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Speaker 4: We welcome back in our number three OTV here on
this championship Monday morning.
Speaker 5: Very excited for this next combo.
Speaker 4: It is our guy three one eight, three to one great,
probably ready to get back to the three one eight
after being in Omahall for a very long time. It
is our guy LSU baseball legend, Todd Walker joining us now,
t Dove.
Speaker 5: What's going on?
Speaker 6: Brother? Hey Jake, what's happening?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: How long have you been on the road here in
this postseason? Have you been in Omahall the entire time?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we flew in Wednesday a week ago, so I've
been here almost two weeks. It's flown by, man. It's
been fun. This is probably one of the greatest times
of year for me, man, because I can't bust out
in a baseball conversation back in Shreveport, So I get
to talk baseball here and it's a good time.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: And Todd you were actually like you were with Coastal
Carolina all the way going back to regionals. I mean
that was the regional that you were on, and so
you saw that baseball team make their way through that regional.
They go to Auburn, Alabama, they sweep a really good
Auburn team and look, they get to LSU winning twenty
six games in a row.
Speaker 5: So like, I want to kind of.
Speaker 4: Get your thoughts maybe on what you thought before the series,
and then obviously get what you thought after the series.
Speaker 6: By social origionally, you're right, baseball is all fitching. And
so what I figured out and I went and looked
because I have that kind of time, I went and
looked at all the national champions over the last century.
If you have highering a four and a half as
a team, then you don't win here. That's coming into
o Maha. That was Murray State, Louisville, and Arizona. They
had a five north of a five year right, so
they're out, So then it eliminates it down to five.
Coastal had the best era in the field, so they
could pitch it, and they had three great starters, a
couple of bullpen pieces. They created a bunch of havoc offensively,
and they came in with a lot of confidence. Haven't
won twenty five twenty four in a row before they
got here, so they were good. Yeah, and you know,
Oregon State played on the road thirty five games because
of the Pac twelve displacement and everything's going on, So
they were road tested, So there were some great stories here.
And of course Arkansas, my goodness, after what happened twenty eighteen,
everybody's pulling for him and it just got worse. But
they had a fantastic year second in the SEC, had
a sixteen teams, but heava Lloyd the short stop and
win the Golden Spikes. So Arkansas was a lot of
fun to watch this year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, till we had a just since Game one of
the College World Series, just a great World Series and
then then National Championship Series. We had two teams undefeated
going up into that point in the World Series. What's
the We talked about the pitching. You just talked about
the e R but timely hitting. It seems to be
the theme for LSU. Guys one through nine, everybody had
a moment at some point during this World Series. They
take us through a complete team win from top to bottom.
Tell us about like the mindset and what you saw
from this entire lineup.
Speaker 6: That's a great point. And look, LSU had the two
best pitchers in the country, so that helps. But you
don't have to bring out fifteen hits, you just get
them in the right spot. That's why the runners in
scoring position are ISP stat is so important. You get
five hits in a game, but you get all five
of them with a with a guy that got on
by a walk or an error or something, and you win.
And then you have the pitching that can back that up.
And that's what LSU did. They If you'd have told
me we were gonna have two home runs yesterday and
LSU was not going to hit either one of them, yeah,
and they were going to win, I would have said,
you're crazy. But they did it by manufacturing. They could
do just about everything. Skip Boerdman always used to talk about,
if I have more bullets in my gun than you do,
I'm gonna win. And LSU just seemed to do everything right.
It played great defense, pitching, they didn't walk a lot
of people. That was their problem in the regional when
they lost to Little Rock. But since that game till now,
they cleaned all that up and pounded the strike zone
and just man, they had amazing runs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's what we were talking about earlier.
Speaker 4: I know Coastal's coach got kicked out of the game
incredibly early first inning, and that's going to be a storyline,
a narrative, but LSU didn't win because Coastal's coach got
thrown out of the game. LCH won because they didn't
make the errors Coastal Carolina did. LSU came through with
runners in scoring position in Coastal's hitters did not. Now
what you got on the mound obviously from Anderson and Iantin.
I mean, you throw three pitchers in the championship series,
that's incredible. But LSU won because they did those things
you're talking about, Todd. They took care of business on defense.
Whenever the moment was there, this team, even if it
was somebody that was o for their last eleven they
always felt like they came through in that moment.
Speaker 6: That's pretty cool when you get to this point. And
I did it for a lot of years and during
the course of the year. They always say that baseball
is a team sport played by a bunch of individuals,
and so individually you're trying to get yours and you're
you know, you are selfish in a way during the
course of the year, and it plays out. You know
that it helps the team if you play well, But
when you get here, all that selfishness just goes away
and it doesn't matter if you're oh for thirty, it
doesn't matter if you've had a bad year. Jay Shores
didn't have a great year, but it came out within
four times here in Coswald series and just dominated. I
mean it gave up a few runs against Arkansas, but
one hundred miles an hour from six to eight. I
mean that's like God just reaching down and touching somebody
on the shoulder and staying here you go. I mean,
just the talent in this kid is unbelievab. And you're right,
three pitchers, so two starters, and then Chase Shores for
two wins in the College Will Suits final. We won't
see that again in our lifetime. I mean, that was
just incredible by the starters and then Chase and you
know Case and Evans is their best dude, and he
didn't get the pitch, so are one of the best.
So you know, it's just just just crazy how that works.
And again, just so happy for Jay Johnson and Nate
Yeski and Josh Jordan and Wanica and everybody else in
that staff. And how good of a job. And now
look nil money and everybody wants to play for LSU
in the country. You know, it's a it's a Ferrari.
It's a Ferrari man, and you can definitely wreck the Ferrari.
And they've done a fantastic job of keeping that ship,
you know, on top of everybody else in the country,
on top of the water.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk.
Speaker 7: Let's keep talking about that Ferrari because this Ferrari was
built by Jay Johnson. Two championships in three years, and
it seems like during this entire series, I mean, LSU
won eight straight games. Since they're lost in Game two
versus Little right, it seemed like every move that he made,
every little lineup change, every pitching decision, every dh that
that came in the game, everything he did, every button
he pushed was the correct one that worked out. And
I know, coaching a lot of good coaches, a lot
of things is a combination of like preparation, knowing the
game plan, and then a.
Speaker 1: Little bit of luck on your side.
Speaker 7: But when it happens, every time you make a move
it's the right move, it shows you something.
Speaker 1: He's a great coach.
Speaker 7: Talking about what he means of this program and what
he has built here and what to kind of like
look forward to.
Speaker 6: Well, Jay Johnson knows baseball that's number one. He was
at Arizona they made it to the final in twenty
sixteen and got beat by Coastal. So he has experience
in this high, high intense situation here in Omaha. And
then ultimately he's just so meticulous and you gotta have
energy to do that, right, You've got to love it.
So you got to dive in and you got to
like look at every little detail. That's why you saw
a movement in the batting order, because he has it
down to a science and just grinds it out and
it takes energy. And Jay Johnson has baseball energy. You know.
I don't know if he knows a whole lot about
the world going around him, but he locked in and
that's what you love about him is that he just
he probably he is the hardest, one of the hardest
workers in the country, and he knows the game. And
it's just a perfect, perfect combination for this program.
Speaker 5: Tod, what does this mean for you personally?
Speaker 4: I mean, you were one of certainly you know, the
pillars of LSU baseball and Flynn and I talked about
this in twenty nineteen whenever LSU was on their run,
you know, being a part of a national championship and
being so happy for those players that are going out
there and they're holding up the standard of LSU football
for us, like for you to see LSU do what
they do, knowing that you know, you were a part
of those early days right when you know, before you
they were getting to omahall couldn't quite figure it out,
and then you'll start winning national championships. What's it like
for you to see this program where it is right
now and winning these national championships.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we talked about that a little bit on the
show last night. I mean Ben McDonald and Mike Binko's
now they head coach at Old Miss. You know, kind
of set the standard. Nineteen eighty nine they got here
to o Mall. They didn't win it, but they broke
the they broke the door down. It is nineteen ninety
one with Chad oj and Paul byrd Lyle Mouton and
Tooki Johnson and just all those dudes that got it done.
Johnny Tellichia in ninety one, and then when I walked
in in the fall of ninety one, we're at the
basketball arena handing out schedules, you know, everywhere and then
they announced this at halftime of the game, and I
didn't do a thing, but I'm raising my hand like
I'm you know, overly excited and yeah yeah, and they're screaming,
you know, and yelling, and I thought, this is a
standard man right here, you know. And so we knew
what we were up against. And then we of course
get it done in nineteen ninety three, and then went
back in ninety four and got beat and then on
down the line they won it in ninety six, ninety seven,
two thousand, two thousand and nine with Pulmonarias. So there
was a little gap in there between two thousand nine
twenty twenty three. But it's not easy, like we're making it.
We're making it look easy. It's not easy to be
the last man standing at three hundred Division one teams.
And you guys know, I mean, it's just I didn't
string a bat, I didn't throw a ball. But I
feel a small part of it, like I'm sure you
guys do with the football program, and it's just I'm
just proud.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we understand that feeling completely because you you're part
of something that's the foundation that is a historic run.
I mean, eight national Championships is an incredible feat. I
wanted to ask you about just kind of like the
mentality of a hitter when something so Coastal Carolina Jacob Morrison,
they start their number one on day two, in game
number two and a couple of innings into I think
it's the fourth inning, he started having the communication issues.
Look like it just completely got him out of the
flow of the game as a as as a hitter.
Do you kind of feel that, do you as it
kind of like blood in the water a little bit,
because as soon as he had the communication issues, he
completely got out of rhythm. And then we started ringing
off some runs hits, and I think he walked the
bases loaded. So like, just tell me about that. Is
there something that is there a feeling that you can
get as a hitter when something gets thrown off like that?
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, like when the coach Kenshaw is
thrown in the first everybody thinks that that's going to
rally the team, Like everybody's gonna get so excited, let's go, Well,
you got three hours left.
Speaker 1: Maintain that.
Speaker 6: Maintain that is not realistic. And then in addition, I've
never understood that you guys can use that. Probably not you, Matt,
but but Jake could probably use that that run through
a brick wall mentality, like let's get pumped up and
let's go, you know, as a half back fullback. But
you can't use that at the plate. You can't really
use that throwing baseball. It's more like golf, like you
just have to stay controlled, you know. And it felt
like Coaster was just out of control. Yeah, the coach
was fired up from the very beginning. One pitch steed
him off, you know, and then and then Jacob Morrison's
looking at third base and Josh Jordan he thinks he's
stealing signs and just all these distractions. So it's a
great point, like I just felt like they were thinking
about everything else except for what was going on on
the field. And that was the first inning, so you know.
And by the way, Jacob Morrison had great numbers twelve
and h two point ERA, but he wasn't dominant, he
wasn't overpowering. He had less strikeouts than any fits. You know,
he wasn't going to get a lot of swing and misses.
He's six to eight on a ten inch mound with
that release point, and he got eight eight foot of
tilt on that fastball coming at you, so he could
get some weak outs. But I didn't think for a
minute that he was going to be able to do
with Kate Anderson and Anthony Irons and can do.
Speaker 4: Man, it was the beginning of that game and all
the things you just laid out, like, I don't know
that I've ever really seen anything like that, and I
hate to see any coach get thrown out in a
national championship game. But that turned into a circus like
quick and look, the first base coach is always going
to get thrown out. Like when you start arguing balls
and strikes from a first base coach, you get like
no leeway.
Speaker 5: The head coach gets some.
Speaker 4: But have you ever I mean you play baseball, cover
baseball your entire life, have you ever seen anything like
that with a game like it could be like even
a high school state championship whatever, like everything on the line,
and that's how it happens.
Speaker 1: Uh uh.
Speaker 6: I don't think I've ever seen two coaches in the
same time. And that's what we love about the sport
is because no matter how nuts you've seen, like something
new happens the first base coach, like kind of walked
by the umpire and like under his breath said something
and got tossed because they're not allowed to communicate with
the umpires at all, like the head coach that has
to get it done. And then you know the deal,
Schnall left the dugout to argue, and you're not allowed
to do that either, and that's why he got I mean,
they start packing on suspensions on him, like he's he
missed his opening daylight next year, you know, because he suspended.
It's just it's just chaotic and just didn't feel like
the Coastal twenty six wins wins in a row control
deal that we've seen, you know, and just got out
of hand. And and you know, Small's a bulldog man.
I mean he'll go after you, and I think his
team takes on that personality and that's why they won
so many games. But in this one it had the
reverse effect.
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, I mean that entire coaching staff looked
like they were ready for some slow pitch softball.
Speaker 5: I mean they had that look to him. I mean
they were coming out of the dugout high So.
Speaker 4: Dodd, you're the man, truly appreciate it. Safe travels back
to the Port City. Man, you do a fantastic job
you and the team. I mean, I think the college
baseball coverage that ESPN and the SEC network bring is
the best thing in college sports.
Speaker 5: I truly do mean that. So great job. And man,
we'll catch up again with you soon.
Speaker 6: Thank you, guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're like our college baseball And that's why I
hate that they turned the pro guys during the College
World Series sometimes because the college talent that we have
in the booth and on the pregame show and put incredible.
I mean Todd and Deluci and Ben and uh Burke
and kp Up in the booth, I mean, and KB
on the sidelines like it is.
Speaker 5: It's s tire.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: I almost feel bad for the pro people when they
come in. It's like, oh, you're not the same, right,
You're not doing the job that those other people are.
Speaker 1: They just get it.
Speaker 7: They get how to communicate with the college fan base
about the college.
Speaker 4: Game, and they know the players, they know the names
and the storylines. They're not just reading off a sheet
of paper.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and they're in they're buttoned up and professional, but
they also talk to you just like a real like
like a real human. Right, Yeah, sometimes you get like
the joke Buck, that's just like got the super announcer
Greg mclroy. Yeah yeah, coming free Greg. Uh but man,
they just talked to you and it's really really good.
So yeah, it's we're, you know, mixed his baseball guy Stitchhead.
Speaker 4: So I know, I mean, dude, you keep getting out
of boys every baseball interview.
Speaker 1: That was two. That was two great points. Yeah, who's counting?
Speaker 6: We are?
Speaker 1: You do nothing? You're up? No, you do nothing.
Speaker 5: You're up seven to nothing.
Speaker 1: I think five nothing on great questions?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we're I'm gonna lump all those together.
You're up seven nilnil.
Speaker 5: Let's come back here.
Speaker 4: Well done, sir, Well done. All right, it's all about
team though. Win for Flyinns, win for US, big team,
little me.
Speaker 1: O TV off the pitch.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll take a break when we come back.
It is Monday, it is nine fifteen. Our guy Devin
snow aka hold the Mayo joins us here on O TV.
Speaker 3: Off the bench.
Speaker 5: You knew who else was in Omaha? Not just Todd?
Speaker 1: Can I take a guess? Yep?
Speaker 4: Gordon Kny he sure was the g team was there
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Speaker 5: All right, welcome back here in OTV. Here on this
Monday morning. It's nine fifteen. You know what that means.
Speaker 4: We're gonna go to our guy, Devin. You know, a ka,
hold the mayo, Dev, what's going on, brother?
Speaker 5: How we doing?
Speaker 8: Let's go baby? Woke up some winners, woke up some
winners that we did.
Speaker 5: Man, it was a lot of fun to watch that run.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I know that there's some fun
in the pressure and like a walk off win to
win the World Series.
Speaker 5: But I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 4: I don't hate that l she's not playing today, I
don't I don't hate that they got five runs up,
five to one, and you know, I know he got
a little hairy there at the end. But man, I'll
take that any day.
Speaker 1: Dev.
Speaker 8: Yeah. And I'm gonna tell you who does hate it.
Coastal Carolinas coach Brian and he woke up drinking a
full loco and smoking a pack of camels this morning,
probably broke a few call windows last night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm not even saying like this is a
bad thing, but like the first thing I keep thinking
about when I see the entire coaching staff is they
are raising hell in intermural slow pitch softball, like they're
going back there, They're going back to school. They're trying
to be like on the intermural team that is a
team full of like slow pitch softball, sleeveless jerseys, high
leg kick bomb hitting coaching staff.
Speaker 8: It's crazy like getting thrown out in the first end,
and like what can you compare that to? It's like
being asked to leave family Thanksgiving before praying, you know,
just like get out, dude, you know, and they want
us to feel so bad, bro, Like, stop trying to
make Louisiana feel bad about how ops getting smoked? Bro Like,
oh yeah, you got a feel for the kid at Arkansas.
Oh yeah, you gotta feel for coach to feel these
tiger knots. How about that get a nice trip off them.
It wasn't screwed over all the time, nobody feels bad.
Russellmania gets pulled.
Speaker 1: Deal with it.
Speaker 8: Dyane can't play for I don't even know how many years.
Deal with it. Garrek calls your quarterback for two years,
deal with it. Gets screwed, deal with it. We get
handed announce of pain routinely, and we smoke it, you know,
what I'm saying, Yeah, they got smoked and hail it baby,
take it in.
Speaker 5: That's a hell of a point.
Speaker 4: Dev You're right because like it's been about like, oh,
the other team and this happened, and none of the
talk's really been about LSU.
Speaker 5: Like all the talk yesterday was about their coach getting
thrown out.
Speaker 4: I was like, look said it earlier in the show,
like Joe Tory Prime Yankees could have been managing that team.
It doesn't matter. They weren't gonna win that game. Jay
Johnson and the Tigers were always going to win. Jay
Johnson and the Tigers they still had bullets left in
the chamber that they could have used, right, And so like,
sure the which got thrown out?
Speaker 5: Do I love it now? Like let them let him
argue a little bit. It's a national championship game. But
it happened.
Speaker 4: But you could have had anybody in baseball history managing
Coastal and it would not have mattered.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean we the best, man. I just give
us an MLB team, you know what I'm saying, Give
us a BUCkies, build us, make some commercials. I want
to see everything, dude, and that Coastal respects LSU.
Speaker 1: Now, you know, I feel like, are we getting the BUCkies?
Speaker 5: I think Lafayette is getting a BUCkies. I think Rustin's
getting a Bucky.
Speaker 7: I feel like I saw one of those billboards, you know,
like they like to advertise like nine hundred miles out
oh yeah, yeah yeah, and like seven hundred and eighty
miles there's gonna be a BUCkies here.
Speaker 4: Hey, you know where they need to put they need
to put it. They need to put a BUCkies like
cut off. Can you imagine the scenes from a BUCkies
and cutoff?
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, a lot of single dudes are going to
turn into stepdads.
Speaker 6: I know that.
Speaker 1: Got nice bathrooms.
Speaker 5: You're not wrong, definitely not wrong.
Speaker 8: The commentators man yesterday like trying to talk about the
cozy entire game like he's like it's going to bring
him back, Like he ain't con back. You know, you
want to go talk to the coach, Go sit in
the back and have a finger sandwich with him, dude,
Like it was And like you said, l Shue was
gonna win that game regardless, Bro, they were destined to win.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The one thing that.
Speaker 4: Like I was getting just frustrated with was like, Okay,
the coach got thrown out. But we're in the We're
in the bottom of the eighth inning in the National Championship.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that that was That was many moons ago. Okay,
that's what it felt like in the game.
Speaker 4: Okay, so let us watch this game and let's just
focus on what's going on right now. And also, like
it was, you know, when else you had a situation
in game number one, it was like, oh, well, to
the letter of the law. But then they'd come back
in that situation. Well, actually to the letter of the law.
It's probably the right move, but I don't like it.
I'm like, well, you can't have it both ways, Jake.
You can't talk about it this way and then also
have it that way, right, And I mean.
Speaker 8: Dude, he was out prancing around outside the dugout, man Like,
I mean, I don't watch a whole whole lot of baseball,
but I don't see a lot of managers just walking
around like that, you know what I'm saying outside the
dug out, Like that was the first problem right there.
He might have not said anything super aggressive, but it
came off aggressive, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I don't know it is what it is.
Speaker 8: Again, I'm not gonna use this as something that would
have changed the outcome. I just don't think the outcome
would have been any different.
Speaker 1: Like, who do we know in the.
Speaker 7: Sports world that can get us the security footage of
the tunnel in the locker room like right after this happened,
because that would be must see TV. And I know
we like to talk like betting lines. I'm gonna put
the over under Ford Devil one and a half TV's
broken in the locker room and two and a half
watered No.
Speaker 1: Two and a half ten being flipped over.
Speaker 8: Oh my gods, tables had a rough day, table with
cups on it, dude, Tables I mean, I mean, tables
were in trouble yesterday.
Speaker 6: Bro.
Speaker 8: I mean and look, I don't know what happened more,
you know, them talking about the coach getting thrown out
or them showing manson Teabob on TV, I mean Minson
tea Bob. They were showing more than taylors with yesterday.
Speaker 4: Brow.
Speaker 8: It was incredible.
Speaker 4: Oh dude, I mean, my man had prime time FaceTime
right there.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: Was he lunging on their dug out?
Speaker 4: He was? He was stretching. Elandra sent us that that video.
I mean, I my man had the same jersey on
for three straight days. He had a different raising canes
head on, so he changed up the hats there. I
think he tried to drink Omaha out of every alcohol
that they served, like T Bob did Omaha the.
Speaker 6: Right way he did.
Speaker 8: He did he absolutely did.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 8: I heard they probably gonna get an invite to the
met guy.
Speaker 1: Now for sure.
Speaker 4: You know Minty's sitting there, and you know Minty's from Louisiana,
but he's an old miss fan the worst kind. Right
when you're from Louisiana, you don't Refril su. And he's
sitting there and T Bob is just hammering him over
and over and over again, and Minchi just has to
sit there.
Speaker 8: And take it and like do My favorite is like
one of the videos, Mince wasn't saying anything. T Bob
was talking for Mints like he was like a poppy.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: If I saw one video of T Bob screaming in
Mensa's face, I saw probably fifty.
Speaker 6: They got the.
Speaker 8: Security guard just standing on top of the doug out
watching Tea Bob the entire time.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine what t BO was saying to them.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, you know, there's no doubt in my
mind that when they saw t Bob down there, they
put a plan in place right for the just to
make sure the dugout was covered.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, they dropped. They dropped that security got out
of a helicopter.
Speaker 6: Damn.
Speaker 8: Okay, just go watch this guy here real quick.
Speaker 5: You know that looks like a complete liability. Absolutely, you
don't watch out for uh.
Speaker 4: Dev Obviously it's Monday, so we know you're you know,
red beans and rice day, this Championship Monday. Man, is
it hit a little bit different? Are we going out
in all LSU gear today? How are we taking in
a championship rbing our day?
Speaker 8: Yeah? Bro shout to Marucci. My boy Blake over there
sent me a gomaha maroochie shirt.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 8: And then one of my buddies who works with the
forty seven hats dude or with Ford a clean us
LSU hats I think I've ever seen in my life, dude.
So we definitely geared up. Championship red Bean Monday. I'm
going to manning camp this week.
Speaker 5: Oh nice.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know if anybody's going to man camp.
Speaker 4: Dev I'll tell you what man I did manning camp
a couple times. It's a it's a great experience. It's
a lot of fun, but you need to make sure
you go by houses. And I'm meaning this pick up
some of my high because it is the Devil's Layer
in Thibodaux, Louisiana during maning camp.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's gonna be
any worse than when I played in this Fletcher Mackael
golf tournament on Wednesday. Dude, he was like one hundred
and five degrees. I sweated every demon that I have
a head inside of me that day.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 8: And I'm talking about before the golf even started. You know,
I'm just just waiting for it to start. It was
so high.
Speaker 1: Bro, what's your plan at the maning camp?
Speaker 7: What are you gonna do? Are you gonna be filming
some content? We're gonna be like running routes for some guys.
Speaker 1: What are we doing now?
Speaker 8: I'm there for all that. I talked to Cooper Man
and he said to hit him up whenever I get that.
And we're gonna ride around the golf cart. So and
and Cooper is a funny guy.
Speaker 5: Hilarious.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I'm excited to link up with him. No, No,
like exact plan. You know, probably talk to some up
and coming quarterback. Yeah, I know the college quarterbacks go
there too, so I'm expecting to see some of them.
Speaker 1: Stay there.
Speaker 8: Yeah. No, and just experiencing me. I've I've never been
like even as a kid growing up, I had some
friends that would go to it. I mean I'm talking
about like over twenty years ago. So this thing is
like legendary.
Speaker 4: Dev Have I ever told you my Manning passing Academy story?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: All right, so I think you'll appreciate this.
Speaker 4: So I'm with the Broncos and some teammates with Peyton,
and he's like, hey, I want you to drive down
from at the time I was living in street boards.
I want you to drive down and we're going to
work on some stuff, run some routes, and I got
Decker coming, I've got Jacob Tammy come and some other guys.
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, absolutely, man, we'll come down there.
Speaker 4: And so I get down there, and you know, in
Peyton Manning's offense, like you got to be able to
play slot outside no matter if you're running back. Pullback whatever,
like you got to be able to go do it all.
And so we're out there and we're running routes and
you know, we got a Broncos gear on. And after
that we go coach like a position. So like I
go and I'm coaching a position and I'm teamed up
with Eddie George and I'm like, this is awesome, Like
this is cool Eddie George. That's a legend and gigantic human.
And so we're running these drills and we're kind of
having side conversation. He's like, so, what's the plan for
you this year in Denver? So I'm like, well, you know,
I'm third down back, but probably you know, if they
do some fullback stuff like I'll do. They goes like, what,
like they're changing your position, Like what do you mean?
I was like, well, yea, I kind of always you know,
done this like wherever I've kind of been. And it
wasn't really like it's kind of vague, just like having
conversation with him whatever, And like we keep talking and
talking and talking, and about thirty minutes into the conversation,
after talking about me playing fullback and me doing all
these different things, he goes, wait, what's your name? And
I said, and I said, Jacob Ester goes Hester. Oh
my god, running back lsu. I said, yeah, he goes
This entire time, I thought you were Wes Welker.
Speaker 5: Oh it's my god, so like it made all that.
I was like, oh, that's why you're like.
Speaker 4: He's like, I'm like, why in the hell is West
signing with Denver to go play fullback?
Speaker 5: What is going on?
Speaker 4: He's like, my he goes. I had, like, I had
so many questions. I was so confused. He's like, I'm sorry.
I saw you out there running routes earlier with Peyton
and you were in the slot, and I just like
Wes had just signed.
Speaker 5: I thought you were Wes Welker. He's like, and I
just I had no idea.
Speaker 4: I was so confused, and so for the entire day,
Eddie George thought that they sent Wes Welker down to
coach running backs with him.
Speaker 8: White guy proms right there, the white guy that shout
out Eddie George. Legend man Madden in two thousand and one.
Speaker 4: But it's the first Mad And I think I haven't
played dude head coach now, Matt Flynn, where's he the
head coach.
Speaker 1: Now, oh yeah, I know. I'll tell you next segment.
Speaker 4: Anybody, anybody, including dev can you tell me where he's
the head coach? Right?
Speaker 5: He wasn't he used to be. He's not not he is?
Speaker 1: Uh job, didn't he? Yeah? He did?
Speaker 5: Somewhere where a bowling green.
Speaker 1: Ed. Didn't you get into like some stage acting for
a little while, like some music? Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5: I think it was Tennessee State. He was that, by
the way. Yeah, so yeah, bowling Green, Eddie.
Speaker 8: George, that's bowling green. I want to say that, Santonio Daniels,
Alma Mada. I believe I'm pretty.
Speaker 5: Sure you know, I don't have a lot of bowling
Green knowledge. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 8: That's all I got.
Speaker 5: I think it's all Kentucky.
Speaker 8: Okay, Yeah, that's right, it is pretty sure, thinking Turkey.
Speaker 7: Well, Den, after this, after this weekend, you're gonna be
You're gonna have gone to one more Manning passing academies
than your boy here. I was never invited, but I
did hear that they are famous, the Mannings. I think
they like to slam a few cold pops. They are
famous for having that like closing down the bar, you
got to.
Speaker 5: Turn yourself your phone in the basket, phone in the basket.
Speaker 1: So I hope you get invited to that part. Yeah.
Speaker 8: So wait, you got to put your phone in the
basket when you get that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So when you get to the bar, because the Mannings
and Peyton was like this everywhere we went.
Speaker 5: He won't have a good time.
Speaker 4: He doesn't want pictures, he doesn't want cell phone videos.
Like He's like, we're not there to have selfies. We're
there to have a bull pops and and hang with
the boys and the fellas, and so you put your
phone in a basket when you get there.
Speaker 8: Okay, let's start fighting off. I mean, if Peyton says it,
you know, that's fine with me, dude. You know, yeah,
that's that sounds like some Peyton mann and stuff them
at the same time, sounds like some Uncle Peyton stuff.
Speaker 4: Dev we appreciated every single Monday.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 5: Enjoy this rbn R day a little bit.
Speaker 4: More with the LSU championship, you know, right there in
front of you with the Gome Hall shirt on, because well,
championships are hard to come by and else she's done
it to it the last three years.
Speaker 8: So true, bro, it really is. It's so true. Go Tigers, it.
Speaker 5: Would go, Go Tigers.
Speaker 4: Alright, got Devin snow Aka hold the mayo good enough
to join us every single Monday here on o t B.
Who got the invite your senior year? Usually the LSU
quarterback always yeah.
Speaker 7: Back in the days, one player per team. I think
early went receiver went, receiver went yep. I was really
I was like every day I was running out to
my lake boat prey house mailbox checking it for the invite.
Speaker 5: You kid, I did that for the senior boy.
Speaker 1: I never came.
Speaker 4: You did what checking that out? He goes like, hey man,
that senior bowl. I know the invites got sent out,
Like all right, what's up?
Speaker 1: Is it in there? Or I'll try to politicke my
way into I think I got seventh rounder. Didn't make it?
Speaker 4: All right, you made it in. Now you're on the
outlasts the rest of them. Sports morning radio show. We'll
see coming before that top spot coming for that toss
back Roy and Cube coming for you, McElroy, more OTB
when we come back.
Speaker 5: One of four, five off the bench.
Speaker 4: Alright, Tiger fans, it's game day in bed Rue. There's
only one beer that brings the flavor, the vibes in
the vict three energy.
Speaker 5: What is that, Matt?
Speaker 4: That is dosekis whether you're tailgating under the oaks or
celebrating a walk off win in Omaha. Crack open that
chrisp refreshing, Do sequis and taste the gold standard. Because
LSU doesn't do average, and neither does do Seki. Stay thirsty,
drink responsibly.
Speaker 1: Go for dose. Go for dose responsibly.
Speaker 7: Of course, we talked about all the delicious beers, but
I guess the one that would top everything would be
a national championship beer. I can just see the thousands
of LSU fans cracking open a dose. Sekis, shaking it up,
spraining it on each other at the bar. Go for dose,
that cold, delicious Mexican logger. Oh, he had him responsibly,
he had him.
Speaker 5: Maybe he deleted.
Speaker 1: Go for dose. Delete some beers responsibly, go for dose.
Speaker 3: Tigers, turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 4: No matter how hard you try, you trust stop.
Speaker 3: Us, not check stop.
Speaker 8: You would have win it.
Speaker 6: Kids. It's a.
Speaker 4: Welcome back in oh t B. You know we were
going to talk some recruiting news LSU football. I just
made the executive decision. We're not bringing bad vibes on
this show. Not today, not today, not today, Tomorrow. We'll
tell you where this quarterback ended up committing to. We'll
tell you about the recruiting weekend that was in Tiger Stadium.
It was a big, big weekend for recruiting a lot
of top guys on campus. But you know what, no
bad vibes here today. Not when LSU wins a national championship,
not when the boys go to Omaha and get it done.
We go with that, go with that, good with it.
Speaker 5: You won't bad vibes.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5: We won't vibes. Opened that box of cards you opened
last week.
Speaker 7: Baton Rouge, North Baby, Oh mah, we came, we saw
we won a national championship. Let's celebrate it. I'd like
to know what people in the chat? What what what'd
y'all do in Baton Rouge. What'd y'all do to celebrate yesterday?
Because we had an early game, so you had time to,
like go, maybe buy a bottle champagne, Go get some doseequis,
go out for dinner?
Speaker 1: Like, what did people do to celebrate?
Speaker 5: I set up for Harlow's birthday parties coming up this weekend.
Speaker 1: Sick take it easy over there, palth Yeah.
Speaker 5: Ye, look, I mean it's it's given to you, you
know it.
Speaker 4: You know, my wife is incredible and she's you know,
took care of basically all the other things while I
was kind of locked into the baseball here in the postseason,
and so when it finished up, you know, you you
gotta do some honey.
Speaker 7: Dues sometimes, you know, doing some stuff around the house.
There's no other joy or fulfillment feeling than you get
from that, I guess, even after a national championship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did it?
Speaker 7: Take you a second? So were you doing it during
the game, Like I saw the picture, Oh it's great. Yeah,
you did a great job hanging.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 7: I appreciate It'm not going to give you any credit though,
because it's Katie he designed it. Yeah, but I hung it.
So what happened Like during the game, it was like
commercial here hang something, run back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then once else you got the lead, it
was like TV on blaring could see it was up
on a ladder when they were hitting. So because else
you had the lead, sure, and then when else she
was pitching and Coastal was hitting, it was like back
in the chair in a process it was working. You
want to see every Yeah, I won't see that pitch. Yeah,
because we already had the lead. So like when we're hitting,
it's like, okay, but I need to see every pitch.
And then you know there's still time to celebrate an
LSU baseball Natty.
Speaker 1: Well, we got all week. We gotta have it.
Speaker 5: We got have a parade here six months, no doubt
about that.
Speaker 1: And I have a parade when do when is a parade?
Has it come out?
Speaker 5: I'm sure, but we'll find that out. We'll have Jay
Johnson on this week as well.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I personally think it was the Flemings that you
sent him, for sure.
Speaker 7: I mean people are talking, People are asking questions about
what contributed to this run. They kind of went on
this run when I started doing the show. I didn't
say it. You know, people are talking, though.
Speaker 4: Guy gets five good questions about baseball, and now he's
the reason why l SHE wins it.
Speaker 7: Go do his habs five good questions, two good points
he did from baseball guys. I think Jay Johnson gave
me my first good question. It was a sympathy one.
Speaker 1: But he gave it to me.
Speaker 4: So and at some point this week we'll also kind
of break down who's gone, who's coming back. You got
another elite recruiting class that you're gonna have to sweat
out the MLB draft.
Speaker 5: Like we all know that that's just the way that
it is.
Speaker 4: But as Jay Johnson said last night after the victory,
I had twelve people after we were done in Chapel
Hill last year that were like on this t and
and played right. It's not a lot, but what do
we do. We went to work, We put our head down,
and we found guys in the portal. And I know
there's some people like you're so behind in the portal,
teams have already added their guys. I got faith that
Jay Johnson can go find guys in the transfer portal
that he's looking for that have a certain makeup, a
certain skill set to be able to help this team win.
Speaker 7: I got a good feeling that there's probably some decent
baseball players out there that if Jay feels like they're
a good fit, they might want to come to baton
rouge and put on an LSU. This gold jersey right here,
Maybe this great jersey has too small. I'm sure there's
what Tip just right.
Speaker 4: Look, if you're going to keep it open, it's actually
the good size. You can't have it too big if
you're going to keep it open.
Speaker 7: We work hard on the pushups in between segments to
make sure it's look small. We do so you got
to embrace it. So yeah, I got a feeling.
Speaker 5: It's more that I got to get to.
Speaker 1: I got mine, got my one to fifty in I'm
going for two hundred, you go for two.
Speaker 5: So you still got.
Speaker 1: So I set the day with a push up goal
of one hundred and fifty during the show.
Speaker 5: And then I saw Coastal's coaching staff, I said, you
know what, I need to do two hundred on.
Speaker 1: Off the every day.
Speaker 7: Just like in the Coastal Carolinda Canta Clear's weight room
with the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: It's just like that here and no TV. It's chess
day every day Monday through Friday.
Speaker 5: Get it.
Speaker 1: We never hit legs all chess.
Speaker 4: Nookie points out Jay started the season with a pitching
staff that threw four and two third.
Speaker 5: Sec innings last season?
Speaker 1: What real? Four and two thirdsure? Not a lot?
Speaker 4: And then also another good point, Gavin Gidgry, who was
going to be your you know back end of the game,
shut the door on the other team. Closer never pitches
this year gets jersey number eight, which is you know,
something that's passed down lsuball and never toes the rubber.
Speaker 5: Sure, but else you did a very nice job.
Speaker 4: And I think it was I think it was Todd
or Deluci yesterday that pointed it out. Else you did
have a pretty good season. When it comes to star
players staying healthy. You know, you didn't have that big injury.
You didn't have one of your frontline guys go down
within the season, and you've had that before, and I've
heard Todd say this a thousand times.
Speaker 5: To win a championship, you gotta have low luck. And
that can be on the field, it can be health,
it can be whatever. You gotta have a.
Speaker 1: Little think that goes without saying for any sport you
have to have luck.
Speaker 5: We didn't have any and O seven.
Speaker 7: And you have to have like you have to have
fortune happen with injuries, certain breaks go your way in
critical games. But like we discussed last week, people talking
about the lucky blah blah blah, you have to be
able to take advantage of that. So if you don't
get people injured or have something go your way. You
have to be prepared and good enough and have that
mentality to take advantage of that. That's what the great
teams do. The good teams do it every now and then.
Mediocre teams don't do it at all. The great teams
take advantage of any advantage or break that they get.
Speaker 1: Yep, we did.
Speaker 5: It's absolutely right. It's a good point.
Speaker 1: Hey, Daniel Basham in the huddle, he he said, let's
get Jay in the studio.
Speaker 5: I'll ask why not wors you can do?
Speaker 1: Is get told me, yeah, he is. Spend a couple
of hours here with us.
Speaker 4: Hey, there was another point that I wanted to highlight
here in the chat before we took our last break.
Speaker 5: I'll find it.
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Speaker 4: The point I was trying to make out of the huddle,
Bilbo said, I can't believe we just got the new
intimidator and now we need another new one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, shout out.
Speaker 4: I'm sure, Lamar is really happy that old intimidator comes
down and a brand new one goes up.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rightfield, where's it go? They cut it up? Sell it? Oh?
I want a piece? Can we get piece here?
Speaker 4: So gosh that they used they sold it was a
grass that they sold when they got a new title.
Speaker 5: I got some grass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want I want part of that. I want
a tooth.
Speaker 5: They should cut it up and put it in cards.
They should cut up.
Speaker 7: If you're going to cut it up, whoever's listening. We
want one to put on the desk. Who on the
triangle getting rid of.
Speaker 5: The old intimidator. That's kind of the new intimidator. We
want a piece. We'll frame it up. We can put
it right there on the desk.
Speaker 7: You know what, because we're a bunch of stitchets and
we just want a national championship. You I said we
we didn't have anything to do with it. We didn't
swing at ball.
Speaker 5: We're tigers.
Speaker 1: I started working here when we went on that run.
Speaker 5: Oh god, here we go again. All right, join us tomorrow.
Nick Underhill, New Orleans Dot Football joins us.
Speaker 4: We're gonna see if we can get our guy Jay
Johnson to join us as well. We'll continue celebrating LSU
Baseball's eighth national championship here on OTB.
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