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Austin Bain Talks CWS, Ben Mintz Live from Omaha · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
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  Speaker 1: and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the.
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  Speaker 1: Plays get broken down and science gets denied. The Bitch
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  Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench, Live from the Mercedes
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  Speaker 1: Benz Baton Rouge Studio starts now.
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  Speaker 3: All right then, welcome back, Yeah OTV here on this
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  Speaker 3: Wednesday morning. Jake Flynn, Alandre Tata all here with you,
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  Speaker 3: and it has been too long. Very excited for our
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  Speaker 3: next guest. It is former l s U pitcher and
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  Speaker 3: first baseman, mister Austin Bain. The Bain train joined the
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  Speaker 3: show boys. How we do it? We're doing great man.
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  Speaker 3: Excited to have you back on the show. Us three
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  Speaker 3: have done a lot of radio together now typically we
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  Speaker 3: did it when the sun was going down. We did
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  Speaker 3: we did it, We did it. I think it was
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  Speaker 3: very memorable radio. But you know, for old time's sake,
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  Speaker 3: Austin to kind of lead off this discussion, I feel
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  Speaker 3: like you should tell the people for about sixty seconds
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  Speaker 3: about ladder in Bloom.
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  Speaker 4: Oh god, dude, I'm having PTSD again. My hands are
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  Speaker 4: sweating right now. I don't want to do this.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Jake was like, I don't I don't even think
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  Speaker 2: he'll remember it. And I was like, oh, he'll remember it.
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  Speaker 2: He's got he still has nightmares.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's ingrained in my brain. You know, I can't.
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  Speaker 4: I can't go a day without thinking about it.
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  Speaker 3: Austin, if it makes you feel better now that Flynn,
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  Speaker 3: because Flynn didn't have to do those back then. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he was always on, but he never had to do
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  Speaker 3: him You actually, like you sold it and you did
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  Speaker 3: something and people were paying you to have your takes
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  Speaker 3: on the radio. He has to do it now. And
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  Speaker 3: let me just tell you, he is in the same
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  Speaker 3: situation that you were in, So don't let him try
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  Speaker 3: to talk too much trash to you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're getting a lot, We're getting practiced. It's kind
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  Speaker 2: of a thing right now, babe. It's like we actually
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  Speaker 2: have the people in the chat giving me, like ranking
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  Speaker 2: them after I'm done so, but we've we're anywhere between
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  Speaker 2: a one out of ten to ten out of ten.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's real hit or miss right now.
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  Speaker 4: At least they're giving you ten out of ten.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, actually those are few and far between.
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  Speaker 4: And see, the biggest problem with it is as you're
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  Speaker 4: doing the library, you just see Jacob staring at you
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  Speaker 4: the whole time, and you know that he's just going
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  Speaker 4: to grill you after. So I was like, oh, I
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  Speaker 4: need to get this over with.
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  Speaker 3: You did great, I mean, you know, thanks cousin, Jake,
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  Speaker 3: and then you'd go right into it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I was I was yet att know this.
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  Speaker 4: I was practicing at home. It may not have shown,
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  Speaker 4: but I was in front of the mirror trying to
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  Speaker 4: make it work, and that I just couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: Sometime does not layoff. Look we did, man, we had.
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  Speaker 3: We had a lot of fun on hanging with Hester. Certainly,
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  Speaker 3: it's good to have you back on man. Miss. You
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  Speaker 3: being around Baton rouge wy, don't you tell the people
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  Speaker 3: kind of what you're up to since they, you know,
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  Speaker 3: last heard from you, which has now been years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I moved away. I moved up to Shreveport,
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  Speaker 4: near Jake's homeland. Yeah, that was only a couple of
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  Speaker 4: months now living in Oxford, Mississippi. H went from medical
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  Speaker 4: sales to now work for a developer. I'm in enemy territory. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: And I always tell people, I was like, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: I kind of liked the old miss until I moved
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  Speaker 4: here and then I was told how much they hate us. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, you know what, y'all kind of stuck too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, no doubt got it? How like, man, you
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  Speaker 3: I mean you were in the thick of it, like,
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  Speaker 3: not only are you like living where the enemy is,
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  Speaker 3: like when you live in a small town where the
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  Speaker 3: enemy is, like you're probably the guy that stands out
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  Speaker 3: like a sore thumb because like you're the LSU guy
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  Speaker 3: Ole Miss loves their baseball and so I'm sure you
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  Speaker 3: get it double what typically someone would get in enemy territory.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't help that I wear purple a lot,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, no, no, no, I get worn out when I
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  Speaker 4: was in hospitals, they would they knew, and it was, uh,
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  Speaker 4: it really opened my eyes to Old Miss fans, I
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  Speaker 4: should say. Now, I say that as a generalization, not
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  Speaker 4: all bad, you know, yeah, but they hate us, man,
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  Speaker 4: And I didn't know that. I had no idea that
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  Speaker 4: they didn't like us like that.
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  Speaker 3: I know. It is one of those weird deals. Awesome
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  Speaker 3: because kind of the same situation for me as well,
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  Speaker 3: Like I'll meet somebody and I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I know I got to play football for Old Miss
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  Speaker 3: Bold big rival of awesome, like not really like not
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  Speaker 3: for me, like not for me, Like I don't I
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  Speaker 3: don't think of Old Miss like that because like we
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  Speaker 3: beat them every year that we were in school, and
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  Speaker 3: LSU's record over Old Miss and football and baseball, and
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  Speaker 3: so that's like like not me trying to throw shaded
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  Speaker 3: Old Miss. But it's just like, uh, you know, from
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  Speaker 3: maybe a generation before, because I'm the same way. I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know y'all hated us like that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it just caught me off guard. And I
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  Speaker 4: like a lot of the people up here, A lot
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  Speaker 4: of people are nice, but when they find out that
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  Speaker 4: you believe purple and Gold, it's just they look at
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  Speaker 4: you different.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they guess the old saying they hate us because
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  Speaker 2: they ain't us.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh, all right, Bane, let's uh, let's focus a
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  Speaker 2: little bit here on LSU baseball. Tell us about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good luck.
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  Speaker 4: But I thought this was like nighttime mindset. Yeah sports.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they have forced me to start watching some baseball
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago. So hey, you would be
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  Speaker 2: proud of our boy.
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  Speaker 3: You would be proud of our boy like he is
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  Speaker 3: truly you know, locked in as much as he can.
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  Speaker 3: He's learning the names, he knows the lineup. You'd be
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  Speaker 3: proud of it.
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  Speaker 2: Look, my kids fell asleep last night to Arkansas versus
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  Speaker 2: u C l A. They fell asleep. Yeah, so like
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  Speaker 2: we're we're in Flynn's our baseball peeps. Yep, all right,
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  Speaker 2: So well just tell us about we had heard from
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  Speaker 2: me from a long time. So tell us about like
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  Speaker 2: this LSU team, what you've seen from him up to
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  Speaker 2: this point, how they've regular season, going through regional super
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  Speaker 2: regions to the point where they are now, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just what's your thoughts about the DNA of this.
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  Speaker 4: Team, man. I think that our pitching staff is lights out,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that's what carried us through the regional superachals.
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  Speaker 4: I say that we had some high scoring games, but
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  Speaker 4: whenever we left SEC tournament, I think it was kind
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  Speaker 4: of a feeling of a batch being cold, and they
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  Speaker 4: turned it around completely. I mean, the guys are seeing
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  Speaker 4: the ball, great pitchers come out doing their job, and
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  Speaker 4: I think, you know, we're one of the top pitching
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  Speaker 4: staffs in the nation. And then having Kate Anderson go
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  Speaker 4: out give seven innings in that first game like that,
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  Speaker 4: that's huge and then you know, INSI in getting him
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  Speaker 4: for possibly the next game or the first game of
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  Speaker 4: the series if we make it right there. It's it's
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  Speaker 4: just nice having depth. And one thing that I've realized
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  Speaker 4: too is I feel like everybody throws a hundred down
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  Speaker 4: right true. Like when I was there, we had like
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  Speaker 4: one guy in SEC and he was montesde Okay, he
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  Speaker 4: was like six foot seven and three hundred pounds and
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  Speaker 4: he threw a hundred. Now and now everybody's throwing it.
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  Speaker 4: Chase Shores is absolutely electric. He's fun to watch a lot,
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  Speaker 4: you know. But having those older guys in the lineup,
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  Speaker 4: Bear Jones, you know, Fry, all those guys, it's it's
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  Speaker 4: really it's you don't care about who's up in any
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  Speaker 4: situation because anybody can get the job done. So I'm
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  Speaker 4: very fired up about this team and what they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: be able to do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it's very interesting to what Jay does
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  Speaker 3: today knowing that, look, you never want to like have
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  Speaker 3: oh we can lose this game and we still get
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  Speaker 3: to play another one, Like you don't have that mindset,
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  Speaker 3: But like how he approaches this game today, Austin, because
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  Speaker 3: like you're gonna have a decision to make on who
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  Speaker 3: starts the game for you, and you're gonna have different options.
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  Speaker 3: Is it Jaye Nude who has started games in the
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  Speaker 3: past this season and kind of been in these spots before.
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  Speaker 3: Is it gonna be Zach Cowen, who hasn't been really
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  Speaker 3: in these spots in an LSU uniform, but he was
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  Speaker 3: in a Watford uniform, and the only time he did
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  Speaker 3: it in the LSU uniform in regional play, it didn't
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  Speaker 3: go well against Little Rock, And so, like the decision
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  Speaker 3: that Jay has to make, it's not an easy one,
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  Speaker 3: but he does have.
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  Speaker 4: Options, and I think the biggest thing he can kind
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  Speaker 4: of take more of a risk because now Arkansas has
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  Speaker 4: to beat us twice. So maybe now is the time
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  Speaker 4: that you can take some of the more riskier play
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  Speaker 4: to possibly say pitching for the series if we beat
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  Speaker 4: Arkansas the first game, you know, But then if if
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  Speaker 4: you do take too big of a risk and then
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  Speaker 4: now we're playing them again, we're burning more arms. H
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  Speaker 4: So I'm not sure what he should do. You know,
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  Speaker 4: It's it's gonna be a tough call regardless, but I
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  Speaker 4: think we're in the driver's seat right now, so I'm
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  Speaker 4: I'm just excited to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. What's the what's your take on the LSU lineup
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  Speaker 2: right now? The like to me just watching learning like
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  Speaker 2: the thens and outs of baseball. Like to me, they've
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  Speaker 2: played this one has been incredible. They've you know, Curry
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  Speaker 2: l is an incredible at bats so hard to get out.
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  Speaker 2: But Steven MYLM, he has played incredible. I want to
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  Speaker 2: know your thoughts on him because like, defensively he is
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  Speaker 2: he he's a dude, but that he seems like such
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  Speaker 2: a tough out right now, just tell like, tell us
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  Speaker 2: that what he a guy like that kind of means
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  Speaker 2: to the whole roster in the lineup.
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  Speaker 4: Man, I love his the swagger about him. He's a
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  Speaker 4: switch hitter, so right handed, left handed, he's gonna do fine.
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  Speaker 4: I love him baton left handed. But what what stands
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  Speaker 4: out about his game is he's up in so many
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  Speaker 4: situations and delivers whenever it's needed with runners in scoring position,
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  Speaker 4: you know, after walks, things like that. He steps up
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  Speaker 4: in big time situations and and comes through, which is
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  Speaker 4: a big confidence booster for the team in general. As
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  Speaker 4: a leader, you know, as a guy standing next to you,
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  Speaker 4: he's just fun to watch. Man, You get the Tiger
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  Speaker 4: stripes on the hair. It's something about Omaha and L
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  Speaker 4: s U L s U. Tiger's doing stuff with their hair,
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  Speaker 4: you know, from Kramer Robertson dying it to now myleam
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  Speaker 4: with the tiger stripes. It Uh, he's just fun to watch,
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  Speaker 4: ye yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Man, he has certainly turned it up here in the postseason.
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  Speaker 3: H man. It you know, omahall is so special. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's a place that you know, you dream of going
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  Speaker 3: and like y'all have this place and like we didn't
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  Speaker 3: have this in football, but like for baseball players Austin,
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  Speaker 3: like y'all worked to get to Omaha and you know
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  Speaker 3: something that I know you experienced as well, Like what
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  Speaker 3: is what's the environment? I guess like in that situation,
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  Speaker 3: in that setting, knowing that like you have the best
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  Speaker 3: fan base in the country as far as one that's
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  Speaker 3: going to travel to that location. But you know, just
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  Speaker 3: from watching it on TV and even being in the crowd,
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  Speaker 3: like it's special, Like you get goosebumps thinking about it.
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  Speaker 3: But like as a player, when you've played in what
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  Speaker 3: a lot of us consider the best college baseball stadium
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  Speaker 3: in America in the box, but what's it like going
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  Speaker 3: to Omaha, Like, how different truly is it when you're
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  Speaker 3: playing on the field.
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  Speaker 4: Man, It's it's definitely special. And I think the coolest
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  Speaker 4: part of our being a part of the LSU community
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  Speaker 4: is how well they travel and how well they support
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  Speaker 4: the team and everything. You go to Omaha, like in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty three when we went and I drove up
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  Speaker 4: for the series, it was full of purple and gold everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: It was just I've never seen anything like it. And
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  Speaker 4: that's that's the kind of support you get from the fans.
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  Speaker 4: That's how many fans there are of LSU because because
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  Speaker 4: the program is that amazing, it's it's it's a very
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  Speaker 4: professional feeling. You know, you get the opening ceremonies, you
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  Speaker 4: walk out at night with the fireworks going, the stands
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  Speaker 4: are full, go out to batting practice, the whole stands
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  Speaker 4: are full as you're shagging or hitting VP. It's just
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  Speaker 4: a very professional feeling, and it like transcends college where
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  Speaker 4: now it feels like you're at the next level. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you've got a stadium that holds what twenty eight thirty
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  Speaker 4: thousand people, You're just it's huge, it feels big. So
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  Speaker 4: it's it's a you know, once in a lifetime opportunity
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  Speaker 4: some of these guys have, and it's it's it's an
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  Speaker 4: incredible experience. So I've now gotten to go as a
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  Speaker 4: player and a fan, and I'll tell you what, being
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  Speaker 4: a fan is just as much fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, go to Rocos. Support the team a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Get on the board.
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  Speaker 2: How many Jello shots? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean yeah, Well, I mean we bought on a budget.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, do we, you know, spend some cash has
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  Speaker 3: support the Tigers? What do we do at Rocos?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? You haven't heard about the Jelo shots?
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  Speaker 3: Right? No, I don't know how much you Yeah, but
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  Speaker 3: you know you said support the Tigers. We buy eight
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  Speaker 3: yellow shots? We buy you know, I'm a hand. Did
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  Speaker 3: did you delete a dozen of them?
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  Speaker 4: I'll confess I didn't buy any, but but that's because
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  Speaker 4: the person like five minutes before me bought a thousand
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  Speaker 4: and they were passing them around from trade. So it's like,
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  Speaker 4: what am I going to do? Like give me two?
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  Speaker 3: You know too?
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  Speaker 4: Like nah, I'll just take one of the forty on
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  Speaker 4: this tray and then I'm good to go.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I do want to ask you, so you talked
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  Speaker 2: about how special of the place Omaha is, like playing
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  Speaker 2: in that stadium a professional environment. But talk about like
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  Speaker 2: the mindset that a player has knowing that a team
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  Speaker 2: that you've beaten already multiple times in a season has
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  Speaker 2: to come in and beat you twice. We know, like
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  Speaker 2: from from a coaching standpoint, there's it's a different philosophy
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  Speaker 2: from you know, when you use pitchers and how you
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  Speaker 2: set up the game. But from a players standpoint, does
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  Speaker 2: anything change because we talk about it, like beating a
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  Speaker 2: team twice in football, being a good team twice is tough,
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  Speaker 2: like mentally so from a baseball standpoint, but knowing that
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  Speaker 2: they have to beat you twice, do you play a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more loose or is it just like let's
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  Speaker 2: it's it's another game, put our hat on and let's
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  Speaker 2: go play.
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  Speaker 4: Man, I think it is just it's another game, put
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  Speaker 4: the hat on, let's go play. Because you know, as
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  Speaker 4: much as there is I guess you know, somewhat animosity
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  Speaker 4: between LSU and Arkansas and baseball, at least we respect
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  Speaker 4: the hell out of their program. They you know, they're
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  Speaker 4: highly ranked for a reason. They're very talented. You know,
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  Speaker 4: if you get a little two loose, they can sneak
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  Speaker 4: up on you, and then you're going into a game
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  Speaker 4: game three with them with the momentum in their favor.
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  Speaker 4: So I think, you know, these guys know how important
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  Speaker 4: this game is. We do have another game to play
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  Speaker 4: if we lose, but we don't want to get to that,
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  Speaker 4: so we need to handle business now. I think that
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  Speaker 4: everybody knows what's at stake here. They know what they
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  Speaker 4: need to do. They've they've got their mind on the
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  Speaker 4: on the big picture, and I think Jay Johnson's directs
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  Speaker 4: them in that in that way, so I think I
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  Speaker 4: don't think they're going to overlook them. And man, it's baseball.
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  Speaker 4: You know, anything can happen. You see all these teams.
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  Speaker 4: Murray State made a run at it, So I think
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  Speaker 4: you just got to take it one game at a time.
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  Speaker 4: Don't even let the next game get in your head
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  Speaker 4: at all.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, Austin, you were somebody that threw one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and thirty innings in college. You also had two hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty four abs, and so obviously you've got experience
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  Speaker 3: on the mound and in the batter's box. If you
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  Speaker 3: had your choice, you had to come into the game
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  Speaker 3: because you know, last year of your career, you had
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  Speaker 3: four says. If you had to come into the game
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  Speaker 3: ninth inning to shut the door, or you came up
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  Speaker 3: to the plate with a chance to win the game
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  Speaker 3: two outs. It's up to you which one you're choose in?
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  Speaker 4: Which one would I enjoy more? Or which one do
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  Speaker 4: I think I could succeed in?
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  Speaker 2: What do you pick it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean yeah, I mean, what are you succeeding? Like,
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  Speaker 3: which one are you?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, call me number eighteen. I'm there.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, that's actually a good question. Probably pitching, okay,
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  Speaker 4: because I you know, I've done that my whole life,
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  Speaker 4: and but damn dude, it would be so cool to
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  Speaker 4: come in hitting in the bottom of the ninth and
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  Speaker 4: get that opportunity. So that's a tough question. I think
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  Speaker 4: I would succeed at pitching. I think I would rather.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Hit, all right, there you go Switzerland cover.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, seems like I would crush both, like either way.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, yeah, I would be right center gap all day.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: But like you're asking a pitcher, like if you'd rather
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: pitcher hit? Like, that's that's a tough question. Every pitcher
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: wants to hit.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, yes, you're a pitcher, but
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: you also led the SEC in doubles your your last year.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Once you know, Paul got smart and lets you start
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: swinging the bat man.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: I wish you'd have told him junior year. I would
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: do anything to go back to junior year twenty seventeen
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: and swing the swing the stick a little bit.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Paul, Paul's definitely listening South Ceriah. Yeah, no question.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: I'm drinking a cup of coffee right now, sitting on
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: his porch.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, Austin, I really wanted to let you
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: back in twenty seventeen, but it just wasn't in the cards.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I wish you'd have came in there and told
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: me you're an athlete.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Oh you recruited me. I mean you saw what I
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: was doing in high school a dutchdown. What are you
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: doing here? I know? I know, man, shut up all
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Austin Man, this is a lot of fun. We'll have
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: to do it again soon. Best of luck in Oxford, Mississippi.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Like I knew that was where you were living, but
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: you know, when you say it out loud, it makes
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: it even worse. So enjoy that and good luck.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, man, it was a good talk.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: To you guys, absolutely as well. There he is our guy,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Austin Baine, who used to co host with us on
• 17:44
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• 17:47
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• 17:47
  Speaker 2: I wish you would have told me you were an athlete.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: So good, Okay, So with Austin saying it that quick
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: and it sounded like something Paul would say, that definitely happened.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Oh for sure, that definitely thought about it multiple times.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: I wish you would have told me you were an athlete, Paul.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: You recruited me, my guy, It's not my fault, Austin.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: He didn't tell me. I mean, look, he hit. Paul
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: just had this guy on the bench like that. He
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: came in and he was starting some games, started six
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: games his freshman year on the mound, actually pitched well,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: had under four e fifty four innings, pitch fifty six strikeouts,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: you know. But then like his junior year that Austin
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: was talking about, he only pitched twenty four innings and
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: didn't hit. And then Paul lets him hit and he
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: hits three eleven on base percentage of three eighty two,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: twenty one doubles, forty two RBIs, three home runs. Yeah,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: I wish you'd have told me you're an athlete.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: A couple of good quotes say of Austin talking about
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: the jellow shots, I'll take two.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that long side though, when I asked him that question,
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: oh my god, yeah, I heard him away from the microphone.
• 19:03
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  Speaker 2: Bob talked about Breathe talking about the All American playing
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: at their headquarters. Have you seen their headlines recently rejects?
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Well, I.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Had neither, but I started seeing some videos that apparently
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: making like a comeback.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: Like tour the house parties, house parties.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: They're like showing up randomly to the backyards like frat parties,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: house parties, like unannounced. They're just showing up and saying, Hey,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: we're all American rejects. Can we just play a concert?
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Like duh video a concert?
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's like, is that the most brilliant way
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: for a band like All American rejects that do come back?
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: So they're like a couple of Uh, like jelly Roll,
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: you know, like the country or jelly Roll. I don't
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: know if he's like country rock whatever. They the way
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: that he got popular, he would play like in backyards
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: and like just invite a bunch of random people and
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: then they're they're doing that with Dre or what's his name,
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Drake May.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Drake May.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: No, it's like an up and coming one.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: So he went to l s U and he played
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: out like frat houses and then he was like, I'm
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: playing at the Texas Club tonight, so like all the
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: frat people.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: But that's like for like trying to make a name
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: for yourself, like America reject everybody.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Trying to make a comeback. I guess.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the classic country and Western music artist jelly Roll.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah he is great.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm saying that just you didn't roll off the
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: tongue country.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: In weide jelly Roll actually accent and actually sight Jlly Roll.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Oh I sld jelly Roll down the.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Street sounds like Austin's accent.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: Drake Milligan is who I was thinking of. Okay, he's
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: really good.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: He went on, Uh, America's got talent. I think that
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: was the show. He went on too.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: He's he's good speaking of I cannot believe that you
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: didn't know who Blue October.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Was, no idea. Still don't you.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: Didn't Did you listen to the song? I said, And
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: you didn't know that song?
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I know that song.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: I told you Blonde Spot.
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: I guess there was a there was a way better
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: chance of you knowing than me. I went and listen
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: to it too.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: I didn't.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: But maybe I'm the only one that was Blue October
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: their a Texas band. Oh okay, I didn't know that.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I know the movie Red October, Hunt for Red October,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Hunt for Red October. Yeah, that's the only hunt.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: Was in that movie.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I've never yeah.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they were on my flight.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Already turned it into T Bob to get their autograph.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: No, I didn't even I'm not even going to go
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: up to them and be like, hey, you.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Can get autograph.
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, did they announce it or like, did
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: you reconnize?
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: No, like he had aver they had a Pelican case
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: and it said Blue October. And then I looked at
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: him and I was like, oh.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is I don't know about the Pelican cases. Bruh.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Hey, I know I know about the guns around.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: They're very heavy.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Some guns is the word?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Look it up?
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: All right, do we want to do? Would you rather
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: like each get a question in before we get the
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Ben mince Yep?
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Sure?
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: All right. Well, I mean you were the one that
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: was excited about it all started all Would you rather
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: play an entire game in freezing snow or a game
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: in a hundred degree heat with eighty percent humidity?
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: Degree heat, It's hard to run in snow, man, I go,
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: We're going to.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Go with one hundred degree with eighty percent humidity. My
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: last game in Denver was negative seven, and it was
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: the worst thing of all time. If everything hurts, that's
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: not football weather. Football weathers when you're out there sweating
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: your ass off.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I hate when people say that. They're like, this
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: is their weather. They guy, go ahead, that's not go ahead.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Green Bay football was not created in the heat. It
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: was created cold. No, it was not right. So guess
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: what y'all are all wrong and dumb for that take,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: because freezing cold is where it's at.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: It changes in both oh I played in Denver and
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: San Diego.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but snow changed, doesn't.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Oh Now, negative seven.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Is not it seems like it's pretty cold. We used
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: to hope that it was snowing, like no, we used
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: to hope that it was like below like twenty for
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: the game instead of in between like twenty and thirty two,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: because it was below twenty and usually it was not
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: snow and the snow would mountain, it wouldn't be wet
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: out there. But you know what, it is always wet
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: when it's hot and humid, and as a thrower, you
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: don't want that. That's the easiest question you've ever asked.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Such a bad take, y'all are terrible for that one. Yeah, three, four,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: respect a.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Right, would you rather spend all day in tennis shoes
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: with wet socks or no socks? No socks?
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Wet socks? Yeah, wet socks just because like, well, you're
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: hanging in a blister either way. But your feed are
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: gonna smell like ass sticky.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: You're gonna pull your foot out of the shoe and
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: the sole is gonna come with it. Yeah, yeah, no,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: that happens.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: It's a tag team situation. Yeah, when you do.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: That, for sure, what sock?
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I just feel weird, man, I just I've been I've
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: been in line like airport security when somebody takes your
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: their shoes off and they don't got their raw dog
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: in it, And I'm like, man, I can I can
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: smell from a mile away what that smells.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Like immediately socks shoes with no socks on.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: It's like it's a psycho moved.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: It's a cringe worthy thing. Like it gives me. Maybe
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: gis thinking about it to me too, that's I used
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: to have it. So I used to have a teammate
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: in high school who's a receiver who played foot all
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: with those socks on with his cleats. That's psychopath. I
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised, you know what he did in his life.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: I know, And maybe like you and I, like we
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: have spent so many times playing football with wet.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Socks, just get wet.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: You just get used to it, especially.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: In the heat that like the heat that you love
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: to play.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: In training camp when you were running around, you can
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: hear the sweat in your shoe.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: That's a sound of training camp. Yeah, one hundred percent,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: no socks for me. But like I knew that I
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: like that question because I knew that I had like
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: a weird like thing about Elon.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: What'd you answer no socks.
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: No, yeah, I can't do. Cannot do. Wet socks is
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: way too uncomfortable. I feel like you get a blood.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: I feel like you get blisters either way.
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: No socks easy, No socks easy, easy, Look, I'll I'll
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: deal with the smell later. Don't care the wetness all day.
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: I just don't want to feel it all day.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Dirty feet is like, yeah, it won't do it.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Like they would dry though eventually.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Eventually they would unless you're less take unless you're in
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: a two day practice.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Out of a shoe and that sole just comes.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: With it so bad. Yeah, I don't love it. A laundry.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Do you have a would you rather?
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: I was really unprepared for this, so I chat cheapy
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: teet it.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: It gave you a very interesting one. Would you rather
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: know how you die?
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Or when you die? How?
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: If I know how, I could prevent it longer?
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: If I know how in my mind as well?
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: No, but I could I could prolong it, like Okay,
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: for example, if it's.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Like I'm not getting around water, yeah, never.
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: Oh, Taylor, You're gonna die in a horrible bulldozing accident.
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: I'm like, well, let me stay away from construction sites
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: something like that.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: Sometimes there's bulldozers like on the street, you know that
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: they mountain they're driving from like one site to the
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: other or whatever could be that situation.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Just keep my head on the scribble, I'll go. I'll
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: go with how all day?
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I think when would just ruin we have?
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: Would bother me because like you're counting it down.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: You're all right, I wanna do that? All right?
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Uh Minsi's ready to go, So we will do this.
• 29:13
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  Speaker 1: Plucked in on LSU football twenty four to seven. You're
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  Speaker 1: listening to Off the Bench.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Welcome back an OTV here on this Wednesday morning, talking
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: to all things LSU baseball. Let's continue that conversation now.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Someone who has been boots on the ground in Omaha
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: at the College World Series, mister been mins of course,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: barstools sports. Everybody knows MENSI welcome on to the show.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Ben.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: How you doing, brother doing great man?
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: Waking up in Omaha, Nebraska? Uh, just always so much fun.
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: You know the thing about Omaha, it's there's nothing convenient
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: about getting here with fights and hotels, but when you're
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: here one of the true great American sporting events, and
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: uh you know a lot of Tiger fans out here
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: and excited to get out there today.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: How far is that from Chicago? It can't be too
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: terribly far, right, No.
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: It's about a six hour drive. But we had a
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: Barstool Classic golf tournament out at shadow Ridge yesterday, and
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: uh so I got to go out and work that.
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: And you know the old, the old merging, the working
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: the golf tournament and making the college role series.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Could couldn't pass it off. We gotta get so Ta
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Bob was on a little bit earlier. We got we like,
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: we gotta get LSU pass this round, get him to
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: the final series, so you and t Bob can do
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: some magic there together in the crowd. Look, I wouldn't
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: have no problem with that.
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: I'm supposed to go back tomorrow. I did a little
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: Monday a Thursday deal. But man, who knows, it's been
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: fun and omal uh man, the LSU fans are everywhere
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: I was. It's been getting real wild in that rocos Man.
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: I know I'm not telling anybody news. They don't know,
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: but the scene in there Monday before the Monday night
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: Lsucla game, Paul skiings Livy were in there, and yeah,
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: I mean it's just it just nobody out parties the
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: LSU fan base from South Louisiana. I mean, it's like
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: they're gonna end up, you know, like having more jealous
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: shots than the rest of the team's combined.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: So, like, what is the the breakdown of fan bases? Minci,
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Like if if you were to say, like the percentage
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: of fans there at the College World Series of all
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: the teams, Like, what is the percentage of LSU fans
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: compared to all the other teams.
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: Well, Arkansas has got a ton here, but keeping my
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: fau five and a half hour drive from Omall, they
• 33:00
  Speaker 8: got like a you know, and which is actually funny
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: because it's the first time Fville has ever had a
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: convenient location ever. Yeah, that's true, because you know that's
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: always the knock on it. It's like it's a great place,
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: like how do you get there? But Omaha is the
• 33:14
  Speaker 8: only thing that's convenient. They got a ton of fans here.
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: I went last night, But I think l LSU and
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: Arkansas by far, I mean, I don't know that anybody
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: else even has a fourth as many fans here. Oregon
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: State brought a good bit, but they're out now coastal.
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: Some little uc LA no good for baseball. They were
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: like two hundred fans here, And yeah, Louisville's not like
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: friends and family.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: But not necessarily the most family.
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: Had a few fans, But Arkansas Shoe is gonna be
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: like Arkansas actually had sixty percent of the crowd Saturday
• 33:46
  Speaker 8: night I heard.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: So there's multiple team fans, but I would assume most
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: people are bought barstool fans. So how's it been for
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: you walking around Mingland with people? I'm sure you get
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: recognized a lot that what kind of content have you
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: been created doing there? And just how's the trip been
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: for you personally? With all these different fan bases.
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: Man, it's so much fun. Look, I caught fire here
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two when I
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: was here the whole time of Missippi State and Ole
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: miss went and so I feel like I've been piggybacking
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: off that since. But just walking around, I mean, when
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: LSU's playing, I mean it really gets wild because everybody
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: from Louisiana definitely knows me out there, but man, walking
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: around last night, still a ton of support. Always say
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: the college baseball content. You know, my baseball illustrious baseball
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: career ended right field. I was fourteen years old, So
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: I don't know that anybody cares about me talking about
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: how to who's got a plus slider or any technical
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: aspects of the game. So I'm kind of there more
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: to get out and just get wild with the fans
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: and kind of capture the just what the College Wall
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: Series really is, because it's the think about the College
• 34:56
  Speaker 8: World Series. I think the size of it is what
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: makes great. It's like big, but it's not too big.
• 35:02
  Speaker 8: And you look at like the final four college football
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: National Championship, those are so so huge, But college World Series,
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: you got twenty three thousand people. Everybody's going to the
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: same bars, restaurants, you see team you know, the players,
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: the families, the coaches, every you know, it's like we're
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: all everybody's kind of together on it, and I think
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: that's like part of what makes it so great.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: All right, So tonight it is going to be a
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: heavyweight battle between LSU and Arkansas MENCI like any anyway,
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: you're leaning towards maybe how LSU starts the game. We've
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: been talking about it all morning. You use Cason Evans
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: last night, I mean yesterday, I guess early in the morning.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: He was electric, and you've used Kate Anderson Anthony ianson
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: only pitches forty four pitches, but you could keep him
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: in your back pocket maybe for tomorrow if necessary. So
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: how do you think LSU is going to play it today?
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: Well, first of all, obviously, trust Jay Johnson a hell
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: of a lot more than whatever I have to say here,
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: because job he's I mean, he's just unbelievable, how good
• 36:03
  Speaker 8: a job he's doing. Heaven said that. I think there's
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: a dangerous thing here to be a little fat and
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: happy when you're in the winner's bracket, Like you kind
• 36:11
  Speaker 8: of feel like you're already there because you only have
• 36:13
  Speaker 8: to beat him once in two games, and you kind
• 36:15
  Speaker 8: of there's like a mindset thing where it's like, oh,
• 36:18
  Speaker 8: we can not throw, you know, not throw our top guys.
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: We could just have to use them Thursday. I mean,
• 36:23
  Speaker 8: I think you should just bring ionson back and try
• 36:25
  Speaker 8: to win this thing right now, because Arkansas is really good.
• 36:29
  Speaker 8: I'm curious y'all is lsu fans. I mean, y'all are
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: probably more worried about Arkansas. The coastal Carolina's really hot,
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: don't get me wrong, but you know, just because you're
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: in the winners bracket, you don't want to let Arkansas
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: hang around. And when you look at Arkansas right now,
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: you know, gauge Wood through that no hitter Monday, and
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: Zach Rupe pitched into seventh or eighth Tuesday, so they
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: got their whole bullpen. I think you'll be seeing they
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: gave Gagle, who pitched the five innings and struck out ten.
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: For you know, he pitched great on Saturday, even in
• 36:55
  Speaker 8: the loss. So I don't know. I think this is
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: a spot where I mean, I understand you keep your
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: guys in your back pocket to try to set up
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: the national championship, but I would try to win this
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: dand thing like right now, because baseball is such a
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: momentum weird sport BARGANSA comes out wins this game all
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: of a sudden, you're looking up tomorrow one of those
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: winner take halls where it's like a hold onto your
• 37:17
  Speaker 8: nuts kind of situation. I mean, I don't know, I
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: do everything.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: And and Jay has shown in the past mency that
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: that's exactly what he is going to do. Like even
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: go back to last year, Engaged Jump came in to
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: try to close the game out against North Carolina in
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: a regional Anthony Jinson has come in and he's had
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: to shut the door in a game. Uh. Like, if
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Anthony Iinson like says, hey, I can go like giving
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: me the ball, like, Jay's not going to be afraid
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: to try to end it right now. Like, Jay's got
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: the same mindset that you're talking about there. He doesn't
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: want to work. That's why Caseen Evans pitch is yesterday.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: You don't mess around with throwing a Jade nude or
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: throwing any anybody else in that situation. That's why you
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: throw Caseen Evans yesterday. So, I mean, I don't I
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: don't know the likelihood. But if Anthony Jinsen says give
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: me the damn ball and he feels good, then Jay's
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: gonna do it to win today not tomorrow.
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I just I'm all for that. Like
• 38:10
  Speaker 8: I said twenty twenty two, O'll miss Arkansas or in
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: this exact same spot, and Arkansas won this game to
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: force a Thursday game that ultimately will miss won two nothing.
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: So it kind of reminds me of that just because
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: Arkansas is involved. And look, Arkansas is a really good
• 38:26
  Speaker 8: baseball team. I know LSU Kata Anderson through an unbelievable
• 38:29
  Speaker 8: game Saturday night, but you know you went into this.
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: I'm sure LSU fans thought the same thing. It was
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: kind of like it's gonna be us for them. You
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: saw this bracket, and so I just think, like I said,
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: you gotta be real careful just because you won that
• 38:41
  Speaker 8: first one to not get a little get a little
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: fat and happy and lazy. But I think it's gonna
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: be a heck of a game. I can't wait to
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: see the atmosphere. I'm so excited that I get to
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: go tonight. You know, Arkansas is actually a slight favorite here.
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: I'm seeing Arkansas minus one thirty LSU coming back at
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: even money, So that kind of, you know, shows you
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: what's going on.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: So who does Ben Mints think is gonna win tonight?
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Who we put I know you, I know you like
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: to do you like to dabble with the gambles a
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: little bit. So who were putting our money on tonight?
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Who do we think, we think this thing's over tonight,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: we play again tomorrow.
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: Well, I look, if Jay I got to see what
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: happens with Anthony Jonson if he pitched. If he's pitching,
• 39:18
  Speaker 8: I'm taking LSU because I know he didn't. I know
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: Anthony didn't pitch well in that first inning, but he
• 39:23
  Speaker 8: was selling down Monday. I just really believe in him.
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: I know y'all watch LSU baseball. The way he competes
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: in battles. He impressed me so much all year. If
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: he's starting, I'm taking LSU. If he doesn't start, I'm
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: laying off it because I really think that if he pitches,
• 39:40
  Speaker 8: LSU gets this done tonight. But if he doesn't pitch,
• 39:42
  Speaker 8: I feel like Arkansas could be forcing the game tomorrow.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: MINTI last one before we let you go. We appreciate
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: the time. Whoever wins between LSU and Arkansas and gets
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: to the Championship Series, is that who you're taking to
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: win the College World Series?
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: Man?
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Coastal so that lost two month, dude, they have twenty.
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: Five straight wins and Coastal's got three good starters, two
• 40:04
  Speaker 8: good relievers. They wanted Auburn and that super sweeping them.
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: I don't know. I think Coastal handles Louisville pretty easily today.
• 40:11
  Speaker 8: I think Louisville's out of pitching. And then when you
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: look at this final four, like Coastal, LSU, and Arkansas
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: are all really good and Louisville, I mean, it's impressive
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: they made it there, but I don't think they're like
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: elite or anything like that. So I think Coastal gets
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: it done, and then they might have an edge in
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: the title series just because they don't have to play
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: a Thursday, so you know, they're so hot. I mean,
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: I feel like if it's Coastal LSU, it's I mean,
• 40:35
  Speaker 8: LSU probably like fifty five percent to win. Yeah, but
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: like Coastal is serious, you know, just because they're not
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: Power five, And I mean, I.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Don't know they've won a national championship. That doesn't like
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: mid major doesn't matter anymore for them. They're like Gonzaga
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: and basketball like that. That's going out the window.
• 40:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, But the atmosphere, I'm all tons LSU fans seeing
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: a lot of Waisiana people. I'm sure a whole you know,
• 40:57
  Speaker 8: the way it's designed. If they make the National champions Series,
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: you're gonna see legions of people.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, yeah, yeah.
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: I remember last year, two years ago, the stories about
• 41:06
  Speaker 8: they had like a six or seven am flight out
• 41:08
  Speaker 8: of New Orleans on Sunday before Game two. In the
• 41:11
  Speaker 8: New Orleans airport was just raging at four am before
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: that flight. I feel like a similar thing's coming. But
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: it's just incredible for Lush, you'd already be back here
• 41:20
  Speaker 8: two years later. I mean that twenty twenty three team
• 41:22
  Speaker 8: is one of the greatest teams of all time, with
• 41:24
  Speaker 8: Paul Skiings and Cruise and all the talent, and you know,
• 41:26
  Speaker 8: Jay Johnson's just he's just so dialed into this modern world.
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: The way he crushes the portal. I mean, he's just
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: absolutely phenomenal. I know y'all have him on the show
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: a lot, but he I can't. I can't say an
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: off and you know, I feel, you know, I would say,
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: oh shoes, you know, I would.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Say that it's light favorite to win it all right now?
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: All right, there he is been Min's barstool Sports, good
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: enough to join us boots on the ground from Omaha. Ben,
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: We appreciate the time and enjoy the game and the
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: scenes tonight, Oh, I assure you I will, all right,
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: we'll take one more break here in our number two.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: We still got Ben McDonald's set to join us at
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: nine thirty to give us his breakdown. He's probably got
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: a pretty good idea of the mentality that Jay Johnson
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: is looking for tonight on the mound. I would say
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: Ben's probably an expert in that category. So looking forward
• 42:19
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• 42:21
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