Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: I'll start to it. You want to present off the bench.
This is what we have been waiting for.
Speaker 3: The hype is over.
Speaker 1: Off the bench, the Fitch.
Speaker 2: Now here's Jacob Hester.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in OTV on a Monday morning.
Monday morning, you know what that means. Are going to
be joined by our guy Devin snow hold the mayo.
Speaker 2: Dad. What's going on?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: How we doing this week?
Speaker 1: Doing?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 1: It's a new days it is, man.
Speaker 4: It's like said, it's kind of like it's this weird
Twilight Zone situation. And anytime you have like a big transition,
it always kind of plays out this way where the
new show doesn't start until like June the second. We
got these two weeks and just kind of making sure that,
you know, we still do our job and stay engaged.
But it's not gonna be the new new show. But
it does feel a little bit new here, you know what.
So I'm sitting on the other side of the desk here,
and this is where I used to sit when I
did Hanging with Hester, and then I went to the
other side and I'm like whatever, I'll stay there. When
I did solo and Ta Bob was out, but that's
sandbag and sob. It is so much warmer over here
on this side. It was the frozen tundra because there's
this airvent dev that blows right on the other side
of the desk.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 4: You have my ass out here wearing hoodies in July
and August in South Louisiana and this whole time over here.
I actually got like a little sweat going on today
on this side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you have anything like me, bro Like,
I don't even care if ninety degrees that side, especially
in the morning, I just can't help but to put
a hoodie on. Like something about the house. I mean,
I keep it low, you know, probably like mid sixties.
Speaker 2: But man, dude, I whoa mid sixties?
Speaker 4: And look I appreciate that because I'm like in the
same thought process.
Speaker 2: But you can't hide money, dev. What's that? What's that
ac bill talking about?
Speaker 6: It's it's give and take, man.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing with like water, bro Like, if
i'm if water is the most thing I consume, I'm
gonna drunk the best water. Right well. If I'm hey,
if I'm in the house a lot, well I need
the a se pumping you know, it's just.
Speaker 6: What it is.
Speaker 2: No, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 4: I like to keep look like if I can keep
it at sixty eight, like I'm feeling good, Taytay, Are
you the one that's like seventy four?
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh oh my god, from seventy seventy two now
that I'm.
Speaker 4: Married, he said, seventy two, now that he's married. So
that's just because the missus made him turn it down.
Like I start to get a little itch on my
neck just thinking about seventy four.
Speaker 1: Well, I got a theory too that, like the cold
air is in your house, the more it keeps insects away,
like spiders and stuff like roaches, like they don't they
don't want to be around that cold ad.
Speaker 7: That actually makes sense though, because like in New York,
they don't have mosquitoes in New York.
Speaker 3: True, right, So I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4: Look, I never saw a roach now that you're talking
about it. When I lived in Denver and roaches said hell, no,
it's too I.
Speaker 2: Ain't doing that.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go down, Yeah, I'm gonna go down to
the boot where it's hot and human.
Speaker 1: And that's what the most roach and fastest state in Louisiana.
Speaker 4: Baby, congratulations another Blue Ribbons.
Speaker 1: The whole story behind that too. It's like with the
termites too, Like we weren't supposed to get a certain
kind of termites. Yeah, but nothing happened because we were
port city to where we were bringing like cargo and stuff,
and it brought like a specific type of termite that
ain't even in the country.
Speaker 8: It's only in Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: See that makes sense as well, Like you got all
all these different ships that are coming from you know,
the Caribbean and South America that are bringing stuff that
makes sense.
Speaker 2: Look, I mean, OTB science continues here. Dev.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, bro, this thing's just a sports show.
Speaker 2: But you learn something, you definitely will uh.
Speaker 6: Dev.
Speaker 2: I mean we hadn't we.
Speaker 4: Hadn't had you on since obviously t Bob Uh you
know announced, but obviously you knew the news before it
all happened.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: And I know, like you know, you're as happy as
we are for the big fella and moving on to
barstool and gonna be a great deal for him as well.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, And I mean just the thing about Tea Bottom
was so many people were so emotional and you know,
had many, so many nice things to say about it
because it's his presence. Yeah, you know you can feel it.
Speaker 6: I don't mean to get like emotion, but you can really.
Speaker 1: Feel it when it's not that you know what I'm saying.
So and not every human on the planet possesses that
ability to be so relatable. You know, I'm a type
of dude where I have a hard time like finishing
my sentences something or explaining what I'm talking about. Yeah,
this dude unraveled it every time. You know, he's just
a small dude.
Speaker 8: He's definitely gonna be missed.
Speaker 2: Uh, he definitely will be man.
Speaker 4: And you know he's still gonna you know, keep up
with T Bob, talk to T Bob all the time.
But uh, you know, certainly wanted to send him off
on you know, the right foot, the right way. Certainly
deserved that. We're gonna miss a big fellow. But dev
we're so glad to have you still with us here
every single Monday. And it looked the news hasn't slowed
down either. I mean, you got the whole Derek Carr situation,
and the Saints looks like they're not going to bring
in Aaron Rodgers, the Pelicans get the seventh pick in
the lottery when we thought maybe they were, and to
find a way to get Cooper Flagg to New Orleans.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not saying.
Speaker 4: It's been good news for New Orleans sports death, but
uh look, I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 2: Just like.
Speaker 4: I know, like zero primed, but just like like whiskey
and wine was better when else you lost dev your
calling shows better.
Speaker 2: When New Orleans is down bad, it is unless.
Speaker 6: It's too down bad, like like at the end.
Speaker 1: Of last year when it was such bad football, Like
the reason why we ain't got a prime time game,
Like that's when it's like people just man, they just
turn on like another state. They'll turn on Lifetime, but
they'll do anything to not watch the things when it
gets that bad. But i mean, hey, here we are,
do schedule new season Cardinals first game, no prime time games,
like I said, which is crazy, like even Carolina got
a Monday night game. But you know, that's that's how
bad the product was last year, dude, I know.
Speaker 4: And then when you don't have like a marquee quarterback
as well, deaf, that's just how it's gonna be like
when you don't have that guy that everybody's going to
tune in to watch, Like, even if you're not going
to be good, you'll tune in maybe to watch that guy.
Like the Saints don't have that right now in the
Saints roster. There's a lot of people out there. Like
when you look at the power rankings here in the
off season, they have the Saints like thirty one or
thirty two. I don't think it's going to be that bad,
but that's what the expectation is for the Saints.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, I'll tell you what. What about this kid
haunted Decas Because I'm not Look, I'm not sitting here
saying he's gonna, you know, pull a rabbit at the
hat and wind up being But man, something about this dude,
Like everything I've read about him, people kind of talking
pretty good about him. The kid from Iowa State to quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, he is somebody.
Speaker 4: You know, he had the situation where he got kicked
off because of sports gambling as well. But it's not
like he's just like from some small school that got misrecruited.
Nobody ever really heard of him before dev I mean,
he was the starting quarterback in a good program then
obviously you know, he had that situation should pop up.
But I mean, he's somebody that has the talent to
be Iowa State starting quarterback again. It's not like he's like, Hey,
this junior college guy that everybody just missed on.
Speaker 6: Do you think he's better than Jay Canah? I would
say maybe.
Speaker 4: I mean I think he brings a versatility that Jake
Hanner doesn't have. And I'm gonna be honest and I'm sorry, like,
no disrespect to the guy, but Jay Caner's had his opportunities.
There's not been one time where I've been like, oh, yeah,
that's why you keep Jake Haner around, right, right, he
had had that moment, So like, I am more intrigued
with Decker than I am with Jay Caner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too, man, I'm thinking it's
time to just move on from Hana and maybe get
this kid a shot at the third court. If they're
going to keep three quarterbacks, which I imagine they would,
because why would you just have two shoot a young quarterbacks?
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, gosh, it's just it's such a young
quarterback room.
Speaker 4: I mean, Jay Canterer being you know, the oldest guy
in the room, and he's going into his third year.
Speaker 2: Of course Rattler's going into his second year.
Speaker 4: And then you got an older rookie, but a rookie quarterback,
And like I thought, maybe they would bring somebody in,
not an Aaron Rodgers as we heard of the weekend,
Like that's not the plan, but I thought maybe they
would bring in somebody that's like six years in death,
that's got like ten starts in the NFL. Is not
going to be the guy, but just like to have
a calm presence in that quarterback room, even if he
was the three technically, just to help on the sidelines,
help with all the things that happen on game day.
Because here's the one thing that I worry about. When
you have a quarterback competition with young quarterbacks, whoever wins
the job, how helpful is the backup going to be?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: The backup is like going to be better that he
didn't win the job. He's also a young quarterback, so
does he know the things that he has to do?
And I have seen how that dynamic works, Like when
I was in San Diego, like Philip Rivers came off
the field and he had Billy Bullock and he had
Charlie Whitehurst, and they would just they would shout out
to clipboard Jesus. They would go after like they would
go down every series like hey, here's what I saw.
And during the week they would kind of come up
with the cut ups of different things and like the
Saints don't have that right now.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I mean just young guys.
Speaker 1: In general, I mean they're more susceptible to think, oh, well,
screw this dude, you know what I'm saying, rather than hey,
I'm gonna help this dude.
Speaker 8: Because they're young. Bro, I mean, we all been that.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: It is going to be something that's it's I mean,
it's gonna be a storyline all throughout August, like the
Battle of the Competition, and we'll be on a watch
to see if the Saints end up signing like a
veteran quarterback.
Speaker 2: So certainly something to pay attention to.
Speaker 4: I got to get your thoughts though, as we know,
transition real quick to the Pelicans number seven pick. All
of us thought they were gonna get like somehow some
way find the luck of the Irish and get the
number one overall pick that that did not happen. In fact,
I mean the Dallas Mavericks, I mean the whole conspiracy stuff.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 4: I know, Dad, that you've done a deep dive into
all the things that happened in the NBA Draft lottery.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just interesting, isn't it crazy? How like the
cat it's the old.
Speaker 3: Cal on your treaty.
Speaker 1: You know, at the end of the day, it's like, hey,
you trade the best, one of the best players in
the NBA to the league is and wow, look at that,
you get the first pick. You know what I'm saying,
Who was your percent chance.
Speaker 4: Like to get the first a little bit over one,
a little bit over unbelievable.
Speaker 1: But you know, at the same time, can't be too
mad because this has happened for the Pelicans before too,
you know where they weren't expected to get the first pick.
And uh yeah, man, it sucks the seventh pick.
Speaker 6: You know, I can't even give you a name of who.
Speaker 1: I would want at the seventh pick, just because like
the few guys that I do know about in the
beginning to drive, they'll be going by then. You know
what I'm saying, I did I saw Alfred Peyton, Yes,
so that he came over. He dropped me off of
one of his Jersey shuts down for Peyton. Yeah, I
asked him. He's like, he's like, man, I think they could.
They could trade that thing to get to move up,
you know, and then don't sleep on the peals in
the Janni sweet steaks. Even if they don't get Giannis,
even if they just a third team in the trade,
you know, they could get somebody.
Speaker 4: They could, but that if they messed this up, if
they screw up like this trade again and you get
a bag of peanuts and everybody else gets better when
you get worse, like like tough questions, don't even get
like like you got to get out in front of
me and you got to tell me the plan and
you got to lay it out, like I need a
PowerPoint presentation of what the plan is for the Pelicans
moving forward, if you like, if there's a trade and
Giannis is involved in, you're a third team in it,
and you send something of value to somebody else and
you get back some boiled peanuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: They in a bad situation too, because de Jontay Murray
is probably not even have a plane actually, so they
need to get somebody. They can't just were they going
to go through the same situation as they did this
past season next year because they're just not going to
have the talent to put on the court. It's all
gonna be these young guys that you know, no offense
to them. It's like they just jump.
Speaker 2: I know, oh Pelicans. It's just hard, I know.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you build it the right way.
Look at OKC, I mean, and that's building it the
perfect way.
Speaker 6: I'm still on the next bro.
Speaker 1: I got the I got the Finals MVP Jalen Bronton
plus eight thousand.
Speaker 8: Oh wow, yes, yes.
Speaker 6: So I'm rooting for the next all the way.
Speaker 1: But man, it just doesn't It doesn't look well for
anybody that's got to play.
Speaker 2: I know, no it does.
Speaker 4: I mean the way they finished out the Nuggets and
it's a team that's been the best team in the
NBA all season long.
Speaker 2: But this, I mean, look this playoffs.
Speaker 4: You got what you got, a one seed, a six
seed in the West, you got a three and a
four in the East. So it's been outside of OKAC,
it has been unpredictable.
Speaker 2: So we'll see how it plays out.
Speaker 4: This has been a good NBA Playoffs and the game
just completely changes. We talked about the other day, completely
changes when you get into the postseason. Such a better
product once you get into the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 2: Sorry, dev what we got coming up in spread quarters?
Speaker 4: Anything on uh you know, on the docket coming up
the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: I mean, I did HTM live last night.
Speaker 6: We do that every Sunday night, eight pm, and.
Speaker 1: We just you could just feel a football seasons is
getting closer and closer. Other than that, you know, all
being all day today, no clue where I'm going. Didn't
know last week, and I wound up on the Creole
Queen steamboat brother, So, oh my god.
Speaker 4: I saw I saw that, And I mean you you
went and you visited Shao.
Speaker 2: Mette right, yeah, yeah, yeah, the Homeland.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the only First of all, I did
not know that that boat was about to bring me
a sham.
Speaker 8: So it was so funny to find out.
Speaker 6: And then you know, I'm the only.
Speaker 8: Person from New Orleans on the boat.
Speaker 1: Everybody else is from out of town.
Speaker 8: I stay whatever.
Speaker 1: I have never seen hundreds of people get off a
boat and go to shall Matt. I mean, you would
have thought that they would just got dropped off in
the Bahamas.
Speaker 6: Bro.
Speaker 1: They were so happy.
Speaker 2: We're like, we're like, shout out to Shall Matt. But
where'd they go?
Speaker 1: So so they dropped you off at the Salmon Battlefield. Yeah, legendary,
legendary in the war with the with the British. You know,
that's where we took the British out, Bro. We kept
on their autility. But anyway, yeah, no, that's that's what
They drop you off and you pass Domino Sugar, which
Domino Sugar is the biggest sugar producer in the country,
over two billion pounds of sugar. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that that factory like does big things, but it
almost looked like a factory that wasn't even opened anymore.
Speaker 2: They just let that thing go exactly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that sugar is so good.
Speaker 8: It's blowing the windows out, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's uh yeah, no, dude, it's it's so ugly, but
it's so beautiful at the same time.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I know, you don't know where you're going,
but you ended up on a boat and Shall met
last Monday. I mean, are we expecting something that that's
very similar? Like, have no idea that we have like
maybe somewhat of an idea of location.
Speaker 8: Well that's what the no, I don't.
Speaker 1: But that's what I love about it, because as soon
as I get off the phone with you, I'll just
start plotting, you know.
Speaker 8: And and some one of my best episodes, or.
Speaker 1: At least the ones that I had the most fun doing,
was like last week when I went to the zoo,
you know, the aquarium, like different place that you wouldn't expect,
but you know, I got to go everywhere. Everybody's gonna
see me. So if I can, if I can figure
it out and it makes.
Speaker 8: Sense, I'm gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The aquarium recently, at least, has probably been my favorite one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, out to Randy working at the aquarium.
Speaker 2: I mean the to go box was just chef's kiss.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah. From there box the aquarium is just insane.
Speaker 4: It's very Louisiana. Yes, oh guys, no doubt about it. Dad,
You're the man. We look forward to continuing our conversations
every single Monday.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 4: We appreciate the time, sir, and enjoy red beans and
rice day and wherever your travels might take you.
Speaker 6: A hi, my brother, You'll take care.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it, all right, there he is our guy,
Devin snow hold the Mayo again, Still gonna stick with
us every single Monday here on O t B.
Speaker 2: All right, we've got Eric Swarnton D.
Speaker 4: One Baseball set to join us in about fifteen minutes
from now to kind of break down where he thinks
LSU is going to be again. D one baseball dot
Com had Lsu as the number seven overall seat in
their projection. Does he agree? Does he disagree? Could LSU
go into the SEC tournament needing to do a little
bit more work on the resume. And that's about fifteen
minutes from now. All that coming back your way though
here on.
Speaker 2: Oh, be off the bench all right.
Speaker 4: As you know, Do Sekis is the official beer of OTB,
and I mean there's not a bad time to grab
an ice cold do Sekis.
Speaker 2: We say it all the time, and it is not
just lip service.
Speaker 4: I mean it is the perfect beach beer, lake beer,
shower beer, game beer, like whatever, you're going to enjoy it.
I mean, shout out to Elandra for setting that up
for my surprise fortieth birthday. I mean we are still
enjoying most Dosekis out of the refrigerator and Uh, like
you're gonna enjoy it every single time. So like whether
you're tailgating outside of Tiger Stadium, watching the Saints on
a Sunday, or just hanging out with the crew by
the pool, whatever it might be. You know, doo Sekis
brings that bold flavor, smooth finish that's always going to
be a legendary. Uh, next time you grab a beer,
next time you have a gathering, it is always the
way to go.
Speaker 2: Drink responsibly and always grab a do secid.
Speaker 6: This is off the bench.
Speaker 5: Girls, teaching you to be borne down Raine.
Speaker 4: It is OTV here on this Monday morning, one o
four five ESPN in Baton Rouge. We had like a
whole little L s U recruiting segment that was planned,
but we're gonna we're gonna get away from that because Alandra,
you just got a text from our gut t Bob
Abart and it is the most t Bob a Bear
text possible.
Speaker 7: We were talking about the most Matt Flinn text earlier.
This is the most T Bob text that I have
ever gotten. He asked me to print something out for
him and then he goes this real idea is turning
into a disaster. I have no social Security card, no
birth certificate, and no passport. I said, how do you
not have any sort of identifications?
Speaker 2: Your certificate?
Speaker 9: Where's the birth certificate? I can kind of understand. Where's
your social Security card?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You got to have that, Like.
Speaker 7: You are going to get your identity stolen without your
social Security card?
Speaker 2: Like like we have a place that we keep all
those things.
Speaker 7: Folder, yeah, panty folder, Like why are your person right?
Speaker 10: Well, that's the that's the funny part.
Speaker 2: And you've got to have that to travel. You can't travel.
That made the seventh was the start date for the
real idea? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well and then I told him the other day, I'm like, okay,
well if you don't have the real idea, you can
do the passport. I lost that, Like, dude, like I've
bought a passport before. They're like two hundred dollars, So
you just lost it. Well, and then when Alandra asked him,
like how do you not have any sort of id
he goes, life weaves a funny web. And by that
I mean I think it is all in my fanny pack.
Where the hell is your fanny pack?
Speaker 7: I think he lost it at don Juan but like,
I just don't get why they were all in your
fanny pack and not somewhere safe, like in a folder,
under a mattress, in a shoe box, anything but your
fanny pack on you.
Speaker 2: Yeah you can. What are we doing? You can't. You
cannot have it on your person.
Speaker 4: That is something like if you misplaced it, which T
Bob's done with the fanny pack multiple times. Now I'm
a little worried because he had thinks he had to do. Yeah,
like up in Chicago this week. And if you don't
have a real idea owls, yeah, any sort of id
for that, you have to have that.
Speaker 10: Oh my god, I just went through that process a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have to have all of it.
Speaker 10: You have to have some of you.
Speaker 2: You've got to have some of it.
Speaker 10: And he has nothing. He doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: I do like to fight that. Launder said, I don't
work for you anymore. I don't work for you anymore.
Speaker 9: And then I printed in. I said, that'll be one
hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: Yeah, does he not have a working printer? Probably it's
probably already packed up.
Speaker 5: If well, my thought was his stuff still all in
that he has as it's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 9: There's a lot of stuff in that office.
Speaker 4: If he had an original volume, Network had a badass
set up for him for snaps, Yeah, that they allowed
him to keep, and that's all still in his office.
Speaker 2: I was hoping that maybe he forget that for us.
Speaker 10: But if you forget something, I call the two foot
cral fish. I love the two foot curl.
Speaker 2: Fish over the just.
Speaker 5: A random little wood platform or the two foot cral fish.
I don't know why it's in there, but I've seen that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we could. We could make that light a green
room as well for O T B Oh. Yeah, like
I would love to have more people like in studio
with us hanging out, sitting for a segment, maybe an hour,
and it's a little green room.
Speaker 2: Put a couch, put.
Speaker 9: Some TVs there.
Speaker 10: Here's what he's what.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about, Like a green room for like an artist.
Speaker 10: No, I get you, you know.
Speaker 9: At Yeah, we can make that happen.
Speaker 2: It's a big office. I gotta hire hide those wires though.
I hate those. They are bad. They're bad.
Speaker 4: It's like I'm that person that when I hang a TV,
I cannot have a wire hang.
Speaker 9: No, I can't be like look, we.
Speaker 2: Got to put it through the wall.
Speaker 4: It's easy to get a drill bit, drill it wallet,
fish it out bottom done.
Speaker 2: You don't have wire showing, do you. I don't like
the way you're looking at me.
Speaker 10: Wait like at home?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 4: Uh So do we think T Bob will be able
to get a real ID in time to be in
Chicago for when.
Speaker 9: He has to Here's the thing.
Speaker 7: I had to get one a couple of weeks ago
before I left for Frisco. And I did it very
last minute, kind of like he is. It took me
two and a half hours to get the real ID.
And then I get up there and I give them
all my stuff, Like I gave them my birth certificate.
I had my birth certificate, I gave it to them.
I gave them like some mail from the past sixty
days is what they needed.
Speaker 9: And then.
Speaker 7: One of the pieces of mail didn't have the unit
number on in. They were like, I can't accept this,
and I was like, you're gonna accept it, though, because
I've been waiting two and a half hours and I
need to fly out tomorrow.
Speaker 5: So at that point making it get in the car
with me and I'm just taking him to my house
and showing them to live there.
Speaker 7: So if you have to go, get your real id PSA,
take every single paper that you can think of.
Speaker 9: I'm being so serious.
Speaker 10: It's not poor.
Speaker 5: He's gonna show up unprepared. I know he is, and
he's gonna take the time to do it. He's not
gonna have anything.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: I'm reading some of these in the chat and Justin
just says just saw him leaving guaranteed media and the
murdered out many traffic is brutal.
Speaker 2: Was he here?
Speaker 5: That's why Laundra printed it out. I guess he came
up here, grabbed it, and he didn't say what's up? Yeah,
that's what.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: The printer is right there by it. Yeah. I was wondering, like.
Speaker 5: When's he gonna come get it, because like not even
like knocking, like what's up.
Speaker 10: He made it seem like it was urgent, Like he
reminded her. He's like, hey, when you get a minute.
Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, he's not here yet, but wow, took
off and did not say that.
Speaker 10: Hurts couldn't even pop in for like five minutes.
Speaker 2: Second, already just gone.
Speaker 9: Now people, Yeah, which great company.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he as like the time.
Speaker 10: He's like, look, this was a great time in my life.
I'm past.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to off the bench. Damn all right. Welcome
back in.
Speaker 4: It is ot B here on a Monday morning. Let's
talk a little college baseball. One of my favorites, Eric
Sorenson D one and baseball at stitch underscore Head is
the handle on social media. Gama follow there, Eric, you're
the man. We appreciate you waking up early with us.
What's going on, sir?
Speaker 8: Yeah, man, thanks?
Speaker 3: You know nothing ways too up faster. I've actually been
up actually about an hour and a half. Nothing wait
to up faster than hearing your dog wretch as she's
about to throw up, ramble out of bed and ran
to the back starting poor thing. I've been awake for
a while.
Speaker 4: I've got five kids and still there is nothing when
you hear that noise from the dog that will make
your feet not even touch the ground as you levitate
to try to get it outside.
Speaker 8: Poor thing.
Speaker 3: Just to report though, she's doing fine now, Okay, she
ate a little and she's doing okay now, Eric.
Speaker 4: Man, this is our favorite time of the year. We
are getting ready for the postseason conference tournaments. Find out
who is going to host the regionals, who's the top
sixteen seeds, who's the top eight seeds. As they look
to try to get to the super Regionals, and so
obviously being here in Louisiana will start with LSU. They
went to Columbia South Carolina. Everybody thought they needed to
win at least two of three to be able to
kind of shore up one of those top eight national seeds.
They got that done for you. Is that enough for
LSU to be able to be a top eight seed?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean I wasn't too concerned about well,
I guess if they would have gotten swept or something,
that might have been an issue. But I know there
RPI is right at number eight is right, but a
lot of times the human rankings can give it a
little pull.
Speaker 8: I mean that just happens.
Speaker 6: And now she was young.
Speaker 3: You know, there's still number one in the D one rankings.
So yeah, I think it's pretty solid that they're going
to be at home for as long as they can
until they get to Omar or if they make it Omaha.
So yeah, that was kind of I thought that was
pretty much a lead pipeons as long as they didn't
really tank it this weekend.
Speaker 4: And Eric, when you look at LSU, and you and
I have talked about the Tigers all baseball season long
over on serious ExM. But like as you look at
them now and the regular season's done and you kind
of see the way that they're built with the you know,
the two front line starting pitchers and like trying to
figure out the bullpen, but you know, a very solid lineup.
Kind Of what's your view on LSU as we head
into the postseason? Maybe some strings, some things that you
still maybe need to see from the Tigers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm one weird because I mean the one time
I saw them, it was probably one of their more
impressive games of the year. I mean I saw them
be Tennessee by a run rule in that third game Sunday,
and so when I left, when I left that shoe,
I was thinking, Okay, it's this team. They're going om
There's this is no Omaha second weekend of the season,
second weekend of the series type of team. But then
you kind of think about it and like Tennessee won
the first game, orls she won the first game, Tennessee
won the second game, but ulss, you really tends you
only had one bad inning that made them lose that
Friday game. So I think the consistency is kind of
what I'm looking for me because if you look at
their one through nine, man, they're you know, they're pretty good.
They're they're definitely they definitely got some They got some
dudes like Derek Harry All at the top and Jared
Jones of course he's one of the players the Year candidates.
The batting order is good, there spend times when it
can go a little quiet and that and just you know,
kind of mysteriously so and I think that happens for
a lot of teams, but it just kind of seems
like it's happened to one too many times for Lsue
for me.
Speaker 8: To feel comfortable, you know.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you're right. The front line guys iansin uh
And and Anderson, the two pitchers have been really great.
Think they're gonna they're gonna probably help with a little
bit of the consistency issues as far as the pitching
defense goes. But yeah, I just I would like to
see them be a little more consistent at the plate
because they got some dudes. Man, they got the talent.
They just got to make sure they keep play at
a high level.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's you know, it's been one of the
things we've talked about certainly here is you know, the
lineup can produce. They have, but there has been stretches
where you'd like to see them be more productive. And
I think, honestly like it is going to come down
and it does for a lot of teams. Eric like, Okay,
when your front two guys go, if they split, or
if you need a third or fourth guys, We've seen
like it always happens. We could go through the long
list of LSU baseball history where a guy's had to
step up and and kind of be that gritty performance
that you weren't expecting. I think that's like, Okay, who's
that guy going to be? Who's the candidate for that guy?
And Chase Shores is somebody that started in the rotation.
He's been out of the rotation, but he's kind of
found himself and he's found a way and he's kind
of thriving in his new role. But it's like, Okay,
if you get to a game three scenario, who's going
to be that third guy? Is kind of the biggest
question for me, at least for LSU.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Shore is a certain league guy that has
again we're talking talent out the Ying Yang's is eris
north of five, which is okay, but it's not great.
I kind of look back to the and again I'm
going back to the game I saw against Tennessee and
Case and Evans to pitch, I think six things are
into the seventh. Yes, really well, I think he held
Tennessee the two or three hits. And he's a guy
that he's only a freshman and he's going to be
he's gonna be a studn the year's head.
Speaker 8: But he showed good.
Speaker 3: Since that day. That made me think, Okay, if else
you kind of need someone to step up, kind of
like maybe like thatcher heard did in that first that
that national championship season two seasons ago, that might be
a candidate for it. And of course George's work is
worthy as well. So yeah, somebody who's it's kind of
that we've talked about this before. I think, with you
on your seats like them show that somebody always kind
of steps and comes out of the woodwork at this
time of year. And so that's a great point. And
I'm kind of looking at at Case and Evans maybe
as being the candidate to do that.
Speaker 4: All right, let's kind of take a step back just
from lsu Eric and let's look at maybe some of
the rest of the country. Certainly the top ten is
still very SEC heavy, but you do have some teams
out of the ACC. You've got some teams out of
the Big Ten. It's still weird to say when you're
talking Oregon, you Cela.
Speaker 2: The Big Ten.
Speaker 4: Got to get used to that still, certainly in college baseball,
and then Oregon State, who's like an independent. Like, there's
some teams right now that are trying to break up
the choke hold that the SEC has on college baseball.
So if I was to ask you, of those teams
not in the SEC, which one do you think has
enough juice to be able to get that done?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's a lot that will be able
to that you can look at. But certainly he's going
to lead the way with a lot of candidates to
make go Maha. But yeah, man, you know, I've seen
Oregon play a couple of times this year. Their RPI
was always bad, but you know, they're human rankings up
at number five, I think D one baseball has been met,
and they were like a stepper.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you remember last.
Speaker 3: Year against Texas A and M in the Super Regional,
they were just like one or two pitchers away from
you know, because their offense put up some numbers against
the even against an m and they think they've kind
of solved that this year with Jack Rice is the
six eleven pitcher, it's their Sunday guy. He's really really
shown well against Iowa. That Iowa Series really impressed me
going up to iowad and that the big crowds there
in in in Iowa City. So I looked at Oregon,
and Oregon State still has the moxity to do it.
They got the pitching, they've got an offense that is
potentially dangerous with Aba Arquette, as you know, one of
the top short stops in the country, and those two
and I think you also have to look at like
the teams that kind of gotten that kind of call
little of fire lately. I looked at North Carolina, who
who ended up going to Florida State winning two out
of three this weekend. That's kind has been a little
bit quiet to me this season, it almost seems like,
but they've caught fire lately, and I think that's the
team that could that could make it to Omaha, making
it to the second weekend of the of the College
World Series as well. So yeah, there's still a lot
of candidates. I mean, it's it's not gonna be it's
not gonna be eight n SEC teams in Omaha. I
don't think so, but I don't think. But yeah, there's
a lot of good teams that are still you know,
you still hadn't mentioned Clemson's. That's another team out of
the AC seed that's really good. And right here where
I'm at, UCLA has played really good baseball down stress.
So there's a lot of teams that could do it, though, Jake, Jacob,
don't don't put all your all your money on SECTE yet.
Speaker 4: What about out of the you know, air quotes here
at mid majors, even though they certainly play major college baseball.
Coastal Carolina Southern mess you see Irvine. We talked about
the Eaters often again on the other show, like of
that group, like which one do you think is going
to go? Maybe to Omahaal maybe make that run and
look we've seen Coastal go all the way and win
a championship.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny, Jake, because being on your serious XM
show last week, we were talking about Irvine, You Irvine Anteaters.
Both of us were high on the Lamb but they
they kind of gotten a little bit of a rut.
They lost a little mojo and and they dropped down
to twenty four in the RPI this week. So they're
hurting a little bit, but it's just a speed bump.
I don't think it's gonna it's gonna derail them. But
they're definitely gonna be a two seed now, not a
home not a host team. But yeah, I mean we
talked about on that show to Dallas Baptist one of
the better pitching teams in the country. Coastal Carolina again, Yeah,
we number eleven in the RPI right now. They're playing really,
really good baseball this year. We kind of didn't expect
it to be this good, but they've been really good.
And another team that I didn't mention last week was
Northeastern the Huskies out of that Eastern Mike Glavin, Mike
Bleden's the head coach. He's the brother of Tom leve yep.
Speaker 6: And they have the Now.
Speaker 3: I know, their competition levels different, but they've dominated at
their level and they have the best d R T
E R A in the country. So that's kind of
another mid nature to keep an eye on too.
Speaker 4: Actually projected right now to be a two seed in
the Core Vallas regional. Of course, Oregon State would be
hosting that, and certainly as a Atlanta Braves fan, certainly
I can root for a Glavin even if it's not there.
Catching up when I got Eric sorrnton D one Baseball
here on OTB. Eric, something we talked about at the
beginning of this show as we were going through you know,
D one Baseball, the projection, and obviously like pointing out
LSU is going to be a top eight seed and
they came in a number seven. But the thing that
we really were stuck on was there's a couple of
three seeds that nobody in the country is going to
want to see. And I think Mississippi State right now,
who's projected to be a three seed, is probably the
leader in the clubhouse of oh damn, keep them out
of our regional.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and they should give that coach a raise,
whoever the coach is there now. But yeah, this dude State,
that's just yeah, they've caught fire. I liked them a lot,
that's for sure. And then you kind of look at
other teams like Cincinnati, I twelve that's done really well.
Speaker 8: Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: I think the Stolne starter they can shut anybody down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. They have the Witherspoon brothers up there
at the topic. Yeah, you're right, they can. They can
quiet any batting order. And I'm gonna give a little
shout out to my hometown team, the Creighton Blue Jays.
There's kind of there on the bubble, but they won
the Big East Conference and ed Services in his last
year of coaching there. So they're a team that's I
think won thirty eight games. They don't win that many
games usually very often, so I think they're a team
will keep an eye on them as well.
Speaker 4: All right, give us maybe give us a team right now,
and this is tough.
Speaker 2: I'm put you on a spot a little bit.
Speaker 4: A team that's probably going to get a top sixteen seed,
but you think right now just maybe going in the
wrong direction or maybe limping into the finish line here
that you can see maybe having an early exit.
Speaker 2: Do you have a team like that?
Speaker 7: John?
Speaker 3: Usually my go to for that is George Tech, But
they talk about coaches that are retiring dating Hall. He's
going to hopefully inspire them to play well. I kind
of look at I kind of look at Clemson. I know,
I just built them up a minute ago, but at
the same time, their last three weekend, well they beat
they beat swept pit this past weekend, but they lost
series to North Carolina States, Lord to Foot and Dupe
three in a row prior to that, And so you
kind of look at trends like that. I mean, Clensons
at the harp, guys in the top ten, I just
kind of think, man, and I love Eric because he's
a good dude as their head coach, but I just
kind of look at them and think, all right, there's
a little bit of a there's a little bit of
a pause for thought with those guys. They've just been
a little bit cold. So they might be my prime
candidates for a team that's gonna be in top sixteen,
but they've been stuffling a little, so let's keep an
eye on that.
Speaker 10: All right.
Speaker 4: There, he is, Eric Sorenson, d one baseball, good enough
to join us on the West coast. Still waking up early.
You know, I hate that the dog had to do that,
but he got to bed. So glad that the dog's
okay as well.
Speaker 2: Eric, you're the man. We appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Jetting him good being hon with you. Thanks for sharing
the airways.
Speaker 4: Absolutely at stitch Underscore Ahead is the handle one of
the best handles on social media.
Speaker 2: Give him a follow there.
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has Baton Rouge ties out there on the West coast,
good enough to wake up super early with us to
join us to talk about LSU baseball.
Speaker 2: All right, we will take our last break of the show.
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Speaker 4: One final segment here, of course, it's going to be
wrapping it up with as the bench, which state gets
the most baseball teams?
Speaker 2: Inter regionals?
Speaker 9: State?
Speaker 4: I mean probably like Texas, but if like her capital,
maybe Mississippi State and southern miss.
Speaker 9: But what where is easter used in North Carolina or
South Carolina? I think we to Carolina.
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Speaker 2: See that's in Greenville, North Carolina.
Speaker 9: Believe well, North Carolina might well, actually, I don't know.
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South Carolina.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yep, North Carolina is.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that might be the end.
Speaker 2: Ask the Bench.
Speaker 4: With the addition of Flynn, are we down to only
one sunscreen truther on the show?
Speaker 2: Just yep? Just for me, Hey, this can block out
the sun. Let me put it on the scin right.
Speaker 9: Something that blocks the sun cannot be healthy.
Speaker 4: I did not get as much hate on the street
for a lot of the stupid craft we say here
more than that one.
Speaker 5: Well, look, I didn't wear it for years, but the
last time I didn't had that bad burn.
Speaker 10: So I mean I kind of have to know, uh.
Speaker 4: From our guys Scott Dice as the bench Will Flynn
tried to use QB one energy to get f B
one to go back to the other chair.
Speaker 2: No, he ain't, ain't no way, it's not happening.
Speaker 5: I don't think he's going to Care's he's not gonna care.
Speaker 4: And we done this show together, and this is where
and again this is strictly because today was the most
comfortable I've ever been because I was not freezing.
Speaker 2: It's a normal temperature over here.
Speaker 4: It's nice probably like sixty eight on this side, sixty
over there. So that's why I'm over here, because like
I used to sit over there even when Tea Bob
wasn't here. But now that you know, the show's going
in a different, you know direction, now that Tea Bob's
moving on, now this is the seat.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see. Ask everybody, but not Tea Bob.
Speaker 4: If Aaron Rodgers were to join the Saints, would we
get a weekly bit with Flynn similar to Pat McAfee.
Speaker 10: I mean, Flynn is still close to him and.
Speaker 2: Very close the other boys. I'm trying to.
Speaker 4: I am trying to work on something for I want
to do it on Fridays the last hour because I
think like that's like major college football vibes are right
about to happen.
Speaker 2: I'll just say it.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to get it where it's me and flinning
here obviously Bobby Carpenter and AJ Hawk on zoom and
we go quad box for thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 4: So Bobby's already agreed trying to get Flynn to work
on AJ that's gonna.
Speaker 2: Be uh, that'd be a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: So we got big ten sec just kind of covering
it on just four total meadheads.
Speaker 9: That'd be really I would like that.
Speaker 2: We're gonna blow through breaks.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a hot mess, but that's what we're
trying to get done for Fridays in football season.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see you.
Speaker 4: Love a hot mess that's still gonna happen often here
on this show. Ask the bench, Taylor, what's it like
not hearing shut up Taylor?
Speaker 9: Shut up Taylor.
Speaker 10: It's not much different.
Speaker 5: I mean I tuned it out after a while, I
mean after the first three months of working on this show,
and I kind of expected it at that point.
Speaker 10: So it's is so much different.
Speaker 4: Jake, choose one drinking water, applying sunscreen, or believing the
Earth is over three thousand years old. I do believe
the Earth is over three thousand years old, so I
go with that one. I don't drink a lot of water,
I don't put on sunscreen, but you know, on the Earth, no, Look,
I'm a believer, but I believe God's time is not
a time that we know. I believe it's longer than
normal time. So, yeah, the Earth is over three thousand
years old. But does Indian mounds over there on nailshoe. Nah,
just push them dirt together. A couple of years ago,
as Jake or ask the bench and then says, Jake,
are you lonely up there by yourself?
Speaker 2: I'm not by myself.
Speaker 4: I have got a Laundra and Tata who are going
to be heavily involved with the show moving forward.
Speaker 2: So I don't feel lonely.
Speaker 9: No, No, we all got each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This room's also smaller than you think.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it is so glass like. Typically there's a separate
room for producers. It's very open concept.
Speaker 2: In here, it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so like they're aman, they're not an arms
linked away, but they're pretty close here. So now I
am not lone ask the bench. Are you all going
to do shows at SEC Media Days? Yes, for sure,
we are going to be at SEC Media Days. Flynn
will be there with us, he's already confirmed. I believe
Hunt's going this year, which she's never been before, So
going for his show and Louisiana Sports dot Net. Of course,
Matt's gonna go with his show as well. We're trying
to get a Landra at SEC Media Days. We're gonna
keep trying the good fight. I'm fighting the good fight.
But yeah, we will certainly be there.
Speaker 7: Well, we gotta bring me and Tate because we all
got to fight Cole.
Speaker 2: And oh yeah, we're gonna fight. Yes, we are going
to fight. What's the name of their show, Mack and Cube.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Flynn's got Greg, I've got Cole and the producers.
I don't care who you are. I got a laundra
and Taty. Ricky says, you know, Hans just have a
ton of studio guests. Any plans on bringing them back, Yes,
we are going to do that as well. All right,
it's gonna do it for ot B. We'll see you
same time, same place tomorrow morning. Until then, joy the
rest of.
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