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July 8, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 3: Got to keep up the all Willie Wednesday tradition even
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Speaker 3: when Chip's not here. Caleb Rapley here filling in part
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Speaker 3: of the July edition of Chip Howard Sports Talk. Is
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Speaker 3: you never know what guest host is going to show
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Speaker 3: up next. Riley alongside me today making an appearance, a
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Speaker 3: rare midweek appearance for Riley on Sports. Yes, but we
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Speaker 3: are excited. We continue to find things to talk about,
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Speaker 3: even though it is fully into the dog days of
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Speaker 3: summer here in the sports world.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, the only thing really going on right now is
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Speaker 7: like what trade deadlines everything? All that Baseball's in middle
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Speaker 7: Like we're past the middle part.
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Speaker 8: Of the season. So yeah, we'll see.
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Speaker 7: I mean, we're one step closer, I guess, to getting
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Speaker 7: right back into football.
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Speaker 3: You know what I mean, especially with media days getting started.
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Speaker 3: The Big Twelve I think was the first major conference
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Speaker 3: to have their media days. They just wrapped those up
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Speaker 3: about an hour ago. I think we will hear from
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Speaker 3: a couple of those coaches today and probably one or
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Speaker 3: two more Tomorrow. We'll have Willie Fritz, the University of
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Speaker 3: Houston head coach, at the bottom of this hour, and
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Speaker 3: then the top of the five o'clock hour we will
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Speaker 3: hear from Baylor head coach Dave Randa. Miranda's still in
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Speaker 3: the hot seat. We'll see if he can write it out.
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Speaker 3: Another year with a new quarterback, DJ Lagway should be interesting.
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Speaker 8: I don't know.
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Speaker 7: I went to Baylor my very first year and that was,
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Speaker 7: oh my gosh. His name just slipped my mind before
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Speaker 7: we went to the NHL, I mean, not done NFL
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Speaker 7: good coach Matt something.
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Speaker 8: I yes, not rule.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, loved him and everything, and then he wind up
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Speaker 7: going professional and everything.
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Speaker 3: And now he's back at Nebraska, which is weird.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I still love him. He's one of my favorite
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Speaker 7: coaches of all time. I enjoyed watching him from the sideline.
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Speaker 7: He's just a very good coach over on my opinion,
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Speaker 7: and then he, you know, next person steps in and
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Speaker 7: Baylor's football team kind of went whoop.
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Speaker 8: So we'll see. We'll see.
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Speaker 3: Miranda had that one really good year where they went
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Speaker 3: to the Sugar Bowl. I think they won like eleven
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Speaker 3: games or something. That was Blake Shape's freshman year if
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Speaker 3: I remember correctly, But since then they really haven't been
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Speaker 3: able to rediscover it. But we'll see, we'll see what
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Speaker 3: he can do this year. We'll talk about all of
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Speaker 3: what big twelve Minia days had to offer. In the
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Speaker 3: five o'clock hour, We're also gonna get into the off
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Speaker 3: season news from the NHL and the NBA. Lots of
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Speaker 3: trades and free agency signings happening in those two leagues.
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Speaker 7: Especially the headline of Lebron James. Dude that as soon
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Speaker 7: as that possed up on my phone so hard, I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 7: here we go, Here we go again.
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Speaker 3: Let's see how many times we can say Lebron James
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Speaker 3: and this show honestly to drive the algorithm.
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Speaker 8: He's on our screen right now on the TV in here.
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Speaker 3: Of course he is. He's on I think Lebron James
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Speaker 3: probably occupies about ninety percent of the airtime on ESPN.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, he lives three in every what's the main espxcuse me? Yeah,
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Speaker 7: he lives rent free in that poor man's my ninety
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Speaker 7: nine percent.
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Speaker 8: Of the day.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not above it. I will talk about where
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Speaker 3: I think Lebron will go later, but we don't. We're
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Speaker 3: not going to get into that right now. Right now.
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Speaker 3: It is July eighth, twenty twenty six. Happy birthday to
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Speaker 3: Marcel Reed starting quarterback of your Taxa, A and m
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Speaker 3: Aggies for the Fall. He turns twenty two today. He
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Speaker 3: shares a birthday with the first ever Heisman winner for
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Speaker 3: the Taxa, A and m Aggies, John David Crowe. Fun
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Speaker 3: fact for you here on a Wednesday. John David Crowe
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Speaker 3: won the nineteen fifty seven Heisman under legendary coach Bear Bryant.
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Speaker 3: Crow later served as athletic director at A and M.
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Speaker 3: He passed away back in twenty fifteen. He would be
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Speaker 3: ninety one today. Rest in peace. But that's a fun
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Speaker 3: fact there, that Marcel Reid and John David Crowe share
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Speaker 3: a birthday. I didn't know that until I was looking
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Speaker 3: for whose birthday it was this morning and stumbled across
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Speaker 3: that little tidbit in the world of baseball. What we're
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Speaker 3: going to talk about mostly here in the first segment,
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Speaker 3: some interesting things that were happening last night. Royal's utility
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Speaker 3: man Tyler Tolbert picked up hits in twelve straight plate appearances,
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Speaker 3: which is a tying the MLB record, and twelve for
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Speaker 3: twelve is insane. That's that's just absolutely crazy thing to
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Speaker 3: do in the MLB. Props to him for that. That's
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Speaker 3: that might be one of the hardest records to break.
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Speaker 8: In sports, one hundred percent.
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Speaker 3: Ryan O'Hearn set a franchise record for the Pirates with
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Speaker 3: ten rbi on Tuesday against the Braves, a grand slam
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Speaker 3: and two three run homers through six innings of the game,
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Speaker 3: and then an eighth inning single to give himself a
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Speaker 3: four hit night. Four hits, three homers, ten RBIs in
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Speaker 3: one game, So nothing like a little stat padding there
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Speaker 3: for Ryan O'Hearn. Shoe Aotani has reached the three hundred
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Speaker 3: home run mark for his career in the MLB in
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Speaker 3: just his oney one hundred and second game, which is
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Speaker 3: the fifth fewest all time, So the fifth fastest player
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Speaker 3: to reach three hundred home runs Shoeotani He'll probably get
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Speaker 3: to five hundred, he might get to six hundred, who knows, uh.
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Speaker 3: And Boba Schett with hit number one thousand. So a
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Speaker 3: few fun milestones in the MLB world, a little bit
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Speaker 3: of you know, lower on the morale side of things,
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Speaker 3: the Twins have placed Byron Buckston on the injured list.
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Speaker 3: Byron Buckston, one of the most athletic and most talented
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Speaker 3: players that the MLB has, has just never I've never
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Speaker 3: really been able to stay healthy. He's only played more
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Speaker 3: than one hundred and two games in a season twice,
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Speaker 3: and this is his twelfth big league season.
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Speaker 7: Only I'm just saying, I'm just saying only because that's
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Speaker 7: so many games.
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Speaker 3: Well, sure, but it's one hundred and sixty two games season.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, in any other sport you play one hundred
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Speaker 3: games in a year and that's extremely impressive, But yeah,
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Speaker 3: in baseball, that's not really how it works. He has
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Speaker 3: a right hipstrain, which is an injury that he has
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Speaker 3: dealt with many times over the last years. He was
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Speaker 3: on the injury list for about a month back in
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one with a right hip strain, and then
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Speaker 3: again in twenty twenty two twenty twenty four, he was
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Speaker 3: on the IL for a month, all with right hip inflammation.
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Speaker 3: So it's been a recurring problem for him. He's somebody
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Speaker 3: that's always brought up a lot in the trade deadline talks,
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Speaker 3: which is the season that we're in right now. This year,
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Speaker 3: it looks like he It's funny because he's one of
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Speaker 3: those guys that every year people are like, oh, he's
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Speaker 3: gonna get traded. He's gonna get trade, kind of like
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Speaker 3: Giannis in the NBA in the last couple of seasons.
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Speaker 3: But this year he has made it very clear he
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Speaker 3: wants to stay in Minnesota. He's going to exercise his
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Speaker 3: no trade clause if a team asks about him, so
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Speaker 3: he will be staying a Twin. We'll see how much
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Speaker 3: he's actually on the field for the Twins. I would
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Speaker 3: love to see him play more because he is one
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Speaker 3: of the most electric players in the sport when he's
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Speaker 3: on the field, but has had a very hard time
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Speaker 3: staying there in his career. Specific to the Astros, the
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Speaker 3: Mike Burrows experiment has taken a bit of a detour.
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Speaker 3: They sent him down to Triple A. They announced yesterday,
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Speaker 3: bringing back up Alimber Santa from Triple A sugar Land,
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Speaker 3: who has been very good this year. Honestly in his
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Speaker 3: bullpen work thirteen innings so far this season in a
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Speaker 3: one to three five ERA, so Santa has been pretty
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Speaker 3: solid out of the bullpen. I know that's really limited time,
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Speaker 3: but excited to see what he can do. This is
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Speaker 3: his first major league season. He's only twenty three years old.
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Speaker 3: I think he's a pretty solid bullpin arm. But this
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Speaker 3: is more about Mike Burrows and it is about Santa.
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Speaker 3: Burrows has not lived up to the hype that he
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Speaker 3: had coming into this season. He was a big addition
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Speaker 3: to this team. In the off season. Houston acquired him
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Speaker 3: in a three team trade in which we sent away
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Speaker 3: Jacob Melton and Anderson Brido. Jacob Melton was a outfield
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Speaker 3: prospect that had been highly touted for a couple of
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Speaker 3: years and didn't have a whole lot of big league
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Speaker 3: time in Houston, but did show some promise and he
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Speaker 3: was a left handed hitting outfielder, which we never have
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Speaker 3: enough of. But sent Melton and Brido to Tampa, and
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Speaker 3: Tampa sent Brandon Lowe, Mason Montgomery, and Jake Mangum to
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Speaker 3: the Pirates, and the Pirates sent us Mike Burrows. Burrows
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Speaker 3: was really solid last year in Pittsburgh, a three nine
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Speaker 3: four era. Struck out twenty four percent of the batters
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Speaker 3: he faced, so really good at missing bats. But that's
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Speaker 3: taken a bit of a downturn this year, down to
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Speaker 3: seventeen point seven percent strikeout rate, and he's had he's
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Speaker 3: been of qualified pictures. So for those of you all
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Speaker 3: who don't know how qualified pictures work, it's basically pictures
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Speaker 3: that have stayed in the starting rotation enough to be
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Speaker 3: considered like full time starters. Burrows is the only Astro
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Speaker 3: that I think hadn't missed any starts for injury reasons,
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Speaker 3: because every other picture on the roster had been out
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Speaker 3: at some point. So he had the most innings out
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Speaker 3: of everybody, but he also gave up the most runs
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Speaker 3: by far. He's had a ra just shy of six
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Speaker 3: oh yeah, five point nine to nine er oh yeah.
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Speaker 3: And then against the Nationals, I think that was on Monday,
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Speaker 3: he gave up ten runs in only four and a
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Speaker 3: third innings in a game that the Astros lost by one,
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Speaker 3: twelve to eleven. He was, you know, kind of the
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Speaker 3: backbreaker there for Houston in that road game, so it's
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Speaker 3: it'll be interesting to see. He's only twenty six, so
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Speaker 3: he still has some time to develop. But when they
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Speaker 3: when the Astros picked him up, it was seen more
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Speaker 3: of a someone who can contribute right now type of move,
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Speaker 3: not someone that needs to develop in Triple a little longer.
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Speaker 3: So he does have that he this is his last option,
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Speaker 3: his last minor league options, So if the Astros call
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Speaker 3: him up within the next twenty days, then they will
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Speaker 3: be able to retain that option and use it again
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Speaker 3: to send him down. But if he stays on the
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Speaker 3: on the Triple A the roster for more than twenty days,
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Speaker 3: then the next time he needs to be sent down,
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Speaker 3: they will have to designate him for assignment and hope
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Speaker 3: that nobody picks him up on waivers. So it's been
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Speaker 3: a very disappointing Mike Burrow's story on the Astros so far.
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Speaker 3: We'll see if you can pick it back up. Sometimes,
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Speaker 3: you know, getting sent down to Triple A and just
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Speaker 3: kind of rekindling that competitive fire is what a picture needs.
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Speaker 3: But we'll see what happens in the case of Burrows.
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Speaker 3: One more Astros headline to get to here. We talked
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Speaker 3: about the trade deadlines coming up here the very beginning
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Speaker 3: of August, so we're past the halfway point. Like Riley mentioned,
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Speaker 3: so teams really know for the most part what they are,
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Speaker 3: whether or not they're contenders this season. The Astros are
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Speaker 3: right there on the bubble of that. I would say,
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Speaker 3: I think there are only a couple games out of
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Speaker 3: a wild card spot right now. Yeah, game and a
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Speaker 3: half back of the Texas Rangers for that final wildcard spot,
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Speaker 3: so still very much in contention. If they do decide
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Speaker 3: to acquire at the trade deadline, which is what Dana
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Speaker 3: Brown and Jim Crane have been saying they're going to do,
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Speaker 3: they will most likely be looking for left handed hitting
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Speaker 3: outfielders because all of our outfielders except for Taylor Tremil
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Speaker 3: and now Lamont Wade, hit right handed and have not
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Speaker 3: hit very well at all. They've been the outfield group
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Speaker 3: this season has been one of the worst in the
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Speaker 3: majors on the offensive side of the ball, well below
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Speaker 3: league average. They've played great defense, I will give them that,
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Speaker 3: but they just sent down Jake Myers, so they have
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Speaker 3: Lamont Wade, Junior, Taylor Trammell, Cam Smith is the current
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Speaker 3: starting outfield. Zach Deznzo and Bryce Matthews the two backups.
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Speaker 3: But the thing about the Astros outfield is that most
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Speaker 3: of the year it's been players who were originally infielders
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Speaker 3: taking outfield reps. So it's been very impressive that they've
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Speaker 3: been good as good as they are defensively, but the
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Speaker 3: offense has not been not been good at all. Some
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Speaker 3: players that would be on the list for outfielders for
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Speaker 3: bats that the Astros could pick up include Large new
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Speaker 3: Bar of the Cardinals, Jake McCarthy and Mickey Moniac of
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Speaker 3: the Rockies. Those two seem the most likely as their
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Speaker 3: trade value isn't super high. They're both a little bit
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Speaker 3: older bats that have never really performed that highly, but
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Speaker 3: they've been pretty solid. Mickey Moniac in particular, has been
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Speaker 3: a guy that's shown a lot of pop. Granted, most
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Speaker 3: of that has been while he's been a Rocky, so
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Speaker 3: there's a little bit of homeful of advantage there when
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Speaker 3: you're playing your home games in Denver, But regardless, that's
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Speaker 3: definitely what they're going to be looking at. Maybe a
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Speaker 3: little bit of bullpen help, but any contender is always
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Speaker 3: looking for bullpen help, so that's not really something that
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Speaker 3: is news. It'll be interesting to see what they give
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Speaker 3: up in these trades if they try to acquire some
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Speaker 3: major league talent, because they do have one of the
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Speaker 3: worst farm systems according to the quote unquote experts. Anyway,
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Speaker 3: the Astros are always very good at developing those lower
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Speaker 3: ranked prospects into major league contributors. Xavier Nions is the
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Speaker 3: only top one hundred prospect in the Astros system right now.
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Speaker 3: He was drafted out of high school last season in
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Speaker 3: the first round, so still down in the low A.
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Speaker 3: But it'll be interesting to see what the Astros how
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Speaker 3: they go about acquiring at the deadline. And then last
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Speaker 3: topic here in our baseball segment that I want to
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Speaker 3: get at, So if you didn't see it last night,
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Speaker 3: I think it was the Brewers and the I don't
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Speaker 3: remember who they were playing, but they were up by
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Speaker 3: eight in the bottom of the ninth inning and Jackson
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Speaker 3: Cherio comes to the plate. I was the Cardinals, That's
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Speaker 3: what it was. So Jackson Cheerio comes to the plate.
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Speaker 3: He's a right handed hitter, has always hit right handed
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Speaker 3: through the miners and majors, and because they're up so
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Speaker 3: much and the Cardinals are so far behind. The Cardinals
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Speaker 3: have a position player pitching on the mound, you know,
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Speaker 3: to save the bullpen from pitching unnecessary innings. So since
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Speaker 3: there's a position player pitching and they usually just go
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Speaker 3: up there and lob the ball, Chario goes up there
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Speaker 3: and decides to bat left handed, just to see if
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Speaker 3: he could. And somebody on Twitter didn't like that. Here
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Speaker 3: was the tweet. It starts off with Boomer take alert,
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Speaker 3: but I'll own it, so at least he knows what
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Speaker 3: he is. But he says, Jackson Trio is not a
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Speaker 3: left handed hitter. He never has been yet last night
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Speaker 3: he batted left handed in the ninth. Playing MLB should
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Speaker 3: never be trivial. Many guys bust their butts for years
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Speaker 3: and never get this opportunity. This is a terrible look.
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Speaker 3: And while I understand that you don't want to make
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Speaker 3: a mockery of the game, when there's a position player
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Speaker 3: up there throwing forty mile an hour ephess, a major
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Speaker 3: League Baseball player can hit from either side of the
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Speaker 3: plate and be able to put it in play. Chario
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Speaker 3: hit a line drive to center that was caught, but
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Speaker 3: it was still hit hard, So I don't really think
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Speaker 3: he's making a mockery of the game by going up
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Speaker 3: there and hitting from the opposite side of the plate
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Speaker 3: that he normally hits from, because he's a major league
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Speaker 3: baseball player. If it's a forty mile an hour pitch,
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Speaker 3: any major league baseball player is gonna be able to
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Speaker 3: hit that. Like, I just don't understand his problem here.
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Speaker 7: Honestly, if I if I walked up and that'd be
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Speaker 7: I don't know. I feel like he was wasn't he's
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Speaker 7: doing a mockery. I think he's kind of just sounds
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Speaker 7: like he's being a smart button, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 7: He's walking up there, it's being like, oh, I'm gonna
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Speaker 7: do this just because I kind of can because of
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Speaker 7: this scenario or the situation in which when you're at
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Speaker 7: that level of play anyway, who's not gonna walk up
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Speaker 7: there and be like, oh I can do this, Like
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Speaker 7: I'm gonna do just because I can, you know.
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Speaker 3: Sure well, and if there was like an actual pitcher
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Speaker 3: up there throwing his best pitches, then I would understand it,
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Speaker 3: like that would be, you know, making a little bit
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Speaker 3: of a mockery of it. I get that, But it
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Speaker 3: was a game in which it was a top of
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Speaker 3: the ninth, the losing team was down by eight runs
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Speaker 3: and they were throwing a position player. So anytime you're
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Speaker 3: throwing a position player, I think anything that happens in
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Speaker 3: that scenario doesn't really matter. If a hitter goes up
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Speaker 3: there and just decides to take the biggest swings possible
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Speaker 3: because he wants to hit homers, he can do that.
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Speaker 3: You're throwing a position player out there, you're opening yourself
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Speaker 3: up to opening yourself up to all of these situations
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Speaker 3: like this. I don't I don't really see how this
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Speaker 3: is such a problem, but apparently some people believe that.
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Speaker 8: I think it's kind of funny, as I do.
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Speaker 3: I think it's really fun.
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Speaker 8: Person it's fun.
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Speaker 3: I think it's really funny. I think the players should
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Speaker 3: have fun when they're playing a game for a living,
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Speaker 3: but some people feel otherwise. Well, that's going to do it.
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Speaker 3: For our first segment here, we will take a quick
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Speaker 3: break and come back. We're going to talk a little
18:51
Speaker 3: bit about the World Cup. Yes, the US men's national
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Speaker 3: team has been eliminated, but there are still a lot
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Speaker 3: of fun games going on. We will get to that
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Speaker 3: after this. Word for an insurance.
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Speaker 8: I love that.
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Speaker 3: So speaking of America, the United States men's national team
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Speaker 3: in the World Cup, you know, it's a pretty solid run.
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Speaker 8: We got to the banked.
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Speaker 3: The round of sixteen. Yeah, it was a really rough
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Speaker 3: way to end it against Belgium on Monday. Yeah, four
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Speaker 3: to one is not what you want to see, especially uh,
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Speaker 3: after all of the drama that went down with Balligan,
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Speaker 3: with the lawyers getting involved and even President Trump getting involved.
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Speaker 7: In fact, the President Trump picked up his phone and
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Speaker 7: the World's song.
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Speaker 8: That's probably the first time the US president has.
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Speaker 3: Ever done that allegedly.
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Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, this made me giggle. When we talked
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Speaker 7: about on the show. We were talking about on Monday,
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Speaker 7: it was like, only Trump would do that. Only Trump.
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Speaker 3: You know, I think you're probably right, But that was, uh,
23:37
Speaker 3: that was all very interesting, No doubt I saw the clip.
23:42
Speaker 3: I don't really know that. I don't think it really
23:44
Speaker 3: warranted a red card. But and but that's not really
23:48
Speaker 3: the point. It's just kind of a bad look to
23:50
Speaker 3: put up this big of a stink to get a
23:51
Speaker 3: player back on your team and then end up losing
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Speaker 3: the next game by three goals.
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Speaker 8: One hundred percent agree, one hundred percent.
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Speaker 7: I mean it was just I just remember when first started,
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Speaker 7: They're like, oh, red card, he's out for this, that.
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Speaker 12: And the other.
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Speaker 7: I'm like, well, I understand, I don't think I firmly
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Speaker 7: will stand on the hill, not just because I'm a
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Speaker 7: team USA obviously, but yeah, he should not have been
24:11
Speaker 7: thrown out for the next game. But also I don't
24:14
Speaker 7: know what happened to us when we went up to
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Speaker 7: Seattle to play this game, but something everything that could
24:19
Speaker 7: have gone wrong just went wrong. Yeah, and I don't
24:23
Speaker 7: even watch soccer, but I'm just saying you could kind
24:26
Speaker 7: of see it, like just the body language of the players,
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Speaker 7: something about it just wasn't right.
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Speaker 3: They looked, Yeah, they didn't look fully fully locked in
24:36
Speaker 3: Christian polistic again with just a stinker of a performance.
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Speaker 3: I've heard a lot of people say that he needs
24:42
Speaker 3: to not be the face of the men's national team
24:46
Speaker 3: in the next World Cup just because he has never
24:49
Speaker 3: he hasn't really put on any good performances when we
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Speaker 3: need it. Oh, like we know that he's a talented player.
24:56
Speaker 3: But if you don't, if you don't come up clutching
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Speaker 3: the big moments, no really cares, you know, But be
25:04
Speaker 3: that as it may. The World Cup continues into the
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Speaker 3: quarterfinals after the round of sixteen, so four really interesting matchups,
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Speaker 3: the first of which is tomorrow at three o'clock as
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Speaker 3: France and Morocco go at it in Boston. France the
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Speaker 3: odds on favorite to win the whole thing. They are
25:24
Speaker 3: plus one eighty to win the World Cup Final, best
25:28
Speaker 3: odds by kind of a lot. Spain is next at
25:30
Speaker 3: plus three seventy. Argentina and England right there next to
25:33
Speaker 3: each other at plus four hundred and plus four seventy.
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Speaker 3: So France is definitely a big favorite in this game.
25:41
Speaker 3: Killian Andmbappe has been probably he's either best or second
25:46
Speaker 3: best player in this tournament. I would say, I'm not
25:49
Speaker 3: really counting Messi because he's olds. Don't get me wrong.
25:53
Speaker 7: When this you know how cool it'd be it for
25:55
Speaker 7: Argentina to win the whole thing and then be like,
25:56
Speaker 7: all right, I know it's probably not gonna happen, but
25:58
Speaker 7: he's like, I can retire now going out. If I
26:01
Speaker 7: was at his point in my life, like I was
26:03
Speaker 7: with him or anybody else.
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Speaker 8: Honestly, go out on top.
26:07
Speaker 7: If you win something huge, do not go out and
26:09
Speaker 7: play again and have a losing season.
26:10
Speaker 8: Be like all right, I'm done now.
26:12
Speaker 7: I want to go out on top and be like,
26:14
Speaker 7: all right, I won the whole thing. You can't say
26:17
Speaker 7: anything after this point because I am the best.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. We were talking about it before the show.
26:24
Speaker 3: My idea for this segment was kind of, yes, US
26:27
Speaker 3: is eliminated, but for those American soccer fans that have
26:31
Speaker 3: kind of gotten into it because of the tournament being
26:34
Speaker 3: here here in the States, who are some teams that
26:38
Speaker 3: we can root for now? And my first answer to
26:41
Speaker 3: that question, and it's not just because they're playing England
26:45
Speaker 3: on Saturday, but I really think Norway might be the
26:48
Speaker 3: most fun team to watch, especially just with the fan
26:52
Speaker 3: base and Earling Holland they're the face of the team there.
26:56
Speaker 3: I think it's just lean into the whole Viking vibe
27:03
Speaker 3: that that really does look like a lot of fun
27:04
Speaker 3: to me. And there were there were pictures of him,
27:08
Speaker 3: I think at like a bootstore in Dallas. Yeah, over
27:10
Speaker 3: the past week getting all his cowboy gear On, So
27:15
Speaker 3: that was a lot of fun. I think I think
27:17
Speaker 3: Norway is the team that I'm gonna root for if I,
27:20
Speaker 3: you know, happen to catch any more of these games,
27:22
Speaker 3: it's definitely Norway. You were going with Argentina.
27:25
Speaker 7: So these so for each like you know, we're in
27:27
Speaker 7: the we're in the final eight. So for each of
27:29
Speaker 7: the matches, I picked someone that I want to win.
27:31
Speaker 7: I want France to beat Morocco because I just think
27:33
Speaker 7: i'd be fun. I want Spain to beat Belgium because
27:35
Speaker 7: I've a been dead and against Belgium.
27:37
Speaker 3: Sure, Norway to beat.
27:38
Speaker 7: England obviously, and then I want Argentina to beat Switzerland.
27:41
Speaker 7: I just feel like those four teams would be fun
27:44
Speaker 7: to watch. And then as they continued on, I just
27:46
Speaker 7: feel like they'll give you the most entertainment out of
27:49
Speaker 7: the final eight.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think that's probably true. France and
27:55
Speaker 3: Spain are probably the two best teams on paper, and
27:58
Speaker 3: they are going to meet in the semi finals, so
28:01
Speaker 3: we will see one of the kind of underdogs get
28:05
Speaker 3: to the final. I agree on Argentina, I don't. Switzerland
28:10
Speaker 3: didn't look that great to me. No, when they played
28:12
Speaker 3: Columbia yesterday. That game was scoreless and they had to
28:15
Speaker 3: go to penalty kicks. Switzerland ended up winning four to
28:18
Speaker 3: three on penalties. That game was not very fun to watch,
28:22
Speaker 3: like the last ten minutes were pretty intense, just because
28:25
Speaker 3: I mean it was basically sudden death if somebody scored,
28:27
Speaker 3: but nobody did. But there were a bunch of other
28:31
Speaker 3: good games. The Mexico England game was something that was
28:36
Speaker 3: that was interesting about that.
28:38
Speaker 7: Soccer was interesting. I played soccer growing up, so I
28:41
Speaker 7: know a little bit about it. I love the sport,
28:44
Speaker 7: but I always find it inching when you get to
28:45
Speaker 7: this point where it's like you'll have zero zero score
28:48
Speaker 7: because you know, the knockout point, or like when you
28:49
Speaker 7: get to that like the sudden death part that your
28:52
Speaker 7: point doesn't count. So I'm always like, well, this team won,
28:55
Speaker 7: but it was zero to zero, so I'm just like
28:56
Speaker 7: put the point on the board, like you know, is
28:59
Speaker 7: your favorite.
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Speaker 3: The way they do their scores and the clock is
29:04
Speaker 3: all very confusing.
29:07
Speaker 7: That's a sport you definitely could dial back on how
29:09
Speaker 7: long it is, sure, but it would also be nice
29:13
Speaker 7: if we just knew how much time was left on
29:16
Speaker 7: the clock and they didn't just at the end, they
29:19
Speaker 7: just go, you know what, let's put in eight minutes
29:21
Speaker 7: or nine minutes or six minutes and ten seconds, Like
29:26
Speaker 7: where are they coming up with these numbers?
29:27
Speaker 3: Why can't we just have a normal clock like literally
29:29
Speaker 3: every other sport agreed, But I think my real pick
29:35
Speaker 3: to win it is definitely France. I think they are
29:41
Speaker 3: the best team. I think they will continue to show that.
29:46
Speaker 3: So I didn't realize this until I just looked at it.
29:49
Speaker 3: But Messi does have the most goals of anybody in
29:52
Speaker 3: the tournament with eight, followed by Holland and then Bape
29:56
Speaker 3: with seven, So you know he hasn't been I know
30:00
Speaker 3: he's not peak linal Messi like he was for so
30:03
Speaker 3: many years, but he is still getting it done. There's
30:06
Speaker 3: no doubt. It would be really cool if Argentina wins it.
30:10
Speaker 3: I'll be happy because it'll be cool to see Messi
30:12
Speaker 3: go out on this on this big of a high,
30:14
Speaker 3: the real goat of soccer. Sorry Ronaldo, but I'm also
30:17
Speaker 3: not sorry.
30:18
Speaker 7: No, he is Messy is the goat of soccer.
30:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Messy Messi. It would be really cool to
30:26
Speaker 3: see him go out on top. I wouldn't have a
30:29
Speaker 3: problem with Norway or France winning it. Basically, as long
30:33
Speaker 3: as it's not England or Belgium.
30:36
Speaker 7: As long as Belgium or England will win it, I
30:38
Speaker 7: don't even mind England. As long as Belgium doesn't win,
30:40
Speaker 7: I'm good.
30:41
Speaker 3: Oh come on, we can't have England winning the World
30:44
Speaker 3: Cup on American soil. That wouldn't That would be bad.
30:46
Speaker 8: Never mind, England cannot make it, so the best cannot win.
30:50
Speaker 3: Speaking of the final, they are going to have like
30:51
Speaker 3: a super Bowl style halftime show.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 3: Just earlier this afternoon, it was announced that Justin Bieber
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Speaker 3: has been added to the lineup.
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Speaker 8: I know, I'm so excited. I love Justin Bieber.
31:03
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be an eleven minute halftime performance. And then
31:23
Speaker 3: it says curated by Chris Martin from Coldplay. I don't
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Speaker 3: know what that really means, Like, I guess he picks
31:29
Speaker 3: the songs, but that's just so random. They're like, oh,
31:32
Speaker 3: look at all these.
31:33
Speaker 8: You know, he like writes the majority of all those songs, right.
31:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's still just so random.
31:39
Speaker 7: I I feel like, yes, but no, because I feel
31:41
Speaker 7: like he's gonna be the one that matches it all
31:42
Speaker 7: up and like sure, it's like, hey, this is how
31:44
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31:45
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31:47
Speaker 8: Let's do it like that.
31:48
Speaker 3: Well, it definitely will be interesting. Uh. The quarterfinal round
31:53
Speaker 3: gets underway tomorrow at three o'clock France versus Morocco. Friday
31:56
Speaker 3: at two is Spain versus Belgium, and then Saturday at
32:00
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32:04
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32:07
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Speaker 3: We're gonna get into one of those right now, the NHL,
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Speaker 3: which is Riley's area of expertise. Yes, you're like the
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Speaker 3: But I definitely would be lost if you asked me
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Speaker 7: Yeah, So before we kind of like dive into like
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Speaker 8: Connor Bidard. I don't know if you know who that is.
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Speaker 3: He was the number one pick a couple years ago.
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Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, a beast obviously plays with the Chicago black Hawks.
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Speaker 8: This, that, and the other.
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Speaker 7: He is going to miss four months. He had surgery
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36:49
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36:53
Speaker 7: July first, and they have no real updates on contract talks.
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Speaker 7: But also, I mean in the mid some all of
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Speaker 7: this injury now talk, I mean Connor. I love him,
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Speaker 7: great player, fantastic to watch. A little bit on the
37:06
Speaker 7: smaller side, I would say, I mean obviously not small,
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Speaker 7: but a little bit on that end, just when you're
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Speaker 7: playing against these massive NHL players. But since playing in
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Speaker 7: the NHL, I don't think there's been a season he's
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Speaker 7: not been injured. You know, like his rookie year playing
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Speaker 7: New Jersey Devil's got his jaw broke, was out multiple
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Speaker 7: and then had to play with the giant cage round
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Speaker 7: of space, and then got injured last year. Now he's
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Speaker 7: injured again, Like we're gonna miss the whole start of
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Speaker 7: the season in Chicago already falls at the bottom of
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Speaker 7: the bracket in the standings, so it's a little bit
37:38
Speaker 7: it's a little bit worrisomeone too. It does not help
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37:46
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Speaker 7: the season for the NHL, it's one of those things
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Speaker 7: of you got to establish the new team you've got,
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Speaker 7: of blaze and you cannot not be on twenty four
38:21
Speaker 7: to seven because you can get made, made or broken
38:24
Speaker 7: immediately in that part of the season. So pretty disappointing
38:27
Speaker 7: to see Connor out again. The Chicago posted this morning.
38:32
Speaker 7: Connor Bedard underwent successful surgery to repair his left shoulder.
38:37
Speaker 7: Not sure, could have happened in the off season. I'm
38:39
Speaker 7: not gonna lie. He's been practicing a lot here recently,
38:42
Speaker 7: so this injury probably happened in off season or is
38:45
Speaker 7: just underlying And while he was in the midst of
38:48
Speaker 7: doing all of his preseason training, it just decided to
38:50
Speaker 7: like flare up a little bit.
38:52
Speaker 3: And says it happened on Thursday when he's practicing in Vancouver.
38:56
Speaker 8: Well, okay, Well then in Vancouver that.
38:58
Speaker 3: I don't know if he was just practicing saying, I
39:00
Speaker 3: guess on his own because he's not technically under contract.
39:03
Speaker 7: No, so he technically has been training. Oh my god,
39:06
Speaker 7: who has he been training up in Vancouver with.
39:07
Speaker 8: There's a whole group of them up there.
39:08
Speaker 3: Okay, so he's been.
39:10
Speaker 8: He's so, like HIL's a little bit different than most teams.
39:13
Speaker 7: You will train with other team members, like for instance,
39:16
Speaker 7: the most classes like that are like our twenty nineteen class,
39:21
Speaker 7: or like the twenty twenty three, like your draft classes
39:24
Speaker 7: will practice together and or inor family friends or have
39:27
Speaker 7: older siblings in it. You'll practice as groups. For like instance,
39:31
Speaker 7: the Hughes family. They practice in Michigan at the USA
39:34
Speaker 7: facility and then like, but artist team Canada.
39:39
Speaker 8: Right, so there's no telling. They'll practice different places.
39:41
Speaker 7: But him getting hurt in the off season is not
39:45
Speaker 7: a really good look.
39:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's always really unfortunate when that happens, and in
39:49
Speaker 3: any sport getting hurt in the off season is just
39:52
Speaker 3: even if it was actually training, there's gonna be plenty
39:54
Speaker 3: of speculation over was he doing something stupid in training,
39:58
Speaker 3: was it actually outside of training? And then he just
40:01
Speaker 3: blamed it on that, Like I'm trying to remember the story.
40:05
Speaker 3: There was a baseball player a while back that got
40:08
Speaker 3: hurt while he was chasing Ferrell Hogs around on his ranch.
40:12
Speaker 8: All ready for this.
40:12
Speaker 7: Jack Hughes, the star of the New Jersey Devils, was
40:15
Speaker 7: at a dinner for away game, cut his hand open
40:19
Speaker 7: with a knife, cutting his steak and was out for
40:21
Speaker 7: six weeks because they had to stitch his hand to.
40:23
Speaker 3: Cook's so embarrassing too.
40:25
Speaker 8: Yeah when they did.
40:26
Speaker 7: When the report came out Jack Hughes injured at dinner,
40:29
Speaker 7: like everyone thought that he's gonna fight.
40:30
Speaker 8: And come to find out he had open good night.
40:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he got in a fight with himself and lost.
40:36
Speaker 8: Yeah, so it's a little bit wild.
40:38
Speaker 7: But yeah, that's kind of just to start us off
40:40
Speaker 7: that bit ard under what surgery today is.
40:42
Speaker 8: What I believe they said.
40:43
Speaker 7: So yeah, we'll see how I'll keep you all updated
40:46
Speaker 7: as this off season and then the season starts.
40:49
Speaker 3: Pretty insane that he's about to turn twenty one and
40:52
Speaker 3: we'll go be going into his fourth NHL Season's that's
40:58
Speaker 3: just insane. Like you don't really see that in a
41:00
Speaker 3: whole lot of other professional sports other than I guess soccer,
41:05
Speaker 3: but baseball, football, basketball, you're usually at least nineteen or
41:09
Speaker 3: twenty before you even have your rookie season, and he's
41:13
Speaker 3: about to be twenty one and going into his fourth year,
41:15
Speaker 3: so pretty wild.
41:17
Speaker 7: Yeah, your number one overall picks for the NHL typically
41:20
Speaker 7: get thrown into the NHL immediately that season, so like
41:23
Speaker 7: you're eligible to enter into the NHL if you turn
41:27
Speaker 7: eighteen within that year or if you're eighteen, so like
41:31
Speaker 7: I think Connor was seventeen when the draft happened, and
41:33
Speaker 7: then obviously like July seventeenth when he turned eighteen that year,
41:36
Speaker 7: so you got to be in that class. But he's
41:38
Speaker 7: a young in like they're all so young when they start.
41:41
Speaker 7: It's kind of wild.
41:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the Stars have been making a lot of moves.
41:47
Speaker 3: Who were any players you're excited about?
41:50
Speaker 7: So I keep up with the Stars, eh, a little bit,
41:54
Speaker 7: not as much as I do other teams. I am
41:56
Speaker 7: a Stars fan, but I am pretty excited that you've
42:00
Speaker 7: got Jamie Benn. He has been with the Stars for
42:04
Speaker 7: eighteen seasons. He's only ever played with the Stars. He
42:07
Speaker 7: has decided to sign, and this was announced last Friday.
42:11
Speaker 7: It was two weeks before his thirty seventh birthday. He
42:14
Speaker 7: signed a one year deal for the twenty twenty six
42:16
Speaker 7: twenty twenty seven season. He'll have a contract base of
42:19
Speaker 7: eight hundred and fifty thousand, the league minimum, but with
42:22
Speaker 7: potential bonuses that's in the million. So obviously, I mean
42:24
Speaker 7: he's not not not faring well. Yeah, he obviously will
42:30
Speaker 7: stay captain. His leadership commitment to the organization is truly unmatched.
42:34
Speaker 7: That's kind of just what the general manager is saying.
42:36
Speaker 7: And everyone's very excited that he and his family decided
42:39
Speaker 7: to stay another year at the Stars. Because when you
42:43
Speaker 7: have your veteran players that choose to stay and or
42:46
Speaker 7: kind of like help establish with everything, it helps the
42:50
Speaker 7: leadership overall. But also when you have your young players
42:52
Speaker 7: that just join in. It kind of gives him that
42:55
Speaker 7: one person above them to kind of set a foundation,
42:57
Speaker 7: like a right this, how we're gonna run this organization,
42:59
Speaker 7: how we're gonna play on the I like, right good overall,
43:02
Speaker 7: just leadership. So very excited to see Jamie Benn returning
43:05
Speaker 7: to the Ice. I truly didn't know. He's kind of
43:07
Speaker 7: one of those players that was up in the air,
43:10
Speaker 7: just like Alex Ovechkin, which there have been rumors going
43:14
Speaker 7: on for months now that they didn't know if Alex
43:19
Speaker 7: Betchkin was going to decide to come back, and the
43:21
Speaker 7: Capitals kept it a secret. After the season ended. This
43:24
Speaker 7: past season ended, him and his wife were like sat
43:26
Speaker 7: down and she goes, we need to decide if you're
43:29
Speaker 7: gonna continue to play if you're not going to and
43:31
Speaker 7: Alex and Nan really he's very family oriented, sure, and
43:35
Speaker 7: so he's like, after speaking with the wife, I will
43:39
Speaker 7: be returning for maybe for the war this year, and
43:41
Speaker 7: maybe a year after, maybe two more years. You never know,
43:44
Speaker 7: we'll see it depends on how this season goes.
43:47
Speaker 3: But so basically he said, I convinced her to let
43:50
Speaker 3: me play at least one more year.
43:51
Speaker 8: Yes, exactly.
43:53
Speaker 7: And so he turns forty one in September, so I
43:56
Speaker 7: mean he's been playing for a minute.
43:58
Speaker 8: Yeah, but I love Alex Vechkin. I'm not gonna lie
44:01
Speaker 8: to you.
44:01
Speaker 7: When I found out he decided to make one more year,
44:04
Speaker 7: I'm so happy because I didn't. I've not got to
44:06
Speaker 7: see him, plain person. Yeah, that's one person that I'm
44:08
Speaker 7: going to make the trip to Dallas just to see it.
44:11
Speaker 7: Because who doesn't want to watch a legend play on ice.
44:14
Speaker 3: It's like Chris.
44:14
Speaker 7: Sidney Crosby too, Like you want to watch those two
44:16
Speaker 7: before they decide to leave, Which, yeah, I don't think
44:18
Speaker 7: Crosby's ever.
44:19
Speaker 3: Gonna but Ovechkin is definitely one of the last of
44:23
Speaker 3: that generation that's still playing. Yes, I do need to.
44:26
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44:28
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48:38
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48:42
Speaker 3: We mentioned earlier Big twelve media days just wrapped up
48:44
Speaker 3: earlier this afternoon yesterday. One of the coaches that spoke
48:49
Speaker 3: was Willie Fritz from the University of Houston. Starting quarterback
48:53
Speaker 3: for the Cougars this year, as it was last year,
48:55
Speaker 3: is going to be former Texas A and M quarterback
48:58
Speaker 3: Connor Wigman. So let's hear what coach Fritz had to
49:01
Speaker 3: say yesterday.
49:02
Speaker 12: Excited about being here.
49:03
Speaker 20: What a great venue our I think our commissioner has
49:06
Speaker 20: done a fantastic job having the event here with the Cowboys.
49:12
Speaker 20: And my first media day was in nineteen ninety three
49:16
Speaker 20: at Navaro Community College cafeteria, So this is a few
49:21
Speaker 20: more people I had back in ninety three.
49:23
Speaker 12: So with that, I'll go ahead and open it up
49:25
Speaker 12: for questions, and.
49:27
Speaker 21: If you have a question, please raise your hand and
49:30
Speaker 21: keep it held up until we can get someone to you.
49:36
Speaker 21: We'll go to left center.
49:37
Speaker 12: First round.
49:39
Speaker 1: Chris Baldwin, Paper City, Houston.
49:41
Speaker 22: Hey, Willie, you've been open about talking about, you know,
49:45
Speaker 22: international championship at uson eventually. How important do you think
49:50
Speaker 22: that is to verbalize for your fans and your program?
49:54
Speaker 22: And how about you talk to your team about goals?
49:58
Speaker 20: You know, we don't talk about you a whole lot
50:00
Speaker 20: as far as season goals are concerned. We talked about
50:03
Speaker 20: doing the very best we can day after day after
50:05
Speaker 20: day after day. But you know, we've certainly got the location,
50:09
Speaker 20: We've got the university, we've got the facilities. There's no
50:12
Speaker 20: reason why we can't do that at the University of Houston.
50:15
Speaker 20: You know, a good template for us. He's been coach
50:17
Speaker 20: Sampson and what he's done with men's basketball, and I
50:20
Speaker 20: think every program at the University of Houston, you know,
50:24
Speaker 20: aspires to be national champions and we certainly do.
50:26
Speaker 23: In Football Center right there road, Hey, coach Jared Ramirez
50:31
Speaker 23: with Red at or Sports dot com. Willie, you had
50:35
Speaker 23: three games on Fridays last year. You've got to this
50:39
Speaker 23: year with the conference offener against Texas Tech.
50:43
Speaker 3: Do you get used to those games.
50:45
Speaker 23: That are not on Saturdays, or do you just kind
50:47
Speaker 23: of kind of roll with it as as the season
50:49
Speaker 23: goes off.
50:50
Speaker 20: Well, I think you just have to have a plan
50:52
Speaker 20: for either, you know, playing with one less day of preparation.
50:57
Speaker 20: And luckily it's not the first or Saturday this second
51:00
Speaker 20: game that you know, it would be a little bit unique,
51:02
Speaker 20: but uh, you just kind of have a plan for,
51:05
Speaker 20: you know, preparing one last day. And I've been doing
51:08
Speaker 20: this long enough before. I've been you know, quite a
51:10
Speaker 20: few Thursday games, Friday games, and obviously a ton of
51:13
Speaker 20: Saturday games. But there's a different way of preparation when
51:16
Speaker 20: it's a Saturday morning game versus a Saturday night game.
51:20
Speaker 12: So we have a plan that we follow at University
51:23
Speaker 12: of Houston.
51:25
Speaker 21: Okay, we go far left side for front Brice Cherry, Waito,
51:29
Speaker 21: Trip Willie.
51:30
Speaker 12: Good to see you probably make that love caf Terry,
51:36
Speaker 12: weren't you? Yeah, no doubt.
51:38
Speaker 24: Uh you gave the Bell brothers a promotion, both of
51:43
Speaker 24: them this past offseason. What have you seen in those
51:47
Speaker 24: coaches development? And uh, you know just what I know
51:51
Speaker 24: you have my Historyherry with Brian, Like, are those guys
51:55
Speaker 24: on the rise in terms of their coaching development.
51:59
Speaker 20: Well, they do a fantastic job. He's talking about Sean Bell,
52:03
Speaker 20: our assistant head coach, quarterback coach, passing game coordinator, Brian Bell,
52:08
Speaker 20: who's our wide receiver coach. And Brian was my starting
52:11
Speaker 20: quarterback in Sam Easton State for four years. I've known
52:15
Speaker 20: the family forever and you know, they do a super
52:18
Speaker 20: job recruiting.
52:19
Speaker 12: They're very good coaches. I think they're tremendous.
52:22
Speaker 20: Role models mentors to our student athletes, and that's what
52:25
Speaker 20: you look forward with all your coaches.
52:28
Speaker 12: I'm very fortunate to have those two guys.
52:31
Speaker 25: Again, poor love side him. Mikaela Booker witte Hi coach Willie.
52:39
Speaker 25: With a roster movement being a reality every year, can
52:43
Speaker 25: you tell me how you develop bringing in experience chance
52:48
Speaker 25: first while also the new high schools.
52:53
Speaker 12: Well, you got to do both, no question about it.
52:55
Speaker 20: And that's one of the areas I'm excited about this
52:57
Speaker 20: season is we're gonna have a little bit more depth
53:00
Speaker 20: because we've got some of these high school guys who
53:02
Speaker 20: are going to be playing for us this upcoming year.
53:05
Speaker 20: Maybe we're red shirted, I guess that's the thing of
53:07
Speaker 20: the past, but we'll you know, have these high school
53:11
Speaker 20: guys that are playing for us, and then also the
53:12
Speaker 20: portal guys. When you bring a guy in, We've got
53:15
Speaker 20: a few of them back there in the back. You
53:17
Speaker 20: want to find guys that are going to fit your program.
53:20
Speaker 20: You know, you got to be a great recruiter. You
53:22
Speaker 20: have to be a talent evaluator, and you got to
53:25
Speaker 20: be an information gatherer. You got to find guys that
53:28
Speaker 20: fit the way you do things. And I see three
53:30
Speaker 20: guys standing back there. Mackenzie Agnello. You know, he's a
53:34
Speaker 20: guy that fit in perfectly. He's a Texas kid, wanted
53:37
Speaker 20: to stay in the state of Texas. You know, Kin
53:40
Speaker 20: Treill Webb, he's a guy that played for me over
53:42
Speaker 20: at TU Lane. He's from Houston, wanted to get closer
53:45
Speaker 20: to home. And then Jordan Allen back over there was
53:49
Speaker 20: at LSU and wanted to transfer to a place close
53:52
Speaker 20: to home where he could have an immediate success.
53:55
Speaker 12: And all those guys have had that. So you got
53:58
Speaker 12: to make.
53:58
Speaker 20: Sure you find guys fit in your culture. And I
54:01
Speaker 20: think we've done a fantastic job of that as coaches.
54:04
Speaker 20: Utilizing the poor law advantage.
54:07
Speaker 21: And if you have a question, please keep your hand raised.
54:09
Speaker 21: So we can get someone to you who are a
54:11
Speaker 21: left center here.
54:13
Speaker 26: Hey, coach Geordia Edmnson's Coast Committee. And the question I
54:17
Speaker 26: have for you is you've been a part of a
54:20
Speaker 26: lot of program rebuildings. So what are the things that
54:25
Speaker 26: tell you things are going on in the right direct
54:26
Speaker 26: ruction before they show up in the win loss record.
54:31
Speaker 12: Well, I think it's a culture that you have.
54:33
Speaker 20: You know, one of the proudest a few seasons I
54:35
Speaker 20: had is when I was at Too Lane and we
54:37
Speaker 20: we got you know, we had to leave New Orleans
54:40
Speaker 20: and went to Birmingham for thirty nights and you know,
54:45
Speaker 20: we didn't have a great record that year, but I
54:47
Speaker 20: had zero problems. And I think that's indicative of the
54:51
Speaker 20: culture that you have. And uh, you know, it's something
54:54
Speaker 20: that's hard to put your thumb on all the time.
54:57
Speaker 20: You know, when you got it, and everybody's striving to
55:00
Speaker 20: have it. But if you've got good coaches and good
55:03
Speaker 20: players and great culture.
55:04
Speaker 12: You're gonna have a fantastic team. So we're just around
55:08
Speaker 12: our guys all the time.
55:09
Speaker 20: As a head coach, I'm around our guys, you know,
55:13
Speaker 20: almost on a daily basis.
55:14
Speaker 12: And my assistant coaches are as well, and you know,
55:17
Speaker 12: we just try to bring in the right guys. That's
55:20
Speaker 12: so important.
55:21
Speaker 20: I worked too hard to be around a guy who
55:24
Speaker 20: doesn't know how to act, and it's hard for me
55:26
Speaker 20: to change someone who's had a pad eighteen years. So
55:30
Speaker 20: trying to find those guys who had a real good
55:32
Speaker 20: eighteen years and we'll shine and polish them and help
55:35
Speaker 20: them through that transition from eighteen to twenty two years
55:38
Speaker 20: of age.
55:40
Speaker 6: Far less side in the back.
55:44
Speaker 3: Hey, Willie Kelly stropping that here from the witch Ta Eagle.
55:47
Speaker 12: I was curious if you could tell.
55:48
Speaker 21: Us a little bit what made you want to bring
55:51
Speaker 21: Michael Bishop on as an assistant coach, and now that
55:53
Speaker 21: you've been.
55:54
Speaker 12: Working with them for a little bit, what is he
55:56
Speaker 12: like as a coach? Well, he does an excellent job,
55:58
Speaker 12: you know.
55:59
Speaker 20: Michael play warming to Blynn Junior College in nineteen ninety
56:02
Speaker 20: five and ninety six, and you know, I've been close
56:06
Speaker 20: to him ever since.
56:06
Speaker 12: I don't I don't think a month ever went by
56:08
Speaker 12: where he and I didn't talk at least one time.
56:11
Speaker 20: And you know, and he's always visited me at all
56:14
Speaker 20: the different places that I've been at over the years,
56:19
Speaker 20: you know, and he just is a he's.
56:21
Speaker 12: A great person, great role model, mentor.
56:23
Speaker 20: But you know, he's also a real smart football coach,
56:26
Speaker 20: and you know, we're just fortunate to have him around.
56:29
Speaker 20: He's a you know, it's also good to have somebody
56:32
Speaker 20: that you know, you can really trust. You know, I've
56:36
Speaker 20: known him forever and he understands how I do things,
56:39
Speaker 20: and he's always got my back.
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Speaker 21: Time for one final question center right for from hey
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Speaker 21: coach cal Phillips the four Star Telegram. You guys got
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Speaker 21: one of the top rated quarterback recruits this past season.
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Speaker 16: Is there war?
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Speaker 12: Was there any commerce asercation of who is going.
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Speaker 21: To start Week one? Or are you guys gonna run
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Speaker 21: a two quarterback a system that owl?
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Speaker 20: No, Connor's a cool our starting quarterback without question. What's
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Speaker 20: been really neat is I've never had two five star
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Speaker 20: quarterbacks before, you know, any place I've ever been, I've
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Speaker 20: never had one. Much less to those guys are both
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Speaker 20: so unselfish. Everybody keeps asking me what what kind of
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Speaker 20: package you're gonna run with Keishawn. We're gonna run our
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Speaker 20: total package with him. He's he's really smart. Uh can
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Speaker 20: throw and run the ball. You know, so those guys
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Speaker 20: really really work well together in the quarterback room, and
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Speaker 20: I think it's a perfect situation for Keishawn to be
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Speaker 20: in there and learn from not only great coaches, but
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Speaker 20: you know, a fellow great player in Connor.
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Speaker 12: Coach. Thank you for your time today and good luck
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Speaker 12: this season. Thank you go Koog's all right.
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Speaker 3: That was Willie Fritz, the head coach of the University
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Speaker 3: of Houston Big Twelve Media Days yesterday. He spoke all
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Speaker 3: of the coach which is in each for each Big
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Speaker 3: twelve team, had a chance to go up there and
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Speaker 3: answer questions from the media. When we come back in
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Speaker 3: the five o'clock hour, the first segment, we will listen
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Speaker 3: into what Baylor head coach David Randa had to say,
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Speaker 3: and we'll talk about some of the other news surrounding
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Speaker 3: the Big Twelve. This is Chip Howard Sports Talk Caleb
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Speaker 3: and Riley filling in today.