HOOVER, Ala. -- There's Zack Hess the persona, and there's the Zack Hess who has to talk later about what that persona just did.
There's the Hess known as "Wild Thing" -- the guy stomping off the mound with his shoulders stretched out so far his swinging arms never touch his sides -- and there's the even-keeled, hyper-intelligent person breaking down what he did or didn't do well.
Paul Mainieri sees that separation. The LSU baseball coach sees the guy full of fire on the mound, and he sees the young man struggling to figure out what's been going wrong in recent weeks and why teams are on top of his pitching patterns.