Speaker 1: All start to you want to present off the bench.
Speaker 2: This is what we have been waiting for.
Speaker 3: The hype is over.
Speaker 1: Off the bench, it is I gotta come off the face.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Here's Jacob Hester.
Speaker 4: Yo and welcome man to O T B one, O
four five, ESPN, Ben Rouge ninety four to seven and
Alexandria eleven thirty am the Tiger up in the Port City. Jake,
Elandra and Tatay here with you on a Tuesday morning. Boy,
do we have a crime to solve? We'll get there
here in a couple of minutes. We do have another
big show laid out for you here in our number one.
Chris Blair, the voice of the LSU Tigers, will join us.
Chris Phillips a breakdown some SEC baseball in our number two.
And of course it is Tuesday, so Nick Underhill, New
Orleans Dot Football will join us in our number three.
But before we get there, Elandra, Taty, how we doing?
How we feeling feeling good?
Speaker 5: A little perplexed by what we're about to talk about?
Hearing a little bit this mystery that unfortunately I discovered,
but you.
Speaker 2: Did you discovered and then it just got.
Speaker 5: Well, it got worse. What you discovered was worse than
what I discovered.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. But you're well rested.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, oh yeah, I passed out real early last night.
I couldn't make it past nine pm. I was out
by eight forty five.
Speaker 2: So proud of you.
Speaker 6: Very well rested.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was, that was. That's not my life, but
I'm proud of you. How we doing.
Speaker 4: Tita's got a little moose inning this morning, Yeah he is,
he really does.
Speaker 6: He's over here cursing objects out.
Speaker 2: You're you're not cursed?
Speaker 4: Oh you did when you first came in and you
looked at that one computer.
Speaker 2: Well okay, so.
Speaker 7: When we when we got here this morning, like all
the computers, all the computers had updated overnight, no big deal,
Like a launder came in, reseaid those two set these
This computer to my left waited until like ten minutes
before the show to do a complete reset.
Speaker 6: So now can't you just turned on?
Speaker 1: Literally?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's always like I have to use a backup
way to go live like we're live. But it's just
like if it would have been like this when I
got here, we would have been up in plenty of time.
Speaker 2: But yeah, An, you've probably been here for a long
time too.
Speaker 5: We have a really good question in the chap as Jordan,
why is it this is the only show that has
feed problems because.
Speaker 6: We're the first one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so like we're basically the guinea pig and everything's
fixed by the rest of everything else.
Speaker 2: That without question.
Speaker 4: It's been like that ever since I've moved to every
show but the morning show. For sure, we'd be at
night yeah, I first got here, and like it felt
like there was always some issue there as well. But
the morning show, Yeah, the morning show is always going
to get whatever the problem is. Yes, speaking of problems,
we might as well go ahead and get into it.
Speaking of the Morning show not having things, no one
here on this show, even when t Bob was here,
we didn't have a designated parking spot. Nobody here me
a Landra, a Tata, t Bob didn't. Most everybody else
in the building has one. Yeah, And I think I
guess the thought process is now it doesn't really play
for y'all too, because y'all are literally here all day.
But I guess for the host it was, oh, well,
they're not there, so they can just park wherever T
Bob used to park behind the building. I always park
in Visitor parking. Flynn he made a joke when he
made his video about joining the show.
Speaker 2: I haven't told him yet.
Speaker 4: That doesn't mean you get a parking spot, because none
of us have a parking spot. So something happened here
at Guaranteed Media yesterday. There's only one way that I
feel like I can really describe this, and it's in
the style of one of my favorite shows, a laundra
you can hit it. This is a story of a
crime that shocked a workplace. Eight forty one am yesterday,
someone went number two in the Guarantee parking lot. At
first we didn't know the full extent of the damage,
but the footage told the truth. Security cameras revealed the unthinkable.
My car caught in the line of fire, a direct hit.
This wasn't just a mess, It was a declaration in
no car wash, no matter how Premium can brush that off.
The names have been changed to protect the innocent, but
the stains remain.
Speaker 2: That's right, my car caught astray.
Speaker 4: Yesterday and we are on the case dragnet style.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is not a bit tate.
Speaker 4: Can you please pull up the picture while we're talking
about it? If you know the whereabouts of this human being.
That is my car, and that is a laundra's car
right next to my car. She didn't think she caught
us some strays, she did. There's no way as a
direct hit to my car, you had to catch something.
And it all started as fun and games. When Alanda's like, hey,
somebody went number two in the guaranteed parking lot and
I didn't think anything of it.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, that's nasty.
Speaker 4: Then she's like, in the visitors side of the parking lot,
I'm hoping it's on the other side. If you're looking
at our building, I hope it's on the left side
of the building, not on the right side of the building. No,
it was on the right side of the building. And
then here comes a couple of pictures. One picture of
the most whitey tidy underwear that you can imagine. We'll
save you from that. We won't put that on the
back screen. Nobody needs to see that again.
Speaker 2: I can pull it up.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't think we need to with a pile
of you know what sitting to the whitey tidies. Okay,
didn't recognize where that really was in the building.
Speaker 2: No, you know that's nasty. No other thought about it.
Speaker 4: And then we get the picture we just showed you,
and I said, oh damn, that's my car.
Speaker 2: That's right there.
Speaker 4: And at that moment, I knew that either my car
or a Launes car was gonna have some miss on it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So.
Speaker 4: My god, I am leaving running an air and I
just had a great lunch with my entire family outside
of Huddie.
Speaker 2: He was still at school. He had something. Everybody else
was out.
Speaker 4: We're at walk Ons, We're having a good time, and
I have to get out of my car to check
the front grille. I get out, I check it. It's
not like a little bit. It's a lot of bit.
It was a It was a lot, okay. And so
well here my show's about to start, my afternoon show
on it's like one fifteen.
Speaker 2: Well, I still got to get set up. I gotta
get ready to go.
Speaker 4: I got to connect to DC, and so I'm like,
I'll stop by the car wash. Well, while it was
in Katie's car, all I had was the old tap
feature on my phone. You know what, maybe car washes
are up to date. Maybe you can do a tap
situation at a car wash. Well the one I went to, No,
you need a I had cash too, Nope, you need
a card right now? Of course I do, so I
had Look, this is not very gritty of me. I
had no choice. I drive to the house. I was like, hey,
wife of mine, here's the situation. I can't park in
the garage. That's nasty. Somebody else's is ish is on
the front of my car. So my wife, being the
real one that she is, she takes my car, runs
it through Benny's car wash. I'm thinking, everything solved, We're
good to go. Right, it's off the front of the car.
It didn't get it all off. In fact, there was
still a lot left on there. My poor wife, which
I would have done this if she would have waited.
But my poor wife, being the person she is, I
see her. I look out and she's got a brush
scrubbing the front of my car because your nasty ass
decided to come up into our parking lot. Here, pull
your pants down. It ish all over the place. And
again the amount like, I'm gonna spare you from seeing
the photo that I had to see that Elandra had
to see, had to see that t Bobby one group
had to see that Flynn and another group had to see.
My poor wife's out there trying to get it off
my car. And if if you could have been a
part of our messages as we figured out, like just
the levels of how this all went down. And I wish,
I wish I would have had a camera on me
when I figured out, Oh my god, that is so
close to my car. And then when I get out,
I'm running like one last errand before the afternoon show,
and I see, oh, there is human ish on the
front of my car.
Speaker 2: And again again this isn't like a little bit like.
Speaker 4: I was appalled, I mean just completely bamboozled by the
entire way that it all played out.
Speaker 2: Look, if you're upset that, if you're upset.
Speaker 4: That t Bob left, I understand we're upset too, But
it doesn't mean you have to issue my car that
I mean, that feels targeted. And if you're wondering, Tata
drives a big red truck.
Speaker 2: If you want to do it.
Speaker 7: Again, that happens to me twice a week. It's usually
in the bed of the truck.
Speaker 4: Well that's fine, Like the bet of the true can
get the powerwash you get back there.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Ray asked, did you find a sock or anything to No,
no sock, just some old school whitey tidies just sitting
there with a pile next to it. It's crazy and
I would like trust me when I say, like I
wish this was like some dumb bit that.
Speaker 2: We were doing.
Speaker 6: It's really nice.
Speaker 4: It's really like if we have to, like if it
gets to a point where people think it's a bit,
we have evid we have evidence of said whitey tidies
with a pile next to it. We just showed you
the evidence of the man about to pull his drawls down.
We got evidence of a car wash not getting the
poop off, and we got evidence of having to scrub
said poop off.
Speaker 2: Eight am.
Speaker 4: Listen to the like and there's like a porta potty
right behind here because they've been doing it. They've been
doing construction on this church since Jesus himself was a boy.
Speaker 2: And you can't go pooping the port of post wild.
Speaker 7: My theory is that it was because he came up
here around nine o'clock. It's happened at like eight forty five.
We know how he feels about us because he didn't
even bother to come in here in studio. Yeah, and
only that he told us he went to the bathroom
down the hallway, was here getting stuff in the printer.
He was here for like ten minutes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that really, like, of all the things that happened yesterday,
him not saying what's up was right up there with Poopgate.
Speaker 2: And he's right there, and you know, you know, he
played two games. You know, he played two games of
chess while he's spooping.
Speaker 6: Couldn't like yell from the bathroom like he always did.
Speaker 2: Said, y'all are on air.
Speaker 4: When has that ever stopped that human being from at.
Speaker 7: Least kind of the time he walks in mid segment
because he's late coming back in from the restroom.
Speaker 2: God, a lot of poop.
Speaker 4: I'm debating actually, like I kind of want to show
the picture. We'll put it up to a pole, a
Landro tata. I don't know how to do it, y'all
do in the chat put it to a vote? Do
you want to see the evidence? Because I again, like
I don't want people to think like we would come
up here, like I would come up with a better
bit and one that didn't end so idy okay, wild
shout out to the goat wife for taking my car
to the car was using an old broom that's now
in the trash can at our home.
Speaker 2: Not inside the home, but the outside trash can.
Speaker 6: Terrible.
Speaker 4: I think we need to sue for damages, the emotional
stress we had to go through yesterday.
Speaker 6: At least for the car wash.
Speaker 4: Yeah, true, reimburse for the car wash. Cannot believe that happened.
All right, let us know, Let us know if if
you want to see the evidence, because we got it.
As I said, we are full dragnet style. We are
going to find out who that was. I am in
full belief. Didn't we just get new security cameras here?
I mean, we're telling all the secrets. I don't care.
We got new security cameras, we got better tech here,
so now we should be able to find who did it.
Speaker 2: We did get new cameras.
Speaker 6: Right, we did, and like a new door and everything. Okay, Oh,
look like my computer's literally reed. I haven't touched it.
Speaker 2: What in the hell's going on here? I don't know.
Let's go to break.
Speaker 4: We've got Chris Blair, the voice of the LSU Tigers,
joining us in about fifteen minutes from now.
Speaker 2: We'll get into all the sports.
Speaker 4: We had to start the show there because again it
was the biggest news story in both group chats that
we have yesterday. More OTB when we come back on
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the.
Speaker 4: Bench, Welcome back in OTV on this Tuesday morning. You know,
like eventually I promise, I swear we will get to sports.
But like another example of the morning show, uh, you know,
computers restarting, our computers freezing. We're trying to tell a
great poopgate story YouTube situation. I think it's gotten better.
I believe that we're not buffering anymore. But we did
put out a vote if you wanted to see evidence
of what happened yesterday. So we got six minutes left
in that so you can jump in the YouTube chat
and if you want to see evidence of what we
had to see and go through yesterday right now, seventy
seven percent of you or sickos because you want to
see it so.
Speaker 2: That it seems low to me, it seems low. Yeah,
as soon as a laundry text.
Speaker 7: Its like I showed Muso the text and we both
went out upe and looked like we have to see it.
Speaker 2: We have to see this.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know, Matt, get it now
that you've heard the story, probably got the microphone being.
Speaker 2: On this side. Let me tell you it's an adjustment.
Keep leaning right.
Speaker 4: The microphone's left, all right, So we'll update you on that. Also,
something we learned yesterday Tea Bobs from Kenner he had
no idea, so he was getting his real ID. He
didn't have anything that he was supposed to have, which
that's not all on him, Alandra, you know mentioned that
it's kind of tedious, and my wife tried to go
get one a couple of weeks ago. And if you
don't have your marriage license or something with your former
last name, it's like we've been married for twenty years.
What are we talking about? But so it's not completely
Tea Bob's fault. Although he didn't have a passport, his
social or birth certificate, so he had to go get
a new birth certificate yesterday, and he found out that
this entire time he's always said I was.
Speaker 2: Born in New Orleans, I was born in New Orleans.
He was not.
Speaker 4: He was actually born in Kenner, Louisiana, which I don't
know how y'all feel, And look shout out to Kenner,
Kenner Bro.
Speaker 2: That makes so much sense. That te Bob was born
in Kenner.
Speaker 5: I didn't know where he was born, so that wasn't
like okay, it.
Speaker 2: Was big for me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, where was his original Like where did he think?
Because I know he always told.
Speaker 4: Us about thought New Orleans, like the actual city of
New Orleans.
Speaker 7: I know we always talked about getting shot in the
cap at the Lakeita. We've heard that story.
Speaker 2: I think that was what he's got Knner, New Orleans,
Bretna all covered.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that makes sense.
Speaker 5: I think it was as a person who tea Bob
is it totally makes sense.
Speaker 2: Those news definitely news.
Speaker 5: I don't know he got his real idea though he
did he did.
Speaker 2: I guess I missed that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well I think he has to be in Chicago like tomorrow. Yeah,
I think he has to start filming.
Speaker 2: That's why.
Speaker 4: So initially he was going to be here throughout this
week because again I've got SEC Spring meetings that I
go to every year, and he was like, all right,
I'm going to go to that week and then Monday,
everybody's off Memorial Day, and then Taytay will fill in Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
You'll be back Friday. Boom boom, boom and all work,
and then I guess it was last week. He's like, hey,
I actually got to go that week before. That's why
it wasn't rushed. I think we all knew about it,
but he told you all on Wednesday, gone on Friday.
But yeah, he had to be a barstool for like
actual work and almost didn't get there.
Speaker 2: I think he actually leaves today.
Speaker 1: That's what I was like.
Speaker 5: I think he was supposed to leave today, so he
really had to get it done yesterday. But yeah, he
had stuff he had to go do, so he really
needed that ID. But then he said that there's some
fast pass that you could get.
Speaker 6: I didn't know this. I guess you could get a
fast pass and skip the line.
Speaker 1: Maybe.
Speaker 4: I don't know, well if anybody was going to figure
out how to get a fast pass.
Speaker 2: It was the Disney Adult T Bob the Lightning Lane.
Speaker 7: Bomb was in the lightning lane at the d m D.
Speaker 4: Did he say where, like it was in Baton Rouge.
Did he have to go like port Allen or black him.
Speaker 6: I think he said, like, I.
Speaker 4: Got to get that done because obviously, like we're going
to SEC media days coming up, and actually Flynn actually
is pretty good about stuff like that because he travels
so much for business.
Speaker 5: And he was just in Scottsdale, so he he's got
well unless he flew private, very QB one to do that.
Speaker 2: No he's not. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4: I don't think no, no, no, no, no no. We wouldn't
ask him like that would be no, we wouldn't ask
him to be on the show. If he's out there
flying private, that is that is not something that is
not very gritty, all right. So when we were putting
the graphic together of Flynn joining the show, we were
trying to think of something to put on like the
you know, the main graphic like boom, catch your attention,
And we played with a couple of different ideas, and
I was thinking, well, there's a lot of people that
are like, Flint's not going to be the guy he
doesn't need to work, like he's got my high. He
made a lot of money in the NFL, he doesn't
need to work, which is kind of true, like he
doesn't need to work here, but he wanted to work here,
like he wants something to do every single day. He
wants to be around us, wants to be around LSU,
which we're very grateful for but we were going to
make like a big time kind of joke. And if
it wouldn't have been maybe for like his business, Like
I didn't want people to think like his business wasn't
doing well. We were going to put out the graphic
and we're going to put out down Bad that he
had to come take a local radio job Blue through
his money, spend all of it, all thirty million dollars
that he made in the NFL. So it was up there.
It was an option. Down Bad didn't make the final
chopping block, but it was certain an.
Speaker 6: Option anybody is wondering.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, we got to end this poll. It's eighty
one percent.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to look at this again.
Speaker 4: I got it, all right, So God, what a way
to welcome the voice of the Tigers on here coming
up next segment, all right, just.
Speaker 6: For like counts though my computer just restarted again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the morning Show. It'll be fine, it's fine.
I guarantee. I guarantee you that there'll be an engineer
and it'll be fixed at ten am. Guarantee it. It'll
walk in here. Oh hey, guys, what's up?
Speaker 2: Not you? You've been sleeping pal there's a show.
Speaker 4: At seven am, you need to be here at seven am.
Speaker 2: It blows my mind. Seven am. You have a show?
Speaker 4: Actually, you have shows before that, right, doesn't doesn't condon
start before then?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: At six all right?
Speaker 4: If there's a show at six on any of the
stations that we have we have four stations. If there's
a live show at six am, and you're the engineer
or whoever that takes care of this in the building,
you should be here at five point fifty nine at least, right.
Speaker 5: Crazy for situations like this, totally because I need this
fix like asap.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, coming in cold spinning. Yeah, Taylor's cussing at
a computer like Muso.
Speaker 7: It's like sure, like we look, we do this show
every day. There's a lot of things behind the scenes.
But like when the internet's messed up, guys, I don't
know what the hell I'm doing. So that's why it's
not I'm not an Internet yet.
Speaker 4: All right, here we go, all right, we're gonna keep
this up five seconds maximum. Here is the evidence. We
are not kidding. We did not make a bit. We
would make a better bit if this was a bit.
This is real ish and here it is Jake that's
a big pile. Man, they held that in all?
Speaker 2: Why God and the underwear? Oh yeah.
Speaker 7: Here's my question though, like go back to the original photo,
because if you go back to the original picture, like
you can see the guy. I'm assuming this is a guy.
I'm gonna give all women the benefit of the doubt and.
Speaker 2: Say, man, I mean.
Speaker 7: The jeans are currently on. Did they take the pants
completely off like dong out in the parking lot? Jeans
back on? Or did they somehow get the underwear off
with leaving the jeans. Because I can't do that. I
cannot take leave the pants on. That's possible. He went
full nuded at some point.
Speaker 2: He had to, because look the jeans are on. Yeah, like, yeah,
he didn't rip or cut. It's so funny.
Speaker 4: I had my y one of those quick change people
that's truly down bad, and now he's pooping in parking lots.
Speaker 2: Yeah luckily, luckily I'll park in the back.
Speaker 7: I'm looking at the picture, I'm like, Okay, a black
polo shirt and jeans. Who wearying that? I look down,
That's what I was wearing yesterday. I was like, well,
whatt's the look of that?
Speaker 4: Oh well, I would believe it was Teaba, but Tibab
typically doesn't wear underwear, and he also admitted that he
was in this restroom ten feet away for at least
twenty minutes. He doesn't do anything in there, that's not
unless we're going.
Speaker 7: To playing chess.
Speaker 4: So all right, well, there you have it. That is
the evidence. We're going to find out who did it?
Who done it?
Speaker 2: Alandra doesn't think she got some on her car. She did.
Speaker 4: I know I did, the voice of the ALSU Tigers,
Chris Blair when we come.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the Bench, all right.
Speaker 4: Welcome back in to OTV here on this Tuesday morning,
depend and welcome on our guys. The voice of your
LSU Tigers, Chris Blair cebe.
Speaker 2: What's going on, brother? How we doing?
Speaker 3: Oh I'm doing great. Congratulations championship backfield back together again.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2: It is man.
Speaker 4: I'm excited for June the second. And look, we've set
the line CB three and a half days per week.
Speaker 2: If Flynn's gonna make it, be on time and be
here the whole show.
Speaker 4: So three and a half right now is the line
in Vegas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me think about it. I'll get back to you.
Speaker 2: Oh exactly. All right.
Speaker 4: This is one of our favorite times of the year
SEC Baseball tournament as we get ready to see where
the Tigers are going to be hosting regionals, hosting super regionals.
I think we all think and so we'll start there
after what you did there in Columbia South Carolina. You
wanted to sweep short, everybody wants to sweep. But it's
the SEC, it's on the road. You went to A three.
Everyone believes that the Tigers CB have done enough to
be able to solidify them else as a host in
the super regionals if they do, in fact move on
from regional play.
Speaker 2: Do you think the Tigers have done enough?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I do, I mean, I really do.
I mean I know there's a number of factors that
will be considered, you know, once they all get in
that room and start that decision, And it's not gonna
be solely based on being ranked number one and X
number of polls. It's not gonna be solely based on RPI.
You know. I just I have a hard time thinking
that again. Is it if we're arguing what seed they'll be, Yeah,
I think we can really, you know, dig down deep.
But if it's a matter of whether they're a national
seed or not, I have a hard time believing there's
going to be a committee who who's gonna, you know,
get that detailed about top national seeds out of the
SEC and say, well, you know this is the number
one team, the are RPIs top ten and no, they're
they're they're gonna be the nine seed or the ten seed.
I just I have a hard time buying that in
the final week with the regular season over. You know,
I look at this SEC tournament this year in the
same way I look at it, you know, in twenty
twenty three, which was different than I looked at it
in twenty twenty four for last year. So I'm not
convinced they got to go over there and win. I mean,
I don't think they're making the trip over there to
lay down, but I think they're a national seeds.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's one of the things that we were talking about
yesterday is I know everybody treats the SEC tournament differently
depending on what you need. Like a year ago, LSU
went there and they're like, hey, we gotta win some games.
We got to be able to add to our resume,
and they did that and people were asking, Okay, well,
well j coach it different this year, and not like
knowing him and the way that he coaches like even
a midweek game, like you want to be victorious every
time you go out there, but like he really like
he goes after midweek games like no coach like that
I've ever seen here, And so I am curious to
be like, how he's going to handle the first game
in Hoover, because we just don't know Jada has up
in any game.
Speaker 3: I think Jay is very analytical, and we all know
that if he spent some time around him. But I
also think he is firm, at least my experience around him,
he is firmed that he doesn't he doesn't change, and
I think that's important to him, just because the players
understand what they get every single day. And I say
all that because do I think Kate Anderson will be
on the bump Friday regardless of who we play, whether
it's Mississippi State Auburn or Texas A and M. Yeah.
Do I think he's gonna throw him one hundred pitches
and get into a battle late in the game. No?
Do I think he would be on a pitch count
or at least, hey, this is how much work we
want to Because I think number one, he's pragmatic and
you're you know, it lands on the right day for Kate,
Anderson keeps him right and his rest period. He wants
to give his team the best chance of winning every
time they go out on the field, and he tells
his team that and to do it any other way
would not be One. Is he gonna pull every single
lever and push every single button in a one run
game on Friday and Hoover, I mean, we'll see, but
I think he goes into it preparing to win that game.
Speaker 4: So last time we were catching up, we were talking
about a couple of different things for LSU, and one
of them was like the LSU bullpen. What did you
see there in Columbia? Did it make you feel better?
Because there were some actual nice performances out of the bullpen?
Because as we know, like, you're going to need somebody,
like you've got two frontline starters that I think is
the best one to two punch in the country, but
you're going to need other people because there's gonna be
some games that get pieced together.
Speaker 2: What did you see over the weekend?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think I'm saying pretty much what
I've said for the last month and a half, and
that is that there are guys that are in that
bullpen on any given night, can walk out there and
compete and pitch at a very high level against any
offense in the SEC. And by that, I'm basically saying
they can compete against any team in the USA. Have
they been consistent? No? Would you put your mortgage on it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: But are there candidates that can do it? And I
think back to you know, the first couple of years
Day was here, including the championship here. I mean, there
were some guys that I mean, I would be lying
to Jacob and I think a lot of fans would
agree with me if I said, when they made it
to Omaha, this is a pitching staff that's going to
be able to go out there and match up night
after night for two solid weeks. Oh and by the way,
battle out of the losers bracket to win a title.
I didn't have that much confidence. Were there more consistent
pieces than maybe this year in the bullpen? Okay, I'd
give you that, but there were some miraculous performances that
surprised all of us. And I hate to say that
as if it's just a crapshoot when you go to Omaha,
but I mean, in a way it kind of is.
So I think there's candidates there. Do I think that
they've you know, am I one hundred percent confident that
every guy that they throw out there is going to
be able to compete against some of these great teams.
I gotta be honest, not yet. But I think there's
some candidates there, and I've seen I've seen some crazy
stuff in this game of baseball.
Speaker 4: I want to ask you about one guy that we
haven't talked a lot about him. We kind of like
diving into the stats and the analytics of it. Last
week We're like, okay, well, well, Cooper Williams has been
throwing better, and I know he gave up the home
run over the weekend, but he did strike out two
as well, so he has one bad pitch.
Speaker 2: But that is.
Speaker 4: Somebody that's you know, kept his era down. He hasn't
pitched a ton. I mean we're talking, I believe, under
twenty total innings. But this is somebody that does feel
like they're getting closer and closer cb to being somebody
that you can count on in high leverage situations.
Speaker 3: I think that Jay Johnson would agree with that, almost
word for word. Jacob and you know, I've heard him
say as much. And Cooper's one of those guys that
he has a lot of faith in and believes it's
a matter of turning that corner to consistency. It's not
about whether or not he's got enough stuf enough to compete.
And and you know, Cooper, I think is one that
you pick up on that that I think, you know,
Bill frank has and I talked a little bit about
there in the broadcast this weekend, is he's a guy
that has shown those splashes and he's indeed in that
category I just mentioned to go along with the Jacob
Myers who you know, the last couple of outings. I mean,
it's hard when you see a guy going ninety nine
and one hundred miles an hour not to get excited
about it, you know, But I do think he's had
some some flashes of what it takes to be successful
in this league. And again vis a v that relates
to you know, college baseball as a whole. But yeah,
Cooper is what I think that Jay would tell you.
He's got a lot of confidence and it really doesn't
have a problem putting him in you know, big time moments.
And we've seen it this year, and sometimes he's been
able to be very very good and sometimes you know,
again he looks like a freshman competing against veteran lineups.
But I mean, I think he's certainly one of those
candidates that we could be talking about either coming away
from Hoover or once we get to the regionals and
super regionals. That that performance he put together ali reminds
me a little bit of a Will Helmer's appearance or two.
So yeah, I think that's a very good candidate.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Going back to the lineup, there's a couple of guys
that have really been on fire recently, and Ethan Price
been on fire all season long.
Speaker 2: It just feels i mean, leading the team in average.
Speaker 4: We looked at it, you know, last week, and we're like, man,
this is this is a guy that we just kind
of assumed was going to be a platoon player. I mean,
he had another big week. And then Jake Brown and look,
we saw Jake Brown last year what he did in
the regional in Chapel Hill, Like it's not a surprise.
Both incredibly talented guys and you're kind of waiting for
them all to put it together. And Fry has certainly
done that all season long. And Brown has not had
a bad season at all. But like when he's played,
he's produced, and now, like Jay's got that good problem
CB of he's got to find a way to keep
both those guys in the lineup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ethan Fry has been so much fun to watch,
you know, and I've said it a thousand times. I
mean he the first time I saw Ethan prime. But
oh my good. You know you think Casey at the bat,
I mean, he just he just intimidates pictures, you know,
stepping into the box. But at the end of the day,
the fact that he has gone from a guy that
you're like, hey, at any given moment, he could run
into one, to a guy that you're expecting to get
two or three hits per night. The way he's done
it seems like of late, he's just swinging a very
good bat, seeing the ball extremely well. And then you
add that power. I mean, he's not just a guy
that occasionally can give you something. I mean he's a
guy that I think is a mainstay. And when it
comes to Jake Brown, I mean he is like the
ultimate kryptonite for right handed pictures. I mean a number
of times we've seen this year where you know the
opponent will make a pitching change, go to a right hander,
and you see Jake pick up a bat and I
don't remember the numbers, but something like six for eleven
and pinch hit at bats this year, and he's tearing
up right handed pitchers. So I mean, he's kind of like,
as soon as you make that move, guess what, you
know he's going to counter with a guy like Jake Brown.
And you know, it's so difficult. And I've said this
so many times about Jay in this age of transfer,
portal and nil and all the things that have changed,
just his ability to get these guys and whether it
lasts forever, who knows, but the last couple of seasons
for him being able to get these guys to buy
into the big team little meme mentality. I mean, Jake's
a perfect example of a guy that is probably in
the everyday starting lineup in fifteen other SEC schools. Do
I think he will be moving forward? You know, I
don't know, just simply because they are matchups where I
think Josh Pearson's better in experience and his ability to
hit the baseball and see the baseball are good and
you know, all I can say is LSU is blessed
to have a guy like Jake Brown, hopefully for at
least another year, maybe two. But you also got a
guy like Josh Pearson. But yeah, Jake all season, I
think he's made it very difficult every day that Jay
puts that lineup together.
Speaker 4: Catching up with the voice out of the LSU Tigers,
Chris player here on ot b cebe what's the travel
look like like for Hoover getting there? One of those
Like last year, the situation was you probably packed like
this really big bag, not knowing how long the Tigers
are going to be there. They make a run and
you're there for a while. With the tournament changing up
and it not being a double elimination, it's a single elimination,
you got to double by. Like, what's the travel looking
like for the Tigers?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I readily admit last year, Jacob a couple of
trips to the Washingteria for Chris and Hoover. I took
one of the smaller bags I've ever taken. Yeah, And
mainly a little bit of that was some some voodoo
on my part. I thought, if I if I planned
to be there all week, which I've done every single
year for eight seasons. You know, things don't happen, so
why don't I just go for you know, the minimum?
And this year it works out great. It's a new format.
I'm I'm, I'm a little bit like coach Johnson in
the sense I kind of like the old format. I
kind of like the double elimination. I also like rewarding
teams for having a solid regular season. No offense to
the Missouris and South Carolina's and even Texas A and
M's for that matter. Now. But but no, we're gonna
go over Wednesday. I think the team is going over
Wednesday evening or Wednesday afternoon, and that way they can
be on the ground get some practice in over there
in Hoover. So yeah, I'll be headed over for that.
But I am. I am firmly packed for the weekend
to come back Sunday night this year, no doubt about it.
The good news is I just checked the forecast before
I join you, and it looks like we're gonna get
if all things hole fingers crossed, I mean, this might
be a fairly mild SEC tournament and otherwise, what is
one of the hottest places on Earth typically this time
of year.
Speaker 2: Oof.
Speaker 4: I mean, now, what's a better chance of Flynn showing
up five days a week or having an SEC baseball
tournament where it doesn't rain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm probably going with the tournament, no offense. I
love man, I love it.
Speaker 2: It's very fair.
Speaker 3: But again I'm using I'm using reverse psychology again. He'll
be there every day.
Speaker 2: I sure, down fair enough, CB.
Speaker 4: We appreciate the time as always, sir, safe travels over
there to Hoover.
Speaker 2: We look forward to hearing the call.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, hey, and I love the tweet or a
social media post you guys put out. I guess somebody
put it out yesterday or retweeted it about the first
ten up in Hoover is purple.
Speaker 4: And yes, absolutely already ready even though they don't play
for days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hoping we see a bunch of fans over there
looking forward to it, Jay.
Speaker 2: No question about it. I appreciated that is.
Speaker 4: Chris Blair, the voice of your LSU Tiger, is going
to be on the call obviously for the LSU game
coming up on Thursday.
Speaker 2: All right, we will take a break, certainly, want to
come back.
Speaker 4: Get a Laundra's opinion on some of the things that
we talked about there, the LSU bullpen, the platoon situation,
and Jake Brown like hitting so well right now obviously
left you on lefty matchup changes the math there as
someone who swings left and I get everything that we
know about that situation as well.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to off the Bench.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in It is OTV here on
a Tuesday morning, talking well LSU baseball as they get
ready to head off to Hoover, Alabama for the SEC Tournament.
You're gonna have games that actually start today. And again
last year you were one of those teams that needed
to go to Hoover, have a big performance, keep on
winning games, improve that resume. And now we're all asking
the question, have you done enough? Do you need to
win one game in Hoover? I actually don't think that
you have to. And can you proof your maybe you
go from a six to a five, Yeah, certainly, but
I do think you've done enough, and you can you know,
you can yell and say, well, el she's the number
one team in the country and all three poles. Of
course they are a top eight seed. That's just not
how it works. And you can say, well, why do
we have Poles. I get that as well. Why do
we if l s U's numb one team in the country,
why they're not going to be a sure fire top
five seed, which is not the way that it works.
We've seen this in college basketball as well. Now I
will argue like LSU's LSU and the example that I
always give, and they weren't what they are now even
back then Gonzaga basketball. One year they were number three
in the country in both the AP and Coaches poll
and they got a three seed in the NCAA tournament.
So number three in the country, three seed in the tournament,
and Gonzaga was you know great, and they had built
their you know brand or whatever, but they weren't to
who they are even now. Well, LSU baseball is a
blue blood, I think, the biggest blue blood in college baseball,
Like I know what happened back in the eighties and
the seventies, but since nineteen ninety, else use that blue blood.
So I don't think that will happen to them. I
don't think they're going to fall out of the top eight.
But they're RPI. Last time I checked, it was sitting
at eight in even Kendall Rodgers, who I talked with
yesterday on off campus. He's like, yeah, like we put
him at seven. If they got five, like, I wouldn't
be surprised at all. He's like, now if they fall
behind seven, that's what would be the big surprise. So
Alandre Tay will get both of you to weigh in
first off, like, do you like the new format of
the SEC tournament every team is included, single elimination and
do the Tigers need to go win a game to
solidify themselves as a top eight seed.
Speaker 5: I think Chris made a good point about the tournament
and how like I like the single elimination part of it,
but I do think he made a good point with
the like the good teams get rewarded by going to the.
Speaker 6: SEC Tournament all sixteen teams, going like does it really
matter if Missouri is there or not? You know what
I mean? Or so maybe yeah, but it just I
kind of like it.
Speaker 5: But I agree with Chris on that aspect of it.
But I do like that at single elimination, and I
agree with him that Jay is going to see it
the same way that he has every other weekend ever
where he is going to start Kat Anderson on Friday
probably like you're going to start your ace on Friday.
Speaker 2: And if you're wondering, like why would you do that?
Why would you not go throw whatever arm?
Speaker 4: You also want to keep your guys on schedule exactly,
like you don't want them with the extended period of
rest all of a sudden their arm changes, like you
want them going out there. He would throw a bullpen anyway,
And maybe, like you said earlier, like maybe it's not
like your full tilt go out there one hundred plus
pitches and go win the game. Maybe it's just what
you normally would do for a bullpen. Hey, you've got
sixty pitch limit, that's what you're going to do. Yeah,
So yeah, I am all for like throwing your guy.
Speaker 2: They did this.
Speaker 7: Remember we all go back to when Schemes was here
and he threw him against Tulane game one of the
regional Everybody hated it. Now it worked out for you,
but I was because he was your frid. I got
I love single elimination because you used to it was
like single, then double and then it got all confusing.
I don't think they need to win the game in
the tournament, Like you could get a little bit better seating,
but it doesn't matter because you don't know who your
super matchup is and like that's the most important thing,
but you just don't know where that is yet.
Speaker 4: I want Auburn, we need I want them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, if you get Auburn and you could beat.
Speaker 2: Them, I want them.
Speaker 4: And I hope Sam dudn't shout out to you know
when he was a tiger, but he ain't a tiger anymore.
Well he's a tiger, but he's kind of a war eagle, right,
they got ithentity, all right, bring the respects out there,
go right on the mound, and hope the tigers shelling. Okay,
not mad at him, but I just hope that that happens. Okay,
you need a little payback to the Auburn Tigers, and
I hope that they get the opportunity to do just that.
Speaker 2: So we will certainly see as again.
Speaker 4: SEC tournament starts today and we'll give you that schedule
later on in the show.
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