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Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, off the bench with Jacob
Hester and T Bob Aybart.
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Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob a bear.
Speaker 3: Uh we're back to oh tb out of them craking up. Okay, guys,
you got Jay Johnson coming up at a thirty LSU taking
on Omaha in the box this weekend. I got to
look up my time first pitches today. Actually, you know,
for all the thinking about the series? Are we in
another afternoon boys?
Speaker 4: Four baseball?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay, yeah four Sat Paul's three thirty.
Speaker 4: Are we still going?
Speaker 5: I cleared my schedule, I know, I know, I'm I
had stuff to do today and I canceled it all
because you said that you didn't have anybody to go with.
Speaker 4: And then I said, I'll go with you.
Speaker 3: We'll hit up Daniel, y'all go to the block or
go to softball, and yeah, no, it's it's it's just
wait to hear this. It's too cool. I mean, straight up,
let's just be honest, guys, it's too cool. I don't
know how those ladies are gonna do it at six
pm tonight.
Speaker 6: To exact, Memphis has soccer at six and at Breck,
which is like ten degrees colder.
Speaker 7: You didn't. You didn't cancel it because of the cold.
Speaker 3: No, me and Jet Pat gonna be there.
Speaker 7: Bo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I tried to. He was. You know, look,
I couldn't get anybody. I couldn't. Yeah, I couldn't get
any of my daughter's friends because that I was trying
to go for her birthday and get a bunch of
friends out there. Yeah, Sunday, uh, and so I was
trying to get a bunch of her friends out there
and everybody you birthdays. Katie's is tomorrow, you guys. Happy
early birthday Katie.
Speaker 6: Your grandma's is tomorrow to wow, y'all both, Happy early
birthday to Eland's grandmother.
Speaker 3: Memphis is the fourth Wow. Yeah, I guess h What
is it like? What is that time up with? What's
nine months ago? May?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 7: June and July?
Speaker 3: I don't know? Do you get that right off it?
Majo take I'm impressed it was quick school education.
Speaker 6: I'm Calton twelve now, fellas, but yeah, but counting like backwards,
you know, it's like saying.
Speaker 4: Ab into it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I maybe just spring in the air
like rebirth.
Speaker 9: I don't know, may a lot of a lot of
like early summer Vaca's maybe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great month anyway, uh so no, sorry long but
when it warms up catch me at the burn. Also
very sad. I realized I'm not gonna be able to
go to L's Hue gymnastics week because but that's gonna
be whatever. They don't need me. Still pegged, still awesome.
Not next week but the week after, right, uh no
in next week? Uh, next Friday, we're out there. We
got to that. All right, let's go because Marty Grass,
I'm saying like we are out. Yeah, it's gonna be
the show Yep Tata show, Baby Tata and a Laundra
takeover of O TB. It's a height over a take over.
Speaker 4: Can't wait like that?
Speaker 6: Wait, you're out next week though, I'm assuming if you're
going to New York next week?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Hell yeah?
Speaker 4: Wait so y'all are out next week too, next week
the week.
Speaker 3: After all right, Yeah, I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be.
Speaker 4: I'll be back Thursday.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and get this show starter.
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solution experts. All right, guys, So a couple of news
pieces to get to here. First off, congratulations to Taylor
because he has crunched the numbers. There's a lot of
talk about Derek Carr going into next season. You mentioned
hour one. What do you do with Derek Carr? It
seems like a foregone conclusion. You cut him now or
you cut him later. And if you're going to foregone
cut him later, does it not make sense just to
rip off the band aid and do it now, regardless
of price. Do you accept having a toxic, lame duck
quarterback that the city seems to hate to like almost
just an un earned degree, Like it is actually crazy
how bad the relationship is compared to the level of play.
But Tata thinks maybe the Saints should think about holding
on to Derek Carr, and not only that, but that
Derek Carr should potentially be Jake one of the MVP
favorites for the NFL in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 9: Well, it depends you gotta re sign Marquez Valdez Scantling
because no, what do you mean nothing screens MVP like mvs.
Let me explain. Aaron Rodgers, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen. Yeah,
Aaron Rodgers was the MVP in twenty twenty and twenty
twenty one.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 7: Mahomes was the MVP.
Speaker 9: In twenty two, He was the Super Bowl MVP in
twenty twenty three, okay, and then Allen.
Speaker 7: MVP in twenty twenty four. What do they all have
in common?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 9: Marquis Valdez Scanting was all on their teams at some
point in the season.
Speaker 3: There you go, guys, that's math that stats. Okay, so
check the car facts. As long as DC has MVS,
it's MVP coming in twenty twenty.
Speaker 7: Three, coming to your city.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there we go, There we go, there we go.
That was better. I tried to make it right. Uh, Jake,
how we feel trying to like rhyme mansion in with Canson? Yeah?
And with Canson? Yeah, I mean it was that t
pay Yeah. I think it sounded prettyn good to me
when he did it. Yeah. Uh, Jake, are you jealous
that Justin Herbert doesn't have NBS? Otherwise he too could
be an MVP. No, he's got Lad McConkey. Guys, Taylor,
could you check how many MVPs we had let McConkey
on their team the past five years? Uh?
Speaker 7: None? He hadn't been in the NFL for five years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you didn't need the last piece of info.
Speaker 7: But none.
Speaker 3: Factual answer is not factually none have had it. How
any national championship MVPs he played with two? What are
we talking about McConkey. What about him? He's played with
college national championship game MVPs. We're not talking about coageable.
We're talking about NFL MVP Award, and now MVS is
a direct barometer for who's going to win the NFL MVP. Okay,
even though I still don't understand. Honestly, we kind of
let this slide. How did Josh Allen beat Lamar Jackson
his worst stats in every single category?
Speaker 9: Yeah, we talked about it. I feel like it's kind
of like a merit based toward, Like, for example.
Speaker 6: I think it was too like who Josh Allen was
working with. Yes, it was a large factor.
Speaker 3: In Yeah, I know, I keep hearing that. I don't.
Speaker 7: We don't know.
Speaker 3: If that does enough for me.
Speaker 9: Then think about it. What did we talk about with Lamar?
Because okay, you could say what you want, I get it.
He was a seventh round draft pick. If you want
to go about pure numbers, party should have won last
year instead of Lamar. His numbers were better across the board. Yeah, yeah,
we always say, oh, well, can Lamar stand in the
pocket and throw it downfield? He did that, he won MVP.
Can Josh Allen get rid of the turnovers?
Speaker 7: He did that? He want MVP. It's almost like a
merit based thing.
Speaker 3: Well, maybe you're not. Maybe merit is not the best
word used there because people would say.
Speaker 7: Well, proven the doubters wrong.
Speaker 3: Well, Meyritt would say that Lamar's numbers were all better.
Maybe a numbers were all better though, so it's not
just numbers based. Joe's numbers combined rushing in passing, though
Joe were close to Lamar. Well, I'm saying, like through
the air Joe's were, yeah, but lamar passing category Yeah,
but Lamar had over four thousand yards forty touchdowns, no picks,
and like rushtro almost one thousand, right, and like.
Speaker 7: He rushed for like I don't know how many rush
he rush for.
Speaker 3: Like eight hundred or something. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't really need to rehash it. I just saw
the numbers again the other time the other day, and
I was like, huh, I think you're right, Tailor. I
think it's a bit of a career passing by over
three hundred almost three hundred yards. Yeah, but I mean
go to total yards.
Speaker 6: No, I'm saying, like, so he was, and Joe's wit
enough and then Lamar had a two thousand yard rusher
as well, And look, I love Lamar. I think Lamar
is in the conversation every year I'm just saying I
think that's that was the reason, was the fact that
he had Derrick Henry and he had two thousand yards.
Speaker 9: You're in for nine to fifteen four touchdowns, so Joe
probably had more total touchdowns even even with Lamar on
the ground. Lamar had four Russian touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Didn't go through for forty three, and then Lamarthur for
like forty one or some forty one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, so yeah, Lamar beats him. Well, I don't
know how many rushing touchdowns Joe either, Oh Joe.
Speaker 3: I mean, but Lamar at this point accounted for like
fifty two hundred total yards. Yeah. Look, you very easily
to your point, T you could have given him the MVP.
Speaker 6: You could have, and I don't think anybody would have
been completely shocked you got first team.
Speaker 3: All.
Speaker 9: It's not his fault. He's already won two MVPs. It's
a little bit, I think.
Speaker 3: I think that's the other part of it. It's like
Matt Lionert had a better year his senior year than
when he actually won the Heisman. He had a better
statistically junior game to Reggie Bush his senior year.
Speaker 9: Well, okay, so MVPs Anybody who's talking about the NBA
is always like shake kill. Just Alexander is the runaway MVP.
Do y'all know Jokich is averaging like a thirty point
triple double.
Speaker 3: Yeah. People are just sound like you here of his career,
but he's to aitch yeah TV Yeah, yeah, yeah. They
just want to give it a Canadian freak.
Speaker 7: I mean freaking.
Speaker 3: Dei NBA kitches from your ead? Okay, can Michaelandra love
that one?
Speaker 4: Guys?
Speaker 5: Wait, check the group chat. I just sent a pick.
The Yankees are doing away with their facial hair.
Speaker 3: Oh, They're finally doing it. Yeah.
Speaker 6: This is from how Steinbrenner in recent weeks, as spoken
to a large number of former and current Yankees spanning
several eras goes.
Speaker 3: On and blah blah, blah blah.
Speaker 6: These recent conversations are an extension of an ongoing internal
dialogue that dates back several years. Ultimately, the final decision
rests with me, and after great consideration, we will be
amending our expectations to allow our players and uniformed personnel
to have well groomed beards.
Speaker 3: Moving forward.
Speaker 6: It is the appropriate time to move beyond the familiar
comfort of our former policy.
Speaker 3: The uh word. But yeah, you can you get I mean,
I don't know that's sing well groomed is gonna be
tough to. Well, groom's gonna be tough to like you
need like you can't have the gosh who's old boy
that lost all his swag recently? It looked like Samson
out there and they made him cut his beard because
he was the straw that broke the camel's pat He
had that big point. Damon, No, can't look like the cave.
But I think the guy that they made cut I
think you could have him because it was long, but
it was very well manicured. It was like shakee point.
I don't know. He was making the rounds. A couple
weeks ago. He had to cut off his beard and
all he was a mustache left, and he looked like
a ten year old maybe from the Brewers. Devin Williams, Yes,
I believe, yeah, they they they made Devin Williams look
like a child. Uh. The internet said that he lost
all of his aura.
Speaker 4: I mean, a beard will make or break.
Speaker 3: Yet true, it really will, actually true, not that Taylor
would know actually true though, Taylor, Uh, we should do
some sort of ager where you have to grow out
your beard if you win or lose.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 3: Okay, perfect, grout your beard.
Speaker 4: O you ever had one too that he had? But
he was talking about Devin Williams.
Speaker 3: Yeah, shout out to the Yankees. I guess whatever, idiots,
good on you. Who's the Yankees fan here? Because Prince
was scona yeah, yeah, bellies he's does he had to?
Yeah because he had like a like patchy.
Speaker 4: I would say that's not well. What did they say?
Well groomed?
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Speaker 6: I missed that Paul Goldschmidt plays for the Yankees. Completely
miss that Suvarn goals.
Speaker 4: I make some.
Speaker 3: This year's the Cards. Last year I miss that. I
don't know I missed that too. Well, you don't know
who paulmid is not true?
Speaker 7: He bom only follows the Cubs.
Speaker 3: I just saying silver and gold. That's what I'm saying
every time he comes up to bat.
Speaker 4: He does love the Cubs.
Speaker 3: He's not okay good, That's what I sing every time
he comes up to bat. You know, I what I
like about him patient approach at the plate. In a
day and age where everybody's all about definite results, you know,
home runner strikeout, home runers strike out, gold Schmidt brings
an old school approach, patient, selective quality at bats. That
when I think of Paul gold Schmidt, that's what I
think of quality A b's a home runs a lot
of things.
Speaker 7: It's like, kind of what.
Speaker 3: He's okay, well good? What do you think quality at
bats lead to? Idiot?
Speaker 4: I mean, was the silver slugger a few times?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Exactly, award, thank you? Exactly? Quality A b's guys,
what are we talking about? You don't win silver? You're
striking out all the time, right, Okay? I average Anthony
Rizzo is just a free agent Goldschmit's like the Paksatani
Phil of Yankee Baseball. What injuries out?
Speaker 4: He's just not the same Rizzo that he was when
he was with the Cubs.
Speaker 3: Has anybody from the Cubs World Series team ever gone
on to be as great as you thought they were
going to be at the time, No.
Speaker 7: Amazing.
Speaker 5: I saw some Hobby Baia's low lights the other day
that I was like, what happened to Hovey Baya's.
Speaker 3: Like, breaking the curse is hard, dude, you know you're
breaking generational cursal Gdelshoe in twenty nineteen seven one a
season opener, since.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's the sacrifice.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you fly too close to the sun, the wax
smelts off your wings and next thing you know, you're drowning.
And Paul Goldschmit's hitting tanks. You can't even figure out
a way to get on base anymore. Shout out, PAULI Goldschmidt.
Love that guy. You probably would. Where's number forty eight? Yeah?
I mean I remember my brother lives in Saint Louis.
We used to always text back and forth, like, oh,
did you see Goldie just there? Who do you played
for before Saint Louis? Well, I didn't care about him, Yeah,
I came sure he was a cardinal.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, not when he was a brave
when he's who and that diamond?
Speaker 3: I care about one diamondback and that's great. Council man's
about trying to grek counsel. Greg who is now Uh
he's the head coach of the Mariners. They brought him
back manager of Mariners. He was great on that Mariner team,
that one of those regular season games back in the day.
That something I want to tell him how he manages
the race?
Speaker 4: Oh, I him to keep guessing me to think about it.
Speaker 3: Oh, the brew Crew, the.
Speaker 4: Diamondbacks, Randy Johnson.
Speaker 3: Can't get no love from you, though, So I was
gonna say, I do love that Dinback World Series team,
Randy Johnson, Kurt Chilling, Counsel, Luis Gonzales back in the day,
that was a great team, dominant pitching.
Speaker 6: Craig Counsel is actually the manager of your favorite team, Cubs.
Speaker 4: I mean you got Han Palmer and the chat tea Bob.
Speaker 3: He's great. He's great. Now you did say Brewers he
was once. Does he still wear a helmet? No? Oh,
he wars ball cap unbelievable, lost his way. That's not
my Craig Counsel.
Speaker 4: Ay, that's why you didn't acknowledge him as the coach
of the Cubs.
Speaker 3: Louise Gonzales shout out, Luis Gonzales with a legend was
gonna give me a stroke. My bad, My bad, because
he was yelling at me but not knowing he was
the Yeah, what about Kyle Schwarmer, what's that old thick
boy up to nowadays.
Speaker 4: Actually don't know off the top of my hand.
Speaker 7: He I mean he had he had some run after
that World Series. I get solid years.
Speaker 4: But he's coming Philly with the Phillies.
Speaker 9: Happened to Ryan Howard from the Phillies. Yeah, retired years ago,
shout out after they won with him and Chase Utley.
Speaker 3: Oh John Oldrid word the helmet? Am I getting him?
And Creig Counsel? I am getting him and cred Counsel confused.
Damn Council used to battle like this. Yeah yeah, damn
Ola Rood for a long time.
Speaker 6: Is like one of the few players that never played
in the minor leagues until he got sent like on
a rehab assignment late in his big from spring.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like he never went to the minor league. Oh,
that's crazy. I think John is John Olver from Canada.
Sounds like, stop talking.
Speaker 7: I ain't heard that last name that often. That's gotta be.
Speaker 3: A It was John Older, guys. I'm sorry I got
him and Council confu. Oldrod was on that Dimonbacks team too,
Am I crazy?
Speaker 6: Okay, he's from Seattle. We can talk about John Oliver.
We just played for the Blue Jays.
Speaker 3: Old Rod was definitely on the Mariners teams that I
was referencing that anyway, John oldrud Yeah, he was first
basing the Mariner team back.
Speaker 7: In the day that yeah you know two thousand, Yeah.
Speaker 3: The one the one that won like a million regulars.
Speaker 6: But I thought Tito Martinez played first, and then Ago
Martinez was the d H.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know. I just remember Old
Rood on that. I know he played for the marionas.
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Speaker 6: John Olarud twy two hundred and thirty nine hits, Andrew
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Speaker 3: But Andrew Jones in the Hall of Fame, one of
my favorite players ever grown up. Ten gold gloves and
four hundred and thirty four home run. Even though Andrew
Jones was a toxic influence on Little League Baseball book,
we're trying to catch the hip last thing and flipping
your glove up. All right, hey guys, some recruiting news
for the Tigers. As Chad Simmons, one of the main
voices of recruiting now at On three, says that Lamar
Brown from you high right here in LSU's backyard, that
LSU is going to be very tough to beat. Now.
Lamar himself has said that LSU has a slight edge
on Texas A and M. And I know that I
feel like the whispers have always heard is that maybe
Lamar gain that he's already playing on campus right now,
maybe you want to get away a little bit and
we want to go to Texas A and M. But
LSU does have a ton of momentum right now, whereas
A and M seems to be kind of spinning their
wheels taking the same place that they always have. So
right now, if you don't know, he's a five star
offensive lineman, very good, he's huge right now. He's got
official visits locked in with Miami, Florida State A and
M and LSU, and again, according to Simmonside a local
source is gonna be quote very tough to beat, citing
Brown's connection with the entire staff, his family. Really it's
the Aggies, Like I don't think Miami and FSU for
even though he's going to visit, I don't think those
are the plays. It is LSU versus the Aggies. He's
going back to Colverstation March twenty second. That's gonna be
the time to watch there. But it's very good news
as I was already and maybe still am kind of
just preparing to one day here that Lamar Brown will
be taking his talents because again I can't fault the
kid for maybe wanting to get out a little bit
when you've already grown up on this LSU campus. But
be awesome if they got him, because he's very good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's something we always talk about anytime, you know,
certainly Baton Rouge prospects, but you high and yeah, look
this where our kids go, so obviously you know we're
supporters there, but they're on the campus, and it's always
like how much longer do they want to be on
said campus?
Speaker 3: Do they want to run it back? Right?
Speaker 6: I tell you, like, I wouldn't like if my son
is ever somebody that gets recruited, I wouldn't be shocked,
Like he's not gonna want to go anywhere. And it's
not just because of me. I'm just talking about it,
like he would love to stay at home. And some
have that and some are like, yeah, I want to
get out of here as fast as I possibly can,
and there's nothing else you can do.
Speaker 3: And I know a lot of people don't want to
hear that, but sometimes that's the case.
Speaker 6: So it is good to hear that LSU still not
only has a chance, but sounds like they have a
good chance of getting a really talented player that's you know,
somebody that's good in the locker room, somebody that I
think can continue to grow, continue to get better as well.
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Speaker 3: Time to talk to the head man of LSU Baseball,
the development God himself, Coach j Johnson, fresh off a
dominant opening to the season. Coach Johnson, what's going on? Man?
Thank you so much for joining us today.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Sorry, I missed you guys yesterday.
Speaker 3: Oh it's all good, bro, you were in the lab.
Speaker 10: I got distracted with my my job, coach.
Speaker 3: It's okay.
Speaker 6: We just got distracted because somehow Andrew Jones isn't in
the Hall of Fame and so like that's all I've
been doing, just looking at the stats and wondering why
so it happens.
Speaker 10: That's a good player, man, that's a really good player.
Speaker 3: Uh, Coach, I must thank you off the bat here
because you continue to be one of the best commun
unicators when it comes to talking to the layman, the meathead,
the dumb football caveman, the strike zone, line of scrimmage, analogy,
and controlling both offensive deep I mean chef's kiss. Coach,
you have really helped me frame that in my head.
I mean, I always do is important, but now I
can see it exerting the same control over the game
that it does when you dominate in the trenches. How
did you arrive at like, I know you kind of
talked about it in the past, but how did you
arrive at speaking in football terms when talking about baseball, Well,
it starts.
Speaker 10: Way back when I was actually a pretty good running back.
Wasn't quite as good as hester, but pretty close.
Speaker 3: I bet you can move.
Speaker 10: And then looking at it, you know, just the good
days were when you couldn't see any defenders and you know,
there was an open space for like fourteen eighteen yards,
and then when they weren't doing their job and you're
five foot seven, one hundred and sixty five pounds, those
weren't awesome days, you know. So no, I I just
actually heard a guy named Andy McKay his way up
with the Seattle Mariners, one of the best baseball people
I know. I heard him use it as a analogy
and as like, that's totally how we're going to talk
about this thing. Yeah, and so I have to give
all the credit to Andy McKay and our players. Know
I talk in football terms all the time. You know,
free base war is a turnover battle. So it just
it kind of fit in how we were framing everything else.
Speaker 3: Well. And so you mentioned doing your job, and I'll
say this, coach, y'all are dominating in the trenches right now.
I mean the amount of strikes, the strike out a
walk ratio. You talk about the eighteen quality of bats
in a row the other night. It's almost been perfect
baseball up to this point. Is there a kind of
are you seeing a sentiment around the team? It almost
is the feeling of going to be like, Okay, who's
going to make the first mistake? Because everybody that has
had opportunity thus far just feels like they've played perfectly well.
Speaker 10: I like the engagement and what the players can control
so far. You know, the competition is going to get
a lot better. It'll get better this weekend actually, and
so it's going to get tested. So the key is
when it gets tested and things don't go as smoothly
or as perfectly does the player does the players stay
in their playing and like I said, that'll that'll be
a step up this weekend, it'll be a step up
as we move through the schedule as we know, getting
into SEC play. So but I do like I do
like the engagement level and the things that lead to
success and winning and good play. And it goes back
to the strikes. Like I'm in pitching staff side, the
pitch quality is the pitch quality regardless of who's standing
in the box, that's been at a high level and
guys just haven't really given anything away at the plate,
you know, and again we'll face tougher pitching, but they're
at least doing what we're asking them to do.
Speaker 6: Coach, when you're you know, bringing different people in throughout
the game here early in the season, is.
Speaker 3: All of that pretty much scripted? Is that?
Speaker 6: Like Okay, hey, when we get to this situation or
does some of that happen kind of organically like a
situation you can see it kind of starting to pop
up and you're like, hey, I want to see how
he handles this current situation.
Speaker 3: Be it at the player on the mound or wherever.
Speaker 10: Yeah, definitely, for sure. I mean obviously, like with the
pitching staff, there's a lot, you know, probably still to
be decided as far as how things are going to
shake out. But I mean it doesn't take a rocket
scientist to see, like, for instance, Cason Evans has a
great arm, and so I wanted to like get him
in the game and get kind of that first one
out of the way in a low leverage situation because
the next one is probably not going to be like that,
you know what I mean, And then you get the
same with like Maverick Rizzi, William Schmidt. You know, I
could go on on and on and on. I mean,
basically we were able to get everybody in in a
spot to get their feet wet, so it gets that
out of the way. But then yeah, I mean, you know,
just caseon Evans play well off of like Kate Anderson,
like we think he does, and so that would be
a spot where he would maybe follow him up, you know,
with William Schmidt, because obviously a starter, So like I
was trying to pitch count up a little bit, but
he got everybody else so fast. I looked up and
it was eight hours and twenty eight pitches on a board.
It's like, hey, you're doing great, man, but you're not
helping me do what I'm trying to do here.
Speaker 3: So, Coach, I thought you would appreciate this.
Speaker 6: Speaking of William Schmid, I saw somebody on Twitter that
maybe they're not a college baseball fan, maybe a baseball fan,
and they're like, hold up, why is this young man
throwing ninety seven in college baseball and not in the
minor leagues?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean thank god right, But now though, yeah,
nobody could get their head around like he just wanted
to do this, Like I mean, it was kind of cool,
like we have a cool relationship because he, you know,
turned down a lot of money and all that. Like
he literally put his arm around me and said thank
you when I came out to the mount to get
him the other day. Wow, And it's like the guy
just wants he just wants to be here and that
that's that's all that it comes down to. And very
thankful for that and excited to see him continue to
grow into what we think is going to be a
great picture.
Speaker 3: So, Coach, one of the early developing storylines here is
just kind of, uh, the the embarrassment of competitive depth
that you have on this roster, and it's a real
credit to you and the rest of this staff. And
I know you just pour hours and hours into roster
construction and you're seeing it. Now. What's your message maybe
to guys that haven't gotten their chance yet, haven't gotten
to play here early on, but you think will factor
in still down the road. What are you telling them?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, like I'm looking at it a little
different when he right now, Like you know, everybody always
asks me about the outfield, and rightfully, so, like we're
trying to take like Josh Pearson, Jake Brown, Ethan Fry,
Ashton Larson, and out of that create like one all
American player between like the four of them, and like
one all SEC player, and if you slot them right,
that's exactly what you have now. All four of those
guys they ended up playing, and it wouldn't surprise me
if they all did at some point, you know, we'd
be fine. But like just communicating like, hey, look like
if you're not in there, it's not an indictment on you.
This is what I'm trying to do. And then you
go past that and it's like I'll use an example
of Kenna Reeves, Like Kana Reeves has played in all
four games, doesn't have a start yet, but if he did,
we would be great. This is what we need him
to do. You know, Mick Paul is two for two
with the walk. Yeah, the pictures, Like, it's just it's
really good that I will say that the vibe in
here right now and again there's been zero but the
vibe and is very much about the team and doing
what they can control. And as coaches, it's our job
to communicate a path to improvement for every player and
kind of what we need them to do. And so
just like yesterday, I missed my interview with you guys
because I was working on something with one of those
players to make sure it was really clear what we're
trying to get after.
Speaker 3: Coach.
Speaker 6: One of the things I always find fascinating is when
you ask different coaches different sports.
Speaker 3: And we just had j clark on.
Speaker 6: We asked them kind of same question here, like out
of this weekend, what are you trying to make sure
y'all get done?
Speaker 3: Like what's that one thing could you mention?
Speaker 6: Like okay, cage work and different things like as a
team maybe and Betterina gave us an answer yesterday, But
for you this weekend, like, what do you want to
make sure it gets done out there in the box?
Speaker 10: Well, I want to improve. The games will be harder,
There's no question about that. Unless I'm completely missing something,
the games will be more difficult and to stay and
play on as the games get more you know, you
can't control the weather. It's cold. I mean yesterday you
could have hit it seventeen times and it wouldn't have
gone out to left field. Well, so like you're probably
going to be playing in close games. We actually lost
the game here last year in these same conditions to
Stony Brook and Jary Jones hit won one hundred and
eighteen off the bat and then didn't go out three
on homers. So, you know, can you play a discipline
approach to a game like that? Which is something I
take a lot of pride in that our team can do.
I think we're better positioned to do that type of
thing this year. So just play the game. Win obviously,
that's always the number one goal. And you know, I'm
not like just trying to figure stuff out. We want
to win the game and then figure stuff out. You
know as we're going as kind of the model.
Speaker 3: Coach J. Johnson, thank you so much, man again, thank
you for taking time. I know you are busy. Twenty
four to seven. Get out to the box this weekend, guys,
another chance to watch this team who you hope ends
up in Omaha play Omaha this week. They remember Nichols
on Monday, and then we're off to Texas next week. Coach,
thank you so much for joining us this morning.
Speaker 10: All right, guy, sir Coach J Johnson.
Speaker 3: By the way, he mentioned Mick Paul there. Kokie Riley
is a really good rite up in The Advocate today
about Mick Paul, and it's it's always interesting to, you know,
to learn the stories behind people. So Mick Paul last
April Fool's Day wakes up and his shoulders kind of swollen.
No big deal, you know that doesn't doesn't hurt too much,
but it's swollen. Uh. Well, the trainings have looks him
to say, actually, we think maybe you should go to
the hospital. Turns out he had something going on where
his blood vessels were being squeezed jake between his rib
and a different piece of his body maybe a shoulder. Yeah,
And it was creating blood clots. He had one go
to his lungs, potential pulmonary embolism. So he actually ends
up in an intensive care for four days, uh, multiple surgeries.
They then take a they remove a rib, fully remove
the rib. He's on blood thinners for six months, and
then he finally gets cleared to play in October again,
and here he is. He's in that uber competitive outfield.
He's played in all four games and as Jay said,
he's two for two with a walk. So again, that's
a name that we never mentioned, but just one of
those fascinating stories buried on this roster. A man who
has literally had a rib removed, overcome severe medical adverse
and he would have read shirted anyway last year, that
was always the plan. But now has gotten some opportunity
and in in a in a room filled with superstars
and has done well. So shout out mc paul. I'm
a mcpaul fan whenever I see him.
Speaker 6: Now, Yeah, that that's that's a good story of him,
you know, continuing to fight for his dreams and and
fight for what he's worked his entire life for and
this this team, And that's why I kind of mentioned
the Schmid thing. To coach his because like, this guy
is not a college baseball fans, Like, hold up, there's
a guy's still ninety seven freshman in college baseball.
Speaker 3: Well, you know who is a college baseball fan? Seems
like LSU fan. Billy Schmidt. I mean, straight up, thank
you like that? Thank you all? No, man, that is
I was funny to hear coach Hey, thank god.
Speaker 6: But that's the kind of baseball player now with the
scholarship situation, like it is like the nil situation, you
don't have to go.
Speaker 3: I was catching up with Eric.
Speaker 6: Stortson D one Baseball, and yesterday He's like, yeah, do
I want to be on a bus to god knows
where Indiana? Or do I want to be pitching inside
the box for three years? And then when I get drafted,
I'm in the minus for a year and a half
and I'm in the show.
Speaker 3: The only thing about the Schmidt part of that equation
is I'm sure he turned down some for sure, very
real man, and it's that doesn't always come back for him. No,
I mean, Marcel, what was this Mae s Hampton Hampton.
Speaker 6: Yes, Morhampton was somebody that turned down over a million
dollars and didn't work out for And that's tough. It's
very very tough, and position player feels a little bit different.
You don't get as many opportunities maybe as a pitcher,
but still you have to live with that. You have
to go into that saying, Okay, I'll never get that
back if I make this decision now you yes, very
likely you can. But you have to go into it
saying I'll never get that back. But rather than being
on a bus again, as Eric said to God knows
where Indiana, you can go pitch in the SEC. You
can go pitch in some of these great venues. You
can go pitch in a stadium that on the weekends
is going to be you know, ten, eleven, twelve thousand people.
And you get now the added benefit of having nil
your on scholarship. You have, you know, compared to the
minor leagues, you have world class travel.
Speaker 3: So it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 6: And I just it's exciting that we get a chance
to see Williams Schmid go out there and throw ninety
seven and be a player in college baseball. That that's
the way that he can develop and he can learn
his you know, his ways and how to try to
become a pro because just like all the rest of
college athletics, it's more pro like than it's ever been.
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Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, welcome in to the best morning sports this
show around off the Bench with Ester and T Bob.
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Spanish land?
Speaker 4: You said it?
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were says like welcome back, bimanas right, my brothers and sisters.
There we go. How do you say off the bench
of Spanish?
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you say a.
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Feels like it?
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that's probably how you say it.
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I don't see any Spanish. I'm gonna be real honest
with you. We're gonna make T do a beer run
to start next hour.
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Sero score very close to many USMN T hearts. Yeah,
and after last night, I don't want Mexico. I want Canada.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Canada's probably bad at soccer.
Speaker 3: Yet are they good? Yeah? They got Actually they got
like a couple of world class players the traditionally though,
right they're just on a heater right now.
Speaker 6: They've got much better last five six years. Jesse Marsh
used to play for the US men's national teams. Actually
their head coach.
Speaker 10: Wow.
Speaker 3: Shout out to LSU women's basketball dominating Uga last night
seventy nine to sixty. No one needs tomorrow, no problem.
This is the first game of a career. But I've
her career. But coach Moulgi is saying that just Footsorre
is not serious. She'll be back next game. And that's
good because again LSU basketball getting ready for the se Turner.
One out, but three really tough games to finish at
number fourteen Kentucky, at number eighteen Alabama and then at
home against All missed who's not ranked right now, but
it has been ranked.
Speaker 6: The coach has got Majeorgia crapy team. I do love
the fact that coach Maulkey basically came on with us
and she's like, look that's Georgia game.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 6: But She's like, we got stuff we gotta work on,
and then you got one of your top players missing.
She's like, yeah, we'll get through Georgia, that's fine, but
we gotta worry about other things.
Speaker 3: Uh, she's right, she is right, And they took care
of Georgia, you know without in these bar like that
that they would coming up next hour during the beer
run Shenanigans. We have a few different topics. Uh, Falcons
super fan, the Falcons bird lady has been arrested, oh man,
uh for defrauding customers with fake tailgate parties and whatnot
where she was like selling fake tailgate parties. Yes now,
and look you magius Carlson went on. Joe Rogan kind
of want to mention that maybe a little bit and
this carl and like world strongest man, No, magnus Carlson,
best chess player.
Speaker 4: Did you watch it?
Speaker 6: It feels like the world strongest Man, Magnus one, Magnusson,
But like I was going to be close with that one,
wasn't it Magnuson, Magnuson.
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but we might take a turn into the other o
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here having a pregnancy battle. Now, yeah, we're not going
to be talking about this. We already absolutely have to
break this down because it's interesting. I don't know anything
about it, so.
Speaker 4: I don't know if we should exactly.
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we should don't dance.
Speaker 3: Let's subvess us Taylor.
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Speaker 3: You even know Spanish? Coming up next morning?
Speaker 2: Off the bench,