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Previewing MLB Opening Day and the Sweet Sixteen with Gene Watson and Vic Schaefer · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Good to be back in the studio.
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  Speaker 2: The producer, of course, is Cameron d Park of the
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  Speaker 2: d On The birth certificate stands for Dallas as in
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  Speaker 2: big name for his favorite pro football team. Who's been
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  Speaker 2: kind of quiet of late, but when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: free agency stuff, they're usually pretty quiet anyway. Do not
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  Speaker 2: ask me when the last time I was in the studio.
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  Speaker 2: I might be at a loss to be able to
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  Speaker 2: remember the exact date that.
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  Speaker 3: I was in there.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a bit a while, a couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 2: maybe a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 4: At least, and the two of us in the studio together.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe longer, maybe close to a month because of when
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  Speaker 2: you were out when I was out on the road.
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  Speaker 4: But no matter, probably has to be early February. I
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  Speaker 4: think early February.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Really then yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Wow?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, could be back in the house. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 2: it's a yacht rock Wednesday, so we bring you some
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  Speaker 2: yacht rock return cuts.
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  Speaker 5: We do that.
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  Speaker 4: We've got a lot of things to get to on
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  Speaker 4: the program today.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, we spent a lot of time yesterday, even though
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  Speaker 2: it was out of the ballpark at UFC, just farg
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  Speaker 2: Field and previewing the Texas Sham Houston game, which was
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  Speaker 2: run ruled.
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  Speaker 4: The Long Orange won that one thirteen to three.
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  Speaker 2: But we spent a lot of time talking about the
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  Speaker 2: new hire for the University of Texas, Sean Millers, the
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  Speaker 2: new men's basketball coach. There was some talk obviously about
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  Speaker 2: the women Texas women's team, which leaves tomorrow, and again
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  Speaker 2: we're one day here in the studio and then Cam
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  Speaker 2: and I'll be out tomorrow back on the plane wing
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  Speaker 2: to Birmingham. Do we have the zimbel hours tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Tomorrow, Friday, and then Craig. If they have a good
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  Speaker 4: trip in Birmingham and win both games, you go straight
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  Speaker 4: to Florida. I'll come back Tuesday or Wednesday. So this
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  Speaker 4: could be our last show in the studio together for
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  Speaker 4: a few days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what Cam is referring to when we were
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  Speaker 2: told this yesterday that if the Texas women win their
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  Speaker 2: two games Saturday afternoon at two thirty in the Sweet sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: they play Tennessee, you can hear it right here on
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  Speaker 2: thirteen under the zone. We'll bring you the women's game Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Because Long Worn Baseball will shift over to one oh
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  Speaker 2: three point one FM. They'll flip flop spots. The reason
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  Speaker 2: for that is because the long Horn Baseball game doesn't
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  Speaker 2: start until four o'clock on Saturday, and this is the
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  Speaker 2: first weekend for Round Rock Express Baseball. And then what
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  Speaker 2: the Express played what six o'clock? I believe something like
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  Speaker 2: that on Friday Saturday Saturday. I think it's about six
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  Speaker 2: fifty okay, okay, so it would be an overlap.
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  Speaker 4: So the point is at all this so it's it's
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  Speaker 4: going to be a switch.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Texas women's games in Birmingham Sweet sixteen
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  Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon against Tennessee and if they advance to the
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  Speaker 2: Elite eight on Monday night at six o'clock, both of
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  Speaker 2: those games would be here on thirteen under the zone
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  Speaker 2: long Worn Baseball. Throughout the course of the weekend Friday,
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  Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday, all three of those games in Columbia
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  Speaker 2: will be on one of three point ONEFM and CAM.
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  Speaker 2: I do want and mean to call it to your attention.
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  Speaker 2: There is some discussion about a possible Saturday doubleheader. They're
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  Speaker 2: very worried about rain on Sunday in Columbia. We've had
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  Speaker 2: a couple of times with Startville with no game Saturday
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  Speaker 2: in a doubleheader Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: And then the home opener was canceled against Houston. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I remember whether having this big of an impact. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: of course, you probably no better than I do, but
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  Speaker 4: it was like, man, the war can't get a three
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  Speaker 4: D game weekend to save alive.
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  Speaker 2: The worst I can remember of all of these types
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  Speaker 2: of things was it was either the last year that
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  Speaker 2: Augie Gurta was the coach or the year before it.
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  Speaker 2: It was either twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen. They were
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  Speaker 2: playing a weekend series at Kansas and we got let's see,
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think if they got some of the
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  Speaker 2: game in on Friday and we got the whole game
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  Speaker 2: in on Friday, I guess it was. And then they
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  Speaker 2: were going to do a doubleheader on Saturday because they
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  Speaker 2: were worried about the rain.
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  Speaker 1: And then they said.
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  Speaker 2: We got to the ballpark and they were getting ready
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  Speaker 2: to go and then they went no, we're not playing.
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  Speaker 2: We're like what, And then we'll go back to the
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  Speaker 2: hotel and then we get word no, no, no, we are playing.
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  Speaker 2: Came back and then played the game Saturday and played
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  Speaker 2: against It was crazy and it was off and on
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  Speaker 2: rain and things like that, so it does happen, but
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  Speaker 2: in any event, so they have the Long Worn Baseball
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  Speaker 2: team has games scheduled for Columbia, Missouri to play Miszoo
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  Speaker 2: on Friday evening at six, Saturday afternoon at four, Sunday
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  Speaker 2: afternoon at one, and however the configuration ultimately turns out
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  Speaker 2: if they do out of concern for the possibility of
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  Speaker 2: a rain out on Sunday, go ahead and decide to
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  Speaker 2: play a Saturday doublehead or whatever the configuration is. You'll
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  Speaker 2: hear those games on one oh three point one FM,
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  Speaker 2: and then of course you can connect to it through
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  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. And you know it's on the Texas
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  Speaker 2: long Wrns app, so you'll be able to hear it
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  Speaker 2: through through apps and online at Texas Longhorns dot com,
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  Speaker 2: so you'll be able to get the games. But for
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  Speaker 2: radio purposes it'll be on one of three point one FM.
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  Speaker 2: The Texas Women will be Saturday and then Monday off
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  Speaker 2: of that Round Rock Express Friday night, Saturday night, and
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  Speaker 2: then on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's the other thing.
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  Speaker 2: If if the Texas Women do win their Sweet sixteen
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  Speaker 2: game on Saturday afternoon, they would play in the Elite
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  Speaker 2: eight against either Notre Dame or TCU on Monday evening
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  Speaker 2: at six if they should win both games, when the
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  Speaker 2: Saturday game over Tennessee and then the Monday game against
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  Speaker 2: the TCU Notre Dame winner. If they win both of
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  Speaker 2: those games, they qualify for the Final Four. The NCAA
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  Speaker 2: has mandated that all of their teams have to be
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  Speaker 2: in by Tuesday night. So Texas, instead of coming home
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  Speaker 2: after the game Monday night, has been told by the NCAAA,
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  Speaker 2: just go on to Tampa, so it would stay Monday
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  Speaker 2: night in Birmingham and then just go down to Tampa
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  Speaker 2: on Tuesday and then have some practices down there before
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  Speaker 2: they have the game, which in the Final Four would
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  Speaker 2: be on Friday night. So that's what Cameron was referring
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  Speaker 2: to about saying that it might be gone for ten
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  Speaker 2: to eleven days if it turns out that way.
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  Speaker 1: Makes it difficult for packing.
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  Speaker 4: Purposes, Yeah, no doubt for you. I mean, yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: and do you bring a swimsuit like I mean, you're
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  Speaker 4: to be in Tampa. It's gon't be good weather. I
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  Speaker 4: hadn't even thought about that kind of stuff, but who knows.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, All right, coming up on the program this afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: we'll recap the long run baseball game from last name.
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  Speaker 2: We're closing in on Sweet sixteen for men. Starting tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about that. We have inconceivable this hour that
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  Speaker 2: that will come your way. Three o'clock hour, we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: major League Baseball. Opening Day is tomorrow, and since we're
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  Speaker 2: traveling tomorrow, I couldn't wear a Dodger shirt tomorrow, so.
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  Speaker 4: I'm wearing it. You can wear a Dodger shirt.
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like a better repetic girls and the
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  Speaker 2: team where are like in their pajamas that they were
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of but it's burn are a lot of that.
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  Speaker 4: It's true. So if you wear your Dodger jersey, I'll
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  Speaker 4: wear my Cory cigaretus.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, what I should have worn.
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  Speaker 2: I should have worn the Dodger jersey today and then
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  Speaker 2: just wear the polo tomorrow. That's what it should have done.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think it threw. I just grabbed his shirt anyway.
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  Speaker 2: So Opening day is tomorrow. Geene Watson from the Chicago
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  Speaker 2: White Sox front office joins us as he does every week,
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  Speaker 2: to talk Major League Baseball. He'll join us in the
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  Speaker 2: three o'clock hour. Here we are on the verge of
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  Speaker 2: the real opening down. I know the Dodgers and Gumps
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  Speaker 2: played two games in Japan, and you know the Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: won both those games. They got Mookie Betts back in
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  Speaker 2: the lineup last night after he had all that intestinalation.
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  Speaker 2: He says he feels fine now. He lost fifteen pounds,
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  Speaker 2: just could not keep any food down. And that was
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  Speaker 2: before the team went to Japan. It wasn't like, oh
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  Speaker 2: I got a hold of some bad sushi or something. No,
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  Speaker 2: it was before they even left the US when that happened.
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  Speaker 2: So he went over there with him at first and
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  Speaker 2: was so sick they just sent him home.
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  Speaker 1: But he did play last night.
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  Speaker 2: I think he went out for three in the exhibition
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  Speaker 2: finale against the Angels, and it was good to see
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  Speaker 2: Dustin May on the mound, big old ging out there
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  Speaker 2: throwing again, coming off Tommy John surgery. So we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: major League Baseball with Jeene Watson in the three o'clock
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  Speaker 2: out four o'clock hour, we shift college baseball and talk
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  Speaker 2: about that with Ty Harrington, our contributor and broadcast compadre.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll talk from college baseball. But as always, we're
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  Speaker 2: coming up a recap of the long Horn baseball and
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk a little bit about it at first. Where
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  Speaker 2: the long Oarns are in the grand scheme of all that.
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  Speaker 2: But we've got a lot to get to. There is
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  Speaker 2: after all football spring practice going on. There was pro
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  Speaker 2: timing day yesterday, there's basketball to get to the floor.
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  Speaker 1: Is yours as well?
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  Speaker 2: To contact us with your questions here on Wednesday afternoon
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  Speaker 2: on thirteen under the zone. Long Horns were not fools
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  Speaker 2: last night They won run ruled Sam Houston thirteen to
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  Speaker 2: three was the final. They hit three home runs in
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  Speaker 2: the game. Two went into the Yetti yard, won by
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Flores to give him the four to one league.
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  Speaker 2: When they scored four runs in the third inning. Then
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  Speaker 2: uh Adrian Rodriguez hit his fifth home run. The magic
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  Speaker 2: number was five last night. Jalen Flors hit his fifth,
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  Speaker 2: Adrian Rodriguez hit his fifth, Will Gasparino hit his fifth.
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  Speaker 4: All hit their fifth home runs of the season last night.
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  Speaker 2: A designated start for Kate Being who went four innings
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  Speaker 2: and got the win, and Jason Flores and Aiden Moffatt
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  Speaker 2: got out there and got a chance to show what
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  Speaker 2: he could do. You got to strike out on five pitches,
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  Speaker 2: which was good because Moffitt had only had one other
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  Speaker 2: appearance at the transfer and he had given up a
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  Speaker 2: run without getting an out. And you know what that means,
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  Speaker 2: cam when you give up run or runs and you
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  Speaker 2: don't record it out and you leave the game. You
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  Speaker 2: know what your eer is?
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  Speaker 4: Ninety nine?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well they put ninety nine, but it's infinity really
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  Speaker 2: because there's no way to measure it because you didn't
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  Speaker 2: record it out. So they put ninety nine on there.
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  Speaker 2: But he dropped it from infinity to twenty seven.
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  Speaker 4: That's good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So it was a big jomb that's good for
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  Speaker 2: for Aiden Moffatt last night. So the Long Words got
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  Speaker 2: to win there now twenty and three and after the game,
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  Speaker 2: our Keith Mortal was down on the field first with
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  Speaker 2: head coach Jim Schlasnagel ended.
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  Speaker 6: Up stands three and two of the homestand he had
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  Speaker 6: to come back in the two days.
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  Speaker 7: But it was nice to see guys come out today.
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  Speaker 6: I thought they were really good quality at bats early
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  Speaker 6: in the game.
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  Speaker 7: Start to set the tone of the ball games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really did.
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  Speaker 8: Flora's's homer, you know, stretched the lead, Bang was stowing strikes.
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  Speaker 8: They're super aggressive at home play. He was, he was
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  Speaker 8: throwing strikes. They were getting some hits. But I thought
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  Speaker 8: Flora's homer was really good. And again we did we
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  Speaker 8: put together bats, but a good hit and run ended
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  Speaker 8: up being a triples. A lot of good things tonight.
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  Speaker 8: Flora's were getting him in the game. Aiden Moffitt was outstanding.
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  Speaker 8: He's been he's he's been doing that in practice. He's
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  Speaker 8: been throwing strikes, so we wanted to get him in
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  Speaker 8: the game. That was kind of the perfect scenario. And
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  Speaker 8: and then to get Matt Scott and and showing their
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  Speaker 8: first college at bats.
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  Speaker 1: It's always great.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that is always fun. But that's where I was
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  Speaker 7: gonna go.
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  Speaker 6: I thought, being you, you said in pregame, seas, I'd
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  Speaker 6: love the game two four.
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  Speaker 1: See what he looks like.
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  Speaker 8: I thought he was really good in the strike zone. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I mean, he's just what you want on Tuesday, right.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, you hope that at some point the stuff
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  Speaker 8: takes a little bit of a jump. But the first
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  Speaker 8: game of the season, we're excited about him throwing ninety
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  Speaker 8: four but he's doing right and the guys we're in
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  Speaker 8: on the first bit, so you can't right now, you
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  Speaker 8: can't have your cake and eat it.
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  Speaker 1: Too, I guess.
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  Speaker 6: But he's he he did exactly what we.
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  Speaker 1: Needed him to do tonight.
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  Speaker 6: Now I'm gonna go on the road again the second
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  Speaker 6: time in the SEC.
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  Speaker 7: Doesn't matter what the records is. When you go on
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  Speaker 7: the on the road to the SEC.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 8: And there's a lot of challenges, you know in Columbia.
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  Speaker 8: I've never been there personally, but I've watched the games
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  Speaker 8: and I've heard all the stories about you know there
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  Speaker 8: the weather and uh, you know this's you're it's a
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  Speaker 8: it's a mental challenge in the opposite direction in terms
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  Speaker 8: of you're playing a good team, you're playing an SEC team. Crowd,
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  Speaker 8: atmosphere different than what we're used to, so we're going
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  Speaker 8: to have to create kind of our own energy and
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  Speaker 8: do well. The weather's not supposed to be great. I
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  Speaker 8: don't think we could be playing two saturdays. So we
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  Speaker 8: got a couple good days of practice and you ready
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  Speaker 8: to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So there it is from Jim Schlastnagle. That's Keith
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  Speaker 2: and I were both a little bit surprised he never
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  Speaker 2: He never took a team to Columbia, Missouri, and of
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  Speaker 2: course when he was coaching, when he started coaching the
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  Speaker 2: Big Twelve, then they didn't have a trip to Columbia
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  Speaker 2: before Missouri left the league for the for the SEC,
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  Speaker 2: and he never took one of his UNLV teams there,
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  Speaker 2: so he hadn't been to Columbia before. That's how I
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  Speaker 2: was saying to Keith. Well, Keith was saying, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: a home run hitters ballpark. It's a friendly, at least
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  Speaker 2: it was the last time Texas played there, and I
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  Speaker 2: said yes. And they still have the indoor football practice
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  Speaker 2: facility beyond the right field wall and even have a
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  Speaker 2: four to twenty sign up well up elevated up on
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  Speaker 2: the roof right near where the dome part of the
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  Speaker 2: roof meets the side wall. Beyond the right filled wall
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  Speaker 2: in bright yellow. There's a four to twenty side there.
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  Speaker 2: Some logorns have not hit that side exactly. They've hit
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  Speaker 2: that facility before in the past, you know, launching one there.
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  Speaker 2: It's I remember Dustin Maeski hitting one up there. Left
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  Speaker 2: handed hitters with power. I mean, this has Max Blue
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  Speaker 2: written all over it. If there's one in on him
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  Speaker 2: and he turns on one like that. He could crush
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  Speaker 2: one out there like that, so they'll be there now.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of home runs, I mentioned it was the fifth
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  Speaker 2: home un of the year, both for Adrian Rodriguez and
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  Speaker 2: also for will Gasparino uh and the fifth home run
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  Speaker 2: of the season for Jalen Flores. Ethan Mendoza did not
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  Speaker 2: have a home run, but he had a couple of hits.
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  Speaker 2: And remember Mendoza had a fourteen game hitting streak snapped
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  Speaker 2: in the Friday night loss to LSU, and he came
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  Speaker 2: back when he hit Saturday a couple of hit Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: He had two hits last night, so he's, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: back on the wagon again and visiting. Would keep Morland
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  Speaker 2: after the game about it so many times.
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  Speaker 6: It's mentally to come back out when you, you know, have
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  Speaker 6: such an emotional weekend like against LSU, you start to
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  Speaker 6: stepping tone in.
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  Speaker 4: This game early.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I mean, we don't really talk about
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  Speaker 9: the weekend anymore. It's already over. In the past, we
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  Speaker 9: tried to take it one day at a time and
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  Speaker 9: one game at a time. Every day's opening day, So
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  Speaker 9: that's what's my mindsett of coming in every day all right.
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: Now, you personally brush at the fourteen games in history,
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: but you jump right back on the wagon.
• 16:36
  Speaker 9: Now, Yeah, I mean the hitting streak was cool whatever,
• 16:39
  Speaker 9: But I mean I'm sorry new one.
• 16:41
  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: I mean I didn't really.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Keep up with it.
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: I was just trying to get.
• 16:46
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I was just trying to get on base anyway
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: I could.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: And I just I mean, yeah, that's basically it.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: Now, talk to just about the infield defense. I know
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: y'all been working parking and every day watching you see
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: him pretty game.
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: Just talk about that cohesiveness of what's going on.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: In the infield.
• 17:00
  Speaker 9: Now, Yeah, I think we I mean, our mindset is
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: just like one pitch at the time, so I mean
• 17:04
  Speaker 9: every single pitch we're trying to lock in. I think
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: we do a good job of talking in thenfield, and
• 17:09
  Speaker 9: then that keeps us loose and just like uh, I guess,
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: attentive to the game.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: So I mean too, we also do great work for Chilowitzki.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: He's also helps us a lot.
• 17:19
  Speaker 9: I mean, it's just, hey, we're doing great right now
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: and we're trying to keep on going.
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: Congratulation some of the victory.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Thanks for visiting you, all right, So there. It is
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Ethan Mendoza who's been a really really nice addition with
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: what he's done the transfer from Arizona State or Native
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Texan from South Llaite Carol and he is hitting close
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: to four hundred right now for the team. So the
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Long Orange will head for Columbia Missouri this weekend. Missouri
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: has lost six straight conference games to open conference play,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: so oh and six to start off conference play. They
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: did win last night their border battle with Illinois over
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: in the Minor League Ballpark in Illinois. They won that
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: one eleven and nine, and Texas A and M, which
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: is also win six in the league, got healthy at
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Houston Christian's expense, seven to two. The other to six
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: team in the league is Florida and they had been
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: ranked until Georgia swept them in Gainesville and put forty
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: runs on the board in the process. They scored eight
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: runs Friday, seventeen, Saturday, and fifteen Sunday.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: They run ruled the Gators.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: On Sunday, Florida got up on Florida State played a
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Tuesday night non conference game and it was a walk
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: off grand Slam for the Seminoles. So Florida is kind
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: of struggling right now, trying to find their way to it.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Same with Kentucky, Whi's lost a Xavier I mentioned on
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: the air last night, Cam Xavier may have lost its
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: basketball coach, but they didn't lose the baseball game to Kentucky.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: They won in Lexington last night by a score of
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: nine to three. How does this sit with you? You grew
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: up in Charlotte. You Remembering's College now Queen's University there
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: in Charlotte, right.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: I had some buddies that played soccer and across the
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Queens And.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're transitional Division one and they got some lessons learned.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: They played Tennessee last night and lost fourteen to.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Three, but.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: They're transitional Division one. Oklahoma wanted or Robert handily and
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: LSU run Louisiana Lafayette. So those things happened. But Texas,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: we head for Columbia to take on the Missouri Tigers
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: this weekend. Now I wanted to Oh, there was one
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: other game I wanted to mention. Let's just say say
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: that you had either not migrated to Texas to go
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: to college, or having gone to college in Texas and
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: a tanger degree from the Versity of Texas then decided
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: to pursue your professional interest back in your home state.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: And let's say you were back in Charlotte and you
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: were working a regular daytime job and not traveling out
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: of town, and say you had like a regular day shift,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: that sort of thing. If all of that had been
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: in play, would you have been at Do they still
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: call it Knight's No, No, it's called it's called Truest
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Field in Charlotte now used to be Knight's Castle, the
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: minor league ballpark there, or they got a new one downtown.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, BB and T. I think it might be now Truest.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Will you think you would have been there last night
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: to watch North Carolina play South Carolina in the Border Battle?
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: I had a friend who was there. Was he last night?
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: The top twenty five baseball team? Heck of a ballgame,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: heck of a ball ballpark? Yeah?
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: North Carolina beat South Carolina in Charlotte thirteen to eight
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: in the Battle of the Carolinas. They said, But you
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: got me thinking about you last night. I thought, if
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: you were settled there in the Charlotte area and work
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: in a regular day job, or work at a job
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: that had that evening open, would you've gone out to
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: watch that ball game.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: If I was living downtown. Possibly, yeah, possibly because it
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: is a downtown ballpark. Yeah, yeah, it's a great place
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: to catch a ball game. Yeah, the White Sox triplay affiliate.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: But yeah, absolutely. I mean Gino probably spend some time.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: He has spent some time there. We'll ask him about
• 21:25
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• 22:05
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're going to visit with Gene Watson, the
• 23:02
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• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball tomorrow. However, tomorrow, the Texas women's basketball
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: team least for Birmingham, Alabama to set their sights on
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: the Sweet sixteen opponents, the Tennessee Lady Valls, who they
• 23:16
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• 23:19
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• 23:21
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• 23:25
  Speaker 2: from Loghorn's head coach Vick Shaffer.
• 23:27
  Speaker 11: Well versus, it's just a great week to be along. Man,
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: it's really exciting time. I'm excited for our players coming
• 23:36
  Speaker 11: off of a great weekend. Appreciate all our fans. Really
• 23:40
  Speaker 11: proud of nine thousand showing up at a one o'clock
• 23:43
  Speaker 11: game on a Monday afternoon. I thought we were going
• 23:45
  Speaker 11: to have to have a businessman luncheon or have a
• 23:48
  Speaker 11: couple of kegs out front for students, but man, everybody
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: just was so special, and obviously our kids were really
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: special as well. Proud of them back to back years
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: now where they've been able to win thirty three games
• 24:04
  Speaker 11: and get through some injury. So excited about our opportunity
• 24:09
  Speaker 11: coming up this weekend. This is why we do what
• 24:11
  Speaker 11: we do right. We want to We want to get
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: to this weekend and these games coming up, and obviously
• 24:17
  Speaker 11: everybody's really good this time of year that's left. Obviously
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: our league is so well represented. Iron sharpens iron, y'all,
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: and uh man, this this group, uh these teams. Alabama
• 24:30
  Speaker 11: could easily be in this group. Losing in double overtime
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: at Maryland. We've just got a tremendous league, and I
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: want to wish everybody in our league the very best
• 24:40
  Speaker 11: as well. But man, I am super excited about our
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: team and our kids, and so we'll have I'm sure
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: we'll have a really good day today. We have lots
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: of film. Uh you know, Blair had the scout the
• 24:52
  Speaker 11: first time we played them. Everybody's kind of got their
• 24:56
  Speaker 11: marching orders for the next three teams and uh, She's like,
• 24:59
  Speaker 11: how many how many hours have I got? Like how
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: much time do I have for film today? How much
• 25:03
  Speaker 11: time tomorrow? I'm like, well, we got all week really,
• 25:06
  Speaker 11: so whatever we need to show. But you know it's
• 25:11
  Speaker 11: everybody gets better and throughout the course of the season,
• 25:13
  Speaker 11: and uh, you know again, I think we do a
• 25:16
  Speaker 11: good job as anybody with our team continue to improve.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: Just like Tennessee.
• 25:20
  Speaker 11: So again, just really excited about our team, excited about
• 25:25
  Speaker 11: this week and the opportunity.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Having Rory back this year. You didn't have answer is
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: it for her to be able.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: To come back?
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: Well, I can tell you when you wake up in
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: the morning.
• 25:34
  Speaker 11: Another Rory Harmon and Madison Booker, those two are where
• 25:38
  Speaker 11: we're starting at guard.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: You know, it's you'd have to ask and I have
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: to ask myself sometimes you have to coach, what are
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: you worried about?
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: Like, there's got to be some comfort in that, and
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: there absolutely is. But you're so excited for her because
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: she did miss this time last year, and uh, it
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: just pained her, you know, to to have to sit
• 25:58
  Speaker 11: there and watch it.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: But yeah, she was like she is.
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: She was so selfless and giving of herself to Madison
• 26:06
  Speaker 11: and and helping her, you know, obviously understand and performing
• 26:10
  Speaker 11: her new role. And but it just really having both
• 26:14
  Speaker 11: those kids again with Rory, when you go into a
• 26:17
  Speaker 11: game like this where Tennessee really wants to speed you
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: up and try to turn you over, man, it's great
• 26:22
  Speaker 11: to have two ball handlers like those two out there
• 26:25
  Speaker 11: on the floor and you can throw in a brewn
• 26:27
  Speaker 11: of preston with them. There's really some comfort in that.
• 26:31
  Speaker 11: So excited for Rory. You know, she's she's y'all see it.
• 26:38
  Speaker 11: I mean, you look at her playing right now. You
• 26:39
  Speaker 11: never know a year ago she had a devastating injury.
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: And the more and more that I look into this, y'all,
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: and I don't mean to diminish any capacity of what
• 26:52
  Speaker 11: happens when you have.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: A kid get hurt.
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: But the more and more I look into it, it's
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: the rehab, it's the kid, and it's the people that's.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: Doing the rehab.
• 27:02
  Speaker 11: And Rory, I asked her, yes, she came by the off.
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: I said, does your need even bother you? She goes, no,
• 27:09
  Speaker 11: doesn't bother me at all, have no pain nothing. It's
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: it's her And if you would have seen her how
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: committed she was and every day and people have to
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: tell her, hey, you need to back off, you need
• 27:21
  Speaker 11: to take a day off.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: But that's the commitment of this kid.
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: We were joking because you know, we scrimmaged USC back
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: in October, and she actually scrimmaged in that game at
• 27:32
  Speaker 11: seven and a half, eight months you know, post surgery,
• 27:36
  Speaker 11: and she.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: Was we were talking to you. We were joking, said,
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: you know, I was probably a step slow.
• 27:40
  Speaker 11: Coach, I go, yeah, And that was still a step
• 27:42
  Speaker 11: faster than almost everybody on the floor. And but there
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: was some heartache that day because people were at USC
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: where you know, really they have really good guards and
• 27:52
  Speaker 11: so and you know, we talked about okay, flash forward
• 27:56
  Speaker 11: from October whatever that was thirty first to where we
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: are are now in March, five months between that, and
• 28:04
  Speaker 11: you just look at the kid and you're just like
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: I look at her every day and go whow. I mean,
• 28:08
  Speaker 11: it's just amazing, So really happy for her. And again,
• 28:13
  Speaker 11: kid works. She deserves everything where she is right now
• 28:17
  Speaker 11: because of her work ethic.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: When did you think Rory was Rory?
• 28:22
  Speaker 12: I mean she may not have pain or anything like that,
• 28:24
  Speaker 12: but you have to trust the knee and everything. Did
• 28:27
  Speaker 12: she and you feel like there's about ten games in
• 28:30
  Speaker 12: and she was the old roarer?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Or was that instantaneously?
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: You know when I'd watch her, I'd take videos over
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: out here even in the summer, late in the summer
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: and send them to doctor Ellens and go, here's your girl.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: You know, she looks like a million dollars to me.
• 28:46
  Speaker 11: And it's you know, July and August, and then we
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: came out in September and you know, she's not cleared.
• 28:53
  Speaker 11: But I always wanted him to see what I was seeing,
• 28:56
  Speaker 11: and you know, we'd take her in every month. He'd
• 29:00
  Speaker 11: put her hands, he put his hands on her knee
• 29:02
  Speaker 11: just to you know, those guys want to touch that
• 29:05
  Speaker 11: knee and they know.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: What they're doing.
• 29:07
  Speaker 11: Like doctor Ellens is so good and he can feel
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: and so, and I go. You know, I go to
• 29:13
  Speaker 11: most of those appointments. I want to be and I
• 29:15
  Speaker 11: don't want to hear it some third hand information from
• 29:17
  Speaker 11: a trainer that might or might not have heard it right.
• 29:20
  Speaker 11: So I always want to be able to convey that
• 29:22
  Speaker 11: to the parents. And so, you know, I was there
• 29:26
  Speaker 11: most visits listening and paying attention. But I would see
• 29:30
  Speaker 11: it in the summer. I'm like, this kid is like
• 29:33
  Speaker 11: Sidney Colson. You know, Colson came back in four months
• 29:36
  Speaker 11: two days, my point guard on our national championship team
• 29:39
  Speaker 11: at A and M.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Now that ain't never gonna happen again, y'all.
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: She came back in four months two days with no
• 29:44
  Speaker 11: brace and had I think she had thirteen and thirteen
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: points in like twenty two minutes, you know, in the
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: State Farm tip Off Classic, that first game that year,
• 29:56
  Speaker 11: and she hurt hers in late July was so much
• 30:01
  Speaker 11: similar to that. And I was seeing that early on
• 30:03
  Speaker 11: that this kid is special. How much how much do
• 30:08
  Speaker 11: you look at the last Tennessee game versus maybe the
• 30:11
  Speaker 11: last two weeks.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: For them, I think you look at all of it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm in there right now, and I've already been
• 30:17
  Speaker 11: through it, you know, And and so I think you
• 30:20
  Speaker 11: have to look at it all.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: You have to look at what we did back.
• 30:24
  Speaker 11: Then, and then what what teams have done since then
• 30:28
  Speaker 11: with them, what they've done to teams, And you know.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: You have to give them credit.
• 30:31
  Speaker 11: They go into Ohio State and went on the road
• 30:34
  Speaker 11: in a big game, second round game, and really dominated.
• 30:37
  Speaker 11: They had one stretch where Ohio State made that run
• 30:40
  Speaker 11: to get back in it, and then they put their
• 30:42
  Speaker 11: foot on the pedal and it was over in a heartbeat.
• 30:45
  Speaker 11: And that's how they are.
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: You you get.
• 30:47
  Speaker 11: Into their tempo, start throwing the ball of them, and
• 30:49
  Speaker 11: it's lay up after layup after layup. It's bad, you know,
• 30:54
  Speaker 11: And that's something it's hard to stop. And so so
• 30:58
  Speaker 11: you have to give Tennessee a lot of I mean,
• 31:00
  Speaker 11: they went in there and went on somebody's home floor,
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: and and but you look at it all. I mean,
• 31:05
  Speaker 11: I'm will have looked at everything from our game to
• 31:10
  Speaker 11: the last, you know, every game in between, you know,
• 31:13
  Speaker 11: just to make sure we get all our bases covered.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Speaking.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's some comments from Victation for we hear
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: more from coming up a little bit later on this
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: how we're going to shift to baseball, Major League Baseball,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: and talk some Opening day baseball with Geene Watson from
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: the Chicago White Sox front office. Coming up on thirteen
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: under the zone. So major League Baseball again. Tomorrow the
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: opening day for everybody else. I mean, I know, the
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers and the Cubs played two games in Japan,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: but now everybody, including those two teams, gets going tomorrow.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: It's opening Day, and it's not Opening Day unless we
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: take the opportunity to talk baseball with a good friend.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Jean watching from the Chicago White Sox front office, who's.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: About to get on the plane and go up to
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Chicago for Opening Day tomorrow.
• 32:00
  Speaker 13: Off of the socks. Forty two. Forty two and clear
• 32:04
  Speaker 13: is what they're calling for. That's a good day, roping day.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: What's the worst weather you've been around on an opig day?
• 32:11
  Speaker 13: Oh, my gosh, I've been. I've been in a few
• 32:14
  Speaker 13: snow games. I was in Detroit one year. We actually
• 32:19
  Speaker 13: stopped and had lunch at Fishbone in Greek Town and
• 32:21
  Speaker 13: the kitchen caught on fire, and that that was quite
• 32:25
  Speaker 13: a day, really wow.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: That two two thousand and three somewhere around there. But yeah,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: we've had a few snow days.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, well, I know that you're excited about this
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: when we talked about this last week, that while the
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: White Sox themselves are still going to be in a
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: building mode and a rebuilding mode and and in some
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: ways to be a long season because of the record,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: in other ways, you're expecting in the front office, expecting
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: to see progress made from last year to this year
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: and another step forward.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Correct. Yeah, and it's really nothing different than last season.
• 33:00
  Speaker 13: We knew it was going to be a long season
• 33:03
  Speaker 13: from a personnel standpoint.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: You know, we had traded our.
• 33:06
  Speaker 13: Number one started during spring training, Dylan Ceas, and now
• 33:10
  Speaker 13: we've traded our number one start away again and Garrett Crochet,
• 33:13
  Speaker 13: and you know, there's a pretty good probability that, you know,
• 33:16
  Speaker 13: Louis Robert, our number one position player, will be traded
• 33:18
  Speaker 13: at some point this season.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: So you just you go with the ups and downs.
• 33:22
  Speaker 13: You focus on the things that you can control, and
• 33:24
  Speaker 13: we're certainly excited about you know, where our minor league
• 33:27
  Speaker 13: system is now just in a year and you put
• 33:30
  Speaker 13: your head down and go to work on another year
• 33:31
  Speaker 13: for it.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: And you know, it was fun.
• 33:32
  Speaker 13: To watch what the Royals did last year in the
• 33:35
  Speaker 13: playoffs because that we were a big part of that
• 33:38
  Speaker 13: before we came to Chicago, and so you just you
• 33:41
  Speaker 13: apply the same work and just keep grinding.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Away day by day.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: I want to ask you about something else, and because
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: I know you've been around these types of scenes before.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: It made Sports Center and there was a lot made
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: of showing that locker room, that clubhouse video of Cam
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Smith who got picked.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Up by the Astros.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: As part of that, Kyle Tucker Tray made the opening
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: day roster and there was a video shared by the
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: team and you see Joe Espotta address the players and
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: then brought out his mother and told him and it
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: was very emotional.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: There was tears involved.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: You've been involved in some of those where you've seen
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: some guys get really excited about that, haven't you, Craig.
• 34:20
  Speaker 13: It's really it's one of the more enjoyable things to see.
• 34:24
  Speaker 13: It brings so much joy when you see something like that,
• 34:27
  Speaker 13: because it doesn't matter if you're the first pick in
• 34:30
  Speaker 13: the first round or the last pick in the twentieth round.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: There's no guarantee you're getting the big leagues.
• 34:35
  Speaker 13: It is a miracle to play in the big leagues
• 34:38
  Speaker 13: one day and you have a forty time greater chance
• 34:41
  Speaker 13: of graduating from Harvard than playing a day in the
• 34:43
  Speaker 13: big leagues and injuries and setbacks, some performance and being
• 34:48
  Speaker 13: asked to do things mechanically with your swing or on
• 34:51
  Speaker 13: the mound or defensively. Everything has to go absolutely perfect
• 34:56
  Speaker 13: for you to play a day in the big leagues.
• 34:58
  Speaker 13: And it's such such a great celebration for for players
• 35:03
  Speaker 13: and their families and all the hard work that goes
• 35:06
  Speaker 13: into everybody, the entire village that it takes to raise
• 35:10
  Speaker 13: a player. And so when you ever get to see
• 35:13
  Speaker 13: special moments like that, it's certainly great and never gets old.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Well, and here's another example what you're talking about. There's
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: there's that, and then the opposite the end, and this
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: is I would imagine, you know, this is even more
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: of a unicorn moment where the Angels second round or
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Ryan Johnson made the Angels opening day roster drafted in
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: the second round last year, coming out of Dallas Baptist,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: signed for one point seventy five million, didn't pitch after
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: throwing one hundred and six years innings in that junior season,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: he made the roster, and he will be on the
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: roster without having played a day in the minor leagues.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: That is truly a unicorn moment, isn't it.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable.
• 35:54
  Speaker 13: And the thing of it is is Perry you know
• 35:58
  Speaker 13: who I'll see tomorrow and we're having to Saturday night,
• 36:00
  Speaker 13: Perryman asking the general manager just isn't afraid to put
• 36:04
  Speaker 13: his twenty six best players on the field. You saw
• 36:07
  Speaker 13: it with Logan o' hoppy. You saw it with Shan
• 36:09
  Speaker 13: Well at first base. You saw it with Zach Nato
• 36:12
  Speaker 13: as shortstop. He's going to be ultra aggressive when it
• 36:15
  Speaker 13: comes to putting his best players at the major league level.
• 36:19
  Speaker 13: And the system is kind of taken, you know, a shot,
• 36:24
  Speaker 13: you know, being ranked so low, but they ranked so
• 36:26
  Speaker 13: low because he.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Moves his players of the big league so fast.
• 36:28
  Speaker 13: And I think to have one of the higher wars
• 36:31
  Speaker 13: of drafted players in the last five six years. And
• 36:35
  Speaker 13: he's just not afraid. He's super aggressive to give these
• 36:37
  Speaker 13: guys an opportunity. And Ryan Johnson went into camp and
• 36:40
  Speaker 13: he earned the spot and it's great for him.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: By the way, I think, I do find it interesting. Also,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: he's the first player to skip the minor leagues entirely
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: since the aforementioned Garrett Crochet, who did it in twenty twenty,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: and of course the minor league season was canceled due
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: to the pandemic, but Johnson's only the third player since
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: two thousand and one to play in the big leagues
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: without a minor league appearance. Crochet Mike Leak, who long
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: warn fans remember when was pitching for Arizona State when
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Texas beat Leak and Arizona State in the College World
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Series in Omaha in two thousand and nine.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: The Leak moved in in twenty ten and Geno.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Since the implementation of the draft in nineteen sixty five,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: only twenty three players before Johnson have been moved straight
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: to the big leagues. That's how unreal it is, isn't it.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: It really is.
• 37:29
  Speaker 13: And in today's climates where last year, you know, the
• 37:33
  Speaker 13: average roster use per team was fifty players, the average
• 37:38
  Speaker 13: pitchers used per team was thirty plus. I think the
• 37:42
  Speaker 13: average starters used.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Was like eleven, somewhere in that range.
• 37:46
  Speaker 13: You know that they explained to him in the meeting, Look,
• 37:50
  Speaker 13: you earned a spot, You're going to be here, but
• 37:53
  Speaker 13: by no means it's this. I mean you're here all
• 37:55
  Speaker 13: season and there's a lot of especially with all the
• 37:58
  Speaker 13: injuries taking place to pitching right now, there's a lot
• 38:01
  Speaker 13: of manipulating the roster to try to sustain your depths
• 38:04
  Speaker 13: of your pitching, and so that certainly went into it.
• 38:07
  Speaker 13: But but he is one of the thirteen most talented
• 38:09
  Speaker 13: pitchers on the roster for now.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: And until he proves otherwise, he's going to be in
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the big leagues.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Talking Major League Baseball here, Regene Watson from the Chicago
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: White Socks. We we mentioned this geno back a few
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: weeks ago when this happened, when Alex Bregman went over
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: from the Astros to the Red Sox, and there was
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: a lot of this conversation about what was going to
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: happen with Raephael Devers, who was going to play third
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: And today, a guy you know very very well, Alex Cora,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: the manager, said today that Devers is going to serve
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: as the primary DH with Bregman at third base. And
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: I believe that's what you said, that you saw Bregman
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: probably playing over at third base, and here's Devers going
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: to the DH troll.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I think when you.
• 38:55
  Speaker 13: Get out of the emotion of the moment and the
• 38:58
  Speaker 13: acquisition at the time of the act position. You know,
• 39:00
  Speaker 13: players have so much pride in their ability that you
• 39:04
  Speaker 13: know there can be a strong stance as to I'm.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Not going to do this or or I'm going to
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: do this, and.
• 39:10
  Speaker 13: Then as the conversations begin to take place, and really
• 39:14
  Speaker 13: in between the white lines is the ultimate evaluator. And
• 39:17
  Speaker 13: I'm sure Raphael looked over and saw gold glove infield.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: And he wants to win. And so if you if you,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: if you.
• 39:24
  Speaker 13: Put it in the in the hands of the players,
• 39:26
  Speaker 13: it's a players game. And if you put it in
• 39:28
  Speaker 13: the hands of the players and you let them see
• 39:32
  Speaker 13: the true evaluation of what's around them, most of the
• 39:34
  Speaker 13: time the players are going to come to their senses
• 39:37
  Speaker 13: and say, you know what, I want to win and
• 39:39
  Speaker 13: this is what makes our team better.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: That's certainly what Raphaeld Nevers did well.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: And to your point, Alex Pregman won the gold Glove
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: last season at third base. Devers has led the American
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: League or been tied for the lead and errors three
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: times over the past seven season, So there's some common
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: sense involved there. And then this also opens up the
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: second base job to Christian Campbell. Tell everybody about this guy,
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: their top prospect who was announced he's going to be
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: on the Red Sox opening day roster.
• 40:09
  Speaker 13: Yeah, Christian Campbell was kind of the hold up in
• 40:11
  Speaker 13: a Garrett Crochet deal. We were very adamant that either
• 40:15
  Speaker 13: Kyle Tile or Christian Campbell was going to be a
• 40:18
  Speaker 13: part of the deal, and we were really getting nowhere
• 40:21
  Speaker 13: with either one of them until about two o'clock in
• 40:23
  Speaker 13: the morning in the winter meetings when Craig Breslo called
• 40:26
  Speaker 13: Chris Katch and said, Okay, we'll make Kill a part
• 40:28
  Speaker 13: of the deal.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: But this is a.
• 40:30
  Speaker 13: Ultra dynamic, tremendous athlete plus defender can really really run.
• 40:36
  Speaker 13: He just makes them so athletic when you talk about
• 40:38
  Speaker 13: him and former Texas Longhorn David Hamilton up the middle,
• 40:42
  Speaker 13: they've got a lot of versatility and speed and athleticism.
• 40:45
  Speaker 13: But again, one hundred and sixty two games is a
• 40:48
  Speaker 13: long season. You don't know if the bat is going
• 40:50
  Speaker 13: to produce at the level that it should. But at
• 40:53
  Speaker 13: the time they felt like that this is the best
• 40:55
  Speaker 13: ball to fire to start the season, and that's what
• 40:57
  Speaker 13: they're doing.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: All right, So Gino, you know, I'm really really good
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: at this and that is going to be asking you
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: for your thoughts on who will be the teams to
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: beat in each division race.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Let me start with the America League.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: We start in the East with the Rays, the Jays,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: the Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Orioles.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Who do you like in the East.
• 41:20
  Speaker 13: Well, I think it's a three team race personally between Baltimore, Boston,
• 41:23
  Speaker 13: and the Yankees. The Yankees injuries to their rotation have
• 41:28
  Speaker 13: been huge. At some point, they're going to have to
• 41:31
  Speaker 13: go get some pitching. Boston is the team that has
• 41:34
  Speaker 13: done the most to improve their team, and they've got
• 41:36
  Speaker 13: the best system, so they can either pull from their
• 41:39
  Speaker 13: system to make the team even more talented than already is,
• 41:43
  Speaker 13: or they can trade from their system to improve the team.
• 41:45
  Speaker 13: In July, Baltimore is the team to me that it's
• 41:48
  Speaker 13: kind of time to go. Michael Olias has done such
• 41:52
  Speaker 13: an unbelievable job of building up that minor league system.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: They've gone back.
• 41:55
  Speaker 13: And forth with the ballpark, with the high wall the
• 41:58
  Speaker 13: low wall. They've put a lot of inference on they're pitching.
• 42:01
  Speaker 13: But it's time to go, and I think they know it.
• 42:03
  Speaker 13: And so those three teams jumping out and how they
• 42:06
  Speaker 13: get out of the gate is going to be really
• 42:09
  Speaker 13: reflective of the moves that they make.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: And and because you know, the.
• 42:14
  Speaker 13: Central has two three very good teams, I think that
• 42:18
  Speaker 13: that the teams are going to be very very aggressive
• 42:20
  Speaker 13: in the East. I do think that all three teams
• 42:23
  Speaker 13: that come out of the two wild cards in the
• 42:25
  Speaker 13: winner will all make the playoffs. But I certainly think
• 42:28
  Speaker 13: that the Yankees, Boston and Baltimore are the class.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to call for an upset and give
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: it to the Red Sox.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: Wow, okay, there you go, all right to the Central.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: You mentioned them a division you know very very well
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: since you spent time with the Royals and building that
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: world championship team back for twenty fifteen. All right, so
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: you have Royals, Twins, Tigers, Guardians, and your ball club,
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: the White Sox.
• 42:51
  Speaker 13: I remember having breakfast with aj Hinch in Chicago in September,
• 42:54
  Speaker 13: and you know they were kind of, you know, running
• 42:57
  Speaker 13: out of gas and saying to him, you know, for
• 42:59
  Speaker 13: all all the injuries and everything that took place this year,
• 43:03
  Speaker 13: next year is going to be two steps forward. They
• 43:06
  Speaker 13: swept us that weekend, and they went on an absolute
• 43:09
  Speaker 13: historic tear to get as far as they did the playoffs.
• 43:12
  Speaker 13: And trust me when I say aj Hinch knows what
• 43:16
  Speaker 13: it takes to win in October and he's got.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: The roster to do it.
• 43:20
  Speaker 13: Jackson Job is arguably going to be the Rookie of
• 43:22
  Speaker 13: the Year front runner, one of the best young arms
• 43:25
  Speaker 13: in the game of baseball, and so I look for
• 43:27
  Speaker 13: the Tigers to really really up the ani this year.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: And take that division.
• 43:32
  Speaker 13: Kansas City is going to be very, very talented, but
• 43:34
  Speaker 13: health to that rotation and health to any Pascatino and
• 43:37
  Speaker 13: Salvador Perez and Bobby Witt Junior are going to be
• 43:40
  Speaker 13: really really important to their success this year. But I
• 43:43
  Speaker 13: just feel like with the momentum that the Tigers had
• 43:46
  Speaker 13: last year and the injection of Jackson Job to that
• 43:49
  Speaker 13: rotation and the system they have to go do more.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: I think they'll win the Central all right.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: In the West Astros, Rangers, Mariners, and what's listed as
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: just as because we know what's happening there with them
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: playing in Sacramento and the.
• 44:04
  Speaker 13: Angels, this division is going to play a lot tighter
• 44:07
  Speaker 13: than people thinking of Oakland. The Athletics are a very young,
• 44:13
  Speaker 13: talented team and they had one of the better second
• 44:16
  Speaker 13: halves of anybody in baseball last year, and they've made
• 44:18
  Speaker 13: some nice free agent additions to the team. I really
• 44:22
  Speaker 13: really think that the most underrated team in the American
• 44:24
  Speaker 13: League is the Texas Rangers. Bruce Bochie has always been
• 44:28
  Speaker 13: in every other year guy. They had a bunch of
• 44:30
  Speaker 13: underperformance last year. They took a bunch of injuries, and
• 44:33
  Speaker 13: adding Kumar Rocker and lighter to in any role to
• 44:38
  Speaker 13: the thirteen man staff in pitching is going to be huge,
• 44:41
  Speaker 13: and I think that this is a team that's going
• 44:43
  Speaker 13: to be driven very, very good this year.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: They're one of my.
• 44:46
  Speaker 13: Sleepers to be in the World Series. I think they've
• 44:48
  Speaker 13: got a great team. And Seattle obviously with their great
• 44:51
  Speaker 13: pitching staff, they have to perform offensively. But with Oakland
• 44:55
  Speaker 13: kind of narrowing the gap in that division and the
• 44:59
  Speaker 13: Angels playing better baseball, it's going to be a very
• 45:01
  Speaker 13: very tight or tougher division, but I.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Think the Rangers pull away with it.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Were you surprised to see the Rangers have Evan Carter
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: start in Round.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Rock I mean not really.
• 45:11
  Speaker 13: I mean sometimes sometimes when guys get such a fast
• 45:15
  Speaker 13: pace to the major leagues that that you know that
• 45:17
  Speaker 13: adjustment period can come sooner or later. And it obviously
• 45:20
  Speaker 13: came for him a little bit later. But it's nothing
• 45:22
  Speaker 13: to be for him to be concerned about or Ranger
• 45:25
  Speaker 13: fans to be concerned about. He's an ultra talented player
• 45:28
  Speaker 13: and he's going to be fine, and he'll he'll win.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: When it's time for those guys to win, he'll be
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: a part of it all right.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: To the National League East Marlins, Phillies, Mets, Nationals, and Braves.
• 45:38
  Speaker 13: Well, the Phillies, Braves, and Mets are the three classes
• 45:43
  Speaker 13: of the division.
• 45:44
  Speaker 14: Uh.
• 45:45
  Speaker 13: I struggle a little bit with the Mets bullpen. I
• 45:47
  Speaker 13: don't think it's as proven as people would think. Love
• 45:50
  Speaker 13: the everyday lineup, they're really going to score a lot
• 45:52
  Speaker 13: of runs. They've got great pitching, They've got very good
• 45:55
  Speaker 13: prospects to do what they need to do. So I
• 45:57
  Speaker 13: think the Mets are going to stay in at the
• 45:59
  Speaker 13: Phillies kind of just do what they do. They're social
• 46:02
  Speaker 13: well managed team by Robbie Thompson, and they're super talented
• 46:05
  Speaker 13: that you certainly think that they'll they'll be in the
• 46:08
  Speaker 13: mix and win that division. And then Spencer, Strider and
• 46:10
  Speaker 13: Acuna coming back for the Braves is going to be huge,
• 46:13
  Speaker 13: and I think that they're probably the class of the division.
• 46:15
  Speaker 13: But I look for the Braves and Phillies to come
• 46:19
  Speaker 13: out of the division either as the winner or the
• 46:21
  Speaker 13: wild card, and then the Mets are going to have
• 46:23
  Speaker 13: to really work to improve that team. Maybe go get
• 46:26
  Speaker 13: a bat, maybe get some pin or a starter, because
• 46:29
  Speaker 13: in the West, there's a team that we'll talk about
• 46:31
  Speaker 13: soon that's going to push for that other wildcard spot.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: All right in the Central Cardinals, Pirates, Reds, Brewers, and Cubs.
• 46:40
  Speaker 13: Well, the Brewers play the best baseball. The Brewers play
• 46:44
  Speaker 13: the best baseball in all of baseball, even without the
• 46:46
  Speaker 13: most talented. Without the most talent, Pat Murphy does an
• 46:50
  Speaker 13: unbelievable job. Their player development system is just incredible. They
• 46:54
  Speaker 13: focus on all the little things. They play to the
• 46:57
  Speaker 13: scoreboard at every level, at every game, they just do
• 47:00
  Speaker 13: the little things. They run the base as well, they
• 47:03
  Speaker 13: throw the cutoffs well, they do.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: All the little things well to win ball games.
• 47:06
  Speaker 13: And that's a margin for me, and I think that
• 47:09
  Speaker 13: they're certainly the class of the division. The Cubs with
• 47:12
  Speaker 13: Ben Brown and Kate Foster, they're certainly gonna have a
• 47:16
  Speaker 13: chance to impact that rotation with young arms, and they've
• 47:21
  Speaker 13: got some offensive players.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: So to me, it's the Brewers and the Cubs and
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: a dog fight for that division.
• 47:26
  Speaker 13: And the Reds have a very very good minor league
• 47:29
  Speaker 13: system if they're willing to trade some of their prospects
• 47:32
  Speaker 13: to improve the major league team. And I just don't
• 47:34
  Speaker 13: believe Tito Francona went to Cincinnati to sit back and
• 47:38
  Speaker 13: a way for prospects to get to the major leagues.
• 47:40
  Speaker 13: I think that the Reds will eventually very aggressive in
• 47:42
  Speaker 13: improving that team.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: And finally in the West you have Arizona, Colorado, San Diego,
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: San Francisco, and the defending world champion Dodgers.
• 47:51
  Speaker 13: Well, I mean, I know you love this, but the
• 47:55
  Speaker 13: Dodgers are just I mean, they're gonna wish away every
• 47:58
  Speaker 13: day of the season just to it's October, and it's
• 48:01
  Speaker 13: so very hard, and we went through it in fourteen
• 48:04
  Speaker 13: and fifteen. You know, when you know you're an October
• 48:06
  Speaker 13: team and you know you're arguably the best team in baseball,
• 48:10
  Speaker 13: you just try to be creative, to stay motivated with
• 48:13
  Speaker 13: each other, play for each other throughout the season, and
• 48:16
  Speaker 13: stay healthy because you know you're in October and you
• 48:19
  Speaker 13: want to be playing your best baseball and the most
• 48:21
  Speaker 13: healthy the last week of September into October.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: But this divisions a little tougher than people think.
• 48:27
  Speaker 13: The Padres, I mean, they were a team to be
• 48:30
  Speaker 13: reckoned with last year and aj Hinch is going to
• 48:33
  Speaker 13: do what he has to do to stay in this thing.
• 48:34
  Speaker 13: And the Diamondbacks with their starting rotation, they're going to
• 48:38
  Speaker 13: be very, very tough as well. And the Giants. If
• 48:40
  Speaker 13: you ask Buster Posey and Zach I'm Anascian, you know
• 48:43
  Speaker 13: they'll tell you that they're going to hang into it.
• 48:45
  Speaker 13: But I still think that the Dodgers are the class
• 48:48
  Speaker 13: of the division. They're the class of the league and
• 48:51
  Speaker 13: in the end that they'll win that division. But the
• 48:53
  Speaker 13: Diamondbacks and the Padres are the two teams that could
• 48:57
  Speaker 13: make it interesting. And I look for the Diamondbacks, Padres,
• 49:01
  Speaker 13: and Mets to kind of be battling for that last
• 49:03
  Speaker 13: wild wildcard spot the last week of the season.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I guess the Diamondbacks got the bad news
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: today about Jordan Montgomery having to do Tommy John That
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: takes him out of that, so they'll have to find someone.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: But they've had a good minor league system ringing guys up.
• 49:17
  Speaker 13: There's never been a season that I can remember where
• 49:20
  Speaker 13: the health of a ball club is going to matter more,
• 49:24
  Speaker 13: because there's just been just the underbelly of teams, pitching depths,
• 49:31
  Speaker 13: the underbelly of their systems. There have been so many
• 49:35
  Speaker 13: injuries that there are very few teams that can take
• 49:38
  Speaker 13: on many more injuries. And you look around, you know
• 49:40
  Speaker 13: the guys that are coming back from Tommy John. Now
• 49:42
  Speaker 13: you've got a whole other wave that are gonna have
• 49:44
  Speaker 13: Tommy John surgery. And there's just only so much the
• 49:48
  Speaker 13: industry can take from an injury standpoint, And so inasmuch
• 49:51
  Speaker 13: as anything player personnel wise on the field, health to
• 49:55
  Speaker 13: a ball club is going to be super super important
• 49:58
  Speaker 13: to try to get to October, especially the summer months.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: G know, I appreciate the time save travels up to
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: the Windy City and hope for good enough weather tomorrow
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: for that opener against the Angels, and appreciate all the time.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: All right, Greg, thanks so much. All right, travels.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Say that's Gene Watson from the Chicago White Sox for
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: an office. White Sox opening home tomorrow against the Angels.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Rangers and Astros both have home openers tomorrow, Rangers against
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon and the
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Astros at two o'clock against the Mets tomorrow afternoon.
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: That's the openers on that.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: All right, We'll have more coming up, more from Vick
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: Schaeffer when we continue on thirteen under the Zone.
• 50:39
  Speaker 13: Very very good this year. They're one of my sleepers
• 50:42
  Speaker 13: to be in the World Series. I think they've got
• 50:44
  Speaker 13: a great team, and Seattle obviously with their great pitching staff,
• 50:47
  Speaker 13: they have to perform offensively. But with Oakland kind of
• 50:51
  Speaker 13: narrowing the gap in that division and the Angels playing
• 50:54
  Speaker 13: better baseball, it's going to be a very very tight
• 50:57
  Speaker 13: or tougher division, but I think the Rangers pull away
• 50:59
  Speaker 13: with it.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: Were you surprised to see the Rangers have Evan Carter
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: start in Round Rock?
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: I mean not really.
• 51:07
  Speaker 13: I mean sometimes sometimes when guys get such a fast
• 51:10
  Speaker 13: pace to the major leagues that that you know that
• 51:12
  Speaker 13: adjustment period can come sooner or later. And it obviously
• 51:15
  Speaker 13: came for him a little bit later. But it's nothing
• 51:18
  Speaker 13: to be for him to be concerned about or Ranger
• 51:20
  Speaker 13: fans to be concerned about. He's an ultra talented player
• 51:23
  Speaker 13: and he's gonna be fine and he'll he'll win the
• 51:25
  Speaker 13: when it's time for those guys to win, he'll be
• 51:27
  Speaker 13: a part of all.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Right to the National League East Marlins, Phillies, Mets, Nationals,
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: and Braves.
• 51:33
  Speaker 13: Well, the Phillies, Braves, and Mets are the three classes
• 51:38
  Speaker 13: of the division.
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 51:40
  Speaker 13: I struggle a little bit with the Mets bullpen. I
• 51:42
  Speaker 13: don't think it's as proven as people would think. Love
• 51:45
  Speaker 13: the everyday lineup. They're really going to score a lot
• 51:48
  Speaker 13: of runs. They've got great pitching, They've got very good
• 51:50
  Speaker 13: prospects to do what they need to do. So I
• 51:52
  Speaker 13: think the Mets are going to stay in at the
• 51:54
  Speaker 13: Phillies kind of just do what they do. They're they're social,
• 51:57
  Speaker 13: well managed team by Robbie Thompson, and they're super talented
• 52:00
  Speaker 13: that you certainly think that they'll they'll be in the
• 52:03
  Speaker 13: mix and win that division. And then Spencer, Strider and
• 52:06
  Speaker 13: Acuna coming back for the Braves is going to be huge,
• 52:08
  Speaker 13: and I think that they're probably the class of the division.
• 52:11
  Speaker 13: But I look for the Braves and Phillies to come
• 52:14
  Speaker 13: out of the division either as the winner or the
• 52:17
  Speaker 13: wild card, and then the Mets are going to have
• 52:19
  Speaker 13: to really work to improve that team, Maybe go get
• 52:21
  Speaker 13: a bat, maybe get some pin or a starter. Because
• 52:24
  Speaker 13: in the West, there's a team that we'll talk about
• 52:26
  Speaker 13: soon that's going to push for that other wildcard spot.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: All right in the Central Cardinals, Pirates, Reds, Brewers, and Cubs.
• 52:35
  Speaker 13: Well, the Brewers play the best baseball. The Brewers play
• 52:39
  Speaker 13: the best baseball in all of baseball, even without the
• 52:42
  Speaker 13: most talented. Without the most talent, Pat Murphy does an
• 52:45
  Speaker 13: unbelievable job. Their player development system is just incredible. They
• 52:50
  Speaker 13: focus on all the little things. They play to the
• 52:52
  Speaker 13: scoreboard at every level, at every game, and they just
• 52:55
  Speaker 13: do the little things. They run the base as well,
• 52:58
  Speaker 13: they throw the cutoffs well, they do all the little
• 53:00
  Speaker 13: things well to win ball games. And that's a margin
• 53:03
  Speaker 13: for me, and I think that they're certainly the class
• 53:05
  Speaker 13: of the division. The Cubs with Ben Brown and Kate Foster,
• 53:10
  Speaker 13: they're certainly gonna have a chance to impact that rotation
• 53:15
  Speaker 13: with young arms, and they've got some offensive players. So
• 53:18
  Speaker 13: to me, it's the Brewers and the Cubs and a
• 53:20
  Speaker 13: dog fight for that division. And the Reds have a
• 53:23
  Speaker 13: very very good minor league system. If they're willing to
• 53:26
  Speaker 13: trade some of their prospects to improve the major league team.
• 53:28
  Speaker 13: And I just don't believe Tito Francona went to Cincinnati
• 53:32
  Speaker 13: to sit back and wait for prospects to get to
• 53:34
  Speaker 13: the major leagues. I think that the Reds will eventually
• 53:37
  Speaker 13: very aggressive in improving that team.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: And finally in the West, you have Arizona, Colorado, San Diego,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: San Francisco, and the defending world champion Dodgers.
• 53:46
  Speaker 13: Well, I mean, I know you love this, but the
• 53:50
  Speaker 13: Dodgers are just I mean, they're gonna wish away every
• 53:53
  Speaker 13: day of the season just to get to October. And
• 53:56
  Speaker 13: it's so very hard, and we went through it in
• 53:58
  Speaker 13: fourteen and fifteen. You know, when you know you're an
• 54:01
  Speaker 13: October team and you know you're arguably the best team
• 54:04
  Speaker 13: in baseball, you just try to be creative, to stay
• 54:07
  Speaker 13: motivated with each other, play for each other throughout the season,
• 54:11
  Speaker 13: and stay healthy because you know you're in October and
• 54:14
  Speaker 13: you want to be playing your best baseball and the
• 54:16
  Speaker 13: most healthy the last week of September into October.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: But this divisions a little tougher than people think. The Padres.
• 54:23
  Speaker 13: I mean, they were a team to be reckoned with
• 54:25
  Speaker 13: last year, and aj Hinch is going to do what
• 54:28
  Speaker 13: he has to do to stay in this thing. And
• 54:30
  Speaker 13: the Diamondbacks with their starting rotation, they're going to be very,
• 54:34
  Speaker 13: very tough as well. And the Giants, if you ask
• 54:36
  Speaker 13: Buster Posey and Zach I'm Anascian, you know.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: They'll tell you that they're going to hang into it.
• 54:40
  Speaker 13: But I still think that the Dodgers are the class
• 54:43
  Speaker 13: of the division.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: They're the class of the league and in the end
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: that they'll win that division.
• 54:48
  Speaker 13: But the Diamondbacks and the Padres are the two teams
• 54:52
  Speaker 13: that could make it interesting. And I look for the Diamondbacks, Padres,
• 54:56
  Speaker 13: and Mets to kind of be battling for that last
• 54:58
  Speaker 13: while while part spot the last week of the season.
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I guess the Diamondbacks got the bad news
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: today about Jordan Montgomery having to do Tommy John That
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: takes him out of that, so they'll have to find someone.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: But they've had a good minor league system ringing guys up.
• 55:12
  Speaker 13: There's never been a season that I can remember where
• 55:16
  Speaker 13: the health of a ball club is going to matter
• 55:18
  Speaker 13: more because there's just been just the underbelly of teams,
• 55:25
  Speaker 13: pitching depths, the underbelly of their systems. There have been
• 55:29
  Speaker 13: so many injuries that there are very few teams that
• 55:32
  Speaker 13: can take on many more injuries. And you look around,
• 55:35
  Speaker 13: you know the guys that are coming back from Tommy John.
• 55:37
  Speaker 13: Now you've got a whole nother wave that are gonna
• 55:39
  Speaker 13: have Tommy John surgery. And there's just only so much
• 55:43
  Speaker 13: the industry can take from an injury standpoint, And so
• 55:45
  Speaker 13: inasmuch as anything player personnel wise on the field, health
• 55:50
  Speaker 13: to a ball club is going to be super super
• 55:52
  Speaker 13: important to try to get to October, especially through the
• 55:55
  Speaker 13: summer months.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: G you know, I appreciate the time safe travels up
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: to the Windy City and hope for good enough weather
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: tomorrow for that opener against the Angels, and appreciate all
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: the time.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much. All right, travels.
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: Say that's Gene Watson from the Chicago White Sox for
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: an office White Sox opening home tomorrow against the Angels.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: Rangers and Astros both have home openers tomorrow, Rangers against
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon and the
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: Astros at two o'clock against the Mets tomorrow afternoon. That's
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: the openers on that. All right, We'll have more coming up.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: More from Vic Shaeffer. When we continue on thirteen under
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: the Zone, here's some more with Longworts head coach Vick Shaffer.
• 56:38
  Speaker 12: Speaking of that as somebody really right now the last
• 56:42
  Speaker 12: few games for them, and maybe somebody's cooled doll.
• 56:45
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, I think you look at their team
• 56:47
  Speaker 11: and you got all those kids are still playing at
• 56:49
  Speaker 11: a high, high level, whether it's Jewel Spear Spencer or
• 56:54
  Speaker 11: you know, any of those kids, they're just they're all Tlaysia.
• 56:58
  Speaker 11: You know, those kids are all so special, and I
• 57:02
  Speaker 11: just think they're relentless, you know.
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: And uh again, they play that style that they love.
• 57:08
  Speaker 11: They've embraced that their coaches you know, really brought on
• 57:12
  Speaker 11: to them and and they they've all bought into that.
• 57:14
  Speaker 11: And so you know, I think you have to just
• 57:17
  Speaker 11: again for us.
• 57:19
  Speaker 5: People want to make a big deal out of the
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: line change and all that.
• 57:22
  Speaker 11: Like we're fine with it. Like it's it's the horn sounds.
• 57:26
  Speaker 11: You look over there and go, Okay, did my girl
• 57:28
  Speaker 11: check out or not? I mean, that's just what you
• 57:30
  Speaker 11: got to do. And then my staffle well they'll all
• 57:32
  Speaker 11: be over all over it, going, hey, you got her,
• 57:34
  Speaker 11: you got her, you got her. So it's just a
• 57:36
  Speaker 11: it's really not that big a deal, but it likes
• 57:39
  Speaker 11: people like to make that the topic of the day
• 57:42
  Speaker 11: when you play them, But at the end of the day,
• 57:44
  Speaker 11: they've been doing it all year, and when you've had
• 57:47
  Speaker 11: experience dealing with it, you know, a lot of times y'all,
• 57:50
  Speaker 11: even in transition, you don't typically get matched up with
• 57:53
  Speaker 11: who your garden.
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: You just sometimes you're in scramble mode.
• 57:56
  Speaker 11: So I think the biggest pick, the biggest thing in
• 57:59
  Speaker 11: the biggest picture, is knowing what number you're looking at
• 58:03
  Speaker 11: and knowing the scout. It ain't just about who you
• 58:06
  Speaker 11: were supposed to guard. It's about everybody on that roster
• 58:10
  Speaker 11: and who can and who can't.
• 58:11
  Speaker 8: For this time around, what is it like to play
• 58:14
  Speaker 8: head coach Kim Caldwell.
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: You know, earlier in the season, she wasn't there.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: I think she's having a baby.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: What'd you like to play her in a tournament?
• 58:21
  Speaker 11: Now?
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: Well, I don't know.
• 58:23
  Speaker 11: I think that was the same team. She just wasn't
• 58:26
  Speaker 11: on the bench. She had her trusted assistant that's been
• 58:29
  Speaker 11: with her a long time calling the shots that night,
• 58:33
  Speaker 11: as well as the rest of the staff. So you know,
• 58:38
  Speaker 11: I don't I don't think it'll be any different. I
• 58:41
  Speaker 11: think when you go back and look at the game,
• 58:43
  Speaker 11: they played the same way they've played all year long.
• 58:45
  Speaker 11: So for us, it's it's who's on the floor. Like
• 58:49
  Speaker 11: I don't play, she doesn't play. It's the kids on
• 58:52
  Speaker 11: the floor and your kids who've got to make plays.
• 58:54
  Speaker 11: And so I think for us, we've got to go
• 58:57
  Speaker 11: out and do the exact same, you know, try to
• 59:00
  Speaker 11: duplicate what we did.
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: We didn't turn the ball over. We had twelve turnovers total,
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: and so if.
• 59:04
  Speaker 11: You can limit that, and then we've got to cut
• 59:06
  Speaker 11: down on a couple other things that we need to
• 59:08
  Speaker 11: clean up. But other than that, we've just we've got
• 59:11
  Speaker 11: to go be who we are and I think at
• 59:13
  Speaker 11: the end of the day, that'll give us a chance.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: I think I think.
• 59:16
  Speaker 15: Last year, at this time of year, probably the biggest
• 59:18
  Speaker 15: problem with your teammate has just been depth.
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: Together it was heard which had three guards.
• 59:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, a year later, how do you feel about.
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: Your depth and just the amount of players are going.
• 59:26
  Speaker 15: To be able to play it needed?
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I love my depth.
• 59:28
  Speaker 11: Obviously, our depth at guard has been something that's been
• 59:31
  Speaker 11: real positive for us all year. Obviously, our two headed monster,
• 59:35
  Speaker 11: the depth there has been special, you know. Uh, so
• 59:40
  Speaker 11: we're we're I think in a much better place. You know,
• 59:44
  Speaker 11: this time last year, I think we were playing four
• 59:46
  Speaker 11: guards at three positions, you know, and uh and so,
• 59:50
  Speaker 11: but we had a lot of size. And but then
• 59:52
  Speaker 11: Taylor was in and out. She was concussed for the
• 59:55
  Speaker 11: first game and then came back and played in the
• 59:58
  Speaker 11: Elite eight game. But when you it out all week
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 11: and then you don't play in that first game you
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 11: get back in, you're rusty. And so you know, it's
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 11: been good to have a healthy tailor. I told her,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 11: you know last year in our exit means the biggest
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 11: thing for you is we got to keep you healthy,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 11: get you healthy, keep you healthy. And we got it
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 11: tough enough. And boy, she's embraced that. You have to
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 11: really tip your hat to Taylor because she's way different.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 11: She's a different kid, and she's matured, she's toughened up,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 11: and that's why she's going to have a chance to
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 11: play at the next level. I mean, she's somebody that's
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 11: on a lot of people's radar and she's up for
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 11: the Lisa Leslie Award. That says enough right there that
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 11: she's looked at as one of the five best five
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 11: players in the country. And I expect the very same
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 11: thing for Kyla next year. She's going to be looked
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 11: at in the very same way. So those two have
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 11: been really special for us. And again the depth at
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 11: five and the depth at guard really has really I
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 11: think made us special.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: If you had over.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 11: Depth in this team, probably had as much depth. But
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 11: this seems you know, again, that's why I'm excited about them.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 11: We've I think the biggest thing is we've just had
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 11: to piece together that four position, you know, whether we
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 11: play a four guard lineup or jockeling has had to
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 11: go from the three to the four, and and you know,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 11: trying to bring justice along as fast as we can
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 11: and and so it's just been a you know, we
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 11: kind of hamn't egged it, you know, all year and
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 11: uh so, uh again, if if you if you can,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 11: if we can continue to develop that position and everybody
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 11: else does their job, again, you've got a chance.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 5: The thing about this time.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 11: Of year, you you cannot afford to have that one
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 11: bad night because everybody's good. And again not to take
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 11: anything from NC State a year ago, but if you
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 11: remember in that game last year, we we missed a
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 11: ton of shots we have made all year long early
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 11: in that game, and we kind of got behind the
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 11: hate ball. So we got to continue to be us
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 11: do what we do. We took care of the ball
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 11: this past weekend. We've got to continue to take care
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 11: of the ball. This is I said this before. It's
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 11: one of my better shooting teams. It seems to be
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 11: a topic of conversation, but we have shooting drills that
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 11: the standard is way higher than it's ever been for
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 11: any other team, and so you know, we don't turn
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 11: the ball over, we're going to have a chance to
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 11: make shots. Going back to the mass Ups conversation, I know,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 11: talking to the growth in the locker room after the game,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 11: they mentioned how that if they want to emphasis against Tennessee,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 11: knowing who live the court one, what they can do.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 11: You feel like Ry kind of mentioned they may have
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 11: struggled with that in the first game a little bit.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: So how have y'all kind of emphasize that throughout this
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 5: weekend and knowing disc out like that.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 11: Yeah, so that'll be a point of emphasis for us again.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 11: We'll we'll have some line changes to mimic games, you know,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 11: in practice, and we'll have the right numbers on the
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 11: right jerseys on for guys and practice players, and so
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 11: we'll have to be able to identify, Hey, that's so,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 11: and so, that's so, and so that's so, and so
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 11: she can she can't, she does this, she does that,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 11: and so again, when you go to film with us,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 11: the kids all have notebooks. We take notes before we
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 11: ever start film. It's a note taking thing. And I
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 11: kind of I have explained this to them early on.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 11: I'm a note taker. I go to a business I
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 11: go to a head coach's meeting, or a meeting with
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 11: administrators or any meeting.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: I have my style.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 11: I'm a note taker, and I try to convey that
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 11: to them because if you write it down, it just
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 11: seems like you have a better chance to retain it.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: And so we take notes. And so I got a
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 5: whole tablet full of notes that will.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 11: Start film with today, and they'll take them down, write
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 11: them down, you know. And I think our kids have
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 11: learned over the course of time.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: If he says it, write it down. And so we.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 11: Talk about that and then we'll go to the film
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 11: and we'll show them exactly boom boom, boom boom what
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 11: we're talking about and why we're talking about it.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: All right, So there is Longworns head coach Vic Schaeffer
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: talking about his team getting ready to take on Tennessee
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: for the second time this year. You eat me here
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: back on January twenty third, is the Thursday night that was.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: The deal where.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: The game time got pulled forward by an hour. It
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: was supposed to be an eight o'clock tip. Is the
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: back end of a doubleheader with South Carolina and LSU
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: the front in, but they had all kinds of snow
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: in Louisiana and they had to push back the South
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: Carolina LSU game to the weekend, So for television, they
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: pulled forward the start time of that Texas Tennessee game
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: from eight o'clock to seven o'clock. In the long Warns
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  Speaker 2: won that game maybe to seventy six. All right, we'll
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  Speaker 2: be back to wrap up hour number two here on
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  Speaker 2: thirteen under the zone. Craig Way and the producer Cameron
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  Speaker 2: Parker alongside. We're happy to be here today. Tomorrow back
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: on the road flying with the Texas women's basketball team
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: at Birmingham, Alabama. They will be in action on Saturday
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: afternoon against Tennessee and you'll be able to hear that
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: game here on the zone Saturday afternoon. It'll be a
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: little bit of switching because this is the weekend we
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  Speaker 2: start bringing you also Round Rock Express Baseball and they
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: have a game Friday night, and so Friday nights Texas
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: Long Horn Baseball game against Missouri six o'clock first pitch
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: can be heard on one of three point one FM,
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  Speaker 2: as well as on all the app connections we've talked about,
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  Speaker 2: connecting through the iHeartRadio app and then of course obviously
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  Speaker 2: Texas Longhorns app and Longern Network app those as well
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: and online at Texas Long Runs dot com. That's where
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: other ways to be able to hear the baseball broadcast
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  Speaker 2: throughout the weekend This weekend will be on one of
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  Speaker 2: three point one FM. The women's game Saturday afternoon and
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: so therefore it will be cleared and out of the
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  Speaker 2: way before the Round Rock Express game. It takes place
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday evening in Tacoma, and that's why the switch
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  Speaker 2: for this weekend. And then on Monday, the Texas women
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  Speaker 2: if they reached the championship, the Elite eight game, it
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  Speaker 2: would be at six o'clock and you would hear that
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: game here on the Zone as well, because Triple A
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: Baseball takes Mondays off, so the Express would not be
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: an actual Monday. So there's that, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: hear more from Vick Schaefer, but also coming up in
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: a few minutes, we're going to visit with Ty Harrington
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  Speaker 2: to talk from college baseball with him.
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  Speaker 1: Long run baseball looking good.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty and three rated as high as number three in
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  Speaker 2: the national polls by I think It's Baseball America that
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  Speaker 2: has Texas number three, Perfect Game As Texas number five,
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  Speaker 2: and then D one Baseball, the National Collegiate Baseball Riders Association,
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  Speaker 2: and the ESPN USA Today Coaches poll has Texas at
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  Speaker 2: number seven, so then in the top ten all the
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  Speaker 2: way around, and they go to Columbia to play Missouri
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. Of course, they swept that conference series in
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: Starkville against Mississippi State, then took two out of three
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  Speaker 2: at home against LSU. They dropped the first game to LSU,
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  Speaker 2: and remember that happened after they dropped the midweek game
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  Speaker 2: to UTSA, so they dropped too in a row, and
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  Speaker 2: since then they won three straight, so they're twenty and
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  Speaker 2: three going into that series. Beginning on Friday night on
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  Speaker 2: the text liner NCB, he says that nineteen fifty nine
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  Speaker 2: song you just played was used in the movie La
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: Bamba during the Richie Vallens funeral scene. Yet, because that's
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  Speaker 2: when Richie Vallens and the Big Bopper and Buddy Holly
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  Speaker 2: all went down in the plane crash Stormlake, Iowa. I
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  Speaker 2: believe it was in nineteen fifty nine. On that Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we had a question from someone on the text line
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  Speaker 2: who asked if there was He said, how many colleges
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  Speaker 2: still had both the men's and women's teams in the
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  Speaker 2: postseason and he ends it with GMG, which means Goman Green.
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  Speaker 2: So it's obviously a North Texas fan in North Texas
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  Speaker 2: did win its n IT game on the road quarterfinal
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  Speaker 2: win at Oklahoma State last night sixteen one to fifty nine.
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  Speaker 2: So they're going to the semifinal. Remember they won the
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  Speaker 2: n IT two years ago and that title came in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. That was in Las Vegas. Now the
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  Speaker 2: tournament has shifted to Indianapolis, Craig, and they won that
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  Speaker 2: game and still watered. Yeah, it was supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: played at North Texas. Did you hear the story about
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  Speaker 2: why they played at Oklahoma State. Wasn't it an on
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  Speaker 2: campus thing that the administrative staff had booked for the
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  Speaker 2: super pit and they didn't change it.
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  Speaker 4: They had a staff luncheon, that's it, and they could
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  Speaker 4: not move it. Yeah, a staff luncheon. That was silly.
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  Speaker 4: Fortunately the ME and Green won the game. So then
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  Speaker 4: going on to there.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So to address the question, somebody asked how many
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  Speaker 2: programs I still have both their men's and women's basketball
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  Speaker 2: teams playing? So here we are to count them off.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, we'll go to the NCAA men's side.
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  Speaker 2: I see Duke, I see ole Miss, I see Florida
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  Speaker 2: Texas Tech, because they have their women's teams in the WBIT.
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  Speaker 4: Tennessee and I think that's it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there's five there, But just to be sure,
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  Speaker 2: let me check the women's both the w B I
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  Speaker 2: T and the w n I T. There's two women's
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  Speaker 2: postseason tournaments.
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  Speaker 1: There's the UH.
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  Speaker 2: Women's inn I T and the men's n I T,
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  Speaker 2: and the the w B I T, which is really
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  Speaker 2: kind of the more recognized tournament is the w B
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  Speaker 2: I T one.
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  Speaker 5: So UH on the.
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  Speaker 2: Women's side of mentioned ole Miss uh, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the and Duke are the only women's out of
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  Speaker 2: the NCAA tournament.
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  Speaker 1: So then if you.
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  Speaker 2: Go further down the w b i T down on
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  Speaker 2: its quarterfinals, Texas Tech Florida is one because they're playing
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  Speaker 2: Texas Tech tomorrow night in the quarterfinals. Let's see Gonzaga, Minnesota, Belmont, Jan's, Madison, Villain.
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  Speaker 4: Neva Portland. So that's it for the wb I T.
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  Speaker 2: And then for the women's w n I T, they're
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  Speaker 2: still at their I guess they're at their round of
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  Speaker 2: sixteen playing tonight. Washington State and North Dakota State. North
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  Speaker 2: Texas is in the wn IT as well as the
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  Speaker 2: men's in IT T. Aveline Christy, Illinois State is in
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  Speaker 2: the CBI Championship game tonight. Lynden Wood, Louisiana Tech, Southern Indiana, Buffalo,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: Rutgers College at Charleston, Dukene, Clee, Cleveland State is playing
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  Speaker 2: Illinois State in the CBI.
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  Speaker 4: Championship game tonight, and then there's Butler and Pretty Fort Wayne.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: So both Cleveland State and Illinois State are still in
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  Speaker 2: the Women's in IT and they play in the CBI
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  Speaker 2: Championship tonight. So there's there's that men's in it. North
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  Speaker 2: Texas will play the winner of UC Irvine and UA B.
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  Speaker 2: If they play UA B will be the fourth time
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  Speaker 2: they will have played this year twice in the regular
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  Speaker 2: season and they split those. UAD beat North Texas in
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: the American Conference Tournament semifinals, and they're playing UC r Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: The other side of that bracket, Chattanooga will play the
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  Speaker 2: winner of Kent State in Loyola Chicago. So right now
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at six teams. That are six schools that
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  Speaker 2: have both their men's and women's teams still alive. And
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  Speaker 2: then there's that other tournament. I wanted that one other
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  Speaker 2: men's tournament, which is called what's it called the Crown
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: College GM The Crown, right, the College Basketball Crown, That's
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: what it's called. And it doesn't even start until Monday.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: They say, how can that be? They wanted to wait
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: until it got through the Sweet sixteen. Fox is really
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: the big money behind this and it's at the MGM
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: Grant in Vegas. So the teams that are in this
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: is men's tournament. The teams that are in it are
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: Utah is playing Butler. There's another team Butler, So you
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  Speaker 2: can count that that's seven teams. George Washington's playing State,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: Nebraska's playing Arizona State, Georgetown is playing Washington State on
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  Speaker 2: one side of the brack on the other side, to
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: Paul against Cincinnati, Oregon State against UCF, Colorado against Villanova,
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  Speaker 2: and Tulane against sc SC men and women are So
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  Speaker 2: that's eight eight.
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  Speaker 1: That's the answer to the question.
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  Speaker 2: There are eight schools that still have two teams, both
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  Speaker 2: a men's team and women's team playing post season basketball
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  Speaker 2: of some sort. Not all in the NCAAA, not even
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: all in the NITS, but with all of the postseason
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  Speaker 2: basketball going on, I bet a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 2: know there was still that much postseason basketball going on
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: all Right, coming up, we're going to talk some college
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: baseball with Ty Harrington when we continue on thirteen under
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  Speaker 2: the Zone. He's Ty Harrington, of course, twenty years a
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: college baseball head coach at Texas State, former Longhorn assistant
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: coach lifetime. Longhorn now is worked his way nicely into
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: the radio and television realm, but he always had a
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: good appreciation for music. Even though Ty, you been you
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: kind of had a harder rock edge to you. I
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: was surprised to discover in your formative days and your
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: misspent youth there uh at Midway High in the Greater
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  Speaker 2: Waco area and country music.
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  Speaker 1: But have you developed an appreciation for your rock?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 10: Like I have moments, I have moods and moments that
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  Speaker 10: would dictate that I would and sing along moments like
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  Speaker 10: everybody else.
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  Speaker 3: And I still think that.
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  Speaker 10: I'm a you know, professional singer of some sort of
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  Speaker 10: at least to me.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean jan's a great description.
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  Speaker 14: Yes, I'm a country boy, good old boy that does
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  Speaker 14: love country music.
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  Speaker 1: But do you have.
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  Speaker 3: A love for rock or all music?
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  Speaker 10: And to be honest with you, uh, yeah, play a
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  Speaker 10: little more anti rock than most people.
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  Speaker 3: Probably would think.
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  Speaker 5: Uh you know again, I.
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  Speaker 10: Go people offening out the like if somebody ask young
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  Speaker 10: Glory is Ascue was your favorite band?
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  Speaker 3: Favorite? This and that?
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  Speaker 14: And outside of you know, you know several you know,
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  Speaker 14: local country artists and you know you get to listen
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  Speaker 14: to often enough.
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  Speaker 16: But you know, led Zeppelin if I went back to
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 16: my lifestyle and time was my favorite band.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: See that always amazes me.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it does mean too, it does mean to
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 3: it once.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean that's just how you roll it. I
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: sort of say that's how you roll in Woodway, But
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: did you live in Woodway or Hewitt when you went
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: to Midway?
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  Speaker 5: I did?
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  Speaker 1: I lived in Woodway. I did.
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  Speaker 5: I lived in Woodway.
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  Speaker 14: We were one of the newer additions way back in
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  Speaker 14: seventy five and ninth that'd be.
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  Speaker 3: Nineteen seventy five.
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  Speaker 10: And in our house. Find our house and you can
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 10: walk all the way into the lake. Looked was several
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  Speaker 10: miles through the woods.
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  Speaker 3: If you try to do it now, you'll be jumping
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  Speaker 3: for rooftop to rooftop.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, wood Way was in the stage drive.
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  Speaker 3: Now, that's not to say that we and go to.
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  Speaker 10: Waco and drive up and down Valley Mills Drive like
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 10: everybody else did.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you were cruising, all right. So so.
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  Speaker 2: Would it be safe to say that wood Way is
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: a lot different now that Chip and Jojo have sunk
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  Speaker 2: their palls into it.
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  Speaker 10: It's it's it's easy to say that Waco in general
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  Speaker 10: is different.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, And would will be too?
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  Speaker 10: I mean yeah, I mean with the with the growth
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 10: of what they brought to the table.
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  Speaker 3: You know, then there was that explosion of Baylor.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 10: Athletics chewing football, and it had an impact it did.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 3: On Waco as well.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 10: Kind of combined chipping and football took on for Baylor,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 10: you know, and then there was you know that was there.
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  Speaker 3: And there, and I think I had a big background.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: Now it's it's Waco has continued to grow.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let me uh, let me have you jump
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  Speaker 2: in uh with your thoughts first of all on uh,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to the mid of major route to
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: start with.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: First of all, and.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 4: Ask you how good do you see?
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: Uh? UTSA right now?
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: They got obviously they had a big performance against Texas
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: State and they had the twelve inning win against Longhorns.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: They beat Texas A and m give let me give
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  Speaker 2: me give get your thoughts on UTSA and also Texas
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: State right now.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's start with.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, Tetcha State and then and it's look, they've been struggling.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 16: I know people sometimes going in here and they can
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 16: always say it's an excuse, but the reality is they've
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 16: been They've got they've had four players out and it
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 16: is I mean, you know, look, I tell people this.
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  Speaker 3: This is a fair statement. I don't expect everybody to
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: understand it. I know you understand it when I say.
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  Speaker 10: This, but you know, some people will use to stay well,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 10: next man up, right, well, the next man up often enough,
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 10: there's a reason.
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  Speaker 3: Why he was the next man up, and uh. And
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  Speaker 3: so they've been injured a little bit. They played better
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: last weekend.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 10: They threw the ball better last weekend against Arkansas State, and.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: Then the UTSA game last night. Actually, believe it or not,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: they were on the verge of b and beat.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 10: In seven innings and then they battled back and did
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 10: the tying run come on at the night. So hopefully
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 10: they're getting some I know they're getting some of those
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 10: injury guys back, So that is going to help and
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 10: they need it now with Coastal Carolina coming in this weekend.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: Coastal is the top twenty five teen.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 10: Have been up and down, but the Coastal is better
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 10: on the madle this year than.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 16: What they've been offensively, and they're usually.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 10: Historically in the opposite. Now let's move switch gears and
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 10: move the UTSA.
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  Speaker 16: You know, pet Homer is a tremendous coach, by the way,
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 16: and has been.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: For a long time.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 16: He was with Wayne Graham for a long time as
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 16: an assistant coach.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 10: He's one of those coaches that does.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: What comes to his mind, whatever he feels like is
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: going to work in that moment. It does not matter
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: to him.
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  Speaker 16: If he feels like that, it's not it goes against
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 16: the book, goes.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 14: Against the green, whatever that book is or whoever wrote
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 14: that book.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 3: He's willing to.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 10: Do whatever it takes, and in his mind he runs
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 10: his offense and it's pitching that way. What I mean
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 10: by that, he's leveled to pull a picture out in
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 10: the middle of the cow, he's leveled to put a hitter.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a lot of different things. So he's
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 3: a really really good coach. I think there.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 10: When I saw them against Texans, I watched the Ale
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 10: team of that night, they were really physical.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 3: My recollection f them when you go through their lineup,
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 3: and then they kept bringing arms.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 10: And now against Texas, they brought their starters back, some
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 10: of their weekend starters back, right, You reported that and
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 10: you saw that. But they also were able to finish
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 10: with guys that you know, if you go in there
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 10: and compare what you know, the velostity looks like there
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 10: are a lot of Power five schools. It's at ninety two
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 10: to ninety seven range, right, Well, they kept rolling guys
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 10: out there, one right after another, and there was probably
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 10: a little bit of a juice and the energy involved
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 10: it too, if they were fired up. But everything looked
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 10: it was ninety three to ninety five as well, and
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 10: what commanded the breakers.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: And so I do think they're good. They've played. They
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: played well on the road as well.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 10: And oftentimes, like it is for a lot of people,
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 10: if they stay healthy, I think they're a team to continue.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 10: I do they show me enough offensively, And it doesn't
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 10: mean again.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: That somebody doesn't get hurt.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 14: You know, who knows what happens.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: But I thought they handled the ball well.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 10: Obviously I know them to be well coach, and I
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 10: thought they were physical on the offensive part of the game.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: That they can score from home plate and they can.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 10: Score with two outs because they have enough balance to
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 10: create offense.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: One alta talking college baseball with high Herington here on
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: thirteen hundreds, All right, ty long WRN fans understandably excited,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: and rightly so. They're twenty and three and they're tied
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: the top the conference stag standings at five and one.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: Now I throw this in not to throw cold water
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: on anything, but it's simply as a reminder of the
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: new world that they are in h They are five
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: and one in the league and they're twenty and three overall.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: Arkansas is five and one in the league and twenty
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: three and three overall. Tennessee is five and one in
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: the league and twenty three and two overall, and Georgia's
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: five and one in the league and twenty five and
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: two coming off a weekend where they went to a
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: nationally ranked Florida team in Gainesville, swept all three games,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: scored forty runs in the process eight runs Friday, seventeen,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: Saturday fifteen Sunday. They run rule the Gators on their
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: own home field on Sunday. So the only reason why
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: I bring this up, and there's a one two, three, four,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: five six way tie one game back of them with Alabama, LSU, Oklahoma, Auburn, Vanderbilt,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: and Ole Miss is just as Jim Schlasnek would say,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: this is the deepest waters Texas has ever collectively swam
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: in in a conference baseball season.
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  Speaker 4: Agree, yes, one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 14: I thought so when you say into deeper waters, I
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 14: mean I thought last weekend was a great representation of
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 14: you know, how the water starts to look and feel
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 14: and then when you start talking about all those teams
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 14: and those programs and how good they are, and it's
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 14: not it's not bad scheduling.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's reality. That's who they are. And
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: it's almost like saying thing.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 16: If the coach and go through your schedule, I'll try
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 16: out to shift too many heres here.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 3: But when you're the coach, you start to schedule and go, hey, look,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 3: I feel like we.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 16: Got a chance to win two out of three here
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  Speaker 16: on the road.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 3: We do that, that's great. If we do.
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  Speaker 14: When you start looking at the weekends and.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 3: In the sec and what that represents, man, I mean,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 3: you play.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 17: Bad, you got a chance to get those two favor
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 17: gets slopped if.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: You play bad. And and the other piece of that
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 3: is if you do go through a blicken are one
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 3: and ever you get injured or something like that, you're
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 3: gonna you're gonna have some rough moments. If you don't,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 3: you know, watch out or if you don't came great down,
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 3: what if makes you do? And it's says we're I'm
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 3: wild be surprised.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 16: If if if it you know, if if PLEXI fees
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 16: a different direction with this, if they stay injury free,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 16: is that it requires you to play your best.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 14: It required, it demands that if you want to be
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 14: successful in this league and you want to get to
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 14: that you know, you.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 3: Know you're here Kirch Flack's talking about. You got to
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: get to that fifteen.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 14: Win mark in the SEC, and then you run the risk,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 14: then you run the ability to be able to host
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 14: and you know, and be you know, on national scene
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 14: and do some other things right in this league in
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 14: the SEC.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: And and and when more in that cheer than you
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: really are.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 3: But the reality is you have to play your bet
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 3: and that's it. I mean, ain't got to be good enough,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 3: which which Texas is, but you got.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 16: And you got to stay healthy, which they are right now.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 16: And you have to play your best when you line up.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: If you don't make, you gonn not do sock zones.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: Uh And the only other reason to bring this up
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: is to let you give a little bit of perspective
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: on who else's contender.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: Here's where I'm going with this.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: If you look at the D one pole and the
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: other poles, and there's a bunch of them in college baseball.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: For whatever reason, there's more poles in college baseball than
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: any other sport.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: But I don't know why that is, but it is.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: But in the D one Baseball poll, which many followed
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: pretty closely, the top three teams are SEC teams Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: Then you have Florida State and Oregon State and Clemson.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: Then the next three are SEC teams Texas, LSU and Oklahoma.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: So six of the top nine are SEC teams. Oregon
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: is tenth, Auburn is eleventh, Alabama is twelve, So eight
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: of the top twelve are SEC. Southern Mississippi is thirteen,
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: Vanderbilt is fourteen, and Ole Miss is fifteen. Ten of
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: the top fifteen are from the Southeastern Conference. So with
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: all that factored in, with everything you talked about, who
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: else do you see as being really really good and
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: would be if people were saying you take the SEC,
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: any team from the SEC or the field to win
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: in Omaha in June.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: If you just looked at.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: The rankings right now, maybe the top tendants would be
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: Florida State, Oregon State, Clemson, Oregon, Southern miss Wait Forest
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: is sixteen, Dallas Baptist is seventeen. Then you have Louisville,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: U See, Irvine, Stanford, North Carolina, Troy, Arizona, UCLA, and
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: Georgia Tech and Coastal Carolina you just mentioned it just
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: dropped out of the poll, but they're in the others
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: receiving votes.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 7: So you're asking me where, see, what would be.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: The big if you were to pick a school or
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: two today to be the biggest threat, to be better
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: than than when all the smoke clears, than any of
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: those ten of the top fifteen schools that are SEC
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: schools that are ranked right now, which school or schools
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: really leap off the page to you?
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 14: Yeah, okay, Well to me, it's going to follow in
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 14: a lot of Tennessee, it's going to fall in line with.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 3: Believe it or not, I think Florida State is really good.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 3: The chance to watch them on TV, I do. I
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 3: think they're really good.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: Walk off Grand Slam, Yeah, walk off Grand Slam. So,
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: if it was going to be someone other than an
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: SEC school other than in Tennessee or Arkansas or Georgia,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: who looks really good right now? If you were to pick,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: and again, like I said, Florida State is fourth in
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: the pole, Oregon State is five, Clemson is six, Oregon
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: is ten, Southern miss is thirteen. Wait, for sixteen Dallas
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: Patricks cent Anyway, those are some of the other ones
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: outside of those ten of the top fifteen, who are
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: SEC schools?
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: What school or schools do you think it all?
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 16: Yeah, it's gonna have to be.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: It's gonna have to be. I saw Oregon State three
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 3: times early in the year. They really physical. I don't
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 3: know that they had the bullpen that through enough strikes
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 3: for me right now, but to me, it would be
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 3: it would have to be. You know, the Ford State.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 10: I saw Clinicon too, and you know you I think
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 10: he made assault Clenters will do that open wekend.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure they were up there, uh huh, yeah.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 3: I think they're they're there.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: He felt like it was the best team that they'd
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 3: ever assemble.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 16: He felt like they were going to be a topping team.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 16: Outside of that, I don't I mean, it really takes one.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 3: I mean you're asking, you're asking question.
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  Speaker 4: That's my point exactly.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 3: No, No, I mean I got at you know, my
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: brain right now.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 16: And just I mean, man, and the last statement you
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 16: made before you background to mean was Georgia is playing good.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I just don't know. I mean, it would
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 3: have to be a Florida State or it'd have to be.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 10: Yeah, And I've seen limited, limited of Florida State.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 3: Except from TV.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: Clinson I did see in person.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Florida State won on a walk off Grand Slam
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: to beat Florida last night.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 4: Meeting them in a midweek are there? Uh to do
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 4: it all?
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: Hey, I appreciate the time.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 17: Uh.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: I know you've got busy things going on both in
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: San Marcos with baseball with the long words up here,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: but I know I'll see you around the corner here
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: pretty soon, right.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 3: You will.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 10: Good luck with your travels, yes, and everything you've got
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 10: going on with my women's basketball and your coaches and
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 10: you know they traveling.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 3: Baseball as well, and I.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 17: Would sell you what you know, I think what is
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 17: going to happen now, I think you probably when you
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 17: would going to run in baseball, right, I think people
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 17: would kind of listen and they would.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 16: Listening to you, and they would, you know, watch some
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 16: they would do their best to keep I think this
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 16: last weekend.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 14: And everything everybody you see and the momentum that.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 17: They had, Uh, you're gonna have a large audience again,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 17: and uh, it's it's exciting, It really is and I
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 17: think you would agree with me.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 14: Last weekend was really exciting, no doubt.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 3: I have two blue woods like LSU and Texans were up.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 16: It was a heavy weight fine on Saturday that was
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 16: an absolute heavyweight and.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 14: Both teams just absolutely going at each other. And then
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 14: a thought Sunday and I think he's alcohol. Sunday was
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 14: just an incredibly fun, great college baseball game, and uh,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 14: three weekend is going.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 3: To be exciting. It is what it is. The SEC
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 3: is exactly what it's going to be, and they.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: Are, Yeah, it's gonna be great. Hey, Todd, thanks for
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: the time. I appreciate it.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 10: You got it.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: You moa, thank you. That's Ty Herrington. He's right.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: I mean it's going to be very difficult for one
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: of those SEC teams to be unseated, you know, and
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see how many teams get TOMA.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: I know there was a lot made of fourteen SEC
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: teams making the NCAA basketball tournament. You know, ten of
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: the top fifteen ranked teams, just ranked teams or SEC
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: teams in baseball. That postseason and tournament in Hoover ought
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: to be interesting because it's single elimination, sixteen teams just
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: like the Big twelve.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll be back here. More from Vic Shafer
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: when we continue on thirteen under the Zone.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: Let's hear some more as the Texas when we're prepared
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: to leave town tomorrow. More on this matchup with Tennessee
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: and going to the Sweet sixteen with head coach Vick Shaffer.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 11: You know, Rory is really good, Shay is outstanding. Rory
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 11: and Shay sitting next to each other, Booker's good about it,
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 11: and those three are right there and they really do
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 11: it a job in that front row. Taylor's over there
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 11: as a veteran, she does a good job.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 5: Those are the ones I kind of noticed because I'm close.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 11: To them when we're sitting in there. But you know,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 11: they've they've come to understand the importance of taking notes.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 15: Yes, she how has she kind of been mentally these
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 15: past couple of games?
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 5: Not shooting the ball?
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 11: Wall?
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 15: But how have you seen her just kind of respond
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 15: to that adversity and practices.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 11: And stem She's been great? You know, you don't she's unflappable.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 11: I mean, she's just she's as solid as any kid
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 11: I've ever had.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 5: And you don't see that. It's you know, it's not.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 11: Like she's walking around going oh my god, oh my god,
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 11: oh my god.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 5: I you know this, and that she shot fifty percent
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 5: in the game the other day.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 11: And again the athleticism, how hard she plays, you know,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 11: she just she's really somebody again that brings so much
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 11: to the table. You can't get tied up with one
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 11: thing that maybe she might not be as good at
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 11: as some of the other things she does. And again
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 11: she's shooting and in practice and making everything she looks at,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 11: trust me, and so you know it'll fall.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 11: She obviously had a big game at Missippi State late
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 11: in the year, made four out of six from three
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 11: Kit can make shots, like I think the other night
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 11: she took.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 5: One, she rushed one from the left side on the wing.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 11: Again, she just trying, you know, she wants to wants
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 11: to help us, and she's trying to make a shot.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 11: But that one was probably hotly contested. But other than that,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 11: she is she understands what a good shot is in
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 11: time and place. That's the biggest thing with young kids
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 11: is time and place.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 5: And so you know, Jock took.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 11: One from the perimeter the other night early in the
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 11: clock out there at the three point line.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 5: I'm like, that's not time and place.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 11: And this is something that my staff continues to impart
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 11: on our kids, is just trying to educate them on
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 11: time and place. And so again, Shay is again she's unflappable.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 11: She's as solid as anybody, and from a mental capacity,
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 11: she's as tough as males.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: You ever shot.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 5: I mean, I live with it. I live and die
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 5: with it during the game.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 11: If y'all pay attention, I mean, I'm over there agonizing
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 11: with every turnover, every shot, I mean everything, I'm I'm
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 11: I'm you know, and to a fault. Really, I I uh,
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 11: you know, I have to kind of watch myself a
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 11: little bit because that can affect you know, who's on
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 11: the floor, and I don't want to do that. I'm
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 11: not there to do that, but I'm just you know,
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 11: uh Rory and I joke about it all the time.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 11: I live and die with every movement that kid makes
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 11: because she's an extension of me.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 5: And you know, when.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 11: She makes a great play or or might have a turnover,
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 11: like I just I agonize with all of that. And again,
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 11: it's you know, it's not like it's just something that
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 11: I have to kind of evaluate myself on sometimes.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 5: But it's not just her.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 11: I do it with all of them, you know, Taylor,
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 11: missus a bunny. I'm I'm over there probably having a
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 11: conniption in your eyes. But you know, when you work
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 11: so hard to get those looks and get those shots,
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 11: you gotta cash them. And the other night, you know,
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 11: we I think you know, we had a chance to
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 11: feed the post. We turned it down. We had two
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 11: in the lane, gave them our numbers and we turned
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 11: it down. Well, that's the mentality of a post player, y'all.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 11: You go down there, you lay on people, you're rubbing
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 11: shoulders and exchanging sweat. You get a tough rebound, you
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 11: throw it, you run the floor. You go down there
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 11: and post and some guard don't.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 5: Throw you the ball.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 11: That's how tough mentally that your bigs have to be,
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 11: because you just did all the dirty work, ran down
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 11: the floor, and they don't reward you. And then so
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 11: now you've got to go back down there and do
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 11: that again, and then hope that you run the floor
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 11: again and they reward you. And and so you know,
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 11: I'm living and dying with that too. So I see
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 11: it all, and I live and die with it all.
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 11: But as I've told my team, part of my part
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 11: of my living with this team is that I know
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 11: how good they are. I know what the opportunity is
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 11: in front of them, and they're good enough, and I
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 11: want it badly for them. Again, as somebody you know,
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 11: I was talking to SEC Radio this morning and they
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 11: were talking about do you talk to your kids about
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 11: taking things for granted? You know, when you see something
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 11: like what happened with ju Ju, which your heart goes
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 11: out to her and the whole team, do you talk
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 11: about that. I'm like, guys, I talk about it three
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 11: four times a week, Like we circle up before practice
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 11: every day and I'm telling them or after practice, and
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 11: I'm telling them, you don't you think this is what
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 11: we do because it is what we've done, but you
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 11: don't take it for granted, Like these times are fleeting.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 11: I know we've done this now a bunch and you think, well,
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 11: it's just what we do, and it is what we do,
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 11: but you just can't take it for granted because you
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 11: never know when the next hiccup's going to be. And
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 11: the same as true injury wise. You know, when I
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 11: tell them, don't take this for granted, y'all. This team
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 11: is special, This opportunity is special, This time in your
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 11: life is special.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 5: Don't take it for granted.
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  Speaker 11: In Royal Go yep, don't you know, because you know
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  Speaker 11: she's been through it, Amogo yep.
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  Speaker 5: Don't you know. Jordana yep, don't you know?
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  Speaker 11: Because you just you hope that day never happens, but
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  Speaker 11: you never know.
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  Speaker 5: So man live.
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  Speaker 11: It each and every day because you just don't know
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  Speaker 11: when this opportunity comes again.
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  Speaker 5: Again. We've done it.
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  Speaker 11: We've been in this position for out the five years
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  Speaker 11: we've been here. We did it at Mississippi State, have
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  Speaker 11: me straight years.
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  Speaker 5: But you can't take it for granted.
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  Speaker 11: I would say that to this group standing here, you
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  Speaker 11: young people, you don't take this time in your life
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  Speaker 11: for granted because unfortunately, in life, things happen, and they
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  Speaker 11: happen to good people. And so you when that happens again,
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  Speaker 11: remember it's not it's how you respond that defines you.
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  Speaker 11: You look at Rory Harmon to me, how she's responded
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  Speaker 11: to this definds who she is. It says everything you
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  Speaker 11: need to know about Rory Harmon. And again you've got
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  Speaker 11: to give her a ton of credit.
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  Speaker 15: Get this a little off topic, but in the past,
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  Speaker 15: you've had a pretty good working relationship with Chris and Rodney,
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  Speaker 15: and I'm kind of wondering a Sean coming in. You
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  Speaker 15: know your thoughts on that and how important is it
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  Speaker 15: tend to be synonymous with the coaches on the other side.
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  Speaker 5: Of this facility.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean I've always had great relationships everywhere I've
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  Speaker 11: been with the men's head coach, and again, they have
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  Speaker 11: their life and their things going on, and we certainly
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  Speaker 11: do ours as well. But again, you know, Rodney was
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  Speaker 11: someone that I have deep respect and admiration for, and
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  Speaker 11: I know Sean is a great coach, and I haven't
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  Speaker 11: had a chance to meet him, but I know he's
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  Speaker 11: asked our administration about me, and and so there'll be
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  Speaker 11: a chance when we have a chance to meet each
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  Speaker 11: other and visit. I know he's going to have to
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  Speaker 11: hit the ground running, and he knows I'm involved with
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  Speaker 11: what I'm doing right now. But it is really important
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  Speaker 11: to answer your question. You know, we need to work together,
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  Speaker 11: whether it's on practice times or gain. You know, we
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  Speaker 11: get this calendar, y'all, and most places it's just hey,
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  Speaker 11: what days do you.
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  Speaker 5: Want to play? What day does you want to play.
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  Speaker 11: Well, it's what days you want to play, what do
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  Speaker 11: you want to play and what day is it available,
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  Speaker 11: you know, and so we really have to work closely
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  Speaker 11: on all that.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, I'm i'm i'm i'm.
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  Speaker 11: I'm confident that Sewan will be great and be great
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  Speaker 11: to work with, and again excited for for them and
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  Speaker 11: their opportunity, and I'm here to help any way I can.
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  Speaker 2: There it is Vic Schaffer with some wards there of
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  Speaker 2: excitement and encouragement for the new men's head coach Sean
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  Speaker 2: Miller coming in to lead the Texas men's program. We'll
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  Speaker 2: be back to wrap up today's edition of the program
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  Speaker 2: here on thirteen Out of the Zone