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Former LSU Baseball Player Mike Mahtook Joins To Talk CWS · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 4: after starting a new job. So must be nice, Must
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  Speaker 4: you hear Mikey Matsuk joins us here, Gonna sit in
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  Speaker 4: with us for a full hour.
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  Speaker 5: Man, very very excited for this.
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  Speaker 4: Can't wait to pick your brain on Omaha and what
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  Speaker 4: it's like to be there for a couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 4: what it's like before you play your first game, not
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  Speaker 4: knowing if you're going to be there for a couple
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  Speaker 4: of days or couple of weeks. So it's completely different
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  Speaker 4: than like anything that I know, because when we played
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  Speaker 4: for a championship, it was like, all right, you go
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  Speaker 4: the SEC championship game. You win that, you find out
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  Speaker 4: where you're at, You practice for three four weeks to
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  Speaker 4: get ready for that one singular game, and then you
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  Speaker 4: drive down the street to New Orleans and you go
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  Speaker 4: play it.
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  Speaker 5: Omaha. It is completely different. I mean when you're.
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  Speaker 4: Leaving, when you left Baton Rouge, you didn't know if
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  Speaker 4: you're going to be there for two games or if
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  Speaker 4: you're going to be there for almost three weeks.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we went in there as like it was a
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  Speaker 6: business trip, so we went expecting to be there for
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  Speaker 6: two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Now they've shortened it now it's ten days.
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  Speaker 6: It used to be fourteen days, which I mean as
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  Speaker 6: a player, if you go and you win every game
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  Speaker 6: and you get some off days, it's all.
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  Speaker 5: I mean.
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  Speaker 6: We went two straight wins three days off, another win
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  Speaker 6: three days off, So it was like, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 6: we got to experience the gambit of Omaha. We got
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  Speaker 6: to enjoy the baseball side of it and enjoy the
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  Speaker 6: off the field side of it.
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  Speaker 4: Did y'all like go watch other games or where y'all
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  Speaker 4: just like kind of hanging out with each other.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, hanging out with the boys, going out to restaurants
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  Speaker 6: or family's there, You're going out to eat, you have
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  Speaker 6: a lot of family time, you know. Obviously outside of
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  Speaker 6: baseball on Ome, I was really nothing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, like I didn't want to like call out
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  Speaker 4: Omahawk because I didn't really know, you know, just.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the zoo.
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  Speaker 4: You got the zoo after San Diego. Apparently it's the
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  Speaker 4: second best zoo in the country. I've been to the
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  Speaker 4: San Diego Zoo party of times. I mean great, that
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  Speaker 4: thing is gigantic. Yeah, that's great, But they have the
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  Speaker 4: zoo and that's how many times can you go see
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  Speaker 4: the penguins, you know, right, Like it's just you get
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  Speaker 4: the gorilla and it's great, and that's all you got.
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  Speaker 3: But we had the zoo.
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  Speaker 6: I was eighteen, so you couldn't go to the casino.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they have a casino right over there, I
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  Speaker 6: think in Iowa.
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  Speaker 4: Once you go oh yeah, but yeah, so we got
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  Speaker 4: to experience that part of it and which was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Uh but we had a really.
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  Speaker 4: Like close knit team and so, uh, you know, we
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  Speaker 4: had a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: It was it was great. But going in there, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you expect to be there for two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: But you could go to and Q and be home,
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  Speaker 4: what was what was the the kind of field, the expectation,
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  Speaker 4: and just from a player's view, not like from the outside,
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  Speaker 4: not from coachman area, but like from a player's view, Like,
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  Speaker 4: how did y'all feel going into the tournament?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so we I was fortunate I was a freshman, right, So,
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  Speaker 6: like as a freshman usually you're just trying to find
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  Speaker 6: your way at that point in the season. You know,
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  Speaker 6: you're kind of not a freshman anymore, but you're still
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  Speaker 6: a freshman, right, But I was lucky that we had
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  Speaker 6: a bunch of veteran guys on the Yeah. I mean
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  Speaker 6: we had fifth year seniors, four year seniors, juniors, sophomores
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  Speaker 6: that played us freshmen. So like we had a really
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  Speaker 6: good mix of guys. And so you know, going in,
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  Speaker 6: they had already gone to Omaha last year the year before,
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  Speaker 6: they had that twenty three game winning streak, and so
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  Speaker 6: coming in they really made it know like, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 6: we're not going there like have a great time and
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  Speaker 6: you know, yeh get home.
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  Speaker 3: We can going to the zoo twice, right, We're there.
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  Speaker 4: We're there to win, We're trying to go We're trying
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  Speaker 4: to have a parade at home.
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  Speaker 3: And that whole deal.
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  Speaker 6: So they kind of set the tone pretty early, and uh,
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  Speaker 6: you know, we got there and and everybody embraced it,
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  Speaker 6: and that's kind of how we approached it. And so
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  Speaker 6: we knew we knew how good we were, honestly, I
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  Speaker 6: mean we were. Basically we started the season at one,
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  Speaker 6: we ended at one. There's a couple of times throughout
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  Speaker 6: the course of the year we ended up maybe slipping
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  Speaker 6: the three or four.
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  Speaker 3: But we knew how good we were and we knew
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  Speaker 3: we were gonna win it.
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  Speaker 4: One of the things that I have to imagine is
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  Speaker 4: just a great feeling is when you play for LSU,
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  Speaker 4: you go to Omaha, you know, no matter what, nobody
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  Speaker 4: is going to have more fans than you have there.
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  Speaker 5: I guess it's pretty wild. Like it's not close.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's not like it's right down the street, but
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  Speaker 4: no matter who you play, and look, Arkansas was gonna
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  Speaker 4: have people there this time. But no matter what, you're
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  Speaker 4: going to have the most fans there in this neutral site, venue.
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  Speaker 3: One one million.
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  Speaker 6: Look the businesses in Omaha and the Omaha residents.
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  Speaker 3: They were, they were more excited than probably the LSU fans.
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  Speaker 4: L She made it back for sure, because you know
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  Speaker 4: they always show up rockets made budget. As soon as
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  Speaker 4: Chase Shore's struck out the third guy's.
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  Speaker 6: Are they gonna get the Hunter? I mean, i'd imagine
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  Speaker 6: there's something crazy like that. I hate jellow shots, but
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  Speaker 6: I was part of that twenty twenty three part. You
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  Speaker 6: just kind of have to wear it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, go for it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but they were pumped right Obviously LSU brings a
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  Speaker 6: lot of fans, and it's you know, going in there.
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  Speaker 6: I'll tell you what, my first when we got there,
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  Speaker 6: you have this your first like open practice. So you're
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  Speaker 6: going to and you have a practice and you're kind
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  Speaker 6: of out there and it's open to the crowd, right,
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  Speaker 6: and so you have everybody in there. So you're taking
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  Speaker 6: VP with twenty thousand people in the stands, and so
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  Speaker 6: you're like, now you're trying to.
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  Speaker 3: Hit the ball over the school.
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  Speaker 4: But I say, is that like one of those like
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  Speaker 4: when you go to a cheer charity golf tournament and
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  Speaker 4: like there's people like lined up as you drive. It's
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  Speaker 4: a little bit like that feeling you're you're not working
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  Speaker 4: on anything in bagging practice. You're trying to hit the
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  Speaker 4: ball as far as you.
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  Speaker 6: Can and it was I mean, I'd never been nervous
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  Speaker 6: hitting BP before and that was the first time.
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  Speaker 3: And then Chad Jones obviously on that team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Chad was pitching at the point at that point,
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't really playing in.
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  Speaker 3: The outfield, but he was still hitting VP. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Right, he got a standing ovation from the twenty thousand
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  Speaker 4: fans in there.
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  Speaker 3: That's how far as it was. It was fun. That's
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  Speaker 3: that's part of it.
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  Speaker 6: And fans are there and they're supporting it, and that
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  Speaker 6: really makes it. That makes it a lot more special
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  Speaker 6: for us. You to make it, Yeah, I mean everything
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  Speaker 6: surrounding it. And I love the fact and we were
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  Speaker 6: talking about this with Jay yesterday. I do love the
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  Speaker 6: fact that it is like.
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  Speaker 4: This one singular location of Mikey, Like when when you're
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  Speaker 4: playing in February March, like you're thinking in the back
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  Speaker 4: of your mind, omaha, omaha, omaha, Like that's what you're doing.
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  Speaker 4: And I kind of when I'm in high school, right
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  Speaker 4: and we're playing for state championships, We're breaking it down
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  Speaker 4: on Dome super right, one, two, three, Dome right, and
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  Speaker 4: y'all can do that in baseball. Softball has that in
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  Speaker 4: Oklahoma City and I love that because, like, you have
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  Speaker 4: this goal and then once you get there. And I
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  Speaker 4: saw some videos of LSU walking around, the guys that
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  Speaker 4: have never been there, you could tell like they had
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  Speaker 4: visioned that moment walking into that stadium looking around, because well,
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  Speaker 4: that's what you think about.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's a very it's unique. That's the only sport
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  Speaker 6: in college that, yeah, softball that you're trying to think.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think there's anything else because football, basketball, obviously
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  Speaker 4: those rotate like other championship.
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  Speaker 6: Gymnastics has uh, I think in Dallas, I don't even know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean Frisco suburbs.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just but but baseball it's unique in the
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  Speaker 6: sense that you know that's where you're going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Like this, there's a destination. This is the destination. You know.
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  Speaker 3: LSU baseball fans are.
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  Speaker 5: Making stadiums built for that for that.
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  Speaker 3: Literally, Omaha, the whole city is revolves around that.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't even know.
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  Speaker 4: The minor league team doesn't play there. No, I thought,
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  Speaker 4: Omahall Storm Chasers played there, Like no, they play at
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  Speaker 4: the nine thousand seat stadium, the one that's not as nice. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I had no idea. Yeah, this is built for the
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  Speaker 4: College Series.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 6: And so it's it's unique and it's fun, and it's
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  Speaker 6: something that you know when you're going through the fall
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  Speaker 6: and you're doing all your conditioning and you I mean,
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  Speaker 6: we have the Omahall challenge, right Like our last conditioning
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  Speaker 6: test in baseball was always called the Omahall Challenge because
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  Speaker 6: it's you know, hey, you got to push your the
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  Speaker 6: to get to get to the mall. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 6: it's unique and it's fun. I'm very jealous of these guys.
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  Speaker 6: But I'm very excited these guys because that was one
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  Speaker 6: of the coolest two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Of my life.
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  Speaker 4: So you mentioned in twenty three you added to the
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  Speaker 4: jell O shot total.
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  Speaker 5: Are you trying to go back this year?
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  Speaker 3: Are you gonna wait? See that place out.
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  Speaker 6: So I would know I would love to be there
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  Speaker 6: this weekend. Can't go this weekend. Families coming to my
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  Speaker 6: house for Follows Day weekend. So we're all, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: that's the thing this week. Yes, that's happening.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: So Happy Follows Dad, all those all the followers out there, Uh,
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  Speaker 4: so they're coming to our house.
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  Speaker 6: I'm obviously not leaving. I have an insurance conference. This
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  Speaker 6: is a wild part of my life now.
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  Speaker 4: So I have to go an insurance conference on Sunday
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  Speaker 4: till Wednesday.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, where's okay?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: And then after that, if they make it to the finals,
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  Speaker 6: I'm going all.
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  Speaker 4: Right, we might need to all kind of get together
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  Speaker 4: because if they go to the finals.
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  Speaker 5: Flint said he was in, You're in.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in. Make Fuinn get the PJ for us, if.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody can get it done. Flynn know what he forgets
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  Speaker 4: is those contracts he signed or public record.
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  Speaker 3: Uh huh from it. I'll give it. I'll give Flint credit. Though.
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  Speaker 6: He is great at when somebody randomly on Twitter is
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  Speaker 6: somebody randomly is like gonna bring up, oh he's signed
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  Speaker 6: this big deal. He is awesome at his responses. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: I mean he embraces that. I love that, and look,
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  Speaker 6: you know what he earned.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to get it.
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  Speaker 4: out there, children, you need to make the most up
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  Speaker 4: said opportunity, because that's what my boy did one movie.
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  Speaker 4: He went out there and through for five hundred yards.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes only takes one. That's right, that's it.
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  Speaker 4: Let me borrow something, Yeah, let me hold on, let
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  Speaker 3: That goes straight to them all into the inside.
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  Speaker 5: Jordan, No panic, man, we see it. Yeah, you can
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  Speaker 5: radio station, right. I was like, we heard you telling
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  Speaker 5: a great story.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking about Chris Jackson.
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  Speaker 4: Jackson former football teammate of mine and you know him playing.
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  Speaker 5: Both sports in the same day.
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  Speaker 4: I was actually talking about me and j Mitch was
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  Speaker 4: talking about what he used to have to do as well.
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  Speaker 4: But I used to always laugh because Chris Jackson was
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  Speaker 4: our kicker slash punter. He actually did both and you know,
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  Speaker 4: less like he was he was kind of weird about
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  Speaker 4: punters kickers, like he.
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  Speaker 5: Like that was his baby.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why y all made him wear the same numbers.
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  Speaker 4: Like he was hands on with those guys. So he
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't let Chris go like truly get ready for a
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  Speaker 4: baseball game, right, and he like he had to do
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  Speaker 4: his football stuff. And I kind of get it because
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  Speaker 4: he was on football scholarship, and so he's like, look, no,
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  Speaker 4: you gotta do what you gotta do here, then we'll
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  Speaker 4: let So Chris would literally be like throwing his helmet
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  Speaker 4: and shoulder pads and pants off, and he'd leave a
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  Speaker 4: trail behind him as he ran across the street to
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  Speaker 4: the old box, Yeah, to get ready for our first pitch.
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  Speaker 4: And like half the time, Mikey, he wouldn't even get
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  Speaker 4: like warm ups in, Like he would go straight to
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  Speaker 4: the uniform, straight to third base or straight to the
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  Speaker 4: batter's box.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and that look he knowing him, that is like,
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  Speaker 6: you know, he's the one guy that I could do that, Like, hey,
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  Speaker 6: I don't need to get one of them good, let
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  Speaker 6: me just go and get loose a little bit. And
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  Speaker 6: then who's this guy always the number one picking the draft?
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  Speaker 6: Luke coach Ever, I know problem three hits off of him.
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  Speaker 6: It's just you know, it was just funny stories. I
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  Speaker 6: never got to play with him. We've become friends after.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, my brother in law, Mike Hollander was
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  Speaker 6: on the team with him, and so they tell stories
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  Speaker 6: all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Oh Man, that was a core memory minds watching him
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  Speaker 4: run across and like undress as he goes over there.
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  Speaker 4: And then of course a teammate of ours, j Mitch
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  Speaker 4: as we mentioned he did at Chad Jones did it
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  Speaker 4: as well. Man, that was that was a It was
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  Speaker 4: a great time, but it was like a weird time
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  Speaker 4: in LSU like baseball, like when I was playing football
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  Speaker 4: still because we were talking about LSU like was making
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  Speaker 4: it to the World Series some of those years. But
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  Speaker 4: it was like people were still mad because the standard
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  Speaker 4: was to go win the national championship.
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  Speaker 3: That's all.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't enough.
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  Speaker 3: That's coming after the nineties, like that's where you have.
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  Speaker 6: And then really two thousand, so like they won one
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  Speaker 6: in two thousand and then like two thousand and one,
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  Speaker 6: I believe they got.
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  Speaker 3: To those supers. I think they lost to tu Lane
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  Speaker 3: maybe in the supers.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, was that Michael Aubrey and j like that whole career.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and so they make it they don't make it there,
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  Speaker 4: and then they go in two thousand and three until
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  Speaker 4: two and three thousand, four thousand and five when Smoke's
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  Speaker 4: there and it's like they don't win.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, well, you know, we're used to getting there
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  Speaker 3: and one, but you know, it's part of it. I
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: think in O three they were SEC champs. Yeah, they're
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: good No. Three.
• 14:07
  Speaker 5: So they just didn't do it in Omahall.
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: But seriously, like I remember being in school and growing
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: up an LGU baseball fan and like knowing what the
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: standard was, but still like they would get to Omahall
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: and they wouldn't make noise there and people were like,
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: baseball programs down. Yeah, you got to burn it all down.
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: It's it's just bad. Can't do anything right now. Like
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: so like that's one thing during my time at LSU
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: that I wish would have been a little bit different,
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: was just the feeling around the baseball program.
• 14:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's when it's like when you're like when you're
• 14:35
  Speaker 6: rolling like this, it's uh, I mean that's I mean,
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: it goes.
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: It's a shame, but it's football and baseball. You know,
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: hopefully basketball can get back, get back, right, But yeah,
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: when it's when it's when it's right, it's right. Yep, uh,
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: no question about that. All right, let's look at the
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: field in Omahall right, now, we talked about it a
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: little bit earlier, Mikey. So leading us off today, you've
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: got Coastal Carolina and Arizona. Coastal Carolina hasn't lost a
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: baseball game in almost two months, so they have like
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: the ultimate confidence. And we were talking about once you
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: win one like they did in sixteen. These players obviously
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: weren't there, but there's something that they can take from that. Yeah,
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: because they're a mid major. Some belt's really good baseball conference,
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: but they're a mid major. But they can say, hey,
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: we've done this before, even though they weren't even closely
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: related to who did it.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: And look the staff, I mean Schnall, their head coach
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: was there in sixteen. He was the associated head coach.
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: He's a Coastal Carolina lifer, right, you know. He was
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: an All American there as a Conference Player of the
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: Year ninety nine. He was an assistant coach for a
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: while once at UCF for a few years and then
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: came back associated head coach.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, history is awesome.
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: About his son and all that kind of stuff, and
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: then whenever they're legendary coach retired. He took over this
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: his first year and he's back in Omaha, right, so he.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Understands what their standard is.
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: He understands and look, I personally think they're gonna be
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: in the championship game.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're they're pitching staff.
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: If you haven't looked at it, if if people listening
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: haven't looked at it, I think they have eleven guys
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: with a four y r A or lower.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: And I want to say they got eight guys with
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: a three or lower.
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, right, they are, and that in that ballpark is
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: not easy to pitch.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: It.
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: It's a it's a hitter's park out there in Myrtle Beach.
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: And so I really like their pitching staff.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: You know, they have enough guys.
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: They're gonna be scrappy offensively, but pitching, I mean, pitching
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: in defense is really what's gonna win you those games,
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: especially in in Omaha with how big the stadium is
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: and the ball is not gonna car it's not really
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: an offensive stadium.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: So wind blowing in always because they wanted to view
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: exactly exactly exactly right.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: It it's they flipped it.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: So it's always it's just it's it's beneficial.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: To the pitchers, and so I really do like them.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: I can't wait for it.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Like if it is Coastal in Oregon State, that's gonna
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: be a heavyweight title belt, Like, I can't wait for
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: that one. But going back to Coastal, they just went
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: to a place and swept Auburn where LSU got swept up,
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Alburnon doesn't lose it. Auburn was as hot as anybody
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: in the country, yep, and Coastal punched them right in
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: the mouth, no doubt. Like there was nothing Sam Dunton
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: could have done in that first game. He was trying
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: every pitch imaginable. He was taking as much time as
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: he possibly could between pitches to try to figure it out.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: And they were just teeing off on him and that,
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: and that's different than what they did really all year. Yeah,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: because they.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: Won on the pitch with the with the with the
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: guys in the mountain. Now they won with guys in
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: the play. So yeah, they they're hot, they're not losing games.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: They're in Omaha coaches not shy. He's been there before.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: So I really like them Arizona. Obviously they've been good.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: I mean they got beat by sixteen in Chapel Hill
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: and came back.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I thought they were Oh my god, if.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: I lose by two touchdowns in baseball, I don't think
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: I'm winning the next two games, No.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Doubt they are. I thought they were smoked.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: They came back and they won that which in Chapel
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: Hill obviously against a really good team. I mean that's
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: a team that had the third best odds to win
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: it all right, right, you know, and so I like them,
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: but I just they're gonna face Coastal.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I like Coast than that.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: Oregon State is kind of a weird one for me.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: You know, they're an independent team in baseball.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Like played mostly on the road all season long, which
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: is why.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: They got a national seat in my opinion, because they
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: got the r P.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: I RPI is fourth, I think, yeah right now in
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: the country, and I think you get benefits from being
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: on the road and so there. I don't know much
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: about them as far as like I know, there's their
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: middle and fielders. Short stop I believe is yeah, he's
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: up there being like a top five pick in the
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: conversation to maybe be the overall all next year, right, Yeah, yeah,
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: though I think it's going to be. Yeah, it's tough
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: position player like that to go.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: It's hard. It's number one overall. Yeah. Look, speaking of
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Anderson has been I know Max, I have him at
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: one overall right now, and that's how about that? Though? Yeah,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: I mean I love them.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Draft eligible sophomore so unfortunate.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a little younger, he told me. He told me
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: early in the year.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: He's like, man, I love he loves l G from
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Saint Paul's from Covington.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: He's like, man, I want to come back.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: I said, brother, I know, I want you to come
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: back too, But if you get drafted in the top
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: fifteen picksah much less top ten, you cannot come back.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: That's so funny you say that because it's such a
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: hard conversation, because look, you and I both love LSU,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: right right, and we want the best thing for LSU.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: But we're also former players, correct. I remember having that conversation.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: I got a phone call one day in twenty eighteen
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: and it was Devin White, and Devin's like, man, like,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: I really want to come back. I really do. Like
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: I think we're going to be really good next year.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: I think Joe's going to be great, and you know
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: they did. They were great, maybe the best ever. Right,
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: he was right about that. I was like, Devin, like
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: I get that, man, But like you do, have to
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: take a look at you're projected to be a top
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: five pick at linebacker, right, it just doesn't ever happen, right, Right,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: as much as you want to come as much as
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: I want you to come back, it's very tough to
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: say no to top five pick at your position and right
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: now the year you just had, Yeah, you got to
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: be smart about it.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: I mean, and look, football is different is like I
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: mean one hit, yeah, you know, and baseball obviously on
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: the mound you can blow out whatever.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's when you get opportunity to have that money, can't.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: I love that you love LSU and I love that's
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: when I come back, all right, But you got you
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: gotta go. And look, he's a guy that you're gonna
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: look up in two years and he'll probably be in
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: the big leagues.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's ready now.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: I think he's a starter too, oh, no doubt, because
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: like Liam Doua, I think from Tennessee.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: I think he's a reliever I believe he's a closer.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he's gonna come in.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: He's gonna be back into the bullpen guy. But I
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: think Kate's like, I think that the value there is
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: he's gonna be able to start games for you, yep.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: And I made this comparison to me and Jay Mitch
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: are talking about it on Miked Up, and now I
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: was like, look, not only does he have four pitches
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: that he can throw for strikes, and he's a strike thrower, right,
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: He's not a guy that needs to throw the ball
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: out of the zone to get chases for strikeouts. He
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: gets swings and misses in the zone yep, which is
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: pretty special. Like you don't have a lot of ton
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: of guys that can blow you away with fastballs and
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: then throw breaking balls over the plate and get swings
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: and misses.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: And so he's got that.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: And I think he he's got more vlo in the
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: tank as he as he matures and gets bigger.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think you're gonna a little bit of
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: take up this year.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: I think he's touched seven maybe once or twice. But
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: I think that you're gonna look up in a couple
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: of years and he's gonna be sitting in ninety five, ninety.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Six, yeah, and touching ninety eight. Right.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: I mean he's got clean release. I mean he's he's special.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: He's special.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah. And l she's got two of those, two of them.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: They got two of those guys that they can roll
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: out there.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: It's what we talked about right before you hopped on,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Like you don't ever want to lose Novahall Like that's
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: the obvious statement. But if something does happen, nobody else
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: can feel as confident.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: As you do on the mound in the loser's bracket, correct.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: I mean, look, Ianstin's draft stock has done this. Yeah,
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: I mean it's sword.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: I can't So I've been to UC San Diego where
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: he played. It looks like, you know, it's like the
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: size of barbs, right, you know what I mean, which
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: is high schoolreat that and so to go from that
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: to go to pitching in the SEC every single weekend
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: and do what he's doing is incredible.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: No, he's and he I've gotten to talk to him,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: and he is.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: He's a football player. Yeah, I mean he that was
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: his favorite sport grown up. I mean he he loved
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: you know.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Knocking heads and doing everything, and you could tell by
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: this physical better.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: Now, this guy's legs are the size of my I
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: don't even know, like two of my legs, Like they're
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: they're enormous, right, And like he's he's in great shape,
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: and he's a dog on the mountd And like you
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: can tell when nothing really phases him and he goes
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: out in the attacks and he shows emotion, and you
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: he has better numbers. He's been snubbed all year, all year,
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: as far as all the he should have been a
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: first team All American.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: He should have been. Yeah, Like he has better numbers.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: He has better numbers than outside of strikeouts, better numbers
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: than Kate.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and he's right on the heels of Kate.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Shakeout total right, top three in the name, three in
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: the nation in strikeouts. The e r A he had
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: in league play, Yeah, three better than it was overall.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: And he's not a first team.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't I don't understand that. But like you
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: got him going game two in Omaha. That's that's huge.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: I know we kind of got off of that. I
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: know we're talking about Omaha and all the on the brackets, but.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Hey, look we see a lot of squirrels here on
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: this show. As soon as we see one run by,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: we talk about the squirrel that ran. We're all athletes,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: we're all add athletes, you know it just dump around
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: out when you got him man and as the number
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: two guy, and you have him being able to go
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: out there and say, you know, hey, no matter what
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: happens on game one, I got another ace in game two.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: That's a huge thing.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: You know, the best one two punch in the country.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: And then you know what, if Chase Shorts can keep
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: doing what he did. I mean, that was the best
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: I've seen him look since maybe ever. And uh, I
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: actually would agree with that. Yeah, I mean he looked
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: good as freshman year early on, but like that was
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: a different level.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: And I do want to get to Chase Shorts because
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: I think he's going to be highly important, Like like
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: that might be the guy that ends up being the
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: guy if you go ahead and win a national championship
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: or play for one. But look, and I know off
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Day's rest and I know like how they for man
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: super regionals, But like Anthony Iinton actually had the better
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: outing against Arkansas. Kate had a great outing, shrunk out ten,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: but he gave up three runs, Anthony Ironson goes six,
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: gives up five hits, goose egg on the scoreboard, only
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: walks one.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: It strikes out eleven yep.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: And like Jay has started Anthony Ironson into game one
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: in the postseason before, So I don't think anything's going
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: to go into that. I think it's going to be
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Kate Anderson almost certain it is.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: But the fact that you even have options for incredible.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: The fact that there's a conversation There's definitely been a conversation.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Behind the scenes with Jay and the staff like, Hey,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: what do you want to do?
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: And I ultimately do think it's going to be cade
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: first route, which is gonna be awesome. You can't go
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: wrong if you decide to go Now, the funny thing
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: is is, you know LSU fans and I love they're
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: the best.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: You know, they get a little.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: Emotional and you know sometimes sometimes and so there's been
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: a lot of conversation, Oh, you win game one, do
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: you save ainstin.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: I'm like, she's zero negative percent.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Actually, Like if there's if there's one thing that you
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: don't do is that you win the first two games
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: and then you set yourself up for having potentially most
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: often set them up for the next weekend if you
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: continue to win. But yeah, they're in a good spot
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: with those two guys, and then offensively they finally start
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: to click again.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: I guess the thing like if if we're talking about
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: your winning and you get to game three, the thing
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: that is unique about LSU is the guy who might
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: start game three if he doesn't have to pitch, might
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: have to pitch in game one or game two, right,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: because it might be Case and Evans Zach Cowen started
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: obviously in postseason play. I think we assume it would
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: be Evans, but it could be either one of those guys.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: But LSU and Jay they're going after victories. They're not
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: saving anybody. So it's like, we'll figure out game three
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: whenever we get there. Most people have kind of who
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: their Game three guy would be. But LSU might throw
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: those guys in game one or two if they need
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: to go throw and close out a game.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, and I I'm on board with that, Like
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: that's what they need to do. You win the first
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: you win game that you're playing now, yeah, and you
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: figure out the next game in the next game, and
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: you know, if they have to use Case and Evans
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: in those first two games to win it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: So be it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: You have other guys that you can piggyback and figure out,
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: you know, if you don't use that count. I still
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: have a lot of faith in him. I think he's
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: he's still good. I think he's you know, he's going
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: through a couple of bumps here and there. But you know,
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: if you go and you throw strikes, in my opinion,
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: in this stadium, I think that's the most important thing.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: If you don't get guys on base, walk them, hit them,
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: do thet and make them earn it, I think that
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: you're gonna you're gonna come out on top more times
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: than not because of the stadium and the way it
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: plays and those types of things.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: And so I like that. I like root going in
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: a few innings.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: You know, I think you have enough guys to get
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: through that that game three.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: All right, when we come back, I do want to
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: talk about lineup, uh huh, all right, because you're facing
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: the lefty. Last time you face the lefty, it looked
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: a little bit different.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: A lot of talk about it, did.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, certainly, I think all of us were surprised
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: with who was leading off. But we'll talk about it
• 26:48
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  Speaker 4: So if LSU does win and you're like, hey, Sunday night,
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• 27:39
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• 28:02
  Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off the
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: No Matt Flynn here all right, I'm talking in baseball.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Mikey Matus here with us. So we're trying to debate
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: if Flynn's gonna pull the old T Bob move. Where
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: T Bob if he went on vacation on Sunday night
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: about eight thirty or nine, he'd be like, oh my god, guys,
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: I can't believe this happened. I booked flights for the
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: wrong day and I'm not giving you back till Tuesday.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: Taylor, how many times did that happen?
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: For?
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: How many times on vacation? I was telling you, I'm surprised,
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: but it didn't happen.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Oh but you know what's funny though, like he always
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: pretended like y'all didn't know what was going on. Yeah,
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: what's funny is I think like he truly thinks he
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: got one over on us every time. Really, like, damn,
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: these guys are idiots. The falling for this ship, I'm sorry,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: are good I think he really thought that though. Yeah,
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: I mean it seems like it if he keeps going
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: back to the well, I think that's obviously God.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: Blessing, God bless him.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Good to see my man T Bob starting his content
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  Speaker 4: up there in barstool Chicago. He's gonna be a massive,
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  Speaker 4: massive star already is. But so many people are learning
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  Speaker 4: all the great things about what we already know about
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  Speaker 4: T Bob, Like just like he can talk a little
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: bit about everything, the Star Wars, Lord of the Rings
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: interest the Chess interests that he has, and.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: So he's gonna crush it.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: He's a WWE character, he is. That's what I like
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  Speaker 3: to like.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: He's just not the you put him on the mic,
• 29:35
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• 29:38
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  Speaker 4: t bop stuff at barstool going on right now. All right,
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: So we were talking about line up because last time
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: you face a left the Super regional play, the lineup
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: looked a little bit different. Now when you face Zach
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Root in the regular season, it's kind of what you expect.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: Uriel's there at the top, and it was Barry Jones
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: Dickinson was third. I think Ethan Fry I believe, hit
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: clean up that game, and then Josh Pearson actually hit
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: fifth that game. And then Josh Pearson leads off against
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: the left e in the Super Regional. Do you think
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: they roll out the same lineup this time against the
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: left e because it certainly worked there in the Super
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Regional he scored sixteen runs.
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: Looking at work and you know, I want to say, well,
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: you know, carry All hit the throw run Homer off
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: the left e, when he's like, yeah, well Pearson also
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: had the grand slam off the left he So like,
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: you know, I do believe that they're both gonna like
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: Pearson's going to be in the lineup right one, you know,
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: and Jake Brown is going to be is a star.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: He's going to be a star here.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: And I am the biggest Jake Brown fan out there,
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: and I think Jake understands what.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: The role is right now.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: It's like, so in soccer we call that like a
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: super sub, a guy that is like a baller. But
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: like for this matchup, this this game, like bringing that
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: guy on, you know, in the sixty fifth minute because
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: he is going to just reak havoc for the final however,
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: long in the game, having that guy on your bench,
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: sitting there as soon as they go right handed pitcher,
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: you're all right, he's in.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Right and so he's that's why he's got starter at bats.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: He has you know, he hasn't started every game, but
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: he's been basically he's in every game, and so I
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: do think Pearson's gonna start. I would not be shocked
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: if they did the if they had him leading off,
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: your guy Ben in omahall won a national championship, Like
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: what better guy to have as your leadoff guy in
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: the first game and then have carry O kind of like,
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: you know, do his thing out. I'll carry lead off
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: the other games on there's right, So I do think
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: it'll be that way.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: I love Fry.
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: And Jared Jones back to back, you know, because it
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: was like for each other.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah right, you know, beginning of the year, you didn't
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: know who was.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: Gonna protect Jared. Yeah, you know, because you didn't really
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: have another big bopper. Fry has obviously emerged as that guy.
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: So you have, you know, those two guys protecting each other,
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: and then you got you know, playoff.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Milam Is is the best model.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: You know, like he's hot and so like he's gonna
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: be right there in the middle. You get to switch
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: at her component. The one thing Jay and he's been
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: obviously he's been very vocal about this is he loves
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: lineup flexibility and versatility, and he likes the left right matchups.
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: He likes having you know, not having a guy come
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: in and be able to face three straight lefties in
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: a row. And so you know he's gonna do whatever
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: he thinks makes the lineup as deep as it can
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: be in as versatile as it can be.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and he's not afraid to make a change.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: No, I mean he is not afraid to whatever, you know,
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: whatever the analytics say and whatever him and the coaching
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: staff see on film, like he is going, Like when
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: they ran that out there in super regionals, it's like, man, yeah,
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Curio has been the guy.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: He's a freshman All American.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: But he had you know, Piers an instagram something like
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: you said, and Kia hits a three to one homer there,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: so like it obviously worked. But like even like the
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: small changes that he made in regional play in game
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: number seven against the Little Rock, if Ethan Fry is
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: not there in the two hole els she's not playing
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: right now, correct. I mean every big moment he came
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: through in that game, and it was because he got
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: moved up in the lineup and the game before, every
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: big moment that happened, nobody came to nobody.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so was I. I was like, damn, I came
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: to this game and they didn't go to Monday night game.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: I was like, maybe I was. I was so worn
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: out Monday. I was like, and of course I missed out.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: One, but he had. They had opportunities the game before,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: and nobody came through.
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: They put him too whole. He comes through obviously double.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: I think you get the homer two doubles, like its
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: four six. Yeah, and so you know he won that game.
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: And you know Jay's not shy. And the one thing
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: that Jay, you know, I can I can say that
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: he does is like there's nothing There's a lot of
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: coaches out there that will like coach on a motion right,
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: like they see guy have good BP or like have
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: some stuff and has just gut feeling, I'm gonna throw
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: him in there based off of just a gut Jay really,
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: every every decision he makes is well thought out it's
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: you know, planned, there's a reason behind it. You know,
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: he's not gonna go to the podium after the game
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: and you ask him a question, He's like, I just
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: I had a good feeling about it. You know, there's
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: an explanation. So you know, I trust him what he's
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: trying to do. And I think all the guys trusting
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: that too, And that's a that's a that's a good
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: thing to have.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: He's the closest thing to a football coach that I've
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: ever seen in baseball as far as the prep that
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: he does. And every time I talk with him or
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: every time I go over for whatever reason, like he
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: comes out of the film room, Yeah, like we brought
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: our youth baseball team over there a couple of weeks ago,
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: and it was before I guess a couple months ago.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: Is that before the Alabama series, And like he's just
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: in there, he's grinding tape. It was like a Wednesday,
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: and so he comes out and talks to the team,
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: which he didn't have to do, but he's like, yeah,
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: I'm come talk to the team. So he talks to
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: our little youth baseball team, shout out to the Lugnuts,
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: and then he and then he like we sit there
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: and we're talking for like fifteen twenty minutes and he's
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: just going through like Alabama's lineup and Alabama's staff and
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: all the things that he had picked up on. And
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: then like we finished a conversation and it was late,
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: like it was it was like eight o'clock at night,
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh, he's about to head to the house,
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: and he goes right back into the film and I
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: was like, coach. In my mind, I'm like, you just
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: told me every little nugget about every person on their team?
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: What else?
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: What else?
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: It like?
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: But right back he look, there's there's been I mean
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: there's been there's been situations while I watch him make
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: a decision or and I'm like.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Ah, like I don't know, you know, like why would
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: you do that or this or that?
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: And then I'll get him on the show and I'll
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: ask him, yeah, and he gives the explanation.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, that makes sense.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I can't understand, Like I take back what I said,
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: like that, that seems like that's the right move.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: So it's you know, everything's well thought out of. He's
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: just kind of a professor in that situation.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: So, like I told this story a thousand times on air,
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: and our listeners are like, yeah, we know, we know,
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: but I don't know if you've ever heard this one.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: So during the lockout and twenty eleven, I guess that
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: would have been in the NFL, we couldn't go to
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: the facility, right, so we had to go work out
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: at USD University of San Diego, and there was this
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: baseball coach that was in the weight room grinding these
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: all the time, like and going over like little bit
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: different mechanics and going over I'm like, this is summertime,
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Like baseball is not even closely, Like what are we doing? Man?
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: He's just going over everything and like everything was covered,
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: and I like, I went and introduced myself to him, like, hey, like,
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: what's your name, Like I don't know who you are,
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: but I liked it. I like your process. And it
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: was Jay J. Johnson's an assistant at the University of
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: San Diego, and so like for me, I was like,
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna remember that guy's name. And so obviously, like
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: from that point, I followed his career like Nevada and
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: then he goes to Arizona or whatever, and I like
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: that me watching him work when I didn't know who
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: he was, but I was like, this guy is going
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: to be special.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: And then he goes to Arizona. I'm like, I'm bragging everybody.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: I'm like, man, I told you all that.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: And then when our job comes open, and I was like,
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: you know, he's a West Coast lifer, Like you know
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: how that works in the SEC, they're not even gonna
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: call Jay. But I remember, like I was talking with
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: Scott and I'm like, hey, I don't know, I don't
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: know what you're talking about, but hey, here's this guy.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: Here's this guy.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: And of course Scott already knew who it was, but
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: like I was pushing heavy because I was like, man,
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: I just I've seen this guy work in the shadows.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: I've seen his process, and again I didn't think it
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: would happen because a lot of times like if you're
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: a West Coast guy, you're staying on the West Coast.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: But the fact that they went and got him, man,
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: I knew that this was going to be possible just
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: from seeing him as an assistant.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: See, I didn't I didn't know anything about it. I
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: don't know who he was.
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: I never knew the name, and so when they when
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: they all still playing, when they when they brought him in,
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: it was my last year, and I was like, who
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: the hell is this like? And so then I texted
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: all my buddies that that one that I knew that
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: once Arizona and they're like, man, this guy's awesome.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like you're gonna love him. I'm like, awesome until
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: he's been you know, obviously lights out. Uh again, I
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: know I've said this, but he is. He has got
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: Nick Saban. Yeah, in a baseball.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Uniform, the obsession of it.
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: He really does.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: And coach Saban always got like a bad rap for
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: like yelling at players, or if you did things the
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: right way with coach Saban, if you were on time,
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: if you you know, were working when you're supposed to
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: be working, if.
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: All your he was awesome.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: It was like you never got one of those mfn's
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: that you saw and the guy getting it probably deserves it. Yeah,
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: miss you can miss me with all the Oh he's
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: too hard, Like no, I I mean I grew up
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: playing football.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: I like to be coached hard, like don't.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: I don't want to add a boy, don't give me
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: a powder back because I know when I do something
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: wrong and like get on me.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, like me too. Yeah. And so when people
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: say that, it's like, y'all, just I don't want to
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: call you soft but yourself.
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah you know yep.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: So I always said that about Jay and glad he
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: is leading LSU there in Omaha. All right, we do
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: have one more segment with Mikey and can't thank him
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: enough for his time. Let's get some predictions. Let's get
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: some predictions for Omaha. We'll get those with Mikey Matuk
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: when we come back here to close out hour number
• 38:27
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• 39:48
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• 39:57
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• 40:00
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• 40:34
  Speaker 3: I like Coastal.
• 40:35
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  Speaker 3: Coastal. Okay, just because he said.
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• 40:52
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with the Beavers.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with the Beavers, battle tested.
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• 40:58
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• 41:03
  Speaker 3: There's a wedding.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: Oh wait, what he's supposed you're not talking about the
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• 41:10
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• 41:11
  Speaker 6: Too, But they got a guy who's supposed to be
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: getting married on the off day of the championship, like
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: the Monday or something.
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  Speaker 4: So he said, if they make it there. He's gonna
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: fly home, get married. Oh my guy, Yeah, tough, my.
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  Speaker 3: Brother, Just what expecting my guy?
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: That tells your teammates you had no faith.
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  Speaker 3: I'm taking Oregon State because of that.
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, me to double down on the Oregon State. Now,
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: you can't have that mindset, Jordan.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: I'm not Look, I don't want to be chalky, but
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: just because I'm an Ali Rutchman fan, Oregon State.
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: There you go. Allan starts swinging a little bit.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: He does, but I like to swing. Like talk about
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: fall from grace.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: I thought they were going to be there like five
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: years is already fired.
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: Was battle like when everybody picks the same team. You
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: know what, forget everything we said earlier in the show, Jake, I'll.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: Go Louis there all right?
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  Speaker 5: Uh U c l A Murray State.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: This is tough. I like the.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Bruins in this way, all right, Orton shout out John
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Morant Murray State.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: Okay, Matt McMahon, great Christ great, great story.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: Unbelievable for these guys.
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  Speaker 6: They can swing eight hundred fans in their state stadium whatever,
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: like great.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: I think it comes to an end. U c l
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: A wins. UCLA has got.
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: A good I mean, they play West Coast baseball, they
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: pitch it, they play good defense, they got a really
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: good shortstop.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: They haven't lost the game in the postseason. Yeah, and
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: I just.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: Think that Murray State can swing it. Their pitching staff's
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: a little you know, t B D TVD. I like
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: you L yeah, and so like I keep trying to play,
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: you know, mind tricks myself. I think I'm like, well,
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: you know, U c l A like they can be
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: able to adjust to the eighty eight mile per hour fastball.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: But that really started thinking about it.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: I'm like, you know what, you doesn't play in the SEC,
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: right And there's some bad teams in the Big Ten,
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: right are There's some teams that don't have frontline starters.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: There's guys that they probably on like Friday nights, see
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: guys that throw eighty eight.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Let me tell you crazy stat that I heard.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: I believe it's the Big Ten average fastball velocity in
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: the Big.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: Ten right now. I think it's like ninety miles an hour.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: Wow, the average fastball velocity and the SEC is ninety
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: four point three miles an hour.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: How crazy is a big mile?
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: That's why it feels like every I mean everybody that
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: comes out of the SEC, like at the bullpen now
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: is ninety six plus.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, stupid.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: Like if you face anybody throwing ninety two of an
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: SEC bullpen, it's because you're playing Missouri.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt.
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: Or the guys got like some nasty crazy second pitch sliders.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: The deal where it is, but yeah, it's nuts. I
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: mean we've got a couple of minutes left.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: Like when you were in the SEC, I mean it was,
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: it was the best of the best, But how much
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: has that changed?
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: So I used to can people always say, oh, what
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: would you can compare it to when you were there?
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: I was like, I compare the SEC competition when I
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: was there at HYA because you have one or two
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: really good stars and you have one or two three
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: guys out of the bullpen.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: The lineup was usually really good.
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: And so now I compare it to double A because
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: of how much more velocity they have coming out of
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: the bullpen. That was the big difference is you didn't
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: have the bullpen arms they have them now.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's about double A competition, Yeah, which is like
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: a lot of times the best baseball in the minors
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: right right, right, most talent I don't think LULL.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: They might almost take Arkansas, so be it.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: If you want to take Arkansas, you can woo pig
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: here it. Yeah, I mean it's gonna be a heavyweight fight.
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be a championship game. Yeah, it's gonna be.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: The crowd is going to be electric because like Arkansas
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: is gonna travel, no doubt, there's gonna be They're gonna
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: be calling the pigs, calling the hall. All that's gonna
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: be happening. El's gonna have more fans. But it is
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: going to be a championship series environment.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: Well, I mean that those are the two best teams
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: in the tournament, I believe, and it's unfortunately they play
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: first game.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: You have to play them at some point whatever, and
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: you're probably going to play them again. Yep. And look,
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: why not playing when you're fully arrested with your ace
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: on the mountain.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're right. I mean, there's no half stepping
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: into this game. Uh.
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: I do like l s U in this one. L
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: s U won this season series.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: Certainly l s U with a lot of confidence after
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: the way they you know, took down West Virginia in
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: the Super Region. Arkansas two look, Arkansas, U C L
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: A Coastal the only three teams that have not lost
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: a game in the postseason.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: They're gonna have confidence too. It's gonna be a hell
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: of a game. Let me ask you this, who's your
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: final match finals matchup?
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: I've got Oregon State and L s U.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Okay, I got, I got Coastal on l s U.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: Coastal on L s U.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: Okay, Jordan, I.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Go Coastal l s U al right, because.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: That's going to be my pig. But I'll go go
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: Coastal L s U.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: It's fine, I'll be I'll be the one that you
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: know went something different. You got ten seconds take up
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: SU alright, three for Coastal L s U. Mike, you're
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: the man.
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