Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah with Jacob Hester and T
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Speaker 2: Easy, Josh, I'm doing finger guns at Tate. How about
Ja Morant? I freaking love it. Two nights ago, does
finger guns against the Warriors, gets a technical, gets a
stern warning from the NBA, and then last night, in
the first quarter, hits a three and does the finger
guns on the way back, just a big middle finger
to the NBA. And then know he closes out the
night hitting the game winner right in front of a
BELLA danger legendary performance from Ja Morant.
Speaker 3: You're about to say legendary performer.
Speaker 2: True, that's where he were going. True on both counts.
One of the goats, A couple of goats chopping it up.
I mean what I do love? I mean in all seriousness.
The jamrant doing it again immediately the next night is
absolutely like what you're gonna do?
Speaker 3: NBA? Do some do some?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I people do something make me like it's
it's it may be the bad guy, it's and it's
weird because if they do do something're kind of playing
into his hands. Because a lot of people pointed out
that a lot of people have done finger guns, but.
Speaker 3: For because of Job's passed.
Speaker 2: Obviously, they kind of made a bigger deal out of
it this time, just a wild, wild, rebellious situation from
uh from Job.
Speaker 4: I still can't believe they suspended the dude twenty five games.
I just I just still can't believe them in what way.
I just I just thought that was a little.
Speaker 5: Bit enough too much.
Speaker 6: I thought that was incredibly excessive.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but
do you think it's because.
Speaker 2: Of the definitely because of his actual firearm related incidences
in the past.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one n one hundred percent, like.
Speaker 4: He I get it, but he posted a picture with
a firearm on Instagram.
Speaker 2: I mean, I still think it was a bit I
still think the I still I get why the NBA
did it, But I don't know what they're gonna do here,
because they should do nothing like they did last I mean,
I I kind of agree they should do nothing, but
this is absolutely him thumbing his nose.
Speaker 3: This is like the scene in Breakfast Club. You know,
you want another one, another detention? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Whateverly, you know, just going back and forth, just stacking him.
He didn't care this big high school rebel vibes from.
Speaker 4: John did you did you hear the NBA's excuse, Like
they are the reasoning for like warning him the first time.
They're like, we didn't. We didn't view it as like violent.
We just thought it was inappropriate. I'm like, okay, well,
then what was inappropriate about it if you didn't think
that it encouraged violence?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Like, I'm like, I don't I don't get that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're kind of trying to have their cake and
eat it too a little bit there. Uh. Either way,
I'm excited to watch it play out. But that was
just a very There was a very mad lib sort
of moment with him finishing that Shota out in front
of bella danger immediately after doing that in the first round.
Also doing it in the first quarter is pretty diabolical,
you know, like a first quarter three when the Grizzlies
have been sucking lately. I could have all gone very wrong,
and yet it did not.
Speaker 3: It did not.
Speaker 8: I think it's a perfect transition into his former college
coach getting another player out of the portal.
Speaker 3: Ah.
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Speaker 2: So, John Moran's former college coach now your LSU basketball coach.
Matt McMahon and Matt McMahon has added Max McKinnon, a
Portland wing six six o ore now who shot forty
from three last year, averaged fourteen points a game eighty
nine percent from the free throw shoot.
Speaker 3: That's a sniper.
Speaker 2: Boys got ourselves in Australian sharpshooter.
Speaker 8: Hell yeah, let's throw it to our shoot basketball expert
over here, a little correspondent, Taylor Sharp.
Speaker 4: I like the sogny. You needed three point shooting bad
this last year. I mean really, outside of Cam Carter,
you didn't have that. This guy shot forty one percent
last year and he's putting together a nice team. I mean,
you look at what he's got coming back. It's not
a ton, but Jalen Reid's coming back. As of right now,
Robert Miller is still on this team. Then you got
Michael Nioku from Mississippi State. I mean that's three quality
post players right there. Damian Collins as of now, not
in the transfer portal. That's another guy that you can
play in the post. You were bad there a year ago.
Now you needed shooting and good news of film. This
lt Bob, the Thomas guy. We couldn't figure out how
to say his first name. Yeah, he's a junior and
he goes by DJ, so we're gonna call him DJ Thomas.
So that's that's a lot better. So you got DJ Thomas.
Speaker 3: I don't remember who we're taling about.
Speaker 7: Was this?
Speaker 4: Actually it was like did don yeh, But he goes
by DJ, so we're going yeah. And then you got
Rashad King. So this is your fourth transfer two four
seven sports has this is a top three transfer portal
class right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 2: So you know, if you too, like me, just tend
to stop listening when Taylor starts talking. All you need
to know, I'm just kidding. Tell you that was a
great breakdown for real, and I did appreciate it. Uh
but as as he ended with their like, sometimes the
easiest way to prove something is just to be like, well,
two four seven right now has the Strength is the
number two portal class in the country.
Speaker 3: You trail only Louisville.
Speaker 2: So promise is made in terms of committing more resources,
committing and getting better through the portal and thus far
promises delivered. Look six six from three will play anywhere.
I feel like I saw Dick Condon being like sarcastic
about this online this morning with surprise me because I
know Dick like legitimately loves LSU basketball and was more
than anyone as somebody who rode in a bed of
a truck to go to the Final four in Philly
back in the day.
Speaker 3: But this seems like a perfect pickup.
Speaker 6: I get it. A lot of people are down.
Speaker 4: I'm like may and I understand that, right, Like you
look at McMahon's overall record as conference record, it's not
good enough.
Speaker 6: But you can't not be excited about this.
Speaker 4: You can't not look at this and say, oh, well,
this is this is certainly trending in the right direction.
Speaker 6: Cause it is. And does is it gonna work out
on the court? I don't know.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have to wait and see. But like, you're
in a better spot now than you were a week ago.
I have heard a better spot a week ago than
you were two weeks before that, So like you gotta
build on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm not.
Speaker 8: Sure that people realize how good the West Coast Conference
really is. A lot of people just assume it's Gonzaga
and everybody else. That's just not the case. Gonzaga makes
a tournament every year. Saint Mary's makes a tournament every year.
San Francisco was really good this year. That's where Todd
Golden came from before he was at Florida. Like he
brought that program.
Speaker 3: They were in the tournament when he was there, right.
Speaker 8: Yes, I mean so that like and for I mean
for years BYU until they went to the Big Twelve.
They were in the conference. Washington State, Oregon State were
both in the conference and basketball this year. It's a
good basketball conference. And so like his stats don't allow
it to be like, oh I played in this non
major West Coast Conference. It's a good basketball league, and
so his numbers are legit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good point. Also, look, it's only gonna
get more coganpetive, it's only to get more expensive. So
I don't think we ended up getting to it yesterday.
Remember Chris Beard all of a sudden a couple of
days ago, rumored that A and M was gonna pay
him seven million dollars a year to go be the
head coach. The funniest part is later reporting claims that
it was Beard's camp that reached out to A and
M and was like, hey, we love the state of Texas,
like we really want to get back blah blah blah.
And it looks like he played him a bit lack
a fiddle because what it resulted in was ole Miss
coming back and saying, Okay, well we will pay you more.
You got a six year extension and we are now
committing to making are to increasing the nil fund to
the point where ole Miss reportedly now is going to
be top four in the SEC and anil money spent
on basketball. So it is a weird thing where Elis's
doing great work right now, but it's a long road
and there's a lot well it can't be I mean
not timeline wise on a long road, because you can,
you know, you want to hyper accelerate the process, like
the expectations are going to be to be good immediately
look at the Zoo two years ago overs last year.
Speaker 3: Uh, but it's.
Speaker 2: An expensive road that's only gonna get more expensive. But
thus far looks like they're playing. They're playing the game,
and well they continue to do so Candid Gate and
then and then Ken MacMahon if you give him, if
you finish with the number two class somewhere around there,
and so we think objectively, okay, you have the talent.
That's when we can finally judge Matt McMahon kind of
based on his own merits of the actual basketball coaching
side of the equation.
Speaker 8: You got to do what they're doing right now. It's
got to even continue to go up. Look, there is
well over seventeen hundred players in the Basketball Transfer Portal,
so you've gotten four of them. Some of your players
are currently in the portal. They have not made their
decision where they're going to go next. Maybe some of
those players could come back. Probably not, it's usually not
how the Basketball Transfer Portal works. But you still have
work to do. You still can add to this roster.
So hopefully LSU is not done and we see a
couple of more names.
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Speaker 1: Back to sports talk, maybe off the bench?
Speaker 3: Are you ready?
Speaker 8: He said, sorry, sorry, yeah, I've never noticed that.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, yeah, I get yeah, Canadian use it.
Speaker 2: But the inflection also allows him to rhyme it with story.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I meancons can rhyme if you say it right,
don't let him play this song tonight.
Speaker 3: Oh, they're going to play this song tonight with the
song I mean, surely Nickelback will play I know. I'm
just no, no, I'm asking though.
Speaker 4: And also if you look at the schedule to play
the hits, you know sometimes at festivals, like you'll have
ten acts and they all go like twenty thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, George for another hour and a half. Let's go
so like it's like a fool, It's like actually gonna
be so sick. Yeah, it's a full souh rock the country.
Speaker 2: Baby out there night, say what's up to a laundry?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Tau is gonna want to link up with me when
we're there, but I.
Speaker 3: Don't know if he wants you to see him in
his element. Who are you going with beside Victoria? Is
it just a little day?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: My sister and brother in law. Okay, my sister, I
mean two years older than me, same household.
Speaker 6: She was obviously a big Nickelback fan as hell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hell yes, the uh oh man, what was I
gonna say?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: Also, hogs are the cause tonight, So if you're going
out there, have fun, you know, raise some money for
a great cause. Again, We're we're hosting the gala, so
I cannot be there night, but I'm with y'all in spirit.
One day I'll have served my hogs with the cause suspension.
In all honesty, my wife did want to go back
on Saturday. I just don't know we're gonna because Friday's
like the big party night. Yeah, so I don't know
if we're gonna do it Saturday, but but everybody's going
out there, have fun, raise money for good cause. Good weekend, man,
good week We had else you softball cranking up this
weekend in Tiger Park, trying to beat that those damn
dirty bastards. A Crimson Tide, got lsgu Nax's hitting away
on Saturday, got one.
Speaker 3: Times game two night, like six pm.
Speaker 2: Yep, there we go in High School Stadium. Matt's is
going Hogs tomorrow. Zachtop and Charlie Crockett.
Speaker 5: That was great. I love Charlie Crockett and Zach Top,
but Charlie Crockett's underrated.
Speaker 3: I don't know either of them, but they like.
Speaker 5: We've played Zachtop a few times just.
Speaker 2: Based on name alone, I feel like they're more real
country and less pop country.
Speaker 6: Oh dude, that.
Speaker 3: Yeah good.
Speaker 5: He's like throwing it back to the ninety one.
Speaker 4: He's the one we were talking about the other day.
He's got like the blonde hair, and so people wanted
to start the rumor. They're like his dad was Alan Jackson.
Remember we had this whole discussion.
Speaker 5: He has brown hair, but like it was like Alan
Jackson conspiracy theory, like he was touring in Washington at
the same time.
Speaker 2: That which one do you believe more that Alan Jackson
is zach Toop's dad or that Michael Michael Jordan is
Anthony Edwards dad.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I'm gonna go to Alan Jackson.
Speaker 3: Edwards one gets me because they really do look so similar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they look they look more like but I don't know,
I feel like I feel like aunt Wine's a little
too much to be related to Mike.
Speaker 3: See, I would like Trinity River by Charlie Crockett.
Speaker 5: What do you think I think you would like? I
think you would like Charlie Crockett, Okay, or Jake. I
don't know if you know Charlie, but you would like
him too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: But Zach Top is one of those people that kind
of blew up out of nowhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wasn't that long ago that he was playing small venues.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he just was at the Texas Club last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, once he changed his name, that was big because
when he was Jack Bottom, nothing was working.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 5: You're right, it's just not as great as the name
is Zach Top.
Speaker 3: No, it's it's kind of it's easy to make jokes
about Jack Bottom.
Speaker 2: Yes, more dominant position. Ye, shout out tout. I'll try
them out. I'll try them out for sure. Uh, dirty
little river.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll get distracted, Okay.
Speaker 2: New Orleans Saints Ross Jackson has an excellent piece up
on Louisiana Sports dot Net right now where he is
talking about instead of picks that these Saints should make
at nine, picks that these Saints should avoid at nine
and well, imagine this. It's too talented but not productive
pass rushers that he highlights here, and that is Georgia
defender Michhale Williams and Texas a and m pass rusher
Shamar Stewart. And look, both of these guys are athletic freaks.
Schamar Stewart especially took the combine and just absolutely dominated it.
Insane height and weight insane forties. In sane everything jumps
everything but four and a half sacks in three years
in college.
Speaker 3: Granted Michel Williams.
Speaker 2: Has been more productive, but four and a half year one,
four and a half year two, five in year three.
Speaker 3: And and and here's where it gets a bit odd.
Speaker 2: Is that, like Josh Allen, daneil Hunter is the guy
to highlight here that you can always point to if
you want to make one of these picks right, Because
Daniel Hunter didn't get any sax in college, but was
that same physical freak, dominant comment and all that other stuff,
and now he's made himself into literally one of the
best pass rushers of all time in the NFL. But
context matters, and that's where I think you cannot. If
you were a better team with a better track record
of this, I would allow you to go get Mikhail
Williams or Shamar Stewart. But given your missus and your
misses specifically in trying to find that pass rusher. Also
with the added context of you let Trey hendricksonuld leave
guys who leads hit a fell at sacks over the
last couple of years you had him, you drafted him,
so giving your record, you cannot take the risk of
drafting a high potential pass rusher.
Speaker 3: And I don't care. Who's a Mike Green from Marshall
as well?
Speaker 2: Small school no, Now, he's very productive, but small school, no,
we don't want.
Speaker 3: I don't want a pass rusher nine. I don't want that, Baba.
That's exactly where I was gonna go.
Speaker 6: Bob.
Speaker 8: Look, I'm not even saying that you don't need a
pass rusher. I get it because Cam Jordan's older, because
Carl Granderson's older, I understand, And Isaiah Foski didn't work out.
I do understand that. But I still think you can
get enough production from those players. You just signed Chase
Young to a big deal, like that's an edge rusher.
How many resources do you plan on putting on the
defensive line, Brian Brazi first round pick.
Speaker 3: I mean you traded for a defensive I'm in here.
Speaker 8: In this free agency cycle, you re sign players on
that position. You've spent enough time on the defensive line.
You have got to go playmaker. You have to Brandon Cooks. Sure,
it's a nice additional piece, but if you think signing
Brandon Cooks is going to be the difference maker on offense.
You were fooling yourself. He can be a piece of
the puzzle, He's not going to finish the puzzle. You
have to either go tight end, receiver, running back. You
need some juice offensively with a weapon. For a quarterback
that cannot do it by himself, he needs all the
help that you can give him.
Speaker 3: I think the one defender I may be down for
be Mason Graham.
Speaker 8: But again, he's worth min or is worth a ninth
overall pick, no doubt about it. Any draft like he
would be a top ten pick. You can place him
in any draft, doesn't matter. He's a top ten pick.
But again, you've traded for player at that position. Brian
Brazi was a first round pick at that position. You've
got so many resources tied into that position. Do you
think that adding a Mason Graham would be a game
changer enough with what you have offensively?
Speaker 3: I do not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair. I mean, that's that's that's completely fair.
Maybe this is only a world in which like gent,
Warren and McMillan are all.
Speaker 3: Of the board. Even though I don't know McMillan, I'm
a little freaked out by that. Not like, now, there's
a lot of people.
Speaker 8: So we have you know, Rahet who came on here
last week, but Ratt comes on with us every week
for an hour and talk nothing but draft. Yeah, and
he said it's freaked every team out. Yeah, that's so crazy.
Speaker 2: And I know you may be seeing there in saying like,
I mean, is that an overreaction?
Speaker 3: Like what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: But that was a very again, it felt like a
Project Veritas video Like that was a very honest moment
from McMillan. And I don't know that's something that you
can just change. Can you learn to love it? Can
you learn to want to watch it?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: Granted, there are guys who have been like Arian Foster
very famously, you know, never really liked watching like football
casual or anything. Running back you can get away with this,
will do what he needed to do in order to
be successful.
Speaker 8: But yeah, and Aaron was a little more of a
first and second down running back than he was a
third down at the running back position, tape is a
third down situation.
Speaker 3: Like, you can't get a third down back and not
watch tape.
Speaker 8: If you can get away with it at any position,
I would say running back is the spot you can't
at receiver. They discussed too many coverages. There's too many
things that you have to on the fly adjust to.
I'm not saying he doesn't. I caught up with him
at the Super Bowl. I thought he was a great
young man. Enjoyed our conversation. But a lot of people
are questioning with tedor Rod McMillan, like, Okay, what did
you really have to do at Arizona? Did you get
away with everything at Arizona? Were they trying to keep
you happy so much that you didn't go in the
portal that you didn't have to do the things that
everybody else had.
Speaker 3: To do it?
Speaker 8: So you're saying there's stories floating around your quarterback. Was
your quarterback basically your entire life?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Right? So like how much they played like before
all together? Yes?
Speaker 8: How much of that was you know, y'all's report because
you just literally played with each other all growing up
in college. There's a lot of questions. Do I think
that Tedoro is going to be a good player in
the NFL? I still do, but I understand why there's
some teams that are like not in the top ten, we
are not going to use a top ten pick and
so for the Saints, like, if Tyler Warren is there,
how intriguing is that going to be to them? Could
Matthew Golden from Texas dominated the College Football Playoff? Nobody
could cover him, Like is he going to find his
way into the top ten? Is he different enough from
the receivers that you have and a lave a Shaheat
and Brandon Cooks in his size, he's more in kind
of their mold than Tedorro McMillan.
Speaker 2: So I mean like, if you were telling me I
had a jodge from the receivers, I still would probably
go McMillan. Yeah, because of that, because of the physical difference.
Speaker 3: It sounds like Jenti's going to go six overall to
the Raiders. So he's starting to become more and more clear.
Speaker 8: Their GM basically is like I can't come home to
my son if we don't select him sixth overall.
Speaker 2: So he let Josh Jacobs walk, and then they're like,
I mean, you know, maybe Jentin to be better Jacobs,
but then Josh Jacobs like lead Yeah.
Speaker 3: The league in Russia this year.
Speaker 4: A lot of people were wondering, like, oh, could they
still go to your door? Because Gino only had one
year left, he reached the seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how about that?
Speaker 6: So I mean that they're not they're not taking your.
Speaker 3: Good for Gina.
Speaker 2: So again, at the end of this, I agree with
Ross's original premise. I really just don't want to pass Rusher.
Speaker 3: I don't think you. I don't.
Speaker 8: I think that would be a bad move for the Saints,
regardless of who it is.
Speaker 2: I would keep the door cracked for Mason Graham, like
I'm not going to close miss the off completely. But
I do agree with Jake that it feels like this
needs to be an offensive pick here and a difference
maker a skill position pick as well. We'll continue to
break it down though, as we get closer to the draft.
All Right, when we get back more OTB. We got
Todd Walker coming up next.
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Speaker 1: The break where the sports talk gets real. Off the
bench and with Hester and t.
Speaker 2: Bob was heading y'all, welcome back to OTB and right
now we are so lucky to be joined by the
legend himself, mister Todd Walker on the call last night
talking about some big old bastards he played with back
in the day.
Speaker 3: Todd, what's up man, Thank you so much for joining.
Speaker 7: Us out in the world. Do you have that much
energy at eight thirty in the morning? Man?
Speaker 2: A lot of coffee, a lot of coffee and you know,
just just got used to it over time. Man, How
we feel that? What a performance last night, Todd. And
obviously I do want to pick your brain about Elishu's
approach of the plate in the offensive side of the game,
which is gonna be a bit unheralded on a night
last night night like last night, But I still think
has some really sot elements. But you gotta start the
conversation with Kate Anderson. And as you'll rightfully pointed out,
it's not just a complete game shutout, but it's in
the context of him looking like he was going to
get pulled after that, you know, potentially in that first inning.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know if there was a thread of
him getting pulled, you know, because you got to remember,
you got two more games, so you want your ace
to last. Even if he gives up like last week
where he went into the fifth gave up five runs
against Misissippi State. You're gonna leave him out there just
for the fact that two in a station bullpen. But
he did get in trouble in the first one out
bases loaded. He had given up the two base sins.
One was a shift there and then the other one
was a walk. And that's when Nate Yesky went out
and talked to him, calmed him down a little bit,
and from that moment on to the end of the game,
I mean, he was electric. Struck out the next two
to in the first, struck out the first two to
start the second, and ended up what fourteen strikeouts only
the two walks he was to who he was, I mean,
he's one of the best in the league with the
strike at the walk grace show where he's got, you know,
six to one strikeouts to walks, which is incredible. Kyson
Withersmen on the other side was just as good. I mean,
he's one of the best in the league as well.
You know, we talked about the offense of LSU. They
just battled that guy and it was just a great
baseball game. It wasn't a good game to hit because
the wind was blowed straight in and it was pretty
cold up there last night, but LSUE squeaked it out.
You know that's that's a good sign for LSU because
we know they're gonna bash it around on days when
the pitching is an A plus, they're gonna score the eight,
nine to ten runs. But can you win the coastlands?
Can you win the games where you've got to really
play great defense behind your guy? Can you get a
lot of swinging misses? And that's what happened last night.
Speaker 3: Todd? When did it change?
Speaker 8: Where like everyone was up in arms when a pitcher
went a complete game? I mean when you were playing
in the big leagues like Scott Erickson had eleven and
ninety eight, Kurt Shilling had fifteen complete games.
Speaker 3: In ninety eight.
Speaker 8: I mean even going to twenty eleven, James Shields had
eleven complete games. Like when did and now it's like
Todd the lead leaguer, lead leader has like two maybe
three complete games.
Speaker 3: When did that change? Like? When was that something that
they just didn't allow to happen? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I don't know. I probably right when I was about
done playing because we were on the field with Greg
Maddicks won his three hundredth game and I got to
sign ticket and baseball and awesome day in San Francisco,
and I remember thinking there's not gonna be too many
three hundred game winners, if any ever again, because they
just don't go. I mean, you know, if you get
five out of a starting pitcher, that's that's really good
in the day and age, and the reason being, they're
saving arms. They just want to. They think it's more
important to save arms. Even in the big leagues because
the season is so long. They're gonna get thirty starts
out of a guy, and they pay him a lot
of money to do that, and so they're gonna protect
arms in the big leagues. But in in college baseball,
like last night, with all the scouts in the stands
and everything else, we really thought he'd get pulled into
Stevens just strictly because of pitch count, because you don't
want to hurt Kate Anderson's arm. Then he comes out
in the eighth with one hundred and fifteen pitches and say,
all right, he's gonna face his first hitter, and then
he goes He goes pretty you know, pretty clean inning
in the eighth, and when he came out in the ninth,
it's just something you don't see anymore. You just don't
see that, and that's not a bad thing. I think
it was great. The feedback from Cad had to have been,
I feel great, Yeah, I'm pitching well, the velocity is
still there, the off speed's working. Let me go out
for the ninth. And there was a clean inning there too.
I think they would have been real careful with him
in the ninth, but uh man, I mean he was
just dynamic and really shut down an offense. It's pretty
good for Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Again, sitting on fifty eight pitches after three innings, who
would have guessed that he had six more left in him?
Speaker 3: What a performance?
Speaker 2: And Todd, this is something that you've seen play throughout
your career. But I can't help but think about is
watching those two last night and Kate and Kyson.
Speaker 3: It felt a bit like watching Top Gun.
Speaker 2: You know, these two aces that were challenging one another,
trying to outmaneuver one another, and it felt like Caate
heard all the noise of like, well, well, actually, you know,
Kyson's got better numbers. Kison might be the better guy here.
You mentioned the fifty scouts in the stands. Is that
a trait that you see in those kind of superstar
pitchers that when they're when they have somebody who's line
up across from that's also great. And they got all
the scouts in the stands and they just managed to raise.
Speaker 3: Their level of play.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and they did. And by the way, that's the
second top gun reference I've heard in two days, so
about Kilmer recipe. Uh, you know, yeah, And I think
that's what the scouts want to see too, like can
you rise to the occasion like last night. I would
not say that the ballpark was electric because it was
not because of the weather and you know, it just
didn't have a ton of people out there. Other than that, well,
I think it's I think I think it's a nice part.
But when you start comparing it to stark Bill or
Ousebox or yeah, you know, it's not. I mean, we've
got some big league ballparks in the SEC, you know.
But outside of that, the the the atmosphere of a
of a big league game was definitely present. I mean
it was Tyson Kyson threw well, I mean Jared Jones
had the nice at bat. Well my three two counties
a slider the other way, which is not something I
don't think Jared Jones was capable of doing two years ago.
He would have swung right through that pitch, and that
shows the maturity of Jared and why he's doing so
well this year. But yeah, I think the answer is
of course, I mean they stepped in and that's and
both those guys are gonna make a lot of money
at the next level. You know, Kate Anderson's a draft
eligible sophomore, Kyson Witherspoon looking to be one of the
top picks, and you're looking at two of the best
by the numbers, they're two of the best three pitchers
in the league. Other than at Peto cone Fro Mississippi State,
William Spence over at University of Tennessee is really dealing well.
Hunter Elliott has a lot of talent at Ole miss
But you know, those two guys we saw last night
are as good as it gets.
Speaker 8: Getting to the top of Lshu's line of Curry El
somebody that as a freshman has just been outstanding and
like I know, he struck out three times last night,
but still continues to get on base, got to hit
last night, and typically you just don't see a freshman
lead off a lineup of an LSU team that's going
to be in the top ten we think all season long,
and you're having guys that are able to come in
now and contribute like right away. And it's impressive how
these freshmen, you know, had a plate discipline and can
go out there and be the table setter for a
lineup like LSU's.
Speaker 7: We're living in a day and age where LSU the
transfer rules without fenalty and an nil and everything else
that goes into it. There's only a handful of colleges
that anybody in the country would want to go to
and play. LSU's one of them. Texas, you know, there's
a few out there, so you just can't swing and
miss with prospects. And for Ja Johnson, he's been watching
Derek Curry el since he was in junior high and
when Jay Johnson was at Arizona, so he's had a
track on this kid for a long long time. It
shows you, first of all, the capabilities of a guy
like Jay Johnson to pick talent, but also the curiyer
Ol walks in there as a freshman, like you said,
and does well even in the SEC and that's hard
to do. And you know, if you're gonna win. You've
got to have those type of players perform for you.
If there's one thing to see a guy and think
that he's good, but it's another thing for him to
play out that way. And Derek Caryll had three strikeouts,
but he still got the base hit. I tell my
son all the time in college baseball, one hit a date.
Don't make it complicated. You don't have to get three
or four. Get one hit a day. And if you
can do that, you're going to hit for a high average.
And Derek Carrole's doing that. He didn't have a great
game last night, but he did pop the double left field,
and you know, and and that's the hitter that he is.
I mean, he's gonna get you once and that was
a huge hit, by the way in that game. He's
gonna get you at some point. And if he doesn't,
one of those next eight guys are. You know, you
had Tanneeves in the lineup last night, you had Ethan
Fry in there. And now you're starting to see these
guys that got off to a good start that's still
been sitting the bench getting a chance to play. And
Jay Johnson's gonna put nine strong hitters in the lineup,
even if it gives up a little defense, which I
don't think it does. He's gonna put nine guys out
there to swing the bat, so that picture on the
other side just has no no rest, no no no
easy outs.
Speaker 2: Well, and I loved hearing you talk last night kind
of about your hitting theory. It was like modern hitting theory,
you know, and you knew like if I get up
there one hundred times, I make contact one hundred times,
just don't strike out, like chances are things are going
to end well for me. I'm gonna hit for average.
And last night felt like a workmanlike type of Knight right,
Like I mean you, with Kyson and k doing what
they were doing, there was not a lot of room
to find success. How did you feel, because I thought
LSU keeping the strikeout numbers low after the first two
getting fanned was very impressive to me. How did you
feel about LSU's approach and the quality of the bats,
even if it wasn't always resulting in runs or hits.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that's a great point. And it was
no balls left the ballpark last night, and so it
was in the first four hits they ended up with
eleven hits both teams on the day, but the first
four or five hits went the opposite direction. Yeah, So
it was just it was just getting deep in counts
and think what the picture gives. This kind of typical
what you always hear as a hitter, like, don't try
to do too much. And back to Jared Jones at bat.
You know that was a three two count. A lot
of times as a hitter, you'll try to pull it,
try to get the head out, you know, and really
bash it to left the pull side and hit a
five hundred foot home run. He stayed back on that slider,
ripped it the other way and that was really impressive.
But you're right, it was a workman's day for sure
with these hitters. Just and that's I think the evolution
of LSU offense, like when since Jay's been there, I mean,
he's an offensive guy and so he obviously knows how
to hit and how to make an approach. I think
I looked it up the day. You know, we got
true media all these statues. You only have anything in
the world right now, And one of the things was
LSU's pitches per plate appearance as a team was about
you know, three nine like right up under four pitches
per plate appearance as a team which was tossed in
the league. And so they're just being more patient. And
I've always said the more you face the picture, more
becomes a hitter's advantage because now you see the tempo,
the timing, the least point, you got a muscle memory
of the pitches that he throws. Once you see it once,
you can see how to hit it the second time,
that type of stuff. And so I think you're seeing
patience throughout this lineup, and it paid off last night.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: One of the things they didn't even have to use
last night, Todd that they certainly have and you'll see
this weekend is Zach, Collen Case and Evans out.
Speaker 3: Of the bullpen.
Speaker 8: And I know l s Hu's bullpen, maybe it's totality
has had some struggles, but they got two guys down there.
Now when you they bring them in, I mean it's
in those high leverage situations you got to go win
the game.
Speaker 3: Do you think like with the current format that they
have with.
Speaker 8: Their starters, with those two guys out of the bullpen
and maybe one day getting Gavin Guidry back in the fold,
there is that like, is that enough to make the
run that this team wants to make?
Speaker 7: Per I mean, they almost made a superreason last year
and they didn't have a third starter and they certainly
didn't have the bullten that they have this year therein
you know, I I everything about this LSU team shows
you they'll be in Omaha. And then at that point,
it's just you know, winning a one run game and
they love it. That's hard to that's hard to predict.
But uh but but I hesitated because of Tennessee a
couple of years ago. They had a world class team
and Notre Dame as a veteran group walked in there
and beyond a super regional and so at Tennessee didn't
even make the college was serious. So it's definitely a
weird game.
Speaker 3: We know that.
Speaker 7: But right now they're doing everything right. They call it
a two headed monster with you know, Evan and Zach
and a Bullfen and it's just it's just nasty. And
that's why. Also, I thought that you see Zach in
the ninth last night and he didn't come in, so
good for them. They've got a bolt now for the
next two games, and they're set up pretty nicely for
this series, and I think they said it was the
best start LSU's had, you know, in the SEC in
fifteen twenty years. So I mean that's saying a lot
considering the program. But but they're they're they're the only
spuest Mark Frellis, who was the left side of the
enfield defensively because Mila moved over to short, but he
made a couple of really nice plays last night. And
then the third base, you know, with with whether it's
Braswell or Ree, they're solid there too. So there really
is no holes in this LSU team.
Speaker 8: Todd, last one before we let you go and ask
you an SEC question. You've got Florida, Mississippi State, South Carolina,
and Texas A and m all those teams are one
and eight in SEC play. I don't think any of
us had those teams sitting there after nine games in
league play. But of those teams, do you see one
of them that can actually make a run and maybe
they can make it in a regional where they're a
two seed and maybe they can get to a super regional,
Like is there anything left from any of those teams?
Speaker 3: Or is it too late?
Speaker 7: No, it's not too late. I mean remember LSU last
year's three and twelve in the conference before they made
a little bit of a run. The thirteen wins within
the conference is that magic number that'll get the eyes
of the committee to put you in the field of
sixty four thirteen wins. So however you can figure that out.
It is crazy to look at the standings right now
in the SEC and see Texas A and M, who
was the preseason number one team in the country, sitting
down there. Jace Lovulette is one of the best prospects
in the league right now, and he's getting hot. He's
up narrow around three hundred. He was covering around two
twenty for a long time. Think he's got nine home
runs right now. Texas A and M has Frager and
Justin Lampkin and who else they got up there. They've
got three legitimate started Miles Patton. They've got three legitimate
starters that are doing their job. The offense just hasn't
been there. They lost Grohovac for the year, the big
freshman from last year. I think Texans A and M
will make a run just based on the pitching alone.
It's weird to see Florida down there because they're really
just a good group and Kevin O'Sullivan does a nice
job there, and you know, shoots, they've always been in Omaha.
It seems like they're a mainstake. They lost their eighth Cupola,
Pierce Capola, the big sixt eight left hander on if once.
Then if they get him back, I think you'll see
them make a little bit of a run. They're not
hitting the ball like you thought they would. They're still
up over three hundred as a team, but they need
to get their ace back because then it shoves every
body up a day on the weekends. And you know,
if your number two was supposed to be your number one,
you would have made them the number one to begin with. So, uh,
Florida just has rotation issues. Missouri's Missouri. Uh, they're gonna
have a rough go, but uh it was it was
the fourth team down there.
Speaker 8: In Mississippi State A and m South Carolina, Florida, Yeah.
Speaker 7: And Mississippi State. I mean they've lost like after the
LSU series. I think they had lost three one run
games and three two run games out of the first
nine games of the of the season, you know, and
so they've been in everyone in Cocone like I mentioned
is one of the best in the league. They're hitting
the ball. They hit three hundred as a team, forty
four home runs coming into this weekend. They're picking it.
Let me look at their No, they're not. They're they're
down to the bottom defensively, so they've kicked the ball
around for you. But but the pitching staff is a
sub for e r too. So uh, the numbers are
good for Mississippi State. I think you'll see them make
a run. But it's weekend and week out. You never
can really predict outside of anybody that plays Missouri who's
gonna win. But we'll see, man, I mean we'll see.
I think those all three of those teams. It's weird
to see them at the bottom of that deal. And
remember when we get to Hoover, all sixteen teams make
it now, so it's a single donation thing. So you
know you can you can be anybody and have a
good week and make a run and then make it
into the postseason. I think last year LSU had eleven
teams into the field of sixty four, which was a record,
and now we have sixteen teams in the league. I
think you'll see more than that this year. Twelve thirteen
teams in the postseason.
Speaker 2: Todd Walker number twelve, the legend himself. Excellent job of
the call last night, Todd thank you so much, man.
Speaker 7: Man, I don't need my coffee listening to you now.
I love the energy. I'm ready to roll now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, boh you have a good day, man, and yeah
join your week.
Speaker 7: Appreciated brother, Thank you guys, all right, boba oh man.
Speaker 2: One of the best to ever do it. Hall of
Famer Jersey retired Todd Walker. Graham called Green voice too. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: I love him on the cal no no, I.
Speaker 2: Kind of chew on his voice a little bit. All right,
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