Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 2: Ham'sday.
Speaker 3: Hester and Hester got it.
Speaker 1: Five five your locks in to Off the Bench control
the Live from the Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge Studio.
Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: You yea.
Speaker 4: Welcome in OTV one oh four five EESPN Baton Rouge, Jake,
Elandra and Tate here with you. That's right, the Big
Voice Lady live to you. There is no Matt Flynn
here today. Like the great Michael Boublay once said, I've
had my run, baby, I'm done.
Speaker 2: It's time to go home.
Speaker 4: Okay, he didn't really say that, but he is on
vacation for the next three days.
Speaker 2: We did know about it.
Speaker 4: He is celebrating his fortieth birthday, which is coming up
in nine days from now. So Flinner is going to
be out again for the next three days. But it's okay,
we allow it. We signed off on the the excuse
until he sends us a picture from the beach with
his toes in the sand.
Speaker 5: I don't think we should let him off the hook
for this one though, because of his comment this morning
true because he said I'll be there in spirit. We're like, okay, thanks,
And then Landra said, don't forget about the wolf pack,
and Matt Flynn's response was, don't worry.
Speaker 2: I'm not Jake.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like, sure we knew about this ahead of time,
but like that shot, I don't know, kind of changes things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jake's here in studio with the wolf Pact. Flynn
is not. So he didn't make it out?
Speaker 2: Was it? Seven days? Seven days?
Speaker 3: Seven days?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: I'm proud of him.
Speaker 4: On Monday of this week, his eyes did look a
little puffy.
Speaker 3: He was looking like he was struggling a little bit.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've got to wake up like this every day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And he genuinely believed that he earned that vacation
that he's taking, Like I I know he thought, like, Okay,
I made it seven days waking up at whatever time
he wakes up, I deserve this vacation.
Speaker 4: Just wait until he figures out and finds out, Oh,
I can only take two weeks paid vacation. The rest
of the time, I either like don't get paid or
I can't do it. I can't miss work. Like he's
not gonna look he's never had a job where you
put in four vacation days and like they get approved
or they get denied. Yeah you get PTO or you
don't get like has real world bud. Yeah you can't
complain to the owner and it be yourself anymore or
can't be it won't be it.
Speaker 2: Okay. So yeah, you know we're gonna bust in all.
Speaker 4: Day long, a linger Tate how we doing? How was
yesterday after we left the studio.
Speaker 3: So I don't know why I have such bad luck
with like car stuff, but I went to go. So
every other Tuesday, Saint George has a city council meeting.
Taylor's done a couple of these for me whenever I couldn't,
but like I'll go and live stream it for them
they pay me to do it or whatever.
Speaker 2: Oh okay.
Speaker 4: So like I still don't understand what Saint George is,
but it's like it's a city.
Speaker 3: But like I basically broke off from Baton.
Speaker 5: Right, it's basically between batge.
Speaker 4: Yeah, literally, like it's a Seagan, Like I think my house.
I don't know, would y'all y'all would know, y'all know
where I live, Like does that fall into I don't know. Listen,
I get like a Saint George newspaper in my mailbox.
Speaker 3: I mean you might be George?
Speaker 2: Like, so what?
Speaker 3: I I don't know how.
Speaker 4: When I write a letter, because I write a lot
of letters. Yeah, like I'm going to put Saint George louis.
Speaker 3: David Delucci shout out, David Deluci. He's on the council
or like running for it or something like that, right,
but he has something to do with it. And he
was on a fr with Matt a couple of weeks
ago and they actually talked about that. They're like, so,
am I like a saint?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Do I do right with mail? Do I write Saint
George Louisiana or like baton Rouge? And David was saying, like,
it doesn't matter what you write on there, as long
as the zip code is correct and you write Louisiana.
So he said, I could write you a letter, Matt
and put Moscona Louisiana on there, and as long as
like the zip code is correct, Okay, you'll get that
piece of mail.
Speaker 5: You are St.
Speaker 2: George.
Speaker 3: That's pretty big. That's bigger than I thought. Oh my god,
that's bigger than I thought.
Speaker 4: I mean, and by the way, like it is funny
how we get in like our little baton rouge.
Speaker 2: I guess Saint.
Speaker 4: George now bubbles like yeah, Shannondoah is like bagdad.
Speaker 5: To be so far shout out to the little square
that is not George.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about catching.
Speaker 5: A straight right. You're surrounded on all sides there.
Speaker 4: I mean, you gotta like you gotta sidewalk. It looks
like that's not like entering and exiting.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Somebody's got to explain this to me, like I'm ten.
Speaker 4: Yeah, somebody's got to explain this to me, like you're
showing T Bob a map, Yeah, because I guess. I
guess we've been talking about it for so long. It
just don't I'm glad you knew where you lived.
Speaker 5: I pulled that map up for t Bob. He'd have
been like, well, I don't know where I live.
Speaker 3: Is for sure in Saint George, Like or was he
was for sure Saint Georgian? Yeah, But anyway, I was
out there doing that and it's near It's at the
Saint George Fire Department, which is near Seagan and I
love Firehouse Subs and the closest one is on Seagan,
So I was like, oh, I'm by here, I'm gonna
get it for dinner, right, So I go and I
get Firehouse Subs. I got to my car and like
it won't start. The battery was dead.
Speaker 2: Car wouldn't start.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the battery was dead. And it was storming
last night, yeah, like it was pouring rain, right, And
I have jumper cables, but I'm like, someone's gonna have
to give me a jump right, right. And I don't
feel like strangers are as nice as they used to
be or as willing to help as they used to be.
So I was feeling a little I don't get. I
don't get like awkward or nervous or anything like that,
but I was feeling like I didn't I was getting
anxiety thinking about trying to ask somebody for a jump, right,
So I'm like, what do I do. I'm like texting
my dad and thirty minutes go by, and I'm like
thirty minutes, thirty minutes go by. I'm like, ef it.
I'm calling Brittany because she lives by.
Speaker 4: There, right, you know, like you could have called me
or Katie. We both would have come up there. Y'all
got that far.
Speaker 3: Further than Brittany. So I called Brittany and I'm like, Okay,
I've never jumped my own car before. I don't know
if Brittany's ever done this before. We're gonna figure this out, right.
It's raining. She has the baby, that's what.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Because Kendall, her husband, wasn't home. Yeah, and I called
her because I thought he was. I was like, Kendall,
will just come do it? Yeah, he wasn't. It was
being Brittany. We had to like figure it out ourselves.
So I called my dad. I'm like, what do I do?
And He's like, literally red positive, blood negative and figure.
But she had this thing, and I need to invest
in this because I would have gotten out of their
way faster. It's like a battery pack. Yeah, you don't
have to use another car, you just have that. I
wish I had it, and I wish I knew about
it at the time. But we figured it out and
I started my own car in the rain, and I
was so.
Speaker 2: Proud, very proud of it.
Speaker 4: But like you could have like facetimed me or taite
and we could have like immediately told you exactly.
Speaker 2: So like some of the newer cars, it's not as easy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for the battery, it's like you put it on
this prong over here that's right side.
Speaker 2: You don't put it on the actual battery.
Speaker 3: So, like I called my dad. He told me, but
then I googled it just to have like the list
in front of me, and it started saying that like
put it on something else. So I text my dad
and I'm like, so, I don't put it on the
negative and he's like, just do what I'm telling you
to do. And I was like, okay, but we figured
out we got it.
Speaker 2: Go girls, how many sparks did you none?
Speaker 3: And I was I don't think so, because I was
starting the car and she was holding the battery while
I was starting it. But I was so shared, Why
was she holhy was she holding it? I don't know.
Speaker 5: No, you just clamped two to one car, two to
the other.
Speaker 3: And then you know she was holding the battery pack. Oh,
she had it like she was holding like the battery pack.
So because I was like, I don't know if we
should put it on the car, Like I don't know
what to do. I was just really scared.
Speaker 4: Shocked, Brittany, I don't know the firehouse subs window.
Speaker 3: I would have had to call Kendle and she goes
and if we can't figure it out, we can call
Steve and like Steve, and I was like, we don't
need to call Steve down here to jump start my
slanger Slinger would have like been so pissed.
Speaker 2: He'd have been grumpy as hell in the rain.
Speaker 3: And it helped me. It would have been so grumpy.
Speaker 2: You would have heard about it.
Speaker 3: Though, Yeah, I definitely would have.
Speaker 2: All right, sorry that happened to you. And next time I'm.
Speaker 3: Not that far away, I don't again ask me. It
took me thirty minutes, has Britty for her? I have
moved houses by myself because I don't like asking people
to do that. And I'll know you, yeah, but I'll
keep that in mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, be right there.
Speaker 4: It'll be seven minutes total time. It will be thirty
minutes of waiting.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll get you next time, because chances are we're
out and about anyways, going to a practice from a
you know, so uh tite did your car die last
night as well?
Speaker 5: It did not, luckily because I was in a victorious
car and like you literally cannot get to her battery.
She's like one of those newer cars. It's got to
that crap on top. So luckily that didn't happen. Guys,
I'm at the gas station this morning, grabbing the energy
drink like I always am, which you two love. By
the way, not all flavors should be made into chips.
So I'm sitting there watching the Pringles guy right like
the chip vendor put up the chips on the shelf,
and I see beer can Chicken.
Speaker 2: Oh, beer can Chicken, Pringle.
Speaker 5: I'm out on this.
Speaker 3: I think we should get the most ridiculous flavored chips
and try them in the studio.
Speaker 5: So I googled the flavor because I'm like, I I
gotta know what beer Can't Chicken taste like. It says, well,
beer caned chicken, chicken, garlic onion. And it's apparently partnered
with Miller Light, so notes of Miller Light in it.
I don't want a beer flavored chip.
Speaker 2: I don't want.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I'm okay, I think I'm already.
Speaker 2: That's myself, sorry, Hunt.
Speaker 5: But beer can Chicken that is a that is a
new Pringles flavor, like the cheese, the pizza the sour
cream and onion good on that beer, canned chicken.
Speaker 4: Pats, and thought about springles in a long time. Harlow
love springles.
Speaker 3: Really those are good.
Speaker 4: I thought about springles though, like outside of her eating
them in a long time. So Alon, you said we
should maybe like try different things like that in studio.
Speaker 2: I'm down for that idea.
Speaker 4: So when it was me, T Bob, Mario and Danny,
like we were trying to come up with some some
new ideas and not even like in the show ideas,
but we were trying to come up with some some
content that we could do maybe even after the show.
And so I came up and I had a game
show chew or spew what's the name of it, right,
I mean I was like, let's let's do this, like,
let's buy in, let's have some fun. Like I even
got like note cards, like it was a game show,
Like we're gonna do it in studio. And so it
was like we had a round table of like.
Speaker 6: Some nasty foods, all right, and it was like, okay,
well you can you can chew or you can spew
to the question that I ask you, right, and so
you can choose, and like they got to be hard questions, right,
and I like, I asked Tea.
Speaker 3: Bob personal question.
Speaker 4: It can be any like you know, personal, well not
even trivia, just like kind of tough questions to answer,
Like I asked t Bob, I said, who was the
better quarterback?
Speaker 2: Jared Lee or Jordan Jefferson.
Speaker 4: You gotta tell me who are you got to eat
this dog food Sunday? Are you got to drink this
tuna smoothie that we made?
Speaker 2: Right? And so we did this like we did this
whole deal.
Speaker 4: And like some of the questions were tough, like there
was a lot of people eating dog food in this
episode that we did, and we were like we were
asking some some some funny questions and then.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say who I.
Speaker 4: Then somebody went inappropriate on one of the questions that
we asked and turned it like real awkward and so like,
and it was like a bulk of the like show.
And so we went through eating this dog food like
if we didn't want to answer a question, drinking this smoothie,
like there was some nasty stuff like I can't remember
what else it was, Okay, so we did that. I
mean Danny's throwing up in the trash can, but it
was it was great, but somebody turned it inappropriate and
I was like, there's no way we can air this
and we can't really splice it because of the way
that it's been it's been brought up. So like I
spent spent some time and effort some money on this
game show that we were going to do once a month,
and we're gonna like rotate it, like Danny was going
to rotate off. And then like maybe Moscona comes in
or you know, different people kind of come in, and
this one person ruined it. And then like T Bob's like,
I don't really want to do that anymore because you know,
like for his high energy as Tea Bob is, so
his high energy as T Bob is stuff like that,
he doesn't really want to have to do that.
Speaker 2: And that was before Snaps.
Speaker 4: That was before Jim Rome obviously, Like so it was
he had this show.
Speaker 2: He's like, I'm not doing all that. It's too much effort.
Speaker 4: I was like, but I brought the food, I brought
the cards, I brought the questions.
Speaker 2: I brought So.
Speaker 4: To that point of trying stuff on air, I tried
to have a game show with like Otb's crew with
me and being the concert and then rotate the other two.
One episode never filmed a game.
Speaker 3: We didn't bring that back.
Speaker 4: I got the cards probably somewhere. Yeah, and T Bob
did answer the question. Of course he did. That's not surprising,
he said Jared ly. I didn't think he'd answered.
Speaker 2: I don't remember what it was. I'll see if I can.
Speaker 4: I'll see if I can get with Danny and see
if we can find any of that video because.
Speaker 2: It's there, Like let's he deleted. I don't, I know
that's there. It lives.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you all about the inappropriate questions when
we're in rate, because well, our audience don't need to
know about those inappropriate questions. They just need to know
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, all.
Speaker 4: Right, welcome back in OTB one O four five ESPN
Baton Rouge. Someone was asking me on Twitter what happened
to my voice? Said, you got a little growl in there.
It's better than I thought it would be. And this
is the god honest truth. Like typically during I guess
football season, like I'll typically because doing two shows a
day and then calling the game on the weekend, I'll
lose my voice like in end of October or something
like that, whatever, whatever, just talking too much.
Speaker 2: My wife tells me that all the time.
Speaker 4: I'm just kidding, but it is literally just from when
Huddy Paul hit the walk off home run on Sunday,
I let out two of the biggest let's goes, let's go,
let's let's let's go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's right, let's go. Because there was plors
two of them, Yeah let's go. I let out to
like you know, like yeah, you know, flex and like
let go. I let out two of those when I
wasn't really ready to do that.
Speaker 4: And uh, that's where because like I tried to talk
to people right after that, and you know when you
are losing your voice and you do that and like
you're saying words but nothing's coming out. It immediately did
that and so at least I have a good story
to tell. It's not being sick.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 4: It's just my son hit a walk off home run
over the fence and I hit out two. Let's goes
you so cool today? The like yesterday? It was a
little more gravelly.
Speaker 5: Today you sound like you could be like the narrator
of ant documentary, like it's cool today.
Speaker 4: All right, yesterday I did sound like I smoked some
cowboy killers whore I came in.
Speaker 2: I did not. They still sell reds.
Speaker 3: That would be crazy if you're smoking a cigarette like
six in the morning.
Speaker 2: Oh, there's somebody.
Speaker 4: There is somebody that's listening right now that is burning
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the L s U and Arkansas game in Omaha. No surprise,
it is going to be prime time because a lot
of people, no matter who you talk with, believe this
is a matchup of two of them best teams in Omaha.
Speaker 2: A lot of people believe that the winner of this
game is going to.
Speaker 4: I don't want to say likely win Omaha because we
know how difficult that is to navigate, but they're going
to be the heavy favorite, and we all assume it's
going to be Zach Route taking on Kate Anderson. Now
they faced each other, you know, not that long ago
made the ninth I was officially a man the day before.
I remember watching this game from start to finish. Zach
Rute goes six innings, gives up five hits, two runs,
both earn six strikeouts, no walks, so quality start. But Arkansas,
as we know, they lost the game five to four
in ten innings.
Speaker 2: Kate Anderson five and two.
Speaker 4: Thirds gave up seven hits, three runs, all earned, struck
out ten and only walked one batter. So we're talking
about obviously lead two aces on the mound.
Speaker 2: A recent form for Zach Root.
Speaker 4: He enters the College Row Series with a strong postseason performance.
He punched out thirteen over thirteen innings against Creyton and
Tennessee three five, nine ERA and nine one hundred and
nineteen strikeouts on the year. As we know, Kate Anderson
is number one in the country in strikeouts. And so look,
we're talking about great on great, we're talking about you know,
I think Kate Anderson is in the elite category. I
think Zach Root is in the great category. But you're
either way, you're splitting hairs. It is going to be
a marquee matchup. Now, we fully expect it to be
Kate Anderson. I mean because when you look at Anthony
Iinson and how they pitched in Super regionals, it is
going to be Kate Anderson. Even though Jay has surprised
us before he's going with Anthony Iinson in the first
game of regional play, we all expect it to be
Kate Anderson. And by the way, Jay is going to
join us tomorrow in his normal eight thirty time slot,
So looking forward to having that. Not that he would
give us any information, not that we would ask for
any of that information.
Speaker 2: We know how Jay works, But how do we feel
about the matchup?
Speaker 4: You know LSU obviously when they're facing a lefty, it
does change the math for the lineup. I mean, Jake
Brown's somebody that if you're facing aariety, he's going to
be a cleanup hitter. If you're facing a lefty, chances
are he's not going to be in the lineup now,
He's probably playing the game be a pinch hitter. Pearson
might lead off the game against a lefty. Courriel might
bat sixth again, right that it changes the lineup for LSU.
And if you do it in super regional play, wouldn't
we both assume all three of us here assume that
it's going to be the same in the College World Series.
Speaker 5: I don't see why it wouldn't be, especially if you
want to go lefty on lefty, like you were talking
about what you did against West Virginia. Yeah, I mean,
this is going to be Kate Anderson and you know,
we were talking about it the other day everyone and said, hey,
Anderson and Ionson, neither of them had their best stuff
and you were still able to win. Kate Anderson gave
up six runs. I get that. So it's seven strikeouts
only two walks, So like ions And that's some control issues, right,
he walks and people cad didn't.
Speaker 2: They weren't there. They weren't calling the low strike that
Anthony Ironson was throwing.
Speaker 5: No, and I mean they were. They were teeing off
on Kate a little bit. He got touched up a
little bit. That's a team that we talked about it.
They were three hundred hitting team, like that was their
team average was three hundred.
Speaker 2: And jar like.
Speaker 4: When he said this yesterday, I'm like, you know what,
I don't think maybe, okay, maybe that wasn't all of it,
because I'm gonna give some credit to West Virginia. But
he said when you're pitching on a big lead, like
you do have a responsibility to go throw strikes and
just get out and still have the lead.
Speaker 2: And so you know, not that he's going out there
and trying to get hit.
Speaker 4: But it's like we've seen that before, right, and we
see coaches and we hear coaches talk about all the time, Hey,
you're up by seven, go out there, throw strikes.
Speaker 2: Don't give them free passes.
Speaker 4: And if they you know, they put it in play,
they get it hit, you tip your cap and we'll
figure it out at the back end of it. There
might have been some of that too. The performance for
Kate Anderson, Now, I do agree with tay Anthony Insen.
Speaker 2: He did have some trouble. You know, he was trying
to to.
Speaker 4: Hit the bottom of the strike zhone, he was not
getting the call, consistently kept going there, was not getting
the call. But I do feel different about Kate Anderson's start.
Speaker 3: So I think it goes both ways though, Like if
your offense is producing for you, then you can go
out there and pitch free. You know, like how Jared
and You just said, you can go throw strikes, make
him hit it, and like I said, you could pitch
more free, but also if your pitcher's out there doing
what he's supposed to be doing. I also feel like
it hasn't really been this way for LSU, But I
feel like as a hitter, you probably feel a little better, like, oh,
I can go up there and I can kind of
just like try my best, but like because he's out
there throwing strikes and he's out there holding them to
a small which versus West Virginia wasn't that way, but
because West Virginia ended up scoring nine anyway, But I
feel kind of I feel kind of good but also
a little not good about the Arkansas matchup, just because
Arkansas is so hot right now and they are heating
up at the end of the season. They swept Tennessee
out of the Super and Dave Van Horne we all know,
is a great coach. So since we beat them twice
already this season, I do feel like we have an
advantage over them. But that doesn't really mean anything in baseball,
so not like it may, you know, especially.
Speaker 2: Right now, it's tough in everywhere.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I talk about this all the time,
like when you're in the NFL, and I always use
the Raiders because it's the Raiders. You would you know
they'd be bad and you would beat them thirty five
to three the first time. The second time you face them,
they were still bad, but it'd be twenty four to
twenty one.
Speaker 2: Dogfight. Yeah, every single time.
Speaker 4: It's just it's very tough, good team, bad team, whatever,
because you have learned experiences in the first contest. So
each team's gonna have learned experiences in the first series.
Speaker 2: Like, so it's not really about Okay, who won who lost.
Speaker 4: It's like, Okay, well, how did it play out and
how can we fix what we didn't get fixed in
that first series?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then like I just I feel like, if
we can get past Arkansas, the rest of the tournament
is I don't want to say easy, but I see
a better path of us being able to make it
to the final. And probably I agree with a lot
of people that say, whoever wins this one between Arkansas
and LSU is probably gonna end up winning the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Those are probably not Yet I certainly would not be surprised.
Speaker 3: Right, Like, Arizona is a solid team, obviously knocking off
you and see who was the favorite, one of the
favorites to win the entire thing. Arizona might be the
only the other one that I'm kind of looking at,
like and Coastal, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah Coastal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, coast was the third best odds to win it
all right now until fifty games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean good, that's a good baseball conference. They
playing in the sun Belt, so like, don't allow you know,
it to be the mid major. No, that's a good
baseball conference. And Coastals won national championship before they go
so far in your confidence and in your belief and
like they just went to Alburn, Alabama and they won twice,
a place where LSU didn't win a game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, went oh for three yep, and they were an underdog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, see me don't.
Speaker 5: Three?
Speaker 2: Yeah they were. They were just sitting on his stuff
and just teeing off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, to a Launder's point about you know, it almost
gets easier, I mean not easier, but like everybody thinks
these are the two best teams. Not only you in
the driver's seat from that perspective, but if you could
stay out of the loser's bracket, it's like sure, unless
you got out of the loser's bracket in twenty three
what did you need? You need Ackenhausen to step up twice,
You needed Griffin Harry to have the game of his
life as a starter. All of these guys did that
any think about it? Griffin Harrn was going two to
three innings, He went like seven in that game against
wake Force. It could happen. You don't want to have
to rely on something like that because like, sure your
starters are good, but outside Aronsen and Anderson, like you
think Caseen Evans could be a starter. He was great
his last time out. But outside of that, who can
you trust to start the game. If you can win this,
you're in the driver's sea because you don't have to
play that extra game.
Speaker 4: Ah, what a world series that was for the bad
body guds Riley may Achenhausen, Gavelosa was like right there
on the fine line.
Speaker 2: Which great now though, But yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Haven't seen him does he?
Speaker 2: It looks good?
Speaker 3: You know who? You know who I saw? Which? Did
you see John Boy and MLB R Yeah partnership right, Yeah?
But I saw Bartola Colombe, big Sex.
Speaker 2: He looks great, dude, he looks so good.
Speaker 3: He looks great, Like he looked better after you played
because what he looks sloppy?
Speaker 2: He looked like Melton Candlewax. Yeah when he was playing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you see that from the big guys, like
look at the look at the former NFL offensive lineman.
That to me makes like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that makes sense to me because you have
to be big to be an offense.
Speaker 2: And they were never like sloppy.
Speaker 3: Yeah big, yeah, they're just big. And then like yeah
like bad body guy, yeah, bad body yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah he looks great now.
Speaker 2: It does looks great, looks fantastic. Look it up.
Speaker 4: If you don't believe us Arkansas, by the way, sixteen
and five against left handed starting pitching this year. Thirty
two and eight, I believe is their record against rioties,
and so certainly they've had some success with left handed pitchers.
But el she's throwing out the best left handed picture
I think in the country. Ye, all right, we are
going to take a break. As Tayte laid out earlier,
we're gonna have Chris Budden, my colleague.
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Speaker 2: She is going to be on the call for LSU
and Arkansas.
Speaker 4: So Chris Budden joins us in about thirty minutes from
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all right, let's get into a little would you rather Wednesday?
And we used to have like a whole like sound
and like all that. It's uh, it's going away again.
This is something that we used to do on hanging
with Hester. They did it on OTV as well, and
I always love it because it creates, you know, good
debates and it creates, you know, kind of some some
fun different topics to bring up. It can be sports,
it can be nonsports whatever. Inside the Bayou for Chatte Laundra,
you saw one that's actually a really hard hitting question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw a really good one. Would you rather
wear a battery pack in the rain while your friend
jumps their car off or eat beer canned chicken chips?
Speaker 5: Beer canned chicken chips.
Speaker 4: I did something about Brittany holding the car battery jump
off gadget while it's raining, while it's hooked up to
a car.
Speaker 2: Just doesn't feel like that's the way that process is
supposed to be.
Speaker 5: He's laughing during break and she's like, I don't get it.
Was she not supposed to hold the pack. It doesn't
matter as much because pack's plastic. You're probably fine, But
like she probably could have set in the car not
getting rain, just left it on the hook. Where do
you put the leave it anywhere?
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firehouse window. After shocking her, Elandra's now got to take over,
gotta step up, or be.
Speaker 2: You know a mom mom. Yeah, uh yeah, I'm going
to I'm going to pringles guys. Sound great, but I'm going.
Speaker 5: At least I'm not getting Yeah, all right, cars.
Speaker 4: Would you rather be on the sideline for the two
thousand and seven LSU Florida game or the twenty twenty
three Alabama LSU game LSU Florida for me, okay, all.
Speaker 3: Right, the twenty three three Alabama game or twenty twenty two?
Speaker 4: Would you say, yeah, twenty three were you won Mason
Taylor walk off, storm the field or the are the
two thousand and seven LSU Florida game?
Speaker 1: Mm, I don't know.
Speaker 3: The Bama game. That's pretty lit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean storm the field. Yeah, we did not
store in the field. And O seven. I think we're
actually ranked higher than they were seven. So that's what
two and they were five.
Speaker 5: There was a little bit more on the line.
Speaker 2: But I get it.
Speaker 5: If LSU would have somehow ran the table in twenty
twenty three made it to the SEC Championship, I get that.
But you finished with three losses that season, like two
thousand and seven, Like you mentioned, both of these teams
were in the top five like to me, to me,
the pucker factor if you will, was a lot higher,
lsu Florid, with.
Speaker 4: Your life on the line, would you rather face Paul
schemes and have to touch the baseball or face Dylan
Cruise and have to strike him out life on the line,
Because I'm saying, oh, I cruise, I'm going to throw balls,
but strike him out?
Speaker 3: Is this cruise like in the beginning of this season? Wow?
Speaker 2: Wow, just ra no prime, L s U both Man,
I got no chance of striking out Dylan.
Speaker 3: Cruz, So that's a chance of me. Maybe just touch
it with Skins.
Speaker 5: I guess you can't bunting, okay, But I mean I
got a better chance of one foul tip than like
three strikes.
Speaker 3: Because I don't think I'm throwing one strike.
Speaker 2: Strikes. But he is just like laughing.
Speaker 3: If it's like a traditional like pictures, mound distance and
all that stuff, I'm not probably even making it to
the plate. So I think I have a better chance
of Now I'm not. I don't think I can hit
a Paul Skins ball at all, but I probably have
a better chance at hitting because you.
Speaker 2: Only have to tip, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we would you rather The strikeout part is what
gets me because like I could throw it so slow,
over swings it and gets like a slow roller that
got strike him out.
Speaker 2: I can't do that. That's wild like to think. And
I've got no chance at either one of them.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the the percentage chance of touching a Paul
Skins pitch is greater than me striking out Dylan Creery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, Elandra.
Speaker 3: Would you rather? This is like one of the dumb
questions that I was going to ask if I was
going to do like the tailgate stuff this weekend, but
I ended up not because it was raining and stuff.
But I was going to ask, would you rather take
a fastball from past Paul Skins to the ribs or
get in the car with a Georgia football player?
Speaker 2: Oh, Paul Skans fastball to the ribs?
Speaker 3: Give me the Paul Skans fastball.
Speaker 5: Do I also get arrested?
Speaker 4: I mean no, every every Georgia like football player thinks
they're Vin Diesel.
Speaker 2: I ain't get in the car.
Speaker 3: I'm not getting in the car.
Speaker 2: Give me Paul Skins fastball. It's not gonna feel great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's probably on her for a little bit.
That's probably the answer.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, I just I don't want to get hit in
the ribs like it hurts all the time. Three.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is a good one.
Speaker 4: A little LSU theme baseball when here, Would you rather
be Warren Morris and hit the walk off home run
in nineteen ninety six against Miami Or would you rather
be Tommy Tanks and hit the walk off home run
against wake Forest?
Speaker 5: Warren Morris won you a national did and won your
national championship?
Speaker 2: My god, that Tommy.
Speaker 5: Tanks got you there. But I mean Warren Morris, especially
that season he had, like you know, he's a great
player of the year before, was heard all year long,
nobody expected anything of him, Like I think it's Warren
Moors for.
Speaker 4: Me, I don't know, but like for me, like my
daughter's birth is always going to be tied into Tommy
White hitting that that walk off home run, it was like,
all right, we can do this now, let's go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really did, Like in that moment, I kind
of like I feel like when you're gonna win a
national championship, you can kind of feel it throughout the
season a little bit like when LSU women's basketball won
They're natty a couple of years ago, Like I felt
like they just had a feel to them, right, Yep.
The twenty three team had that feel to them. But
when Tommy Tangs hit that walk off home run, it
felt like you really solidified it, like you were like, oh,
we're winning this thing. Like I just had like that feeling.
Speaker 4: But that was a wild wild omhaol because of like
all the drama and the loser's backet had like these
interesting incredible teams and way forth.
Speaker 2: Florida, incredible year Florida.
Speaker 4: Obviously you played in championship series and yeah, it's like
the scores of the games as well, like Game one
drama shadow k Beloso against Florida, but then like they
put up a football score against you in game two,
you did it to them in game number three.
Speaker 2: Just I mean I was thinking.
Speaker 4: About that whenever Arizona came back and beat North Carolina.
I was like, oh, yeah, LSU did this too, Like
Florida beat the hell out of LSU, and then LSU
came back and they did the same, yeah to them.
So that that college series to me, and no disrespect,
like we got Anthony coming in hit No. Nine, But
like I was, I was dialed into my own situation
in two thousand and nine, and growing up, I watched
you know, all the all the college World Series in
terio scoring and all that. But that run they made
in twenty three. Man, there's just so many iconic moments.
And then you've got those players right now, Paul skin
is the best pitcher in baseball right and you've got
some of those guys starting to make their way to
the major leagues as well. I don't know, maybe it's
a prisoner of the moment, but I'm always going to
go with that team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that has like a like a special place in
my heart too, because like that was like the first
time I ever started going to regionals and like super
regionals as somebody covering the games. So that was super fun.
And then I've said this before, but like when Tommy
hit that home run, I was in the OLSU studio
by myself, like going nuts in there. It was crazy.
But yeah, that season will always be like crazy. And
they have this incredible documentary on YouTube about it that
gives me the chills every sing.
Speaker 2: It's weird.
Speaker 5: You usually keep your composure in those studios when you're
watching baseball.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised surprised.
Speaker 2: You went a little crazy.
Speaker 4: Y'all should see me calling LSU football games like on air.
I can't tell I hope under the desk, seventeen pencils
are being broken.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is like I couldn't imagine you so Like
I was telling you the game last year USSU South
Carolina Victoria were driving a report. I had to listen
to the whole game. I'm listening to you and Blair
and you're like calm, but I could tell them like
Jake's broadly hating this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh, this is this is this is
killing him.
Speaker 3: It was when you're like on the call and you're
firing off text to us while you're on the call.
How is he doing this?
Speaker 5: Because it was early in the game. Yeah, you couldn't
run the ball. You got stuff three straight times inside
the I was like, Jake Sprouble, it was not good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And we got a camera on us too, and I
forget about it all the time. I'm like, I hope
nobody's my body language is j Cutler level man?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 4: God, I hope nobody's watching this last one before we
take a break. Shout out to Daniel Bashram for coming
up with this one. Would you rather t Bob give
you directions on your cross country road trip or be
Jake's car in the guaranteed parking lot.
Speaker 3: They don't want to be your car in the parking lot.
Speaker 2: That happened.
Speaker 5: I could just disregard them, yeah.
Speaker 3: Or take his directions, but then put them in my phone.
Speaker 2: Can't believe that that still happened.
Speaker 4: No, that was crazy on the hood of my car
in the work parking lot in broad daylight.
Speaker 5: And it's funny because.
Speaker 2: When the normal citizen of the city, when.
Speaker 5: You brought it up, like we were kind of halfway
joking when you were like, they would have had to
have put my butt, their butt directly on my car.
Speaker 2: They did. They did.
Speaker 4: That guy still needs to call up here and like
explain himself to me. It's my car, not landing, but
me all right, we'll take a break. We've got Chris
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Speaker 4: You know, I did leave one of the would you
rather in the chamber there that I just feel like
I need to know the answer. Would you rather beat
Alabama every year but never win a national championship? Or
win one Natty every ten years but lose Tobama every time?
Speaker 5: For Natty every ten years? The Alabama game does not
define my season. Yeah, so I would rather win the
national championship.
Speaker 4: I gotta win Natties. We're worried about Alabama. Yeah, I
need to win a trophy. Let's see they're averaging. Let's see,
they've got trophy three in the last twenty five years.
So I mean, you're you're better now than that average went,
you know, every eight years right now eight and some change.
But every eight years, take a national championship. There's a
lot of places that don't have that. Can we can
we get like every six years though a little bit
of a gap five to six, Yes, five to six years.
I'm taking that all day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man.
Speaker 4: So what we talked about the other day the expectation
for the LSU football squad make the College Football Playoff,
and the best part about it is everybody across from
the Ponderosa agrees with us.
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