Speaker 1: I'll start to what you want to presents. Off the
bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, Off the bench with Jacob Hester and C
Bob Aber.
Speaker 2: I gotta come off the bitch now.
Speaker 1: Here's Jacob Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 3: Aber Golden Dog and welcome in to a brand new
Oh T B.
Speaker 2: That's right. It is Monday, March twenty twenty five, and
the entire team is back after a little vaca for
the week. Jacob and Cruise myself at Disney. We are
back in the driver's seat here Ben Rouge, very happy
to be back, very happy to have a laundra and
Taylor here behind the glass who did a great job
of holding it down last week in our stead. Uh Jakie,
what's up man? How is the vacake? A lot of
it was good? A lot of it was good.
Speaker 4: Glad to be back home though, Glad to get back
into the routine. Completely forgot about springing forward like during
a vacation, which I want to talk about it, I
don't really want to. Yeah, it wasn't great, but like
I said, you know me, I like to be in
the routine. So glad to be back in the routine
and uh, glad to see the hat made the show today.
I was hoping that it would make an appearance today.
Speaker 2: Is that like Robin Hood wore a hat like that, right,
I don't know about Robin that cartoon.
Speaker 5: Something that looks like but yes, this is a German
drinking hot Okay, this goes with the letter hosen and
you know the kind of overalls suspender just a later
hold and I need to get something and perhaps maybe
like a are you here? And a little one of
those very long mountain horns.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all I say is the first day I'm Zaia.
One of the first new things that I did was
I go to the Biergarten and I learned about the
German culture and wow, what they vibrant cultures they have
the entire time. It's it's just a wonderful people. I
have so much fun with dancing, me and the girls
and and.
Speaker 6: They play the bells and horns and and it's it
was great.
Speaker 5: I lots of beers, which is very tasty as well.
Speaker 2: So just little German. Yeah. See the voice started dunkle.
See the first started dunkle, which brought me back because yeah,
they saw it in the leaders too, so you're the
big old glasses. But it brought me back because the
first time I ever had Votersteiners Dunkle really probably like
one of the first beers that I had that wasn't
one of the domestic trios, you know, the bud light,
mirller lighter Corse like. Yeah, was freshman year of college Gonzales, Louisiana.
Used to throw a sick Yeah, used to throw a
thick Octoberfest party really, and it was amazing, dude. I
feel like it was in like a little gym or something,
but I'll never forget. And the older players, I went
with them kind of under their wing, and we spent
a night doing chicken dances, drinking Dunkle and just having
a generally incredible time. And so I had vain and
quite some time. And that was a nice little uh blast,
you know, like you know, your nose could be tied
to memory, like your old facts taste as well, right,
So it.
Speaker 5: Was immediately brought them back to My night was just
a spring chicken.
Speaker 2: Little eighteen year olds. It's fun eighteen year old drinking beers.
How'd that happen? I didn't I see all the guys.
Speaker 6: They sneak me in your grandfathered in, yes or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah that changed in the nineties. Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe
I want to tell that story, but I don't think
they do anymore. I think they stopped like just a
couple of years later. Yeah, I mean for real, it's
been eighteen years now since then, so sheesh. Coming up
in October will be officially eighteen on the dot. But yeah,
we can get into more of that later. Landra, how
are you doing to.
Speaker 6: That doing well? Really glad to have y'all back. I missed, y'all.
I only had two days. I was yeah, I was out.
I came back and y'all left. So glad to have
y'all back. I hope y'all enjoyed y'all's vacation though.
Speaker 2: Uh, and Ta, what about you hosting? I only got
to listen to some of the show, but when I did,
it seemed like things are growing quite well. I was
very proud of your takes to Go last week.
Speaker 7: No, well, it was a busy week, but uh, look
we made it, man. I feel like I feel like
we had a good time. We did, we did a
good job, did a little. Uh, you'll be proud of me.
The entire third hour on Friday, no sports.
Speaker 8: So you'll so, I actually am proud of you because
I don't think that that's something that you would have
ever done before you started this show.
Speaker 9: Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: There you go look at that.
Speaker 6: The entire week though, was like the most sports that
we've ever talked to.
Speaker 2: Everybody's going to have your style.
Speaker 7: I'm not saying every day we did one segment no sports.
I made sure to be proud of you like we did.
We had we did a Love Is Blind recap one
gay I mean we we you know, we we messed
around a little see somebody.
Speaker 2: I like that because, like everybody has their natural base,
right and for me, my natural bas is trying to
have to remember to work these sports in there more
and for you the opposite. So we're growing through osmosis
a bit into one another here. That makes me very
very happy.
Speaker 4: I feel like I don't know how it was for ut,
Like I didn't like see a lot because like I
was out in the middle of the ocean and different sports. Yeah,
I know what what came across your screen.
Speaker 2: I know more about the Los Angeles Lakers current run
of play and in an NFL free agency than I
do about what happened here because I had to do
the room show the entire time I was there, and
I prepped that hour, So I mean, I'm going to
puts it together. So basically, I know a lot of
national sports stuff right now, but always in the background,
I was seeing stuff like, oh, it is Kyle Williams
the d line coaching right yeah. Oh LSU baseball? Okay,
are they number one?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Okay, that's cool? So like, so what did I miss? Guys?
What what were the what did we miss? We're the
big local hot but and stories while.
Speaker 6: We were out Tiger's number one uh l s U
women's basketball lost.
Speaker 2: You're very happy about that alone.
Speaker 6: Not I did not do that. Men's basketball wrapped up
the season as well with an l.
Speaker 2: If a tree falls in the woods and all that.
Speaker 6: Jordan almost got off the bench canceled. I almost died.
Speaker 2: Listen to that audio, how did you almost die? On
the air?
Speaker 6: I started choking on water drowning. Yeah, and then Cassie
just laughed.
Speaker 2: Nobody like some like junior high class or something or another.
But they said something about that, like, you know, is
something in your throat of like the wrong hole opens
up and water gets there, you can like drown or something.
In my entire life, I've had an irrational fear of
like just drinking water and drowning.
Speaker 6: That almost happened to me.
Speaker 2: Uh sure, m oh well, I'm glad that you didn't drown.
That would have been a pretty embarrassing way to die.
Speaker 6: Jordan and Taylor almost came to blows.
Speaker 2: Let me guess about a mock draft, about about fantasy
about there.
Speaker 6: Actually you are absolutely talk about it.
Speaker 9: We'll talk about it.
Speaker 6: It was about a mora.
Speaker 2: Yes, I love it. Uh what what?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: What? What else? Did I miss? I mean?
Speaker 7: The big thing was yesterday with the Saints and Derek
carrreg reed structure. Saw Josh Thompson, the big time O
lineman that la she brought in from the Northwestern not
with LSU during spring. That came out uh on Saturday.
It's apparently something like he has to finish his classes.
He wanted to graduate, so like he's not going to
be here during spring, so.
Speaker 2: I wanted a Northwestern degree. I mentioned big stated, do
you know what I'm gonna say it? Red flag. I
don't want anybody that came here to play school, you know, Okay,
in the big business that is college football nowadays. I
want people who are going after general at each degree.
Speaker 7: Gymnastics set the record for highest score, let's go.
Speaker 9: Kyle Williams is details d Lion coach.
Speaker 2: So Kyle Williamson did end up coming true. So I
saw I saw that Lon had some rumors about maybe
al whatever his name is from missoo. So Williams official.
Speaker 9: It's it's.
Speaker 2: Basically official.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they just haven't said anything about it.
Speaker 4: Oh, Jake, how do you feel about that? I mean,
you know how I feel about Kyle. Yeah, he was
a teammate of mine for a couple of years. Got
the most respect for him. Hell, I played against Kyle
in high school, so I've known him for a very
long time. One of the better defensive tackles during the
time that he played in the NFL, always made the
Pro Bowl, All Pro type. Guy loves l s U
from Louisiana. He's coaching defensive tackles, not the entire defensive line.
I love that even more. It's a position that he
knows incredibly well. He can kind of narrow his focus
on the defensive tackles, and we know this man is
going to be a motivator. I mean, we've all seen
his speeches, not only at LSU when he was with
the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2: So I love it.
Speaker 4: And I know a lot of people are like, well,
he's only coached high school football. I get that, I
understand that, but he did that really well. And you
don't play for as long as he did in the
NFL without knowing exactly what you're doing. And then you've
got Kevin Peeples, who's been a longtime coach alongside you
to help you continue to grow as a coach. So
I love everything about it.
Speaker 2: Yes, the ski, Yeah, he's only coached high school, but again,
the actual football portion of it is probably the least
amount of learning curve that Williams is going to have.
You don't play at the level that he did for
as long as you did without I mean, I remember
back in the summer before eleven, he used to work
out with the team quite a bit, and I remember
him keeping it very real with us after workouts one
days and calling us up and be like, look, man,
there's too many chiefs right now. None like there's too many,
there's too many voices, too many people trying to get
their opinion, blah, blah blah, basically saying that we needed
to Uh it's somebody needed to step up and other
people needed to fall back. And I remember internalizing that
we executed on it and got better. So no, I yeah,
I think it's again like recruiting. Sure, he'll have to
learn to want to do that and learn to kind
of you know, the the other nil stuff and whatnot.
But like when it comes to telling somebody and coaching
how to play defensive tackle, Hell yeah, I want Kyle Williams, dude.
Speaker 7: Well and also, like we talked about, you want to
keep the guys you have in the building.
Speaker 2: You don't want them to leave.
Speaker 7: Because Bo Davis has gone mod Bro played under him
at Rusteddon School.
Speaker 9: Oh no, that's big.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Hell he brought in a Moro's former coach, let's go,
that's uh okay, and he's been coaching since twenty twenty. Yeah,
that's this is a great hire. This is a great
highre And you bring in uh, I mean again, one
of the ledgers, one of the most unassuming, physically unassuming
badasses of all time. Like obviously he's big, right, I mean,
of course you're not gonna do what he did. But
He's not like overwhelmingly big to the naked eye. Also,
he kind of have like can have a little bit
of like you know, if you just glanced at him
and be like, oh, kind of chubby, white guy, a
little tall. But then what you don't know is exactly
like one of the most fearsome defenders in the NFL
for a decade, Like you would you would never ever ever.
Speaker 4: Guess No, I mean forty eight and a half career sacks,
over six hundred tackles. And remember this is from the
interior second team All Pro a couple of different times.
Six times he made the Pro Bowl. So like you're
exactly right about his playing style. Also, and I mean
he was a high motor guy. He was a consistent
team captain there for the Bills.
Speaker 2: He brings a lot.
Speaker 4: And also, like you're mentioning like with some of the
players obviously the ones that he coached in high school,
but they know who Kyle Williams is. Like, if you
play defensive line and you're from Louisiana, you know who
Kyle Williams is.
Speaker 2: And so that gives you, you know, kind of.
Speaker 4: A belief that they hired the right guy, and you're
going to be excited about who they brought in and
not somebody that you have to really get to know,
like they already know exactly who that is. And so
I think it's I think it's a great move. I
think Kyle is the perfect person to replace a Bo Davis,
and I'm excited to kind of see how it turns out.
Speaker 2: The only thing that I don't like about Kyle Williams is,
if you're a Saints fan, when he at least be
responsible in part for Jeris Bird getting signed. Wasn't he
a part of those defensive lines that were so good
that quarterbacks are just chucking up moon balls for Jeri's
Bird to interception to pick off and and pat his
stats like he was one of the reasons why who
is the edge of Mario Williams at the time, who's
tearing up for the edge? I think, so you did,
Maria Williams. I think there was somebody else there, But yeah,
he was one of the main reason why they were
stacking so many sex his quarterbacks couldn't step up here.
Speaker 4: I cannot believe they gave a Bird that much money.
I know when I came across the wire, I was like,
what we're chasing the earl Thomas Ghost.
Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah, imagine the Saints front office making questionable commitments.
Ye spoiler alert, more on that coming up in the show. Guys. Uh,
but it's great to be back. It's great to be back,
very excited to be back. Nookie's accused my accent of
bouncing from Swiss to German to Austrian, and I would say, true,
it's an Alpine accent. But I also told my wife
this the other day and she disagreed with me. I
believe that we will win. No, that's a lame cheer.
Speaker 6: That is not a lame cheer.
Speaker 2: I like cheering because I like singing songs when watching footy,
and and it's fun. That cheer is the most beta
energy cheer I've ever heard. Yes, I.
Speaker 6: Do it.
Speaker 9: In the guys, I.
Speaker 2: Do it. I sit there, I dive all in.
Speaker 7: Everybody does it and there's no uniqueness to it any
I believe that.
Speaker 2: We will win. Guys, We're America. That I believe. Yeah,
it does get me. I have a good time seeing
I think it's a little like it's a little soft.
I know we're going to win, Yeah, yeah, or anything
like that or like I don't know like I don't.
I mean, I saw I saw Slatan talking about the
song that the man you fans used to sing about
him the other day, and I can't repeat it on air,
but it was way better. And that's just for an
individual player. I believe that we win. Also, when you
kind of suck, it's it's very whoa whoa suck. It's
very like uh team in the world, sir, a lot
of countries to play foot. Make a quarterfinal. Okay, let's
make a world quarter five. Yeah once you should make
the Yeah, make another. How about when Timmy Howard comes
up with thirteen saves in around a sixteen games, somebody
finds that WANDALASKI you bump, Oh my god? That the
point is? The point is it has a very like
like West Coast Hollywood scriptwriter trying to write like the
small understaff team beating the big bag. I believe that
we will win. Get out here, dude, we're America. Okay,
I bet you next year you're singing that song, I
will be. I'm not saying I'm not going to. I
absolutely will be a thousand percent. I just think it's
kind of lame. I'm just as an honest moment but
I will be singing it full throwated as hard as
I can when America plays at whatever bar we are
watching from there. The next rule, we could be there.
That's true. North Houston, Oh man, i'd be crazy Houston. Yeah,
I mean it's one of the sides. Yeah, it looks
like maybe we gotta get to Houston then, Uh what
was the time before you got on this some about
your wife? Believe yeah, I believe that Austria and Germany
are basically the same country. They are. Yeah right, yeah,
thank you exactly, Like there's no functional difference between Austria
and German.
Speaker 6: I mean that's a fact that happened like back in
the day. So to me, they're still the same.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, I'm glad we're on the same page. And
because she like acted like I was, uh, she she
acted like I was, Like I was crazy. It was
not the cause.
Speaker 6: Weren't they all Prussia at one point?
Speaker 2: Probably that sounds right, Yeah, that sounds right.
Speaker 6: So I don't know, I think they're the same thing.
If you can call Hitler German.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. There you go, guys. In case,
my accent is alpine is how we describe it, all right,
When we get back. Yeah, well, te you, I've got
a geography us. It's gonna be a great day. It's
gonna be a great day, guys. Uh, all right, when
we get back, let's go ahead and talk about this
weekend series LSU Baseball. Where do they stand heading in
to sec play. Let's go and then we gotta talk
about the Derek car restructure a bit later as well.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta.
It's off the bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 2: Great song, U dark song, right. I won't say why,
but yeah, yeah, yeah, no, yeah, well I don't know why.
Maybe it's all I don't want to put that out there,
but yeah, great song. It's just about something different than
what it maybe sounds like. Welcome back on to OTB,
T Bob, Jake, Landra and Taylor all hanging out with
you today. We are back after a week away on
vacation and well we were already getting into some history here.
Our resident chat historian, my Guy Daniel Blunt says Prussia,
under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck, led the unification
of most of the German states into the German Empire
in eighteen seventy one, excluding Austria and its multi ethic territories.
Austria in turn formed the Austro Hungarian Empire in eighteen
sixty seven, composing of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom
of Hungary. So maybe a little more different than I
thought earlier.
Speaker 6: He said that they were both part of the Holy
Roman Empire, so they were still the same thing at
one point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, but not as much connective
tissue as I would have thought there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Prussia was like the bridging bridge, bridging the gap.
Speaker 2: But the I gotta say, Auto von Bismarck, iron Chancellor,
that's a that's a big blind spot for me.
Speaker 6: Really.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. And I've heard Dan Carlin wax poetic about
him supposed to be maybe the greatest statesman of his error,
creating this byzantine web of alliances and whatnot, even though
I think, as Carlin kind of paints it, that once
he exits the stage, that the fact that nobody else
really understood all the balls that he was juggling, that
that's kind of in part what led to World War One.
It is was them not understanding.
Speaker 6: All the because the Balkans got all messy. It was
it was a lot going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the old Churchill call, something about like some
damn full event in the Balkan. Yeah, it's the start
of World World War.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't actually know where the Balkans are, to be fair,
just another quote anyway, Jake, give me your three biggest
cruise life takeaways or just number one with a bullet.
I saw you reminiscing about the inevitable march of time
and getting older as you enjoyed a cup of coffee
top side.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I was. I was up with the the snowbirds. Yep,
I am one with the snowbirds. Now it happened. It
happened fast, but it has happened. Uh, it's okay. I
had seven days to uh, you know, come to terms
with it. So that was one the second one. You know,
five day crews probably better than the seven day I
think seven days.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. I felt some of that as well. Yeah,
seven days is a long time, A long time. Uh,
food's incredible.
Speaker 4: Had had you know, had great meals I would I
mean basically, yeah, it's like unlimited food basically at all
times as well.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, but I really.
Speaker 4: Enjoyed the family dinners, no distractions, everybody just chatting it up,
had some music playing, and so boys are having a
good time with that.
Speaker 2: Harlow thrived. I mean she was like the captain of
the ship.
Speaker 4: I mean everywhere she walks so like on Carnival, like
rubber ducks are kind of a deal, like people collected,
and that's what it felt like, and they, like Harlow
must have had like thirty of them, people just.
Speaker 2: Handing her these rubber ducks.
Speaker 4: And so she, her and I both took fully advantage
of the yogurt machine that's there at all times as well.
Speaker 2: So we had a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: The Atlantis is probably the move though, So we stopped
in Atlantis. I've always wanted to go, and I think
that's the move, Like we just go straight to Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Did you ride the did you ride the slide? They
go to the Shark Tank. Yeah, okay, as a kid,
I thought that sounded like the scariest, craziest thing that's
ever been built. Now there's other slides.
Speaker 4: There's one called the Abyss and it's straight down and
it's like completely blacked out. And when I say you
go straight down, I mean you gained some real steam.
And I didn't know that that's what it was when
I first went down there, So but it was it
was fun, and the lines were not long because not
a lot of people are out of school, like Louisiana
is like the only one really it's out of school
at that time, So I mean it was like rapid
fire rides, So that part of it was great.
Speaker 2: And the shark tank, it's it's great.
Speaker 4: I mean you're on a tube and all of a
sudden you look over there it's a shark that's right
next to you, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Now, does the shark slide start open air and then
go into a tube. When you go into the tank,
I believe you in a tube the entire time. I
believe you're in a tube or tube, like do you
have a ceiling on you the entire time, and then
all of a sudden you go in, you go out,
and you're into a shark tank.
Speaker 4: So Atlantis is awesome. That's probably again next Marty Girl break.
It's probably like we'll just go straight there. Yeah, our
first so we got we stop in Key West, and
Key West is what.
Speaker 2: It's nicely cool little I stayed in old Key West. Okay,
there you go. It's a nice little town. You know,
it's got like a little olds feel to it. It's cool. Whatever.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's get back on the boat. We're supposed to
go to Freeport in the Bahamas, and we had this
excursion where it's gonna be a beach day. We've been
there before, beach day all day. They've got like water trampolines,
obstacle courses, the whole deal. And we're about like we're
docking and the captain comes over loud speaker, Hey, because
of conditions, we're just not gonna be able to dock.
Speaker 2: We're just gonna keep going.
Speaker 4: I'm like, dude, it's sunny outside, Like the waves aren't
even that bad. What are we talking about here? Like right,
I mean, we're like dressed ready to get off the boat.
And so it became where we were on the boat
for like three straight days and that was pretty Oh.
Speaker 2: My, I got a little cabin fever. Pretty well, I
didn't care. Like the boys were like, Okay, we're.
Speaker 4: Gonna do something here, and I'm like, dude, I could
get a coon ass from Lutcher. I promise you he
can park this boat. I promise you he can get
this boat on this dock right now, Like let him
take over.
Speaker 2: And you fathom being one of the people that would
have gotten stuck on a cruise ship during COVID No,
I mean I was like, god, three four weeks. Yeah,
I think people spend like over a month. Yeah, hold
up on there, it would be awful. No, And that
they had to stay in their rooms for the I'm yeah,
like pretty sure they had to stay in those tiny
little rooms, which a disaster an anxiety text tu saw
you perk up when Jake started talking about docking. Have
you ever gone on a cruise actual?
Speaker 9: If not, I've I've always wanted to.
Speaker 7: Victoria has been a little iffy about it, but we've
actually talked about it the past couple of months.
Speaker 9: No, I've always wanted you.
Speaker 2: You feel like somebody have a really good time.
Speaker 9: Probably I eat a lot, so that makes sense.
Speaker 2: I think it's the next play for the Avier families
a Disney cruise, so catching on one of those sometime
next year probably. So overall, the okay, what was the
last thing on the cruise was the fattest thing you ate?
You said you were going to uh step away a
bit from your actually strict diet. Give me a run
down to the fattest things that you ate.
Speaker 4: Uh So they have basically twenty four to seven pizza,
like good pizza. Oh yeah, so that was taken full event.
Speaker 2: Did they say you were super excited for pizza? They
had a che They had a quatro cheese, so four
cheese pizza. Oh well, yeah, it was incredible. They had
Guys Burger on there. And when I say feed, yeah,
it was one of the best burgers I've ever had.
Is this is a restaurant on the boat like guys
Burger or like Burger Okay, like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like it was his spot, but it was like
and it stayed like pack. The line was it never
went down because it was that good, damn. And the
burgers were incredible And I'm kind of like not a
burger snob, but like I want to get you're not
saying that lightly. No, And we had one every day
around like three o'clock.
Speaker 2: God, sounds so good. It was so good. So like that, Yeah,
that was the that was the champion of the cruise
was guys Burger. Shout out Guysburger. So did you have
anything fried? Truly? You had friend tries? Yeah? I had
French fries at Guysburger. Yeah, what about fried chicken? Anything? Bread?
So nothing breaded and fried? No, okay, but I'm still
proud of you. A lot of a lot of seafood,
A lot of seafood. Hell yeah, hell yeah, a lot
of heavy pastas there we go. Yes, absolutely, hell yes, dude, Yeah,
my oldest as you know, he's just he's a large
human being. Like he's he's like I felt like he
was about to hit the ceiling. It felt like when
he was walking. Uh. He took full advantage of like
you can get two meals, Like if you eat your meal,
you can be like hey, another.
Speaker 4: And they'll bring you another. I mean they'll bring you
another round. Let me tell you something. He took advantage,
and so did Hudson. Hudson took in. Hudson's not a
big fellow, but he took advantage of it as well.
Hell yeah, man, yeah, well.
Speaker 2: I'm glad to hear. I'm glad that it sounds like
the cruise was an excellent time. If maybe by the
end of it long just got to Freeport, he was
about board. Just to break it up a little bit,
my guy, I fed the boat. Even even I around
day six was like, you know, maybe like maybe like
four days is kind of like I think four or
five is sweet spot. Like four days at the park
probably like one travel day, then four days at the
park and then come back home, right, we'll see. I
got plenty of thoughts on that as well.
Speaker 4: The reason we went on a cruise and not like
straight to Atlantis because now we got to do passports
for everybody. Oh, you know, you all to have a passport.
So for a cruise you don't have to have passports.
And you can go to the Bahamas, you can go
to Jamaica, you can go to Mexico.
Speaker 2: Now he's gotta, you know, get in the passport. It's
a lot of it's very DMV vibes to get your past.
It is a lot of visits to governmental offices in
which you'll wait in a long line only to find
out you did not bring the fun piece of paperwork
that you needed. Thus you must turn around and try
again on themorrow. Yeah, and then like then tomorrow you
have seventeen things, and then the next you have fifteen things. Yeah. Yeah,
So I lost my passport when I left my fanny
pack at Rouses all those weeks ago. Unfortunately, Wait what Yeah,
that's why I stopped wearing a fanny pack. I don't
know if it talked about it publicly. I just left
at Rouses one afternoon. What all was in there? Uh?
Passport's a big one passport, A couple of Challenge coins
that I cared around with me for years at this
point that hurts. Maybe a Rouses gift card. Well, you know,
it's it's it's it's a bit disappointing for sure. All Right,
when we get back, we can talk about some some
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff
mixed in off the bench with Hester and t Bomb.
Speaker 2: Okay, we haven't got any actual sports yet today. Shout
out to all my friends that I saw at at
Disney over the past week. Louisiana was very well represented.
It represented love. Seeing everybody's Marti Gras fits on Fat Tuesday.
It was just really fantastic time seeing all of our
all of each other, all of our brethren there and
they're in the happiest place on Earth. Yeah, it was.
It was good to have.
Speaker 4: So we left out a New Orleans for the cruise,
and so obviously Marti Gral, you know, we're off of school.
A lot of LSU Louisiana people on the boat and
at a Marti Gral party and everybody. Everybody had a
good time on the ship. It was funny when whenever
we got to like the boat, like initially, you know,
the bars open up. It's really the only thing is
open when you first get on the boat. The rooms
aren't quite ready yet because you know, the past cruise
is leaving them and getting everything ready. But the bars
open and I'm sitting there thinking, like, I know they've
done this before, but I hope they packed enough alcohol
on this ship, because the bar lines were like seven deep,
like off the bat I mean, that's that's the.
Speaker 2: Whole for me. That's like one of the main appeals
of a cruise is just knowing that basically I'll just
be drinking twenty four to seven for an entire week. Yeah,
and everything will be taken care of for you, all right,
all right? So SEC play guys open up this weekend.
LSU fresh off of a sweep over North Alabama thirteen
to two on Friday six two Saturday eleven five Sunday,
I saw some stuff on Twitter, me being accused of
being a mush talking about how the you know LSU's
pitching now, this feels like forever ago, what was dominating,
Who's gonna be the first to fall? And then maybe
there's been some wobbles. It seems like it's been pretty
damn good to me though, So here I think here's
I want to frame this as we enter SEC play.
I want to ask about the kind of the the
the stalwarts here. Who do you all believe is your
number one starter with the bull that you trust the
most entering SEC player Kate Anderson. It is Ky yes,
now statistically obviously like he's three in the year to
Adr who was writing The Advocate today, I apologize. I'll
look it up. I think it might have been coched.
I'll look it up. But right in the Advocate today
Kate Anderson right now averaging fifteen ks per nine a
forty three and a half k percentage for for Anderson.
So he has lived up to all of the offseason hype.
Who then coming out of the pin, Who's the number
one guy you have the most trusted Zach Collen? Okay,
why is that he wins?
Speaker 6: Jay said this every time that they put him in
the game, they win the game. On Tuesday night, this,
y'all miss this. North Dakota State got up on LSU
very early in the game seven zero. And that's probably
what they were talking about, calling you a mush or whatever.
I don't remember when, because timing makes sense on that action. Yeah,
so Connor Ware comes out, doesn't have the best game,
but uh, you we talked about it. You get positives
coming out of it because Chandler Dorsey came in and
really got us back on track with the pitching, and
then Zach Cowen came in finished the well. He was
the other middle relief and he did great in that game.
Two shutout innings.
Speaker 2: For yeah, what he did on Tuesday and then two
shutouts in a save on Saturday.
Speaker 6: Yeah, co direct, Yes and then so yeah, he just
he's to me, he's taking over that Griffin Herring role
that we didn't know who was gonna take that role.
And it made to me at Zach Collen, yeah, uh.
Speaker 2: Do we feel like there's uh And by the way,
again it was Kogie Riley that gave the five takeaways
from the North Alabama series. One of them was Zach
Cowen continuing to dominate one two three era on the year,
thirty four and a half strikeout rate. What about closer?
Speaker 7: It's Case and Evans talked about Yeah multiple times last week,
like thinking think about in close games, Jay Johnson has
went to Case and Evans like seventh, eighth, and ninth
inning and closed games, caseon Evans just came through for
you every single time.
Speaker 9: I mean, that's your guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Let me see uh yeah right here, still a
zero e r A for Case and Evans. Nine innings,
pitch five appearances, sixteen Still only two walks in those
nine innings, put in a bad average of just one hundred.
Speaker 6: Those are the show numbers, MLB, the show numbers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the nine innings, Uh, where's says? How come
we can't see yes?
Speaker 6: Two three?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Right there, Yes, but then you have Anthony Iinson who
had fifteen strikeouts on Saturday, and Taylor and I talked
about this, like what do we want to see this
weekend and we were like, Okay, we want to see
Anthony Ironson get off to a good start. I mean
he does that you where he'll give up a couple
of little bass hits and get people some give up
some free bases, and we wanted to see him have
a full clean game. Started off a little rocky, but
from what the fifth, sixth batter that he faced after
that was lights out. Fifteen strikeouts, and just so I yes,
it'd be great to see him get off to a
clean start. But he does great in that role where
he like has runners on base, he can work his
way out of a jam and to come back and
strike out the next ten batters is crazy.
Speaker 2: Has the most innings pitch in the fourth starts point.
Speaker 7: Most pitchers will start strong and like fourth fifth inning
and they get a little fatigued and they fall off.
You can look his like his first three innings are
always worse than his fourth, fifth, and six, and he
actually gets better as the game goes along. Like to
her point, like if he could get better out of
the gate. He'll be dominant.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean LSU's temy are a much better at
this point in the season then it was last year,
barely over three. I think it's good for like fourth
in the SEC now entering conference play Tennessee still seems
very very good. You know, number one here a number
one bad in average, even though I don't know the
quality of their out of conference compared to that of LSU.
Speaker 6: But Alabama's sneaky, really good.
Speaker 2: Amazing against you. Yeah, shut out Burton. I think, I think,
I think, I think, Yeah, I think tomorrow. I didn't
have time to do it today, but tomorrow I do
want to do a deep dive setting the table on
the SEC. Yeah, how everyone's looked up to this point
and the madness that we were about to enter starting
this weekend.
Speaker 4: One of the things, though, in going back to Case
and Evans, that he's been able to provide for you.
Obviously he's been dominant on the mound, but also because
he's been dominant, it allows you to get Gavin Gidry
fully healthy. Yeah, and you don't have to you don't
have to rush him back because you have a guy
that's taken over that role and thrived in that role,
and so you can slow play Gavin Guidry, make sure
that he's one hundred percent. You don't throw him out
there at ninety percent because you're like, we gotta find
somebody to close games. So that is a good part
of it. And then you get a very lively arm
when you get into sec play with Gavin Gidrey, so
that there's more help coming to a bullpen. It's been
pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they did say Ja Johnson talking about how
I think you know it's a back injuries throwing last week,
they think he could make an appearance this week. He
dto Maa Zoo. There was a weird reading. The quote
was a little weird because he said, like, I guess
this weekend, So that that I guess was a little interesting.
But definitely be on the lookout for that. All right,
when we get back, let's close out of number one
of OTB.
Speaker 1: Off the bench.
Speaker 2: Its great to see Joey, Bryan, Nookie, Daniels, Brennan, Kevin, Jeff,
Jeff Bone, everybody in there, guys, that guy Roy. I
know I'm missing some of the homies. I apologize. Yeah,
it's it's very very happy to uh to be back
for sure a great time over the last week, logging
UH many miles and much fun. How was the How
was the Rome Show on the Road?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: It went? It went surprisingly well. It went surprisingly called
one day I think your back. How to tell pep
where it is? It's it's like on everything. But I'm
like the id.
Speaker 4: On Instagram because I saw it, Jim oh, I can
see if you saw it, I'll check.
Speaker 2: That, check it. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I saw Rome say that you are going back on
serious XM.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if the I don't know if
the extra, I don't know if the after hours. I'm
not sure about that cause I think that was made
specifically with TV in mind, because it's some like new
ROM channel on Like yeah, I know it's on Direct TV,
Direct on Prime, it's on all that.
Speaker 6: If you google fast know it'll tell you where to
watch it, like do we have to spoon feed everybody everything?
Speaker 2: But but anyway, so no, it went well. Shout out
bo Wegman. He gave me a little internet box from
around here, little portable Wi Fi box that worked very
very well, so I don't have to rely on Disney
WiFi Uh to you. Yeah, I agree, and it was
it was a little easier to understand than some of
the boxes that I've worked with in the past in
this business. Only a couple of buttons, not much to
kind of figure out there, and so the background looked great.
Speaker 4: Today I watched it was like, yeah, it was like
it's it's a tropical greenery.
Speaker 2: That's the that's the old Key West. Okay, that's what
I was talking about. It's uh, it's made in the
style of like, you know, you were really really rich
in like the maybe like fifties or something, and you
go down to Key West to some luxury resort. But yeah,
the you know, golf course background, it went, it went well. Again,
it was It's been very interesting, uh, working with with
him in that he's never had a co host before,
I guess besides the other guy that you had for
like the last year or whatever. Yeah, and it's uh,
it's been very fun, very interesting having to talk about things,
a lot of things that normally don't don't talk about it.
But finally Friday night I watched him because remember I
told you here early on it's month to month, so
we're trying to get it more long term hopefully, and
I think we're doing well in that regard and trying
to charm the pants of this soul man. But but
but finally, you know, I've seen him slowly go from
like it was guest host the first day, then now
it's come consistent co host, and then Friday night he
was Uh. I finally got a text from uh from Jim,
so we are Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. You really
loved the first week. Blah blah blah. His wife loves me, yes, hopefully, yeah,
you know, and meeting all the clones in the jungle,
they got it. They got an interesting vernacular over there
in the jungle. Where's home base for for gym la? Okay? Yeah,
so I'm basically like a little West Coast boy, you are.
They got a little offended when I started talking about
brotox and lip injections and the Dodgers and whatnot.
Speaker 6: Jim Rome, he's like one of my hearing me outs.
Speaker 2: Uh, I never heard that before. All right, our two
coming up.
Speaker 1: Next off the bench.
Speaker 2: It's a new year. Aren't you ready to finally get
the