Speaker 1: Yay, what's happening to y'all? Welcome in to another day
of ot B. Friday, March twenty first, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: What a great day. It's Friday, March Madness, Top ten
baseball series coming up this week, in Top twenty five,
Top twenty, top fifty softball series coming up this week,
and gymnastics starting the postseason run. Tennessee lost to Alabama though,
so I don't know how to feel about that one
either way. March it was a great Thursday, setting up
a stupendous, spectacular, splendiferous Friday here on a bit differous.
I don't know if that's the work. I don't think
it is. Look it up. If it is, that's a
big win for your boy, and I could use one
after a roaring three and twelve. Start with all my
bets yesterday for March madness. Uh not greats, not greats?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it means splendid great some What difference is a word? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Look at that. Okay, let me go put in fifteen
more bets because your boy is feeling hot here on
this Friday.
Speaker 4: I mean, sure, are we here on the second morning
of the NCAA tournament and your National champ is already out. Yeah, yeah,
that's something that happened. But there's only one way to go,
sir up Cherson down.
Speaker 2: That's right, guys, bracket busted three and twelve, but nowhere
to go but up from here. How's everyone else doing today, guys,
brackets intact?
Speaker 5: I don't think mine's intact, but I know my McNeese
pick is there.
Speaker 3: You go, It's all matters.
Speaker 5: I feel better that I did yesterday, but still not
fully there. But it's fine. It's Friday, so I get
to the recover here a little bit.
Speaker 2: Uh, Taylor, what about you?
Speaker 6: I went probably fifty to fifty yesterday on the bracket,
but all my Elite eight teams are still in text.
Speaker 2: I don't care that much.
Speaker 6: You literally asked us how our brackets were doing. Yeah,
I know, but you exactly, But you're lying.
Speaker 2: You can't sit here and say when fifty to fifty
and act like you had a good day, you had
a bad day.
Speaker 6: Did I say I had a good day?
Speaker 2: I said bad?
Speaker 6: But all my Elite eights are alive, so later on
it'll look better. That's exactly what I said.
Speaker 5: I'm on Louisiana Sports dot Net right now. Our local leaders.
J Money seventy eight.
Speaker 2: Jenny May eighty one. Yeah, that's my girl, Baker.
Speaker 5: Whd that dude nine and MM thirty six hundred. Shout
out to them.
Speaker 2: So where am I?
Speaker 5: Probably all the way down?
Speaker 4: I'm probably I'm probably damn near last pick and roll
went three and one yesterday.
Speaker 2: Every pick and Roll continuing to win, continuing to make money, didn't.
Speaker 4: Hit Louisville, hit Drake, hit Arkansas, and hit Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: Bang bang bang bang. How's your brain? I could do in? Jakey, wakey?
Speaker 3: I think I got all but two, right, I think
I missed Louisville.
Speaker 2: Look at the big brain on, Jake, I.
Speaker 4: Miss one more. I don't remember what it was. I'll
go over there and look during the break. So usually
I get the red marker out during this time because
we all hang our brackets up over there. Yeah, I
just go and you know I marked the red where
you got it. I don't know if I have enough
ink for your bracket.
Speaker 2: Well we're gonna find out. We're gonna put it to
the test and see, uh see how mine's doing. Wait
till how'd your bracket do again? I don't care, all right, guys,
So yesterday, March madness, what why do you look so great?
You didn't know that was coming? No I did.
Speaker 6: I assumed it did.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, because it felt like I telegraphed the
pass like we were on a football field, I would
have gotten picked off for sure. Anyway, let's go and
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Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: So, it seems like, much to the chagrin of Minye
Lsu fans, the story of yesterday was that man Will
Wade and the McNeese Cowboys. As I mean, outside of
that Jake pretty chalky, right, I mean, I guess technically
Arkansas over Kansas ten to seven.
Speaker 3: I mean I had that. I think everybody had that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, weren't they? Were they there were dogs? There were? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Five and a half.
Speaker 4: Actually yeah, But it was one of those ones where
I was like, Kansas is play an awful Arkansas actually
looked good in the SEC tournament.
Speaker 3: So to your point, a huge upset even though it
was seventeen.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think, is are there? Are there were
there a Drake obviously Drake beating miszoos as what that
was on eleven six?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Uh, But the point is a pretty chalky day save
for that classic twelve five as your McNeese State Cowboys
put it on Lil old Dabo and the Clipson Tigers
debo was there. It looks like all of my dabo
and concrete based research and analysis, uh was found one
ting Yeah, as I can't believe in a tournament that
I was essentially just saying I was picking up of
stupid logic and vibes that I didn't side with Wade
McNeice and the Aura God Amir Khan. But I blame you, Jake.
I'd actually like to offer you the floor to apologize
to me for what for when you high me up
to bet on Clemson to win the Nation CHAMPIONSHP. Because
those are two of my lost bets.
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't know they were playing McNeice at the time.
That was last week, and so that kind of changed
the math.
Speaker 2: Wow, so okay, I don't it's so soon as.
Speaker 3: I found out they're playing McNeice, I was like, oh,
that's over.
Speaker 2: That didn't sound like an apology. Would you like to
say sorry to me? I was convinced I was gonna
win like two thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: You said, you combat sill, you combat.
Speaker 2: That is true.
Speaker 3: That is true until maybe.
Speaker 4: Later today or whatever that's worth. We were just trying
to play find some value. And at the time, Clemson
was in the top ten, and and.
Speaker 2: None of the words are sorry to you. Bob, I
I busted your bracket. You busted all over me.
Speaker 4: Jake, Okay, well, how many games did you win in
your betting yesterday?
Speaker 2: Three?
Speaker 3: Three? Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: If you would have actually gone to Louisian Sports dot net,
yeah and played my picks, you would have won money.
Speaker 2: Everybody if you've if you played Jakes fix every day,
you're actually probably had about a sixty five maybe even
closer to seventy percent win rate, So you actively had
made money.
Speaker 3: You didn't you didn't do that.
Speaker 2: It didn't truest.
Speaker 3: You didn't trust your team.
Speaker 2: That's true. You're still not apologizing, but that is a
fair point. I am.
Speaker 3: I am sorry for leading you.
Speaker 2: Mak sure, Okay, that's fine, It's well, I need it. Yeah,
I feel better now. But mc niece is a story here, man,
and a crazy game. Was it thirty one thirteen at
a halftime? Yeah, I mean you want to talk about
putting the clamps on him. And so you see the
final score and like, oh, what exciting game. It got
just a little bit frisky.
Speaker 6: I can tell you about thirty seconds to go. We're
actually sitting here during a half far and Matt's doing
an interview with somebody and me and musso we're kind
of looking at each other. It's a three point game
with like twenty eight seconds out. They're like, oh, what's
gonna happen here? But hey, they held on.
Speaker 2: Uh that held on.
Speaker 4: They held Clemson, like t Bob said, to thirteen points
and a half. Now Clemson found their way. They scored
five fifty four points in the second half. They found
their shot. But that initial lead, that thirty one to
thirteen was just too much, and there was a lot
of times, Like six minutes left, Clemson made a run.
Speaker 3: You're like, are they are they gonna get all the
way back? And mcneee held on.
Speaker 4: Credit to them, that game could have gone a lot
of different ways there in the final ninety seconds of
the game, but it was because of that big lead
they got out to and they're able to hold on.
Speaker 2: You know what's crazy about Vegas. So because I didn't
want to put any energy against McNeese in this game,
I ended up just betting the over, and so at halftime,
I'm like, oh my god, this is just like the
most god awful bet in history. I'm going to look
at this thirty one thirteen? What is this? It ended
up being a point and a half. Shy of any
the words, I don't care about the win. It's more
just to point out, like, how in the world are
they so good at setting these lines? And even in
a game in which one team scores thirteen in the
first half, it still ends exactly where the algorithm said
that it would. But I want to play this video.
Look at the videoven o'clock here of Amir Khan. John
fant To interviewing Amir Khan in the McNeese locker room.
You don't know who Amir Khan is. He is the
student manager that has become the kind of face of
McNeice during this tournament run. And and look he himself
is fun. He's you know, he's got the N I L. Deals.
That's cool, man, it's a fun story. All of a sudden,
here he is. He goes from vs Being a student
manager and there's some of the most selfless guys on
the team to now being the face of the team.
He's actively making money. Attention to is the team not
only how they support Amir, right, and they're not like,
you know, they're fully on board. This is they're not like, oh,
you know the other fully on board. But Jake attention
to Will Wade, he got got in that locker room
and I don't know for dudes ready for it either.
Here is uh, here is John fan interview.
Speaker 8: Here in the locker room is Aura American. Your McNeese
Cowboys just pulled it off the beat Clemson. What were
you thinking? What were you thinking as that clock went
to zero?
Speaker 7: We got our first win in school history. You know,
so mc nice is the hometown school and you know,
for us to get a win in March madness.
Speaker 3: You know it means the world to me.
Speaker 8: What was the boombox blasting pre game?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: No switch by NBA, young boy?
Speaker 8: Will that be back Saturday or there'll be a total
switch up again.
Speaker 3: You know, we really don't know.
Speaker 2: You know, everything we.
Speaker 9: Do is.
Speaker 8: We got the boom box out now, Yeah it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's right there, you know, right there.
Speaker 8: With wild wings, with wild wings here here, here we go,
man put it on. So I love buffalo wild wings.
Speaker 7: I'm a big fatoos, you know, So for me to
add this it means a lot.
Speaker 8: What is it like being with what's this guy like
for you guys? What's he mean to you?
Speaker 2: Talk to him?
Speaker 6: He's Aura?
Speaker 2: This is Aura right here.
Speaker 8: I tell me what he means. This is really my man. Hey,
this is my man.
Speaker 2: And he'd be in the gym early every day.
Speaker 8: He getting rebound like he's real.
Speaker 2: When he said he.
Speaker 9: Had Chamberlain numbers, he really live by that, like for real,
Like tell him, boy, popp it like.
Speaker 8: This boom box playing in here right now, because.
Speaker 9: Like he letting the rest right now, like you feel me,
he do a lot, so right now I got to rest.
You feel mean jerk ty curry garlic palm, spicy garlic.
Go get your buffalo Wild Wings a sponsor of a
mirror or or hey, look and they got French fries
and onion rings and Mozarella sticks.
Speaker 8: Just how cool is this for you?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it means a lot.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: I never expected any attention really as a manager, you know,
so to receive all the love and support I received
over the last few weeks, it means a lot to me,
you know. But I'm really just focused on, you know,
trying to do what I do for the team and
you know, helping them so they could do what they
can on the court.
Speaker 8: You've got wild Wings and Somnia cookies, any elders, Well
I had to that's right. The business is.
Speaker 3: Wrong out, it definitely is.
Speaker 2: But uh, great vides. I just love mazzarella sticks. Give
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Shout out a mer, Shout out that McNeice locker room
and Jake got, no, you're the basketball expert. I didn't
think Purdue looked particularly inspiring against high Point.
Speaker 4: I would say high Point is really good basketball teaming.
High Point only lost five games during the year, but
perdue down the stretch, they lost a ton of games,
I think all six of nine down the stretch. So
Purdue is very beatable, and Purdue had times yesterday where
they looked beatable. It is not a matchup it's going
to be overwhelming for McNeice at all. I mean, he's
gonna have a you know, a ton of momentum and
confidence and look.
Speaker 3: You're gonna see hype videos as.
Speaker 4: Well where before the game, uh, the desk was talking
about will Wade and his decision, and Charles Barkley's like, look,
I don't really like that. He should have just found
a way to not bring it up. And Kenny's like,
I actually kind of like it. Oh, I like that
he got out in front of it, and the deal
is what the deal is. And they're they're going back
and forth and Charles like, there ain't no way mcnie
is gonna be Clemson. So there's gonna be like those
clips they're gonna play those, They're gonna use that as motivation.
We'll we'll have to go back and see if we
can pull Charles Barkley out kind of saying that. So,
and they're look, they're gonna have a portion of America
behind them.
Speaker 3: Now there's still some portion that's probably like, oh, Will
Waye blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: But you know, they they've got something right now to them,
and they got belief that they now can go out
and win.
Speaker 2: Will Wade American Gangster fully and firmly back. And I
think anybody not like you how to handle this situation
is I just could not disagree more. In fact, probably
my main sports take yesterday for all shows that we
did was the honesty of Wade, because it was a
clip and we played it yesterday, so we don't need
to do it again today. But when he's talking about look,
I've been up front with him. I'm telling him, here's
what I got going on. They tell them what they
got going on. It's it's such a in an age
of again lying and overly sensitive coaches, in an age
of debris and sloth, snakel and all these other bums
that just want to treat you, know, piss on you
and tell you it's raining. His honesty was incredibly refreshing
and it's in keeping with what he's done to the
gaunt McNees. Remember he'd been telling these guys, look, man,
come here for a year, Yeah, ball out and then
go get paid, like like, let me help you get paid.
I don't need you to come here long. Like he's
just he does such a good job. And it's honestly,
he'll he'll do that same strategy anc State, like you
probably build a bit more and to State while still
bringing in those type of guys. But but it's just.
Speaker 3: He didn't have to though. That's that's the beauty of it.
What do you mean he can have that?
Speaker 4: He can have still the Saint John's model where he's
just going to every single year it's gonna kind of
hit reset. Yeah, John, So just because the bigger basketball
program doesn't mean that you're going to get guys that
are there for three years.
Speaker 2: I just mean, I agree. I'm just saying that. Like Wade,
and this has always been one of his superpowers. He's
very good at looking at Okay, here's the setting, what's
my best path to find success within this setting. Yeah,
and modern college basketball, this new moneyed age was made
for him. And you want to talk about inspiring boosters
at your new school, Jake, It sounds dumb, but a
run like this does this. Oh. Absolutely, he can sell
this to the wolf Pack alum when he gets there
to say, look, man, give me money and I will
lead you where you want to be. So so Will
Wade the biggest winner in McNeice and shout out I
don't want to exult by wait. Shoutout McNeice. Shout out
Lake Charles, a place that has dealt with some really
tough times the last few years, getting to experience this run.
Our Western brothers from other mothers, shout out Lake Chuck.
Very happy for y'all, and here'still hoping they can make
it again on a Saturday and get to that sweet sixteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would like. I'd love to see it.
Speaker 4: It'd be awesome to see after getting their first tournament went.
You know, tournament went against Clemson, a very beatable Purdue.
And you're right, like the attention and Will Waite said it,
I think I was like the first thing he said
on the court, like the attention this brings to our University,
like that was the first thing that he mentioned.
Speaker 3: So shout out to Lake Charles.
Speaker 4: You're right, they've been through a ton, a ton of
devastation in that city from different you know, weather conditions,
and you draft through there. You still see some blue
tarps on different houses and this is something that you
know can be very very beneficial for everybody surrounding McNeice.
Speaker 2: Shout out, baby, Let's go March Madness day one h
when we get back, because I can already feel the
chat starting to yell at me, we'll talk some baseball.
I still want to talk about more of the games.
But when we get back to this, talk baseball. LSU
Texas going down this weekend. Keep a locked right here
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Speaker 6: I like, is like, is that big guy?
Speaker 2: I need a we guy?
Speaker 6: Look, I got the I got the jersey rolled ups.
You can see the abs on the back. I got
the that point hanging out.
Speaker 2: Yeah see it.
Speaker 6: Well I'll make him a lefty because I'm a lefty.
So the shooter sleeve on the left arm with the
black visor, and then he's got the QB band on
his right hand.
Speaker 2: What are you, baby gronk?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's what I look like.
Speaker 2: Oh you look like one of those kids has just
grown up watching too much. Seven on seven on Instagram,
and I.
Speaker 6: Do the bleach blonde mohawk haircut.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, I can't even hate. When I was so
UNC basketa's in there. When I usually go to u
NC basketball camp, I'd rock and AI shooting sleeve in
my left arm, headband, high socks, baggy shorts, swagged out excuse.
Speaker 6: I always wondered why they had those shooter sleeves, Like
why they call him up?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I just.
Speaker 7: Shooting arm.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I feel like it can't help you, Like,
why why have it?
Speaker 2: I mean, to be fair, I definitely didn't have any
sort of tendanitis, arthritis or anything at eight years old
that it would have actually helped with. I mean, I
don't know, Jake, did you ever wear anything purely for affectation,
just for looks? I mean I used to wear an
elbow pad for no reason on my right arm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wore it.
Speaker 4: I wore those running back elbow pads. Yeah yeah, I
wore the like it's like a mock turtleneck and the
sleeves like went down to hear like in some games.
I wore the mock turtleneck in high school baseball just
because Larry did it?
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, what what.
Speaker 2: What is Deon tell us? What did Deon teaches all
those years ago? Now that you were Ka Taylor? Because
you don't like the greatest cowboy player of all time?
Speaker 6: Okay, hold up?
Speaker 2: What in NFL?
Speaker 6: I don't want to the greatest players that he's not
the greatest cowboy whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't care to have that conversation.
The point is Dion said, look good. If you look good,
you play good. If you play good, they pay good. Okay,
so there's something to be said for uh feeling confident.
Speaker 3: He said, how you feel good? Feel good? Play good,
play good, pay good.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was what was That's what it was. I
coulda I made it more efficient. Cut out the fat.
All right, So let's tug a little LSU Texas, Uh,
getting ready to get underway tonight, a top ten matchup
in the entire country. LSU, of course gonna put Kate
Anderson on the mound, Texas gonna be Jared Spencer on
the mound. Uh. Interestingly, not a great outing for Spencer
last week against Mississippi State great Audavian Anderson. Remember what
he did going all the way to seventh and he's
striking an eleven. Uh, it seems like Kate Anderson. I mean,
how many double ten strikeouts does you have now at
this point, how many starts up? We can look it.
Speaker 4: Up, but crazy, he had eleven. That's not even his
career high.
Speaker 2: His strikeout percentage is forty three point six percent this year.
It's almost a coin flip if you're a batter right now,
if you're gonna strike out or not against Kate An
Spencer last Friday allows five earned runs and five to
two thirds to Missippi State. So somebody to keep an
eye on a night. And then when you look at Texas,
it's the kind of bird's eye quick overpass scouting report.
The bats statistically don't appear to be anything to write
home about. Tenth in batting average, eighth and slugging percentage,
thirteenth in on base percentage, they're fourteenth in runs scored,
twelfth in hits. They hit with a bit more power
they do average because there are tenth in home runs,
but like I mean, basically every offensive category Texas kind
of tenth or lower at this point. So when you
talk about the strength of this team, it is going
to be on the mound As. They're currently third in
the SEC, just a little bit better than LSU with
a three to two two yeah tm ERA compared to
three three two for that of LSU.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't strike a lot of people out though.
Speaker 2: No, I mean l fifteen, you better put a bat
on average.
Speaker 3: Soon they're fifteenth.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Actually LSHU is actually leading the conference in batters shrink
out uh, Texas all the way down at fifteen, so
they're allowing, you know, for you to at least put
it into play. So that is something for LSU highest
batting average. You actually kind of like that matchup. So
the Urn Rudds don't really match up with maybe some
of the you know, missing bats for the staff there
for Texas, and so you look at how they are
offensively fielding. What'd you say, they're twelfth in the SEC. Yes, there,
they are twelfth in the SEC.
Speaker 2: Right now, they're kind of tied for ten them, Oklahoma
and Kentucky are all out of nine seven two field percentage.
LSU fifth in the SEC ninety one it sorry.
Speaker 3: No, no, go ahead.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, like there's some advantages even
though some of the statistics for Texas, the e RA
really I feel like is a little misleading.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's all kind of feels a little
misleading that they're ranked as high as they are and
have won as much as they have.
Speaker 3: Close games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, statistically there's not they don't look overwhelming on paper.
Speaker 5: I was just gonna say that Kate Anderson has double
digit strikeouts and his last three starts the two before
that he had eight, So he's on fire. And yeah,
I have a lot of confidence going into this weekend
in L s U. I feel like Texas is a
little overrated.
Speaker 4: It looks like going there, Yeah that that that portion
of it, I don't Yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's a disgusting field.
Speaker 2: Why would forgot about it being Texas was eight? Why
would Texas have t have turf?
Speaker 6: I don't know that. It's like that's a high school field.
Like Jake saying like that's is Missouri.
Speaker 3: He'll tell you some of those places whatever, sure some weather.
Speaker 11: Your tex for howse story, I don't care they like
I don't care if it was like an arcticle, like
with their school history, I don't care about whether when
with the money that you have.
Speaker 2: In your school history, you have to figure out a
way to have a field. That's insane.
Speaker 4: That is LSU Texas. You should be allowed to have
a turf.
Speaker 3: Field, no geez with your baseball history.
Speaker 2: So look, and you mentioned the strikeout shake, LSU leading
the way and strikeout Han Palmer and his piece on
Louisian and his sports out that today pointing outs how
ridiculous some of the k's are on a on on
on the staffs that Cowan right now is at a
twenty six to three strike out a walk ratio I
insn's up to He's got forty k's to only six walks.
Kate Anderson's forty eight to eight. So yes, there's If
there's a reason why they lead the way, it's because
these guys they're just they're just pumping the strike. There's
pumping stroke and making you prove that you're gonna be
able to make them pay in Thus far they have
not been able to actually Kay currently second in the
SEC with forty eight k's five shy of Liam Doyle
who last night what happened Liam.
Speaker 6: Six earned runs? Not great for Liam.
Speaker 2: I don't love Alabama suddenly getting good at baseball, But
I think the bigger story here is Tennessee losing. Also though,
does show you how hard it is to go on
the road in this conference.
Speaker 6: Right, Well, they battled back a little bit, so like
Alabama scored six runs, but it was all in like
the first three or four. Indians, like Tennessee battled back
a little bit.
Speaker 4: They just couldn't say they can happen in their loss
against East Tennessee State.
Speaker 3: But still all that ends up being is a loss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, two in a row for the balls. Love to
see it. Shout out to Derek Curial, hoping he can
keep his on Bay Streak Live this week and currently
it on basements of five seventy eight, second and the SEC.
All right, guys, Kisa series Laundre, what are you looking
for this weekend?
Speaker 5: Just do what you've been doing. That's pretty much it,
because I feel like you can really take this two
of three, if not sweep the series. Like I really
do think that Texas is overrated and the pitching is
really their strong suit. And I don't think that text
or LSU's hitting, Like I think LSU's hitting is good
enough to where they can get into the bullpen and
get the starters out and just score some runs. Now
it's third in the NCAA and on base percentage.
Speaker 2: So I was gonna say, I feel very confident in
saying this is strength on strength with how well LSU's
been hitting one through nine going against this Texas staff,
and that's going to be very fun to watch. Maybe
the more interesting thing is when you look at LSU
on the mound versus Texas hitting the season statistics would say, oh,
well that's a strength from LSU to a weakness for
out of Texas. But if you look at the Miszoo
series last week, like the pitching struggled a bit more
than it had all year long against an offense that
wasn't that good. So again, I feel very confident in
the bats going strength and battling against this Texas staff.
I'm intrigued to see how the staff, because again they
weren't all ful last week by any stretch. They did
a good job after wobbling a bit of always mitigating
the damage. But yeah, I want to see this staff
how they'll look against a maybe a bit of a
step up in this Texas offense versus Zoom.
Speaker 4: I like LSU's offense putting pressure on Texas right now.
I mean LSU just doesn't strike out a lot They're
fourteenth in the SEC in strikeouts with only one hundred
and twenty four. So Texas doesn't strike people out, LSU
doesn't strike out. LSU gets on base. LSU's got the
highest batting average in the SEC. So Texas has found
some fortune with balls and play that haven't found the gap.
LSU has been finding gaps all season long. So I
do like that matchup. Like, I don't know if they
are able to go on the road and sweep in
the SEC. That is is really difficult, certainly in a
place like Texas. But if you go in there, you
play well, you win two of three. That is certainly
going to be considered a win in my book.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, bro, Look, any series wine is certainly on
the roadpecially if you get it done on the road
then then yeah, then you get bonus point.
Speaker 6: Welllet's the thing get ahead early, Like like Jake was
talking about, you know, the starting pitching for Boat staffs
have been really good. You mentioned you know, you went
against Missouri, the bullpen was a little shaky. Who can
get after the starting pitcher.
Speaker 2: For the starters need to go. I mean not starting Roub,
not Anderson, but I mean and I spoke even on
Monday when I was kind of breaking down the series
as well, like you need einsin and shores to to
go a bit deeper ideally this start.
Speaker 6: But yeah, that's the thing, like if you can get
three runs in the first inning, you know, really put
the pressure on Texas's pitchers. That may calm things down
for lsu T Bob. Here's the one thing that worries
me Texas is pitching coach Max Wiener. It's a tough
name to go against.
Speaker 2: What is it.
Speaker 6: It's a tough name. That's a good name that it's maximum,
Max Wiener.
Speaker 2: Max.
Speaker 5: I think Jim Slim.
Speaker 2: Any relation to Max Johnson their cousins. What is Jax
Johnson doing nowadays?
Speaker 3: He's still playing college though. Did he go back to Carolina?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think he just stayed at North Carolina.
Speaker 2: Really okay? Sure? Right on? Uh, somebody linked the highlight
of him throwing the backwards pass against U C. L
A yesterday. What a time time.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: He still feels like that was It wasn't concern until
you mentioned Max Wiener. Now we're gonna have a little bit.
I'm going to be on the lookout for Max Wiener.
You said that's the pitchy coach.
Speaker 3: You've been on the lookout for Max Wiener your entire life.
Speaker 2: I know. It's one of the reasons why I committed
to l s U. I had intel that, uh that
was going to further my research and further it. It did.
Never forget the first day in that locker room. Sheesh freak, No,
it was. I don't want to put names out there. Yeah, yeah,
yeah it was. It was uh, a smaller man probably
about five nine in the locker directly next to me. Uh,
and it was shocking, you know, hm, hm said, is
your name Max Wiener? No, oh, okay, I don't know what.
Speaker 6: It's short for Maximum Wiener.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: Anyway, LSU looks like the better team on paper.
Speaker 3: Sorry, kids, this is.
Speaker 2: Not I'm obviously not out here like last week again,
missoo's bad. You need to take advantage you did. This
is going to be a fight. You gotta get one.
But ideally, if you're that guy, and I think you are,
you can get to this weekend. We'll see. Let's just
look where we're taking a one game of time. Kate Anderson, please, like,
if you can find in a way, please get the
dumb tonight. Put Texas on the back heel and apply
that pressure to him on that awful turf field for
the rest of this weekend turf field. That's legitimately pathetic.
Nookie says, I felt so dirty last night cheering for
both Bama and Lebron.
Speaker 3: I know, all.
Speaker 2: Right, let's go ahead and when we get back, I
want to kind of circle back around to March madd
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Speaker 2: I just say it's Dabo. It doesn't matter their basketball coach.
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Speaker 10: Welcome back to off the Bench where the takes are hot. Man,
the sports talk is questionable.
Speaker 2: Y'all know no about no Chattahoochie down Bom. I know
he gets tired than Hoochie GUOCHI that's Charlie Whitehurst Town
right there, boll.
Speaker 4: We need to have chuck on. I don't even know
what he's doing right now, but you'n be entertaining.
Speaker 2: Count his money, probably infesting in something.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: This is a man that bought a house finally, which
is like a big step for him. Like he's not
somebody that would buy.
Speaker 2: A house backup quarterback.
Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 4: So t he buys a house, he lives in it
for a little bit, he's like, oh man, this ain't me.
Speaker 2: Oh really yeah.
Speaker 3: And then like moves back.
Speaker 4: To the apartment he had in bucket and just like
the house is like basically like some friends and some
family when they're in town, and.
Speaker 3: That's where he keeps his old Mustang that he works on.
Speaker 4: That's because like he got like Ricky Bobby's dad, things
got a little too comfortable because he was in the house.
Speaker 3: He just moved back to his.
Speaker 2: Is he really you think he'll ever be married?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, he was dating Jewel for a while.
Speaker 2: He was dating Jewel. What Jewel's crazy? That's big?
Speaker 6: Is big?
Speaker 2: That's wild?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 2: What what? Taylor? Where are you so flustered? What's going on?
Speaker 3: You got the volume on the TVs.
Speaker 2: Oh, Mike Florio's talking too loudly.
Speaker 5: Oh, this hair is crazy. I just like he's usually
I see the picture of him and Angewel.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do it. We're gonna We're do need to
John every stuff later.
Speaker 3: Look at this.
Speaker 2: Should teams want to trade for Kirk cousins, nfl GM says,
Atlanta's calling everyone like, hey, hey, hey, do you want Kirk?
Speaker 6: Do you kirk a lot of money?
Speaker 2: So at this, well, okay, but again, him leaving, they
would still have him on the books for a ton
of money. Why wouldn't they then just make him be
the backup this year, Like it's not a guarantee that
Pennings is going to be great. Well, Cousins doesn't seem
like somebody who'd rock the boat had.
Speaker 6: Some injury issues in college. Like, it's always nice to
have Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Like you already paid him, make
his penance be like for disappointing, you'd be like, hey,
you got to be the backup this year? You know
we're already pop coummitted might as well. I mean, I
guess arguably a draft pick maybe means more than that.
But like if you were asking me if I wanted
like a fifth round pick or Kirk is the backup
this year, I don't know, Jake, what would you do?
Speaker 3: I'd actually I already have budgeted for Cousins.
Speaker 4: Yes, free agency for anybody that's really going to be
you know, a major impact. It's already signed. That's over. Yeah,
So I are you trying to pop your picks right now?
Speaker 2: No start of twitching. I think the caffeine got to me.
Was it pop though? Dude, let's go. I can't find
my left one. Why is that?
Speaker 3: He shows a Bobby Carpenter. I'm used to this kind
of antics.
Speaker 6: If you're one that has like bigger cup on one
size than the other.
Speaker 2: Ah, could happen. It does happen. I know that thing.
Speaker 4: Okay, sorry, but you've already you know, budgeted for him
to be on the roster. You're right, Michael Penicks was
great in a couple of games we saw. What if
he ends up struggling? Yeah, well, you want a veteran guy,
you roil o kirk Cousins. So if it's between a
fifth round pick, sixth round pick, seventh round pick, or
just keeping.
Speaker 3: Him on the roster, I say just keep him there, right,
And like.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine get hurt more than a fifth.
Speaker 3: Like if you have a like a J. J.
Speaker 4: McCarthy situation where the starter goes down in the preseason,
then its value goes up. Yeah, then you might get
a third rounder for kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2: Well, and like and like the nightmare scenario would be
you you you give him up for like a fifth
round or something, but then Pinnis gets hurt, so then
you have a backup quarterback and you're still paying Kirk
Cousins like fifty million dollars on the books or whatever.
He's not even there, so sorry, sorry, Kirk. I think
you just gotta be the I think you just gotta
be the backup this year. We'll see, okay, other big
give me your okay outside of McNee, give me your
uh god, we're kind of up and gets the clock here,
aren't we. All right, let's text me do this, Let's
go to break and we'll leave ourselves a few minutes
here at the end, let's talk about suff keep a
locked here on no TV.
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So uh John Emery shout out to our lon Phillipsullivan
of LSU Odyssey dot Com breaking the story yesterday that
John Emory is returning for a seventh year of college football.
Now we don't know if that is going to be
in an LSU uniform or not. What I know is,
I do think you can help this team. I firmly
believe that. But even more than that, all I know
is I'm cheering for John Emory. I don't care where
he goes. Hell, even if that kid went to like Alabama,
I don't think he will, But even if he did,
I would be cheering for John Emory. This is a
cat that has immense natural talent and through a mixture
of probably some some academic things that he would want back,
but he worked hard and thought through.
Speaker 4: And that he admits was all on him. He didn't
do the right things. Yes, is you know, not typical,
but through that age, through.
Speaker 2: A mixture of that, and then lately just off full
injury luck with back to back torneyse Hills, he has
just never had the runway or the full opportunity to
fulfill his potential. So I love seeing him get a
seventh year, and I don't care where it is, I
will be cheering for John Emery to kick ass and take.
Speaker 3: Names, as will I.
Speaker 4: This is a young man that I've gotten to know
pretty well. And you're right, like he admits he did
not do things academically the way that he should have.
But again, hate him being self aware admitting that, Okay,
I've got to do better. Didn't blame it on anybody else.
Took everything and said I have to do better, and
then he did. And then once he did. You talked
to coaches over across on the Ponderosa, They're like, no, no, no,
he has done everything the right way.
Speaker 3: He's been a great teammate.
Speaker 4: He's been early to all the workouts, he does everything
that you want him to do and then some.
Speaker 3: And he's playing well.
Speaker 2: He was at both.
Speaker 4: Both times like devastating usc game. Right, you're looking for
some offense, you look for a spark. He gives you
that spark has the long run, and it's just devastating
to see him go out with that knee injury.
Speaker 3: And again, great young man. Really gotten to know him over.
Speaker 4: The last seven years as he's you know, going into
a seventh year high school number one running back in
the country, you know, he's incredibly talented. I'm with you,
what I love for him to come back to LSU.
I do I think right now you've got starting running back,
You've got some young ones that you don't know how
much they can help you in your number one and
you need a veteran running back to be your backup.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it would actually benefit LSU.
Speaker 4: But even if it's not, even if it's directional school,
you right, I don't care where it is.
Speaker 3: I'm going to root for John Emory.
Speaker 2: Shout out to John Emery seventh year of eligibility again,
So I mean, yeah, look at Cayden Durham. He's he's
obviously RB one. After what he did last year, Harlem
Barry would appear like maybe he's that guy. What's been
the early spring returns on Barry?
Speaker 6: He's been good. He's caught the ball well out of
the back, folks, it's been a big thing.
Speaker 2: So certainly Harlan Berry also a number one running back
in the entire country. A La Emory, that's a big
name de factory. But again, I do think there's a
role for John Emory and potentially a big role for
John Emory on this team. So wherever he goes. Best
of luck to that man continuing to fight through adversity.
Shout out John Emory. All right, when we get back,
let's open up our two by revisiting March Madness, talking
about all the biggest games of the day. We'll have
a smattering of other stories. Keep it loucked right here
on OTB
Speaker 10: Off the bench.