Welcome to the Barnyard with Steve Robertson.

As always, I am your good friend and host Steve Robertson here on the Maroon Friday edition of the yard.

I'm going to record this in two parts because we got to hustle a little bit.

Game times we moved up to 3 p.m. Central as there's expected to be some rain, perhaps some hail,

and certainly a lot of wind in the evening and

night hours on Friday. So game one between the Bulldogs and LSU will take place at 3 o'clock.

I apologize for those of you that couldn't make it. We've got to get the game in. Okay. And it looks like

some people have already adjusted their schedule because traffic in town this

evening was already a little thick, right?

But yeah, we're going to spend our first segment talking a little bit about the LSU Tigers.

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and an exclusive interview with SEC legend Ben McDonald, probably our favorite LSU Tiger, right?

And arguably the best college baseball color guy in the game, proud to call Ben McDonald a friend and so appreciative of the time that he spends with me from time and time providing some context.

And so that's the benefit of being in this game as long as I have.

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I told you guys on the Wednesday show that we were sitting on some football news.

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