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Live from the Disch as Texas Baseball hosts UTRGV with Craig Way and Ty Harrington · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: What should be a pretty palatable evening for baseball takes
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  Speaker 1: place tonight at UFCU dish Fawkfield. Good afternoon, everybody, Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under
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  Speaker 1: the Zone.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Craig Way.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us as we bring you the
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  Speaker 1: program today from UFCU dish falk Field. Tonight, the Texas
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  Speaker 1: Longhorns take on the Vcaros at the University of Texas
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  Speaker 1: Riereo Graham Valley UTRGV, as we commonly refer to the Vicaros.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple of interesting wrinkles about this game that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get to as the program goes forward.
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  Speaker 1: But there's plenty of other things on our plate that
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  Speaker 1: will continue to discuss today, football, basketball, baseball, different things
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  Speaker 1: to discuss, and of course discussing it with us as
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  Speaker 1: always the producer of the program, Cameron D. Parker, the
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  Speaker 1: dal Labverirth Certificate stands for Dallas, as in his favorite
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  Speaker 1: pro football team that he does that he chooses not
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  Speaker 1: to follow because he's frustrated with Jerry.
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  Speaker 2: Jones and management and ownership of that nature.
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  Speaker 1: But today Cam, does Dallas stand for the Dallas Wings
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  Speaker 1: or does it stand for dumb ass, Nico, we get
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  Speaker 1: a media availability and that did not allow cameras for
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  Speaker 1: recording devices.
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  Speaker 2: Mavericks general manager, Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Craig. How about that? Dumbfounded? When I saw
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  Speaker 3: the report that Nico Harrison was holding a meeting with
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  Speaker 3: select members of the Dallas media, but they could not
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  Speaker 3: record it. They couldn't bring tape recorders, they couldn't record
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  Speaker 3: it with their phone, they couldn't video record it.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe that.
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  Speaker 3: Here we are a month, two months removed from the
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  Speaker 3: Leucodonta's trade, and Nico Harrison still does not get it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it just screams insecurity, Craig. It screams of
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  Speaker 3: This team is trying to defend their actions. But guess what,
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  Speaker 3: you can't defend it. You've lost the trade, you've lost
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  Speaker 3: the fan base. But they keep doing things that makes
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  Speaker 3: it worse, in worse. I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The thing I guess that really gets me is
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  Speaker 1: what I'm not understanding about this is that surely, surely
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  Speaker 1: he and the Dumont family and all of that Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Dumont and the rest of the ownership group and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, surely they understand now if they didn't initially,
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  Speaker 1: how horrible this has become in terms of public relations,
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  Speaker 1: for the organization, for the fan base, all those things.
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  Speaker 1: And even if even if your idea was just to
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  Speaker 1: try to make money off the whole thing, and he
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  Speaker 1: really didn't care about the players, which that seems to
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  Speaker 1: be screaming the message coming from them. But even if
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  Speaker 1: that is indeed the case, wouldn't you want to do
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  Speaker 1: something to at least put a little damage control on it?
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  Speaker 1: And maybe the damage is irreparable now, But if you
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  Speaker 1: thought it couldn't get worse, it gets worse with a
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  Speaker 1: thing like this where somebody says, yeah, I'll meet with
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  Speaker 1: some members of the media, but there's to be no
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  Speaker 1: recording of this and uh and no photography and.
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  Speaker 2: None of that.
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  Speaker 1: What's the point I mean if you're maybe he's you know,
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  Speaker 1: with whatever some members of the media to explain.
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  Speaker 2: So, does that.
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  Speaker 1: Mean that they in turn are not allowed to write
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  Speaker 1: about that or talk about that on the air or
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  Speaker 1: on camera or whatever. Is that what that means? If so,
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  Speaker 1: what's the point of even having that meeting? Because if
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking that maybe somewhere down the line that that
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  Speaker 1: a columnist or whoever is in there is going to
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  Speaker 1: do you a solid by not bashing you. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: silly in its own right. So anyway, I when I
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  Speaker 1: saw that, I was like, really so because maybe this
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  Speaker 1: is on a media level kind of like what they
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  Speaker 1: did last week. And here's what I mean by that
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  Speaker 1: cameraon I listen. I understand the motivation behind doing the
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  Speaker 1: tribute video to Luka Dancic. I think it would have
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  Speaker 1: made them look worse if they just ignored it. So
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  Speaker 1: I think they had to do that, and it was
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  Speaker 1: really well done what they I don't know if they
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  Speaker 1: were expecting this, but whether they were or not, the
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  Speaker 1: unexpected consequence for a lot of people, it just made
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  Speaker 1: it worse for fans a lot of times. In a
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  Speaker 1: lot of cases, it just kind of inflamed their passions
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  Speaker 1: all the more. You can't really control it at that point.
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  Speaker 1: If you're the Mavericks. They didn't really have a choice.
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  Speaker 1: They had to do the tribute video, even though it
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  Speaker 1: was going to make people a lot of angrier. Well,
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  Speaker 1: in this case, it's like, maybe we can, you know,
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  Speaker 1: do a little damage control and have Nico explain it
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  Speaker 1: to some of the media that covers the team. Extensively
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, the select media whatever explain it. But all
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  Speaker 1: that's going to do is backfire on the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the media who aren't invited, who don't get to write about,
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  Speaker 1: who don't get to record it. So that's the unintended
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  Speaker 1: consequence there. So I I just I keep seeing them
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  Speaker 1: blow one toe off of their foot time with this,
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  Speaker 1: with every move they make. It's it's unfathomable to me
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  Speaker 1: that an organization with professional people, whether you whether you
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  Speaker 1: know basketball or not, and who is it Patrick Dumont
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  Speaker 1: Cameron who readily admitted to not knowing you know whatever
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  Speaker 1: for a pick and roll from picking his nose or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you don't know basketball, you've got to have
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  Speaker 1: some sense of understanding what moves like this are gonna
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  Speaker 1: do in terms of alienating your fan base, your local media,
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  Speaker 1: and even some national media.
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  Speaker 3: It's almost like they want to control the narrative by saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna have these select people come in, these reporters
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  Speaker 3: that we know, but we want to tell the story
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  Speaker 3: our own way.
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  Speaker 2: But the thing is, Craig, you can't do that.
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  Speaker 3: The story's been told and Nico Harrison and Rick Welts,
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  Speaker 3: the CEO, who also spoke with this select group of
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  Speaker 3: Dallas media.
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  Speaker 2: They don't understand it that you've already lost to trade.
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  Speaker 3: No matter how many times you explain it, you're not
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  Speaker 3: gonna be able to make it make sense.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's like when someone cheats on their partner and they
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  Speaker 3: keep coming back with different excuses in time and time again,
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  Speaker 3: you know you've already cheated. It's too late, You've already
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  Speaker 3: treated Luca Doncis. It's too late. And in one of
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  Speaker 3: the comments from Rick welts that and it's funny because
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  Speaker 3: it's screamed Jerry Jones and I think back to the
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  Speaker 3: last this end of season press conference, and it may
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  Speaker 3: have been even before the season started with Jerry Jones.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was an aug nerd Well, Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 3: and Stephen Jones and Mike McCarthy, and it may have
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  Speaker 3: been forget Clarence Still may have asked the question about
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  Speaker 3: can you sense the fan base is now apathetic? And
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  Speaker 3: Stephen Jones said, well, no, look at our season ticket sales.
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  Speaker 3: They've gone up right, which is complete bull crap because
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  Speaker 3: we all know Dallas Cowboys fans are more apathetic than ever.
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  Speaker 3: But Rick Welt said in this media Craig when asked
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  Speaker 3: about you know, the the fiery fans and all of that,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, the Channing fire and Eco and losing
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  Speaker 3: the fan base, and Welt said, well, you know, actually
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  Speaker 3: look at our season ticket Reneal Rate, it's gone up.
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  Speaker 3: They don't get it, Craig Welts, Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones.
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  Speaker 3: They don't understand what is happening to the city of
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  Speaker 3: Dallas and how these two franchises are completely losing their
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  Speaker 3: fan base for two separate reasons, but also two similar
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  Speaker 3: reasons in that they're being run by brain dead people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just it's just and I didn't think that
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  Speaker 1: it could be made much worse than it has been made,
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  Speaker 1: so it's.
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  Speaker 2: But apparently it has been.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I said, it's unfathomable to meet professional people
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  Speaker 1: not understanding the damage that goes to your organization, whether
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  Speaker 1: you're you know, a basketball purist or no basketball or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: but just understanding how that alienates large groups of people.
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  Speaker 1: And now they've you know, added it to those of
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  Speaker 1: the media who are not allowed to be present for that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's you're not going to win any friends
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  Speaker 1: or influence anybody. By doing that. So anyway, that's it's made.
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  Speaker 1: Let me put it to you this way, Cameron. It
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  Speaker 1: has been well established on this program that the NBA
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  Speaker 1: team you root for is the Oklahoma City Thunder. Given
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  Speaker 1: that you're a long suffering and I do emphasize the
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  Speaker 1: words suffering Cowboys fan, what do you think that fans
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  Speaker 1: are like in Dallas who've been long suffering Cowboys and
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks fans. What they're going through now with two owners
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  Speaker 1: who continually alienate the fan base, at least the Rangers.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when they when they stumble over themselves, they
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  Speaker 1: try to make it right. And they made it right
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  Speaker 1: in the most obvious way by winning a world championship
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, So they bought themselves a few
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  Speaker 1: years of grace, I think, but even with some of
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  Speaker 1: the news that they've made in the past. But this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Mavericks get to the NBA Finals a
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  Speaker 1: year ago, and I think folks were excited about what
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  Speaker 1: could come with healthy bodies, and then this deal comes
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  Speaker 1: and it just starts to blow everything up. Can you
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  Speaker 1: imagine what it must be like for long suffering Mavericks
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  Speaker 1: and Cowboys fans?
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  Speaker 3: Their mental health must be in the gutter right now, Greg,
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  Speaker 3: And hey, you mentioned, you know, the Mavericks and Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: The Stars are completely collapsing right now. They're on a
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  Speaker 3: six geame losing streak after looking like one of the
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  Speaker 3: best teams in hockey. And then the Rangers, who after
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  Speaker 3: an offseason of spending, can't hit the baseball. So things
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  Speaker 3: aren't going great in Dallas right now for the professional
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  Speaker 3: sports franchises.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to get in. But like
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  Speaker 1: I said, there's hope for the Dallas Wings of the WNBA.
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  Speaker 2: They had the number one of our all pick in
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  Speaker 2: the draft.
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  Speaker 1: They took Page Becker's They had what three picks in
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  Speaker 1: the first fourteen. They got Madison Scott from Old Miss
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  Speaker 1: that you know we saw. I called the game at
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss when Texas played them. You called the game
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  Speaker 1: in the SEC tournament. She's a player. I really like her.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a that's a good addition to them.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean there's some you know, maybe there's
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  Speaker 1: some hope for the Dallas Wings if nobody else.
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  Speaker 2: In the in the.
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Fort Worth pro sports scene. All right, we've got
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  Speaker 1: some other things to get to. Obviously, we'll talk some
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  Speaker 1: college base Like I said, get some interesting notes about
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  Speaker 1: this Texas UTRGV matchup that might otherwise might kind of
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  Speaker 1: slide under your personal radar, even if you are a
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  Speaker 1: Longhorn baseball fan. Ty Harrington will join us in the
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  Speaker 1: four o'clock hour here in the booth. He's working the
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  Speaker 1: telecast tonight on the SEC network. Plus Tier and Tyle
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  Speaker 1: joined us, and we'll have our weekly conversation about college
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  Speaker 1: baseball and the SEC in the state of Texas and
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  Speaker 1: Non conference Tuesday in college baseball, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: to first pitch tonight. I've been hearing this and reading this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, with regard to Texas that this is quote
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  Speaker 1: unquote it's a short week because they have the game
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  Speaker 1: with Auburn coming in here.
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  Speaker 2: All of that is true.
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  Speaker 1: What is also true is that just about every division
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  Speaker 1: college baseball program in the country this week has a
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  Speaker 1: short week because most are in observance of Easter weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Now I don't think it's one hundred percent the case.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that every single college baseball program is
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  Speaker 1: is in observance of Easter Sunday and therefore is not
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  Speaker 1: playing a game on Easter Sunday. There are some that
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  Speaker 1: play on Easter Sunday. I remember, for years in the
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  Speaker 1: Big Twelve Conference there was really only one holdout. Out
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  Speaker 1: of all the schools in the Big Twelve Conference, there
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  Speaker 1: was one holdout and it was Oklahoma State. For years,
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, if they were at home, would play an
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  Speaker 1: Easter Sunday game. And guess what, that's the case again
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  Speaker 1: this year they have a Friday Saturday Sunday series with Houston,
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  Speaker 1: and if I remember correctly, I was told it's because
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  Speaker 1: you know, like with the Major leagues. They get a
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  Speaker 1: big attendance on Easter Sunday. They have a big crowd,
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  Speaker 1: and so they like having that home Easter Sunday date. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you this, if you're a visiting team,
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  Speaker 1: you're not too crazy about it. You've got to travel
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  Speaker 1: home after playing on Easter Sunday. But they've been like that.
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  Speaker 1: There was also dispute a few years ago between Texas
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  Speaker 1: and Oklahoma State, and there had been a change. It
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  Speaker 1: might even have been when they changed to Josh Holiday
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  Speaker 1: as a head coach or operations director or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: and the operations people for Texas were working like a
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  Speaker 1: year in advance, like you have to do intercollegiate athletic
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  Speaker 1: to get hotel rooms reserved and all that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: So at the time, the Big.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve had suggested everybody play Thursday, Friday Saturday on Easter weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and the ops folks at Texas asked the operations people
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  Speaker 1: at Oklahoma State, you know, asked the ops people of
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, you know, is this going to be Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Can we go in and set our set up our
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  Speaker 1: arrangements that way? And they said yes. And then you
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  Speaker 1: get several months on down the road and there was
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  Speaker 1: a different operation staff and they said, oh, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're playing on Easter Sunday. And they said, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: We've already said hotel, Well, we play on Easter Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: That's just what we do.
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  Speaker 1: And Texas wound up appealing to the Big Twelve conference
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  Speaker 1: about that, and the Big Twelve said, yeah, you told
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  Speaker 1: them a year ago that it was going to be
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  Speaker 1: Thursday through Saturday, so you've got to play Thursday through Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: But Oklahoma State does like playing on Easter Sunday, and
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: there's some other programs across the country that'll do that,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: but by and large, Easter Sunday is a day off
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: on the schedule, and and and being a day off
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: on the schedule means that you play Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: So uh, that'll be the case here with with the
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Texas Auburn series, but not only the Texas Auburn series.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Every series, all six series in the SEC will be no,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I stand corrected. There's two that will be Friday Saturday
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: and Sunday. The sixth of the eight the sixth series
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: that will be Thursday, Friday Saturday will be Auburn at Texas, Texas,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: A and M and Arkansas, Alabama at LSU, Georgia at Vanderbilt,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and Ole Miss at South Carolina.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss, by the way, just lost. I had it,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: had it on a monitor here.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Just lost a non conference home game to a sub
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: five hundred little rock team that is not good for
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: your RPI Arkansas Pine Bluff or Arkansas Little Rock. Little Rock,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Little Rock just beat them seven to three. Yeah not
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and on Miss number eleven now and number eleven in
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the country. So yeah, they just they just lost. It
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: just happened. Now seven to three is the final Little
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Rock beat on Miss with that but anyway, uh, those
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: six series on Miss at South Carolina, Georgia at Vanderbilt,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Alabama at LSU Texas and M in Arkansas, Oklahoma at Missouri,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and Auburn at Texas our Thursday Friday Saturday. There are
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: two series that are Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and these
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: are set up for television. One of those is Kentucky
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: at Tennessee, even though their game on Easter Sunday is
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: just an SEC.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Network Plus game.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: But Kentucky at Tennessee and Knoxville is Friday Saturday Sunday.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: The other series that is Friday, Saturday and Sunday is
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Florida at Mississippi State, and that entire series is televised
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  Speaker 1: over the ESPN SEC family of networks. And like Friday Night,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the game's on SEC Network, just regular standard SEC network,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: not SEC Network Plus. The Saturday night game is ESPN
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: two and the Sunday afternoon game is ESPN two. Now,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: this is against the thirteenth and fourteenth place teams in
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the conference. Right now, Mississippi State's five and ten in
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the league and that's coming off taking a weekend series
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: from Alabama. Florida is four and eleven, and that's coming
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: off sweeping Missouri over the weekend. But it's Mississippi State
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: twenty two and fourteen, Florida twenty four and fourteen. Mississippi
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: State's five and ten in the league, Florida's four and
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: eleven the league, and all three games are going to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: be on linear platforms. In other words, it's not going
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: to be on the streaming s SEC Network Plus. In
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: case you're wondering with regard to Texas, Thursday's game with
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Auburn is SEC Network Plus. Friday's game is SEC Network
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Plus and a Saturday's game is SEC Network plus all
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: three games between number one Texas and number eight Auburn
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the number they're as high as number six and one
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: of the polls, but all three of those games are
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: on the streaming platform channel there.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: So that's that's just to let you know.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: You know, it's a busy time obviously in college baseball,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: but some of these programming decisions from the SEC and
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the ESPN family networks are with the mindset that they
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: try to get every team on the linear channels at
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: least a couple of times, and in the case of
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: this Florida Mississippi State series, all three games. Now, this
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: was done back some time when Florida was expected to
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: be a contender at a good team. Remember, Florida started
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: off as a top ten team. They completely fell off
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the radar. They're not ranked right now, but they do
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: have a little bit of momentum coming off sweeping a
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: really bad Missouri team that is er and fifteen in
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the league right now, the teams with the momentum in
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the conference right now, really and truly, yes, you could
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: say Texas, even though they didn't sweep Kentucky, they won
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the series and they've not dropped a series this year,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: either conference or non conference, or twenty nine and five. Overall,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: theyre thirteen and two. Arkansas dropped two of three at Georgia,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: but they're only one game back. Tennessee has a little
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: bit of momentum. They won two of three in their series.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Georgia has some momentum having won two out of three
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: after being swept by Texas week before going backward. Is
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: LSU at ten and five having been swept by Auburn,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: and Auburn really does have the momentum right now at
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: nine and six in the league coming in. So for
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: those who said, well, Texas has really played its most
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: difficult series at home.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: It's worked out that way.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Mississippi State was not viewed in that prism at the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: start of the season, and that's where Texas played its
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: first ever Southeastern Conference series, and it was a sweep
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and it worked out. Missouri was not expected to be
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: a contender, but I don't think anybody expected them to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: be oh to fifteen at the midway mark Conference playing.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Texas swept that series, and then, of course Georgia was
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: number three in the country. LSU was number two in
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the country. LSU took the Friday night game from Texas
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: and then the Long Orangs one Saturday Sunday Georgia. They
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: swept all three games of that series. So it's worked out.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Now here's where the rubber is going to meet the
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: road for the Long Worns. You have Auburn coming in
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: right now, Auburn coming off a series sweep of LSU.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Then you're going to play that other team that has
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: momentum right now.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: That's Texas A and M.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: The Aggie who started one and nine in the league
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: have won five in a row in conference play and
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: six in a row overall. So Texas A and M
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: is now six and nine in the league. Yes, they're
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: tied for twelve or eleventh, I guess you would say
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: in the league right now with Kentucky at six and
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: nine in the conference. But they've put their head back
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: above water in overall at twenty and fifteen, and they've
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: also won seven other last ten And it is, after all,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: what do you call it the Cotton Holdings lone star
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: showdown rivalry series? It's Long Orange v Aggies, and there's
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: that extra bit of incentive A and M. What would
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Jim schlas Nagle and you know and Nolan Kane and
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Max Wiener and other members of Schlass's staff coming over
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: to Austin. Michael Early initially was coming over and then
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: was off for the head coaching job and was on
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the Texas coaching staff what one day, and then went
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: back over to A and M to be the head
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: coach there. So there's all of that emotional incentive going
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: at So Texas has Auburn, a hot Auburn team coming in.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: They have a road game in between down in San Marcus.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: They're only midweek non conference road game. They play at
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: bobcat Ballpark in San Marcus. And of course we know
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Texas State won the midweek game here back a couple
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: of weeks ago, so you had that sandwiched in between
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the Auburn and Texas A and M series. Then they
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: have another non conference game. I think it's against Prairie
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: View at home after that, as I look at the scheduled, yes,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: it would be.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Against Prairie View on the twenty ninth, and then they
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: go to Arkansas.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: So that's gonna be and two of their final three
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: series of the season in conference play or on the road.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: They have five series left, three hundred home two are
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: on the road. Well, they have back to back home
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: series and then they have a road series in Arkansas.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: They have Florida here on the final weekend of the
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: regular season for home games, and then they and then
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: they go to Norman to finish out the regular season
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: in Oklahoma. So anyway, there's still a lot to be done,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a lot to be accomplished. That's one thing that James
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: loastn Negle has pointed out repeatedly, not only that this
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: is a team that has been really beaten up by injuries.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Max Belue with the thumb injury, probably out until probably
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the conference tournament. I hope you have him back by then.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: There's maybe a little bit of outside of hope, maybe
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: he can heal up and be back perhaps for the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma series. But but no promises there no promises on
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: that or even that he'd be ready for the conference tournament.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: And whoter Alabama we don't know yet. And then you
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: have Adrian Rodriguez who had that edema, that blood bruised
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: thing right.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: At the handmad bone. At least he didn't fractal the
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: handmade bone.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: He's been able to come back and take left handed swings,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: but that's obviously going to limit his ability to be
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: in the lnup only against rocky handed pitching for that,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and they've worked him some of the outfield as well.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: As the age.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Uh So you have that, and then hopefully Ethan Mendoza's okay.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: He really got banged up in the Sunday game at
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Kentucky last weekend rolled over on the shoulder making a
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: diving attempt and a stop of a ball.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Hopefully he's all right as well.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: We'll try to find out some more about them than
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: we will before we take care for the baseball game tonight.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Up next, however, we have Indcevable on AM thirteen under
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the Zone, second hour of the program. Here on thirteen
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: under the Zone, as we come away from UFCU Dish
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: fogg Field, Texas Longhorns set to host the Macaros of
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: ut Rio gram Valley tonight. You'll hear that on one
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: O three point one FM, Austin's eighty station, and so
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: to come your way on one oh three point one
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: FM six fifteen pregame start time six thirty is the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: first pitch on that one round Rock Express Baseball at
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: eight o'clock.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I guess what.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Cam seven point fifty is the pregame start time from Reno,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Nevada as they play the Reno Aces, So that'll be
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: here on the zone. But one of three point one
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: FM is where you'll catch an ice gam You can
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: also hear it obviously on the Texas Longhorns app, the
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: LHN app, and you can connect to it from the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Very easy to do.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: One thing, I want to mention a note here and
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: then we'll take a break and I'm because I'm going
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: to run down and visit with Long Horns head coach
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Jim Slasnagel here and we'll let you hear some of
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the comments coming up here in a few minutes. But
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: we did a lot on the Masters yesterday with Rory
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: McElroy finally completing the career Grand Slam, dramatic victory and
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: all of that. Cam, have you seen what's happening with
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: him with the prize.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Money, the four point two million dollars?
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Have you seen what's happened with that? Well, let's bring everything.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: So it was a record breaking four point two million
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: dollars or in British money three point three million pounds,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: largest perse in Master's history.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: That was a twenty one million dollar perse.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: But I felt compelled to bring this up because what
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: is today today's tax day?
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: M hmm?
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Well, Rory lives in Florida.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: As we know, Florida, like Texas, does not have a
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: state income tax, but his winnings are fully subject to
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you as federal taxes. According to tax expert Paul Barram,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the winnings in Augusta face a thirty seven percent federal
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: tax rate, and additional charges will bring the effective rate
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: to over forty two percent. What does that mean about
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: one point eight million dollars will be pulled out of
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: his prize money.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: He's still taking home two point four million.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Uh but yeah, he's gonna he's gonna lose a good
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: chunk of change out of that due to taxes now
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: from the department of perspective, since we can all keep perspective,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: uh A. Sports finance professor Rob Wilson said, quote. While
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: federal and state taxes in the US could see McCrory
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: lose anywhere from forty to fifty forty five to fifty
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: percent of his winnings, the symbolic and commercial value of
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: winning the Masters far outweighs the immediate net income loss.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Even after tax, a first place prize from around two
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: point seven million would still leave maccrory with approximately one
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: point five million uh to in take home earnings. More importantly,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: this victory now come pleachs his career Grand Slam, unlocking
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: major off course earnings and further endorsements from the likes
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: of Nike. The longer term commercial upside from sponsors, branding,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and new markets is far more valuable than the prize
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: check itself. And then when you add to it cam
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: that his prize money for his career now exceeds one
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty million dollars, He's up there with Tiger
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: is one of only two golfers to break the one
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: hundred million dollar barrier in PGA tourer earnings. So, in
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: other words, don't shed any tears for Rory, but understand
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: he ain't taking all that prize money home with him.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm about to say, like, I'm not really shitting
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: any tears because you know, five majors, you know, he
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: wins a couple of times on the PJA Tour, plus endorsements.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: He's fine, you know, he's fine, and I'm sure he's
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: just happy to have a green jacket in his closet
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: versus the what though he's gonna have end up with
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: three point one million dollars then or less than that?
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: He said one point seven and it's taking out or
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: one point two one point seven is coming out.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: But you know, and here's something else, I've read some
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: notes about the green jacket.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: I didn't you know.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I didn't know, and I found out earlier last week
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: that you only get to keep It's kind of like
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup. You only get to keep the jacket
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: for one year, and then it goes back into the rack,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: it goes.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Back into the closet.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: What I also did not know was that the green
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: jacket that they put on him was not the one
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: that's going to actually be his and his name. It's
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: a green jacket that belongs to like a club member
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: that most closely approximates his measurements.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Thirty eight regular? By the way, is he really thirty eight? Regular?
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Boy?
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Is he in shape?
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Makes me almost ashamed to mention mine because coming up
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks, actually it's probably it's next month.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: A little inside of a month is the annual Texas
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: High School Football Hall of Fame induction banquet and I
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: serviced mat ceremonies for that. Patrick Mahomes is going in
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: by the way this year and he's going to be
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: there for this. It'll be in Waco there next month
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: in May. And they added something new this year. They
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: wanted a Hall of Fame blazer, kind of what they
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: do with the Pro Football Hall of Fame. They want
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: to the board, and the board voted to award blazers
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: to all incoming members and then you know some are
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: in the past and things like that. And they told
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: me that they wanted to give me a blazer so
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: that I can also wear the blazer during the ceremony
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: when I'm serving as master's ceremonies as well as being
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: inducted as a member of the Texas High School Football
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame back in twenty seventeen or twenty sixteen.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: So I said, sure, I'm honored, that's great or whatever.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: And then they asked me for my measurements and they
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: had to give them my measurement. It's there so anyway,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: but they say they'll have it ready and it's our
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: good friend Carlton Dixon, the lifetime Longhorn whose company Outstanding
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Apparel company is actually is actually putting together these blazers,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: and it's supposed to be a really sharp looking gray blazer.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Cam.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: It won't beat banana yellow or bright orange like bowl
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: game representative blazers. It's gonna be like a nice, classy
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: looking gray blazer.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: So I'm okay with that. That'll work, all right, Cam.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Is gonna take you through the next segment when I
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: go down and visit with Longhorn's head coach Jim Schlasnankle.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: But we will hear from Schloss and coming up in
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: the next hour, we'll visit Ty Harrington will be here
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: in the booth with us.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: And we'll talk from college baseball.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: So all of that and more still coming when we
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: continue from UFCU Dish far Field.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I'm thirteen under the zone.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: We continue here on this Tuesday afternoon on the Craig
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Ways showed Cameron Parkway through Craigway, stepping aside real quick
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: to visit with Texas Baseball head coach Jim Slostangle. Is
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: the Texas Longhorns back in Austin this week and weekend
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: as well and tonight hosting the Vaccaros of the University
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: of Texas Rio Grand Valley for a non conference matchup
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Texas coming off a two out of three series victory
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: over the Kentucky Wildcats in Lexington, and prepare for a
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: red hot Auburn Tigers baseball club this weekend. But tonight
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: six fifteen airtimes six thirty first pitch, and you can
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: listen to it right here on iHeartRadio Network on one
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: O three one FM, Austin's eighties station. Later on tonight
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: seven fifty pm, airtime eight oh five, first pitch the
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Round Rock Express. You can hear Rolin Cobray right here
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: on thirteen hundred this zone. Okay, real quick before Craig
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: comes up, a couple programming notes for next week NFL
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Draft Thursday, seven o'clock, we're gonna hear the names of
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: possibly three Longhorns called in the first round. In the
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: set you up for the NFL Draft, we're asking you
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: to join us for a special pre draft show live
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: from Twin Peaks, the Round Rock location, starting at two pm.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: We will broadcast up until about seven pm. It'll be myself,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Craig Way, Mike Cards, and a couple special guests excited
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: to tell you who's coming. Won't reveal it yet, but
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: just be prepared for that. Stay tuned, so if you're
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: in the area, come out to Twin Peaks Round Rock.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Fantastic location, some great food, Cold Beard's all you can
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: ask for as we get you set for the NFL Draft.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Did it last year at Twin Peaks Round Rock. It
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: was a lot of fun. You're gonna have a lot
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: of fun next week as well. And then Saturday, it
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: is the Texas Football Fan Day Live from DKR. Is
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of stuff going on. There's the
• 37:45
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• 37:49
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• 38:38
  Speaker 3: the Nico iam Aliava story is one that I don't
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: think has surprised a lot of people. It's eventually this
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: is going to happen right where a star player out
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: of school was eventually going to hold out. It's been
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: part of professional sports for decades now and it's starting
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: to trickle in to college football. It's going to happen,
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: call basketball, baseball, any other sport where NIL exists, and
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: I don't think the house settlement is going to fix it.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: But one thing's for sure. A lot you know, there's
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: people who are on the side of Tennessee and Josh
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Hopeol there's people on the side of Iamaliava. It's a
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: lose loose and the latest situation, this is coming from
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Pete nkos On on three Sports, is that teams now
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: are waiting to see if the price tag will drop
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: for iam Aliava Now. Nico signed an exclusive, in first
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: of its kind, four year NIL deal with Tennessee as
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: a senior in High School approximately about an eight million
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: dollar contract with Tennessee's NIL collective Spire Sports Group, and
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: he included an upfront payment of three hundred and fifty
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: thousand dollars. So iam Aliava was set to make about
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: two point two two point five million dollars going to
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: be a sophomore of the season. Now, his dad, who
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: acts as his agent, because Nico does not have an agent.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: His dad and his camp and I'm assuming Niko believed
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: that they could make more money from the NIL front
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: and more money as in about four or five million dollars,
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: which is what led to the disagreement with Nico in
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Tennessee and Josh Hopel and eventually led to Nico being
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: dismissed from the football program. Well, you know, we knew
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: there was gonna be some interest surrounding Nico, who was
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: a high profile recruit. Even though he didn't have a
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: fantastic into his season last year in Tennessee, he's still
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: a high upside quarterback. Wants to get that four or
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: five million dollar mark. Well, he's not getting it right now.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: UNC and there's reports that he was tied to UNC
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: and Bill Belichick. Well, they have have backed off and
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Pete Naikos reporting that there are multiple programs that are
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: open to sign him if he drops down to the
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: one million dollar price Tech.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Now, remember he was going.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: To get two point two to two point five million
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: dollars at Tennessee this season. Now, if he can't find
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: another program that's willing to pay that four or five
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: million dollar mark, he may end up losing money out
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: of this whole debacle. On three, reporting that UCLA has
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: emerged as a school in the mix to lend the quarterback.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Remember iam ali Avas from Long Beach, California, UNC at
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: one time was part of that discussion.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: They have dropped out.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Now we're here in Tulane possibly as a team that
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: could be tied to Iamaliyava and USC Notre Dame also
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: we're in the mix over the weekend, but latest reports
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: is that they have not confirmed whether or not the
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Trojans or the fighting Ours are interested in adding him. Now,
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: remember he can't come to an SEC school because he
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: played for Tennessee and because it's passed every first No, sorry,
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: he can, but he will not be eligible to play
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: this season. So if he wants to transfer to Georgia
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: or Oklahoma or whoever, he has to sit out the year.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: So that's why he would likely land at another school
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: like Notre Dame or.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: US or U s LA.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: But spring practice is ending here this week, this next week,
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: So wherever he ends up, he's going to have to
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: he's gonna be well well behind in terms of learning
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: the playbook, the coaches, the players. I mean, he won't
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: really get his first crack at practicing with the team
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: until August, So it puts him behind the eight ball,
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: and it puts whatever team that is trying to sign
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: him behind the eight ball as well. Just because you
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: know he's a great quarterback doesn't mean and you know,
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: great might be carrying a lot of work there. Just
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: because he's a high potential type quarterback doesn't mean it's
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: going to work out for both parties. And this just
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: really in the end ends up hurting Tennessee, it hurts Imaliava,
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: and it's hurting the whole game of football. But you
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: know it's I don't really blame Imaliava. I don't blame Tennessee.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: The blame resides with the NCAA and how there is
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: still zero, zero oversight and how any of this is
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: going to be controlled how it's going to be fixed.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: And as of right now, I mean, we're still waiting
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: on the house settlement, which I believe this Saturday we'll
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: find out. I believe it's going to go through. But
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: stuff like this will continue to happen in college football.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: It's just a matter of time. It will happen at
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: a school like Texas because you look at Tennessee, they're
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: a college football playoff team this past season. Going into
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: this season, you know, still going to be a very
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: good football program. But it's not about winning national championships.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: It's about how much money you can make. And that's
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: what happens when you allow these players to make money,
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: but you do it without any oversight. There's got to
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: be a way to fix this going forward. And just
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: an awful situation for Tennessee and for Imliova. And we
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: heard coach tis Keisha talk about it yesterday during his
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: media availability where he said he felt for Hopel, he
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: said he felt for Imaliova, but God to do what's
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: best for your team going forward. I believe Craig is
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: back up in the broadcast both at their visiting with
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: head coach sim Slasnegel.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Back up here and we'll hear that conversation wish Lass
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: coming up next next segment, so we'll have that that's
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: just around the corner. So we'll look forward to bringing
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: folks that deal. So, and I agree with you, Cam
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: and what you know, we heard what Sark was saying
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: about it. This is a difficult position for college football programs,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: not just a head coach and not just a student athlete,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: but college programs in general to have to deal with
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: now because.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: There's going to be.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Advisors, agents, whatever, certainly parents involved.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Who are going to.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Exp affect you know, a certain number or certain benefits,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: certain things that are now legal and under NCAA rules
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: to accept. And there will be college football programs who
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: either they can't afford it, or feel that it sets
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: a bad example, or for whatever reason, decide that's unacceptable.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: So it puts them in a difficult position. And then,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: as you pointed out yesterday in the case of Eco
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: i am Alaiava, here's a guy who his.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: You know, kind of he kind of drew a line
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: in the sand.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: He and his family his representation about what they needed
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: to have, what they thought that they needed to have,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: and as a result of that, he was told by
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Josh Hypel that that was unacceptable. They couldn't do that.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: So he misses a practice. He then is kind of
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: removed from the roster. He goes into the portal and
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: all of this sudden. As you pointed out, it's kind
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: of a tough situation on his end because now being
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: in the portal, he can't what he has to sit
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: a heere if he's going to transfer inside of it,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: So if it's an intra conference transfer, in other words,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: if he transfers to another.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: SEC school, m Yeah.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: So at that point, you know, when's the last time
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: you've seen a player set out a year willingly since
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: before you know the new transfer rules coming in. So
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: you think he goes somewhere West coast. But if you're
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: a team like UCLA or or USC unless you just
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: have no quarterback going in the fall camp or what
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: you've seen out of your quarterbacks, I mean, it's a
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: huge risk to take him because if he's asking for
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: four million dollars, Craig, you're paying four million dollars. Now
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: he comes into your locker room, all these guys are
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: sitting around like, are you kidding me? This kid's making
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: five million dollars he doesn't know anyone on the team probably,
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: and now he's only going to have the summer and
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: fall to get ready for the season.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: It's a huge risk. Yeah. You know, when the.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: When the whole nil thing started, there was a lot
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: of speculation that you know, quarterbacks or running backs or whoever,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: star players might be accruing things that other members of
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: the team would not beginning. And yet by and large,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: we didn't hear of a great deal of issue with
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: that with regard to football program I did hear about
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: it with regard to some collegiate baseball programs that had
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: happened to but with regard to football programs, we didn't
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: hear an awful lot about it. And then of course
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Texas stepped up with its set of collectives and the
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: pancake factor and all those sort of stuff. So that
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: and then of course the Texas won fund kind of
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: you know, through one layer over all of that to
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: make sure that student athletes were taken care of. So
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: it wasn't initially as big a concern as a lot
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: of folks thought about him.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: But this is a different set of circumstances.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: Can because there was an outfront number that everybody has
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: now seen and heard that it went from two point
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: four million dollars to four million dollars was the demand.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: And now it sticks out like a sore thumb when
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: he walks into another locker room, whatever school that might be,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: to say nothing of the fact that whichever school agrees
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: to give him that amount of money, or they negotiate
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: an amount that works, whatever he and he shows up there,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: you know, what does that say to the other schools
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: in that particular schools conference, Because I have a feeling,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: as you point that, he's probably not gonna be on
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: an SEC roster now since they're beyond the deadline on that.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Could be in the Big Ten, could be in the
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: acc who knows where he might be. But you know,
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: it might put things in a real uncomfortable spot simply because.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: It stands out by itself. It's not.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: As gray as it would be with a group of
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: players coming in or recruits coming in.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Where you.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: Say, well, this group is getting this or this group
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: is getting that or whatever. But one guy who wasn't
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: already in the program who comes in, and I think
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: that's the difference here. One guy who was not already
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: in the program transfers in with that kind of shall
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: we say, financial windfall may not sit well with his
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: newfound teammates or coaches no matter. And coaches, by the way,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: can have all the lectures that they want with the
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: team about hey, you accept this guy, he's your teammate now,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: you know, put yourself beyond the money and look at
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: it like that. They can say that all they want,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: but I have a feeling there's probably gonna be some
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: hard feelings in the locker room regardless of the situation,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: simply because the number was out there and because this
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: guy is standing alone now transferring in because.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Of that number.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: That's the difference from say, several guys who are already
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: on the roster and all of a sudden, hey, so
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: and so getting You're not quite sure maybe he did
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: hear a number, but these were guys that were already
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: on the team.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: Here's a guy coming into.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: The program, into the program for that kind of elevated number.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: That's where I think the difference lies. And that's where
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: it could be the challenge.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: And Craig, you wonder about what is the culture at
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: the team where he transferred to, if they if they
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: pay what he's asking right, Because I can't really see
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: a program like Texas or Georgia or Alabama making a
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: move like this, Like can you imagine Nick Saban willingly
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: paying a quarterback five million dollars or something like this
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: after the stunt that his family pulled. And again I'm
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: not saying it was a right or wrong decision for
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: im Aliava and in hypol just felt like he had
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: to make a move at a certain point. But I
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: do question what the culture will be like at the
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: program that he does decide to end up if it
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: actually is the four or five million dollar price tech.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: You know, baseball players will say and I've heard you
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: know the guy who you're going to be working with
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: me on the on the broadcast, I Keith Morland say it.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: You know a lot of baseball players, they don't begrudge
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: guys getting what they can get through free agency or whatever.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: You get what you can get, you know that that
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: sort of thing. So there's that, and like you say,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: there's each student athlete's kind of got to figure out
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: what makes the most financial sense to him. That the
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: problem other the other problem that comes out of this
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: CAM is that you have the specter, the specter of
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: the greedy parent or the greedy uncle or that sort
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: of thing. Whereas the student athlete might not be expecting
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: that much money or whatever, but there's family members wanting more,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: asking for more, demanding more. Whether that's true or not,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: and probably in a lot of cases it's not true.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: But because of the times that it has been true,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: that we've heard about it, it casts that shadow over
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: a situation like this, So it's it's gonna be really
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: interesting to see how this thing turns out and how
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: it rolls out for him and his future teammates as well.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, I just just a few
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: minutes ago, I had a visit with Jim Slostangle. You'll
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: hear that conversation coming up Texas against U t Rio
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: Grand Valley tonight. And again, I promise I've got some
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: unique note about this coming up. We'll get to that
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: when we continue. I'm thirteen under the zone at UFCU
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Dish falk Field, Texas and ut Rio Grand Valley to play.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: All right, here's a couple of notes, and then we're
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: gonna hear some words from head coach of Slasnickele Texas
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: and ut rchiv Our meeting for the sixty second time
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Texas has won fifty four of the prior sixty one.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: Here's the wrinkles about that. Some of you may remember
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: that ut Rio Grand Valley won last year's game seventeen
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: to nine.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: Do you remember much about that game? Cam a little bit.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: I still have a friend that plays for UTRGV, so
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: he did not play in that game last year year's
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: recovering from achilles injury. But the last couple ones have
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: been high octane offensive power games if I remember correctly.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then last year, of course UTRGV won seventeen nine.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: That was the game where David Pierce had Jared Thomas
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: start the game, went to the mound.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was the starting pitcher and.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Went one inning and gave up a home run and
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. But that was also the
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: game where I think Texas hit ten batters and walked
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: nine something like that. They had, you know, they had
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: a bunch of younger guys go to the mount.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: It did not go well and they lost.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: But here's here's why.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: I bring this up.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: It was the first time that UTRGV had beaten Texas
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: in baseball since the regionals or what was then called
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: the district Championship what would now be known as a
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: regional in college baseball. They snapped a forty eight game
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: losing streak to Texas, beating them for the first time
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: since nineteen seventy one. That in nineteen seventy one, the
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: two teams played in what was called NCA District play
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: would now be known basically as a regional, And but
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: you had a field, a smaller field, and the winner
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: would go to the College World Series in Omaha, and
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: Texas went in there with future Major leaguers Burt Hooton
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: and Mike Beard, and Texas lost Game one one to nothing,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: and they lost Game two four to nothing, and was
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: played at Old VJ. Key Field in San Antonio, which
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: is right by the campus SAT. Saint Mary's University. And
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: so it was, and in fact it was utrgvs second
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: ever true road win against Texas and their first since
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: May thirtieth, nine teen sixty eight, when Texas was playing
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: at Old Clark Field, and then they had lost forty
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: four straight true road games against Texas, including the first
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: thirty nine played at.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: Ufc U Diish falk Field. So it was some history.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Ut Rio Grand Valley, which back then was known as
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: Pan American University and then later they were ut pan
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: America and now UTRGV, but they were known as Pan
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: American University back then, and they had a legendary coach
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: in Al Logo Tree, and they had teams that every
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: year were battling against Texas and other schools for the
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: opportunity to go to the College World Series. And that
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: particular year nineteen seventy one, pan AM was able to
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: break through and they won two great pitching duels one
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: nothing and four nothing to go to the College World Series.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: And the Bronx of pan AM went on and finished
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: third at the College World Series in Omaha that year
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: It kept Texas from going.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: Cliff Gustafson was in his third season or fourth season
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: at Texas and it kept Texas from being able to
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: go to the College World Series as what was then
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: known as Pan American University now UTRGV beat Texas in
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: two pitchers duels in San Antonio in NCAA District played
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: to go to the College World Series.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's one note. Here's the other note.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Your friend Cameron that was on the roster last year,
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: is he playing this year for UTRGV.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Jacob Sanchez, and I believe he's second or third
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: in the team in batting average.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: He's the first baseman. Yes, from the Rio Grand Valley's
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: from San Juan, Texas. I guess he went to Far
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: San Juan Alamo or DSJ Norton. Yeah, okay, he's list
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: as a grad student.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's batting three sixty eight with seven homers and
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: twenty three runs.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Back in him where you get to meet him?
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  Speaker 3: We spent a summer in South Dakota together in the
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: intercollegiate baseball team, the Spiritfit Sasquatch. Me and him were
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: up there for the summer, so.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and he was he was playing, Yes, okay, all right,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: all right, So yes, he'll be their starting first baseman tonight.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Have you heard the story about who the starter and left.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: Field is for utr GV. I have not. His name
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: is Renee Galvan. Uh And if you ask.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Is he related to the log Worns catcher Ryland Galvan,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: you couldn't be any more related than those two guys are.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: They're twin brothers.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: So Rylan Galvan and Renee Galvan will be going up
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: against one another tonight. Additionally, as we know, Jacque Stewart
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: of course played at sent in the log with the
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Galvan twin brothers. And also UTRGV has a pitcher named
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: Wyatt Whyatric, who's from Sinton. He's five and zero on
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: a three point nine era. He's one of their weekend starters,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Wyatt Whyatric. All four of those guys played for Cinton,
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: all four of them did.
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  Speaker 4: All four of.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: Them played for, of course, the lifetime Longhorn Adrian Alenes,
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: who's the head coach at Sinton, and Adrian was a
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: freshman and an All American as a pitcher on the
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: two thousand and five.
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: National championship team. All four of those.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Guys played for Adrian Allenes and won the state championship
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: in baseball UIL four, a state championship right here at
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: UFCU desh Frog Field back in twenty twenty two, three
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: years ago. So you've got four former Senton pirates who
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: will be on the field tonight going against one of
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: the including twin brothers, Ryland Galvan against Renee Galvin.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: And they're identical twins too, correct, They look exactly alike.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I just saw Ryland down in the Dugoutlan
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: is visiting with coach Lasnagel, and I asked him. I said,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: I said, fact or fiction. You had to come up
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: with somewhere between forty and fifty tickets.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: He goes, oh, it's fact.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: He said, I had to come up with thirty by
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: myself and then Renee and other family that they will
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: have somewhere close to fifty. Wow, family and friends. Just
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: for those two guys, to say nothing of the other people. Yeah,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: so there'll be somewhere between forty and fifty family and
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: friends members of the Galvans watching tonight's ball game. So
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: that's a really cool deal. It's part of what I
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: asked Jim Slasnago. But here's the conversation a few moments
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: ago with the long words head coach. Nice to be
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: in warm weather.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it feels good. It feels good to be a dishfalk.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 5: Feels good to be in warm weather, feels good to
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 5: be in Austin, Texas.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: You mentioned to Keith on the post game show the
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: other day, and I chuckled about it because you said
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: to him, you and I are probably the only people
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: who remember the show. Mash. I remember very very well.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: But I know you must feel.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: A little bit like your Your group resembles a bit
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: of a mash unit.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah it is, and everybody deals with something, you know,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 5: throughout the course of the season. It's just you know,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 5: we we we have a kind of our The best
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 5: players on our team are significantly ahead of the other guys.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 5: And and you know, I think any good team needs
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: their best players to stay healthy and have good seasons,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: and we certainly need that. So super proud of the
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: way guys have competed, you know, without aging at full speed,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 5: without max at all, a couple of pitchers, but uh yeah,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: we'll just keep taking hits.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: But win anyway, right, Like.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 5: I think we talked about I don't know if you
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 5: and I talked about it or not, but you can
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 5: use the words win win anyway where you can win
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: any way, right, And.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of different ways to win a game.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: And so luckily, at least at the moment, our pitching
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 5: has been pretty solid. It just makes the games a
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 5: lot closer, which are every every decision gets magnified.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: And as the head coach, you.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 5: Know, you're you, you want to try to make the
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: best decisions you can.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: We often talk about that whole next man up mentality thing.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: It really gets put to the test on a deal
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: like this. But but you've rotated enough guys and even
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: when you had a largely healthy flight up to get
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: guys comfortable when their time was coming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: There, I mean, there aren't too many guys that whether
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 5: it be Stewart or Chamberlain or Duplantier or uh you know,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: Matt Scott hasn't had a ton ofment beats. But there's
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 5: no three or four guys Winfield, three or four guys
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: that have had They've played enough, and they've played against
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 5: the good teams too. It's not just playing against a
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 5: bad pitcher or something like that.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: Even the Tuesday games against UTSA, you're in Texas State,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 5: you're seeing a lot of times their weekend arm especially
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 5: late in the game, and we could see the same
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 5: thing tonight. So uh so yeah, I mean they're they're prepared.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 5: It's just uh, you know, this is this is a
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 5: tough league to to uh to be kind of figuring
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: it out in do you get a.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: Kick out of a situation like tonight where you Island's
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: twin brothers playing and there's forty fifty family members coming
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: and stuff like those type of unique situations that can
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: happen occasionally.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, as long as we're winning, Yeah, it's fun to
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 5: smile and giggle and enjoy it winning. But now I mean, yeah,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 5: I enjoy it and did the head coach over there,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: Derek matt Locke's very special to me as an assistant coach
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 5: with me at TCU for a couple of years and
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 5: has bounced a round. Was a multi state champion high
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 5: school coach at Flower Mound and then has done do
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: an awesome job as an assistant coach at West Virginia
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 5: and then has just done amazing things at U TRGV
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 5: and their games are awesome as you. But you've been
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 5: down there the crowds and really have good energy, and
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: we've got a regional club.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: So this is just a big night for both teams.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Final thing here, How about your pitching plan? What you
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: want to do at tonight? How many guys do you
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: want to see? Depending on how the game.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 5: Unfolds, Well, obviously if being he can have a good night,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: well let him keep going. I mean, especially with a
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 5: short week, I think any any out that somebody can
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 5: get that isn't maybe going to pitch this weekend would
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 5: be great, but I'd love to stay away from Atlantis
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 5: at all. Easier said than done, and given our offensive situation,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 5: but yeah, I probably would avoid that at all costs.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 5: But everybody else, even even maybe Sonya could come right back.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 5: But Moffitt, Jason Floores, you know, there's some other guys
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 5: down there we'd like to see pitch.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: But got to win the game. Yeah, and it's simplest measure.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: Got to win the game.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: All right. We'll be back to wrap up hour number
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: two on thirteen under the Zone. Third and final hour
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: of the program here from UFCU Dish falk Field here
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: on thirteen under the Zone. Craig Way with you keep
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: more a little joining me for the call tonight of
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: the game, which we'll have Texas playing its first game
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: as the number one ranked team in the nation in
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: three years twenty twenty two. At one point in Texas
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: was number one in the country and they did go
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: to Omaha that year.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: But they'll be the number one.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: Ranking team in the country and they take the field
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: tonight against the ca Rors the Carows of the University
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: of Texas Rio Grand Valley u t RGV Okay quick
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: trivia question for you there Cameron Parker, Okay, can you
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: tell me where the campus of.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: UTRGV is located.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: Edinburgh Burgh Nice, Edinsburgh, Edinburgh unlike it's spelled like Edinburgh, Scotland,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: but without the age a little different, right, yeah, and
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: it lit'tle just plain old Edinburgh, but it's kind of
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: right in the heart of the Rio Grand Valley region
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: of the state of Texas. And and that's that's that's
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: where it's located.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: That's where their ball club. In last hour we.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: Played the conversation, just had a little bit ago with
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: Jim Schlasnag and he was talking about Derek Mattlock and
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: what a job he's done at UTRGV. And he said,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: the atmosphere down here, because you know you've been there.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: I will never forget going down there. I guess it
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: was twenty twenty one going down there, Keith Morland and
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: I did. And it was the first time Texas had
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: ever played there. And you know they have ballpark seats.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: I think the number was like fifty four hundred, but
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: they had well over seven thousand fans. I mean it
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: was jammed down the foul lines and they'd had rain
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: all day, but they brought in helicopters to drive the field.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: They wanted to.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: Make sure that that that field was playable, and it
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: was in Texas ended up winning that ball game that night.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun down there.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: They were actually the ball club was actually hosted by
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: a Board of Regents member or a former Board of
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: Regents member for lunch there. So it was a really
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: cool deal. And they played UTRGV every other time here
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: except in San Antonio and NCAA tournament plays.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: We pointed out.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: Last hour, Okay, we opened the show Cameron talking about
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: this not clandestine but because people knew about it, but
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: closed door meeting with some select members of the media
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: and Dallas Maverage general manager Nico Harrison, along with the
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: new CEO, Rick Welts. So it was an hour long
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: session today, as they said, with a select group of
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Dallas based media and was they'd only had one other
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: He'd only had one other time to visit, and that
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: was a brief pregame session in Cleveland the day after
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: the Lukadanchich trade.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: But of course, with.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: Everything being so inflamed and fans angry, he did he
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: did a meeting, but they allowed no cameras, no recording
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: devices of any kind in the deal. Now, Tim McMahon
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: was one of those select media there and he's got quotes.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: I guess maybe he just wrote very fast or whatever.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: But so there's one quote from Nico Harrison where he said,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: there's no regrets on the trade. Part of my job
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: is to do the best thing for the maverage, not
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: only today but also in the future. And some of
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: the decisions I'm wanting to make are going to be unpopular.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: That's my job and I have to stand by it.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: Okay. So then I listen.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: Whichever media member asked this question, and I don't know
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: who it was, and it didn't say, but whoever asked him,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: what do you think about all the chance of fire
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: Nico and everybody on social media screaming fire Nico and
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: that you need to be fired. What do you think
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: about that? Hey, listen, I slute you for asking the question.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: His answer was, well, the beauty of Dallas is it's
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: a passionate fan base. For us to reach our goals,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: we need that fan base. And to be honest with you,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: every trade I've made since I've been here has not
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: been regarded as a good trade, and sometimes it takes
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: time traded for Kyrie Irving, it was meant with a
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: lot of skepticism.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: It was great.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: It as a terrible trade, and you didn't see it
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: right away, but eventually everyone agreed that it was a
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: great trade. When I traded for Gafford, Daniel Geffert and Washington,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: the MPG, it was like, oh, we gave up too much.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: These guys aren't going to help us now. That trade.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: You saw the evidence a lot sooner. So I think
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of times trades take a little bit of time.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: But our philosophy, like I said, going forward as defense
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: wins championships and were built on defense, and this trade
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: cements us for that. So he was also asked did
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: he not believe that the core of this team that
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: got to the finals last year with Luca as the centerpiece,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: could contend for a title, And he just doubled down
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: and said, I'll.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: Say this again, defense wins championships.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: Well, they had the number one ranked defense for the
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: last twenty games of last season, and the problem that
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: Tim McMahon pointed out when the Celtics beat the Mavericks
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: in five games in the finals, defense was not the issue.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: They allowed one hundred and nine points per one hundred
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: possessions in the finals. That's a defensive rating that would
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: have ranked second in the league last regular season. They
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: couldn't score enough enough, so and he also said, we
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: believe in the move we made. Asked about the logic
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: of a time frame that ends with the team entering
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: a stretch when it doesn't control its first round draft picks.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: Is that in the team's best interest? He said, you
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: obviously don't. That's fine. You're entitled to your opinions. But
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: we're excited. I think once we win, that will change
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: your mind. And then they asked him, do you see
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: yourself continuing as the Mavericks general manager beyond the timeframe
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: of three to four years? He said, I have three
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: years left on my contract. I see myself finishing it out.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: So it makes a lot to dissect from that, Craig,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: the whole win now thing for the Mavericks. Yeah, Kyrie
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: Irving's out for next season, Craig, after suffering was it
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: the achilles? Yep, tearing his achilles. He's done for now season,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: and I would think the Mavericks window for next season
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: is also done. Now you're looking at Kyrie Irving, who's
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 3: going to be on the wrong side of thirty coming
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: off a major, major injury. You have Anthony Davis, who's
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: also on the wrong side of thirty, who's had his
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: own health concerns. I mean, shoot, his first game of
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: the Mavericks uniform, he only played one half of basketball
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: because he got hurt, and then.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: He was out for two or three weeks.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: So the whole defense wins championships. You know we're trying
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: to win now. I just absolutely just do not buy
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: it at all. And if you really wanted to win,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, the whole point of winning a championship, you
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: want to have a top five player in the league,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: and they had that with Luka Dantis. You already talked
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: with the stat about them having the best defense. Yeah,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: down the stretch. I mean again again, before the trade, Craig,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: I thought this team could be healthy. I would think
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: they would probably be the biggest threat in the Western
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: Conference right now if you go back and if you now,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: of course it's hypothetical. You know, maybe Kyrie ends up,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: you know, tearing his achilles anyways, but you know, if
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: you have look on the Mavericks, obviously Lakers may not
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: even be a playoff team, the Rockets, you know, Nuggets, Clippers.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: I would think the Mavericks are once again, you know,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: the biggest threat to the Thunder, and remember they beat
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: the Thunder last season. So yep, there's nothing that Nikov
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: said here that would make me, as a Mavericks fan
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: feel better.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I just think I just see him doubling
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: down on everything and that's not gonna sit well with
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Mavericks fans. All right, up next, we'll talk college baseball.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: Ty Harrington in the house. He'll join us next here
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: as we continue from UFCU Dish fark Field.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: I'm thirteen under the zone because it's time for.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: Our weekly second on college baseball with Hy Harrington, of course,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: the lifetime Longhorn, former long worn player and assistant coach
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: in twenty years they head coach at Texas State. Which
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: George strait tune is that one?
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 4: I don't know, but I always let that part. I
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 4: don't know the name.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 6: You always quiz me on the names of the songs
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 6: and a big dam but I don't know the names
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 6: of all the songs. I would tell you. I love
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 6: the way he says.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: Unlearned, you have to learn and learn, And I'm like, yeah,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: you know who else says you learn Yoda in the
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: Star Wars song. You must have learned that which you
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: have learned?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to learn.
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  Speaker 2: You have to learn and.
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  Speaker 4: Learn about fifty top or number one hits.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, So learn us cam which number one was
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  Speaker 1: this one?
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  Speaker 2: A fire? You can't put out fire?
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 4: Can't? Yeah? You know what, I'd be better.
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  Speaker 6: I would have a better chance if you play the
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  Speaker 6: music and let me sing along with him.
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  Speaker 4: Next time, you.
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  Speaker 6: Can do I can do that, okay, but I couldn't
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  Speaker 6: name I probably still couldn't tell you the name of
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  Speaker 6: the song, but I could sing.
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  Speaker 1: Along with Okay. All right, So next Tuesday when we're here, before.
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  Speaker 4: There, we're in San Marcus.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: What we can do it in San Marcus?
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  Speaker 4: Fitting, Yeah, bitch s George straight.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So we'll be down in lovely Hayes County at
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: Bob Capball Park.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, are we going to get to be
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: in a booth?
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  Speaker 4: You think so?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I know earlier the season was down there
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  Speaker 1: and they were inside of that they didn't.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: Have to be outside in the window. And also that's
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 1: So next Tuesday, when we're a Bob Cat ballpark. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, after I go down, what's what's the great
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  Speaker 1: place text Max Town by the River.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say the Herbert Herbert's.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, indeed, that was George's spot too, was it real?
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  Speaker 2: Indeed?
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, oh no, the original the guy that owned it,
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  Speaker 6: who's long passed away. But George would come in there
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  Speaker 6: and he had his own table and ate there.
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  Speaker 4: And when you go in there, you'll see a handful
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  Speaker 4: of photos of him.
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  Speaker 1: It was the great Jeff Howe who told me about
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  Speaker 1: Herbert's initially. So then I went and when my daughter
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  Speaker 1: was Strutter senior captain there, I took her there from
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: once we went there one day.
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  Speaker 2: She had never been, you know, college students.
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  Speaker 4: What did they do right?
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  Speaker 1: But she went and she really enjoys it. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: next Tuesday we'll go down there. I will have Cam
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  Speaker 1: bump back in the four o'clock hour when we do
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  Speaker 1: our segment, and I will and he'll it'll be a
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  Speaker 1: George Strait song and Cam, don't don't pick you know
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna love you forever and ever. Amen, don't don't
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  Speaker 1: pick one of the most popular one. Pick a number one.
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  Speaker 1: It can be a number one one. Since he is
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  Speaker 1: the catalog. That's all we ever bumped off with anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Just make it a little more obscure camp so that
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  Speaker 1: we can get tied to sing along with it and
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  Speaker 1: play name that shit. Okay, all right, we'll do that
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  Speaker 1: next Tuesday.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god. All right.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: Meantime, he can name the number one baseball team in
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  Speaker 1: the country right now. And it's kind of a it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a weird dynamic because yes, by process of elimination,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Georgia's been number one, Tennis he's been number one,
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  Speaker 1: Arkansas has been number one, LSU's been number one. Texas
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  Speaker 1: becomes the fifth SEC team to be number one in
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  Speaker 1: the country. And so it depends on which side of
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  Speaker 1: the fence you're looking at. There's some on social media
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: and say, wow, the SEC isn't all that look at this,
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  Speaker 1: or just beating up on one of the other side
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  Speaker 1: is now, that's why they're that good and they're knocking
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  Speaker 1: one another off. And at this point, because are cresting
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  Speaker 1: the halfway point of conference play now at thirteen and two,
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  Speaker 1: and folks can say what they want about, well, their
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  Speaker 1: their most difficult series have been at home, and that'll
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  Speaker 1: include Auburn. This week, and then they have A and
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  Speaker 1: M and they still have to go to Fayetteville though
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  Speaker 1: to play Arkansas. But they've beaten LSU at home, and
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  Speaker 1: they beat Georgia at home. Still, it comes down to
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  Speaker 1: winning series, and they haven't dropped a series, to see,
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  Speaker 1: And that's how you win a conference champions one.
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  Speaker 4: Hundred percent, that's how you do it.
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  Speaker 6: But I would ask you, because you watch more sports
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  Speaker 6: than anybody I know, and you are glued in and
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  Speaker 6: informed by sports, is there a more fluid top twenty
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  Speaker 6: in any than any other supports in college baseball that
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  Speaker 6: changes more than baseball, don't No?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 4: That's fair? Right?
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  Speaker 1: And and football had some fluidity, and basketball had some fluiditis,
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  Speaker 1: but not like this, right, not like that. Not only
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  Speaker 1: the teams that are number one, but the ones below them.
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  Speaker 1: You can go from being unranked to tenth in two poles, yep.
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  Speaker 1: You can go from being fourth out of the poland
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  Speaker 1: two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: It's been. It's been.
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  Speaker 1: Florida was the top ten team when the season started,
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  Speaker 1: and they needed the Sweet Missouri last week just to
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  Speaker 1: get the four and eleven in conference play. That's life
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  Speaker 1: in the SEC. Somebody asked me today about you know
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: how different life was in this SEC. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: it's a grind and it's really high intensity no matter
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  Speaker 1: where you're playing and who you're playing. I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you Kentucky is six and nine
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  Speaker 1: in the league. But tough to play that ball club
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  Speaker 1: in that ballpark in those conditions, especially on Friday, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody's got their own set of irascible fans and all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff that they can make it make
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  Speaker 1: it very very difficult on you. And I said that.
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  Speaker 1: They said, well, what's the difference between that and the
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: Big Twelve? And I said, I'll tell you the difference.
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  Speaker 1: There were weekends. And this is kind of a corollary
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  Speaker 1: to what I heard Sark talk about football, that you
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  Speaker 1: could play at a Big twelve stadium with a football
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: team and catch a team on the down week or
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  Speaker 1: not that good or whether and you might not even
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: be playing your best, but you can still get out
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  Speaker 1: of there with with win. And you really can't do
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  Speaker 1: that in the SEC. Texas did not play poorly against Vanderbilt,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: but Vanderbilt played really well and Texas really had to
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: make some plays there in the fourth quarter to hold
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  Speaker 1: on and win that game.
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  Speaker 2: That's life in this league. And so I said, so the.
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  Speaker 1: Difference is to me, the intensity and the enmity that
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: comes from opposing fan bases.
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  Speaker 2: That's where it's different.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, you know, they like to say it
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: just means more, and I said, it just means more
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  Speaker 1: to hate your neighbor, because in this league it isn't
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: just about your our trial. Everybody hates everybody in this league.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm discovering when I'm going Everybody hates everybody
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  Speaker 1: in this league.
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  Speaker 2: And I've seen it.
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  Speaker 1: I really saw it in basketball, and I also saw
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: it the few road environs football as well.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 6: I think two in line with what you're saying, and
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  Speaker 6: I think this goes.
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  Speaker 4: With it when you when you open.
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  Speaker 6: Up the schedule, right, let's let me back, let me
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 6: that's a better way to put it. When we get
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  Speaker 6: to Thursday of this week, even if it's Thursday of
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  Speaker 6: the first week in the SEC for the very first time,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 6: Texas fans, and if you're an OU fan, since we're
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 6: the newest members, when you open up on Thursday, the
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  Speaker 6: pay or the paper or there or I said, the
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  Speaker 6: paper did not and you're listening to a radio show
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 6: or you pull up your computer and you look at
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 6: who's playing who, and you start to go, oh, wow,
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 6: so and so is playing so and so this weekend,
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  Speaker 6: or Arkansas's playned A and M this weekend, and or
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 6: Texas is playing Auburn this weekend, Mississippi State planning, and
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 6: then all of a sudden, week two or week eight,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 6: you open it back up again. You go, oh my god,
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 6: look at who's playing. We've got a top five and
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 6: you know, number five, and number two, we got number
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 6: one and number you know nine, we got what And
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 6: you start looking at that and you go, it's every weekend.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: You just hit on it.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: And I talked about this the last two weekends. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna hit it again this weekend. Starting Thursday, Ole misses
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: at South Carolina and South Carolina struggling, then third ranked
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: Georgia at seventeenth rank Vanderbilt fifteenth ranked Alabama at number seven,
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  Speaker 1: LSU six ranked Auburn. They're number eight and D one
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: and number six another six ranked Auburn at number one,
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: Texas A and M hottest team perhaps in the league
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: at number two, Arkansas and Oklahoma resurgent now number twelve
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: playing at Missouri, and then on Friday. The series to
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: two that are Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Kentucky at number two
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: Tennessee and then there's Florida at Mississippi State every week
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: every week.
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  Speaker 2: That you're gonna have this.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: So so that is something I think that teams need
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: to adjust to.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: This team is adjusted to all of that part of it.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: Well, the problem they have is keeping guys healthy right
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: now because Blue is out, he's banged up. They got
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: a couple of pitchers that that still are not ready
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: yet to do that. Adrian Rodriguez just coming back from
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: that edema there near the hamdmatee bone. Fortunately didn't break
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: the handmakee bone fracture that, and he's taking ground balls
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: and he's out there and I'm looking at him take
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: ground balls at second base because we don't know about
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: Ethan Mendoza tonight because he banged up his shoulder diving
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: for a ball and they got to slow play that
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: and wait and see. So overcoming the injuries I think
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: is going to be the biggest test for this team,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: in addition to playing some really good teams.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know, and the crazy thing about injuries,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 6: it's something you cannot control, not why I say you can't.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 6: There's sometimes you can maybe you know, control pieces of it,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 6: but not all the time. And in sport, baseball is
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 6: a much more physical sports than what people give it
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 6: credit for. It just because we're not banging heads and
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 6: running into each other.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: It takes it start, that's right.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 6: And next time you get by the way, next time
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 6: somebody throws an object at you at ninety five miles an.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 4: Hour, that's hard and it hits you.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 6: You know, you can understand why, Oh my god, I
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 6: get why guys get hurt at once in a while
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 6: and their effort. Look, you know, whether you know Mendoza
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 6: gets to play tonight or you know, whenever it may
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 6: be that he comes back into it. One of the
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 6: hardest things about not only you know, momentarily having a
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 6: replacing people like he in blue and together. There's an
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 6: emotional piece to this that I thought, and I think
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 6: women does. He Every at bat for him is its
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 6: new life for him. I mean, he takes it so
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 6: personal and he I mean, and I've had hitters, and
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 6: we've all had players. I was guilty of this too.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 6: We would throw at bats away every once in a while, right,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 6: and then I'll just have them terrible at bad and
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 6: you don't even have a you don't go through your
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 6: plan in your mind, you don't focus and mean, it's
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 6: like he's in there and it's like he's studying. No,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 6: it's like he's studying fornt of final. Yeah, and I'm
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 6: almost every at bat, and it's you can see it
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 6: in his body and his mindset and how he approaches things.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 6: And I think there's you know, part of the success
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 6: of these guys is if you watch them the there's
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 6: a great clip from the Kentucky's I think it was
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 6: a final out of an inning or something like and
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 6: Galvan is just going nuts behind home play, you know,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 6: and and of course your excitement adds so much to
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 6: it too, but there and you could see this emotion
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 6: coming out of again, coming off the heels of a
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 6: big weekend before and we get, you know, all those
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 6: things that go with this sec we're describing. And they've
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 6: been able to forward their mentality each week to the
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 6: next game, to the next moment, and not to me
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 6: has been as impressive because here's my detailed research about
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 6: why I think that's true, not just that you know,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 6: you're seeing the high five and in the emotion going on.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 6: Texas to me right now is the most opportunistic team.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 6: We talked about this a week If you make a mistake,
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 6: if you make an error, or you hit a guy
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 6: with two outs, or you do you know, one of those,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 6: and then the game creates opportunities in itself the way
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 6: the games play. Then you as a team creates some
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 6: opportunities by you know, your detailed of attention to detailed
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 6: different things. But when the other team makes a mistake,
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 6: they have pounced on it. So why does that mean
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 6: to me? That tells you that they're forwarding their their
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 6: mindset each inning, each at bat, each game, all that
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 6: is going and they're they're not just taking a day off.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 6: They're not taking a moment all in my mind, that's
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 6: what that signifies.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, another another the flip side of that, and long
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: Warrens benefited from some of this over the past weekend.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: The the opponent.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: Quite often does not take advantage of the opportunities that's handing.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: Kentucky stranded a lot of runners during the week and
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: Aggie used to say, and I love this phrase. There
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: were so many that that that he had like the game,
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: She's a cruel mistress. And some of the other things
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: like that, and that the world was a very different
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: place for winners and losers. But one of his phrases
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: that I that I treasured is because it goes into
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: a metaphysical thing, which all he could do.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: But his phrase was the game knows when it's not
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: being respected.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: Indeed, so if you're stranding runners over and over is
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: if the game is a living entity itself, it will
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: punish you for not respecting it by taking advantage of
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: the opportunities that are presented per one.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 6: Hundred percent, And if you're not emotionally dialed into the
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 6: physical piece of it, which emotions lead the physical side
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 6: of it, if you're not dialed into that and you're
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 6: not respectful of those moments and what that means, and
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 6: you're not fortifact playing your very best or doing your
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 6: very best, which you better do in this league, right,
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 6: because if you if you just take a minute off
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 6: or a second off, it'll get you. Yeah, and again,
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 6: I think this team has been so opportunistic and that
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 6: creates a lot of different conversations about what that looks
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 6: like in your one hundred percent, right, and you're in
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 6: what you're you know, saying what all you would talk
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 6: about in those different things, but they just I've been
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 6: so impressed with.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 4: Each each pitch.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 6: Each moment they play this game, you know, to the
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 6: standard that you hear them say it all.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: The time, played with the standard up of the scoreboard.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 6: That's right, right, And it's such an unbelievable And even
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 6: I heard Jim say it today.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 4: It's a coachy thing.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 6: But the players are all saying it, you better, but
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 6: they they're doing it.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this comparison won't match up in every element because
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: they were different kinds of players, but I'm talking about
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: in terms of the intensity that they brought to the
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: game and how they didn't give away at bats as
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: you brought up Mendoza.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: You remember a decade ago Mark Payton. Yeah, oh god, how.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: You know when a gam where he was and that
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: they didn't The reason this kingdom mind also is when
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: Texas played the fifteen inning game on Saturday. It was
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: their longest game they played in ten years. And it
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: was April twenty fifteen, and it was in Stillwater. And
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: I told this story because it was on Friday night.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: It was Friday a series opening. It was a day
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: that Shaka Smart was introduced as a new basketball coach.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: Why had the bee here for the press conference? And
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: our friend David Garrett was up in Oklahoma and he
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: was gonna work with me that weekend. He said, I'll
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: call the Friday game until you get there. Whatever it
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: was an afternoon news conference or whatever. Well, the news
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: conference started late, all this stuff, and we got through
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: it and did it, and then I raced to the
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: airport and I get to DFW, and then the connection
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: was delayed.
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: And then by the time I get.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: Into the car at will Rogers Airport and I flip
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: in a dial up number we had to the station.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: The game's in the bottom of the ninth and I thought, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be there.
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  Speaker 2: It's tied, but it's in the bottom line. I won't
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: be there in time.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: I drive the hour in fifteen minutes of still water,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: get the still water, and when I get there, they're
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: going into the bottom of the thirteenth and David has
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: called the.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: Entire game by himself.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: So I park, I go upstairs, I get up to
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: the booth, and the bottom of the thirteenth inning they're
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: going to the fourteenth.
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  Speaker 2: Texas to Oklahoma State.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: Two long worn baseball continue to know, he takes off
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: the heads and because it's all yours, big boy, So I.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: Did the final five innings of that game.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: It went eighteen innings and Oklahoma State ended up winning.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: But there was a fifth teen inning game there two
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: years prior, when Mark Payton stole home with a head
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: first slide in a one to nothing fifteen inning balgain.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: That kind of approach, that kind of attitude, that's the
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff we see from Mendoza.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's a tough minded, really intuitive, never takes his
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 6: eye off the baseball.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 4: Well that everybody goes, well, you're not.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 6: You can't say, well, yeah, people do take their eye
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 6: off the baseball. They put their eyes down, they look around,
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 6: they get drifted, they lose their focus. Wherever that baseball is,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 6: that young man's eyes are peeled on it. And that's
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 6: why he's such an intuitive player, tough minded.
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  Speaker 4: And I got to be honest with you too. You know,
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 4: if you go back.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 6: To the beginning of the year, they were hitting him
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 6: in the nine spoive yep, and he kept getting hits,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 6: kept hitting hits, kept moving him up, kept moving him up,
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 6: and then all of a sudden you could watch the
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 6: offense really start to flourish when he got to the
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 6: top of the order because he was on base all
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 6: the time. His own base percenters was like five something
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 6: at one point time, and I was just like.
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  Speaker 4: This guy's on base three times a game.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but that's you know, and and when you're at
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 6: the top of that order and you had the older
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 6: hitters coming in, you know, behind him, and that's an
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 6: offensive weapon that's hard to describe and hard to defend.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: The other guy's moved up to the orders, Galvian, Yeah,
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: who's now up to number two is the highest he's
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: ever batten. And I want to ask you something about him.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: We need a break, and then I've got a couple
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: other things to ask you about. Ty Harrington with us
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  Speaker 1: and we'll continue from UFCU.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: Just falk Field.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thirteen under the zone talking college baseball here with
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: Ty Harry Could. We've talked a lot about this long
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: warn baseball team. But this is something I mentioned earlier
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: and I asked Schlass about this. As a coach, did
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: you enjoy it when you would have a matchup with
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: your team against another team? And he had siblings going
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: up against one another, and in this case, you've got
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: twin brothers. Rene Galvan is the starting left fielder for
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: UTRGV Ryland of course starts behind the plate for Texas. Additionally,
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: you have to Quate Stewart, who played with those two
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: guys in Sentton and also why Track the pitcher. They
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: were all part of Eight Realities is twenty twenty two four,
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: a state championship team that won it right here on
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: this field that UFCU just far field. And so I said, yeah,
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: final longer we win the game. You know that kind
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: of thing. And I know that's a coach thing, and
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: he laughed about it afterwards. But it's a nice wrinkle and.
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  Speaker 4: It is fun.
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  Speaker 6: I'll tell you, I never really put a whole lot.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 6: It only happened to me maybe four times. I was
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 6: trying to think when you brought that up, how many
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 6: times I think it happened to.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 4: Me four times?
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 6: And ironically two of them are of a team Tyxas
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 6: State and UTA and Tyler Sibley.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 4: Who played me.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 6: His younger brother played at UTA, and then Sean Garcia
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 6: played for ME and also.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 4: Coached for me.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 6: His older brother played on her younger brother played at UTA.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 6: So there were a handful of times and I think
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 6: it happened to me one time at junior college.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 4: But once you keep going about, it's like anything else.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 6: Once the first pitch is thrown, all that goes away, right,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 6: and then's who's gonna win, How do we gonna win?
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 6: What do we gotta do to win? And that becomes
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 6: your mindset. But I think it'd be more confusing for
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 6: the parents.
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  Speaker 1: Well quite Frankly, Ryland told me because I'd heard the
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: rumor of this, so I said, fact or fiction. I'm
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: told you had or between you and your brother, you
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: had to come up with something between forty and fifty
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: tickets just for family and close friends. He says that
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: is fact. Yeah, he said, I came up with thirty,
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: and then and then Renee came up with about fifteen
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: or so, somewhere between forty and fifty friends and family
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be here for that game.
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  Speaker 6: You know, think about this too, because you know how
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 6: good Adrian Allies was here, right, and then I coached
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 6: his brother for a year or two at Texas State,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 6: my second Southwest Texas in but point being sent in
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 6: Texas not the biggest town, right, then there's a lot
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 6: of other five A and six A high schools that
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 6: you know that are big name that have not produced
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 6: as many baseball players as that small town has, and
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 6: how important baseball is in.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: That town, and what he has done to elevate it,
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: what Adrian has done. In fact, I even asked, silly question,
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: I should know better this know one that covering high
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: school sports?
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: Way I do?
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: But I asked, uh, I asked h rylan. I said,
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: is uh coach allIt? He's gonna be here because now
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: they got a game nights Tuesday night. Tuesday nights a
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: game night you gotta play. So they've got it. They've
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: got a ball game to night. But it was Adrian
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: who tweeted out the fact that we're going to be
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: four sentting pirates on this field.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: Uh, or at least in this game.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: We'll see about why I trin could be pitches, but
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: but uh, there will be four sitting pirates uh from
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: that twenty twenty two state championship team on this deal?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: Texas State had a had a monstrous UH opponent to
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: deal with last weekend. UH Southern Miss ended up winning
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: one out of the three ball games out of there.
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  Speaker 4: What what?
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  Speaker 1: What was your takeaway having seen that whole thing against
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: that good Southern Miss ball lay?
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: You well, the last thing you said is important. Good
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 6: Southern Miss team. They are good.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 2: And they transitioned nicely after coach Berry.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's got such the most unbelievable guys we'll ever
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 6: meet in your lifetime.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 4: I texted him for the game on Thursday and said,
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 4: are you coming?
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 6: He goes, no, shot, I'm at Lake such and such
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 6: and Georgia somewhere right now fishing. No, but I'll be listening,
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 6: watching watch it. Yeah, maybe watching and listening and and
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 6: but so it's it is a really good Southern Miss team.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 6: They have probably really four hitters in their lineup that
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 6: that are very dangerous hitters. And any one time you
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 6: can see why they are a top They have been
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 6: a top twenty five team and a top twenty team. Actually,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 6: you can see that Texas State. The first game finding
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 6: out was a good game. Saturday got got away from them.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 6: Sunday they're down, They're chasing four going into the eighth.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 4: Southern Miss has to.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 6: Go to their bullpen to get to their closer and
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 6: the seventh, and because of that, I think maybe extending
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 6: him a little bit, then they were able to come up.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 6: Galloway came up with a huge, huge, two out base
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 6: hit up the middle of runners on second third to
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 6: tie the game. His first weekend back since opening weekend
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 6: when he got broke his handmate bone and so had
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 6: huge at bet and then came up did something one
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 6: of his legs on a rounding first, So don't know
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 6: how long he's out, but a huge hit for them.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 6: Samson Q came up with a homer the inning before,
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 6: and then they got a walk off hit Bathroom with
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 6: the bases loaded to win the game. Look when you're
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 6: chasing four against the top twenty five team and you're
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 6: in a desperate need of a win, you know, sometimes
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 6: it looked bleak, and they were able to hang in
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 6: there and come up with a win and a needed
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 6: win for them.
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  Speaker 1: There are three teams in the Sun Belt who were
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: ranked in the top in the top twenty five. Three
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: teams Coastal who were used to seeing Coastal Caroline every
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: year and their transition without coach Gilmore and retired Troy
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: and then and then Southern miss A. Which of the
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: three do you think is the best? And b is
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: this you can go in reverse order. Is this the
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: toughest conference season that you can remember Texas State having.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: To deal with?
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: No, because you had some there were light years in
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: the Southland and then and then even in the Sunbelt.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it might be like I so, all right, let
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 6: me answer the first question. Okay, all so, Troy is
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 6: is really good. I saw him early. I haven't done.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 6: I haven't seen him physically, but other than on TV,
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 6: he's got a little He's got.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 4: A few more arms than what he had.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 6: He had a really offensive team last year and the
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 6: year before, right, I mean really offensive, but they didn't
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 6: have enough arms to get through there.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 4: They've got more arms now.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 6: Coastal might be one of the best pitching teams in
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 6: the in around. I mean when you go in there
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 6: and you start digging in there. Their numbers are really
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 6: really impressive, but they don't hit as much as what
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 6: all of Gary's team. Gary Hillmore's teams were so offensive. Yeah,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 6: and I mean big physical monsters that you stood in
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 6: the box. They don't have the offense that they've had,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 6: but they do pitch and they do play really good defense.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 4: Uh And Southern Misses, Like I said, they.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 6: Are a top twenty five team. All three of those
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 6: teams are the top twenty five teams. But you know,
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 6: so when you ask you that question is the toughest one.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 4: So the some o.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 6: It's had four teams in the last three years, so
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 6: you know, the team that's not playing up to what
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 6: it normally does Lavia Ye and Louisiana, and of course
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 6: Matt always always gets his teams going. At the end
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 6: of the year, they play at a different level than
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 6: what they played all year long.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 4: And then I looked in there and I actually visit
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 4: with a few people.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 6: They had two of their better guys go down to
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 6: So again it's this injury thing that that keeps, you know,
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 6: ramping up all over. You have to be able to
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 6: survive that somehow, some way. But the sumb Belt is
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 6: good again.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 4: You know, let's talk about tonight real quick.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 6: It's you said you brought up the Southland, so you
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 6: know U t RGV and Derrek Matlocke and then.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: They fill the transition back in the South.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a great It's one of the best sayings. Look,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 6: I'm the old fan of the South of Night because
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 6: I was in it for for so long and and
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 6: and loved their leadership. They had a great time, but
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 6: they're that team that's at that you know that r
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 6: p I position that if they you know, they pick
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 6: off on in different places and take care of their
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 6: conference business. You're looking at a team that it would
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 6: be trying to you know, chase that large bit. Yeah,
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 6: that's gonna make tonight interesting because now I will say this,
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 6: you know this a lot of team because I've done it.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 4: I'm not what I'm about to tell you I've done.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 6: So you go in on a Tuesday and you got
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 6: a chance to knock off a top you know five team,
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 6: a top ten team. Then your Friday starter would be
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 6: your guy and that's his bullpen night. So you hold
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 6: him out and you tell him before the game, no
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 6: bullpen until the seventh inning. And if we got a
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 6: chance to win the game, then you decide whether you're
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 6: getting a bullpen or you're going in the game to
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 6: get your your work on the mound with a chance to.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: Save a GAMESA in Texas State bot one.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 4: Hundred percent, right, So we've all done it. Now.
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 6: The difference for tonight that Derek would have match like
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 6: would have have to make the decision about is short
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 6: week round quick turnaround.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 4: Right now, it's not just that it's it's a sixth day.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 6: They're usually on a seven day you know rotation, right
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 6: because of set Friday to Friday, Saturday, Saturday. With the starters,
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 6: this would be a Friday to Thursday, and then it's
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 6: then you gets tough and because then it's the next week,
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 6: it's a short arrest to and so it just so
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 6: there's a decision that would have to be made as
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 6: to whether they would run him out there if they
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 6: had a chance to beat Texas, you know, and at
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 6: the end of the game or close the game out.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 6: So be interesting to see number one, if it comes
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 6: up at number two, if it does what they do.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: It well, if they beat the number three RPI team
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: of the country, they're number one polls, but they're number
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: three in the RPI, that's a huge.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 6: Huge scoop of points to your resume. And so I
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 6: got one last question for you. I'm curious. This came
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 6: up in a conversation Sunday night after the Texas State game.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 6: I'll stop and had dinner with some friends of mine
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 6: and I was I had this question. I'm sure there's
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 6: a simple answer. If you if you play what is
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 6: it talking about the polls?
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 4: Right? How fluid it is.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 6: If I play a team in March and they're number
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 6: five in the country and I beat them.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 4: By April, they're out of the pole.
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 6: So and then we get into May and they're you know,
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 6: fluid up and down. You know, So what does it
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 6: really count as because you'll hit people advertise that they
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 6: had ten top ten wins or whatever.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 4: That looks like, So, I mean, what is it? What
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 4: is it?
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: You know what you just described? You described the long
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: worn football season last ball. Remember when they were beating
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: ranked teams that fell out of the poll and people
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: are like, well, you haven't beating anybody.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: You don't have a win of a ranked no.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: At the time they were number yeah, but they aren't now.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: It depends on it depends, I think, on how that
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: team is playing at the moment.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 2: You have to get some credit for that.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: But I will say this, the earlier in that season
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: that you get that win, there's a sliding scale as
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: to how much it's really going to count as opposed
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: to later in the season. A win here for UTRGV
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: would be big because we're mid April.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 4: One percent.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 6: There's a lot of data, a lot of data in
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 6: your background now right.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: There's a big difference.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: Between winning on April fifteenth and February fifteen. There's just
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: just a difference. Hey, have funnelment all casting. All right,
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: it's Ty Harrington with this. We'll be back to wrap
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: up today's program here on thirteen under the Zone.