The men charged in the brutal beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow on opening day 2011 were recorded saying they needed a "good defense" while one of them admitted to attacking Stow in a conversation from jail.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George Lomeli ruled Friday that the two must stand trial.

Louie Sanchez, 30, and Marvin Norwood, 31, are accused of mayhem and assault and battery in the attack on Bryan Stow, 43. Stow suffered severe head trauma and brain damage. He remains at a rehabilitation facility.

Sanchez and Norwood have pleaded not guilty.

However, in their conversation after appearing in a lineup, according to a transcript released after Friday's hearing, Sanchez said he got mad at the Giants fan for making derogatory comments about his sister. He said, according to the Associated Press, "I socked him, jumped him and started beating him."

According to the Los Angeles Times, Sanchez also asks: "How much time do you think we are going to get?"

"A lot," answers Norwood.

Friday's decision comes at the end of a six-day preliminary hearing in which Dorene Sanchez, Louie Sanchez's brother and Norwood's fiancée and mother of his child, said she saw blood on Norwood's hand when he returned to the car in the parking lot following the March 31, 2011, game. She also said her brother told her to "get the (expletive) out of here."

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According to the Los Angeles Times, witness Joann Cerda said Stow was standing still with his arms at his side when one of the men blindsided him with a punch to the side of the head.

Another witness, Mary Dolores Donely, identified both defendants as the men she saw near Stow's body and testified that she heard Stow's head hit the pavement.