Speaker 1: I'll start to it.
Speaker 2: You got to present some off the bench.
Speaker 3: This is what we have been waiting for. The hype
is over.
Speaker 2: Off the bench. Now here's Jacob Heester. Not Jacob Pastor,
at least not today. Taylor Sharp here with you, filling
in for Jacob Ester. He is out at SEC spring meetings.
He will be there today, Tomorrow, Thursday. So I'm here
the next three days and then Jake will be back
on Friday. Great news, guys. We don't have any internet
in the building. How exciting is that?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: My last I'm actually gonna take the blame on this one, guys.
My last day before vacation, Mina Laundra's computers were resetting
like five times doing the ship I come back. Our
one goes smoothly. What happens at the end of our one?
We lose internet connection. I don't know if we're live
on YouTube. We're not really sure. It's storming outside. I
was telling casting a lone before the shows started, like
the weather here has been ridiculous because I'm in Gulf
Shores for I got there like Wednesday midday, left Monday,
so we'll call it five days. Didn't rain on me
one time? I mean, I think maybe it maybe it
drizzled for like five minutes when we were inside. That
was it. I'm driving home yesterday, I get to Mandeville,
starts pouring like welcome home, welcome back to Louisiana. And
then you know, during break we hear the beautiful, soothing
sounds of thunder right outside the building. So look, we're
gonna roll with the punches again today. Gonna give you
a recap of hour number one. We started LSU Baseball heavy,
We recapt the Tiger's appearance in the Sez tournament. Me
and a lounger kind of broke down the upcoming bet
Rouge Regional as LSU will play host to Dallas Baptist,
Rhode Island and Little Rock that will begin at two
pm on Friday. Reacted a little bit to Joel Klatt's
list of his top ten quarterbacks heading into the twenty
twenty five season, and then coming up this hour, next
segment act, we're going to have Chris Phillips of SEC
unfiltered on the phone. We were going to have him
on video chat, but with no Internet that's not really possible.
Right now, We're going to do OTB mailbag as we're
kind of combining today's show with a normal Monday show,
so we're gonna kind of combine them. I'm gonna get
into a little flag football at eight forty five as
the NFL is okay to NFL players to play in
the Olympic flag football coming up in the next summer Olympics.
We'll have Nick Underhill at nine am. We'll have Devin
Snow at nine thirty. Right now, though we normally do
it every Monday at nine am, we're gonna hit it
right now. Let's do a little weekend winners.
Speaker 1: That's how wit it has done.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: We can't have anyone to freak out out there.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's got a k bark a policer, got too far.
Speaker 3: I'm by winning. I went here and no win there?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: What are you doing what it takes to win a championship?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 3: Winning?
Speaker 2: Well, then I guess there's only one thing left to do.
Help It's that.
Speaker 5: Win home thing.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Who wants to go for it? Allowed to kick us
aw as?
Speaker 6: Okay, weekend winner for me is the Southeastern Conference. We
have the most teams in the NC DOUBLEA baseball tournament
with thirteen, a record thirteen SEC teams being selected to
compete for the It already came back.
Speaker 2: It came back. We have our internet again, thanks Bo.
Speaker 6: So thirteen SEC teams in the NC doublea tournament record,
and also the top four seeds are all SEC teams
as well, with Vandy, Texas, Arkansas and Auburn be your
top four. LSU of course the number six seed and
Georgia is the number seven seed. All miss the tenth seed.
So also a lot of teams in the top ten,
so we can winner for.
Speaker 2: Me the SEC. It's almost like the SEC is a
good baseball conference kind of a little bit, huh.
Speaker 6: The one that uh say is Nipping at your Heels
had nine eight the ACC had nine teams go into
the tournament.
Speaker 2: Cassie, what you got weekend winner?
Speaker 4: Okay, so this wee get.
Speaker 5: I don't even know why, but just like randomly, my
friend Adam wanted to go to a Biloxi Shuckers game,
so we went there and like it started off like
a really bad game. They were like it was like
five to one with in like the fifth inning.
Speaker 4: And then they got back and.
Speaker 5: Rock Wilkin, who's on the team, who's like, I guess
like the best like batter in the in the league
right now. He was on wake Fos his team, like
when LSU played them, I think twenty three and so
he he like won the game with a walk off
like RBI.
Speaker 4: So it was a really good game.
Speaker 2: He shout out to Brock Weekend Winner Brock Wilkins. All Right,
my first weekend winner is going to be Phil Robertson.
You guys know the Duck Dynasty matriarch passed away. Patriarch,
patriarch passed away over the weekend. It's seventy nine years old. Well,
I just want to keep it positive looking back on
you know, the dynasty that he built, whether it's Dug Commander,
Buck Commander, he had the Duck Dynasty TV show. I mean,
all these kids are carrying that on as well, like
we can winner, Phil Robertson, what an incredible life, Like
you always hear the story of him playing football in college,
like neck and neck quarterback competition with Terry Bradjall, who
went on to win four Super Bowls in the NFL.
Like Phil Robertson, a guy that did a little bit
of everything. I also have a weekend loser, My weekend loser,
like it has been a lot of times, none other
than mister Aaron Rodgers. So we did a Q and
A session this weekend. I don't know where the hell
it was, doesn't even matter. And a Saints fan was
in the crowd asking him, Hey, would you ever considered
coming down and playing for the Black and Gold? And
Aaron Rodgers' response is Nope, absolutely not, no offense. I
just don't want to live in Louisiana. Okay. I'm not
saying Louisiana as the best state in the country or anything.
We certainly have our problems. I've never lived in New Orleans.
I personally wouldn't. Cassie grew up in New Orleans. She
turned out okay. But Aaron Rodgers went to college in Berkeley, California,
which doesn't seem super fun. And he played in Green Bay, Wisconsin,
which also doesn't seem like the cream of the crop either.
And Aaron, what are your options? Bud? There are one
hundred days until the start of the NFL season as
of this morning, one hundred days, and you're unsigned, and
the only team that seems to have any sort of
interest in you is the Pittsburgh Steelers. And you clearly
don't want to play football for that team, and then
you're gonna bash a team that maybe could potentially be
into you in the New Orleans Saints. I don't think
Aaron Rodgers has any interest in playing football weekend losing
for me, Aaron Rodgers, I hate to.
Speaker 6: Do this, I really do, because I don't ever like
giving any aggies any.
Speaker 4: Sort of credit as no, no, but.
Speaker 6: I can respect a dog, right, I can respect somebody
that's got some grit to him. And uh, I'm gonna
have to give a week In Winner to Jayce Lobulet
DHD with a broken hand and had I think three
rbi whenever or two or three RBI on the day.
So it was a huge help because you wonder, like
how productive can someone be with a broken hand, And
you could be very productive if you're Jace Lobulet. So unfortunately,
I'm gonna have to give Jayce Lobulet a Week In Winner.
Speaker 2: I don't hate it, I mean not do, but I
get it. It is what it is. We can lose
her to a laundry forgiven. Jake, Now I'm just kidding. No,
Jake Lobulet was justing what an incredible effort that was by.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Can we can we call somebody our favorite aggie that
doesn't feeling no no, because.
Speaker 6: Like, besides that, I'm not like he's done LSU pretty dirty.
So not a fan of Jays Lobby overall, but I
gotta give respect where it's due.
Speaker 2: Also, my favorite aggie's onm Palmer, So that's that's actually,
that's actually a favorite aggie.
Speaker 6: My favorite Agie is Dan Campbell.
Speaker 2: It's a good one. Yeah, that's a good one. That
win played linebacker for the Cowboys forever. He was actullent.
That's my favorite. Uh, that is my favorite Texas A
and A Maggie. Okay, moving on.
Speaker 6: Mis Dennis Allen kidding, it's my.
Speaker 2: Least favorite cass. You got another one embodiment that is
that you know what You're right? He is my favorite
because he is the embodiment of the Texas A and
A Maggie's album. My next weekend winner is actually going
to be the conference finals in the NBA for both
of the Eastern and the Western Conference. Oklahoma City Thunder
up three to one. Right now, that series seems wrapped up,
but Indiana Pesers in the New York Knicks. Neither team
were projected to be here in the conference finals, and
that's a hell of a series. So it began on
Thursday night Friday, and I think it was Thursday night.
It was Pacers Nicks. Right before I'm about to go
to bed, you know, we're at the beach. A turn
on the A turn on the game of the condo.
New York's up like sixteen points with like seven minutes
to go on the Pacers. I'm like, all right, I'm
turning this off. This game is pretty much over. I
wake up in the morning to learn that the Pacers
won that game in overtime. But get this, this is
why the Indiana Pacers are my weekend winner. A team
in the NBA Playoffs trailing by seven points or more
in the final minute of the game has lost seventy
seventeen hundred times and is only won four times. Three
of those four wins are the Indiana Pacers, and all
three of them are in this playoffs. I mean, you
want to talk about a team that's going on an
improbable run. We saw this twice in their previous round
from the Indiana Pacers, and then we saw it in
game one. They actually win both games in New York.
Now New York gets Game one in Indiana. So that's
a two to one lead for the Indiana Pacers. But
just a team of destiny, if you will, a team
that won't quit. The Indiana Pacers look like a tough
out for anyone. So that is my next weekend winner.
I don't have another one, so I'm gonna go weekend loser.
The NCAA Tournament committee. Now I may sound a little
biased because I went to school here. That's fine, but
Southeastern Louisiana did not get into the NCAA Tournament. You know,
they were at the top of the Southland Conference all
year long. A lot of people thought, even if they
didn't win the s the Southland Conference tournament that they
would have been an at large bid. They did not
get in, as did no one in the Southland Conference.
Nobody in that conference got a bid to the NCAAA Tournament.
Although it was a slight misstep. I mean, like, I
get it, they're smaller schools, but you needed some sort
of representation from the Southland. You didn't get it. But
it's a small price to pay really good selection overall.
That's just maybe my one complaint. Nobody from the Southland
really getting a lot of representation.
Speaker 6: R So wait, I changed my mind. I have one
number and I want to do a weekend loser because
it just popped I forgot about and it just popped
up on Twitter. When I saw it, I got to
give a weekend Loser to Pablo Tore Like he is
going way too far on this Jordan Hudson stuff. And
I look, we all know that I like to go
down a rabbit hole too, but what he's doing is
so borderline psychotic that it just it looks bad at
this point, like he wouldn't do so he released a video.
We can play it, okay, I can pull it up
right now. But he released a video where he's basically
found a picture of Jordan on the you know the
fan cans that they do where they take like a
panoramic photo of the entire stadium, the entire stadium, with
every single fan in that photo. He looked through a
bunch of them and found Jordan in like a picture
from like twenty twenty one, which is insane to me
that you have all this time on your hands. And Katie,
I forget her name, Katie something she anyway, she's on it.
She was like God, Pablo, you need to find you
need to find a hobby, and he really does. It's
actually psychotic and Twitter's not working for me right now,
so I can't pull it up, but we can watch
it later in the show. It's just so crazy that
he has that much time on his hands that he
can sort through an entire fan cam just to prove
that Jordan Hudson was at a game in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that.
Speaker 6: He's going way too.
Speaker 2: Far with this, that's care at this point. I won't
even together, Like I.
Speaker 6: Know that we talked about it and like we joked
around or whatever, and but he's taking it way too far.
It's kind of creepy at this point.
Speaker 2: The amount of crowd like the amount of time people have, Like, okay,
when the when the new pope was announced, everybody's like, oh,
he's a white Sox fan. Somebody found him in the stands,
like a white just at a random at bat. He
was in the stands at a World Series. Give him, Like,
how did you even find how did you even know
he was at this game? To look and see if
you can find him in the crowd. Like, the people
have way too much time on their hands.
Speaker 6: Like Pablo's getting a little too weird and disturbing.
Speaker 2: With a little bit too much. One more weekend loser
before we get out of here. I'm glad that someone
in the chat put this in there. The WWE, it
was all scheduled, ready to go. WWE WrestleMania was going
to take place in New Orleans. It no longer will.
On Wednesday, they they pulled the rugouts that they are
actually going to go back to Las Vegas two years
in a row. They didn't think they could make the money.
When Devin Snow comes on at nine thirty, I'm sure
he's gonna have thoughts on this. He's a big WWE fan.
But yeah, last minute, less than a year away from
WWE WrestleMania, and they pulled it out of New Orleans.
I know a lot of people in New Orleans were
excited about. That's a weekend loser. The WWE. All right,
we're going to take a time out. We get back.
Chris Phillips of sec Unfiltered hopping on with us next
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Speaker 2: Welcome back in Tuesday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor
Sharp here with you filling in for Jacob Hester. Right now,
we're gonna go out to the phone lines. Chris Phillips,
the founder of sec Unfilter, joins us right now, Chris,
how are you this morning?
Speaker 1: Taylor real well Man. Excited for the postseason. Obviously best
time of the year with the regionals upcoming and we'll
get the Supers and then it's on to Omaha. So
Oober was a blast. I'm sure we'll talk about it
a little bit, but we'll talk a lot of LSU.
Excited for the past of the Tigers, and again, really
appreciate you having me home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, thanks for the time. I know we had
to kind of adjust a little bit with Jake being out,
but thanks for the time. None the last Chris, you
just mentioned it right there. Look, the conference tournaments are over.
The NCAA tournament field is set, you know, in the
top eight seeds. That's kind of what everybody was watching.
Of course here in bed Rouge we were as well.
And then Vanderbilt Commodore is get that top number one
overall seed. What were your thoughts on that.
Speaker 1: I was a little bit surprised, and I would have
kept Texas in the one spot. Personally, you know, I'm
someone that I don't like the narrative that the conference
tournament is meaningless, because I just feel like, why are
we playing it if it's meaningless. I think it means something.
You see the emotion from those guys in the tournament,
like there's obviously some meaning to it. But I don't
know that the conference tournament should outweigh what we watched
for ten weekends or really an entire season, which is
the fact that you know, even if they scuffled a
little bit down the stretch and stuff for some injuries,
Texas was the best team in the conference throughout the
duration of the season. So I would have kept Texas
in that number one overall seed spot. You know, that's
not taking anything away from Vandy and sin They didn't
deserve it because again that they had a great season,
they finished strong, and they did indeed win the conference tournament.
So I think the number one overall national seed guys,
is more of kind of an ego thing, just to
kind of flex and say we're the number one overall
national seed. I don't know how much they really gain
versus you know, in the what Bandy's path is versus
what Texas path is. But you know, I was I
wasn't shocked the committee them at one. I just think
I would have kept Vandy at two in Texas at one.
Speaker 2: Now you're talking about the committee putting them in one, Like,
was it entirely just Hey, they won the conference tournament,
let's reward them for doing it, or like what else
went into that top overall seed?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, you know, I think obviously if we
didn't have a conference tournament, we would have went off
just the regular season. Texas would have been the one seed.
So I mean, I you know, Vandy certainly would with
a top eight national seed and maybe in the top
five national seed. But now, I mean, I think the
conference tournament played a large part, which again is what's
so funny to me. Taylor's everybody tries to tell me
that the conference tournament means nothing, and I think these
I think a lot of fan bases try to taunt
themselves into that so they don't get let down if
things don't go the way they plan in a tournament
like that. But I mean, it obviously doesn't matter, right,
I Mean, Tennessee played themselves off of having to be
a two seed somewhere to hosting a regional ole. Miss
played themselves off the same thing. They were the ten
overall national seed. I mean, it obviously means something, so
I don't know. Again, I think that narrative that the
conference tournament is meaningless. I guess it just depends on
who you are. But I think it means a pretty
great deal. So yeah, I definitely think them winning the
tournament was the difference. I think had it not been
to that, we'd be talking about the Longhorns, says the
number one overall national seed, Chris.
Speaker 2: Want to shift a little bit more locally here to
the LSU Tigers. Everyone here in ben Ruge was all
we were hoping was that the Tigers would get one
of those top eight seeds. You do LSU in that
sixth spot in that regional coming up this weekend, you're
gonna have Dallas, Baptist, Rhode Island, and Little Rock. What
are your thoughts on the draw that the Tigers got?
Speaker 1: So I say, Taylor when I'm about to stay it
with all love, because anybody who has followed us for
a duration of time and knows me it all knows
that I love LSU, I love the fan base, I
love the state of Louisiana. But I commend Jay Johnson
or and I was not familiar with his game from
the standpoint of having the committee's favor because LSU's draw
is I mean, it's it's about its favorable a regional
If you could have asked for it, it was a
I'll put it to you this way. It's a regional field.
Dare I say hand picked by Jay Johnson himself. I mean,
Dallas Baptist is a good program. I'm not saying anything away.
LSU has seen them really talented mid major Rhode Island
and Little Rock are the other two teams. I mean,
I just and I felt good about LSU either way. Obviously,
playing postings in baseball at alex Box Stadium, that's I mean,
I was there obviously with the Tennessee Series, and I
mean anybody who knows anything about college baseball knows that's
one of, if not the most difficult places to play
and go in and win. So if you're telling me
that LSU get posts in baseball at alex Box, I'm
gonna feel pretty confident about it. You know, I have
heard respect the opponent, you know hers, Little Rock's got
a guy that is, you know, pitching high nineties, maybe
touching one hundred. That's a guy that maybe they're a
little bit I say concerned about. I mean, all those
four seeds have a dude, that's how they got here,
so and that's what LSU will get in Game one.
But I mean, Taylor, I just I gotta be honest,
and baseball is the funny game and anything could happen.
Upset certainly happened in this game. But god, I don't
know how you're not giddy if you're a fan of
the LSU Tigers with the draw you've gotten, even with
the super Regional round, you're gonna be at home. Clemson's
a talented team, no doubt, but they're certainly tougher regionals
to get peered up with. There are tougher regils they
could have gotten paired up with. I know, maybe some
folks weren't thrilled they got the sixth seed instead of
the five overall national seed I'm talking about. I think
it worked out pretty well. So, you know, I say
what I said about Jay obviously and in jes a
little bit of humor, But yeah, I don't think he's
complaining about the draw they got, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we were kind of talking about a
Tobe the show because you know, all the projections came
out about, hey, here's here's what the LSU regional could
look like. One of them was this outcome with Dallas
Baptists and the lower level teams, and the other had
like Arizona Kansas State in and I'm looking, I'm like,
I don't want that one. I would much prefer the
Dallas Baptist one. And then of course they did it.
But Chris, going beyond that, I actually, you know, I
think for the most part, you got a pretty favorable
super regional potentially if you get past this regional. The
regional you're matched up with is that Clemson Regional. It's Clemson,
West Virginia, Kentucky and South Carolina Upstate. I mean, what
are you what are your thoughts on that super regional matchup,
because a lot of people were like, hey, could you
avoid an SEC team potentially in that super regional matchup?
And the Tigers do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, I think it's favorable. I think
it works out really well. And getting number one, the
fact you're the play at alex Box's significant. Clemson's a
solid team for sure. They were actually a team for me.
Funny enough that in the preseason I had Clemson in Omaha.
They're one of my Omaha eight. LSU was as well,
so that obviously one of those is going to be incorrect.
You know, I think it's probably either gonna be Clemson
or West Virginia that comes out of that reason. I
don't it's not going to be so kind of upstated
in my opinion. I don't think it's gonna be our
brethren from the SEC Kentucky. You know, Kentucky's had a
way though surprising us all season. So if Nick McKay
and Ben Kleaver and they get some really great outings
from those guys, I mean, you never know, right That's
the beauty of this tournament, as you just truly never know.
I don't think Kentucky, though, I'd be really really surprised
if they won that regional the either way. I mean again,
I like the matchup, and it more just comes back
to it's it comes back to LSU. They're one of
the best teams in the country, and they're one of
the best teams in the country on their home field.
And again, man, you know, not to not to spoil
my predictions or anything, because we'll be dropping throughout the postseason.
But you give me LSU at alex Box in a
postseason environment, it's gonna take a really special group to
come in there and beat them for me to pick
against them. So yeah, I mean again, you like the matchup.
You could have been getting Tennessee coming to your place.
You could have getting the old myths coming to your place.
You could have been getting I mean, just name off,
you know some of the other seeds. I think you
got a pretty favorable draw. So here's the one thing
you don't want to do, Taylor. You don't want to
make it sound like it's easy, like they can roll
the baseballs out there and they're just gonna go to Omaha.
But again, when you're speaking in regards to favorability of
matchups compared to what could have been, again, I think
you gotta be excited for you unless you know you
got to go out there and handle your business, to
take care of everything.
Speaker 2: Chris want to shift Fugus too, an SEC team that
halfway through the year a lot of people didn't know
was going to be in postseason play. I want to
go out to the Tallahassee Regional. Obviously those it by
Florida State, but Mississippi State out there as that two seed.
They've played much better since getting rid of Chris Lamonas.
What are your thoughts on Misissippi State in this tournament?
Speaker 1: Yeah, first off, like you mentioned, I mean, the fact
that the state is in the tournament is really impressive.
I mean, I think the job and Justin Parker is
the guy that I've you know, bounced around the SEC,
one of the best pitching coaches I think in college baseball,
and a guy that I really, I really hope they
keep around. I don't know if the next head coach
will do so, but I think it would be very
wise of them to keep him in startful, you know,
you look at Tallahassee. Obviously, Mississippi State opens up in Northeastern,
which I think is a really interesting matchup from the standpoint.
Not an SEC opponent, but they are an opponent that
went forty eight to nine this season and they won
twenty seven straight games, So I don't know how much
more hot you could be. Obviously, they've obviously got some
ball players, but again not at the SEC level. I mean,
my question is this has Northeastern seena pe co conn.
I don't know that they have. I would venture to
say that, I highly doubt it. So the beautiful thing
for State, it's a team that's got nothing to lose.
I mean, it's not like you're trying to save some
coaches job. That coach is gone. So you know, I
think Florida State their home field, is going to be
a really, really tough out. But I do think Mississippi State,
with the combination of arms they have, you know, they've
got some guys that heat it up obviously down the stretch.
I don't factor in the SEC tournament my predictions for
this or thoughts on this if you will, but I
think it's ASSISIPI State team. It's really dangerous. I think
it's going to be tough to knock off Florida State
at their place. Honestly, I don't know that I'm going
to be taking State to complete it and pull the upset.
But you know, it starts to beating Northeastern on Friday.
You get a good outing from Peak Cocon, I think
you should be able to do it. And then I
think it's probably gonna set up a Florida State Mississippi
State matchup on Saturday, and I think that'll probably be
for the regional because again the difference we all know
in getting up to over is going one to One
of those reasons is just it's huge. So but doing
it in Tallahassee on their home field I think will
be difficult. But yeah, certainly Status is one of those
teams man that, especially in the regional round, really really dangerous. Again,
They've got a good starting rotation, they got a deep
pen lineups a little bit hit or miss. Sounds like
a lot of SEC teams, right, But certainly I think
it makes some noise down there in Tallly.
Speaker 2: Chris Phillips joining us right now with SEC unfielder Chris,
Is there a team maybe you thought got a little
overseeded or on the flip side, like got underseated? Like,
is there is there any of that you saw?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I was a little bit surprised Auburn was at
the four. I thought that that was I thought that
was a little bit high for them. You know that
the only top eight national seed we should note is
finance for less than forty regular season wins. And I
say that, you know, Auburn absolutely was deserving of a
top eight national seed. I don't want to hear that
the top four was surprising, right, And I think the
committee factor in their string to schedule. They've they played
one of, if not beat his schedules. In college baseball
this season had some really impressive, you know series wins,
including obviously not to bring up old you know, old scars,
but that sweep over LSU at Auburn. I mean they
were impressive. I mean Auburn was a very very good club.
I thought of the four again that thought that was
a little bit high, and I thought Auburn. I think
Alburt gets a pretty decent draw too. As far as underseated.
I mean, like I said, I think you could flip
bot Texas and Bandy, but that's sort of nitpicking. I
think everybody else kind of ended up exactly where I
thought they were. I mean the other one that I'll mention,
and I know you didn't quite ask the question this way,
but I love Florida's draw too.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: They go to Conway. Obviously SoCal Carolina and all due
respect to Coastal, all due respect to the rest of
the field. But I think anytime you're an SEC team,
and I could say the same for Alabama too, anytime
you're an SEC team and you're going on the road
to a regional where a mid major is hosting. Listen,
it's not gonna be easy, but they're a harder paths.
But you you'd much rather have that path, I think
than what some of these others, you know, Kentucky going
to Clemson, Oklahoma going to UNC. Like I think Florida
saw their drawl basing off East Carolina in game one
and then Coastal Carolina and Fairfield. Of the other two teams,
you're saying to yourself, all right, we got this, you
know what I mean. So and again, baseball's funny. I'm
not saying it's a guarantee Ford is gonna win, but
love their path too. That regional actually matches up against
the Auburn regionals. So I think either Auburn or Florida,
I think one of those duds up going to Omaha.
Right now, I'd probably lead the Gators. But yeah, I mean,
I think for the most part, there wasn't a ton
of drama in this year's selection. I mean, yeah, we
had our you know, you had a few that obviously.
I think Virginia had a gripe, Troy had a gripe,
Yukon had a gripe to get in. But you know,
for the most part, I thought the commit he actually
did a pretty good job.
Speaker 2: Chris, one more quick one here for you before we
get you out of here, and thanks for your time.
Right now, your favorite to win the College World Series?
Who you got?
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a trick question, Taylor. You
come on, you come on, a baton rouge ESPN affiliate.
You're gonna ask me who to win? Who wins a
College World Series? I mean, it's so tough. I mean,
I think LSU is certainly one of my favorites. You
know what's interesting, Arkansas is the betting favorite right now,
which I just cannot in good conscience say they're the favorite.
They've gotten the team to get there, they should get there.
But Taylor, it's Arkansas in the postseason. I mean, anybody
who's watched college baseball recently knows why that would be
a terrifying pick. So, you know, I mean, I'll go
to LSU. I mean, hey, here's the thing. I am
a lot more confident than a lot of my my
LSU friends and colleagues, if you will, about them getting
to Omaha, because of my mind, it's just like LSU's
playing posts in baseball. Alex box. Therefore it's like two
plus two equals four and that four is Omaha. You
know what I mean. You know, anything could happen in
this game, But like I said, I will be I'll
be shocked if you and I and everybody else wear
in purple and gold are taking jello shots at Rocos
in a few weeks, don't really surprise me. And you know,
once you get there, good luck being Kate Anderson, Anthony
Ayinston and the rest of that crew. And it'll be
all about the line up that That's what it is
for LSU. And I think maybe one of the best
things though, is they're gonna hear about it all week long.
That's the big question going in. I think certainly coming
back home and hitting an alex box is gonna help it.
And then the challenge will be once you get to Omaha,
it's a big ballpark. Yet again, are you able to
produce runs and help out your pitchers because certainly, again
you've got arms on arms if they do that, you know,
I think this team's good enough to win a national championship.
But yeah, I mean it's it's heck gets hard enough
to pick the Omaha. I ate much less than national
champion even at this point. But again, I think the
Tigers have got to go shot as anybody.
Speaker 2: Well, Chris, I'm sure everybody down here in the Purple
and Gold hopes that you are right. Chris, Thanks so
much for hopping on with us today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Taylor, appreciate the time. Man. Always a pleasure to
do it again soon.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it was Chris Philip Treight there with sec unfiltered.
All right, we're going to take a quick time out
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Tyler Sharp and the host share for Jacob Pastor. He
will be back on Friday, and then Matt Flynn the
Era officially getting kicked off next Monday, so that'll be
exciting to as well. Londra Villary al Cassie's bizzally with
me as well. And I'm be doing this for the
next three days today, Tomorrow and Thursday. Right now. We
do it every Tuesday kind of around this time, usually
at eight fifteen. But let's get into it with some
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Speaker 3: I'll be writing to you the internet.
Speaker 2: What the is the internet? All right? Most of these
are making fun of me, so that's that's always fun, right,
We always love that. Hashtag mailbag. Al was Taylor's trip
to Columbus, Ohio. Never been at Columbus Ohio. I'd go
for a football game. I went to Golf Shores and
it was great. I was telling, uh, gonna mentioned it
in that first segment, if I have to eat shrimp
for the next two weeks, like I'm I'm gonna throw up.
I'm good. I'm good on that for minimum two weeks,
which is weird because, like, seafood is my favorite type
of food, shrimp especially, but I think I had that
almost every meal when we were out there at Golf Shores.
Hashtag go TB mail bag. How many guns of the
Taylor leave on his trip? No, that's actually only happened
one time. That was it was actually the last trip
I took. So interesting you would ask, No, none got
none got left on this trip. None got brought on
this trip. So that's it didn't be hard to uh
be hard to leave one right there? Hashtago TB mail bag.
When can we expect the Alandra deep dive on the
Macron title fight Macron Macrone.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it would be a very long either the entire
show or it would have to be like multiple days
of like a segment a day, Like the Macrone rabbit.
Speaker 3: Hole goes very very deep.
Speaker 2: He's the fight.
Speaker 6: No, so they're talking about the French president and his
wife like. So over the weekend a video came out
where basically like Brigitte slapped Emmanuel McCrone in the face
and it was on video, but it wasn't supposed to
be on video and that came out. But it goes
much much deeper than that the Macrones do. So I
don't know if it's something that like i'd even be
allowed to bring on the air.
Speaker 2: So I didn't even know who this was. Yeah, like
I'm learning this for the first time. This sounds awesome.
This sounds a lot like Righteous Gymstone so that I
was watching last night. A family that kind of gets
into a little bit more than what they should shoot, man,
and I'd be into that. I'm always in for a
I'd love a deep dive when I'm the one that
doesn't have to do the deep dive. Yeah, I like
like like.
Speaker 6: Being done the deep dive.
Speaker 2: It's like being in a group project where you don't
actually have to do any of the work. It's it's fun.
It's like the payoff is still there all the work
leading up to it. We should we we should do that.
Speaker 6: Oh, I did this deep dive a long time ago,
and like it's now starting to all come out. After
she slapped him, I'm saying, like, quote unquote, she slapped
him in the face. But uh yeah, boys would be boys.
I guess.
Speaker 2: Has to go to be mailbag. Favorite gas station food
to grab fried chicken, beef, jerky, takers, et cetera. You
can't go with none of the above. Like, if I'm
at a gas station and I'm grabbing something quick, it's
gonna be junk food, It's gonna be a snack. Like sure, chicken,
beef jerky, all that's fine. But like, give me some candy.
I'm good with any candy. Normally I do the King
size Snickers bar to doctor Beppert, that's kind of my
go to gas station Guys, what do we like gas
station food?
Speaker 6: I love a gas station egg roll or like the
corn nugget.
Speaker 2: Okay, a good one can be elite.
Speaker 6: There's a uh it's called this the Suma stop off
the Suma exit.
Speaker 4: They got the best.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, okay, so the exit. Yeah okay.
Speaker 6: So I assume out so much shop or something like that.
Speaker 2: So I'm assuming you went there for Rock the Country.
Speaker 6: Every day we stopped at that gas station where we
get junk.
Speaker 2: Food world's best breakfast biscuits right there. Yeah, we didn't
try the Yeah, like their their their breakfast biscuit. It's
like sometimes like I'll wake up on a Saturday morning
if I'm not doing anything, like I'll drive, I'll drive
there instead of somewhere in town and get it from
me in Victoria. That is that is an a plus
at answer Cassie favorite gas station food. What we got we.
Speaker 5: Usually get like a bag of chips, and like if
I get candy, it's like Swizzers or.
Speaker 2: Like a git cat Twizzlers.
Speaker 4: I like Twizzlers.
Speaker 2: I don't that's crazy to eat them, but like I
feel like they don't have flavor. I feel like they
don't have flavor. Like what does a twizzler taste like Twizzlers?
And they're always like, oh cherry flavor and don't taste
like cherry.
Speaker 4: It's usually like cherry or Strawberry.
Speaker 2: At shtag mailbag O TB. Chicken. Who's getting on whose shoulders?
I would like to see Jacob Flynn go out, so
they're gonna actually get on our shoulders?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I could. I'm trying to think like
because Matt is taller but is less probably.
Speaker 2: So it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 6: Because Jake got some mass, like good mass, but he's
got some mass on him.
Speaker 2: Okay, so okay, well then you'll have to take Flynn
that way. They're even hype because I'm taller than you.
So I'll take Jake. You take Flynn that way. They're
they're more even at the top. Look at us, we're
at solving problems and getting out physical altercations here in
the air. That's that's what it's all about. Okay, ask
the bench rank in real life Spider Man one through three.
So I'm assuming this is the Toby maguire Spider Man,
Spider Man one, two and three spider Man. I acknowledged, Well,
I'm trying to think if he means movie or actor.
Speaker 6: I think he means like the Spider Man movies, like
the first three.
Speaker 2: Let's see, I'm gonna take you. I like three, I
really do, because that's got Sandman. It's guy James franco
Is whatever. His bad guy is the green Goblin.
Speaker 4: That's the second one, isn't.
Speaker 2: No, The second one's dot Oc.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The third one's got Sandman franco Is. Yeah, he's like
kind of green Goblin. But yeah. And then there's a
third one too. I don't remember. There's three bad guys
in that one. I like that one. I'll probably go
three one two, three one too. I'm gonna go one
three too.
Speaker 3: I love the first one for some reason.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's the nostalgia. It's will Is green Goblin.
It's it's it's a thing. Yeah, it's a thing for
her with all right, that's gonna do it for O
TB mail Bag. We're gonna take a time out and
we get back. The NFL has allowed NFL stars to
play on the US a flag football team that's coming
up in the Olympics. Uh, we're gonna create each of
us our flag football team that's coming up on the
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Speaker 2: Welcome back in final segment Hour number two, a Tuesday
edition of Off the Bench, Taylor Sharp here with you
in for mister Jacobstor. We got elandra Villarrial and Cassie's
bizzally here as well and on the at the spring
league meetings, and on Tuesday back in Minneapolis, it was
unanimously approved NFL owners a proposal for NFL players to
participate in flag football at the twenty twenty eight Olympics
in Los Angeles. So what I want to do right
now is all of us create their own flag football team,
and Cassie, I think, actually want you to go first here.
So it's it's five players, It's what it'll be. Typically,
what they're doing is a quarterback, a center to snap
it but can also run out for passes. Two receivers
are running back. Really just four pass catchers if you will,
with a QB. Okay, you gotta see. You told me
you and Adam were crunching the numbers last night. Okay,
I need to see what we got.
Speaker 4: All right, So I've got Lamar Jackson is my quarterback.
Speaker 2: Popular choice, Yeah, because the qbs can take off and
run in flight football like that's that's the thing. You
have to wait like six seconds, but you can take off.
Speaker 5: Justin Jefferson Travis Hunter. I feel like he'd be good
on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, yeah, no, I love.
Speaker 3: This so much.
Speaker 4: Barkley, and I think I have to go tyro in Matthew, like,
I know, he's kind of that's actually good.
Speaker 2: That's actually a really good point, Adam, like the Travis
Hunter one, didn't he Yeah, that's got him reading all
over it. I love the team because you've got a
mix of of offense and defense. Now, I'm sure on
the Olympics, so like on the real Olympic team, you'll
be able to have ten players, so it'll be like
five offense, five defense, but like for this activity, yeah,
five players. I love it, Laundra, what we got?
Speaker 6: Okay, so I put zero thought behind all of this.
From my quarterback, I'm gonna have Joe Burrow because of course.
Speaker 2: Wait, I am shocked by this.
Speaker 6: And then I got Jamar Chase.
Speaker 2: Another surprise, I got.
Speaker 6: Moleak Neighbors and zach Ertz okay, and then Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 2: Popular pick a lounda pick of Joe Burrow. Didn't see
that coming, Like Joe Burrow, I hate it? What are
we doing here? Hey, he'll be in town.
Speaker 6: I need everybody in on this, like I need everyone
to buy in, like listeners us in this room, Jake.
I need to get Matt on the train too, Like
we all need to manifest that I meet Joe Burrow,
is it pop? And that at Top Golf and that
like it's love at first sight. I get everybody in.
We all need to believe.
Speaker 2: Do we need like a machine to blow your hair?
Because it's first sight? Like you got to have everything
and what if it's not whin Do you have to
think you got to stand in the right spot. Yeah,
we'll have to go the day before like they do,
like a rehearsal for a wedding. We got a dress
rehearsal for Top Golf. We gotta make this happen. Yes,
love that Actually two really good teams. Okay for my team.
I criticized this guy a lot, but when it comes
to flag football, I'm going Kyler Murray is my quarterback.
Kyler's a you know, he's a runner. He's small. It's
gonna be hard to get that flag. If he's able
to take off and run at one receiver. I'm going
justin Jefferson. I need a route runner. I need a technician,
somebody that's gonna cross up the DB's. There's nobody in
the league in my opinion, running routes better than Justin Jefferson.
On the other side of things, I thought about Jamar Chase,
but alanj already took Jamar Chase. I kind of want
us to mix things up. I'm going Ceedee Lamb. Want
i gotta get a little bit of Cowboys flare in
there to Ceedee Lamb the fifty to fifty ball king,
he's gonna go up there. He's gonna be the aggressive receiver.
And then on the other side, you got Jeffefferson, the
route technician for my running back, fully healthy, Christian McCaffrey
to where I'm going. The guy's incredible out of the
backfield to catch in the ball. He's strong, he's fast,
he's quick. Christian McCaffrey's gonna be my running back and
at my center because you gotta have a center to
snap it. But they can also run out four passes
catch that ball as well. I'm gonna go George Kittle.
George Kittle's smart guy. He's one of the best tight
ends in the NFL, and he's a good enough route
runner to where he can wait that half second to
snap it before he gets out of the backfield. Runs
of the route, So a little bit of a recap. Cassie,
you went Lamar, Saquon, Travis Hunter, Justin Jefferson, Tyron Matthew. Yes,
Alandra went, Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, my league neighbors, zach Ert,
Saquon Barkley. Yeah, helly all, I remembered all that. I went,
Kyler Murray, Justin Jefferson, Ceedee Lamb, George Kittle, Christian McCaffrey.
I think those are all pretty good teams. The reality is,
it doesn't even matter which team gets picked because some
poor five to eight white guy from like the UK
is gonna line up trying to cover Joshon Jefferson or
Jamar Chase. Yeah, guys, that ain't happen. Okay, that's not happening.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: There is apparently going to be rules maybe where it's
like one player per NFL team, So the whole Jamar
Burrough thing may not happen. Like they're they're well, they're
they're kind of it's still in the process, like they
have to get with the NFL Players Association and all that.
But uh, people have had a lot of fun with this.
I'm glad we got to do that as well. Doesn't
matter us taking them the goal twenty twenty eight Olympics
flag football. We're going to make it happen, all right.
Coming up in hour number three, we got Nick Underhill,
we got Devin Snow and Lsu retiring to Jersey's gonna
be hanging from Tiger Stadium. We'll get into all that
that's coming up here an hour number three of Off
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