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NFL Preseason Storylines, Texas A&M Football Preview, MLB Marquee Matchups · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Somehow, someway We've arrived at Friday. We made it a Friday.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good thing, right, I'm here at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the week. Good afternoon, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the.
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  Speaker 1: Program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone
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  Speaker 1: and the iHeart Radio app where it's always My name
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  Speaker 1: is Craig Way.
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  Speaker 2: I do thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: As I always say, every Friday, Friday is your traditional
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  Speaker 1: end of the week of the work week for Indian
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  Speaker 1: and you have the weekend ahead of you.
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  Speaker 2: Good on you, good for you.
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  Speaker 1: Hope you enjoy it, Hope you get through the rest
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  Speaker 1: of today all right.
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  Speaker 2: And then enjoy the two days on the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: There are those of you for whom Friday is the
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  Speaker 1: middle part of the week. Our producer Jay Herman has
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  Speaker 1: a friend who falls into that category. So it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: Friday is just kind of like your Wednesday, that sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing. So hopefully we can get you over the
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  Speaker 1: hump to that. And for those of you for whom
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  Speaker 1: Friday merely begins the work week, well I love you
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  Speaker 1: and I'll we'll do our best to try to help
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  Speaker 1: you through that through the Monday of your work week.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: We ought to congratulate those people on Tuesdays a little
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  Speaker 4: more often.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, You're right. I'm gonna start implementing that as well,
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  Speaker 1: So we'll do that. So we've reached the end of
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  Speaker 1: the work week, and we've also today reached the end
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  Speaker 1: of two things that we've been doing pretty intensely here
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  Speaker 1: of the past three weeks. One is our SEC football previews,
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  Speaker 1: and we have visited with the play by play voice
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  Speaker 1: of every SEC program coming up to today. There's sixteen
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  Speaker 1: schools obviously in the Southeastern Conference. If you've removed Texas
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  Speaker 1: from the equation and you zero in on the other
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  Speaker 1: fifteen schools, we've done five previews per week. It started
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  Speaker 1: off week before last. We began it way back on
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was the seventh of August, and we
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  Speaker 1: began with the defending conference champions, the Georgia Bulldogs. Jeff Dansler,
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  Speaker 1: who will be their play by play voice for football
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  Speaker 1: this year moving into that role, joined us on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: On Tuesday, it was the Arkansas Razorbacks and we visited
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  Speaker 1: with Chuck Barrett, their play by play voice. On Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: of that first week, the Florida Gators were on deck.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Kelly, who calls the action for the.
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  Speaker 2: Gators, was with us.
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  Speaker 1: On Thursday, it was Kentucky and Tom Leachs, the voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Wildcats, was with us Big Blues play by
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  Speaker 1: play voice, and then on Friday that first week, it
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  Speaker 1: was Mississippi State and we visited with Neil Price, the
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  Speaker 1: play by play voice the mississ State Bulldogs to get
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  Speaker 1: a preview.
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  Speaker 2: That was week one.
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  Speaker 1: Week two began a week ago Monday with the South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina game Cocks and their play by play voice, Todd Ellis.
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  Speaker 1: On Tuesdays of Missouri Tigers, Mike Kelly, their broadcast voice,
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  Speaker 1: joined us the voice of Missoo. On Wednesday, it was
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  Speaker 1: another group of Tigers, lsu Chris Blair breaking it down
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  Speaker 1: and talking about Lane Kiffin's first season to come in
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  Speaker 1: baton Rouge. Thursday, we moved into the volunteer state. We
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  Speaker 1: looked at Vanderbilt and visited with Andrew Alli Greta, the
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  Speaker 1: Vanderbrook Commodore's play by play voice, and then on Friday
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  Speaker 1: it was the Tennessee Volunteers and Mike Keith, their play
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  Speaker 1: by play voice, joined us. And then we began this
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  Speaker 1: final week of the previews on Monday with the Ole
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  Speaker 1: miss Rebels. David Kellum with us their play by play
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  Speaker 1: voice on Tuesday. Then after that was the Alabama Crimson tie.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Stewart, the voice of the Tide, was with us.
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  Speaker 1: On Wednesday. The other school from the Yellah Hammer State,
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  Speaker 1: the Auburn Tigers, were on deck and we visited and
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  Speaker 1: got the preview of Auburn with the Birchram, their play
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  Speaker 1: by play voice. And then closing out our previews with
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  Speaker 1: the two biggest rivals for Texas. Yesterday was Oklahoma Toby Roland,
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  Speaker 1: the Sooner's play by play voice, and today we conclude
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  Speaker 1: it with Texas A and M play by play voice
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Monico.
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  Speaker 2: We take a look at the Aggie.
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  Speaker 1: So we've done that now for three weeks, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: visit with Andrew Monico that's coming up in the four
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  Speaker 1: o'clock hour. The other thing that we've been doing now
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  Speaker 1: for and concluding a three week run is giving away
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  Speaker 1: copies of Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine.
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  Speaker 2: Event.
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  Speaker 1: Just pull my copy of the magazine. I have a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a visual aid there. Jake's got his
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  Speaker 1: out there and it helps to have it nearby for me.
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  Speaker 1: So We've been giving away copies of the magazine for
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  Speaker 1: three weeks, and this is the final day. We've been
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  Speaker 1: giving away copies one per hour, three per show every
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  Speaker 1: day two weeks ago, last week, week, and this week.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's the exhaustive.
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  Speaker 1: Four hundred page preview of everything about college football and
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  Speaker 1: high school football in the state of Texas. More than
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  Speaker 1: fifteen hundred high schools previewed in here, and and more
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  Speaker 1: than well, it was dozens of college because it includes
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  Speaker 1: you know, not only Division one FBS Power for schools
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  Speaker 1: like Texas and Texas A and M and the SEC
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  Speaker 1: and Houston and SMU and Houston and TCU and Baylor
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  Speaker 1: in the Big twelve and SMU and the accuse those
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  Speaker 1: schools they.
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  Speaker 2: Are in the Power four leagues.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then obviously in the other FBS G
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  Speaker 1: six leagues like UTSA and Texas State and North Texas
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  Speaker 1: those those schools and UTEP all of all of the
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  Speaker 1: schools that are Division one FBS, the FCS programs like.
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  Speaker 2: In the Southland Conference like steven F.
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  Speaker 1: Austin and some of the other ones, Sam Houston State
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  Speaker 1: in Division one FBS and Conference USA, so all of
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  Speaker 1: those and then Division two, Division three and even the
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  Speaker 1: junior colleges. So that magazine does that. We've been giving
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  Speaker 1: away copies of that magazine now for going on the
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  Speaker 1: end of our third and final week, So we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: give away three more copies today and I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: make it as easy on you as possible. It would
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  Speaker 1: be lucky to draw. We're gonna do this all today
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  Speaker 1: with the random of draw. But the way that you
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to help yourself out on that is by,
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  Speaker 1: you know, using the iHeartRadio app there. You just download
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  Speaker 1: that iHeart Radio app there on your smartphone. It's real
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  Speaker 1: easy to do and it's free. So you do that,
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  Speaker 1: and then once you download it, you do a search
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  Speaker 1: for AM thirteen hundred the zone. It pops up right
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  Speaker 1: away and you'll see two buttons. One's a little white
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  Speaker 1: button and shaped like a triangle. That's to listen to
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  Speaker 1: what's going on the air. There is another button, a
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  Speaker 1: red one with a little white microphone. That one is
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  Speaker 1: our talkback feature. And all you have to do is
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  Speaker 1: tap that button and say I want the magazine. And
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  Speaker 1: if you do that, and it happens to wind up
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  Speaker 1: with you in the queue at the number we designate
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  Speaker 1: each hour, then you win a copy of the magazine.
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  Speaker 1: Our number one is going to be number ten, number ten,
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  Speaker 1: So the tenth person in line, the tenth person in
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  Speaker 1: the queue using the talkback feature on your smartphone, use
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  Speaker 1: that talkback microphone there on the iHeartRadio app and say
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  Speaker 1: I want the magazine. If you're the tenth person, you
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  Speaker 1: will win a copy of.
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  Speaker 2: Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to do that, put that out there
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  Speaker 1: for you right now for our number one.
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  Speaker 2: Be the tenth person in line of that and you'll win.
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  Speaker 1: We'll give away another one in the three o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 1: and then one final copy we'll give away in four o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: We've had a steady stream of people coming by to
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  Speaker 1: pick up their magazines. I just saw one a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes ago. We got other people coming by to pick
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  Speaker 1: up their magazines. You know, if you win, you just
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  Speaker 1: all you tubes come by the station and we've got
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  Speaker 1: your name down and all this, and when you do
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  Speaker 1: leave us your name. When you do that on the
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  Speaker 1: talk back, make sure you leave us your name and
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  Speaker 1: number so that we know how to contact you afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're the winner, then you just come down
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  Speaker 1: here to the iHeart Compound here hard by the Pennybacker
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  Speaker 1: Bridge here and.
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  Speaker 2: Lake Austin and pick up your copy.
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  Speaker 4: And you're smart for waiting until two o'clock on a Friday,
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  Speaker 4: because three sixty won't be nearly as backed up with
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  Speaker 4: all the improvements going on around here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't want to mess with it in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't want to mess with it after five o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: You don't want to leave your Yeah, you don't want
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  Speaker 4: to leave your place at four point thirty, hoping to
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  Speaker 4: get here by.
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  Speaker 5: The end of the show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jake's actually fortunate he doesn't live that far away.
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  Speaker 2: So as the crow flies, what a couple of miles?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe a little less, it takes a couple of miles
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  Speaker 4: to drive back because I've got to turn around.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So let's say you're leaving the building here at
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  Speaker 1: five thirty in the afternoon, thirty minutes after we're off
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  Speaker 1: the year. How long does it take you at five
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  Speaker 1: thirty in the afternoon to drive home.
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  Speaker 4: To get home Tuesday through Thursday? Twenty minutes, not bad.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty minutes to less than two miles. The point being is,
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  Speaker 1: it's like an hour ten for me an hour fifteen
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  Speaker 1: to get up there to get to Georgetown.
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  Speaker 2: But that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I love where I live, and you know, I'll listen
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  Speaker 1: to Bucking BK on the drive home, or if I've
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  Speaker 1: got a call then they have to make using my
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  Speaker 1: hands free, I'll do that, you know that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: So I understand the assignment. I know how that goes
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  Speaker 1: on that. You know what else we're gonna do. We're
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  Speaker 1: go to talks some baseball in the three o'clock hour.
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  Speaker 1: Gene Watson, our MLB insider, joins us and Gino will
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  Speaker 1: join us from as I mentioned last week, the Pacific
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  Speaker 1: Rimy's in Tokyo, Japan, and he'll talk to us about that,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll also ask him other Major League Baseball questions.
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  Speaker 1: That's coming up in the three o'clock hour, which will,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, be the five o'clock in the morning
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  Speaker 1: hour for Gina. He'll be rising at like five to
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  Speaker 1: a m or just before five am Tokyo time, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll join us at what will be five point fifteen
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  Speaker 1: in the morning his time, three fifteen our time this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to visit with Gene Watson on that. Also,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to keep you updated on Little League World Series,
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  Speaker 1: the team from Bernie with all of the issues and
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  Speaker 1: all of the controversy in that Little League regional there
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  Speaker 1: in Waco, which he merged as the winner with Tulsa
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  Speaker 1: having the ineligible players. There were a couple through residency
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  Speaker 1: and one through age, so Bernie ended up winning the
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  Speaker 1: one game winner take all playoff at the end of it,
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  Speaker 1: beating the Louisiana team. So the team just northwest of
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio, Bernie is playing its first game in the
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  Speaker 1: Little League World Series and they're playing a team.
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  Speaker 2: From Washington State. So that's that's coming up.
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  Speaker 1: And and in fact Washington's gotten the early jump on
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  Speaker 1: them due to an era in the outfield.
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  Speaker 2: They've scored a couple of runs early.
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  Speaker 4: There's already been some some drama today. Maybe we'll have
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  Speaker 4: time to get to some of that. I know, curosow
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  Speaker 4: no hit Japan. Yeah, that's right, that's right. Oh wait,
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  Speaker 4: the Washington two runs was in their game last night.
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  Speaker 4: They've already played a game. This is the Bernie team's
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  Speaker 4: first game, so they're playing in the first inning right now.
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  Speaker 2: Am I reading this right?
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  Speaker 4: There were two no hitters today where they're really looks
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  Speaker 4: like Iowa no hit California.
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  Speaker 2: My friends when they were up one nothing and again.
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  Speaker 5: My friends were following along.
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  Speaker 4: They said the last pitch was way outside, but they
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  Speaker 4: gave it to the hitter.
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  Speaker 2: And rang it up, so there was for the no hitter. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, the Bernie team is playing the team from
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  Speaker 1: Washington's date who has already played in won a game,
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  Speaker 1: and the team from Bernie has not yet played a game,
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  Speaker 1: but they've just gotten the lead off man.
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  Speaker 2: Aboard in the first inning. So anyway, we'll keep you
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  Speaker 2: updated on that, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up next, we're gonna shift to Texans and Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: in NFL Conversation. We're gonna hear from Demiko Ryans in
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  Speaker 1: the aftermath of the Texans loss to the Raiders last
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  Speaker 1: night in the preseason contest, c J. Stroud got his
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  Speaker 1: first work. There was a little bit of brief work
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  Speaker 1: for the first team offense out on the field, So
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  Speaker 1: we'll hear from Demiko Ryan's about that. Also, we'll hear
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  Speaker 1: from Cowboys owner, president and general manager Jerry Jones. As
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys traveled to Phoenix today, they finished up their
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  Speaker 1: California version of training camp in Oxnard, where Jerry likes
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  Speaker 1: to say in Oxnard. So they're headed for Glendale, Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: They'll play the Phoenix Cardinals tomorrow night. We'll hear from Jerry.
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  Speaker 1: We'll also here from the quarterback. We'll hear from Dak
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  Speaker 1: Prescott coming up in the next segment, and we'll hear
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  Speaker 1: a little more from them in the three o'clock hour
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  Speaker 1: and the four o'clock hour as well.
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  Speaker 2: As Demigo Ryans.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a Friday, we do have inconceivable, Jay Carman,
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  Speaker 1: we know what Friday with inconceivable means.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, we're not going anywhere near California.
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  Speaker 4: No, No, complete opposite coast correct, the Sunshine State, the
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  Speaker 4: most flaccid of the lower forty eight. We're gonna grab
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  Speaker 4: some low hanging fruit Florida man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, got some Florida man to tell you about. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll do that and a couple other topics as well,
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  Speaker 1: some stuff. If you've got an appetite, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to ruin it for you. I think I'm gonna wet
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  Speaker 1: your appetite. Because we have the winners in the state
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  Speaker 1: fair food categories.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to say not an appetite for Public's blueberries.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, stay away from those.
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  Speaker 5: The frozen ones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not good, not good if you want to
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  Speaker 1: stay healthy anyway, all right, it's all right. We always
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  Speaker 1: also offer up our text line too if you'd like
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  Speaker 1: to weigh in and the conversation on the text on.
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  Speaker 1: All you have to do is tell the word Texas
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  Speaker 1: follow by your question or comment to eight one five
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  Speaker 1: three zero. So text the word Texas follow by your
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  Speaker 1: questioner comment to eight one five three zero. Standard messaging
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  Speaker 1: and data rates may apply, but be the tenth person
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  Speaker 1: in the talkback queue to win a copy of Day
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  Speaker 1: Campbell's Texas Football Magazine. We'll continue on sports Radio AM
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  Speaker 1: thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio appall Friday overall anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, yes, if you're one of those people
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  Speaker 1: from whom Friday meets with, what it means to.
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  Speaker 2: Get a lot of folks what Friday does?
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it is a fire me up Friday.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the artist that did that? Again?
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  Speaker 5: This is the cure?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, Friday, I'm in love right or you're in
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  Speaker 1: love with Fridays?
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  Speaker 4: Tell you what last Friday without high school football and
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  Speaker 4: other scrimmages whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Have you been able to make it down for a
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  Speaker 1: bass Drop scrimmage it since you're the bass Drop Bear?
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  Speaker 5: I yeah, regretfully I have not.
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  Speaker 4: So still have a lot to lord about the Bears
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  Speaker 4: coming into what should be a fun season opener against
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  Speaker 4: Montgomery Lake Creek.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, O Lions.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody on the text line said, I want a magazine yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Whatlse he'll be able to pick it up on Monday. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: today's just the last day we're giving them away. But
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  Speaker 1: for all of the people who've won them over these
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  Speaker 1: you know, and they're going to win them, including today's
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  Speaker 1: final day.
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  Speaker 2: So that's like forty five people.
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  Speaker 1: There stacks of them in the back for the winners,
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  Speaker 1: and they're all labels that don't try to come in
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  Speaker 1: and say, I'm so and so you're gonna to present
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  Speaker 1: id huts.
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  Speaker 5: Don't pull it. Don't pull a Starbucks from Inconceivable the
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  Speaker 5: other day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, if you won yesterday or one of the
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't come by to pick up your copy,
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  Speaker 1: it's still here with your name on it.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a winner, and if you win today.
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  Speaker 1: You can come by on Monday or sometime next week
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  Speaker 1: if the day doesn't work for you, you can do that.
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  Speaker 1: And you said there's still a little bit of space
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  Speaker 1: left in the queue there for folks to reach.
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  Speaker 5: Us as of a couple of minutes ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see, all right, So still some hope for
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  Speaker 1: you if you haven't already hopped in, or maybe you
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  Speaker 1: did and thought I was too early, enter again. All
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  Speaker 1: you have to do if you assuming you have the
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  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app downloaded, you just search AM thirteen under the zone.
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  Speaker 1: It'll pop up red button, white microphone tap and say
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  Speaker 1: I want the magazine. If you're the tenth person in line,
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  Speaker 1: the tenth person in the queue, you will win a
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  Speaker 1: copy of that magazine. So just wanted you to know
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  Speaker 1: that we had a couple hadn't gotten to number ten
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  Speaker 1: right when we pitched it to the break.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, that's where that is, all right.
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  Speaker 1: And again, if you want to reach us on the
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  Speaker 1: text line just to ask us a question about anything
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  Speaker 1: or to visit, you can do that by texting the
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  Speaker 1: word texas followed by your question comment to eight one
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  Speaker 1: five three zero Standard Messaging and Data rates man A
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  Speaker 1: black Okay, the Texans last night, last night's game, and
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I watched a good chunk of it, Lynn and I
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: watched like the first quarter, went out and grabbed some dinner,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: came back and watched some more of it afterwards. And
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: last night's Texans Raid Raiders game. And you tell me,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: last night's Texans Raiders game was your classic NFL preseason game.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: You get a couple of You get a couple of
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: series at most a little bit with some of your
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: regulars and.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Starters, and c J. Stroud got some brief work and
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: they some of that.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: And your front line guys build a lead, and then
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: the bench players get out there and then the game
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: turns in the second half.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: And that's what it turned with the Raiders, because Fernando.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Bandos actually looked pretty good other than the Wade would
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: ass picked six. And this morning on Sports Center, they
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: were talking about how Fernando Mendoza threw one pick six
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: his entire collegiate career.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: It was last year at the Oregon in the Oregon
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: game in Indiana.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Came back and won the game anyway, but that's the
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: only pick six he threw it in his entire collegiate career. Fortunately,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: because of the preseason. It doesn't count on your NFL
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: record just as a preseason pick. But anyway, the Texans
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: with the front line guys built the lead, Raiders came
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: back and won it late. So Demiko Ryans was asked
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: after the game, what were the things he liked about
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: the contest.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: What I really liked tonight was we improved as a
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: team starting off with our offense the way they came
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: out opened the game, starting and drive, driving the ball
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: down to feel like we did. Thought the O line
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: blocked it really well. Wod He of course have some
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: nice runs, but credit to CJ too. He made some
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: really good decisions. Didn't throw it around a ton, but
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: when he did throw his good decisions with the football,
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: he moved us up and down the field. So I'm
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: proud of what those guys went out there and did. Defensively,
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: the first group did a really good job as well,
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: going out getting some stops. Wade came through with the
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: big play getting an interception for a touchdown. That's our mantra,
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: That's what we were built on, is attacking the football.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: So when we do that puts us in a really
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: good position. So I saw a lot of improvements from
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: our team from week one to where we are now.
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: Definitely played our style of football, our brand of football.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Felt the more physical team.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: I felt like guys played fast, felt like we played
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: with some confidence on offense. So I'm pleased with the
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: outing right what our guys did early on in the game.
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: Don't like the outcome of how it ended, most certainly
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: so our backup guys there got a lot to improve upon,
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: But that first half was really good half of football
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: for us as a team.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: It is a lot easier as a head coach in
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the NFL to have the preseason game like the Texans
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: had last night, where the first half front line guys
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: played well and then some of your backups perhaps not
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: so much and you wind up losing it. You'll take
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: that over the alternative virtually every time. So in that
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: first half, when they were building the lead, how would
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: you evaluate that first team offensive line performance and was
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: that more indicative of what he's seen in practice at.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: The first offensive line group. As you guys know, I
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: talk about it constantly. We move guys around to make
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: sure we got our best five guys out there. So
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: to see that you got to see guys working together
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: to see guys getting those reps. So that's indicative of
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: the group you saw out there today. Those are the
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: five we went with today. Those guys have done a
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: really good job, so we'll see how they keep building
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: and moving forward.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: All right, And he mentioned the rookie Wade would As
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: who picked off that pass. Mendoza was trying to go
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to a receiver across the middle, kind of threw it
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: behind him a little bit, and the receiver also stopped
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: the route a little bit.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: Classic that throw works in college.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it did not work last night, and would
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: has picked it off and brought it back, and he goes,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: that's what he thought.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Of that play.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: For a way, he just has to be disciplined of
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: what we're asking him to do. Like that pick came
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: from him just being where he's supposed to be and
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: finding a way to catch the football and go score.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: So he just has to continue to improve. Rookie, we're
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: trying to get him a ton of reps, and he's
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: done a good job what we've given him.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So two games down for the Texans,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: won and the win column one in the lost column.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: But more about just continuing to try to get better
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: for this football team now. The Cowboys, unlike the Texans
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: who were playing two home preseason games before concluding the
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: preseason on the road next week, the Cowboys it's too
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: road preseason games. The win at Seattle last Saturday night,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: and then coming up tomorrow night they were in Arizona.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: They wins Arizona. Today.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: They wrapped up the California portion of training camp yesterday
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: in Oxtarn, California. Jerry Jones, they requested some con the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: media requested an opportunity to visit with Jerry. Of course,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Jerry rarely turns down the opportunity to visit with the media,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: but they requested that because they've wanted to get his thoughts. Also,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: in the word that came down from the NFL yesterday
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: that five hundred thousand dollars fine of the Cowboys and
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Saints both accrued for the dust up they had and
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the fights and the guy slinging a helmet and fisticuffs
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. So Jerry was asked
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: what did he think about those finds handed out to
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys and Saints.
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: Strong opinion in the league to when we have these
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: joint practices, everybody's aware of the competition, both individually as
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: well as through the team. We understand that you don't
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: have the discipline of penalties that are real difference makers
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: out here, and frankly you probably don't have the officiating.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Consequences.
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: So uh uh, this game is physical and it's easy
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: to get involved with aggressive temperaments. All of that makes
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: it a real focal point of the league to stay
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: within good sport and the taking of helmets off and
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: swinging and hitting and that type of thing is not
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: good for anybody, and it's certainly not what we want
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: represent to our fans and as a league or as
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: a team. And so it's understandable how they're coming down
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: with a real severe fines.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: The key words there that Jerry used were aggressive temperaments
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and the Cowboys had those, so yeah, aggressive finds. Does
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: he plan to appeal.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: It, Yes, we will appeal.
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: And that's pretty harsh, I mean pretty stiff, not harsh,
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: but stiff. But it does make the point that it's
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: are matter and uh, it starts with everybody at all
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: levels of a club too, and the clubs in this
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: case we're doing practice together. It really emphasizes the league's
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: intent to control it from the very top, which when
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: they start dealing out those kinds of fines, they get
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: your attention.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, uh and then let's hear from the quarterback.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott was asked, you know, since they were wrapping
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: up the California portion of training camp, what was overall
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: impressions of ala team worked throughout the Oxnard portion of
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: training camp?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Good?
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: I mean I almost want to say great. Uh, I mean,
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: it's been a successful camp.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: You know, you can't hang your.
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: Hat on everything we did is exactly what we're gonna do.
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: We're gonna move forward and this is you know, the
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: team and we don't need to get any better because that's.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Absolutely not true.
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: And hell have we still got two more weeks of
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: training camp, So I would say it's successful start to
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: training camp right where we need to be in the
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: sense of growing. Had a great practice out there today,
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: you know, no fans, just creating the energy ourselves and
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: still was I mean, you were out there, still is
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: getting chippy guys or fire. You guys are ready to
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: play somebody else. But more important than that, they're enjoying
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: football and they're enjoying the passion and everything that comes
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: with it and taking pride in their jobs. And when
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: you do that, you're going to see practice like that.
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: And so it's been fun. I'm proud of obviously all
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: the guys away they approached camp, the mentality of it
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: just and then the fact that the simple fact of
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: each unit is just trying to make the other unit better.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Was taking a huge amount of pride in.
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: Their job and and thinking that they're going to be
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: the best unit.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Dak said, there wasn't everything to hang your hat on.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Looking at the picture that Jake has posted up here,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of things you can hang on.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Dax's it's got a bucket hat on there.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Man, that is big time there. Uh.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: He was asked about that the joint practice with the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Saints and you know how it got really chippy, feisty.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: What was his impressions of it overall?
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean they're just ready to play football, and
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: you know, we got a lot of guys that have
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: a lot to prove, you know, on a team that
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: feels like we've got a lot to prove. And so
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: I think when you've got that, emotions are going to
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: be high. The passion is gonna you know, gonna show.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: But at the end of the day, you got to
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: you gotta live on the edge, and I go over
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: the edge. And so we can be physical, we can
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: be passionate, we can be aggressive, but it all has
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: to be led from a discipline standpoint. So I know
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: that's what Shots spoke a lot about after the Saints practice,
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: and you know, we're able to go into the film
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: and see exactly why that practice ended like it did
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: and went the way that it did. And then even
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: out there today, there's just moments right that you've got
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: to make sure you're making the more disciplined decision while
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: still being aggressive or playing on the edge without crossing it.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: With all of that in mind, now and now leaving
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: California with regard to the training camp, with that being
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the case, does he feel a little more emboldened about
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: his Super Bowl prognostication and expectation for this football team.
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: I mean, I feel great about the steps that we made,
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: what we came in a training camp here in ox
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: and Art to accomplish. Like I said, we still got
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: two weeks left to go. So nothing is said, nothing
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: is yeah, you can't win. You can't win. In August Unfortunately,
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: you can't win in September, but we're taking the steps
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: necessary to put ourselves in the best position come week
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: one and gives ourselves the best position to win that game.
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: And it starts there, and then once you do that,
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: you can move forward. But at the end of the day,
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: it's about getting better each and every day in some aspect,
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: and I think this team has had that mentality, and
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: I think we've accomplished that the days that we've come
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: out here.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: All right, Cowboys and Cardinals tomorrow night from Arizona.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: And then.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Excuse me while I just sneezed. Yeah, yeah, I cut
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: off my microphone. Otherwise it would have just probably would
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: have blown your ear drums to hear that. By the way,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I heard a guy last night. He was in one
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: of the yards that neighbors backs up to my yard
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: because like in a lot of neighborhoods, you have a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: neighbor on each side of you. In many cases you
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: might have a neighbor or across your back fence. I
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: have that in the neighborhood. I live with nice people
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: I live it.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: One guy last I was outside in the backyard with
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the dog because like I said, every now and then
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: we have a little ball session and we'll throw the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: tennis ball and she'll run and chasing. And while I
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: was doing that, one of the neighbors in one of
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: those three yards let fly with a sneeze that would
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: wake the dead. I mean, this is like, like I said,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: it's beyond a fence on and I wasn't sure which
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: direction came from, but it was beyond a fence and
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: it was like rud and I was like, oh my gosh,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: somebody die. You know, it was something like that. Anyway
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: it was.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: It was quite an aggressive expiratory emotion that happened. And
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the emote, the perspiring arts and the expiratory arts, that's
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: exactly what that is.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: You allowed sneezer. Uh, that last song was pretty quiet.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: I mean it would have been loud because it was
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: right next to the mic, but allowed for the listeners.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: But it wasn't allowed sneeze.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Usually I can catch it in time to word and
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: blow the doors off.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: But I yeah, I can. I can be a window rattler.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: On occasion. It happened.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Cough.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: Button's there for a reason.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it all. Right.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Up next is Inconceivable, including the adventures of Florida Man.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that when we continue on sports Radio
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: AM thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app. Second
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: hour of the program here on sports Radio AM thirteen
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: under the zone Glad to have you with us on
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: a Friday afternoon. Craig Way joined by the producer Jake Hermon,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: We're with you up until five o'clock.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Had another sneeze just now.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: What's going on?
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know because normally I have allergies, but they
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: normally don't even come near me in the summertime, especially
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: as hot as it is. I'm allergic to cedar pollen,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: but that's really only a factor there in the winter time,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: in the dead of winter, and then also some uh
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: in uh in early spring as well, so that's usually
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: about the only time that I really have a problem
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: with that. But but clearly uh, whatever it is, it's
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: gotten up my nostrils a little bit, so it's it
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: can be a be a little bit of a problem there.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: So I, as Jake said last hour, fortunately having the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: talk the uh cough button, which I just hip right there,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: helps because it kills off the microphone while I can
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: go ahead and call for sneeze or you know, it's
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: radio people. Sometimes we can be you know, a little
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: bit coarse, some in their language on the air or
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: their approach on the air. Others of us just you know,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: when you reach a certain age, maybe you might have
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: emissions from your body that would make noise. You might
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: have some of that. So because of that, you know
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: it's a belt or a burp. Heaven forbid, it should
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: be something else. But you know, at least you have
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the the call button, which really helps Little League World Series.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: As I mentioned, the team from Bernie is playing the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: team from Washington State, which had already played a game
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: in one yesterday. I think they beat a team from
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Nevada yesterday. Today Iowa be California today with a no
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: hit or involved. So Washington was playing Washington State playing
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: a team from Bernie, just northwest of San Antonio.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: That was the team that had.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: All the controversy and everything surrounding. They're winning that Southwest
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: region and moving up to Williamsport, Pennsylvania. They were certified
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: as the winner by the Little League. And then of
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: course the team from Tulsa, the Tulsa National Team got
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: a temporary restraining order where they were gonna have to
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: play one more time, and then another judge overruled that
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: and so nullified that tro and so Bernie was allowed
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: to go ahead in advance up to Williamsport to play.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: So they're playing this washingt team which had already played
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: the game, and the Washington State team jumped out to
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: a two to nothing lead two runs in the top
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: of the first. The Bernie team scored one run in
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the first and one in the second to tiet but
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Washington already with a threat on the top of the third.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: They have two on with nobody out on that and
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: they've had a pitching change coming up in that one,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: so we'll see how all that goes now. Jake was
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: just out stepped out for a moment. We had a
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: couple more people come in from magazines.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: Two winners, two more magazines claimed.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, So, like we said, a lot of folks are coming
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: by to pick up those copies of Dave Campbell's Texas
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Football Max. And we have two copies remaining to give away,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: two copies left and uh and we'll do them both
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: like we did the first hour, doing them all random
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: today on this final.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Day to give you a shot to do it.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: And the winner that we had last hour, what was
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: his name the winter that we had Trent.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Trent.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Managed to get into the queue after we had said
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: we didn't have all the way up to ten entries
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: yet because I mentioned it, we came out of the
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: break we were close, but we hadn't got there yet,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: and said, hey, you need a couple more boom he
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: hopped right in and Trent got his. So it's important
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: to keep that in mind now this next hour, I
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: can tell you in advance, you're gonna want to be trick.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: You're gonna want to be quick on the trigger to
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: do it to get into the queue. And I'll just
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: say that much. In a few minutes, I'll tell you
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: how you can get a copy of that. Coming up
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: in a few minutes. Also will visit with Jeene Watson
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: live from Tokyo as he'll join us to talk Major
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: League Baseball. We'll talk to Pennant Races, the wild card races.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: There's some huge series this week and with the Braves
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: and Brewers are playing a great pitching matchup tonight, right.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Jacob Miselawski facing a guy that he's called his childhood
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: pitching idol in Chris Sale. That is must CTV if
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: you're a baseball fan, but especially a fan of great pitching.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean it feels like every American League
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: West series is great. You got Kate Anderson making his
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: debut this weekend for Seattle.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Yep, so looking forward to all that.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So anyway, those that will visit with Gino and
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: talk about that on the other things. Okay, the Long
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Worn football team has a scrimmage coming up tomorrow and
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: it's really kind of the most involved camp scrimmage they
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: had won. And they had to hold some players out,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: some by precaution, some due to health because they had
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: a little flu bug kind of sweep through the team.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: I think they've all cleared it, or mainly just about
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: all have cleared that, so they should be able to have.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: All hands on deck for that scrimmage.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Now, the scrimmage they had last Saturday, some of the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: mainline guys saw very little action in that, Arch Manning
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: being one of those guys. Also, Cam Coleman, the transfer
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: wide receiver, the much ballyhooed pre season All American wide receiver,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: the transfer from Auburn, didn't get an awful lot of action.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: A lot of the front line guys did not in
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: that they got some but not a lot, and so
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Coleman was able to get some more. There will almost
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: certainly be more work for those guys tomorrow. It's you
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: got one last full on scrimmage because next week the
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: final full week of practice before they get to game week.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: The week will conclude with what they call the mock game.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: It's kind of a dress rehearsal, but it's more for
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: timing and walking out and the introduction on the field
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: and the PA stuff, all that stuff for their clocks
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: to be in order to get ready for a start
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: of the season, which of course would be the following
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Saturday on the fifth, and that contest will be against
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Texas State. It's fifteen days to kick off. Today, I
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: noticed our man cb on X likes to, you know,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: mark each day with a different longhorn or long horns, and.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: He picked two for today one.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: I thought it was really really good to hit the
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: pick because people might not have that big recollection and
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: memory of Bill Norton when he played at Texas. He
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: was an Arizona transfer coming in, but Norton was a
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: big dude on that defensive front, and he made the
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: goal line stop against Clemson when Clemson was trying to
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: drive in that playoff game here in Austin back in
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and on fourth down, Bill Norton.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Made a great tackle and that was that. On that.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: The other one that I think would probably be more
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: celebrated and more remembered by long art fans is Hunter
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Lawrence and Texas of course was playing Nebraska in the
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Big twelve championship game. And remember the long runs had
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: a really difficult time in that game, and it was
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: it was in Dominican Sue just had a night and
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: was just kind of slinging Colt McCoy around like a
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: rag doll for a lot of it. Texas Howard fought
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: back and had that one final drive down the field
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: and had the pass that McCoy threw and overthrew. He
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: had to scramble out and time was running out and
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: it skipped out of bounds.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: The clock showed zero.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Nebraska players came running on the field thinking they'd won
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: the ball game twelve ten. I could tell, however, when
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: it skipped, even when I looked that the clock was
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: moving from one second to zero, but it had not
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: reached zero, and sure enough they reviewed it.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: And I found out from.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Visiting with one of the guys who was in the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: booth with the clock operator, a guy that a former
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: official that I'd known, And I said, boy, that was
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: something you said. You want to take a guess at
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: how much time was left on the clock when that
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: ball skipped out of bounds.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I said half a second.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: He said, well, in that control room it gets down
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: to thousands of seconds, and the time remaining was zero
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: point three nine seconds three almost four tenths of a
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: second left.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: Could they they don't round down?
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and and you know I said, hey, in college basketball,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: that's that's enough to get a shot away off an
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: inbounds pass. So it went out of bounds and with
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: zero point thirty nine left, so they put one second
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: back on the clock. And Hunter Lawrence we were just
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: talking about Bernie, you know, playing in this little world series.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Hunter Lawrence was from Bernie, out of Bernie High. And
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: he would have the big kick, the hold forty six
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: yard field.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: On time's gone. But Texas a little ones have one the.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Big ten tenpion shift hunters sent as.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: He took Pasadena forty six yard field goal. Texas wonted
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: thirteen to twelve, and then went on, of course, to Pasadena,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: and that's when Cole McCoy got hurt against Alabama, and
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: there was all of that kind of stuff.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: So anyway, all right.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: We need a break, uh and when we come back,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: we'll talk some baseball, which Ian Watson and he'll join
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: us live from Tokyo. We do want to give away
• 40:03
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• 40:20
  Speaker 1: from AM thirteen hundred the Zono. Okay, it is three
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: eighteen pm Central time.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Here in Austin, Texas.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: It is five eighteen am local time. I do believe
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: in Tokyo, Japan, and that is where we find our
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: good friend, our colleague, our MLB insider from the Chicago
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: White Sox front office, Gene Watson. I guess I should
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: say good morning, kanishiwa all of those kinds of things
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: as you join us I do appreciate you getting up
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: before what's it with My wife's mom used to say,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: you're getting up before God gets up or something like
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: that is what she used to say off of that.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: So anyway, I appreciate that. How are you today?
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Everything's good, man, This sleep stuff is real over here.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: It has been six days and you're literally I was
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: telling Chris Gets, our general manager, about ten minutes ago,
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: this is the closest thing to high school to days
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: for those that remember high school. Two days that I
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: can ever remember. If you wake up, you go to practice,
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: you go back and you sleep, and then you go
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: back to the field and then you sleep, and that's
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: that's all it's really been for six days. But what
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: a what an incredible place. Yeah, I want you to
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: the thrill of my lifetime. I want you to describe this.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Tell folks what it is that that why you're in Tokyo,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: and and and then I've got some follow up questions
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: with regard to that, But first of all, let's start
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: with the why. And you in the group from the
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: White Sox front officer out there in Japan, Yeah, we're
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: really feeding off a lot of momentum from signing unim
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: or A Taki last winter, and obviously what he's been
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: to our organization and our team, and and and very
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: quickly the Chicago I Talks have become a presence here
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: in Japan, and really for the first few days we
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: had what would be considered Japan's ESPN and and probably
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: even bigger following us, you know, to lunches to the ballpark,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: to our interactions with with members of organizations from Japan,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: and so that that's been a really cool part of
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: the trip, is to be able to dive into the
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: culture and the rituals and and truly how respectful everybody
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: is here not only for each other, but but for
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: the game of baseball.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: And so we've been doing kind of a fellowship.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Trip and also scouting league and obviously with Muni, you know,
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: impacting our organization the way he has this year, you know,
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: we're looking to double down on that. And the MPB
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: is a tremendous league. There are some stars here. Soto,
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: the third baseman is going to be coming over and
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: he is just going to be a superstar at the
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: major league level. Sato, and so, you know, it's been
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: it's been a lot of different things that have brought
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: us here, but it's been an unbelievable trip. I got
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: my first ride on a bullet train last night, one
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: hundred and ninety nine miles an hour, which was crazy.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: He's like riding a ride at six Flags. But it's
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: been an incredible trip so far.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: I'm almost getting this this vibe. And you tell me
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: if there's any truth to this. Since you said you've
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: got a big Japanese sports slash news agency that had
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: been following you guys around, did you have to deal with.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Use an interpreter?
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I'm almost gathering the reverse of when I've as much
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Dodgers as I've seeing shoe a Otani with his interpreter,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: will Ireton having a trends like did you have an
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: interpreter with you?
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: We did, and literally, you know, we're at this lunch,
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: you know, down the stairs into this kind of really dark,
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: cavernous room.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: It was an Italian restaurant.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: It was it was amazing, But yeah, we had an
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: interpreter that would ask questions. And really one of the
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: questions asked of me was which which I found to
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: be a trip down you know, memory lane, was you know,
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: what what involvement have you had with Japanese baseball in
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: the past, and my first assignment ever in scouting was
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: the Hideki Rabu deal with the San Diego Padres and
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: the New York Yankees. I was covering the New York
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Yankee spring training and that was in nineteen ninety seven.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: I remember it like it was yesterday. And then you moved.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: The part twenty fourteen American League Championship team in Kansas City,
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: and then they were super excited to hear about my
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: relation retionship with Shoeotani from the twenty twenty one season
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: and obviously Muni in this year and what he's done
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: in Chicago. So to be able to chronologically walk them
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: through that timeline of great Japanese players was a really
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: fun thing to do.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: You know, It's funny when you mentioned Adeki Rabu. All
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: I can remember conjuring up in my mind is the
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: late great Harry Carey. You know, on script, here's Deki
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Iraba Ira boo rob. I just remember him trying to
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: pronounce Adaki Rabu's name. And then there's another thing I
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: want everybody to hear. This is something that Gene sent
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: to me, uh last night and before I play it,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: uh when I remarked that it sounded like a college
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: football game. This is this is like a normal thing, Geno.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: At a baseball game. The fan interaction with the music
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: and the singing is that what this is.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: Very much so.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: And every player here, you know, in the United States,
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: you have your walk up and that's the same here.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: But every player here during the app bat has a song.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: And so these fans with with drum and horns literally
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: create a song for each player as they walk up,
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: and they sing the song the entire time of the
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: at bat, almost like a cheer to get behind the hitter.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: And so in the top of the first you'll have
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: the visiting teams fans singing their songs for their players,
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: and in the bottom of the first you'll have the
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: home team song singing the song for their players. And
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: we went to Sabu last night in the it was
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: a night game. The fans were it was incredible to
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: the scene.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Wow, what they have here.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: I want folks to listen to this and tell me
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: if this sounds like going out to like a college
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: football or a college basketball game. Now, now, who were
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: the two teams was playing in this game?
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: Genau, that would have been Sabu and Tokyo Okay, all
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: right with Tokyo Giants.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. The Tokyo Dome is really cool too.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: It's kind of got a King Dome feel to it
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: from Seattle, a little bit of Tampa feel to it.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: So it's it's so funny you get over here and
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: you get excited about the dim sum and all the
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: crazy food you're gonna eat and first meal we had
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: with CGI Fridays.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: So but we have since done well on the restaurant. Okay,
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: all right, that's good. Gino.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: The other thing in Geene Watson joining us live from
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Tokyo uh this morning where it's five twenty six am Japan.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: Time right now.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: I've often heard that Japanese baseball, their major League, their
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: big League is from the totality of it, pitching, hitting, defense,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: roster construction, everything may close resemble Triple A or between
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: double A and Triple A. What's your assessment of the
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: overall time Obviously in seeing Amurakami, obviously in seeing Otani
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: or or you know, any of the other great Japanese
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: are seeing a rookie Soasaki or any of these other
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: players down through the years, we've seen the best of
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: the best each row. Of course, at the top of
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: the list come over to the US. But the totality
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: of the baseball, the skill, the roster, the depth, how
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: would you describe it?
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean when you talk about the you know,
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: the Olympics, in the World Baseball Classic, and the things
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: that this country competes in globally against every country. You know,
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: from a top to bottom standpoint, the top of their
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: talent is is potentially the best in the world. When
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: you're talking about building out your twenty six man rosters
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: relative to how they present in the United States, I
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: would say that that probably a third to a quarter
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: of the team or Triple A and or fringe type
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: major league players that you would have in Triple A
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: that would bounce back and forth.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: In the major leagues.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: But but when you put the very best of this
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: league on the field, We've seen it in the World
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: Baseball Classic, in the Olympics, the very best that represents
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: this country or as good as anybody in the world.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: And they take a lot of pride, it's a lot
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: of discipline. They played the game extremely fluid and fundamentally,
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: and there's there's no high walk games over here. These
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: games move very quick. Everybody throws strikes and so it's
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: a it's a very discipline game.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: You know, Trey Wilman, Liberty.
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: Hill Residents, managed over here the Nipon team that won
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: the championship when he was here, and so you know,
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: I was calling him before the trip and like just
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: quizzing him on the things to expect in this country.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: But the style of play and the discipline and the
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: respect that that they have for the game is is
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: second to none in the world.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: I want to ask you a couple of things about
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: series going on this week. We talked about, you know,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: last weekend Dodgers Brewers series was going to be big,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: and the Brewers won three out of four, huge series
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: between Milwaukee and Atlanta. And this was right after you know,
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: the White Sox had stumbled a little bit, then came
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: through swept the series from the Tigers, then ran into
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: that Hot Braves team dropped two out of three, and
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: now Atlanta's playing Milwaukee. That would appear to be I
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: would think these series of the week in MLB, don't
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: you think it really is?
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: In Atlanta?
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: You know, we had that makeup game yesterday that Grant
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: Holmes pitching a tremendous game too, and there they are
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: very scary right now because they're healthy, and health has
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: been an issue for them for some time. But they've
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: got their lineup back. Their rotation is as good as
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: anybody in the game. And this is again as a
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: statement series for both teams. I think the Brewers have
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: continued to prove that they are one of, if not
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: the best team in the National League. But again, you know,
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: this is going to be a series that you know,
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: you want to kind of battle.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: You look at our series again the Cubs.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: You know, we won one of the three games, but
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: all three games were championship caliber play and that's really
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: what you're looking for in series like this leading into
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: September and the grind into the finish line.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: That was the other series I was going to mention
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: that the Cubs it was. Well, I want to ask
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: you a couple other things. One and I'd like for
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: you to give the educated perspective that you do from
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: the front office perspective on the challenge that a front
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: office has to deal with when it comes to a
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: situation like what the Diamondbacks are dealing with with kateel
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Marteu he's Today they announced are transferring him from the
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: restricted list to the ten day injured list after he
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: failed to show up for that game in Boston. Mike
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Hayes and their GM that you know, he confirmed yesterday
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: that Marte's going to go to the injured list and
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: will return once he's healthy. And this absence and apparent
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: injury come as a tough time for the Diamondbacks that
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: right then there in the thick of the fight of
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: this deal he had on his lefting on Tuesday. But
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Tory Lavella, who I think is a really good manager
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: City has struggled to get information from Marte throughout the
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: course of the process. Last year, he went on that
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: restricted list when his home in Arizona was broken into
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: during the All Star break.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: So it's kind of tough.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: I wanted you to give some perspective on, you know,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: the communication and the challenge for a front office when
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: a guy kind of goes the route that can tell
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Marte has gone.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: Both this year and last year.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: Craig, it's a real struggle, and you know, I mean,
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: this is this is something that's really dear to me,
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: you know, the love for players, and I don't think
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: that the common fans really understands how hard it is
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: on major league players. It is a one hundred and
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: sixty two game season in one hundred and eighty two days.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: You have the demands of your family, you know, day
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: in and day out, the demands of staying healthy day
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: in day out, the demands of expectations from your organization,
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: from the fans, and sometimes when things can go wrong,
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: they can go wrong very quickly. And I'm not talking
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: about just can tell Marte. So as an organization, the
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: one thing you want to do first and foremost is
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: let the player know that you truly care about them
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: as a person, not just a baseball player, but you
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: care about them as a person. You want to make
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: sure that first and foremost they're okay. Then you begin
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: to cut the conversations with the agents to see, you know,
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: what words the common ground that we can meet to
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: find out how we can move forward with this. And
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: you just never know what a player is going through.
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: You never know what a player what set that player
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: off from a mental health standpoint, from a health standpoint,
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: from a pressure standpoint, from performance, And so it's really
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: just taking it very slow and making the player and
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: his represented to understand that first and foremost, we care
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: about you as a person and we want to make
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: sure that everything's right with you. And then you just
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: try to move forward as quickly as you can and
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: to get the player back on the field.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Gene Watson, joining us live from Tokyo here on thirteen,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: unders on two more things I want to ask about
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: GENA first of all, being the scouting savant that you've
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: been through the years, how about your thoughts on the
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Mariners calling up Kate Anderson, the prize pitching prospect that
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: pitch for LSU's national championship team. He's supposed to pitch
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: tomorrow against the Cubs, speaking a big series obviously Seattle
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: in Chicago being one of how about your thoughts on
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Kate Anderson being called up?
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I'm very close with Jerry Depoto, the
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: president of the Mariners, and we've had a lot of
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: conversation at a lot of conversations with a lot of
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: people within the organization, and the common theme has been,
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: you know, we just still know why this hasn't moved
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: the way it was supposed to. I mean, this team
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: was arguably not only the best team in the division,
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: but one that should compete for a world championship this year,
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: and it just hasn't happened. But when you inject this
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: type of talent, like a Kate Anders an end of
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: the team, it can be you know, momentum baseball is
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: the next day starting pitcher, and when you inject this
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: type of talent he goes out and pitches well, it
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: can maybe inject an energy into the team. It's like, Okay,
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: we're gonna be just fine. This guy is every fifth
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: day and he is truly one of the most talented
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: pitchers in all of baseball, certainly one of the best
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: young talent pitchers in all of baseball. But this is
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: the lift that the Maritors may have needed. And oftentimes
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: after the trade deadline, if you don't get exactly what
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: you wanted from the trade deadline, from building your roster
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: from the top down, the injection from the minor league
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: system is one that can really play dividends. You saw
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: that in two thousand and three with us with Dontrell
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: Willison and Miguil Cabrerat with the Marlins.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: You know, you saw it with your Dono Ventura with
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: US in Kansas City.
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: So this is this is actually a well timed, moved
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: by the Seattle Maritors to inject some life, some talent,
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: some energy into the twenty six men roster.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: All right, here's the one other thing I wanted to
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: ask you about.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: This is about the club you were like with and
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: you were a part of building that Kansas City Royals
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: World championship team. And we'd heard about this for some
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: time that the Royals were trying to get a real
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: initiative to go forward to build a new downtown stadium
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: near the Power and Light District, and which is a
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: wonderful place. It says, it's one of the one of
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: the things if you're going to miss something about being
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: in the Big twell, that would be one of them.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: The Big twelve basketball Tournament. They're in the Power and
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: Light District.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: And while wonderful things have been done in renovating Kaufman Stadium,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: it's a great place to watch a ball game.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: Still, the initiative has been to.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: Move forward to try to get everybody on board to
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: build a new downtown ballpark. Well, they were able to
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: clear a big hurdle on Wednesday, the Kansas City City
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Council proved a six hundred million dollar commitment to make
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: it happen. Of course, the club announced in April they
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: planned to partner with Hallmark Cards on a three billion
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: dollar project to create a mixed use development with the
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: new stadium as the centerpiece. And it says the city
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Council's decision will set the general structure for how the
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: city financial share of the investment.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: There's still more.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: Steps to navigate, But how about your thoughts today, It
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: looks like it's a major step forward for the Royals
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: to be able to move to a downtown ballpark.
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: Well, I was talking to our good friend Bob Fesco
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: about this yesterday, and I'm just so excited. I Mean,
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: you don't spend seventeen years in a city and not
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: fall in love with the city and feel like it's
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: part of your fiver for the rest of your life.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: And I just have so much love and affection for
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: the city of Kansas City, a tremendous baseball city, a
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: tremendous fan base, and I'm just so excited. You know,
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: for all the opposition that they've had, for the struggles
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: that they've had building in the stadium, and the debate
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: on where the stadium should be, the thing that is
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: so exciting is that there's going to be a new
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: ballpark in Kansas City. And once the first opening day
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: takes place and people really start to dive into the
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: ballpark and dive into the area around the ballpark, you
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: begin to create a new generation of fans. Those are
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: the people you know long after we're going from this
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: Earthla Like, I'm super excited for the next generation of
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: fans in Kansas City to.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: Have a venue like that in arguably one of.
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: The greatest sports cities in the world, and so super
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: excited for the rules organization, for their players, and certainly
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: for the fan base in the city of Kansas City.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: It's it's going to be a wonderful, wonderful thing when
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: it's finished.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: So you know, the only question I have about this.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: If they're partnering with Hallmark Cards on a three million,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: three billion dollar project, I guess maybe they'll they could
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: call it Hallmark Stateum my question is this, couldn't the
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Royals then land the Hallmark Network as their channel, much
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: like the Dodgers have with Spectrum Sports Net or the
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: Yankees have with the Yes Network, and have their own
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: television network through the Hallmark Channel.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: Makes sense, right?
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: Maybe you may be onto something there, Craig, and you
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: might be onto something there.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: And they could show romantic comedies like in between ballgames,
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: or imagery scenes from romantic from rom comms.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: In between innings. You know, maybe who knows.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: Film a lot of it, and they can film a
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: lot of those scenes at my favorite restaurant, Garrosos in.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: Kansas City, Okay, in Little Italy, that's my favorite. That's
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: my favorite area in Kansas City. Love that. When do
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: you come home?
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: Coming home Friday the twenty eighth, we'll actually be the
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: twenty ninth here, arrive the twenty eighth, and then we're
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: in Houston thirty one, one, two and three, looking forward
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: to that, and then it's off to lambeau Field for
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: Notre Dame.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Oh that's great.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: Hey, if we get a chance to love to do
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: it again with you in Japan next week, try to
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: hook up again.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: If that's okay, you bet it sounds great, Thank you, Gino.
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: And now go back to bed and get some sleep,
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: you know. Thank you.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: That's Steve Watson at five thirty seven a m.
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  Speaker 5: Sun.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah it is, and that he can come up yet
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: there in Japan.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: All right, we have more coming up when we continue
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: on thirteen hundred the zone and the IR radio app
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: here on a fire me up Friday here on a
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: one thirteen hundred zone Dave Matthews fan will fire you
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: up as well. A little late World Series Washington up
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: on Texas four to two. That's now in the fifth inning,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: so it's starting to get serious. But it would only
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: be the first loss for the Burning team as they
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: do fall. I mentioned the log runs are gonna have
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: this scrimmage coming up tomorrow and the veterans will get
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: more more snaps, and that includes Cam Coleman, who transferred
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: him from Auburn. And Coleman was asked, what is his
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: biggest challenge here? You can think about it coming through
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: the portal, adapting to everything through the transfer from Auburn,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: and uh this Texas program and coach Sark and you know,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: working with the other receivers. So you would think, you know,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: what are the biggest challenges that now he had something
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: else in mind.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: Biggest jellings heard say and want some say again, Traffic.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: I tell you traffic every day and I.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Fl like has got just get by the day, all right,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: So there it is. Traffic. Can't say is a blaming.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: You know what, I agree, it's he's learned that pretty quickly.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: Demiko Ryans, the Texans coach, after their loss to the
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Raiders last night. But their first line guys really did
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: a pretty good jobindent, so he was asked if the
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: game was one where he was able to see a
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: good continuation of their joint practices, regardless of the final score.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: Had really great practice this week.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 6: Really proud of the practice that we had both sides
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 6: of the ball, offensive and defensively. Thought our guys practiced
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 6: really well. They had a lot of good reps, a
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 6: lot of good positive plays that happened for us throughout
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 6: the practice and also in the game this week, guys
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 6: picked up right where they left off in the first half.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, And did he see what he wanted
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: to see in the limited time that he had CJ.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: Stroud out on the field.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 6: I wanted to see him them out get some live
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 6: reps with the first offensive line, just see him get
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 6: in rhythm, have some many fishing plays. And he did
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 6: exactly you know what we expecting him to do. And
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 6: that's the reason you just go get those live reps
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 6: for him. So it's not the first time that they're
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 6: rolling out versus Buffalo.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, and uh Jerry Jones in uh and
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: talking about his team headed over to Phoenix or Glendale
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: to play the Arizona Cardinals tomorrow night.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: Had a had a pretty good exchange with our good
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: friend Clarence Hill, who's covered the Cowboys forever for the
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: Forest Or Telegram and then his own site as well.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: And chill, as people knew Clarence Hill, chill, he kind
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: of had. He's known Clarence a long time, Jerry has
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: and they get along really well. But he had an
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: interesting exchange talking about Brian Schotteimer saying his.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: Team's not going to take anything from anybody.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 7: I'm offended Sportsmanshire, especially from you. Is your mother watching? No, seriously,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 7: without any humor at all. This is serious matter and
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 7: it needs to be taken that way by everybody associated
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 7: at the club level right up through the top.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you know it's one thing about not taking
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: any bleep from anybody, but yeah, he did say it's
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: a pretty serious matter.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 5: After laughing about it for fifteen seconds. Absolutely in the
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: way only Jerry can.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: We'll be back to wrap up our number two here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thirteen under the Zone.
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  Speaker 9: Welcome back to the Craig Way Show and the Voice
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 9: of the Longhorns Craig.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: Follow Craig on social media at or Force.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: I'm glad Jake brought us back here on this Repped Up,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: Fired Up Friday with E.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: L O H the Great Jeff Lynn.
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  Speaker 1: I made a comment about this yesterday because we were
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: talking about, uh, this recent scheme of concerts that Lynda
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: and I have been seeing throughout the court so the summer,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: and we concluded our so called summer concerts series on
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: Wednesday with Chicago and Sticks. However, it was a couple
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: of years ago that we saw Elo and I mentioned
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: Jeff Lynn and how I thought they were one of
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: the great underrated bands. The point of all of this
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: is that when I asked our next guest if he
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: would join us this week, he said yes, if we
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: can also discuss your summer concerts series. So with that
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: in mind, we conclude our SEC football previews today with
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: Texas A and M and the voice of the Fight
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: in Texas Haggis.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: That would be Andrew Monico, who joins us. I appreciate
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: the time. How are you.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 9: I'm always wonderful to talk to you.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: I'm serious.
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  Speaker 9: I mean you had a stellar lineup bands this summer.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: It was good and they came through.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 9: You saw them, correct.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: I tried to.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: And we also went up north and saw a little
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: riverband in Arlington and over the summer and we've seen
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: We've seen.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: A whole bunch lately.
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  Speaker 1: I think our next one on the schedule is not
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: till October with Skags. But we saw Boz a few
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: years ago. We saw and this this has nothing new
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: with rock and roll so much as it did popular music.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: But seeing the great Herb Alpert and the Tijuana brass
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: at age ninety two still blowing the horn. Seeing him
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: back in February, it's amazing. And I know you're a
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: big fan of the rock era and also the hot
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: rock era.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 10: Yeah you when you said you were saying Boskags, The
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 10: Dukes of September came through San Antonio with Donald Fagan
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 10: and Michael McDonald and it was phenomenal.
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  Speaker 9: And Boz still has it. I'm telling you, I didn't
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 9: want it to end. You know, you know you've been
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 9: to those, so you just don't want the cover. There's
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 9: certain there are certain songs you don't want to end.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 9: There are certain concerts that, yeah, you guys can keep
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 9: on playing anything you please, whenever you choose. That was
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 9: definitely one of them. I know, I know you will
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 9: definitely enjoy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And another Yeah, and we saw him at the Paramount
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: Theater in Austin. It's been about four years ago, but
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: we would definitely go back. And then to your point
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: about concerts you wish would not end. Two weeks ago,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: seeing the guests who in Fort Worth was and Don
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: Felder can still bring it the former Eagle open for them,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: it was great. But but but the guests who was
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: just seeing Burton Cummings at age seventy eight belt out
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: American Woman is a sight to behold.
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  Speaker 9: So it's amazing again, isn't it the classic example if
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 9: you're doing what you love, don't stop playing, keep just
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 9: keep keep keep on playing. And look, they're joy bringers,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 9: aren't they, Craig. They bring joy to their audiences and
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 9: it's to me, it's a it's a special connection that
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 9: we have is musicians, their music and our enjoyment.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: Well, you bring up a great point because I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: yesterday there's some people in a post of the pictures
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: and ah, they're nothing more now in the cover band,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: Chicago only has Lee Locknane left and and uh and
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: Dennis de Young isn't with sticks anymore. And I'm like, look,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: it's just like I said, the long worn fans enjoyed
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: the two thousand and five season with Vince Young. He's
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: not playing anymore, but Texas is still playing who. You
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: enjoyed this rendition of it and still seeing Tommy Shaw
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: with sticks and still seeing Lee Lockning with Chicago, still
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: seeing Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman with you know, playing
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: Guess Who songs and Bachman Turner Overdrive hits. I mean,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: we get to see the band's evolution and the artist
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: evolution of our time.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 9: Yeah. And to me, what's wrong with the echoes of right,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 9: it's it's the memories And obviously those members of those
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 9: bands now have that same passion. But that's why that
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 9: connection was made to the past. I'm with you, doesn't
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 9: take away from the present. In fact, sometimes it allows
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 9: us to enjoy. Also, obviously that team you talked about
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 9: set the bar. That's a great thing, right, that's the expectations. Yeah,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 9: I'm with you again. You can't describe someone else's joy.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 9: If you get joy from it, honestly, that's all that matters.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And and Andrew Monica, the Voice of the Aggies
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: with us here on thirteen under the Zone. Toward that end,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: we're talking about traditions and things and the traditions that
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: they have at Texas A and M. And the traditions
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: they have at Texas means so much to the fan base,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: is almost as much as the winning does. The winning
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: obviously means the most to the fans, but the perfect
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: combination is with you have the traditions wrapped into the
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: winning as well. And I know that's the hope for
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of Aggie fans about what this Texas A
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: and M team is capable of producing this fall on
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: the football field.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 9: Yeah, expectations change, and you know what, you have to
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 9: live up to the expectations. And the beauty of head
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 9: coach Mike Elko Craig is he has said that this
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 9: program has not handled success. Well, he was a part
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 9: of it that didn't handle success. Well, well, that's brand new.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 9: And if you want to be in the upper echelon
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 9: of the SEC, you have to handle those expectations and
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 9: you have to be better than you were in the
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 9: past and you have to keep building. And that's the
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 9: beauty of wh We've talked about this. He's honest without
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 9: being personal. This is the honesty. What they did last
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 9: year was special. They got into the College Football Playoff.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 9: They had never done that before. But there's a couple
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 9: things that were missing. They lost in Austin to Texas
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 9: for the second consecutive year, a chance to go to Atlanta.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 9: They've never been there, and they put themselves in position
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 9: twice the first year, eight wins. They didn't play well
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 9: in November. What was the mantra finish? They didn't finish, Craig,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 9: I can't be any more honest than that. They got
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 9: out physical in the last thirty minutes against Texas, they
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 9: got out physicaled against Miami. That has to be the
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 9: chip on the shoulder. So you go from finish to
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 9: unfinished business. And you hope that the players coming back understand.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 9: Is that an extra rep in the weight room, Is
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 9: that an extra route that you run? Things like that,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 9: But you can't forget that that was an eleven win team.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 9: You can't forget that they went to the playoff. Now
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 9: build on it. You just got respected Number eight in
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 9: a preseason poll. That's great. What are you going to
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 9: do now when the ball snaps? Because as you know,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 9: and this is what the Longhorns have faced, your everybody's
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 9: marquee game on the schedule, you better get used to
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 9: that target being on your back. Way easier being the
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 9: underdog than the favorite. That's where Texas A and m
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 9: I don't think they've worn that mantle well in the past.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 9: I think under Mike Elko, I think they're gonna wear
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 9: it better. But that's going to be one of the
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 9: tests this season, is that.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: A bit of the vibe that you may have gotten
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: from this group is understanding that even though it was
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: a better season in year two, the finishing thing, the
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: finishing piece wasn't where they wanted it to be, either
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: of the game in Austin or Obviously, it's even more
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: heartbreaking to lose a home college football playoff game when
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: you're right there with a shot. I'm sure that if
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: folks had offered you, or offered Mike Elko said, Look,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: Mimi's only going to score ten points in the football game,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: probably feel pretty good about chance to win. So have
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: you gotten that kind of vibe from the players that
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: you've watched on the practice field and visited with that.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: There is kind of this unfinished business mentality going on
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: because they were unable to finish those two ball games
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: at the end of the season.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it had it has been like that, and that's
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 9: the disappointment. And Craig, isn't that the way fans are
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 9: You tell them, oh, it's going to be an eleven
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 9: win season and you're going to be all excited, right,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 9: So who.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: Are the two losses?
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 9: The two most important games that you played, right, So
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 9: that's where you balance it. And look, I think there's
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 9: an awful lot to the players who moved on into
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 9: the NFL Draft are leaving their legacy of how do
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 9: you prepare? This is what we did to get to
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 9: a season like that. Now we hand it off to you,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 9: and to me, it's special that the young linebackers they
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 9: got to play with Tory and York or a lineman
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 9: watch Trey Zoon or wide receivers they saw how Casey
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 9: Concepcione was. That's where the legacy comes. And again it
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 9: was almost like you guys, now take it the next step.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 9: Year one was the foundation. Okay, we got the first
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 9: floor done, second floor is a little unfinished. Now it's
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 9: up to you. And again we're not going to know
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 9: until November. But the September and October games sets you up.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 9: That set them up for the Aggies to be on
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 9: the cusp of going to an SEC championship game. And
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 9: again we can argue in this college Football playoff, is
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 9: it better to go again? A and M's never been there.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 9: That would be a great, great thing for the Aggies
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 9: to go play a championship game in Atlanta because they
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 9: haven't been there. They've gotten all the paperwork, they've done,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 9: all the preparations, they've never gotten on that plane to
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 9: play in that game. I think that would be another
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 9: step into Hey, these are the expectations for this program.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 9: This is what we want to do every year. So
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 9: when you come into this program as a transfer or
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 9: as a freshman, as a recruit, here's your expectation.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: On all of these SEC previews with a prior fifteen
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: fourteen play by play voices of the other fifteen in
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: this conference, uh you know, uh. Separating from Texas, I've
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: started off use the offense with a quarterback and in
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: many cases I got the we'll wait and see. You
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: know that says, it's kind of up in the air.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: It's you know, with several of the schools, that's not
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: the case here, and and and there's, there's and and
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: I ticked them off yesterday. There's a few schools that
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: fall into this category. Texas would be one, with arch
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: spanning obviously, Trinidad Chambler's at ole Miss certainly comes to mind.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: There there are Gunner Stockton at Georgia. There there are
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: schools for whom that's a given about what you're going
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: to get. I would say the same thing would be
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: for Marcel Reed, even though by Marcel's own comments and
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: what he said, he feels he has another step to
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: take as a quarterback.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 9: Right, he's the guy, right And I understood this when
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 9: Mike said this last year. Mikelko said this last year.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 9: He understands what it takes to be the number one
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 9: quarterback in the SEC. Now, even that's he's got to
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 9: be even more consistent than he was. There was some inconsistency.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 9: You can't have an entire first half be bad against
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 9: South Carolina. And now the leadership came to in that
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 9: locker room, Mike Goko didn't have to say a lot.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 9: It was Marcel and Torrian Yorke who did all the talking.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 9: But how do you make it maybe a driver too,
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 9: and get back on tracks. That's what I think is
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 9: the next step. The leadership is there. He's learned to
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 9: throw the deep ball better. And let's be honest, you're
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 9: a better quarterback when you have Casey conceptsi On catching
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 9: right like that. That's the thing. Like the wide receiving
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 9: Corps has done hurt, No, it doesn't. It makes you.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 9: But Mario krag is back, and you bring in Isaiah
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 9: Horton from Alabama. That's going to help. And you see Ashton,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 9: Bethel Roman and Terry Bussey being healthy. It's a little
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 9: bit deeper as well. But that's what's next for Marcell.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 9: And he never stops getting better. He doesn't say, Okay,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 9: I'm number one and I'm going to relax. That's not
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 9: the case. What's really good for them is now it's
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 9: the same second year for Brady Harts. It's not new.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 9: He wasn't the number two. That's Miles O'Neil who's now
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 9: at North Carolina. Now Brady Hart's it's a new role
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 9: for him. But Marcel is one. He is that leader
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 9: and he reaches across that line of scrimmage. He leads
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 9: that defense. He's one of those leaders in the team.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 9: To me, it's the consistency and making those throws. Something
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 9: mikel Riley has tight end said, it's our job to
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 9: catch the ball and be in position for Marcell. That's
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 9: now what we need to do. And I think you'll
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 9: see Marcell use the legs a little bit because he
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 9: can be a game breaker. And I just think that
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 9: what is next for him and watching him while he's
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 9: been here, continue to learn, continue to grow. Be in
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 9: that film room talking with now Holman Wiggins, it was
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 9: Colin Klein. You see the maturation as well and understand
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 9: the importance of being in that role. He is the guy,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 9: and I think he's got the makeup to be that guy.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 9: Whether it's slings and arrows or whether it's praise. I
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 9: think he's able to handle both.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, I would imagine you feel pretty good about
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: your offensive line with all the veterans you have coming
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: back there on the old line.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's an SEC line. They need to play together
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 9: and that's the whole thing. And what I've liked talking
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 9: with them, and they've kind of adopted this. It's it's
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 9: not that we don't want Marcel to get sacked. We
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 9: don't want Marcel to get hit and I love that.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 9: And no matter what you do, you greg, doesn't matter
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 9: you win up front, it doesn't matter what league, pro college,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 9: you win up front. How quickly will that group come together,
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 9: because it will be guys from around the SEC who
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 9: have played against SEC D lines and pick an SEC
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 9: schedule yours hours anybody's you're going to face a front
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 9: four that's outstanding to that point, I'm not sure you're
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 9: going to. I don't know. I'm not sure the A
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 9: and M offensive line is going to see a better
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 9: defensive line than what they're going to to see Monday
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 9: through Thursday. And I think that sharpens that skill for them.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 9: How quickly they come together, that's going to be one
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 9: of the question marks with some teams early in the schedule.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 9: And I'm thinking Kentucky new head coach, Arkansas new head coach,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 9: even LSU new head coach. They're going to be talented.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 9: I don't know if that's an advantage or not. Where
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 9: it's Mike Elko going into year three and a number
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 9: of players coming back, but Yeah, I think it really
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 9: will be decided the success by how quickly that offensive
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 9: line comes together and plays as a group. I just
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 9: saw Kellen Mond today at practice and he talked about
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 9: even that line in twenty twenty, the team that went
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 9: to the Orange Bowl, it was the fourth and two
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 9: against Florida. It was that game where that line came together.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 9: Isaiah Spiller scores and that's when it really came together
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 9: and took off. Can that happen early in the season
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 9: for this offensive line to gel and play as a
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 9: what do they say, not five fingers, but as.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: A fist, no doubt about it.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: Andrew Monico played by play voice of the Texas A
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: and m Aggie's joining us here on thirteen under the
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: Zoner Sec Previews. It's safe to say, as good as
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: this Aggie defense is capable of being again this year,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: that the strengths will be the down lineman in the
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: back four there, even though you've got a veteran or
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: two at the linebacking spot as well. It's hard to
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: pick what I would call the question mark really with
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: this defensive unit.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm hoping it's salty. I like using that. I
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 9: like what defensive coordinators say we're salty, and as you
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 9: know in camp, this is the time right now when
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 9: you start getting the skirmishes.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: Right right because it gets little shippy.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 9: They're getting salty. No the D line, and Mike Elko
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 9: said this that more D line. Since he was the
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 9: DC in twenty eighteen, they've sent more D linemen to
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 9: the NFL. And it's almost been a point of pride here,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 9: has it not. And Mike's been a part of that.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 9: Now he's also an old safeties coach, so you know
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 9: the back end is going to be good. You start
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 9: on that D line and I think it's going to
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 9: be on the interior. DJ Hicks here's a kid that
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 9: I know that they really loved when they brought in
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 9: and that development, but even he knows he has to
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 9: go to another level. Marco Jones was a freshman last
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 9: year and really they limited his reps early, but they
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 9: didn't towards the end. He was in the crux of
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 9: the game. That's important. Antosaka, who they get from Northwestern,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 9: will be a very big edge guy. Now he's got
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 9: to replace cash as Hall and there will be those
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 9: comparisons to him that will be big on the back end,
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 9: both safeties come back in Marcus Ratcliffe could have gone
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 9: to the draft decide to come back. He and Dalton
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 9: Brooks will be at safeties, and I think getting Ricky
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 9: Gibson the third replacing Will Lee at corner that experience
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 9: at Tennessee with des Rick's on the other side. The
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 9: other thing that I think you have to have, Craig,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 9: especially going to a nine game SEC schedule, do you
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 9: have depth or do you just have guys? And I
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 9: think you have to have depth to succeed because, as
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 9: you know, teams are too good and if you have
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 9: a player who's not nearly as good SEC, teams will
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 9: target that player. They will pick at that flaw. And
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 9: that's where I think, because of the nine games battered,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 9: you're going to have to have rotational players. You better
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 9: not have any drop off. And I think what's really
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 9: key to what Mike has built is I think he's
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 9: got the depth at these positions as well, and you're
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 9: going to see that kind of rotation through games. On
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 9: ten play drives, you may see a different line and
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 9: then you also have your ones who are fresh towards.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: The end of the game.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: You kind of went the direction I was getting ready
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: to go. Because the way I've also done this with
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: all of our SEC play by play brethren is to
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: ask their opinion of the nine game conference schedule, because
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: it does provide a bit of a challenge, especially if
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: you only have two games before jumping in the conference plays.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: The Aggies do with Kentucky opening a conference play at
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: home with a test from Arizona State obviously at hand,
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: and you open with Missouri State, and most of the
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: guys almost too, man, I think have said and I
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: kind of feel this as well. The nine game conference schedule,
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: I think is great for the fans, It's good for
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: us of our broadcasters and for media. Obviously, coaches would
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: rather it not be that way. As I said, you know,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: I keep quoting our women's basketball coach Vick Schaefer who
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: says you'd rather play a quality opponent than three named
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: directional state university, you know, as a non conference opponent. There.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: How about your thoughts on the nine game schedule?
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah, to me, and pick a sport, any sport in
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 9: the SEC. Once you get in the conference, nobody's beating
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 9: that strength of schedule, nobody. Will it work to the
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 9: advantage or not? Is there SEC fatigue for voters. I
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 9: personally don't think so, Craig. I look at the outsiders
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 9: who say, you know that, they don't. They don't have
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 9: to play the schedule, so they don't. I think it's
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 9: easy to say, now this will be the first time
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 9: the Aggies have an SEC game in Week three. That's
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 9: that's going to be an adjustment to jump into the conference.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 9: I think it has to work to your advantage when
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 9: it comes to the playoff that you're there's no nine
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 9: game schedule. That's easy. Sorry, you can say it you
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 9: have until you go through it, until you until you
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 9: have to wake up on the Sunday morning and realize,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 9: I don't care it might be the worst team in
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 9: the SEC. You're still getting You're still getting a test.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 9: I think it has to be in the favor that
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 9: it has to be favorable when it looked at the
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 9: playoff that you played nine SEC games plus that tenth
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 9: game is against a power for it's got to work
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 9: to your advantage or what are we doing? Because if
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 9: it doesn't work to our advantage, go back to eight?
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 9: You know what I mean? That that's what gets me
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 9: or eight and a power to me with nine and
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 9: everybody's playing nine. And as you know, before the Aggies
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 9: played Texas, we have Oklahoma. There's no longer having that
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 9: directional team. Now. If A and M and Texas both
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 9: had that directional team, that's fine.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: In the schedule.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 9: That's not the way it is. That's now, that's now
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 9: a conference game, making November even more difficult. Everybody has
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 9: to do it. Okay, but if we pick each other
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 9: off every once in a while, is nine and three
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 9: in the SEC as impressive as eleven and something in
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 9: a conference that's not as strong. Personally, Yes, they deserve
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 9: to be there. I've always said this, no matter what,
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 9: I don't think other schools like to see an SEC
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 9: name pop up. NCAA tournament March madness they hate it.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 9: Baseball regional, they hate in an SEC. Don't they think
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 9: it's like, because you're tested, you're tested for thirty games
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 9: in baseball, you're tested for twenty games in basketball, you're
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 9: going to be tested for those nine.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: Games in football.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 9: To me, that's where when you know when when they
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 9: WinCE when that name comes up, you know that they're
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 9: in for a tough.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: Match up, no doubt.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: Andrew Monico played by play, Voice of the Texas A
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: and M. Maggie said, and I never hesitate to say this.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: I know we've got long time, hard boil, long worn
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  Speaker 1: fans on one side, and there's longtime hard boiled Aggie
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  Speaker 1: fans on the other side.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: You and I have been buds for a while, and
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  Speaker 1: so we'll get the wives together and do a yacht
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  Speaker 1: rock show at something like Let's.
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  Speaker 2: Do It, Let's do It.
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  Speaker 9: I would love that. I would love that.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll see you Thanksgiving week.
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  Speaker 9: It look forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: My friend that is Andrew Monico, Texas A and M
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  Speaker 1: play by play voice. We have more coming up on
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  Speaker 1: thirteen hundred. The Zone