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Speaker 4: All right, welcome into a Monday edition of Off the Bench.
No Jacob Ester or T bob Abert. They are both
out for the entirety of the week, so you'll have
me here the next four days. We are all off
this coming Friday, of course, because of Good Friday. Taylor
Sharp sitting in here with you. We got a Laundra
villar Rial, we got Cassie Spizali. Guys, how we do
win on this Monday?
Speaker 5: Pretty good. The weekend was kind of I mean, we
all know, not.
Speaker 6: A great not we know, not a great l s
U weekend.
Speaker 3: Going to the block this morning, I got this squad
is russo so I'm feeling I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 6: That's forests, I'm assuming.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, see, y'all judge me for what I drink. I
don't think I don't think I've ever had a quad
express it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but there's a difference between like a coffee. There's
like a sophistication to coffee.
Speaker 6: Right, I will admit that you got it may.
Speaker 3: But I actually might have Like I don't have any
sugar in this, so it's like I definitely have way
less sugar than you do.
Speaker 5: This pretty normal today.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this one doesn't have any sugar.
Speaker 5: Is celsius.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I don't like them that much.
Speaker 4: But I was like, I gotta stop drinking motor oil
in the morning. It's like I gotta do something that's
a little bit healthier for me. So like it's an
acquired taste that they're getting better. Yeah, I just I
don't like things that are healthy obviously because it.
Speaker 6: Doesn't have any sugar. But I'm getting used to Cassie.
Speaker 7: How are we?
Speaker 4: I know that, uh you were not typically the best
in person in the building, so uh we were we
rocking this morning?
Speaker 6: You just you just each rolled in nothing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm I'm still trying to wake
Usually usually by like eight o'clock, I'll start to perk.
Speaker 5: Come, that's crazy that you don't have any caffeine.
Speaker 7: I okay, I don't like coffee and I don't like
energy drinks, so I literally just have to like run
off of sleep, and like, as a college student, I
just don't get enough sleep.
Speaker 5: That's crazy.
Speaker 6: You'd always take like speed or something.
Speaker 5: Nah, that's all right.
Speaker 6: You don't see my personally.
Speaker 4: Guys, what did we get into this weekend, Cassie, You're
always like doing something.
Speaker 6: You got a New Orleans I did.
Speaker 7: My parents are out of the country. They went to
Saint Lucia for their twenty fifth anniversary.
Speaker 5: Saint Lucia. I don't even know where it is.
Speaker 6: You they get to go to Saint Lucian. You got
to stay here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I had to go home and take care.
Speaker 5: Of the dog.
Speaker 6: That's okay.
Speaker 4: I heard Saint Lucia and New Orleans pretty much the same.
I mean, I've heard Saint Lucia's pretty overrated. I mean,
but beach is not really that pretty.
Speaker 7: It looks kind of beautiful pictures though, it's really pretty,
like lots of sun sets having dinner on the beach
in the scene.
Speaker 5: It's in the Caribbean, by the way. Really it's really nice.
Speaker 4: Okay, So it's one of the god, I don't even
know how many small islands. There's like one hundred out there.
Speaker 5: In the Caribbean.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, So Saint Lucia for what twenty fifth you said.
Speaker 7: Twenty fifth anniversary?
Speaker 4: Yep, I just had my second. We didn't go to
Saint Lucia.
Speaker 7: Well, they never take trips, so they were like.
Speaker 6: We went had dinner in Covington. Does that count?
Speaker 5: Well, they never take trips.
Speaker 7: They're like twenty fives a lot, and like we never
do anything, and like all of the kids are like
out of the house. Me and my brother are at
colle are in college, and my sister's married now. So
they're like, let's go take a trip. And I like,
I'm proud of them. They think for themselves.
Speaker 6: Yeah, right, laundro. What did we get into?
Speaker 3: I went to I had to go out to Ponchatula
for the Strawberry Festival.
Speaker 5: I did a remote out there. Feel for you ga news.
Speaker 3: I got out of there before things got crazy. There's
uh if y'all didn't, I don't know if anybody heard,
but there's a shooting at it.
Speaker 6: I call this. I think that's the second year in
a row.
Speaker 3: So it started off really good because Okay, I got
there early, Like my remote was from ten to one
and I got there at ten. Obviously, this was Sunday, Saturday, Saturday.
It is, but I did a remote Saturday. There's a difference.
I just was doing like little checkens or whatever. So then,
but by the time it was like eleven thirty, there
were so many people, and it's in such a small area.
I started getting like claustrophobic and I didn't even want
to walk around anywhere because but it, I mean, the
concept is cool of strawberry Festival. Like there were a
bunch of vendors out there and stuff, and I got
me some strawberry plants that I'm really excited about.
Speaker 6: You're gonna growing stuff, right, like you're your stuff that
you grows.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it actually grows.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't think anything we've ever bought, not Victoria or
my fault. I mean we water it like they say too.
I don't think anything we buy ever grow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean everybody's like, oh, Taylor, the Azilia bushes at
the corner of your house are so pretty. How did
you plan them? They were here when we bought that
house here. So I mean that's okay. The Strawberry festiv them.
I fraternity I was in college. We had to work
it every year. Yeah, there has to be some sort
of capacity limit or just a bigger place.
Speaker 5: It's literally a tiny park that.
Speaker 4: They have that park, Cassie, if you ever been to
the strawberry festival. No, okay, well allow me to give
just a ringing endorsement here. If that park holds three
thousand people, the city of Potchatula is like, ah, you
know what, better make it ten thousand. I mean it
is shoulder to shoulder like picture Bourbon Street on Marti Gras,
but for like six blocks like that's that's the Potatulla
Strawberry Festival.
Speaker 6: You got a park.
Speaker 4: About a half a mile to a mile away. Some
people were telling me it took them thirty minutes to
walk from their car to the strawberry festival one way.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's just it's every year.
Speaker 4: This is this is every single year, and then there's
shooting on Saturday.
Speaker 6: Like, guys, it's a strawberry festival. Fun.
Speaker 3: Everybody's being like strawberry shortcakes and stuff. And how did
we get to that?
Speaker 4: You think you're hard because you fired a shot at
the strawberry I.
Speaker 3: Wonder I wonder if it was the guy that I
saw that had a T shirt on that said in
glocks we trust I.
Speaker 6: Bet it was. I bet you know what, I bet
it was interviewed.
Speaker 5: I with that shirt on.
Speaker 4: That's a tough scene to show up in public with
that shirt and later you're shooting. That's not a good look.
I mean, what do you what do you do? But uh, yeah,
the Strawberry Festival a great food.
Speaker 6: Not my scene.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, it's hot, it's shoulder to shoulder. It's
It's one of those things where like I show up
for thirty minutes and I'm like, all right, I'm a
little overwhelmed. I'm just gonna get out of here like
that's that's that's kind of how Yeah.
Speaker 5: But the food was great. The vendors are great.
Speaker 6: It's always great.
Speaker 5: Were really good until they weren't.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So they actually reopened yesterday. They they kept going.
They just early, which yeah, close it five on Sunday.
I'm okay with I remember we used to have to
do the Sunday shift. I would always think the last
shift for the show by festal clean up and everything.
We were done at like ten thirty on Sunday night.
Speaker 6: Like that. That's tough. So close it at five o'clock.
Speaker 4: Not the worst thing in the world, all right, look,
wanted to kind of just recap everyone's weekends, the good
part of the weekend. Not a great weekend for LSU athletics,
both on and off the field. And you know, yesterday
when the Karen Lacy news broke, I was kind of
debating on whether or not I wanted to touch this
subject on the radio. But driving in this morning, I
decided I would not be doing my job if I
did not mention it. So, for those of you that
are unaware, and most of you already know, Karen Lacey
was found dead in Houston on Saturday night, and the
word right now is they do believe that it was
an appearance suicide. This is unfortunate news for a young
man who was only twenty four years old. He look,
when he was at LSU, You're on top of the
world one minute, right, I mean, he had almost nine
hundred yards receiving, he led the sec actually a nine
touchdown catches. I didn't realize he had led the entire conference.
And then, of course most people know back in December
he was he was not in a car accident. There
was a lot of, you know, discussion about that this weekend.
Some reports were wrong, but everything seemed to be fixed.
He was not in a car accident in December, he
was barely driving reckless and was accused of causing a
head on collision which ultimately took the life of an
elderly gentleman. Again, he was arrested for that back in December,
he was released on bond. For what it's worth, the
grand jury for that hearing to decide whether or not
he was going to be formally charged and dieted, ultimately
going to go to trial. That grand jury meeting was
actually set for this morning. So already a pretty tough
weekend for Kyen Lacy, you know, I mean, he may
have had a good idea of where that one was
going to turn.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 4: We don't want to suspect anything, but again, you're on
top of the world one minute, and the next minute
you you don't know where to turn.
Speaker 6: Great player.
Speaker 4: By all accounts, everyone in the LSU building talked about
how good of a young man he was as well.
I was never fortunate enough to interact with Kyen Lacy personally.
I've just heard second hand stories. When I heard this
news yesterday morning, like it's one of those things where
it's like you didn't want to believe, but you had
to check and make sure. So I'm texting a few
people that I know that would know. They all kind
of tell me the exact same story. I'm not going
to get into the details of what happened on Saturday night.
Speaker 6: It did take place in Houston.
Speaker 4: If you want to go look Louisianasports dot NAT has
a short rite up on it WBRZWB. They have more
lenkedier details about what occurred on Saturday night if you
want to know what led up to the situation.
Speaker 6: Again, I'm not going to.
Speaker 4: Get into it here because it's not my job to
form an opinion on a topic like this, and you know,
break it down. That's not what we're here for. We
like to do more lighthearted opinions. This is something that
I'm going to stay out of. I will say this though,
if you know someone that you think might be going
through a tough situation, check on check on your friends,
check on your son's daughters, brothers, sisters, fathers, whoever it
may be. Because there are a lot of people out
there that struggle with mental health, and there's such a
stigma around mental health and I can't figure out why
because it's so prevalent in today's society. Far too often
you hear stories like this, and you know people are
embarrassed by it, they don't want to seek the help
they need. But if you know somebody you think might
be going through something, not even necessarily like current Lacy,
because again, we all know the situation, right, We know
that you know he was possibly facing some charges. We
know about the arrest back in December. Even if it's
not something public. If you run into somebody and you're like, hey,
I feel like there may be something going on behind
the scenes. There may be something under the surface that
we're not quite talking about, check on them, reach out
to them, because far too often mental health cases end
up the way that this Kinen Lazy story did. It's tragic,
it's unfortunate. You feel for his family, You feel for
the entire Lsu family. We all hear guaranteed media. I'm
sure to speak for everyone when I say that our
hearts were a little heavy yesterday morning. We all you know,
we're keeping his family in our thoughts and prayers. Okay,
look impossible to segue into another topic from that. So
what we're going to do is it's twelve after, we're
actually going to go to break. When we get back,
we're going to officially get this show started.
Speaker 6: We got a lot of things to cover.
Speaker 4: There's Derek Carr injury news, LSU baseball against Auburn. The
Tigers wrapped up their spring scrimmage which was into the public.
Will break down all of that. It's coming up on
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sort of.
It's Off the Bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 6: What song is this.
Speaker 5: Slide away by Oasis?
Speaker 4: Okay, confession time, you, Jake, T Bob, y'all sit up
here and they're like, we gotta go to an Oasis show.
It would kill It would be awesome. Guys, I don't
know Oasis.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't think I know a single Oasis song unless
it's one of those songs where I'm like, oh yeah, Oasis.
Speaker 3: Okay, now you're just pretending because everybody knows Wonderwall.
Speaker 6: I didn't know that was Oasis.
Speaker 5: There's no way you didn't know.
Speaker 6: I had no idea that was Oasis.
Speaker 3: Cassie, there's what do you? Oh wait, hold on, sorry,
I forgot. There's no way he didn't know that was Oasis.
Speaker 8: I don't.
Speaker 7: I don't think I know it either. I'd have to
hear it, but like, I don't think I know anything
from them.
Speaker 5: You wonder I never heard of Oasis.
Speaker 6: Cassie likes heavier stuff, his six A c DC shirts.
Speaker 5: We need to I need We're from this world.
Speaker 6: We're triggering her like I'm gonna get something thrown at
me in about ten seconds. No, there's no way I don't.
Speaker 3: Know any that I can get behind you not knowing Oasis.
But there's no way that you didn't know Wonder Wall
was Oasis.
Speaker 4: I knew I know the song wonder Well. I didn't
that never knew who sung it. I feel like so
many people have covered that song though.
Speaker 3: So it's like, trigger me more and talk about Derek Carr,
aren't you?
Speaker 5: Or what are we talking about here?
Speaker 4: Saints quarterback Derek Carr could potentially miss the entire twenty
twenty five season due to a shoulder injury. This was
news that came out about four o'clock Friday evening.
Speaker 6: So story is now he has a shoulder injury.
Speaker 4: If it does require sir, which they have not fully
confirmed yet, it does seem like it's leaning that way.
Napika potentially miss the entire twenty twenty five season. Now,
according to Nick Underhill, it seems like the Saints have
known about this for quite some time. He actually put
out that possibly they knew about this before they even
restructured his contract. If you remember, they guaranteed him forty million.
They restructured it kind of backloaded that contract to twenty
twenty six, which is what the Saints do. But what
does this mean for them now at that number nine spot?
Because look, kay T bought me and Lodger, We've all
set up here and said, it doesn't really matter who
you take, because your team's so bad, you're gonna get
better regardless.
Speaker 6: I agree with that. I was fully prepared.
Speaker 4: To be like, oh, Will Johnson, because you need a corner, Teedero, McMillan,
Tyler Warren, any sort of offensive playmaker would do as well.
But does this mean schadrs Sanders at nine? The Saints
might not have another option. They may have to take
Chador Sanders. They may feel that they have to take
Shad Door Sanders. Now, should they draft Shad Door Sanders? Honestly,
I actually still say no, because if you draft a
quarterback in round one with no Derek Carr, he'll be
expected to play right away due.
Speaker 6: To this injury.
Speaker 4: I don't think shed Door Sanders is ready. Look, he
certainly has a lot of good traits. He's an accurate passer,
he's got a strong arm that was on display numerous
times in Colorado. But he holds the ball too long.
Everyone likes to point out the sacks. Fifty two sacks
last season led college football. Yes, the pushback you hear
from that is, well, his offensive line's not very good.
Speaker 6: What's he going to do? He's over there running for
his life. How about this?
Speaker 4: Of those fifty two sacks, over forty of them, he
held the ball four seconds or longer. So his offensive
line might not be that good. Chador Sanders is not
doing his o line any favors. It's funny because like
the way Shadoor plays, once the ball leaves his hand,
he's as accurate as anybody in this draft class. There's
no question about my concern for Shador Sanders goes from
the snap to the time he lets go with the ball.
Speaker 6: If you watch him.
Speaker 4: Play, he kind of runs around back there, you know,
like a Johnny manziel did or a Kyler Murray in college.
Speaker 6: Like some of these mobile quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: The problem is he plays like a mobile quarterback who
really doesn't have that much ability to run. He can
run a little bit. I think that's something that people
don't highlight enough. He can run a little bit. But
you're not going to fear Shador Sanders running. You're not
going to be scared about him beating you on the ground.
His legs is something that's not an issue. He can
run when he has to. He's never gonna be that
guy that's gonna run ten to fifteen times a game
card up.
Speaker 6: That's not who he is. He's not a Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 4: So it seems like the Saints have known about this
before they restructured the contract. Again, we have an article
on Louisiana sportsnett Or Else Jackson wrote it. He quoted
Nick Underhill in this piece. So what's the Saints' best option?
In my opinion, stick to your original draft plan, whatever
that may be. If your original plan was to draft
Shirr Door Sanders, by all means, go get him. Obviously,
the Derek Carr situation's bad news. But the last thing
you need is a knee jerk reaction. You look at
all these months that you've done preparation for the draft,
You've dove into all these prospects, you brought them in
for visits. You scrap everything because your quarterback goes there.
And I understand, quarterback's a big position. Obviously, it's the
most important position in professional sports. So sticking to your
original draft plan, to me is what you do now.
Is that Todor Roll McMillan, is that Tyler Warren, is
that Ashton Genty, is it Shador Sanders? Whoever it is,
Take them because you did your homework on that guy.
Take them because you think that's the best fit at
number nine, Not because oh, well, our quarterbacks out for
the season. We're in panic mode. Let's go grab somebody
that maybe we didn't do enough homework on. Not saying
they didn't do their homework on shouldwarer Saanders by all
accounts they did. But if someone falls to you there
you think is a good value that you truly believe
can change this franchise. If you think shaudor Sanders is
the next franchise quarterback, take it. I just personally don't
at he's not yet. I think maybe he could become
that if he sits for a year. The problem is
if you bring him in with no Derek Carr. I
imagine you're going to start him over he Spener Rautler.
But what if you don't think should war Sanders. Could
you go with a Spencer Ratler, or even sign a veteran.
The problem with signing a veteran is there's not that
many out there. I mean there's there's not a ton
of free agent quarterbacks remaining. If you go look the
guys you have available right now. Or Carson Wentz, who
at one time looked like he was going to be
MVP of the NFL back in twenty seventeen he had
the knee injury. Nick Foles takes over, It takes a
team to the playoffs, goes to the super Bowl, wins
the super Bowl.
Speaker 6: The rest his history we know about. He moves on.
Speaker 4: He goes to the Washington Redskins, doesn't have a ton
of success there. They bring him in for a year
in Indianapolis. Was actually okay. There goes to be Patrick
Mahomes's back up with the Kansas City Chiefs. That's kind
of like maybe option a right now in free agency.
If that's a guy you maybe want to kick the
tires one, maybe not even as a starter, but if
you don't draft a quarterback in the first round. You
have Spencer Atler, J Kyner, you're gonna need to add
another guy anyways, So maybe you add Carson Wentzon. You're
not even planning on starting, and you just need another body,
a physical body in that quarterback room. Carson Wentz is
an option, and I get it he's fallen off since
that injury. He's never been able to regain that MVP
for him. But if you look at his numbers, I mean,
he has over a two to one touchdown interception ratio.
He wasn't quite as bad in Indianapolis as everybody said.
I mean, he was hit and miss in Washington, but
that old franchise was a mess. How much of that's
on him? How much of that's on the franchise? And
then he was just Patrick Mowhomes's backup. He played in
one game this year. He went ten of fifteen, one
hundred and nineteen yards, no touchdowns, no picks.
Speaker 6: They did lose that game.
Speaker 4: That was the final regular season game where they were
resting all their starters because they had the one seed
locked up. That's option one in free agency, Option two.
Teddy Bridgewater Saints fans love Teddy Bridgewater. They were familiar
with Teddy Bridgewater. Teddy had a lot of success when
he was here. Last time he filled in for Drew
Brees and he went five and zero as a fill
in quarterback. He's bounced around the league. He's had a
lot of success at a lot of different places. The
problem I have with Teddy Bridgewater, if you remember he
retired from the NFL, he went to coach his high
school team, led them all the way to the state championship.
After that, came back to the NFL, joined the Detroit
Lions for that playoff rup So in terms of being
an every day football player, start to finish in a season,
Teddy Bridgewater hadn't done that, no for two years. How
physically ready is he? I'm sure he's fine. He's a professional.
He's still only thirty two years old. But that's a
question mark as well. So whether it's Spencer Rattler, Carson Wentz,
Teddy Bridgewater, there's not a ton out there right now.
Either way, twenty twenty five will likely be another rough season.
I've always been of the opinion of, hey, wait, the
twenty twenty six quarterback class is a lot better. Don't
reach for a quarterback that you're not at if you're
not absolutely in love with them. Here in twenty twenty
five because of this Derreck Carr news and you know
the pushback with that, there's some downside there as well.
You're gonna say, Okay, well you don't know where you're
drafting in twenty twenty six. What if you win games
you're not supposed to in twenty twenty five, you surprise
them people you're and at the back half of the
first round, you don't have as good of a draft
pick as you have this year.
Speaker 6: That's certainly true.
Speaker 4: However, I think the twenty twenty six quarterback draft is
just that much better than this year. I mean, essentially,
you have two guys that you believe are going to
go in the first round. Kim Ward's going number one overall.
We all know that, and then shad Or Sanders somewhere
in the first round.
Speaker 6: He's projected.
Speaker 4: But I'll know yet, is somebody gonna reach for him?
Is he going to fall? Where is he going to go?
But everyone believes that those two quarterbacks will be in
the first round. Some say Jackson dar may sneak in there.
But right now, as far as first round locks kim
Ward spend a rout or kim Ward shaudors Anders.
Speaker 6: But I still think the twenty twenty six class is better.
Speaker 4: Luca could potentially be coming out, Kid Klupknick could be
coming out, Gary Nussmyer will be coming out, Arch Manning
could be coming out, and those three guys right there,
somebody will be there when the Saints are picking, you
would imagine, unless they go one, two, three, which is
a possibility it's happened before. But I just like this
class as a whole better. You're a lot deeper. Maybe essentially,
if you don't get Schador Sanders at nine, you're not
drafted a quarterback in the first round. You're not drafting
Jackson Dart that high unless you trade back, which might
be the smart thing to do, but let's be honest,
making limits is never going to do that. I'd be
okay with maybe taking a Tyler Shuck at forty or
a Quinn Ewers in round three.
Speaker 6: Somebody that you can develop.
Speaker 4: Again, you can develop Shador, But if you're gonna spend
first round draft capital on a guy that you don't
believe can start right away, I don't know if you
take it and maybe they do believe that. Maybe they do,
maybe they have done their homework. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe
they're right. Maybe shoudor Sanders can step in day one
and play quarterback for this team and do well and
have success.
Speaker 6: Either way, though, without the.
Speaker 4: Veteran presence of Derek Carr, it's either going to be
Spencer Rattler, a free agent that nobody else is signed
yet for multiple reasons, or should door Sanders. No matter what,
twenty twenty five might be a rough season, Saints Fantom
might have to hold on one more year. Maybe year
two of Kellen Moore is where you really find your groove.
I think it's gonna be hard to do it here
in twenty twenty five. All right, we're gonna take a
quick time out when we get back LSU baseball head.
A series against the Auburn Tigers didn't go the way
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Speaker 4: Welcome back in Monday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor
Sharps sitting in the host chair for Jacobsser and Tababa
Bear who are both out on vacation. I'll be here
Monday through Thursday. A Laundra's leaving me after tomorrow, so
it's gonna just be one member of OTB here Wednesday
and Thursday. The entire building off Friday for good Friday.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 4: The yellows us you baseball team had a three game
series against the Auburn Tigers.
Speaker 6: On the road and they went oh for three. That's right.
Speaker 4: The Auburn Tigers swept LSU inside Plainsman Park. I'll give
you a quick recap how the scoring went in the
first three games, and then uh Me and Lange will
give you some thoughts on what we saw. In the
first game. Uh Auburn had thirteen hits. They win an
eight to four ball game over Number three LS shoot
Alburn got the two nothing lead in the bottom of
the second. It was catcher Chase Freylik, who I mentioned
on Friday. They put a lot on that young man's plate.
He's just a freshman. He calls the pitches behind the plate.
Now we see why that occurs. Chase Freylick pretty dang
good catcher. He had a two run double in the
bottom of that second inning. They extended the margin to
six nothing. In the fifth, right fielder Ike Irish, their
former starting catcher.
Speaker 6: He had a three run triple.
Speaker 4: First baseman Cooper McMurray, who is always a really good
power hitter, delivered an RBI single.
Speaker 6: Designated hitter is Rembert.
Speaker 4: He had a sixth inning RBI that gave Auburn a
seven nothing lead. Now LSU did get three runs in
the seventh, Derek Curiel had an RBI ground out. Jared
Jones smashed a two run double that got LSU back
in it a little bit, but Auburn responded in the seventh.
Speaker 6: It was Eric Gerreva. He had an.
Speaker 4: RBI single through the infield, and then back to back
doubles by Stanfield and Curiel got LSU a run in
the top of the ninth. However, it was not enough.
The Auburn Tigers win it eight to four. Game two,
it was more of the same. Second baseman Eric Snow
He homered he drove in two runs. On Saturday night,
it was a lower scoring game, but Auburn again wins
by multiple runs, four to two.
Speaker 6: At home.
Speaker 4: Stephen Mylin actually did have a solo home run in
that game. His seventh home run of the year that
gave LSU a one nothing lead in the top of
the second, So the Tigers get on the board early. However,
in the bottom of the fourth, Auburn goes up two
to one. I mentioned a little bit earlier right fielder
Ike Irish. He comes through again. Cooper McMurray. You're going
to hear these names recurring all weekend long. LSU got
the deficit four to two in the eighth. It was
an RBI single by Tanner Reeves, but again they could
get nothing going in the ninth.
Speaker 6: They lose out one, four to two.
Speaker 4: As far as Game three, it was Cooper McMurray had
a two run double. It gave Auburn a two to
nothing lead. In the bottom of the first inning. It
was three to nothing like that, I mean, it was
three to nothing after the first two innings. LSU narrowed
the deficit three to two in the bottom of the eighth.
There was three nothing virtually the entire game. Stephn Milam
had an RBI ground out. It was a run scoring
triple by right fielder Jake Brown, So it looked like
the Tigers were going to make a comeback. Save one
of these games they fall one run short because again
they couldn't get anything going in the ninth inning. As
far as the Friday game goes, LSU had a lot
of trouble with Sam Dutton. It was a matchup we
talked about because Sam don't had been here for multiple years,
he was a Friday guy. How was he going to
react playing his former team? Quite well, six innings pitched,
no runs, seven k's, only two walks. And then on
the other side of things, we remember the complete game
from Kate Anderson last week. He had one hundred and
thirty pitches. He didn't even come close to that this time.
Kate Anderson goes four to third innings, six k's, did
give up five earned runs. However, like, okay, if you
would have told me Auburn sweeps LSU this weekend, I
would have said, okay, Well, LSU scored a lot of runs,
the starting pitchers maybe didn't go as deep as you
wanted them to, and the bullpen got hammered. Because that's
what we all thought was going to happen. The bullpen
was really good this weekend in all three games. Look
at the first game, so I mentioned Kate Anderson struggled.
He goes four to third, Cooper Williams, Maverick Grizzy, Jacob Myers.
They combined for three and two thirds innings, gave up
earned two runs, only one of them earned five k's,
one walk. Game two, Anthony Jonson got hit early. He
pitched five innings, gave up four earned runs, five k's,
one walk. Once again bullpen good Connor where Connor bingch
DJ Primo. They go three innings combined, give up no runs,
two strikeouts, one walk. Here's the problem in game two,
not only does your starter not go how you wanted
to for this second game in a row, you left
ten runners stranded one base in Game two in a
really tightly contested game. Also one through six in the
order after games one and two, one through six in
the lineup, eight for fifty eight for fifty one through
six in your lineup. You can't win games like that,
especially when the starting pitchings bad. Your hitting can be bad.
If your starting pitchers go seven innings eight innings, you
can't have both. At LSU had a bad dose of
both this weekend.
Speaker 6: Again.
Speaker 4: In Game three, Jay shores two innings, three hits, three
earned runs, two strikeouts, two walks, all three of your
starting pitchers struggle, Zach Cowen, case of Evans. They come in,
they go six innings combined, six hits, two k's No.
One through six. How they do in this game? They
struggled in the first two games. Maybe they bounced back
here in game three. Nope, two for sixteen in game
three the only hits were Derek Curiele and Daniel Dickens.
But if you look like a Landro, I'm gonna bring
you in here because like maybe maybe you have a
different opinion on what exactly went wrong for LSU, Because if.
Speaker 6: I was to tell you you threw.
Speaker 4: Eight relievers, eight bullpen arms, and they gave up a
total of two runs the entire weekend, I would have said, well, hell,
LSU swept this series. I mean, that was your biggest
concern was your arms out of the bullpen. You threw
eight of them, they give up a combined two runs.
I mean, what did you make it this weekend? Because
it's like you see, you see all the time, like, oh,
good teams find different ways to win games. Unless you
found a way to lose all three of these games,
despite the fact that their biggest weakness was like kind
of their strength this weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the bullpen is definitely not what lost these games.
It started on Tuesday, honestly against Nichols.
Speaker 5: You left fifteen runners on base.
Speaker 6: You can against Nichols.
Speaker 5: You can get away with it against Nichols.
Speaker 3: And I remember, like I was texting y'all in the
group chat Tuesday night versus Nichols, and then it was
what the seventh inning when we got hot, and yeah,
that's what I'm saying, And I was like, well, I mean,
I guess you can't keep the bats out for too long,
but Auburn kept them out the entire weekend. Yeah, you
just leaving seven runners on base on Friday, eleven on Saturday,
and I think it was another seven on Sunday. I
don't remember what they have the buck score uploaded wrong
on the website.
Speaker 5: But it just you can't.
Speaker 3: They were giving you free opportunities and free bases, and
you just did nothing with the opportunities that you were given.
And I mean, that's pretty much what you said earlier.
Speaker 5: That's how I felt.
Speaker 3: But again, it started on Tuesday night when you were
playing Nichols. You had, let's see, eleven hits on the
night against Nichols and you had fifteen runners left on base.
Speaker 5: You just can't do that. There's like no offensive production.
Speaker 3: And the other thing is like, for some reason this weekend,
like the team just felt kind of flat, like energy
wise too, like.
Speaker 5: They and you know, maybe.
Speaker 3: We're more than halfway through the season you've been having.
You just went through seven, nine, what ten road games,
So I get it, but it just, you know, shake back,
get the win against I think McNeice on Tuesday, and
you host Alabama this weekend, so hopefully having a home
game will be better.
Speaker 5: But they just need to shake back.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's kind of besides the bullpen, the
same thing that happened versus Texas, you know, like you
just didn't go out there and execute the way that
you've been doing the entire season. So I still think
that LSU's a good team. You just need to get
out of this slump a little bit.
Speaker 4: Well, And I'm glad you brought up the point of
like it started on Tuesday because you had to make
a late rally and you were able to do it
against a team like Nichols. You tried to do it
here you just couldn't because on Friday again you spotted
them seven nothing. You battled back into this game. You
made it eight to four, but you had to do
all of that in the last few innings. You had
to do it again on Saturday. In that Game two game,
it's four to two, Auburn had a two to one lead.
You actually narrowed it four to two in the eighth inning.
Couldn't get anything going. You did it yesterday. It's a
three to one ball game. In the eighth inning you
narrowed it three to two. You had the RBI by Milam,
you had the single by Jake Brown, which scored a run.
You just didn't do enough. You cannot consistently get behind.
Even in Game two, when you took an early two
nothing or one nothing lead, Auburn immediately came back, made
it two to one. You could never recover from it
until the very end. And by that point Auburn's hot
and you're cold, like you cannot do that against Good's
a good team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Auburn.
Speaker 3: They were ranked at number eleven coming into the game,
so they are a good team. But also my other
thing is, and I brought this up when we UH
Wednesday when we were recapping the Nichols game, and I
one hundred percent understand.
Speaker 5: You don't have to tell me that.
Speaker 3: Uh Jay Johnson tinkers with the lineup, with the bullpen
all of that throughout the season. But I said on Wednesday, like, okay,
it needs to like you he did it this weekend,
like you were just putting I think Josh Pearson started
and then you put Jake Brown in and then it
just so I think that you just need to have
a plan and stick to it and if it's not working,
like just stay with it, like it'll it'll work itself out.
But I don't know it was you know me, I
didn't watch Saturday or Sunday because I couldn't, and I
listened to some of it on Saturday, And.
Speaker 4: I mean, is a carbon copy every three If you
watch Friday, you watch the other two games exactly, mean
that they were the exact same game.
Speaker 5: You know, I get like two invested into it.
Speaker 3: So I was like it was like frustrating me so
bad that I couldn't watch it anymore.
Speaker 4: Guys too invested. As an understatement, Okay, we're working. Sometimes
we have to do two games at the same time
at LSU, right, and like.
Speaker 5: You like blow up the group.
Speaker 4: I think, Yeah, I think two rooms within one, so
it's one room at LSU. It's two different boards and
it's glass, so it's like you can't really hear each other,
but you can see each other. It's just a glass dope.
Like I'm doing I think this this game, I'm actually
doing baseball. No, I was doing basketball. It was doing
basketball season. I was doing basketball. You were doing baseball,
and we had the baseball game on the studio because
basketball is on the rid. Laundra walks in the studio
three times. It's like, what's happening here. She's like Kate
air Bit, he's eightting three balls passive and then he
hits the home runch.
Speaker 6: He comes back in.
Speaker 4: She's like, good job for Kate, but like still he's
eting three balls behind it. Like, guys, it is just
a WorldWind of emotions. But to your point about like
leaving too many runners on base, you kind of did
this last weekend against Oklahoma, and you got away from
it because you pitched well. I mean people are gonna
be like, oh, well, Kate Anderson had the that was
a two nothing ball game. Yeah, because you'll left so
many guys on base. The Saturday game, which was Game three,
it was three to two. I mean you you've done
this five of the last six games that you've played,
six of the last seven if you include the midweek, Like,
this is becoming a trend.
Speaker 6: And I don't know how you feel about this.
Speaker 4: I know you might agree because you've always been a
big Michael Braswell fan. But keep Michael Braswell at third base, okay,
because everybody's gonna say, oh, well, Tanner Reeves is hitting.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, no, you take this weekend out of it.
You want to give this weekend?
Speaker 4: Yeah, in sec play, Michael Braswell is betting three oh four.
Tanner Reeves is betting three to oh eight, and that
was coming into this weekend.
Speaker 6: Reeves didn't have a good weekend.
Speaker 4: They're essentially the same offensively, and Braswell is such a
better glove out there at third base. Leave him at
third base, get a little bit of consistency.
Speaker 6: In your lineup.
Speaker 4: Is yes, Yeah, they're essentially batting the exact same three
oh four to three h eight. Do I give a
crap about that difference? Nope, not really. And Reeves has
actually dropped a little bit further outter this weekend. Well,
Lee Braswell in the lineup, I get the like.
Speaker 3: Okay on FT's kind of my point when I was
saying that, like you you're there's a little too much
movement for me in the lineup and in the field.
Like Michael Braswell has a great glove. I've always been
a Michael Braswell supporter. I remember last year I was like,
make him your lead off hitter. He finally did and
he thrived in that position. I mean, you don't do
it now because Derek Curiell is Derek Curriell. But like
it just yes, I agree, leave, let's let's give Michael
Braswell his little chance to shine.
Speaker 4: But Braswell deserves a chance to sean. I mean, he's
he's been a pro since he's been here because like
a lot of guys like he came in from South Carolina,
he was the guy he comes in. Last year he
does some nice things, but he took a lot of criticism.
I mean, some of it warranted, some of it not.
This year, he's kind of battling for his spot with
a first year LSU player. But like he hasn't complained
about it. You haven't heard anything bad about Michael Braswell, Like,
let's give Braswell his flowers a little bit. And you know,
me and Moose were talking about it on Friday. Uh,
we were looking at the lineup and watching the Masters
because Matt's on remote, so we're just sitting here in
the studio and he's like, look at this lineup and
they had Josh Pearson in the five spot, and Moose
is like, I get why he's doing it. You don't
want three rd's in a row, but like, in reality,
how many times are all three of those guys going
to bat back to back in the same many Like
it's the middle of your order, Yeah, you can have
so it's just And.
Speaker 3: Then Saturday, man, what was it maybe the seventh or
the eighth inning, and Ethan Frye was up, but then
they changed the picture and Jay put Jake Brown, Yeah,
put him insteadthan Fry and.
Speaker 6: Brown Brown did okay, like he was he was good
this weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but whenever you switched Ethan fry with Jake Brown.
Not to say, we don't know what Ethan fry would
have did in that position, but you had the bases loaded.
Speaker 6: The fry has been such a good hitter, and.
Speaker 3: You had the bases loaded and Jake Brown popped out,
and I was like, why did we do that?
Speaker 8: Like what?
Speaker 6: But again, it was all weekend.
Speaker 4: So yesterday I'm driving home, I'm listening to the game
on the radio. It's a fifth inning. There is one out,
bases loaded, you're down two runs. You got no runs
in that inning, bases loaded, one out, LSU came away
with nothing. That was a fifth inning in yesterday's game.
It was just like that all weekend long. And again
it was kind of like that against Oklahoma and do
it at three games. Landra mentioned had started on Tuesday
against Nichols. Like this is actually a little bit of.
Speaker 6: A recurring problem.
Speaker 4: I'm not sitting here like neither of us are about
like doomsday situations. This team is still good, but like,
this is something you gotta figure out, because again, you
can get away with it against Nichols, you can't necessarily
get away with it.
Speaker 6: I get to a team like Auburn and.
Speaker 3: Don't look now because they've only played South Okay, I'll
give them credit for the Tennessee thing, right Okay, and
they played South Carolina this weekend was Texas.
Speaker 5: A and M get a little warm out there.
Speaker 6: I mean they're a talented team. Like, yeah, they were
never gonna.
Speaker 5: Be started off so bad.
Speaker 4: They were overrated coming into the your Shock or Texas.
A and M was overrated in any sport. They started awful.
They were never as good as they were projected to be.
They're not as bad as they started out. They're gonna
be somewhere in the middle. Maybe, But I mean, how
hot can you get? Because we talked about it last year,
like as good as LSU finished, they were bad at
the beginning of the year. The didn't even get the
host and like that that call start no, and that's
what I'm saying. A and M's even worse. So like
they got to get on a major role to make
something happen. All right, Look, we went along in that segment.
Good discussion there. We're gonna take a time out and
we get back a quick little master's recap is a
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Speaker 4: In final segment our number one Monday edition of Off
the Bench, Taylor Shopier where you I mean? And Landra
went long complaining about LSU baseball. In the last segment, Ora,
I don't know if you know this. You were talking
about like managers changing the line up. Do you know
that's actually like what managers do.
Speaker 5: Oh, I had no idea, thank you for but like.
Speaker 6: My I was just let you know, that's what the
that's what they do.
Speaker 3: I fully understand that that's what they do. But my
point with it is that I feel like sometimes he
overthinks it. Like it's like a paralysis by analysis kind
of thing where you're like overthinking it and you know
you got like all the analytics and stuff like that,
right and just let it happen.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I get it.
Speaker 6: I don't think you do get it. Okay, you're not
getting it, like we can, we can talk about it.
Durn't break You're not You're not getting it.
Speaker 5: Maybe explain it a little further in.
Speaker 4: Depth, Guys, obviously I'm kidding. Look, you can't please everyone.
There's some comments in the chat. We're just having a
little fun. Okay, Look, we only got like a minute
left in this segment. I was going to talk about
the Masters. We can actually push that at the eight
forty five. Do it in a weekend winners. We'll get it somewhere.
Just cover a little recap. In hour number one, we
did mention the uh Kyraen Lacy news, the unfortunate news
of his passing over the weekend. If you want to
hear that, go back to that. We actually opened the
show with that. This morning, we talk Derek Carr's shoulder
and drew how he could potentially miss the entire twenty
twenty five season. LSU baseball out of three game series
against Auburn. Unfortunately, they went oh for three. As far
as hour number two goes. At eight o'clock segment, we're
gonna go LSU football. They had their spring scrimmage on Saturday,
the one that was open to the public. We'll give
you recap of kind of how that went. My overall
thoughts on maybe the strengths and weaknesses of this team.
Since we are just about to wrap up Spring practice.
At eight fifteen, we have Mike Scarborough from Tiger Bay
dot com on he'll give us his thoughts on LSU
Spring maybe what they can do in that spring portal window.
And then of course in the nine o'clock hour we'll
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