Latest / Off The Bench / Bayou Statement: LSU Downs Arkansas, UCLA Awaits in Omaha
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- 0:44Speaker 3: Let's go.
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- 0:53Speaker 2: to Off the Bench.
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- 0:59Speaker 2: Live Mercedes been so baton Rouge Studio. Here's Jacob Hesser
- 1:03Speaker 2: and MATTX Flynn.
- 1:09Speaker 5: You yo, nothing nothing from moose.
- 1:15Speaker 6: I'm sorry this is new for me on this rendition
- 1:17Speaker 6: of the show.
- 1:18Speaker 7: Ye yo yo.
- 1:23Speaker 3: Jake, Flynn, Moose, and Tata y Oh here with you.
- 1:27Speaker 3: On a Monday morning, Flynn made it back from his
- 1:32Speaker 3: birthday vacation.
- 1:33Speaker 7: You know, it's not his birthday for a couple more days.
- 1:36Speaker 3: He still had to celebrate a little bit early there,
- 1:38Speaker 3: and his flights were on schedule. He booked them on
- 1:42Speaker 3: the right days, unlike I got tea Bob used to do.
- 1:45Speaker 7: And he is back.
- 1:47Speaker 5: I know y'all were I was like, I was keeping
- 1:48Speaker 5: all updated the entire time. Uh, I know, y'all worried
- 1:52Speaker 5: I would miss my flight so I couldn't come in
- 1:54Speaker 5: and carry this show.
- 1:55Speaker 7: That's right.
- 1:56Speaker 5: We made it. We made it back. Everything was good,
- 1:59Speaker 5: Turks and tacos.
- 2:01Speaker 7: First time right, Oh.
- 2:02Speaker 5: Yeah, first time I ever really knew where It was
- 2:07Speaker 5: surprisingly very easy to get to.
- 2:09Speaker 3: So if you didn't know, you've never been, you didn't
- 2:11Speaker 3: know where it was, and it was for your birthday
- 2:14Speaker 3: trip was miss.
- 2:15Speaker 5: I knew where it was, like I knew like it
- 2:17Speaker 5: was an.
- 2:19Speaker 3: Area to the right if you're looking at the map
- 2:22Speaker 3: of the United States.
- 2:23Speaker 5: But I was like shocked. We we fly from New
- 2:25Speaker 5: Orleans to Miami and then you get on the plane
- 2:27Speaker 5: in Miami and it's like an hour and twenty minutes
- 2:29Speaker 5: and you're there. It's like one of the closest islands
- 2:31Speaker 5: you can get to. So you'll be back, I hope.
- 2:36Speaker 5: So yeah, good lord. It was beautiful. Yeah, that was so.
- 2:40Speaker 5: It was honestly the like the prettiest water and beaches
- 2:43Speaker 5: I've ever seen.
- 2:44Speaker 7: Well, there you go. So we nailed it all right.
- 2:46Speaker 7: You saw where'd you stay in like a resort.
- 2:50Speaker 5: So we stayed. So we had a bunch of people,
- 2:53Speaker 5: so the situation. Those are the best trips you could take,
- 2:55Speaker 5: like a bunch of people. Everybody chips in, Like we
- 2:58Speaker 5: got a little house like right on the beach. Ahh
- 3:01Speaker 5: it's great. Ye, fantastic. Brought home a conk shell. I
- 3:06Speaker 5: don't know if that's legal.
- 3:07Speaker 7: But I think I'm pretty sure it is.
- 3:10Speaker 5: It was. It was a dead it was it was
- 3:12Speaker 5: a dead cunk.
- 3:14Speaker 3: Okay, I still don't think that matters. Why did you
- 3:17Speaker 3: bring that home?
- 3:18Speaker 5: Because it's beautiful. I wanted to give it about children's
- 3:22Speaker 5: You get water, three, you got three, I got one.
- 3:24Speaker 5: I got one shell. No, we can all share it.
- 3:26Speaker 5: We'll just look at it. I mean they're pretty big.
- 3:29Speaker 5: I can't carry three of them.
- 3:30Speaker 3: It's an awful idea on all fronts. You take one
- 3:33Speaker 3: from the island and you only bring one home and
- 3:35Speaker 3: not three.
- 3:36Speaker 5: Also brought home one sand dollar too. That wouldn't good either.
- 3:39Speaker 7: I'm supposed to do that either. I don't think.
- 3:42Speaker 3: I mean, aren't those things like can't they smell like
- 3:45Speaker 3: they smell your bag?
- 3:46Speaker 5: Up? It was dead exactly, okay, But it wasn't like
- 3:50Speaker 5: there was a dead like creature in this thing. It
- 3:53Speaker 5: was like an old dead shell that was in the ocean.
- 3:56Speaker 5: The creature had left either died or found a new shell.
- 4:00Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, well it was there.
- 4:01Speaker 5: We'll faux out what the guy told me that I
- 4:03Speaker 5: was with.
- 4:04Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, we'll figure that out. Moose and Taty here
- 4:07Speaker 3: with us as well. Moose, I know that you are
- 4:10Speaker 3: not a morning person. It is not your favorite thing
- 4:12Speaker 3: to do. You did this show longer than anybody expected
- 4:15Speaker 3: you to do this show.
- 4:16Speaker 7: You're feeling in for a landra.
- 4:19Speaker 3: But but does the fact that LSU beat Arkansas in
- 4:23Speaker 3: the College World Series they got a game again today,
- 4:26Speaker 3: does that make it a little bit better?
- 4:28Speaker 6: It makes it a little bit better.
- 4:29Speaker 8: Yeah, it's kind of like the Super Regional Game one
- 4:32Speaker 8: against West Virginia. Man, it was hot, but the grand
- 4:35Speaker 8: slams cooled you off a little bit, right, that type
- 4:37Speaker 8: of deal.
- 4:38Speaker 6: So yeah, that's the big wind.
- 4:40Speaker 5: It makes it a little easier.
- 4:41Speaker 7: All right, fair enough, fair enough, Tate. How we doing?
- 4:44Speaker 7: How was the weekend?
- 4:45Speaker 4: Good weekend overall?
- 4:47Speaker 7: Probably mode the grass again, just to be sure.
- 4:50Speaker 1: No, it's rained for thirty five days in a row now,
- 4:53Speaker 1: so wasn't able to do that. Mother in law's car
- 4:57Speaker 1: got broken into Saturday night. That was a fun time.
- 5:00Speaker 1: We just standing downtown. Yeah, that was that was downtown.
- 5:05Speaker 7: What happened.
- 5:06Speaker 1: We were at this little bar thing watching baseball game,
- 5:11Speaker 1: and I mean we were only we out there about
- 5:13Speaker 1: six thirty left it like nine.
- 5:15Speaker 4: I mean we're only there a little over two hours.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Came outside and like me and Victoria parked a car
- 5:20Speaker 1: over from him, her back windows busted in, her stolen
- 5:23Speaker 1: out of the back seat. The Ford pickup drug next
- 5:26Speaker 1: to them's windows broken to.
- 5:31Speaker 5: Better? What are we doing better? All right?
- 5:35Speaker 3: Well, sorry that happened. I mean it sounds, you know,
- 5:38Speaker 3: other than that, it sounds like a good weekend.
- 5:40Speaker 5: Well.
- 5:40Speaker 1: The good thing is like she brought a smaller bag
- 5:43Speaker 1: in that had like grid her phone her car did
- 5:46Speaker 1: it so like basically all they took was an empty purse.
- 5:49Speaker 7: Okay, well, jokes on them birds.
- 5:53Speaker 3: Did you get a chance to watch any of the
- 5:56Speaker 3: L s U Arkansas game?
- 5:58Speaker 7: Why you were over was celebrating your birthday?
- 6:02Speaker 5: I mean, I know I was on vacation, but I
- 6:05Speaker 5: left the beaches so I could be locked in all
- 6:07Speaker 5: the sports this weekend.
- 6:08Speaker 9: I bet you did actually watch some golf. I did so,
- 6:12Speaker 9: so I watched we were able to watch a little
- 6:15Speaker 9: bit of the baseball game, but I did. I watched
- 6:17Speaker 9: the uh watched the a twenty minute recap of the game.
- 6:22Speaker 9: So I'm blocked in all right. Then, yeah, watched some
- 6:25Speaker 9: US Open golf. We'll get into that a little bit
- 6:27Speaker 9: later in the show.
- 6:28Speaker 5: During my flight, during my flight back and then driving home,
- 6:32Speaker 5: I had it on the like put the audio on
- 6:34Speaker 5: driving back from New Orleans. But so I was locked
- 6:36Speaker 5: into that, which was a crazy, crazy finish. I know
- 6:40Speaker 5: we're gonna talk a lot of baseball, but we do
- 6:41Speaker 5: need to jump into that a little bit. Yeahow, because
- 6:43Speaker 5: obviously it will smell a shoe ties. There were Sam
- 6:45Speaker 5: Burns in the mix as well, you know, making some
- 6:49Speaker 5: headlines for sure. Unfortunately.
- 6:51Speaker 3: And then I had a situation on fifteen that I'm
- 6:53Speaker 3: sure you want to talk about a little bit later
- 6:55Speaker 3: on About that later, uh moose, what links would you
- 6:59Speaker 3: go to if you were on a trip Turks and
- 7:02Speaker 3: Cakos and LS was playing in the College World Series.
- 7:05Speaker 7: To make sure that you watched every pitch.
- 7:07Speaker 8: Well, that actually could happen here this weekend because I'll
- 7:10Speaker 8: be at the beach and LSU might be playing for national.
- 7:13Speaker 8: It happened in twenty twenty three as well, and I
- 7:16Speaker 8: watched every single.
- 7:17Speaker 3: Pitch there was fair enough. Who you going to the
- 7:19Speaker 3: beach with family? Okay, does family understand?
- 7:22Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 7:22Speaker 6: Family watching with families to be watching with yeah, for sure.
- 7:26Speaker 3: It reminds me of when my daughter Harlowe was being
- 7:29Speaker 3: born and LSU Way Forrest were playing each other in
- 7:32Speaker 3: the College World Series and my wife was watching the
- 7:36Speaker 3: game and wanted to watch the game. And then as
- 7:38Speaker 3: soon as Tommy White hit the walk off home run
- 7:40Speaker 3: against Wake fourst she goes, okay, you can call the
- 7:42Speaker 3: doctor in now.
- 7:45Speaker 7: Was It was the most gagser thing I've ever seen
- 7:47Speaker 7: in my life.
- 7:48Speaker 3: It's like, all right, you can get the doctor in
- 7:50Speaker 3: here now, and then literally Harlowe's like three pushes later,
- 7:53Speaker 3: she's into this world.
- 7:54Speaker 7: And I tried to name her Tommy Tanks, but it
- 7:56Speaker 7: didn't work.
- 7:57Speaker 5: It's been good.
- 7:59Speaker 7: Didn't need to pull it off there.
- 8:00Speaker 3: So all right, well, Moose, since obviously you're our LSU
- 8:05Speaker 3: baseball corresponding here, give us your thoughts.
- 8:08Speaker 7: Four to one.
- 8:09Speaker 3: Kate Anderson did Kate Anderson things, and Zach Route lasted
- 8:13Speaker 3: thirty eight pitches.
- 8:14Speaker 8: Yeah, that was that was surprising, but I understand Dave
- 8:17Speaker 8: Van Horn's you know, thought process there.
- 8:19Speaker 6: And now, look, you're in a loser's bracket.
- 8:21Speaker 8: If you need Zach Rout, he can obviously come back
- 8:22Speaker 8: off just thirty eight pitches, maybe even as soon as Tuesday,
- 8:25Speaker 8: so you get past today, maybe you could use him tuesday.
- 8:28Speaker 8: But I thought LSU did exactly what they needed to do.
- 8:30Speaker 8: They took advantage of every little tiny opening that they had.
- 8:34Speaker 8: You know, you could look at that second inning and say, oh, well,
- 8:37Speaker 8: there were walks and hit by pitch. I would tell
- 8:39Speaker 8: you the only things that LSU was given in that
- 8:41Speaker 8: inning were the four pitch pass Derandez and they hit
- 8:44Speaker 8: by pitch to braswell that at bat from Curryel where
- 8:47Speaker 8: I mean he falls down, oh two, didn't look good
- 8:50Speaker 8: on two of those left handed curveballs, and then just
- 8:52Speaker 8: spit on a few more of them great takes. That
- 8:54Speaker 8: was the first of really three lead at bats from him,
- 8:57Speaker 8: but he earned that walk obviously a heads up play.
- 9:00Speaker 8: Dickinson had dropped the bunt down in a very shocking
- 9:03Speaker 8: situation that caught them off guard.
- 9:05Speaker 6: He beats it out and then you have the single.
- 9:07Speaker 8: And I thought a great bat by Pearson to not
- 9:09Speaker 8: punch out with the bases loaded and less than on
- 9:11Speaker 8: out right. I mean, you put the ball in play
- 9:12Speaker 8: and good things happened. So I thought they manufactured that well.
- 9:15Speaker 8: And then I mean, dude, Kate Anderson, Jake I talked
- 9:19Speaker 8: about it all week on Mooso at the boxes like
- 9:21Speaker 8: everyone wanted to know, well, Arkansas has left these better.
- 9:23Speaker 8: I'm like, Arkansas hits everybody like they hit over three
- 9:26Speaker 8: hundred against righties too. If Kate Anderson is executing, he's
- 9:29Speaker 8: gonna be fine.
- 9:30Speaker 6: And he was. I mean, he put them in a
- 9:32Speaker 6: seven inning.
- 9:33Speaker 8: Choke hold, and you got great off us can be great,
- 9:37Speaker 8: uh support for your bullpen. I mean, Chase Shores looked awesome.
- 9:40Speaker 8: Cason Evans awesome, big insurance RN. I thought it was
- 9:43Speaker 8: about as he fish in a game that LSU could
- 9:45Speaker 8: have played in their opener given the competition they were facing.
- 9:47Speaker 7: And no, I agree with you whole hardly. And look,
- 9:49Speaker 7: Chase Shores looked so good.
- 9:50Speaker 3: I was like he might come back out for the
- 9:51Speaker 3: ninth Yeah, and nothing like Cason Evans has pitched in
- 9:54Speaker 3: a while. And I'm sure like Jay's like, look, we
- 9:55Speaker 3: gotta get a guy in there. We need a high
- 9:57Speaker 3: leverage situation. You're up by three rung. This is a
- 10:00Speaker 3: perfect situation and you're gonna need Case and Evans to
- 10:03Speaker 3: win the World Series. So nothing you know, against him,
- 10:05Speaker 3: But I just thought Chase Shore's like, he's pitching so well,
- 10:08Speaker 3: he's gonna get the ninth inding as well, which if
- 10:10Speaker 3: he can do what he's done his last couple of outings,
- 10:14Speaker 3: I mean, that is just so big for LSU because
- 10:17Speaker 3: you know they're looking for exactly what he's given them.
- 10:20Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I think it's the best he's looked
- 10:22Speaker 8: in an LSU uniform. I I don't think that's really
- 10:24Speaker 8: that debatable. I mean, he's just got command of three
- 10:27Speaker 8: pitches and now he's I mean he's sitting a hundred
- 10:30Speaker 8: and one hundred and one miles an hout.
- 10:33Speaker 7: Not too shabby. Yeah, yeah, pretty pretty good.
- 10:37Speaker 5: And the way they were hitting in the in the supers,
- 10:39Speaker 5: it's you know, if you would have told us that
- 10:42Speaker 5: Eli's gonna face thirty one batters against against Arkansas, I
- 10:45Speaker 5: think we all felt pretty good about it. Yeah, of course, man,
- 10:49Speaker 5: that the guy that came in, what's what's the guy's
- 10:53Speaker 5: name from Arkansas? They came in.
- 10:55Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I look here, Gabe, you need to go
- 10:58Speaker 3: back crossing get out here.
- 11:01Speaker 7: Ah.
- 11:02Speaker 3: That was huge for Arkansas obviously because when you take
- 11:05Speaker 3: your starter out like the last thing. Now at the
- 11:08Speaker 3: very end, they did have to probably use more arms
- 11:10Speaker 3: than they wanted to there. For a while, I was like,
- 11:12Speaker 3: they're gonna use two arms after taking their starter out
- 11:14Speaker 3: after thirty eight pitchers, They're gonna use two arms. I mean,
- 11:17Speaker 3: he was dialed in. LSU can not figure him out.
- 11:20Speaker 8: He'll play the game for a very very long time
- 11:22Speaker 8: at a very high level, and he's good enough with
- 11:23Speaker 8: the fastballn slider and if he has the curveball in
- 11:26Speaker 8: the change up like.
- 11:26Speaker 5: He did at night ago at Good Luck.
- 11:29Speaker 8: I mean like sometimes no one loves to do it,
- 11:32Speaker 8: but you just tip your hat to the other guy
- 11:33Speaker 8: because he's pretty dark good too.
- 11:34Speaker 3: Yep, and he definitely you know, he said he saved
- 11:38Speaker 3: a lot of arms for Arkansas, and now you know
- 11:40Speaker 3: they're gonna have a chance and they're going to be
- 11:42Speaker 3: heavy favorites against Murray State. I mean, I fully expect,
- 11:46Speaker 3: just like everyone did for LSU at Arkansas to play
- 11:49Speaker 3: each other again, some way, somehow. So look, you beat
- 11:54Speaker 3: the Hogs four to one. You know, the offense obviously
- 11:57Speaker 3: did have their struggles. They struck out sixteen times in
- 12:00Speaker 3: the game, but you did enough.
- 12:02Speaker 7: Kurie gives you an insurance run, which was huge.
- 12:05Speaker 3: I mean, how many at bats that he had that
- 12:07Speaker 3: were just I mean, for him to do what he's
- 12:11Speaker 3: doing as a true freshman, I mean, getting down like
- 12:14Speaker 3: O two and just finding a way to get on
- 12:17Speaker 3: his plate discipline is incredible.
- 12:19Speaker 7: It's just time and time again.
- 12:20Speaker 3: And look he got moved down because you're facing a
- 12:23Speaker 3: lefty like that's just a guy. I want as many
- 12:26Speaker 3: at bats as you possibly can get from that.
- 12:28Speaker 1: Can we can we leave him in the leadoff spot now,
- 12:30Speaker 1: like we can we stop moving him down?
- 12:32Speaker 7: That's my only man, that's worked though.
- 12:36Speaker 3: I mean when he s down he was three for
- 12:37Speaker 3: three with five RBIs, and then the other night he
- 12:40Speaker 3: gives you the insurance run he gets on base, like
- 12:43Speaker 3: that spot in the line. I get what you're saying,
- 12:46Speaker 3: because like I want that guy, but the spot that
- 12:50Speaker 3: he's finding himself in it has been so big for
- 12:53Speaker 3: l s U and it's like, all right, well, if
- 12:55Speaker 3: we're going against the lefty, this has worked pretty well.
- 12:57Speaker 8: When I was on the pregame show with Hun Saturday
- 13:00Speaker 8: and I said, we were talking, we're talking about Creosa.
- 13:02Speaker 5: He's the best at bat in Neelish's lineup.
- 13:04Speaker 8: Like, with all due respect to Mylam who never like
- 13:06Speaker 8: never s Mila Mountain struck out thirty times yet this year.
- 13:09Speaker 6: But Curiel is the best at bat.
- 13:11Speaker 8: And for him to be able to share that in
- 13:12Speaker 8: the seventh in the AUSSU mean the sixth hole like
- 13:14Speaker 8: he did on Saturday, was remarkable.
- 13:18Speaker 5: I mean you you brought up the the insurance run.
- 13:21Speaker 8: As great as the bat was in the second, that
- 13:23Speaker 8: one in the eighth probably better because Cole Gibbler is
- 13:26Speaker 8: in there to strike him out on the breaking ball,
- 13:29Speaker 8: on that lefty breaking ball, because it's he's got one
- 13:31Speaker 8: of the best ones in the country. And Coriell look
- 13:33Speaker 8: bad the first two times on it, so you know
- 13:36Speaker 8: you're getting it again. And he stayed on it, hit
- 13:38Speaker 8: it where it was pitched, and drove it the other
- 13:40Speaker 8: way in the biggest spot in the ball game. That's
- 13:42Speaker 8: Freshmen don't do that, right, Freshman don't do that, and
- 13:45Speaker 8: he's just he's not freshman anymore.
- 13:47Speaker 5: I think. I think Curiel is kind of like the
- 13:48Speaker 5: epitome of what we talked about after the Little Rock Games.
- 13:52Speaker 5: It's like they're Their plate discipline to me was incredible,
- 13:57Speaker 5: and that's a testament to I think what Jay Johnson
- 13:59Speaker 5: wants to do and the way he coaches, the way
- 14:01Speaker 5: the way he builds that lineup. But the plate discipline
- 14:06Speaker 5: since then has been just unbelievable to me. How they
- 14:10Speaker 5: can take all.
- 14:10Speaker 3: They by a couple of guys in your lineup, for sure,
- 14:13Speaker 3: for sure the guys we're talking about now, Barr Jones
- 14:18Speaker 3: has got to figure some things out. Boys shooters shoot
- 14:21Speaker 3: I mean, look, it's the same pitch, it's the same location,
- 14:25Speaker 3: and it's the same result there. I mean, it seems elementary,
- 14:31Speaker 3: but there has to be an adjustment to be made.
- 14:33Speaker 3: I mean, this is somebody you're going to have to
- 14:35Speaker 3: have come up with a couple of big knocks. I mean,
- 14:39Speaker 3: he is the power in your lineup. He's right there.
- 14:41Speaker 3: You put him in the middle of your lineup. And
- 14:44Speaker 3: speaking of like lineup changes, like that might have to
- 14:47Speaker 3: be something you look at again, because I mean, it
- 14:50Speaker 3: is all speed on the corner. He's chasing everything. It
- 14:53Speaker 3: can be breaking ball, change up does not matter. He
- 14:56Speaker 3: is still trying to pull the baseball. It's like it
- 14:59Speaker 3: feels again like so youth baseball go the other way,
- 15:02Speaker 3: where they go the other way, where they take it
- 15:04Speaker 3: the other way, which Bear has the power to do so.
- 15:06Speaker 3: But man, you go up there with a platinum sombrero
- 15:09Speaker 3: and a college raw series game tough.
- 15:11Speaker 1: Look, it's uh, it's getting so bad, at least for me.
- 15:15Speaker 1: They're like, I'm watching the game with my brother in
- 15:17Speaker 1: law on Saturday night. Jones is up there. He's zero
- 15:19Speaker 1: for four with four strikeouts, and he has two strikes
- 15:22Speaker 1: on him and he looks at me and he's like,
- 15:24Speaker 1: no way, Bear strikes out for the fifth time. I
- 15:26Speaker 1: was like, I'd be shocked if he didn't at this point,
- 15:28Speaker 1: And I mean just no hope. Like I mean I
- 15:31Speaker 1: had got up there, I'd completely lost faith in him.
- 15:33Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm shocked if he doesn't strike out.
- 15:36Speaker 3: It's it's a tough deal man, because we know how
- 15:38Speaker 3: good of a hitter he can be, and look hitters
- 15:41Speaker 3: getting to a funk.
- 15:42Speaker 5: We know that.
- 15:43Speaker 3: And it looked like he was going to find his
- 15:45Speaker 3: way out of it, and LSU's going to need him
- 15:47Speaker 3: to do just that against UCLA coming up later.
- 15:51Speaker 5: Only we saw him getting that extra work in though. Yep,
- 15:53Speaker 5: he's getting those swings in afterwards.
- 15:55Speaker 3: Like I have faith that he can make the adjustment,
- 15:58Speaker 3: but you gotta at some point make said adjustment.
- 16:01Speaker 5: You just kind of fill the ball, the bad contact
- 16:04Speaker 5: the ball a couple of times.
- 16:05Speaker 3: It I mean, at this point, for sure, it's like
- 16:08Speaker 3: we always talk about with Chuck Nablo getting the yips.
- 16:10Speaker 3: Couldn't throw it from second to first. Baseball is the
- 16:13Speaker 3: ultimate sport of getting in your head and then you
- 16:16Speaker 3: get up there. I mean, hell, inter real slow pitch softball, right,
- 16:20Speaker 3: you miss one, You're like, if I miss another that
- 16:21Speaker 3: I'm gonna strike out. It's like sweaty palms, like, oh
- 16:23Speaker 3: my gosh, I've got to make you know, you start
- 16:25Speaker 3: thinking about it's so different than even the sport that
- 16:28Speaker 3: we played.
- 16:29Speaker 5: Everybody, like in a skill position or any sport, if
- 16:32Speaker 5: whether you're a thrower, we see with kickers all the
- 16:35Speaker 5: time getting slumps, golfers, hitters, anything like that. It's once
- 16:38Speaker 5: you stop, once you start getting in a slump, you
- 16:41Speaker 5: get in your head and you start thinking about the
- 16:45Speaker 5: littlest of things that you don't need to think about.
- 16:47Speaker 5: And you're a batter, you seed to be thinking about
- 16:49Speaker 5: what's the rotation of the ball, look like, what's the
- 16:51Speaker 5: ball placement? Look for my pitch? Yeah, instead of all
- 16:56Speaker 5: the mechanical things that he's probably thinking of. I mean,
- 16:59Speaker 5: there's no reason that he's staying there afterwards, but working
- 17:02Speaker 5: on the mechanics of his swing. Right, as a thrower,
- 17:06Speaker 5: the hardest thing to hit all the time is the
- 17:08Speaker 5: wide open person. That's the easy throw because you start
- 17:11Speaker 5: thinking about, all right, don't miss it, don't miss it,
- 17:13Speaker 5: don't miss it, don't miss it, instead of just letting
- 17:15Speaker 5: it rip and letting your training training take over at
- 17:18Speaker 5: that point, so hopefully you can find And that's why
- 17:21Speaker 5: people slump, It's like because they just get in their
- 17:23Speaker 5: head and people become a little like we say kickers
- 17:25Speaker 5: or head cases all the time. But it's any skill position,
- 17:28Speaker 5: it's any swinger, thrower, kicker or anything like that. We're
- 17:31Speaker 5: all head cases when it comes to that stuff. So
- 17:34Speaker 5: you just got to be able to go out there
- 17:35Speaker 5: and let it rip. But you have to get something
- 17:39Speaker 5: early on to get your confidence going a little bit,
- 17:43Speaker 5: even if it's like a hard foul ball, just like
- 17:45Speaker 5: something that's like, all right, I got it, Okay, I
- 17:48Speaker 5: feel it. That's what it felt like to come off
- 17:50Speaker 5: the bat. Now let's go rip it. Uh.
- 17:52Speaker 3: And certainly when we come back, I do want to
- 17:54Speaker 3: talk about the defense that the Tiger showed in this game,
- 17:58Speaker 3: including the last out, which that is not an easy
- 18:02Speaker 3: play and Milm makes it look routine.
- 18:05Speaker 7: We'll cover it all. We'll preview UCLA.
- 18:07Speaker 3: We've got a lot of great guests coming up, the
- 18:09Speaker 3: first one being the voice of the Ylsu Tigers, Chris
- 18:12Speaker 3: Blair at eight o'clock.
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- 19:51Speaker 7: We're going with the island theme music, huh.
- 19:54Speaker 5: Yeah, because I'm mentally just on an island right now. However,
- 19:59Speaker 5: strangely enough, this song does remind me of the comedy
- 20:05Speaker 5: I think it's called out Cold. Remember that one?
- 20:10Speaker 7: I do remember that one?
- 20:11Speaker 5: That's a ski movie.
- 20:12Speaker 3: Yeah, that's in the mountains there like old school situation.
- 20:18Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like a like a ski mountain that's like
- 20:22Speaker 5: going out of business, yea, trying to bring it back.
- 20:25Speaker 3: But that is at the movie where they got the
- 20:30Speaker 3: drunk friend and they put him in the car behind
- 20:33Speaker 3: the wheel, Zach the young and they start spinning the
- 20:38Speaker 3: car and then screaming and act like they're crashing and
- 20:42Speaker 3: he's behind the wheel even though the cars went on.
- 20:43Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, and they and they go they ski downhill,
- 20:47Speaker 5: like the thing is like the ski downhill, I think,
- 20:50Speaker 5: while chugging a beer and with their with their ass out.
- 20:53Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I've seen that two.
- 20:57Speaker 5: Thousand and one.
- 20:57Speaker 7: Yeah, well there you go. Yeah, that pretty good movie.
- 21:00Speaker 5: That song just kind of like tickles the nostalgia there,
- 21:02Speaker 5: okay for that movie.
- 21:04Speaker 3: We may or may not have done that to one
- 21:06Speaker 3: of my friends in high school who was passed out
- 21:08Speaker 3: in the passenger seat, went to an empty parking lot,
- 21:10Speaker 3: started hitting some doughnuts and then started screaing in and
- 21:13Speaker 3: like control.
- 21:16Speaker 1: Can you see the like the video when like an
- 21:19Speaker 1: eighteen wheeler's toe and another eighteen wheelers so it looks
- 21:21Speaker 1: like it's facing you.
- 21:24Speaker 4: His wife's a sleep in the passengers seat and he goes,
- 21:27Speaker 4: oh my god, a honey, wake up and she looks
- 21:29Speaker 4: and sees the eighteen wheeler and loses it.
- 21:31Speaker 5: My wife would kill me.
- 21:33Speaker 4: Yeah, it didn't go well for that.
- 21:35Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it was funny at the time.
- 21:37Speaker 5: It's so good.
- 21:38Speaker 7: Yeah, there's no coming back from that.
- 21:41Speaker 3: All right, Moose, I'm gonna throw this one to you
- 21:45Speaker 3: because you did have sixteen strikeouts before we get to
- 21:48Speaker 3: the defense, I promise, because the defense was really, really good.
- 21:52Speaker 3: So Braswell has three strikeouts, Bear has five. As we mentioned,
- 21:56Speaker 3: certainly not the only players that added to this total. Now,
- 21:59Speaker 3: Milam had two and then came back and got a
- 22:01Speaker 3: couple of hits, so ended up being a good day
- 22:03Speaker 3: for him. What does it look like in your opinion tonight,
- 22:08Speaker 3: because Jay, as we all know, he's gonna tinker, he's
- 22:12Speaker 3: gonna move pieces around. He is going to make sure
- 22:15Speaker 3: that to him, he's got the most competitive lineup no
- 22:18Speaker 3: matter what it was the game before. I mean, there's
- 22:22Speaker 3: a couple of guys I think we could have conversations
- 22:25Speaker 3: about Braswell probably being one of them.
- 22:28Speaker 7: You know, do you stick with him because of his defense?
- 22:30Speaker 7: He did?
- 22:30Speaker 3: You know in like some of those double plays, obviously
- 22:32Speaker 3: him getting rid of the baseball incredibly fast and getting
- 22:35Speaker 3: it too Diggings in there at second base. Do we
- 22:38Speaker 3: expect anything major outside of maybe you know, the top
- 22:42Speaker 3: spot like we talked about with Leado.
- 22:44Speaker 8: I don't think you see anything major because at this
- 22:47Speaker 8: point you know who your guys are.
- 22:49Speaker 5: I mean, like you know who's.
- 22:51Speaker 8: Going to give you the best chance to win out there.
- 22:53Speaker 8: I think what you do see is shifting in the lineup,
- 22:56Speaker 8: Like I would expect a more conventional traditional lineup from
- 22:59Speaker 8: what we've seen from LSU tonight. You're going up against
- 23:01Speaker 8: the variety and Landon Stump, who has pitched into the
- 23:04Speaker 8: sixth inning all of three times this year. They just
- 23:08Speaker 8: they don't let him go deep. You see, the Leans
- 23:10Speaker 8: are their bullpen an awful lot, and they're a right handed,
- 23:12Speaker 8: heavy bullpen to boot, so you should see.
- 23:16Speaker 6: The majority right handers.
- 23:17Speaker 8: So I would expect Derrek Curriell to be back at
- 23:19Speaker 8: the top of the lineup. I would expect Jake Brown
- 23:21Speaker 8: to start in right field. I think you do leave
- 23:23Speaker 8: Michael Braswell in there, especially in this ballpark where defense
- 23:26Speaker 8: is so key and if you need a bat later
- 23:29Speaker 8: in the game.
- 23:30Speaker 6: You can go to Tanner Reeves, you can you can
- 23:32Speaker 6: do whatever.
- 23:33Speaker 8: But Braswell's glove was huge h in that game Flushue
- 23:38Speaker 8: on on Saturday, because unless you can turn a lot
- 23:40Speaker 8: of double plays this season, just to be quite honest,
- 23:42Speaker 8: and those came at big moments. Uh. The interesting thing
- 23:45Speaker 8: for me is, I think you see Dickinson move a
- 23:47Speaker 8: little bit back.
- 23:47Speaker 5: Up, and I want to see if you move Jones
- 23:49Speaker 5: down again.
- 23:50Speaker 8: I mean, I think that that has to be something
- 23:52Speaker 8: you're you're considering because the top of your lineup just
- 23:56Speaker 8: I mean, Pierson have that the good are the good
- 23:58Speaker 8: field of choice. RBI was a great bat in a
- 24:00Speaker 8: really clutch moment, but none of them had to hit.
- 24:03Speaker 8: I mean those guys they went oh for thirteen combined,
- 24:08Speaker 8: so all your hits came from four to through nine.
- 24:11Speaker 8: So I think you see a few changes there, but yeah,
- 24:13Speaker 8: not inserting more guys in, just moving the guys you
- 24:15Speaker 8: have around.
- 24:16Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree with you there.
- 24:17Speaker 3: And again one of the things I always look forward
- 24:19Speaker 3: to is sor right, what's Jay going to do with
- 24:21Speaker 3: the lineup out there? Because we know he has done
- 24:24Speaker 3: his due diligence and what he thinks is the best
- 24:26Speaker 3: game plan after watching tape and you mentioned you know,
- 24:30Speaker 3: Land and Stump, and you sit there and you look
- 24:31Speaker 3: at you know, even in the postseason, i mean, yeah,
- 24:34Speaker 3: against Arizona State, he only goes three innings.
- 24:36Speaker 7: Against UTSA, he only goes four innings.
- 24:38Speaker 3: And so it's gonna be a pretty quick hook if
- 24:41Speaker 3: it's not going well for Stump out there.
- 24:43Speaker 6: Yeah, and that four inning out it was a one
- 24:44Speaker 6: run ball game.
- 24:45Speaker 7: Yeah, it was a one run game.
- 24:47Speaker 5: And they went to him.
- 24:48Speaker 8: I mean they just they throw the kitchen sink out
- 24:50Speaker 8: at you man out of the bullpen. They've got a
- 24:52Speaker 8: lot of depth and a lot of good arms back there.
- 24:55Speaker 8: They that they can go to. And the other thing
- 24:57Speaker 8: with braswell too, UCLA is a small like they are
- 25:01Speaker 8: the vintage John Savage small ball team that Rock Cholowski
- 25:06Speaker 8: hits sixty two points higher than anyone else on the team,
- 25:10Speaker 8: is the number one prospect for the twenty twenty six draft.
- 25:13Speaker 8: They had him drop down a sacrifice bunt on Saturday,
- 25:16Speaker 8: Like that's just just what they do. So give me
- 25:19Speaker 8: the best gloves that you can have in there, because
- 25:22Speaker 8: all it takes with a bullpen day, so to speak,
- 25:25Speaker 8: is one guy to go in there and not have
- 25:26Speaker 8: his stuff and against the lineup like LSU, that could
- 25:29Speaker 8: result in a five spot. What a name, by the way,
- 25:32Speaker 8: so good then I mean spells at R O C H.
- 25:37Speaker 8: But still rock Chilowski, I mean, dude's name.
- 25:40Speaker 6: You can't stink.
- 25:41Speaker 7: You have that. You your parents did their job like
- 25:46Speaker 7: the kids.
- 25:46Speaker 1: Is not gonna be like the coach is not gonna
- 25:48Speaker 1: be like easy l Rocks coming.
- 25:50Speaker 3: Up, Rocks coming up. Yeah, he's a stud by the way. Look,
- 25:54Speaker 3: it's gonna be a very intriguing game. This UCLA team
- 25:57Speaker 3: is not lost in the postseason, right they have Now
- 26:01Speaker 3: you could talk about who they've played, sure, but still
- 26:04Speaker 3: UTSA beat Texas, UTSA goes out to UCLA and they
- 26:09Speaker 3: go to and Q. All right, So the teams that
- 26:11Speaker 3: have been put in front of UCLA, they have handled it.
- 26:14Speaker 3: And UCLA has been close. We talked about this, I
- 26:18Speaker 3: think on Friday. They've been close a lot of times.
- 26:21Speaker 3: They don't have the history that a lot of people
- 26:23Speaker 3: think they do. You're thinking of USC you're thinking of
- 26:26Speaker 3: other Southern California schools. They won one in thirteen and
- 26:30Speaker 3: they had a three year stretch. I think it was
- 26:33Speaker 3: I think it was three in a row where they
- 26:34Speaker 3: got to the College World Series, you know, during that time,
- 26:38Speaker 3: but only two other times before then. They've only got
- 26:41Speaker 3: that one national championship. And look, they had some pretty
- 26:44Speaker 3: good arms on the mound to get that national championship.
- 26:47Speaker 3: And so it's not this long history, but they have
- 26:49Speaker 3: been close, and this team is certainly capable of going
- 26:54Speaker 3: and making a run and winning your College World Series.
- 26:57Speaker 3: I mean again, they have not lost this postseason.
- 27:00Speaker 5: They're gonna have to do it the hard way though,
- 27:03Speaker 5: for sure.
- 27:04Speaker 3: Look u c l A. Murray State. As soon as
- 27:07Speaker 3: you know, we figured out who is who and where
- 27:09Speaker 3: is Yeah. You know you look at Elision Arkansas and
- 27:12Speaker 3: both these teams knew like what they were up against.
- 27:16Speaker 5: Yeah, and this is a little redemption I think for
- 27:18Speaker 5: the old school coach O sissy blue Shirts situation, that's stuff,
- 27:24Speaker 5: you know, that's you know, he would have really hated
- 27:28Speaker 5: yesterday Island. That's really the best take I got on
- 27:31Speaker 5: this game is we're just going to destroy the sissy
- 27:32Speaker 5: Blue Shirts.
- 27:33Speaker 4: So, I mean they got their revenge in that same.
- 27:36Speaker 3: Game they rancounter about forty seven times with Zach Sharboney.
- 27:41Speaker 4: Yeah, still trying to figure out how to tackle him.
- 27:45Speaker 3: He said, sissy blew this My god, he's a stud.
- 27:48Speaker 3: But uh moose Moose loved their uniforms from UCLA the
- 27:53Speaker 3: other day.
- 27:53Speaker 8: So horrible, Like they deserves to go to in que
- 27:58Speaker 8: just wearing that, Like the jersey is beautiful.
- 28:03Speaker 6: If you just put like white pants.
- 28:05Speaker 8: Or the blue stripe, you've got one of the best
- 28:08Speaker 8: uniforms of college baseball.
- 28:09Speaker 5: It's hard to screw up their colors, Yeah, very hard,
- 28:12Speaker 5: extremely hard. It does look great.
- 28:13Speaker 3: I mean it's kind of like charge your colors, I
- 28:16Speaker 3: say all the times, like you can't screw this up, right,
- 28:19Speaker 3: Like you just put it together.
- 28:21Speaker 5: Like like perpon with gold is easy to like you could.
- 28:24Speaker 5: You can kind of mess that up a lot easier,
- 28:26Speaker 5: you can. It's a little bit more guy blue. Yeah right,
- 28:28Speaker 5: but we don't mess it up. How do you mess
- 28:30Speaker 5: up white blue and yellow? Does?
- 28:33Speaker 8: Their softball team has literally the exact same uniform, Like literally.
- 28:37Speaker 7: My one baseball uniform. Take that.
- 28:39Speaker 3: I always feel like I'm Hunt Palmer because Hunt hates
- 28:41Speaker 3: everything that's fun. Is like when the team wears all
- 28:46Speaker 3: black baseball uniforms.
- 28:48Speaker 5: I got no space in my.
- 28:49Speaker 7: Brain for that.
- 28:51Speaker 3: It's like what every one of them looks like. Certainly
- 28:53Speaker 3: like the Vandy ones with the pin stripes. They look
- 28:55Speaker 3: like al Capone out there. Yes, it looks like they
- 28:57Speaker 3: got nine al Capones out there trying to play bass ball.
- 29:00Speaker 3: It looks like nineteen twenties gangsters out there trying to
- 29:04Speaker 3: play baseball.
- 29:05Speaker 5: It's terrible. It is awful.
- 29:08Speaker 8: And Vandy has good uniforms that they can wear, and
- 29:10Speaker 8: they don't. It's like, I don't.
- 29:12Speaker 7: Speaking of bad uniforms.
- 29:14Speaker 3: Louisville yesterday, oh my god, that was terrible.
- 29:19Speaker 7: Where does it start and where does it end? I
- 29:22Speaker 7: have no idea.
- 29:23Speaker 5: It's supposed to be Jersey.
- 29:25Speaker 1: Remember the awful but remember the awful Giants uniforms they
- 29:29Speaker 1: wore the throwbacks. It was like blue with like the
- 29:32Speaker 1: random red in the middle. That's what the Louisville Jersey
- 29:34Speaker 1: looked like.
- 29:34Speaker 7: It was awful.
- 29:35Speaker 3: Now in that ugly ass jersey, Arizona had a meltdown.
- 29:39Speaker 8: It did a meltdown yesterday. That Louisville is the team.
- 29:45Speaker 8: I'm most surprised that it's still in this tournament.
- 29:46Speaker 7: Yeah, me too.
- 29:47Speaker 3: I mean they struggled at the end of the acc
- 29:49Speaker 3: like they were in but like them in Miami was
- 29:52Speaker 3: kind of like, I don't think both of y'all are
- 29:53Speaker 3: going to get in now. They ended up surprisingly Miami
- 29:56Speaker 3: got in, but.
- 29:58Speaker 5: With you Louisville had a couple of like lucky hits
- 30:01Speaker 5: the outfield, but then they bring back you know, you
- 30:05Speaker 5: know it's my favorite play in all of baseball, the
- 30:07Speaker 5: most electric play, one of the most electric plays in
- 30:09Speaker 5: all of sports, the suicide squeeze. A couple of love,
- 30:14Speaker 5: I get strong, I love it.
- 30:15Speaker 3: If you have somebody that can handle the bat, I
- 30:17Speaker 3: love it, my god, and they mean now.
- 30:19Speaker 7: The guy you know is with every day, he really
- 30:22Speaker 7: loves it.
- 30:22Speaker 5: So I didn't clock into uh. I didn't clock into
- 30:26Speaker 5: that game until the bottom of the eighth when the
- 30:30Speaker 5: when the round started, right. But as Louisville always had
- 30:35Speaker 5: aggressive on the base bath, they were stealing bases. They
- 30:37Speaker 5: were part of They stole so many bases by catching
- 30:41Speaker 5: them off guard, Arizona just completely started melting down. They
- 30:43Speaker 5: weren't even covering the bag. So they were just like
- 30:45Speaker 5: they pitcher would have the ball walking the mound. No
- 30:48Speaker 5: one's covered second. They were just they would take it
- 30:50Speaker 5: a suicide squeeze. They did two or three of them.
- 30:54Speaker 3: And if you got look, if you got somebody that
- 30:55Speaker 3: can handle the bat without question, and you got speed
- 30:58Speaker 3: like Louisville does, it's a part of who they are.
- 31:01Speaker 7: It's like the old three.
- 31:02Speaker 5: They called it one time and they and they did
- 31:05Speaker 5: the suicide squeeze and the batter didn't catch the sign
- 31:08Speaker 5: and didn't bunt, and so they caught the guy from
- 31:10Speaker 5: third stealing home of course, and he still scores. That's great.
- 31:15Speaker 5: So you know it's your.
- 31:15Speaker 7: Day, Yeah, you do.
- 31:19Speaker 8: Because Arizona felt like they had that game on cruise
- 31:21Speaker 8: control for the majority of the whole game.
- 31:25Speaker 7: Louisville can do to score the front.
- 31:27Speaker 5: Well, then what was the play?
- 31:27Speaker 1: Okay, so louisvill gets a solo home run, right, it
- 31:29Speaker 1: made it three to one. Looks like they're going to
- 31:32Speaker 1: score again. I don't know if you guys saw it.
- 31:34Speaker 1: The play by the Arizona shortstop dove out caught it
- 31:38Speaker 1: literally just tossed it blindly over his head to the
- 31:40Speaker 1: second basement, like Arizona's rolling in that game, because that
- 31:42Speaker 1: was pure luck. He had no idea where the second
- 31:44Speaker 1: baseman was. And then I mean, I'm watching that about
- 31:48Speaker 1: to leave my house. I'm like, all right, Arizona's got
- 31:49Speaker 1: this in the bag. Then I'm following and I'm like,
- 31:52Speaker 1: holy hell, yeah.
- 31:55Speaker 5: Hey, he knows your day. It's like only in that
- 31:58Speaker 5: that ballpark plays big, and it's they hit They had
- 32:00Speaker 5: runners on first and second, they bring in like one
- 32:03Speaker 5: of the best pitchers in the country, their closer to
- 32:06Speaker 5: bring it home and they hit two that should be
- 32:09Speaker 5: probably pretty routine fly balls the outfield that just they
- 32:14Speaker 5: had to run so far they couldn't get to him.
- 32:15Speaker 5: That that kind of sparked it. But yeah, I mean
- 32:18Speaker 5: any other ballparks, e ballpark they had around to cover.
- 32:24Speaker 3: And if we go to the Coastal Carolina Oregon State
- 32:26Speaker 3: game to play that their right fielder makes I believe
- 32:29Speaker 3: that was was in the I think it was the
- 32:30Speaker 3: eighth inning that he made the play. I mean he's
- 32:33Speaker 3: going towards the foul line and just picking them up
- 32:36Speaker 3: and putting them down and finds a way to that
- 32:38Speaker 3: baseball and Coastal Carolina continues to be highly, highly impressive.
- 32:43Speaker 3: And I know we got to take a break, but
- 32:45Speaker 3: I certainly want to talk about that game as well,
- 32:48Speaker 3: because Coastal Carolina, y'all has not lost in like two months. Okay,
- 32:53Speaker 3: don't don't ever say mid major with them. Again, it's
- 32:56Speaker 3: kind of like Gonzaga and basketball. Sure they play in
- 32:59Speaker 3: what you consider it mid major conference. There's nothing mid
- 33:02Speaker 3: major about Coastal Carolina. We'll break that down. And again,
- 33:05Speaker 3: we got Chris Blair joining us from Omaha in about
- 33:08Speaker 3: twenty minutes from now.
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- 35:25Speaker 7: Heat is no joke.
- 35:26Speaker 3: Go ahead and get hydrated over there with go Flow
- 35:29Speaker 3: IV SPA.
- 35:30Speaker 5: Yeah, baby, get hydrated. You know I'm the hydration guy.
- 35:34Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 35:34Speaker 3: I got a feeling you'll be going to go Flow
- 35:36Speaker 3: a little bit later today. Everybody that was in Turks
- 35:40Speaker 3: and cake goos will be heading to a go flow.
- 35:43Speaker 5: IB. That's right, and well, you know, thanks for bringing
- 35:45Speaker 5: us in with the Beach Boys here alright, P Brian
- 35:48Speaker 5: Wilson US. Yeah, I saw that. Yep. The creative spirit
- 35:53Speaker 5: for the Beach Boys dot age of eighty two to
- 35:56Speaker 5: the Beach Boys, Man to the Beach Boys.
- 35:59Speaker 3: Also, speaking of the beach, Coastal Carolina pretty good at
- 36:03Speaker 3: baseball near the coast. They're pretty close ye Shana Way,
- 36:07Speaker 3: South Carolina. Even though we call it Myrtle beach Man.
- 36:11Speaker 3: They look good and they were one of the teams
- 36:14Speaker 3: that we talked about coming into the Cultural Series because
- 36:16Speaker 3: I don't look, I just I don't care who you've played.
- 36:20Speaker 3: If you haven't lost in two months, that's going to
- 36:22Speaker 3: be impressive to me. And also the Sun Belts a
- 36:25Speaker 3: pretty good baseball conference, and also Coastal Carolina's won a
- 36:28Speaker 3: national championship before in twenty sixteen. So when you have
- 36:31Speaker 3: that confidence, right, it doesn't matter that you weren't there.
- 36:35Speaker 3: It doesn't matter that that was nine years ago, because
- 36:38Speaker 3: you can be like, oh, yeah, our school is good
- 36:40Speaker 3: enough and big enough to win a national championship.
- 36:44Speaker 7: And man, they look like they are on an absolute mission.
- 36:47Speaker 3: That Oregon State team they beat is a really good
- 36:49Speaker 3: baseball team, and Coastal was in control of that game.
- 36:53Speaker 3: Even with the Oregon State who's really good at making
- 36:55Speaker 3: a comeback, they tried, Coastal shut the door pretty quickly
- 36:58Speaker 3: on them, and.
- 37:00Speaker 5: Well, you know when they're you know, when they're recruiting
- 37:02Speaker 5: that that banner, you think that might be like one
- 37:06Speaker 5: of the biggest banners hanging into college twenty sixteen National
- 37:10Speaker 5: championship from Coastal Caroline.
- 37:12Speaker 3: Put everybody I beat on that banner. If I was there,
- 37:14Speaker 3: there's no doubt I've had Lasho's name on that thing.
- 37:17Speaker 3: I would have every team like that's what we did.
- 37:20Speaker 5: Yeah, And that was my first thought too. I'm sure
- 37:22Speaker 5: every was everybody else. It's like, well, i mean nobody
- 37:24Speaker 5: on this team was on that, you know, on that team,
- 37:26Speaker 5: they don't know what it's like blah blah blah. But
- 37:28Speaker 5: they got recruited here based on that expectation, based on
- 37:32Speaker 5: them saying we can do it here because we have
- 37:34Speaker 5: done it. Look at this banner, so you know this
- 37:38Speaker 5: this is you know, especially this year, you're seeing so
- 37:41Speaker 5: many smaller schools play so good and it's you know,
- 37:45Speaker 5: it's a direct correlation to you know, the good parts
- 37:49Speaker 5: of the NILS system and situation. It's just getting better
- 37:53Speaker 5: baseball around. But this is a team that's been there
- 37:55Speaker 5: and done it and the team that has the expectations
- 37:58Speaker 5: because that's what they got there to do with that expectation.
- 38:02Speaker 5: Like everybody's like, oh, yeah, you know, come to our school,
- 38:05Speaker 5: we're gonna build a championship team. Well, Coastal's done it
- 38:08Speaker 5: and that DNA is in their blood. So I know
- 38:12Speaker 5: you'all been talking about it, y'all of the baseball guys
- 38:14Speaker 5: like how nervous yell are for that team and not
- 38:17Speaker 5: a lot so. But it's a cool team to cheer for, right,
- 38:21Speaker 5: I mean it's Coastal Coastal Carolina, so we can cheer
- 38:25Speaker 5: for them all all the way up until they play
- 38:27Speaker 5: the Tigers. But I can see the admiration and y'all
- 38:31Speaker 5: I can hear the admiration of y'all's voice, and y'all
- 38:32Speaker 5: talk about their program.
- 38:34Speaker 3: Uh, they just do everything the right way, sure, and
- 38:37Speaker 3: the way they go about their business, the belief that
- 38:39Speaker 3: they have, how they formatted this team, the people they've
- 38:43Speaker 3: brought in, and just their story. I mean, longtime coach
- 38:47Speaker 3: and then the longtime assistant who leaves goes to Central
- 38:50Speaker 3: Florida for a little bit, comes back and then he's
- 38:52Speaker 3: the head coach there. I mean, Moose, I'll throw this
- 38:54Speaker 3: one to you. I mean, it looks like a national
- 38:56Speaker 3: championship caliber team with our question for sure, and it
- 38:58Speaker 3: starts on the mound for them. I mean, they've got
- 39:01Speaker 3: a three headed monster. You've seen all three of them
- 39:03Speaker 3: pitch so far.
- 39:04Speaker 8: Now they have two days off, so they'll be able
- 39:05Speaker 8: to set that back up really however they want to.
- 39:09Speaker 8: But Jacob Morrison last night at Sunbelt Pitcher of the Year,
- 39:12Speaker 8: he was awesome. I mean, the twelve to six curves good,
- 39:15Speaker 8: the cutter. Oregon State had no answer for his cutter
- 39:19Speaker 8: all night long. I mean, if he would have if
- 39:23Speaker 8: he would have just had a little bit less command,
- 39:25Speaker 8: not saying he had no field for it at all,
- 39:27Speaker 8: But that's a closer ballgame. He really handcuffed their lineup
- 39:30Speaker 8: with one pitch. And on top of that, like I said,
- 39:33Speaker 8: he's got that hook and he got out to ninety
- 39:35Speaker 8: five a few times, mainly about ninety one ninety four,
- 39:38Speaker 8: but that's a big arm.
- 39:39Speaker 6: He's a great story coming off Tommy.
- 39:41Speaker 8: Johnny's a big kid at six', eight AND i mean
- 39:44Speaker 8: on that stage against a team that's won three national.
- 39:48Speaker 8: Championships to go out there and do what he did is.
- 39:50Speaker 8: Awesome and Man, fluki who's really been at the front
- 39:53Speaker 8: of the. Rotation he's no slouch. Either and they've got
- 39:56Speaker 8: some bats. Too but for, me, man it really starts
- 39:58Speaker 8: on the. Mound you have three guys like that and
- 40:00Speaker 8: you can win any anything that's in front of.
- 40:02Speaker 7: You they're gonna manufacture runs however they.
- 40:04Speaker 3: CAN i, mean they only had five hits and got
- 40:06Speaker 3: six runs yep yesterday Against Oregon, State SO i, mean
- 40:09Speaker 3: certainly the shots look like they can go win a national. Championship,
- 40:14Speaker 3: now playing Today arkansas And Murray state is the game
- 40:18Speaker 3: BEFORE lsu AND. Ucla as we all, Know arkansas minus
- 40:23Speaker 3: six hundred on the money, line Against Murray. State NOW
- 40:26Speaker 3: ulsus minus three, hundred that's a big number as, well
- 40:29Speaker 3: but minus six. Hundred, Now Murray state's been here. BEFORE i,
- 40:33Speaker 3: Mean Murray state has looked elimination right in the. Eyes
- 40:36Speaker 3: they did it Against, duke had to come back and
- 40:38Speaker 3: win a couple of. Games no disrespect to The Blue,
- 40:41Speaker 3: devils but The hogs are a little bit.
- 40:43Speaker 5: Different, yeah minus six hundred for a, reason, Right, yeah,
- 40:49Speaker 5: yeah they've looked elimination in the. Eye but you gotta
- 40:52Speaker 5: Think arkansas is gonna be so so excited not to
- 40:57Speaker 5: be facing the pictures FROM, lsu to see in a
- 40:59Speaker 5: different and seeing some different. Pitches so you got to
- 41:02Speaker 5: think they're going to come back. Out.
- 41:03Speaker 3: Now they are going from facing you know WHAT i
- 41:06Speaker 3: think is the best pitcher in the nation And Kate
- 41:08Speaker 3: anderson and Then Chase shoer's, pumping you, know one hundred
- 41:13Speaker 3: one oh one up, There case And evans in the
- 41:15Speaker 3: high nineties to probably facing eighty eight, today eighty eight
- 41:19Speaker 3: to ninety. Two, Right and that might seem, like, oh
- 41:21Speaker 3: they'll be, fine and maybe they, are but making that
- 41:23Speaker 3: adjustment at every level of baseball is always, difficult, right
- 41:27Speaker 3: even like in LIKE eightu, Baseball you're, like if a
- 41:30Speaker 3: kid's pitching, slow, like scoot up in the, box scoot
- 41:33Speaker 3: all the way, up wait on it on the back.
- 41:35Speaker 3: LEG i, mean it takes like at every level of,
- 41:38Speaker 3: baseball if you've been seeing something different and a guy
- 41:41Speaker 3: comes in throwing eighty eight to ninety, two it will
- 41:43Speaker 3: be a little bit of an adjustment for.
- 41:44Speaker 5: Them, yeah it seems like a good, problem right to,
- 41:47Speaker 5: Have but you, know even a good problem is still
- 41:50Speaker 5: a problem that you've got to figure. Out you got
- 41:53Speaker 5: to think they're going to figure that. Out So i'm
- 41:55Speaker 5: kind of like you, THOUGH i, MEAN i would expect
- 41:57Speaker 5: in some way former Fashion arkansas to matchup WITH lsu
- 42:02Speaker 5: again at some point in This College World.
- 42:03Speaker 3: Series, YEAH i don't think there's any question about. That
- 42:05Speaker 3: fully expect. That that's the way that it felt like
- 42:08Speaker 3: it always was going to. Be so all, right we'll
- 42:11Speaker 3: continue breaking down The College role. Series we do Have Chris,
- 42:14Speaker 3: blair the voice of THE Lsu tigers at. Eight we've
- 42:17Speaker 3: got weekend winners at eight, fifteen and we've got SOME
- 42:20Speaker 3: lsu recruiting news to go over with our Guy Shay
- 42:23Speaker 3: dixon at eight point. Thirty so we do have a
- 42:26Speaker 3: pack show here, today stay locked.
- 42:28Speaker 5: In it is otb off the.
- 42:30Speaker 3: Bench, NOW i am going to assume that on an,
- 42:36Speaker 3: ISLAND i saw you on a boat that you went
- 42:39Speaker 3: for dose a couple of.
- 42:40Speaker 7: Times.
- 42:42Speaker 5: Yeah they kept trying to, say you want some you
- 42:45Speaker 5: want Some caribbean, beers some local. Stuff, no give me dose,
- 42:52Speaker 5: SECONDS i want to go for, DOSE i will.
- 42:53Speaker 3: Say so we got we got two pictures from, you
- 42:57Speaker 3: AND i told our audience. This the first one was
- 42:59Speaker 3: an airport airport beer looked looked really.
- 43:02Speaker 5: Cold well that it was three different. Bills it was
- 43:03Speaker 5: an airport, beer it was a start of vacation, beer
- 43:06Speaker 5: and it.
- 43:06Speaker 7: Was a morning. Beer okay. True but then you had
- 43:09Speaker 7: like the shirts that were.
- 43:10Speaker 3: Made, yeah your hair looked, ridiculous but in your hand
- 43:15Speaker 3: was a.
- 43:15Speaker 5: Second it was a it was a big as of. Seconds.
- 43:19Speaker 5: Yeah so we had these like happy birthday fortieth birthday
- 43:22Speaker 5: shirts and it was an old. Picture but guess WHAT
- 43:25Speaker 5: i was? Doing bird doze drink do? Secies? Responsible responsible?
- 43:33Speaker 3: QUESTION i was.
- 43:35Speaker 4: HUNGRY i.
- 43:39Speaker 11: Ran into a chum with the rum and we wound
- 43:43Speaker 11: up drinking.
- 43:45Speaker 2: All tigers turn.
- 43:52Speaker 11: Talkers this is off the. Bench what was on the?
- 44:00Speaker 11: Oxcore and they're on the vote In turks And.
- 44:02Speaker 5: Kikos, oh there was a, lot. MAN I, actually you
- 44:08Speaker 5: know what's really nice is when you go out and
- 44:10Speaker 5: you have NO dj responsibilities and the playlist is just.
- 44:14Speaker 3: Hitting if you've created a playlist beforehand and you did,
- 44:18Speaker 3: it but then you get to enjoy, it that is truly. Utopia,
- 44:22Speaker 3: yeah you don't want to be like every other song
- 44:24Speaker 3: having to be like find a banger and then you find,
- 44:26Speaker 3: one everybody's like.
- 44:27Speaker 5: BOO dj boo. Boom, yeah we. Know we had some
- 44:30Speaker 5: good people on that trip that were just you, know
- 44:33Speaker 5: good music, vibes take, it switch it. AROUND i, mean
- 44:36Speaker 5: you don't ever want to just stick with one. Genre
- 44:40Speaker 5: so you want to you want to be able to
- 44:41Speaker 5: feel the rhythm of the, day feel the. Vibes vibes
- 44:45Speaker 5: are great, Though SO i can't tell you exactly one
- 44:48Speaker 5: thing because we Went we probably listened to every song ever,
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- 44:51Speaker 7: Music every song ever, created.
- 44:53Speaker 5: Probably spent well done most of the. ALBUM i would
- 44:56Speaker 5: say fifty five to maybe, more maybe six five percent
- 45:00Speaker 5: of the hours that we were on the island submerged in,
- 45:04Speaker 5: water whether it was in the beach or a. Pool,
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- 45:17Speaker 5: Know there's a lot. Wrong, yeah there's a lot wrong with.
- 45:19Speaker 5: Me but LIKE i, said we've got a lot of
- 45:22Speaker 5: manufactured energy right, now a lot of caffeine going. Down
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- 45:36Speaker 5: THEM i Told most And taylor they. Could they got
- 45:41Speaker 5: full like, Copyright so you can use my my baseball
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- 45:50Speaker 3: Boston, yes, OKAY i was gonna Say, most if you
- 45:53Speaker 3: have to, host you can go ahead and take some
- 45:54Speaker 3: of these takes From flynn and lead.
- 45:56Speaker 5: The show with. It let's go. On you can use them,
- 45:58Speaker 5: too you can lead with. Them check out these takes
- 46:02Speaker 5: From flynn this. Morning baseball is. GOOD i think you're
- 46:07Speaker 5: onto something.
- 46:09Speaker 7: Right there in the path pretty.
- 46:12Speaker 5: CLOSE i did watch that one fifteen minute Cliff notes
- 46:14Speaker 5: version of the game though on the. Plane downloaded it
- 46:17Speaker 5: and you're watching on the.
- 46:18Speaker 3: Plane, look if you're on vacation and you take the
- 46:22Speaker 3: time and effort to do, THAT i think that's a
- 46:24Speaker 3: well done.
- 46:25Speaker 7: Job i'm giving you an ADDED.
- 46:28Speaker 5: Boyd just accept. It you're welcome to all the listeners out.
- 46:31Speaker 5: There all.
- 46:33Speaker 3: Right on that, note we'll be back with the voice
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