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Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine studio.
Speaker 3: It's off the Bench, all right, Welcome back in number
three of o TV. Here live from the Raising Kines Studio.
We've got chef Michael Johnson in fifteen minutes, We've got
coach Jay Johnson in thirty minutes. Looking forward to this
conversations as we have them every single Thursday here on OTV.
I get nervous when you chicken peck. When I hear
your keyboard, I get.
Speaker 4: A little I'm talking to the good folks in the
chat about this balley I have on a card.
Speaker 3: Well what card is it? It's a do you mind sharing?
You know? It's almost like we're you know, played in
a couple of different states, a couple different areas in Louisiana.
That's true.
Speaker 4: I'm looking for a twenty twelve Panini prism, first year prism,
green prism parallel of myself?
Speaker 3: Is it numbered? I just green acting? I don't think
it is. I think it was like, yeah, twelve first year.
I didn't have ed cards in eight, nine, ten, eleven,
and I didn't have them in twelve. Miss Prism.
Speaker 4: I'm not like super like honed in and educated like
on all like the different releases on the parallels. But
there was the first year, so there's limited parallels. But
you boy, there's rainbow hunting right now. I need the Green.
It's the only one you need, right Yep? I got
some how many of that? I got the ones that
are harder to find? How many of those are out there?
I mean it's not like super Short, I don't think,
because there's a green of other players like out there
for sale and they're not that pricey.
Speaker 3: So that's what I need. Green Parallel Matt Flyman, twenty twelve. Green, Nope,
what's your prism? Prism?
Speaker 4: So Panini losing the license after this year, so the
original year Prism is going very sought after.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because that's all going to Tops, right everything, Yeah,
the license Tops is Panina gonna have anything? I mean
other sports, That's what I'm saying, Like what a sports football?
Speaker 4: Like everybody is pretty much declaring the football part put
a tombstone on it.
Speaker 3: They're like, oh, this is the last year of.
Speaker 4: Prison, this is the last year of National Treasures, this
is last year of blah blah blah. That will still
probably have them, just not with a license, so they're
not going to be.
Speaker 3: So they'll just have like a red helmet on instead
of a red helmet with a logo. Yeah, which is
just not good. Only just give both companies the license.
That's how licensing works. Well, I could your point. I mean,
you know you're you're right not seeing it, bud.
Speaker 4: No, it's not there. You can find it on a
card ladder, like a sold one. I've reached out to
the people that sold it, got crickets.
Speaker 3: There is like one like a singular, and I like,
duh because it's one of one. But like you know,
like Cooper Flag's got thirty one of one's just different cards.
There's one one of one of me on eBay and
I just continue to message the guy like hey, Like
at first I started like I didn't really like this card.
What would you be willing to do on it? Because
he's got a way over price for who it is. Yeah,
Like what do you know? There is nobody in the world, literally,
not one person in the world, not one, not even
my mother. What's been that amount of money on this card?
So I'm like, hey, like, realistically, what can like, what
do you want to do here? I was like, what's
your PC. I'll trade you some cards and give you
some money. Nothing. Check your messages, Bud, it's been six
months since you five messages. Nobody the cards still there.
He's a big fan. He doesn't want to sell. No,
he's not like in Wisconsin or something. Yeah, he doesn't care.
Check your messages, Bud. Yeah, just say hey, no thanks, Yeah,
I'm good.
Speaker 4: Problem is, it's like they've probably been sitting on these
for a long time. They probably paid like three bucks
for them ten years ago. So they're like they don't
have anything invested in it. So it's not like they're
trying to get it flipped. They're just waiting on, actually
you to come to your senses. Maybe have to make
cole pops. One night, I'm pull the trigger.
Speaker 3: It's it's a principal deal at this point, not doing it.
I got a lot of numbered and I've saved them
for our you know, for the boys and for Harlof
they ever want them, probably probably not. I got them,
got a lot of the fifties a lot of the fives,
a lot of the tens. Yep, there's one one of
one out there. This guy will not message me back. Yep.
Speaker 4: When I first got into it, I was like, oh, yeah,
I'm buying like everything and numbered I can find.
Speaker 3: Yeah, buy it. You told me that, and I did
it too.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 4: At the point, at some point I was like, all right,
I got a lot now I just want I'm gonna
hone in on two sets. It tried to complete the rainbow,
which is getting every parallel of that one set. One
of them is twenty twelve prison yep, because this original year.
And one of them's two thousand and eight tops chrome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, rookie, that's that's one of the sweetest cards. They're great,
eight tops chrome, impeccable. Yeah, they're fantastic. I've got a
bunch of the black ones of that. Yeah. Yeah. They're
a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: And you gave me a greater one. I gave you
a red to red to twenty five, yeah, graded. So
it was a little gift for you. It's your birthday
because nine though, jump. So let us know if you're
going out to the card show this.
Speaker 3: Week, if you find those any one of those parallels
if you see another one of one, or if you
see the green parallel there. I've reached out to.
Speaker 4: Card shops, like in California on the East coast, say hey,
like people that have sold these cards in the past,
I hate like, can you get that information if you
bought it I those six years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we need to find out how many are actually
out there.
Speaker 4: Though it's not like I know you can look up
green Parallel from twenty twelve and like that tons of
them pop ulpar like from other players, just not to me.
Speaker 3: Have you put it out there on the socials? No,
I don't know. If I got a lot of card
folks that follow me, you don't know.
Speaker 5: I guess I've been assuming you'd be Packers twenty twelve.
Actually that's a I couldn't remember what year was that?
Speaker 3: Your first year in Seattle? Yeah? Only year?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, and like that part is not valuable to me.
It's just the fact that the the brand it was
the first year of like this like one of the
top brands in sports card collecting a football at least
since what people say kind of changed the game a
little bit. In any prison, anyway, I'm sure people are
really tired of hearing it's talk about sports.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I think, I mean, you're not the
only people to do it. I mean we're not the
only Our guy, uh, Cole Cubleck Uh, who's sec Network
Jock Morning Show number one, We're coming for you. He
breaks like legit every day he sends them to me. He'say, hey,
you will Purdue for fifty five dollars. I know he
said there and breaks like come on, guys, come on chat.
I mean he is a breaker. So we're not alone
in this. We're not. Actually have people around town like that.
Speaker 4: I see they're like, dude, like my whole feed is
filled with card like everybody is the last.
Speaker 3: Like twelve to twenty four months has been a wild
ride for the card Oh yeah, our friend overt pro Dreams,
Trey Ye half their shop now they got cards in there.
Had somebody come in, like a legit, legit source come
in and now they got cards. So if you're not
in the card game, you're the weirdo, not us. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying. Herds not in cards doork's.
Speaker 6: But seriously, if you could have a a one of
one of a current player the National Football League current player.
Speaker 3: Well, you're a rookie one one. Uh no, let's go
veteran one of one for sentimental value. Sentimental value, you
know what I'm saying, Like you're like, this isn't worth
as much as some others. I'm going Kyle used check
no doubt. Guy literally by himself kept fullbacks alive long
enough for it to become a deal again. And now
it's a deal again. Okay.
Speaker 4: Sentimental I don't know y'all have I don't know if
I have. I think the current sentimental one. I don't
think I have one.
Speaker 7: No, I don't know about sentimental. But like I'm thinking,
but if I'm thinking of like what's going to have
like a high value later, maybe this is dumb, But
like Miles Garrett, it's not dumb.
Speaker 3: Now, say, in the card game, quarterbacks are king. Offensive
players are king the most part. So it's like quarterbacks.
Speaker 7: And then I'm thinking the sack record thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah he's bad, I guess good rookie rookie rookie card
for current. Oh current, I know it seems like he's
always current. That's why I said current, because like you
could give like, oh, give me a Mickey Mantle that'd
be cool, be fun.
Speaker 5: It's got to be worth something, right, Hunter Renfro, Renfro,
you think so Tyler shuck Renfro will be current when.
Speaker 3: The same is big.
Speaker 4: I am a proud owner of a lot of Rattler
cards and now shut cards as well. Got on the
Rattler game when demoted. Yeah, oh yeah, you jumped on
like you you bought low.
Speaker 3: I bought low.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, it makes sense if I had to pick
like one card, like I have one, but I'm not
into the card thing. But if I had to pick
one that I would value and probably never sell for
my entire life, is like a Nolan Ryan Carr, Yeah
I would.
Speaker 4: I don't think I'd ever get rid of any of
any of the nineties like Dallas teams, I really like.
I am looking. I can't decide. I'm trying to get
a again, were cards of the three so in my
career as a starter in the NFL, I think I
was three and three or something like that. I'm trying
to decide. I want to get good cards of the
three quarterbacks I beat and.
Speaker 3: Because I got ultimate respect for all of them. Yeah,
but like you got three.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to decide if I'm going to get a
card from the year that we beat them, or like try.
Speaker 3: To find like a rookie card of theirs or something.
Speaker 7: The year would be cool.
Speaker 4: So that'd be let's say Stafford, Matt Ryan, Tony Romo.
That'd be a fun, fun one to have. Do you
have any three? You have a Stafford? I got a Stafford,
but not I. I got a Stafford from the Rams.
Oh not the Lions.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was looking for Stafford rookie stuff about like in November,
because I knew he was gonna win the MVP. But
I just didn't pull a trigger. I was like, Oh,
people selling they're kind of on the same page as me,
so I don't know if I'm actually getting a good deal.
Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, it's us nerding out about cars, but
a lot of people do. Now it's in vogue. No
big deal. And there is a card show in Gonzalez
this weekend. I'm gonna be there Saturday three to five.
It is free, free autographs. Me and k Faulk. Then
Clyde Edwards, Laiir and Harlan Barr are gonna be there
as well. Not a big deal. Flinn's gonna come he'll
be there. I don't care what he says. Sorry, Huck,
I can't make your game today. Son, got a card
show to go to, Jeff Michael Johnson. Your munchy questions
when we come back here on O TV? Off the bench?
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Speaker 3: All right, Welcome back in OTV nine point fifteen on
Thursday morning. Let's go ahead and get to some monkey questions.
A chef might go.
Speaker 1: Get ready to tantalize your taste buds and leave this
segment hungry. This is Monkey's with executive chef Michael Johnson, Jeff?
Speaker 3: What's going on? Brother? How we doing? How we living?
Speaker 9: Madam? Great? How are you all?
Speaker 3: Blessing Holly's favored? Appreciate you asking? All right? Got a
little mounchy question coming in. I have some leftover rotisserie chicken.
Should I use it to make chicken salad? Or you
got something else for me?
Speaker 9: I don't know, you know, like leftover leftover rotistrie chicken.
I like to flother a lot of mayonnaise and on
some bread and then eat it, make a sandwich out
of it.
Speaker 3: You know, isn't it Chef? It's you that likes cold
chicken too, right?
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, okay, yeah, and you know, like a piece
of French you know, like a French loaf or a
back end or something. Look, oh man, probably we'll put
some sauteed mushrooms on there or something that, you know,
like to give a little bit of character. But yeah,
I like rotistri And honestly, you know, like you can
pull rotistrie chicken and make pull chicken out of it.
You can chop it up and put it into a
lazy man's gumboo if you want to instead of you know,
cooking it from scratch, and there's lots of stuff you
can do with rotissrie chicken. You just don't want to
do it, you know, like if you picked it up
on Monday, you know, today's the last day you want
to use it. You don't want to put fourt a
old chicken into a gumbo that you're going to store
for another four days, you know what I mean. You
want to consume it immediately.
Speaker 3: We're in the.
Speaker 4: Flynt family, we are taking our rotisserie left or too.
So you're making chicken case of dias for the kids.
Oh yeah, so that's highly recommended right there. But yeah,
just cheese chicken. Don't church it up too much.
Speaker 3: Cheese and chicken.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hashtag munchies. We talked about this yesterday. I believe Jeff,
what's the most overrated cut of steak?
Speaker 9: Oh man?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 9: For me, I think it's the fil a, you know,
like it's nice and tender and everything. But I don't
necessarily like that. I I like kind of a firmer
texture of meat, and I like some marbling in there too.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 9: The tender loin is I think expensive because there's not
much of it, right it's it's the flying demand and
while it's hasty and tender, you know it doesn't have
the marbling that if you look for flavor that I,
you know, look for and say a strip loine and
and I actually prefer a little bit of fat on mistakes.
So you know, it's it's just an opinion. There's gonna
be people that don't agree with me. But you know,
I like I like the marbling of a stripline. I
think if you know you there's a there's an argument
to be made. It's the ribbi. I think it almost
goes a little too far sometimes with the starfat. It's
in the center of the of the eye. So I
don't know, you pay a premium price for both of
those cuts, where I think a strip woint is more
affordable and it has as kind of the the best
of both worlds of the two.
Speaker 3: Hashtag MUNCHIESE trying to work out and get in shape.
What's a solid meal planned dish I can make on
a Sunday and eat on for a few days. Also,
boiled crawfished potato salad was incredible. Thank you now, chef.
I do know that, like for you, meal prep is
something that you you worry about a little bit because
you do lose some of those nutrients if you make
it and you wait too long to eat it.
Speaker 9: That's right, but you know, if you're cooking during the
week specifically, so if you're trying to have it, if
you're cooking it on Sunday, then you want it for
the week. You know, like whatever you're making on Sunday,
just make a little bit more of it, you know.
The thing about it is is that if you're looking
to cut lights, it's calorie and calorie out, and there's
other dynamics there, you know, like honestly, you got to
talk to your doctor about it, make sure that you're
doing it healthily healthy, but as a general rule of thumb,
you need to be tracking your calories right. And it's
it really is, you know, like I'm cutting my carbs first,
I'm keeping enough carbs in my diet to give me
energy so that I can exercise. Exercise is super important
when you're trying to lose weight, because you're increasing your
calorie burn, not just reducing to your calorie intake. Both
those things have necessity, and so I'm really careful about
not having any carbs in my diet because you know,
like it's it's to me a necessary thing. But I
do think that you know, measuring, you know that you
have four ounces of carbs, depending on what the carb
is obviously, but you know four ounces of carbs, you know,
six to eight ounces of protein, and then lots of
fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables fill you up faster
so you feel full, but you're actually in taking less
less caloric intake. And so a lot of people don't
like to hear that, you know, like I want the
meat and potatoes that I don't want. I don't want
the fruits and vegetables and fruit and vegetables or how
we get full and add fiber to our diet that
helps balance blood sugar and stuff like that. And also,
you know, you got to watch the fats. The that's
the you know, the cooking techniques that you're using. When
you submerge something in oil and deep fat fry it,
it's going to exchange moisture for oil. And so what
tastes good about about deep fried foods is that it
has fat and the tissues in it. You know, you're
submerging it in oil and exchanging you know, there's a
there's a liquid exchange there. So you know, deep fat
frying is not super healthy. You can you can oven
fry and uh, if you have an air fryer, you
can code with oil and air fry get the same texture.
But you really have to watch your fat anything because
if you're not burning the fat through through caloric burn, uh,
you're going to store the fat, you know, And so
that's that's an important piece of it. And and what
fats as well. You know, olive oils are good. There's
lots of different conversations about steed oils and you know,
all kinds of all kinds of different oils, but my
go to is olive oil. It's proven and we know
what it is. Version good for you. Then it helps
manage your LDLs, which is your low density lipoproteins obviously.
Speaker 4: Yeah, chef, I mean you bring up a lot of
good points there, but like weight loss and trying to
get in shape, like it's different for you know, certainly
things work for one person that might not work for other.
You just got to kind of find what works for you.
And a good rule of thumb is just kind of
like you said, if you look through the day and
you didn't burn more calories than you took in, then
you're probably not going to lose weight.
Speaker 9: I think you have to be smart about it too,
right brother, Like you know, having a two hundred calorie
deficit by day means that you could probably lose one
to two pounds per week. And you know, like trying
to drop ten pounds in a week is really harsh
on the human body. You have to be realistic about
the burn, you know, and set a realistic goal versus
an over aggressive goal that your body is going to
respond negatively too.
Speaker 4: Yep, okay, chef ashtag munchies here, we're getting close to
I think wild turkey season. What's your best advice for
a good wild turkey breast?
Speaker 9: You know, Brian, it's wild turkeys are they They move
around even more than you know farm turkeys do, and
so that they're they're leaner. And while I enjoy this,
I absolutely love wild turkey. You know, my my always
go to is you know, and whether truth be known,
if it's wild or not, I'm gonna brine it just
because it helps. It helps pull the salt into the meat,
It helps retain moisture during the cook and it helps
prevent drying out while you're cooking, and so why not, right, Like,
it's just a it's just a preparation that's gonna ensure
that you have a better product and the end result. So,
however you cook your turkey, make sure you brian it
ahead of time.
Speaker 3: Hashtag munchies attempting to make authentic auropas. Hope I got
that right. For a Columbian friend of mine tomorrow night,
what do you suggest and what would you suggest putting
on the inside?
Speaker 9: Yeah, rapists. I've never actually made a rapist from from
scratching myself. I work with a lady that that does.
But I'm afraid I don't have too much insight there.
It's great. It's a it's a traditional dish. It's like
a somewhere in between a tortilla and a and a
oh geez, like a it's a lot or something like that.
You know, it's it's a dish. It's a traditional, just dish.
Speaker 3: I always get hungry right about this time. That's why
we moved it back. We do. We used to do this,
yeah seven thirty.
Speaker 4: Right, and it was it was too much because chef
we don't like there's not a lot of time in
the morning to get a breakfast before this. I'm always
got like pretty hungry in general, but like right now
it's like even more so. So so okay, so I
got a question. So we were talking, so I was
the kids were kind of in the grilled cheese world
right now, and I want to, like, what's your best
advice on a maybe not like a kid doesn't have
to be a kid friendly grilled cheese, but like, if
you're making the perfect grilled cheese sandwich, how you doing it?
Speaker 9: Starting off with brioche, like a thick cut Texas toast
brioche because it tolerates a lot of heat. And I'm
going to butter both sides of the bread, Like if
we're going to do a grilled cheese up, you know,
like a grown making grilled cheese, it's gonna have a
thick piece of bread. And I like to take and
make not just butter, but take and make like a
mad or d butter where you put chopped parsley and
garlic in it and whip it up so that it's
nice and lightened, spread easy. So you know you're gonna
have these chunks of parsley and stuff on the bread
as you toast as well, and you got to toast,
you know, the first side goes down. You don't put
the cheese on the bread yet, you know, you heat
that bottom side up and then flip it and immediately
put your cheese on the bread. And it's gotta be
you know, like greasy cheddar cheese is not going on
my you know, like it's gonna be grew yere or
something nice and soft. And they actually have this cheese
called raclet that you eat over fire and you scrape
it onto your grilled cheese. And if you've never had
a grilled cheese made that way, your life is missing something.
And reclet is it's got a little bit of bite
to it's a little funky. But if if not, you know,
like smoked dudahs.
Speaker 3: Great, I just how do you spell reclet?
Speaker 9: Are a c l e pte Reclet? I think it's
actually a Swiss type of cheese, but it's it's not
it's not like your typical Swiss, but it's a European
for sure, but it's it's.
Speaker 3: Wonderful, so it has opinions unlike the other Swiss. Most definitely, okay, Jesus,
that I got you, chef, Michael Johnson always good enough
to join us here to answer your monkey questions. Chef.
We always appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Brother, appreciate you guys.
Speaker 3: Have a good day, all right, you as well. All right,
we are going to step away and when we come back,
we're going to be joined by the head baseball cage
for your l s u Hi guys, mister j. Johnson
right here on twob.
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Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back here and OTB here live from
the Raising Kine studio. Every single Thursday, we have the
great opportunity to catch up with the head baseball coach
for the LSU Tigers, Jay Johnson, who joins us now. Coach.
We always appreciate it. I hope you're doing well, doing great,
how doing fantastic? Always excited for the conversation. Just like
something we talked about last week. Then I'm sure you're
excited about We're excited about that you can look up
and see number one back in the lineup and see
him out there in the field as well. And coach
we were talking about Chris Stanfield of course number one
on your team. Uh, just what he gives you in
so many different phases of the game and in the box,
on the base, pass, in the field, and somebody has
been through the fire before, right, I mean he's a
senior player. He has been in a lot of different situations.
Now that he is like fully back in the lineup, Like,
what does that guy mean to the success moving forward?
Speaker 2: Well, it means a lot. If you look at this
the contribution of last year, I feel like it really
flew under the radar. You know, maybe for you know,
a couple of reasons. Is on the best team in
the country. But he was our leading hitter, you know
in SEC play, which is the best pitching that you see.
He led the SEC all sixteen teams in doubles. So
I think this is pure hitting. Offensive contribution is undervalued.
And you just said it like, you know, the threat
on the basis and it's not even just like a
stole base thing, but you know, ball in the gap,
he's on first to run. You know, a ball goes
in the dirt, he's advancing to second base or a
third base. Then the ball goes up in the outfield,
it's it's an out and so that's a lot of
ways to impact the game. Maybe from a football standpoint,
it's it's kind of like that, you know, guy can
catch the ball out of the backfield, return punts and kickoffs,
you know, and can you know run protect the quarterback? Yes,
exactly the probably most important thing right there.
Speaker 3: Overt Matt Alway. Coach Matt always hating on the running back.
The quarterbacks, always just wonder how they stay clean back there.
Speaker 2: That's right. You know, It's like I was watching this
clip of the movie The Draft Day the other day
when the coach is like once a runner and the
GM wants a blocker. So I guess you know you
can do it all like you could. You're probably in
a good spot, that's sure.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: I love it, coach. Uh, just looking back a little bit.
Drop two this the past weekend versus Vanderbilt. But you
come out Tuesday and I had a really good pitchers
thrown well win the game be graand with seven to one.
But I found a fascinating kind of the the remarks
you made about about this as being a must win
game on a Tuesday. I just kind of wanted to
follow up on that and what kind of you meant
about and what I know, we want to win every
single game obviously, but for a Tuesday game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I live in a different world than everybody else
with college baseball, and you know, the RPI is a
real thing, and you know, like you usually get protected
and we have a ton of protection coming up because
everybody we play for like the next six weeks is
like eighteen and three or better, and so you're your
opponent's winning percentage is the most important calculation in the RPI,
and ours will probably get taken care of. But you know,
we got some ground to make up as it is
right now. And if you lose to another team this
five and twelve home losses hurt you worse. Like we're
just you know, I don't want to dig a hole
then if we can't get out of no matter how
well we play, an SEC play and it's one of
those games that if you lose, you're going to drop
like another thirty or thirty five spots. And I mean,
it's it's difficult because you don't you can't tell the
players that really, And finally, in the middle of the game,
I was like, guys, can't can't lose this game, Like
we've got to offense, got to kick it in the gear.
And that's the opposite of way I think and the
way I coach. But it's like there's a reality component
to that, and not on anybody else's radar, you know,
maybe even my assistant coaches, players, fans, but definitely online.
And the other part of this is like, you know,
we want to play well in the game, and I
thought we certainly pitched well, which was great to see,
you know, like getting some of our supposedly better guys
back out there, because I feel like one way to
get him throwing the ball zone is to get them
to pitch more. And so I think there was a
lot of positives in that game. I mean, they didn't
make it easy. They decided a roll three o their
weekend starters out during the game, which was you know,
kept it a little closer maybe than I guess it
should have been. But happy we won and that taken
that loss doesn't mean every Tuesday is like that, but
that Tuesday would have caused another big hole that, regardless
of sec play, might have been harder to dig out of.
Speaker 3: Coach, if we do go back to the weekend, we
go to Sunday's game, Like that's one of those games
where I felt like guys pitched really well. Like I
know the runs that were on the board for Vanderbilt,
but like I think the weather conditions obviously if they
got it up in the air, that thing was just traveling.
But I do feel like, and correct me if I'm wrong,
but it feels like Garcia and Sheer and they came
in and more than just watching the stat line, like
they kind of closed that game down, gave the offense
time to not only play catch up, but to pull
ahead and stay ahead. Like it felt like even though
maybe the numbers don't say it, like there was some
good on the mount on Sunday as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought Williams threw really well, you know, his
little back thing like tighten up, but he could have
kept going. But it's like I think I said, this
epic game, like that guy being healthy for the next
next eighteen months is probably the key to my life.
So it just like we had a fot before runs.
It's like, you know, Coach Davin would have lost his
mind if either of you guys would have got hurt.
You know. It's kind of one of those things like
I I just I made it, and we we had
a little bit of wiggle room, and really what was
in a really important game to win too, and I'm
just like, nah, like we're not doing this, so he
could have kept going. I thought he pitched out standing
in the game. And then you know, we ran into
you know, an inning with Rizzy that was kind of interesting,
and you're right, I mean there was, and we benefited
from this too. In the first inning, the conditions were
very offensive. One of their guys just had a routine
pop up that just kind of kept carrying it off
the top of the big wall for a double and
a couple of runs.
Speaker 9: So that was part of it.
Speaker 2: You know, Garcia similar kind of thing, ran into some
bad luck. I thought Sharon did a great job. We
made two errors in the infield. Otherwise I don't think
he would have given up any runs, and so because
the homer came right after two errors, so he did
a great job. And then I was really proud of
Cooper Williams coming back and finishing the game clean and
had another good inning on Tuesday. He's a guy that
you know, is really capable of pitching well often and
so that was good to see, so you're you're You're
probably right the series as a whole, Like, I think
we left a lot to be desired on the mound,
but we're we're working on it hard, and we have
good pictures like this. The pitching talent in our program
is not an issue right now. We got to get
them better and you know, and have them execute to
take some pressure off of the of the offense and
tell some guys, you know, find their way at this level.
Speaker 4: I'll follow up on that that last point you were making,
and we know that the talent level there certainly on
the mound.
Speaker 3: Is there?
Speaker 4: Is it just and you look back at the Friday
game with Case and that it is probably not the
best out and that he would have liked to have.
Speaker 3: Is it? Is it?
Speaker 4: Is it guys that are just like close and just
missing spots or is there is there larger issues that
need to be kind of worked out over time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's a little bit of everything, like
and we're looking at it. You know. Internally, we had
a three hour meeting on Monday just discussing our staff
and basically how to get them on the rails and
how to pitch to their capability and Yeah, use, there's
a number of things to look at, you know, like
a bigger picture. One is like, hey, like it's really
difficult scheduling here because you got to play at home
three of the four weekends because of the crowd, and
we're tied into some tournaments for another couple of years.
But like, hey, do I need to bring in like
PCU or somebody like I'm just Texas Tech or you know,
UCLA in a non conference weekend so that our staff
is ready, you know, opening weekend of SEC play. And
you know, again with the scheduling, you know, parameters were
under That's that's a lot harder than it sounds to
actually do that, But that was a layer of it.
But that was like a big picture and then the
more micro or smaller focused stuff making sure the relievers
are ready to go with you know, coming out of
the pen and a couple adjustments we can make with that,
making sure like we were flipped a little bit this
week of how the starters are preparing, you know, relative
to their bullpender in the week and then their bullpen
leading into the game. You know, when a guy goes
gets off the rails with a pitch or two, making
sure they're clear on their adjustment, you know, whether it's mental, visual,
or physical to get back on it. You know, Kotcheski's
you know great at staff's are always great at throwing strikes.
So it's like there's some guests play intricacies that we
adjusted with a few guys, and so we just they're
young players. We just got to keep advancing them, and
so I just I want to make sure we as
a staff are giving them every chance to be successful,
and we will continue to do that. I thought take
opponent out of it Tuesday was a step in the
right direction because that was a number of guys that
we count on and getting them back on the mound,
and I thought they executed great in the game. It's
great to see like Grant font No come out and
get us a couple of clean innings, pause finishing it out.
He's going to be a star here. He's he's coming
fast ricking, you know, got us a scoreless inning in
the first. So there was a lot of positives and
we we just got to keep working. That's part of it,
you know, controllable weeken control, which is the preparation part.
Speaker 3: Of this, cause know what else you have baseball coach
Jay Johnson here on OTV. All right, coach, got a
new series starting tonight Thursday, Friday, Saturday series against Oklahoma,
another great baseball team. Like you said, that's what the
SEC is. Kind of give us maybe a preview of
Oklahoma what we can expect inside the box this weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're playing well. Like I mentioned, they're one of
those teams that's seventeen and four or eighteen and three
or something like that, great record. They've pitched really well.
They have a lot of velocity on the mound, like
hard throwing guys like art throwers, good out pitches, good
brand of offense like they have a lot of fast players.
They have a lot of old players. Very similar team
to the team we played last year, just a year older.
You're better, you're stronger, a little more physical, dynamic. They
can it's ball over the fence a little bit more
than they did a year ago. But they're really really
aggressive on the base path and have a really good
style of play. So the last year we were able
to play the series the way we wanted to play it,
and it's really important against these guys. You know, Kentucky,
similar deal next week because they definitely have a distinct
style of play.
Speaker 4: Yes, coach, as we get ready for the series, I
wanted you to just kind of pick your brain a
little bit. Take us through your process before a game
before weekend series, Like how do you kind of make decisions,
build the lineup and balance the who has a better bat,
who has the better glove? How do you balance that
lineup each and every game? Is there a plan for
all three going into it, or you'd kind of take
a game by game.
Speaker 2: It's there's a plan, but definitely game by game. The
best way to do it is get guys that are
balanced on both sides of the ball that you know
can make a positive contribution on offense and defense. So
like you look at I'll just use last year's team
as an example because it was a championship team. Like
the value in Luis Hernandez and Danny Dickinson was they
were very good on both sides of the ball, So
you weren't you weren't pinch hitting, you weren't platuning for
those guys, and the more you play, the better you get.
But if you have an area you're trying to compensate for,
you know, it's my job as a coach and where
you think you should have to or shouldn't have to.
It's like Tuesday night, I mean in terms of how
we use the pitching, how we use the eight and
nine hole in the lineup, it's like until we get going,
like that's the way you have to do it. And
I don't mind it that way because I think it
it's more guys involved in all that. But ultimately, our
job is to win every game that we play. So
there's a thorough process. As soon as I hang up
with you guys, I'm walking in here with the staff
and kind of going through our outline. It's a faster
week obviously, start on Thursday, so everybody's you know, spent
the last you know, since the end of the game
on Tuesday to today on Oklahoma. I got to be honest,
I cheated. I did some stuff on Tuesday before on
Oklahoma and that's very out of character for me. But
we got that coming right now and then we'll make
some decisions, you know, on the lineup. And there's some
some interesting things in this series that we have to
have to pay attention to, and so there may be
some some couple different things than usual.
Speaker 3: Yeah, coach, and like we were talking beforehand, a guy
like Jake Brown, who's hitting four hundred and just crushing
the ball eleven homers, thirty seven RBIs already Like I'm
sure part of the conversation is, Okay, we got to
make sure this guy gets pitches, like we got to
make sure that everybody's doing their job around him as well,
because I mean, he's hitting so well and he's been
so good at the plate. He hasn't been chasing anything,
and he's got as many walks as he does strikeouts,
and so I'm sure like that those are big conversations
that feel like they're easy, but a lot of thought
goes into something like that to make sure your guy
is getting an opportunity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt, and he has helped like last year.
You know, use that only as an example of point
of comparison, you know, I mean I mentioned Luis. I
mean he's hitting the eight hole in some games in
the NCAA tournament, and nobody has bigger hits than that guy,
you know, and so like he putting pressure that you
can score two runs in every inning that you play.
Tell guys get going. You have to pay more attention
to what you were talking about. And you know, Derek
for me is one of the best players in the country.
So I mean, ideally you'd like to hit and lead off,
but you know we've hit him behind him for a
few games here just to help that cause. And he's
cashed in. And you know, our best scenario is you know,
Banfield nine, Mileum one and then Brown Imperial two three.
You know, four guys that won us a championship, all
batting right in a row. Kind of putting Jake in
the middle of that. But it's a game by game thing,
like we've flipped it on Tuesday for a very specific
reason and it was great. You know, Chris got to
pick to RBA single, you know, and the bases loaded.
They kind of put that one away the other day.
So it's, uh, yeah, we want to We want Jake
to impact the game as much as possible. Proud of
his development. He's off to a great start and doing
a great job.
Speaker 3: All right there, he is, coach j Johnson good enough
to join us every single Thursday, hero on O TV. Coach.
We always appreciate the time, appreciate the inside. Best luck
coming up against the Sooners this weekend, all.
Speaker 2: Right, sounds great. Thanks guys, all.
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a feeling. We're gonna get out the old brooms this week.
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Speaker 7: I find myself defending Nate Ysky more times than not.
Speaker 3: That's what you're doing. Yeah, I'm I'm too faithful in
this staff to sit here and panic. Second weekend the
sec Yeah, and has it looked like we thought it was?
Speaker 7: Well? Hunt also has a really good article out where
he's like, we're out on Hunt, right, now okay, well,
well this article is great.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that you. I appreciate that I said that,
and you're like, okay, uh, I'm in the fox, holl.
I know, I appreciate that.
Speaker 7: But he just has a good article of about the
bullpen and how it's proven that their bullpen and their
staff gets better over time.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Jay and Nate are both the men.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I always I always looking for that conversation, I
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