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Rory McIlroy wins The Masters, completes career grand slam. Plus, Texas Baseball climbs to No. 1 after series win over Kentucky · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Here's the stretch from the left hander Scott Rous. The
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  Speaker 1: one zero swung on and that's gonna be a little
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  Speaker 1: looper in a shallow right field. It's gonna fall for
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  Speaker 1: a base hits and then the ball gets past the
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  Speaker 1: right fielder Montoya rounding third.
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  Speaker 2: Here comes Farmer. The log warns score two runs and
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  Speaker 2: Texas takes a three to two lead. Three balls and
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  Speaker 2: two strengths.
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  Speaker 1: The gown to Island Galvan, the Mendoza and the runner
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  Speaker 1: and second after his Arbi doubles put Texas back in front.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: The payoff pitch to Galvan swings and lines it through
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  Speaker 1: on the left side of ase hit and those around
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  Speaker 1: third being waved to the plate. Here comes the throw,
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  Speaker 1: not in time, Galvan hustling down the second and he's
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  Speaker 1: out at second base.
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  Speaker 2: The run scores.
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  Speaker 1: They're two down now and the log worns lead it
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  Speaker 1: four to two, no walls, two strikes, two outs.
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  Speaker 2: Lanth is ready. Here's the go two pitch to Hudson Brown,
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  Speaker 2: strike three.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, and good night. As Dylan Valantis
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  Speaker 1: shuts the door to save the ball a game and
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  Speaker 1: Texas takes the series opener from the Kentucky Wildcats. They're
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  Speaker 1: gonna try to steal the run and throw back the second.
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  Speaker 2: The tag is there for an hour, two down. A
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  Speaker 2: great job of stepping off.
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  Speaker 3: They were trying to create a bog and so smart
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  Speaker 3: at veteran player. He steps off with his back foot,
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  Speaker 3: then he can throw the baseball anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Really nice job of not panicking.
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  Speaker 1: The two ball, two strike. Pitch to Burkes swinging a man,
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  Speaker 1: struck him out. Big strikeout there, big defensive playing the
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  Speaker 1: log Horns out of trouble in the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: first and the pitch swung on it, that's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: lined in the center field of base hit coming in
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  Speaker 1: the score from thurdis du Quay Stewart stopping at second
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  Speaker 1: base is Ryland Galvon rbi single from Jalen Flores puts
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  Speaker 1: the log Horns on top one to nothing. Galvon at
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  Speaker 1: second ars versus, here's a high flight off. This one
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  Speaker 1: hit the to the alley and left center field, and
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  Speaker 1: that is going to be off the wall. One run
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  Speaker 1: scores rounding third headed for the plate floor's evil score
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  Speaker 1: Will Gasparino.
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  Speaker 2: A cap shot to left.
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  Speaker 1: Center field gives the log Horns a three to nothing lead.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the first pitch to Devin Burks, swings here, pops
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  Speaker 1: it up in the infield, calling for Riojas, makes the catch,
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  Speaker 1: slams his glove down to the turf in triumph, and
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  Speaker 1: Riojas gets out of danger. In the fifth, buyers the
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  Speaker 1: first pitch swung on ant is line toward the alley
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  Speaker 1: in right center, slicing catch made by Montoya, tagging at
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  Speaker 1: third and coming in. The score is Gasparino. It's a
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice fly in an RBI from Tommy Farmer and it's
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  Speaker 1: four to one. Texas Sonier out of the stretch. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the pitch and it's chopped on the ground to third.
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  Speaker 1: Charging up with it is.
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  Speaker 2: Borba throws the first in time to.
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  Speaker 1: Get him and the log Hoorns out of trouble. Here
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  Speaker 1: in the seventh, Gasparino wit second the first pitch and
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  Speaker 1: he swings and sends a sinking liner down the right
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  Speaker 1: field line.
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  Speaker 2: It is in the corner.
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  Speaker 1: It's fair, it will score Gasparino, shustler. We'll slide in
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  Speaker 1: the second with an RBI double on the first pitch
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  Speaker 1: he sees from James McCoy and the log Horns do
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  Speaker 1: pick up an important run in outleat five to three,
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  Speaker 1: two balls, two strikes, two outs. Sonier the stretch and
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  Speaker 1: the two to two pitched Ethan hindle. He swings and
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  Speaker 1: pops it up, calling for it right side.
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  Speaker 2: Of the diamond.
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  Speaker 1: His bendoza Ethan settles under, makes the catch and Grayson
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  Speaker 1: Sonier works a one two three bottom of the eighth.
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  Speaker 2: Dylan coon Son deck.
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  Speaker 1: One out the stretch from Grayson Soignier in the pitch
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  Speaker 1: swung on ground ball hit up the middle, could be
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  Speaker 1: two stepping on the back.
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  Speaker 2: For one relay the first pen time double play.
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  Speaker 1: The ball game is over and the Loghorns take the
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  Speaker 1: game and the series. A floor is feeling its steps
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  Speaker 1: on the bag at second, fires to first and the
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  Speaker 1: ballgame is over. On a double play six free to
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  Speaker 1: end it. Texas wins the ballgame five to four, and
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  Speaker 1: with that the Loghorns take the series. And not only
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  Speaker 1: do they take the series, they move up. They were
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  Speaker 1: number two, so there's only the other one other place
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  Speaker 1: that could move to. Yep, they're the new number one
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  Speaker 1: team in the nation. Good afternoon, everybody, Welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: program here on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred of the Zone.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Craig way, glad to have you with us,
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  Speaker 1: as always pleased to be joined by the producer Cameron D.
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  Speaker 2: Parker.
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  Speaker 1: The D on the birth certificate stands for Dallas as
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  Speaker 1: in his favorite pro football team that he does not
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  Speaker 1: keep up with on purpose because he has shunned them
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  Speaker 1: for a while until they prove that they are worthy
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  Speaker 1: of being unshunned. But the D could stand for the
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  Speaker 1: dedication of Rory McElroy to surviving, surviving d for double
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  Speaker 1: bogie two during the final round and coming up with
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  Speaker 1: a historic win at Augusta at National How are you today?
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  Speaker 4: Probably the most important major championship victory since Tiger won
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  Speaker 4: the Masters back in twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: Wow for Roy mclroy. Good afternoon, Craig.
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  Speaker 4: What a fantastic golf tournament, my favorite tournament of the year,
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  Speaker 4: and what a up and down roller coaster ride it
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  Speaker 4: was for Roy mclroy the entire week, but super excited
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  Speaker 4: and happy for him to be able to get it
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  Speaker 4: done in that nineteen hole one whole playoff against Justin Rose,
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  Speaker 4: who ten years ago finished runner up to Jordan Speith
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  Speaker 4: and ten years later finished his runner up to Roy mcclroy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah when and obviously he was traveling back with the
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  Speaker 1: long run baseball team. You heard the highlight montage there
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  Speaker 1: that Cam so expertly crafted. But when we were at
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  Speaker 1: the airport and loading up the charter plane to head home,
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  Speaker 1: several of us were keeping track of what was going
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  Speaker 1: on in Augusta. And it was right after Rory made
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  Speaker 1: the double bogie at thirteen. I looked at it and
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  Speaker 1: I saw on a car a seven. I said, he
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  Speaker 1: must have found that tributary of Race Creek, which is
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  Speaker 1: exactly what happened there, because the only way you're going
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  Speaker 1: to make seven on that par five is if you
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  Speaker 1: hit it in the water, hit it in that creek
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  Speaker 1: that crosses in front of the green instead of hitting
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  Speaker 1: the shot left to set it up because the righting
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  Speaker 1: bounces in. So that was right then that he was tied.
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  Speaker 1: And then we were closing the doors and taking off,
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  Speaker 1: and so.
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  Speaker 2: No more.
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  Speaker 1: There were no more updates until we landed, and Roger
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  Speaker 1: wallas attexted me and said, who knows what all will
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  Speaker 1: have happened by the time you land And he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: have been more spot on with all of the crazy
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  Speaker 1: things that happened there in the final hour. You might
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  Speaker 1: sell on the back nine. You know that that you're
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  Speaker 1: quite acquainted with that old uh saying the Masters doesn't
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  Speaker 1: start until the back nine on Sunday. Uh. Some could
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  Speaker 1: make that kind of case because it had all of
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  Speaker 1: the theater, all of the drama, all of the ups
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  Speaker 1: and downs, not only for Rory McElroy, uh, but for Scotti,
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  Speaker 1: Scheffler making a late run, for Justin Rose bouncing back
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  Speaker 1: and having an opportunity to win it, for Bryson to
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  Speaker 1: Shambeau just kind of falling off the cliff.
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  Speaker 2: Uh there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think too many people were expecting that. I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of people thought Bryson would have been
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  Speaker 1: right there all the way to the end.
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  Speaker 2: But he had his struggles.
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  Speaker 1: Early and then and then even uh Ludvig Goldberg who
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  Speaker 1: was tied at one point before he kind of unraveled
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  Speaker 1: on the final two holes there. But in other words,
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  Speaker 1: that back nine had every bit of kind of drama
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  Speaker 1: no matter who you were interested in or watching or
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  Speaker 1: rooting for, and.
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  Speaker 4: For Rory, you know, the drama began on Thursday. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: going into this week, I thought he was going to
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  Speaker 4: win because he's been playing the best golf of anybody
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  Speaker 4: on the planet. And it comes off of a couple
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  Speaker 4: heartbreaks in major championships over the last few years. He
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  Speaker 4: had a heartbreak at the at the British Open at
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  Speaker 4: St Andrews the Old Course where Cameron Smith shot a
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  Speaker 4: Sunday round sixty two and Rory didn't do anything. Lost
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  Speaker 4: that a great chance to win the US Open at
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  Speaker 4: the LACC, lost that win and Clark won. And then
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  Speaker 4: last year at Pinehurst against Bryceton the Chamba, where Rory
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  Speaker 4: had two three putts and two miss putts inside of
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  Speaker 4: three four feet before the shambo, ultimately got up and
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  Speaker 4: down from the bunker on the eighteenth hole. Though the
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  Speaker 4: won the US Open, and myself, a lot of the
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  Speaker 4: people wondered, like, you know, maybe it's just never going
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  Speaker 4: to happen for Rory. He just mentally cannot get over
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  Speaker 4: the hump of major championship golf. But this season two wins,
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  Speaker 4: including an a credible final round of the Players Championship,
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  Speaker 4: it felt different in Thursday. You know, his Thursday's rounds
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  Speaker 4: have been awful. I think he only had shot under
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  Speaker 4: seventy two times in Master's history on the opening round.
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  Speaker 4: Just a lot of seventy twos and seventy threes and
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  Speaker 4: just seventy four is just my numbing awful opening rounds.
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  Speaker 4: And there he was at four under par through was
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  Speaker 4: he think, fifteen holes on round one, sorry, four under
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  Speaker 4: par through fourteen holes. He gets to fifteen and just
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  Speaker 4: makes an awful double bogie after chipping into the green
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  Speaker 4: on the back of fifteen, makes double on seventeen, and
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  Speaker 4: it's just like there he went from four under the
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  Speaker 4: even parts like there is the Roy McRoy claps, but
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  Speaker 4: he comes back with sixty six on Friday, at sixty
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  Speaker 4: six on Saturday of scorching sixty six in the final group.
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  Speaker 4: And on the opening hole yesterday, Craig he just makes
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  Speaker 4: an awful, awful six on the par four three, puts
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  Speaker 4: the green and after two holes Bryce and the Shambo
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  Speaker 4: somehow finds himself in the lead by one. But Roy
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  Speaker 4: came battling back, and he had his up and down
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  Speaker 4: moments throughout the entire round. He would hit some of
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  Speaker 4: the best golf shots we've ever seen, followed by some
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  Speaker 4: of the worst shots. I mean, his shot on thirteen
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  Speaker 4: with a wedge in hand into Ray's Creek might be
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  Speaker 4: the worst golf shot at the tournament. But He came
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  Speaker 4: back with the just incredible six iron on fifteen, missed
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  Speaker 4: it by the round the trees, a snap pub just
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  Speaker 4: a beautiful golf shot. That probably the reason why he won.
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  Speaker 4: Great shot in sixteen. Then my favorite was seventeen. In
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  Speaker 4: seventeen a fantastic shot, and then eighteen in the wedge
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  Speaker 4: in hand, all he has to do is get up
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  Speaker 4: in down one hundred and twenty five yards out the
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  Speaker 4: wedge in hand, dumped it into the bunker, ends up
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  Speaker 4: two putting and you're in a playoff, and just how
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  Speaker 4: in the world is this in a playoff right now?
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  Speaker 4: But he did not make the same mistake twice, hit
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  Speaker 4: it to three feet on the eighteenth hole. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Justin Rose didn't play the whole bad, but you know
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  Speaker 4: Roy just absolutely hammered his drive.
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  Speaker 2: Had a wedge in hand.
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  Speaker 4: Rose playing probably a little bit of a short iron,
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  Speaker 4: but still, you know, with that pin location, it's tough
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  Speaker 4: to get it to where where he Rose got it
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  Speaker 4: to in the playoff is actually a really good shot.
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  Speaker 4: But the three feet Rose missed the putt, and you
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  Speaker 4: saw Rory's reaction where he said in the in his
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  Speaker 4: post round press conference, it was moy more relieved than
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  Speaker 4: it was joy the way he kind of fell to
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  Speaker 4: his needs, but he deserved it, and it's awesome to
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  Speaker 4: see him finally join the career Grand Slam club.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So now it's what six guys who are in
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  Speaker 1: that club? Where does he make?
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  Speaker 2: Seven?
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  Speaker 1: I think he's six? Right, Okay, so there Ben Hogan, Hogan,
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  Speaker 1: Jack Tiger, Gary Player.
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  Speaker 2: So six.
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  Speaker 1: That's why when I answered the text the other day
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  Speaker 1: when they said Jack was playing with uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, playing with guys that weren't that good,
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  Speaker 1: I was, like, you ever hear Gary Player? Gary Player
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  Speaker 1: won a bunch of night. Yeah, he won a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of majors and and one and and one was the
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  Speaker 1: career Grand Slam guy. And he did it at a
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  Speaker 1: relatively early age. I mean he did it at bellryven
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  Speaker 1: Saint Louis at the US Open in nineteen sixty five,
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  Speaker 1: and then after that he still won.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, how many more masters he won?
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  Speaker 1: The one one of the most memorable masters other than
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  Speaker 1: this one, and of course Jack Nicholas, both in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy five, and then the Immortal won in nineteen eighty six.
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  Speaker 1: Is nineteen sixty one. Arnold Palmer had it was up
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  Speaker 1: two shots on the going to the final hole, and
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  Speaker 1: or is up one shot and final hole looked like
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  Speaker 1: he had it. He was out in the fairway kind
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  Speaker 1: of like Rory was. He wound up hooking it into
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  Speaker 1: the bunker, left blasted over the green and then and
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  Speaker 1: then got on the green and then two putted for
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  Speaker 1: a six. And Gary Player won that Masters. But he
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  Speaker 1: also wanted in nineteen seventy four, and he also wanted
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  Speaker 1: at age forty two, I believe in nineteen seventy eight
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  Speaker 1: when he shot like sixty four in the final round.
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  Speaker 1: So he was one of the greatest golfers, but he
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  Speaker 1: was before Tiger. He was the last one to achieve
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  Speaker 1: the career Slam until Rory McElroy did it yesterday. Like
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  Speaker 1: you said, very deserving. Some other things that come to
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  Speaker 1: mind about that final round there.
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned bryceon to Shamba.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you know with all the determination he
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  Speaker 1: had in that thrilling finish he had on Saturday to
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  Speaker 1: his round. We had just got back to the hotel
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  Speaker 1: after the Saturday fifteen inning long worn baseball game, and
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  Speaker 1: got back to the hotel and I turned it on
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  Speaker 1: to see like the last two or three holes and
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  Speaker 1: saw the shambo knock in what was that a forty
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  Speaker 1: eight footer they said, yeah, in eighteen Yeah, And I thought, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's going to be tough to deal with tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: for Rory or anybody else. And it just kind of
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  Speaker 1: just kind of went just went away from him all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, Like you said, he had the lead
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  Speaker 1: after what three holes?
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  Speaker 2: After two holes? Yeah, two holes.
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  Speaker 4: His issue was his iron play let him down. I
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  Speaker 4: think going in the Sunday he'd only hit like fifty
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  Speaker 4: nine percent of his greens and regulation and no Masters
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  Speaker 4: winner had won it shooting below sixty percent since like
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  Speaker 4: Mike Weir in two thousand and four and yesterday, he
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  Speaker 4: just did not have it with his ball striking. He played,
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  Speaker 4: he played awful, He played like Rory played in final rounds,
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  Speaker 4: and the Masters yesterday just fell apart at the end,
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  Speaker 4: kind of like Oberg as well.
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  Speaker 1: And then a tip of the cap does Scottie Scheffler
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  Speaker 1: just kind of quietly behind the scenes, wound up finishing fourth,
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  Speaker 1: and he had for him what everybody figured was an
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  Speaker 1: off weekend, and he still winds.
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  Speaker 4: Up in the top five C plus game and he
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  Speaker 4: finished eight under with three shots back of Rory.
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  Speaker 2: So look out for Scotty this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll see how Rory does. Where's the Open
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  Speaker 1: this year?
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  Speaker 4: The US follow the US opened to Oakmont? Okay, Pj's
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  Speaker 4: up next to Coui Hollo, which is where he's won
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  Speaker 4: a million times, to the West Flare and the favorite
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  Speaker 4: there Oakmont and then Port Rush.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Royal Port Rush Choices. That's in Is that
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  Speaker 1: Northern Ireland where Rory? Yeah, so it's the stars are aligning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll keep it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that someone will ever win the Grand
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  Speaker 1: Slam in one year.
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  Speaker 2: Four in a row. No, it's the way the technology
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  Speaker 2: is advanced. It is too difficult. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: What Jordan's speed that in twenty fifteen is. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think we'll ever see that.
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  Speaker 1: And the Tiger Slam even Yeah, yeah, I think that's
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  Speaker 1: probably the best that's gonna come to it. And Jack
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  Speaker 1: one year one three. I think Hogan won three, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. I don't think it'll ever happen.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Coming up on the program, got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things.
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  Speaker 1: We will recap the Long War and Baseball weekend update,
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  Speaker 1: sh on the new College poll. We'll hear from Jim Schlasnigl,
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  Speaker 1: we'll hear from Will Gasparino kind of broke out with
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  Speaker 1: a big day yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get a lot of other things to get to,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll do that. The NBA regular season is in
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  Speaker 1: the books as well as the NHL, so we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about what's to come with the playoffs, all that and
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  Speaker 1: more here on a Monday afternoon here on thirteen out
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  Speaker 1: of the.
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  Speaker 4: Zone, it's the Craig Way Show with the Voice of
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  Speaker 4: the Texas Longhorns in Hall of Fame Broadcasting.
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  Speaker 1: Craig Way, I knew it left something out right before
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  Speaker 1: the break, tell you what we had coming up on
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  Speaker 1: the program. I said, we're gonna hear from Jim Slasniger,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Will Gasprino, and we will coming
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  Speaker 1: up here in just a few moments.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we have inconceivable this hour as well.
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  Speaker 1: What I left out was to tell you if fresh
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  Speaker 1: sound from Sark long Orne hid football priach Steve Sarkisian
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  Speaker 1: following this morning's workout. We'll hear from sark in both
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  Speaker 1: the three o'clock hour and the four o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Hour of the program.
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  Speaker 1: This afternoon, Let's turn to baseball, and the Long Horn
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  Speaker 1: baseball team toughed its way through a weekend series against Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: Won the opener six to three on a just a
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: brutally cold Friday night here it was it was on Friday,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: was at high seventies, low eighties, I guess on Friday
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: or mid eighties on Friday here in Austin something like that.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: It was really hot here. It was forty three.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: I think it was forty six at first pitch time,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: and dropped a forty three with a fifteen miles per
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: hour wind blowing, so the wind chill was in the
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: was in the low to mid thirties, and it was
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: just very cold even sitting in the broadcast. But because
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: the wind was blowing out of the north, it was
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: kind of blowing right at Keith Morland and me, and
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: it was cold. And Long Orange found away got some
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: clutch hits. Elan Valantis came up with the save off
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: of Jared Spencer, and also Max Grubbs did a really
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: fine job in the Friday game pitching and he he
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: wound up getting the win and Valantis to save in
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Long Orange win sixty three. Saturday game was a little
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: warmer daytime game, and that was a good thing because
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: it was a marathon five hours and twelve minutes.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: It went fifteen innings and.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Kentucky ended up winning it bizarre sequence, and they had
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Texas had a four to three league one to the
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: bottom of the night. Valantis, who had not allowed an
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: earn run, not allowed to run of any kind since
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: in sec play since going to the bullpen, gave up
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: a leadoff homer in the bottom of the night that
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: tied the score, and then the extra inning parade started longwards.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Had a chance strained a runner at third base, I believe,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: in the fourteenth, and so it gets to the bottom
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: of the fifteenth and the first two guys get on
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: with a hit and a hit batter, and then at
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: the plate there's a bunt laid down and Ryland Galvan
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: struggled to pick it up at first out front of
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: the plate and then kind of hurried the throat and
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: it was close to the runner being in the line
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: of the throw, but the ball glanced off Kimball Schusler's glove.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: It goes down the line in the right field, and
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the winning run scores, and so Kentucky wins the game
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: at fifteen innings five to four. We would tell them
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the story on the air because it was the Longhorns
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: longest longest game that they had played by innings in
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: ten years. The last time they had played the game
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: at least fifteen innings happened ten years ago, almost to
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the day. It was like able to third of twenty fifteen,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and it was in still Water and it was against
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma State. And you may have heard, if you were
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: listening over the weekend, you heard me tell this story,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: but I think I've told it on this program in
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the past. That was the day when Shaka Smart was
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: introduced as to who had basketball coach at Texas, and
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I needed to be back here to anchor our coverage
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: of the news conference, which it did, and it was
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: going to be on a Friday.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: However, we set this up.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Where our good friend and colleague David Garrett, who's in
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, would call the game or until I got there, whatever,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: because I had a commercial flight it was going to
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: go in afterwards. So press conference comes and then Shaka
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: comes over and we do the interview. As soon as
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: it was over, I raced to the airport and I
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: catch a flight change at DFW. I land in Oklahoma
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: City around nine fifteen, nine thirty. By the time I
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: get in the rent car to drive to Stillwater, the
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: game is tied. I think it's three to three in
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the ninth inning. So I start driving
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: north to Stillwater, which is about an hour and fifteen
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: minute drive from the airport in Oklahoma City. And as
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I'm driving up there and I'm listening through we edit.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: This was in the days before there were apps on
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: phones that would allow you to listen to games. I
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: had a dial in number where I could listen to
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: what was going on. And I'm listening to Dave call
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: this game, and he's called it all by himself. So
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: it was the ninth, the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, the thirteenth.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I pull in to the parking lot at Alip Reynolds
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Stadium in Stillwater as the game is going to the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: bottom of the thirteenth inning. To get out of the car,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I go up to the boot. Dave is finishing off
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: calling the bottom of the thirteenth. He's called thirteen innings
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: of baseball. He pitches the break, turns to me and goes,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: it's all yours, big boy.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: So then.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I had kept up with it, so I picked it
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: up and then I called five innings of baseball affort.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma State won the game in eighteen innings and won
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that one. There were their other games. Keith Moore than
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I did a game in Manhattan, Kansas when it was
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: thirty eight degrees a chilly night in April back in
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: two thousand and three.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: That went twenty innings.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: It was five to five, and then the Longhorns scored
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: five in the top of the twentieth and Kansas State
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: scored won in the bottom of the twentieth and had the.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Bases loaded when the game ended.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: And then, of course, obviously the twenty five inning regional
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: game which was so memorable in two thousand and nine
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: against Boston College. That was just amazing, that three to
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: two Texas game that night, seven hours and six minutes
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: in that one. So there was all of that, and
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: yet the Longhorns dropped the game on Saturday, came back
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Sunday and and and just kind of toughed their way
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: through it. They got up three to nothing, and it
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: got cut to three to one, then it was four
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: to one. Then Kentucky scored two in the seven to
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: make it four to three. Loghorn's got the RBI double
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: from Schustler in the eight to make it five to three,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and then Kentucky it's the first two guys on in
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the ninth inning, and then afterwards there
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: were runners on the corners. There was a sack fly
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: to make it five to four, and then you heard
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the double play call to end it. So Texas with
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the win five to four, tough their way through it.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: They're not healthy, as we know. Max Blue is out
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: of the lineup. Adrian Rodriguez still has that recovering from
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: that a deemon that he had right near the handmake bone,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: so it limited him. He did come back, but he
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: wasn't able to play, did not play yesterday.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: And.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Really right now is not in a position to be
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: able to swing the bat right handed. He's a switch hitter,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: but really can't bat against left handed pitching right now.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: They hope that that'll be he will have healed well enough, if.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Not by tomorrow night against ut Rio Graham Valley, certainly
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: by Thursday when Auburn comes to town for the Thursday
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Friday Saturday series. So they had those guys get banged up. Also,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: they had a tough time keeping guys healthy on the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: field who were out there playing in the field, and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the other guys got banged up as well. So Ethan
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Mendoza was one who fielding the ball, dived and kind
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: of banged up a shoulder or something. But he finished
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: out the game. And will Gasparino had a big game.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: He went two for four, or excuse me, he went
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: three for four and drove in two runs and scored
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: two runs as well. First, let's hear from long Oorne
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: head coach Jim Slasnagel visiting on the field will keep
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Moreland right after the game.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: There is none of these series in this league that
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: are not down to the wire, down to the pitch,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: down to the moment, And you had guys step up
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: today that hadn't been in that moment.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah we did, and we feel like, I don't know,
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: I think you and I have maybe the only ones
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: that remember that Joe match, but feel feel like a
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: mash unit guys getting hurt and can't do this or
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: can't do that. But uh, really proud of obviously Ruger
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: was outstanding, and super proud of Sonya guy's been buried
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: for a while. Made some changes, been working really hard,
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: has been a great teammate, has never pounded and made
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: some really good pitches today.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: And then then the other part of that is getting
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: those hits at opportune times. I mean, obviously not pounding
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: the ball this weekend, but right time, big hits will.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: They had struggled some in the weekend, comes up with
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: two gigantic knocks today.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: He did, ye had too.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: And then I mean Flores and him, the back, back
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: to back two out hits got us the first three runs.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: And you know, considering where we are with our injuries,
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: you know those any way we're really going to score
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: is if everybody else gets on base and the very
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: best players drive them in. I mean that's really our
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: lineup isn't that deep at the moment. So we need
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: those guys who were at the bottom to get on
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: base and then the guys like Mendo's and Flores to
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: drive him in.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you're looking at Ethan. He's like a
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: mash unit today. Man, I feel I hope he's okay.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: But I just moved him a little bit to the
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: pool side because Bell hits so many balls in the
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: four hole and we're throwing them off speed pitches. I
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: had just moved them two steps. If I don't move him,
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: it's four to sixty three that will play. But that's
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: how that's how crazy this game is.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: The Last thing I have for you is we were
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: at the halfway points.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: You get to go back home. Now you have two
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: consecutive series at home. It's gonna be nice to get
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: back in the yard.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: It's gonna be good to be back in Dishfalk and
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: some good weather and hopefully we can get some guys
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: healthy and but certainly need all the fans.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: To come out. Thanks for taking the time for congratulations.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: All right, there is Jim's Lasnager would keep moreland after
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the game. And yeah, Texas is in sole possession at
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: the halfway mark of the SEC conference season. They're thirteen
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and two in conference player Arkansas dropped two out of
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: three of the weekend at Georgia, and it also dropped
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the Razorbacks from number one in the D one Baseball
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: of rankings to number two. And Texas is number one
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: in the nation in the poll right now. We'll run
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: down more of the poll later on because it is
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: as you might imagine, SEC heavy up. Next, we bring inconceivable.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Here in the Monday afternoon, I'm thirteen under the zone.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Glad to have you with us on this Monday post
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: masters pre NBA playoffs, in the midst of long worn
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: baseball season. They hit the exact halfway mark of SEC
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: play How about this a team that was picked depending
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: on which poll and preseason prognostication and consulted, Texas was
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: either seventh or eighth in the preseason picks, and here
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: they are number one, not only in the conference, but
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: in the latest polls number one in the nation. More
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: on that. At a moment, I we did inconceivable, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: when we did it, I always have a fast food
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: update in there. I neglected to mention the photo tweeted
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: to us friends CB. The twitters have arned who sent
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: us the photo of the brand new delicacy at Toronto
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays home games, Cotton candy French Fries.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: No, GAM's not having it. Not up on the cotton candy.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Fries no, because that kind of gets into my deal
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: about mixing the too diametrically a post taste. I don't
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I don't really don't want candy mixed with my salty
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: snack stuff anymore than I want fruit with my meat.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I don't. You know. I can deal with.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Slice of pineapple on top of a glazed hand that's okay.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: But I'm not big into things like mango chutney, glazed
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. It's just it's not for me to
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: put on top of you know, some meat dish you
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: have that's just not my Yeah, just just trying a
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: little too hard, trying to get something else there.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: I have a friend who's going to be up in
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Arlington actually for a work conference, and there're things. I
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: was going to a ranger scheme and I was like,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: if you go, you got to get the boomstick.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: And he's like, what is it?
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Don't don't ask, just go look for the boomstick in
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: order to split it with some of your co workers.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: All right, so you can get the one that's got
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the cheeseburger in it too, you know, you have that one,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: you have that that.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Really ridiculous one. I'm hoping he does that. I don't.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: I don't know if he will, but I'm hoping he does.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: And then I can report back on whatever well with
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: a picture of it, so we'll see.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: You know what a Dodger fan I am a big Dodger.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Dodgers are in Arlington this weekend. Yeah, you going up, Well,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: we've got long worn baseball. Of course, Friday and Saturday
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Sunday would be open, but Sunday is Easter Sunday, and
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I have a pledge not only to my wife, but
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: to my grandkids and to her grandson and her daughter
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and all that. So we're double teeming metroplex stuff like
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: we do with Easter Easter breakfast slash brunch with my
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: side of the family, my kids, my grandkids, and then
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: at Easter Sunday dinner over and playing on with her.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: So I'm passing on Dodgers Rangers try to catch up
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: to them later in the NBA playoffs get underway. Okay,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Your team, the Oklahoma City Thunder finished sixty eight and fourteen,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: best record in all the NBA. They'll have home field
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: advantage throughout a home court advantage throughout the playoffs. So
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: if I asked you, are you taking the Thunder or
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the field? Who would you take to win or make
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the fine? Yeah, to win it, to win it, I'm
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: taking the field, Okay, But you do feel good about
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the Thunder reaching the NBA finals as the one seed.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: No, I don't.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: All right, who bothers you? Lakers bother me? Okay, number
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: three seeds?
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: What they have with.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Luca and Lebron and Austin Reeves, I think their offense
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: is really good in matchup Bull against the Thunder in
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: my opinion, even I mean, the West is so tough. Honestly,
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: I think it will be between OKAC and LA in
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: the Western Conference finals. But you know, looking at that
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: second round matchup between Denver and the Clippers, we'll see Denver,
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: you know, they fired Mike Malone, going to three game
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: win streak, Clippers coming in on an eight game win streak.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: But of course, you know Los Angeles health wise, and
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know if Denver has the shooting to make it.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: But I think it'll be Boston. Okay, see, but honestly,
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: I could I can't believe I'm saying that I could
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: see it being Boston La Craig.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, So you don't have faith in the Cavaliers then
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: to reach the final.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: No, I think Boston is the best team in the league.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Ring Okay, all right. One thing I like on NBA
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: dot Com. They have a like a flow chart with
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: kind of a bracket. They have arrows all over. It
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: looks like a big algebraic equation. So I really really
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: going on, Yeah, that's cool. Of course the team I
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: root for if reluctantly right now since the trade the Mavericks.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: They're the tendenc They just creaked in. Yeah they got in,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: slipped in. Yeah, they're in the play in. They go
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: to Sacramento and play on Wednesday night. If they win
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and stay alive, lose, then they're done. If they win,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: then they play the loser. This is one thing I
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: like about the play and is kind of is kind
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: of weird with how they do it. But they play
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the loser of the seven v. Eight matchup, which is
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night the Warriors and Grizzlies, which is in Oakland.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: So if here's the weird thing. If the Warriors win
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: that game, they automatically go in as the seventh seed
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: and would play Houston. Right, they automatically go in at
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: the seventh seed. Okay, if they lose, and that would mean,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: by the way, the Mavericks would then have to travel
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: to Memphis and play the Grizzlies if the Warriors were
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: to lose. If they were to lose, the Grizzlies would
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: be the seven. They play the Rockets, and then the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Mavericks would only need to take a bus ride from
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Sacramento to Oakland. It's about an hour to go and
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: play Golden State. After that, who knows. And then in
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the East the play in is the Bulls in the heat,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: the nine and the ten.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: The winner.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Gets to play the loser of the seven versus eight
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: matchup the Magic and the Hawks. I heard a lot
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: of people saying the Hawks are a dangerous eight seed.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Do you see that? I could see it. I could
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: see them beating Orlando because the Magic's offense has just
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: just been abysmal.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Towards but not taking out Boston. Yeah, no, I think
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Boston's gonna have a really good path. I mean, honestly,
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: if I'm a Knicks fan, I'm very concerned about playing
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Detroit in the first round. I mean, the Troit's just that,
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: you know, that young team, no nonsense, well, actually a
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: lot a lot of nonsense, especially Isaiah Stewart and Ron Allen,
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: who are a dangerous one to two punch and I
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: mean literally they might punch you on the basketball court.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: I'm you know, Milwaukee has the five seed. If they can.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: You know, I know, offensively they aren't great, and you know,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: with Dame and his clot but still Giannis in the
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: seven game series, that's tough. But I just think Boston's
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: playing great basketball, Craig. They've been in the finals, it
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: feels like a million times the last decade. They are
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: the defending champs since.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: The All Star Break.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot of mentors out there that
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: have them as you know, the best offense and defense
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: and the league. And I think they're locked in and
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: I don't think they're too afraid of whether it's gonna
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: be Orlando or Atlanta. And so I think Boston's gonna
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: gonna have a real, real easy path.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: And once they get to the conference final, the Knicks
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: of the three seed, do you see them beating Detroit?
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I would take Detroit right now, Okay, all right, and
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: you like the Bucks the five seed over the four seed.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Indiana, Give me Indiana. I know, I've just kind of
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: gassed at Milwaukee. I just think with Lillard not playing,
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: give me Indiana.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: And in the West Nuggets are Clippers. That's gonna be
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: a really, really good series.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: I think Denver in seven, just because you're banking on
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard staying healthy. Now, if you guarantee, like, hey,
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: he's gonna be all to play all seven games, then
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: give me the Clippers.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: But because I don't know.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: That, I'll take Demns all right, And you like the
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Lakers to beat the Timberwolves.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: They have such a good path.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: They get the Timberwolves, who I know ant's been playing good,
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: but with Julius Randall, I'm not afraid of them, and
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: then they're gonna play either a really young Rockets team
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: in the second round possibly or a Warriors team that
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: they match up pretty well against, or Memphis, but I
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: don't think Memphis will find a way to make the
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: second round of the playoffs. So Lakers have such a
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: good path. And then they get the conference finals against whoever.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: You know, they're gonna have all the confidence in the world.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: So if I'm hearing what you're saying, it sounds like
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: you're saying the NBA Finals are going to be Celtics Lakers.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: I think so, Craig, But of course you know, I'm
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: an Okac fan, so I have a lot of PTSD.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: So the numbers are saying, okay, see, but you know,
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: when the thunder Lakers just played each other a couple
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: of weeks ago and awful, awful in Los Angeles, and
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: then they did beat them the second time. But you know,
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Luca was ejected with the Lakers up by one, so
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: you know, he can play revision his history there. You know,
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: maybe Lakers win be okay, see wins, but I'm kind
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: of leaning towards the Lakers now. Of course, you know,
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: Lebron at forty years old, who knows, you know, with
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: seven game series, maybe his body does not hold up,
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: and the Lakers depth finally, you know, rears his ugly head.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: But you know, I'm kind of liking the Lakers, man.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, Luca and Reeves are so spicy offensively, and
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: then you just have Lebron James, you know, possibly the
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: second greatest basketball player of all time, just chilling at
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: forty years old, right there.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so we'll see how all of that
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: turns out. Probably I'll also solicit some NBA opinion from
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: our good friend Bill Shooning, who just completed his twenty
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: four year run as to play by play voice of
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs. His final game was yesterday, a
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: home win for them, so congratulations to Bill.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Was a great, great run.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: And we'll have Bill join us on the show to
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: talk some playoffs and talk some other stuff because he's
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: got the rest of his life to figure out.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I don't even know.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Well, Jerry has most of that store. She she has
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff figured out for him. So
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: that's a good thing, all right. Up next, we're gonna
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: hear from long worn shied football card Steve Sarkesian when
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: we continue on thirteen under the Zone