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Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt flynn'sday.

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Speaker 2: Hester and Hester got it fin ont a fat.

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Speaker 1: From carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each

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other on the air.

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Speaker 2: Were there's back Control Live from the Raising Kine studio.

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It's Off the Bench.

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Speaker 3: Welcome in our number three here on a Monday edition

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of Off the Bench. Taylor Shar for Ladravillarrial Braxton, Risuto

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all along with you here on this Monday morning. We've

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had a jam pack show pretty much baseball about eighty

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percent of the show. We squeeze in a little LSU

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and Saints football, but for the majority it has been

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LSU baseball, and rightfully so.

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Speaker 4: The Tigers put up a heck of a lot of runs.

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Speaker 3: Landra mentioned earlier forty nine strikeouts over the first three games,

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and that is a program record as well. So at

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times they have looked dominant over the Milwaukee Panthers. They

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will take one the Kent State Golden Flashes tonight, Kent

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State three and oh, by the way, three wins over

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the Southeastern Lions. So a little bit step up in

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competition for the Tigers, but they should get this one done.

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Speaker 4: Coming up.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna weekend winners here in just the second Devin

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tomorrow nine to fifteen. He had to push that back.

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So we'll talk a little women's basketball. We got some

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news a team has moved up into the FCS ranks

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from the FBS level, so they are moving up a

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level in competition as effective as of next football season.

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So we'll get into all of that, and then we'll

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close it out as we do every day, with a

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little ass the bench. We got women's basketball coming up

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right now, though we do it every Monday around this time,

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Let's do some weekend winners.

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Speaker 2: That's how win it has done. That's right.

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Speaker 5: We can't have anyone to freak out out there.

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Speaker 6: Okay, he's got a k bark apologer got too far.

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Speaker 2: I'm by winning. I went here and I win there.

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Speaker 5: Now, what are you doing what it takes to win

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a championship?

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Speaker 7: Wow?

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Speaker 2: Winning?

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Speaker 7: Well, then I guess there's only one thing left to do.

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Speaker 4: What's that.

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Speaker 2: Win the whole thing?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 3: Weekend winners? Who wants to go first? If not, I

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will go.

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Speaker 7: I was just gonna give a week in winner to

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the LSU baseball program as a whole. I mean, you

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outscored Milwaukee forty one to fifteen this weekend.

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Speaker 8: So for the people that.

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Speaker 7: Were, you know how people are, there's always gonna be

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like a group of people that are like, well they

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Speaker 3: Wasn't enough, you know, I saw I saw it after

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the five three Saturday.

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Speaker 8: It's a little too close. Okay, let's relax, let's chill out.

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Speaker 7: But like the the score over the whole entire weekend,

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I feel like tells the story. You had an extremely

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productive offense this weekend and an extremely effective and efficient

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bullpen as well. So just a overall weekend winner to

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the entire baseball program and opening weekend as a whole

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practicing what you got.

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Speaker 4: Let's see.

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Speaker 6: So I wasn't gona bring up the LSUS Softballs a loser,

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but I figured you had to lose this. I was

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gonna bring up a winner. So for the All Star Game,

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you had it. We had a different format this time.

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Speaker 1: You had your.

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Speaker 4: World versus your story.

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Speaker 6: The stars were put up, I mean, the USA was

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built up in the two teams your stars and stripes.

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Star weekend. That was probably, I guess, the most entertaining part,

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just because I mean, the Dunk Contest three point contest,

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it's not the same anymore. It's it's nothing really special.

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Speaker 4: What's the celebrity game?

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Speaker 3: Ivan Tacko fall on your team at seven foot six

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seems like an unfair advantage. The guy had twenty six

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rebounds and his team obviously won.

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Speaker 4: I don't I don't love that. Maybe make him sit

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Speaker 3: Wee can loser for me is the NBA Dunk Contest

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like the user games I see people do with ease

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the Dunk Contest. If that's fine, you can repeat. You

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could repeat it dunkins. It's not a big deal. Do

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something with a little bit of difficulty. I mean I

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first round. I don't even see who won, how impressive

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their donk was. Didn't care the first round completely turned

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me off. But my first weekend winner. If anybody out

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there did not see this, Baylor played New Mexico.

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Speaker 4: State over the weekend.

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Speaker 3: They got the win on Friday night and blowout fashion.

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why was first baseman Tys Armstrong. Tyson Armstrong hit not one,

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not two, but three Grand slams in the same game.

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actually in the same inning way back in nineteen seventy

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six against Western Kentucky. Has not happened again. So he

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three grand slams twelve RBI. Only thirteen major league players

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and nobody's done that since two thousand and nine. So

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whether it's college, whether it's professional, you can kind of

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see how rare that was. I don't know if anybody

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saw that, but I mean they were no doubters too.

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sixteen seventeen to two wound up being the final score.

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twenty twenty six baseball season opening night. Three Grand slams

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for our guy, Tys Armstrong, my first weekend winner.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna go weekend winner Nebraska softball. They beat Texas

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Tech yesterday, which if you know anything about Texas Tech softball,

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you know they got a million dollar pitcher. Million dollar

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pitcher is not gonna do too much for you, though,

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if you can't get everything else done. And I think

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that was the first time that Kennedy gave up two

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back to back extra base hits ever in her career.

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Speaker 4: The first time Jesus that she.

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Speaker 7: Gave up back to back extra base hits. So I'm

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sure she's gave up some hits before, but extra base hits.

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off of her. So Nebraska softball looks like they're gonna

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Speaker 7: They I mean, they didn't have a perfect weekend at

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the Invitational, but they look pretty good.

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Speaker 4: They did.

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Speaker 3: They win that invitational overall. I mean, everybody like wins

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Speaker 8: I thing maybe I don't know, they keep it.

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Speaker 6: On the softball side. Your loser could be LSU softball.

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didn't play anybody too special. The one even have a

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good start, but they were winning.

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Speaker 8: Won one game.

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Speaker 6: It wasn't even that good. No, but like they lost

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to Nebraska zero to six. Oklahoma State they won that one. However,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we'll actually get into that next segment.

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Speaker 7: You and like what I said at the beginning of

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the season that I thought was going to be a problem,

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it's the bullpen. I don't know why you can't have

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like more than one or two pitchers that can give

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you a great game. But it's and then when your

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bullpen's not being productive, and then you have an offense

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Speaker 8: For some reason at some points, it's not gonna be

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean what they their only win was there

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only any sort of life on offense that they had

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all weekend long. Rerex and I put up a video

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just a second ago. You can play it now. Don't

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need it with sound or anything. My weekend loser is

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going to be the Canada curling team. One of their

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one of their players, was flagged by an official for

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pushing the rock with his finger after he let it go,

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a tirade of of what it of Like he's talking

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back to the officials saying he didn't do it. That's

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the guy right there, and the official says, you know,

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point black, I didn't want to play it because he's

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yelling expletives as the rule expert talks to it.

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Speaker 3: I mean he extends the finger, pushes it, so they

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penalized him for it. That role didn't count. Sends being

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called out by the official. That same guy for Canada

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the remainder of the Olympics or what, but he's done

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with the finger, and then you know he started yelling

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Speaker 4: Why would you even say I did that?

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Speaker 3: And I mean it's it's clear as day, and they

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in the Great White North to cheat in the Olympics

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of all sports. But I mean you could see right there.

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extra push there with his fingers. So first weekend loser

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for me, the Canada men's curling team.

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Speaker 8: All right, I don't have any more.

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Speaker 3: So my next weekend winner is going to be USA hockey.

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in the Olympics right now. So USA hockey a perfect

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three and ohero in the Olympics right now. They'll play

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the quarterfinal round coming up on one Wednesday night. They

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are not just winning, they are dominating teams and coming

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into the Olympics, I mean, I'm sure a lot of people,

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the electric battles between the US and Canada, and I'm

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Speaker 4: I know I did.

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Speaker 3: Coming into the Olympics, a lot of people said last

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year's team was better than this year. I would have

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to thoroughly disagree. I mean, they beat Latvia on Thursday

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five to one, when Saturday they take down Denmark six

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to three, and that was a game Denmark got off

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to a hot start. US wasn't an issue though, and

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then yesterday against Germany they have another dominant five to

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one victory. So I mean three dominant performances in a

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row from USA Hockey, giving up just four goals total

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in three games and scoring sixteen, So you've outscored your

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opponents sixteen to five in the first three games of

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Speaker 5: Again.

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Speaker 3: You will play the quarterfinals on Wednesday, to be determined

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on when the opponent is but it will take place

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Wednesday afternoon around four o'clock our time, so probably be

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miracle on ice team that beat the Soviet Union way

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back in you know, they need the movie Miracle about

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it to win Olympic gold. But they haven't changed a

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Speaker 4: I mean, great job by whoever designed those.

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Speaker 3: They've kept them going all these years, but excellent job

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Speaker 6: I'm just looking through city college basketball. I know that Arizona,

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number one team in the country, lost back to back. Yeah,

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I lost to Kansas and a big one without Dan Peterson.

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Speaker 4: And the Texas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a big time weekend lose.

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Speaker 3: I mean a lot of people thought that Arizona was

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going to be the dominant team in college basketball and

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it's two games. They they still maybe, but to lose

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to Kansas without Darren Peterson, who's going to be a

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top five pick and next year's NBA.

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Speaker 6: Draft, I mean, he just doesn't play, I know.

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Speaker 3: But I mean that's everybody is saying, play a lottery pick.

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Speaker 6: He played against Iowa State on Saturday. They lost by

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eighteen with Darreon Peterson. But I mean, I mean.

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Speaker 3: They look it's something that everybody else sees that that

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maybe we don't. I mean, every every NBA scout, every analyst,

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all this says a lottery pick.

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Speaker 4: And uh, all right, that's.

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Speaker 3: Gonna do it for our weekend winners. When we get back,

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We're gonna we're gonna double up on women's sports.

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Speaker 4: We are going to talk L s U Versus.

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Speaker 3: Uh, Well, everybody over there in the Shriners clear Water Classic.

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Not a great weekend for your LSU softball team. They

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played five games over a three day period. Will break

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all that down, and then we'll recap L s U

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Versus South Carolina women's basketball that occurred on Saturday night.

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That's all coming up next here on Off the bench.

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Speaker 3: Right, welcome back in off the bench here on a Monday,

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Tyler Sharpen for Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. What I

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want to look at right now? We'll got you two

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topics in one segment. LSU softball, LSU women's basketball, because

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both of them. That's some big time games over the weekend.

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We'll start with LSU softball. They were undefeated, perfect on

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the season headed into the Shriners Clearwater Classic. If you remember,

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they played two games on Thursday, then they had a Friday,

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two on Saturday, one on Sunday, so five games over

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a four day period. They play Agains tomorrow night as well.

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But it really couldn't have gone much worse for bet

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THRENA squad. If we're being completely honest, they fall in

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game one to Nebraska, six to oh Nebraska their freshman

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pitcher on the mountain. She was absolutely dominant. LSU battled

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a little bit earlier behind Early in that game, behind

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Jaden Heavener couldn't get anything going against the Cornhuskers pitching staff.

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I mean, that's just where it was like. It wasn't

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even Jordi Ball or Jordi From. We should say now

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they started a freshman.

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Speaker 4: She was great.

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Speaker 3: Then they put in Jordy From with a multiple run lead.

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Anytime you do that, you feel pretty good about your

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chances to win the game behind her on the mound,

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much less with a multiple run lead. So they blanked

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the Tigers six nothing against Nebraska. Again, there were times

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I thought that Heavener battled early on. You just couldn't

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get anything going offensively. I mean you had a few

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hits here and there, but you just could not string

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anything together, not enough hits to bring any runners across

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the play. So they fall there, but they bounce back

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Thursday evening against Oklahoma State. They win that game nine

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to four. It was the story of your big players

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making plays. Julia lassiterters here, Daniel and Tory Edwards in

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that game combined to go seven of twelve with six

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runs scored and five RBIs I mean, that's that's your

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entire offense, right There was those three, which is fine

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as long as they could do that consistently. I just

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when I look at this lineup one through nine, I

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just I don't see the consistency that we've seen in years.

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Pass Like Sierra Daniel tear the cover off the ball.

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to Jake and Matt, she raved about Torri Edwards. That's

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a player that's been in this program for multiple years

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that has done a really nice job. But you can't

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just rely on those players. You need a little bit

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more balance. One through nine.

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Speaker 3: S Luum was the pitcher for LSU. She got the

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win against Oklahoma State. She went the whole game, gave

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up four runs, only three strikeouts, but then again only

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walked two, so not a ton of strikeouts, but didn't

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give up a ton of free passes as well.

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Speaker 4: So you're one and one. You had a.

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Speaker 3: Stinker against Nebraska, you bounce back against Oklahoma State. You're

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feeling okay, we're right where we thought we might be

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one and one after the first two games. If you

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can go in a little bit of a run, and

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they did not, you then fall to Duke five to three.

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Even her back out on the mound there after Nebraska

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and honestly had another rough outing five k's, but gave up,

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walked four, gave up five earned runs in that ball

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game to lose to Duke. Lassiter was great again. She

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contributed three of the six hits in that ball game. Again,

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your big players stepped up, Sierra Daniel, Joel, Lassiter, Tory Edwards.

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Speaker 4: They were all good.

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Speaker 3: It was the players around them that needed to step

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up in a big way to get these wins, and

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they just didn't do it.

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Speaker 4: So you fall to Duke five to three.

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Speaker 3: Then you have UCF a winnable game, not in the

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top twenty five. So the three top twenty five teams

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you played, Nebraska, Duke, Ucla. Okay, you see F a

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chance to bounce back. No, it's probably your most disappointing

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game of the weekend, five to one loss to the

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UCF Golden Knights. Again, you can't score runs. Lasted great

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once again. She went three for three up there at

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the top of that lineup, not much help from anyone else,

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and then you try to cap things off.

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Speaker 4: Maybe can you scratch, can you call?

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Speaker 3: Can you pull out a win against a top twenty

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five team to maybe get this thing going in the

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right direction. After a bad Shriner's Clearwater Invitational No. Eight

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to nothing lost to the UCLA Bruins. And UCLA is

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a really good team. But guess what, ls you couldn't

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score any runs. It was kind of the story of

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the weekend for the Tigers. They actually threw four different

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pitchers in that game trying to slow down to Ucla.

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They could not do it. Unless you came into this

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series perfect six to zero in the season. They leave

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the series seven and four. I mean, you scored seven runs,

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eight runs total in a five game period. I don't

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care if Jaden Evener's on the mound. I don't care

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if it's if it's C. C. Silero, Tatum, Clopton, whoever.

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You score eight runs in five games, you're not gonna

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win very many.

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Speaker 4: And it doesn't really matter who you playing.

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Speaker 3: I get the three of the five teams you were

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playing round the top twenty five, and UCF looks like

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a pretty good softball team. If Saturday was any indication,

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But you can't dig yourself in that hole offensively. Again,

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Daniel was great on the weekend. Tory Edwards was awesome.

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Julia Lassiter hit the cover off the ball all weekend long.

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You didn't get much from Avery Hodge. You didn't get

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much from any of your other role players. I mean,

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regardless of who it was, Macy Burgron showed flashes, but

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again the consistency was a little off. It was just

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it seemed like your top three players stepped up. They

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were ready to play. Everyone else wasn't. And I mean again,

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eight runs five games. You go one in four in

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those five games. Like I think if you would have

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asked coach Dona, I less you saw ball wherever. Like

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worst case scenario, we go two and three, we beat

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the unranked teams. We losed all the ranked teams, but

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we battle hard, and we'd like to go three and two.

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We'd like to steal one of the three against the

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ranked opponents. And your gut, I mean, if you beat

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the two unranked teams and you steal one of the

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ranked wins, you're sitting.

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Speaker 4: At eight and two.

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Speaker 3: Now you're six and four, hovering around five hundred and

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you've played a lot of games recently, and the rest

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isn't gonna get any quicker. I mean, like a laundri

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You were talking about the bullpen earlier and yeah, like

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the bullpen's bad. But eight runs in five games, I mean, offensively,

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nothing was there outside of your big three.

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Speaker 7: Which is crazy because when we talked about them coming

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into the tournament, like before the tournament, their offense was

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extremely productive. And then you get there and you go

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against Nebraska, score no runs, and then they kind of

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come alive. Versus Oklahoma State you score nine there, and

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then with Duke it just do UCF, which is the

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most inexcusable one to me for some reason, like u

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CF was unranked. Can you lose one to five? That's

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the most inexcusable one to me.

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Speaker 4: U C LA Okay, they're number six, Yeah, I mean

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they're they're a great team.

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Speaker 8: Nebraska number eleven.

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Speaker 7: Like I said, I think they're gonna end up being

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a problem, so okay, sure whatever, But I mean it's

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just to only come out of that with one win.

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Feels like they're talking about this in the chat. I

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kind of feel like this program's taking a bit of

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a step.

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Speaker 3: Back and Oklahoma State, Like you go, look at their

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overall record. Olahoma State's not a great team. So like

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you beat you beat Oklahoma State nine to four. You

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didn't blow them out. They're not a great softball program

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right now. So I mean, yeah, the one win you

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got was against by far the weakest team in the field.

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Speaker 4: I mean, where do you where do you? Where do

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you go from here?

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Speaker 3: Because like even if sure like Heavener had some rough outings,

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I get it, but I mean she battled early against Nebraska,

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and the fact of the matter is Hevener could have

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given up one run the whole game. It wouldn't have mattered, right,

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because you couldn't do anything offensively, So like, I don't,

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I don't even put it on her, Like I get it,

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she wouldn't. She wasn't nails like she has been in

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the past. But I mean it shouldn't matter. Like she

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went the whole game against Dude, gave up five runs. Okay, cool,

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but you scored three in that game.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and really only the top of your lineup is prettycer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Daniel has been really good, Lassiter has

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been great, Tory Edwards, we know what she is. Can

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you find me one person that's been consistent outside of

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those three, I mean, anybody like that.

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Speaker 7: But like even Tory Edwards, her average is two ninety

474
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six right now, right, which is like she we know

475
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she could do better.

476
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Speaker 3: Right like that, that's not what she is. Like it's

477
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a good it's a good average, but it's not. It's

478
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not Tory Edwards. It's just that that was worst case

479
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scenario for LSU softball.

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Speaker 4: Okay, but you also.

481
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Speaker 7: Can't really have like eleven errors on the weekend, right.

482
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Speaker 3: Because if you're if your batting's not there, can you

483
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get some sort of support for your pitchers? No, yeah,

484
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you have. You have no support in the field. You

485
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have no run support behind you. I don't know what

486
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you tell these pitchers to do to win these games,

487
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but hopefully they can bounce back really bad weekend Brolshue softball.

488
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Before we take a break, LSU women's basketball played a

489
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big time game in primetime. It was about seven thirty

490
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Saturday night on ABC, and it lived up to the

491
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Billy Now. Unfortunately LSU does lose that ball game.

492
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Speaker 4: South Carolina wins. It's seventy nine, seventy two.

493
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Speaker 3: Eighteen straight losses to the South Carolina game Cocks for

494
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this LSU women's basketball program. When I first heard that

495
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on the broadcast, I thought it was a typo, but no,

496
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I mean they had brought it up multiple times in

497
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that game. Kim Milkee now o wins six against Dawn

498
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Staley since coming to LSU. Ok, it's just the team

499
00:24:41,039 --> 00:24:43,680
and a coach that has your number right now, and

500
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you can't figure out why. But there's some things that

501
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point to it. Like, first off, your big time players

502
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have to step up. And I am not talking about

503
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fla Je Johnson. This could have been one of flaw

504
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J Johnson's best game. She played now, she was two

505
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for six from the free throw line. Hey, Flage may

506
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make you free throw is down the stretch. This is

507
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a little bit of a different game. But she she

508
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was great. I mean nine of eighteen, twenty one points,

509
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a steal, eight rebounds. I mean, Planchet did what she

510
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had to do to win this game. Again, two for

511
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six of free throws. Got to get better. But I

512
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mean Mikayla Williams five for twelve, eleven points. You need

513
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a little bit more there. Jada Reeshard seven points, one

514
00:25:18,599 --> 00:25:22,960
for ten from the floor, Malaysia full Wiley, who played

515
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twenty three minutes, and this is her former team. You thought, okay,

516
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this is a this is the spot where Malaysia full

517
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while he's really gonna go off six points one for

518
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eight from the floor. She was four for four from

519
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the free throw line. She was the only person her

520
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,400
and Jada Rieschard that shot well from the free throw line.

521
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But you just you could not get it done. Tessa

522
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Johnson for South Carolina got really hot. So did Raven Johnson.

523
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I mean Tessa twenty one points, four for five from three,

524
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Raven Johnson nineteen points, three for five from three. I mean,

525
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it was just it was one of those things where

526
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South Carolina hit threes and big opportunities where you didn't.

527
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I mean, you look at what South Carolina show from

528
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three eight for seventeen forty seven percent, LSU two for

529
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,400
twelve seventeen percent and did not hit one in the

530
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second half. It's just hit hit one in the second half.

531
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Laj hit one in the second half. But it's just

532
00:26:16,759 --> 00:26:20,000
you didn't shoot the ball well and at least make

533
00:26:20,039 --> 00:26:22,640
your free throws, and he didn't do that. South Carolina

534
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:26,480
fifteen of seventeen from the line, eighty eight percent LSU

535
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,960
fourteen of twenty three, sixty one percent from the line.

536
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,440
I mentioned Fla j A Johnson two for six. There

537
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,119
was a it was in the fourth quarter. It's a

538
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:38,279
clutch situation. She gets fouled, goes to the line. L

539
00:26:38,319 --> 00:26:42,640
sho's up one. At this point, you're like, Okay, she

540
00:26:42,759 --> 00:26:47,279
hits down one, she hits these, you take you take

541
00:26:47,319 --> 00:26:49,359
the lead. At worst, she goes one for one. It's

542
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,000
a tie ball game. She misses them both. You're still

543
00:26:52,039 --> 00:26:54,720
down one. South Carolina goes down, they get a basket,

544
00:26:54,759 --> 00:26:58,000
they get another move. You're down by multiple possessions. I

545
00:26:58,039 --> 00:26:59,440
mean that that was that was the story of the

546
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:05,079
game for her. Grace Knox over two. Mikaela Williams did

547
00:27:05,079 --> 00:27:06,480
not go to the free throw line, but I mean

548
00:27:06,559 --> 00:27:09,000
Jada Ree Charlott's five of six Malaysia full while he

549
00:27:09,079 --> 00:27:11,799
was four for four, Kate Covell two for two. But

550
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,359
as a team, I mean it it wasn't where it

551
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:14,839
needs to be.

552
00:27:15,599 --> 00:27:16,559
Speaker 4: That was the difference in it.

553
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 3: Three point shooting and free throws eighty eight and forty

554
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,160
seven for South Carolina. You sixty one percent from free

555
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,400
throw line, seventeen percent from behind the arc.

556
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 4: It's a difference in the game.

557
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,799
Speaker 3: Seven point game, and a couple of those points were

558
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,400
were down when you just had to foul them late

559
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,480
in the game. I mean, with with four minutes to

560
00:27:34,519 --> 00:27:36,400
go in this ball game. This was a tie game.

561
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,960
This was anybody's ballgame, and.

562
00:27:40,279 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 4: That was it. South Carolina made the shots, made the plays,

563
00:27:43,279 --> 00:27:44,799
made their free throws. You did not.

564
00:27:45,759 --> 00:27:48,799
Speaker 3: That was the result of this game. Look, LSU still

565
00:27:48,799 --> 00:27:50,880
a really good basketball team. They still have everything they

566
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,119
want in front of them. But you just cannot get

567
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,559
over the hump that is South Carolina. Like we were

568
00:27:55,559 --> 00:27:58,559
watching this game, me and my wife after we got

569
00:27:58,559 --> 00:28:02,839
home on Saturday, and you know, we're watching it and

570
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,720
she's locked in, like Victoria. You know, she didn't follow

571
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,440
men's or women's basketball that loo. She's locked in. Her mother,

572
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,079
her mom and dad are calling her. They're locked in

573
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,559
as well. It just seems like everybody was so invested

574
00:28:13,559 --> 00:28:16,200
in in this game and then you'll lose the game.

575
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 4: But the p MAC was rocking. I mean, Jake brought

576
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:19,839
it up the other day.

577
00:28:19,839 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 3: One hundred and eighteen dollars was the cheapest ticket to

578
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,799
get into the PMAC on the secondary market on Saturday.

579
00:28:25,079 --> 00:28:27,400
When's the last time that happened for a women's basketball game?

580
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,680
Like this game here great for women's basketball, right one,

581
00:28:30,759 --> 00:28:33,720
ABC one, Prime Time, seven thirty, and it lived up

582
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,880
to the billing. It was a heavyweight fight. But you

583
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,000
just you really wish LSU could have came out on top.

584
00:28:39,079 --> 00:28:43,759
Like eighteen straight games South Carolina over LSU seems like

585
00:28:43,799 --> 00:28:45,960
it's impossible. But I mean, that's that's that's where we

586
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,240
sit right now, and that's why South Carolina is one

587
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,119
of the gold standards off women's basketball. Like I was

588
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,079
tucking to Victoria when we're watching this game, and she

589
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:54,920
was like, man, well, at least elo Shu got that

590
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:56,720
one national championship. And I kind of laughed and I

591
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,519
was like, yeah, but you don't remember what happened. Caitlin

592
00:28:58,559 --> 00:29:01,680
Clark and iowall upset South Carolina in the final four.

593
00:29:02,079 --> 00:29:03,759
That opened the door for LSU to win it. Like,

594
00:29:03,759 --> 00:29:07,119
if South Carolina takes down Kaitlin Clark and IOWA LSU

595
00:29:07,119 --> 00:29:09,279
in South Carolina meet in the finals, who knows what

596
00:29:09,359 --> 00:29:11,519
happens now. I mean, if you shoot the way you

597
00:29:11,559 --> 00:29:15,440
shot in that game like LSU did, LSU probably beats anybody.

598
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 4: They play.

599
00:29:16,039 --> 00:29:19,559
Speaker 3: But it's a completely different story with South Carolina. I mean,

600
00:29:19,799 --> 00:29:24,039
down Staley that program. LSU cannot beat these guys for

601
00:29:24,079 --> 00:29:27,160
whatever reason, and look that hats off to them.

602
00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:28,759
Speaker 4: They do what they have to do.

603
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Speaker 3: A thing that concerned me going into the game is

604
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gonna be South Carolina's bigs against LSU. Like you have

605
00:29:34,359 --> 00:29:37,160
Kate Covoal, who's got some size for LSU. Outside of that,

606
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,799
you don't have a ton of bigs like uh Medina Ocott.

607
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,559
She's a big and look what she did twelve points,

608
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,839
seventeen rebounds. I mean it was just she was a

609
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,480
difference maker in that game. You had a couple bigs

610
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on that team, and then your backcourt of Tessa Johnson

611
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and Raven Johnson. When you can get that production out

612
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of the back court and you have a big size

613
00:29:57,279 --> 00:30:00,400
advantage of down low, didn't you like where you and

614
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:02,720
it kind of showed up. I mean I talked about,

615
00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:06,240
you know, total rebounding. I want to shoot out rebound

616
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South Carolina. But a lot of that was in the

617
00:30:08,119 --> 00:30:10,920
first half down the stretch Ocott I thought was really

618
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,680
big for this team. South Carolina six blocks LSU four.

619
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So LSU held their own for the most part. So

620
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if coming into the game, if you would have told me, hey,

621
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South Carolina played their bigs, o'cott had a really good game.

622
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,720
LSU out rebound South Carolina by nine, I would have

623
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,400
said to me that was the one big weakness coming

624
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,200
into the game was the size differential. LSU won this game.

625
00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:34,880
But it's not the case because they couldn't hit three pointers.

626
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They could make their shots from the free throw line,

627
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and South Carolina did. They made shots in big moments

628
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,400
and that is why Don Stalley squad left the p

629
00:30:41,559 --> 00:30:46,519
MAC victorious seventy nine to seventy two over your LSU

630
00:30:46,599 --> 00:30:47,200
Lady Tigers.

631
00:30:47,319 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 4: Right, we'll take a quick time out.

632
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,799
Speaker 3: When we get back, we'll preview LSU versus Kent State.

633
00:30:51,799 --> 00:30:52,039
Speaker 4: Tonight.

634
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Speaker 3: I talked about maybe some guys were excited to see

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whether it's on the mound in the field. And then

636
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a new team is joining the Mountain West in football

637
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in twenty twenty six.

638
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Speaker 4: We'll talk a little about that next here on off

639
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the bench.

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Speaker 4: Along for the ride as well.

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Speaker 3: Your LSU Tigers obviously take down Milwaukee three games to

689
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nothing over the weekend Friday Saturday Sunday. They do play

690
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tonight at six pm against the Kent State Golden Flashes,

691
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a little bit of step up in competition. Kent State

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actually had a pretty good three game series actually in Hammon,

693
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so this is a team that's been in Louisiana for

694
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a while now. They played Friday, Saturday Sunday as well.

695
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They sweep the Southeastern Lions, and I get southeastn't a

696
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little bit lower level, but that's a program that's one

697
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of the better baseball programs in the Southland Conference, at

698
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least traditionally, you know, in the last couple of years

699
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hasn't been what it was. But again, Southeastern normally a

700
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pretty good baseball program, and Kent State took care of

701
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them with ease eight to three on Saturday eleven, or

702
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eight to three on Friday, eleven to two on Valentine's

703
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Day on Saturday, and then a fourteen to seven victory

704
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yesterday against the Lions. So they put up a ton

705
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of runs and I'll shu look again step up in

706
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competition a little bit. When we talked to Patrick Coogan

707
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a little bit earlier today, he believes jad and Nut's

708
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,840
gonna get the start, and then that's probably the case.

709
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,559
We saw Jayden Nut do this a little bit last

710
00:34:47,599 --> 00:34:50,000
year and he didn't throw it all over the weekend,

711
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:51,679
so that makes sense.

712
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,599
Speaker 4: And I'm excited to see what Jayden Nute can do.

713
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 3: But we know he's got stuff right like we've seen

714
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,159
it from Jayden Nute from time and time again, what

715
00:34:59,199 --> 00:35:00,719
I want to do right now, I always look at

716
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,400
maybe a few guys that I mean I'm excited to

717
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,960
see tonight that you know, outside of Jaden Newt. Danny

718
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,320
lock and Meyer pitcher from North Dakota State. A year ago,

719
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,960
he's on lefty six thirty to twenty one. He was

720
00:35:13,079 --> 00:35:16,119
first team All Summit League honors last year. He recorded

721
00:35:16,199 --> 00:35:19,599
nine saves. Danny had a two point three seven ERA

722
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,280
and thirty eight innings last year. Now, twenty four of

723
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,079
those thirty eight were relief appearances. So making no mistake

724
00:35:25,079 --> 00:35:26,800
about it, like Danny lock and Meyer is going to

725
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,800
be a relief pitcher on this staff. But we talked

726
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,079
about not giving up free passes earlier and how impressive

727
00:35:33,079 --> 00:35:37,079
Cooper will Cooper Moore was eleven strikeouts, no walks, Danny

728
00:35:37,119 --> 00:35:40,679
lock Andmyer last year fifty strikeouts, just eighteen walks. On

729
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,880
the entire season. He had nine saves that led the

730
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,559
Summit League that ranked twenty third in the nation. Like

731
00:35:46,639 --> 00:35:49,599
Danny Lockemeyer is a guy coming in that Yes he's

732
00:35:49,599 --> 00:35:52,920
stepping up obviously multiple levels of competition, but he was

733
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,360
really really solid last year for the Boys, and I'm

734
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,519
excited to see him. I think we'll see him in

735
00:35:59,559 --> 00:36:02,679
the back into that bullpen here tonight, if in fact

736
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:06,480
it is Jaden Nude that does get the start. We

737
00:36:06,519 --> 00:36:08,039
saw him a little bit over the weekend, but I

738
00:36:08,079 --> 00:36:09,599
want to see him a little bit more in the field.

739
00:36:09,639 --> 00:36:12,840
Mason Braun, he got to start at DH over the weekend,

740
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,880
played a few spots here and there. Remember Mason Braun

741
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,360
was the number one high school first baseman last year

742
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,559
coming out of high school, and it was the sixty

743
00:36:21,599 --> 00:36:26,000
eighth overall player in the nation. He launched the longest

744
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,280
home run last year in the twenty twenty five major

745
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,320
league draft combine, like the longest out of anybody. He

746
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,360
hit the ball well in the fall. You saw some

747
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,199
things from him over the weekend. You know he can

748
00:36:36,199 --> 00:36:37,920
play a little bit of outfield. He could play first

749
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:39,719
base as well. That's actually what he's listened out on

750
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,280
the roster. He's outfield slash first base. I want to

751
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:43,880
see where they put him, Like did they give Jake

752
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,400
Brown a night off after his big weekend? Put him

753
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,440
in right field? Does he go in there at first base?

754
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,440
For Zach York. You can kind of move Mason Braun

755
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,360
around here and there, which is what I like about him. Like,

756
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,079
if you need to move York to DH, you can

757
00:36:58,559 --> 00:37:00,519
Braun could slide in there. He could in there in

758
00:37:00,559 --> 00:37:06,400
the outfield, multiple outfield positions. I think the the elusiveness,

759
00:37:06,519 --> 00:37:09,559
the athleticism of a guy like Mason Brawn, his ability

760
00:37:09,599 --> 00:37:12,519
to play multiple spots will be huge for this baseball team.

761
00:37:12,559 --> 00:37:15,599
And I'm excited to see, like he'll play tonight, no

762
00:37:15,519 --> 00:37:17,800
no what capacity. That's kind of what I'm excited about.

763
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,320
Where he is going to be placed in that field.

764
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,960
I think he'll get a little bit more action there tonight.

765
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,159
And then Ethan Klaus guy we talked about earlier in

766
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:26,519
the show.

767
00:37:26,559 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 4: He's a guy.

768
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 3: He looks the part getting off the bus. He's six

769
00:37:29,119 --> 00:37:31,679
to two but shortstop in high school, but can move

770
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,039
around the infield. You saw him at second base a

771
00:37:34,119 --> 00:37:38,079
little bit yesterday, showed some power in the fall. Look,

772
00:37:38,119 --> 00:37:39,880
you need depth in the infield. You need to find

773
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,320
some guys. Ethan Klaus could be one of those guys.

774
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,480
He batted four to twenty five or four fifteen and

775
00:37:45,519 --> 00:37:47,880
twenty twenty five last year in high school out in

776
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,320
Las Vegas, five thirty one base percentage, sixteen doubles that

777
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,840
led the entire state of Nevada as far as high

778
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,960
school baseball goes. Ethan Klaus is a guy that could

779
00:37:58,039 --> 00:38:01,280
really step up and be a really quality depth piece

780
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,079
for you. I don't think he's going to win the

781
00:38:03,119 --> 00:38:04,519
job at second base. I don't think it's out of

782
00:38:04,559 --> 00:38:07,280
the question. But Seth Dardar looked really good in the

783
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,559
opening weekend. You should love Braden Simpson there as well.

784
00:38:09,559 --> 00:38:11,599
But Ethan Klaus could be a guy. Look, you need

785
00:38:11,639 --> 00:38:13,159
to pinch hit or he needs somebody to go play

786
00:38:13,199 --> 00:38:16,159
the field in case of an injury. Ethan Klaus, if

787
00:38:16,199 --> 00:38:18,079
he steps up and keeps playing well. He could be

788
00:38:18,159 --> 00:38:22,920
right there in that conversation, and then also Omar Serna. Look,

789
00:38:23,039 --> 00:38:25,559
I thought Aaron Beattie was was really good over the weekend,

790
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,480
both offensively and defensively. But me and Landra talked about

791
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,480
Omar Serna a little bit earlier about just how he looks.

792
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,599
I mean, he's six two two twenty six as a freshman,

793
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,360
and he hit the ball well at times in the

794
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:38,559
in those false scrimmages.

795
00:38:39,119 --> 00:38:41,079
Speaker 4: We saw him a little bit this weekend. He did

796
00:38:41,079 --> 00:38:41,679
get a start.

797
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,079
Speaker 3: I would like to see Omar Serna, whether he starts

798
00:38:45,159 --> 00:38:48,239
or not, gets him extended outing in this game as well,

799
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,760
see what he can do, Elandra before we go to break.

800
00:38:52,599 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 4: Look, I mean we've talked. We've talked, siRNA.

801
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 3: I mean we know that we know about Jaden new Like,

802
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,559
is there somebody tonight though, like maybe maybe a little

803
00:38:59,559 --> 00:39:01,679
bit under the our person You're like, hey, I want

804
00:39:01,679 --> 00:39:02,639
to see what they can do tonight.

805
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,199
Speaker 7: I was not ready for this question. There's not really anybody.

806
00:39:08,519 --> 00:39:10,719
I feel like we saw so much of them this weekend,

807
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,960
so I don't really think that there's anybody that I'm like,

808
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,480
oh yeah, I'm looking out for them, but I am

809
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,760
interested to see who's going to start tonight.

810
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 8: I thought it was going to be Cooper Williams. I

811
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:22,320
thought he was gonna.

812
00:39:23,599 --> 00:39:24,280
Speaker 4: Paris Sturday.

813
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,679
Speaker 8: Yeah, so probably not gonna be him, But I mean,

814
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,920
I don't know. That's a good question.

815
00:39:29,679 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 4: Though, j Jaden, dude, I guess would be your.

816
00:39:31,679 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 7: outBut I would like to see Jayden Nudde like off

817
00:39:34,519 --> 00:39:36,199
of last season he did really well.

818
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:37,639
Speaker 4: We'll see what happen.

819
00:39:37,639 --> 00:39:38,639
Speaker 8: Maybe he's a Maverick Rizzi.

820
00:39:39,159 --> 00:39:40,039
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, because Maverick.

821
00:39:40,079 --> 00:39:41,639
Speaker 3: But he threw like an inning, yes, this is begining,

822
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,280
like an inning and a third I think it was.

823
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,159
Speaker 8: I don't remember if it was Saturday. I don't know.

824
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:46,199
Speaker 6: I think it was just one inning.

825
00:39:46,639 --> 00:39:48,599
Speaker 3: It was just one inning, Okay, Yeah, and I mean

826
00:39:48,599 --> 00:39:50,760
he looked good. But yeah, Maverick Rizzy is a good one.

827
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:52,719
Like it'd be a little bit more of an extended outing,

828
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,440
like we haven't we haven't really got to see Maverick

829
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,880
extend a ton yeah, even even last year.

830
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,519
Speaker 4: So that's a good call as well.

831
00:39:58,519 --> 00:40:00,280
Speaker 3: That's why I brought up Mason Brawn, Like, yeah, we

832
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:01,800
saw Mason bron I want to see him a little

833
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:03,599
bit in the outfield little bit at first base, so

834
00:40:03,639 --> 00:40:07,320
we're kind of versatility he's working with. But excited tonight again.

835
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,639
They played three games over the weekend they have. This

836
00:40:11,679 --> 00:40:13,880
will be their fourth technically opening weekend. I know it's

837
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:17,000
Monday night, but they'll wrap up the opening weekend here

838
00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:19,639
tonight with Kent State as the Golden Flashes come in

839
00:40:19,679 --> 00:40:22,440
three and oho Kent State again. They put up a

840
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:27,000
lot of runs against Southeastern. It was eight on Friday night,

841
00:40:27,159 --> 00:40:30,280
eleven on Saturday, and then fourteen to seven victory over

842
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,800
the Lions yesterday. So Kent State's come out swinging here

843
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,719
in twenty twenty six. We'll see what LS you can

844
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,480
do to counter that attack. Here tonight, we'll take a

845
00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:40,159
time out. We'll close this thing out like we do

846
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every day. Next with some asta bench.

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Speaker 3: In final segment are on a Monday edition of Off

898
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the Bench. If you hit a lot here today on

899
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,880
this Monday LSU Baseball, over the weekend LSU Women's basketball softball,

900
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,519
we had a ton going on. We'll close out the

901
00:43:34,519 --> 00:43:38,000
show today like we do every day, with a little.

902
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:38,639
Speaker 4: Ask the Bench.

903
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:40,559
Speaker 3: This first one's for a launcher, because I saw you'll

904
00:43:40,599 --> 00:43:42,320
talking about it in the chat a little bit earlier.

905
00:43:42,599 --> 00:43:45,159
Speaker 4: Ask the bench, have you seen punch the monkey? What

906
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:46,119
is punch the monkey?

907
00:43:47,079 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 8: Okay?

908
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 7: I feel so bad for punch though. This is like

909
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,239
one of the most emotional things I've.

910
00:43:51,119 --> 00:43:53,039
Speaker 4: Ever right, like, say, I haven't heard of it.

911
00:43:53,079 --> 00:43:57,800
Speaker 7: So it's a little tiny monkey and he was abandoned

912
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,679
by his mother at birth and and so the zoo

913
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,800
keepers raised him, and whenever he was abandoned by his mother,

914
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:06,679
they gave him the stuffed animal.

915
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,039
Speaker 8: He thinks the stuffed animals his mom.

916
00:44:09,519 --> 00:44:11,199
Speaker 4: Okay, they had that's sadder.

917
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 8: Stuffed animals his mom. And then he tried at the zoo.

918
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 7: He tries to like hang out with all the other monkeys,

919
00:44:17,199 --> 00:44:19,480
and none of them want to hang out with him.

920
00:44:20,119 --> 00:44:21,719
And then he went to go try to hug one

921
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,760
of the bigger, like older monkeys, and it pushed him

922
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,559
away and it just went to go crawl with its

923
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,920
stuffed animal, and it was just laying down with his

924
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:30,800
little stuff buggy.

925
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:32,639
Speaker 4: That's that's sadder than I.

926
00:44:32,599 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 7: Thought it was going to be, but also so sad

927
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:35,679
at the same time.

928
00:44:36,159 --> 00:44:37,679
Speaker 3: Maybe they don't want to hang out with him because

929
00:44:37,679 --> 00:44:39,519
he's all caring a stuffed animals.

930
00:44:40,159 --> 00:44:41,599
Speaker 8: Knows, probably because they don't love him.

931
00:44:41,639 --> 00:44:45,119
Speaker 3: Probably because they don't love him. Asked the bench. Why

932
00:44:45,159 --> 00:44:49,000
does OTB for punch? Yeah, Justice for punch is a

933
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,679
great name for a monkey, by the way, Ask the bench.

934
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:55,079
Why does OTB hate President's Day and America? I just

935
00:44:55,119 --> 00:44:57,719
googled it President's Days today, Guys, I don't care.

936
00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 8: We don't get days off here.

937
00:44:59,079 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 4: I don't care. What is President's Day?

938
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 8: Is to celebrate a made up holiday?

939
00:45:03,559 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 3: Also, like, what is the purpose of President's Day? It's

940
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:07,480
like to acknowledge presidents.

941
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,039
Speaker 7: I'm aware we have a president?

942
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Speaker 2: Like what are we? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Like what are we? What are we doing here?

944
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Speaker 2: Is it?

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Speaker 3: Like, Hey, this is the day to celebrate the president?

946
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I know they exist? Are we Are we just celebrating

947
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one day?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I kind of think.

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Speaker 3: That should just be fourth of July. We just conclude

951
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all that in one. There's there's too many things.

952
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Speaker 4: Like Arbor Day. What the hell is that? I like,

953
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we're not We're not doing that. No days off over here, right,

954
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no days off here? Ask the bench.

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Speaker 3: Do you find yourself tuning into curling in the Olympics

956
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like me? And why am I fascinated by it? So yes,

957
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I uh, I mean Victoria's gotten more into it than

958
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I have. But yeah, it's it's one of those things

959
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where you know, when the Olympics started, like a curling boring,

960
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anybody can do that. I am cheering them on while

961
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they are sweeping that eye. So I'm like, make a curve,

962
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make a curve, and it's yeah, we are locked in

963
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in my house every time it comes on, Like I

964
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have no idea what any Olympic schedule is.

965
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Speaker 4: I could look it up and I just don't want to.

966
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Speaker 3: But we have it on in the background, that little

967
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whip around coverage on Peacock since it's by NBC, and

968
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uh yeah when curling comes.

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Speaker 4: On, it's a big deal in our house. All right.

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That's going to do it.

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Speaker 3: For a Monday edition of Off the Bench, we covered

972
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a ton a lot of LSU baseball talk. We got

973
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some softball in there, we got some women's basketball. Patrick Coogan,

974
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former LSU baseball pitcher, joined us, got his thoughts on it.

975
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LSU taking on Kent State tonight six pm and Alec

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Box Stadium.

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Speaker 4: We'll recap that tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: We got a whole lot more going on tune in,

979
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same time, same place tomorrow.

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