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the Live from the Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge Studio.
Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Yo, Welcome man, Tuesday Morning, oh TV one oh four
five ESPN, Baton Rouge, Jake Lynn, Jordan Kka. We are
all here with you today. What is up, gentlemen? How
we living? How we feeling?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: We are doing good man.
Speaker 4: It is uh really starting to get the hang of
this waking up early situation out of myself. I woke
up before the alarm went off today. Alarms usually at
five thirty, all right, I was like five twenty one.
Speaker 2: I've been ten minutes before mine. I'm a five forty,
all right, five forty alarm by forty alarms.
Speaker 4: Some people work a little bit harder than others.
Speaker 6: Long as I'm here at four seven.
Speaker 4: So I got a five thirty, I got a five forty,
I got a five forty five, and I got a
five fifty set I like that.
Speaker 7: I'm the same way. Yeah, I need constant just in case, justin.
Speaker 5: To have on the edge. I sept one alarm.
Speaker 6: Oh that is psycho behavior. That is behavior I have.
Speaker 2: I have the alarm to get up and then I
have a oh blank, you overslept.
Speaker 6: This is the last alarm. You better get up.
Speaker 5: The gt FU.
Speaker 2: Yeah that that that's going off probably like you know
twice in the five years I've been here, but that
thing goes off.
Speaker 6: It is code red Meatia, get out of bed and go.
Speaker 4: So this past this past weekend, I was Saturday morning,
and so you know, last Friday was my birthday, so
it was you know, I had a birthday trip, but
it was my actual birthday this past Friday.
Speaker 5: So we we got together with some people.
Speaker 4: Had a couple of uh you know, libations, libations. I
got a little loose, had a good time, a little celebration.
Woke up Saturday morn.
Speaker 2: Lest year you left here. I was like, hey, yeah,
y'all do anything. Nither like we've already partied enough.
Speaker 6: We're not going to do anything. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
I said that.
Speaker 5: But you know, sometimes the wind carries you different directions.
Speaker 4: I thought you were so I wake up Saturday morning
and like you're kind of like, oh man, it's a little.
Speaker 5: Foggy right now.
Speaker 4: I look at my clock and it's like six fifty three,
and I pop out of bed and I'm like, oh blank,
blank blank, and I start running out of bed.
Speaker 5: And Lacy has to pop up and say, man, it's Saturday, Saturday.
It was one of those terrible Yeah. I didn't really
realize it, But that's how committed I am that.
Speaker 6: I actually it's pretty committed.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of you because the old Matt would have
just been expected to get here like seven oh eight.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was like in my head for that split like
for those like three or four seconds before my wife
stopped me. It was like I was like, man, I
gotta text everybody, Man can I Can I make it
in seven minutes?
Speaker 2: Where you gonna send me the same picture that you
used to send me with hanging with hester Hey, traffic,
say get there?
Speaker 5: Really weird today pre seven am traffic?
Speaker 2: What's the last possible moment time wise you could leave
your house and still be here for the start of
the show.
Speaker 4: What a difference like an hour makes Because when I
used to come for eight, if I left my house
after like seven thirty four. Yeah, I couldn't get here,
yeah right, I mean I would show up like it
right in the parking lot at like eight eight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then when you hear us talking trash about you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Now, I mean I bet I could get here.
I bet I could leave at six forty and get
here like as the mike's turning.
Speaker 6: That's me if I six forty, Yeah, I leave a
minute later.
Speaker 4: Why don't you just like give yourself a little five
minute buffer just in case, so you know, I don't
even have to start the show by myself.
Speaker 6: Oh I do, I do? I usually, Uh so I
have to.
Speaker 2: I usually take my son Jackson to football practice as well.
Speaker 6: He didn't have to be there until seven thirty.
Speaker 2: So it's like, you know, it's like I can't drive
out too early.
Speaker 6: So every day that's the Katie's bringing him today.
Speaker 2: So I felt bad for the fellow yesterday when I
was going to drop him off and the gate wasn't
even open yet. Yeah, it's a long wait, long wait,
a long wait knowing you got like workout and in
agility and all that coming up.
Speaker 6: Jake, I was that kid.
Speaker 7: My dad would have to drop me off at at
school early, so I was definitely but granted was like
a couple of us, so I wouldn't be alone. But no,
that's it's just straight mind games at that point, especially
you know if you got to run that afternoon or
you just know it's like, oh, today's day, run conditioning
day one tens. Oh mind games. You're just chugging water,
just trying to get some water down.
Speaker 5: We'll look at you now, man, it paid off.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, working radio, So I don't know. Oh no,
I'll tell you this though. I'll tell you this though.
Speaker 7: I do miss those days of just having nothing to do,
but but practice, like just go home and do you.
Speaker 6: Have no Yeah. I mean look, summertime, you're a kid,
you don't have starts at seven thirty. He gets picked
up at ten and that's it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, whole day. Yeah, run around, play the game, do whatever,
hang with friends. Like those are the good days, man,
you know.
Speaker 2: Those were the good days. You're right, you're right. Even
in college now, we were supposed to go to class.
I'm not always saying it happened. Yeah, but you know,
but summer workout, you'd have the rest of your day
after Mafitt would just shame us into coming to the
early group.
Speaker 4: We were just so committed to unless you football, you
didn't really know what we wanted to study.
Speaker 7: You know, you didn't come to school to play school,
came here to play ball.
Speaker 6: Jake Brown kind of said the same. I mean, really,
I didn't come here to play school.
Speaker 2: We're not scholars, Uh, Jordan, how we feeling were good?
I see what the throwback Mariners had on.
Speaker 6: They've been they've been cooking a little bit.
Speaker 2: They have flints and a Mariner's fun fact right before
the show.
Speaker 4: I told you is L s U Baseball. I guess
technically over, we got some celebrating dick to remaining to do.
But like I gotta get my fixed somehow, So I
guess it's to the Major League Baseball, to the to
the Mariners.
Speaker 2: I've never heard somebody say to the Major League Baseball,
the Major League Baseball.
Speaker 6: Okay, Mariners, that's gonna be your squad. That's what you're
rolling with, Seattle.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is gonna be a huge tease. We
got some big Mariner's stats coming later in the show. Okay,
all right, people are gonna be tuning in.
Speaker 6: I know who should go with him, you or Jordan.
Speaker 2: Jordan's got the Mariner's hat on Jordan, Can you name
me your favorite Mariner right now?
Speaker 7: I mean I'm I can do Julio Rodriguez and be obvious,
but I like the pitcher Brian Wu.
Speaker 6: Okay he went last night. Yeah, good for you. I know,
watch a little ball now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean typically where the Cardinals hat? And
you got no Cardinals facts.
Speaker 6: Arena. That's about it. That's one. Yeah, got better than.
Speaker 5: Oh man, we are good.
Speaker 6: How was he had the birthday yesterday? It was great.
Speaker 8: Victoria's side of the family came over. It was uh,
it was nice. I'll tell you what, though, my family's
in a little bit of trouble.
Speaker 6: Your family's in trouble, what they say.
Speaker 8: Nobody on my side of the family text Victoria happy birthday.
When I mean dad, mom, sister, brother, no one, uncle.
My uncle's on Facebook all the time like he sees it.
The only one that did is my brother in law
texted her.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 8: She told me, she goes. She told me like three o'clock.
She's like, I still just don't tell them. I want
to see if they get it. Not one, but that's
pretty man.
Speaker 1: Not one.
Speaker 6: How do we feel that's kind.
Speaker 5: Of it's a little bit on you.
Speaker 8: I think so they knew, like we just we took
a little like trip to base.
Speaker 5: Reminder a little side text. Well, she told me not to,
she said, don't do it, but at what time, like you.
Speaker 4: Get money throw you should have thrown that out there
during the show yesterday.
Speaker 8: I mean I said it on at nine am. If
they not tuning in, that's on them. But they knew
we went to Bay Saint Louis. You know, we were
in a house on the water and everything. So like
they knew that was for her birthday. I'm like, okay,
maybe they thought her birthday was this weekend. They didn't
send one then either, so oh man, it's like it's
not like they sent it earlier. She had a little
she had a little sixteen candles. Oh my yes, it
ain't nobody.
Speaker 6: Oh bad news.
Speaker 2: I know, it's bad news, like news I've had it
where like maybe maybe like you know, one of of
Katie's siblings like kind of forgot maybe, but they're like
they're they're typically like the first people that write me,
your Katie's sisters, her brother, her mom or dad.
Speaker 6: Like it's right after like my mom is like one
of her siblings.
Speaker 5: We got to set something.
Speaker 2: If I if I went like O for that hurt,
I'm hurt for it.
Speaker 6: Right now for dude, you I mean, I'm with Matt.
That's gonna follow on you regardless.
Speaker 8: No, No, she's she's good because she told me do
not send them a reminder text and I did not.
Speaker 5: She would have been mad if I did.
Speaker 4: So do y'all uh do you have like so my
family have, like my side of the family have a
big group text and we.
Speaker 8: Have a big we have a big group text that
Victoria is in and they were texting in it all days.
Oh no, time she picks up the phone and she's
like not not, Oh, this is brutal.
Speaker 2: Because like to your point, like for Katie's family, like
you know, our family and then her whole family, we're
in one, but like then like we're in one with
like literally hurt in higher sure family and you know
a couple of us and like the birthday messages because
there's so many, so like every day it's like they're
propping off, right, there's.
Speaker 8: No way to like remember everybody's birthday, right listening, do
you just text me your sister sent me happy birthday
at eleven o five last day.
Speaker 2: Alright, alright, eleven o five counts fifty five minutes under
the clock.
Speaker 6: Well time that it counts.
Speaker 5: It really does count.
Speaker 6: It's a buzzer beater, it is a buzzer. It does count, though,
fifty five minutes.
Speaker 4: I will say, like in the group text, it depended
on like if it's a big So my side of
the family, there's a ton of ton of I got.
I'm the youngest of five, and they all have a
lot of kids, and most of them are old enough
to like be texting and having a phone.
Speaker 5: So there's a ton of people on this group thread.
Speaker 4: There's no way in hell to remember everybody in child's birthday.
Speaker 6: Not children, but somebody.
Speaker 4: Somebody pops off, somebody pops off in the group text,
and then everybody's like, oh yeah, happy birthday, blah, and
and sometimes it's their part of their like nuclear family,
Like it's like somebody's daughter that has a birthday. It's
the mom that's like, hey, happy birthday, and then it
sets off everybody. Oh yeah, yeah, so Taylor, you could
have in the group text just like hey sent a
picture with her, like with a birthday cake.
Speaker 6: You know you got her a cake.
Speaker 5: I was. I was told to say nothing.
Speaker 6: I followed he was told to say like.
Speaker 5: People in the chat are like, oh, Taylor, that's on you,
fornout cider.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you gotta protect yourself. I followed the wife rules.
I followed the wife's rules.
Speaker 5: Not to protect yourself.
Speaker 6: Oh man, the sharps living with the sharks, they are well.
Speaker 4: I think she could probably expect a lot of happy
belateds today.
Speaker 6: Hey, she got me, she got one for me.
Speaker 2: I don't know if your family listens to the show,
but there's some there's some sharps maybe listening right now
that are panicking, that has some sweaty palms right now.
Speaker 6: Tighten up, sharps. Not very sharp, if you ask me.
Speaker 8: My brother in law was the first one so like
not even my wife's husband was the only one that
text her yesterday.
Speaker 6: It was like your wife's husband.
Speaker 5: I mean, so you.
Speaker 6: Let's call it walker not Utah.
Speaker 8: I say, we're not taking a deep dive into the
marriage right now, but uh, my sister's husband.
Speaker 6: Oh lord, this is wow. This is good radio.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, we had I had an opening segment.
Speaker 6: I forgot. This is much more juice.
Speaker 4: We're gonna see we get I think throughout the show
we should probably get a check in.
Speaker 5: With you in the group chat. We'll get the update.
If they're not awake yet, maybe we hit this background hour.
Speaker 6: Should actually cold call some of your family members.
Speaker 8: I'll send the text like today, Hey, Victoria's party was
great last night? Ooh nobody, Yeah, and we'll see.
Speaker 2: I think you should just send a picture. Did y'all
did you take a picture with the cake or something?
Speaker 5: She has one? Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think you should just send it in the group.
Not even say anything, just send it.
Speaker 7: This is the definition of kicking over empire right now.
Set the ants off.
Speaker 4: Maybe they were all like, uh together hunting out in
the woods with no service.
Speaker 6: Yeah you know, yeah what hunting season? Is it right now?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 6: And then know there was one something yeah, something out there.
Speaker 2: Get some true maybe a walker, it might be it
might be something some Joey says, I texted my sister
last year. She then told my mom I hadn't spoken
to her in four months. Mom called me all mad
that I lied to her. My sister is forty one.
I mean talking on the like. I text my brothers
every day, like we have a great text just you
know us and we you know, memes and different things.
Speaker 6: But like on the phone talking to mm hmm, that's
only I don't even know. I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 5: I don't know. Yeah, yeah, talking with your mouth. No,
I don't think so.
Speaker 6: The last time you siblings on the phone.
Speaker 5: It's been a minute. Yeah, it's been a while.
Speaker 6: Jordan's siblings on the phone, every little sister.
Speaker 7: So I kind of because I recently because I needed
to bring my keys. My keys got stolen my hair,
so I kind of needed to bring my keys. Okay, yeah,
all right, I said an emergency.
Speaker 4: No, I would say if it's not a text, it's
a FaceTime okay, So there's no like just phone in
the ear. Hey, what you doing today? It's it's either
face time. Hey, here's the kids want to say hi
or whatever?
Speaker 8: Taylor, my sister and mom actually talked to Victoria way
more than me on the phone. Wise, proby talk to
my dad. I talked about dad a lot on the phone.
Siblings is not that much. Siblings is just a text?
Speaker 5: You said, Victoria talks to your your mom more than you.
Hell yeah, m hm, I mean maybe not anymore. She
did that work.
Speaker 2: Maybe your mother didn't even text are say happy birthday.
Speaker 8: From what I know now, I mean she got the
late night one from my sister. Maybe she's gotten more.
I don't know yet.
Speaker 6: She's gonna get a lot today. Got an update. Will continue,
We'll continue to update.
Speaker 5: You.
Speaker 6: Don't worry.
Speaker 4: I'll ever get the like the feeling people in the
family don't think you're responded, Like if something good happens
to one of the siblings or something, and I was like, hey, congratulations, congratulations,
and You're like, I think it'll mean more if I
just text them directly. I just text them greatly congratulations.
So you're not like it's not on the record, you're
telling congratulations. So like, hey, like, did you see that
your sister did this? Yeah, blah blah blah. You need
to text her congrats. Well I did, I did. Yeah,
let me live my life. Hmmm, good question, good questions.
Speaker 6: Fair.
Speaker 2: I think I'll probably do that too. Some of the
major Like I'm gonna yeah, if it's a major.
Speaker 4: At this point, you know your group texta gets a
bigger birthdays those aren't Those aren't major anymore.
Speaker 2: Oh, Brian Burgesses, I talked to my sister multiple times
a day. Shout out to you, Brian, good for you, Bud.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, well done. My wife talks to her her
siblings on the phone. For sure.
Speaker 7: I feel like women is different though, because my mom
will literally be on the phone all day long. My
sister on the phone all day long, like just ye happened.
So I think it's a little different.
Speaker 2: All right, Uh, we'll see how the sharps respond. We'll see,
we'll see what big three hours gonna be a big
three hours finding out how many throw that old belated birthday.
Speaker 6: And then I want to know the excuse that they
give for why they didn't say happy birthday. There's gonna
be some excuses.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what happened? Maybe I'm here's my thought. This is
just a bold hot take here. They're gonna blame Taylor.
Speaker 5: Hm, no I don't. I'll never get blame him out
for anything. Uh.
Speaker 2: We're not as much as tea bops not here anymore.
Well yeah sure, I mean for sure, no more yelling.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a good show today.
Speaker 2: All right, let's take our first break. We will get
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Speaker 1: From Players to Legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown l s
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Speaker 6: So, by the way, championship celebration for l shows.
Speaker 2: We know it's gonna be on Wednesday night, So I
think a lot of people are going to be heading
out to the box.
Speaker 5: Uh, we got like a buy a ticket situation.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so, like you need the celebrations,
Like you just go in the seat and yeah, have
like a little ceremony right there by home plate and
celebrate the Tigers.
Speaker 4: Perfect, just cheer them on. Yeah, we're gonna take the family.
They're fired up.
Speaker 6: Well you got to now you got jerseys.
Speaker 4: I know we got jerseys. I feel kind of bad though,
like we're gonna go. We didn't go to a game
this year. I feel kind of bad because we were
late bloomers. I think everybody here knows that.
Speaker 6: What look you were. But once you got in, you
were in.
Speaker 5: We're all in. You were in. Let there be a
home game right now, you there, we'd be there. We'd
be there.
Speaker 6: What game three?
Speaker 5: Mid game coming up? Way, let's go who are we playing?
Speaker 2: Let's play Luptmber, Pilots and Tigers.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's a good idea, man A minute, Like I
think we went to.
Speaker 2: It might have been like a game in the Omaha Series,
like one of those early ones, and I saw pictures.
Yet it was like hoodie season, like the beginning of
baseball season. So you just think about how long baseball
season truly is. Like our entire crew is in hoodies
and beanies and and now we're in just you know,
the middle of June.
Speaker 6: When it's hotter than hot and we still have hoodies
on because the studio and cold. Yes it is sixty
was it sixty one degrees? I think what they keep
it at it might be fifty nine.
Speaker 4: So so let me hear let me just take me
through a three sixty five overview of l s U baseball,
Like what's the next like kind of news cycle that happens.
Speaker 5: Is it transfers?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all of that, yes, and so okay, So for baseball,
like high school recruiting, like the elite guys at LSU
baseball is trying to get The thing that Jay Johnson
his staff sweat out the most is the MLB Draft
because he's got a handful of players that he has
already gotten to. You know, they're gonna be at LSU.
Everything's done, But if they get drafted and they like
that number, then I'm sure.
Speaker 5: It's not as big of like a gap anymore.
Speaker 2: But oh no, I mean you're getting players on campus
that you never would have gotten on campus before. Now
I'm not saying it's all because of NIL, but it
certainly helps.
Speaker 6: Like William Schmidt would not.
Speaker 2: Be on LSU's baseball team, Derek curry Up probably wouldn't
be on LSU's baseball team. Case and Evans might not
be on LU Like we could go on and on,
but yeah, now you can you can give them something.
Speaker 5: And also, you know, because at some point the money
might not match, but at least you're not getting nothing.
Speaker 6: Well, I've talked, and you have.
Speaker 4: The opportunity to grow, develop, and it's like it's the
greatest pre m l the right situation that's been going
to a single.
Speaker 2: So I've talked to people, not just at LSU, but
they've been in a situation where they would have been
a top sixty pick and they chose college. I'm like, hey,
well why'd you do that? And they say, you know,
in IL now you can compete a little bit. It's
not the same, it's it. But also instead of going
straight from high school, and go getting you know, on
a bus in bf E Indiana, right and traveling to
these games. I can get on a chartered flight in
the SEC and then go play baseball. Everything's first class
every day in a badass facility. Everything's taken care of. Yeah,
I got this incredible facility, got this incredible you know condo.
That's part of my scholarship. I get school paid for.
It's like, and so I have that experience. And now
you're seeing these SEC baseball players spend about a year
and a half in the minors and they're up like
the elite ones. Right, and so instead of doing that
for three and a half years, four years riding on
a bus between you know, Indiana to Ohio and like
just all these random places.
Speaker 4: So you would say college football is more collegewall. College
basket baseball is more developmental than like the standard farm system.
Speaker 6: I think it's close. It's close enough.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: Was the gap used to be different? It used to
be like college. They didn't think was because a lot
of those guys we went from high school straight to
the MLB drafts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so now you know, it's very comparable and
you look up and right now, anytime in double A,
which is where your most talent's going to be, and
it's just littered with people that you saw play in
the SEC last year.
Speaker 6: It's not just the SEC, but certainly it's a bulk
of it. So yeah, and so that's what you know.
Speaker 2: Jay, Still though you got sweat some people out, like
you still lost some last year, you'll lose them this year.
But now you can be more competitive. You can get
guys on campus that you never would have before. So
they're going through that, they're going through the transfer portal.
You know, Jay has done a really nice job of
identifying players in the portal. Big school, small school does
not matter, right. I mean, yeah, sure they're highly rated
in the portal, but he bets on Daniel Digginson being
able to go from Utah Valley to LSU, Luis Hernandez
going from Indiana State to LSU. You still get your
Chris Stanfield who's at Auburn to come to LSU. So
like it's a mixture of all that. So like, right now,
I can promise you Jay is on the phone recruiting
his butt off right now, even though they've got a
championship celebration coming up tomorrow, Taylor.
Speaker 5: You brought this up at the break.
Speaker 4: Do we have kind of the list of guys we
are losing to graduation that are going to be a
little bit on the edge that, like you said, will
be on the edge of our seat during the draft.
Speaker 2: Well, our colleague Hunt Palmer put out a great article
on Louisiana Sports dot Net. Shout out to Hunt and
he's got it broken down players that are out of eligibility,
likely draft departures, decisions to make So the list right
now out of eligibility Josh Pearson, Michael Braswell, Luis Hernandez
Dalton Beck all right, likely draft departures, Bear Jones, Daniel Dickinson.
On the position player side, pitchers, Kate Anderson, Anthony Hyson,
Chase Shores, Jacob Myers.
Speaker 6: Now, some people that.
Speaker 2: Saw, you know Chase Shore's throw, they know he's a
rich shirt sophomore. He would still have leverage if he
came back next year, but he's he's not a starter
at the next level, right he would probably be a
starter in LSU uniform released the opportunity to try to
go earn a spot again. I mean that's where he
started this season. But for Chase shores and I get it.
On the biggest stage. You just came into the game
pumping one hundred one oh one thing, an eighty eight
mile per hour slider that had some bite to it it. Yeah,
so that's kind of one of those strike while the
iron's hot situations.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not I'd be surprised at this point if
he came back. I don't know what baseball scouts look for,
but watching that dude come in, they had.
Speaker 5: To be drooling on themselves. I mean, I think he
had at one point four pitches that were triple digits
in a row, and the movement that he had. I was.
Speaker 4: I was blown away just watching him come in, just
like the change of pace that it brought to after
after I started.
Speaker 2: He'll be he'll be in a big league bullpen. I
think Jay said this to eighteen months.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I had to cut audio. He definitely said that, Yes, yes, yes,
he definitely said that is.
Speaker 2: The man that's worked with a lot of uh hump
pull Meryan shows and oh holy audio.
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously you can't hide the talent from anybody.
But before the College World Series, was he kind of
like a shooting.
Speaker 5: To come back?
Speaker 6: I mean I don't really think it, like it's a
couple of ends make that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh for sure.
Speaker 8: That I think Kate Anderson made himself the first pick.
Now that's a culmination of the whole season. But throwing
a complete game shutout in the finals, it doesn't hurt.
Speaker 5: Sure, But like.
Speaker 4: I think before that performance top five, top five to one,
not as big of a jump to state at LSU
to getting drafted high enough for the.
Speaker 5: Money to make it worth it.
Speaker 2: No, I mean we have seen, like there's been plenty
of examples over the years where guys in regional, super regionals,
World Series situation that they've been draftable guys like they're
going to be like a midro and then they just
shoved or hit three bombs whatever it might be, and
they end up being you know, top five rounds. Yeah,
without question. So I think Jay Shores falls into that category.
And again that's you know, likely draft departures again, Bart Jones,
Daniel Diggings and Kate Anderson, Anthony IINs and Chase Shor's
Jacob Myers fall into that category. We'll take a break
in when we come back, we'll give you the list again.
Hunt Palmer, Losingsports Dot net of guys that have a
decision to make and we'll do it right.
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Speaker 6: Welcome back an OTV one O four five ESPN mat rous.
Speaker 2: You're on this Tuesday morning taking a look at potentially
what the twenty twenty six LSU baseball team could look like.
And again Hump Palmer did a fantastic job on louisianasports
dot Net putting it together. We left you off with
guys who are likely to depart for the MLB Draft.
Now guys that have to think about it a little bit.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Position players Ethan Fry, Chris Stanfield and Tanner Reeves. Pitchers
Connor ware Zach Cowan, Jayden Newt, Gavin Gidgery and Grant
Fontina all right, So for me, and it's all about
leverage Matt in the MLB draft, Okay, Like it's not
the NFL draft where you can come back for your
senior year still be the number one overall pick. It's
like you gotta go when you're a junior or you're
a draft eligible sophomore.
Speaker 6: You you know you want to have all the leverage
that you can.
Speaker 2: You want to be able to threaten with the MLB
team that you can come back for your senior year if.
Speaker 5: You got no eligibility, you got no negotiation.
Speaker 2: With power exactly, and you're gonna get a bag of
some flower seeds and a bus ticket to go to
Nobody would, at least I shouldn't think that anybody would, uh,
of that group, I mean and Hunt Rights, I mean
Ethan Fry was so clutched this year hit three point
thirty one thirteen homers.
Speaker 6: Both of those were second on the team.
Speaker 2: He's in a situation where you know your your value,
your stock's probably at an all time high right now.
Of those three players, he's probably the most likely to
go to the draft. For me, I don't know if
anybody else would disagree with that.
Speaker 5: No, Guidry's coming back. For sure, Gidrey has a change.
Speaker 2: Anything about I'm more just talking about the position players.
But yeah, Gudry's got to come back. Yeah, he's got
to put some more stuff on tape. The guy could
be look new could be a Sunday yep starter too
for the entire season, Like it'd be him on Sunday.
Like we often forget, like Jade Newt was highly rated
at a high school. I mean, one of the top
pitchers in the country and now he's been slow to
develop to maybe that standard, but he's still like last
year was his best year and they counted on him.
If Zach Cowen comes back, he's in a spot to
be in the weekend rotation potentially, right.
Speaker 8: Zach Cowen's a guy I thinks should come back for
that reason. Like when he was brought in, everybody kind
of thought he was going to be a starter.
Speaker 5: I did. I was like, oh, you're bringing in this guy.
Speaker 8: He was really good at Watford, Like you saw him start,
He's going to be a starting pitcher and what but.
Speaker 2: He his leverage, he would but he could increase his
value if he went into the SEC and started.
Speaker 6: On the weekends and you know, pitch well.
Speaker 5: Right, oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 6: Have to stitchhead. Are those teams coming loose?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was dobing in.
Speaker 4: Let me let me tell you something like, all right,
I'm gonna have to lean on y'all when we're talking
about specifics of coming or going, staying, leaving, whatever it is.
I enjoyed breaking down the games. Oh yeah, we might have,
we might have we might have topped out. Yeah, I'll
pushed this engine as far as you can go. Change noel,
change a little bit.
Speaker 2: Oh uh, look, if you get a couple of those
arms back, for sure, like if you can find a
way like I think, I think Connor Ware is somebody
that is going to be much better next year than
he was this year because there was flashes this year.
Speaker 5: Cooper william News a freshman the l like he's gonna
be big next year.
Speaker 2: Jay Newton and Gavin Gidrey both have a rich shirt
year that they can kind of play with. So it
gives them a little bit of that leverage that we're
talking about back. So I guess, Zach Collen, this one's
really got a decision to make. Do I go now
or do I try to be an sec starter and
knowing that I have what I did out of a
bullpen on tape as well, Like Zach Cowen feels like
a big one. Feels like a big one if you
can get him back, Like if you could find a
way to get Ethan Frye, Chris Stanfield and Zach Cowen back.
Speaker 6: Cookn't with gas there.
Speaker 5: Don't forget.
Speaker 8: I mean he'll come back because he was injured all year.
But I mean Devin Sheeran was a guy that Jay
loved couldn't play this year because of injury.
Speaker 5: He's only a sophomore. Like, that's a guy that'll be
big for you next year.
Speaker 2: Of the guys who are projected to be back, of course,
you know because of their age, and they're not going
to go anwhere because you're playing at LSU. Why would
you go anywhere? You got a great core coming back.
Derek Curiel, Jake Brown, Steven Mylom there.
Speaker 6: That's gonna be your core.
Speaker 2: Three guys offensively, and then like pitchers you mentioned Cooper Williams,
Cason Evans, Maverick, Rizzy William Schmidt, somebody that I know
as a true freshman. Maybe some people were expecting too much,
like think about like think what Kate Anderson didn't pitch
a whole lot his freshman year. At the end towards
the postseason, he came in gave some great performances. But
this is like projecting what he's going to be and
don't base it off what he did this year. And
there's some good in there. For William Schmidt, for sure,
he's got to be able to find the zone a
little bit more. But that is somebody that when we
talk about highly rated, as highly rated as anybody.
Speaker 6: I'm very excited to see what he can do as
a sophomore.
Speaker 2: So of the arms you know you have coming back,
you look loaded, you look you look pretty good right now,
better than you did last year at this point.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, think about how many transfers you had
to bring in a year ago. Now you have a foundation,
go to the portal and kind of grab what you
need right a closer, a middle reliever, but yeah, the
core is there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I guess you could say that's what
happens when you like you don't have to worry about
always happened to replenish and all that.
Speaker 6: Like you just have guys. Guys want to be here,
Guys want to play for LSU, So it's also a plus.
Speaker 2: Now, some of these guys that are projected back, you
might lose some of them in the transfer portal. Maybe
some of the guys that want a little bit more
playing time, like Ash and Larson's gonna be kind of
intriguing to me because you counted on him so much
last year. I mean by the end of like he
was one of your most consistent hitters. Now there was
times he came in this year and came up big.
He had a couple of clutch home runs, like didn't
play in the World Series, right, and he it's a
player that is very talented. He's not like from Louisiana,
so you don't have like that time. Maybe holding him
like Ethan Fry is gonna hold on a little bit
longer when he wasn't playing because he's from Louisiana.
Speaker 6: He always dreamed of playing for LSU.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: Larson's from Kansas so well Highland Park, which is Kansas
Missouri line right there.
Speaker 6: But again not from Louisiana. So that's gonna be an
interesting one.
Speaker 2: But you'll lose some But the core guys you have
coming back LSU Baseball with Jay Johnson, what he does
in the portal.
Speaker 6: You know, if he can get.
Speaker 2: Through the MLB Draft as well and hit some of
these that he hit a year ago, the roster I
think right now looks better than it did a year ago.
Speaker 4: At this time, do they have different The portal windows
been open, right, yeah, And which is ridiculous, right because
the seasons this season had been over, So how long
does the portal win to say open? When does it closed?
One of those signings happened.
Speaker 8: Disposed a while, like they got to commit during either
regional or Super regional like that.
Speaker 5: It did it committed like.
Speaker 8: They you know, they can't sign you because it's still
during the middle of the season, but disposed a while.
Speaker 5: It's a little weird. It's not like all off season.
Speaker 2: Again, this is a situation where last year, right, everybody
was jumping on players in the portal. LSU had a plan.
They had a plan to go get certain guys from
certain places. Some of them are highly rated out of
the portal, but some were not, and they paid all
for LSU.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: This is in one of those situations in Jay Johnson,
we trust and you got to trust that he is
going to get it done in the portal. But he's
not going to have to do as much work in
the portal this year as he did a year ago.
And again, some of these players that we're talking about,
we're assuming that they're going to go to the MLB Draft,
they're not going to come back because of leverage situations.
But we've been shot before. None of us had Barr
Jones on this team at this time last year. We
all thought he was gone.
Speaker 8: Yeah, speaking of surprises, like we're talking about guys we
think are going to leave the comeback.
Speaker 5: What about a guy that you expect to come back
but maybe not? What about Jake Brown?
Speaker 8: And like I don't want to speculate here or anything,
but like, okay, he didn't play a lot when you
had a left handed pitcher, right.
Speaker 5: Does Jay work with him in the offseason.
Speaker 2: Or they will give j Brown whatever number they should
they have to get, No, they will. I've heard Jay
on and off the record talk about Jake Brown. Whatever
the number to get him to stay here would be,
Jay would find a way.
Speaker 6: He loves Jake Brown.
Speaker 5: I mean, I love Jake Brown.
Speaker 8: I know we had talked about it about like I
wanted him in the everyday lineup, but I mean I
was just looking at it, like, what if he brings
in another guy, it hits left these Jake Brown's looking
at it like, do I want to you want to
stick around and keep whatever they're giving me?
Speaker 5: Or do I want to be an everyday player? I
mean maybybe that'll be.
Speaker 2: He'll be out there, right, He'll be in every He'll
be an everyday player next year. I don't think there's
any uh, you know, two ways about that. I think
he'll be an everyday player. He's so important to what
your future looks like next year. Again, what like, even
if it was a situation, Jay would make the situation right.
So all right, let's take a break more OTB close
out our number one. When we come back here on
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Speaker 2: Welcome back in OTB one O four five ESPN Baton
Rouge as we get set to celebrate tomorrow night inside
the Box, big celebration gonna be taking place. Sure a
lot of you went in twenty twenty three. You know
how LSU works. They're gonna probably already have the new
banner ready to go.
Speaker 6: Be shocked.
Speaker 2: If they don't, they've already put it around the locker room.
I don't know if y'all saw that yesterday. They've already
got the twenty twenty five added inside the facility, the
national championship list.
Speaker 5: Did we get any feedback from yesterday requesting a little piece.
Speaker 6: Of the current intimidator?
Speaker 5: I want tiger, I.
Speaker 6: Make some costs. I make some costs. You said, yeah,
you want the tooth, the tooth or the man.
Speaker 2: This has to just feel so good for Jay Johnson.
Now they're like the first one. It's a different feeling,
Like it's an incredible feeling, but to really like just
solidify yourself, like the program has already been solidified.
Speaker 6: We know it's a standard, we get it.
Speaker 2: But for Jay, like to go to Omaha with another school, right,
and you get so close, you get to a championship series,
but you can't win the national championship and you still
get back to Omaha and you've been very successful and
you bet on yourself. There's a lot of people that
would run away from the LSU job. Like you can
think that everybody would take it. Not everybody's made for
this job. There's just not There's too many expectations, right,
there's a lot of people that if it's not a
national championship, they're disappointed.
Speaker 6: Now you have all the resources. I'm not gonna act
like you don't.
Speaker 2: You have the best environment in college baseball, you have
the best fans in college baseball. I get all of that.
There's positives, but it's also can you handle the things
that come with the job. Even with all the positives.
A lot of people cannot. Jay ran straight towards it
right coming as an outsider from the West Coast and
hadn't really been in the South at all, and he
comes here and in four years he has two national championships.
He is the best coach in college baseball. That Look,
you can take your Tony v argument and you can
go fly a kite. Okay, he's not. Jay Johnson beat
the team that everybody told us was the most complete
team a thousand times throughout the year. He was four
and one against Arkansas this year. Okay, Jay Johnson is
that dude. He wanted all the smoke and now he's
got two national championships.
Speaker 4: And it is like that for almost every LSU sport.
It's a job that not everybody can handle, not everybody once.
Because of that, you have to have to make it.
And that's a testament to LSU baseball in general, just
the history of it, because before he took the job,
they hadn't won the World Series and over decade, right,
and so to have that sort of expectation on it
coming in with without a championship and over a decade,
which is not that long for most.
Speaker 5: Programs, but we ain't most programs.
Speaker 4: I was about to say, you're coming there, but he
it's I've been so impressed with him, incredibly impressed where
I've kind of dove into this thing.
Speaker 5: And just the mental makeup. And they talked about it yesterday.
Speaker 4: He didn't have many hobbities, hobbies, his uh any, his
golf handicaps pretty high.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, look, he said it before. He's like,
baseball is my children. That's that that he is all
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I've said it for two years, continue to say it.
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