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Speaker 1: I'll start to you to present Off the Bench.

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Speaker 2: This is what we have been waiting for.

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Speaker 1: Off the Bench. Now here's Jacob.

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Speaker 3: Past Welcome into a Wednesday edition of Off the Bench.

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Taylor Sharper with your filling end for Jacob Pastor. Elandra

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Villareale here as always, and as you heard by the

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wonderfully put intro, Jordan Kitchens is here with us as well. Elandra,

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you texted me this morning said, hey, I'm gonna be

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coming in a little hot had power hour. How was that?

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Speaker 2: It was good?

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Speaker 4: But I'm just still I don't know what just happened. Yes,

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right before the show.

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Speaker 3: We were we were gonna start with with baseball, but

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where we're gonna get there? Okay, Jordan leaves the studio

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two minutes for the show starts. All of a sudden,

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he's running back in. We look up. Elandra goes to Jordan,

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what's going on? His pants are like unzipped, like way down.

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We're trying to figure out what's going on, Jordan. Ory, Okay,

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that's aggressive.

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Speaker 5: You know, we have to set the table. We can't

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just come out here and be like, oh, this guy's

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around with his pants off. No, that's not what's going on.

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So let me set the table everybody. So what happened was,

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you know I'm making the YouTube thumbnail, Well, why not

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making a YouTube thumb Now I forgot I have to

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put the YouTube thumbnail in. So I'm sitting at my

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desk and I'm like, oh, snap, it's five fifty seven.

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I gotta go do this real quick, you know, put

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the titler in whatever. So I go run and do that.

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I look at the clock. Six point fifty nine. Keep

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in mind, guys, I have to go. I don't like

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to drink coffee, so I had to drink me a

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nice doctor Pepper this morning. Give me a little pepper

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my step and now Dr Pepper just went straight through me.

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So I'm looking at the clock. I'm panicking. I'm in

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the bathroom. I'm like, okay, you know, I got like

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thirty seconds at this point, so I you know, you

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gotta do what you gotta do. Do what I do.

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And I'm thinking I'm out of time. So I'm like

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running back in the studio and everybody's like, why you're

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running back? What's going on here? What's going on here?

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And I'm like, well, in my mind, I'm out of time. Yeah, yeah,

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you're right. So you know, Land had to hold the

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four down. You know who hold the line. Let me

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get set up first, let me get the weather together.

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So that's what happened. I'm not a maniac running with

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my pants off everybody. No, I just a bad look.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: I'm a team player. I'm a team player. Yes, did

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you did?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 3: There?

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Speaker 2: Turned into he's a team player?

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Speaker 5: But team player?

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Speaker 3: Did you get your p in at least?

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Speaker 5: Oh bro?

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Speaker 3: Because like, like you know this, Yeah, there's nothing worse.

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It's a guy like you're halfway through that pee. You

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gotta like y'all try to clench it. You can, you

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can't do it.

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Speaker 2: And I just know he didn't wash his hands.

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Speaker 5: Listen, you know when you have hand sanitized. This is

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that I can't lie. Y'all't hear y'all, don't hear a

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foster running. We're not stupid, We're not stupid. Nobody heard

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the fowtert running. But but I was able to get

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in right for the show start, able to drain the

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main vein. We're all good, we're all settled. We're here

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for three hours locked in.

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Speaker 3: Are you doing good this morning?

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Speaker 1: Jordan?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I neglected to ask you that with all the uh,

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you know, things going on when you came.

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Speaker 5: In, things happened, things happened. But you know this, this

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is the whole point about being a Foxhold guy. You know,

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you find yourself back against the wall. You gotta find

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a way to get to get out.

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Speaker 3: Would some would say fox all member wouldn't wait till

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forty five seconds before the show to pee, But it's

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a fair see.

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Speaker 5: Instead of doing that, you do it before. So you're

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all the way locked in now you're all the way

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locked and there is no there's no excuses, there is

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no I gotta go pee real quick. No, it's gone.

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Speaker 3: A law Draves power power was great.

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Speaker 4: I was just telling Jordan before all that chaos happened

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that the finisher today was one hundred walking lunges with

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a kettle bell in each hand. So yeah, I'm pretty

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dead right now. And Jordan was like, I'd have to

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go back to bed, and I was like, no, trust me.

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I took a shower and my bed was made and

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Speaker 6: Was like, ooh, I would love I would love to

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be all.

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Speaker 2: Up in you right now.

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Speaker 3: Okay, man, we are wild in this morning here on.

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Speaker 2: I would love to be in my bed.

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Speaker 3: So speaking of kettle I think what makes this even yeah, okay,

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this is what makes this even funnier. Speaking of both

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of your actions here early this morning, did you'll ever

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hear the story of p Diddy with the kettle bill?

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Speaker 6: No, and I'm not sure seven o five am.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, it's not a it's not a sexual story.

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So his son, he had a son, and I'm trying

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to find out where.

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Speaker 4: He.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Justin Combs was his son. He was a defensive

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back on UCLA's football team. This was years ago.

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Speaker 2: I remember this.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, Jordan, if you haven't heard this story, day

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let his father Seawan Combs obviously.

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Speaker 4: Well, I've never heard this story. I remember his son

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playing at A Well, I don't know this.

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Speaker 3: He was like working out in the weight room or whatever,

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got mad at an assistant coach and threw a kettle

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bell at him. What didn't hit him, but threw the

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kettle bell at him that some strength that might have

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been a sign, might have been a sign.

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Speaker 5: Did he get kicked off the team?

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Speaker 3: No, not, he he was working out in the in

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the weight room through the kettle bell at the coach.

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Speaker 5: That's why was he even there? What's going on here?

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Speaker 3: He was a celebrity father in Los Angeles, so famous.

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Speaker 4: Whatever can you imagine if Deshaun Foster was the coach

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at the time and he did he threw a kettle

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bell at him, he would have nothing to say to him.

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Speaker 3: Okay, here we go, here, here's a sorry, I gotta

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put up. So an assistant coach, sal Alosi had apparently

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been ripping into Justin Combs during a recent u c

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l A practice that did he attended unhappy with the

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treatment of his son? Did he decided to visit Alosi

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in his office? Words were said, a scuttle, a scuffle ensued,

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and then things escalated. Did he took a kettlebell of

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an undisclosed weight into his hand? And reports are unclear,

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but they seem to involve uh, did he swinging the

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kettlebell and throwing it in the general direction? Okay, so

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this wasn't even in the weight room, But.

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Speaker 6: I'm trying to imagine how I would throw a kettlebell.

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Speaker 3: Must have been by a handle, like.

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Speaker 2: Pretty heavy, like five pound. I don't use.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're also not using it as a projectile either.

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Speaker 5: So well, hold on, So Taylor, what did you tell

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me is this man had the secret kettlebell on him

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in the in the meeting, like he was probabilitated.

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Speaker 3: I'm assuming, I don't know, you know, I'm assuming that

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there was probably a kettlebell nearby in the office. Like

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maybe this guy was like a strength coach or whatever.

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did he showed up knocking on the door with a

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kettlebell in his hand and you let him in the office.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, a trench coat on. It was like

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in the trench coat, it's got a kettlebell weight, like

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premeditated sex. You say something, kettle belt to the head

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right there. I respect that a little bit, don't. Okay, don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: It's not respect. I respect. I respect audacity to do that.

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Speaker 3: To do a lot of things. I wanted to start

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this show with some college baseball talk, but Jordan, it's

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it's eight minutes after we'll we'll combine both of our

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college baseball segments into one. This is what we'll do.

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We'll do that next stay up and watching the NBA

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game last night, oh man, of course, maybe I couldn't sleep.

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My blood was pumping like this was. This was one

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of like the so like really as far as like

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locked into playoffs, it's really me you and Hester. That's

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kind of it as far as like like everybody has

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their team, like Landre loves the Spurs, you know, but

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like even when the Pelar aren't good, like you and I,

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we watched the playoffs. Yeah, man, I remember being freshman

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in high school is really when I fell in love

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with the NBA playoffs. Like it was because I was

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Speaker 1: Come home that night.

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Speaker 3: NBA playoffs every single night during the summer. I mean

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that's when. That's when I've had. This was one of

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those peak like back to back, full court, just hard

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nosed basketball because it's weird. It's like it was one

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thirty one to one twenty or one twenty two, whatever

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the hell it was, but like there was also defense

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Speaker 7: It was.

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Speaker 3: It was phenomena. Like I didn't sleep last night because

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of it. Okay, look We're just gonna go ahead and

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take a break since that first segment was not at

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we'll come back. We'll have an extended second segment. I'll

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get a Lunis thoughts on this as well. The betting

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nods for the favorites to win the College World Series

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is out. LSU Tiger's high on that list. And then

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regionals and the hardest regionals across all of college baseball

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as we enter those this weekend. Both of those coming

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up next. You're on off the bench.

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Speaker 5: More than miserable.

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Speaker 3: More power, more protection.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the Bench.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back in second segment here on a Wednesday edition

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of OTB Taylor Trophy with you filling in for mister Jacobs.

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So we got a Landra, Villa Reale and Jordan Kitchens here,

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and we have already had a lot of fun here

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on this Wednesday morning. We talked about a Landra's Power Hour,

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Jordan walking in with his pants on zipped, and uh

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an old story of uh P Diddy swinging a kettlebell

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at a UCLA assistant football coach. So we've burned through

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of college baseball. But sometimes, look things happen. You gotta

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tell a couple stories. That's kind of where the opening

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at the odds to win the College World Series because

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they are out and your LSU Tigers are six to

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The favorites are the Arkansas Razorbacks at plus four hundred.

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I get it. They're forty three and thirteen on the season.

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They finished the SEC with a twenty and ten record

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a won a game in the SEC Tournament. I understand,

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but haven't we seen this before? Look, I think Arkansas

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is a great baseball program. I think Dave van Horne

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is a really good coach. But it just seems like

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time and time again, Arkansas every year looks prime to

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win it all, only to fall short. I mean, when

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was it twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen, something like that. They're

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a foul ball catch away from winning the College World Series.

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Their infielder's completely with there's three guys standing there, nobody

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catches the foul ball. They ultimately lose in the College

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World Series finals. Just stuff like that happens to Arkansas

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time and time again in the College World Series. We

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get it. They're a great team. They've been good all year.

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I know everybody hates the University of Texas. I think

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they've been the best team in the SEC all year long.

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Texas would have been my betting favorite to win it all,

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just strictly based on what we've seen so far this year,

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I would go with Texas, not Arkansas. But look right

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behind Arkansas, it's LSU. It's six to one odds, So

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can the Tigers get it done? They certainly have the

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pitching to do this. Look, I love what I've seen

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from this staff lately. You have two top flight starters.

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It's funny after the first game in the SEC Tournament

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where both Anderson and Ianson pitched, Jay Johnson was asked

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about Kate Anderson. He goes, look, he's the best pitcher

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in the country. The only person he might be tied

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with is ant of the Ions. And I mean it

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doesn't really matter to me. You can say, Okay, Kate

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Anderson's your ace as far as I'm concerned, Kate Anderson's

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your day one starter. Ions in your day two. You

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have two aces on this staff. They have both been excellent. Also,

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it's looking like you may have some solid options for

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your third and fourth starter. Everyone on this show has

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always talked about, Look, when you get to Omaha, you

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may have to dip in a little bit, start a

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third a fourth arm, A guy like you see it

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every single year, right You saw it with Nate Ackenhowison

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two years ago when LSU won the National Championship. He

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wasn't a weekend starter in that rotation. But because of

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rest for Paul Skins and some other factors like Nate

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Ackenhow's another step up and start a game in the

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National Championship. What arms can you rely on out of

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the bullpit? Because we know Anderson and Ionsen, in my opinion,

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best duo in the country. As far as starting pitchers,

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I throughout the names that I know for sure this

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team can count on. Zach Callen, Cason Evans if he's

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not starting, Chase Shores if he's not starting, Connor Ware,

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Jacob Myers, Cooper Williams, Jaden Newton. Those are seven guys

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right now I feel comfortable with. Now in Landro have

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three more names. I'm gonna throw them out to you

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and you tell me if you'd feel comfortable throw them

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out there. They're talented, they've done some good, they've done

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some bad.

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Speaker 2: To start, No.

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Speaker 3: Like that you'd feel comfortable with out of the bullpen,

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because like we we know the starters. I just named

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seven arms that could either be maybe your third starter

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out of the bullpen? Did everyone knows? Okay, how about

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this name Maverick Risey? Can he count on him? Yes? Okay,

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that's a but still you can DJ Primo, Yes, okay,

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that's nine. William Schmidt this was my biggest question mark.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, he's very hit or miss. I would

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say no.

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Speaker 3: I would say no as well. Okay, that's kind of

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the point of this exercise is that no, you're look,

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he's a freshman. He's a freshman. He's going to get better.

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But I just listed Callen Evans Shores where Myers, Williams Newt,

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and then Landra said yes on Rizzi and Primo. That's

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nine arms. Now, of course a couple of them are

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going to have to start, Like as Jade Newt going

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to be your third starter? Is it going to be

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case and Evans? But look, earlier in this season it was, hey,

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you're starting anderson Ians and Chase Shores. You can rely

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on two guys out of the bullpen and Zach Collen

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Case and Evans. Everybody else is a giant question mark.

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We've talked about the struggles of this offense. It's been

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flipped completely. As far as this LSU pitching staff. I

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think there's multiple guys that you can count on, But

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the bats are a concern for me. Now. The good

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news issue is great at home in hitting, and they're

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going to be at home and the regionals and the Supers,

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which they got to go through in order to get

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to Omaha. It's so weird, like this team is a

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night and day offensive at home and then on the route.

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Not very long ago, they scored nine runs total at

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Texas A and M. That's a team that didn't even

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make it into this tournament. Nine runs. Then they come

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home against Arkansas, who's now the betting favorite to win

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it all. They score twenty two runs that weekend. What

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happens when they go to Hoover away from alex Box,

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they score four runs in two games. It's I can't

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figure out why this team cannot hit away from alex Box.

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It's one of the bigger questions for me. So getting

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to Omaha shouldn't be a problem. My bigger question is

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what are they going to do when they ultimately get there.

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Because you're at home in a regional, you're at home

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against a super regional. You've been able to hit inside

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alec box. I'm not concerned with that whatsoever. And your

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pichon has been good enough to carry you anyways. But

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once you get to Omaha, what's the batting going to

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look like? I mean, you have Ethan Fry who's been

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on a tear, and then I mean, you know, you're

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top three or four in the order, Curiel Dickinson, Jared Jones,

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I mean they are who they are, right, Jake Brown's

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out there as well. But the bottom part of your order, now,

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coming into the season we talked about, oh you have

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talent one through nine in this order. The bottom part

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of your order has not stepped up in quite some time.

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All right, look who you have down there, Luis Hernandez,

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Stephen Mylem, Michael braswell, Chris Stanfield, depending on where you

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want to put him. Those guys need to step up. Now.

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Stanfield's been the best of that group by fault. He's

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been really good at the bottom part of that order,

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but Islem Hernandez braswell. Those guys have to step up

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in order for you. Took a beat in Omaha. Going

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back to the regionals, though, I was looking at the

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brackets yesterday and look, we talked a lot yesterday about

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how easy the LSU Regional was. We're gonna take that

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out of the equation. I kind of wanted to look

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at the hardest regionals and the easiest regionals across the country.

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For me, just out of the gate, looking at it

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surface level, Hattiesburg Regional has to be one of the toughest,

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at least for the host site. The Southern miss is

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the host obviously, be of Miami and Alabama also there.

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Look at Alabama, they're forty one and sixteen on the year,

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sixteen and fourteen in the conference, and in my opinion,

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their top three batteries are as good as any trio

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in the country. Kate Snell's batting three sixty six. Richie

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Bonomolo is at three to twenty, and we all know

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how great of a two way player Justin Lebron is.

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He's at three fifteen. And it's not just that they

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hit for average. So Kate Snell has twelve home runs,

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Justin Lebron has eighteen, and Richie Bonamolo has eight, So

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all three of those guys hit for power and average.

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That is a dangerous, dangerous one two three at the

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top of that lineup. Their pichon's been below average. I mean,

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they have a five to one to one ERA on

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the season as a team, but most of the usual

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weekend arms have actually been pretty solid. You have a

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couple guys in Alabama's bullpen who have like a twenty

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two EER that's bringing up the team. Ert the guys

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you see on the weekend, they've actually been better as

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of late. And then you look at a team like

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Miami about two seventy eight. As a team, they have

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sixty eight home runs on the year, but a five

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point h three e RA, and they have a decent

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starting rotation. As far as their their three weekend arms

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of Friday, Saturday, Sunday, they're thirty one and twenty four overall,

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fifteen and fourteen in the ACC. Now here's where it's

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going to help out Southern miss At home, Miami is

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twenty two and nine away, they're seven and fourteen, so

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that is going to play in Southern missus favorite because

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they are the host team. But I just look at

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that regional. I'm not sure Southern Miss makes it out

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of there. I mean when I look at Alabama and

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you know at least the top arms in their weekend rotation.

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I look at their batting line up top to bottom.

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I mentioned snell, Lebron and Bontomolo. I kind of think

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Alabama is going to make it out of this region.

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And I get it. Southern Miss is a great team.

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They have earned the right to be a host site.

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They're a HOS site most years because they're a good

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baseball program. But I just think Alabama battle tested. They

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have a winning record in the SEC. We know how

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tough that conference has been all year long. You've won

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forty one games this year. I got it like Alabama

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to come out of the regional. I don't know if

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Southern Miss makes it out of their own regional. I

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think that is a very difficult draw for the Golden Eagles. Now,

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as far as the easiest regional goes, I think, far

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and away it's the Athens Regional. Georgia is the number

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seven national seed, but I think they got a good draw. Now,

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again we're excluding LSHU from this equation. We broke down

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that regional yesterday. Everybody knows that the Tigers got a

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favorable draw. So outside of that, I like what the

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Bulldogs at Oklahoma State's there. They're only twenty eight and

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twenty three, fifteen and twelve in the Big Twelve. Also

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just five and twelve record on the road, and they're

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going two Athens. Cowboys do come in hot. They've won

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eight of the last nine in the Big Twelve. However,

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on the season, they are hitting just two fifty four

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and they only have two guys over three hundred as

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far as batting average, but their staff is actually pretty good.

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A four to thirty three ERA is a staff, so

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they're good on the mound, they just can't really hit.

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Then you have Duke thirty seven wins, seventeen and thirteen

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in the ACC again under a three hundred batting average

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is a team two eighty nine. The ERA is four

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ninety one. And then Binghamton is the four seed in

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that regional. That's a team that a lot like Little

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Rock because like you look at Little Rock in this

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LSU regional, you're like, Okay, they have a losing record,

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but they went on a run. They won their conference tournament,

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they got into the postseason. It's similar with Binghamton. They're

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twenty nine and twenty four overall, just thirteen and eleven

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in the regular season in their conference, but they won

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the America East Championship over Bryant, so they earn the

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right to get here. A two ninety four batting average,

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so they can actually hit the ball pretty well, but

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their ERA is six forty six this season. As a staff,

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they struggle on the mound. I think Georgia is going

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to have an easy time with that. So you look

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at Duke, Binghams and Oklahoma State. Two of those three

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teams don't even have thirty wins on the season, and

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the best record between the three in conference is Duke

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at seventeen and thirteen. I think that's one of the

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easiest regionals landro as far as like easy hard, where

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do you fall? It's like like tak an l issue

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out of the equation. Like when I looked at the

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Athens Regional, I felt that one like, oh, I think

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Georgia is gonna have an easy time, Like out there,

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who do you think got a good draw? Bad drill?

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Speaker 4: So one that I was looking at and if you're

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looking at it in terms of like for the host

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the Conway Regional hosted by Coastal Carolina, or I mean,

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I guess if you're looking at it through like an

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SEC lens, because Florida is gonna go up to Conway,

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and uh, that's gonna be a tough regional because East Carolina,

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Coastal Carolina, and Florida are.

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Speaker 2: All in it.

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Speaker 4: And we know that East and Coastal Carolina always makes

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some runs in the postseason.

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Speaker 2: So I think that was gonna be a little tough.

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Speaker 4: If we're looking at it through like Florida's lens, it'll

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be tough for Florida to get out of that because

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I mean, they made it into the postseason, but they

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had a rough regular season, so that one's gonna be

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tough for them. And another one that to me kinda

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so like Tennessee snuck their way into hosting a regional.

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Speaker 3: You and I were talking about it yesterday. We were

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shocked that they got the.

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Speaker 4: Host, Yeah, which is I think that's kind of BS.

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Speaker 2: But they get an easy one too, Like they host, they're.

470
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Speaker 3: Getting the benefit of the dow to be in the defendition. Yeah,

471
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is what they're.

472
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Speaker 2: Getting, that's true and fair.

473
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Speaker 4: They're getting wake Forest, who we faced in the College

474
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,960
World Series, and they're a good program, but thirty six

475
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,599
and twenty on the season. And then they get Cincinnati

476
00:23:47,599 --> 00:23:51,359
who's thirty two and twenty four and Miami Ohio thirty

477
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,400
five and twenty one. So the Knoxville Regional is also

478
00:23:55,799 --> 00:23:58,640
pretty easy to me. Another tough one that we were

479
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:00,359
talking about in the break. I had a confus used

480
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,559
with another one. That's why I said it was easy

481
00:24:03,599 --> 00:24:06,480
at first. This one is tough. The Austin Regional.

482
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, Houston Christian.

483
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 4: Thirty two and twenty three on the season, but they's

484
00:24:10,759 --> 00:24:16,279
still a solid team. And then Todd Walkerson is on

485
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:20,640
the team. Shout out Todd walker UTSA forty four and thirteen,

486
00:24:20,799 --> 00:24:21,960
forty four and thirteen.

487
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there conference records like what twenty two and four.

488
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:25,799
Speaker 2: I think that's what.

489
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and then they're in the American right yea, yeah,

490
00:24:28,839 --> 00:24:31,519
so they're they're pretty good in that conference. And then

491
00:24:31,559 --> 00:24:34,440
you get Kansas State who's only thirty one and twenty four.

492
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,240
But still, like I feel like that's kind of a

493
00:24:36,279 --> 00:24:40,599
tough regional, especially with UTSA and Houston Christian.

494
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Speaker 2: But That's how I was looking at it.

495
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Speaker 3: Any host site like I don't. I don't think Southern

496
00:24:46,279 --> 00:24:47,920
MISI gets out of the regional. I really don't want.

497
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,799
I mean between Bama Miami and Southern Myss, like those

498
00:24:51,799 --> 00:24:53,240
teams are gonna beat each other up. I think that

499
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,200
one's up for grabs. Is there any host team that

500
00:24:55,279 --> 00:24:56,920
you think, Hey, I don't know if they're getting out

501
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:57,400
of their regional?

502
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Speaker 6: Good question. I didn't think about that one.

503
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,319
Speaker 3: But because I mean Texas that's a tough regional. Texas

504
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,720
is going to get They're too good of a team.

505
00:25:06,759 --> 00:25:08,000
They're going to get out of their regional.

506
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 4: So if Oklahoma North Carolina is a really really good team,

507
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so this is going to be like a very big stretch.

508
00:25:14,599 --> 00:25:16,640
But if anybody can knock them out their own regional,

509
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,880
I think it'd be Oklahoma. That's probably a bad answer, though,

510
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,480
because I still think you and c is going to

511
00:25:22,519 --> 00:25:23,880
make it out, and I think they're going to make a.

512
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Speaker 2: Pretty deep run in Omaha.

513
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,759
Speaker 4: But let me see, Bandy's making it out of theirs,

514
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,079
Arkansas is making it out of theirs.

515
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Speaker 2: I think Auburn will too.

516
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:36,599
Speaker 5: I don't know.

517
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you the Tallahassee Regional. Yeah, in Florida State,

518
00:25:40,519 --> 00:25:43,119
that was tough because you got Mississippi State there, and

519
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,680
since Mississippi State fired Crystal Monas, like that team's been hot,

520
00:25:46,759 --> 00:25:49,440
I mean hot hot, Like you saw what they did

521
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,279
end that season. Mississippi State could win that regional.

522
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Speaker 6: That's somebody that I wouldn't want to see in my regional.

523
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:57,279
Speaker 2: I know that they had like.

524
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Speaker 4: That ru but once, especially once they got to Lamonas

525
00:26:01,759 --> 00:26:05,079
just went to another level. So yeah, that is somebody

526
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,400
that I wouldn't want to see it. The Tally Tallahassee

527
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,119
one is tough too. That's another one that I was

528
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,119
looking at, like ooh, but I still think Florida State

529
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,759
will make it out of that. The only one like

530
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,279
Bethune Cookman might be an easy one. But yeah, Northeastern

531
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and Mississippi State are gonna give you some challenges. You

532
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:26,200
know what, bold, I'm go a little bold here.

533
00:26:26,319 --> 00:26:26,839
Speaker 3: Let's hear it.

534
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,839
Speaker 4: Georgia Tech might knock all Miss out their own reach.

535
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:38,920
Georgia Tech is a solid team, and Ole Miss might

536
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,160
not make it out of Oxford.

537
00:26:40,839 --> 00:26:42,759
Speaker 3: It's weird. Ole Miss is one of those teams that

538
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,720
like always gets hot late, right, now that can help you,

539
00:26:46,279 --> 00:26:48,960
but it could be you're playing over your head, like

540
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,240
we were talking about it yesterday when they won the

541
00:26:51,279 --> 00:26:54,440
national title a few years ago. They were the very

542
00:26:54,519 --> 00:26:57,039
last team in this tournament. They went on that crazy

543
00:26:57,079 --> 00:26:59,160
run they win the title. It's like there's such an

544
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:00,759
up and down team it's hard to get a read on.

545
00:27:00,799 --> 00:27:03,960
But no, I'm with you. Like Georgia Tech kind of

546
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:05,559
the opposite of Ole Miss. Like Ole Miss has been

547
00:27:05,559 --> 00:27:08,640
hot late, Georgia Tech's actually been pretty steady all year long.

548
00:27:08,799 --> 00:27:14,079
Speaker 4: We also won the ACC tournament, so they're a good team.

549
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 3: All right, that's kind of our baseball talk for today.

550
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,839
We kind of wanted to combine it all in one

551
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,680
segment because it was supposed to be two separate, but

552
00:27:22,759 --> 00:27:25,480
we we left the rails a little bit in the opening. Okay,

553
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:29,279
we're gonna take a time album we get back. PFF

554
00:27:29,319 --> 00:27:33,640
has ranked the top quarterback rooms in college football, and

555
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,960
the Tigers are at the top of that list. We'll

556
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,000
break it all down next. You're on off the bench

557
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after bench.

558
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Speaker 8: All right, So you heard Flynn the other day, I

559
00:27:42,079 --> 00:27:44,039
mean he loves do sequis.

560
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Speaker 3: You know that.

561
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Speaker 8: We hear on the OTV Team Love Dose Sequis. It

562
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is the perfect beer for any occasion. Lake beer, beach beer,

563
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:58,319
shower beer, bath beer, you name it, beer like ballpark beer.

564
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,480
It is the go to, and we've said it, We're

565
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,920
going to continue to say it. Whether you're tailgating outside

566
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,920
of Tiger Stadium, watching the Saints on a Sunday, or

567
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,079
just kicking back with your crew. Dose Sekis brings that

568
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:15,200
bowl flavor and smooth finish that turns ordinary into legendary.

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Speaker 3: It's not just beer.

570
00:28:16,799 --> 00:28:19,279
Speaker 8: It is the beer of champions, or at least the

571
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beer of guys who.

572
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Speaker 3: Feel like champions.

573
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 8: But you will feel like a champion when you enjoy

574
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an ice cold Do Sekis. So you don't have to

575
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be a champion, because Dose Skis will make you a champion.

576
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So the next time you're watching the game, grab a

577
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do Sekis and remember stay thirsty, my friends responsibly. Of course,

578
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Doseki's official beer of unforgettable sports moments.

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Speaker 1: This is Off the Bench.

580
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Speaker 3: Coach up.

581
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: I'll be down soon, you know, tell me down? Giving

582
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everything inside.

583
00:29:16,319 --> 00:29:21,559
Speaker 3: Love strange, all right, welcome back in Wednesday edition of

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Off the Bench. Watch a movie with that song in

585
00:29:24,559 --> 00:29:27,079
a Yesterday No, I did not watch the Breakfast Club.

586
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,920
I watched Pitch Perfect where Jesse showed Beck of the

587
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,960
ending of the Breakfast Club. So that's that's what my

588
00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:36,200
afternoon consisted of me laying on the couch in and

589
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,440
out of consciousness watching Pitch Perfect. That's that's uh, that's

590
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,200
how Taylor spent his Tuesday afternoon. Okay, right now, I

591
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,599
want to talk a little bit of LSU football, as

592
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,759
PFF put out the top ten quarterback rooms heading into

593
00:29:50,319 --> 00:29:52,079
the twenty twenty five season. Now, keep in mind, this

594
00:29:52,119 --> 00:29:54,799
is not individual players. This is a room as a whole,

595
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,680
starter and backup. I'll run through the top ten here

596
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,920
pretty quick. Number ten, it's Ohio State. Makes a lot

597
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,200
of sense. There's talent there. You have Julian Sayan, Tavian

598
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,880
Saint Clair, the red shirt freshman. Lincoln keen Holes is

599
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,000
there as well. He was a top fifteen quarterback or

600
00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:11,720
creed back in twenty twenty three. I think that's Julian

601
00:30:11,759 --> 00:30:14,759
Sayan's job to lose a lot of talent between him

602
00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:18,480
and keen Holes. However, neither of them have the experience,

603
00:30:18,519 --> 00:30:21,359
so I get that right there. Number nine, the Alabama

604
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,400
Crimson tied. I think this is a terrible spot for

605
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:24,920
them on the list because I don't think they should

606
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,599
be on the list. You have red shirt junior Ty Simpson,

607
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,759
He's likely your starter. I'm not saying ty Simpson can't

608
00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:32,920
be good. What I'm saying is he's been at Alabama

609
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,440
for three years now. He's had opportunities to take the

610
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,400
starting job and he couldn't do it. You guys know

611
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,880
how I feel about Jaylen Milroe, and Ty Simpson couldn't

612
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,240
even beat out Jaylen Miler. Now you do have Keelan Russell,

613
00:30:44,519 --> 00:30:47,480
the five star coming in. You have Austin Mack the

614
00:30:47,519 --> 00:30:49,680
red shirt sophomore. He was a four star in twenty

615
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:53,319
twenty three. So I mean there's talent, But I mean

616
00:30:53,319 --> 00:30:55,720
when you're telling me Ty Simpsons the leader of the clubhouse,

617
00:30:55,759 --> 00:30:57,880
that doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in me until

618
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,240
he proves it on the field. Number eight eight is

619
00:31:00,279 --> 00:31:03,559
the Auburn Tigers. I may actually put Auburn even a

620
00:31:03,559 --> 00:31:05,920
little bit higher on this Listen, Jackson Arnold's going to

621
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,279
be the starter. I don't think there's any question about that.

622
00:31:08,359 --> 00:31:11,200
But Ashton Daniels will be the backup. He started at

623
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,240
Stanford the last two years, so he comes in true

624
00:31:14,279 --> 00:31:16,400
freshman Deuce Night looks like he could be the future

625
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,039
of the program. He was a five star in this

626
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,200
last recruiting class. That is a quarterback room with the

627
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,000
heck of a lot of talent. You have Penn State

628
00:31:23,039 --> 00:31:27,519
at seven, Miami at six, Clemson Tigers at five. You

629
00:31:27,559 --> 00:31:30,519
know Florida at four, Arizona State three number two. You

630
00:31:30,559 --> 00:31:33,799
have the SMU Mustangs because Kevin Jennings is back at

631
00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:36,960
quarterback after taking over at the early part of last

632
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,599
season and really never looking back. He led that team

633
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,160
to a College Football Playoff appearance. And then Tyler Van Dijk,

634
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,559
very proven backup six years senior. He's going to be

635
00:31:45,559 --> 00:31:48,799
the backup to Kevin Jennings this year over there in

636
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,440
ford Worth, and the number one quarterback room in the

637
00:31:52,599 --> 00:31:58,000
entire country according to PFF, is the LSU Tigers. Obviously,

638
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,960
Garrett Nelsmier is, in my opinion, five quarterback in all

639
00:32:01,039 --> 00:32:04,759
college football. He's a legitimate Heisman candidate. He threw for

640
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,799
the fifth most passing yards in the nation last year,

641
00:32:08,279 --> 00:32:11,559
but he's the leading returning passer in college football, meaning

642
00:32:11,599 --> 00:32:14,400
no quarterback coming back this year. Threw for more yards

643
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:20,640
last season than did Garrett Nosmeier. Also behind him is

644
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:24,240
Michael van Buren. And we saw Michael van Buren last

645
00:32:24,279 --> 00:32:27,359
year in Mississippi State. It was his true freshman season.

646
00:32:27,759 --> 00:32:30,599
He was thrown into the fire after Blake Shapin went down,

647
00:32:30,759 --> 00:32:32,440
and he did some nice things. Now, at times he

648
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,960
looked like a freshman, but he showed the ability to

649
00:32:36,039 --> 00:32:38,759
go in there and make plays for you. Completed about

650
00:32:38,759 --> 00:32:40,960
fifty five percent of his passes. He had almost two

651
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,119
thousand yards, eleven touchdown passes, seven interceptions. And that's being

652
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,240
thrown in there as a true freshman due to injury.

653
00:32:48,599 --> 00:32:49,960
And let's be honest, he didn't have a lot of

654
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,839
talent around him over there at Mississippi State. So you

655
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,279
bring in a guy who's a veteran. I mean, this

656
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,359
was a surprise when LSU got him out of the

657
00:32:57,359 --> 00:33:00,079
portal because when Blake Shapan announced he was returning the

658
00:33:00,079 --> 00:33:03,759
Mississippi State that appears to be Jeff Levi's guy. Michael

659
00:33:03,839 --> 00:33:05,799
van Buren's on the move and you're like, Okay, he's

660
00:33:05,839 --> 00:33:08,559
going to go somewhere where he believes he can be

661
00:33:08,599 --> 00:33:11,960
a starting quarterback. But he trusts Brian Kelly and Joe

662
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,000
Sloane enough to come here, sit behind Garrett Nelsmeier for

663
00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:18,319
a year and maybe be primed and ready to take

664
00:33:18,359 --> 00:33:21,720
over in twenty twenty six as the starting quarterback at

665
00:33:21,839 --> 00:33:25,839
LL shoot van Buren though, Like you can break down

666
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,799
his numbers all day long, that's fine. But he had

667
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,319
eight starts in his true freshman season. But get this,

668
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:37,079
his first two came on the road against big time

669
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:41,839
defenses Texas and Georgia. He had a seventy nine passing

670
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:46,000
grade according to PFF, no turnover worthy plays in either

671
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:50,279
of those games. So he did a really nice job

672
00:33:50,359 --> 00:33:52,880
early on. And it wasn't like he was eased into it.

673
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:54,039
I mean, you got to go on the road to

674
00:33:54,079 --> 00:33:56,680
Texas and Georgia in your first two starts. That's about

675
00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:00,880
as tough as it gets. You also have Collury. He

676
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,960
was a four star in last year's recruiting cycle. Now,

677
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,960
if you remember, Colin Hurley reclassified, so he essentially should

678
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,719
have been a senior in high school last year. Can

679
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,679
Hurley make that jump now? He wasn't here the entirety

680
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:16,840
of spring. He got into that car accident that hopefully

681
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,199
it appears like he's fully recovered from We'll we'll see

682
00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:21,840
what happens there as more comes out about that, But

683
00:34:22,119 --> 00:34:25,000
Colin Hurley is a guy that this coaching staff was

684
00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:28,159
very excited about. And then, don't forget you moved Juwan

685
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,639
Johnson to a quarterback in the spring because of the

686
00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:33,800
absence of a Colin Hurley. Now, is Juwan Johnson going

687
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,760
to go in there and throw passes down the field

688
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,960
to win a game for him? Probably not. But look,

689
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,880
when it was the decision was made to move Juwan

690
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:45,119
Johnson a quarterback, we sat here in this spot and

691
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,480
just talked about all the high school accolades for Juwan Johnson. Right,

692
00:34:48,519 --> 00:34:51,280
he was statistically one of the best high school quarterbacks

693
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,599
in the state of Louisiana. Ever, as far as high

694
00:34:53,599 --> 00:34:56,559
school football goes, he's going to be your change of

695
00:34:56,599 --> 00:34:58,159
pace guy. If you need a quarterback to go in

696
00:34:58,199 --> 00:35:00,320
there and run, he can't cause Van Buren he doesn't

697
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,559
really run either. Colin Hurley, again, we haven't seen much

698
00:35:03,559 --> 00:35:05,360
of him in action, and we know Garrett Nosmeyer isn't

699
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,880
much of a runner. If you need a running quarterback,

700
00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:10,360
Jwan Johnson is your guy. So he's kind of the

701
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:15,800
wild card in this room. But quarterback isn't the issue

702
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,760
for this team, like even if PFF would have played

703
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,760
LSU at one or ten, don't care what to change

704
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,920
my opinion about this room whatsoever. You could poke a

705
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,280
lot of holes in this team. You can look at

706
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:28,920
the defense and you can say, oh, they're a little

707
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,360
inexperience on the defensive line, even though I think they

708
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,000
did a nice job in the portal. Offensive line is

709
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,400
a question mark. You lose four of your five starters

710
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,039
from a year ago and you're not even sure DJ

711
00:35:38,079 --> 00:35:44,320
Pikett's going to play the same position. But if you

712
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,760
look Garrett Nulsemeyer coming back his second year in this

713
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,599
program as the starting quarterback, you have Caden Durham next

714
00:35:51,599 --> 00:35:54,639
to him in the backfield. Cayden Durham, his impact on

715
00:35:54,679 --> 00:35:58,679
this team was underrated, if that makes sense. Last year,

716
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,119
the first three games year, you couldn't do anything. I

717
00:36:01,119 --> 00:36:04,000
mean it really went until South Carolina on the road,

718
00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:07,719
where Caden Durham made himself known. And you can say, Okay, well,

719
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,559
the O line's a big question mark. Yeah, but you

720
00:36:09,559 --> 00:36:12,320
could run the ball last year for the majority of

721
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,719
the season. Cayden Durham's going to be better. If that

722
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:19,199
offensive line can be a decent run blocking team, you

723
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,400
might actually be better in the running it. It all

724
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,639
depends on what that O line looks like. That's the

725
00:36:23,639 --> 00:36:27,000
big question mark for you on offense. Talked about this

726
00:36:27,079 --> 00:36:29,800
a little bit yesterday when I was reacting to Joel

727
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,840
Klatt's list talking about, you know, Garrett Nelsemeyer cutting down

728
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,239
on the turnos. He did that late in the season.

729
00:36:35,559 --> 00:36:38,760
We talked about it all season long. Last year's offense

730
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,519
was limited because you had no true deep threat because

731
00:36:41,599 --> 00:36:45,039
Chris Hilton couldn't get healthy. Once Hilton got healthy in

732
00:36:45,079 --> 00:36:49,079
the last three games of the season, Garrett Nelsmeyer seventy

733
00:36:49,079 --> 00:36:52,920
two percent completion percentage, seven touchdowns, just one interception, and

734
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,440
Chris Hilton was a big reason why. Look at all

735
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,719
the potential deep ball threats here. Like the first deep

736
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,800
ball Garrett Neilsmer truly hit last year was against UCLA.

737
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,519
Was Kyle Parker down the sidelines for a touchdown. Still like,

738
00:37:06,559 --> 00:37:08,599
in my opinion, the best ball Garrett Elsemeyer threw all

739
00:37:08,679 --> 00:37:12,199
year long, and he threw some good ones. Kyle Parker

740
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,559
will be back. He actually didn't return after that game.

741
00:37:14,599 --> 00:37:15,880
He was out the rest of the season due to

742
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:20,079
an injury. He's back. Hilton's back. Xavion Thomas, Aaron Anderson,

743
00:37:20,119 --> 00:37:23,960
Barrying Brown. Johnnie Watkins is undersized, but can he make

744
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,519
an impact? We know how fast he is. You have

745
00:37:26,639 --> 00:37:28,840
so many weapons to play with in this offense, and

746
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,039
that's just the deep ball guys. I mean, you have

747
00:37:31,039 --> 00:37:33,079
a six to five receiver coming in and Nick Anderson,

748
00:37:33,119 --> 00:37:38,880
who I'm excited about. Your tight end room top to

749
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,599
bottom might actually be better than a year ago. Like

750
00:37:40,599 --> 00:37:42,199
I know, Mason Taylor was great, but you bring in

751
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,960
Bower Sharp, Tredez Green's a year older, and you have

752
00:37:45,039 --> 00:37:47,119
Donovan Green from Texas A and M. That's a really

753
00:37:47,159 --> 00:37:49,920
good room as well. The big question mark on this

754
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,519
team is offensive line. If the offensive line can hold up.

755
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,840
You have a second year starter, a fifty year senior

756
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,519
in Garrett Nelsemeyer. The last two times you had fifty

757
00:38:00,559 --> 00:38:03,440
year senior two year starters at quarterback was Joe Burrow

758
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,760
and Jaden Daniels. They won the Heisman Trophy and Burrow

759
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,079
went and won the whole damn thing in the National Championship.

760
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,079
It's a lot of expectations to put on Garrett Owsmyer,

761
00:38:11,119 --> 00:38:12,559
and I'm not saying he's going to do that. I'm

762
00:38:12,559 --> 00:38:14,880
just saying that's the blueprint. We've seen it before. We

763
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,559
have seen him multiple times here in recent history. You

764
00:38:18,599 --> 00:38:21,000
have all the weapons you need on the outside, more

765
00:38:21,039 --> 00:38:24,159
so than you did a year ago. I think your

766
00:38:24,159 --> 00:38:26,360
tight end room might be the most underrated group in

767
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,920
the entire team. I think your running backs are going

768
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,960
to be better. Caden Durham's going to spearhead that Caleb

769
00:38:32,039 --> 00:38:34,920
Jackson's returning. You have two of the best running backs

770
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,199
in the country coming in Harlan Berry and JT. Lindsay

771
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:42,480
everything Garrett Nelsmyer needs to be successful. He has one

772
00:38:42,519 --> 00:38:45,239
thing you look at is the offensive line. If that

773
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,679
can hold up, I think this offense could be as

774
00:38:47,679 --> 00:38:50,360
good as any in the country. You're in twenty twenty five,

775
00:38:50,639 --> 00:38:52,199
all right, We're going to take a time out. When

776
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,480
we get back, I want to mention an interesting race

777
00:38:55,519 --> 00:38:58,199
that took place over the weekend leading up to the

778
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,000
ND five hundred. I can't believe I missed it yesterday

779
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:03,280
and weekend winners. We'll get into that next here on

780
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:03,880
Off the Bench.

781
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,920
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783
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784
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786
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788
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789
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791
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new sales reps during the month of May, and they're

792
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793
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795
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796
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month of May. So you do have some time left, right,

797
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you still got about a week left and they're going

798
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to announce a winner on June the second, So go

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Speaker 1: This is off the bench if you need a friends

802
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so look to a strange.

803
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Speaker 3: Welcome back the Fiday segment. No, we're number one here

804
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On a Wednesday edition of OTB Taylor Shop here in

805
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the host chair for Jacob astro So. On Monday Memorial Day,

806
00:40:50,079 --> 00:40:53,320
the Indianapolis five hundred took place and Alex Pullou won

807
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,159
his first ever Indy five hundred. Congratulations to him, but

808
00:40:56,199 --> 00:40:58,960
this is not about you, Alex. Something occurred on Friday

809
00:40:59,599 --> 00:41:01,760
that is a incredible It's one of the most American

810
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,320
things you'll see. This is a misstep by me from

811
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,800
missing it during weekend winns So on Friday at the

812
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,760
Indianapolis Speedway where they do the Indy five hundred was

813
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,440
the first ever Weeny five hundred. So these were hot

814
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:19,400
dog shaped cars that reached top speeds of a whopping

815
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,239
fifty miles an hour. And get this, it was six

816
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:27,239
hot dogs. All US regions were represented, so the Chili

817
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,039
Dog from the South, the Chai Dog from the Midwest,

818
00:41:30,519 --> 00:41:33,360
the New York Dog from the East obviously, the Slaw

819
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,400
Dog from the southeast, and the Seattle Dog for the

820
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,000
northeast and then the Southwest out of hot dog as well.

821
00:41:39,039 --> 00:41:42,800
So six different hot dogs and we had a little

822
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,559
bit of a photo finished. Jordan, why don't you just

823
00:41:44,559 --> 00:41:45,519
go ahead and play this video.

824
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,159
Speaker 9: It will be the one hundred and ninth running of

825
00:41:48,199 --> 00:41:51,599
the Indy five hundred, but the first Weenie five hundred,

826
00:41:52,119 --> 00:41:54,119
and if you know one thing about India. On the

827
00:41:54,199 --> 00:41:58,159
last lap, it's a dog eat dog world. As they

828
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,119
round the track for the final.

829
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 10: Chi dog's still in the lead, but looks like maybe

830
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:08,320
a great run off of turn two here, Oh, I

831
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,800
think we might be having a race of the line.

832
00:42:11,039 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 11: Musted many closing with the sloanog. Could she took up

833
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,079
the Weeni five hundred with a late pass on the

834
00:42:17,199 --> 00:42:22,800
chineag less than a quarter miles ago with the Indianapolis

835
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:26,079
Motors Speedway for the inaugural Weeny five hundred.

836
00:42:26,159 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 10: These hot dogs are hot, running it down the front straights.

837
00:42:29,519 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 2: Email They're coming at us.

838
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:36,760
Speaker 11: Now maxed out at a whopping sixty miles an hour.

839
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: Townsend.

840
00:42:39,679 --> 00:42:43,559
Speaker 9: They're closing second places, closing with the run.

841
00:42:44,079 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 10: Can the fans cheer them across the line, It's.

842
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 11: Gonna be closer making the move, Sloanok making the move

843
00:42:51,599 --> 00:42:54,199
up the inside on the run in to the yonder bricks.

844
00:42:54,599 --> 00:42:55,639
Speaker 2: Head over the line.

845
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,760
Speaker 11: It looks like it's gonna be the slodok pile knows

846
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:01,800
slow dog.

847
00:43:01,599 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 10: When and the closest finish and weedy five hundred.

848
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 3: History, the closest finish in the first ever Weeny five hundred,

849
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:10,760
So it would have to be the closest in history. Guys,

850
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,440
this is what America is all about. I'm ranking this

851
00:43:13,599 --> 00:43:18,119
right up there with the hot dog eating contest Joey

852
00:43:18,199 --> 00:43:20,679
ches N Yeah, joy, Like Joey Chestnut should have driven

853
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:22,480
one of these dogs. Shout out to the slow dog.

854
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:24,440
Don't know if I've ever had a slaw dog, but

855
00:43:24,559 --> 00:43:28,239
uh photo finish there in that race. So the Indy

856
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:32,039
five hundred was huge this weekend. Like Tom Brady got

857
00:43:32,039 --> 00:43:34,199
to announce the Indy five hundred. He went there and

858
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,440
uh because Fox Sports had exclusive rights to the Indy

859
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,920
five hundred and Brady obviously with Fox Sports, and uh,

860
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:41,480
look he got up there and took a shot. He said,

861
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,239
you know, it's good to have one more good drive

862
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,559
in front of Indianapolis fans, you know, taking a shot

863
00:43:45,559 --> 00:43:48,159
at the Colts Patriot drivery. They booed him over that

864
00:43:48,639 --> 00:43:52,679
you got the Weenie five hundred here, like this is excellent.

865
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,760
I'll give Rivers Huey credit. She goes to the the

866
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,559
Starkville Derby every year in Starkville, which is right before

867
00:43:59,559 --> 00:44:02,239
the Kentuck Derby. It's like a dog race. Really, I

868
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:06,320
don't know, is that only Corkies, It's only Wiener dog

869
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,360
It's only Okay, Okay, I need to see this. This sounds

870
00:44:09,519 --> 00:44:12,760
because because I was like, I'm signing up Frankie next year.

871
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:14,800
He's super fast, but he's an Australian shepherd, so this

872
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:18,519
is probably absolutely going to.

873
00:44:18,559 --> 00:44:19,039
Speaker 2: Go with her.

874
00:44:19,079 --> 00:44:21,039
Speaker 4: But then that was the same weekend as Pearl Jam

875
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,159
and I ended up not even going to go see

876
00:44:23,199 --> 00:44:25,320
Pearl Jam.

877
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 3: So wait, what would you do? Is that the weekend

878
00:44:27,519 --> 00:44:28,079
you got sick?

879
00:44:28,519 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: No?

880
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,800
Speaker 6: But I just didn't feel like going, okay because.

881
00:44:30,559 --> 00:44:32,760
Speaker 3: There was one weekend reasonably like really, say, I didn't know.

882
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 2: I didn't know if that was sick, like back to

883
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:35,360
back that was insane.

884
00:44:36,079 --> 00:44:41,159
Speaker 3: Well, the salaw Dog. Yeah, this is the most incredible thing.

885
00:44:41,159 --> 00:44:44,119
I saw this yesterday at about noon, and I'm like,

886
00:44:44,159 --> 00:44:46,280
how many hell did we miss this? Like all of

887
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,639
us missed it for weekend winters, Like I don't know,

888
00:44:48,679 --> 00:44:50,519
I didn't even know the Indy five hundred took place

889
00:44:50,519 --> 00:44:54,400
on Monday because AIG guess because like Memorial Day. Maybe

890
00:44:54,559 --> 00:44:57,639
congrats to Alex Poulou. This segment's not about you, dude,

891
00:44:57,639 --> 00:44:59,519
good job on your Indy five hundred win, but like

892
00:45:00,079 --> 00:45:02,679
the first ever Weenie five hundred, Like this has to

893
00:45:02,679 --> 00:45:04,599
be done more next year. I want to see like

894
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,960
an Oscar Meyer versus a Nathan's versus a ballpark, Like

895
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,000
we need different Weenie brand sponsorships.

896
00:45:10,039 --> 00:45:13,039
Speaker 5: I want. I want ns on the Wienie machines.

897
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, fifty miles an hour a little slow, yeah, a

898
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,320
little slow for me. Like if you get professional drivers,

899
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:21,360
I don't see why you can't like the culture.

900
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 6: They go that high is my thing. Like they might

901
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:25,159
not go.

902
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 2: Per hour.

903
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 3: I don't know how. I don't even know how many laps.

904
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:32,920
Then we saw everything I know about the Wii five

905
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:34,159
hundred you saw in that video.

906
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:35,559
Speaker 5: Yes, I know that it's great.

907
00:45:35,639 --> 00:45:37,639
Speaker 3: I know that there was way more people in that

908
00:45:37,679 --> 00:45:38,880
arena than I thought there would be.

909
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,679
Speaker 2: I do love that he said, the fastest finish in history.

910
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,519
Speaker 3: It's the first one I love coming up and our

911
00:45:44,639 --> 00:45:47,239
number two. We got New Orleans Saints, we got a

912
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,360
little NBA Playoffs and Bryce Coon of two four seven

913
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:50,880
sports coming up here on Off the bench.

914
00:45:51,519 --> 00:45:55,320
Speaker 8: Off the Bench, kt oz Blinds dot com is the website.

915
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Speaker 3: It was safer.

916
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Speaker 8: A to Z Interiors and out Living been doing it

917
00:46:01,039 --> 00:46:03,960
since two thousand and four. Brandon Barton and the team

918
00:46:04,039 --> 00:46:06,599
gonna come out to your space, your home, your business,

919
00:46:06,639 --> 00:46:08,480
and learn your space, going to know it better than

920
00:46:08,519 --> 00:46:11,199
you probably in like five or ten minutes. That's what

921
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,039
they've done for me. They did it for Tea, They're

922
00:46:13,039 --> 00:46:15,079
gonna probably do it for Flynn. I'll do it for

923
00:46:15,119 --> 00:46:17,079
you as well. It's not just because we talk about

924
00:46:17,079 --> 00:46:19,079
them every day. That's just who they are and that

925
00:46:19,159 --> 00:46:23,039
is what they get done every single day. Now into

926
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your and outdoor living. Sometimes it's both, and that's what

927
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,840
I have gotten from them. The shade is incredible. I

928
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:31,920
told y'all the other day. My dad saw it. He's like,

929
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,000
wait a minute, I want one of those. Brandon driving

930
00:46:35,039 --> 00:46:37,760
to Dallas, stops off in Shreveport puts one up for

931
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:38,239
my dad.

932
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 3: That's just who they are.

933
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 8: That is what you're going to get, that level of

934
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customer service.

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