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Our number two of Off the Bench live from the
Mercedes Benz About Studios starts now.
Speaker 3: I'll start to you to present Off the Bench with
Jacob Hester and t Bob Abart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah off the bench.
Speaker 3: With Jacob Hester and T Bob Aybar.
Speaker 2: I come off the pitch.
Speaker 3: Now, here's Jacob Hester and t Bob Abart.
Speaker 2: What's up? Welcome back out number two of O TV. Jake,
have you opened your eighteen going on forty gifts? No?
Not yet. Do you see what's all in the bag?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: But I will next break Cool?
Speaker 1: There's nothing alive in there, is it?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yeah, yes, there's a snake. Cool. I got a snake.
As you know, I am a snate bite survivor. Yeah, exactly,
so that even a thing. So Jake's birthday, everybody with
Jacob Happy birthday, eighteen going on forty. It's not Taylor's birthday.
That's not until September eleventh. Way to go, Taylor. Unbelievable,
pretty awesome that he knows your birthday? There, Taylor, do
you know Tea about his birthday? Yeah? Do you know
my birthday?
Speaker 1: Or you just happened not long ago?
Speaker 2: No? Well, good friend? Okay, well well no, no, he
knows your birthday and I know you're okay, he knows
difference different Jake's made in February.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well that's actually I know that February what eleventh.
Speaker 2: Actually pretty close and ninth n I don't know how
Jake knows birthdays like this, I'm I'm actually, I know,
I'm I'm doing a bit here. I always I don't
know when anybody's born.
Speaker 1: I always hate when people are like, I know your birthday,
Like okay, like it's not hard to remember, you know, Like,
what do you.
Speaker 2: Mean something happen on your birthday? The eleventh day of
September When.
Speaker 1: We talk about the other day, it was like it
was the ask the bench question. Somebody's like, what is
the worst birthday you've had? Okay, let's not here.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's ask two thousand and one. Is your birthday?
November twenty third? Okay, Thanksgiving, boy, I know a lot
of mine. Yes, sometimes actually on Thanksgiving Day, well turkey man,
Hell yeah, dude, I once threw a piece of turkey.
Uh we were, we were, my my in laws were
in town. This is before kids. My in laws were
in town. They rented an airbnb in New Orleans and
uh we ever thinks eving dinner and I guess I
had too much wine. I don't know what came over me.
I just threw a piece of turkey at my wife's face,
and it was the first time I'd ever met my
future brother in law drugging serbian man. He was very confused,
very confused. I thought it was hilarious. Uh, nobody else laughed.
My wife was a bit taken aback. Oh, we had Alice.
I guess my wife's actually listening. She was ten months old,
so never mind. As a young father, I was still
throwing turkey at my wife's face. Look, never lose your youth, guys. Okay,
that's how. That's how you stay young. And our what
were we what was the goal? Were we flirting? No idea.
I thought it was funny. Yeah, you know how I
get really excited for a joking here and you can
see me like leaping to talk, like like throwing up.
I let the person finish, like get my joke in
what for what it's worth? That is pretty funny. Actually,
thank you, I thought too too. I think that's pretty funny.
My wife text me we had Alice. She was ten
months old and she was acting older than you, not flirting. Well, yeah,
and she was acting older than you. Love you. Great line.
I'm also an idiot. Alice shout out Alice. She lost
a tooth yesterday, one of her front teeth, one of
her first front tooth. But I don't know how I
thought it was her first tooth. I guess because I
like at the first front one. I remember now that
you so I'm making this huge deal of it, and
they're like, no, man, it's third two mm Still the
tooth Fairy dropped off five crisp singles. She's very excited, Alice,
if you're listening, so cute something about a front tooth
missing is just absolutely heart achingly adorable on a kid.
I think that's fair. Look that that'd be the funniest
thing you have ever said on this show. That is
so true. I'm from LP.
Speaker 1: I know some people with a front tooth mission it
ain't very cute.
Speaker 2: That is also so true. That has to be one
of the biggest age dispairity trades our features.
Speaker 1: Like on Earth, if you're eight and you have a
front two of missing, all that's cute. If you're forty
eight and have a front two, I'm gonna walk through the.
Speaker 2: I mean, y Yager look pretty damn cool with a
front tooth. No, bro, have you seen yamr Yager's teeth. Lately,
he's still playing hockey and he looks like a vampire.
Still he's still playing professional European hockey. I saw a video.
Speaker 1: I'll try to find sixty.
Speaker 2: I saw a video.
Speaker 1: He said it like a retirement home. This is probably
shuffle board that you saw.
Speaker 2: No, bro, he's in the locker room, unpadding and he
smiles and all of his teeth are missing or sharp points,
like he's almost ground him. It's it's it's I was
talking about like nineteen ninety seven, the Dude Psycho. But yeah,
I didn't know all that.
Speaker 1: Yes, in hockey, in that profession, A tooth mess at
his cool walking down the street.
Speaker 2: The uh maands you're addicted to something. See so again
like Yami or Yager might be the only person with
a grill like that who I don't think is addicted
to He's addicted to hockey. Yeah, he's not addicted to drugs,
though I hope not at least. I mean, he plays
a sport where literally, like your teeth get knocked out
all the time. Like, bro, you're fifty six, wear a mask,
give it yourself over there. That's too gritty to be pretty. Yeah,
that's a little look. No, that's not even it. That's
like from like ten years ago. This says he was
fifty two in this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean you could see it a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could start to see the road he's going down.
It's crazy too. And also like so it's unless he's
like just blown through his money, like he made a
ton of money, he's still making it. I guess I
don't think like, like I know it's gonna happen later.
Why am I getting get fixed? I think he just yeah,
I think he just loves it. He just loves hockey.
Who loves I mean, he loves hockey as much as
muss Love's lsu baseball. Yeah, I would say, what were
we talking about? You remember yah mey Yogurt before your
time people, right, Yeah, you don't remember the old school
NHL player, No, but I mean you just entered probably
the biggest blind spot for me when you.
Speaker 1: Buy still one of the best mullets I've ever seen.
Speaker 6: If it's not like Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 2: Yogurt was a stud in the nineties when ESPN had
their big NHL push and they had the trailing Puck
Blaze to try to help you see it on standard
definition the vision.
Speaker 1: This guy's mullet.
Speaker 2: Look at that now, I mean that that is that's
professional sports. I had, ye, that's what that is.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I got this because I wasn't
a big Occuy fan growing up. I had an action
figure of ya of Yager. Yeah, you had the stick
over his head.
Speaker 2: Who was the other good penguin in his Yes? Smartlet
moo think yeah, and then they went to Crosby and
New Guinea. I know, I wish I had a rooting
interest because NHL playoffs with me the fig Eric Lynn Dross,
Miss Martin Mess, Wayne Gretzky's kind of like the sweet spot. Yeah.
From my my only hockey fandom as a child, I
had like three years where I really loved I was
playing a lot of the NHL video games. Great Game
Great l ninety four is one of the most legendary
sports video games of all time. They got really good
again around like eight nine, ten era, but there were
some time in the early two thousands where I got
really into it and I just loved those Avalanche teams
that were the Patrick wah Net. I mean the Avalanche
pretty good. They're good to good. Yeah, oh, there you go, bro,
and the goalies too, Mark Richter ninety four when the
Rangers won it. The uh, oh, my god, who is
the old Devil's goal forever Martin maim them? Uh? And
then of course, who can forget a bear old Ducks
goalie one time? That was pretty cool. As a kid,
I got to go to an Anaheim Ducks game and
the cannon and a bear did a jersey swap. Yeah,
they did like a whole like thing. Before the game,
we got like and the Mighty Ducks are big of
the time, and we got like Mighty Ducks like stuffed animals.
We had a Timu Solani signed hockey stick. That's a
great name. Pool and Paul Korea. Yeah, that was the
big hockey ship.
Speaker 1: That was the combou That's unfortunate because now they're.
Speaker 2: Team Tamu. Maybe it's table, I don't remember. I think
you're right. I think you're right. Either way, we're gonna
change it here because we don't need him associated with Yeah, no,
he's better than uh. Speaking of other sports, big Bong
Jake your knicks, I mean, just hop back on to.
Speaker 1: Forget about don't last night.
Speaker 2: Back to back twenty point collapses from the defending champs
at home insanity watching, I'm like, oh my god, like,
is this gonna happen again? They got with then eight
and I'm like that's Celtics, you know, got with them
four and I'm like, then they took the lead, and
I'm like, oh my god. And then when the Celtics
I think it was ninety to eighty nine as the lead.
The Celtics took and you found bruntson there. It was
holiday and I'm like, they're gonna win this, Like they're
gonna do it again and again about Michil Bridges was
a beast in the fourth, but then how about back
to back steel walkoffs. Yeah, Bridges defensive places. That's pretty sick.
Speaker 1: So that's that's funny because going into the NBA Playoffs, like,
I get it, the Celtics are the defending champion, and
everybody said, oh watch out for the Knicks. They created
this team to beat the Celtics, and you kind of
handway if that, You're like, Okay, I get it, they're
the definiting champs. Everybody's going to do it. But no,
this is legit because like you look at the Celtics,
Jason Tatum to Jaylen Brown are the two guys their wings.
They're small forwards. If you will, what if the Knicks do.
They get the two best defensive small forwards in the
league and O g Nnobi and Michel Bridges to guard
those guys, and they've shut them down for the most
part in the fourth quarter. And this team truly is
built to beat the boss itself.
Speaker 2: They don't really seem to have an answer for cat
size either. No, he's just like banging around, pushing around
Horford and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ow, like my how old is? I don't know
how up there got to be thirty. I'm gonna say
thirty eight. I gonna say thirty eight.
Speaker 2: Horford is thirty eight. Karl Anthony Towns has to be
the zestiest professional sports player that way.
Speaker 1: Those interviews.
Speaker 2: Literally one of the early highlights last Night Talk. He
makes an incredible down load shot. You just hear over.
Speaker 1: The foul He's running the talk edits of of Anthony
town They're so good, dude, No, I mean you go,
you go look at the Nicks. If there's shutting down
Tatum and Brown, Knicks are almost better at every position
if they contain those two. Because Jalen bruns and Derek
White can't hang with Jayalen Brunson. Like Derek White's a
fine player. They're better down low with Karl Anthony Towns.
Like you shut down Tatum and Brown. I don't know
where the Celtics are better. God, and Tatum looked helpless
on that last possession shot even if he got it all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was forced out. He tried to
get in the pain and he was forced out. Yeah.
And it was right after that crazy coast to coast
dunk that he had too, which is actually really sick.
I'll have to like fact check exactly what the stat was,
but something like no road team and back to back
games has ever come back from twenty points down to
win the game, regular or postseason. No, No, NBA's got
a little juice right now.
Speaker 1: Were talking about the Pacers well.
Speaker 2: And as someone who has constantly complained about the new
style of the NBA, it's actually been a pretty old
school playoffs. Look at the scores, low scores of nineties
on a physicality the Warriors.
Speaker 1: The Warriors won like ninety one eighty five the other day,
Yeah against Smer.
Speaker 2: Ninety one ninety and it was like a physical game,
like banging around. Hell yeah, dude, love it. Yeah, the
the Nightcap got out a hand under pulled away from
the Nuggets. Thunder Thunder had to make up for that.
Uh yeah yeah. But to your point, for the most part,
it has been a little throwback to I mean, the
Pacers Cave series is awesome. Yeah, like, and I think
the Cave still will have something to say. You know,
I know that they you know, at home they lost
both games, but if they can get healthy is gonna
be great. So one of my favorite things to do
is to go look at Knicks fans celebrating these wins
because they're just insane. If they win at home, oh
my god, it's it's gonna be Oh, it's it's I
don't know, we won't be able to play it on
the show. Knicks fans that certainly like live in New York, like,
they take it on the chin all the time. Yeah.
For being Knicks fans and from Boston fans and just
other fan bases. It's been a long tough road to
hoe these last twenty years.
Speaker 1: For the next Yeah, what I appreciate is their fan base, Like,
you know, you're a battered fan base like I was,
expecting the Knicks fans to be like victory lapping and everything.
They're all like super cautious. They're like over like Knicks
fans like they're super cautious. They don't want to get
their heart broken again. I'm like, that's like, you know,
it's a battered fan base.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, also, I mean you've kind of won these
games in such absurd ways that it's still feels like
like if we were going, uh, if you just this
is actually a great stat to look up. So they've
played ninety six minutes. How many minutes have the Celtics
led versus how many minutes have the Knicks led. It's
probably like ninety four to two. I bet it, Yeah,
I bet it is. But what did you.
Speaker 1: Hear after the game one collapse from the Celtics. Oh,
that's not gonna happen again, everybody in the national media,
that's not gonna happen again. I mean literally, the exact
same thing happened, and I get it. Email or Dooka
is a good coach. There's I'm sorry, Joe Missoula, Yea,
Joe Mazula, he's a good coach, But like, at some
point you have to change your strategy. When you're up twenty,
stop shooting.
Speaker 2: These Yeah that was the game one problem. Okay, but
they tried in game two.
Speaker 1: They went ten for forty from three.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know, but that's a far cry from fifty. I
get it, But like you got, you gotta chill out.
For example, the Knicks trailed most of that game. They
shot thirty one threes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, That's what I'm saying. It's kind of a
nice old school pushback against the modern idea that every
NBA game just comes down to who makes more threes.
The playoffs have been better, uh for that that they're
fighting against them.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just at some point, you have to
stop shooting these threes. I get that's what got you here,
but it's not working. Eve at twenty point collapses two
games in a row because the Knicks are like, just
let them shoot. The have to stop doing that.
Speaker 2: The other the other part of this is, man, we
didn't talk about it, but the Halliburn ending to game
two was unreal. We missed the free throw, did we
He missed there going for the kill shot, and he
missed it in an interesting way. Didn't go off the back, iyron.
He did a little awkward floater just off the front
where like it kind of screwed up the timing turner
tips into him and then he calls game crazy, crazy, crazy,
so good on the NBA. Yeah, and Nookie brings it
up and I did forget about it although I saw
it last night. I've all seen this, Paul Pierce. Have
you not seen this? Guarantee?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: He basically, I mean he just went all in, like
there's no way the Celtics is gonna lose this game,
Like I'll show up in a bathrobe and no socks
or shoes, barefooted, like said something about dinosaurs, like it
was what we need to play it. We need to
find it and uh and play it there because get
on it right now so we can get it before
break live up to what he said he was going
to do if the Celtics didn't win the game. And
what the spread was crazy last night too. It was
double digit, which is and it looked like it was
right for a long time until the end. Again true
in other collaps, we got it all right. Let's see,
let's see what Paul Pierce said to say, are you
the Celtics. Celtics lose Game two at all I promise
you to. I'm walking here tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'm walking here.
Speaker 2: I'm walking here, fifteen miles. I'm walking here.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is your friend in my role,
get your no shoes on.
Speaker 2: Somebody's saving bare feet. What if the somethings lose tonight,
I'm walk paul I'm telling you right now, take the serious. No,
I'm taking no, no, wait, not no, ain't no way
in a row barefoot. So you're getting up at five
in the morning, I'm at three right here. You gotta
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I guarantee this one put the house on this game.
Speaker 7: Oh no, oh, no, Paulie, like showing up to words
in a bathroom barefoot, like it's really after out of miles.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that that's the worst part. He that he
about it worst.
Speaker 2: Marty gral walk of shame that I'm very happy took
place in a more pre internet age. But in college
one time I uh soiled my tuxedo and the next
morning I had to walk over a mile back to
my hotel in a bathrobe with tuch shoes on and
nothing else underneath. Apps. No, it was not, but just
a brutal walk and everybody laughing at me, pointing at me.
It was one of the top five most shameful moments
in my life. Yah, Vegas this year, you were I
mean that was another one. That was another shirt. Yeah,
no shoes, no shoes, teal tank top that was two
sizes too small, and at first she didn't have that
right in a scandalous little baby a two inch When
I looked up at the party, Yes, I had nothing
but the bathing suit. Yeah, fanny pack, shoes by LSU,
basketball jersey, No idea what happened to that? I never
got it back. We walked to the party together. Yeah,
he left in a different situation than I. Yeah, but
we made it. Yeah, we made it. And then else
you lost the USC because of course, God, I have
never I've never dreaded doing a show like I did
that morning, because it was like whatever time in the
desert it was, we had to get up. Oh my god,
I was calling the game, so I had to be
there late and had to walk back all these USC
fans and it happened again. Just wanted to like open
up the show and just sit there for three hours.
Nobody gets us six times in a row, though, Guys,
nobody draw the line at five. Oh my god, five
straight right, go tigers. All right, when we get back
here on OTV, we'll do quick secment. Then we got
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Speaker 3: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around
off the bench with Hester.
Speaker 2: And bought up from the among what's having y'all? Welcome back?
O t b Uh what did I have? I had?
Shout it's Fitty cent Shout out Fitty I hain's something
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The Oschner Physical Therapy Center is insane. It's a walking
ortho clinic. So I was there for my shoulder and
they've been helping. Still remains aft, but they've been helping.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: But I went, got a workout in and and what
a what a wonderful slice of Louisiana life, where get
in a great workout, feel good. And Donnie, who is
y'all's is that the operations manager or what would the
building manager? Donnie is the fixer? Yeah? Yeah, whatever we
need for marine badass. But Donnie, I guess cooks on Wednesday,
and she said, yeah, if you come work out, come
come eat. And my god, again, what a Louisiana treat.
I walked into it. I had no idea this was
on the docket for the day. I was gonna eat
cold spaghetti for lunch, which I do love. You do
love colds. I love cold spagetti. I can't wait. Kaylens
are still listening, do not freaking throw away at spaghetti.
But I walked into crawfish a tu fe homemade potato
sound everything homemade but crawffe potato salad and cornmack chew.
And it was so good, like some of the best
that I've ever had. I ended up taking down two
full plates. But I was just struck by what a
wonderful culture that we live in. Then on a random Wednesday,
you could you could walk into this incredible homemade meal
out of nowhere. Yeah. He he throws it down. And
every time I go in there, like and it is
on a Wednesday, it's like, oh man, everybody's a worked today. Yeah, yeah,
exactly right, like yeah, because everybody wants Donnie's cooking. They do,
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So we got j John's to come up next real
quick though. Shout out to LSU softball, uh blank. In
the Missisippi State Bulldogs last night, five nil, Jordan Heavener doing
what Jordan Hebner does, those her fifth shutout of the season.
Number ten LS you beat Somember sevenem Missippi State there
now in the quarterfinals of the SEC tournament, and well
big one today. They got those Oklahoma Sooners, best team Inland,
the number one seed coming up right when we get
off air at ten am. So you want some early
LSU sports to engage in right when we go off air,
flip over and go watch this LSU softball team do
battle with the Sooners. Should be a ton of fun
there to am is tenam as well. I know, I
Texa coach Serina this morning and then I'm looking up
the first pitch and I was like, oh my god,
I'm sorrying to mind. We did that every year. Yeah,
that's true. Every year we reach out and she's like,
actually got a game? Yeah, oh yeah, I forgot yeah.
Uh not used to having games there in OTV. No,
it's not something we're used to. No. I remember like
first really NFL game that was early because I only
played like two at LSU. It's like a noon kick
and I'm like, what do we do? Oh yeah, yeah
play games at night? App State ten thirty am legendary
watching that one. Legend it was I was out in California.
Oh yeah, because you were done that a year after
you woke up early to see that one. I could
feel the humidity through the TV. Highlight of the game,
a young pp getting in on a tackle. Not to brag,
it's pretty intense. Felt so good. We're in fifty three,
I think so at the time. Yeah, or maybe forty nine.
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Speaker 3: Welcome to the seventh ranked morning sports show in America.
Speaker 2: Off the bench and with Hester and T Bob. What's
going on y'all? Welcome back to OTB It is Thursday,
and uh that means that we are once again blessed
by the presence of your l s U head baseball coach,
coach Jay Johnson joined us to break down the big
weekend up coming in the box. Going to be electric. Coach,
what's going on?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: How are we doing here on this Thursday?
Speaker 5: Good morning? How are you guys?
Speaker 2: Uh, we're doing We're doing really well. We're gonna look
back before we're gonna do everything. But first, uh, what
what are what are the uh what's the hype level
out right now? Does it have a little bit of
a feeling of kind of the calm before the storm? Right,
high leverage Hogs coming in hot, coming into the box.
Two of the best teams in the entire country. How
are the boys feeling here on this Thursday?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been good.
Speaker 4: I'm happy to see the sun is up this morning. Yeah, true, true,
looking forward to getting on the field today. You know,
we're also in the middle of finals, so they're wrapping
that up nice.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: We give him a little extra time off with the
Tuesday night game getting rained out. Had a really good
productive day yesterday. Excited for the prep today. Been knee
deep into Arkansas from a coaching staff perspective, and I
rated role. You know, our home crowd has done a
great job this year with rain and weird start times
and all that, and we're gonna need all of it
this weekend. So looking forward to a great weekend.
Speaker 2: And uh coach speaking of great weekends, the performance by
Anthony iinsen last weekend and it stinks right because when
Cad had his unreal complete game, he was on a Thursday,
and so it got to be the sole focused Unfortunately
Anthony coming to the kind of in the middle of
the weekend there maybe didn't get the We tried to
get him as much love as we could, so I
want to revisit it here because again, what a masterful
job of high leverage pitching where your team has to
have it and he puts him on his back and
he gets it done, a very efficient complete game, one run,
three hits, and you look up and Ainsin is just
someone coaching is like just continued to get better as
the season has gone on. It seems like every weekend
he gets better. What's been the kind of key behind
that growth that you're seeing out of him.
Speaker 4: Well, the first part is the person. He's a phenomenal
human being, phenomenal competitor.
Speaker 5: And then I just give him a lot of credit.
Speaker 4: He's getting better as we're going in the season. He
gets better as games go along. You know, you mentioned
we had some really efficient innings in the middle of
the game which allowed him to extend and you know,
probably right around after Texas, we made a couple of
adjustments with him. Give Kochevski Jamie Tutko a lot of
credit for that, and he's just gone out and executed
it and super proud of him for that. He's one
of those guys man, And unless you're in the trenches
of knowing what this thing really is, which that's nobody outside.
Speaker 5: Of the staff.
Speaker 4: As you're going through recruiting in this new era and
the portal, it's like, all right, this is the guy
we have to get, Like this is going to tip
the season to where you're talking about this Arkansas series
and what's ahead of us, you know, being high leverage
and excited and you know, for him to visit the
schools that he did pick LSU and our program and.
Speaker 5: Then go out and deliver. The way that he has has.
Speaker 4: Been awesome and I'm super proud of him.
Speaker 2: Coach. One thing I wanted to ask you about because
this series obviously is a big one. Just like you know,
they all are certainly in the SEC but you know,
we're football guys, and so when you have a big game,
it's like, Okay, you get up there, you give the
pregame speech before the game, because that's what it is.
It's one single game, it's not a series. So for
you like having this big series having three games, like,
how do you approach you know, maybe tomorrow when you're
getting out there, Like is it a different approach? Do
you do the same thing kind of three times to
get them fired up ready to go? Like how do
you handle maybe, you know what I'm saying, that one speech,
that one talk that we all see in locker rooms.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good question and put a lot of
time and effort and energy into that to try to
meet the team where they are and what.
Speaker 5: We have ahead of us.
Speaker 4: And you know, it could be it could be one
theme you know for the weekend that you kind of
segue off of, or it could be something different every day.
I will tell you it's probably a little more challenging
in a fifty six game schedule than it is eleven
or twelve game yeah, football schedule. But I do my
best with that, and you know, we've had some we've
had some fun with that this year, and you know,
usually the guys have responded in a really good fashion.
You know, really what it will come down to once
the game starts is execution. And we're playing a good team.
You know, they make it hard on you to execute.
So our guys got to stay in the right frame
of mind and compete against a really good pitching staff
and a really good lineup. But you know, I admire
the consistency of how these guys have gone about their work,
prepare for games and competed. And we have a lot
of really good baseball ahead of us because of that,
and and this weekend is certainly one of those.
Speaker 2: And you know, in this conference, especially coach uh, what
goes around kind of comes around, right And here you
have the miraculous Tennessee moment, and then you're it's immediately
followed with A and M having a bit of their
own miraculous sort of moment. When you're on the wrong
side of that exchange. Uh, what's the toughest part of
flushing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not worried about the guys flushing it. Like,
first off, it happened four days ago. Yeah, and maybe
you guys remember, being nineteen twenty twenty. One. Good thing
about young people is they actually move on pretty quickly. True,
sometimes it sticks with coach Johnson a little bit longer.
But no, I think you know, when you go through this,
like to put it in context, like for thirty league games,
like eighteen of those while we have played them have
been teams that have been ranked twelve or better in
the RPI at the time that we've played them. We're
playing i think our third or fourth team that has
been ranked number one in the country this year in
our league schedule, And therefore, you can't get caught.
Speaker 5: Up in the past.
Speaker 4: You can't get caught up too far down the road.
I know it's super boring, you know, you guys think
I'm a California hippie or something. But to stay in
the moment, you know, execute your plan type of thing
is the only way to do it. And we got
some things we got to get better at right now.
So I mean, yesterday it was like grind day and
in the best way possible, two or three guys at
a time recommitting to approach, you know, and getting some
swings back on track so that we can, you know,
play the team we need to play them. And it
was a good day. But that's how we have to
choose to go about it. I think the good news
is if you can kind of survive and I hate
using that word, but if you can kind of survive
this stretch, you know, we'll head into postseason baseball with
nothing we have not seen and you're probably just re
lining up the teams you went through to get where
you ultimately we ultimately want to go, which is Omaha
and win a national championship.
Speaker 2: Coach, Every SEC team brings their own challenges, and you know,
you really don't ever get a chance to breathe in
the SEC. That is what it is. What about this
Arkansas team though, Like and I know you, I know
you've been breaking down film, watching film all week long,
probably Sunday of last week, and so when you watch
them on tape, when you see the way that they play,
see kind of some of the series they've played over
the last couple of weeks. What can LSU fans expect
in the box.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're probably the most complete team of all these
teams in terms of offense, defense, pitching. They've always tended
to play defense really well. They've always tended to pitch
really well, and that's definitely the case this time. You know,
just like I talked about with Anthony, you know, their
pitcher Tomorrow, Zach Rute, that was kind of the guy
they had to get, you know, to have this rotation
as formidable as it is and push some really good,
high end arms to the bullpen. The pitching is good,
the defense is good, and you know, they hammer. They
hammer mistakes like I mean, whether it's basketball or hanging
breaking ball, they hammer them. And then again, I'm going
off of most of my review was off of last
weekend against Texas. But you know, they've been through a
couple of weekends like we've been through, you know, where
they've lost a couple and you know, but they're they're
playing well.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think they're probably.
Speaker 4: The favorite to win the National Championship right now in
terms of the completeness.
Speaker 5: Of their team.
Speaker 4: I love that we're at home and really excited for
the weekend like, this is this is college baseball this weekend.
I think maybe because they haven't won a national championship,
people don't talk about them as much, but they've probably
been the most consistent program in the SEC over the
past ten years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so this is this is awesome.
Speaker 4: And we're really excited about this weekend.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can already feel my adrenaline. It's it's
like I can't imagine trying to or I can because
I remember going through it, but it's challenging to try
to kind of stay stay low and kind of save
it for the right time. Speaking of the right time, though, coach,
we were talking about this earlier in the show. One
of the hallmarks of your tenure here in Ben Rouge
has been getting the team peaking at the right time.
And there's a real art to that. And just now
you talked about yesterday GRINDI practice recommitting to approach when
you have some guys that are maybe personally slumping a
little bit, like what what do you do? What are
the actions or strategies you engage in to try to
get better and be playing your best baseball this late
in the year when you've already played so much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a really good question, And sometimes I think
I appreciate you saying that, and I'll certainly take credit
for it, but it's like sometimes it's a little misleading,
and it's a little misleading only because of the competition
being so stiff week in and week out, Like I
just don't I don't think you can survive.
Speaker 2: I have this.
Speaker 4: Nowadays without a few bumps. I think Texas was number one,
had lost one game in a month and got completely
annihilated by Arkansas last weekend, like they completely dominated them.
And in our league in baseball, like that's going to happen.
But something I've always reverted to is my job is
to keep our players right in the head. If I
can do that, then it gives them a chance to
play their best in these highest leverage situations. And you know,
that's why, you know, over my career we've had really
good success. I believe in the postseason and you know
late in the season. Now, with that being said, it
really all comes down to execution, and you can't execute
unless you're in the right frame of mind. So for me,
it's mindset we work on at three hundred and sixty
five days a year, and you know, there's there's some
of that obviously going right now, and kind of what
I look at is it's that's the same for everybody
in the SEC. And unless you're doing this and you know,
playing free teams in a row that have been ranked
number one at some point during the season, you don't
you don't.
Speaker 5: Get it, you know. And so you have to stay
right in the head.
Speaker 4: And we're looking forward. And to answer your question from
earlier in the locker room at A and M, it
was like, hey, man, I'm proud of this effort today.
Speaker 5: Like, I mean, we busted.
Speaker 4: Our ass in that game.
Speaker 5: We didn't hit, but the pitchers did a great job.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I thought the coaching staff did a.
Speaker 4: Great job in that game. And we were maneuvering and
hustling and getting it to the point where we were
about to win a series on the road against a
team that's really talented that we didn't even play our best,
and that would have been a tremendous accomplishment. So it's like, hey,
let's let's pack up this bus, let's get on the road,
eyes up, take care of finals, and turn our focus
the next week. And so it's really just trying to
keep them all about what's right in front of them.
Speaker 2: And tomorrow night, the hogs right in front of six
thirty pm in the box going to be electric all
week and long. If you're going to be one of
those number, make it be loud, make it hard on Arkansas,
and we look forward another great series. Coach, Thank you
for thank you so much for making time with us.
And you're incredibly busy. Thank you for dealing in my
last minute text to have you come on. You were
the best, Oh, coach. By the way, guess what, it's
Jake's fortieth birthday today.
Speaker 4: Jacob, Happy birthday, man.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that, Coach.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have one question.
Speaker 4: Could you still get one hundred yards on twenty carries
in the NFL today? Oh?
Speaker 2: All right, coach, the best I can give you. I
can pick up a fourth and one. Yeah, maybe simple
still got that?
Speaker 5: But I believe you.
Speaker 4: Sometimes Stephen Milam will come up with this thing and
he'll say, Hey, could I get three yards against Oklahoma?
Speaker 2: Hey Monsra, I love you too, Bud, But no, no,
I don't know. Maybe he kind of hides behind the
line a little bit, squeaks through. I don't know, dude,
I don't know, coach, coach, thank you so much, appreciate you.
All right, good one, All right, coach J Johnson legend
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Speaker 1: My guess one? Twenty five? Hell yeah, let's find out.
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Speaker 2: Look at the uh I, look at the NFL. I'm
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta.
Speaker 2: It's Off the Bench with Hester and t Bob, welcome
back in OTB TYA. Did the research. It was Arkansas
game one six, because I had one you said one
twenty one.
Speaker 7: One against Tennessee against Tennessee and one day, one day,
I'll forgive my two thousand and four brethren early do
set for.
Speaker 2: Not lining up on the line of scrimmage in that game.
For that rail route.
Speaker 3: M m.
Speaker 2: If we scored that, we run away with the game.
Momentum is all on our side. It's the hell of
a thing. And then got deflated. Here comes the three
headed monster that Arkansas had. Yeah, hellis McFadden and Felix.
The hill is third down. Hillis McFadden and Jones. Yeah yeah, yeah, Felix,
Yeah yeah, what a what a trio? That quarterback quarterback?
Hold on, let me think it's after Matt Jones. Enough,
he wasn't part of the four Ryan mall.
Speaker 1: Before Malax mallet to Tyler Wilson. So this is before.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised by this. I don't remember the quarterback Zach
route Casey, Like, how did you not know? I could see?
I could think it's crazy because I would have never
pulled Casey Dick actually, like I don't even remember him
being an Arkansas quarterback. That's how impressive the three in
the backfield were. Was for you not to leave Casey
Dick is surprising. I know, I completely forgot.
Speaker 1: I mean, they had Marcus Monk at receiver on that team,
Like market, Marcus play a little.
Speaker 2: Bit if they had a quarterback. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Monk could play. What happened, Chris Houston played a little
bit of receiver for him.
Speaker 2: They were good if they had a quarterback. But it's
just like, you can only win so many games, even
with one of the best running backs in SEC history,
and you can't throw a four pass. I don't know.
I mean, I remember the time, being a big fan
of the Dick Nutt coaching quarterback combination. Yeah, it was,
it was. It was one of the more memorable in
the SEC.
Speaker 1: Starting to come back to you now, you're like, I remember, yeah,
shout out Houston.
Speaker 2: You saw him at the coaches, uh Celebrity of the
Coaches golf tournament the other day. I did. It looks good,
It looks good. I don't know if I've ever played
a more disastrous football team than the Houston nut Ole
Miss team of twenty eleven. I think that's the team
where maybe he had already been fired or the fire
like they they did not want to play, and I
heard stories that they were just like not practicing, like
barently showing up like like the those like.
Speaker 1: Five minutes to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: I was at that game in Oxford and Ron Brooks
on the the first player of the second play pick
six to the house. Yeah, this old miss fan just
like comes to wall walking down the stairs like his
girlfriend on his on like piggyback, and he's just like,
all right, bleep this, let's just.
Speaker 2: Going to be a great night here forever. The most
legendary moment in that game will be Zach Menberger coming
in finally gets some pt and he's just supposed to
hand the ball off and he just kept it on
his own and he just didn't hand it off and
decided to run his own naked boot and got down
to the one and then that's when the Neil. Yeah,
it was about disrespect, the ultimate disrespect, so good. I
was watching Bust One of the Boys and Taylor Lewan
was talking about Mary Ota was on the show, and
he's like, man, I'm not gonna lie when they drafted
you I was pissed. Met was my boy when it
meant to be the quarterback, and all of a sudden
they draft this guy's like and then I saw you
throw three pass? I go, what about Mett? Yeah, they
used to be boys. I don't know if they're boys anymore.
I don't know what happened there, but yeah, they were
really Zach Stout that was the quarter I could remember
his name.
Speaker 1: Zach Stout was the old quarterback.
Speaker 2: Lwan is good looking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Zach style seventeen yards passing against you guys.
Speaker 2: Wait, that was their quarterback. Yeah, he did. He started
that game.
Speaker 1: Zach Stout started Barry Brunetti. These are faing I remember Brunetti,
then Casey Dick Israel, but these are He's doubled. He
doubled the stars.
Speaker 2: Quarterback I care about. And it was Jeremiah solely outside that.
That was the next year. I think that was the
previous year.
Speaker 1: I was twenty ten.
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