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- 0:00Speaker 1: Off the Bench. We have to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Let's go.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Ham'sday.
- 0:07Speaker 3: Hester and Hester got it.
- 0:11Speaker 4: Your locks in to.
- 0:12Speaker 5: Off the Bench were control for the as.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Knees Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and
- 0:22Speaker 1: Matt Flynn.
- 0:35Speaker 5: Welcome in Monday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor Sharp
- 0:39Speaker 5: here with you, Ladra Villa, Reale, Braxton Razuto. Okay, do
- 0:45Speaker 5: you okay? I learned this the first time, like over
- 0:50Speaker 5: the weekend. And have you ever seen Billy Madison?
- 0:53Speaker 2: I have, yes, Thank god.
- 0:55Speaker 5: I thought you were gonna be like, no, that's too
- 0:56Speaker 5: old for me. Okay, every time I think Risuto when
- 1:01Speaker 5: she brings up Adam Sandler to the board in third grade,
- 1:04Speaker 5: he has to spell out the different baseball where it's
- 1:05Speaker 5: like she's like punt, dug out all that, and he's
- 1:07Speaker 5: getting cocky. She goes, how about Razuta and then he
- 1:11Speaker 5: freaks out, Risuto is not a word. He's a baseball player.
- 1:14Speaker 5: You've cheated. Thank god, you've seen that.
- 1:16Speaker 2: I've seen the movie.
- 1:17Speaker 6: I just don't remember that part exactly. I need to
- 1:19Speaker 6: go back and look at it now.
- 1:20Speaker 5: That's that's the only thing I can think of every
- 1:23Speaker 5: time I think of the name Rzuto. But look, we're
- 1:26Speaker 5: here with you all week long. We are hanging out.
- 1:28Speaker 5: We have a ton to get to today. Because, uh,
- 1:32Speaker 5: maybe you didn't hear women's basketball loses to South Carolina
- 1:35Speaker 5: Saturday night. There was a game on ABC, one of
- 1:38Speaker 5: the first times that's ever happened. LSU baseball got their
- 1:41Speaker 5: season started against Milwaukee, and uh look pretty dominant at
- 1:44Speaker 5: times over the weekend. We'll get into that as well.
- 1:47Speaker 5: Here's a shocker, LSU basketball lost again. Who would have
- 1:49Speaker 5: thought that? But uh, right now, let's go around the
- 1:52Speaker 5: room a little bit of lundra. I know you were busy.
- 1:54Speaker 5: I saw you out a Uh well, I didn't see
- 1:56Speaker 5: out there. I saw the pictures of a out there
- 1:58Speaker 5: at Spanish Town. Was this your first Spanish Town?
- 2:01Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 2:01Speaker 3: It was my first time going to any sort of
- 2:03Speaker 3: Marty Girl parade and it was fun.
- 2:05Speaker 4: Had a great time.
- 2:06Speaker 5: I heard you. Uh let a guy on a float
- 2:09Speaker 5: injected jello shot into you.
- 2:10Speaker 4: I don't know if that's a seven am topic, but
- 2:12Speaker 4: I did.
- 2:13Speaker 5: Yees did. Okay, here we're about it.
- 2:16Speaker 4: We uh had a great time.
- 2:17Speaker 5: We love it. Uh, did you wind up going to
- 2:19Speaker 5: New Orleans?
- 2:19Speaker 4: I did not go.
- 2:20Speaker 2: I did not know.
- 2:21Speaker 4: It was like one was enough for me.
- 2:24Speaker 3: I mean like I had fun, but like I just
- 2:26Speaker 3: didn't feel like going down to New Orleans. And then
- 2:29Speaker 3: I guess Bachus didn't start till like five point fifteen,
- 2:32Speaker 3: and Spanish Town started like at noon, so that one
- 2:35Speaker 3: was done early enough for me to like get home
- 2:37Speaker 3: at this sounds.
- 2:39Speaker 4: So bad, but like get home at a reasonable time. Uh.
- 2:42Speaker 3: And I just didn't feel like I didn't feel like
- 2:45Speaker 3: going to New Orleans next day. But I did have
- 2:46Speaker 3: fomo looking at the pictures because I had fun, had
- 2:49Speaker 3: a great time.
- 2:49Speaker 5: I was gonna ask if you saw Lane Kiffin on
- 2:51Speaker 5: a Demian.
- 2:51Speaker 4: But you didn't make it out that was Saturday.
- 2:54Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 2:55Speaker 3: I was getting videos from Matt of Gwen Stefani and
- 2:59Speaker 3: I was.
- 2:59Speaker 5: Like, okay, hey, so was that the same place dying
- 3:02Speaker 5: on the inside was Was that also in Demian?
- 3:05Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 3:05Speaker 5: Okay, so it was. I think Blake Shelton was there too, right,
- 3:08Speaker 5: both of them? Yeah, Lane and then Arthur something, who
- 3:14Speaker 5: wound up being the Grand Marshal because he's like a
- 3:18Speaker 5: Marty Girl expert whatever that means. Yeah, it sounded like
- 3:22Speaker 5: a really good time. I Uh, I did not go
- 3:25Speaker 5: to any Marty Girl parades. Look, I'm a I'm an
- 3:28Speaker 5: old man when it comes to parade. We talked about
- 3:30Speaker 5: this last week. It just it's just kind of the
- 3:32Speaker 5: in and out that, like Alandre was talking about. This
- 3:34Speaker 5: may sound bad, but I like to get home at
- 3:35Speaker 5: a reasonable time. I am very old. I also like
- 3:39Speaker 5: to get home at a reasonable time. Brax didn't be
- 3:41Speaker 5: in our young gun in the room right now, Did
- 3:44Speaker 5: you go to any.
- 3:44Speaker 3: Because to be fair, I've always been that way, right
- 3:47Speaker 3: like I even when I was younger, Like I didn't
- 3:50Speaker 3: I because again, I've never gone to a Marty Gral
- 3:52Speaker 3: thing because I just the crowds.
- 3:55Speaker 4: Was never a fan.
- 3:56Speaker 3: The parking situation always stressed me out. Now I could
- 3:58Speaker 3: just walk to Spanish, so it's fine. But like I
- 4:02Speaker 3: just was never a party all night type of person.
- 4:05Speaker 5: Now did they? It's not like it's just how big
- 4:08Speaker 5: was Marty Girl in Texas?
- 4:10Speaker 3: Like we we didn't do parades and stuff like that.
- 4:13Speaker 3: We knew what it was.
- 4:15Speaker 5: So I was.
- 4:17Speaker 3: Not in central Texas at least right right south Texas.
- 4:20Speaker 5: I was still in Braxton. People get mad in New
- 4:23Speaker 5: Orleans when you say this, but I mean everything I've
- 4:26Speaker 5: heard Mobile Alabama created Marty Girl. And you know, we
- 4:30Speaker 5: used to go on vacation during Marti Girl because we
- 4:32Speaker 5: wanted to get out, Like all the tourists would come
- 4:34Speaker 5: here for Marty Girl, so we we would go on vacation.
- 4:36Speaker 5: I mean we we'd normally get the Monday and Tuesday
- 4:38Speaker 5: off of school, so I mean we got like a
- 4:40Speaker 5: four or five day weekend if we took off on Friday,
- 4:43Speaker 5: and we drove to Golf Shores. Oh, I don't know,
- 4:45Speaker 5: I was probably I was young. I mean, that was
- 4:47Speaker 5: probably my first Marty Girl experience, was driving to Golf
- 4:50Speaker 5: Shores having the road shut down because of all the
- 4:53Speaker 5: Marty Girl parades going on. I mean, we ran into
- 4:55Speaker 5: one in Daphne. They had one on Beach Boulevard right
- 4:57Speaker 5: there in Orange Beach. They had another one in Foley
- 5:00Speaker 5: just down the road. Like it's pretty big down there too. Now,
- 5:03Speaker 5: look New Orleans does it better. The floats are not
- 5:06Speaker 5: nearly as elaborate and all that, But they get off
- 5:08Speaker 5: of school too. I don't know if it's the entire week,
- 5:11Speaker 5: but uh, they do that as well. I again didn't
- 5:14Speaker 5: go to any Martygorol Bridges will probably pick up the
- 5:16Speaker 5: last king Cake of the year today. The unfortunate part
- 5:23Speaker 5: for me, people don't know the struggles that the guys
- 5:25Speaker 5: go through. Uh, when your wife's pregnant, Braxton, My wife
- 5:30Speaker 5: hates sweets right now. It's just it's just not her thing,
- 5:33Speaker 5: like sweets, like all sweets right now, it's it's not
- 5:36Speaker 5: her thing. And like, see, I'm I'm a huge sweets guy.
- 5:39Speaker 5: So I mean, I think I've bought like two or
- 5:41Speaker 5: three king cakes this year, and every time I bring
- 5:44Speaker 5: in one, she'll take like a little small bite and
- 5:47Speaker 5: be like, oh, yeah, I'm done. I wound up throwing
- 5:48Speaker 5: like half the thing because I'm not gonna eat an
- 5:51Speaker 5: entire king Cake. I'm not that fat, Like I'm not
- 5:53Speaker 5: gonna eat the entire king cake. But it's it's a problem, man.
- 5:57Speaker 5: It's because she used to be big on it too,
- 5:59Speaker 5: Like we were both big. We went we did go
- 6:01Speaker 5: get this. Uh Andy's after Valentine's Dinner on Saturday, they
- 6:07Speaker 5: have a new red velvet concrete or whatever they call it.
- 6:10Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it was phenomenal.
- 6:12Speaker 5: First off, love red velvet, but it was like a
- 6:15Speaker 5: Valentine's Day special. She did that. She had about half
- 6:17Speaker 5: of a small.
- 6:18Speaker 6: So she's got to be in the mood.
- 6:20Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's it's got to be at a little
- 6:22Speaker 5: special occasion, uh for Valentine. Valentine's A Saturday night is atrocious,
- 6:28Speaker 5: like because what we try to do is every Valentine's
- 6:30Speaker 5: we try to go to a different nice restaurant. Yeah,
- 6:33Speaker 5: and you know we've been and went to Jubans this
- 6:36Speaker 5: year right off of Perkins.
- 6:37Speaker 2: I went there last year.
- 6:38Speaker 5: Man, that's it's been around for years. I had somehow
- 6:41Speaker 5: never been until Saturday.
- 6:43Speaker 2: Okay, so what room we're yelling? Because the room I
- 6:45Speaker 2: was in.
- 6:46Speaker 5: The big main one right there and not the one
- 6:48Speaker 5: right there off to the side. But yeah, hosts to
- 6:50Speaker 5: stand you walk right through to the back where the
- 6:52Speaker 5: bar is.
- 6:53Speaker 6: We were never so the one I was in and
- 6:55Speaker 6: had like a bunch of pictures of like I guess,
- 6:57Speaker 6: like Shack and a bunch of these LSU like alumni.
- 7:00Speaker 2: Okay, I was really cool. I was.
- 7:03Speaker 5: I was not in that room, but uh we we
- 7:06Speaker 5: knocked that out uh on Saturday, and we had a
- 7:08Speaker 5: great time and then really really busy weekend. Uh for
- 7:12Speaker 5: me personally, not just not just L s U, but
- 7:15Speaker 5: you know Alandra going crazy party girl parades. We had
- 7:19Speaker 5: the vals on one.
- 7:20Speaker 3: I'm like one of those people. I don't go out
- 7:22Speaker 3: a lot, so when I do, it's like yeah.
- 7:25Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
- 7:26Speaker 5: It's one of those things where you're like, I knew
- 7:27Speaker 5: I should have went too hard, but I did. So
- 7:31Speaker 5: what time did you get there? The parade starts at.
- 7:32Speaker 3: Noon, so it starts at noon, but we didn't get
- 7:34Speaker 3: there till like noon because we got crawfish before and
- 7:37Speaker 3: somebody there was already like holding a spot for us,
- 7:40Speaker 3: So we didn't get there till noon.
- 7:41Speaker 4: But we caught the whole thing a.
- 7:43Speaker 5: Lot, just got people Braxton.
- 7:44Speaker 3: So then we went to O'Hara's. It used to be
- 7:50Speaker 3: Happy Okay. We went there and they had like pants,
- 7:52Speaker 3: party plane or whatever. So I got home at like six.
- 7:56Speaker 5: Okay, that's a little bit bad. That's a little bad
- 7:58Speaker 5: at all. I've never been in Spanish town. Here it's great.
- 8:04Speaker 5: Do you rock the pink?
- 8:05Speaker 3: I don't own pink, so I unfortunately did not. I
- 8:08Speaker 3: went talk and just put an LSU jersey on.
- 8:11Speaker 5: She couldn't say with the plastics and me and girls, Braxton.
- 8:13Speaker 5: That's for sure doesn't earn any pink. You probably have
- 8:16Speaker 5: never seen that movie, and that's that's totally okay.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Mean girls, yeah, I seen that.
- 8:20Speaker 5: Oh my god, dude. When I talked to Cassie, we
- 8:23Speaker 5: have a desk right next to each other. Of course,
- 8:25Speaker 5: Cassie talks my ear off NonStop. But she's never seen
- 8:30Speaker 5: like any movie anything. And I mean not just a
- 8:33Speaker 5: movie that's a little bit dated. I mean a movie
- 8:35Speaker 5: that came out in the last five years. She's seen nothing.
- 8:39Speaker 5: Am I gay, Cassie, have you seen this?
- 8:40Speaker 3: Nah?
- 8:41Speaker 5: No, I haven't seen that. I don't know.
- 8:44Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 8:45Speaker 5: I'm convinced at this point she might be amish like
- 8:47Speaker 5: I have no idea, but uh yeah, she's not. Uh
- 8:52Speaker 5: she she's not big in the movie. Speaking of movies,
- 8:54Speaker 5: I have a U little uh internal decision I gotta make.
- 8:58Speaker 5: Do I want to go mystery movie Monday at movie
- 9:01Speaker 5: Tavern tonight or do I want to go Scream Unseen
- 9:04Speaker 5: horror movie at AMC. That's the big debate that I
- 9:07Speaker 5: am dealing with today. I think we're going Scream Unseen.
- 9:11Speaker 6: I'm not too big on like scary movie.
- 9:13Speaker 2: That's just never been my thing.
- 9:15Speaker 6: I don't know why, but like it just I just
- 9:18Speaker 6: don't like being scared sometimes. But I haven't been to
- 9:21Speaker 6: the movie theater actually in a long time. We've always
- 9:24Speaker 6: just like watched UF on Netflix and things like that.
- 9:26Speaker 5: We go to the movies like once every two months.
- 9:29Speaker 5: We have my wife and like that's so we started
- 9:30Speaker 5: dating in twenty fourteen. That is something we have pretty
- 9:32Speaker 5: much consistently done. I mean, obviously COVID threw a wrench
- 9:35Speaker 5: in the whole thing, but outside of that, yeah, I
- 9:37Speaker 5: mean it's pretty much been once every two or three months.
- 9:41Speaker 5: We we at least tried to like just I mean
- 9:43Speaker 5: our first date was it AMC right there on O'Neil, okay,
- 9:46Speaker 5: And I mean, you know, we we saw Iron Man three.
- 9:48Speaker 5: Not a great movie, but I do remember going to
- 9:50Speaker 5: see it. I think we're gonna go. I think we're
- 9:53Speaker 5: gonna go Scream Unseen because like, I know the genre right,
- 9:56Speaker 5: and like a lot of times the movies aren't great.
- 9:58Speaker 5: Like so basically they show an early screening of a
- 10:01Speaker 5: movie that'll come out within like a week or two.
- 10:03Speaker 5: I think it's safer because even if the horror movie's bad,
- 10:06Speaker 5: we can sit there and laugh at it. We did
- 10:09Speaker 5: mystery movie Monday at Movie Tavern about a year year
- 10:12Speaker 5: and a half ago. So a movie called Boy Kills World.
- 10:14Speaker 5: One of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life,
- 10:16Speaker 5: so it kind of scarred me a little bit from that.
- 10:21Speaker 5: All right, guys, this is you know, kind of mischiit
- 10:24Speaker 5: chadding recaping our weekend here to open the segment, kind
- 10:26Speaker 5: of keep things light because we have a lot to
- 10:28Speaker 5: get to coming back on the other side of the break,
- 10:32Speaker 5: Me and Landra Braxton, all of us, we're gonna chop
- 10:34Speaker 5: it up. LSU Milwaukee opening weekend recap. The Tigers win
- 10:39Speaker 5: all three games and they take on Kent State tonight.
- 10:42Speaker 5: But we'll kind of recap what happened, give you a
- 10:44Speaker 5: breakdown of how the scoring went, and then seven point
- 10:47Speaker 5: thirty Will Laundre will give you our our weekend standouts
- 10:51Speaker 5: who we like to really stepped up, and we'll do
- 10:53Speaker 5: all that coming up here on the other side here
- 10:56Speaker 5: on off the bench.
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- 11:16Speaker 1: I can tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
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- 12:24Speaker 5: Welcome back in Monday edition of Off the Bench, Tyler
- 12:26Speaker 5: Show Up here with you Elandra Villarrial Braxton Rosuto along
- 12:30Speaker 5: as well. The LSU Tigers take down the Milwaukee Panthers
- 12:34Speaker 5: three games to nothing Friday Saturday Sunday. Now LSU does
- 12:37Speaker 5: play tonight against Kent State, little bit step up in competition,
- 12:41Speaker 5: a little bit better than Milwaukee. We'll see how the
- 12:43Speaker 5: Tiger's fare there. But let's going to recap the action.
- 12:46Speaker 5: It was a buzzing at the box all weekend long.
- 12:49Speaker 5: I mean you could just see the crowds of people
- 12:51Speaker 5: coming in droves into Alec Box. Game one. Tigers win
- 12:55Speaker 5: it fifteen to five, and what a more appropriate way
- 12:59Speaker 5: to start off scoring here in twenty twenty six. Then
- 13:01Speaker 5: the big body got himself, Zach York a solo shot
- 13:04Speaker 5: gave the Tigers a one to nothing lead in the
- 13:07Speaker 5: second inning. It was impressive. And after that though, LSU
- 13:12Speaker 5: takes a two nothing lead right after that. Then Milwaukee
- 13:16Speaker 5: got going a little bit. We'll get into case of
- 13:17Speaker 5: Evans here in a second. He didn't maybe have the
- 13:20Speaker 5: outing and a lot of LSU fans were hoping for.
- 13:22Speaker 5: And then you're down five to two and Seth Dardaar,
- 13:26Speaker 5: a guy who one of my personal favorites. I believe
- 13:29Speaker 5: Seth Dardar is going to take over that everyday second
- 13:32Speaker 5: baseman role at some point this season. He had a
- 13:35Speaker 5: two run home run his first to bat of the season.
- 13:37Speaker 5: So you have Zach York his first to bat a
- 13:39Speaker 5: solo shot, Seth Dardar his first to bat of two
- 13:42Speaker 5: run homer. Not bad transfer portal work there from mister J. Johnson,
- 13:46Speaker 5: but he narrowed a five to two deficit to five
- 13:48Speaker 5: to four. So LSU trailed five to four going into
- 13:52Speaker 5: the bottom of the seventh inning, But LSU sent eleven
- 13:55Speaker 5: hitters to the plate and erupted for six runs to
- 13:58Speaker 5: take the ten to five lead a little bit later on,
- 14:01Speaker 5: and then the Tigers would extend their lead back to
- 14:04Speaker 5: back doubles to begin the seventh Steven Milum Jake Brown.
- 14:09Speaker 5: That's what tied it at five, and then Zach York
- 14:11Speaker 5: hid buy a pitch Kate Aaron Beattie a three run
- 14:13Speaker 5: home run to left field. We'll get into him a
- 14:16Speaker 5: little bit later on in the shim. So the Tigers,
- 14:18Speaker 5: you know, they pulled away at the end. When I
- 14:21Speaker 5: look back at Game one, I think about case In
- 14:24Speaker 5: Evans did what I thought he would do distance wise,
- 14:28Speaker 5: Like I kind of thought five innings. Now he didn't
- 14:30Speaker 5: make it out of the fourth. He got into the fourth.
- 14:33Speaker 5: His final stat line three and a third innings, seven strikeouts,
- 14:37Speaker 5: six hits, four earned runs. So up and down, I mean,
- 14:40Speaker 5: seven strikeouts in three and a third is really good.
- 14:42Speaker 5: You gave up six hits, you gave up four earned runs.
- 14:45Speaker 5: Not exactly what we wanted to see. And you know
- 14:48Speaker 5: it's weird. He was cruising through the first three innings
- 14:50Speaker 5: or so, and then he gave up that fourth spot
- 14:52Speaker 5: in the fourth inning. Was ultimately pulled, but wound up
- 14:56Speaker 5: not mattering as much because Cooper Williams and Gavin Gidrey
- 14:59Speaker 5: out of the bullpen. They went the rest of the way. Combined,
- 15:02Speaker 5: they gave up one run and combined for ten strikeouts.
- 15:06Speaker 5: Not bad out of your bullpen for game one, especially
- 15:10Speaker 5: when you feel like you have your ace on the mound.
- 15:12Speaker 5: He doesn't have it going. You got to throw these
- 15:14Speaker 5: guys in there. It was Williams first, then it went Gidrey,
- 15:17Speaker 5: and again they were awesome in Game one for the Tigers.
- 15:22Speaker 5: So you win the opening game, Game two a lot
- 15:25Speaker 5: tighter of a battle, five to three victory. For LSU,
- 15:29Speaker 5: and they jumped on them early. They gobbed to two
- 15:30Speaker 5: to nothing lead in the bottom of the third inning.
- 15:33Speaker 5: It was Derek Curiel. He had a sack fly then
- 15:36Speaker 5: Jake Brown lined an RBI single, so that got a
- 15:40Speaker 5: two to nothing. Milwaukee did narrow that gap for a
- 15:43Speaker 5: little bit, made it two to one, but LSU extended
- 15:45Speaker 5: their lead five to three in the eighth. Guess who
- 15:49Speaker 5: came up with a big time hit when the Tigers
- 15:51Speaker 5: needed it. Stop me if you've heard this before. Steven Milom.
- 15:54Speaker 5: He had a two run double. Kate Aaron Beidi again,
- 15:57Speaker 5: You're gonna hear his name a lot. He provided a
- 15:59Speaker 5: run score double, his fourth RBI in two games. He's
- 16:03Speaker 5: pretty good. In Game three as well. Milwaukee did rally
- 16:06Speaker 5: for a pair of runs in the top of the
- 16:09Speaker 5: ninth inning, but Grant Fontino actually got to save. He
- 16:12Speaker 5: came in, he got out. Grant. We're ass on a
- 16:13Speaker 5: flyball to in the game. There were two runners on base.
- 16:16Speaker 5: That was a big time out for the Tigers. They
- 16:19Speaker 5: get that one done. Game two is all about Cooper Moore.
- 16:23Speaker 5: I mean, that's how you recap Game two of this series.
- 16:27Speaker 5: This guy was always going to be a starter on
- 16:29Speaker 5: this team. I mean, anytime you heard Jay Johnson talk preseason,
- 16:33Speaker 5: he raved about Cooper Moore. I mean, that was one
- 16:36Speaker 5: of the first names out of his mouth. Whenever a
- 16:37Speaker 5: coach talks about a guy unsolicited brings up his name,
- 16:41Speaker 5: I pay attention. Whether it's the baseball, basketball, football, whichever sport.
- 16:46Speaker 5: He goes six innings, eleven strikeouts, no walks, and gave
- 16:50Speaker 5: up one run. It really does not get much better
- 16:53Speaker 5: than that. Cooper More was absolutely nails on Saturday, and
- 16:57Speaker 5: the bullpen was solid for the most part. Behind him,
- 17:00Speaker 5: accept Zach Cowen. Zach Cowen had a little bit of
- 17:02Speaker 5: a rough outing. Now, I don't think anybody should hit
- 17:05Speaker 5: the panic button on Zach Cowen because you should be
- 17:08Speaker 5: confident in him. You saw it all year long against
- 17:11Speaker 5: high level competition. Zach Cowen, come in, save games for you,
- 17:15Speaker 5: win games for you. That's what he did out of
- 17:16Speaker 5: the bullpen. Sure he wasn't great opening weekend case it.
- 17:19Speaker 5: Evans wasn't great opening weekend. It happens. But outside of
- 17:23Speaker 5: Zach Cowen, you gotta feel good, right Like you thought
- 17:26Speaker 5: Collen and Evans were gonna be two of the guys
- 17:29Speaker 5: that performed the best over the weekend. Neither of them
- 17:31Speaker 5: were that great, and the rest of your bullpen was
- 17:33Speaker 5: still really good to get you these wins. So I
- 17:36Speaker 5: think overall that is a positive. And then what else
- 17:40Speaker 5: can you say about yesterday? I mean, it was an
- 17:42Speaker 5: absolute hit parade on Sunday afternoon, twenty one to seven
- 17:46Speaker 5: and just seven innings for the Tigers. I was William Schmidt.
- 17:49Speaker 5: They got the start, and he had a little bit
- 17:51Speaker 5: of an up and down day. So Schmid goes four innings,
- 17:54Speaker 5: nine strikeouts, which is elite in four innings, but he
- 17:57Speaker 5: gives up three walks, he gives up three earned runs.
- 18:00Speaker 5: We saw the stuff a year ago. We know that
- 18:04Speaker 5: William Schmidt has a lead. Stuff control is going to
- 18:07Speaker 5: continue to be a big area to watch for a
- 18:09Speaker 5: guy like William Schmidt. You saw the reports out of
- 18:13Speaker 5: Fall Baseball. Right anytime they had a scrimmage, some reports
- 18:17Speaker 5: came out. It was like, oh, this weekend, William Schmidt
- 18:19Speaker 5: was unhittable. In Mussou interviewed set Dardar last week for AFR.
- 18:25Speaker 5: Musseau asked him, Hey, who's the toughest guy you win
- 18:28Speaker 5: against all fall. First name out of his mouth, William Schmidt.
- 18:31Speaker 5: So when he's on, he's one of the best pitchers
- 18:34Speaker 5: on your staff because he has elite level stuff. His
- 18:36Speaker 5: issue was giving up the free passes, and once you
- 18:39Speaker 5: give up a couple of free passes, how do you
- 18:41Speaker 5: rebound from that? Last year it didn't go great. It
- 18:44Speaker 5: kind of snowballed on him a little bit. This game, again,
- 18:47Speaker 5: he does give up the three walks, he gives up
- 18:48Speaker 5: the three hundred runs, but he bounced back a lot
- 18:51Speaker 5: better than he did a year ago. He's just a
- 18:52Speaker 5: year older, a year longer in this program. But overall,
- 18:57Speaker 5: really good opening weekend for the Tigers. Out there at
- 19:00Speaker 5: the box again, fifteen to five in Game one, fIF
- 19:04Speaker 5: five to three in Game two, and then just a
- 19:06Speaker 5: massacre twenty one to seven in Game three. ALIDI, you
- 19:11Speaker 5: were out there opening day, the vibes like out there,
- 19:16Speaker 5: I mean, are the are the Tigers gonna Are they
- 19:18Speaker 5: gonna go back to back national champs? I mean, obviously, right,
- 19:20Speaker 5: I always.
- 19:21Speaker 3: Think that they're gonna win the national championship, so I'm
- 19:24Speaker 3: probably not the right person to ask, but no, I
- 19:26Speaker 3: mean they looked really good.
- 19:27Speaker 4: The vibes were really high.
- 19:29Speaker 3: There was a fan fest out there before the game,
- 19:33Speaker 3: and there was a surprising amount of people out there,
- 19:36Speaker 3: given that it was Friday, and everybody complains about how
- 19:39Speaker 3: Jay Johnson does these early first pitches.
- 19:42Speaker 4: At the beginning of the season, it was a two
- 19:44Speaker 4: pm first pitch.
- 19:45Speaker 3: The fan fest started at eleven AM, and like, the
- 19:48Speaker 3: people showed up. The kids were there, they had they
- 19:51Speaker 3: were playing hooky. People probably like got in trouble at
- 19:55Speaker 3: their jobs. But I kept saying, like, it's okay, Jay Johnson,
- 19:58Speaker 3: roach y'all an excuse.
- 20:00Speaker 4: I had a letter that.
- 20:01Speaker 3: You could turn into your employer, your teacher, so it's fine.
- 20:05Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it was. Vibes were super high.
- 20:08Speaker 3: Everybody looked like they were having a great time. I
- 20:10Speaker 3: mean the box was packed. So for as much as
- 20:13Speaker 3: people complain about the two pm first pitch, I mean
- 20:16Speaker 3: they showed up.
- 20:18Speaker 5: That was always one of those people.
- 20:19Speaker 4: I was admittedly like, I get it, but people were there.
- 20:23Speaker 5: No, they were like I was watching.
- 20:24Speaker 4: It was packed. It was like standing room only at
- 20:27Speaker 4: some point.
- 20:27Speaker 5: I was still here when first pitch obviously at two o'clock.
- 20:30Speaker 5: But uh, you know, of course, believe it or not,
- 20:32Speaker 5: Hunt Palmer had it on TV in the studio and
- 20:34Speaker 5: a shocker. I know came in the here. I mean
- 20:36Speaker 5: it looked like there wasn't an empty seat. Yeah, I
- 20:38Speaker 5: mean it was insane. I know you were there. Did
- 20:40Speaker 5: you go Saturday or Sunday?
- 20:42Speaker 3: So I didn't go Saturday because I was at the
- 20:43Speaker 3: parade Sunday. I also did not make it out there.
- 20:46Speaker 3: But I will say everybody on this team is huge.
- 20:50Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 20:52Speaker 3: Out Their pregame to like just get some video and
- 20:55Speaker 3: pictures on the field or whatever, and I'm like.
- 20:58Speaker 4: Wait, y'all are all so big.
- 21:01Speaker 3: They're like except for obviously Stephen Mylom, but everyone's like stout.
- 21:06Speaker 3: Not just like tall, but they're just like stout. And
- 21:09Speaker 3: I was telling y'all in the group chat that it
- 21:10Speaker 3: looks like Kreiyel put on like some muscle mass too
- 21:13Speaker 3: in the off season. So I'm excited. I think the
- 21:16Speaker 3: team looks great. The bullpen, besides like some shakiness here
- 21:21Speaker 3: and there, looks awesome too. And Devin Sheeran looks as advertised.
- 21:26Speaker 3: He's another one that's huge. He's a big boy.
- 21:29Speaker 5: You got a lot of big boys, right, I mean
- 21:31Speaker 5: we look remember the first championship roun we made with
- 21:34Speaker 5: with Jay Johnson, it was it was Riley Cooper, it
- 21:37Speaker 5: was it was Kay Beloso. Is guys like that, We're like,
- 21:39Speaker 5: we need some more big body gods. Jay Johnson listened
- 21:42Speaker 5: because Zach York is a large human being.
- 21:45Speaker 4: I had and how on brand that like his first
- 21:48Speaker 4: hit at the box is a home run?
- 21:50Speaker 5: So I also missed it. I had just left work. Yeah,
- 21:53Speaker 5: I'm literally getting on the interstate right there, and uh
- 21:56Speaker 5: Patrick right? Who actually was great?
- 21:58Speaker 4: Patrick?
- 21:59Speaker 5: Patrick? Patrick did all three games.
- 22:01Speaker 4: They were asking me, and I assumed it was Doug
- 22:03Speaker 4: and Buzzy. Yeah it was Patrick.
- 22:05Speaker 5: So Patrick did all three baseball games and the women's
- 22:08Speaker 5: a game on Saturday night. The man was putting in work,
- 22:10Speaker 5: but I'm getting on the interstate and then he's like, oh,
- 22:13Speaker 5: one swing of the bat. I just chuckled. I mean
- 22:15Speaker 5: I just I literally let out it laugh. I'm like,
- 22:17Speaker 5: of course, the first run of the season is a
- 22:20Speaker 5: Zach York bohm because it's all we've heard about all fall.
- 22:24Speaker 5: I mean, it was it was so appropriate. But you know,
- 22:26Speaker 5: you were talking about the size of guys. It was
- 22:28Speaker 5: so funny right when you had said that, because like
- 22:31Speaker 5: you were at the game, you didn't get to hear
- 22:32Speaker 5: it on the broadcast, Ben McDonald goes, yeah, Derek Curry,
- 22:35Speaker 5: oh like twelve to thirteen pounds of muscle, Yeah, in
- 22:38Speaker 5: the offseason, and you sent it like right after that.
- 22:40Speaker 4: He looks he looks bigger.
- 22:42Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like he I mean, he looks good, and
- 22:44Speaker 3: he had some pop in his bat whenever I was
- 22:46Speaker 3: watching Sunday, So I mean, good for him, but also
- 22:50Speaker 3: for as much as people always worry about, like, oh,
- 22:53Speaker 3: what are we gonna do with the bullpen? What are
- 22:55Speaker 3: we gonna do with replace? How are we going to
- 22:57Speaker 3: replace Kate Anderson and Anthony Ironson. Okay, well we broke
- 23:01Speaker 3: the record that we set perdue fort Wayne forty five
- 23:03Speaker 3: strikeouts the most in a series. They broke it this
- 23:07Speaker 3: weekend with forty nine strikeouts. So it broke it easily, Yeah,
- 23:10Speaker 3: very easily.
- 23:11Speaker 4: So I think they looked good.
- 23:13Speaker 3: I remember like last season, after they did that, I
- 23:15Speaker 3: went like full ray man and compared like the season before,
- 23:19Speaker 3: because everybody was worried about it too, and I was like, no, y'all,
- 23:22Speaker 3: we're gonna be fine, and then everyone was like, it's
- 23:24Speaker 3: only four games in. I'm like, I know, but watch,
- 23:26Speaker 3: there's already such an improvement.
- 23:28Speaker 4: So I feel good about the team.
- 23:30Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, Like I did. I saw a couple of
- 23:33Speaker 5: people online being like, oh, Zach Cowen, But like if
- 23:36Speaker 5: Zach Cowen was your worst bullpen pitcher over the weekend,
- 23:39Speaker 5: I felt good about it because I trusted more than
- 23:40Speaker 5: everybody else. Like Zach Cowen just had a bad out.
- 23:43Speaker 5: He was excellent. He was great before you got to LSU,
- 23:46Speaker 5: but he was awesome all last year. Like I mean,
- 23:49Speaker 5: maybe this is just me trusting this team blindly, But
- 23:51Speaker 5: like I don't care that Zach Cowen didn't have a
- 23:53Speaker 5: good outing because I know what he could do. Like
- 23:55Speaker 5: I would have been more concerned if like Cowen and
- 23:58Speaker 5: Gidry were great, everybody else was shake. To me, that's
- 24:00Speaker 5: a lot more of a concern like having your best
- 24:02Speaker 5: guy and not having a good first outing, I don't care.
- 24:04Speaker 6: Yeah, No, we're just so deep of like a pitching staff,
- 24:08Speaker 6: so we have sony people to go through. But that's
- 24:09Speaker 6: good that we played Milwaukee first because we got to
- 24:12Speaker 6: go through everybody and make sure and see what they
- 24:14Speaker 6: can do, you know, get make sure they're comfortable and
- 24:17Speaker 6: just move on.
- 24:18Speaker 4: We love because that's just absolutely electric.
- 24:22Speaker 5: We were we were talking about it you and I
- 24:24Speaker 5: were talking about it maybe a week week and a
- 24:26Speaker 5: half ago when Jake was out. Like people had been
- 24:30Speaker 5: talking about, oh, you have Cooper More, you have Cooper Williams.
- 24:32Speaker 5: Cave I mean not kave case A. Evans is going
- 24:36Speaker 5: to be your Friday night guy. Nobody was talking about
- 24:39Speaker 5: Guidury or Devin Sheeran because they were injured last year
- 24:41Speaker 5: and they didn't play. Don't forget like these could be
- 24:44Speaker 5: two of your best bullpit guys and they were one
- 24:47Speaker 5: opening weekend. We're gonna take a time out and we
- 24:50Speaker 5: get back a Landra and the heart kind of gonna
- 24:51Speaker 5: go back and forth of maybe which players individual players
- 24:54Speaker 5: stood out. Obviously, the team as a whole was great.
- 24:57Speaker 5: They win three games to nothing. But we'll do that
- 24:59Speaker 5: on the other side here on off the bench, Off
- 25:02Speaker 5: the bench.
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- 27:32Speaker 5: In Monday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor Sharp here
- 27:35Speaker 5: with you, Loudravilla, Real, Braxton Rissuto as well. LSU Baseball
- 27:40Speaker 5: gets a three game to nothing victory over the Milwaukee
- 27:43Speaker 5: Panthers at Alick Box Stadium. Over the weekend, they take
- 27:45Speaker 5: on the Kent State Golden Flashes. I'm sure everyone knows
- 27:48Speaker 5: what that is here on Monday night. But what I
- 27:51Speaker 5: want to do right now is look some guys that
- 27:54Speaker 5: maybe maybe caught our eye. Who was somebody that that
- 27:56Speaker 5: flashed for us landra I'll let you go first, you
- 27:59Speaker 5: have any body just off the dome right now? Like, hey,
- 28:02Speaker 5: that guy big first weekend.
- 28:04Speaker 3: I hate to go like chalking obvious here, but Cooper
- 28:07Speaker 3: More is awesome, right, Like, I can't really give you
- 28:10Speaker 3: another answer because he just stood out so hard to
- 28:13Speaker 3: me that I'm like, I mean, eleven strikeouts and six innings,
- 28:16Speaker 3: only allowed four hits in one run, one of them
- 28:19Speaker 3: earned no walks. That's the most important, like impressive stat
- 28:24Speaker 3: to me from Cooper More over the weekend is zero walks.
- 28:27Speaker 4: It's ridiculous.
- 28:28Speaker 5: Eleven to nothing news, Yeah, that's insane.
- 28:31Speaker 3: Yes, So like I hate to just go with the
- 28:34Speaker 3: obvious one, but I'm like super impressed by him. And
- 28:37Speaker 3: then y'all know, I was looking forward to seeing Trent
- 28:39Speaker 3: Carraway and he can play every position really well.
- 28:44Speaker 5: You got the started second yesterday, I believe right. Yeah,
- 28:47Speaker 5: I didn't see that coming.
- 28:48Speaker 3: No, killed it at second, so third base, second base, whatever.
- 28:53Speaker 3: But I do agree with you that I do think
- 28:54Speaker 3: that's that Dardar is gonna end up taking the second place.
- 28:58Speaker 5: He hits too well. He has to be in your lineup,
- 28:59Speaker 5: like that's your second basement. I wrote down two pictures
- 29:02Speaker 5: and one of them was Cooper Moore. Yeah, you're going chalk,
- 29:06Speaker 5: but you have to, you know. My other picture is
- 29:09Speaker 5: Gavin Gidrey. Sorry, we're going chaw. Guys, the big name
- 29:12Speaker 5: showed up. He threw two innings on Friday. The seven batters,
- 29:16Speaker 5: struck out five of them, including four straight to start
- 29:19Speaker 5: his day. This is the Gavin Gidry we saw two
- 29:22Speaker 5: years ago. I mean, the guy hadn't played in basically
- 29:24Speaker 5: eighteen months. He comes out there and looks like that, like,
- 29:27Speaker 5: are you kidding me? If this guy can come out
- 29:29Speaker 5: and do that in the back end of your bullpen,
- 29:31Speaker 5: then this staff has the potential to be one of
- 29:33Speaker 5: the best in the country because you have one of
- 29:35Speaker 5: the best set up guys closing guys. You could put
- 29:37Speaker 5: Gavin Gidrie wherever you want in that bullpen rotation and
- 29:42Speaker 5: he's going to deliver for you. I mean, I think
- 29:45Speaker 5: he was incredible. And you know what, Landra mentioned Set
- 29:47Speaker 5: dard Ar. Guess what, guys, I got Set Dardar written
- 29:50Speaker 5: down right here. I think he's gonna be your everyday
- 29:53Speaker 5: second basement. We had been talking about that for the
- 29:56Speaker 5: past week or so. He came in for Braden Simpson
- 29:59Speaker 5: on Friday and his first at bat, yeah, two running
- 30:01Speaker 5: home run. Not bad.
- 30:03Speaker 1: Uh.
- 30:03Speaker 5: He went two for three that day. Three RBI scored
- 30:05Speaker 5: two runs. On the weekend, he was three for eight
- 30:07Speaker 5: with six RBIs and he had a pretty good glove
- 30:10Speaker 5: over there at second as well. That's a guy that
- 30:12Speaker 5: that flashed and a Landra's favorite player from a year ago.
- 30:17Speaker 5: She laughed, this weird in the studio together. Karon Beattie
- 30:21Speaker 5: had a heck of a weekend behind the plate. He
- 30:24Speaker 5: was six for twelve, four RBI scored five runs and
- 30:29Speaker 5: like did he did? He have a pass ball over
- 30:31Speaker 5: the weekend.
- 30:32Speaker 3: I think I saw that he did a little bit,
- 30:34Speaker 3: but he's improved a lot behind the plate, Yeah, because
- 30:37Speaker 3: I mean he's got He was pretty hit or missed
- 30:40Speaker 3: he was last season, but there is a huge improvement
- 30:43Speaker 3: from already, like just in the Yeah, Omar Serna looks
- 30:47Speaker 3: good too though.
- 30:47Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean yeah, I think he DHD.
- 30:49Speaker 4: Yesterday started the Saturday game.
- 30:52Speaker 5: Maybe wehen you mentioned it. Like the dudes got the
- 30:56Speaker 5: body of an upper class like not in a.
- 30:59Speaker 3: Weird way, great build, Like he's tall, he has like
- 31:05Speaker 3: he's I'm telling you, all of the guys on this
- 31:07Speaker 3: team are big.
- 31:08Speaker 5: They really are. Like they're they're massive. They look like
- 31:10Speaker 5: the football team out the Yeah, like they're they're huge.
- 31:12Speaker 5: That was clearly a strategic move there by Jay Johnson.
- 31:16Speaker 5: But like with with Aaron Beatty, it's so important because okay,
- 31:18Speaker 5: so so Braxton. Like the reason I say Allander's favorite player,
- 31:22Speaker 5: our girl was going through it. It was so it
- 31:25Speaker 5: was a midweek game. I think I'm doing the I'm
- 31:28Speaker 5: doing the baseball game, she's doing women's basketball. She's walking
- 31:31Speaker 5: to the studio. Kate Arbaty let another one behind him,
- 31:34Speaker 5: and then I think he hit like a grand slam
- 31:36Speaker 5: or something or like a two run home or something.
- 31:38Speaker 5: Right after she's like, okay, he did good, and then
- 31:39Speaker 5: a few minutes later, you know if something else, it
- 31:41Speaker 5: was just it. But that's kind of how everybody felt
- 31:44Speaker 5: about him, right It was very hit and miss a
- 31:46Speaker 5: year ago, and there were so many people that thought
- 31:49Speaker 5: he was going to take that next step to be
- 31:50Speaker 5: your starting catcher. Luis Hernandez, I mean, excellent last year,
- 31:53Speaker 5: but he took that job from it. If Aaron Beatty
- 31:56Speaker 5: can do this consistent, I'm not asking him to hit
- 31:58Speaker 5: five hundred every single week. That that is not realistic
- 32:01Speaker 5: at all. But did he get you timely hits? I
- 32:03Speaker 5: mean he scored five runs, he had four RBIs. He
- 32:06Speaker 5: had a big knock over the weekend as well. Like,
- 32:08Speaker 5: if he could do things like that, have big hits
- 32:11Speaker 5: for you in big moments, and play like he did
- 32:13Speaker 5: behind the plate over the weekend, you're going to be
- 32:16Speaker 5: really good in that position. Also, Jake Brown is a stud.
- 32:20Speaker 5: If anybody didn't know that already, Jake Brown six for twelve.
- 32:24Speaker 4: I know our Jake is excited about that.
- 32:26Speaker 5: Oh, our Jake huge, Jake Brown fan. He hits two
- 32:30Speaker 5: home runs yesterday, including one which was a grand slam
- 32:34Speaker 5: eight RBI on the weekend, solid in the outfield like
- 32:38Speaker 5: we expected him to be. I think it's safe to
- 32:39Speaker 5: say he solidified his spot, right. I mean, coming into
- 32:43Speaker 5: the season, it was it was Stanfield, it was Curiel,
- 32:46Speaker 5: it was Jake Brown. But Jake Brown wasn't an everyday
- 32:48Speaker 5: starter last year. I mean, he came on hot at
- 32:50Speaker 5: the end of the year. But he's a guy that's
- 32:52Speaker 5: that's kind of bounced around. I mean, they experimented with
- 32:54Speaker 5: him at first base in the past, and he's a
- 32:59Speaker 5: guy that he's down that spot in right field, like
- 33:01Speaker 5: Jake Brown is there to stay at. Where you put
- 33:04Speaker 5: him in the lineup, to me doesn't really matter. I'm
- 33:08Speaker 5: good with wherever he's at because he can hit for contact,
- 33:10Speaker 5: he can hit for power. Stick him anywhere you want
- 33:13Speaker 5: and call it a day. I love what I saw
- 33:18Speaker 5: from a lot of these guys. But I mean there's
- 33:20Speaker 5: so many guys that we haven't mentioned that you could
- 33:23Speaker 5: throw out there, right. I mean Curiel, like we haven't
- 33:27Speaker 5: mentioned him as a flash player because we expected that
- 33:29Speaker 5: from it. Like, I don't know about you. I was
- 33:31Speaker 5: a little surprised when Stanfield was leading off instead of Curiol,
- 33:34Speaker 5: Like Stanfield was great leading off to begin last year,
- 33:38Speaker 5: but they moved him down in the lineup. He hit
- 33:40Speaker 5: eight or nine going into that College World Series, and
- 33:43Speaker 5: then Stanfield opened the season as the as the leadoff batter.
- 33:48Speaker 5: Now it's switched on Saturday and Sunday. I went back
- 33:50Speaker 5: to Curio, but which they.
- 33:51Speaker 3: Kind of needed to do that because then, like Courriel
- 33:53Speaker 3: was kind of cold Friday, and then Saturday warmed up
- 33:55Speaker 3: a little bit, Sunday was full like back in full form.
- 33:59Speaker 5: Yeah, and Jayson tinker with that lineup, but not what
- 34:01Speaker 5: I say.
- 34:01Speaker 4: In the positions too. Yeah, like we have not seen
- 34:05Speaker 4: the final.
- 34:06Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, he did it this weekend, right,
- 34:09Speaker 5: I mean yesterday towards the end of the game. I
- 34:11Speaker 5: did said it was a blowout, but uh Rutgert was
- 34:14Speaker 5: playing short Ethan Klaus, who apparently Ethan Klaus actually had
- 34:17Speaker 5: a really good fall. There were there were a lot
- 34:18Speaker 5: of people saying he could hit the ball pretty well.
- 34:20Speaker 3: You mentioned whenever Matt had asked, like, who's somebody that
- 34:24Speaker 3: we haven't heard of that stands out to you?
- 34:26Speaker 4: I think he mentioned him.
- 34:27Speaker 5: Ethan Klaus is a is a guy that you know
- 34:30Speaker 5: hit the ball really well. He looks the part getting
- 34:32Speaker 5: off the bus, but he was in there at second.
- 34:35Speaker 5: You know, those two they hooked up for what they
- 34:37Speaker 5: tried to turn a double play. Class was a little
- 34:39Speaker 5: bit late getting to it. No big deal. It was
- 34:41Speaker 5: a good play as well. You had a big lead.
- 34:43Speaker 5: But I mean, there's just so many young guys. Mason
- 34:46Speaker 5: Braun got the start at DH on Friday. I mean
- 34:49Speaker 5: when you when you put out that lineup, you saw
- 34:50Speaker 5: Mason Braun in there. That's a guy that can play
- 34:53Speaker 5: outfield for you. He can also play first. So if
- 34:55Speaker 5: you need to date Zach York for whatever reason, or
- 34:58Speaker 5: Zach York has an injury, there's a guy they could
- 35:00Speaker 5: slide into first. Like the versatility of this team, the
- 35:03Speaker 5: depth of this team, whether it's in the field or
- 35:06Speaker 5: the staff. It was impressive as hell to the opening weekend.
- 35:08Speaker 3: Someone else that looked really good to close out, and
- 35:11Speaker 3: I like, I get they kind of talked about this
- 35:13Speaker 3: on the broadcast too. Wasn't like a high stakes situation
- 35:16Speaker 3: that they were in, or like a high leverage situation,
- 35:19Speaker 3: so you didn't see him in like a high pressure thing.
- 35:21Speaker 3: But Marcos pause looked good coming out to close out
- 35:24Speaker 3: the game.
- 35:25Speaker 4: As well. He had three strikeouts and two innings.
- 35:27Speaker 3: I mean, gave up four hits, but only one earned
- 35:30Speaker 3: Runoff of that, he's wuk so like, if he can
- 35:33Speaker 3: kind of find a little bit more control, he could
- 35:37Speaker 3: look really good.
- 35:38Speaker 5: He's eighteen months post Tommy John, by the way, like
- 35:41Speaker 5: the guy like that's why he didn't go to the
- 35:43Speaker 5: Major League Draft, That's why he's in school. He had
- 35:45Speaker 5: Tommy John surgery eighteen months ago. So, like we talked
- 35:48Speaker 5: about Gavin Gidrey coming back from injury, Devin Sheering coming
- 35:50Speaker 5: back from injury, Marcos Pause is another one that is
- 35:53Speaker 5: coming back. Hadn't thrown in a little bit, at least competitively.
- 35:56Speaker 5: He was quite in fall camp. I mean, by by
- 35:58Speaker 5: all accounts, they're in the fall scrimmage. Marcos Pass was
- 36:00Speaker 5: one of your best bullpen pitchers. But the fact that
- 36:03Speaker 5: all of these guys stepped up and again, like the
- 36:06Speaker 5: only bullpen guy that wasn't great was Za Callen, and
- 36:08Speaker 5: we don't care because he's so good that it doesn't
- 36:11Speaker 5: really matter.
- 36:12Speaker 3: I was excited when he first came out, besides Jaga Garcia.
- 36:15Speaker 3: He struggled a little bit.
- 36:16Speaker 5: He did out there, he did, but again that's a
- 36:18Speaker 5: guy who's a transfer right Like he's been there, done that,
- 36:20Speaker 5: He's been in high leverage situations. Like the young guys
- 36:24Speaker 5: that you wanted to see really stepped up in a
- 36:26Speaker 5: big way. All Right, we're going to take a time out.
- 36:28Speaker 5: We get back LSU men's and women's basketball. We're on
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- 37:42Speaker 1: Off the Bench.
- 37:48Speaker 5: Welcome back. In Monday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor
- 37:51Speaker 5: Sharp here with you. Jacob Hester Matt Flann on vacation
- 37:54Speaker 5: for Marty Girl Break. The kiddos were off of school
- 37:56Speaker 5: and jac and Matt said, hey, we're gonna take off
- 37:59Speaker 5: as well. Can't fault them for that. I totally understand.
- 38:03Speaker 5: LSU men's and women's basketball were on the hardwood on Saturday.
- 38:07Speaker 5: We'll start with the men. Get them out of the
- 38:09Speaker 5: way first, because, believe it or not, guys, the men
- 38:12Speaker 5: suffered another sec loss. Shocker. I know they are now
- 38:15Speaker 5: two to ten on the season, fourteen and eleven overall.
- 38:19Speaker 5: They were on the road in Knoxville, take it on
- 38:21Speaker 5: the Tennessee Volunteers seventy three sixty three, So the Tigers
- 38:25Speaker 5: kept it close for the most part, but it was
- 38:28Speaker 5: it was kind of just the same old song and
- 38:30Speaker 5: dance for LSU. I mean, you go look at at
- 38:35Speaker 5: the team stats Tennessee wins and everything. Forty six percent
- 38:39Speaker 5: shooting for Tennessee just thirty eight percent for LSU. Not
- 38:43Speaker 5: either team shot particularly well from three, but thirty eight
- 38:46Speaker 5: to thirty five percent advantage again for the Tennessee Volunteers.
- 38:49Speaker 5: LSU almost got doubled up in rebounding forty five twenty
- 38:53Speaker 5: four in favor of the Tennessee Volunteers turnovers whose you
- 38:59Speaker 5: only had three. The problem with this basketball team I
- 39:02Speaker 5: have noticed is even when they're down, they don't have
- 39:06Speaker 5: a guy that has that aggressive killer instinct, Like you
- 39:09Speaker 5: just don't see it. It seems almost like like they
- 39:12Speaker 5: move the ball around well, but it just seems like
- 39:15Speaker 5: everybody on the court, regardless of if they're up by
- 39:18Speaker 5: ten or they're losing by twenty, it's just hesitant to
- 39:21Speaker 5: shoot the ball. Like last week, the late night game
- 39:24Speaker 5: on Tuesday against Arkansas, You're down by twenty something points
- 39:28Speaker 5: in the second half and you're running the ball, you're
- 39:31Speaker 5: setting up your half court offense, you're taking your time.
- 39:33Speaker 5: Like I'm never gonna be one of those people that's
- 39:36Speaker 5: like I just heave up at three and see what happens.
- 39:38Speaker 5: But at that point in the game, it's a second half,
- 39:40Speaker 5: you're down by twenty plus. You gotta get up shots.
- 39:44Speaker 5: You have to get up shots quickly. You can't just
- 39:46Speaker 5: take your time, like. There's never really a huge sense
- 39:49Speaker 5: of urgency with this team, regardless of what the stakes
- 39:52Speaker 5: are and where you're at in the game. So, I mean, yeah,
- 39:55Speaker 5: they only had three turnovers. Tennessee had nine. I mean,
- 40:00Speaker 5: is that you had six points off of nine Tennessee turners.
- 40:04Speaker 5: Not great? They had two off a year three points
- 40:07Speaker 5: in the paint. This has been a big one all year,
- 40:09Speaker 5: at least the last few games. Thirty four points in
- 40:12Speaker 5: the paint for Tennessee, eighteen for lshoot. It pretty much
- 40:17Speaker 5: looked like that against Arkansas. Like against Arkansas, I think
- 40:19Speaker 5: you had just off the top of that, I think
- 40:22Speaker 5: it was like twenty one twenty twenty one points in
- 40:24Speaker 5: the paint. Arkansas had close to forty. I mean, Arkansas
- 40:28Speaker 5: didn't really shoot the ball that well from the outside
- 40:30Speaker 5: against you on Tuesday Night. You just find different ways
- 40:33Speaker 5: to lose games. Like it's something I say all the time. Team,
- 40:37Speaker 5: good teams find different ways to win games. AD teams
- 40:40Speaker 5: find different ways to lose games. This is a bad
- 40:42Speaker 5: basketball team, and they find different ways to lose games. However,
- 40:46Speaker 5: you just the areas that you have to improve at.
- 40:49Speaker 5: They're not a good rebounding team, they're not good defending
- 40:53Speaker 5: the paint, they're not good scoring inside the paint. And
- 40:57Speaker 5: I mean, to make matters even worse, I know he's
- 40:59Speaker 5: been in an out out of the lineup, and I
- 41:00Speaker 5: know he hadn't played a ton, but it was announced
- 41:03Speaker 5: over the weekend that DJ Thomas will be out for
- 41:05Speaker 5: the remainder of the season. So you're not going to
- 41:08Speaker 5: get him back. Like that was your guy. The entire
- 41:11Speaker 5: offense ran through him, and I mean you look, Lshu
- 41:15Speaker 5: spread the ball around a decent amount one Saturday. I
- 41:18Speaker 5: mean four of your five starters had double digits. Sutton sixteen,
- 41:23Speaker 5: tom By thirteen, Nwoco ten, Jalen Reese fifteen. That Jalen
- 41:28Speaker 5: Reese is not much of a score at least that's
- 41:29Speaker 5: not what they asked him to do in this offense
- 41:31Speaker 5: for him to put up fifteen and he was actually
- 41:33Speaker 5: good four of eight from the court, three for five
- 41:36Speaker 5: from behind the arc. But you got a total of
- 41:38Speaker 5: eight points off the bench. Between Miller, Moseley and PJ. Carter,
- 41:41Speaker 5: you got eight total points off the bench. It's just
- 41:44Speaker 5: not good enough. Look at what Tennessee did. I mean,
- 41:47Speaker 5: they had double digit scorers off the bench. You had
- 41:52Speaker 5: eighteen points off the bench and you had eight. That's
- 41:55Speaker 5: the difference in the game right there. It's a ten
- 41:57Speaker 5: point game. That's a ten point difference off the bench.
- 42:00Speaker 5: This team's just not deep enough. They have to have
- 42:02Speaker 5: all their starters perform well in the same game, and
- 42:05Speaker 5: you know some of them did. But when you're not
- 42:08Speaker 5: rebounding well, when you're not scoring down low, when you're
- 42:11Speaker 5: out defending down low, things like this are going to
- 42:13Speaker 5: continue to happen. And again, it's just kind of the
- 42:15Speaker 5: same old song and dance for the LSU Tigers next up.
- 42:22Speaker 5: I mean, it doesn't get a whole lot easier for
- 42:27Speaker 5: LSU as well. And I mean you could say, oh,
- 42:29Speaker 5: that's an easy part in their schedule. I mean they
- 42:31Speaker 5: have Texas tomorrow, Like Texas isn't a top twenty five team.
- 42:35Speaker 5: But it's on the road. I mean, you just went
- 42:37Speaker 5: on the road to Tennessee. You're on the road at Texas.
- 42:39Speaker 5: It's a late one tomorrow night at eight o'clock. Then
- 42:42Speaker 5: you're at home against Alabama. Believe it or not, since
- 42:45Speaker 5: Charles Bediako was ruled ineligible, Alabama's actually been a lot better.
- 42:51Speaker 5: I mean, Alabama's going to be favored in that game,
- 42:54Speaker 5: even though LSU is at home. That hasn't mattered this year.
- 42:57Speaker 5: Then you go on the road to all Miss your
- 43:00Speaker 5: home against Oklahoma. I mean both of those teams, those
- 43:02Speaker 5: are winnable games. But you've lost a lot of winnable
- 43:05Speaker 5: games this year. I mean, I knew everyone wanted to
- 43:08Speaker 5: talk about one last Tuesday. Oh well, you didn't have
- 43:12Speaker 5: DJ Thomas and Max McKinnon went down in the third quarter. Okay,
- 43:19Speaker 5: DJ Wagner and Carter Knox, who are Arkansas's two the
- 43:22Speaker 5: best players, did not even play against you, and you
- 43:24Speaker 5: lost by twenty plus points at home. It hasn't mattered
- 43:28Speaker 5: who this team has played. They haven't been good against anyone.
- 43:32Speaker 5: That's why you sit there at two and ten. I mean,
- 43:35Speaker 5: you look at the teams they've beaten. I mean, yeah,
- 43:39Speaker 5: they got a victory over South Carolina. Great. South Carolina's
- 43:42Speaker 5: not good either. Look at the bottom of the SEC standings,
- 43:46Speaker 5: it's kind of where it's kind of where both of
- 43:49Speaker 5: these teams have lived. So, I mean, I don't you
- 43:52Speaker 5: try to find wins whenever a team's struggling, you try
- 43:54Speaker 5: to find wins. Right, You're two and ten, You're tied
- 43:58Speaker 5: with South Carolina at the bottom of the LIE. Sure,
- 44:01Speaker 5: Ole Miss is three and nine. You got them coming
- 44:03Speaker 5: up Texas seven and five in the league. You're not
- 44:06Speaker 5: winning that game in Austin, second game in a row
- 44:09Speaker 5: on the road. You're not winning that game. Oklahoma's winnable.
- 44:13Speaker 5: They're three and nine. Ole Miss is three and nine.
- 44:17Speaker 5: But do I have confidence that this team can win
- 44:18Speaker 5: this game? No, because they do the same thing every game.
- 44:22Speaker 5: This team plays like they just go out there and
- 44:24Speaker 5: they're like, Okay, we're gonna go out there, we're gonna
- 44:27Speaker 5: put up some shots and hope for the best. I mean,
- 44:30Speaker 5: at times, it just seems like there's no rhyme or
- 44:32Speaker 5: reason as to what they're doing. So, I mean, where
- 44:37Speaker 5: do you go again? Wins wise? The rest of the way,
- 44:40Speaker 5: I just I just I don't see it getting any better.
- 44:43Speaker 5: I mean, you're losing. I think you lose to Texas
- 44:45Speaker 5: and Alabama, no question about that. Both those teams are
- 44:47Speaker 5: getting better. Ole Miss at Oklahoma, those are winnable. But
- 44:51Speaker 5: let's say you win both of those. I put you
- 44:52Speaker 5: at four wins. Then you have Auburn who's reeling a
- 44:55Speaker 5: little bit, but they're better than you, and then Texas,
- 44:58Speaker 5: A and M. We've surprised a lot of people this year.
- 45:01Speaker 5: So let's say you beat Ole Miss and Oklahoma, You're
- 45:05Speaker 5: still sitting at four SEC wins. And that's not good
- 45:10Speaker 5: enough for SEC wins. I mean again, at A and M.
- 45:14Speaker 5: They have a winning record in the conference. And should
- 45:17Speaker 5: I trust LSU against anybody they play, No, not really. So,
- 45:21Speaker 5: even though it looks good down the stretch, I just
- 45:22Speaker 5: don't see it get any better. All Right, We're actually
- 45:24Speaker 5: gonna do women's basketball in the nine o'clock hour. There's
- 45:27Speaker 5: a lot to get to there coming up. We got
- 45:29Speaker 5: some LSU football coming up. We got some Saints, we
- 45:31Speaker 5: got Patrick Coogan, former LSU pitcher. That's all coming up
- 45:34Speaker 5: here on Off the bench, Off the bench,