Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn. Let's go, let's go from a championship
backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 2: Ham'sday.
Speaker 3: Hester and Hester got it five out of five.
Speaker 1: Your luck's in to off the bench.
Speaker 3: Well, that's right.
Speaker 4: Control the.
Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge Studio. Here's
Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 3: TV that they do, Matthew Clayton Flynn that they do.
Speaker 2: They take down Arkansas.
Speaker 3: You know why, because you gotta get all twenty seven outs.
Speaker 5: Gott gotta seven.
Speaker 3: You gotta get them all. You can't run the clock
out in baseball. You can't take a knee. It doesn't
matter if the first seventeen outs you gave them nine strikeouts.
Speaker 2: How didn't matter.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter all the twenty fourth out, what happened.
It doesn't matter on the twenty fifth out if the
shortstop decides to go to third base and get the
lead runner, even though it's a two run game. It
doesn't matter if on the twenty sixth out, if the
outfielders path was the butterfly on that's old. Let me
see the TUTSI roll does not matter. He's got to
go get the out. They don't get the out. LSU
finds a way. They win the game, and it's.
Speaker 6: Beautiful and the most exciting, dramatic fashion. Bottom of the
ninth College World Series. Two outs.
Speaker 5: Are you kidding me? What a crazy, crazy game?
Speaker 6: This baseball world, this baseball fandom is pretty exciting.
Speaker 2: Good lord, this news, this new stick sport that you found.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I'm I'm a big stitch head now, I'm
telling you.
Speaker 2: You've been telling people.
Speaker 6: And the Flint family was jumping around owned nine seven
four year old.
Speaker 5: My wife I running around high fiving.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was awesome. I was.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 2: I was in Lafayette.
Speaker 3: Hudson had his opening ceremony of his World Series and
so they had like some skills competitions. So I drove
him over there, and we're listening to the call, you know,
and if you can't see it and you listen to it,
you're you're like, I feel like it's even more drama
field because you can't see, Like if you hear the bat, right,
you hear the ding, but you're like, where's that gonna go?
And you're listening for Blair to explain and you're like, okay,
all right, well is it God fault?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: So, I mean, like all the drama trying to watch it.
So finally, my my twelve year old, was like, Dad,
just like give it to me. I'm gonna watch and
I'm going to kind of be your eyes and ears
as well. So we're driving and then as we pull
into the house, I guess it was going into the bottom.
It was going to the bottom of the ninth and
so our had already scored a couple of runs. And
so I walk into the house and Piercing's up to
bat and like as soon as I walk into the house,
he swings strike three. I'm like, oh, nobody on one out.
But you know what, that was only twenty five outs.
Wasn't twenty six, and it wasn't twenty seven.
Speaker 5: What if you're up by two with twenty six.
Speaker 2: Outs, doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: You can be had by thirty with twenty six outs,
doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Gotta get twenty seven of them. And I don't really care.
Speaker 3: I don't care what happened, don't care what mental breakdown
you had in the middle of it.
Speaker 2: You gotta go get twenty seven. They didn't. You took
advantage of it.
Speaker 6: Tigers win two amazing teams, amazing pitching by both sides,
clutch at bats from both sides, and a couple of
mistakes from both sides in this game defensively. But at
the end of the day, Lsu comes up with the.
Speaker 5: Clutch at bats.
Speaker 6: The clutch hits Jared freaking Joe. Are you kidding me?
He Lsu fans.
Speaker 3: Like, I mean, the roller coaster of emotions with Barry Jones.
But he comes through and he has like when you've
needed him the most.
Speaker 6: And since that first game with five strikeouts where everybody
was hollering two home runs six RBIs walk off to
send your team to the College World Series, National Championship Series.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I was so look, y'all know we're a
full disclosure show here. After you know, you're trying to
turn the double play and Bear lunches out for it. It's
in the air and he misreads it. I think he
thought it was going to be lower than that. And
two runs score there was, you know, there was a
lot on the socials feeling. And then so I sent
a text to my dad. I said, hey, Bear can't hit,
but he can't catch either.
Speaker 7: Did I sent the text. It was a good text
at the time.
Speaker 3: Well, so that happens in two run score, and so
of course he comes up and I mean, he just
hits eight tank.
Speaker 5: That's a game. I watch it on TV like he
hit it, and I was like, ah.
Speaker 2: I know he knew. I always know by him.
Speaker 3: The last two home runs he's hit like he's kind
of looked at it and smiled.
Speaker 2: But after he hit it, it ties the game up.
Speaker 3: Of course, in the group text, I go, well, he
actually otis two yeah, not just one yep. And then
so you know when he finally he drives in the
final larva igo, well there's our second.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the tank he hit, I mean, I'd like to
see the arc on that ball, because the watching on TV,
it looked like it was going straight up in the air.
Speaker 7: He pimped it though, like he did something off the bat.
Speaker 6: I was like, ah, But then I saw him like
just strutting off. I was like, I they kept it
on him. He swings and just stands there. I'm like, okay,
well that has to be gone right.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a different look.
Speaker 3: There's a different look if you hit it well, and
you're like trying to figure out did I get enough,
is it going to get out of here? Because then
like you're kind of you're still holding onto the bat
a little bit. You got to slow jow going down
the first you can go to that kind of face. No,
that was not the face that he had, and he
was watching every bit of it. So there's a thousand
moments in the game that lead to LSU being victorious
and moving on to the championship series against Coastal Carolina,
who you do owe something to from twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: But what a way to get there. What a night
for the Tigers.
Speaker 3: Now you hit reset and I mentioned so many different
ways lost in all of this will certainly be what
Zach Cowen did for way out it'll get lost.
Speaker 8: Shout out five to.
Speaker 3: Third, gives up one run. Incredible performance. If anybody would
have come in here yesterday and said, hey, would you
take this from Zach Cowen, all four of us would
have said absolutely, without question.
Speaker 8: I mean, you really can't ask for more than five.
Speaker 2: No, not against that off one yeah.
Speaker 5: On one room.
Speaker 7: And it was the defense that you were waiting for.
I mean, Cowen was dealing.
Speaker 2: And I mean, look, the guy hit a solo home run.
Speaker 3: So it was earned. There wasn't heavy contact. What do
you gi about four hits?
Speaker 2: Yeah? For his.
Speaker 6: Look, man, our defense made some plays like that first inning.
They Milam made some insane plays at shortstop.
Speaker 9: So I didn't care what Sorry, I don't care what
anybody says.
Speaker 8: Best short stop in the country.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 6: I mean I hadn't seen them all for sure, but
I don't think he was. I'm like, how can you
how can you be better?
Speaker 5: How's that?
Speaker 4: Wait, how's impossible that? I didn't think he was tall
enough to play short stop?
Speaker 5: Wait?
Speaker 6: Wings baseball, he shouldn't be apparently, Well, so we have
such a good defense. So Zach Cowen's job is to
deal it and throw strikes right, make them put the
ball in play.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he did that yesterday. I saw the stat
that he threw.
Speaker 6: I think he faced twenty one or twenty two hitters,
but he threw eighteen first pitch.
Speaker 5: Strikes hit ahead in the count. Yeah, make them put
the bat on the ball.
Speaker 6: Eighteen first pitch strikes to batters is an incredible stat
to me, let your defense play, and that they did.
Speaker 5: And you know, a couple of gas later in the game.
Speaker 6: But when Cowen was pitching certainly dealing with that defense
helped him in a lot.
Speaker 3: And there's a you know, look, there's a lot of
different things that led to LSU went in the game
and Arkansas had some self inflicted wounds.
Speaker 2: But you know what, like that's that's baseball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like plays are going to happen, right, I mean
we just talked about it. You had a chance to
turn a double play, get out of the inning and
still have the lead.
Speaker 2: But you're really good.
Speaker 3: First baseman does something he hadn't done really all year
and makes an error. There's gonna be a hell of
a turn too. I mean Braswell gets it to dig
it out. I think it would have been out, and
then look you miss it like you miss one two
run score and bought and leave the infield that that
doesn't ever happen. So things happened for both teams, but
the team that stayed in it mentally the longest ended
up winning the game. And sure Arkansas is sad, and
there's a lot of people that are like, oh man, gosh.
Speaker 2: This is the part that I hate. It is what
it is. That's sports.
Speaker 3: Just like it is like, look I lost them the
my mile high miracle. That game yeah, I was part
of that and on the good side of it, the
bad side of it, like games happened. You've had one
when you were with the Packers. I mean, those games happen.
Speaker 6: We've all been there. I mean that's why sports are
so great, because you you'll never get more excited as
a player, as a fan, as a coach. We also
never get as gut wrench your heart just ripped out
of your chest. And in that ESPN camera crew was
like eating it.
Speaker 5: Up after that game, too good. Good lord.
Speaker 6: I was like, man, quit showing these kids, like, yeah,
maybe show like because it like builds the emotion and
tells you how great sports a I'm just like, come on, man,
just like maybe let's just celebrate the victor here and
not so much like sorry, just keep going back to
the tears and everything.
Speaker 5: We're sitting there watching my kids or you know, we're
celebrating blah blah blah, and then all of.
Speaker 6: A sudden, all of a sudden, my my second, my
little girl, she's like, I'm sad. I'm sad right now
because she's seen all these like men for her, like
crying and tears rolling down.
Speaker 5: But uh man, that's what makes sports great and hogs.
Those are hogs.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Look, y'all seem like nice guys. Your coach seems
pretty cool. Like y'all weren't a holes or anything like that.
But like time to go home, baby, Tigers win, Tigers win.
Speaker 4: Speaking of their coach, Dave Van Horne accomplished something pretty
impressive last night in ten now in Omaha in terms
of not making it to the uh not winning the
college World zoos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And look, Dave's won a blank ton a
little bit, shut out Marvel Levy, a blank ton of games,
and he's an incredible baseball coach. But there is something
in that city, in that building, that new building now
that he just cannot figure out. And this isn't hate
on da Van Horn segment. This is appreciate Jay Johnson segment.
This is now two of the last three years that
Jay Johnson has gotten to the Championship series. J Johnson
has already won a national championship, something that the guys
that we're talking about have never done before.
Speaker 2: Right, all the people.
Speaker 3: That tried to throw out the Jay Johnson is coach
O in a baseball uniform. He only had one team
in one special run, which I disagree with that with
coach O as well. He got won a Fiesta Bowl
before he won a national championship. But that's neither here
nor there right now, It's about Jay. What do you
guys say now, what's going to be your narrative now?
Because now Jay Johnson's right back in a position and look,
for whatever reason, even if the Tigers go down, you
cannot tell me that Jay Johnson's not a top three
baseball coach in college baseball. You just you can't tell
me that he is the guy for the job and
LSU is the job. Sure, you got some guys like
Tony v who had a special run run not runs
run last year. Jay's back there again.
Speaker 5: This year.
Speaker 3: Jay got to Omahall with Arizona. Jay is not a
one trick pony. Jay is one of the top three
best baseball coaches in college baseball.
Speaker 6: It kind of blows my mind right now that that's
even a discussion or conversation.
Speaker 5: Like the teams that he's built already.
Speaker 6: Of course, he's been here four years and you know
one one and it is about to play for another one.
When you watch this team play, it reminds me of
the team two years ago. No, maybe not from like
a skill standpoint. Everyone's a little bit different. But when
you see a team that gels together and has like
the chemistry that this team does, we get down and
they're just clutch because they believe in each other, they
have trust in each other.
Speaker 5: It's just different.
Speaker 6: It's like trying to explain what like championship DNA is
on any type of team, like whether it's a football team,
baseball team, basketball team. It's just different and it feels different.
You can't really put your finger on it why, But
it all starts with the man in charge on how
he does, the trust that the players have in him,
the trust that he shows.
Speaker 5: To the players on the field.
Speaker 6: It just it comes out in the way they play,
the way you feel as a fan watching the way
it looks like they feel on the team. And like
I said, you can't really put your finger on it,
but there's something that's indescribable of a championship caliber team.
And you know one thing that he said yesterday and
I was listening to his press conference and it really
like kind of stood out to me. It's like he said,
I would coach this team forever, and I was like,
holy hell, what a what an amazing comment, Like of
all the you know, all the all the teams is coached,
and I know every coach says that about everything. That
to me, you know, like saving went on his running
and bam he has to Like there's always as a
special group every single year and it's different. I like
to say that I would coach this team forever. Means
that this team has the it factor whatever, you know,
it's kind of cheesy to say the it factor, but
like it has that DNA that you want as a coach,
you look for and it's just like has a really
special bond. So you know, who knows what's going to
happen in this next series. But they have already stamped
their names in Tiger lore.
Speaker 5: Uh, we've done.
Speaker 3: A lot of talking up here, a Landra, I feel
like we need to throw you the microphone. You hadn't
had a chance maybe to get some of your feelings
out what you felt during the game last night.
Speaker 9: I don't even know, like it was such an emotional
roller coaster because then you whenever you're down, but it's
the eighth and then like you see Bear Jones. I
was like, okay, come on, Bear, like you're We're gonna
do one or the other, and I'm gonna need you
to do the other.
Speaker 8: And then he hit the home run and I was like,
oh my gosh, I was going.
Speaker 9: Crazy, and then we went down and then the bottom
of the ninth inning was just some of the most
insane baseball that I've ever seen ever, And the melt
from Arkansas was almost impressive, because how do you mess
that up like that?
Speaker 8: It just didn't.
Speaker 9: And everybody was like talking about Beheva Alloy the entire time,
and you know what, they should have because he's a
really good player, and he was the only one that
I was really scared of on this team. I know,
he's not the one that hit the home run, but
be Heva Alloy is really good, but he's the one
that kind of messed.
Speaker 8: It up for them. And even the third base Taylor,
Me and.
Speaker 9: Taylor were like talking about the before the show, but yeah,
even the third basement, he still could have thrown it
to first, like Stephen Mylam was not even halfway down
the baseline whenever he caught the ball. So I don't know,
it was crazy. I don't I don't even.
Speaker 8: Have words for it.
Speaker 9: It was one of the most insane baseball games I've
ever seen, almost crazier than the Wake Forest game.
Speaker 8: Like Skiings Louder Tommy walk On.
Speaker 3: That game was just like pure elite baseball. Yeah, like pitchy, Yeah,
like the timely hitting that came at the end of
that game. Like this one was just drunk. Yes, Like
this was like it was like all the chaotic energy
that you could find bottled into half of an inning.
Speaker 9: I was praying when Louise Hernandez went up there, because
then Steven Milom hit and then they got the lead
runner out, and then Louise Hernandez went up there and
I literally was like and I closed my eyes because
I couldn't watch.
Speaker 8: I literally could not watch. And then he hit the
he hit the base hit, and I was like, and
then Bear Jones came up and I was like, oh
my god, it was crazy.
Speaker 3: Another roller coasternother job of Jay Johnson, Yeah, changing the
lineup up where the guy that he changed comes up
with yet again another big kid, I mean again, so
much to get into so many final thoughts on this Arkansas,
like before we even think about getting to Coastal Carolina,
the buttons that Jay pushed.
Speaker 2: Bringing in Jake Brown to pinch hit, which we'll certainly
get to.
Speaker 3: Just stay locked in. Uh, we're still trying to get Joe.
It's Thursday. He's typically with us. Jay was kind of
busy last.
Speaker 7: Night, but he didn't have a game to prep for tonight.
Speaker 2: Well, I said it, I said it yesterday.
Speaker 5: He said it yesterday the tea's. I was like, there's
no way.
Speaker 3: If they win, right, I'm like, well, if they win,
we got a chance. If they lose, there's no chance
in hell they won.
Speaker 2: He's here every Thursday. It's Thursday. I'm gonna try one
more time.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, if he's here every Thursday, then he's
got no excuses.
Speaker 2: Exactly what I said. And I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 6: You texting that I will no excuses. Coach coach number one.
Speaker 3: Let's go now, Jay so locked in. He probably like
he'd probably come back with something way better than that.
So all right, we're gonna take a break more LSU Baseball.
Speaker 2: You can hear some of the calls as well.
Speaker 3: Uh, Taylor has pulled though some of the calls from
last night's game. We'll have all that for you. Wouldn't
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Speaker 3: Comb All right, welcome back at O TV one of
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Speaker 6: We're coming back to set it off when they play
that Tiger's the legends.
Speaker 2: Uh, I just got confirmation. Talk to the people. I'm
trying to set something up over here for Flynn.
Speaker 5: Talk to the people.
Speaker 6: Yeah, about Louis gonna rap?
Speaker 5: Maybe what do you want to talk about?
Speaker 2: Trying to get our guest.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking the game last night. That's just my thoughts.
The baseball game, Yeah, the one that we want you
watched it?
Speaker 6: Can I tell you all something? I'm so fired up
right now? This baseball life is amazing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some are saying a good guy.
Speaker 7: In the South metal.
Speaker 9: I always say, if you want to get into college baseball,
postseason college baseball is the best time to watch it. Like,
it is incredible.
Speaker 8: It's my favorite postseason.
Speaker 6: You're trying to become a baseball fan, it is convenient
if your team makes the College World Series and then
he goes three at three now in dramatic fashion. That
helps the fandom. It does helps you become a stitchhead.
I still think that term.
Speaker 5: Is a little weird.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 6: Like that's what the stitches on the baseball. I'm I'm aware.
It's a little strange. Maybe it's like a base head.
Speaker 8: I think.
Speaker 6: I like, diamond head's not bad, not bad.
Speaker 8: Isn't that a snake.
Speaker 5: Back? There's a copper head mixed.
Speaker 8: Both of them together.
Speaker 2: There's a diamondback baseball team. Don't know if you heard
of them.
Speaker 8: True kind of had a great picture at.
Speaker 3: Some point a couple guy named Randy Johnson. It didn't suck,
you know.
Speaker 4: Randy Johnson's a sports photographer jr.
Speaker 5: Right. His logo is.
Speaker 7: A bird exploding?
Speaker 5: Is it really?
Speaker 7: It is the coolest thing I'll pull.
Speaker 5: Can we pull that logo up? All right? Uh?
Speaker 2: I do have confirmation. I don't know the time yet,
but Jay Johnson.
Speaker 5: Let's go the greatest coach of all time.
Speaker 2: Eight o'clock. Just got it.
Speaker 8: Let's go eight o'clock. J Johns eight.
Speaker 2: O'clock, Jay Johnson. Let the people in socials know.
Speaker 3: Actually I'll do it because I'll just put like something
very well, You do it, and I'll do it as well. Obnoxious,
very excited to catch up with Jay, who, as we said,
pushed all the right buttons, as always, pulled all the
right levers and Wow, that is a that is a logo.
Speaker 2: It's a choice. Randy Johnson, Randy Johnson, there.
Speaker 5: There's a few more feathers in real life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple more. I think he exploded.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 6: Joey in the chat said that Flynn is spoiled on
the show for two weeks and this is happening.
Speaker 5: Yeah it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you missed half that maybe because.
Speaker 5: I joined the show two weeks ago. I don't know.
Some some are.
Speaker 2: Asking nobody's asking that.
Speaker 6: I also said a base head is for a people
that like the free base, free base, like diving or jumping.
Speaker 9: Okay, I thought it was people that like dumb step
got to do stiff.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Look, he gonna get lost in sauce here. Sorry, let's
chase that squirrel. Let's get back to ja putting Jake
Brown in to pinch hit after Dave van Horn walks Pearson.
Speaker 2: To get to a right handed hitter.
Speaker 3: And do you think that Jay's gonna take Chris Stanfield
out of the game.
Speaker 5: Probably not.
Speaker 3: Like, if you're David Home, You're like, look, that's that's
a guy that's played well all season long, one of
the better hitters they had in sec play certainly as
far as average, he's a plus defender his speed.
Speaker 2: I don't probably gonna maybe leaves him in.
Speaker 3: Jay Quick, Clay, Jake Brown, you hit clean up the
other night against the right handed hitter. It's an easy
decision for me. Go get in the game, Go get
us two runs, and not only just the lineup and
how he's formatted it. And it always feels like the
guy that he moved comes up with the big hit.
But to do that, to bring Jake Brown into the
game gets two RBIs did he slip on the old
Little League Baseball still play that he did?
Speaker 5: But what a move by Jay Johnson. Yeah, what a
huge batman.
Speaker 6: Comes in there, mister clutch u Wandra Wandra you said
in our group chat, and it's amazing what.
Speaker 5: Happens when the when the good hitters hit.
Speaker 8: That was Taylor agreed, Taylor, Taylor, I.
Speaker 4: Think Jake Brown should be in the lineup every day
like at this point, I don't care like the guy's clutch.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 4: Everyone's going to say you can't hit against lefties. You
don't know that if you don't let him do it,
like Jake Brown, lineup every day.
Speaker 5: Maybe get a pinch runner in May.
Speaker 8: I think that was a little.
Speaker 6: It would we all laugh about Wait, we're we're to
the point we won, we can laugh about it. Maybe
do a couple of cone drills, maybe some agility drills.
Speaker 5: Kind of got stuck in the muddy.
Speaker 3: Look it definitely, it definitely would have worked if he
doesn't slip, like they had what they wanted.
Speaker 2: And if you're if you're new to L s U.
Speaker 3: Baseball and you don't know because my dad was asking
me this, you know, Jake Brown is very athletic. Jake
Brown is one of the fastest people on the team.
So like, you had the right guy, you had the
right play.
Speaker 7: All right, what time do we have, Jay Johnson?
Speaker 2: Eight o'clock?
Speaker 7: I'm sending off the tweeting up forgotten. I didn't know
he else?
Speaker 2: All right, man, you can get those multitasking skills up.
Speaker 3: You got to be able to have three kids screaming
something at you and you just totally like tune it
out while you're doing something else. Like it's called multitasking. Yeah,
it's an elite skill. You gotta find a way to
do it.
Speaker 6: So it's kind of hard to multitask sometimes when you
see squirrels.
Speaker 3: Favorite moment from the game last night, of all of
all the moments that that you know, we saw your
favorite moment from the game mine, I'm gonna I'll start
it off. It is Jay Pinch hitting Jake Brown and
given the big d X sign to the Arkansas dugout.
Basically he didn't do it. I wish you would have
because that was exactly what had to happen. And Davan
Horn comes out there and you could tell he feels
like he got one over on LSU. Jason's out, Jake
Brown boom, two runs, Tigers take the lead.
Speaker 8: That was a great moment for me.
Speaker 4: It was not Jared Jones's winner. It was as Luis
Hernandez two run RBI to.
Speaker 2: Tie it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Arkansas got deflated, like they showed the dugout. The
Arkansas players, you know, heading their hands and Dave van
Horn has that blank stare like are we really going
to throw this thing away again? Like when LSU tied it.
I'm like, this is this game is over. I don't
care if you end it now. I don't care if
you go into extra innings like you took Arkansas's best paunch.
You tied it like to me, that was like when
I knew like LSU was winning this game and.
Speaker 6: You could tell them that ball was hit so hard. Yeah,
I mean it goes down as an air and it
looks bad on left fielder. But that ball had to
have been so hard to judge, especially in that moment.
But the dude, I mean, has he had like a
shoulder replacement. It's got like a titanium shoulder. That sucker
hit it. Yeah, it was probably one hundred and four
mile an hour off his shoulder. Good lord, that things
spun off there.
Speaker 9: It would have been a tough play for the left
fielder to make anyway because he was diving for it.
Speaker 8: But yeah, I'm with Taylor.
Speaker 9: I think that was my favorite moment in the game
because you felt like it was over.
Speaker 8: But just to give a.
Speaker 9: Different answer, I mean, Zach Cowen, his performance was just
it was so good to see him back to his
regular form because you know he's been struggling the last
couple of games. Was the second start of the season,
and like we said earlier, you couldn't have asked more
than five and a third innings from Zach Cowen with
one earned runs and no walks, and it was just
yea great performance from Zach Cowen.
Speaker 3: Jade Knut's performance is gonna get lost a little bit
as well. He comes in, he gives you an inning,
doesn't give up anything, has a strikeout as well.
Speaker 2: Only Phase three batters, but did his job.
Speaker 3: Like we can talk about Chase Shores, it was dominant
at times and then he kept going back to the
all speed pitch and Arkansas was ready for it. Jacob
Myers is not somebody that I didn't think he was
coming in in that situation. Now I realize he did
give up. The hit infield was in that's always going
to get through. But let's not forget he did strike
out two as well. Yeah, I kind of closed the door.
That was big, and at the time it didn't feel
like it was going to be anything because you were
down two runs. But him getting out of that and
not giving up any more even that was a big
for him, like a confidence boost and credit to Arkansas, right,
I mean, Jacob Myers is somebody that throws eighty two
percent fastballs and Arkansas got a breaking ball.
Speaker 2: First pitch. You drive in two runs, that's just when
you tip your cap.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's everything though, Like Landon biitle, she's which we
finally got a correct pronunciation vityl.
Speaker 7: She's not vityl, she's whatever.
Speaker 4: Canfield Ohio's finest he was dealing last night, like nine
strikeouts typically, like when you're going against a guy like
that who's working and you don't have the run support,
like it would have been very easy for LSU to
lose this game.
Speaker 7: Like it was overcoming that it was helping out.
Speaker 4: Zach Cow and it was jade nude out of the bullpen,
like everything you needed to work did, Like you couldn't
have won this game any other way than how you
did last night with the way Bible sheets was going,
and you you found a way to do it.
Speaker 6: That's amazing how sometimes these pictures in these moments have
just like these out of world performances because they just
it's it's the moment, it's playing in that stadium, it's
the it's the lights, it is the everything that surrounds
being in the College World Series. Just some people respond
to that in an extremely positive way and do something
that they're you know, haven't shown that they can do
in the past. So, uh, that is always the cool
thing about watching sports. It's like seeing the performances when
people just play out of their mind. And man, he did,
he did deal and it's you know, we were giving
us some props yesterday broke down his name everything that
dude was dealing. But but my favorite moment, like I'm
a I'm a simple man. My favorite moment from the
game is the the bear Jared Jones in the eighth inning,
just straight up launching it over the fence.
Speaker 8: Y'all know it first pitch right or no?
Speaker 5: It was first Poe uh, first pitch that right, And.
Speaker 3: I was listening on the radio, so like, I think
it was first I'm trying to wiel that thing over
your flight.
Speaker 5: But when you're down, I was.
Speaker 2: On the Chafala base and just begging for it to
go over.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you're down and late in the game, the
nerves are high, tension is high, you know. I think
at the time, like Ianson's like was kind of like
warming up a little bit. We had the league, so
we're you know, what's gonna happen, what's gonna happen. Then
he steps up and like he struck out in a
big situation at bat before, and he gets up there
and like I said, I'm a simple man. I like
to see that ball go over the fence. So that
was our favorite moment. The Flynn family was going. We
were running around. Kids were kind of like, you know,
all like bedded down like in the living room and
with like we made a little palettes for them watching
the game. No, everyone was on their feet running around
high five and the little one she had no idea
what was going on, but she was excited.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very excited. Everybody's yelling and it seems like it's
in a good way. So let's go a lot, a
lot to get to in the chat, a ton to
get to a lot of people asking if we saw
Ta Bob's video, and a lot of people saying we
need him a cameo. He came on yesterday, so if
you missed that, that's on you. Nobody did come on yesterday.
I did see his video and Katie and I were
laughing because he had a jersey.
Speaker 5: He goes just jumping around, Yeah, just being t Bob.
Speaker 2: It was awesome. Takes his shirt off, the jersey off, right.
Speaker 3: And then he goes shirt off and then changes his
mind about halfway up his back.
Speaker 2: You know, like shirt was coming undershirt right, there's an undershirt.
Speaker 3: Shirt was coming off, he got to the middle of
the back and decided against it and then starts to celebrate.
Speaker 2: I was like, he wanted to go shirt, I.
Speaker 5: Wanted to go off, but he was like, oh, yeah,
the camera is rolling. Probably don't want to show this
dad Bob right now.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, I know Bob enjoyed that last night.
Speaker 3: I know he's probably feeling it this morning, but I
know he's going to enjoy it later today as well.
Speaker 5: Enjoyed it more than most.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a great video and made me laugh very,
very hard. He was not a poodle last night. Today
it's a calling to work. I don't know, I don't know,
I don't know. It look like he had some fun,
all right. We uh, yeah, we're pretty late here. Let's
go ahead and take a break again. J Johnson joining
us at eight o'clock, so top of this next hour.
Ja Johnson, LSU head baseball coach will be with us
here on OTB.
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Speaker 3: Evans, as far as you got you hit reset and
look to the uh look to the Mississippi State fan
in the chad that is going back and forth with
our beloved Tiger fans here calling it lucky.
Speaker 2: I don't care what you call it.
Speaker 5: That's fine.
Speaker 3: Arkansas had to get twenty seven ounce and they got
twenty six, doesn't matter how it happened, doesn't matter what they.
Speaker 2: Did, what you did, what you did, didn't do, what
they didn't do. Twenty seven ounts, twenty seven ounts.
Speaker 5: Did you say Mississippi State fan? Yeah? I mean were
y'all unlucky? Why you mad?
Speaker 10: Bro?
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like they're lucky, NAT. That program has
Look I this is not even about like lsu worsmiss
your State.
Speaker 2: I'm even training.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying like, when you play at this level
and you say like luck, it's like, okay, well you
could go back in different moments, like when Bear Jones
drops the ball at first base, I don't play get
you out of the inning. Arkshall scores two runs. So
that thing goes both ways. Like that's a baseball game.
L Shoe's got to get twenty seven, Arkansas's got to
get twenty seven, and you got to have more runs
than the other team, and if you don't get that done,
you lose the baseball game.
Speaker 2: And we could go over seventeen different plays. Sure, the
ninth inning was chaotic as it possibly could be, but
there's moments in every game, certainly in baseball, where it's like, okay,
well they made that play, they made this play, they
didn't make that play, they didn't make this play. It
all comes together and the team that finds a way,
a team that puts pressure on the defense, a team
that continue to not just lay down. So I just quit,
but go up there and have that belief because there
is no clock in baseball. It doesn't run out. It
was a pitch clock, but it doesn't run out on you.
Speaker 3: Like the game can't can't end because time right out
of the game, like in youth baseball, like that happens
sometimes not once you get to this level.
Speaker 2: So I'm not look, did the plays happen?
Speaker 3: They did, but there's moments for both teams that you
could look at and again LSU found a way and
they outduled and outlasted a very good Arkansas baseball team.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the the notion of teams being lucky in sports
is kind of it's a it's kind of a cop out.
It's because teams work hard, they they bleed, they sweat,
they crowd, they do everything, and breaks happened for every team.
There's not one championship team that's ever won a championship
that didn't have either breaks go their way or something
happened where the other team was like, oh if this
didn't happenlah blah blah. That happens in every game. But
the good teams find a way to take advantage of
other team's mistakes. In every sport, we made mistakes, they
didn't take advantage of it in the way that LSU did.
Speaker 5: So Arkansas makes mistakes. The good teams, Championship caliber teams.
Speaker 6: Find a way to take another person's mistake and exploit
it and then make them pay for it.
Speaker 5: That's what happened.
Speaker 6: Maybe the only championship team that never had to get
lucky was twenty nineteen LSCU football team.
Speaker 5: Maybe, but there's breaks that happened for everyone.
Speaker 2: The championship that we won, Pitt had to beat West Virginia.
Speaker 5: Well about thirty five things, I no, but like that's
the main one.
Speaker 2: Like I didn't have faith that Chase Daniel was going
to go beat Oklahoma. I mean, come on, we know
how that was gonna play out.
Speaker 3: But Pitt Shady McCoy like was like, they're one guy.
They had to go beat West Virginia and they did.
I don't care how it happened. I don't care what
the plays were to lead to said victory for the Panthers.
They got it done and then they gave us another chance.
And once they gave us another chance, we could have
played the seventy two Dolphins and Larry Zaka and the
boys were going down.
Speaker 2: So we're sports and sports.
Speaker 8: That would say mental error by Arkansas that. So it
just is what it is. And I was thinking about
this last night.
Speaker 9: I feel like the College World Series, the tournament as
a whole, the way that it's set up and how
long it is and everything, it's perfect because you really
are getting the best of the best. Because Arkansas and
LSU and the other teams that played on the other
side of the bracket, you had the same amount of
like you were. You were both on your quote unquote
Sunday guys. You know, you both had to go deep
into your bullpen. So this is really the best of
the best because it shows depth. It like I don't know,
just call it luxture maybe a little bit. But also
Arkansas had to make that mistake and LSU had to
take advantage of it in the bottom of the ninth
and they did.
Speaker 6: We can just like scrap the word luck. Yeah, I
hate when people say, hey, that was a lucky break.
When people ask me about like my career, Man, you
got lucky, like the hell I did. I worked my
ass off and when the opportunity came, because there were
few and far between, you take advantage of them. And
that is when opportunity meets preparation and other people who
don't know anything about anything, I think it's luck.
Speaker 2: And our guy, Craig Hilling shut out.
Speaker 3: Craig's good to see you back in the Bay four
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the play to get in a rundown and score the run.
Speaker 2: Like that's a game. It's part of the game within
the game. It's a part of the nine ending story.
Speaker 3: So Lis, you don't care what you call it, honestly,
but when the moment presented itself, you went and seize
the moment.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they screwed up a double play at the end.
We screwed up a double play before that. Right second
Basement gets his feed turned around, doesn't make the double play.
Speaker 5: Yeah, on that, like.
Speaker 2: Daniel.
Speaker 3: He has been so damn smooth all season long, Like
I'm not gonna he's gonna get a pass if anybody
does on.
Speaker 5: That was awkward.
Speaker 6: I looked like pitching it and then or turning the ships.
Then it's like here you go, all.
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