Greatest college baseball program ever? LSU wins 8th national championship

WHAT’S HAPPENING AND TAKE US THERE. YEAH. THE SCENE RIGHT NOW IS REALLY JUST THE TROPHIES ARE OUT. THE PLAYERS ARE KIND OF WAITING RIGHT NOW AS THE FIRST TEAM IS BEING ANNOUNCED AND, YOU KNOW, IT IS STILL REALLY RAUCOUS IN A LOT OF CHAOS IN HERE. THEY’RE STARTING TO ANNOUNCE THE FIRST TEAM. CADE ANDERSON. IT SEEMS TO BE THE MVP. I MISSED THE ANNOUNCEMENT BECAUSE FLETCHER WAS, YOU KNOW, CHATTING WITH ME, BUT THAT’S WHAT IT APPEARS TO BE, IS HE WOULD BE THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER. YEP. MOST OUTSTANDING PLAYER. NOT A QUESTION IN MY MIND. OBVIOUSLY A COMPLETE GAME SHUTOUT YESTERDAY AGAINST COASTAL CAROLINA FOR THE LSU TIGERS TO WIN ONE. NOTHING THAT TOTALLY SET THE TONE AND SET THE STAGE FOR TODAY. IT WAS THE FIRST COMPLETE GAME SHUTOUT SINCE 2018 HERE AT THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES. AND OF COURSE, ONLY THE TIGERS SECOND EVER COMPLETE GAME SHUTOUT. THE FIRST ONE. 1993 BRETT LAXTON VERSUS WICHITA STATE. AND YOU KNOW HOW MUCH HISTORY THE LSU TIGERS HAVE HAD HERE IN OMAHA. SO FOR CADE ANDERSON, A SAINT PAUL’S GUY, A GUY FROM THE NORTH SHORE, REALLY A LOCAL GUY. FOR US TO HAVE THIS OUTSTANDING OF A PERFORMANCE ON THIS STAGE IS INCREDIBLE. AND I JOKE BECAUSE HE SAID YESTERDAY HE DIDN’T HAVE HIS BEST STUFF, WHICH IS JUST HILARIOUS BECAUSE I CAN’T THINK OF WHAT BETTER PERFORMANCE HE COULD HAVE. HE OBVIOUSLY FELT LIKE HE GOT IN TRAFFIC AT SOME POINT IN THIS GAME, AND THAT GAME YESTERDAY. BUT WHAT’S CRAZY IS HE’S NOT JUST THE ONLY ACE ON THIS TEAM. Y’ALL WERE TALKING ABOUT ANTHONY IRONS. HE WAS INCREDIBLE. THOSE TWO PITCHERS COMBINED FOR 19 STRIKEOUTS AND THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES FINALS. I MEAN, LSU IS LUCKY TO HAVE ONE PITCHER OF THAT CALIBER, BUT THEY HAVE TWO GUYS WHO THEIR TEAMMATES HAVE BOASTED EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY TAKE THE MOUND. THEY HAVE ALL THE CONFIDENCE IN THE WORLD. THEY KNOW THEY ONLY NEED ONE RUN TO WIN A GAME LIKE THEY DID YESTERDAY. AND OF COURSE, JUST A FEW RUNS, FIVE RUNS TODAY. AND THE PITCHING STAFF HAS REALLY BEEN INCREDIBLE FOR LSU ALL SEASON. AND WE’RE NOT EVEN TALKING ABOUT GUYS LIKE CASEY EVANS, WHO WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE TIGERS GETTING TO THIS POINT. A FRESHMAN WHO ON THE BIGGEST STAGE ALSO COULD DELIVER. CHASE SHORES YOU MENTIONED HE PLAYED FOUR OF THE FIVE GAMES HERE IN OMAHA. HE WAS FANTASTIC. LSU’S PITCHING STAFF JUST INCREDIBLE THIS ENTIRE TIME. RIGHT NOW, YOU HAVE THE COACHES GOING ACROSS THE STAGE THAT WOULD BE PITCHING COACH NATE YESKEY. HE’S RESPONSIBLE REALLY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOME OF THESE GUYS. WE SAW CADE ANDERSON HAD SOME STUFF A YEAR AGO, ESPECIALLY IF YOU REMEMBER THAT MIDWEEK GAME AGAINST SOUTHEASTERN. HE LOOKED LIKE HE COULD DEVELOP INTO A GUY. HE REALLY DID BECOME THAT GUY. AND A BIG PART OF THAT IS NATE YESKEY. THEY HAVE A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP. THEY HUG VERY HARD EVERY TIME HE COMES OFF THE FIELD. THEY TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING TO EACH OTHER AS WELL AS ANTHONY IRONSON. SO THAT’S GAVIN GUIDRY WALKING ACROSS THE STAGE. IF YOU REMEMBER, TWO YEARS AGO, HE PITCHED THAT FINAL OUT IN THE 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. HE WAS INJURED ALL OF THIS YEAR, BUT WAS A MAJOR PART OF THAT 2023 TEAM. THAT WOULD BE JOSH PEARSON WALKING UP NEXT. OF COURSE, YOU REMEMBER HIM FROM TWO YEARS AGO. A MAJOR PART OF THIS TEAM, ANOTHER LOUISIANA GUY, BUT HE TALKED ABOUT HOW SPECIAL IT WAS THIS TIME AROUND BECAUSE HIS LITTLE BROTHERS ON THE TEAM AND TO HEAR THAT AND TO HEAR HIM TALK ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO HIM AND HIS FAMILY, OF COURSE, THIS IS HIS SECOND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, BUT IT MEANS MORE JUST BEING BACK HERE, HAVING THIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THIS TEAM, AND THAT’S A BIG THING THAT I’VE NOTICED, IS THAT THEY PREACH THIS TEAM OVER ME. THAT WAS REALLY THEIR SLOGAN THIS YEAR. AND JAY JOHNSON SAYING HE CAME UP WITH THAT BECAUSE HE KIND OF HAD A HODGEPODGE OF PLAYERS. YOU HAD A HANDFUL OF GUYS FROM 23 WHO WERE BACK, EIGHT OF THEM. THEN YOU HAD TEN FRESHMEN WHO WERE REALLY PHENOMENAL, A LOT OF THEM PLAYING IN MAJOR ROLES. DEREK CURIEL, ONE OF THEM I MENTIONED, KASON EVANS, COOPER WILLIAMS, ANOTHER PITCHER OUT THE PEN WHO REALLY DID WELL. THOSE ARE ALL FRESHMEN. AND THEN YOU HAVE, OF COURSE, THE TRANSFERS, AS YOU MENTIONED, THE DANIEL DICKINSON’S, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THOSE GUYS WHO CAME IN AND HE FELT LIKE HE NEEDED TO MESH THIS TEAM TOGETHER AND CREATE A TEAM OVER ME MINDSET BECAUSE THERE WERE GAMES THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE JOSH PEARSON AND YOU DIDN’T SEE JAKE BROWN, AND THEY ARE ALL SEC CALIBER PLAYERS. SO THAT WAS A REALLY BIG MINDSET FOR THIS TEAM. WAS THE TEAM OVER ME DOING IT FOR THE TEAM, DOING THE BEST POSSIBLE FOR THE TEAM, AND THIS IS THE RESULT YOU GET. I MEAN, THEY ARE NOW ON THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP STAGE FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THREE YEARS AND IT’S JUST INCREDIBLE HERE. AS THEY ALL WALK ACROSS THE STAGE TO RECEIVE THEIR TROPHIES THAT YOU KNOW WILL BE PROBABLY BY THEIR BEDSIDE TABLE FOR YEARS NOW. SO JUST AN INCREDIBLE MOMENT IS ALSO, LSU FANS HAVE REALLY STUCK AROUND. I KNOW YOU CAN KIND OF SEE A LITTLE BIT IN THE BACKGROUND. THAT’S WHERE ALL OF THE THE SEATS ARE THAT ARE HOT. BUT I PROMISE YOU, BEHIND ME IS AN INCREDIBLE CROWD. YOU MIGHT HAVE JUST HEARD THE CHEER FOR DEREK CREOLE. I MENTIONED A FRESHMAN. HE WAS THE LEADOFF BATTER FOR MUCH OF THIS YEAR. HE REALLY EVERY TIME THE CALL HAPPENED, HE MADE IT. HE MADE IT HAPPEN. EVERY TIME HE TOOK THE PLAY. AND THERE’S ETHAN FREY BEHIND HIM. HE’S ANOTHER GUY WHO WAS ON THIS TEAM TWO YEARS AGO WHO WON A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RING. BUT AFTER THE SUPER REGIONAL, HE TOLD ME HE WAS GREEDY. HE WANTED ANOTHER ONE BECAUSE HE WANTED TO HAVE A BIGGER ROLE ON THIS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM. AND HE DID THAT. THE DESIGNATED HITTER. AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE LOUD SCREAM FOR JARED JONES THE HERO. WEDNESDAY EVENING, THE SENIOR LEADER OF THE GUY WHO WANTED TO COME BACK TO THIS TEAM TO DO THIS, TO LEAD THIS TEAM TO ANOTHER NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, BE A PART OF ANOTHER LSU TIGER NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. AND I’M TELLING YOU, THE CROWD IS IS REALLY LOUD. AND THE NEXT UP YOU’VE GOT DANIEL DICKINSON, THE SECOND BASEMAN WHO CAME FROM A MID-MAJOR SCHOOL. HE TALKED ABOUT THE TRANSITION TO LSU. AND THEN THERE’S MICHAEL BRASWELL. IF YOU HEARD THIS STORY, IT’S INCREDIBLE. HE’D BEEN STRUGGLING AT THE PLATE, AND LSU FANS DECIDED TO GIVE HIM A LITTLE BIT OF A BOOST AND GIVE HIM A STANDING OVATION. EVERY TIME HE CAME TO THE PLATE. HE TALKED ABOUT YESTERDAY HOW MUCH THAT MEANT TO HIM, AND TODAY HE GETS A HIT. AND THEN THERE’S JAY JOHNSON, THE HEAD COACH OF THE LSU TIGERS SECOND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP IN TWO YEARS. AND OF COURSE, I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT HIS LEGACY. WHEN HE WAS HIRED AT LSU, HE BROUGHT ARIZONA TO THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES TWICE, HADN’T WON IT. SOME PEOPLE WONDERED, COULD HE GET THE JOB DONE? WELL, THIS IS PROOF HE HAS CEMENTED HIS LEGACY HERE AT LSU IN THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES, AS HE IS NOW LED THE TIGERS TO A SECOND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP IN THREE YEARS. AND WHAT’S EVEN CRAZIER IS THEY WENT FIVE AND ZERO HERE IN OMAHA. THEY’RE THE FIRST TEAM TO DO THAT SINCE 2013. YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT THE EIGHT BEST TEAMS IN ALL OF COLLEGE BASEBALL, WITH ALL OF THE MOMENTUM IN THE WORLD, BECAUSE IF YOU GOT HERE, YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH A REGIONAL, YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH A SUPER. SO YOU HAVE ALL THE MOMENTUM IN THE WORLD. LOOK AT COASTAL CAROLINA. THEY’VE WON 26 STRAIGHT GAMES UNTIL YESTERDAY TO NOT LOSE A GAME IN TWO MONTHS. THAT’S REALLY TOUGH. LET’S SEE WHAT HAPPENS. I THINK WE’RE ABOUT TO DO A LITTLE BIT OF A OF AN INTERVIEW WITH JAY JOHNSON ON STAGE. BUT LET ME TELL YOU, IT’S INCREDIBLE WHAT THE LSU TIGERS WERE ABLE TO DO HERE. GUYS. YEAH. LOOK WE CAN’T REALLY HEAR IT KENDALL YOU’RE DOING GREAT BY THE WAY. THANK YOU FOR THE COMMENTARY. PLAYER BY PLAYER. THEY’RE CALLED OUT TO HAVE A HANDSHAKE THERE BECAU

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