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Speaker 3: Welcome in a lot of sports, a lot of Tiger sports. Jake,
Matt Elandra taytay Oh here with you on this Monday morning,
this victorious Monday morning.
Speaker 2: LSU gets it done.
Speaker 3: Don't even need today, I don't even need most of
your keep and we will certainly get there.
Speaker 2: How you doing Week number two? I'm doing great. I
woke up eyes like a little sleepier. Yeah.
Speaker 4: They do a little extra springing my step this morning.
Into last week, I was running a little empty on
the little sleep ticker. Not today the week number one,
week number one in the books, it is.
Speaker 3: It is well, LSU Baseball is not doing the morning
show any favors.
Speaker 2: By how late they're playing? What are you doing? It
was a five o'clock game. I'm like, okay, well cool like.
Speaker 3: We're going to be done nine nine thirty, be hanging out, chilling,
go to bed at a decent time, not today.
Speaker 2: You're not Taylor.
Speaker 5: How'd that go for you last night? Well, so, like
I'm okay. I want to know if y'all are all okay.
Are y'all okay?
Speaker 2: I'm good?
Speaker 5: Had that awful incoment weather and battery safe and sound,
but yeah, yeah, I'm good. We made it okay, Like
the the windows were rattling at LSU a little bit
for like an hour, hunkered down, got through it.
Speaker 2: Uh I'm tired, guys. I want to know the time
you get home last night. Climbed in that bed around
one point thirty. Yeah, yeah, a late boy. It is
a late boy.
Speaker 3: And uh yeah, you know, rain delays have become a thing.
They are certainly a thing, and sometimes when it doesn't rain,
they are a thing. And I told y'all we played
a whole youth baseball tournament and there was no stoppage
in the same city.
Speaker 2: The same city. It's too far away actually around the
same time. Uh yeah, it just look it.
Speaker 3: It is like and I get it, you're not going
to And the NCAA has something to do with this
once it becomes a postseason as well. But certainly if
you're LSU like, you're not going to risk burning Anthony
Jnson if you go out there two innings, four hour
rain delay and then he's done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think either coach like once that.
Speaker 4: So now, yeah, we were talking about that better I guess,
better safe than sorry. If you're if you're Jay looking
at it, even if there's a thirty chance that this
thing might get delayed and you got one game, one
game to win with your number two guy, that's a
that's an amazing picture to punch the ticket to.
Speaker 2: Omaha. Yeah, I guess you.
Speaker 4: I guess you play it better safe than sorry. So
I guess what we were We were looking it up.
Both coaches have to agree, NCAA has to agree, and.
Speaker 2: Was there was there a fourth No, it was just that.
Speaker 4: Okay, both coaches and the NCAA have to be like
on the same page to figure that delay out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, look Anthony Ijinsen's going.
Speaker 3: But also yeah for West Virginia, I mean they've got somebody,
it's got a sub three e R.
Speaker 2: It's gonna start for them.
Speaker 3: So yeah, they don't want to get started and then
burn that player as well. So look, it's just the
Morning show complaining. Yeah, ye, just popping off these complaints.
Speaker 2: We're used to it.
Speaker 4: Just we played a much at eight pm games last week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: If any team in America is used to it, it
is the LSU Tiger Ready.
Speaker 2: But look they are morning I mean, yeah, just a
little complaint box. Why not so people got to work?
Speaker 6: Told J several times because I've been in Taylor's spot
where they delay it.
Speaker 7: Until there's one time it is ten pm. Wasn't it
the Northwestern game?
Speaker 2: I thought about this yesterday.
Speaker 7: It was game from hell when they were like they got.
Speaker 5: So this was in March because me and Victoria were
doing like anniversary stuff Alandra had to do the baseball game.
Speaker 2: Baseball was at a.
Speaker 5: Three hour delay next door a Tiger park. I thought
that team was in the third day in March.
Speaker 6: Like I've told J before, like, hey, I'm gonna need
you to stop with these delays.
Speaker 2: You don't listen.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he cares about us, care about us?
Speaker 5: A little selfish in a little sweepy little selfish.
Speaker 3: Regardless of what time the game started, though, LSU does
sweep West Virginia sixteen to nine on Saturday twelve to
five last night. And my biggest takeaway, and we'll go
around the room and get your biggest takeaway.
Speaker 2: But for me, your two guys and.
Speaker 3: Kate Anderson and Anthony Iinson, who have carried you all
season long, neither one of those players had their best stuff,
neither one of them right, they were human for the
first time in a long time. And it still wasn't close.
You still won both games by seven runs. That to
me is the biggest takeaway because you know, Kate Anderson
and Anthony Jinson are going to come back and be
who they've been all season long. But for the offense
to go out there score sixteen, score twelve, and those
two guys weren't on their a game, and you still
didn't use Zach Collen, our Case and Evans this entire weekend,
like you never had to bring in your best bullpen arms.
And I even thought last night, well maybe they'll bring
in one just so they get a chance to pitch. Yah, Yeah,
just so they get some you know, basically a bullpen.
And but you don't have to do that. And so
for me, the offense was a question, right, But you
look at the last three games the offense has carried
and if this offense can bring that to Omaha, and
you pair that with the one two punch, and you
pair that with Cowen and Evans in the bullpen, so
it makes LSU and Vegas agrees with us one of,
if not the favorite in Omaha.
Speaker 4: Yeah, twenty twenty eight runs two games. Going into this weekend,
we thought if you would have told us we're gonna
score twenty eight runs, we went, all right, we got these,
then we're gonna win the first two games, we're probably.
Speaker 2: Gonna win the series by twenty five runs. Right.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you're right. They didn't have their stuff the
other team. I mean credit to them, they hit the
ball well, and yeah they were scrappy, but I mean
from top to bottom, one to nine would us there?
There's just no spot in that lineup right now for
the other other picture to breathe.
Speaker 2: Watching it. It was just which which batter in that lineup?
Speaker 4: Do you not fear right now that at least going
to put the ball in play or at least is
going to have an opportunity to to.
Speaker 2: Smack one down the line?
Speaker 4: I mean the ability for this team, like the discipline
that they have at the plate is incredible, the eye
discipline they have, the discipline they have, the layoff pitches, like, yeah,
they really do. I mean I've been watching baseball, you know,
pretty hardcore now for for two weeks and that's like
the biggest thing for two weeks. Sorry, so Pat on
the back credits myself.
Speaker 7: Two weeks before that, it wasn't great, right, greatly.
Speaker 2: You picked a good two weeks to get locked in Matt.
Speaker 5: Flynn get the bats, I mean, try to try to
prove that theory wrong.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the ability for this team to go opo too,
I mean just like good sound fundamental hitting. Yeah, it's yeah,
it was. It was great, so hopefully it continues. In
correct me if I'm wrong here. I mean pretty much
completely different lineup from game one to game two as well.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, the last three games, and you go
back to what's making these decisions? Can't wait to ask you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you go back to you little rock game.
It's it has been completely different. And and Jay is
not afraid to move pieces around, that is for sure.
He's not afraid to start a guy that hasn't started
in a while. He feels like it's a good matchup,
and really those things have been paying off. We could
go back like key spots in all three.
Speaker 2: Of these games.
Speaker 3: Again going back to the Regional, it's like a move
that he made was pivotal, like in that game in
that moment that guy came up because of the lineup changes. So,
I mean, Jay's certainly been pushing all the right buttons.
A laundra biggest takeaway.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think one of my biggest to preface it,
one of my biggest concerns throughout the season was you know,
runners left on base, not being able to do the
timely hitting and whenever you have those free bases, being
able to take advantage of them. And LSU took advantage
of pretty much every single free base that West Virginia gave.
Speaker 7: You, and coming into this series it wasn't many.
Speaker 6: Like maybe our pitchers weren't at their best, but West
Virginia's weren't either. So I love the timely hitting that
we had. I mean, Steven milam Flynn texted us in
the group chat about the Grand Slam and the fourth
inning and.
Speaker 2: Love it. You're you're on the bandwagon.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean you said you hated them, but.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was my biggest takeaways, being able to take
advantage of those free bases that they were giving you.
I mean, you had the bases loaded twice and last
week and Little when Little Rock had the bases loaded twice,
you didn't do anything with it. So to have not
one but two Grand Slams in one game out.
Speaker 2: Of ten, yeah, he ta big stakeaway. Steven Malin's that guy.
I mean, he's done this two years in a row. Right.
Speaker 5: That was kind of the big concern in this lineup
was what's wrong with Steven myl up? Like you saw
him start the season in the three hole. He went
all the way down to like eight. Now he's back
up in the lineup, and think about this, Think about
how great he was on Saturday. He was batting right
handed to go against the left handed pitcher last night
Batton lefty didn't matter.
Speaker 2: Five RBIs and I gotta have a game. He was incredible.
Speaker 5: But the lineup as a whole, Like, to me, if
this game was a month ago, the way the offense
is struggling, that's a game that LSU loses because the
pitching wasn't the best West Virginia Claws back end of
this game makes it a two run game, like a
month and a half ago. LSU probably loses that game,
but I mean, I can't be the only one that
was like, as soon as Cooper Williams came in how
to scoreless inning, Stanfield's RBI made it eight four. I
was like, Okay, we're good. We're like Lshu's fine, And
I mean that that proved to be true. This team
offensively looks like they were early in the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a couple of individual performances that we'll talk
about throughout the day, certainly, and we mentioned Steven Milom there,
Derek Curryel, how about him? How about the freshman? I mean,
you move him down in the lineup. And I was like,
all right, look, it makes sense. Josh Pearson hits lefties,
you know, really well, and it hits a Grand Slam obviously,
So he had a big day. But Curry Ell on
that first day, I mean's three for three, he has
five RBIs, he scores three runs, and then you come
back in the next day put him back in the
leadoff spot. Now he had one hit, but he had
two walks, scores three runs, like to be a freshman,
to be a true freshman, and to be as good
as he is is one thing, but to be as
composed as as this young man is.
Speaker 2: I mean, to go down the line.
Speaker 3: Because you're facing the left, and then you go right
back up and you do exactly what a leadoff hitter
has to do. He gets on base three times in
a game. And this young man is just remarkable. He
should have been the SEC Freshman of the year.
Speaker 2: He wasn't. Whatever.
Speaker 3: I'm sure like team success is all he cares about
right now, but he just continues to impress over and
over again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the youth on this team has like
stepped up in a pretty pretty dark, big way. It's
it's really impressive. Especially I mean, Curiell has been batt
lead off for so long and then you come out
throw him at the seven hole in the first game
of the series, and it's like it's a little bit
of a shake up for him, right, It's probably for
a freshman, it's probably good going in your first Super
Regional you're a freshman.
Speaker 2: He makes the lineup changes, makes you think a little bit.
Speaker 3: As you know, like a lot of people though, and
certainly like a lot of freshmen and you come in
and all of a sudden, it's like, man, I got
moved down to the sixth hole, Like, hey, what's going on?
And then you start playing the middle games, and then
you start thinking about that more. You start thinking about
your approach right right, because like, wait a minute, I've
been lead off, right, what's going on here? I've been
lead off basically ninety five percent of this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe it's a good thing. Though, Like you think
about the mindset you have to have as a leadoff guy.
It's not necessarily about hitting for power, hitting trying to
trying to hit doubles, triples, on runs and anything like.
That's about getting on bass, right, So maybe you know
mentally it's like, all right, I'm hitting seven, let's just
go out there and rip it now.
Speaker 2: I don't have It's a little.
Speaker 4: Bit different mental approach when you step in the batter's box.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's that changed.
Speaker 4: So we did the last week besides doing the show, Like,
my first official thing that I did with the station
was the weekend survey that sent out to everybody. It
was like, all right, you know, who's your key player
for this?
Speaker 2: For this series?
Speaker 4: I had to like write something like like all right,
I gotta actually type guy's name and like give a
reason why.
Speaker 2: It's like why is he you know, why is this
guy the key player?
Speaker 4: And I said Curiel going into it, and the reason
why is like, because he's the leadoff guy and.
Speaker 2: Q victories I like to.
Speaker 4: Get on base, so they have to throw strikes to
eat the fray and like, of course that that's like
my first prediction that's been put it's been put on paper,
it's been sent out to the world to see. And
then the first pitch, Josh Pearson walks out there.
Speaker 2: Leader. I was like, oh yeah, hold up, wait a minute,
wait a minute, Well I was wrong.
Speaker 3: Was anybody as proud that they picked Steven Mylm? Then
our guy Hanny in the group chat, my man was
like every hit he got, he's he's making sure.
Speaker 2: Although also picked.
Speaker 5: Well so that Hanny's not the only one to pick
Steven Mylm, but he's the only one that victory lapped that.
Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna do it, especially after Hanny.
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm not gonna jump that, I'm gonna
I'm gonna let him have this.
Speaker 6: Mylm just felt so chalk to me that, I was like,
let me go with somebody.
Speaker 2: Like the ultimate chalk. I remember, like Kate Anderson, Anthony.
Speaker 6: We've said Steven my before, Like Stephen when he was
like slumping a little bit, We're like, he needs to
get back online because he's one of your uh like
most productive people out there in the field and his bat.
Speaker 5: So I mean that was just kind of to me, Yeah,
let Hanny have that because like I went my and
Jared Jones. That was my answer. I was like, you know,
if both both dangerous one through nine, like that was
my both chose two people.
Speaker 2: I chose to.
Speaker 5: His two though is like one A one B is
Hoyser number one picture, so like you kind of got
to group them. Pitching staff is cy to victory.
Speaker 3: Hey, at least my guy went out there to throw
the first All the pictures, I'm gonna say, the hitters,
the hitting staff, staff, the roster. Look, if you don't think,
if y'all don't think those two guys in a super
regional format were going to be big and again they
didn't have their best stuff, but you got to win
two games.
Speaker 2: I like those two to go and get it. Uh.
Speaker 6: Hunt was on the call and did not miss a
beat in the group chat though, because like we said,
Handy was victory lapping and like typing in cough cough
in the group chat and Hunt goes, somebody get handy.
Speaker 7: Then to his that.
Speaker 2: Was that was Haunt's best he's ever had. Like that.
Speaker 3: That made me like, actually last Hunt was on the
call this weekend.
Speaker 7: He was last night Doug left, Doug.
Speaker 5: Kind of Doug apparently had a flight to catch. He
was on a vacation and like he thought he was
gonna be done because o'clock. No, he was there for
five Yeah, he's like he sent me the pregame interview
and all that he was there.
Speaker 2: Doug was there last minute. He had to bail. So
Hunt step in. Doug, what time was your flight where
you go? Something like that. Maybe it wasn't a flight,
but Chris did.
Speaker 7: Say early morning.
Speaker 5: Chris said he was on he had to hit a
he had a vacation to catch. Chris was word, okay,
whatever that means?
Speaker 2: What what man? What does the voice should say?
Speaker 3: If I was like, hey, third quarter old miss kind
of third Katie's waiting one to go to the beach.
Speaker 7: That was like very Doug Thompson behavior.
Speaker 2: Though, shout out Doug.
Speaker 3: I would have figured Doug had like a like a
youth baseball tournament to go to.
Speaker 2: I mean, these kids obviously a really good athlete. It
was funny.
Speaker 5: I don't know if Chris actually knew because like at
the beginning of the game, he goes Hunt, Palmer's stepping in.
Doug Thompson had planed, and so I'm like planning, and
then later in the game he goes going to Swizzler.
He said, Doug has a vacation. I'm like in the
middle of the game. So it's it's kind of all
over the place.
Speaker 3: Joey and the chat says he was going to the
mountains for a World Series. Probably, uh where's that? What's
the big one called? Uh where where do you you go?
Speaker 2: There? Sometimes in Calmberg? Yeah, yeah I think so. Yeah,
Severeville Pitcher Forge.
Speaker 3: That a forge, Yeah, that's it. Yeah, there's like a
big baseball term. So I'm assuming that's where Dougie was going.
Shout out to Shout out to Hunt, Shout out to
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Speaker 7: Yeah, shout out L s U Baseball.
Speaker 2: Nailed it. They didn't, God didn't even hit the lead off.
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check out some scores. Let's check out who LSU is playing,
because we already know that information. In game number one
in Omaha, but in the Louisville Super Regional, Louisville, i
mean took down Miami in game number one. Looked like
they were going to ease their way to victory. But
shout out to Miami because they fall back. After Louisville
beat some eight to one, they come back and they
beat Louisville nine to six. And then yesterday in a
game that was finished right before LSU got started, Louisville
closes the door three to two, and they move on
to Omaha and where they were going to take on
the winner of the Corvallis Super Regional and it was
Oregon State over Florida State now game number one. It
was one of the better games of Super Regional play.
Florida State was up four to one with two outs
in the ninth inning and they lose the game five
to four. Oregon State just like pesky, just like just
sitting there and just will not go away, like single
single double like they the way they were manufacturing runs
in that game, It's like, I don't know that Florida
State can come back from this. It was like death
by a thousand paper cuts. And the beams went out
there and they were victorious. They might they might catch
that game live.
Speaker 2: So it called the end OFVID.
Speaker 5: And I mean, you know, on Friday, when we were
putting together a little parlay thing, we were picking game
by game.
Speaker 2: This was the one we pointed out and.
Speaker 5: We were like, we're the most unsure about this one
because this will probably be the best series. Like I said,
I picked Oregon State because they were the home team.
Like that was literally mind.
Speaker 3: Settled on Oregon State. It wasn't because of anything solid.
It was literally, these teams are even the Beavers are
at home, Florida State's got to travel across the coach.
Speaker 2: That's that's about what happened.
Speaker 3: It is, I mean, and certainly in the first two games,
and so Florida State they throw their a arnold on
game number two and they win the game three to one,
and then yesterday an absolute football score fourteen to ten
for Oregon State.
Speaker 2: As they move on, and if you want to catch EJ.
Speaker 3: Manuel doing push ups live on air later today, you
can check out off campus because well, Florida State's at
home and LSU's moving.
Speaker 2: On and Chapel Hill I got he's got one hundred. Yeah,
he's got a hundred.
Speaker 3: Because it was like we had like a you know,
if this team wins, if this team loses, if LSU sweeps,
the floor State sweeps, and so it's.
Speaker 2: Added up to one hundred. He's gonna do those live
on air, and I'll be counting.
Speaker 4: We talked out about two hundred every show.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but this is like all at once, and
you know, yeah, that's impossible, all right. Chapel Hill was
probably the one that was the most unpredictable outcome. After
North Carolina won Game one eighteen to two, like, all right,
well they'll be in Omaha. Shout out to Arizona. They
come back even to when a game would have been
impressive to me. After losing eighteen to two, they come back,
they win ten to eight in Game number two, and
then they come back in Game number three and they
win four to three.
Speaker 2: And if you're North Carolina, you have to.
Speaker 3: Feel sick right now for a lot of reasons, because
I felt like North Carolina was on the verge of like,
if they get back to Omaha again, this baseball program's
going to change, Like this is like a stepping stone
for them and getting back to Omaha and back to
back years, because you remember, like in the early two
thousands they finished runner up I think two years in
a row, and they didn't parlay that into success like
for the next ten to fifteen years like you thought
they would have, And it felt like they could do
that if they won and got to Omaha. I mean,
that has to be one of the biggest disappointing after
Game one results that I can remember in super Regional history.
Speaker 7: So I think that this is the biggest upset of
the weekend.
Speaker 6: I know Coastal swept that Auburn, but out right that's
what yeh, yeah, I like, I get that, but this
is probably the biggest upset of the weekend because North Carolina,
agree was not only like one of my favorites, but
just one of the favorites to win.
Speaker 2: The entire best odds behind Arkansas, and.
Speaker 6: They were I might be exaggerating this, but I feel
like when we were looking at the odds on Friday,
they were like minus a thousand.
Speaker 2: I think I think they.
Speaker 6: I think they were like, yeah, so this is a
major upset and you do it at home, like, yes,
it's just and like you said, they won eighteen to
two on Friday night, So yeah, huge upset. And I
agreed totally that North Carolina was well on their way
to being one of, if not if they're not already
the top programs in the country.
Speaker 7: So and but real quick back to like the Florida
State thing.
Speaker 6: I remember I was saying that since they were in
the ACC and you know, Oregon State doesn't have a
conference right now, so they had to go they had
to go.
Speaker 7: Like on the road and whatever.
Speaker 6: I thought that like Florida State had it tougher because
the ACC is like a tough conference. Yeah, turns out
Oregon State like that was the advantage for them, and
probably tougher now that I'm thinking about it, to have
to go.
Speaker 7: On the road, find people to go play you whatever.
Speaker 3: So I kind of forget sometimes that between shows. But
on the other show, I do, Like we talk a
lot of what you're just talking about, Laundra.
Speaker 2: It's good that you notice that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they played like seventy eight percent of their games
on the road this year, insane because they're independent and
they didn't have a conference and so you know during
conference like weekends, nobody's typically off like maybe one here,
one there, And if I'm that team, I'm like, I'm
like coming to play you?
Speaker 2: Yeah you come to yeah, yeah, come play me.
Speaker 3: And so they end up playing like Oregon and Iowa
and somebody, and a lot of the Big West teams
like your cal State, Fulletins and all those teams. And
so I mean they were on the road at hun Yeah,
certainly once like conference play started, they were barely ever
at home, and so they had been battle tested and
you know, they thrived and having their home environment there
as well.
Speaker 4: So what did they do when when the big conferences
went into conference play they would find one like they
got like Iowa who was off, like whoever was off
in like a major.
Speaker 2: Conference, they would go to them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's not like and you have to have
like obviously an odd number of teams, and so they
just you know, they put together a pretty nice resume
considering what they had to do.
Speaker 5: Well to your point, like, I think it helps them
in two ways. It helps them because they had the
home crowd behind them. Finally, like if you can win
on the road, you can win at home. Also, this
is gonna help them in Omaha because they played on
the road.
Speaker 2: At eight for sure.
Speaker 3: So it is going to be Louisville and Oregon State
first game in Omaha. It's gonna be Arizona and Coastal
Carolina first.
Speaker 2: Game in Omaha.
Speaker 3: As we mentioned, it's gonna be LSU in Arkansas, which
next seven. That's what we're gonna dive back into is
LSU and Arkansas. All but UTSA does not continue.
Speaker 7: To magic Sad Beep.
Speaker 3: Sad Beatpep because who parlay would have been beat Beep.
Speaker 2: But it's okay, Sorry, good season for UTSA.
Speaker 3: UCLA wins that two games to nothing, say, sweep the
road Runners. It sets up a matchup with the winner
of Duke and Murray State. Murray State, Man, I don't
know if y'all had a chance to watch that game yesterday.
Speaker 7: Crazy.
Speaker 2: I mean, they just I think it was.
Speaker 3: The seventh I believe it was the seventh inning where
they just went just mammoth blast, like four in that
one inning alone, and like nothing cheap about any of them.
They win nineteen to nine, and now they're gonna be
playing I believe that game Crazy State.
Speaker 2: By the way, runs scored every year.
Speaker 7: Lord, actually, I feel like it's pretty crazy this season.
Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, there's ball scores eighteen to two. Yeah,
it was crazy.
Speaker 3: Eighteen two, nineteen nine. That was shoes score in sixteen twelve.
So yeah, the hitters have definitely locked in. Maybe the
warmer weather all's traveling a little bit farther.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I like it though, you know, I could appreciate it
go two to one game for sure, but also like, hey,
let's go score some runs.
Speaker 2: Don't feel like you're gonna get any.
Speaker 3: No, No, I don't think Omahall plays a little bit bigger,
but we'll see. But that game is going to be
at six pm tonight, Duke and Murray state to see
who plays UCLA. And when we come back, we break
down LSU's game number one, because we already know it
is going to be against a team that we all
know very well, a team that you already played this year.
Two teams that know each other very well. And we'll
break it all down when we come back here on
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Speaker 1: It man, don't warns you in the gloves in I'm
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Speaker 2: I looked it up there.
Speaker 4: Oregon State baseball team travel twenty three thousand, four hundred
and sixty five miles during their regular season, playing thirty
five road and neutral site games.
Speaker 3: Is that a lot of thirty five road or neutral
site man? And like, I think they're one of their
neutral sites. Was basically like they played a team in
like the bigger park in there in the same city
that the team plays in or something.
Speaker 2: So yeah, shout out to the beast. Be like pseudo
beaver be.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think, like in the field, right, it's like,
all right, you've got Louisville, Oregon State, Arizona Coastal.
Speaker 2: You see LA.
Speaker 3: Like there's not like that, you know, like Tennessee's not
in there some of the other rivals for l s
U outside of the one that you're playing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, so obviously, like.
Speaker 5: Who's on your side of the bracket, like we know,
we know who Game one is. What you're about to
get into what I got it right here?
Speaker 6: So and then it's so U C l A and
whoever wins Maurice State and Duke is on your side.
Speaker 5: Okay, if L s U can't get out of their side,
Coastal Carolina is the team for me, easily.
Speaker 3: Coastal Carolina in the bottom four though, I think if
you're looking at it, it and and the bottom is
Arizona Coastal.
Speaker 2: Oh true, L s U Arkansas.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna go. Arizona's my number two. They're my
number two.
Speaker 2: Because they're well hydrated. All right, they're scrappy.
Speaker 3: I remember Arizona football was so so so bad right
before they got really good, and they were playing Scenego State.
Speaker 2: Sanguo State was coming.
Speaker 3: Off like in a ten or eleven win season or something,
and I'm obviously I'm biased towards the Aztecs. Worked out
there a ton during the lockout when I was in
San Diego. Shout out Tony Gwynn, Steven Strasburg. Yeah, I
got any other Marshall Falk Why Leonard, there's four heap
cuts really deep?
Speaker 2: Are you still talking about that college again? Yep.
Speaker 3: Anyways, they were playing football and we were in a
group chat and Flint's like, take Arizona, my butt. Have
you seen them play? Have you seen San Diego State?
Have you seen Arizona? They just trust me.
Speaker 2: Take him.
Speaker 3: I'm like, this guy's got inside information. Okay, all right,
I'm just crushing it, Like what are you doing? They
were hydrated and they won the game, like not even close.
I think Arizona kind of ran away with it. They
kind of they kind of three years ago, four years
ago something they did. They got really good. They got
what was it four years ago? Three years ago?
Speaker 4: They started like just being scrabbed that I can't remember
the quarterback's name, but yeah, grap people. Yeah, and then
the coach took the job in Washington. Yeah right, yep,
look at you for last year. I know, Washington Mascot
Huskies hydrated. Yes, yes, man, you really trick some people.
Speaker 3: I mean, do you really need to be hydrated up
in the Pacific Northwest?
Speaker 2: So that's that's the thing.
Speaker 5: I was just thinking, do you send them like half
the amount of the southern teams and it's not nearly
as charge of.
Speaker 2: The same, then charge of the same send them bus. Yes,
I mean it's a premium product up there in the Northwest.
All right. I was just I mean, good for you
though you got them.
Speaker 4: I saw, actually you brought up Tony gwen I saw
random Tony Gwynn's stat the other day on social media.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I said, you sent that in the group. Okay,
all right, it is something ridiculous.
Speaker 4: As many assists by a basketball assist in college ye
as he did strikeouts and his like entire two.
Speaker 2: Major major career, it was like four hundred and twenty six.
A lot of people don't even remember he played college
basketball until you sent that text.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so as many college assists in basketball as it
did strikeouts and how many twenty of your career top.
Speaker 3: Five purest hitters in baseball history. Yeah, I'm not talking
about power and all that.
Speaker 2: We needn't hit a lot of home runs, but just
straight hitters.
Speaker 3: I mean great Man too, like I had, you know,
the great fortune of meeting him a bunch of times
in San Diego. Some was great. So shout out Tony Gwynn.
I didn't expect to find ourselves here. But before we
are for the second hour, see if we can get
five more Tony gwyn mentions before the end of the show.
Let's take a look back May the ninth, May tenth,
and May eleventh, Arkansas came to baton Rouge. You won
the series two games to one. You took the first
two games of this series. You had the first victory
if you all remember, five to.
Speaker 2: Four in ten innings.
Speaker 3: Then you run un rule of Arkansas thirteen to three
and seven innings, and then you lose the finale seven
to four to the Razorbacks. And so Arkansas is a
team that you know very well. Even if you would
not have played them, you know them very well. It's
a team that certainly has been you know, for not
winning a championship, a blue blood in baseball over the
last decade. And if you want to, you know, argue
about can you be a blue blood if you don't
win a national championship. I'm here for that argument. I
can listen to it. But they've been highly successful. We
all know that the only thing they are missing is
that national championship. And they wear a foul ball away
from beating Oregon State and winning that national championship. They
don't catch it. The Beavers get another life. They go
win a national championship. But when you look at the
tail of the tape, if you were going to match
up with a team that everybody loves like Arkansas, right,
I still think there's advantages for LSU. I think you
have the mental advantage of knowing that you won the
series against them earlier. Right, It's going to be an
electric crowd in omahall between these two teams. I mean,
Arkansas's fans are certainly going to find their way to Omaha.
We know l s U fans are going to be there.
Like if you said, hey, give me two fan bases
that can make the most rowdy crowd in Omaha, Nebraska,
I would say, these two playing against each.
Speaker 2: Other, you're gonna you would match fan base up as
a top two I think I think it's I think
it's L s U.
Speaker 3: Arkansas and Mississippi State are the only three in the
conversation love that right in Arkansas's obviously like compared to
where it's at for Omaha, Like they're gonna be there,
They're gonna they gonna be doing their ritual, They're gonna
be calling them hogs bo I.
Speaker 4: Mean, from from like a little bit of a baseball outsider,
I would have thought Tennessee would have been in there,
just because I guess, like the.
Speaker 3: Tennessee's new blood. Tennessee had no Tennessee's like Tennessee won
the lottery and got rich quick. Yeah, now they're spending
all their money on stupid stuff and they don't know
what to do with it, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean, They sure don't know how to
act that what I'm.
Speaker 3: Saying, right, and so like their stadium is still not
anywhere close to as big as like the ones that
we're talking about, Like I would go like L s U, Arkansas,
Mississippi State, and they look, you can argue with a
wall with what the order is. Obviously we're gonna say
L s U's number one, because well, attendance shows that
they're number one, but if you want to make an argument,
those are the only two that I think can even
be in the same conversation. So my point is it's good,
like you're not gonna have to fake enthusiasm enthusiasm like
anything in this series.
Speaker 2: Like it's gonna be real juice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you could tell the emotion that Arkansas had,
but I mean their their stadium was wild this weekend.
Speaker 2: I caught I caught a.
Speaker 4: Little bit of the game, a little bit of the
games there and why to that's not about that. Okay,
did you see did you see like the emotion the
head coach had, like after the game?
Speaker 2: You don't see I mean, he's pretty much.
Speaker 7: Like you don't see Horn?
Speaker 4: Sorry, but I do, especially like winning when you still
have like the biggest games to play ahead of you,
like showing that emotion so like that you could tell
that they were in for one, a crazy environment like
the home team is behind him, but for two like
they did not like Tennessee.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, just like y'all said. And nobody
was an assistant for da Van Horn for a decade.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, and then they got into at a little
little situation last season they did as well, So this
is carried over for about a year and now.
Speaker 6: Liked so and everyone's all mad because Canon People's got
ejected last weekend in the regional so he didn't play
uh this weekend, and then Zach Route was kind of
mouthing off the yeah yeah, and he didn't get ejected.
So then like everybody at Tennessee's all butt her because
Canon People.
Speaker 2: Was it's gonna be online.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: It was kind of like, well but even Cannon's dad
was saying stuff like yeah.
Speaker 2: It Zach is that his name?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so you know when he came off and
yelling and popping off, if it was if it was
against anybody else, we'd be like, that's.
Speaker 2: A little excepted, that's a little bit nice.
Speaker 4: They probably probably do something, but like probably from coast
to coast in the court of public opinion, everyone was like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Let him know.
Speaker 5: If you play the villain and you're good at it,
it's fun if he struggle a little bit like this year.
Speaker 6: And also, you can't act that way and then get
butt hurt when people act that way back they're.
Speaker 5: So I still will never believe that Tony Fatilla is
five to ten I don't care what his bio says.
Speaker 2: His bio says five ten. That's a fellow short king.
I'm five to ten. He wrote that himself.
Speaker 5: To five to seven, come on, plus he gives all
five to seven vibes. Right, Oh, I'm sorry, it says
five eleven, five nights.
Speaker 2: That's like me. That's I'm six foot in the program.
Speaker 4: I've never even thought about his height, but yeah, this
makes a lot of sense right now.
Speaker 2: I didn't know he was a short dude. Yeah, he
sure fell shy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, speaking of zach Rute, when we come back,
that's probably who you're going to see when the Tigers
take on the Hogs in Omaha. We'll break down how
it went the first time these two teams played. When
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about the state of California so many for the rest
of it. Okay, uh, the first time you played Arkansas,
Zach Route six inn pitch, five hits, two runs, both earned,
struck out six, Kate Anderson five two thirds, seven hits,
three runs, three earned, one walk, ten strikeouts. If you remember,
Zach Cowen came into that game, pitched three innings, only
gave up two hits, no runs, two walks, three strikeouts, And.
Speaker 2: It just reminded me that you're going to need Zach
Cowen to be in this form if you want to
go win a national Take I.
Speaker 7: Say, we need that Zach Cowen back.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: I think you have to have that version of him.
And so again, look, you've gotten this done. You go
to game number two, Anthony Janson. He pitched six innings,
he didn't give up a run, he struck out eleven.
You have the starting pitcher advantage against Arkansas.
Speaker 2: Go get it done.
Speaker 3: We're gonna continue to break down obviously that game coming
up in Omahall more throughout the show, but when we
come back a little weekend winners here on O t
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