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Chris Phillips Talks Postseason Baseball - Off the Bench, May 27, 2025 · Off The Bench

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Speaker 1: I'll start to it.
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Speaker 2: You got to present some off the bench.
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Speaker 3: This is what we have been waiting for. The hype
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is over.
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Speaker 2: Off the bench. Now here's Jacob Heester. Not Jacob Pastor,
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at least not today. Taylor Sharp here with you, filling
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in for Jacob Ester. He is out at SEC spring meetings.
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He will be there today, Tomorrow, Thursday. So I'm here
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the next three days and then Jake will be back
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on Friday. Great news, guys. We don't have any internet
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in the building. How exciting is that?
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 2: My last I'm actually gonna take the blame on this one, guys.
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My last day before vacation, Mina Laundra's computers were resetting
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like five times doing the ship I come back. Our
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one goes smoothly. What happens at the end of our one?
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We lose internet connection. I don't know if we're live
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on YouTube. We're not really sure. It's storming outside. I
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was telling casting a lone before the shows started, like
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the weather here has been ridiculous because I'm in Gulf
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Shores for I got there like Wednesday midday, left Monday,
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so we'll call it five days. Didn't rain on me
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one time? I mean, I think maybe it maybe it
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drizzled for like five minutes when we were inside. That
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was it. I'm driving home yesterday, I get to Mandeville,
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starts pouring like welcome home, welcome back to Louisiana. And
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then you know, during break we hear the beautiful, soothing
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sounds of thunder right outside the building. So look, we're
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gonna roll with the punches again today. Gonna give you
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a recap of hour number one. We started LSU Baseball heavy,
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We recapt the Tiger's appearance in the Sez tournament. Me
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and a lounger kind of broke down the upcoming bet
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Rouge Regional as LSU will play host to Dallas Baptist,
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Rhode Island and Little Rock that will begin at two
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pm on Friday. Reacted a little bit to Joel Klatt's
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list of his top ten quarterbacks heading into the twenty
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twenty five season, and then coming up this hour, next
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segment act, we're going to have Chris Phillips of SEC
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unfiltered on the phone. We were going to have him
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on video chat, but with no Internet that's not really possible.
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Right now, We're going to do OTB mailbag as we're
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kind of combining today's show with a normal Monday show,
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so we're gonna kind of combine them. I'm gonna get
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into a little flag football at eight forty five as
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the NFL is okay to NFL players to play in
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the Olympic flag football coming up in the next summer Olympics.
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We'll have Nick Underhill at nine am. We'll have Devin
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Snow at nine thirty. Right now, though we normally do
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it every Monday at nine am, we're gonna hit it
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right now. Let's do a little weekend winners.
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Speaker 1: That's how wit it has done.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 1: We can't have anyone to freak out out there.
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Speaker 2: Okay, he's got a k bark a policer, got too far.
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Speaker 3: I'm by winning. I went here and no win there?
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Speaker 4: Now?
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Speaker 3: What are you doing what it takes to win a championship?
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Speaker 5: Wow?
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Speaker 3: Winning?
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Speaker 2: Well, then I guess there's only one thing left to do.
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Help It's that.
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Speaker 5: Win home thing.
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Speaker 4: All right?
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Speaker 2: Who wants to go for it? Allowed to kick us
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aw as?
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Speaker 6: Okay, weekend winner for me is the Southeastern Conference. We
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have the most teams in the NC DOUBLEA baseball tournament
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with thirteen, a record thirteen SEC teams being selected to
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compete for the It already came back.
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Speaker 2: It came back. We have our internet again, thanks Bo.
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Speaker 6: So thirteen SEC teams in the NC doublea tournament record,
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and also the top four seeds are all SEC teams
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as well, with Vandy, Texas, Arkansas and Auburn be your
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top four. LSU of course the number six seed and
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Georgia is the number seven seed. All miss the tenth seed.
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So also a lot of teams in the top ten,
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so we can winner for.
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Speaker 2: Me the SEC. It's almost like the SEC is a
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good baseball conference kind of a little bit, huh.
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Speaker 6: The one that uh say is Nipping at your Heels
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had nine eight the ACC had nine teams go into
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the tournament.
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Speaker 2: Cassie, what you got weekend winner?
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Speaker 4: Okay, so this wee get.
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Speaker 5: I don't even know why, but just like randomly, my
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friend Adam wanted to go to a Biloxi Shuckers game,
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so we went there and like it started off like
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a really bad game. They were like it was like
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five to one with in like the fifth inning.
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Speaker 4: And then they got back and.
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Speaker 5: Rock Wilkin, who's on the team, who's like, I guess
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like the best like batter in the in the league
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right now. He was on wake Fos his team, like
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when LSU played them, I think twenty three and so
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he he like won the game with a walk off
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like RBI.
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Speaker 4: So it was a really good game.
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Speaker 2: He shout out to Brock Weekend Winner Brock Wilkins. All Right,
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my first weekend winner is going to be Phil Robertson.
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You guys know the Duck Dynasty matriarch passed away. Patriarch,
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patriarch passed away over the weekend. It's seventy nine years old. Well,
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I just want to keep it positive looking back on
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you know, the dynasty that he built, whether it's Dug Commander,
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Buck Commander, he had the Duck Dynasty TV show. I mean,
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all these kids are carrying that on as well, like
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we can winner, Phil Robertson, what an incredible life, Like
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you always hear the story of him playing football in college,
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like neck and neck quarterback competition with Terry Bradjall, who
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went on to win four Super Bowls in the NFL.
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Like Phil Robertson, a guy that did a little bit
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of everything. I also have a weekend loser, My weekend loser,
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like it has been a lot of times, none other
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than mister Aaron Rodgers. So we did a Q and
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A session this weekend. I don't know where the hell
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it was, doesn't even matter. And a Saints fan was
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in the crowd asking him, Hey, would you ever considered
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coming down and playing for the Black and Gold? And
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Aaron Rodgers' response is Nope, absolutely not, no offense. I
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just don't want to live in Louisiana. Okay. I'm not
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saying Louisiana as the best state in the country or anything.
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We certainly have our problems. I've never lived in New Orleans.
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I personally wouldn't. Cassie grew up in New Orleans. She
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turned out okay. But Aaron Rodgers went to college in Berkeley, California,
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which doesn't seem super fun. And he played in Green Bay, Wisconsin,
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which also doesn't seem like the cream of the crop either.
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And Aaron, what are your options? Bud? There are one
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hundred days until the start of the NFL season as
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of this morning, one hundred days, and you're unsigned, and
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the only team that seems to have any sort of
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interest in you is the Pittsburgh Steelers. And you clearly
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don't want to play football for that team, and then
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you're gonna bash a team that maybe could potentially be
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into you in the New Orleans Saints. I don't think
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Aaron Rodgers has any interest in playing football weekend losing
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for me, Aaron Rodgers, I hate to.
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Speaker 6: Do this, I really do, because I don't ever like
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giving any aggies any.
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Speaker 4: Sort of credit as no, no, but.
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Speaker 6: I can respect a dog, right, I can respect somebody
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that's got some grit to him. And uh, I'm gonna
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have to give a week In Winner to Jayce Lobulet
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DHD with a broken hand and had I think three
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rbi whenever or two or three RBI on the day.
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So it was a huge help because you wonder, like
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how productive can someone be with a broken hand, And
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you could be very productive if you're Jace Lobulet. So unfortunately,
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I'm gonna have to give Jayce Lobulet a Week In Winner.
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Speaker 2: I don't hate it, I mean not do, but I
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get it. It is what it is. We can lose
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her to a laundry forgiven. Jake, Now I'm just kidding. No,
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Jake Lobulet was justing what an incredible effort that was by.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Can we can we call somebody our favorite aggie that
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doesn't feeling no no, because.
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Speaker 6: Like, besides that, I'm not like he's done LSU pretty dirty.
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So not a fan of Jays Lobby overall, but I
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gotta give respect where it's due.
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Speaker 2: Also, my favorite aggie's onm Palmer, So that's that's actually,
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that's actually a favorite aggie.
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Speaker 6: My favorite Agie is Dan Campbell.
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Speaker 2: It's a good one. Yeah, that's a good one. That
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win played linebacker for the Cowboys forever. He was actullent.
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That's my favorite. Uh, that is my favorite Texas A
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and A Maggie. Okay, moving on.
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Speaker 6: Mis Dennis Allen kidding, it's my.
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Speaker 2: Least favorite cass. You got another one embodiment that is
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that you know what You're right? He is my favorite
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because he is the embodiment of the Texas A and
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A Maggie's album. My next weekend winner is actually going
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to be the conference finals in the NBA for both
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of the Eastern and the Western Conference. Oklahoma City Thunder
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up three to one. Right now, that series seems wrapped up,
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but Indiana Pesers in the New York Knicks. Neither team
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were projected to be here in the conference finals, and
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that's a hell of a series. So it began on
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Thursday night Friday, and I think it was Thursday night.
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It was Pacers Nicks. Right before I'm about to go
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to bed, you know, we're at the beach. A turn
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on the A turn on the game of the condo.
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New York's up like sixteen points with like seven minutes
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to go on the Pacers. I'm like, all right, I'm
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turning this off. This game is pretty much over. I
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wake up in the morning to learn that the Pacers
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won that game in overtime. But get this, this is
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why the Indiana Pacers are my weekend winner. A team
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in the NBA Playoffs trailing by seven points or more
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in the final minute of the game has lost seventy
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seventeen hundred times and is only won four times. Three
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of those four wins are the Indiana Pacers, and all
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three of them are in this playoffs. I mean, you
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want to talk about a team that's going on an
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improbable run. We saw this twice in their previous round
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from the Indiana Pacers, and then we saw it in
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game one. They actually win both games in New York.
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Now New York gets Game one in Indiana. So that's
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a two to one lead for the Indiana Pacers. But
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just a team of destiny, if you will, a team
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that won't quit. The Indiana Pacers look like a tough
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out for anyone. So that is my next weekend winner.
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I don't have another one, so I'm gonna go weekend loser.
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The NCAA Tournament committee. Now I may sound a little
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biased because I went to school here. That's fine, but
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Southeastern Louisiana did not get into the NCAA Tournament. You know,
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they were at the top of the Southland Conference all
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year long. A lot of people thought, even if they
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didn't win the s the Southland Conference tournament that they
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would have been an at large bid. They did not
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get in, as did no one in the Southland Conference.
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Nobody in that conference got a bid to the NCAAA Tournament.
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Although it was a slight misstep. I mean, like, I
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get it, they're smaller schools, but you needed some sort
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of representation from the Southland. You didn't get it. But
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it's a small price to pay really good selection overall.
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That's just maybe my one complaint. Nobody from the Southland
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really getting a lot of representation.
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Speaker 6: R So wait, I changed my mind. I have one
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number and I want to do a weekend loser because
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it just popped I forgot about and it just popped
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up on Twitter. When I saw it, I got to
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give a weekend Loser to Pablo Tore Like he is
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going way too far on this Jordan Hudson stuff. And
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I look, we all know that I like to go
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down a rabbit hole too, but what he's doing is
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so borderline psychotic that it just it looks bad at
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this point, like he wouldn't do so he released a video.
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We can play it, okay, I can pull it up
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right now. But he released a video where he's basically
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found a picture of Jordan on the you know the
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fan cans that they do where they take like a
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panoramic photo of the entire stadium, the entire stadium, with
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every single fan in that photo. He looked through a
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bunch of them and found Jordan in like a picture
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from like twenty twenty one, which is insane to me
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that you have all this time on your hands. And Katie,
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I forget her name, Katie something she anyway, she's on it.
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She was like God, Pablo, you need to find you
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need to find a hobby, and he really does. It's
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actually psychotic and Twitter's not working for me right now,
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so I can't pull it up, but we can watch
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it later in the show. It's just so crazy that
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he has that much time on his hands that he
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can sort through an entire fan cam just to prove
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that Jordan Hudson was at a game in twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like that.
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Speaker 6: He's going way too.
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Speaker 2: Far with this, that's care at this point. I won't
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even together, Like I.
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Speaker 6: Know that we talked about it and like we joked
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around or whatever, and but he's taking it way too far.
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It's kind of creepy at this point.
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Speaker 2: The amount of crowd like the amount of time people have, Like, okay,
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when the when the new pope was announced, everybody's like, oh,
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he's a white Sox fan. Somebody found him in the stands,
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like a white just at a random at bat. He
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was in the stands at a World Series. Give him, Like,
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how did you even find how did you even know
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he was at this game? To look and see if
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you can find him in the crowd. Like, the people
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have way too much time on their hands.
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Speaker 6: Like Pablo's getting a little too weird and disturbing.
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Speaker 2: With a little bit too much. One more weekend loser
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before we get out of here. I'm glad that someone
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in the chat put this in there. The WWE, it
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was all scheduled, ready to go. WWE WrestleMania was going
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to take place in New Orleans. It no longer will.
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On Wednesday, they they pulled the rugouts that they are
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actually going to go back to Las Vegas two years
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in a row. They didn't think they could make the money.
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When Devin Snow comes on at nine thirty, I'm sure
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he's gonna have thoughts on this. He's a big WWE fan.
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But yeah, last minute, less than a year away from
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WWE WrestleMania, and they pulled it out of New Orleans.
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I know a lot of people in New Orleans were
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excited about. That's a weekend loser. The WWE. All right,
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we're going to take a time out. We get back.
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Chris Phillips of sec Unfiltered hopping on with us next
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Speaker 2: Welcome back in Tuesday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor
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Sharp here with you filling in for Jacob Hester. Right now,
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we're gonna go out to the phone lines. Chris Phillips,
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the founder of sec Unfilter, joins us right now, Chris,
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how are you this morning?
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Speaker 1: Taylor real well Man. Excited for the postseason. Obviously best
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time of the year with the regionals upcoming and we'll
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get the Supers and then it's on to Omaha. So
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Oober was a blast. I'm sure we'll talk about it
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a little bit, but we'll talk a lot of LSU.
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Excited for the past of the Tigers, and again, really
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appreciate you having me home.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, thanks for the time. I know we had
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to kind of adjust a little bit with Jake being out,
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but thanks for the time. None the last Chris, you
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just mentioned it right there. Look, the conference tournaments are over.
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The NCAA tournament field is set, you know, in the
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top eight seeds. That's kind of what everybody was watching.
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Of course here in bed Rouge we were as well.
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And then Vanderbilt Commodore is get that top number one
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overall seed. What were your thoughts on that.
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Speaker 1: I was a little bit surprised, and I would have
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kept Texas in the one spot. Personally, you know, I'm
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someone that I don't like the narrative that the conference
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tournament is meaningless, because I just feel like, why are
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we playing it if it's meaningless. I think it means something.
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You see the emotion from those guys in the tournament,
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like there's obviously some meaning to it. But I don't
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know that the conference tournament should outweigh what we watched
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for ten weekends or really an entire season, which is
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the fact that you know, even if they scuffled a
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little bit down the stretch and stuff for some injuries,
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Texas was the best team in the conference throughout the
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duration of the season. So I would have kept Texas
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in that number one overall seed spot. You know, that's
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not taking anything away from Vandy and sin They didn't
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deserve it because again that they had a great season,
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they finished strong, and they did indeed win the conference tournament.
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So I think the number one overall national seed guys,
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is more of kind of an ego thing, just to
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kind of flex and say we're the number one overall
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national seed. I don't know how much they really gain
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versus you know, in the what Bandy's path is versus
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what Texas path is. But you know, I was I
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wasn't shocked the committee them at one. I just think
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I would have kept Vandy at two in Texas at one.
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Speaker 2: Now you're talking about the committee putting them in one, Like,
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was it entirely just Hey, they won the conference tournament,
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let's reward them for doing it, or like what else
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went into that top overall seed?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, you know, I think obviously if we
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didn't have a conference tournament, we would have went off
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just the regular season. Texas would have been the one seed.
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So I mean, I you know, Vandy certainly would with
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a top eight national seed and maybe in the top
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five national seed. But now, I mean, I think the
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conference tournament played a large part, which again is what's
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so funny to me. Taylor's everybody tries to tell me
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that the conference tournament means nothing, and I think these
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I think a lot of fan bases try to taunt
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themselves into that so they don't get let down if
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things don't go the way they plan in a tournament
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like that. But I mean, it obviously doesn't matter, right,
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I Mean, Tennessee played themselves off of having to be
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a two seed somewhere to hosting a regional ole. Miss
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played themselves off the same thing. They were the ten
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overall national seed. I mean, it obviously means something, so
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I don't know. Again, I think that narrative that the
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conference tournament is meaningless. I guess it just depends on
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who you are. But I think it means a pretty
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great deal. So yeah, I definitely think them winning the
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tournament was the difference. I think had it not been
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to that, we'd be talking about the Longhorns, says the
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number one overall national seed, Chris.
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Speaker 2: Want to shift a little bit more locally here to
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the LSU Tigers. Everyone here in ben Ruge was all
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we were hoping was that the Tigers would get one
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of those top eight seeds. You do LSU in that
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sixth spot in that regional coming up this weekend, you're
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gonna have Dallas, Baptist, Rhode Island, and Little Rock. What
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are your thoughts on the draw that the Tigers got?
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Speaker 1: So I say, Taylor when I'm about to stay it
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with all love, because anybody who has followed us for
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a duration of time and knows me it all knows
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that I love LSU, I love the fan base, I
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love the state of Louisiana. But I commend Jay Johnson
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or and I was not familiar with his game from
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the standpoint of having the committee's favor because LSU's draw
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is I mean, it's it's about its favorable a regional
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If you could have asked for it, it was a
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I'll put it to you this way. It's a regional field.
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Dare I say hand picked by Jay Johnson himself. I mean,
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Dallas Baptist is a good program. I'm not saying anything away.
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LSU has seen them really talented mid major Rhode Island
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and Little Rock are the other two teams. I mean,
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I just and I felt good about LSU either way. Obviously,
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playing postings in baseball at alex Box Stadium, that's I mean,
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I was there obviously with the Tennessee Series, and I
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mean anybody who knows anything about college baseball knows that's
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one of, if not the most difficult places to play
19:49
and go in and win. So if you're telling me
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that LSU get posts in baseball at alex Box, I'm
19:55
gonna feel pretty confident about it. You know, I have
19:57
heard respect the opponent, you know hers, Little Rock's got
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a guy that is, you know, pitching high nineties, maybe
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touching one hundred. That's a guy that maybe they're a
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little bit I say concerned about. I mean, all those
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four seeds have a dude, that's how they got here,
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so and that's what LSU will get in Game one.
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But I mean, Taylor, I just I gotta be honest,
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and baseball is the funny game and anything could happen.
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Upset certainly happened in this game. But god, I don't
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know how you're not giddy if you're a fan of
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the LSU Tigers with the draw you've gotten, even with
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the super Regional round, you're gonna be at home. Clemson's
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a talented team, no doubt, but they're certainly tougher regionals
20:35
to get peered up with. There are tougher regils they
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could have gotten paired up with. I know, maybe some
20:39
folks weren't thrilled they got the sixth seed instead of
20:43
the five overall national seed I'm talking about. I think
20:46
it worked out pretty well. So, you know, I say
20:49
what I said about Jay obviously and in jes a
20:51
little bit of humor, But yeah, I don't think he's
20:54
complaining about the draw they got, no doubt.
20:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we were kind of talking about a
20:59
Tobe the show because you know, all the projections came
21:02
out about, hey, here's here's what the LSU regional could
21:05
look like. One of them was this outcome with Dallas
21:08
Baptists and the lower level teams, and the other had
21:10
like Arizona Kansas State in and I'm looking, I'm like,
21:13
I don't want that one. I would much prefer the
21:15
Dallas Baptist one. And then of course they did it.
21:18
But Chris, going beyond that, I actually, you know, I
21:21
think for the most part, you got a pretty favorable
21:24
super regional potentially if you get past this regional. The
21:27
regional you're matched up with is that Clemson Regional. It's Clemson,
21:31
West Virginia, Kentucky and South Carolina Upstate. I mean, what
21:35
are you what are your thoughts on that super regional matchup,
21:37
because a lot of people were like, hey, could you
21:39
avoid an SEC team potentially in that super regional matchup?
21:42
And the Tigers do.
21:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, I think it's favorable. I think
21:46
it works out really well. And getting number one, the
21:48
fact you're the play at alex Box's significant. Clemson's a
21:51
solid team for sure. They were actually a team for me.
21:54
Funny enough that in the preseason I had Clemson in Omaha.
21:58
They're one of my Omaha eight. LSU was as well,
22:00
so that obviously one of those is going to be incorrect.
22:05
You know, I think it's probably either gonna be Clemson
22:09
or West Virginia that comes out of that reason. I
22:13
don't it's not going to be so kind of upstated
22:15
in my opinion. I don't think it's gonna be our
22:18
brethren from the SEC Kentucky. You know, Kentucky's had a
22:21
way though surprising us all season. So if Nick McKay
22:25
and Ben Kleaver and they get some really great outings
22:28
from those guys, I mean, you never know, right That's
22:30
the beauty of this tournament, as you just truly never know.
22:33
I don't think Kentucky, though, I'd be really really surprised
22:36
if they won that regional the either way. I mean again,
22:41
I like the matchup, and it more just comes back
22:43
to it's it comes back to LSU. They're one of
22:45
the best teams in the country, and they're one of
22:47
the best teams in the country on their home field.
22:49
And again, man, you know, not to not to spoil
22:52
my predictions or anything, because we'll be dropping throughout the postseason.
22:55
But you give me LSU at alex Box in a
22:59
postseason environment, it's gonna take a really special group to
23:04
come in there and beat them for me to pick
23:06
against them. So yeah, I mean again, you like the matchup.
23:10
You could have been getting Tennessee coming to your place.
23:13
You could have getting the old myths coming to your place.
23:15
You could have been getting I mean, just name off,
23:16
you know some of the other seeds. I think you
23:19
got a pretty favorable draw. So here's the one thing
23:23
you don't want to do, Taylor. You don't want to
23:25
make it sound like it's easy, like they can roll
23:27
the baseballs out there and they're just gonna go to Omaha.
23:30
But again, when you're speaking in regards to favorability of
23:34
matchups compared to what could have been, again, I think
23:38
you gotta be excited for you unless you know you
23:39
got to go out there and handle your business, to
23:41
take care of everything.
23:43
Speaker 2: Chris want to shift Fugus too, an SEC team that
23:47
halfway through the year a lot of people didn't know
23:49
was going to be in postseason play. I want to
23:51
go out to the Tallahassee Regional. Obviously those it by
23:54
Florida State, but Mississippi State out there as that two seed.
23:58
They've played much better since getting rid of Chris Lamonas.
24:02
What are your thoughts on Misissippi State in this tournament?
24:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, first off, like you mentioned, I mean, the fact
24:07
that the state is in the tournament is really impressive.
24:10
I mean, I think the job and Justin Parker is
24:12
the guy that I've you know, bounced around the SEC,
24:15
one of the best pitching coaches I think in college baseball,
24:18
and a guy that I really, I really hope they
24:20
keep around. I don't know if the next head coach
24:23
will do so, but I think it would be very
24:26
wise of them to keep him in startful, you know,
24:31
you look at Tallahassee. Obviously, Mississippi State opens up in Northeastern,
24:34
which I think is a really interesting matchup from the standpoint.
24:38
Not an SEC opponent, but they are an opponent that
24:41
went forty eight to nine this season and they won
24:43
twenty seven straight games, So I don't know how much
24:46
more hot you could be. Obviously, they've obviously got some
24:51
ball players, but again not at the SEC level. I mean,
24:53
my question is this has Northeastern seena pe co conn.
24:56
I don't know that they have. I would venture to
24:59
say that, I highly doubt it. So the beautiful thing
25:03
for State, it's a team that's got nothing to lose.
25:06
I mean, it's not like you're trying to save some
25:08
coaches job. That coach is gone. So you know, I
25:11
think Florida State their home field, is going to be
25:14
a really, really tough out. But I do think Mississippi State,
25:18
with the combination of arms they have, you know, they've
25:20
got some guys that heat it up obviously down the stretch.
25:22
I don't factor in the SEC tournament my predictions for
25:26
this or thoughts on this if you will, but I
25:29
think it's ASSISIPI State team. It's really dangerous. I think
25:31
it's going to be tough to knock off Florida State
25:34
at their place. Honestly, I don't know that I'm going
25:35
to be taking State to complete it and pull the upset.
25:39
But you know, it starts to beating Northeastern on Friday.
25:42
You get a good outing from Peak Cocon, I think
25:44
you should be able to do it. And then I
25:46
think it's probably gonna set up a Florida State Mississippi
25:48
State matchup on Saturday, and I think that'll probably be
25:51
for the regional because again the difference we all know
25:54
in getting up to over is going one to One
25:56
of those reasons is just it's huge. So but doing
26:00
it in Tallahassee on their home field I think will
26:02
be difficult. But yeah, certainly Status is one of those
26:05
teams man that, especially in the regional round, really really dangerous. Again,
26:09
They've got a good starting rotation, they got a deep
26:12
pen lineups a little bit hit or miss. Sounds like
26:15
a lot of SEC teams, right, But certainly I think
26:17
it makes some noise down there in Tallly.
26:21
Speaker 2: Chris Phillips joining us right now with SEC unfielder Chris,
26:25
Is there a team maybe you thought got a little
26:27
overseeded or on the flip side, like got underseated? Like,
26:30
is there is there any of that you saw?
26:33
Speaker 1: Yeah? I was a little bit surprised Auburn was at
26:35
the four. I thought that that was I thought that
26:38
was a little bit high for them. You know that
26:40
the only top eight national seed we should note is
26:43
finance for less than forty regular season wins. And I
26:47
say that, you know, Auburn absolutely was deserving of a
26:50
top eight national seed. I don't want to hear that
26:53
the top four was surprising, right, And I think the
26:55
committee factor in their string to schedule. They've they played
26:58
one of, if not beat his schedules. In college baseball
27:02
this season had some really impressive, you know series wins,
27:07
including obviously not to bring up old you know, old scars,
27:10
but that sweep over LSU at Auburn. I mean they
27:13
were impressive. I mean Auburn was a very very good club.
27:17
I thought of the four again that thought that was
27:20
a little bit high, and I thought Auburn. I think
27:22
Alburt gets a pretty decent draw too. As far as underseated.
27:27
I mean, like I said, I think you could flip
27:29
bot Texas and Bandy, but that's sort of nitpicking. I
27:32
think everybody else kind of ended up exactly where I
27:37
thought they were. I mean the other one that I'll mention,
27:39
and I know you didn't quite ask the question this way,
27:42
but I love Florida's draw too.
27:44
Speaker 5: Man.
27:45
Speaker 1: They go to Conway. Obviously SoCal Carolina and all due
27:48
respect to Coastal, all due respect to the rest of
27:50
the field. But I think anytime you're an SEC team,
27:55
and I could say the same for Alabama too, anytime
27:57
you're an SEC team and you're going on the road
28:00
to a regional where a mid major is hosting. Listen,
28:04
it's not gonna be easy, but they're a harder paths.
28:07
But you you'd much rather have that path, I think
28:10
than what some of these others, you know, Kentucky going
28:12
to Clemson, Oklahoma going to UNC. Like I think Florida
28:16
saw their drawl basing off East Carolina in game one
28:20
and then Coastal Carolina and Fairfield. Of the other two teams,
28:22
you're saying to yourself, all right, we got this, you
28:26
know what I mean. So and again, baseball's funny. I'm
28:28
not saying it's a guarantee Ford is gonna win, but
28:31
love their path too. That regional actually matches up against
28:34
the Auburn regionals. So I think either Auburn or Florida,
28:37
I think one of those duds up going to Omaha.
28:40
Right now, I'd probably lead the Gators. But yeah, I mean,
28:44
I think for the most part, there wasn't a ton
28:46
of drama in this year's selection. I mean, yeah, we
28:51
had our you know, you had a few that obviously.
28:53
I think Virginia had a gripe, Troy had a gripe,
28:55
Yukon had a gripe to get in. But you know,
28:58
for the most part, I thought the commit he actually
29:00
did a pretty good job.
29:02
Speaker 2: Chris, one more quick one here for you before we
29:03
get you out of here, and thanks for your time.
29:05
Right now, your favorite to win the College World Series?
29:07
Who you got?
29:11
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a trick question, Taylor. You
29:14
come on, you come on, a baton rouge ESPN affiliate.
29:17
You're gonna ask me who to win? Who wins a
29:19
College World Series? I mean, it's so tough. I mean,
29:25
I think LSU is certainly one of my favorites. You
29:28
know what's interesting, Arkansas is the betting favorite right now,
29:32
which I just cannot in good conscience say they're the favorite.
29:37
They've gotten the team to get there, they should get there.
29:40
But Taylor, it's Arkansas in the postseason. I mean, anybody
29:44
who's watched college baseball recently knows why that would be
29:47
a terrifying pick. So, you know, I mean, I'll go
29:53
to LSU. I mean, hey, here's the thing. I am
29:57
a lot more confident than a lot of my my
30:00
LSU friends and colleagues, if you will, about them getting
30:03
to Omaha, because of my mind, it's just like LSU's
30:07
playing posts in baseball. Alex box. Therefore it's like two
30:10
plus two equals four and that four is Omaha. You
30:12
know what I mean. You know, anything could happen in
30:15
this game, But like I said, I will be I'll
30:17
be shocked if you and I and everybody else wear
30:20
in purple and gold are taking jello shots at Rocos
30:22
in a few weeks, don't really surprise me. And you know,
30:26
once you get there, good luck being Kate Anderson, Anthony
30:30
Ayinston and the rest of that crew. And it'll be
30:32
all about the line up that That's what it is
30:33
for LSU. And I think maybe one of the best
30:35
things though, is they're gonna hear about it all week long.
30:38
That's the big question going in. I think certainly coming
30:41
back home and hitting an alex box is gonna help it.
30:44
And then the challenge will be once you get to Omaha,
30:46
it's a big ballpark. Yet again, are you able to
30:47
produce runs and help out your pitchers because certainly, again
30:50
you've got arms on arms if they do that, you know,
30:53
I think this team's good enough to win a national championship.
30:55
But yeah, I mean it's it's heck gets hard enough
30:59
to pick the Omaha. I ate much less than national
31:01
champion even at this point. But again, I think the
31:03
Tigers have got to go shot as anybody.
31:05
Speaker 2: Well, Chris, I'm sure everybody down here in the Purple
31:07
and Gold hopes that you are right. Chris, Thanks so
31:09
much for hopping on with us today.
31:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, Taylor, appreciate the time. Man. Always a pleasure to
31:13
do it again soon.
31:14
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it was Chris Philip Treight there with sec unfiltered.
31:18
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Tyler Sharp and the host share for Jacob Pastor. He
32:52
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Era officially getting kicked off next Monday, so that'll be
32:59
exciting to as well. Londra Villary al Cassie's bizzally with
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me as well. And I'm be doing this for the
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do it every Tuesday kind of around this time, usually
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at eight fifteen. But let's get into it with some
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Speaker 3: I'll be writing to you the internet.
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Speaker 2: What the is the internet? All right? Most of these
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are making fun of me, so that's that's always fun, right,
33:42
We always love that. Hashtag mailbag. Al was Taylor's trip
33:46
to Columbus, Ohio. Never been at Columbus Ohio. I'd go
33:50
for a football game. I went to Golf Shores and
33:53
it was great. I was telling, uh, gonna mentioned it
33:56
in that first segment, if I have to eat shrimp
33:59
for the next two weeks, like I'm I'm gonna throw up.
34:01
I'm good. I'm good on that for minimum two weeks,
34:05
which is weird because, like, seafood is my favorite type
34:08
of food, shrimp especially, but I think I had that
34:12
almost every meal when we were out there at Golf Shores.
34:18
Hashtag go TB mail bag. How many guns of the
34:20
Taylor leave on his trip? No, that's actually only happened
34:23
one time. That was it was actually the last trip
34:26
I took. So interesting you would ask, No, none got
34:29
none got left on this trip. None got brought on
34:33
this trip. So that's it didn't be hard to uh
34:35
be hard to leave one right there? Hashtago TB mail bag.
34:40
When can we expect the Alandra deep dive on the
34:42
Macron title fight Macron Macrone.
34:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, it would be a very long either the entire
34:51
show or it would have to be like multiple days
34:56
of like a segment a day, Like the Macrone rabbit.
34:59
Speaker 3: Hole goes very very deep.
35:00
Speaker 2: He's the fight.
35:01
Speaker 6: No, so they're talking about the French president and his
35:04
wife like. So over the weekend a video came out
35:08
where basically like Brigitte slapped Emmanuel McCrone in the face
35:16
and it was on video, but it wasn't supposed to
35:19
be on video and that came out. But it goes
35:22
much much deeper than that the Macrones do. So I
35:26
don't know if it's something that like i'd even be
35:29
allowed to bring on the air.
35:30
Speaker 2: So I didn't even know who this was. Yeah, like
35:32
I'm learning this for the first time. This sounds awesome.
35:35
This sounds a lot like Righteous Gymstone so that I
35:37
was watching last night. A family that kind of gets
35:39
into a little bit more than what they should shoot, man,
35:42
and I'd be into that. I'm always in for a
35:45
I'd love a deep dive when I'm the one that
35:47
doesn't have to do the deep dive. Yeah, I like
35:49
like like.
35:50
Speaker 6: Being done the deep dive.
35:51
Speaker 2: It's like being in a group project where you don't
35:53
actually have to do any of the work. It's it's fun.
35:55
It's like the payoff is still there all the work
35:57
leading up to it. We should we we should do that.
36:00
Speaker 6: Oh, I did this deep dive a long time ago,
36:02
and like it's now starting to all come out. After
36:07
she slapped him, I'm saying, like, quote unquote, she slapped
36:10
him in the face. But uh yeah, boys would be boys.
36:16
I guess.
36:18
Speaker 2: Has to go to be mailbag. Favorite gas station food
36:22
to grab fried chicken, beef, jerky, takers, et cetera. You
36:25
can't go with none of the above. Like, if I'm
36:27
at a gas station and I'm grabbing something quick, it's
36:29
gonna be junk food, It's gonna be a snack. Like sure, chicken,
36:32
beef jerky, all that's fine. But like, give me some candy.
36:35
I'm good with any candy. Normally I do the King
36:37
size Snickers bar to doctor Beppert, that's kind of my
36:40
go to gas station Guys, what do we like gas
36:42
station food?
36:43
Speaker 6: I love a gas station egg roll or like the
36:46
corn nugget.
36:47
Speaker 2: Okay, a good one can be elite.
36:49
Speaker 6: There's a uh it's called this the Suma stop off
36:53
the Suma exit.
36:54
Speaker 4: They got the best.
36:55
Speaker 2: Like yeah, okay, so the exit. Yeah okay.
36:59
Speaker 6: So I assume out so much shop or something like that.
37:01
Speaker 2: So I'm assuming you went there for Rock the Country.
37:05
Speaker 6: Every day we stopped at that gas station where we
37:07
get junk.
37:08
Speaker 2: Food world's best breakfast biscuits right there. Yeah, we didn't
37:11
try the Yeah, like their their their breakfast biscuit. It's
37:13
like sometimes like I'll wake up on a Saturday morning
37:15
if I'm not doing anything, like I'll drive, I'll drive
37:17
there instead of somewhere in town and get it from
37:19
me in Victoria. That is that is an a plus
37:21
at answer Cassie favorite gas station food. What we got we.
37:24
Speaker 5: Usually get like a bag of chips, and like if
37:27
I get candy, it's like Swizzers or.
37:29
Speaker 2: Like a git cat Twizzlers.
37:32
Speaker 4: I like Twizzlers.
37:33
Speaker 2: I don't that's crazy to eat them, but like I
37:35
feel like they don't have flavor. I feel like they
37:37
don't have flavor. Like what does a twizzler taste like Twizzlers?
37:42
And they're always like, oh cherry flavor and don't taste
37:45
like cherry.
37:46
Speaker 4: It's usually like cherry or Strawberry.
37:51
Speaker 2: At shtag mailbag O TB. Chicken. Who's getting on whose shoulders?
37:59
I would like to see Jacob Flynn go out, so
38:01
they're gonna actually get on our shoulders?
38:04
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I could. I'm trying to think like
38:09
because Matt is taller but is less probably.
38:14
Speaker 2: So it doesn't really matter.
38:15
Speaker 6: Because Jake got some mass, like good mass, but he's
38:17
got some mass on him.
38:18
Speaker 2: Okay, so okay, well then you'll have to take Flynn
38:21
that way. They're even hype because I'm taller than you.
38:23
So I'll take Jake. You take Flynn that way. They're
38:25
they're more even at the top. Look at us, we're
38:27
at solving problems and getting out physical altercations here in
38:30
the air. That's that's what it's all about. Okay, ask
38:35
the bench rank in real life Spider Man one through three.
38:39
So I'm assuming this is the Toby maguire Spider Man,
38:42
Spider Man one, two and three spider Man. I acknowledged, Well,
38:45
I'm trying to think if he means movie or actor.
38:48
Speaker 6: I think he means like the Spider Man movies, like
38:51
the first three.
38:52
Speaker 2: Let's see, I'm gonna take you. I like three, I
38:54
really do, because that's got Sandman. It's guy James franco
38:58
Is whatever. His bad guy is the green Goblin.
39:01
Speaker 4: That's the second one, isn't.
39:03
Speaker 2: No, The second one's dot Oc.
39:05
Speaker 3: Yeah.
39:05
Speaker 2: The third one's got Sandman franco Is. Yeah, he's like
39:10
kind of green Goblin. But yeah. And then there's a
39:13
third one too. I don't remember. There's three bad guys
39:15
in that one. I like that one. I'll probably go
39:18
three one two, three one too. I'm gonna go one
39:21
three too.
39:22
Speaker 3: I love the first one for some reason.
39:24
Speaker 2: I mean, it's the nostalgia. It's will Is green Goblin.
39:33
It's it's it's a thing. Yeah, it's a thing for
39:35
her with all right, that's gonna do it for O
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TB mail Bag. We're gonna take a time out and
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we get back. The NFL has allowed NFL stars to
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edition of Off the Bench, Taylor Sharp here with you
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in for mister Jacobstor. We got elandra Villarrial and Cassie's
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bizzally here as well and on the at the spring
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league meetings, and on Tuesday back in Minneapolis, it was
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unanimously approved NFL owners a proposal for NFL players to
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participate in flag football at the twenty twenty eight Olympics
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in Los Angeles. So what I want to do right
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now is all of us create their own flag football team,
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and Cassie, I think, actually want you to go first here.
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So it's it's five players, It's what it'll be. Typically,
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what they're doing is a quarterback, a center to snap
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it but can also run out for passes. Two receivers
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are running back. Really just four pass catchers if you will,
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with a QB. Okay, you gotta see. You told me
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you and Adam were crunching the numbers last night. Okay,
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I need to see what we got.
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Speaker 4: All right, So I've got Lamar Jackson is my quarterback.
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Speaker 2: Popular choice, Yeah, because the qbs can take off and
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run in flight football like that's that's the thing. You
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have to wait like six seconds, but you can take off.
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Speaker 5: Justin Jefferson Travis Hunter. I feel like he'd be good
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on both sides of the ball.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, yeah, no, I love.
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Speaker 3: This so much.
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Speaker 4: Barkley, and I think I have to go tyro in Matthew, like,
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I know, he's kind of that's actually good.
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Speaker 2: That's actually a really good point, Adam, like the Travis
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Hunter one, didn't he Yeah, that's got him reading all
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over it. I love the team because you've got a
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mix of of offense and defense. Now, I'm sure on
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the Olympics, so like on the real Olympic team, you'll
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be able to have ten players, so it'll be like
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five offense, five defense, but like for this activity, yeah,
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five players. I love it, Laundra, what we got?
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Speaker 6: Okay, so I put zero thought behind all of this.
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From my quarterback, I'm gonna have Joe Burrow because of course.
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Speaker 2: Wait, I am shocked by this.
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Speaker 6: And then I got Jamar Chase.
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Speaker 2: Another surprise, I got.
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Speaker 6: Moleak Neighbors and zach Ertz okay, and then Saquon Barkley.
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Speaker 2: Popular pick a lounda pick of Joe Burrow. Didn't see
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that coming, Like Joe Burrow, I hate it? What are
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we doing here? Hey, he'll be in town.
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Speaker 6: I need everybody in on this, like I need everyone
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to buy in, like listeners us in this room, Jake.
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I need to get Matt on the train too, Like
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we all need to manifest that I meet Joe Burrow,
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is it pop? And that at Top Golf and that
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like it's love at first sight. I get everybody in.
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We all need to believe.
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Speaker 2: Do we need like a machine to blow your hair?
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Because it's first sight? Like you got to have everything
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and what if it's not whin Do you have to
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think you got to stand in the right spot. Yeah,
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we'll have to go the day before like they do,
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like a rehearsal for a wedding. We got a dress
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rehearsal for Top Golf. We gotta make this happen. Yes,
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love that Actually two really good teams. Okay for my team.
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I criticized this guy a lot, but when it comes
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to flag football, I'm going Kyler Murray is my quarterback.
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Kyler's a you know, he's a runner. He's small. It's
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gonna be hard to get that flag. If he's able
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to take off and run at one receiver. I'm going
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justin Jefferson. I need a route runner. I need a technician,
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somebody that's gonna cross up the DB's. There's nobody in
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the league in my opinion, running routes better than Justin Jefferson.
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On the other side of things, I thought about Jamar Chase,
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but alanj already took Jamar Chase. I kind of want
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us to mix things up. I'm going Ceedee Lamb. Want
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i gotta get a little bit of Cowboys flare in
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there to Ceedee Lamb the fifty to fifty ball king,
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he's gonna go up there. He's gonna be the aggressive receiver.
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And then on the other side, you got Jeffefferson, the
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route technician for my running back, fully healthy, Christian McCaffrey
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to where I'm going. The guy's incredible out of the
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backfield to catch in the ball. He's strong, he's fast,
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he's quick. Christian McCaffrey's gonna be my running back and
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at my center because you gotta have a center to
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snap it. But they can also run out four passes
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catch that ball as well. I'm gonna go George Kittle.
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George Kittle's smart guy. He's one of the best tight
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ends in the NFL, and he's a good enough route
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runner to where he can wait that half second to
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snap it before he gets out of the backfield. Runs
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of the route, So a little bit of a recap. Cassie,
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you went Lamar, Saquon, Travis Hunter, Justin Jefferson, Tyron Matthew. Yes,
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Alandra went, Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, my league neighbors, zach Ert,
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Saquon Barkley. Yeah, helly all, I remembered all that. I went,
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Kyler Murray, Justin Jefferson, Ceedee Lamb, George Kittle, Christian McCaffrey.
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I think those are all pretty good teams. The reality is,
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it doesn't even matter which team gets picked because some
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poor five to eight white guy from like the UK
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is gonna line up trying to cover Joshon Jefferson or
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Jamar Chase. Yeah, guys, that ain't happen. Okay, that's not happening.
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Speaker 7: Now.
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Speaker 2: There is apparently going to be rules maybe where it's
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like one player per NFL team, So the whole Jamar
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Burrough thing may not happen. Like they're they're well, they're
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they're kind of it's still in the process, like they
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have to get with the NFL Players Association and all that.
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But uh, people have had a lot of fun with this.
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I'm glad we got to do that as well. Doesn't
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matter us taking them the goal twenty twenty eight Olympics
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flag football. We're going to make it happen, all right.
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Coming up in hour number three, we got Nick Underhill,
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we got Devin Snow and Lsu retiring to Jersey's gonna
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be hanging from Tiger Stadium. We'll get into all that
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