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Jay Johnson Talks BR Super Regional - Off the Bench, June 5, 2025 · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 4: Let's get into a little big deal or no big deal.
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  Speaker 6: A big deal, no big deal, big deal, no big deal,
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  Speaker 6: big deal, no big deal, no big deal.
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  Speaker 8: No big deal, a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: All right, a little refreshment here?
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  Speaker 9: Is this the segment that when you started with hanging
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  Speaker 9: a head A big deal and no deal.
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  Speaker 3: I called it a big deal or no deal, and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, this doesn't make any So what.
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  Speaker 4: What did I call it? Because you made me change
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  Speaker 4: the name of it.
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  Speaker 2: You called it a big deal or no deal.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was it was a big deal or no deal,
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  Speaker 3: and you were like, I don't like that, and so
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  Speaker 3: we changed it to big deal or no big deal.
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  Speaker 4: You changed. The best part.
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  Speaker 3: About this is this is a segment that you and
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  Speaker 3: I did when we started radio together. You change a
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  Speaker 3: name and then like, as we're coming back into this segment,
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  Speaker 3: you're like, I got to come.
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  Speaker 4: Up with one of these. Yes, until we've always done
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  Speaker 4: the segment, you.
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  Speaker 2: Would tell your co host what we're doing.
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  Speaker 4: We've we've done it for seven years.
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  Speaker 9: B wrong when we can bat sign that I did it, well,
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  Speaker 9: I don't care about you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying we started this and then we've done it
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  Speaker 3: on the show here before.
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  Speaker 4: This is okay.
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  Speaker 2: This segment is best communication.
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  Speaker 4: This segment. Just say you're not prepared this segment.
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  Speaker 3: This segment is for sports topics yep, that are relevant
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  Speaker 3: but maybe not relevant to hear as much, but they're
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  Speaker 3: certainly relevant in the sports world. So we're not going
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  Speaker 3: to spend a full segment on them, but we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: spend some time on them.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I got.
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  Speaker 4: That's why this was put in.
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  Speaker 3: Like the New York Knicks firing Tom Thibodeau after their
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  Speaker 3: best run in the last twenty five years and they
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  Speaker 3: fire their head coach.
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  Speaker 4: Is that a big deal or no big deal?
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  Speaker 2: That's a huge deal.
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  Speaker 4: It's not one of the options.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to rename it again?
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't stop.
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  Speaker 9: Uh yeah, because it is kind of wild to me
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  Speaker 9: thinking about it. For what twenty five years, they've been
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  Speaker 9: ultra irrelevant and so this coach comes in and gets
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  Speaker 9: them to a place that maybe they're not fulfilling like
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  Speaker 9: what they should.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they show their roster, I mean, because he's led
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  Speaker 3: the Knicks to back to back fifty win seasons for
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  Speaker 3: the first time since nineteen ninety five.
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  Speaker 9: Right, Okay, So maybe I'll say that a different way.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe he didn't fulfill like what the potential could be.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe the front office thinks he's not getting what But
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  Speaker 9: I think it's a little short sighted to say, like, look,
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  Speaker 9: we've been for twenty five years and this is the
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  Speaker 9: dude that has gotten.
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  Speaker 2: Us to the point where we have this potential. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: big deal.
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  Speaker 8: I mean that's a huge deal. And saw something the
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  Speaker 8: other day, I'm Thibodeaux. Twenty four playoff wins with the Knicks.
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  Speaker 8: Every other coach combined in the last twenty years seven.
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  Speaker 4: Playoffs, solid solid, Oh and it all.
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  Speaker 2: Came from Mike Woodson.
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  Speaker 4: So Woods and seven Woodson?
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  Speaker 2: What's in seven tiboo?
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  Speaker 8: Twenty four? Every other coach the last twenty years and
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  Speaker 8: no playoff?
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  Speaker 4: What Mike Woodson? I have not heard that name in
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  Speaker 4: the long Is he still coaching Indiana?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: They probably not.
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  Speaker 3: No, Indiana got a new coach, uh Elandra.
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  Speaker 4: Is that a big deal or no big deal? The
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  Speaker 4: Nicks fire Tom Thibodeau.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's a big deal.
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  Speaker 6: This is somebody who doesn't really pay attention to the
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  Speaker 6: NBA too much, y'all know.
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  Speaker 5: I just pay attention to.
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  Speaker 6: Spurs and then when the Luca trade whatever. But I
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  Speaker 6: think it's a big deal because you made a great run.
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  Speaker 6: So what are you firing him for?
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  Speaker 3: Makes no Stanse like you look at the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of NBA champions. The Bucks have done this. The Nuggets
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  Speaker 3: have done this, Like it's like if you win a championship,
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  Speaker 3: they don't even care y, like move on from you
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  Speaker 3: so quickly.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: But also like, haven't the again, I don't know, haven't
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  Speaker 6: the Knicks like historically been not great for the Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: So then your your coach brings you to the conference.
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  Speaker 3: Finals first time, winning fifty games in back to back
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  Speaker 3: years since ninety five?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, were y' all born.
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  Speaker 2: In ninety five?
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  Speaker 4: No, I was born in ninety six and y'all worn Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: think how much y'all have lived? Oh yeah, well time
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  Speaker 4: it happened.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So I think that's a huge deal.
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  Speaker 6: Why are you firing your coach that brought you further
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  Speaker 6: than you've been since nineteen ninety five?
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  Speaker 9: There's a problem with in sports and really I guess anything,
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  Speaker 9: but in sports, the people in charge sometimes that aren't
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  Speaker 9: boots on the ground there every day that make decisions.
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  Speaker 9: Sometimes they make decisions based on like stats and putting
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  Speaker 9: stuff thrown stuff against the board and saying, all right,
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  Speaker 9: we got a great team, would we be better off
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  Speaker 9: with this this or this coach than our current coach?
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  Speaker 9: Like could that get this team over the ear? Without
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  Speaker 9: thinking about the relationship that that guy that that coach
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  Speaker 9: has with the players, the everything that he's built there,
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  Speaker 9: that's like his program. They tend to think it happens
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  Speaker 9: a lot like are we better with this player instead
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  Speaker 9: of this player? Not really thinking about what that player
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  Speaker 9: or coach means, doubt everything else operates.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, that's again I wonder. I'm with you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a basketball gay, but that's a stupid movie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, and I know it is in vogue
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  Speaker 3: to do that in the NBA. Still does not make
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  Speaker 3: sense to me. And the Knicks will be worthless and
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  Speaker 3: they'll be relevant because of the next the Knicks.
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  Speaker 4: But they'll be irrelevant when it comes to winning games.
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  Speaker 2: Back to the status quo. Let's go not only that
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  Speaker 2: like the best players.
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  Speaker 8: Jayalen Brunson, the assistant coach for the Knicks is Rick
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  Speaker 8: Brunson under Tom Thibodeau. Jalen Brunson after the game said
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  Speaker 8: he wanted Thibodeau back. Like what's Rick Brunson's future? How
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  Speaker 8: does Jaylen Brunson feel about that? Like this is this
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  Speaker 8: is not good And maybe they think Tibetou can only
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  Speaker 8: take us to the conference finals and that's as far
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  Speaker 8: as we can get damn sure, you get somebody better, though.
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  Speaker 9: What's a dumber move firing this guy or the GM
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  Speaker 9: trading Luca.
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  Speaker 4: It's a two pretty dumb moves, GM trading Lucas.
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, both pretty bad.
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  Speaker 3: He got a bag of boiled peanuts in return. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with that one. But both are pretty bad.
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  Speaker 4: All right? Are you ready?
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  Speaker 2: I got one?
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's go.
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  Speaker 9: It's not a big deal. You didn't tell me anything
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  Speaker 9: about the show until right now, but.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: It is on the rundown at six big deals or
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  Speaker 3: no big deal.
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  Speaker 9: The Saints currently are plus four to twenty five to
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  Speaker 9: make the playoffs. The Pacers are currently plus five hundred
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  Speaker 9: to win NBA championship in this series that they're yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 9: So is it a big deal that the Saints have
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  Speaker 9: a better betting record to make the playoffs and the
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  Speaker 9: Pacers do to win the current NBA.
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  Speaker 3: I actually think that's a huge deal. Like you would say,
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  Speaker 3: that's a very big deal. I would like if my
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  Speaker 3: money is on the line here, I would much rather
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  Speaker 3: give it to the Pacers and a series are already
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  Speaker 3: in and the way they've been playing in this postseason,
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  Speaker 3: the way they've come back like ninety seven times from
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  Speaker 3: these scores that nobody's supposed to come back from before
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  Speaker 3: the Saints make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 9: Right, it's seventy five dollars difference too, plus four twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that that's actually pretty wild. I that's one
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  Speaker 3: of those deals where I hope I'm wrong. But as
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  Speaker 3: we're sitting there talking to Ross, I'm looking at the
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  Speaker 3: Saint's depth chart and I'm like, oh, ooh, ooh, they
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  Speaker 3: got some holes there, man.
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  Speaker 4: And the roster it's thin.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's got some it does have some juice to it,
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  Speaker 3: but it's so thin.
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  Speaker 4: If you hear a couple of injuries away from just
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  Speaker 4: total tank mode.
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  Speaker 2: And I get it. Like the Pacers are fighting uphill.
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  Speaker 9: They're playing a team that's got one of the best,
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  Speaker 9: like the greatest records of all time in the NBA.
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  Speaker 9: It's an all time like team they're playing right now.
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  Speaker 3: But plus five hundred, I'm actually going to go bet that, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: right right, that little shocking going to bet that breaking
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  Speaker 3: everybody everybody in here, Yeah you are everybody in here,
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  Speaker 3: everybody in here, and that's that's Pacers to win the series.
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  Speaker 4: So that's kind of been twenty five bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, we're good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: It bothers me, Like we were talking about this when
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  Speaker 8: the playoffs started. Everybody's like, oh, the Pacers came out
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  Speaker 8: of nowhere. They were in the conference finals last year's year.
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  Speaker 2: Like they're not.
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  Speaker 8: They're not out of nowhere. You have a bona fide
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  Speaker 8: superstar and Halliburton. This is a young team. They can
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  Speaker 8: do everything. Like nobody's giving them a chance against Okay,
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  Speaker 8: see it's wild.
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  Speaker 9: So their best player, Halliburton, yep, PACER's best player didn't
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  Speaker 9: didn't make the awesome team.
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  Speaker 5: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 8: Also, like we didn't talk about this, Why are.
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  Speaker 5: We disrespecting the Pacers.
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  Speaker 2: Right, well we didn't. We didn't talk about this.
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  Speaker 4: Well me, No, the wolf Pack's not yeah a wolf pag.
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  Speaker 4: I just put twenty five dollars win.
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  Speaker 8: We'll pack that thought about putting this in weekend winners
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  Speaker 8: that we did on Monday. Tyree's Hullaburton, I mean we
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  Speaker 8: talked about his historical triple double where he had like
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  Speaker 8: fifteen assists, no turnovers whatever. Was not the m v
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  Speaker 8: P of the Eastern Conference Finals. No, it missed about
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  Speaker 8: what one one vote was great?
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  Speaker 4: Did take over one game?
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  Speaker 7: He did.
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  Speaker 10: He had a couple of thirty point games, but like,
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  Speaker 10: I mean, Albert was almost going to be a weekend
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  Speaker 10: loser for me. For that clip of him walking up
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  Speaker 10: when they announced that, all right, this guy walking up
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  Speaker 10: in fairness like the camera guys wanted.
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  Speaker 8: Because the camera guys like, all right, he's winning it,
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  Speaker 8: so they zoom in on him.
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  Speaker 5: Not a good look. He played it off right, he
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  Speaker 5: was like, I was just stretching, bro.
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  Speaker 2: I did like his big nuts, big nuts celebrations.
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  Speaker 8: What celebration celebration clip, It's like, yeah, whoa the Asian
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  Speaker 8: guy on Major League too, he did the same.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah exactly, So my bad too big of a pause, No, no.
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  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 5: It, Ladra A big dealer, no big deal.
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  Speaker 6: We haven't talked about this yet, so I'll give a
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  Speaker 6: little bit of context behind the big dealer, no big deal.
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  Speaker 6: So actually, maybe there's two in one. So Oklahoma is
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  Speaker 6: out of the Women's College World Series for the first
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  Speaker 6: time since twenty twenty. The boy yeah exactly, And then
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  Speaker 6: before twenty twenty, they were the chants like twenty sixteen
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  Speaker 6: to twenty nineteen. So They're just like a ridiculously good program, right,
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  Speaker 6: Patty Gasso is out there making history and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Texas Tech knocks them.
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  Speaker 6: Out of the Women's College World Series with their million
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  Speaker 6: dollar pitcher, Kennedy. So last night they're playing Texas in
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  Speaker 6: the finals and Kennedy is asked to walk Reese Atwood,
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  Speaker 6: their catcher. She throws them a little too much in
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  Speaker 6: the zone. Count is three zero, and Atwood just goes
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  Speaker 6: for it and she knocks in the time run and
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  Speaker 6: the run for the lead. So Texas Tech loses that game.
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  Speaker 6: Kennedy owns up to it. She's like, that's on me.
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  Speaker 6: I couldn't throw a ball whatever, So big dealer, no
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  Speaker 6: big deal. The million dollar pitcher, Yeah, make it a
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  Speaker 6: little oopsie.
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  Speaker 3: She is a incredible She's pitched every inning for them, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: in the College World Series. But it's a big deal
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  Speaker 3: because they were trying to put her own base. The
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  Speaker 3: catchers standing up, throw a ball. It's three to zero,
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  Speaker 3: and that's the hit that loses you the game because
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  Speaker 3: you couldn't throw a ball, you throw two hit a
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  Speaker 3: ble too good of a kitch when you're trying to
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  Speaker 3: intentional walk one of their better hitters. It was a
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  Speaker 3: wild scene and credit to her for being locked in
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  Speaker 3: and ready to hit.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it is.
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  Speaker 6: Well, so they asked Reese, well, they asked both of
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  Speaker 6: them after the game obviously what happened there, and Reese
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  Speaker 6: was like, I knew.
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  Speaker 5: That they were intentionally trying to walk me.
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  Speaker 6: She was zero for ten in the tournament so far,
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  Speaker 6: Reese Atwood was and she was just she said that
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  Speaker 6: she was just watching the pitches and she was like, okay,
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  Speaker 6: I got to make a play for my team here.
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  Speaker 6: So that last three to zero pitch she went out
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  Speaker 6: and she got it, and she did. She made the
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  Speaker 6: play for her team. They went up to one after that.
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  Speaker 3: So it probably would have been a hit anyways. But
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  Speaker 3: you can tell, like, yeah, obviously Texas Tech was flat footed. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you get catcher standing up and you're thinking, oh, they're
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  Speaker 3: about to walk her.
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  Speaker 2: So they in softbare they got to pitch it, like
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  Speaker 2: they actually got to throw them. Yeah, the four balls.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah wait what do you mean.
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  Speaker 4: Well like in baseball?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, okay, yeah yeah yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah man, yeah, that's a big deal. Uh, that's the game.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be talking about that game a lot later on
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  Speaker 4: this afternoon.
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  Speaker 6: So, well, I mean, it's just crazy that Oklahoma gets
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  Speaker 6: knocked out of it, but from one person. Well, like
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  Speaker 6: Texas beat them Saturday and then Tech beat them I
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  Speaker 6: think it was Monday. So just crazy that that program's
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  Speaker 6: not winning another Natty.
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  Speaker 5: That's all they do is I.
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  Speaker 3: Know in Texas has been in that Championship Series for
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  Speaker 3: you know, many of those losses to Oklahoma. So this
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  Speaker 3: for them is getting over at that Oklahoma home. Yeah
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  Speaker 3: all right, Tata.
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  Speaker 8: Well before we before we get to mind, like that
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  Speaker 8: million dollar pitcher, I'm actually at home yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: They're doing a story on her.
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  Speaker 8: So I think her total like in IL things like
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  Speaker 8: one point three one point four yep, previous high softball
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  Speaker 8: nil deal was one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 8: That's crazy versus one point four million.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: Well, like she single handedly took two teams to the
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  Speaker 6: Women's College World Series, Like she was a Stanford last
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  Speaker 6: year yep, Eli, she faced her.
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  Speaker 3: Stanford was not great, their lineup was not great at all,
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  Speaker 3: and they got there.
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  Speaker 5: Because of her.
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  Speaker 6: I could say the same thing for Texas Tech, like
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  Speaker 6: they're not bad, but she's like their biggest Yeah. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 6: any team that has Kennedy's that's their biggest weapon.
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  Speaker 5: But it's just insane. She took two teams there.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, right.
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  Speaker 8: The twenty twenty five FPI for college football, like National
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  Speaker 8: Championship bods, came out yesterday. The Tigers have a thirty
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  Speaker 8: point three percent chance of making the playoffs. They have
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  Speaker 8: a one point eight percent chance of making the National championship,
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  Speaker 8: and according to FBI projected wins, seven point nine wins
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  Speaker 8: for the Tigers, A big dealer, new big deal. It's
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  Speaker 8: a big deal because those numbers are low and they've
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  Speaker 8: gotten lower.
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  Speaker 4: And there was some teams on that.
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  Speaker 3: List because I talked about this yesterday that were highly surprising.
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  Speaker 4: Tennessee is higher on that list than LSU. Tennessee's odds
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  Speaker 4: are better. Nico im Maliaba is no longer there.
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  Speaker 3: He's at UCLA, right, and Aguilar comes in from UCLA.
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  Speaker 3: He's not the same quarterback. I mean, Nico still had
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  Speaker 3: some struggles last year. You lose Pierce, you lose the
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: SEC offensive player of the year at running back. Tennessee
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  Speaker 3: being that high on that list was highly surprising. Like
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  Speaker 3: I would have LSU more in the range of where
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Clemson and Miami are than where they're at. So I
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: say it's a big deal just because I think more
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: of LSU than seven point nine wins and one point
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  Speaker 3: eight percent chance to win a champion.
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  Speaker 2: A ten point nine wins. Yeah, you said to make
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, so give it. So give it.
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  Speaker 9: What Jake just said, what's Clemson?
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  Speaker 3: Clemson nine point seven wins, forty seven point three percent
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: chance to make the playoff and three point eight percent
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: chance to win the championship in Miami's very similar.
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  Speaker 9: I would say this is no big deal because this
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  Speaker 9: sounds like a really dumb list.
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  Speaker 4: It is Texas, right again, whoever.
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  Speaker 2: Wrote this list and carout with these stats get trash well.
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  Speaker 8: Tex favorites to win the national title like arch Manning
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  Speaker 8: might be good hasn't started yet. The ridiculous that's the
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Texas stuff is something I certainly want to
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  Speaker 3: get into with Flynn because you've got a quarterback in
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Arch Manning who we've talked about for four or five
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: years now and he is still yet to be the
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  Speaker 3: full time starter. And Texas is one of the teams
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: with the best national championship odds, but there's still so
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: much to prove for him for them too.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: I mean they lost a lot.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Now they got some guys coming back, and so I
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  Speaker 3: think Texas going to be right there in the fould.
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  Speaker 3: And I think a lot of Steve Sarkisian. I think
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  Speaker 3: he's a top three play caller in the country. I
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: mean what he does pre snap, it's like window dressing,
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  Speaker 3: but with a purpose.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Like he he is going to know what you're doing
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  Speaker 3: before you know the ball snap. But I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 3: when you've got as many returning quarterbacks as we have
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: in the country and the top three teams right now,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: actually top four teams in the FBI, Texas, Georgia, Ohio State, Alabama,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: we don't know anything about what they're going to be
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  Speaker 3: at quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Like its look good, arches look good.
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  Speaker 9: It's almost unfair, like the expectations, But you want to
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I hope they're not good because Ulsu plays them
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: in the opener. But like we know what Clubnick is,
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: we don't know what arches. If they're top three receivers
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: back from a year ago through at a weaker conference,
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: Texas has none of those things.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look when you look at the FBI and actually,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: let's do this. Let's take a break, we'll come back.
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  Speaker 3: We'll look at some of these teams that are in
• 18:40
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  Speaker 9: That the other day, Hey, welcome back. Like the fact
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  Speaker 9: that it's real to I think that's the first time
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  Speaker 9: I've ever heard you do a voice of any type.
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  Speaker 3: Besides like Jim voice Jim on that one that in Australia.
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  Speaker 4: I don't I don't remember why.
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  Speaker 2: The one you just did, though, is most like committed
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  Speaker 2: i've ever heard.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, that that was do like a radio voice,
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  Speaker 6: like an exaggerated.
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  Speaker 4: I did do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the big guy you should sit over here was
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  Speaker 3: pretty uh, you know, I'm pretty good at doing those,
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  Speaker 3: and he you know, he did them often as well.
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  Speaker 9: There's a couple of real life people that do big
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  Speaker 9: time radio voice.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back in oh TV here on one four five, ESPN,
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  Speaker 2: Like that at a triangle desk.
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  Speaker 4: Well, okay, that was terrible, by the way, that's not bad.
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  Speaker 4: That was so low energy.
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  Speaker 3: It was that a triangle desk you I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have it.
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  Speaker 4: You know you didn't listen to Casey case I'm growing
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  Speaker 4: up and it shows are.
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  Speaker 2: You kidding me?
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  Speaker 4: Does sound like it?
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  Speaker 2: I still listen to?
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  Speaker 4: Does it sound like it?
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: There is a radio.
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  Speaker 5: It just means you can't be fake.
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  Speaker 9: It's right, it's kind of like that picture. Can't can't
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  Speaker 9: throw a ball, she can't throw a sorry, coach, let
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  Speaker 9: me me strike this person out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I do. I do redneck all the time.
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  Speaker 2: That is true. But that's that's kind of easy though.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 4: It's in the wheelhouse.
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  Speaker 2: I so fella.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, they were were they were kind of calling us
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: a little bit of redneck in the huddle.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I keep on the dhot everybody.
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  Speaker 9: I was like, yeah, we're we are concrete rednecks.
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  Speaker 4: Who was calling us that?
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 9: It was a while back, I mean earlier. It is
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  Speaker 9: a term that you're like, we had no disrespect. Now
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  Speaker 9: we are who we are, but we are concrete redneck.
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  Speaker 9: Is the is the term because you know, you know,
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  Speaker 9: we like our amenities every now and then.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it is, but you do do it well.
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  Speaker 2: But that voice that you just did with the with
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  Speaker 2: the gigam pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even think now.
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  Speaker 4: I mean because I told Jay we'd come to him
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  Speaker 4: like seven eight minutes. Yeah, let's yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Now there's a bunch. I just picked one.
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  Speaker 4: I don't They're all going to be great.
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  Speaker 11: I'm going to Texas Christy University.
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  Speaker 4: Mine day, and I'm going to Texas Christion University.
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  Speaker 5: How much I'm going to say, I'm Julian.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to Ally Christian, scratch your cat.
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  Speaker 7: I'm Jillian.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to Alley Christian, scratch your cat.
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  Speaker 5: Claire Jenson and I'm going to.
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  Speaker 4: Be why you, La Jenson And I'm going to be
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  Speaker 4: why you.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Sidney Person.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going Texas at University.
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  Speaker 10: I'm Chimney Person and I'm going to Texa Tech University.
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  Speaker 1: How many I'm going to Louisiana say Anniversity, Go Tigers.
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  Speaker 4: Litters using the state university, Go caucas Go caucas.
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  Speaker 5: The gigaboo was so accurate.
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: So Texas A and M.
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  Speaker 3: Shout out to the the Abilene Christian in the midst
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  Speaker 3: of an M and Texas Tech and l s U.
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  Speaker 2: Cat I mean wow, scratch them capes.
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  Speaker 4: That's what she said.
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  Speaker 2: Uh oh man.
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  Speaker 8: Have bad like Sayan's like okay, Like Arizona, the University
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: of Arizona, the Wildcats on their football field says beared down.
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: They are the Wildcats.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't bear down. Well, there's a lot of
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: people that identity crisis. I mean Auburn, like we don't
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: question Auburn as much I do. It's a great place
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: to play, though, I actually think for me, for my money,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: outside of Tiger Stadium, I think it's the loudest I've
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: ever played in.
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  Speaker 4: Jordan Harri Cane get loud.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to think an.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Four o four that weird. Like Ronnie Prude got called
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: for leaping?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what what is that?
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: You know it is?
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: So they tie the game, they go to kick the
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: extra point, they miss it. But Ronnie Prude, the only
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: time I ever heard it ever got a call for leaping.
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  Speaker 4: They get a chance to rekick it ten to nine.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Maybe because an extra point.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: And then we had like a Chris Jackson, right I think,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: So it wasn't Chris Jackson.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: You were holding?
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I was holding? Was it your fault? I mean yeah,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I was Who was it? Four year starter?
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, it doesn't matter. I mean, I can go
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: look it up or you can just tell me.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I believe it was Ryan Godey.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Okay, there you go, shout out Ryan gode and Sean
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Godey kick. And then we had like a seven to
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: five or something there and six that was uh that
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  Speaker 3: was Auburn.
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  Speaker 9: Something like that was was four, the exavior Carter Neil.
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  Speaker 4: That was Georgia.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: That was Georgia. Okay, all right, that's.
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  Speaker 3: The only time in my L s U football career
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: that it was so bad. And from the very get
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: go we knew it wasn't gonna go. Only fumbling my
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: career was in that game. It just wasn't right that day.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: David Green could not miss in the corner. I don't
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: even remember what receiver he was throwing to. But whatever
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: the peak version of David Green was, you got it
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: that day in Athens.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Just firing it in about seven miles an hour.
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's Tucker spun about three thousand times a second.
• 26:44
  Speaker 11: Though.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I mean they had, you know, David Pollack, like real
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: David Pollack before he got skinny. Uh Odell Thurman, who
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: was I believe, like in jail for something the week
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: before and then got out and played against us, and
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: he was like a grown man. Greg Bleue Thomas Davis
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: playing safety, a fifteen year middle linebacker in the NFL
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: safety plaid safety for Georgia. Yes, that's who made me
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: fight for Yes, he played safety.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I forgot about that.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Dude hit me, I was I broke a run like
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I'm talking twenty yards, I'm out in the open. I'm like, man,
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go set a tone on Thomas Davis. This
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: guy's an All American. I'm a freshman. That story ends.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: You set the tone.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: Thomas Davis won me nothing.
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: You didn't know, but in fairness, you didn't know he
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: was going to be like one of the best linebackers
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: in the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: I had both hands on the ball the whole like
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  Speaker 4: good not didn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: He hit me.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: That bog was about fifteen yards up in the air.
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  Speaker 9: My mind is absolutely blown right now that Thomas Davis
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  Speaker 9: played safety.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll find some highlights.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: So but we do need to go to break because
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  Speaker 3: when we come back, we're gonna be joined by the
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  Speaker 3: head baseball coach the LSUE fighting Tigers.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go Jay Johnson.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Dan, welcome back in.
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  Speaker 3: It is otb here one O four to five, ESPN
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  Speaker 3: Baton Rouge. And we were always excited every single Thursday
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  Speaker 3: to catch up with the head coach of LSU baseball,
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  Speaker 3: Jay Johnson, who joins US now.
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  Speaker 4: Coach. Always appreciate the time. Hope you're doing well.
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  Speaker 11: Doing great. How are you guys doing this morning?
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  Speaker 4: Doing fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Man. We are so fired up to get a super
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  Speaker 3: regional here in Baton Rouge. But before we go forward,
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  Speaker 3: let's kind of look back to the regional and across
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  Speaker 3: college baseball coach. I mean, there was teams that were
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  Speaker 3: just fighting and scratching and clawing, and we saw like
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  Speaker 3: historic upsets, and we saw four four seeds win on
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  Speaker 3: across the country, and you had some teams fighting in
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  Speaker 3: some big, big venues and didn't back down.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, no doubt about it. I think it's one of
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  Speaker 11: the things that makes baseball one of the most interesting,
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  Speaker 11: intriguing sports, even though it moves slower than football and basketball.
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  Speaker 11: Is it's in football and basketball, the talent advantage ninety
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  Speaker 11: percent of the time is probably gonna went out, and
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  Speaker 11: in baseball because of the pitcher, it's the team that
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  Speaker 11: plays the best that day. And I think you saw
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  Speaker 11: that in this NCAA tournament. I think seven hosts lost
• 30:32
  Speaker 11: or did not advance. And yeah, if everything screams baseball,
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  Speaker 11: that's it. And we're fortunate that we played well and
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  Speaker 11: we're able to advance out and really excited about what
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  Speaker 11: we have coming this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Coach in the box was electric all weekend long.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 3: But I was there on Sunday night and the same
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  Speaker 3: fans came back on Monday night and it was a
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  Speaker 3: great atmosphere. And you made some changes coach to the
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  Speaker 3: line up, and those paid off in a big way.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: And Ethan Fry they're in the two hole. He gets
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: on base six times, four for four, a couple of doubles,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: a home run. I mean, those changes worked out perfectly.
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  Speaker 3: What went into the thought process of kind of switching
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  Speaker 3: some things around with really the season on the line.
• 31:19
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I've been asked a lot about this, and we've
• 31:22
  Speaker 11: had a very good year in my opinion, very consistent offensively.
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  Speaker 11: You know, I've always operated though that, you know, the
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  Speaker 11: only day that matters is the one in front of you.
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  Speaker 11: And when you're in a winter home winner, go home game,
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  Speaker 11: championship game, elimination game, obviously you have a lot to
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  Speaker 11: gain by taking some risks. And we did it in
• 31:42
  Speaker 11: the National Championship Game in twenty three. Shuffle in the
• 31:44
  Speaker 11: deck a little bit and obviously paid off, and just
• 31:48
  Speaker 11: kind of looking at where all the players were like today,
• 31:51
  Speaker 11: because I believe young players change day to day. We're
• 31:54
  Speaker 11: not major leaguers. They're not major leaguers, and you know,
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  Speaker 11: given the circumstances of the game, how did we want
• 32:01
  Speaker 11: to set the lineup? He mentioned Ethan. I think he's
• 32:04
  Speaker 11: easily the hottest, in my opinion, one of the best
• 32:06
  Speaker 11: players in the country right now today. So I wanted
• 32:10
  Speaker 11: to get him to the plate as many times as
• 32:12
  Speaker 11: we could. He just got a good, slow heartbeat, very
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: mature player, in control of himself. And then Steven Mile
• 32:19
  Speaker 11: and put him behind him. He's taken the advat that
• 32:22
  Speaker 11: we believe he's capable of right now, and I wanted
• 32:26
  Speaker 11: to get those guys up as many times as we could.
• 32:28
  Speaker 11: Danny had hit a four or excuse me, hit a
• 32:30
  Speaker 11: couple home runs against Little Rock on Friday. They obviously
• 32:33
  Speaker 11: viewed him as a threat, thought Jake Brown was just
• 32:36
  Speaker 11: a good matchup for the pitcher, and then put in
• 32:38
  Speaker 11: Jared in the sixth hole. If those guys in front
• 32:40
  Speaker 11: of him did their job, you know, it might make
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  Speaker 11: things a little bit easier on him where they they'd
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  Speaker 11: almost lose track of him, forget about him. And obviously
• 32:48
  Speaker 11: he popped a big home run, you know, and then
• 32:51
  Speaker 11: obviously you know what I said to the team, having
• 32:54
  Speaker 11: Luise in the eighth hole, that's as good a whole
• 32:55
  Speaker 11: hitter as you're going to have in the country tonight.
• 32:57
  Speaker 11: And he popped two home runs, so it worked out great.
• 33:00
  Speaker 11: But it was really just a sign of you know,
• 33:02
  Speaker 11: we gave everybody a job to do in the lineup
• 33:04
  Speaker 11: that day and the guys did a good job executing it.
• 33:07
  Speaker 9: Coach introduced myself to you, Matt Flynn. It's a it's
• 33:12
  Speaker 9: a pleasure to talk to you. Looking forward to to
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: to talking with you every week the rest of the season.
• 33:17
  Speaker 9: So look, my question is the big decison You're going
• 33:22
  Speaker 9: into this this regional and it's different than any other
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: week of the season. You have a lot to think about,
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: You have a lot of from a pitching standpoint, how
• 33:29
  Speaker 9: are we gonna what's the rotation going to be, when
• 33:31
  Speaker 9: do you guys come in, how many innings? Everything like that.
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: It's different than any other week of the season leading
• 33:35
  Speaker 9: up to that point. So what kind of goes into
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: like the game three, what goes into your decision on
• 33:42
  Speaker 9: who's starting and what you know, how many rotations to
• 33:46
  Speaker 9: the lineup you wanted to go and what kind of
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: goes into that preparation of Game three from a starter standpoint,
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: but also knowing that you kind of have to be
• 33:53
  Speaker 9: prepared for a potential Game four as well.
• 33:56
  Speaker 11: Yeah, great question, and you know, I don't know that
• 33:59
  Speaker 11: Chief would have articulated it. Yeah, let's go. Good way
• 34:10
  Speaker 11: to give him a hard time. Very nice to meet you.
• 34:11
  Speaker 11: First off. Second off, a lot, honestly. I mean Game
• 34:15
  Speaker 11: one and two are pretty easy with the guys that
• 34:17
  Speaker 11: we have. It's not easy in terms of winning, but
• 34:20
  Speaker 11: you're going to go with those two guys. It was
• 34:21
  Speaker 11: just a matter of determining what order. And you know,
• 34:24
  Speaker 11: I had a thought out deal of why we were
• 34:26
  Speaker 11: going to do Anthony and then Kate and and so
• 34:28
  Speaker 11: that was in place, and then you know, really game
• 34:31
  Speaker 11: three wasn't as hard as you would think. I mean,
• 34:33
  Speaker 11: Jayden Knut has thrown the ball really well for us
• 34:35
  Speaker 11: for the last three or four weeks and felt like
• 34:39
  Speaker 11: he could get us off to a good start. Didn't
• 34:41
  Speaker 11: have his best outing, and then you're right, it gets
• 34:44
  Speaker 11: a little tricky. You know. Obviously I would have loved
• 34:46
  Speaker 11: to have ended the deal on Sunday night, but you
• 34:49
  Speaker 11: have to play that thing smart because the worst thing
• 34:51
  Speaker 11: that you could do is burn through your best guys
• 34:56
  Speaker 11: and lose that game. And so we're fortunate where we
• 34:59
  Speaker 11: feel like we had multiple options at that point. When
• 35:02
  Speaker 11: I say that about four or five guys, Chase Shores
• 35:05
  Speaker 11: had been throwing the ball. Well, we were up three
• 35:07
  Speaker 11: to two, you know, velocity in that team's second game
• 35:12
  Speaker 11: in the doubleheader, I thought would give him problem. And
• 35:15
  Speaker 11: he immediately got us out of that inning, you know,
• 35:17
  Speaker 11: with the lead, and then went out and got the
• 35:18
  Speaker 11: leadoff guy and felt like he could get us three
• 35:20
  Speaker 11: to four innings, which would give us the time to
• 35:23
  Speaker 11: see where the game was at now if we're up
• 35:25
  Speaker 11: five to one or excuse me, at that point five
• 35:27
  Speaker 11: to two. Cason Evans was going in the game on
• 35:30
  Speaker 11: Sunday night, you know, to finish it. But they took
• 35:34
  Speaker 11: the lead, you know, at five to three, stretched it
• 35:37
  Speaker 11: to six to four, I believe, or six to three,
• 35:40
  Speaker 11: then six to four, and then ultimately ten to four.
• 35:44
  Speaker 11: And that's one of the weird games of the year
• 35:48
  Speaker 11: where it's great that you're in the winners bracket, but
• 35:50
  Speaker 11: you have to do that the right way, and I
• 35:52
  Speaker 11: feel like that we did, and it was honestly like
• 35:56
  Speaker 11: ten to four and the ninth it was it was
• 35:58
  Speaker 11: almost better that it was ten to five four then
• 36:00
  Speaker 11: had stayed six to four, and you know, it put
• 36:03
  Speaker 11: us in a good spot. I felt really good about
• 36:05
  Speaker 11: Monday thing. We had Zach, Cason, and Anthony for the
• 36:09
  Speaker 11: very back end of the game and felt like we
• 36:12
  Speaker 11: would hit. You know, we didn't come through necessarily on
• 36:15
  Speaker 11: Sunday night, but I felt like our offense was in
• 36:17
  Speaker 11: a good spot those three pitchers, maybe a couple other
• 36:20
  Speaker 11: guys for short bolts, that we were in a good
• 36:21
  Speaker 11: spot to win on Monday.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: And Coach, I mean Cason Evans, I mean, what can
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: you say about him? He didn't start the game on Monday,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: but when he comes in strikes out nine straight guys,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, he was unhittable, and he had this look
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: about him, and he had this energy about him. He
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: was wasting no time on the mound. It's like, catcher,
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: get me the ball as soon as you can batter,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: get in the box, and I'm going to strike you out.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Like there was some big alpha energy from him. And
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: I've asked you this before and I'm just gonna keep
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: harping on it. You're not supposed to have that as
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: a freshman, certainly a true freshman in that venue, in
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: the best stadium in college baseball, with everything on the line.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: But he's got it and then.
• 36:57
  Speaker 11: Some there's no doubt. I mean, that's one of the
• 37:00
  Speaker 11: most important players we've recruited here in my four years.
• 37:04
  Speaker 11: Knew at the second we got him, knew at the
• 37:06
  Speaker 11: second we got him through the draft. I don't know
• 37:08
  Speaker 11: if I said this earlier in the year when we
• 37:09
  Speaker 11: were talking about him. Well, I was supposed to go
• 37:12
  Speaker 11: to one of my friend's wedding in California, and then
• 37:15
  Speaker 11: he on a Saturday. I was going to leave on Friday,
• 37:17
  Speaker 11: and then Thursday he called me and said, hey, my
• 37:20
  Speaker 11: parents and I want to come back out for a
• 37:22
  Speaker 11: second visit. So I called my buddy and I said, hey, man, sorry,
• 37:24
  Speaker 11: we're not coming. Like this is uh, you'll it's a
• 37:27
  Speaker 11: base he's a baseball guy. I was like, you'll get it.
• 37:30
  Speaker 11: You'll get it when this dude shows up. And the
• 37:35
  Speaker 11: night I called him on Monday night and he's like,
• 37:38
  Speaker 11: that what the guy was? And then I was like,
• 37:39
  Speaker 11: that's exactly who that was.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: So he understood that, right, I mean as soon as
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: like you like, hey, that was the guy that just
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: struck out nine straight guys in the postseason, Like you're
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: forgiven forever for that, right.
• 37:51
  Speaker 11: Yeah, no doubt. He's a he's a baseball agent. So
• 37:53
  Speaker 11: he was like, he knows very well who he.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Is now, you know, coach.
• 37:58
  Speaker 9: I was curious watching watching on on Monday the what
• 38:03
  Speaker 9: are the end game adjustments?
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Is there?
• 38:05
  Speaker 9: Is there anything said from a coaching staff to a
• 38:09
  Speaker 9: lineup if there's a tight strike zone in a game,
• 38:12
  Speaker 9: Because I thought watching the game, and I'm a very
• 38:15
  Speaker 9: novice baseball knowledge guy, but I'm watching the game and
• 38:19
  Speaker 9: I'm thinking one of the big differences right now is
• 38:22
  Speaker 9: it seems that our guys LSU is adjusting to a
• 38:25
  Speaker 9: tighter strike zone from a discipline standpoint in the batter's box,
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: is there something like you in the first couple of innings.
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: Is there a mid game adjustment that you tell all
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: your guys, we got a tight strike zone, We're gonna
• 38:36
  Speaker 9: implement this a different type of game plan in the
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: batter's box one.
• 38:40
  Speaker 11: Hundred and you always are adjusting to the pitcher having
• 38:44
  Speaker 11: a good game plan there. I think you know the umpire,
• 38:48
  Speaker 11: you know you can tell pretty quickly and you know
• 38:50
  Speaker 11: most of the time, not the other night, but most
• 38:52
  Speaker 11: of the time we're the home team. And based on
• 38:55
  Speaker 11: you know, yeah, the two of the elite strike throwers
• 38:57
  Speaker 11: in the history of whatever. When k An Anthony like,
• 39:01
  Speaker 11: depending on you know, whether the guys are raising his
• 39:03
  Speaker 11: right arm. If he's not raising his right arm, when
• 39:05
  Speaker 11: those guys are throwing in the first inning, you're like, Okay, guys,
• 39:08
  Speaker 11: let's button this thing down a little bit. And so
• 39:11
  Speaker 11: that's definitely a thing. It doesn't happen as much as
• 39:14
  Speaker 11: you think. And I would say this, like, and I've
• 39:16
  Speaker 11: felt this coming out of the NCAA tournament's different because
• 39:19
  Speaker 11: you're you're getting the best of the best umpires. But
• 39:22
  Speaker 11: I think they've done a great job and they do
• 39:24
  Speaker 11: a good job in the SEC and the guys this weekend,
• 39:27
  Speaker 11: I thought behind the plate did a really good job.
• 39:29
  Speaker 11: And you know, and sometimes you know, you get them
• 39:32
  Speaker 11: from different parts of the country and the NCAA tournament,
• 39:34
  Speaker 11: that's kind of how they do it. And I actually
• 39:35
  Speaker 11: worry about it going the other way sometimes where it
• 39:37
  Speaker 11: opens up a little bit, you know. And but yeah,
• 39:41
  Speaker 11: I thought our guys did a good job. I mean,
• 39:42
  Speaker 11: we got a bunch of walks the other night, which
• 39:44
  Speaker 11: you know, that's a big part of our offense. It's
• 39:47
  Speaker 11: like turnovers in football. You know, let's just take what
• 39:49
  Speaker 11: they give us and turn it into something big. And yeah,
• 39:53
  Speaker 11: I thought our hitters did a good job with that.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Cause no what else you have baseball coach Jay Johnson
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: here on OTB. All right, coach, let's go to West Virginia.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: They won the Big twelve in the regular season. Really
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: good baseball team. They go to Clemson South Carolina, they
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: win that regional against you know, look a pretty good
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: field with Clemson, Kentucky and others. Initial look at West
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Virginia kind of your initial breakdown of what they're bringing
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: to town.
• 40:20
  Speaker 11: Yeah, two really good starting pitchers. They're they're Friday guy
• 40:24
  Speaker 11: or number one guy. They lean on a lot. They
• 40:26
  Speaker 11: actually brought him in like we did with Anthony, but
• 40:29
  Speaker 11: on one day's rest to finish up the regional, So
• 40:32
  Speaker 11: they really lean on him a lot. Those guys throw
• 40:35
  Speaker 11: a lot of pitches. They're going to stay in the game.
• 40:37
  Speaker 11: They ride them on. Offense, impressive in terms of how
• 40:42
  Speaker 11: they play, I would say, you know, they obviously have
• 40:45
  Speaker 11: like one hundred and eight stolen bases or something like
• 40:47
  Speaker 11: that they do a really good job with the playing game.
• 40:51
  Speaker 11: They have old position players that take really good at bats,
• 40:54
  Speaker 11: they don't strike out very much, and I think most importantly,
• 40:58
  Speaker 11: and you got to know how important they believe that
• 41:01
  Speaker 11: they can win. And they're championship caliber team and one
• 41:04
  Speaker 11: of the best leagues in college baseball. And we're gonna
• 41:07
  Speaker 11: have to play great, you know, to advance out of this,
• 41:09
  Speaker 11: and we're excited about that challenge.
• 41:13
  Speaker 9: Coach, I'm not gonna not going to ask you, like
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: what your lineup decisions and.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: What it's going to be good to tell you, yeah, obviously,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: but like when you.
• 41:20
  Speaker 9: Go into making a decision like that, especially this time
• 41:23
  Speaker 9: of the year, do you kind of go with like
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: hothand do you go with what's happened in the short term,
• 41:28
  Speaker 9: or do you kind of look at it as, all right,
• 41:31
  Speaker 9: we're resetting, this is a brand new weekend. Let's go
• 41:33
  Speaker 9: with what kind of the long term plan is.
• 41:35
  Speaker 11: Well, your season's on the line every every day now,
• 41:39
  Speaker 11: so it's really what's best for today. And you know,
• 41:42
  Speaker 11: like I said, it's a little bit unconventional thinking. But
• 41:47
  Speaker 11: you know, our players again in eighteen to twenty one,
• 41:49
  Speaker 11: twenty two, they change a little bit more than the
• 41:52
  Speaker 11: professional player. And then sometimes there's just a matchup thing, like, hey,
• 41:56
  Speaker 11: we work really hard on that and you're great guy,
• 41:58
  Speaker 11: and Jamie Tucco and helps me with like some data
• 42:01
  Speaker 11: and analytics and evaluated matchups, and then we'll set the lineup,
• 42:06
  Speaker 11: you know. I mean, I'll consider starting a guy that
• 42:08
  Speaker 11: hadn't started in a long time on Monday night just
• 42:11
  Speaker 11: because we felt like we like where he's at with
• 42:13
  Speaker 11: his abats, that he's taken right now, and you know
• 42:16
  Speaker 11: he's going to impact the game some way, shape or form,
• 42:19
  Speaker 11: and so it's a little more like what's best for today.
• 42:23
  Speaker 10: Now.
• 42:23
  Speaker 11: With that being said, we've been very consistent this year
• 42:26
  Speaker 11: and very good throughout the season. We had one hiccup
• 42:30
  Speaker 11: at Auburn, but other than that, you know, it doesn't
• 42:32
  Speaker 11: mean we've scored seven or eight every game, But I
• 42:35
  Speaker 11: feel like I have a pretty good idea of what
• 42:36
  Speaker 11: I'm going to get and sometimes it's just slotting them
• 42:39
  Speaker 11: for what's best for that day.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: And we look forward to it coming up this weekend
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: inside Alec Box Stadium, West Virginia coming to town for
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: a super regional coach Man Me and the family had
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: such a good time with the Regional. Can't wait to
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: be back at the box for the Super Regional. The
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: stadium was electric. It's going to be turned up to
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: an absolute eleven. We look forward to and we always
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: appreciate your time.
• 43:00
  Speaker 11: All right, guys, have a great day.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Thanks coach.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: All right there he is head baseball coach for the
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: LSU Tigers, Jay Johnson, good enough to join us every
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: single week here on OTB. All right, we will step
• 43:10
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