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Speaker 5: You yo, nothing nothing from moose.
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Speaker 7: Ye yo yo.
Speaker 3: Jake, Flynn, Moose, and Tata y Oh here with you.
On a Monday morning, Flynn made it back from his
birthday vacation.
Speaker 7: You know, it's not his birthday for a couple more days.
Speaker 3: He still had to celebrate a little bit early there,
and his flights were on schedule. He booked them on
the right days, unlike I got tea Bob used to do.
Speaker 7: And he is back.
Speaker 5: I know y'all were I was like, I was keeping
all updated the entire time. Uh, I know, y'all worried
I would miss my flight so I couldn't come in
and carry this show.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 5: We made it. We made it back. Everything was good,
Turks and tacos.
Speaker 7: First time right, Oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, first time I ever really knew where It was
surprisingly very easy to get to.
Speaker 3: So if you didn't know, you've never been, you didn't
know where it was, and it was for your birthday
trip was miss.
Speaker 5: I knew where it was, like I knew like it
was an.
Speaker 3: Area to the right if you're looking at the map
of the United States.
Speaker 5: But I was like shocked. We we fly from New
Orleans to Miami and then you get on the plane
in Miami and it's like an hour and twenty minutes
and you're there. It's like one of the closest islands
you can get to. So you'll be back, I hope.
So yeah, good lord. It was beautiful. Yeah, that was so.
It was honestly the like the prettiest water and beaches
I've ever seen.
Speaker 7: Well, there you go. So we nailed it all right.
You saw where'd you stay in like a resort.
Speaker 5: So we stayed. So we had a bunch of people,
so the situation. Those are the best trips you could take,
like a bunch of people. Everybody chips in, Like we
got a little house like right on the beach. Ahh
it's great. Ye, fantastic. Brought home a conk shell. I
don't know if that's legal.
Speaker 7: But I think I'm pretty sure it is.
Speaker 5: It was. It was a dead it was it was
a dead cunk.
Speaker 3: Okay, I still don't think that matters. Why did you
bring that home?
Speaker 5: Because it's beautiful. I wanted to give it about children's
You get water, three, you got three, I got one.
I got one shell. No, we can all share it.
We'll just look at it. I mean they're pretty big.
I can't carry three of them.
Speaker 3: It's an awful idea on all fronts. You take one
from the island and you only bring one home and
not three.
Speaker 5: Also brought home one sand dollar too. That wouldn't good either.
Speaker 7: I'm supposed to do that either. I don't think.
Speaker 3: I mean, aren't those things like can't they smell like
they smell your bag?
Speaker 5: Up? It was dead exactly, okay, But it wasn't like
there was a dead like creature in this thing. It
was like an old dead shell that was in the ocean.
The creature had left either died or found a new shell.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, well it was there.
Speaker 5: We'll faux out what the guy told me that I
was with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, we'll figure that out. Moose and Taty here
with us as well. Moose, I know that you are
not a morning person. It is not your favorite thing
to do. You did this show longer than anybody expected
you to do this show.
Speaker 7: You're feeling in for a landra.
Speaker 3: But but does the fact that LSU beat Arkansas in
the College World Series they got a game again today,
does that make it a little bit better?
Speaker 6: It makes it a little bit better.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's kind of like the Super Regional Game one
against West Virginia. Man, it was hot, but the grand
slams cooled you off a little bit, right, that type
of deal.
Speaker 6: So yeah, that's the big wind.
Speaker 5: It makes it a little easier.
Speaker 7: All right, fair enough, fair enough, Tate. How we doing?
How was the weekend?
Speaker 4: Good weekend overall?
Speaker 7: Probably mode the grass again, just to be sure.
Speaker 1: No, it's rained for thirty five days in a row now,
so wasn't able to do that. Mother in law's car
got broken into Saturday night. That was a fun time.
We just standing downtown. Yeah, that was that was downtown.
Speaker 7: What happened.
Speaker 1: We were at this little bar thing watching baseball game,
and I mean we were only we out there about
six thirty left it like nine.
Speaker 4: I mean we're only there a little over two hours.
Speaker 1: Came outside and like me and Victoria parked a car
over from him, her back windows busted in, her stolen
out of the back seat. The Ford pickup drug next
to them's windows broken to.
Speaker 5: Better? What are we doing better? All right?
Speaker 3: Well, sorry that happened. I mean it sounds, you know,
other than that, it sounds like a good weekend.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 1: The good thing is like she brought a smaller bag
in that had like grid her phone her car did
it so like basically all they took was an empty purse.
Speaker 7: Okay, well, jokes on them birds.
Speaker 3: Did you get a chance to watch any of the
L s U Arkansas game?
Speaker 7: Why you were over was celebrating your birthday?
Speaker 5: I mean, I know I was on vacation, but I
left the beaches so I could be locked in all
the sports this weekend.
Speaker 9: I bet you did actually watch some golf. I did so,
so I watched we were able to watch a little
bit of the baseball game, but I did. I watched
the uh watched the a twenty minute recap of the game.
So I'm blocked in all right. Then, yeah, watched some
US Open golf. We'll get into that a little bit
later in the show.
Speaker 5: During my flight, during my flight back and then driving home,
I had it on the like put the audio on
driving back from New Orleans. But so I was locked
into that, which was a crazy, crazy finish. I know
we're gonna talk a lot of baseball, but we do
need to jump into that a little bit. Yeahow, because
obviously it will smell a shoe ties. There were Sam
Burns in the mix as well, you know, making some
headlines for sure. Unfortunately.
Speaker 3: And then I had a situation on fifteen that I'm
sure you want to talk about a little bit later
on About that later, uh moose, what links would you
go to if you were on a trip Turks and
Cakos and LS was playing in the College World Series.
Speaker 7: To make sure that you watched every pitch.
Speaker 8: Well, that actually could happen here this weekend because I'll
be at the beach and LSU might be playing for national.
It happened in twenty twenty three as well, and I
watched every single.
Speaker 3: Pitch there was fair enough. Who you going to the
beach with family? Okay, does family understand?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Family watching with families to be watching with yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: It reminds me of when my daughter Harlowe was being
born and LSU Way Forrest were playing each other in
the College World Series and my wife was watching the
game and wanted to watch the game. And then as
soon as Tommy White hit the walk off home run
against Wake fourst she goes, okay, you can call the
doctor in now.
Speaker 7: Was It was the most gagser thing I've ever seen
in my life.
Speaker 3: It's like, all right, you can get the doctor in
here now, and then literally Harlowe's like three pushes later,
she's into this world.
Speaker 7: And I tried to name her Tommy Tanks, but it
didn't work.
Speaker 5: It's been good.
Speaker 7: Didn't need to pull it off there.
Speaker 3: So all right, well, Moose, since obviously you're our LSU
baseball corresponding here, give us your thoughts.
Speaker 7: Four to one.
Speaker 3: Kate Anderson did Kate Anderson things, and Zach Route lasted
thirty eight pitches.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that was that was surprising, but I understand Dave
Van Horn's you know, thought process there.
Speaker 6: And now, look, you're in a loser's bracket.
Speaker 8: If you need Zach Rout, he can obviously come back
off just thirty eight pitches, maybe even as soon as Tuesday,
so you get past today, maybe you could use him tuesday.
But I thought LSU did exactly what they needed to do.
They took advantage of every little tiny opening that they had.
You know, you could look at that second inning and say, oh, well,
there were walks and hit by pitch. I would tell
you the only things that LSU was given in that
inning were the four pitch pass Derandez and they hit
by pitch to braswell that at bat from Curryel where
I mean he falls down, oh two, didn't look good
on two of those left handed curveballs, and then just
spit on a few more of them great takes. That
was the first of really three lead at bats from him,
but he earned that walk obviously a heads up play.
Dickinson had dropped the bunt down in a very shocking
situation that caught them off guard.
Speaker 6: He beats it out and then you have the single.
Speaker 8: And I thought a great bat by Pearson to not
punch out with the bases loaded and less than on
out right. I mean, you put the ball in play
and good things happened. So I thought they manufactured that well.
And then I mean, dude, Kate Anderson, Jake I talked
about it all week on Mooso at the boxes like
everyone wanted to know, well, Arkansas has left these better.
I'm like, Arkansas hits everybody like they hit over three
hundred against righties too. If Kate Anderson is executing, he's
gonna be fine.
Speaker 6: And he was. I mean, he put them in a
seven inning.
Speaker 8: Choke hold, and you got great off us can be great,
uh support for your bullpen. I mean, Chase Shores looked awesome.
Cason Evans awesome, big insurance RN. I thought it was
about as he fish in a game that LSU could
have played in their opener given the competition they were facing.
Speaker 7: And no, I agree with you whole hardly. And look,
Chase Shores looked so good.
Speaker 3: I was like he might come back out for the
ninth Yeah, and nothing like Cason Evans has pitched in
a while. And I'm sure like Jay's like, look, we
gotta get a guy in there. We need a high
leverage situation. You're up by three rung. This is a
perfect situation and you're gonna need Case and Evans to
win the World Series. So nothing you know, against him,
But I just thought Chase Shore's like, he's pitching so well,
he's gonna get the ninth inding as well, which if
he can do what he's done his last couple of outings,
I mean, that is just so big for LSU because
you know they're looking for exactly what he's given them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I think it's the best he's looked
in an LSU uniform. I I don't think that's really
that debatable. I mean, he's just got command of three
pitches and now he's I mean he's sitting a hundred
and one hundred and one miles an hout.
Speaker 7: Not too shabby. Yeah, yeah, pretty pretty good.
Speaker 5: And the way they were hitting in the in the supers,
it's you know, if you would have told us that
Eli's gonna face thirty one batters against against Arkansas, I
think we all felt pretty good about it. Yeah, of course, man,
that the guy that came in, what's what's the guy's
name from Arkansas? They came in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I look here, Gabe, you need to go
back crossing get out here.
Speaker 7: Ah.
Speaker 3: That was huge for Arkansas obviously because when you take
your starter out like the last thing. Now at the
very end, they did have to probably use more arms
than they wanted to there. For a while, I was like,
they're gonna use two arms after taking their starter out
after thirty eight pitchers, They're gonna use two arms. I mean,
he was dialed in. LSU can not figure him out.
Speaker 8: He'll play the game for a very very long time
at a very high level, and he's good enough with
the fastballn slider and if he has the curveball in
the change up like.
Speaker 5: He did at night ago at Good Luck.
Speaker 8: I mean like sometimes no one loves to do it,
but you just tip your hat to the other guy
because he's pretty dark good too.
Speaker 3: Yep, and he definitely you know, he said he saved
a lot of arms for Arkansas, and now you know
they're gonna have a chance and they're going to be
heavy favorites against Murray State. I mean, I fully expect,
just like everyone did for LSU at Arkansas to play
each other again, some way, somehow. So look, you beat
the Hogs four to one. You know, the offense obviously
did have their struggles. They struck out sixteen times in
the game, but you did enough.
Speaker 7: Kurie gives you an insurance run, which was huge.
Speaker 3: I mean, how many at bats that he had that
were just I mean, for him to do what he's
doing as a true freshman, I mean, getting down like
O two and just finding a way to get on
his plate discipline is incredible.
Speaker 7: It's just time and time again.
Speaker 3: And look he got moved down because you're facing a
lefty like that's just a guy. I want as many
at bats as you possibly can get from that.
Speaker 1: Can we can we leave him in the leadoff spot now,
like we can we stop moving him down?
Speaker 7: That's my only man, that's worked though.
Speaker 3: I mean when he s down he was three for
three with five RBIs, and then the other night he
gives you the insurance run he gets on base, like
that spot in the line. I get what you're saying,
because like I want that guy, but the spot that
he's finding himself in it has been so big for
l s U and it's like, all right, well, if
we're going against the lefty, this has worked pretty well.
Speaker 8: When I was on the pregame show with Hun Saturday
and I said, we were talking, we're talking about Creosa.
Speaker 5: He's the best at bat in Neelish's lineup.
Speaker 8: Like, with all due respect to Mylam who never like
never s Mila Mountain struck out thirty times yet this year.
Speaker 6: But Curiel is the best at bat.
Speaker 8: And for him to be able to share that in
the seventh in the AUSSU mean the sixth hole like
he did on Saturday, was remarkable.
Speaker 5: I mean you you brought up the the insurance run.
Speaker 8: As great as the bat was in the second, that
one in the eighth probably better because Cole Gibbler is
in there to strike him out on the breaking ball,
on that lefty breaking ball, because it's he's got one
of the best ones in the country. And Coriell look
bad the first two times on it, so you know
you're getting it again. And he stayed on it, hit
it where it was pitched, and drove it the other
way in the biggest spot in the ball game. That's
Freshmen don't do that, right, Freshman don't do that, and
he's just he's not freshman anymore.
Speaker 5: I think. I think Curiel is kind of like the
epitome of what we talked about after the Little Rock Games.
It's like they're Their plate discipline to me was incredible,
and that's a testament to I think what Jay Johnson
wants to do and the way he coaches, the way
the way he builds that lineup. But the plate discipline
since then has been just unbelievable to me. How they
can take all.
Speaker 3: They by a couple of guys in your lineup, for sure,
for sure the guys we're talking about now, Barr Jones
has got to figure some things out. Boys shooters shoot
I mean, look, it's the same pitch, it's the same location,
and it's the same result there. I mean, it seems elementary,
but there has to be an adjustment to be made.
I mean, this is somebody you're going to have to
have come up with a couple of big knocks. I mean,
he is the power in your lineup. He's right there.
You put him in the middle of your lineup. And
speaking of like lineup changes, like that might have to
be something you look at again, because I mean, it
is all speed on the corner. He's chasing everything. It
can be breaking ball, change up does not matter. He
is still trying to pull the baseball. It's like it
feels again like so youth baseball go the other way,
where they go the other way, where they take it
the other way, which Bear has the power to do so.
But man, you go up there with a platinum sombrero
and a college raw series game tough.
Speaker 1: Look, it's uh, it's getting so bad, at least for me.
They're like, I'm watching the game with my brother in
law on Saturday night. Jones is up there. He's zero
for four with four strikeouts, and he has two strikes
on him and he looks at me and he's like,
no way, Bear strikes out for the fifth time. I
was like, I'd be shocked if he didn't at this point,
And I mean just no hope. Like I mean I
had got up there, I'd completely lost faith in him.
I'm like, I'm shocked if he doesn't strike out.
Speaker 3: It's it's a tough deal man, because we know how
good of a hitter he can be, and look hitters
getting to a funk.
Speaker 5: We know that.
Speaker 3: And it looked like he was going to find his
way out of it, and LSU's going to need him
to do just that against UCLA coming up later.
Speaker 5: Only we saw him getting that extra work in though. Yep,
he's getting those swings in afterwards.
Speaker 3: Like I have faith that he can make the adjustment,
but you gotta at some point make said adjustment.
Speaker 5: You just kind of fill the ball, the bad contact
the ball a couple of times.
Speaker 3: It I mean, at this point, for sure, it's like
we always talk about with Chuck Nablo getting the yips.
Couldn't throw it from second to first. Baseball is the
ultimate sport of getting in your head and then you
get up there. I mean, hell, inter real slow pitch softball, right,
you miss one, You're like, if I miss another that
I'm gonna strike out. It's like sweaty palms, like, oh
my gosh, I've got to make you know, you start
thinking about it's so different than even the sport that
we played.
Speaker 5: Everybody, like in a skill position or any sport, if
whether you're a thrower, we see with kickers all the
time getting slumps, golfers, hitters, anything like that. It's once
you stop, once you start getting in a slump, you
get in your head and you start thinking about the
littlest of things that you don't need to think about.
And you're a batter, you seed to be thinking about
what's the rotation of the ball, look like, what's the
ball placement? Look for my pitch? Yeah, instead of all
the mechanical things that he's probably thinking of. I mean,
there's no reason that he's staying there afterwards, but working
on the mechanics of his swing. Right, as a thrower,
the hardest thing to hit all the time is the
wide open person. That's the easy throw because you start
thinking about, all right, don't miss it, don't miss it,
don't miss it, don't miss it, instead of just letting
it rip and letting your training training take over at
that point, so hopefully you can find And that's why
people slump, It's like because they just get in their
head and people become a little like we say kickers
or head cases all the time. But it's any skill position,
it's any swinger, thrower, kicker or anything like that. We're
all head cases when it comes to that stuff. So
you just got to be able to go out there
and let it rip. But you have to get something
early on to get your confidence going a little bit,
even if it's like a hard foul ball, just like
something that's like, all right, I got it, Okay, I
feel it. That's what it felt like to come off
the bat. Now let's go rip it. Uh.
Speaker 3: And certainly when we come back, I do want to
talk about the defense that the Tiger showed in this game,
including the last out, which that is not an easy
play and Milm makes it look routine.
Speaker 7: We'll cover it all. We'll preview UCLA.
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first one being the voice of the Ylsu Tigers, Chris
Blair at eight o'clock.
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Speaker 7: We're going with the island theme music, huh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I'm mentally just on an island right now. However,
strangely enough, this song does remind me of the comedy
I think it's called out Cold. Remember that one?
Speaker 7: I do remember that one?
Speaker 5: That's a ski movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's in the mountains there like old school situation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like a like a ski mountain that's like
going out of business, yea, trying to bring it back.
Speaker 3: But that is at the movie where they got the
drunk friend and they put him in the car behind
the wheel, Zach the young and they start spinning the
car and then screaming and act like they're crashing and
he's behind the wheel even though the cars went on.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, and they and they go they ski downhill,
like the thing is like the ski downhill, I think,
while chugging a beer and with their with their ass out.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I've seen that two.
Speaker 5: Thousand and one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well there you go. Yeah, that pretty good movie.
Speaker 5: That song just kind of like tickles the nostalgia there,
okay for that movie.
Speaker 3: We may or may not have done that to one
of my friends in high school who was passed out
in the passenger seat, went to an empty parking lot,
started hitting some doughnuts and then started screaing in and
like control.
Speaker 1: Can you see the like the video when like an
eighteen wheeler's toe and another eighteen wheelers so it looks
like it's facing you.
Speaker 4: His wife's a sleep in the passengers seat and he goes,
oh my god, a honey, wake up and she looks
and sees the eighteen wheeler and loses it.
Speaker 5: My wife would kill me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it didn't go well for that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it was funny at the time.
It's so good.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's no coming back from that.
Speaker 3: All right, Moose, I'm gonna throw this one to you
because you did have sixteen strikeouts before we get to
the defense, I promise, because the defense was really, really good.
So Braswell has three strikeouts, Bear has five. As we mentioned,
certainly not the only players that added to this total. Now,
Milam had two and then came back and got a
couple of hits, so ended up being a good day
for him. What does it look like in your opinion tonight,
because Jay, as we all know, he's gonna tinker, he's
gonna move pieces around. He is going to make sure
that to him, he's got the most competitive lineup no
matter what it was the game before. I mean, there's
a couple of guys I think we could have conversations
about Braswell probably being one of them.
Speaker 7: You know, do you stick with him because of his defense?
He did?
Speaker 3: You know in like some of those double plays, obviously
him getting rid of the baseball incredibly fast and getting
it too Diggings in there at second base. Do we
expect anything major outside of maybe you know, the top
spot like we talked about with Leado.
Speaker 8: I don't think you see anything major because at this
point you know who your guys are.
Speaker 5: I mean, like you know who's.
Speaker 8: Going to give you the best chance to win out there.
I think what you do see is shifting in the lineup,
Like I would expect a more conventional traditional lineup from
what we've seen from LSU tonight. You're going up against
the variety and Landon Stump, who has pitched into the
sixth inning all of three times this year. They just
they don't let him go deep. You see, the Leans
are their bullpen an awful lot, and they're a right handed,
heavy bullpen to boot, so you should see.
Speaker 6: The majority right handers.
Speaker 8: So I would expect Derrek Curriell to be back at
the top of the lineup. I would expect Jake Brown
to start in right field. I think you do leave
Michael Braswell in there, especially in this ballpark where defense
is so key and if you need a bat later
in the game.
Speaker 6: You can go to Tanner Reeves, you can you can
do whatever.
Speaker 8: But Braswell's glove was huge h in that game Flushue
on on Saturday, because unless you can turn a lot
of double plays this season, just to be quite honest,
and those came at big moments. Uh. The interesting thing
for me is, I think you see Dickinson move a
little bit back.
Speaker 5: Up, and I want to see if you move Jones
down again.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think that that has to be something
you're you're considering because the top of your lineup just
I mean, Pierson have that the good are the good
field of choice. RBI was a great bat in a
really clutch moment, but none of them had to hit.
I mean those guys they went oh for thirteen combined,
so all your hits came from four to through nine.
So I think you see a few changes there, but yeah,
not inserting more guys in, just moving the guys you
have around.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree with you there.
Speaker 3: And again one of the things I always look forward
to is sor right, what's Jay going to do with
the lineup out there? Because we know he has done
his due diligence and what he thinks is the best
game plan after watching tape and you mentioned you know,
Land and Stump, and you sit there and you look
at you know, even in the postseason, i mean, yeah,
against Arizona State, he only goes three innings.
Speaker 7: Against UTSA, he only goes four innings.
Speaker 3: And so it's gonna be a pretty quick hook if
it's not going well for Stump out there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that four inning out it was a one
run ball game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was a one run game.
Speaker 5: And they went to him.
Speaker 8: I mean they just they throw the kitchen sink out
at you man out of the bullpen. They've got a
lot of depth and a lot of good arms back there.
They that they can go to. And the other thing
with braswell too, UCLA is a small like they are
the vintage John Savage small ball team that Rock Cholowski
hits sixty two points higher than anyone else on the team,
is the number one prospect for the twenty twenty six draft.
They had him drop down a sacrifice bunt on Saturday,
Like that's just just what they do. So give me
the best gloves that you can have in there, because
all it takes with a bullpen day, so to speak,
is one guy to go in there and not have
his stuff and against the lineup like LSU, that could
result in a five spot. What a name, by the way,
so good then I mean spells at R O C H.
But still rock Chilowski, I mean, dude's name.
Speaker 6: You can't stink.
Speaker 7: You have that. You your parents did their job like
the kids.
Speaker 1: Is not gonna be like the coach is not gonna
be like easy l Rocks coming.
Speaker 3: Up, Rocks coming up. Yeah, he's a stud by the way. Look,
it's gonna be a very intriguing game. This UCLA team
is not lost in the postseason, right they have Now
you could talk about who they've played, sure, but still
UTSA beat Texas, UTSA goes out to UCLA and they
go to and Q. All right, So the teams that
have been put in front of UCLA, they have handled it.
And UCLA has been close. We talked about this, I
think on Friday. They've been close a lot of times.
They don't have the history that a lot of people
think they do. You're thinking of USC you're thinking of
other Southern California schools. They won one in thirteen and
they had a three year stretch. I think it was
I think it was three in a row where they
got to the College World Series, you know, during that time,
but only two other times before then. They've only got
that one national championship. And look, they had some pretty
good arms on the mound to get that national championship.
And so it's not this long history, but they have
been close, and this team is certainly capable of going
and making a run and winning your College World Series.
I mean again, they have not lost this postseason.
Speaker 5: They're gonna have to do it the hard way though,
for sure.
Speaker 3: Look u c l A. Murray State. As soon as
you know, we figured out who is who and where
is Yeah. You know you look at Elision Arkansas and
both these teams knew like what they were up against.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and this is a little redemption I think for
the old school coach O sissy blue Shirts situation, that's stuff,
you know, that's you know, he would have really hated
yesterday Island. That's really the best take I got on
this game is we're just going to destroy the sissy
Blue Shirts.
Speaker 4: So, I mean they got their revenge in that same.
Speaker 3: Game they rancounter about forty seven times with Zach Sharboney.
Speaker 4: Yeah, still trying to figure out how to tackle him.
Speaker 3: He said, sissy blew this My god, he's a stud.
But uh moose Moose loved their uniforms from UCLA the
other day.
Speaker 8: So horrible, Like they deserves to go to in que
just wearing that, Like the jersey is beautiful.
Speaker 6: If you just put like white pants.
Speaker 8: Or the blue stripe, you've got one of the best
uniforms of college baseball.
Speaker 5: It's hard to screw up their colors, Yeah, very hard,
extremely hard. It does look great.
Speaker 3: I mean it's kind of like charge your colors, I
say all the times, like you can't screw this up, right,
Like you just put it together.
Speaker 5: Like like perpon with gold is easy to like you could.
You can kind of mess that up a lot easier,
you can. It's a little bit more guy blue. Yeah right,
but we don't mess it up. How do you mess
up white blue and yellow? Does?
Speaker 8: Their softball team has literally the exact same uniform, Like literally.
Speaker 7: My one baseball uniform. Take that.
Speaker 3: I always feel like I'm Hunt Palmer because Hunt hates
everything that's fun. Is like when the team wears all
black baseball uniforms.
Speaker 5: I got no space in my.
Speaker 7: Brain for that.
Speaker 3: It's like what every one of them looks like. Certainly
like the Vandy ones with the pin stripes. They look
like al Capone out there. Yes, it looks like they
got nine al Capones out there trying to play bass ball.
It looks like nineteen twenties gangsters out there trying to
play baseball.
Speaker 5: It's terrible. It is awful.
Speaker 8: And Vandy has good uniforms that they can wear, and
they don't. It's like, I don't.
Speaker 7: Speaking of bad uniforms.
Speaker 3: Louisville yesterday, oh my god, that was terrible.
Speaker 7: Where does it start and where does it end? I
have no idea.
Speaker 5: It's supposed to be Jersey.
Speaker 1: Remember the awful but remember the awful Giants uniforms they
wore the throwbacks. It was like blue with like the
random red in the middle. That's what the Louisville Jersey
looked like.
Speaker 7: It was awful.
Speaker 3: Now in that ugly ass jersey, Arizona had a meltdown.
Speaker 8: It did a meltdown yesterday. That Louisville is the team.
I'm most surprised that it's still in this tournament.
Speaker 7: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 3: I mean they struggled at the end of the acc
like they were in but like them in Miami was
kind of like, I don't think both of y'all are
going to get in now. They ended up surprisingly Miami
got in, but.
Speaker 5: With you Louisville had a couple of like lucky hits
the outfield, but then they bring back you know, you
know it's my favorite play in all of baseball, the
most electric play, one of the most electric plays in
all of sports, the suicide squeeze. A couple of love,
I get strong, I love it.
Speaker 3: If you have somebody that can handle the bat, I
love it, my god, and they mean now.
Speaker 7: The guy you know is with every day, he really
loves it.
Speaker 5: So I didn't clock into uh. I didn't clock into
that game until the bottom of the eighth when the
when the round started, right. But as Louisville always had
aggressive on the base bath, they were stealing bases. They
were part of They stole so many bases by catching
them off guard, Arizona just completely started melting down. They
weren't even covering the bag. So they were just like
they pitcher would have the ball walking the mound. No
one's covered second. They were just they would take it
a suicide squeeze. They did two or three of them.
Speaker 3: And if you got look, if you got somebody that
can handle the bat without question, and you got speed
like Louisville does, it's a part of who they are.
Speaker 7: It's like the old three.
Speaker 5: They called it one time and they and they did
the suicide squeeze and the batter didn't catch the sign
and didn't bunt, and so they caught the guy from
third stealing home of course, and he still scores. That's great.
So you know it's your.
Speaker 7: Day, Yeah, you do.
Speaker 8: Because Arizona felt like they had that game on cruise
control for the majority of the whole game.
Speaker 7: Louisville can do to score the front.
Speaker 5: Well, then what was the play?
Speaker 1: Okay, so louisvill gets a solo home run, right, it
made it three to one. Looks like they're going to
score again. I don't know if you guys saw it.
The play by the Arizona shortstop dove out caught it
literally just tossed it blindly over his head to the
second basement, like Arizona's rolling in that game, because that
was pure luck. He had no idea where the second
baseman was. And then I mean, I'm watching that about
to leave my house. I'm like, all right, Arizona's got
this in the bag. Then I'm following and I'm like,
holy hell, yeah.
Speaker 5: Hey, he knows your day. It's like only in that
that ballpark plays big, and it's they hit They had
runners on first and second, they bring in like one
of the best pitchers in the country, their closer to
bring it home and they hit two that should be
probably pretty routine fly balls the outfield that just they
had to run so far they couldn't get to him.
That that kind of sparked it. But yeah, I mean
any other ballparks, e ballpark they had around to cover.
Speaker 3: And if we go to the Coastal Carolina Oregon State
game to play that their right fielder makes I believe
that was was in the I think it was the
eighth inning that he made the play. I mean he's
going towards the foul line and just picking them up
and putting them down and finds a way to that
baseball and Coastal Carolina continues to be highly, highly impressive.
And I know we got to take a break, but
I certainly want to talk about that game as well,
because Coastal Carolina, y'all has not lost in like two months. Okay,
don't don't ever say mid major with them. Again, it's
kind of like Gonzaga and basketball. Sure they play in
what you consider it mid major conference. There's nothing mid
major about Coastal Carolina. We'll break that down. And again,
we got Chris Blair joining us from Omaha in about
twenty minutes from now.
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Speaker 3: Also, speaking of the beach, Coastal Carolina pretty good at
baseball near the coast. They're pretty close ye Shana Way,
South Carolina. Even though we call it Myrtle beach Man.
They look good and they were one of the teams
that we talked about coming into the Cultural Series because
I don't look, I just I don't care who you've played.
If you haven't lost in two months, that's going to
be impressive to me. And also the Sun Belts a
pretty good baseball conference, and also Coastal Carolina's won a
national championship before in twenty sixteen. So when you have
that confidence, right, it doesn't matter that you weren't there.
It doesn't matter that that was nine years ago, because
you can be like, oh, yeah, our school is good
enough and big enough to win a national championship.
Speaker 7: And man, they look like they are on an absolute mission.
Speaker 3: That Oregon State team they beat is a really good
baseball team, and Coastal was in control of that game.
Even with the Oregon State who's really good at making
a comeback, they tried, Coastal shut the door pretty quickly
on them, and.
Speaker 5: Well, you know when they're you know, when they're recruiting
that that banner, you think that might be like one
of the biggest banners hanging into college twenty sixteen National
championship from Coastal Caroline.
Speaker 3: Put everybody I beat on that banner. If I was there,
there's no doubt I've had Lasho's name on that thing.
I would have every team like that's what we did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And that was my first thought too. I'm sure
every was everybody else. It's like, well, i mean nobody
on this team was on that, you know, on that team,
they don't know what it's like blah blah blah. But
they got recruited here based on that expectation, based on
them saying we can do it here because we have
done it. Look at this banner, so you know this
this is you know, especially this year, you're seeing so
many smaller schools play so good and it's you know,
it's a direct correlation to you know, the good parts
of the NILS system and situation. It's just getting better
baseball around. But this is a team that's been there
and done it and the team that has the expectations
because that's what they got there to do with that expectation.
Like everybody's like, oh, yeah, you know, come to our school,
we're gonna build a championship team. Well, Coastal's done it
and that DNA is in their blood. So I know
you'all been talking about it, y'all of the baseball guys
like how nervous yell are for that team and not
a lot so. But it's a cool team to cheer for, right,
I mean it's Coastal Coastal Carolina, so we can cheer
for them all all the way up until they play
the Tigers. But I can see the admiration and y'all
I can hear the admiration of y'all's voice, and y'all
talk about their program.
Speaker 3: Uh, they just do everything the right way, sure, and
the way they go about their business, the belief that
they have, how they formatted this team, the people they've
brought in, and just their story. I mean, longtime coach
and then the longtime assistant who leaves goes to Central
Florida for a little bit, comes back and then he's
the head coach there. I mean, Moose, I'll throw this
one to you. I mean, it looks like a national
championship caliber team with our question for sure, and it
starts on the mound for them. I mean, they've got
a three headed monster. You've seen all three of them
pitch so far.
Speaker 8: Now they have two days off, so they'll be able
to set that back up really however they want to.
But Jacob Morrison last night at Sunbelt Pitcher of the Year,
he was awesome. I mean, the twelve to six curves good,
the cutter. Oregon State had no answer for his cutter
all night long. I mean, if he would have if
he would have just had a little bit less command,
not saying he had no field for it at all,
But that's a closer ballgame. He really handcuffed their lineup
with one pitch. And on top of that, like I said,
he's got that hook and he got out to ninety
five a few times, mainly about ninety one ninety four,
but that's a big arm.
Speaker 6: He's a great story coming off Tommy.
Speaker 8: Johnny's a big kid at six', eight AND i mean
on that stage against a team that's won three national.
Championships to go out there and do what he did is.
Awesome and Man, fluki who's really been at the front
of the. Rotation he's no slouch. Either and they've got
some bats. Too but for, me, man it really starts
on the. Mound you have three guys like that and
you can win any anything that's in front of.
Speaker 7: You they're gonna manufacture runs however they.
Speaker 3: CAN i, mean they only had five hits and got
six runs yep yesterday Against Oregon, State SO i, mean
certainly the shots look like they can go win a national. Championship,
now playing Today arkansas And Murray state is the game
BEFORE lsu AND. Ucla as we all, Know arkansas minus
six hundred on the money, line Against Murray. State NOW
ulsus minus three, hundred that's a big number as, well
but minus six. Hundred, Now Murray state's been here. BEFORE i,
Mean Murray state has looked elimination right in the. Eyes
they did it Against, duke had to come back and
win a couple of. Games no disrespect to The Blue,
devils but The hogs are a little bit.
Speaker 5: Different, yeah minus six hundred for a, reason, Right, yeah,
yeah they've looked elimination in the. Eye but you gotta
Think arkansas is gonna be so so excited not to
be facing the pictures FROM, lsu to see in a
different and seeing some different. Pitches so you got to
think they're going to come back. Out.
Speaker 3: Now they are going from facing you know WHAT i
think is the best pitcher in the nation And Kate
anderson and Then Chase shoer's, pumping you, know one hundred
one oh one up, There case And evans in the
high nineties to probably facing eighty eight, today eighty eight
to ninety. Two, Right and that might seem, like, oh
they'll be, fine and maybe they, are but making that
adjustment at every level of baseball is always, difficult, right
even like in LIKE eightu, Baseball you're, like if a
kid's pitching, slow, like scoot up in the, box scoot
all the way, up wait on it on the back.
LEG i, mean it takes like at every level of,
baseball if you've been seeing something different and a guy
comes in throwing eighty eight to ninety, two it will
be a little bit of an adjustment for.
Speaker 5: Them, yeah it seems like a good, problem right to,
Have but you, know even a good problem is still
a problem that you've got to figure. Out you got
to think they're going to figure that. Out So i'm
kind of like you, THOUGH i, MEAN i would expect
in some way former Fashion arkansas to matchup WITH lsu
again at some point in This College World.
Speaker 3: Series, YEAH i don't think there's any question about. That
fully expect. That that's the way that it felt like
it always was going to. Be so all, right we'll
continue breaking down The College role. Series we do Have Chris,
blair the voice of THE Lsu tigers at. Eight we've
got weekend winners at eight, fifteen and we've got SOME
lsu recruiting news to go over with our Guy Shay
dixon at eight point. Thirty so we do have a
pack show here, today stay locked.
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