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Speaker 1: Off the Bench. We have to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.

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Speaker 2: Ham'sday.

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Speaker 3: Hester and Hester got it.

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Speaker 4: Your locks in to.

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Speaker 5: Off the Bench were control for the as.

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Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Knees Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and

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Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 5: Welcome in Monday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor Sharp

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here with you, Ladra Villa, Reale, Braxton Razuto. Okay, do

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you okay? I learned this the first time, like over

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the weekend. And have you ever seen Billy Madison?

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Speaker 2: I have, yes, Thank god.

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Speaker 5: I thought you were gonna be like, no, that's too

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old for me. Okay, every time I think Risuto when

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she brings up Adam Sandler to the board in third grade,

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he has to spell out the different baseball where it's

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like she's like punt, dug out all that, and he's

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getting cocky. She goes, how about Razuta and then he

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freaks out, Risuto is not a word. He's a baseball player.

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You've cheated. Thank god, you've seen that.

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Speaker 2: I've seen the movie.

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Speaker 6: I just don't remember that part exactly. I need to

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go back and look at it now.

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Speaker 5: That's that's the only thing I can think of every

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time I think of the name Rzuto. But look, we're

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here with you all week long. We are hanging out.

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We have a ton to get to today. Because, uh,

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maybe you didn't hear women's basketball loses to South Carolina

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Saturday night. There was a game on ABC, one of

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the first times that's ever happened. LSU baseball got their

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season started against Milwaukee, and uh look pretty dominant at

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times over the weekend. We'll get into that as well.

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Here's a shocker, LSU basketball lost again. Who would have

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thought that? But uh, right now, let's go around the

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room a little bit of lundra. I know you were busy.

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I saw you out a Uh well, I didn't see

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out there. I saw the pictures of a out there

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at Spanish Town. Was this your first Spanish Town?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: It was my first time going to any sort of

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Marty Girl parade and it was fun.

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Speaker 4: Had a great time.

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Speaker 5: I heard you. Uh let a guy on a float

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injected jello shot into you.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if that's a seven am topic, but

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Speaker 5: Yees did. Okay, here we're about it.

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Speaker 4: We uh had a great time.

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Speaker 5: We love it. Uh, did you wind up going to

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New Orleans?

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Speaker 4: I did not go.

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Speaker 2: I did not know.

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Speaker 4: It was like one was enough for me.

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Speaker 3: I mean like I had fun, but like I just

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didn't feel like going down to New Orleans. And then

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I guess Bachus didn't start till like five point fifteen,

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and Spanish Town started like at noon, so that one

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was done early enough for me to like get home

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at this sounds.

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Speaker 4: So bad, but like get home at a reasonable time. Uh.

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Speaker 3: And I just didn't feel like I didn't feel like

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going to New Orleans next day. But I did have

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fomo looking at the pictures because I had fun, had

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a great time.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna ask if you saw Lane Kiffin on

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a Demian.

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Speaker 4: But you didn't make it out that was Saturday.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I was getting videos from Matt of Gwen Stefani and

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Speaker 5: Like, okay, hey, so was that the same place dying

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on the inside was Was that also in Demian?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Okay, so it was. I think Blake Shelton was there too, right,

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both of them? Yeah, Lane and then Arthur something, who

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wound up being the Grand Marshal because he's like a

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Marty Girl expert whatever that means. Yeah, it sounded like

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a really good time. I Uh, I did not go

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to any Marty Girl parades. Look, I'm a I'm an

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old man when it comes to parade. We talked about

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this last week. It just it's just kind of the

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in and out that, like Alandre was talking about. This

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may sound bad, but I like to get home at

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a reasonable time. I am very old. I also like

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to get home at a reasonable time. Brax didn't be

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in our young gun in the room right now, Did

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Speaker 3: Because to be fair, I've always been that way, right

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like I even when I was younger, Like I didn't

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I because again, I've never gone to a Marty Gral

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thing because I just the crowds.

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Speaker 4: Was never a fan.

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Speaker 3: The parking situation always stressed me out. Now I could

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just walk to Spanish, so it's fine. But like I

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just was never a party all night type of person.

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was Marty Girl in Texas?

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Speaker 3: Like we we didn't do parades and stuff like that.

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Speaker 5: So I was.

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Speaker 3: Not in central Texas at least right right south Texas.

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Speaker 5: I was still in Braxton. People get mad in New

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Orleans when you say this, but I mean everything I've

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heard Mobile Alabama created Marty Girl. And you know, we

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used to go on vacation during Marti Girl because we

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wanted to get out, Like all the tourists would come

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here for Marty Girl, so we we would go on vacation.

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I mean we we'd normally get the Monday and Tuesday

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off of school, so I mean we got like a

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four or five day weekend if we took off on Friday,

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and we drove to Golf Shores. Oh, I don't know,

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probably my first Marty Girl experience, was driving to Golf

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Shores having the road shut down because of all the

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Marty Girl parades going on. I mean, we ran into

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one in Daphne. They had one on Beach Boulevard right

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there in Orange Beach. They had another one in Foley

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just down the road. Like it's pretty big down there too. Now,

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look New Orleans does it better. The floats are not

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nearly as elaborate and all that, But they get off

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of school too. I don't know if it's the entire week,

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but uh, they do that as well. I again didn't

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go to any Martygorol Bridges will probably pick up the

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last king Cake of the year today. The unfortunate part

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for me, people don't know the struggles that the guys

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go through. Uh, when your wife's pregnant, Braxton, My wife

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hates sweets right now. It's just it's just not her thing,

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like sweets, like all sweets right now, it's it's not

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her thing. And like, see, I'm I'm a huge sweets guy.

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So I mean, I think I've bought like two or

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three king cakes this year, and every time I bring

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in one, she'll take like a little small bite and

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be like, oh, yeah, I'm done. I wound up throwing

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like half the thing because I'm not gonna eat an

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entire king Cake. I'm not that fat, Like I'm not

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gonna eat the entire king cake. But it's it's a problem, man.

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get this. Uh Andy's after Valentine's Dinner on Saturday, they

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have a new red velvet concrete or whatever they call it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it was phenomenal.

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Speaker 5: First off, love red velvet, but it was like a

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Valentine's Day special. She did that. She had about half

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of a small.

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Speaker 6: So she's got to be in the mood.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's it's got to be at a little

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special occasion, uh for Valentine. Valentine's A Saturday night is atrocious,

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like because what we try to do is every Valentine's

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we try to go to a different nice restaurant. Yeah,

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and you know we've been and went to Jubans this

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year right off of Perkins.

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Speaker 2: I went there last year.

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Speaker 5: Man, that's it's been around for years. I had somehow

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never been until Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so what room we're yelling? Because the room I

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Speaker 5: The big main one right there and not the one

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right there off to the side. But yeah, hosts to

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stand you walk right through to the back where the

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bar is.

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Speaker 6: We were never so the one I was in and

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had like a bunch of pictures of like I guess,

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like Shack and a bunch of these LSU like alumni.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I was really cool. I was.

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Speaker 5: I was not in that room, but uh we we

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knocked that out uh on Saturday, and we had a

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great time and then really really busy weekend. Uh for

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me personally, not just not just L s U, but

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you know Alandra going crazy party girl parades. We had

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the vals on one.

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Speaker 3: I'm like one of those people. I don't go out

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a lot, so when I do, it's like yeah.

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Speaker 2: Hell yeah.

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Speaker 5: It's one of those things where you're like, I knew

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I should have went too hard, but I did. So

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what time did you get there? The parade starts at.

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Speaker 3: Noon, so it starts at noon, but we didn't get

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there till like noon because we got crawfish before and

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somebody there was already like holding a spot for us,

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Speaker 4: But we caught the whole thing a.

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Speaker 5: Lot, just got people Braxton.

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Speaker 3: So then we went to O'Hara's. It used to be

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Happy Okay. We went there and they had like pants,

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party plane or whatever. So I got home at like six.

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Speaker 5: Okay, that's a little bit bad. That's a little bad

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at all. I've never been in Spanish town. Here it's great.

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went talk and just put an LSU jersey on.

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Speaker 5: She couldn't say with the plastics and me and girls, Braxton.

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That's for sure doesn't earn any pink. You probably have

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never seen that movie, and that's that's totally okay.

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Speaker 2: Mean girls, yeah, I seen that.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, dude. When I talked to Cassie, we

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have a desk right next to each other. Of course,

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Cassie talks my ear off NonStop. But she's never seen

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like any movie anything. And I mean not just a

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movie that's a little bit dated. I mean a movie

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that came out in the last five years. She's seen nothing.

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Am I gay, Cassie, have you seen this?

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Speaker 3: Nah?

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Speaker 5: No, I haven't seen that. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I'm convinced at this point she might be amish like

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I have no idea, but uh yeah, she's not. Uh

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she she's not big in the movie. Speaking of movies,

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I have a U little uh internal decision I gotta make.

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Do I want to go mystery movie Monday at movie

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Tavern tonight or do I want to go Scream Unseen

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horror movie at AMC. That's the big debate that I

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am dealing with today. I think we're going Scream Unseen.

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Speaker 6: I'm not too big on like scary movie.

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Speaker 2: That's just never been my thing.

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Speaker 6: I don't know why, but like it just I just

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don't like being scared sometimes. But I haven't been to

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the movie theater actually in a long time. We've always

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just like watched UF on Netflix and things like that.

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Speaker 5: We go to the movies like once every two months.

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We have my wife and like that's so we started

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dating in twenty fourteen. That is something we have pretty

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much consistently done. I mean, obviously COVID threw a wrench

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in the whole thing, but outside of that, yeah, I

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mean it's pretty much been once every two or three months.

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our first date was it AMC right there on O'Neil, okay,

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see it. I think we're gonna go. I think we're

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gonna go Scream Unseen because like, I know the genre right,

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and like a lot of times the movies aren't great.

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we can sit there and laugh at it. We did

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mystery movie Monday at Movie Tavern about a year year

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and a half ago. So a movie called Boy Kills World.

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so it kind of scarred me a little bit from that.

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All right, guys, this is you know, kind of mischiit

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chadding recaping our weekend here to open the segment, kind

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of keep things light because we have a lot to

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get to coming back on the other side of the break,

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Me and Landra Braxton, all of us, we're gonna chop

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it up. LSU Milwaukee opening weekend recap. The Tigers win

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all three games and they take on Kent State tonight.

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But we'll kind of recap what happened, give you a

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breakdown of how the scoring went, and then seven point

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who we like to really stepped up, and we'll do

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all that coming up here on the other side here

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on off the bench.

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Speaker 5: Welcome back in Monday edition of Off the Bench, Tyler

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Show Up here with you Elandra Villarrial Braxton Rosuto along

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as well. The LSU Tigers take down the Milwaukee Panthers

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three games to nothing Friday Saturday Sunday. Now LSU does

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play tonight against Kent State, little bit step up in competition,

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a little bit better than Milwaukee. We'll see how the

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Tiger's fare there. But let's going to recap the action.

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It was a buzzing at the box all weekend long.

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I mean you could just see the crowds of people

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coming in droves into Alec Box. Game one. Tigers win

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it fifteen to five, and what a more appropriate way

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to start off scoring here in twenty twenty six. Then

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the big body got himself, Zach York a solo shot

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gave the Tigers a one to nothing lead in the

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second inning. It was impressive. And after that though, LSU

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takes a two nothing lead right after that. Then Milwaukee

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got going a little bit. We'll get into case of

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Evans here in a second. He didn't maybe have the

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outing and a lot of LSU fans were hoping for.

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a guy who one of my personal favorites. I believe

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Seth Dardar is going to take over that everyday second

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baseman role at some point this season. He had a

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two run home run his first to bat of the season.

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So you have Zach York his first to bat a

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solo shot, Seth Dardar his first to bat of two

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run homer. Not bad transfer portal work there from mister J. Johnson,

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but he narrowed a five to two deficit to five

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to four. So LSU trailed five to four going into

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the bottom of the seventh inning, But LSU sent eleven

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hitters to the plate and erupted for six runs to

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take the ten to five lead a little bit later on,

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and then the Tigers would extend their lead back to

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back doubles to begin the seventh Steven Milum Jake Brown.

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That's what tied it at five, and then Zach York

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hid buy a pitch Kate Aaron Beattie a three run

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home run to left field. We'll get into him a

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little bit later on in the shim. So the Tigers,

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you know, they pulled away at the end. When I

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look back at Game one, I think about case In

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Evans did what I thought he would do distance wise,

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make it out of the fourth. He got into the fourth.

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His final stat line three and a third innings, seven strikeouts,

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six hits, four earned runs. So up and down, I mean,

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seven strikeouts in three and a third is really good.

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You gave up six hits, you gave up four earned runs.

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Not exactly what we wanted to see. And you know

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it's weird. He was cruising through the first three innings

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or so, and then he gave up that fourth spot

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in the fourth inning. Was ultimately pulled, but wound up

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not mattering as much because Cooper Williams and Gavin Gidrey

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out of the bullpen. They went the rest of the way. Combined,

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they gave up one run and combined for ten strikeouts.

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Not bad out of your bullpen for game one, especially

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when you feel like you have your ace on the mound.

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He doesn't have it going. You got to throw these

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guys in there. It was Williams first, then it went Gidrey,

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and again they were awesome in Game one for the Tigers.

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So you win the opening game, Game two a lot

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tighter of a battle, five to three victory. For LSU,

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and they jumped on them early. They gobbed to two

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to nothing lead in the bottom of the third inning.

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It was Derek Curiel. He had a sack fly then

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Jake Brown lined an RBI single, so that got a

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two to nothing. Milwaukee did narrow that gap for a

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little bit, made it two to one, but LSU extended

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their lead five to three in the eighth. Guess who

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came up with a big time hit when the Tigers

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needed it. Stop me if you've heard this before. Steven Milom.

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He had a two run double. Kate Aaron Beidi again,

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You're gonna hear his name a lot. He provided a

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run score double, his fourth RBI in two games. He's

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pretty good. In Game three as well. Milwaukee did rally

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for a pair of runs in the top of the

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ninth inning, but Grant Fontino actually got to save. He

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came in, he got out. Grant. We're ass on a

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flyball to in the game. There were two runners on base.

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That was a big time out for the Tigers. They

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get that one done. Game two is all about Cooper Moore.

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I mean, that's how you recap Game two of this series.

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This guy was always going to be a starter on

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this team. I mean, anytime you heard Jay Johnson talk preseason,

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he raved about Cooper Moore. I mean, that was one

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of the first names out of his mouth. Whenever a

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coach talks about a guy unsolicited brings up his name,

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I pay attention. Whether it's the baseball, basketball, football, whichever sport.

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He goes six innings, eleven strikeouts, no walks, and gave

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up one run. It really does not get much better

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than that. Cooper More was absolutely nails on Saturday, and

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the bullpen was solid for the most part. Behind him,

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accept Zach Cowen. Zach Cowen had a little bit of

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a rough outing. Now, I don't think anybody should hit

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the panic button on Zach Cowen because you should be

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confident in him. You saw it all year long against

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high level competition. Zach Cowen, come in, save games for you,

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win games for you. That's what he did out of

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the bullpen. Sure he wasn't great opening weekend case it.

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Evans wasn't great opening weekend. It happens. But outside of

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Zach Cowen, you gotta feel good, right Like you thought

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Collen and Evans were gonna be two of the guys

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that performed the best over the weekend. Neither of them

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were that great, and the rest of your bullpen was

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still really good to get you these wins. So I

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think overall that is a positive. And then what else

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can you say about yesterday? I mean, it was an

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absolute hit parade on Sunday afternoon, twenty one to seven

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and just seven innings for the Tigers. I was William Schmidt.

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They got the start, and he had a little bit

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of an up and down day. So Schmid goes four innings,

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nine strikeouts, which is elite in four innings, but he

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gives up three walks, he gives up three earned runs.

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We saw the stuff a year ago. We know that

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William Schmidt has a lead. Stuff control is going to

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continue to be a big area to watch for a

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guy like William Schmidt. You saw the reports out of

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Fall Baseball. Right anytime they had a scrimmage, some reports

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came out. It was like, oh, this weekend, William Schmidt

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was unhittable. In Mussou interviewed set Dardar last week for AFR.

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Musseau asked him, Hey, who's the toughest guy you win

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against all fall. First name out of his mouth, William Schmidt.

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So when he's on, he's one of the best pitchers

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on your staff because he has elite level stuff. His

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issue was giving up the free passes, and once you

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give up a couple of free passes, how do you

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rebound from that? Last year it didn't go great. It

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kind of snowballed on him a little bit. This game, again,

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he does give up the three walks, he gives up

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the three hundred runs, but he bounced back a lot

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better than he did a year ago. He's just a

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year older, a year longer in this program. But overall,

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really good opening weekend for the Tigers. Out there at

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the box again, fifteen to five in Game one, fIF

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five to three in Game two, and then just a

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massacre twenty one to seven in Game three. ALIDI, you

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were out there opening day, the vibes like out there,

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I mean, are the are the Tigers gonna Are they

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gonna go back to back national champs? I mean, obviously, right,

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I always.

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Speaker 3: Think that they're gonna win the national championship, so I'm

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probably not the right person to ask, but no, I

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mean they looked really good.

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Speaker 4: The vibes were really high.

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Speaker 3: There was a fan fest out there before the game,

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and there was a surprising amount of people out there,

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given that it was Friday, and everybody complains about how

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Jay Johnson does these early first pitches.

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Speaker 4: At the beginning of the season, it was a two

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pm first pitch.

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Speaker 3: The fan fest started at eleven AM, and like, the

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people showed up. The kids were there, they had they

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were playing hooky. People probably like got in trouble at

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their jobs. But I kept saying, like, it's okay, Jay Johnson,

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roach y'all an excuse.

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Speaker 4: I had a letter that.

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Speaker 3: You could turn into your employer, your teacher, so it's fine.

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But yeah, I mean it was. Vibes were super high.

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Everybody looked like they were having a great time. I

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mean the box was packed. So for as much as

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people complain about the two pm first pitch, I mean

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they showed up.

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Speaker 5: That was always one of those people.

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Speaker 4: I was admittedly like, I get it, but people were there.

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Speaker 5: No, they were like I was watching.

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Speaker 4: It was packed. It was like standing room only at

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some point.

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Speaker 5: I was still here when first pitch obviously at two o'clock.

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But uh, you know, of course, believe it or not,

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Hunt Palmer had it on TV in the studio and

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a shocker. I know came in the here. I mean

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it looked like there wasn't an empty seat. Yeah, I

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mean it was insane. I know you were there. Did

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you go Saturday or Sunday?

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Speaker 3: So I didn't go Saturday because I was at the

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parade Sunday. I also did not make it out there.

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But I will say everybody on this team is huge.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Out Their pregame to like just get some video and

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pictures on the field or whatever, and I'm like.

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Speaker 4: Wait, y'all are all so big.

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Speaker 3: They're like except for obviously Stephen Mylom, but everyone's like stout.

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Not just like tall, but they're just like stout. And

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I was telling y'all in the group chat that it

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looks like Kreiyel put on like some muscle mass too

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in the off season. So I'm excited. I think the

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team looks great. The bullpen, besides like some shakiness here

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and there, looks awesome too. And Devin Sheeran looks as advertised.

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He's another one that's huge. He's a big boy.

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Speaker 5: You got a lot of big boys, right, I mean

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we look remember the first championship roun we made with

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with Jay Johnson, it was it was Riley Cooper, it

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was it was Kay Beloso. Is guys like that, We're like,

473
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,440
we need some more big body gods. Jay Johnson listened

474
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,440
because Zach York is a large human being.

475
00:21:45,519 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 4: I had and how on brand that like his first

476
00:21:48,559 --> 00:21:50,319
hit at the box is a home run?

477
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,359
Speaker 5: So I also missed it. I had just left work. Yeah,

478
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,400
I'm literally getting on the interstate right there, and uh

479
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:57,839
Patrick right? Who actually was great?

480
00:21:58,680 --> 00:21:59,039
Speaker 4: Patrick?

481
00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:01,640
Speaker 5: Patrick? Patrick did all three games.

482
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:03,599
Speaker 4: They were asking me, and I assumed it was Doug

483
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:05,119
and Buzzy. Yeah it was Patrick.

484
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 5: So Patrick did all three baseball games and the women's

485
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,359
a game on Saturday night. The man was putting in work,

486
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,680
but I'm getting on the interstate and then he's like, oh,

487
00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,720
one swing of the bat. I just chuckled. I mean

488
00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,559
I just I literally let out it laugh. I'm like,

489
00:22:17,599 --> 00:22:20,519
of course, the first run of the season is a

490
00:22:20,599 --> 00:22:23,960
Zach York bohm because it's all we've heard about all fall.

491
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,680
I mean, it was it was so appropriate. But you know,

492
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,920
you were talking about the size of guys. It was

493
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,640
so funny right when you had said that, because like

494
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:32,960
you were at the game, you didn't get to hear

495
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,720
it on the broadcast, Ben McDonald goes, yeah, Derek Curry,

496
00:22:35,799 --> 00:22:38,079
oh like twelve to thirteen pounds of muscle, Yeah, in

497
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,359
the offseason, and you sent it like right after that.

498
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:42,519
Speaker 4: He looks he looks bigger.

499
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:44,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like he I mean, he looks good, and

500
00:22:44,839 --> 00:22:46,839
he had some pop in his bat whenever I was

501
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,440
watching Sunday, So I mean, good for him, but also

502
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,559
for as much as people always worry about, like, oh,

503
00:22:53,599 --> 00:22:55,880
what are we gonna do with the bullpen? What are

504
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:57,720
we gonna do with replace? How are we going to

505
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,039
replace Kate Anderson and Anthony Ironson. Okay, well we broke

506
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,759
the record that we set perdue fort Wayne forty five

507
00:23:03,799 --> 00:23:07,240
strikeouts the most in a series. They broke it this

508
00:23:07,319 --> 00:23:10,400
weekend with forty nine strikeouts. So it broke it easily, Yeah,

509
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:11,599
very easily.

510
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,279
Speaker 4: So I think they looked good.

511
00:23:13,319 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 3: I remember like last season, after they did that, I

512
00:23:15,519 --> 00:23:19,880
went like full ray man and compared like the season before,

513
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,599
because everybody was worried about it too, and I was like, no, y'all,

514
00:23:22,599 --> 00:23:24,680
we're gonna be fine, and then everyone was like, it's

515
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,880
only four games in. I'm like, I know, but watch,

516
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:28,640
there's already such an improvement.

517
00:23:28,759 --> 00:23:30,480
Speaker 4: So I feel good about the team.

518
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, Like I did. I saw a couple of

519
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,240
people online being like, oh, Zach Cowen, But like if

520
00:23:36,319 --> 00:23:39,079
Zach Cowen was your worst bullpen pitcher over the weekend,

521
00:23:39,079 --> 00:23:40,599
I felt good about it because I trusted more than

522
00:23:40,599 --> 00:23:42,880
everybody else. Like Zach Cowen just had a bad out.

523
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,160
He was excellent. He was great before you got to LSU,

524
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,599
but he was awesome all last year. Like I mean,

525
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,519
maybe this is just me trusting this team blindly, But

526
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,599
like I don't care that Zach Cowen didn't have a

527
00:23:53,599 --> 00:23:55,559
good outing because I know what he could do. Like

528
00:23:55,599 --> 00:23:58,319
I would have been more concerned if like Cowen and

529
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,839
Gidry were great, everybody else was shake. To me, that's

530
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,559
a lot more of a concern like having your best

531
00:24:02,559 --> 00:24:04,559
guy and not having a good first outing, I don't care.

532
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, we're just so deep of like a pitching staff,

533
00:24:08,039 --> 00:24:09,720
so we have sony people to go through. But that's

534
00:24:09,759 --> 00:24:12,359
good that we played Milwaukee first because we got to

535
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,640
go through everybody and make sure and see what they

536
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,240
can do, you know, get make sure they're comfortable and

537
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:17,799
just move on.

538
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:22,279
Speaker 4: We love because that's just absolutely electric.

539
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 5: We were we were talking about it you and I

540
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,039
were talking about it maybe a week week and a

541
00:24:26,039 --> 00:24:30,279
half ago when Jake was out. Like people had been

542
00:24:30,279 --> 00:24:32,640
talking about, oh, you have Cooper More, you have Cooper Williams.

543
00:24:32,799 --> 00:24:36,319
Cave I mean not kave case A. Evans is going

544
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:38,920
to be your Friday night guy. Nobody was talking about

545
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,839
Guidury or Devin Sheeran because they were injured last year

546
00:24:41,839 --> 00:24:44,359
and they didn't play. Don't forget like these could be

547
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,759
two of your best bullpit guys and they were one

548
00:24:47,799 --> 00:24:50,079
opening weekend. We're gonna take a time out and we

549
00:24:50,079 --> 00:24:51,480
get back a Landra and the heart kind of gonna

550
00:24:51,519 --> 00:24:54,640
go back and forth of maybe which players individual players

551
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,960
stood out. Obviously, the team as a whole was great.

552
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,160
They win three games to nothing. But we'll do that

553
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Speaker 5: In Monday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor Sharp here

608
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with you, Loudravilla, Real, Braxton Rissuto as well. LSU Baseball

609
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,079
gets a three game to nothing victory over the Milwaukee

610
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,599
Panthers at Alick Box Stadium. Over the weekend, they take

611
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,559
on the Kent State Golden Flashes. I'm sure everyone knows

612
00:27:48,599 --> 00:27:51,559
what that is here on Monday night. But what I

613
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,960
want to do right now is look some guys that

614
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,799
maybe maybe caught our eye. Who was somebody that that

615
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,480
flashed for us landra I'll let you go first, you

616
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,480
have any body just off the dome right now? Like, hey,

617
00:28:02,839 --> 00:28:04,039
that guy big first weekend.

618
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,440
Speaker 3: I hate to go like chalking obvious here, but Cooper

619
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,480
More is awesome, right, Like, I can't really give you

620
00:28:10,519 --> 00:28:13,079
another answer because he just stood out so hard to

621
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,880
me that I'm like, I mean, eleven strikeouts and six innings,

622
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,279
only allowed four hits in one run, one of them

623
00:28:19,319 --> 00:28:24,160
earned no walks. That's the most important, like impressive stat

624
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,160
to me from Cooper More over the weekend is zero walks.

625
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 4: It's ridiculous.

626
00:28:28,839 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 5: Eleven to nothing news, Yeah, that's insane.

627
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 3: Yes, So like I hate to just go with the

628
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,680
obvious one, but I'm like super impressed by him. And

629
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,799
then y'all know, I was looking forward to seeing Trent

630
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,559
Carraway and he can play every position really well.

631
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,119
Speaker 5: You got the started second yesterday, I believe right. Yeah,

632
00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:48,759
I didn't see that coming.

633
00:28:48,839 --> 00:28:53,039
Speaker 3: No, killed it at second, so third base, second base, whatever.

634
00:28:53,079 --> 00:28:54,920
But I do agree with you that I do think

635
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,519
that's that Dardar is gonna end up taking the second place.

636
00:28:58,039 --> 00:28:59,799
Speaker 5: He hits too well. He has to be in your lineup,

637
00:28:59,839 --> 00:29:02,839
like that's your second basement. I wrote down two pictures

638
00:29:02,839 --> 00:29:06,799
and one of them was Cooper Moore. Yeah, you're going chalk,

639
00:29:06,839 --> 00:29:09,160
but you have to, you know. My other picture is

640
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,400
Gavin Gidrey. Sorry, we're going chaw. Guys, the big name

641
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,400
showed up. He threw two innings on Friday. The seven batters,

642
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,799
struck out five of them, including four straight to start

643
00:29:19,839 --> 00:29:22,440
his day. This is the Gavin Gidry we saw two

644
00:29:22,519 --> 00:29:24,519
years ago. I mean, the guy hadn't played in basically

645
00:29:24,559 --> 00:29:27,440
eighteen months. He comes out there and looks like that, like,

646
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,119
are you kidding me? If this guy can come out

647
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,400
and do that in the back end of your bullpen,

648
00:29:31,559 --> 00:29:33,279
then this staff has the potential to be one of

649
00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:35,240
the best in the country because you have one of

650
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,640
the best set up guys closing guys. You could put

651
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:42,279
Gavin Gidrie wherever you want in that bullpen rotation and

652
00:29:42,319 --> 00:29:45,200
he's going to deliver for you. I mean, I think

653
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,599
he was incredible. And you know what, Landra mentioned Set

654
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,400
dard Ar. Guess what, guys, I got Set Dardar written

655
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,440
down right here. I think he's gonna be your everyday

656
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,000
second basement. We had been talking about that for the

657
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,119
past week or so. He came in for Braden Simpson

658
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,519
on Friday and his first at bat, yeah, two running

659
00:30:01,519 --> 00:30:02,920
home run. Not bad.

660
00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:03,119
Speaker 1: Uh.

661
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 5: He went two for three that day. Three RBI scored

662
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,400
two runs. On the weekend, he was three for eight

663
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,119
with six RBIs and he had a pretty good glove

664
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,960
over there at second as well. That's a guy that

665
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:17,119
that flashed and a Landra's favorite player from a year ago.

666
00:30:17,799 --> 00:30:20,920
She laughed, this weird in the studio together. Karon Beattie

667
00:30:21,519 --> 00:30:24,720
had a heck of a weekend behind the plate. He

668
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:29,160
was six for twelve, four RBI scored five runs and

669
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,599
like did he did? He have a pass ball over

670
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:32,079
the weekend.

671
00:30:32,319 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 3: I think I saw that he did a little bit,

672
00:30:34,519 --> 00:30:37,319
but he's improved a lot behind the plate, Yeah, because

673
00:30:37,319 --> 00:30:40,119
I mean he's got He was pretty hit or missed

674
00:30:40,119 --> 00:30:43,079
he was last season, but there is a huge improvement

675
00:30:43,119 --> 00:30:47,000
from already, like just in the Yeah, Omar Serna looks

676
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:47,599
good too though.

677
00:30:47,839 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean yeah, I think he DHD.

678
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 4: Yesterday started the Saturday game.

679
00:30:52,519 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 5: Maybe wehen you mentioned it. Like the dudes got the

680
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,480
body of an upper class like not in a.

681
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 3: Weird way, great build, Like he's tall, he has like

682
00:31:05,559 --> 00:31:07,799
he's I'm telling you, all of the guys on this

683
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:08,519
team are big.

684
00:31:08,599 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 5: They really are. Like they're they're massive. They look like

685
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:12,559
the football team out the Yeah, like they're they're huge.

686
00:31:12,839 --> 00:31:16,319
That was clearly a strategic move there by Jay Johnson.

687
00:31:16,319 --> 00:31:18,720
But like with with Aaron Beatty, it's so important because okay,

688
00:31:18,759 --> 00:31:21,920
so so Braxton. Like the reason I say Allander's favorite player,

689
00:31:22,079 --> 00:31:24,920
our girl was going through it. It was so it

690
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,200
was a midweek game. I think I'm doing the I'm

691
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,920
doing the baseball game, she's doing women's basketball. She's walking

692
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,519
to the studio. Kate Arbaty let another one behind him,

693
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,279
and then I think he hit like a grand slam

694
00:31:36,359 --> 00:31:37,880
or something or like a two run home or something.

695
00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:39,920
Right after she's like, okay, he did good, and then

696
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,720
a few minutes later, you know if something else, it

697
00:31:41,759 --> 00:31:44,200
was just it. But that's kind of how everybody felt

698
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,359
about him, right It was very hit and miss a

699
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,119
year ago, and there were so many people that thought

700
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:50,519
he was going to take that next step to be

701
00:31:50,559 --> 00:31:53,599
your starting catcher. Luis Hernandez, I mean, excellent last year,

702
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,039
but he took that job from it. If Aaron Beatty

703
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,880
can do this consistent, I'm not asking him to hit

704
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,680
five hundred every single week. That that is not realistic

705
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,720
at all. But did he get you timely hits? I

706
00:32:03,759 --> 00:32:06,559
mean he scored five runs, he had four RBIs. He

707
00:32:06,599 --> 00:32:08,480
had a big knock over the weekend as well. Like,

708
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,119
if he could do things like that, have big hits

709
00:32:11,119 --> 00:32:13,160
for you in big moments, and play like he did

710
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,319
behind the plate over the weekend, you're going to be

711
00:32:16,359 --> 00:32:20,319
really good in that position. Also, Jake Brown is a stud.

712
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,880
If anybody didn't know that already, Jake Brown six for twelve.

713
00:32:24,039 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 4: I know our Jake is excited about that.

714
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 5: Oh, our Jake huge, Jake Brown fan. He hits two

715
00:32:30,279 --> 00:32:33,839
home runs yesterday, including one which was a grand slam

716
00:32:34,319 --> 00:32:38,000
eight RBI on the weekend, solid in the outfield like

717
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:39,920
we expected him to be. I think it's safe to

718
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,039
say he solidified his spot, right. I mean, coming into

719
00:32:43,039 --> 00:32:46,200
the season, it was it was Stanfield, it was Curiel,

720
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,640
it was Jake Brown. But Jake Brown wasn't an everyday

721
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,839
starter last year. I mean, he came on hot at

722
00:32:50,839 --> 00:32:52,240
the end of the year. But he's a guy that's

723
00:32:52,319 --> 00:32:54,440
that's kind of bounced around. I mean, they experimented with

724
00:32:54,519 --> 00:32:59,279
him at first base in the past, and he's a

725
00:32:59,319 --> 00:33:01,799
guy that he's down that spot in right field, like

726
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,640
Jake Brown is there to stay at. Where you put

727
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:08,359
him in the lineup, to me doesn't really matter. I'm

728
00:33:08,359 --> 00:33:10,640
good with wherever he's at because he can hit for contact,

729
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,079
he can hit for power. Stick him anywhere you want

730
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:18,359
and call it a day. I love what I saw

731
00:33:18,559 --> 00:33:20,039
from a lot of these guys. But I mean there's

732
00:33:20,079 --> 00:33:23,200
so many guys that we haven't mentioned that you could

733
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:27,160
throw out there, right. I mean Curiel, like we haven't

734
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,200
mentioned him as a flash player because we expected that

735
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,000
from it. Like, I don't know about you. I was

736
00:33:31,039 --> 00:33:34,839
a little surprised when Stanfield was leading off instead of Curiol,

737
00:33:34,839 --> 00:33:37,559
Like Stanfield was great leading off to begin last year,

738
00:33:38,079 --> 00:33:40,160
but they moved him down in the lineup. He hit

739
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,640
eight or nine going into that College World Series, and

740
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:48,279
then Stanfield opened the season as the as the leadoff batter.

741
00:33:48,319 --> 00:33:50,279
Now it's switched on Saturday and Sunday. I went back

742
00:33:50,319 --> 00:33:51,319
to Curio, but which they.

743
00:33:51,319 --> 00:33:53,319
Speaker 3: Kind of needed to do that because then, like Courriel

744
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,960
was kind of cold Friday, and then Saturday warmed up

745
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,519
a little bit, Sunday was full like back in full form.

746
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Jayson tinker with that lineup, but not what

747
00:34:01,319 --> 00:34:01,799
I say.

748
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,519
Speaker 4: In the positions too. Yeah, like we have not seen

749
00:34:05,559 --> 00:34:06,799
the final.

750
00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:09,679
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, he did it this weekend, right,

751
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,639
I mean yesterday towards the end of the game. I

752
00:34:11,639 --> 00:34:14,000
did said it was a blowout, but uh Rutgert was

753
00:34:14,039 --> 00:34:17,039
playing short Ethan Klaus, who apparently Ethan Klaus actually had

754
00:34:17,079 --> 00:34:18,320
a really good fall. There were there were a lot

755
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,280
of people saying he could hit the ball pretty well.

756
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 3: You mentioned whenever Matt had asked, like, who's somebody that

757
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,000
we haven't heard of that stands out to you?

758
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 4: I think he mentioned him.

759
00:34:27,559 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 5: Ethan Klaus is a is a guy that you know

760
00:34:30,599 --> 00:34:32,840
hit the ball really well. He looks the part getting

761
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,039
off the bus, but he was in there at second.

762
00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:37,480
You know, those two they hooked up for what they

763
00:34:37,519 --> 00:34:39,280
tried to turn a double play. Class was a little

764
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,639
bit late getting to it. No big deal. It was

765
00:34:41,639 --> 00:34:43,440
a good play as well. You had a big lead.

766
00:34:43,519 --> 00:34:46,239
But I mean, there's just so many young guys. Mason

767
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,000
Braun got the start at DH on Friday. I mean

768
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,679
when you when you put out that lineup, you saw

769
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,000
Mason Braun in there. That's a guy that can play

770
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,519
outfield for you. He can also play first. So if

771
00:34:55,559 --> 00:34:57,880
you need to date Zach York for whatever reason, or

772
00:34:58,039 --> 00:35:00,280
Zach York has an injury, there's a guy they could

773
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,719
slide into first. Like the versatility of this team, the

774
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,400
depth of this team, whether it's in the field or

775
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,719
the staff. It was impressive as hell to the opening weekend.

776
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 3: Someone else that looked really good to close out, and

777
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,199
I like, I get they kind of talked about this

778
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,800
on the broadcast too. Wasn't like a high stakes situation

779
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,039
that they were in, or like a high leverage situation,

780
00:35:19,159 --> 00:35:21,119
so you didn't see him in like a high pressure thing.

781
00:35:21,159 --> 00:35:24,480
But Marcos pause looked good coming out to close out

782
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:25,159
the game.

783
00:35:25,199 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 4: As well. He had three strikeouts and two innings.

784
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,559
Speaker 3: I mean, gave up four hits, but only one earned

785
00:35:30,639 --> 00:35:33,599
Runoff of that, he's wuk so like, if he can

786
00:35:33,679 --> 00:35:37,679
kind of find a little bit more control, he could

787
00:35:37,679 --> 00:35:38,320
look really good.

788
00:35:38,559 --> 00:35:41,679
Speaker 5: He's eighteen months post Tommy John, by the way, like

789
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:43,559
the guy like that's why he didn't go to the

790
00:35:43,599 --> 00:35:45,920
Major League Draft, That's why he's in school. He had

791
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,400
Tommy John surgery eighteen months ago. So, like we talked

792
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,800
about Gavin Gidrey coming back from injury, Devin Sheering coming

793
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,440
back from injury, Marcos Pause is another one that is

794
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,079
coming back. Hadn't thrown in a little bit, at least competitively.

795
00:35:56,119 --> 00:35:58,119
He was quite in fall camp. I mean, by by

796
00:35:58,119 --> 00:36:00,880
all accounts, they're in the fall scrimmage. Marcos Pass was

797
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,280
one of your best bullpen pitchers. But the fact that

798
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,000
all of these guys stepped up and again, like the

799
00:36:06,039 --> 00:36:08,840
only bullpen guy that wasn't great was Za Callen, and

800
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,280
we don't care because he's so good that it doesn't

801
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:11,840
really matter.

802
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,079
Speaker 3: I was excited when he first came out, besides Jaga Garcia.

803
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:16,440
He struggled a little bit.

804
00:36:16,559 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 5: He did out there, he did, but again that's a

805
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,880
guy who's a transfer right Like he's been there, done that,

806
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,320
He's been in high leverage situations. Like the young guys

807
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,440
that you wanted to see really stepped up in a

808
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,519
big way. All Right, we're going to take a time out.

809
00:36:28,559 --> 00:36:31,440
We get back LSU men's and women's basketball. We're on

810
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,920
the hardwood on Saturday. We're gonna talk about that and

811
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,239
we'll wrap up our number one here on off the bench.

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Off the bench.

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815
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817
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818
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819
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that's what they do. He stacked banners. They stacked out

820
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every year, every single year.

821
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822
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823
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824
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826
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828
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829
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830
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831
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833
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834
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Speaker 1: Com, Say No Disco, it ain't no country. Locked in

835
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,840
on LSU football twenty four to seven, you're listening to

836
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:43,880
Off the Bench.

837
00:37:48,039 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 5: Welcome back. In Monday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor

838
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,000
Sharp here with you. Jacob Hester Matt Flann on vacation

839
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,719
for Marty Girl Break. The kiddos were off of school

840
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,400
and jac and Matt said, hey, we're gonna take off

841
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:03,440
as well. Can't fault them for that. I totally understand.

842
00:38:03,559 --> 00:38:07,599
LSU men's and women's basketball were on the hardwood on Saturday.

843
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,440
We'll start with the men. Get them out of the

844
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,000
way first, because, believe it or not, guys, the men

845
00:38:12,079 --> 00:38:15,920
suffered another sec loss. Shocker. I know they are now

846
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,239
two to ten on the season, fourteen and eleven overall.

847
00:38:19,639 --> 00:38:21,760
They were on the road in Knoxville, take it on

848
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,039
the Tennessee Volunteers seventy three sixty three, So the Tigers

849
00:38:25,079 --> 00:38:28,480
kept it close for the most part, but it was

850
00:38:28,559 --> 00:38:30,559
it was kind of just the same old song and

851
00:38:30,679 --> 00:38:35,000
dance for LSU. I mean, you go look at at

852
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,800
the team stats Tennessee wins and everything. Forty six percent

853
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,960
shooting for Tennessee just thirty eight percent for LSU. Not

854
00:38:43,159 --> 00:38:46,039
either team shot particularly well from three, but thirty eight

855
00:38:46,079 --> 00:38:49,239
to thirty five percent advantage again for the Tennessee Volunteers.

856
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,639
LSU almost got doubled up in rebounding forty five twenty

857
00:38:53,639 --> 00:38:59,639
four in favor of the Tennessee Volunteers turnovers whose you

858
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,840
only had three. The problem with this basketball team I

859
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,480
have noticed is even when they're down, they don't have

860
00:39:06,639 --> 00:39:09,760
a guy that has that aggressive killer instinct, Like you

861
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,679
just don't see it. It seems almost like like they

862
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,000
move the ball around well, but it just seems like

863
00:39:15,199 --> 00:39:18,519
everybody on the court, regardless of if they're up by

864
00:39:18,559 --> 00:39:21,400
ten or they're losing by twenty, it's just hesitant to

865
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,559
shoot the ball. Like last week, the late night game

866
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:28,079
on Tuesday against Arkansas, You're down by twenty something points

867
00:39:28,079 --> 00:39:31,519
in the second half and you're running the ball, you're

868
00:39:31,519 --> 00:39:33,719
setting up your half court offense, you're taking your time.

869
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,039
Like I'm never gonna be one of those people that's

870
00:39:36,039 --> 00:39:37,960
like I just heave up at three and see what happens.

871
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,559
But at that point in the game, it's a second half,

872
00:39:40,599 --> 00:39:43,880
you're down by twenty plus. You gotta get up shots.

873
00:39:44,159 --> 00:39:46,039
You have to get up shots quickly. You can't just

874
00:39:46,079 --> 00:39:49,239
take your time, like. There's never really a huge sense

875
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,599
of urgency with this team, regardless of what the stakes

876
00:39:52,599 --> 00:39:55,719
are and where you're at in the game. So, I mean, yeah,

877
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:59,840
they only had three turnovers. Tennessee had nine. I mean,

878
00:40:00,159 --> 00:40:03,960
is that you had six points off of nine Tennessee turners.

879
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,119
Not great? They had two off a year three points

880
00:40:07,159 --> 00:40:09,320
in the paint. This has been a big one all year,

881
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,480
at least the last few games. Thirty four points in

882
00:40:12,519 --> 00:40:17,199
the paint for Tennessee, eighteen for lshoot. It pretty much

883
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,559
looked like that against Arkansas. Like against Arkansas, I think

884
00:40:19,599 --> 00:40:22,360
you had just off the top of that, I think

885
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,719
it was like twenty one twenty twenty one points in

886
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:28,440
the paint. Arkansas had close to forty. I mean, Arkansas

887
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,320
didn't really shoot the ball that well from the outside

888
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,000
against you on Tuesday Night. You just find different ways

889
00:40:33,039 --> 00:40:37,639
to lose games. Like it's something I say all the time. Team,

890
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,559
good teams find different ways to win games. AD teams

891
00:40:40,559 --> 00:40:42,679
find different ways to lose games. This is a bad

892
00:40:42,679 --> 00:40:45,760
basketball team, and they find different ways to lose games. However,

893
00:40:46,199 --> 00:40:48,840
you just the areas that you have to improve at.

894
00:40:49,679 --> 00:40:53,719
They're not a good rebounding team, they're not good defending

895
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,719
the paint, they're not good scoring inside the paint. And

896
00:40:57,519 --> 00:40:59,559
I mean, to make matters even worse, I know he's

897
00:40:59,559 --> 00:41:00,760
been in an out out of the lineup, and I

898
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,360
know he hadn't played a ton, but it was announced

899
00:41:03,519 --> 00:41:05,800
over the weekend that DJ Thomas will be out for

900
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,280
the remainder of the season. So you're not going to

901
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,119
get him back. Like that was your guy. The entire

902
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,960
offense ran through him, and I mean you look, Lshu

903
00:41:15,039 --> 00:41:18,360
spread the ball around a decent amount one Saturday. I

904
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:23,559
mean four of your five starters had double digits. Sutton sixteen,

905
00:41:23,639 --> 00:41:28,199
tom By thirteen, Nwoco ten, Jalen Reese fifteen. That Jalen

906
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:29,920
Reese is not much of a score at least that's

907
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:31,360
not what they asked him to do in this offense

908
00:41:31,599 --> 00:41:33,440
for him to put up fifteen and he was actually

909
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,800
good four of eight from the court, three for five

910
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,760
from behind the arc. But you got a total of

911
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,840
eight points off the bench. Between Miller, Moseley and PJ. Carter,

912
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,840
you got eight total points off the bench. It's just

913
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,599
not good enough. Look at what Tennessee did. I mean,

914
00:41:47,639 --> 00:41:52,239
they had double digit scorers off the bench. You had

915
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,360
eighteen points off the bench and you had eight. That's

916
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,840
the difference in the game right there. It's a ten

917
00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,920
point game. That's a ten point difference off the bench.

918
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,639
This team's just not deep enough. They have to have

919
00:42:02,679 --> 00:42:05,320
all their starters perform well in the same game, and

920
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,800
you know some of them did. But when you're not

921
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,320
rebounding well, when you're not scoring down low, when you're

922
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,320
out defending down low, things like this are going to

923
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,440
continue to happen. And again, it's just kind of the

924
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:22,400
same old song and dance for the LSU Tigers next up.

925
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:27,000
I mean, it doesn't get a whole lot easier for

926
00:42:27,199 --> 00:42:29,440
LSU as well. And I mean you could say, oh,

927
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,000
that's an easy part in their schedule. I mean they

928
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,920
have Texas tomorrow, Like Texas isn't a top twenty five team.

929
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,199
But it's on the road. I mean, you just went

930
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,800
on the road to Tennessee. You're on the road at Texas.

931
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,480
It's a late one tomorrow night at eight o'clock. Then

932
00:42:42,519 --> 00:42:45,199
you're at home against Alabama. Believe it or not, since

933
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:50,159
Charles Bediako was ruled ineligible, Alabama's actually been a lot better.

934
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,000
I mean, Alabama's going to be favored in that game,

935
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,880
even though LSU is at home. That hasn't mattered this year.

936
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,239
Then you go on the road to all Miss your

937
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,280
home against Oklahoma. I mean both of those teams, those

938
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,559
are winnable games. But you've lost a lot of winnable

939
00:43:05,559 --> 00:43:08,400
games this year. I mean, I knew everyone wanted to

940
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:12,519
talk about one last Tuesday. Oh well, you didn't have

941
00:43:12,599 --> 00:43:17,440
DJ Thomas and Max McKinnon went down in the third quarter. Okay,

942
00:43:19,079 --> 00:43:22,320
DJ Wagner and Carter Knox, who are Arkansas's two the

943
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,239
best players, did not even play against you, and you

944
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:28,480
lost by twenty plus points at home. It hasn't mattered

945
00:43:28,519 --> 00:43:31,199
who this team has played. They haven't been good against anyone.

946
00:43:32,159 --> 00:43:35,719
That's why you sit there at two and ten. I mean,

947
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:39,800
you look at the teams they've beaten. I mean, yeah,

948
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,639
they got a victory over South Carolina. Great. South Carolina's

949
00:43:42,679 --> 00:43:46,639
not good either. Look at the bottom of the SEC standings,

950
00:43:46,679 --> 00:43:49,000
it's kind of where it's kind of where both of

951
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,119
these teams have lived. So, I mean, I don't you

952
00:43:52,199 --> 00:43:54,920
try to find wins whenever a team's struggling, you try

953
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:58,639
to find wins. Right, You're two and ten, You're tied

954
00:43:58,639 --> 00:44:01,119
with South Carolina at the bottom of the LIE. Sure,

955
00:44:01,159 --> 00:44:03,639
Ole Miss is three and nine. You got them coming

956
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,360
up Texas seven and five in the league. You're not

957
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,320
winning that game in Austin, second game in a row

958
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,599
on the road. You're not winning that game. Oklahoma's winnable.

959
00:44:13,639 --> 00:44:16,039
They're three and nine. Ole Miss is three and nine.

960
00:44:17,159 --> 00:44:18,880
But do I have confidence that this team can win

961
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,199
this game? No, because they do the same thing every game.

962
00:44:22,639 --> 00:44:24,679
This team plays like they just go out there and

963
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:27,840
they're like, Okay, we're gonna go out there, we're gonna

964
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:29,480
put up some shots and hope for the best. I mean,

965
00:44:30,119 --> 00:44:32,119
at times, it just seems like there's no rhyme or

966
00:44:32,159 --> 00:44:37,800
reason as to what they're doing. So, I mean, where

967
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,480
do you go again? Wins wise? The rest of the way,

968
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,039
I just I just I don't see it getting any better.

969
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,199
I mean, you're losing. I think you lose to Texas

970
00:44:45,199 --> 00:44:47,559
and Alabama, no question about that. Both those teams are

971
00:44:47,559 --> 00:44:50,760
getting better. Ole Miss at Oklahoma, those are winnable. But

972
00:44:51,079 --> 00:44:52,679
let's say you win both of those. I put you

973
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,719
at four wins. Then you have Auburn who's reeling a

974
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,320
little bit, but they're better than you, and then Texas,

975
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,559
A and M. We've surprised a lot of people this year.

976
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,519
So let's say you beat Ole Miss and Oklahoma, You're

977
00:45:05,599 --> 00:45:10,000
still sitting at four SEC wins. And that's not good

978
00:45:10,119 --> 00:45:13,960
enough for SEC wins. I mean again, at A and M.

979
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,880
They have a winning record in the conference. And should

980
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:21,119
I trust LSU against anybody they play, No, not really. So,

981
00:45:21,159 --> 00:45:22,920
even though it looks good down the stretch, I just

982
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,639
don't see it get any better. All Right, We're actually

983
00:45:24,679 --> 00:45:27,480
gonna do women's basketball in the nine o'clock hour. There's

984
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,440
a lot to get to there coming up. We got

985
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,400
some LSU football coming up. We got some Saints, we

986
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,920
got Patrick Coogan, former LSU pitcher. That's all coming up

987
00:45:34,079 --> 00:45:36,519
here on Off the bench, Off the bench,