Speaker 1: Shoes Morning at seven am here on Monday, June twenty third.
Today in bed Ridge, you can expect a rainy skies
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today's show, we'll recap LSU Baseball's eighth College World Series
National Championship as they take it two games to none
over the coastal Carolina Shanta Clears. We'll also have the
voice of the LSU Tigers, Chris Blair.
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Speaker 1: At nine am, former LSU Tiger Todd Walker, and Devin
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Speaker 6: Back. Welcome in OTB on this Monday championship morning. LSU
gets it done. We are going to smother and cover it.
Let's freaking go. Jake, Matt, Jacob and Taytay here with you.
Speaker 5: What a weekend it was. Boys left no doubt.
Speaker 6: We'll break it all down, but LS thank you National
champions for.
Speaker 5: The eighth time, two times in the last three years.
Speaker 7: Feels pretty darn good. As a huge baseball fan, known
baseball fan, what an incredible weekend. Huh good lord? We
were locked in, Flynt family, locked in.
Speaker 2: You see the.
Speaker 7: Jersey, the new purchase, the new purchase, the whole team,
the whole team, Flynn rocking new.
Speaker 2: LSU baseball jersey.
Speaker 7: So excited? Are you kidding me? LSU fans. What a
spoiled bunch. We are wonderfully spoiled.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I love it we are, And gosh, it
was so good. It was so good to watch them
play the way they did in Omahall.
Speaker 5: They leave no doubt.
Speaker 6: They sweep Coastal Carolina and again we'll cover it. We
got as Taylor told you, Chris player Todd Walker dev
who was locked in as well. What a way it
played out. Yes, some electricity early in the game. And
again all of this is things that we will get to.
But just off the top, congratulations to Jay Johnson the
entire twenty twenty five LSU team. Jay is one of
our absolute favorites. He is a grinder. He is somebody
that leaves no stone unturned. He is going to make
sure every single thing is covered. What a run for him,
just personally as a head coach. You said it two
of the last three years, you are national champions. And
if you do that in today's college baseball with how
many programs truly care, how many programs have a desire
to be great? Right, It's no longer like the seventies
and eighties and when USC is winning championships because nobody
else really cares. This is the height of college baseball.
It's why you see all these stadiums getting bigger, It's
why you see all these games on TV and right
now and the hardest time, in my opinion, ever to
do it.
Speaker 5: You are dominating college baseball. Went into it last.
Speaker 7: Three Yeah, and the time of like just college sports
in general, and how hard it is to navigate the
nil world, the transfer world, just roster management, and the
way he's been able to do it, to come in
like this two of the last three years, we're sitting
on top and to start what everyone's talking about SEC
SEC SEC baseball, which is the greatest conference in college baseball.
To start the year out preseason one, and to finish
it out, prove all those people right, all those preseason
voters are prove them right, win the National cham It's
just a testament to what j. Johnson has done. But
the coach, he is the man, he is the leader
he is to do that, to manage that roster in
the off season, to bring in the pieces that you needed,
that you said after last year, hey, hey we're missing this.
Whether it's a whether it's a talent, whether it the mindset,
whatever it is for him to be able to all
the games that he played, all the buttons that he
pushed were right, and LSU fans, we are lucky to
have that man, the greatest coach in college baseball. And
if there's anybody out there that wants to argue that,
or deny that or think anything different, they're just dumb.
Speaker 6: And we'll get to the situation yesterday with Coastal and
their coach getting kicked out of the game, and I'll
go around the room and I'll get everybody's thoughts on that.
But one of the things that I want to make
sure that we get done, and I think I can
speak for everybody here, is don't get it twisted. LSU
didn't win a national championship because Coastal's coach got kicked
out of the game. So you see a lot of
that on social media, right well, I mean the coach didn't. Okay,
LSU wins the national championship because LSU didn't have two
eras in yesterday's game. They didn't have an error in
the first game. You know who did. Coastal LSU won
a national championship because they know how to hit with
runners in scoring position. You know who doesn't. Coastal LSU
won because their starters went deep in the game and dominated.
Speaker 5: You know who's did not.
Speaker 6: Coastal LSU used three pitchers in the championship series. That's
why they won a national championship, not because the coach
came out and argued balls and.
Speaker 5: Strikes and real quick.
Speaker 6: I don't want to see anybody get tossed that quick.
But it happened, and it does, and we'll break it down.
We'll play the video, we'll play the audio, all of that.
It didn't matter if Joe Tory was out there coach
in Coastal Carolina. They weren't going to win this series.
LSU did everything you had to do. And for you
young guys, Joe Tory Yankees had some success. LSU did
everything they had to do to go win a national championship.
They came up with every timely hit. They came up
with every pitch that you had to make. They came
up with every play that you had to make in
the field. Again, a championship series against a team that
had not won or sorry, had not lost in twenty
six straight games, and you use three pitchers the entire
time LSU dominated.
Speaker 5: The score line might not even tell the full story.
Speaker 6: Every time that something had to happen, it happened because
LSU made it happen.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the three pitchers to me is like such stunning.
It's not even stab it's just like a fact that
it like that was an incredible performance by those boys
to go out there and have such nasty stuff and
to shut down a team like you said, that had
won twenty six in a row, that had dominated their
half of the bracket leading.
Speaker 2: Up to this championship series.
Speaker 7: But what's to me what was so impressive about this
this team not only the townland and the pitching and
the defense, but the mindset, the competitiveness, the the grip
that everybody showed. Guys that had been struggling throughout this
College World Series. There's times that got struggled but showed
up when it mattered. You talk about earlier, you know,
Jerry Jones striking out five times versus Arkansas, then coming
up huge. We don't get to this point without him
coming up and we.
Speaker 2: Have headphones employed. There my bad. Last night.
Speaker 7: Dickinson singles and comes around, has a great sacrifice. But
Stanfield he gets a gets a single to the left field.
Uh braswell, who didn't hit great, but he played his
ass off at third base.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that guy.
Speaker 6: Anybody he got to hit though, there we go. I
didn't want him to go over. He did get a hit.
Speaker 5: Hell a sacrifice bunt too, he did.
Speaker 6: He did what he had to do in certain moments,
and I'm just so glad he got a hit. So
he'll have that forever. He got a hit in the
College World Series, but I got the defense in general.
Speaker 7: God lsu Olempics, left side of the infield, good luck
kitting it there. It was incredible. Yeah, those guys. And
then then of course you got been dominant all year.
Ethan Fry struggled this whole College World Series. Came up
huge yesterday he did. He ripped one. I mean, impossible
to judge that thing. One hundred and fourteen off the bat.
Speaker 6: I know that was one hundred and fourteen off the bat.
In the home run Coastal it was ninety three off
the bat, was it really?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Just the I mean, credit to you. He got it
up in that win, a little back spin on it.
It just kept going and going and going. It's funny
like Curry, I thought he had like a beat on
the whole time. He's like, I've had a room that
I got to go make a play.
Speaker 2: That wind was whipped in.
Speaker 6: Yesterday again, like in the broadcast, hated like that's the
one place you could have hit the baseball where you
would probably got it out of the stadium and been
aided by the wind. Right all right, Jacob Tatee, I
know obviously LSU people behind the glass here as well.
Speaker 5: You gotta have thoughts.
Speaker 1: So we're watching the game yesterday, right, and everyone's, like
you mentioned, everyone's going to talk about, oh well, Kevin
Chanhal got thrown out of the game, whatever, Who cares.
I'm looking at early in the fourth inning, and you know,
Victoria's watching the game next to me, She's like, why
is the pitcher stopping the game. I'm like, well, his
headset's messed up. To me, that was the turning point
of the game. And you may look at say, okay, well,
he's used to getting the headset like the call in
his ear. Now he's looking at it written down on
the watch, like what's the big deal? To me, it
changes everything because you're used to having that voice in
your head.
Speaker 2: Now you don't have it.
Speaker 1: And I had wrote it down because I was like,
let me, let me watch the next four batters. After
he took the headset off, walk single to left center,
hit by pitch single to left center, he was pulled
and that was the four run inning that LSU gave up.
Speaker 2: I mean to me, that was the turning point.
Speaker 1: And again you could say, okay, well he should be
able to overcome that I understand that. But when you
hear a voice talking to you, walking you through what's
going on, and you don't have it anymore, and all
you hear is the crowd, like that changes everything. And
like to me, I'm telling Victoria, I'm like, he's stolen
because he doesn't know what to do, Like he's out
of his rhythm.
Speaker 5: He can't believe it was he was off his mark
the entire game.
Speaker 1: Well, the first inning he's calling out George got.
Speaker 5: Into his head real quick about stealing.
Speaker 6: You know, his signs out of his grip, out of
his glove, which is basically signs stealing, is completely.
Speaker 2: Right in front of you.
Speaker 1: Probably couldn't see the signs inside your glove, like calm down, Morrison.
But no, like to your point, he was he was
rattled to star. But when that happened right at the
beginning of the fourth inning, like that's when you kind
of knew, like okay, like if LSU can can hold
onto this thing, they got this in the bag. Because
that was the shortest outing of the year, that was
the most runs he had given up too. Like you
chased him out of that game early in the fourth inning.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'd like to get in a little bit to
the mindset of that at some point today of you know,
I agreed, I agree with the one hundred percent. To me,
his communications and device going down in the way he
handled that is a bigger deal than.
Speaker 2: An equal of a big.
Speaker 7: Deal like as a coach getting thrown out like yeah,
and at that point the head coach probably would have
really helped that situation like kind of calm it down
and cool it down like that. When you have a thrower,
it's all about it's about rhythm and getting into the zone.
It's just like a quarterback plane, like when you talk
about the zone, getting in that spot where all you
see is is is the defense. All you see is
this and that. Well the pictures, it's the same thing.
Like when you're getting a rhythm and feeling it, you
got to flow with that momentum. And that was a
momentum killer, an absolute momentum killer, having those communications go down.
And I couldn't think of anything worse if I'm a
starting pitcher in a national championship then having that happen.
But you could also tell that they hadn't worked on
what we're gonna do, what's the backup plan? Yeah, because
you're working on. Like you in football, you have the
you have the speaker and the quarterback and the Mike
linebacker's helmet. You work all the time on what happens
if that communication device goes down. We can't be one
hundred percent relying on it. We have to be able
to function without this, right, Yeah, you got to be
able to handle every situation. They promise you that.
Speaker 6: Jay Johnson has every situation ready to go, but so
do his assistance. And hey, let's not act like Coastal
Carolina's head coach had to leave the premises.
Speaker 5: Right, he's in the locker room. He was texting, Hey, say,
but hey, what do we do here? You want to pinchhit?
Got it all right?
Speaker 6: Let's not act like he like he couldn't give them information.
Speaker 7: He definitely had the old cellular device out, I mean
texting a little bit.
Speaker 6: Look, things happen, they do, Okay, how do you deal
with things when they happen? Now, that delay could have
been something that LSU could have been like, oh man,
we were in a rhythm. Now we're at a rhythm.
And no, they didn't care. They went out there and
they handle business. You know, they didn't allow a delay
because of a PitchCom to get them off what their
game plan was. LSU was ready for every situation. That
was the most impressive thing to me. It didn't matter what,
it didn't matter who was called upon. To your point earlier, Matt,
they made it happen when it had to happen every
single time in this postseason.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I think for me, the two, I
mean it's pretty obvious, but Iensen and Anderson, you know,
Anderson probably maybe maybe the best best game for an
LSU pitcher in the College World Series ever.
Speaker 2: But but it for for me, it.
Speaker 8: Was they were able to still go out there and
pitch so well even when they didn't have maybe their
best stuff. I mean, Anderson's stuff was still good. He
had he still had you know, ten strikeouts, but Ainstin
gave up seven hits and six and a third and
he still got nine strikeouts.
Speaker 5: He still got through.
Speaker 8: He he had traffic almost every inning, but he still
managed to limit the damage for the most part and
still had a really good game. And Anderson with five walks,
which was which was really uncharacteristic.
Speaker 2: But both those.
Speaker 5: Guys still showed up.
Speaker 8: And you you you hold Coastal Carolina to three runs
in two games, which uh, you know, LSU didn't have
to do on offense in either the games. I mean
they had ten hits in this one. But still I
think that for me that was that was the really
the thing that stood out to me the most.
Speaker 6: No, it's actually a good point because they did not
have you know, what we have seen all season long
as far as maybe the cleanest stuff, right, and maybe
the quickest innings, but still found a way to dominate.
Like even Kate Anderson he almost doubled his highest walk
total out of the year, right, I mean he has
five threes, the highest, but he still found a way
to grind through it and go the complete game distance
in the College World Series final, and Coastal's runs came
on home runs, which it hadn't hit any home runs
to that point. So like, you know, sure the home
runs still count, but you took Coastal out of what
they do. Like Coastal is all about, like manufacturing runs
and finding a way and button guys over and hitting
it the other way and going long and in bat
to get your pitch count up.
Speaker 5: They are pesky, and you didn't allow them to be pesky.
Speaker 7: You know, it all goes back to it all goes
back to pitching and defense, right they. I don't remember
who it was, either Ronaldo last week or Ben McDonald.
We asked a question like, what's the What changes the
mindset of a pitcher when you have a really good
defense behind you, right, you don't always have to be
focused on on striking.
Speaker 2: Guys out, making them with make them get it in play. Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Now, I think with Asin yesterday, it looked like, I mean,
it looked like to me he had great stuff. He
gave up some hiss, but it really did, especially on
the home right. It really just looked like, you know,
he has that great breaking ball. Man, it's got so
much job. It looks like they just guessed right a
couple of times on the pitches, but they did get
a hit.
Speaker 6: Then he'd come back and his breaking ball was definitely
on par yesterday for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, it just looked like they made the
right guess. They picked the pitch they you know, based
on the count or whatever. Maybe they were still in signals,
who knows, But now it's it's just the mindset and
even k I mean, they we have to make some
good defensive I like after.
Speaker 5: The game, Cade's being interviewed.
Speaker 6: He's like, you know, my defense played behind me, and
you know, thankful for them because I didn't strike a
lot of guys out today.
Speaker 5: But he was he meant it like he meant every
word of it. I'm like, we got ten like he
got ten?
Speaker 6: Right, we had double digit strikeouts in the Cultural Series finalit.
He's like, how do you get lost strikeouts today?
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, that's only a little over one per inting.
Speaker 5: Like, all right, you got you got double digit.
Speaker 6: There's there's a lot of people that are out there pitching,
you know, and people making money.
Speaker 5: They don't have many of those ten strikeout games.
Speaker 7: And I'd like to talk about this. It's at some
point today I asked Taylor about it. But like when
we came in this morning, I said, man, I'm watching
Kate Anderson pitch and he's like, his stats are great,
his stuff is great, and I'm looking at him like.
Speaker 2: Man, what makes this guy so good?
Speaker 7: He's not like a dominating like Presdent, like a big
guy doesn't have the one hundred mile an hour like
when you watch a couple years ago, you watch Paul Skins,
like you just it jumped out of them. Yeah, it
jumped out of the TV screen. Like what makes him
so good? Chase Shortes kind of has that a little
bit too, like you get it, but like what makes
Kane Anderson so good and so tough to hit? I'd
like to I'd like to jump into that a little
bit because I can't. It's kind of like an open discussion.
Speaker 2: I don't really know what it is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but he has maybe played himself into being the
top overall pick. He has certainly played himself into being
a top ten Garrett Like that's guaranteed. I'd put a
lot of money, a lot of doll hairs on top
five pick. I mean, he has done himself a great
service here in this season to just continue to elevate,
continue to be the guy that you were hoping he
could be, and then some and look, so many performances
to talk about, so many different branches on this tree.
Will break down all the coaching injections and what happened
and also Lshu's coach showing great restraint in game number one,
and that's how you would like to see that situation handle.
Because Jay Johnson got to continue to coach the game
and the next game, even though he really wanted to
go ask a question to the umpire.
Speaker 5: So look, stay locked in.
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Speaker 6: So, one of my favorite things about this team in
the way that they were all kind of put together.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: You might not have as many superstars as you had
in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5: Like twenty twenty three that was like a rare combination
of stars.
Speaker 6: Okay, you had the number one and number two picks
Paul Skeens and Dylan Cruz, but you also had a
guy like Tommy Tanks Tommy White, who had a nickname
where you said Tommy Tanks and the entire country knew
who you were talking about. And like we could go
down a list of the stars that were on that team.
This seems a little bit different now. They got guys
Steven Milam, Derek Uriel, Kad Anderson that.
Speaker 5: Have star potential are going to play baseball for a
long time.
Speaker 6: But like that twenty three team, I mean, everybody in
college baseball when you said a last name, when you
you could even probably say, Paul Della. They knew exactly
who you were talking about. I love that this team
was different than that team, and I love that you
you had pieces Ethan Fry. It never looked like Eighthan
Fry was gonna play here. He had injuries, you know,
had some tough times here and there, but he sticks
with it. He didn't take his ball and go home. No,
he wants to play for LSU. Grew up in Louisiana,
so he stays. He doesn't play, you know, for multiple years.
He gets his opportunity and he's hitting second for this
team at the end of the year and gets three
hits when it matters the most. You look at a
Luis Hernandez coming from Indiana State, Right, he ain't coming
from Tennessee, He ain't coming from Mississippi State.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: He worked his way through the mid major ranks to
get to LSU. Daniel Dickinson, right, didn't have a scholarship
out of high school. Right, doesn't have a lot of options.
Walks on, ends up at Utah Valley and then finds
his way to LSU. The standard of college baseball and
as your starting second baseman plays incredible lights out defense
the entire year, handles the bat incredibly well, and oh yeah,
finishes it with a broken bone in his hand and
nobody knows because he didn't care.
Speaker 5: He just wanted to go win.
Speaker 6: Like we could go over five six other guys on
the team that have a very similar story to those guys.
And look, there's nothing wrong with winning it the way
twenty three did with all the Stars, because we've seen
teams that have been dream teams air quotes and hadn't
won anything. That team finished it. That's impressive in its
own right. But also this team got a little bit
of my favorite tagline, too gritty to be pretty. All
they cared about was when the situation was in front
of them that they found a way. And it wasn't
always pretty, but it always got done.
Speaker 2: I can tell you. I just.
Speaker 7: I'm thankful for you right now because you just taught
me a few things about this team. Didn't know where
these guys came from.
Speaker 2: It is. It's wildly impressive. Right, Hey, what are you
laughing at? Taylor? Relax over there?
Speaker 5: Hey, Hey, okay, but just so.
Speaker 7: Right though, Like you don't win eight national championships by
doing it just one way, and like you. If you're
gonna get like sensitive and annoyed about me, like just
talking about how great J is all day, you might
as well tune off now because that's just the testament
to how good he is is. There's not one way.
It's not like his way or the highway. Let me
figure out where the needs are. I mean, he walked
into like a gold mine with like you said in
twenty twenty three, I mean, that's just talent, talent, talent,
and like, yeah, you take it. It's like twenty nineteen
LSU football, right, yeah, yeah, you take that talent, you
don't apologize for it, and you go out there and
do what you're supposed to do. But guess what, I
can also win without those number one and two picks
in the draft, right right, We're gonna do it the
right way. Like I said, the things he did in
the offseason to bring those guys in to not just
look at like the top guys.
Speaker 2: From Tennessee or Vanderbilt for what, Lake Forest wherever.
Speaker 7: It is like, let's go look and find a guy
that fits with what we do, fills in need, and
every button that he pushed, every move that he made,
proved to be right and this team. If you're a
golfer out there, you kind of know, like the term
at ham and egg means a little bit. It's when
you're on a team and if one guy struggling the.
Speaker 2: Other guy, the other guy steps up and makes a shot.
Speaker 7: And then a couple holes later that that guy struggling
the other guy makes a shot. That's what this team
was is there's not at one point. I mean they
won eight straight games to win the National championship since
they lost the game two versus Little Rock. Yeah, they
won eight straight games. So and it wasn't just one
guy that was dominant, dominant, dominant, dominant, like, they all
found a way to step up and make a big hit,
make a big defensive.
Speaker 2: Play, make a pitch, whatever.
Speaker 7: It was a full complete from top to bottom, one
through nine. DH's coming in in the sixth City and
getting a big hit, Jake Brown like. It was everything
that you that you want, everything that is right about sports,
everything that is good about sports and college baseball and
college sports in general. A team coming together that wasn't
together three hundred and sixty five days ago, and under
the leadership of Jay Johnson, just finding a way to
be gritty to be winners and now put a ring
on it.
Speaker 6: And also somebody I left out there that I want
to for sure highlight Chris Stanfield. He did come from
the big program, but I remember when he came out
of the portal. I remember doing shows me and Toe
you wat sitting here like okay, okay, well all right.
It was like that's it, all right, because you know,
the numbers weren't gonna blow you away, but ls, you
probably don't win a national championship if they don't have
that kind of hit there at the bottom of the lineup.
All season long, you never felt like, oh man, here
comes seven eight nine, Here comes seven eight nine in
the line up, go ahead and turn it over because
you had a double lead off. You had somebody that
handled the bat incredibly well. For a long portion of
the SEC season. He had the best batting average in
conference play, and when you needed him the most, yesterday,
he came up with the hit that kind of put
everything away, that gave l s U the ultimate faith
and took all the win out of Coastal.
Speaker 7: Sales kind of let me, let me just let me
paint a picture on that real quick, yes yesterday. So
we go to the little uh I can't remember what
it's called. It's a little LSU spirit shop. We wanted
to get some in Perkins Row. Anybody, anybody Perkins R
right down the corner, right there on the corner across
the move.
Speaker 2: We'll think of it. We'll get there anyway.
Speaker 5: We go there to buy something alumni.
Speaker 7: Hallumn look at c T e O TV baby three.
We go to find some LSU jerseys, LSU swag, whatever
it is. Everyone's just fired up. We're we're just feeling
it right filling the championship. And they have these on
it baseball cards. So they's on it baseball cards and
this feature in the LSU baseball team. Okay, so you
know we're into cards. Obviously, we've talked about it many times.
Speaker 5: And might be something we dabble in.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, all right, look, huck, let's get one.
Let's get a packet.
Speaker 7: See what we have, because like, if there's a celebration
this week, maybe you can take him, maybe we can
get an autograph something like that on one of these cards.
Speaker 2: It'd be cool.
Speaker 7: It'd be really cool, cool event for him and the
very nice girl that was working there.
Speaker 2: She says, Hey, what player are you looking for? She's
got a binder of all the players.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and he's like, I want Kate Anderson, I want Stanfield. Yeah,
because he because he had he had met Stanfield real briefly.
We brought some we were bringing some my high to
like during the super Regionals on that hot day, like
a little emergency run, and he met him. So he's
like he's a fan now. And the lady, the girl
that was working there, she was like, look flipping there.
She's like, I don't think Stanfield's printed. Like, they didn't
make the Stanfield card, right, So we got these two cards,
but like look just to your point, yeah, they didn't
make they made it off all the players on the team.
Speaker 2: I don't think that. Now she might have been wrong.
Speaker 7: Obviously we didn't pull it and we couldn't find it
in like the list of the people that.
Speaker 5: Were putting in. If you can't find it, it's probably
not there.
Speaker 6: You're pretty good at finding those cards checklists.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 7: That's the end of my point, right there is like
the guy that comes up is before the season when
they printed these things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had no clue.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and to what his standard had been, he had
been struggling a little bit at the plate. And again
it was one hit yesterday, but it was the hit.
It drives in two runs. He scores himself. And it's
just another story on this team of guys that just
found a way to LSU. And credit to Jay Johnson
and the staff for and I understand that Daniel Digginson
was highly rated in the transfer portal, Luis Hernandez was
highly rated, but still like their path to get to LSU.
And look, when you're going from Utah Valley to LSU
and the SEC, right, that doesn't always translate, right. We
talk about in football all the time, like you're a
quarterback that dominated the G five level and then you
go to a Big ten school and it's like where'd
that guy go?
Speaker 5: Right, It's not easy. It's a different game.
Speaker 6: There might have been a pitcher, one pitcher maybe two
at Utah Valley that has the same like SEC stuff
that you see every pitcher, starter, reliever does not matter.
So you still have to get that done. And again
finding out he did it with a broken bone in
his hand. I already loved the kid. I mean all
the swag Ferry Bond's ear ring, you're gonna wear that
you better pull it off. He does, Taylor, don't give
me that look. Don't give me that look. You ain't
going out there with a broken hand.
Speaker 5: I'm not going out there. Well, he did it, and
back then you're.
Speaker 2: Probably not even showing it up to work.
Speaker 6: But a nah, I can't type today. Well he went
out there and turned a double play to finish the season.
Bo take that and his dang earing.
Speaker 1: Well to your point about Dickinson, I mean Matt were
talking before the show, and Matt's like, you know, like
all the players I dove into, he's like Dickets. That's
kind of the guy I know the least about. And
I'm like, it's because he's so consistent. Right, Like you
may say, okay, he's not coming up with the walk
off HiT's like Jerry Jones. But I mean, this is
a guy that's bad at what three hundred and three
twenty like covered in there the entire season. He went
from the two hole, he went to the seven hole.
He was good regardless of where he was, like dicketson
an underrated piece on this team.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's nice for me to say I actually
said that. He's a guy I can't remember his name
he's hat the one guy just good.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 6: It's like literally the like it's double d it's super easy.
Speaker 2: What super hard? I guess.
Speaker 5: I know we got to.
Speaker 6: Carve out some some space for names in that brainy years.
Speaker 2: I got the rest of them. Don't look at me
like that, dude.
Speaker 5: Just because it comes to your head doesn't mean you
have to say it either. You can keep that one.
Speaker 2: I need to.
Speaker 7: Filter the old noggin every now. Fans in the huddle, Taylor,
he says, how frustrated do you get.
Speaker 2: Every time I sit here and I moved the mic?
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I mentioned, Like I think he maybe
thinks I'm an audio. It was like I'm worried about
the cameras. It was like, you do move a lot,
so I'm having to adjust the camera a lot. I
don't care about the mic. That's that's That's the Beck's Department.
Speaker 6: Are the best part is when Matt's getting really into
a point and he's.
Speaker 7: Like he does do that, which I think, can we
get a padded table? This triangle table is kind of
noisy when every time I move the mic.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I can hear it too, So listeners, when
we come back we will break down the injections. We'll
break down what happened there in the first inning in
yesterday's game. I know there's a lot of thoughts a
lot of people out there, certainly if you were not
hoping that LSU won the game, that you know, maybe
talked about how much it actually impacted the game when
the guy was still calling the shots.
Speaker 5: It didn't matter.
Speaker 6: Like I said earlier, Joe Toy, even my guy Bobby
Cox could have been managing the game, it would not
have mattered. And we'll break it all down when we
come back here on OTV. Off the bench, all right,
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Speaker 3: Two thousand and seven. Champs Purple and Gold to the core.
This is Off the Bench with Hester and Flynn, Matt
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Speaker 9: All right, welcome back gain OTB here on this Monday morning,
continuing to celebrate LSU's eighth national championship as they take
down Coastal Carolina to a que There for Coastal against LSU.
Speaker 6: LSU pushes all all the right buttons makes every single
play the batter's box on the mound on the field. Truly,
truly an impressive run from LSU after losing, you know,
in the regional game six to Little Rock. In fact,
it's the only postseason game I went to. But there
was a lot of people thought, maybe, okay, well, I mean,
you're losing a little roy It just shows how hot
that Little Rock team got. I mean, they were putting
up football scores against everybody else in the regional.
Speaker 5: But they put their head down, they go to work,
they finish it.
Speaker 2: So those little as almost beat us.
Speaker 6: They were scrappy, a little bunch, scrappy, a little bunch there.
Speaker 5: You have more problems with Little Rock than you did Arkansas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. It faced Arkansas.
Speaker 6: So here is one of the things that's certainly going
to be talked about for the next couple of days.
Coastal Carolina's head coach getting tossed first base coach getting
tossed out of the game yesterday in the bottom of
the first.
Speaker 4: Dye game started in the SEC. He gave up a
total of tenor and runs and struck out seventy five.
Alexander Off rode out and we're good, no good, and.
Speaker 10: That's what you're thinking right there, Rabie. Pick a breaking
ball count and be aggressive. And that's exactly what Alexander
does right here. Not the best of jumps, but if
you're picking a breaking ball, you've got a little bore margin,
and Alexander steals that one easy on a throw inside
the back.
Speaker 5: Well, with ians in about every count is potentially a
breaking ball count.
Speaker 6: He throws that curveball the slider roughly fifty percent of
the time.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness. He chose Kevin Schnall out of the game.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 4: In the bottom of the first inning, the home played
umpire throws Kevin Schnall out of this game, and down
goes an umpire who had come to the middle of face.
I believe, guys, this had to do what happened at
the end of the top of the first with the
third base coach for LSU. This seemed to stem from
the first base coach. And then Schnall remarkably gets thrown
out of the game a College World Series Game two
in the bottom of the first time.
Speaker 10: Well, and I didn't even see that building, guys, Like
It's one pitch and next thing you know, Schnall's out
out of the door.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 6: So that was how it all played out, and it
was Coastal's first base coach that started to question balls
and strikes and the umpire right, he's like basically, hey,
come get your boy right. He got settled down, he's
got a warning. And then that's when schnaw came out
for what for what? And you can tell the I
was telling him the entire time, go back to the dugout,
go back to that.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: Was it too quick for me in that scenario that situation, Yes,
it was like I just I don't I don't want
to see it happen in that game. Now, in a
regular season game, that was like everything that you can't
do to an umpire to stay into the game. The
initial questioning okay, and then you're going towards him. He
tells you to get back three or four times, you don't.
And then once you say, because you've missed three, that's
questioning balls and strikes. That's going to get you wrung
every single time. Again for me, I don't want to
see it happen. Certainly in a national championship game. That's
what the umpire saw. That's what the umpire called him for.
And then it, you know, turned into kind of a
circus there with the umpire tripping and it looking like
he got bumped at first and he didn't get bumped,
and so.
Speaker 7: Uh and like watching the game too, it's because you
didn't You didn't have a clip or audio or we
had no idea was happening. So like the immediate reaction
obviously is like what is the imp doing? Like this
is in the ump show, is a little man center
whatever it is, Like, what is happening right now? And
then especially like you know, my wife and kids are like, hey,
what's happening to dad? You know, of course I didn't
know what's happening, but uh, I get it's what is
what's causing this? And then they explain it. The announcers
explain it. Whether this is right or wrong, whether this
is the rules, I don't know, but per the announcer
in the game, it's your issue to warning you cannot
come out of the dugout and argue a call no,
and if you continue to argue pro longer and then
you get two more.
Speaker 6: Right, yeah, and if you question balls and strikes like that.
So the first base coach was questioning that that's what
he got the warning for and then Shanaw comes out
for what for what right? But the umpire of the
entire time saying go back in, go back in, go
back in, and he doesn't. Then when he says, because
you've missed three calls again, that's always going to get
you tossed out of a game.
Speaker 5: Now, the situation being a National Championship game, I don't.
I don't like. I don't love to see it.
Speaker 2: I don't is that cause for ejections, I get it, but.
Speaker 5: I know you're a little new to baseball.
Speaker 6: Umpires in baseball at and they think people paid to
see them.
Speaker 2: It's about them. I get it.
Speaker 7: But like a coach coming out and arguing for his
guys is kind of part of baseball, right, that's I.
Speaker 1: Think telling him to go back and not only did
he go back, he came closer. But like to Jake's point,
like I don't like it in the National Championship, But
at the same time, the rules don't go out the
window because it's National Championships, like themps are gonna I
mean kind of.
Speaker 5: Three or four one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like trying to get him back into the dug out.
Speaker 1: I never defended all, but they're kind of in a
tough spot there, like what do you do?
Speaker 6: And it was because I think when you keep coming
towards the umpire, that's gonna you know, that's gonna be
something that he notices. And then once you call out
how many pitches you think he's missed? Now, remember when
Daniel Dickinson got you know, hit by the baseball, They
said he leaned into it with his elbow, which, by
the way, like the broadcast was like.
Speaker 5: Well, actually to the letter of the law.
Speaker 6: It's like, but you didn't say that when the coach
got tossed. But that's neither here nor there. That's just
something I picked on. I'm like, well, you said in
that situation to the letter of law. But it's like,
but you didn't in the first one. So Jay Johnson
could have had every opportunity to be pretty mad. I
was pretty mad. Like it's ball four, Like, what do
you think he's trying to lean into? He's gonna get
on base either way. And you can see Jay on
the broadcast say, after they reviewed it, they called him out,
can I come ask a question? He says no, He goes,
just a question. I just want a question, He goes, no,
He goes okay, because he knew in that moment that
if he comes out and you argue a review, that's
probably gonna get you tossed. And he showed restraint not
coming out of the dugout, and Schnall wasn't able to
show the same restraint. So J Johnson knew the moment.
He knew that if he came out and argued, even
though it was a BS call to me, there's a
lot of people that agree with it. Whatever I didn't,
Jay didn't. He knew that he was probably gonna be
in trouble.
Speaker 7: A little bit of uh, you know, been there, done
that situation, a little bit of maturity there coming out,
a little bit experience coming out. But for the Coastals coach,
you know, sometimes having all the muscles in all fun
and games, you start walking towards the ump, you little
look a little bit more aggressive. The argument could be
made that if he was a little bit more frail looking,
a little bit less intimidating looking, maybe he doesn't get
thrown out. But boy, when that face gets red, it
was vains start popping out the side of his temple.
Speaker 5: Every coach and Coastal look the same everyone They did
the interro whatever.
Speaker 6: I guarantee you their slow pitch softball team in the
off season hits tanks probably.
Speaker 2: Fulling.
Speaker 1: Then who's like the active head coach. I'm like, I
thought that was the first base until I figured out
he got ejected to I was.
Speaker 2: It probably was just a different jersey. Flip this jersey on.
Speaker 6: All right, all right, let's take our last break abo
hour number one, close it out.
Speaker 5: When we come back.
Speaker 6: We got Chris Blair, Voice of the Tigers, joining us
in about ten minutes from now. All on OTV, off
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Speaker 3: Nine from the locker room to the airwaves gets off
the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 6: All right, welcome back in in one final segment here
in our number one, can I wait to catch you
up with the voice of the LSU Tigers Chris Blair
to kick off our number two.
Speaker 5: A lot to break down there with CB. Great call
as usual, Hym and Douggie there in the in the
box in Omaha.
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Speaker 6: What was that?
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minute coming back, so I knew we weren't going to
be playing for very long.
Speaker 5: Eric wasn't the AFR just happened here.
Speaker 8: Don't worry, We're coming back next hour. We ago, okay,
all right, I got got to hit some bangers.
Speaker 6: I got faith in you, all right, Just to set
up the show again, he'll little reset Chris Blayer when
we come back. We've got Todd Walker who was there
boots on the ground in no. The hall also had
Coastal Carolina in their regional, so he covered them the
entire run as well. Give me some great insight, of course,
you know we got a boy, Devin snow at nine
fifteen stay locked in here breaking it all down on
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