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the Bench Live from the Mercedes Benze Beveridge Studios starts now.
Speaker 4: I'll start to you to present. Off the bench with
Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
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Speaker 1: I gotta come off the pitch.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: Here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 1: Yo, what's going on?
Speaker 6: Guy?
Speaker 1: What man rend rows about TV?
Speaker 3: Welcome in to our Jake Kester birthday celebration, A young
and svelt forty years old today. How many forty year
olds do you know that I have?
Speaker 1: Apps? Okay? Not many? Spendy, not white guys.
Speaker 3: Strong stuff from our guy, Jay Kester here hurling into
mature adulthood. Jakie, what's up, dude? How are we feeling?
Speaker 1: What's up? Tea? I feel forty? Yeah? You feel forty?
A good way or a bad way? Do you feel? Wise?
Speaker 5: Both?
Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah? Both learned? You know.
Speaker 2: I'm still waiting on the salt and pepper. Look, maybe
I can pull that off. I was watching a show
with John Ham last night. I'm like, you know what,
he looks great. That's great, looks great, he looks great.
It was great inspiration.
Speaker 1: I'm like, cause that he's probably fifty.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah, absolutely, probably fifty probably a little over, yeah,
probably fitting some change, if we had to guess.
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know what, he looks great.
Speaker 3: Well it's established, he know, he mean yeah exactly, and
so are you exactly?
Speaker 1: Hey, So happy birthday? Got you something?
Speaker 3: And I came up with a great slogan. Tell me
of y'all like this, eighteen going on forty. Huh, that's
one of your bet eighteen going on forties.
Speaker 1: Me and the White last night.
Speaker 7: I like it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, hell yeahs the bag their team.
Speaker 3: No, it is barely legal, barely legal on the field,
forty years old in our hearts, you know.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Okay, thank you sir.
Speaker 3: Happy birthday, Jake. I'm very excited to celebrate today. Our
three rips gonna come and we're gonna continue to celebrate
our guys birthday.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: You may have heard what an appropriate what an appropriate
day to have former OTB alumnus Matthew moosso here in
studio with us.
Speaker 1: Moose, what's up?
Speaker 3: Talk?
Speaker 5: Hey guys? How's it going to see everybody?
Speaker 3: I know you, Jorg, I know En, but you seem
great right now, You've seem good.
Speaker 5: I've been up for about an hour and a half.
Let's go fake it till you make it, baby, Come
come nine o'clock. I might be fading again a little bit.
Speaker 3: That's all good, because I only need you, really like
to lock in for this first hour because we're gonna
talk a lot of baseball. We're gonna talk Hunt Palmer,
release another banger on Louisiana Sports Dot.
Speaker 1: Now which else you go check out about?
Speaker 3: Gonna trying to explore some of the offensive struggles and
and and I liked where what's going on? Uh? And
then I want to talk kar Kansas obviously as those
damn dirty hogs trying to stop LSU from getting a
national seat. And then of course we have the gas
bag himself, Taylor's sharp.
Speaker 5: Taylor was subject, that's me, old gas bag.
Speaker 1: Gas bag.
Speaker 6: I gotta tell you, I appreciate you know, we've been
doing the show together for over two years now.
Speaker 5: That's a new one, No gasbag.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I appreciate the variety of insults.
Speaker 1: That's an old school one, that's a forty year old
one right there.
Speaker 5: I like it.
Speaker 3: I haven't heard somebody called the gas bag in a
long time. In a long time, But if it's appropriate,
to anyone. It's definitely appropriate to you, makes sense, and
you're just never ending diafragum full of hot gas. He
takes you just constantly belch and flatulate over the airwaves
every single morning.
Speaker 1: Here have birthday.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Thank you the kids or anything for
you this morning. Uh no, I'm I mean, I'm I'm
out before there. Yeah, I didn't up around. Jackson's usually
the only one up.
Speaker 3: My kids are already up freaking watching YouTube kids. And
I get it because I'm addicted to the you two
algorithm as well.
Speaker 1: But I hate it. And we go through streets.
Speaker 3: Abandoning YouTube kids in the house, but then they always
fly their way back to it.
Speaker 1: It's not you know, I just try. I don't know.
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: In the scheme of things, in the scheme of life,
there certainly could be worse things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 2: And if their brain's going to be righted from it,
just know that all their friend's brain is also going
to be righted from it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the whole generation's cooked. Yeah, like any
good old person. That's what the group text conversation was
this morning with the high school boys, was uh, the
one that the one who's a doctor in the crew
talking about the younger people in his field and just
how you know, of course, like gen Z's cooked and
somebody's like, well, you know, we always said next generation's cooked,
and then other people are like, well, yeah, but this
this one is actually cooked and the technology right, And
that's kind of how I feel. Right, Yes, every generation
thinks the subsequent one is dumber and more done for.
But like at a certain point, the short form content
and brain rod is reel right.
Speaker 1: I mean we've lost the ability to read. Nobody reads.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you might not want Yeah, you talked to young
you talk to young people. No, but no, but at
least you can still watch a TV show. You talk
to other people. They can't even sit down to watch
a show. The allure of YouTube, shorts, Instagram reels, take talks,
it's too much.
Speaker 1: And I get it because like the other day.
Speaker 3: I'm sitting down and watch and or I'm so excited
and I just catch myself.
Speaker 1: Reaching for my phone like it was the one ring.
Speaker 3: I literally like felt like I woke up out of
a daze and I threw my phone across the couch
to where I couldn't reach it and was like, just
get away from me. You will not have broken my
brain the so easily, even though they have. But still
I'm gonna fight it.
Speaker 1: I know you're saying, you know, yeah, you don't even.
Speaker 2: Catch yourself, and then all of a sudden you do
said the only time, like you don't, and I'm talking
about you.
Speaker 1: I'm very much all of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't reach and grab for It is probably
during live sports that you're like into like your team playing.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 3: Then sometimes the problem is I get so into tweeting,
sit there and think about tweeting the whole time, and
I'm like, ah, pay attention, but yes you oh no, no,
but you know, sorry, you are exactly right your team
playing live sports, absolutely yes, LSU football one thousand percent
locked in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, LSU Baseball.
Speaker 3: I will occasionally get out the phone to check the
k Genomics chat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but especially if cheddar Goblin comes on the screen. Baseball.
Baseball is a little bit different because you know the
pace of the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, exactly, you have a little more leeway. Moose,
how do you feel about cheddar Goblin?
Speaker 5: I don't I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1: Wow, I'm gonna educate you in the commercial break. Okay,
don't worry. Do you have an opinion on Cheddar Goblin?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Of course?
Speaker 1: How do you feel about him?
Speaker 5: Cheddar is one of my favorite cheeses.
Speaker 1: You don't know what Cheddar Goblin is? Okay, never mind?
Never mind?
Speaker 3: Then, sorry to disappoint there, Tea. No, it's okay. I'll
explain because I think I'm gonna be interested to explain
it to you. Uh, during the during the break. All right,
let's do this, take an early break here. Happy birthday Jake. Guys,
everybody wish Jake a very happy birthday online in person.
Speaker 1: Finally, finally, in my Mike Gundy year, he's a man.
He's for it.
Speaker 3: And again, like we said yesterday, Gundy, it was a
long ass time ago, very long and.
Speaker 1: He still looks great.
Speaker 3: He has abs kind of and he has a great mullet,
and he's well.
Speaker 1: Last year was awful, but they had a good run.
He's had a really good run until last year.
Speaker 3: So whenever you reach the age that he was last year,
that's when you needed.
Speaker 1: Yes. But up until did.
Speaker 2: Even the fact that he can grow a mullet at
his age true, you know, true, A lot of people
can't grow here at that age.
Speaker 3: Uh all right, when we get back, we're gonna dive
into what's going on with the LSU offense. Were also
after that going to preview a little LSU Arkansas. We
got our resident baseball expert Matthew Musso sitting in with
us today.
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Speaker 4: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around. Sorta
it's off the bench with Hester and.
Speaker 1: T bop sorta shut up, what's up y'all?
Speaker 3: Welcome back to OTB T Bob, Jake, Moose, Tayte hanging
out with you this morning. And it is Jake's fortieth birthday.
Everybody wish Jacob happy fortieth. Craig Shilling has done an
excellent tweet Jake in which he has put your face
over Gundy's on the rant uh over a happy fortieth
birthday picture. Trigg Brigod shout out Craig Chillian Rookie Craig
one of the you know, very I mean huddle extraordinaire,
like a very long.
Speaker 1: Time o g status as is nookie to be fair,
and a lot of y'all in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Craig was like hanging with Hester six to eight days. Yeah, yeah,
long ago, you know.
Speaker 3: Also guys U eighteen going on forty okay, get it trending,
Get it trending?
Speaker 1: Uh Musso here, yes is the Cheddar Goblin.
Speaker 7: Maybe well this wow went awfully and actually laid the
groundwork correct the verse of the sign. Yeah, okay, well
what's up? Back it up?
Speaker 1: Jeez, this is a disaster. Back it up, back it up,
would sell? Back it up wins you damn it.
Speaker 6: That was the beginning of it.
Speaker 1: Here is the Cheddar Goblin.
Speaker 8: All the macaroni and cheese, Chittar Goblin, chitter goblin?
Speaker 6: Did you let all the macaronian cheese?
Speaker 4: Nothing's better than Cheddar chittered goblin?
Speaker 9: Got Cheddar Goblin by Devane has sixty percent more cheese
than the next leading brand. Kids and goblins agree, Cheddar
Goblin tastes the best. That's why Cheddar Goblin was rated
number one three in a row. Cheddar Goblin by defeat.
Speaker 5: It's goblin good.
Speaker 1: It's goblin good, that old Cheddar goblin.
Speaker 6: What in the world.
Speaker 1: Look?
Speaker 3: Any time, anytime LSU needs a rally or something good
to happen, you just have to think about the Cheddar Goblin. Okay, okay,
because it always pays pays cheese. That doesn't make sense.
It always pays office. What I'm saying, Okay, Cheddar Goblin
always has your back.
Speaker 2: Cheddar Goblin looks like every like eighties movie that had
a character like that.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it's actually from. It's from some
horror movie, I'm guessing or something. It's obviously a spoof commercial.
No idea what to the original sources. I discovered it
watching LSU Baseball.
Speaker 6: He stole their mac and cheese, but then they like
the goblin. That's the part of you see that he
gave it back. He yeah, he threw it up.
Speaker 3: All from the movie Mandy Mandy, No idea, what Mandy
is gotta be a horror movie. I think to your point, Tate,
I think the Cheddar lives inside the goblin stomach, and
so he gobbles up their mac and cheese, makes it
thirty to sixty more chetty. Okay, So it's better when
it's regards to yes, and then throws it back up
on the kids shout out, hey, it's Goblin good. Every
where they say everything's better with Chedda. That looked like
some good mac and cheese, straight up.
Speaker 5: A goblin throwing up mac and cheese on kids.
Speaker 8: If that doesn't get you going at seven seventeen in
the morning, yes, I don't know what does exactly.
Speaker 3: And if that doesn't get you going, when it's the
bottom of the night and heights it needs to get
out of the inning.
Speaker 1: Nothing will shout out goblin. All right.
Speaker 3: So another Thursday, Hunt Palmer banger on Louisiana Sports Done
net as Hunt tried to explore what exactly has gone
on with the offense this year and let's uh, let's
see if there's anything that jumps out of the out
of the numbers right and here to start, one of
the main disparities that Hunt has come across is the
home and away splits.
Speaker 1: And Moose, you are our.
Speaker 3: Baseball expert for these next segments during this conversation, so
feel free to jump in if this surprised you. If
it does any of you already felt this or knew this.
But in twelve SEC road games, LSU is averaging three
point nine runs per game. In twelve SEC home games,
they're averaging eight runs per game. In the twelve road
games they've scored four or few or nine times seven
or more. Only three in the twelve home games four
or few or only four times seven or more nine times,
So it's not even really close. It's almost like a
one to one inversion. Like they are doubly good at
offensive production at home than they are in the road.
And I know there's always going to be some disparity,
but that is still pretty outlier, right.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's a good side.
Speaker 3: You gotta hope that continues this weekend, and I must
have series against Arkansas booths. Were you aware of that
of how extreme that disparity.
Speaker 8: Is, not necessarily in a number sense, like not looking
at it actually in a number sense, But I mean,
you can definitely see a difference in LSU on the
road as opposed to at home, as you can most
teams in the SEC. I mean, it's it's in college
baseball probably for that matter, but the SEC specifically, just
it's tough to win on the road, man. The environments
are better than anywhere else in the country. You're facing
elite pitching and elite lineups at all. I mean, look,
Texas just went on the road to Arkansas and got swept. Yeah,
first reel road test Texas hadn't lost the it was
text hadn't lost the series all year. It was really
their first real road test and bomb Walker is an
incredibly intense place to play baseball, and their offense didn't
look good and they're pitching, you know, lack of pitching
depth finally caught up to him.
Speaker 5: So it's interesting.
Speaker 8: What's interesting with the home numbers there, Tea is the
box really hasn't played all that offensive this season like
it normally does. I don't know if it's the increased
rain we've had that's just been ruining every series so
far this year and keeping heavy air in and the humidity,
So that part's interesting. But they also have hit more
home runs at home than they have on.
Speaker 1: The road as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he gets into that as well. It's crazy numbers,
but yeah, they have.
Speaker 8: It's it's definitely an interesting angle to explore. I don't
The thing is, I don't really know what could be
leading to it, because if if it was a normal
year and the ball was just jumping out of the box,
it'd be like, oh, well, I mean there you go, like,
oh it's April, it's May, the weather's heated up, like
all of those things. That we that we come and
know to expect with Ally Box Stadium this time of
the year. I don't necessarily know if that's been totally
the case in all.
Speaker 5: I mean before before the.
Speaker 8: Sunday game against Tennessee, was there, I mean the balls
that hit one home or ls you had to walk
off from Jones.
Speaker 5: There had been four home runs hitting that entire series.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm trying to remember how the beginning Saturday
night because yeah, there wasn't any offensive there.
Speaker 1: I mean game too.
Speaker 5: It's weird how that's happened.
Speaker 8: I think it just speaks more towards this offense when
they're going, well, it's it's not necessarily the long ball
that they lean on because it's it's just not their strength.
Speaker 1: So a couple other things to note here. Uh, and no,
it's not right.
Speaker 3: They hit a lot of doubles a hit I averaged
to it on base lsu ten and two in the box,
five and seven, the rote nose price there.
Speaker 1: Uh mylomb hitting just two to five in league games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, had some big hits, had some clutch hits, some
big moments, but you were expecting him to be like
somebody that stayed around three hundred.
Speaker 1: Well, it's funny because get all portions of the season.
Speaker 3: We asked Jay the very beginning of season, how do
you keep Milin from putting too much pressure on himself
to follow up that incredible rookie season. And at first
it looked like no problem. He came out, was on fire,
torching it. But look, man, growing pains happened. Yeah, sophomore
slumps of cliche for a reason. And so the thing
about Milm though, is he's so good that at least
you don't actually have to even think about whether or
not he plays or he's in the lineup, Like you
just play, He'll figure it out. You play him and
you bout him figuring it out here when the game's
increase in importance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's incredibly tough. I mean it's it's every single sport.
When you talk about sophomore salamp certainly a collegiate level,
not professionals.
Speaker 1: I know, people like professionals now, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like even like Larson, Like Larson last year ended
up being like somebody who counted on as.
Speaker 1: Much as anybody, as much as anybody, and like he's
had some big hits.
Speaker 2: He you know, comes in and gets pinch hit home
run and all that, but like he doesn't play, and
that's somebody that I know. For me, I'm like, well, yeah,
he's gonna be an the lineup every day next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know, he didn't really ever get into the
lineup this year because of you know, fall and some
other people passed him up. And that's just unfortunately they
say it all the time, but that's baseball.
Speaker 3: Well what's funny about that too, is that's in keeping
with an interesting larger trend where the returning guys are
the ones struggling while all the new guys are doing
fantastic in SEC play.
Speaker 1: I mean his hup points out.
Speaker 3: So this is these are all SEC stats, Okay, Stanfield
hitting three thirty three in conference, thirteen doubles leads a
team in both categories. Curry out three thirteen in conference
on base twenty one and twenty four games, Dickinson two
ninety four in conference, four to fifty on base percentage,
Ernandez two seventy four in conference, like a nine to
ops like these are if you would have told me
that the new guys are gonna put up those numbers
and then you combine the returning you would have thought
you did this good this offense, and it's looking it's
of times you would have thought to be one of
the most overwhelmingly good offenses in the entire country.
Speaker 1: But like you said, I mean, there's Milam Jake Brown struggling.
Speaker 3: Uh, you mention not Eve been playing like some of
the journey guys haven't quite taken the jump that you
were hoping for.
Speaker 8: One thing I'll say with Mylam too, though, is the
thing that's most encouraging maybe for me, and it has
nothing to do with his offense, is that the struggles
of the plate have not affected the glove at shorts.
Speaker 1: Oh, he's incredible.
Speaker 8: Because he's been and he's still like you talk about him,
you don't have to worry about putting him in the lineup.
That's one reason, you know exactly exactly, Yeah, but for
him to allow the struggles at the plate to not
impact his play in the field is huge. And then
with Luis her Nandez you mentioned there you want to
talk about somebody who's gotten big hit after big hit
for this baseball team, it has been Louis Hernandez. And
really since conference play started, I mean you could go
back to the first Missouri game.
Speaker 5: Missouri's up to two.
Speaker 8: To nothing in the bottom in the bottom half that any,
Hernandez hits a two run homer to tie the game.
Speaker 5: At Tech.
Speaker 8: The very next week, Texas is up one to nothing
the very bottom half the or I guess, the top half.
The next inning, Hernandez it's a two run homer to
give LSU the lead. He hit the game winning homer
against Mississippi State, like I could go on and obviously
last Sunday against.
Speaker 1: UH surprised they pinch pinch hit.
Speaker 8: I mean yes, but also no, because I don't know
if Jays spoke on it on the record yet, but
when he does, I know what he's gonna say. He's
gonna say the same thing he did when Nels was
facing Carson Osmergan's Alabama. You know Weston Moss. He's really
tough on on Rioty's. It just it has to be
a lefty in that spot. Which, Okay, he's the head coach,
it's his lineup card.
Speaker 5: Do whatever you want.
Speaker 8: I'm I am not pinch hitting Louis Hernandez in that role,
but yeah, I'm not the head coach.
Speaker 5: It's not my lineup card. And I mean that's that's
what he's gonna say.
Speaker 8: So, but I Hernandez an X factor has just been
kind of the way that I've described to.
Speaker 5: When he was struggling a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 8: That hurt the offense as well, because the bottom of
LSU's lineup has been really.
Speaker 3: Good, really productive, really good. Nandez Stanfield combination has been
really good.
Speaker 8: Yes, And then if you whether you've had Braswell in
the eighthle or Milam in the eight hole.
Speaker 5: At times this year, it's it's worked. So I mean,
like you look at Sunday.
Speaker 8: The bottom of your order, you scored four runs.
Speaker 5: They drove in all four runs the bottom of your order.
Speaker 3: And so it's like, if man, if the other guys
can get back online a little bit, him, get back
online a little bit, Braswell get back online a little
bit going into tournament play, you could really achieve that
championship caliber offense. Now, Bear Jones been really good this year.
I mean, now there's been like you know, a bit
of maybe ups and downs, but this is actually mind
blowing and I want to know if y'all can have
any explanation for this. Bear Jones does not have a
single walk on the road in twelve games. Shout out
on Hunt Palmer for this fine no walks eighteen kegs
and at home in the SC play only eight walks
seventeen k's eight walks. I mean, y'all know better than
I do, but that seems jarring for a guy that
when you attag him, can make you pay at any
given time. I mean, look at what had just happened
to Tennessee, like and and he's not striking out a ton.
He's striking out the same rate basically as last year
about one a game. So it's not like a.
Speaker 5: Hit yeah yeah, but he's hit much better for average.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm just shot not a single road walk.
Speaker 2: That's that is wild because like you said, like you're
not going to you wouldn't think that you're going to
attack him and give him something to put into play, right,
And so you would figure, just based off them trying
to stay away from his barrel, that he's going to
pun intended walk into a walk at some point.
Speaker 1: And man, only eight at homes even like a little surprising.
Speaker 2: I know, I know he's just assume like him being
on base in a free pass, you know.
Speaker 8: That the one thing I can tell from that is
they don't fear who's behind him in the lineup. There's
not the protection that you want. And earlier in the
year you had it with Danny Dickinson.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Now, I mean when you hear protection, everybody wants to
be all the big bopper, the guy who's gonna hit
the ball over the fence, and there's has to be that.
It has to be the guy who's gonna make you
pay for walking him. And Danny Dickinson has done that
plenty this year, but you haven't really seen him hit
directly behind Jared Jones lately.
Speaker 5: That's actually a change I would like to see. I'd
like to see him just go back to Curriel Jones
Dickinson at the top three.
Speaker 6: Because I get on base right like at that point,
like Curio gets on base if Jones is one, I mean,
that's too on for Dickinson. Like I don't really understand
why they went away from that.
Speaker 8: And I mean Dickinson, t would you say he's hitting
two ninety four conference play, Yeah, that's real good.
Speaker 5: That's really good.
Speaker 8: So you just you know, I mean, you don't have
that fear behind Jared Jones right now, and you need
to get that back.
Speaker 2: So if you win that lineup, would Ethan Fry be
your cleanup hitter?
Speaker 5: I mean because as a lefty or already on the mound,
that's true.
Speaker 1: I mean, if a left.
Speaker 5: He's on the mound. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: If next in the middle of this segment, nobody talks
about Ethan Fry. He's hitting three fifty five. I like
Fry a lot. I mean, he gets on bass for
seventeen on base percentage. He's you know, he's given.
Speaker 5: You quality at bats.
Speaker 2: He's athletic enough that he doesn't even have to hit
it out of the infield. I mean, we've seen how
many infield hits he's got this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean I think what I would tell you Jake
in that in that sense is if there's a lefty
on the mound, yes, Fry d h as you're clean up.
If there's a riety on the mound, probably I would
probably go with Jake Brown cleaning it up, uh and
playing a matchup that way.
Speaker 1: Brown hitting.
Speaker 3: Two thirty three over the last four sec week. That's
slumping a bit. That that is rough, but maybe he
can crank Quebecca and.
Speaker 5: Some big hits. Though in that two thirty three true
there have been some big hits.
Speaker 3: And and I mean again, like, uh, you look at
every Jay Johnson team thus far, and I do feel
that pretty consistently he has managed to get them peeking
at the right time and kind of get them locked
in and reaching their full potential at the right time.
So that would be this weekend, right, you got to
win four six. If you win four six, moose your
national seed as yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, no doubt, you're.
Speaker 1: The RPI everything.
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, And the thing is, you canically.
Speaker 1: If you take two or three off of Arkansas, you can't.
Speaker 8: Yes, you can get that four of six many different
ways because both your teams left, Like even South Carolina
has got five wins in the SEC.
Speaker 5: They're a quad one game for you. Yeah, because it's
on the road, they're top fifty or whatever. So like,
I mean, there's multiple ways to do.
Speaker 8: If somebody asked me today, is this a must win series, well,
I mean no, because your season doesn't end. But also,
I mean there's still a path to get to nineteen
wins even without winning it. Do you want to win it?
Does it make it easier with its strengthen your resume?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 8: Like you if you lose the Arkansas series and then
go on the road and sweep South Carolina, and I
don't ever want to predict a sweep, but that's what
you would have to do. And you do that, that
gets you to nineteen. It's another quad one, you know, series,
win a quad one series sweep, you'd probably be a
top eight. You'd probably just be like seven or eight.
But okay, that does. What matters is are you playing
baseball two weeks at home?
Speaker 3: Well again, especially with everything we just laid out exactly
for this team, especially uh and everybody as we've pointed out,
but still pretty stark for LSU this year, the importance
of home field advantage cannot be overstated. So Hi, I mean,
but look, guys, this is the good stuff, right, high
leverage baseball, where your balls are in your throat every
single pitch.
Speaker 1: That's that's when you know you're alive, when you're really living.
And it gets.
Speaker 3: Underway tomorrow with those damn dirty hog So let's talk
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Speaker 3: We're also breaking down some some LSU baseball as just
a massive series with top five Arkansas coming up this weekend,
and so let's go ahead and dive into the Hogs
a little bit here.
Speaker 1: Let's do our kind of statistical comparison game.
Speaker 3: Arkansas's team batan average three sixteen, LSU's down to three
zero six after last weekend. Arkansas's ops nine nine seven,
LSU nine four one. Arkansas averages at nine point two
runs per game, LSU averages eight point two. Arkansas has
hit one hundred and two home runs. LSU's hit seventy five.
Arkansas has stolen thirty six bases, LSU stolen forty. Not
much there either way, and this is interesting. The the
on on the mound nearly identical. Arkansas team ERA three
seven five, LSU team e ra A three seven four HA.
Arkansas opponent batting average two twenty four, LSU opponent batting
average two twenty hah. Arkansas fielding percent of ninety three
LSU nine seven nine. Damn it.
Speaker 1: So as you can see.
Speaker 3: Arkansas with a slide offensive edge, which is maybe negated
by the fact that they'll be on the road, you'll
be at home, but really just an incredible dead even top.
Speaker 1: Ten matchup here.
Speaker 3: But Arkansas does have the intimidating feather in the cap
of sweeping Texas.
Speaker 2: And Texas at that time looked like they were clearly
the number one team in the country, like it was
Texas and then gap gap gap everyone else, even LSU
and LS You had chances to win the series. I
don't want to go back and relive that, but still,
you know, you lost great.
Speaker 1: For one and a half games.
Speaker 2: You lost that series, and Texas looked like they hit
their stride, and Texas sweeps Texas A and M, and
you're like, man, is anybody going to get them? And
so the fact, yeah, that Arkansas went out there and
they did that, it's certainly eye opening. And that's that's
one of those things because also like there's times that
on the road this year Arkansas hasn't been good, but
that was I was at home, that was at their stadium,
and so credit to them for taking full advantage of that.
Because I noticed start the season, I think it was
Vanderbilt that they swept. But after that, it's like, you
lose the series on the road against Georgia, you lose
the series on the road against right, So you haven't
been great on the road to the standard they have
at home.
Speaker 1: So like they took full advantage of having the.
Speaker 2: Number one team in the country in their building and
now like for them, they're trying to fix their road
woes by going to a place like Ali Box and
try to create that momentum that they had and parlay
that into success on the road, because that's what they're
looking for. It hasn't had success on the road since
Vanderbilt and that was I.
Speaker 1: Think it was. Was it their first SEC series.
Speaker 3: Second, Well, here's to hoping that those road woes continue moves.
Surface level thoughts on the Razorbacks.
Speaker 5: Are really good, man. I like Arkansas a lot.
Speaker 8: I mean, it starts with the offense they're pitching is good.
Speaker 5: I favor their bullpen a lot, though.
Speaker 8: I mean it's a bunch of just power arms and
some veterans in there as well. I mean, I don't
really know how Will McIntyre still has eligibility at Arkansas,
but he does, and so I mean it's just it's
guys like that. Aiden Jimenez is really good as well
out of their bullpen, and he's leading the team in
appearances in conference play.
Speaker 5: So the bullpen I really favor.
Speaker 8: I think their starters are a little gettable, but the
offense and the Alloy brothers are just insane.
Speaker 1: I mean, oh, tell me about the Alloy brothers.
Speaker 3: Well, the Heeva sound like like a like a movie
style tag team.
Speaker 5: Here Veva Eloy.
Speaker 8: Yeah, everyone should be pretty familiar with. He was there
a year ago. Play shortstops dynamite glove. He leads the
SEC in hits. He's their leading hitter, uh seventeen homers,
which is second. Like he's he's just really good.
Speaker 5: He's gonna hit shorts up with seventeen home runs. He's
gonna hit two hole. That's where he's been all year.
That's where he'll be.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 8: He's the guy you're really gonna have to have a
nice plan against. And then his younger brother khill O
Aloy is kind of right there with the man up
over three thirty, hitting over three hundred in conference play
as well. But Aloi Beheva Aloy also leads the LEA
leads in hits and he leads the league in runs,
So I mean it starts. It starts really with those two.
Davlon's a great hitter as well. I believe he's second
in the conference and hits. So it starts with the offense.
They hit the ball out of the park a lot.
I mean it's now granted, looking at the weather, it
looks like you're seeing north wind this week at the box,
so it should play bigger. Uh yeah with the wind
blowing in, which is good. Yes, hit one two to
your seventy five.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 8: What I would say though, is I mean for me
offense and defense for Arkansas particularly, not to say their
pitching isn't good.
Speaker 5: It's very good.
Speaker 8: But at home and with what you've seen from Anderson
and Ians and especially the last month or so, I'd
give LSU the starting pitching edge in this series and.
Speaker 1: The numbers back that up. Yeah, but got the best
in the series.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: The Hogs offense is it's the best in the SEC.
Statistics bear it out. But I mean even more than that,
all you have to do is watch it once and
you're like, okay, yeah, no, they're legit.
Speaker 3: So Friday night we're gonna get a lefty on Lefty
root for US anderson Ace battle.
Speaker 1: That'll be fun.
Speaker 3: Saturday, you got gage Wood, excellent name going against Anthony Hinton.
And then Sunday and maybe it's case in efage. Will
see how this series plays out. How do you pronounce it?
Speaker 1: Sunday started arg is that Beatlee Biles?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, London.
Speaker 3: He's quite a good tool yard, which is that's a
four six five e I a four and also must
because of good run support to bite the ice.
Speaker 5: To your point, I'm looking. I'm just looking at these
numbers from Ohio. This comes transfer from Ohio State Community
in Ohio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, transfer from Ohio State. Root came from me where
we learned this the other day. They're famous alum who
bought their naming rights, didn't he swishaw?
Speaker 2: There you go, you stage buck eye.
Speaker 6: This comes from Hunt's article like these numbers, what numbers
the projected starting right now?
Speaker 1: That is from that is from an Argol website.
Speaker 6: Okay, gage Wood is one and ohero on the year.
This said he's only thrown fourteen in the third innings.
Speaker 1: Because I didn't read that close.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, so twenty eight.
Speaker 1: K's like you look at cage Wood, how are we
gonna get past that.
Speaker 3: You look at Mitel Shee and uh Zach route ninety two,
k's fifty k's he's only twenty.
Speaker 6: Kind of seems like they do the whole staff on Saturday.
So is that is that right?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 8: So he he's had some uh injury issues. Okay, he's
right now and he's scary good. He's gonna be walk
looking at that two.
Speaker 3: Yeah's fourteen and a third twenty eight strikeouts and fourteen
and a third.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they said only two.
Speaker 8: He's just he hadn't he's had a few only five
games played to your point. Yeah, injuries out there, and
they moved gave Gackl into the rotation in place of
that now that Woods back, they flipped them and with
gackle back in the bullpen, that makes Arkansas much better
for his funny name, Yeah, Biby Fouch Gibbler.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I mean Halloy.
Speaker 8: Brothersloy Bible she gackle Root.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 3: I'm used to Louisiana being the funny name team. I
think I think they actually have his beat. These are
these are great names. No, I think this, uh, this
shows the importance that it's a great pitchure name. Yeah,
laconic monosyllabic. Yeah, just kind of right to the point.
Speaker 5: What does Rocco Pepe do for you? That's fun? That
might be the best one. It's the first.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's like a center fielder who leads
off for me. I don't know, Oh yeah, Roco Pepe. Well,
actually I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking like a I'm thinking like a like a
zesty little second baseman. I was just like a little
spring at his step and he says fast whatever. Yes,
he's not tall, tall, but he's fast. No, he's he's
five eight and a half. In the much in the program.
He is very much an average hitter. He's not a
power hitter. He hits for average good names.
Speaker 1: So there it is. Nobody will give you an l
shork it's a preview. Nope, like we will. I can't wait, dude.
Speaker 3: I am so nervous but excited, which again, that's when
baseball's at its best. And sometimes it sucks, like last
Sunday was so annoying, ruin your day, annoying, right, like
like just real anger, punch the punch something around you.
Speaker 1: Annoying.
Speaker 3: But just think how you felt Saturday night when I say,
completed the complete game. I mean, I mean that you know,
you take the good with the bad, and here's to
hoping that else you finds their way to the good
twice this weekend, and it takes one step closer to
getting that national seat.
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Speaker 3: We got Ja Johnson coming on at a thirty moos.
Get all your questions ready to go. I'm going to
be interested to see what you are talking with Jay
the other probably a couple weeks ago now and I
was like, you know, hey, we appreciate you coming on
the show all the time. It's like yeah, like on Thursdays,
I just kind of wait for that text from T Bob.
See what you know when it's gonna come in. Yeah, yeah,
I know, I know I should be better about texting.
Like the day before He's like, I just wait on it. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I figure he's a good man.
Speaker 1: Coach Jays.
Speaker 3: I think he views us as maybe a pseudo good
luck charm, being as when we started the weekly thing
it went so well. I think it was the natty
or so.
Speaker 2: You know, it's true because we've had some other sports
where it's like, hey, you know, can we do it
like maybe a week ler, Like hey, we'll start off,
but if things aren't going great, yeah yeah maybe maybe
maybe not maybe not, maybe maybe we'll pivot.
Speaker 1: How do we feel about how the Arkansas series has
gone recently? Not well? Yes?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 3: And I've been great last three times out Arkansas's taking
the series. They swept you in bamb Walker last year,
they took two or three in bad roases in nineteen
and in twenty one.
Speaker 8: It's time for even program is in a very different place. True,
nineteen is a long long afternot in some of those years.
Speaker 5: So it was twenty one actually, but here did we
lose to Florida stayed at home twenty nineteen. I was
nineteen super regionally Mike Martin's last year. Yeah, Devin font
there just absolutely left it all out there on the field.
Speaker 1: Man. He was a great name.
Speaker 7: He was for me.
Speaker 2: It was a greaty Oh I forgot about I didn't
think about him as a player. I forgot about that performance.
Me and a bank were watching that one. If we
had a penalty cold pops? Nervous as hell?
Speaker 1: We're drinking cold pops at at stadium? Is it the game?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Nice?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Box was electric that night. That was a really
good moment for the Box.
Speaker 1: Moose. Did you stay till one thirty in Tennessee?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 7: What a man?
Speaker 1: I mean, I knew the answer. I just didn't know
if he had.
Speaker 3: Like you know, if somebody forced moves to a wedding
that night or something, do you think he would have gone?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Would you go to your sister's wedding if it was
Friday night? Yes? Okay? Yes? What about it? Super reach?
Speaker 2: Where do you draw the line super regional super versus whoever?
Speaker 5: Would be tough? Yeah?
Speaker 8: I don't know about that. But I mean if it's family,
yeah I'd have to go. But my family also knows better.
Speaker 6: He's a he's such a good guy, right, Like I
have told all of my friends, if you have a
wedding on a Saturday in the fall, I'm not going.
And it's not because I can't, It's because I don't
want to.
Speaker 3: Didn't you go to a wedding last Saturday in the fall,
on a fall Saturday last year?
Speaker 6: No, no, no, I went to the wedding the night
of the Tennessee baseball game a month ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't go to fall weddings.
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