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British Open History Made, MLB Trade Deadline Preview, Craig's Early Baseball Memories · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Aren't we happy it's Friday? Yeah, it is a Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and ready to head on.
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  Speaker 2: In to the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Whether your pursuits be recreational, business or just not much
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  Speaker 1: at all, We're glad you.
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  Speaker 2: Joined us this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
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  Speaker 1: under the Zone. My name is Craig Way. I do
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much for joining us. As I always
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  Speaker 1: say on Friday, if today being Friday, the what is
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  Speaker 1: what is today? Jay Carman?
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  Speaker 2: The seventeenth that's right, Yeah, the seventeenth of July.
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  Speaker 3: Football score day seven seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Oh there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, same score of the Texas Texas A
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  Speaker 1: and M game in College Station a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Ah right, and long Orange will be back there this point.
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  Speaker 1: But as I started to say, if Friday holds for
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  Speaker 1: you in the traditional sense a Monday through Friday week,
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  Speaker 1: which means that you're off on Saturday and Sunday, good
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  Speaker 1: on you, Good for you. I hope you enjoy the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's recreational or just relaxing or whatever that might be.
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  Speaker 1: If for those of you who Friday is merely the
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  Speaker 1: middle part of your week, say you start your work
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  Speaker 1: week on Wednesday, and I know some of you who do,
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  Speaker 1: and if that's the case, hopefully we can help you
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  Speaker 1: get over the hump and get downhill to your weekend,
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  Speaker 1: which might be Monday Tuesday. And for those of you
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  Speaker 1: whose work week actually begins on Friday or on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: well hopefully we can help you through that as well
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  Speaker 1: and you get going on that. Friday, in this case
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  Speaker 1: encompasses several things. Second round of the Open Championship still
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  Speaker 1: underway there at Royal Birkdale. In the big headliner was
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  Speaker 1: not one but two sixty two's shot today. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that, which is an all time record tying number
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  Speaker 1: low number for a round of golf in a major championship.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get to that. We have our usual Friday
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  Speaker 1: offering in the two o'clock hour that would be inconceivable,
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  Speaker 1: which of course on Friday, Jay Carmon, who is our producer,
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  Speaker 1: Friday's withinconceivable means a couple of different things, but one
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  Speaker 1: thing in specific.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's a good thing the sun's back out today, Craig,
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  Speaker 4: because we're going down to the Sunshine State, the most
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  Speaker 4: flaccid of the lower forty eight to grab the low
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  Speaker 4: hanging fruit. That is Florida man and apparently Florida woman.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, yep, got some Florida woman in there. Some of
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  Speaker 1: us is goofy and ridiculous, and other of it is
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  Speaker 1: kind of scared and tragic a little bit. Uh So
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  Speaker 1: we'll we'll get to that coming up as well. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, we'll get to the the Open Championship leader word. Also,
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  Speaker 1: this Friday today means that we are we are excited
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  Speaker 1: about this one day removed from the third place game
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  Speaker 1: of the World Cup.
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  Speaker 4: Right, well, you know, don't don't tell Thomas Tuckle that
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  Speaker 4: from England. He said, well, none of the players from
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  Speaker 4: ether side want to play.
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  Speaker 1: And look, it's right, we didn't get to that sound
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  Speaker 1: yesterday from toul did we do We do we still
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  Speaker 1: have that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we we'll be able to bring that up here
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  Speaker 4: in about thirty seconds. It's just, uh yeah, it feels
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  Speaker 4: like a relic. What's the I used this word back
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  Speaker 4: in the fall and you were taking it back by
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  Speaker 4: it It's it feels vestigial.
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  Speaker 3: It feels what vestigial?
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  Speaker 2: Vestigial?
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  Speaker 3: You know, like our appending does a vestige of something
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  Speaker 3: we used to need?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, all right, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: It's a relic I got you was asked for first
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  Speaker 1: of all that you know, he has got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of criticism for what happened to England with that one
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  Speaker 1: nill lead heading into the eighty fifth minute against Argentina
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  Speaker 1: in the semifinals on Wednesday, and they had one nothing lead,
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  Speaker 1: but they got incredibly defensive after they got up one nill.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's parking the bus and then there's crash in
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  Speaker 3: the bus.
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  Speaker 1: Did they say, I think it said that after they
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  Speaker 1: took the one nill lead. Argentina had eighty eight percent
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  Speaker 1: of the possession time after the English goal that put
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  Speaker 1: him up one nothing for the rest of the match
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight percent. It's really hard to win when the
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  Speaker 1: other team has the ball eighty eight percent of the time,
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  Speaker 1: as football coaches at a basketball coaches that it's it's
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  Speaker 1: really difficult to win when the opponent has possession eighty
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  Speaker 1: eight percent of the time. Even though they were up
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  Speaker 1: one nothing going into the eighty fifth they gave up
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  Speaker 1: a goal to tie. Then five minutes later they gave
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  Speaker 1: up the go ahead but goal you know, Messy assisted
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  Speaker 1: on both goals.
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  Speaker 2: So and.
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  Speaker 1: The substitutions also include trying to just camp back defensively.
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  Speaker 1: So Tuco's asked, did he get his substitutions wrong?
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  Speaker 5: No, I believe that's just the nature of the game.
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  Speaker 5: As soon as you lose, you get criticized. That's just
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  Speaker 5: what it is. And you get criticized after no one
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  Speaker 5: knows what would have happened if we made different decisions,
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  Speaker 5: So it makes no sense to engage in that and
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  Speaker 5: lose my head. I'm responsible for them. I took them,
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  Speaker 5: so I take the criticism. That's just the way it is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: well he knows that obviously, and that comes. It's it's
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  Speaker 5: the manner in which they lost that is drawing so
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  Speaker 5: much heat, not just that they lost, but the way
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  Speaker 5: in which they lost as well. So they lose two
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  Speaker 5: one after having one near league going into the eighty
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  Speaker 5: fifth minutes. So now England plays France tomorrow in the
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  Speaker 5: third place game, and so you're playing for third. Now third?
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  Speaker 5: About two goals thoughts on the third place match. Nobody
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  Speaker 5: of of these players, nobody of French players wants wants
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  Speaker 5: to play for this match. We demand the most of ourselves.
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  Speaker 5: That's just the nature of being competitive. Puts the next
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  Speaker 5: game into perspective. Nobody of of these players, nobody of
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  Speaker 5: French players wants wants to play for this match and
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  Speaker 5: they want to play in the final. We gave everything
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  Speaker 5: to be in the final. Everyone plays to to to
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  Speaker 5: in the World Cup. But it is what it is.
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  Speaker 5: So we have for a day less and and to recover.
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  Speaker 5: But we will we will do it professionally of course, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: take the professional approach.
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  Speaker 4: You could have cleared things up if you know, he
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  Speaker 4: said well before the tournament, nobody wants to play in
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  Speaker 4: the third place match, but he didn't because nobody wants
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  Speaker 4: to play in the third place match tomorrow either.
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  Speaker 1: Especially I would submit to you don't want to play
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  Speaker 1: in the third place match when you've lost the semifinal.
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  Speaker 3: That's the only time you would.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't think you would want to because you
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  Speaker 1: your heartbroken ever losing the semi file.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm saying that's how you end up there, right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying they especially don't want to play in it
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  Speaker 1: when you lose in the semi final.
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  Speaker 4: You know who would have loved to play the third
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  Speaker 4: place match at this tournament? There's a short list, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: the US YEP, Mexico YEP, Canada YEP, and maybe maybe
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  Speaker 4: a Norway, maybe a cape Verde.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought, I think I saw what somebody tweeted
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  Speaker 1: the other day. Do they really have to play this
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  Speaker 1: third place match? Why don't they just go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: give cape Verde the third place trophy and everybody go home.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, these two teams in the final couldn't beat cape
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  Speaker 4: Verde in regulation. They're gonna be one of the stories
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  Speaker 4: we remember from the thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's great, and that's true, Argentina and Spain both having
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  Speaker 1: to settle for draws, and that's why folks are saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe you know, maybe maybe they should just
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  Speaker 1: give cape Verde the the third place trophy. As I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the other day, after the two semifinals, the one
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, you know, the Spain France one that Spain
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  Speaker 1: won to nil and just basically suffocated and squeeze the
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  Speaker 1: life out of the explosive French squad and Bope was nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: To be found. They were all over him.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to that, the Wednesday match with England having
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  Speaker 1: the one nothing league get away in the final ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes of the match. Those things that's you think about
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  Speaker 1: that and it's it's incredibly disappointing. To them and they
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  Speaker 1: want and so the teams that lose the semifinals really
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  Speaker 1: don't want to play in that third place match. But
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  Speaker 1: as I pointed out, then it doesn't really come up much.
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  Speaker 1: But as I pointed out, then there are financial reasons
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  Speaker 1: behind that third place match. First of all, FIFA wants
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  Speaker 1: the revenue and the host country, the US wants the
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  Speaker 1: revenue of what the third place because it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a sellout in Miami.
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  Speaker 3: It's been sold out probably for a year month.
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  Speaker 1: Right right, So people figured that they can't get tickets
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  Speaker 1: or don't want to spend the money to fly to
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  Speaker 1: the New York area.
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  Speaker 4: Figure a lot of England fans though, see the ticket
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  Speaker 4: prices and think, okay, if it's not coming home, I'm
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  Speaker 4: going home.
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  Speaker 2: Right right exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So So there's you know, there's because of that, then
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  Speaker 1: then there might be a little more interesting in the
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  Speaker 1: third place match. Here's here's the other thing that's going on.
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  Speaker 1: And you heard me mentioning, of course, the World Cup
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  Speaker 1: final itself is on Sunday, and as you heard me
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  Speaker 1: just mention, it's in the metropolitan New York area. It's
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  Speaker 1: at met Life Stadium there in their new Jersey Meadlands.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you've noticed over the past few days,
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  Speaker 1: but they're having air health quality issues there in the Northeast.
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  Speaker 1: They did play that Mets Phillies game last night, but
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  Speaker 1: you could kind of see the Hayes.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't you. Yeah, last night I watched some of that game.
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  Speaker 4: I saw. I saw a few of the middle innings.
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  Speaker 4: I saw pop ups not look as routine. I saw
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  Speaker 4: umpires talking to outfielders about visibility.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's that going on up there. That's in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: In New York, the Dodgers and Yankees open their figures
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  Speaker 1: at second half of the season tonight at Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: See had that going. By the way, there was one
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  Speaker 1: other player. We didn't mention this the other day when
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  Speaker 1: we were counting the players who did not see action
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  Speaker 1: in the UH in the All Star Game, there was
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  Speaker 1: one we left out.
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  Speaker 4: You shouldn't be Yamamoto. Oh he didn't pitch. No, he
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  Speaker 4: didn't pitch. She's going to pitch tonight, so and and
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  Speaker 4: and the manager. How dare that manager? Yeah, right, right,
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  Speaker 4: he did pitch Robleski for two innings.
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  Speaker 2: He did pitch him.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, you know ya, Momoto deserves the rest the
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  Speaker 4: guy has pitched. But you know, the equivalent of an
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  Speaker 4: the equivalent of an extra two months of baseball the
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  Speaker 4: way he's been extended in these Dodger World Series runs.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And and he has gotten scant run support this season.
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  Speaker 1: That's not new for him for him, yeah, so uh
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  Speaker 1: and And I've had a lot of people ask me
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  Speaker 1: about that phenomenon as well, and said, how is it
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  Speaker 1: that the best pitcher can't get good run support. The
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  Speaker 1: obvious answer is, a lot of the time, not always,
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  Speaker 1: but a lot of the time, the best pitcher of
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  Speaker 1: a team is going up against the best pitcher of
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  Speaker 1: another team, the team that they're playing. So because they're
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  Speaker 1: they're going up against them, it's hard for their team
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  Speaker 1: to get run support for their number one guy because
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  Speaker 1: they're facing the other team's number one guy.
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  Speaker 4: I also think there's something to when you get to
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  Speaker 4: the dog days of a baseball season, say your team
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  Speaker 4: is maybe falling out of contention, not the case for
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  Speaker 4: a lot of teams in this year's American League in particular,
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  Speaker 4: But there's something to a league average starting pitcher being
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  Speaker 4: extra motivated, being fired up on the day he faces
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  Speaker 4: Yamamoto or Kershaw or school ball or one of these
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  Speaker 4: aces around the league.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's why I wound.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why I said not always, but but you
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  Speaker 1: get the best version of ever get.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Whether you get the recognized number one starter being
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  Speaker 1: a Terrek Scooball or or one of the one of
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  Speaker 1: the really good number ones, you might not always see that,
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  Speaker 1: but you're right, you get a highly motivated number two
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  Speaker 1: or number three starter who pitches world. I've seen it
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  Speaker 1: happen two or three times against Yamamoto again. As a
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  Speaker 1: Dodger fan, I watch on average, On average, i'd say
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  Speaker 1: at least one hundred of the one hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: two games every year.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to get there with Nationals Baseball this year,
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  Speaker 4: which I did not expect to do before the season.
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  Speaker 4: But this team and the race, through the thick of
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  Speaker 4: the fight, you can't look away. It's never no lead
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  Speaker 4: is safe, no deficit is too tall.
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  Speaker 1: The National League East and the American League East could
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  Speaker 1: be two of the more entertaining races to watch in
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  Speaker 1: the second half of the season, but the AO West
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  Speaker 1: for different reasons. Yeah, yeah, you find a way to
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  Speaker 1: get through it. When we visited the other day, with
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  Speaker 1: Jared Sandler. You're talking about, you know what, what did
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  Speaker 1: the Rangers need to do to hang in there as
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  Speaker 1: they have that game and a half lead going into
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  Speaker 1: the figurative second half of the season and they have
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  Speaker 1: to start in Atlanta tonight against the Braves, and so
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  Speaker 1: we were talking to him about that.
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  Speaker 2: All right, We're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the that because there's some trade deadline things
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  Speaker 1: to get to as well. Scotty Scheffler's finished up his round.
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  Speaker 1: He's on the back nine, but there are several guys
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  Speaker 1: behind the leader in this. We'll tell you more about
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  Speaker 1: that coming up. As I mentioned, we do have inconceivable
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  Speaker 1: this hour. We also have some college football to get to,
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  Speaker 1: some NFL notes as well. Glad to have you with
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  Speaker 1: us here on a Friday afternoon on Sports Radio AM
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  Speaker 1: thirteen under the Zone, where you can always listen to
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  Speaker 1: us for free on the IR Radio app. How lucky
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  Speaker 1: do you feel, Mary Chavan Carmaner certainly felt like on
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  Speaker 1: that went in the lottery, all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: We have some lucky stuff going on.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you brought up the lottery.
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  Speaker 4: This is something I've wanted to incorporate to the show
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  Speaker 4: for a long time when I.
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  Speaker 3: Lived in North Dakota.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, in the smaller, you know, younger brother city to
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  Speaker 4: Bismarck or the twin city is ways Mandan, right across
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  Speaker 4: the river. Okay, there's this shack kind of near the
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  Speaker 4: edge of town, and it's got this big sign.
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  Speaker 3: National Day Calendar.
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  Speaker 4: Headquarters really, and that's the building where if you've ever
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  Speaker 4: said today is national, this day National that day, it
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  Speaker 4: comes from there.
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  Speaker 3: And I was shocked to see.
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  Speaker 4: That when I was there and drove by it often.
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  Speaker 4: The Mandan's got a nice little downtown get outdoor eating
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  Speaker 4: in the summer. Good July fourth, good Christmas lights. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: it is National Lottery Day according to the folks in Mandan.
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  Speaker 1: Heay, good luck to you if you're out there for
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  Speaker 1: the lottery. This day also holds a different meaning for
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  Speaker 1: me July seventeenth because it was on this day fifty
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  Speaker 1: five years ago. Yeah, fifty five years ago today, seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one. It holds for me a pretty significant reason.
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  Speaker 1: I was ten years old at the time. But on
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  Speaker 1: this day fifty five years ago, July seventeen, nineteen seventy one,
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  Speaker 1: I saw my first ever Major League Baseball game.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: It was in Atlanta at the time, it was called
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Stadium, later Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. Then it got
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  Speaker 1: torn down to make way for the Olympic Stadium that
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  Speaker 1: was then converted into Turner Field, and then of course
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  Speaker 1: that went away. Actually that stadium is still there, it's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of retrofitted for Georgia's State to play football
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  Speaker 1: games there.
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  Speaker 2: In the Braves move to.
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  Speaker 1: The northwest side of town to the Battery where they
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  Speaker 1: built Truist Park, which is a beautiful ballpark up there.
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  Speaker 1: So I've seen games with the Atlanta Braves in all
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  Speaker 1: three of their homes. Atlanta Stadium was built sixty five,
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  Speaker 1: opened in sixty six when the Braves moved there, and
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  Speaker 1: when the Atlanta Falcons started as an NFL franchise, and
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  Speaker 1: it was called Atlanta Stadium upwards inclusive, and when it
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  Speaker 1: hosted the All Star Game, I guess in seventy two,
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  Speaker 1: and then later on it was Atlanta Fulton County Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: And then, like I said, it was torn down to
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  Speaker 1: make way kind of across the parking lot for Turner Field.
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  Speaker 1: You may not have noticed this, but quite often when
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball teams or NFL teams build a new
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  Speaker 1: stadium that has to take the place of a stadium
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  Speaker 1: pretty much there on site. They basically kind of started
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  Speaker 1: across the parking lot and tear down the other so
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  Speaker 1: you can still play in the one while they're building,
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  Speaker 1: and then when they get to a point where they
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  Speaker 1: know it's going to be ready for the next season,
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  Speaker 1: then they knock down the older stadium. That's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the way that works. And the Rangers did that with
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  Speaker 1: the old Arlington Stadium and what was originally the Ballpark
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  Speaker 1: in Arlington and then Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, and then
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  Speaker 1: it was Globe Life Park because Globe Life Field, where
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  Speaker 1: the Rangers play now, was built a little further across
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  Speaker 1: from there. There's that Houston history lesson. When Houston got
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball starting in nineteen sixty two, they were
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  Speaker 1: known as the Houston callt forty Five's and a big
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  Speaker 1: reason why Houston was granted the franchise. The mayor, Judge
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  Speaker 1: Roy Hawfines was really leaving the charge on this. But
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  Speaker 1: part of the deal that they cut, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: or agreed to with Major League Baseball was that they
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  Speaker 1: would build the first ever domed stadium indoors to play
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  Speaker 1: indoor baseball. Some people know this about that. When Walter
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  Speaker 1: O'Malley wanted to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn, which he
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  Speaker 1: initially wanted to do, he wanted to build the first
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: domed stadium in the fifties and have it have a
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: translucent dome. And what a lot of folks found out
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: about dome stadiums is you really can't do a translucent
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: dome or even panels because the grass will die.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: It just won't grow.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: The Astros discovered that the first year when they had
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of the panels opened, the grass just kind
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: of died, and they ended up replacing it with AstroTurf
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the next year put which was.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Developed by the Monsano company.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: So they were originally going to do that, but when
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the astrodome was built, the Houston Colt forty fives for
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: three seasons played in a part called Colt Stadium, and
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: it was ramshackle to say the least. It was not
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: great and they really struggled, not only to play because
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: they were an expansion team starting off, but it has
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: been described as atmospherically, meteorologically the worst place baseball has
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: ever been played ever because sweltering ninety one hundred degree
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: temperatures with incredible humidity and mosquitoes as big as your fist,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and it was just a miserable place. I talked to
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: people who actually attended games there. Our late producer on
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the Long Worn Radio Network on our football broadcast, Bill Harwell,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: was a greater Houston native. He went to even minor
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: league games in the late fifties to very early sixties,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: sixty and sixty one at Old Buffs Stadium, but which
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: was located in a different part of town. But Colt
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Stadium was built constructed, and the Cold forty five is
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: played games in that ballpark, which is basically north west
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I guess you would say of where the astronom was built,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: across the parking lot. So when they built the asterndym,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: there's some great sites of you Google search it, you'll
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: see it. There's some great photos of the astrodome, first
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: in a skeletal state, then in a more finished state
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: by the time they get to nineteen sixty four where
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: you can see Colt Stadium in the foreground, in the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Astrodome in the background, and it's it's pretty cool to
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: see that going up there behind it. So it was
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: kind of southeast of where it was, and that's where
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: they built the Astrodome after that, So you had that there,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: and the Houston Colt forty fives played three seasons in
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: old Houston Colt Stadium, and I said it was miserable.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Harry Carey, when he was broadcasting the singles Cardinals, went
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: in there one time and broadcast an entire game in
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: his boxer shorts, wearing nothing but boxer shorts because it
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: was so hot and miserable and all that.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Right out of the Simpsons. Yeah, so, oh, this is
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: this is a cool photo.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Oh so you found one.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Found one of the and this, by the way, I'm
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: looking at the seat in Colt Stadium. There is not
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: a shaded seat to be found.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: No, that's what was brutal. There's no shade in it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: And you see all the multi colors of the sections.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: If you're looking at a color photograph, that was where
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: your seat was located. You were in the teal section
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: or the magenta section or whatever. And I was told
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: it was just absolutely miserable to.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Play there.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Does astros teams are those cult forty five teams? Any good? No, man, that's.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Part of it. Yeah, Yeah.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: So that Astrodome site's been talked about as a potential
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: home for Houston hockey.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, who knows. Yeah, And that's an entirely different
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: kettle of fish. But just to finish the point on
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the asterim So it was built and open in sixty five,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and there's always this great story. The first baseball game
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: that was played in the Astrodome was in April in
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five. It was an exhibition game between the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Astros they newly renamed Houston Astros changed their name from
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the Cold forty five's to the Astros, and they played
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the Yankees. The Yankees who still had Mickey Mantle with
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the team, and one guy who was a I think
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: a eleven year old bat boy maybe ken was a
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: batmoy in that game, none other than our own colleague
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Keith Morland.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he got to be a bat boy in that game,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and Mickey Mantle signed a ball for him and misspelled
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Keith's name when he signed it to Keith k.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: I E T H spelled it.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: So years later, after Mickey had retired and Keith had
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: been't play and they got to know each other and
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Keith showed him that ball he said, hey, he said,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: will you sign it on the other side, or we
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: signed another ball and this time spelled my name right.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Mickey looked at that and he could that didn't even
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: look like my handwriting, he said, but it was him,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: so he redid it.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: So so then.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: The Astros were across the parking lot. That's where that's
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: where it was built, across the parking lot, and they
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: played there until the early two thousands when UH and
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the Oilers played there as well.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: So then what.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: NRG Stadium when it was built, it was built across
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the parking lot on the other side. The Astrodome is
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: still up, but it's really in a state of decay.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: It's been closed and it's a mess and all this
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: other kind of stuff. There's been great debate over what
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: to do with the property. A lot of folks say,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: just knock it down. He's knock it down. A feasibility
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: study showed that it would cost more money to do
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: a demolition than it would to remodel it to refurbish it.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: So that's why they're been talking about possibly seeing if
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: they could convert it if they were to land an
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: NHL expansion franchise.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: But if you go to.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: A Texans game at NRG Stadium, and the first time
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I went in it after it had opened up, we
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: were covering I think Texans.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Training camp.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: We were down there covering Texans training camp, and the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: first time I saw it, he was either that or
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: when I was down there for the coaching convention, like
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I'll be this weekend.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: But I noticed it, and I mentioned on the air
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: doing the.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Show that afternoon that it dwarfed the astronom, and our
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: friend chat Hastings, he was on the air wherein time
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: said not a little bit hyperbolic to say dwarfs, said
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: check you ever been to it?
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: You ever seen it? And then he saw it later
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: said you're right, it does dwarf.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: It just towers over it because it was a big
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: So the astronom is still there, but again its future
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: has been up in the year for many years now, so.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: We'll see what happens.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: You'd hate to see it because it was the first
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: domed stadium. At the time, it was called the eighth
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Wonder of the world, So you would hate to see
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: it be knocked down. Because we've learned over years that
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: when historic buildings or ones that are perceived as historic
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: whether they have a historical designation or not. When we
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: see that, if those buildings are knocked down, be the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: ballparks or just governmental structures or business structures, if we
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: see that, we say, all, what a shame that building
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: got knocked down. So a lot of people feel that
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: way about the astronom. The question is, you know, will
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: they someone or a company or entity step up to
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: save it and remodel it and refurbish it and those
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: kinds of things. So anyway, that's you know, that's what
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: happens when you have, you know, a structure like that
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: and there's a debate about whether to keep it in
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: whether you can do anything about it. So that's where
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: that is right now. But that's also what happens quite
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: often when new ballparks or stadiums for football teams ballparks
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: for baseball teams are built. Quite often it's just across
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the parking lot from where the existing structure is. In
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the case of the Rangers, they didn't knock down what
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: is now Choctaw Stadium, and what good reason. Parks in
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: very good shape. It opened in nineteen ninety three or
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: ninety four, So there's ninety three, I guess it was,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: but there's no reason to knock it down. And what
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: they did was to convert it where they played football
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: in there. In fact, that is a home facility, a
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: home stadium for the Arlington Independent School District. They played
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: high school football games in there, and they played college
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: games in there as well. The think Army and Air
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Force had played and there's a lot of high school
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: playoff games get.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Played in there.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: The year we had the pandemic, when they finished it
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: off in twenty twenty, when they finished off the high
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: school football playoffs, they had a Christmas Eve game in there.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: They had a Christmas Day game in there, which normally
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: didn't have with high school football. But the six A
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: state championships weren't decided until January of twenty twenty one
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: as a result of that. So that building still has
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: great purpose. And I will say this, it was a
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: great ballpark, great ballpark, one of my favorite ones. Just
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: too freaking hot. You're just baking in there in the summertime.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: It was miserable. So Lowlife Field.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: While not being that esthetically wondrous on the inside in
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: terms of its baseball viability, has the one thing that
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: none of those other ballparks including the old arlingtoln Ctadium
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: have and that is air quality. You know, it's the
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: nicest part of air quest. Speaking of air quality, that's
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: gonna be part of are inconceivable? Coming up on a
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Friday next year on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: second hour of the program here on Sports Radio AM
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: thirteen under the Zone. Glad to have you with us
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: here on a Friday afternoon, Craig Way alongside the producer
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Jay Carman, Glad you can join us. Second round of
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the Open Championship has been underway since about three o'clock
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: our time this morning, still underway right now, but I
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: think it's a pretty safe bet even with some golfers
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: still on the course that Lucas Herbert, if he doesn't
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: have the lead to himself, he'll probably be sharing it
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: after shooting at eight in sixty two today now having
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: said that bryceon de Shambo is in the hunt there.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: He had taken it to five under through eleven holes
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: of his round on the back nine. This after de
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Shambau had really really struggled, as we know, in the
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: prior three major championships, Shambo had failed to make the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: cut in any of the three earlier majors, the Masters,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the PGA, the Masters of course in Augusta, the PGAD
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Aeronomy in Philadelphia outside of Philadelphia, and then the US
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Open as well so at Shinnecock Hills. So he had
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: missed out on making the cut at all of those.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: And it was pointed out by many, including by our
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: own Cameron Parker, who was entre to do an Open
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Championship preview on Wednesday, that if Shambo missed the cut
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: in this Open Championship, he would become the first golfer,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: at least in modern history as far back as anyone
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: could research, to be a multiple major winner, because Bryson's
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: went what a US Open and a PGA, if I'm
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: remembering correctly, I think so.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I think that's right.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I think he's one of you anyway, a multiple major
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: championship winners.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: That right, both times at the US Open.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Two time US Open winner wing.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Foot in twenty twenty and then Pinehurst twenty four. Okay,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: but hasn't won a PGA, not Nope, those are only
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: two majors, Okay, all right. Nevertheless, he's been second twice
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: at the PGA.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, but he's won multiple majors the two US Opens,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: and he would have become the first curing pro in
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: history to win multiple majors and then miss the cut
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: in all four majors in a given year. Well, that's
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: not going to happen. In fact, he's in the thick
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: of the fight. However, it did prompt even prior to
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: the start of the tournament, which was yesterday. Sir Nick Faldo,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: as we know, a back to back winner. I believe
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: that Augusta and then of course had won the British
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Upper Championship, had won that as well. Sir Nick, who
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: then followed it up with a long broadcast career at
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: CBS and retired from CBS and was living back in
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: England but working for Sky Sports, the network over there,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: kind of their version of ESPN, and he had some
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: pointed words about britt to Shamba strategy or as he
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: called it, they'd lacked thereof.
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: That's a whole put of the story. How the supers
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: does that live? Then come over and can't do it,
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: so that's that's all another storm. Then go back to
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: be supers. Does he has I'd say it to his face,
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: has zero clue as strategy. I mean, you don't, he said,
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: it last year and I think on TV, I'm going
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: to go out and attack the so well. I've never
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: attacked to lynch. You thread it, don't you? You feed
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: it down the fairy. It's really important. You look at
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: humps and bumps and what everything. If I send it
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: over and feed it, it nudges back into play. You
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: don't think we I just bomb it down. There can't
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: see where I'm going. It's twenty yards wide. Oh yeah,
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: good luck. I mean on all this, even if you're fantastic,
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: it lands on a corner of a divot, you still
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: miss the fairwell. So you've got to think, how do
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: I get it on.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: The short grass? It is so important?
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: And here stand up and just keep bombing away and
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: they think, oh they got you get it further down.
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: But you can be completely blocked out on a link.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: So Falo had those comments to make meantime de Shambo,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: who wound up shooting a three hundred round of sixty
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: seven on the first day. That key word was strategy
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: that you heard Faldo discussing, or the lack of it.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: So you tell me if this was just a happy coincidence.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Use of the word strategy in his post round interview.
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: You know, I think you've got to be a lot
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: more strategic out on the golf course. And I feel
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: like I did a really good job today of being
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: incredibly strategic and focused, super hard and placing it in
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: the right places. Besides eighteen, I placed the ball in
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: some some good areas, but just he get more fairways.
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: Other than that, I felt like my strategy was nice today.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, But other than that, my strategy.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Strategy was it In the old Saturday Night Live skit
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: when Will Ferrell was playing George W. Bush President Bushes strategy,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: he would say, so the strategy there. So after saying
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: what he said and then hearing what the shambo had
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: to say in his post round interview yesterday, Sir Nick
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Falder came back.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Today with a little more.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Clarification, if you will, explanation on what exactly his original
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: comments were all about.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: The Bryson things. Strategy thing has gone too far as usual. Yes,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: I'm an analyst, I'm on a podcast.
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: I say something fine, But number one, I'm a big
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: fan of Bryce and let's get that out. We text
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: each other through the season, what have you. I have
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: respect for him and his game, but it is fair
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: to say, over the last couple of years he hasn't
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: shown much strategy on the Links golf course. And I
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: believe I know a little bit about strategy from my day.
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: But interestingly Day one threw the strategy thing into the ring,
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: talked about it, did it, played it, shot a great score. Now,
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: if he keeps doing that and the way the golf
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: course is playing hard and fast as we all know,
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: I think we all agree strategy will be key to
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: becoming the champion golf of the years. So I do
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: wish him all the best. If he keeps it going
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: and keeps playing well, maybe he will be right there
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: on Sunday to be the champion Golfer of the year.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: All the best.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Good little clarification there by the way, people who've listened
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: to this program before have heard me say this. Of
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the four major championships, this is my favorite one.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: Why is that.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: It's a variety of things. One, it's settled in the
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: country of the birthplace of the game, because it's pretty
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: much accepted golf was invented pretty much by the Scots
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: really going all the way back well into like the
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: fifteen hundreds, and then they started playing playing it on
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: twelve whole courses. In fact, the first ever Open Championship
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: took place before the American Civil War started. It was
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: eighteen sixty, the year before. It was even several months
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: before Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: president in November of eighteen sixty. So it started at Prestwick,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: which is still a viable it's been in the open
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: rotation press twig. In the day, Prestwick was a twelve
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: hole golf course and the first few championships were played
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: on twelve hole courses. But it is when it started
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty. It is the oldest championship in any
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: sport other than the America's Cup, which began in eighteen
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: fifty one, the yachting race, but in any sport where
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: a ball is used, football, basketball, baseball, tennis, golf, the
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Open Championship in Great Britain is the oldest.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: That's part of it. I like that.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: It's a completely different test. Now some folks put that
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: at the bottom because of that very reason. They don't
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: like that gets you out of what's supposed to be
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the regular rhythmic game of golf. Well, no golf actually
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: began under those conditions, whether they be links or or
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: even you know, space side. If it's played in in
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: you know, on upcountry and not played you know, in
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: the highlands and not played along the coast, it's still
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: a different test of golf, obviously with a lot more
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: wind than.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Trees to have to deal with. So I like the
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: difference in the test. Now.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: One thing I do think is a little bit presumptuous,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: but I understand with the RNA the way that they
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: call it. As you just heard Sir Nick Faldo say,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: the champion golfer of the world. So you're the champion
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: golfer of the year. So you are the champion golfer,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Well you are for that tournament. It doesn't mean you're
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: the champion about the you know. I don't know if
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Scotty Scheffler will hold on to the number one ranking
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: by the end of the year, depending on eyes. He's
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: only won one tournament this year, the first one, and
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: we'll see if he wins another major, I think he
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: would hold on to it.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: We'll see.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: He's had a lot of several second place finishes, so
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: there's a chance to still be the champion golfer of
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the year. But in Great Britain, that's what the RNA
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: recognizes in the Open Championship as the champion golfer of
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: the year.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: So there it is.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: But that's been my favorite of the four Majors. You
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: enjoy all of them, but that one just happens to
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: be a personal favorite of.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: Mine, even though it's a bit challenging to watch some
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: of it live in the States given the time the times.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's weird what they used to do
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: when it was televised. I think by ABC back in
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: the day, they take delighted it and you could do
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: that back in the day, not in the twenty four
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: hour news and sports cycle in which we currently exist. Anyway,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: you can't really do that. You find out in advance.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: I kind of liked the fact. Now, did I get
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: up at three o'clock this morning to watch it?
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: No? I did not. I have before. I have before,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: And I.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Remember my daughter and I got up to watch the
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: World Cup one year. I think it was it might
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: have been twenty ten when it was in South Afery.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I was thinking maybe it was in Germany, maybe two
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: thousand and two or whenever, you know whatever, we got
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: up very very early to watch the US play. I
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: have gotten up as early as like six in the
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: morning to watch it. I can probably tell you that
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: tomorrow morning when I wake up in my hotel room
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: in in Houston, and Sunday morning, I'll probably watch a
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: little of it while still in bed, probably a little
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: bit of it before having to get up and do
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: the things I got to do. I have a production
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: meeting at noon with a run through of the Hall
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: of Honor banquet tomorrow, and then Sunday, of course, I
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: had the panel discussion with the with the thirteen Division
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: one FBS coaches on to see if I can remember them.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Now here we go.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: We're gonna try it again. I missed one each in
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: the last two days, I know, all right, So here
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: we go s m U, TCU, North Texas, Texas Tech U,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: TEP Baylor, Texas, Texas State, Texas A, and m.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: RICE Houston SAM Houston UTSA.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Managed to get all thirteen of them anyway, thank you.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: So you know, all all thirteen Division one FBS college
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: football coaches will be up on the stage there at
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, and I'm
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: going to moderate a panel discussion with those and ask
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: them some questions on that that'll be later in the afternoon,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: like five thirty five, five thirty, right, check it and see.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: But I'll probably, yeah, wake up first thing in the
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: morning and probably flip on, flip on the television to watch.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: It, have yourself a little English breakfast.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe, Yeah, that's not a bad idea. So anyway,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: that's a big part of the reason why I enjoy
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: the Open Championship. So I don't mind it being several
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: hours in front of us. I can fit it to
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: the morning quite often. In the case of today, we're
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: obviously doing the program while while the second round is
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: wrapping up. But we can tell you a little more
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: about it, and we will as we go forward. We
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: got some baseball notes to get you, you know, as
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: invariably I do, you know, I wind up, you know,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: going around the garage to get to the barn, and
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: I was telling stories about ballpark construction. I did mention
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: that today is the fifty fifth anniversary of the first
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: ever Major League games, but there was a little more
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: context to bring you on that. I'll do that, but
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: we've got some other baseball notes to get too, as
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: we continue on a Friday afternoon here on Sports Radio
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: AM thirteen under the Zone, where you can always listeners
• 43:23
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• 43:26
  Speaker 3: I can't say when you look at me that way.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: That is the great great Carol Canon, one of the
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: greatest song writers.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: In music history.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Her list of hits recorded by others is very long
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: and distinguished. This particular track off of her Tapestry album
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Tapestry was sitting on.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Top of the album charts, I believe.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: For five months in nineteen seventy one rock and Roll
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer as a performer and as a songwriter,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: and this was one of them. You've got a friend
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: that's on there so far away, just tabus, But I
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: am curious as to your decision to bump back with this.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: You nailed that.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: This particular song was on the top of the US
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: Billboard Top forty on the day you went to your
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: first Major League Baseball game, Aha Whiches Today in nineteen
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: seventy one.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: July, I said that the song that I remember that day,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: I was listening to it, and I remember at the time,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: I think it was number three on the charts, but
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: I remember it was a song by Tommy James, originally
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: of Tommy James and the seandale's called Dragging the Line,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: and I'll let you bump back for the next break
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: with Dragging the Line.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: That was.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: That was a song. I remember my sister had the singles.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: She's four years older and me. She had She had
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: the single of Dragging the Line.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: Yep, this looks like according to the source I'm looking at,
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: it was it was in the top ten that week,
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: but who knows.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it depends where you ask. Yeah, yeah, at one
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: point or another, that sort of thing. And I think
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: at one point it actually got the number one as
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: a single, but it was it was rated pretty highly
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: at the time. But anyway, yeah, July seventeen, nineteen seventy one. Yeah,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: it was fifty five years ago today.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: And I know.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: And completely understand and in large measure agree with those
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: you would say that idiot way he did, the more
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: useless crap rolls around in his head, the things that
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: he remembers.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Uh, I don't disagree with you. I would say this.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: We all have touchtone moments that remember the first time
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: we did this, or the first time we did that,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: or a first date or you know, when we met
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: the significant other in our lives or whatever. We do
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: that as much as a lot of baseball. Obviously, a
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: lot of folks can kind of remember the actual first
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: time they went to baseball. You remember the first major
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: League baseball game you went to. It doesn't have to
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: be the date. I'm just saying you remember it well.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: I remember, I think it was two thousand and eight
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: at well, this maybe in two thousand and seven, because
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: NAT's Park came up around two thousand and eight. My
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: first baseball game I was with both my grandfathers at
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: RFK Stadium, So that was great.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: That was cool.
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: And the next game I remember is my first walk
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: off I ever saw, which was a June, a hot
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: June night in twenty twelve, think it was June twenty second.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: The Nats walked off the Mariners after trailing five to
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: one going into the bottom of the ninth.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Here's the beautiful thing about all that you can track
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: the actual date. This wonderful site called Baseball Reference has
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: pretty much every game that's been played all the way
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: back into the eighteen hundreds, I think, by date. Even so,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: I knew that I did not initially remember the exact
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: date of the first major league baseball game I went to,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: and and incidentally, yesterday was National hot Dog Day.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: So was it yesterday or day before?
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: I think it was two days ago because we.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Had hot dogs.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Linda and I, Justie, we observed these You mentioned the
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: national day blah blah blah calendar headquarters are there in Mandan,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: North Dakota.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: That's right, don't you forget?
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, So it was National hot Dog Day a couple
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: of days ago. We even said, why wouldn't they have
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: it on the day of the All Star Game, except
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: you got to remember the All Star Game floats.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: And by the way, National hot Dog Day has to
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: share with National Gummy Worm Day.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: Who decided that.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: I have a gummy worm story too. I'll get to
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: you later.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: So I knew it was in July of seventy one.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: I was ten, not yet eleven years old, and I
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: remembered very specific details about the game because the game
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: involved the team that I root for.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: As folks know, I grew up in North Carolina. I
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: grew up in Greensboro, So.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: We were about five hours, give or take either way
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: from the two major league ball clubs who played. One
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: was the Washington Senators who are now known as the
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Texas Rangers.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: They moved.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: They moved to Arlington for the seventy two season, and
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: I had a really good friend growing up in Greensboro
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: named Riley Culclasure and Riley. That summer of seventy one,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: he and his parents went up to Washington, d c.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: And he got to see the Senators played the Chicago
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: White Sox. And even though I would not trade my
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: experience for seeing my team the Dodgers play the Braves
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: that same summer, In fact, I think it was in
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: that same month. I can always look it up under
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Baseball Reference as that Senator's White Sox game. I was
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: always kind of envious to the fact that he got
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: to see the Senators before they moved to Arlington and
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: became the Texas Rangers, when they had Frank Howard, also
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: known as the Capital Punisher with the way he could
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: belt out home runs, who started his career as a Dodger,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: and then he was traded to the Senators for Claude Ostein,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: who was a big part of the Dodger rotation then
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: winning a World Series in sixty five and an Nash
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: League penn in sixty six. But I remember this about
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: the first Major League game I, you know, like I said,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: people have asked me quite off of why, how, what
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: in the world possessed you to become a Dodger fan,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: because people who've listened to the program, I know for
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: some times I'm not a bandwagon or I didn't jump
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: on them since they started winning them winning the world
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: titles in twenty twenty. No, this goes back to nineteen seventy.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: I was nine years old, I wasn't ten, and my
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: dad had been telling us stories at bedtime about a
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: variety of different things. Me and my younger brother. We
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: shared a bedroom, and among those were baseball stories. My
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: dad was a Yankees fan, like a lot of America
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: was back in the day, especially in the fifties, in
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: the forties and fifties, and he was a Yankees fan.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: They loved Joe Debajo, and then they love Mickey Mantle,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Whitey Ford, Bobby Richardson. You know, we mentioned all these
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: great Yankees, the Big Chief, Allley Reynolds, you know, all
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. So he but he would tell
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: me stories about the World Series and how he went
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: to two World Series when he was in the Army
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: station in New York City. My dad during the Korean
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: War was a map maker, So he was a cartographer
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: and a map maker, and he did he did things
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: like that, say, he tried to get transferred to see
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: action in Korea. We all told him like he must
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: have been nuts, because said, considering how brutal it was
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: over there, and how brutally cold, and how brutally hot
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: it could get, and all that other kind of stuff,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: he said, if I was going to be in the army,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: And he actually joined the army because he said, in
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: those days, if you joined a branch of the military,
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: you were only required to serve three years, but if
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: you were drafted, you had to serve four. And he
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: figured he had gone to art school right out of
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: high school at North Carolina State, they had an art
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: college art school, and he figured, I'm probably going to
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: get drafted anyway, so i might as well join. And
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: he didn't want to be in the Navy, and he
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: didn't want to he didn't want to be in the
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: Marines of the Air Force. So he joined the Army.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: And so he was in for three years. And after
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: being stationed for a while, and after doing his basic
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: and station for a bit at what is now Fort Carson, Colorado,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: out in Colorado Springs. His skills set as an artist
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: were recognized by those in command, so he was transferred
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: to New York City and was a map maker. Of fact,
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: that's where he met my mom in New York. My
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: mom grew up in New Jersey City, New Jersey. But
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: he was a Yankees fan, and he would tell us
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: stories about the Yankees and the Dodgers in the World Series.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: And he got to go to two World Series in
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty two and fifty three at the cost of
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: one dollar with his giid. He got to sit out
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: in the outfield seats for a buck and saw the
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Yankees and Dodgers play a game in nineteen fifty two
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: and saw it again in fifty three. So he would
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: tell you all these stories, and you know, and I
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: would ask him questions about the Dodgers. Why were they
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: called the Dodgers, and he said, well, it goes back
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: to the early twentieth century when they had a lot
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: of trolley cars running through Brooklyn, so they were kind
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: of known as the trolley Dodgers to keep from getting
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: run over.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: And then they just Dodgers.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: And then I saw pictures of them and they were
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: blue and white and blue is my favorite color, and
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: all this stuff. And then I opened my first pack
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: of baseball cards in that spring of nineteen seventy, and
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: the very first card was Bill Russell, the Dodger shortstop,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: and I was hooked at that point Bill Russell, who
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: I think was from Sand Spring, Oklahoma, from the Tulsa area, but.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: That's where I was hooked on. So I was a
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: Dodger fan.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: And so there was throughout that nineteen seventy season, and
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers finished second to the big Red Machine of
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati and the Nash League West that year, and then
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: seventy one they were in a real tennant battle with
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: the Giants for the West. And I'd said to my
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: dad on a couplication, do you think we could go
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: to a Major League baseball game sometime? And my dad
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: told me the name. He said, well, you know, Atlanta's
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: like five hours away, and we didn't really care to
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: go to Washington to see a baseball game. He said,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: I'll see you. And then all of a sudden he
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: tells me in July one day. You know, I'm a
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: ten year old kid. What plans do I have?
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 53:58
  Speaker 8: You know?
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: He said, We're gonna go see the Braves play next week.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: So I was excited about that. You know, Hank Karen
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: was an established star and all that. We're going to
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: go to Atlanta Sea or who are they playing. They're
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: playing the Dodgers, So I was really excited then. So
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: my dad and myself and my younger brother drive down
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: with my dad. A man who worked with my dad
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: and his son. We were all around the same age
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: the boys were. We drive down to Atlanta on Friday.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: We get there on a Friday night. We stay in
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: a hotel. The next morning, we're playing catch in the
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: hallway of the hotel with our baseball gloves and stuff,
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: and we meet a scout from the Phillies who was there.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: He showed us his scouting card and all that. So
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: then we go to the game and the Braves play
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers and it's on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, warm,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: but I didn't really notice the heat much. He'd gotten
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: some pretty good seats and apparently he got the seeds
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: from Ernie Johnson Senior. So people to watch, you know,
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: inside the NBA see Ernie Johnson. Ernie Johnson Jr. His
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: dad was a Braves broadcaster working with the Lake. Milo Hamilton,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: who later of course did the Astros and also done
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: the Cubs, White Sox and uh and and so Ernie
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: John my dad knew him through somebody anyway. But we
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: got we had tickets, the five of us, and we're
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: sitting like on the mezzanine level directly behind home plate
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: and they're great seats. First battle leading off the game
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers, I think it was Marty Wills and
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: he hits a routine pop up to shallow center. But
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: depth perception to a ten year old, you don't know that.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: So the minute left his bat, I jump out of
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: my seat and say it's out.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: Of the park.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: Everybody looked at me. It's a routine flyball, this shallow
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: left center. They so we watched the game at the
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: time of a life. The Braves won the game ten
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: to nothing. Yeah, they sure did. Hank Aaron, Hank, Aaron,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: Ralph garr and Daryl Evans, all who hit home runs
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: for Atlanta. My hero for the Dodgers, Willie Davis I
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: think went oh for three in the game. Yeah, well
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: for four, oh for four in the game. So didn't
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: strike out, no, no, and he was fast. He was
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: one of the fastest players in baseball at the time.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: But the Dodgers lost to nothing. But I really wasn't
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: too heartbroken. That's such a great time. Here's the odd thing.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: My dad takes us to dinner that night. We go
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: to this really nice steakhouse in underground Atlanta. At the
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: time was really hopped and bopped. It's a little less
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: attractive these days, but we go to it. We go
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: to dinner at the steakhouse there in Atlanta, and then
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: the next day the Giants come into town and they
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  Speaker 1: play a doubleheader, and you know, we had a five
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  Speaker 1: hour drive back to Greensboro, but my dad got tickets
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  Speaker 1: to the game with the Giants as well.
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  Speaker 2: He's the double hitter.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited we and I said, can we stay
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  Speaker 1: for both games?
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: He said, we'll see.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: Well. The first game went twelve innings and the Giants
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: won five to four, which is interesting to think about.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: At the end of the season nineteen seventy one, the
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  Speaker 1: Giants ended up winning the West over the Dodgers game,
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: and we got.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: To see one of the Giants win that. So we
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  Speaker 2: leave during the second game.
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  Speaker 1: But Willie Mays, in the twilight of his career, playing
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  Speaker 1: for the Giants, pinch hits a home run, so I
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: got to see that. And then the next year, by
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: the way, when I went up to visit the Italian
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: relatives up in New Jersey, I talked my dad into
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: going to see the Mets and the Expost and Willie
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Mays was back with the Mets or back.
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  Speaker 2: In New York.
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  Speaker 1: He had been New York Giants, of course before they
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: moved to San Francisco and they traded him to the
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Mets late in his career. Got to see him have
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: a triple and a single and almost tied the game
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: of the ninth with.
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  Speaker 2: A home run, So that was really cool.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: You have all these baseball memories and things, but it
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: was fifty five years ago today. The first Major League
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: baseball game I ever saw was Dodgers and Braves at
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: what was then known as Atlanta Stadium, and it was
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: a nationally televised game on NBC, and in those days,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: that's the only baseball we got in North Carolina. It
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: was a Saturday afternoon game of the week. Gallley and
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Tony Kubak. Kirk Gally was my first play by play
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: broadcasting hero. You know that, because he could do anything
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: he would do the Rose Bowl, the Super Bowl, he
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: did the Final Four. He had the outdoor program, The
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: American Sportsman, which was on ABC, where you could go
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  Speaker 1: fishing with Ted Williams or hunting with somebody else.
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  Speaker 2: He was. He was.
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  Speaker 1: Quite the accomplished broadcaster. But I've always remembered this as
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  Speaker 1: being fifty five years ago today, and I think I
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: remembered a few of the details. Anyway, Willie Davis went
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: over four, not three. But anyway, I do remember Hank
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Karen hitting a home run.
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  Speaker 3: We did better than I did.
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  Speaker 4: I'm remembering my first game because I remembered, thinking back
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: two thousand and seven, it was the first game.
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  Speaker 2: Did you find it?
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: I found it because I remembered two details.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The Nationals won six to three.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: Chad Cordero, who was then called the chief YEP, got
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: the save. I had remembered somebody hitting a three run
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: home run that didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Happen in the game.
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: But that seems to be the detail that I was
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  Speaker 4: off On July thirty first, two thousand and seven, there
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  Speaker 4: you go at RFK Stadium, the last place Nationals and
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: the last place Cincinnati Reds. Ken Griffy Junior played for
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: the Reds went zero for five with two strikeouts. Ryan
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: Zimmerman three RBIs in the game, and I didn't realize this.
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: Ryan Langrahan's pinch hit for the Nationals.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: And just a couple months ago I called his son's
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: by district playoff baseball game.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: I did Ryan Langerhan's by district playoff game when he
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: played for Round Rock. And then I saw Ryan play
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: for the Myrtle Beach Pelicans when he was in the
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: Brave system. And of course his dad, John very Well
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: had been the head coach there obviously at Round Rock.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: But yeah, that's that's really cool. I think about it.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: And again, who like baseball Reference can help you find
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: your you know, the baseball memory that you have it.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: And it's so crazy that you don't need Baseball Reference
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: to remember. I was twelve years old the only time
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: I saw Ichiro Suzuki. Oh wow, okay, and him and
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: the Mariners raced out in front five to nothing. Adam
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: Dunn was ejected for arguing a check swing call in
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: the first inning.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: Who would have been a long one quarterback had he
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: not been able to make him baseball.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: Same thing with Matt.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: Holliday and played in my first ever game I watched
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: as a member of the Reds yea five years earlier.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: But then in the ninth inning, a line drive to
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: the ankle of Mariners closer Brandon League sent him to
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: the bench injured after one batter, and the Nationals took advantage.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: Wilson Ramos hit a three run homer in front of
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: a mostly empty stadium to beat the Marritors.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: I actually saw part of a game at RFK. Was
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: two thousand and five, their first year there. Yes, yeah,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: I took my kids on a vacation and we were
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: doing the annual vacation thing and my wife Laurie and
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: uh my youngest Jason, they were going to fly in
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: and meet us at the beach. But I took Andy
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: and Haley and Julianne and we went. We actually went
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: hiking in the mountains in Virginia and we went we went.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: Up to DC and we did the Smithsonian and the Monuments.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: We did that thing.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: But we went to see the Nationals and the Pirates
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: at RFK and it rained and there was there was
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: like an hour and fifteen minute delay, and of course,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: you know, old RFK was just not a pleasant place
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: to be during a rain delay, and we toughed it
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: out through the first rain delay, and we set up
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: and it got maybe three innings in and then the
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: skies open up and again, and I had young kids
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: with me, and like, that's it.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: We're done. Well.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: We were going back to the hotel and get ice
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: cream Sundays and get a good night's sleep.
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  Speaker 3: June twenty eight, two thousand and five.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it sounds like. So did it get rained
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: out or no? They ended up playing the game. We
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: heard later they had like a two hour delay or something.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: Then they came back and played and finished the game, right,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: They came back and finished the game after Yes, they're
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: multiple delays.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: Yep, yep. And I was like, no, I gotta do.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: Eighty nine degree rainy nights. Sounds like a DC summer.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: Miserable, just be human and rainy and all that kind
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: of stuff. But that's what baseball references. You can find
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: out where you were, uh, you know, place and time
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: for that sort of thing. I've done that with several
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: games that I've been to over the years. All right,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: We've got more coming up as we continue here on
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: this Friday afternoon on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone.
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  Speaker 2: Here's difference. I feel fine, I'm talking about p SMI.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take my time.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: I'm having a good chime.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: That was that It was a big hit when I
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: went to my first Major League game fifty five years
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: ago today. But I did not know that Will You
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Still Love Me Tomorrow was the number one song in
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: the country, right, And that's the one you play if
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: I Feel the Earth Moved from Yeah, I Feel the
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: Earth moved. That's right exactly. She had several big hits
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: off that Tapestry album. Here's what apparently has been a
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: big hit. Beer sales during the World Cup. None of
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: us should be surprised by this now if you're talking
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: about it, and I'm not just talking about at the
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: venues in the stadiums. For example, bars sales in Boston
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: have re of Ellis's worded reportedly have needed emergen seed
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: deliveries to keep taps from running dry on some of
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: the game days. Fans down a total of two one
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety thousand stadium beers during the six matches
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia alone, two hundred and ninety beers. You know what,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: It also makes you wonder about let me see if
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: I can find this the beer sales in Canada, right
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: a ozer, you know, you know what the beer sales
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: would be like. Beer sales had been struggling globally, and
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: they say right now, it's unclear whether the World Cup
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: can reverse a trend. Despite having three countries and sixteen
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: cities as co host this year, in the US, beer
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: consumption has fallen steadily for a decade, according to the Brewers.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: Association, has nothing to do with the baseball team.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Brewers Associated, a trade group for craft brewers, and Canada
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: has seen a similar decline. According to the National Statistics,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: consumers have been buying less regular beer and more quote
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: unquote wellness drinks, with many consumers cutting back on alcohol
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: for health reasons as well. But beer has been way
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: up on that in bars, restaurant, stadiums, and other venues.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: A fourteen percent rise in US host cities compared to
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: the same period last year, according to the Beer Institute.
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  Speaker 1: It's like to tell somebody I graduated from the Beer Institute.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: The bump extended beyond host cities. Sales were up four
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: percent nationally as well. So a guy in Boston they're
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: talking about at the Sam Adams Boston tap Room on
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: the first day that the Scottish fans were there. Quote
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: Jim Coke, the brewer, founder and CEO of the Boston
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: Beer Company which makes Samuel Adams said, quote at one
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: point we were pouring them a Sam Adams Boston Logger
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: every twelve seconds. What a wonderful group of people. And
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: here's another thing, he said, it was good. I didn't
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: see a single soul on their phone. They had a
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: beer in their hand and they were talking to each other.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: They were doing what beer is meant to do, which
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: is helping people enjoy each other's company.
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  Speaker 4: Tell you what to see a lot more people on
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 4: your phone at the World Cup Final. Unfortunately, it's going
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: to be a more corporate crowd, a lot of video
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: on that, a lot of influencers. Yeah, we'll be back
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: to wrap up hour number two on thirteen hundred The Zone.
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  Speaker 8: It's the Craig Way Show with the voice of the
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  Speaker 8: Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame broadcaster Craig Way.
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  Speaker 1: Third and final hour of the program here on Sports
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: Radio A. I'm thirteen hundred Zone back with you for
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: this final hour. Craig Wade joined by greaser Jay Kerman,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: and the final, our final round of the Open Championship,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: you're being completed. The guy who is on top of
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: the leader board is Lucas Herbert of Australia shot an
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: eight under round of sixty two. Now this is really
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: kind of weird because it actually overshadowed another sixty two
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: that was shot today and that was Sam Burns.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: But his sixty two.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Merely took him from plus three to minus five. He
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: was three over. He shot seventy three yesterday, the runner
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: up in the US Open. And then Burns comes up
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  Speaker 1: with an eight under round of sixty two today, so
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: he's five under, but Herbert the lead at minus eight
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: after shooting an eight under round of sixty two. The
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: two sixty twos today, one from Herbert and one from Burns,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: equaled Pro golfs all time record for low score in
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: a round in a major championship. Sixty two is the
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: lowest score ever posted in any major championship, and it
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: was done twice today on a day that was really
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: the conditions were good for ball striking. The putting was
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: a different issue. Like Scotty Shefferd really struggled with a
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: putter today, not out of the tournament by any stretch,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: but still with a lot of chasing to do because
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: he simply couldn't make putts. Lucas Herbert made putts all
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: the way to the last hole, where he missed a
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: putt for Parr.
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  Speaker 2: That would have given it.
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  Speaker 1: He would have finished at sixty one, which would have
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: been the all time lowest round standing alone, but for
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: the bogie there on the last hole, and so here
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: he was chasing history, and he was asked for his
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: emotions as he was coming down the stretch getting to
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: eighteen and coming down there with an opportunity if he
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: made parr to shoot sixty one.
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  Speaker 2: It was it's kind of odd feelings.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 9: I mean, it's the second round of tournaments, so you're
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 9: trying to push as far ahead as you can. I'm
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 9: half a golf sneak, is a golf geek as well,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 9: so I knew all the records, I knew the numbers,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 9: I knew what people had shot and I was so
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 9: I was very aware of that, But yeah, I sort
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 9: of didn't. I didn't really know where to focus. So
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 9: it was kind of like just keep going about doing
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 9: what I'm doing, and obviously doing something well so.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 9: It was kind of funny, like I said to pee
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 9: walking up eighteen, like, you know as well throwing my
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 9: phone in the in the bath for the next three
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 9: days because it's just going to be lit up this afternoon.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 9: So I was like kind of enjoying almost the peace
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 9: of just been out there and playing golf before you know,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 9: whatever this weekend throws at me.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: I like that I might as well throw my phone
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: in the bath, given what it happened. So, as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: he missed the par putt on eighteen, and had he
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: made it, he would have had the record sixty one.
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  Speaker 2: Who was asked did he have some thought? And there's mind?
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: What were his thoughts as he stood over that pot
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: trying to finish the round with the sixty one.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know, Like I sort of I kind of
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 9: thought it was a left side pot I actually hit.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 9: I thought I hit a really good part. I felt
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 9: like I just jagged left on me a little early.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 9: There was nowhere near the worst shot I hit for
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 9: the day. No, any of the worst pot I hit
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  Speaker 9: for the day.
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  Speaker 10: I was.
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  Speaker 2: I was pretty happy with it.
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  Speaker 9: The nerves were going, but I thought I handled him
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 9: well and yeah, just it wasn't meant to be, So
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  Speaker 9: it was a strange one knocking that in and you know,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 9: no one untied the record, but also feeling like, you know,
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  Speaker 9: that might have been one of the best chances we've
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 9: had to shoot sixty one as.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no doubt. Sam Burns, i mentioned, also shot sixty two.
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  Speaker 1: But what that did was to take him from plus
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: three to minus five. So that's an improvement of eleven
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  Speaker 1: shots in one round.
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  Speaker 2: That's rare to have that happen.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked for the differences what led to the
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: eleven shot improvement today.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know if I could tell you what the
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 10: difference eleven shots was. I think today I had a
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 10: lot of things go my way, which is obviously what
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 10: you need to shoot sixty two. But I feel like
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 10: I justcated myself a little a few more chances on
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 10: the front and we would convert and then got off
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 10: to a nice start there on the back of nine.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 10: So it was really tough finish yesterday, just kind of
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 10: a careless you know, to bothy the last three holes.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 10: But yeah, I'm very proud of that round.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: Of golf today.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: So Burns is in a crowd, to be certain, but
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  Speaker 1: at five hunder par.
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  Speaker 4: He is.
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  Speaker 1: In contention at three off the pace. So how comfortable
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: and confident is Sam Burns heading into the weekend.
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  Speaker 10: I think it feels a little bit different in the
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 10: sense of links golf, y'all. Ever really feels super comfortable
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 10: in links golf, just because there's so many different variables
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 10: you're playing for. So I think it makes you focus
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 10: a little bit more on each shot. There's just so
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 10: many options that you really have to make sure you're
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 10: kind of committing to one thing. And so I like
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 10: that aspect of it. And I'm still learning to accept
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 10: where the balls end up here. I think it's a
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 10: tough thing to do sometimes here and you feel like
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 10: you hit a good shot and it catches a slope
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 10: and goes in the side of a pup bunker and
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 10: then you have to hit it backwards. But hopefully none
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 10: of that this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good good way to describe it.
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  Speaker 1: So he matched the lowest round Herbert and Burns in
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: men's major history with that sixty two. So Lucas Herbert
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: at minus A. Jackson Suber, who yesterday had a good
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: round today shot one under. Not a bad round, but
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: he shot yesterday. Subert who had the lead after shooting
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: the five hundred sixty five yesterday and one under sixty
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: nine a day, so he's only two back at minus six.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: Cameron Young shot sixty seven for the second straight day,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: so he's at six off the six under three off
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: the pace. I mentioned Burns at minus five, and Matt
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: Wallace and Bud and Thomas Detrie and Robert mcintog keep.
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  Speaker 2: An eye on him.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: Alex Fitzpatrick Cameron Parker mentioned him as a dark horse,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: Matt Fitzpatrick's brother. All of these guys at minus four.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: Francesco Mullinari Ryan Girard, so that's when Pierson Cooty in
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  Speaker 1: case you're wondering, after shooting sixty seven yesterday, had an
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  Speaker 1: even par around of seventy today, so minus three still
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  Speaker 1: in the still in JJ Spawn who won the Open
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  Speaker 1: a year ago that the US Open in at minus three.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: Shane Lowry, a former Open champion, at minus three. Ludvig Oberg,
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  Speaker 1: the Swede who played collegiately at Texas Tech at minus three,
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  Speaker 1: Cameron John of Australia at three under. Daniel Brown, the
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: guy who doesn't mind lighting up a city on the
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  Speaker 1: golf course, the darts.
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  Speaker 2: What did he say?
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  Speaker 4: Eight and around that his success might depend on how
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 4: many of the he's allowed to smoke an around sorry mom.
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  Speaker 1: Victor Perez at minus three anyway, those those golfers there.
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  Speaker 4: Rory three under today as well, he'll he'll probably make
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  Speaker 4: the cut.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd have a long way to go after what
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: happened to him yesterday. But I think what the projected
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: cut was going to be plus three?
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 4: I thought as of earlier, I thought it was hovering
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 4: right around even parr and Rory got himself into the
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 4: red numbers today.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's you know what it is. It's top seventy
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  Speaker 1: plus ties.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, right now it's sitting at plus one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So those who you can say are going to miss
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: the cut, Cameron Smith, Billy Horschell, JT Posten, Aaron Rye,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: the PGA champion, Andrew Novak, Henrik Stenson.
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  Speaker 3: Wyndham Clark despite it not being a road game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right exactly. Matt Fitzpatrick, Matt's fitz patri Matt Fitzpatrick,
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  Speaker 1: who was the popular choice of a lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: Justin Rose who's apparently injured.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's had a hard time Jordan Speith. You know,
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  Speaker 1: these are the guys who are not going to make
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  Speaker 1: the cut. So but as we mentioned, Rice and to
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: Shamba did make the cut, so he avoided that ignominious
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: distinction of being the only man in major championship golf
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: history to win multiple majors and then miss all four
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: cuts in one season. That did not happen to him.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: So the Shambo in contention in the round, and a
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: guy who you know, had had shot three hundred sixty
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: seven and had a bit of an up and down
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: round today. So anyway, there's those guys and and Scotti
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: Scheffler still in the hunt, but a lot of work
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: to do. Now, what this is going to do is
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: it's going to bring about the question of the staying
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: power of Lucas Herbert. Who's a guy shot eight under
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  Speaker 1: sixty two? Can he shoot that well again tomorrow? He
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: got out early today, posted that number before most of
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  Speaker 1: us got out of bed.
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  Speaker 3: Myself included.
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  Speaker 1: Myself included it was already I wake up, I turn
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  Speaker 1: on the TV. My goodness, dude shot sixty two while
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: I was sleeping. But the question will be because he's
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: not a guy with that major championship pedigree.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: Will he be a guy who.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: Has the staying power to stay in contention that label
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: that's put on you at the start of a major
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: championship if you're in the lead, either after the first
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: day or or even the second the thirty six hole lead,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: can they make it stand up throughout the course of
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: a weekend. Will guys like a cam Young be able
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: to be in contention, you know, or Burns who's been
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: in contention, or can Scheffler fight his way in tight
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: So anyway, those are those are some of the things
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: to keep in mind. All right, We've got some baseball
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: notes to get to. We'll do that coming up next
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  Speaker 2: This particular song.
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  Speaker 1: For many and many, I mean millions of people who
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: have enjoyed the Beatles is like number one on their
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: list all time a day in life, and this rolls
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: it back to around. You jumped in in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the song, which is fine. He gets kind of
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  Speaker 1: to the action portion.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I wanted to get to the rolling out of
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  Speaker 4: bed and getting ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: That's you know.
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  Speaker 4: I was thinking about that early when you talked about
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 4: your your hotel plan in Houston, getting up, getting the coffee,
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 4: getting the British open on that. You're right though, This
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  Speaker 4: is uh, this is one of the first Beatles songs
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  Speaker 4: I really loved as a kid.
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  Speaker 3: I had this CD Sergeant Pepper.
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  Speaker 2: Did you really.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: It was? It's it's largely viewed as being, you know,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: an absolute trend setting.
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  Speaker 2: The album was a concept album.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: What they did where Paul McCartney said, basically what they
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: had just come off touring again and they were done
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: with touring, and he said, you know, we can do
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: an album where we can just kind of almost be
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: alter egos. We don't have to be ourselves, and he
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: came up with this whole concept of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: Hearts Club Band, and and it was a mixture of
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: a variety of not only musical taste, but also of
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: songwriting and performance genius as well. When you think about
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: you know, they had just a simple rock and roll
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: tune coming off of the initial opening number of Sergeant
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, having Ween go Star do
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: the vocals on with a little help from my friends.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: You know, they had some ballading ballad, things like She's
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: leaving Home on it. You had, you know, a real
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: McCartney influenced tune like when I'm sixty.
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  Speaker 4: Four that's sung at family functions on my mom's side
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 4: because of one of my uncles. Every birthday, party or wedding,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 4: he'd give us a speech in the form of that song. Really,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 4: when he turned sixty four, everybody returned him to favor.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, that's very cool my great uncle. Actually, I understand.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: I thought about that when when I hit that number.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: And he also had, you know, a funny little The
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: when I'm sixty fourth thing, by the way, was an
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: Toney came up with when he was a teenager, like
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: in the fifties, but it was never put in the forum,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: was never finished as a song, never put on a
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: record until he you know, until he worked it all
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: out as they started doing this, But it had this
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: variety of things. The I was the one to say
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: a lovely rita about the meter maid, you know that
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: that's thing. And then being for the benefit of mister
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: Kite is a John Lennon song that he got from
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: a circus poster from eighteen forty three. He happened to
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: see this old circus poster being for the benefit of
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: mister Kite and Harry the Horse dancing the Waltz and
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: the Henderson's from Pablo fankas fair Will undertake all these
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: summer sets, as they called him, the Summersaults, that sort
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: of thing, And so it had all of those different things.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: It had George Arrison's influence with his Indian Eastern music
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: Within You, Without You and uh and then of course
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: the reprise of Sergeant Memmer in the last tune was
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: what you just played there.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: With a Day in the life.
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  Speaker 1: It used to be my favorite his it is kind
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: of fallen from the number one spot and the favorites
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: probably third or fourth now.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: Of my favorite Beatle tunes.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: That's all the whole catalog, not just this album.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it's my favorite one on the album,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: but it's it's probably third and fourth all time for
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: me on in their catalog.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 4: How about album wise where Sergeant Pepper because you probably
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 4: have I'm guessing you've Abby wrote it one I do.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: Sergeant Pepper will probably.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: Be third White album two.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: No, it's kind of down the list for me a
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: little bit. Uh.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: No, Rubber Sol Rumbers, which contains my all time favorite
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: Beatles song in my life.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 3: That's probably my number one as well.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: You feel free to borrow from this theme was played
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: at my wedding four years ago. Uh, but yeah, it's uh,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: it's up there. And Rubber Sol had a lot of
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: good stuff. And I'll tell you I'd probably put Revolver
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: ahead of the White album because the Revolver uh has
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of conceptual things that Rubber Soul signaled the
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: start of their evolution from just yeah yeah, she loves you,
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: you know the boy girl loves yeah, yeah, all that stuff. Uh,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: it started the evolutionary process. Revolver really shook you right
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: into that, into that process. And then the next one
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: after that was Argia Pepper. So yeah, I don't dislike
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: the White album. There's a lot of songs I like
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: on like Wow my guitar gently weeps.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: I like Savoy Truffle, I like glass Onion. There's a
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: back in the USSR. There's a there's some revolution Revolution
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: not Revolution nine No. And it's some little mixtures of
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: tunes and things like that that have it shading down
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: a little for me. On on the list wild Honey Pie,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: you know, I like Honeypye the one that was kind
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: of the Hollywood BLUESI ish tune, the McCarty a wild
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: honey Pipe not so much. I didn't I like long, Long, Long,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: took me a while to get used to that one.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: The George Harrison went.
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  Speaker 3: Helter skelter on that not so much.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: I'm okay with it.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 4: Rocky Raccoon like that, Blackbird really really like that.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 3: Don't Pass Me by.
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  Speaker 1: Ringo actually wrote that in the early sixties, but it
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: didn't make its way onto album. And it's the only
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: Richard Starkey tune, along with Octopus' Garden that ever made
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: it on the Beatle albums, so uh yeah. But he
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: actually came up with that in the early sixties, so
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: that was that was one as well.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: There.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: Julia, which is a ball of a very slow one
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: about his mother that Lendon wrote about his mother, is
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: a nice enough song. I Will a love song by
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: Paul McCartney's a really good one. I think that's my
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: mom's favorite Beatles song. Happiness is a warm gun Eh,
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: not so much. Let's see what else. The Adventures of
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: Bungalow Bill. I don't even remember how that one goes.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: It's kind of silly and so anyway, it's anyway. Those
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: are those are some of those. But I there's I
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: like the White album. It's just I like several other
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: albums better than that one.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: I wanted to get some baseball notes here. We're getting
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: close to the trade deadline. The trade deadline is a
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: week for Monday, and so there were a lot of
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: questions about what's gonna happen with a trade deadline status.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: Never have I encountered, just in watching and following Major
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: League Baseball, never have I encountered so much uncertainty over
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: which teams are going to be buyer, which ones are
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: going to be sellers. And that's clearly because of the
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: tightness of the races. I mean, if you look, if
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: you're unfamiliar with it, and you say, well, how tight
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: is it? In the American League East, the race are
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: up three games on the Yankees. Now the Red Sox
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: are ten back, but they won nine in a row.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: And more importantly, in the case of the Red Sox,
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: they may be ten out of the division race, but
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: they're only a half game out of the third wild card.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 4: I haven't heard from our guy who was outside the
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 4: stadium cursing at Breslo in a while.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right about that.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 4: Because I stumbled upon more of him as our social
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 4: media apps to do after we played that rant on
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 4: the show.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: You still have the rent, you still have the rent,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: the clean version, Yeah, nute, Okay, all right, So the
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: Yankees are our three back of Tampa Bay and they've
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: got some big series kind of The Yankees and Dodgers
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: start tonight in New York.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: The race.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: You're going to be playing the Phillies next week. We
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: mentioned the Red Sox are only a half game out
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: of the wildcard, which also means that the Orioles are
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: only a game and a half out of the last
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: wildcard and the Blue Jays are only two back the
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: defending American League champs.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: They're only two out of the last wildcard spot.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: And as has been proven over the years, get into
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: the playoffs and you can do the rest. Get into
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: the playoffs and then you can be dangers. So yeah,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: here's the Red Sox fan. Jake did a really good
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: job of cleaning this up, which he needed to do.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 3: This was an industrial cleanup job.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: It really was.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: Where he was he was asked by a guy who
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: was just a I was thinking It was a guy
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: worked for the Red Sox.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 3: I have no context on this, okay, I didn't know.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: If he was one of their video people or whatever.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: But he just happened to catch him coming out of
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: the ballpark and asked him, you know what he was
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: thinking of the Red Sox and in specific the fact
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: that visiting ball clubs are recruiting more tickets to Red
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: Sox games at Fenway Park these days?
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: What are your.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 11: Thoughts on more opponent fans than home fans here at
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 11: Fenway Park. I have to go back to the same,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 11: you know. Can you want our fucking fans to come
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 11: here and support this team. You're gotta keep your promise
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 11: when you tell the fucking fans you're gonna go out
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 11: and support the team and you can get some bats
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 11: for the fucking team. And you don't do it, you
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 11: go on and get pitching instead. You know, fans aren't
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 11: gonna can buy the tickets. You know what's gonna happen.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 11: And buff Atlanta is gonna come in, Baltimore is gonna
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 11: come in, Yankees are gonna come in. They're gonna buy
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 11: out the tickets. You know what's gonna happen?
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 6: After that?
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 11: The team's gonna lose here at home. What's our record
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 11: here at home?
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 10: Suck?
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 8: That sucks.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 11: Good record here and sucks at home. Get out there,
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 11: get rid of that man a general manager. If you
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 11: watch that piece of you got there, the guy doesn't.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: Know how to make a trade.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 11: You know you went out there to get Peter Alonzo
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 11: this year. Right, you got fucking sheep on the bed.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 11: Uncle's going to the game tonight. And nah, that's all
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 11: I got to say.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: I love the way he inside.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, I got to say, he is really really upset
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: with how that was, with that one's going.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: But here are the Red Sox. I have came out
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: of the wildcard.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 3: He is right, seventeen to twenty seven.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not good at home twenty but right before.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 4: The break, what do they They swept the Yankees at
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 4: home about two weeks ago, and that's what turn this
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 4: thing around for him a little bit.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're in the they're in the thick of
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: the fight all right, in the central easily. The biggest
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: surprise you the White Sox tied for first. And of course,
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: our our friend Jeane Watson, he is the night as touch.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: We mentioned.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: You know, Gene works in the front office there for
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: the White Sox in the personnel department. Geno's track record
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: says it all going all the way back to winn
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: He's with the Braves in ninety five and they finally
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: won their first World Series. Then he goes to the
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: Padres and he win the National League in ninety eight,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: the last time San Diego has won a National League pennant.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: Then he goes to the Marlins. They win the World
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: Series as a wildcard when he was there in three.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: Then he was there for several years. Then he goes
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: to the Royals and was there with their complete turnaround
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: of winning the American League at fourteen and winning the
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: World Series in fifteen.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 3: Really memorable run that fifteen Royals team.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: And now here he is with a White Sox and
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: look at him tied for first place with the Guardians.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 3: And doing it without Murakami for over a month.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they've got him back now, So we'll see how
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: that goes in the West.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Fun.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: Rangers up by a game and a half on the Mariners.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: The Rangers open tonight in Atlanta. It'll be interesting to
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: watch that the Mariners a game in that back. The
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: Astros open at home of the second part tonight. They
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: have the Orioles coming in for the weekend. That's in
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  Speaker 1: the American League. Then in the National League, the Braves,
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  Speaker 1: which at one time I think had an eleven game
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  Speaker 1: lead in the Division, similar to what the Dodgers have
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  Speaker 1: now in the West. The Braves are up just two
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  Speaker 1: and a half on the Phillies after Philadelphia loss last
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  Speaker 1: night to the Mets, and the Braves play the Rangers
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. The Marlins four back, Jake's Washington Nationals are
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  Speaker 1: eight back in the division race, and then in the
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  Speaker 1: wildcard race they're four back.
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  Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: They have forty nine losses and twenty eight blown saves.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to break the record for blown saves and
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  Speaker 4: waste the best offense in the league because of a
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  Speaker 4: ruinous bullpen, and.
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  Speaker 1: Yet here they are in the thick of the fight.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how long they at least for the at.
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  Speaker 2: Least for the wildcard broads. We'll see how it is.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're sellars at the deadline. Segueing back into
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  Speaker 4: what you were talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, because that's where I'm That's where I'm headed with that.
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  Speaker 1: And then in the Central, the Brewers are up five
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  Speaker 1: on the Cubs, and then the West, the Dodgers up
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  Speaker 1: eleven and a half on the Diamondbacks, twelve and a
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  Speaker 1: half up on the Padres. But the wild card standings
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  Speaker 1: in the American League, the Yankees and the Guardians right
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  Speaker 1: now would definitely be in then. Right now, the Mariners
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  Speaker 1: are twins, are tied for the last five of the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox a half game out of the last wildcard,
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  Speaker 1: the Astros a game and a half back, the Orioles
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  Speaker 1: two back, the Blue Jays two and a half, the
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  Speaker 1: Tigers three and a half.
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  Speaker 2: So those are the ones that are.
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  Speaker 1: Most closely and that's going to lead into this trade thing.
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  Speaker 1: The Cubs leading the National League Wildcard, with the Phillies
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  Speaker 1: right behind them, then the Marlins. Right now, if the
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  Speaker 1: postseason began today, the Marlins would be the third wildcard,
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals one out of it, the Pirates two out
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  Speaker 1: of it, Diamondbacks two and a half, Patres three and
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  Speaker 1: a half, Nationals four are back in the wildcard.
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  Speaker 4: So when we have more time, we'll revisit some of
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  Speaker 4: my preseason predictions where we went terribly wrong and where
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  Speaker 4: we might be right now.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So because things are so tight right now, it has
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  Speaker 1: brought about, you know, all the buzz about what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen with the trade deadline.
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  Speaker 2: Who are buyers? Who are sellers?
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Passing reported that the Tiger schedule before the trade deadline. See,
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  Speaker 1: and that's important to remember too. The trade deadline is
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  Speaker 1: a week from Monday, So basically you're talking about decisions
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  Speaker 1: that have to be made in the next ten days.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you're a buyer's really kind of even earlier than that.
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  Speaker 1: But certainly if you run it up to the deadline
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  Speaker 1: to decide whether you're a buyer or a seller, you
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  Speaker 1: got ten days to figure that out. And Passing points
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  Speaker 1: out that the Tiger schedules the Angels, the Cubs, the Royals,
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  Speaker 1: the Orioles, and the A's, meaning Detroit will be playing
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  Speaker 1: the worst team in the American League, the second worst team,
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  Speaker 1: the third worst team, and a Baltimore team that was
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  Speaker 1: in the basement for a time until one four straight
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  Speaker 1: heading into the break. He says, all of which is
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  Speaker 1: to say, the Tigers are not going to commit to
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  Speaker 1: dealing Trek Skubole until they absolutely have to.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, he got ten days. Might come all
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  Speaker 2: the way down to it. Should they.
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  Speaker 1: However, the Dodgers, Cubs, Braves, and Ras are all keeping
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  Speaker 1: an eye on it. So there's that, and you know
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  Speaker 1: so they both he and buster on you are saying
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be interesting. If he's dealt, he'd
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  Speaker 1: be the biggest name at the trade deadline. Other than that,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a rold As Chapman, maybe Sonny Gray, depending on
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  Speaker 1: what you whether you're a buyer or a seller.
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  Speaker 4: I'll give you one Foster Griffin, Okay, thirty year old,
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  Speaker 4: really journeyman like after being a first round pick, being demoted,
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  Speaker 4: playing overseas in Japan for three years, having a breakout
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  Speaker 4: season with the Nationals. But if you're Washington, he's thirty
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  Speaker 4: years old, doesn't throw very fast. The underlying numbers show
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  Speaker 4: that there's been a little bit of luck involved in
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  Speaker 4: the great season he's had, and with the potentially looming
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  Speaker 4: labor stoppage, you probably are even more inclined to sell
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  Speaker 4: a thirty year old pitcher.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting. All right, there's some baseball notes.
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  Speaker 1: Well it's some football notes coming up next to your
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  Speaker 1: introspective song. And yeah, it was played as one of
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  Speaker 1: the tunes one of the processional songs. I think in
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  Speaker 1: my wedding four years ago we had.
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  Speaker 2: That in there.
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  Speaker 1: This is also the one song in my life I
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  Speaker 1: learned to play drums on it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you didn't learn the guitar solo coming up?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't know how to play guitar. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even really know how to play drums. Drums only on
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  Speaker 1: this song. A friend of mine taught me how to do.
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  Speaker 2: It, and.
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  Speaker 1: It's the one and people listening go, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: it's not that hard, not not on that song.
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  Speaker 3: This is my favorite solo in the Beatles catalog.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, the electric pian of all that, Well, that's not
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  Speaker 1: that yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: George Martin has actually playing this. Billy Joel often said
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  Speaker 1: this is actually extremely difficult on that and this is
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  Speaker 1: from an accomplished penis in uh in Billy Joel, but
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  Speaker 1: he said, that's that's very difficult to play the way
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  Speaker 1: he played that. So anyway, that's a yeah, great song.
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  Speaker 1: Some college football notes. UH, ESPN is continuing to finalize
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  Speaker 1: their college football packages. That includes even the swack the
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  Speaker 1: Southwestern Athletic Conference. So that's good. UH regular season games
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: UH and and UH postseason games as well. Some athletic
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  Speaker 1: director News. The athletic director at Illinois is Josh Wittman,
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  Speaker 1: and he's received a contract extension through twenty thirty six
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  Speaker 1: includes a pretty significant raise twenty thirty six twenty thirty
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  Speaker 1: six wow. Former Illinois football player, he has led his
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  Speaker 1: alma Maters athletic department since February twenty sixteen, ten years.
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  Speaker 1: His increase in SALLY will go from six hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: to two point one five million.
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  Speaker 3: That's that final four bump.
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  Speaker 1: It helps comes off its first final four appearances two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and five. The football program has posted its best
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  Speaker 1: two year wins total nineteen in school history.
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  Speaker 2: And of course he's.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they judge athletic directors quite often by the
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  Speaker 1: coaches you hire. You think about it, Yard brad Underwood
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  Speaker 1: to coach men's basketball, Brett Beatlem of the coach football.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's in good shape there in the Big
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  Speaker 1: ten one. Not so much as Ward Manual, the Michigan
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  Speaker 1: athletic director. He's really under fire and he's not planning
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  Speaker 1: to resign in the wake of all the stuff that's happened.
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  Speaker 1: He told The Michigan Insider, I don't need the credit
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  Speaker 1: for Michigan success, but I'm not going to stand idly
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  Speaker 1: by and let people say all this happened despite ward manual.
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  Speaker 1: It was reported on Monday that Michigan's regents are set
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  Speaker 1: to discuss an investigation into the culture of Michigan athletics
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  Speaker 1: later this week in a meeting that could lead to
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  Speaker 1: his departure after nearly four years at school. But they've
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  Speaker 1: won a football and a men's basketball championship under his
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  Speaker 1: leadership in the past three years. But the off the
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  Speaker 1: field stuff has been the problem. The twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 1: football title mined in controversy with the sign stealing operation
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  Speaker 1: under Jim Harbaugh. His replacement, Sharon Moore, fired in December
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: for an inappropriate relationship with a staff member and subsequently
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: arrested for home invasion and stalking. The co offensive coordinator
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: and quarterbacks coach Matt Weiss, facing federal charges of felony,
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: aggravated identity theft, and on authorized access to computers. The
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: initial report on Michigan's culture from the Chicago law firm
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  Speaker 1: generin blocks cost more than eleven million dollars. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you might be winning titles and bringing in money, but
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: if if you're costing, if your school's being you know,
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  Speaker 1: charged eleven million bucks just to have itself investigated. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a problem. So that is still going on. And
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  Speaker 1: then at Michigan's now all this is happening.
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  Speaker 2: In the Big ten. Michigan State.
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  Speaker 1: Has bounced back from potentially losing its school president and
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: its athletic director by retaining Kevin Guskowitz to lead the
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: school to be the president, and John Palumbo has been
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: appointed interim athletic director. He replaces Jay Batt today shortly
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  Speaker 1: after Battle was hired by Kentucky as their athletic director,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: replacing Mitch Barnard. And Michigan State's going to get a
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: negotiated buy out nearly four million dollars for Bat's exit.
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  Speaker 1: So when Bat chose to leave, Hall of Fame coach
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  Speaker 1: Tom Izzo said the school lost him shortly after Guskowitz
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: announced he was leaving for Clemson. Izzo then called on
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  Speaker 1: the schools supporters to do something about it, and they
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  Speaker 1: helped retain Guskowitz by raising funds with a half million
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  Speaker 1: dollar rais. He's paying him one and a half million
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: a year. They extended his contract by five years. Palumbo
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  Speaker 1: is the CEO of Spartan Ventures, which is a nonprofit,
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: tax exempt corporation set up to financially support the athletic department. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Mitch Barnard had been the Kentucky athletic director
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  Speaker 1: since two thousand and two, but he stepped down and
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: now Jay Bapp becomes the athletic director. There, so things
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  Speaker 1: still going on, you know there. All right, we'll be
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  Speaker 1: back to wrap up today's edition to program here on
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