Speaker 1: And this is a brand new OTV. Uh we will
be on YouTube. I think we're having some technical difficulties.
Not an April Fool's joke, of course. Today is April's First.
Speaker 2: Meaning keep your head on a swivel.
Speaker 1: Shenanigans will be in the air. I prefer the lighthearted kind,
though I've dabbled in mean ones before. I saw one
earlier about a I don't know how. This was the
first April Fools joke that I saw the daylnes Er,
but you might appreciate it. It was a new Lego
set of the Spurs Arena. Oh cool, Yeah, it actually
was a cool little mockup they had made to get one.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, all right, but wait, what's the
joke that it doesn't exist?
Speaker 1: You know, because why would there be a Lego set
of the Spurs Arena?
Speaker 3: You got me?
Speaker 2: Are you messing with me?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: I'm so confused right now? Okay, are you April fooley me?
Speaker 3: I'm just slow.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't have I don't think I've
ever had a lot of passion for the April Fool's game.
Speaker 2: Less so.
Speaker 1: Probably my favorite one that I ever did was at
midnight So when it just clicked over to April Fools.
Everybody's hackles weren't raised. I called my older sisters and
my mother all individually, won by one, and told him
that my brother had gotten a girl pregnant and the
best car I was in college. He was like beginning
of college and the best part is to a man.
Every single one of them was like I knew it. Wow,
oh ye have little faith little Bro, no faith in
little Bro. Exactly, every single one, every single one of them.
My mother was very happy when she figured out that
I was just April Fools in her.
Speaker 2: Also, I don't know why I'm always giving my mom.
Speaker 1: I did do my mom real dirty one time, real mean,
like in college, after I'd already had like a broken leg,
multiple surgeries, like all messed up. I just called her
and told her I broke my leg again, that I
fell down the stairs and broke my leg and that's
not funny. She was very sad, and then I told
her April Fools. So I think it's probably the last
one I've ever done.
Speaker 2: I've retired from the game after after those good news.
Speaker 5: Guys, we're on YouTube now, yeah, come on, an fools, No,
we're on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Okay, we are okay, great somebody.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna point out any names, but a big
fave was the last one to use our YouTube channel
last night. Changed all the stream key settings. It wasn't connected.
Speaker 2: It was doing here.
Speaker 5: No, he does the inside the trenches. He uses four
five chance. Oh I'm not gonna have anybody. But it
never gets changed.
Speaker 1: And give that read faith like that, just because he's
bringing you inside the trenches, maybe you should Maybe you
should get.
Speaker 2: Here earlier, Taylor, Maybe you should be in the ready
to go. You're right. Get Tailor gets here.
Speaker 1: Tailor gets here at a great time, very early, very early,
and it's always ready for the show.
Speaker 5: I'm early for everything, like I wish I wasn't. Sometimes
sometimes I'll show up to something and control that I know.
I know, but also I do it because I don't
want to be late. Like sometimes I'll show up like
I'm sitting in the car for ten minutes.
Speaker 2: I'm too early, My old man, Is.
Speaker 1: I do that?
Speaker 2: Here? I do a good song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a he's a serial on timer, my old man.
He'll never be late, but he will never be a
minute early. He will be exactly on time every no
matter what the occasion is. I'm kind of like a
like a wizard in that way.
Speaker 6: My dad always told me, if you're on time, you're
fifteen minutes late, that's.
Speaker 2: Joey Hester special there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's a that's a that's definitely a coaching
Uh yeah, coaching one oh one type, even though some
guy's different, like coach Miles used to.
Speaker 2: I think it's like a power move.
Speaker 3: But he didn't have really good like.
Speaker 1: Everybody else had to be exactly right, everybody else had
to be on time. But he would always show up
a variable amount of time late.
Speaker 7: Like maybe three minutes, maybe four minutes in the means
like he coming today, Yeah, like.
Speaker 1: Maybe five, but your ass better be there. Yeah, uh,
on time, Jakie, what's up, dude?
Speaker 2: Not too much?
Speaker 7: You know, this this time of year is always uh busy,
but always my favorite.
Speaker 2: So just trying to catch up, trying to catch up
a little bit.
Speaker 7: From you know, coaching and breaking down so like breaking
down hoops on off campus takes a little bit more
work than like definitely other things that I normally would
talk about.
Speaker 2: So it's that time of year, but I like it.
I like the busy work.
Speaker 7: But last night I was like, at six point fifty,
I just finished off campus. I had just walked Harlow
around the neighborhood Hudson and.
Speaker 2: Memphis where they drew up.
Speaker 7: You know, a square on the brick and they're practicing
their pitching and hell yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: I get in and I'm like, I'm ready for bed. Yeah,
I know, I know.
Speaker 1: That's a It's not the worst feeling, but yeah, not
a lot of not a lot of time for dad.
There not a lot of time for Dad to watch
any like Righteous Gymstone, I know, or any anything like that.
Speaker 2: Anything. Actually, it is what it is, watching right, Gimpstones
last night. I've heard this last season is some of
the best.
Speaker 1: On the previous one, so because I'm hearing the same thing,
so I'm catching on the previous one.
Speaker 2: But he's had a.
Speaker 1: Night full of weird dreams about Judy Jimstone, which mentally
very funny, very funny, but a weird.
Speaker 2: Night of drinks.
Speaker 6: So the one episode I did watch, I did think
she was really funny.
Speaker 2: Oh, she's hilarious.
Speaker 1: Her and JB are one of the funniest couples probably
in UH screen history. I think you need to stop
being such a loser and try again and see if.
Speaker 3: See you with like the running people over things.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I don't well, I don't know whatever.
I shouldn't take it. Right.
Speaker 1: If you are somebody who gets offended by stuff that
could be deemed sacrilegious, it's not.
Speaker 2: Gonna be few definitely not for you. It's not going
to be for you. So that's okay, that's okay. You
know you shouldn't check it out. That's the case, all right.
Speaker 1: So coming up on today's show, guys, we got uh
we had some really positive LSU basketball news, baseball midweek
game going down tonight. Also a top ten series on
the road in Oklahoma starting Thursdays, just a couple of
days away. Some recruiting news as a major player will
be taking his talents out of Louisiana, the Pelicans in
the news cycle mailbag, coach Moulk gymnastics it's going to
be and of course Nick Underhill NFL Story of the
Day day, and uh, plenty more. I mean, there's a
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for all that coverage. Does anybody else have any April
Fools stories before we go to break?
Speaker 2: In the beginning the show? In earnest next segment.
Speaker 6: Last year, he was like filling in for y'all, and
I was like, you're doing such a great.
Speaker 3: Job, April.
Speaker 5: I think I remember heard audio first time I ever
filled in for y'all with real April first of last year.
Speaker 2: Is probably not a little nervous, like making sure he
does a great job, and here's a laundray. Look, sometimes
you need somebody.
Speaker 1: You need somebody to take the pics, You need somebody
to take the piss to ease you in a little bit, right,
Give you that get you feeling normal instead of overthinking things.
Uh yeah, he was probably like starting to say like
thank you in like a sincere way.
Speaker 5: It was almost the end of the show, so you
cut him off.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, brutal.
Speaker 6: She was about to start a story too, like or
go say something, and I was like, wait, before you
get started, I just want to say you're doing amazing.
Speaker 1: Wait Taylor, I am shocked here we go by your
family's love of holidays and whatnot. I would feel like
y'all would have some sort of escalating April Fool's war.
Speaker 2: This is not the case.
Speaker 5: No, I mean you, you would think that I've actually
been a little disappointed in my lack.
Speaker 1: Of not even your brother or anything like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, not really, never mind. That is surprising though,
all right, I feel like that's an upset.
Speaker 5: It's it's a disappointing for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's go ahead and and get out
of this segment and then we'll get back to God's
Country starting next.
Speaker 2: As we get this show started, keep blocked here on
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Speaker 1: All right, So I think we're gonna start LSU basketball
here for a little bit. As LSU lands a couple
of players out of the transfer portal, none bigger than
UNLV transfer guard to Don Thomas Junior. He picked LSU
and this is Look, when I don't know anything about
a player, I think the schools you were competing with
said player four is always a great barometer of the
quality of the player. But you beat you. He picked
LSU over Kentucky, Florida and Syracuse, three schools that have
much richer basketball histories and are much better. He's a
number three guard in this portal class, eighth overall player
average fifteen to five last year, shot thirty five from three.
Former Mountain West co Freshman of the Year. We know
that Mac McMahon loves his guards.
Speaker 2: Jake. It seems like.
Speaker 1: He's got his guard in Dedon. Is it don right
or to Dan we're dead in dead, it's got to
be to Dan. Maybe it's a I don't know. Anyway,
we'll say, uh D two.
Speaker 7: Well, starting to start in DT, starting to spend the
money that we heard they were going to spend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a positive.
Speaker 7: Was UNLV's leading scorer by a lot, I mean by
three full points. You mentioned, almost five assists per game,
shot thirty six percent from beyond the arc.
Speaker 2: So really good player.
Speaker 7: Mountain West is a good basketball conference, as we saw
multiple teams the last couple of years. San Diego State
makes a title game. You saw Colorado State right there
almost make it to the sweet sixteen. So it is
a good basketball conference. And he is a player that
was one of the better players in that conference. But
you're gonna need to stack multiple bodies on his LSU team.
And I know you're about to talk about a transfer
you get from within the conference, but you have to
do exactly what they're doing about five more times. You
have to get players like this that are quality players
that have played in good basketball leagues to be able
to change your bad fortune and what you were a
year ago, which was fifteenth out of sixteen teams.
Speaker 2: So LSU Also.
Speaker 1: As Jake was alluding to, there lands a transfer from
Misissippi State, Michael Nwoko.
Speaker 2: Not a guy with a ton of offensive.
Speaker 1: Numbers, but a solid piece, solid rebounder, solid defender, sort
of a building block for a potential roster. But like
Jake said, everything with this LSU team feels so far away,
like these are good starting points, but there needs to
be more. And Taylor lsus Keyshawn Hall coming to town,
a guy who averaged nineteen and seven last year. One
of the big biggest recruits are biggest tchanswers. Excuse me
in the entire country. What can you tell us about
Central Florida's Keishan Hall?
Speaker 5: Yeah, big tom score six seven guard. Also, it's gonna
be a tough get because like every team in the
country is after this guy. I mean, he has visits wherever.
John Rothstein actually tweeted out yesterday that oh, she's gonna
do a virtual visit with him and if things go well,
he in all likelihood will take an on campus visit.
They're actually meeting with him virtually today this afternoon, So
we'll see how that goes. But I mean l Sh'S
in the mix. I mean, so is every other team.
But when you mentioned it, they were able to get
Thomas from Kentucky from schools like that. I mean, this
is going to be another pool. Kishan Hall is like
the guy right now in the portal.
Speaker 1: Oh well, we'll we'll, we'll see again. It doesn't It
feels tough to sell LSU right now, two guys that
are that highly sought after. But we'll see if coach
rip Man can do it.
Speaker 7: I wonder what the sale is like right now. When
you're in a situation like your LSU. You were bad,
so you can offer playing time. You have money to
spend as well, so you're up the ante in your
NIL budget. You weren't, you know, spending money last year,
and that was a big narrative of why you didn't
make the tournament, all those things that we talked about,
and it's like, probably wasn't the only reason, but you
knew you had to raise more money, spend more money,
and we've heard they're going.
Speaker 2: To do that. So you're having to say.
Speaker 7: Hey, you'll play today, Like if we played today, you'd
be on the court starting for us, and we now
out there, but I don't know that they would either,
And we can spend money and we can compete with
all the other schools that you're talking with.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the pitch, playing time and money.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, every best player on this list is going to
get playing time and money anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're going.
Speaker 1: To have to try to rely on some sort of
extra acumen to convince guys to choose you. Maybe it's
even more money for some players. What you may be
are like, maybe you overpay a bit. I feel like,
though you're so far away, you're probably not gonna be
able to spind yourself out of this hole, especially not
because everybody's gonna be spending. I feel like you're gonna
have to really trust your scouting here and try to
put together and go after some guys that are maybe
a bit less sought after, but you think you can
do some things. It just it feels like an impossible
problem for LSU Basketball to try to solve, but here's.
Speaker 2: Hoping that they can do.
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Speaker 2: Top ten poll?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: SEC heavy, Yes, the top five teams in the country
all from the SEC tennessee Arkansas, Texas, Georgia, LSU. Then
at six and seven you get Florida Staty and Clemson
before Alabama Oklahoma Ole Miss seven of the top ten
teams from the Southeastern Conference, and one of them you'll
be seen in a couple of days at Oklahoma Little
number five versus Number nine, another top ten road matchup
for the Tigers. But before that, Jake, you got the dogs. Tonight,
LA Tech Midweek six thirty in the Box. Jaden Newt
has started the last couple of midweks. He did throw
a lot though this last weekend. Maybe he's more of
a weekend guy. Do you think we see Newt or
do we see somebody else start the midweek.
Speaker 7: I would assume somebody else is going to start the
midweek now. He is somebody that he's been counting on.
Like you mentioned, Tea on the weekends. Now, this is
Lucia Tech's usually a good baseball team, Yeah, and it's
always a pretty good game when they come here for
the midweek. This year so far, there's seventeen and eleven
on the season, four and two in conference play, so
it is a nice test during the midweek. But I
think Newt and Alandre you'd probably agree. We talked about
it yesterday. He does feel like he has found himself
on the weekends, and he just pitched.
Speaker 2: Gosh Saturday, right, I mean clo he closed.
Speaker 7: Out that game, right, So I doubt he comes back
on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: So you could see a new arm. Now I don't
know who that.
Speaker 1: I wonder, Yeah, who who did? Do we have any
inkling of who we think it would be?
Speaker 6: I would say, throw Schmid out there again they did
last week, or I know he didn't start last week,
but throw him out there again.
Speaker 2: The mid weeks quite yet?
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe I don't remember how much connor Ware threw
on Saturday, so I don't know if we'd see.
Speaker 5: Him, but and a half. I don't think it was
a ton.
Speaker 3: Roll Schmid out there. Maybe connor Ware.
Speaker 2: To save him solely for the weekend.
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, so I'll be interested to that.
Do you think you see like a Tanner Reeves or
a cad in there tonight? Get some of these, maybe
Kate a little break.
Speaker 6: I think you've been seeing Caid in the midweek, so
you'll probably see him tonight.
Speaker 3: I don't know about Tanner Reeves.
Speaker 2: Played a ton this week? He did, Yeah, so I
mean you could see Brass.
Speaker 3: I think it's like it depends on who what text.
Speaker 1: Picture is Yeah, I guess I guess the bigger thing
more about about rest would be more of just giving
Hernandez a day off, getting Kaid some work, continuing to
keep him ready to go.
Speaker 2: Uh. I realized it seems like those two have a
good relationship.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, when you have a prospect like
kid that was so highly rated and it's more like baseball.
He comes in and he's not immediately the guy. You
never know how that player is going to take it.
And I was reading some quotes from the other day
just talking about how much he kind of looks up
to Luis and how much he's taught him and everything,
and it seems like that's been some really positive roster
management by Jay Johnson and company. And also credit to
Kaid for having a good a good head on his
shoulders and recognizing, Okay, this guy's a salty vet. Yeah,
and can can help kind of show me the ropes
and teach me how to find success on this college level.
Speaker 6: It seems like they've all been pretty good about their
playing time. Yeah, and sure where everybody is, I think
they all understand and are good about it.
Speaker 1: Any thoughts on tonight's midweek game it just feels like
the LSU bats are overwhelming for midweek opponents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like no, no matter the case, they have yet
and you know, here we go, t mush.
Speaker 1: They have yet to run into one of those junk
ball pitchers where they just can't seem to figure it out.
It's different than the weekends and the bats go randomly cold.
So I don't have a lot of concern about actually
winning the midweek game. In fact, they probably have almost
blind over confidence at this point with how consistent this
team has been.
Speaker 2: Now the odds on favorite to.
Speaker 1: Win the Men's College World Series really according to bet
online ag which is one book.
Speaker 2: I doubt it's every book.
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly why they've tipped the scale over Tennessee.
Maybe it's just more LSU fans betting and what not
getting hyped off of the sweep this last weekend. But yes,
technically a slight favorite to win.
Speaker 2: Omaha.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think you can be every book right,
because I mean, we talk about just the SEC alone,
how competitive it is this year.
Speaker 2: But what happened to Tennessee? Still right, Like why we
draft Kings?
Speaker 6: I'm looking at draft it is Tennessee. But LSU's like
the second.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Georgia third on that online as well, which
is a bit interesting.
Speaker 5: And Wes Johnson is doing well.
Speaker 2: Yeah what is uh? What is? What is LSU and
draftings plus seven fifty.
Speaker 7: On fan dolor plus yeah, plus five hundred, Tennessee plus
four hundred, so and then you got a big drop
to Arkansas plus one thousand, so Tennessee four hundred, l
s U five hundred and then a big drop between Arkansas, Clemson,
Georgia and Texas.
Speaker 2: And if LSSH.
Speaker 1: Drumps the game this weekend, I might go ahead and
fire off a future see I can juice up the
DK odds.
Speaker 6: North Carolina is actually ahead of Texas on draft kings.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's interesting.
Speaker 2: So again, take care of business tonight in the midweek.
Speaker 1: Uh give give give uh luise break, give anybody that
you want to get some playing time to pt some
at bats, whatnot, work the arms. And then you just
got a quick turnaround, man, and you got to immediately
go and lock in to go play a top ten
Oklahoma team on the road and they're not so good.
Speaker 2: Stadium, Jake, very small, horrible, very very small? Is it? Is?
It at least grass its grass. Yeah, that's other people.
Speaker 3: A dishfalk is so disgusting.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable, lost snakel.
Speaker 7: I do wonder who starts tonight, because you know, kind
of going back and looking at it. Obviously Kate and
Ironstin and Shores they've each started seven games. William Schmidth
started three. Kind of where started three? Je Newton started too.
Nobody else has a start?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, maybe uh, Billy it again. Game three
of this last series is is a blur.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: It's the one that I paid the least about attention to.
Billy didn't throw that at all, No.
Speaker 5: It was it was about I think we do seven
guys something like that.
Speaker 2: You want to keep working?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think where started last Tuesday? I don't remember,
but Schmid came in after.
Speaker 1: Like anyway, we'll see tonight latec.
Speaker 2: Six point thirty.
Speaker 1: Get out to the box if you want to have
some fun. And then this team locks in and turns
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Speaker 8: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff
mixed in off the bench with Hester and Tibob.
Speaker 1: What's happening y'all, Welcome back, go TB. It's counter or
a lot.
Speaker 3: Oh what.
Speaker 2: I keep forgetting day. It's the only one that she's
no Serada in here.
Speaker 3: No, but I saw on my TV the other day,
so I think I'm gonna rent it.
Speaker 2: Definitely.
Speaker 5: It is a film there for two and a half hour.
Speaker 2: Films film, very beautiful film.
Speaker 5: Film.
Speaker 1: Robert Eggers might be our film ask film king.
Speaker 6: The Town was this isn't a film ask film, but
at the time was on TV yesterday and I was.
Speaker 3: I sat there and I watched the entire thing.
Speaker 2: Chelsea the Table. Just to leap a little bit over there,
you mentioned the town Jacob Hyde.
Speaker 3: Great movie.
Speaker 2: Uh okay, so Foxhole movie, Ultimate Foxhole Movie. Again.
Speaker 1: We know how I feel about it. I don't agree.
I would maybe need to ask a couple of questions.
But credit to Jeremy Rinnard.
Speaker 2: For not asking any questions. He is a real one.
Speaker 6: And then I was thinking about it because Blake Lively
was in it.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, I forgot Blake Lively.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like you.
Speaker 2: I can't believe it.
Speaker 5: I don't know why Buddy's saying Blake.
Speaker 3: I know, I man, it explained why.
Speaker 2: I mean, you want Blake's son.
Speaker 5: No, I'm on her side, like he said that, I was.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 1: I know, we all know your caveman logic of Blake.
Lively's hot and has big boobs, therefore she can do
no wrong.
Speaker 2: I get it, I get I mean, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, hey, I'm not I'm not choosing a side just
because it's all a little too.
Speaker 5: It's just too I explained this to you when we
were at the Mexican restaurant. I'm not gonna take the
time to do a deep dive, so I can only
go off the information that.
Speaker 2: We did the deep dive.
Speaker 1: Yes, at the end of the day, I gave you
all the information. I choose to reject all information because
I really don't want to believe that Ryan Reynolds is
a naihole, because like I've just always thought he's seemed
pleasant and funny and likable, and I don't know, that's
just disappointing anyway. Uh from disappointing to disappointing. Some recruiting
news as the number two player in the state of
Louisiana is choosing to take his talents outside of the
boot CALLIGHAI. Safety Blaine Bradford has committed to play for
the Ohio State Buckeyes. This is reportedly a bit of
a surprise. He was thought to be an LSU Lean.
His brother Jacob Bradford just signed with LSU in the
twenty five class. This is a guy who's a consensus
five star. He's the number twenty five player in the
country according to the on three composite. So this is
a massive win for Ryan Day and the Buckeyes coming
down here to Louisiana and getting a safety apposition of
real need right now for LSU out of the state
and Jake. There's a quote that Sam Spiegelman included in
his tweet about this that I think really maybe plays
on LSU fans and securities while also reinforcing how important
this year is. And you can say the quote saking
this is a quote lacking full context, but it says, quote,
you know, when asked why he committed there, They're gonna
win at Ohio State and that's a plus, you know,
And and it's it's like I said, this year for LSU.
You have all the pieces, everything's signed up. It is
playoffs or bust.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: They need to prove once again to this new generation
that you will win at a rate of the big dogs,
that you will compete for championships and goes to playoffs.
This is one of the reasons why not to say
that blaying Bradford.
Speaker 2: You know, like, I don't know, I've seen it as
a ton of money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, remember we've we've we've heard reports that
last year's roster maybe got all the way up closer
to like the twenty five to thirty million dollar range
when it's all said and done. So maybe you just
can't compete in that regard.
Speaker 2: But either last year for sure, no hell no.
Speaker 1: But but either way a hyper important year for LSU football,
and you'd love to be able to go out there
and win and like beating Ohio stating a playoff and
be able to kind of throw this quote back into
the ground.
Speaker 7: I mean, when you look at it, Lsho's had more
DB's draft and more safety drafted in the last five years.
They've had more safeties in the last three years drafted
than Ohio State. Yea, So like you have that advantage
on them. You have obviously close to home advantage on them.
They do have the winning though, they have the national championship,
and you know, this current group of players, they've seen
the Ohio State Buckeyes go out there and win a
lot of games.
Speaker 2: You know, So you have some things going for you
have some things going against you. You mentioned the money
portion of it. We don't know where Lshu's at. We
know it's going to be much better.
Speaker 7: We know that not only have the fans you know,
really given to the nil space, but the head coach
as well put up a million dollars.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what that number kind of looks like.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: You know, sometimes these baton rouge guys, they just want
to go elsewhere. They don't want to go to a
place that's about three miles from where they've gone to school.
You get about seventy percent of them that do about
thirty percent doesn't really matter what you do. They're like,
I want to go somewhere different. Maybe that's the case.
And then the last thing is Moscona's fault.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, of course, obviously that's really the first
thing I would say. I look, I.
Speaker 7: Haven projected ninety three point nine percent to LSU before
yesterday on on thirty.
Speaker 1: What hey, what an absurd thing to do. I mean,
to even be willing to go into individual percentages is insane.
That's It's like, I'm like a four out of ten
right to even go to like forty three percent is crazy.
But then we're going into decimals ninety three point nine?
Speaker 5: Why could we just get ninety four?
Speaker 2: That's very funny?
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: I wonder if there's like an actual numerical equation that
they use, Like you you, I love listening to old
video game reviewers, which that sounds crazy. That's the thing
of the past. I mean, anybody read like Electronic Gaming
Monthly or anything growing up?
Speaker 2: Probably not none of y'all.
Speaker 1: Jake, you weren't a big gamer, so I'm guessing you
didn't dabble a EGM. But apparently those guys, you know,
they used to have a they'd have to they'd have
to put it in an equation and be like, okay,
one through ten, what's the fun factor, what's the graphics?
Speaker 2: What's this?
Speaker 1: And then it would spit out like this is a
seven point two out of ten. Maybe it's the same thing,
but either way, huge upset as would you say.
Speaker 7: Ninety three point nine, ninety three point nine because Ohio
state had one point six percent, Texas had one point
eight percent.
Speaker 2: One points and then it's just spread out amongst Alabama
Notre Dame.
Speaker 5: What a win.
Speaker 7: And also, like another point, it's April first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got to make it to December.
Speaker 1: Oh it's an April fools, No, I think I think yes,
so Jake, not only that, not only is it April first.
So like the same way we don't get excited about
commitments to LSU. It's like, you know, measure this coastuff
as well. But in the era of the transfer portal,
you stay on top of him, you know, I show
nothing but love on the way out. Hey, man, look
we get it, you know, we still love to have
you home. Yeah, but like, go do your thing, man,
best of luck. And then maybe he's not in the
starting lineup this fall. Yeah, and it's a little you know.
Speaker 2: But you get his brother. Hey, will you go call
your brother?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Hey, you know, I mean, look, we got to spot
you down here, come back home, get comfy, get a
little money. So again it could be maybe a U
instead of a buy a buy for now or a
see you later. But as the new stands, the number
two player in the state of Louisiana, twenty five player
in the country, safety Blaine Bradford committing to play for
the Hirsh State Brickrage. Uh guys, okay, two things I
did did go a little Hans.
Speaker 9: Wait on ever the Cowboy Aaron mc m Blayne Bradford
second office class Catholic High committed to the Ohio Street Buck.
Speaker 2: Guys, that would be nice. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh do you all want to talk about the Yankees
bats or do you want to talk about Andrew Luck
if I'm both to be equally interested.
Speaker 7: I did see a video on Twitter of you know,
because Marucci has put him out to the public, like
if you want to buy a torpedo bat hell, you
can do it now. And it was kind of breaking
down exactly what the difference is. If you want to
kind of get that video ready.
Speaker 1: Oh, we can look at it. Yeah, look at up checks.
Jeff Passing had a really good write up.
Speaker 2: I know, right. Uh So I love one thing I love.
Speaker 1: I love when people, and you find this a lot
very smart people when they maintain their curiosity and they
kind of don't take things as they are like ninety
nine point nine percent of us. Right, we see a bat,
that's a bat, and we move on with our lives.
So I can't remember his name, but this and my
tea physicist or whatever. He sees the bat and he
sees the problem. He sees strikeouts at an all time high,
and he says, Okay, how do we change this? And
it's an incredibly simple thing. Right, Let's just make the
sweet spot bigger. And now you're not removing any mass
from the wood. Right, It's like you're moving around pieces
of a budget. Basically, you taper the end, fatten it up.
Also think about this though, guys. It increases swing speed
because before the weights on the end of the bat,
like swinging a sledgehammer, almost you moved that weight closer
to your body.
Speaker 2: That bat's going to go faster.
Speaker 1: Just think about it if you if you had a
weight on the end of a stick and you were
trying to swing it. So it's incredibly simple and yet
potentially potentially.
Speaker 2: I'm not willing to see that, but potentially revolutionary. I
want to see this. Uh yes, so go ahead.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say.
Speaker 6: His name is Aaron Lenhardt, and he was studying Anthony
Volpi swing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so from the Yankees.
Speaker 6: Yeah really, but I want to say the Yankees aren't
the only people using.
Speaker 2: Oh no, plenty views you Carlo stan used it all
last year. Yea, and the Braves have put in a
rush order because they're zero and five. Well yeah, guy's
getting suspended, all right.
Speaker 7: So this is master craftsman Brett lax and from Maroochi
talking about the differences in what actually a torpedo bat.
Speaker 4: Torpedo bat tarpe. You might have seen it this weekend, Lily,
you know what. It's been around for a while now.
Nest year we had some success with this bat in
the playoffs with GM, Carlos Stanton with the Yankees. The
idea behind this is we don't want to hit the
ball here, we want to hit here. So a lot
of these designs are faced around more wood volume where
the ball will hit the bat. Everybody believes inside the
organization that there's some bad designs out there in bats
and they would rather have the wood here, not here,
to hit the baseball. Right now, it's starting to trend
that it is panning out for a lot of guys.
Some cool stuff going on in the bats and uh,
look forward to seeing more of them made Gian Carla,
not young Carlo.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, anyway, I still sometimes call him Mike because
that's what he came into the big leagues? Is Mike
stand He was Mike Stanton when you played for the Marlins.
Speaker 5: What a name change.
Speaker 2: I did not know that he came into the White
watched Young Carlos. He came league Mike. Uh. So there
is actual.
Speaker 1: Data behind that faster swing speed Yon Carlostant had he
swung the bat on average three miles an hour faster
than the second place player in the league, and nine
miles per hour faster than the average. So again, I
don't it's a small sample size.
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge is not.
Speaker 1: Using this, and he's sitting a million home runs anyway, obviously,
but this could be maybe a bit like a Steph
Curry three point line type of moment. If enough guys
find success to this, we may be looking at the
new style of bat.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It remains to be seen, but it's
certainly something to watch. I mean, do you do the
same with aluminum bats? Does that make any sense? I
don't see why you could.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like it would, right.
Speaker 2: Because the physics is still all the same the same.
Cause it's like I.
Speaker 3: Love baseball so much.
Speaker 6: It's just a bunch of nerds like playing a game
that they love, and there's a bunch of people that
put a lot of time and effort into it. Like
if you ever I know this is a controversial person,
but if you listen to like Trevor Bauer, he like.
Speaker 3: Really gets into like the physics of pitching.
Speaker 2: And he's got a good YouTube channel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love his YouTube channel.
Speaker 2: I know that's not only does he's a good YouTube channel.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But I don't really have a problem with the
torpedo bats.
Speaker 6: I think it makes the game more entertaining and if
it's available to everybody, then buy them.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, I mean whatever do pictures make up new
pitches and are getting crazier and crazy? Like it's just innovation,
It's all it is. No rules are broken, game on
fair play.
Speaker 6: All right.
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Off the Bench and with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 1: So every now and then something in the wonderful and
wide world of sports can break through and transcend to
where even though it doesn't really matter to us and
what we're doing, uh, we almost have to talk about it.
And that's how I feel about is it? Raphael Devers.
I don't know if anything changed since yesterday, but I
saw y'all talking about I saw Jake tweeting about it,
calling him a non or was it designated non hitter?
Speaker 2: Ye bro DNH.
Speaker 1: So the full context here, right, he's the Red Sox
third baseman. They signed Alex Bregman. He makes a big stink.
Speaker 2: Of it, right, Yeah, I'm the third baseman.
Speaker 5: And he's like a bad third basement, Like he has
one of the worst field Like.
Speaker 1: He's like objectively one of the worst third basemen in
the league. And he's like, no, I'm the third basement.
Speaker 3: So then what they He's just like, I'll play wherever
they put me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like yeah, team guys.
Speaker 3: They move into DH and he is still O for nineteen.
Speaker 6: But he does have an RBI because he so DH
fifteen strikeouts, which is.
Speaker 1: I believe there's like multiple MLB records hidden in there, right,
let me see, Okay, after striking out ten times over
the first three games of the season, Devers, that's an
MLB record.
Speaker 2: He became the.
Speaker 1: First hitter since nineteen oh one without a hit and
at least fifteen strikeouts in his team's first five games.
So Jake designated non hitter.
Speaker 7: Uh perfect, Yeah, I sent this in the group yesterday.
In nineteen ninety five, Tony Gwynn had fifteen strikeouts in
five hundred and eighty five at bats, and in twenty
twenty five, Devers has fifteen strikeouts in nineteen at bats.
Speaker 2: Good, he's going through it.
Speaker 7: Dude.
Speaker 3: Do you think we could go out there and be
better than Raffi Devers?
Speaker 2: No, I don't. I'd be nineteen for nineteen, but I'd
be Yeah, I don't. I mean no, no, not even
just one little hit like me. No, I mean, but
only nineteen at bats. No down.
Speaker 6: But the thing is he he doesn't even have like
a little ground out or anything.
Speaker 3: It's fifteen strikeouts in four walks.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's true. He strives.
Speaker 1: He to protect his show. And if I can't even
ground out, then I'm doing better than und.
Speaker 5: Right fucking lay down a bunt and like the pitcher
mishandles it three or four times and maybe I reach
first base that'd be it.
Speaker 1: Uh So, what's crazy is it's actually continuation from the
end of twenty four. He finished last season one of
fifteen with eleven k's over his final four games. Even
though he's crazy, dude, he finished with the two seventy
two average last year, but I guess that makes him
one of thirty with twenty six k's his last thirtyeth
pats my career.
Speaker 5: It's amazing why the Red Sox went after Alex Bregg.
Speaker 1: That is essentially why I quit baseball in junior high
was I think I struck out like fifteen.
Speaker 2: Times in a row.
Speaker 3: God, the slums will get you for real.
Speaker 1: And then I remember, like I got in a fight
with my own teammate in the dugout because one of
my friends was laughing at me, and I acted like
I was okay, like chill all the way back to
the dugout. In the second I got it, I threw
my helmet at him and jumped on him. Oh man, sorry, Raffie.
Speaker 5: He's making twenty seven and a half million dollars this year.
Speaker 6: Oh God, well, Jake, good news these Jesse Chavitz got called.
Speaker 2: Up so well.
Speaker 7: I mean, he's only good for the Braids, so that's good.
He's uber profar. Got eighty game suspension for ped violation.
Damn Braids or zero to five one of their big
free agent signings just got eighty games, So it's good.
Speaker 2: Everything's great, all good. No worries, do not know, no
concern here, guys. Now we don't need Max Freed. Let
him go to the Yankees. Oh we need him up.
Doogie or two coming up next here, and off the
bench
Speaker 8: Off the bench.