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Speaker 1: Your locks in to Off the Bench to troll for
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Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Yo, Welcome in O TB one, O four five ESPN
Venton Rouge.
Speaker 4: Here on this Thursday morning.
Speaker 2: Jake Flynn, Alandra Tate all here with you and Taylor
just laid out the show. Very excited for it. One
final little reek app on baseball season. Nobody better to
do it than mister bid McDonald Flinn.
Speaker 4: How we doing? How was a parade last night?
Speaker 5: Championship celebration, whatever you want to man, we had a
great time. I gotta be honest with you. I'm sitting
here and I'm looking and I think Taylor's in the
same boat. Looking for a little energy right now. We
celebrated hard last night. Flint family, Yeah, kids, we were there.
We were There's one rule about morning radio. Yeah you
can't say how tired you are.
Speaker 6: I didn't just said I was looking for interview.
Speaker 2: Because as much as I want to, because you know
what I made the mistake of doing last.
Speaker 4: Night watching the show.
Speaker 6: Oh you got locked in?
Speaker 4: Let's play one more? Oh was eleven thirty? Hey?
Speaker 6: Was it a TBS movie.
Speaker 4: Let's get to one more?
Speaker 6: Armageddon on TBS.
Speaker 2: I wish twelve twenty finale.
Speaker 4: Let's get to one more.
Speaker 6: I think we'll.
Speaker 4: Finally.
Speaker 2: It's called Better Sister. It's on Amazon. Jessica Bill, Elizabeth Banks,
they were in it. Don't want to give anything away. Well,
let's just say at one point they were both married
to the same man.
Speaker 4: And they were sisters. Yeah. Thanksgiving it's gonna be weird. Yeah,
it was good.
Speaker 2: It was really good. So I fell into the world more.
But you know what, we don't talk about. It's like
fight club. So did you you got to the finale.
We've got the answers you were looking for.
Speaker 4: I did. We finished it.
Speaker 6: You found out who Better Sister was.
Speaker 2: We did good and you had a chance to go
to the celebration.
Speaker 5: Well, you were watching Better Sister. I was celebrating the
LSU Baseball Tigers.
Speaker 4: That's right. Because you're a stitchhead.
Speaker 5: I'm stitchead. It was, actually it was. It was great.
We had a really good time. The concert was good.
Right beforehand, I gotta tell you, it was hot in there.
There was not a stitch of breeze either.
Speaker 4: Good lording.
Speaker 6: But we had a great time with Flynn family.
Speaker 5: We showed out, we got our told John, we had
some new baseball jerseys. We put it on, we did
all the deal and uh yeah, it was a really cool,
really cool experience for everybody there. I mean it was
a really good crowd, loud crowd, a lot of energy
and man like tip of the cap to the fireworks coordinator.
Speaker 6: They crushed it, crush it.
Speaker 5: I think it was probably the best fireworks show I've
seen in Baton Rouge for sure.
Speaker 4: But in a minute, did you yell at Jay Hey,
check your messages? The shot I didn't tell him joined
us every week.
Speaker 6: It's it's Matt. I interviewed you twice.
Speaker 5: You told me good questions twice twice, remember me, Yeah
you must have. He almost caught me up on stage.
I think, hey, uh, you know what, let Matt interviewed
me on this one.
Speaker 4: He has good We got a real stitch.
Speaker 2: Yet here in the crowd, you've seen a couple of
innings of baseball, but we're bringing in the big guns.
Speaker 5: There was a couple of times during the ceremony where
certainly they were like, you know, we want to we
want to take a moment to you know, give shout
out to a couple of people out there. And I
didn't know if they were gonna call up, call me
up or not.
Speaker 2: You must have sent him a well done steak when
you sent it from Flemings. You know, it's tough to order,
so we were trying to big boy or something. Stakes
to go are tough. You know, it's like what what
temperature do you go?
Speaker 4: Because it's gonna keep cooking.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean if you order medium rare, it's gonna
get their meetings, it'll keep cooking. But at the the
good restaurants do they they already know that and they
plan for it, right, you just don't know. It's a
crap shoot. Yeah, we'll eventually get HI back on.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 6: It was a really good celebration though we enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: We had the opportunity to kids kind of ran on
the field a little bit right after, Yeah, which is cool.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they hit a great time. It was. It was
it was awesome.
Speaker 4: I'm still so when Tea was here.
Speaker 2: We tried to get this done and we just can
never lock down an actual time to do it. Batting
practice at the box like I had to set it up.
We just could never get Tea there at the same
time and so willing to take You want to do
it today? Yeah, that's today. We got a lot of
stuff after the show. I don't know if you remember
some meetings. We've got some commercials.
Speaker 6: I'll be here.
Speaker 4: I got some biz to take.
Speaker 5: We got some pro radio stuff to do. We do
love that can't wait. No, I'm I'm one hundred percent
in Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 5: Remember we actually went to We did the batting cages
one time with Bane one time.
Speaker 4: Before the charity Sawball. Remember that we forgot about that.
Uh Me and Bain were on the winning team. You
were not? What not because it means we did take
some VP though. That was fun. Get inside of the
cages over at the box.
Speaker 6: I think I was throwing pitches to you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were.
Speaker 6: Was ballsy of you to stand in the box.
Speaker 2: No, I mean I don't know about the high heat.
We don't know about the intermural team FB that we
had back in the day.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, what a squad that was.
Speaker 2: Watching Kyle Williams hit the softball. The bat looked like
a toothpick in his hand.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So that was four, right, two thousand and four
we had intermural softball, so we.
Speaker 4: Did it every year, but maybe not our last.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So four Oh, okay, I'll tell you what this was
before you guys. So this was Spring of three. We
had a L s U football intermural softball, just like
we had when when you got there.
Speaker 6: So this is spring of three. So this is.
Speaker 5: Following the national championship and Kyle william m'sh Joe Lawrence.
We had multiple starters and multiple guys that played high
school ball.
Speaker 6: A couple of guys were like.
Speaker 5: You know, kind of like borderline baseball draft picks, but
they were but they chose they chose football, right, Jason,
all names you would recognize. But so we are we
go to Washington, d C. To meet the president. You
know the story. We go to Washington, C to meet
the President of the United States of America, the leader
of the free world. Because of course we won a
national championship. That was the famous White House trip where
LSU was on one staircase and USC was on the
other because of the you know air quote dual National whatever.
Speaker 6: Where where President.
Speaker 5: Bush at the time said like, you know a lot
of people are wondering, you know who the best team is.
Speaker 6: I got a pretty big backyard here, which was great.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: Anyway, so we were there and I can't remember it
was we were at the White House, Like when's there?
Speaker 4: Thursday?
Speaker 5: I can't remember, but whatever day it was, it was.
It was a game day for us. It was in
a real songer that was like the league play. That
was when we were scheduled to play like at nine pm.
Speaker 6: Yep, okay, so we go, we see the president do
that deal.
Speaker 5: We come back and we land, I want to say,
like thirty minutes before our game is supposed to be
like plan.
Speaker 2: So we're like yeah and real quick. We we took
this very serious. It wasn't real softball, not like serious,
like we were out there practicing and we're but like
we had so much fun doing it that we didn't miss.
Speaker 6: We weren't there for just s and g's. We were there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were there to play and like we were
all baseball players growing up. So it was like a
little way to like flex or muscles, scratch that edge,
a pind of glove on and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: So we get there about thirty minutes, so, like we
get to our cars and we raced to the park
and I Am not kidding you when I tell you.
We show up like a yeah for this game, and
the hard ohs that were working innermural Softball they were like, no,
y'all missed the fifteen minute cut off, late cutoff, blah
blah blah, you can't play. And the other team's sitting
there like, hey, Bud, we're here, let's just play the game.
It's the last game of the night too. Yeah, well
let's play. We're cool with it.
Speaker 4: Five minutes late, they were at the White House and
we were.
Speaker 5: Like we were like, like I just said, we were
meeting the leader of the free world and shaking his
hand because of the national championship.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Then we brought this school and we started and we
started arguing, and well we lost the argument. The guy's
just turned the whole the lights off to the whole field.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And uh, Kyle Williams, I've never seen him like real mad,
but he was like I dare you to turn the
lights out right now and make it dark with me
near you.
Speaker 6: Anyway, long story short, I.
Speaker 2: Can I can hear Kyle saying ye, like so many
condescending and like, guy, like you were like I know,
until you get it on the field, but like we
were pretty fired up. Yeah, so what a big ill
that guy's And he's very witty too, so I can
imagine what he was saying to him. So we needless
to say, our arguments were futile. LSU football Tigers in
a real softball team two thousand and three took an
l that day due to forfeiture for being five minutes late,
and then we got beating the semi finals that year.
Speaker 4: We always play the same team.
Speaker 5: We always ran into that damn team that I swear
they were putting racquetballs in the barrels of their bad
like I'd be was like I was at center field,
and like I would be sitting there playing the same team,
and I would just.
Speaker 6: They'd hit the ball and I'd run to the fence
and I.
Speaker 5: Would just like look up at it and it was
still like forty feet over my head and I could
hear going, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, we had a Major League Baseball, someone who
played in the big leagues at shortstop.
Speaker 6: Opening it started, he was second base for the Toronto.
Speaker 4: Blue Jays and he was impressed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like just Pepper in the sorority houses with home runs.
Speaker 6: Anyway, we lost.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all like every year that I played to the
same team, and.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure it was the guys that worked.
Speaker 5: It was it was it was the intermural that worked,
the innermural fields. It was hard as that made us
forfeit because we were meeting the president. Yeah, you know
who you are. You know you are definitely listening Arry
to turn those lights out? How would those lights would
have stayed on all night? So had Peter Daikowski on
the team, It's a big Canadian. JV was on the team.
I'm trying to think. I was trying to like, I
didn't know we were going to talk about this. I
was like trying to think of the roster.
Speaker 4: Jason Spaedoni, Ryan Willis, Ryan Willis was on the team.
Peter ks Peter.
Speaker 5: Anyway, you know, we jumped from a you know, LSU
National championship celebration to celebrating the two thousand and three
Intermural uh.
Speaker 4: SE final runner ups survive six' to two.
Speaker 2: Three ask you fellas have any Personal Skip bertman, stories
having been there while he was Coaching SLASH. AD i
have everyone when he was THE, ad AND i mean
they were so, GREAT i mean The. Burtman they sat
right behind or right in front of me And matt
on the, plane right right, there and we would kind
of talk back and forth on road, trips like because
he MADE i mean he made every every road.
Speaker 4: Trip him and his wife went to every.
Speaker 2: Game and SO i definitely remember DURING o seven whenever
we found out we were going to The National championship
on the plane because Like West virginia had had lost
To pitt And missouri lost To, oklahoma like all those
things that we all know had to. Happen and we
find out the, pilot you, know comes over the speaker
and he's like giving us, updates and he gives us
like the final score that we all kind of knew
we were waiting. For And, FLYNN i don't know if
he's gonna admit, this he grabs Coach bertman and kisses him.
Speaker 4: On top of the head because he was WHAT i.
Speaker 2: Did you were so, excited we were jumping up and
you gave this man's.
Speaker 4: Bald head a kiss on top of. IT i don't
know if you remember. THAT i was, like, okay it's
a bold. Move But skip didn't say. Anything, YEAH i
don't remember.
Speaker 5: That i'm sure he never washed his head after. That
was sitting in front of.
Speaker 2: Us he was sitting in front of. Us he was
he was, excessed so he was like pumping his arms or.
Whatever we were all jumping, up hugging high five and
and you gave a little.
Speaker 5: Right on top of the man said, smooch you did,
well head. Smooch, YEP i think, That. ELANDRA i think
a couple of weeks ago you sent that picture of
me And jake and an. AIRPLANE i think, that BUT.
Speaker 2: I think somebody sent it to me after they found
out we were doing the show. TOGETHER i think that
might have been. That that was the white that was,
white that was The White house.
Speaker 6: Trip, yeah so, THAT i, mean what do you that'd be.
Speaker 4: Kind of weird IF i just had like a random picture.
Speaker 5: Of, y'all well obvious it was a, screenshot, certainly don't
it would be.
Speaker 4: Weird so.
Speaker 5: Weird but that was when We, yeah they came on
because like back in the. Day you certainly weren't like
connected any on Air WiFi or anything over that wasn't an,
overpriced Terrible Wi.
Speaker 4: Fi you still had like the phone in the back
of the.
Speaker 5: Seats, yeah so the pilot was getting the updates from you,
KNOW i guess ground control or, whatever and he would
given it to.
Speaker 2: Ground controls, like, hey my, god you should probably just
fly this, place just focus on the turbulence was real.
Speaker 5: Bad so yeah It, yeah he announced that we. Won everyone's.
CELEBRATING i GUESS i Kissed skip on the.
Speaker 4: Head there's no.
Speaker 5: Guessing and then all of a sudden we hit this
just probably the most giant piece of turbulence ever in the,
history and the plane just. Dropped, YEAH i mean what
felt like ten thousand Feet, yeah probably ten.
Speaker 2: FEET i don't, know whatever it. Was it was a pucker.
Moment i'll tell you. That everybody on that plane it.
Speaker 5: Was it went from A ufork celebration To, god we're
about to, die saying Hell mary's saying Hill, Mary's i'll
never see my family. AGAIN i guess that's. It it's
been a good, ride real going out on.
Speaker 2: TOP i Guess West virginia is going to play in the.
Game what would have? Happened, yeah that's dark dark there.
One all, right we'll take take a. Break that was
our real softball. Story that was like if you can't
get if you can't get an excuse From GEORGE.
Speaker 4: W bush because you were at his, house.
Speaker 5: We should have like that's what we were talking about,
Too like we should have just gotten a letter like
a doctor's.
Speaker 2: Note, Yeah i'm. Serious he would have done it for.
Sure he was all like when we Went. No, seven
like he was sitting there chatting it. Up AND i
told the story on air, before LIKE i was nervous
BECAUSE i was presenting the like the, Football oh my,
god The PRESIDENT i got DO i get too close
to like you, KNOW i, mean get on over, here
kicking on over.
Speaker 4: Here we'll get in, here all right through that metal.
Detection let's.
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Speaker 4: Right we had AN nba draft last, night we. Did
Did flynn know?
Speaker 6: THIS i actually.
Speaker 5: Did we were talking about it. Before, okay because uh
this this is not a opinion THAT i made up.
MYSELF i was listening to the show on the way
in here and they said that The pelicans did something.
Speaker 6: DUMB i don't know if that's.
Speaker 2: True all, Right so, okay so they Draft Jeremiah fears
out Of oklahoma with their original seventh pick that they,
had and a lot of people are hoping that they,
get you, know better than seven because of how their record.
Speaker 4: Was but that's sometimes the draft.
Speaker 2: Lottery but then you packaged the pick that you had
later on in this draft with next year's first round,
pick and you move up to Select Derek queen out Of. Maryland,
Now Derek queen's a very athletic Big Derek. Queen it's
a really good basketball. Player Derek queen was one that
got really hot at the end of the year last,
year made a run With maryland as one of the
better players in the country by the end of last.
Year but now you don't have any first round picks
in twenty twenty. Six you gotta be good this year
because if you end up making the, playoffs then that's
not a lottery. Pick, okay, whatever it's THE. Nba once
you get past the, lottery who the hell. Knows that's
just the way THE nba draft. Is but you had
to Love queen a lot to get rid of your
picks for next.
Speaker 6: Year it just reeks of this. Guy we have him
graded as a top five guy or a top eight. Guy,
yeah and nobody else is seeing it but.
Speaker 5: Us so you make that move to move up ten
places to give up your chance for a high lottery next,
year which is What i'm hearing is a much better
last next.
Speaker 6: Year it is this.
Speaker 2: Class this class was very top. Heavy BUT i will say,
This queen's a really good basketball. Player he's still a
little bit, wrong but he is a very athletic BIG
i think for, me like the one thing That i've
got a question is do you think you're going to
be good next?
Speaker 4: YEAR i think you do.
Speaker 6: THIS i think after this, move you better make the playoffs.
Speaker 4: To do, this and it's.
Speaker 2: Unprotected that's the thing that's a little bit. Surprising so
you move up to. THIRTEEN espn Dot com Had queen
as the fourteenth ranked player in this, draft so like
where he was, drafted it makes. Sense and if it
was your only picking a, DRAFT i don't think anybody
would say. Anything but it's because you moved up ten
spots you give up next year to select somebody who
he's listed as a. Sinner he's six', nine now it's
two hundred and forty, eight pounds and he's every bit.
Speaker 4: Of it BUT like, i said he is a little.
Bit wrong is a potential play more.
Speaker 6: Than anything not a great, Defender either like he, could score.
Speaker 4: He didn't have, A, length yeah not to not to
play you know the position that he's going to try.
Speaker 3: To.
Speaker 4: Play now he's got the, athletic ABILITY but i don't
know that he has. The lenk.
Speaker 7: He's more of the wing, the four which, Is fine
LIKE eve mesi actually.
Speaker 6: Wanted to be a pretty. Good pick he was.
Speaker 7: Twenty, one, like sure he'll probably be. Your center you
can get a, six nine six to ten guy on,
the wing like he can. SHOOT it i just worry about.
His defense it's like you don't really have a defender,
out there like With With murray hurt for the, Foreseeable
future like you don't really have a guy out there
that can play a lot.
Speaker 2: Of defense the one thing that that makes me a
little bit Nervous whenever i'm breaking down the pick and
kind of going to seeing, you know what the bio
kind of look like according to some of the, different
EXPERTS because i did watch him play and he's a very,
good PLAYER as, i SAID like i can see the.
Skill set he a little bit of a, tweener before,
you know between a four and. A five but every
draft PROFILE that i looked at, it, said like improving
his conditioning will help him on the.
Speaker 4: Defensive end so he's lazy and as someone.
Speaker 2: Who breaks Down, the pelicans Watches, the, pelicans right you've
you've got a situation we always talk About with zion
and staying healthy and keeping his weight down and being. In,
shape like, oh no that's the one thing like you
really didn't want to see on a. Draft profile, was
like if he can improve, his conditioning his defense will.
Speaker 4: Go, up.
Speaker 5: Yeah THAT is, i mean it doesn't matter what sport.
It is if that's part of, your profile the way people,
VIEW you i mean that's usually it's going to mean
that he's been a little immature and lazy to. This
point now that can, always flip that, could change, but
yeah it was always you don't want to have that.
Stig money if he can, get in if he can
be in, better shape if he can, you know drop.
Some what but if whatever, it is it's uh and
that's usually a pretty big. Red flag but like to
move up and, take him like like, YOU said espn
had himranked to, The fourteenth we took him to.
Speaker 6: The Thirteenth, pat hey this like you see it in.
All drafts it doesn't matter what sport.
Speaker 5: It is is general managers scouts they DON'T always i
mean they don't really LOOK at espn what whatever Side
of they don't look. AT that i think they probably.
Compare it i'm sure, they're there, especially nowadays they're way
more aware of it they than.
Speaker 2: They. WERE sure, I mean i, don't know there's that
clip back in. The day who the Hell Is male
kuiper from the colt.
Speaker 5: To, right yeah but like they're going to put their
grades on every single individual person from the first round
to the last round whatever. It is like, WE like
i remember after AFTER the nfl drafts, our year it
was afterwards you got your agent would start, telling you,
all right you Know the panthers had you had a fourth, Round,
Grade yeah patriots had you at a six.
Speaker 6: Or seven these guys had you as an.
Speaker 5: Undrafted guy like everybody has, their grades and then the
first different forty times on you because at, the combine
because they trusted their guy at the, finish line which
is the stupidest thing in. The world i'm gonna trust
my guy that's like forty five. Rows up, they, do though.
They do everybody has Their, little stopwise, it's, like hey
there's actual laser beams that are timing.
Speaker 4: These things, but.
Speaker 5: Anyway like this just says At the pelicans scouts they put,
a Grade and i'm sure in the first round there's
like it's way. More detailed they probably had a grade that, was,
like hey this guy's, you know a five.
Speaker 6: To eight guy. For, us yeah and if we can
get them, at thirteen we make.
Speaker 5: The move and that's that's really the only REASONING that
i would see behind it is like he just at
that spot. For them based on their pre, draft grades
he was way he was getting picked. Way, too, wait
yeah they had him much higher.
Speaker 2: Than fourteen we'll Break Down jeremiah fears you Get, from
oklahoma he is probably going to start out the season
as you're starting point Guard, BECAUSE murray, i mean that's,
you know an injury that's going to take.
Speaker 4: Some time he will not be there for the start of.
Speaker 2: The season, of course You Have jose alvarado there as
your backup, point Guard but fears is going to be
your starting POINT guard i would assume to start. The
season best ball handler probably in. This draft will break
his pick down a little bit.
Speaker 4: Later on in.
Speaker 2: The show but when we, come back it is time
to catch you UP with LSU legend espn one of our,
Favorite guys, big McDonald to kind of put a little
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Speaker 2: Ben rouge always a pleasure to catch up with our.
Next guest it is Our guy ben McDonald who joins. Us,
now ben we always appreciate, the, Time sir hope you're.
Speaker 4: Doing well.
Speaker 8: Everything's, good good how y'all doing this for.
Speaker 2: Doing fantastic love seeing you There, in omaha being able to,
you know hang out With some, tiger fans watch, the
game enjoy. The game Taking another. Tiger championship how Was
the omaha experience this?
Speaker 8: Time, around well, you know the city of omahall always
puts on a, great show, you know and the people
look forward to, this obviously like we do once, a
year so they go all Out, in omaha and so
it was a. Great experience, of course, you know the
fans showed up again and we had some tremendous ball
gage but we had a no hitter first go hitter
THROWING and i don't know how many years out there
on these Third Of College world series no hitter There.
In omaha and, of course hell like she won the
national championship to, you know to kind of cap, Everything
ALSE so i don't know if it could have been
as a whole lot better than what.
Speaker 4: It was there's no doubt.
Speaker 2: About That, AND ben i was watching the post GAME
and i forget Who Asked todd walker, this question but, they're,
like hey as, you know a, former alum somebody that's worn,
the uniform what's it like to see them? Out there
and he kind of. Stopped me, he's, like well it
didn't start. With me it Started with vin McDonald in.
His group they really started the FOUNDATION of. Lsu baseball so, for,
you like, you know, knowing that knowing what y'all did
there in the, late eighties to be able to really
start the program in a, different direction to see where
the program, is now to see them win eight, national
championships what does that mean?
Speaker 3: To?
Speaker 8: YOU man i, YOU know i never saw, it, coming honestly,
you know at THE time i came out of. High
School and i'm dating, myself now BUT when i came
out of high school in eighty six as, A Senior
mississippi state had, the program and They Had, Rafael Palomaro
will Clark And jeff Brantley And. Bobby sigby it, all stars,
you know and they were the class OF the sec
and some guy by the Name of berkman TOOK over
lsu in nineteen eighty six and or, EIGHTY five i,
Should SAY and i, was, LIKE man i, don't KNOW
because i WAS considering Lsu at ole Miss Or, mississippi
state and then all of, A sudden, i said you,
Know what i'm gonna get, This guy berkman, a chance,
you know and he was to The College little series
in my senior you, Know, what okay this guy might end. Up,
Being okay i'm. Gonna GO but i to ask you.
A question i don't KNOW if i saw. THIS coming
i take you back TO when lsu won his first,
national title and the Belief Of skip berkman and what
he instilled in all of us and the guys would
come even, after me was we're supposed To And louis
garcia on the dog PILE and lsu won his first
national title in, ninety one look At, coach, burma, said coach.
We won we, Finally Won And coach burtman simply Looked
At louis garcia, And, said louis we're supposed. To win
and that was the mindset that began back then and
If skip berman calls our years the building, block years
it was a building block years to what would eventually
come down. The road, but look it's, so hard as you, guys,
know man and, you know there's been, this DEBATE and
i brought this up and people looked at them sideways Back, at,
omaha say, you KNOW if lsu wins their eighth, national
title are we going to start TALKING about lsu that's
the greatest program in the last, Forty years because, that's
easy like that's a. Done deal but maybe the greatest
program in the history of. College baseball and that's a
MOUTHFUL because usc has twelve. Of THEM but usc won
a level of their, twelve titles, you know back, forty
well actually stick to here seventy years ago as one
of the majority. OF them ki they've only won one
national title in the last. FORTY years lsu had eighth
in the last. Forty years but when you consider the
big picture of putting fannies in the seats and the
stadiums that have been built because Of, skip BERTMAN and
i don't think he gets. Enough credit people around here
know who, he is But skip bertman is. College baseball
he's the one that began all this that you see
now in these great cathedrals in college baseball around, the
country people come. To ballparks it Was because skip's had
a vision on what college baseball. Could be if you,
you know if you go ahead and you, built it
you could have put a good product on. The field
this is kind of what it, would be. You Know
and i'm so Happy For jay johnson and and what
he's been able to accomplish in a time that's so
difficult to win, right now and you win two national
titles in, three, years man two since he's been THERE
at lsu in. Four years it's a it's a it's a,
yeoman's job. You know And And bill frankie has reminded
me of this the. Other day, He, said ben, he
said you told me when We Hired ja JOHNSON that
lsu would win two national titles in the next. Five
YEARS and i had ACTUALLY forgotten i told. Him THAT
but I knew jay way back when he Was.
Speaker 3: With.
Speaker 8: Arizona man and it's it's Y'all Know nick staban obviously,
really well and that's who.
Speaker 2: This Is It's, nick.
Speaker 8: Saban like is what. IT is i never Played, for
NICK but i heard the stories and talk to you guys.
About it but This Is, jay, johnson man this is what.
HE does.
Speaker 4: I agree with.
Speaker 2: You Wholeheartedly like i've said the SAME thing, i said,
you know playing Four. COACH saban I told jay this
not two. WEEKS ago i, was, like coach you're the
closest Thing To nick saban've ever seen in. Any sport
and you're exactly right There In, jay Johnson somebody i've
known all the way back when he was an Assistant
at University Of san diego and just continues to. Impress
me but what you SAID about lsu being the best
baseball program of, ALL time i completely agree, with you
not because, we're biased but because when you look at
what they've done and when they've. Done it because there's
so many teams and so many schools now that are
heavily invested. In baseball, you know there was a time
where it. Was regional it was in, the southeast it
was In. Southern california that's who really cared. About, It,
now ben there's a lot of people that care. ABOUT
it i mean it's across. The country there. Is Programs
The big ten has programs that care. About it we
never thought that we'd really see That the, big TWELVE
the SEC and acc, of course but you know it's
no longer just The big West. OUT west, i mean
there's Teams in Oregon And oregon state that really care about.
College baseball so, for me that's what makes LSU's run
over the last thirty five years forty years so impressive
is because the buy in from everybody else and they
still continue.
Speaker 8: To, thrive no that's that's one hundred. PERCENT correct, i
Mean and i'm not taking anything Away From, rod dado who,
you know won those CHAMPIONSHIPS. At usc but there was
a time back in those days where if you were
any good as a, ball player that's kind of where.
You went, you know you Went Out, west coast You
Played west. Coast baseball that's where all the studs came
from back in. Those days but the pair did. The,
game now like you, said that people investing in these
awesome stadiums and you got the nil stuff, going on
and you got a lot of stuff. Going, on man
nobody can make the argument to me that it's not
twice as hard to win one of the last forty
years as what it was the previous. Forty years, you
know it's just it's a lot harder, to win and
so TO ce lsu doing what. They're, Doing man and
we don't say this like, you said because we PLAYED
at lsu and WE. Love lsu you say it because what,
YOU see, i mean you, see it, you know you
see eight national titles and, you, Go, wow man it's
hard to believe it's happened. Like, this, Look man i'm
so happy That coach bergman. Was there he flew in to.
See it you guys probably saw HIM. On TV and
i was so glad that he flew in to, see that.
You know and so it's a hell of, a. Run
man and expectations are always what they ARE, at lsu
and to go out and Get, to omaha that's always,
the goal and. To WIN and I, think lsu now
guys has been in, the finals have played the championship
game nine times Out. In omaha in the history of,
the program they wanted. EIGHT times i think that speaks
volumes to if you, get there we're, gonna win and
we know how. To win and the ones that it
came before us. One before so there's no. Reason why
because somebody asked me that on another show the, other
day what is IT? About lsu what is it about
them Going to omaha? AND winning, i said it's. A
belief it's been instilled in these kids that they're supposed
to and you're supposed. To win when you GET to
lsu and there's a belief that, you can, you know And,
YOU yeah i hate to see the Meltdown. FROM arkansas
i Felt like, arkansas had, you know honestly as good
or better team THAN what. Lsu did but the best
team don't, always, Win man it's a team that plays,
the best, And boy arkansas just unfortunately melted down in that.
One ending BUT give lsu credit for putting pressure on
them and forcing Those Unforced arizona arkansas to win a
national championship and get There against coastal who had a
hell of. A, TEAM man, I mean coastal could. Really
PITCH but lsu was, just. Better dude they were just
better Than what. Coastal.
Speaker 6: Was yeah been hearing you Talk.
Speaker 5: About skip it made me start thinking about The Way
jay johnson's handled, success here the. Recent success EVERY time
i hear him talk about every time a, BIG moment
i was.
Speaker 6: AT the i was at the celebration yesterday and he.
Speaker 5: Brings it he always Talks about skip And what skip
is meant to, this program what he Means to. Jay
himself and in a day where a lot of head
coaches are a little bit me, me me kind, of
arrogant they want, to celebrate, you know the things that
they've built, and done he always takes time to make
sure that he honors, the past Honors what skip has
done and what he's MEANT to lsu baseball and just
college baseball. In GENERAL and i don't, want, TO like
i don't want to skip ahead too MUCH because i
know we want TO celebrate lsu and talk. About That
But jay johnson's job? Going forward what is what's the
expectation FOR the? Salesu program two championships in, four years
an unprecedented, feat here, all right what's the how does
he continue To handle he's the, right guy, it is
with the, right mentality but, with recruiting with handling the
draft and everything? Going, forward hey how how does he
continue to handlers and?
Speaker 8: Build, SUCCESS yeah i mean that's a, great QUESTION and
i think it's more, the same, you know and to
your Point, About skip and this is one of the
MANY things i Love. About jay He's embraced He's Embraced.
Skip bertman he's embraced. The history, and again this IS what.
I love jay understands, the history and more important, than
that he wants his players to know the history of
this program and, the blood, the sweat and the tears
that went into all this to get to. That point,
you know that's the Difference Between. Jay johnson i'm not
gonna mention any other coaches that COACH, at lsu but
others didn't embrace the HISTORY of Lsu Like jay. Johnson
did he didn't try to run and be his. Own
man He Embraced skip bertman And What skip, bertman built,
you know and the best potential to me is Always
WE and i love the fact That did jay Talk
to skip after every. Weekend series they would get together
for lunch every week On, a tuesday and they would
talk about what happened, that weekend what was going to
happen the. Next weekend he would bump things Off. The
skip he'd gather information anything. He could And so jay
has embraced the Legacy Of skip BURTON and i tried
to be his own guy in a lot. Of ways although,
He is he's done it a little bit, different way
and he's getting his. Dude now but if, you know
to answer your question about WHAT does ja need to,
KEEP doing i think it's more of, the same. Stay
hungry like he is the hungriest Coach that i've. Ever seen,
and honestly when he won the FIRST and, i, said,
okay man, all Right now i'm going to find out
who this. Dude is because a lot, of guys, you
know win that, first one, they, Go okay i'm HERE
now i. WON one i could take a little tip
of the Time, off jay grab. Another. Gear guys i'm
telling you he went to a different place and he
wanted number two in a. Bad way and talking to
him those day after he won, number two it's like
he's already hungry for. Number three and it reminded Me
Of nick saban being on the phone when they Won
The national. Championship game he's on the phone that night. Calling,
recruits well, YOU know i was looking up the ride
back on the PLANE with lsu from omahall the other
DAY and i sat there And, watched JAY and i
sat there And Watched nate Yeskey And, josh jordan. The
coaches all they did was text and talk on the
phone to recruits and portal kids on the. Way back
they couldn't even enjoy. The day, AND look i love
That about jay and. His staff they're. So, HUNGRY look
I Think nate yesky's the best pitching coach in the
country than what he did this year is the best
team era. SINCE fifteen, i mean look at the Growth
Of kate anderson. And Others, JOSH jordan i think is
the best recruiting coordinator. Out there what they do this
is a hell of a, team guy not, just players
but the. Coaching staff, You, know scott we're hiring. You
KNOW and i Remember asking scott, five years four YEARS garus,
i said what was It About? JAY johnson i, knew
him but tell me what blew your? Doors off, He,
Said ben i've set In With, nick Say but i've
set in with a lot of other coaches. On interviews
it was the best COACHES interview i had ever been a.
Part of he said he had a, Game Plan jay.
Johnson did he walked into my office and told me
exactly how he was going to, do it and he
was going TO bring lsu back to the top of.
The mountain, he said that's exactly what, he did, he
said he just blew. My DOORS so i think it
speaks Volume of jay's hungry. To win as you, guys
know he has. No kids those boys on the field
of that purple, and gold those are. His kids he's
invested in them every day and he loves them both
on and off. The field he's growing them into young
men and hell of the ball. Players too and that's as,
a parent that's all you can. Ask FOR so i
think others will continue. To come and obviously the MORE success,
LSU has i think they'll have a leg up, on
recruiting ALTHOUGH the andil is going to be a different,
world now. You know but as you, guys KNOW but
i think it's going to be about getting. Players there
continue to develop guys and you do get them, on campus.
You know and so it's goning interesting to see what
next year brings because typically when you win a national championship,
in baseball the last five or six years there for the,
down year a Big Down church tennessee had a good a.
GOOD year, i mean it's a super regional. This year
but we Know about old Miss And missippi state where
they won their first so they kind of went off
the grid for a couple OF years lsu after they
wanted twenty three lost in a regional, you know the,
following year last year at. Twenty four so we'll see
how STRONG the lsu comes back next year and what
they can. Put together but we, know this the expectation
will always be, the same no doubt.
Speaker 4: About it he is, Our guy.
Speaker 2: Ben McDonald you see him OVER ON Espn, sec network
always doing.
Speaker 4: Big. Things ben we appreciate the time, as, always.
Speaker 8: Sir, anytime guys take care you.
Speaker 2: As well man love catching up with Our. Guy ben
great insight from him there being able to see them
on the. Team plane recruiting in the portal. High, school
guys what a great time to recruit, because well you
got something that you probably need to tell.
Speaker 4: Them about in to the last, THREE years lsu has
that in a.
Speaker 2: National championship, all right we will step away for the
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Speaker 2: BET rouge i will, say, this like, you know Talking
with ben and other People And todd walker earlier in,
the week the standard has always been THERE for, lsu
Baseball But jay johnson standard just feels like it's even up.
Another level and like what he expects from himself first
and then the team and the coaches and just. The
program he doesn't know how to turn. It off AND
like i mean that in a very, good way like
he is always thinking about what's NEXT for.
Speaker 5: LSU baseball i loved hearing that Comment from, ben saying,
all right you won your. First One now i'm gonna
see who you. Really are and he said he turned
it up, a level which. Is wild and you, see,
that man the students all in.
Speaker 4: We are.
Speaker 2: That's what the coach the, greats, Have Right nick saban,
Has That kirby smart, has that like al not everybody,
has that a relentless.
Speaker 6: Desire to, be great and, like.
Speaker 5: Right like what we, just said the great ones, have
that whether it's, a player whether it's, a coach whatever.
It is but to win the championship and then take
your effort up. A, level yeah it was like and
when we WANT a, O three I remember saban saying this.
IS this i didn't hear this till like years and,
years Afterwards but moffatt would told Us that saban, was,
like yep we got to kill him. Pretty, much yeah
we have to crush these dudes in offseason and in
spring in training camp because we. Let them we can't.
Let them this team didn't. Win, it yeah this is the, new,
team right so like you got to step.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 2: Up Yeah coach saban was so good about like finding
ways to motivate himself and also us. As well do
you remember when We played florida in four and they
beat YOU on? O three and he got like he
got mad all over again telling the story On a
monday morning about How coach spurrier had called him and
kind of, gloated.
Speaker 4: That yeah y'all In The, national championship but y'all still
couldn't Beat.
Speaker 2: My gaiters and he got so mad like retelling that
story and because he like he just doesn't forget stuff,
like that and so like that week he coached us
pissed Off because spurriar had called him the year before,
and said congrats On, the natty you still couldn't Beat,
The gators and he's like we gonna Beat the gators.
Speaker 4: THIS year i promise you that.
Speaker 5: That would always happen in Meetings with save and he
would start talking and everything, was cool and then like
he'd get so worked up because he like would go
on a tangent about something that pissed. Him off then
by the end, of it we were like running or
something like what do?
Speaker 6: We do it's like we're.
Speaker 2: Running There ronica spurrier called you six, months ago, all
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