Speaker 1: Good morning at seven am here on Friday, June twentieth.
Speaker 2: Today in ben.
Speaker 1: Rouge, you can have a high of ninety one and surprise, surprise,
some rainy skies here in the capital city. On today's show,
we'll give our final thoughts of LSU versus Coastal Carolina
in the College World Series National Championship Final. We'll have
former LSU outfielder Mikey Matouk.
Speaker 2: At eight thirty.
Speaker 1: At seven thirty, and then at eight thirty, former LSU
pitcher Anthony Renato will also squeeze in some football talk
here on this Friday. You can follow us on Twitter
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channel at number one of Off the Bench Live from
the Mercedes Benz of Ben Rouge Studios starts now.
Speaker 3: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn. Let's let's from a championship backfield to
your morning drive.
Speaker 4: Ham's to Hester and Hester got it far?
Speaker 5: Your Luck's in.
Speaker 3: To Off the Bench to troll for the Live from
the Mercedes Benz baton Rouge Studio. Here's Jacob Hess and
Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Yo, what is up?
Speaker 6: Welcome back in OTV here on this Friday morning weekend.
Vibes already all over this place. How could they not
be with LSU baseball doing what they did, getting.
Speaker 7: Ready to play for a national championship.
Speaker 6: I just realized I forgot my headphones, earbuds. Yeah, they're
in the office, Flynn tell the people some great stuff
for about ninety seconds.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, poor joys.
Speaker 2: That was rude. What's up walking off on the set?
I know he did walk off.
Speaker 5: It's got a rude not a Foxhill move, not a.
Speaker 2: Fox All move at all.
Speaker 8: So we were thinking about talking here in studio Taylor Jeorde.
We're like, you know, what are we gonna do today?
What we're gonna talk about? Clearly like baseball's the move?
Speaker 2: Right? Is there a game happening this weekend? There is
a game l s U versus the Canta Clears.
Speaker 4: What really?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I didn't even know that there's gonna be at least
two hopefully it is.
Speaker 8: But then we were like, we were thinking to ourselves,
we did talk three hours yesterday.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, who.
Speaker 8: Jake's walking in here with a birthday?
Speaker 6: Here you go, sir, happy fortieth birthday.
Speaker 2: Thank you check this out.
Speaker 4: Lordy, Lordy, look who's also forty?
Speaker 2: We go we made it by birthday? Okay, what do
we got? We got a what do we got there?
What kind of car? We got this birthday cake?
Speaker 8: So of course uh known uh card supporters over hear
me and Jake. He gave my least favorite people in
the world a rookie based card of THEO Johnson.
Speaker 6: It was a part of that incredible break the other day.
Speaker 2: Who is this I can't even see his name's got icy?
Speaker 7: Oh you got a Brendan Rice.
Speaker 2: I got a Brendan Rice, Ben Snott and our guy
everybody's favorite here in Louisiana, Derek Carr oh Man.
Speaker 8: Yeah, these guys haunt my nightmares, my sports.
Speaker 6: If you're going to turn forty, like you have to,
you know, be in misery a little bit with others.
Speaker 7: So that is your.
Speaker 6: Certainly your trio of rookies that you always try to
make sure that you pull.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 8: I appreciate the cake. Yeah, well we'll cut it here
on it or sometimes I.
Speaker 6: Brought plates, plates, I got a knife, I've got.
Speaker 2: Forks two percent milk.
Speaker 7: Uh oh oh, I dropped the ball.
Speaker 2: There you could drink whole milk if you wanted.
Speaker 6: I did drop the ball there, I'll get some door
dash milk.
Speaker 8: Well, I can't believe I made it, happy bird, I'm
officially on the wrong side of forty.
Speaker 2: Now you are.
Speaker 7: How's it feel.
Speaker 8: I defied all the odds and I survived. I've made
it officially a man, officially a man.
Speaker 7: Oh that's true.
Speaker 6: He's in his mic gun to congratulations.
Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, good company, well done, Thank you guys.
Speaker 6: You look you've already celebrated your fortieth yea, you know
on an island.
Speaker 2: That's right. So now I'm coming to work.
Speaker 7: And now just like when I was turning forty.
Speaker 2: You know, workday. But I did dress up. You did,
got the button up you did, was looking good, was.
Speaker 8: Looking good, dressed up for my birthday, got my socks
on my lu These are the ones that uh that
my son hucked made me for Father's Day.
Speaker 2: And I told you the other day a uh cool
sock company.
Speaker 8: I don't even know who it is, but the kids
can draw something on a piece of paper. Well, I
sent it into the company and they printed their drawings
on these socks.
Speaker 2: So they got to draw me some socks. How about that? Uh?
Pretty cool? Who did the best job? I'm just kidding.
Don't pick a child who's your favorite. Don't do that.
Speaker 6: I really do think I forgot my headphone, so that
was a bit like it was a bit to get
your cake. And then I realized I grabbed the wrong
piece of my headphones from my house. So that's just
probably karma for throwing those four cards on your birthday.
I'm leaving the house this morning. I was going to
do it, like I was. That was my plan, was
to put those three human beings on the cake. Because
we talk about it all the time. You're chasing Jaden,
you get a ben sentence, not however you say it,
you get him.
Speaker 8: Okay, you get excited too, because like you see rookie
card and then.
Speaker 2: You see the commander helmet, and then you get the
commander helmet, like, oh it's Jaden.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Johnson, you're chasing Molik neighbors, all right, Brendan Rice,
you're chasing lab McConkey. But I'll be damned if we
don't have a hundred of these fellas.
Speaker 1: Three of the other ones exactly the car one might be.
Speaker 7: He was only there like two years.
Speaker 2: Oh, you'd be surprised. Derek Carr. One's not rare, not
very rare, not for me at least. Uh.
Speaker 8: That kind of brings up. Do they have any more
car reviews recently?
Speaker 1: Oh so, not car reviews, but Homegrown Network's popping off,
popping off.
Speaker 6: We did we play the one where they were on
the golf course? Was that where you yeah, okay, I
didn't know if it was a week you were out?
It was pretty electric electric factory. I mean, those guys
are so dynamic behind a camera in front of a microphone.
Speaker 7: How could you not love the Car brothers.
Speaker 5: This this is just putting a bad taste in my mouth,
Like I just feel queasy at this point when we were
just too much Derek Carr first thing in the morning,
what do.
Speaker 2: We were you a supporter? Oh? Who Derek Carr? Were?
I said, were you what? You know? They made the signing.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you this, Jordan, I had three other people
in this room that were fired up and telling me
I was not very smart for hating the Derek Carr signing.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, so how did you feel?
Speaker 6: Let's be honest, Okay, because we can go back in
the archives on social media, see what no is this room?
Speaker 5: Is this room right handed God, right hand on right now?
After watching Andy Dalton throw two pick sixes back to
back in the Cardinals game, I was ready for a change.
I was happy at first when we got car because,
like I said, we was going through turmoil with Jamis
and this Jamis turmoil and Andy Dalton coming in and
just just too much, too much blogoney going on. So yes,
I was any change was good change for any Any
change I this point, like, just bring anybody with a
change is exciting. Yes, you know, bring anybody with a pulse.
The wheels came off.
Speaker 2: That random change.
Speaker 5: I mean, look it's Mickey. You're relying on Mickey Loomis.
Like I said, this is like a used car salesman.
Like he's just doing what he's supposed to do. He's
gonna sit there and just you know, blow smoke up here,
you know what, and just oh yeah, you know, and
smack his gum. You guys, remember the Dennis Island rant.
Speaker 7: Remember that he compared him to Chuck.
Speaker 8: What are you trying to say, You say he's gonna
take a piss on you and tell you it's right.
Speaker 5: Oh for sure. No, No, he would actually he would
do that and just tell you.
Speaker 6: All right, all right, all right, let's don't start a
Friday talking about Derek Carr and Mickey Luke on the cake.
I know it was the icing on the cake again,
no pun intended. I saw, and I go, this has
to be on the cake when I'm leaving this morning.
It was really a tough decision. I'm like going through
the cars like people that I can put. I almost
put the kicker for the Vikings because you're chasing JJ's
you get the kicker for the vikings.
Speaker 7: So THEO had to be on there. Ben had to
be on there.
Speaker 6: I threw Brendan in there because I get a lot
of Brendan rice. We talk about it a lot, and
then Derek Carr.
Speaker 8: Of course we did good. I just want you to
know too. When you left, we crushed it for about
thirty five seconds. Oh yeah, electric electric.
Speaker 6: I felt very unathletic trying to walk and also keep
the flame of the candle.
Speaker 2: Or you did good, it's just big mets.
Speaker 1: I mean you looked like like head waiter bringing out
the cake at a crowded restaurant.
Speaker 2: It was impressing.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Oh my gosh, how did I forget? Shout
out to Matt Flynn now Moscona Flynn yesterday. Okay, we
talked with Jay Johnson. Oh right, talk to j Johnson.
Great conversation. We kept him like twenty something minutes. But
at the end of it he told us that the
team was going to Flemings, but he couldn't go to
Flemings because he was grinding Tank.
Speaker 2: He's grinding. That's what he was gonna do.
Speaker 7: Is I hope bar Jones brings us back, you know,
a dog back.
Speaker 2: A little dogy bag. That wouldn't happen.
Speaker 7: That wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 6: Certainly, Like if you're going to choose somebody to bring
you back into go box, it's not gonna be somebody
nicknamed Bearings.
Speaker 2: It was like Gian my smaller.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Curio gives a lot of I need gluten free California.
Speaker 6: Hate joke, Jordan, but I'm there for But we're like,
there's no chance, there's no chance. And so you know,
we came up with the idea. Certainly, Flynn was leading
the charge. Flynn's the one who sent it. I got
the information that we needed, I got the intel that
we needed, and Flynn put together a hell of a
menu from Flemings and send it over to coach Jay Johnson.
Speaker 8: We sent him over a Schmorgas board. Hopefully he uh,
hopefully he got it and ate it. But we sent
him a good just a Flemmings just buffet over there.
Anything you want, bud bulk up? Can you Like the
man was grinding the night they won tape, getting ready
and all day they because he said yesterday, if the
team advances, that's their that's their victory.
Speaker 2: They get a steak. That man deserves a steak too. Yeah.
He doesn't need to beat in taco bell or anything.
Speaker 6: No, he does not need to be eating fast food.
He deserved a steak, and so coach, I hope you
enjoyed it. I hope you saw all the things that
you needed to see on the Coastal Carolina tape because
there's a lot of good there, a lot of good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh yeah.
Speaker 5: See Jay Johnson is a good man, because I would
have had some type of assistant coach, go ahead, grab me,
it's a go plate, go ahead, go to the team,
bring me something back.
Speaker 6: Feels like the coaches were probably in the same area
he was watching.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they probably were not allowed to leave.
Speaker 5: I would somebody gonna get me some I need a steak, bro,
we just want to Oh yeah, celebrate whoaoa Daniel?
Speaker 6: Okay, I know that y'all remember from yesterday. You are
the loyal listeners. You know, every every single day, maybe
there's somebody new listening. Somebody could be tuning in for
the first time. So I had to set the scene
for what Jay talked about yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, guys, so.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe a little C E O T B. I
get it, but there could be new listeners. Jordan wasn't
here yesterday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 6: I don't think that Jordan went on demand and listened
to Jay Johnson interview. I'm just gonna go out them
there and say that Jordan did.
Speaker 7: Not do that.
Speaker 5: He yesterday was a long day take as you.
Speaker 7: Somebody in this room didn't hear us talk with Jay.
So I just thought, you know, i'd set the scene again.
Speaker 8: Of the millions of listeners to TV every single day,
there's got to be a few new ones out there.
Speaker 6: Pierce said, Jay Steak probably got Cole what he was
on the phone recruiting.
Speaker 2: That's probably true. Probably that's probably true.
Speaker 6: You know what, I'm odd though, Uh you know, I
get my steak rare, so I don't have to have
like a piping hot steak by any means.
Speaker 2: So when you order steaks to go are tricky.
Speaker 7: Tricky because they're gonna cook and thing.
Speaker 8: Hey, you cook them, then you put him in either
some pate like like one of those nice cardboard videos,
or like a plastic one. God forbid the you know,
styrofoam one when coming from a nice place like that.
But it's gonna cook. It's gonna cook for good ten
fifteen minutes afterwards. So you gotta like cook a little underdone.
But then you're like, are these guys such pros at
this restaurant that they already account for that?
Speaker 6: So a lot went into the medium rare decision.
Speaker 2: Those Flynn landed.
Speaker 6: Me rare, hoping they would Yeah. Look, I hope Jay
Johnson enjoyed it. I hope he saw all the things
he needed to see on the Coastal Carolina film. I
hope that the boys are ready to go. In fact,
I know they're gonna be ready to go, like as
much as they can be. That's just who Jay and
the coaching staff, that's who they've been this year and
every year that they've been here.
Speaker 7: It's gonna be a great series. We're gonna break it
down multiple times.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 6: We've got Mikey Matuk in about fifteen minutes to break
it down. We got Anthony Ronado at eight thirty to
break it down. And then and then I'm gonna let
Flynn talk a little football because I know that I
know his baseball takes. I know he's the number one
stitchhead in Baton Rouge. But but we're gonna make him
branch out a little bit and talk a little football.
Speaker 2: I'm the newest.
Speaker 8: Like it's like puppy love with baseball right now, it's
that new love. I'm excited. I don't know what's next.
I don't know it's coming. Like it's incredible. It's a
great feeling. I'm excited.
Speaker 6: All Right, we'll take our first break up the show.
I'll find some headphones. We'll get this thing started when
we come back. All right, here on OTB.
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Speaker 3: Who from players to legends. Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU
football like only champions.
Speaker 2: Can feeling this all right? A dog a hunt.
Speaker 6: So we're sitting up here talking about Flint's birthday.
Speaker 2: Being today, and.
Speaker 6: Taylor said, his wife says, Monday.
Speaker 2: Twenty third, shout out.
Speaker 6: Shout out to my pops. His is today, Shout out
to my mom. Hers is tomorrow. Shout out to my daughter,
hers is on the twenty second.
Speaker 7: So Friday, Saturday, Sunday. A lot of birthdays, a lot
of birthdays, a lot of birthdays.
Speaker 8: You said that twenty seconds anniversary, right, wedding anniversary?
Speaker 2: Yeah, shout out what that be twelve?
Speaker 6: Mine's going to be eighteen this year, She's eighteen years
so anniversary.
Speaker 2: We started talking.
Speaker 6: Your wedding invitation was incredible, as like a treasure map,
one of the coolest ones I've seen. But also you
were a part of my wedding.
Speaker 2: YEP.
Speaker 6: One of my favorite Flynn's stories is we're sitting there,
all right, and this is in Shrefport.
Speaker 7: So a lot of people have driven up from Baton
Rouge to Shreveport and we're sitting there at the rehearsal.
Speaker 2: This is off season two, right July.
Speaker 7: So right before we have the camp July twenty.
Speaker 2: Eighth, right before the seven seasons. Yes, yeah, yep.
Speaker 6: So we're sitting there, we're doing the rehearsal, and you know,
I mean, so we're in we're pocumitted, like the gifts
have already been given for groomsmen and everything.
Speaker 2: Tux has been rented.
Speaker 6: And we're sitting there and we're at the church and
Flynn is sitting next to me and he leans over
he goes, hey.
Speaker 7: Am I ushure? Are a groomsman in this thing?
Speaker 6: It's like you're a groomsman, idiot, You've rented the tucks,
you got a groomsman gift?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 7: It was on brand for you though, Yeah, I'll tell
you that, hey brand.
Speaker 2: What am I doing here?
Speaker 9: So?
Speaker 2: Hey about uh yeah, my walking people down this all?
Or what you did?
Speaker 6: Did great? I'm sure he nailed it. What a great wedding.
Probably so had a great time. It was a good
time up in the Port City.
Speaker 8: I remember I remember doing a little partying in the
Port City after like after a rehearsal dinner or something.
It was it was one of the nights, because we
were there for a couple of nights, right and uh,
you know, seeing the town, having a couple of pops,
and I remember being at this one bar with your boys.
I can't remember if you were there at that point
of the night or that I met the guy who apparently,
this is according to him, had created the old video
game Doom, like the created.
Speaker 2: The whole thing out.
Speaker 7: I don't remember that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and so apparently I think he might be some
from Shreetport or maybe it was just in town, just
you know, taking in the site. Pretty big video game.
I was like, yeah, it's pretty big deal.
Speaker 7: Was the first one.
Speaker 2: I was like, whoa dude, you're like super fam us.
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, not really Trueport stays open pretty late, so
you know what time?
Speaker 2: Does the report stay up? Six?
Speaker 7: Everything downtown stays open till.
Speaker 2: Six, So six, Yeah, that's too much.
Speaker 7: Did you probably stay out?
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's celebrating gosh.
Speaker 6: I do remember a couple of our teammates that were there.
We're in an altercation in tiger Land and Baton Rouge
before they drove.
Speaker 2: Up to Street Force.
Speaker 5: Are you physical if it's a tiger Land it's got physical.
Speaker 2: Physical, physical.
Speaker 6: And they had a situation where, uh, you know, some
some frat guys tried to outnumber them and so they
had some scrapes and some bruises.
Speaker 7: Now they got the best of them, but.
Speaker 2: It never really worked out though. They showed up from
the other side. No it didn't, but.
Speaker 7: They showed up and it was funny. It was like, oh, yeah,
you definitely got in a bar fight.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Oh, so here we go in the in the
chat here. Yes, I D Software was founded in Shreveport.
They made Doom and Quit.
Speaker 6: Let's go Port City. All right, you met somebody that
maybe he's not famous, but he's pretty important, probably the
most important.
Speaker 2: So it's real. He didn't lie to me. Yeah.
Speaker 7: The first first person shooter game it was on PC.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it was. I'm a friend. I think it is.
I mean it's got to be, you know.
Speaker 8: It was the first big one like that came out.
Speaker 2: And like, I know that game, and I mean that
that's probably as old as me.
Speaker 7: It's it's definitely older than you. Yeah, I know, around
the age when you have been you have been born.
Speaker 2: They made the movie about it.
Speaker 8: I think Dwayne the Rock John course, of course, this
was early rock acts.
Speaker 1: They needed they needed a male cast and something, so
they went with Dwayne Johnson, h L s.
Speaker 2: U and Omahast.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you know that, getting ready to
take on Coastal Carolina tomorrow, and there is a lot
of purple and gold that is heading to Omaha. Eventually,
some point in the show, we're gonna have a live
check in with Alandra.
Speaker 7: She is on the road to Omaha. They make it,
I have no idea.
Speaker 6: I have zero idea, but she's on the road to Omaha,
so we'll see. We'll see where they're at if they
made it.
Speaker 8: We got a few updates on their playlist, their road
trip playlist.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good for a little bit.
Speaker 6: Road trip playlist can make fast extremely important, or I
can make it drag on.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I've kind of stopped in my elder age now
spending the time in the stress of having to be
a DJ or make a playlist. I just let technology
do it, you know. I usually just go on there,
whether it's whatever you prefer, Spotify, Apple Music and just
type in whatever you're doing playing golf on a Wednesday afternoon,
there's playlist for that.
Speaker 2: Just pop right up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, now on Spotify they have like your own
personal DJ. The personal DJ, it just takes whatever you
listen to and.
Speaker 8: Just DJ kind of ends up just playing the repeating
the songs you've been listening.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and also I don't know Spotify, I do Apple Music.
But I will say, if you have children, your algorithm
is not going to be what you want it to
be because there's gonna be a lot of Baby Shark
that is mixed in there that it's gonna think this
guy loves baby Shark and so it's gonna put baby
Shark in seven different versions of Baby Shark into your playlist.
Speaker 2: That's the problem.
Speaker 1: You have seven different versions without looking normally, I'm having
to scroll to find I'm like, I'm a big Baby
Shark fan over.
Speaker 7: Here, so I can definitely actually see.
Speaker 1: Except I switch it like I stole it from I
stole it from Ted Last, but.
Speaker 2: I do Taylor Sharp. Okay, all right, build it's a
confidence builder for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just get it gets the bluffaloing the.
Speaker 2: A lot of dude to doing around here at this show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you see, you joke and have fun with that. Eventually,
whenever you have children, we'll come back and we'll revisit
that question with the baby Shark. Don't go crazy by day.
Speaker 1: Life like they have like a baby Shark dumb step
be all over that.
Speaker 2: I think there's no doubt they do.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: Find one. Look, I gotta I gotta drive. I'm only
driving like two hours today. But we'll find one on the.
Speaker 6: Plane without Like one year, we found trap Christmas music.
Speaker 2: They got everything else. What's your name, Big Fredo or whatever?
Speaker 1: Big Frida got a whole New Orleans trap Christmas playlist.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 8: So I did see a clip recently that I don't
know if it was an American city or where it was,
but it was a place in town where there was
some people sleeping outside on the street near a business
US and there was a lot and they were afraid
it was going to hurt their own business. So they
set up a speaker that blasted outside and they played
Baby Shark loud on loop and it cleared everybody.
Speaker 2: Out no more. It's very smart and at night, boom
Baby Shark.
Speaker 7: It will make you thoughts that you certainly.
Speaker 5: A torture method of torture method.
Speaker 6: All right, when we come back, I swear we will
get this thing started.
Speaker 7: We will not see a squirrel.
Speaker 6: We will catch up with an LSU baseball legend, Mikey
Matuk will join us here on the show.
Speaker 7: Excited for that conversation.
Speaker 6: Certainly, I want to get his thoughts on how everything
played out the other night, what it looks like facing
coastal Carolina, And we'll have all that for you when
we jump back here on O TV.
Speaker 9: Off the bench.
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joins us. Mikey, what's up, brother?
Speaker 2: How we doing?
Speaker 4: What's happening?
Speaker 9: Guys?
Speaker 4: How we doing this morning?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 7: Fantastic Flint's forty today.
Speaker 4: Hey, Poppy, birthday today.
Speaker 9: Thirty.
Speaker 4: Man, you look great, you look great.
Speaker 7: We make that's a good friend that tells you something
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Speaker 4: First says my eye. It's all that my eye keeping
you hydrated.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right, thank you.
Speaker 6: Oh man, Mikey. How about the other night? Uh, baseball
and you say it. Everybody around the game has always
said it. Twenty seven ounce you gotta get there. It
doesn't matter what it looks like before the twenty seventh out,
you have to get all twenty seven. What a wild
game that was in Omaha against a really good baseball
team that you now finished four and one on the
year against.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it was an insane game.
Speaker 9: And you know, I have to admit for uh, you know,
after all that stuff had happened and we go down
two runs, it kind of felt like, all right, just
get ready for Thursday. And then curry O gets on,
You're like, well wait a minute. And then once they
walked Fry, I was like, man, I think they got
a shot. And then a shortstop kind of had a
brain fart there and decided to go get the lead runner.
And uh, and after he did that.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna we're gonna win the game.
Speaker 9: I didn't think it was gonna be as chaotic as
going off the clavical and kicking off to the foul
line and and doing those types of things. But uh,
credit the boys for for staying in it and staying
locked in and coming up with the big hits.
Speaker 4: And you know, look, that play.
Speaker 9: In left field is a tough play as a left fielder.
Top spin, line drive, really hard hit, should be should play,
should be made, no excuse there hard play though, and
obviously doesn't get made. And look, uh, and I hate
to say this, and I don't want to kick a
kick a man wise down, but Arkansas just they just
can't figure it out. In Omaha, man, they just uh
they've had some opportunities and they just hadn't figured it out.
Speaker 4: And now let's choose the opposite.
Speaker 9: You know, they got the magic behind it, and uh,
you know, sometimes that's all it.
Speaker 4: Takes to win a national championship.
Speaker 6: There's so many ways You're right that the left fielder
like it's it's not as easy as it look. But
there's so many ways he could have played. You know,
the fly ball or line drive to him and shortstops
one thing and that's just like there's there's no reason
to do that. But one of the best shortstops in
the country does it. But for the left fielder, like,
if you're playing left field, would you have just allowed
that to hit in front of you, let one run
to score still keep the tying run, you know, on
third base or maybe even second So, uh no, I.
Speaker 4: Don't think so.
Speaker 9: I think that's a that's a play that you want
to you catch, right, That's a catch up ball. It's
not like he had to go a far ways to
get it. I think you just misjudged it off the
bat and he took a drop step and then he
he didn't he couldn't gather his feet and he kind
of slipped and very unfortunate for him for that to
happen in that situation. But you know, for me, that's
one that you just got to make the play on
because you don't want to you don't want to let
it drop because then you let it drop and it
looks really bad and it's like, well, how come you
didn't catch that. You're not really going after it, And
I mean it was hit far enough to where he
should have caught it. I think he just got crossed
up and you.
Speaker 4: Know, honestly, man the shortstop. And here's what I think.
And I have experience because I've had a.
Speaker 9: Brain fart when I was when I was playing at LSU.
Speaker 4: I think he forgot Fry got got walked.
Speaker 9: I think he thinks that there is only a guy
on second base and he was actually making the correct play.
To be honest with you, like he'll never admit that,
and that could be completely wrong, but I really do
think that he forgot there's a guy on first base
and he thought he was making the right play.
Speaker 2: Mike.
Speaker 8: He so like baseball is so like there's so much
pressure that builds up, and you know it's Jake and
I of course played football, and there's a lot of
pressure on it, but it's so fast paced you don't
have a lot of time to like sit there and
like basking that pressure and like think about it, right
and have a million things going through your head. But
in a situation like that where Arkansas, do you know
that they're trying to like get over a hump, and
between every pitch, between every inning, between every at bat,
they it feels like the pressure just builds up and
then just like you said, it's easy to have a
brain fart, and it's easy for like people to watch
it and be like, oh, he should never do that,
blah blah blah. But as a player, like things like
that do happen. Just like you said, maybe maybe he did,
maybe he didn't. Like forget that that friady got loft.
But in your experience, when pressure is building, like that building,
building building, what is something that that the that you
leaned on it was that teammates was at coaches and
LSU always seems to thrive in that situation. Because tell
me about like those situations and what kind of sits
LSU apart.
Speaker 9: No, that's a great question because that's the uh, you know,
that's kind of the the make or break deal, right, Like,
that's kind of what turns a guy into an elite
all starts player in the big leagues or a guy
who's just gonna be you know, solid and and and
and you know, do his things, but not really rise up.
And so for me, you know, I really wanted to
control my breathing. And I know that kind of sounds cliche,
but that really is was for me the best way.
I'm very hot, I'm a very high strong, person. If
you ever watched me play, I was very emotional, and
you know, I was very I was a very high, strong,
energetic player. And so in those situations where the pressure
kind of built, I needed to kind of bring myself
back down and then I needed to kind of almost
look at it from like the stands right, like, all right,
what's the situation here? All right, there's a guy on
second base. I'm in. If I'm playing left field, there's
a guy on second base. If the balls hit to
me to my left, to my right, or if this
play happens, you try to kind of envision what's gonna happen,
and you kind of figure out how you're gonna play
that so that when that happens.
Speaker 4: You're ready.
Speaker 9: And so for me, it's you know, the instinctual part
of it is is very important. But then once your
heart rate gets extremely high and uh, and you know
you don't slow your breathing down, that instinctual part goes away,
you know, and you kind of panic and you figure.
Speaker 4: It out and you can't. It's hard to figure out.
Speaker 9: So for me, it was slow my breathing down, and
it was you know, trying to.
Speaker 4: I guess foresee what's gonna happen?
Speaker 6: And now LSU gets set Mikey to take go on
Coastal Carolina, a team that has not lost a baseball
game since late April. I don't care who you're playing,
and like, I think the Sun Belt's a good baseball conference,
but I don't care who you're playing. You do that,
that's impressive. They are a program that is labeled a
mid major, but they do not have a mid major field.
They've won a national championship. We kind of compared them
to Gonzaga in basketball, to Boise and State in football,
Like that's who they are. Like they are a standard
of you know what you would call mid majors. They're
not gonna be intimidated, right, they had to go through
LSU and two twenty sixteen, they've won that national championship.
Jay Johnson's lost a series to them in Omaha, So
like they're gonna have the confidence that they can come
and take down LSU. What about from the other side
of it, though, Like what do you want to see
mentally from LSU getting ready for Coast But who again,
is gonna be tabbed the Cinderella the mid major even
though that's really not factual, Yell.
Speaker 4: Coast is a wagon.
Speaker 9: Now we talked about this little bit, I think it
was last week, was you know, they're they're really they're
a really good team, you know, and they they throw,
they they pitch.
Speaker 4: It really well.
Speaker 9: They have a lot of guys uh in there pitching
in their rotation on their staff that can go out
there and get you big innings, and so they're not
going to be intimidated.
Speaker 4: The're unfew in Omaha.
Speaker 9: They've won twenty six trade games. In my opinion, you
know they're due for a loss, you know, losing to
winning twenty See me, ain't gonna win every single game you.
Speaker 4: Play, and so you know they're really good.
Speaker 9: But on LSU side, you know, I think you have
to look at as look we got they got out
of in my opinion, the harder side of the bracket.
You beat Arkansas twice, who's probably you know, they're probably
the top two teams talent wise in in the World Series.
You have all of your pitching staff ready, you have
your eight, number one and number two in line to start,
and you've already proven that you can come back in
dramatic fashion. And to me, you know, I don't care
about the twenty six games, I think you have a lot,
You have just as much momentum going into.
Speaker 4: The finals as they do.
Speaker 9: And uh, you know, in my in my opinion, I
think it's gonna be a really good series and I
think it's gonna be a really a good battle. But
you know, I think with Kate Anderson and Iasen, you know,
I take lsue against anybody.
Speaker 8: Why do you tell me about the the like the
beautiful emotional roller coaster that is Jared Jones at bats
right now. It seems to me that he is so
like respected and loved and beloved by his teammates, and
you know, to see him struggle early on in the
World Series and then come up with such like the
clutch hits and the clutch moments that will put.
Speaker 2: His name in Tiger lore forever already.
Speaker 8: Right, but just tell him, tell me what he's meant
to the team and then going going forward into this
National Championship Series, what he what he needs to do.
And uh, yeah, I just I mean, he's been such
a great so I just want to hear your thoughts
on him overall.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's I mean, he's he's awesome.
Speaker 4: You know, I've gotten to know him.
Speaker 9: I've I've got to know him since he was a freshman,
and the maturity that he has shown from his freshman
year until now, and the growth that he has shown,
and like the self awareness that he has of himself
is extremely impressive and it's kind of rare for, you know,
a young guy to have all of that. But uh man,
baseball is a hard game. It'll beat you down, and
it's as mentally tough as he It's as many tough
of a game as it as any anything out there.
And the way he's overcome i mean, zero for five
with five strikeout. Listen, I've been there, and hey, fun
you know, like that is that is a that is
a look in the mirror type thing, like what the
hell am I doing? You know? And to do that
in the first game of hom haul on the national
stage and then come back and play the way he's
been playing like it talks about how that shows how
how strong he is mentally and how good of a
person is.
Speaker 4: And obviously he's the leader on the team. And when
you do.
Speaker 9: That as a guy as the leader on the team,
and you have the other guys that see you do that,
that just raises everybody else's confidence and that puts them
in a position to be able to overcome that stuff,
because whenever, if he was pouting and he was throwing
stuff and he was kind of putting himself down, you
know that that's not a good look for the other
guys who are kind of looking at him for uh,
you know, motivation or whatever that may be. So, you know,
I think on that side of it, it's huge. And
then you know for me watching what he's done the
game to game adjustments, you know, letting the ball travel,
because look, over the last month month and a half
he's been in between Velos season, and what I mean
by that is, you know, he's been late on the fastball,
early on the breaking ball, not feeling very comfortable.
Speaker 4: It's the worst place she can.
Speaker 9: Be as a hitter, and so you know, he was
starting to get a little jumpy. That's why he's fouling
pitches off and he was swinging that pitches up in
the in the zone. It's just things that happened throughout
the course of a season for hitters, and you know,
and Jay talks about it, they go off the slider
machine and trying to let the ball travel a little
bit more and you know you saw that with the
home runner right center, so you can see that he
has bought into that plan and he's accepting that plan,
and he's staying on sliders, and you know he's done.
He's done what you need to do, and he's obviously
the reason why she's in the championship. And I think
that if he continues to do that with the staff
that Coastal has, I think he's gonna.
Speaker 6: Have a lot of success catching up with our guy,
Mikey matug Here on ot B. Mike, can't want you
to walk me through a situation that you know, we've
never really been through as football players.
Speaker 7: Like if you're.
Speaker 6: Playing in the game a lot of times, like you've
already been involved in the game. You're either on special
teams and maybe you get thrown into offense or defense,
or you're a starter or your rotational piece, but you
have integrated yourself into the game and usually pretty early.
But Jake Brown coming off the bench as a pinch
hitter right in the sixth inning, all right, So like
my football mind, like I can't. It's like, you know,
coming off the bench late in the third quarter and saying, hey,
go score us a touchdown when you hadn't really done anything.
Speaker 7: What's the mindset there?
Speaker 6: And in the biggest spot to that point certainly of
the game, you take out the guy that led you
an average in the SEC to place Jake Brown into
the games.
Speaker 7: The hell of a move by Jay? What is Jake
Brown thinking in that moment?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 9: The pinch hitting situation is the hardest situation in baseball,
especially in college, when you don't have a cage to.
Speaker 4: Go and get loose in every other inning.
Speaker 9: And what Jake Brown has been able to do as
a pinchhitter and as a guy coming off the bench
in those because he's not getting pinch hit when the
game's out of hand, right, he's pinch hitting when the
game is when you need him to come up with
a big hit. And he does it time and time
and time again, and and that.
Speaker 4: Is an extremely hard to do.
Speaker 9: And for to do that, you have to be locked
in mentally the whole game. You have to understand what
situations you may come into play, and when you're there,
you've got to be ready to go out and swing
it maybe the first pitch and maybe the seventh pitch
of the bat, and it just seems like every time
he comes in he gets hit. Listen, I'm a huge
Jake brown fan. I think Jake brown Is is going
to be a superstar next year. I think he's a
fifteen home run guy next year, you know. And I
think he's a first team All SECP type talent, super athletic,
can do everything at the plate, beloved by his teammates.
Speaker 4: And to be able to go and.
Speaker 9: Do that and accept your role, you know that that
says a lot about him because he should be.
Speaker 4: Playing every day.
Speaker 9: It's just the way that it's the way the it's
the way the lineup is the way the team is structured,
and you have a lot of guys that can that
can do a lot of different things, and the team
is better when everybody's playing.
Speaker 4: And uh, he's accepted that.
Speaker 2: Man he is.
Speaker 9: That's unbelievably impressive to be able to come in, especially
in that moment and bases loaded and go opo and
get a base in and get to our eyes. It's
just he's done all year and you just kind of
expect it to happen out.
Speaker 8: That's so hard to do. I mean, coming in with
a clean uniform and a pressure.
Speaker 9: That's like you coming in the bench, off the bench,
with the two manager off, the quarterback is down, you
have to throw a thirty five yard post route over
the middle and with you know, against.
Speaker 8: Alabama the game, Yeah, in the moment, Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
backed up on fourth down?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 8: Uh all right, all right, Mikey, we're gonna put some
pressure on you here. Give me some How do you
think the series is going to play? What's your predicts? Yeah,
just tell us what you think is gonna happen this weekend.
Speaker 9: I think you're gonna it's gonna be a lot similar
to it's gonna it's gonna be very similar to the
Arkansas Series. I think it's gonna be, uh, very reliant
on pitching. I think both sides are gonna pitch, are
gonna throw the ball really well, so it's gonna be
hard to score. I think the team who's able to uh,
you know, manufacturers and I'm not saying necessarily bunt, but
the teams that are able to get on base through
walks and getting hit and working counts not necessarily like
getting base hits, I think that's the team that's gonna win.
And the team that obviously gets the the you know,
the more you know, base hits with with Rugi and
scoring position. I love Anderson, I love Astin. I love
that they got two days off and so everybody's gonna
be be ready. Look, I want to say that she's
gonna sweep because I really do think that Anderson and
Iason are two best in the country. But the Coastal's hot.
I think Lsu wins it in three. I think they
have to go to a Monday game. I think they
win it in three, and somebody is going to come
up with a clutch base. And I've been saying it
all all serious. I think Ashton Larson is gonna get
a pinchit situation. He's gonna drive a guy in. It's
gonna be in a big moment. I really do you know.
He was on deck. I think it was last game
and it just didn't work.
Speaker 4: He didn't ended up not getting me that bad.
Speaker 9: But I think he's gonna get a big pinch at
some point in this series.
Speaker 6: That's a great call and certainly somebody that I can
root for after the way he's handled this year. He
is Mikey Matuk check Out miked up Monday, Wednesday, six
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it as always, Bud.
Speaker 4: I appreciate y'all. Man, I'll enjoy you. I have a
good morning, all.
Speaker 6: Right, you as well? Man getting me fired for some
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