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Speaker 4: Sorry, welcome back Hour number two O t B here
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is now time to go back to omahall for at
least a couple more hours. Our guy Chris Blair, the
voice of the l s U Tigers, joins US. Now CB,
what's going on? Man, what a day it was yesterday
for the Tigers.
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, what's up guys? Yeah, what an exciting real,
you know, hard to believe five games. Uh. You know
Coach Johnson said before the team left, Uh when was it?
Two wins? The days ago? I forgot what time it is.
You know that he would love to be able to
try this in the Winter's bracket, and uh, he does
just exactly that, And what a moment it was. It
was great to see and you know, skip Bertman was here,
He's down on the field afterwards. It was it's just
kind of how it's supposed to be, you know, this
time of year and lsu'd bringing back their eighth national title,
and like I said, just couldn't be proud of this
team and coaches. And I think back to all the
times this season talking with coach and he just would
be like, you know, this team is really built. You know,
no guarantees you can do it, because it's awfully hard
to do it, but this team is built to go
and do this. And he's been saying that before this season.
Early season, mid season, and on the back stretch of
the season. So congratulations to them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were talking about it earlier, where twenty twenty
three had bona fide stars, I mean guys that are
already up in Major League baseball. They were incredibly fast.
You said the name schemes, crews, tanks in college baseball,
everybody knew who you were talking about. Now this team's guy.
Guys are going to play a long time. They're gonna
get paid to play baseball for a very long time.
But it was kind of built differently, like it had
really good players. It's got elite players, but it was
really just a group that found a way to come
together and whatever the moment was, it wasn't always pretty.
And I kind of threw out my favorite tagline, too
gritty to be pretty was kind of how I felt
about this team, because they did. They weren't built like
twenty three was, but they were still as effective and.
Speaker 5: Then some you know, I've waited until unless you hoisted
the trophy last night, but one of the thoughts I've
had all season, and it's funny you bring it up
the way you do. You know, you look at that
twenty twenty three team. I really felt like all season long,
as hard as it is to run through the SEC
and compete for the conference championship, we all know how
hard it is to be able to get through the
gauntlet that is the SEC tournament and then you know,
start over again in the NCAA tournament. I felt like
in twenty twenty three, with all of the names and
all of the known commodities you had, that not getting
to Omaha would have felt like a disappointment, not necessarily
winning at all, because once you get here, doing that
is a difficult task in and of itself. But that
was kind of the feat fair or unfair, And it's
it's weird because I sit here and think, do can
I really say with a straight face on the radio
at Baton Rouge that it felt like this team superseded
expectations Because I know the expectations were to compete for
all the things I just mentioned, I just felt like
there were so many more unknown commodities that you know,
certainly you knew had the potential, but I don't know
that I felt as comfortable about or as as sure
as maybe I was. And again, that's a typically cap
to this team because I think they found not only
did they have really good players, as you say, and
now put them together in a team environment. And the
buy in was very early. I told Jay Johnson during
fall baseball sentim a note. I saw the team was
wearing the big team little knee shirts and that's something
that that I grew up with and have been very
associated with. And I just remember texting him saying, Coach,
I love the shirts. So I think the team buy
in was there. But I think you saw guys who
steadily and dramatically improved as the season went along. And
you know, as I said here this morning, and I
know I'm going to leave a lot of people out
Chase Shores to me, a guy who again suffered the injury,
had Tommy john had to fight to get his way back.
He starts the season as your Sunday Game three or
weekend game three starter, and then that doesn't work out
so well, and then what is he going to do?
Where is his role? And I think we found it
what it was most important, and that was down the
back stretch of postseason play. And dare I say he
was damn near and hittable up here?
Speaker 4: No more?
Speaker 6: Yeah, voice, I mean you bring up that point about
exceeding expectation. That's crazy to say, because I think everybody
kind of feels that because it's such a different team.
But they start out preseason number one, but you still
feel that they did exceed expectations, which is just a
huge testament to where the program's at. What Jay has done,
the energy, the juice, and just everything that he's kind
of built around this program.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I think you're right because I mean, you know,
I think back to that twenty twenty three season again
where maybe there was a false sense of Wow, this
team really ought to be able to do it, and
again that's unfair to that team or any team when
you're playing her at LSU, but that's the standards. But
I remember, you know, Jay just talking about, you know
how everything that you do builds the program, and year
to year, teams are going to do different things, and
you're always striving to win every single game, compete for
a conference championship, and win a national title. That's what expected.
But he when they were rated number one and then
going into this year ranked number one in certain polls,
you know, Jay was like, I don't hide away from
That's that's why I came to coach here. That's why
these kids come to play here. Like if that becomes
something that gets in their heads, then they don't need
to be playing here because that's what they got to
get accustomed to. And I think this year emboldens that
kind of philosophe of guys. We won't be able to
be perfect every day, but we're going to come out
swinging every single day and whatever happened yesterday, good or bad,
has no impact on today. And and that's I think
the two similarities between the twenty three team and this team,
and Jay has talked about it, and so there's there's
certainly one similarity.
Speaker 4: And to your point, we were talking about this earlier,
like you know, going to LSU, not running from expectation,
betting on yourself. I mean three of the reasons why
you won a national championship came from Utah Valley, Indiana State,
and UC San Diego.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a huge point and even coach has mentioned
that before. In fact, we talked about it one night
on his radio show that you know, when he first
got here, the approach from the portal was let's go
find some SEC guys that want a new home, or
let's go find some power for guys that want a
new home. And you know he said that wasn't the case.
The way this team was built in twenty twenty five,
and by far the majority, if not all, of the
Portal guys that made this roster, you know, came from
quote unquote mid majors. But you know, Jay knows that,
and Jay understands that they are great baseball players and
you got to work tiresly to go find them. And
some of them might be right in front of you
and household names that you've either played against or know about,
and some may be out there just waiting to be found.
And I'll tell you what, it's hard to beat Jay
Johnson and finding those guys because he is relentless.
Speaker 6: All right, Chris, I want to I want to spend
most of our time with you today like celebrating LSU,
the individuals, the team effort, everything, But we have to
talk about Coastal just because you were there calling the
game yesterday, first inning head coach, first base coach for
them get tossed out of the game for arguing balls
and strikes. A lot happened there, a lot that we
couldn't see from watching from the comfort of our own house.
Speaker 1: What did you see?
Speaker 6: How did that all play out in your eyes? And yeah,
just talk to us about that whole decision from from
both sides of the side and the coaches side.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I've thought about it, and I have,
you know, I have. I have been one of the proponents,
good or bad, right or wrong, that if we're gonna
put rules in the rule book, let's use them, because
I think it does no good to interpret rules or
decide when or not when or win or not to
enforce a rule. So I'm I'm that's just the way
I am. And I know everybody says, well, you know
they're celebrating, they show emotion. Well, you know, they've been
playing sports for a long long time and and there's
ways to do that without going over the line. Now,
having said all of that, at the moment, we really
had no idea, you know, what the kerfluffle was all
about to start with. Now we have found out a
little bit more. Who knows if we'll ever find out
the true story, but it started with the strike call
on the still attempt, which is a pitch to the
plate called strike, and apparently the first base coach, who
also was ejected started arguing balls and strikes and the
angel compost gave a warning. Well, that warning went to
the first base coach, and apparently the head coach didn't
like the warning, and so when he came out it
appeared as though, wow, that was a quick cuse. And
I agree it was a pretty quick fuse and a
trigger finger. But there are a couple of things. We
have a meeting with the head of umpires every early February.
They invite the media and they go over new rules
and what the emphasis will be. And every single year
I've been on that call at some point, usually in
the beginning. Guys, as we talk about all the time,
profanity and arguing balls and strikes are the quickest way
to be ejected by an umpire. I mean, that's just
the way it is. So again, who knows about whether
or not it should have been done. What I do
know is if there are rules and the radio guy
knows that, the things that get you sent quickly, I'm
pretty sure all coaches know that.
Speaker 4: I mean, CV, we've all seen Bull Durham as well.
I mean, come on, we know the rules.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's the thing when when coach Johnson
rarely gets tossed. I always joke with him because it's
always a shock because Jay, I mean, he can get animated,
but most of the time he does not use profanity
and he just wants an explanation or to get his
point across. So when he gets tost it's like, whoa,
What's what happened?
Speaker 4: I mean, he showed a great restraint in the Collegeural Series.
I mean they're in the first game when Dickinson gets
called out for leaning into the pitch and you can
see him ask the umpires I can ask a question.
He goes no, he goes just a question. He's like no,
and he goes okay. And then because he wanted to
come out because like like a lot of us were like, hey,
we want to know about that call, and he asked it,
he got shut down and you could tell he really
wanted to go out there. But he knew if you
argue against the replay, you're probably going to get tossed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, and he said that, he goes, You know,
I quickly was reminded that once they review and you
challenge and then they come back with whatever the ruling is,
if you don't like it, there is no arguing, and
again he was subject to getting ran had he done it.
And again I hate to sound like the old man
on the rocking chair on the front porch yelling at
all the young kids, but at the end of the day,
I think it can't go without saying we want to
win every game at LSU. We certainly want to win titles,
and nobody is more thrilled than all of us about
what took place over the last several days and certainly yesterday.
But I don't want to get lost in all of this.
The reason I think we're in the situation and get
to enjoy all of this is because of coach j Johnson.
And it's not only the way he goes about trying
to make LSU better every single day, which is exactly
what he does. He has no hobbies, and again that's
something I joke with him about. Nick Saban and his
heyday had more hobbies than no doubt, but his respect
for the game, his respect for the rule, his respect
for the opponents. Again, umpires are human. Coaches make mistakes,
players make mistakes. But I think I'm thrilled and so
proud that Jay Johnson is the leader of this program.
The way he handles himself in every aspect, and you
know what, that's just the way it ought to be.
And I'm just glad that he's the one in charge
of Tiger baseball.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Voice of the old adage in football is defense wins championships,
and certainly in baseball defense, but more importantly, pitching three
pitchers in two games versus Coastal. Celebrate these three guys
what they did? Tell us, like where, you know, they
go out there pitch amazing games. They have great stuff,
great defense behind them, But like, where does this rank
for you in a two game span of pitching performances
at LSU.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's it's one that certainly brings the
discussion for good reason the way you bring it up,
and I think I think most everybody would feel the same way.
I mean, it's you know, this is the first time
in the three trips I've been to om all blessed
to be with LSU to see the ace so to
speak in this case for this team, really two aces.
I don't want Ty Floyd's performance to be forgot because
he was, you know, number two in the weekend rotation
and he went out and did a job obviously here
in twenty twenty three, but we didn't see Alex Lang
in the Championship series in seventeen. And even though I
think we played some mind games of Florida, we didn't
see Paul Schemes against the Gators in the Championship Series.
So that was the excitement of Okay, Coastal is going
to have their best, even though they went backwards second
and first, and LSU's going to have their best. And
you know, I had a bunch of people text me that.
Obviously I was familiar with Coastal, having played them for
years at Georgia Southern in several sports, having lived in
South Carolina for about thirteen years, was well aware of Coastal.
But I had friends texting me going, hey, man, you know,
best of luck. This coaster of things can really pitch
it and there's no doubt their numbers back that up.
But I had to quickly remind them, Yeah, the Tigers
can pitch it pretty good too, and and Kate Anderson
and Anthony Iansen and and again Chay shures to me
just stands out because of what he did here in Omaha.
But yeah, I mean those two guys back to back,
you had you had to like the Tigers. I think
that's why everybody and even the boys out west and
in Senn City, they knew.
Speaker 4: Seev when you can kind of take a look back
at some of you know, the performances from some of
your biggest names, and the way that you know it
wasn't always going their way and they still found a
way when they needed to. Bear Jones multiple times like
Ethan Fryer goes into a small slump and then he
is you know three you know, different times he gets
on base yesterday, like we could go like over many
many performances like that was one of the things for
me as well, even when it wasn't going well, like
Stanfield to his standard, it wasn't going well for him,
he comes up, he gets the biggest hit of his life,
drives in two runs Like that part to me was
probably more impressive than anything like even if it wasn't
going your way, there was no I'm gonna feel sorry
for myself, I'm gonna blame somebody else. Whenever the moment
had to be done, they got it done every single time,
even if they were over their last.
Speaker 5: Eleven Yeah, I mean, and I think it starts with
the roster that was built. And you know, I know
that sounds simple, but again, you got to give credit
to the staff to assemble this team because there was
enough talent and I mean not way more talent on
this roster than a lot of teams can dream of having.
And because of that, Coach Johnson could rely on certain
guys in a certain situations. And me think about some
of the pinch hitting opportunities that John Pearson had as
a freshman, his brother Josh Pearson, as well as starting
Jake Brown when he was kind of platooning there. And
when you have talent like that, you're able to make
the moves that Jay makes. Now give him credit, he
knows when to make him and I think he made
some incredible adjustments throughout this trip here in Omaha. But
to your point, I mean, Stephen Mylin, we saw what
he did his freshman year, and he never hit that
freshman wall last season and he struggled offensively, you know,
from about the midway point all the way until postseason play.
But then suddenly he gets here to Omah in a
couple of games there in the regional and Super Regional
and you're like, yeah, this is the Stephen MYLM. We
know and you know that every single time he's out
there shortstop, he's going to make plays that a lot
of guys can't make. Michael Braswell, I mean, my goodness,
the guy had I don't know, it's going to take
weeks to get the smile off his face. And good
for him. But I mean, if you don't have him
playing third base, you know, I don't know that every
third baseman in college baseball can make some of the
plays he made that you had to have all the
entire time here, but certainly in the Championship Series over
the last two days. So and you mentioned Bear, I mean,
when you need it, you know, gosh almighty to win
on Wednesday. What more can you ask from a guy
going three for five and tying the game and winning
the game for you. I mean, the list goes on
and on, but I mean that's again, this baseball is
such a team sport, like all of them are. But
I mean there were times throughout this season to get
to the wind total and to get to the top
of the mountain, that you had guys contribute and go
do the job. And we saw that throughout the year.
It's what I kept saying about this team. You know,
baseball can humble you, as you guys know very well,
and there were times this season where you know, LSU
hit some valleys and it was like, wow, you know,
we're never going to be able to get out of this.
But when you look at this season from start to
finish yesterday afternoon, I mean, the peaks so far outweigh
the valleys. And that's why I had confidence in this
team because I just seen them respond and Doug Thompson
said it yesterday. Guys, go back and try to remember
the number of times at LSU was either scoreless in
a game or tied in a game and would lose
the lead, but seemed to always immediately bounce back and
either get within striking distance, tie it up, or take
the lead for good. And that's the sign of a
great team and that's why they are the champions.
Speaker 6: Chris, I think every Tiger fan would echo my thoughts
here and saying that these guys played their asses off,
they worked hard. I hope they got to celebrate in
proper fashion last night. Yesterday after the game, you were there,
like it, take us through what was the celebration? Like,
what did people do afterwards the team. I'm sure Jay
Johnson was like at a high school recruiting last night
or something like that.
Speaker 1: But how did they take Like, what did they do?
Speaker 5: They?
Speaker 1: Was it family? Was there a big celebration party?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: Was what was it like? Afterwards?
Speaker 5: It was literally it felt like Alex North. I mean
it was That's what it was. And it was interesting
because you know the way this works is there's always
a first wave, second wave, and third wave. When LSU
was able to stay as long as they did, and
that's exactly what happened here. And then yesterday at the game,
you look out and you're like, I don't see anything
but purple and gold. And what was great was when
the game was over, they set up the stage they're
going to hand out the trophies and honor the team.
Of course, no Tiger fan had left, and you actually
saw how many LSU fans were in that building and
it was amazing. I mean it was it was like,
that's how many were here. And then after the game home,
my goodness, you got Marty girl, Mike running up and
down the street. At some point when I finished packing
around one am this morning, the trumpet broke back out
in the lobby and we had a couple of very
popular Tiger sing alongs as well, and so yeah, it
was it was. It was a big old party. But
it was great to get on social media and see
fans all over the globe. Really. I mean, we had
people checking in from Australia, we had people checking in
from Europe. It was it was something to see, man.
I mean, they love their baseball, they love their Tigers.
And there's a good reason why to think about making
twenty trips to Omaha in the College World Series and
now having eight national titles. It's a special place all
right there.
Speaker 4: He is the voice of your LSU Tigers, Chris Blair,
Chris Omahall is a long trip. Baseball season is a
long season. It goes with basketball season for you. So
sit back, relax and enjoy a couple of weeks of
R and R before we get to the booth there
in Clemson, South Carolina.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be I'm gonna be hard to find
here for.
Speaker 1: The enjoy yourself.
Speaker 5: I'll see you guys in mid August.
Speaker 4: There you go again, Chris Blair, the voice of the
LSU Tigers. Good enough to join us here and he
is right, man, I mean basketball season in the Actually
it's like football season that goes into basketball season that
goes into baseball season. Then like you're in Omahall for
basically two weeks there, as Devin Snow, who's going to
join us later on today, would say, you couldn't find
CB with a search warrant probably coming up in the
next couple of weeks. And so we learn, go get
some rest and we'll be in the booth there for
the Clemson LSU game coming up here.
Speaker 7: And well not too long that long, not that long
weeks We nailed that time. Gosh, nine about nine weeks.
All right, good lord, all right, that doesn't suck. Pretty awesome,
all right, We are going to step away.
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of potential weekend winners. We got a lot of tigers
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LSU football like only champions can that.
Speaker 4: It takes the Sweet Tick club and OTV here this
Monday Championship morning breaking it all down. LSU wins their
eighth national championship taking care of Coastal Carolina. Don't worry,
Mike Tolbert, that Texas coming, my guy, because in twenty
sixteen I went back and I checked the archives, and
you were sure old Fatten Cocky when y'all took care
of LSU.
Speaker 1: He is a fancy rooster.
Speaker 4: He is. He is a very fancy, very athletic rooster.
He is as well. They had never seen somebody that
could be like two hundred fifty pound volume ball and
just wind mill dunk.
Speaker 6: I was actually wondering that this morning if they had
a football program.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know that they have a football program. Grayson
McCall twenty twenty. They were really really good.
Speaker 1: That's not a person.
Speaker 2: Jay chad Jimmy Chadwell was their coach. He moved on
like every team in the country.
Speaker 4: Wanted the coach.
Speaker 1: Now, okay, you're right, I'm tracking.
Speaker 4: Now you're feeling it.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling it.
Speaker 4: You remember Jerome Simpson I believe was his name, receiver
from the Bengals, caught a touchdown or did a flip
into the end zone and landed on his feet. He
was a coastal Carolina guy.
Speaker 1: All right, that camp de Clayers told you told you
they can't you did.
Speaker 4: Their coach would not be very Can we pull that
video up? Just had that with the coach explained that
their name.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, he was not like the camp you
should have known something episode.
Speaker 4: So here, we're going to start the process and then
come back because there's a lot of weekend winners to
talk about. But let's go ahead and start weekend winners.
Speaker 1: That's how win it has done.
Speaker 4: That's right. We can't have anyone to freak out out there. Okay,
he's got a k bark.
Speaker 1: Apologer, got too far. I'm by winning.
Speaker 4: I went here and I went there. Now, what are
you doing what it takes to win a championship?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 1: Winning?
Speaker 3: Well, then I guess there's only one thing left to do.
Speaker 1: What's that win the whole thing? All right?
Speaker 4: First weekend winner for me is going to be an
LSU baseball player surprize surprise, and not even necessarily what
he did in Omahall. Now, he ended up having a
really good game yesterday, but just because of his journey. Okay,
in a day and age when it is so easy
to take your ball and go home, take your ball
and go somewhere else, feel sorry for yourself, blame it
on everybody else. Right, it's the guy to the left
of me is a perfect example of what I'm about
to talk about, because he didn't do that. He stayed
the course and ended up in a national championship for him,
and it also did for Ethan fry Ethan Frye is
somebody that was a very highly recruited player out of
high school. Was a great multi sport athlete in high
school from rose Pine, Louisiana, as we all know, and
he very easily could have blamed somebody else and hey,
I'm not playing because of AB and C. He didn't
allow that look. He battled injuries as well. But the
coaching staff believed in him. He knew that, and he
bought that. He understood that, he knew what that meant.
He didn't think it was just lip service, because it wasn't,
and he stayed the course. Even coming into this year.
I don't think any of us had him being the
full time DH certainly didn't have him hitting second for
the Tigers. In the postseason like he did. If Ethan
Fry' is not batting second against Little Rock, who knows
where that Game seven goes. Remember he came through with
the bases loaded when the night before nobody could find
a way to do so. So for Ethan Fry to
stay the course, to not worry about all the other
things to why he wasn't playing, but just to put
his head down, go to work and find a way
and force the coaches to have no choice but to
put you into the lineup. Weekend winner, Ethan Fry, I'll
believe you.
Speaker 6: Then, all right, my weekend winter, it's gonna be a
weekend winter loser. And look, I'm gonna take a warn
of y'all taking a ninety second break from baseball real quick,
because this deserves a.
Speaker 1: Little mention right here.
Speaker 6: We'll start with a loser on the PGA Tour, Tommy Fleetwood.
Speaker 4: Leah, he's an Evertonian tournament, He's an Evertonian, the Travelers Champion.
Speaker 6: This guy cannot get the monkey of his back. Still
does not have a PGA Tour victory, but it's been
one of the top govig especially from Europe, been on
Ryder Cups, he's done.
Speaker 1: He's done it all except win.
Speaker 6: He's always up there, one of the top golfers, leading
by one stroke going into the last hole. Oogie's eighteen
doesn't even force a playoff loss.
Speaker 1: But he's just do it. On the other hand, you.
Speaker 4: Know, good but never great.
Speaker 6: The chance are great, But on the other hand we
can winner. Mister Captain America. Keegan Bradley, the man that
was voted as the pick, does to be the Ryder
Cup captain. This is the championship he won a couple
of years ago that had him controversially being left off
the Ryder Cup team in Rome. The guy's a great player.
Everybody loves him. People cheer for him. The guy was down.
He makes birdie on the eighteenth hole to seal the
deal to beat Tommy Fleewood. Now there's gonna be a
lot of controversy saying, all right, does somebody step in
now and take the place of him as captain so
he can play? Is he going to be a play
in captain? What's gonna happen here with Keegan Bradley? But
shout out to him, big weekend winner after in America,
kicking Bradley?
Speaker 4: All right, all right? Beck, you got any weekend winners
or losers?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I have a weekend loser. Unfortunately, the Indiana Pacers. Man,
that really really stunk for them, Harrus Halliburton going down
early in that game, and they held on the first half,
second half, just could not hang with a Thunder without
him unfortunately. Yeah, it really it really sucked, man, because
he was actually playing pretty well. I mean, you could
tell he was not one hundred percent, but he was still,
you know, being very effective.
Speaker 4: And I think it's always one of those things. Oh well,
if you if you had kept playing, they would have won.
Speaker 8: Who knows, maybe maybe they still would have lost thundergoing
that run in the fourth quarter. But still really really
unfortunate for the Pacers. They are fortunately a weekend loser.
Speaker 6: Did LOSEBA fans lose too with Alburton going down like that.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, nobody wanted to see that. Nobody what we got.
Speaker 2: Sir, some My weekend winter was going to be Oklahoma
City Thunder first championship as the Thunder. I'm with Beck, though,
it sucks to see Haliburton go down. I've been a
big Heliburdon fan in these playoffs, but I'll go NBA
again but weekend loser the Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 1: So they got rid of Kevin Durant.
Speaker 2: Which to me seems like a win, but everybody knew
he wanted out of it.
Speaker 1: They didn't really get a ton back.
Speaker 2: I mean, they got Jalen Green, who's a good player,
just one first round pick.
Speaker 1: And five second round picks.
Speaker 2: And there were teams Kevin Durant thought six seven.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I like, look at Jalen Green back, and.
Speaker 1: Jalen Green's a good player.
Speaker 6: But the Suns were worse when Grant got there. Yeah,
three got the.
Speaker 2: Right so they got five second round picks but just
one first round pick. But the reason I put him
as losers is because two weeks ago teams had offered
better trade packages. They turned it down looking for something better.
The Rockets were the only ones left there, and they
didn't get half of what they could have got two
weeks ago. A week in losers Phoenix, and.
Speaker 6: He found out on the stage, right, the news was
broke when he's on stage of Fanatics.
Speaker 4: That was actually going to be a weekend winner for
me was Fanatics Fest. Oh my gosh, I told you yesterday.
I don't get fomo very often. I just don't. I
had the ultimate fomo not being at Fanatics Fest and sure,
like we're into cards and that's, you know, a big
part of what goes down there. But it's not the
only thing. But oh, just to walk around, be able
to pick up some cards, trade some cards, buy some cards,
sell some cards. Next year MOSCONA, if you're listening, go
ahead and start getting the budget together because we would
love to do our show. Oh, we were on Fanatics.
Speaker 6: Fest and that that like big winner from Fanatics. Fast
guy named Josh Harris, who's with a company called Roth Cards,
sells a Jaden Daniels Prism black Finite one of one
card in like the most amazing fashion possible. The owner
of the Washington Commanders is up on stage with Jaden
Daniels with the microphone, asking, Hey, I need who has
the most expensive or the most rare Daniels card. He
comes up starts talking to him from the side, holding
the card up. The owner of the Commanders on the
spot buys it for half a million dollars so he
can display it at the Washington Commanders.
Speaker 8: Well, and did you see the guy who came in
third who was a fan. This is just a guy
from Pennsylvania as a teacher. He got a two thousand
and three tops chrome gold reflector gold refractored Lebron James
Rookie card number to fifty and then he sold it
to Tom Brady who won for two hundred and fifty thousand,
and then also got a signed card in Jersey from
Brady as well.
Speaker 4: So that's that's pretty good win to go to him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so do you get some good cards?
Speaker 6: Probably just go there next year, Yeah, John to solver
half a million.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, we can do a show there. If
that's not possible, just send us there for some content.
We'll get some content. Go, we can do it. Sure
we will have well I think we can as well.
But put that on there. We'll trade one of our
normal yearly remotes to go to fanatics fast.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. We'll pay our way.
Speaker 4: Yeah sorry mobile, sorry, sorry about all right, let's take
a break. When we come back, let's get some more
weekend winners or losers here on OTB.
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Speaker 3: Two thousand and seven, Champs Purple and Gold to the core.
This is off the bench with Hester and Flynn, Matt
and Rouge's go to for all things Louisiana sports.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome backgain it is OTV. We don't need
this sound there because we're diving right back in into
some weekend winners. And I am going to go with
LSU head baseball coach A Johnson, also going to tag
LSU athletic director Scott Woodward into this because Scott believed
in Jay. We talked about it last week. I don't
remember who our guest was, but a lot of times,
like a place like LSU and in the SEC footprint,
you don't look to the West coast, you don't look
in a different region maybe for your head coach. And
there was a lot of other names that were being
thrown around, but I definitely remember having conversations with Scott
during the entire process, and I am not even going
to try to lie to you. I was pushing and
championing for Jay Johnson and he's like, look, I met
the guy. I know everything that you're saying, like I
saw it in our meeting, Like I know exactly what
you're talking about. And for Scott to look, Jay had
been to Omaha multiple times. He was a runner up
back in twenty sixteen to that Coastal Carolina team. So
the resume was the resume. But for Scott to trust
the standard of called baseball, that kind of program to him,
I give him a lot of credit because there's you know,
some athletic directors that would not have gone out west
and brought him here to Louisiana, and he did just that.
And then once he gets here, what does Jay do well?
Jay is one ninety and seventy seven has over a
seven hundred winning percentage at LSU. He now has two
national championships, two weekend winner, yearly winner. Jay Johnson. Scott
Woodward as well for bringing him in knowing he could
handle this baseball program and also one more tied to
LSU baseball, the LSU baseball fans. You showed up and
showed out. If that stadium held twenty five thousand people,
you had twenty two and a half of the number
in that building. You were loud, you were there, You
made your presence be known. And even though I wasn't
a baseball player, Matt wasn't a baseball player, even as
football players, that makes us proud to be Tigers. That
makes us proud to see how much you care, how
much you're willing to sacrifice your time, your money. It's
not cheap to go to Omaha, and just the belief
and desire that you have in us to be great
it is not get lost on us. So shout out
Weekend Winner LSU fans.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Scott Keeps continues to hire well and hitting dingers
with his coach and hire man. That man has done
so much since he's been back to LSU. Pretty impressive
to watch, Pretty impressive to see. We are lucky. I
mean we're I said it like the first save of
the show. LSU fans were so spoiled in so many
different ways. We've come to expect winning teams in every
single aspect, whether it's men's sports, women's sports, you name it, fall, winner, spring,
whatever it is. There is not an off season for
l s U Athletics. It's a big thanks to the
fan base, to everybody. We everybody plays a part in
this for everything, and Scott.
Speaker 1: Certainly plays one of the bigger roles in all of that.
This is my fault.
Speaker 2: Earlier I did not pull up the official l s
U National Championship poster if you guys want to see it,
the thumbs up, the dad smile, the eight Natty trophies
underneath our guy Han Palmer Electric.
Speaker 1: That is electric?
Speaker 4: Mm.
Speaker 6: Anybody else got a winner or loser? Didn't know Jacobs
bringing us back for a second seg here?
Speaker 1: Literally, I mean I got like, I mean you could go.
Speaker 6: You could go person by person. Oh yes, roster on
the staff like Kate Anderson, how about him?
Speaker 1: Goodweight winner.
Speaker 4: That's how this worked. It is your weekend winter pastor.
Speaker 8: I'm surprised you didn't go for this one, even though
I don't think it was great weekend where the US
men's national team they okay, okay, but it's it's more
so they won all three games. They won all three games,
and those four could go out there and beat Haiti
two to one. It wasn't pretty and none of the
games were great. They didn't play really that well in
any of the games. But they did win all three
of their games in the group, so they finished first.
Uh let's see what they do when they get to
the knockout rounds here. But uh, I mean they did win.
They are they are a winner. It wasn't it wasn't great.
But the US men's national team went three to oho
in the group for the Gold Cups, so I have
to give some old of a shout out for them.
But now, now, yeah, now let's see what they can
do here. Moving on to the knockout rounds.
Speaker 6: What are they what do they call big soccer fans?
I mean, obviously I'm a stitchhead. Now for baseball hooligans.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, if you're like, you're crazy, that's yeah. Those
are like the fans for a team that that booted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna call it. I'm getting me and the wife get
real into said last. So okay, okay, so real.
Speaker 4: Quick to add to mine. I know there's some Kevin
O'Sullivan talk inside the chat, and there's always Kevin O'Sullivan
talk because a lot of LSU fans wanted him to
be the coach whenever Jay Johnson was hired. I'll say this,
Kevin O'Sullivan won Jay Johnson two that's national championships, in
case he had the head, in case anybody was keeping
track at home, anybody else.
Speaker 2: Just to pickyback off of Matt said, though about Kate Anderson,
I think Kate Anderson made himself the first pick in
the draft. On Saturday night, me and a buddy mine,
we're texting like you had heard top ten and his
performance kept going, you had heard top five. I think
Kate Anderson made himself the first pick in the Major
league draft.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I asked the question earlier about watching him pitch.
What makes this stuff so good? It's hard to tell
from watching it on TV, but obviously there's some spin.
There is some veloc I mean well, in fact, that.
Speaker 2: He could throw ninety six from the left side.
Speaker 6: Good well in college baseball, that's not that fast anymore.
Goodness great a LEFTI for.
Speaker 1: A lefty, it is.
Speaker 2: But I was telling you before the show, like it
wasn't that great last year, at least not a conference.
Like in conference you kind of lost faith through him.
Halfway through the SEC schedule. You didn't see it much.
And then this year all fall you had heard, Hey,
Kate Anderson might be the Friday guy. Don't be don't
be surprised to see Kate Anderson opening game. Everyone kind
of raised their eyebrows at it, but I mean it
paid off.
Speaker 4: So I put it out there on social media last
night because this is this is just true. It's going
to be the case. Kate Anderson had one of the
performances now his entire year incredible, but he had one
of those performances against Arkansas and Coastal that he's going
to go back to the box in fifteen twenty years,
he's going to go to a series with his family.
People are going to recognize him and there's going to
be one hundred people that come up to him and say,
when you did A and B, this is exactly where
I was, this is where I watched the game, and
thank you for doing that. He's gonna have that moment
in twenty years, people are still going to remember what
he did on the run to a national title.
Speaker 6: It's what happens at LSU and Jake and I can
tell you this from experience, when if you win a championship,
like a lot of people, a lot of those moments
are going to be remembered. Now, Jerry Jones had the moment, Stanfill.
Speaker 4: Had a moment.
Speaker 6: Yes, they've all had moments. Now you can go down
the entire roster plus some plus some people, yep, nine
plus some people, and then the pictures you can go
through each and every one of them. They all showed
up and had a moment. Even Braswell didn't have the
moment at the plate. Do we win without some of
those stops that he had at third base?
Speaker 4: Maybe not?
Speaker 1: Maybe not?
Speaker 4: Ye? All right, we'll close out hour number two when
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Speaker 3: From the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: Welcome back in OTV Well Championship Monday morning. Gonna catch
up with Todd Walker, LSU baseball legend now obviously covering
college baseball for ESPN, and he was with Coastal going
back to their regionals. So excited to catch up with
kind of get his thoughts on the game, how everything
played out. A you know, I say LSU legend, I
mean maybe best hitter in program.
Speaker 1: Do you say the best you said Championship Monday?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like what kind of championship national?
Speaker 1: Like the entire nation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's three hundred plus teams that try for it
and one got at won. Yep.
Speaker 1: Wow, it must be pretty good yep.
Speaker 4: And they did it in championship gold jerseys. It did
look good, left no doubt you think by my great jersey.
I think know if you buttoned it up and you
took a deep breath, everybody would have to look out
out out side of that. But that's a jersey. It's
supposed to be, you know, unbuttoned. Look, I think our
got t Bob. Did y'all know who's in Omaha? By
the way, he wore the same jersey I think for
three straight days. But it was a good luck jersey.
Just make sure you watch it, Todd Walker. When we
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