Speaker 1: Off the Bench. We have to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
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Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Knees Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and
Matt Flynn.
Speaker 5: Welcome in Monday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor Sharp
here with you, Ladra Villa, Reale, Braxton Razuto. Okay, do
you okay? I learned this the first time, like over
the weekend. And have you ever seen Billy Madison?
Speaker 2: I have, yes, Thank god.
Speaker 5: I thought you were gonna be like, no, that's too
old for me. Okay, every time I think Risuto when
she brings up Adam Sandler to the board in third grade,
he has to spell out the different baseball where it's
like she's like punt, dug out all that, and he's
getting cocky. She goes, how about Razuta and then he
freaks out, Risuto is not a word. He's a baseball player.
You've cheated. Thank god, you've seen that.
Speaker 2: I've seen the movie.
Speaker 6: I just don't remember that part exactly. I need to
go back and look at it now.
Speaker 5: That's that's the only thing I can think of every
time I think of the name Rzuto. But look, we're
here with you all week long. We are hanging out.
We have a ton to get to today. Because, uh,
maybe you didn't hear women's basketball loses to South Carolina
Saturday night. There was a game on ABC, one of
the first times that's ever happened. LSU baseball got their
season started against Milwaukee, and uh look pretty dominant at
times over the weekend. We'll get into that as well.
Here's a shocker, LSU basketball lost again. Who would have
thought that? But uh, right now, let's go around the
room a little bit of lundra. I know you were busy.
I saw you out a Uh well, I didn't see
out there. I saw the pictures of a out there
at Spanish Town. Was this your first Spanish Town?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It was my first time going to any sort of
Marty Girl parade and it was fun.
Speaker 4: Had a great time.
Speaker 5: I heard you. Uh let a guy on a float
injected jello shot into you.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's a seven am topic, but
I did.
Speaker 5: Yees did. Okay, here we're about it.
Speaker 4: We uh had a great time.
Speaker 5: We love it. Uh, did you wind up going to
New Orleans?
Speaker 4: I did not go.
Speaker 2: I did not know.
Speaker 4: It was like one was enough for me.
Speaker 3: I mean like I had fun, but like I just
didn't feel like going down to New Orleans. And then
I guess Bachus didn't start till like five point fifteen,
and Spanish Town started like at noon, so that one
was done early enough for me to like get home
at this sounds.
Speaker 4: So bad, but like get home at a reasonable time. Uh.
Speaker 3: And I just didn't feel like I didn't feel like
going to New Orleans next day. But I did have
fomo looking at the pictures because I had fun, had
a great time.
Speaker 5: I was gonna ask if you saw Lane Kiffin on
a Demian.
Speaker 4: But you didn't make it out that was Saturday.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was getting videos from Matt of Gwen Stefani and
I was.
Speaker 5: Like, okay, hey, so was that the same place dying
on the inside was Was that also in Demian?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Okay, so it was. I think Blake Shelton was there too, right,
both of them? Yeah, Lane and then Arthur something, who
wound up being the Grand Marshal because he's like a
Marty Girl expert whatever that means. Yeah, it sounded like
a really good time. I Uh, I did not go
to any Marty Girl parades. Look, I'm a I'm an
old man when it comes to parade. We talked about
this last week. It just it's just kind of the
in and out that, like Alandre was talking about. This
may sound bad, but I like to get home at
a reasonable time. I am very old. I also like
to get home at a reasonable time. Brax didn't be
in our young gun in the room right now, Did
you go to any.
Speaker 3: Because to be fair, I've always been that way, right
like I even when I was younger, Like I didn't
I because again, I've never gone to a Marty Gral
thing because I just the crowds.
Speaker 4: Was never a fan.
Speaker 3: The parking situation always stressed me out. Now I could
just walk to Spanish, so it's fine. But like I
just was never a party all night type of person.
Speaker 5: Now did they? It's not like it's just how big
was Marty Girl in Texas?
Speaker 3: Like we we didn't do parades and stuff like that.
We knew what it was.
Speaker 5: So I was.
Speaker 3: Not in central Texas at least right right south Texas.
Speaker 5: I was still in Braxton. People get mad in New
Orleans when you say this, but I mean everything I've
heard Mobile Alabama created Marty Girl. And you know, we
used to go on vacation during Marti Girl because we
wanted to get out, Like all the tourists would come
here for Marty Girl, so we we would go on vacation.
I mean we we'd normally get the Monday and Tuesday
off of school, so I mean we got like a
four or five day weekend if we took off on Friday,
and we drove to Golf Shores. Oh, I don't know,
I was probably I was young. I mean, that was
probably my first Marty Girl experience, was driving to Golf
Shores having the road shut down because of all the
Marty Girl parades going on. I mean, we ran into
one in Daphne. They had one on Beach Boulevard right
there in Orange Beach. They had another one in Foley
just down the road. Like it's pretty big down there too. Now,
look New Orleans does it better. The floats are not
nearly as elaborate and all that, But they get off
of school too. I don't know if it's the entire week,
but uh, they do that as well. I again didn't
go to any Martygorol Bridges will probably pick up the
last king Cake of the year today. The unfortunate part
for me, people don't know the struggles that the guys
go through. Uh, when your wife's pregnant, Braxton, My wife
hates sweets right now. It's just it's just not her thing,
like sweets, like all sweets right now, it's it's not
her thing. And like, see, I'm I'm a huge sweets guy.
So I mean, I think I've bought like two or
three king cakes this year, and every time I bring
in one, she'll take like a little small bite and
be like, oh, yeah, I'm done. I wound up throwing
like half the thing because I'm not gonna eat an
entire king Cake. I'm not that fat, Like I'm not
gonna eat the entire king cake. But it's it's a problem, man.
It's because she used to be big on it too,
Like we were both big. We went we did go
get this. Uh Andy's after Valentine's Dinner on Saturday, they
have a new red velvet concrete or whatever they call it.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it was phenomenal.
Speaker 5: First off, love red velvet, but it was like a
Valentine's Day special. She did that. She had about half
of a small.
Speaker 6: So she's got to be in the mood.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's it's got to be at a little
special occasion, uh for Valentine. Valentine's A Saturday night is atrocious,
like because what we try to do is every Valentine's
we try to go to a different nice restaurant. Yeah,
and you know we've been and went to Jubans this
year right off of Perkins.
Speaker 2: I went there last year.
Speaker 5: Man, that's it's been around for years. I had somehow
never been until Saturday.
Speaker 2: Okay, so what room we're yelling? Because the room I
was in.
Speaker 5: The big main one right there and not the one
right there off to the side. But yeah, hosts to
stand you walk right through to the back where the
bar is.
Speaker 6: We were never so the one I was in and
had like a bunch of pictures of like I guess,
like Shack and a bunch of these LSU like alumni.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was really cool. I was.
Speaker 5: I was not in that room, but uh we we
knocked that out uh on Saturday, and we had a
great time and then really really busy weekend. Uh for
me personally, not just not just L s U, but
you know Alandra going crazy party girl parades. We had
the vals on one.
Speaker 3: I'm like one of those people. I don't go out
a lot, so when I do, it's like yeah.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
Speaker 5: It's one of those things where you're like, I knew
I should have went too hard, but I did. So
what time did you get there? The parade starts at.
Speaker 3: Noon, so it starts at noon, but we didn't get
there till like noon because we got crawfish before and
somebody there was already like holding a spot for us,
So we didn't get there till noon.
Speaker 4: But we caught the whole thing a.
Speaker 5: Lot, just got people Braxton.
Speaker 3: So then we went to O'Hara's. It used to be
Happy Okay. We went there and they had like pants,
party plane or whatever. So I got home at like six.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's a little bit bad. That's a little bad
at all. I've never been in Spanish town. Here it's great.
Do you rock the pink?
Speaker 3: I don't own pink, so I unfortunately did not. I
went talk and just put an LSU jersey on.
Speaker 5: She couldn't say with the plastics and me and girls, Braxton.
That's for sure doesn't earn any pink. You probably have
never seen that movie, and that's that's totally okay.
Speaker 2: Mean girls, yeah, I seen that.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, dude. When I talked to Cassie, we
have a desk right next to each other. Of course,
Cassie talks my ear off NonStop. But she's never seen
like any movie anything. And I mean not just a
movie that's a little bit dated. I mean a movie
that came out in the last five years. She's seen nothing.
Am I gay, Cassie, have you seen this?
Speaker 3: Nah?
Speaker 5: No, I haven't seen that. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm convinced at this point she might be amish like
I have no idea, but uh yeah, she's not. Uh
she she's not big in the movie. Speaking of movies,
I have a U little uh internal decision I gotta make.
Do I want to go mystery movie Monday at movie
Tavern tonight or do I want to go Scream Unseen
horror movie at AMC. That's the big debate that I
am dealing with today. I think we're going Scream Unseen.
Speaker 6: I'm not too big on like scary movie.
Speaker 2: That's just never been my thing.
Speaker 6: I don't know why, but like it just I just
don't like being scared sometimes. But I haven't been to
the movie theater actually in a long time. We've always
just like watched UF on Netflix and things like that.
Speaker 5: We go to the movies like once every two months.
We have my wife and like that's so we started
dating in twenty fourteen. That is something we have pretty
much consistently done. I mean, obviously COVID threw a wrench
in the whole thing, but outside of that, yeah, I
mean it's pretty much been once every two or three months.
We we at least tried to like just I mean
our first date was it AMC right there on O'Neil, okay,
And I mean, you know, we we saw Iron Man three.
Not a great movie, but I do remember going to
see it. I think we're gonna go. I think we're
gonna go Scream Unseen because like, I know the genre right,
and like a lot of times the movies aren't great.
Like so basically they show an early screening of a
movie that'll come out within like a week or two.
I think it's safer because even if the horror movie's bad,
we can sit there and laugh at it. We did
mystery movie Monday at Movie Tavern about a year year
and a half ago. So a movie called Boy Kills World.
One of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life,
so it kind of scarred me a little bit from that.
All right, guys, this is you know, kind of mischiit
chadding recaping our weekend here to open the segment, kind
of keep things light because we have a lot to
get to coming back on the other side of the break,
Me and Landra Braxton, all of us, we're gonna chop
it up. LSU Milwaukee opening weekend recap. The Tigers win
all three games and they take on Kent State tonight.
But we'll kind of recap what happened, give you a
breakdown of how the scoring went, and then seven point
thirty Will Laundre will give you our our weekend standouts
who we like to really stepped up, and we'll do
all that coming up here on the other side here
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Speaker 5: Welcome back in Monday edition of Off the Bench, Tyler
Show Up here with you Elandra Villarrial Braxton Rosuto along
as well. The LSU Tigers take down the Milwaukee Panthers
three games to nothing Friday Saturday Sunday. Now LSU does
play tonight against Kent State, little bit step up in competition,
a little bit better than Milwaukee. We'll see how the
Tiger's fare there. But let's going to recap the action.
It was a buzzing at the box all weekend long.
I mean you could just see the crowds of people
coming in droves into Alec Box. Game one. Tigers win
it fifteen to five, and what a more appropriate way
to start off scoring here in twenty twenty six. Then
the big body got himself, Zach York a solo shot
gave the Tigers a one to nothing lead in the
second inning. It was impressive. And after that though, LSU
takes a two nothing lead right after that. Then Milwaukee
got going a little bit. We'll get into case of
Evans here in a second. He didn't maybe have the
outing and a lot of LSU fans were hoping for.
And then you're down five to two and Seth Dardaar,
a guy who one of my personal favorites. I believe
Seth Dardar is going to take over that everyday second
baseman role at some point this season. He had a
two run home run his first to bat of the season.
So you have Zach York his first to bat a
solo shot, Seth Dardar his first to bat of two
run homer. Not bad transfer portal work there from mister J. Johnson,
but he narrowed a five to two deficit to five
to four. So LSU trailed five to four going into
the bottom of the seventh inning, But LSU sent eleven
hitters to the plate and erupted for six runs to
take the ten to five lead a little bit later on,
and then the Tigers would extend their lead back to
back doubles to begin the seventh Steven Milum Jake Brown.
That's what tied it at five, and then Zach York
hid buy a pitch Kate Aaron Beattie a three run
home run to left field. We'll get into him a
little bit later on in the shim. So the Tigers,
you know, they pulled away at the end. When I
look back at Game one, I think about case In
Evans did what I thought he would do distance wise,
Like I kind of thought five innings. Now he didn't
make it out of the fourth. He got into the fourth.
His final stat line three and a third innings, seven strikeouts,
six hits, four earned runs. So up and down, I mean,
seven strikeouts in three and a third is really good.
You gave up six hits, you gave up four earned runs.
Not exactly what we wanted to see. And you know
it's weird. He was cruising through the first three innings
or so, and then he gave up that fourth spot
in the fourth inning. Was ultimately pulled, but wound up
not mattering as much because Cooper Williams and Gavin Gidrey
out of the bullpen. They went the rest of the way. Combined,
they gave up one run and combined for ten strikeouts.
Not bad out of your bullpen for game one, especially
when you feel like you have your ace on the mound.
He doesn't have it going. You got to throw these
guys in there. It was Williams first, then it went Gidrey,
and again they were awesome in Game one for the Tigers.
So you win the opening game, Game two a lot
tighter of a battle, five to three victory. For LSU,
and they jumped on them early. They gobbed to two
to nothing lead in the bottom of the third inning.
It was Derek Curiel. He had a sack fly then
Jake Brown lined an RBI single, so that got a
two to nothing. Milwaukee did narrow that gap for a
little bit, made it two to one, but LSU extended
their lead five to three in the eighth. Guess who
came up with a big time hit when the Tigers
needed it. Stop me if you've heard this before. Steven Milom.
He had a two run double. Kate Aaron Beidi again,
You're gonna hear his name a lot. He provided a
run score double, his fourth RBI in two games. He's
pretty good. In Game three as well. Milwaukee did rally
for a pair of runs in the top of the
ninth inning, but Grant Fontino actually got to save. He
came in, he got out. Grant. We're ass on a
flyball to in the game. There were two runners on base.
That was a big time out for the Tigers. They
get that one done. Game two is all about Cooper Moore.
I mean, that's how you recap Game two of this series.
This guy was always going to be a starter on
this team. I mean, anytime you heard Jay Johnson talk preseason,
he raved about Cooper Moore. I mean, that was one
of the first names out of his mouth. Whenever a
coach talks about a guy unsolicited brings up his name,
I pay attention. Whether it's the baseball, basketball, football, whichever sport.
He goes six innings, eleven strikeouts, no walks, and gave
up one run. It really does not get much better
than that. Cooper More was absolutely nails on Saturday, and
the bullpen was solid for the most part. Behind him,
accept Zach Cowen. Zach Cowen had a little bit of
a rough outing. Now, I don't think anybody should hit
the panic button on Zach Cowen because you should be
confident in him. You saw it all year long against
high level competition. Zach Cowen, come in, save games for you,
win games for you. That's what he did out of
the bullpen. Sure he wasn't great opening weekend case it.
Evans wasn't great opening weekend. It happens. But outside of
Zach Cowen, you gotta feel good, right Like you thought
Collen and Evans were gonna be two of the guys
that performed the best over the weekend. Neither of them
were that great, and the rest of your bullpen was
still really good to get you these wins. So I
think overall that is a positive. And then what else
can you say about yesterday? I mean, it was an
absolute hit parade on Sunday afternoon, twenty one to seven
and just seven innings for the Tigers. I was William Schmidt.
They got the start, and he had a little bit
of an up and down day. So Schmid goes four innings,
nine strikeouts, which is elite in four innings, but he
gives up three walks, he gives up three earned runs.
We saw the stuff a year ago. We know that
William Schmidt has a lead. Stuff control is going to
continue to be a big area to watch for a
guy like William Schmidt. You saw the reports out of
Fall Baseball. Right anytime they had a scrimmage, some reports
came out. It was like, oh, this weekend, William Schmidt
was unhittable. In Mussou interviewed set Dardar last week for AFR.
Musseau asked him, Hey, who's the toughest guy you win
against all fall. First name out of his mouth, William Schmidt.
So when he's on, he's one of the best pitchers
on your staff because he has elite level stuff. His
issue was giving up the free passes, and once you
give up a couple of free passes, how do you
rebound from that? Last year it didn't go great. It
kind of snowballed on him a little bit. This game, again,
he does give up the three walks, he gives up
the three hundred runs, but he bounced back a lot
better than he did a year ago. He's just a
year older, a year longer in this program. But overall,
really good opening weekend for the Tigers. Out there at
the box again, fifteen to five in Game one, fIF
five to three in Game two, and then just a
massacre twenty one to seven in Game three. ALIDI, you
were out there opening day, the vibes like out there,
I mean, are the are the Tigers gonna Are they
gonna go back to back national champs? I mean, obviously, right,
I always.
Speaker 3: Think that they're gonna win the national championship, so I'm
probably not the right person to ask, but no, I
mean they looked really good.
Speaker 4: The vibes were really high.
Speaker 3: There was a fan fest out there before the game,
and there was a surprising amount of people out there,
given that it was Friday, and everybody complains about how
Jay Johnson does these early first pitches.
Speaker 4: At the beginning of the season, it was a two
pm first pitch.
Speaker 3: The fan fest started at eleven AM, and like, the
people showed up. The kids were there, they had they
were playing hooky. People probably like got in trouble at
their jobs. But I kept saying, like, it's okay, Jay Johnson,
roach y'all an excuse.
Speaker 4: I had a letter that.
Speaker 3: You could turn into your employer, your teacher, so it's fine.
But yeah, I mean it was. Vibes were super high.
Everybody looked like they were having a great time. I
mean the box was packed. So for as much as
people complain about the two pm first pitch, I mean
they showed up.
Speaker 5: That was always one of those people.
Speaker 4: I was admittedly like, I get it, but people were there.
Speaker 5: No, they were like I was watching.
Speaker 4: It was packed. It was like standing room only at
some point.
Speaker 5: I was still here when first pitch obviously at two o'clock.
But uh, you know, of course, believe it or not,
Hunt Palmer had it on TV in the studio and
a shocker. I know came in the here. I mean
it looked like there wasn't an empty seat. Yeah, I
mean it was insane. I know you were there. Did
you go Saturday or Sunday?
Speaker 3: So I didn't go Saturday because I was at the
parade Sunday. I also did not make it out there.
But I will say everybody on this team is huge.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Out Their pregame to like just get some video and
pictures on the field or whatever, and I'm like.
Speaker 4: Wait, y'all are all so big.
Speaker 3: They're like except for obviously Stephen Mylom, but everyone's like stout.
Not just like tall, but they're just like stout. And
I was telling y'all in the group chat that it
looks like Kreiyel put on like some muscle mass too
in the off season. So I'm excited. I think the
team looks great. The bullpen, besides like some shakiness here
and there, looks awesome too. And Devin Sheeran looks as advertised.
He's another one that's huge. He's a big boy.
Speaker 5: You got a lot of big boys, right, I mean
we look remember the first championship roun we made with
with Jay Johnson, it was it was Riley Cooper, it
was it was Kay Beloso. Is guys like that, We're like,
we need some more big body gods. Jay Johnson listened
because Zach York is a large human being.
Speaker 4: I had and how on brand that like his first
hit at the box is a home run?
Speaker 5: So I also missed it. I had just left work. Yeah,
I'm literally getting on the interstate right there, and uh
Patrick right? Who actually was great?
Speaker 4: Patrick?
Speaker 5: Patrick? Patrick did all three games.
Speaker 4: They were asking me, and I assumed it was Doug
and Buzzy. Yeah it was Patrick.
Speaker 5: So Patrick did all three baseball games and the women's
a game on Saturday night. The man was putting in work,
but I'm getting on the interstate and then he's like, oh,
one swing of the bat. I just chuckled. I mean
I just I literally let out it laugh. I'm like,
of course, the first run of the season is a
Zach York bohm because it's all we've heard about all fall.
I mean, it was it was so appropriate. But you know,
you were talking about the size of guys. It was
so funny right when you had said that, because like
you were at the game, you didn't get to hear
it on the broadcast, Ben McDonald goes, yeah, Derek Curry,
oh like twelve to thirteen pounds of muscle, Yeah, in
the offseason, and you sent it like right after that.
Speaker 4: He looks he looks bigger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like he I mean, he looks good, and
he had some pop in his bat whenever I was
watching Sunday, So I mean, good for him, but also
for as much as people always worry about, like, oh,
what are we gonna do with the bullpen? What are
we gonna do with replace? How are we going to
replace Kate Anderson and Anthony Ironson. Okay, well we broke
the record that we set perdue fort Wayne forty five
strikeouts the most in a series. They broke it this
weekend with forty nine strikeouts. So it broke it easily, Yeah,
very easily.
Speaker 4: So I think they looked good.
Speaker 3: I remember like last season, after they did that, I
went like full ray man and compared like the season before,
because everybody was worried about it too, and I was like, no, y'all,
we're gonna be fine, and then everyone was like, it's
only four games in. I'm like, I know, but watch,
there's already such an improvement.
Speaker 4: So I feel good about the team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, Like I did. I saw a couple of
people online being like, oh, Zach Cowen, But like if
Zach Cowen was your worst bullpen pitcher over the weekend,
I felt good about it because I trusted more than
everybody else. Like Zach Cowen just had a bad out.
He was excellent. He was great before you got to LSU,
but he was awesome all last year. Like I mean,
maybe this is just me trusting this team blindly, But
like I don't care that Zach Cowen didn't have a
good outing because I know what he could do. Like
I would have been more concerned if like Cowen and
Gidry were great, everybody else was shake. To me, that's
a lot more of a concern like having your best
guy and not having a good first outing, I don't care.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, we're just so deep of like a pitching staff,
so we have sony people to go through. But that's
good that we played Milwaukee first because we got to
go through everybody and make sure and see what they
can do, you know, get make sure they're comfortable and
just move on.
Speaker 4: We love because that's just absolutely electric.
Speaker 5: We were we were talking about it you and I
were talking about it maybe a week week and a
half ago when Jake was out. Like people had been
talking about, oh, you have Cooper More, you have Cooper Williams.
Cave I mean not kave case A. Evans is going
to be your Friday night guy. Nobody was talking about
Guidury or Devin Sheeran because they were injured last year
and they didn't play. Don't forget like these could be
two of your best bullpit guys and they were one
opening weekend. We're gonna take a time out and we
get back a Landra and the heart kind of gonna
go back and forth of maybe which players individual players
stood out. Obviously, the team as a whole was great.
They win three games to nothing. But we'll do that
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Speaker 5: In Monday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor Sharp here
with you, Loudravilla, Real, Braxton Rissuto as well. LSU Baseball
gets a three game to nothing victory over the Milwaukee
Panthers at Alick Box Stadium. Over the weekend, they take
on the Kent State Golden Flashes. I'm sure everyone knows
what that is here on Monday night. But what I
want to do right now is look some guys that
maybe maybe caught our eye. Who was somebody that that
flashed for us landra I'll let you go first, you
have any body just off the dome right now? Like, hey,
that guy big first weekend.
Speaker 3: I hate to go like chalking obvious here, but Cooper
More is awesome, right, Like, I can't really give you
another answer because he just stood out so hard to
me that I'm like, I mean, eleven strikeouts and six innings,
only allowed four hits in one run, one of them
earned no walks. That's the most important, like impressive stat
to me from Cooper More over the weekend is zero walks.
Speaker 4: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: Eleven to nothing news, Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 3: Yes, So like I hate to just go with the
obvious one, but I'm like super impressed by him. And
then y'all know, I was looking forward to seeing Trent
Carraway and he can play every position really well.
Speaker 5: You got the started second yesterday, I believe right. Yeah,
I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 3: No, killed it at second, so third base, second base, whatever.
But I do agree with you that I do think
that's that Dardar is gonna end up taking the second place.
Speaker 5: He hits too well. He has to be in your lineup,
like that's your second basement. I wrote down two pictures
and one of them was Cooper Moore. Yeah, you're going chalk,
but you have to, you know. My other picture is
Gavin Gidrey. Sorry, we're going chaw. Guys, the big name
showed up. He threw two innings on Friday. The seven batters,
struck out five of them, including four straight to start
his day. This is the Gavin Gidry we saw two
years ago. I mean, the guy hadn't played in basically
eighteen months. He comes out there and looks like that, like,
are you kidding me? If this guy can come out
and do that in the back end of your bullpen,
then this staff has the potential to be one of
the best in the country because you have one of
the best set up guys closing guys. You could put
Gavin Gidrie wherever you want in that bullpen rotation and
he's going to deliver for you. I mean, I think
he was incredible. And you know what, Landra mentioned Set
dard Ar. Guess what, guys, I got Set Dardar written
down right here. I think he's gonna be your everyday
second basement. We had been talking about that for the
past week or so. He came in for Braden Simpson
on Friday and his first at bat, yeah, two running
home run. Not bad.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: He went two for three that day. Three RBI scored
two runs. On the weekend, he was three for eight
with six RBIs and he had a pretty good glove
over there at second as well. That's a guy that
that flashed and a Landra's favorite player from a year ago.
She laughed, this weird in the studio together. Karon Beattie
had a heck of a weekend behind the plate. He
was six for twelve, four RBI scored five runs and
like did he did? He have a pass ball over
the weekend.
Speaker 3: I think I saw that he did a little bit,
but he's improved a lot behind the plate, Yeah, because
I mean he's got He was pretty hit or missed
he was last season, but there is a huge improvement
from already, like just in the Yeah, Omar Serna looks
good too though.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean yeah, I think he DHD.
Speaker 4: Yesterday started the Saturday game.
Speaker 5: Maybe wehen you mentioned it. Like the dudes got the
body of an upper class like not in a.
Speaker 3: Weird way, great build, Like he's tall, he has like
he's I'm telling you, all of the guys on this
team are big.
Speaker 5: They really are. Like they're they're massive. They look like
the football team out the Yeah, like they're they're huge.
That was clearly a strategic move there by Jay Johnson.
But like with with Aaron Beatty, it's so important because okay,
so so Braxton. Like the reason I say Allander's favorite player,
our girl was going through it. It was so it
was a midweek game. I think I'm doing the I'm
doing the baseball game, she's doing women's basketball. She's walking
to the studio. Kate Arbaty let another one behind him,
and then I think he hit like a grand slam
or something or like a two run home or something.
Right after she's like, okay, he did good, and then
a few minutes later, you know if something else, it
was just it. But that's kind of how everybody felt
about him, right It was very hit and miss a
year ago, and there were so many people that thought
he was going to take that next step to be
your starting catcher. Luis Hernandez, I mean, excellent last year,
but he took that job from it. If Aaron Beatty
can do this consistent, I'm not asking him to hit
five hundred every single week. That that is not realistic
at all. But did he get you timely hits? I
mean he scored five runs, he had four RBIs. He
had a big knock over the weekend as well. Like,
if he could do things like that, have big hits
for you in big moments, and play like he did
behind the plate over the weekend, you're going to be
really good in that position. Also, Jake Brown is a stud.
If anybody didn't know that already, Jake Brown six for twelve.
Speaker 4: I know our Jake is excited about that.
Speaker 5: Oh, our Jake huge, Jake Brown fan. He hits two
home runs yesterday, including one which was a grand slam
eight RBI on the weekend, solid in the outfield like
we expected him to be. I think it's safe to
say he solidified his spot, right. I mean, coming into
the season, it was it was Stanfield, it was Curiel,
it was Jake Brown. But Jake Brown wasn't an everyday
starter last year. I mean, he came on hot at
the end of the year. But he's a guy that's
that's kind of bounced around. I mean, they experimented with
him at first base in the past, and he's a
guy that he's down that spot in right field, like
Jake Brown is there to stay at. Where you put
him in the lineup, to me doesn't really matter. I'm
good with wherever he's at because he can hit for contact,
he can hit for power. Stick him anywhere you want
and call it a day. I love what I saw
from a lot of these guys. But I mean there's
so many guys that we haven't mentioned that you could
throw out there, right. I mean Curiel, like we haven't
mentioned him as a flash player because we expected that
from it. Like, I don't know about you. I was
a little surprised when Stanfield was leading off instead of Curiol,
Like Stanfield was great leading off to begin last year,
but they moved him down in the lineup. He hit
eight or nine going into that College World Series, and
then Stanfield opened the season as the as the leadoff batter.
Now it's switched on Saturday and Sunday. I went back
to Curio, but which they.
Speaker 3: Kind of needed to do that because then, like Courriel
was kind of cold Friday, and then Saturday warmed up
a little bit, Sunday was full like back in full form.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Jayson tinker with that lineup, but not what
I say.
Speaker 4: In the positions too. Yeah, like we have not seen
the final.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, he did it this weekend, right,
I mean yesterday towards the end of the game. I
did said it was a blowout, but uh Rutgert was
playing short Ethan Klaus, who apparently Ethan Klaus actually had
a really good fall. There were there were a lot
of people saying he could hit the ball pretty well.
Speaker 3: You mentioned whenever Matt had asked, like, who's somebody that
we haven't heard of that stands out to you?
Speaker 4: I think he mentioned him.
Speaker 5: Ethan Klaus is a is a guy that you know
hit the ball really well. He looks the part getting
off the bus, but he was in there at second.
You know, those two they hooked up for what they
tried to turn a double play. Class was a little
bit late getting to it. No big deal. It was
a good play as well. You had a big lead.
But I mean, there's just so many young guys. Mason
Braun got the start at DH on Friday. I mean
when you when you put out that lineup, you saw
Mason Braun in there. That's a guy that can play
outfield for you. He can also play first. So if
you need to date Zach York for whatever reason, or
Zach York has an injury, there's a guy they could
slide into first. Like the versatility of this team, the
depth of this team, whether it's in the field or
the staff. It was impressive as hell to the opening weekend.
Speaker 3: Someone else that looked really good to close out, and
I like, I get they kind of talked about this
on the broadcast too. Wasn't like a high stakes situation
that they were in, or like a high leverage situation,
so you didn't see him in like a high pressure thing.
But Marcos pause looked good coming out to close out
the game.
Speaker 4: As well. He had three strikeouts and two innings.
Speaker 3: I mean, gave up four hits, but only one earned
Runoff of that, he's wuk so like, if he can
kind of find a little bit more control, he could
look really good.
Speaker 5: He's eighteen months post Tommy John, by the way, like
the guy like that's why he didn't go to the
Major League Draft, That's why he's in school. He had
Tommy John surgery eighteen months ago. So, like we talked
about Gavin Gidrey coming back from injury, Devin Sheering coming
back from injury, Marcos Pause is another one that is
coming back. Hadn't thrown in a little bit, at least competitively.
He was quite in fall camp. I mean, by by
all accounts, they're in the fall scrimmage. Marcos Pass was
one of your best bullpen pitchers. But the fact that
all of these guys stepped up and again, like the
only bullpen guy that wasn't great was Za Callen, and
we don't care because he's so good that it doesn't
really matter.
Speaker 3: I was excited when he first came out, besides Jaga Garcia.
He struggled a little bit.
Speaker 5: He did out there, he did, but again that's a
guy who's a transfer right Like he's been there, done that,
He's been in high leverage situations. Like the young guys
that you wanted to see really stepped up in a
big way. All Right, we're going to take a time out.
We get back LSU men's and women's basketball. We're on
the hardwood on Saturday. We're gonna talk about that and
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Speaker 5: Welcome back. In Monday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor
Sharp here with you. Jacob Hester Matt Flann on vacation
for Marty Girl Break. The kiddos were off of school
and jac and Matt said, hey, we're gonna take off
as well. Can't fault them for that. I totally understand.
LSU men's and women's basketball were on the hardwood on Saturday.
We'll start with the men. Get them out of the
way first, because, believe it or not, guys, the men
suffered another sec loss. Shocker. I know they are now
two to ten on the season, fourteen and eleven overall.
They were on the road in Knoxville, take it on
the Tennessee Volunteers seventy three sixty three, So the Tigers
kept it close for the most part, but it was
it was kind of just the same old song and
dance for LSU. I mean, you go look at at
the team stats Tennessee wins and everything. Forty six percent
shooting for Tennessee just thirty eight percent for LSU. Not
either team shot particularly well from three, but thirty eight
to thirty five percent advantage again for the Tennessee Volunteers.
LSU almost got doubled up in rebounding forty five twenty
four in favor of the Tennessee Volunteers turnovers whose you
only had three. The problem with this basketball team I
have noticed is even when they're down, they don't have
a guy that has that aggressive killer instinct, Like you
just don't see it. It seems almost like like they
move the ball around well, but it just seems like
everybody on the court, regardless of if they're up by
ten or they're losing by twenty, it's just hesitant to
shoot the ball. Like last week, the late night game
on Tuesday against Arkansas, You're down by twenty something points
in the second half and you're running the ball, you're
setting up your half court offense, you're taking your time.
Like I'm never gonna be one of those people that's
like I just heave up at three and see what happens.
But at that point in the game, it's a second half,
you're down by twenty plus. You gotta get up shots.
You have to get up shots quickly. You can't just
take your time, like. There's never really a huge sense
of urgency with this team, regardless of what the stakes
are and where you're at in the game. So, I mean, yeah,
they only had three turnovers. Tennessee had nine. I mean,
is that you had six points off of nine Tennessee turners.
Not great? They had two off a year three points
in the paint. This has been a big one all year,
at least the last few games. Thirty four points in
the paint for Tennessee, eighteen for lshoot. It pretty much
looked like that against Arkansas. Like against Arkansas, I think
you had just off the top of that, I think
it was like twenty one twenty twenty one points in
the paint. Arkansas had close to forty. I mean, Arkansas
didn't really shoot the ball that well from the outside
against you on Tuesday Night. You just find different ways
to lose games. Like it's something I say all the time. Team,
good teams find different ways to win games. AD teams
find different ways to lose games. This is a bad
basketball team, and they find different ways to lose games. However,
you just the areas that you have to improve at.
They're not a good rebounding team, they're not good defending
the paint, they're not good scoring inside the paint. And
I mean, to make matters even worse, I know he's
been in an out out of the lineup, and I
know he hadn't played a ton, but it was announced
over the weekend that DJ Thomas will be out for
the remainder of the season. So you're not going to
get him back. Like that was your guy. The entire
offense ran through him, and I mean you look, Lshu
spread the ball around a decent amount one Saturday. I
mean four of your five starters had double digits. Sutton sixteen,
tom By thirteen, Nwoco ten, Jalen Reese fifteen. That Jalen
Reese is not much of a score at least that's
not what they asked him to do in this offense
for him to put up fifteen and he was actually
good four of eight from the court, three for five
from behind the arc. But you got a total of
eight points off the bench. Between Miller, Moseley and PJ. Carter,
you got eight total points off the bench. It's just
not good enough. Look at what Tennessee did. I mean,
they had double digit scorers off the bench. You had
eighteen points off the bench and you had eight. That's
the difference in the game right there. It's a ten
point game. That's a ten point difference off the bench.
This team's just not deep enough. They have to have
all their starters perform well in the same game, and
you know some of them did. But when you're not
rebounding well, when you're not scoring down low, when you're
out defending down low, things like this are going to
continue to happen. And again, it's just kind of the
same old song and dance for the LSU Tigers next up.
I mean, it doesn't get a whole lot easier for
LSU as well. And I mean you could say, oh,
that's an easy part in their schedule. I mean they
have Texas tomorrow, Like Texas isn't a top twenty five team.
But it's on the road. I mean, you just went
on the road to Tennessee. You're on the road at Texas.
It's a late one tomorrow night at eight o'clock. Then
you're at home against Alabama. Believe it or not, since
Charles Bediako was ruled ineligible, Alabama's actually been a lot better.
I mean, Alabama's going to be favored in that game,
even though LSU is at home. That hasn't mattered this year.
Then you go on the road to all Miss your
home against Oklahoma. I mean both of those teams, those
are winnable games. But you've lost a lot of winnable
games this year. I mean, I knew everyone wanted to
talk about one last Tuesday. Oh well, you didn't have
DJ Thomas and Max McKinnon went down in the third quarter. Okay,
DJ Wagner and Carter Knox, who are Arkansas's two the
best players, did not even play against you, and you
lost by twenty plus points at home. It hasn't mattered
who this team has played. They haven't been good against anyone.
That's why you sit there at two and ten. I mean,
you look at the teams they've beaten. I mean, yeah,
they got a victory over South Carolina. Great. South Carolina's
not good either. Look at the bottom of the SEC standings,
it's kind of where it's kind of where both of
these teams have lived. So, I mean, I don't you
try to find wins whenever a team's struggling, you try
to find wins. Right, You're two and ten, You're tied
with South Carolina at the bottom of the LIE. Sure,
Ole Miss is three and nine. You got them coming
up Texas seven and five in the league. You're not
winning that game in Austin, second game in a row
on the road. You're not winning that game. Oklahoma's winnable.
They're three and nine. Ole Miss is three and nine.
But do I have confidence that this team can win
this game? No, because they do the same thing every game.
This team plays like they just go out there and
they're like, Okay, we're gonna go out there, we're gonna
put up some shots and hope for the best. I mean,
at times, it just seems like there's no rhyme or
reason as to what they're doing. So, I mean, where
do you go again? Wins wise? The rest of the way,
I just I just I don't see it getting any better.
I mean, you're losing. I think you lose to Texas
and Alabama, no question about that. Both those teams are
getting better. Ole Miss at Oklahoma, those are winnable. But
let's say you win both of those. I put you
at four wins. Then you have Auburn who's reeling a
little bit, but they're better than you, and then Texas,
A and M. We've surprised a lot of people this year.
So let's say you beat Ole Miss and Oklahoma, You're
still sitting at four SEC wins. And that's not good
enough for SEC wins. I mean again, at A and M.
They have a winning record in the conference. And should
I trust LSU against anybody they play, No, not really. So,
even though it looks good down the stretch, I just
don't see it get any better. All Right, We're actually
gonna do women's basketball in the nine o'clock hour. There's
a lot to get to there coming up. We got
some LSU football coming up. We got some Saints, we
got Patrick Coogan, former LSU pitcher. That's all coming up
here on Off the bench, Off the bench,