Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 3: Ham'sday.
Speaker 1: Hester and Hester got it?
Speaker 2: Fivet a pa, You're.
Speaker 1: Locked in to off the bench.
Speaker 4: We's brack control the as.
Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and
Matt Flynn.
Speaker 5: You look me, oh d b here on this Friday Friday,
rightly from the Raizy Canes studio. Jake Flynn, Alandra Tayte.
Speaker 3: All here with y'all live and in person. Get the
Cracker Jacks out. It's baseball time. Ah yep.
Speaker 4: At first I didn't know. Now I got it.
Speaker 2: Yep. Like they say the old song. What song is that? Matt?
Uh take me out to the ball game there? Oh
wait a minute? Really, Hey, good morning, buddy, Hello, how
are we doing? Good morning?
Speaker 4: It was Kanye said that, right, It was Kanye.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I thought, surprise, we don't have the Olympics on here, Bud.
Speaker 2: I know, I don't know what Taylor's doing. Got two
blank screens up there.
Speaker 6: I'm the only one that can work the remote in here.
Jake apparently, well seventy five here.
Speaker 2: Early seven or two man, I'm in.
Speaker 6: A great mood. She's just like, man, I forgot too.
Speaker 7: He's like, turn it on yourself, diva right, oh.
Speaker 2: QB one everything but in here.
Speaker 6: Got them remote. Matter of fact, you can actually see
the remote right now, and I can't even see him.
Speaker 2: I can see him. That's intimidating.
Speaker 3: Do we really want him touching remotes and pointing them
in places?
Speaker 2: And put?
Speaker 6: In fairness, I think of the twenty five up there,
three of them work, so it might take a little
while if you don't know which.
Speaker 2: One solid odds, that's pretty much every house I've ever
been to. There's just a drawer full of remotes and
there's only one that works, and only the homeowner knows
which one it is. So in this scenario, you are
the homeowner. You're the only one that knows which one works. So, yeah,
your fault. I used to have this.
Speaker 3: I think it was Long Tech is the company, but
he used to have one because of that situation where
you got seven remotes.
Speaker 4: Like I bought this universal.
Speaker 3: It's like square and it's like a touch bad and
they came in and they like wired it to do everything,
and it was a life changer, game changer. Don't have
that anymore, but I once did. Is that what it is? Okay, Yeah,
we've we've done that. We've done the universal remote thing
where everything's into one. But then technology it just gets
a little too much. Then you're like, man, I wish
I had those three to four remotes back. It freezes,
it's unprogrammed stuff. Situation, first world problems. Yeah, mm hmm,
how to go In the Olympics yesterday, sir USA hockey
one dominated six.
Speaker 2: Five to one. I believe Lotia dominated their faces. Sorry
about it. I do feel like a lot of those,
especially like the Eastern European countries, like they don't even
try on the uniforms. It just looked like the most
like I just put it was just the most like boring.
And I get it. Every country has got a different budget,
I guess for their uniforms. But like Docky's kind of
a big deal. It's just like this the most boring
maroon color you've ever seen, with just a number on it.
At least you say, he's got a little pizazz to it,
got some designage, some stripes and some stars.
Speaker 6: That's such a good uniform, like that one, that white
one that they wore hasn't really changed. Like you can
watch the Miracle on Ice, like it's very similar from that.
It's just a classic one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It's good looking and like it makes
it the difference between them and the Latvia uniforms. It's like,
you don't even don't even care. You don't even look
good doing it. Don't even look good doing it. No,
it was good though we didn't I didn't. We didn't.
We weren't as locked in last night as no world
kind of had a busy night with the children. But uh,
the biggest probably news from Olympic or from a US standpoint. Uh.
Chloe Kim, the two time defending gold medalist in women's
hat pipe snowboarding. Yeah, she was going for the first
ever three time winner. She got silver. She actually had
a protege there, somebody that she's been mentoring from Korea
that took gold. She had she had it. She had
the highest score and I think you get two runs
at the end. The girl that won gold, she had
actually had a nasty spill in her first run. The
second run she laid down a monster score took her down.
Speaker 6: Chloe Kim still kind of wins that though if she's
been trending to the girl Choe, I.
Speaker 3: Said, I thought it. I don't know, Lauander, what do
you think.
Speaker 7: I don't know. I think spelled Chloe, but I don't know.
Speaker 6: Anyway, Okay, Which this is an important question. Which Korea?
Speaker 2: Probably not the North, probably South?
Speaker 3: Probably South? Oh, yeah, I would assume same. But I think, yeah,
I think I was ready.
Speaker 2: I think it's Republican career, which, yeah, we have it. Yeah,
so she went gold lays it down, Cloe cam silver Metal,
girlfriend of Miles Garrett. Interesting, very interesting, I thought. But
it was a fantastic day. I assumed that everybody else
here in the foxhol was pretty locked in.
Speaker 8: I watched, well, I watched some of the hockey game
after the L s U softball game.
Speaker 7: They were one to one whenever I tuned in.
Speaker 8: But then dominated I.
Speaker 2: Turned it on, they scored like two goals in one minute.
They went back to back pretty good on two goals
to go to like from two to one to four
to one, real fast. Yeah, there was when we watched
there was a cross country skiing one.
Speaker 8: It was a little a little bit of speed skating.
Speaker 6: Last night.
Speaker 2: Oh did you see can you pull the picture of
the skeleton guy. There's an American. There was a skeleton rider.
In his helmet was Venom. That was awesome.
Speaker 6: We saw that. We saw the picture I pulled up
the other day. They had the iron Man one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the iron Man.
Speaker 2: This one dominates the Iron Man one bad, like with
his head straight down. It looks pretty good. But I
was watching the cross country Jesse Diggins for the us A.
There was this cross country event and it's gotta be
the toughest one because you're racing the clock. You're not
racing a person. They stagger starts up to this track,
so they don't even know. They're just giving it everything
they have till they like pretty much pass out. She
raced so hard she sat there and screamed at the
finish line, like laying down, like writhing in pain. She
ends up getting She ended up getting the bronze though
for her dang.
Speaker 7: Yeah she did all that and got bronze. That's cool.
Speaker 2: Well, like Americans and cross country, your skin not necessarily
usually the powerhouse.
Speaker 8: No, for sure, Yeah it is a big deal. I
mean bronze, like you're you still want a medal, But
I thought you were about.
Speaker 4: To say, oh, that is like that bottom picture.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I hadn't seen the Iron Man one, but
it can't be that.
Speaker 2: This one's cool. I don't even know how he did,
but it looked bad ass. He win.
Speaker 3: I just said, I don't even know how it does. Well,
I know, but we have computers, and you know the name.
I'm sure you've been googling Olympic I have.
Speaker 2: It's not as easy to find, like complete breakdowns as
you would think. They get a little wordy, a lot
of pop up ads.
Speaker 7: They do get wordy, get word get up right.
Speaker 8: It is hard to get just a normal list of
Olympic updates. I have an Olympic update Sean White. Yeah,
he looks so good, like talk.
Speaker 2: About af yellow crush.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and then you're like the appressive.
Speaker 2: I think he's had a glow.
Speaker 7: Well, but then I was like, well, let me see again.
Maybe I'm tripping.
Speaker 8: I saw him on my TV that I looked him
up and I'm standing by he's got yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh big glow, had a glow.
Speaker 2: Looks great.
Speaker 3: That guy's been in the like her Olympic circuit forever. Yeah,
because he was so young, obviously did the X Games.
I think he was four Olympics had to be has
to be four Olympics.
Speaker 6: I always loved the interviews. One of his one of
his earlier races. Obviously, he's doing an interview with some
national news anchor and he's like, yeah, you know, we
we got this done, and you know, we all went out,
we got drinks and she goes, wait drinks, Sean, you're
only seventeen. He goes, I'm talking about those Mountain dews, Baby.
Speaker 3: Mountain code reads back in the day probably gave you
more of a little buzz than anything. Nothing fresh, Baby.
I remember the Code reds.
Speaker 7: The Code reds were good.
Speaker 2: It's a couple of illegally ingredients in them.
Speaker 4: No, there's no doubt they're not even allowed on the
shelves anymore.
Speaker 3: Probably, we we did see when we were on our
way to Mobile.
Speaker 4: We did see Big Reds.
Speaker 7: We did see Big Red in the wild.
Speaker 3: Remember, we were all three very surprised because it had
been a long time since we see.
Speaker 2: It does make sense, though.
Speaker 7: Because it's like a Texas.
Speaker 2: Is a Texas store that started there, so you don't
ever see it outside though.
Speaker 7: I don't know if I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: Restores maybe that had it in treeport.
Speaker 6: Not necessarily stores, but like like an outlet mall vended
machine used to love a big.
Speaker 8: Red Okay, I didn't know Sean White was a short
king five eight, really sure.
Speaker 7: I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: I thought he can't do that many flips and spins
and be tall, No.
Speaker 7: For sure, But I just did not know that.
Speaker 3: I know from experience, dude, I would not have guessed
that though, No, five eight, at least five to ten.
But on the snowboard he's probably like five eight in
a quarter. So I guess not only in football, but
in snowboarding as well, low man wins seven eighth he's
probably tall for that. That's support too. Yeah, he walks
into the snowboarding group, whoa, how's the air up there?
Speaker 2: My god?
Speaker 6: Trying to upstage?
Speaker 4: Just buddy, what's the altitude?
Speaker 2: Like? Well, whatever height he is, he's really good.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 3: Now that is that is a Winter Olympic sport that
can certainly get behind snowboarding.
Speaker 2: Anything is snowboarding? Well, it's part of the Winter olymp
I know. Yeah, you can't say that, you know, running
back only had a had one hundred yards but eighty
that come on one run? No, I hate can't say that.
You can't say that I hate the Olympics except for
that one sport.
Speaker 3: We have people that do that here and when I
say it makes my blood boil.
Speaker 7: Wait do what?
Speaker 3: Oh the running back had one hundred and seventy five yards,
but if you take away those two long runs, he
only had forty. It's like, Yeah, the funny thing is
you can't. It's not allowed. If you don't want those runs,
tackle him.
Speaker 2: So what I'm saying, you keep adding these sports we
talk about to things you like about the Olympics, but
you still hate on the Olympics. So maybe make them away.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'll take the would I'll be a fan by
the end of it.
Speaker 6: Average height mill snowboarder five nine to five eleven. So
shot White right in.
Speaker 2: There, Okay, five eight thinking good, one of the good ones.
Speaker 6: It just says the average height for a mile snowboarder
among competitive athletes is approximately five nine to five eleven.
Speaker 4: You thought they were taking everybody's height, Yeah, just breaking right.
Speaker 2: Around the exactly taking it on.
Speaker 7: The mountain, going to a ski resort, just like.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm going skiing next week, So like I would
have really skewed that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, where are you going.
Speaker 2: To breaking ridge?
Speaker 3: You know we're not snowboard now, I'm not going to
fulfill are young skidam?
Speaker 2: Are you skis? I am because I've only gone like
like I never did it growing up, and I never
grew up skateboard like that was not a thing that
we were really allowed to do because of you know,
sports sports, so like ski and I did it multiple
years after retiring from the NFL. That was the first
time I did. I wasn't gonna do it neither.
Speaker 4: I've never done I still to this day Denver and
still have not skis.
Speaker 2: So I wasn't going to jump on I figured, like
my the fastest path for me to get down a
mountain comfortably was on two feet yeah, like side side
instead of on the snow like on a skateboard going
down a mountain. Figure that was the best way. Now,
Like I said, that was my dream as a child
to be an Olympic gold medalist and snowboarding. So I
don't know if I can get there if I'd never
put on a snowboard.
Speaker 7: You should try snowboarding this trip.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard, like I've thought about it multiple times
because it looks so sweet.
Speaker 7: Yeah, just try it.
Speaker 2: But if you try it, it's just like your first
trip doing it, you just spend it on your bike
the whole time. You just keep falling on your butt.
That's that's not a gritty attitude to have it, I'm saying.
And then keep moving and do it twice. Two trips?
Speaker 7: How long aren't you gonna be there the whole week?
Do it two days?
Speaker 2: Well? I meant like trips like.
Speaker 7: A week to it takes you a week to get off.
Speaker 4: People said, you're an athlete.
Speaker 2: That's a really good point.
Speaker 4: He once was an athlete. Don't get this fella hurt.
Speaker 2: Out there, but say coaches flag football game, Yeah we won.
I caught a tuddy from you. I had a spin
move you did. I was busy, he did.
Speaker 3: I know you can still spin it. That's that's not
the issue. I can just throw a ball down the mountain.
I would you be legit the best there? And I
feel confident in saying that nobody in Breckenridge will throw
football better than you next week.
Speaker 2: I'll be the best throw of the football in brecking
Ridge next week. How's that feels? Gotta be a cool feeling, man.
It usually usually when I feel down. I think about that,
like there's probably no one around that is a better
than me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like not in this city, because you know, I
heard Sam Levitt talking ish about him being able to
throw you out.
Speaker 2: Throw sam Levitt right now, I.
Speaker 6: Mean right, he's right down the road to make this happen.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not even I'm not even worried about it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go for I don't want to
go for distance. They'll probably give me on a distance.
Speaker 3: What are we going for here? Just accuracy, spirals overall
sexiness of the throne. I can feel your brain trying
to look at the clock and say, what am I
going to say here at seven fifteen?
Speaker 2: Or your sexiness? Yeah? I know.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, we'll get to TV's on the Olympics
so Matt can watch here. Hopefully coming up, we do
have a big story in college football to get to
involving the SEC.
Speaker 4: We have got to get to opening weekend at the box.
Speaker 3: LSU Baseball drop their hype video, so certainly want to
play that for you as well.
Speaker 4: All that when we come back here.
Speaker 3: On OTB off the bench that almost just got called
off campus. Just letting y'all know go to Valley's Vendor's
Casino and hotel, the brand new star of downtown Baton Rouge.
It is brand new and sure like the outside of
the building somewhat might.
Speaker 2: Be the same.
Speaker 3: That's the only thing that is the same. When you
walk in, you'll be blown away. They have got Vegas
style gaming all over the place right when you walk in.
On the casino floor, they've got new slot machines. They
have got a brand new drafting sportsbook with an incredible
bar that butts up to this biggest TV I think
you've ever seen in your life. They've got a brand
new hotel. Every room got an upgrade. Everything got an upgrade.
Speaker 2: Go check it out.
Speaker 4: Valley's of a Bantererige casino in hotel.
Speaker 2: That's right, it is Friday. It is the weekend. If
you're looking for something to do, if you're in Batonies
the Banderies area, looking for something to do with your friends,
with your spouse, whatever it is little date night, go
to Valley's of Batnaries Venderies. You got an upgrade twenty
five thousand square foot gameing facility, beautiful hotel and restaurants.
Right there, all's a bed.
Speaker 1: Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 6: If you.
Speaker 8: Do the calm man, you wake up on ro won
a way, you.
Speaker 7: Are all your faults.
Speaker 2: I want to wake up where you are.
Speaker 1: I won't say anything at all. Slide on side.
Speaker 2: Somewhere here in the Capital City.
Speaker 3: This morning, Hunt Palmer's waking up, putting his pants on,
rolling out of bed, getting dressed for the day. He
heard this song and you just gave himself a little
fist punk got a big one, just a little one.
You might have slept with the socks on last night,
baseball socks. If anybody did sleeping stirrups, it was last night.
Speaker 2: Might Moose might have as well.
Speaker 3: But I was really alluding to it being Opening Day
and Goo Goo Dolls all coming together at the same time.
Speaker 7: Hunts about to lose it.
Speaker 6: It's utopic for him, massive Goo Goo Dolls fan, which
I didn't know until last week.
Speaker 4: I mean, all of us should be, but he really is.
Speaker 7: No, it's like the only artist that he listens to.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's like Marler was walking around last
week asking what do you want? The super Bowl halftime
sure to be a Hunt immediately goes greatest band of
all time Googoo dolls.
Speaker 3: Of course, it was like, all right, huh, look, I
mean they're catalog guys.
Speaker 4: Strong.
Speaker 3: I mean this might be a Goo Goo Dolls Hour
four Hunt an LSU Baseball returning.
Speaker 2: It feels right, that's still right. I think you kind
of crazy to think that you are saying Hunt slept
last night Tooche Touche.
Speaker 3: Do you think Hunt got a lineup card last night
and filled it out just to compare notes with Jay?
Speaker 2: Yep? I think you did too.
Speaker 3: You know, like T Bobby said, is like mini figs,
like the figurines paint.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Hunt with the roster.
Speaker 7: It's a score book ready.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had the one monicle that you can zoom
in on and y'all these are terms of endearment.
Speaker 3: We love the fact that Hunts is fired up for baseball.
Now we can't sleep on Moose. Yep, Moose is right
there with Hunt. I found out how big of a
baseball Moose was whenever T Bob and I got together
for OTB for the first time and the company gave
us the box for the game like the company suite.
Speaker 2: They didn't do that this year. They did do that
for us.
Speaker 4: It's weird they never done this was like, this was
like me and Ta Boy.
Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 3: It was during kind of like coming off of COVID
as well, so that's probably why, like nobody was going
to like, hey, well throw them a bone, but uh,
it was I guess it would have been Danny, Yeah, me,
t Bob and Danny and Moose and that our wives
came as well, but it was just they gave it
to us. Well, there wasn't a lot of people there
because it was coming right out of COVID and they had,
you know, limited people could be in the stadium, and
we were actually playing against Air Force, so Paul Skins,
you know, we didn't know, but he was on the team. Uh,
to tell you how long ago it was, Will Helmer's
was the opening day, starting third baseman. Yeah, to tell
you how long ago that was. And the things that
Moose was yelling at the Air Force Academy was shocking.
Speaker 2: They protect our homeland though, like.
Speaker 4: It was he didn't care who it was, He didn't care.
Speaker 3: And the fact that there wasn't a lot of people
in there again because of restrictions.
Speaker 4: You heard every word everybody the entire box.
Speaker 3: Like he would get so mad that when the pitching
coach would go out to have a conversation with the
pitcher for the other team.
Speaker 4: It upset him.
Speaker 2: How dare him?
Speaker 3: What are you doing? You're slowing down the game. Pull
him already if you're gonna talk to him. I'm like, Moose,
my guy, is this always?
Speaker 7: He doesn't respect our troops.
Speaker 2: I mean, he doesn't love the troops.
Speaker 3: I mean, if recorded, I bet he said something negative
between the lines though, about one of our goats, Paul Skins.
Speaker 4: Probably and didn't even know it.
Speaker 7: Probably did.
Speaker 3: If we if okay, so if we would have videoed him,
you know how.
Speaker 4: So Ben Mintz got he got lucky.
Speaker 3: I mean our boy playboy Marty was filming filming him
during an old Miss Kentucky game and that video went
viral and that's how he got on barstool. Right, nothing
against that video. This would have blown that out of
the water. Moose would be on barstool if we would have.
Speaker 2: Had this filmed. I don't think Moose would want to.
Speaker 8: Be I feel like he would be like obviously the
one that everybody believes.
Speaker 2: No, I mean that's mince right.
Speaker 7: Now, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really funny though, I'm just picturing it.
Speaker 7: I'm I'm more a pacer.
Speaker 6: And ye know that I told you a little while back.
I used to sit on the third baseline when I
was in college, and that was right where the hoosing
bullpen is, and I would go to the player bio
and find like the players moms and dad's name and
make fun of them.
Speaker 3: That sure, okay, angus right, a little basketball situation, that's fun.
Speaker 6: Like where are we sitting? I'm like third baseline right there?
Speaker 2: Gotta be there, anybody, Elandro, I know you're headed out
to the ballpark.
Speaker 7: Can't wait to I can't wait to eat.
Speaker 3: I can't go to the Friday game obviously I got work.
But we're going Saturday or Sunday, like we're taking the
whole crew. I don't know which game, but we're going.
We're in, like Flynn, I will not be in.
Speaker 4: Why it's opening day?
Speaker 2: You hate j Oh, I love Jay?
Speaker 7: This is crazy?
Speaker 2: Oh what about today? I can't go today? Why? I
got things like what a business owner and a father?
Your kids are in school a two o'clock.
Speaker 7: Yeah apparently, but I guess not.
Speaker 4: That didn't last very long.
Speaker 6: I'm on your side on this one. Don't play the
game at two o'clock in the afternoon on opening day.
Speaker 2: What are we doing?
Speaker 6: Don't do that?
Speaker 3: Children are getting educated for one. Look, I'm not going
to question Jay Johnson. So if y'all want to about
the time he starts this game, y'all can do that.
Speaker 6: I'm firing off email love Friday night at the box,
and I would like the first game you.
Speaker 7: Can fire off emails.
Speaker 2: From your phone. I'm, you know, telling people, I hope
your day's going well.
Speaker 7: No, I think you're just not a stick chad. You're
lying about it.
Speaker 2: I think you are brought me a little radio to
sit in my pocket. I can listen to it wherever
I am. That's not sure. I didn't do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not true, because you didn't do that for
football when I was on air, I don't have called
you out.
Speaker 2: Well, in my defense, football wasn't very good. Yeah, but
the broadcast is great. That's a good point. Even though
in some of these games you did kind of tell
us you mailed it in at the end.
Speaker 4: I think I actually told you the complete opposite.
Speaker 3: I think I told you that I always appreciate the
fact that Chris allows me to go all in.
Speaker 2: Like a lot like you'll listen to a.
Speaker 3: Lot of of you know, the home team play by plays,
and we play a lot like of sound from it
the next Monday on Sirius and we'll play some sound
and be like, dude, this guy is like cheerleading in
the box. We have a little bit of a different approach.
But I love the fact that Chris Player allows me like, hey,
if it's bad, if it's the product in front of
us is not good, he allows us to talk about
what's not going right and what's not good, and that
is not the case in a lot of broadcasts. So
I did not tell you anything even similar to what
you just said.
Speaker 2: You lied, That's how I remember it. So it's kind
of lie. It's my truth.
Speaker 7: All you do is that's all you do?
Speaker 8: This?
Speaker 2: Are you even going to Breckenridge?
Speaker 8: Right, He's just using that as an excuse to not
go to the box.
Speaker 7: That's crazy.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be Jake's gonna drop in his house this
wee get messaged the.
Speaker 2: Yess what I'm guess what I'm not doing in bragg rage.
I'm not doing I'm not skiing on Tuesday evening, But
you're gonna watch mid what about my house?
Speaker 7: I was like, what Monday, Kent State.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew that we locked him.
Speaker 7: I guess no. They play Milwaukee four times.
Speaker 2: I think, actually we're gonna help me.
Speaker 4: I can say, you can say three and then can.
Speaker 2: Say're gonna help me make flash cards. We haven't done
that yet. Flash cards for what so I can like
so I can learn.
Speaker 6: But that's something like I don't some of your wife's
gonna have to do for you, like on the trip,
you're gonna have to like study in the car.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna be honest with you. I went to
school with you. If anybody knows how to make flash cards,
it's you, Bud.
Speaker 2: Is that true?
Speaker 3: Yes, because I remember in study hall sometimes you'd be struggling.
Speaker 2: Flash cards. It is a good way to learn. It's fantastic.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have like a flash card like with like
you know, like the single ring.
Speaker 2: You punch a hole and you put the single ring
around there A lot just gonna.
Speaker 3: Give you mone He's gonna be at the box, he's
gonna be flipping laminated flash cards.
Speaker 6: If you trying to keep up with everyone, if you
happen to be in Breckenridge and try to tune in
Tuesday Night, I don't know what you're gonna watch because
all she plays Monday and Wednesday.
Speaker 3: That's what I meant that. I was like, that's a
there's a time difference.
Speaker 6: There's a day difference. To you guys, is still Tuesday?
Speaker 2: All right? Got to give me a couple of breaks here.
I don't have the flash cards made yet, they're coming,
all right.
Speaker 8: What do you like? What do you want on the
flash cards? The names in the positions, so.
Speaker 2: Name old front, flip it over.
Speaker 3: He wants place of birth, height, weight, position, and maybe
one fun fact.
Speaker 6: You want there, like, uh, do you want their zodixime?
We can find that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe maybe preseason rankings as well for different teams
in the SEC.
Speaker 2: Good lots of stuff. That'll be good. That'll be great.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, since you kind of want that preseason rankings,
let's do this. We'll step away, and when we come back,
we'll get it started with giving you a little bit
of a preview, not only the SEC, but around the
country of some of the top teams. Who's on LSU schedule.
It's going to fall into that preseason top twenty five.
Who are some of the teams that are supposed to
be the best teams in the country. Obviously the SEC
is deep with three e's in the middle, but there's
some other teams out there that are certainly worth the conversation,
and we'll do that when we come back here on
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Speaker 3: All right, let's look at the preseason D one baseball
Top twenty five.
Speaker 4: Now, the LSU Tigers are not number one here. It's
actually out on the West Coast.
Speaker 3: UCLA comes in as the number one team in their
preseason top twenty five. You've got LSU number two, Texas
number three, Mississippi State number four, Georgia Tech five, Coastal
Carolina six, Arkansas seven, Louisville eight, Auburn.
Speaker 4: Nine, and TCU ten.
Speaker 3: Now, if we just pick out the rest of the
SEC teams coming in at number thirteen, the Florida Gators
at fourteen, the Tennessee Volunteers at fifteen, the Jauja Bulldogs
at eighteen, Kentucky Wildcats at twenty three, the Vandervelt Commodoores,
and at twenty five the Texas A and m Aggie's. So,
as you can tell, it is another very SEC heavy
preseason top twenty five. So that certainly stands out. Now,
one other thing that does stand out UCLA for the
most part, the only rep from the West Coast outside
of Oregon State at twelve in Arizona all the way
down at twenty four. The West Coast used to dominate
college baseball. You go back some time with all the
cal State, full Er and UC Irvine and Long Beach State,
like that game has completely changed. But UCLA is right
now the top team in the rankings. They got one
of the best players in the nation and they probably
feel like they're playing for an entire region of the country.
But LSU comes in at number two. I wonder why
that is. Like you said, there's so many smaller schools
from California that were always good at least I was
on one or two that were good every single year.
I had the desire to be better from bigger schools,
desire as a.
Speaker 2: Part of the money in world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well more schools around the country said, you know what,
this college baseball does not half bad, let me invest
and put some resources behind it. And I think that
was a big part for those West Coast teams. But
it's not just like the mid major teams either. Stanford
used to be one of the standards of college baseball.
USC certainly was one of those standards, but Oregon might
be the best the second best team outside of UCLA
out of the Big Ten, So like that probably didn't
help them going to the Big Ten. Like those schools.
It helped a lot in football and in basketball, but
probably not in college baseball. I mean, you got like
a Michigan team that probably in Michigans made it to
the College Real Series.
Speaker 4: We interviewed their coach a week ago, two weeks ago maybe, and.
Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, we haven't really taken a ground ball
that wasn't either indoors or off of a pile of
snow in a long time. So you deal with that,
you know, with some of these Big Ten teams. So
UCLA right now certainly the top team in the Big Ten,
they're going to be one that's probably going to be
up there all season long. As far as the rankings,
their conference is not the SEC, right Ucla right now,
double check again the only team out of their conference
now with the SEC you've got, he was eleven, eleven eleven,
he got eleven of the twenty five. So for UCLA,
I would go ahead and assume they're going to be
close to the top all season long. And then for
LSU in Texas and Mississippi State and Arkansas, all these
top ten SEC teams, they're going to go through the gauntlet.
Not to say that they won't be there towards the
top all season long. But we're talking about a different resume.
We're talking about a different path to a national championship.
And I think that's why a lot of people think
UCLA can be there towards the end because of their
path to get there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's a far It's like a drastic
difference between what they have to do all season and
you know, you're probably you know, anybody in base in
baseball can get hot at the right time, but I
would say the teams that come out of the SEC
are going to have a way bigger advantage and crunch
time in the College World Series and the and the
Supers and all that, so because they're going to be
tested every single week. If he's not tested, like you've
we talked to when we talk to coaches here on
the show, you talk, well, we talked of all sports.
Kim Molke talks about like, you have to learn how
to win in tight games, right, and uh, you certainly
have to figure that out in the SEC or you're
not going to make the postseason because it is Uh,
she's eleven teams, Good lord, good luck to them all. Yeah,
but not all of them are defending national champs that
they are not that they are not. So when you
look at the Tigers, they're in a good spot. Obviously,
they're going to have incredible conference series all throughout the year.
Speaker 4: They're going to have, you know, multiple teams.
Speaker 3: That come in here and know that LSU is the
standard of college baseball.
Speaker 4: They're going to give you your best shot there.
Speaker 3: But else she's been there before, They've gone through the
gauntlet of the SEC. This is not new that the
SEC is gonna have all these crazy talented teams, eleven
of the top twenty five, and so you got a
stack some wins. We know Jay Johnson, he takes midweek
games as serious as anybody that we've ever been around.
I love that about him. You're gonna have some weekend
matchups coming up. You've got obviously Milwaukee, and then you're
gonna have a couple of games like against teams like
Dartmouth and Northeastern, and then you've got a series against
Sacramento State, and then your first SEC series is going
to be on the road against Vanderbilt in Nashville.
Speaker 4: So I like the way that you open it up.
Speaker 3: You got Vanderbilt, you got Oklahoma at home, You get
Kentucky at home. You do go to Tennessee in early April,
but we don't really know right now what Tennessee without
Tony v is going to be.
Speaker 2: Like, So I like it.
Speaker 4: I like where the Tigers are certainly to open up
the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I when we were talking to Jay yesterday, I
asked him a question. I was like, you know, the
first month of the season, is it really about results
or is it really more about like development? Because this
is where February thirteenth right now opening day, and long
way to go before the end of the year and
before the postseason. So like, I still know you're trying
to figure out you know, trying to figure at lineup
and rotations and all the good stuff. Right, you got
to got to figure out who your team is and
who the best players are going to be. No, he
immediately said, no, well, the first month, we just want
to win every single game that we play. Yeah, and
then we'll do the development on top of that. So
it certainly is all about winning, and that's why we
love Jay Johnson and that's why he is the greatest
coach in college baseball.
Speaker 3: Was it Omaha they lost a game to last year,
like one of the weekend. They won the series, lait,
Remember they lost to Omaha, like the actual team.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, okay, I don't know where I was
just now.
Speaker 2: When you were thinking about hot dogs.
Speaker 4: I was about hot dogs.
Speaker 8: Also, like I thought we were talking about UCLA still
for some reason.
Speaker 3: So like to the point like he wants to win
all of those games, right game. And I remember people
being like, who it's so Omahols.
Speaker 2: Yeah they won the series, but that man didn't like it.
Speaker 3: That man wants to win in the midweek. He wants
to win obviously on the weekends. I love his approach.
For so long, we had this stupid conversation do midweek
games matter? And I'm like, are you putting on a uniform?
Are you sending a lineup card out there? Do you
have your normal lineup out there most of the time?
Oh all that's yes, then yeah they matter. They matter
to the RPI, they matter to the psyche of your team.
Because I never understood it, And there's probably baseball bros
that are listening right now, yelling at the radio, and
I get it. I've got a football mentality, But to
ever go out there and just like pretty much tell
your team I guys, we want to win it, but
like if we don't, it's not that big a deal.
Then you got to go get back up for the weekend.
But wild thought, if you just kept the mentality the
same all year long, I don't know, maybe you wouldn't
have to go back and forth of ad doesn't matter,
we gotta win, doesn't matter, we gotta win. And Jay
takes the approach of we gotta win and they've won
two national championships last.
Speaker 2: Three years now. From a coaching stampoint, you're not gonna
like throw all your arms on to win the game,
but you want the guys that go out there, they're
getting an opportunity that they might not get during the weekends.
Or some guys, you want them to go out there
and win.
Speaker 3: And again you're gonna have the same lineup, right, you
don't have nine new starters in for a midweek game.
It's still your one through nine. It's like the arms
might be a little different. You gotta be smart, but
you're still trying to do everything you can to win
the game. And love the approach by Jay. All Right,
we will take a break more ot B when we
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Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to Off the Bench, all.
Speaker 3: Right, welcome back, Yeah, OTB here live from the Raisin
Kines studio. We told you during the game yesterday, kind
of very very rare that we have a game to
talk about dearing our show. But LSU softball does drop
that first game in Clearwater to Nebraska six to nothing.
But they had a nice bounce back against Oklahoma State.
They won that game nine to four, and then today
they have got the Duke Blue Devils. That's gonna be
a three thirty pm Central time first pitch, and then
tomorrow they've got UCF and then they've got number six
UCLA coming up on Sunday. So a nice bounce back
after lou to Nebraska six to nothing. Else you softball
gets the dub nine to four. Great opportunity two more
ranked teams in their next three games. That Nebraska game
kind of spiraled on them a little bit, not able
to really uh stopped bleeding there early in that contest.
And again it was a nice bounce back though for
them to come back and beat a good Oklahoma State team.
So again Duke three point thirty Central time. I believe
that game is going to be on ESPN plus. The
UCF game is going to be on the SEC Network,
and then that UCLA game is going to.
Speaker 2: Be on ESPN two.
Speaker 3: And of course you can always hear those games in
the LC Sports Radio Network as well.
Speaker 2: That's fun watching them. Yesterday, it was fun watching a
game during the show.
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Speaker 2: It was intimidated for Nebraska freshman. Good lord, goodness.
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