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Speaker 1: Let's I'll start to what you want to present some

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob aber

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the pitch. Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.

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Speaker 2: Yo, what's up y'all? Our number two bout TB. And

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it's Thursday and every Thursday eight am. We are lucky

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enough to be joined by head coach of your LSU

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softball team, coach Beth Terrena, fresh off a massive series

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win against those damn dirty Gators first times. It's twenty nineteen,

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taking Florida down absolute and doing it back against the

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wall style. Coach Drina, what's going on? How we doing today?

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How many game day?

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Speaker 3: The damn dirty dat is cracking me up?

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Speaker 2: If I said it once, we said it to me

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into you already know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But okay, So and there's a lot of when to

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get to, including the rapid turnaround time here with the

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kind of you know, the Saturday start lasting Thursday day,

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but Saturday game one does not go well, okay, ends

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in a big number at that point that was kind

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of back against the wall time. Then you come out

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close game two two to one winners, absolute tooth and

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nail battle, and then in the rubber match getting it done,

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huge sixty, putting your own big number up. How how

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proud of you were you of your team fighting back

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after that game one disappointment.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was incredible. It was an incredible series. It's

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huge for so many reasons. I mean, like just the

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implications in the SEC implications for our team for postseason,

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the fight. They said we got a really nice performance

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that it did Burson, So it was a really really

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big series for us for sure.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Coach, the two to one game was incredible.

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Speaker 4: I mean that was really well pitched by both teams,

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but certainly what y'all were able to do in the circle.

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They're only giving up two hits to a Florida team,

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and you mentioned Sid there from the other game, but

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but that performance. I mean, giving up two hits to

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that team, striking out for had a couple of free

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passes obviously, but still just keeping them from scoring. That

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was a dominant performance against the lineup that doesn't get

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held like that very often.

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Speaker 3: It really was. I think that was probably the deepest

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lineup we've seen all year. I mean it like never stopped,

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you know, like this kept going in the hit a

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home run out of the nine hole. You know, it

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just seemed to like never never ends. So really really

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deep line up, really talented offense. So to see her

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do that was just really really special. That's the SID

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we've all come to know. So it's nice to see

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her get back to her her normal form.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's great to see at this time of

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the year, especially so that series reps up on Monday

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night with the big win. Now turn around very quickly.

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Series starts tonight against Imagine this is another top ten

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ranked SEC softball team, this time in the Arkansas variety.

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What is the process, like, what is the turnaround there?

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Coach ending the series on Monday and then quickly hitting

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the road for a Thursday series, final series of the

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regular season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we definitely weren't the product of some tough scheduling

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this year for sure, you know, I mean, back to

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back in Texas and then having to get the Monday

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the week that the whole SEC turned around and plays

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on Thursday. You know, tough. I'm sure Florida feels the

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same today. But getting our team on the road here

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yesterday was tough. You know. Of course we wanted one

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more day to prep, and we will loved four more

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days to prep, you know, but it is what it is.

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So we're going to come out and give them our

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best shot tonight. Getting a little more practice in this

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morning at their place. Got rained out here last night

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on that, but trying to get them prepped as much

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as we can. And you know, I think the team's

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in a good spot. On when I got to the

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ballpark Monday, the team was so incredibly loose, just like

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hanging out another day, Like that's kind of how this

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group is. They're unfazed. So it was fun to see

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him be like that and then go out and have

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that big win. So hopefully more of the same tonight.

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Speaker 2: And so I know that saltball's much different too in

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terms of arms and rest and the amount of games.

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I mean, you know, a player could throw an entire weekend,

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but when it comes to like in between series with

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the rest, does this affect Sydney at all? The quick turnaround?

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how do you kind of make sure that everybody's bodies

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physically are ready to go with that shortened rest.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a real thing. You know, normally

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we're doing some recovery stuff on our off day typically,

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but we didn't even get the off day this week.

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to Sunday, so had to turn around a practice after

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the Florida series. So it is something to think about,

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you know, try to be careful with them and not

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overdo it, not do too much, but still want to

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give them an opportunity to get prepped right and like

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have some time to really like think about what they're

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going to see. I mean the Arkansas there is a

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leftie that's pretty talented and having a good year. So

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trying to get prep for that and just making sure

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that they're ready, but still being conscious of, you know,

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how taxing it is on their bodies.

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Speaker 4: Coach, when you are facing like a lefty right and

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it's not something they see all the time. How do

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y'all go about trying to make sure that you're prepared

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Speaker 3: Oh, we had all kind of bells and whistles. You know,

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you should come over. We'll all see the machine for you.

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Speaker 4: Coach, I'm a lefty myself, might be a little close

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there in the box.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Bryce has all kinds of crazy stuff dialed

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up with the way. I mean they're shooting machines from

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all angles and directions. You've got like tarts covering the

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machine so you can't see which way the ball shoots.

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we're using to help get them prepped. So a lot

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of stuff in motion so they're not standing around, you know,

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like hitting ostias or anything. We got like one hundred

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machines going in practice. We use every cage lane available

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and the field every time we hit, so we're like,

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got the five indoor, we got three outdoor, We're using

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all the lanes. I mean, it's it's pretty crazy to

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see the setup that he's going on for the offense.

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been really really incredible coach.

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Speaker 2: One player that we haven't mentioned a lot on on

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on on these appearances is Tory Edwards. You I know,

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well exactly right. Just named the top twenty five finalists

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for the Softball Player of the Year award. One of

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an out of shoot good the conference is one of

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twelve players out of the sec there but leading the

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team currently four to twenty three bat and average sixty

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eight ribbies eighteen home runs sitting single season were a

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nine to ozho one slugging percentage. What what is Torri

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Speaker 3: Yeah? It was cool tot to see her get put

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on the all the freshman top twenty five lists, but

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to make the top twenty five list of the entire

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country as the freshman is just incredible. I mean absolutely incredible.

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She's still athletics. She's so she can run, she can hit.

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they're just crazy. You know, she has like contest with

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her brother was on the football team this year, right, Like,

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I mean she can like hang with some of these numbers.

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It's pretty crazy. But I think the coolest thing about

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her is how smart she is and how in tune

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she is with the game, Like she understands how to

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have it at that that's a big part of who

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she is. Like she studies and she knows what's coming,

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and she's you know, just really smart in the box

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and has a great feel of it at that So

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that's a big part of what's making her so great too.

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Speaker 4: I mean you could argue maybe the second most important

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player from Marcus High School on LSU's campus, Jared Nussmeyer,

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also the same high school.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I had no idea. I did not know that that. Okay,

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let's go.

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Speaker 3: That's Tory. Tory is like his little sister. I mean

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they're like he and her her brother are best friends,

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and that's they're They're really close with them. So a

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lot of LSG connections there in that group. But I

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know he's proud of Tory too, because she's having an

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incredible year, making all of us really really proud. We're

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lucky to have her.

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Speaker 4: And coach, if I'm not mistaken, you know, Rich shirted

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a year ago, so like in that year, what as

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a coach, like, what could you see? Could you see

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like things that you're like, Okay, well this is going

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to translate, this is going to work out, just you know,

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having that time to kind of learn and sit and develop.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well she was hurt, so she didn't do a

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ton last year. You know, she was like putting limited

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around the field, and I think it was frustrating for

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her because she wanted to be out there. But I

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think we always knew we had this incredible athlete. I mean,

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just the numbers that this was up in every I mean,

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exit velocities or that seed or name a category and

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she's off the chart. I mean, and she runs well too.

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softball field are just incredible and very very rare.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you want to watch Tory Edwards played tonight,

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you got one more regular season conference with which series

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to do so, and it's going to be Arkansas on

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the road in fable tonight series starting check it out. Coach,

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thank you so much for making some time for us,

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especially here on game day, and best of luck to

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you and team over the weekend.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, guys, are the best. Appreciate you guys, beas.

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Speaker 2: Coach Beth areina head coach of your top ten LSU

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softball team and yet another top ten matchup now over

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five hundred and SEC play as well in the hyper

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the seventh ranked morning sports show in America.

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Off the Bench and with Hester and t Bob.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's hending, y'all? Welcome back to OTV. We got

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Speaker 2: But before that, Taylor, you linked article from newsde where

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the best. Right, I'm gonna try to remove some of

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my personal expectation for being set upon this man and

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just hope for the best and see if we can

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build on what was that incredible year one in which

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he won you a couple of games with his play,

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But this article has him as the player to watch.

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How are you feeling about Percoles going into this year.

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Speaker 5: I think you were taking any correct approach on it.

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I think it's just a wait and see because look,

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every year since his freshman year, we've been excited about it.

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It didn't work out as the middle linebacker. He got

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hurt early in September, so you know, he was obviously

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a non factor after that. But when I look at it,

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if he's ticking over at Star full time, that's big

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for the rest of the secondary, right because that position

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is already filled now to Marcus Cooley can focus on

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safety full time because that was the thing. Oh he

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could play safety, he can also play nickel. You don't

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need him to do that. If you have Harold Perkins,

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that gives you depth of safety. I mean, I think

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if Perkins does at Star, everybody else can focus on

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their job around him. I mean, I think it's a

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big role for him, and if he can take that over,

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I mean that that could potentially put the rest of

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the secondary in line.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm with you on the fact that, like

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on paper, I do love the Star thing. I mean

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what we saw, Jake, and and you can tell me

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if I'm wrong, But like in watching film of Perkins

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in the past few years, he is not good at

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taking on blocks from an inside linebacker standpoint, he doesn't

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deliver the blow he can be guys are they stick

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to him when when they get on him and he

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looks like he's reading a bit too much. But then

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I think about some of the plays that he has

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made and I just keep going back. Now. I know

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everybody hated it, but he actually had a sneaky great

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year in that nickel linebacker role. He had an incredible

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coverage grade. You think about when he wasn't having to

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directly take on blockers. Somebody tries like a bubble screen

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or something, He's in the backfield, tripping the guy up,

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getting a TfL like he needs space. He's not an

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in the box linebacker now, so if you put him

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around the box and then you can take advantage of

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his athleticism and the ability to cover, which he does have. Okay,

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Like I feel like we finally maybe now arrived at

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at his at what his best role could be.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, gosh, I don't think we've ever talked

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about a player so many different times and so many

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different roles trying to really continue to turn the Rubik's

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cube to find the perfect solution and solve the puzzle.

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Speaker 2: But it is the star position middle linebacker.

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Speaker 4: He tried it, and we were, you know, hoping that

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with Blake Baker, like he could you know, turn him

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into this D'mone Clark type, Yeah, middle linebacker, because Blake

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had done such good things with Damone Clark and Damon

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now NFL player and doing great.

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Speaker 2: That was the hope.

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Speaker 4: And look, he's just not a linebacker, right and for

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all the things that T Bob just laid out, he's

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not an every down rush He's.

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Speaker 2: Not He's not an edge.

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Speaker 4: He's not somebody that can be on the edge, you know,

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being an every down rusher or whatever he did his

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freshman year, like you can do that in spurts you.

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Speaker 2: He can't live there.

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Speaker 4: We've seen it on film for ourselves, but also talking

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to people and talking to other SEC head coaches that

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played against him when he was on the edge, they

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said we would check to run right at him.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I have confirmed that on air.

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Speaker 4: It's like we ran right at him because look, he's

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two hundred and twenty five pounds and we are going

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to have our tackle and tight end combination block go

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straight through him, and it's no.

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Speaker 2: Fault to his He just he's not built for that.

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Speaker 4: Edges are two hundred and seventy pounds, not two hundred

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and twenty pounds, So.

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Speaker 2: He can't live there. He can be there at times,

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but he can't live there. Okay. So yeah, third to thirteen,

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great to everywhere.

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Speaker 4: Yeah to every person's they put him on the edge, Okay,

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go watch tape. He is somebody that has great cover skills.

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Like T Bob laid out, he can still rush off

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the edge from the star position.

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Speaker 2: In fact, you can do it a ton like. You

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can really switch it up.

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Speaker 4: Fighting through blocks out there is completely different than fighting

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through blocks in between the tackle.

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Speaker 2: A lot more horizontal, more angles. You can take advantage

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of putting the big guys in space.

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Speaker 4: And so he's got the athletic ability to be able

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to go out there and play the star position. I

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think he's more athletic than the guy that did it

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last year, Major Burns, much bigger, but he's more athletic

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than Major Burns. He can get it done athletically, So

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it's the best position for him. It's the best position

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for the team when he plays at the next level,

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he is going to be a nickel wheel and he's

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going to rush some, but he's not ever going to

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live on the edge.

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Speaker 2: Just not going to well. And I mean you look

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at the inside linebacker room and it's really come together

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quite nicely. I mean, of course you have the emergency

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of Weeks and his brothers. Uh, but Devon Keys was

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so hot at the end of last year. What other

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names am I missing? They love? Who else was a

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young guy that played well last year whom they love?

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Devon Keys? Yeah, I mean, well was awesome by the

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end of the year.

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Speaker 4: I'll just tell you, Like having conversations with some of

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the coaches, it's one of the names that gets.

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Speaker 2: Brought up more than any is Devon Keys. So Weeks

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and Keys looking like he even.

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Speaker 4: Played star some last year he did, he didn't played

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really well there. So it's a very talented room. It's

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a solid room. Like it's guys that you know, we're

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going to get it done athletically, but also like their

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mentality and their attention to detail and their assignment.

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Speaker 2: And and I agree with this statement by Daniel here

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he says, how would love if the LSU defense returned

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to the form of old I feel like some of

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our young players have experienced. Now I'm interested to see

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the product. I mean, guys, for for a place that,

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for damn near twenty years was built on intimidating elite defense.

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We've been wondering the desert for a hot minute now, man,

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you know, yeah, I mean bo Polini into Madhouse. I mean,

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I guess we had linking, yes, think I was thinking Vikings, yeah,

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h which wasn't great. Now when he was unlocked and

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allowed to do his thing, they put together some gems

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that year, that Alabama. But I guess the point is, like,

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it's been half a decade of not subpar defense. It's

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been half a decade of awful defense at a place

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that was built on incredible defense.

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Speaker 4: So I went back and I looked, Okay, now this

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is going way back. But just to give you an

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idea of what Tea BOP's talking about, we're going to

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go total defense and where LSU was from two thousand

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and nine.

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Speaker 2: Right, Oh, I just took last fifteen years. Yah, I

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was good to sample size.

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Speaker 4: So two thousand and nine you were eleventh in the

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nation in total defense. Twenty ten you were twelfth in

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the nation. Twenty eleven, you were second in the nation. Yeah,

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you only gave up two hundred and sixty yards a game.

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Speaker 2: Those are crazy year US and Alabama were giving up

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like seven points a gamer, so that's wild.

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Speaker 4: Twenty twelve you were eighth, twenty thirteen you were fifteenth.

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Twenty fourteen you were ninth. Twenty fifteen you were twenty fifth.

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Twenty sixteen, you were tenth in total defense. Twenty seventeen

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you were twelfth in total defense. Twenty eighteen you were

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twenty fifth. Twenty nineteen thirty first. Interesting, and here's where

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the will starts to fall off. Twenty twenty you were

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one hundred and twenty fourth.

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Speaker 2: Good god, one hundred and twenty fourth. The Pullini explosion.

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Twenty twenty one, you were sixty diarrhea of a defense.

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Twenty twenty two you were fifty fourth. Twenty twenty three

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you were one hundred and eighth. Is twenty two. Dronte No,

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that was his house's first year, one hundred and eighth.

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So I mean so yeah, like ever since twenty nineteen,

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the wheels just completely. It wasn't it was twenty It

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wasn't a small fall off. It's been a precipitous drop off. Yeah,

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and you've invested. You've invested, You played Bake, you paid

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Blake Baker, you paid everybody. Now you lose but Davis.

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But whatever you've you've invested in the players, you've invested

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in the staff. It's freaking time. It's time to have

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a good defense again.

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Speaker 4: And so last year you went from what do we say,

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one hundred, where you were one hundred and twenty fourth

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with Madhouse and his last year Blake Baker comes in.

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Speaker 2: You do go up to fifty six. Oh so you're

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the right direction.

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Speaker 4: You were giving up with Matt House four hundred and

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ninety two yards per game. You got better by one

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hundred and twenty. You got three seventy this last year.

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Speaker 2: My guy line credit for LSU odyssey too, because sometimes

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things are obvious. When somebody points him out, you're like,

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oh my god. But when you see what these guys

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do on Sunday, we're gonna look back on a team

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that featured Jaden Brian Malik, Will Campbell. I know missing

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guys in there, right, but I mean all of these

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top picks that are dominating the NFL, and you never

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even sniffed a championship. And it's because of that right there.

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Speaker 5: I'll look at it like whenever I look at Baker,

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I get excited because when he got the Missouri their

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defense was in the hundreds. Yes, first year they were

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top sixty. The second year they were top thirty. Yeah, hey,

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Jake just listed you were top sixty his first year.

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Can you make that jump again? He did it in Missouri.

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Speaker 2: Here's the hoping that he can. Man, here's hoping that

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he can. Here's hoping that LSU make sure you don't

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have any poodles. Man I I'm not even engaged.

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Speaker 4: Uh h, Blake Baker saying we don't want no poodles?

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Speaker 2: Madaga, no, wantn't be it make defense great again? I

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don't know. Yeah whatever the Lounges poodle she ended missing

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like right at.

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Speaker 5: Lake Blake said we got a poodle on the show,

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and that it not the person sitting next to me.

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Speaker 2: That came from Blake Baker. He said that about Jay,

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he said that about you. Oh wow about me?

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Speaker 6: Also, I bet if Blake Baker knew me, he would

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not think that I was a poodle. And you also

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can't say that after you like guilted me into going

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to Don Juan, and I worked the entire day and

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I went you did.

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Speaker 2: I was proud of you. I was proud of you.

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Speaker 6: You can kiss my eyes.

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Speaker 2: Gladly. All right? Coming up next here on O TV.

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I'm into that. Uh, let's talk to l s U

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head baseball coach Jay Johnson. More of the bench, coming

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up next.

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Speaker 1: Off the bench.

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Speaker 2: Hey, hey guys, you're looking for U. Look, maybe you

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can have a watch party this weekend for the big series.

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Well whed to get into Rouse's and get everything that

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you need. And I'm not just talking food and drink though,

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to be clear, Incredible deals going down. Grab you one

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of the coupon booklets right when you walk in. It's

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crazy the savings that we have. But look, if you

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if you want to buy like platters of food already cooked,

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you ready to go, you buy plotterg Tree you cooking yourself,

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just et it like there's a million different ways. But

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it's also the supplies you need, like chairs, cups, whatever,

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like plate thing, like anything. It's all at Ralse's Louisiana

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from the original Breakup. And if you want to do

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some crawfish, well you buy the Marley burreled or you

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can burrol them yourself and take advantage of that ten

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dollars hot seafood bar on Friday nine ninety nine to

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stuff with styrofoam box oh of all of your most

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tasty tree, Rows says.

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Speaker 1: From the break, the sports talk gets real kind of

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off the bench and with Hester and t Bob.

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Speaker 2: We'll tell me all. Welcome back to otb and uh

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oh what pop up for this? Guys? We're so lucky

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every Thursday here during the baseball season to be joined

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by LSU head baseball coach Jay Johnson making time for

474
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:27,079
us each and every week despite his incessantly busy scheduled Coach,

475
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,519
what's going on, man, how we feel on this Thursday morn?

476
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 7: Good morning? How are you guys?

477
00:24:32,039 --> 00:24:36,160
Speaker 2: I'm freaking great. You know why because you beat Tennessee's ass. Okay,

478
00:24:36,599 --> 00:24:41,240
that's the good stuff, coach. Hell yes, and I know

479
00:24:41,519 --> 00:24:45,119
that yours is not a profession where you stop and

480
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,920
smell the roses, right, I get it, Like, you guys

481
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:53,559
are always next pitch, next pitch, next pitch. But if

482
00:24:53,599 --> 00:24:57,759
I can ask you for a moment that Friday game, man,

483
00:24:58,559 --> 00:25:04,559
that ninth inning, one thirty am, Like, surely that has

484
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,079
to be up there with one of the wilder regular

485
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:08,960
season experiences you've ever.

486
00:25:08,839 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 7: Had, no doubt. I actually said that, you know after

487
00:25:13,519 --> 00:25:15,960
the game, that's that's one of the best regular season

488
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,720
wins I remember being a part of. And you know,

489
00:25:18,759 --> 00:25:20,559
there's a lot that went into that. I mean, we

490
00:25:20,559 --> 00:25:22,559
were facing you know, one of the best pitchers in

491
00:25:22,599 --> 00:25:25,319
the country and didn't have a lot to show for

492
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,480
it early on, but I did think our guys were

493
00:25:27,519 --> 00:25:31,799
competing in the box and it didn't manifest in any runs,

494
00:25:31,839 --> 00:25:33,640
but it did and us getting him out of the

495
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,079
game a little bit earlier before Kate Anderson, who who

496
00:25:37,079 --> 00:25:41,079
had an awesome performance also, and you know, forced Nate

497
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,400
Sneaed in the game for just a little longer than

498
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,440
he normally goes, and we got him there at the end.

499
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:51,039
And then just that ninth inning was electric, Like I mean,

500
00:25:51,079 --> 00:25:53,319
we get a couple good at bats. I mean, Dalton

501
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:58,119
Beck that was awesome, drives into Kanner, Reeves drew a

502
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,519
walk in there, and then you know Derek carry All

503
00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:04,119
with the two strike hit, ripping it through the right side,

504
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:08,319
and then the big Bear after one am man, you

505
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:08,799
love that.

506
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 2: I mean, how insane because the punctuation mark is not

507
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,039
just the wall, it's it's four fifty to dead cinner,

508
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,759
you know what I'm saying, Like it's not to write

509
00:26:20,759 --> 00:26:25,160
this not about four fifty to dead center one AF

510
00:26:25,279 --> 00:26:28,559
walk off over the batter's eye. It's legendary. It's one

511
00:26:28,599 --> 00:26:31,200
of those games where if you're a fan of team,

512
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:32,640
you're remember it forever.

513
00:26:33,559 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 7: Yeah, and then like afterwards, like it it was kind

514
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,359
of funny, like because it all happened very fast, Like

515
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,039
I wasn't going crazy. I was just kind of standing

516
00:26:42,039 --> 00:26:45,200
there smiling, and it was definitely you know, we normally

517
00:26:45,279 --> 00:26:48,319
shake hands as coaches like after we get a win.

518
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,640
That was definitely like, hey, I hugged every coach on

519
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,079
our staff after that. And then like I just kind

520
00:26:54,079 --> 00:26:56,599
of looked around for a minute and like the place

521
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,480
is going crazy and the guys are going crazy, and

522
00:27:00,079 --> 00:27:03,200
there's this rap music I never heard of playing future,

523
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,039
So I'm like, this is awesome. Somebody you gotta find

524
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:08,359
that song. It was good.

525
00:27:10,559 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 2: Good night.

526
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:11,640
Speaker 7: It was a great night.

527
00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:12,599
Speaker 2: That's so good.

528
00:27:12,759 --> 00:27:15,759
Speaker 4: Coach kind of walk us through maybe Dalton Beck coming

529
00:27:15,839 --> 00:27:19,839
up and hitting in that spot, because look, Bear Jones

530
00:27:19,839 --> 00:27:21,839
and that highlight's going to play for a very very

531
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:23,880
long time and we're all going to remember that.

532
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,640
Speaker 2: But you're right as you lay it out, there was

533
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:26,759
things that led to that.

534
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,559
Speaker 4: And Dalton Beck is somebody that you know hasn't got

535
00:27:29,559 --> 00:27:32,160
a ton of at bats this year. How clutch was

536
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,440
that and what were the conversations maybe to put him

537
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:35,519
in the game in that moment.

538
00:27:36,519 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 7: Well, first off, you know, there's a lot that goes

539
00:27:40,039 --> 00:27:42,160
on here more than game day. As you guys know,

540
00:27:42,319 --> 00:27:45,720
is the athlete. Guy is a really good hitter. We

541
00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:48,400
brought him here because he's a really good hitter. Just

542
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,480
kind of you know, how our team is shaken out

543
00:27:51,519 --> 00:27:53,920
this year. We have a few guys that probably should

544
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,200
have more at bats than they do, and Dalton would

545
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,119
be one of those guys. But I would kind of

546
00:27:58,279 --> 00:28:00,920
liken it to Hayden Travinsky a couple of years ago,

547
00:28:01,079 --> 00:28:03,119
like you only had like three at bats through like

548
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,240
twenty six or twenty seven games. But we saw what

549
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,880
was going on and plugged him in there. And then

550
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,640
you know, last Saturday, I put him in against you know, Ozma,

551
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,720
the closer from Alabama, and he struck him out, and

552
00:28:15,759 --> 00:28:19,160
he struck everybody out. He's had a good year. If

553
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,559
you're out of the pen. But I still liked what

554
00:28:21,599 --> 00:28:24,960
I saw, and he had bad and it was a

555
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,839
better matchup than you know, the right handed hit her

556
00:28:27,839 --> 00:28:30,319
that we had coming up at that time. And then

557
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:31,720
I saw him walk up to the plate and I

558
00:28:31,759 --> 00:28:34,319
mean he was just completely under control. I was like, huh,

559
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,279
this this got a chance to be pretty good. And

560
00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:39,200
I mean he took a borderline pitch, took a strike,

561
00:28:40,039 --> 00:28:41,759
you know, got to count to two to one and

562
00:28:41,799 --> 00:28:45,119
then and somebody would have got killed if he shipped by.

563
00:28:45,119 --> 00:28:49,079
That ball was smoked, and it was awesome and better

564
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:50,799
than that. I mean, you're talking about a guy that

565
00:28:51,039 --> 00:28:53,839
did eighteen homers last year and had all the personal

566
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,319
accolades you could have, and I mean he's been an

567
00:28:56,319 --> 00:28:59,160
awesome teammate and you know, really good hit her. I

568
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,279
got to hit the other night on Tuesday too, So

569
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,000
I'm excited to get him going a little bit.

570
00:29:04,039 --> 00:29:07,519
Speaker 2: Also, we'll start to look forward in a second coach.

571
00:29:07,559 --> 00:29:10,920
But again, it just a massive series win last weekend.

572
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,640
But I want to talk about Kate Anderson because whether

573
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,400
it's Tyson Witherspoon, Liam Doyle, whatever the case may be,

574
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,519
he seems to have the ability. It's it's almost like

575
00:29:21,519 --> 00:29:24,799
a like a prize fighter. When he knows that one

576
00:29:24,839 --> 00:29:27,759
of the top contenders is coming in, he almost like

577
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,960
raises his level of play. Is that a trait that

578
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,519
in your career you have seen kind of your best

579
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,720
aces have that that they they they do take it

580
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,839
a bit like a one on one matchup with when

581
00:29:39,839 --> 00:29:44,039
they got another big name across from him.

582
00:29:43,279 --> 00:29:45,599
Speaker 7: No doubt about it. And you know, it's a really

583
00:29:45,599 --> 00:29:48,119
good point and a really good something to hang or

584
00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:50,319
have on for our team is that you know where

585
00:29:50,319 --> 00:29:57,160
it's Pico, Khn, Witherspoon, Liam Doyle, obviously, Riley Quick. We've

586
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,920
won all the games against the guys on the Mount

587
00:30:00,359 --> 00:30:03,079
and a big reason is that of that is because

588
00:30:03,119 --> 00:30:06,319
of Caid not just matching, but being a little bit better.

589
00:30:06,759 --> 00:30:10,880
And you know, he's really he made a big jump,

590
00:30:11,039 --> 00:30:13,359
and I'm not surprised when you know the person and

591
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,279
the work that he puts in and the character and

592
00:30:15,359 --> 00:30:18,400
the athlete. But like he's been a huge, huge part

593
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,160
of this thing. I think we only have one loss

594
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,359
on Friday as the entire season, and he can immediately

595
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,400
poke point to Caid for that coach.

596
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,359
Speaker 4: A couple of weeks ago, you joined us and we

597
00:30:28,359 --> 00:30:30,319
were talking about some of the options out of the

598
00:30:30,359 --> 00:30:32,480
bullpen because you had two guys that just kind of

599
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,319
when they come in, the game's kind of over. Well,

600
00:30:35,319 --> 00:30:38,319
one of those guys started on Sunday in Case and Evans,

601
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,279
and I kind of attribute that to you saying again

602
00:30:42,319 --> 00:30:44,319
a couple of weeks ago, that we got to do

603
00:30:44,359 --> 00:30:46,759
whatever we got to do to win that game that day,

604
00:30:46,799 --> 00:30:48,920
and that's what we look at, not maybe down the road,

605
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,839
but just that game. Was that what that was on

606
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,200
Sunday because he was still available. You had to go

607
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,200
win the series, win that game, And that's not really

608
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,119
a plan necessarily moving forward, but in that day, in

609
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,920
that situation, that was the best option for the Tigers.

610
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, no doubt. And you know he's going to be

611
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,279
a starter, you know, whether that's the rest of the

612
00:31:08,319 --> 00:31:10,960
season and definitely the next two years. Like he's one

613
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,279
of the best freshman pitchers in the country and along

614
00:31:14,319 --> 00:31:16,400
with William Schmidt, So how lucky are we to have

615
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,519
those two guys for three years. So yeah, that's where

616
00:31:20,519 --> 00:31:24,599
he's headed. I just believe in your best guys. Some

617
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,039
of your best guys have to be at the end

618
00:31:27,039 --> 00:31:28,920
of the game. And you know, one of this team's

619
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,599
really good trade so far and why we're in a

620
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,039
good position today as we sit is we've won a

621
00:31:35,039 --> 00:31:37,839
lot of close games, you know, and Cason and Zach

622
00:31:38,039 --> 00:31:40,519
are a big reason for that. And you know, I

623
00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:42,559
mean last year you look at it, and you know

624
00:31:42,599 --> 00:31:44,680
we rallied and ended up having a good season, but

625
00:31:45,079 --> 00:31:48,880
with some really tough close losses last year. And part

626
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,519
of it was we just couldn't match up with who

627
00:31:51,519 --> 00:31:53,640
the other team was throwing out of the bullpen in

628
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:55,839
those close games, and you know, somebody would pop a

629
00:31:55,839 --> 00:31:58,720
homeer on us or get a big hit where you know,

630
00:31:58,799 --> 00:32:01,519
maybe their guy was shutting us down. Well, we have

631
00:32:01,599 --> 00:32:04,160
two guys that when we come in or when they

632
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,519
come in, you know, our team feels pretty good like

633
00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:09,039
they're gonna put up zeros and give the offense a

634
00:32:09,119 --> 00:32:10,880
chance to relax, play the game and score.

635
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,039
Speaker 2: Uh. I'm talking to LSU had baseball coach Jay Johnson here.

636
00:32:15,519 --> 00:32:20,200
I don't I'm gonna frame this next question very poorly, uh,

637
00:32:20,799 --> 00:32:22,920
because I don't know how else to ask it. But like,

638
00:32:23,759 --> 00:32:26,839
what else can you say about Derek Curiel that hasn't

639
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,880
already been said? Right? I mean, freshman top of the

640
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,279
order he seems to continue to ascend. It's it's clutch hitting,

641
00:32:35,319 --> 00:32:38,119
it's consistent hitting. I mean, it's a weekend where he

642
00:32:38,119 --> 00:32:39,680
has the big Friday nd hitting and he comes back

643
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,640
on Sunday and the rubber matchic goes four or four

644
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,759
or five ribbies from the leadoff spot, Like, I don't

645
00:32:44,759 --> 00:32:48,119
get it. Is there? Do you have any uh compliments

646
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,759
left that you could say that you haven't already said.

647
00:32:52,079 --> 00:32:55,039
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's a great player. And for me, like the

648
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,759
separator in these truly elite players is their mind, you know.

649
00:32:58,799 --> 00:33:00,880
And the same thing we'd always talk about with Dylan

650
00:33:01,119 --> 00:33:04,559
and he just he's got such good feel for baseball.

651
00:33:05,279 --> 00:33:08,440
And I mean he texted me just about every night

652
00:33:08,559 --> 00:33:11,680
at some point, and this was really cool. So Thursday

653
00:33:11,759 --> 00:33:14,240
night he was still thinking about he didn't do a

654
00:33:14,279 --> 00:33:18,440
couple double plays against Alabama and like he texted me,

655
00:33:18,519 --> 00:33:20,799
is like, no more double plays. I'd get one, you know,

656
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,799
up in my thigh. I'm gonna he goes, I'm gonna

657
00:33:22,839 --> 00:33:25,000
rip it right through the right side between the first

658
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,319
basement and second basement, and lo and behold that was

659
00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:32,559
the game with two strikes and pretty pretty crazy. But

660
00:33:32,599 --> 00:33:35,240
he just got great feel for baseball, a great competitor,

661
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,480
and really, you know, Sunday's game, that's one of the

662
00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:41,519
best games I've ever had a player play when you

663
00:33:41,559 --> 00:33:44,559
think about not just the hits, but the situations he

664
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,400
got the hits in was awesome. And you know, he's

665
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,920
respected by his teammates because of how he goes about

666
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,839
his business and just we're lucky to have him here

667
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:54,359
at LSU.

668
00:33:54,759 --> 00:33:57,519
Speaker 4: Coach, I want to highlight another player here, and look,

669
00:33:57,519 --> 00:33:59,319
one of the things that I try to lift by

670
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:00,759
is two great to be pretty.

671
00:34:00,799 --> 00:34:01,799
Speaker 2: I say it all the time.

672
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 4: And you've got a player that I think fits that

673
00:34:03,759 --> 00:34:08,519
motto perfectly, and that's Daniel Dickinson. He doesn't get as

674
00:34:08,599 --> 00:34:11,039
much praise maybe as others from the outside. I know

675
00:34:11,079 --> 00:34:14,000
he certainly does from the inside, but he just finds

676
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,239
a way, scraps and claws and is such an important

677
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,559
piece of what you are trying to get done. He

678
00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:22,519
just feels like the grittiest baseball player And I just

679
00:34:22,559 --> 00:34:24,000
want you to brag on him for a little bit

680
00:34:24,039 --> 00:34:25,360
because I feel like he deserves it.

681
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,039
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm really glad you brought him up. He's, in

682
00:34:29,079 --> 00:34:32,519
my opinion, the best defense of second basement in college baseball.

683
00:34:32,519 --> 00:34:34,840
I think he lands one error on the entire season,

684
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:39,119
and that sometimes goes overlooked. And again, I always look

685
00:34:39,159 --> 00:34:42,719
for things that are common threads and good teams, and

686
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,519
we've turned some really big double plays at times this year.

687
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:49,960
And he's done that offensively, you know, really good player.

688
00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:51,719
I don't know what his average is, but he's on

689
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,559
base all the time. You know, he's going through a

690
00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:58,760
tough stretch for a couple of games and hitting the

691
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,440
ball hard and and it's just like, dude, just keep

692
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,559
going and this is going to go. And you know,

693
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,800
in Sunday's game, like he walked three times and then

694
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,639
you know, had an infield single. It's like there you go.

695
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,199
I mean, the guy's on baseball times, big big game

696
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,199
on Tuesday and sort of back on track. He just

697
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:19,519
he's a great competitor, he's tough minded, he cares about winning,

698
00:35:20,119 --> 00:35:22,360
and he's going to play baseball for a long time.

699
00:35:22,519 --> 00:35:26,679
Like that's a very valuable player in somebody's organization. That's

700
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,840
you know, gonna gonna outperform as talent, and I think

701
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,159
he is big talented and he's just going to be

702
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,199
more consistent, you know than other guys because of that

703
00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:38,400
that tough mindsets that you mentioned, and again you know,

704
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,440
we're we're really lucky to have him here. I wish

705
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,159
I could have him for more than one year. That's

706
00:35:42,159 --> 00:35:46,559
not going to happen, unfortunately, because he positively affects everybody

707
00:35:46,599 --> 00:35:48,440
around UH coach.

708
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 2: So looking forward to the A and M Series this weekend,

709
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:56,119
there's kind of a fascinating inversion from what it was

710
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,639
last year, where you know, last year y'all were the

711
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,079
highly harolded team kind of stumbled at the gate, had

712
00:36:02,119 --> 00:36:05,800
to find yourself back against the wall, big series win

713
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,880
with A and M last year. This season complete opposite, right,

714
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,119
A M, that highly heralded team stumbling out the gate.

715
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,360
They seem to be playing much much better as of late.

716
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,800
What are you telling your teams in terms of kind

717
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,079
of being ready to battle that wounded animal?

718
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't. I think it has their attention, Like

719
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:30,039
they have so many returning, Like we're a completely different team,

720
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,639
like I mean the body for body, it's like it's

721
00:36:32,679 --> 00:36:35,760
not even the same team. They are very much the

722
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,559
same team in terms of personnel, like I mean the

723
00:36:38,599 --> 00:36:41,480
Friday and Saturday starters Ryan Priger and Justin Lampkin. Like

724
00:36:42,039 --> 00:36:43,920
at some point, these guys got to move on from

725
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,519
college baseball like they've been there forever, you know. And

726
00:36:48,559 --> 00:36:52,239
then you know, Lavolette really good. You know, Caden Currell

727
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,440
to me, is one of the best hitters in the country.

728
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,719
It's just guy after guy after guy that has a

729
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,440
ton of college at bats under their belt. And let's

730
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,760
look at their last few weeks. Think they lost three

731
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,559
one run games at Texas. Well, Texas is the number

732
00:37:06,559 --> 00:37:09,039
one team in the country. The week before that, they

733
00:37:09,039 --> 00:37:12,280
won two out of three at Arkansas, probably you know,

734
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:16,840
the most consistent winning SEC program for the last ten years,

735
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,159
you know. And then Tennessee obviously we just saw that

736
00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:21,679
they won the series there, they swept South Carolina. So

737
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,960
he can't get fooled by the record, because for the

738
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,199
last four weeks they've been playing as good as anybody

739
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,400
and it's an Omaha caliber team. And so really it's

740
00:37:30,519 --> 00:37:32,679
I think this is the eighth week the league. It's

741
00:37:33,159 --> 00:37:35,719
super regional number eight, you know. So you got to

742
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,199
dive in and go so and coach.

743
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 2: You also know this, you've certainly been here long enough.

744
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 4: You know that when LSU comes to town, you were

745
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,480
going to get the best, the best from the other

746
00:37:46,519 --> 00:37:48,679
team and the best from the opposing crowd as.

747
00:37:48,599 --> 00:37:51,679
Speaker 7: Well, no doubt. I think the last one we went

748
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,960
to Auburn, they broke all kinds of attendance records and

749
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,360
you know, there's a big vibe in the stadium, and

750
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:00,760
you know, that's that's awesome to be a part of.

751
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,800
And you know, instead of you know, I think we

752
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,679
have the type of players that we use that to

753
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,000
only help them play better, you know, and focus more.

754
00:38:08,039 --> 00:38:10,280
And at the end of the day, like you know,

755
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,159
whether you got a billion people around your or backyard

756
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:17,159
stand lot, you know, whatever, it's how to play, it

757
00:38:17,199 --> 00:38:18,880
is how to play. And so you just got to

758
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:22,559
stay focused on that. And I think it's a cool environment.

759
00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:24,199
I think it's one of the better ones in the league,

760
00:38:24,199 --> 00:38:26,280
to be honest with you, and we're excited to.

761
00:38:26,199 --> 00:38:28,079
Speaker 2: Play in it. All right, last one here, coach, and

762
00:38:28,079 --> 00:38:30,880
it's probably gonna be the least favorite one. But I've

763
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:36,119
been directed to to ask you about Devin Cheron, who

764
00:38:36,119 --> 00:38:39,199
of course transfering in getting hurt in the fall. But

765
00:38:39,559 --> 00:38:42,920
as some have noticed, not on the injury report. Are

766
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,039
there any updates on Devin Cheering.

767
00:38:46,079 --> 00:38:50,599
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's throwing live like simulated games, and he's obviously

768
00:38:50,639 --> 00:38:53,400
got a great arm. It's just a matter of you know,

769
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,280
there's a lot more to it to be able to

770
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,440
put him in a game, specifically an SEC game in

771
00:38:58,559 --> 00:39:03,360
terms of readiness. But we're excited about his health progress now.

772
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:04,960
I think you know A word I use the other

773
00:39:05,039 --> 00:39:08,199
day is just, you know, the sharpness. We need to

774
00:39:08,199 --> 00:39:09,840
get it to a level where we feel good about

775
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,440
putting him in a game. I think that day will calm.

776
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:13,960
I'm just not quite sure yet.

777
00:39:14,079 --> 00:39:17,199
Speaker 2: Win Coach Jay Johnson, We've kept you long. Thank you

778
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,199
so much coaching the absolute best, best of luck this

779
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,559
weekend in College station, and we will talk to you

780
00:39:22,599 --> 00:39:25,280
next week. All right, guys, have a great day there

781
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,559
you coach man. How great is that Curry el story?

782
00:39:28,639 --> 00:39:31,480
So he literally texted him the exact thing that would

783
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,320
go on to happen Friday night at one am. Yeah,

784
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,039
next time I get it inside hot thigh, I'm just

785
00:39:37,119 --> 00:39:38,559
gonna rip it through the right.

786
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 6: Side and did exactly that.

787
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,039
Speaker 2: That's crazy and is an eighteen year old? What a

788
00:39:43,039 --> 00:39:43,639
great story?

789
00:39:43,679 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 4: What a great story like you could tell like even

790
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,519
like his approach, like in the box, like when he

791
00:39:47,559 --> 00:39:50,480
steps into the box, that he's not a normal freshman,

792
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,079
Like just mannerisms and the way he carries himself and

793
00:39:54,159 --> 00:39:57,320
the confidence he has against these guys that look when

794
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,639
in Friday night in the sec the guy that you're

795
00:39:59,679 --> 00:40:02,360
facing eight times out of ten is gonna be like

796
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,800
a top ninety draft choice in the MLB draft and

797
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,519
you're you know, you're basically a couple of months from

798
00:40:08,559 --> 00:40:10,760
being a high school prom and you're handling it.

799
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 2: It's crazy. It's really crazy to think of and like

800
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,679
and you know, very insightful by Coach j talking about

801
00:40:16,679 --> 00:40:20,159
how it's the mind more than anything that gets him

802
00:40:20,159 --> 00:40:22,480
there that allows him to do that. He's hitting three

803
00:40:22,599 --> 00:40:27,679
eighty on base percentage over yeah, over five hundred. Yeah

804
00:40:28,159 --> 00:40:30,320
all right. Closing an hour two of OO TV. Next

805
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keep you lucking off the bench, Hey, guys, go to

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832
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Speaker 2: Yeahooooo the guzzler. The guzzle is uh a Landra Wait

833
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what word like?

834
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:57,280
Speaker 6: Definitely on right now?

835
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're on air. What are you talking about girl.

836
00:42:00,119 --> 00:42:03,639
Get about Uh that was a lot. I'm going to

837
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,039
allow woman to speak there. Okay, so this is a

838
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big moment for you.

839
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Speaker 6: I haven't I don't have any Blake Lively updates.

840
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Speaker 2: Uh that's funny. Uh No, I was gonna because I

841
00:42:15,679 --> 00:42:18,880
know that you've been talking about him a lot. Uh.

842
00:42:19,119 --> 00:42:21,559
Chat wants you to sing the praises of Brassy.

843
00:42:21,599 --> 00:42:25,079
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, shout out Michael Braswell. I mean, yeah, two

844
00:42:25,119 --> 00:42:27,360
home runs, his first two home runs of the season

845
00:42:28,159 --> 00:42:32,159
over the weekend over Tennessee. Obviously one of them was

846
00:42:32,559 --> 00:42:34,519
on the loss, but that's okay, Like you get it

847
00:42:34,519 --> 00:42:37,079
out the way and hopefully that makes his back get hot,

848
00:42:37,079 --> 00:42:39,400
which we all know Michael Braswell.

849
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 2: When he gets hot, he gets hot.

850
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 6: So I I've been a huge Braswell fan since he

851
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,079
got here on campus last year. I love it. I

852
00:42:48,119 --> 00:42:52,599
hope that, you know, we see more of him. Tanner

853
00:42:52,639 --> 00:42:53,639
Reeves is doing great too.

854
00:42:54,079 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's a good problem. And I mean you

855
00:42:56,119 --> 00:42:58,239
have a lot, but certainly, I mean you look at

856
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:01,280
your most consistent SEC hitter last year, yea, and him

857
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,440
coming on is nothing but a good thing.

858
00:43:03,559 --> 00:43:03,800
Speaker 3: Yeah.

859
00:43:06,079 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 6: Sorry, it's so important because his glove is so good,

860
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:14,280
Like he is your best option for defense at third base,

861
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,360
like Michael Braswell has a great glove, So I feel

862
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:21,679
like if he can hit how he's hitting now, they're

863
00:43:21,679 --> 00:43:24,679
probably like it's probably going to be him there most

864
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:26,599
of the time, if not the entire time.

865
00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:29,119
Speaker 2: Well, and I don't have the timing wrong on this,

866
00:43:29,199 --> 00:43:30,840
do I. But when he hit the home run Saturday

867
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:34,519
age and the game was still very close, it situation

868
00:43:34,599 --> 00:43:35,519
to hit the home run.

869
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 6: I think he got us up three two or not up.

870
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 5: He got us down three two or down two one

871
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,199
because it was two solo shots him and my lift,

872
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:43,199
and that made it three to two.

873
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, right there, it was.

874
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 6: It was a clutch hit at the time. He didn't

875
00:43:47,559 --> 00:43:49,440
end up closing, but I mean it was. It was

876
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,280
a great, uh, great at bat from him. And he

877
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,719
always has pretty good at bats, whether it's walking or

878
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:59,000
like making the pitcher throw a bunch of pitches. Like

879
00:43:59,079 --> 00:44:02,599
it's not even if he's batting, you know, below three hundred,

880
00:44:02,599 --> 00:44:04,760
they're still good at bats. That he's going up there

881
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:05,639
and taking.

882
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 2: So shout out to uh, shout out Michael Brass. Shout

883
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,559
out Michael Brass. Yeah, shout out Michael brass.

884
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 6: I went back to look at Daniel Dickinson. He's his

885
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,440
filling percentage nine to eighty five and he only has

886
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:21,480
two errors on the season. He was the one that

887
00:44:21,519 --> 00:44:23,719
I was most excited coming into the season and one.

888
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 4: I mean, it does feel like he's not undervalue, but

889
00:44:27,119 --> 00:44:30,119
just on a team full of stars. A guy coming

890
00:44:30,119 --> 00:44:32,280
in maybe with only one year, maybe doesn't get talked

891
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:32,840
about enough.

892
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:33,599
Speaker 2: He really doesn't.

893
00:44:33,639 --> 00:44:36,280
Speaker 4: He is like he's one of those those guys that

894
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,199
kind of makes everything work. Like you have to have

895
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:40,920
one of those guys to go with the bear and

896
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,480
the milum and curiate, like to make it all work.

897
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,039
Speaker 2: Gol says his tavop. I'm gonna allow women to speak,

898
00:44:48,079 --> 00:44:52,480
try to talk over her multiple times, one time everybody

899
00:44:52,559 --> 00:44:53,360
to everybody.

900
00:44:53,599 --> 00:44:56,679
Speaker 6: Yeah he does everybody, And I don't really know him talking.

901
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 2: Over me exactly with the landre. Yeah, I just am

902
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:04,280
uh incredibly narcissistic and love the sound of my own voice.

903
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,599
It's a perfect job. I got a really good joke

904
00:45:07,639 --> 00:45:09,519
too that I wrote down because it's not for on air,

905
00:45:09,519 --> 00:45:12,559
but I'm gonna tell y'all like this another vampire one.

906
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,719
Uh no, no, no, no, no, this is not all right,

907
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:17,920
our three verres gonna join the show. Coming up next,

908
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:19,800
you block off the bench