Speaker 1: We come, Come. I don't know, I don't I don't
like it. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: For those that don't know, this is an AI created
intro song. So I love the initiative. I don't know
if you can call it creativity, given that you just
gave it off to our robot overlords. I don't even
mind the lyrics.
Speaker 3: I thought I was the same guy that did.
Speaker 1: So I kind of hate the style of music. I
don't like the style either. I want to change it, because.
Speaker 2: You can't just like drop this on me the first
segment of a new week laundro It's a lot. It's
a lot to come out of nowhere to open it
up the Monday show with the new AI intro expecting sabotage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm all thrown off right now.
Speaker 3: I think she knew what she was doing.
Speaker 1: Happy President's Day to all those who celebrate. Oh all right,
yeah no, I no, I had no idea either.
Speaker 2: So I was talking to somebody mentioned over the weekend
they didn't have work on Monday, and so when I
walked in this morning and so nobody's here.
Speaker 1: That's brain and something. What holiday is?
Speaker 2: It's Presidentia, which apparently President's day is brain, Brain, go
to the Talk one of seven pole and go vote
on this.
Speaker 1: I think Brain's exactly right. I guess presidents say.
Speaker 2: Is the Monday in between Washington and Lincoln's birthday and
so it's arbitrary.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not the same day every year.
Speaker 1: And so Brain's point.
Speaker 3: Is Katie's birthday before.
Speaker 2: So Brain's point is why not do it the day
after the super Bowl? If it's arbitrary already. That's a
great point, That's what I'm saying. It makes to brain,
and then and then and then nobody has to go
to work, well, you know with sports, so we we'd
be here for sure talking about the super Bowl the
next day. But like but like for the vast majority,
you would not have to go into work and you
could really enjoy the super Bowl. Like it just makes
too much sense. Shout out Talk, what's a go vote
in the poll. It's a great idea by I got
by our guy Brian how.
Speaker 4: They It is funny the business that we're in, Like
we all work for the same company. But if you're
on air or if you produce, it doesn't matter, Like
a lot of times you're going to be here. Now
we did start getting some holidays that we typically didn't. Yeah,
but it's like hell or high water, hurricane, flood, doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: If you're on air, you're here.
Speaker 4: But if you're not on air in this business, it's like,
oh it's flag Day, nobody's here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's like, uh, I mean look man, you know.
Speaker 2: There's there's broadcast crews that were Thanksgiving games right or
or NBA Christmas games, and it's just it's it's the entertainment.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: It is the life that we lead and that we
chose entertainment, even though you know, I don't care.
Speaker 3: It is funny.
Speaker 2: We kind of got h it is it is, you know,
it is getting a little nicer.
Speaker 1: Uh we got we got snow days recently. That was
kind of cool. Generally, Oh, shoot Bowl, when I was
at w w L, they'd had you.
Speaker 2: Sleeping up there because I mean they're also like hardcore
because it's like news, right, so they'd have you like
they used to batting down. They had to get the
freaking hyped whenever a natural disaster was incoming, not not
like not like really but like you know kind of
like okay, everybody's good, all all hands on deck. So
favorite president.
Speaker 1: John F. Kennedy.
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean I'm gonna go with the one I met,
George W. Bush.
Speaker 2: G W there you good one for.
Speaker 3: Sure you were going there?
Speaker 1: This is easy. I love George W.
Speaker 5: Rutherford hayes Yeah, I just picked random one I could
think of guys.
Speaker 2: Uh, was it like Hayes Hare's who was the one
that died because he gave a speech in the cold
too long and then he got sick and he died.
Because that guy's pretty dumb, but he's also pretty gritty.
Uh spoke himself to death. Wild I'll say for JFK.
Lodger my favorite JFK story, and the audio will give
you goosebumps. But there is audio back in the day
during the Cuban Missile Crisis of all of the military
commanders basically telling JFK to nuke Russia because once they
discovered those.
Speaker 1: Bases and that man said no, And that's insane.
Speaker 2: All of your military experts are telling you to basically
start World War three in the war preemptive strike and
he said no. Pretty flirt with flirt with the end
of the world there, that's pretty insane to shout out JFK.
For sure, it was Harrison that died from the from
the speed. It was his inauguration, it was his literal
the cold rain. He sounded there for every zo blong speech,
A look at me a penguin dad, What an idiot
it was.
Speaker 5: It was a two hour speech in the cold rain.
And he decided that, uh, he did not want to
wear a hat or a coat. He wanted the traditional
suit for his inauguration.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, hey, too gritty to be pretty, I guess.
Speaker 4: I mean it is too gritty to be pretty. That's
that's pretty good. Too gritty to be livy, Yeah right too.
Speaker 6: Reagan is a good one.
Speaker 2: Uh. Taft love a big fat king. They had to
make a custom bathtub for it.
Speaker 5: A small fell seventh stretch I believe was Taft as well.
So do you know the story behind this? I think
it's Taft. It's one of the presidents. But you know,
Taff was a big fat guy and he had to
stand up during the game because the seats were too small,
and back then it was traditioned like if the president.
Speaker 1: Stood out of respect, you stood too.
Speaker 5: So he did it during a baseball game. Seventh then
he stretched, Oh hell yeah, dude, nice all right, I
had no idea.
Speaker 1: Is that apocryphal?
Speaker 2: That doesn't feel real? But but but it's a good story,
so I didn't care. I'm not saying that that story
isn't bandied about. I don't care though a lot of
times with stories like that about whether or not they're real,
because the story is so good that functionally it does
not matter.
Speaker 7: It is real.
Speaker 5: It says I was created in nineteen ten. He stood
up the stretch during the seventh ning. The crowd thought
he was leaving, so they wanted to stand out of
respect while he was leaving.
Speaker 1: But then he just sat right back down.
Speaker 2: So you know what, I like, President Obama, come at me, okay,
come at me.
Speaker 1: Oh, y'all, I know everyone's getting so angry, so triggered,
so mad. I don't know, Oh, you were your twitties whatever.
Speaker 2: Okay, I thought it was a pretty good time anyway,
Chappy President's Day, to all the things we went who
Celebrimocrat Republicland.
Speaker 3: We kind of covered a lot of ground there.
Speaker 1: Uh, And you're right, Teddy.
Speaker 2: Teddy's like, if you want to read it like an
adventure book, like a like a children's story book, Teddy
would definitely be there.
Speaker 1: My okay, my actual answer though, even though I.
Speaker 2: Did I did like, but but probably probably fdr right.
I mean guy who guided the US through World War Two,
sitting in those rooms in a wheelchair with Stalin and Churchill,
you know, ad fancying America to the front.
Speaker 1: Insanity.
Speaker 2: Anyway, happy presidents say, guys, I hope everybody has a
great presidence they enjoys it. Uh.
Speaker 1: And what a weekend it was for us.
Speaker 2: We told you it was going to be a massive
weekend going into it with all you know, a a
a ton of different sports with really big matchups, and
guys LSU basically took down about ninety percent of them.
I mean gymnastics and baseball gets it started on Friday.
I mean we'll get into the baseball weekend and detail obviously,
as it was a perfect weekend essentially.
Speaker 1: But so baseball get started at.
Speaker 2: Two pm, and then that night eight pm one v
two Gymnastics coming up huge, scoring over one ninety eight
beaten number one Oklahoma, breaking Oklahoma's winning streak over them
keeping their own home winning streaks.
Speaker 1: So I remember we talk Jay Clark on Friday. He
was a little bit like.
Speaker 2: Whoa no Jake sas the not you champs for a reason,
and they went and done and prove that Cheoh was incredible,
by the way, And then.
Speaker 1: You get the Saturday. Oh sorry, it's softball as well.
Speaker 2: I mean softball is another perfect five and oer weekend
with multiple ranked wins. Uh. The LSU men's basketball team
even one a game Oklahoma behind a sequence that will
break down but is one of the greatest sequences from
Cam Carter. One of the greatest individual sequences you've ever seen.
It right up there with It's like the college version
of like Reggie Millers. What was it like eight point
and eight seconds back in the day. Yeah, and then
t MAC had what like nine and twenty or something
along those lines. I mean Cam Carter, Oklahoma had that
game won, and Cam Carter had a sequence in about
twenty seconds that ends up the lifting LSU to victory.
Speaker 5: The broadcasters in that game were great, They're like.
Speaker 1: Guys, always she was about to win this game on
a seven oh Cam Carter run. It was great.
Speaker 2: Really, So, I mean, okay, so softball, baseball, gymnastics, men's basketball, really,
women's basketball. The only team that fell over the weekend,
as they do lose on the road the Texas sixty
five fifty eight been a defensive battle.
Speaker 4: And they certainly had moments in that game outside of
the fourth quarter. It was kind of like the USC
UCLA women's basketball game from last week where USC just
dominated the fourth quarter gave Bruins their first loss of
the Sea and it felt much like that game. And
so you know, even though they do, you know, come
up short there on the road, shows you that you
can go against anybody in the country. Texas one of
the hottest teams in the country. They got three top
ten wins. Now, just beat South Carolina a couple of
days ago. So, I mean, this Texas team is really good.
So to gold in the road put up that kind
of effort, You're gonna mean the thick of it, You're
gonna be right in it. And Coach Moulky's gonna come
on the show and she's not gonna be happy that
they lost, but I guarantee you she has something they
can take from that game.
Speaker 1: Oh, without a doubt. Coach Coaches. You know, Coach Coach is.
Speaker 2: Not overly bothered by regular season losses. I think she
recognizes what the ultimate prize is and how these losses
have to be used as learning lessons.
Speaker 1: Going for I try, I mean I watched. I mean
I say tried.
Speaker 2: I had it on with varying degrees of being locked in,
but I watched all of Alabama Auburn. I think it
fe'll sleep in a lot of it. But uh my god,
the amount of whistles, yeah, damn near unwatchable.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: I mean, every single time it felt like somebody touched
the ball, whistle, free throw, line, rinse, repeat, stoppage, review,
college vessels, figured out whatever. All right, when we get back,
we're gonna break down Kellen Morris opening.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, guy, I was.
Speaker 4: I mean, I was gonna be like, hey, if you
were gonna start with baseball, I was gonna be like, oh,
but we had that.
Speaker 3: One we haven't played yet.
Speaker 2: No, we are going to break down the LSU baseball weekend,
uh in detail, because again, I you know, competition being
what it was, it was basically a perfect weekend within
the context of who you played. I'll explain what we
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so I think the place to start. Though again it's yes,
it's perdue fort Wayne, I understand that. But it was
essentially a perfect weekend for LSU baseball. All the newcomers
shined everywhere you thought you had depth. It looks like
you still have a ton of depth. I mean, Ashton
Larsen does. If you get to play in the first
two games and he goes four or five with five
Ribbies or it doesn't matter, dominates on Sunday when he
finally gets.
Speaker 3: To play, I think a pinch hit maybe on on Saturday.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you jump brown, it doesn't start and then
comes in and got a hit in the pinch hit,
but then comes and dominate Sunday. And that's this team.
And we talked about the depth that they have is
they got to figure it out. They got to figure
out where everybody lands. But you know, the the ride
to get there is gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: So again, so it's like you could start a million
different places, but I'm gonna start at the place that
I was most insecure about because to me, it is
the story and that's on the And we talked about
it on Friday. Yes, I know what the competition is
going to be, but how will you look within the
context of that competition? And over this weekend, this LSU
baseball staff, through twenty seven innings, only gave up two
runs on the entire weekend, I only give up fourteen
hits the point six to seven ERA. But here's the stat, guys,
forty five k's to just two walks. Forty five k's
just two walks. Overall, as a staff, over two thirds
of the collective pitches were for strikes. The forty five
k's are the most in a three game series on
an opening game series, the most in a three game
series for LSU since nineteen ninety two. And here's what
really drives the point home is you didn't open with
great competition last year, same type deal. It was different
to you. It was the same type deal, lesser competition
to competition. You should have dominated same deal that we
thought we had too many arms. You have too many
great pitchers. Last year over the weekend, thirty seven k's
twenty two walks. You gave up eight runs in Game
one against VM. I remember that was when we're all
of a suddenly bet Chert is he I don't know anymore?
You know, winning that game with eleven eight not the
case this weekend. Thirty seven to twenty two last year,
forty five to two this year. And the rhythm every
starter great, really solid, five innings and then three bullpen
guys would come in combined for four scoreless. I mean,
on Friday it was Evan Mayers and Williams four scores,
nine k's no walks. On Saturday, Ben to Primo Rizzy
four innings, eight k's no walks. On Sunday Fonto Schmidt
Newt four scoreless, seven k's no walks. So I guess
you could say I'm pretty freaking excited because the thing
that I was most worried about was perfect. And this
looks like the staff that you maybe thought you had
last year. Like, this looks like the staff that is
is as dominant as it appeared to be on paper.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I love seeing Schmidgen there yesterday go two
and two thirds. And this is somebody that we never
even imagined that he would find his way to campus,
like he was already like gosh, that'd be cool. But
we're not going to allow ourselves to even have that
as part of our thought process because it's not going
to happen.
Speaker 3: He is just he's too highly rated. He's going to
go to the draft. And this is.
Speaker 4: Somebody that had a deep love, desire passion to pitch
in that stadium for that team, where in that jersey,
and he decides to come to school and look, the
nil portion of it changes that sure, absolutely, But you
know a lot of people in that position, Tea, they're
still going to the draft. He did not, And so
I mean it was good to see him get in
there because we're all wondering, you know, what's he going
to be able to do as a freshman, because even
when you're that highly rated, it's a freshman doesn't matter
what sport we're talking about. You know, for the large
majority of it, if you're a freshman, you're a freshman.
But for him to come in be as dominant as
he was, Like, so even outside of what you got
from the three guys that started all gave you five innings,
that was exciting to see because that is somebody that,
like if that arm can be some lamb yet and
it can just be like somebody that you just kind
of count on and you can pick and choose decide
when he goes into a game, doesn't have to have
like this defined role because he can just be this
jack of like every situation, jack of all trades. Like
that's going to be a added bonus for you because
not a lot of people have an arm like that.
That can be just an added bonus.
Speaker 2: Eliondra before he continue, you were out of the box
over the weekend, give me your biggest takeaways.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was there this yesterday. I didn't watch too
much of it Saturday, but Friday I did the game,
and my like standouts for the entire weekend Chris Stanfield, Yeah,
leading off, and that was somebody that I didn't really
pay too much attention to but he was like he
really stood out to me. He has like a four
hundred batting average right now. And Daniel Dickinson and case
and Evans, like Caseon Evans was throwing some cheese out there. Yeah,
and he is just a freshman. So I'm with you
with like the biggest insecurity was kind of the bullpen
due to last year and like how we were super
hyped up for it and the starters. But yeah, and it,
I mean they had a great I know it's pretty four.
Speaker 3: Way, but they had a good weekend.
Speaker 6: Like you, it doesn't matter to me, it doesn't really
matter who the team is, because if you start off
hot like this, you have that confidence going into whenever,
like the conference play starts.
Speaker 1: So let me great start for the Tigers. You should
dominate lesser team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, last year you did not, and it was a
red flag that later you would you know, you would
n't have seen why you did not.
Speaker 1: This year you did and.
Speaker 2: It was all the new there were his Curial Dickinson,
any of the fresh Like I can't I still can't
in my head keep Traggon who's freshman who's transferreds? Yeah,
like Stanville, but like all the newcomers. I mean, I'm
even trying to think back to the exact rhythm of
the first inning on Friday, because it was perfect. I mean,
Anderson comes out, I think he gets two k's in
the first he looks great, easy of easy down. But
then it was like Stanfield starts with the triple, and
then it felt like everybody that you wanted to come
up big, uh was just just did and all of
a sudden, you're five. Nothing of the balls are all
and like the rest of the weekend was the rest
of weekend. Maybe the closest that you got to anything
resembling a wobble were some of the iinsen innings on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Tay Tay.
Speaker 5: I thought that's why I was the most impressive with
him out of the three pitchers, and not because he
was the most dominant. But you're not always going to
go up there and strike out everybody, like you mentioned,
you're you know you're going to play better talent than
prdue fort Wayne. Multiple times in that game on Saturday,
Anthony Ansen had multiple guys on base.
Speaker 3: What did he do?
Speaker 5: Struck out the side?
Speaker 3: He allowed no.
Speaker 5: Runs Like that actually told me more than anything. Look,
chores was great. He gave up the early run and
was able to come back from it. Kate Anderson was dominant.
I get all that, but like his ability to battle
because like, what do we talk You just talked about
Thatcher Heard a minute ago, Thatcher Hurd was great when
nobody was on base. When somebody got on base, Thatcher
Heard collapsed. Then a lot of pitchers collapsed. Anthony Ironson didn't.
And it's early in the season. He's ever pitched it
at a ballpark this big before in his life. Like
he did a really good job. I was actually blown
away by Anthony Iinson.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, five.
Speaker 2: So like like like Tata said, not really a clean inning.
I don't think he had maybe had one cleaning but
one four hits, one run, six k's no walks and
that's that's again like the theme of the weekend, six
k's no walks. So yes, struggled a bit, but never
gave up anything easy, never gave up anything free. And
you know, one of my favorite parts about Jay Johnson
is because as someone who never played baseball at a
high level, you know, I I feel like a baseball layman.
Speaker 1: I'm just a I'm just a fan.
Speaker 2: But Jay Johnson loves football metaphors, and in my dumb
caveman mind, it just really clicks. And here's what he
had to say about throwing strikes. He says, quote, I
talked football terms a lot, but strike zone management on
both sides of the ball is like the line of
scrimmage and football. And it's so true. I mean it
is so true. It controlled controls the entire tempo. It
just controls the game. And LSU both how many walks
did they have on the weekend? Hold?
Speaker 1: And I have it somewhere my notes here, And.
Speaker 6: That's why I don't like the pitch clock. That's what
I say, Uh why, because like you said, it controls
the tempo of the game, and if you want to
slow it down, slow it down, if you want to
like go quick, go quick.
Speaker 1: Like I don't like the pitch cluck basketball.
Speaker 5: Basketball, you can control the tempo and you have a
shot clock and a play clock.
Speaker 6: That's fine.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. Huh, maybe I didn't write it down.
Speaker 2: I know LSU had a over twenty walks over the
way he carry twenty three, thank you?
Speaker 1: So yeah.
Speaker 2: The point is LSU offensively creating for themselves controlling that
line of scrimmage and then defensively in there on the
mound as well. Just just putting a stranglehold on this game.
And I know we haven't talked about the hitters much,
but it's quite frankly because they don't exactly know where
to start. Like I mentioned that, Yeah, we thought we
had a ton of outfield depth. Man, I'm using a
lot of weeds. You can see the real fan exactly
saying I don't know. It's like I guess cause enough football.
I don't think it's much analyst like, but we meant to,
you know, he thought LS you had a lot of
outfield talent and like too much to playment in Ashton
Larson coming in finally get a play Auntidy. He goes
three to four the home run five R and BEI
and that home run was a even though awful camera shot,
they missed it on the actual Yeah yeah, the TV
broadcast And you still can't even really see in the replay.
Its kind of pressing. All the camera cuts real quick,
and Nashal Larsen's just walking walking like, oh damn, he
smoked that thing. But so but then like Jurial on
at four hit Stanfield for hit Jake Brown and Bultmitz
Pearson walks four times like it's just crazy how good
everything was over this weekend for LSU baseball, A plus
weekend for Jay Johnson's crew.
Speaker 4: Yeah, also stole five bases, which I know it doesn't
sound like a ton of ton, but LSU over the
last couple of season really like I'm having a hard time,
like even thinking back to when they were dangerous on
the base path. They've got the athletes to do it
and if they can add that, I know it's not
something they're going to specialize in, but I would like
to see them get on the move a little bit
more so for you know, the opening weekend to be
five of seven on stolen base attempts. I do think
that's a portion of their game that they can add to.
Speaker 2: So to your point, Jake kochie Riley wrote about this,
I want to say LSU got thrown out in the
base past six times, well twice dealing, but six times
overall with aggressive running. But it seems like that's something
that they want to do. Here's what but Jay Johnson
had to say, said, like, you can't do it both ways.
Back to football, if you pass the ball sixty five
times a game. You're gonna throw more interceptions if you
run the ball sixty times a game, which nobody does
that anymore, Right, you're gonna fumble more often.
Speaker 1: How you score runs is really important.
Speaker 2: We need to be able to score runs whatever type
of game that we're in, and so there's just a
high bar. Remember we talked to Jay last week and
he said last year's team, he knew they had power,
but it was it was the toughest lineup that he's
ever had to coach because they had to grind so
hard to get to that power, to feature it, to
take advantage of they did not have other ways to score.
So they are clearly putting an emphasis on learning to
in games where we gotta go more smallball, where we
have to create, where we gotta engage a more aggressive
base running.
Speaker 1: Let's let's get it, let's let's practice it, and let's
see what we got.
Speaker 2: I mean, everything that Jay Johnson does, everything that he does,
nothing is nothing is filler, nothing is thoughtless, like every
single action is it is a piece of a larger
puzzle that he has in his head.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would agree with that, And you know, he's
got a lot, a lot of players.
Speaker 3: To be able to put into different places.
Speaker 4: And so next time we have him on, i'd love
to kind of figure out like what maybe the plan
is and when he would like to maybe have something
solidified as far as the rotation, because you've got some
time obviously to play with that before you get to
SEC play, and he's got you know, and that can
change within the SEC play as well. But he's gonna
have some tough decisions I think in a very you know,
good way, He's got some tough decisions on who's going
to slote everywhere, because as you look at this box score,
I mean there's names all over the place that's not
going to happen, you know once you get to SEC play.
Probably not gonna happen once you get to the first
major tournament. But it is something that you're trying to
figure out because you've got so many different pieces that
can play so many different positions. And so you know,
him Jay sitting there, who sleeps like two hours a
day early anyways, is just probably mad scientists on the
or trying to figure out where to piece everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, full Charlie Kelly, like beautiful mind, like figuring it out.
I mean again, Evans Mayor's William being primo, Rizzy Fonte,
no Schmidt Newt from I.
Speaker 1: For what twelve scoreless? What is it? Twenty four k's
and no walks out of the pen. Let's go, let's go.
Speaker 4: Last thing I'll say for the those in the chat,
you know, calling out the opponent, keet that same energy
on August the thirtieth when LSU plays Clemson in football, William,
what do you mean like saying they want you know,
they want a different opponent, a better opponent. Some people
somebody said, le's your highs better than them? Okay, get
the same energy though, when you're playing Clemson in Little
Death Valley on August the thirtieth, again, I know, like
I just don't be saying we should be playing Northwestern State.
Speaker 2: I kind of treat these first baseball series as a
pseudo preseason, but obviously one that actually matters. But I mean,
I think it's all about just you how you approach it, right,
with less games, like you're still gonna get thirty sec games.
You still got a ton to watch words, So it's
like in football you have less games. So I don't, yeah,
I don't. I don't necessarily like that whatever. I like Clempson,
but I will say this, I too. We had a
whole we had a whole segment coming up on Friday
that we never got to about how I think Clemson
like could actually maybe like in my top three of
national champion favorites for next year.
Speaker 1: But we'll get there. We can get there a bit
later on.
Speaker 2: Okay, any more thoughts on LCU baseball for it, move on,
anybody going once to.
Speaker 4: Midweek games this week, So more baseball coming very very
soon to in state opponents. I believe you get Southern
at home and you go to Thibodeau to take on Nichols.
Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4: So we've got two games right there in the middle
of the week, so we'll get some more veriou yes, cool, Hell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man again uh and again, it's just it's just
about Look, it's you cannot control if you're a player.
You cannot control who you play. All you can control
is how you play. And this team played damn near
perfect over the weekend, and that is exciting. Like I
don't care. It's like we talked about here recently, a
couple other topics wherever your baseline was for LSU baseball,
I don't think there's any way that you emerge out
of this weekend and that hasn't You haven't become more
excited than wherever that original baseline was. All right, when
we get back here on off the bench, let's get
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mixed in off the bench with Hester and t bob.
Speaker 1: Leaves all all.
Speaker 7: Time? I was, Oh, my way, that's do much.
Speaker 1: It's such a pleasant Taylor.
Speaker 2: This makes me want to put acid in your monster
nuts and just watch them fall out.
Speaker 3: How do you know he doesn't already have something?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean I would be shot.
Speaker 5: There's there's not gonna be much a fallout, dude, we're good.
Speaker 1: I would be truly shot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1: Just kidding, guys, you should never do someone that's awful.
Speaker 2: Me too.
Speaker 1: Don't have an energy drink this morning? Oh what are
you just raw dogging it?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: I mean I have a water yeah?
Speaker 2: Kay?
Speaker 1: But is it water? Yeah? No water?
Speaker 5: Waters?
Speaker 1: Just water? Wait? So no caffeine? You just feeling alive
on this president. Geez, you woke up, Ronald Ragon.
Speaker 3: I don't know present.
Speaker 2: They take sleeps with a Reagan poster of his bed
every night he goes to sleep.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's well, Victoria, take it down.
Speaker 5: It's it's a baker, but I take it down after.
Speaker 3: Painting and then bakers as yeah as he should be.
Speaker 1: So why why no energy drinks today?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I normally like just get it at
the gas station when I'm pumping gas. I had like
three quarters of a tank and I was like, you know,
I'm not I'm not tired enough to stop and go
out of my way just to get an energy drink.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm good this morning.
Speaker 2: So are you the point that, well, you have caffeine withdraws,
because I've done I do that like on the weekend.
Sometimes I don't get coffee in the morning, just come at
home chilling, and I'll get like a headache at like
ten am, and I'm like, oh, this is sad, but
I need caffeine to He's not.
Speaker 5: This is to believe to Bob, I'm normally pretty high energy.
Speaker 1: So no, no, I know I'm talking about that.
Speaker 2: You do drink an energy normally, so your body isn't,
like physiology, physiologically dependent on it.
Speaker 3: Today. He's got his ish kickers on today too. Boll Well,
I can't say the word.
Speaker 2: I wore boots. I wore church yesterday, boots, boots. I
wore Canadian tuxedo and boots churches.
Speaker 1: I love a Canadian tuxedo.
Speaker 2: Even though I shouldn't have, because Canada's our little brother.
Speaker 1: Let's go, dude, Team USA.
Speaker 3: We'll get to that later. I'm gonna get there later.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I had something to be careful for you.
Speaker 1: But you know what else is awesome?
Speaker 2: LSU gymnastics Friday night in the p mag packed house,
absolutely electric environment.
Speaker 1: ESPN two on a Friday Primetime, Are you kidding me?
Eight pm? We talked to Jay Clark on Friday.
Speaker 2: Were talking about all the streaks of uh you know
when it's when there's fifteen thousand there they won like
six er up Buffa, all this sort of stuff. The
one thing they had it done was beat Oklahoma, even
talking about Oklahoma taking themselves out.
Speaker 1: Of it last.
Speaker 3: Season, lost to them earlier this year.
Speaker 2: It's you know what, it's not unlike the LSU South
Carolina relationship in women's basketball or es LSU got the Natty,
but the Carolina kind of taking themselves out of it
there losing Iowa elis you still hasn't gotten over that
help in women's basketball though, Jay Clark and the gymnastics
team getting it done Friday night and even though they're
down three quarters points going in that final rotation, Kaylin
chi Oh it's here about her find a way ended
up taking note of and really that is the story here, guys.
I hate it is a team sport and full of
great team effort, but it is impossible to emerge out
of Friday and not be talking about kaylen Cha the freshman.
Remember Jay told us about her on Friday. She's it's
almost damn near on like anything he's ever seen, taking
them multiple SEC Freshmen of the Week honors already and
check out this. So once again on Friday she finishes
as the top all around gymnast in the meat. Now,
this is a meet that features obviously a leea Finnigan
who was literally in the twenty twenty four Olympis and
won a national title.
Speaker 1: Uh on four I can't remember.
Speaker 2: And then three of the top four all around gymnasts
in the country coming into this. We're all in Oklahoma,
and yet it was a true freshman who ends up
with a thirty nine seven to two five. And that
score means nothing new, it means something mean, right, I like,
I don't you know what does that mean to you?
Speaker 1: But here's what it means.
Speaker 2: Only two gymnasts in the country have higher all around
scores this year and they're both seniors on top ten teams.
You know, Hayley Bryant, heis and winner the Joe Burrow
of gymnastics. She never achieved a score that high all
around to the end of her sophomore year. So you
have a true freshman doing this. That's the context there.
Jay said she was a killer and he wasn't lying.
I mean in that stage against that team to do
that too.
Speaker 1: Take about chioh, that's awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 4: One of the biggest venues is is gymnastics. That you're
going to be in your home crowd, so it's electric,
and then you're going against the team in Oklahoma's kind
of the standard up called gymnastics, a team that you've
already you know, been defeated by earlier in the year,
and all the things that we know about them, and
then you're right like on the other side, I know,
and like Jay said, you're not technically like going against them.
Speaker 3: It's all about you.
Speaker 4: But also it's human nature to be eye hustling some
of the best gymnasts.
Speaker 3: In the world.
Speaker 4: You're like over there, like looking at them right and
you're like, oh, man, I know who that is. I've
heard of her like, and so that kind of gets
into your mental makeup as well.
Speaker 3: So to be able to handle that as a freshman.
Speaker 4: And it's what we like when we talk with these
coaches that are you know, or multiple sports that are
counting on freshmen. I always ask him the question, like,
how do you know? How do you know when they're
ready to go? Because it's going to be different for everyone,
And he did not hesitate, saying she's ready.
Speaker 3: She is no longer a freshman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just amazing, man. I can't imagine being eighteen
years old. And again, like Jake's talking about going against
the the stars of your sport and just facing them
down with no fear and then putting up the third
highest all around score in the entire country to help
your team beat the number one team in the country.
And now you control your destiny. In terms of an
SEC regular season, you have the tiebreaker. Oklahoma, Sure you're
probably gonna face them again in the tournament, both a
conference and nationally, but in terms of taking home that
regular season title, you will now have the tie break
if you take care of business every single Friday. Again,
guys too, man, you want to talk about fomo that
environment if you've never been to gymnastics meet, I mean
good looking, take it to guests, but just just one
of the top top tier sporting experiences. And what a
what a gym. What a fun advantage for us to
be able to have that in our backyard to go
to on a Friday night and have a great time.
And that's not even getting it into again, like the
Burm or the box. I think I'm going to the
Burm this Friday afternoon, dude, Well three pm beers on
the Burm sounds good to me. All right, when we
get back, let's go ahead and close out our number
one to bo TV, off the.
Speaker 7: Bench, back to sports talk, maybe off the bench.
Speaker 3: Guitar hero or rock band.
Speaker 2: I don't I mean I probably played more guitar here,
but I don't have any.
Speaker 1: I don't have any like.
Speaker 3: Loved this song was one I remember. I don't remember
it was a rock band.
Speaker 2: I mean I guess it probably rock band was actually
a little more fun. They guitar here in the incase
everybody can play together.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, we had a whole band and we'd
set it up and we'd go world tour.
Speaker 2: I never got any of the drumming, but like I know,
coupe people have really learned how to drum off off
a rock band. Also very funny to me, and something
that can only be experienced with age, is at the
time when those things were at their peak. Do you
remember howbiquitous those plaxic instruments were, Like they were everywhere.
Everybody had them. You were throwing them out by the handful,
like they were filling up landfills everywhere. Now if you
want to buy one, it's like really expensive.
Speaker 4: So yeah, like during COVID, if you wanted to get
a rock band set, it was That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And they used to be you couldn't give them away
back in the day. It's funny.
Speaker 2: I'll never forget my boy Alex Russian hanging the microphone
and w c A hanging the microphone down from the
light and playing guitar and singing at the same time.
Speaker 1: Pretty awesome.
Speaker 4: My sister in law, we had the band, she did
the same thing. She was on the drums with the
microp Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh man, the drum singer a rare combination. I wonder
who the most famous drum like lead vocalists would be.
Speaker 1: It was he? I don't know enough was he was?
Speaker 3: He fighters has a pretty good one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but was he lead vocalist when he was by
the way Posty I mean Posty weekend winner for his
Nirvana cover.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've seen that. We winn in a little
bit of a hole on it. Yeah, he's great. Uh
so uh it.
Speaker 2: Must have been opposite day on the hard court this
weekend as the men win and the women lose. Lsu.
Do you see the sequence there, Tata, it's it's in
seven thirty, it's underneath the sequence. Pull that up to
that video ready to play with sound. But else you
down thirteen in the second half, down five with twenty
seconds left, and that is when Cam Carter completely takes
over this game and rips out the Oklahoma Sooners hearts.
I'm trying to there we go. Uh here it is
instead of me explain that you can lizen then we
can get into it. But here is Cam Carter absolutely
tearing out the hearts of the oaklom sooners.
Speaker 1: Can they close it out?
Speaker 2: Carter step back three home, puts it in and the pala.
Speaker 3: Carter can get it back to a one point game.
Speaker 4: LSU, you gotta try for the steal here and then
when do you foul?
Speaker 2: How quickly more nearly gave it away? Gibbons has it?
Speaker 1: We'll seconds.
Speaker 7: Pat McMahon could call one instead, he says, get out
of Carter's who get it?
Speaker 1: It's the.
Speaker 4: Cam Carter take over mode in the final half minute.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, dude.
Speaker 2: Uh so that was seven of the eight the eight
to oh run that Cam Carter when in that game
on propelling LSU to breaking their losey street getting a
big win. Really, it's I mean, twenty nine points to
the day for him.
Speaker 1: He was incredible. But man, what a sequence is an
all time good sequence there?
Speaker 4: Ah, you won't see that many times like that. That's
not gonna happen where you score like that and get
to steal and you drive to the buck out, I
mean and one there at the end after you get
fouled on the three as well, and ELM, I'm not
saying anything, Yell, don't know. LSU needed that. They needed
some life, they needed some positive energy. And look, the
season is what it is. I know you're two and
ten in SEC play, but at least they're not giving up.
Speaker 3: I know Oklahoma's not great.
Speaker 4: We know that as well, like and so we know
you're probably gonna say some things like that, but it
is good to see LSU continue to fight. You know
the old miss game after that one that like just
rips your heart out.
Speaker 3: It's like, how do you find a way? How can
you bounce back?
Speaker 4: Is that going to be the last time that you're
competitive in an SEC game? And they find a way?
So I know what the season is, but still gonna
be you know that. That was a lot of fun
to watch him in that performance.
Speaker 2: Look, misery loves company, and I took a lot of
pleasure watching all the Oklahoma people I follow on Twitter
absolutely melt down and call for the firing of their coach.
Speaker 1: Just because I don't even know anything about him. I
still love it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Moser, he took that mid major to the final four.
Speaker 2: I don't care LSU women fall to Texas sixty five
fifty eight. It's tough because the defense man it defends
a bat on both sides. But else you holding Texas
just twenty percent shooting over the first two quarters they
had a lead and then Texas just slowly but surely
took over, and as Jake said, the.
Speaker 1: Fourth quarter just went a Longhorn's way. So congratulations Launder.
I hope you're happy. I'm just kidding, guys. She's an
LSU fan. First. I'm just kidding, guys. Everybody relaxed.
Speaker 2: Coming up next here and to me to kick off
our of jus talk a little football. Has been a
very interesting position change as well as a potential.
Speaker 1: Major recruit coming the Tiger's way. Keep it locked here
on off the bench, Off the bench,