Speaker 1: Let's go.
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Speaker 1: This is what we have been waiting for.
Speaker 3: Off the Bench. Now here's Jacob Hesser.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome in our number three here on a
Thursday edition of Off the Bench. We got one more
hour left before Jacob Hesser returns tomorrow morning, UH for
the final pre Matt Flynn era of Off the Bench
as uh. He will officially hop on with us on
Monday and beginning the next chapter of the out b Jordan,
let's not make Tabob a thing?
Speaker 5: Can we not do that?
Speaker 1: No, it's only we got that type of shirt on you.
Speaker 5: Well, then that'll be probably today.
Speaker 4: That's UH, when we're not we're not doing Tabob.
Speaker 5: But I don't need that. We already have.
Speaker 4: Island Taylor and Island Tata in the chad arguing about
who should get to keep their username.
Speaker 5: We don't need, we don't need Tabob Remond. I keep
that guy.
Speaker 4: All right here, And now number three we're gonna do
big dealing, no big deal. We'll have chef Michael Johnson
chesa bouchet is gonna hop on with us to talk
some melosue baseball, and then we're gonna close things out
like we do every day with a little ass the bench.
Speaker 5: But right now, let's dive into it.
Speaker 4: Every day Thursday nine am, get a little big deal
or no big deal, big deal, no big deal, big deal,
don't big deal, big deal.
Speaker 1: No big deal, no big deal.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 5: A big deal.
Speaker 7: We don't do this every Thursday. I don't remember the
last time we did big deal or no big deal be.
Speaker 5: Supposed to do? Okay, does anybody have a big deal
in a big deal?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 8: Yes, but you got it off. Okay, let's start it
with this. This stat right here is honestly one of
the craziest stats I've seen. So Bill Simmons tweeted, Okay,
see is eight and one at eight and one at
home in the playoffs. They won those eight games by
fifty one, nineteen, forty three, seven thirty, two, thirty six, fifteen,
and thirty. The one loss was is a Denver game
one where they were up nine to three minutes left
and lost by two.
Speaker 1: Listen to this.
Speaker 8: They are a plus two thirty one plus two thirty
one and nine home games. So the big deal of
no big deal is this one of the greatest teams
we have ever seen assembled.
Speaker 5: I mean, big deal.
Speaker 4: On the record, I'm not gonna say one of the
best teams you've ever seen assembled. They have to win
the title first for me to go into that, and
like you want to talk about the other side of things.
If tonight the Pacers you're able to close out the Knicks.
If they're able to do that tonight in Game five,
they will be twelve and three in this NBA playoffs
and uh, undefeated in every game outside of game threes. Actually,
fun fact for you, they the only games that the
Pacers have lost have been game threes in all three
of their series. So yeah, I mean, Okac has been dominant.
They were the best team in the league all year long.
They look like they are still the best team here
in the playoffs. Here a lot of people say, okay, well,
the thunder have already won the title, because you know,
the real NBA title.
Speaker 5: Was the Thunder and the Nuggets. And I get it.
Speaker 4: The Nuggets are great. They they have won a championship.
Nicolay Yokic is the best player in the NBA. I
understand all that. Look, if the Pacers closed it out,
they're a formidable opponent. If New York somehow able to
come back and win this series. That's a good team
as well, Like I get it. Okay, see has the
star power, you got the young guys. You have the
MVP and Shae gilges Alexander, but the Pacers and the
Knicks are both really good teams as well. It's it's
I think that's gonna be a really interesting NBA Finals
regardless of who faces the Oklahoma City Thunder. So I'm
not ready to say they're one of the best teams
we've ever seen yet, but they're certainly on an incredible run.
Speaker 5: We'll see if they can get it done. Okay.
Speaker 4: New England Patriots wide receiver Stefan Diggs was.
Speaker 5: Not present.
Speaker 4: For the team's organized activities yesterday, one day after a
video of the wide receiver service on social media in
which he was on a boat and flashed and unidentified
pink substance while surrounded by three women. That's what we're
calling it. If you haven't seen the video, go look
it up. He pulls out this little baggie. We're not
gonna make claims on what we believe that substance might be,
but know what it is, you can kind of figure
it out and put two and two together.
Speaker 5: Mike Rabel was asked about it.
Speaker 4: He said, it's something we're aware of, and obviously we
want to make great decisions both on and off the field.
He said, Look, any conversations that I've had with stuff
on will remain between him and I and the club
as a whole big deal or no big deal. The
Stefon Diggs video footage.
Speaker 8: Oh, that's one hundred percent a big deal. I mean,
I get it, it's the off season. But three things,
just three. It's not one, it's not two.
Speaker 1: Three.
Speaker 8: Number one, how did you not realize you're being recorded?
They got the phone in your face. I mean, it's
not like this, Not in the corner of the boat.
He's directly in front of you. Thing number two Again,
you are not some rent like you're Stefan Diggs. You
know you're on a I'm gonna say, approve it deal
with the Patriots, But like this could be like your
final pay day that you might you're gonna get an
NFL and you're kind of tricking you know, well, you
ain't tricking away yet, but you're kind of tricking it away.
Speaker 1: And three, when.
Speaker 8: You signed to the Patriots, you were there to be
a veteran help. You said you wanna come in help
the young guys do all this, and you're on a
boat with some ditty powder, uh whatever you got going
on on on the boat. So it's the off season.
These are millionaires. Do what you want to do. But
I just gotta be a little bit more awareness. But
don't don't get caught on camera handing out the little bagging.
That's that's crazy.
Speaker 9: No, that was mine.
Speaker 1: I got another one you want.
Speaker 7: I mean, I was gonna like give my take on it, though,
I think the bigger deal, like I get maybe I
get your point, like you should be more aware of
like if somebody's recording you and.
Speaker 9: Stuff like that.
Speaker 7: But also people used to be able to party on
a boat with nobody posting videos of it, you know
what I mean. Like I think the bigger deal is
why are you on this boat with you?
Speaker 9: Like if I was on a boat with Stefan.
Speaker 7: Diggs, and like I think Cardi b was on the
boat too, Like I think they're dating or something, so.
Speaker 9: Right, and then the bigger deal to me is like
I would have whooped all those girls asses. But like
if I was on that boat, I don't know.
Speaker 4: That's a good point because I didn't see Cardi B
in that video. Was all three women and none of them.
Speaker 7: I think, like I read an article about it, I
think they did say that she was on the boat.
Speaker 1: The other video. It's like a whole.
Speaker 3: It's a whole.
Speaker 1: It's like bigs and like thirty women and Cardi B.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's crazy, But.
Speaker 7: I I don't think that I would have if I
would have taken a video, I wouldn't have posted it
everywhere for everybody to see and it goes viral because
you know what, now, I'm not going to get invited.
Speaker 9: On the boat with Stefan Diggs, right.
Speaker 7: Because I would find out who took that video, who
posted it, and I am not talking to you ever. Again,
I'm not inviting you anywhere. Also, I got kind of
like secondhand embarrassment and cringe from the girls like hanging
all on him because that is so embarrassing.
Speaker 5: He was chilling, like.
Speaker 7: They looked like total bops like it just like it
looks bad.
Speaker 9: They looked super thirsty and what it were It just
I don't know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he used to be able to party on a
boat and nobody would know about it.
Speaker 1: He pulled the bag ye out and one of them
started jumping on me.
Speaker 7: And like hands all on his let like her point,
have some kouth to her point, you go look at
what some of these NFL players in the eighties did.
Speaker 5: Like that's what I'm saying, Age is Lawrence Taylor yea.
Speaker 4: The entire early nineties Cowboy late eighties, early nineties Cowboys
teams did way worse than this. But yeah, Diggs didn't
really seem to care that he was getting to your point.
I don't know how he didn't know he wasn't getting video.
You know what this reminds me of, Andrew. I'm sure
you've seen Breaking Bad, right, I've tried to watch Okay, okay,
you've seen it as mom.
Speaker 5: It reminds me of too much anxiety it does.
Speaker 4: It reminds me of when they when they were making
the meth and you know, it was supposed to be
all nice and clear, but he picked up the wrong
supply and it turned it into that light blue and
they're like, oh, we're gonna just roll with the light
blue and make it our signature pink substance.
Speaker 5: Man. Very very Breaking.
Speaker 4: Bad esque of uh the crew over there with Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 7: Everybody's like, I doubt Cardi B cares. She's like a
former escort, and I'm like, I understand that. But if
I were Cardi B and I wasn't, like I'm not
an escort, I would whoop everybody's ass on that boat.
Everybody that's hanging on my man like that nod. I
get that, But like I'm saying, if I if I
were on that boat, I'm not saying like Cardi B
should have done it, but if I were on that boat,
there's gonna.
Speaker 4: Be some smoke it, uh, I mean to her point,
like they were hanging on him, like oh, I didn't
even freaking know that Digs and Cardi B were together whatever.
But like in that video, I'm trying to figure out,
I'm like one of these women there's will have y'all seen.
Speaker 7: That video of when he was on the Vikings and
they're like, who would you not let.
Speaker 5: My unanimously was stepping up?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Well, keep in mind this is before he got
paid to Like this is like rookie year. Digs two
at the same time, So just before the money got there,
what time it was?
Speaker 5: What you got?
Speaker 8: You said, yeah, you know, so my second one is
sneaker Wars are back in the NBA, so with the
Oklahoma City Thunder eliminating the Minnesota Temples. Famously on the
Minnesota Temples, Anthony edwars Adidas athlete and when he beat
Lebron he dropped the whole Adidas commercial kind of dis
and Nike all this right, So Converse, who shake gives
Alexander's with is owned by Nike. They dissed Anthony Edwards
with a commercial basically sawing like a little ant. And
you know, Anthony Vers is known to be like, you know,
believe that, you know these little.
Speaker 1: Sayings or whatnot.
Speaker 8: So Converse drops a commercial with a little ant walking
through like a desert or whatnot, and they're like unbelievable.
Speaker 1: There's basically clowning ant.
Speaker 8: And then Nike posts, uh oh, the West runs through
the okac or something like that. Basically, Nike and Converse
had to team up and dis Adidas Anthony Edwards last night,
and I just thought, man, Sneak Awards might.
Speaker 5: Be back, big deal for me.
Speaker 4: Okay, like I haven't seen any of them signature. Shoot,
I don't know what any of them look like. Probably
won't buy them.
Speaker 5: But here's what I like.
Speaker 4: I like when big companies publicly fight with each other.
It's entertainment for me. I'll always say this. I love
as long as nobody's like heard or sick or anything
like that, it's fun. I love drama if I'm not
at it and I can just sit back and watch.
Anything like that is for me. I think it's a
big deal love. I love the sneaker war.
Speaker 8: Dude, and honestly, like you said, the game needs this,
we need I'm telling to everybody being buddy buddy friendly.
No no, no, no no, Let's get back to being
enemies again. You know everybody wants to work out. Everybody
wants to be Stefon Diggs on a boat. We all,
hey us get a boat. Let's get all the girls
on a boat. No, no, no, I want enemies again.
Now you're starting to see maybe a budding rivalry. Anthony
Edwards verus shake its. I don't know, but I will
say this, He's not gonna take that. Dislikely he will
be Adidas will be back. Adidas will be back.
Speaker 9: I I was.
Speaker 4: I was reading last night on Facebook a couple businesses
out where I live. They were like airing each other's
dirty laundry all over Facebook. It's like on their official
business pages. I'm going to Victoria, I'm like, hey, have.
Speaker 6: You seen this?
Speaker 5: Have you seen this?
Speaker 4: Look these two companies are teaming up on this one,
Like did all of stuff like that?
Speaker 9: I love for it, So y'all know that.
Speaker 7: Like I used to follow the NBA, but it just
doesn't really interest me that much anymore. Like I was
surprised at the names that I heard were in the finals,
Like where did the Pacers come from? I don't know
if they've been good or not, but like, basically the
only team that I pay any sort of attention to
is the Spurs. And I see like online sometimes like
obviously SGA won the MVP beat out Nikola jokicch all that,
and that's a huge deal. But I see on the
internet sometimes where people say that if you took the
free throw line away from SGA, he wouldn't be all
that good.
Speaker 9: Like how true is that?
Speaker 4: I'm not very I think it's one of those things
poking holes in someone game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you know, they they do. There's still
Lebron all the time, and I get it.
Speaker 4: The videos are out there of Lebron flopping, but like
take that out of it. Lebron is still a really
damn good player. So it's a SGA. As far as
the Pacers, they were in the Eastern Conference finals last year,
but I mean they had a tough time with the
Celtics as everybody else did. Like they're better this year
than didn't last year, for sure. I will say this
like an Oklahoma City Thunder, and I think the Pacers
are gonna eventually win that series, Like a Thunder Pacers
final is like, that's cool because in my lifetime, like
won the th Under. Haven't been around that long, but
I've never seen the Pacers win anything or any significance,
like regardless, like for you me, Landra, like whoever's watching
these finals, never you get to see somebody and you
win it and like that, that's exciting.
Speaker 5: That's exciting as well.
Speaker 8: I like that topic because a lot of people say
that's bad for the NBA. They'd be like, no having
parody and all this, and I know Lakers, Warriors and
the Boss of Celtics they need I'm like, what is wrong.
Speaker 4: The only reason people are like that's good for ratings
is because those particular cities have a lot of people
Nobody outside of LA or New York or Boston is
going to give a crap that those teams are in
the playoffs because nobody outside of those cities likes those
teams and hat Pacers, and like I want to pull
Like the reason I have pulled for the Pacers over
the Knicks is I get to see a team that's
never won before, and the New York market doesn't get satisfaction.
Speaker 5: That's the only reason I'm pulling for the Pacers over
the Knicks.
Speaker 4: But like, if the Knicks were to win, like at
least that's a new team, we haven't seen them do it. Like,
and even if Minnesota would have upset, Okay, see, like
we haven't really seen Minnesota do anything either. So it's
like this Final four, as far as the NBA goes,
could not have possibly been better.
Speaker 8: Real quick, I have the AUNT commercial. You want to
see it real quick, it'll need sound. You want to
see that real quick?
Speaker 1: Put it up there for you play that bad boy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well we got here.
Speaker 6: To use.
Speaker 5: Okay, So it's an ant makes sense.
Speaker 8: Nothing left to say unbelievable because Aunt beat says believe that.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, it's like a little quick little spot.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just a little this. It's a little
dis you.
Speaker 10: Know, saw this.
Speaker 4: You can't you can't come too strong right out of
the gate, because then it becomes then it comes a
little less right. All right, Yeah, we're about to take
a break, but right before we do, I want to
mention one more Yesterday this was an overlook by all
of us. Yesterday marked nine years since Horambe was put
down at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Speaker 5: Big deal or no big deal?
Speaker 1: Huge deal? Nine years. That just made me feel time,
time waste.
Speaker 5: But no, man, it was March or May twenty eighth
of twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Holy win that up.
Speaker 4: She said, Yeah, yesterday yesterday made nine years twenty sixteen,
twenty sixteen, nine years.
Speaker 5: Did you feel old here on a Thursday?
Speaker 1: My goodness, this time was nine years ago.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking, I'm thinking this was like three or four
I saw it. I'm like, oh, it's gonna be like
what the four or five year anniversary is?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 4: We're going on ten years now, ten years? We are
going on ten years. All right, We're gonna take a
time out.
Speaker 5: When we get back.
Speaker 4: We got Manchies with chef Michael Johnson coming up next.
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Speaker 4: Hey all right, welcome back in Thursday edition al O
TV here in our number three and right now we
have him every Thursday. It's time for Monchies with Lsuer
Executive Chef Michael Johnson.
Speaker 10: Get ready to tantalize your taste buds and leave this
segment hungry. This is Monkey's with executive Chef Michael Johnson.
Speaker 4: Chef Michael Johnson on my brother's right now. Chef, how
are you this morning? Oh well, Taylor, I'm doing good.
Look obviously a little bit shorter of a work week
for us here, guarantee, because uh, you know, we had
that Memorial Day on Monday. Give me kind of a
recap of your Memorial Day, Like, did you cook anything?
What's kind of your go to for Memorial Day?
Speaker 11: I boiled crawfish on Memorial Day? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 3: So what do you what do you put?
Speaker 5: Like, do you put anything unique in your crawlfish? Boiled?
Speaker 6: Other?
Speaker 5: Snore?
Speaker 4: Because me, you know a lot of people everybody does
the corn of potatoes, but I mean some people do sausage,
hot dogs, Brussels spouts. Like you say, is there anything
unique you put in yours?
Speaker 11: So when I put in my lemons, I also put
some orange juice in with the citrus. I like the flavor.
I like the sweetness of the orange juice. It's kind
of it's almost a can of putting the pineapple in,
and we put we put pineapple in, but we put
the pineapple in later on. And I also put tried
putting some taking in, uh, into the spice. It's it's
kind of a it's Hispanic spice, but it's I don't know,
it's kind of better better issue, if you will, spicy
and bitter at the same time. And it was. It
was a pretty interesting deal. I like, I like to
play around with the recipes, you know, if I'm with
people who were willing to and aren't aren't super stuck
on doing crawfish a particular way, you know, I kind
of I kind of like to play around with the
recipes sometimes and just try new things. And yeah, I
mean I've put I've put some weird stuff in there before,
asparagus before, just to try it, you know, nothing too wild,
but something you know, like orange juice, orange juice, oranges
in the in the in the pot is something you
see every day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, before we get into the chat questions from munchies,
you know, I'm on TikTok a lot and I see
these two guys, Josh and Jase. Now there's the Okay,
you've seen them from UK, right. They were in Louisiana
for about two weeks.
Speaker 5: I saw it.
Speaker 4: To the food recommendations for them, they went everywhere. Like
if you had like somebody from out of the country
or maybe just on the other side of the US,
like what would be your go to Louisiana dish.
Speaker 5: To cook for someone?
Speaker 11: Yes, that's a good one. Man. I don't know, you know,
I guess it depends on the time of the year.
But John Mala or Ettis Sayers, you know, you know,
like I mean, honestly, if it was this time of
the year, I would invite them to a Crosser's book
because it's that social gathering that and invite some friends,
you know, because I mean, honestly, it's kind of fun
to watch people who've never eaten crossers before struggle with
a little bit, you know, and and throw some crabs
in there and just introduce them to, you know, the
things that are truly maybe some gator too, because you know,
gator is one of those things that people look at
and are like, no, no way in hell that you know,
I'm ever going to eat that. But when you when
you try it the first time, you know like it's
it's wow, that was good. And I mean gator even
has different pieces of the body that taste different, Like
there's a piece of the gator that taste a little
bit like turkey. There's a piece that tastes a little
bit like like pork win to me, and you know
everybody says it tastes like chicken. So I think probably
some gator on there too.
Speaker 5: Hashtag monchies. Is there a dish you don't like making?
Speaker 11: Man? You know, I think breakfast as a whole is
just not my cup of tea anymore because I've had
to wake up and cook breakfast so many times, like
I like to it, just breakfast is one of those
meals that has to be done quick, quick, quick, and people,
you know, not only that, you know, breakfast doesn't have
as much variety in its capabilities. You know, like in
my opinion, you know, lunch and dinner you can make
just about anything for lunch and dinner and people will
be happy. You can even make breakfast for dinner and
people will be happy. But you can't make dinner for
breakfast right because it's it's a little too heavy, and
so then you're then you have eggs pancake. You know,
like there's not a whole lot of variety in breakfast,
and I just thought it kind of it's a little
mundane for me.
Speaker 5: Hashtag manchies chef.
Speaker 4: I'm cooking a Cajun pasta this afternoon. What are chef's
favorite type of pasta to use with that style dish?
Speaker 11: I like using fresh pasta and and like parpadel or
or you know, like long fat noodles. I don't like
using you know, like smaller noodles. I like, I like
pasta laya or or Cajun pasta dishes like that with
with longer noodles that hold the sauce well. But what
I really love is having fresh noodles, you know, noodles
that are handmade. And there's some places in New Orleans
that do that really well. I don't really like once
you've had a fresh noodle, you know, like it's really
difficult to go back to the dried stuff because it
it just tastes and palatability wise is entirely different. It's
a new experience, and I think it's it's superior to
dried noodles hashtag monchies.
Speaker 4: I have these serrano peppers in my garden and I
have a ton of them.
Speaker 5: What should I cook with them?
Speaker 11: Roast them?
Speaker 6: Gosh?
Speaker 11: I love serrano peppers, man, They're they're you know, like
you can put them in the oven, oil them and
roast them slow. You can pickle them, you know, you
can dehydrate them and make a powder out of them
and mix it in with the seasoning.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 11: I don't know if I should pickle them or not,
but I mean, I love serrano peppers. They're they're just
spicy enough that you know, most people will tolerate them.
And and if you like put them on the grill
and chart them, they turn out, you know, like smoky,
and they're they're they're just they're they're a pretty versatile pepper.
Speaker 5: So could you could you just stell it like a
stuffed bell pepper?
Speaker 11: H Serrano's a little bit small for that, but I mean,
I guess you could if if you wanted to but
they're they're a little small for that. But you know,
like I like to fire roast them and put them
on I sorry, I like to put them on a
on an open fire and roast them and then put
and then pull the skin off of them and and
use it as like as a uh you know, like
a roasted Toronto pepper, like you would have roasted red pepper.
They're spicier, they're more charismatic. Yeah, I think you just
use it as an ingredient and the dish at.
Speaker 5: That point, stag monchiz.
Speaker 4: Any opinion on a combo grill being both propane and charcoal,
is having gas burners even necessary?
Speaker 11: Gosh, that's you know, gas is really convenient for the backyard,
and you know, like it's hard to deny that when
you have a family and kids and people are like, hey,
I'm ready to eat now. But you know, if you're
wanting to do it, well, I'm always the charcoal guy,
you know. I like the flames. I like I like
the flavor of the you know, the burning fire and
the smoke. And I always soak some wood. I go
and get some some wood chunks and soak them in
water overnight and then throw them on the side of
the of the of the charcoal morning both to give them,
you know, like as it as the fire burns, it
makes that that that wet would smoke and smolder. But
it just adds, you know, like character to whatever you're doing.
Speaker 5: Just one more for you here, shat before we get
you out of here.
Speaker 4: Well, first off, the reason I am hosting this week
is because Jacob Ester's out in Dustin for the SEC
Spring Meeting. So an honor of Jake being out in Dustin.
What is your favorite beach meal?
Speaker 11: I mean fresh fish, you know, I mean or shrimp,
fresh shrimp like the v J. I think one of
the And I don't know that you can get counk
and in Dustin. But when I got married, we we
got married in Grant, Cayman and then went to Belize
the next day and this guy literally snorkled out and
grabbed a conk and brought it in and they made
conk on the beach. Right there s VJ conksta Vich
And you know, if conk hasn't been frozen, it's it's
a little bit like clam, the muscular texture to it.
And there's something special about conks of VJ on the beach,
or even fish fish to J or shrimps of VJ
on the beach. You know, like fresh made tortilla chips
of cold beer, you know, a little bit of spice
in the stavch to you know, make your make you
sweat and and and need to drinking up. They're drinking here.
I think that's kind of special.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was Munchi's LSU executive Chef Michael Johnson. Chef Johnson,
thanks for hopping on with us this morning.
Speaker 11: Take care, Taylor.
Speaker 4: Absolutely all right. We're going to take a quick time
out and we get back. Chessa bouchet WVLA is gonna
hop on with us for a quick second to talk
a little LSU baseball regional that's coming up next year.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Off the Bench.
Speaker 4: Welcome back in Thursday edition of Off the Bench. Tayler
Sharp sitting in the host chair for our guy Jacob Hester,
who will be back tomorrow the Yellow Shoot Tigers. We'll
host that regional in bat Rouge starting tomorrow at two
pm when they take on Little Rock and have to
break it all down for us. Let's welcome on chessa
bouchet right now Sports Order with WVLA Chessa.
Speaker 5: How are you this morning?
Speaker 10: I'm great. I'm actually heading to the ballpark right now?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 5: I am doing good. You were in Hoover last weekend?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 11: How was that?
Speaker 10: It was amazing? I wish Lash's that could, you know,
kind of come alive. But aside from that, the atmosphere
was great, the new additions to the ballpark, and also
it just felt like alex Box East and it was amazing.
Speaker 4: Oh look, let's dive right into it. The Tigers the
host site for that regional. As I just mentioned, what
do you do?
Speaker 5: You do you like this draw?
Speaker 4: I mean a lot of people were talking about how
easy of a draw it is. Some people are cautioning,
They're like, hang on, these teams can sneak up on you.
What are your thoughts about the whether it's Dallas, Baptist,
Rhode Island, Little Rock?
Speaker 5: You like this regional for the Tigers?
Speaker 10: I think it's a very reasonable draw. I think it's
an easier pass than maybe some other opportunities they had
years ago. But I agree, I think we're not trying
to have one of those coastal Carolinas again or the
Stony Brook Like I'm not okay with that. So I
think you definitely can't overlook any of these teams. But
I definitely think it's favorable for LSU to really be
able to break out of this slump and get things
going offensively.
Speaker 4: Speaking of the salump, let's get into that right there,
because a second ago you mentioned that you wish ll
issues bats, what can alive a little bit more on Hoover,
as did the rest of us. How concerned are you
about this lack of hitting you've seen lately.
Speaker 10: It's concerning in the sense of I would say the
start of the season and midway through, everybody talks about
how everybody could hit on this lineup from one through nine.
Now you're seeing when you go into sec play, you're
seeing better arms, You're facing tougher competition, so it's one
of those things of you're seeing better arms, so it's
harder to hit. But I think the meat of this
lineup really needs to come alive. We've seen Stephen Monster
milem he's been struggling at the plate here. Jones has
had a few hits here and there, but not just
the slugging hitting machine that we're used to seeing. Daniel
Dickinson hasn't really been hitting really well either, and then
Derek Curiell has been in this slump which you expect
to see from a true freshman. And then you have
Ethan Fry, who's been pretty consistent for this team. But
you're talking about a guy who hadn't had a lot
of playing time in his career at LSU. He's had
injury problems, and so now you're relying on Ethan Fry
as being really that guy hitting in this lineup. That's
not a great look. I think facing some arms that
are not as elite as the SEC teams that you've faced,
you can kind of get out of that and get
into a rhythm. We know LSU hits a lot better
off the box. They average nine runs a game at
home as opposed to on the road they averaged five.
So I think you'll see a little bit more offensive production,
or at least I hope, because six hits in Hoover
total is not going to cut it in postseason play.
But I think Jilly and the guys are going to
be ready to go and have something to prove after
not doing so well offensively in Hoover just a week ago.
Speaker 4: Well, Trussell, let's say that these bats don't pick up,
or maybe they pick up a little, but not to
the level that we want to see can the pitch
and carry this team to Omahall.
Speaker 10: I think so. I absolutely think so. I think you
have one of the best pitching duos in the country
with Kate Anderson and Anthony Ironston. I think you're gonna
rely heavily on these guys. But I think also what
you saw in Hoover is a positive when you see
Jaden Newt kind of coming into his own. He's battled
injury coming off with Tommy John, hadn't had a whole
lot of opportunities, and now he's healthy and kind of
being that guy you expected him to be. I love
Kase Schwartz coming out of the pen. I think he
can let it rip as opposed to trying to go
deeper in the ball game. So he's kind of found
his niche in this bullpen. And also I think Cason
Evans is that three guy that he needed. I know
the past two outings have not been topped here for him,
but he's also an elite arm. He's a true fresh
You're gonna have ups and downs. I think him not
pitching and Hoover is showing you that Jay kind of
wants to conserve him and him be ready to go
for postseason plays. So I think, especially with Jacob Myers
pitching as well as he had, he can be one
of those guys who comes in and closes it and
you're not gonna hit one hundred and one. And these
are teams that probably haven't seen somebody throw on one
hundred and one. So if he can limit the walks,
I just think this bullpen and especially in that starting rotation,
can really take you the distance, just as far.
Speaker 5: As the pitching rotation goes. For this weekend.
Speaker 4: This was something that was brought up yesterday. I saw
it all over social media. I don't think this happens.
I do want to get your opinion on it though.
As far as like you played Little Rock Game one,
you could have Dallas Baptist or Rhode Island Game two.
Do you think LSU would pitch off, meaning not throw
Kate Anderson game one. I think Jay rolls with Anderson
game one. It's kind of want to hear your thoughts
on that.
Speaker 10: I think Jay is a man of he does not
break characters. He's gonna do his routine and what he's done.
If he throws Paul Schemes against Tulane, I think Kate
Anderson is going to go Friday afternoon. I just I
think Jay is he set himself up where he could
either throw Anthony or he could throw Cade. But I
just think he's not going to mess with what's worked
so well for them all season long. I think you
give the ball to Case. I think Anthony gets the
ball for Game two, and I wouldn't be surprised as
Case Nevin goes Game three. People have talked about Jay
pitching off and having Nuke come in, but I don't
think Nuke comes in, especially after what he did in
Hoover on a Saturday. I don't think you're gonna give
him a short coming off of a one day's rest
or four days rest instead of five. So for me,
I think it's going to be kid getting a ball
for Friday for sure.
Speaker 5: So before we get you out of here.
Speaker 4: Obviously, the team that everybody's watching in this regional outside
of LSU is Dallas Baptist, right because of how good
of a program they've been in recent years. So you
played them this year, but that was early in February.
Both these teams are completely different. Like how dangerous of
a team coul Dallas Baptists be in this regional.
Speaker 10: I think they could be very dangerous and it's a
team you don't want to overlook and you definitely want
to have your best stuff. I think they have home
run hitting power. I think they have three arms that
can get them to Omaha. But what we've seen from DBU,
they can win at a regional, they just can't ever
get past the super regional to get to Omaha. I
think the head coach has done a phenomenal job, and
I think it's eighteen seasons there at DBU. I think
they're dangerous and I think that Jay's going to definitely
say one of his aces to go against them and
try to put them away. If LSU handles business like
they should, I think LSU is set out to have,
you know, better arms for the weekend to put them
in a position to win to advance to a super regional.
So again, don't overlook DBU. We've seen baseball it's kind
of crazy, especially at the box. So I just it's
one of those things that can't overlook. The Patriots and
I think Jerry's going to have this team ready to go,
and I think it's going to be a big, big
advantage for LSU to be home, to have that crowd
environment and just it's a different animal at the box
and posteason play and I think we're going to see that,
and I definitely think that's going to play a factor
in how well l she does this weekend.
Speaker 4: All right, CHESSA, I know you got a busy weekend
ahead of you, so we'll let you go, but have
a going.
Speaker 5: Thanks for hopping on with us.
Speaker 10: Thanks so much, Taylor, I have a go.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, that was chess up Bigshe right there with WVLA
sports reporter. She will be out at Alec Box for
the Bat and Rouge Regional this weekend. Are we going
to take a quick time out and we get back
a little extended edition of Ask the Bench to close
things out here?
Speaker 3: Off the Bench?
Speaker 7: All right?
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Speaker 5: Right, welcome, welcome back.
Speaker 4: In a final segment Thursday edition of Off the Bench,
Taylor Sharp here with you, Alondra villaryl Jordan Kitchens.
Speaker 5: We have had a lot of fun the last three days.
Least I have. I hope they have as well.
Speaker 4: We're gonna do ask the Bench here, but before we do,
Jordan told me about this during breaks. We're gonna play
this first. The College football twenty twenty six trailer just dropped,
all right, like.
Speaker 1: Twenty minutes ago, forty five minutes ago.
Speaker 5: Now all right, well look you got a ready get
ready to go.
Speaker 1: Let's get ready to go.
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Saturday nights. Chapel Hill, a passing Dina.
Speaker 12: It crackles down our spines, traditional detention wars that remind.
Speaker 3: Our rifles they're not in cancer. It's electric. It shots
our nurse and ignites a place where the ground ships,
but our pride doesn't.
Speaker 12: We're our coach, skined, playbook and character are unlike any other.
Speaker 3: There's something in the air.
Speaker 12: It builds us up, breaks them down, and gives us
stadium a pulse.
Speaker 3: Built on pride.
Speaker 4: All right, first thing, I noticed Inner Sandman's in the game,
which is great. So when I first got the game,
I was like, I'm going to play at Virginia Tech
just so I can run out of the tunnel Lanner Sandman.
Speaker 5: And they didn't have it.
Speaker 4: I mean what I had read was it was like
a licensing thing because you know, they were kind of
trying to up the release date. They couldn't get the
music license in time. Glad to see that's in the game.
High School Road to Glory.
Speaker 1: I love like you was very advocate about us.
Speaker 5: That was my thing.
Speaker 4: And what I'm gonna do is, since I'm a petty
person and I've been hurt by Alabama too many times,
I'm going to commit to Alabama super early, flip on
National Sunny Day.
Speaker 5: That's my that's my plan. They do it to everybody, yea,
So I'm gonna flip the script a little bit. I'm excited.
Speaker 4: Graphics look insane crazy, so I'm I'm I'm pretty excited
about it.
Speaker 1: Did you peep the coaches?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 5: I did, yea. So it's kind of weird. In the
original game, like no coaches.
Speaker 4: Coaches weren't in it because I really wanted to play
as Deon Sanders and I couldn't do it, So you know,
I was I was a little upset that they weren't
in the game.
Speaker 5: All the coaches in the game. So that's that's actually
pretty cool.
Speaker 8: Does that mean Bill Belich because you know he's notorious
for never being on Madden Bill Belichick, So is he
gonna be I don't know, Likelick's.
Speaker 4: Doing a lot of things he doesn't normally do. Now
he's in North Carolina, so we will, uh, we will
find out. Okay, look before we get out of here,
let's do a quick ask the bench or the first
one comes in and says, ask the bench, if you
could decorate the host table however which way you wanted to.
Speaker 5: What would you do?
Speaker 9: So alone would.
Speaker 5: Probably be better at this than me, Like I mean.
Speaker 4: Right now we just put up the lsu homets and
then we have like the sponsored stuff.
Speaker 5: I don't know, like what would you do.
Speaker 9: Hmm, like for me or for off the bench?
Speaker 5: I guess, like I guess for you. I don't know
every show. I guess then mac huh.
Speaker 7: Like you had to change the desk, I think if
it were for me, definitely throwing a Spurs jersey up there.
I have one, but we're gonna put it front facing
so that nobody sees that it's a Kawhi Leonard jersey.
Maybe like a little tiny like have you ever seen
just for decoration purposes? Have you ever seen those like
little bluetoothed old timey radio looking thing.
Speaker 9: I might put one of I have so a listener
shout out William Anthony. He sent me.
Speaker 7: Whenever the Houston Astros had like a da this night,
so he sent me a bubble head that's like, uh,
like a sugar skull. Yeah, and it's a sugar school thing,
so it'd be like super cool. I need something el
Su up there, so maybe keat the LSU helmet keep
the do sekies for sure.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm I'm basic, Like I put this up
and I set it up the exact same way, just
because that's how it's always been set up. Like the
most I've ever done was switch Mike Allsot to this
side of the table since this is Jake's going to
sit now that Flyn's and if Flint can come in
and add his own stuff. I like the two helmets
in the center for this particular show. I do like that,
and then the Doseki's right in front, like those will
stay because like those are sponsored stuff.
Speaker 7: But uh, maybe by like a replica, like a little
replica of Alec Box Stadium and put that up.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, that's cool, that's cool. I do like that.
Speaker 4: Ask the bench best beach drink, that's what beach drink? Yeah,
I mean when we talked about the what's the one
you brought? The salt in the lime one you brought.
I mean that's literally made for the beach. It's it's
got the salt in the lime already in it.
Speaker 5: So that's one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Now as far as non beer, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess I would have to drink a
beer on the beach just because, like I'm at the beach,
the sand's gonna get everywhere in the open cup. Like
I'm probably just just going cannor bottle er. I mean
that that's the answer. It's it's it's a it's a
bottle of dose Heckies. I mean, that's that's that's the answer.
It's ask the bench. Is Jake really back tomorrow? Yeah,
Jake's back tomorrow, he is. I asked him, and he
liked the message and he was talking, and we have
a meeting tomorrow after the show that him and Fluann
are both going to be at. So yeah, uh, Jake,
Jake is back tomorrow unless something changes and he lets
us know tonight. As of right now, Jake is definitely
back tomorrow. You gotta remember, Jake was never the one
that would go on vacation and extended by a day.
That was always tea Bob every time T Bob was
scheduled to come back. He would push it back today, Jake.
Jake never really did that. So yeah, Jake, I trusted
I trust it.
Speaker 5: He's back now.
Speaker 4: If this was if Hester was the one that laughed
and t Bob was solo in the show, no, I
would fully beck for us to come in here tomorrow
and uh him not be there.
Speaker 5: But it Uh yeah he is. He is scheduled to
be back.
Speaker 4: Ask the bench, Will Taylor now start going topless on Fridays?
Speaker 1: Hope?
Speaker 9: Probably not blinded?
Speaker 5: Probably not.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, when when Flynn gets here, we'll
work shop a couple of things. We'll see what happens.
I'm gonna say no, I mean if if that, if
that's my vote, I'll say no. I mean, I guess
we could put it to a vote. Probably not again.
Gotta pale the lights in here pretty bright, uh laundred,
probably have to wear sunglasses every single day. That's just
that's a lot of work for trust me, very little payoff.
So uh no, I mean, well we'll probably say.
Speaker 5: No to that one. All right, here's one. Ask the bench.
Speaker 4: I'll throw you this when Jordan, what are you most
excited about about the new college football game?
Speaker 8: Most excited about definitely. I saw their Adam Formation subs,
so that was definitely yeah, mascots. I'm just excited that
this game is back, you know, from being a kid
getting n Cuba fourteen back in the day. I mean
my dad brought me to the midnight release of that
back in the day, so being a kid basically staying
alive up until the point where I was able to
see the game come back. So I'm just happy with
the games just being back. And I was my favorite
game growing up.
Speaker 5: So you you talked about gaming a little bit when
you're grown up? Did you ever play this?
Speaker 7: I played it like a long time ago, but it's
not something I regularly played. No. I was more of
like like first person shooter games like Halo, Call of Duty.
We were addicted to zombies, but I was more like
the show Deise, that one's fun, which one? That one's
on Black Ops too? I think too, I think too.
It was like the second map that they came out.
Speaker 5: Like, it was like the old abandoned house, right, was
that the.
Speaker 9: Well I guess it wasn't this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was the second map they came out with,
Like there's the one like the original one where you're
like in the room and then you have to open
the door and then you go upstairs or whatever. The
second map that they came out with was Deise and
that's when they had like the thunder Gun.
Speaker 5: Can you remember that one?
Speaker 9: The raygun was the only one that they had in
the first one.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't remember what your black ops that is.
They had one where it was like the underground town.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they had that one.
Speaker 9: Uh so maybe I'm saying it wrong. That's the one
I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: Like, Yeah, it was like the the skyscrapers and stuff.
You had to go up and down the elevator and stuff. Yeah,
I love awesome. Maybe that's that's probably it.
Speaker 9: Just they had had the elevator and the other one when.
Speaker 4: You were in the Pentagon, so that's not and then
they had the abandoned house had the underground Yah.
Speaker 9: Kino is fun too because it's in the theater.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I like that one too, Daniel Basha because you're like
in the theater and then you open the two doors
and they all started.
Speaker 5: Yeah, zombie maps.
Speaker 4: So alright, guys, that's that's gonna do it For a
Thursday edition of ot B J. Kester back tomorrow and
then debut and Old Matt Flynn on Monday, So we're
excited about that.
Speaker 5: Tune in tomorrow one more day of the word.
Speaker 4: We will break down a lot of LSU baseball that's
coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 5: On off the bench, Off the bench, all.
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