Speaker 1: I'll start to what you want to present. Off the
bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob aber.
Speaker 2: I gotta come off the pitch.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: What's happening to Welcome in oh dB Thursday, May fifteen,
twenty twenty five, Game day, Your LSU Tiger's national seed
on the line, getting ready to take on the South
Carolina game Cocks face their old coach, coach Paulmonary coach,
you and Airy the only thing standing between you in
a national seed. Who would have guessed, well, you know,
T Bob I would have. It's gonna be. It's going
to be a fun weekend. It gets underway tonight at six,
tomorrow at six Saturday at two with the new number
one team in the entire nation. What's happening, y'all? What's
going on? Jagy? How was the football breakfast? Man?
Speaker 3: Y'all had me out there like Jamal Adams what trying
to get into the facility.
Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all knew I was there, Tite.
Speaker 4: I wrote you at six and I was I had
the intention of doing it and then Elandro was like, oh, well, Landon,
let me and t Bob in like we're good. I'm like, okay,
so I figured Landa was gonna let you into.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, Landa must have been in the restroom.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well I thought we had facial recognition technology. Yeah,
well because I just like walked up or I thought
it since like my old key card, because.
Speaker 3: I just walked up and it went like buto and
like just opened up mine didn't. I'm pushing the button
like it looks like a little ring doorbell.
Speaker 5: Nobody, I'm nothing.
Speaker 3: I was like here, I was like, wait, did they
turn my card off instead of tea box?
Speaker 2: And then I read the tags.
Speaker 4: But then Tea Bob was coming in like twenty seconds.
I was like, I'm gonna run down there in a second.
And then you were so excited.
Speaker 2: I made it here on time? Did make it on time?
Proud of you? Wait, okay, so a little point well,
actually we'll get into this we talk about the series.
But a little bit of a pitching change that I
just realized, or not really a change, keeping it the same,
but it will be different for the series. A lodge
of what's going on? How are we doing today, doing well.
Speaker 6: I told you earlier. Shout out to the block. I'm
very sore this one.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: We're doing walking lunges, twenty three sets of twenty walking lunches.
But I was holding thirty five pound kettlebells in each hand.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was freaking dying heaviest that evolved has I
always want? I always wanted heavier. But but yeah, that
that's your joke.
Speaker 7: Ones.
Speaker 6: I think they're yellow.
Speaker 2: It's no joke. Yeah.
Speaker 6: By like eleven, I was like, oh hell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, there is nothing better or worse than lunges
I know. Is the best work out. Makes your legs
feel so good, I mean well, it makes them so strong. Yeah,
helps you joints. It's like good functional for life because
you know you need to be able to catch yourself
and you be able to bend over, do all this
sort of things. But it sucks. It sucks, It sucks.
Speaker 6: I like hate slash love them more than squads.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, I I I completely agree.
I I have a very love hate relationship with lunges. Yeah,
I also have a well star Jake, what about step ups?
That was a time in life we used to do
heavy step ups with what like two seventy five got
three hundred on the.
Speaker 3: It would be we used to have to step up
and then kick the other leg up and then step down.
Speaker 2: Not that much weight. Yeah, I'll do. I mean, like
this morning, I did like some dumbbell step up. You
knew exactly what I meant when I said no, I
ain't doing those heavy step ups on complex one Wednesdays ever. Again,
it's the only time I've ever puked into the trash
can from lifting weights. Ah, those step ups are brutal.
Made you feel strong as hell though. Again. Yeah, I
love hate, hate hate relationship with Taylor. I'm sorry. I
was trying to get that joke off so bad.
Speaker 6: I like did during cardio one time, or like a
like a high intensity during high school. Yeah, because I
had a bunch of talkies at lunch and I was like, man,
I shouldn't have made all those times.
Speaker 2: That is a god awful puke. It was horrible, just.
Speaker 6: And it was so hot because it was off season.
Speaker 2: Orange food stuff talkies, not even actual.
Speaker 6: Food like food I read. Yeah, this is where I'm like, Okay, RFK, Junior,
You're about to cross the line. Not to lose the
Latino vote.
Speaker 2: Actually, I mean Latins love talkies.
Speaker 6: Anything with red Die forty like hot Cheetahs.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 6: It's true.
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest, though my kids act like a
holes with red Die forty. I'm not even joking. I'm
not even joking, like legitimately at crazy to the point
where I stopped. My wife pointed out to me one day,
and then I put it to the test a couple
of times by like buying like a power rate or
something and see what would happen. And yeah, no, I'm
not I'm not into it.
Speaker 6: Did you have like a controlled variable, like you only
gave it to one kid.
Speaker 2: Or did you have like no, to be fair, I
gave it to all of it, And to be fair,
it's really probly it seems to get the younger two more. Yeah,
but like I mean, last time I did it even
yeah was God, they're act the crazy and I was like, uh,
read Game Game Game zero to me and to me,
I don't deny them all that stuff, but they do
go crazy. I read that for you, Tay, what's up, dude?
How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 4: Great morning? Wound up not having to go downstairs and
let Jake in. I mean, you know we were for
me or it was miscommunication and I felt bad because
I was the one that says.
Speaker 2: Here, yes, trailer is number one. Always Taylor's different.
Speaker 4: People said hey, land and let us in, so I'm like, okay,
well he'll let Jake in.
Speaker 2: What not is landing here in this room? Is he
part of the foxhole? Let's blame me.
Speaker 3: I'm just sitting there, just waiting, hoping drove like Jeff
Gordon to get here.
Speaker 5: So I was on time after I had something this morning.
But it's fun.
Speaker 2: Excuses are like be holes, they think, and everybody's got one. Okay, Taylor,
be better, be better, and sometimes you bleach them.
Speaker 5: So only professionally, only professionally.
Speaker 2: LSU Baseball though, get it underway tonight Thursday, Friday Saturday
series however, saving Kate Anderson for his normal Friday spot
and Anthony ions In for his normal Saturday spot, meaning
Game one will be likely. We're guessing it's not announced,
but I mean I wou guess Casey Evans. Isn't this
kind of fascinating though, because this could have some major
ramifications on the bullpen and how do you prioritize the
pin in this situation. Normally you get to Sunday and
you're like, Okay, hey's in the bar, and we'll figure
it out with whatever we have left. Right, do you
burn a cow in here? If you're having the lead
in game one? Do you try to save him for
one of the Anderson ions in games? Like very very
intriguing to see how they manage the pin here in
game number one with your two starters being saved their
normal Friday Saturday slots.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know we're gonna catch up with coach here
in a little bit, but it could be one of
the situations that you're kind of laying out there as
far as how's the game playing out? What does it
look like tonight? Are we up three to nothing, we're
in the sixth inning? Okay, let's go ahead and shut
the door. Ye get this victory, and so you bring
in one of your best bullpen arms and then you're like, okay,
and then we'll just take our chances. We'll have two
of the best starters in the country. We talked about it.
What was it two and four? I believe in strikeouts
in the country, right.
Speaker 2: Number two in the nation in K's per nine.
Speaker 3: Right now, we're going to take our chances with those
guys right number two in K's number four in ks.
Speaker 5: I could see a situation like that playing out now.
Speaker 3: If the game's not going your way, if it's tied up,
if you're down a couple, then it's just going to
be a situation where you see probably four or five
pitchers like we've seen in the past. So I think
it all is going to be dictated on how the
game goes in the first five innings. But I do like,
you know, hey, let's keep them on normal rest. Let's
make sure that our arms like he had, you know,
some cramps in his wrists last time out.
Speaker 2: They said it was nothing.
Speaker 3: Still get a little nervous whenever your ace pitcher's out
there holding anything.
Speaker 5: So I don't mind it.
Speaker 3: And if the game is three to nothing or whatever
that situation might be, I don't mind them bringing in one.
Speaker 2: Of the big dogs and you're going against what appears
to be their best starter. Now he hasn't thrown a
ton this year. Ashton Crowther two and two four to
one three e RA, which is good for South Con
but only thirty two to two thirds pitch twenty four
K seven walks, so not like a massive sample size
on Crowther, but I mean, look at their Saturday guy,
Jake McCoy four and four, six seven to one seventy
six K's thirty five walks, so slightly better numbers there
for Ashton. It's just interesting when the stakes are so
high and you kind of felt like, okay, normally in
this situation, you're like, okay, you gonna wrap up well,
unlikely a game two and then they'll probably do. Now
you you know, your your most losable game is game
one at the game and if you do lose, well,
then you have no margin of error for the anderson
in Ians and games. So everything just became a little
more interested.
Speaker 3: This is the part of the year where it's always
going to be all right, you got to play chess
a little bit, right, We've got to move all the
different pieces. And I was trying to explain that to
EJ yesterday on off campus, because each went to a
baseball school in flor State, numberwo in the country. But
you know, he's just finding his love of college baseball
and I'm like, looks every team's gonna treat the conference
tournament different.
Speaker 5: He said, what do you mean. He's like, well, some
are going to go in and do they want to win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they want to win, but you're not going to
see the way that they would throw normal guys out
there in normal situations. They have to be smart with it.
Maybe they save a guy here, maybe you know, they
don't take a chance here. He's like, wait, but it's
a conference tournament. I was like, yeah, but if you're in,
it's kind of like basketball where if you're in, like sure,
like you're you're gonna go try to win, but you're
not going to push the limits. And so this time
of year and this is kind of the same situation, like, Okay,
got to be smart for down the road, but we
also need to win two games. Gotta we know what
can we do to make sure that both those things
get done?
Speaker 2: And it can be a headache.
Speaker 3: And one of the things I do love about Jay
more than anything is like, if it's a game, he's
trying to win it at all costs.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Right, He's done that in the midweek ever since he's
been here.
Speaker 3: So looking forward to seeing you know what went into
the thought process again later on here in the show,
in about fifteen minutes, you know what went into the
process of delaying Kate Anderson and Anthony Ysen because they've
they stayed on Thursdays before.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, maybe, I mean I would have madgined. What
what harassment you gotta be like late in the season,
you know, workload, like you said, the risk cramp from
last week. Well we'll see what coaches say. Also, look,
you know what really could like alleviate all this, make
all this moot? The bats just do with ay are
supposed to do. You're never too bad an average in
the SEC, and you're going to get to team in
South Carolina with a six two eight team era again
an outlier bad TmrA. So how about you take the
pressure off the staff, take the pressure off code, take
the pressure off the pin and just knock him around tonight,
you know, mash so many jokes.
Speaker 4: Also, one of South Carolina's best hitters, Ethan Petrie, likely
not playing this weekend.
Speaker 2: Really, how long he's been there, dude?
Speaker 5: So we put a year on any freshman nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 2: God, I feel like Hendrick's been hitting like twenty Like
he was like incredible, Like yeah, oh you're so right.
He got hurt over the weekend, gave it a go.
Speaker 4: They had a midweek, gave it a go on Tuesday,
couldn't do it left after like the second inning, and
then Minari was on AFR yesterday and said that not
feeling well, pretty questionable for the weekend. So like it
doesn't mean he might play, but it doesn't look like it.
Speaker 2: Well, you never want you know, you never want it.
But I'll take it whatever. I'd be right.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's their best player.
Speaker 2: I'll take it. Yeah. I don't really care, like it's
not like this is something like epic battle where you
really want to see like both teams pull straight. I
just want a national seat. Yeah, South Carolina is relevant.
We love you, Paul, Yeah, I love Thank you for
the memories. One of the most great conversations with you,
pleasant coaches to cover ever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you'll be back here one day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, we'll have those great conversations again, exactly, not.
Speaker 5: This week, not this weekend.
Speaker 2: Beat that. Yeah did I say? Yeah, we said that yesterday. Yeah. Yeah,
I'll take the Wii because I'm a Foxhold guy. But yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's what I meant. Yeah, yeah, off the bench. Yeah,
here you go. I can't believe I wonder he went
on a far not here yesterday. All right, when.
Speaker 5: Coach, why'd you go on that show that in the morning?
Speaker 4: Yeah, my own ass that such a good one.
Speaker 2: That was good. All right. When we get back, maybe
a little schedule release talk, maybe no, or maybe gonna
second fiddle to the Chargers release every year. And I
think there's a new favorite this year now yep, yeah,
I'll play for you decks. I think you especially gonna
appreciate it because it harkens back to a It harks
back to the eighties, It harks back to commercials that
we grew up on a lot. Okay, uh, And then
we got Ja Johnson coming up and said thirty YouTube
dot com, solast one O four five ESPN. If you
want to get involved coming out going there, jut more
TB coming up next.
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Speaker 1: Back to the best morning sports show around sorta. It's
off the Bench with Hester and t Bop.
Speaker 5: He's coming from Yes good in a in a local.
Speaker 2: They want to work. What's happening y'all? We're back. So
the NFL released their scheduling, I said, we'll go through
these Saints actual schedule. But you know, schedule release videos
have become a thing for social media teams to duel
one another try to come up with something funny. And
I gotta say, I thought, I thought the Saints. I
don't know how it's going to play to a national audience.
And it's a tadlong. It's about four and a half minutes,
which I think is one of the main hang ups
in some of these videos sometimes. But I thought the
Saints did really good. It's a funny concept, it's all.
It's very local. You're not gonna appreciate it if you're
if you don't cover the Saints or like, you know,
follow the Saints, because what is Jake is it's Callen Moore,
coach tef having a press conference and he talks about
how well, you know, I tend to be pretty bland basically,
and and so he has Rob Kasey. You ever seen
Rob Kazy on like Instagram or Twitter or anything, very
very funny New Orleans comedian. Uh, it's term Chapelle show.
He's his angry translator. So it's basically HITM nentry. But
then it's got all of our favorite guys. There, Nick
Underhill's in it, Ross Jackson's in it, Fletcher Mickael's in
a tree, Vy shacks in it tomorrow. We got Rob
Walker in there, and then we've got the cannon in
there asking a cannon like question. So that's the snippet
that will I think he nails it acting wise too, guys,
that's a snippet that will play right here.
Speaker 9: Yeah, coach, give me your assessment on the team's offseason
moves and do you think you did enough to fill
the holes, especially with deep playoff teams like the Bills
on the schedule.
Speaker 2: We feel really good about where we're at. Let me
tell you something, Bobby Abel. I'll listened to your little
radio show how you talk on that. We ain't having
none of that this year. None of it put some
respect on our name. So that's basically. That's basically the
entire video is Kellen Moore. I think my favorite part
of the video. Again, I'm not saying it to anything incredible,
but I think it'll give you a chuckle or two.
The Ross Jackson being called bald is very funny. But
but I love the concept. I like the excution, and
I like it especially because it's Kellen Moore kind of
making fun of himself because he answers every question like
he would answer in real life, and it's incredibly generic
and boring and run of the mill. And then I
like to think that Rob is actually speaking what Kellen
really wants to say, but knows that he can't just
out of a out of pure professionalism.
Speaker 3: So you've got me intrigued. Now, it's it's it's pretty good.
I haven't seen it yet, so I'm gonna go through
the same schedule. But first, the Charge had a very
good one as well. Obviously did a Minecraft video Minecraft
So Hot right now. Somebody else did too, though I
can't remember which team there were.
Speaker 5: A couple of Raiders did a great value version, like
they often do.
Speaker 2: They they definitely went hard after the Raiders in the
Minecraft video. Everybody else had these palatial estates and then
the Raiders had like a crappy little rundown cabin. But
there and I didn't see all thirty two because again
they're way too long to do that, but there is
one that I saw that I deeply loved. And if
you are my age or Jake's age, you grew up
with toy commercials like this. Have you seen the Seahawks rely,
I have not.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to get its minutes where anywhere is already hitting.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
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Speaker 2: I'll do some place that sold separately, well actually not
sold at all. This is also hoping to get.
Speaker 7: Your hop something well, I mean it's enough people wanted
it does maybe happen Anyway, here's this.
Speaker 2: Catch, bro, How sick would it be if NFL teams
really had toys like that? I'd have played. I'd have
played NonStop with those things growing up. That was great.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to like a bunch of different highlights and
little things that that I call but a lot of
Easter egg jokes.
Speaker 2: The Cardinals playing the video game. Yeah, Kyle Murray played
in the video games is pretty great. I had to
look up where Witherspoon was from. Is that big bib
sounded very Uh it's from Florida originally played it. I
don't know. I don't know college I was talking about.
I thought he was maybe from Louisiana. With that we
don't do no literally bit but but no shut up?
From from Florida, I thought. I thought that was really good.
My favorite individual joke though, maybe in the credit scene
of the Chargers video where it's Jordan Schultz and Ian
Rappaport hitting each other in a in a coffee shop.
What was that at the draft or the combine? The combine?
Speaker 3: The combine, Oh, it's from Pensacola, which is yeah, not
that far, but it went to Illinois.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, so.
Speaker 2: That's where yeah, I mean that act didn't come from Illinois. No, No,
that's why I'm I don't play for Bird, But that
don't sound like.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: All right, So the Saints, this is kind of an
interesting schedule. I guess the headline is no primetime games.
I don't think any Thursday night games either. Yeah, no
Thursday night games. So like that's a big plus. No
primetime games. I don't really care, you know. I feel
like we need to work on ourselves. I feel like
I feel like when you're when you're going through what
the Saints go are going through right now, you don't
necessarily need the public stage, right you need to be
in the dark, doing the work, just focusing on yourself,
not worried about what others think. I have absolutely no
problem with being left out of the primetime slate. Although
it's like you, the Browns and one other team. So
it's a sad I mean, it's a sad commentary. It's
a sad commentary. But again, what do I really want
to thrust Tyler Shuck out there on a week six
Monday night football game, or even worse, on a week
eight Divisional Thursday night game in which he'll have like
three days to prepare, no, no, and it does feel weird. Gosh,
I think the Chargers have.
Speaker 3: Seven primetime game I believe so, uh maybe it's six
because I think one might be in the preseason.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, they're gonna have the Hall of Fame game
as well, so like technically that's a nationally televised game.
Speaker 2: But it's all you know, how it is t It's
like all like, okay, what did you do last year?
What are our expectations for you?
Speaker 3: Because I mean we talked about all the time, like
the Chargers aren't like one of those teams.
Speaker 2: Like the entire country feels like they have to watch.
Speaker 3: But they're supposed to be really good in horriball ads
to that, so you know that that's all it is.
Speaker 2: In the Saints of Kellen Moore and Tyler Shuck, there's
no reason for the scene to be on primetime right now.
So it's fine. It's fine. Maybe that ends up being good.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 2: Again, get to work, get in the gym. Don't need
to be posted, just getting the gym. Yeah, the Chargers
are playing on YouTube, like YouTube, not TV. The man,
the NFL, they really are pushing the limits of of
messing with you in terms of here is everything that
you have to pay for if you actually want to
watch all the games? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, gosh, ty, can you pull up the number of
how much it would cost if you want to watch
every single in it?
Speaker 2: About the graphic that is making around? Yeah, yeah, now granted,
I mean, look, you pay for a lot of stuff already,
and like a lot of people don't do Sunday ticket right,
Like I don't I know your big Sunday ticket guy, Jake,
because then you can well you like watching like individual
games more and you can watch the Chargers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what my son, that's what my oldest son
asked for for his birthday for a year.
Speaker 4: NFL ticket the NFL take what a g So, so
it's about seventeen hundred Yeah, seventeen hundred dollars And so
that's like, so, okay, so you got NFL ticket in there,
you got a Netflix subscription in there.
Speaker 2: I'm sure what what you got that? Prime for Thursday night? Okay, Prime?
That's right? So and then what what else? What else
are we looking for?
Speaker 3: Does it say on the graph we got peacock, You've
got the new s ESP think it's something on peacock now, okay,
what is this new?
Speaker 2: Yes? Wait, I already paid for ESPN and cable.
Speaker 5: And I think I pay for plus like Winny nine
a month.
Speaker 2: Yeah for what though? An AI sports?
Speaker 10: Is this?
Speaker 2: If is this? If I don't have cable? It's a
good question because cable, but I pay for an ESPN
channel YouTube TV. That's what I'm saying, Like, surely we
are grandfathered in or surely we already have access to this.
Speaker 3: They better not try to put like a game like
that behind like paywalls. If you already pay for ESPN
on your cable package, We'll drive up to Connecticut and
I will piss on the security building.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Like, I don't want them to do one of the
things where it's like you log into your YouTube account,
you click the video, pay like five bulls, and the
watch it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 6: They should invent this thing where you can find all
the channels in one like a huge channel, and you
pay for like the channel, and then it has all
the channels in one so.
Speaker 2: You just it just like puts everything together and you
pay one flat fee and then you have access to
all different channels.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then that person pays out different payouts to
different TV.
Speaker 2: That makes a lot of sense, makes stuff a lot easier.
It's very innovative, very forward thinking of you. In fact,
nobody can steal that idea. Guys, it's our idea. The
Londre just said it here on air. Yeah, which we
call it. I think that TV how it used to
be and you could go directly to it direct TV.
Derek Tree. Yeah, well but the direct TV though that
they that they company though this isn't I don't want
to You're you're creating like a band aid situation. If
you called a lot of concept the box.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: I actually liked like that sounds like it's something that
a tech douche would invent and and but like be
sincere and pitching that this is actually a new idea.
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Speaker 6: Box in the conference room. Just like guys, hear me.
Speaker 2: Out, it's like, uh yeah, exactly right, No, but it'll be,
it'll be. It's with complete sincerity like that. There was
one making the rounds a couple of years ago where
I can't remember exactly what it was. It was basically
like a van that would pick you up or something
and it was It was just a bus. It was
just a bus with like slightly different rapping. And yet
the tech brows are trying to act like they had
stumbled upon the next big solution to public transit. The box.
That's actually perfect. Yeah, it's actually perfect, and I would
do it, honestly, at this point, it's so overwhelming keeping
track of ball that you give me the box. Sure,
I'll pay for the box. Saints schedule though, no, uh uh, okay,
a couple of highlights here. So you start with two
home games. That's great. You're gonna start the Cardinals and
you got Niners at home. Uh, this is a little
bit interesting, the back to back away games opposite sides
of the country. He'll be at Seattle then at Buffalo,
So get a little whiplash. Little whiplash there. I mean, hey,
the Chargers, you know they're traveling eighty thousand miles this year,
so you know, the Saints can't complain. They actually have
pretty friendly travel. Then you get Giants Patriots at home,
Bears in Chicago. Uh. And then you're first wait, wait, wait,
what the Saints are in Chicago? Yeah, I just saw that, somebody.
I'm looking at the same I'm looking at this schedule live.
I'll do it live from T Bob's house. Let's go, dude, Arlington. Yeah,
I think, uh, I think where we may end up
going is where the new Bears Stadium is scheduled to be.
We'll see. You're gonna have to be a Bears fan. No,
the one team I'm gonna give myself over to up
there will be the Cubs and then probably the black Hawks.
So we need we need a hockey, we need a
hockey interest and I really want to buy uh uh,
this is really douchey. But Griswold Christmas Jersey, you know,
I mean it says a bear on the back instead
of Griswold.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do the whole Chevy Chase cosplay.
Speaker 5: Thing, Chicago Fire. MLS sure, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, look, I'm not I'm not gonna You did shock
me with that stat you told me about the MLS yesterday.
Speaker 5: Oh man, I wish I could find.
Speaker 2: See if you can find that, because that's pretty mind blowing.
But how about this no division games until Week eight?
Tampa at home? Yeah, that's that's that is not normal.
More to like to get like, uh, you know, intrigue
at the end of the year. But that's still pretty extreme.
Then at l A at Carolina, I love a week eleven.
By love a week eleven, buy you go be needing
it by the time that bye week rolls around. Homigets Atlanta,
at Miami, at Tampa Home Carolina Home Jets at Titans
at Falcons. Dude, the Saints have an easy schedule. I
know they suck. Uh and I saw a scatterplot chart. Actually,
let me try to bring it up here. Maybe we
can flash on the screen. But the Saints have an
easy schedule.
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Speaker 8: Off the bench and with Hester and.
Speaker 2: C Bob No welcome, No, and right now, it is
our distinct pleasure to be joined by your LSU baseball
head coach coach J Johnson here on game day in
South Carolina.
Speaker 11: Coaches going on, man, congratulations to you. I might expecting
his pre game day phone calls from Chicago firing.
Speaker 2: Me up like that. Hell yeah, coach, thank you man.
It's uh, it's it's it's definitely one of the more
bittersweet experience about Tyler. But it's like I texted you,
I really cannot thank you enough for all the time
that you've given this show. Uh, Coach isn't off the hook.
I'll be texting him before the day of this view, right, absolutely,
and and and it's been like that morning for sure.
And yes, so thank you for putting up with my
generally disorganized nature and always being so gracious with your
time here. Uh, I got it. So I'm gonna start
with something off the field here, Coach. Have you had
any interaction uh with Coach Minari in the run up
to this series that y'all have been there? Have y'all
gotten a chat or anything like that or is it
uh you know, is it not until the game's over?
Speaker 11: No, it's definitely uh cordial in that regard. He actually
just texted me a few minutes ago because we want
to know who we are starting tonight because we went
with a vaunted TBA pitcher for tonight's game. So I
told him we have a staff meeting at nine o'clock
where we'll finalize it, which you know, is true because
of I told you that for the scheduling of this,
and then I'll shoot him over a text message after that.
Speaker 7: So the.
Speaker 2: How about so I did? That's actually what we wanted
to talk to you about. Uh, how does it change
your kind of decision making strategically when TBA is game
one as opposed to game three, because like, like I mean,
like you said, most weekends, like it's it's gonna be
Anderson to be I Andsen all in and then on Sunday, Okay,
what pieces do we have left over? Now, let's go
attack it.
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: So how do you make those kind of decisions when
it's game one in which you're going to be moving
a lot of pieces around.
Speaker 11: Well, we're actually pretty fortunate with this is the one
week of the year where we didn't have a scheduled
in midweek game. And I kind of do that on
purpose because you know, you're moving up this Thursday, and frankly,
things just got a little tight with you know, we
had to move up last week because we had to
rain out at Texas A and M. And didn't really
want to do that, you know, two weeks in a row,
and so we decided to keep Kate and Anthony on
Friday and Saturday as what's best for them, which is
also what's best for the Tigers, no question about that,
as a huge piece of our winning formula going forward
in the postseason. So that's that plan. As far as tonight,
you know, we're going to, like I said, finalize what
we're going to do, not having a midweek game. Everybody
you know hasn't pitched for three days, regardless of who
we decide to.
Speaker 2: Use, so that that helps.
Speaker 11: And you know, we've we've won a lot of these
games before at LSU where we've kind of chopped it
up a little bit and had guys go get segments
of the game, and that's probably what we'll do tonight.
Speaker 3: Coach, I do actually want to go back to last week,
and I know you're looking forward to the series starting tonight,
But great series against a great ball club, and all
the things you said about Arkansas before the series, I
think a lot of people believe those things, but they
had to come play against LSU and your team did
not make it easy and like to win the game
like they did again another one to seventeen ender there
in the first game of the series. But not only that,
but to come back the next day and to be
locked in and to really take charge of that baseball game.
Speaker 2: I know, you as a coach, you have to appreciate
the way that they don't quit.
Speaker 3: I mean, they continue to fight down fortitude of Arkansas,
just like you were down to Tennessee. You find a
way to win that baseball game, and as you know,
those are things that you can parlay into future success
here in the postseason.
Speaker 11: Yeah, no doubt. They're a National championship contending team, no
question about that. And I think that was even reflected
on Sunday where we're three games deep into the series
and the arms they were running out there on Yeah,
they were ridiculous. And I know that's the way some
people feel about us at times. And you know, we're
were the Tigers and you know, at this point the
number one team in the country, and I'm sure people
feel that way about us. But like you know, they're
a great program, and you know, when I came here,
I feel like we had some catching up to do
too Arkansas in a lot of ways and talent and
all those types of things. And you know, so to
win two out of three at home, to play as
well as we did on Saturday was awesome, and we
put a good week of work in prior to the
series coming home from Texas A and M, you know,
particularly offensively, and it was good to see some of
that show itself, especially in that Saturday game.
Speaker 2: Coach, did you ever expect to be able to utter
the incredible analysis slash joke? I think we are the
best team in America after one am, because it's true.
It's true. Another just incredible Friday night. We're just setting
walk off finish. Take us back to what was going
to your heads as Bear was lumbering down that line
to home plate.
Speaker 11: Well, at first I thought it was a noe brainer play,
like he's gonna be safe, Like I thought Ethan hit
it far enough. The outfitter actually did a really good
job of getting behind the ball and getting everything he
could on the throw. And you know, he's faster than
people think. And you know he's mad at me because
I broke his perfect stolen base record by having him
do a first and third like delay steal and stop
where he gets tagged out so the runner can score.
But he's actually been able to steal some basses. He's
faster than people think. And then he slid in and yeah,
I thought he was safe. And then they go to
review and my wife actually sits just to the left.
Speaker 2: Of the deck.
Speaker 11: I turned around and I go, was he safe? And
she goes, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Oh. I turned around.
Speaker 11: Gavin Gidrick goes. Gavin Gidrick goes, oh, yeah, coach, he's safe,
and they started trotting out to the celebration.
Speaker 3: I mean, coach, that's not the only close play in
that game at the plate. I mean, how about the
job of my lamb and the slide that he had.
He knew immediately that the catcher didn't touch him either,
And what an important run that was.
Speaker 2: Obviously it's out up at four.
Speaker 11: Yeah, no doubt. And we had to challenge that one.
And and that's kind of part of my deal is
I used my challenges. You know, the first priority is
any type of play that's going to affect the scoring.
You know, that's like the home run at A and
M like it might have been a foul ball, but
if it if it's fair and they missed it, like,
that's three runs, so it's it's worth the challenge type thing.
But that was a heck of slide. And I told
him after his long major league baseball career. You know
that was very acrobatic. He could go to like Las
Vegas and be in one of those shows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, coach, what is HM? How do I ask this?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: This team seems to have a great emotional aim and
competitive maturity to them. I think you've seen them respond
so well to adversity, lock in when they have to
have it. So do you even feel the need to
lay out the stakes for this team this week and
going into South Carolina or at this point do you
kind of let the players handle that aspect of it.
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 11: No, I'll have something like more from like just a
pure like motivational standpoint. You know, the play is the
play and if anytime you attach like circumstances to it,
all it does is complicate it and it probably doesn't
help you. I can tell you they know we want
to play at home in the NCAA tournament. They want
to play at home in the NCAA Tournament. And for
we're on week fourteen, Like for fourteen weeks, they've been
given everything they have to do that. So I don't
think I have to put that FRONTM like, hey, we
got to go do this because like they want to
do that, and they're motivated to do that, and they've
they've shown that and they've earned earned the right for
that to be respected. You know what it'll be is
just like, hey, let's let's focus on the task here,
which our task right now. Honestly, it might sound a
little weird, is like, not every team improves this time
of year. So we're trying to win every game we
play while we're trying to improve and give ourselves the
best chance to have the type of season that we
want to have and everybody that loves LSU wants.
Speaker 2: Us to have well. And and that's been something that
you've been very good at, coach in your tenure here
at Elis. She was getting this team playing their their
their best at the right time. And again, thank you
so much for waking up with us here on game day,
enjoy the staff meeting, get the boys fired up, and
cannot wait to watch again tonight. And again, although you'll
continue to come here on off the bench, a personal
big thank you for everything that you've given you this
show through the year's coach. Thank you very much.
Speaker 11: Yeah, sir, you too, and I want you to get
people uh talking about LSU baseball in the Midwest.
Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah, don't worry.
Speaker 11: I'm going And I got your first task for you.
So one of our best recruits in our twenty twenty
five class, his name is Jaden Fosky, right from up there,
and he's going to garner attention in the pro Baseball draft.
You need to get up there and you need to
start talking about the importance of going to college. Yeah,
and by going to LSU, you can be uh top
of the first round pick past the major leagues make
millions of dollars. So you need to get that message
out there in Chicago for Jaden Fosky.
Speaker 2: JA coach, if it comes down to it, if he
gets too hot, can Tanya harding him? You?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I would not recommend that.
Speaker 2: I will, I will. I will work on recruiting Foski
for you, coach, absolutely anything for you.
Speaker 11: Cool.
Speaker 2: All right, you're the best talking you guys than Jane Fosky. Okay, Now,
now I gotta get after him. Start m and him. Yeah,
we need Fosky to uh to turn out in Louisiana. True.
All right, we're going very long. We're gonna wrap up here.
We'll we'll close it. Every one real cooping. Get back
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Speaker 11: Kind of off to with hester bo.
Speaker 2: It was handing, y'all, welcome back to otb uh. I
apologize because this is like even in an you know,
on a show where I normally consistently mismanaged a clock
and have for years now. This was especially bad of
me leaning way too much into the schedule talk when
we had Jay at seven.
Speaker 6: Thirty, so we'll talk was a little excessive.
Speaker 2: Might as well just we never saw your scatter plot.
Never saw the scatterplot, damn it. It would have been
perfect for this minute.
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to like add more to the conversation when we needed
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