Speaker 4: Are they trying to That's usually around the time that
Canelo fights, because it's around like Mexican Independence date. Are
they trying to upstage my guy? I don't know if
he has a fight coming up.
Speaker 5: Actually, essentially smart though, they should put him in the
ring three way fight first.
Speaker 2: That would get some money.
Speaker 4: That would be badass. No, they you know what they
should do, tag team boxing match, Bring back Triple G
with Canelo Okay and then Pakia employee My Mayweather.
Speaker 2: Definitely no Triple G is Kennedika Alovkin Ganadi. What words
did you just say to me? Last name? Okay? Hell, yeah,
that's who he is.
Speaker 4: He just they had some chronic fights that would be
sick though.
Speaker 2: Little tag team boxing match. I like that. Yeah, one old,
one year reaching in the ring. Tag gods.
Speaker 5: Smart to do it in Vegas. The look at a
senior citizen discount on some of the buffets. So that's
actually a good idea for Peck. Actually, I was kind
of surprised not yet. Uh Floyd Mayweather of course a
fifty and oh record. He is forty nine, yeah, Paqiao
sixty two eight and three forty seven years old, So
youth is on Peckya side. And Pacquiao is saying, like,
I've been wanting this rematch. My shoulder was hurt back
in twenty fifteen. Convenient, that's why I lost. You get
the rematch, Floyd Maywee the currently minus won seventy five
to win the match.
Speaker 3: Pack Yeah, play what is it. He's minus Mayweather's won
minus won seventy five, pac Yo plus one thirty five.
So yeah, what's the point on this? But I mean, okay,
I know it's fine when it's abstupid. Should make money,
make money, ish money, pay it. That's the man has
money and they're gonna make a lot of it. I
know Floyd likes to spend it, so he still have
the private jet probably.
Speaker 4: I mean he literally was called the Money Team.
Speaker 3: Just saying like he was pretty famous for like doing
like multimillion dollar bets on different things.
Speaker 5: But you don't have to go back and fight. Just
sell your PG buddy or PJ or.
Speaker 3: Keep it in fight. That's the other option, which is
the option he's choosing.
Speaker 5: And it is always better to have a private jet
than not, that's true.
Speaker 2: And you're also fighting another old So this is.
Speaker 3: Going to be probably what, uh eight figure pay day,
one hundred million dollars. Yeah, I mean it's Netflix, So
Netflix of course says the worldwide you know whatever, they
as much money as they want.
Speaker 4: What was the last perse.
Speaker 2: Eleven years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, which obviously fifty to ozer record. Mayweather won that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because Pakia's shoulder was hurt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was it shoulder. Then it went all the
way to.
Speaker 2: Decision forty seven had shutter?
Speaker 4: Was that twenty fifteen right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah. Twenty fifteen.
Speaker 4: Fight grossed well over six hundred million in total revenue,
So Mayweather's earnings were around one hundred and eighty to
two hundred and fifty million, and then pakils were around
one hundred and twenty two one hundred.
Speaker 5: And thirty A fight too, I take it back, Yeah,
well was I say it again?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry say the perse again.
Speaker 4: May The total for the fight, it was well over
six hundred and million dollars, six hundred million dollars in
total revenue like pay per view, ticket sales, sponsors all that.
Mayweather's purse was around one hundred and eighty to two
hundred and fifty million, and then pakiws pakios was one
hundred and twenty two one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 3: Million two and this is in twenty fifteen DoLS. That
was probably like standard pay per view. Like I don't understand,
you know, I know that Netflix gets a bump on
a lot of things, but I don't know how their
business model and paved.
Speaker 4: I don't either, because This is only like what the
second or third fight that they've broadcasted, like they did
the Jake Paul versus Tyson that one.
Speaker 3: That one was awful because it no one could watch
it because it just wasn't ready for it. Now they
improved and then they brought NFL to Netflix as well,
and everything's been actually really good since then.
Speaker 2: But that was terrible. So they learned a lot.
Speaker 4: I don't know if the NFL has as much viewers
as like a boxing.
Speaker 3: So you got to think that they're not taking less
than what they got paid then to come back as
forty nine to forty seven year olds to punch each
other's in the face.
Speaker 4: Let me see what Jake Paul versus Tyson so was
aer Logan.
Speaker 3: It seems like a like a like a lost leader
for Netflix to do that. I mean they're coming out
of pocket, I mean at least three hundred million to
pay these two gentlemen. They're not really it's not a
payer plate like pay for view scene.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because yeah, you're right, they're not going to get
pay per view earnings because they don't have.
Speaker 2: Now, they'll get a lot of new followers or subscribers.
Excuse me.
Speaker 5: Look at some of the because like Netflix will do
the live ads like they did with with the NFL
they like they did, they did all that live.
Speaker 2: The Sphere is going to get theirs too.
Speaker 5: I don't even want to know how much of his
tickets are going to be.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: I'm watch The Wizard of Oz, like the movie we've
all seen numerous times. You can go to Vegas and
watch that in the Sphere.
Speaker 2: It is like two D.
Speaker 4: Matt did that Stona original. You went to go watch
the Wizard of Oz at the Sphere.
Speaker 2: The Sphere looks awesome. I don't know if I'm paying
two hundred bucks it does.
Speaker 3: It's probably the not what's showing. It's probably just the
being in it.
Speaker 2: Being in it.
Speaker 3: This is when we can go, what what what's the
show around this time that we can go, Yeah, why not,
We'll just I'll go enjoy the Sphere one time you're
there once.
Speaker 2: I do want to see it.
Speaker 4: So this is definitely like a money thing because Floyd
Mayweather's also suing his broadcast partner, Showtime members. Showtime was
a thing, Okay, so he's suing them, and it's ex
president claiming they with the help of Mayweather's former advisor
concealed and diverted revenue from his earnings through boxing. So
he's seeking three hundred and forty million dollars in damages
through this lawsuit. So I think he's I think he's broke.
He's just to be blunt, just to be blunt, Like,
I think this is a money grab for sure. I mean,
obviously it was going to be they're old and they're whatever.
Speaker 3: But and if he can do anything for one hundred
and eighty million dollars at any age, like you do
it right.
Speaker 2: So I say anything, not anything.
Speaker 4: Jake Paul Just for reference, I know Jake Paul is
not going to have the same pool as Floyd Mayweather
and many patt But to be fair, Mike Tyson was
in this too, Jake Paul. It was reported to have
earned forty million dollars for the fight, and yeah, that
was his purse and the estimated share revenue from the event.
Mike Tyson only got like twenty million for that.
Speaker 3: I who through the fight he could have punched him.
I guess, look at I think we think, because of inflation,
that they would we assumed that they would get more
than they got twenty fifteen, but I assumed that in
twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: There was a lot more at stake.
Speaker 3: This was like this is this is more of a
active this is more of an exhibition. Yes, hey they
can they can act like in the you know, pre
fight stuff like they hate each other and stuff, but
like their business partners. Right, But there was a lot
more at steak then. I'm assuming, like real belts and
things like that. There was a sanction fight. I mean,
I don't know if this was not, but I mean
that was like, yeah, four or tight. I guess I
assumed eleven years later, with inflation, they're gonna get paid more,
But now I'm thinking, are they gonna get paid less?
Speaker 2: Probably? Probably?
Speaker 3: I don't know, we'll find out. Yeah, Mike Tyson did
forget how to punch in that fight. I don't think
you forgot. He was just told not to.
Speaker 2: Anthony Josh Wao didn't forget to forget. I really like that.
Speaker 4: I love a j.
Speaker 2: Who's who's that boxer he lost to? That was like.
Speaker 4: It was looked out of shape the boat or the last.
Speaker 2: One the guys that looked out of shape.
Speaker 5: It was like years ago, are you're talking about You're
probably thinking of Deontay Wallder and Tyson Fury.
Speaker 6: Is that.
Speaker 4: There's Anthony oh Ruise you're talking about Ruise? Yeah, he
beat him once and then he lost to him too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they didn't look like they you're talking about. Should
have been in in the same ring. Yeah, Jake Paul
looked liked the better bye.
Speaker 5: Over him. They beat him, beat him up, punch Hi
around the face. Anyway, So are you all excited about it?
Speaker 2: I'm sure.
Speaker 4: I mean we can watch it.
Speaker 2: Obviously we're all watching it. You're not watching it, probably not, man,
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 5: It depends on what else is going on that day.
Speaker 2: Watch them.
Speaker 5: What day of the week is September nineteenth, it's a
Friday or Saturday?
Speaker 2: No shot, grass is still growing in September.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm gonna be. That's a that's a
Saturday in September. I will absolutely not be watching that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point in the in the chat here,
the first fite was boring, so I would the second
one be any good? Aren't all Mayweather fights pretty boring?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Defensive secretary of Defense.
Speaker 4: That was like the thing about, Yes, he's a defensive fighter.
So that was the thing that people would say about
Mayweather all the time, like he just runs around the
ring or is.
Speaker 2: He just there's how to win point?
Speaker 4: That's that was always his his way of doing it.
Speaker 5: Got him a good record, I mean if you can, yeah,
fifty and oh he.
Speaker 3: Played defense all the way to one hundred and eighty
million dollars. Person, good for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you think he's broke though, Like, let's sake, let's
take you about. You think he's broke?
Speaker 4: Just pure speculation. I think he is because he's suing
for three hundred and fifty million and then suddenly coming
out to fight.
Speaker 6: Broke.
Speaker 2: I think he's close to it.
Speaker 5: I mean what, like what the definition of his broke
is probably different than our definition. He probably just can't
live money. Probably has a big asset, but like how
much of that is he can't how much of it
as cat?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he can't blow money right now, which is what's
just like what he wants to do, which is what
he can't lift his money Mayweather right now, he's owe
money Mayweather.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh I like that.
Speaker 3: I went to uh Lacey and I went to Nashville.
It's probably five years ago now, and we went to
an Elton John concert. Fine, it was in It was awesome.
I've always wanted to go to Elton John concert. It
was in Titan Stadium. I don't know the name of
the stadium. Yep, it was, you know, the big stadium.
Tour blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: And I'm sitting there and I'm watching him and.
Speaker 3: Fantastic. Obviously I'm not I'm like, why is he still
doing this? Like why is he still touring? And come
to find out, it was the money thing, like he had.
He loves to spend money, that's his thing. He's got
houses and like six of the seven continents he's got
all this stuff like, and he lives a very the
lifestyle and he needed the money.
Speaker 2: So he's out.
Speaker 3: There and you know, it's elderly at this point, and
he's walking around controlling the stage and doing it. So
you know, if you are use your skill set, use
your talents, and do it as long as you can.
But if you got to live that lifestyle, you gotta
stay performing. You can ever retire, you gotta keep on
I'm still standing, gotta keep on standing.
Speaker 4: I'm still standing.
Speaker 3: That was That was one of the few times he
stood up. I mean you got to and they showed
his age. Yeah, and he had to see Yeah, he
had to of course, great song. All right, we we
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Speaker 4: I'm dropping back on black.
Speaker 2: Just got my license back.
Speaker 5: I've got to steal in and my basis trains coming
off the track.
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while you was.
Speaker 2: Thinking, and I got the cut on the dumbs, so
you can comb in on the run.
Speaker 1: Your mom don't know that you will miss see them.
Speaker 2: Take it easy, Taylor's.
Speaker 5: I'm about to break this computer screen. Dude, ND just
firing me up over here.
Speaker 2: You have to adjust yourself.
Speaker 3: See you should have say Taylor, Taylor knows every single
word to this one.
Speaker 2: What what? What do you point it? You got another cane? What?
Just keep popping up? Dude?
Speaker 4: Whoa mama? Kane gets around?
Speaker 2: That's right, two different dads. You can't tell two different dads.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Dang, look at that. We're like cuteness overload over here
raising Kane Studio.
Speaker 4: Just throw a picture of punch in the back.
Speaker 2: Please, Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4: I'll throw a punch on the screen.
Speaker 2: The computer got back up. You think Jay Johnson knows who?
Speaker 4: We should definitely ask him the hearts?
Speaker 2: He saw the heart saw the hearts?
Speaker 4: No, I really do actually feel like we should ask
Jay if he knows about Punch the Monkey. He's not
gonna know about him.
Speaker 2: No, he has knows about Punch the Monkey. I didn't
know about him.
Speaker 4: And you're like kind of chronically.
Speaker 3: Online chronically a strong word. I do work your favorite.
I am online look at sports cards.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I love him.
Speaker 2: They could at least wash it, right the monkey? Which
one is just gonna get dirty again?
Speaker 5: Punch of the stuffed one. Gotta clarify by the stuffed animal. Yeah,
they can wash it.
Speaker 4: Oh no, they tried to give him a new one.
He didn't like it.
Speaker 3: Well, they can wash it, though. You think he don't
like it if it's not like detergent.
Speaker 4: You know how monkeys groom each other. He was grooming
the stuffy.
Speaker 2: Does he threw? Does he throw two at it? Though?
Speaker 3: I don't know because they do that as well. I
don't know if it's his type.
Speaker 4: I love him.
Speaker 5: She's also Lundra's not going to New York next week. Match,
She's going to Japan. She's gonna break out Punch, So.
Speaker 4: Don't be surprised if he's hanging out in the studio
next week.
Speaker 3: You either go there if you're gonna go You either
punch him or you take the stuffy.
Speaker 5: She's gonna have two animals, punch the monkey and kick
the cat.
Speaker 2: And what kick the cat? The cat?
Speaker 3: You dropped an article in just pulling up Taylor, it's
worth mentioning world's oldest competitive pool player. Yep, still going
strong playing at ninety eight years old. Now is this professional?
A Florida woman who became the world's oldest competitive pool
player at the age of ninety four is still going
strong at ninety eight and is headed to a tournament
in Las Vegas. Good for Jensen Beach. No, I'm sorry,
Jensen Beach resident sounds like Jensen Beach. I've never heard
of Jensen Beach. Maggie Kennedy does the world competitive Jensen.
Speaker 2: He's like Jensen Beach. I don't know where Maggie Kennedy is,
but that's where she lives.
Speaker 3: Oh, probably should have read this article up break. Have
y'all ever heard of Jensen Beach. It doesn't sound like
a person. Oh man, I've heard of the person named
Jensen before. Anyway, that's kind of that's kind of ages
and that you're laughing at this article.
Speaker 2: About this article? How about that ninety eight years old?
How about it going to a tournament.
Speaker 5: I guess Vegas is the home for geriatrics now like Mayweather,
paqil this lady. I wonder what her odds are. Oh,
she's got to be a long shot. But I am
hammering that odds.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: You gotta sprinkle a little bit on Maggie slash Jensen, Well,
Jensen classic Jensen.
Speaker 2: Can't find Jensen Beach on the betting line.
Speaker 5: You call the betting Matt's calling Vegas sportsbooks.
Speaker 2: Hey, where is Jensen Beach?
Speaker 3: I want to bet on missus Beach eight?
Speaker 2: Is insane playing pool?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 5: If she's anny good? I mean I'm looking for right now?
She said this long of a career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 3: But I think can anybody in her tournament? Or do
you have to like be in the world rankings to
get tournament?
Speaker 4: I don't know how cool work this is.
Speaker 3: This is crazy like China and Ai. They gotta they
gotta slow down. I'm reading to this article, reading about
Jensen Beach and her pool playing, and there's a video
ad here about Punch.
Speaker 2: Punch the Monkey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because he's adorable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I heard us talking about it.
Speaker 4: I mean wouldn't you rather punch the monkey than.
Speaker 2: That's true?
Speaker 4: Like something for consumption? You know?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? All right, we got Jay Johnson coming, come here.
I'm gonna join the show. We're gonna talk a little baseball.
Speaker 4: Are you gonna ask him short for.
Speaker 3: It's the greatest coach in college baseball. We're gonna have
it right here on the show when we come back.
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back here off the Bench Thursday morning,
ninety a, live from the Raisin Kine Studio. We are
lucky fortunate enough to have I guess it is coming
to us every single week right here on off the bench,
the best college baseball coach in the country, Coach Jay Johnson.
We got him on the line. Coach, how you doing
this morning?
Speaker 6: Being great? Matt?
Speaker 2: How you doing doing fantastic? Coach? Great to have you.
Speaker 3: We appreciate your time as always, I just kind of
want to, I guess, dive right into everything, you know,
a couple of weeks into the season now, of course,
coming off a midweek loss this past week, this past
Tuesday to big Nie, just kind of want to get
your thoughts on the game, how everything went. And I
know you want to win every single game, but I
know there's a constant evaluation what going on at this
part of the season, of course, but just give me
your kind of overview thoughts on the game on Tuesday.
Speaker 6: Yeah, not not our best game, obviously. I think the
team had played honestly great for eight games, like I
mean in Jacksonville, probably hard to ask for much more,
especially this time of the year, and felt, you know,
very good about how we played. I did talk to
them immediately after winning that tournament about the difficulty that
Tuesday can bring and kind of tab it as the
week three coma of college baseball where the newness kind
of wears off, and you know, we always try to
be ahead of it. I like how they competed and
fought back in the game. We had two innings get
away from us defensively, and I think and from the mound,
and I think that's the next task for this team
is if we can stay out of big innings, we're
gonna be really hard to beat. So we have to
really make sure we're on top of that, you know,
with the pitching staff, because if we can keep that,
you know, the inning at a one or a two. Offensively,
even though it wasn't our best game, we did still
find a way to score six runs and and got
the go ahead or the winning run on base of
the ninth inning, you know, provided it wasn't our best
game offensively, So that's kind of the next task. And
excited to get into five games and six days again
starting tomorrow and get back competing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think for coaches out there, I think that's probably
the part that is that's talked about the least amount
of your job and what you deal with day. Of course,
it's the it's the game plan, and it's the lineup building,
it's it's coach your philosophy. But I mean coaches are psychiatrists.
A lot of times you have to understand and teach.
I mean, you're dealing with guys that are eighteen to
twenty three years old. These these are people out of
pretty young young folks in their life and they have
to learn. You can practice all you want, you can
practice hard, but you played a lot of baseball in
the first two weeks, and then they have to reset
their mind and come out on a Tuesday. And it's
just how much do you focus on just the psychology
of these guys, and like it's a learned thing of
how to reset from whether it's a loss, whether it's
a win, and come back. And of course they're gonna
have to reset from a Tuesday, but you've talked about
resetting from a Wednesday to a midweek game. So how
much do you just focus and take pride on teaching
these guys how to attack mentally every single game?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll steal a coach David line of like we
literally try to work on mindset three hundred and sixty
five days a year in the program. And it is
the most important thing, and it's more important. It's really
important in anything you're trying to do in higher performance.
It's really important with baseball with the monotony of the game,
the amount of games, the element of failure within baseball,
the degree of concentration that's required to be really really successful,
and if it you know, we try to get them
to where we don't have to learn the lessons in office,
and we've been really good at that year, and you
know we it got us a little bit. And and
again like I thought, our guys, they competed fine. We
got to go ahead run on base in the ninth inning.
I think there was like a the second to the
fourth inning offensively where for the first time all year,
really all year, we got a little bit out of
sorts and let them, you know, pile up a few zeros.
And then after that we were pretty good from the
fifth to the ninth on, but it was a little
too little, too late. And then defensively, like I said this,
this just comes down to our ability to stay out
of beginnings. And if you look at last year's team,
you know we did not give up very many the
innings of three runs or more. And that was we
were in every game that we played, with the exception
of one for an entire college baseball season. So I
think we have a pretty good idea of what's important.
I feel, I know we have a good idea of
how we attack it. It doesn't make the games easy,
and if you look around the country this week, like
pretty clear to see. I think six top ten teams
have lost, you know, either between Tuesday or Wednesday, and
so at baseball is great and maddening at the same time.
And that's why all these things that you and I
are talking about are really really important. It's why I'm
having another staff meeting here as soon as I hang
up the phone with you to make sure we got
them dialed in.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: I'd never stop grinding, whether it's physically, whether it's mentally, emotionally, spiritually,
whatever it does. So watching the game, it was you
go through ten pictures, use ten ten pictures in a game.
I kind of wanted to see, like, what's your thought
process when you know, maybe there's some you know, some walks,
some hit hip batters, things like that. It kind of
seemed like it got to the point I was like,
all right, let's say this guy and you got a
lot of people, you're that you eight in a bullpen constantly.
I know, it's all right, Uh, okay, you walked this sky.
Let's get another guy in. Like, what's your philosophy when
things are going with control issues and you going through
a lot of pictures throughout a game.
Speaker 6: Well, we have depth on this staff and so we
don't have to necessarily stay with anybody that it's not
their night, so to speak. Yes, and I didn't really
operate that way. Every pitching decision I make is geared
to help the picture get the next guy out. And
I just feel like a couple the second inning, obviously,
and I believe it was the fourth, we just we
lost the zone. Gave them enough and give them credit,
they got a couple hits with runners in scoring position,
and that that was the difference in the game. We
set them up and then they took advantage of it.
And free bases and two out hitting or hitting with
runners in scoring position are going to be big predictors
and who's going to win. So I kind of tried
to stop talking about it, like it's super what I
call elementary baseball, Like hey, look, we can easily point
to how this happened tonight, and now it's about lining
the pitchers up mentally, physically, matchup wise. I feel good
about all of that, Like it just we painted ourselves
into a corner in two innings and they cashed in
and they deserve to win the game because of that.
I have, you know, a lot of faith and a
lot of guys, And like I said, our task is
making sure we're really dialed in with guys that can
come in and be firemen if you want to call
them that, Like, just shut the inning down, get us
off the field. You know who could throw strikes with
runners on base, who's got an outpitch for some of
the best hitters in the lineup. Just like I said,
if we could keep some of those innings at one
and two instead of three or four, we're going to
be in really good shape.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: Catch Like, with two weekends into the season, how do
you how do you evaluate your weekend rotation as of
right now going into a weekend where you're about to
face dartbo at the Northeastern.
Speaker 6: Well, I like where it's headed. I think when you
look at Cason, I think he pitched very well on Friday.
I think we kind of had this weird inning again,
one of those three run innings happened where I mean
they had five or six hits off of him and
only one or two got to the outfield. It was
just like a super bizarre deal him getting two zeros
after all of that happening happening and getting us off
the field with a one run deficit, I believe in
the third inning the other day, I think that was
a lot of what we saw last year. So I'm
excited about him obviously. Moving forward, I think Cooper Moore
has done a great job, not a good job. Gave
up a two run homer near his last pitch of
the outing, but other than that, he's been spectacular. And
then William you know, through the ball Sunday like arguably
the best pitcher in the country, which I think he's
totally capable of being, and I think we're making some
real strides there. So I feel good about those guys.
And the best part, particularly in Case and Williams cases,
they're only going to continue to get better.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: I got to remember, you know, one of them pitched
largely in a midweek and one of them pitched out
of a bullpen last year. So even though they're sophomores,
even though they contributed largely to that national championship, they're
still new at being a weekend starter. It's like, you know,
that sophomore quarterback that was a backup the year before.
There's still a little bit of a learning curve, and
we're going to keep trying to bust through that as
fast as we can. But I think those guys are
going to.
Speaker 3: Be great because it is coming from like a football
meadhead guy. So what is like, is it all mental?
H going from the bullpen to a starter? Like, what
is the difference between you know, coming in and relieving
for three, four five innings and pitching starting pitching for three?
Speaker 6: I think it's just you might say the same thing,
you know, playing the level of football you did, Like
the best coach you're ever going to have in your
life is playing time and experience. And when you start
doing it and start doing it success fully, it builds confidence.
When you build confidence, you build conviction in what you're doing,
and then the execution becomes better. And so I just
think it's a matter of that. And I really like
the way that those guys are trending, and I like
the way that I believe it's going to continue to trend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, let's let's kind of shift the focus
to your lineup. I mean, of course, you have some
very valuable returners, but the new guys have really stepped
into the lineup and produced for you so far in
the season. Mason bron said, thought our Zach yor trick
Carawait talk about they're kind of just getting into the team,
justin with the team and the performance they've been able
to give you your lineup.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm very excited about all those guys. I think,
you know, Zach, you know, hits some long homers, gets
a lot of attention. But if you look up, the
on base percentage actually looking at it right now is
five twenty four, So that's valuable as well as the
ability to hit the ball over the fence, you know,
like walks in extra base hits is what we want
to design our offense around, and so he's a perfect
type player for that. I'm really impressed with Mason. You know,
you talk about young players being able to slow the
game down, and he showed a really good ability to
do that. You know, you'll continue to see more and
more of him to where I believe someday he'll be,
you know, the best hitter in the program, and might
be sooner than later. And just really like how he
goes about his business and has had I think of
the last eleven at bats, has had ten quality at
bats out of eleven, So feel good about that.
Speaker 4: You know Kate.
Speaker 6: Aaron Beattie is another one that you know, one A catcher,
one B catcher last year, moving into the primary deal
this year and has put together some some good performances
so far. And it set Darter, you know, a guy
that makes our lineup really long. So I think those
new guys are doing a good job. And you know,
you put them in with the skill sets of Derek
and Steven and Jay like gives us a chance to
score a lot in every game. And they're doing a
good job so far. Like I said, we had a
three inning stretch where we got outside ourselves. Other than that,
you know, pretty pretty good marks for the offense so far.
Speaker 3: Coach, how do you teach and coach power in the lineup?
Is it something like when I'm talking about homeer? Is
it something like you don't talk about it just happens.
You just have good at bats, make good cuts at
the ball a How do you coach that? Because of
course it's a huge tool, but it's just one of
many tools that you have offensively. Is it something that
you talk about or does it just come with good
at bats?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a good question. A lot of people have
different views on this. I think, first off, it's an
important component of college baseball because it covers up a
lot of other mistakes. And my theory is more college
baseball games are lost and not one and so the
power element, you know, can cover up some of the
mistakes that you make in the game. And so that's
why I viewed important. We teach it a little bit differently,
like I said, of the offense is built around walks
and extra base hits, and you know, the pitches you
don't swing at a lot of the time make your
at bats. And it's not just so you can walk.
If you're really zoned into pitches you can drive, you're
gonna hit with more power. And then it becomes if
physicality issue and then like a swing issue, and we
work really hard on both of those, Chris Martin, you know,
with our strength and conditioning, Josh Imps and Mark Wanica
with their swing stuff. So it's a combo of a
lot of things. And you know, first off, probably good
recruiting is how you get there. And for me, it's
just it's a unique element because when you have it,
it can cover up a lot of the other problems
that you have within your team. So it's it's kind
of like weird. Having one element of a football team
that's really good, it can disguise a bunch of other stuff.
And that's why it's important.
Speaker 3: Uh, kind of like a little bit of the off
the field question here. But Chris Stanfield, he this past
we got to live like Luke Community Award and that
usually he speaks to somebody who is a good human
of course on and off, but a leader.
Speaker 2: Usually what does he What does Kris Stanfield mean to
your team?
Speaker 6: Means everything to our team, everything to me. First off,
we're gonna get him healthy and get him back on
the field, and we're moving in a good direction towards
that because he's a great player. But he's also a
great player for this team. That gives us the type
of balance that I think we need to be the
best that we can be. As far as that stuff.
Won the Tony Gwyn Award last year, lived like low
thing this year. The guy's just Hall of Fame human
being on and off the field, and a player that
is a huge reason why we won the twenty twenty
five National Championship. And you know, like I said, just
unfortunately got a weird slide and bruised his hand, you know,
pretty badly sliding into home plate in that second game
of the year. We need to get him back because
he adds a lot of the human being, adds a
lot of the leader, and adds a lot as a
baseball player. And we're turning in a good direction. But
I'll be happy when we can get him back out
on the field.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll be happy to know.
Speaker 3: He is my ten year old son's favorite, absolute favorite
player on the team.
Speaker 6: So he good choice fireboy, right there.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. He's got a good judging character. All right.
Speaker 3: Last last question for you coaching. Again, this is coming
from an absolute meat head over here who who played football.
Coach three and Z counts. Can we get some swing aways?
They're getting some meatballs out there?
Speaker 4: Oh we have them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's part of the deal. Like it just depends.
The situation has got to be right. You know, a
bad runner too out nobody on base, well, single is
not going to do us any good, so or a walk,
so we might as well let a guy go for
an extra base hit, you know, runner and scoring position.
You know, the guy that can handle the discipline of
not trying to do too much. You know like it's
it's unique. Derek's a guy like I would love for
him to swing with three to zero a runner and
scoring position, but he's got such good plate discipline. He
doesn't like to do it a lot. But that's the
exact guy, because you trust the type of swing he's
gonna put on the ball. So there's times for it. Literally,
I know it may not seem like it, but every
pitch is thrown. I'm trying to do something to move
us closer to winning, and and those decisions are part
of it. And they're you're using a good spot in
a three to ocount and you got runners on base,
so let's get some more of those coming, and we'll
let the boys swing.
Speaker 2: A little bit. That's right. I love it, Coach. I
appreciate the time.
Speaker 6: There.
Speaker 3: He is, Coach Jay Johnson, good enough to join us
this morning. Thank you, coach, good luck this weekend?
Speaker 6: All right, thanks man, see it, see you all right there.
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Does LSU baseball go oh and three? This weekend?
Speaker 2: No stupid question because they they play four games.
Speaker 4: They played three this weekend, but Monday they play.
Speaker 2: One, so they're going four.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ask the bench which LSU player is going highest
in the draft.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming you mean the football draft. That'd be Monsur. Yeah,
but that's like the chalk answer. So after that, Garrett uh, A. J.
Speaker 3: Halsey and Garrett are the rumored in day two. I
think Aaron Anderson, I'm gonna say, stay on that hype train.
I think he's gonna I don't think he's gonna go
higher than them, which is crazy to say that nus
Meyer is going to be that's still had day two
after the season, but I love it. Ask the bench
just really asked Landra, how far did the orange cat
fly when you kick?
Speaker 4: I didn't kick the cat, So like on a like.
Speaker 2: Give us a percentage of strength you used on that kick.
Speaker 4: I didn't kick him.
Speaker 5: Oh guys, this is a pylon. She doesn't like to
talk about it. It was a moment of weakness for her.
Speaker 4: So did not kick a cat?
Speaker 2: What is the proper technique to punt a cat?
Speaker 4: No idea. I would not know.
Speaker 3: I think it's a standard. That's probably she said she
didn't kick it, she punted.
Speaker 2: I think it's a standard and that either standard drop
kick like you put it backstre hey, pound it back. Hey.
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