Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. Let's go.
Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 2: Ham'sday.
Speaker 3: Hester and Hester got it five out of five.
Speaker 1: You're locked in to Off the Bench.
Speaker 2: Wells Back to troll for the as.
Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine studio. Here's Jacob Hess and
Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Welcome in a Friday edition on Off the Bench. We
are working towards the weekend. One more show for you
here on this work week. Taylor Sharp here we you
have filling in for Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn one
more time. We are feeling good. We're ready to have
some fun on this Friday. Woke up feeling pretty good, guys,
and we got a Landra Villa Ria.
Speaker 4: We got Braxton Risuto here.
Speaker 2: Alandra looks like she's ready to uh end this week
with a bang. She has she has bangs now, guys,
It's funny. It's funny Braxton.
Speaker 5: Engage in that.
Speaker 4: She does.
Speaker 2: She loved it, okay, Braxton, she loves She's not serious.
Speaker 5: Say the other day or like she does. But what
did you say?
Speaker 2: Oh? Oh the five guys, Oh yeah, I said, I
asked Matt if you had ever been to five guys?
He said yeah, and I said, well, that's so many guys.
Although she got in the transfer portal, she hated the joke.
Worst part is Brod said it was actually it was
actually six players. I miscounted worst part of it. Okay,
so we're rocking the banks though they look great. Was
when you were rolling out yesterday, that's where you were going.
You were the bangs done? They look great, thank you.
Speaker 5: I also went a little more red and darker.
Speaker 6: Okay, it does look yeah, okay, so it looks closer up.
Speaker 7: I mean it was like more purple last time. I
got it done like a cherry, right right, and this
is more like burgundy.
Speaker 4: It looks great. Love it.
Speaker 5: They're back. They were gone for a little bit, but
they're back.
Speaker 2: We gotta we got to get a social media post though.
See that's the thing.
Speaker 5: It was during my window.
Speaker 7: So I did post a story, okay on mine, and then.
Speaker 5: I think I put it on Twitter too.
Speaker 2: Okay, well then we're good. Yeah if it's if it's
social media official, yeah.
Speaker 5: Everybody social media official.
Speaker 4: Praxicton how are we doing?
Speaker 5: Doing?
Speaker 7: Good?
Speaker 6: Sucks that I missed yesterday?
Speaker 5: No banks for Braxton, No, you didn't.
Speaker 2: Get the memo, dude, I was gonna wear mine. I
don't want me be in a lounder to match. So
her moment right, and she she let us know yesterday
we didn't see I didn't see the pig. But she
text us in the group like, Hey, when y'all get back,
I'm gonna have thangs. So I was like, I don't
want to. I don't want to be the copy here.
You know you ever want to the second guy. I
didn't want to be the trendset. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I didn't want Jake and Matt to get here and
be like, what is happening over there?
Speaker 5: So I gave them a little warning.
Speaker 2: Well, Jake texted us yesterday, our guy still hasn't got
a haircut.
Speaker 7: Oh, he said, I still have long hair, sorry, because
we all know I'm not a fan of his long run.
Actually I really don't like it. And so he was like,
I still have the long hair sorry. So that's disappointing news. Yeah,
let's see how he won't admitted. Jake's trying to go
full with Justin Herbert. So he's trying to have that
little bit of letter.
Speaker 2: He's gonna have that flow going on in the back,
the Tony Vittello look that he had when he was
at Tennessee. That that's gonna be Jake when he gets
back on Monday. Braxton, you told me I was telling you.
I was like, yeah, I got in a little bit late,
had to work the women's basketball game, and you said, well,
I got.
Speaker 4: In lay too.
Speaker 2: You play on an intramural basketball team at Southeastern. How
is this the first time I'm hearing about this.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I feel like I would have told you before. This
is my third year doing it, since I'm my junior.
We are currently three and oh, currently three and out.
Speaker 4: We get to win.
Speaker 6: Last night we did one by twenty one.
Speaker 4: Twenty one.
Speaker 2: Sum Yeah, disposers on the other side, they just stand
a chance, all right.
Speaker 4: Be honest?
Speaker 2: How many how many did we drop last night? Who's
the stat line for our guy?
Speaker 6: We actually have a guy who videos and takes that,
so I don't know the official stats.
Speaker 2: Keep tracking me, Braxton, of course, I listen to me. Okay,
how many point? Everybody in intramural basketball? You're counting every
single shot. You don't care about your teammates and intramural
basketball what'd you score last night?
Speaker 6: Had about fourteen? Just fourteen we sent for a blowing out.
We played the other guys them out.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Yeah, what kind of brag was that? Braxton?
Speaker 8: First off?
Speaker 2: I know, well, first off, I hear, I just said fourteen, cool,
a cool fourteen.
Speaker 4: Piece and you know, blowing them out the second half.
Speaker 2: Coach coach said, all the blue chip recruits in the
second half because we were running away with it. All right,
mister cockey, what we averaging in intramural basketball?
Speaker 6: I would say, I would say about thirteen fourteen somewhere
around that. We have everybody our whole starting five in score,
so we're all like getting at least ten twelve points.
Speaker 2: So it's it's it's a team.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's a team. There's no there ain't nobody
out there.
Speaker 8: Even though there's an Emmy, you don't have any.
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrooks on the team boxing out your teammates to
get an extra rebound.
Speaker 6: Little comp is reed, Shepherd.
Speaker 2: That's your cost, my comp Braxton, to comp yourself.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's like no, no, no, no, no promise.
Speaker 4: Speaking of comp and yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, you'll know the you'll know the skater we
talked about though, the really Ilia mallin In or whatever
he feel in the finals got like eighth. He gave him.
Speaker 4: He gave himself that nickname.
Speaker 5: He gave himself caught. You can't give yourself.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 5: I'm mad that we all know.
Speaker 4: I know he gave himself the nickname.
Speaker 2: And he apparently had a nickname before that because he
did like a triple gave himself that nickname too, So
he's a repeat offender on that.
Speaker 4: It's not good.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, did somebody actually call you read Shepherd
or is that just a guy you watched?
Speaker 6: They were just named at first, they were naming like
any white guy. They were going from Red Shepherd, who else.
Speaker 4: Read Shepherd?
Speaker 6: Reached that's my favorite one so far.
Speaker 2: So an athletic white guy, is what you're saying. No, no, no,
That's what I'm saying. Like they just they just compared
you to a to a an athletic white guy. Yeah, hey,
I get it.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I got a little fired up this morning because, uh,
I don't know if anybody saw us and another goal medal, yeah,
this time against those damn dirty Canadians.
Speaker 6: All and over time too.
Speaker 2: The fifty first state now of the US, like the
US officially owns Canada. Hockey was the one thing you had,
right like Canadian Football League awful. We listed the number
of celebrities you had.
Speaker 4: We don't care. We could take them or leave them.
Speaker 2: The best thing about Canada is nickelback, and half the
US hates you. Your flag is your country's so boring
that you put a leaf on your flag to attract
tourist Niagara Falls. You could see it from Buffalo, New York.
Now we own them in hockey. Those who didn't see
US women's hockey beats Canada and the gold medal round
two to one, so it was one nothing going into
the final period, and then Hillary Knights scores the goal
in the third send it into overtime, and Megan Keller
the overtime goal to send those damn Canadians into that
second place bracket.
Speaker 4: Shout out to us. They get it done.
Speaker 2: That is their third gold medal in US women's hockey history,
first since twenty eighteen. Actually so it's been a little while,
but uh, shout out once again US showing their dominance
over Canada. And get ready because today after the US
men's team takes down Slovakia in the semifinal round. We're
gonna whip up on you in the gold medal round
in the I'm sorry, this is OTB, as a Laundra
would say, We're gonna give you a can of butt
whip in the final round. Braxton, you ever heard of
like Budro's butt paste. You've probably seen it in the stores.
Speaker 8: I don't.
Speaker 2: I couldn't actually tell you what it's for. I just
know it's the thing a Landra created, butt whip. That's
our OTB version of it. So you hear me.
Speaker 5: Refer to anything, You're ready for a laundre right.
Speaker 8: This is.
Speaker 2: This is something that we created what two weeks ago,
when it was when it was just the tripod of
Neilandra Matt scary times.
Speaker 5: That week was well it's gonna happen again next week.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We also created an Olympic position, the Freckle Inspector.
He may pop up in the chat.
Speaker 4: So if you see Freckle.
Speaker 2: Inspector in the chat that came from that week as well,
we're gonna patent butt whip. We're gonna make a killing
off of it. But shout out US women's hockey team
getting it done over the Canadians, and yeah, US plays
Slovakia today at two o'clock. On the men's side, Canada
plays Finland. I imagine it's gonna be US and Canada.
I hope at US and Canada get a little payback
from the four nations face off last year. Get that done,
get another gold medal in the bracket, make it happen,
keep bracking up the golds. LSU sits in I mean
lu the US sits in third place right now in
terms of total medal count. Norway again still dominating Italy
and second US right now twenty five twenty six overall medals,
and yeah dominating killing it in the Winter Olympics right now.
Started off slow, but past couple of weeks or so,
they're they're getting going.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 2: Look, we're gonna cut first segment a little bit short
because we got a lot to get to. LSU women's basketball,
big time road win last night, and the Tigers on
the baseball diamond. They'll play a little tournament up in
Florida coming up today this afternoon, one pm. First pitch.
We're breaking it all down. Next you're on off the bench.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in Friday edition of Off the
Bench and guys, this' a Friday hass Friday, you.
Speaker 5: Know, sitt explain what happened sitting here.
Speaker 2: Larger like that commercial break seemed a little long, Babe,
what happened?
Speaker 7: So we got back from the break and the log
over here has our live reads that we're supposed to do,
and we had what we call a floater and I
tried to clear the floater.
Speaker 5: And I accidentally double clicked.
Speaker 7: So when I cleared the floater, I also hit the
stab again, and so whenever I hit the stab, AT
sent us immediately into a second break as soon as we.
Speaker 5: Got back from that first break. So my bad, y'all,
My bad for the six minutes of commercials. That's on
me for real, chest Tat.
Speaker 2: So I took the headphones off here of the break,
put them back one I hear the OTB stab and
I'm like, we're about to come back in and laundry
goes No.
Speaker 4: I'm like like a launcher relaxed.
Speaker 2: It's just the stab, Like if you're not ready to
come back from break, we can let the bump music.
And then she's like we're in another break, Like wait,
so wow, guys, were about to have a little twenty
minute segment.
Speaker 5: Sorry atv uh Sorry I said.
Speaker 2: You'll better Buckaloup, It'll be fine. Nookie had a comment
in the chat that really made me laugh. Brackston, you're
not gonna know what this is because you're twelve years old.
But Nookie says, Braxton comes from the family who created
the Braxton Hicks contractions.
Speaker 4: That's hilarious. I don't know if either of you know
what that is.
Speaker 5: So a girl, I know what Braxton Hicks are.
Speaker 2: How effed up is it that it's named after a guy?
Speaker 4: Yeah? First off?
Speaker 5: Also friends, ah, true.
Speaker 2: That's true Braxton Hicks contractions. Braxton is like false ones,
Like it's a it's a really bad contraction to where
it feels like you're going into labor and you're actually not,
and it's just your body preparing itself for labor. So
like you know how they're like, oh like babies comment
like I'm about to go in the labor. It's not
in like twenty seconds, it's done, and it could happen
like multiple times. That's what Braxton Hicks contractions. I just
thought that was fine. I doubt that. I doubt that's who.
Speaker 4: You related to.
Speaker 8: But owned.
Speaker 2: Alright, guys, a lot to get to in this segment.
Fortunately LSU women's basketball. If you didn't catch it last night,
you miss the heck of a game. The Tigers pull
it out. When they looked like they were they were
done for. I mean they were just barely tread and
water that entire game. Ole Miss had a six point
lead in halftime. So you' ling, Okay, LSU's still within
striking distance. Lush you awful second quarter, just eleven points
in that second quarter started out well, I mean, put
up twenty six in the first one. Okay, that's about normal.
Let's see if they can keep that rolling awful in
the second. Ole Miss gets up to as much as
a thirteen point lead in the third quarter. LSU was
able to cut it to nine heading into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: Well, with about six.
Speaker 2: And a half minutes to go, the ol Miss Rebels
were up ten points at home. Six and a half
minutes to go, it looked like there was no way
this team was going to come back. What happened. Ole
Miss couldn't make any shots, and LSU just kept coming
and kept going and kept going and kept going. They
fought all the way back. You look, you're like, oh,
they cut it to six, they cut it to four. Wait,
a minute, this is a tie game. And once they
tied that game on that Jada Reeshard twelve foot jumper,
the entire they flipped on its head and LSU ran
away with and LSU wins this game seventy eight to seventy.
So from being down ten with six and a half
minutes to go to winning this game by eight points
in that swing, it really shows the want for this team.
Think about it, these ladies just came off of an emotional, draining,
physical basketball game on Saturday night in the p met
It was the seven thirty primetime game.
Speaker 4: It was on ABC.
Speaker 2: You took on arguably the best team in women's college basketball,
and you came up short once again. I mean, you
lost the eighteenth straight time to South Carolina. Kim Molkey
o wins six against Dawn Staley since being at LSU,
Like that's heartbreaking for everyone involved, and to get up
for a game like that physically and emotionally, that can
be draining on you. Look at what happened two years ago.
Two years ago, LSU hosted South Carolina in that exact
same spot they lost to South Carolina, and what happened.
They went on the road to Mississippi State later in
that week and they lost that game, and it very
much looked like that.
Speaker 4: Was what was going to happen last night.
Speaker 2: But Lage Johnson Malaysia full whiley will get into in
a minute, Jada Reeshard, like all of them stepped up
so big down the stretch for this team.
Speaker 4: It was incredible.
Speaker 2: If you're wondering just how good LSU's defense was in
that fourth quarter, Ole miss seven points in the fourth
quarter and they were zero for sixteen on field goal attempts.
All seven points came from free throws. It was foul shots.
They kept them in that game. LSU outscored them twenty
four to seven in that last quarter of play and
again the last six and a half, they just they
blew the doors off up. I mean, it wound up
being can LSU try to get back into this game?
Speaker 4: To how much is LSU gonna win by?
Speaker 2: Once you were in the final two minutes of this
ball game, flaw j Johnson like is just the leader
of this team. You can tell that she's a four
year player under Kim Moulk. Anything, everything she has to
do win the game, she's going to do it. And
she had five rebounds in this game, three assists, just
one turnover. She shot six for eleven from the field,
so she was actually really good there and she finished
with eighteen points. She's actually only one of two players
with double digits in this game. Malaysia full Wiley off
the bench, continues to just be a spark plug for
this team. She came off the bench twenty four minutes,
twenty six points, ten of eighteen shooting, and she kind
of led the charge that last six minutes or so.
She went on a run where she had like two
or three buckets in a row by herself to get
you within that two point gap. And then again Jada
Reeshard ties the game on the jumper and that's all
she wrote. The Tigers run away with it, and you
could see that they were fired up. I mean, I
understand it's a different sport, but think about how much
Ole Miss fans hate La Shoe right now, Like that's
you could hear it.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was like a hornet.
Speaker 2: Patrick on the broadcast literally said, it feels like LSU's
in a hornet to this right now. The fans are
right on top. There was seventy five hundred people in
that building. Last night at an eight o'clock midweek tip off,
and most of them where they're rooting against LSU. Now,
LSU traveled well, they got a lot of their fans there.
I don't know if any of you saw the picture
of a lot of the fans brought the Lane Kiffin
LSU headshot cutout and they were holding it up control.
The old Miss fans love that because Ole Miss is
never gonna stop thinking about Lane Kivin. They're never gonna
stop thinking about LSU. And the fact that you went
in there and got that win.
Speaker 4: Great.
Speaker 2: Now you can say, Okay, LSU's number seven in the country.
They got to win over number seventeen.
Speaker 4: Great.
Speaker 2: They did exactly what they're supposed to do. First off,
it's hard to beat top twenty five opponents. Second, it's
even harder to win on the road in the SEC.
But most importantly, I don't know if people realize how
big this game actually was for really both teams. So
going into last night, LSU and ole Miss were tied
for fourth in the conference. They were eight and four overall.
In order to get that extra buy in the SEC tournament,
you have to be a top four seat. Now, South
Carolina's at the top twelve and one, Vandy's up there
like no, nobody's catching those teams well. With the win
last night, LSU is now in sole possession of fourth place,
sitting at nine and four. The three teams right behind
them Oklahoma, Tennessee, Ole Miss. LSU was beating all three
of those teams head to head, including Ole Miss last night.
All the Lady Tigers got to do now is keep
winning and you get your bye. You don't have to
rely on anyone else. So you can look at it
and say, yeah, big time top twenty five conference win,
like great, but it means so much more for that
for SEC tournament hopes and tournament seeding if you go
far in that SEC tournament.
Speaker 4: This was much bigger than just one game.
Speaker 2: And I mean, obviously I was just talking about the
fan rivalry between the two schools, but even more so
than that, what this team accomplished last night to get
off the mat, fight back in a game where honestly,
like I was working the board last night, I was
producing the game for Patrick Wright sitting there in the studio.
It snowballs into a thirteen point lead for ole Miss
with about two and a half to go in the
third quarter, and I'm like, this game's over. Oh, she
was about to lose the second consecutive game and fall
to eight and five. I really saw that happen. Get
into the fourth quarter and they're just they're chipping away
and chipping away and chipping away. And then the last
two minutes I kind of sat back. I mean, what
even super tense the last two minutes because I kind
of knew LSU had this game in the back the
way they were playing, you know, outside of the scoring itself,
big story in the second half, Mikayla Williams did not
play at all in the second half. She had sixteen minutes,
all of them in the first half. Now she had
seven points, three for eight, shooting one for three from
the three point line. It didn't look like she was injured.
I mean, she was sitting on the bench of the
entire time. She actually stood up with the team when
there was a timeout in the huddle. No word yet
on if Look, we know Kim Moulke, she's a fiery coach.
Where she's trying to make an example out of Mikayla Williams.
You know, it's all speculation at this point. Kayla Williams
did not play at all though in that second half.
The good news is it didn't look like though it
was because of injury. But again a big time win
for the LSU Tigers seventy eight to seventy over the
Old Miss Rebels on the road. And again LSU now
sole position of that fourth place spot so they could
get that extra by in that second round in that
SEC tournament. Okay, want to shift gears right now to
LSU Baseball Tigers will play the Jacks Classic starting today
one pm.
Speaker 4: First pitch.
Speaker 2: It's not really a tournament, but there are four different
teams here, so it's kind of like a think of
it as like a regional if you will out there
in Jacksonville, So you'll play Indiana. Notre Dame u SEF
Tigers will play Indiana, first pitch at one o'clock. And now,
for those wondering last night, it kind of leaked the
pitching rotation for LSUOT So Cason Evans will be Friday,
just like you was last week. Cooper Moore Saturday. Sunday
as of right now is TB eight, So it could
be William Schmidt, it could be someone else. We'll see
mean landra were talking about it earlier this week, like
not all three of those weekend rotations, about three seven stunt.
Also keep in mind that Cooper Williams did not pitch
in that midweek game a couple of nights ago against Nichols.
Are they preparing him for a weekend start? Do they
go with William Schmidt?
Speaker 4: Illough.
Speaker 2: William Schmidt had a fine outing on Sunday. I think
he was good enough to earn a second start. But
you know, Jay likes the tinger with things early in
the year, trying to find his best possible lineup. So
just something to keep an eye on going into Sunday.
And now, you know, if we see Cooper Williams out
of the pen either today or tomorrow, that'll give us
a clearer pitcher on what happened Sunday. But just keep
that in mind, and you know, maybe they'll Knolnce down
the road who's pitching Sunday. But as of last night,
it was it was TBA on that Sunday spot. But
Tigers will take on Indiana first. Indiana won in three
overall on the season, so you can look at that
and say, oh, well, this team's not any good LSU
is gonna have a really easy time. But they took
on number eleven North Carolina in the opening weekend and
they struggled.
Speaker 4: I mean they lost nine to four on Friday.
Speaker 2: Game two is a twelve to two run rule victory
for the tar Heels, and then a four to three
loss that went into extra nings. That was an eleven
inning game. So Indiana fought back a little bit in
that game three. Then they came home and beat the
Brakes off of Bradley fifteen to three run rule in
their midweek game. So not a lot to go off of,
because yes, they got swept by a really good top
fifteen program on the re in North Carolina. You come home,
you beat the Brakes off of an overmatch team and Bratt,
So not a lot to look at and say, hey,
what is is this team good?
Speaker 4: Are they not? I think it's somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 2: As far as what LSU is going to see, you'll
likely see Tony Newbak as the Friday pitcher for Indiana.
He threw on Friday last week. And I mentioned that
they lost that that Friday game to North Carolina last
week nine to four. It wasn't really Tourny new Beaks fault.
I mean he went he did well. He goes four innings,
gives up only one hit, had two strikeouts, gave up
no runs, and he did walk three. That was kind
of a theme in the opening weekend for that Indiana
pitching staff was they allowed a lot of free base
runners to get on those base paths. But yeah, I
mean he pitched well, four innings, two k's, one hit,
gave up no runs. If you remember the name Tony Newbak,
he pitched at Missouri last year, you've been there for
a few years. Lsues actually faced him one time when
he is that Missouri. Wasn't great at Missouri, kind of
a middle of the road pitcher. But Indiana is relying
on him right now to be that Friday starter for them,
So that is likely who you're going to see in
Game one. Third base Will Moore. He has led off
every game for them so far, with kind of mixed results.
He's five of seventeen in the year with three RBIs.
But again, they've played four games. He is led off
in every single one of those games. I imagine when
Indiana goes out there to bat third baseman Will Moore,
will likely lead all for him once again unless something
else changed, because they're really not hitting the ball well
as a team like you can say, oh five or seventeen.
Speaker 4: They might make a change again. I mean they struggled.
They scored.
Speaker 2: Nine runs total in three games against Indiana, I mean
against the North Carolina and yeah they got the fifteen
runs in the midweek, but that was against Bradley, an
overmatch team. I think LSU is gonna have some success here.
I would like to see case and Evans have a
bounce back. I mean, you know, he did some good
on Friday, did some not so good on Friday.
Speaker 4: As well.
Speaker 2: As far as Game two goes, you'll face the Notre
Dame fighting Irish. Notre Dame two and one on the year.
They've only played three games. They actually lost their opener
to FAU in game one last week, then they dominated
them the next two games. I imagine Notre Dame playing
in Boca Raton last week. They're in Jacksonville this week.
They probably just chilled in Florida for the past week,
which is why they did not play that midweek game.
Cayden Crowell started Game two last week, went three innings,
no runs, no hits, but again he did walk for
and he struck out three. So both starting pitchers that
you're likely going to face did a good job of
limiting hits and limiting runs, but they gave up free
passes to some batters. If you do that against a
talented lineup like LSU, that's going to get you into
some trouble. So that's something to watch as the series
goes along a little bit more. And then your Game
three opponent, UCF. They crushed Sienna in their opening series
sixteen nothing, thirteen to one, fifteen nothing.
Speaker 4: All of those were run rules. Then they fell short
to Miami.
Speaker 2: It was a nationally ranked team in their midweek game
on Tuesday, but look, they battled hard. That was an
eight to seven final score that went thirteen innings against
the Hurricanes. So UCF looking pretty strong on the year
so far. We'll see what they have in this Jacks Classic.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 2: I know the two of you will be will be
locked in on this as well, so you know, I
kind of gave this an overall breakdown of what you're
probably going to see pitching wise for these these teams
you're gonna face this weekend, whether it's Indiana notre name
Central Florida. As far as the Tigers get, I got
a few on my mind. Want to see where y'all
are at. What are you keeping an eye on a lounge?
As far as the Tigers go? What are you looking
for this weekend? Some of you want to see.
Speaker 5: I can't think of like anything specifically. I'm kind of
with you.
Speaker 7: I want to see if Cason can go a little
longer than three and a third I think is.
Speaker 5: What it was on Friday.
Speaker 7: Obviously, I also kind of want to see so I
know it's TBD on Sunday, maybe William Schmidt, maybe somebody else,
maybe Cooper Williams, because we didn't end up seeing him
on uh when did we play Wednesday? So maybe I'm
curious to see that. But I'm also curious to see
later on down the line if Cason Evans holds that
Friday night spot or if it ends up being like
he switches Cooper more to the to be your Ace
and then maybe Cason too Saturday.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 7: We'll have to see how he ends up doing and
if he can extend. But I'm I'm curious down the
line to see what the rotation ends up being yeah,
because I don't think. I don't think this is what's
gonna be.
Speaker 1: J.
Speaker 2: I mean every year, that's the first thing I wrote down,
Get the case of Evans extend as a starter. Yeah,
I wanted you to go first because I knew that's
where you were going. Like everybody's on the same page
on this. Yes, he went three and a third. He
did strike out seven and three and a third, which
is great. No, he I mean like he did his
He did well the top of the fourth, just snowbird,
and like all four runs he gave up were in
that fourth, and he was cruising through the first three
and you're like, Okay, this is the case in Evans.
Speaker 7: We expected I could be remembering wrong, but wasn't it
kind of like that last season too when he would.
Speaker 2: Start Yeah, because he got some of those Sez starts
on Sunday and yeah, and I remember that was when
everybody was like, do you keep starting him? Do you
put him back in the back of the bullpen, because
you really because at that point you really only had
him in Evans, Like the rest of the bullpen, I
mean him and him and Cowen. The rest of the
bullpen was was still trying to catch up. So people
were like, hey, you know Evans is too valuable out
of the pin, do you really want to start him?
But yeah, I mean he he got off to a
slow start last year. I remember it was cow when
that got the hot start. Evans towards the end of
the year was the one. It was really your dominant guy.
But yeah, the fourth inning last week against against Milwaukee
really just kind of snowballed on him. But seven strikeouts,
three and a third, what does thee feel extend a
little bit longer? I got a feeling that he will.
I have confidence that Case and Evans can be a
starting pitcher for this team. I'm glad you brought up
Cooper Moore because if Cooper Moore goes six innings, eleven
strikeouts and no walks like he did this last week,
he kind of has to be your Friday guy.
Speaker 4: Now that's a tough ask.
Speaker 2: Eleven strikeouts to no walks is incredible, But we knew
coming into this season Cooper Moore was probably going to
be a starter.
Speaker 4: On this stat.
Speaker 2: Jay raved about him in press conferences every chance he got,
And when a coach does that, when a coach raves
about a player in any sport when not specifically asked
about that player. To me, that always makes me think, Okay,
that player is top of mind for that coach. They
are really standing out. And that's exactly what happened. Like
Cooper Moore last year started to bunch of games that
Kansas did really well and he was dominant week one.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's something to keep an eye on. This one.
Speaker 2: Not even a concern for me. I just want to
see how good he really is. Can Gavin Guidry continue
his dominance like that's that's something I'm watching, Like, I
don't know if you guys realize I went yesterday and
kind of combined his first two games. In the first
two games now he's only going four and a third total,
but in two games four and a third innings, pitched,
ten strikeouts, one hit, no runs, no walks. That's unbelievable.
If Gavin Gidrey can be eighty percent of what he's
been so far, then you have a really good back
of the bullpen. Relieve, I know it's early in the season.
I know everyone was concerned about Gavin Guidry's injury. I mean, hell,
he hadn't played in eighteen months until the opener against Milwaukee.
Gavin Guidry almost looks better than he was, which is
difficult to say because he was a closer on the
national championship team as a freshman and had a big
role as a sophomore in twenty twenty four as well.
Gavin Guidry almost looks bigger, stronger than he did before
he had that injury issue. Gavin Guidry can keep it going.
I think the sky is the limit for this pitching
staff because at that point if it does wind up
be in some combination of Cason Evans, Cooper Moore, William
Schmid in the starting role or at Cooper Williams, but
three of those four guys solidify a spot. You have
your starters, you have your back end guy in Gavin Guidry.
Devin Sheeran was dominant. He could give you some big
time in it. I think Santiago Garcia is gonna step up.
He was too good at Oregon. That's a lefty out
of the pin for you. If you get your starting
rotation figured out, pairing that with Gavin Gidry and as
your your number one bull, then arm you can kind
of pick and choose your spots for everyone else those
guys will have had those kind of designated spots in
that rotation in that bullpen. You can kind of pick
and choose based on matchup, which Jay does all the time. Anyways,
It just it just kind of makes your life easier.
How concerned are you, Alandra about Zach Cowan right now?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 7: We kind of talked about this yesterday, and I'd be
lying if I said I wasn't a little concerned about it.
But we've just seen it from him before, so I
don't like, obviously there is a little bit of concern,
but I think that if you get a little bit
more reps work with Nate Yesky a little bit, we
could probably see him back to where he was before.
But it is concerned only because the last the back
end of last season, right, But.
Speaker 2: We also, to your point, saw him in so many
big time moments against a big time teams. Like if
this was Zach Calvin a year ago, coming from Wafford,
stepping up a level of competition and then struggling, That's
where my concern would be. At that point, I would
be like, Okay, this is an issue. Is he not
ready for this this level of ball? But he was
so good for you last year. I mean, he was
the best closer in the SEC for seventy five eighty
percent of the season last year.
Speaker 4: I think he'll get it back. He has the ability
to do that.
Speaker 2: To her point about working with Nate Yeessky, like, is
there a guy I know people like the troll and
all that, but in all seriousness, is there a guy
in college baseball you would trust more to work with
somebody than Nate Yusky? Not me?
Speaker 4: And I trust that man wholeheartedly.
Speaker 2: He was great before he got here, and all he's
done at LSU, has had this team lead the SEC
in strikeouts two years in a row, and oh yeah,
they won a Natty last year. Nate Ysky's got the
resume to where I'm just gonna blindly trust him.
Speaker 4: I think Zach Cowen can bounce out of it.
Speaker 2: And the good news is this team is so talented
and so deep, you're gonna have at least a talent
advantage over most of the teams you play at this
point in the season. Put Cowen out there, let him
work through his struggles in an in game situation, because
you have the talent advantage right now to overcome that.
I mean, if you drop a game, yeah, that sucks.
But I think right now it's more important for Zach
Cowen to work through his issues because when you get
into those high leverage moments in SEC games, you're gonna
need a guy like that who has the experience and
who has the ability to make those big time pitches
for you. And that's whos that Cowen is. So we'll
see what happens. A lot of things to watch as
LSU again. They will play Game one against Indiana one
pm this afternoon in the Jacks Baseball Classic out there
in Jacksonville, Florida.
Speaker 4: We're gonna keep an.
Speaker 10: Eye on it.
Speaker 2: We'll recap the entire series when we get back on Monday.
But what we'll do right now, we'll step away. We'll
close out OTUR number one. Next here on off the bench,
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Speaker 4: We rolled with the punches.
Speaker 5: Happy Friday. Here's six minutes of commercials. So stupid, I'm.
Speaker 2: About the boy yall's minds. You're not gonna believe this.
You're not gonna see it coming. Georgia had two players
arrested yesterday.
Speaker 5: For res drive Way you're lying that program.
Speaker 2: I know it's actually Wednesday night, but yes, both of them,
linebackers Chris Cole and Darren at Kinnabon were rested on
reckless you're driving and exceeding the maximum limit.
Speaker 8: Believable.
Speaker 2: Both were misdemeanors. But but here's the funny part of this. Well,
luckily no one was injured, because that has happened before.
He surrounding that program.
Speaker 4: But it says here.
Speaker 2: Cole was booked at nine fifty nine pm and posted
bond at ten thirty nine pm. That's forty minutes. At Kennabon,
he was booked at ten thirty seven pm. He posted
bail at eleven eight pm. Also around forty forty five minutes.
You know what reminds me of a lotne this uh
this clip radio from SpongeBob. Go go ahead, Brexton, you're
you gonna do it.
Speaker 3: That's okay, follow me. If you can't do the time,
don't do the crime. Okay, times up.
Speaker 2: That's Georgia, get out. That's that's that's literally, that's the
Athens County Sheriff's department. They were feeling uh Athens Clark
County is who it was they were. They were feeling
generous there and uh yeah, they were in jail for
like flip of a coin. And this is this part
here blows my mind.
Speaker 4: I had to check this.
Speaker 2: I thought this was a typo. But dog nation dot
com has it, Y'allhoo Sports has it. This is the
actual amount they had to pay to post bond. Chris
Cole posted a twenty six dollars perfect Darren akinnabon he
really got a big slap on the risk. He had
to post a thirty nine dollars bond and they were
in they were they were locked up for about forty
minutes a peace. At that point, do you have to
have somebody come bond you out? Or if you just
got forty bucks in your pocket, you just slip it
to the cop and be like a can you take pay?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 1: Can?
Speaker 2: I have never been Moia forty bucks? Like can we
just can we just wrap this up and be done
with it?
Speaker 7: The uh?
Speaker 4: The part I love in this article on dog Nation.
Speaker 2: Listen to this. This is not the first time Georgia
has run into issues with reckless driving.
Speaker 4: Wait, I thought it was Believe it or not a
laundra This has happened before.
Speaker 2: Crazy It's become a recurring issue with the program after
the last few off seasons.
Speaker 5: But real talk, like how does it happen every year?
Speaker 4: In always like always change.
Speaker 5: Georgia football, and it's always reckless driving?
Speaker 2: And Kirby seems like the type of guy that would
run a really tight program.
Speaker 5: I guess not.
Speaker 2: And like it's so hard nowadays because players all said,
damn so saw if you punish them in any way,
shape or for him, they're just going to enter the
transfer portal and leave. But if I'm Kirby smart, part
of the nil package for my football team is I'm
buying everyone a motor scooter or a segway or a
damn hoverboard or whatever.
Speaker 4: I can. You ain't allowed to drive here at the
Georgia football program.
Speaker 2: It's not happening.
Speaker 7: Well, they keep doing it because they've spent forty minutes
in jail and paid twenty six dollars to get out.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm sure the cops were feeling generous that night.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact
that these were Georgia football players. Okay, you and I,
if we were drag racing on that strip, we'd probably
spend twenty five minutes in.
Speaker 5: Jail houndra tildest time.
Speaker 2: Tell you what if that happened to us, I'll be
generous and be the big spender. I'd pay both of
our bonds, really I would. I'd pay the thirty nine
and the twenty six dollars.
Speaker 5: It's crazy.
Speaker 8: I know, I got you.
Speaker 5: I would just call Gordy.
Speaker 2: Gordy, can you send me, like, Gordy, fifty bucks, can.
Speaker 5: You get me out of jail?
Speaker 2: It's fifty bucks. Good, that seems like a really low bond. No,
that's for two of us.
Speaker 4: So that's two of us. It is totally.
Speaker 5: It is fifty bucks, both twenty five dollars each.
Speaker 4: It's just it's insane.
Speaker 2: So Chris Cole though actually a pretty good linebacker for
this team. He had fifty nine tackles a year ago,
seven tackles for a lost four and a half sacks
last season, appeared in all fourteen games.
Speaker 4: You think that guy's gonna get in a whole lot
of trouble.
Speaker 2: Probably not, uh, Darren Akinnebon he only appeared in five
games with two tackles. He don't stand a chance. That's
why his bond was an extra thirteen dollars. Yeah, they
were like, look, Chris, you did a lot of good.
We'll give you twenty six bucks. You're out of here.
And Darren's going and leave and he's like what what
where do you think you're going? Darren? He's like, well,
I'm I'm going with my buddy, Chris. You let him out, No, sir,
pay you up thirty nine big ones right here, buddy
slap his two twenties on the table. We'll call it
even that one like.
Speaker 5: An Audubon or something like it out in Athens, it.
Speaker 2: Says they expeeded, expeded, exceeded the mash the maximum speed limit.
Speaker 5: That was Matt Flynn as.
Speaker 2: That was that was needed, That was, that was that
was a flynnism right there, Just making up words here
struggling today anyways, Georgia, Uh, stay hot. I mean, I
just I don't know what else to say. I don't
know what else to say about this program. It is
just it blows my mind every time I see a
story like this. All right, we're gonna take a time out,
we get back. We got a lot coming up. Jay
Clark eight thirty, Ross Jackson nine o'clock. Doug Thompson former
relaship picture coming up in nine thirty.
Speaker 4: All that.
Speaker 2: Next, you're on off the bench.
Speaker 1: Off the bench,