Speaker 1: All Star Toyoda presents Off the Bench. We have to
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Speaker 1: Players get broken down, then science gets denied.
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Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Mercedes
ben So Baton Rouge Studio starts.
Speaker 3: Now, Harry, welcome back in hour number two of OTB.
Here on one, O four five, ESPN, Baton Rouge, and
we are very excited to go to Omahall Now we
have got the man in charge on the line, Jay Johnson,
head baseball coach, for your LSU fighting Tigers coach. We
truly do appreciate the time as always. I hope you
got some rest. But my god, what a game last night.
Speaker 4: Yeah how about that? Doing back home? I feel like
we've been here forever, which is a great thing.
Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely, coach you. I mean last night, so my
son is Elevenue Baseball. But they had their World Series
in the Lafayette area and they had their opening ceremonies
and every parent I think that was there was like
excited for their child, but every one of them had
their phone out watching the Tigers play the game from
like start to finish. Nobody put their phone down. Everybody
back here is certainly locked in. I think you would
have enjoyed seeing some of the scenes from that last night, but.
Speaker 5: You were busy.
Speaker 3: You were busy trying to go win a game against
a very good Arkansas team and coach you say it
all the time, you get twenty seven outs, you gotta
get us twenty seven times. Arkansas only able to get
you twenty six. And what a ninth inning it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, first off, that's really cool. Thanks for sharing that
with me. About everybody watch it, and that's what makes
LSU special in LSU baseball. There's not many programs like
that that even at this stage in that game, would
be tuned in like that. But you feel it here
and you definitely feel the support back home. And yeah,
I mean, and that's our saying there's no clock in baseball,
and thank god, and especially especially with this team, and
they just they have a high level of beliefs and
I mean we played a Giant that's one of the
best programs. It's not the best program in the country,
and with great players. I mean, just it was this
high level of game. And sure there was some mistakes,
which that's part of college baseball and how it goes.
But our guys just ability to keep showing up in
the moment and just executing their plan in the moment
made me really proud. And that's that's kind of who
we are, and that's what we need to do.
Speaker 2: This weekend, coach, we're getting the privilege of watching this firsthand,
every single pitch, every single hit, every single defensive play,
and we're being able to see, like, how what makes
this team special? How special they are always showing up
in the big moments, always having each other's back. Championship
teams have this like innate DNA to themselves that's hard
to put your finger on, like what makes a team special?
At what point during the season or offseason, whatever it was,
did you realize or have the belief that this team
has the correct genetic makeup the team makeup to be special.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know if there was necessarily a moment.
I think I've just been very in tune and admired.
I would say their consistency to bring their best and
if you look at the season, especially in the league
that we play, there haven't been a lot of downs
or low points. We had a tough weekend at Auburn,
you know, against a team that was a number four
national speed as good as anybody. But outside of that,
like we've handled the success and the failure in stride
and have continued to show up. And that's their best quality.
And I think, you know, we talk about making every
game a playoff game. I feel like this team really
did that. And value of that is when you get
in games like last night, you're trained for it, you're
built for it, because that's how you've app wish every
game along the way. And I'm excited to see them
continue to do that this weekend.
Speaker 3: Coach, whenever you have a ninth inning like that, and
there's so many different plays I want to go over
with you, but I also want to pay respect to
people that might get forgotten in the build up to
that ninth inning. Zach Cowen, Jaden Knut, the job that
they did going over six innings only giving up one
earned run. I mean for Zach Cowen, you know, especially
like that's now over eight innings he's pitched against Arkansas
this year, has not given up a run to one
of the best offenses in the country. I know that
when you have you know, a dramatic ending like that,
and we'll talk about those performances. I want to make
sure we don't lose sight. And I know you haven't
of what Zach Collen and Jay Newton were able to
do for you.
Speaker 4: Oh, no doubt about it. And I just I'm super
proud of him. He's had an unbelievable season. Like we
are not here without him. He had a couple bumps
in the road the last couple outings, and yeah, that's
how it goes when you're pitching at the end of
the games and just leverage and you lose a couple
you know, we it had talked about, you know, I
got to know and kind of friends with Trevor Hoffman
from San Diego, who'd been in San Diego, and he
talked about this thought of, you know, the closure a closer,
you know, having it kind of almost amtesia when one
goes bad. But I'll take it to another level with him,
Like after that regional final game where we won but
he didn't Fitch gradey, he came in and we talked
and he kind of got it to another level mentally.
And he's already one of the most mentally sound and
strong players that I've ever coached. You know, I think
I've said that with you a couple of times, and
I just felt like, moment, circumstance, mindset, attitude, his arsenal,
a couple of weeks off, a little bit of a
mental reset, he would deliver for us and that he
was awesome. And I'm super proud of him because we're
not even sitting in this position without the season he's had,
so it only felt appropriate for him to pitch that
way last night.
Speaker 2: Coach, I want to ask you about one moment in
the game. Get your thoughts on what your mindset was.
A lot of the six down, one nothing, Arkansas decides
intentionally walk Pearson and Jake Brown steps up and just
absolutely makes LSU fans go crazy. RB I talk about
that decision, what went into that, and just that what
that meant to the team of him stepping up right
there as a pinch hitter and getting that hit.
Speaker 4: Well, Jake one of our best players, and what a
luxury to have one of your best players sitting there
to insert them at that time. And you know, because
of the pitching matchup, we had them available and that
worked out in our favor. And I told him before
the game it's going to be when it really matters,
and it might happen early, you know, because the Ditleshes,
who did a good job last night, hadn't gotten that
deep into games. But I said, it's going to be
with runners on base when they go to Gabe Gackle,
who in my opinion, is one of the best pitchers
in the country. And it was really interesting. There was
more than just hey, let's get the hit to take
the lead right there. I was actually thinking, like, Okay,
he's kind of getting to that point where if we
have to play tomorrow, it's going to be tough for
him to come back and be really effective because he
threw like ninety pitches and then three days rest and
then what he had thrown to that point, and then
they had Gibbler down in the bullpen, who's really tough
left on left. But I just kind of went with
I have one of my best players available with the
bases loaded, who does a great job of flowing the
game down. Is ultra competitive, Like, let's get him in
the box right now. And the only hard part is,
like Chris is Danfield is like one of our best players, you.
Speaker 2: Know, So.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just the rightys. The Rightings had not done
anything with Gackle. I mean, he struck us out ten
times the other day, and it just I just said,
made the decision that it was the best for that moment,
and then it was going to help us if we
actually had to play them again today to have both
of those guys thrown in this in this game last night.
Speaker 5: Coach, were we talking about that?
Speaker 3: And we're talking about, you know, kind of some of
the the changes in the lineup earlier. It's like it
really is like a Major League baseball approach where it's
you know, it's based off matchups, but you don't see
that often in college baseball. You kind of rolled the
same lineup out there often, you know, more times than not,
and you haven't done that. And we've talked about, we
talked about the last couple of weeks, like some of
the buttons you and the coaching staff have pushed have
really worked out, and those changes have come up in
big spots. Certainly we can go to Hernandez and look,
I don't care what the path for the for the
left fielder was. I mean, he tattooed that baseball last
night and put pressure on the defense. And then of
course Bear Jones. I mean Bear Jones coming up in
two different spots. He's hitting fifth in the lineup. He
hasn't been there all year. But all these buttons that
have been pushed have really worked out well because the
biggest moments of the game, it's been with someone who
hasn't been there all season long in that same spot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I mean, we worked hard at it. But
I said this last night, and I think it was
in relative to a question about Jared and his preparation,
and you guys were the athletes, like, it's about the
player executing in the moment. And then you know, my
job is just try to take their strength and their
skill set and align it to give them the best
chance to be successful and ultimately the team to have
the best chance to be successful. And that's what it is,
and we just we pay attention. I will tell you
yesterday's was the most grind in a long time of
how to figure it out and construct it and line
it up with their bullpen and the starter. And you know,
they've had a quick hook with him in the past,
and you know we were a little bit like, Okay,
Gackle's going to come in the game. This is the
time he's going to come in the game, but this
is what we need to do with the starter and
then they're going to go to Gibbler and so it
was tricky and it really really worked out last night.
And you know, just like I said, proud of the
guys for executing I mean, Derek, you know, getting a
ball in play after three tough at baths prior to
that and hustling down the line. They don't make the play.
You know, we got to caint a break on a
on ball where they didn't try to turn the double play,
you know, and this is this is that's one of
the best players in the country in Alois, like I mean,
and then Luis, Yeah, he tattooed it and then Jared
stayed on the ball. So we that's what good teams do.
You get a little bit of an opening and you
take advantage of it. And we've been like that all year.
So to me, that was just very much in character
of our team.
Speaker 3: You know, Coach, it's so fun to watch Bear, like,
no matter like what happens, right, he can have a
moment in the game and you know, the double play
there and he stretched out, the ball falls to the
ground to run score a lot of times. And we
all know this, like being former athletes, like we all
know this, like that that can go two ways, like
you can go and you can feel sorry for yourself
or like you said, when that moment comes, what do
you do?
Speaker 5: Do you step up and stand tall?
Speaker 3: And that's what is so impressive to me with him, Like,
no matter what the struggles are, no matter if it
is a bad play, whatever it might be, when he
has called upon in the biggest moments, tying the game
up with a a mammoth tank to the opposite field,
or to come up and win the game last night,
that's not normal, Like not every athlete has that, but
Bear seems like he has it and almost every time
in absolutes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm super proud of him. I mean, just the
growth over the three years has been remarkable. And I think,
you know, maybe because he's on the heels of some
of those guys that were big name guys with you know,
Dylan and Tommy, like people actually haven't talked about the
caliber of career Yeah this guy has had at LSU.
And you know, I mean we're here in the finals
for the second time in three years, and you know,
you know how hard it is to get to this
game and this stage, and the reason we're here this
year is largely because he came back, you know, for
his junior year when he was draft eligible last year,
and you know, it's had a tough first game, and
you know what did what competitors and winners do, you know,
got back to work and more importantly than work, kept
his mindset right and has really delivered these last two games.
And I'm very proud of them.
Speaker 2: Coach, you your team has proven to all of us
that nothing's too big for them. The lights are not
too bright. But you got a pretty tough job here
in the next couple of days getting them ready to
kind of reset, hit that reset button after a huge
emotional release last night, emotional victory. You got a job.
How are you going to handle the next couple of
days with you know, mental preparation, physical preparation, emotional preparation
for your team and getting them ready. How does the
next couple of days with a schedule line up for
you and how do you handle it leading up to
this championship series?
Speaker 4: Yeah, good question. And the first thing I told them
last night we actually it was k off at the stadium,
and so like we got on the bus and came back,
it's like, hey man, it's like straight to the meeting room,
like right now. And the first thing I said was like, hey, look,
obviously of a sooth good reason, but you guys need
to enjoy what we did accomplished tonight, Like I'm an
idiot if I don't allow them to do that. And
I wanted them to do that. It was an electric
atmosphere when we got back here, and I wanted them
to spend time with their families, and you just you
don't get nights like that in your life very often.
We've luckily had a couple of them here in the
last three years. It's amazing that, you know how similar
those two games were. But I wanted them to enjoy
it last night. I want them to They're all sleeping
right now. I should say, wants a question. They're all
asleep right now. And then, you know, we kind of
found a good flow with the position players late in
the season. You know, we've asked a lot out of
a lot of guys. So today we have we take
them in small groups of hitters and just get them.
You know, it's kind of their individual light work in.
They'll be really short and not not taxing. They're going
to lift today. Got a couple of pictures that need
to throw off the mound lightly and touch the mound.
We're taking them to Flemmings at four o'clock because that's
what we do. You advance to the next round, you
go go e to stay. So, yeah, the tough part
for me if I got so much to get ready
for the series, they're going to Flemings. I think I'm
gonna be sitting here hopefully, hopefully Jared Jones can bring
me a doggy bag or something like that, and then
you know, we're gonna We're gonna have a meeting tonight
at nine thirty. And then to me it's like, okay,
that's the complete reset and focused on on this next deal.
We get to go in the stadium and practice tomorrow,
which to me, you know, like that's that's one of
the best days of your life. Is there's two teams
at are three hundred and seven practicing tomorrow and so
so we'll go in there. The wind's gonna change, the
conditions are going to be hot, a little different. Want
to get reacclimated with you know, the park's going to
play a little differently than it has. Coaching staff, you know,
totally locked in on doing what we do to get
prepared to get lined up for you know, a team
that's a juggernaut right now on like twenty six games
in a row and playing very well. And then Saturday
is great. I mean it's six o'clock PM, which is
that's the times we've played, you know, three of the
days here, so we'll be able to stay in a
similar routine and get ready to go. But I think
if any team, we won't take it for granted what
we have to do to shift to focus. But if
any team has proven that they know how to do that,
it's this team. And then we'll get them lined up
for what each guy on the roster needs to do
to execute in the game and go and go for it.
Speaker 3: Coach, I mean, you remind me so much of my
first coach when I got the LSU, coach Saban Just
and the way you go about your business, the way
you prepare for a game, the way you get ready
for an opponent, and so like this time is different
than the last time that you got to the championship series.
Last time, you know, you played another game and you
had to come out of the loser's bracket, and you know,
so many decisions. I'm sure last night playing in your mind,
different guys would would get up exactly, like different guys
like we saw Anthony Hintsen pitching a little bit there
in the bullpen if he had to come in to
the game. But like, now that it's hit reset and
you didn't have that extra game, what does this feel
like as you prepare for Coastal Carolina, which I know
you you've already watched tap on them, Like how different
is it now that you didn't play that extra game
compared to the last time you got there? Like, does
it like truly feel like a complete reset for you?
Knowing that now everybody's available? Of course last time, you know,
Paul Skeens didn't pitch in the Championship series.
Speaker 5: But now everybody's a full go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank god, by the way, Like I mean, because
you know, I didn't want to say anything the other day.
There's nothing anybody can do about it, but that rain
deal split day. Like we're already in bracket too, where
there's a little bit of a challenge in that which
I don't if you're an Omaha, I don't ever care
about that, but like, but there was a little bit
like when we got the lead two to one, it
was the last nine outs, we're going to be Chase
in Anthony and we're going to win it last night
to give us the best chance to win the National championship.
And then I mean the end of the game was chaos,
you know. And I do want to say, like, Chase
short has been unbelievable here, Like I mean that was
even last night, like third time in four days, and
he got the ground ball and Michael did a good job.
Danny tried to turn it, Jared tried to stretch, like
we almost got out of that inning, and now you're
three outs away in a two to one game, and
that got lost because of all the chaos in the
eighth and the ninth inning there and then it was
gonna be Anthony in the ninth and then this it
was tricky because I felt like I felt like if
it got to tomorrow and we had to split the
game between Kate and Anthony, we were going to be
in great shape. But that was going to significantly hurt
our chances of winning this weekend if we had to
do that, so we went pretty aggressively at it, and
then if it had gone to the tenth at five
to five, he was coming in the game. I was like,
there's no way I'm letting this team. There's no with
the effort they just gave to get back to five five,
there's no way I'm letting this team lose this game.
And that Anthony was going to trot out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, gosh. I mean, I'm glad they finished it. I'm
glad LSU is ready to go. And Coach, you got
everybody rooting for you back here, certainly. I mean, I
told your story about the World Series last night. That
is a factual story. Everybody's watching it. Coach, I've told
you this before. I mean, I've got five kiddos, as
you know, and our baby girl two years ago, she
was about to be born. My wife is in the
hospital bed ready to go, but she's watching LSU and
Wake Forest. She does not tell the doctor to come
in until Tommy White hits the walk off home run.
Hand to God, this is a true story. We're all
watching the game in the hospital room. She is in
the bed about to give birth. Tommy White walks it off.
She says, all right, you can call the doctor in
now and then had our baby girl about ten minutes later.
Speaker 4: Let's go so for her second birthday. Let's win another championship.
Speaker 3: As absolutely, let's go. Coach, You're the man. I can't
thank you enough. I know what today's like for you,
not only with responsibilities, but trying to get your team
ready for a championship series.
Speaker 5: Again.
Speaker 3: We're all rooting like hell for you back home. Cannot
wait to watch it this weekend. We appreciate it.
Speaker 4: All right, guys, have a great day.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: There he is LSU had baseball coach Jay Johnson good
enough to join us. Man always so gracious, uh you know,
with his time and just.
Speaker 2: Great the time constraints he has right now, just to
make a couple little few moments to come in and talk,
share a little bit of his thought process with Louisiana.
I know that man. That man is impressive. I'm sorry
he's gonna go hungry there. I don't think Jared Jones
has ever had any leftovers misteak.
Speaker 5: Out too many old doggie bags.
Speaker 2: Jones is gonna.
Speaker 5: Chance to somebody else. I don't know. The bear is
going to bring.
Speaker 2: The If you advance, you get a good steak.
Speaker 3: Hey, I know you too, and I know that you're
you know, nobody loves flimmings, like like this guy over here,
I love a good steak so real quick.
Speaker 6: When I called him, I was like, oh, thank you
so much for joining us seriously, and he was like, well,
I figured I've been doing it the whole time. I
should keep it going. And I was like, yeah, you
can't mess with Juju.
Speaker 3: Trust me when I say, Elonda, I'm glad he said that,
because I was going to try to format a text
that said something similar if he didn't get back to
me this morning, like hey, hey, I know baseball superstitions.
We've done this every Thursday during baseball season. It's Thursday.
Speaker 5: I kind of told the people, you're gonna come on it.
Yeah one.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: It was like, how are you doing. I was like,
I'm doing great.
Speaker 2: I'm doing amazing.
Speaker 3: Man, gosh, love that guy and that look. Last night
was was fun. So we were we're Youngsville actually Lafyet
Area and Hoddy's doing their world here and they had a cool,
very cool opening ceremonies situation. But so they had a
fastest Man competition and an around the horn competition, you know,
fastest team that can do it. So people would be
filming their son, their team and then immediately when they finished,
boom phone, sure, ESPN.
Speaker 5: Plus or whatever however they take it. I don't know.
I don't know why I didn't.
Speaker 3: I should have taken a photo of it, because there
was two fields that had two full stands, and I
would say ninety five percent of them had their phones
like this, and we all know what you're doing. You're
watching LSU baseball, and like when Jake Brown got the hit,
like the roar of this youth baseball crowd was pretty
awesome because everybody's there against each other, but they're also
there for the times and so.
Speaker 2: And the kids on the field like it's like we're
between ending these guys, what what are y'll cheering for?
Speaker 8: Well, we did get we did something good. They're like
it was a ground out. The first was freaking out
O the.
Speaker 3: Best part so likely around the horn competition. It was
like picture to catcher and catcher to third third seconds.
You know, it would have been really bad if when
Jake Brown hit that the two runs if it would
have been because of a drop, like and a kid
would have dropped the ball at the same time, and
everybody that kid would have been like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Be kicking dirt.
Speaker 5: Oh man, kids say, oh man. Now, I don't know,
they see a lot of shis.
Speaker 3: I talked, I mean, I thought you were about to
say the I mean, Mikey said it last week.
Speaker 2: I was like, he did.
Speaker 5: Nobody's listening the FCC, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think like seven people work for that company.
Speaker 5: Don't mess with Yeah, and.
Speaker 3: Plus like he didn't say to t oh, I forgot
about our Oh.
Speaker 5: My gosh, what what was she saying? What was she
talking about?
Speaker 7: You were asking her about what the kids say these days?
Oh yeah, she said something that had the.
Speaker 2: You know, if you're just quoting somebody, you don't get
in trouble with what you say.
Speaker 5: No, no, waken, that's not how it works.
Speaker 7: Not true.
Speaker 5: We had a high school intern.
Speaker 7: Won't let me be, let me be be.
Speaker 5: We'll find the clean version of that, find the clean
version of that.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: I know we got to take a break.
Speaker 3: But again, I want to thank Jay Johnson for coming
on with us all season long. He doesn't have to
do that. It's not a paid deal. He's not a
sponsor tied to it. He just does it, you know,
he does.
Speaker 2: It for the OTB good juju that he just got.
Speaker 5: There's probably some of that, you know for the cant Clays.
I actually don't hate it.
Speaker 7: I like it better than the other one.
Speaker 5: I actually don't. Yeah, the other one was too close
to the sun.
Speaker 2: That's not a soft day.
Speaker 5: All right, we'll take a break.
Speaker 3: I want to recap what Jay just uh you know,
was talking about there with a lot of different situations,
a lot of different players, and yeah, on the way out,
can we get this man some flemings to Actually, I
think we should reach out to the base well s.
I d right, let's door dash on something I was
about to say, We'll do door dash. I think we
should get where he's at. We'll send it to Bill's room. Yeah,
because you know we don't need just in case we
need J. Johnson's room number out there on door dash,
we send it to Bill's room.
Speaker 5: Yes, and we feed J. Johnson.
Speaker 7: I love that.
Speaker 2: That's a great idea.
Speaker 7: Write a little message on it from the O TV crew,
from the.
Speaker 2: O TV Fox.
Speaker 3: I think I think that would be a great way
for you to integrate yourself to coach.
Speaker 2: He doesn't really know me, I already love. He takes
point like you can buy it.
Speaker 5: He gives you like you can questions.
Speaker 2: Great question, he's that's right. I've been here twice, Yeah,
interviewed him twice. I didn't hear you get any good
great ones.
Speaker 5: I didn't know. I didn't know. Nope, I hadn't hadn't
gotten one.
Speaker 6: This guy, he's used to Jake having good questions.
Speaker 2: Maybe like surprising this pile going on at this point. Yeah,
an embarrassment of riches over here from Jake's questions.
Speaker 3: Nothing like a twenty five minute second to get things started.
Speaker 5: He'll beat the bench.
Speaker 3: Do we think that there was some ice cold dose
Sequis eliminated last night?
Speaker 5: It wasn't just the hogs got.
Speaker 2: To he said. He kind of let him go celebrate
a little bit. We can't be for sure certain, but
I'm sure there were some bottles with two x's on it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I was just thinking maybe even the fans.
Speaker 3: But you know, if you're of age, when you're there
in Omaha, what better time to go for dose?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: It's always a great time. Lake beer, beach.
Speaker 2: Beer, pull beer, Omaha beer, Airport beer, Studio beer, any beer.
Speaker 3: You should grab an ice cold, do sequis, drink responsibly,
go for dose.
Speaker 2: See that delicious cold green bottle, cut open a fresh lime,
squeeze it in there. There's nothing better that cold Mexican
lawger go for dose. Do secies do sekis?
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baby riding in the leg with a move, Hey baby,
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Speaker 5: Hurricane Chris Tree Force Finest.
Speaker 2: Also Halle Barry maybe heard that song. Yeah that was
a banger too. He was like fifteen when he made
this song.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 11: All right, say the name again, Hurricane Chris Port City Classic,
Ratchett City Agency Chris.
Speaker 2: Uh see, it's not his real name. Was real name
Hurricane Mike. You changed it to Chris.
Speaker 8: Jesus so stupid.
Speaker 7: I don't love that one.
Speaker 5: I needed you to do some research here.
Speaker 3: When's the last time two teams faced off in the
Championship series both undefeated?
Speaker 5: This feel like it's been a minute.
Speaker 2: Is this.
Speaker 3: Got two teams playing some really good baseball? And we'll
preview Coastal Carolina certainly tomorrow show. I've already reached out
to the voice of Coastal Carolina Baseball to try to
have him on the show. So we'll see if we
can get that done, get that all finished up.
Speaker 5: They're good double I had lost since April.
Speaker 2: Is it true that they've never lost in Omaha?
Speaker 5: I believe the or eight no eight no in Omaha
in Omaha.
Speaker 2: Decent.
Speaker 5: Yeah, strong to quite strong. It Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, that's what we talk about with Coastal Carolina.
It's it's not like a normal mid major. It's just not.
It's it's like Gonzaga and basketball. You know, it's like
Boise State in football. They're different, they're not you know,
and look in Boise and Gonzaga haven't finished the deal, right.
Gonzaga has been to a title game a couple of times,
they've been to the final fours, had won one.
Speaker 5: Coastal's one one, so.
Speaker 3: They are they're like, yeah, they have every belief that
they can go win and make it a second College
World Series title.
Speaker 2: Now, I do think they were on the weaker bracket
leading up to this.
Speaker 3: On paper, On paper, the two best teams played last night,
right for sure, But yeah, coast.
Speaker 2: What I said might not be factually right, but then I.
Speaker 3: Mean, look in the head, you know you had Murray
State on your side. But I get what you're I mean,
U c l A hadn't lost in the postseason when
they got there, so.
Speaker 2: But hey, they haven't even sniffed drama. So I mean
they've they have, They've I feel like they've dominated. Watching them,
doesn't seem like they have any weaknesses anywhere. They just
play really good baseball. And it's I've watched them a
couple of times already and it's been fun to watch
them because they hit the ball well, they played good defense.
They just look like a really good, sound, well coached
baseball team. And uh, I think it's mean it's gonna
be a great matchup. I mean two three team.
Speaker 6: Sorry, So out of these, this is gonna take me
a while to like really get into it and see
which ones were undefeated when they were facing each other.
Speaker 7: But out of these, it tells.
Speaker 6: Me who was undefeated going into the series, but not
if the opponent was nineteen forty seven, California was undefeated.
Speaker 7: Okay, I don't think we need to go that bout
two thousand. The last time it happened was two thousand
and two Texas.
Speaker 4: UH.
Speaker 6: Texas was the last team to win the World Series
and go undefeated in the World Series, and then Miami
in two thousand and one, LSU in two thousand, LSU
in nineteen ninety seven, LSU in ninety six, cal State
Fullerton in ninety five, Oklahoma ninety four, Pepper Dyed in
ninety two, LSU in ninety one, and then Texas eighty three.
So it's gonna take me like a minute to go
back and look at the series.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: So I don't know if they're.
Speaker 2: Like, gosh.
Speaker 3: Hmm, yeah, we're gonna do some research, because I'm seeing
some stuff that I don't even want to put out
there until I do some far like for the research into.
Speaker 5: The numbers there, just say it fact check later.
Speaker 3: Nah, Now, people get in trouble when they do that.
I try to try to throw facts out here. But
the entire point of all of that is, like it's research.
Like it's not just like, oh, that happened last year. Yeah, ah,
that happened two years ago, Like you got to do
a deep dive until the last time that this happened.
Speaker 2: The game ended at like ten last night. It's eight
thirty five in the morning. We hadn't done a lot
of research yet. We're just celebrating right now the tie guys. Yes, continue,
So actually, I'm just excited.
Speaker 6: It might have happened in two thousand and two when Texas,
because Nebraska beat Baylor and then they beat Texas Tech
and then they beat Kansas State two faced Texas. So
it might have been in two thousand and two that
it last happened, actually.
Speaker 7: With Nebraska versus Texas.
Speaker 3: Called Nebraska, who got the Internet? Okay, I'll go ahead
put it out there. Can this be right? Like a
Google search says so the first time ever that both
teams entered the Championship series undefeated.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 6: That was that was again like the format, the wrong one. Yeah, yeah,
it didn't happen in two I was looking at the
wrong thing.
Speaker 7: But yeah.
Speaker 3: So through decades of College World Series and with its
current double elimination bracket in best of three finals format,
there has never been an occasion where both finalists were unbeaten.
Teams have gone undefeated individually Texas and five Oregon State
in two thousand and seven, but never together. Yeah, so
it says so Prior to this year's matchup between LSU
and Coastal Carolina, it has never happened before that both
teams reached the finals without a loss.
Speaker 8: We know that's impressive. We know Coastal had to have
been Yeah, but I just checked. They beat Arizona and
Arizona did not. Arizona loss, but they did.
Speaker 2: They went five.
Speaker 5: And oh he was the coach at Arizona back then.
Speaker 2: I believe it was mister j.
Speaker 6: Johnson and who beat us in the Super Regionals in
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5: Cost to Carolina black ground.
Speaker 2: All things come back to this weekend.
Speaker 3: So LSU does have history with Coastal. Lshu's head coach
has history with Coastal. So they might not play often,
but this certainly means something now it's the finals. Yeah,
he might not say it, there's some uh, there's some
old stories to go back and lean on as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he might not say it, but he didn't like him.
I know. I've talked to Jay twice. Now I can
tell he didn't like him.
Speaker 8: Acts to grind you know Jay really well, Oh yeah,
you got two from him.
Speaker 2: Those are some of the greatest out of boys I've
ever had in my life.
Speaker 5: Do you feel like you were floating over the conversation
when it happened, I.
Speaker 2: Was like hovering over my body watching myself ask that question.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I could feel it. You can feel it as well.
Speaker 2: You can feel it, sweet question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a firep coach. And uh Like, he's like,
did I.
Speaker 5: Want to go straight into the film room? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I did? He probably actually did. But he's like, I
wanted them to celebrate that victory. Those do not happen
very often. And he made the joke and he's right,
like it now, It's happened to us a couple of times.
But I'm glad he allowed them to enjoy that night.
You don't have a game today, right, you don't have
a game tomorrow. You can relax a little bit, you
can reset, refocus, go have a hell of a practice
inside the stadium. And he said it, there's over three
hundred teams that do this and only two are practicing
over the next two days, and they're going to be
one of them. So I like the approach the coaching
staff getting ready. My man ain't even going to Flemings.
He's going to get somebody to bring him some leftovers.
Speaker 2: Door dashing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and by that, I mean I'm going to take
Flynn's phone and do it for him.
Speaker 5: He'll forget.
Speaker 2: What a powerful comment. Though. It is so cool to
be able to go out on the field and practice
tomorrow because there's only two left practicing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, uh, look, it's like a high school
football right, what do you want to be doing practicing
daring Thanksgiving when everybody else is off and celebrating and
eating a lot of ham and turkey.
Speaker 5: As like a high school football coach, you want to
be coaching. It means you did something right.
Speaker 3: Kind of same situation here, you're coaching, you're practicing tomorrow.
Speaker 5: There's only two teams doing that.
Speaker 3: So all right, we're going to We're gonna put the
order together on Flynn's phone. We're gonna send it to
j Johnson. Get this man some food. We'll schedule it
for like he's at four o'clock. At four o'clock, four o'clock,
we're going to schedule a steak dinner. That's an early dinner.
It's like a senior citizens type situation. Maybe they don't
have up there, but it feels like a real Piccadilly situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody, we're gonna to send somebody down to like
the hotel restaurant to get him some like real silverware,
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get home, trying to get back to the br Here
was the call to tie it up at three. Barr
Jones at the plate, trying to extend the game just
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into the game. After the Hogs score two runs on
a ball that didn't leave the infield.
Speaker 5: But here was Barr Jones tying it up at three.
Speaker 13: There swings high the air, right center field, going back,
going back, It is gone, justin Thomas Junior, cap running,
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We're tied three.
Speaker 5: All.
Speaker 2: I guess somebody out there would debate it that.
Speaker 3: That's not the biggest of the sixty four, but it's
gotta be up there in the top two or three
biggest home runs of Jared Jones' career as a Tiger.
Speaker 5: Huge. I think you're on something. I mean, I don't know,
I don't know.
Speaker 3: There's been some great regular season home runs by the Bear,
but I that's gonna be the top one for me,
and I do love that. Bill was like, ah, you
got it all.
Speaker 5: I don't think that was gonna get over the fence.
Speaker 6: To be fair, it was like you said earlier, it
was so high up that for me it was kind
of hard to tell.
Speaker 7: But then I saw Bear's reaction and I was like, oh, yeah,
that's gone.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's always so funny, like being in the booth right there.
It's like you'll say something sometimes and you like you
don't even remember saying it. Like when LSU beat Old
Miss this year in overtime, I let out like a
Rick Flair WU on the broadcast and I don't remember
doing it. But every time that's play back, I'm like, yeah,
that's me.
Speaker 5: I'm that idiot, or.
Speaker 8: Both of your dog he's always like, come on ball,
most of them when they're waiting for a strike call,
he's like, come on blue, come on blue.
Speaker 2: Him in the back. It's great. Yeah. Most times, like
when you're watching on TV, you can tell off the
bat by the angle and the speed that it leaves
the TV screen that it's like, oh he got ahold
of that, that's got a shot. The ball trajectory on
TV it looked like every pop up that's hit into
the outfield that just falls in short center field or
mid center field, whatever it is. But yeah, it was
the body language. He pimped it.
Speaker 5: Yeah danger, no one.
Speaker 3: Uh here is Luis her Nandez to tie up the
game at five, the one.
Speaker 13: Oh from Gibbler swung on a line drive to left
field coming in.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be dabbling and he missed it.
Speaker 13: It's over in the corner coming into score is five.
They'll send in Milum. Were tied at five. All let's go,
hey now, one of the best defensive teams in all
of the country. And Dablon took a chance on coming
in trying to get the line drive and it rick
Ache's off his body into the corner and we are
tied at five.
Speaker 3: Ball wow, oh yeah, man, just trying to talk to
the baseball as you heard there and just trying to
find a way to get it on the ground chance
for the Tigers to score two runs.
Speaker 14: I didn't know, man, Can I I need to start
doing that in the football broadcast, just willing it. Yes,
like if for running backs like out and over space,
just come.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry doing that the box.
Speaker 3: You're like drum spin spin, Yes, absolutely, what wasn't in
my repertoire, but it's in his.
Speaker 2: Don't want me on the mic watching a quarterback dropped
the pass for sure, fly ball caught.
Speaker 5: That would be you.
Speaker 2: No, I would just be the obnoxious person. Event what
do we do in.
Speaker 7: I don't think I could call a baseball game.
Speaker 3: Look, you can say those things, just do it under
your breath and you break pencils where the camera can't
catch you. How many pencils you go through during the
seventeen all right? Here is the final call. LSU walks
it off Bear Jones.
Speaker 5: Two balls, one strike to Tara Jones.
Speaker 13: Fernandez down at second pace, bottom of the nighte ty game.
Speaker 5: This one hit in the airline.
Speaker 13: Drive, It's off the glove of Kochiel into center field.
Here comes Hernandez.
Speaker 5: He is safe.
Speaker 13: Tigers win, Tigers win. They are headed to the Championship Series.
Here in o Mall, Bye Bye Arkansas. The Tiger's celebrated
right center field, Jared Jones rips the cover off the baseball.
Kochiel couldn't hold it at Arkansas. All season is over.
Speaker 3: Great call from the voice of the LSU Tigers, Chris Blair,
Bye Bye Arkansas. Indeed, everybody told us and on this show,
on the other show, I do Arkansas, Arkansas, Arkansas team
to be team to be most complete team in the country,
most talented team in the country. Well turns out they
got a tiger problem and they can't figure it out.
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whole world. The difference between tears and celebration. It was
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Speaker 3: And as Bradleydale Pioto once told us, an inch is important.
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