Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where.
Speaker 1: The plays get broken down and science gets denied. The
bitch Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the
Mercedes Benz Baton Rouge Studio starts now.
Speaker 3: All right, Fable, welcome back, OTB one O four five ESPN.
Science definitely gets tonighted here Science fake all right on
the screen.
Speaker 2: Jacob said, get a guest for Monday. I did swung
for the fences. We got the man.
Speaker 3: Former Ohio State National Champla Bardi winner, fifth overall pick
two thousand and six with Green Bay, all time leading
tackler for the Packers. This man is a damn fine father, gentleman,
lover of shoes, amateur DJ an, amazing American male AJ Hawk.
Ladies and gentlemen, how are we doing?
Speaker 4: What's up? Guys? Hey? How's his day one together? Right?
As a new official show?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Day number one AJ He made it on time. That
was the big concern. Look, you've known Flynn for as
long as I have. Mornings are not his thing. He's
like the only quarterback I've ever known that really struggles
to get out of bed. You know, first one in
the buildings. Not typically the thing we used to say
about Matt the four pm not dude, the four pm
running group was the one that you and I both
went to.
Speaker 5: So, AJ, we're just glad that he woke up this morning.
Speaker 4: Well, I think we're all glad that that he wakes
up every single morning, hopefully continues to wake up to
it every days. Yeah, continue to perform at a high level.
So Flinn I said, maybe this is it is gonna
be your thing. It's gonna flip you around when you're
gonna become like a big time morning person, have like
one of those biggest teams that you talk about and
document for us.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I've had to rewire myself just a little bit.
Jacob's making me like do some life reads. I came
back from break right there, so I'm kind of learning,
like the lingo, starting to learn, just throwing me in
cold turkey right now.
Speaker 2: So it's it's a learning have you been.
Speaker 6: Doing You've been doing this with me like for seven years.
You just weren't like the host, like you came in
once a week and so you kind of knew what
you were getting into.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I just came here to argue with you.
Speaker 3: So now I'm officially media guy asking questions speaking of
a j What are you doing right?
Speaker 2: You're driving?
Speaker 4: Right? Yep? I'm driving right now. I'm driving over to
Indianapolis right now for the day. But I'll it's a
quick day trip there and back.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, you got So let's let's talk
about what what you know your your gig right now?
Like how you got started? So when we were playing,
like right at the end of the crew, I know
you had your your podcast, and like when you told
me about it, I was like, what the hell's a podcast?
Just do like radio? Like you you like, I don't
see you doing media? Like what are you doing everyday?
Because you were getting all these crazy guests? So like
it was the hot cast?
Speaker 4: Right, yep? That's right? Is that?
Speaker 2: How is that how everything got started?
Speaker 3: Did you always know you wanted to do some sort
of media after playing?
Speaker 4: Now? I didn't. I mean especially early on, like, man,
my first four or five years in the league. Now,
I had no desire to ever get in the media.
I didn't even understand like why people did it, why
former players would do it. But then I started to
maybe get a little older, start thinking like, I got
to figure out, I gotta do something whenever I'm done playing.
I don't know, I could trip and follow on the
stairs and my career could be over today. I always
knew that was in the back of my mind, so
I started thinking about it and doing just a little things,
saying yes here and there, the different like opportunities. And
then I was just a fan of listening to other
people's podcasts, so I eventually kind of started my own thing.
I don't know, I don't think a whole lot of
people ever watched or listened to it, but it actually
gave me, I guess looking back, I got reps of
kind of hanging out and talking to people, and it
is a little different when you're the guy like running
the thing, when you're bringing it back from break, when
you're intro at things like it's definitely outside of my
comfort zone one percent. That was never what I ever envisioned.
And I still see like teachers I had in high
school in elementary school. Every once in a while I run
into them and they're like, man, they're like age, I
see you on TV. Sometimes I see them hear you
on the radio talking and I didn't hear you speak
for your first fifteen years of your life when I
was teaching you, and so like, yeah, I guess sometimes
you got to do things that are outside of what
you normally would but it's it's fun though. I mean
you and Hestrop, you guys have a great report. That's
why you guys are gonna have like a classic Mic
and Mike run most likely. I can't like to listen.
Speaker 6: Uh like AJ, was there one guest that you had,
like on that initial podcast where it's like, man, this
is fun.
Speaker 5: I like stories like this, like I want to do this.
Speaker 6: Was there like a moment where you had a guest
on and that guest just kind of sparks something and
You're like, Okay, this is the kind of story because
I'm a former player, I'm a player, current player, whatever
it might be that I can get this kind of
story out and kind of share with everyone.
Speaker 4: Man, yeah, that's a good question. I had like people
from all over just because I'm I'm kind of random
in my interest in what I enjoy and you know,
things that I watch it and bring you. But one guest
that really was pumped was I had Robb O'Neill. He
was the guy that shot didn Lod. Yeah, I had
him come on and tell the story early on, like
kind of I don't know how many months after he
went public with the whole situation, but having him on
and listen to him talk about it, that whole meal
ord deal was really cool. But yeah, he gave me
a reason. Like when you have something like that, I
al podcast, however, it gives you a reason to reach
out to people that you think are pretty awesome that
you want to talk to him, that you can just
if you didn't have a podcast or a show, you
couldn't say, hey, Bud, I'd love to just talk to
face time sometime, like that'd be cool to face time
Like that would creep him out and they would never
say yeah. So it kind of opened up the door.
Speaker 3: So you created your podcast just so you could like
creep people out, just hang.
Speaker 5: Out, hang out with the boys a fellows.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it grew into yeah absolutely basically.
Speaker 3: And then and then so after that, you you called
some games, right, so you got into a little bit
of broadcasting being a color guy.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I was. I didn't want to copper to
his say games works some as a color analyst for
different games where Graham Harrold was the offensive coordinator at
North Texas for a few years. Was amazing teammate of
ours that I you know, just an absolute classics football character. Yeah.
I love doing I actually really enjoyed working games and
doing doing color commentary and and then eventually met uh
Pat McAfee and been joining and joining him and the
boys for the last four or five years now from
my attic at my house in Columbus, Ohio. So it
kind of worked out perfectly.
Speaker 2: And you still do it from the attic, right oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Nice little nice little room up up top that I finished.
It was like it was an attic and we just
put some drywall up and a carpet and put some
carpet down, and there we go. Five years later.
Speaker 6: You know, ah's not even something I've really ever put together.
Like you and Paton, maybe how that happened, because now
that I'm thinking about it, you say that, I'm like, oh, wait,
he played for the Colts his whole career.
Speaker 5: He's a West Virginia guy.
Speaker 6: You're in a a Buck guy, and obviously you spent
most of your career with the Packers.
Speaker 5: Like, how did that happen. How did that come together?
Speaker 4: Man? It was weird. I never really met him. First
time I met him in person, I was playing for
the Bengals. Yeah, during my tenth season, a preseason game,
and we went out for like a pregame coin toss
and just said hey basically, and I knew of him,
I didn't know him personally, And then I asked him
to come on my show, the podcast I had. He eventually,
you know, going back to what was talking about earlier, Yeah, yeah,
he eventually I was able to get him on, and he,
you know, had all these plans at the time. I
didn't know about it too, you know, he was he's
been thinking about what he is doing now for a
long long time, kind of putting in the putting in
the work. And then I used to join him on
his show that he had. He's had different versions of
his show all over the place, and early on I
used to join him every I don't know, every three
or four weeks, every once in a while, and then
once COVID hit, we just decided, Okay, let's do something
more consistently, and yeah, I started joining him on his
radio show that was always on you Tube, like three
days a week and then banned like a year. Two
later I started joining them five days a week, and
now I get to run around and do all kind
of kind of cool things and work for college football
playoffs with him, and and go around and go to
you know, just awesome bizarre events and sometimes get the
broadcast at him. So yeah, so it's definitely was not
I didn't I didn't see it coming and happened very organically.
But man, I'm I'm excited. I love it. I want
to do it forever.
Speaker 3: And so that that's what you're you're I'm assuming you
were driving to indeed to I guess your hosting today?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Monday, Pat has he does you know, he's he's
all over the place. He's the you know, color analyst
for Monday Night Rawle and WWE, and so he is,
he does this thing there and so a lot of
times Monday I'll go a host from studio and he'll
will join us from wherever Rowling is.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the show Pat Macie Show, Wildly Entertaining AJ is
on it almost every day from twelve to one Central
Time here.
Speaker 2: For for our views. So y'all go check it out.
Speaker 3: I watch it every day when I'm in my office
and laugh and a text a Jay when you know,
he said something dumb.
Speaker 5: I thought you were supposed to be sleeping my high
at that time.
Speaker 2: Well I am, I am. We're doing that too, but
I watch it in the background.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: So, like you say, the you get to do like
run around doing all sorts of crazy stuff, Like, is
is there one thing that sticks out like this?
Speaker 2: I know y'all did?
Speaker 3: Was it two seasons ago y'all went, y'all kind of
did the post like game Day Show or the Friday
Game Show where on the game day set and you
and you missed like every single basketball shot?
Speaker 2: Did you ever make one?
Speaker 4: Man? See, that's why I love you. Fun. This it's
fun you get you're setting me up because you know
I didn't miss every single shot. You know. You see.
Speaker 2: That's exactly see that's one of the listeners to know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it was perfect, said no, yeah, he would
that would bring we would do a show Friday from
the game day set that he'd be working on Saturday,
and like all the students and fans would come. And
luckily the first I think we were in Alabama the
first time we did, and he had a hoop set up.
It's a pretty tough shot, and he would have me
shoot from the stage out to the crowd. And I think,
I mean I might have might have been my second
or third shot of Pat was offering tuition to whoever
for a kid, a kid if if I made it,
and I made the second or third shot, and I've
met a couple of them, I think I may have
made my first attempt, but I've made more shots than
I I thought. I would tell you the truth, I haven't.
We haven't done it in a while, but I'm just man.
It does stuck though, when you're starting, when there's like
tuition on the line or money line for these kids,
you feel pretty bad when you missed four or five.
Speaker 2: In a row, Like I'm the ones you've met. Who
knows what happened to those kids?
Speaker 6: They had to go to community college for the rest
of career, turning tricks to make.
Speaker 4: Maybe also though things when then maybe they drop out
may and bench something really cool that they were never done.
Speaker 2: That's what you never know.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 6: Glenn definitely co signs on that being in general studies major.
Catching up with a J Hawk here on O T
B A J I like I've got this sort of
playing in my mind and we're just gonna workshop it
here live on the radio. So obviously, like you and
Flinn are boys, You and Bob Carpenter or boys. Me
and Bob are boys, and me and Flynn are boys.
Like we got to come up with something. And you
know me, I'm a self described meathead and that's a
term of endearment when it comes from me. Like we've
got three meatheads between me, you and Bobby, and Flynn
is as close to a meathead as any quarterbacks going
to be right. I mean he enjoys, enjoys a cold
pop or two, he wakes up late, He's kind of
got that mentality, he's got fat ankles. I mean he
is kind of a meathead as well. We got to
come up with like a quad box of being meathead somehow,
some way, and I.
Speaker 4: Mean I'm all for that. You're right. And just speaking
of Bobby, I saw Bobby yesterday. We were at the
same lacrosse tournament for our kids. We had like eight
games throughout between all of our kids. I was out
there getting stun burned. Hey, Flinner, I was no joke
that we brought plenty of mine high born in the
kids there in between in between games. So that was
a huge for us. But you're right, Bobby, and especially
if I wish you guys could see Bob, like kids
voting his hat. Bobby always has it is a giant atually.
Actually he went so like two weeks ago, I see
him at a tournament and my parents that showed up too,
and Bobby is carrying this huge like backpack Yetty with
the tag still on it. But he's like, oh, dude,
which tool was it? Joe brows Surety Golf of yesterday
and go through Sweet Book, Doug JUDEO. Guy, He's still
have the tags on it, and he's always gonna, always
gonna wear the free Murder and he had plenty of
plenty of booze cocktails packed into that thing for the
full day of games that we were at. But yeah,
he's Bobby will sit there. Bobby's not scared ever. So yeah,
I'm I think that's a great idea.
Speaker 2: It's nothing like carrying the backpack of booze to to
youth sport.
Speaker 7: Me.
Speaker 6: Look, you're not there yet, Flynn. You'll be there, and
I'm not judging. And I know Bob, I know Bob
is there. Oh my gosh. Does Bobby do push ups
before he goes to an event like that? So the
arms are popping though.
Speaker 4: Always well, So he showed up yesterday. He's lucky for him,
the sun's out so he can wear his cutoff and
not feel weird. Sometimes he'll wear when it's thirty trees.
But I was sitting there talking to Bobby before one
of my kids' games, sitting there and talking, and all
of a sudden, Bobby just took off in a weird
like not a sprint, but like a pretty good gate,
and he ran across all the fields and he's so giant.
Everyone's looking at him, and I'm like, I yelled, like,
what do you do political Pete in the woods when
there were Sporter partties and stuff, you know, ten feet
from us.
Speaker 5: Bobby's really good.
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 3: So I'm at AJ's a couple of years ago, your
birthday party, I believe. And at this party, I look
around and they got this little circle coming. So you know,
Ohio State known for like a really good string of
like white meat headline backer, yah for sure, and they're
all there, just huddled up.
Speaker 2: Lars was there. Oh, it was unbelievable, and I was like,
I just I just took it in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like this is incredible, Like I've never seen a
group of big mead heads and such a tightle I
mean a J.
Speaker 5: Houston like Rapes maybe like.
Speaker 2: The founder of that.
Speaker 4: Oh boy. Yeah. Like so Rabel used to come back
and run with us when he was playing for the
Pages and we were in college. He'd come beat us
if we'd run half gazers and Brave would come in.
He's an absolute savage and he would dominate everybody in
the half gassers to talk trash to the whole team
as he was doing it, like in our six m
run group. So yeah, I'd say Rabel was definitely a
big part of that. And then Bobby and Schlegel and
I would try to carry that on and hopefully passed
down the tradition.
Speaker 5: Well you certainly did.
Speaker 6: I mean Bobby running the Ohio State Conditioning Test on
his fortieth birthday, Like that's like the ultimate. Like I like,
I again, I try to be as as I possibly
he might have done it with did he do with
the team or did you do it by himself? I
just remember he had radio with me that day and
He's like, yeah, man, I just ran the condition to us.
I turned forty and a one was like, you know,
you see if I could still do it? Any film
did of course?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he felt he had like one of the
Trainers film. He ran at the facility at a lot
of State's facility, and he did it when the times
we had like it's it's twenty half gas or so
we did it back in the day. It's not fun
like it's you like work all summer to get to
get that way, and Bobby just decides to do it.
I mean Bobby. Yet, like a week ago Bobby went
and ran like super hungover, like four hours after after
boos and hard he went and ran a mile under
like six thirty or something because he got all drunk
and was telling everybody how fast he could run the mile,
And so he actually woke up and did it the
next morning to prove it to his wife and everybody
that he was talking to the night before.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: Hey, Jay, what's all right? I think it's probably gonna
be the last question here. So how's the golf game?
You got Tahoe coming up?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: So this is the is it the Tahoe?
Speaker 2: What is it invitational the celebrity golf?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the American Century Championship calling out there in Lake Tahoe. Yeah,
I played for like fifteen years. My game, you know
they sometimes people say their game is rounding in the
form pluinner. That's how kind of pros to speak about.
You know, I think I might be on that pass.
I think I'm going to be rounded into for him.
I haven't really played, but I can't wait to get out.
Speaker 3: Well, you live right by the UH where the Memorial
that UH is Memorial Tournament. Like, I know you've been
a big time member there for a while.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, Well I'm not so much a member, but
my brother in la Albrady Clinton members. So if I
need to play for some reason, I moved on to
his account. I just find his account number and let
him know.
Speaker 2: He goes to the big guy, who are you following
this weekend? What's that? Who'd you follow this weekend? Yeah?
Who'd you follow on the on the tournament this weekend?
Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't go out to the story guy's kind
of muffled. I couldn't exactly hear. I didn't. I went
out there Friday late when the weather cleared up just
to place on a house on the course with Scotty
Cheff where he bamned he did it again. It's only
about probably five minutes from my house where Scott is
just absolutely dominating. So Scotty sound like a tiger type run.
Speaker 2: Isn't it?
Speaker 4: That is real?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I know it for sure? Is I mean when you
see him coming, you're like, yeah, you're just.
Speaker 4: Get people from Texas. People from Texas a buil different.
Speaker 6: On this one, like half of our studios from Texas.
You just got a big cheer here, Ajae, Oh exactly right.
Speaker 4: Nice, nice, I love it. Ronnie Coleman, Texas, Texas finest.
I love Ronnie Coleman. Has nothing to do with what
we're talking about. Think of that. My kids, My kids
always yelled leg weight like Ronnie cole.
Speaker 2: All right, a JA, we appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you introducing yourself a little bit to this
South Louisiana fan base over here.
Speaker 2: So man, we appreciate the time, appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 3: I know it's a you got a long day of
talking into the camera, so we appreciate you taking some time, dude.
Speaker 1: Have it.
Speaker 3: Safe travels and hopefully we can get that quad box
of meatheads going here pretty soon with all four of us,
so I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Wait, thanks, though I appreciate it. Good luck with everything.
I can't wait to hear and watch everything you guys
are doing, so you'll be tuned in every morning. Ye yes, sir.
Speaker 5: Man AJ Hawk good enough to join us here on OTV.
Speaker 6: That the quad box meathead thing is real, Like I'm
trying to get that done because it is.
Speaker 5: It is funny the fact that Bobby and I are
really good friends.
Speaker 6: You and AJ are really good friends, and then they're
really good friends, and I put up with you sometimes
as well, Like it just makes too much sense not
to have that. You know, Friday's maybe nine am Central time, AJ,
If you're still listening, I'm sure he is rude the
bluetooth definitely. Did you not hear that feedback when he
first got turned his volume down?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 6: God, I should miss that. You call into a radio
show that like in the nineties, like in the Hey Bud,
can you turn the radio down because you want to
hear yourself? You know, AJ is the absolute man, Like
what a what a mine?
Speaker 2: That guy has?
Speaker 3: He's he's he was absolutely right in his old podcast.
He's he has so many crazy interests. I remember the
guests he used to have on that.
Speaker 2: I was like, what do you do?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 4: Who?
Speaker 3: What even intrigued you to reach out to this person?
So he's awesome. He's awesome on the Pat mcavia McAfee show.
Check him out today. Every day he's on there. So
he'll be hosting today, so I'll go watch him.
Speaker 5: All right, we will step away.
Speaker 6: We've got Chipper Jones still set to join us at
nine Central time. We've got Hold the Mayo at nine fifteen,
so we've got a lot to get to. We got
weekend winners coming up in about eleven minutes from now.
But certainly when we come back, we'll kind of dive
back into some LSU baseball and we'll do it right
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Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to off the bench.
Speaker 5: You want to banger, except when they're about talk LSU baseball.
Speaker 2: But you're to do here.
Speaker 5: I mean, look, we're always eye hustling football for sure.
For sure, actually.
Speaker 6: Efforting to get a couple of players on this week
from the current team so we'll update you when that happens.
Speaker 5: But let's get back to LSU baseball be here, they
gonna be here.
Speaker 6: Oh, Ron will be there. Oh it's the pancake. Aha,
we do it every mind. So Hunt just came in
and anytime Hunt walks in. Uh, we talked baseball. So
who do we think we can go around the room
Flynn Google, who do we think is going to start
tonight for LSU?
Speaker 5: We talked about it. You have Evans, you have where
you have.
Speaker 6: You still have good options, Like I don't think there's
a team that's playing today that has the options that
you have that's across the country as far as the
arms that you have available because you didn't have to
use them in the first two games. And then, like
Alandra said, it did feel like you got to a
point last night where like, hey, we got to think
about tomorrow and we're not conceding right now, but tomorrow
looks like it could happen.
Speaker 5: And it did you know it's going to be here?
Who do we think starts?
Speaker 8: I'll let y'all go first, So I'll say this, Uh,
if like caseon Evans is available, if I see anybody
besides Case and Evans out there starting.
Speaker 9: I'm going to be.
Speaker 8: Pretty pretty irritated with that. Like if I see Connor
ware out there to start, I might throw something.
Speaker 5: On my TV.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say Evans too, look at you, But I.
Speaker 6: Just don't know, Like I just I mean, I think
I probably would go with him, But I do think
where is an option and you could go where Evans
Cowen or you could flip it or flip it where Cowen.
Either way, I'm okay, Like I'm not going to be
too upset now. Again, I would love for this thing
to be caseon. Evans goes out there and gives you
six innings and then Zach Cowan gives you three and
we saw two pictures.
Speaker 5: That means things, That means things went well.
Speaker 9: That's the ideal situation.
Speaker 6: No, I agree there, but it's not disrespectful to like
Connor where I think like he's had moments this year,
But I just you trust those two guys, like those
two guys have been a weapon for you all season long,
and you have to go for everything, like you're not
worried about West Virginia in Super Reach, Like that's like
you're not worried about anything right now, you're worried about
getting to that point.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 8: I was just gonna say that we had we didn't
see Collen or Evans last weekend, and the last few
times that we have seen Cowen he's been getting a
little touched up. So I'm like, maybe a tiny bit
like nuts outright concerned about that, but it's just something
to look out for and watch out for.
Speaker 10: Yeah, well, everyone's gonna say, Okay, well you've thrown all
these guys. The only ones you haven't seen are those three.
But Primo's pitched twice. It's been less than an inning
both times. Maverick Rizzy's pitched twice, but again it's been
about an inning both times. So like you've seen him
multiple times this weekend, the pitch count's not high. Like
I would imagine in a pinch you need a lefty.
Premo could come in and do it, Maverick Rizzy can
come in and do it, like you could piece this
thing together.
Speaker 5: Uh, I know, I don't. I hadn't validated, like, see
if this is actually true. Matt se says.
Speaker 6: Scoone was saying last night he would start Cowen since
he was a Friday Ace last year.
Speaker 5: My problem with that is he hasn't done it this year?
Speaker 11: Yeah, why change it?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 6: And you're putting some in a position that they haven't
been all season long, And I get it. Look last
year he was like he was. That's why you got him,
like you saw him in the regional, But you haven't
done it this year. And baseball is one of those
sports man you get somebody out of their routine. And look,
I know Evans wasn't a starter until Tennessee, but like
he does have that experience and now, like that's not
going to be completely out of the norm for him.
Speaker 5: And I know, look, Zach Cowan's got a lot of
innings as a.
Speaker 6: Dude, a starter, but it's been a long time and
I feel like his role, he's thrived in the role
of coming into the game and shutting the game down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I kind of look at this as like
I look at everything silver lining. Right, what's the long
play here for LSU baseball? The goal is not to
win a regional. It goals to win the College World Series, Right,
So I always look at things blessings in disguise.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to.
Speaker 3: Answer these questions at some point if you're going to
win the National Championship. This helps you answer a lot
of those questions. You were gonna face the same situation
if you keep going and going and going. So it's
good that you facing it now against Little You get
a lot of these questions answered. You get guys like
real pressure situations obviously. I mean, you hate that baseball
such a can be such a not a fluky game.
But it's just a streaky game. I mean, this is
it's incredible. So I mean at the end of the day,
bats have to get hot.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And if you listen to us back when we
were hanging with Hester, the one key to victory.
Speaker 2: Is dingers.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Hit the ball over the fence, yeah a lot. Yeah,
because we used This is one of those games like that.
This is their fourth game, this is Little Rocks fifth game. Yeah,
they got a lot of tired arms that you have.
If you have to win at fifteen to fourteen, you
do it. Yeah, doesn't matter. Get the bats hot, focus,
hit it hard, like look, that's that's the meat aad
football player. And it's like, so what if our pitching
isn't the greatest tonight.
Speaker 6: Right, you have your normal situations, the is the bats. Yeah,
So if you don't know what he's talking about. When
we did Hang with Hessel, that was a six to
eight show, and so games would start obviously while we
were on air. We'd have them here on in studio
and there would be danger alerts, not dinger danger alerts,
and we played a whole sound like if they hit one,
we had a siren sound that we would play.
Speaker 2: We would interview.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter for your middle of an interview, in
the middle of the if there was a home run
hit on that television.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So hopefully tonight, hopefully we get some morning baseball games.
Speaker 5: I don't I don't. I don't think we're gonna get many. Mean,
like we can put like yeah baseball like South Korea and.
Speaker 9: The Dodgers were playing into.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ol danger I mere degenerate without telling me, I
will say that.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 8: The one thing that kind of bothered me is when
we had the bases loaded. I think it was the
first time we had the bases loaded in the third
and then Ethan Fry came up and he's out there
trying to swing out his shoes.
Speaker 12: But you have the bases loaded, just put the ball
in play, you know, like you don't have to.
Speaker 8: Yeah, point no you I think that was the third
outside think you had two outs, but like that even
more to my point though, like don't go out there
trying to swing out your shoes, Like you don't need
a grand Slam in the third inning to walk the
game off.
Speaker 9: You still have time. Just put the ball in play
and get somebody in. You know, it would be so sick.
Speaker 3: That's just not like you don't try to hit a
home run like you're trying to throw it, trying to
throw a fifty yard touchdown.
Speaker 2: You can't try to do. It just comes to you.
Speaker 11: Attle bit Fried Jones, those dudes, come on, don't do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you had some step up last night.
Speaker 6: And I'll be curious to see if we have any
lineup changes Chassic something.
Speaker 11: Maybe maybe like Mila moving up or something like that.
Speaker 9: Bear down a little bit back really well.
Speaker 11: On the weekend.
Speaker 5: Her Natives was what I know at one point Yeah
he was.
Speaker 6: He was three for four, three for three, Yeah, and
I know lasted batty, but I mean, like that's somebody
that's swinging it well right now. So again, when you
say you gotta win or you got to get up
out of here, like you gotta do whatever it takes
to win, and like if it's you know, changing the
lineup a little bit again, Like I'm not into doing
things you haven't done all season long. Jay has messed
with the lineup, Like that's that's part of baseball. We're
not talking about starting a guy that hasn't started this year.
We're talking about, hey, you move a guy two spots here,
and move a got two spots up, whatever it might be.
Speaker 5: Because there's some right now and that are just seeing
it better.
Speaker 9: You know that that little rock coach is giving them
like the motivational speech.
Speaker 8: In the lifetime right now, they're like nobody thought that
you could do that. Like we've gotten this far, we
got nothing to lose. We're playing with house money. Go
out there and play your ass off like they're going
to put on a put a burger up. Yeah, person,
and I need Jay to like go in the locker
room and give like an aug gurrito kind of rent.
Speaker 5: Yeah fire, have you ever seen that? Rant?
Speaker 13: I think actually, I think I think everything rebaly Yeah
I seen that, Yeah, without question, So all right, get
after it again, Like we'll come back throughout the show
and we'll talk a little LSU baseball certainly going to
close the show talking L s U Baseball, what we
expect to see tonight inside of the box, and we
do have Chipper Jones still start to join us in
thirty minutes.
Speaker 6: We got Devin Snow in about forty five minutes. But
when we come back, we've got weekend winners.
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Speaker 6: Now all right, welcome back in it is OTB one
O four five ESPN back should you hack my Napster account?
Speaker 9: I did not. I think naps are still a thing
or it's coming back or something like.
Speaker 5: It's going to be like Spotify or whatever.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean everybody out there knows that the Landra
and I are team Apple Music.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we're Apple Music. What do you use?
Speaker 2: So I'm actually thinking about fre switching. I'm a free
agent right now. So I'm with Spotify. Still got the account.
Speaker 3: So my kids are getting to the age where they
want to have their own like playlists and listen, and
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Speaker 3: You can't do that on Spotify, you have faith. Each
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Speaker 11: But it's like one of the time.
Speaker 3: It's like we can't figure out how to like get
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Speaker 6: The Apple part, it's just like the first time that
that happens. You hit that you want to add a
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listen and.
Speaker 3: You want to talk about starting some family fights when
I have when my wife and I are going somewhere.
We're taking two cars and I got like one or
two of the kids and she's got the other. Yeah,
like fighting over who's playing music.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I used to know because I'd be on the road
down and I'd be you know, I have my ox
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get the message Katie and the kids are jaimin on
the you know, the home pod, and.
Speaker 11: You ever like cut them off?
Speaker 5: Just like heay back you met my wife?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: No, anyway, Spotify just fix it. It's easy.
Speaker 3: The technology is there, Yeah, every other Disney app, Netflix
you Yeah, lock it up.
Speaker 5: We do not. All right, let's get to some weekend winners.
Speaker 2: That's how win it has done.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 11: We can't have anyone to freak out out there.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's got a k bark and Poloser got too far.
I'm by winning. I went here and I win there.
Speaker 5: No one, are you doing what it takes to win
a championship?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 2: Winning? Well, then I guess there's only one thing left
to do.
Speaker 11: What's that.
Speaker 4: Win the whole thing?
Speaker 6: All right, I'm gonna start off here with a weekend loser.
It is the Colorado Rockies. Yeah, I'll be honest with you.
I've been bitter with the Colorado Rockies for a long time. Yeah,
since two thousand and seven. Why you ask, Because they
made a run and made it to the World Series
in October of that year, and because they had never
been they got the cover of Sports Illustrated. You know
who only got on the front page but in the
top corner.
Speaker 5: Your boy.
Speaker 6: If they wouldn't have made the I would have been
on the full cover and just a little bit of
the cover. They're doing better, the Rockies. They don't need
to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated. It should
have been US against Florida. So for that reason, I've
never really liked them, even when I played and started,
even when I played there, I would go wear my
braves hat to the games. I'm not wearing that. So
I was already mad at you. And so in another series,
another suite for the Rockies, they continue to make history
for all the wrong reasons. They fell five to three
to the Mets, so they've lost eight games in a row.
It is their fourth eight game losing streak this season.
The Rockies are now nine and fifty, the worst record
through fifty nine games of any Major League team in
the modern era since nineteen oh one.
Speaker 5: They have been swept ten times in twenty series. M
you suck.
Speaker 2: You gotta get trash.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that is real bad.
Speaker 8: You've got to be like real trash to be the
worst start in MLB history. I mean, you had a
really bad Detroit Tigers team in the two thousands. You
had a really really bad, putting up historic numbers White
Sox team last year.
Speaker 11: So that is back, he's a loser.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the White Sox can't have anything there. They can't
even be historically bad. The Rockies are like, ah, we
got we got you.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna piggyback on Jake's loser because that was like
my one loser. I had a bunch of winners. My
one loser was the Rockies for this one stat since
today's June second, Since May second, they have as many
victories as Scottie Scheffler does on the PGA.
Speaker 5: That's so bad.
Speaker 3: Four tournaments played for Scotti, wenty eight games played for
the Rockies. They both won three times. So Rockies, you
track historic geez, you messing up boy. Jake to on
Sports Illustrated cover Double Doubt Rock while the Rockies get
to cover the World Series. We beat the Florida Gators.
Speaker 11: By the way, does anybody remember what what happened in
that World Series?
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 11: They swept, They got swept, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 5: Because the trash trash.
Speaker 6: Me not good, got two star bow legged running backs
trying to get on the front of sports, and.
Speaker 9: They robbed you.
Speaker 2: Rob was robbed.
Speaker 9: We was man. I will never forgive the Rockies for that.
Speaker 2: Ever.
Speaker 9: The O TV crew has an official b with the Rockies.
Speaker 5: Yeah, forever.
Speaker 6: Just to take batting practice one time when I was
with the Broncos taking practice in your little trash fieldt
your balls out of the freezer because they traveled too far.
Speaker 5: Yeahs, all right, sorry, all right.
Speaker 9: I got a weekend loser.
Speaker 8: If you remember a couple of weeks ago, I had
this same weekend loser when Jim Schlossnagel said, hey, it's
it's much It's much harder to win the SEC in
the regular season than it is to win a national championship,
And I said, Okay, that's cool. He's getting out in
front of not winning the Natty. Turns out that's not
gonna happen get knocked out of their own regional by
UTSA lost to them on Saturday seven to nine, and
lost to them again last night four to seven, and
they also lost to them earlier in the season.
Speaker 9: So ut s A is UT's kryptonite.
Speaker 2: Deep.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that has to be part of your losers.
Speaker 9: That is part of the loser because how you gotta say, gigam.
Speaker 5: Season is the end of the season.
Speaker 12: You hold what you hoed the Aggies last season.
Speaker 8: Yea, I appreciate took him to Natty Austin because you
were on tech like Texas was on your mind already.
Speaker 9: You were super rude to that reporter, denying the facts
that were the facts.
Speaker 8: And then you come around and you're the number one
team in the country for a long time, got way
too hot, way too early in this season, and just
fall off at the end and get kicked out your
own regional.
Speaker 9: And it couldn't have happened to a better person.
Speaker 5: Yep, you'd love to see it.
Speaker 11: We're gonna start with the weekend losers.
Speaker 10: First off, We'll start with the crappy States of Mississippi
and Oregon, our sixteen team parlay crash. Yep, because Oregon
and Oregon State, yep Ole, Miss and Southern Miss all lost.
Speaker 11: You guys are all bombs that hit two years in
a row.
Speaker 2: It was destined to hit.
Speaker 10: Even Dandy made a late comeback to when there. They
didn't even get out of their regional. So Oregon, Mississippi,
you guys suck that. It's my first weekend loser.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I thought it was gonna hit. I was
so confident.
Speaker 11: They made the run up. Okay, I'm good that was
the one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure it did not.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna kind of keep the same theme as both
of y'all because that's kind of where I was going
to go. Like if you were a big favorite in
this NCAA baseball tournament, like you got to be a
weekend loser.
Speaker 5: And look, this isn't glass houses.
Speaker 6: LSU could be added to this if they don't win tonight,
but the top two seeds going down like they did
Vanderbilt in Texas.
Speaker 5: But it, I mean it wasn't just that.
Speaker 6: I mean you had a lot of teams that were
hosting that just did not show up and look for
l O. Shue, like they lost their first game and
so they get a chance tonight, like Little Rock had
to go earn that and they did. But like these
teams like out of the gate, now credit to like
teams like Old Miss, they fall back and now they've
got a chance.
Speaker 5: But it was like the favorite strugg.
Speaker 9: Georgia, Georgia for their own regional Georgia.
Speaker 6: Watch that game. It was incredible.
Speaker 11: We had all talked about how easy of a regional
that was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but dude, the matchbox got them.
Speaker 6: That park plays so small, and Oklahoma State took full advantage,
including a walk off home run.
Speaker 12: Well, but also who had Right State getting out the
national right?
Speaker 9: They literally you look back at the.
Speaker 6: Dog because it usually like the weirdo, they can tell you,
like a little bit about every school.
Speaker 5: I got nothing on right let me go look because
I know I got you got I got nothing.
Speaker 9: We had all the odds written down.
Speaker 2: What do you have on Little Rock with us?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean Little Rock beat in the finals.
Speaker 5: This is a pretty bad.
Speaker 3: Proposed Little Rock before we go to break, I want
to do I gotta do it. Give a shout out
to this winner on the weekend. Okay, all right, LSU
Shreveport Baseball, let's.
Speaker 2: Go, let's go baby.
Speaker 3: That's nine and oh Inn AI World Series title, longest
winning streak in college baseball history.
Speaker 2: Come on, I don't care. Come who when.
Speaker 6: Fifty nine to zero in a collegiate unbelievable. I can't
even I can't fathom it. I mean, baseball is like
the ultimate. Look, our guy wasn't on today. He walked seven, right,
they kind of they had one big hit. We couldn't
get even going fifteen.
Speaker 3: Team batting average three six one pretty good, teamy all right,
two three eight pretty solid.
Speaker 6: Fifty nine and oh is incredible. Shout out three one eight,
three one great.
Speaker 3: I will say it for that. Do you think they
they're team building? Like during their training camps they go
to the water park.
Speaker 5: There's no doubt.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2: Let's go build that team chemistry.
Speaker 6: Right on the interstay right, you know, about seven minutes
from Texas, there's a beautiful water park.
Speaker 2: We're all gonna smell like trash water together.
Speaker 5: But we had fun.
Speaker 2: We had a great time.
Speaker 6: Those slides were banging, and fifty nine and oh, shout
out to the pilots, let's go fifty nine.
Speaker 8: And oh on any level, that's incredible to do it.
It is incredible, such an up, up, down, sport.
Speaker 2: That is, I must have a big n il budget,
must I want to?
Speaker 5: I went to uh some classes at l s U Shreeport.
No big deal, A big deal.
Speaker 2: I finished up.
Speaker 9: You're an alum.
Speaker 5: You finish up with?
Speaker 2: What'd you graduate?
Speaker 5: You making fun of my general studiesiology?
Speaker 2: Basically general studies.
Speaker 5: No, hey, you can't get into pet school with a
general studies degree. You went there, That's what I was
going to do. Had a little had a little stop
in the NFL there.
Speaker 2: But couldn't get in. Okay, couldn't get accepted?
Speaker 5: Oh for sure. I had a cord when I graduated, Bud,
did you what cord around my neck?
Speaker 2: For my grades?
Speaker 5: I don't even know what that means exactly because they
didn't pass those out.
Speaker 2: The balls graduation them.
Speaker 5: Aw are you on that note?
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Speaker 6: Oh, you meant like we've got Chipper Jones that's to
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Speaker 2: He was pretty good, right, all right, he's decent, one
of the best ever put on a uniform for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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you know, we'll make fun of him because he's a
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