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Speaker 1: Here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What's going on? Guys? Friday, Mark twenty twenty five,
T Bob Loved and Taylor hanging out with you today.
Jacob be in here shortly taking some h some dad
stuff as is. Uh, you know, life is wont to
do at times. I hope everybody's having a great day
to day. Guys, hope you had a great night last night.
Chance out you're feeling pretty good because that LSU baseball
team getting the weekend series started with a tough, gritty,
come from behind victory. You love to see it. Will
break it all down. What's going on, guys, Alandra, how
you feel the day? Right? Go to Taylor first, you
cut up some audio, Tay Tay, what's up doing well?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 3: We're excited to be here. It's Friday. It has been
a long, long week. I felt like it was Thursday
for about three days. Nice, so weekends almost here.
Speaker 2: What about you?
Speaker 1: Girl?
Speaker 4: How you doing, feeling good? Excited? I just said before
we went on TJF t G I F AM I right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
classic tg IF.
Speaker 2: Okay, your your tone is not really selling what you're saying,
but I do know that you're feeling that. So trust me, guys,
she is, she is feeling that. You know what old
Jim Rome says. He says, t G I F. The
grind includes Friday. Okay, so we're gonna keep working hard
for at least two hours and then we're gonna drink champagne.
Speaker 4: Does he really say that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Really, I actually love that.
Speaker 2: I know. I uh, it's It's one of the reasons
why I've been, you know, pushing myself to limits, to
to do all that, do all this stuff this week
is because you know, he just like gets off on
like on on on on on on the work man.
So trying out here, finally feeling human again though U
the the that that flu pill thing seems to have worked.
Even got in a little workout this morning. I did
awful of the workout, but starting to feel uh back
to uh normal once again. So we got a great
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chat and we'll hang out there all right. Uh, let's
go ahead and talk about last night's game, LSU taking
down the missis v A Bulldogs eight to six uh
in game one of this this weekend series. And look,
Louisiana Sports dot Net has a lot of great content
on it every single day for all of your Louisiana
Sports has a good write up on the game, but
also Rivers did a really good deep dive on the
history of Misssippi State LSU that adds a little bit
of a substance, a little bit of narrative spine to
this weekend series and helps the setting feel even more important.
But looking at last night's game, and you're gonna have
to help me out here, because I tuned in when
it was five to two and they pushed it to
six to two and watched the game from there on out.
So if I was superstitious, I would say you're welcome,
because pretty much everything turned once I started watching. I'm
not so what was up with cade, what what was
the what went wrong to get LSU into that six
to two hole?
Speaker 5: You just got touched up. I mean it's the SCC.
Speaker 3: Right, you're not gonna be I mean, look, a Paul
Schimes run is very rare. You're not going to be
dominant every series. Right, he throws one hundred and one
pitches in five innings. I mean he didn't have it,
but yeah, the good news is Mississippi State was pitching off.
This was essentially a must win game for shoot Kate
Anderson didn't have his best love and he still won
the game.
Speaker 5: So while he didn't look good, got it done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember there's Missippi State team that, as we said,
fifth in the SEC. I think batting as a team
over three hundred, like it's a team where the record
maybe doesn't tell the story in terms of how good
some of the stats are. But yeah, like, like, like
Taylor alluded to you, there, missus a pitching off, so
in a way, sort of conceding game one. So when
you were down six to two, it all felt like
a bit of a disaster. And that's when everything changed.
And it starts with the man who belies his yeared
curial gets uh the big walk, just an excellent at
bet Bear Jones does the same thing, and then Daniel Dickinson, uh,
giving you exactly what you want behind a hit or
like Bear Jones, you know protection. Okay, you're scared of Bear.
You don't want to throw to him. You don't want
him to let you burn you. Okay, you want to
walk Bear. Well, guess what happens at two run home
run that you were worried about. It just turned into
a three run home run. And then, of course, what
more can you say about Steven milem He's just so
good at baseball as he parks one in the stands
as well, and all of a sudden it's a seven
to six lead for LSU And on the other side
of the ball. That's when Zach Cowen came in. And
you mentioned Kate Anderson giving you five. Cowen gives you
a four, and he gives you a four dominant one
hit over those final four innings, no walks, seven K's
just fifty nine pitches to get through those innings. Basically
gave you a starter's worth of production this game and
some insane numbers written by Titan and the Dock here
thirty six to three strikeout to walk ratio for Zach Cowen.
Speaker 5: Right, I have a lot of credit. She added that,
oh there you.
Speaker 2: Go, thank you, Landra, I apologize. Some excellent work by
a Landra. There thirty six to three strike out to
walk ratio by Zach Cowen. And I was thinking about
this watching Cowen last night because his experience and coming
over from Watford and whatnot. And it's not one to one,
but I was thinking of, Oh my god, why am
I blaming who is our Riley, our bad buddy god
from Arizona, Riley Cooper? Thank you God, I couldn't remember
that name. Take a lot. I'm blaming brain fuk. But
like you know, Riley Cooper never had the nastiest stuff
compared to other people on this staff. And I'm not
saying that zach Im. Look, I'm not a baseball scout
or expert. I'm not here to really comment too much
on the nastiness of Cowen stuff. But it's not the
most overwhelming power. It's not like the craziest arm that
Lsu has. And yet the guy just knows how to pitch.
And you could feel Mississippi State as their dreams dissipated, helpless,
flailing as if a Boa constrictor were wrapped around them
and slowly choking the life out of them as he
shuts the door over the final four innings in State,
which for half of that game, everything was going right,
they were pitching off, they were somehow still going to win,
and then everything went wrong. And what a great mental
test passed by this LSU team. And look the bats
right now, as he said, are the strength of this team.
The offense is it's probably the most consistent part of
this team, and so you're going to have to rely
on the offense to win you games. That's exactly what
they did. And I love a comeback last night in
terms of those guys proving it to themselves that they
can do that. And those are lessons and confidence that
you can carry forward with you, not just in the
rest of this series, but in the rest of this season. Alandra,
I know you were very excited last night. You were
tweeting about wanting Daniel Dickinson memes. You you seemed over
the moon. What do you think about last night's game?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it started off a little hard to watch. Yeah,
thirty pitches in one inning is not ideal for somebody
like Kate Anderson, especially when he's the one that's giving
you the most innings in the games, But yeah, it
was a great fight back from the Tigers. Daniel Dickinson
is awesome. Whenever we were coming into the season and
we were asked like, who are you most excited to
see from me, it is him and he's proving why
he's so exciting to watch. And I wasn't really listening
because I'm trying to find this quote.
Speaker 2: But about the quart now, you're good. You don't have
to worry too much about the question.
Speaker 4: But Zach cowen slider is freaking ridiculous, Like it is
one of the They were chasing that thing so hard,
like swinging out their shoes trying to get to that slider,
and it was that's what's working so well for him.
Like I kind of heard you say he doesn't have
overwhelming power. I think is what you're saying, so that
the movement and the command that Zach Cowen has is
what's helping him so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the command, right, the guy just knows how to pitch.
He has that feeling right now of setting the hitter
up and basically manipulating them like you could. Cowen just
felt and Kate Anderson sawing this with the majority of
the year as well, just not last night. Yeah, and
again it's it's it's always great. You get bonus points
in the season long Ledger Book when you get a
win in which your ace does not have it. Yeah,
I'm gonna give you double bonus points to the Ledger
Book when you get win and which your ace does
not have it and you still only use two pitchers. Yeah,
I mean you're still set up for the rest of
the weekend with basically everything available.
Speaker 3: So does Binge through two thirds. So I mean, if
you need him, I mean he's good to go.
Speaker 4: Well, even Cowen only had like fifty pitches.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think whether you wrote it down here, you
had fifty nine pitches. Yeah, in the end of those
four innings. So you have a situation in which you
did not have your best, you did not overly and
even despite that you did not really tax your bullpen.
You still come away with a win. And now you
are set up to try to take this series either
tonight or in Game number three. And obviously tonight represents
a bit of a unique challenge as Mississippi State will
be throwing their ace and it's gonna be up to
Anthony Anson to uh to try to keep track.
Speaker 4: The memes look for it's what was it.
Speaker 2: I'm literally just Daniel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, thank you for saving my life. And
he's like, I'm literally just Daniel Dickens.
Speaker 2: But that is how it felt.
Speaker 4: That's how it felt because.
Speaker 2: Again, yeah, last night, it's one of those big rubber
band games where that same context that I was just
giving bonus points in the ledger four, that same context,
if you lose the game also gives bonus points in
the opposite direction. Everything is that much worse because they
pitched off and your a's gonna win and blah blah blah.
So I thought this was a character building, mentally tough,
very impressive win from this LSU Tiger baseball team last night.
And you could hear when it was six to two.
I could almost physically hear, as I'm laid up in bed,
flued up and whatnot, watching my laptop, I could almost
physically hear the panic coming out of the Tiger fan
right the box was quiet, I could hear, I could
hear three sec losses in a row, blah blah, and
all these narratives swirling in the air. And that's when
again that ending curial bear Dickinson milam taking care of
business and making sure.
Speaker 4: So I had did not come to pass I had
to help Matt and Gordie out with some event that
they did last night with like Lakeman's health or something
like that.
Speaker 2: How are you at the stadium?
Speaker 4: Yes, and we like the game was on on the
TVs and they were, I don't know, talking about something
on It was like a round table kind of thing
and they were talking to Mago's a laundra house baseball doing.
I was like, like, don't ask me any questions right now, plaase,
I'm stressed.
Speaker 2: Hwating exactly and so all of that. But that's the
great part about sports when when that it really is
that passion is. You know, love and hate are two
sides of the same coin, and as bad as it felt,
it feels that much better when it rubber bands and
you emerge out the other side.
Speaker 4: Knows it's very stressful watching a baseball game with me.
Speaker 2: I can imagine. I can imagine. I can tell a
bit from the text that you were sending.
Speaker 5: James Fancy.
Speaker 4: Jake's mom was like texting me last night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's very funny, that's what you said.
Speaker 4: Love her.
Speaker 2: Uh so she's she's big LSU baseball.
Speaker 4: Jake says, she's just big LSU sports there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, so massive win game two tonight. Again,
you could argue maybe LSU not the favorite giving the
pitching matchup, but it's been really good man, and so
or he's been He's been mostly good.
Speaker 5: So he knows how to get out of jams.
Speaker 3: I mean we talked about it, like the first two weekends,
even when you were in an SEC play. He got
in early jams but got out of it. I mean,
he knows how to do that.
Speaker 2: Now, he's just got to try to raise that level
of play once again again though, I mean, that's the thing.
And credit to Texas for you know, the last game
and a half of that too. He's for shutting down
this lineup. But man, being a picture and having to
go toe to toe with the LSU one through nine
just seems so intimidating and the margin of error is
so small. And they proved that again last night. What
was that?
Speaker 4: What about you said credit to texts. Yeah, you gave
Texas that was crazy that I've never.
Speaker 2: Look at what Valantis did, right, I mean, you know, credit,
I'm not that much of a hater. Credit where credits
do criticism where criticisms do? You know for sure?
Speaker 4: But you know, you know one thing that did make
me kind of angry, and you know that I like
small ball. I'm a bundant. I like bunt. Do it,
don't do it? When you're lead off hitter is there's
nobody on bass, and your leadoff hitters on base percentage
is absolutely insane and batting average is crazy too. Like
his first the leadoff hit of the game for Derrek
Courriel was a bunt.
Speaker 2: He didn't Yeah, I missed, Yeah, I missed a very
beginning game.
Speaker 3: Wait, so like he had two strikes on him when
he's laying down the board too, so off the.
Speaker 2: Jump first hit of the game, they cheeky button.
Speaker 5: I don't like that at all, Curio. I mean, what
what's his reach base?
Speaker 4: He struck out that batting?
Speaker 6: You heard that?
Speaker 2: Bad? The thing is though, again.
Speaker 4: He's reached based every game by the way, yeah, yeah,
twenty six.
Speaker 5: I mean, however many we played.
Speaker 2: Again, I think, yeah, sure, objectively the result says that
that was uh not a good you know, not not
a good decision at that time. But I think a
lot of Jay's decisions at times, Oh beyond uh just
the immediate situation at hand. Yeah, tinkering, putting stuff on film,
trying things differently, trying to show that, oh, if we
want to do this, this is something you maybe have
to be aware of. Like I don't I you know,
maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm just like just giving him
too much credit. And he would come on here and say, no,
I wish I wouldn't have done that. But uh, with
these base baseball is just a different game. It's like
that insane story about Greg Maddox at surface recently.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Jeff Bagwell one, I thought.
Speaker 2: It was Barry bombs as a Bagwell.
Speaker 4: I think it was Bagwell where he pitched him those Yeah,
he's like, you.
Speaker 2: Know, they're blowing him out, the braves are and and
and so he's pitching Bagwell and he basically lets Bagwell
hit a home run with a certain setup. Uh, so
that months later in the playoffs when it mattered, he
could uh try you know, convince him the same thing
was coming and then basically pull the rope out. So again,
you know, I and maybe maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm
just giving too much.
Speaker 3: I mean I'm okay with a little bit of team Green.
I mean I maybe would have done it sooner than
Game one against Mississippi State with your leadoff batter, but
I mean it it all work out in the end.
Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, you won the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah uh.
Speaker 2: And now you're gonna try to make it too. And
I all right when we get back to stuggle LSU
spring football, as there's one pision that really struggled last
year trying to figure out and some of the potential
answers until the problem may surprise you. Keep a locked
here on O. TB.
Speaker 1: Off the Bench, Welcome back to more sports talk. What's
some other stuff mixed in Off the bench with Hester
and t Bob.
Speaker 2: Uh shout out bel Frank getting some love like y'ell
said in the broadcast last night. Also remember that that
that clip that we also highlighted of him talking about
the combination there on the infield being maybe the best
he's ever seen. A turn in two getting to run
on the television broadcast as well. We love to see it.
Speaking of things I love to see, so again, I
mentioned that article that Rivers wrote on the history of
this Missippi State l shoot rivalry. And this has nothing
to do with the rivalry itself, but It's a very
funny anecdote. It goes from Ron Poke's Twitter where he
tells a story about how he was thrown out at
Arkansas for arguing balls and strikes and once he was tossed,
the umpire told him to go quote where he could
not see me. So naturally he went and stood on
home plate. Is uh that is a a plus top
tier troll job at.
Speaker 5: Some time, go look up some Ron Poke Woltz.
Speaker 2: He was. He's a quote king him, I mean, and
that skit was the same way, right, Like, wasn't he
notoriously mean to the pictures that he was going to
take out the game?
Speaker 5: I think I think it was actually and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: The line I always here is it's not your fault,
it's mine. I recruited.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I think I think Doug's
the one that told that story.
Speaker 2: Oh come of the old heads that laid the groundwork
for what we're enjoying today. All right, So let's talk
some LSU football. As if you look at last year's team,
one of the biggest consistent issues with the team was
the safety position, and the numbers actually back it up.
Right's some really good work by Hunt Palmer to find
these numbers. I was not aware of this, but LSU
third to last in the SEC in twenty plus yard runs.
Only Vandy and Texas A and M allowed more, and
LSU dead last allowing six runs of forty yards or more.
The only way that happens is when you have safeties
that are struggling your last line of defense. So if
you're talking about areas in which LSU needs to improve season,
I mean, arguably the biggest spot again maybe not the
biggest question mark, like something that go lines interesting in
the talent that you're losing the impact of the position
itself and how everything else on offense seems to be great,
but that could like I would say something like, there's
other more important positions, but in terms of the position
that could improve more than any other, safety is probably
at the top of that list. And you got no
more major Burns, you got no more Sage rhyand you
got no more Kylon Jackson. You still have Jardon Gilbert,
you still have de Shawn Spears, you got Joel Rogers
back as well. You added to Marcus Cooley through the portal.
And then there's another guy that might end up playing
safety and name that you recognize was not recruited as
a safety. So let's start with a guy who played
early on last year but then you didn't really see
him after Game four, and that is DeShawn Spears. And
here's a great quote from Blake Baker onto Shawn Spears quote.
Nobody was harder onto Shawn Spears last year than me,
and it's starting to pay off. The dude is making
it down of plays out there. And look, kids, if
you're listening, this is something that I've always believed. And well,
not just me anything, you'll hear this from a lot
of coaches and athletes. When a coach does not talk
to you, When a coach is not on your ass
and not chewing you out and not being hard on you,
that's when you have to be concerned. If a coach
is constantly berating you, constantly on you, yelling at you
to get better, to fix your mistakes, pointing out what
you did wrong, that's a good thing. It may not
feel good, but that's a good thing because it means
that he sees something in you. He knows what you
can be, and he knows how much better you can
And sometimes athletics really, life in general can be a
bit odd where you almost need someone to set the
standard for you and have you rise to it. Your
own brain can be self limiting at times, is some
of the former Relaship strength coach Tommy Moffatt used to
always talk about right like your mind is telling you
you can't, but your body absolutely can. Sometimes you have
to have that external motivation to show you how good
you can be. And to me, this quote reads like
Deshaun Spears is in that situation where last year Blake
Baker's just constantly on his ass for every single little
thing and he's probably being a man. This guy, this
guy really don'tlike me? Why is he always on me? Now?
Granted I can't speak for what he does or doesn't realize.
Maybe he even realized at the time. No, this is
a good thing. This means that he believes in me.
But that is what it means. And it sounds like
that attention is starting to pay off. In fact, even
at the practice at Hunt covered the other day on Saturday,
DeShawn Spears was reportedly excellent in coverage during one on ones,
had some really good raps cleaning one against Bowers Sharp
and when he comes up with a big deflection. Bower
Sharp's a very experienced, very good college football route runner.
So as we look for answers at that safety position
to Shawn Spears just became more interesting to me. Other
names that could potentially factor it. And this one surprised
me maybe more than any other, and that is Javian Toviano.
Uh Taylor, You'll probably remember it was Tobiano a five
star or just a high four star.
Speaker 3: He was not a you know, consensus, I mean, one
recruiting side at him as a five one four.
Speaker 5: But I mean if you remember last year, well.
Speaker 2: That's kind of like a four point five, which is yeah.
Speaker 3: We were kind of talking about this last year, Like
if you watched him a little bit and I school,
like I did, like he played more safety than corner
in high school. I kind of always thought that in
his natural position. I mean I thought he was playing
out of position. It was really because you had to
throw him in there two years ago. If you remember
at corner because you had so many injuries.
Speaker 2: Well, he was always recruited as a corner, and he
said he was going to be a corner. But to
Taylor's point, here's what Blake Baker had to say about Toviano. Quote,
Toviano to me, from a coaching standpoint, I think he's
finally settled into what he really is. We had him
at corner, we had him at nickel. I think he's
a safety. He's tackled out standing, He's had a really
good spring, and look, playing out of position is a
is a real thing. It's like trying to fit a
square peg in a round hole. And that's kind of
what it's felt like with Toviano, a guy who you
were so excited to sign, who had so much hype
entering his time at LSU, and you haven't quite seen
it come to fruition. And that's potentially because he hasn't
been put in position to succeed, because he has been
playing the right position. That's interesting context, though, Taylor, I
did not realize that in high school he actually played
more safety than corner because he was hyped up as
this great corner. I just always assumed that's where he
was mainly. So it seems like JV and Toviano may
have finally found his way to his most natural position
as well. So you've got DeShawn spears and guys are
allowed to improve also, right, if you think, oh, what
you saw to Spears last year is going to be
who Spears is this year next year, well that's not true.
Guys are allowed to improve, especially at this age. So
you have DeShawn Spears, who reportedly seems like he's coming
along developing really nicely, Javian Toviano who's maybe finally found
his most natural position. And then this is where it
gets be interesting to me, and that is the case
of NC State t answer to Marcus Cooley, who we
all kind of penciled in as probably being the best answer,
given that he's had success and sort of a safety
hybrid nickel role at NC State on a good defense
started a lot of games. I will say, though, maybe
reading between the lines a bit, and this could just
be projection on my part, but you know, a lot
of offseason football is like looking through a keyhole and
trying to describe what's going on in the room. Right,
you grasp its draws, you make mountains out of mole hills,
like you try to take tiny disparate pieces of information
and paint these very large outcomes. But this quote does
seem a bit more tepid compared to the last couple.
Here's what he had to say about Coolly quote, he's
got good speed in the back end for us, and
he's played a lot of football. Maybe they're saying he's
not a safety. Maybe they're saying they don't know what
his role is yet. Maybe he is. And that's just
a quote that he just said, and he just said
it not thinking that. Being a sports talk show that
is twenty four to seven content demands that we would
just overanalyze and extrapolate everything that is uttered into a microphone.
I don't exactly know. What I do know is if
this defense is going to take this step forward that
you need it to, that you expected to, that you
would want to from the investment that you've made in it,
well that safe position is going to be key. And
it does feel like those are the names Spears, Toviano
and Cooley that you're gonna want to pay attention to.
Will continue to monitor the situation, but of course that's
too Jake Olsen, who actually came over with Blake Baker
from Zoo to be the safety's coach. Those are gonna
be the guys that he's gonna have to get ready
to play. And if you get it better on the
back end. You cut down on some of those big plays.
You will see an LSU defense that is vastly improved
from last season. All right, when we get back here
on OTB, let's talk a little LSU Women's Sweet sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Back to sports Talk, maybe off the bench?
Speaker 2: What's hadding y'all? Welcome back? OTB rolling around along and
you know what else is rolling right along? Your LSU
Tigers in the NC Double A Tournament, getting ready to
take on NC State tonight up there in the Pacific Northwest,
and it promises to be a big one sweet sixteen.
Of course, LSU inners hot at it started this tournament.
They came the second team in tournament history to record
back to back one hundred point games. To give you
an idea of just how fantastic they were in these
opening two rounds. Also against FSU, those twenty nine assists
an NC Double A tournament record. Anissa Marron Smeis Smith
became the first front court duo in NCAA tournament history
with twenty point double doubles and five assists apiece. So,
as you can see, it appears that LSU is peaking
at the right time, but this is a Wolfpack team
that is also peaked since the last time you saw
them now. I think the temptation would be to say, oh, well,
look LSU. NC State actually played this year back in
November and LSU won by seventeen, So okay, you're fine,
and yes, look doing me wrong. Ls who's a favorite?
They should be. But this is an NC State team
that was in the Final four last year as a
three seed, same thing that LSU's trying to do this year.
And at the time that LSU beat NC State, I
don't know if NC State had fully found themselves yet
they were ranked twentieth. I don't think people expected to
end up as strong as they did. They would go
on to go to the ACC only losing two games,
they would finish tied for first in the conference. They'd
actually end up with a two see higher than that
of the Tigers. So it is going to be an
absolute four quarter battle. Now again, obviously I'm going to
take LSU. I'll take Kim Mulk over you know, anybody
not named South Carolina. Frankly, if we're just talking about
are they going to win or not? And I don't
think tonight should be any different. I think it's going
to be intense. But I like how this LSU team
the rhythm, not just that they're in on the court,
but kind of the season long rhythm where it appeared
that they wobbled late, but it wasn't as much of
a wobble as much a was, Hey, let's take some
of our best players off the court, let's get them healthy,
and let's have all the pieces ready to fire for
once the tournament begins. And you're seeing the benefits of
that overarching strategy by coach Kim Mulkermer's strategy is that
that's that's your kind of season long maneuvers and buttons
that you press, tactics or your end game adjustments and whatnot.
And coach Molky's an expert at at both. Uh, Jakie,
what's up brother? What's going on? Jay Kester? Freshof dad duty?
What's happening man? How are we doing this morning?
Speaker 6: Doing well? Doing well? Yeah? So we had the elementary
and middle school kids didn't have to go to school,
but the high school kids in like the seventh eighth
grade something had to go. So we were all split up.
And of course because the elementary kids were off, Memphis
is like, hey, let's I want the whole baseball team
basically to stay over. So yeah we could.
Speaker 5: We couldn't leave.
Speaker 6: Them at the house by themselves and so had to
drop off the older kids. But it wasn't too bad
because well most of the school wasn't there.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, sure, sure. A little lighter carpool line thoughts
on this l s U NC State game tonight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, listening to what you said, you're right about like mentality,
and you did beat them, but that can't be your
mindset going into this game, right, So that's the task
for coach Mulky and the staff is to be sure, Yeah,
you beat them by seventeen. You're playing incredibly well all
the things T Bob just laid out there. I mean,
you're scoring one hundred points, over one hundred points per
game in the NCAA tournament. It gets a good Florida
State team all that, but this team for NC State
is completely different. Like you mentioned, they were ranked in
the twenties. Yeah, they fought their way to a two
seed in a good ACC. Like think about like Notre
Dames still alive, dude, still alive. North Carolina is still
a lot. So it's a really good ACC in. NC
State not only carried their weight, I mean they were
one of, if not the best team. I mean when
you look at how they finished, So it's not going
to be the same game. You're playing a thousand miles
away in Spokane, Washington, right, so the setting's going to
be different. I think last time you played them in
the Bahamas.
Speaker 2: Wasn't it the final of the tournament?
Speaker 6: It was?
Speaker 2: It was the final one of the tournaments? Was it
the Bahamian Was it in the Bahamas or did they
play in another.
Speaker 6: I thought it was.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I think it was too I don't know,
which also feels like kind of all bets are off,
But then again, I don't know. Playing in the Pacific
Northwest and the Bahamas almost similar travel times probably.
Speaker 6: Oh, Bahamas much quicker, right, Yeah, from here.
Speaker 2: In NC state to go to the Bahamas versus going
up to Washington. So kind of interesting in that it's
another faraway neutral site.
Speaker 4: It was in the Bahamas.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 6: Have two teams ever played each other farther away from
the games?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Two teams that are, you know, kind of close to
each other, right, both geographically in the Southeast, only to
end up playing each other all over the world. And
I mentioned the records that LSU set coming in in
those first couple of games well. To get to the
sweet sixteen, in c State beats Michigan State eighty three
to forty nine with fifteen made threes, seven block shots,
which tied a record, and Sinaia Rivers had eleven assists,
which is a Wolfpack tournament game record. So both teams
entering in elite form.
Speaker 6: And so one of the things when NC State was
four and three after they lost to LSU, every four
and three remember their losses to South Carolina, YEP, to TCU,
andto LSU. All three of those teams still dancing.
Speaker 2: So shout out to the LSU press release on this
game because, as they point out, each of Tennessee's or Tennessee's,
each of nc states six losses have come to teams
in the tournament, but to your point, five of them
came against top twelve teams. They lost to number two
South Carolina, six, TCU, seven, Duke, ten, LSU, and twelve
U and CE. So again, when they have gotten beat,
it's been by the absolute best. And that's look, that's
what especially in women's now that you're down to the
sweet sixteen, this is all the big dogs against the
big dogs, and I'd have it no other way. So
here's to hoping that this LSU team can continue and
find a way to get it done. To night, I
can't wait. Can be a great night, a great weekend
of sports here in the boot.
Speaker 6: I mean started, I mean, I know obviously y'all talked
about it, but started last night. Yeah, with LSU baseball.
How fun was that to watch them be down and
then all of a sudden you have some grated bats
and you come back. And the feeling of us being
here today compared to what it would have felt like
coming in here. They don't get it done.
Speaker 2: I know, no, I know, it's it's it's like I said,
it's it's the best part about sports. When stuff's going
to feel awful, it feels that much better, and when
stuff's going to feel awesome, it feels that much worse. Yeah,
that's why you have to have fun when you come
in here and you get to celebrate the wins. All right,
let's go ahead and wrap up our one of OTB
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Speaker 2: Bob, what's happening y'all, welcome back to TV, closing out
our number one. All right, so I think it was
Scott Dice challenging my geographical acumen, says, pull up a
mat and I want T Bob to point into North Carolina,
and then it's Spokane Washington. So here we go. Okay,
this is North Carolina. Yeah, correct, right, okay, can I
get some applause or something, I'll do it.
Speaker 3: And you're looking for Spokane.
Speaker 2: I don't know which one's Washington, which one's organ And
this is Spokane right here.
Speaker 6: Keep keep going towards me here, towards me, towards me,
towards me, towards me right there. That's where Spokane.
Speaker 5: What you have the right state, but I had the
right stay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, applause. Guys, that surprising. I guessed that
Spokane was going to be on the coast, just because
I think about most major cities being like coastal port cities,
especially in that portion of the country. Yeah, yeah, Scott,
So suck it, you giant, literal, giant nerd.
Speaker 6: I don't know which one's ore gonna watch.
Speaker 2: Let's go washing up top, Let's go baby, Thank you,
Thank you, guys, thank you. Oh, Seattle's on the cast.
That makes sense. That makes sense.
Speaker 3: That also makes sense because, like they say, Seattle is
like super rainy because it's up north, and I guess
on the coast makes more sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah again, Uh, show me a map of Middle Earth
and I'll whoop all y'all's ass name.
Speaker 6: I don't think there's any doubt about it.
Speaker 4: That.
Speaker 2: Ain't nobody stand a chance? Where's East Carolina?
Speaker 6: It's a great question. There's also a West Carolina like
D two right?
Speaker 2: Or East Carolina is North Carolina? Though, right, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 5: I think their campus in Greenville Greenville, South Carolina?
Speaker 2: Is it South Carolina? I don't know.
Speaker 5: Okay, so it is in Greenville, Greenville.
Speaker 2: North Carolina. There's there's a Greenville for both, Like this
is the same guarantee you.
Speaker 5: There's no less than ten states that have a Greenville.
Speaker 2: Okay? Is there a Greenville here?
Speaker 5: No? But Mississippi has one.
Speaker 6: Uh and they say hard right.
Speaker 2: I don't know why people want to say Ville. Vol
is so much easier on the tongue. It's a it
sounds better, it sounds cooler, it's a lighter, live yeahs.
See that sounds awful. That sounds great. It's not even
particularly close.
Speaker 6: Notable alumni of East Carolina Sandra Bullet, I would have.
Speaker 2: Never guessed, uh one that hasn't aged great. But actually
I don't know the big man's back. They're like he
sold everything, he forced his way back on, sold everything
for billions of dollars. And aren't they like in the.
Speaker 4: President of the Cat or something now.
Speaker 5: Vince's wife.
Speaker 2: What in the world is real life? Sometimes I don't know.
It's like some of the headlines that you see nowadays
just feel like mad libs. That like like when MAXI
mounts he got mad at Rodney Pete in Tokyo last
year for stealing his balls. That doesn't sound like that's
a real sentence, but that.
Speaker 5: Is okay, Like, okay, did you did you see the
lady in the Dallas airport?
Speaker 2: Even though Max monksy maximuns, he missed that catchy a
smooth zeb by Rodney Pete too. I was so mad.
I thought Rodney p brought a glove to the game. No,
they had gloves on the chairs and bad helmets on
the chairs. I know, I know. I thought Rodney was
going to be a champion if adults bring glove to
the game, which I would have loved to support. But no,
I didn't know this about Rodney Pete. He got drafted
four times in a professional baseball.
Speaker 6: I know you played baseball USC.
Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine that getting drafted four times. You're so athletic,
you play in the NFL, four you play in the NFL,
and you get drafted four different times into the mL
Did you win in the high school?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: No, what were you saying to Yes, I saw the dude.
Speaker 5: In the Dallas airport.
Speaker 2: Very sad. This woman was clearly having a complete mental break.
Speaker 5: But the point is, like ten years ago, I would
have said, now that didn't happen.
Speaker 2: What her stripping nude?
Speaker 5: And right around now it's just I didn't even think
twice about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and now you also have video of it,
you know, which I'm like, Man, so I guess maybe
you don't want to get close to her because she
was obviously lashing out, But like, you can't just be
filming or somebody help her out or something.
Speaker 4: Man, I don't like my first time.
Speaker 2: She just was completely naked in the DFW airport. Yeah, yelling,
throwing her phone at TV just at.
Speaker 5: Broke one of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, stab Okay, so maybe that's why you can't really Yeah,
oh Man used to be so scared of poisoning growing up.
Speaker 6: Every teacher aren't lead poison You keep playing with that pencil.
Speaker 2: Anytime you got stabbed by the pencil, I was like,
oh my god, I'm gonna die. Uh. Go to the
nurse's office. Try to get sent home. All right, Hour
two of OTV UH coming up next. Continue to talk
to march Man has got more sayings, got more lsu,
We got more of everything. So keep it locked here
on off the bench.
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