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Speaker 1: We'll discuss the abbreviated matchup last night between LSU and UCLA.
Is the Tigers have a five to three lead over
the Bruins heading into the fourth inning, and we'll talk
about what the rain delay means for Jay Johnson squad
the rest of the College World Series. You can follow
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Speaker 6: That's not a great way to start.
Speaker 7: We'll bring the juice and Jordan's left at home.
Speaker 6: My what way? I mean?
Speaker 4: This is the pregame show, the pregame show, the pregame
show for a College World Series game.
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Speaker 7: Hey, I know, we're like watching a baseball game later.
Speaker 4: Okay, but you know why football pants don't have pockets,
no place to put all.
Speaker 8: Those excuses, good good coach speak, you.
Speaker 6: Know what I mean.
Speaker 7: Baseball's got them no pockets and football pants.
Speaker 8: And and they wear little oven mits on their hands.
Speaker 6: Now you know, Yeah, they don't put those excuses. They
put other myths.
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Speaker 6: I hate them them. They're so dumb. Went off.
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Speaker 8: Went off on on the little of e mits slide hits.
Speaker 6: It's the only thing bad about baseball right now. The
rest of it's great.
Speaker 8: The rest of it's great.
Speaker 6: I'm a new fan, did you know that? A new baseball,
brand new fan.
Speaker 4: It's going to be great once the the game starts back.
Certainly did not have on the bingo car to come
in here today, start the show and be talking about
a game that's going to start at ten am Central time.
As soon as we finish up. We're leading, basically, we're.
Speaker 7: Leading into the game.
Speaker 4: LSU is up right now five to three, so top
of the fourth inning. It will resume later on today,
But it does change some of the dynamic. Certainly the
loser has another game today against Arkansas, Arkansas big winner.
It feels like, I mean, so you got the team
that's got a game that's only in the fourth inning now,
and UCLA is definitely a bi committee team. They've already
gotten into their bullpen. LSU will because of the delay,
but who knows who they have to use today right
either team, But certainly, like if you're UCLA and let's
say you don't come back, who do you have to
use to try to keep the game close, to try
to you know, make that run to win the game,
and then oh yeah, you got another game later on today.
So Arkansas, who didn't have to use a single soul
out of the bullpen yesterday, shout out, we'll get there,
probably probably gonna be pretty happy with what's going on
and there being another game today, and then the team
that wins this game, who is going to have a
full day's rest, Well now that's out the window as well.
Speaker 9: Yeah, if you do a little quick search on social
media or anywhere on the internet, Arkansas's feeling pretty confident
just because of this little, one little rain delay. They
basically feel like they've already got this game one. Then
they think roots coming back to play the elimination game.
Speaker 6: So yeah, they're feeling pretty confident. I was.
Speaker 9: I was kind of shocked at how confident the vibes
were coming from the Arkansas fan base. And they're in
their beat writers and so you know, yes, win or lose,
you know, we're in for it.
Speaker 4: Parent some of the p they cover Arkansas, we're feeling
pretty fat and cocky before the LSU game as well. Yeah,
I know, uh yeah, we were. We were got John
Nabors that we see at media day. I think he
said eight to two Hogs was going to be the
score for the first l Shue game. He also said,
coach cal is in the building, No way the Hogs
lose today.
Speaker 7: They did.
Speaker 4: Uh So, yeah, they're no, they're they're a confident group
and I understand why.
Speaker 7: I mean, a hell of a baseball team.
Speaker 4: They threw a no hitter yesterday in the College suck.
Speaker 8: Nineteen strikeouts too. That was that was the one that
had me like, damn nineteen strikeouts, Like.
Speaker 4: Geez, unlike, you know, unlike the Braves who struck out
fifteen and lost ten to one.
Speaker 9: I was looking at it. It says so uh gage
wood and get gackleed. They threw fifteen total innings of
shutout baseball, three hits in total of like two hundred
and eight pitches. Yeah, which is like one hit out
of every seventy times they throw that ball.
Speaker 8: Wow, that's a crazy stat.
Speaker 4: Right, I mean when there in between the two games,
thirty against thirty five strikeouts for Arkansas first in the
first two games, nineteen in the second sixteen against LSU.
But we're not here to talk about the Hogs. We'll
get there a little bit later we are here to
talk about the Tigers and got a little hairy there
to start the game off.
Speaker 6: I wasn't real happy. We were. We were like it
was right at that time.
Speaker 9: We were trying to sit down and feed the kids,
get the food in them real quick. So I we
just sit and watch the game, and I'm like watching
them while putting their food down, and I'm like slamming
their food down.
Speaker 6: Like it quick.
Speaker 9: So we don't have like a TV like where the
kitchen table is, right, but you can kind of like
see it around the corner. Yeah, so yeah, that seems
like it just drops some food. Yeah, it's a design
fall for sure. The builder of the house was not
interested in Tiger baseball at six game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, it's perfect.
Speaker 9: Some food fell on the ground, spilled, some spilled some
of their beverage on the.
Speaker 6: Might have been like no, daddy, no, Like, why are
you yelling at.
Speaker 4: Me because the Tigers are down three to nothing, big
baseball fan, Bud, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 7: I'm proud of you.
Speaker 4: But the way they scored the three runs, I mean
it was one ball truly left you know the infield.
Speaker 7: I know, one got through, but I mean it was
on the ground.
Speaker 4: I mean it was just they were perfectly placing the
baseball right.
Speaker 7: You got a swinging bun in there.
Speaker 4: Now, Daniel Diginson did a hell of a job, saved
a run even though you didn't get it out in
one of those plays. But it just gosh, whenever that happens,
and you're like, oh my gosh, this West Coast baseball team,
that's what they want to do.
Speaker 7: That's what they, you know, have always done.
Speaker 4: Kind of just tier there, just swinging bunts infield hit
and you responded in a big way. And a guy
that not only us, but I mean everybody was getting
after a little bit at the Platinum Sombrero and Bear
Jones he had five strikeoutss like, hey, you got to
make an adjustment. You got to make an adjustment. It
he comes up in the bottom of the first inning.
Not only does he make that adjustment. Now he barely
got out, but I don't care barely. Whatever he got out,
he got up, he hits a three run to give
you the lead because he thought and I thought he
got it.
Speaker 7: He got he sat there and.
Speaker 6: Thank you, take the Lord.
Speaker 7: And then it hits off the top of the wall.
Speaker 4: But nonetheless it is a home run, and you that's
what you have to do.
Speaker 7: You have to answer like immediately when that happens.
Speaker 9: Yeah, did you just feel the pressure not off off
his back, but like the crowd right, did you just
feel it?
Speaker 4: Showing his mom And he's like, if they keep showing her,
I'm gonna cry.
Speaker 9: I know, but I mean, can you imagine your the
the amount of phone conversations hugs that like the there
and his parents have had, like says, hey, you're gonna
be the bear I know he is after that, Yeah,
after going five strikeouts, staying late, doing the extra work,
and finding a way to get out of his head.
We talked about it yesterday. Hitters, throwers, kickers, we're all
head cases when things aren't going right because you start overthinking, overthinking,
and that's the worst thing you can do in a reactionary,
fine motor skill type of sport is think about it,
and think about it.
Speaker 4: In the baseball portion of it, we talk about it
all the time, Like for us being football meat, heeads
it's like, okay, well if I drop a pass, I
can come right back and Flynn might throw me another one.
You ready, if I missed the cut on you know,
lead stretch. Okay, well I'm going to come back in
this game. I'm going to run the same play and
if that cuts there, then I know I'm going to
get it and pretty quickly. Is my point for baseball.
We always talk about it. It's like, man, it is
lonely up there in the batter's box, certainly when it's
not going your way, and if it doesn't go your way,
sometimes you got to wait about forty five minutes where
you get another opportunity. And you could feel all of
that right when he's up in the batter's box, the opportunity,
what the score was, you know who he's been his
entire career, but certainly has been struggling.
Speaker 7: And then he hits the baseball. Now he knew it.
Speaker 4: I don't know that a lot of us knew it
because the wind.
Speaker 6: Is the only reason that we knew it was watching him.
Speaker 7: That's the only reason. Yeah, he smiled at the baseball.
Speaker 9: Because they looked like, I mean, it was pretty high.
He smiled at it. He just walked it off and
I was like, did he get it? And then like
you couldn't tell by the outfielder, he was kind of
like slowing down the corning truck, but it went she
creeped over there, creeped over that wall.
Speaker 4: You add another run to make it five to three.
And so now the conversation is going to be, but
do you put on the mount? So Anthony Jinsen, we
know it's baseball. Look, it's not little league baseball. Coaching
gets out there. Uh he arm circles exactly. He is done.
So now you have a couple of options to who
you want to go out there, because this game is
massive win and you don't play later today lose. You
play later today with a team that is uber confident
and a team that didn't have to use anybody at
the bullpen yesterday. Right, So, I mean the obvious is
any game in omahall, but certainly in this situation, Chase Shores,
Cason Evans, Zach Cowen. You've got some options, Taylor. I
don't like when you make that face. Why is that face?
Speaker 1: I don't want them to through Case and Evans today, Okay,
because there's a chance you got to play a do
or die game later today if you don't win this
one and you gotta play tomorrow. I would rather Case
and Evans start a full game, it's just me, but you.
Speaker 2: Got Chase Shores.
Speaker 1: Cooper Williams has been really good if you want to
throw a lefty at him, like I think you can
piece this thing together. You got a two run lead,
go with case you want to.
Speaker 4: Go to somebody that has length to them though, because.
Speaker 2: I would, I would like to. And that's that's the
difference between the thing.
Speaker 4: If you patch it together and go one any one,
any one inning and you lose, You've got another game
later tonight.
Speaker 1: And that that's that's the risk you take. I mean,
that's that's the worst part about a rain delay.
Speaker 9: I guess the good part is we're we're spotted to
two runs right now, so the mindset probably changes a
little bit. But that's what makes the College World Series
like so intriguing is that it is not only that
the match between teams, that's the matchup between head coaches.
It's like how much because the goal is to win
it all. The goal is not to win today at
ten oh three am, right, the goal is to win
it all. So you do have to game plan and
think ahead, think one, two, three games ahead. But that's
what makes it so intriguing is how how many pitches?
It's you know, are you throwing a reliever in there
on a pitch count because he's you know, he could
go again tomorrow. I mean, those are the matchups that, like,
just as a sports fan, I find like so so entertaining. Yeah,
because you know, no matter what, if it doesn't work out,
you know, fans have something to you know, complain about
or judge or critique or whatever. But then you the coach,
gets celebrated. But so it's it's not only like the
pitching and batter matchups, but it's the head coach matchups
that it's so great.
Speaker 6: And we got a proven dude.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of different options, man, It's it's gonna
be highly intriguing with how Jay goes out there to
resume this game in the top of the fourth. And
by the way, Hunt, I see you in the chat.
We're gonna call call you here in a second. You
shouldn't have said hello in the chat. That's on you.
Jenoy Chase Shores to speed the bats up a little bit, yeah,
and then Zach Cowen to come in.
Speaker 2: You could only use Shores and Calent.
Speaker 4: That would be think that's that's the recipe that I'm
voting for.
Speaker 2: That'd be great because that way schors.
Speaker 4: To get you to the seventh. Cal want to finish
it up.
Speaker 1: That way, whether you win or lose either tonight tomorrow
you have Case and Evans, you have Cooper Williams, you
have Jaden Newt.
Speaker 2: You basically have everybody except those two guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Again, it's not the ideal situation to be able to
go out there, you're feeling it, you got the lead
and then shut it down, and now you got to
come back and you play in less than three hours.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I'd like to talk about that maybe coming
back from break.
Speaker 4: It's is. It's got a radio teas.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm kind of a pro, so it's not a
big deal.
Speaker 9: I'd like to talk with you just from like a
former athlete standpoint, the mindset of Lego.
Speaker 6: Would you rather have played late?
Speaker 9: Yeah, or come back and play in the morning potentially
you know, one and a half games or a little
bit more than one and a half games in the
same day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll talk about that again. Hunt, I'm not kidding.
Get ready for a phone call around seven thirty. We'll
have Nick Underhill certainly later on in the show to
Little New Orleans Saints. We've got OTB mail bag, but
it's all about the Tigers on the dive d We'll
continue hitting LSU baseball as they get ready to resume
their game against UCLA when we come back here on
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean what that's kind of like a nightmare situation.
Sometimes you get in your those libations, you got those
cocktails flowing for the game. Then it gets canceled, but
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Speaker 4: You had a question going into break about mindset playing
last night, playing in the morning.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so so Taylor and I were discussing this when
I came in today. It's like, you know, it's it
stinks from a when you look at it just right
off the cuff, It's like, man, you would rather have
during the rain delay. I know there's probably like a
lot of people have different opinions on how to appropriately
do this.
Speaker 6: You move the games back, what do you do?
Speaker 9: You got to keep the tournament on schedule, right, So
would you rather play the game started up at midnight,
play the game, finish it at you know, two in
the morning, three, and then whatever it ends up being,
what would you rather have them call it like they did,
wake up a little bit earlier and then have the
chance of playing a little over one and a half
games in the same day, and I think everybody's like, well,
it stinks, you got to do that. You gotta play now.
If you lose, you gotta play. You got to come
back and play at six pm. I would much rather
do that and then play a game till two or
three in the morning, okay, because as an athlete, like, yeah,
that's okay, all right, let's just say that the ninth
and it ends we win, or let's just say the
losing team loses and it's two am, two thirty. You're
not getting asleep, getting to sleep until six am. Probably, yeah,
because you gotta gotta come down. It takes hours to
come down from a game, right because you're so emotionally tied.
Speaker 6: Up in it.
Speaker 9: You gotta take showers, you gotta do me, you gotta
do all this stuff. Then you get in no sleep.
You're not getting to bed until twelve hours before you
know the next game. So I would rather then do
it and come back and play two games in one day,
then have to sit there and play a game till
two or three in the morning. And I don't know
if if everybody else feels that way.
Speaker 7: So you would rather come back.
Speaker 9: I would definitly on if there's already a rain delay,
of course I'd rather just like play through. But that
that's of starting it at midnight. Yeah, of course, a
normal rain delay, you're sorry an hour or two?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I guess it does depends on when you
actually restart the game. Uh. I am a little bit
of a meathead, minus a little bit part. Uh So,
like when I get my mindset and my juice is
flowing and I'm ready to go, and I'm in that
mindset even though there is a delay, I do think
I want to go ahead and get back out there
and finish it. I'm at the ballpark, I'm in my uniform.
We've been here waiting for three hours on something. Give
me some news, and then all of a sudden, like
you've got this ultimate high and then they tell you, hey, hey, boys,
see you tomorrow morning. All right, it's it's eleven o'clock.
The game's at ten. Coach is probably gonna have us
here at the field in six hours. We're still here.
We got we look, we got a shower. We gotta
go hotel, We gotta get down from this high. We
gotta eat something. You're going to bad at two am
to be back at the ballpark at six am. So
for me, I would much rather let's go ahead, let's
play this thing. Let's play it. If we get done
at two am, that's fine. Like we'll still get more
rest if we lose this game and come back and
play against Arkansas a little bit later on.
Speaker 8: Do you feel like y'all nerves would be worse the
next day, Like just the moment knowing that.
Speaker 4: I'll this one, I'm mad because this is not this
is not me being Tommy tough Nuts. I promise you
nerves were not something.
Speaker 6: Have you used that one before? Probably that's a good one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably not Like, yeah, I've used that before for sure,
because nerves were never, never a part of my game.
They just they weren't. I get more nervous right now
watching my kids play eleven year old and nine year
old batting like in youth baseball than I did carrying
the football in any game that ever played it.
Speaker 7: That's just the way it is.
Speaker 4: It's like if my son Jackson's out there at left tackle,
I am a nervous wreck, like making sure he gets
his blocks for me. Not like people don't believe, like
not nervous. I'm just not a nervous person when I
play because I could control control.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Right, And so baseball though, with I mean just so
many moving parts. It's like, to Jordan's point, I'm sure
there's a lot of players that are overthinking a lot
of the situations that could play out that maybe already
did play out, and that's something that they have to control.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So getting up for a game, like the the
mental preparation it takes, like the adrenaline pump everything. A
rain delay is the worst for an athlete at any level,
whether you're.
Speaker 7: In the first ever game at LSU was a rain delay, No.
Speaker 6: I know. It just takes all the juice out, takes
a momentum out.
Speaker 9: But no, I I definitely I get where you're coming from.
Speaker 6: It's like we're already there.
Speaker 9: We got the uniform on, I got my EyeBlack on, Like,
you know what, let's let's just play it. Let's go,
let's go. But when you think about the logistics involved,
if you get done at too, the final out is
at two am, you are not getting to sleep until
the sun's out the next day. Yeah, there's just no
you got no shot at it, and to me, like
the mental gymnastics of that take precedent, like if I
can they call the game at what time? They call
the game ten o'clock? Yea, Like I'm sure at that
they were kind of being told before that. There's probably
a lot of communication like it's not looking good. It's
not looking good, so you know, Jay's probably doing this
thing like hey, stay ready, but like you know, it's
not things aren't looking great. You see that lightning above,
you know, so they probably got them home immediately. Potentially,
let's just say they can get to sleep by like midnight. Yeah,
all right, so you got to you gotta get a
little six hours. You can come back and you can
just completely reboot back into your same pregame routine.
Speaker 6: And then, to me, double.
Speaker 9: Headers like that's baseball, right, Baseball Double double headers are
a thing, right, So you stay there, you stay in
the middle, like the game readiness, the game preparation, the
game mindset all day and if you have to play
double header, I mean, adrenaline takes over that point.
Speaker 6: You're playing an elimination game, yes.
Speaker 1: As far as like nerves go, right, Like you're not
restarting from scratch either. About six innings you're spotted to
two run lead, right, go out there, hold on to
the lead, whatever you got to do.
Speaker 2: Like, I think that actually helps.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll tell you this. I do know that there's
going to be you know, some point of emphasis things
for both head coaches to make sure their team's ready.
And look, you can't chase ghost. We always talk about
that here, don't chase, don't do too much. But when
it comes to mental games and being ready mentally, I'm
gonna bet on Jay Johnson.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: And both these coaches have won the national championships, so
I'm not saying anything bad about that.
Speaker 8: You're not a slouch.
Speaker 4: But like we saw, like what Jay Johnson did with
Bear Jones, and we saw the video and he's sitting there,
he's talking like through the whole situation and you see
him using his hands and talk about here, and they're like,
I told you this last week.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: I think actually it was I think it was either
Mikey or Anthony because you were going like I like
the first time I met Jay Johnson when he was
an assistant at the University of San Diego, I'm like,
all right, who's that guy. That guy's mindset is pretty
pretty awesome there. That was the Mikey Yeah. So I'm like,
I'm gonna count on him to mentally. Now, physically that's
got to take over once the first pitch resumes, but mentally, like,
Jay's gonna have the team ready to go.
Speaker 9: And can I tell just let everybody be rest assured,
all Tiger fans, we are way more worried about the
situation than today and the team is. I can promise
you that we're gonna overthink this. Yeah, but Jay's already
played this situation out in his mind probably ten thousand times.
And these athletes, they're eighteen to twenty two year old
kids that don't care. They will go play in a
parking line if you ask them to. So we're gonna
overanalyze it. We're gonna think of what's the best, what
blah blah blah. We are going to be way more
worried about it than the Tigers out all right.
Speaker 7: We are going to Cole call Haunt Palmer when we
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Speaker 3: From the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: All right, Welcome back in to the pregame show of
LSU and UCLA not officially, but officially in our minds,
that is what we're calling this show, because that's what
it is. This is going to be at ten am,
a little bit after at ten am, And so we
co called somebody that's in Omaha. Somebody probably has like
seven jobs today and didn't want to do an eighth.
Speaker 7: But here we are, Hunt, what's going on, sir? How
are we doing.
Speaker 5: A little frustrated?
Speaker 4: We're gonna be all right, all right, So just open
floor here, walk us through last night? What you would
have liked to seen from you know, the NC DOUBLEA,
How you would have liked to have this handle? Because
it sounds like you're not very happy, Hunt.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not mad at anybody specifically. It's just
a very very bad break for the baseball team. Like
I was wrapping up my show yesterday at two fifty
and somebody put in the YouTube chat like the forecast
terrible for tonight. Like that's the first time I considered
the weather at all, and so I, you know, all
my stuff up in the room and then got in
the uber to go across to the stadium and sat
down in the radio boots and fired up two different
weather apps and I'm looking at this massive storm that
is right north of us, just bearing down. And it
was funny because Chris Flair, Bill Franks and I were
all looking at five different weather apps and like some
of it said, Yeah, this is gonna be really bad,
and some of it said like, oh, it's just gonna
miss it's gonna go north. Yeah, And so that you
knew it was a possibility. And you know, Aynson goes
out there and gets knocked around a little bit in
the first inning, but then kind of settled in and
he's two and three. And that's the advantage you have
on UCLA is you've got a guy here that's ready
to eat up five, six, seven innings and doesn't get
that chance. It's just it's a bad break. We don't
know what the weather's gonna hold today.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: And it may end up working out an LSU's favor
because I am Be was able to return more quickly
later in the week or whatever the case. You don't
know that the baseball is gonna it's gonna shake out.
But at LSU's big advantage on the field is these
two pitchers, and you just had that compromise in a
big way because he only goes three innings, and in
a way, that's like the worst possible outcomes. It be
goes one inning and those nine pitches, like he can
come back in like two days and take it back up.
It be goes five innings, Well, at least you've eaten
up half the game. Three is just like the worst.
You can't bounce right back, and he hasn't really taken
a big fight out of this game. So it's a
it's a tough break, yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean it certainly is.
Speaker 4: And you know, you know a little bit over forty
pitches there, so maybe in a couple of days you
come back. But right now you have to figure out
who is going back on the mound to start the
top of the fourth inning.
Speaker 7: We've been talking about it here.
Speaker 4: Obviously you're dialed in what would Hunt Palmer do if
Hunt Palmer was the manager. He's turning in the lineup
card today when this game resumes, who you going with?
Speaker 5: I've given it a lot of thought. Initially, Right when
he put the tark on the field, my inclination was
Case and Evans, he's your possibility to go five innings
of great baseball, the best chance you got to win
this game. And move into a spot where somebody's got
to come beat you twice. I went in three games
in a pretty short amount of time, and as I've
thought about it a little bit more, I think that
you've got a little bit of margin prayer, because you've
got to win your backtock if you haven't lost the
game and you've got a two run lead. UCLA has
got six left handers in the lineup, Dax Bryanson, I
think it might not be the worst idea to put
Cooper Williams out there and see what he's got, and
if they hit two doubles and he walks the guy,
you can get somebody up and ready to go, and
you know you're still right there in the ball game.
So I feel like Cooper Williams has got a good
chance to throw strikes. I don't think it's going to
be some monster environment this morning that he can't handle.
I don't think it's going to be a backed house
at all at ten o'clock in the morning on a Tuesday,
and UCLA is not a terrifying lineup. So I would
probably go with Cooper Williams and hope that you get
something similar to his last time out where he goes
three or four innings, and if your offense packs on
three or four runs and all of a sudden you're
up five or in the game, maybe you can get
home with Myers and Rizzy and you stayed Case and
Evans for a big game. I think that that's I
think you're in a position right now where you can
be a little bit. Do you want to call that
aggressive by not sending Evans out there? Whatever the works
to that, But that's probably where I am right now.
But I'm not real sure what Day's going to do.
Speaker 6: But the.
Speaker 9: I want to know how it felt in the stadium
because I can tell you watching it on TV in
my living room, like the amount of relief that I
felt when Bear Jones walked up in the first inning
and hit the ball, solid contact over the fence, kind
of strutted off the strutted off the batter's box, Like,
did y'all also feel it in the stadium because it
looked like watching on TV because they kept showing his parents, like,
did it look like there was just this huge amount
of relief that would just lifted off the team or
the crowd or anything, like, how did it feel when
when he got up there with his struggles and swung
the bat like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of layers to that. I mean, everybody
kind of saw that he'd got an extra work on
on Sunday afternoon and after practice for the whole team
had gone, and everybody knew that he went over if
I was five strikeouts, and it was a hot topic.
But he's still a really good hitter and really strong hitter.
And I'll be honest, like when he hit the ball,
I did not My eyes did not stay on him.
I watched the ball go and I'm programmed now having
seen it off baseball in that stadium. When the ball
gets up in the air right field, my expectations are
very low, Like I'm not thinking anybody's gonna get the
ballut of the ball fart there. I know how strong
he is. I assumed it would be caught probably short
of the track. And the right fielder kept going back
and kept going back, and kept going back, and then
jumped up and tipped off above and went over. And
I was pleasantly stunned when that happened, watching it on
the television highlight after his done, like you see, he
crushed that ball and then stood and watched he thought
he got it. So I'm doing from in the stadium
was different than what you were looking at on TV.
But yeah, I mean, one, it's great for him to
have had that big stor kind of relieve a little pressure.
But two, you were losing and he puts you ahead
at one back, which is why he's in the line.
So that's that was the biggest thing.
Speaker 4: So we know UCLA, like getting back to today, we
know that they are kind of a bi committee team
just by nature hunt So like this situation for them,
and they have a very deep bullpen, it actually is
not going to probably change a lot of what they
would have done if this game was resumed last night.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 5: Right, I mean, I don't know if they can go
back to the leftie after he goes, you know, a
couple of outs there, maybe he's available a few hours
later to come back and give you what he's got.
But in the big picture, like this doesn't affect the
UCLA at all. They've got like seven guys who are
just solid pitchers. None of them are stars, none of
them are first round picks, with the exception maybe they're
closer as a freshman. Easton Hawk has got a good arm,
but he only throws one inning at a period, so
like you're not, they're not compromised anyway. They have a
a staff of what I would consider at this level,
especially considering what you saw against Arkansas of pretty mediocre dudes.
And they're just gonna keep rolling him out there. And
LSU's got to keep scoring. LSU needs to score eight, nine,
ten runs in this game. That's just the way that
I see it. If not, you're gonna be playing with fire.
Speaker 4: And don't hit it's a short stop because my god,
I mean he's.
Speaker 5: A player, old Rock Chilowski. He can he can play that.
I mean, you break up an eye look out of him.
But he's been awesome.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You you better be a dude with your your name
being rock even though he spells it with an H,
I don't care your name's rock.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: He's legit like everything you hear about him, and you
see like in the highlights like he put on display yesterday,
some of those plays that he was making like he
is a dude.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he actually has more time than he
takes to get the fall over the first face like
the one that mad like he had a long time
and he just he just got rid of it instantly
in one hopit there and then godrinanez by two and
a half steps instead of the instead of the one.
But yeah, he's he's got good hands, good rains.
Speaker 4: And he has plenty All right, Hunt, we appreciate answering
the cold call, just real quick, what do you expect
maybe from from the crowd, Like LSU fans gonna be
right back in there today, not even miss a beat,
Like I don't know what's the buzz at seven forty
three am when you got a first pitch at ten am.
Speaker 5: I saw a couple in the elevator on the way
up last night when we got back to the hotel
right about eleven. I guess they said, yeah, they head
to right back out there. So there's a big local
element to these crowds, Like Omaha shows up for these games,
and I don't know that that's going to be there
at ten o'clock in the morning. It wasn't there in
a big way for the one o'clock game yesterday, So
it's gonna be, you know, a forty percent full stadium
I think this morning. That may be ambitious. The LSU
fans that have paid to come up here are going
to be there, but it's not the biggest LSU turnout
you've ever seen. I think that's ages if you win
today and find a way to win tomorrow or whenever
that game is played, because the weather forecast find a
way for today is not good at all. So we'll
see how much baseball they can get in. I think
LSU and U se la okay for ten o'clock. After that,
it's gonna be a little dicey. But yeah, I don't
expect the monster crowd. I think the LSU crew. I
think there's a big group that's waiting to come on
Thursday or Friday, and LSU can get to Saturday. We'll
see that that starts this morning.
Speaker 9: And not to mention right the I'm sure during a
rain delay like that that went that long, I'm sure
the bars got packed again with the LSU fans. So
I'm sure it's gonna be a pretty early morning for
a lot of those because I'm sure.
Speaker 4: They're all gonna look like varsity blues after they saw
Miss Davis perform. Oh yeah, and they come out of
said establishment and like we got a game today.
Speaker 7: That's gonna be the LSU crowd Hunt.
Speaker 5: Well, if we can get a win, I'll give it
a ten.
Speaker 4: Well done, sir, Well done, Hunt. We appreciate answering, sir.
Enjoy the game and enjoy the festivities.
Speaker 5: I'll only enjoy it if they win.
Speaker 7: Thank Oh is Hunt back on the call?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 7: Is he on the call for the entire run?
Speaker 1: I believe he did it Saturday and last night?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I figured he was just gonna like.
Speaker 4: I didn't know if if Buzzy and Doug had, like,
you know, something going on. I figured with Doug some
youth sporting event like I probably would have, So I
didn't know.
Speaker 7: So shout out to Hunt Man. Gotta be pretty cool
for Hunt.
Speaker 4: Lifelong l s U baseball fan, uh works his way
through the media and now literally calling games on the
network he grew.
Speaker 7: Up listening to in Omaha.
Speaker 6: Absolutely crush.
Speaker 9: But you enjoy yourself a little bit, you know, even
if it's a tight game, have some fun. I'm only
gonna enjoy it if they win. So true though, It's
very true for Hunt. I mean, I get it. Enjoy
the ride.
Speaker 7: Inside the buy you four chat? Was that the sun
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Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 4: I was trying to see if Flynn had another question.
Did he want me to break? Was it his turn?
So my turn? Is it a follow up? You know
there's a lot of hand signals right now. These are
radio pro communication. Yeah, YO would understand.
Speaker 7: He's still learning them. He doesn't understand either, So don't
feel bad. All right, we'll wrap up our number one.
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