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Steve Sarkisian on Texas being heavy favorites against Oklahoma: "I did not know that" · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the craig Way Show with the voice of the
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  Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame Broadcasting Craig Way. All right,
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  thanks again the Gene Watson, our MLB insider there. Yeah,
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  I think he's probably got a future in broadcasting at
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  some point, in working in doing podcasting and commenty, especially
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  when you hear all the things, all the podcast and
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  all the satellite network radio baseball shows. I think he's
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  you know, he's been doing it for a while and
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  we always enjoy having him on joining us as well.
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  The Tigers and Guardians are still scoreless, although Cleveland is
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  threatening a leadoff double. U has the first run of
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  the ball game about to score. Maybe not. It was
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  a hit through the left side. Yeah, so they're runners
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  on the corners, but nobody out for Cleveland as they
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  bat in the bottom half of the sixth inning. We'll
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  keep you post on them. And again, the Guardians lead
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  that series one game to none of Detroit and Cleveland.
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  Other than other than teams who have never been to
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  the World Series, like the Mariners, I'm trying to think
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  who else has never been New World Series? Is it?
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  Is it only the Mariners who have never been to
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  a World Series. You go American League East Yankees Orioles,
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  Blue Jay's, Red Sox AH. Then in the Central with Royals, Tigers, Guardians,
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  Twins uh. And then you have Angels, Rangers, astros A's. Yeah,
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  you're in the they're in the right division, the the
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  and the Mariners. So there's never appeared World series, right,
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  has anyone else never appeared in the World Series. They're
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  the only ones who know, all right, so other than
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  the Seattle Mariners who've never been in a World Series
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  but didn't come into existence until nineteen seventy seven. And
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  so you can make this statement, and it is true.
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  The longest drought for appearing in a World Series belongs,
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  or for winning for winning a World Series belongs to
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  the Cleveland Guardians, who were the Indians for roof not
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  one one since nineteen forty eight. Now, they were in
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  it when they lost to the Cubs in twenty sixteen.
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  They were in it ninety seven when they lost Game
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  seven to the Marlins. Uh. And they've been in it.
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  They were in it nineteen fifty four when they won
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  one hundred and eleven ball games that year and got
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  swept by the Giants in the World Series. But that's
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  the longest drought because the Mariners weren't even in existence
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  until nineteen seventy seven. So Cleveland has the longest drought
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  of not winning a World Series. But they do have
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  a one nothing lead. Do they have one nothing linking? Yes?
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  A double No, they got out of it. Tiger's got
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  out of the ground ball double play. Wow. Scooball very
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  very happy through that inning. A double play got the
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  Tigers out of the inning. So it's still scoreless after
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  six innings there quickly turned double play six four to
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  three to end the frame. There, All right, let's hear
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  some more from Long Oranges head coach Steve Sarkesian. This
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  from the weekly news conference that we brought to you
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  a live earlier today here on sports Radio AM thirteen
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  hundred The Zone, and he was asked if he had
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  a favorite Texas ou moment. What might that be?
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  Speaker 2: I love everything about the Red River rivalry. I love
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  pulling into the State Fair and seeing fans from both
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  teams and horns up, horns down, all the stuff's flying
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  around the buses. I love walking the field. I love
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  the tunnel. I love both teams being on the tunnel together.
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  I love coming down and their fans on top of us.
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  I love looking at the sea of burn orange and
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  running to that end of the field. I love the
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  city of the game. I love how crowded the sidelines are.
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  I don't I don't know how so many people get
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  on the sidelines for this game, but they do. Hey whatever,
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  you know, I turn over, turn around and Governor Abbotts
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  right next to me on the field, And there's just
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  stuff that happens in this game that I think that's
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  what makes this game special. And like I said, we're
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  fortunate to be part of it, and this week's no different.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked if there's a specific position for Oklahoma
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  that presents the biggest challenge to taxes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they've all they've got big playability at the wide
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  receiver spot, you know, and I think they've done a
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  nice job of creating explosive plays and recruiting to explosive
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  play makers, you know, whether it's Burke's Anderson, you know,
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  Brendon Thompson's created explosive plays. So they've got speed, they've
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  got length, they've got playmaking ability, and that's that's you know,
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  one of the keys to the drill is is how
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  do we how do we guard those people stop the
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  run and worry about a quarterback who can extend plays
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  with his legs and so there's a lot of levels
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  to this. But you know, when you have threats on
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  the perimeter, now you have to think about how how
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  are we gonna how are we gonna guard them in
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  a fashion to try to minimize those explosive plays that
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  they're more than capable of making.
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  Speaker 1: I asked my cardball hard on our Long Worns Monday
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  live coverage this morning. I said, I said, you do
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  a better job than I do of paying attention to
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  such things. I said, well, what are the fellas in
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  the desert saying about this? In other words, the points
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  breadt the betting line and at the time he said
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  fourteen and a half and it hadn't moved since last week,
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  So it'll be interesting to see well. Sark was asked
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  about his team being a two touchdown favorite.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that it's a rivalry game. Forget forget
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  whatever we're favored or we're not. It doesn't matter. You
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  know that records and things don't matter in games like this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so when it comes to freshman quarterbacks playing, arch
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  banning of course is played, so and then Michael Hawkins
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  being a true freshman as well. Is there advantage to
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  playing some freshman quarterback to get him that kind of experience?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think one thing one of the advantages
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  being a true freshman starter in games like this, you
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  have no scars, right, you have no wounds, you have
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  no You're playing with a you know, a clean slate,
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  a blank slate. You know, he's a blank canvas that's
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  just starting to start his career. And so you know,
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  he doesn't have any of those things in the back
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  of his head to worry about, and he's sure he's
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  going to go in there and let it rip and
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  go play. And our job is to try to confuse him.
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  Our job is to try to make it difficult on him.
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  How we do that, We have to do that a
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  variety of ways that you know, all hopefully can add
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  up to making it a tough day for him. But again,
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  that's easier said than done. On a Monday at eleven
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  forty five or whatever time it is. You know, it's
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  going to be a big task for all parties involved,
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  coaches and players included.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt about it. We'll hear more from Coach Star
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  coming up tomorrow, We'll be back to wrap up today's
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  program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.
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