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Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Raisin
Caine Studio.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in hour number two, OT be
here live from the Raising Kine Studio. Jake Flynn, Alunger
Days all here with you today and this weekend in
LSU baseball will get started defending that national championship they
won a year ago. And I know a lot of
y'all listening are excited, and a lot of y'all will
be inside of Alec Box Stadium to watch the Tigers
take the field. We're gonna give you a little preview
here of what you can expect. So Alandra being our
baseball correspondent without a doubt, and somebody I would assume
is going to be in the box at some point
this weekend.
Speaker 3: I'll definitely be out on Friday.
Speaker 4: I would like to get out there Saturday and Sunday
as well, but we'll just see what happens.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I cannot wait. I've been waiting since.
Speaker 4: The patiently, very patiently, since like maybe the middle of
football season for LSU like LSU season was not.
Speaker 2: They lost to Vanderbilt.
Speaker 3: As soon as they lost to Vanderbilt, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4: I was checked out and ready for some LSU baseball
and who isn't because they are favorites to go back
to back this season.
Speaker 3: And we were talking about it a little bit last week.
Speaker 4: The quote unquote down year that Jay Johnson had was
making a regional like did we host it?
Speaker 2: No, and.
Speaker 4: That we almost won it, almost hosted the Super So
we know who Jay Johnson is, just relentless a winner,
like a true real winner, and like I could not
be happier that that's who we have at LSU, Like
we're truly blessed, like seriously to have j Johnson at LSU,
so very very excited. You mentioned that we do have
a lot of people returning, which is like a very
good and important core like Derek Curriele Stanfield, Jake Brown,
Like Jake Brown's been here for a while, so he's
like really a veteran and.
Speaker 2: Feels like a big year for him to you kind
of put it all together, and.
Speaker 4: Like you're right, he put it all together because he couldn't.
I don't think he was given opportunities, but he wasn't
given like a fool season ever to just like go
off and I think that he can make it happen,
and like he's been being developed under Jay Johnson, who
we know is great at.
Speaker 3: Doing that with his players.
Speaker 4: So excited to see what Jake Brown's gonna do for Catcher.
We're likely to see Kate Aaron Beatty had a huge fall.
Speaker 2: Aaron Betdy somebody that you could see flashes last year
as a freshman, for.
Speaker 3: Sure, especially on the offense, like I didn't. It was
like the offense was hit or miss and the defense
was as well.
Speaker 4: But when he was on, he was on, Like I
from what I've heard about him through the fall, I'm
excited to see what Kate Aaron Beatty is going to
do this season. And then at first base, probably the
one I'm the most excited for, Big Poppy black York.
Speaker 2: I known's the most excited about him as well.
Speaker 4: Coming from Grand Canyon University, you know, Grand Canyon familiar
with their game, one.
Speaker 2: Of the biggest student bodies of any college in America.
Pretty sure. Bryce Drew is the head basketball coach of Grand.
Speaker 4: Campson, had no idea well, he had a three twenty
eight batting average in his career at Grand Canyon, thirty
two home runs and one hundred and fifty seven RBI.
But also he's a great first baseman, an ninety three
fielding percentage for him over there, So very excited to
see what Zach York can do. We love a big
body god around here, and his walk up song is
big Papa. I don't know what more you could ask.
Speaker 2: Out of six in the program.
Speaker 4: Was also a DH for a little bit too, So
if like, for some reason he's not going to play
first base, could probably DH.
Speaker 2: A couple of biscuits away from three hundred, we can
get him there, I.
Speaker 3: Say, here in Louisiana, like I could see him, yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 4: And then at second base, you like, I don't know
from what I've been trying to read if they've definitively
said who's going to be the starting second baseman, but
I would expect Braydon Simpson coming from High Point twenty
two home runs in twenty twenty five. Set Dardar is
also another option that you might see there he is
coming from. Why can't I remember where he's from? I
can't remember, but maybe see set Dardar and obviously in
the right.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, darters from Kansas State.
Speaker 5: The cover off the ball originally came.
Speaker 2: From Vandil, Yeah, but then went to Kansas State.
Speaker 3: You're right.
Speaker 4: And then obviously we have Tanner Reed still that is
also in the mix for second base.
Speaker 3: So I don't know for sure yet.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's been said, but from what
I've been seeing and hearing from Hunt, Brandon Simpson is
likely to be your starter there and shortstop needs no introduction.
We all love him, our favorite monster milam. I cannot
wait to see him again. He's got the OTB hour
two open as his walk up song. Yeah yeah, the
river's all wet for Steven.
Speaker 3: Mile third base.
Speaker 4: This might be I know, I'm like joking about Zach York,
but for real, like Trent Carraway, I might be the
most excited to see this season and see how he
does here at LSU, because he did great at Oregon State,
was the MVP of the Corvallis Regional, is number twenty
nine and D one's top fifty third baseman. So I
am very very excited to see Trent Carroway. Like, if
there's one that I'm looking for and looking out for.
Speaker 3: It's to him.
Speaker 4: I think he's set to have a great season. And
then what everybody is wondering about. Everybody's biggest question is
always the bullpen. It's deep, It's very deep. Cason Evans.
I know he was a like in the pen and
he would come out of the pen. But I feel
like he proved himself and it is very very very
likely to be.
Speaker 3: Your Friday night starter.
Speaker 4: You lose Kate Anderson and the Ians and obviously, but
Cason Evans stepped up in a huge way last season
out of the bullpen and the couple of times that
he was a starter. William Schmidt, if we remember him
from last season, he was like at the midweek starter
for a while, then he moved to.
Speaker 2: It looked like he was about remember it looked like
he was about to take like a step and then never.
Speaker 4: Time last year, Yeah, that was he mostly through in
the midweek, but he was in a week in the
week in rotation a couple of times.
Speaker 2: Because remember we had Jay on big performance. He's like, yeah,
you might not see him on a weekday again. And
then he kind of went a little bit of a slump.
Speaker 4: And but wack very high ceiling for William Schmidt, and
Hunt thinks that it's kind of his.
Speaker 3: To his position to lose.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so uh, look out for Cooper Moore though, if
it's not going to be William Schmidt. Cooper Moore is
coming from Kansas. He had a three ninety six e
r A in eighty eight appear or eighty eight innings,
so he is looking.
Speaker 3: Also really good.
Speaker 4: But I hear from what I've read and heard, William
Schmidt has made a he has fixed what was ailing
him last season. So I would expect maybe to see
William Schmidt in the starting week in rotation instead of
the midweek.
Speaker 3: But if he does end up.
Speaker 4: Losing that I would look to Cooper Moore to see
what he does. And then Cooper Williams is another starter
that you have an option for that was here last season.
Speaker 2: And do we assume Zach Cowens is going to be
a bullpen even though he's got so much starting experience.
I think that's his role here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's but he also does have it from Wafford.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he came like if y'all remember the Arkansas game,
it was not his fault at all that we were
down versus Arkansas, we had to make that comeback, like
even when he started and versus Arkansas he did.
Speaker 2: His Oh what an incredible piece to have. To have
a veteran guy who's been through the fire before that
you can kind of put wherever and if he has
as a spot start, you can get i mean, very
quality innings, you know, even against a team like Arkansas.
Speaker 4: Whenever he announced that he was coming back, I was
very excited about that because of what you just said,
like the experience. He did well in a starting role,
he does well out of the pin, and Nate Yesky
I'm sure has developed a couple of more pitches and
some movement with him.
Speaker 3: So excited to see Zach Cowen.
Speaker 4: And like I said, Trent Carraway might be the one
that I'm the most excited about.
Speaker 3: Devin Sheeran's gonna be coming back as well.
Speaker 4: He was out all last season from Mount Saint Mary's. Yeah,
had a torn acl so he was recovering from that
all last season. And we still have Maverick Rizzy, the
tallest person that I've ever seen, and DJ Primo is
still out there as well. So got a deep pin,
got some great options for weekend starters and midweek starters.
Speaker 3: So I'm not saying that they're gonna go back to back,
but you.
Speaker 2: Have a chance too, they really do.
Speaker 4: Like objectively, LSU's in a really good position to go
back to back for the first time since nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 2: Who is the last DJ Primo? You got some good names.
Speaker 6: Good name, don't forget he's been out for about a
year and a half.
Speaker 2: Butzy is a solid. It's such a good nobody's beating LSU. Yeah,
given name.
Speaker 5: By the way, you were talking about him a little bit.
Speaker 6: Jay Cooper Moore is going to start on this team
like he's he's going to start on this team seven
and three last year, Like he screamed Sunday to me.
Because he doesn't have overwhelming stuff, but he's just really,
really accurate.
Speaker 5: And like with William Schmidt, if he can do.
Speaker 6: What Ty Floyd did, the stuff's there if you can
get it under control, like you have a Friday Saturday
Sunday of Evans Schmidt Cooper Moore. You have an advantage
of everybody you played pretty much.
Speaker 2: He has a lot of new names. I'm excited about
Trent Carroway's a good pool of lines. But that that's
somebody from Oregon State started on a Cultural Series team
and didn't have his best year, but still solid numbers
as far as showing the power. The average was down,
but uh, that's somebody that if he comes in knowing
what Jay Johnson, that staff's done with guys in the
past that have had that talent looking for maybe that
one last thing to propel them to being, you know,
a star in college baseball, he feels like somebody that
has that ability to him. So looking forward to seeing
how third base kind of plays out. You did mention
Seth Dardar coming over from Kansas State certainly going to
get a long look as well. Probably the thing I'm
most excited about though, is going to be, uh, you
know Jake Brown and can he become the superstar that
we know he has the ability to become. Like the
first two years to your point of laundre, like it's.
Speaker 3: Been, he's been kind of like a little bit yeah.
Speaker 2: You know against lefties, he's he's been out of the
lineup from time. This is a year where dot matter
who's on the mount, like, Jake Brown's got to deliver.
He is fully he's got the talent to do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's going to fully be in the lineup, fully
going to be out in right field.
Speaker 3: So I'm excited for Jake Brown.
Speaker 4: But everybody always talks about like how we always are
looking for a Sunday guy. Yeah, I feel like you
might have like but every team is like that. Obviously,
your Sunday starter is not going to be as good
as your Friday guy and your Saturday guy. But it's
almost like, I love the way this bullpen is shaping
up well.
Speaker 2: When you're talking about Sundays, it is almost like you
do have a lot of options. But then it becomes
a question like let's say that Zach Callan becomes like
an option where you need somebody to stabilize Sunday, Like
is it worth it having him on Sundays in that
role or is it worth having him to give you
extended innings like he did so many times last year,
Like those are conversations you have to have.
Speaker 6: Conversation we had a year ago, We had this conversation
with Evan.
Speaker 2: Did he start Landra in the rotation last year at
the beginning?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think for a little bit, and then he
got turned into like the middle.
Speaker 3: But I can't remember if he did at the beginning
of the season.
Speaker 2: Or a lot, to be honest, but a long time ago.
Speaker 4: I think Jay has proved that he'll put him where
he needs them to be, like with caseon Evans last
season and with.
Speaker 3: Zach Cowen last season.
Speaker 4: So to answer your question, I think it's just kind
of like, let's see what happens. And I'm not saying
like we're Friday night or Friday afternoon, We're gonna go
out to the box and Case and Evan is Case
and Evan is gonna be out on the mountain, Like
I don't know that for a fact. I'm just going
off of who was I mean, yeah, who was super
clutch last season?
Speaker 3: Like I don't and then like I don't know the
rotation for a fact. That's just my prediction.
Speaker 2: But how about a name that is on this team
that's been here forever, went through injury last year, but
it's been a big piece of a national championship team,
Gavin Gidgriy.
Speaker 5: He's been out for a year and a half.
Speaker 2: I feel like I haven't seen or I mean, obviously
because last year it was the old he's hurt. Yeah,
we don't really know. Maybe a couple of weeks and
then turned into the entire year. Like obviously, like it
sound sounds bad, I don't mean you can't count on him,
and I mean that because of the injury history and
like you just you never know. But that's something that
has been He closed out of national championship already in
his career. So if you get something from Gavin Guidry
that's close to what he gave you early in his career.
Speaker 3: For sure, he was nails as a closer. Yes, Psycho
in speaks.
Speaker 6: It speaks to the depth of the bullpen, right like
she brought up Devins shere in a few minutes ago.
People forget about him because he was hurt all last year.
Davin Guidry has been hurt a year and a half. Like,
these are two guys that could be potentially two of
your best arms out of the bullpen that people just
kind of forgot about because of injury. Like, if those
two guys emerge, you can do anything you want, right mat.
Speaker 3: Hell, yeah, we're just schooling him.
Speaker 7: He's We're gonna as long as we leave the country
and dingers and suicide.
Speaker 2: Squeezes, I'll be happy. Boy.
Speaker 7: You have to be successful, just want the attempts. It's exciting.
One of the most exciting plays in sport.
Speaker 4: Suicide squeeze absolutely enteringer, especially when Lynn Rollins is on
the call.
Speaker 3: Oh, there's nothing better than a midnight.
Speaker 2: Home run with Lynn Rawls, especially one like walk off
like Barry Jones.
Speaker 3: Hit we walk off Tennessee. Shut up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, this is the year? What the year?
Speaker 7: This is the year that I get locked in, not
just for like a postseason run, because I just took
a new job talking about sports. That is where we
get locked in.
Speaker 2: So you're just soaking in all that information here in
that second in Okay, uh, all right, I know we've
talked about a thousand names, and that's that's what it
feels like. LSU has. Jaden Newton also gave you some
some big moments last year when he had to That's
another player that coming out of high school if you remember,
incredibly highly rated and you can see flashes of the stuff.
That's somebody to pay attention to maybe continuing to elevate
and being a part of this team in a big way.
Speaker 4: So I just went to go look at it because
I truly could not remember Cowen was he didn't start
until I mean he started at Watford, but he didn't
start until like the tournaments later on in the season.
Speaker 2: I could remember if there was like three or three
weekends whereas see.
Speaker 3: Too, because I kind of wanted him to be this.
Speaker 2: I think we did. I think it's what we're trying
to will him to be in there. But I guess
J Johnson knowsley.
Speaker 3: Rewriting history in my own head exactly. Yeah, I guess
I should like just listen to Ja.
Speaker 2: We'll have Jay on later in the week to give
you a preview as well, and we'll continue to talk
LSU baseball. And when we come back here, nice Jabalanze,
you appreciate that. When we come back here, we'll do
a little OTB mail bags, So go ahead and get
your questions inside to buy you four to chat. We'll
get to as many as we can in the next segment.
We'll do it right here on OTB live from the
Raisin Kine studio.
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Speaker 3: That baseball like literally was so checked out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I was. I think I nailed it.
Speaker 4: I think I don't even know if we hit four.
Speaker 2: It was about dingers and suicides squeezes. Yeah, that's what's.
Speaker 5: Hey, Jay loved your suicide squeeze question.
Speaker 2: He really did.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, what did you get he went from
calling it a safety squeeze.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, wow, you know I'm just telling you now.
Jay's probably gonna come on on Thursday. Yeah, I'll be
locked down. So put it in your calendar the questions
I think schemes will do this year.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to like, I want to go back to
the safety squeeze thing real quick.
Speaker 3: What did you say?
Speaker 2: What? Like?
Speaker 3: For real? Because I wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure out if you think safety squeeze
and suicide squeeze the same thing.
Speaker 2: No, I know the difference. Okay, okay, a little bit.
Speaker 3: Sorry. I was trying to like, I'm being for real.
Speaker 7: I assuming he doesn't safety he didn't go until.
Speaker 2: Suicide. You're running immediately. Oh yeah, that's what we want. Okay,
you got it? Oh yeah, you're good. All right. I
love small Ball Long Beach State their bags. All right,
let's go to little OTB mailbag. I help this special
delivery for the bench and look it is marked most urgent.
I'll be writing to you the internet. What the is
the internet? All right? Hashtag OTB mailbag favorite Kingcake flavor?
And where is it from?
Speaker 5: I'm not piggy on where you're from. I love a
strawberry cream cheese.
Speaker 2: Strawberry cream cheese. Okay, Matthew, where's your favorite cinnamon king
cake from? Well, the East? Amount of people I like.
I like cinnamon as well, so I'm not hating on you.
That's Taylor one we got this year. Dong pong. Okay, Uh,
there's another one I got out.
Speaker 7: Of New Orleans that was really good. I'll think of
the name Razes or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 3: I've never even had it. I knew the name.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've had it, But a Landram I would say
a cream cheese one.
Speaker 3: I don't. I guess oak Point. I don't venture out
on like.
Speaker 5: King cakes a lot.
Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 3: All the good ones are also New Orleans, so I'm
not gonna go like all.
Speaker 2: The and there's some really good ones here, but I
mean famously New Orleans. I'm gonna be honest. I'm not
like a king cake snob. As long as it's not
dry either. As long as it's not dry, I'm good
to get that.
Speaker 5: That's why I don't eat the plain cinnamon.
Speaker 2: But I've had plain cinnamon that's not dry.
Speaker 6: I just I look at a plane cinnamon king cake
and says, yeah, I just look at a plain cinnamon
king cake, and I'm like, it's a crappy cinnamon rule.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think it's the same thing as a cinnamon rule. Here,
it takes icing on it.
Speaker 7: I will realized, like really as a when family that
like we like a kin cake, but we don't love
a kink cake. And that's a hot take, and that's
not a great thing to say. In South Louisiana, Like
we always get a king cake. We go, we do
the thing, we get the kink we get like we
we wait in line, we put our name in the
waiting lists and all that stuff, and we get it
and we enjoy a piece. Yeah maybe for two days,
maybe two pieces total, but like my kids never finish them,
like they're slice I eat like one or two slices
and then the half of it just.
Speaker 2: Sits there for two weeks. And I would say, I'm
the biggest fan of the king cakes in my home. Yeah,
and I know that is not a great thing. It's
not a great look for us.
Speaker 6: I don't I don't think that's necessarily a hot take.
It's like they're good I always look at a king
Cake and I'm like, if these were available year round,
would people like them as much?
Speaker 2: Right? Like?
Speaker 5: I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're delicious, don't give it. But it's just
like anything, especially when you hit the forty age, like
you weigh the pros and cons of every bite you take?
How bad don't want to feel? I want to burp?
How bad you on it? And what are you willing
to sacrifice to achieve it? And if I'm going to
intake this, is there anything else I'd prefer to have
over it? Right now? Yeah? I said that situation. Yeah,
my problem is I would have like a piece of
Kingcake for dinner over like something salty. Yeah, sure, you're
real sweets, I am, You're a sweet guy. I'm more
of a savory dude. Uh. Let's see. I had to
go hashtag OTV mailbag. If y'all four were an infield,
name the positions. I got this easy, It's not even hard.
Flenn's the shortstop, I'm the third basement, Alanda's first base,
and Taylor's second. Pretty easy. Strong about that?
Speaker 3: I could play either corner.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if I if I, if I screw up, though
ironically only infield position.
Speaker 5: I never played with second.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like Flenn's got to be
the shortstop. You get the best arm. I think me
and Alandra could both play both corner positions. Yeah, I'm
gonna go with her. I bet she's got more flexibility,
probably at first than I do.
Speaker 3: I'm not Maybe I'm not that flexible.
Speaker 2: That wretch is not gonna be something that's gonna be great.
Uh And Tayay's probably got quick feet, so we gonna
put him. Do feel like you nailed that?
Speaker 7: Me and Taylor can turn to me and double played,
And if the coach asked me to shift, I'm gonna
call him number.
Speaker 2: One real quick. Nah on this side, although Shift played
a lot of second in my in my life, I
played second for our inter Real softball team. Yeah, I
caught for a little bit. Flynn played rover on our
inter Real sophomore Oh yeah, short style.
Speaker 7: I was the short stop grown up, but I wasn't
gonna I probably wasn't playing over Joe.
Speaker 2: So we we've told this story before, But we had
Joe Lawrence on our who played football LU but he
played Major League baseball before that, and he was on
our in real softball team, and I'll never forget him
and I turned like a double play in the real softball,
and the other team is like pretty much protesting that.
We yeah, like, he's an l U student. This is softball,
not baseball, so yeah he can play yep. And then
affording a footbomb and they why they ended up rolling
out the illegal bats on us. Yeah, that's all reason
we lost.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the top o torpedo bats.
Speaker 2: Those we played like one game. I was in the outfield.
This is pretty deep fields and these guys were playing
the guys that worked at the inner Mualle fields. Yea.
In the championship game, they had these bats and I'm
sitting there on the fence watching this ball travel about
fifty feet ahead of me, and I can hear it
just going. Yeah, I remember they hit one, and I
remember you just going. I was just I just heard
they could hit the sorority houses, hit the Coyo house. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I caught a little bit when I was playing before
high school, and then my freshman year of high school,
I caught yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but in softball, you like sloping softball, Yeah, we
put Peter Daikowski back.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I would say I'll say catching was not
my It was not my I liked it. It was
not my strong suit. Yeah, I love the throwdowns. That
was my favorite.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see Hasha go to e mail bag.
Have y'all drove a stick shift vehicle? And I'm so
why was it? I drove a Porsche nine four four.
Speaker 6: My dad had a uh nineteen seventy dark red Firebird,
and that's how I learned how to drive stick shift.
Doesn't have it anymore. Uh, somebody ran into the back
of him minute total bit. He hated that, but uh, yeah,
I learned a little bit. I mean, it's it's been
a long time. I'd probably be pretty rough at it.
But he told me a little bit on that.
Speaker 7: Lacey had a Mini Cooper when she was in college,
and I learned on that. She taught me actually in
the parking lot, like behind the old alex Box Stadium
because we were going to Italy or like our honeymoon
or something. Yeah, I can't remember that. I probably need
to learn. Yeah, well earned a little bit. Definitely stalled
out on some roundabouts in Italy.
Speaker 2: Freaked out even if you know how to do it,
like sometimes if you cause I grew up like knowing
how to do it. And I kind of like one
of the first cars I drove was we was called
a standard, don't know, stick shift, I know it's another
way to say it, but we caught it a standard
and that's how I learned. And I remember I was
moving in college and I had to borrow Sewn Jordan's truck.
Who it was a stick shift, Like that's what it was,
and that's what he always drove. And you get it.
You getting all of a sudden, you don't. It's like
you're stalling out. You like, oh god, yeah, start.
Speaker 7: It's like I didn't know how hilly Baton Rouge was,
so I started driving that stick shift around. It's being sarcastics.
It's not hills, but see any kind of incline. I was,
But I did drive a stick shift. I went to
an event in Talladega where I.
Speaker 2: Drove a NASCAR stick shift. I was going like one
seventy baby left turn, left turn, left turn. It's awesome. Hey,
I'm gonna go turn. The South Park episode.
Speaker 4: Great question in the chat here, Okay, would Matt keep
his hazards on.
Speaker 3: While driving a stick in an empty parking lot?
Speaker 2: Potentially because it is a hazard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a hazard.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this morning we had low skies pilot talk right,
there a lot of fog this morning.
Speaker 2: It was nearly it was nearly hazard lights weather. I
couldn't see anything.
Speaker 3: This might be your worst take.
Speaker 2: Got some now, I mean we all do, but.
Speaker 3: He but his the hazard's one. I can't think of
one that I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, Okay, I saw somebody on Interstate with other hazard
because it was like, no, it wasn't even on Interstate.
Speaker 5: It was like we were like, I got you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was on the regular. It was on the
regular rids before Interstate and that like it was real foggy.
I could barely see in front of you this morning,
but he had his hazards on and I was just
he couldn't see me. But I tipped my captain, you
roll down the window, respect sir. Hashtag to be mill bag.
I'm taking my girlfriend to her first Nola Marti Girl
operade in Demian. And which restaurant to take her to
that is not Commander's Palace, Emeralds. I'm taking her to Jocks.
It depends on it depends on what I guess. Cuisine. Yeah,
that you're looking for Irenes like is Italian. But I
don't know, are you looking like free old food? Are
you looking for like classic New Orleans food? So Irene's
is Italian, got a little date night feel to it.
I mean, everywhere in the quarter is gonna be a
best show.
Speaker 3: Who didn't even want to go eat over there?
Speaker 6: First time I ever went to this restaurant was actually
because it was right where we were standing for in Demian.
The restaurant Luke very underrated in New Orleans. It's inside
the hill to on Saint Charles. Really close to wearing
Demian rolls. I've been a few times. Really good, like
they got traditional on New Orleans, but like you can
get really good burgers there. They go a little bit.
Speaker 2: Everything fish is a little bit like that too. Like
I'm not saying it's like by by any means, like
oh my gosh, that's like the place you have to go,
but like it's it's good service, it's good food, it's consistent.
You can always count on it for like a quick,
easy lunch, right some breezy Yeah, if you want your
belly to be full. It's a great spot to go to.
It's good food. I'm just you know, a lot of
a lot of locals wouldn't go there. But if you're
coming from out of town, yeah, I mean, I mean
that in a very positive way. I like it. Good.
Good question, though, I've got a lot of questions coming
in today. All Right, one more because I can feel
that clock leaning on it. We can carry this over.
It's not how it works, they can. It's our show.
Speaker 3: Yeah we can.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we did get confirmation, by the way, I
just check my phone from Joe Lawrence. He said those
bats were absolutely illegal.
Speaker 3: Joe Joe law law.
Speaker 7: There's no way those guys are hitting farther than Kyle
Williams and Weldon Fromeyer.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. All right, come on, I haven't heard
that name in twenty years. You're welcome. Kyle Williams did
hit tanks though, Yep, we had. We had a former
l s U great that told us he was really
good at baseball, and he had leadoff four us because
he told us how good he was, and he went
to a very very very very good baseball program school
in Louisiana, and you're two thousand and three. He quickly
went down the lineup. Yep, way down your two thousand
three Sugar Bowl MVP yeah, way down. I took over
the lead off two out. I only hit one, though
I felt like you hit more. I only hit I remember,
I only hit one one bomb. I was like single
double specialists. I mean now didn't hit a bomb? Yeah,
me too.
Speaker 7: I don't know, but you are looking at two times
Green Bay Packer Charity Softball. I believe im run derby champion,
right YW.
Speaker 2: I believe you. Matt was always like kind of like
the looked like he was like swinging an axe. And
he get that top spin on it in a good way.
It's not like a not like you swung down on
the ball. You get that top spin. Remember I nearly
took Austin Bain's head off that a couple of years ago.
You almost did. But who won that game? Though I
don't remember we did, we did blame. Now bring to
b S all right, we'll take a break. We appreciate
that there's some really good one still in there. Maybe
we find our way back to some of those questions
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Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn spoken to be broken.
Speaker 2: What's a trivia? Just remade? What's a mean? And I
guess the boy I'll ever wanted was a high school?
Does scisim? A right? Yeah? You're right? Hell yeah? Yeah, okay,
all right? Maybe maybe two what do we call that
luanda in Spanish? What we call it two dose? Yeah?
We call that going for dose. That's exactly right, well done.
So if you're looking for a good time, a great time,
if you're looking to kick your feet up, if you're
tailgating in the parking lot of a certain baseball series
coming up this weekend, the only way that you need
to do it is going for dose. And maybe maybe
you go past dose. I don't know. That's up to
you responsibly, of course. But decision feels like a great time,
as it always is. What's the sound effect you like
to make to do that in the parking lot getting
ready for the Tigers in the box this weekend. It's
true too, It's very true. Oh man, I'm gonna have
some do mind right, get your mind right, your mind right.
Speaker 4: Let me mentally prepare myself to go to Spanish Town
for the first time ever.
Speaker 3: I'm getting ready.
Speaker 2: If I've ever been to I don't think I've been
to Spanish Town.
Speaker 5: It's from what I've never been either.
Speaker 3: From what I've heard, it's a little out there.
Speaker 6: Okay, Temup used to hate me well for multiple reasons,
but also, uh my parade take I'm just I don't
I don't get it.
Speaker 5: Just not a parade.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm really not too but I'm trying to.
Speaker 3: Like just do it.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, I love paride.
Speaker 3: I think I'm just not a crowd person.
Speaker 2: I don't even mind crowds. If the if like the
parking and like getting in and get out out situations,
not bad, I'm all good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the other part of it.
Speaker 2: Parades are perfect, like a couple hours. They are what
you make them. You can get as wild or as
laid back as you want to. You're gonna be surrounded
by a lot of good friends outside fresh air, it's
a great time. It's getting in and out that's always
a little tricky. You gotta have a plan. No, we
don't do a lot of prades. Have you been in
Spanish down. I have not neither. I haven't done it.
Speaker 7: We have done like a legit done a parade in
a while, and it's just time of life. Man, it's
a little challenge unless you have like a familiar with
with with kids.
Speaker 2: It's like you look for the convenience setup, Like I know,
somebody there to have access to a bathroom if your
treasure injers you do, but we'll talk about that later. Yeah,
obviously this year expect to So basically you're saying like
you want everybody to do the work and you and
the flynt just come in and enjoy it. Well, I
mean somebody else I would want to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how I would want.
Speaker 2: To do see. Typically, so so my wife, I'm not
the one that puts all the things together. Now she
she's incredible and she enjoys that. Yeah, right, And so
like oftentimes we're we're not the people that get to
like and again by choice and design, like just walk
right in. Like Katie is a party planner and like,
like I said, super Bowl, we had fifty people at
our house. So like we're never, very rarely are we
in that where we get to just walk in. Now
when we go back to Marti girl in shreef board, Like,
my mom has a setup and she's got lots and
they kind of do everything, and it's kind of nice
to have that, you know, one time where we get
to just kind of like walk in and we get
a chance to just be a part of the setup.
So I get it. I understand it. I mean, but
the bathrooms, that's a big part. I want. I want
access to a bathroom. Yeah, well, if you're planning, we're
not parking a quarter all the way, hiking in with
the lawn chair strapped our back. We're not. I don't know,
We're don't do that right now. At least in this part.
The access to get there and get out is easy,
I'm okay. Like with a little walk, Yeah you got
to have a porter potty. I mean, walk is fine.
Get it like like with no plan, like, let's just
wing it. Let's go to pray and wing it. We're
not that No, no, me, neither our kids go to
again it's a bathroom sit like, our kids go to
the bathroom way too much. I say my kids. I
was about to say, yeah, absolutely means himself. It's a
hydration that the bladder of a ninety seven years. It's
an occupational hazard when you're rehydrated all the time. Mm hmm,
pee a little bit lander. Who you going with? Okay,
hoping to see anybody there. I know who's out there.
Speaker 3: Depending who's out there, we'll see what happens on Sunday too.
Maybe to New Orleans?
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, your neighbor also, maybe.
Speaker 2: You're all right, breade gal, Yeah a.
Speaker 4: Suddenly, No, I've never been in Spanish.
Speaker 2: Man, be careful driving to New Orleans because like we
were went to New Orleans this past weekend. We're going
to this We had a hotel that was kind of
over by the casino, right right across the street from
from the Hares, and we went. We got off on
the wrong Caesars. We got off on the wrong exit
on this side of Saint Charles, and it wasn't good.
Just like two and a half hours to get there.
I had I had to I had to reverse on
a one way road. How do you take your wrong exit? Well,
so the like like even ways. What I was looking for,
like the the easiest, fastest way to this hotel because
I knew Marty Girl's happening, and it got me off
on a different exit instead of taking me all the
way to Choppatulist. Yeah, like past Saint Charles. Because it
hadn't updated. I guess they had just closed the roads, now,
I gotcha, and ways hasn't hadn't like updated to it. Gotcha,
And it kept it telling me to turn. I'm like,
I can't turn, but I can't turn, Bud, come on, Ways,
you're getting turned off. So we had to make our
way back. It was just you know, yeah, it was rough,
so be careful, all right, make sure you check out
the parade route before you drive. When we come back,
there is a former LSU defensive starter, multiple year starter,
former number eighteen that is going to be a part
of Lane Kiffin's staff for LSU football. Will tell you
who that is when we come back here on TV.
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Speaker 1: Com, Tiger's Turn Talkers. This is off the bench, Shine.
Speaker 2: All right, Welcome back in OTB here live from the
Raiz of Canes Studio. LTU Football makes a move to
bring back a former number eighteen. Former linebacker Greg penn
is going to join lane Kipp and staff as a
defensive analyst. So shout out to Greg Penn. I always
appreciated my conversations with him. Great football mind. I know
Blake Baker thinks a lot of Greg Penn. I remember
having those conversations with Blake whenever he came back from
Missouri and how excited he was to work with Greg Penn.
So shout out to Greg. Congratulations to Greg. And the
time you get a chance to have somebody like that,
you kind of know what Greg's all about to be
in that room kind of mentoring some of those young linebackers.
I think that's gonna be a great move for the staff.
And I always appreciate anytime you get a chance to
bring back former Tiger to be, you know, on the
staff here because I think we all know they're gonna
do whatever they can to obviously be successful for their career,
but also for their passion for their school. So God,
love it, love it, love it all. Just I just
like when former players come back and start their coaching
journey here, and we got a lot of good ones
out there following that coaching path right now, So get
on new lane. Love it. Don't still don't love the eighteen,
but whenever I knew that was coming, I was like
waiting for it. Over Big at fifteen two this year
is a probably kicker, probably a punter a little too exclusive.
Maybe the holder. It's also the punter. Yeah, the holder
always wears fifteen. That'd be fantastic. We'll be right up
your alley, all right, hour three, coming back off the bench,