Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the.
Speaker 1: Plays get broken down and science gets denied. The Bitch
Hour two of Off the Bench, Live from the Mercedes
Benz Baton Rouge Studio starts now.
Speaker 3: All right then, welcome back, Yeah OTV here on this
Wednesday morning. Jake Flynn, Alandre Tata all here with you,
and it has been too long. Very excited for our
next guest. It is former l s U pitcher and
first baseman, mister Austin Bain. The Bain train joined the
show boys. How we do it? We're doing great man.
Excited to have you back on the show. Us three
have done a lot of radio together now typically we
did it when the sun was going down. We did
we did it, We did it. I think it was
very memorable radio. But you know, for old time's sake,
Austin to kind of lead off this discussion, I feel
like you should tell the people for about sixty seconds
about ladder in Bloom.
Speaker 4: Oh god, dude, I'm having PTSD again. My hands are
sweating right now. I don't want to do this.
Speaker 2: Look, Jake was like, I don't I don't even think
he'll remember it. And I was like, oh, he'll remember it.
He's got he still has nightmares.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's ingrained in my brain. You know, I can't.
I can't go a day without thinking about it.
Speaker 3: Austin, if it makes you feel better now that Flynn,
because Flynn didn't have to do those back then. I mean,
he was always on, but he never had to do
him You actually, like you sold it and you did
something and people were paying you to have your takes
on the radio. He has to do it now. And
let me just tell you, he is in the same
situation that you were in, So don't let him try
to talk too much trash to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're getting a lot, We're getting practiced. It's kind
of a thing right now, babe. It's like we actually
have the people in the chat giving me, like ranking
them after I'm done so, but we've we're anywhere between
a one out of ten to ten out of ten.
It's it's real hit or miss right now.
Speaker 4: At least they're giving you ten out of ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah, actually those are few and far between.
Speaker 4: And see, the biggest problem with it is as you're
doing the library, you just see Jacob staring at you
the whole time, and you know that he's just going
to grill you after. So I was like, oh, I
need to get this over with.
Speaker 3: You did great, I mean, you know, thanks cousin, Jake,
and then you'd go right into it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I was I was yet att know this.
I was practicing at home. It may not have shown,
but I was in front of the mirror trying to
make it work, and that I just couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: Sometime does not layoff. Look we did, man, we had.
We had a lot of fun on hanging with Hester. Certainly,
it's good to have you back on man. Miss. You
being around Baton rouge wy, don't you tell the people
kind of what you're up to since they, you know,
last heard from you, which has now been years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I moved away. I moved up to Shreveport,
near Jake's homeland. Yeah, that was only a couple of
months now living in Oxford, Mississippi. H went from medical
sales to now work for a developer. I'm in enemy territory. Yeah,
And I always tell people, I was like, you know what,
I kind of liked the old miss until I moved
here and then I was told how much they hate us. Yeah,
I'm like, you know what, y'all kind of stuck too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, no doubt got it? How like, man, you
I mean you were in the thick of it, like,
not only are you like living where the enemy is,
like when you live in a small town where the
enemy is, like you're probably the guy that stands out
like a sore thumb because like you're the LSU guy
Ole Miss loves their baseball and so I'm sure you
get it double what typically someone would get in enemy territory.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't help that I wear purple a lot,
but yeah, no, no, no, I get worn out when I
was in hospitals, they would they knew, and it was, uh,
it really opened my eyes to Old Miss fans, I
should say. Now, I say that as a generalization, not
all bad, you know, yeah, but they hate us, man,
And I didn't know that. I had no idea that
they didn't like us like that.
Speaker 3: I know. It is one of those weird deals. Awesome
because kind of the same situation for me as well,
Like I'll meet somebody and I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah,
I know I got to play football for Old Miss
Bold big rival of awesome, like not really like not
for me, like not for me, Like I don't I
don't think of Old Miss like that because like we
beat them every year that we were in school, and
LSU's record over Old Miss and football and baseball, and
so that's like like not me trying to throw shaded
Old Miss. But it's just like, uh, you know, from
maybe a generation before, because I'm the same way. I'm like, man,
I didn't know y'all hated us like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it just caught me off guard. And I
like a lot of the people up here, A lot
of people are nice, but when they find out that
you believe purple and Gold, it's just they look at
you different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they guess the old saying they hate us because
they ain't us.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, all right, Bane, let's uh, let's focus a
little bit here on LSU baseball. Tell us about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 4: But I thought this was like nighttime mindset. Yeah sports.
Speaker 2: Well, they have forced me to start watching some baseball
a couple of weeks ago. So hey, you would be
proud of our boy.
Speaker 3: You would be proud of our boy like he is
truly you know, locked in as much as he can.
He's learning the names, he knows the lineup. You'd be
proud of it.
Speaker 2: Look, my kids fell asleep last night to Arkansas versus
u C l A. They fell asleep. Yeah, so like
we're we're in Flynn's our baseball peeps. Yep, all right,
So well just tell us about we had heard from
me from a long time. So tell us about like
this LSU team, what you've seen from him up to
this point, how they've regular season, going through regional super
regions to the point where they are now, and yeah,
just what's your thoughts about the DNA of this.
Speaker 4: Team, man. I think that our pitching staff is lights out,
and I think that's what carried us through the regional superachals.
I say that we had some high scoring games, but
whenever we left SEC tournament, I think it was kind
of a feeling of a batch being cold, and they
turned it around completely. I mean, the guys are seeing
the ball, great pitchers come out doing their job, and
I think, you know, we're one of the top pitching
staffs in the nation. And then having Kate Anderson go
out give seven innings in that first game like that,
that's huge and then you know, INSI in getting him
for possibly the next game or the first game of
the series if we make it right there. It's it's
just nice having depth. And one thing that I've realized
too is I feel like everybody throws a hundred down
right true. Like when I was there, we had like
one guy in SEC and he was montesde Okay, he
was like six foot seven and three hundred pounds and
he threw a hundred. Now and now everybody's throwing it.
Chase Shores is absolutely electric. He's fun to watch a lot,
you know. But having those older guys in the lineup,
Bear Jones, you know, Fry, all those guys, it's it's
really it's you don't care about who's up in any
situation because anybody can get the job done. So I'm
very fired up about this team and what they're gonna
be able to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it's very interesting to what Jay does
today knowing that, look, you never want to like have
oh we can lose this game and we still get
to play another one, Like you don't have that mindset,
But like how he approaches this game today, Austin, because
like you're gonna have a decision to make on who
starts the game for you, and you're gonna have different options.
Is it Jaye Nude who has started games in the
past this season and kind of been in these spots before.
Is it gonna be Zach Cowen, who hasn't been really
in these spots in an LSU uniform, but he was
in a Watford uniform, and the only time he did
it in the LSU uniform in regional play, it didn't
go well against Little Rock, And so, like the decision
that Jay has to make, it's not an easy one,
but he does have.
Speaker 4: Options, and I think the biggest thing he can kind
of take more of a risk because now Arkansas has
to beat us twice. So maybe now is the time
that you can take some of the more riskier play
to possibly say pitching for the series if we beat
Arkansas the first game, you know, But then if if
you do take too big of a risk and then
now we're playing them again, we're burning more arms. H
So I'm not sure what he should do. You know,
It's it's gonna be a tough call regardless, but I
think we're in the driver's seat right now, so I'm
I'm just excited to watch.
Speaker 2: Awesome. What's the what's your take on the LSU lineup
right now? The like to me just watching learning like
the thens and outs of baseball. Like to me, they've
played this one has been incredible. They've you know, Curry
l is an incredible at bats so hard to get out.
But Steven MYLM, he has played incredible. I want to
know your thoughts on him because like, defensively he is
he he's a dude, but that he seems like such
a tough out right now, just tell like, tell us
that what he a guy like that kind of means
to the whole roster in the lineup.
Speaker 4: Man, I love his the swagger about him. He's a
switch hitter, so right handed, left handed, he's gonna do fine.
I love him baton left handed. But what what stands
out about his game is he's up in so many
situations and delivers whenever it's needed with runners in scoring position,
you know, after walks, things like that. He steps up
in big time situations and and comes through, which is
a big confidence booster for the team in general. As
a leader, you know, as a guy standing next to you,
he's just fun to watch. Man, You get the Tiger
stripes on the hair. It's something about Omaha and L
s U L s U. Tiger's doing stuff with their hair,
you know, from Kramer Robertson dying it to now myleam
with the tiger stripes. It Uh, he's just fun to watch,
ye yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, he has certainly turned it up here in the postseason.
H man. It you know, omahall is so special. It's
it's a place that you know, you dream of going
and like y'all have this place and like we didn't
have this in football, but like for baseball players Austin,
like y'all worked to get to Omaha and you know
something that I know you experienced as well, Like what
is what's the environment? I guess like in that situation,
in that setting, knowing that like you have the best
fan base in the country as far as one that's
going to travel to that location. But you know, just
from watching it on TV and even being in the crowd,
like it's special, Like you get goosebumps thinking about it.
But like as a player, when you've played in what
a lot of us consider the best college baseball stadium
in America in the box, but what's it like going
to Omaha, Like, how different truly is it when you're
playing on the field.
Speaker 4: Man, It's it's definitely special. And I think the coolest
part of our being a part of the LSU community
is how well they travel and how well they support
the team and everything. You go to Omaha, like in
twenty twenty three when we went and I drove up
for the series, it was full of purple and gold everywhere.
It was just I've never seen anything like it. And
that's that's the kind of support you get from the fans.
That's how many fans there are of LSU because because
the program is that amazing, it's it's it's a very
professional feeling. You know, you get the opening ceremonies, you
walk out at night with the fireworks going, the stands
are full, go out to batting practice, the whole stands
are full as you're shagging or hitting VP. It's just
a very professional feeling, and it like transcends college where
now it feels like you're at the next level. You know,
you've got a stadium that holds what twenty eight thirty
thousand people, You're just it's huge, it feels big. So
it's it's a you know, once in a lifetime opportunity
some of these guys have, and it's it's it's an
incredible experience. So I've now gotten to go as a
player and a fan, and I'll tell you what, being
a fan is just as much fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, go to Rocos. Support the team a little bit.
Get on the board.
Speaker 2: How many Jello shots? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, Well, I mean we bought on a budget.
I mean, do we, you know, spend some cash has
support the Tigers? What do we do at Rocos?
Speaker 4: Uh? You haven't heard about the Jelo shots?
Speaker 3: Right? No, I don't know how much you Yeah, but
you know you said support the Tigers. We buy eight
yellow shots? We buy you know, I'm a hand. Did
did you delete a dozen of them?
Speaker 4: I'll confess I didn't buy any, but but that's because
the person like five minutes before me bought a thousand
and they were passing them around from trade. So it's like,
what am I going to do? Like give me two?
Speaker 3: You know too?
Speaker 4: Like nah, I'll just take one of the forty on
this tray and then I'm good to go.
Speaker 2: Okay, I do want to ask you, so you talked
about how special of the place Omaha is, like playing
in that stadium a professional environment. But talk about like
the mindset that a player has knowing that a team
that you've beaten already multiple times in a season has
to come in and beat you twice. We know, like
from from a coaching standpoint, there's it's a different philosophy
from you know, when you use pitchers and how you
set up the game. But from a players standpoint, does
anything change because we talk about it, like beating a
team twice in football, being a good team twice is tough,
like mentally so from a baseball standpoint, but knowing that
they have to beat you twice, do you play a
little bit more loose or is it just like let's
it's it's another game, put our hat on and let's
go play.
Speaker 4: Man, I think it is just it's another game, put
the hat on, let's go play. Because you know, as
much as there is I guess you know, somewhat animosity
between LSU and Arkansas and baseball, at least we respect
the hell out of their program. They you know, they're
highly ranked for a reason. They're very talented. You know,
if you get a little two loose, they can sneak
up on you, and then you're going into a game
game three with them with the momentum in their favor.
So I think, you know, these guys know how important
this game is. We do have another game to play
if we lose, but we don't want to get to that,
so we need to handle business now. I think that
everybody knows what's at stake here. They know what they
need to do. They've they've got their mind on the
on the big picture, and I think Jay Johnson's directs
them in that in that way, so I think I
don't think they're going to overlook them. And man, it's baseball.
You know, anything can happen. You see all these teams.
Murray State made a run at it, So I think
you just got to take it one game at a time.
Don't even let the next game get in your head
at all.
Speaker 3: All Right, Austin, you were somebody that threw one hundred
and thirty innings in college. You also had two hundred
and fifty four abs, and so obviously you've got experience
on the mound and in the batter's box. If you
had your choice, you had to come into the game
because you know, last year of your career, you had
four says. If you had to come into the game
ninth inning to shut the door, or you came up
to the plate with a chance to win the game
two outs. It's up to you which one you're choose in?
Speaker 4: Which one would I enjoy more? Or which one do
I think I could succeed in?
Speaker 2: What do you pick it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean yeah, I mean, what are you succeeding? Like,
which one are you?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, call me number eighteen. I'm there.
Speaker 4: Oh man, that's actually a good question. Probably pitching, okay,
because I you know, I've done that my whole life,
and but damn dude, it would be so cool to
come in hitting in the bottom of the ninth and
get that opportunity. So that's a tough question. I think
I would succeed at pitching. I think I would rather.
Speaker 3: Hit, all right, there you go Switzerland cover.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, seems like I would crush both, like either way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, yeah, I would be right center gap all day.
But like you're asking a pitcher, like if you'd rather
pitcher hit? Like, that's that's a tough question. Every pitcher
wants to hit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, yes, you're a pitcher, but
you also led the SEC in doubles your your last year.
Once you know, Paul got smart and lets you start
swinging the bat man.
Speaker 4: I wish you'd have told him junior year. I would
do anything to go back to junior year twenty seventeen
and swing the swing the stick a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Paul, Paul's definitely listening South Ceriah. Yeah, no question.
Speaker 4: I'm drinking a cup of coffee right now, sitting on
his porch.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, Austin, I really wanted to let you
back in twenty seventeen, but it just wasn't in the cards.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I wish you'd have came in there and told
me you're an athlete.
Speaker 3: Oh you recruited me. I mean you saw what I
was doing in high school a dutchdown. What are you
doing here? I know? I know, man, shut up all
Austin Man, this is a lot of fun. We'll have
to do it again soon. Best of luck in Oxford, Mississippi.
Like I knew that was where you were living, but
you know, when you say it out loud, it makes
it even worse. So enjoy that and good luck.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, man, it was a good talk.
Speaker 3: To you guys, absolutely as well. There he is our guy,
Austin Baine, who used to co host with us on
Hanging with Hester when radio got weird from six to
eight pm.
Speaker 2: I wish you would have told me you were an athlete.
Speaker 3: So good, Okay, So with Austin saying it that quick
and it sounded like something Paul would say, that definitely happened.
Speaker 2: Oh for sure, that definitely thought about it multiple times.
Speaker 3: I wish you would have told me you were an athlete, Paul.
You recruited me, my guy, It's not my fault, Austin.
He didn't tell me. I mean, look, he hit. Paul
just had this guy on the bench like that. He
came in and he was starting some games, started six
games his freshman year on the mound, actually pitched well,
had under four e fifty four innings, pitch fifty six strikeouts,
you know. But then like his junior year that Austin
was talking about, he only pitched twenty four innings and
didn't hit. And then Paul lets him hit and he
hits three eleven on base percentage of three eighty two,
twenty one doubles, forty two RBIs, three home runs. Yeah,
I wish you'd have told me you're an athlete.
Speaker 2: A couple of good quotes say of Austin talking about
the jellow shots, I'll take two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that long side though, when I asked him that question,
oh my god, yeah, I heard him away from the microphone.
Speaker 2: That was a good way to start, well, to tease,
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Speaker 3: Would you rather Wednesday? When we come back here on
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Rouge's go to for all things Louisiana Sports.
Speaker 2: Bob talked about Breathe talking about the All American playing
at their headquarters. Have you seen their headlines recently rejects?
Speaker 3: Well, I.
Speaker 2: Had neither, but I started seeing some videos that apparently
making like a comeback.
Speaker 6: Like tour the house parties, house parties.
Speaker 2: They're like showing up randomly to the backyards like frat parties,
house parties, like unannounced. They're just showing up and saying, Hey,
we're all American rejects. Can we just play a concert?
Speaker 6: Like duh video a concert?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's like, is that the most brilliant way
for a band like All American rejects that do come back?
Speaker 5: So they're like a couple of Uh, like jelly Roll,
you know, like the country or jelly Roll. I don't
know if he's like country rock whatever. They the way
that he got popular, he would play like in backyards
and like just invite a bunch of random people and
then they're they're doing that with Dre or what's his name,
Drake May.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Drake May.
Speaker 6: No, it's like an up and coming one.
Speaker 5: So he went to l s U and he played
out like frat houses and then he was like, I'm
playing at the Texas Club tonight, so like all the
frat people.
Speaker 2: But that's like for like trying to make a name
for yourself, like America reject everybody.
Speaker 6: Trying to make a comeback. I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the classic country and Western music artist jelly Roll.
Speaker 3: Yeah he is great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm saying that just you didn't roll off the
tongue country.
Speaker 3: In weide jelly Roll actually accent and actually sight Jlly Roll.
Oh I sld jelly Roll down the.
Speaker 2: Street sounds like Austin's accent.
Speaker 6: Drake Milligan is who I was thinking of. Okay, he's
really good.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: He went on, Uh, America's got talent. I think that
was the show. He went on too.
Speaker 5: He's he's good speaking of I cannot believe that you
didn't know who Blue October.
Speaker 3: Was, no idea. Still don't you.
Speaker 6: Didn't Did you listen to the song? I said, And
you didn't know that song?
Speaker 3: I know that song.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: I told you Blonde Spot.
Speaker 7: I guess there was a there was a way better
chance of you knowing than me. I went and listen
to it too.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 6: But maybe I'm the only one that was Blue October
their a Texas band. Oh okay, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: I know the movie Red October, Hunt for Red October,
Hunt for Red October. Yeah, that's the only hunt.
Speaker 6: Was in that movie.
Speaker 2: I've never yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they were on my flight.
Speaker 3: Already turned it into T Bob to get their autograph.
Speaker 5: No, I didn't even I'm not even going to go
up to them and be like, hey, you.
Speaker 3: Can get autograph.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, did they announce it or like, did
you reconnize?
Speaker 5: No, like he had aver they had a Pelican case
and it said Blue October. And then I looked at
him and I was like, oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is I don't know about the Pelican cases. Bruh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Hey, I know I know about the guns around.
They're very heavy.
Speaker 3: Some guns is the word?
Speaker 2: Look it up?
Speaker 3: All right, do we want to do? Would you rather
like each get a question in before we get the
Ben mince Yep?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 3: All right. Well, I mean you were the one that
was excited about it all started all Would you rather
play an entire game in freezing snow or a game
in a hundred degree heat with eighty percent humidity?
Speaker 7: Degree heat, It's hard to run in snow, man, I go,
We're going to.
Speaker 3: Go with one hundred degree with eighty percent humidity. My
last game in Denver was negative seven, and it was
the worst thing of all time. If everything hurts, that's
not football weather. Football weathers when you're out there sweating
your ass off.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I hate when people say that. They're like, this
is their weather. They guy, go ahead, that's not go ahead.
Green Bay football was not created in the heat. It
was created cold. No, it was not right. So guess
what y'all are all wrong and dumb for that take,
because freezing cold is where it's at.
Speaker 3: It changes in both oh I played in Denver and
San Diego.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but snow changed, doesn't.
Speaker 3: Oh Now, negative seven.
Speaker 2: Is not it seems like it's pretty cold. We used
to hope that it was snowing, like no, we used
to hope that it was like below like twenty for
the game instead of in between like twenty and thirty two,
because it was below twenty and usually it was not
snow and the snow would mountain, it wouldn't be wet
out there. But you know what, it is always wet
when it's hot and humid, and as a thrower, you
don't want that. That's the easiest question you've ever asked.
Speaker 3: Such a bad take, y'all are terrible for that one. Yeah, three, four,
respect a.
Speaker 2: Right, would you rather spend all day in tennis shoes
with wet socks or no socks? No socks?
Speaker 3: Wet socks? Yeah, wet socks just because like, well, you're
hanging in a blister either way. But your feed are
gonna smell like ass sticky.
Speaker 2: You're gonna pull your foot out of the shoe and
the sole is gonna come with it. Yeah, yeah, no,
that happens.
Speaker 3: It's a tag team situation. Yeah, when you do.
Speaker 2: That, for sure, what sock?
Speaker 3: I just feel weird, man, I just I've been I've
been in line like airport security when somebody takes your
their shoes off and they don't got their raw dog
in it, And I'm like, man, I can I can
smell from a mile away what that smells.
Speaker 2: Like immediately socks shoes with no socks on.
Speaker 3: It's like it's a psycho moved.
Speaker 2: It's a cringe worthy thing. Like it gives me. Maybe
gis thinking about it to me too, that's I used
to have it. So I used to have a teammate
in high school who's a receiver who played foot all
with those socks on with his cleats. That's psychopath. I
wouldn't be surprised, you know what he did in his life.
Speaker 3: I know, And maybe like you and I, like we
have spent so many times playing football with wet.
Speaker 2: Socks, just get wet.
Speaker 3: You just get used to it, especially.
Speaker 2: In the heat that like the heat that you love
to play.
Speaker 3: In training camp when you were running around, you can
hear the sweat in your shoe.
Speaker 2: That's a sound of training camp. Yeah, one hundred percent,
no socks for me. But like I knew that I
like that question because I knew that I had like
a weird like thing about Elon.
Speaker 3: What'd you answer no socks.
Speaker 6: No, yeah, I can't do. Cannot do. Wet socks is
way too uncomfortable. I feel like you get a blood.
Speaker 5: I feel like you get blisters either way.
Speaker 7: No socks easy, No socks easy, easy, Look, I'll I'll
deal with the smell later. Don't care the wetness all day.
I just don't want to feel it all day.
Speaker 3: Dirty feet is like, yeah, it won't do it.
Speaker 2: Like they would dry though eventually.
Speaker 3: Eventually they would unless you're less take unless you're in
a two day practice.
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Speaker 1: Plucked in on LSU football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to Off the Bench.
Speaker 3: Welcome back an OTV here on this Wednesday morning, talking
to all things LSU baseball. Let's continue that conversation now.
Someone who has been boots on the ground in Omaha
at the College World Series, mister been mins of course,
barstools sports. Everybody knows MENSI welcome on to the show.
Speaker 2: Ben.
Speaker 3: How you doing, brother doing great man?
Speaker 8: Waking up in Omaha, Nebraska? Uh, just always so much fun.
You know the thing about Omaha, it's there's nothing convenient
about getting here with fights and hotels, but when you're
here one of the true great American sporting events, and
uh you know a lot of Tiger fans out here
and excited to get out there today.
Speaker 3: How far is that from Chicago? It can't be too
terribly far, right, No.
Speaker 8: It's about a six hour drive. But we had a
Barstool Classic golf tournament out at shadow Ridge yesterday, and
uh so I got to go out and work that.
And you know the old, the old merging, the working
the golf tournament and making the college role series.
Speaker 3: Could couldn't pass it off. We gotta get so Ta
Bob was on a little bit earlier. We got we like,
we gotta get LSU pass this round, get him to
the final series, so you and t Bob can do
some magic there together in the crowd. Look, I wouldn't
have no problem with that.
Speaker 8: I'm supposed to go back tomorrow. I did a little
Monday a Thursday deal. But man, who knows, it's been
fun and omal uh man, the LSU fans are everywhere
I was. It's been getting real wild in that rocos Man.
I know I'm not telling anybody news. They don't know,
but the scene in there Monday before the Monday night
Lsucla game, Paul skiings Livy were in there, and yeah,
I mean it's just it just nobody out parties the
LSU fan base from South Louisiana. I mean, it's like
they're gonna end up, you know, like having more jealous
shots than the rest of the team's combined.
Speaker 3: So, like, what is the the breakdown of fan bases? Minci,
Like if if you were to say, like the percentage
of fans there at the College World Series of all
the teams, Like, what is the percentage of LSU fans
compared to all the other teams.
Speaker 8: Well, Arkansas has got a ton here, but keeping my
fau five and a half hour drive from Omall, they
got like a you know, and which is actually funny
because it's the first time Fville has ever had a
convenient location ever. Yeah, that's true, because you know that's
always the knock on it. It's like it's a great place,
like how do you get there? But Omaha is the
only thing that's convenient. They got a ton of fans here.
I went last night, But I think l LSU and
Arkansas by far, I mean, I don't know that anybody
else even has a fourth as many fans here. Oregon
State brought a good bit, but they're out now coastal.
Some little uc LA no good for baseball. They were
like two hundred fans here, And yeah, Louisville's not like
friends and family.
Speaker 3: But not necessarily the most family.
Speaker 8: Had a few fans, But Arkansas Shoe is gonna be
like Arkansas actually had sixty percent of the crowd Saturday
night I heard.
Speaker 2: So there's multiple team fans, but I would assume most
people are bought barstool fans. So how's it been for
you walking around Mingland with people? I'm sure you get
recognized a lot that what kind of content have you
been created doing there? And just how's the trip been
for you personally? With all these different fan bases.
Speaker 8: Man, it's so much fun. Look, I caught fire here
in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two when I
was here the whole time of Missippi State and Ole
miss went and so I feel like I've been piggybacking
off that since. But just walking around, I mean, when
LSU's playing, I mean it really gets wild because everybody
from Louisiana definitely knows me out there, but man, walking
around last night, still a ton of support. Always say
the college baseball content. You know, my baseball illustrious baseball
career ended right field. I was fourteen years old, So
I don't know that anybody cares about me talking about
how to who's got a plus slider or any technical
aspects of the game. So I'm kind of there more
to get out and just get wild with the fans
and kind of capture the just what the College Wall
Series really is, because it's the think about the College
World Series. I think the size of it is what
makes great. It's like big, but it's not too big.
And you look at like the final four college football
National Championship, those are so so huge, But college World Series,
you got twenty three thousand people. Everybody's going to the
same bars, restaurants, you see team you know, the players,
the families, the coaches, every you know, it's like we're
all everybody's kind of together on it, and I think
that's like part of what makes it so great.
Speaker 3: All right, So tonight it is going to be a
heavyweight battle between LSU and Arkansas MENCI like any anyway,
you're leaning towards maybe how LSU starts the game. We've
been talking about it all morning. You use Cason Evans
last night, I mean yesterday, I guess early in the morning.
He was electric, and you've used Kate Anderson Anthony ianson
only pitches forty four pitches, but you could keep him
in your back pocket maybe for tomorrow if necessary. So
how do you think LSU is going to play it today?
Speaker 8: Well, first of all, obviously, trust Jay Johnson a hell
of a lot more than whatever I have to say here,
because job he's I mean, he's just unbelievable, how good
a job he's doing. Heaven said that. I think there's
a dangerous thing here to be a little fat and
happy when you're in the winner's bracket, Like you kind
of feel like you're already there because you only have
to beat him once in two games, and you kind
of there's like a mindset thing where it's like, oh,
we can not throw, you know, not throw our top guys.
We could just have to use them Thursday. I mean,
I think you should just bring ionson back and try
to win this thing right now, because Arkansas is really good.
I'm curious y'all is lsu fans. I mean, y'all are
probably more worried about Arkansas. The coastal Carolina's really hot,
don't get me wrong, but you know, just because you're
in the winners bracket, you don't want to let Arkansas
hang around. And when you look at Arkansas right now,
you know, gauge Wood through that no hitter Monday, and
Zach Rupe pitched into seventh or eighth Tuesday, so they
got their whole bullpen. I think you'll be seeing they
gave Gagle, who pitched the five innings and struck out ten.
For you know, he pitched great on Saturday, even in
the loss. So I don't know. I think this is
a spot where I mean, I understand you keep your
guys in your back pocket to try to set up
the national championship, but I would try to win this
dand thing like right now, because baseball is such a
momentum weird sport BARGANSA comes out wins this game all
of a sudden, you're looking up tomorrow one of those
winner take halls where it's like a hold onto your
nuts kind of situation. I mean, I don't know, I
do everything.
Speaker 3: And and Jay has shown in the past mency that
that's exactly what he is going to do. Like even
go back to last year, Engaged Jump came in to
try to close the game out against North Carolina in
a regional Anthony Jinson has come in and he's had
to shut the door in a game. Uh. Like, if
Anthony Iinson like says, hey, I can go like giving
me the ball, like, Jay's not going to be afraid
to try to end it right now. Like, Jay's got
the same mindset that you're talking about there. He doesn't
want to work. That's why Caseen Evans pitch is yesterday.
You don't mess around with throwing a Jade nude or
throwing any anybody else in that situation. That's why you
throw Caseen Evans yesterday. So, I mean, I don't I
don't know the likelihood. But if Anthony Jinsen says give
me the damn ball and he feels good, then Jay's
gonna do it to win today not tomorrow.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I just I'm all for that. Like
I said twenty twenty two, O'll miss Arkansas or in
this exact same spot, and Arkansas won this game to
force a Thursday game that ultimately will miss won two nothing.
So it kind of reminds me of that just because
Arkansas is involved. And look, Arkansas is a really good
baseball team. I know LSU Kata Anderson through an unbelievable
game Saturday night, but you know you went into this.
I'm sure LSU fans thought the same thing. It was
kind of like it's gonna be us for them. You
saw this bracket, and so I just think, like I said,
you gotta be real careful just because you won that
first one to not get a little get a little
fat and happy and lazy. But I think it's gonna
be a heck of a game. I can't wait to
see the atmosphere. I'm so excited that I get to
go tonight. You know, Arkansas is actually a slight favorite here.
I'm seeing Arkansas minus one thirty LSU coming back at
even money, So that kind of, you know, shows you
what's going on.
Speaker 2: So who does Ben Mints think is gonna win tonight?
Who we put I know you, I know you like
to do you like to dabble with the gambles a
little bit. So who were putting our money on tonight?
Who do we think, we think this thing's over tonight,
we play again tomorrow.
Speaker 8: Well, I look, if Jay I got to see what
happens with Anthony Jonson if he pitched. If he's pitching,
I'm taking LSU because I know he didn't. I know
Anthony didn't pitch well in that first inning, but he
was selling down Monday. I just really believe in him.
I know y'all watch LSU baseball. The way he competes
in battles. He impressed me so much all year. If
he's starting, I'm taking LSU. If he doesn't start, I'm
laying off it because I really think that if he pitches,
LSU gets this done tonight. But if he doesn't pitch,
I feel like Arkansas could be forcing the game tomorrow.
Speaker 3: MINTI last one before we let you go. We appreciate
the time. Whoever wins between LSU and Arkansas and gets
to the Championship Series, is that who you're taking to
win the College World Series?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 3: Coastal so that lost two month, dude, they have twenty.
Speaker 8: Five straight wins and Coastal's got three good starters, two
good relievers. They wanted Auburn and that super sweeping them.
I don't know. I think Coastal handles Louisville pretty easily today.
I think Louisville's out of pitching. And then when you
look at this final four, like Coastal, LSU, and Arkansas
are all really good and Louisville, I mean, it's impressive
they made it there, but I don't think they're like
elite or anything like that. So I think Coastal gets
it done, and then they might have an edge in
the title series just because they don't have to play
a Thursday, so you know, they're so hot. I mean,
I feel like if it's Coastal LSU, it's I mean,
LSU probably like fifty five percent to win. Yeah, but
like Coastal is serious, you know, just because they're not
Power five, And I mean, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know they've won a national championship. That doesn't like
mid major doesn't matter anymore for them. They're like Gonzaga
and basketball like that. That's going out the window.
Speaker 8: Yeah, But the atmosphere, I'm all tons LSU fans seeing
a lot of Waisiana people. I'm sure a whole you know,
the way it's designed. If they make the National champions Series,
you're gonna see legions of people.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: I remember last year, two years ago, the stories about
they had like a six or seven am flight out
of New Orleans on Sunday before Game two. In the
New Orleans airport was just raging at four am before
that flight. I feel like a similar thing's coming. But
it's just incredible for Lush, you'd already be back here
two years later. I mean that twenty twenty three team
is one of the greatest teams of all time, with
Paul Skiings and Cruise and all the talent, and you know,
Jay Johnson's just he's just so dialed into this modern world.
The way he crushes the portal. I mean, he's just
absolutely phenomenal. I know y'all have him on the show
a lot, but he I can't. I can't say an
off and you know, I feel, you know, I would say,
oh shoes, you know, I would.
Speaker 3: Say that it's light favorite to win it all right now?
All right, there he is been Min's barstool Sports, good
enough to join us boots on the ground from Omaha. Ben,
We appreciate the time and enjoy the game and the
scenes tonight, Oh, I assure you I will, all right,
we'll take one more break here in our number two.
We still got Ben McDonald's set to join us at
nine thirty to give us his breakdown. He's probably got
a pretty good idea of the mentality that Jay Johnson
is looking for tonight on the mound. I would say
Ben's probably an expert in that category. So looking forward
to that conversation. We'll wrap up our number two when
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