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June 22, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 9: Welcome to Monday's sports Talk Chip Howard without Chip Howard,
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  Speaker 9: which you know for the summer is not really that abnormal, right,
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  Speaker 9: I mean it happens. I don't really knows Chip here
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  Speaker 9: this week or just not today?
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  Speaker 2: Not today?
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  Speaker 9: Okay, So I'm Dusty, I'm here for Chip today. Rusty
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  Speaker 9: will join me it'll be the Dusty and Rusty Show
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  Speaker 9: coming up about four point thirty or so, and in
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  Speaker 9: the meantime we will keep you up to date on
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  Speaker 9: France and Iraq. That will be World Cup action and
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  Speaker 9: we're watching it so you don't have to. So in
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  Speaker 9: BAFE scores, he's got he's got some scoring to do
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  Speaker 9: to keep up with Messi. We'll just jump to that now.
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  Speaker 9: Messi scored two more today, becomes the all time leading
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  Speaker 9: score in the World Cup, scored five since Marcel Reid
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  Speaker 9: gave me a jersey. I'm just throwing that out there.
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  Speaker 9: You know, you take that however you want. But he
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  Speaker 9: scored all five of Argentina's goals, who are now two
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  Speaker 9: to zero in World Cup play, all thanks to Marcel
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  Speaker 9: Reid as far as I know. So that's what I'm
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  Speaker 9: gonna go with. He'll be playing Argentina plays in Dallas
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  Speaker 9: for their final group game. So if you missed out
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  Speaker 9: on getting to see Messi play at Kyle Field, maybe
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  Speaker 9: you can head up to Dallas and maybe he'll play,
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  Speaker 9: because they may have the group first place locked up
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  Speaker 9: by the time that happens today, depending on the outcome tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think.
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  Speaker 9: It but they will take on who are they taking
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  Speaker 9: on in their next match? I looked at it was
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  Speaker 9: it was a team from the bottom of the table
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  Speaker 9: that they expected to beat, and I've already forgot and
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  Speaker 9: because you know, there's just too many of these games. Now,
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  Speaker 9: I've enjoyed the heck out of the World Cup. I
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  Speaker 9: think it's been fun to watch for a guy who
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  Speaker 9: doesn't really follow soccer but can enjoy the match. So
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  Speaker 9: do you have do you have their final game?
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  Speaker 2: Jordan?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, just one guy. So I think Messi should
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  Speaker 9: be able to score against against him, uh, coming up
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  Speaker 9: in Dallas in their final game in Group three. But
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  Speaker 9: we've enjoyed that. But he's now the old time leading
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  Speaker 9: goal scorer and has had a spectacular start to the
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  Speaker 9: World Cup. Back home in Texas, the Dallas Mavericks have
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  Speaker 9: a new coach, and when Rusty gets here, we're going
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  Speaker 9: to talk more about you know, if this means anything
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  Speaker 9: across college basketball, because the Dallas Mavericks are hiring Dusty May,
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  Speaker 9: the head coach of Michigan coming off a national championship,
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  Speaker 9: taking over for Jason Kidd at the Mavericks. They'll try
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  Speaker 9: and have a little better record than Kid has had.
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  Speaker 9: But let's be honest, the franchise wasn't real good to
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  Speaker 9: the Mavericks and their roster. Now they do have Cooper
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  Speaker 9: Flag and you know, a new guy to kind of
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  Speaker 9: start the program around as Dusty May takes over. If
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  Speaker 9: and what it sounds like Michigan's going to hire their
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  Speaker 9: assistant coach to be the head coach for this year,
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  Speaker 9: that will slow down the whole carousel. But if it
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  Speaker 9: starts ramping up and coaches start moving Midsummer, it could
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  Speaker 9: be it could be very interesting for college basketball. All
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  Speaker 9: the Michigan players as soon as this becomes officially announced
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  Speaker 9: that he's leaving the university will have a fifteen day
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  Speaker 9: window the thinking all leave, and if Michigan ends up
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  Speaker 9: getting a new coach from a different team, then they'll
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  Speaker 9: all have a window that they can jump back in
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  Speaker 9: the portal and try and move rosters. And it's a
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  Speaker 9: very interesting time for a roster move. But for the NBA,
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  Speaker 9: that gets the Dallas Mavericks a new head coach ahead
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  Speaker 9: of the NBA Draft, which is coming up soon. So
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  Speaker 9: we'll talk more Mavericks basketball and Dusty May when Rusty
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  Speaker 9: gets here. Coming up Over the weekend, the Houston Astros.
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  Speaker 9: They won a series against the Cleveland Guardians. Don't look, now,
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  Speaker 9: that's three series.
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  Speaker 2: In a row.
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  Speaker 9: The Astros have one for the first time this season.
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  Speaker 9: Now the Astros are still Oh, I'm sure there are
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  Speaker 9: records on this piece of paper here somewhere. Of course
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  Speaker 9: not it's from the Astros organization. They don't want to
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  Speaker 9: tell me. But that's okay, I've got it. They're thirty
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  Speaker 9: seven and forty two, so five games below the mark.
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  Speaker 9: But because the Al West is what it is, they're
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  Speaker 9: only three games back of first place. So Goodwin and
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  Speaker 9: Jordan Alvarez. He goes one for two with a solo
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  Speaker 9: homer two walks, becomes the fourth player in club history
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  Speaker 9: to reach twenty five homers through the team's first seventy
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  Speaker 9: nine games. You talk about a random stat. Hey got
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  Speaker 9: handed to their sid guy for coming up with twenty
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  Speaker 9: five homers in seventy nine games, because everyone looks at that, right, Hey,
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  Speaker 9: what did you do in your first seventy nine games
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  Speaker 9: of the season, Because that's a natural marking point. So anyway,
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  Speaker 9: he's the fourth player to do it. He joins Jeff Bagwell,
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  Speaker 9: who did it twice. He had twenty six and ninety
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  Speaker 9: nine and twenty five in ninety four through seventy nine games,
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  Speaker 9: not eighty two, not halfway through the season, but through
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  Speaker 9: seventy nine games, or eighty one would be halfway through
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  Speaker 9: the season. Right, one hundred and sixty two games. Eighty
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  Speaker 9: one's half of that, so we're almost quite. We're almost there,
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  Speaker 9: which would be a normal marking point. Lance Berkman also
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  Speaker 9: did it in two thousand and two, so Bagwell twice,
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  Speaker 9: Berkman once, and now Alvarez has done it this year
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  Speaker 9: for the Astros, who are three games back in an
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  Speaker 9: AL West that is not no one is running away with.
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  Speaker 9: Right now, Seattle holds the lead one game over five
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  Speaker 9: hundred and forty and thirty nine in the league. The
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  Speaker 9: Astros head on the road for their next two series.
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  Speaker 9: They'll head to Toronto tonight and we'll have that game
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  Speaker 9: right here pregame starting at five thirty five, right.
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  Speaker 2: Here on the zone. And then Dell will.
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  Speaker 9: Head from there to Detroit, which is kind of like Canada.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, it's close, it's right there. If you go
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  Speaker 9: south from Detroit, I understand you hit Canada. Now you
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  Speaker 9: look baffled, But yeah, if you look at it on
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  Speaker 9: a map you drive into windsor if you go straight
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  Speaker 9: south out of Detroit, because it's kind of a weird
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  Speaker 9: thing that it wraps around. So they will be in
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  Speaker 9: Toronto and in Detroit for their next two series before
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  Speaker 9: they come home to wrap up the month against Minnesota
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  Speaker 9: for the And we're gonna have to talk more about
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  Speaker 9: this when Rusty gets here, but I'll just give you
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  Speaker 9: the highlights. The Rangers also win their series over the
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  Speaker 9: weekend against San Diego. But more bad news for the Rangers,
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  Speaker 9: or is it because he's kind of Jack Lder has
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  Speaker 9: struggled a bit. He's been trying to work through a
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  Speaker 9: problem with his ankle and lost all of his three
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  Speaker 9: starts in June, had a nine point eight to eight ERA,
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  Speaker 9: gave up seven hits and six runs in four innings
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  Speaker 9: in the nine to three loss to Minnesota on Thursday,
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  Speaker 9: Day three, and seven on the season in his fifteen starts.
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  Speaker 9: He will head to the DL and still on the DL.
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  Speaker 2: Segert is.
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  Speaker 9: Still in percussion protocol and unsure when he will be
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  Speaker 9: able to return from the disabled list. So injuries mounting
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  Speaker 9: for the Texas Rangers, who said a game ahead of
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  Speaker 9: the Astros thirty seven and forty on the season, only
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  Speaker 9: two games back of the lead, so you know there's
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  Speaker 9: still hope. Speaking of baseball, thoroughly enjoyed the champ Series
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  Speaker 9: and we're going to discuss this more when Rusty gets here.
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  Speaker 9: Most of these things we're going to go back to it.
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  Speaker 9: But I want to give you the highlights if you
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  Speaker 9: haven't kept up with the College World Series. With A
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  Speaker 9: and M not playing in it so far this year,
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  Speaker 9: Oklahoma jumps out to a nine to three win in
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  Speaker 9: Game one. Oklahoma absolutely on fire since the season. The
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  Speaker 9: regular season ended. The eleventh place team in the SEC
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  Speaker 9: one game away from winning a national championship this year,
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  Speaker 9: which is actually not that surprising. It's not uncommon for
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  Speaker 9: a team a little bit back in the SEC standings
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  Speaker 9: to make it to the Champs Series. They jump out
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  Speaker 9: to a two to zero lead last night, had that
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  Speaker 9: through a couple of innings. Was Xander Mercurius on the mound,
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  Speaker 9: who was absolutely brilliant in his last outing. Doesn't go
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  Speaker 9: as deep and this one ends up only getting four innings,
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  Speaker 9: giving up five hits, four earned three walks, although he
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  Speaker 9: did have once again eight strikeouts, eight strikeouts and four innings.
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  Speaker 9: That guy sometimes looks like he's throwing a whiffle ball,
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  Speaker 9: the way he can move that thing around up there.
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  Speaker 9: It's been unbelievable. But gave up a home run, gave
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  Speaker 9: up three in the third, one more in the fifth,
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  Speaker 9: or one yeah, one more in the fifth before he
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  Speaker 9: got pulled to give up his four and four innings
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  Speaker 9: plus a plus a batter, and North Carolina wins that
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  Speaker 9: game six to two. So tonight coming up at six o'clock,
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  Speaker 9: the third and final game of the College World Series
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  Speaker 9: North Carolina and oh you, and we'll find out if
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  Speaker 9: that clock has struck midnight for Cinderella or if oh
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  Speaker 9: you can go ahead and take this thing down because
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  Speaker 9: they have played spectacular baseball at the right time of
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  Speaker 9: the year. You watch golf, watch any golf. So with
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  Speaker 9: everything else going on, didn't watch as much of the
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  Speaker 9: US Open as normal. Caught a little bit of that
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  Speaker 9: early at Shinnecock Hills, Wyndham. Clark wins it on Sunday,
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  Speaker 9: goes in with a six game lead, finishes with a
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  Speaker 9: I mean a six stroke lead, finishes with a one
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  Speaker 9: stroke win, and got heckled all day long, just absolutely
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  Speaker 9: got crushed fans cheering whenever he hit a bad ball,
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  Speaker 9: rooting for a bad ball, cheering for the ball to
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  Speaker 9: get further away from the hole. I mean, they were relentless. Now,
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  Speaker 9: to be fair, when he walks up on eighteen and
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  Speaker 9: he's just got a two putt to win the whole thing,
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  Speaker 9: the fans are busy singing happy birthday, just got a
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  Speaker 9: scheffler and not cheering him on. They were absolutely riding
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  Speaker 9: him the entire day. And to be fair, he brings
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  Speaker 9: it on himself. He's kind of got a reputation of
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  Speaker 9: a guy who's had some outburst on the golf course,
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  Speaker 9: likes to throw clubs, throw a little bit of a fit,
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  Speaker 9: make a scene, get kicked out of one of the
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  Speaker 9: clubs that he was playing in. So I mean, and
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  Speaker 9: he said, well, some of it I do kind of
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  Speaker 9: bring upon myself. So he was not a crowd favorite,
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  Speaker 9: but it was his day and he had that big
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  Speaker 9: lead going into the final day. Didn't let it, didn't
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  Speaker 9: let all the jeers and the riding get to him,
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  Speaker 9: and wins the US Open at Shinnecock Hills.
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  Speaker 2: Over the weekend.
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  Speaker 9: All right, got a few more things coming up, but
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  Speaker 9: right now, let's do we have anything in this breakers
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  Speaker 9: It's just a regular old break. Okay, we need to
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  Speaker 9: talk with already more soccer talk than Chips ever had
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  Speaker 9: on the show. But that's okay because I've got the
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  Speaker 9: FIFA fever. I'm all over it. And if Bope heard
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  Speaker 9: me call him out, throw down the gonelet. Since Messi
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  Speaker 9: scored twice, he scored at the fourteen minute mark, France
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  Speaker 9: now leads Iraq one to zero and Boppe just put
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  Speaker 9: it in the back of the goal, so we're keeping up. Now.
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  Speaker 9: That's only three in two games so far from Bope
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  Speaker 9: because he scored two in the first. Messi's got five,
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  Speaker 9: so he's he's got some work to do if he's
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  Speaker 9: going to catch up. But this may be the game.
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  Speaker 9: If he plays the whole time, they may they may
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  Speaker 9: rest him.
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  Speaker 2: Well you we'll see.
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  Speaker 9: Obviously, you got to manage your players, because it's not
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  Speaker 9: about once you secure your group, it's about what's gonna
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  Speaker 9: happen in the knockout round. So do what do you
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  Speaker 9: watch soccer at all? So a little bit all right,
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  Speaker 9: So to me, I've said this, this is the most
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  Speaker 9: US World Cup ever. So first of all, we start
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  Speaker 9: with we get the first World Cup where they let
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  Speaker 9: sixteen extra teams in. Right, they expanded it to forty
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  Speaker 9: eight from thirty two and expanded the knockout from thirty
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  Speaker 9: two to sixteen, so softened it up, let a lot
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  Speaker 9: of other teams get a participation trophy on the way
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  Speaker 9: to the same teams that are gonna win win because
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  Speaker 9: you know, none of those extra sixteen are actually competing
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  Speaker 9: for the championship. They're just making it in. It's like
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  Speaker 9: it's like when the Big Ten wants to expand the
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  Speaker 9: college football playoff to twenty four, is the twenty fourth
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  Speaker 9: team going to win the national championship? They're not, I
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  Speaker 9: would say in football even more so, they're not. You know,
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  Speaker 9: could could you make a case that the fourteenth, fifteenth
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  Speaker 9: or sixteenth most deserving team might actually be one of
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  Speaker 9: the top ten, but you know, stubbed their toe early
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  Speaker 9: and you know, had an extra extra loss that they
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  Speaker 9: shouldn't have and they could still compete maybe, But I
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  Speaker 9: can't make a case for the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty first.
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  Speaker 9: I just I can't. There hasn't there hasn't been a
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  Speaker 9: team in my memory of college football that would be
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  Speaker 9: that far back that would actually have a chance to
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  Speaker 9: compete for a championship and that So that's that's step
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  Speaker 9: one of this being the this World Cup. But also
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  Speaker 9: they added three minute commercial break halfway through the half.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, then call a hydration break if you want, uh,
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  Speaker 9: you know, but if you're playing an AT and T
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  Speaker 9: stadium with the roof closed and the air conditioning on,
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  Speaker 9: do you really need a three minute hydration break. No,
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  Speaker 9: it's a commercial break, and we've added it to this
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  Speaker 9: World Cup. But as I told somebody else, I'm in
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  Speaker 9: I'm enjoying this World Cup. Like the Europeans coming over
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  Speaker 9: and seeing BUCkies for the first time. They walked in,
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  Speaker 9: they got a they got a brisket sandwich, walked out
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  Speaker 9: that they thought they had good Texas barbecue. It's because
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  Speaker 9: they didn't know any better. And I'm just like that
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  Speaker 9: with with the soccer. I don't know any better. I'm
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  Speaker 9: just enjoying the tasty bite, right. There's been plenty of
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  Speaker 9: drama in most of these games. You know, some of
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  Speaker 9: them have been blowouts, but most of them have been
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  Speaker 9: good enough. And I'm learning things like when when the
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  Speaker 9: US played their first game against Paraguay, I didn't know
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  Speaker 9: that that you could actually get a yellow card for
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  Speaker 9: flopping because soccer players flop around on you know, they're
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  Speaker 9: they're drama queens. Okay, you know they're going for the
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  Speaker 9: penalty all the time. You'll see him writhing around and
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  Speaker 9: then if they don't get the call, they hop up
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  Speaker 9: and run away like nothing happened. Every once in a while,
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  Speaker 9: they're actually hurt, and you you definitely can get some injuries,
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  Speaker 9: as we saw in the in the Canada game, uh
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  Speaker 9: broke his bone, broke his leg and will not play
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  Speaker 9: the rest of the way. So it does happen. But
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  Speaker 9: Paraguay goes in. They give a yellow card to the
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  Speaker 9: US for a tackle down near the end line. Video
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  Speaker 9: review pulls it up and goes eh, They review it.
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  Speaker 9: They look at it, Hey, no contact whatsoever. The guy
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  Speaker 9: completely faked it. They took the yellow card away gave
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  Speaker 9: it to the guy who flopped, and I thought that's
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  Speaker 9: a good change for soccer. If there's absolutely no contact,
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  Speaker 9: you should get in trouble for flopping around down there
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  Speaker 9: on the ground trying to get the penalty near the
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  Speaker 9: goal line. So I was happy with that. Now I
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  Speaker 9: learned my second thing from soccer from a Paraguay game.
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  Speaker 9: They're playing Turkey or Turkey A or I'm not exactly
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  Speaker 9: sure how you say that, the new version of Turkey,
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: but they put an E on the end, so I
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: believe it's Turkey A. So there's a hard file and
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: there's some players yelling at each other. Now, let's be honest.
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: If you got the team from Paraguay and the team
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: from Turkey and they're yelling each other, they probably are
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: yelling in different languages, right, They probably don't even know
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: what the other one's saying to each other, but good enough.
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: But as they're yelling at each other, one of the
• 21:11
  Speaker 9: Paraguay players puts his hand over his mouth so you
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: can't lip read what he's saying. As he's saying something
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: to the other player. That's an automatic ejection. That's an
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: automatic red card, thrown out of the game. You're not
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: allowed to shield your mouth, so the lip readers can't say,
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: see what nasty words came out of your mouth? Now
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: breaking your leg, Oh, that's part of the game. But
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: saying a bad word and covering it up automatic ejection.
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: I didn't know that was a rule. So I'm finding
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: out things about soccer as I make my way through
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: this adventure that is the World Cup. That one was
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: a new one for me. The most other fun thing
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: we've seen from the World Cup is the mountains of Houston. Well,
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: I don't know if you if you followed this, but
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: the BBC, I guess, didn't have a good set with
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: a good backdrop, so they constructed a skyline and used
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: ai for a background to put behind, so it looked
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: like they were looking out over the skyline of Houston.
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: Not a problem. I actually kind of like it if
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: you can find the picture, because they just put a
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: little mountain range golf on one side, lots of water
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: mountains on the other side. Of course, there's really no
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: water next to Houston, not directly that you can see
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: from anywhere near NRG right, You're not going to see
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: the golf from there, and you're certainly not going to
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: see any mountains, because that was also completely made up.
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: But it was a nice view of Houston's skyline if
• 22:53
  Speaker 9: it were actually on the Gulf with mountains. So they've
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: taken some flock, and I I think it's a fun thing,
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: the Alps of Houston. We've seen some ridiculous memes come
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: out from that, but you know, I can enjoy fun.
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: And I looked at the picture they actually used and
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: I went, man, Houston would look a lot better if
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: it looked like that. But they actually have figured out, though,
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: is they can leave the stadium and drive from Houston
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: and two hours later they're still in Houston. That's that's
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: the thing the Europeans are finding out about the city
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: of Houston. But yeah, so Alps of Houston or Mountains
• 23:36
  Speaker 9: of Houston.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Just google that.
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: You can find the original picture, which was kind of subtle.
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: Most of the most of the memes that have come
• 23:45
  Speaker 9: out are a little less subtle. They've had a little snow,
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: little snow cap peaks, little taller mountains. But so I've
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: learned all sorts of things while watching a sport that
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: I know the basic rules of, but I don't know
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: a ton about. And it has been a blast really
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: to cover. Hey, when Rusty gets here in just a
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: little bit, We've got eight A and M legends that
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: are named to the Texas A and M Hall of
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: Fame Class of twenty twenty six, and we're going to
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: work through those.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: I will give you.
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: The highlight, which to me is Miles Garrett.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: In that list.
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: But we're gonna work through find out how many of
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: these players Rusty ever covered, because I'm gonna say at
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: least yeah, maybe only one of them is before his time,
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: and maybe a few others might have been slightly after,
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: but most of these were in the timeframe that Rusty
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: was covering A and M and putting out a magazine
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: and probably had some contact with other highlight on this
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: list is Terry Price, who will be going in the
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: Hall of Honor and getting his posthumous awards. So Hall
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: of Fame class coming up with Rusty as we work
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: through all of those eight names and his memories of
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: those players coming up here. So we're gonna get away
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: for another break, just as soccer is going to take
• 25:25
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• 25:28
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• 25:30
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  Speaker 9: though Chip's not here. I'm Dusty joined by Rusty, so
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  Speaker 9: the Astros take over at five point thirty five. So
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  Speaker 9: we're out about five point twenty five, is my understanding?
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  Speaker 6: Gotcha? Gotcha?
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  Speaker 9: So hey, before we get to Astros and we've got
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  Speaker 9: a couple of A and M stories to cover, talk
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: about the Rangers and their DL problems as they're struggling
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: to get back to five hundred. Seeger's still down with
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: a under concussion protocol. I believe his seven days are up,
• 29:45
  Speaker 9: but he's still not ready to come back.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he has to pass tests.
• 29:50
  Speaker 18: One he has to pass an internal test by the Rangers,
• 29:52
  Speaker 18: and then the second he has to pass the test
• 29:55
  Speaker 18: that is given sternly by a medical professional, not association
• 30:01
  Speaker 18: associated with the team. So he has not been able
• 30:05
  Speaker 18: to pass that internal concussion protocol test yet. So it's
• 30:09
  Speaker 18: probably a matter of who knows, a couple of days.
• 30:14
  Speaker 18: But they really need to get him in the lineup.
• 30:16
  Speaker 18: They need to get him right if they're gonna have
• 30:18
  Speaker 18: any chance, because it's just I mean, they've had some
• 30:22
  Speaker 18: really good output from Josh Young and Ezekiel Durant and
• 30:27
  Speaker 18: you know, even Nemo. But you know, Seegers your horse,
• 30:33
  Speaker 18: and you know, without him, without him hitting the ball
• 30:36
  Speaker 18: like he's capable of, then yeah, it's gonna be a
• 30:39
  Speaker 18: long summer.
• 30:41
  Speaker 9: Right, I mean, they certainly need him. And now Jack
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: lighter who has not pitch well for a while.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 30:49
  Speaker 18: Yeah, he's his last three starts ever since that Pittsburgh
• 30:54
  Speaker 18: game where he was backing up the throw and he
• 30:57
  Speaker 18: the throw got away from Nemo, so instead of back
• 31:00
  Speaker 18: a third, he's running towards the plate in front of
• 31:03
  Speaker 18: the dugout and he's watching the ball and he steps
• 31:07
  Speaker 18: on the batting donut and turns his ankle and he
• 31:12
  Speaker 18: kind of overcompensated. So it's the other ankle that's got
• 31:16
  Speaker 18: him on the d L right now or I L.
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: I'm old school DL.
• 31:22
  Speaker 18: But you know, the hope is that that's what's been
• 31:25
  Speaker 18: bothering him because you know, earlier this season he was
• 31:29
  Speaker 18: lights out and he was really looking like the guy
• 31:33
  Speaker 18: that well, you know, led Vandy to College World Series
• 31:37
  Speaker 18: and was so dominant there.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: But he hasn't been that guy.
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: You pitch with your legs, yeah, you do.
• 31:43
  Speaker 18: You can't without an ankle, yeah, or without trouble in
• 31:46
  Speaker 18: your ankle.
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: That's that's really troublesome.
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: So he'll he'll go down, try and get that ankle
• 31:52
  Speaker 9: and depending fifteen days. Seems he's optimistic.
• 31:57
  Speaker 18: Right from a ranger standpoint, here's the really good news.
• 32:01
  Speaker 18: The Marlins, who they play right now, are above five hundred.
• 32:06
  Speaker 18: The Texas Rangers have the single best winning percentage in
• 32:10
  Speaker 18: the American League against teams with a winning record. They
• 32:13
  Speaker 18: have the single worst winning percentage in the American League
• 32:18
  Speaker 18: against teams the losing record.
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: Outside of that's baseball, Explain that to me. It's a bizarre.
• 32:23
  Speaker 18: I mean, it's baseball, you know, But I mean, they
• 32:26
  Speaker 18: had a horrible homestand they got swept by a terrible
• 32:31
  Speaker 18: Minnesota team, and then they take two hour three because
• 32:34
  Speaker 18: really good San Diego team, right, it doesn't make any
• 32:37
  Speaker 18: sense at all. And they've been so bad against teams
• 32:41
  Speaker 18: with losing records, and because they started off as the
• 32:44
  Speaker 18: year with a really brutal schedule and you know, they
• 32:48
  Speaker 18: went to Philly and Baltimore and you know, four and two,
• 32:51
  Speaker 18: and we'll look like, Okay, this is gonna be a
• 32:54
  Speaker 18: pretty good team.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: And then they couldn't beat the Dogs.
• 32:57
  Speaker 18: They've been swept this year already by the Angels and
• 33:01
  Speaker 18: the Twins.
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: That's just she can't let that happen. That's embarrassing.
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: So they're bringing up Jose Corneille, Yeah not from Round Rock,
• 33:12
  Speaker 9: but the hope is that he may not start.
• 33:16
  Speaker 18: Yeah, the hope is that I don't know what they
• 33:21
  Speaker 18: do in this spot for lighter, but they're not very
• 33:24
  Speaker 18: far away from getting Jordan Montgomery, and they're not very
• 33:27
  Speaker 18: far away from.
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: Getting Cody Bradford.
• 33:29
  Speaker 18: And so if they can get those guys, then you're
• 33:33
  Speaker 18: talking about a surplus of really good arms. And I
• 33:36
  Speaker 18: don't know, Jordan Montgomery of twenty twenty three was fantastic
• 33:41
  Speaker 18: for the Rangers. Jordan Montgomery of twenty twenty four and
• 33:44
  Speaker 18: twenty twenty five in Arizona not so good. But you know,
• 33:48
  Speaker 18: back in Texas where he really felt at home and
• 33:51
  Speaker 18: was vital to the Rangers win that World Series, I
• 33:56
  Speaker 18: would think that early July that he'd ready and Cody
• 34:01
  Speaker 18: Bradford right right behind him.
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: And in the al West where no one's running away
• 34:06
  Speaker 9: with it.
• 34:06
  Speaker 18: No, you know, the Astros have won. I think the
• 34:09
  Speaker 18: Astros have played pretty well here re least lately that.
• 34:12
  Speaker 9: They've won three series in a row for the first
• 34:14
  Speaker 9: time this year.
• 34:15
  Speaker 18: Yeah, and I think I was looking at today, I
• 34:18
  Speaker 18: think they're seventeen and eleven in the last twenty eight,
• 34:21
  Speaker 18: which is I mean, if they could play that way
• 34:23
  Speaker 18: the rest.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Of the year, they can't.
• 34:25
  Speaker 18: Well, I don't think anybody in the AL West can, right,
• 34:29
  Speaker 18: But I'm still convinced that one of these teams is
• 34:31
  Speaker 18: going to go on a ten game winning streak at
• 34:34
  Speaker 18: some point and they're gonna run away with the division,
• 34:37
  Speaker 18: and that's gonna be all it takes. Really, I've seen
• 34:40
  Speaker 18: this happen so many times, and I mean I saw
• 34:43
  Speaker 18: it with twenty fifteen.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: And sixteen Rangers.
• 34:45
  Speaker 18: They played pretty much below five hundred at five hundred,
• 34:49
  Speaker 18: but they had that really good streak. And even back
• 34:53
  Speaker 18: twenty twenty three, that was a below five hundred team
• 34:56
  Speaker 18: after the first sixty games, but they happened to go
• 35:00
  Speaker 18: for twenty in their first sixty. So you get hot
• 35:04
  Speaker 18: one of those teams, if the Astros, the Mariners, the Rangers,
• 35:09
  Speaker 18: even the A's, you know, I mean I I kind
• 35:14
  Speaker 18: of think it's more likely for either the Rangers, Astros
• 35:17
  Speaker 18: or Mariners.
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: But we'll see.
• 35:20
  Speaker 18: I wouldn't throw the Athletics out of this with the
• 35:24
  Speaker 18: AL West being so bad.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 35:25
  Speaker 18: The other thing does is does it really matter?
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: I mean, you know, hey, ask Oklahoma, Yeah, ask Oklahoma
• 35:33
  Speaker 9: because they did not have a very good regular season. Well,
• 35:36
  Speaker 9: you're exactly right, and all of a sudden, they're playing
• 35:39
  Speaker 9: for a national championship tonight. If you get a seat
• 35:41
  Speaker 9: at the table, yeah, and you get hot for the
• 35:43
  Speaker 9: right three weeks, that's all that matters.
• 35:45
  Speaker 18: Well, And that's that was the twenty twenty three Rangers,
• 35:48
  Speaker 18: because they limped in the postseason.
• 35:49
  Speaker 9: But in twenty twenty three, nobody wanted to win that division, right,
• 35:53
  Speaker 9: wouldn't Everybody was kind of backing up.
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: And Astros and the Rangers back and forth.
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: Right, but but but backing up up, backing up nobody,
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: And finally.
• 36:03
  Speaker 18: Astros won that. But the Astros had the tie break correct,
• 36:08
  Speaker 18: and so.
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: That they had they had the chance to put it
• 36:10
  Speaker 9: away like six seven times, and and kept the thing
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: going well.
• 36:15
  Speaker 18: And then the Rangers didn't lose a single time on
• 36:17
  Speaker 18: the road. I mean right, it's playing that so I
• 36:21
  Speaker 18: mean eleven.
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: And zero in the road.
• 36:22
  Speaker 9: Yeah, when when when baseball happens and you got a
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: seat at the table, it's just a matter of where
• 36:29
  Speaker 9: how are you playing?
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: What those three weeks?
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: Exactly right?
• 36:32
  Speaker 18: Because I'll go back to twenty eleven when the Cardinals
• 36:35
  Speaker 18: beat the Rangers in the World Series. The Cardinals got
• 36:38
  Speaker 18: in the postseason on the last day. They got the
• 36:41
  Speaker 18: wild card on the last day of the regular season,
• 36:43
  Speaker 18: So you're right. I mean, if you get in there,
• 36:46
  Speaker 18: anybody can can get rolling. And I mean even the
• 36:49
  Speaker 18: Dodgers seem like kind of human this year. I mean,
• 36:53
  Speaker 18: like I say that they they're not the favorite still,
• 36:56
  Speaker 18: but there are some teams out there. Milwaukee's really uh
• 37:01
  Speaker 18: Miss that guy is untouchable right now for sure.
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: I mean he's something special.
• 37:06
  Speaker 18: I mean he's worth you know, if you if you've
• 37:09
  Speaker 18: got a chance to watch that guy, that's special.
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: As long as as long as he stays healthy, they're
• 37:15
  Speaker 9: in it that you know, well, as long as you've
• 37:17
  Speaker 9: got to stop rotation.
• 37:19
  Speaker 18: When you guys throwing one O four, I mean you
• 37:22
  Speaker 18: worry how long can you do it?
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 37:24
  Speaker 18: I mean there's only there's not There's not ever been
• 37:27
  Speaker 18: a really no one Ryan right that could do it
• 37:29
  Speaker 18: that good.
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: That h I've losty that long right.
• 37:34
  Speaker 9: Right, and most you know, in recent years, most of
• 37:36
  Speaker 9: your guys that throw that harder throwing.
• 37:38
  Speaker 18: In any yeah, yeah right, And I mean but just
• 37:41
  Speaker 18: right now, you look at some of the young pitchers
• 37:44
  Speaker 18: out there, you know, Schemes and Miss Bull those guys
• 37:49
  Speaker 18: are really fun to watch. And yeah, you know, like
• 37:53
  Speaker 18: Miller comes in, uh for the Padres and he's hitting
• 37:57
  Speaker 18: you know, casually. You know, he's their closer. And so
• 38:00
  Speaker 18: he was with with Oakland, you know, and was there
• 38:03
  Speaker 18: one piece.
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: And I can't get over saying Oakland.
• 38:06
  Speaker 18: He was with Oakland and when they were still in Oakland,
• 38:09
  Speaker 18: and so you know, that guy's consistently over one hundred
• 38:13
  Speaker 18: every time and it's effortless, just like how does he
• 38:16
  Speaker 18: throw it that hard and that accurate for the most part.
• 38:19
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and so a lot, a lot of fun. But
• 38:23
  Speaker 9: I just keep watching this al race and I'm going, Okay,
• 38:27
  Speaker 9: has this slump you know, right, has it hurt you?
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: And I look at the standings and go, Nope, No,
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: still in it. Get a guy healthy, get a guy back.
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: All of a sudden, because for both the Astros and
• 38:42
  Speaker 9: the Rangers, you're getting to the point where you're going,
• 38:46
  Speaker 9: am I selling or buying?
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 38:48
  Speaker 18: And I heard the Astros say that they're playing on
• 38:51
  Speaker 18: buying and the Rangers there.
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: They have said nothing definitive.
• 38:57
  Speaker 18: And it's still June, you know. That's that's the thing.
• 39:01
  Speaker 18: It's like it's June. It's like it's late June, but
• 39:04
  Speaker 18: it's still June.
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: Well, we're almost to the halfway point. Yeah, and so
• 39:09
  Speaker 9: a couple of games away. Yeah, it's just it's amazing, though,
• 39:13
  Speaker 9: you know, I think everybody will be at the halfway
• 39:16
  Speaker 9: point by the end of this week.
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you this does it.
• 39:18
  Speaker 18: After the Twins swept the Rangers, I like, well, that's it.
• 39:23
  Speaker 18: And then I look right here and the Rangers are
• 39:26
  Speaker 18: two back, Like what a miserable Homestand again I go back,
• 39:32
  Speaker 18: how do you get swept by the Angels and the Twins.
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: It's just it's just bad. And yet they're two games.
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: Out, and and it's finding because you're throwing different pitchers.
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: Like tonight, I think we're gonna have an experiment with
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: the Rangers.
• 39:48
  Speaker 18: Well, Tyler Alexander is going to be the opener for
• 39:51
  Speaker 18: Rocker and so they did that in Colorado.
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: Uh, and again it was the Rockies. I understand that.
• 39:59
  Speaker 18: But in the Marlin's right now, they're playing really good
• 40:02
  Speaker 18: baseball and I think they've won, well, they just swept
• 40:06
  Speaker 18: a series and they they're two games over five hunt
• 40:09
  Speaker 18: and so uh, but they're gonna Tyler Alexander be the
• 40:13
  Speaker 18: opener and then Rocker will come in the second because
• 40:16
  Speaker 18: Rocker has been awful in the first inning and he's
• 40:20
  Speaker 18: been really good outside the first inning. But oh, by
• 40:23
  Speaker 18: the way, the Brewers are forty six and twenty nine.
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: I mean.
• 40:28
  Speaker 18: They're they're right there with the Dodgers.
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: I mean they're they're.
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: Close, but they're not they're not in your in your division. No, no,
• 40:35
  Speaker 9: it doesn't matter, right, no, it doesn't matter.
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: But I'm just saying that.
• 40:38
  Speaker 18: You know, when you look at the National League versus
• 40:40
  Speaker 18: the American League, there's some really good teams in the
• 40:42
  Speaker 18: National League. And of course the Braves are playing really
• 40:45
  Speaker 18: good too, right, you know, the Yankees they're they're okay.
• 40:51
  Speaker 18: I mean, the American League is wide open. And by
• 40:55
  Speaker 18: the way, the the Indians, I'm not gonna call him
• 40:59
  Speaker 18: the Guardians, they're not that good.
• 41:03
  Speaker 9: You know, when whenever that's still when Guardians scrolls across
• 41:07
  Speaker 9: the screen, I think soccer. No wait, because I'm thinking
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: that's a sport I don't watch, and then you realize
• 41:13
  Speaker 9: it's baseball.
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: Right, There's some things I just refuse to change.
• 41:16
  Speaker 18: I'm not gonna stop calling the Redskins the Redskins.
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: I'm just not gonna do it. So, I mean, I'm old.
• 41:23
  Speaker 18: School, and I see, I'm not I don't like the
• 41:26
  Speaker 18: political correctness of it.
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: Just be your team and just let just play sports.
• 41:32
  Speaker 18: I don't want to hear your political I've got I
• 41:35
  Speaker 18: can change the channel if I want to hear political viewpoints, right,
• 41:40
  Speaker 18: don't change the team name. That's more insulting than it
• 41:43
  Speaker 18: is anything else. I just I don't get it.
• 41:46
  Speaker 9: Oh, it is pouring in the soccer game between France
• 41:51
  Speaker 9: and Iraq. Where are they playing in Philly? It is
• 41:53
  Speaker 9: coming down hard. We'll see if Inbope can catch up
• 41:58
  Speaker 9: with MESSI that's that's where watching to day.
• 42:01
  Speaker 18: Hey, I don't I don't know anything about soccer, but
• 42:03
  Speaker 18: I'm I'm always gonna root against Iraq or Iran. I
• 42:08
  Speaker 18: don't know anything about that, but I'm gonna.
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: Root against them.
• 42:12
  Speaker 9: I think you're gonna be safe today. I feel good
• 42:14
  Speaker 9: about France winning this game. Okay, So I mean, and
• 42:19
  Speaker 9: that's another one. I mean that means you're rooting for France.
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean they gave us a statue of liberty.
• 42:25
  Speaker 9: So okay, Hey, let's let's go back to baseball and
• 42:29
  Speaker 9: make it a little A and M related, because I
• 42:33
  Speaker 9: guess was that Friday or Saturday. I can't remember when
• 42:36
  Speaker 9: the news first broke. I guess Friday.
• 42:39
  Speaker 11: Uh.
• 42:40
  Speaker 9: It was first reported by Kendall Rodgers at D one Baseball,
• 42:45
  Speaker 9: and then Browny Will quickly confirmed that A and M
• 42:49
  Speaker 9: has hired assistant coach recruiting coordinator Nolan kin Away from
• 42:56
  Speaker 9: Texas following the end of the Texas baseball season and
• 43:01
  Speaker 9: brought in one of the best recruiters in the country
• 43:04
  Speaker 9: And they've been doing pretty well recruiting wise anyway, without
• 43:09
  Speaker 9: they've got some guys, right.
• 43:11
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I'm really excited about not just and in baseball,
• 43:19
  Speaker 18: but there for a while, it's hard. And when I'm
• 43:23
  Speaker 18: looking at the top three sports in my in most
• 43:26
  Speaker 18: of our viewpoint, so you're looking at football and men's
• 43:29
  Speaker 18: basketball in baseball.
• 43:31
  Speaker 9: Right any anything else is it's one of my sports.
• 43:36
  Speaker 9: But I realized that it's not one of the big
• 43:39
  Speaker 9: three sports.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 43:40
  Speaker 18: I loved watching that volleyball team this year. Sure, Oh
• 43:43
  Speaker 18: my gosh. I love watching him win go through the postseason.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Speaking of recruiting, he's done pretty well.
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: He's something else, isn't He.
• 43:49
  Speaker 9: Got a commitment from the number one player in the
• 43:51
  Speaker 9: country last week.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: He's on a roll.
• 43:53
  Speaker 18: Yes, he is and great guy. Had a chance to
• 43:57
  Speaker 18: meet him several times. But going back to what I
• 43:59
  Speaker 18: was saying, like, there's been so many times in the
• 44:03
  Speaker 18: times that I've been associated with TEXA, A and M,
• 44:05
  Speaker 18: and I go back to the early nineties there where
• 44:08
  Speaker 18: he just didn't have a good feel about one coach
• 44:11
  Speaker 18: in one of those sports or one staff in one
• 44:14
  Speaker 18: of those sports, you know, like okay.
• 44:17
  Speaker 9: And when we had a good feel, when we thought
• 44:20
  Speaker 9: we had all three, it didn't work out.
• 44:22
  Speaker 18: It didn't work out, right, Yeah, So, I mean Billy
• 44:25
  Speaker 18: Clyde Gillespie was fantastic and I felt really good about
• 44:28
  Speaker 18: him being my coach, but they got so much attention
• 44:32
  Speaker 18: because oh that was the friend era, and I didn't
• 44:34
  Speaker 18: feel good about that right right or before Billy Clyde,
• 44:39
  Speaker 18: you know, we had great football coach in Narcie Slocan,
• 44:42
  Speaker 18: but then they had a guy named Melvin Watkins.
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: I didn't feel very good about that.
• 44:46
  Speaker 18: And then you know, I loved Mark Johnson for the
• 44:49
  Speaker 18: longest time. But you know, we've had really good baseball staffs,
• 44:55
  Speaker 18: and you know, I thought Jim Slosnage was the guy, right,
• 44:59
  Speaker 18: I mean.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Probably probably was.
• 45:02
  Speaker 18: And I remember driving home from Mamaha and my wife
• 45:04
  Speaker 18: saying it looks like Slashnaga was going to Texas and
• 45:07
  Speaker 18: I was like, no way, no way.
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: Did you hear him last night?
• 45:12
  Speaker 18: He said he left his family for this, and so
• 45:16
  Speaker 18: but flash forward. I love what michaelko is doing, Bucky McMillan,
• 45:23
  Speaker 18: I think, man, that guy is fantastic, and I love
• 45:26
  Speaker 18: his staff. And then early what he's done after that
• 45:31
  Speaker 18: very disappointing first year, to bring in Cliff Penson, like
• 45:36
  Speaker 18: one of the legends of a m baseball and a
• 45:39
  Speaker 18: really good coach and just a really I mean a
• 45:43
  Speaker 18: guy that's very relatable, and then to get No One
• 45:46
  Speaker 18: came back, and not only to get him back, but.
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: To get him back from Texas. Just I just I
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: love it.
• 45:53
  Speaker 18: I absolutely love it.
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: I feel really good about.
• 45:56
  Speaker 18: The direction of all three of those programs, and it's
• 46:00
  Speaker 18: I don't know if I've ever felt this good about
• 46:03
  Speaker 18: all three of them.
• 46:04
  Speaker 9: At the same time, I will say, Cliff Pennington, we
• 46:09
  Speaker 9: knew we were getting and we knew what kind of
• 46:11
  Speaker 9: coach he was on the college level. When we brought
• 46:14
  Speaker 9: in a Cliff Pennington, no question.
• 46:17
  Speaker 18: Well, we certainly knew the kind of guy he is, right.
• 46:19
  Speaker 9: But he had a coaching record coming up that you go, yeah,
• 46:24
  Speaker 9: this guy is going to be a big plus. Nolan
• 46:26
  Speaker 9: Kane's been on this staff before. We're familiar with him.
• 46:29
  Speaker 9: We knew what kind of guys he brought in, say
• 46:32
  Speaker 9: Gavin Gerhovac and Caden Cerell, just to name a few,
• 46:37
  Speaker 9: when when he was recruiting four A and M.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: And then what I don't know is in.
• 46:44
  Speaker 9: Right, right, Yeah, I don't know, And it's it's it's
• 46:47
  Speaker 9: not that I have a negative feel about it, because
• 46:49
  Speaker 9: I don't. I mean, I like going out and grabbing
• 46:52
  Speaker 9: a guy from Major League Baseball to come in and
• 46:55
  Speaker 9: shore up your pitching staff and understand modern pitching and
• 47:00
  Speaker 9: everything that goes along with it. But I don't know
• 47:02
  Speaker 9: his track record.
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: I worry he's coming from the Angels. I'm kidding. I'm
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: absolutely kidding. I just I don't know much about.
• 47:09
  Speaker 9: Him right because he comes out of Major League Baseball.
• 47:13
  Speaker 9: It's you know, but early had time to go. He
• 47:19
  Speaker 9: knew he was replacing against pitching coach to decide who
• 47:24
  Speaker 9: he wanted to bring in, and that's who he decided
• 47:26
  Speaker 9: to bring in. And I think he's made good decisions
• 47:28
  Speaker 9: on that.
• 47:29
  Speaker 18: The familiarity I think is very very important because I
• 47:32
  Speaker 18: think one of the keys to Bucky McMillan's success here
• 47:36
  Speaker 18: early on is that.
• 47:38
  Speaker 19: He brought in guys who had been here before. He
• 47:41
  Speaker 19: brought in Mitch Cole, he brought in Kyle Keller, he
• 47:44
  Speaker 19: brought in Frank k I mean, these guys have been
• 47:46
  Speaker 19: here and they've coached here, and they know the Texas
• 47:49
  Speaker 19: high school coaches.
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: And they know you know.
• 47:51
  Speaker 19: So yeah, Bucky was from a smaller school in Alabama,
• 47:56
  Speaker 19: but he brought these.
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: Guys in with all these ties in.
• 47:59
  Speaker 18: It's the same thing as like you know, okay, Mike
• 48:01
  Speaker 18: Early is bringing guys in that know the program. I mean,
• 48:04
  Speaker 18: Clift Pennington knows the history.
• 48:06
  Speaker 9: He knows he knows all about it, knows all about it.
• 48:09
  Speaker 18: He knows what it means, you know, to beat Texas
• 48:11
  Speaker 18: and to play Texas and to get to you know,
• 48:14
  Speaker 18: the regionals and to play in big settings like that,
• 48:17
  Speaker 18: and then to play in.
• 48:18
  Speaker 6: The major leagues for a long time.
• 48:20
  Speaker 18: And so I mean, you can only imagine how great
• 48:26
  Speaker 18: it is to be coached by a guy like that
• 48:29
  Speaker 18: when you know the track record. He was a superstar
• 48:31
  Speaker 18: Texas A and m he got to where all these
• 48:34
  Speaker 18: guys want to go. And you know, I don't even remember. Remember,
• 48:37
  Speaker 18: I'm guessing his ten year career just off the top
• 48:39
  Speaker 18: of my head or something like that. Yeah, I played
• 48:42
  Speaker 18: with the Ayes, played Arizona, played I think in Toronto
• 48:46
  Speaker 18: a little bit.
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: So maybe I don't know.
• 48:48
  Speaker 18: I'll look it up and break, but I'm guessing ten
• 48:50
  Speaker 18: twelve years in the person.
• 48:52
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's there, you go. So yeah, and I was
• 48:55
  Speaker 9: excited when I saw this news. You know, they went
• 48:59
  Speaker 9: all season with a short one assistant, right because this
• 49:03
  Speaker 9: spot's been open since January, and like they.
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: Knew something maybe yeah, maybe, you know.
• 49:10
  Speaker 9: I listened to Mike early today one Techaggs Live and
• 49:14
  Speaker 9: he said, you know, hey, season was over and I
• 49:18
  Speaker 9: was trying to make a decision where I wanted to go.
• 49:20
  Speaker 9: We're recruiting pretty well already. Do I want a recruiting coordinator?
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: And I said, and you know, he just said, I
• 49:28
  Speaker 9: can't see no one at a game sitting there and going.
• 49:30
  Speaker 9: I didn't even call and ask him. So I called
• 49:33
  Speaker 9: him and it was done in two days. Because they're friends, right,
• 49:36
  Speaker 9: I mean, I I know, and there's something there's something
• 49:39
  Speaker 9: to be said for having a guy that you've been
• 49:42
  Speaker 9: around before as a head coach, that you already have
• 49:45
  Speaker 9: some trust in.
• 49:46
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, they got the rapport that they have. Yeah,
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: and so.
• 49:51
  Speaker 18: He knows the kind of kids he wants to go get.
• 49:53
  Speaker 18: And so I'm I'm very, very excited about having no
• 49:56
  Speaker 18: one came and biastly, I'd say, he's got kids, and
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  Speaker 9: believe is back tomorrow. I think I understood that correctly.
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  Speaker 9: It's kind of hard to tell in the summer. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 9: This is this is this is a one day event.
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  Speaker 9: So we're we're here for today and tonight there will
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  Speaker 9: be a new champion in college baseball, either North Carolina
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  Speaker 9: or OU. Kind of surprised when was the last.
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  Speaker 2: OU lost Georgia.
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  Speaker 6: In the region?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha? Okay?
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  Speaker 9: I knew it had been a while since they lost. Yea,
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  Speaker 9: And the question, the question I have for you is
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  Speaker 9: is it midnight for Cinderella, because that I mean, look,
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  Speaker 9: they came from nowhere, they came from way back, and
• 54:36
  Speaker 9: have played some of the best baseball we've seen from
• 54:41
  Speaker 9: any team all year.
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  Speaker 18: Well, yeah, I'm shocked by how well they've played. But
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  Speaker 18: I don't think it's midnight necessarily because I mean, they
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  Speaker 18: lost a game right after.
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  Speaker 6: They lost that, that game of George Tech.
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  Speaker 18: They didn't lose again for you know, a long time,
• 54:59
  Speaker 18: and playing really good, you know opposition.
• 55:02
  Speaker 9: Playing all the major conference champions, they had to go
• 55:05
  Speaker 9: through all of them.
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  Speaker 18: So I'm very interested with this one tonight.
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  Speaker 6: I think my my head said North Carolina.
• 55:17
  Speaker 18: And not that I like O you by any means,
• 55:20
  Speaker 18: but I do think down deep, maybe I think the SEC.
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: You know, just see the SEC win again.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: Are they in it?
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a good question. It's a good question.
• 55:32
  Speaker 18: Does I mean, yeah, that's I still don't feel like
• 55:35
  Speaker 18: they're SEC, but I mean they they are part of
• 55:38
  Speaker 18: the league. I did, you know, and him opened the
• 55:42
  Speaker 18: conference play against them up there.
• 55:44
  Speaker 9: And so they hit well that weekend. Yeah, they did,
• 55:47
  Speaker 9: and then they went on a slump until postseason started.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Weird weekend because it was was howing.
• 55:52
  Speaker 18: Yeah, and so that that game and nobody strikes, nobody
• 55:56
  Speaker 18: could catch a pop up. You know, It's like the
• 55:59
  Speaker 18: win was crazy. But uh yeah, I don't know. I
• 56:04
  Speaker 18: think most of the country, if if you're not like
• 56:06
  Speaker 18: just a dead set I'm rooting for the SEC, is
• 56:09
  Speaker 18: probably rooting for North Carolina just because the SEC has
• 56:12
  Speaker 18: been so dominant for so long, and there it's the
• 56:15
  Speaker 18: most dominant sport. Now. I mean SEC had had some
• 56:19
  Speaker 18: great runs in football, but by far, this SEC is
• 56:23
  Speaker 18: the most dominant in baseball.
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  Speaker 9: Well, the difference is they've been winning championships in baseball.
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  Speaker 9: What are they having in football? They're The difference is
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  Speaker 9: they're the deepest, they're the hardest grind in football, which
• 56:37
  Speaker 9: they are in baseball as well, but they're also the
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  Speaker 9: best at the top end.
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  Speaker 6: Well, there's you've.
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  Speaker 18: Got four or five teams in the SEC who can
• 56:47
  Speaker 18: win a nast championship, right, I mean who have that pedigree?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 18: So you've got LSU and you got Alabama, and you
• 56:53
  Speaker 18: got Georgia and you got Florida.
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  Speaker 6: And who am I missing?
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  Speaker 9: I don't know, a little team not far from here.
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  Speaker 6: But A and M has not done anything like that.
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  Speaker 9: No, No, I meant about Okay, so they have.
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  Speaker 18: That pedigree, But in baseball you have the pedigree teams.
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  Speaker 9: That have won it.
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  Speaker 18: It's oh Vandy, Oh Florida, Georgia, I mean Mississippi, Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 18: I mean it goes way deep, right, Texas obviously the
• 57:24
  Speaker 18: history that they have, but it's just so deep. And
• 57:30
  Speaker 18: that's the difference between you know, when you compare baseball
• 57:33
  Speaker 18: versus SEC football is like, Okay, Vanderbilt is never gonna win.
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  Speaker 6: An SEC title in football. It's just not gonna happen.
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: It ain't gonna happen.
• 57:43
  Speaker 9: It is not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 18: But they won a national title in baseball and a
• 57:48
  Speaker 18: couple and they've got a great program. And I don't
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  Speaker 18: think Mississippi State is ever gonna win national championship in
• 57:54
  Speaker 18: football too, And they were top team in the nation
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  Speaker 18: at one point when DAK was over there. But I
• 58:01
  Speaker 18: just there's no comparison. SEC baseball is just in a
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  Speaker 18: league zone.
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  Speaker 9: And the eleventh place team out of this year is
• 58:10
  Speaker 9: playing for a championship in to night against North Carolina
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  Speaker 9: who speaking of catching pop ups, probably isn't in if Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: State, yea can catch that foul ball. I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: If you're watching that Super Super Game three, shortstop for
• 58:28
  Speaker 9: whatever reason, calls off the left fielder on a foul
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  Speaker 9: ball has clearly got it, and then he he comes
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  Speaker 9: nowhere close and then North Carolina comes back to win
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  Speaker 9: it in the ninth inning. You know, but you catch
• 58:39
  Speaker 9: that ball. North Carolina is not even in the World Series.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, that's baseball, right.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, and that's that's the way it goes,
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  Speaker 9: all right. Uh, that'll wrap up our number one of
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  Speaker 9: Chip Howard's sports talk here on The Zone.