Speaker 1: What is going on? That was happening y'all? I hope
everybody's having a great Friday. How bout them Tigers? Big
night the Tigers, last night of the baseball Diamond and
in the gym, and a lot more coming up this weekend.
Speaker 2: And we're gonna get you ready for all of it.
Speaker 1: On Today's Off the Bench on one oh four five ESPN.
We have the whole crew here, t Bob, Jake, Elandra
Fierre All and Taylor Shape ready to take you through
the next few hours of your life. Have some fun,
talk some sports and nonsense and whatever else. Big day
for Tatan nickelback coming up?
Speaker 3: Uh, Jake, what's going on? Brother? How we feel feeling good?
Last night, me and the whole.
Speaker 4: Crew we went to Alec Box Stadium and watched you
High and Catholic.
Speaker 2: Oh how that goes?
Speaker 3: Pay each other? I know Catholic one. I don't know
the final score.
Speaker 4: It was eleven to eight when we left, and it
was the top of the seventh.
Speaker 3: But it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: How cool that you know our kids get to go
to a school that they get to go play a
game ever in the box. I thought that was really cool.
Great fans from Catholic and You High like so a
ton of people there. There was a kid from U
High and I heard he was a sophomore. I'll see
if I can confirm that. But You High was down
like eight to three. I think it was going into
the bottom of the fifth and they score a couple
of runs. It's eight to five, two guys on and
this kid hits a bomb.
Speaker 3: Out of a so like you had to end up winning.
Speaker 4: But can you imagine going to school the next day
as a sophomore when you hit a bomb in that
stadium like the tip of the game up, It'd be
hard for me to fit through the door.
Speaker 1: That's objectively very cool. So I guess congratchs to both teams,
although we are obviously biased as me and Jay will
be m seeing the Golden Gala tonight to uh raise
some money for You High. So if you are coming
out to the gala, yea better freaking.
Speaker 3: Bid on the auctions. Okay, don't leave us up there
just trying to search for a bit. It's off. Make
it easy. I've been in those situations before.
Speaker 1: When it goes great, you haven't adrenaline rush and you
feel so good, like wow, rais alway money for a
great cause. But I've also been up there hosting an
auction when nobody bids on something and then you gotta
like kind of lower the price and take it.
Speaker 3: You see in the crowd.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a weird thing where it's a I've
never done stand up, but I imagine the feeling is
not too dissimilar from bombing and stand up because you
just immediately start sweating. It makes everything feel a little
awkward and frustrating. So your asses out there, get drunk,
open up your wallet.
Speaker 5: I don't know that.
Speaker 1: Those are the two rules, and then dance. We have
three rules for get drunk out of your aunt and
dance a great time.
Speaker 3: I don't know that.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I've ever done like an actual
auction like that was certainly with me, So we'll see
how it goes.
Speaker 3: Maybe I have a couple of cold pops and I'm
calling people out.
Speaker 4: I don't Yeah, hey Billy, yeah you got that new
bass boat last week.
Speaker 3: Bro, I know you got it exactly. You know something
like that, Because I'm to real country if I start drinking.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have some fun tonight. I'm kind of
nervous about We're gonna have fun though A laudra. How
you doing, girl, I'm doing.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be out there like John Michael.
Speaker 1: You're not nervous at all. Wait, so you're not nervous
about it at all. That's interesting. I can't stop thinking
about it. I've been thinking about it all week.
Speaker 7: Why are you nervous about it?
Speaker 3: I don't know. It's just just I'm just nervous about it.
Speaker 7: He's gonna be out there like John Michael.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: Caitlyn last night she was trying to make feelings. She's like, Oh,
don't be nervous about it. I'm well, thanks. I never
thought about it that way.
Speaker 7: Don't don't be nervous about it. You can train yourself.
Speaker 3: You've done stuff like this a million times.
Speaker 1: It's the old Family Guy joke from one of the
first ever episodes. At a Super Bowl party, Peter shows
up to Quagmire's house. Quagmar's hands him a beer and
he's like, oh, I feel bad. Quagmire and told Lois
I want to drink tonight, and he goes.
Speaker 3: Oh, don't feel bad, Peter.
Speaker 2: I never thought about it that way.
Speaker 3: It just gets hammered.
Speaker 8: That.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. I'm feel great now. I'm excited. Yeah, I
mean honestly though, I mean like you're gonna thrive.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter nerves and nerves, man, I don't know,
it's true, just I just care. You know, it's tough
stuff having so much.
Speaker 3: Care in my heart. But I didn't allow me to
have nerves growing up.
Speaker 1: Uh wait, Londra, I asked you how you're doing well.
Speaker 2: Are you going to the concert as well tonight?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm gonna be there.
Speaker 3: The lineup they were telling me before the show.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I have to leave right after the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you loved about say you look like you are
dressed to be in a field for a music festival
all day long.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's very muddy out there.
Speaker 6: Too, so hell, you gonna wear boots, boots.
Speaker 7: I wore boots last year and it just was not ideal.
Speaker 5: You're gonna be You're gonna be standing for a while.
Speaker 7: Yeah, probably not Probably Friday last year.
Speaker 1: I figured y'all since y'all are kind of working it,
Uh you're not.
Speaker 5: Taylor's working with shit down the spot, or maybe you
could get off your face. Maybe said Taylor, you cannot
work shirtless. I was like, why am I going.
Speaker 7: I mean, you can work and go see knuckleback at
the same time.
Speaker 1: Uh t T How are we feeling here on the
edge of the greatest day of your life? Chad Kroger
is only a few hours into your fag.
Speaker 5: You nailed it with the word edge. I'm excited, man,
we are. We are fired up here on this Friday morning. Uh.
I told Alandro, like you, Bob, it's late, It's gonna
be late night. He brought out the big dog.
Speaker 3: Let's go the big dog. It's one of those days.
Speaker 1: It's a family sort of day. He's gone straight fast
and furious. He is loading his body up with nas already.
Speaker 7: I'm a little no.
Speaker 6: I was just gonna say, I'm a little worried about
myself because it's Friday, so I can eat meat, so
I can't like grab something before I go out there,
and I don't know if they're gonna have like meatless
stuff there, so like if I'm gonna just be hit
like slamming beers.
Speaker 2: I mean I have a good time, though, Just get something.
Speaker 3: Like some proteins, like a.
Speaker 5: There's a Greek restaurant on Walker, but does it have
like just get some cold shrip. It's a chain.
Speaker 3: It's a chain, Okay, there's a Greek restaurant and Walker.
Speaker 2: It's an alba.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's a chain.
Speaker 3: We've talked about port Is already on this show.
Speaker 5: There's a chain restaurant. It's not like some dude open
up right, like I'm gonna make chicken form, right.
Speaker 4: But the way you said it was kind of leading
me in that direction, like a little.
Speaker 5: Nervous, like we don't have a lot of meatless stuff
out there, Lamb allowed, It's.
Speaker 7: Probably like a Greek also, like Lamb of God, come.
Speaker 3: On, yeah, what like Lamb would be, what are you
talking about?
Speaker 1: I don't know, guys in the Last of People, the churches,
but Jesus is pretty into eating himself, like I mean
that's what we that's what we do.
Speaker 7: He's not eating pretty often.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, That's what I'm saying. So Lamb would I
don't know. I didn't know if there was a loophole,
I'm not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really okay, And that feels somewhere weird.
Speaker 3: That's got a loophole because that feels in between.
Speaker 2: The Amphibian interesting, yeah, very interesting.
Speaker 7: But it does live on water and Lamb.
Speaker 1: You gotta go, you know, just go to Rouse the
Philly one of them seafood hot plates.
Speaker 3: You'll be good to go.
Speaker 1: Uh So, if you're going out today, it's gonna be
a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Go have some fun.
Speaker 1: Come find yeah, go find a laundre and Taylor although
tailors off the clocks. If you talk to him, he's
just not gonna respond. Because now that's actually not true.
I'll probably about Chad Kroeger way more excited, like, come, yeah,
come chat with me. That's cool to find.
Speaker 2: So does this mean that you're going to have to
have another nose energy drink later in the day?
Speaker 5: Actually, normally one does it for me the whole day.
Speaker 2: Really, no crash because we're very worried.
Speaker 5: That's why it's my favorite energy drink. That woman died
the other day, okay, drinker drink.
Speaker 3: We looked.
Speaker 5: I looked into this a little bit. She was drinking
like three or four a day on top of coffee.
Speaker 2: That's crazy, that's insane.
Speaker 5: I drink like four a week.
Speaker 1: I cannot imagine how bad her body felt. Oh, it's
so bad that it was like we're done, I've had
too much.
Speaker 7: How do you not notice that your heart's.
Speaker 1: Like because I guess her new normal is her heart
just pumping super hard.
Speaker 5: My boyfriend said she would order a energy drink four
pack and she'd get it like every two days.
Speaker 2: She would go four pack every every she would order many.
Speaker 3: How many cups of coffee is too much? I don't know,
but it's that probably goes six.
Speaker 5: Said three energy drinks a day, crazy and coffee. It
didn't say how much coffee, But that seems like.
Speaker 7: You should lower it to maybe four, can't it? Just
like on TV?
Speaker 1: My rhythm is I've been during in this coffee, which
is twenty ounces, So does that count as like maybe
a little more than one?
Speaker 4: I mean, think about that aspect of it, because I
drink probably like six of these.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I drink one of these, then I have
a normal sized coffee, uh kind of midday, and then
I've been doing a double shot of espresso at like
five Yeah. So not Maybe I don't think I'm in
that girl's territory yet. I think you might still be
beating me. I'm not sure, but I don't know.
Speaker 3: All right, let's do this.
Speaker 1: Uh it's something we are, you know, lubed up and
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are you a freaking kidding me man complete game shutout,
the first time an LSU Tiger has done that since
twenty eighteen when aj Labis did it against Lamar. But
guess what this wasn't Lamar. This was Oklahoma on the road,
a top ten team in the entire country. This was
Kate Anderson seeing Kyson Witherspoon on the other side, Kate
Anderson hearing all the chat that Kyson Witherspoon had better
numbers than him. This was top gun SEC Baseball edition,
Ace on ace and who would win the dogfight? And
my god, I'll be damn if Kay didn't find a
way to fly better, fly quicker, and end up blasting
Kyson and Oklahoma out of the sky.
Speaker 3: By the end of this game.
Speaker 1: The rare college pitching duel so mean we do not
see often and it was absolutely fantastic, high tension, quick moving,
What a treat game one from Kate Anderson.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Can't wait to break it all down with Todd Walker
later on too, he was on the call of the game.
And you just don't see these happen really ever. I mean,
you mentioned aj Labis did in eighteen. It was against Lamar.
No disrespect to Lamar, but being on the road against Oklahoma,
You're right, it's completely different. It's a top ten baseball team.
This is, you know, a team that we talked about.
You couldn't allow them to get on base because if
you did, a single was going to turn into a
double because of how many bags they swiped so far
this year. Jay Johnson came on yesterday, It's like, you know,
how you stop that? You don't let them on base, right,
And so you know, Kate, I know we got in
some trouble in the game at times, but he worked
himself out of that trouble every single time. And to
go to distance like that and to be as dominant
like it wasn't just oh, he had a complete game.
Like the strikeouts as well, like they could not pick
came up.
Speaker 1: It's fourteen k's And again, Jake's right. So the wildest
part about it all is complete game shutout within the
context of how the game started. Okay, because in the
first inning, Caid was sitting on seventeen pitches with the
bases loaded in only one out, with coming directly off
of the worst start of his season last week, so
he did have it last week. He got touched up
right and the enters this game, and it's a perfect
series of events to make him feel insecure.
Speaker 2: And at this moment when you was truly.
Speaker 1: This was a fight or flight moment. You know, he's
backed into the corner. He's in deep, deep trouble. One out,
base loaded it on seventeen pitches, said no, now I'm
coming out, swinging back to back kas he ends up
leaving the inning already sitting on twenty four pitches, and
then even the second, even the third. I want to say,
like three of the first four innings, guys found their
way to base, but every time Caid was there to respond.
And here's where really blows my mind. Through three innings
sitting on fifty eight pitches, who in the world would
have ever fathomed that he had six more innings left
in him or that he would lock in and end
up retiring sixteen in the last seventeen, retiring twelve in
a row. I mean, my guy hit a flow state
after surviving that early trouble, and Oklahoma was helpless fourteen
K's nine innings, zero runs, Take a bow, Kate Anderson
a true ace in the skies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, I mean, after the third inning, you're
not thinking that he's going to make it to the
sixth inning, much less go out there and have a
complete game. But it was the fourth inning, right, only
face three batters, in the fifth inning only face three batters,
and the sixth inning only faced four batters. Right, So
like after that, he certainly did lock in. The defense
played great behind him, and you needed it. I mean,
you score two runs like you didn't have your best
ne at the plate certainly. I mean some of your
guys that you've counted on all season long, they were
oer for I mean your three, four, five, and six
hole hitters.
Speaker 3: Only combined for one hint.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, so you had to have this kind
of performance, and you're right like it was a top
gun matchup. It was Ace on ace, And I'm not
saying he had to go out there and strike out
fourteen complete game, but he damn near.
Speaker 3: It almost had to with the way that you didn't
hit the ball well.
Speaker 1: And I love it because me and Landra were both
tweeting out memorandums on Cage night from the seventh inn on.
Speaker 3: But then it kept going.
Speaker 1: He kept showing back up the next inning and it
was this incredible high wire act where he knew he
had no margin of era. As soon as somebody touched
the bag, he was going to be taken out, and
he refused to do so. I mean, how about the
defensive play that was in the eighth right, I believe, Well.
Speaker 6: He also had the one to close the game out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the one closed the game out was good.
Speaker 1: That was good too, But I'm talking about Yes, that
little dribbler again, if anybody touches the bag, he's take
it out of the game. Yeah, leadoff hitter, weird little dribbler.
And he gets down there, scoops it, flips it up
to his hand, and I mean, really fires a fastball,
Todd Walker said on the broadcast. If he doesn't throw
that thing with speed, he doesn't get it. But he
gets the out. He keeps himself in the game. And
we all know how weird pitchers throwing the first can
be means because he was just like it is so
just instinct reaction. Did have time to overthink. I mean,
what a defensive play to make sure that he helps
protect himself. So yeah, Kate Anderson, I mean, I'll never
forget this performance, probably ever, quite frankly, and I want
to get to the bats as well, but before he
do so, I'm sorry, we've been up here targeting. What
did you guys think about last night's game?
Speaker 5: My in law's got to see the bad part of
me watching sports. Every time they show Jay Johnson on TV,
I am yelling at him, like, Jay, do not pull
him out of this game. I know you're standing there
with the junkie itch because of the pitch count. Please
leave him in there. And Jay did the right thing,
left him in there, and it was incredible.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean, what do you get up? Get
up to one thirty thirty thirty five? Yeah, it was
his final you know, it's whatever.
Speaker 3: He's a big boy, he can handle it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Also, like, why are we acting like Nate Yuski and
Jay Johnson don't know what they're doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, right, And like Kay doesn't know how he feels.
And I'm sure Jay was like, hey, you good to go,
and Kate if.
Speaker 7: He feels good, he feels good.
Speaker 6: And I get like the motion part of it, but
I'm sure like going out there and feeding off speeds
instead of like just pumping fastballs in there the entire
time might be a little easier on the shoulder. Than
throwing fastball, but I don't know that part for sure,
But like, I think you've nailed the pitcher should have
different pitch counts.
Speaker 1: You talk about answer, but I think I think you
nailed it when you said, like at a certain point,
you gotta trust your guy. And Kate Anderson he wanted
the rock.
Speaker 7: If he didn't have it, it was locked in.
Speaker 1: And yeah, the v low is to have him nine
twenty four to ninety two, but the placement wasn't.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was dropping him in the bucket wherever
he won it, and he had them hitters fighting for
their lives.
Speaker 3: So yeah, he just rolled with this guy. Dude.
Speaker 4: Witherspoon threw one hundred pitches and six innings on the
other side.
Speaker 1: Which again, so I know that LSU did not hit
well for average here or anything, but they did not
strike out right. It opened with two k's and then
this is a good hunt Palmer stat over the next
twenty three only struck out two more times, so did
a good job of making Witherspoon work and then taking
advantage of probably the stat of the night as LSU
finishes to a fourth runners to score position and Oklahom
finishes over five. Yeah, right, that's the difference of the game,
right there. One thing two that I love from an
offensive perspective. I love the mirrored rhythm of the top
of the lineup and Curiel and bar Jones creating the
first run, and of course Curiel did. I mean, it's
just unreal consistent, this guy, but them coming up with
a couple of big two out doubles. All hits were
up up of too on the night as well, so
very disciplined hitting, but a couple of two out doubles
to produce a run. So that's at the top of
the order, and then your second run crumbs from Hernandez
and Stanfield down to the bottom of the order. So
there you go, a little one through nine production. And
it looked like those two were gonna do it again
after the incredible Bradswell butt, but unfortunately Stanfield just missed
the call.
Speaker 3: I like, go ahead on.
Speaker 6: The pitch count thing. They don't play till Friday, so
he has eight days next day. So like I just
I don't have an issue with it at all.
Speaker 2: Uh No, I don't either, But again, I actually love it.
Speaker 6: That's more because you're throwing a complete shutout game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad that we get that he got at
least he gave the opportunity. Again, if anybody had gotten
on base, it would have been taken out.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Kate Anderson was firmly in control of his own destiny.
And how was he not proving to you that he
needed to be out there?
Speaker 5: Well, that's the thing. There's there's three four people in
chat saying one thirty five just too many pitches. Well,
he never got tired, So it's not like he threw
a complete game shutout.
Speaker 7: Are we just arbitrarily?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Why because like it doesn't happen anymore, you know often
that used to happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thirty pitches in a game.
Speaker 6: If the if the pitcher and your coaches think it's
fine to do it, then I'm gonna trust the player
and I'm gonna trust the coaches that know what they're doing,
like Jay Johnson knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, And I actually, yeah, I liked this.
Speaker 3: He had he had two of the best bullpen arms available.
Speaker 2: For the rest of the week and now he still did.
Speaker 4: Writing Zach's up, so like he had somebody to go to,
but he felt like for his team to win.
Speaker 3: That was the best option.
Speaker 1: Again, he was in such a rhythm, he had the
Sooner lineup in such a choke hold.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know about y'all.
Speaker 1: I just kept assuming he was gonna get taken out,
and I was a bit terrified about what was going
to happen. Yeah, because he was so locked in. I
was like, is this gonna be the classic? You have
to gag him out because the pitch count and then
immediately it's just gonna fall apart and you're gonna blow
this game. And you never even had to explore any
of those alternate realities. And now you still have Case
and Evans, you still have that count. I love that
ready to go and you just got to get one more.
You know, you don't got to sweet, You just got
to get one more. Find a way to get one
more over the next couple of days. And this is
an Oklahoma team where Kyson Witherspoon has been a real
weapon for them, and so getting past him, I mean
just a well again, it could be.
Speaker 3: A more perfect start.
Speaker 6: Well, but I also love that you still have Cowen
and Evans on a road SEC game against the top
ten team, because you saw last night I mean we could.
We went two to zero, wasn't large margins that we
won by. So I love that we see just coming though.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's covered the rest of the week and for sure,
but but but I.
Speaker 7: Love having Cowen and Evans still again.
Speaker 5: Because that's kind of what we talked about last week, right,
like they were pitching off a little bit because Anderson
was pictured on Thursday and we said, hey, great, you
got the win. You needed it, but you had to
use Cowen in that game, like you rather would have
not have, like to a laundest point, like you give
your entire bullpen to work with the rest of the week.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: Daniel Joranes says, f that you put yourself in a
situation where you should want to sweep.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I mean you try to win every game.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna upset if we don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not I.
Speaker 5: Must sweep series.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm just more setting fan expectation. Like I'm
not saying the players go out there and be.
Speaker 3: Like, no, you really need one of two.
Speaker 5: No, we already got the first two.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, like they're doing everything they can to win every
single game. I just mean, for me personally as a fan.
What a great feeling to know now. And granted, you know,
you hat a little bit of this against Texas Friday nights,
and maybe there's a little uh a little a little
cynical PTSD about uh, well, you know, can you this
time fight it? But but I think but this team's
grown from that. Yeah, and they continue to get better
and they have more resources available than you did that night. Man,
what a game, What a fun night. We talked about
how much we love a little Thursday night baseball. What
a perfect night of Thursday.
Speaker 6: Night baseball, like a great pitching duel, I know, and
you don't get in college at all.
Speaker 7: I love it. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's so high tension, there's so little margin of air. Yes,
never forget it. So brisk too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know there's people like all bundled up, and
I was like, dang, how cold is it in Norman
right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Wait, I was gonna wonder that too, because like myline,
his mask on and everything.
Speaker 7: Jake Brown had one too.
Speaker 3: Was it like actually cold?
Speaker 5: I know? It's fun?
Speaker 6: Well it didn't day when we were on the phone,
he said it was raining. Yeah, not that that means
it has to be.
Speaker 1: Cold old poxatani Man.
Speaker 5: The high today in Norman, Oklahoma is like fifty four.
What what?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: I guess this makes sense because like there's like crazy
ass tornado like springs well and there's like crazy as tornadoes.
Speaker 3: It doesn't look like a front muscle movement.
Speaker 5: In seventy until Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Again twenty eighteen, the last time we saw complete game
shutout guys, Like, really, I know how time works that
maybe we're not stopping anything that seven years seven years
and it was against some more and Lang had one
in seventeen.
Speaker 3: Do we know who that was against?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 1: I forgot but I because maybe that was like the
last big time opponent it wasn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, I would love to know when.
Speaker 1: The last like conference we yeah, conference like weekend like
big time complete game shutout was maybe like Aaron or something.
Speaker 7: No I saw that one to hold on.
Speaker 5: Like when the last conference complete game shutout is Yeah,
I don't know. I'd be willing to bet it's Aaron Nola.
Speaker 3: That's what I was thinking too.
Speaker 5: I have no idea.
Speaker 3: I mean, did Skeens not in a regional.
Speaker 7: A complete game.
Speaker 3: Shot? Yeah? Yeah, complete game shutout?
Speaker 1: As the difference here, because Skeens Skeens was the last
complete game against.
Speaker 3: Two lane in the region. Okay, I was like, oh man, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Actually had beers with the kid that hit the home
run on Skis. I remember saying, yeah, he is up
there with one of my cousins. And it was such
a crazy it's such a funny conversation had he said
schemes was just like so terrifying up there on the mound.
Looked like he's ten feet tall, just coming downhill to
kill you, and he just got lucky and like made
contact and so it flew out the park.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 4: It is a little wild to me how different mindsets
can be just in pitch count and you know, over time,
and it's like, you know forever, like this is kind
of what the norm was. And I was looking it up,
like just in MLB's like Roy Halliday through nine complete
games in twenty ten, James Shields for the race through
eleven complete games in twenty eleven, like of course you
can go back to Greg Maddox where he had multiple seven, eight,
nine times he did it like you go now and
it's like the leaders every single year are two three,
Like you don't have really anybody above three anymore since
like twenty eleven, eleven to complete games in one year.
Speaker 1: I feel like starts in the MLB don't even go
over four anymore, maybe four innings and then we just
start the one inning brigade.
Speaker 3: Uh wait, So when.
Speaker 7: Was the last one? Was in two thousand and three?
And it was Nola?
Speaker 6: It was against Alabama, I mean twenty thirteen and it
was and it was Aaron Nola and it was against Alabama.
So he threw ten strikeouts that night, a dozen three hits.
Speaker 1: A dozen years ago. That's how long it's been since
you witnessed what you witnessed last night. Only Kate Anderson
did it to the tune of fourteen.
Speaker 6: K's career high last was thirteen against Southeastern last year.
Speaker 3: Unreal.
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Speaker 1: T Bomb, Kyle Batsan with a Bob Buker major League
level stead here that'd be willing to bet this is
the first complete game shutout on the road that gets
a top ten SEC team with the weather below fifty
five degrees in a crowd of less than two thousand.
Speaker 3: At night in LSU baseball history. Gotta be gotta be.
Speaker 2: Okay, wait, laying.
Speaker 1: Through complete game shutout against Auburn and seventeen one eighteen pitches.
Speaker 3: Either way, the point is, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: These moments are singular and they should be remembered. And
as I said, like the same way that we remember
those other performances, I'll remember uh last night forever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And now you set yourself up with an opportunity
you win one of the next two games, and that
is the mission. When you go to Norman, would you
like a sweep, Absolutely, But when you go on the
road in the SEC, certainly against a top ten team,
you want to win the series. And now you've got
literally every arm but Kate Anderson available, yep. Right, So
if you go out there now, I don't think this
will happen, but maybe it will. You want to go
out there and if you wanted to use both of
your best bullpen arms in the same game.
Speaker 3: Or secure because maybe it's two to one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, and for whatever reason heinstin only makes it
to the fifth and you want to go Cowen until
the eighth, and then here comes Evans in the eighth
and the ninth that would secure the series win. So
everything's on the table, you have everything available. And that's
another big reason why so massive that Kate did what
he did last night.
Speaker 1: So great job, great job by the Tigers and Kate Anderson.
Speaker 3: Again, I know Anderson's.
Speaker 1: Obviously the highlight, but I do like what the bats
were able to do against a damn good pitcher in
finding ways to scratch a couple of cross take quality
at bats even win they were getting out. Speaking of quality,
how about your LSU gymnastics team advancing to the regional final.
Another one ninety eight ends up with a one ninety
eight one. Remember that's the magic number. You're hitting one
ninety eight, you're gonna be very tough to beat at
any given meat and last night is no difference as
it was LSU Arkansas, Michigan in Maryland. LSU ends up
dominating one ninety eight one, Arkansas one ninety seven to five,
Michigan one ninety seven, and then Maryland, although down at
one ninety six. Right, so this team is just different.
And now they advance to the regional final. It's gonna
be LSU, Arkansas, Michigan State, and Kentucky. There'll be four
pm on Saturday, and the top two teams from there
will advance to the NCAA Semi Final on April seventeenth,
the National Championship. Gymnastics is an absolute grind, dude. I
mean it is not just you know, everybody go on
the same night and oh, you had the best night,
you won. I mean you got to consistently win, right,
You got to go top two here, you gotta go
top two next on Saturday. If you make it past that,
you got to go top two in that semi and
then you gotta win it when you get all the
way down to that final four or final eight.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, that's your point. It is. It is a grind.
Speaker 4: And I mean it is another sports too, And we
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itself in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 3: For softball, that is a grind as well.
Speaker 4: But gymnastics is a little different because multiple teams advance
in some of these rounds and like sometimes you're trying
to do your best. That's the obvious. But sometimes it's like, Okay, well,
you know, do we save this situation for here? And
it's a little risky. It's like do we go full board?
It's almost like conference tournaments a little bit like in hoops,
and we have coach Malkey on shit be like, yeah,
we want to win, but like we want to be
smart as well. It kind of feels like that's what
the first opening round of the gymnastics postseason is.
Speaker 1: And uh and yet this all as your team is
just so consistent that they don't have to like overstretch
that hard to put up a score like this. It's
and I loved hearing j Clark's comments after the meet
where he's been talking to his team a ton about
like joy and intensity and how those things sound like
they're opposite, but they're really just the same emotion kind
of viewed in different ways. And to approach this entire
process with joy and intensity, do not be afraid of failure.
Good to hey, to be nervous and one out, that's
completely natural, right, But when you get up there, do
what you do, be locked in, joyful in that intensity
and benefit and U well, there you go. They're doing
just that. So they advance again this Saturday four pm.
LSU Arkansas, Michigan State, and Kentucky will compete to advance
to April seventeenth. I believe this is where Oklahoma got
tripped up last year. I want to say, a regional final.
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Speaker 1: Co tb Wrap it up our one and how about
it fly stick it around deciding to forego the twenty
twenty five NBA or w NBA draft. Look of course, right,
and you're making it's There's been a very interesting development
in athletics where and and this is on the women's
side of the game especially, Look we talk about all
the time in modern college athletics, emotional buy in becomes
economic buy in. Right where there are emotions, money will follow.
Just frankly, there are more emotions jake for these schools
than there are for these w NBA franchises. I'm not
saying there aren't successful w NBA franchises, because they are.
Speaker 2: And here we go, now that we've mentioned it, like
Q all the chap being.
Speaker 3: Like championships and douche bisiness anybody like this.
Speaker 1: If you are thinking about typing one of these WNBA takes,
just how about this instead? I want you to I
want you to think about what you were going to say,
and then I want you to close your eyes and
visualize shoving it.
Speaker 3: Up your ass.
Speaker 1: Because that's how little I care about it, Like I
could not care less. Anyway, I guess I could care
less because it makes me angry even thinking about you.
The overall point though here is frankly, there are more
there's more emotion for these schools than there are these teams,
So there's more money in remaining in college and Flage
is killing it.
Speaker 2: I guess technically she did enter the portal or something.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it'd be crazy, right, I think Flaje is
going to be back here in Baton Rouge, third team
All American and like, look at the growth in her game, right,
always a great defender. This year came online as a
great score. Like, if she takes a leap in the
same way she has these first few years, she is
going to be completely unstoppable next season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you couldn't watch the NCAA tournament without seeing a
commercial with Flage on it. Like she, yeah, one of
the faces of college basketball and going to continue to
be so. And she's not the only one who has
made a decision like this. Olivia Miles from Notre Dame
t she was going to be the number two pick
in the w NBA draft and she said, no, I'm
actually going to enter the transfer portal and I Am
not going to go to the WNBA. I'm going to
stay here for my last year of eligibility, and so
this is going to happen.
Speaker 3: Across the board.
Speaker 4: Your top tier NCAA players right now are making over
a million dollars in NIL and for the WNBA, Like
I know, you know, to your point that you were
talking about, people are going to start throwing it out there,
like seventy five thousand dollars is the salary there, But
I think it does go much deeper than that. You've
got all these sold out arenas, like when Flage and
them are out there playing and you've got all this uh,
you know, earned attention, and you have all these different
opportunities like why would you rush to get away for me?
Speaker 3: Any of that?
Speaker 4: So I don't fault them for making this decision at all. Honestly,
It's going to happen across multiple sports, and they ain't
going to just be women's basketball. We're staying it in
men's basketball. Yeah, players staying longer. We're seeing it. We're
seeing guys come to campus and college baseball that would
never come to campus.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean again, I mean it's it's like look at
Carson Beck, right, I mean, granted he had the injury
and everything, but he made uh more money, Gary no Smier.
Speaker 4: I like he can come back, and like it makes
sense for him to come back. He could have very
easily gone into this NFL draft and in a in
a week quarterback class been one of the top quarterbacks
already off the board in my opinion. But now you
have the ability to come back and you can make
it worth your while and you have protection as well.
Speaker 1: Also, there's that new unrivaled league, that three on three
league that they're doing down in Miami, which is made
mainly for like online entertainment, that seems to be doing
well financially, and Flage has already signed a deal there
for whenever she does go pro. She's got an equity
deal in it as well. So like they're coming up
with creative avenues to create more economy for these women
where you don't have to go play overseas, where there's
more of a professional scene. So very exciting news if
you're a Tiger fan. Nook, he says, Hasshag extracts all
my WNBA failure facts from the deep reaches of my ass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were. You were one of the ones I
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