Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Say Hester and Hester got it fart.
Speaker 3: A pat from carrying each other to a natty to
carrying each other on the.
Speaker 4: Air where there's brought control.
Speaker 5: Live from the Raising Kine Studio.
Speaker 1: It's off the bench, so.
Speaker 6: I can't say that.
Speaker 7: All right, Welcome back in oh t b Our number
two live from the Raising Canes Studio. All right, let's
get into it a launde just about Sean.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you why y'all are like really hyping me up.
Speaker 7: I kind of want Unhingelandra, but I also wanted to
be careful because we really love having a lot there.
So okay, So you know, because we're the last show,
I think it. I think I think it brokerag right,
Ring Hunt show, if I'm not mistaken. So you know,
oftentimes happens to us where we're the last show that
gets to react to anything being in the morning show.
But three media outlets are now suing LSU Athletics in
a case centered around access to public records.
Speaker 3: UH.
Speaker 7: The outlets, including local Louisiana media organizations, say LSU has
not fully complied with public records requests related to the
athletic Department. Under Louisiana's public records law, documents produced by
a public university are generally considered public unless they fall
under a specific exemption. So according to the lawsuit, the
media organizations argue LSU either failed to provide requested records
or took too long responding to requests tied to athletics
in their operations. They are asking the court to order
LSU to release their records and potentially cover legal costs.
So from Lshue side, universities often argue that certain documents
can be withheld if they involve things like personal matters,
private information, or.
Speaker 1: Ongoing internal reviews.
Speaker 7: Schools also sometimes claim certain communications fall under legal privilege.
This is something we've seen pop up around college athletics.
Nationaliants departments handle nil contracts and internal investigations. As more
money and attention flow through athletic departments, media outlets are
increasingly using public record laws to try to understand how
these programs operate. So the case will ultimately come down
to a judge deciding whether the requested documents fall under
Louisiana's public records requirements and whether LSU properly followed the
law when responding, all right, So Taylor Elandra, as soon
as we brought this up and we're going to talk
about it, I know both of y'all have an opinion
on it, and me and Matter are diving into it
as well with y'all, So kind of from y'all's perspective,
when y'all saw this come across the wire around noon,
maybe some initial thoughts.
Speaker 3: I think my initial thoughts were, what is like the
actual motive behind you doing this? Like I know that
you don't actually care if taxpayer like bottom line is,
if there are taxpayer dollars that are going to LSU Athletics,
it is very minimal. Like LSU we talked about this
during when Jeff Landry started being like, I'm worried about taxpayers.
I'm trying to figure out make sure we're not paying
for buyouts like blah blah blah. Like we all know,
LSU is generally self funded through TV money, through donors,
through like everything. Right, So it's just very much feels
like she had like Piper, Chris Nakamoto, and Todd Horn
all have an agenda that they're trying to do. To me,
that's how it feels because their lawyers said it themselves,
like why are you going after LSU because they're the
biggest show in town. People in Louisiana love LSU. I
was talking to Matt this morning, like, Matt and I
wouldn't be here if it weren't for LSU. There's no
reason for me to move to bat Aruge Louisiana other
than Louisiana State University and the athletic program that they
have their football, baseball.
Speaker 6: People care about that.
Speaker 3: So now you're over here suing LSU for public records
to try to find out if taxpayer money is paying
student athletes.
Speaker 6: To be honest, I don't care.
Speaker 3: If my tax dollars are paying student athletes because it's
really not doing anything else for the state. Like my
tax dollars don't seem to be going anywhere else.
Speaker 6: So if it's gonna go to the.
Speaker 3: Athletic department, sure, something that actually benefits Louisiana, I'm with it,
Like actually brings in money to the state.
Speaker 7: Okay, sure, yeah, with the economic impact of.
Speaker 1: This town runs on.
Speaker 8: L s U.
Speaker 3: A yes, So why are you trying to attack the
one thing that people love in this like not just
the city, but like the state of Louisiana l s
U is like the one there. It's the flagship university.
So now you're gonna sue it because they're the biggest
show in town. And the name of like transparency is
what you're trying to say.
Speaker 8: That tells me.
Speaker 7: That you don't care that it's happening, just care that
l She's doing it. You don't care if Louisiana TACs
doing it anybody else.
Speaker 3: And she says that she hopes that this like if
that the lawsuit encourages all the other schools to do it.
But like if you don't sue the other schools, I
doubt that any other school is gonna like just voluntarily
offer up how much they're paying student athletes, because why
would you Why would you tell other schools how much
your pain student athletes? Why would you tell other schools
how much money you're spending on recruitment? Right, Like it
just makes zero sense to me, And like if you
it just it doesn't make it. It makes it makes
me so mad, like when it's framed through a political lens,
like it's just so hard for me to take you seriously.
And I highly doubt that any taxpayer money is actually
going toward pain student athletes and guess what, student athletes
are not employees of the school, so it doesn't matter
to us, Like, why do I care how much they're making?
And like somebody brought up a great point, what about TOPS,
Like TOPS is taxpayer funded and students get that money,
So let me find out how much regular students are
making off of my taxpayer money with TOPS.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just makes no sense to me. You're gonna
dive in.
Speaker 7: Why only keep it at athletic right, keep it into
every student.
Speaker 9: Yes, anyone that went to journalist school knows that the
people that go to journalism school by and large have
this holier than thell mentality of I have to be
the one to inform the public wins, so self fund
most of the time, the public doesn't really care. Like
my question has always been like what are you actually asking?
Remember last year and look, I wanted to be fully fair.
I got this straight from Louisiana illuminator Piper Hutchinson wrote
this article and really kind of contradicted herself. Here the
landmark settlement memember last June where you were allowed to
pay athletes. We all know it's twenty and a half
million dollars. I could have the numbers wrong a little bit,
but I believe it's fifteen percent of that money to football.
Speaker 7: You kind of decide what it is, right, Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 9: Kind of like fifteen percent football, five percent men's basketball,
five percent women's whatever is left is distributed around the rest.
I's like we already know that. And in her article,
she says LSU system one point two billion dollar budget
for last fiscal year, more than eight hundred of it
comes from self generated revenue. Sure, there is a little
bit of outside funding, but like to a largest point,
like people aren't going to care where the tax dollars goes.
And like I asked him, Matt earlier before the show started,
like if Louisiana all of a sudden came out and said, hey,
we are tripling your tax dollars, You're going to have
to pay way more than.
Speaker 10: Normal to pay this, maybe I would have an issue.
Speaker 9: But as of right now, all I know is ipay
X amount of taxes, and I have no idea where
it goes. And honestly, whether it goes to LSU or elsewhere,
I don't really care where it goes. All I know
is that I have to pay this amount, and in
the article she said because LSU came out and said,
you know, it's a it's a competitive disadvantage if this
gets out and everything she writes in this article, you know,
in the past LSU has provided how much it pays
to its vendors and employees, including President Wade Rouse and
head football coach Lane Kiffin, without claiming it's a detrimental
to the university.
Speaker 10: The argument we have had.
Speaker 9: All year long off season, after all seasons and I
al started, which they're not going after an IL. It's
only the it's only the rest share in person il's
privately funded. Anyways, the argument we have had is you
cannot consider these athletes employees. So if they're not employees,
they're they're not releasing what they make like a Lane
Kiffin who's an employee, Like a Wade Rouse who's an
employee like that would be like, Hey, that student that
works part time at the Smoothie King or whatever it
is in the student union, I want to know how
much they make per hour. You're not privy to that information.
You have no right to that information. So I guess
my question would be, if we know how much money
is alligated to the athletes. We have no idea how
much goes to the students, and you don't really have
a right to know how much goes to the students.
Speaker 8: Why do you care?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Lily, if the point.
Speaker 9: Of this is to ruffle feathers and gain exposure, well
then profit you've a.
Speaker 6: Comg that's exactly what my biggest show in town.
Speaker 1: I hate to be by him. I hate to be
he told on himself.
Speaker 10: I hate to be this guy.
Speaker 9: But we have heard of Piper Hutchinson twice, once when
she came out and tried to attack LSU when they
were in the process of hiring Verds. Remember they brought
in Wade Ralphs. It was the whole Scott Woodward Ouster. Yeah,
you came after LSU for that. She's coming after LSU
for this after I promise the average person in the
state of Louisiana did not know who Piper Hutchinson is.
You're just using LSU for cloud at this point. It
just I think a lot of people just kind of
see through this.
Speaker 3: Transparency is fine, but not like the way that you're
going about this is like definitely shady. You definitely have
an agenda, You have a motive behind it.
Speaker 6: You don't really care about the transparency or not.
Speaker 7: I'm real honest. And Elanga and Taylor you both kind
of talked about it LSU Athletics and what it brings
to the area. And if if there is some tax dollars,
like because of how bad you've been in other things,
I wouldn't care because that brings good, That brings dollars,
that brings people staying here. We can go to health outcomes, right,
high rates of heart disease and high smoking rates in
Louisiana and no preventable care that they do to try
to fix those things. Education performance where Louisiana is at,
it's dead lasting almost everything. The poverty in our state,
the infrastructure maintenance in our state that is so piss poor,
it is so bad nothing ever gets fixed. If it
does get fixed, it takes seven times to do it,
and it takes seven years to get it done right.
Speaker 1: I mean like on one ninety my entire college career,
there was construction on it. It ain't that long of
a road.
Speaker 8: Like.
Speaker 7: Things like that continue to happen, and I'm like, okay, well,
if you're going to attack that, we don't use our
tax dollars for anything that's good.
Speaker 1: To Taylor's point, we don't know where the hell it goes.
Speaker 10: You don't know where any of your taxes.
Speaker 9: And somebody in the chats like Taylor, you should care
where your tax dollars go.
Speaker 1: It ain't to fix something, it ain't to make anything
better here.
Speaker 8: To pay this money.
Speaker 9: Very If my money goes up and less comes into
my pocket, then I care. But as long as everything
stays the same across the board, I don't want to
say I don't care, but I don't really have any
control over it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like, what are we supposed to do?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Oh, so we we all live in Louisiana and love
Louisiana because of what the people, the culture. It's not
necessarily because we have the greatest roads or the buildings
and the state budget is perfectly perfect. No, it's because
of the culture and what Louisiana means to everybody. It
means something inside of you, and part of that for
most people, at least not all people, is has to
do with some sort of athletics. Like yeah, it's the
ultimate glue. It brings people together always, so like I
even hate talking about this to give these people the
time of day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, right, because I'm with you on that.
Speaker 11: We all know like the type of person or persons
that would do something like this and what the motive
is it. Like, we all want transparency and everything. We
would love to know where our tax dollars go. But like,
if you're attacking something for a very one sided political reason,
whether it's the gang clout, whatever it is, all the
people doing it stand to gain something by getting their
name out there, whether it's good or bad. Right, Yes,
we could all stand up for the transparency blah blah blah.
But if for whatever reason you want to do some
smoking try to find some smoking gun. Gotcha, journalism, gotcha, legislation,
whatever it is, And that's what it is. To maybe
find something. Because we know that LICA Athletic is mostly
just self funded. If there is some sort of accounting,
whatever it is, the economical benefit of LSU, we should
spend more tax dollars on it, right, the economical benefits. Yeah,
the economic benefit that it brings to your attention.
Speaker 7: In our state is worse than any state in the
country right now, dead last people are.
Speaker 1: Leaving, and they're leaving quickly.
Speaker 7: They can get higher salarisults where there's a more diverse
job market in other places, you had a better chance
to get uh, you know, different jobs that a lot
of different people can do, not just one or two industries. Okay, Uh,
there's better quality of life in other states. We are
dead ass last and keeping people in our state. So
one of the things that actually keeps people here is
that Hel's you athletics, right, and so to continue to
try to attack that, to make the name for yourself,
like go fly kight.
Speaker 1: With it, because we're not here for it.
Speaker 7: Beat it, nerds, and that's all you're probably gonna get here, Okay,
mm hmm, because that's what you want. That's what you
on all these shows, what you've done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bringing your name up.
Speaker 3: No, Like I definitely, like I write like, it's not
like I want to give her attention, but it's like
you have to talk about it, and also like, yeah,
you have to bring it up.
Speaker 6: And also like I the the the thing is so stupid.
Speaker 3: That like people have to know that not everybody thinks
that this is a good idea and not like I
think both opinions need to be talked about, you know,
like we think it's dumb, period, and it's very much
a page out of Bob Man's book, where anytime people
get something good in athletics, like money gets raised in athletics,
or they get a new locker room or whatever.
Speaker 6: He's like, but what about the library.
Speaker 3: Why don't you ask like actually the like actual government
to help with the library. Why would LSU athletics, LSU
football makes all this money off of TV like donors,
private donors, whatever to be able to have that in
their facilities. Why would they take their money and give
it to the library. Like she's just taking a page
out of his book.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And like again I just I kind of feel
like this is all simple to figure out. I'm still
trying to figure out like what they're trying to pull
back the curtain on because again, we know it's twenty
and a half a million dollars And you could say, yeah,
but that's LSU. How much of the tax money's going there?
See how much tax money was sent to Louisiana State University,
And you have a you have a general idea. Again,
you're not gonna find out what each individual player makes.
But I don't really see how this is an issue
that they're trying to figure out.
Speaker 3: It's a again, it's a got she's looking for they
I keep saying, singing her out. It's three of them,
like they keep looking for a gotcha moment that they're
probably not gonna get.
Speaker 6: I can't.
Speaker 3: Like, I just don't really feel like a lot of
tax dollars are going to pay student athletes, Like I
just don't think that that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Last thing? Are other states? Have other states done this?
Speaker 7: I guess look at us, they're they're out here trying
to talk to talk to their manager.
Speaker 11: A bunch of Karen's out here, Can I can? I
h I don't want to talk about her in that
group anymore. Just shine a light, I bet, I just
want to. Can I end this segment on just a
little bit more lighthearted? Government taught?
Speaker 7: Sure?
Speaker 11: Okay, there was a report, So if you we're done
with the LSU thing, we're done talk about this, Okay.
This is a good transition to something I've read yesterday.
I've never left Huh. I just want to make sure
we're done with that, okay.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 11: Government spending a little bit of government waste. There's always
government waste, right The Pentagon reportedly and this past September
spent twenty two million dollars on steak and lobster at
the Pentagon itself. So the September for most of the
government in the military is like the end of their
fiscal years, so they have to have the end of
year funds like a use it or lose it type situation,
which most state funds do. All different colors of money,
like you got to spend it or you don't get
that same so like you find ways to spend it.
You want to talk about some government waste here, they
spent fifteen point one million.
Speaker 8: Dollars in Ribbi steaks.
Speaker 11: Hell yeah, six point nine million dollars in lobster tails,
two million dollars in Alaskan King crabs, one million in salmon,
one hundred and thirty nine thousand dollars on donuts a
lot of donuts.
Speaker 9: One million in salmon. Salmon ain't that expensive? One million
in salmon is insane, I mean. And one hundred and
twenty four thousand dollars in just ice cream machines. That's
in the one month of September because they needed to
use it or were they to use it.
Speaker 3: But let's find out if they're paying student athletes, this
cannot happen.
Speaker 11: But Louisiana's annules state budget of almost fifty four billion
to see if they do someone at twenty.
Speaker 9: I got to tell you that movie on the donuts
as well. Spent donuts are great.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm excited to take a break.
Speaker 7: I'm excited to talk baseball, LSU baseball and student athletes
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Already in field. We caught up with Jay Johnson yesterday
and always enjoy our conversations with Jay, but certainly enjoyed
it yesterday because he's very transparent. He doesn't try to
hide from anything. Like he talked about some of the
challenges that they've already faced this year. But as we
all know, we've been LSU baseball fans and covered them
long enough to know that now is when it matters
the most, this ten week grind of going through SEC.
Speaker 1: Play, and you do have a pretty good opportunity.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 7: I would not have said that before the year because
it was Vanderbilt vandabout's eleven and seven right now.
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt is struggling. They've had multiple losing streaks in this season.
Speaker 7: If you can go on the road and you can
win the series and I don't care what it looks like,
just win the series. We are talking about a different
feeling when you get back to Baton Rouge than what
we currently feel right now. You dropped a series to
Sacramento State, you lost to me Nie, you lost to Ull,
you lost to nor Eastern. We know all of that
all right now. You look like you were about to
lose to Creighton as well, but we saw something different.
We saw a young player get up to the plate
and hit a grand Slam, and we saw some juices
and we saw Jake Brown get up and he hit
another home run. Okay, so that's part of it. You like,
as you had to Nashville to take on Vanderbilt. But
if you come back home and you win two of
three games and then look, Oklahoma's record right now is good,
but you'll be back in the box with some momentum
against Oklahoma, a winnable series, and the math kind of changes.
For what we're talking about here, That feeling that we
had on Monday night. Before you get a Tuesday win,
all right, some of that starts to go away a
little bit. It's gonna take guys stepping up and young
guys on this team have stepped up, be it on
the field or off the field, like we talked about
with Jay Johnson yesterday. So I'm excited for it. I
want to see the Tigers go out there and compete.
If it's not going to be the guys that we
you know, count it on. He's the air quotes there,
because look, plans change in baseball.
Speaker 1: It's a sport of failure.
Speaker 7: You've got to deal with it and then you got
to come back and you got to go through adversity
and you have to thrive on the other side. So
Santiago Garcia, we didn't have him on the Bengo car
the other night. He came in and he dealed all right,
he's ready to step up. Who else is ready to follow?
That's gonna be what I'm watching this weekend. Who's ready
to step up and say no more of that because
it can't just be Jake Brown all year long.
Speaker 1: He's gonna need some help.
Speaker 7: He's playing is you know what off right now, but
he's gonna need some other guys to step up around him.
Right What where Garcia was able to do to come
in the other night and Cheron actually had pretty good
outing as well.
Speaker 3: No, but like I feel like I expect that from
Cheran though, like I expect Shearon to go out there
and have a good outing. Santiago Garcia was impressive because
we hadn't really seen that from him before, so I
was very like he was the one thing that stood
out to me whenever we won against Creighton the other night,
he came in and shut it down.
Speaker 1: And they now he's done that. Yeah, who's some other
guys that can do that?
Speaker 7: To your point about you can't just be on the
LSU baseball roster and spectation, right, that can't.
Speaker 1: We used to talk about that in football all the time.
Speaker 7: Hey, but if you're on scholarship here like and you're
not playing, like, find a way to play, Yeah, find
a way to get on the field. Is it a
core four special teams war daddy, whatever it is, buddy.
We need everybody here. Yeah, and we used to call
guys out. We need you to do more. It's okay
sometimes if you do it in the right way. Yeah,
that's what LSU baseball. They need some guys that weren't
expected to be the guys to give you something.
Speaker 9: To your point about sharing opponents are hitting seventy one
against him as in point zero seven to one.
Speaker 10: That's incredible.
Speaker 9: Now it's seven appearances, just nine innings, but seventeen strikeouts
and those nine innings giving up virtually nothing.
Speaker 10: That's another guy out of the pen. And Jay, you
were just talking about Jake Brown.
Speaker 9: Look, I know Vandy's eleven and seven, but you were
talking about how somebody outside of Jake Brown needs to
step up.
Speaker 10: And he's been pretty good at it.
Speaker 9: I mean, they had eight guys in their lineup atting
three hundred are better on the year, Like it's amazing
that they're eleven and seven like they are because their
bat lineup's been really good. I mean forty four home runs,
thirty six doubles, three eighteen as a team, they've been
really good. And then look when you look at the
matchup on the mound, I think he got a big
advantage on Saturday and Sunday. And I think that's what
does it for you, and that's why you've liked the
pitching rotation. Like tonight you're gonna see Connor Fintle for Vanderbilt.
He's really good. I mean three eighty era, thirty strikeouts,
three balls too, and oh record, he's good, but the
guy you're going against Saturday is going to be Wyatt
and na do I mean he has a zero ERA,
but he's only thrown an eleven innings fifteen strikeout, six balls,
so he had had a ton of extended outings. And
then William Schmid is your Sunday guy. You have an
advantage almost every single Sunday like to forty five ERA.
You're going to get to Nate Taylor four nine one
on Eer Schmidt thirty three strikeouts, four balls, Nate Taylor
twenty four strikeouts, twelve balls. So like you, Friday is
going to be a battle because Connor Findl's great, but
Cooper Moore and William Schmidd probably have the advantage on
the mound in this matchup.
Speaker 11: I agree with kind of what you're saying, Jake about
somebody needs to step up that we didn't think is
going to but also think somebody needs to step up
that we think would. I think that you got guys
in the lineup that were integral and win in a
national championship last year that have not played like that.
You guys that you brought in to be an immediate
impact that have not played like that we need the
people that we thought would be there and make an
impact to start making an impact. Steven Milam has been
hitting the ball hard, making contact. It just has not fallen.
Like at some point it's going to fall. We need
Steven Myland to become Monster Milam again, right right, Yeah,
he has played well in fifty right now. He has
played really well in the field, played defensive. We have
not played great on defense, Ja John, And I know
sometimes he puts a better bat in there instead of
and maybe kind of loses the glove a little bit. Well,
the better bats aren't being better bats to put the
better glove out there. Yeah, uh, we just kind of need.
Like baseball is such a mental, mental sport, like Jay
talks about that on this show. A lot of like
these part time coach, part time psychologists, like you have
to figure out like these these are these are young
men that are trying to figure out how to you know,
play on a new team. Every team, every single year
is a different team. Of course people graduating, but people
coming in and transferring in. Like it just the college baseball,
college athletics is so much different year to year. They
have to figure out how to get the diversity. They
have to mentally get past a point because it's not
a talent issue baseball.
Speaker 8: It's always a mental issue, right.
Speaker 11: You get cold momentum, there's momentum swings and sometimes they
can last for days. Games, they could last for weeks.
It will lsu. Baseball will figure it out. Now will
they figure it out before they put them elves too
far back? Like it's just kind of when they figured
out multiple people figured it out at the same time.
It can't just be like you said, Jake Brown, awesome,
Ben what four fifteen throughout the season.
Speaker 8: So we just need the guys that we thought, well.
Speaker 1: He's hitting four thirteen.
Speaker 7: The next closest is Derek Curry out three nine, right,
and then you go from three twenty nine to eighty
with York, So you know who I want to see
like a little bit more.
Speaker 6: Of is Yeaman and maybe in like a dhroll.
Speaker 7: Well, I know there hasn't been like a lot and
I know there's only a couple of bats, but I'm like,
got on base twice. They're comfortable in the box because
and I say that more of in what I'm talking
about of something, if you're not gonna do it, we
got to tell somebody else. And he's been there for
a couple of years, hasn't gotten a lot of runs
since he transferred from Dayton, but he got on base twice.
Speaker 1: Quality of bats. All right, let's see what you got.
Speaker 7: And I'm not saying that you roll them out there
all weekend, but guys like that, and that's why you
got it the.
Speaker 1: Other night, getting opportunity.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can try it out. You can d H
him and see what happens.
Speaker 1: Because you kind of don't really even have last game out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you really don't even have somebody that I
feel like has solidified themselves to be the DH.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Now LSU might have the right now.
Speaker 3: Their pitching stats look a little better than LSU's do Vandy's,
But I think that LSU has the pitching advantage over Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt,
like Taylor said, they are very hitting, very well right now.
Brandon Holcombe has ten home runs on the season, thirty
one RBI already. Right under him, Brody Johnston has seven
home runs already. The only person that's like putting those
numbers up is Jake Brown with nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Jay said they moved their fences into yeah,
a little bit oh yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So I think that LSU
like you have every opportunity to go to Nashville and
when it's gonna be tough, but you have every opportunity
to go into Nashville and win this series.
Speaker 7: You know who I want to see go out there
and be a bulldog its Case and Evans as well. Yeah,
I know the era four sixty six not maybe what
we expected, but still like early any yeah, when you
when you when you dive into it. I mean he's
what nineteen to the third still struck out thirty gapes, right,
I mean those numbers obviously are really good. Now seven
walks you got to cut that down, but you're starting
to kind of see it. I mean, batting average against
is still one to eighty nine. Like you said, he
gets in trouble kind of early, and he settles in
and this is we have to remember, this is like
a new role for him as well, Like he goes
from being the stopper yeah, to being the Friday night
guy and that you know doesn't happen.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and he's got.
Speaker 6: Better, Yeah, he has definitely.
Speaker 3: And I like what Jay said, I don't remember if
it was about Case and or Cowen, but he said
something like because they're both generally like end.
Speaker 6: Of the like middle relief or both, or closers or whatever.
Speaker 3: He's like, go out there and close this inning, Like
just close this inning, right, So if you're gonna go
out there in the first inning, close the first inning,
close the second, close the third. Like, I know it's
different coming out the pin versus starting, but I think
he's starting to finally get a speed under him and
we'll probably see a better outing from case And than
we have recently.
Speaker 6: And I do think it takes him a couple of
innings to just kind of get in his room.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 11: Closers are adrenaline junkies. Yeah right, They thrive and they
want that. So you gotta kind of calm the nerves
a little bit. You can't have that adrenaline pumping in
that first sentence.
Speaker 2: We this.
Speaker 9: We tried this with Zach hass a few years back
when Manary was here, Like he was a freshman closer.
He was electric out of the bullpen. He made the
national championship. Now you lost Florida, but you made it
all the way there. The next year, you tried Hassars,
your Friday night guy and it didn't work. You wound
up having to put him back in the bullpen. But
it feels different with Evans. Evans is getting the hang
of it. Is his outings have extended a little bit.
Speaker 11: Yeah, closers to me, like for like a football analogy
or like camp' scataboo a little bit.
Speaker 8: Yeah, ast the windows all this.
Speaker 9: Stuff, and it's like, you don't you don't want the
personality of camp Gott to be playing quarterback for you.
Speaker 10: There's roles for everybody, I mean, Jackson Dart Yeah, yeah, level.
Speaker 8: This window tastes like red.
Speaker 6: Did you say a red crayon?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I got me down a rabbit hole of looking at
Zach cass in his minor league career. He only made
a double A, never triple A. It was fun though
he's a great tiger. Though he's a great tiger. Yeah
he was will always be a great tiger.
Speaker 1: You said it, man, not was you said it?
Speaker 8: Man said?
Speaker 7: All right, we'll continue talking to that little L s
U SEC baseball. Can I give you an idea of
what's going on around the league as well. But a
great opportunity for L.
Speaker 8: S U.
Speaker 7: A Vanderbilt team right now that is still trying to
figure out themselves again eleven and seven all in the season.
If LSU can go win a series on the road
in the SEC in baseball, you all know how very
important that is certainly to start your year. More ot
B when we come back here live from the Raising
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Speaker 8: Don't know if I clarify something real quick?
Speaker 6: Go ahead?
Speaker 8: Alright, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 6: I'm scared.
Speaker 11: I got now you know you should be scared. I
had a little feedback in the the chat a couple
of sevements ago, and I was talking about the Pentagon
spending money. Yes, I didn't wanted to clarify something Okay,
I wasn't saying that was a bad thing. No, I
wanted to buy more steaks and more lobsters because I
do know that they do give troops that are getting
deployed a nice meal before so and I think they
should do more of it.
Speaker 10: For sure.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, you're good. I want to wanted to make sure
that was out there.
Speaker 6: You're trying out how hypocritical people are.
Speaker 9: Dude, we said we like donuts. Jake even asked us
how we spell it. Absolutely criticization about more. I think
they should have more ice cream machines.
Speaker 3: The point was that they're probably bigger fish to fry
than LSU athletics. Like there's so much corruption in this state.
I'm not really worried about if my tax dollars.
Speaker 6: Are pain student and.
Speaker 11: The government's spend, they use it or lose it. Yeah, funds,
it's kind of dumb, Like just give them a budget.
Like if they save money, the great.
Speaker 3: Roll over, roll it over, Like, come on, we don't
like Louisian's a rainy day fund.
Speaker 6: They don't have that nationally.
Speaker 8: Yeah, anyway, all the steaks, let's go get them all
the steaks.
Speaker 6: I agree, you're gonna go ship them off to the
side of the world to go.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, we like to track the pizza sales.
Speaker 11: I don't know what the pizza so they like last week,
oh yeah, last week.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the Pentagon pizza track or popping off last week.
Speaker 10: You know, the pizza places around there.
Speaker 9: They don't want anything major to happen, but also they're like, man,
we gotta need something to happen here.
Speaker 3: Actually, if like the majority of my tax dollars went
to supporting the troops and veterans that come home, I
would be completely okay with that.
Speaker 8: Daniel Ashner are asolutely right. More can be done to
support the troops during post service too, Absolutely no, it's.
Speaker 6: Like the most important part of it is post I.
Speaker 1: Think I'm with you fully get behind that one hundred percent.
Speaker 6: Thank you for your service, for everybody you served. We
love you, we appreciate you.
Speaker 7: I did mention that we'd give all the LSU or
sorry SEC baseball series this weekend, So just a quick
overpass here. Tennessee at Georgia, Alabama at Kentucky, South Carolina
at Florida, LSU at Vanderbilt, Mississippi State at Arkansas, Auburn
at Missouri, Texas A and M at Oklahoma, Old Miss
at Texas, and then.
Speaker 6: Let's see alab that's gonna be a good matchup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, album is I can take? You want to make
sure I had that right?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I know you're looking forward to Old Miss Texas.
How about though, Missisippi State of Arkansas number three verus U.
Speaker 9: I was talking about it a little bit yesterday, like
we didn't expect Arkansas the slow start that they got
off to either, but it's still a talent team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mississippi State is looking really good early in the season.
They got a Sreez who's just lighting the ball up.
So I think Mississippi State is set to make a
bit of a run. We'll see how far it goes.
But they're hitting really well.
Speaker 7: That'd be a good series, and the Oklahoma is gonna
be a good series too. We're going to give I
think LSU fans a pretty good idea of where Oklahoma
is before they come.
Speaker 1: To the box.
Speaker 11: How About from the record standpoint of LSU, Vanderbilt's like
the worst matchup in the SEC.
Speaker 7: I mean South Carolina Florida maybe, yeah, right there with it,
but Vandy does like very bottom, very bottom of the League,
so big weekend it always does, opening weekend of SEC
baseball with some marquee matchups, and we're gonna be able
to see where the Tigers are against unranked Vanderbilt. Again
not something we say very often over the last couple
of years decade, Vanderbilt not ranked. As we go into
SEC play, we still are going to have j clark
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Speaker 1: In our number three.
Speaker 7: We pushed it back, went long obviously in the opening
segment talking about LSU getting sued, and so we are
going to have coach clark On.
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