Latest / Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk / April 9, 2026 (Hour 1)

Transcript

April 9, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

0:00
Speaker 1: Family owned and operated since nineteen seventy two. Stepcheck Service
0:04
Speaker 1: Center twenty two hundred Longmyre just down from the Post
0:07
Speaker 1: Office in College Station.
0:09
Speaker 2: From sports physicals to orthopedic surgery to physical therapy, Central
0:12
Speaker 2: Texas Sports Medicine and Orthopedics offers expert care and a
0:15
Speaker 2: wide range of comprehensive orthopedic and sports medicine services. Central
0:19
Speaker 2: Texas Sports Medicine and Orthopedics is located at thirty one
0:22
Speaker 2: to twenty one University Drive East, next to the Physician Center.
0:25
Speaker 2: With advanced X ray and MRI services on site, the
0:28
Speaker 2: doctors can quickly diagnose injuries and recommend the best course
0:31
Speaker 2: of treatment. Central Texas Sports Medicine and Orthopedics go to
0:34
Speaker 2: sintech Sportsmedicine dot Com.
0:38
Speaker 3: From the Zone Studio in Crystal Park Plaza, Brian Broadcasting
0:45
Speaker 3: and Shipoward are proud to present sports Talk.
0:51
Speaker 4: It is a.
0:51
Speaker 3: Beautiful day here in the Brass Valley as the sun
0:55
Speaker 3: is shining and we have semblants of spring for the
1:00
Speaker 3: first time in a long time. As for Jason Cornelis
1:07
Speaker 3: and myself, you cannot help but feel that it will
1:12
Speaker 3: be a different kind of sports talk day. We will
1:17
Speaker 3: not be talking about hunting, animal attacks, or what I
1:24
Speaker 3: believe is like game seven, eight, nine, or ten of
1:27
Speaker 3: the Major League Baseball season. No, today is a day
1:32
Speaker 3: to talk the beautiful game, not soccer. I had enough
1:37
Speaker 3: of that yesterday. No, we will be talking about golf
1:42
Speaker 3: and all of its majesty and beauty and sport. We'll
1:46
Speaker 3: also be talking about the NBA as we are into
1:48
Speaker 3: the final three games of this regular season. So sit back, relax,
1:55
Speaker 3: and of course, if you're driving on Highway six, it's
1:58
Speaker 3: going to be a long day because I can't you
2:00
Speaker 3: how many wrecks have already occurred today. But we appreciate
2:04
Speaker 3: you joining us.
2:08
Speaker 5: I didn't say all he can stretch that out, because.
2:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I probably could have kept it going,
2:16
Speaker 3: but I know we've got a lot to get to today.
2:20
Speaker 6: It is chippowered Sports Talk on Masters Thursday. Sports Radio
2:24
Speaker 6: made it Yes, Sports Rat eleven fifty AM, The Zone
2:27
Speaker 6: ninety through seven FM. If you didn't know already, Jason
2:30
Speaker 6: crnois Jared Hickson here, and this is you and we've
2:34
Speaker 6: done it before. I mean, we've been able to do
2:37
Speaker 6: this by luck most of the time that that chip
2:39
Speaker 6: is and ends up being gone but like you were
2:42
Speaker 6: quested today.
2:43
Speaker 3: Well, I mean he he seemed to be in a
2:45
Speaker 3: generous mood a couple weeks almost maybe even a couple
2:49
Speaker 3: months back, and it was just like, hey, if you
2:52
Speaker 3: can just give us a day on Masters week, if
2:56
Speaker 3: it's during the tournament, beautiful, but I mean I would
2:59
Speaker 3: just take a day, and he gave us day one,
3:03
Speaker 3: and thank goodness, because I mean, we got we got
3:07
Speaker 3: so much going on today.
3:08
Speaker 5: Well in this we you and I again on the
3:10
Speaker 5: times that we've been able to do this.
3:11
Speaker 3: This is one of like a sports equinox esque feeling.
3:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's this time of the year.
3:18
Speaker 6: Again, it's a great way of putting of an equinox
3:20
Speaker 6: kind of feeling because it's this time of the year,
3:22
Speaker 6: and then it is it's September like so they like
3:26
Speaker 6: the end of September. Right in October, you've got yeah,
3:28
Speaker 6: you've got baseball playoffs, NBA, NFL like everything.
3:32
Speaker 3: There, NHL college football, NFL football.
3:37
Speaker 6: Yeah, everything is and that in that time in the fall,
3:39
Speaker 6: right at the end of September and October, and so yeah,
3:41
Speaker 6: this week was the women's and the men's Intuba Tournament championship.
3:46
Speaker 6: For Sunday, and then Monday we've got obviously baseball has started,
3:50
Speaker 6: we don't have to talk about it, but like I mean,
3:52
Speaker 6: seeing what shohe Atani has already started off this season,
3:56
Speaker 6: like that's going to be a story that we will
3:58
Speaker 6: touch to when we start talking base probably in late
4:02
Speaker 6: July August.
4:02
Speaker 5: But the start that he is.
4:04
Speaker 3: Off to start, he's off to the Pittsburgh Pirates, which
4:08
Speaker 3: you know you have Paul Skins. We're already talking baseball,
4:15
Speaker 3: but the idea that the Pirates were going to be competitive,
4:18
Speaker 3: that's still like multiple years off. They're actually off to
4:20
Speaker 3: a pretty decent start. Looks like they're ahead of schedule.
4:24
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it's it's the first couple of
4:27
Speaker 3: weeks of the season, and so everything can be thrown
4:29
Speaker 3: out the window literally within a month.
4:33
Speaker 6: So NBA is getting ready to wrap up. There are
4:36
Speaker 6: three games left on most everybody's schedule, and hardly anything
4:42
Speaker 6: is truly set in either conference. I say hardly the
4:47
Speaker 6: thing so we know what's going on at least with
4:49
Speaker 6: the number one seeds, but other than that, nothing, nothing
4:53
Speaker 6: else is truly set as far as position is concerned.
4:56
Speaker 3: I mean, we talked about and we've talked about the
4:58
Speaker 3: number of times Chips allowed us to be in here
5:01
Speaker 3: basically since January that as far as the West goes,
5:06
Speaker 3: you know, the ten team, you know the ten teams
5:09
Speaker 3: that are going to be in the order of those
5:11
Speaker 3: teams that is just except for at the very top,
5:14
Speaker 3: has just been all over the time.
5:16
Speaker 6: And yeah, and it will continue to There are lots
5:19
Speaker 6: of different permeations of what can actually happen, and we'll
5:23
Speaker 6: get into it when we talked NBA later. But like,
5:25
Speaker 6: I don't know if I have ever felt sorry for
5:31
Speaker 6: Lebron James, but I actually kind of feel sorry for
5:35
Speaker 6: Lebron James right now as to where the Lakers were
5:39
Speaker 6: and then for both Luca and Austin Reeves to go
5:42
Speaker 6: down with injuries here as they were like peak like
5:46
Speaker 6: they weren't going.
5:46
Speaker 5: To win the championship, let's just get that out of
5:48
Speaker 5: the way.
5:48
Speaker 6: But they were peaking to where it could at least
5:50
Speaker 6: make it a little interesting, and so very very I'm
5:53
Speaker 6: actually feeling a little bit sorry for him.
5:56
Speaker 3: I mean, you almost felt I think the last time
5:58
Speaker 3: we were in here we were talking about the fact
6:00
Speaker 3: he seems like he's actually okay. People transitioning into that third.
6:04
Speaker 5: Guy role that's that old.
6:08
Speaker 3: I mean, he kind of has to know.
6:11
Speaker 6: That is That is why I was I mean, yes,
6:13
Speaker 6: that is why I was starting to feel a little
6:16
Speaker 6: empathy for him based on what he had kind of accepted.
6:19
Speaker 6: And I mean again, when your third best player is
6:22
Speaker 6: Lebron James like and he's accepted being I mean, everything
6:25
Speaker 6: was going well for them. And then as we're looking
6:27
Speaker 6: at the TV right now it is Master's Week, it.
6:31
Speaker 7: Just you Okay.
6:33
Speaker 3: So I've been thinking about this because I'm sure a
6:36
Speaker 3: number of people are just like, Okay, what is why
6:40
Speaker 3: is this so important to you?
6:42
Speaker 5: Big?
6:42
Speaker 8: To you?
6:44
Speaker 3: And what it really comes down to is and I
6:46
Speaker 3: know this is gonna seem kind of fuddy duddy when
6:51
Speaker 3: you watch the Masters broadcast. With the exception of HD
6:55
Speaker 3: and and better camera angles and and all sorts of things,
6:59
Speaker 3: for the most part, this broadcast has not changed in
7:02
Speaker 3: my lifetime. And there's a lot to be said about
7:05
Speaker 3: that because when you watch this course and they say
7:11
Speaker 3: it it's humbling. It doesn't look it on TV, but
7:14
Speaker 3: talk to people who've been there, like longtime listener Mike Connor,
7:17
Speaker 3: shout out to you, this course is exceptionally hilly.
7:21
Speaker 7: It's got a lot of topography to it.
7:26
Speaker 3: The Augusta National Competition Committee tries to make things a
7:29
Speaker 3: little more competitive, you know, changing of the whole placements
7:33
Speaker 3: on all four days. It's always exciting and more importantly,
7:38
Speaker 3: the turn the course itself is viewing. Whereas when you
7:43
Speaker 3: watch the Super Bowl, which you know one hundred and
7:45
Speaker 3: forty million Americans and a billion people around the world
7:48
Speaker 3: do You're not always guaranteed to get a good game.
7:51
Speaker 3: A lot of times you do, but some cases you don't.
7:54
Speaker 3: And that broadcast is chocked full of commercials and breakaways
7:58
Speaker 3: and all sorts of things, whereas with the Masters it
8:01
Speaker 3: is very limited in its commercial breaks. And there's just
8:04
Speaker 3: something to be said about being able to sit and
8:06
Speaker 3: watch something that a is pleasing to the eye and
8:12
Speaker 3: be will always have an element of competition to it.
8:15
Speaker 3: I mean, two years ago when Sam Bennett, this amateur
8:19
Speaker 3: golfer from A and M born in Madisonville, Texas, is
8:24
Speaker 3: in the final pairing on Sunday, I mean, how yes,
8:29
Speaker 3: locally you get excited about that, but how can you
8:31
Speaker 3: not get invested in just the idea of David versus
8:35
Speaker 3: Goliath in that in that regard, so I just everything
8:39
Speaker 3: about it. Yes, I want to go there, and as
8:41
Speaker 3: we were talking about in the pre shiw Medi, I
8:42
Speaker 3: don't want to pay after market prices. I've been in
8:44
Speaker 3: this Master's lottery since two thousand and six. Eventually I'm
8:47
Speaker 3: gonna win tickets.
8:48
Speaker 5: I hope, are you.
8:50
Speaker 7: I don't know.
8:50
Speaker 3: I mean I was really hoping to, you know, win
8:53
Speaker 3: them and my dad and I be able to go.
8:56
Speaker 3: At some point, may just have to capitulate and say,
8:59
Speaker 3: if I'm going to take my dad, yeah, I'm gonna
9:01
Speaker 3: have to do the aftermarket thing. But it I mean,
9:03
Speaker 3: there's just so much about it that that, you know,
9:07
Speaker 3: stirs up just joy of watching something that is going
9:14
Speaker 3: to entertain you. And at the same time, there's a
9:17
Speaker 3: lot to be said about that Saturday. I'm not going
9:19
Speaker 3: to get to do it this year. We're playing soccer
9:21
Speaker 3: in Houston that Saturday afternoon golf nap oh, that is
9:26
Speaker 3: just like top ten.
9:28
Speaker 6: That is that is a top level napping of just
9:32
Speaker 6: and again it's it's how they they broadcast, speaking of broadcast,
9:36
Speaker 6: but how they broadcast the Masters more than any other
9:40
Speaker 6: golf tournament. It's just like it is so soothing, like
9:42
Speaker 6: you can't help but have a sandwich with some potato
9:46
Speaker 6: chips and lay on the couch and think you're gonna
9:49
Speaker 6: watch and be out like it is so soothing. But
9:52
Speaker 6: speaking of so have you been watching all day? I'm
9:55
Speaker 6: asking a rhetorical question.
9:56
Speaker 5: Yes, I have. You pulled it up on Prime.
9:59
Speaker 3: And well no, nope. So I was mistaken about that
10:03
Speaker 3: Prime did not start. Prime did not start until noon
10:06
Speaker 3: our time?
10:08
Speaker 5: So who had who had the early rounds?
10:10
Speaker 7: You had to watch on the Masters do com?
10:12
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, Masters dot Com Masters app, which I also
10:14
Speaker 3: had up at six twenty five our time this morning
10:18
Speaker 3: for the ceremonial tee off which and I and I
10:21
Speaker 3: put this on on my socials. Gary Player, ninety year
10:26
Speaker 3: old Australian Masters champion who played in the par three
10:30
Speaker 3: tournament yesterday.
10:33
Speaker 7: God to to to be as.
10:36
Speaker 3: Physically fit as he is at ninety is I think
10:39
Speaker 3: we should all strive for which kind of made it
10:41
Speaker 3: so depressing when Jack Nicholas came up to tee off
10:45
Speaker 3: second and you can you can just see that that
10:50
Speaker 3: time is is taking its toll on his body. He
10:53
Speaker 3: can't bend over to uh to tee up and and
10:56
Speaker 3: and unfortunately they they switched the camera angle in shops
11:00
Speaker 3: and I'm hooking it to the left, almost hitting the patrons.
11:05
Speaker 7: But he was a good sport about it.
11:07
Speaker 3: But again, just just I know, so much of this
11:11
Speaker 3: is is ceremonial, competitive and obviously a lot of people
11:17
Speaker 3: think it's fuddy duddy, old white guy stuff. But there
11:20
Speaker 3: is something to be said about you know, no phones,
11:23
Speaker 3: no electronics, no cameras, the patrons are not allowed to run.
11:29
Speaker 3: Everyone respects when you set your chair.
11:31
Speaker 5: Up, that's where you get that. Yet nobody moves your stuff.
11:34
Speaker 3: The fact that they do not sell this merchandise anywhere
11:38
Speaker 3: except at Augusta National for this week, which is why
11:40
Speaker 3: that store will do seventy million dollars over the course
11:43
Speaker 3: of seven days.
11:44
Speaker 7: I mean that's two.
11:46
Speaker 3: Hundred and twenty eight dollars per second in sales.
11:51
Speaker 4: Wow.
11:52
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I mean and again such and we're looking
11:56
Speaker 6: at it now. Just a wonderful view. I mean, this
11:59
Speaker 6: the tournament is amazing and I would like to go
12:01
Speaker 6: there as well. But like so here goes back to
12:02
Speaker 6: what we talked, what I talked about last time. So
12:05
Speaker 6: for you to watch today, you had to gig it
12:08
Speaker 6: up this morning watchmasters dot com. Yes, and then to
12:11
Speaker 6: continue at noon our time, then you had to go
12:13
Speaker 6: to Prime. Yes, and then to continue after that you
12:17
Speaker 6: had to go to the mothership.
12:19
Speaker 7: The mothership starting. I believe that three three.
12:21
Speaker 6: Are time yes, and so to watch all of it,
12:25
Speaker 6: which again you mentioned the other the last time we
12:27
Speaker 6: were here. It's awesome that for the first like for
12:29
Speaker 6: the first couple of times, you get to watch the
12:31
Speaker 6: entire day on a way to a way to be
12:33
Speaker 6: able to do that. But you've got to go to
12:35
Speaker 6: three different platforms to be able to do that.
12:39
Speaker 3: Which I hate to say this, I think we've kind
12:42
Speaker 3: of become conditioned to that.
12:45
Speaker 5: That was the other thing that you said.
12:46
Speaker 7: Also thanks to all the other sports.
12:48
Speaker 5: Yeah, well that's and which was Oh my god, talk
12:57
Speaker 5: that is I am not I mean Prime and I
13:01
Speaker 5: get it. God bless you you have.
13:02
Speaker 6: You were shelling out the money to get the broadcast
13:06
Speaker 6: rights for so many things. I'm just like also like,
13:09
Speaker 6: i I'm not I don't know if I'm a fan
13:12
Speaker 6: of some of these actual streaming solo streaming apps. Getting
13:19
Speaker 6: all of these television or apps, whether it's Netflix, whether
13:21
Speaker 6: it's whether it's Paramount Plus, whether it is now Prime,
13:27
Speaker 6: it just makes it too hard and difficult to find
13:30
Speaker 6: the sports that I want to find.
13:31
Speaker 3: It does and and the problem is it's all driven
13:37
Speaker 3: by money. Because if you want to talk about how
13:41
Speaker 3: do we make more money without couging our ticket holders, well,
13:46
Speaker 3: the easiest thing to do is broadcast rights. And who
13:51
Speaker 3: has all the money streaming services? Yep, who owns the
13:54
Speaker 3: streaming services? Well, now some of the same people who
13:56
Speaker 3: are owning the broadcast networks. For the interesting to see
14:00
Speaker 3: kind of how that transpires over the next few years.
14:03
Speaker 3: But as one of the stories we'll talk about today,
14:08
Speaker 3: we might be hitting a point of capitulation in all
14:12
Speaker 3: of this as far as just kind of the affordability.
14:15
Speaker 6: We'll see coming up in a second, we will dive
14:18
Speaker 6: more into the first round of the Masters today and
14:22
Speaker 6: what we see on the leader board.
14:24
Speaker 5: We'll be back in just a second.
14:25
Speaker 6: You're listening to chip our Sports Talk Today taken over
14:27
Speaker 6: by Jason Jarrett on Sports Radio eleven fifty AM The
14:29
Speaker 6: Zone ninety three seven FM.
14:32
Speaker 9: Mco Insurance is now a part of Hub International, bringing
14:35
Speaker 9: you more choices, better value, and even greater expertise. While
14:39
Speaker 9: our name has changed, we're still the same local team
14:41
Speaker 9: you know and trust. Now with even more to offer,
14:43
Speaker 9: from business insurance to personal protection and employee benefits. We're
14:47
Speaker 9: still committed to protecting what matters most with the personalized
14:50
Speaker 9: service you expect now with the strength of Hub International
14:53
Speaker 9: behind us, more resources, more solutions, still your team and
14:57
Speaker 9: co insurance a Hub International company, so you're ready for tomorrow.
15:01
Speaker 10: It's Texaggs Live, brought to you by David Garter's Jewelers.
15:04
Speaker 10: I'm not speaking ill of you, by the way.
15:06
Speaker 11: What I'm about to say, it's just the things that,
15:08
Speaker 11: like I thought we all knew.
15:11
Speaker 12: They only know what's on YouTube if it's trending.
15:14
Speaker 5: Yeah.
15:14
Speaker 7: Their idea of history is what they remember, not what
15:17
Speaker 7: they learned.
15:18
Speaker 12: So if I were to say, who's the fridge, you would.
15:21
Speaker 8: Say I've literally heard that nickname, but yeah, I can.
15:25
Speaker 5: Tell you William Perry.
15:27
Speaker 3: If I were to say the microwave, you would say,
15:30
Speaker 3: it's in my kitchen.
15:32
Speaker 7: The Bash Brothers, who are they?
15:34
Speaker 10: They're bros.
15:35
Speaker 7: Friends, Maguire, thank you.
15:38
Speaker 12: When I say the hit, you say the punch?
15:43
Speaker 7: Who's the hit? Quintin Coryot, God, what I could have
15:47
Speaker 7: told you.
15:47
Speaker 8: George German played for the Spurs, though that one I
15:49
Speaker 8: wouldn't I would have know.
15:50
Speaker 13: He just didn't know his nickname what he was known for.
15:53
Speaker 5: Not in the ABA. Who's the Dream?
15:56
Speaker 3: Koreeina Dream Williams textags live weekday from eight to eleven
16:01
Speaker 3: on The Zone.
16:05
Speaker 7: God San Shut the Shout Shop The Very Good Up.
16:45
Speaker 7: Twelve year old Jared dreamt of Janet Jackson and.
16:52
Speaker 3: A crew of her girlfriends driving up to me on
16:57
Speaker 3: the side of a road out and dancing in a
17:03
Speaker 3: perfectly choreographed yeah.
17:09
Speaker 6: Chip Hower Sports Talk taken over by Jason and Jared.
17:12
Speaker 6: Jason Jared Exports Rate eleven fifty AM, The Zone ninety
17:18
Speaker 6: three to seven FM, and quick question. As we're getting
17:20
Speaker 6: ready to dive deeper into the Masters right now, our
17:27
Speaker 6: fellow guest host sometime and television personality herself, Carlic Castile,
17:33
Speaker 6: would like to know, like being that you haven't been
17:36
Speaker 6: able to get in to the Masters through the lottery,
17:39
Speaker 6: Like how do you feel about the the increase of
17:43
Speaker 6: UH celebrities and influencers that have been able to get
17:48
Speaker 6: into the Masters as it's becoming more of a thing now.
17:51
Speaker 6: She is a huge F one fan and she hates
17:57
Speaker 6: how quote unquote pop or like Coda has gotten in
18:02
Speaker 6: Austin and like it like the the re like and
18:06
Speaker 6: I can't say it like this way, but traditional fans
18:08
Speaker 6: like it's harder for them to get in now. And obviously,
18:11
Speaker 6: like you said, you're someone and I know this for
18:14
Speaker 6: you are a true golf fan. And as you said,
18:16
Speaker 6: it is a it would be and it's for most
18:19
Speaker 6: people a like a monumental trip to go to Augusta
18:24
Speaker 6: and to see see everything there.
18:27
Speaker 5: And then you got these like yeah, I just get
18:30
Speaker 5: to go and well, I mean.
18:34
Speaker 3: We kind of live, we've it's been a society for
18:38
Speaker 3: a while. And I'm not philosophical on this where celebrity
18:42
Speaker 3: gets you, uh gets you access to too significantly more
18:47
Speaker 3: than the average person.
18:49
Speaker 5: Yes, and.
18:53
Speaker 3: You know the kind of the what I find humorous
18:56
Speaker 3: about like uh today or I guess it was last
19:01
Speaker 3: night the article came out that the chairman of Augusta
19:04
Speaker 3: National Now regrets allowing Dude Perfect to do their frisbee
19:08
Speaker 3: thing through a men corner. You know, it's one of
19:15
Speaker 3: those things where if you are trying to appeal to
19:18
Speaker 3: a younger demographic to kind of bring them in or
19:21
Speaker 3: things like that, you're gonna try stuff. And you know,
19:28
Speaker 3: if every if the vast majority of the under thirty
19:32
Speaker 3: population gets their information through TikTok and things like that.
19:36
Speaker 3: Then you're gonna have to provide access to them through
19:40
Speaker 3: that method. What I've noticed, especially as it relates to
19:44
Speaker 3: the Masters, and as you get closer to this week,
19:47
Speaker 3: and especially during this week, they are phenomenal in their
19:51
Speaker 3: social media presence, the quality of video and photography, and
19:56
Speaker 3: the articles and the in depth UH information they provide.
20:04
Speaker 3: I I don't, you know, I'm not a I don't.
20:08
Speaker 3: I don't watch the Golf channel really at all, beyond
20:11
Speaker 3: the beyond this week. I don't subscribe to Golf Digest,
20:14
Speaker 3: so I don't. I don't know who the seasoned professionals
20:17
Speaker 3: are in the industry or in the sport. But I
20:22
Speaker 3: will tell you this, my my algorithm is completely filled
20:27
Speaker 3: with Masters coverage and and thank goodness, because that's what
20:31
Speaker 3: I want to see, and I appreciate the welcome distractions.
20:36
Speaker 5: Like it knows that this is what has been on
20:38
Speaker 5: your mind, whether whether.
20:39
Speaker 3: It's Carlos point, I mean, you know, I got into
20:42
Speaker 3: I think myself and a majority of people in America
20:45
Speaker 3: got into F one thanks to the Netflix series UH
20:50
Speaker 3: Strive to Survive, and that has created, uh the interest,
20:55
Speaker 3: And you know, I knew there was a circuit of
20:58
Speaker 3: America's in Austin. I didn't know what happened there prior
21:02
Speaker 3: to to twenty twenty. Now that I do, it's like, well, shoot,
21:05
Speaker 3: I'd really like to go to that, but I'm not
21:07
Speaker 3: going to pay, you know, the fifty thousand dollars or
21:11
Speaker 3: whatever it costs to get paddock access, right, And I
21:15
Speaker 3: don't know if I want to be one of three
21:17
Speaker 3: hundred thousand trying to leave that place on a Sunday
21:21
Speaker 3: following a race, because I make that drive to that
21:24
Speaker 3: part of Austin every so often, and it's bad enough
21:27
Speaker 3: just doing that.
21:28
Speaker 6: Well and so in that like and as we've gotten
21:32
Speaker 6: way off away from it from no no, and that's
21:34
Speaker 6: my fault too, from the masters.
21:35
Speaker 5: But yeah, that's one of the things.
21:36
Speaker 6: Like I have I have friends, one of my friends,
21:39
Speaker 6: Chef Tay and then my friend Steve at like they
21:41
Speaker 6: have been going to this same corner at CODA for
21:45
Speaker 6: years and now it's they're saying it's like it's harder
21:47
Speaker 6: to get the ticket that they've gotten four years because
21:51
Speaker 6: all of these new quote unquote fans are showing up
21:54
Speaker 6: and again a lot of times just people that aren't
21:56
Speaker 6: even there, that really see the race, They just want
21:58
Speaker 6: to say that they're there exact and that would be
22:00
Speaker 6: very frustrated.
22:01
Speaker 3: One of the funniest things I saw yesterday and I
22:03
Speaker 3: was tempted to share it, except I'm probably gonna be
22:06
Speaker 3: guilty of this at some point in my life. Harvard.
22:09
Speaker 3: Harvard did a study and the greatest, uh or the
22:14
Speaker 3: highest form of fraud committed in America this week is
22:19
Speaker 3: guys wearing Masters gear who've never been to a customed action.
22:25
Speaker 7: Anyway.
22:26
Speaker 3: But I mean, I guess getting getting back to to
22:31
Speaker 3: the tournament today itself, I mean I did not. I
22:36
Speaker 3: figured Scotti Scheffler was probably gonna win, but I haven't
22:39
Speaker 3: been watching enough this year to know if if he's
22:42
Speaker 3: on pace. I know he's been doing exceptionally well. Uh
22:45
Speaker 3: figured Rory might play a factor in it, but coming
22:49
Speaker 3: off of last year's success and just well, I mean
22:53
Speaker 3: that the pressure is off and actually went out, had
22:56
Speaker 3: a great day to day shot shot five under. But
23:01
Speaker 3: obviously what's going to transpire then tomorrow and especially Saturday,
23:06
Speaker 3: I think will dictate a whole lot about what we're
23:08
Speaker 3: going to look at going into Sunday. So it's really
23:11
Speaker 3: tough for me to say there is a who my
23:14
Speaker 3: favorite would be. I mean I would say, you know,
23:16
Speaker 3: if you give me the betting odds, do I take Scotti,
23:18
Speaker 3: Shuffler or the field? I probably take the field in
23:20
Speaker 3: that regard.
23:21
Speaker 6: And I'm I'm looking over this and and I am
23:25
Speaker 6: not the most die hard of golf fans. I do
23:30
Speaker 6: watch with my with Wesley really now getting more or
23:35
Speaker 6: trying to get more into golf, like now I am
23:37
Speaker 6: getting more into golf a little bit, and so looking
23:40
Speaker 6: at the leaderboard so far here today, here's the thing,
23:43
Speaker 6: and to put it in terms of things that we've
23:46
Speaker 6: talked about before and not I'm not gonna get dived
23:50
Speaker 6: deep into what happened with Tiger. We talked about that
23:53
Speaker 6: the last time that we were here, because it happens
23:55
Speaker 6: that day exactly.
23:56
Speaker 5: But like, there is no there is not a who's
24:02
Speaker 5: the draw?
24:03
Speaker 6: And Carlo was asking us about like, well, whether celebrities
24:07
Speaker 6: and or influencers that are there right now, but who
24:11
Speaker 6: who are the influencers on the leader board that are
24:14
Speaker 6: also going to pull people.
24:18
Speaker 5: To watch.
24:18
Speaker 3: I mean, I think like Bryson de Shambo, he was
24:22
Speaker 3: one of the betting odds favorites coming into the tournament,
24:26
Speaker 3: and he just had an abysmal day. He yeah, I
24:29
Speaker 3: printed us up, he tripled bogie I believe it is
24:32
Speaker 3: on twelve twelve or thirteen, and that frustration just kind
24:37
Speaker 3: of permeated over into the into the his remaining holes.
24:42
Speaker 3: And so he's gonna he would have to he's going
24:44
Speaker 3: to have to do a whole lot of work to
24:45
Speaker 3: become a factor in this. So he his tournament may
24:47
Speaker 3: already be over by all regards. It's typically going to
24:54
Speaker 3: be the names that that draw the interest.
24:58
Speaker 7: Rory.
24:59
Speaker 5: I mean, h.
25:02
Speaker 3: Scottie Scheffler, one of you know, Tommy Fleetwood has has
25:09
Speaker 3: had some momentum behind him and he was a huge
25:12
Speaker 3: hit yesterday on the par three tournament. You know, one
25:16
Speaker 3: of the one one of the names I just always
25:19
Speaker 3: look at because what he's doing is just truly remarkable.
25:23
Speaker 7: Fred Couples at sixty six years, yes.
25:27
Speaker 3: Two under, he's the oldest player to to hit back
25:30
Speaker 3: to back birdies in this tournament now by three full years.
25:34
Speaker 3: I mean, if just like Gary Player is defining the
25:38
Speaker 3: odds at age ninety, Fred Couples continues to be a
25:40
Speaker 3: factor in this year after year after year, it would
25:43
Speaker 3: almost I would. And uh, today just coincidentally is the
25:47
Speaker 3: fortieth anniversary of Jack Nicholas winning his sixth at a
25:51
Speaker 3: at a point in his life where most people thought
25:53
Speaker 3: he was he was done, especially in a tournament like this.
25:56
Speaker 3: So I mean, I don't think other than just the
26:01
Speaker 3: prestige that comes with the Masters, that you're ever gonna
26:05
Speaker 3: see it tilt the scale where it's where it's like
26:09
Speaker 3: a Hollywood influencer thing. But I do believe that these
26:15
Speaker 3: younger guys, you're you're Scotti, Scheffler's your your, your Max Holmas.
26:22
Speaker 3: I mean, it's hard to believe that Jordan Spieth won
26:24
Speaker 3: this thing ten years ago. Uh, you know, these are
26:27
Speaker 3: the guys who are gonna kind of spur the the
26:31
Speaker 3: interest for more younger players to participate. And of course,
26:36
Speaker 3: I mean, and I know this is it's this, it's
26:39
Speaker 3: this private club. The women's you know, the women. The
26:44
Speaker 3: fact the women's tournaments a three day or a three
26:48
Speaker 3: day or a three day event prior.
26:52
Speaker 7: Doesn't help.
26:52
Speaker 3: I think that if they would make it a legitimate
26:58
Speaker 3: four day tournament for the women, I think that would
27:00
Speaker 3: that might help its prestige as well.
27:02
Speaker 5: Oh well, but I also.
27:04
Speaker 3: Don't know that part of the country don't like change
27:07
Speaker 3: all that much. And there's and there is a reason
27:10
Speaker 3: why there. I think there's actually only three hundred members
27:15
Speaker 3: of Augusta National and the initiation fee is kind of
27:21
Speaker 3: like a well guarded secret, but we all know it's
27:25
Speaker 3: at least six figures if not higher now but it's
27:28
Speaker 3: by in it's truly by.
27:29
Speaker 5: By invitation only.
27:30
Speaker 6: Yeah, is that a situation like and because in the
27:34
Speaker 6: crag member So yeah, the the anything that has it
27:37
Speaker 6: the Women's Masters is not a major for.
27:39
Speaker 7: No, no, no, it's it's it's it's considered.
27:41
Speaker 12: Uh.
27:41
Speaker 3: I think it's called the Augusta National Women's Amateur is
27:45
Speaker 3: what it's called. And and I mean I will say
27:48
Speaker 3: they do publicize it well that that started filling up
27:51
Speaker 3: my my my newsfeed, uh last weekend. But it's definitely
27:56
Speaker 3: it definitely doesn't get the coverage that you would think
28:01
Speaker 3: a major tournament at Augusta National would get.
28:03
Speaker 6: Anything at Augusta should be as as well publicized, as
28:09
Speaker 6: well attended as like just anything that that you would
28:12
Speaker 6: think that has to do with with that place in general.
28:18
Speaker 6: And yeah, I'm I'm like I have I have actually
28:22
Speaker 6: never put myself into the lottery to to get a ticket.
28:27
Speaker 5: So how does that like? Do you?
28:28
Speaker 3: You just you just go to the website, you fill
28:30
Speaker 3: in your information and then you're in. I mean that now,
28:33
Speaker 3: whether you get picked, you never know. But the what
28:38
Speaker 3: I have seen, I have seen the videos of the
28:41
Speaker 3: grown men who get that green box in the mail
28:44
Speaker 3: and openly weep yeah, and like their wives are like,
28:48
Speaker 3: you didn't even do that on our.
28:52
Speaker 7: Nope.
28:54
Speaker 6: Oh, I mean but yeah, I can't imagine what that
28:58
Speaker 6: would be like to know that you've won, like you said,
29:03
Speaker 6: even if it's for the practice rounds.
29:05
Speaker 3: You know, just take take something that you are truly
29:09
Speaker 3: passionate about or have only read or seen, and then
29:13
Speaker 3: you actually, like you go to Italy and you've you've
29:17
Speaker 3: seen pictures of the coliseum and you watched Gladiator and
29:20
Speaker 3: you kind of know the history of it. But to
29:22
Speaker 3: actually walk and know that you are you're walking on
29:26
Speaker 3: stones that have been there for two thousand years and
29:30
Speaker 3: what all transpired in this structure which has survived millennia.
29:37
Speaker 3: I'm not saying Augusta National is that, but it kind
29:42
Speaker 3: of is. For this, for yeah, for this, at least
29:46
Speaker 3: for me in my lifetime the other thing, and I
29:47
Speaker 3: know we got it, we got it. We're coming up
29:48
Speaker 3: against commercial break. They have been posting pictures of Augusta
29:54
Speaker 3: National in the nineteen forties and showing the exact spots
29:59
Speaker 3: compared to what they look like today. I tell you,
30:02
Speaker 3: I'm not joking some of these pictures. This course looks
30:05
Speaker 3: like Brian Muni, I mean, what it looks like today
30:10
Speaker 3: is this is what over sixty years of just genius
30:20
Speaker 3: landscape architecture to transform a place, to make it look
30:24
Speaker 3: truly beautiful because those old Now, I know the course
30:27
Speaker 3: was challenging, but prior to to especially the colorization of television, man,
30:33
Speaker 3: it looked dumpy.
30:34
Speaker 6: Well, but then that's with so many other thing like
30:38
Speaker 6: I doubt that they were putting that much money into
30:41
Speaker 6: it because they didn't have the the broadcast rights.
30:44
Speaker 3: That suppose I mean, I've also heard that if you
30:48
Speaker 3: if you go to Augusta National off of this period.
30:51
Speaker 7: Of time, I have heard that it is it don't
30:55
Speaker 7: look this nice.
30:56
Speaker 6: Yeah, they work to build it up to this and
30:59
Speaker 6: then let it. Let me go coming up in just
31:02
Speaker 6: a moment, we've got the high school report here and
31:05
Speaker 6: then Jared now I'll be back right after that. But
31:07
Speaker 6: right now you're listening to Chip Howard sports Talk taking
31:09
Speaker 6: over by Jason and Jared Sports Radio eleven fifty am,
31:11
Speaker 6: The Zone ninety through seven FM.
31:13
Speaker 1: You know, my friends at Galleria Spa have been at
31:17
Speaker 1: this for a while and there is no better place
31:22
Speaker 1: to go to relax than either Galleria location, the day
31:28
Speaker 1: Spa on Rock Prairie Road right across from Scott and White,
31:31
Speaker 1: or the Century Square location right there on University Drive.
31:37
Speaker 1: You can go online at Galleriaspasalon dot com and check
31:41
Speaker 1: out all of the services they have at each place.
31:45
Speaker 1: They also have memberships and of course privileges. With the
31:50
Speaker 1: membership three levels, customize your treatments, lots of pampering. There's
31:56
Speaker 1: something for everyone, men and women. Go buy and talk
32:01
Speaker 1: to them again Rock Prairie and Century Square and online
32:06
Speaker 1: at Galleriaspasalon dot com. Galleriaspasalan dot com.
32:13
Speaker 11: Since nineteen fifty seven, Slovatic Sausage and Snook has been
32:16
Speaker 11: making the best tasting sausage in Texas from the same
32:20
Speaker 11: family recipe. Slovachic is the official sausage of Texas A
32:23
Speaker 11: and m Athletics. Whether it's from the grill to the
32:26
Speaker 11: family gathering or from the pit to the neighborhood party.
32:29
Speaker 11: Serve the sausage voted best in the Brasses Valley Serve Slovochk.
32:33
Speaker 11: Be sure to come in and check out their full
32:35
Speaker 11: service meat market, Relax on the front porch, or grab
32:38
Speaker 11: some fresh kilachis from their bakery on your way out.
32:41
Speaker 11: Slovatic Sausage Highway sixty in Snook.
32:43
Speaker 2: One above. Pest Control Services represents over thirty years of
32:47
Speaker 2: pest control experience. Owner Dennis Fink is committed to providing
32:51
Speaker 2: the very best in customer service and satisfaction. Residential and
32:55
Speaker 2: commercial services include treating for termites, ants, roaches, spiders, fleas, ticks,
33:00
Speaker 2: and more. Dennis also offers inspections for potential home buyers
33:04
Speaker 2: as well as regularly scheduled visits. Go to one above
33:08
Speaker 2: Pest Control Services dot com. One above. Pest Control Truly
33:12
Speaker 2: is one above in service.
33:15
Speaker 14: Dig in and Grow Big with Producers Cooperatives Garden Center.
33:18
Speaker 14: From colorful flowering plants and hearty landscape shrubs to seed
33:22
Speaker 14: some vegetable transplants ready for your garden, to strong, healthy
33:25
Speaker 14: shade trees perfect for your yard. We've hand selected varieties
33:29
Speaker 14: that thrive right here in the Brass Valley, and we've
33:32
Speaker 14: got the essentials covered premium sools, plant food and everything
33:35
Speaker 14: you need to make your landscape.
33:37
Speaker 2: Woomb, big and beautiful.
33:39
Speaker 14: Dealing with leaf spots, brown patches, or damaging insects. We
33:42
Speaker 14: carry a full line of crusted, disease and insect control
33:45
Speaker 14: products to protect your lawn, flowers, trees and garden and
33:49
Speaker 14: keep them growing strong all season long. Green up your
33:53
Speaker 14: lawn and start the season right with Brasies best fertilizer
33:56
Speaker 14: specifically formulated right here at Producers for Tough Brasses Valley Soil.
34:00
Speaker 14: Feed your flowers and vegetables what they need for bold
34:03
Speaker 14: color and healthy growth. You'll find us on Texas Avenue
34:06
Speaker 14: just north of Highway twenty one and Brian Producers Cooperatives
34:09
Speaker 14: Garden Center.
34:10
Speaker 10: You're home for everything gardening.
34:13
Speaker 5: Having. Kanty and Michelle are unsportsmanlike.
34:16
Speaker 15: The Houston Texans defense is elite, built to win now.
34:21
Speaker 15: Their quarterback play was the main reason they weren't able
34:25
Speaker 15: to get further. This is not personal with CJ.
34:27
Speaker 1: Stroud.
34:27
Speaker 15: It's me looking at the Houston Texans realizing you don't
34:30
Speaker 15: have this window forever and if your quarterback is an impediment.
34:34
Speaker 15: That's a serious conversation that they should.
34:36
Speaker 5: Be having unsportsmanlike.
34:38
Speaker 4: Listen in weekday mornings from five to eight on the
34:40
Speaker 4: Zone eleven AM and ninety three point seven FM.
34:48
Speaker 16: Yes, Tony, Tony, Tony and.
34:54
Speaker 10: DDA Queen, Welcome into the High School Report.
34:59
Speaker 13: I'm call Raptly and today we're jumping out to the
35:01
Speaker 13: players Fun Center phone line to visit with the head
35:04
Speaker 13: coach of the Rudder Rangers baseball team, mister Bailey Durramus coach.
35:09
Speaker 5: Thanks for joining me today, of course, thanks for having
35:11
Speaker 5: me man.
35:12
Speaker 13: So you're Rangers off to a solid start and district
35:14
Speaker 13: play three and four the district record. So looking at
35:18
Speaker 13: the last you know, first two seasons that you were
35:20
Speaker 13: the head coach at Rudder, it's one of the toughest
35:22
Speaker 13: districts in the state, you know, in five A with
35:26
Speaker 13: both of the local schools Konsul and College Station in
35:29
Speaker 13: there along with you Lake Creek being one of the
35:31
Speaker 13: best teams in Brenham as well. So how have you
35:34
Speaker 13: been able to improve that performance from the last two
35:37
Speaker 13: seasons and be able to build up to where you
35:38
Speaker 13: are now?
35:39
Speaker 8: Yeah? Man, I mean I knew and I took this job,
35:42
Speaker 8: it was going to be a really tough district. Again,
35:45
Speaker 8: my first year was the last year of the Magnolia
35:49
Speaker 8: Maguest district because that was before Huntsville, and I'd like
35:52
Speaker 8: to think that was a little harder. So that was
35:55
Speaker 8: a rough first year for us, rough first year for
35:58
Speaker 8: me figuring out how to navigate things, how to go
36:00
Speaker 8: about it. And then last year we just kind of,
36:04
Speaker 8: I like to think we turned a page. We kind
36:05
Speaker 8: of got hard at work, really good offseason, getting the
36:09
Speaker 8: weight room more, kind of finding our identity and who
36:12
Speaker 8: we are, realizing that we can't do everything perfect. There'd
36:15
Speaker 8: be a lot to ask, but there's some things that
36:17
Speaker 8: our group of guys do really well, and so we
36:19
Speaker 8: just kind of focused in on those, tried to execute
36:21
Speaker 8: in those areas and reached i think eleven or twelve
36:25
Speaker 8: wins last year, first time Rudders reached double digit wins
36:29
Speaker 8: since I was a senior in high school, which is
36:31
Speaker 8: twenty eighteen, and I know toed some people that's not
36:33
Speaker 8: that long ago. So when we were pleased last year,
36:36
Speaker 8: and then again you get into district play and high
36:39
Speaker 8: school baseball is it's so funny because in every other
36:42
Speaker 8: league of baseball, whether it's collegiate ball, major leagues, it's
36:46
Speaker 8: every game matters, right. Obviously there's a visional on conference
36:49
Speaker 8: games that matter more than others, but at the same time,
36:51
Speaker 8: every win is helping you out a little bit. And
36:53
Speaker 8: in high school baseball, man, what you do up to
36:55
Speaker 8: the district play does not matter. So we were ten
36:58
Speaker 8: and one, ten and two going the district play, they
37:00
Speaker 8: felt really good, and we rolled in there and we
37:02
Speaker 8: just got smoked. And we had to help these guys
37:05
Speaker 8: figure out, as hey, who we are before district play
37:07
Speaker 8: doesn't really matter. These games, we want to win them all.
37:10
Speaker 8: We want to play to win always as a team.
37:14
Speaker 8: And then we had to realize that once we got
37:17
Speaker 8: to district play, like these are the games that only matter.
37:19
Speaker 8: And so we kind of we focused on that this offseason,
37:22
Speaker 8: talked about it a lot in team meetings leading up
37:24
Speaker 8: to district play this year, and we realized that, hey,
37:28
Speaker 8: what we did beforehand and we got off two rough
37:29
Speaker 8: start this year, man, like we were I mean, I
37:31
Speaker 8: think O and A trying to figure out who the
37:33
Speaker 8: heck we are return to everyone should be three times better,
37:37
Speaker 8: And at the moment we were three times worse, and
37:39
Speaker 8: so we had some figuring out to do, had to
37:41
Speaker 8: get back to the drawing board, and then we kind
37:43
Speaker 8: of rolled in the district play against Kansauls, which is
37:45
Speaker 8: a really tough series, a really well coached team. Coach
37:48
Speaker 8: Llenderton does a great job over there as guys. Unfortunately,
37:51
Speaker 8: that was a really big series for us. When you
37:53
Speaker 8: look at the standings as they are today, it was
37:56
Speaker 8: just unfortunate for us that we were kind of still
37:58
Speaker 8: figuring out pieces and putting piece together in a series
38:01
Speaker 8: that really matters. So we dropped two there and then
38:03
Speaker 8: picked it back up with Huntsville and got the first
38:05
Speaker 8: sweep and what I believe is the six years of
38:08
Speaker 8: the program to get a district sweep. So we let
38:10
Speaker 8: our guys celebrate that a little bit, take them out
38:12
Speaker 8: the chillis that night, let them taste that a little
38:14
Speaker 8: bit and see what it's like, and then just had
38:16
Speaker 8: a really good approach and a really good plan going
38:18
Speaker 8: into the Montgomery series. I got to scout them given
38:23
Speaker 8: that it was our bye week, and I watched both games,
38:25
Speaker 8: watched every pitch, every out, pulled up a notebook full
38:29
Speaker 8: of stuff that we wanted to attack on in areas
38:31
Speaker 8: we think we could take advantage of them, and we
38:33
Speaker 8: knew the plan going into that week was we don't
38:36
Speaker 8: have to win them both, win them both awesome back
38:38
Speaker 8: to back teams and be insane. Let's be a little
38:40
Speaker 8: realistic these teams that we play in this district. We're
38:44
Speaker 8: not a well staffed enough program and well staffed enough
38:48
Speaker 8: team to be able to roll out there and think, hey,
38:50
Speaker 8: I can throw my two guys into their best of
38:52
Speaker 8: you guys and we can win both. We got to
38:54
Speaker 8: be a little realistic and realizing who we are and
38:56
Speaker 8: what we're up against. And so the plan going into
38:59
Speaker 8: the week of Montgomery series of the split. We got
39:02
Speaker 8: that that first win on that Tuesday, and I mean
39:05
Speaker 8: the plane to work at the works at the par
39:07
Speaker 8: and so it's a long winded answer, but we feel
39:10
Speaker 8: really good. Man, We're in a really good position. We
39:11
Speaker 8: had a team meeting to day kind of figuring out
39:13
Speaker 8: where we're at, what we got to do, here's the focus,
39:15
Speaker 8: here's the teams we need to really focus on beating.
39:18
Speaker 8: And then it's kind of a must win for us
39:20
Speaker 8: tomorrow night. So again we feel good. We're we're finally
39:24
Speaker 8: in the hunt which is a really good place to
39:26
Speaker 8: be in. Our guys really enjoy it's a little buzz
39:28
Speaker 8: going around un or high school both. The job is
39:30
Speaker 8: far from French and we got to stay locked in
39:32
Speaker 8: for the next fifteen days.
39:33
Speaker 13: So you mentioned you brought back, you know, almost everybody
39:35
Speaker 13: from last year. You had three freshmen who were pretty
39:38
Speaker 13: much starters throughout the season last year that are back.
39:41
Speaker 13: How valuable is that to have those kids that are
39:43
Speaker 13: varsity players from you know, their first year in high
39:47
Speaker 13: school and being able to coach them throughout throughout high
39:49
Speaker 13: school and even you know, again this year, you have
39:52
Speaker 13: a pitcher who's a freshman that's thrown a lot of
39:54
Speaker 13: innings for y'all. How different is that having a team
39:57
Speaker 13: that's you know, pretty underclassmen heavy versus upper clas that's
40:00
Speaker 13: maybe a little more upperclassmen heavy this year.
40:02
Speaker 5: Yeah, So we have.
40:03
Speaker 8: Three freshmen that returned from last year that are still
40:08
Speaker 8: starting this year or catcher, a shortstop, and an outfielder
40:11
Speaker 8: for us. And then we had a freshman last year
40:12
Speaker 8: who was a really good player, banged up his thumb
40:15
Speaker 8: and practice and inner squad and was out the rest
40:17
Speaker 8: of the year and he's back this year, and he's
40:19
Speaker 8: been a really big piece for us and meant to
40:21
Speaker 8: answer that question, man, is one of the best parts
40:24
Speaker 8: of this job is watching kids grow mature from when
40:27
Speaker 8: they get here as a fourteen year old and a freshman,
40:29
Speaker 8: when they're seventeen or eighteen year old, as a senior
40:33
Speaker 8: my first year, as the group of guys that are
40:35
Speaker 8: juniors now, and so I'm really getting to see that
40:37
Speaker 8: gross how high schoolers mature, how they take on different
40:41
Speaker 8: leadership roles in different areas. So that's the fun part
40:44
Speaker 8: of the job, and it's good to see some of
40:46
Speaker 8: that payoffs where you're not all just looking out wins
40:49
Speaker 8: and losses, but we're trying to build these men up
40:51
Speaker 8: to be better young men off the baseball field more importantly.
40:55
Speaker 8: So yeah, I mean it's been really good. The three
40:58
Speaker 8: freshmen that are playing for us are really good players,
41:00
Speaker 8: gonna be really good players for us for a long time.
41:02
Speaker 8: I like to think we're still a young roster. I
41:04
Speaker 8: really do. We're going to graduate I think eight seniors,
41:08
Speaker 8: three of which that are starting for us, but we
41:12
Speaker 8: got some guys that'll be ready to go. And other
41:14
Speaker 8: than that, I mean, we're gonna be returning probably uh
41:16
Speaker 8: seven seven guys in our lineup for next year.
41:19
Speaker 13: The matchup this week the series with Montgomery. Lake Creek
41:23
Speaker 13: took the loss on Tuesday night on the road. But
41:26
Speaker 13: one thing I've noticed with all of the teams in
41:29
Speaker 13: this district is that the home team wins more than not.
41:32
Speaker 10: It's played a pretty big role in district play this year.
41:35
Speaker 13: Specifically, you know, y'all have that first hand beating Montgomery
41:38
Speaker 13: at home and then losing that close one on the road.
41:41
Speaker 13: So how are you planning, you know, that get back
41:43
Speaker 13: game on Friday night against Lake Creek.
41:46
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's an interesting scenario that we're in. We actually
41:49
Speaker 8: one of our top arms, if not our top arm.
41:52
Speaker 8: It's been pretty dominant for us this year. Got banged
41:55
Speaker 8: up in that Montgomery series and he's likely out the
42:01
Speaker 8: rest of the year. I'll leave names and stuff out
42:03
Speaker 8: just in case he's get an MRI on Sunday on
42:05
Speaker 8: Friday and we'll see where he's at next week. So
42:07
Speaker 8: knowing that that changed their plans a lot.
42:11
Speaker 2: And yeah, the home.
42:12
Speaker 8: Series are really big in this district, especially at our field.
42:15
Speaker 8: Like we don't have the nicest field in the state
42:17
Speaker 8: of Texas, but we know the nooks and crannies of it,
42:20
Speaker 8: and we know the winds blowing in ninety nine point
42:22
Speaker 8: nine percent of the time anyone plays here. And with
42:25
Speaker 8: this pitching staff that we have, it's not high v
42:27
Speaker 8: lovel but lots of strikes and lots of breaking balls.
42:29
Speaker 8: Guys like to lift the ball. Every team in this
42:31
Speaker 8: district is a pretty high ball and air rate, and
42:33
Speaker 8: we know that many they're gonna get the ball in
42:35
Speaker 8: the air, they're gonna get under it, and they're gonna
42:36
Speaker 8: lean on some. But at our field, it's the graveyard.
42:39
Speaker 8: It's like three forty to the stinking corners and like
42:41
Speaker 8: four fifteen to dead center. It plays like a big
42:44
Speaker 8: league ballpark. It's huge. Man, I don't know who designed it,
42:46
Speaker 8: but it's a huge and that honestly helps our advantage. Again,
42:49
Speaker 8: we're not an offense that runs the ball of the yard,
42:51
Speaker 8: so we don't play for that, and we're not a defense.
42:54
Speaker 8: We're not a defense, and a pitching staff that lives
42:55
Speaker 8: with a strikeout, so balls and plays our friend. The
42:59
Speaker 8: LA week's series was different because we knew that we
43:02
Speaker 8: just need to split again. Sweeping is is awesome, like
43:05
Speaker 8: I just mentioned earlier, but we didn't have to do that.
43:07
Speaker 8: We just know we need to win one, and so
43:09
Speaker 8: we run some openers out there, some lower bullpen arms
43:12
Speaker 8: that are gonna fill up the strike zone, knowing they're
43:14
Speaker 8: gonna get buried a little bit, rolling the dice and
43:16
Speaker 8: helping luck goes our way here and there. But we
43:19
Speaker 8: just in our team meetings this week, we talked about, hey,
43:21
Speaker 8: we're gonna roll the openers out there, and by the
43:22
Speaker 8: third or fourth inning, we'll know are we selling out
43:24
Speaker 8: to win this game, this the one this week, or
43:26
Speaker 8: are we gonna pump the fourth and long and save
43:28
Speaker 8: all our bullets for Thursday. And that's just kind of
43:30
Speaker 8: the situation. The corner we got backed into yesterday. One
43:34
Speaker 8: is zero in the second. That's typically a position this
43:37
Speaker 8: late in the year where I'd go to all probably
43:39
Speaker 8: our ace and say, hey, you got to grow out
43:40
Speaker 8: there and chase them down in six innings. Now, I
43:42
Speaker 8: like your odds for six innings of baseball. But again,
43:44
Speaker 8: when you're down in ace, you're down a starting arm.
43:47
Speaker 8: It was hard to do that. I know I got one,
43:48
Speaker 8: one chance to go get it, and if I roll
43:51
Speaker 8: my starter out there, the game yesterday looks a lot different.
43:53
Speaker 8: Maybe we lose one to zero, maybe we'll lose ten
43:55
Speaker 8: to nine. But again, losing by one and losing by
43:57
Speaker 8: ten is the same. Right now, we know that if
44:00
Speaker 8: we lost and we used our bullets and we didn't
44:02
Speaker 8: have any for tomorrow, we're going to be in a
44:03
Speaker 8: tough position. So we get to save that. Might them
44:06
Speaker 8: have their win, let them have their fun. But we
44:07
Speaker 8: got a really good game plan moving in tomorrow. Win's
44:10
Speaker 8: gonna be blown in plus fifteen miles an hour out
44:12
Speaker 8: of the south. This is a team that has a
44:14
Speaker 8: pretty high ball and air rate. We got an opener
44:17
Speaker 8: to start the game, hoping he can get us six
44:19
Speaker 8: outs and then we're going to go to our go
44:20
Speaker 8: to arm and hope the offense can keep up and
44:22
Speaker 8: all those things. I think we're prepared for. I think
44:25
Speaker 8: that when we can execute makeavn.
44:26
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's something I don't think gets talked about enough.
44:29
Speaker 13: With the diamond sports of baseball and softball, you have
44:32
Speaker 13: fields that aren't the same size. You know, with football
44:34
Speaker 13: and basketball, the court the field's always the same, but
44:36
Speaker 13: with baseball it can make a really big impact, you know,
44:39
Speaker 13: depending on the style of style of play of each team.
44:41
Speaker 13: So it's really always interesting to me here coaches perspective
44:44
Speaker 13: on that well.
44:45
Speaker 10: I appreciate your time today, good luck this Friday and
44:48
Speaker 10: the rest of the season.
44:49
Speaker 8: Hey, thank you so much man.
44:50
Speaker 13: The High School report is brought to you by Gilmore
44:52
Speaker 13: Electric Express, Club car Wash and Chicken Express.
44:56
Speaker 17: How Dorey, this is Clayton with Chicken Express. Bring the
44:58
Speaker 17: whole family to any of our three a your locations.
45:01
Speaker 17: We have plenty of choices for everyone. Try our fried
45:03
Speaker 17: Chicken Express tenders or are ever popular livers and gizzards
45:07
Speaker 17: and enjoy our express fish all day at all three
45:10
Speaker 17: locations of Chicken Express.
45:12
Speaker 18: Howdy Patrick Kinning here with your gilmourre Electric Express light
45:15
Speaker 18: bulb moment? Is your home ready for guests in town
45:18
Speaker 18: for game days or holidays? Don't be in the dark
45:20
Speaker 18: when it comes to electrical issues you've been putting off,
45:22
Speaker 18: like change in light fixtures to update the look of
45:24
Speaker 18: your home, preparing loose or broken plugs so that your
45:27
Speaker 18: guests can use their devices comfortably, or moving that kitchen
45:30
Speaker 18: outlet to a more convenient location. If you need to
45:33
Speaker 18: be prepared for company this fall, don't settle for less.
45:36
Speaker 18: Call Gilmour Electric Express at nine seven nine, seven to
45:39
Speaker 18: seven light.
45:44
Speaker 19: Sure, the flowers are pretty and the warmer weather's nice,
45:46
Speaker 19: but some things aren't so great about spring, running noses,
45:50
Speaker 19: its gis coughing, sneezing, and oh, by the way, you've
45:52
Speaker 19: got a whole bunch of cleaning to do. But let's
45:54
Speaker 19: start with cleaning something easy, like your vehicle at club
45:57
Speaker 19: car wash. Add in the free vacuums on memberships in
46:00
Speaker 19: those sweet microfiber towels, and a spring isn't looking so
46:03
Speaker 19: bad after all. Visit clubcarsh dot com, Club common Wash.
46:12
Speaker 6: Chip Howard Sports Talk here on a glorious Thursday afternoon,
46:16
Speaker 6: Jason Cornelius, Jared Hicks here, We obviously just we thought
46:20
Speaker 6: we were going to talk a little bit of golf.
46:22
Speaker 6: Talked a little bit of golf. Uh, gonna come back
46:25
Speaker 6: talk some basketball, got some stuff here on. And it's
46:29
Speaker 6: not a show with us if we're not going to
46:30
Speaker 6: talk about the finance of sports. And so we'll talk
46:33
Speaker 6: a little bit about the finance sports coming up in
46:35
Speaker 6: just a second.
46:35
Speaker 5: We'll be right back. Chip Hoard Sports Talk on Sports
46:38
Speaker 5: Rate eleven fifty AM, The Zone ninety through seven FM.
46:41
Speaker 12: Even the so called minor car wreck could turn your
46:44
Speaker 12: life upside down. But Oscar and Son's body shop has
46:46
Speaker 12: been providing customers date of the art vehicle paint and
46:49
Speaker 12: body repair for generations and motorists all over The Brass family.
46:52
Speaker 12: Patrick and Tracy Chapel continue to carry on the family
46:55
Speaker 12: tradition and Oscar and Sons was the first shop in
46:57
Speaker 12: the area to use the PPG Moonlonk Tech expertly image
47:01
Speaker 12: your car's exact color when accidents happen. Cal Auster and
47:04
Speaker 12: Sons at nine to seven nine seven seven eight sixty
47:07
Speaker 12: eight thirty six are online at austernsuns dot com with
47:12
Speaker 12: your Houston Astros report.
47:13
Speaker 20: I'm Jay Greenmother rough stretch continues in Colorado.
47:16
Speaker 10: All the details our next.
47:18
Speaker 16: You're losing your hair and you want a simple solution
47:21
Speaker 16: guaranteed to work. Guys, you need Advanced Tair. Advancedair's quick
47:26
Speaker 16: one day treatment is offered in a calm, relaxed environment
47:29
Speaker 16: with top rated physicians and modern technology. Your own natural
47:32
Speaker 16: hair begins to regrow the very next day at.
47:35
Speaker 5: Advancedair guarantees it will grow.
47:37
Speaker 16: So schedule your free consultation for two hundred and fifty
47:41
Speaker 16: dollars off and two hundred and fifty three hair grafts
47:44
Speaker 16: four six, nine, five, nine to nine hair or advancedair
47:47
Speaker 16: dot com.
47:48
Speaker 20: The Houston Astros fell to the Colorado Rockies by score
47:51
Speaker 20: of nine to one in the series finale yesterday afternoon
47:54
Speaker 20: net course Field. The loss marks the fourth straight for
47:56
Speaker 20: the Astros and a sweep at the hands of the Rockies.
47:59
Speaker 20: Astro starter Christian Javier lasted just one inning, allowing one
48:02
Speaker 20: to run. Javier exited the game prior to the second
48:05
Speaker 20: inning with shoulder tightness. Unfortunately for the Astros, that wasn't
48:08
Speaker 20: the only early exit of the day, as centerfielder Jake
48:11
Speaker 20: Myers exited the game mid at bat in the top
48:13
Speaker 20: of the second with back tightness. Both of these players,
48:16
Speaker 20: Javier and Myers have injury history, as Javier underwent Tommy
48:20
Speaker 20: John surgery in twenty twenty four, while Myers was sidelined
48:23
Speaker 20: multiple times last year due to a calf injury. Manager
48:26
Speaker 20: Joe Spata said both players will be reevaluated further by
48:29
Speaker 20: the Astros training staff to determine next steps. Off day
48:32
Speaker 20: today for the Astros before heading to Seattle for a
48:35
Speaker 20: weekend series against the Mariners beginning Friday night at eight
48:37
Speaker 20: forty and with your Houston Astros Report.
48:40
Speaker 10: I'm Jake Griipma at Citizen State Bank.
48:43
Speaker 21: We believe strong communities are built on trust and service.
48:46
Speaker 21: That's why for one hundred years we've been proud to
48:48
Speaker 21: stand by you with local decisions, dependable customer service and
48:51
Speaker 21: the tools you need like online and digital banking. With
48:55
Speaker 21: branches in Burlison, Washington and Grounds Counties. We're here to
48:58
Speaker 21: serve your family and your future. Citizen State Bank, local people,
49:02
Speaker 21: local decisions since nineteen twenty five. Visit CSB t X
49:06
Speaker 21: dot bank to learn more.
49:08
Speaker 5: Member fd C.
49:11
Speaker 4: This is this only eleven and fifty am and maybe
49:14
Speaker 4: three points seven flute.
49:30
Speaker 19: This is how two.
49:37
Speaker 8: Question?
49:39
Speaker 5: Did you Hickscorp? Taken us back?
49:42
Speaker 3: Oakland based rap. A lot of people don't realize. Everyone
49:49
Speaker 3: equates master p with Third Coast. But no, no, no, no,
49:53
Speaker 3: where did he get his start?
49:54
Speaker 5: That's right? Ok Man.
49:59
Speaker 6: New Kay Northern California, Chippira Sports Talk taken over by
50:05
Speaker 6: Jason and Jarrett Today Sports Radio eleven fifty AM, The
50:08
Speaker 6: Zone ninety three seven FM. Not often other than as
50:13
Speaker 6: we give her another shout out that we get the
50:15
Speaker 6: shout out North Carolina or North California is when Carla
50:19
Speaker 6: is here. So sports money. We talk about that a lot.
50:25
Speaker 6: And there's the two things that popped up for me,
50:29
Speaker 6: and they really do go together. You sent me the
50:33
Speaker 6: other day about the possible five year and it's the
50:38
Speaker 6: President put it out there and his executive order, which
50:41
Speaker 6: is not going.
50:42
Speaker 5: To go anywhere.
50:44
Speaker 6: But now the NCAA is actually talking about doing a
50:48
Speaker 6: five year eligibility, which at one point that's what it
50:51
Speaker 6: was anyway, is that you had five years, but they're
50:57
Speaker 6: going to put that out there. And I also like
51:00
Speaker 6: how much the Big Ten is going to be pulling
51:03
Speaker 6: in just from the NC Double A basketball tournament that
51:07
Speaker 6: that just happened, and going back to the finance of sport,
51:11
Speaker 6: and you and I have talked about this as far
51:13
Speaker 6: as like what the NC Double A is is was
51:16
Speaker 6: supposed to do what they haven't been able to do,
51:19
Speaker 6: and how it is still the the he who remains
51:23
Speaker 6: of college sports, and they like, none of this is
51:27
Speaker 6: ever going to matter anymore because the the lawsuits are
51:31
Speaker 6: already happening, and I can see that that's going to
51:32
Speaker 6: come up for that five year eligibility rule now, But
51:35
Speaker 6: it all still goes back to the money, like they
51:37
Speaker 6: they're not going to be able to constrict what the college,
51:41
Speaker 6: what the athletes are able to do, based on the
51:44
Speaker 6: money that they are always going to be able to
51:46
Speaker 6: bring in based on the TV dollars.
51:48
Speaker 19: No, and.
51:50
Speaker 7: This attempt to.
51:53
Speaker 3: Put the genie back in the bottle when genie's been
51:57
Speaker 3: out for good seven years.
51:58
Speaker 9: Yeah, and.
52:01
Speaker 5: That has been lifting weights and taking the genie is strong.
52:04
Speaker 3: Genie is strong, and more importantly, it's I mean, proof
52:08
Speaker 3: is in the pudding. There are people willing to commit
52:11
Speaker 3: money to make athletic departments which have languished in mediocrity
52:16
Speaker 3: and frankly losing into viable, winnable competitors.
52:24
Speaker 7: You don't have to look.
52:25
Speaker 3: Anywhere else than that armpit up in the Panhandle. But
52:31
Speaker 3: guess what those tech grads who've been working in oil
52:37
Speaker 3: and gas for the last twenty thirty years and have
52:40
Speaker 3: amassed millions, if not billions of dollars, they're willing to
52:44
Speaker 3: commit because, you know what, they want to see their
52:46
Speaker 3: school succeed.
52:47
Speaker 7: And that story is going to repeat. I mean, look
52:50
Speaker 7: at Michigan.
52:50
Speaker 3: Michigan has like seven hundred and fifty thousand, A lot
52:54
Speaker 3: of them, it's insane, and a lot of them are
52:58
Speaker 3: they're in business and their attorney if they're male, they're
53:01
Speaker 3: all watching the History Channel all the time. And when
53:04
Speaker 3: they're not doing that, they're sending their money to UM.
53:06
Speaker 3: It's going towards athletics. And that's why you know, they
53:11
Speaker 3: bought a national champion chip with Jim Harbaugh, and of
53:15
Speaker 3: course he was doing unscrupulous things and got out of
53:17
Speaker 3: there after winning.
53:19
Speaker 5: They don't care, they don't They got their national.
53:21
Speaker 3: Chip, they got their national championship, and somehow they still
53:23
Speaker 3: get to sit on the moral high grounds first for
53:26
Speaker 3: whatever reason. But when you look at the Big Ten,
53:29
Speaker 3: and this is what's crazy is I'm like, how's the
53:32
Speaker 3: Big ten getting so much money just from Oh, that's right.
53:35
Speaker 3: UCLA is a Big Ten school now, yes, But and
53:40
Speaker 3: we talked about.
53:41
Speaker 7: This going into the Sweet sixteen. Was the standpoint.
53:44
Speaker 3: Look at how many Big ten schools are in the tournament, yep,
53:49
Speaker 3: comparative to what your tradition, what you would think your
53:53
Speaker 3: traditional basketball powers would be in the other blue bloods.
53:57
Speaker 7: The money is driving everything. Tell Television is.
54:01
Speaker 3: Where you are extracting more money because it's the only
54:04
Speaker 3: thing that people watch in real time. They do not
54:08
Speaker 3: watch on the tape delayed. They do not watch They
54:10
Speaker 3: do not just watch clips. They watch sports in real time.
54:13
Speaker 3: And that's I mean, that's one of the few to
54:15
Speaker 3: I mean, we were talking about it during the break
54:19
Speaker 3: the Pit, which is probably right now the most popular
54:22
Speaker 3: drama on television. I put that in air quotes because
54:27
Speaker 3: I guess it's secretly a streamer. You can you can
54:32
Speaker 3: you you want to watch it as soon as it
54:33
Speaker 3: comes out, but I mean you can kind of time shift.
54:36
Speaker 7: Yep, what we have on the TV right now with
54:38
Speaker 7: the Masters.
54:39
Speaker 3: Again, I have been watching it since nine o'clock. It's
54:42
Speaker 3: been on my TV or on my screen since nine
54:44
Speaker 3: o'clock today. Then that's not going to change.
54:49
Speaker 7: For the next three days all.
54:52
Speaker 5: And it's all.
54:52
Speaker 6: And the other thing that I point that that is
54:54
Speaker 6: is so important when it comes to this is you
54:57
Speaker 6: talk like the NCAA A may want to try to
55:01
Speaker 6: do this.
55:01
Speaker 5: However, it's not just the athletes that are going to
55:03
Speaker 5: fight fight it.
55:04
Speaker 16: Now.
55:05
Speaker 6: You talked about whether individual school presidents will want to,
55:09
Speaker 6: but they're not. The presidents aren't going to want to
55:11
Speaker 6: because their donor bases aren't going to go exactly.
55:14
Speaker 3: I mean that this this idea that you can push
55:19
Speaker 3: a button and everything's going to magically be twenty fourteen. Again.
55:26
Speaker 7: It's I mean, God, I don't want to.
55:31
Speaker 3: Go down the political landscape, but I mean that's kind
55:34
Speaker 3: of where we are right now.
55:34
Speaker 7: From the standpoint of you can't go back. The fact
55:39
Speaker 7: of the matter is with you had nine Supreme Court.
55:43
Speaker 3: Justices laugh in the face of the NCAA saying how
55:46
Speaker 3: have you gotten away with this for this long? Because
55:50
Speaker 3: it is so abhorrent that you are making all this
55:54
Speaker 3: money and the athlete, the athletes who are the backbone
55:58
Speaker 3: of how you are making this money, get nothing. In fact,
56:01
Speaker 3: they get penalized for even trying to make a little
56:04
Speaker 3: bit of money before in iol.
56:06
Speaker 6: And again the Big Ten earned seventy million dollars just
56:10
Speaker 6: from the NCAA basketball tournament. I forget what they said
56:14
Speaker 6: that they got from the college football playoffs, but again
56:17
Speaker 6: that's all money going back to There is zero chance
56:21
Speaker 6: that this is going to ever get going back to
56:24
Speaker 6: a five year elegator, because everybody's going to fight it
56:27
Speaker 6: because as an athlete, now you are constricting my opportunity
56:30
Speaker 6: to make money by saying I can only do this
56:32
Speaker 6: for five years.
56:33
Speaker 5: Now, something else that you can.
56:34
Speaker 3: Do that as exactly and more to the point, how
56:36
Speaker 3: are you going to restrict the athletes? But yet coaches
56:39
Speaker 3: have free range to do it, do whatever. And by
56:42
Speaker 3: the way, the vast majority of these coaches their state employees.
56:45
Speaker 3: They are also some of the hot They are typically
56:47
Speaker 3: the highest paid state employees.
56:49
Speaker 6: In most of those cases. Coming back after the top
56:51
Speaker 6: of the hour, we are going to get into some
56:53
Speaker 6: NBA talk and talk about how the standings are going
56:55
Speaker 6: with that. But we're back in just a second. You're
56:57
Speaker 6: listening to Chip Howard Sports Talk taken over by Jason
56:59
Speaker 6: and Jared Sports Ready eleven fifty am the Zone nine
57:01
Speaker 6: through seven of them.
57:02
Speaker 1: Brass's Valley floor and Design at Rock Prairie and Old
57:06
Speaker 1: Welburn has been your flooring center here in the Brasses
57:12
Speaker 1: Valley for over twenty five years. Take advantage of the
57:18
Speaker 1: unbeatable deals during their flooring sale of carpet, hardwood, waterproof tile,
57:26
Speaker 1: vinyl and tile. Brandon and Chuck and the whole staff
57:32
Speaker 1: are ready to take care of you. The Granite Center
57:34
Speaker 1: is right next door. They cut everything to exact specification
57:40
Speaker 1: for your kitchen and bath, your countertops, your backsplashes, They
57:45
Speaker 1: do all of that They do residential and commercial work,
57:48
Speaker 1: so whether you're redoing a room, building a new home, remodeling,
57:54
Speaker 1: own an entire office complex or apartment complex, they will
57:59
Speaker 1: take a view again, residential and commercial. Over a million
58:03
Speaker 1: square feet of flooring in stock. That's good for you
58:08
Speaker 1: for selection, timing, prices, everything, and the installers are timely
58:14
Speaker 1: and they'll do everything they say they're going to do.