Speaker 1: Good morning. At nine am here on Monday, June sixteenth.
Today in bed Rouge, you can expect a rainy skies
with a Hayalva eighty three, an hour three of today's show.
Speaker 2: Devin Snow hops.
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Speaker 3: I'll start Toyota Presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flake Amsday.
Speaker 4: Hester and Hester come from.
Speaker 3: Carrying each other too and Natty to carrying each other
on the air.
Speaker 5: Yeahs show.
Speaker 3: Live from the Sadies been so matten Rouge Studio.
Speaker 2: It's Off the Bench, Welcome back game.
Speaker 6: I remember three oh TV one O four five ESPN,
beton Rouge. It is Monday, it is in nine o'clock hours,
so you know that means We're gonna catch up with
our guy, Devin snow A Ka hold the Mayo, Dev.
Speaker 7: What's going on? Brother? How we doing? How we living?
Speaker 5: Yo?
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 5: How are we doing?
Speaker 4: I saw y'all pitches you and Flint's pitches.
Speaker 5: What y'all picked on that?
Speaker 4: CS J C.
Speaker 7: Finney clamp shots Montgomery Ward.
Speaker 6: Actually they opened the back up for us well one
time special Force.
Speaker 4: I used to say, Christmas pitches. That's his man.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 6: They had like the fake chimney if you're taking the
Christmas picture.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, it was.
Speaker 4: A good spot. Man. They had where you could play
the game too, you know what I'm saying, when you
could like sample the Xbox and stuff.
Speaker 8: We actually they totally to come in to take professional headshots. Yeah,
and this was this was after our show, and uh,
you know we both come in there like backwards hats
and hoodies on there like I guess this, I guess
they didn't come to a professional.
Speaker 6: The people coming up DEV into the photo shoot, everybody
was in like very at least business casual, like at
minimum business casual. And we roll up and I had
a hoodie and some joggers and a hat on flynch
On some like crazy socks with some high tops and
a backwards hat.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 6: The lady, the lady taking the pictures, she certainly judged
us with her eyes. I mean, look, we were on brand,
they said. They did say. The memo was kind of
like whatever your show vibe is, like that's what we want,
and we did vib.
Speaker 8: Well, we didn't post were the pictures. We did prom
pictures and we also did the step Brothers.
Speaker 7: Yeah we did.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we did that, so we got to release those
ones as well.
Speaker 4: Got too absolutely half like asap.
Speaker 5: Need to release that.
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean the series call is so good because that's
exactly what that looked like.
Speaker 7: We'll play, Yeah, we'll played there.
Speaker 6: Dev big fight, Hey, big fight weekend for you. I
saw you tweeting about UFC Atlanta. I mean you went
from LSU baseball right in to UFC.
Speaker 7: I mean you couldn't tell you nothing this weekend.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's.
Speaker 4: It's interesting man. People will comment sometimes like, hey man,
you're not watching the l Shoe game and I'm thinking
of my head. I'm like, dude, it's twenty twenty five,
or like if you haven't figured out how to watch
two things at once, brother, Like, just give it off.
Speaker 7: Bro, we have picture and picture back in like nineteen
ninety three.
Speaker 4: Yeah, people were talking to me like I got one
just one screen, that's it.
Speaker 7: You know it's.
Speaker 5: Crazy, But no, man, it was.
Speaker 4: It was the weekend. I mean start to kamara Ousman.
You have to imagine to see.
Speaker 5: Him get a win, and yeah, L s U, Bro,
it's a big day, you.
Speaker 4: Know you because you absolutely cannot lose to Sissy Blue.
Speaker 7: You know it already happened once.
Speaker 4: It just can never happen again.
Speaker 7: I know I'm waiting.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you look at how they taking the
shot challenge, the jealous shot chalunds you see Ali fans.
I mean they're not even interapted, dude, they like, yo,
y'all got some th celsus how they started.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's when you knew, not even dude.
Speaker 4: And a bunch of people are commenting on under that
post my head's funny stuff.
Speaker 5: You had a riot and.
Speaker 6: Uh like there there is never going to be a
alcohol challenge where L. S U gets challenged. It's just
not It's not going to happen. And like, can you imagine,
say you like you were just working at the stadium,
you didn't know anything about college baseball, And can you
imagine going earlier in the day to U c l
A And Murray State, you know what I mean, Like
you're working on another you're just working, you're an usher, whatever,
and you go and you go to that game and
you're like, okay, whatever, and then that night Arkansas and
LSHUE come into the same stadium and you're like, oh,
what the hell is this? Like what what what is
going on out here? Like I would love to interview
somebody that doesn't know college baseball that was working that
game and ask them the difference between U c l A,
Murray State and Arkansas and LSU.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And if I'm an alcohol rehabilitation center, like I'm
out there like passing out cards, you know what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 5: Here man, your fortieth yer, bro, like this card.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: It's so funny, man, because that's what's beautiful about the
college rold saying, you get to see like all the
different fan bases and UH Arkansas fans, Bro, they's so funny,
you know what I'm saying, Like if that guy sitting
the stands with a pig strap to his head, isn't
the embodiment of Arkansas fans. Like that picture smells like
pork skins, you know what I'm saying. And I lived
in Arkansas for nine months, so I know, like these
dudes love football like it's all they think about. They
love football, it's and I lived in Batsville. It was
like the home of Mark Martin. They like NASCAR too,
and uh it was an interesting time.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 4: They called me Gata Base. This is right after Katrina,
so this is where we evacuated too. And they they
gave me number ninety five for football.
Speaker 6: Demn. I mean you got the you got the Dion
bar face mask, so the helmet, all that looks good.
I don't know that you can do anything impressive in
that jersey.
Speaker 8: Did you buy that jersey at academy? Dude?
Speaker 4: Look, bro, that that picture I got that from Hibbit's Dogs. No,
that that's on a toss sweep Bro against south Side.
Took that to the house.
Speaker 8: Bro.
Speaker 4: That was all right at highlights at the time.
Speaker 7: Oh no, you didn't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was the highlights in the chain hour right there.
Speaker 6: I could almost see the top of your pukahell necklace
outside of your past.
Speaker 8: There plus touch down got called back. You had a
ninety five because you were awareing that number number and.
Speaker 7: Look shout out to to Red six Sports.
Speaker 6: I mean they made a lot of like fake eighteen
jerseys back in the day from my family members that
shout out dev is that a house phone yea in
the nineteen ninety seven is going on here?
Speaker 7: Holy hell?
Speaker 4: Yeah, bro, that's the Panasonic Baby, that's one of those time.
Speaker 8: What do you have the house on the house phone
that has like line one through fifteen you can put
it on hold.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, this is just line one. That's it when
people called. When people call his phone for my show,
Bro's like calling you might get thrown.
Speaker 8: He's watching with picture and picture on his TV and
it's got the phone devait.
Speaker 6: Like when you send your contact out, like you share
your contact with somebody, is that phone number included under it?
Speaker 7: And says home.
Speaker 4: Ya, I'm annaptation with it like sell and then home.
I'm like, oh, I got.
Speaker 7: They call everybody over, y'all are not gonna believe this?
Somebody filled out the home portion.
Speaker 8: Oh they don't answer it? Does I say? Hey, this
is this is Devin. I'm not in right now.
Speaker 6: Please leave a message something like that.
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, that is so good.
Speaker 6: I hope, I hope, some way, somehow, dev you have
an answering machine that's tied to that, and not like
through the actual phone, but an actual beside it answering
machine that's tied into it. Because I cannot tell you
you the joy I used to get during high school
recruiting when I would come in and a coach would
call and he'd leave like a voicemail on the answering machine.
Speaker 7: Deb you're not gonna believe this.
Speaker 6: I had multiple schools that when they offered me a scholarship,
they did it on my answering machine.
Speaker 5: Did you save those voicemails?
Speaker 7: Oh no, it's an old tape.
Speaker 6: It was like the little bitty tapes if you had
two of them in there, one for backup and so
you couldn't play those things. There's nothing you could play
those things on anymore. But I know for sure Auburn
and Louisiana Tech both left scholarship offers on the answering machine.
Speaker 8: Check in a box.
Speaker 4: You talk about where the country kind of you know,
went in the wrong direction. Man, nobody even wants to
leave a voicemail no more, Dude, Like my grandpa called me.
He'll leave a voicemail every single time. You know what
I'm saying, and I just I don't know. I appreciate
it so much. It's it's a beautiful it's the last
of it's gone.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 6: Please tell me. Whenever they leave it, they say who
it is, even though the CA the I d let.
Speaker 7: You know who it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta you gotta do that.
Speaker 8: Damn dude, I kind of I'll leave with you always.
I always say, hey, this is mad.
Speaker 7: No you don't mad. They have colord. I'm not supposed
to do that, not if you're con some you know,
it's for business.
Speaker 5: Well why were they Why were we ever saying who
like who it was on voicemails?
Speaker 4: Because I mean, if somebody had your numb but they
kind of knew, you know, I know, you get like the.
Speaker 7: Time and date to Flynn.
Speaker 6: Hey what Matt with my nine ten am here on
this Monday morning?
Speaker 7: Just uh give me a called back.
Speaker 8: This is gonna sound bad. But when I do leave
a voicemail, I save my name at the beginning. Then
I ended with saying my number out loud.
Speaker 5: Oh you can't. Yeah, yeah, that's real. Okay, right there, dude.
Speaker 6: Ye.
Speaker 5: That reminds me of like when I went to Piccadilly.
Speaker 4: You know, they had a guy playing piano at Piccadelli
and I was always like, yeah, man, these guys cast
that is.
Speaker 6: Still on the essen lane Piccadilly depth. I go to
Piccadilly every year for my birthday. This year was no different.
I turned forty, doesn't matter. I'm in the Dilli. My
guy is still holding it down, singing Motown's biggest hits
while you're having a Hamburger steak. He is still there,
He is still thriving, and he is still giving the
gift of Motown.
Speaker 4: That gives me chills.
Speaker 7: I think it incredible, you know.
Speaker 4: And that one, I think we talked about this before
that one.
Speaker 9: It's a beautiful Picadil.
Speaker 4: You had to walk in and because when I was
out there at the college, I used to go there
by myself because nobody wanted to go to Piccadilly. It's
just people hating on Piccadilly.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: It's like how people hate on Nickelback.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. That's exactly what it is.
They love it, but they're afraid to admit it. And
so then they make fun of it, right, Yeah.
Speaker 8: What do you think he plays for? Like free salmon croquettes?
Speaker 7: I don't know. I gave every time.
Speaker 9: Is nothing like that place.
Speaker 4: I could talk about that place for hours, dude. I
mean just the way it starts with the jello and
the pudding at the line, and then the salads, like
here's a jelly, here's a pudding, here's a salad.
Speaker 8: We took our kids there one time. This is the
one offs And can I tell you the people that
work there, their eyes lit up to see some like
young people in those doors. They lit uh.
Speaker 6: When we walk in there, They're like, are y'all in
the right spot? Do you know that this is senior
citizen day, every day, all day here at the deli.
And I'm like, yes, we do. We love it, and
yes we have our real teeth.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And it's it's the smell of Piccadilly too, you know.
It smells like a mixture of like, you know, Hamburger
steaks and brew cologne. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: It's just some call that utopic.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, and that just.
Speaker 4: And for me to really get comfortable thinking, I just
gotta hear a couple of coughs in the back round
and I'm like, yes, I'm here from the Jeff Oh gosh,
I thought some Pelly man, they went black and white.
I saw them last night on the internet, and dude,
it's just like all the people who serve the food
and black and.
Speaker 7: White people are still there.
Speaker 8: Actually, yeah, yes, Jake has a legitimate passion.
Speaker 7: I do.
Speaker 6: No, no, I go for my birthday every year every yeah.
Speaker 5: And I look, I love it too, man, I really do.
I genuinely love it.
Speaker 4: I'm glad that it's still around. It's kind of how
I felt about Shy too, you know.
Speaker 6: Is like for us growing up, dev like that was
big time, right. I was like, Hey, We're going to
Shony's for dinner tonight. They got the salad bar and
you can get him meal after the ball game. It
was like, you know, whatever nice expensive restaurant that people get,
you know, take their kids to today, like Shony's.
Speaker 4: Was it for the Hesters, Yeah, no, we went. We
went to Thanksgiving at Sharoney's two thousand and three. And
you can't take that away from me or my family.
Speaker 6: Have you ever have you ever done an RB and
R day at Piccadilly.
Speaker 5: Yes, I had it was a hit, dude. It was
a hit, bro like, and it was so much fun.
Speaker 4: Man. It really was like just walking around, it's like
there's like a whole back room that's like it's like
an intimate setting them. You know, you want to get
something like Piccadilly in the back. You know. It's it's amazing, man.
And another thing about Showny's is that sign.
Speaker 5: You know that sign.
Speaker 4: Man, They try to like build that.
Speaker 5: Thing all the way up until you wow.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah. They tried to be the tallest one off
the interstate.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's just so good.
Speaker 8: Are they all gone? I haven't seen a Shonees because
I thought, like I thought Ruby Tuesday was gone, but
I saw one.
Speaker 7: There's like one in Mississippi.
Speaker 8: There was like I thought it's someone like in Indiana
or something.
Speaker 6: Okay, there's like there's like a handful, But I don't
know any showees that are still open. Maybe maybe there
was one in Panama City Beach at the shopping center
where my father in law is the general manager, and
like it was like one of the last ones and
it finally shut down.
Speaker 7: I don't know that there's another shown He's still open.
Speaker 4: I think there's one on the west Bank or you
know how the west Bank is. It might not be shownes
with a why, it might be shown these like an.
Speaker 7: I E y E yeah, double situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Sean Matt does the same thing. Bro, Like they
got a Panda Express down there, but it's not called
Panda Express, It's called something completely different. Yeah. In a
waffle house, it's called the Greenhouse.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: It's looks just like a love line stuff.
Speaker 7: It's green, all right.
Speaker 6: So if there's a Shooney still in the West Bank,
big fave. I know you've been there, Just let us
know if it's still there, big fave, because I know
you have tried to eat there before it.
Speaker 7: For sure.
Speaker 6: Any clue where you had today for rbn R Day.
Do we have any kind of general location?
Speaker 4: No, I have no idea, but I wish I could
go to Shoney and I wish they had it even
if it was garbage, you know, for sure, I would
love to just go for the experience.
Speaker 6: Hey, look look in the chat. In the chat, someone
is saying that the one in the West Bank is close,
but the one in Morgan City is still open.
Speaker 4: Well, how far away is that?
Speaker 7: I don't know. I mean, how far is Morgan City
from where Dev's at right now?
Speaker 2: I think like three hours. I'm pretty sure too far.
Speaker 7: That's too far.
Speaker 8: On a whim, I said, you want to go on
the world road trip.
Speaker 4: I don't think hotel?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, mine, He's good. I'm I'm completely wrong.
Speaker 6: It's like three hours forty Yeah, okay, yeah, three hours
seemed aggressive, but.
Speaker 7: Hour forty it's right there on the line.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they need to they need to build a Chounte
and Shreeport. Dude, just just redoing, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Look, if there was one still open, Truthport would be
a destination that I would guess, yes, by the water park,
by the water park right there in West Truthport.
Speaker 4: On the way to what are they doing with Blue Bayous?
It's still going to be Blue Bayou?
Speaker 7: H Taylor, do you have an update? You look like
you were intrigued by that.
Speaker 1: I don't know the name of the There's there's one
of these in Biloxi, Like there's a there's a big
water park in Biloxi. The owner's bought the Blue Bayou
and I think they're gonna keep whatever the name is
of the one in Biloxi.
Speaker 2: They're just going to open a second location.
Speaker 6: Okay, somebody needs to do something, don't think so oh wow,
I mean.
Speaker 7: How do you close? How do you close the water
part though for the summertime?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you would think that that's bad business, like that's
usually when they thrive deaf. But you you drive by
there and they're like, no, actually the water parks closed
for the summertime.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they can't be for like maintenance and not
because like that place always needs at I remember getting
on those slides back when I was like really young,
you know what I'm saying, Like that that snake rod
or whatever, that black slide. Oh my god, you walking
up the steps you like, screws are like falling out
and stuff.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 4: It was intimidating.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know that I'm getting on.
Speaker 6: I mean maybe now with new ownership, maybe they change it.
Maybe it gets a little bit of a face less.
Speaker 8: Maybe a little pressure wash, just a pressure wash. Yeah,
that's all just like you litern't need to scrub it.
Speaker 7: You can polish a turn. It's all good.
Speaker 4: My dad used to make me pressure wash the house.
It was the most miserable thing, bro.
Speaker 5: And that reminded me of it just now.
Speaker 4: I was like, i'd be pressure washing, Like, why are
we doing this?
Speaker 6: You know, doing the sidewalk. It's like the rest of
the house back come back on that.
Speaker 4: Wow, I understand the sidewalk. I don't understand pressure washing
the house because the house is gonna get dirty. On
that thought, I mean it's outside.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: It's a fair point, solid solid counterpoint to your father.
Speaker 4: Raking the leaves made no sense to me. Raking the
leaves that are gonna fall on the ground again.
Speaker 6: All right, dude, Dev, last thing before we let you go?
Uh any plans for l s U U s LA tonight?
Are you watching it in spread quarters? How you taking
in the game?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm watching spread Quarters And like, to me, man,
it's just like impossible to lose on audiend all day,
and especially against Sissy Blue Man. So I hope they
smoke them, bro, I really do.
Speaker 6: All right, Dev, get to that voice message you got
left on your house phone there, and we'll catch up
again with you next week.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 4: It's just a deck collective, all right, y'all, y'all take care.
Speaker 8: Do you calls his house?
Speaker 7: Oh? Man, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I haven't heard that sound in so long. Now you
probably have all because you have a business. I'm sure
people call like the warehouse or something. We don't have it,
don't You don't have one.
Speaker 7: I guess you wouldn't need one, really, honestly, I can't think.
Speaker 8: We gotta we gotta a cell phone that access like right.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, okay, it's kind of we have the same situation.
Speaker 8: One of those kind of one of those types of
phones that you can, you know, change the ring tone
on if you want. Not an old school you.
Speaker 6: Know how much money we spent on ring tones only
to have our phone on silent for the last fifteen years,
you know what I mean. I think about that, Like
when I first got to college, it was like brand new.
Speaker 8: You had to go to that like a weird, sketchy website,
buy it for like two ninety nine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got I got like a jay Z ring tone,
and I was so proud of it. When I first
got the LSU, I was like, man, all the other
running backs and something, this is so cool.
Speaker 8: Look, this is awesome.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna turn this up in the meeting room. Just
let it go off and get in trouble. But they're
gonna know that jay Z is my ring tone.
Speaker 8: Let me unvelcrow the cell phone from its cell phone
case on my hip. Yep, that's right. I'm gonna wear
a Dirney's shoulder was a song a T shirt around
the cell phone.
Speaker 7: You did that for years.
Speaker 6: That's don't act like that was when you first got
the had to flex when you were a senior. My no,
Kia is red? Look at it was that hip Tyler Lee?
Is that why he had read? There was only three options.
I think it was silver, blue, and red. I got
the metallic red.
Speaker 7: Yeah, titlely.
Speaker 8: I think it was the only one that was in
stock at the time.
Speaker 7: All right, let's uh take a break. More O T
B when we come back.
Speaker 6: We got Eric Sownson D one Baseball set to join
us about ten minutes from now. Eric does a great
job covering college baseball, but he lives in l A.
He knows this u c l A team as well
as anybody. He is boots in the ground in Omaha.
So looking forward to that conversation. We'll have that from
about ten minutes from now. But more OTB when we
come back here on one O four five ESPN.
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Speaker 3: From the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 8: Still on an island, Jake still on a knife.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 6: Oh it's beautiful beaches where you don't like, which is
so weird.
Speaker 8: I mean doing fun things is relaxing to me, not
just sitting there doing nothing, not moving.
Speaker 6: Let me let me get do ski's in hand under
the umbrella. No no children in sight, just adults just
hanging out. I can sit there for an hour and
you might think I'm dead.
Speaker 8: You might have you im gonna be throwing something at you.
I mean there's a hey, what do you wanna do?
What do you wanna do?
Speaker 6: There is certainly a time and place for that. But
I can also get behind relaxing.
Speaker 8: Let's get a procadima set out velcro baseball glove.
Speaker 6: So we did get an update from a Landra. So
you know we were worried that you were gonna pull
the T bob. Oh, no, she's actually pulling the T bob.
We got this text message. I don't know if we
can verify if it was like a burner foam and
she sent it to herself, maybe from the airline.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 8: She faked.
Speaker 6: You think the flight flight pushed back, and so I
don't know who's going to be here tomorrow, Taylor.
Speaker 7: Can you could you do both at the same time
if you had to? Oh? Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I think
so this is like, wow, I just leave.
Speaker 6: It on the two shot, which I have a I've
always done this ever since I've been here, so seven
eight years whatever.
Speaker 7: Like I know that t Bob loved to look at
the one shot. He loved it.
Speaker 6: He would I would be looking at him because there
was conversation, and he would never look. He'd look at
the one shot. Like I look at the two shot
all the time. It's the one that I.
Speaker 8: Just that's the two shot in the middle.
Speaker 7: That's the two shot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's two people in there.
Speaker 7: Look that's you right there. Look on the other TV.
Speaker 2: Yeah right there, look at you, Look at you up there?
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 7: Yeah, just flow your mind.
Speaker 8: I suppose to switch the cameras every time I move
my head. All right, do it again. It's pretty quick
on the trigger there.
Speaker 7: Uh yeah.
Speaker 6: So Alandra will not be back tomorrow. She'll be back
the next day.
Speaker 8: Is that official?
Speaker 7: It feels like it's official.
Speaker 8: Apparently some bad weather in Texas.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it does. It does not look great. Does not
look great in Texas.
Speaker 6: But look, she wanted to stay at the bar and
watch the game with family one more day, so we'll
allow it.
Speaker 7: It's fine, no hate here.
Speaker 6: Tibob did this at least four times a year, so
if you do it once, it's okay.
Speaker 7: Certainly Okay. There, We're gonna continue talking baseball.
Speaker 6: We got Eric Sornton d one baseball boots on the
ground in Omaha or second person to talk to in Omaha.
Speaker 8: Again, knows did you did you hear the story about
the I don't know if it was real or not,
but I thought a post from the Jebble Shot Challenge
that bar had to shut down early a couple of
nights ago.
Speaker 7: I did see that.
Speaker 6: They said there was a I don't know if we
if we know exactly what fan base it was.
Speaker 2: So the rumors I had heard was Murray State, U
c l A.
Speaker 7: Murray Really yeah, all right, racers, you know what? You
know what?
Speaker 6: I'm glad y'all mention that because old Ben Mints is
like oh L s U fans acting rowdy? Hey, Ben,
how are the old miss fans acting in Omahall?
Speaker 7: Oh, they're not there.
Speaker 6: They're in Oxford because you got beat by Murray State.
Speaker 7: That's right, big L s U fans, You're supposed to
be from losing.
Speaker 8: A boy Murray State versus you know they weren't drunk
because they only bought thirty nine Jelba shots.
Speaker 7: Yeah. What doing those those mehidos they were on?
Speaker 8: Do you have h three water?
Speaker 1: I mean that's California five for sure, fuzzy navel, it's
probably a big one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, women drop you know, lemon drop back there.
Speaker 7: Yeah. So Landra, stay safe out there in the weather.
Speaker 6: Enjoy the bar tonight, hope and hopefully you and the
family are celebrating another L s U victory.
Speaker 7: We'll see you in a couple of days. Here.
Speaker 8: We'll be here.
Speaker 7: We'll see You'll be here.
Speaker 8: You know I'll be here.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
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That no chance I was gonna walk here if I
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Speaker 6: All right, welcome back, Ian OTB one of four five
ESPN Baton rouge You're gonna go to Omaha and now
Eric Sorenson D one baseball dot Com joins us e.
Speaker 7: It is always a pleasure. I hope Omahall is treating
you well.
Speaker 6: No, it's one of your favorite places the world.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's where I call home is where I grew up.
But yes, it's other than the weather being well a
lot hotter than I'm used to, this is things are
going great.
Speaker 6: Guys, all right, So I told you this when I
reached out to you, and you and I talk on
this show on my serious XIM show a lot about
West Coast baseball.
Speaker 7: You know it incredibly well.
Speaker 6: And so LSU is taking on one of those teams
in UCLA later on tonight. Uh, kind of your your
breakdown of UCLA, because this is a team that's been
close to getting back to the College World Series, but
you know it's been over a decade since they had
that run there in twenty eleven, twelve thirteen in that
time period, and so is this a UCLA team that
you saw being able to make this kind of run
through the totality of the season.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And you know it's weird, Jacob, because uh, you
know last year I'm sure you probably know. Last year
they only won nineteen games, and they have the they
have the number one recruiting class in the country, but
they were all have being forced to play, and you know,
freshmen will be freshmen. So they had a really crappy
team last year they really did, I mean just a
bad season. I should say. It's all the same guys
coming back this year. And I kind of thought at
the beginning of the year that I'm sorry, UCLA was
one of those teams that, yeah, they probably weren't going
to be in the preseason, it wouldn't have a lot
of expectations, but had a chance to make and you know,
be one of the final eight. I really thought if
they put it together and and for God's sake, stayed healthy.
They were also being so bad last year. I mean
every team gets that way, but this was kind of
off the off the Richter scale last year through UCLA,
So yeah, I kind of thought they had a chance
to be really good and and it turned out that
way that they did. And it's just kind of a
thing where these freshmen became sophomores and the mass unit
didn't show up, so you know, they stayed healthy. So yeah,
I kind of expected them to be Now did I
expect to make Obaha, not necessarily, but I knew they
had a chance.
Speaker 8: Eric, we're getting ready for of course UCLA LSU tonight.
So what's your biggest takeaway from seeing LSU Arkansas A
couple of days ago and what they've done in the
regionals of super regionals leading up to this point.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I kind of thought the interesting thing was how
well Kate Anderson threw. I knew he got a little
deemed up in against West Virginia, which had a really
good offense. They were one of the better offenses I
saw this year, so I wasn't surprised that West Virginia
kind of got to Anderson and ienson a little bit.
But you know, the offense and Jake, you and I
have talked about this before. The offense for use or
for LSU kind of have some quiet spells this year,
and to be honest, you see La kind of the
same way. They'll they'll go quiet from time to time.
But yeah, I just him pitching on a stage like that,
I'm talking about Anderson, Kate Andston. Him pitching out a
stage like that at that level is really something a
coach loves to see because you never know, you know,
a lot of times these guys are either going to
pitch the game of their life on the big stage
or they're going to freak out pee their pants and
they're going to feel last about an inning or so
in that sense. Oh yeah, they It's really weird how
sometimes things go one way or the other. But my
biggest takeaway from that game against Arkansas was just the
dominance of Anderston. I mean that was that was an
impressive performance.
Speaker 6: And so now I think we all assume Anthony Einstein
is going to be on the bump for LSU against UCLA.
And this is somebody that is from Lakewood, California. He
pitched at you See San Diego, and just his performance
this year because he was good at U See San
Diego out of the Big West, which is a great
baseball conference, but I mean to what he's done in
the SEC this year in the postseason, I don't think
anybody could have assumed he would be this good in
purplean goal.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was kind of weird because when I heard
that he transferred, I felt bad for coach Eric Newman
that you can see San Diego, of course, yeah, but
at the same time, I thought, man, I wonder how
this guy is going to do against the SC. I mean,
I will I will correct you on one small thing.
The Big West is a good conference, but the SEC
is a great com I mean just kind of have
to look at it. That way.
Speaker 6: Hey, you know me, you know from a mid May
he's out there in southern California.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, I'm with you on that. And to be honest,
the Big West is still I still think it's better
than those people think. But what Nonetheless, getting back to
the point though, Yeah, I was wondering what kind of
season irons And was going to have and I didn't
quite see him stepping up quite like he did this year.
I mean, he's he's been really really locked in and
apparently it's just been you know, pitching, pitching his butt
off weekend week out, and again I know coming off
in the performance, gave up some runs, gave up some
hits against West Virginia, but this will be an interesting showdown.
I went to look back to see if if i
Inton had ever faced UCLA when he was at when
he was a Triton, but now they never played each other.
But yeah, this is a this is a dude right
down the street from me in Lakeland, California that had
really stepped up this year. I was really impressed with
what he had become this year.
Speaker 8: Yeah, here except the Stage four US too. For tonight
with the pitching matchup of UCLA versus UH the LSU lineup,
and there's LSU's kind of been up and down the
last couple of games, and we we did some things
that played. Discipline has been really good, good, but a
lot of strikeouts from LSU in the in the last
game verse argusas also talk to us, what you thought
your thoughts are on the matchup?
Speaker 9: Yeah, this is kind of interesting, guys, because LSU and
UCLA's offenses are very similar. To me, like, they both
hit right around they coming into the casual series. They
both hit two ninety eight, two ninety nine respectively, and
they both kind of as I mentioned a minute ago,
UCLA the same way. They can get there, no little
client from time to time. Out that's the dish. But
the difference, the big difference is in the pitching. UCLA
does not rely on their starters at all. In fact,
their starters normally if John Savage gets four or five
amings out of them, he's pretty happy about that. The
big difference is that UCLA has literally nine or ten
deep in the bullpen. These are all guys that were
highly regarded. A lot of them were injured last year,
but they have nine or ten guys they go to
and you'll Steet and I they'll probably pitch like they pitched.
I think they pitched six guys against against Murray State.
They'll probably be the same. Land and Stone will get
the start he's been okay, it's nothing, nothing domineering from him.
But I think they're gonna go to the bullpen early
and off and they're just gonna give Lshu's batters a
different book every inning. I think that's kind of been
one of their strengths this year, is everything looks different
because they got so many guys that can pitch at
a high level, and so that'll be the difference. You know,
L She's gonna hope Ianson goes along and U c.
L A is gonna be like fine if Stump, if
Lynn and Stump only goes a few innings, because they'll
bring in these courses that come in from the from
the paddock here that that can just humme it and
pitch really well, not just throw hard, but can really pitch.
Speaker 6: Catching up with Eric Sosornson d one Baseball dot Com
here on O t B. Eric, what about the early
game today? You've got Murray State Arkansas in an elimination game.
Arkansas the big favorite. I mean minus six hundred on
the money line. Do the racers who have done this before,
do you give them any chance to take down Arkansas?
Speaker 9: Of course, you guys. I mean this is this is
the College World Series. I mean, granted it might turn
to turned out to be like a Stony Brook that
you know, Murray's it'll be everybody's favorite. You know, everybody
in the stadium was cheering a for them against u c.
Speaker 5: L A.
Speaker 9: But in sone of ther s case, they were out
in two really quickly, and and actually in their case
they kind of got blown out and that in that
magical year they had. But now Murray State really showed
me a lot. You know, UCLA got out to that
big lead and they just kept kept hanging on. They
they're pitching, Their pitching did well, their hitting came around,
and I really thought it might come down to the
last minute magic type thing against the Bruins, but they
the UCLA shut them down. So yeah, I gave them
the puncher's chance. I mean, anything anything happened here in Omaha,
and and you know it's kind of like the same way.
You know everybody in the stadium. Most people are going
to be for Murray State, and that's probably feed off
that energy. And yeah, they've got some guys that surprised me.
They have some guys that can really hit and uh
and and can do so with power too. And this
is just your usual mid major team that uh that
Jake you and I love. But interesting story, it'll be,
it'll be. It'll be cool to see what happens today.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Murray State really give
them a dog fight. I got our saw obviously, if
I'm having to pick this game in Vegas, but man,
this this is the year of the underdog in the
NCAA tournament.
Speaker 8: So you know, look out, Eric so l s U
fans of course travel really well to home hall care
immensely about what happens in the stadium, but you know
almost equally about what happens outside of the stadium with
the fan base. So I gotta ask, like, when it
comes to jello shot competitions, what is a U c
l A doing right now? We're not even like four
digits yet.
Speaker 9: No, I mean you're gonna bring up the.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to.
Speaker 9: It's become a thing now the last few years, and
it befuddles me because I think jello shots are nasty.
But yes, anything that has competition, any kind of competition
that that that they can think they can cheer for,
they're going to do it.
Speaker 5: U c l A fans.
Speaker 9: They're you know, they're just too smart. They don't they
don't pay. It's like five bucks for those things, and
they try probably don't have any alcohol in them for real.
But yeah, you know, that's that's why it's that's why
I always say, if hel You ever decided to start
a hockey program, they'd probably be in the top ten
of calip just because you know, it's a competition and
they and they love it. You know, they follow their tigers.
So yeah, I'm not surprised that El she's probably gonna
dominate the the yellow shot competition. The only way they
would have lost that at the yellow shot competition at
Rocko's is if they happen to have gone oh and
two or one and two. But other than that, now
they're they're gonna win that by a mile.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: There is our guy, Eric Swordson d one baseball dot Com.
Speaker 8: Eric.
Speaker 6: We always appreciate the time man, enjoy home, enjoy Omaha,
and enjoy the games.
Speaker 9: Today you got a guys stick sharing the air with.
Speaker 6: I mean, it is kind of funny, like we're clowning people.
But it is just jealous shot. Oh for sure, it's
just jealous.
Speaker 8: Uh, you know, it's just you gotta I don't even
care about like necessarily winning it. You know, you gotta
show a little fight. Yeah, you got you got to show.
Speaker 6: Maybe maybe we get real diabolical one year and we
turn it into whiskey shots.
Speaker 8: I don't know. I mean, I don't know that better.
Speaker 6: Definitely easier to get down, man, I mean a shot
of whiskey goes down a lot easier than gelatin. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying, you know, easier one they probably don't,
but a lot easier to like, yeah you get a
handle of whiskey.
Speaker 2: Yeah you don't have to make it.
Speaker 8: Yeah you can do something like picture beer situation. I
think the whiskey shot might be aggressive.
Speaker 7: Like we're trying to find aggression here. That's the whole point.
Speaker 8: Are we trying to find aggression? We're trying to find competition,
friendly competition.
Speaker 6: Aggression competition, Like I wanted to be the movie three
hundred in the crowd.
Speaker 8: But that's well, okay in the crowd. But if you're
but if you do the whiskey thing, it does a
chance that people don't make it.
Speaker 7: That's all.
Speaker 9: I mean.
Speaker 7: It's every l U sporting event.
Speaker 6: Evern's got a good point though, I mean they shut
down the place after one little bar fight.
Speaker 8: I mean that was.
Speaker 6: Like, I guess that's true. Is they're not about that life,
then you're probably.
Speaker 8: I think everywhere else trap there's always an unsaid like
unstated competition with l s U fans and the person
who stalks the bar, like they're always trying to make
that guy get fired because the underprepared. So I think
there's always that liquor competition, but it's just unstated an
actual scoreboard. Yeah, I actually think jello shots might be
as strong as you go.
Speaker 6: All right, Well, end the show like we do every
single day. We'll ask the bench get your questions inside
to buy you four chat. We'll wrap up this Monday
morning edition on OTVP the bench. No, see that's something
you say like at the very end, like that's the
way to sign off is sissy blue shirts.
Speaker 8: I did signed off that segment.
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Speaker 8: A little bit nervous that I might have admitted to
a crime earlier. And I said I took the conkshell home.
Speaker 7: I literally told you that.
Speaker 2: Did you put it in your suitcase? Okay, Mike, you
didn't have it as a carry on one. Where was it?
Speaker 6: Me?
Speaker 8: You check it?
Speaker 7: I think you're good. You're back home now. I think
you're fine.
Speaker 8: That's your limitation.
Speaker 1: In the X ray machine anyways, and didn't say anything.
You're probably fine.
Speaker 8: Got what do I think it shows up on the
X rays?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Absolutely, arrested for that.
Speaker 8: That's the thing for that whole trip. That's the thing
that did it.
Speaker 2: You call, Hey, guys, I can't make it. I'm detained.
Speaker 7: Stole a conk shell?
Speaker 8: What happened?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 8: Can you steal it? Yeah? I mean yeah, stole it
from theland. I guess I don't know, dummy. We'll see.
I go to my parking lot. Federal agents, Uh, just
waiting around.
Speaker 6: I think they got some other stuff they're worrying about
right now. Ask the Bench. Favorite Righteous Gemstones character day
mcbrown Baby Billy, Baby Billy. Billy's good too, Baby.
Speaker 2: I'm actually in the middle of that. Just started season two.
Speaker 8: Who's the sister's husband, DJ DJ whatever his name is,
of course.
Speaker 7: It is, uh. Ask the bench. What is everyone's favorite
flavor of jello?
Speaker 2: The red one.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go with the orange. Oh, I was gonna
say anything but orange.
Speaker 8: Actually we go lime. The green lime line's good.
Speaker 7: I like the blue is it?
Speaker 2: I guess it's blueberry or something like that. Yeah, I
just got.
Speaker 8: Unless it's in a little plastic cup with alcoholing it.
Speaker 6: Ask the bench, does the laundry Bob actually make it
back Wednesday?
Speaker 2: Actually? In her defense, like.
Speaker 7: I'll be a Foxhold guy and I'll say yeah.
Speaker 8: If the others like it is now, I'll say her
intentions will be here on Wednesday? The will to be here.
Speaker 6: Can we get Austin Bain on this week to do
a sweaty live read.
Speaker 7: I'll ask him right now.
Speaker 8: God, that would make me feel so much better about
my live reds.
Speaker 7: Thanks Cousin Jake, Thanks Cousin Jake. Yeah, we'll get him on.
Go Tigers, Go Tigers, beat UCLA.
Speaker 6: Sissy, enjoy the game, Go for dose, have a lot
of fun while doing it, and we'll break down a
Tiger's victory tomorrow morning.
Speaker 7: Right here. That's on TV.
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