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The Power House of Midseason Reviews · JustIN Time

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Welcome back to the Just in Time podcast.
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I'm your host, Justin. With me is Will, and we've got a
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lot to talk about. Some.
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Big things happen, yeah. Some big stuff happened, you
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know, starting off with we'll go into basketball 1st and then
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we'll shift into some baseball. Family we have a general back
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brother. Personally, I love the decision.
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I mean, I don't think our athletic department under Joe
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Oliva handled that situation the best at the time.
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I do agree he needed to be let go to save other sporting
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programs like football. But you know, thank you Texas A
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and you started all of this for us.
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You put us on the map in both, back on the map in both football
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and I ain't going to say we're going to be back on the map in
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basketball because we weren't on the map.
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We're joining a conversation on basketball.
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Been a couple of decades since we've even been in the
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conversation, but we're joining the conversation again, all
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thanks to you cult members over there in Texas A&M at College
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Station. If you don't remember, here's a
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refresher for you on October 25th.
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You came in and what's the right word for this?
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Embarrassed us, embarrassed the program and we got rid of a
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clown. Let us to get rid of a clown.
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So thank you for that. But also McMahon wasn't a clown.
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He's just he's a nice guy. I've never met him, but from
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what I hear and everything, he's a class act and he just couldn't
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get over the hump and win in the SEC.
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So what does that do now? We got to not only do we have an
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athletic director that's not afraid to go out and not get
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coaches he thinks is great, but coaches that are actually great.
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I'm not going to sit here and shit on Scott Woodard, but with
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him, I don't think we are. We would have gotten Lane
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Kiffin. I don't think we would have
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gotten Will Wade back. Actually, I know for a fact we
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wouldn't have gotten Will Wade back to man who fired him.
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Wasn't good turn around and rehire.
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Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
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I don't blame him. Yeah, I.
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Don't blame it me though. It makes you circumstance, yeah.
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But at first I was kind of like where we going with this
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athletic director stuff, but started out great for us.
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Yeah, sure. I mean, I mean, you got to look
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at it, look at the facts. We've got.
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We fired 2 coaches that weren't winning.
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We've got proven, we've got a guy at Wil Wade who's already
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proven he can do it at LSU. Didn't he win the Seca couple
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times? I want to say at least.
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Once. Yeah, at least once, yeah.
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Yeah, he's and he was pretty deep in deep in it in the
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tournament when they decided to suspend him for the biggest game
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when they came out with that original NCAA findings.
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Yeah, the wiretaps. Which to me at the time, they
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didn't even know about the wiretaps or the public didn't
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know. You suspend your coach.
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That just is admitting guilt to me.
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Why would you do that? Yes, let him finish out the
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season and then put him on a suspension.
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But the crazy part about it is they did all of that and then
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they brought him back for at least two more seasons.
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It was a man, it was such a turn of events for this whole
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situation. You know, like like you said, we
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wanted to talk about will just you talk about as most of an
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icanic situation as you ever find like this is so A1 unique
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outlier situation. And look, you know, I've seen
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the last week or so, you know, NC State folks are bitter.
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They're not happy. Yeah, they're not happy.
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Like he said. They're bitter about a coach
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they didn't think was that great in the first place.
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They listen, you know what's what's funny about that is and
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listen, I get it. Here's the thing, like, and I'm
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not like LSU in terms of men's basketball, LSU, it's a terrible
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job. It was like nothing.
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There's there's no that's that is just factual evidence.
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There's no right spot in that job.
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Like listen, like we were, we were born in 93, right?
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So they've been to one final four in our lifetime.
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One I was in, it was 2000 and we were in 6th grade the last time
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we went to the final four in the last program.
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Look at this here I will sum it up for you.
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This sums it up to me. What other other coaching job in
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what other school program do you hire?
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Not you hire a coach that you fired.
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But not only that, the coach that you fired to replace him
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before he got fired is back on his staff.
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Yes, that's right. That's I'm good, man.
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That's. I mean, that's to me that.
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Sounds all. Basketball.
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That's that's the program for you right there.
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But yeah, but I didn't listen to much of his press conference
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because I had that class, but I put it on a little bit while
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they would. We're doing some stuff.
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It was listening to it in a spot where I just turned it off
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because I was It was just funny. And I said I was going to watch
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it later. Yeah.
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Was when he said he was there to make history one way or another.
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Yeah. He was either go win a
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championship and hang a banner or he was going to be the first
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coach to be fired from the same school twice.
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Yes. It used to be made either way,
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brother. Yeah, by the way, I love the
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hire because, like I said, I'm not that big in the basketball,
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but I went when I was in college.
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When we were in college, I went to more men's basketball games
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in LSU just because Bill Wade was the coach and I thought, oh,
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we got a good. Chance to win this game, yeah.
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It was a great time that will I will wade for you shirts that
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they put out on the things. Yeah, yeah, it was a good high.
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I think it's a good hire. I think we're going to do a lot
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of not saying we're going to win it all, but also don't look for
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it to be a successful year right off the.
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Yeah, like and that's yeah. And that's the thing I want to
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talk about just like it's a terrible job like this.
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I know people are very happy at LSU right now and right
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understandably so. It's an awful job, as you say,
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is a far better basketball job historically and currently.
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But just to the given the situation with the alignment
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that he stressed on from McNeese State alignment and then just
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like the fans, it's like 2 just intangible pieces that are hard
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to ignore and like, and then a lot of people talk to you know,
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AC state people talked about how well he's a betrayer, he's a
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traitor. I'm like, listen, he was caught
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on FBI to wire taps way before you hired him.
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Exactly. So it's like that that lets me
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know that you you just bitter about you got spurred and I get
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like I know people should be out they should honor their word.
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Absolutely. He worship me a bond.
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My pastors always tell us that they worship me a bond and then
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but when people This is why I ate so much when just fans and
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pundits they get something They always crush these young adults,
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these athletes about transferring every Oh they quit.
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They quit on the team used to fight and this, but the coach
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has been doing this for decades they've.
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Been doing. This for decades.
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What's new? Yeah.
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But look what made Will Wade really bad.
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I don't know if this was AAI generated thing, but apparently
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he bought a house. He bought the house in Baton
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Rouge on February 23rd. Yeah, or put in the offer for
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it, which is he's perfect for LSU.
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We need those kind of big, you know, personalities.
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But on that same topic, you know, we stick with basketball
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real quick. Kim Monkey's not retiring.
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And the fact that she told him reporters that she only 63, in
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good health. She's got a stent, but her
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doctor says she's fully healthy. That's the lower.
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And she's not retiring. She don't know who started that.
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And then somebody showed me that the dude who posted it on
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Twitter doubled and tripled down on it after she said she wasn't
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retiring. But she also told him reporters,
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do I look that bad? Oh man.
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But you know, we'll jump, right? While we're on the topic, before
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we start, who was it? Let's see.
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Gabriel Ralford tore his ACL. He's out for the season for
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don't. Talk Massive, massive loss,
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yeah. I will say this, at least it's
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not in season, it happened now, so it's not really setting us
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back in the long run. So that guys can emerge, yeah.
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It's a huge, it's a huge loss, but it's not like you are in
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game five in Week 5 in, he blows a tire out.
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You know you're in spring training, you've got time to
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prep other guys to step up and get it done.
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That's right. Yeah, and to me that's
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important. Now time for baseball, which is
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has been depressing for the last couple weeks.
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But, and I'm not going to lie, on Friday night, I thought it
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was going to be depressing, depressing weekend.
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Jason Evans comes out and looks atrocious for the 1st 2 innings.
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Then he settled down and considering the state of our
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starting pitching did his job, I can't be mad at him.
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He fought through it and he pitched.
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To his credit, yeah. Let's see, I think he threw 3
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scoreless. He settled down and I think he's
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threw 3 scoreless. OK, he the 4th, he threw 50
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through in 60 through. He gave up seven runs in four
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runs in the first two innings and then he's threw 4 scoreless
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innings to get us into the 6th and keep us in the game.
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Can't be mad at that. Yeah, relative to I was
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starting, like I said, it's still another rough outing.
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But when you were able to just really extend like that,
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obviously you don't want to give up the runs, but it was just, it
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was just too much to overcome, especially with Dolphins
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inconsistencies, you know? Exactly.
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So it's just too much overcome. Then you've got put in Paul to
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pitch for Evans in the 7th and he gave up another three,
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another three runs to make it 7, I think was the final of that
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game. Yeah, 7:00 to 4:00.
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But you know, like I said, that was a depressing.
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I left that game early because I tried to come back to finish
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watching the women's basketball game.
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Yeah, but that was a rough day altogether.
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Yeah, I know. Then, you know, we come back
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Saturday and we have a big game. You know, William Schmidt shut
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him down. He looked real.
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Close. Then he pitched 5 and a third.
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Gave up six hits, walked two, struck out three, you know, and
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then you got Zach Collin coming in and through the rest of the
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game. Gave up one hit, Walked one.
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Seven strikeouts. This is Dern Straight School of
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Dalton. Yeah, and he looked fantastic.
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And shout out to the diamond baseball, Yes, counts on my
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fantasy team for that. Good, good.
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Yeah. So he does good, you know, will
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look good. But huge weekend for him.
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And honestly, I don't know who we start and let's we'll get
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into the Saturday, the Sunday game.
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I don't know who we need to start, but Guidry is not a
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starter. Yeah.
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He went one and a third, gave up three hits, six runs, four walks
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in two hit by pitches. We can't have that.
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You know, luckily for him, he didn't pick up AL because
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Garcia, Binge, Williams, Rizzi, Sharon and Locky Meyer and
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thought no, picked it up and helped him.
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But also some guys we're going to talk about on this other
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list, you know, helped him offensively, and none bigger
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than Seth Dardar. Oh man what a resurgence bro.
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Massive, massive comeback. Yeah, and then all he does last
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night was. Add to it.
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Come off the bench after a rain delay and hit a triple.
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Yes, first of the year. Yep.
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Could have used that on Sunday. You would have hit for the
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cycle. Hey.
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But, I mean, daughter's bat went high, went farther than any ball
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Jake Brown unfortunately hit all weekend.
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Yeah. Then that center field of a
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Southern last night. Oh.
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My grad club isn't that was. An amazing play an.
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Amazing catch had had tipped that just he's you know what's
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funny yeah you know it's funny I.
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Can't believe we reviewed that he he jumped on the warning
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track, caught it and hit the wall like this.
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Yes. He caught the ball.
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Why did we? Waste the Completed the whole
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football. Complete the process.
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That's complete the process. Exactly.
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And The thing is like, you know, it's funny, I looked at his, I
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looked on Southern's website, sports website, looked him up.
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He's a senior, so unfortunately he's not going to have any
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eligibilities. You know, I was listening to the
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morning skull this morning. Some people say like, you know,
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we got to get Radcliffe. Yeah, I mean no eligibility,
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Lou, I. Mean they came out.
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I don't know what happened to Stanfield with that one, but
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that game should have ended a lot earlier.
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Yeah. I'm not hating on him.
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He makes that play 9 out of probably 10 out of 10 Times Now
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that he missed. He missed that one.
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I don't know if it went through the webbing, his glove or it
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just went off. He misread it and it went off
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the top, right off the top, but it just, it's very rare for him
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to do that, but he is on fire offensively lately.
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Yes Oh yes, he looked single in the first got on base four times
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to five innings yesterday yeah this is crazy I.
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Mean, it's crazy. And then he's, like we said
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before, having him come back was huge.
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Yeah. And people say online he like
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he's the leader of the team. I say just like, yeah.
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And I it's hard to argue that because this immediate when you
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talk about immediate impact led the team in in conference
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batting average last year and then you come back off like
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missing like a couple weeks and you have an instantaneous
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response for the team. Yeah.
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You just can't replace that. It's hard to replace that.
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Exactly, and I will say this, that game on Sunday, the fight
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and everything, they got a screenshot of it.
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We started the weekend off OK as a three seed and they had a
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Baseball America which nobody cares about.
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Baseball America might as well shut their doors.
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Everybody. The only ones people care about
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nowadays is the D1. D1.
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D1 is the pole that everybody uses anyway, but LSU is a
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projected 2 seed right now. We've gone from a three seed to
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a two seed and they have us projectors going projected going
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to Virginia, but I think that's going to.
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All change. We've got a lot of season and a
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lot of rankings and a lot of very good teams left to play at.
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Current we are three. Games behind in the SEC and
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oddly enough, and I don't think that I don't remember this ever
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happening, but LSU was the only team to not sweep that one
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weekend series this weekend to not have a sweep.
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The LSU Kentucky series was the only one weekend series that
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went 2 and 1 I think. Tennessee got swept by
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Vandessee. Got swept by Vandy on a.
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Walk, but wouldn't it like walk us every game or?
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To walk, I think it was, it was at least two walk offs because
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one on Saturday was 16 innings and ended in a bunt, a walk off
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bunt, and then the one on Sunday ended in a walk off.
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I think it was a walk off Grand Slam my.
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Gosh. For Vandy.
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But we are four and five in the SEC, much better place than we
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were on at this time in 24. And I think it's starting to
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come together. We're turning more double place.
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We're trusting. Dardar and Milam are trusting
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each other to, yeah, turn to double plays.
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Picked it up defensively. Honestly, unless Dardar Pearson
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goes down, I don't see Caraway getting into this lineup because
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Pearson's doing a fantastic job at third base.
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Yeah. And Dardar and Milam seem to be
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doing that. But it's hard to take Dardar as
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bad at out the lineup, especially when he's playing a
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good second base. He's not throwing the ball away
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like he did at the beginning of the season.
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I know the Pearson like I know like he had a bet like toward
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the end of the game yesterday, like he had a bad like an error
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throw to 1st. It was because it looked like
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the delivery was kind of lazy or just like delayed.
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I was like, I don't like to look how it's coming out.
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Obviously to see the ball fall short of first base, but just
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like the the Winder was kind of delayed or Winder was kind of.
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Yeah. Fluid I can't really start to
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describe. Yeah, I'm no, yeah, I'm not
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going to lie, I didn't see it because they started a game back
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up at 10:00. Yeah, listen, like I finished my
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nose this morning. I was like, I just don't sleep
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early and just. I watched him to get to I
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watched him get to 16 to 6 and I was comfortable they were going
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to win. Hopefully they 10 run Rd. and I
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went to bed. Yeah, I'm there.
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Was there was the way the weather was last night, they
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could have ended up in another 2 hour rain delay.
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Yeah. But you know, I think I would
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put it in my notes with Dardar. Hopefully I wrote this down.
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OK, This was, I didn't write it down apparently, but he was
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maybe I did. Where's mine?
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Dardar for the Kentucky series was 6 for 10/4 double s and that
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huge three run home run, you know.
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He leaves. He leaves the LSU in double s
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right now. Yeah, and then Pearson is just
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on a hot streak at the plate, but Milan hit that ball so hard
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last night from the left side that he put him in a lightning
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delay. Perfect.
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Time. I mean, you can't get, don't get
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much better than that. Yeah.
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But Jake Brown needs to calm down, get it together.
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We can't be wasting challenges on balls that you think you
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can't believe that was caught because everybody in that
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stadium knew that he caught that ball last night except Jake
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Brown. I don't think he I think he was
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just shocked that somebody did what he couldn't do in the
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outfield and made a catch. It was a blow to his ego.
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Got Dick, that guy's a dude but and just he made like 3 great
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catches. I'm like but like you see a
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pattern here already. Yeah, but I mean, look, for me,
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we've cleaned up some aspects of the game and then we suffer in
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another one in where we suffered twice this weekend was base
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running Omar Serna. At first they hit a long fly
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ball to center field. He gets doubled up at first
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because I don't know what. I looked up and it looked like
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he was on second base, like he was tagging, waiting for him to
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catch it and to tag and go back to first on 2nd instead of just
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going halfway and waiting to find out what we're doing.
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Then Mason Braun, I would have, personally, I would have glued
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him to the bench until he knew it, until he learned, until the
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next frag is where he learned how to run the bases because it
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was a big moment. I think we were still down by 2.
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Is this the game? Yeah.
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Let's see. I think it was the was it the
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8th? No, it must have been Bronze
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singled, then daughter advanced to 3rd, then Stanfield singled
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to right field. Josh Jordan is sitting there
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before he even rounded second to come with his hands out like
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stop sign and he just never even looked in.
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Was out by 3 or 4 feet, 3 or 4 steps at 3rd.
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And at that point in the 5th, we were still we were down by 3.
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Yeah. At that point.
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So that was huge, you know? Yeah, that's indeed.
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At that point that was huge, so we need to run the bases better.
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Right. We can't get all these other.
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We can't get the offense going. If then forget how to run the
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bases. But yeah, we talked about it.
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We talked about this is a common thing with the team as far as
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year, just like, you know, you just you hold, you rise in one
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area and they're like you, you drop and another like there's
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no, we're not, we got to hold up all the cups right here at the
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same level. Exactly.
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But you know, this weekend was full of drama, Yes.
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I have never seen a coach wine like Nick Mangione in Kentucky.
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Oh my gosh, it's always sudden. Wines specifically, OK, we had
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that double play that Brown got from a single they threw and he
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threw it straight to the plate or no, it was a fly out and
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because we got to double play on, it was a fly out from right
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and then runner was on 3rd and he hosed him at the plate, went
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and tried to complain that Josh Pearson obstructed the runner
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from leaving third in a timely manner.
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Then we had a 15 minute delay because he couldn't understand
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and get it through his thick skull that you can't.
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That is not a reviewable play. Then Dardar wanted almost got to
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Kentucky's pitching coach wanted to start a fight with Jay
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Johnson. Like, yeah, because they was
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mouthing out there that's it was intense.
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It was intensity in that serial man.
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Yeah, but I mean, you got Kentucky, who on walk every time
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the pitcher throws the ball, they sit there and I better sit
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there and like, what are you doing?
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Like you're not if the pitcher. Threw me the.
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Ball you, the pitcher threw me a ball.
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I would look in and just lock back in and not beat my chest
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like a moron. I mean, you're not.
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It's not. It's like when it's like when
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defensive players in football, the kid trips over his shoelaces
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and goes down and they not, they go down untouched in those
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linebackers and cornerbacks to start beating their chest and
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puffing out their chest. Like they made, they made the
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best tackle in the country that night.
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You know, like they just made the most amazing tackle of their
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career that's going to get them to be #1 in the draft.
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And the kid tripped over his shoelaces.
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It was like that Kentucky, they were throwing balls and they
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were beating their chest like they did something like they
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made the pitcher throw a ball. No, it was this trash umpire
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behind the plate that couldn't know didn't know a ball from a
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strike or a text wing to save his life.
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You know the ABF, the ABF we. Need to get that.
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It's taking. It's taking the MLB by storm.
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People love it. I love it.
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My gosh, that's. What?
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I love the rule. I also love the rule that you
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cannot use ABS if a position player has to come in to pitch.
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You know, I love that rule because that happened and I
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think somebody got mad and almost got thrown out again last
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week because a position player was pitching and he was OK.
23:42
This was clearly a ball. It crossed the man his eyes and
23:45
that umpire says strike three. Absolutely not.
23:50
Yeah, personally, I think that is just when the umpires can be
23:54
petty and be like their old horrible selves.
23:57
But see, and that's but, but people say that about them
24:00
because it's like, you know, their eagles are too big.
24:03
Yeah. It's like they don't come to the
24:05
game for you. I mean, we just want you to make
24:06
the great calls. Nobody's saying your job is easy
24:09
and it's perfect, but it's like, yeah, it'll be excellent.
24:13
I mean look, Musso said it best at the game, yelled it at the
24:16
umpire. The reason AI is taking over
24:20
their jobs is because they're so terrible at their jobs.
24:22
There was one where it was clear ball for a mop, the bat was on
24:26
Milam's shoulder and he just went like this.
24:29
They said the home plate umpire didn't even point to get a
24:33
second opinion from the first first or I think it was third
24:38
base umpire didn't even bother going to check with him, rang
24:42
him up, called him out, strike three.
24:44
They're the reason why we have this ABS system.
24:47
They're the reason why robots are taking over as umpires.
24:51
And I wouldn't be surprised if in a couple of years they just
24:54
go fully automated and they get rid of all umpires.
24:58
Listen, like The thing is like that's a, it's already a
25:01
privilege. You still have your job because
25:03
people have been calling for your job for years already.
25:07
You just look in the WBC like a couple weeks ago, it's like
25:10
Venezuela. They, I think it was Venezuela,
25:11
they lost to the US on a bad call.
25:14
I'm like, man, that is a terrible call.
25:17
That's a terrible miss. I was shocked.
25:19
They called. I'll say, Oh well, that's well.
25:23
I mean, you've got these guys and I'm not saying it's easy to,
25:26
yeah, especially with the guys throwing like they throw
25:29
nowadays, you know, to even see the ball coming in because I
25:35
mean, and I'm not taking up for umpires because I most of 90% of
25:40
umpires that I've seen or I've ever had a you do as long as
25:45
you're a umpire or a referee, if I'm watching my team play or if
25:50
I'm playing against you, it's 99% your fault.
25:53
And I can't stand you and I hate your guts.
25:57
It's personal. But I will say this.
26:00
As you know, you can stand there as a batter, stand in that box,
26:06
that 100 mile an hour fastball is coming right at him like it
26:09
isn't you all. The difference is he's got to
26:12
sit there, especially if he's behind LSU's catchers.
26:14
He has to sit there and wonder if that kids going to catch that
26:17
ball or if he's going to get hit.
26:18
And I'm wondering those guys at LSU with that bad because Kate
26:23
Aaron, BD and Omar Sarna missed so many balls that they flinch
26:27
every time the ball comes. I saw it today and I want to
26:30
know is just catching in this country at this point across the
26:34
country so atrocious that Cade Aaron Beatty is on the mid
26:40
season watch list for the Buster Posey award for the catcher of
26:45
the year award. I'm not hating on Cade Aaron
26:48
Beatty. No, I'm not hating on, I'm just
26:52
saying that I'm just. Because I know where you go with
26:56
it. You at this point, sometimes I
26:59
feel like I have a better chance of going out there.
27:03
Haven't caught from a real pitcher since high school.
27:07
My freshman year. I sometimes I feel like I have a
27:09
better chance of just sitting out there and just catching the
27:12
ball. I've never seen so many balls
27:15
bounce out of a catch's Mitt. Yeah, man, like speed, I made a
27:18
notice like I remember Sterner the the other day.
27:21
He did a great job of extending standing like it's like out
27:25
stretching and all just to prevent wild pitch scenarios.
27:27
Yeah, I'm like that was that was that was Sunday.
27:32
And I was like, man, I'm looking at it was like 3 at least three
27:34
or four times. I'm like, because that's that's.
27:37
Been last night too. Yeah, just.
27:39
On one, but I mean, dude, you know, we're struggling to throw
27:46
stripes. OK, yeah, you aren't helping
27:48
anybody when you take a ball from right here and move it a
27:55
whole 4 inches in. This trying to pitch frame but
27:58
others like secure the pitch though.
27:59
I do like the fact that when we get these strikeouts nowadays,
28:03
now we're not throwing around the horn, we're not pretending
28:06
to be something we're not. We're going.
28:08
We're getting a strikeout, catching it, going straight back
28:10
to the pitcher. I like that, you know, gives you
28:14
less time to mess something up. All right, now I got a question.
28:17
I thought this was just a heads up baseball play last night by
28:20
Milan run. He's on 1st.
28:24
It's a 3 two count. He steals.
28:28
OK, Yeah. He gets to 2nd, looks over at
28:31
third. Nobody's covering the bag
28:34
because of a shift. Yeah, and it was a walk.
28:37
He takes off and goes to 3rd. Southern makes a pitching
28:40
change. Those umpires go tell Jay
28:42
Johnson they're putting him back on 3rd.
28:45
Last I checked, a walk was not a dead ball.
28:47
Why does he have to go back? That's why I was the same thing.
28:51
I was wondered I'm like had a good date.
28:55
These catches and umpires are so quick to throw a ball out of
29:00
play after a walk when his run is on.
29:03
I think that's what the reason why Milan had to go back.
29:06
I think. I don't know, I didn't.
29:08
They didn't show it because they had a pitching change.
29:12
I think that catcher looked at that ball, threw it to the side
29:17
and put his net up for the umpire to give him a ball.
29:20
Yeah, I was saying that I was wondering.
29:21
I'm like, man, because this shouldn't be like it's a lot
29:24
because because he, he felt in second base, they had a fumble.
29:27
They they fumble the ball at second base and it's like, and
29:30
then you, I don't know, man. On that one it never even got
29:34
thrown to second base it. Yeah, that's yeah, right.
29:37
I'm thinking, no, I'm thinking about, I'm sorry.
29:38
I'm thinking about the one later.
29:40
I'm thinking about something. Different.
29:41
Yeah. They threw it straight back to
29:43
the pitcher, and the pitcher looked like he was confused.
29:46
Yeah. You know, Yeah.
29:48
So I don't know. But big part of that is we win
29:51
that game. Yes.
29:53
And we're riding a three-game winning streak going into
29:56
Tennessee. And because that Diamond
29:59
Baseball app is so helpful. Yeah.
30:03
I don't know how much you've been using it.
30:05
They've been clutched with like the updates, man, because
30:08
because you know, ESP, you can't allow ESPN for baseball.
30:11
You can't. Rely on the ES.
30:12
It's ridiculous. Baseball as that I could on that
30:14
earlier this year. I'm like, yeah, can't do it,
30:17
but. It's cool they are so it is so
30:20
handy for me not have to go on the web page and look up stats.
30:24
LSU Wire because I wouldn't see the start of the LSU Wire.
30:27
I'm just just when I was at work trying to find the live updates.
30:30
But even like on Sunday, when Kentucky would change pictures,
30:35
all I had to do was open the app, go to the Pictures tab and
30:38
find, OK, here's where we're at. What number is he?
30:44
He's we're about to get four runs off of him.
30:47
He's got 7 innings pitched. He's given up nine runs.
30:51
That last guy Kentucky threw out there when Sunday, a position
30:56
player, he's an outfielder at least as an outfielder and
30:59
catcher. Found that out off that app as
31:02
it was happening because nobody knew who he was, you know, but I
31:06
got some information for the upcoming series but just because
31:11
I've listed it out every week so far since we started on this bad
31:14
streak, the batting average team batting average has finally gone
31:18
up it's almost 300. We're at 291.
31:21
Yeah, Team ERA is down from. Let's see where I had it.
31:27
It's a tick up. No, it's down again.
31:29
We're at 452. OK.
31:34
I was thinking 5 those four or five, yeah. 452 and then, and
31:42
I'm going to check that I'm getting all these stats from OK,
31:44
so these are updated and good. The fielding percentage, that
31:52
app has our fielding percentage at 97972.
31:57
LSU has our fielding percentage at 964 and they have our LSU has
32:01
our team ERA as 473 and they have it at 4:52.
32:06
I'm going to just go at 4:52 because I'm going off the
32:09
numbers I also got from that app for Tennessee and I'm going to
32:15
go back and recheck this real quick because I made an error.
32:19
See, it happens. Yeah, I made an error.
32:21
I forgot it. I forgot it too.
32:23
OK, so then we go to Tennessee. Tennessee's team batting average
32:27
is 273. So we got them there, but that's
32:31
about the only place we have them because they're ERA is 370
32:34
and they're building percentage is 985.
32:37
We're getting better fielding, you know, we're getting, we're
32:40
getting better. We're getting there.
32:42
We're still not over that hump yet, but we're getting there.
32:46
And I like it. Yeah.
32:51
And there's any training, any momentum?
32:53
Any momentum you can get, we definitely needed that.
32:55
That's Kentucky winning that. Any day you can pull from moving
32:58
forward is what you should go with.
33:01
Yeah, you know, we're we're training upward and I like it.
33:05
You know, the game seemed fun to him.
33:07
Yeah, yeah. You know, you know, it seemed
33:12
fun to him. They're starting to hit again.
33:16
They're starting to get it together.
33:17
And I like that. You know, we will.
33:20
Let's go into the powerhouse pose.
33:22
I'll let you go first. But they're pulling up right
33:25
now. So Week 7 powerhouse pulls.
33:28
So starting off with pitching, you know, I got William Schmidt,
33:33
Zach Cowan at 2 and Demis Sheeran to round out the top
33:37
three. You know, Schmidt and Cowan, you
33:39
know, they produce a combined shutout on Saturday, you know,
33:42
versus in Game 2 versus Kentucky.
33:44
We just don't, we just don't win the series without them.
33:46
Like just, yeah. Just like even regardless of
33:50
what happened, we we could have won fifty to two in game three
33:53
against on Sunday, but this series is something we had to
33:57
have because we've already lost the 1st 2 conference.
34:00
We already lost the 1st 2 conference series and really
34:02
dating back to SAC state, we've lost three series overall on the
34:05
road. So it's like we needed, we
34:07
needed this one bad. And, you know, just and.
34:10
You know, yeah, to that point they said also, you know, we
34:15
were 3 and 15 in SEC play in 24. Yes.
34:19
We didn't win our first SEC series until we went and played
34:22
Missouri in late April and we won our SEC series in late March
34:29
because today is April Fool's Day, you know, so we're a month
34:36
ahead of schedule for our comeback, which is why I
34:40
personally think we could have a we could at least get to the
34:44
host if we win every we went out series wise this week, this
34:48
year, the rest of this year, we can have a thing.
34:51
But my first two are the same as you.
34:54
I've got William Schmidt and Zach Cowan for the same reasons
34:57
You can't, we don't win this series without those two
34:59
preaching performances. But just because this is a guy
35:03
who struggled in the past with control and he came out and
35:08
looked good and got to save on Sunday.
35:11
I got Grant Fortno being the my number three guy.
35:16
Yeah. Yeah.
35:16
And then I'll go ahead for offense.
35:19
You know, we talked about this already.
35:21
Seth dardar #1 He was 6 for 10 against Kentucky with four
35:24
double s and a, yeah, huge backflip to give us the lead on
35:29
college. Oh.
35:30
My gosh. John Pearson because 2.
35:36
I don't think we're even in that game without his Grand Slam on
35:38
Sunday. Listen.
35:40
I mean, listen, no doubt we we used to score because we started
35:45
off as we get first, get the hits and we do get the hits.
35:47
We don't get them home enough. Yeah.
35:49
So yeah. That was something Jay said on
35:53
Friday night. The key for them was to they put
35:58
it in their game plan and they wanted as goals 3 string
36:04
together 3 consecutive big hits and they only did it once.
36:09
But capping it off I got Steven Monster Milam.
36:13
I saw that saw deleted, deleted. Yeah, well, last night I
36:19
normally try to finish mine for the weekend series.
36:23
Yeah, but I had to give it to Milam because not only did he
36:27
have a two home run night, he did it from both sides of the
36:29
plate. Yeah.
36:30
You know, which is the first time that's happened 20. 4.
36:33
Did it? Yeah, in 24 he did it.
36:35
In 24 against Wofford, which was a walk off.
36:39
Yeah. For that regional game, you
36:43
know, and then John Pearson, like I said, we don't think
36:45
we're in that Sunday game without his Grand Slam, you
36:48
know, and I give an honorable mention to Derek Curiel.
36:52
He had two homers this week and a huge Grand Slam last night to
36:58
put us back in the game before Milan got his second home run to
37:04
tie the game. I'll throw it over to you.
37:06
Yeah. So for offense, you know Sam
37:08
Dardar was a clear #1RE emerging a major way in this in this
37:12
series against Kentucky, like you had brought up, you know the
37:14
six total hits and you have 5 ribbies, including the monster 3
37:18
and like that called the monster 3 three run.
37:20
Go ahead Homer game three, you know, just was the iconic bad
37:24
foot with good measure for good measure.
37:27
You know, like I said earlier, now leads the team in double S
37:29
this season and also I prefer, you know, second place.
37:32
I got John Pearson and Stephen Bottle and Ronda just like you,
37:35
just they both both had numerous RB is, you know, like I was
37:38
early in this most of the season.
37:40
I looked at John Pearson, you know, very powerful swinger, but
37:43
just it's like swinger of the bat, but just just a lot of
37:46
strikeouts when I've seen so far.
37:49
But he's really starting to find his groove.
37:50
Just like, you know, with power hitters, you know, this is, you
37:53
know, hit or miss. I know that's cliche, but just
37:55
it was like a lot of hard misses.
37:57
But you know, he to his credit, you know, he he's getting making
38:00
contact and you seen in a major way this this this weekend
38:04
monster Milo just doing it there, doing it All in all
38:07
shapes and sizes, all forms. That's just so impressive.
38:11
Just like to me, like the switch header just to get it, get the
38:13
contact like that. It just seems very excellent.
38:16
And you know, I, I made a separate note, just, you know,
38:18
originally I had Chris Stanfield at three.
38:20
It was a tough omission because he was excellent.
38:22
You know, he had 454 during the Kentucky series, including four
38:26
heads and a walk on Sunday. You know, like we brought up
38:28
Derrick. It was a tough omission.
38:30
But like, that's why I like to say that's a good problem.
38:33
I'm not going to lie, before last night, Stanny was my number
38:35
three guy. Same here.
38:37
I had them. I had them listed.
38:40
Yeah. Tough.
38:43
It was a tough one, but what did it for me was the mile and tied
38:46
that game up when we were they found their fight.
38:49
Yes, they found they found a fight in Fighting Tigers.
38:54
And I'm hoping you can come back and beat a team in Tennessee
38:59
this weekend who just came off the struggle bus and we can
39:02
leave them back on the struggle bus.
39:04
We can get we can be 7 and five in the SEC with the Easter
39:08
miracle, Good Lord rising, Good Lord rising and LSU rising back
39:16
up in the SEC. Polls because we need his power.
39:20
It would be, it would be amazing.
39:23
It would truly be an Easter miracle for us to go to
39:26
Tennessee. Indeed.
39:27
Of course, Special Digger won this series too.
39:30
Yeah, I'll let you go defense now.
39:33
Yeah, I got you. So defense surrounded up, you
39:36
know, Steven Milam, Derek Carell or Jake Brown in the top three.
39:41
Yeah, like I said, the monster Milam, you know, just as we did,
39:43
we said this last week, just Sharpie.
39:45
And then it just like defense is the race for 2nd place at this
39:48
point. But just, you know, I know I
39:51
like had Steven like second or third like a couple weeks ago.
39:54
But just outside of that, I mean he he just a fixture in the top
39:57
three and you know, Curry on the Curry on Brown had were standing
40:01
outfield for the most part. No, no, no, no, like no, nothing
40:05
really feeling wise. Really wild to me.
40:07
This this stress. Just they just made the routine
40:10
plays as they should. There were no Ratcliffe, the web
40:13
gyms type stuff. Just make the routine plays
40:16
which no currio was very active Currio.
40:19
Currio did have one to me, that one where he ran from left
40:23
center to right center and pluck that ball out the air.
40:26
That was a yeah, even though he like my number 2 and my number
40:31
three guys both had major mess ups this weekend.
40:34
That's right. For their standards, OK, for
40:37
Jake Stan, for Jake Brown, who's my three guy, that's not really
40:40
for his standards. That's just how he plays.
40:45
You take it and you leave it with him.
40:47
But Steven Milam, of course, my number one guy, I mean, turned
40:52
to double play by himself on Friday.
40:54
He's turned double plays by himself all season.
40:57
Had a monster play to save a run from us being losing 8 to 4 on
41:03
Friday night. Derek Curiel, like I said, he
41:06
had that one play where he did, but he also had one where he
41:10
took his eye off of it and tried.
41:12
He could have stood there and not jumped.
41:15
He decided he needed to jump and he hit off the wall and he
41:19
missed it. He misread it.
41:20
Yeah. But he was such a solid player
41:24
defensively that he took my number two spot.
41:28
Then Jake Brown, just his arm got him on this list.
41:32
Yeah, that double play he got on Sunday was huge.
41:40
It shifted to momentum in that game.
41:41
Yes. You know, that's why he's on
41:46
this list. You know, Will was gracious
41:47
enough to update the poles for the US for mid season.
41:57
Yes, Sir. So let's our leaders pitching
42:02
wise, it's William Schmidt's running away with it.
42:05
Some guys are going to get a chance to come up and get second
42:10
or third place since Moore is out in.
42:13
By the way, Speaking of Cooper Moore to me, and I don't know
42:19
how that sounds to you, but to me it sounds a lot like 3 season
42:24
when we lost Edwards. And it sounds a lot like Guidry
42:29
too, when we lost Edwards in 23 and we lost Chase Shores.
42:34
Yeah. They were like, oh, they're
42:38
close to coming back. They're close to coming back
42:41
only for them to be sad. They the UCL or Tommy John,
42:48
Yeah. And then Gavin Guidry was coming
42:53
back all last year. Coming back all last year.
42:55
So then finally shut him down. Yes, all I heard last.
42:59
Year, so I will choose to be kind of optimistic about it, but
43:04
I will say I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't come
43:08
back this season. Yeah, that's an interesting
43:11
point because it's it's unfortunate because like, you
43:14
know, especially, you know, Jay is always he's pretty close to
43:17
the vest when it comes to injury.
43:19
You know, I understand that from from a certain standpoint, but
43:21
maybe, you know, it's just guys you want to protect the guys and
43:24
you know, reveal too much. But just like, but as far as
43:28
like, you know, production wise, if you when you look at the
43:31
screen share, I think shout out to Justin for the screen
43:33
sharing. Just Cason Evans has just a one
43:36
point lead, but really Cooper Moore has been far more steady.
43:40
It is just a case that he's just peaked.
43:42
He's just peaked tired because there's like twice, you know,
43:45
twice in the last four weeks that just and I ranked case in
43:48
it as a number one guy. So to his credit note he has the
43:51
stuff, the Friday night stuff, but he's just not a steady
43:54
enough. But Cooper Moore has been far
43:56
more steady in comparison. So like, obviously, you know,
43:59
with his injury obviously going to dip some more and less like,
44:03
you know, Schmidt or Evans, God forbid, like they just fall off
44:06
the map hit performance wise. But William Smith definitely
44:10
been the steadiest guy. He's really emerged as the
44:12
number one guy production wise on paper, and that's reflected
44:16
once again this past. Week look, I was very low on our
44:20
pitches a Week 2 weeks ago in case in Evan goes out there and
44:25
has the career night. Yeah, I compliment him and he
44:31
has a career low lights. You got to do better, You got to
44:35
be better. I'm going to come on here, you
44:36
can throw and just because I don't know what's going on, I'm
44:42
a trash talk you case in Evans every week you could throw 21
44:46
get 21 strikeouts and I'm going to be like, well, you could have
44:49
got 282525 Yeah, could have got you could have gone 21.
44:55
You could have got 22. She throws a she throws a
45:01
perfect game. You could have got that 28th out
45:04
well. Well, the game was only 27 else.
45:05
I don't care. Give me 30 else.
45:07
You could have got 28th, you could have got that 20. 8th I'm
45:13
not asking for 5th, I'm asking for 28th.
45:16
Yeah, but you know, Guidry didn't look good at all this
45:20
weekend. Yeah, he's really cooled off,
45:22
man. Just he was on top.
45:24
You know, Zach, count on the standings and you really surpass
45:26
him as in the in the yeah spots, but.
45:30
I mean, a week ago, a week ago, they just left him in too long
45:33
and cost us a series win against Oklahoma.
45:36
He was doing fantastic. But as a starting pitcher, and
45:41
OK, here's what I think is his thing as a relief pitcher, He's
45:44
coming in in those tight spots, those high energy spots.
45:50
Yeah. And that's what fuels him as a
45:53
pitcher is those high energy moments, those high adrenaline
45:58
moments where the game is on the line.
46:00
You know, him as a starting pitcher, he doesn't have that,
46:03
you know, high octane, this game is on me type of deal.
46:08
And I think it shows. And that's why he I don't think
46:10
he's a starting pitcher. I think we need to start
46:14
somebody else on, you know? Was was bringing to the point
46:18
about you. It's very interesting you say
46:20
that because like going into this weekend, I, I just thought
46:23
for sure Zach Kyle was the guy for day three, but they actually
46:26
brought him on Saturday. Now it paid it off.
46:28
So that's why I'm not a two time.
46:29
I'm not mad at it because I'm not mad at that because that's a
46:34
sure guy out to bullpen. Yeah, and they needed to win in
46:38
the situation. I understand.
46:41
It's tough to it's tough to say, oh, let's put in, let's not put
46:46
in Cowan, you know, and on Sunday they said he was in the
46:52
he went to the bullpen himself and said, I want the ball.
46:54
If we, it's the closest one, you know, but you know, so we'll go.
46:58
The next highest guy on this list is Zach Cowan, by the way,
47:03
with 12 points. Yeah, for the yeah, just leads
47:07
the bullpen right now as far as bullpen guys, leads, leads the
47:12
bullpen in both appearances and total points.
47:15
So he's really turned it around after struggles.
47:18
This is struggles to start the year.
47:20
He's appeared on the pole three straight weeks.
47:22
Yeah, this one here is a you know, I really can see Curiel,
47:28
Milam, Serna Dardar, if he keeps it up at this point, at this
47:35
halfway point in the season, swapping places with Jake Brown.
47:39
Yeah. So yeah, we got Jake Brown,
47:41
currently 9 points or 9 appearances total with a
47:45
combined total of 34 points for the polls.
47:47
So the second highest is Stephen Milam at 15.
47:51
Got two guys at 12 apiece with Mark, with Curriel and Dardar.
47:55
Dardo had started off hot for us and then like he had picked it
47:58
up with two first place finishes this week.
48:00
Yeah, look, don't count Josh Pearson out.
48:04
He's. 4:00 and 12:00, that's right.
48:06
For 3rd place too. Yeah.
48:08
You know, but enough, you can't say enough about these guys.
48:13
They start to come back. You know, with the exception of
48:19
Mason Braun, he had a fantastic offensive weekend.
48:22
All the reason he didn't is because base running to me,
48:25
which by the way that new LVP award, the least value
48:28
performance goes to him in that exact moment with the base
48:32
running. That's why he's at -1.
48:35
Yes. Defense, this is never going to
48:37
change. This is just a race.
48:39
The 2nd place at this. Point.
48:40
That's right. Aileman is at first with 52
48:45
points and 14 appearances. That's right.
48:48
Maybe it's a race for 3rd at this point because Derek Curio's
48:51
got 8 appearances and 24 points. Yeah, next closest is
48:55
technically Chris Stanfield, but I know like you awarded the
48:58
pitcher points from the a week or so ago.
49:00
Yeah, because it was just that bad.
49:02
You weren't you didn't think they were worthy.
49:04
And I and I get. It and we got Chris Stanfield at
49:08
coming in and 3rd right now with six appearances and 17 points
49:13
and that should say something about his presence on this team
49:17
and I'm going to go ahead and stop sharing and come back.
49:21
But you know, my tone setting Tiger for this week is again,
49:28
the whole entire team, Keep that mindset that you had going into
49:33
Saturday and Sunday's game, especially Sunday's game and
49:38
even Tuesday's game where it was, we're going to fight and
49:42
we're going to win. You know, keep that mindset,
49:46
fight and win. And you got got you your first
49:50
SEC series when you it was a dry month for March.
49:55
Oh yeah, you didn't win a series except for Kentucky in March.
49:58
So keep that momentum going. The fights not over.
50:02
You got tough games. You got 2 road series
50:06
back-to-back against two places that are tough to play, you
50:10
know, in Tennessee and O Piss. Three the next 4 on the road, so
50:16
in. Most of the time coaching
50:19
decisions doesn't. For other sports, doesn't
50:24
effect, but this is Ole Miss and their fan base just tried to run
50:28
a coach off the road and you are going there and baseball, I can
50:32
see them trying to run your team bus off the road.
50:34
You know, it's a crazy time. It's a crazy time.
50:38
You never know what's going to happen.
50:40
The Lane Kiffin of the situation, you know, we don't
50:42
know what's going to happen, but it's energy's going to be high.
50:46
I'm you know, I actually don't know because some LSU was weird.
50:49
We are you could call us at everything school because even
50:52
when the men's basketball team is terrible, they still yeah,
50:55
they don't go to the games, but it was kind of like the women's
50:59
basketball before Mulkey got hired.
51:03
Mulkey gets hired season tickets you know, request shoot up at
51:08
1.24 hours after Wilwade got hired season ticket when up. 754
51:16
individuals have contacted LSU about season tickets.
51:20
I always say about. Men's basketball.
51:22
I always say our sports is the coaching that matters.
51:25
I always need players. I get it.
51:26
It's it's about the coach in college by this the move the
51:30
needle like that. Exactly.
51:34
Let you know that's my my tone setting.
51:36
Tiger of the Week is the entire team once again.
51:39
They just need to keep that mindset, keep that momentum
51:42
they're building going and get three more wins in the SEC this
51:45
weekend. As far as I'm with you as far as
51:48
everyone for the tone setting Tiger, you know, but my angle
51:51
specifically is like this consistency.
51:54
You got to be consistency like the it's the hallmark of any
51:57
respectable team. You I'm you're not going to, I'm
51:59
not saying you got to be like the 90s Yankees, but just like
52:03
that dominant, but just like any respectable unit, go ahead.
52:08
We'll settle for the 90s tigers, we don't have to.
52:11
That's fair enough. With the 90s, come on with the
52:14
90s on Yankees. And I'm saying that because I'm
52:17
a Yankees guy. But just like, yeah, just like
52:19
The thing is, even if you're not ultra elite, this all time
52:23
special unit, like any respectable team is going to be
52:26
consistent largely. And you know, just yeah, I I
52:30
want, I like the team with steadiness, like, because like
52:32
we said this like I'm just tired of the Jekyll Hyde stuff.
52:36
Just like as one thing. I don't know what I'm, this is
52:38
like this year, I don't know what I'm going to get 99%.
52:40
I just don't know what I'm going to do want a gift from this team
52:43
after the A and no start. You just don't know because he
52:46
you could you could start seeing it during like that.
52:49
When we was playing northeast, it was playing northeastern and
52:53
Dartmouth like that four-game stretch.
52:55
You can kind of see the cracks a little bit.
52:57
He saw a little bit of McNeese with the loss and then just like
53:00
that's when the floodgates open. You know like you said, Vandy
53:04
elite office and Vandy pitches not existent and just vice versa
53:09
the next you. Yeah.
53:11
And you know, look, it's funny that, you know, talking about
53:15
Seth Darla's backflip and all that.
53:17
I had this discussion with my dad this weekend where he was
53:20
saying, you know, back in his day, you ran, it didn't matter
53:23
what happened. You ran the first base, you
53:24
didn't watch the ball. And I just told him, yeah,
53:28
that's because back in your day, that was before steroids, that
53:31
was before they hit the ball and people like Barry Bonds came in
53:35
and was putting balls in lakes every other at bat.
53:38
Nobody knew they could do that. So they just sat there and
53:41
amazed and watched the ball fly at the park.
53:43
But it was. And then think about there's a
53:45
lot of dead ball errors in baseball history outside like
53:47
Babe Ruth and stuff like Ted Williams is like that.
53:50
That stuff wasn't super commonplace.
53:52
It's always been a defensive score.
53:55
The reason why you. Didn't see many.
53:56
Bad flips is so yeah, the reason why you didn't see that many bad
54:00
flips and stuff back then is because nobody was on steroids.
54:02
They were just hitting a, they were hitting a ball with a piece
54:05
of wood and it just ran because they didn't know where it was
54:08
going to go. But now these guys took steroids
54:10
back in the early, the late 90s, early 2000s, they found steroids
54:14
and when they hit it, the ball goes.
54:16
Not to mention they hitting the weight training and everything
54:20
nowadays that these guys have is leaps and bounds from what it
54:25
was back in that that time. Of course, absolutely.
54:30
You know, we're talking about the 70s and 80s here that he's
54:33
talking about. You know, those of you that are
54:38
younger viewers, yes, we are talking about the 1900s.
54:43
I hate it when they say that. Yeah, we're talking about the
54:47
1900s here. Early 20s.
54:51
Yeah, before the before steroids era in baseball, before people
54:55
were starting to hit balls like that, get home runs became
54:58
commonplace. That was back when LSU in the
55:00
90s was with those aluminum bats were hitting hitting records and
55:05
gorilla ball they. Changed the rules for us.
55:08
Yeah. And then in 2009, we went up
55:11
with those orange stealth bats with the trampoline effect.
55:15
The more you use them, the more they would hit, the better
55:17
contact you would make. And then they started, Marucci
55:20
came out with those composite bats and that's what we've been
55:22
using, which I like the fact that we go, we send our guys up
55:26
to north to play in those like the Cape Cod and all of that.
55:29
Those are wood bad leads. Yeah.
55:32
I like that fact, you know. But closing thoughts.
55:36
You know, like I said, man, this we needed this the series we
55:39
we're from Kentucky. Like we said last week, last
55:42
couple weeks, you would not not really in a panic mode base.
55:45
You just got so many games to play.
55:46
But just we both said if we did not win this Kentucky series,
55:50
the tone is going to change for us a little bit.
55:52
Thank you. We don't have to worry about it
55:54
at least for another few days. But just they needed just so bad
55:58
and just the response was just incredible by this team.
56:01
I could exactly. I commend those young men, you
56:03
know, I really do, because they needed it.
56:05
Yeah, I commend them. You know, you look at it, you
56:07
look at it, as long as you make it to your conference
56:09
tournament, which everybody makes it to the SEC tournament
56:13
nowadays, Yeah, that's just how it goes.
56:15
As long as you make it to the postseason and you get hot.
56:18
Yeah, that's OK. Look at old mess and they won in
56:23
22 right? It was a 21.
56:25
Yeah, yeah, I miss at least 21 and.
56:29
Almost 22, almost 22, you look at that in Ole Miss was
56:35
atrocious in the SEC play until they played us.
56:40
They played us, they beat us in a weekend series.
56:43
Redwood rain delays and that's what kind of set them off in my
56:47
opinion. That's what got them in the
56:48
tournament was that win at LSU. But you know, you come, they
56:54
come in with a losing SEC record, they make it all the way
56:58
to the and win the national championship.
57:03
That's why baseball is the greatest sport.
57:05
Doesn't matter who you are, you can get beat on in every other
57:08
day. Just look at Arkansas last
57:10
night. Really Arkansas over the
57:12
weekend, Arkansas got swept at home by Florida.
57:15
This weekend they. They're not too happy with I saw
57:20
him on Reddit. They're not too happy.
57:21
What's what's the course thing? I can't believe or forgot.
57:24
Van Horn. Van Horn.
57:25
Yeah. Team.
57:26
Yeah, yeah. So that's what I thought.
57:28
Yeah, They're not too happy with them right now.
57:31
Look, y'all get hate on that man all he wants, but y'all are a
57:34
school of failure. Look, I don't.
57:36
You're not right. Yeah, I'm sorry.
57:38
You're not a school of failure. You're a school of choking.
57:42
Like that's y'all number 1° over there is choking.
57:47
Heaven. Y'all choking every sport.
57:52
Don't blame that man. He's the winningest coach in
57:54
baseball in your school. Don't blame that man for what's
57:57
going on. We all hit rough patches and I'm
57:59
not saying I like the man, I can't stand him, but don't blame
58:02
him for what's going on over there.
58:04
But they lost to Missouri State last night, 15 to 14 and 10
58:10
innings. Tennis.
58:12
Yeah, so it's just baseball. You know, it happens.
58:16
I mean, we got beat by little brother a couple weeks ago, but
58:20
it's just baseball. It happens.
58:21
You know, at some point though, with LSU, it wasn't just
58:24
baseball. It was poor decision making and
58:28
so poor decision making. And it looks like they've got
58:30
that poor decision making, at least at the moment, you know,
58:34
locked down. But look, it's like Jay Johnson
58:37
said in his post game was on on Sunday.
58:40
I wouldn't be exactly too high on him right now, and I'm not
58:45
because they haven't shown they can do it consistently.
58:49
Maybe next week when I'm on spring break in LSU pulls out a
58:53
weekend series sweep at Tennessee.
58:55
Or I don't even need a sweep. I just need a series win on the
58:59
road at a hostile environment. You come out, maybe then I'll
59:05
say, you know, they're starting to get consistent with it.
59:10
They've proven they can consistently do it.
59:11
That's the to me, that's the keyword of this week is
59:14
consistency. Yeah, that's it.
59:16
Yep. Well, that'll do it for me.
59:18
You got anything you want to add?
59:21
Always supposed to have have me all brother.
59:23
I appreciate it always. It was a pleasure to have you on
59:26
Will. I mean, it's always fun time.
59:29
Yes, Sir, indeed, especially. You did talk about multiple
59:32
sports in one show. Yes, where is It'll do.
59:35
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Me too. That's what the baseball, that's
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So it's like tradition. Historically, it's like this.
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We shouldn't be still at this point in the college baseball.
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I mean, I know it's regional. I get it.
1:00:30
Yeah. It's just like you still.
1:00:31
I mean. You should you.
1:00:32
You still shouldn't be at this point though.
1:00:34
It's like we still got to do all this.
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Leave some you do it. For all these college athletics,
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you can put them on, and to me, I think it's huge just for the
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fact that on any given day you can go on ESPN on their app and
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watch any baseball game that you want.
1:00:52
College baseball, unless you're like D2 or JUCO, they have every
1:00:58
college baseball game on ESPN for the most part.
1:01:01
That's huge. That's a step in the right
1:01:03
direction. And look, I get it it baseball
1:01:05
is a weird sport. It's not like a football or
1:01:09
basketball. I mean not even basketball.
1:01:12
You find a way to put college basketball on there and make it
1:01:15
huge. I mean just there are two more
1:01:17
popular, like there's so mainstream popularity.
1:01:21
Yeah, and with the same restraints that I'm talking
1:01:23
about for baseball. I get that baseball is not like
1:01:26
football where NFL plays on Sundays, Thursdays and Sundays
1:01:31
and Mondays and college football is mainly on Saturdays.
1:01:34
I get that baseball is a different sport.
1:01:38
Major leagues play and base the college teams play, they all
1:01:41
play on the same day. But I still there's no reason
1:01:44
why college baseball can't be more of a forefront I.
1:01:47
Mean it should be it's it's crazy like 2020.
1:01:49
We still we had to get like somebody else to create an app
1:01:53
that's like we can't go to like like a mainstream like a it's
1:01:56
it's it's it's outrageous. I'm just glad, like you said,
1:02:00
they want to shout out to Diamond.
1:02:02
Yeah, I if they pass that rule where like football you have to
1:02:09
go to college instead of going in the draft, I think we will
1:02:15
get more in for college baseball.
1:02:17
I agree, because just like football, you're going to want
1:02:21
to see where those kids are coming from.
1:02:23
Like that's why guys like Paul Skings, Alex Bregman, Dylan
1:02:27
Cruz, Trey Morgan, Kate Anderson and all that.
1:02:31
It's huge news for us and Jerry Jones to name it, Tommy White to
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name engage Jump to name a few. It's huge news for LSU fans when
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those guys go up. You see guys like Alex Lang,
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You might not follow Major League Baseball, but you know
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