Speaker 1: Yea, what's good everybody. Hope you had an excellent weekend. Guys,
it is Monday, March twenty four five. It is time
to start another week, once more into the fray and
to the last good fight I'll ever know. To live
and die on this show, To live and die on
this show. Team up, Jakeolandra and Tata hanging out. You're
so happy to be here in studio on this fine Monday.
Jake just informed us it is now just raining everywhere,
so'd be safe from the roads and whatnot this morning.
Big weekend ton to get to. LSU women dominating their
tournament game Saturday night, got a chance to go to
the Sweet sixteen. Coming up tonight. LSU baseball in a
series that could only be described as a tale of
two halves. What was a very promise in beginning ends
in bitter disappointments. Softball goes on the road, however, and
they do not do they get it done that They
don't quite come up with the Sweet but winning a
big road series, it's the Bulldogs of Athens. Gymnastics dominates
over the weekend, wins the SEC Championship, a second dub
over Oklahoma this season. You're probably gonna need a third.
But what a weekend for this defending champion gymnastics squad.
You got some Saints free agent signings, LSU a key
edition showed up for some LSU spring football and so,
as you can see, we got a lot to get
to on today's show. Oh and March Madness going on
right everybody's brackets and everything. God, I was really sick
of people talking to me about their brackets by this weekend.
But that's fine. I'm excited to do some more of
it today. Don't know where to go with the conversation ever. Okay, cool,
that's what you got.
Speaker 2: I had a boy.
Speaker 1: Clemson, you know. Uh yeah, So we're gonna get into
March Madness as well. Also because I don't want you
to all think that I just come in here and
celebrate my wins. It's been all weekend. Aboucage at a
tennis tournament and mixed doubles Me and Ken got absolutely
smoked two and barbecue shout out to Brooke and Charlie
six one six oh dominated us and then we dropped
down a loser's brag everything and maybe we have a chance,
And Erica and JD put that.
Speaker 2: To bed all the names that you just said. I'm
not surprised you got beaten tennis by him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, true, true, true. It was a very fun weekend though,
very very very good time, very fun weekend. But uh,
no dubts, no doubts for their boy.
Speaker 2: Sorry for to see all right back on the saddle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, Hey, look, you don't get better by playing
people that you're better then, so I always tell Caitlin, like,
you have to play people that are better than you
and lose to get better. Yep, somebody, there's a thing.
There's like an old Chinese proverb that's like when you
lose to somebody, thank them because they just educated you
for free. So thank you to Brooke, Charlie, j D
and Erica. Another second match was like the first time
where I've actually got a little mad, and I didn't
show it. I didn't like, you know, yell at anybody
or anything. I was very kind, but like I know,
at the end, yeah, I was like very kind the
entire time everything, and then but then like I told
my wife to get the f away from me and
went and sat down alone for five minutes, and just
like I had to like digest it and get my
head straight. My pride was really hurt going to and queue.
Speaker 2: Yea, but what are you gonna do? All right? Man,
are you gonna get back on that horse? You're gonna do?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: For sure?
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, rub it up, Rush up, rush up?
Speaker 3: Uh J.
Speaker 1: How's your weekend? Due?
Speaker 2: It was great. We we spent it all weekend at
the baseball field overall between Hudson and Memphis.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: It's six and two weekend, so a lot of good
a lot of good baseball. Weather was fantastic. I really
enjoyed being out there and I didn't have to hear
about anybody's bracket because they were baseball and not basketball.
Speaker 1: Oh shocking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like utopia of weekends to stay away
from that conversation and again see some good baseball.
Speaker 1: So I would have thought that a little league tournament
would be like ground zero, infested with bracket talk.
Speaker 2: On this more more like l s U. Texas. Yeah yeah, yeah,
first probably than that again.
Speaker 1: Geez It's it's almost like that escalated quickly, like it
was all so good, you felt so dominant, and then
everything fell apart. Alane, I saw you online flirting with
blaming yourself, internally debating over over your your your takes
and whatnot. Where did we land at the end of
this weekend?
Speaker 4: So I was like doing the mush thing, like how
you're always the mush. But I actually still stand by
like everything that I said. I just don't think that
LSU went out there and executed the way that they
usually do. And I also think that there was some
mismanagement of the bullpen.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well we'll get into all of that. We
started to break down the games. Tayte, how are you doing?
How was your weekend? Guys?
Speaker 3: I got in the first grass cut of the season
yesterday right before so look we are we are back Okay.
I knew that the rain was coming. I was like,
I got to get this in. Didn't start till six
thirty last night, wasn't done until almost dark, but I
got the front end back done. We are feeling good.
Speaker 1: Uh well, and I'll visit that in a minute, but
we should mention that on Friday, the LA B Awards happened,
and congratulates yous to all of our co workers who
took home awards, but the biggest of congrats to our girl,
Alandra Vireal, who was named Young Professional of the Year,
an actual young person that is young.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Yeah, I'm glad you passed the bautonomy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Literally again for those that remember, I won this
at thirty five years old last year.
Speaker 2: A buzzer beaters, Yeah, it does not really.
Speaker 1: Whatever the point is, though, there is nobody else in
the world that I'd rather pass it down to. Congratulations.
Speaker 2: Thank you, speak speech, speech speech.
Speaker 5: Thank you to everybody.
Speaker 2: I just won't thank God.
Speaker 5: I just want to thank God my parents.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I know it's very I'm very grateful for it.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 4: Like I know, like awards are kind of one of
those things where some people are like, oh, they don't
really mean anything, but like I just feel like sometimes
I like work and work and work and work, and
like it can sometimes feel like it goes unnoticed. So
getting the award is really validating. And then what really
made me extra validated was seeing everybody talk about how
deserving it is.
Speaker 5: So very, very appreciative.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, t Bob, Jake Taylor, because y'all
are the best. Give me a good platform our own Landra.
Speaker 1: Thank you Verea. It's awesome. Did you see Murphy, Sam
and Jodi?
Speaker 5: I did, and you interacted. I did not.
Speaker 1: It was like I was.
Speaker 4: Murphy came up to our table and said something to
Matt and I just was like last year, I straight.
Speaker 2: Up was like hmm said something to Mask.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you think there's I remember last year.
Speaker 5: I have some thoughts.
Speaker 1: I said something. Yeah, I said something like, uh, you know, hey,
what's up man? So we're always talking crab, you know,
just around whatever. And and in classic lion do not
concern themselves with the opinion of Sheep is like who
are you? He did not know. He just had no
idea to even talk about him. You have a show too, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Are you out? And jodea national bud. It's like one
of the guys is like and regional ass.
Speaker 3: I'm just waiting for team introduce himself and he's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be like, I'm gonna I'm gonna be in trouble.
Speaker 3: Oh, Murpher, Sam's gonna be like off the bench?
Speaker 1: Is that like a podcast. It's like somebody is trying
to recruit me to join whatever country club this week
or athletic club or whatever. And he's like, pitch me
into like once I'm talking and he's like, so, what
do you do for work? I was like, huh, that's interous.
That's normally, that's normally not how this conversation goes. Why
do you want me so badly here? I only assumed
it was because of the the the radio show. What
have we been talking about for the past fifteen minutes?
I kind of enjoy that though. Shout out to shout
out to A long shout out to all the other winners.
So who beat who beat Whiskey and Wine for digital
show this year? Do you know?
Speaker 5: I don't remember. Yeah, I don't remember too much. I
was trying to make I was still she was wasted.
Speaker 1: Is what she's saying. She had I got hammered, no idea.
Speaker 4: What anybody else. So I was just trying to get
through it.
Speaker 1: You feel better to yeah, I feel much better.
Speaker 3: She didn't even word is she didn't even go get
the award. Somebody else had to go get it for
she was plastered.
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could start the show when we get back, I think, though,
obviously we have to start with baseball. But again, we
will hit on everything. It was a really big weekend.
Huge shout out to women's basketball team, Huge shout out
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into this LSU baseball game. And it's so disappointing to
be where we are here because for you, if we
have a seventy two hour weekend, for thirty six hours
of it, it looked like we were going to be
coming here with the big swinging bat be talking crap,
Oh what happened Texas? Here LSU goes on the road.
Friday night, they dominate eight to two. Kate Anderson awesome,
Back's awesome, just really stellar throughout, and then Saturday is
a super exciting affair, heavyweight back and forth battle in
which every time I'm one team scores, the other would answer.
And then the sixth LSU goes down one, only for
Derek Curiele to come up with a huge two run
homer take a seven to six lead, and then nothing
went right after that. I mean, you get up to
that point it was dominant, it was great, it was exciting,
and after that it was just awful. In fact, you'd
scored fifteen runs and fifteen innings up to that point.
You scored two runs over the final twelve innings. Batswick
completely quiet, pitching started getting touched up consistently, and you
could feel the momentum like a title wave starting to
consume LSU. And it started Saturday night. And maybe the
disappointing part is that it felt as if it carried
over into Sunday. Now, I mean we should also goop
Chase Shores. I think opponents are batting like two to
eighty six against him coming into the Sunday, So you
could be like, is it them being you know, hangover
from these Saturday loss or is it just chores maybe
not being good enough against SEC pitching SEC hitting. Well,
you know, we'll a'll have more answers time goes on.
But yeah, just it's it's it's one of the unique
parts about baseball that it could have felt so much
one way halfway through this thing, and you emerge on
the other side, not just feeling differently, but feeling the
complete polar opposite.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're look if we're going to bowl it
down to maybe one thing you have to get fixed,
because it's not just one thing. And this is still
a really good baseball team. But if they want to
get to where they want to get to, which is
College World Series, they've got to fix their bullpen issues.
They just they have to. And we could go back,
we could go through the you know, six seven, eight
hole hitters and needing to provide something. Right, you got
production actually from the bottom your nine hole hitter on
a Saturday's game, but you're throwing eight pitchers. Texas is
throwing three, right like you're trying to find whatever it
can be and solve the puzzle and turn the Rubik's
cube another time to try to figure out what your
perfect combination is. But you don't know. You don't know
right now, and you're throwing everybody out there, be it
a freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, it doesn't matter. You're trying
to figure out what your best combination is because you've
really got two bullpen arms that you feel confident with.
I hope, like maybe one day Gavin Gidgery will come back,
Like we just you know, continue to hear next week
and next week yeah, next week, those like Chris Hilton
all over again. In football.
Speaker 1: I've seen these stories all over the place. I feel
like too, if you read between the lines of somehow
Jay talks about it where it's a little bit like
your guess is as good as mine sort of feeling that, like,
I think there's probably some frustration between the parties and
what's going on, not unlike yeah, I think Chris Hilton situation,
like you said, so, yeah, I don't like what's going
on there either. But even then, I mean, we don't
know for sure if Gavin's gonna be like that guy.
We've seen him do it in stretches, but you're.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right about that in baseball, yeah, and I
mean talking about the ultimate game of failure and having
to get those reps and having to be in the flow.
But it couldn't hurt right now because you need help
there and you need it immediately and out you know,
Evans obviously is going out there, and maybe that's something
you take a look at to start a game. And
he's going out there and fighting his you know what off,
and he gives you confidence when you send him out there.
But like the game like Saturday Night, when you're trying
to find a way to stop the momentum because your
offense is clawing back and they go down, then they
claw back, and well eventually he ran out, and that's
because your arms couldn't stop the bleeding.
Speaker 1: And maybe the most concerning part to me, and let's
be clear, we're break we're bringing in the games, obviously,
and when you lose a series, it's impossibly for it
it possible never to be negatively tinged in the discussion.
But I'm not like overly concerned about the team at large.
This is somebody said baseball's like getting JV Senior. I
thing is said, baseball's by getting hot at the right time,
perfect series. I'm out, like you know, that might be
a little bit, that might be a little bit like
sunshine spin zone. But I do kind of agree with
what he's getting out there, which is there's very good
lessons to be learned here. You got one, you could
have gotten two. It was on the road in a
very tough environment, Like you don't you don't want to
let this get you two down. But one of the
things I am conservat, Jake, you mentioned the bullpen, but
it's also the fact that like Texas was not a
particularly impressive offensive team statistically coming into this matchup. We
broke that down last week, and so you're going to
face teams that have been hitting much more consistent than
what these Longhorns did. And so that's maybe the biggest
red flag to me, is a combination of the bullpen's
struggles with the fact that Texas may not be one
of the better hitting teams in the SEC. Maybe they'll
end up that way, maybe they'll know for sure, but
that you know that that's caused for concern.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you have you know, Zach Cowan's been great,
mentioned Case and Evans, and I think you have to
find at least two more people that you feel confident
in because and I'm with you. I mean, it's not like,
oh my gosh, panic. You went on the road against
the number five team in one poll in the nation, right,
and you took a game and then you had another
chance to win the second one there. But like, if
I had to point to one thing, and I think
that Alanda and Taylor yeall would agree, like, you have
to find more arms. When Els She's at its best
when they won the national championship, Think how many arms
out of the bullpen that you had faith in, right
or bad body God, you knew every time he was
going out there, he was going to shove and he
was going to stop whatever momentum the other team had.
Speaker 1: Well and I hate oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, two actually bad bodyguards.
Speaker 1: On that squad. I hate to resurface this conversation again,
but I mean, it's hard to think back on those
times with all the pen performances with guys who I
would say are less talented than the guys that you
have right now. And you remember that, Oh, you had
Wes Johnson who took a twin staff that was bottom
of the division and made them the best staff in
the division. Right, you had a next level pitching coach.
I've always said this with Yeski, it might not be
you know, on him as much as it is who
he's following and the kind of expectations that he had set.
So look and so yes he's gonna have his chance
to h to to to prove us wrong and and
to get this group doing. But it's it's a lot
of talent. You can tell by how hardly they're everything else,
but for whatever reason, is not achieving the consistency that
you would want right now, Alandra, as our resident biggest
baseball fan, how are we emerging? I give us your
thoughts on the weekend. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Again, I still think that this is a really good
LSU baseball team, and I still think Texas is obviously good,
right of course, But I just again don't think that
LSU executed the way that they have been the past
couple of weekends.
Speaker 5: And I think that like there really was, it was
the pen. Like so I believe that.
Speaker 4: If you're gonna keep Kate Anderson on Friday at Friday night,
right and then you're gonna start Anthony Anson Saturday, I
think that if Kate is gonna continue to give you
six innings, you can get nine outs with your bullpen
without Zach Cowen, and you can save him for Saturday
or Sunday if you have to. I think that because
like Connor Binge isn't bad, Like he struggled a little
bit on Saturday, but he's gone out there and given
you like at least one good inning. And I think
that like with him, and then you have case Evans too,
if you want to keep him like in the back
end of the bullpen as a reliever, I think that
you can win with that on Friday nights. Save Zach
for somebody like Aansen that's not giving you the innings
that Kate Anderson is. I mean he did before, but
like the last two outings that he had, he pitched
three innings like no, I mean, we're innings on Saturday,
and then three versus Missouri. So like there's just something that,
like you, if you rework it a little bit, I
don't think that it's as bad as people think that
it is.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure these are options that Johnson's exploring, but
in the same token, play a bit of Devil's Advocate,
you know. Securing that Friday night wind just felt so massive.
Yeah at the time, I mean, remember I think I literally,
like I said, please please tell us to you on Friday,
please do this, like get that Friday night win, put
Texas on the back heel, and make them find a
way to win too. Unfortunately they did. But yeah, I mean,
maybe Johnson starts to if he has a bigger lead
on Friday Night like you had. Yeah, maybe in the
future he starts to manipulate it a bit like that.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I feel like Jay is a little too smart
for his own good, and it turns into one of
those like paralysis by analysis kind of things, and you
kind of try to be like and I love Jay
Johnson and I really do think that he is a
baseball genius. But again, sometimes it could be like you
kind of overthink it a little bit and.
Speaker 5: It doesn't work out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I mean, look, baseball is a game
of making really vague decisions. Yeah that are part analytic,
part maybe your gut how you know this guy's personality
is like like and and we've seen like Jay Johnson
is going to forget more baseball than I'll ever know. Yeah,
it doesn't mean that every decision is going to be
the one right one. I will ride with him with
every decision everybody will obviously, but.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean he obviously knows better than I do.
Speaker 1: Baseball management is incredibly u vague to me, like like
Byzantine and trying to decide where to somewhere to push,
where to kind of apply pressure, and maybe I, like,
I would love to know what he thinks he could
have done better on the other side of this week
and now he feels about how it, uh, how it went, Tylan,
what about you?
Speaker 3: So defensively yesterday it was. It was everywhere. I mean
Jake Brown made multiple errors in the field. It was
it was all over play. Then you kind of had
to move things around where you put Jared Jones at third,
Jake Brown at first, just to keep them in the
lineup when you needed the pinch hitter. So you you
kind of mixed the match a little bit. My issue,
I guess kind of going back to the uh maybe
the the bullpen mismanagement multiple times of this year before
sec play. The guy you went to in close situations
when the game was on the line was Case and
Evans Saturday. Late in the game it started falling apart
for you, but you still had a chance to win
that game. You don't go to him the first time
Case and Evans stepped foot on the mountain this weekend.
You were down four runs with four innings to go yesterday.
That is your number one arm coming out of the bullpen.
It has been all weekend long, and you didn't use
him until essentially the series was already out of reach.
I mean, you went to guys that are good but
have been a little bit more shaky. I would have
loved to have seen Case and Evans on Saturday because
I get it. You were like, Okay, well, who do
we have for Sunday? It doesn't matter if you win
the Saturday game. Sunday essentially doesn't matter if you win it.
It's just a land yap. At that point, you've already
won the series. I don't like the fact that you're
down four runs with four innings to go. That's the
first time we see Case and Evans all weekend. That
can't happen.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen that. I mean that that is
a classic college baseball weekend rhythm where you're playing that
push pull of do I don't? I you know, is
it going to be better on Sunday? I mean, I
think the felt was probably that it would be better
on Sunday than Evans would.
Speaker 3: We left Shores in way too long. I mean like
two innings too long. You left Chase Shores in way
too long. He did not have it kind of the
ends that he got out of. Honestly, it was just
like double plays in the infield, like you did not
have it yesterday.
Speaker 1: I almost kind of felt like that was Johnson just,
you know, maybe even with the experience of a long
time coach being like, look, this is a process. We
go a long season. I'm gonna let this kid get
bit up a little bit. You know, he's in the
deep end. He's struggling little bit. Let's let's let's see
what happens when he starts to eat some of these punches.
I could be wrong, but that was the feeling that
I got.
Speaker 2: Well, you also had to use eight arms the day before. Yeah, right,
so we're not saying some of those guys couldn't come back.
They technically could, but when you have to use so many. Now,
I know you only had to use two on Friday
night's game, but when you use eight arms, it's like,
all right, well, no, we have Evans, but like maybe
you're hoping, can the offense do anything? And then if we,
you know, get close, Evans can kind of come in here.
It either close the door or at least continue to
keep us close.
Speaker 1: But how about Atlantis?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, to Taylor's point though, like he has said
the same thing about Zach Cowen, Like when we put
Zach Cowen in the game, we win games. You when
you put Zach Cowen in the game, you were up
six to two, so like I feel like you could
have saved him Saturday. You were it was a close
game the entire time, Like you said, Saturday, it was
like a classic heavyweight battle.
Speaker 5: Where you're going like punch for punch and.
Speaker 4: That's when you needed somebody where you feel like, okay,
when we put him in, we win the game. So like, yes,
hindsight's twenty twenty, but like if you're asking me my opinion.
Speaker 5: That's what it is.
Speaker 4: Like, I just I feel like you could get nine outs,
which would have been what you needed that night with
the pin, not including Cowen, and you could have saved
it for Saturday when you needed it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and I mean just to play Devil's advocate.
The devil's advocate side of that is, well, the same
thing could happens Saturday, happens Friday.
Speaker 5: But you're already like, uh, I mean the guys.
Speaker 1: College baseball six to two, it's like I get it.
I mean, I know it's not one. I know it's
not seven six, but like I can still you know
that can gets so hairy and sketchy so fast. But
but again, I'm just I'm just you know, I think
I think in a round table conversation like this, I
think there's value in pointing out, uh, why you kind
of feel like decisions were made, why they weren't and
because like in that just in the conversation that it
highlights how complicated, uh, the these positions are.
Speaker 3: The pigeon's gonna figure itself out right, like you could say, oh, mismanagement, whatever,
They're gonna get that corrected. The bigger issue yesterday was
you could do nothing offensively. Ruger Riojas, the guy who
pitched first as he start of his career. And then
they bring in Dylan Valantis, a guy you had already
seen just the day prior. He's coming out on short
rest and he was probably even better against you yesterday
than he was on Saturday.
Speaker 2: And I got you.
Speaker 1: I'm mad about the row hosting, but on the Valantes front.
Speaker 3: You're just kind of like freshest dog, a freshman you
would just see the day before it still couldn't get
anything going. And then River Riojas first sec start of
his career. You couldn't get anything going against either those guy.
Speaker 1: I mean it did. I mean again, fifteen runs through
fifteen innings when the Curiel home run is hit, and
then two over the final twelve.
Speaker 5: Which shout out Derek Curiell Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he continues to just be so impressive as a freshman.
It's ridiculous yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but here's the deal. It hurts absolutely because
you know the missed opportunity that you had, right you
had a lead to take the series with nine outs,
and you blew it and you end up losing the series,
or they take it and blew it might be a
bit aggress but either way, you're four and two in
the SEC through two weeks. You're hitting the rhythm you
need to hit. It was on the road, like and
what did we say to start the show? You know,
when you lose someone, thank you they just educated you
for free. Well, you gotta learn from this and they
will learn from it.
Speaker 3: Touches A and m would love to be four and
two in the SEC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I think it was Nookie
who wrote it in the chat earlier, but ba as
Noki points out, Florida text and him and Kentucky were
all in Omaha last season and right now they are
collective two and sixteen in the SEC. So again, four
and two nothing to hang your head about. You're right
on rhythm. But it just I think, I think, I
think that the emotion comes from the disappointment of what
could have been. You're right on the edge of being
able to laugh at Texas horns down make fun of them,
and instead the announcers on Sunday are able to do
that hand rubbing. This series is gonna be so much
fun to watch over the years. You know, we're just
gonna get to watch these two heavyweight programs go toe
to toe and they're just glazing LSU in Texas history,
knowing full well the only reason they're doing that is
because the subtext of yeah, they're both great, but Texas
is better. Look, they just won this series after losing
Friday Night. That triggered me. Also, a man tousled my
hair this weekend.
Speaker 3: A Manda, What in what setting?
Speaker 1: I was sitting down watching my friends in one of
theo and he walked by and tousled my hair. How
well do you know this guy?
Speaker 2: I don't matter if Bob knows you like I've done
it to t Bop because I know he hates it.
Was ready to fight.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what, but no, I don't
really I don't really know him. It was it was
just like, uh, you do it like you said, you
don't know anybody. I mean, I was so taking it
back that I don't even think I had any room
left for anger.
Speaker 3: I don't know what I would have said, like to
your point, I'm like, did this guy like tossle my
hair in a public setting and we don't know each other?
Speaker 1: Like joke? I mean, I think, you know, I think
we be like met and stuff, but it's not like
it's not like, uh I feel like anybody too close? Uh?
That was that was kind of wild though. I just
think it's kind of a let's just say, it's like
a firm rule you don't toassle another man's hair. You know,
it's not a.
Speaker 5: Kid especially, that's like a child thing.
Speaker 1: No, I know, I'm sitting down. He walks behind me,
doesn't call you, mister. I think I was like huh,
and I like looked at him, and he like made
a joke and kept walking. What was it the joke?
I don't remember again, I was I was like saving
private Ryan, like I had like the tonight ist going
through my ears, like everything was moving in slow motion.
I felt shell shocked, like what just happened? You feel
comfortable enough to do that thing? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I meant to say this when you were talking about
Gavin Gidry.
Speaker 4: But like my concern with that is the same thing
that's happening with Chase Shores. Were like there was so
much hype and feels a little Thatcher heard to.
Speaker 5: Me, yes, and like the thing is is like Chase
Shores was a good picture.
Speaker 4: I don't think he's fully recovered or recovered the well
that they are recovered the way they thought he was
going to from his Tommy tas.
Speaker 1: I mean, he has not pitched a lot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, so like so we have to like
let him, but it just he's.
Speaker 1: Got to figure this out. He's got to figure out
how he performs in these spots now. Now granted it's
not the hit the ground running that we were maybe
hoping for us is. The last time we saw him,
he was beating Tennessee like it's a true freshman. But
but like I'm not I'm not out on the Chase
Shore as the sample size is too small.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not out on him. I'm just saying like
I just wouldn't be putting all my eggs in the
Gavin Gangery basket.
Speaker 1: No, not at all. That's just like a at this
point with Gavin It's just kind of a situation where
it's like the uh, yeah, you just hope, yeah, you
just hope that it happens and that it's good. But
I'm not going to expect anything out of it until
we get there. So there it is, little baseball breakdown, guys. Again,
a weird weekend, A weird weekend.
Speaker 2: I did tally it up as you were talking about
that between Florida A and M South Carolina and Mississippi State,
those teams right now in league play, it combined two
and twenty two. Good god, two and twenty two, some of.
Speaker 1: The best teams from recent national champions Nick, is, what's
going on over at Kentucky.
Speaker 2: I don't know a Kentucky at least that will Kentucky
least has you know, two victories. They matched a total
of these four teams. They're two and four and they've played,
you know, good baseball teams. Florida Owen six A and
M Owen six, South Carolina one and five, Mississippi State
one and five.
Speaker 1: Jeez, so again four and two.
Speaker 5: Hey, the State comes to the box this second.
Speaker 6: Screw Texas, dude, I no longer just happy, No, all right,
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Speaker 1: Back to sports talk. Maybe off the bench. It's very
funny though, Uh, this job can work sometimes simply because
Dylan Valantis's name is Valantis, which is I believe it's
a It's I believe it's somewhere in Valeria in Game
of Throne. It might be one of the islands around
Pintos and all that. But what it led to was
an entire commercial break of me shouting at a Landra,
not or anything she said, but because of my anger
with John Snow how the Night King was built up
for a decade and lasted one episode. Just oh man,
I got hard.
Speaker 5: In the first colony of Valeria.
Speaker 1: Oh there you go. See Valantis shout out God. Dylan
pretty good. He felt like he had some of that
Valerium blood magic in it over this weekend. Anyway, I'm
sorry about getting again in Elandra. I was not yelling
at you. I was yelling. We agree at the showrunners.
Speaker 5: We agree. We were just saying different things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anytime you yell at me during break, you don't.
You don't come back and apologize? Why is that?
Speaker 5: God?
Speaker 1: So I'm literally just the girl, all right? So March Madness,
Guy Sweet sixteen is set uh chalk ruling the day.
I mean again, maybe not the most exciting from the perspective,
and we love Cinderella's but is exciting for what it
sets up coming up next. I don't know about y'all.
My favorite part of the weekend was uh, oh god,
what his name? Derek Queen, dear Queen. Over the weekend,
Me and the cannon were sitting there outside yesterday watching
the end of that game. Derek Queen gets the ball
a little gather high off the glass, game winner as
time expires. But it is the postgame interview, uh, that
made him so bad ass. Basically the coach saying I
want the ball, and he said, give me the MFM ball.
And they asked like like you were, like, where did
they come from? Your nervous I'm from Baltimore. I was like, okay, dude,
hell yeah, dude, let's go deeck you the freshman. But
it was a great weekend. It was a great weekend
of basketball.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. I mean, there was some really good games,
you know, like you said, there wasn't a ton of upsets,
but like Florida Yukon, it was a great game. Gonzaga
Houston was a great game.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, did Kazagga end up the end of losing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did. I mean they were down, they were
down three. They had a chance for the final shot,
and Houston's number one defense in the nation stepped up
when it had to. They stole the ball from Gonzaga,
they couldn't get a shot off, and so Gonzaga had
to foul them. Ends up being eighty one to seventy six.
But uh, you know, Gonzaga doesn't go to the Sweet
sixteen for the first time in nine years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Paul says, thanks for Vernon has his picks. Friday,
t Bob, I didn't go back and look at house.
Speaker 2: The only time I've ever gone.
Speaker 1: Over it went over.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, mine, you've got something going on.
Speaker 1: No, I quit, I quit, I got I got to
I think I think I got to like three and
twenty and I quit bet. And I'm just I think
I'm just gonna take this tournament off. Yeah, you know,
two at the tennis tournament three and twenty on my
bet so far, he's gotta tap my helmet and say,
it's not my weekend, it's not my day. I will
see you next March. But y'all enjoy the rest of
this thing.
Speaker 2: Oh sor right, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: Just when I when your pitch so hard that it
went over.
Speaker 1: It's the only over day I've had a man who's
been hitting at like a sixty five percent rate, and
simply because I put my name, and that is awful.
That's I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I knew it was good and bad when I was
heading home Friday night and I see a text from
T Bob like kind of apologizing to Jay and be like,
I took these bets too hard, like I hadn't checked.
Speaker 1: I know. I was also trolling uh rivers on Friday.
I was like, don't worry, I just bet missip State,
which I did, d D did, and well look what
happened there again mathematically impressive. How badly I've been. Uh
shout out to you over there.
Speaker 2: I just went and xed out. It's got some red
on it, like for me and you, I went and
went with the marker and did it. You have like
one team that still like is in the final four.
You can actually make it? You have one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, I went with bold picks.
Speaker 2: Unlike you nerds, I still got seven of my eight
Elite eight.
Speaker 1: You come should have beat Florida.
Speaker 3: Uh the Saint John. The Saint John's wand hurt me.
I have eleven of sixteen Sweet sixteen, but the Saint
Johns went like I had them going to the final four.
So that's that's gonna hurt me later.
Speaker 1: All right. I do want to talk more uh march
mandats later because I want to get into like coach
call and Patino and whatnot in that game. But we're
wanna talk about this LSU women's team coming up next
here on OTV.
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Speaker 1: Back from the break where the sports talk gets real.
Speaker 3: Kind of off the bench and with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 1: What's that in y'all? Welcome back LSU women's basketball back
in the PMAC today five pm. Guys, pack the p MEC.
A trip to the Sweet sixteen is on the line,
and it'll feature two of the highest scoring teams in
the entire country. Fact, this is a great stat in
Today's Advocate. There are four teams in the women's tournament
that have at least three players at average fifteen points
a piece, and these are two of them. FSU also
bringing the nation's leading score into the building tonight and
tell you to Neil Lapson. So it's gonna be a
great game tonight, probably a better game than the one
over the weekend as the LSU women completely dominate, beating
San Diego State one hundred and three to forty eight
to solid set the tone fifty five point first round
win there.
Speaker 2: Jaki, It's something that we know have used in locker
rooms everywhere I've ever played. Nothing says it has to
be close. There's not a rule saying it has to
be close. And I love LSU going out there putting
their foot on the pedal, never letting up, you know,
because that creates confidence that you can take into the
next game, into two rounds down the road. You go
blow out a team like San Diego State, and we
said it at the time had a bad basketball team.
I know they were a fourteen seed, but in the
Mountain West, that was a good basketball team. And you
left no doubt who the best team was. And if
you watch the game and you watch the way that
the players were in the game, celebrated the game, interacted
during the game, they were all in for the entirety
of the game. And so I think that is good
momentum because look, Florida State didn't have a hard game
against George Mason either, So I think you needed that momentum.
You needed that confidence of going out there smashing the
San Diego State heading into this game against Florida State
where you're you know, look, you're still an eleven and
a half point favor but all the things you just said.
When you have the nation's leading score in a game
like basketball, if there is ever a sport, a team
sport where one individual can take over a game and
maybe even go win a game for their team, it's basketball. Yeah,
so you have to know that. I'm excited about it.
And also e J and I are going to be
on air today and I'm going to talk Matt Ish
all show Lost Go.
Speaker 1: I mean in that the whole uh, in that the
whole March madness thing. Right, If you haven't one like
a great guard that can just take over a game,
that's how you end up.
Speaker 2: Guards win tournaments, Steph.
Speaker 1: Currying your way to an elite aid to Davison and
and and whatnot. So I gain now I do love.
We will it be flage d and up Tania, I'm
guessing or no.
Speaker 3: I would assume Flajier or Michaelo Kim does like to
put Machaaloe in the leading scorer a lot of times.
Good d Well, we'll see it's been one of those two.
Speaker 2: So it could be last year Poe as well, because
you don't want Flage's legs maybe having to go through
that because what she means offensively, right, and Poe is
somebody that's been to defender and that's true. She's shown
that she can go out there and obviously go against
some of the best. And I'm not even saying she's
your best option, but I think when you look at
it in the totality of the game, you want fly
Jay to be able to offensively still go out there
and have that spring in her step, and if you're
guarding somebody all game long, will that be there? But
then I mean, look, first quarter, you go out there,
it's not working. You can quickly make that change.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, and I think also Saturday, everybody back, everybody
healthy a great sign as what a statement to kind
of kick off the tournament with. Now obviously, go take
care of business of five p day, Go pack out
the PMAC, go make it loud, make it crazy. The
key difference here, so else you averages eighty five in
Florida averages eighty seven, but there is a defensive defense
difference here else. You gives up eighty four points per
one hundred possessions. That's actually top forty in the country.
Florida State gives up ninety one per one hundred that's
one forty eighth amongst Division one teams. So Coach Mogi
always preaches defense, the importance of it, the fact that
it wins championships, and well, it's going to have to
win tonight if you want to beat the seminals in
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