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World Series Recap, ISU falls again, Matt Snyder on the World Series & David Eickholt talks Hawkeyes · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Right, Good afternoon. Welcome, Miller and Condon on a
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Tuesday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Trent Condon and Kendall are with you for the next couple of
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hours talking sports with you. And thank you for starting your
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afternoon here with us. Wherever you're listening in the
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state of Iowa or anywhere on the iheart app flagship here out of
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Des Moines Sports station One O 6.3 KXNO.
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Here's what's coming up on our program.
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We'll start with our first guest about 25 minutes, Matt Snyder
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from CBSSports.com. We'll recap the World Series.
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We'll take a look at some of the opt outs and where some of those
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may be heading. Show they Imanaga has joined the
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list. He is opting out of his contract
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with the Cubs. Some other big names as well,
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not yet with the Cubs. Others, I should say, not on
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that Cubs roster. But we'll get into all of the
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names that are out there and recap what was I think a
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phenomenal, worse, maybe the best since 9191 was
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unbelievable. Braves and the Twins.
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We'll see you tomorrow night. Such a great World Series.
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But this one had its had its moments as well.
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Just not enough of them for my sake.
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So we'll do that with Matt Snyder.
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Then David Eichel is going to join us.
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We will preview the Ben McCollum debut tonight.
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And also the press conference is going on football players
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meeting with the media as we speak.
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Kirk Ference at 1:45. So I cult will join us here in
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45 minutes. Our number two Bill Seals covers
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Iowa State will go back to the Arizona State game from
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Saturday. We'll talk about that with Bill.
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We'll go back to last night at Hilton Coliseum as the Iowa
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State men began their season convincing win over Fairly
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Dickens. I couldn't get, I got through 20
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minutes and that was enough. It's just bad.
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But not not them. They were good, but just they're
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just a different level of competition and they're toying
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with this team. So I'd seen enough and I went
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back to Monday Night Football full time after that.
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So that's the show. Bamba Bob at 1:30.
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We'll preview what we may see tonight as the committee will
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unveil a week number one of his College Football Playoff
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rankings. Trent will make some picks.
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It's basketball season. It's his time of year, so we'll
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see. What if he's got a couple of
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those plays coming up here tonight?
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But what a weekend it was. We had the day off yesterday.
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Boy, it's 973 days off. Got to be honest with you.
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Well, you can have a lot of days off coming up here in what, two
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months? But I got to be honest, it was
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nice staying home on Monday. But at the same time, there was
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so much that we could have talked about, including, I want
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to start with the World Series. Do you know what it was, Trent?
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It was it rekindled my that's dwindling pageant.
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It's still always going to be my team, but you know, I wasn't
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living and dying with, you know, every night of the 162 like it
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once was. It was phenomenal.
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It was fascinating. I thought the Jays had it a
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couple of times, kind of faleppa.
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I'm taking the shortest lead of anybody that's straight off
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third base all season long. I guess they're Game 6 fresh in
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their mind with the Bang Bang play at second base, the double
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play to end the game there, but out by an inch.
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There were so many chances. The paw heads catch in right
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field. That thing I.
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Thought that was going on the ground.
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I really did. And Kiki Hernandez looked up at
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pauses with high school. Tell me you caught the ball.
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He didn't know, had no idea. But in the end it was the
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Dodgers. And they repeat.
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But I thought it was a fascinating World Series.
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I know I'm closer to it than 99% of the people here because I'm a
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Jays fan. But I thought it was really good
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theatre. I really did.
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I thought baseball had a terrific month of October.
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For myself, and I'm going to guess a majority, a huge
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majority of our audience without a rooting interest didn't have
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one side or the other. For you, of course, yeah, I
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wanted your Blue Jays to win because of that.
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But but short of that, to have that kind of World Series with
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this behemoth that is the Dodgers, the star power, the
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storyline with Otani who had well in my house casuals, my
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wife wanted to watch every at bat that Otani was up there.
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And I'm going to guess that she wasn't alone.
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I mean, you have that angle to it.
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And then to get seven games, and not just seven games, but some
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incredible ones from an 18 inning game without the
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interest. There's many a times in the
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World Series where football takes precedence, where where
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football just, it rules the day for me.
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And that was not the case for this World Series.
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And not just Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Like we like to jump. In on Friday and Saturday.
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Yes, it was Friday, Saturday, locked and loaded and just how
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important and how the theatre of it rekindles.
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I know a lot of those memories for a lot of people and you see
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the TV numbers with a Canadian team that obviously does not
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rate here at the same level to see the numbers that they're
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doing and surpassing. Now what we've seen from the
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NBA, baseball is moving up. Had a great month, fucked over
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it went. From, you know, over the last
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decade, a lot of the talk of and it's real that it's a very
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regional sport and Jack. DRY is a perfect example.
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Yes, Central Iowa should have been all over this kit.
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And just wasn't. Yeah, because it's the Dodgers.
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And yeah, what people care about here is the Cubs.
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You know, what people care about is the regional teams, Cubs,
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Cardinals, Twins, Brewers and Royals, White Sox that Royals
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ahead of the White Sox, White Sox at the bottom of the list.
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But those are the teams that matter because that's what this
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sport is. But it still can generate
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interest on a national level. And it was great to see that
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show up in the television numbers.
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Just looking at social media, the amount of people that were
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into this World Series baseball is back and how figure out the
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finances because you cannot afford a work stoppage here.
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2027, yeah. You got a lot of momentum behind
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you. You've got another year.
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You've got some time to figure it out.
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But you're that's a great point, Trent, Get that thing done
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because you're kind of riding on a high probably.
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I got to think it'll carry over at least for a while into next
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year. Look, it's a long season.
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I get that. The crazy part is we're two
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months away, two full months away from pitchers and catchers
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reporting like Valentine's Day baseball reports back for duty,
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which is just crazy to think it's such a long season.
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But man, oh man, it's such a fun season, especially the month of
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October. The play offs, the just
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fascinating theory, the drama. Friday night, the double play.
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Hernandez again making a heads up play at second base to get
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the double play on the fly out. Boba Shetz.
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That wasn't a bat flip. It was a bat drop.
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But but just him walking out of the batter's box, knowing that
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bad boy's flying out of the into the seats in Rogers Center.
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That was a hell of a game, really was.
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Listening I listened to Richard Deitch, who is the sports media
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columnist over at The Athletic and.
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He lives in Toronto. He does, and he had I think 3
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different times, including a recap yesterday, listen up my
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way over to Iowa City and he was talking to a Blue Jays reporter
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and somebody's been in Toronto forever.
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And just hearing them talk about the way that this grabbed the
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city unlike anything that certainly died just seen in his
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decade living in Toronto. And this guy who's been there, I
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mean, he was talking about the early 80s Blue Jays teams, those
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good teams that they had before breaking through in the early
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90s with the World Series, he said.
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He hasn't seen seen anything like it.
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And we know the Maple Leafs and their problem 60.
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Seven, you know. It's been a long time, he said.
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That this team, the likeability, just for whatever reason, this
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was a team more than the Raptors that people were engaged with.
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And the thing that you bring up from time to time, and I think
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sometimes we miss as Americans is this is border to border.
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Well, hockey, you got six of them up, right.
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Not the case with baseball. There's one and it's border to
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border. So this wasn't just a Toronto
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story up there. So this was.
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I'm just doing math in my head but.
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This was a Canadian story. And because of that, just the
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merchandise flying off the shelves and people waiting in
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line at 8:00 AM day of the game to get in, to get in, to get the
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merchandise. And they're already wearing Blue
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Jays gear, but they're still doing it 'cause they want to get
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more. And just the way that it grabbed
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a hold of that, so many opportunities, such a great
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world it. Really.
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Was half the country is was watching?
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What was the other half watching?
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I guess Hockey Night in Canada, probably.
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Unbelievable. Let's get Joe, then we'll move
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on. Want to talk about Iowa State
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where their football season is at at this point as they have
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now lost foreign role off to TCU this weekend.
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Thunder Joe joins the program. Hello, Joe, How are you?
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Hey, good afternoon. Fellas, first we'll start with
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Thunder off to a great start. I'm not saying 82 and O maybe
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8281 and maybe 81 and one. No, let's let's let's bring back
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to the World Series here. And I was watching it.
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Ken and Trent and bottom of the ninth.
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They load the bases at the bottom of the ninth right.
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Yeah, yeah. OK.
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I'm one out, one out, bases loaded.
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Yep. OK, Small ball is non existence
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anymore. As I'm watching this, I'm like
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Schneider, you can steal the World Series here with a suicide
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squeeze. Worst case scenario you have two
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outs with the bases loaded. But right here, nobody's
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nobody's looking for them to have.
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Why is Small Ball gone far away from the game where that game
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could have been stolen right there?
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Yeah, interesting because Bichette single kind of Faleppa
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comes in, Barger walked and and the inning started out with
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Guerrero flying out. So there's one out.
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All of a sudden the Jays get 2 on 1st and 3rd and then Kirk
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hits into the double play. Yeah, Fairpoint, that's a fair
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question. I never, I never, never popped
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into my head, but yeah, that's good.
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Because I mean, Bar show would have been, would have factored
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into there somewhere. And that guy's got speed.
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Yeah, he does. Yeah, I mean, I just, I just
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feel like the the game of small ball has gone away and it could
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have been stolen right there. Like I said, worst case
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scenario, yeah you end up with a bank bloated 2 hours.
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Right, 'cause it was Varsho that that grounded into the, was it
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Kirk or was it it was Varsho at that point?
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It was Kirk later on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Oh my God, So many chances man. I mean, hindsight's hindsight's
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2020. Sure, that's the time I'm
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watching it, but it could have been stolen right there.
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He was up by 6 inches, up by 6 inches and and Rojas bobbled the
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ball. He bobbled the ball in second
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base before he was able to throw home.
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So anyways, Joe, thanks for the call Bud.
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Appreciate it. Good to hear from you.
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Had the not just the Bob, he kind of stumbled.
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He did. And what he stumbled is like,
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oh, that ball's going to sail. How many times have you seen
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that? Yes, just a little bit off it.
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And then he comes up and hits the home run.
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It's that insult to injury. With two out, was it 3, two or
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three? One the count and it was.
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I might have been 322 out one pitch.
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You ain't Hoffman. I've been killing him all year.
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I knew it was going to. I did think it was going to get.
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I was not I was not going to send a text after that one, but
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the thought were what trend? I've heard this conversation
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plenty of time. I shut my phone off and I never
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do that. I'm seldom do.
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I was in my living room pacing back and forth.
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I loved this. I'd loved it, absolutely loved
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it. My passion for my Jays back full
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swinging. My old man would have loved it.
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God, he would have loved it. Tony.
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How are you, Tony? Hey, how you guys doing?
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I was just saying I two things. Number one, I worked at Free
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Meadows Casino and table games and on Friday night at the whole
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casino in that area, really edge of the base.
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Oh yeah. You can just hear it, you know,
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I mean, like you talk about, you know, you hear it in the sports
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stuff, you can hear it in the table games area.
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Wow, just the reaction of all the plays and you can just feel
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it in the air too. And it wasn't football on
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Friday. People were locked into that
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baseball game on Saturday. Good.
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Yeah, Next time I'm out there, Tony, look me up because I'm out
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there periodically. Yeah, I, I Yeah, I.
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I've seen you up on the TV screen and everything while I'm
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at work, so come. Say, hey, yeah, go ahead.
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Just one quick thing, I'm I'm spoke tonight, I'm on my way
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over to Iowa City right now from Altoona and I'm going to the
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game so can't wait. Nice.
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See you over there. Tony, are you going to transit?
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Oh yeah. This is the the infamous Floyd
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of Boater weekend. This is when we have our our
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annual everybody comes back. Yeah, everybody gets together on
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a Tuesday. Well, no for Saturday.
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Oh, but yeah, that tailgate for this weekend.
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And this is going to be I almost got a chance.
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Yes, they do, Tony, enjoy yourself.
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Thanks for the call, bud. Appreciate it.
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Thanks, guys. Yep, take care.
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Good to hear from you as we talk a little baseball, more baseball
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with Matt Snyder coming up. Phenomenal words. 91 fair
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comparison. Oh, absolutely.
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I mean, I know Cubs fans want to put theirs up there.
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The Game 7 was excellent. It was, it was but but Twins,
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Braves had more of them. The Big Red Machine had some.
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Got some classics, Cardinals, Tigers and 68.
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The really the first one I remember, Mickey Lolich, look it
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up. You won three games, three
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games. You know what else stands out in
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those three games? He won.
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He went the distance. Complete game.
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Complete Game. Complete game.
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Complete Game, The big left-hander.
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Now they open up a bunch of donut shops.
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He was my favorite player as a kid after Colfax retired.
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Iowa State. Where do they go?
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Rock go back. What do they do?
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He can't set him, can you? Trend he's hurting his team and
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if he's hurt like Cyclonation as he is, what's he doing playing?
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I have more respect for the medical staff at Iowa State than
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they do because if he is hurt, he wouldn't be playing.
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I truly want to believe that he's not concussed or they
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wouldn't send him out. Oh.
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If he's concussed, absolutely not right and listen that is
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that is smooth minded thinking. If a guy, there is no way in the
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year 2025, right, that a player is concussed and they're
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continuing to trot him out there, come on.
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I mean, use a little bit of brain power, right?
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If, if that is your take, you're a stupid person.
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Let's be honest. Yeah, it's 2025.
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Yes. It's not not Yeah, it's not
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1970s, eighties there. There's medical people in place
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for 2012. Yeah.
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I don't know. I I don't know what you would
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do, but you know what he's. Hurting his team and he's hurt,
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injured again. We get into that.
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What is the difference between him?
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He doesn't look right. Well, he doesn't.
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Show up on the on the availability report.
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So if he doesn't show up on the he wants.
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To be fine. Or this is a Utah situation.
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Well, could be that too. Since he took that hit against
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Cincinnati, he has rarely looked like the same guy that we've so.
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You think he's seen ghosts? No, I just think that he is
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banged up. I think that he's not playing at
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100%, and plenty of guys can get through that.
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But when you don't have two NFL receivers, when you don't have a
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offensive line that is elite by any measure, right, when you
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have those kind of issues, this is what's going to show up.
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But I think more than anything, look, Chase Soul, nice, nice.
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Not what we're used to for that #1 receiver at Iowa State, they
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don't have that guy. Nope.
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And there's only so many things that you can do and dial up with
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Eskelton. They do it early in the game,
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right? And that's it.
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Tight. Ends are not, I mean Bramer.
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I thought Bramer is going to have a breakout year.
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Berkel with the drop. Berkel with the drop, Eli Green
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had one good catch, and they, I mean, the receivers are just not
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good. The running game.
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Carson Hansen was. It was his day.
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It was his turn. I'll tell you, the best Cyclone
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was on the field, and for my money, it's not even close.
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Who's on the other side of the ball?
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Cooper rebels. Unbelievable.
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Yeah. Good God, he's a player, right?
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Around making some. He is unbelievable.
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He's really playing as you know what off.
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But they got. They got gashed, gashed by by
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the. Quarterback, we said there was
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one path for Arizona State. It was to run, run, run.
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You know, Jeff Sims, but. I thought it would be relief
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Brown who was going to be doing all the damage and they for the
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most part held him in check. But it was just Jeff Sims.
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God, they could not tackle this dude.
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So here comes, here comes Hoover and company for TCU this weekend
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and he's what's Josh Hoover's 22 touchdowns to 8 picks.
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So maybe a little bit not quite as good as we thought it was
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going to be, but I don't know. I mean, are we going to be
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staring down the barrel of the better held beat Oklahoma State
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or this team's not going to post season?
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Are we on the precipice of that being a talking point?
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I think that's the most likely scenario, isn't it?
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Because you know Daniel is going to run his ass off when they
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play Kansas. And what can't they do right?
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You know, quarterbacks that can run are there kryptonite?
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I think. That is absolutely the way this
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is going to play out. They're going to be playing Oh
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Jesus in Stillwater for bowl eligibility.
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And if that team has any pride, yeah.
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And I'm not sure at this point. Cause Oklahoma State has quit
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yes, with a capital cube, but it's.
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Senior day now, I don't know, will that mean anything at that
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point for this? You know, you just, I can't
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believe we're at this point. I truly can't.
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No, not at all. I mean the way that they, I
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mean, you go back to a season ago and all the losses that they
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had at linebacker and just to persevere and find a way and
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then to have the, it doesn't, it's not just the team.
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It doesn't look like the same program.
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No. Something it feels like it's
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just more than yeah, I. Hate to say this, and I'm not
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saying to get a smirk or a laugh or AUA hole.
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You know what they need? They need the guy in Ohio.
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You're on the hot seat, Campbell.
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Bring him back, Bring him back. Well, I know he's there.
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I mean, he goes to all the games.
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This guy lied let his spark last time and I don't know if he can
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do it again. You you went to they played that
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card once. But something is wrong with this
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team. Something is wrong with this
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team and and I don't know if it's it, it probably starts with
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the most important position in all the sports, right?
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It's Rocco Beck is just not playing well.
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I think it starts and ends there.
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I get his receivers are gone. Did his receivers actually make
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Rocco Beck look better than he was?
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Can we ask that question? Is that unfair to put it in that
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respect? His chase soul, Nice player,
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nice player. But you, you need a couple more
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chase souls, right? You just do the running game.
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Carson Hansen one week, Boo Sama the next week.
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But it's it's the open receivers.
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It's the bad misses. I mean, the the, the game ending
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play was a perfect example. What was it 4?
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I'll say 4th and eight. I don't remember off the top of
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my head exactly what it was, but you, you throw the ball into the
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ground for six yards. I mean, soul's on the ground.
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Once the ball's on the ground, the play is dead.
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In college, it's not like you can roll to the to pick up the
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first down. And that was a poorly thrown
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football. It it it kind of reminded me of
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Hank Brown. Missing on the screen.
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Missing on that screen pass that play was there to accept.
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Now I don't know if it would have made a difference or not,
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but for the game to end like that it just kind of summed up
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exactly what we're seeing. It's really unfortunate.
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Let's get to Joe real quick and then we'll get to a break.
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We'll get Matt Snyder in here on baseball.
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Joe, how are? You good?
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I'm a huge Iowa State fan. I want to know when they're
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going to switch to a four man front.
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To. On defense, to get keep the
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quarterback contained and get pressure on him so that he can't
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sit back and just pick the defense apart on the secondary
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because we sucked there too. Well, you're two corners.
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Yeah, you're right. You mean they've they figured
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Haycock out, it looks like. I think that's probably part of
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it. Yeah.
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Joe, thanks for the call, man. Go ahead, finish up.
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Thank you. Nope.
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Nope. You go ahead.
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Thank you. Joe, appreciate the call.
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Yeah, it's a good point. It is.
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They can't generate pressure. I mean, you look at their
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pressure, worry, they're amongst the worst in all of college
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football. You can't get to the
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quarterback. It's not working.
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No. And it was something that was
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innovative, that was elite. You have to have an elite guy in
19:53
the middle. They had that with Dom Orange
19:55
and they've had guys before. Dom Orange is banged up and they
19:58
just can't get and how many times you just see quarterbacks.
20:01
Happened in that pocket, happened, happened because
20:04
there's no pressure coming. There's nothing.
20:06
They're just sitting back, sitting back.
20:07
And if you get a quarterback 468 seconds to find somebody, even
20:12
if you got 8IN coverage, they're eventually going to be able to
20:15
find somebody. If not Jess Sims, just scoot for
20:17
another 12 yards. Sauce Gardner is a Colt for two
20:21
first round picks. Rashid Rashad Shaheen Am I
20:25
saying it right? The New Orleans speedster is a
20:28
Seahawk I. Love that one I.
20:30
Love that move. I like both of the moves now.
20:31
I think the Colts gave up a bounty.
20:33
I mean, two first round picks, Hayden.
20:36
Jones is going to beat Patrick Holmes and Josh Allen in the
20:39
playoffs. Not so sure.
20:42
Seems like a lot, Sam. Darnold.
20:44
He's not beating anybody in January.
20:45
I'm telling you this. Team is for real, they're good.
20:48
I'm telling you, and I've been trying to tell you, you keep
20:50
saying, yeah, come talk to me in January.
20:52
Probably right. We'll talk to Matt Snyder.
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Snyder next. Miller and Condon on the Iowa
21:13
Sports Radio. I'm Laurie Condon, welcome back
21:29
just before 12:30 on a Tuesday. David Icolt on Iowa coming up
21:34
here in about 15 minutes. Let's talk some baseball with
21:36
our buddy Matt Snyder. Covers the series.
21:38
Covers baseball for CBSSports.com.
21:41
CBSSports.com. What a what a World Series.
21:43
Matt Snyder. It truly was.
21:45
Even though it didn't go the my team's way, it was a fascinating
21:49
watch. All seven games had a little
21:51
something. You were there on Monday night
21:53
for the marathon in LA, back-to-back to Toronto for game
21:57
6:00 and 7:00 and just a fascinating World Series.
22:01
I thought baseball overall had a really good month of October.
22:05
Totally agree. Yeah, I mean, it's the first
22:08
couple rounds. I'm glad you said the whole
22:09
month, Yeah, because the first couple rounds were were really
22:13
exciting as well. There were a lot of little
22:16
things that were, were exciting to see, but also there were some
22:21
like big ticket items. I mean, you you had Otani was
22:25
probably the greatest individual game that we've ever seen from
22:28
somebody with three home runs and throwing 6 shutout innings.
22:31
You had Otani getting on base nine times in game three, which
22:35
is ridiculous. And in part, it wasn't like
22:37
singles and walks. There were two home runs and two
22:41
double s in there too. And then that, you know, Freddie
22:43
Freeman and another walk off, then the Blue Jays, that the
22:46
back-to-back home runs to start game five.
22:49
Yeah, game that that was the first time that had ever
22:52
happened in a World Series game. So like just a lot of different
22:56
things that were either incredibly rare, incredibly
22:59
exciting, incredibly, you know, important or had never happened
23:03
before. So yeah, it was great post
23:07
season in all. And I, I just saw the the
23:10
ratings number from Game 7 was like more than double the NBA
23:13
Finals Game 7, which that by the way, is only America.
23:17
So that doesn't even count most of Canada probably watching 50.
23:21
Percent of the country, apparently.
23:23
Yeah, so I think it was an absolutely monster.
23:27
And again, that's only USA. There's a global audience there,
23:30
especially with the Dodgers being in the Japan Shohei Otani,
23:36
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Suzaki. So like I that was that was one
23:43
for the ages in many, many respects.
23:45
Absolutely incredible. I mean, a Game 7 where the
23:49
Dodgers start with Otani Glass, now starter Snell starter
23:53
Yamamato coming back a day later as a star.
23:56
I'm just it also shows you the change and how baseball is so
23:59
much different. The way that this series played
24:01
out, the plays at the plate, how many plays at the plate do we
24:04
have in this series? Just on and on and on.
24:06
So you know, the arrow that we live in, Matt Snyder, we got to
24:08
rank everything. Where does this rank for you?
24:11
Where, where is this World Series?
24:12
Because it is way up there for me.
24:15
Yeah, I actually did the, I always do ranking the last 10
24:18
World Series every single year I do it.
24:20
And I had this one number two behind 2016.
24:24
I could understand arguments for this 1 / 2016.
24:27
It's for me being a Cubs fan in the circumstances behind the
24:31
Cubs versus Cleveland at the time with those droughts.
24:35
And you know, keep in mind that one also went extra innings in
24:37
Game 7 and there were three one run games in that series.
24:41
So pick your poison on that one. But I, I, I came up with a quick
24:47
list in the intro to that on some of the best ones of all
24:49
time. And I had 9 on it.
24:52
So the, the this one was I I think in the top nine all time.
24:57
Yeah, fascinating stuff, no doubt about it.
25:00
We'll see where both franchises go.
25:01
I'm already here. And Kyle Tucker to the Dodgers.
25:03
I mean, come on, Enough is enough.
25:06
You're a Hall of Fame voter, but I don't think that you're part
25:09
of this. What are we, the contemporary
25:12
baseball era? Who?
25:13
Who picks up this committee? Who's on that, Matt?
25:16
Yeah, it'll be 15 people at the winter meetings.
25:20
They meet in their room. There's always a mix.
25:23
They will have like current Hall of Fame players, usually four or
25:27
five. They will have some former
25:29
managers. They'll have some former
25:30
executives. They'll have a historian.
25:32
They'll have a couple media people.
25:35
If you remember when Harold Baines got in, there was a lot
25:38
of talk about how Tony Larusa was on the panel, he having
25:41
managed with the White Sox, and Larusa had kind of convinced
25:44
everybody in there. So it's it'll be a panel.
25:49
Like just as an example, I know that a couple of years ago Theo
25:52
Epstein was in there, for example, on the media side, it
25:56
will be somebody long, long, long tenured, like Peter Gammons
25:59
has done in that in there before.
26:02
So it and then, you know, again, like I said, like current Hall
26:05
of farmers who were players. So I think Ozzy Smith has been
26:09
on it before. So you'll get like a mixed bag
26:12
of people from different, you know, walks of life, but they're
26:18
all hardcore baseball people and they'll discuss.
26:21
And I assume you have the statistical historians in there
26:25
to try to say where these guys would rank statistically.
26:28
Then you have the people who played with or against these
26:30
guys or manage them or what have you, and they all cast
26:35
individual votes. But you get the feeling that
26:38
they kind of come to consensuses on these players and but you
26:43
know, sometimes they'll be split, but a lot of times you'll
26:46
see you guys get either zero votes or most of them.
26:49
And one person gets in. Here's the people that are up
26:52
there, the nominees, Barry Bonds, Roger Clements, Carlos
26:55
Delgado, Jeff Kent on Mattingly, Dale Murphy, Gary Sheffield.
26:58
Fernando Mattingly I think is a Hall of Famer.
27:01
Likewise with Murphy and Fernando.
27:03
Fernando, obviously Clements and Bonds are, but we know what's
27:06
keeping them out. How many is this a one person
27:09
gets in? Or can there be more this time
27:11
do you know? So I immediately at the top, I'm
27:14
going to eliminate Bonds and Clemens.
27:15
They were on three years ago and got zero votes.
27:18
And I just think that the people who would vote them in are guys
27:23
like me who are not tenured long enough to get in that room.
27:28
And a lot of the former players are hardcore nosed.
27:31
So I just think that it's going to be a long, long time before
27:34
they would be considered. I it's probably actually a waste
27:36
to even have them on here because you could get some other
27:40
guys on there like Kenny Lofton, for example, who I desperately
27:44
think should be in. I would much rather see him get
27:46
a shake right now. But I do think that the
27:50
committee, remember, this committee is the same one now.
27:53
It might be different people, but it's the contemporary Air
27:56
Committee who voted in Fred McGriff a few years ago and gave
27:59
zero votes to Barry Bonds and Roger Clement.
28:01
So that's where you could see an Ave. for Don Battingley, Dale
28:05
Murphy, Jeff Kent. I also think that you generally
28:09
see a bump after guys have died recently.
28:12
We saw it happen with Ron Santo. We saw it happen with Dick
28:15
Allen, Fernando Valenzuela right before the World Series last
28:18
year passed the way. And it gives kind of a renewed
28:21
focus on not just the numbers, because his numbers career wise
28:26
kind of falls short in terms of the counting stats, like how
28:30
many strikeouts did he rack up, how many wins, all that.
28:32
But if you look at the first half of his career before his
28:36
arm obviously fell apart, he was the Hall of Famer type pitcher
28:41
for 6-7 years. And I think that the Fernando
28:44
mania and what he meant for the the Mexican American community
28:48
in Los Angeles, I think making them fans for life after all the
28:55
stuff with Chavez Ravine and displacing so many Mexican
28:58
American immigrants, like there was a historical aspect to what
29:03
Fernando did for the did. Not realize that.
29:06
I did not realize that. Wow.
29:07
In Los Angeles. And I think that that's
29:09
something that you can include in your criteria when you're
29:13
talking about if somebody's a Hall of Famer or not.
29:15
So you mentioned the Cubs a little bit earlier.
29:17
We got some Cubs news. The Shota and Menaga has opted
29:21
out a free agent class of starting pitching that isn't
29:25
great by any means. He got for Amber and we've
29:28
certainly seen the ups and downs of him.
29:30
Ranger Suarez, Dylan Cease, not exactly who's who.
29:33
You know, Shota's going to get some money here.
29:35
I'm going to guess they'll give the qualifying offer and get a
29:37
maybe draft compensation. Is it over, though, do you
29:40
believe with the Cubs and Managua, or do you think that
29:42
they're going to be a real player?
29:44
No, I think that was I think I think that this one was the Cubs
29:50
saying we got some good stuff from him for about 1 1/2 years.
29:55
He really ran out of gas like half of last year and he's now
29:59
he's going to be hitting his decline phase.
30:01
So we will not pay that three years and 57 million and he of
30:04
course declined the the player option part of that.
30:07
I think this was getting out before his contract looks bad
30:11
and he probably getting out at the right time.
30:13
I mean, if market completely bottoms out, which we've seen
30:16
before, I mean we saw with Dexter Fowler coming back in
30:19
2016, we saw it with the Mets and Pete Alonzo last year.
30:22
If it gets to that point, maybe he comes back and they've signed
30:26
a one year deal with incentives or something like that.
30:28
But my hunt is that this is it with with Imanaga and the Cubs.
30:32
And hey, thank you for a really, really good two seasons.
30:36
And then then he'll be off on his way.
30:38
Yeah. Kate Horton, And there's help
30:40
coming. And what's his name?
30:42
Wiggins. Who's the old?
30:43
Yeah, and Justin Steele will be coming back.
30:45
He'll be back probably, you know, Memorial Day or so.
30:49
I do think the Cubs will be in the market for a front line
30:52
starter, but Imanaga is not a front line starter.
30:54
So whether it's via trade, I don't know.
30:58
Sorry, Trent. But if the twin foot Pablo Lopez
31:01
and Joe Ryan up on the record, it might be a possibility that
31:04
Marlins might put Edward Cabrera.
31:07
They might put Sandy Alcantra up if you believe he can bounce
31:10
back in his second year after Tommy John surgery or, you know,
31:13
in free agency. There's even if you don't want
31:16
to go for Dylan Caesar, Framber Valdez, there's there's a
31:19
Michael King sitting sitting there.
31:21
Ranger Suarez, you know, we'll see what kind of offers he gets.
31:24
So the Cubs will definitely add at least one starter from
31:29
outside the organization. I just think that this was the
31:31
end of the road with Imanaga. Awesome stuff.
31:34
Matt Snyder joins us every single week, except I think you
31:36
took one week off during the season to talk to us.
31:41
Let's let this hot stove percolate for a couple of weeks
31:43
and I'll impose on you in a couple of weeks.
31:46
Matt, we love what you do for us.
31:47
Love talking baseball. It was a great month of October.
31:49
Don't want to see this conversation and anytime soon.
31:53
Thank you, but I'll read. We'll reach out in a couple of
31:54
weeks, OK? Yeah, sounds good.
31:57
Thank you Matt Matt Snyder CBSSports.com is we talk Major
32:00
League Baseball good hit with Matt Snyder and and again I mean
32:03
that's he's really good to us. Yes, absolutely.
32:05
Every single week national guy covers the World Series, I mean,
32:08
for CBS Sports. And yeah, it's good.
32:11
Lucky to have him. We are.
32:12
And I think our audience appreciate if you're a baseball
32:14
fan, he's a really, really good get.
32:16
All right, we'll take your time out, David.
32:17
I call recap what he saw last night.
32:19
We expect to see tonight what he's listened to today, a
32:22
Hawkeye conversation. Next, Bill Seals kicks off our
32:26
number 2 Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
32:36
I'm Miller Condon, Welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio Network.
32:39
Trent Condon, Ken Miller, we take you until 2O clock.
32:42
Let's get David Eichold in here, hawkeyeinsider.com.
32:46
He joins US 24/7 Sports. David Trenton, Ken, thank you
32:49
for coming on. Always good to talk to you.
32:52
We'll get to the Oregon game, which just has a massive feel.
32:55
It really does. I can't wait.
32:58
We'll get to Basketball Mints tonight, but let's start with
33:00
ladies. They were first after all last
33:03
night. What did you see from Jan
33:06
Jensen's squad as they made their first, I guess real start
33:10
of 2526 season? Your thoughts on what transpired
33:13
last night at Carver? You know, I think it raised a
33:17
few questions about what this team can be, but I'm also not
33:19
going to be the person that overreacts after after one game,
33:22
right? I think this team is going to be
33:24
very front court heavy and I think there's going to be a lot
33:28
of production from there. I was pretty much blown away by
33:32
Ava Hyen. I knew she was going to take a
33:33
step forward, but you know, I know that they didn't have the
33:36
most size they're playing against, but Hyen was demanding
33:39
the basketball in the post. She had about 3 or 4 go to
33:42
moves. She was a very aggressive on the
33:44
glass. I thought Hannah Stolky did a
33:46
nice job in that second-half and if she makes, you know, a three
33:49
or two a game or can at least showcase that she can be a
33:51
little bit of a threat, I think that's going to open some things
33:54
up a little bit. Worried about the turnovers, 24
33:57
turnovers. I know that Southern through a
33:59
lot of different pressures at them, some full court presses,
34:03
you know, when when you are going against a team that has 9
34:05
freshmen, sophomores like Iowa, they were trying to, you know,
34:09
force those turnovers and get them out in transition.
34:11
And they were able to do that a few times.
34:12
But we saw last year, man, when Iowa turns the ball over that
34:16
they don't win many games. We saw even though they had Lucy
34:18
Olson, who was obviously a terrific player in her own
34:21
right, I was going to need two or three ball handlers to step
34:24
up to the plate and be able to, you know, go against some of
34:27
that pressure. But I think as potential be a
34:29
top 25, top 20 team, I think it's going to be a very good the
34:33
team. The three-point shooting wasn't
34:34
great, but again, Jan Jensen doesn't seem worried about that.
34:38
But I think there's going to be a lot of talent on this year's
34:40
team as well. But it's going to be one of
34:42
those things, man, where who's going to be that go to player?
34:46
Yeah, Lucy Olsen last year yet Caitlin Clark several years
34:48
before that yet Megan Gustafson, you had Kathleen Doyle, you have
34:51
Sam Logic, Ali Disterhoff, who's going to be that go to player
34:55
when you need a bucket. I I think there's a couple
34:57
people that have potential to be, but I'm very curious how
35:00
this next couple weeks sort of develop.
35:03
We'll jump over to the men's side.
35:04
We'll get our first look at them tonight against Robert Morris
35:06
and NCAA Tournament team from a year ago.
35:08
But one of the best players is now on Iowa with El Vero,
35:12
Fulgaris and a couple that all 5 starters gone from last year's
35:15
team. What are you looking for here?
35:16
Iowa favored by 22 1/2 against Bobby MO.
35:21
Defense, defense and defense, right?
35:25
I'm really, I'm really interested to see the lineup
35:27
combinations because I, I think right now Ben is still trying to
35:30
figure out what the best way to attack opposing teams are.
35:33
We know that Iowa did not shoot the ball well from three-point
35:36
range and their two secret scrimmages that let's face it,
35:38
man, they're not secret scrimmages.
35:40
We know everything gets leaked out at this point.
35:43
Very curious how you know it's freshman Tate Sage can be a big
35:47
part of this team because he really impressed me throughout
35:49
the summer. I think he played great in Iowa.
35:52
Second secret scrimmage game. How are the defensive rotations
35:55
going to be cleaned up? How much pressures are going to
35:57
be on Bennett's dirt at that starting point guard spot?
36:00
Are they going to be able to move them off the ball?
36:02
But I'm just overall really intrigued about the system that
36:05
Iowa's going to come out and be aggressive in.
36:08
And I'm very curious how the crowd's going to be because, you
36:10
know, I think Ben Mccollum's done the right thing behind the
36:13
scenes. He's taking about every media
36:15
request, as far as I'm aware of. He's in the, you know, student
36:18
section during football games. He's done countless public
36:21
appearances. I don't know how much coffee
36:23
that man has drank, and somehow more than me.
36:25
And that's an accomplishment in its own right.
36:28
But for him to kind of do everything right behind the
36:29
scenes, how well attended is this game going to be?
36:33
What's the support going to look like?
36:34
And how much work does he still have to do to fill Carver back
36:38
up despite having a new player, a new system?
36:40
How many people are going to sit there and say, you know what,
36:42
we'll believe it when we see it. So I think there's a ton of
36:46
intrigue about this, about this year's team and all the honest
36:49
man. I don't know if we're really
36:50
going to know what this team is until halfway through January.
36:54
I just think that this team is going to get better as year goes
36:57
long, but we'll be able to figure out what they actually
36:59
are. January.
37:00
February. Yeah, I think that's a that's a
37:03
fair way to put it. Let's Fast forward to Saturday.
37:06
Not that I don't want to gloss over tonight, I don't.
37:09
I'm looking forward to that and talking about it tomorrow
37:11
because we'll watch on the Big 10 Network.
37:13
But this just has a massive feel at at Kinnock Stadium on
37:17
Saturday. So much still to play for for
37:19
Iowa. Not easy by any means.
37:20
Obviously the next two weeks and then Sparty and then Rayola
37:24
lists Huskers squad to bring down the curtain on the regular
37:28
season. But these next two weeks, but
37:29
this one in particular because I think USC and I know it's going
37:32
out West and that doesn't bode well for the Hawks.
37:34
But I'm not sure sure they're you know that they're as good as
37:37
some people make them up to be. And I was one of those people
37:40
before. But I still think this Oregon
37:42
squad is really good. I do.
37:44
The win at Penn State at the end of September was, you know, one
37:48
of those all timers, one of the better games of the year.
37:50
Where are you on this Oregon team?
37:53
Tough spot, but I think a very winnable game for Iowa.
37:56
David Eichelt. I think they're going to have a
37:59
shot, but I also think that Dan Laning is the top three coach in
38:02
college football. I think he's a maniac and I
38:05
think he's one of the best young coaches there is.
38:06
And keep in mind, the last time Iowa played Oregon, Kirk was
38:10
coaching OL at Iowa. Dan Laning was three years old,
38:13
might I add. So for some perspective there, I
38:16
think it's a really talented team.
38:17
I love Dante Moore. I think he's one of the most,
38:19
one of the more explosive dual threat quarterbacks in college
38:22
football. I don't know if he knows how to
38:24
protect himself on the run. I think that's going to be a big
38:26
thing. He'll have to transition to
38:28
whenever he goes to the NFL or if he comes back for another
38:31
season. I don't think he should, but
38:33
that's going to be a big deal for him.
38:35
I think given the way the weather and everything is going
38:37
to work out too. This is going to be an ugly Big
38:39
10 style football game. Like the winds are expected to
38:41
go up to the 25 mile an hour gust.
38:43
It sounds like it's going to be a rainy game.
38:45
And I think if you're an Iowa fan, you're going to, you know,
38:47
I think they're going to love it.
38:48
I think there's going to be a lot of people that are going to
38:50
be excited to hammer Bush lights against cans against their head
38:53
and and do the tarp soft thing in the students section.
38:56
I think the atmosphere is going to be electric, but I I think
38:59
it's the biggest home game in four years Price since that Penn
39:01
State game. At least in going into that sort
39:04
of field. We know what Penn State end up
39:06
not being that great. We know Iowa had a decent year,
39:09
but didn't live up to their own expectations after what happened
39:12
with Purdue the following week. But this has a very similar
39:15
feel. And I do think if if you if
39:17
you're Iowa, you're looking at the ranked losing losing streak
39:20
against ranked teams, you're looking at the national
39:22
narrative. How do you kind of overcome
39:24
that? How do you kind of turn the
39:25
page? You knock off one of the biggest
39:27
brands and most talented teams in college football and I and I
39:31
think Landing knows, I think Oregon knows this is not going
39:34
to be an easy game, but obviously Iowa's going to be
39:36
thinking the same thing. But I do think Kinnick's going
39:38
to be a pretty decent advantage, too.
39:40
And I think it's going ugly, ugly game.
39:42
And that's exactly what Iowa wants it to be final. 30 seconds
39:45
quick hit on Mark Kornowski. You know he had an opportunity
39:47
to talk with him. Where is he health wise?
39:51
Yeah, he says. He's not 100%, but it's the best
39:53
he saw in several weeks. And in all the honest you guys,
39:56
how many players are really 100% at this point in a year?
39:59
This is November football. Like Mark Gronowski said, he's
40:02
not going to shy away from running the football.
40:04
We know he runs like a full back.
40:05
As Tim Lester said, like last week, Gronowski is a gamer.
40:09
He's going to be locked in. I'm not worried about his health
40:11
whatsoever. David Eichel, 24/7 Sports,
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hawkeyeinsider.com. David, good to catch up with
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you. Thank you for jumping on.
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Appreciate it. Appreciate you guys.
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Take care, have a good. Week.
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Yep, you're the same David. I called as we check in on Iowa
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men tonight. You said 22 1/2 point favorite.
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22 1/2 Bobby. MO 730 Big 10 network, will they
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be in? Will the big 10 network be on
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site? Do you know for this one?
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Not sure, we'll see. We'll TuneIn at 7:30.
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We'll find that out. All right, keep it here.
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We're going to talk. Iowa State coming up next.
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Bill Seals would kick off the hour.
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He's just listening to John Haycock and Matt Campbell.
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Not sure what players were made available were recap last night
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and yesterday. Double dip for Iowa State women
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early in the morning. Is that what's kept Trenton eye
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off the air? And then the men at night?
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Alec Cohen called both of the games the Bears.
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Have made a move. Oh, what have they done?
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They. Have traded for the Browns
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defensive lineman. Garrett's a bear.
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Joe Tryon Shoyinka. Not the one I was hoping for.
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Miller and Con An hour or two is next.