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Texas Bye Week Updates, Alabama's Offense on Sarks Radar and More · The Craig Way Show

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Speaker 1: Updating the baseball going on right now. Astros and Tigers
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are scoreless as the Astros bats with the leadoff man aboard.
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I said that, and he's now forced out at second.
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Tigers weren't able to get the double play, and in
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fact the man sliding in the second once a review,
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he thinks that the out wasn't recorded, even though the
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umpire says it happened on the transfer as Spencer Gats
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was pulling the ball out of the glove. So I
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don't know if they're going to review that or not.
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But anyway, it is scoreless between the Tigers and the
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Astros in Game two. Yeah, there's no doubt it. It
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was on the transfer. Looking at a replay there, so
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one out will be recorded and the Astros will still
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have a runner at first base with one out. We'll
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keep you updated on the baseball the other the other
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game getting ready to start Baltimore and Kansas City. Detroit
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is now making a pitching change with a runner at
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first in one out, so we'll see how that goes.
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No score and that is in the bottom half of
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the fifth inning. Tiger's winning yesterday three to one behind
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Tarik Skuball, who's proven was this year anyway, the best
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starting pitcher in all of baseball League won Baseball's Pitching
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Triple Crown wins E ra A and strikeouts. So the
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Astros backed into a corner and they have to figure
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out from there. All right, let's hear from long orange
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Head football coach Steve Sarkisia. Now this is going to
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be from the SEC teleconference. Remember Sark did his news
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conference on Monday. Because this is an open date week
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on the schedule. They're bye week on the schedule. There
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are no more media availabilities local for Sark Like normally
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on Thursdays he does a media zoom with the local
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there's player availabilities, none of that stuff on this open date.
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Only the news conference sat on Monday. However, the SEC
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has a man Data teleconference where every coach is on
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it every week regardless of whether they're playing or not.
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So that applied to Texas also applied to Oklahoma. Remember
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the Sooners are going through an open date on the
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schedule this week as well, leading up to the two
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teams meeting in Dallas a week from the Saturday in
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the All state Red River Rivalry matchup, and our coverage
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will begin at eleven thirty from the Fairgrounds of the
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State of text We'll actually be up there on Friday
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with coverage and then from the Fairgrounds on Saturday morning
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with Longhorns game Day coverage with an inclusive of Cameron
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Parker and Mike Hardbollharge and Mark Henry from the fairgrounds
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at the State Fair of Texas. So they'll get to
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sit out there in the open while the Sooner fans
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walk by and flip them off and stuff like that.
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That's a regular, regular behavior there, and I should point
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out they are longer fans who go buy and flip
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off the Oklahoma game day broadcast teams that are on
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the on the field, and this is part of that
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whole deal.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: I can remember for years, and I do mean years,
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if you asked uh Texas people. One of the one
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of the humorous things, whether it was Mac Brown or
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long worn players, they talk about riding in on that
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bus and seeing these like eighty something year old grandma's
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flipping them off from the fairgrounds or little kids flipping
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them off for the fair grounds. And then I would
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go up and I'd cover the Oklahoma news conference and
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Bob Stoops was the coach back then, and he would say,
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yeah that Texas, oklah th oh you Texas week is
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something pretty special. Get there and those fans are, you know,
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their behaviors pretty special. They're they're flipping the off and
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telling you who's number one and all that. So they
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experienced it also from their side as well. It's part
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of the victory. All that happens between Longhorns and Sooners.
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It just works that way. That's just how that is.
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But anyway, it's an open date this week for Boath
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Texas and Oklahoma. So Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarkisian
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asked for some opening thoughts and comments about his team
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coming out of the win over Mississippi State and going
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into the bye week.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always great going into a bye coming off
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with victory, you know, having started the season the way
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we had.
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Speaker 1: It's good to be undefeated.
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Speaker 3: But naturally you endure some of the bumps and bruises
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and things that that all teams endure. And so I
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think the buy is coming out a really good time
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for us to get some guys healthy, to refresh out
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of our minds and our bodies, to get ready for
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another kind of three game block in the season here
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coming up here in a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: Now, because this is an open date on the schedule
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and a bye week for Texas, the time that they
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were going to keep Sark on the SEC Teleconference was
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going to be short. It wasn't going to be very long.
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So I don't know if he was puzzled by the
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answered the question. Fine, but remember this is the SEC
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Teleconference is a national call, so writers, in broadcasters, media
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from across the country can dial in and they can
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ask a question. So they're all welcome to do that.
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They can do that. As you might imagine, the preponderance
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of the media participating in this thing are going to
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be from SEC markets and outlets, and that includes in
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the Deep South, and it certainly include the state of Alabama.
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So the first question that Sart got was not about
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his football team, but it was about the team they
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beat last year and the quarterback they beat last year,
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Jalen Milroe of Alabama, who, of course Jalen is native Texan,
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played at Katie Tompkins but and had originally committed to
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Texas before quinn Ewers transferred in and then Milroe changed
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his commitment ended up going to Alabama and Milroe has
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really progressed and had a big game last Saturday night
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in Tuscal loose against Georgia. So Sark was asked for
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his thoughts going all the way back when he was
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recruiting Milroe, when he was still on the Alabama staff
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and what he has seen Jalen Milroe accomplish and progress
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in his time as Alabama's quarterback.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we had Jalen in camp at Alabama and uh,
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great kid, great parents, obviously got athleticism was there, the
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arm talent was there.
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Speaker 4: I've give him a lot of credit. You know, he
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really working with developed into the revers the player. You know,
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he just doesn't rely on athleticism. He's a great de
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ball passer, extend plans in his arm, extend plenties, use
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his legs.
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Speaker 1: They use him for direct run.
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Speaker 3: So, uh, you know, you haven't a win thinking ki
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it could be early on in his high school career
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and then to watch it kind.
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Speaker 1: Of come to fruition.
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Speaker 3: I guess I'm happy for him, but I also validate
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some of the things that you see and that you're
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looking for and the next prop of guys coming up.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point too. Because those were the things
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that they were looking for from Jalen Milroe. And remember
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he had his stumbles and growing pains early on, and
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he drew a lot of heat after Texas beeed Alabama
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in that game last year in September in Tuscalusa. But
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he's come a long way since. He helped guide Alabama
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to the College Football Playoff, the SEC championship in College
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Football Playoff berth and now he's the quarterback of the
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number one team in the country and the AP pole
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number two in the coaches, Texas number two and the
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AP number one in the coaches. It's that close right now.
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We'll hear more from Logrorns head coach Steve Sarkashan a
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little later on in the program. We've got some other
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topics we'll get to. We'll update the baseball for you
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as well as we continue here on this Wednesday afternoon
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now at AM thirteen hundred zone dot com. My wife
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and I've talked about that. We think he kind of
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surrendered into it a little quickly, so maybe something was
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going on there. I don't know. I mean he has
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a rock star so and this is another guy whose
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hair is amazed you, right, yes, when you look at
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the three guys from Ambrosia, right, all four of them
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ross off. Ambrosia sounds like it's one person. No, it's
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it's a bad it's a bad from the seventies and eighties.
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And they're performing in Arlington tomorrow, and since Linda and
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I had to go up to the Dallas Forward area anyway,
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and they're performing at the Arlington Music Hall, which is
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kind of like going to the Paramount here. It's a
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small venue, a theater. And she said, oh, look, I
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was like, you want to go to see Mbrosia? She said,
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because I'm a yacht rock fan. Although Ambrosia is not
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my favorite, but I don't dislike them. So she was
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interested in him, so I said, okay, so we got tickets,
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so we're gonna go see Ambrosia tomorrow. And I that's
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part of it, So that's why I wanted. That's exciting.
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We see a lot of shows together since we've been
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together since twenty eighteen, and I my first wife. She
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also liked music, and we went to some concerts together.
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And next week will be eight years since she passed away,
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so and then I was two years beyond that before
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Lynda and I bumped in each other at a going
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to see that we went to see an old friend
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play and as the first time i'd seen her in
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I think since nineteen ninety four, so it'd been like, yeah,
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I think it was twenty six years or twenty four year,
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twenty whatever. It was twenty four years I guess, since
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we'd even seen each other or something like that. And
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then it just kind of took off from there. And
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we had dated back in the early eighties for about
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a year and a half, split up state friends. She
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was at my wedding, I was, Me and my wife
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were at her wedding in ninety four. She and her
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husband had decided to divorce and then I just happened
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to randomly run into her, and it started from there well,
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once we got together, and then when she moved down here.
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Because she's a special ed counselor and was also a
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licensed professional counselor, so she has a client list that
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she counsels does mental health counseling, we started going to
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these concerts and it was because I had gotten to
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the point of my life where there were some people
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that I had and bands and artists I either had
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never seen before and always wanted to or wanted to see,
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or it was a band or artist that in my
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college days in the early eighties, I worked the concerts
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selling T shirts for the band or for the arena.
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And I did that for four years and in the
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early eighties, and so I used to tell people that
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I worked everything from ac DC to Lawrence Welk, which
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was pretty much true. I wo had worked a C
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d C concert or worked, Prince worked, Prince Yeah, Prince
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Wow right. It was the Purple Rain tour. Wow went
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on to her journey in eighty three in the Frontiers tour.
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Worked Frank Sinatra, Barry Manilo, worked All Kazizy Top All
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met Doobie Brothers, Rolling Stones, all of these, all of
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these great bands, Bob Seeger so did all these, and
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now years later, having put myself through college by working
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those shows, I wanted to have the opportunity to see
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some of these because when you're working it, you don't
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really you see glimpses of the show. You walk in
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during a song, they walk back out to your stand
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while your partner watches the stand, and then you swap off.
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So I wanted to see some So I just happened
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to mention because my broadcast partner for Long Worn Basketball,
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Eddie Orrin, and we were going to go see Bob Seger,
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who was on his last tour, and then Eddie couldn't
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do it, he had a work related conflict. So Linda
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and I by then had started to see each other,
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and I said, do you want to go see this concert?
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It's Bob Seeker and she's like, yeah, I'll go. She didn't,
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and then when she went, she loved it. She says,
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oh I remember that song, and oh I remember that song,
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and oh I remember that song. I said, I got
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a whole file folder of of shows like that that
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I want to see coming up. If you're up for it,
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she said, yeah, So then it became Eric Clapton while
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we went to that. Uh, then we saw a little
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river band in a casino then and then saw the
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Boss Gags at at at the Paramount. She gave me
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as a Christmas present because she knew how much of
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a Billy Joel fan was, and she was somewhat of
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a fan. She gave me two tickets to see Billy
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Joel at Fenway Park. At Fenway, Yeah, so I said,
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I said, it was a Christmas gift, she said, and
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opened it up. Two tickets Bill Joseah, Wow, can I
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take anybody? She says, as long as I'm the other anyway, Say,
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I was just joking. So we went. We saw Billy
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Joel there and uh and so we've seen a lot
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of concerts. It's the old Master, Herb Albert, who is
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eighty nine years old and still touring. We saw him
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last year. We've seen it, seen him a couple of times.
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Play that trumpet was great, that's what all the music
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and inconceivable that it's Herb Alpert and Tijuana brass stuff.
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So we've seen a lot of concerts and I even
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had tickets for Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks at Jerry
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World in Arlington. Couldn't go because one of Stevie Nicks's
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band members had COVID and so they postponed the show,
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and when they rescheduled the show, I couldn't go. So
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she went and took a friend of her. So I've
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kind of, you know, pulled her into the concert thing
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and then for her because she always wanted to see
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Joni Mitchell, one of the great rock legends of the
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early seventies. The day after The Long Words played Georgia year,
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We're flying to Los Angeles. I'm going to see Joni
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Mitchell at the Hollywood Bowl and then come back on
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a red eye that night, talking me back in position
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the next day when we have Sarks press conference to
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get ready for Vanderbilt. So there's that. So we're we've
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become big concert goers to the extent if we see
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other other bands and every things like oh, hey, maybe
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we want to go say and you know, and so yeah,
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tomorrow night it'll be Ambrosia. We'll go see Ambrosia tomorrow night. Hey.
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Update from Houston. The Tigers are now up one nothing
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on the astross Houston Bats in the bottom of the
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sixth inning. Top of the sixth inning, Parker Meadows with
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a solo homer to put Detroit in front. So the anxiety,
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you might say, for Astros fans might be ratcheting up
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a bit now, although they jord On Alvarez is just
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trying to walk, so they have the tying run on
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and that's just the lead off the bottom of the
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sixth inning, So still a lot of baseball left to
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be played in that one. But the Astros are down
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one nothing in the sixth inning to Detroit, and again,
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because the Tigers won Game one yesterday, if they win
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this one this afternoon, it's over. Remember, the Wildcard Series
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is just a best of three, best two out of three,
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and it's all at one site. So these first two
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games are at Minute May Park, and if there is
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a third game, that game would be at Minute May
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Park tomorrow if that happens, if there is a game three,
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but the Astros have to win to force a game three. Meanwhile,
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Kansas City and Baltimore are getting ready to start Game
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number two of their series that starts here really in
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about ten minutes. The Royals winning Game one one to nothing,
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so they lead the series one game to nine, then
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at six point thirty this evening or Mets and Brewers,
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And then at seven thirty tonight are the Braves and
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the Podres going for that? Do you have a favorite
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baseball team? By the way, I do? Yeah? Which one isn't?
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Do you want to guess first? Well, isn't your favorite?
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Did I hear one morning on when it was the
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hard Knox life before what it is now morphed into
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with the addition of Mark Henry to the program is
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now in the morning kick call? But didn't I hear
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you say that your favorite NFL team is New England
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the Patriots. That is correct? Do you have a background
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in in the New England area in the northeast? Did
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you just take did you just glom onto the Patriots
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because it was easy to bandwagon them because they were winners?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 1: In about fifth grade or so? Okay, so like two
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thousand and four or something like that. Yeah, make me
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feel little, Go ahead.
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Speaker 2: All my friends were playing a pee peewee football while
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I was running track and they all played for the Patriots.
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Speaker 1: Oh okay.
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Speaker 2: And then the high school I was supposed to go
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to before they rezoned everything, their mascot was the Patriots.
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I went to Google, and I was like, oh, I
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wonder if there's a football team for the Patriots.
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Speaker 1: There it is that's might and you happen to get
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them right in their wheelhouse when they were winning Super Bowls. Yes, okay,
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all right, no, I can respect that. I respect a
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kid locking into it team. I did that with the
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Dodgers when I was a kid because my dad used
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to tell me stories of the Yankees versus the Dodgers.
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My dad was a Yankees fan and he went to
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a couple of World Series games in the early fifties
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when the Dodgers played the Yankees. And my favorite color
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back then when I was a kid was blue, and
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the first package of baseball cards opened, it was Bill
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Russell the Dodgers short style. So I was locked in then,
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so they yet have been forever. You know, as kids,
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we tend to lock in on teams, but over time,
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I guess people get kind of frustrated if their teams
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have a stretch of losing. That's true. My oldest son,
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when he was a kid, was a Jaguars fan, and
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that was colors and logos, and they were pretty good
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back Fred Taylor, Mark Brunell had a couple of AFC
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Championship game appears. Then he went through this long dry
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spell being awful. So he just decided, I'm changing my
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favorite team to the Cowboys because I love I said,
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you're letting yourself in for a lot of heartbreak. So
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he became a Cowboy fan, and he's really a big
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Cowboy fan. My younger son was originally a Tennessee Titans
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fan because of Vince Young, but then when Vince left
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and the Titans fell off, he swapped to the Packers
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and he's been a Packer fan. I don't know how
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people just switch teams like that. I couldn't do it.
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I couldn't do it. But I know some people get
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tired of a team losing and say I'm out on him.
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Why should I devote my energies to supporting a team
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that consistently lose. This is a question, by the way,
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the Cowboys fans ask themselves annually for almost thirty years,
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that Cameron Parker, a producer regular producer of this program,
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is having his own self examination as a Cowboys fan.
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That's why he's not watching them this year at all
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at all, unless they reach the NFC Championship he watched
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him in the preseason just to see how the rosters
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come together. But he told us after they lost to
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the Packers last January in the playoffs, he said, I'm
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done with him. I said, are you done with a fan? No,
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there's still my team. I'm done watching them for now.
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Wow at the foot out the door. Yeah yeah, yeah.
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So there's some self examination going on here as a
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Cowboys fan. Now, the man for whom you produce in
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the morning, Mike Hardball Harch, he's a long suffering Cowboys fan. Correct, longtime,
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long time, by fifty years of it. Okay, well that's
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like me with the Rams. You know, went through a
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lot of Leaneers now, uh Kurt uh Yeah. But it
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predates that he goes all the way back when I
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was nine years old. In those days, what kids used
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to do is we would write letters to pro football
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and baseball and basketball teams asking for autograph pictures if
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you can get them. And I sent off several to
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different teams. The only team that responds the Rams, and
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I got this eight by ten black and white glossy
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photo autograph the quarterback Roman Gabriel. A champ never quits.
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Roman Gabriel probably immedia relations or PR person actually did that,
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but and signed his name. But it didn't matter. I
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was hooked in on the Rams day in nineteen sixty nine.
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They started that year eleven and oh and ended up
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losing in the first round of the playoffs. But I
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was hopelessly drawn into being a Rams fan with through
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a lot of heartbreak in the seventies and then didn't
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see him win a Super Bowl until they were in
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Saint Louis. But I let my fandom follow the jersey
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to Saint Louis actually win the several games in Saint Louis,
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including the Super Bowl year and and then and and
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stayed with him and that's when Kurt Warner was playing
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for them, and then following him back to LA and
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going through some lean times right now because of all
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the injuries, and they don't be good right now. But
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you you just got your sid. I feel like, I know, hey, yeah,
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they won a Super Bowl three years ago, so I'm
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I'm okay for a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah, That's how
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I was with the Dodgers winning one in eighty eight.
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But I'm going to tell you, by the time I
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got the twenty twenty, I was like, I come on.
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So they finally broke through in one one, so hopefully
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they can do it again this year. So anyway, nothing,
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It's unusual when your favorite teams, uh, when they let
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you down as not unusual when they finally went And
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I've said this, I said this after the Rams win
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the Super Bowl. I said after the Dodgers won the
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World Series. Every sports fan, every one in the United States,
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every American sports fan who is a real dedicated fan
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of eighteen should get to experience at least one time
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in their lifetime their team winning a world championship. Oh definitely,
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you know, as a reward for that. Now, you never
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did tell me you're your favorite baseball team, the Red Sox. Well,
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that makes sense. And my youngest son is a Red
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Sox fan because his first two t ball teams and
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little league team were Red Sox or Red Sox.
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Speaker 2: There you go.
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Speaker 1: So you've gotten a chance to see them win multiple titles,
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which is funny since he went eighty six years without
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winning one and then two thousand and four, in two
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thousand and seven and thirteen and eighteen. You know, so
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you got a chance to see them win multip over
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and over. Yeah. Yeah, So it's been nice. You've had
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an embarrassment of riches there all right, more coming up,
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will update the baseball for you. Going on with the
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playoffs here on Sports Radio Am thirteen D Here on
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this yacht Rock Wednesday. Astros with a golden opportunity right now.
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John Singleman at the plate. The bases are loaded and
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nobody out for Houston in the bottom of the seventh inning,
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and the Astros just got the tying run home. There
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was a tried for a force of the plate off
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a hot smash and they couldn't hold it. So the
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Astros have tie it, tied it. The bases are still
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loaded and there's still nobody out. So here's the opportunity
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for the Astros to bounce back. We'll keep you updated
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on that. Orioles and Royals just now getting started. When
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you hear from long worn men's basketball coach Rodney Terry,
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this was from the media availability yesterday and one of
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the things that we asked Rodney about was injury updates.
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Tremont Mark, who is the transfer who had been at
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Arkansas and an excellent player, had had to fight through
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some injury. But it looks like he is very much
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on the man in. Nick Cody is a guy, a
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freshman coming in that they say they're doubt not going
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to rush. But here's Rodnie Terry talking about those two guys.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, Trey mant is one of the you know,
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he got nicked up Ernie uh and uh in in
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in our workouts to start last week. And uh had
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just a really just my mild kind of growing area
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a little bit and everything. But he's coming along right now.
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Training staff has done a great job working with him.
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Speaker 1: Uh. We look to have him back in in.
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Speaker 6: Forll tilt here over the next couple of days. Uh,
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nothing major with him and stuff. He's played a lot
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of basketball and and things, but we need to get
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him out there and get used to playing with his teammates.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 1: But but we looked to have him here shortly. Uh.
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Speaker 6: Nick Cody has made a lot of progress. He's a
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guy again, a young player that has a high ceiling.
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We're not gonna rush him back. He had surgery uh
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in February, and and uh we're gonna we're gonna play
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the long game with him and at the short game.
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So so we have the luxury kind of doing that
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right now a little bit. But getting him stronger. Uh,
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and just he's really taking out of.
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Speaker 1: Time with him. Haven't been around these guys. So that's
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that's a one bit of sound right there. We'll let
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you know. Also, the Asters are now taking a lead.
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Jose Altuve with a sacrifice five is a pop up
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deep in foul territory down the first baseline, but it
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allowed the time run to score from third. So Houston
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now has its first lead of the postseason. And the
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young man job, the rookie that so much excitement about him,
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he's the one that had the struggle in the inning
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now and he is out of the ball game right now.
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Houston has the lead as they bat with one out
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of runners on the corners in the bottom of the
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seventh inning, it is two to one. The Astros lead
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the Tigers. Now. One other piece of sound for Brodney Terry.
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And this was a question that I actually asked him
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yesterday because Ronnie mentioned when somebody somebody asked him. I
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think it was our friend Thomas Jones of the Austin
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American Statesman who asked him, you know, what are your
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impressions here? And he goes, well, I've been with these
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guys for three months though, it's not early presents for me,
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he said, it'd be more like for you. But as
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a follow up to that, later I asked him, I said,
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because you've been around these guys several months now, it
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has anyone progressed or accelerated their development a little faster
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than perhaps you might have anticipated to be as it
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was yesterday on the first of October. Originally, well, I.
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Speaker 6: Think you know even you know, last year, you guy,
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I saw a great version of Kendall Weaver, you know
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from from a guy who came in and made winning
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plays to help us win games, especially from the defensive
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side of the ball. But as the season continued to
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go and we got deeper in the conference play, we
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asked him to score the ball a little bit more
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as well driving the basketball, you know, shooting the ball
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when you're open. I thought he did a great job
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attack in this spring, in this summer. I mean, he's
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a very confident player right now, and and and a
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guy that's gonna keep a lot of defense honest right now.
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In terms of scoring the basketball, I mean, he had
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twelve points a game and in NC tournament played for
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us last year, you know, so he was a guy
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that that that stepped up and scored for us as well.
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So I look for him to be a guy that's
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more offensive minded. We know what he's gonna do defensive wise,
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and the effort that he's gonna give us, multiple efforts
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he's gonna give us, Uh out there on the floor.
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You know what I'm thinking of anyone? I think, you know,
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Devon Pryor has made a lot of progress as a
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young player. He's still just scratching the surface on how
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good he's really gonna be.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 6: But but a good young player who you know, has
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had a full year with us now didn't have a
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summer last year. He's gotten stronger. Uh and uh, you
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know he's a guy that has a very high center
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as a as a young player.
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Speaker 1: All Right, So there it is. Some comments from Rodney Tabor.
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Will have some more from RT coming up next hour,
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uh and some more from Longbarns head coach Steve Arqisian.
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The bottom of the seventh is now over. The Tigers
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got the final out there, but the Astros have taken
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the lead two runs in the last of the seventh
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and Houston is on top by a score of two
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to one. And again the Astros have to win that
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game in order to force a third game tomorrow. Meanwhile,
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Kansas City jumped on top of Baltimore again. You know,
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they won game one yesterday with getting just one run
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and that was on an RBI single on the top
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of the sixth inning from Bobby Witt Junior. Yesterday. That
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happened today. The Royals have wasted no time as they
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got an RBI single in the top of the first
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inning and as a result of that, they now have
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the lead. It is one to nothing off that Benny
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Pasquentino had the RBI single to put Kansas City in front.
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It's won nothing the Royals and if they win that game,
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that series ends in Baltimore and they would move on
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to New York to take on the Yankees. Winner of
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this Houston Detroit series will then travel to I'm trying
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to remember who's the Cleveland to take on the Guardians,
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who get a bye. So the winner, the winner of
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this series between the Astros and the Tigers would take
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on Cleveland. In the American League Division Series, the Yankees
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face the winner of Baltimore and Kansas City, and then
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in the National League that Mets Brewers series winner will
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travel to Philadelphia in the Division Series this weekend against
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the Phillies. The Padres Brave Series winner will take on
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the Dodgers beginning Saturday night in Los Angeles. We'll be
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back to wrap up hour number two of the program
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here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of
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the IRT Radio app Again eyebrow raising results happening so
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far in Major League Baseball in the playoffs and the
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Wildcard so the only thing, the only one that has
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not been any kind of real surprise, has been the
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one in San Diego. The Padres shut out the Braves
30:07
last night four to nothing. Fernando Tattis Junior at a
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monstrous home run in the game. Michael Kelly pitched really
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well at the start for the Padres. It will be
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hard to beat. Gene Watson, you know, our MLB insider
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from the Chicago White Sox front office, joined us on
30:22
the program yesterday. He picked the potteryis to win the
30:24
World Series, all of it. He picked him to win
30:28
the Wildcard series of the Braves. He picked them to
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beat the Dodgers in the Division Series and then to
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beat the Phillies in the National League Championship Series. And
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then he said the San Diego Padres would win the
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World Series over the Cleveland Guardians. He thinks the Guardians.
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And again, the Guardians get the winner of this Detroit
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Houston series. And again, if the Tigers find a way
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to win this thing, and it's two to two in
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the eighth right now, and they've got two runners on
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with two outs, including the go ahead running and scoring
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position at second, Ryan Presley's out of the pen. Now
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for Houston, if they find a way to get the
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lead in this and now the bases are loaded on
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a walk. If they find a way to get the lead,
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and then they win that series, you'd have one of
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the favorites, one of the hotter teams going into the postseason.
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Houston out and too straight at home. But it's not
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done yet. There are two outs in the inning and
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there's going to be a pitching change there at minute
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they park. The Astros have to win to force a
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final game tomorrow, so that that has to happen. And
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then and Josh Hader I think is coming out of
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the Houston pen. And then same thing with Baltimore. Baltimore
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was one of the hotter teams. They had slumped a
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little bit and then got hotting in right toward the end.
31:45
Kansas City had done the exact same thing after having
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this incredible season, what with Kansas City losing over one
31:53
hundred games last year and a great season this year
31:57
for the Royals to get to the Wild Round. And
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we'll see what happens in that series in Baltimore and again,
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if they win one more than they go on to
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New York. So now we go on. We get ready
32:12
to go on to the next next hour of the program.
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We got one more hour of the program to bring you,
32:23
and when we get going in this final hour of
32:27
the program, we'll be joined relatively early in the hour
32:37
by the play by play voice of the Houston Texans,
32:40
Mark Vandermere. He'll join us. Well, here's some more from
32:43
Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarkeesian. We will also care
32:48
more from Rodney Terry coming up, and we'll keep you
32:51
updated on these baseball playoff games going on as well. Listen,
32:56
you only got me for one more hour of the
32:58
rest of the week because of in fact, I'll be
33:00
out tomorrow on Friday, but we do have one more
33:02
hour of the show if you come, and so that's
33:05
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hour of the program, the Updating the baseball for you
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right now. Houston and Detroit tied it to Tiger's batting
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with the bases loaded and two outs on the top
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of the eighth inning. Most of the scoring has happened
34:48
late in this contest. In fact, a basis loaded walk?
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Is that what? It was? A basis loaded walk issued
34:56
by Josh Is it well? I said, no, I guess
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it was just time called out of that. So the
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base is still loaded with two outs. Yeah, it was
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a basis loaded walk, and the Tigers have taken the
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lead again. It's three to two. Josh Hater just issued
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a basis loaded walk with two outs in the eight
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Spencer Torklesen drew the walk and has just gone the
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first base, and Detroy has now gone back in front
35:19
of Houston. It is three to two. Is the Tiger's
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bat in the top of the eighth inning with two outs,
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and that against Josh Hater, the closer. So that's what's
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happened in this game. I say it was a basis
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loaded walk torkles and went down the first I guess
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it just loaded the bases there and the graphic headed
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walks on the bases are still two two. Sorry and
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mena Panicastros fans there watching on a very very small
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monitor and it didn't have the out UH indicator listed
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on there. They do now it's still just two two.
35:48
It's not a three to two Bogging it's two two.
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The bases are loaded now though, as Josh Hater issued
35:54
a two out walk, so Tiger's still batting two to two.
35:58
Top of the eight two outs. Kansas City continues to
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leave Baltimore. It's one to nothing as the Royals lead
36:04
the Oriols. That's in the top of the second inning,
36:06
and that contest at the Oriel Park at Camden Yards,
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So we'll keep you updated on those. Walmart's head coach
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Steve Sarkisian took part in the SEC teleconference today and
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one of the questions that he was asked was about
36:24
the thing about learning to play with emotion but not
36:29
play emotion is It's something we've heard sark mentioned quite
36:32
a bit in the past. He says, we want our
36:33
guys to play with emotion, but we don't want them
36:36
to play emotionally, and he explained how he came into
36:40
that mindset. Like with so many other things, all roads
36:44
lead back to Nick Saban.
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Speaker 3: I had a hard time putting it into words. Coach
36:49
Saban more eloquently used this term that I'm referencing that
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I kind of took with me because it really resonated
36:56
with me. I didn't know how to say it, but
36:59
I knew and then once he said it the way
37:02
that he said it, like I said, it resonated with
37:04
me and I'll kind of carried it with me ever since.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, that was That was one thing, and
37:08
then one other question he was asked. And is a
37:12
lot of experience in this, and it's all about the
37:16
backup quarterback. When Sartan played at BYU, really, even when
37:20
he played at El Camuno Community College in California, he
37:25
had been a backup quarterback and then and then had
37:28
a great sophomore season. Then he went to BYU and
37:33
rolled in initially as a backup and then became the
37:35
starter and had a great finish to his collegiate career
37:38
at BYU. UH since he has been the head coach
37:42
at Texas, he has had to turn to the backup
37:45
quarterback on several occasions. That has happened as well. So
37:51
because of that, it has been a situation where he's
37:57
you know, you think about it when he had had
37:58
some card on back and Casey Thompson was there and
38:02
all of that sort of thing. And of course since
38:06
Quinn Yours has been the starter, he's had to turn
38:09
to the backup quarterback, but that was due to injury,
38:11
Malik Murphy having to come on for Quinn the last
38:15
couple of seasons, and then of course earlier the season
38:18
arch Manning having to step in when Quinn was injured.
38:22
So he was asked about that and about getting the
38:25
backup quarterbacks reps so that they can be well prepared
38:29
for the eventuality if he has to go to a
38:32
backup quarterback.
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Speaker 3: And when I was a starter, I never wanted the
38:35
backup to coming to the game, even for a play.
38:38
And I remember my senior year of college, I have
38:41
been banged up and the coaches wanted to run a
38:45
quarterback draw. Honey, you're not. They called the play, and
38:51
they called the play and I scored a touchdown. So
38:55
I've got respect for a guy who's the starting quarterback
38:57
and the rhythm that it's needed to play with. So
39:00
now that's not something I've ever entertained.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So there it is, and some thoughts there from
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Longhorn's head coach Steve Sarkishan. Okay, in Houston, it has
39:16
been broken open, at least for the moment. A big
39:22
two out bases clearing double by Pinch hitter andy A
39:29
Bonyez has cleared off the bases and the Tigers have
39:33
taken a five to two lead on the Astros. Astros
39:35
just recorded the final out of the inning, but at
39:38
Bonyees with a bass clearing double to score three runs,
39:43
and the Astros are down to six outs left in
39:45
their season right now, going to the bottom of the eight.
39:46
Tigers up five to two, having one game one yesterday
39:50
three to one. We'll keep you updated on that, all right.
39:53
Coming up next, we'll visit with the play by play
39:56
voice of the Houston Texans, Mark vandermir to talk about
39:59
the Texans and their battles in the AFC South. That's
40:01
next when we continue here on this Wednesday afternoon on
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