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Speaker 4: Right here from the Raisin Kane studio. That is right
that it's not Jacob Hester's voice. It's a tripod righting
again this Monday morning, Monday and Tuesday this week. Not
a big where the heck is Jake at we we
figured that owners? Ah, yes, NFL the big new job
over there with with serious we're in the NFL network.
He's at the NFL's owners meeting. I guess that's where
the is that where they have that awkward head coach
picture every year.
Speaker 5: That's in Tampa. Okay, at the coaches meetings, all right, because.
Speaker 4: He's gonna go try to talk to owners for some reason.
I gonna hang out with Jerry. He's gonna hang out
with Jerry.
Speaker 5: This dude always got the Cowboys on it.
Speaker 4: Who is still alive despite Wander's best efforts has passed.
Speaker 2: I tried, you tried, good effort.
Speaker 5: I mean it was a numbers game at that point.
Speaker 6: Hope, he gets to hang out with Woody Johnson. Jake
told me he's big Woody Johnson.
Speaker 4: I know he is. But yeah, Well, we got the
tripod rocking and rolling this morning. A lot of a
lot of sports to get to for this past week,
and a lot of a lot of news coming from
I mean, my goodness, from spring football, oh Shoe women's basketball, baseball.
I mean, we've got it all and we're gonna have
it cover for you right here the next three hours.
So welcome in. Hope everybody had a great weekend out there,
and before you know, everybody knows what we like to
do on the show. Before we kind of dive right
into the sports, let's try to figure out what happened
this weekend with a tripod here here in the Fox,
Old Taylor, how was your weekend, buddy?
Speaker 6: H good, But I think we're burying the lead a
little bit. High Rocks event Houston, Texas not a big deal.
Local celebrity Bat Flynn participated How to Go uh, celebrity.
Speaker 4: You know what, I'm a great question, start that off.
Gonna give you a great question to start the day off,
start the week off. It was actually really good. I know,
I was out Friday and to go to this high
risk something I've been training for and keeping you updated
a little bit, I guess throughout the last couple of months.
Went there, had no expectations, had no idea what to expect.
So if anybody out there is familiar with high Rocks
and you've seen it, it's quite the to do. It
is quite the event. It was at the Houston Convention Center.
So I go there, had no idea really what to expect.
I'd seen some like social media Instagram feed, had gotten
some like videos and stuff from different High Rocks events.
It was wild. The total of twenty thousand people raced
the High Rocks dough Out this weekend. There was like
another thirty five thousand people that couldn't get in to
the race because it was like sold out. So Dev
told us a couple of weeks ago in America, there's
a lot of out of shape people. There's a lot
of concern with the health of a lot of people.
But my guy, there's a lot of fit people out
there too. There was it was. It was pretty wild.
It's a pretty intense workout. But my partner Andrew from
over there at Red Stick Health and Performance on Government,
we teamed up and we beat our goal, which was
pretty awesome. You set a goal, you know, I mean
it's a race, so you're not really like and every
time it be like, okay, what time you go into race,
It's like, ah, like, I'm not that in shape, so
I'm not really racing anybody except for the goal that
we set. And we set a goal for an hour
twenty minutes. Well we got an hour and fifteen minutes
and four seconds. It was a big deal. They kind
of surprised ourselves a little bit. Uh. It surprised me
because I suck at running. Sucker running distance. I've never,
like in my life, tried to run over one hundred yards,
but I had to run a lot of kilometers. I
think it's like over five miles. I don't know. It sucked.
I was sore. I couldn't walk for a two days.
Yesterday afternoon my kids like made me good play baseball
with him, like of the yard they had to play outside.
It was beautiful weather, so it works some of the
sortess out, but for about a day and a half
I was I couldn't move. So we did it, though,
and I don't know if I'm gonna do it again.
Probably would if the right situation came up. Like it
didn't have to go very far from it. But you know,
we did it once and we crushed it. So that's
how my weekend went. Man, I'm excited for you, are you?
That's all I mean. It's like that. Uh, it's like
that scene from Eastbounded Down where he's like, I'm not
trying to be the best at working out.
Speaker 5: That's what Bobby said.
Speaker 7: We told Bobby Carpenter you were doing my rocks and
he was like, I'm not trying to be the best exercising.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: There you goes start a big question. Did you did
you slink any of my high?
Speaker 4: Was there anybody about to pass out? There's a lot
of people, there's a lot of people getting hydrated out there. Uh,
you know, probably I'm not the best they put in
my put myself out there in the marketing. I don't
think about things a lot, especially I'm not very good
at social media.
Speaker 5: I truly think that you need to hire me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, let's go. I don't know what you're asking,
but what you're asking prices.
Speaker 5: For a million dollars, like I.
Speaker 4: Never think about. And I'm not good at making like
little videos and doing stories and stuff. So I miss
a lot of opportunities out there. That was probably another
one you.
Speaker 7: Could have done like a whole like get hydrated for
high rocks with me or something like that.
Speaker 4: I mean it makes a lot of sense, makes a
lot of sense. We just didn't execute it.
Speaker 5: It's all good.
Speaker 4: We didn't even try. No, I didn't even wear my
high shirt.
Speaker 5: Wait, you didn't even wear my high shirt.
Speaker 4: I told you. The ones I have are like one
hundred and yeah, so I'm not doing that.
Speaker 5: Cheaped out on them.
Speaker 4: We're at Sweet tank Top. One of the few people
actually wearing a shirt probably during this thing.
Speaker 5: Oh, everybody was shirtless.
Speaker 4: There's a lot dudes.
Speaker 7: I would rather well, Yeah, I feel like it would
be so weird because it's like in a convention center, right.
Speaker 4: It's huge. Yeah, it's a convention center.
Speaker 5: We can't find somewhere outside to do it.
Speaker 4: I think they've done some outside which I didn't mind.
Speaker 7: Something about running and like doing exercise in a convention
center feels like kind of weird to me.
Speaker 4: I see, yeah, I see what you're saying. But this
huge course set up, so it gets this gigantic situation.
There are so many people there this course that you're
you're doing it on. It's like they haven't they had
it all figured out. They have like this where the
spectators can like walk and like kind of follow the athlete.
They got your chip, so you got this chip on
your ankle, so they know like all your times. I
got these jumbo trons like putting up your times and
stuff like it's it's in you. Yeah, they chipped us.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 5: I know they didn't just use the one that was
already in you from the code.
Speaker 4: They could have just done like an ankle brace some
of the chip in it. But now they right in
the neck.
Speaker 5: That's crazy.
Speaker 6: When you got there, they were like sign this please
boom right there. Ye, you're like okay, I'm in now
came back out wild. They should have used the whole hotel.
Like you're just running through the lobby, hurdling suitcase. Yeah,
people are just trying to get to their rooms. They
don't know what's going on. It could have been better. Yeah,
it was good, so I would recommend it. It was it
was pretty awesome. Oh great, it wasn't awesome.
Speaker 4: Uh getting in the car right afterwards and driving back
five hours.
Speaker 2: That was kind of our concern. It was like it
was rough. Actually you drove oor, Lacey, I ended up driving.
Speaker 4: I don't like to not drive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I felt good.
Speaker 4: Enough, Like I was like on this high.
Speaker 2: Doesn't trust drivers? That is what he's saying.
Speaker 4: I don't Trust's what you just said.
Speaker 5: He has a baby tummy.
Speaker 4: I got a baby tummy. Don't trust women drivers. I
guess that's what you said.
Speaker 6: I mean, basically, he said, you don't like to not
drive because you.
Speaker 4: Got a little bit of a control issue when it
comes to motorized vehicles. Sure, that's fine, and I do
have a baby tummy, so that allows me to have
that control issue. But Lacey and I rewarded ourselves after.
Speaker 5: With what Yeah, what did you reward yourself with?
Speaker 4: That's my favorite stopped No, we stopped in at Darryl's
Inake Charles and ourselves at darryl Special.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I'm unfamiliar.
Speaker 4: Unfamiliar with it. It's it's not a big deal.
Speaker 5: I'm unfamiliar with their game.
Speaker 4: Probably, if not the it's got to be in the
top five sandwiches in Louisiana. Darryl Special, Okay, it's up there.
It's up there, and it was, it was, it's good
enough and it's it's it's such a core memory of
mine from like college and my roommate Ryan Miller from
like Charles, he would bring Daryl Special and we'd go
see him. We'd go there. It's such a core member
for me. I was like, I've worked hard, I'm about
to whip my own ass at this high Rocks thing
and I'm gonna reward myself a little Daryl Special. Did
you go?
Speaker 2: Did you go regular Mayo? Do you get the vlopeno?
Speaker 4: Man? We got the jalopinio man. Absolute gravy on the sandwich. Oh,
gravy on the side as well.
Speaker 5: Sandwich is this It's like it's it's.
Speaker 4: Like a po boy but god roast bey turkey aam cheese.
But then it's got this gravy all over it. It was
pretty legit.
Speaker 5: That sounds amazing.
Speaker 4: I think probably if you're listening, there's probably a good
amount of our listeners that when you say Darryl Special
or Darryl's. They know exactly what we're talking about. Yeah,
probably can't tasted in their memories.
Speaker 6: I was to get the surf and turf because it
goes to the meat with the shrump and then the
gravy as well.
Speaker 4: Truly, it was electric.
Speaker 5: It was worth it, worth every mile.
Speaker 4: I just kept running. It was so much running.
Speaker 5: I'm proud of you.
Speaker 4: Thank God for my partner though he was in better
shape to me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just.
Speaker 4: Try to keep up with him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, doesn't he own a gym?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah. How about y'all weekend wander you had a
little bit of a concert situation.
Speaker 5: I did go to Zach Bryan on Saturday night.
Speaker 2: Wasn't it was?
Speaker 5: It was good.
Speaker 7: I just don't think it was my vibe, you know,
but like it hadn't Like Zach was fine, Like I
don't ever listen to him, and I actually was like, Okay,
this is good, Like he sounds good and the songs
live weren't as slow as I thought they were gonna be.
Like he added a little something to him. But like,
I just don't think it was my vibe. But it
was fine. Anyways, it was fun, like I'm gonna have
fun at a concert regardless, but it just was not
my vibe, which is, okay, could you get.
Speaker 4: Those those good like I worked for the radios, Yeah, tickets.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was on the floor, but it was fun.
Speaker 7: I went with some friends, and I don't know. The
crowd was just like too young. Like everybody around me
was like they were all like in college and like
sorority and fraternity bros.
Speaker 5: And just not my vibe.
Speaker 4: Wasn't a good scene when I first.
Speaker 7: Asked you and you're like, yeah, like, I mean that's
how I feel about it. Like it was fun, but
it was like it just I guess cause I don't
listen to him. I don't know, and like the people
around me, but like my friends were fun.
Speaker 4: But you could have also just listened to the radio
right with your friends and had a well.
Speaker 5: Probably I wanted to go home watching.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's plenty of people watching, And Okay, I know
that this is like a thing people do at concerts,
but I like, I'm not a fan of it. Like
they started throwing beer around at the end and it
got in my hair and I was like I just
washed my hair and.
Speaker 5: I just didn't did it.
Speaker 7: I know, I had my hair done and they were
out here throwing beer around. I know, but I mean
concerts in Tiger Stadium are cool. I can't wait for
post Malone. He didn't play Chicken Fried, not one time.
I was waiting all night for him to play Chicken Fried.
Speaker 4: Well, what the hell did he play them?
Speaker 5: I don't know. Revival for like ten minutes straight.
Speaker 4: Revival.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he came out for an encore and it was
really I don't know if I mean, I don't really
know his songs either.
Speaker 4: I respect him for making them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shout out a good job making him.
Speaker 4: Taylor, did you go the car go.
Speaker 2: To Zach Briant?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: It's not Florida Georgia.
Speaker 6: Bryan's right, right, I'm only into like boy bands, duets,
that type of thing.
Speaker 4: No, I did.
Speaker 6: I did not get to uh Zach Brian Uh considered
uh selling the parking past unthough.
Speaker 2: You gave me though I didn't. I didn't do that,
though it would have been a good idea. I would have,
But Uh, No, I didn't get to go.
Speaker 4: Have you gone to any uh spring practices? Did you
go to any of this week?
Speaker 2: Saturday?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It was okay.
Speaker 6: It was the only time, it's not doing our ship.
So that was uh, it was cool. And then we
had our anniversary dinner Saturday. We went out to Mandeville
because we just never go out to that area, so
we need to go to a little bit different. And
then yesterday brother's birthday, so we did that. It was
a busy weekend. All right, busy weekend. How's Alon looking anything?
It looks excellent. I got a Friday evening, Matt, thank
you for asking.
Speaker 4: You're welcome brand new mulch. Oh, brand new mulch. Did
you bring it in? You went and picked it up,
We went and got it. It good for you? Yeah, all right,
well good, Well, I'm glad to say that everybody had
a fantastic weekend. I mean, I hope everybody out there
listening had a great weekend.
Speaker 7: We're like actually bearing the lead. LSU won their first
SEC series this week.
Speaker 4: Oh no, we're about to go to break here, yeah
and come back and talk all about LSU baseball.
Speaker 2: Got We're we are so back maybe four and five
in the SEC.
Speaker 7: Baby, four and five feels a lot different than like
three and three and six or like whatever. And you
feel better having at least one series under the belt.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, and doing it in pretty awesome fashion. Bat
flip heard around the world, sucker star. I mean the
height was impressive, and we'll talk about it. It was
a good little still shot I got of the bat
in the air. It's incredible. It's in the clouds. Ye, unbelievable. Anyway,
we'll get to all that. We got a great show.
We got a lot of sports to get to. But
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we got it, we got it. We got a SEC
series victory. LSU Tigers take two of three from the
Kentucky Wildcats, and pretty exciting fashion taking the rubber match yesterday.
Was that they played football yesterday.
Speaker 5: Or it was totally a football score yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, l she went seventeen to ten and that's
a pretty round football number two actually more.
Speaker 2: Than Kentucky football probably average per game a year ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, by far it was like the score to
like a late two thousands, like classic SEC matchup, like
a high scoring game at late SEC matchup. LSU wins
seventeen ten. I mean there was some exciting moments. We
got grand slams, we got dingers, we got bat flips
going one hundred feet my god, So Cardar relaxed a
little bit.
Speaker 7: What cracked me up was like the camera tracking the
ball and you could see the bat flip up in
the in the camera.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I say, I saw there was a picture I'll
sit it to you, Taylor, that was came across and
somebody circled the bat flip and it is it's like
above the scoreboard pretty much. Yea pretty incredible.
Speaker 5: It's a really high one.
Speaker 4: So LSU loses Friday Night. Yeah, they face Kentucky's Ace,
one of the better pictures in the country, and they
struggled to struggle to plate too many runs there. But
they lose Friday Night. Cason Evans didn't have his best outing.
I know you were texting the group. I was, you know,
doing my high rocks thing and traveling with swollen legs, right,
But so I couldn't watch it, but you were kind
of uh Jason Evans comes out and a little wild
early on, but kind of settled into a rhythm, ended
up again going one hundred like.
Speaker 5: Five just way too many walks.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he ended up going six innings, but it gave
up six walks and only three strikeouts and four hits,
so he ended up giving up four runs in those
six innings.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 7: So really the two days, like Friday, you struggled with
Cason Evans, and then obviously they moved William Schmidt to
Saturday because Cooper more is out with injury, and then
I guess Sunday was a figure it out kind of
thing and they ended up doing Johnny whole Staff and
Gavin Gidrey started on Sunday, and both the days that
you kind of were like on the fence about if
you were gonna win or not. Like Sunday, it was
like a struggle for Gavin coming up to start.
Speaker 6: The way they won though, Like I know when to
talk about the highest score that might be what it's
gonna have to be on Sundays though, until you get
Cooper Moore back, Like if you would have told me, hey,
case and Evans gave up four runs, he wasn't good
you lose the Friday night game, I would have said,
no way to tell if you win the series, because
I mean, you have to rely on William Schmidt, who's
been great. Like William Schmid's your best picture right now.
As far as starters go, I don't think that's really
a question. But Sunday it's. Yeah, it's kind of the
figure it out day. And they kind of figured it
out because when you looked at Friday, it wasn't just
case in Evans, right, like when your starter's bad, you
need your bullpen to be great. They go to Ethan Plogg.
He went a third of an inning, gave up three runs.
I mean he wasn't He wasn't great either. Now the
rest of the lineup settled it down, like Rizzy was good.
Lachenmyer had two good outings over the weekend. But yeah,
Saturday dominant fashion. You were looking for some sort of
spark and it was John Pearson with the grand slam,
right because I mean, you're down six nothing in this
game in the first three innings yesterday, oh seven nothing, Yeah,
seven seven nothing. A grand slam puts you right back
in it. And then Seth Dardar comes up like we
were talking about me. Why don't you talking about John
Pearson last week? And like why he's in the lineup.
Jay always does this with third base, right, He sacrifices
defense for offense on third base, always has. I mean, remember,
everybody's like Tommy White's not gonna work out at third.
Now he developed into a really good third baseman, and
you know John Pearson he's he's finding his way at third.
Speaker 2: But that bad in the lineup.
Speaker 6: Like I mean, look, Trent Carroway came in with a
lot of hyper I mean just wasn't hitting in the sec.
He just he just wasn't. He go to John Pearson
and he provided you that spark. And I get said
Darda had been slumping. He kind of saw why he's
still in the lineup yesterday because he could do things
like that. I mean, it was a it was a
team win if you've ever seen one, and.
Speaker 4: I know John Pearson only had the one him, which
was a grand Slam which changed the entire game.
Speaker 5: They I mean, it puts you in it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but every bath, I feel like everybody for him
is competitive. Yeah, you feel confident that he's like if
it's if it's a he was at least giving it
a good opportunity to swing the bat put the bat
on the ball, which we haven't seen from everybody in
the lineup throughout this season now certainly yesterday.
Speaker 7: I think what's really huge this series is that, like
the entire series, you had people that have struggled to.
Speaker 5: This point in the season really step up, and that's huge.
Speaker 7: Like you had Mason Braun step up, and then you
had Seth Dardar who has been struggling at the plate,
like they both had like a low two hundred batting average,
and you had people that hadn't before step up and
like put their stamp on and like now you're gonna
see Seth Dardar a lot more in the lineup. You're
probably gonna see Mason Braun a lot more in the
lineup as well. And I just feel like every weekend
LSU and proves on something that you're needing them to.
Like whenever they played Oklahoma, we were like, okay cool.
On the day that Oklahoma had all those errors, you
took advantage of every single one of them and you
won that game. And then this series you had people
like again set dar Dar, Mason Brawn even like you
see it a lot from the bullpen, but I just
feel like that's the more important thing here. Like Sunday,
you didn't know what you were gonna do because you
lose Cooper more.
Speaker 5: Gavin Gidrey is not a starter. Gavin Gidrey is a closer.
Speaker 7: I think my this is solely my opinion, but I
don't think that Gavin Gidrey is great after more than
two innings, Like he solid for two, but that's pretty
much it. Then they start like really touching him up.
But Gavin Gidrey came out and pitched one in a third,
gave up only three hits, but he ends up giving
six runs because he had four walks only two strikeouts,
and then you have Santiago Garcia come in. Cooper Williams
was really the bright spot for me yesterday because he
came in and settled it down. He had two strikeouts
and it was only an inning and a third, but
for that inning and a third, he was very effective.
Speaker 5: So there's like a.
Speaker 7: Lot of stuff that's moving in a very positive direction
for LSU and coming like you have a really tough
stretch coming up, so you're at Tennessee and then you're
at Ole miss you host Texas A and M here
and then you're at Mississippi State. So having this momentum
heading into that stretch that you have coming up is
so important and it gives you a little bit of
confidence too. And you saw a fire from this team
that you hadn't seen before.
Speaker 4: And you needed it. Yeah, certainly you needed it. I
mean they do have to figure out there's there's a
lot to work on from yesterday's game. As exciting as
it was, he had a lot to work on. I mean,
you you have this who knows how many pitchers are
going to pitch on Sundays, it's just whoever can go. Yeah,
you had eight and that's gonna that's way it's gonna
have to be for for right now in the season.
But you still you walk ten and you hit two more.
That's that's a rest like that. That's the one thing
that's gonna hold LSU back is the control. And then
you saw Case and Evans on Friday night have control
issues early on that. I mean, he only gave it
four hits, but he gave it four four runs because
he was walking and hitting people. So it's like that,
it's the control issues. Saturday, well, Schmid, z Thatch Cowen
both pitched, they did great, they shut them out. So
it's the control issues that you're getting them. That's exactly
what Kentucky Baseball and we talked about it last week
with a small ball. That's what they needed. They need
help to score and win games, and we certainly gave
it to him. Now it's okay, all that gets swept
on the wrong because LSU went sixteen for thirty eight
as a team yesterday batting, which is which is a
pretty incredible stat. Chris Stanfield goes four for five, Curiy
l goes three for five in a home run, Guard
r three for five, Pierson with a Grand Slam. They
just I mean they hit.
Speaker 5: He had three home runs in the game.
Speaker 4: Yesterday, Anger danger day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and one of them being a Grand Slam. That's great.
Speaker 7: But Saturday, like William Schmidt and Zach Cowen masterpiece, like
just a masterpiece of a game. And Zach Cowen to
come in for three and two thirds and throw seven
strikeouts and only walk one.
Speaker 5: He's back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, how huge.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 6: You were just talking about how many pictures you gonna
have to throw on Sunday. Yeah, you saved your entire
bullpen because of Zach Cowen's performance, Like didn't you didn't
have to use anybody, right, And I get it, Like
you you gave up ten runs yesterday, but you threw
seven relief pitchers they combined to give up only four.
And like Mammi Grizzy wasn't great to give up two
of those four, But I mean Gavin Gidry gives up
six of the ten. You can work that out. You
can find a guy as a starter here and there.
But that bullpen on Sunday was huge. And then you know,
we were talking about all the big hits yesterday, Seth
Dardar was six for ten on the entire weekend. The
guy hit six hundred over the weekend. And that's a
guy that had been struggling big time. I mean, he
was hovering around two hundred to twenty. I mean that
was his batting average, which is why he had kind
of been in and out of the lineup. Be in
six hundred against a pretty good Pigeon staff, Like, that's
another guy that's trended in the right direction for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And yesterday the team as a total bat at
four twenty one with runners on three eighty five and
with runners the scorm position bat at four hundred.
Speaker 5: See, that's what you want to see.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's win in baseball.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: That is like way more characteristic of Jay Johnson led
teams than what we saw like the first two series
SEC series.
Speaker 4: You know what I like to see more than anything
and more than the stats and there the that's all great.
Speaker 7: Jay, Yeah, like talking to his Oh okay.
Speaker 4: So Jay talking that ish Yeah, but it was the
swag that the team has. Yes, Like it was like
the what we had talked about the last couple of weeks,
like who's going to be that leader? Like where's the energy?
Where's the juice coming from? Everything just seems like maybe
there's excitement here and there. We saw it last week
when Jason Evans was pitching. We saw some emotion there,
but like where is the juice beIN? Where's the leadership?
Like where has that feeling been that everybody gets when
things are going well? Well, we got it this weekend.
Speaker 7: And again it's coming from people that you, honestly like
from the start of the season are kind of unlikely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's.
Speaker 5: Great to see.
Speaker 4: But then yes, but then Jay Johnson, yes, you know.
Speaker 6: Well they fed off that too, because like even when
they were winning, even when they were winning this year,
it was very buttoned up, right, Like you didn't see
a lot of emotion.
Speaker 2: Pick a guy, Pick a guy yesterday, he probably had
some emotion.
Speaker 6: He probably had some fire, like John Pearson stomping on
home played after his home run, the bat flip from
South Dardar. I mean, they were out there, they were
having fun yesterday, and it's kind of the first time.
It's kind of the first time all year like you've
seen that, Like, oh, they're not out there, they're not
they're not too tight.
Speaker 2: They're playing a.
Speaker 6: Lot looser, and like they feed off of that because
Jay didn't do it often.
Speaker 2: When he does, you know, he means it.
Speaker 4: All Right, let's get a break and when we come back,
maybe we'll show you a still shot of exactly how
high that batflip got and we'll talk a little bit
about Jay Johnson versus Nick n Jones, a matchup that
we'd love to see maybe in a ring somewhere. Stick
with us. We we'll talk about We'll continue to get
to more LSU baseball, and then we're got LSU women's
basketball to covers. We're going to put a kind of
put a bow on their season as well. Stick with
us right here, off the bench. Off the bench, I
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I think on this show we do a lot of
you know, back in my day, old man yelling at
the lawn, shaking their fist at the at the young kids.
I think that's just you. Oh yeah, it's just me. Well,
I do a lot of that on this show on
different things, specifically a lot of in college sports in general,
like why are they doing that? But there's one trend
that that the youths have that I can get fully behind,
and that is flipping the hell out of a bat.
I love it. I think it's fantastic. Now, I don't
know if Kentucky's baseball coach loves it. Seth Darter yesterday
hit a a massive three run shot. I think it
was one hundred and nine mile per hour off the
at and went like four hundred and thirty five feet.
I believe crushed it. Now, you gotta feel for real
confident to bat flip this high, like you know you
got it. Now. This wasn't even a bat flip I get.
I think they used to be like it got popular
because like you just gotta like flip it to the
side or whatever because you're like show off. Well this
was a two hand between the legs straight up. My god,
I love it.
Speaker 5: I think it's just guys having.
Speaker 2: Fun, just dues out there.
Speaker 4: I mean, my god, he just gave his team the
lead the work coming across the plate.
Speaker 2: Also, the way Seth got around the basis quick watch.
Speaker 4: There, Well, like he was pretty hype. Yeah, he was
running that thing. He didn't know where that bat was
going to land, so he had to like sprint to
first so he didn't get hit in the top of
the head.
Speaker 7: I mean, you just gave your team the lead when
you were down zero to seven. I think it's a
bat flip.
Speaker 5: And then not to mention.
Speaker 4: He that's even load too. I think it was that
higher than that. So there's the bat in the air.
It looks like a bird, but a bird, it's a plane. Nope,
that's a bat. Yeah, a baseball bat, a metal one.
Speaker 6: I mean, you get why he was hyped there, Like
we were just talking about it. The guy play. He's
hitting six hundred over the weekend. You get the three
run shot like that, It makes sense.
Speaker 7: Ye say, Kentucky had been chirping all weekend, like they
were staring down the picture every time they would get walked,
which is soft.
Speaker 5: Like that is such soft energy. You're getting walked and
you're gonna stare down the picture. Get out of here.
Bro Hey, you were so lame, you and your coach y'all.
Speaker 7: And I like nick man Jones, but like that was
just some very beta energy coming out of the entire
team yesterday and Saturday.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I agree with there's some there's
some chatter in the chat here, Okay, I don't know
if I agree with. I think it's dumb unless it's
like a walk off or something.
Speaker 5: Now, maybe he did get the lead right there, I
just not walk off.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's been over maybe the bat flip's been overdone
a little bit. I think there's a lot of bat
flips when they don't when there necessarily doesn't need to be.
But I mean, if you're staring down pitchers after a walk, yeah,
you deserve the bat is flung at you, softball cheers.
Speaker 6: Not only did you take the lead, you never let
it up after that. I mean it was ten to
eight right there. That makes it eleven to eight and
you blow the doors off of me. You went by
seven runs like that gave you all the spark you needed.
That was a big time moment. That's a bad flip moment.
That's a bad foot moment. I mean, let's just let's
compare it to other sports, right. People celebrate every touchdown. Yeah,
people celebrate huge first downs. But if you get a
first down on a fourth down, yeah they people celebrate sacks. Yeah.
Whatever this means.
Speaker 5: I have no idea what it.
Speaker 4: I don't know what it means, but.
Speaker 5: I know what a bat flip means.
Speaker 4: Though, no bat flip means. It means I just crushed it.
I took your best pitcher put it in the parking lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so there's celebration everywhere, and again gets slimming back.
Speaker 4: Now, this batflip was a little special. This was a
I can I could feel. I can understand feeling a
little disrespect, but I didn't know they were staring down
our picture after a walk.
Speaker 5: Yeah, get to hear it.
Speaker 7: And they just had been like chirping all weekend and
they do like you know how softball teams like, I'm
sure you know what chuzette they they're in the dugout
and they're doing cheers and chants and stuff like that,
and usually baseball doesn't do that. Kentucky's like sitting in
their dugout just doing chants and little cheers and everything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then.
Speaker 6: Being college athletes and doing chance in your dugout. You
were talking about baity energy, screwed, screwed chirping at the
guy from doing a walk chance in your dugouts a little.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's iffy.
Speaker 7: And we had been asking, well, you have been asking specifically,
like for this team to show some fire, show some juice,
like do something that bat flip all the juice and
it hyped everybody up. And like Taylor said, we never
let up on the lead after that.
Speaker 4: Do you think he's practiced that?
Speaker 2: I just think that.
Speaker 7: So Hayden shot he used to play at Texas A
and M. But he played with Dardar in college before.
I think he said at Colombia. I don't remember where
Dardar is all from and all that, but I think
they said he said they played together at Columbia. I
could be wrong on what school that is, but they
played together, and he said he quoted the video of
Dardar doing that. He was like, this is tame by
Dardar being standards.
Speaker 2: He's like, he's he likes it. Yeah, I don't think he.
I think I just launched it out of emotion.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he launched emotion. But what can you imagine if
hit Jay on top of that?
Speaker 5: I mean, so, did you know what happened after that?
Speaker 4: Yeah? The argument? Okay, yeah, the argument. So Kentucky head
coach Nick Man Jones, he didn't like it. No, he
didn't love it.
Speaker 7: Well, but also like the umpires gave them a war warning.
The umpires gave l s U a warnt after the
bat after the bat flip.
Speaker 5: A man didn't like that. It was just a warning.
Speaker 4: Okay. So what's the is there. You can't go to.
Speaker 2: High show voting or what I don't can't you can't rotate.
Speaker 4: I don't take on rotations.
Speaker 7: Maybe I don't think there's like an operative definition as
to what show voting is.
Speaker 6: If there was a rule of high dards, probably probably
out of there.
Speaker 4: If there's a rule lot high, he might have been
he might have been suspended for the year because it
got that high. Get solar dust on it when it
came down, launched it. This is my last bad flip,
like it's so that got the juice going, and certainly
Jay Johnson got the juice. Yeah, and a lot of
times that's what a good coach will do. When your coaches,
when your team is needing something, sometimes you got to
go get thrown out of the game. Yes, sometimes you
gotta go do something as a coach where your teams like,
I see you, thanks for having our back even though
I'm wrong or whatever it is. This was pretty soft energy.
So so I guess the overall theme coming out of
the weekend was, Oh, here we go, there's Jay.
Speaker 5: Oh he said, I'm right.
Speaker 4: I'm right something here, I'm right something here.
Speaker 5: Love it.
Speaker 4: I'd like to see that, and they're kind of friends.
Speaker 5: You know, they're like busties. He was like they were
each other's wedding.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was on NFR and Matt interviewed him on
Thursday and he was like, yeah, he spent the night
in my hotel room the night before my wedding.
Speaker 2: Like they're they're buds.
Speaker 4: That's why I got so fired up. Then right here,
I'll have good for you. And sometimes a coach has
to do that. Yeah, sometimes good you.
Speaker 5: Gotta gotta And Jay's usually so level headed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's what and that's sometimes what it takes
is you're coach doing something a little bit out of ordinary,
knowing that your coach got your back and he's willing
to fight for it and get you a little fired up.
Not that they weren't already fired up, because that bat
at that point, still at that point still hadn't landed.
It was still it was still on the way up
to the tape. Yeah, and then coming back down. So anyway,
LSU of course takes the series against Kentucky. We got
it our first of many SEC Series victories here this
baseball season, and hopefully this will skyrocket the confidence skyrocket
the silicip baseball team.
Speaker 5: This lineup Tennessee's kind of limping into this next week.
Speaker 4: We're going to crush them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but that's the premiere programming all of college the baseball.
Speaker 2: So how is that happening?
Speaker 5: So the pinnacle of college baseball.
Speaker 4: That's a great point. Sorry, all right, we gotta get
a break. We're gonna come back. We're gonna wrap up
our number one right here. Got lots more to get to,
a lot of sports. I got LSH women's basketball to
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short little segment here again, clock management not our thing.
I did have a little did y'all see the news
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