Speaker 1: Our number four here on a Thursday Shawn Salisbury Show
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seventy ninety Astros and Mariners back to action
Speaker 1: tomorrow night in Seattle. The Open Championship on going over
Speaker 1: in Northern Ireland and it is currently a three way
Speaker 1: tie between Jacob Scove, Olison haltong Lee and also Matthew
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick all at four under. But as promised, our good
Speaker 1: buddy Matt Moscona joining us here in Atlanta at SEC
Speaker 1: Media Days. Scone, I know you have Shawn on with
Speaker 1: you every week during the football season, so we just
Speaker 1: figured it's time to be able to repay the favor
Speaker 1: here and have you on with us.
Speaker 2: Love it man, always happy to visit, happy to see you.
Speaker 2: This is also a weird thing you were going through
Speaker 2: just there the I guess the second half of the
Speaker 2: baseball season about to start the Open Championship. Dan, I
Speaker 2: haven't been outside in like four days. You know, you
Speaker 2: come to this thing and just you're in this giant
Speaker 2: convention all in hotel. You forget the world is still
Speaker 2: happening outside of this event. It's just it's a four
Speaker 2: day avalanche, man. But it's cool to be here.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say aside from getting text messages pictures
Speaker 1: of my dogs. That's about the outside world that I know.
Speaker 1: You know, I know me and Sean want to get
Speaker 1: into some football with you. But the Stros picked Ethan
Speaker 1: frye yeah, a couple of days ago. Guy that part
Speaker 1: of the national title team. I mean, I know he
Speaker 1: DHD mostly with LSU this year, but what are the
Speaker 1: Astros getting.
Speaker 2: So he is a fascinating prospect because first of all,
Speaker 2: he has a big league body. You're talking about a
Speaker 2: guy that's sixty five six', six super strong and really.
Speaker 2: ATHLETIC i mean he he has the physical makeup of
Speaker 2: a big. Leaguer the weird thing about fry is he
Speaker 2: came TO lsu as a, catcher played a little bit of,
Speaker 2: outfield was injured a year, ago and this year was
Speaker 2: just your right HANDED. DH i, mean you guys know,
Speaker 2: this like there's just not a premium on right handed
Speaker 2: power hitters that don't play a. Position so scouts have
Speaker 2: never Seen ethan fry play a. Position they don't know
Speaker 2: what the glove. Is so it's fascinating that The astros gave,
Speaker 2: him AS i was, told about a million dollars and you,
Speaker 2: know he got overslot to sign for an organization that
Speaker 2: doesn't typically do. That it was a very surprising pick
Speaker 2: to See fry go where he, did AND lsu had
Speaker 2: a very nice nil revs share offer for him to come.
Speaker 2: Back but this is a guy who showed this year
Speaker 2: when he was healthy the ability to hit not only
Speaker 2: for power but for. AVERAGE i think he landed on thirteen.
Speaker 2: Homers he didn't really settle in as the full TIME.
Speaker 2: Dh they had sort of a platoon early in the,
Speaker 2: season whether they were facing the lefty or, alrighty but
Speaker 2: he just. Emerged he LED lsu and hitting this year
Speaker 2: and proved that the ability hit for average was there
Speaker 2: as well as ability to hit for. Power so super
Speaker 2: high Upside. DAN i just don't know where he, Plays,
Speaker 2: like is he a first BASE? Dh did they give
Speaker 2: him some run in the? Outfield that's WHAT i have
Speaker 2: to figure out the farm. System but he's got plus
Speaker 2: power and he's a great athlete who can really. Run
Speaker 2: he's an intriguing prospect just BECAUSE i don't know where
Speaker 2: he's going to play in the.
Speaker 3: Field, Maddie i'm curious about. This what's the with that?
Speaker 3: BROTHER i look forward to our getting back at it
Speaker 3: with you each week in this college AND nfl season
Speaker 3: start and thanks for joining. US i know you're all
Speaker 3: over the map working your ass. Off but back to, That,
Speaker 3: uh you look at, him you see. HIM i don't know
Speaker 3: enough about it other than the, Size but you talk
Speaker 3: about the. Potential what's the ceiling and floor five, years
Speaker 3: ten years from? Now?
Speaker 2: YET i mean the floor is he doesn't play a,
Speaker 2: position the ability to hit for average doesn't, translate and
Speaker 2: he's he's he's not in the game.
Speaker 3: Anymore right, so but that's. POTENT i mean that that
Speaker 3: that floor that has the potential to, happen is what you're.
Speaker 2: Saying, YEAH i mean you have he is a super high,
Speaker 2: ceiling really low floor type prospect right. NOW i think
Speaker 2: that HE i think that the swing and miss was
Speaker 2: bad a year. Ago he eliminated that largely from his
Speaker 2: game this. YEAR i think the ability to hit for
Speaker 2: average will translate if he finds a spot in the.
Speaker 2: Outfield AND i think what he could be is some
Speaker 2: of these power hitting guys who professional teams just sort
Speaker 2: of tried to hide and. Left think your right handed power,
Speaker 2: bats Think Albert, bell Think Manny. Ramirez i'm not saying
Speaker 2: he's gonna be A hall Of. Famer But i'm just
Speaker 2: saying a power bat who you got to put him,
Speaker 2: somewhere and so you stick him in left and he's
Speaker 2: athletic enough to do. IT i think that's his. Ceiling
Speaker 2: he can be a ten Year big leaguer who plays
Speaker 2: left field and you, know hits in the middle of
Speaker 2: somebody's line up in, clubs you, know thirty homers a, year,
Speaker 2: LIKE i think that's his, ceiling which is really, exciting
Speaker 2: Which i'm sure The. Astros why The astros were intrigued took,
Speaker 2: him it's just have not seen him play a. Position
Speaker 2: so can he learn to play left field?
Speaker 1: Again Matt moscon AT espn one oh four to five
Speaker 1: joining us here In atlanta AT sec Media, day and
Speaker 1: let's switch over to some, football BECAUSE i know on
Speaker 1: a daily basis you talk a team that we've got
Speaker 1: on our STATION lsu and a lot of hype around
Speaker 1: this team this. Year you remember twenty nineteen and you
Speaker 1: remember it was another Year Joe burrow hearing about this new,
Speaker 1: offense all of those different types of, things but it was.
Speaker 1: Unproven Brian kelly's got the. Results can he prove it
Speaker 1: this year for this.
Speaker 2: Team, yeah it's so. FUN i was THINKING i was
Speaker 2: telling someone of that. Story so When burrow was here
Speaker 2: before the twenty nineteen, season remember like at that POINT
Speaker 2: lsu was not known as a quarterback factor that they
Speaker 2: were still THE i mean that Was danny Yett ling
Speaker 2: and it's where they went to. Die, yeah it was a.
Speaker 2: Graveyard And burrow came here and even in Eighteen burrow's first,
Speaker 2: year he went the entire month Of october without throwing
Speaker 2: a touchdown, Pass like it was very hit or. Miss
Speaker 2: and he came here to media days and he made
Speaker 2: a lot of headlines because he, said we know we
Speaker 2: got AND i think we'll score forty fifty points a
Speaker 2: game this, year and everyone kind of like rolled their
Speaker 2: eyes and, laugh like THE lsu quarterback said they're going
Speaker 2: to score four. Game, well they went on had the
Speaker 2: greatest offensive season in the history of the. SPORT i
Speaker 2: don't know that this team is going to do, that
Speaker 2: but they do return a fifth year senior And garrett Nus,
Speaker 2: meyer who is the leading returning passer in college. Football
Speaker 2: he's the only four thousand yard passer from a season
Speaker 2: to go back in college football this. Year so we
Speaker 2: know the potentials there With garrett's got to eliminate some
Speaker 2: of the. Mistakes but, guys the other big, thing aside
Speaker 2: from Nus meyer RETURNING lsu Went ham in the transfer.
Speaker 2: PORTAL i think this is the other thing that a
Speaker 2: lot of people maybe are learning this week that they didn't.
Speaker 2: Realize they signed eighteen guys in the portal and all
Speaker 2: of them Were power five. Starters some of them Are
Speaker 2: all conference. GUYS Aj halsey from The university Of houston
Speaker 2: was All big twelve safety led the nation. Interceptions they're
Speaker 2: all in Like Ole miss And Ohio state were a year.
Speaker 2: Ago they're all in this year financially in the portal
Speaker 2: with this roster to try to build a championship around Nus,
Speaker 2: meyer and the playoff is the. Baseline like ten and
Speaker 2: two in the playoff is the baseline expectation for this
Speaker 2: team this.
Speaker 3: Year, matty if he Doesn't Brian kelly doesn't get His
Speaker 3: And i'm big On. NUSSMEYER i think that veteran will teams.
Speaker 3: That look What Ohio state did getting that, veteran even
Speaker 3: though they got it through the transfer, Portal look what it.
Speaker 3: Does AND i think it was a wise move for
Speaker 3: nus to come back AND i love his. Game now
Speaker 3: that being, said with all this great, ability they went
Speaker 3: out and Got how hot is? This and the pressure
Speaker 3: obviously grows For Brian. Kelly what's the oh and? Three
Speaker 3: since he's been AT lsu and starters to start a,
Speaker 3: season it doesn't get any easier this year to start a,
Speaker 3: season and now with the playoff expanded to twelve teams
Speaker 3: and the money he, makes how hot is the seat
Speaker 3: if he doesn't make a? Playoff?
Speaker 2: Yeah see IT'S i, mean there's two ways to answer that.
Speaker 2: Question it's what will the temperature and baton rouge? Be
Speaker 2: and people will be Furious AND i think a lot
Speaker 2: of people right who are maybe fence sitters On Brian
Speaker 2: kelly waiting to see if he can break, through would
Speaker 2: fall to the other side on. Him but, Realistically, sean
Speaker 2: IF lsu were to Fire Brian kelly after this, season
Speaker 2: they would owe him fifty one.
Speaker 3: Million dollars money alone says you, can't, right.
Speaker 2: Not only that they, won't but literally showing like they.
Speaker 2: Can't it's NOT lsu is not a poverty, program but
Speaker 2: it's not a place Like TEXAS a AND m that
Speaker 2: could stroke the seventy five million dollar check For jimbo
Speaker 2: ten times over and never blink, Right like the money
Speaker 2: isn't there to pay a fifty one million dollar buyout
Speaker 2: to a. Coach so the Way i've said, it, man
Speaker 2: is they gave him a ten year, deal ninety five million,
Speaker 2: dollars ninety percent of it guaranteed for better or. WORSE
Speaker 2: lsu And Brian kelly are financially bound for a, decade
Speaker 2: so they've got to figure out a way to make it.
Speaker 2: Work the quarterbacks there this, year the investment is there this,
Speaker 2: year and the roster they have to be in the
Speaker 2: playoff if they're. Not the problem that they would get
Speaker 2: to is in twenty twenty, six you lose, us you
Speaker 2: lose all these. TRANSFERS i think it's realistic to expect
Speaker 2: they whatever they do in twenty, FIVE i think you
Speaker 2: expect a regression in twenty, six and that's when they
Speaker 2: might start looking, At, okay what's our what's our exit?
Speaker 1: Strategy, right AS i Mentioned matt, MOSCONA espn will four
Speaker 1: or five joining, us and we HAVE lsu on the
Speaker 1: station AND lsu fans listen to the station living In,
Speaker 1: houston and if they ARE lsu, fans well they probably
Speaker 1: know who you. Are you're gonna be In houston here pretty,
Speaker 1: soon aren't? You?
Speaker 2: Yeah, man a week From, Monday so the twenty eighth
Speaker 2: will be at The, Rustic CAN i? Say?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah at The rustic in downtown for my show to
Speaker 2: be AN lsu alumni. Event so Any Houston tigers that
Speaker 2: are hanging, out, man you want to come see, Us
Speaker 2: we'll be there for the radio show from three to
Speaker 2: Six central at The rustic In houston On monday the twenty.
Speaker 3: Eighth, Hey, maddy before you, watch go ahead? Finish i'm?
Speaker 3: Sorry oh?
Speaker 2: Sorry so, Yeah, Okay then we're gonna go watch The
Speaker 2: Astros nationals Because Dylan cruz and The nationals will be
Speaker 2: in the take on The.
Speaker 3: Strows that's ALL i. Go you guys will if you
Speaker 3: haven't heard, it you'll love it and go see him in.
Speaker 3: Person that'd be Awesome and it's always a pleasure to
Speaker 3: have you. On before we let you, Go, matt who's
Speaker 3: the best team in college football in your? Mind if
Speaker 3: you had to make a bet, tomorrow who would it be?
Speaker 2: On talent? Wise i'd probably Say. Texas BUT i have
Speaker 2: a giant question About, texas LIKE i do with most
Speaker 2: of the teams who are projected at the, top and
Speaker 2: it's a. QUARTERBACK i, MEAN i understand all the hype
Speaker 2: around ARCH i understand all the physical, ability but until
Speaker 2: you do, IT i don't know if you can do.
Speaker 2: It so the you, know the best ROSTER i would,
Speaker 2: SAY i think Is, texas BUT i think it's really
Speaker 2: pretty wide open because it's not too far after that
Speaker 2: THAT i would look at AT lsu because of what
Speaker 2: they did in the transfer. PORTAL i think it'd be
Speaker 2: fascinating to see how many teams THE sec gets in
Speaker 2: this year Because i'm not sold On. Georgia i'm Not
Speaker 2: georgia with a new. Quarterback fifty four percent Of georgia's
Speaker 2: roster our first or second year, players extremely young team
Speaker 2: this year That kirby's got team that was thirtieth in
Speaker 2: the country in total. Defense last year they sort of.
Speaker 2: Regressed they were fifteenth in THE sec and rushing. Offense
Speaker 2: i'm NOT i Think georgia isn't. There who knows WHAT
Speaker 2: bama has with with Ty. Simpson it just feels like
Speaker 2: all the teams that everyone expects to be at the
Speaker 2: top of this, giant glaring question market quarterback EXCEPT, lsu
Speaker 2: which is WHY i think they're going to be in
Speaker 2: that conversation for.
Speaker 3: Sure, matt appreciate the.
Speaker 1: Time Man, Again Matt, MOSCONA espn ONE o four five
Speaker 1: joining us here on The On Saulisbury, show and look
Speaker 1: forward to seeing you a what a week From Mondays, Monday,
Speaker 1: yeah twenty, ago so we'll definitely drop.
Speaker 3: By this hered he always good to talk to, you.
Speaker 3: BROTHER i appreciate.
Speaker 2: You Thanks, sean you, bet Thanks, Dan Thanks. Bello.
Speaker 1: Ya there we, Go Matt moscona hopping in with us
Speaker 1: FROM espn ONE o four five In Baton. Rouge some
Speaker 1: interesting things to kick around from that conversation At sean
Speaker 1: and also what we talked about a little bit earlier
Speaker 1: with The. Texans got a little bit of a note on.
Speaker 1: That as we continue on, Here me And, Atlanta Sean
Speaker 1: intrepoley back In houston at Our iHeart Radio Houston, studios
Speaker 1: we continue Here Sports talk seven ninety