Speaker 1: What's happening everybody? I welcome in to a brand new
OH t B the final day of March.
Speaker 2: Wow, already here it is March thirty first, twenty twenty five,
and we got a ton to get to on today's
show as it was quite the weekend here in the boot.
We got a little bit of everything. Nearly every single
sport going to be represented today. It's good, some bad,
but again we're going to have fun. Nonetheless, along the way,
I'm t by Baby Area, got Jay kester landa Vietna,
Allen Taylor Sharp hanging out. How are we doing today? Guys?
How you feeling? Jaki?
Speaker 3: Good now that I got here? Please be safe out there.
It's pretty crazy on the roads. Didn't go above like
twenty five on Nicholson therefore, yeah, basically the entire stretch,
and so I think it's lightened up a little bit,
but still be careful if you're out there, going to school,
going to work, and hopefully it'll calm down and stop raining.
Speaker 2: Elandra, what's up, girl friend? How are you doing? Did
you survive all the weather delays and whatnot?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so luckily I didn't have to do like produce
the game on Saturday, but Rivers and I were going
to go to it, if you remember, that's.
Speaker 2: Where the yeah okay I forgot Yeah, So.
Speaker 4: We ended up not going and we actually went to
Radio bar Y and they have this little thing called
rock Bot, which is basically touch Tunes but for free,
and me and Rivers were just like requesting Hella songs
and we felt so validated because they can like thumbs
up or thumbs down the songs and people kept oh wow,
really yes, and people kept thumbs up being our songs,
and we're.
Speaker 2: Like people like ourveys. I've always known that that is
that is like something that Rivers like fantasizes about her
really loves.
Speaker 3: Say, there's no two people that I can think of
that would enjoy a thumbs up on their song selection.
Speaker 2: Then YouTube, well I had never even really considered because
the Launder, I mean, you know, daily basically that's the
case here as everybody glazes her over her music selections.
So yeah, that that those are to the most two
perfect people to be on the jukeboxet. So and then
and then you all ended up staying at the game, right, Yeah,
we didn't go till three. No, I know, I'm choking
the right mind would go to that game. I've been
dealing so but when I did it on Friday, Uh,
I did.
Speaker 4: The game on Saday that kept getting delayed, so I
was there for like four hours just waiting. Yeah, and
I didn't get.
Speaker 2: Out till like one in the morning. But uh, it's
it's that's Saturday game. I've never seen anything like it
becau because so, like, you know, I was sick last
week and then it turns out my daughter also had
strap and then my flu became their flu. So Taylor,
you'll appreciate this. I feel like I got count Orlock
hanging out in my house. He brought them, he brought
the plague ship over, and I'm I'm Lily Depp just
getting deeped by Orlock all weekend long as the sickness
passes from one family member to the next. But I
guess the point is Saturday night at three am, I
got a daughter who's like throwing up and whatever, blah
blah blah, And I'm like, oh, I wonder Ifellas you
end up winning. And I go to check the score
and there's a tweet from like thirty minutes ago being
like final from the box. I'm like Oh my god,
it is three in the morning right now, and y'all
just finished playing baseball at about two thirty. Yeah, anybody
stay if you stayed in the stands, they stayed the
entire time. Wow. So we were talking legends.
Speaker 4: Well, me and Rivers were like, okay, if it's like
a nine thirty, because we heard that the latest it
could start was eleven fifty nine pm, right, and we
were like, okay, if.
Speaker 2: It could start at eleven fifty yeah, And.
Speaker 4: We were like, if it's like a nine or like
nine thirty first pitch, no, we're not going.
Speaker 2: But if it's eleven fifty nine, we're gonna go, just
for like, yeah experience exactly, just to say that you
you did. Yeah? Well, uh tay Tay, what's up with you? Brother?
How are how are you doing? Were good?
Speaker 5: It was a nice weekend. Uh finally had like a
mini break. But uh back at where'd you ready to go?
We just did a little staycation day.
Speaker 2: Oh wait wait were springs? Huh yeah beat the.
Speaker 5: Springs Covington area. I mean we just like you know,
it was our two year anniversary on Wednesday. We didn't
get to do much. We were like, let's go somewhere
they're like, you know, we don't have to take off
of work, like we're not at a state, but just
kind of don't worry about things for the weekend.
Speaker 6: It was nice.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, man, that sounds like a very nice weekend.
We'll get away. Uh, roy Kenne have been sick a
week In tuition, I let team ups in my mouth. Yeah,
I'm told you, I'm told you. Sorry, those are aggressive. Uh,
those are aggressive. Day lest day, We're feeling better, we're
feeling we're feeling good, we're feeling new, we're feeling refreshed. Uh.
And in part because this LSU baseball team came out
with a massive sweep, obviously we want to get into
that softball. A weird weekend for softball as Look, I've
had a lot of people ask me how these stadiums
could be next door to each other. One game inners
of rain delayed the other. I don't have any answers
for you. Uh do not you know if if, if,
if you are seeking answers to such queries here, you're
not gonna find them, is everybody in the room now.
Speaker 5: My only guess would be Jay didn't want to start
the game. Burn the pitcher because he's not gonna come
back in after the long delay. Softball really doesn't worry
about that.
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean that's my only guest because Ita softball too.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 5: True, I was like a little out of town obviously,
but like I'm following the games on my phone. I'm
listening to it, and like was in the fourth inning,
baseball had even started yet, and I'm like, what the hell?
But like the more I think about it, like it's
probably due to the pictures.
Speaker 6: When you say a little out of town, what does
that mean?
Speaker 2: I wasn't out of but I wasn't here.
Speaker 6: What does that mean?
Speaker 5: I wasn't out of state, but I wasn't here, Like
Springs are to be the Springs area, I wasn't here,
but I wasn't.
Speaker 6: I don't like a lot of town.
Speaker 4: Is the one that's usually like I don't want to
use my picture or whatever. But I know, like Friday
it was Chrysala Monas I was a little more say it,
it would have been like hitching Friday, Yeah, which he
was actually really good.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Pico ended up being great Rose he was
the guy. In fact, I ever said that in the
chat on I believe so again, we're gonna talk more
of baseball, but but yeah, so I don't know. So
softball got their game in early on Friday and they
looked awesome, dominated eleven to three, five run mercy rule,
and then Saturday couldn't end up getting the game in.
You play a doubleheader on Sunday, despite the fact that
in game two you had a league going to the seventh,
you couldn't close it out. You end up losing in
the eighth, and then four to one in Game three.
So out of nowhere, kind of like softball, your roll
and you feel great, you look up and you lose
the series. Yeah, it didn't even really feel like you
should have or or would have. But the softball team's
very good. They're gonna learn from this. They're gonna bounce
back from this. But a bit disappointing as you felt
like you had so much momentum leaving Friday night the
Tiawak going on Saturday, you had so much momentum going
into that day, and then on Sunday, as bet Threeina
said after the game, just felt flat. Just didn't have
it all day long. Unfortunately, day to play two games
when you just don't.
Speaker 3: Have it, Yeah, man, you could kind of see it,
and you could tell by some of the stuff at
the plate, and your pitchers were holding them close enough
and just waiting on the bats to take over. But
then even that, because you've got no momentum at the plate,
then South Carolina started to get some insurance runs, and
then you're right like then it just turned really flat
and never able to bounce back.
Speaker 2: The LSU women's basketball team comes up with a really
exciting win over NC State to make their second consecutive
Elite Eight, only then to fall to UCLA, the very
team that they had a late run against last year
to make the Elite Eight. It looked like they were
on the verge of breaking UCLA's hearts once again. Down
fourteen and third, they come storming back, but despite pushing
it to just a couple with a couple of minutes
to play, it was one of those things where the
one big play. You had a lot of big play,
you know, you had a lot of good play to
to get you back in there, but every time you
reached that tipping point where the one big play would
have really made the difference, it just barely eluded your
grasp bye by just a bad bounce of the ball. Here,
they are a misshot. Here they are a big three
made by UCLA, which I mean, you played great defense.
I think they only shoot like thirty percent from the field,
but I think it was like ten to twenty four
from three. Yeah, and that ended up being the difference
in the end of the game. So another great year
by coach Kim Moulk. But coming up just short to
the brooms.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're right, I mean UCLA shot the three ball. Well,
that was the difference in the game, forty two for them.
And as we were talking before the show, like timely threes,
like whenever they hit the threes, LSU looked like they
were going to be on that run, they were going
to maybe take over full control of the game.
Speaker 6: And you missed one. At the other end, they come down,
they kick it out.
Speaker 3: Three pointer, four point game that you thought was going
to go to two turns into a seven point game.
And there was a couple of those throughout the contest.
And look, UCLA's been the best team in the country.
When you look at who's been ranked number one longest,
it has been them. And you know that was going
to be a tough task for this LSU team and
when they fall back, you're like, Okay, well maybe this
is it, and maybe maybe this LSU team is going
to continue on, go to the Final four, take down
big bad UCLA.
Speaker 6: But just timely threes from UCLA is a reason they won.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and shout out to Anissamara who came to LSU
seeking a championship and did everything that she could in
her time here to give herself the best opportunity to
win said championship and the emotions clearly wearing it at
that game, and she fell short. But you know, I
hope that she looks back on what she accomplished here
with pride, because this is the hell of a year. Uh.
And then who knows, maybe flash back, maybe we'll we'll
we'll have to wait and see, wait and see. There.
The one thing that I thought was dumb, though, is
some of these conversations surrounding like, uh, you know, we'll
coach Monkey make another Final four, Like what are we
talking about? And and and and and what is is
Elite eight not a good finish to the year now?
Like have we lost the plot so badly that Elite
eight and losing to the overall one seed in a
tough battle is somehow not an incredible season. And you
look at coach Mogan. Now, one of the last three
years been national championship of lead eate e lade eight.
So if you're gonna ask me if you'll make a
final four, I'll say a duh, are you stupid? Like yes,
and and and this is not This is not like
a case where maybe I'd give this conversation more credence
if it was a situation where you had a coach
in the past that had that had not gotten across
the finish line, yeah, or not made a ton of
final fours. But coach hazz On both counts. So yes,
LSU women's basketball will every single year remain in the fight.
And it is still incredible the amount of consistency that's
been created in this program again in just a few
short years.
Speaker 6: I one hundred percent agree with you.
Speaker 3: If this was a coach that just always got to
this point, can never get over the hump, or even
if it was a coach you know, Tom Izzo's fallen
into a lot of this conversation. They haven't won since marteen,
Cleeves and Mopete in that group, It's like, okay, yeah,
but you're in the fight. And still I don't agree
with it with Izzo, but certainly with coach Malkey. She
just won a national championship consistently going to at least
the Elite eight, which as we know, is very difficult
to do. They beat a two seed in NC State
to get there. So anybody saying that doesn't know bald
doesn't know how this thing works. I mean a couple
of plays away from being right back in the final
four with an opportunity.
Speaker 6: So yeah, if there's if there's one coach that I'm
going to bet on, yeah, it's gonna be coach Moulkey.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Tom Iso, what an interesting character making the
final four once again. He's got oh wait no sorry, no, no,
not no excuse, sorry not making it. But a man
who's been Natty winner runner up. He's made eight final fours,
eleven eight lead eights, sixteen sweet sixteenths, got eleven conference titles,
six conference tournament titles. An incredible resume. But yeah, like
you said, not winning the ninety since two thousand, But
that's not the case with coach Molkay. I guess it's
the point there. Also, we'll talk to little March Madness
as all the one seeds making it so only it's
first time, he's think two thousand and eight or twousand
and nine. I read only the second time is they
started seeding in seventy nine. And for all you basketball
nerds out there, if you look at the Ken Palm
efficiency ratings these four teams, so I guess he started
doing those in ninety six, ninety seven, Jake, Which not
to freak anybody out, but that's thirty years. I don't
nobody likes that. No, nope, I get that. I don't
like it either, But that's thirty years, I guess. Yeah,
it's a big sample size. All these four teams are
top ten all time inefficiency. So like it is for
one seeds, it is for one seeds who are historically
good on both sides of the ball. It is going
to be an absolute battle, absolute battle.
Speaker 3: And there was a lot of people that were picking
this to be the case. I think most of us.
I mean, well, no, no, no time about time out, time
about top outside of that.
Speaker 6: Nope.
Speaker 2: Remember this, remember our one of four to five survey
when we answered who's gonna win national championship?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Who I picked?
Speaker 6: I don't remember.
Speaker 2: Okay, they have the best player, and Alabama and Auburn
will cancel each other out, and Houston is too much concrete.
You did say that we're close.
Speaker 6: Florida.
Speaker 2: Florida also is too much.
Speaker 3: In the conversation. I think I went three one season two.
I did think Michigan State was going to get there.
It was going to be chalky, and I know that's
not it's not fun now while we watched a tournament.
I get it, but that's what this was. Because of
the teams, the stats you just said. It's no surprise
that these teams got there. They were clearly the best teams.
Speaker 2: H Taylor, who did you answer in that survey to win? Okay,
what about you? Landa? Has there ever been a more
duke feelings? I get, I get, I believe you. I
hate Duke too. To be fair, I grew up going
to UNC basketball camp.
Speaker 4: I just can't wait for a Cooper flag to be
a Spur's way.
Speaker 2: To say, I don't I don't understand. Is y'all's record
even that bad? I checked him for it. They've been
winning for some reason. They actually have to know what
you think, You're just gonna rig the lottery.
Speaker 3: They've been winning for some reason, because you win to
play the game. Like I had to tell Handy on
Twitter last.
Speaker 4: Night, I was looking at the odds and they have
like a ten percent chance while everybody has like fourteen ten.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's a bit higher than I.
Speaker 4: My final four surprisingly still intact on my bracket.
Speaker 2: Okay, wait, you made it, then you got you got
them all right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well no, not all of them. No, I didn't
get them all right, but for some reason, my final
four is correct.
Speaker 2: Wait, I'm confused. What do you mean? You know, I'm saying,
but you got like the four to one seeds in
the part of okay, there, we're going to laund it.
It's work. It's work. Also, uh huh, Alabama, it sucks,
I said.
Speaker 5: All my it's not not incredibly surprised.
Speaker 2: I was loving waking up and seeing all the you know,
the group text of my high school boys, and you know,
talking about the game made them feel you know what,
meme we're spongebobs biting his lip. I was like, Oh,
tell me more, tell me more about our last night's
lost felt. Oh yeah, It's gonna take many years for
me to not want alb I'm gonna lose everything. Uh
did you see tea bot put your face on Sydney
Sweeney's body?
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I knew who it was instantly.
Speaker 2: It was pretty U.
Speaker 5: We've talked about this, like as terrifying as I looked
as your daughter, as a as a fully grown female
bad I'm not bad looking.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. All the the Pixar retweet it right now.
But the Pixar all denim dad picture of me, Jake
and Alandra with the gay denim dads.
Speaker 6: Give me gray hair.
Speaker 3: I know I made you.
Speaker 2: Uh, it made you somehow the pixarification of the picture
made you gayer than me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know how that's possible. Well, yeah it did, Yeah,
it definitely did. Anyway, very fun, very fun weekend. I guess,
you know, I guess on the whole, you know the
unfortunately l SU, your your favorite local teams maybe not
coming out exactly what except for baseball that's a big
time sweep that they just accomplished. And now he sits
seven and two two series sweeps under your belt. Third
of the way through this thing, let's freaking go. Jay
Jonson's team find a way, all right. I think that's
where we go next. Let's go ahead. There's a full
weekend recap. There, we go next, We'll get the show
started and let's talk about the baseball series. Keep it
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a little baseball. So we already talk Game one obviously
on Friday. Game two, God, what a battle. Uh. The
theme of this game to me is LSU just dancing
across the coals, constantly playing with fire, juggling knives, rip,
roaring chainsaws, and yet somehow emerging out of the other
end unscathed. Like if you would have told me or
you see the final score of two to one, and
I don't think you ever would have guessed what the
creation of that two to one uh looked like. I
think the story starts probably with Anthony Iinson Missippi State
obviously pitching off. And even game one had that crazy
thing where all of a sudden your ace and Kate
Anderson gets touched up a little bit. You got to
find a way to come back, get a gritty win.
You managed to do that. And then game two, the
hope is, okay, well, maybe Iinsen can raise his level
of play and go toe to toe with Pico, and
uh he did that. He did that. But man, and
don't get me wrong, I po didn't Pigo. Did he
strike out like five to the first sixty faced like
he came out locked in as well. Uh, but I
guess I don't know. Maybe I'm doing this rhythm badly, guys,
But I just want to jump straight to the fourth inning,
right because here's a situation where you end up loading
the bases, no one is out. I think you already
have the one run lead at this time thanks to
pucker up and kiss this baby, go fry, shout out
eath and fry. But you have one l lead. It's
you load the bases now. Then a pass ball bring
home brings home a run, second and third one out, iinsin,
gets the strikeout, and then you have the batter not
in the box in time, uh, which ends up creating
another strikeout to end the inning. Then you come back
in the fifth, you get runner on the corner with
only one out. What does Irons do strikeout runners on
second and third roouts? What does is do? His twelfth
K of the night in just five innings. So again,
base runners nearly every inning. Super sketchy, But when he
had to have the big put out pitch Irons and
got it more often than not, it was very impressive stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he continues to miss bats in twelve
strikeouts and you said it when he needed one is
exactly when he got it. And if you look at
Thursday and Friday and how they were able to handle that,
I mean we talked about it on Friday, but basically
on Thursday night using two pitchers yep. I mean, I
know you technically used three, but we all know Cowen
and Anderson did a bulk of the work there and
then you use two again on Friday night, Like that
might t be the recipe for this team. That might
have to be Hey, Anderson, Ironsen, we need you to
give us at least five and then we've got these
two dogs out of the bullpen and that can finish
the game. But you just got to get them to
the point where they can finish the game.
Speaker 6: Be it.
Speaker 3: You know, you have a lead, tied game, maybe even
your down one run. You get it to these guys
and we feel like we can use just four pitchers
in these two situations, and that that may be what
they need because of the struggles of the bullpen.
Speaker 6: It's it's it's a slippery slope. You're playing with fire.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, Mark, But I mean with Evans encounter able
to do if you just get it to them. You
feel like you've got an opportunity to truly close it out.
Speaker 2: So Einsen has those crazy fourth and fifth innings that
he gets out and then Luis Hernandez shows up. He
gives you a solo shot that maybe a two to one.
At the time, there was no possible way you thought
that was going to be the game winning run.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, and well, you know, every it's like coach Mokei
talks about with women's basketball, right, it's just one possession
you no, every at bat matters ends up being the
game we run because of Casey Evans. So then you
get the six starts with the walk okays, and you're
done Evans. You're interviewing the hairts man. A couple of
runners end up getting in. He navigates that. Then you
get to the eighth where you walk the first strike
out two. Then you load the bases before getting a
third k to keep that score. Couple of near home
runs in the ninth from Bear Joe to Daniel dig
it in the mega five to one, but nope, can't
get that yet. And then you get to the ninth where,
again playing with fire, you have one ball that looks
like it might be home run. It goes foul, three
two count game along the line walk, and then the
two out ball goes all the way to the track
where Stanfield catches it at the hip Andrew Jonestyle kind
of hopping backwards a little bit. What a game, and
just like that, el she wins the series?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 3: So the question is when you and I'd love everybody's
answer here, when you roll Evans out there for the
ninth and then a little bit some trouble like you
just laid out there, Yeah, but you stick with him.
Do we think that's more of sticking with Cason Evans
or you're like, I'm not really comfortable right now bringing
anybody else into this game in the ninth inning to
close it out, Because doesn't it feel like if you
had somebody you felt was better in that situation than
someone who's already thrown three innings, you would have brought
him into the ninth That's a good point.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, does this seem still lack a true closer? Like, Ay,
we don't know.
Speaker 3: Davin Guidry feels like he is going to be the
guy that we sit here and we talk about all
season long until like three weeks from now days like
that he's out.
Speaker 2: It's got the Chris Hilton thing going on. Uh, for sure,
it's got some major Zion Williamson energy where it's like,
oh yeah, he's you know, right around the corner getting better,
but then like it just never actually ends up happening.
I'm not Yeah, I mean I guess, yeah, you're right,
there's not like that true three out come in this
guy's gonna just overwhelm you for at least one inning,
uh type of closer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it felt like that person would have been
in the game again, Cason Evans only gave up two hits,
but you mentioned like, okay, well glad that was foul.
Here's a walk started to fade a little bit. He's
dominant still in the final numbers, but the fact that
he closed that game tells you. I think also they
do believe in him a ton, but they're not ready
to bring anybody else in that situation.
Speaker 6: Evans, that's it.
Speaker 2: And if they had brought anybody in that had then
blown it, My god, the the noise would have been loud, loud.
Uh what do you think Elandra will were his takeaway
from uh from from game two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my takeaway on the whole weekend is kind of
I want to defend the bullpen a little bit because
I know there's been we've all questioned it a little
and they actually when you threw your Johnny Wholestaff day
on Sunday or Saturday, I guess it was.
Speaker 2: Well technically very early.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So Chase Shores gave up he through four innings,
gave up five hits, five strikeouts, two walks, but like
the rest of your bullpen only gave up three hits
the rest of the inning, and then they had the
I think Sunday it was ten strikeouts, seven walks total,
and then Saturday you had six walks from Ansen and Evans.
So like, the bullpen really didn't do that bad this weekend,
and I know that we've been questioning it. Yeah, but
they only gave up three hits Chase Shores as what
got you four runs on Sunday.
Speaker 2: So it's I have faith in them, and I know
it's gonna be a little.
Speaker 4: Bit rocky, but they're not well, I'm not as worried
about them, yes, and I'm not as worried about them
as I was before.
Speaker 2: Callen and Evans are awesome, And although I know it
is LSU fans are spoiled. We want more, uh and
rightfully so kind of just do what you guys. Having
those two is still a great resource guys that can
stand almost like pseudo starters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, twelve strikeouts from Irons in after people have been
kind of questioning him too, is just shutting everybody down again.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. I mean, I wonder if we look at
the stats now merging on the other side, if he
has better numbers than Anderson because they were already although
again within the numbers, Anderson had been more dominant just
on paper, I mean like right down, Yeah, probably strike
out of walks like all that, all that, all that
sort of stuff. Uh, Tita, what your thoughts on game
two and three?
Speaker 5: As far as the what y'all are talking about with
Case and Evans, Like, I kind of think y'all have
right on both ways. I think Jay trust Case and
Evans to get those outs, and I don't think he
had a better option. But if you go look at
what he did out of conference, like this, who caseon
Evans was all year long? I mean even in some
of the out of conference games, you had a two
to three run lead with like two or three innings
to go. It was case of Evans that he went
to time and time again leading up to SEC play.
I mean, he was kind of setting him up for
this moment. He was able to get out of it.
And as good as he was, Jadan Newt was really
good on Saturday as well. In Game three. He kind
of helped you because like, okay, look the rest of
the bullpen and Hunt had a great ride up about it.
I didn't realize how shaky it was where Rizzy Primo bench,
Cooper Williams. They faced nineteen hitters. Fifteen of the nineteen
hitters face a two zero or three to one count
or got hit by a pitch before you got to
that moment. Thirty one strikes, forty five balls for those guys.
So as good as Newt was, it was shaky up
to them. But there are guys, you know, separating themselves.
We've talked about binge Aton, We've talked about Jade Nut.
Jaden Nut was great. So like your bullpen was shaky
on Saturday, but jade Nut was able to come in
and get the job.
Speaker 2: Done so very close.
Speaker 4: Actually, Ianson's fifty eight strikeouts eleven walks and Kate Anderson's
sixty one to ten.
Speaker 2: Okay, so very very close.
Speaker 3: Again batting averages. Sorry to cut you off to you,
it is really really close. I think Alandra and you
talked about this. I think on Friday. The big difference
is Kate Anderson's giving up eight home runs Ironstin's give
up one's.
Speaker 2: I mean so again, so, like I know a lot
of times, because Elisi hold himself the championship standard, we
get caught in what you don't have. But to a
long's point, like, okay, well you have two good starters,
you feel very good about shores. You still you still
need more kinsisty out of on Sunday, likely you have
two very good bullpen arms and then you run into
question marks after that. So it's not maybe as complete
as we thought. But it's also not the disaster of
last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, long strip, I'm not trying to say that,
like there's no questions in it, but it's definitely not
as bad as it seems.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well not as last year, sir.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 3: So some of the stats are a little little misleading,
I guess, And you're wondering how it so Cowen has
an era barely over one, right, I mean he's struck
out thirty six guys and twenty five innings. Yeah, he's
they're only hitting three walks or a buck forty six
on him. Case in Evans, his era is actually under one.
He struck out thirty four guys and twenty innings. His
opponent batting average is only a buck eighty six. Here's
the one that gosh, you're you're wondering, okay, like can
you get it fixed? There's certainly something there when you
look at connor Ware his era is over six.
Speaker 6: Yep, okay, but he struck.
Speaker 3: Out nineteen guys and only twelve and two thirds innings
and opponents are only hitting a buck thirty three on him, and.
Speaker 2: He just had like one controls aer bad inning.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean the yeah, I mean he's got eight
walks in twelve innings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is, So that's certainly that's certainly part of it.
But I mean when opponents are batting and he started
three games, they're only hitting a buck thirty three off.
He's got five wild pitches, by the way, in twelve.
Speaker 2: Innings, lead the conference, I believe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because I mean Ninsen's got seven of them,
So something with him is there? Right, if you can
just cut down on the walks, which easier said than done.
But there is no way in the world you should
have opponent hitting a buck thirty three off you now
and your era is six point three nine.
Speaker 2: No, so it's here we get Okay, let's go to
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Speaker 7: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta
it's off the bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to otb Okay. So, after discussing it, it
seems like, look, the biggest question is beyond Calan and
Evans and maybe when like one of the other guys
has a good night, the problem is just too many
walks out of the pit. It's control issues and we
can talk to coach Johnson about that in the ability
to fix that during the course of the year. But again,
do not lose sight of the fact that this is
a seven and two in the SEC baseball team with
two series sweeps under their belts already. These are good
discussions and good problems to be having a stellar start
to the year for else.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're in the top half.
Speaker 3: I mean, you've got Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee right now
that have one loss. I believe Texas is still at
one loss as well. But I mean, you're right in
the thick of it. You're right there at seven and two.
You've got teams underneath you that were going, you know,
that had preseason expectations to be where you're at that
aren't right. Vanderbilt four and five. We've talked about A
and M one in eight, Florida also one in eight
in SEC play. So you're doing exactly what you need
to be doing right now. You were staying right there
in the hunt and you're figuring yourself out. You've been
almost unbeatable at home. So yeah, things are good right
now with LSU baseball. Great bounce back from losing the
series against Texas.
Speaker 2: What the Yeah, that's the other thing. Great response by
the team and twenty thing was, uh so, what what
happened in this Texas MISSOO series? Why do they both
only have seven games?
Speaker 6: I was wondering, I did everything just get advance? It
was in Como. They just canceled everything. I guess they
couldn't get it in.
Speaker 3: Because Texas is sitting here at six and one and
so to our ut correspondence.
Speaker 4: I actually don't know.
Speaker 3: I didn't know either till this morning when I was
looking at SEC scores.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh, I mean, if you remember that happened twenty twenty
three LSU South.
Speaker 6: Carolina, they only played twenty play two games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they couldn't.
Speaker 4: They played a double header on Saturday, so I guess
Friday was rained out. I don't know Friday or Sunday.
Speaker 6: But like TISA, there's still two games missing.
Speaker 2: If Georgia baseball unless they got they're missing two SEC games.
Texas and Miszoo are I don't know why. Yeah, well
they played a doubleheader, so I don't know if Georgia
baseball is going to be this good there. Yeah, I
was watching them this weekend. They're actually in I mean,
that's the thing. It's it's every game they're just they
can just hit the hell out of the ball, like
they're just winning by over there. Pitching is I mean,
they they put up some good numbers, but they're pitching
is whatever. But my god, I mean, look at look
at the SEC run totals. I know, so they put
up here's the Kentucky Series. They put up twelve seven,
seventeen against Florida eight seventeen fifteen, then against Auburn four. Uh,
then eleven and nine. Ooh, they got Texas next. That'll
be a good one to watch. Uh. Georgia and Texas
going toe to toe in Austin coming up this weekend.
Speaker 5: See, I don't know about the Missouri side of things.
I'm looking at Texas as a baseball schedule. They've played
three games and three SEC weekends. I mean they have
they have nine SEC games, So I don't I don't
know if.
Speaker 2: That's the website has to be screwed up. Then so
what's their record?
Speaker 6: Because this is this is texasos dot com.
Speaker 4: So they are three, they're eight and one in Conference A.
Speaker 2: Right, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas all eight and one, LSU the
only seven and two team. Then you get into the
six and three groupings with Alabama and Ole miss and
then you get around five hundred and then of course
the basement is Florida, Missipi State, South Carolina, A and
M and missoo.
Speaker 3: Everybody that comes to the plate going back to Georgia
looks like nineteen eighties college baseball, Like pen Cavilia looks
like he's getting up to bat every time for them,
it looks like the bat is a toothpick in his head.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I GI. Here's the deal, though, Georgia's going to
get better uniforms if they're going to be good at baseball.
Their their uniforms look like practice uniforms.
Speaker 3: I hate George the black Ones, Yeah, which is the
g Everyone that I've seen looks like yeah, it just
they all look like practice uni.
Speaker 2: He's like, come on.
Speaker 4: Now, I do like the seats that they have that
are like under them. Did you see a Jacob's kind
of like the dugout?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like remember seeing those a couple of years
ago because like Kirby Smart was back there watching a game.
I think you can sell shoe, and he was back there,
and the cameras like just kept finding Kirby Smart back
there anyway.
Speaker 2: Uh So there's your set standings, all right. When we
get back, let's wrap up our number one of OTB
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Speaker 7: Welcome to the seventh ranked morning sports show in America.
Off the Bench and with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 2: What's having y'all? We're back co t Bo? Did anybody
watch it in Look, we still got a ton of
sports to get to here. But anybody watch anything good
over the weekend. You have said a light lotus. Last
night I watched a Complete Unknown randomly, like on Saturday,
I did. I thought. I thought Chlame's performance was very good.
I almost think it's a credit to Bob Dylan that
he actually has a life that is somewhat drama free.
That the main conflict of the movie actually wasn't that
big of a deal. Like I didn't realize, well, no,
it seemed like no, no, I mean dude, I mean dude, No,
I told my wife, I mean you can't like the
second you lay eyes on Bob Dylan or Challame is done,
Like you know that dude is one of those artists
that needs new relationships to almost feed the muse, Like
he is never going to stick around. He is going
to and sorcel you and then move on. No, the
main conflict was just like him wanting to play you know,
the electric guitars, like just continuing to be traditional folk music.
Speaker 4: I love the Johnny Cash cameo. Well, I guess, but
I love that he's in it because have you ever
seen Walk the Line?
Speaker 2: I've actually never seen.
Speaker 6: This movie.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it is good. It's the only
couple of scenes. It is a good job.
Speaker 4: But you know how in a complete and known they're
writing letters to each other and walk the line. Johnny
Cash is like, oh, I just got this letter from Dylan.
So it's like a callback to walk the line because
it's the same.
Speaker 2: Direct and two of the best Oh is it really?
I didn't realize that two of the best songwriters too ever,
But but like I guess that's the difference is in
Johnny Cash's life you have massive drug use and jail
time and and really bad relationship like Bob Dylan's was
just a little more like a little more chill, I guess. So,
like it was all well acted, really well made. And
I'm not saying this is a bad thing. I don't
want you to create conflict out of nowhere. But the
main conflict of the movie was relatively low stakes.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was just like a music festival that just didn't
want electric guitar played. Yeah. I was like, oh that's it, okay, yeah, okay, sure,
all right, he just wanted the full music. Uh. That said,
it got me listening to Bob Dilan again from first
probably since high school, and very good, Yeah, very good.
Anybody else anything good?
Speaker 3: Oh man, I have great intentions to see stuff, but
a long weekend a lot of baseball for the Hester Cruz.
Speaker 6: So I had that chance to sit down.
Speaker 3: I was asking you, like you're in the break, like
I've gotten one episode of White Lotus down, is it worth?
Speaker 6: Is a juice worth to squeeze? And you said it is?
And so I'm gonna. I'm gonna buy you. I'm gonna.
I've watched season one and two, so I might as well.
Speaker 2: I literally made myself watch it just so I could
understand the Walter Goggins met which is very funny.
Speaker 6: He's alike. I love him, I love him and everything
he's in.
Speaker 2: Goggins is on fire right now.
Speaker 3: He's having a big moment, even like a Major League
Back to the Miners back in the day.
Speaker 2: Oh he's I've never seen Major League Back to the Miners,
but Goggins is in it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's like the bad guy.
Speaker 2: Damn. When did Major League Back to the Miners even
come out?
Speaker 3: Probably twenty five years ago, Dante, you got ten seconds
you thinkain?
Speaker 5: Oh no, I'm seeing working man this weekend, though excited
about it. Jason state them.
Speaker 6: Of course, jobs.
Speaker 5: Probably those lines are in that movie, and you know.
Speaker 2: What, I'm gonna sit there with my icy.
Speaker 3: No doubt, enjoy that, and I'm gonna know what I'm
getting into, and I'm gonna enjoy all ninety minutes of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, working man, what's the job? Our two offtnicks
Speaker 7: Off the bench,