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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in I wut Knower two of
O T be here live from the Raiz Caine Studio.
I'm talking a little LSU baseball, LSU and Kentucky this
weekend in the box. To do so, our guy Jared
Mitchell sec network of course LSU baseball legend. Let me
get a football question in here with Jay Mitch as well.
Speaker 4: Jay Mitch, what's going on? Brother? How we doing?
Speaker 5: I'm living man? How you boys doing this morning?
Speaker 3: You know, just quiet here in bat Nerws, nothing going on,
no new coaches.
Speaker 4: You know, always quiet here.
Speaker 5: Pot right.
Speaker 3: It always does, it always does, and certainly you know
during baseball season it never stops as well.
Speaker 4: So before we look at.
Speaker 3: LSU and Kentucky, LSU, as you know, our listeners know,
we all know, came into this season with very high expectations.
It hasn't been all bad, but you know, some of
the guys that they brought in I just haven't been producing.
I think, like everyone expected them too, and you're probably
the best person asked this question too. I mean, you've
been a part of a national championship team in two
different sports, but you also know what it's like to
come into a place with an expectation where you have
to be great because that's just what the standard has been.
And it feels like so far, Jay Mitch, there's been
some guys that you know, obviously they've come from other leagues,
other places, but trying to figure out what it's like
to play in the SEC.
Speaker 5: I mean, definitely, I feel like there's some guys that
on team that have come in and it's taken them
a while to truly get acclivated to what it is
playing not only a the SEC, playing in alex Back Stadium,
playing that purple and gold, Understanding that you are on
a team that's won a national championship, but you yourself
didn't win one, right, so understanding how to kind of
fit into all of those things. It's taking them a
little time now. I will give Jay and his staff
the benefit of the doubt because of what they've done
over the past four years. Gig from year five that
he's that he's in Baton Rouges look it's hard for
me to believe that these are not good baseball players.
It's also hard for me to watch sit there and
watch I guess, yeah, what say five, six, maybe even
seven guys struggling at the same time. That usually doesn't happen.
So would that be in the case and it being
early in a year and you still in striking distance.
I like where they are. I like with the opportunity
what they have to do. And let's be honest. Two
weekends ago you go to Vanderbilt, you're one pitch away
from winning that series. A weekend ago, you're a couple
pitches away from winning that series. And sometimes that really
is the difference between the good and the quote unquote
bad in this league. I just err on the side
that this is a good team that's not completely hitting
on all cylinders, and they got a lot of things
to kind of put together, and I think this is
about the time where it needs to start kind of
rounding into shape.
Speaker 4: Jared, how tough is it so?
Speaker 3: And you're right, like, there's multiple guys and if they're
struggling in the lineup, the guys that have always produced
in purple and gold, and they're at the top of
the lineup, Like how stressful is that for you? Each
and every bad too, probably feel like you need to
do more.
Speaker 4: You got to be superhuman.
Speaker 3: And as you know, like in baseball, when you press
that way, that's when you get into the most trouble.
It does feel like there's some guys there at the
top that feel like they're probably having to try to
do it all. And when you get in that situation,
it's not good for anybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's you know, it's definitely tough because now you're
sitting there, like baseball is the ultimate path of Paton sport, right,
Like you want to be able to do the job
in the capacity that is being allowed when you allow
the game to kind of come to you. When you
sit there and you're trying to take yourself to the
game all the time, you start trying to kind of
play over your skis and do a little more than
what maybe the situation is calling for. So there is
a little bit of that push. But I think the
really good players, the best ones, are the ones that
are able to kind of fight that and believe it
or not, whether whether the lineup is good or not,
whether the team is good or not. The best players
are able to kind of just play their role in
their situation as it is until things around them start
to happen as well. So I think if you can
kind of take that matured approach, that kind of experienced
approach and understanding what's going on around you and let
the game either come back to you or come to
you period, I think it allows that team to kind
of in that lineup and allows the team to kind
of come together in the lineup to kind of flow
and really get going as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's also one of those things too where you know,
you have a guy like a Jake Brown who is
producing at a really high level right now, but like
if those around him don't, you know, help protect. And
we talked about this with Jay Johnson a couple of
weeks ago. Jay Mitch is like, if they don't protect,
and we're not talking about you know, leaving the ball
the ball field, We're not talking about you know, hitting
doubles off the wall. We're just talking about good at
bats that have to force the issue and you know,
make you pitch to Jake Brown, because like somebody right
now in this LSU lineup that I wouldn't throw to
is Jake Brown. So like those guys around him, it
doesn't have to be world beaters. It just has to
be competitive at bats. So Jake Brown can at least
see one pitch to hit per a bat.
Speaker 5: I agree with that, but I guess my take on
Jake Brown too is kind of crazy because it's it's
a little different, and it's a little different in the
sense of so when you come into a season like
everybody needs Jake Brown was a good player. Yeah, the
player he is right now, the things that he's doing
right now is not reminiscent of what he's done in
his career. And so what I mean by that is
he's playing even a level above. He's gone above and
beyond what we've seen. So when you came into the year,
you knew you was a good player, but you didn't
tab him as this Allah, tab him Tommy White as
hey don't pitch to him. From the beginning of the season,
when it started at twenty three, you knew who that
guy was and what he was going to do and
how he plays and the power that he brought in,
the threat that he was in the lineup. Jake is
showing you that for the first time this year and
it's not a bad thing. It's a great thing. So
what I mean by my take is different on him
is it takes a while for people to start recognizing
that and start really tabbing him as don't pitch to
that guy. So with that being said, it hasn't always
been we're gonna make these guys around him do the
hitting in that time. That has been for me, the
most time where these guys have struggled. So now that
they're coming out of it, they're trying to get to
the other side of it. They're starting to not pitched
to Jake. These guys are really going to start truly
getting more pitches to hit in a time where they're like,
you know what, let's not let Jake be let's let
these guys beat us. Let's go attack these guys instead.
And I think all these things are kind of gotta
work together to getting them back on track the way they.
Speaker 4: Need to be. Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're certainly going to have opportunities because Jake
Brown is going to as the season goes along, like
you said, he's gonna see fewer pitches that are going
to be in the zone. Those other guys are going
to get those pitches. Now they have to make the
other team pay. Catching up with our guys, Jared Mitchell,
SEC Network talking about LSU baseball. You know, Cason Evans
last Friday or I guess it would have been Thursday
with the Thursday Friday Saturday series certainly showed you what
he's shown you pretty much every time he's been in
an LSU uniform. Now he's making the move from kind
of a stopper there and coming in whenever you had
a lead in SEC play and shutting the door in
like the last four innings to being a first game
out Friday night starter in the SEC. That was the
case in Evans that we I've certainly seen multiple times
already in an LSU uniform. If he does that and
you got an injury to your Saturday guy now, so
you're gonna need him even more. But if he does that,
as we all know, this is a completely different LSU
team if you have Schmidt thoughing like he has all year,
and then Case and Evans giving you true a stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean what we saw at case In last
week was so just it's what we saw from him
last year. I think to start the year knowing that
he was going to be in a different role this
year in terms of not coming out of the bullpen anymore,
not having a high leverage situation, but hey, we need
you to start set the tones not only for the game,
but for the weekend as well. It's a completely different role,
and I figured I thought it was going to take
him a little time to kind of figure out to
navigate how he wanted to go about that, and it
did right like, he saw some ups and downs. He
saw him kind of trying to figure it out, and
then last week you're like, that's it. And I think
what we saw last year out of him kind of
gave you that mental perception that it was going to
be out the gate the exact same way and not
understanding that there was probably going to be a little
bit bumps. But I love where he's at right now, eyeball.
I've said it all seasons, all season long. I think
this the starting rotation's ability to go deeper in games
is gonna be truly one of the better things if
they can get that done for this team this year.
I think by being able to minimize how much time
is being spent out of the bullpen and having to pitch.
I think that's that's one thing that's gonna help them
be a much better team going towards the back end
of the year. Now, like you said, with Cooper Moore
out and we don't know how long, but as long
as he's out, how are you gonna fill those innings
on Saturday? And what are you gonna do? Are you
gonna move William Schmid into the Saturday role? This would
be the week to do it, obviously, because they went Thursday,
Friday Saturday last week, So you can kind of get
it back onto a regular schedule this week by playing Friday,
Saturday Sunday. So that'll be interesting to see if Day
makes that move. But I also like the idea of, hey,
when we tow it up on game three of a
Sunday in the SEC, there ain't many William Schmid's facing
William Schmid like he is such an advantage having him
on that third day. And if you can move let's
just say Jaden News. Let's say if you can piggyback
a Jade Newton and Zach Cowen or Zach Cowens Jade Newton,
they can and those two guys you can commit and
you can understand and they can understand that. Hey, if
you can give us I don't know, man, let's say
eighteen to twenty outs. Let's be let's be somewhere around
there a weekend between you two on a Saturday. I
love where that team could be on a Saturday with
Cason thrown on Friday. And I love what they can
be with the opportunity of having William Smith thrown on Sunday.
So I think everything they need is still in front
of them. But one hundred percent, it's so key that
not only Cason peaks that form and plays that way
the rest of the year and throws that away the
rest of the year. But if they can get started
pitching that does that, they're in a great spot.
Speaker 3: All right, Jay Mitch, Let's talk about their opponent coming
up this weekend. Kentucky, another range baseball team, come in
at two the box.
Speaker 4: They play it a different way.
Speaker 3: They are going to manufacture runs, they are going to
take long at bats, They're going to be very active
on the base pass, They're going to lay down bunch.
That's just who they are. They force the issue, they
never give up, and they are just pesky. They are
one of those teams. It just never goes away. How
do you see it going this weekend?
Speaker 5: This is gonna be an interesting one man, because Lshu's
had their troubles on defense this year. They've given up
some walks on the mound this year. It is gonna
be paramount that they just flood and suffocate the zone
as pitchers on that staff make Kentucky put the ball
in play. And then when they do it, you got
to make the plays defensively because Kentucky will put the
strain on you. They will run, they will go first
to third, they will steal back, they will dirt ball read,
they'll do all of those things, and they do it
at a high clip, and they do it very successfully,
and that is the fabric of their game. So I
think it's really important that you pitch it well this weekend.
But it's even more important that you're able to feel
it and throw it across the diamond and hit guys
in the chest that way. I think when you look
at those two, when you look at those things, and
if LSU's able to do that, this is a super
big weekend for him because from this you got to
go to Tennessee and you got to go too old miss.
I believe those two weekend series right behind this one
could really be the turning point of telling you where
you're going to go the rest of the year, because
I do think like when you look at the totality
of an SDC season, you got ten weeks, thirty games
just sitting there with It's great to get off to
a good start the week's one and two. It's awesome
to be hot at the end and go well week
nine to ten. But it's those middle weeks where if
you kind of let go, when you let things slide
a little bit, when it's not when you're not really
I guess honed in because it's not new or it's
not the end of the year, those where you get
yourself in trouble at by just not taking care of
business in the middle. And you're getting to that middle
part here.
Speaker 3: This is a big weekend for catching up with our guys,
Jared Mitchell sec network here on OTB.
Speaker 4: All right, j Mitch, before we let you go, we're
gonna ask you.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, our listeners know you won a
national championship in a couple of different sports, and so
we got to ask you about football. I remember watching
you try to run across the street and have to
like change basically like as you were running to go
from spring football practice to a baseball game over at
the box. And so spring football going on right now,
a lot of excitement around LSU got Lane Kiffin, you
got a brand new offensive staff, a lot of new players,
forty million dollar roster, whatever it is.
Speaker 4: Kind of what's your excitement level?
Speaker 3: How do you think it's all gonna play out there
on the grid iron? I, especially knowing what Lane's done
in the past few years at Ole Miss, this is
the most exciting.
Speaker 5: But also I don't know exactly how they're gonna go
about springing what they're gonna put together, because you just
haven't seen it. It's new for Lane, it's a new roster,
it's a new place. You're kind of trying to set
some new ways and some new thoughts and bring some
new things into the building. But then you also, let's
let's be honest, let's play with this forty million dollar
roster we're talking about. The absolute most important thing is,
hey man, how do we get you to August healthy? Brother?
Like that's what we need. So it'll it'll be interesting
to see how they go about it, but I don't.
I mean, tell me a more anticipated spring practice than
bad news that there's been in the past twenty years.
You got it, You'd be hard pressed to find it.
I think I'm here, I'm here waiting for it, and look,
I got my potfor already.
Speaker 4: Uh, there's no doubt about it. And you're exactly right.
Speaker 3: I don't think we've ever talked about a singular spring
practice like we did the first one with Lane Kiffin
and the new staff Jay mitch Man. We truly appreciate
the time as always enjoy watching you do big things
from the big stage.
Speaker 4: Keep crushing it and we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 5: All right. I was appreciate you, all.
Speaker 4: Right, you as well, Jerry Mitchell.
Speaker 3: The SEC well, it was network, but Taylor fixed it
to network.
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Speaker 3: I thought it was like have you ever seen super Troopers? Yeah,
where they like you gotta say meal. I felt like
you were trying to get me to do that. Oh
like like a yeah, because you have network up there.
Speaker 6: It was just me trying to hurry.
Speaker 2: I picked up on it. I owned up to the mistake.
I fixed it.
Speaker 7: Good things come to those who wait.
Speaker 3: Pata chess. This man's trying to get his car. Okay, Yeah,
he's trying to track his truck right now.
Speaker 7: He's trying to get his four hundred dollars Delivered's.
Speaker 2: What I was doing. I was pulling up the saddle light.
Speaker 3: Like I'm telling you, if you want that four hundred
dollars back, let me in a line. You get on
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Speaker 7: You for he Bob got his headphones stolen and we
were like absolutely not.
Speaker 4: That pissed me off.
Speaker 2: He was okay with it too. He was just like, well,
I mean.
Speaker 4: What he was like in Georgia's Savannah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was club the person just like they stole
my headphones and like I went to the front and
they were like, there's nothing we can really do.
Speaker 4: The hell there's not.
Speaker 7: What do you mean There's nothing you can do.
Speaker 3: Boy's gonna bring my headphones back and then we're gonna
have a conversation.
Speaker 7: Period.
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could do. Had was like wireless. It was like whatever
was the show was doing.
Speaker 7: And they were like custom. They were like the show
that he Aaron snaps snaps.
Speaker 3: They were like custom snaps, like the company got him that. Yeah,
we'll try to get him back, like, but they said.
Speaker 7: No, Okay, let me call the I will get your
headphones back for you right now. Yeah, Like I'm for hire.
If y'all need something, if y'all need to argue with somebody,
let me know.
Speaker 3: If you thrive in confrontation, this is the show for you,
because we.
Speaker 4: All do that.
Speaker 3: Matt.
Speaker 7: I don't feel like Matt.
Speaker 3: Does not that he doesn't like like t Bob hated confrontation. Yeah,
like like his least favorite thing. Matt just it's too
lazy to worry.
Speaker 2: I don't think Matt cares about.
Speaker 4: Better not be lazy here in a couple of hours.
So boy, I got it. I need to wait.
Speaker 7: When when are we calling him? Nine o'clock?
Speaker 4: Probably? Yeah, I need I need lazy to film the entire.
Speaker 6: What's she doing this whole time? She just like walking
following along.
Speaker 3: Hopefully she's like laughing at him, encouraging but laughing.
Speaker 4: You know you're doing.
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hybrid rock star in his face? What the hell are
you talking about? What was his quote? What was this
Kenny Powers quote?
Speaker 6: I play real sports. I'm not trying to be the
best at exercise, and exactly what's the lead quote?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 3: All right, we got Will Helmer's that's going to join
us at eight thirty. So well, yeah, you know, cover
everything going on at Louisiana loaded and also obviously LSU
baseball with him. Uh Tay, gonna give you a little
LSU spring football practice report when we come back here
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so, folks finally got to see the first team
offense and eleven on eleven and it was Landon Clark
not who saw on long Street running with the ones.
I know a lot of people had thoughts on that.
I personally am not surprised. I know who's on Long
Street is a former five star, He's played three college games.
I mean, Landon Clark has experience, albeit at Elon, but
experience nonetheless, And everyone's saying that he's actually slinging it
out there. Landon Clark looks really good. You're starting three
receivers were Jace Brown and Jackson Harris really no surprise there.
They were kind of the two most productive guys you
brought in. And then Winston Wonkins, the wide receiver from
Old Miss who followed Lane Kiff, and that was that
was kind of the look at your offense. On the
defensive side of things, it was interesting, Jake, because Jordan
Ross and Prince Uman Miellen were your defensive ends. No
surprise there. They were the big name guys you got
out of the portal. It was Richard Anderson and Deuce
Gerald's two true freshmen early enrollies, starting at defensive tackle.
Now Steffiland Green, the Clemson transfer, hasn't practiced yet. He's
got a little bit of an injury, hasn't been out there.
Dominic McKinley was running with the twos. We were talking
about this earlier in the week, saying everything's up for
grabs because we don't know what Dominic McKinley's going to be.
We've seen flashes, it's just been a little inconsistent. Now
your corners PJ Woodland on one side, DJ Pikett on
the other, No surprise there. Both of those guys are studs.
No win weeks he was out there not participating full pads.
It was Devon Keys and TJ. Dottery were your two linebackers.
I think it's going to wind up being Dottery in weeks. Yeah,
but you're gonna love this. It's something we have been
talking about, your safeties for Tamarcus Cooley and Tyd Benifield
and Deshaun Spears was down there at Star like we
had we had kind of talked about, I mean six three,
two twenty down there working with Blake Baker, who's working
with the Stars. And then that's kind of the thing
I didn't like maybe. I mean, reports are now that
Chris Kiffin is working with the inside linebackers.
Speaker 4: And he's a linebacker's coach.
Speaker 6: He is, And I just I just thought Blake was
a great linebacker coach. I just I'm also all these
opinion that don't change what's working. And Kevin Peeples no
longer with the edge rushers. He's coaching interior defensive line,
so a little bit of rotation there, but uh, you know,
all in all some new faces in new places.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Blake's gonna be able to And I'm with you,
like he's doing such a great job with that group.
But he's gonna be able to kind of roam around
the defense now, so gonna be able to kind of walk.
He's not gonna just be coaching in one position. He's
going to be be able to go coach every position
and checking on different position groups.
Speaker 4: There the young.
Speaker 3: Defensive tackles, it's not normal, but I guess it's not surprising,
and it's really something we talked about. So Lamar Brown's
not an early enroll league, which I hate the fact
that it's not like a negative deal, like we talked about.
I loved my spring semester my senior year and going
out there and playing spring sports. But it's like ninety
five percent of your class now is early enrollees.
Speaker 4: So he's gonna have some catching up to do.
Speaker 3: You get fifteen practices, you get fourth quarter program, you
get workouts and meetings and all these things when you
enroll early. And so those two guys are gonna have
certainly the jump, and it's gonna be young guys at
that position, Like that's your biggest recruits, Your biggest recruits
from this recruiting class were at that position. And it
is a position that you can go out there and
you can play pretty early.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: It's not like to say there's not a lot going on,
but it's not quarterback, it's not corner some of these
positions that has a lot of adjustments. It's like, hey,
you're playing a three technique go are, you're playing a
one shade go right. So when you're a young guy,
there's not a lot to think about. You can just
use your ability at defensive tackle.
Speaker 4: So I like that.
Speaker 6: Duce Geralds is probably the biggest surprise to mean, well,
first off, dude, Gerald's tilt wise, he's probably my favorite
defensive alignment you brought in. But the fact that he's
already getting one reps at defensive tackle.
Speaker 2: He's listened at six foot two.
Speaker 6: Seventy nine right now, because when he signed he was
about sixty five two seventy Some were wondering if he
was going to play on the outside. The fact that
he's already at first team reps, he's only going to
get bigger and stronger like that. That's the standout to
me because at his size, already in there, fall camp's
going to be good to him if he keeps it up.
Speaker 4: What about go back to the offense real quick?
Speaker 3: Maybe the thing that stood out the most on the
offensive side of the football for you, because the defense
is something that is going to have familiar faces. You
feel good about where Blake Baker and the unit are
going to be because you know more right, you've seen
those guys in Perlin goal before.
Speaker 4: Offensively, though, for you, what.
Speaker 6: Was it Lanta Clark at the quarterback position. I mean,
he's kind of the talka camp right now and I
get that. You know he's he's he's kind of battling
for the QB two right now with Sam Levin out.
But look, if Levitt's not healthy to start the season
for whatever reason, there's a setback. Matt talked about it
a little bit last week. Lane Kiffin doesn't care where
you come from. I mean Trinidad. Shamblis came from Farris State.
A lot of people want to hype up who's on
Long Street, and I get it, he's from USC. He's
a five star, he's six'. Three Lanta clark's a. BALLER
i mean he's out there slinging. IT i mean it's,
effortless the ball comes out. Quick he looks good out.
Speaker 3: There, yeah and with that, experience if something did happen
or If levitt wasn't ready to go for whatever. Reason
that feels like to play there because of that. Experience
and like you, Said lane does not care where you came.
From can you run his? Offense all, right we will step.
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Speaker 1: D from the locker room to the. Airwaves gets off
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Speaker 4: Flynn all, right welcome back IN o T. B here
live from The Raising kanes.
Speaker 3: Studio we got a, Guy Will helmer's in studio with,
Us louisiana loded.
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our Guy Jordi.
Speaker 3: Kala i'd always got a lot of things going on
over At Louisiana. Loaded we were out AT U club On,
monday so will good enough to change? Days come hang
out with us on A. Friday it's better vibes on
A friday Than.
Speaker 8: Monday ABOUT i get the big. Chair this is awesome
to start coming On fridays more.
Speaker 3: Often, yeah we told will That flynn was out doing
High Rocks hybrid Rock star In.
Speaker 4: Houston he, said that sounds. Horrible it sounds.
Speaker 3: Terrible who would want to willingly willingly like for no
prize money or, anything you, know just, oh you don't
even get a. Medal maybe maybe, Maybe, well in today's,
society you probably get a metal, Regardless you're, right everybody gets.
Speaker 8: Medal you're probably right about. Place he's gonna come. Home
and last and the best.
Speaker 3: Part so somebody inside of our chat is also In
houston and they had the same start time As. Flynn
he was already kind of nervous about, it but now
he's super nervous because what if this listener goes out
there and kicks his ass and has a.
Speaker 4: Better, chance you, know good chance of. That this is.
Exciting it's like the most Competent so it's gonna be.
AWESOME i can't, wait can't wait for his.
Speaker 3: Failure, yep all, Right, eli, Shoot, kentucky it's the box this.
Speaker 4: Weekend we're talking a little bit. Before it's a tough.
Speaker 3: Matchup, Now kentucky's a tough matchup for, anyone, REALLY i,
mean they're a top twenty five. Team over the last
couple of, years they've gotten more talented, players so it
hasn't all had you, know have to fall on their
way about you, know bunning and moving guys over and stealing.
Bases like they're putting that together with more talent and
it's a really good baseball. Team they got some better
arms i think than they've had as. Well but it
does make you nervous with the pressure they're gonna put
On LSU's.
Speaker 8: Defense, yeah for, sure it's a little nerve, wracking But
I'm i'm excited about it for.
Speaker 4: Him you, know they're in the box.
Speaker 8: Again they kind of found their stride a little bit
last weekend in That friday game Or thursday, game and
then you know they dropped two in a row that
That Saturday Friday. Saturday but This kentucky, team you, know
there's a lot of history Between jay and coach Mn,
jone and, uh it's. Exciting jay loves to beat him
like love because they're like their. Boys, yeah their boys
was in his wedding, yea and so just just a
cool it's a cool. Environment it's always pretty, feisty you,
know get people get fired.
Speaker 4: Up both.
Speaker 8: Sides both him And jay get fired up players and
it's a cool. Environment but you, know at the same,
time they're a, team like The kentucky side of. It
they got a lot of skill sets there they can
master and they have mastered and you've seen. It they you,
know they Swept alabama at, home dropped two To Old
miss on the. Road but they're a great ball, club you,
know and they're gonna, bunt they're gonna, Steal they're gonna steal.
Speaker 4: Home and the defensive, SIDE.
Speaker 8: I know we were talking about that before for l
S u is kind of, like, well let's see what happens,
here because they're gonna make you. Work you, know they're
gonna they're gonna put a lot of pressure on you
offensively and defensively to make, plays you, know and so you,
know if they can come out there strong and and
win This friday, GAME i think they have a great
trance to take the.
Speaker 4: Series If Cason evans pitched like you did last.
Speaker 8: Weekend you, know talk about a guy who's not kind
of like on the on the verge of not being
A friday guy A friday, guy and then all of
a sudden does, that you, Know baseball's. Funky, NO i
don't know. HOW i, mean you, know it's ultimate game of. Failure,
yeah and you gotta be okay with, it figure it.
Out you can't succeed unless you. Fail that's with, Anything,
yeah baseball, specific it's it's a real, thing real.
Speaker 3: Thing It it has to be nerve wracking to be
a pitcher as well and face a defense or an
offense like, this knowing that you've got to worry about other,
things not just pitching the, ball because you got to
field your. Position you got to make sure everybody knows the, bunk,
coverage all these different. Things and it's like, sure like
you work on, that you practice, that but you really
don't implement it unless you're playing a team like, this
and so you got to think about so many different
things before you even let the ball.
Speaker 8: Go it's, true it is a little, bit you, know
it's a lot of. Pressure, yeah you, know and a
team like, this it always reminds you have a team
like U l you, know whenever we would practice for
a team Like kentucky and Even. Auburn auburn plays like
this a little bit. Too you practice like you're PLAYING
ul BECAUSE ul is doing the same. Thing they're they're
playing that little shaky kind of offense where they're bunting
and stealing and all this different. Stuff but as a,
pitcher if you can get ahead against a team like
this and throw first pitch strikes and make them put
the ball in, play you're doing.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah you're gonna be.
Speaker 8: Fine and you don't put guys on free guys on,
base if you don't walk, guys if you don't hit
guys and give them free, bases you're gonna be. Fine
your defense is most likely gonna make the play behind,
you you. Know and if you don't put free guys on,
base you have a great chance of doing a good
against this. Team you put them on base and they're,
moving they're, MOVING i mean, yeah whether first, base, second or,
third and this team's, no they'll steal. Home AND i
know LSU's got some you, know some problems behind the
dish right, now and hopefully we can settle that out
this weekend and get a, firm you, know stance behind
the plate to minimize some of, that because they're gonna
be moving like it or.
Speaker 3: Not and so for our, listeners and a lot of
them have sons that play travel, ball it's LIKE tenu.
Baseball like they get to first and you look, up
it's like they're gonna get to. Third like even like
with a good, pitch a good, throw they're gonna steal.
Second they're gonna steal. There it's like if a guy
gets on, first.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be on the.
Speaker 8: Third they're gonna expose, You, yeah and hopefully that it
doesn't come down to them exposing. You, look if if you,
execute you, know as a pitcher and on, defense you,
know and don't make you play air free baseball and,
execute you know from the, mound it's gonna be a different.
Story BECAUSE i think that they'll the offense is gonna
come out, swinging you, know just like they did last
Weekend friday night in the. Box you, know people are.
Excited it's a it's a fun time and it'll be.
Speaker 3: Fun so what do you think is gonna? Happen will
with the? Staff you're gonna have an injury there on Your.
Saturdays starter is going to keep him out sounds like
at least three, weeks and so like three weeks in
me usually means five, weeks so you, know just.
Speaker 4: The way that it kind of. Works but especially with
how it. Is, yeah and so it's, tough it.
Speaker 3: Is and if YOUR, lsu so you still Have case And,
evans you still have Wym schmith' so he still got
two frontline. Starters but how would you maybe piece together
that last, game because if you do it in an
aggressive way and Like Zach collen's like a piece of,
that it's, like, okay well your stopper kind of gets taken,
away which you know him And Case evans have been
in THEIR lsu, careers like you get a lead in THE,
sec will bring him in the fifth, ending it'll just
shut the door on the rest of the. Game but
if he's a part of a, start then you lose
that as.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah for. Sure it's it just goes back to
TYPICAL lsu.
Speaker 8: Baseball you, know you get The friday night, guy you
got The saturday night, guy and you figure it Out
sunday AND i think you use you, Know gidrey And
callen to win those two, games, right you, know your
first first thing you got to do is win two.
Speaker 4: Games you, know win one. Game you, know we.
Speaker 8: Gotta, start you, know start the Bar low win one
game at a. Time and so if that means Using
guidry And cowen to win That friday.
Speaker 4: Game that's what you're gonna.
Speaker 8: Do and you figure it Out, saturday and then you
figure it out Again sunday and hopefully you have Maybe
gidrey And cowen and a guy Like rizzy and cheering
that can bump up the. Innings you, know who have
been guys who have been pretty, Reliable and in The
tuesday game they had some some freshmen do some great,
things some younger, guys some. Transfers so you, know somebody
is gonna have to step, up you, know it always
there's always.
Speaker 4: A point in the season where that has to.
Speaker 8: Happen and you, know, unfortunately you, Know Cooper more goes,
down which is a you, know a big hit for
l S. U but it's it's not like it hasn't happened.
Before you, know it happened three times the year we
won in twenty twenty, Three Garrett, Edwards Grant, Taylor Chase.
Shores you, know three guys that are gonna be big,
leaguers you, know and one already. Is and so you
know that you figure it out as you go and
somebody and people step up and just just roll with,
it roll with the.
Speaker 3: Punches, uh you did have more success if we go
to the lineup and that was A midwi game Against Louisian.
Tech but you score fifteen runs and you pitch well
enough Against oklahoma to win the series and maybe sweep
in this.
Speaker 4: Series, right the bats didn't catch. Up it's just plain and.
Speaker 3: Simple you, like you need guys to step, up like
the guys that you brought, In like you gotta it's. Time,
yeah it's. Got that's just it's really simple as. THAT
i mean outside of a couple of. Guys and Like
Omar certin is doing everything he can as a young,
player which is, awesome try to make an. Impact but you,
know you, know you brought TO lsu for a reason
and fair, unfair we know what that expectation.
Speaker 8: Is and you, KNOW i like that they they Run
Rule tech on On. Tuesday gives them a little. Confidence
boo's going into the weekend with the bats kind of
hot a little, bit people hitting, homers LIKE Lsu baseball's
kind of, like you, know feels. Back maybe it feels
back in the locker room a little bit because bats
are alive and so hopefully they can just roll keep
rolling with, that roll with the momentum they have from
That tuesday. Win even though it is a in, state you,
know kind of midweek game, whatever those bats are still
rolling and so to to be able to keep rolling
as it may be a, struggle BUT i think they're
gonna come out, hot come out, swinging and and come
out with you, Know jay's typical offense style and just
GO i.
Speaker 3: Mean jason a message by sitting a COUPLE i mean
sitting in a couple of guys changing some lineup. Stuff
you could Tell jay got to a point where he's,
like all, right, guys like we're not playing nice, Anymore
like we got to figure this.
Speaker 4: Out, yeah there's no more options. Here we're figuring it.
Speaker 8: Out and you, know you know who he wants to, play,
right you know who he wants to, succeed and he
wants everybody to.
Speaker 4: SUCCEED i don't mean to say, That.
Speaker 8: Yeah but you Sit york after his worst game for a,
reason and and the and you, know For yorke to
come back and respect that decision and then hit two,
homers that shows a lot of promise to. Me and
so hopefully that bat gets hot. Again you, know you
Have Jake, Brown Jared, curio who are gonna be On
but you need that that other half of the.
Speaker 4: Line up to step. Up gotta have somebody Protect Jay.
BROWN i, mean you can't get to a.
Speaker 8: Point, look the dude's got eleven, homers but he's not
going to hit homers all the. Time he's gonna be on.
Base but somebody's got to drive. Him somebody's gotta drive him.
In all, right right there with?
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Speaker 8: Louisiana? Loaded Coming easyna. Loaded let's, SEE i was Out monday.
Too tune of fishing overnight tuna fishing in The gulf Of,
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Way so have fun with. That it should be a
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basketball gonna take On duke late. Tonight it's gonna be
a late. Boy it's gonna be nine o'clock Here central.
Time that, game of, course is being played out In,
sacramento and it's a it's a good. Matchup it's a
matchup that we have already seen this. Year both these
teams are gonna be a little bit different.
Speaker 4: Here you. Know at the, Time, GOSH i Think duke was.
Speaker 3: Something like three and six and they ended up twenty
six and eight on the. Year but like Coach kimbulke
told us earlier this week with her weekly visit.
Speaker 4: That you, know this was a game that l she was.
Down they were kind of down.
Speaker 3: Big and remember to that, POINT lsu had scored one
hundred points every game and.
Speaker 4: They hadn't really been.
Speaker 3: Tested they got, tested but they certainly punched back and
they ended, up you, know falling short of one hundred
by like and if you, remember like that was the storyline, Was,
hey L sho didn't score one. Hundred it's like, yeah
but they went on the road and beat a Good
duke basketball. Team so this is going to be a
rematch of something we've already. Seen as we, know these
games are going to always go different than they did
the first.
Speaker 4: Time, Again duke jumped out to a big.
Speaker 3: Lead they won the first, quarter BUT lsu won every
quarter after. That in the second quarter, alone they Outscored
duke thirty one to, nineteen twenty to, eighteen, third twenty
two to sixteen in the, fourth and they were victorious
on the road ninety three to seventy.
Speaker 4: Seven this is a game in WHICH lsu is gonna have.
Speaker 3: Advantages we've talked about the matchup throughout the. WEEK i
like the matchup FOR. Lsu duke, again very good basketball.
Team they have continued to get. Better but right, now
when you look at WHERE lsu is compared To duke
and some of the advantages that they're going to, Have
Like duke scores seventy four points per, game lshoes at
ninety five points per, game and they bout give up the.
Same they're both right at fifty nine to sixty points
per game giving. Up so the advantage To duke on
defense is not there like it is for most teams
that go Against. Duke and certainly you have the advantage on.
Offense you rebound it, better you shoot it, better you
have more assists per, game you have more steals per.
Game So els she's got a lot of advantages in
this game Against. Duke, now again you have to know
this is a different. Game it's not the same game
that was the first. Game and sometimes that's hard as a, player,
RIGHT i, MEAN i dealt with it in my. Career
elandra probably dealt with it in, Softball taylor did in,
Football like you play a team that you already beat
and maybe you relax just a little bit and sometimes
they get you in. Trouble, heck WE i deal with
it coaching youth. Sports it's, like, oh, man we killed
that team last, year it's, like this isn't last. Year
or we beat that team in the regular, season it's
not the regular. Season things. Change you have to as
a player treat this like you're playing a team that
sure the information about, them like it's good you get
a book on the, team but you don't allow it
to become the only part of the.
Speaker 4: Story like you have to reset a part of your.
Speaker 3: Mind and so LSU's done that for the most part
all season, long and if they can get that done,
again it is certainly going to bode well for The
tigers Now. Duke in their path to this, game they
Beat charleston eighty one to sixty four in the first.
Round charleston was a fourteen, seed and then they Beat,
baylor a six, seed sixty nine to forty. Six there
in the round of thirty. Two it sets up this
matchup WITH. Lsu lshue of course Beat jacksonville one sixteen
to fifty, eight and then they Beat Texas, tech who
was a seventh, seed one oh one to forty. Seven
LSU's certainly riding high going into this. Game ls who's
at eight and a half point favorite in this game as,
well and, HONESTLY i think they're minus one eighteen at
eight and a half and So duke right now only
minus one oh two to cover the. Game SO lsu
are favored in every way here in this. One and
if they can go in there play like they have been. Playing,
again we laid out the, stats we laid out the,
analytics they have a lot of advantages in this. One
And i'm looking forward to ANOTHER lsu victory Against. Duke
and if you get that done and you were on
a path for an epic MATCHUP i think WITH, ucla
and that would be one certainly that the entire country would.
Watch all, right our number three AT otv when we come.
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