Speaker 1: Yo, what's happened to Baton Rouge? What's happened to Louisiana? Okay,
everybody's having a great Monday, April seventh, five. We got
a big OTV playing for you, a lot to get to.
Big weekend recap both on and off the respective fields.
They're great weekend overall for LSU, which we will get into.
I'm ta boy baby or he's Jacob Hester. We got
a lot jo Via Alla Taylor Sharp hanging out with
you today as well, JAKEI what's up man? How we
feeling feeling great?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Did get home a little bit late last night?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: We had a baseball tournament in Metarie and the Tigers
aren't the only one that swept.
Speaker 3: The lug Nuts swept five and oh wow, won the
tournament down in Metarie.
Speaker 1: What do you get rings for that?
Speaker 3: We did? And a trophy?
Speaker 1: Oh wow?
Speaker 3: And I showed him what Baton Rouge was all about.
Speaker 1: The Lugnuts got a lot of rings, now, huh, what's
the deal? How many? How many? How many rings are
in that ring box? The old look?
Speaker 3: Uh, there's a couple, there's a few. But this was fun.
Speaker 1: We be out doing Papa's ring box.
Speaker 4: They probably already did that, but it was fun to
get outside of bat roof play some new teams, some
great teams, good sportsmanship all around.
Speaker 3: It was a fun tournament.
Speaker 4: Now we got home at nine thirty last night, but
you know what, it's still a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: They love. Shout out to all the parents that had
to wake up early on Saturday after their respective school
auctions and whatnot to go to t ball and everything else.
Speaker 3: Did you get up early after after that?
Speaker 4: By the way, uh T Bop did fantastic hosting the
we High Gaalley. Yeah, I mean we were up there together,
but you know you you were definitely you know, getting
the money out of everyone.
Speaker 1: Well. Also, I did you know the the sound. We
had to overcome some sound adversity. I mean, Jake was
like yelling into his mic and you could barely hear him.
But it went well, it went well. Thank you to
everyone who came out to the gall on Friday. The
biggest of thank yous to everyone who bid, everyone who
donated items to be bid on, and the incredible team
that put the entire event together.
Speaker 3: Fun night, very fun night.
Speaker 1: Took me about forty eight hours to recover. Saturday was
a hellish, hellish day. Thank god that I did not
have t ball. I felt so many parents had. We
got about eight thirty nine ten. I don't know me
and my wife have ever been on the struggle bus
as bad as we were on Saturday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we didn't have to leave for Metorie until like
nine thirty, so it was like, oh, it was pretty
It's still like we got to sleep in a little
bit because there's a lot of weekends tea that we'll play,
like in Zachary Games at eight.
Speaker 3: Got to be there at seven and we don't live
close to Zachary.
Speaker 1: Were if I'm ready for that life yet. But yeah,
it was a great weekend. Another auctions going on all
over the place, so everybody had a great Friday night.
Our own Eladra and Tate We're out there. Rocked the
country over the weekend. A little Nickelback Friday night, Guys,
How did it go? How was it seeing Nickelback live?
Speaker 5: Take this one, guys.
Speaker 6: I woke up Saturday morning, you know, and sometimes you
just feel like a new man when something significant happens
in your life, and uh, that's how I felt. Yeah,
in all serious is it was great, Like it was.
It was a great time check. Greger still got it.
I mean, still sounds as good as he ever did. Really,
he mentioned he just started fifty, and I didn't realize.
Speaker 1: He was about fifty.
Speaker 6: Yeah, fifty doesn't look fifty. I mean, dudes, dude's jazz
looks good. He sounds good.
Speaker 7: He was, he was great.
Speaker 4: Makes sense that he's fifty, though, it does when you
stop and thinking about it, But he doesn't look fifty
like everybody.
Speaker 6: Sat on stage. He's like, yeah, you know, I just
started fifty not long ago. It's like, I want to
look like that when I'm fifty, I want to look
like that.
Speaker 1: Now, you said he had great state age presence, very charismatic,
he was very funny.
Speaker 7: He brought people on stage like he was.
Speaker 5: He brought this kid up to do rock Star with him.
Speaker 1: Rock Star he knew.
Speaker 6: Well his mic down a little bit. Yeah, hear him
a time, but I mean he was still.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they gave him the Jake Auntion mic.
Speaker 4: Well, I just got I got a mic actually after
the beginning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was one.
Speaker 3: Adversity game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. A lader. You were kind of working the event,
So what was your perspective on uh on on on
Chad and Nickelback and is it time to stop the
Nickelback slander?
Speaker 8: It has always been time to stop the Nickelback slander.
I talk about this regularly on Coffee and Flannel. I'm like,
what is going on? Why are we doing this? Them
and Creed, Like I don't get where it all happened.
And I don't understand why it happened because they both
make incredible music, and like, I get that some of
it can be kind of I think it's like making
fun of it, like rock Star can be kind of
like a shallow song and some of the songs.
Speaker 5: And it can be, but why does everything have to
be so deep? Like just have fun. The music's fun.
Speaker 8: It's like you put it on and you just get lit,
like you just want to have a good time.
Speaker 5: And that's what we did on Friday. It was so
much fun.
Speaker 6: We were talking about it walking in, like you know,
they made us park like down the street. We had
to walk to it, and I'm looking around. I'm like,
you know, for a band that everybody hates, they sure
do you draw a hell of a crowd.
Speaker 1: I imagine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I don't know how me and ran into each other
because there's so many people there that I don't know how.
Speaker 1: We just kind of like it was by accident walking.
Speaker 8: By, yeah, touching me up, you know me.
Speaker 5: I don't like crowd, so somebody grabbed me and I
was like, uh huh.
Speaker 1: Made me very happy to see that y'all got to
meet up for a little half of O TV pick
What were the other standout highlights and Rocky Country over
the weekend?
Speaker 6: And I literally only went for nickelback and left, so
that all I got for you a lot?
Speaker 1: Do you work the whole weekend? Who else stood up?
Speaker 8: I just went Saturday to help with pass out stuff
and with the ten and everything. But I didn't stay Saturday. Okay,
I didn't do kid Rock again. I couldn't do another day.
And it was a trek out there. Yeah, Like it
takes me like forty minutes to get out to the fairground,
So it was I didn't feel like going out there again.
Speaker 1: Wait, the US ambassador Kid Rock was out there Saturday.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he was, and I think he wore something similar to.
Speaker 3: That he jac.
Speaker 6: I did not see him personally, but I know someone
who saw Mark Chestnuts said he killed it.
Speaker 3: Oh no, he did, I know he did.
Speaker 4: I met he played Bubba shot at the juwbox and
I played shut down.
Speaker 1: I think it probably went crazy. Yeah, uh well, it
sounds like that was a ton of fun. It was
shout out Nickelback. There will never be another word uttered
of Nickelback slander on this show. No never, off the
bench has decided that we are unequivocally and officially pro Nickelback.
So a lot of sports to get to. LSU baseball
freaking fantastic, unbelievable sweep in shockingly cold weather up there
in Norman. You had LSU softball take two of three
off of Alabama. Yeah, Sunday tripped up again. Gotta figure
out this Sunday thing. But softball continuing to play very well.
LSU gymnastics continuing to dominate, winning what, according to coach
Jay Clark, was the toughest regional in the entire tournament,
a couple of one ninety eight scores, the first time
they've ever posted back to back one ninety eight in
the regional round. They are now onto the final eight.
You had the men's women's Final four taking place, as
Chad is all already mentioning all of our enemies are falling.
Yukon gets it done. Against South Carolina, Texas, say and
M beating Tennessee, And I'm not gonna lie, y'all kind
of needed this for Tennessee. Right. It feels like it's
been a very long time since you've seen the volunteer
baseball program trip up a little bit, right, Yeah? I
mean when when? When was like? Because it feels like
last year it just as a made year for them
the entire time. They just rode their chariots and and
never really dealt with any adversity. It didn't feel like
and then into this season they're just kicking ass under
the blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Well it
was at it was in knoxall right, Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is that home?
Speaker 1: Well home series lost to an A and M team
that was absolutely flailing. Ah, that's the good stuff. Now
doesn't mean A and M comes online, it comes live.
We will have to wait and see, but either way,
love to see a little rich thrown into t to
see's Tennessee's gears there. What else happened over the men's
final four? My concrete take blew up smashed against the pavement,
if you will, as remember the whole take that I
had in our article before this tournament started was there
was simply too much concrete in Houston for them to
win a national championship as opposed to uh to Duke,
who had choes and it looked like the Blue Devils
had it only to absolutely blow it. But good, I mean,
fim who cares Duke's like the most unlikely people ever
and who doesn't want Kelvin Sampson to win a championship? Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, he's the fan favorite, right like I would think
he has to be. Yeah, outside of Chris Doring. I mean,
I don't know anybody it's going to be rooting.
Speaker 3: For the Florida Gators.
Speaker 1: Maybe you, because you chose more than that. I don't care.
Speaker 3: I hope that bracket's wrong.
Speaker 4: I'm the only one that has the actual ability to
even win. I have a champion in our brackets because
every other team we just marked him out. I mean
your team lost in the first round, uh Taytelandra they
had something big?
Speaker 1: Should I say? Uh so? Okay, but you are saying
stating for the record officially that you would rather be wrong.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, okay in Florida, not absolutely.
Speaker 1: I'm just making sure you're not too far gone.
Speaker 3: Here. No, that makes me very happy.
Speaker 1: No, this makes me very happy. Yeah. So we got
a Nashampionship game sept For tonight. Again, just a ton
to get to. What did I miss over the weekend?
Anything else?
Speaker 7: I shoot, gymnastics moving on?
Speaker 1: Okay, well you didn't listen.
Speaker 3: He actually try again.
Speaker 1: I'm going to forgive you because you got right.
Speaker 7: I was not paying attention.
Speaker 1: I know you've got Chad Kroger floating through the mind.
Speaker 7: So I'm going to forget the website.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna forget. Don't worry. It's all good. It's all good.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Did we miss anything else though?
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, sweeping Georgia.
Speaker 1: Oh, Texas swept Georgia. Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 4: Love to see that they might be the new number
one team in the country. I hadn't looked at it.
I don't know if it's out yet. Texas might after
Tennessee drops the series. Texas eleven one in the SEC
now fifteen and three at home, six to zero on
the road twenty six and four.
Speaker 3: I know they had the midweek loss, but.
Speaker 1: Let's hope that U D one Baseball can get the
torpedo bat out there. Butt and rank lsu appropriately what
is it like seventh or something coming into the weekend.
It doesn't really matter. It's just a pride thing. But
I love complaining, like, yeah, oh seven, Okay, look at that.
That's a road.
Speaker 8: Sweet, I'll complain about it. Four spots after losing the Texas.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you didn't get swept. There was two of three
on the road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two or three on the road.
Speaker 8: Georgia doesn't drop like four or five spots because Georgia's three.
Speaker 5: Yeah they're third. I think it's.
Speaker 4: Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida State, Texas plumston LSU. But I
mean Texas sweeping the number three team in the country.
They might jump all the way up to one.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Again, like he said, it doesn't really matter. But
still but it's fun.
Speaker 1: It is still fun to complain about and watch and
make fun of when teams rise and or fall and
once again just proving what a fickle game baseball could be,
which is a great way to set the scene for
what a dominant weekend it was for LSU baseball.
Speaker 5: But it'll probably be Texas or Arkansas.
Speaker 3: Arkansost played missoo.
Speaker 5: Yeah and they I think they only won two of three.
Speaker 1: That was The funniest thing they did was Todd Walker
just very like blatantly, yeah, just very blatantly making fun
of missoo not well again, maybe not blatantly, even.
Speaker 3: Though he would say something and be like, well outside
of the.
Speaker 1: Missou yes, by extension being like, well, so, yeah, look
we got a big time show day. But I promise
you the vast majority of this first hour is going
to be spent on this LSU baseball team, because you
witnessed a A A, well, you witnessed a lot of
stuff this weekend that you just have not seen very often.
And it starts on the mound. But let's go ahead
and get there. Next here on off the bench, off
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and get it done with Do Sekis, Do Sekis. Welcome
back to the best morning sports show around sorta.
Speaker 1: It's off the bench with Hester and t Bob Yo.
Speaker 2: How about it balls LSU after the sweep now thirty
and three, ten and two in the SEC three series sweeps.
Speaker 1: My god, guys, I think we got a good one.
I think we got a good one. What a crazy
weekend in Norman, Oklahoma. It all got started Thursday night
with Kate Anderson and it continued through with only four
more guys. But here's how I think I'm going to do. Okay,
So I do want to go through the game two
and three kind of individually and highlight the big moments
and whatnot. But I'm going to start with some high
level kind of bird's eye view stats Kochie Riley Today's
Advocate as is, you know, like kind of five fax
article that everyone's great piece. But LSU this weekend only
used five pitchers and did not allow an earned run
in all twenty seven innings. They struck out thirty five
and held Oklahoma to just two extra base hits. They
held the Sooners to two of twenty six with runners
in scoring position. And again we mentioned that like what
you witnessed this weekend just has not happened that often.
It's just the third time time since nineteen ninety two
that LSU's gone three straight games without allowing to earn run.
And that's three straight games. So I would have to
guess we could maybe hit up Todd Pollin's at have
to guess those other streats would include like maybe a
midweek or maybe a lesser opponent. This was a top
ten SEC road series in which used five pitchers that
did not allow a single earn run over twenty seven
innings while striking out thirty five. Really basking that for
a moment and appreciate the greatness that we were just
witnessed to over the weekend.
Speaker 4: See, this would be impressive if you did it against Missouri, Yes,
like at home, it would be impressive. It'd be impressive
if you did it in one of those early series
against Northeastern or some team from up north that's just
here to open up your season, be impressive. But the
fact that you went on the road against a top
ten team in their building, they're fired up, right.
Speaker 3: This is man.
Speaker 4: We get to host LSU in our building, and so
they had some of their biggest crowds that they've had
and you go out there and do it to that team.
Speaker 3: That's what makes it.
Speaker 4: The things that we're talking about and things that we'll
talk about for a long time. And you said it
on Friday, like we'll talk about what Kate Anderson did. Yeah,
for a long time. I think we'll talk about this
series for a long time because everybody came in shut
them down. I mean, to only use that amount of
arms to not give up an earned run. Again against
a good baseball team, a team that we said, Jay said,
you know how you stop them from stealing? You don't
let them on base?
Speaker 2: True?
Speaker 1: True, Yes, and that would prove to be very apprecient,
as they did not at all before he started getting
into the games themselves. Alandra, you have been a big
Nate Yeesky defender. This is a big Monday for you, obviously,
Nate Yeesky, the pitching coach trails you under fire last
season under five after the Texas Series. Yeah, Nate a
quitting himself quite well against all the rumors.
Speaker 8: I think so, And I think that a lot of
people owe Nate Yesky an apology. And I really have
been dying on this hill since he got on campus. Yeah,
He's won Pitching Coach of the Year multiple times, has
multiple national championships, and a lot of postseason appearances with
different teams.
Speaker 5: He knows what he's doing.
Speaker 8: And obviously you're not going to use only five pitchers
the rest of the season, right, Like, There's gonna be
times where you do have to go to the bullpen.
But like, I mean, Kate Anderson's not going to throw
a complete game every single weekend, unfortunately, But I mean
it just he knows what he's doing. And I think
that sometimes people can get a little frustrated with the bullpen,
and that's fine, Like, but I what was it last week?
Speaker 5: I was like, hold on, I want to defend the
pin just a little bit.
Speaker 8: And it just I hope that it just continues to
be good because he really deserves a lot of apologies
from a lot of different people.
Speaker 1: Well, and and look and and and to be clear, yes,
it's not always going to be this good. Again, this
is a record week and it was incredible to watch.
There will be adversity coming down the way, but you
should celebrate accomplishment. Yeah, when it is this extreme. Also, sorry,
go ahead, No.
Speaker 8: God, I was gonna say, like, don't take it for me,
take it from Todd Walker. He told you on Thursday
or Friday when we talked to him, this LSU team
and the bullpen included we have enough to get to Omaha.
Speaker 5: Like y'all asked him, yes, you think that.
Speaker 8: There's enough there for us to make a postseason run
and he said that there is and I believe there.
Speaker 1: Is too well, and that's kind of That's exactly where
I was going to go as well, because look, we
can't be so greedy as to expect to have some
team that is just going to be yeah, oh, we
have seven arms that can come down and shut you down. No,
it just doesn't exist. But what you do have, and
especially Anderson, Iinsen, Collen, and Evans, is four guys that
are locked a hell it like as locked in as
you can be. And with Chase Shores, there's it's it's
it's it's not as dominant as those guys, but it's
getting better. It is, and there's some real battle displayed,
certainly on on we say Sunday, you know what I mean,
Saturday Game three, But but like yes to your point,
like yeah, that's enough. And then and then at times
other guys are going to have to just show up
in a big moment, like that's what it takes to
win a championship that I think about any championship run
you've ever had, there's legendary performances all uh, like like
Gilbert back into Oregon State back the day to get
you to that was not how he had thrown majority
of that season.
Speaker 7: Uh, he didn't have been a starter that year. I
mean he was.
Speaker 1: In the run up, like yeah, so you're you're you're
this team is freaking good.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: Offenses fourth in the country and batty average.
Speaker 1: Ye, yes, the offense is incredible.
Speaker 6: About thought though, like your offense has led you in
two games this series.
Speaker 7: They did not. I mean they scored five runs and
two games you won both of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and and to be fair, look, weird weather weekend, Yeah,
weird weather. We can freezing cold, they said win, they
said the wind chill on Saturday, it felt like twenty degrees.
It was actual temp forty twenty with the win howling
in from center. Also so wet and slippery on that turf.
Did you see guys sliding to stop balls in the field.
Milo got thrown a bush. I know, got screwed because.
Speaker 5: Was going to be my weekend.
Speaker 7: This was explaining it.
Speaker 6: Like he gets the triple, he slid four feet for
the third base bag and slid over the top of it,
and that got taged them.
Speaker 1: At the top of it. He's slid like dude, he
was in the Yeah, it was insane.
Speaker 8: Curry almost did it too when he hit that double.
He like hooked himself on the on the bag. But yeah,
it was the turf needs to go.
Speaker 1: With that cold wet weather just come now. It did again.
It let it some just shockingly impressive, tiny athletic moments
like Curry on and left on one one of the hits,
sliding for like ten yards to perfectly scoop the ball
on his hip, then pop up and turn around and
throw it in Like there was some funny looking stuff.
But god, that made me so mad on the Mylum triple.
Speaker 5: How about that Jake Brown catch? Yeah at the fence,
that was awesome. I put it in the dock just now.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 1: So I mean again, if it's like, you want to
help a guy in Chase Shores, Yeah, who's maybe he
struggling how he starts? It was who had the first one?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Right? It was Stanfield at the first one, Yeah, and
then Jake Brown next, and you allow, you know, you
you allow Chase Shores to kind of find himself a
little bit and not and not getting not get touched
up early on.
Speaker 4: While Tayday's liking for that. I mean, obviously you mentioned
Cason Evans and Zach Cowen, but like what they're doing
right now it's next level.
Speaker 3: Like that's an incredible catch by Jake Brown.
Speaker 4: Like it's next level. Like it's not like good, it's
not great, it's elite.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 4: So Cason Evans right now zero seven to seven era,
he's got a whip of one. He's got six saves
twenty three and a third innings pitch, he's got thirty
nine strikeouts. Hitters are batting a buck eighty one against him. Freshman,
you got Zach Cowen, right, he's got a zero point
nine two ERA, his whip zero point six y nine,
zero point six nine.
Speaker 3: Hits walks per inning. Yeah, giving up.
Speaker 4: Let's see, he's got four saves himselves in twenty nine
and a third innings. He's got forty strikeouts. Hitters are
batting a buck forty four against him. That like when
you have two guys at the back into your bullpen
and you've got two starters that are dominant as well,
and you know, you go into these series t where
it's like we got to win two, we want to sweep,
but we gotta win too.
Speaker 3: Like that formula right now.
Speaker 4: I know that it might make some people uncomfortable because
you don't have twelve deep in the bullpen. That's fine,
But you've got a formula right now that in the
postseason if it sets upright, like Todd said, like Lander saying,
you can make that postseason run just based off those
four people alone, and then, like you said, you get one, two,
maybe three guys to step up, and that's a championship team.
Speaker 1: It's what's crazy, is too like the other guys probably
aren't as bad as they're making them out to be true,
but like a you know, a light shines way brighter
in a dark room, and so when everybody else is
pitching blackout and not allowing even a single little flicker
from the opponent's offense, like, yeah, if somebody gives up
maybe a run or two, that's gonna feel way worse
than a And they just haven't had a chance that
much recently.
Speaker 5: The Texas series did not help the cause.
Speaker 8: But that was just that was just a bad weekend
for LSU all around.
Speaker 1: Well it was. It was good for one and you know,
three fifths of a game, there were six tenths of
a game. It was after that curial home run. Everything
for some reason seemed so even that, just like how
good Texas has gone on to be so definitely on
the mound, absolutely incredible offensively though as well. Again, this
was a tough weekend for offense with that weather. And
I continue to just love the the LSU approach top
to bottom there so I mean Stanfield, when that guy
is hitting nine being as productive as he is. I
don't know what he said to him have been on
the weekend. I feel like maybe Game three he didn't
have as many, but he.
Speaker 6: Got on He got on base a couple of times
in that game.
Speaker 1: In two though, it felt like every big play Stanfield
and Hernandez were involved.
Speaker 7: Was it in one way or nothing? Was it Friday
he went four for four?
Speaker 1: Was it one of the game?
Speaker 7: Was Friday the game to Thursday?
Speaker 3: Friday?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think of probably Game two. And then I mean,
you look at speaking of Fernandez as he's catching every
single weekend ends the weekend six of twelve with three doubles.
He's hitting three forty in SEC play right now, guys,
that's the bottom of the lineup.
Speaker 5: This is when you needed him to get hot.
Speaker 1: Yes, And then I actually I want to talk about
Derek Curiel and he did. He set a record over
the weekend. But I guess I mean, y'all should do
y'all understand why I'm kind of stumbling over my words here?
Has it he mentioned it? Do we just say what
he's doing? I mean, we've mentioned it before, but I
guess I'm getting more paranoid about what maybe you know,
he's he's been doing very good and he just did
something that no freshman at LSU has ever done. Yeah,
he's been very good at getting on base every single
game of his career far. Pretty incredible. Yeah, pretty incredible stuff.
And the best part is his quote after the weekend
was about how he felt like he was struggling all weekend,
a little bit, a little bit behind. It's just amazing, dude,
It's just amazing. They're they're offensively, defensively, defensively as well.
The confidence out of these guys. I mean, sure there
was the uh the I think the game three braswell
in the ninth was the only thing that made it
like a little sketchy. But outside of that, it just
seems like everybody top to bottom is so locked in
and and and Mileam and dickets in there in the middle.
So par Jones is really good at first, you know,
for you think about this big bruiser that would be
a little slow and lumbering, but his ability to stretch,
his consistency Hernandez every time there's a strikeout and he
has to throw down to first, seems like it's been
per It's just it's I mean, they're thirty and three. Yeah,
we keep talking about winning two and three. They have
three out of four sweeps in the SEC.
Speaker 4: Like there are three and twelve at one point last
year in the SEC. Yeah, and fall back and you know,
and out of way from moving on to a super regional.
Just to kind of tell you where they were a
year ago, and they were trying to figure things out,
and they did at the end and made a run.
Speaker 3: But this team's got three sweeps already.
Speaker 1: It's create three sweeps, four chances, and the only one
was on the road in Texas, in which you know,
you were very close to winning that series. Yeah, Stanfield
had himself a weeknd again. I felt like he was everywhere.
Speaker 4: That Andrew Jones style catched in the in the series
that okay, all right, do you feel comfortable doing that?
That's fine, But there's only one guy that I've seen
people to do.
Speaker 1: That this team as well. I need somebody two's better at,
like baseball analytics to provide some good context, like what
Todd was talking about the other day when he's talking
about pitches per at bat. Because the plate discipline from
this team, they don't strike out, they work counts, they
hit apo all the time, Like these cats are so
comfortable letting the ball get deeper in the zone. And
it's just something that there's like a maturity to the
approach of this of this team at the plate that
I don't know that we've really seem too often when
you look at just top to bottom one through nine.
Speaker 8: Well, that's something Jay really preaches and is really good about.
The twenty three team was good at it too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, of course, right, I guess that's one
of the hallmarks of a great team. So really fantastic weekend.
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Speaker 1: Remember where you could curve the bullets. Yeah, which I
don't know why that made sense, but like I do
feel if I whipped a gun like that, I probably
could give it like just a little bit of curve
the yeah, yeah they curved.
Speaker 7: They it goes all and then the bullet goes through
like ten skulls.
Speaker 1: Like yes, shockingly shockingly fun movie.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping to get a second.
Speaker 1: No, right, being as good as it was, the second
would have been awful, but I was hoping. Also the
comic book completely different but worth checking out as well,
very cool comic book. Josh Pearson, I was.
Speaker 4: I gonna say Josh Pearson was the kind of last
thing I had. Yeah, you know, you can for somebody
that's you know, played in that DH roll. But Pearson
gets the start in right field and typically like he'll
back clean up when he's in the lineup, but moves
down to six in the order, two or four, two bombs,
three runs scored that those are the kind of performances
that you need when you're you know, interchanging guys and
you got lefty righty, whatever the matchup might be. And
like just to give you something like that veteran player,
he's as veterans they come. I mean, my man's been
in school for a long time. Yeah, well and he's
been here for a minute.
Speaker 1: Nobody's hitting home runs this weekend. No, and he comes
up with the column. I also think we're running the
risk of uh. And that's why I want to mention
it here, Like maybe taking Bear Jones for granted, because
he's so consistent right now, and he's so good that
it's almost like you want to talk about some of
the other guys because maybe it's a bit more surprising
when Luisa and Nernandez is six or twelve from the play.
But like, I don't know, to be fair, I didn't
even look up Bears series numbers, Like I don't know
where he finished that, but it just feels like he's
just constantly getting its, constantly getting on base. Bear Jones
fantastic once again. I've been wondering who Cason Evans looks like.
It looks like Tony v Yes, he actually that's it.
Finally hit me.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, Tony looks like him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, sorry, it looks like Cason Evans. Uh yeah,
And I agree with that. The Bear is quietly awesome
on defense. He is he's been so good on first
it's kind of.
Speaker 8: Like when Tommy he had like that big leap from
the first year he was here at a second where
he was just really good at third base, and not
that Bear was bad or anything, but it was this
huge improvement.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's one of those players and it's not fair
to Bear, but he's just one of those players where
you're right, we we just like we assume he's going
to come to the ballpark and be you know, two
for five with a walk in, two doubles and.
Speaker 3: Two driven in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like we just and if he doesn't, it's like,
oh he's down today.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: It's just that's the status that he's gotten to, and
he's been just incredibly consistent. He gives you so much
on you know, obviously both like we're talking about defense
and offense, but when you have your leadoff hitter doing
what he's doing, and then you know, a lot of
that is because he's got great play discipline. But you
know who's sitting there waiting on the own deck circle, Yeah,
it's scared, you know. So you're going to get more opportunities.
That's why he's batting second. That's why he's not batting
clean up, Like he's a cleanup type of hitter, But
you're putting him second, and it's working out for everybody
in the lineup right now.
Speaker 1: So I'm dumb, you know that when it comes to baseball,
especially I'm just a fan, uh but I didn't realize
that somewhere in the last few years accepted baseball theories
you put your best hitter second in the lineup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it has changed.
Speaker 4: It like it used to be like a formula, Like
it's a formula of speed. At one contacted to uh somebody,
it's gonna be able to drive it in the gaps.
At three you can really handle the bat and then
obviously your home run hitter or four. Yeah, that has
kind of changed.
Speaker 1: I've heard now that it's just best hitter at second
because over the course of the season they get more
at bats, which.
Speaker 8: Quite simple, but that and also when you have someone
like Derrek Kurriell leading off that gets on base all
the time.
Speaker 7: Try to knock him in, try to knock him in early.
Speaker 4: Like, and he's gonna get pitches to hit because like
the last thing you want to do is walk him
to get to Bear Jones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so uh, Curia exactly well, and then and then
and then it's like, uh, Dickson has to do his part, right,
Like he's got to do his part to protect bar
Jones because if not, then there's gonna walk Bear Jones.
Speaker 4: But they know they can because he's doing his part.
So I know the cleanup spot has kind of changed.
It's been I think in this series of three different
people I from not mistaken, Yeah, Pearson, and then I
think I think Fry in the other So that part
of it maybe is not figured out, but the first
three are doing their job so well that it does
hasn't at least mattered to far Uh.
Speaker 1: And yeah, shut out to Curiel because, uh, you know,
you are the company you keep. And with his on
bass streak, he just broke Mike Fontina's record, said all
the way back in two thousand. Uh, he had just
recently climbed over Dylan Cruz and Alec Alex Bregman as well.
Pretty decent names, That's what I'm saying, right, if you
are the company you keep, Derek Curiell and a fine company.
Speaker 4: Right, all three big leaguers that he just jumped over,
crazy and like longtime big leaguers crazy crazy?
Speaker 2: Ye?
Speaker 1: Anything else? Have we emptied the L s U Baseball Notebook?
Anything else? When is Gidget coming back to Jamie again
on the Gidry front? Just from reading through the uh,
through the you know, between the lines on Johnson's answers
and whatnot, you just gotta just just wait. You know,
It's like you cannot hope for anything. You I would say,
just put him completely out of your mind, yep. Compartmentalize
him out of your mind. And if he comes back
and does something, and that's great, and if not, you
just focus on what you do have Right.
Speaker 4: Now, I will say, you know, we'll get to it
throughout the week, certainly, but with this series coming up,
this was going to be one of the more difficult
parts of your schedule, not even necessarily because of the teams,
but because it was a back to back.
Speaker 3: On the road in the SEC.
Speaker 4: So you certainly handled the first part and now you
got Nichols on Tuesday. Obviously, that one's going to be
in Thibodeau's reschedule game from I think it was what
early in February, right, So that one's going to be
in Thibodeau. So you're going to be on the road
to seven straight games. LSU doesn't typically play seven straight
games on the road because they at least have a midweek.
It's going to be in the box, not going to
be in the box this week, So you have to
be able to handle that. You have to be able
to handle going on the road, certainly in the SEC.
Speaker 3: Auburn I believe drop two.
Speaker 4: Of three to Alabama over the weekend, but still a
very good team. It's gonna be a difficult series, and
so how do you handle that before you get back
to baton rouge because the next week you have McNeice
and then Alabama at home. But you know, as I said,
seven straight road games before you go to a long
home stand, and and I you.
Speaker 1: Know, I I like the I like how this team
plays on the road right now. They they seem to uh,
they seem to be unintimidated. But again, you know, it's
every weekend's got to be taken into and we we'll
preview this next week and extra day ar rest for
the boys, getting back to a Friday Saturday Sunday rhythm
as well, which of course Kate after the one thirty
probably needs. But Auburn six and six an a SCC
player announces nookie. Yeah it was. It was just a
great week. And again, appreciate the greatness that you witness
over the weekend. All right, when we get back, we
will close. That's the book. That's it. That was a
baseball series. Very fun, ton more to get to keep
it locked here and off the bench.
Speaker 8: Off the bench, Welcome to the seventh ranked morning sports
show in America.
Speaker 1: Off the bench and with Hester and T Bob. What's
happening y'all.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to OTVRA about about one here on this Monday.
Speaker 1: Oh, everybody's having a great Monday morn. Good luck with
everybody with whatever the hell is going on in the economy.
I have no idea economist, uh who knows. All I
do is talk about local college athletics every day into
a microphone, so you know.
Speaker 3: Some sometimes we talk professional athletics.
Speaker 1: It's true, it's true.
Speaker 3: Not Pelicans.
Speaker 1: Un nice about that though, right, because you know, and
it kind of allows you to live in this fantasy
land where you maybe don't have to deal with anything serious,
like or are you worried because uh you were about
to retire and now you're four to one? K is
toilet paper? Well else you saw all took two or three?
Got a bad of this weekend, dude, So I don't
know what to tell you. Big Time Series went from
Coach Terina company dominate Game one, nail bider in game
two again, some stuff to maybe figure out on Sunday.
I loved Coach Trina's quote after Sunday's game said, I
went to church so check that box. But I think
we just have to be able to make better opinion
than you wuting in like a serious answer. So it's
not coach Rina avoiding church. As to what has gone
wrong on Sunday thus.
Speaker 4: Far, Yeah, still series win against a team, yeah right, yeah,
I know Alabama's not where they're typically used to being
like well inside the top ten, but still a top
twenty five team.
Speaker 3: And you went to a three and now.
Speaker 4: You're gonna get a good meat midweek opponent Louisiana Tech
before you head to College station.
Speaker 1: So that's another successful weekend on the softball diamond. LSU Gymnastics,
well they do what they do, claim their fifteenth regional
in program history on Saturday. Another one ninety eight. Again, guys,
for us layman out there, all you need to know
if you are hitting one ninety eight that is elite,
you're gonna have a very good chance of winning whatever
meet you're at. And in fact it was needed because,
as Jay Clark said, this was the toughest draw, which
I do not understand that. So you're telling me Elis
use the number one overall seed and yet they have
to go to Pennsylvania and have the toughest regional. Yeah,
I like, what whatever, I'm not gonna sit here and
I don't know enough to sit here and stamp my
feet about gymnastics seeding, but like, you know, that seems absurd. Whatever,
but the one ninety eight was needed. They get a
one ninety eight oh five, beating out Michigan State's one
ninety eight. They win the regional by the first time
program history. They scored one ninety eight in both regional rounds.
So our girls are locked the f in right now.
And now you're down to eight eight teams. April seven
teenth through nineteenth in Fort Worth, and again, I love
this team's ability to rise to the moment. Maybe they
can do it again. We'll see. Yeah.
Speaker 4: There, third straight NCAA championship. This is also a team
you laid out the scores there. They are riding high
right now. You know, sometimes in gymnastics you can kind of,
I want to say half stab, but it's like, Okay,
what do we need to advance? That's not their mindset
right now, and they're like, let's just go dominate and
win and win without question, straight killers.
Speaker 1: All right, we got some football talk coming up. Hour two.
Keep it locked hear and off the bench, off the bench,