Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
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Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and
Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: Welcome in Tuesday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor Sharp
here with you, Elandra Villarrial Braxton Risuto along for the
ride as well. We got a lot to get to.
LSU played a baseball game against the Kent State Golden
Flashes last night. We got some LSU football news. Nick
Underhill of New Orleans and dot Football hopping on at
nine p fifteen to talk all things New Orleans Saints.
Patrick Wright, voice of Your Lady Tigers, will hop on
with us.
Speaker 3: Not only did Patrick do the women's.
Speaker 4: Basketball game on Saturday night, he did all three Friday,
Saturday Sunday of LSU's opening weekends. We got a lot
to discuss with him. He will come on with us
at eight thirty. But let's get a little bit of
a vibe check this morning. I mean, it's a Tuesday.
We always say on No TV we turned Tuesday from
the worst day of the week to the best day
of the week. Alandra, how we do in this morning good?
Speaker 5: I'm a little concerned because nobody has volunteered to do
the women's basketball game tonight and it's an eight pm tip,
I know, And I'm not trying to do an eight
pm tip.
Speaker 3: No, No, did the APM tip last week?
Speaker 6: I know?
Speaker 5: No, I did it the women's basketball.
Speaker 4: No, the men's The men's was at APM tip. They
were both at eight pm.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, I did an eight pm tip for
women's basketball. I don't remember who they played. Man, Maybe
it wasn't last.
Speaker 3: Both at APM. Jeezus, maybe it was the week before
APM tip off.
Speaker 4: Should be illegal, though, Like, let's you just let's just
put that out there and like it sucks because like,
no matter who does it, whether it's me, Brian or Jeff,
we all have the exact same shift. Like their morning's
Brian's Morning show, Jeff Everett Louisiana Radio Network US here
we do the same show.
Speaker 3: Like it's just it's it's it's not good. It's not good.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think when it was or what game
it was. It was like a Thursday, they had an eight.
Speaker 4: PM I remember that. So that was two weeks two
weeks ago, I believe so, because I.
Speaker 3: Don't think they. I don't think ell She played it.
Women's played a midweek this week, didn't they.
Speaker 4: I think they had that long week and then they
played South Carolina Saturday instead of Sunday. Yeah, but whatever,
mid week games suck and midweek eight pm games are awful.
Speaker 5: Which speaking of, remember last last season for baseball, I.
Speaker 3: Did a midweek Nichols game. Okay, Nichols is coming up.
Nichols is coming up?
Speaker 5: Wait, do you remember that? And it was like the
longest game ever because Nichols beat Ellis.
Speaker 4: That's the one that got rescheduled, right, like it was
initially in Nichols and they moved it because it was
like fifteen degrees or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they moved it later into the year and
then we lost. Okay, if I remember correctly.
Speaker 3: No, that sounds right because it it.
Speaker 5: Feels like one of the ones where it was like
we dropped a midweek to Nichols and everybody was like oh.
Speaker 4: And it was also like halfway through the year, like
it wasn't early in the season either, So people were Yeah,
people were losing their minds. No, that was that was Nichols,
That was Nicklas. Yeah, it got it got rescheduled.
Speaker 5: Because it either went to extras or it like dragged
on forever because they kept scoring.
Speaker 3: It was something and it was.
Speaker 4: I think that was a game they threw like eight
pitchers last year. Yeah, I think I think that's what
it was. Braxton.
Speaker 3: Now we do and doing good, doing good. Did you
catch any of the game last night? I know you were.
Speaker 4: You had a long one yesterday. You were here till
afr you were here till.
Speaker 3: Six about six thirty.
Speaker 4: I'd say no, thanks, no, thanks, by the way, thanks
for picking that up because I was going to pick
that up if you did not. So, uh shout out
to you guys. A little disappointed with Scream Unseen last night.
Be very honest with you. The movie was good.
Speaker 3: It was how to Make a Killing with the Glenn.
It comes out.
Speaker 4: I believe this Friday, either this Friday or this Saturday,
great movie.
Speaker 3: Like I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: So the plot of it is he is like the
distant relative of a really rich family called the Red Fellows,
and there's like a fortune and it's all gonna get
passed down, you know, to a bunch of different people,
and he decided one day he wants the fortune to himself,
so he's gonna pick off his other family members one
by one, but you know, make it look like an accident.
Speaker 3: It was a good movie.
Speaker 4: I don't really know why it was called Scream Unseen,
like there was really nothing remotely scary about it, but
it was a good one.
Speaker 3: We enjoyed it. When it comes out, go see it.
Speaker 4: I don't really remember anybody else in the movie as
far as like big name people, but Glenn Pawell did
a good job. And of course he's in a big
time movie because well that's that's all he ever does,
is h is getting big time movies. So that was
a lot of fun last night. We'll probably do it again.
Got home good time. I mean I go to home
nine to fifteen from a nine o'clock movie because he
was right down the road, so not terribly late. We uh,
we had everything done pretty early yesterday anyway, So good
time there at Scream Unseen.
Speaker 3: If you haven't done that, go do it.
Speaker 4: I think they do it once a month at amc
over there own O'Neil and then movie Tavern does one,
but it's all genres. It's not just a scream on scene.
It's mystery movie Monday. So it's fun me and Victoria.
This is our fourth time doing it and we've had
a great time every single time we've done it. A
little bit of bad news to get to or sad news,
I should say real.
Speaker 5: Quick before you get to that.
Speaker 3: I looked it up.
Speaker 5: It was Nichols and I remember this too, but I
was like, please let it be a run rule. It
was a run roll and seven innings, and none other
than William Schmidt was out on the mound to start,
I remember, and then.
Speaker 3: Send us a text and OTV Chad.
Speaker 4: You're like, I'd like a run rule and we were like,
well you didn't specify which teams.
Speaker 5: You gotta be real careful when you're asking for something.
Speaker 3: I forgot about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So that was when Schmid just like God, his
control was all over the place.
Speaker 3: That was That was at that point last year.
Speaker 5: Five hits.
Speaker 3: I think he had a lot of walks though too didn't.
Speaker 5: He actually no walks, but three strikeouts. Five hits that
did him dirty. O Co and DJ Primo came in,
walked to Jayden Newt walked to.
Speaker 4: Okay, I remember this game now. Yeah, nobody had it
that night.
Speaker 5: No, who's the final thirteen to three man? Yeah, okay,
they got it this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully it's not thirteen to three tomorrow.
Speaker 5: I mean they won versus them. I think like later
on or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they played, they played twice. Yeah, god, thirteen to three.
That's that's ugly there. Maybe that wasn't the reschedule. One
of them was rescheduled. Whichever one was later in the
year was rescheduled.
Speaker 5: I think that one was the early one because it
was cool. I remember it was cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like it was supposed to be at Nickels.
It was like twenty degrees or something. By first bitch
they canceled it. Yeah, So anyway, it's a little bit
of a sad news to start the show. Obviously, you
guys know, we got this Jonathan mox in Jersey on
on the desk right now, and that's because they're going
Thursday James Vanderbeet or Wednesday evening. But we we talked
about on Thursday James Vanderbeek passed away. Well, yesterday afternoon
I saw the news around one o'clock. I'm not I'm
not sure when it exactly broke. Robert Davall, legendary actor,
passed away yesterday at the age of ninety five. Very
rarely do you get to use the term like icon
and be correct. Robert Deavall is an icon. I mean,
think think about some of the roles he played. He
was Tom Hagen, the family friend and the godfather, one
of his best roles, one of his earlier roles. I mean,
I'll always remember him as Gus McCrae in Lonesome Dove.
If you've never seen Lonesome Dove, I don't know what
you're doing. Go check it out. I mean, he's in
open range with Kevin Costner, Like, think about the roles
he's in kicking in, screaming. He's Will Ferrell's angry sports
crazed dad who kicks his nephew off the team.
Speaker 3: Even Will Ferrell have.
Speaker 4: The back and forth with Like, that's a little bit
of a lighter hearted role for Robert Davall, but it's
a great role. Nonetheless, it shows his range, Like honestly
my favorite, Like everyone talks about Secondhand Lions and Ben
Michael Kaine, great movie. He's in Gone in sixty Seconds.
I know Jacob Ester's seen that one because that's a
Nicholas Cage flick. I think of Robert Davall probably a
little bit differently than most people do, like the first
movie that comes to mind, and maybe it's because I
watch it once a year, but for Christmases, Robert Davall,
if you remember, in that movie, plays Vince Vaughan's dad.
When they're bouncing around from Christmas to Christmas. It's one
of the first houses they go to and it's Robert
Daval and Jon Favreau and Tim McGraw are the two
older brothers, Dallas and Denver. And then you have Vince Vaughan,
who we learned's real name is Orlando in that movie,
and Robert Daval is like, oh, well, you.
Speaker 3: Were named after the city you were conceived.
Speaker 4: It's it's my favorite Robert Deaval role. He's hilarious. Vince
Vaughan's on the roof he bought in the brand new,
fancy satellite. He's like, there's not the wrong with my
old TV and just start yelling at him. Vince Vaughan
falls off the roof and the satellites hanging back cord
and Robert Daval's like, that's it, that's it, that's the
perfect picture. That's the one I one, and it looks
the same as as TV did before they even hooked
up the satellite, and in classic fashion. But I mean
just so many, like so many movies you can go through.
We could spend this entire shot like the Natural Roy
Hobbs and Robert Redford in that movie Days of Thunder.
I mean, there's so many movies out there that you
could look at. And Robert Deaval is anonymous with It's,
i mean, the end of an era and ninety five
years old. You want to talk about a heck of
a life, Robert Deval one of those lives. We're gonna
we'll cut the opening segment a little short here. When
we get back, we'll break down LSU baseball. They got
a big win over Kent State. And then a little
bit later on Mina Landra are gonna we're gonna see
how correct Haunt Palmer may be. So on Friday before
first Pitch, he put out five bold predictions for the
twenty twenty six LSU baseball season. One week in we'll
see if it's gonna be accurate or not. In those
five bold predictions. We'll do all that a little bit later.
But all that coming up. You're on off the bench.
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Speaker 4: Famous and notable people when when one passes away, it
comes in threes, and he does it one hundred. Literally
just informed me of this like two minutes ago. Jesse Jackson,
civil rights leader, politician, minister, a man that wears many hats.
He has passed away at the age of eighty four.
It looks like CNN put this out about an hour ago,
so right before we came on air, Jesse Jackson gone
at the age of eighty four.
Speaker 5: So it's four because Catherine O'Hara died.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's true. Is it gonna be fours now? I?
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Speaker 3: I thought three was sane, right.
Speaker 4: Well, Rest in peace of Jesse Jackson. Rest in peace
to Robert Devall as well. No easy transition out of that.
But before we get into baseball, let's go ahead and
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Speaker 4: So, your LSU baseball team took down Kent State last
night by a score of ten to seven. And if
you didn't watch the game, you're gonna look at that
ten to seven score and be like, well, LSU really struggled.
First thing, LSU had two bad innings, that's all it was. Second,
look at the number. I mean we broke down yesterday.
What Kent State did over the weekend. They scored thirty
three runs against a pretty decent Southeastern Lions baseball team
over the weekend and swept all three of those games.
This is a Kent State team that knows how to
put up runs. But when you go look at it
inning by inning, I mean LSU's cruising through the first
two innings. They put up one in the first, they
put up a three spot in the second, so it's
four to nothing going into the bottom of the third
or the top of the third. Jayde Nude has the start.
He's doing really well so far through the first two innings.
It just kind of collapsed on him in the third.
I mean his final stat line three innings pitched, gave
up three hits, three earned runs, three walks, four strikeouts.
But the first two innings he was really good. It
was it was at third inning, so it's it's four
to three at that point, but LSU plates three in
the bottom of the third to make it seven to three.
LSU cruises the rest of the way. I mean, it's
it's three straights innings where you scored a run and
you prevented Ken State from score to runs. You extended
ten to three at that point, and your bullpens looking
really good. After Jaden knut Ethan Plogg goes an inning,
no runs, no hits, strikes out, two walks. A guy,
Devon Shearing comes in, he continues to be electric. Elandra
mentioned him yesterday as one of the standout guys over
the weekend. I mean Devn Sheering one inning, two strikeouts,
no hits, and he came in there. He did what
he needed to do. Maverick Crazy an inning, no runs.
So I mean those three guys right there in that fourth,
fifth and sixth inning really settled things down for you
last night against the Golden Flashes. And in the seventh
inning you went to two guys and neither of them
had it. I mean that that's what it boiled down to.
You had a Dj Primo. He only goes a third
third of an inning, gives up two runs, a walk,
gets a strikeout, but then you pull him out to
the two runs you put in. Grant Fontna, Grant Fonto
got a save for you on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Grant Fonda was good for you over the weekend. It
just wasn't last night again.
Speaker 4: A third of an inning, three hits, two earned runs,
he was pulled. The good news is you've gone to
Gavin Guidry twice in big moments this weekend, and he
has came up huge in both spots. You go to
Gavin Guidry to get out of that seventh inning, he does,
and he shuts the door on Kent State. In the
eighth and ninth inning, he goes two and a third
five strikeouts, did not give up a hit obviously no
runs as well. Gavin Gidrey continues to be huge for
this baseball team. I have loved everything I have seen
from Gavin so far. When you look at kind of
how the scoring went for LSU, Jake Brown is a
bad bad man right now. Two home runs on Sunday,
including that Grand Slam that we talked about a little
bit yesterday. He launched two more homers last night again
for his second consecutive game. Mason Brawn the DH He
gets his first home run in a Tiger uniform. It
was a three run homer. In the second inning. First
baseman Zach Yorke he gets a solo shot. He had
a home run on Friday, his first swing of the
bat as a Tiger.
Speaker 3: That's his second home run of the year.
Speaker 4: And then I mentioned all the relief pitchers in this game,
going into that game yesterday, Mason Braun was one of
the guys I wanted to look at, but kind of
for a different reason. I wanted to see where they
were going to play Mason Braun in the field.
Speaker 3: They did.
Speaker 4: He wound up continuing to DH. But look at what
Mason Bron's hitting right now after last night. Mason Braun
batting three hundred pretty good for your your opening four
games in a college uniform. If he could lock down
that DH spot, that'd be huge for the rest of
the lineup because I know Jay likes the teinker here
and there and put a couple guys in different spots.
But if Mason Brawn locks down DH, your lineup's almost set.
You had Curio and batting in the leadoff spot again
last night. Derek Curial is going to stay there. He
was one for four last night, but he's betting three
seventy five so far. That's who Derek Curiell is really
when you look at average wise, Steven Milam is the
everyday starter on your team that's struggling the most. And
it's kind of like we talked about yesterday when Zach
Collen struggle. I don't care if Steven Mylam struggling early
in the season because I've seen him be super clutch
for two years in a row. Now, not worried about
Steven Mylam. He's going to come around and as I say, struggle,
he's still hitting two sixty seven. That's just a little
bit lower than everybody else in the lineup. Obviously, Jake Brown,
I mean three for five last night, two more home runs,
two rbi. He had that six RBI, two home run
game on Sunday. So Jake Brown hottest hitter in baseball
right now, You'd be hard pressed to find anybody hotter,
cater and beat.
Speaker 3: He's batting four to twelve again.
Speaker 4: I'm going to continue to say this Seth Dardar is
going to lock down that spot at second base. He
played again last night. He went one for two. He's
betten four hundred through the first four games. The interesting
thing I saw last night, you know, Stanfield apparently has
this little lingering injury. It's nothing serious, as I gonna
keep him out long term. But Chris Stanfield did not
play last night, and it was actually Tanner Reeves who.
Speaker 3: Got the start in left field.
Speaker 4: I was wondering, are they gonna slide Mason Brawn in there,
he can play a little bit of outfield. Is it
gonna be one of the other younger guys. It was
Tanner Reeves, So they're moving him around a little bit,
and he delivered. Tanna Reeves goes two for four with
a run scored and RBI. He said in three, he
said in five hundred on the season. He was down
there in that eight hole last night, and he did
a nice job in the outfield. So the depth on
this team, pitching wise, fielding wise, it's incredible. And you know,
Elandra and Jake coming into the season had mentioned Jake
Brown as you know, a lot of people would throw
out Jake Brown, but I'll give them credit. They had
been Jake Brown is like, hey watch this guy. He's
oozing with the potential Malandra for the first four games.
Not bad overall for our guy, Jake Brown.
Speaker 5: I mean, you can't really complain about all the home
runs that this man's hitting. But yeah, I mean it
was just kind of you could kind of see it
last season two and it was just kind of a
matter of time for him to like come into his
own and he's been with the program older vet and
we mentioned this. I think it was last week. He
would get playing time, but he never really had like
a chance to like really really.
Speaker 3: Shine my position.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they played him at first a few times
then in right field he kind of bounced around.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So yeah, great for Jake. Very happy for him. He
deserves it and he's worked hard. And he also is
another one that looks like he puts a muscle mass on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he looks big.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Hey, we talked about Curiell.
Speaker 4: I think they said on I think McDonald said on
the broadcast twelve to thirteen pounds of Derek Kurial. I
wouldn't be surprised if it's the same.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're putting work in in the weight room.
Speaker 3: You mentioned this, don't look cute like outside of Steven
Malum who I mean, but he's also jacked. Yeah, he's jack. Yeah,
he's just sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I mean my own jacked that he's one
of the best players on the team. But I and
Braxton were actually talking about it before the show started. Uh,
the energy that Loshue brings when Zach York simply steps
into the batter's box is electric.
Speaker 3: Come about when he had that stolen base. Oh, we
got a touch.
Speaker 4: From Malandra last night, big boy stolen bas I mean,
and and I had just just left the house.
Speaker 3: I just missed it. Yeah, and uh, I looked down
on my phone. I was like, gotta be Zach York.
Speaker 5: He made two really good catches at first base too.
He made a pick and then he had the one
where he had to like jump off the base to
get the ball but put his foot down in time
to get the out that I'm like, how is this
big old dude so agile? But also as someone who
was slow when I played softball, I was also a
really good bass runner, so like you could be slow
but still know.
Speaker 3: How to run some of the bases.
Speaker 5: And Lsu is four for four on stolen base s
attempts so far on the season.
Speaker 3: Though like it was our ground. It was to the dirty,
so I mean he had a good head start if it.
Speaker 5: Was a yeah, it was like a pass ball. Yeah,
but yeah, he I mean the fact that he can
hit like that but is also an elite first baseman.
We were so worried about Jerry Jones tried to tell y'all,
do not be worried. This man is He's gonna do
what he's got to do and love Zach York.
Speaker 3: Zach York. People don't realize.
Speaker 4: I believe it was nine to nine seven fielding position,
fielding nine three at Grand Canyon last year.
Speaker 3: Like, think about how good that is.
Speaker 4: A lot of people will see Zach York, they'll see
his his his build, I get it, and they'll be like, Oh,
he's gonna go in there, He's gonna dh for you.
He's gonna bat in the four hole. Yeah, that's it.
He's not gonna do much else for you. Like, Zach
York is a plus defender. I mean we just we
just threw that number at you, nine to nine three.
That's incredible. I mean there's there's not a lot of
first basement out there that have that number. So like,
don't let the build fool you on a guy like
Zach York. He has been incredible so far at first base.
And you know, so funny when you lose a guy
like Trey Morgan, like, in my opinion, still best defensive
first baseman LSU's ever had.
Speaker 3: You think there's going to be a big hole there.
Jared Jones.
Speaker 4: The jump he took from when Trey Morgan left to
his final year here at LSU.
Speaker 3: To now Zach Yorke. It's it's a lot like third base.
Speaker 4: Like we had talked about it with Jay Johnson at
third base after Jacob Barry left. Remember Jacob Barry came
in Jay's first year and maybe he was a one
and done. And then you bring in Tommy White. Everybody
saw Tommy White. He's a big guy. They were like, Okay,
he's gonna be your dah, she's gonna hit a lot
of homers for you. But Tommy White at third base,
and Tommy White's first year at third base, he was
an adequate third baseman.
Speaker 3: He was he was solid.
Speaker 4: Tommy White's last year at LSU, he saved and won
games for you over there at third base. He was
a plus defender at the hot corner. Jay Johnson has
a knack of bringing in these guys that he knows
can turn into something defensively, and it's a sight to see.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's done it with your Jones.
Speaker 4: It looks like Zach York, which Zach York was already
really good when he got here. He did it with
Tommy White. So when you see these guys in the field,
they're there for a reason. I mean, we talked about
the hitting of Mason Braun. Mason Braun was the number
one first baseman coming out of high school last year.
Mason Braun's good enough to play first base on this team.
Jay Johnson and staff just trusted Zach York that much
to go out there and do it, so they put
Mason Braun at DH like the athleticism of him and
what this staff is able to do with guys like that,
very very impressive. And again the LSU Tigers ten to
seven victory last night over the Kent State Flashes. They
will take one Nichols tomorrow night in Alec Box. I mean, yeah,
tomorrow night or tomorrow afternoon one pm. Yeah, I should
say one pm first pitch. Kind of an early midweek
game there, but we'll take a time out when we
get back on Palmer on Thursday leading up to the
opening weekend, put out five bold predictions for LSU baseball
in twenty twenty six. You can read it on Louisiana
Sports dot Net. Meanelandra going to go through those five
bold predictions, see if they're come true or what's hut
completely off base.
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in Tuesday edition of Off the
Bench Taylor Sharpy with you Elandra vill Real, Braxton Risuto, as.
Speaker 3: Well Hunt Palmer.
Speaker 4: Before the season, it was actually last Thursday on louisianasports
dot Net put out five bold predictions for LSU baseball
in twenty twenty six. Now they're bold for a reason,
but I'm gonna be honest, I was looking at these
last night. I think a couple of these bold predictions
may not be that bold anymore after the opening weekend,
and they might actually come true. The first one we'll
break down is the first one on his list. LSU
pitching leads the SEC and strike else through the regional round. Yeah,
Yski's two for two on that s LSU's led the
SEC and strikeouts both the Yearssky has been here, But
they don't have an individual pitcher in the top three
in the league. Okay in terms of strikeout so as
a staff they lead the league.
Speaker 5: That act striking sense for what we have right now.
But I think Cooper Moore, I was about to say.
Speaker 3: Is eleven k's per game? I don't, I don't, I
don't know, if U.
Speaker 5: But also look out for Auburn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Auburn.
Speaker 5: Stabborn's pitching staff is always pretty good. Tennessee will always
give you a little bit of competition as well, But Auburn,
their pitching staff looks pretty good right now. I know
it's early in the season and they're playing like whatever teams,
which I'll say Kent State and Milwaukee Milwaukee less, but
Kent State is a really strip.
Speaker 4: Thirty three runs against Southeastern, Yeah, and I don't care
that it's Southeastern, like they're only a pretty good baseball program,
But that's eleven runs a game over three game period.
He scored seven againstel Was Shoe last night, like they
were three and oh coming into that game. I do
like hunts description here though, or reasoning behind it. He said,
you know, Yeskey did it with lou Coleman, Gage Jump
and Griffin Hearing two years ago. Last season you had
Kate Anderson and Anthony Hyinson said. The difference is you
had two elite starters not quite the bullpen depth, because
right now it kind of looks like the opposite.
Speaker 3: I mean you got cow and Rizzy here and Gavin Gidrey.
I mean, you know will.
Speaker 4: Case and Evans remain a starter. Well he go back
to like, we'll see what happens there. But I mean
Cooper Williams if he's not a starter, So I kind of.
Speaker 3: Agree with this, but I'm with you. Cooper Moore would
be the would.
Speaker 5: Be I agree with it, but I would watch out
for Cooper more to definitely be one of the leaders.
Speaker 4: All right, the second one on here. Four pitchers earned
multiple saves. I mean Gavin Gidrey got one last night
and Grant Father had one on Saturday. So I mean
we already got two pictures with a save. I could
see that happening because look, Sharon looks like he could
be dominant in the back end. We've seen font No
already do it. Gavin Gidry's going to be in the
close and role at some point, whether it's a setup
guy or that true closer Zach Cowen. I mean he
did this a number of times last year, he didn't
really do much in the first weekend. You didn't ask
him to do that much either, But Zach Cowan's a
guy that could come in in high leverage situations.
Speaker 3: I think that I think that this actually does come true.
I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know about you, but I actually think four
pitchers will earn multiple saves.
Speaker 5: I mean, we just threw out three again because of
the first one that we said, Like, the depth is
a lot different on this team than it's been.
Speaker 3: I can see that happening too.
Speaker 5: It's already like Gavin Guidry, didn't he get one on
one last night? Well, I know he got one last night.
Did he get it on Friday or no?
Speaker 3: He may have? I know font no got it on Saturday,
went out earlier Friday. That's true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're right, he was. He was one of
the first ones else who got it last year.
Speaker 5: Either way, I think that, yes, that can that can happen.
Speaker 4: Third one not really a ball prediction anymore because of
what we saw on Saturday. Cooper more will get ten
sec starts. Yes, as long as Cooper Moore is healthy,
he's going to be a starter in this rotation. Is
it always Saturday. Is it Friday or Sunday, doesn't matter.
Cooper Moore is going to start.
Speaker 3: On this team.
Speaker 4: I mean, you saw what he did in Kansas last year,
really strong in the preseason. Like that's a guy that
Jay Johnson talked about and raved about him every chance
he got going into the season. It's one of the
reasons a lot of people were so confident that Cooper
Moore was going to be a starter in this rotation
because you knew about Cason Evans, you knew he was
going to get.
Speaker 3: His shot to start.
Speaker 4: And Jay Johnson anytime was asked about starting pitching, Cooper
Moore one of the first names out of his mouth
every single time. When every time a coacher does that,
you know the guy's making an impact out there in
the fall scrimmages. And it showed up week number one.
So I mean, I think I think that one's a given.
Speaker 3: Cooper More.
Speaker 4: Cooper More will make ten sec starts. I don't think
there's any question about that. Okay, here's the next one.
Here's where I think haunts wrong. And I agreed with him.
I read this on Friday when he put it. I
agreed with him on Friday I don't now LSU will
have six guys hit ten or more home runs, but
will not have a player hit twenty. I was with
him going into the season, but hell, if Jake Brown
can keep doing what he's doing. He's got four in
the last two games. And I get it, it's it's
Milwaukee and Kent State. The competition is gonna get better.
But he's there. I mean, he's right there at four
right now after the opening weekend.
Speaker 3: Jake Brown's on pace to do that. Does he get
to twenty, we'll see.
Speaker 4: I mean, Alandra last segment mentioned how he looks like
he's gained weight, he looks like he's got more power,
and he was a guy that you know was already
a pretty good hitter a year ago.
Speaker 3: The thing with Jake Brown, remember last.
Speaker 4: Year, all they talked about was Jake Brown struggles against
left handers. That's what everybody said. That's why he wasn't
in there in the lineup. Right now, I believe he's one.
He's only facing a few left hand He's won for
two against lefties of this year. If Jake Brown can
figure that out, he's going to be in this lineup
every single day. I think Jake could hit twenty at
least so far after what we've seen through the first
four games of the season. Now I agree, I think
there's ten guys that hit the that hit the ten
home run Mark Alandra mentioned did last week. Well you know,
she kind of brought up the moneyball phrase. I saw
Hunt do that on Friday as well. It makes a
lot of sense because you don't necessarily have to replace
Jared Jones with a guy that's going to hit twenty plus.
But Stephen Mylom could do it. He could get to ten.
Zach York probably will get to ten. Look at what
Kate Aaron Beatie's doing so far. We just mentioned Jake Brown,
Seth A. Dardar has some pop in his bat. We've
seen that come to fruition here early on. Mason Brawn
got his first home run last night. He's got power.
And then you know Derek Curiell. People kind of forget
last year how many home runs he actually hit, just
because you see him at the top of the lineup.
He's a slender guy, he's a freshman. You're like, Okay,
this guy, he's a speedy guy, is gonna get hit
for contact. He's gonna get on base. Derek Curiell hits
six home runs last season as a freshman, and he's
put on thirteen pounds of muscle. Why can't he improve
by four home runs. I don't see why Derek Kuriele
can't do that. I think that's actually likely to happen.
I think Derek curiel does get two double digit home runs.
I mean, I could totally see six guys getting to
that ten home run mark. The thing is, though, so
Hunt's half right on this. Jay Brown could get to twenty.
If he keeps hitting the way he is, he is
going to eclipse that twenty home run mark.
Speaker 3: And you kind of need a player like that.
Speaker 4: Like, look, I'm all for of the six guys with
ten plus home runs because like a home runs a
home run, it doesn't really matter who hits it. But
when you got that one guy that you know when
you need a big hit can come through. If that
guy turns out to be Jake Brown, that makes this
lineup that much more dangerous. I think everybody one through nine,
regardless of who's in there, where they're at in the
lineup's going to be able to hit. I think Jay's
put together a deep enough roster to where you don't
have to worry about or is there really a quote
unquote week point in the lineup so far through the season.
Speaker 3: Not really. But if you have that.
Speaker 4: One guy in your lineup to go along with all
those good hitters that I mean opposing batters, fee you
can take one over the fence at just the swing
of a bat, then that makes your lineup that much
more dangerous. That way, you can pick and choose where
you put Jake Brown. You can slide him in there
and be like, oh, we can bat him in the
four hole, we can put him at the five. Jay
likes to have a power bat in the two hole
a lot of times. If you could move him around
and he can keep doing that, that'd be huge for
your teams. I think I do think LSU gets six
guys that hit ten home runs, but Jake Brown could
be that player to get to twenty. And then the
final prediction Hunt had Mason Braun will get more than
three postseason at bats. Now, I'll give our guy a
little bit of a pass here because you're probably thinking, well, yeah,
that seems obvious.
Speaker 3: I mean, he started day one, and d H.
Speaker 4: Hunt said, I do think he's got a chance to
become a left handed bullet on this team.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 4: If he starts opening weekend, then the boldness of this
prediction takes a hit.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 4: It's thirty hours before the lineup cards turned in. I
don't know if Braun will be in it. If he is,
the boldness kind of goes away. If not, watch out
for Mason Braun is a weapon coming off the bench
for this team. Mason Brown's gonna get more than three
post season at bats because I think Mason Bron's gonna
be your everyday DH if all things holt. He's been
in that spot for multiple games now. He looks really good.
And again I mentioned it on Monday. He's a guy
that could play in the outfield. He's a guy that
could play for He was the number one first baseman
in high school baseball last year. He can move around
a little bit, So han't forbid somebody goes down with
an injury.
Speaker 3: I'll slide in there to first. You can move somebody
else around.
Speaker 4: I can slide out there to the outfield, move somebody
else around, and he can DH. He's gonna get more
than three postseason and bats provided he stays healthy. I
don't think there's any question about that. So what Hunt
got right? Mason Bron's gonna get more than three postseason
and bats. I think he's half right. I think six
guys will hit ten home runs, but I think Jake
Brown could make that twenty home run mark. We'll see
how that falls. Cooper Moore is going to make ten
sec starts provided that he's healthy. The pitchers can earn
multiple saves. The one to me the boldest the LSU
leads the league in strikeouts but does not have an
individual pitcher in the top three. Elandra mentioned watch out
for Auburn. They got a deep staff and LSU does
as well. But the way Cooper Williams or Cooper Moore's playing,
if he continues that throughout the year, he can go
six innings seven innings get you multiple strikeouts. I get
the competition is gonna get tougher, but he was really
good all last season in Kansas. There's a chance that
if this staff is as good as it could be,
Cooper Moore's also in there in the top three strikeouts.
So again, that's one that's kind of half right. But
you know, I was looking at this last night. I
originally saw it on Friday before the season started. Now
I wanted to revisit it because it was like, you know,
these probably were bold before the opening weekend, and I
don't like to do much of an overreaction. I just
kind of wanted to look on where things sit as
one weekend happens. But I was looking at it and
I'm like, I don't know how bold these are anymore.
I mean, I think a lot of these are are
kind of right on the money. We'll see if they hold,
but uh, not bad right there as far as the
bold predictions go. All right, we'll take a time out
when we get back. LSU announced the new partnership. As
far as the Jersey patch goes, we'll quickly talk about
that next Here on Off the Bench.
Speaker 1: Off the Bench, from the locker room to the airwaves,
gets Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Welcome back in final segment, Hour number one.
Speaker 4: Here on a Tuesday edition of Off the Bench, Tyler Sharp,
but lundra Villa, Rial Braxton, Rizzuto here hanging out with
you a year this morning. LSU Athletics announced yesterday there's
a new official legacy partner of LSU Athletics and it's
Woodside Energy. So Woodside Energy that logo, it's going to
be on all twenty one of LSU's competition apparel. And
if you know anything about Woodside they're offshore energy. They've
been working offshore in Louisiana for over two decades and
they just they pour a lot of money into the state.
They just finished the seventeen and a half billion dollar
investment decision on its Louisiana LNNG projects. So they, more
than anyone, want to see this state thrive. And Mat
Muscoon on AFR actually did like a thirty minute sit
down with one of the members of Woodside Energy yesterday
gave you the whole spiel.
Speaker 3: You can go back on.
Speaker 4: Twitter, Facebook, AFR, YouTube, any channel like that and go
watch that full, full interview there with Woodside Energy. A
lot of people have a lot of different thoughts about
this logo. Some say, oh, well, I hate it, it's
ruining LSU Athletics and you're gonna look like a NASCAR
a WNBA logo. Some people are fine with it, and
you know, I'm fine with it. I don't really see
the big deal. Like some of LSU's most iconic moments,
have come in Bowl games, have come in national championships.
You got a bowl game patch right here on your shoulder,
you know, depending which one and the and the purple.
Speaker 3: Night you check on the other side.
Speaker 4: I don't really see the issue, especially since with what
Woodside Energy did so their normal logo is red and white,
they changed it to purple and white to match the
LSU uniform and to not clash with it. I don't
really see an issue with this, man. I know there's
a lot of people out there, like I would love
to know Haunt Palmer's stance on this, and I'm sure
Hunt's good with it too. I know, you know, he
likes to be the uniform guy and everybody gives him
crap about it. But I'm good with it because it's
gonna bring me money to the university. It's a step
in the right direction, and it's historic. I mean, you know,
you don't see this at all in college athletics. The
NBA started doing it a couple of years ago, as
far as like having that one signature logo patch on
their uniform. But LSU they're gonna be, you know, at
the forefront of this in college athletics, and that's that's
how LSU is. They're they're at the forefront of most things.
I mean, you know they have the the N I
L L s U sign that you saw in Times
Square a few years ago. I mean, everything all the
changes going on in college athletics, it seems like LSU
is all always either spearheading that approach or somewhere right
there in the top. And that's why LSU has been
able to navigate this and their programs have continued to thrive.
I mean, look at some of the programs in years
past that were really good before the NIL and transfer
portal era that maybe aren't there. I mean, look at
the coaches that have stepped away. I mean Tony Bennett Virginia.
Tony Bennett Virginia said, well, you know my system, my
program takes three to four years to get the hang
of it. If everybody's gonna be one and done in
college basketball, I'm out. I mean, Tony Bennett left college
basketball before the age of fifty. But LSU is bringing
in the right people and they know how to get
out in front of things like this, and it's paying
off in a big way. Because, whether you like it
or not, that woodside energy logo. It's gonna be one
of the talks of college football. Dear an LSU's first game.
Everybody's gonna see it. Everybody's going to realize that LSU
is the one that started this movement, whether you like
it or not. And so I think overall it's a
pretty good thing.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 4: All twenty one of LSU's competition apparel throughout multiple sports
will feature the wood side enter g logo. Okay, before
we go to break, because it's Marty Graul and I'm
not a big Marty gral guy. I've told you that
parades aren't really my thing, and that remained.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 4: I mean, I haven't been to a Marty Girl parade,
and I think I was a freshman in high school
the last time I went to a Marty Girl prade.
I mean it's been a minute, but I was still
in Braxton before the show yesterday. Okay, you know where
Marty Girl originated? He's like, oh yeah, yeah, right here
in New Orleans. Nope, how about Mobile, Alabama?
Speaker 3: Braxton? About that?
Speaker 4: The people in New Orleans, they don't like to hear that,
But I well, it didn't originate Inmobile. Let me back up.
It was It was European like medieval days. That's where
it originated. First celebrated in America Inmobile. Now do they
do it as big and as wild and his round
using New Orleans And no, nobody does in really terms
of anything, but uh yeah, movie in Alabama sixteen ninety nine,
first recorded celebration. I'm sorry it was brought to American
sixteen and none. The first celebration seventeen oh three. Now,
I have been to a few Marti Girl parades in
the state of Alabama. I was telling you, you know,
we used to go on vacation and we'd get caught
in traffic on the way up there because we would
always leave here because all the tourists would come here
for Marti Graus, right, so if you live here, we
would always go somewhere else, and we got caught in it.
It was actually one beach boulevard right there in Gulf Shores,
in the Orange Beach area. We got caught in a
massive Marty Girl parade. They have one in Daphne. It
was like an old fire truck parade. They would bring
out all the antique fire trucks. They did another one
in Foley, and it's so funny because the people out
there get so hyped up for Marti Gras and you
look at it and you compare it to what we
do here. It's just not even on the same level.
It's not even close. So like was was Mobile first? Yes,
does New Orleans do it better? Absolutely so? Really no
competition there in New Orleans. Still the king of a
Marti Gral. Hope everyone out there they're just going to
Marty Girl parades, have a good time, but stay safe
out there. There are crazy people in this world, all right.
That'll pretty much do it for hour number one. Coming
up in hour number two, want to hit a quick
LSU football segment. One of the top running backs in
the country, highly considering LSU and he's actually a local kid.
And I'll tell you why. Havin Lane Kiffin is the
head coach of this program. Is perfect for moments like
these when you're trying to land an elite running back.
We'll of course have OTB mailbag at eight fifteen. Get
your questions in the comment section on YouTube. Will bounce
back and forth on that. Patrick Wright, the voice of
the LSU Lady Tigers, will join us at eight thirty.
He called all three LSU baseball games over the weekend,
and that women's basketball game versus South Carolina on Saturday night.
Busy guy over the weekend, and I didn't think he
was busy enough. So he's gonna hop one with US.
College football has a new member of the Mountain West
that will start immediately. So as of July first, twenty
twenty six, there will be a member of the Mountain West.
And normally it's not a big deal, but when you
hear which program it is, it might come as a
little bit of surprise.
Speaker 3: But I actually think it's long overdue.
Speaker 4: Our number three, Nick Underhill of New Orleans Dot Football
in his normal spot. Look, I keep hearing the name
Jeremiah Love. Is that a serious possibility for the New
Orleans Saints. I know there's a lot of people out
there that would like it. There's a lot of people
out there that would hate it, one of which Matt
Flynn that normally sits right appear on this is this
Maybe you give you a little bit of an Olympic update.
LSU thought they were losing a staff member coming back
after originally announcing he was gonna going to the NFL.
Then we'll close it out with Saints. We'll do ask
the bench, we'll do all of it. That's all coming up,
So we got a busy hour one and two again
coming up. On the other side, we'll have LSU football
and then Patrick right at eight thirty. Stay tuned Hours
two and three of OTB coming up next, Off the bench,