Speaker 1: All start to Yoda Presents Off the Bench with Jacob
Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 3: Hester and Hester got it.
Speaker 1: FA, You're locked in to Off the Benchtrol live from
the Mercedes Benz Baton Rouge Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and
Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: Yo, hey, y'all.
Speaker 5: Remember well done. I wasn't sure how that.
Speaker 2: Was going to go. Didn't even remind them.
Speaker 6: Well, I want to see how it was gonna good.
I wanted to see how it was gonna go. They
did well. Not shocked.
Speaker 7: I had the easy job that had to practice tries
before me, so I was like, oh, we're doing it.
Speaker 5: D Yeah.
Speaker 8: I was like, okay, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna go for it.
Speaker 6: Look, it's just to get the juices flowing. We used
to do it from six to eight because maybe you
were falling asleep by that time, and now it's to
get your days started. It is OTB one oh four five,
ESPN Baton Ruge ninety four to seven in Alexandria, and
of course eleven thirty am the Tiger in the Port City, Jake,
Mattelandra Tate, all here with you, and boy oh boy.
With each passing day, Matt Flynn becomes more official. He's
got a lot of papers over there, a lot. He's
got his own little over the ear earbuds, I mean, brand.
Speaker 5: New, no big deal.
Speaker 2: Zoom in on these babies.
Speaker 4: How much it does cost you? This was I think
God nineteen ninety nine. Okay on Jamazon? Okay, Ja Amazon.
It seemed like the uh the Jameson.
Speaker 2: That's what I call it.
Speaker 8: Because you jam with headphones.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, all right, sure I made that store.
Speaker 9: Help you out on that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, those reaching.
Speaker 2: Now you seem like music artists.
Speaker 4: They have like these custom made ones, right, yeah, these
are kind of like those, except just like generically made
in China, so they're not molded to your canal. But
they sound pretty good. They don't sound as good as
the over the years. They don't know and like I
can't find those headphones. They don't make him anymore.
Speaker 6: These are these are old and I don't know how
and why I kept up with them for as long
as I did, but they were in a drawer for
like a decade plus.
Speaker 5: I can't do the over the ear.
Speaker 6: Just because like I got a big head, and it's
like then they're pressing up against my ears, and then
it's like a whole situation like when we go in remote.
I hate it for that, for that purpose of it.
I like going on the road, but I hate what
you got is perfect because I went to perfect. That's
by the other day I went to I went to
Walmart and nobody. They don't sell wired earbuds anymore. I
don't sell them.
Speaker 4: So I went to eBay and I actually bought a
pair on the bay, like I was selling them for
you know, used pair for like fifteen bucks or twenty
bucks whatever. It was like old. I mean they have
to be ten years old, right, those those beats, and uh, yeah,
for sure. So I'll buy him. You know, he had
nice pictures and it looked very clean, taken care of,
well kept. He sends me a message the next day
and says, hey, did you happen to read the entire description?
And I'm like, well, I read the first description. There's
apparently another link that gives you another description. Some fine
print says the right one works, the left one doesn't.
I'm like, well, what the hell is this about? Excuse
me for just assuming that this would be a fully
functional pair of headphones. But why would he sell headphones
if they don't both work?
Speaker 9: Because he doesn't want them, that's why you're selling them.
Speaker 4: But why would you sell throw them away off?
Speaker 6: Because there's going to be an idiot that bids on
him and doesn't read the description.
Speaker 2: Yep, that was me. And then you've read the description.
It said, oh, the wonderful working pair of beads.
Speaker 5: Said working, and then he came back and said they
didn't work.
Speaker 4: Well, the fine print says the right one work, so
technically not wrong.
Speaker 6: I bet we can get you some with the help,
with the help of our loyal listeners.
Speaker 5: I bet they can help.
Speaker 2: There's the internet.
Speaker 4: There's a couple of other pairs out there, but a
couple of some people want to like thirty five bucks
for them. Okay, what would you got used ten year
old pairs that's sitting in it? It's like it's a okay,
it's a random ba Why don't.
Speaker 8: You just buy just regular used headphone?
Speaker 6: Would you because they don't sell them, would you pay
thirty five don't sell them with a wire?
Speaker 5: Would you pay.
Speaker 6: Thirty five bucks to get a random team and a
random live card break. Yes, absolutely, okay, yeah, you'd be
jumping for joy if there was a team you wanted
for thirty five dollars.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Houston Texans. That's to your own right now.
Speaker 4: Wow, come on, whoever I can get, it's not going
to get chasing cards were chas.
Speaker 2: We're watching live breaks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're not just going to be in here with
us at eight thirty's like we're talking baseball. Yeah, we'll
probably talk some baseball, get past that a little bit.
Probably gonna be some card talk too.
Speaker 2: Why did he Why does he think we had him
on the show?
Speaker 6: Not for baseball, not because he was a first round
pick on the mound for the.
Speaker 5: Old News, but for cards.
Speaker 8: I actually see a lot of wired headphones.
Speaker 4: Well specifically, it was looking for beats by Dre because
that's what.
Speaker 6: All the cool kids wear. That's this thing you called
me perfect and cool. That's what I've heard this morning. Hey,
by day three, three days in a row, they call
that a streak. How does that feel? How does it
feel three days in a row, A little new routine, exhausting?
Speaker 2: Yeah, now that's good man.
Speaker 4: I've actually been enjoying it a lot. Okay, the juice
was a little low this morning. I don't know if
that's just a hump day thing. Low energy in the room,
a little more condition the intro though. The intro kind
of like gets the juices fun a little bit.
Speaker 5: I agree that we're good. I agree, Elanja.
Speaker 6: How are we doing? I didn't even ask you, do
we work out this morning? How we feeling?
Speaker 8: I didn't work out this morning.
Speaker 3: I did yesterday after we got done with everything. Because
it's like a new cycle, so like I wait until
I know steroids.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like a different so like every month they change. Yeah,
I'm trying to get.
Speaker 5: Jacked a cycle show up right.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: Every month they change, like the workouts that we do,
and so I just want to make sure I know
them all before I go by myself. But yeah, i'll
go today at four thirty, all right, which is harder.
Speaker 6: Than forty, no doubt about it, without question. Now Flynn
and I used to always do that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but it's it's harder. It's much harder.
Speaker 3: So I don't remember if I said this on air,
but last Friday I left my headphones on T Bob's desk,
which was a mistake by me. Yeah, and he grabbed
them and packed them and took them with him, so
I didn't have headphones for a minute, and I was like, hey,
I think you took my headphones. He was like oh,
and he found them and he was like, we'll mail
them back to you. But then turns out Caitlyn came
yesterday to baton Rouge. So I got my headphones back Caitlyn,
and then they gave me this. We could put it
in the office from the two thousand and eight BCS,
like a panoramic photo not of the team, but of
the So I have that.
Speaker 8: It's framed office eight.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we're in that thing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we made it.
Speaker 6: I final little where's waldo? If we can find ourselves
in the picture?
Speaker 8: M hmm right, so you can put in the green
room office thing.
Speaker 5: Yes, we got to get that. We gotta get that going.
That's what it is. Yeah, we know you didn't work out,
but what'd you?
Speaker 2: Uh? How are we feeling? How you doing? Okay?
Speaker 9: Doing good?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 7: Had to honk a a guy in front of me
going sixty five in the fast lane, so that I
was funny. Look I'm cruising this morning, right, guys. But
I got to complain about the new College Drive exit.
Speaker 2: Oh about it.
Speaker 5: Well, it's great, it's great. It's great.
Speaker 7: You can't see bridge traffic until you round the corner
and you can't get off of College anymore. So I
had to sit there for like fifteen minutes and get
off of the next exit. This morning, I didn't get
here to like six fifteen. Yeah, just because like you
can't get off at College anymore once you pass that curve,
and I didn't know there was traffic there because of
the like it's it's a great exit when there's traffic.
Speaker 6: You kind of when I I avoid the interstate literally,
like as much as I can, I do not get
on the Interstate in this city.
Speaker 9: I just have to.
Speaker 5: I know you have to is where you live.
Speaker 4: But I am a little shocked the last couple of
days that there is six am traffic on here though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I guess not. I mean I don't
drive about at six am.
Speaker 8: There's just perpetually traffic.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Sometimes sometimes I'll drive the airport earlier, like at four
or five thirty something like that, and there's nothing nobody there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I guess it's six am. That's that's when
she starts.
Speaker 6: I'm actually like I'm almost as close from where I
live to the New Orleans Airport than I am the
Baton Rouge airport. It's only about fifteen minutes difference, So
I don't even fly at Baton Roies.
Speaker 5: There's no point. I'm fifteen minutes you know, down the road.
Speaker 4: Obviously farther, but it just feels it feels closer, like emotionally.
Speaker 8: That makes sense.
Speaker 2: Actually, thank you, I'm fun.
Speaker 8: You're Baton rous It's just like, man, you got to
go to Kent.
Speaker 2: It's going to be an easy trip tomorrow out of
Baton Rouge. Yeah, but then you don't have to connect.
Speaker 8: That is the part that I hate about the Baton
I hate.
Speaker 2: It's not always the case.
Speaker 5: Okay, it finds you going to Houston, Dallas.
Speaker 6: Or Atlanta, which are all Charlotte driving to Atlanta. I've
done that for It's not fun Charlotte.
Speaker 5: Why are you going to Charlotte.
Speaker 6: You're gonna go watch the Hornets play Beautiful City. You
can watch Bloody de Vac play for the Hornets.
Speaker 2: Rice Young, I watch you play. Thank you.
Speaker 6: Opts Guy Shocker, the guy knows the guy that was
the number one overall pick by the Panthers.
Speaker 2: A couple of years ago. Uh, Xavier Leget.
Speaker 6: It's two a first round pick from last year. You
got the two first round picks. Who's there on the
way out and we're gonna come back and we're gonna
get started.
Speaker 5: But on the way out. Who was the first round
pick of the Carolina Panthers this year?
Speaker 2: Nobody knows that?
Speaker 5: Landra all right?
Speaker 2: I know you know.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm gonna be like a receiver.
Speaker 2: Receiver. It's a receiver. The receiver.
Speaker 5: Played in the Big twelve tall, very tall.
Speaker 6: Dude from Arizona State, No close, I don't know. Dude
from Arizona. Oh yeah, Malan Tetor Roe McMillan, Arizona. Great, great,
my high school Arizona is.
Speaker 2: I think they've been so good recently.
Speaker 5: I don't know, but Tedoro McMillan was pretty good for him.
Speaker 3: I needs you to miss the shipment for the n
cua A tournament, the baseball tournament for super Regionals.
Speaker 2: I need you to miss it. Who they playing?
Speaker 8: I don't remember.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: West Virginia and my high school.
Speaker 8: Yeah? Are they?
Speaker 2: Maybe? What?
Speaker 8: I don't love the way you.
Speaker 2: I don't love Yeah? What? Yes?
Speaker 9: Or no?
Speaker 5: Are they have my high school. Look no, no, no, ye, no,
look they are are they going to be weted.
Speaker 4: They're not going to be as but they'll be pretty
pretty hydrated, pretty hydrated.
Speaker 5: But if not, but if it wasn't for you, they'd be.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you this, LS, she's winning the hydration
game every single.
Speaker 8: Wow on this show.
Speaker 5: Breaking news.
Speaker 6: West Virginia will be hydrated here in the heat and
humidity because of Matt Flynn in my high I mean.
Speaker 8: It's almost like you're sabotaging us.
Speaker 2: He just just hit the ball over the fence.
Speaker 5: Which team you're talking to, We don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll be back.
Speaker 1: Off the bench.
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Speaker 6: From players to slappy and off the bench.
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let's get this thing started.
Speaker 2: Hey, I was thinking about today's Wednesday, right Uh?
Speaker 5: Yes, morning.
Speaker 4: Eight to nine on Wednesday is gonna not be as
good as it used to be anymore. That won't be
a guest appearance.
Speaker 5: You'll still be here, though most of that I don't.
Speaker 2: Won't be a guest appearance. You know these are always
so electric?
Speaker 5: Do You're not out of the bullpen and you're anymore so?
Speaker 6: Are you saying we need another slappy science denying quarterback
to come in like from eight to nine.
Speaker 2: Do you know any and they come in, they take.
Speaker 4: I don't know any other quarterbacks that are science deniers,
and that's just you and I no one.
Speaker 6: All right, well we'll workshop that. See if we can
get somebody else to fill the role that you did.
It's gonna be very difficult. Yeah, very difficult. What a
weird we're gonna disappoint. Eight to nine is going to
disappoint this week.
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And as we get it started, let's take a look
at who the Tigers are playing coming up this weekend
inside the box and certainly going to turn it over
to a laundry and tate here in a second. But
as we give you the overview of who they are,
forty four and fourteen on the year nineteen to nine
conference record finished the season ranked number twenty four in
the country. So they started out the season incredibly hot.
They were seven and oh that was their best open
to a baseball season since nineteen sixty six. And so
this is a baseball team that you know, within the
Big Twelve, which is a good baseball conference.
Speaker 5: They held their own.
Speaker 6: They went out there and they won the Big Twelve
regular season championship. And so you know, I know a
lot of people will like to point into conference tournaments.
Speaker 5: For me, in.
Speaker 6: College baseball a lot like college basketball, I don't really
care who won the conference tournament because everybody's going to
handle it a different way. I mean, LSU through the
two aces in the same game because they needed to
win one game to make sure they were hosting. They
did that and then everything else, Well, if we get
a win, it's lean Yeah, so for me to best
team out of the Big twelve, and again, it's a
good baseball conference.
Speaker 5: That is not a team that's going.
Speaker 6: To be scared or tiptoe or half step into alig
Back Stadium and Alandro Teytay, I believe that y'all were saying,
this is the team that y'all had circled that you
did not want to face in the super regional.
Speaker 5: Yep, okay.
Speaker 3: I was just like, it just feels like they're super
hot and it has that feel of if they make
it past the regional in Clemson, that they were going
to be a bit of a problem in Baton Rouge.
If we made it through, they got a DH Sam
White and uh Kyle West. Also they're both like they're
best hitters. Sam White's hitting three fifty two, Kyle West
is hitting three forty seven. But the thing about Kyle
West is he has an on base percentage plus slugging
percentage of one one o seven, so like one point.
So he's basically extremely productive. And efficient once he's on
or when he's up to bat. And also this team
likes to steal a lot too, and Louis Hernandez does
a good job. But I would say defensively probably yeah,
I would say yeah. I would say, like, defensively, I
don't feel like the best about catcher the catcher position,
even though he does a good enough job. They're stealing
like one hundred plus bases on the season.
Speaker 9: So when I was looking at this, what I was
so saying for for y'all.
Speaker 7: Last week me and landra It talked about this team
a lot and the reason why they're twenty four were
in five on the road for seventeen and seven at home, Like.
Speaker 2: They're actually pretty better.
Speaker 9: They're better on the road.
Speaker 7: Now, up until last weekend, they had struggled a little
bit against like the top thirty RPI teams. Look, they
hit two ninety nine as a team, so I mean
almost almost three hundred. They're eras four thirty five, so
I mean they're a solid team. Thing is only fifty
five home runs. Only one player would double digit r
home run. So if the Tigers can get some of
these balls to leave the ballpark, might be tough for
West Virginia to catch up. I mean, they're just they're
a little bit of a small ball team, like you mentioned,
they like to steal these bases, but a solid team
that's won a lot of games on the road.
Speaker 3: And the regional they were playing from behind the entire time.
So that's also kind of what worries me is that's
a fight to you, right, yeah, you've got some fight.
Speaker 2: So well, let's look at the regional.
Speaker 6: They were in Clemson, South Carolina, and you're right, like
the first game they were down, I mean they were
down to Kentucky, I believe it was three to nothing,
and they came back and they when they got four
to three, it put them in the winners bracket, obviously
moving on to face Clemson, who had taken care of
South Carolina upstate. West Virginia beats Clemson, who again was
the host, nine to six, all right, and then Kentucky
makes their way out of the losers bracket. They beat Clemson.
But this thing didn't even go to games. I mean
West Virginia finished it. In game number six of the regional.
They take down Kentucky thirteen to twelve, and so you know,
a lot of people thought maybe Clemson was fraudulent as
far as getting a national seed and where they were,
but still I'm going to give you a lot of
credit because even South Carolina Upstate.
Speaker 5: Is a good mid major program.
Speaker 6: But you go through Clemson, you go through Kentucky, you
beat the one seed, you beat you know a team
in Kentucky that we talked about, and they play small
ball and you've got to make sure that you're on
every single assignment when you play them. So it's a
good baseball team coming into the box. This is where
you tell me about like John Denver or something yeare.
Speaker 8: Because we're gonna take them home.
Speaker 2: I did have a question.
Speaker 4: This is this is you know, this is a layman's
question here when it comes to college baseball.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming.
Speaker 4: The regular season champ for a conference is like the
one you hang a banner for or is it the
tournament champ m or do you hang the thing?
Speaker 6: I actually think that you hang a banner that says
regular season champs.
Speaker 2: It's gotta be right.
Speaker 8: I think it's kind of lame that.
Speaker 6: That somebody can hang a banner that wins a conference tournament.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's you basically went on like a four to
five game run.
Speaker 2: It's like a.
Speaker 6: List zero disrespect for little Rock that just came in
here and their coaches and players. They were awesome and
they played their butts off too gritty to be pretty
every single pitch, but they got into their conference tournament
off a tiebreaker.
Speaker 5: They wouldn't even even made their conference tournament.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like if they hang a banner because they
went and won their tournament, that didn't feel the same
as a team that won the regular.
Speaker 4: Season, right, like as good as they played, as like
lights out and frustratingly like prep they were and how
hot they got, like, there's still no banner for them
this year. It's unfortunate because they were amazing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was incredible run.
Speaker 4: But at the it's what's the point of even like
playing playing the whole regular season if if that's going
to be the case. That's so that just brought up
my question. It was just like, what do in baseball?
What are you more proud of the regular season, which
that's what I would be more proud of, or just
going on that hot streak. Yeah, And I guess it's
the same thing with basketball as well.
Speaker 6: They do have a player Grant Hussy first baseman for
West Virginia.
Speaker 5: You know what his nickname is.
Speaker 2: He's a hussy. No, no, the hust bus.
Speaker 6: Fraudulent, it says right here, known as the hustbus that
pisses me off.
Speaker 8: Are you gonna take away their min high?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Good, No, he's not.
Speaker 6: I know him, I know how he works, I know
how his mind works, and I know how his wallet works.
Speaker 2: He ain't doing that.
Speaker 8: You gotta do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. I'm gonna try to upsell him. I'll
just charge them more.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you can do charge more. You can go into debt.
Speaker 4: The hust bus, the hustbus, I hate that Grand Hussey.
Speaker 2: That's trash.
Speaker 4: Put that in a red dumpster by trash rangers. Yeah,
that's what I meant. Obviously. I'm just letting you know.
You say the people's name as well. People know though.
People know that red dumpster, they know what it means.
Can we got hust bus trash in that red dumpster?
Can we get you out to the box.
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, I'm gonna need a real good parking pass.
Speaker 5: Wait, there's not like there's not anywhere.
Speaker 6: There's not anywhere over there when you're going to the
box that you can't park and hit like a six
minute walk at most. At most you can probably park
on the golf course and walk right across the street.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've been to like a weekend game
in a long time. I've been to a couple of Tuesdays.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: I brought my kids to the or to the regional.
I get it.
Speaker 5: I got five of them things, and we brought a friend.
Speaker 2: We had six. I get it, all right, I'll go
be a business expense.
Speaker 4: Look, last time, last time we went to a game.
It's been a while, so no, it wasn't the last time.
But this story is probably about four years ago. I
think was five. We went with a buddy and he
has a son, Huk's age, and we go there and
there's a ball that goes goes foul and the ball
boy gets it, throws it up to Huck's friend and
gets the ball.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. So Hucks Hucks like it's five years old.
He's upset that he doesn't have the ball.
Speaker 4: For sure, He's like, oh my gosh, I don't have
the bass.
Speaker 2: So he's upset, and so his buddy is like, hey, yeah,
you can see here, here's the ball. Take it you
can take a look at a hold.
Speaker 4: Of blah blah blah grabs it. So I'm like, like
I was in one of those moments where like time
stood still, everything was in slow motion. I saw him
rear back and I was like, and it just went
on the Yeah we got it back. Okay, okay, we
got it back, all right. But it was one of
those moments where I was like, as a dad and
as a parent, we all probably know this. Your your
kids do something and you have to like turn your
face so they don't see you, like holding back laughter
because like this is a teaching moment, Like you gotta
be serious. See that you're laughing. Yes, And I was like,
oh my god, what am I gonna do here? And
I was like, obviously, step up to the plate here. Yeah,
we got it, We got the teaching moment. Gotta be
a discipline guy. So he obviously got in trouble. Yeah,
but it was just one of those stories. I will
never forget seeing that kid. Good teaching moment. Then do
you remember who throwing the ball? Because that matters to No.
I think it was just like he was five. It
could have been Dylan Cruz. No, it was It was
so we were on the first baseline, just past first base,
So I don't think it was a player. Honestly, I
think that big of a story. Then, No, it's not
that big of a story. I mean, I mean it is.
Speaker 5: I'm kind I'm kind of with Huck.
Speaker 4: He threw the ball like while they were playing. It
wasn't like it was dirt between innings here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that part does make me panic a little bit.
Speaker 6: You got a little sweaty palm thinking about them playing
and we're stopping the game.
Speaker 2: Everybody's like it was whom it was him? It's a
shout out. That was awesome. It was a great story,
a great moment.
Speaker 6: Griffin Kern, left handed pitcher, been a Friday night guy
for West Virginia. I know the stats aren't eye popping,
but him being able to throw the baseball with his
left arm does make me it's not the best case
scenario for the Tigers.
Speaker 7: One hundred k's to just twenty nine walks, Yeah pretty good.
I mean yet, like you mentioned, like three one three
e r a solid, but let's strike out the walk
race Yio is good?
Speaker 6: No, I mean he is definitely a tone center for them,
and do we expect it to fall back into Kate
Anderson and then Anthony.
Speaker 8: Iinsen probably because you're on a weak rest.
Speaker 6: Anthony Jinsen threw on Monday night, and so then you
get back and it's all depending on matchups as well.
Like as we know, I mean, Jay has certainly shown
us that over the last couple of weeks, I mean
the last.
Speaker 5: Couple of years really. And then in game number three,
if there is a game three.
Speaker 7: But you now have three, you now have three starters,
which a lot of people look for, like this is
a good thing to start casing.
Speaker 9: He's your guy.
Speaker 6: Now, there is always a possible Now I don't think
this to be the case, but there is a possibility
that if you're in game number two, you won game
number one, and let's say you're in this, you know,
going into the seventh inning and you've got a one
run lead and Anthony Aronsen is showing signs of fatigue.
That's really where the question starts. Do you bring in
case and Evans or do you bring in Zach Callen,
because you got to know that, hey, if we lose
this lead, we got to play another game.
Speaker 5: But we have a lead. We won game one, and
we can.
Speaker 6: Shut the door like that's and it might sound you
might be like, oh, he's just gonna save caseon Evans
for Game three. We all know Jay Johnson, we all
know that he's going to go after the victory if
it's in front of them. That's why you bring in
Gage Jump last year. It's why you bring in Anthony
Ironston this year. He'll do what we're talking about. And
then if you don't win that game and then game
number three completely flips on its head.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't hate it. I mean, because Jaden knew to
pitch well. He didn't pitch well this weekend, There's no
question about it. He was good towards the end of
the regular season. He was really good in Hoover. Like,
if you have to and you think you can get
to win, I'd be alright with going Case and Evans
and then just kind of giving new at the ball
to start kind of going from there.
Speaker 9: I mean, is it my preference, No, But I'd be
all right with if you have to.
Speaker 2: It's like, yo, how was his record this year? Starting?
Speaker 4: Because he seems to start a handful of game the
game because he can come. If he's a starter, you
got all night to think about it. Got all morning,
you got all afternoon. Think about that start like when
you come and rip it out of the bullpen, Like,
that's the energy that I like to see, Like, can
can he maintain that energy? And starting when he has
to think about it as a freshman, he's got to
think about it for twenty four hours or eighteen twelve out,
whatever it is. He's got to think about like, I'm
the guy, I got the ball in my hand. Yeah,
I'm throwing the first pitch of the game for us.
Can he maintain the energy that he brought coming out
of the bullpen? It's a different it's a different ball game.
Speaker 3: For reference, when he started versus Tennessee, he pitched six
innings and had six strikeouts and no walks. So first
start of the year, well he started like an I
guess yeah his college career.
Speaker 5: Yes, college.
Speaker 4: So the answer is yes, he answered my question. He
can do it. I'm all in.
Speaker 3: I think you can, and I don't know if it's
worth like maybe, like to Matt's point, like, if you
want to think about it that way, maybe newt can
give you like an inning or two.
Speaker 5: Or Chase Shorts could I mean, he could start the
game as.
Speaker 2: Well, can somebody get us through the line.
Speaker 6: I mean, I really think Chase Shores was not bad.
The other night was just the strike zone and we
talked about it. He was trying to find it. The
umpire would never identify what it was. But he wasn't
like completely missing his spots. Yeah, Like, I still got
belief in Chase Shorts. It's weird, Like I like him
better out of the bullpen too. It's one of those
things where it's like.
Speaker 2: You gotta start somebody.
Speaker 7: So if you remember when you played Florida and like
Naddy back in like what twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, you
had lost Eric Walker in the superregional so Oregon State,
so he started Russell Reynolds.
Speaker 9: You're like, look, he's a veteran.
Speaker 7: Two innings go two in three, like you basically have
an opener instead of a closer, and the pieza together
like that.
Speaker 9: I mean, maybe that's something.
Speaker 6: That's what they thought Will Helmers was going to be
too last year in Chapel Hill. Then he went and
just shut down North Carolina shut him down.
Speaker 2: So it takes one just takes one game.
Speaker 6: I'm with you as far as case Evans and what
he can do and the juice and the energy he
brings out of the pen. It is something you have
to know, and Jay Johnson's going to know it way
better than we do. It's probably one of the reasons
why a case And did not start the game the
other night.
Speaker 4: The other point, what makes them like to me just watching,
just thinking about myself standing in the batter's box.
Speaker 2: I just faced a pitcher that's a.
Speaker 4: Traditional throwing motion wind up, he takes his time between pitches,
and now all of a sudden, I got a little
herkey jerky wind up.
Speaker 2: He's throwing it like as fast as soon as I
get in the batter's box.
Speaker 4: It's just such a change up from what they saw
it to because they've they've already seen very traditional and
all of a sudden, this this guy comes in. It
looks completely different. I mean that's just from an high standpoint,
what you're seeing, what your view and stuff.
Speaker 3: For a little even more reference, I think his worst
start was versus Arkansas, and he pitched three and two thirds,
gave up seven hits and or earned runs in that one.
But he did have four strikeouts in three and two thirds,
So that's his worst outing.
Speaker 8: I mean, his worst start.
Speaker 7: Right for any season. Did see me walk the Game three?
So I mean, yeah, they hit him, but like again,
it wasn't a control thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and uh, we'll have Jay Johnson on tomorrow obviously
his normal Thursday spot, trying to nail down a time
with coach right now. So uh, you know, he's not
going to give us anything as far as who he's starting.
We all know that Jamon Jay's not going to do that.
But I would love to kind of get in his
mind as far as what he was thinking on Monday
night and he went with that Cowen and I know
probably what he's gonna say because the same things that
we said, Like you can make a case for it,
but certainly case and Evans right now is a very
very loaded weapon you got down there in the bullpen.
And so how you format that game three, if there
is a game three is going to be yet again
one of the biggest questions. All Right, let's take great
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Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves. It's off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, a welcome back in o TV here
on this Wednesday Morning sports. We just went beet dive
into the super regional l s U in West Virginia.
Speaker 5: When Anthony Ornardo joins.
Speaker 6: Us at eight point thirty, certainly want to dive back
into the LSU baseball talk. We've got LSU linebacker with
weeks set to join us at nine to thirty, so
we'll talk football there as well.
Speaker 5: But let's also talk some football now.
Speaker 6: And we've got Matthew Clayton Flynn here to talk quarterbacks,
to talk big opening games.
Speaker 2: But you almost forget my name.
Speaker 6: No, dude, as much as I've said your name, as
long as I've had to put up with you, it's
old two thousand.
Speaker 2: And four memory was failing you.
Speaker 5: Oh well, I've definitely got CTE.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's on a time clock and it's not ticking,
it is roaring.
Speaker 4: So when I was in when I was in Green Bay,
AJ at his house, he'd always open, like at night whatever,
having dinner or hanging out just whatever. He would pull
he had this thing in his in his freezer and
it was ice like helmet. He would ICE's brain, ICE's head.
Like I was like, there's absolutely.
Speaker 2: Zero percent chance that is doing anything.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it was like a skull cap, I guess,
but it was frozen, had like the present gel packs
on it.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, ICE's head. What do you think that was doing?
What do you think it wasn't doing anything but helping him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was like, you know what, I'm hitting my
head on people every single day. I mean, it can't.
Speaker 5: Hurt, It can't hurt. I guess that's true.
Speaker 6: But my brother in Christ, like, we knew what we
were doing when we signed up for it.
Speaker 4: We knew what we were giving. I mean he didn't
wasn't trying to stop. Yeah, just you know, I set brain, buddy,
I'm going to be there.
Speaker 2: You never know.
Speaker 6: It might be like he's going to be there. Bob's
going to be there. We'll get sixty five. It's like
that CT man, he's only sixty five.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Oh he looks rough? He is? He is?
He drinking dinner out of a straw?
Speaker 5: Oh he is?
Speaker 6: Oh man, that's joking, he really is. He's slab run
over there, So I need to go check on him.
That'd be me, all right, though, I do it all
over running back literally and on that note, pull it back,
all right. So one thing that our listeners need to know,
and they probably do know. But if you're new to
the show and you didn't listen to Flynn when he
came on once every three months, Garrett ness Meyer has
been something that he has been the biggest fan of.
I'm talking about even when Jayden Daniels was out there
winning Heisman trophies. Now he gave Jayden his love and
he you know, he wasn't the biggest fan and then
became a big fan. And you appreciated everything Jayden did
in that all season. We all know that, okay, but
you would not stop talking about Garrett Nesmeyer. And you
and I are in a group text together and we
would get the the bus emoji, Giff whatever, Jiff whatever
you want to call it, every time that he even
thought about coming in. So you've been a big fan
and now all of that it's come together and now
the entire country is a big fan of Gary Nussmeier
certainly throwing for over four thousand yards a year ago,
the second most in LSU history in a single season,
and honestly, Matt, I think he has better weapons this
year than he had last year. And he's also going
into year number two compared to year number one. Now,
I know you didn't get that opportunity to have that
like where it's like this one year then you go
into your number two. But I know, you know what
that's like, everything that goes on and happens around you
in year one, even if you're a veteran player like
he was, you're still swimming in it a bit. I
have to imagine he's gonna be just a different player
as far as the nerves and how prepared he is
and things that he saw in your number one that
aren't gonna get him in your number two.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: He he's never looked like a guy plan that has
dealt with the starter anxiety, nerves. He just kind of
has always looked like a dude that rolls out there.
Speaker 2: Not loosey goosey, but in the zone.
Speaker 4: Like confident right with a little bit of a little
bit of swag to him. I started liking, I mean,
what year is this for him at LSU? This is
fifth fifth year he was When he was a freshman,
I believe I had gone out to a scrimmage it
was in in Tiger Stadium, Ah, this is right before
the season, and gone up to a scrimmage to watch
another quarterback that was there, another guy that was the
number one guy in the country, and I was watching him.
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, pretty good, pretty good. I
was like kept watching and I was like, all right,
he's doing pretty good. And I looked. I was like,
but who's that guy over there? And they're like, well,
that's Garrett Garrett, that's myer. He's you know, he's got
a really good arm. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, he's got a good arm, but
he is looks different from the way he is pulling
the trigger into tight zones, Like there's there's a there's
a there's a gift that it's really hard to teach,
like some quarterbacks have it, like you can get there
over experience.
Speaker 5: What's an example of somebody that does have it.
Speaker 4: I've always compared, like I lean on comparisons because they
helped paint the picture.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying like he's as good as this person.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying, but the game to me, for for
nust Meyer has always been a comparison to Matthew Stafford
when he was at Georgia. A guy that came in
ultra talented with a great arm, but also knows he
has a good arm and knows he can do things
with the ball that other people can't, and so he's
got to learn how to tighten it up a little bit,
turned down the aggressiveness when it needs to be. Matthew Stafford,
when we watch film and we'd make a bad reading
practice and you would throw it into triple coverage, We're like, yeah,
what are you doing?
Speaker 2: That's that's covered three right there. That guy was covered
by three people.
Speaker 4: But Matthew Steffanie he could do he could fit it
in the hole because he had such a good arm.
He had to learn how to like tighten that up
when he got to the league. But so Nusmar has
always kind of been that guy. He plays like really free,
really loose, And now going into year five, I expect
him to make a huge jump from where he.
Speaker 5: Was last year and again four thousand.
Speaker 4: He's always even when he started the Bowl game in
Jaden's last year, played amazing, right he who who.
Speaker 2: We played Wisconsin?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we almost kind of forget about that. But if
you first start out of the and led a two
minute drive to go win the game.
Speaker 2: It was so impressive, right what he did.
Speaker 4: But he's always done that and people always kind of
go back to it when when he first like before
last season, people are like, oh, well, I don't know.
You know, he came in as a back that you
know in the fourth quarter, in the last drive of
the game and thron interception after we were blown somebody
out by fifty.
Speaker 2: That's stupid.
Speaker 5: Actually, that's a great point. Shocking, but that is a
great point.
Speaker 6: I want to hit on that to end our number
one about when you come in a game like that
and what it really is.
Speaker 2: Compared to what people think it is.
Speaker 6: Because you and I were in there with the bomb
squad a couple times together a couple of times, we
can talk about that.
Speaker 5: Oh to finish out our.
Speaker 6: Number one off the bench all right, as you all know, man,
we are so fired up to be on the do
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I mean, you can turn heads at the tailgate when
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But look, if you're just hanging out, man, you're by
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Speaker 5: Or maybe right now you're on the way to the beach.
Speaker 6: Maybe you're in your car right now making the trek
to the beach and you're like, oh man, I forgot
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we'll be all right. An ice chest enjoy the time,
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Speaker 2: Not a bad time.
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Speaker 1: Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm more of a yahfer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's about a minute lest so probably not
the time that I want to be able to talk
about the difference in coming into a game, you know,
when something's on the line, compared to when you come
into the game and you look up and it's like, hey, fellow.
Speaker 4: What's your name. Well we can make up we'll talk
about it. Yeah, Well we can make some predictions. We
can I think pretty confidently predicted nuts will be in
New York this year.
Speaker 6: Last time you said that it happened, Well, I predicted
he was gonna win the thing. Are you just saying
this will be in New York?
Speaker 2: I haven't.
Speaker 4: My crystal Ball hasn't cleared that part of the ceremony
up yet.
Speaker 2: But so you can show.
Speaker 5: You see in the front row, you see nus Meyer there, ye.
Speaker 6: If if Myers there, that means I'm on the train
from Baltimore.
Speaker 5: To New York from the Army Navy game.
Speaker 6: Like I actually we need to I need to, like Retell,
I don't want to hear that whole thing. Okay, Yeah,
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