Speaker 1: All right, welcome back in otb here on this Friday morning,
one of four five ESPN Ben Rouge, T Bob is
at Louisiana Day. They're at Alice's school, one of my
favorite days. They do it over at U High every
single year. The grade change used to be third grade,
I believe, and now it is in the first grade.
That would make sense because Memphis did it a year ago.
Everybody dresses up as something like significant from Louisiana and
like everything. It can be the Mississippi River, it can
be the Governor, it can be Drew Brees. There's always
going to be now at Joe Burrow. Anybody's ever done
anything in Louisiana. So a very cool event that they do.
And that's where T Bob is. And he said we'll
be back, but I think he forgets. He's going to
Orlando after this, so don't I don't think he's actually
going to be back.
Speaker 2: Yeah again, I think that was just habit.
Speaker 1: I think it was too. He will be He won't
be on this show next week, but he is going
to be doing the new Jim Rome show from Disney.
Our boy's a little stressed about it, but I think
he's gonna be taken care of. I think bo our
engineer here is kind of hooked him up. He's got
Wi Fi. It's gonna be hectic, but I believe in him.
The only thing that we got to make sure our
boy does is he doesn't enjoy enjoy Epcot too much.
Speaker 3: We got to make sure yes, yes, and that's something
he really needs to be cognizant of.
Speaker 2: But I think he will be maybe a little buzz.
Speaker 1: But Ryan Smith I listened to and tags me on Sirius.
It's weird not being able to see him. It's weird
for me too, Like I'm so used to being here
and having the camera and this and that, and like
looking at T Bob and I'll be looking at EJ
like making a point and like I'm a hand talker,
so I use my hands when I talk to him
or whatever. And I can tell he's like, hey, you don't.
You don't have to look into the camera. You don't
have to look into my eyes here, Like this is
not going out. Like the only time we even put
video out is if we have like a big time
coach or like a big time player and we get
an interview with them. Otherwise, Yeah, it's just audio. I
wish it wasn't though. I wish that Sirius XM had
some kind of a platform and you you're driving, yes,
but also they've pushed the app a ton and the
app's like completely revamped, and I wish there was a
way that you could watch from the app. They talked
about that coming. I don't know that's actually going to
happen there. All right, let's look at the LSU baseball
schedule real quick, because we talked about it. Coach was
going to come on. And this gives you an idea
of like kind of the process of a Jay Johnson.
I was talking with him last night, like hey, coach,
you want to come on? And he's like, man, I'm
so sorry. Like we got an early game today and
we're gonna be going through the process of getting ready.
And I was like, man, what time's our game? It's
two o'clock. It's two o'clock Central. But that is that's Jay,
and that's Jay Johnson. That is his process. So they
will be playing against k State Frisco, Texas ryders Field
two o'clock Central time. They will be the visiting team,
and then on Saturday, they're also going to be the
visiting team against Nebraska in Frisco. Again, that's where the
tournament has taking place. That's why I said Frisco College
Baseball Classic. That game is going to be at four
pm on Saturday, and then on Sunday they will be
the home team against Sam Houston. That also a four
pm Central Time first pitch before they come back to
the box to play North Dakota State on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Elandra certainly turn our attention to you here being our
college baseball expert, not a ranked baseball team in front
of them. Obviously, we kind of hyped up what Wednesday
night was going to be because you were playing against
Dallas Baptist. But still Nebraska was ranked in the preseason. Yeah, no,
twenty three to twenty four. They're a good baseball team.
You're certainly gonna have to bring your a game to
beat them. So, even though it's not a ranked team
with k State Nebraska Sam Houston, still feels like there's
a lot you can learn about your team and get
better this weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so Nebraska's not a bad team. They
have a ranked win over Vanderbilt, so Vanderbilt sixteenth. They
beat them, so definitely gonna have some sort of competition
with them. They beat Ul once too, but Ul took
the series.
Speaker 2: That the two l's yeah right, yeah, no.
Speaker 4: You you nailed it. That's the only one that doesn't wrong.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know the lore behind this well enough to no,
but so Ul took the series.
Speaker 1: But I mean I heard and him going after a yess.
Speaker 3: Nebraska was ranked twenty third last week, so not anything
to kind of be flipping about or anything like that.
I think you will see a lot about LSU and
learn about the team, and I mean, like you said
Wednesday night, we learned that they can get that ranked win.
Speaker 2: We've been talking.
Speaker 3: About the the narrative around, about the competition that they're
playing and stuff like that, and it's like, Okay, they
do this every season where it kind of starts a
little slow and then you start to ramp up. So
I just I'm excited to see and then let's see
Sam Houston. I don't know too too much about them either,
but they're two and six overall, so that should be Ay's.
Speaker 1: Typically better than they are this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah they are, but they're not off to a good
start this year, so excited to see. Also, this is
like their first true road tests, so like this whole
week right, so.
Speaker 2: Interesting to see.
Speaker 1: The other night was the first road game.
Speaker 3: Right, So goodwin on the road over a ranked opponent.
Interested to see how they do for the rest of
the weekend.
Speaker 2: I think they'll They're gonna look good.
Speaker 1: Though, anything all right, and we'll go around the room anything.
And we talked about a little bit earlier, and I'm
wondering what it's going to look like as far as
the amount of players. But if I had to say, hey,
I want to pay attention to this, I want to
focus on this. I kind of want to see somebody
solidified their self as the leadoff hitter for this team.
You've seen what I think three or four maybe different
people that have led off games for LSU. I really
like the lineup that they do out there Wednesday night.
I actually hope that that one sticks. I'm paying attention
to that. How how do you format your lineup? Now?
It could change because we've seen players already kind of
all over the place, and we didn't expect Steven Mylm
to start towards the bottom. Well you're seeing I mean,
he's really starting to heat up at a couple of
more hits on Wednesday night, he might be somebody that
eventually gets up there close to the top. But I'm okay.
Like with Bear Jones batting second, it paid off the
other night. I know a lot of people are going
to see that and say, well, I'd like to have him,
you know, maybe three, certainly, maybe in a clean up position.
But I don't mind stacking power right there in the
two hole either.
Speaker 3: I don't either. And I like Derek Kurriell leading off.
He's got some speed, he is good at getting off.
They played discipline for a young player, Yeah, he really does.
So I like that, and I agree with you. I
do like the lineup that they rolled out on Wednesday night.
But and I like Darried Jones second as well, and
Ashton Larson as the DH. And I mean, we know
we have power with Ethan and I don't.
Speaker 2: Know that meat of the lineup.
Speaker 3: Looks really good so far. So it really is toward
the bottom. And like you said, Milam is starting to
heat up a little bit. But it was a slow
start for him and for braswell, and he was our
leadoff hitter late in the season last season, so that's
a little surprising to see. I did like when Chris
Stanfield was leading off as well, but he's gone a
little little cold.
Speaker 1: But the zero for four on Wednesday, two strikeouts, left
seven guys on BASEI yeah, but I get I like, Okay,
what do you want from that spot? What are you
looking for from that spot? Are you going to go
traditional with a speed guy, You're going to go somebody
with better plate discipline. Are you going to go with
somebody that you know has some pop in their bad
I mean, like you have to kind of go through
the process of what you're looking for.
Speaker 2: I think Curriell has all of that.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I think he is the perfect
combination of everything that you're looking for. Yeah there where
it's not like, hey, it's this one thing, this one
elite skill that he has. He's got three really good ones.
So he tay.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No to your point about Stanfield like being down, I've
seen a lot of comments and people being like, oh, well,
you got to get him at the top. He's your
perfect lead off guy. I'm with you. Guys like I
like Kuriyel at the top just because you could do
a bunch of things, and like, look, just because a
guy's batting eight the ninth does not mean he's not good.
I love a solid bat at the bottom of the line.
Cole Freeman was the nine hole hitter on this team,
a team that featured Kramer Roberts and all those guys
that went through the National Championship. Like, you need a
guy at the bottom that can turn that line up around.
I don't mind Stanfield at the bottom at all. The
thing I am watching, though, it's something I was watching
coming into the year, still paying attention to it now
as well, is that catcher position. Like it looks like
Hernandez is locking it up a little bit. However, I
still think there's going to be some rotations there. Like
I wanted Kate Aaron Bedi to be that guy just
coming into the year, I thought he had a lot
of potential. Now Hernandez definitely the best defensive wise, at
least so far we've seen. If he can keep hitting though,
I mean, that's that's the one position I was watching
coming into the year where it's like, okay, like you
got a little bit of a question mark coming in.
If he can keep playing like he is, though, you'll
be fine there.
Speaker 3: Well, there was sort of a rotation there last year too,
and like I remember, like ty Floyd had his own
one because he his pitchers were higher than what Paul
Skeins would throw. So there is a sort of like
a rotation there where it doesn't have to be like
and it's like we said earlier, who's to say that
you have to have like.
Speaker 1: A solid I mean Jay last year played three catches.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and also until and until Malazo started hitting, like
to her point, like Malazo was like a Friday Sunday guy. Yeah,
like pretty much for two and a half years. He
was here until his final year, like he wasn't an
everyday catcher and he was really good.
Speaker 3: Well and to Taylor's point about the bottom of the
line up, but I don't think that that's a bad
spot either, because that's kind of your second lead off.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like so Stanfield, I don't mind him being at the
bottom braswell. If he can get hot again, I would
like that as well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, uh, y'all know me, and I don't know
why I've kind of chosen this player to be the
guy that I'm going to champion for the name all year.
I think it has to be maybe, and he wore
eighteen last year. I'm a little disappointed in you, Jake,
that you switch numbers this year. We'll have that conversation
down the road. But it is Jake Brown. He two
for two the other night. He's a very toolsy player
and we saw him come on late last year. He's
a player that is probably going to continue to just
split time and he's you know, going to be probably
in a platoon and we've already heard Jay Johnson kind
of mentioned that, and he feels like he can combine
three players to make one All American player. But man,
when when he's locked in and we all know what
he was as a talent in high school and some
of us were even surprised that he decided not to
go in the MLB draft. Yeah, that's a player that
LSU's so deep this year that we don't even have
a conversation about. And he's good enough to be one
of better players in the SEC.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got some wheels on him too.
Speaker 3: And the one that I was looking at and excited
to see from at the beginning of the season is
Daniel Dickinson and he is.
Speaker 2: Off to a hot start.
Speaker 1: See you he is like the player that you need
if you're going to be a championship team, that is
going to be kind of like a mister fix it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can put him in the two hole, I can
put him five. I can put him at the bottom
of the order, not because he deserves to be there,
but because I know he gives life to the bottom
of the order. He feels like he is going to
be that ultimate utility man. Yeah, he's going to be
the guy that wherever you need somebody because you've got
a problem, that he can fix it.
Speaker 4: Well, to your point, like you've seen him hit for
average before his entire career. We know he's got popping
his bat, he's got speed. He's actually better defensively than
most people realize. Like, yeah, you could move him around
anywhere you want and like to your point, Okay, let's
say you keep Kuriel at the leadoff spot. Okay, well,
Curiel starts struggling a little bit, It's okay, I think
Dickinson can do it. Yeah, Or if you want to
move Stanfield up, you don't want him down there at
the eight or nine spot. Okay, Dickinson can do that.
He can turn around the order. He can be that
the facto's second leadoff man, and then you could have
him right in the middle of the order where he
has thrived all season long. Like he's he is the
perfect guy. Like to your point kind of move around.
Speaker 3: I know we're like only nine games in, but fielding
percentage one, yeah, on base percentage five twenty six, slugging
percentage six forty three, average three point fifty seven.
Speaker 2: Like this kid can ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, has ten hits already on the year. Now you're
going to hear this from a lot of different people
until we get to about a month from now, coming
over from Utah Valley, when the competition goes up. Is
he going to be able to continue the success that
he's having Now, I we'll say that that's a better
baseball program, maybe than you believe if you don't know
who they are. But also I'll say this first opportunity
that he had against better competition the other night, Wednesday night,
he was one of your better players. So this is
a baseball player that when you talk to anybody that
covers the game, they're not worried about that. Not to
say it won't happen, but I would not worry about
when the competition goes up. This is a player that
has proven multiple times that he can handle that and
certainly one of the ones that we're excited to continue
to watch. Again. You've got games coming up two pm today,
four pm on Saturday, and four pm on Sunday. K
State Nebraska and Sam Houston. All right, we'll step away here,
we'll get in Taytay NFL Story of the Day day.
When we come back, it is OTB here one to
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Speaker 6: It's time for Tata's NFL Story of the Day Day,
your daily dose of NFL news from Taylor Sharp.
Speaker 4: All Right, guys, wanna go a little different with this one.
I don't know if it's because of my excessive viewing
of Love Is Blind, but uh, you show I'm probably
watching dipping out on the rehearsal dinner early tonight so
that I could check out the new episode of Loving Blind. Okay,
like that's that is happening. That is going to be
part of my Friday night Rogers tonight. No, that was
a Bachelor, but yeah, okay, the same thing. Yeah, speaking
of Jordan, Jordan Schultz and Ian Rappaport have beef. Guys.
I don't know if you saw this. This is something
that went down earlier this week at the NFL Combine.
So I'll take you back to uh Sunday when look,
the Matthew Stafford sweepstakes are very much underway, and Jordan
Schultz tweeted out, Hey, guys, Raiders minority owner Tom Brady
has uh been courting Matthew Stafford. He brought into his
personal ski resort out there in Montana. They were hanging
out together, which Ian Rappaport replied, Well, no, that's not accurate.
Both of those guys, like a number of high profile people,
each have their own house in Montana. So basically that
report was incorrect. Well that rubbed our guy Jordan the
wrong way because multiple reports. I'm getting this one from
NBC Sports, but a PFT commenter posted it. I mean
a barstool's got it. Everybody's got it because they're all
kind of staying in the same area. Ian Rapaport was
in line at the Starbucks at the JW. Marriott in
Indianapolis when Jordan Schultz walked up to him said we
need to talk or you know, something like that, and
Rapaport's like, no, I'm good and then kind of threw
out explotive, say it if you have anything to say
say it to my effing face. If we're going to
continue this, you and I are going to have a problem. Basically,
I'm tired of the back and forth on Twitter, and
since then, guys, our guy Ian Rapaport has gotten a
little spicy because yesterday on Twitter, no on on Live TV,
Rich Eisan does the Combine Show and he brought on
Ian Rappaport. He's like, guys, he's one of the hardest
workers in the building. Like he's constantly moving, Ian, how
do you how do you stay so energetic all the time?
For those that don't know, Jordan Schultz's dad, Howard Schultz,
used to be the CEO of Starbucks, Well, Ian Rappaport goes, well, guys,
it's very simple. I'm properly caffeinated. Lots of great coffee
brands out there. I would say that Duncan does a
really nice job. So our guy, Ian Rapoport not throwing
any punches here, are pulling any of the punches. And
the drama between the NFL insiders is heating up during
Combine weekend. I love to see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it as well. I'm all about being petty,
but also, and this is not good I'm not saying
like be this way, but I thrive in confrontation, and
it seems like Jordan was ready to be about that
life in person in it was like not based on
more shade when he knows nothing can happen right when
it seems like Jordan's ready to have the ending of
the story right there to Starbars.
Speaker 4: Jordan is ready to square up in line at the JW.
Speaker 1: Marriott.
Speaker 4: I think it's so fitting that it happened at a Starbucks.
Howard Chul choose to be the CEO of Starbucks. I
think this is awesome on so many accounts. And again,
like PFT commentary was there, he witnessed it in person,
as well as like eight other like sports personalities. They're there. Yeah,
like it happened in front of everyone, but.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad I'm not Indian.
Speaker 4: It was apparently like a ten to fifteen second confrontations
a by the time you pull your phone out pretty much.
But like h PFT tweeted it first, and like there
were multiple people being like, no, this isn't a joke,
Like this actually happened.
Speaker 2: I was there's a soft energy from Ian Rodber, very soft.
Speaker 1: I don't like it yeah, Like I'm not saying like,
you know whatever, you call me Tommy tough guy, but
like if we've got a problem on Twitter and I
come to you and say, hey, this is real in
real life right now, what's up?
Speaker 2: And then you ignore me?
Speaker 4: But yeah, dad, yeah, yeah energy. But I mean, guys,
is anybody looking at being like in that guy's that's
a bad dude. Like, yes, it's soft energy, but like
kind of expected from me in love and Rapaport doesn't
come across as the toughest guy around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I have no problem if you want to
be tough on Twitter, be tough on Twitter. It's a
free country, do you whatever. But if you're tough on
Twitter and I'm tough in real life and we meet,
you gotta be tough in that situation too. That's my
only thing. Like, if you're gonna be tough online, be
tough in person, I'm gonna respect you if you are.
If I call out like I've called out players here before,
I've called out referees, and if we met in person,
I've got to own up to that, like yeah, yeah,
I thought you were soft in that moment or whatever.
I thought you're an idiot when you didn't call targeting
or whatever it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the uh, the dramas among us. I hope this
leeds over into draft night. I mean I hope that
Schultz tweets out something like, hey, the Raiders are leaning
this guy that sticks overall, and Ian is all over
it being like, let me tell you what they're wrong.
Speaker 1: I need more Nope, real quick. Nobody gets draft picks
faster than Jordan, by the way, like he he. I
don't know who his inside person is, but if you,
if you don't care about being spoiled, follow him on
draft night. He'll have it thirty five seconds before it's announced.
I mean before anybody else either.
Speaker 4: I want to know what side of the aisle that
Adam Schefter's on. I think, I think, I think we
can just.
Speaker 1: Make Switzerland in this. I think I saw him.
Speaker 4: Basically Switzerland in this. But honestly, like I get it.
Schultz is an insider rapid Ports, an insider rap boards,
has done it for a number of years. Think't Adam Schefter?
So Adam Schefter could shut this thing down quick.
Speaker 2: Also, everybody's super addicted to caffeine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, can't mess with the Starbucks air apparent because what
if he just shuts you out on the caffeine takes
a lot of power.
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gonna end. I don't know. With rivers, you look real confused.
The license I don't have, the secondary mic secondary mic
doesn't have. And we are up for a break anyway,
So let's go ahead. Let's step away, and when we
come back, we're gonna play a little Ben McDonald's story,
and if you haven't seen it, it is fantastic and
it is everything that you think about Ben McDonald and God,
I love that man. He is one of one and
you're gonna love this story he has from spring training.
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Baton Rouge Rivers doesn't know how radio works and bust
it into the room when we were on air last segment.
That's how radio works.
Speaker 7: Look, I just started talking without the mic in front
of my face. I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2: No headphones, head bat chair, just vibes.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, okay. To be fair, I know when y'all
are on air because there's a big sign above the
door outside and it's lit up red when you're on air,
and so I was like, oh, perfect, I tied to
this perfectly, like they're in a break and so I
just bust it up in here and you were like
in the middle of a reed and everyone was like, no, well.
Speaker 1: Then I was already, you know, I was trying to
be punny, and then it was like it was a
your goodwood and some beta energy and then it just
kind of fel.
Speaker 2: So they're pretty big.
Speaker 7: They are huge.
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the tracks perfect.
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all prefer that type?
Speaker 3: I prefer that I feel like I can hear better.
To be fair, I haven't tried, and you need to.
Speaker 7: Be able to hear what every everything. These actually are great.
Speaker 3: These are like standard headphones. You should like everybody uses though,
like recording, yeah, type of stuff, but almost these are
like incredible.
Speaker 2: Try those yet those are the ones Flynn.
Speaker 1: Uses to Flynn, I didn't think faster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why I was in here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So we have a great story from
Ben McDonald. I cannot wait to hear it is. It
is everything that you would think is coming out of
Ben McDonald's story from spring training.
Speaker 8: And hear this.
Speaker 1: Still, you know, people are going to having their contracts.
They can't wrestle gators.
Speaker 5: Me and my buddies used to get on regular just
bass boats. I can remember nights. I got pictures of
us catching seven or eight alligators in the night. I
hooked the gator in spring trend. I used to go
bass fishing in the pond. So it was like a
four foot or so. I reeled him in and I thought, Okay,
this would be pretty cool if I could take this
gator and bring it in the clubhouse tomorrow. And I
had some athletic tape and I take his mouth shut.
Of course he could still breathe and everything. I didn't
hurt him, and I just stuck him in my bathtub. Overnight,
and so the next morning I had this big duffel
bag and I just slipped the gator in there, zipped
it up, and just went into the clubhouse like I
was just bringing some gear in.
Speaker 1: Iun zipped it. I just walked away.
Speaker 5: I just walked away, and this thing eventually, of course,
saw the daylight and he comes out and he's running
in Sarasota at Twin Lakes. He's running through the clubhouse.
Guys are out in the parking lot half naked, screaming.
Other guys are up on top of their locker Rowan Heeman,
who was the GM at the time, of course he
heard about it. Wildlife and Fisheries showed I wonder how
he heard about Listen you you just you just can't
do that. I've been by to Kevin Brown to go
gator hunting several times. I just doesn't know he's going
to be the bait when we go.
Speaker 1: Like he heard about it, I don't know how I
had it. I had a roommate at LSU that definitely
caught a baby gator and kept him in our bathtob
at w c A for like two days. That's awesome.
So this is like real Louisiana energy from Ben. I
love the fact though that Ben played for the Orioles
like in Baltimore, Like nothing to do with Louisiana. He
does their game, Sames does a fantastic job. But you
know they think this man's crazy.
Speaker 7: Yes, I love him so much. I feel like he's
got a story about everything. And you know what, he
is one of the nicest people of all time. Like
I see him regularly on Twitter interacting with his fans.
Regular not regular people, but you know, like people who
love him, like people who idolize him and watched him
throughout his career. Like they'll just send him a random
tweet and he just is in conversation with them.
Speaker 1: We gotta get Yeah, we gotta get been back on
our weekly weekly.
Speaker 4: Yeah it was the Natty run season is when it was?
Speaker 1: Was it? Okay? Yeah he was weekly, I know at
some point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we had him weekly too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean he's he's very open again, He's just so
nice and like agreeable.
Speaker 1: I would say the entire SEC Baseball SEC Network Baseball
coverage team is what you're talking about. David Deluci incredible human,
Chris Burke incredible human. Even though I still don't forgive
you for the eighteen ending home run you hit against
the Braves to walk them off in the playoffs. Uh,
Todd Walker, Ben McDonald, like all those human games, all.
Speaker 7: Of them are so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well yeah, I mean right, I mean, Dougie.
You know. I was just saying, like the SEC network
people that do it, like they were some of the
best to do it, and then there's great human beings
as well. I think the SEC baseball coverage is as
good as anything in college sports. Yea, as far as
TV wise. Yeah, that's not to be smirched like anybody
else that does basketball or football or anything.
Speaker 7: But think about it, like who are your I mean, okay,
so those guys are doing SEC baseball? Who else is
doing baseball?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 7: Who can you even think of? I mean.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean the ACC network does, I can't think,
but like who off the top of your head, like
your guys.
Speaker 1: It's just such a high level execution.
Speaker 7: Do you think about SEC baseball like coverage? Immediately you
think of those guys like they are like college baseball
to me. But I guess SEC baseball tends to be
college baseball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and KP will do and he played at Stanford,
but he'll do an SEC game and it fits right
in with the entire crew. I just think it's a
high level of execution from college baseball coverage from ESPN. Yeah,
even compared to like other sports. Yeah, I agree, it's
whatever conference and whatever sport that.
Speaker 2: It is our guy, Lynn Rowlins.
Speaker 1: I love Lynn lovely. Now I don't like t Bob
like loves lit like it's like his idol.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like any time Lynn's calling a game, Bob's like
I'm I'm like listening to every single highlight, Like he
has him ready, like like he'll send me the dock
at like six fifteen. There's three Lenn rollin clips already
in there, Like the first thing dude does when he
wakes up in the morning, rollins clips.
Speaker 7: Let's talk about that. Where's our guy, where's just dipped out?
He's just Disney World?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Alice, Alice, Louisiana day. But it was kind of weird.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was like he was working out this morning.
Speaker 1: I don't know, So he was here. He was here
and then so originally the plan was he was going
to leave at eight thirty, and then it turned into
eight fifteen, and then he came back and he was
not panicking, but you know, kind of had this look on.
Speaker 4: He was like, guys, Caitlyn's texting me.
Speaker 1: It was seven fifty seven.
Speaker 4: It was before I did the eight o'clock live.
Speaker 1: And so he came in. He said, hey, Caitlyn's texting me.
I think I might have to leave like an eight
oh six, which is a random time to say you
have to leave, but he says eight oh six, and
then about thirty seconds later he goes, oh, no, I
gotta leave right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's done Walter, Yeah, and then he said
I'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think he's going to Disney show right.
Speaker 7: No, I don't know. Yeah, I think they're leaving today
at some point for Disney. But I thought I saw
posted that he's doing Rouse's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Rouses is eleven to one today.
Speaker 7: Okay, maybe they're leaving this after.
Speaker 1: I don't know when he's leaving.
Speaker 7: He's that seems like a very a bear move though,
but like the drive overnight.
Speaker 2: It's just so funny that he was like, all right,
be right about eight oh six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he said he's gonna leave eight oh six, and
then Caitlyn said something to him. They said, nope, now
right now. Also, yeah, Carl points out, shout out to
Jared Mitchell, who's now yeah, a part of the coverage
there and does a great job. And what a I
mean versatile person for the SEC network for sure that
can talk baseball and football because he won a national
championship in both.
Speaker 7: Not wild. Ye what year did he graduate or what
year was he left?
Speaker 1: And he left in it was my teammate for two Yeah,
last year was nine.
Speaker 4: I think he was six to nine at l s U.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, I believe, yes, we'd same age. Okay, that's wild.
Speaker 4: Think about he won football and O seven and then
baseball and eight, so like back to back.
Speaker 7: I did this thing with athletes, even people who are
my own age, and just always assume they're much much older.
Same there never are. We are getting to a point
where a lot of them are younger.
Speaker 1: All right. Well, speaking of that, so I was at
the Dennis Yeah yesterday and if I had to bounce
early from the show and shout out to doctor Wompole. Incredible.
They first class the whole way. And well a lot
of Lashoe coaches and players go to this dentist, right
and uh, he's like, oh, you've actually been here before.
I'm like, oh, I don't you know, I don't really remember.
He goes, yeah, yeah, he goes, it was twenty years
ago in two five.
Speaker 2: Oh god no.
Speaker 1: And I was like, my dog, like in front of
all these why are we doing that? Like you're just
gonna say twenty years ago?
Speaker 7: Straight up?
Speaker 1: Like what he did not mean. He was just like, oh,
you've actually been here. It's twenty years ago. But you're like,
hold up now.
Speaker 2: All right, let's relax on the toy.
Speaker 7: So when I was like, really little, I was when
you said so when I was a kid, you said
twenty years ago. In my mind, I was like, oh,
and he was a kid, because we are young in
my head.
Speaker 1: In my head, we are I was nineteen.
Speaker 3: We're not, yeah, y'all are we're middle.
Speaker 1: See you can say that, see because you you are,
I know, but you can say that because you're in
your twenty so you can make it. You can pat
us on the head and make it feel better about it.
Speaker 2: Well, I genuinely think that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I know. It's like everybody's getting younger. It's like, you know, generation,
every generation, they seem younger into older age, you know,
I mean, look at me more. Have y'all seen some
pictures of her recently, Well, she had some really bad
work done. For a second, I think she got she
looks twenty. I mean, whatever she's on, that's what I'm
trying to do. Whatever, just yes, that's what I want.
Speaker 2: Substance.
Speaker 7: Whatever she's having. Yes, she has the substance.
Speaker 2: Wasn't she in the movie say that?
Speaker 7: I know you already talked about it on air, but
man Elandra just texted me the other night, talk about
on air. You told them we were texting about something
the other day.
Speaker 2: I told them, okay, she.
Speaker 7: Was trying to tell me, and she was like, I mean,
not to beat a dead dog. But and like I
didn't even question it when she's when I read it either,
and she like finished, she finished her thought, and then
she was like, wait, I don't think that's how you
say that. I think it's a horse.
Speaker 1: Or definitely was like over there, dead dog, What the
Michael VICKI you doing over there?
Speaker 2: Dead dog?
Speaker 7: As I started laughing so hard, not to beat a
dead dog?
Speaker 2: But wait, that's not it. I do stuff like this
all the time.
Speaker 7: We need to keep a list of a laundrisms.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a there's a handful of them. One time
I said a volcano exploded. I've said that Lance Armstrong
went to the moon before.
Speaker 1: You're probably not the one person who said that. That's probably.
Speaker 7: It's like autocorrect. It's like our brain can autocorrect.
Speaker 2: You know, we all know.
Speaker 1: I met Neil Hey, how about how te Bob? So
you were kind of nervous to fly because there's just
been a lot of deviation. Stuffy find its way to
all of our algorithm. But that's why you were kind
of nervous, and t Bob somehow got it mixed up
that you were nervous to go to New York. I
was so excited and like he like, you were sending
in a picture.
Speaker 4: He was.
Speaker 1: Twitter That's what it was.
Speaker 2: He screenshot on my Twitter and he was like, this
is what you were afraid of.
Speaker 4: And I was like, no, like the journey to get to.
Speaker 7: Like plane landing is what I was nervous about.
Speaker 2: I thought I made that very clear. I was like,
I love New York. I'm excited, I'm scared about getting there.
Speaker 7: I don't want to get on the plane. You know
what though, something crazy about that. I saw a statistic
there's like not more crashes now than way in front
of it. But we're just seeing on the internet everywhere. Yeah,
it's just I wish that we could go back to
not seeing it. What do they I don't want to know.
Speaker 1: I don't want to know. These big commercial airlines, Yeah,
small planes unfortunately, that's always kind.
Speaker 7: Of There was some like really cool video. It wasn't
cool that to happen, but the plane that could went
upside down or whatever. There were some cool videos from
flight attendants or that's what we call them flights. I'm like,
what are we going now? I don't know what we
say flight attendants And they were talking about they were
basically talking about how incredible of a job those light
attendants did because like very calm, they're not. They're like,
we're not trained for that, you know. Like, but also
we are trained for a lot of things, and this
is a really good time for you all to sit
back and like not make fun of us when we're
reading the pamphlet and we're not when we ask you
to do certain things, we're not just saying things out
loud to say them like, yeah, we've been trained to
do it, but we need you to be safe, like
we aren't trying to like keep you from not getting
your drink mid flight, Like if we need to sit,
we need to sit because of safety stuff. So like
I was like, that's fine.
Speaker 3: I will say that I was probably the worst person
to be sitting in the exit road though.
Speaker 7: Because ma'am, do you feel comfortable?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: I like, was I drugged myself before I got on that?
Speaker 1: Are you? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: I said yes, And then I like I passed out
before the plane even took off, and I woke up
and we were in New Orleans.
Speaker 7: So perfect, glad, glad they didn't need you.
Speaker 3: No too, you had to tag out, sag out, but
I wanted that leg space, yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: All right. Before we get to ask the bench, I'll
read Matt C's comment. I bet Jake felt real old
when I talked to him on the sideline at the
twenty twenty one Florida game and told him my earliest
LSU football memory was watching them lose to Arkansas in
three overtimes. The earliest football memory that this young.
Speaker 4: Lab had, and all that, like the game before that,
that's what she told you.
Speaker 1: That's actually a really good game, it was.
Speaker 7: That's a really good thing that what's your earth Finally,
we already asked that, what's your earliest football memory? Like
related you know.
Speaker 1: We'll answer that on the other side when we come back.
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Speaker 6: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around
Off the Bench with Esther and t bob.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 1: Welcome back in Quinn. I love this comment. This is
as bench brought about cochers like Visy artelts a blue
moonlight sky Citrus Sweet says I'm twenty two and I
don't remember a single one of Jake's games. Sorry steal
a goat. Yeah, thanks.
Speaker 4: Unfortunate for Glynns twenty two.
Speaker 1: Cool Bilbo. Jake became my third favorite LSU athlete ever
after what he did against Florida and O seven, I'll
take third. That's a lot of athletes.
Speaker 4: Uh, he's in front. We gotta know, we gotta know
if this is a viable.
Speaker 1: Track athletes, if it's Bilbo. Matt See also says it
broke my nine year old heart and and a destined
condo that night. My actual earliest football memory was the
O six Saints playoff run.
Speaker 7: So what was your earliest actual.
Speaker 1: Gosh, I don't know. Like we we got a chance
to meet the Dome patrol after a game once, the
only Saints game. I remember going to vivid memories like
of autographs after, but not necessarily the game. If you
asked me like the actual game, like where I felt
like I sat down and I watched the game and
kind of knew what was going on, right, I would
say the Independence Bowl between LSU and Michigan State. I
think that was ninety five, so I was ten years old.
K falk Eddie Kennison had a big game. It was
freezing cold in Shreeport. It was so cold. My dad
felt bad. And my dad's a Tommy tough guy, like
you you're not allowed to be cold. But he was like,
it's real cold out here and bought us all sweatshirts.
Speaker 7: That's how my dad is. Also, so my earliest was
probably similar as far as in age. Mine was the
ninety nine Peach Bowl Mississippi State Clemson. I guess I
would have been eleven, ten or eleven at that point.
I don't really remember the football game. I know we won,
but I remember we drove to Atlanta because I don't
feel like it was like right after Christmas or something. Yeah,
and so we drove to Atlanta and like with our family,
but we rented this van. I don't know what was happening.
We were in a van. We were going to Atlanta,
and then I remember staying at the team hotel. Yeah,
and all of just you know, the revelry everything around.
But I remember just riding up and down the elevators,
up and down all day. My parents didn't care where
I was. I was just barefoot up and down in
the elevators, just greeting people.
Speaker 1: Remember that, like where's your kid? Back up?
Speaker 7: But now you know, it's funny. I have so many friends,
you know, Mississi State friends, and we talk about it,
like people that I've met in college and they're like, yeah,
I was at that game too, running around that hotel.
So like there's so many people like Kevin was at
that game running around that hotel. Yeah, we probably played together.
And I didn't even know.
Speaker 1: Uh Elandra Tite first football memory, y'all.
Speaker 2: Are going to hate the.
Speaker 1: Texas something Texas National. Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 2: Great yeah, just his entire six six five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I was like seven years old, so
Texas football.
Speaker 2: Vince, Yeah, you're Cole McCoy.
Speaker 1: The Roseball game. Technically that day was in six five seasons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so those are my early early football memories. Texas football,
the good old old day, good old days.
Speaker 4: So it'll depend on like memory or game I went to.
Game I went to was two thousand and one, I believe,
Oh one er two L s U versus North Texas.
I remember that because they were the mean Green and
uh they had the they had the dark green. It
was either one or two down five. Yeah, yeah, this
was uh it was it was oh woner O two.
I remember Corey Webster was like a sophomoreal med okay,
uh yeah yeah, so uh that was it. And then
two Lane I was yelling on the balcony, uh at
the beach. We were listening on the radio, and I
was probably five years old. And if you guys could
believe this condo next to us had two Lane fans
on their balcony. Five year old Taylor was heckling on
to take gave him some hell that night and uh
L s U pulling it through. That was a while back.
Josh Booty was the quarterback and that was around so
that was like from right out two thousand.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Central Plumbing dot or Central Plumbing dot or two
two five nine eighty five fifty two t bobs out
of town, So a perfect time to call Central plumming
real quick. Rivers is over thirty and a white woman.
What song gets her on the dance floor?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 7: Probably? Well, yeah, yeah, for sure. My favorite edited song ever,
Back that trash up. If you ever listen to the
edited version, it's back that trash.
Speaker 2: I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to live in a world where that's true.
They played all that trash up.
Speaker 2: I hate that.
Speaker 4: That's trash trash Rangers.
Speaker 1: I'll see in a.
Speaker 6: Couple of weeks off the bench.
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