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May 4, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 3: Welcome.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad to have you with us here on a Monday.
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Speaker 1: Radiant Dentistry. Today. We're going to be visiting, in fact,
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Speaker 1: just a few moments, Joe Popolardo. His book is called Boomtown,
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Speaker 1: The True Story of the Wickedest in Texas. It's pretty amazing.
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Speaker 1: Joe Papalardo is going to join us. We're going to
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Speaker 1: talk Stanley Cup playoffs. We're going to Since I was here,
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Speaker 1: the stars have been unceremoniously dumped out of the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: I may or may not have a few things to
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Speaker 1: say about that. We're going to talk about some Maggie
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Speaker 1: baseball in the second hour. We've got the writers round table.
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Speaker 1: Rusty and Cease will be here with us for that.
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Speaker 1: We're working on some other things this week, which means
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Speaker 1: I don't have anything planned, but we will by you know,
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Speaker 1: my last show on Thursday.
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Speaker 4: I hope.
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Speaker 1: No, that's not true. We do have some things planned
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Speaker 1: and other stuff that may or may not happen, so
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Speaker 1: and I'm not willing to say just yet what that
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Speaker 1: might be. I don't know about me, but many of
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Speaker 1: you have Banana Ball hangovers from Saturday night. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Banana Ball just came into town and sucked the life
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Speaker 1: out of the community in a good way. I'm saying
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Speaker 1: it was pretty amazing. We're going to talk a little
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Speaker 1: bit about that. About the finances. I know my family contributed,
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Speaker 1: had to have some merch and there was an article
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Speaker 1: that I've been reading about about the finances of Banana
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Speaker 1: Ball and it's pretty outstanding. And I got to say this.
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Speaker 1: I was talking to Dusty about this because he went
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Speaker 1: and with members of his family, and I have seen
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Speaker 1: a couple of things on the social media. First of all,
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Speaker 1: you understand that there are a lot of angry people
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Speaker 1: on social media, and that's a big part of the
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Speaker 1: issue for the country. And we won't delve into all
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Speaker 1: of that, but you already know all of this. And
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Speaker 1: some people just don't like other people having success because
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Speaker 1: they're losers. They don't like banana ball, and I don't
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Speaker 1: understand that other than what I just said. Their life
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Speaker 1: is miserable, so they think everybody's life should be miserable,
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Speaker 1: and they don't like banana ball. They don't get it.
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Speaker 1: Quote get it? What's there to get kids are really happy.
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Speaker 1: My grandkids had a blast Saturday night, right, And there's
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Speaker 1: not too many things you can go to as a
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Speaker 1: family and say that. There's not too many things you
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Speaker 1: can afford to go to and say that quite frankly,
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Speaker 1: and people who have bad things to say about it,
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Speaker 1: like I said, mostly they're just losers. They have been
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Speaker 1: called the Harlem Globe trotters of baseball. I think that's
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Speaker 1: an app description, frankly, So let's go on social media
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Speaker 1: and call out the Harlem globetrotters. I mean, who doesn't
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Speaker 1: love the Harlem Globetrotters. Everybody loves the Globetrotters. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: I just had to I'm looking at stuff on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going besides wanting to get clicks for criticizing stuff,
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Speaker 1: you know, most people enjoy your lives. Are just miserable,
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Speaker 1: and just keep it to yourself because we don't want
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Speaker 1: to hear from you. I just thought it was a
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Speaker 1: terrific weekend and and more power to them, right, more
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Speaker 1: power to them. I think Jesse calling what he's done,
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Speaker 1: he reminds me of a young mattress mac. He is
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Speaker 1: a great salesman and he mortgaged everything he had to
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Speaker 1: get to this point. And he has a hot property
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Speaker 1: that maybe valued at close to a billion dollars before
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Speaker 1: it's all said and done. Right, if you're going to
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Speaker 1: sell the Savannah bananas, if he were to sell them,
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, it may be close to a billion dollars.
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Speaker 1: And he had mortgaged his house, and you know the story.
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Speaker 1: He and his wife are sleeping in a garage apartment
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Speaker 1: on mattresses on the floor because he had this vision.
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Speaker 1: And you know what, to me, that's what makes America great.
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Speaker 1: You can have that vision and you can still get
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Speaker 1: to that point. So hey, thanks to him for bringing
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Speaker 1: banana ball to Kyle Field. Great event, really was. And
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Speaker 1: I don't know who the staff person was at A
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Speaker 1: and M that had the idea to bring banana ball
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Speaker 1: to Kyle Field. But they need a raise. At the
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Speaker 1: very least, they need a bonus. Okay, not sure who
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Speaker 1: came up with it, don't know who they are, but
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Speaker 1: they need to get a bonus. And if you want
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Speaker 1: me to be your agent to get you that bonus,
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Speaker 1: give me a shot. I'll do the best that I can.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Aggie Baseball salvaged a game against Auburn yesterday four to
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Speaker 1: three the final Sunday afternoon weston Moss time permitting. We'll
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Speaker 1: hear from him coming up six and a third innings
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Speaker 1: of one run ball. They needed that, so that was
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Speaker 1: a big deal. Let's see the Aggie's played tomorrow night
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Speaker 1: against Prairie View. And you know it's not gonna be
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Speaker 1: too long that this baseball stuff is going to be
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Speaker 1: starting the playoffs. And I don't consider the SEC tournament playoffs,
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Speaker 1: by the way, that's not playoffs, by the way. The
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Speaker 1: regular season finale on Saturday, May sixteenth has been moved
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Speaker 1: to an eleven a m start. Why well, I'll give
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Speaker 1: you three guesses in the first two don't count. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna be televised on the SEC network. The Rangers thankfully
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Speaker 1: have the night off. Yesterday was brutal the Astros. Look
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Speaker 1: at the Astros, they're within seven games of five hundred
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Speaker 1: and they're hosting the Dodgers. I think they'll be brought
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Speaker 1: back to life. Wait a minute, I have a call.
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Speaker 1: I have a call on my cell phone.
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Speaker 5: And.
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Speaker 1: They don't know better. Most of the people that call
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Speaker 1: know better, but they don't know better. Astros Dodgers at
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Speaker 1: Dake and slash Dykan Park. Are we carrying that game?
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Speaker 1: We should be carrying that game. I believe it's six forty.
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Speaker 1: Tonight we will have Astros baseball against the Dodgers. Yamamoto
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Speaker 1: is pitching for LA and left hander Steven Okert will
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Speaker 1: be making his fifth major league start as an opener,
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Speaker 1: his second as an Astro. Jordan Alvarez has been named
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Speaker 1: the Player of the Month in the American League. It's
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Speaker 1: his third Player of the Month award for March and April.
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Speaker 1: Alvarez hit three point fifty six nine doubles, twelve dingers,
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Speaker 1: twenty seven ribbis, twenty one walks, twenty five run scored
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Speaker 1: an OPS of eleven ninety nine. He led the majors
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Speaker 1: in OPS, slugging percentage, on base percentage hits, total bases,
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Speaker 1: ranked tie for first in home runs, first in batting
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Speaker 1: average RBI, extra base hits. In other words, without Jordan Alvarez,
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Speaker 1: the Astros could be ozhen thirty five. Tigers ace Trek
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Speaker 1: Scuball is going to have to have arthroscopic surgery on
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Speaker 1: his left elbow, aj Hinch telling reporters he'll have the
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Speaker 1: procedure after his arm locked up yesterday against the Rangers.
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Speaker 1: Hinch says it will be quote an easy process and procedure. Actually,
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Speaker 1: he was throwing, just throwing. He was scheduled to start
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Speaker 1: against Boston tonight. That's easy for him to say it'll
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Speaker 1: be easy. He did not give a timetable for the return,
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Speaker 1: but it's probably going to be two to three months.
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Speaker 1: For the two time Cy Young Award winner John Sterling
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Speaker 1: has died. Yankees announcer at one time called over five
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Speaker 1: thousand consecutive games. You may not know the name, but
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Speaker 1: you know this. The Yankees win. The Yankees win. You've
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Speaker 1: all heard that. Wfain released the statement on the social
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Speaker 1: media saying we are devastated to hear about the passing
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Speaker 1: of John Sterling, a wfan and Yankees radio icon whose
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Speaker 1: voice was synonymous with an entire generation of Yankee fandom.
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Speaker 1: Rest in peace. John Sterling began calling Yankees games in
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, was a voice of their dominant run
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Speaker 1: in the nineties in which the team won four World
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Speaker 1: Series and five years, and also called the nine Yankees
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Speaker 1: World Series. Kyle Whittingham, new Michigan coach, predicts twelve to
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Speaker 1: fifteen D one schools will have a fifty million dollar
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Speaker 1: roster by twenty twenty seven. He said there are a
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Speaker 1: few schools that can weather that, but not many. It's
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Speaker 1: already unsustainable for most schools and is only going to
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Speaker 1: get more when we come up with a model that
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Speaker 1: provides some guardrails and works for everyone.
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Speaker 6: Was it.
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Speaker 1: Two years ago? Everybody was agast at the twenty two
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Speaker 1: million dollar figure.
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Speaker 7: I believe.
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Speaker 1: Rick Barnes is doing okay at Tennessee. He has moved
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Speaker 1: up to the number two recruiting class as he got
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Speaker 1: a commitment from Wake Forest Transfer Duke Harris. Only Louisville
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Speaker 1: has a better portal, according to two four to seven Sports.
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Speaker 1: The NHL playoffs continue tonight. Flyers Hurricanes. Carolina won the
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Speaker 1: first game the Ducks and Golden Knights. There's something wrong
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Speaker 1: about at least Anaheim being in the playoffs. Anaheim is
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs because Dallas is out of the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: because that format just absolutely sucks. Canadians beat the Lightning
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Speaker 1: two to one last night to win their series. Both
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Speaker 1: teams are saying the same thing about the format. And
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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Wild, who knocked out the Dallas Stars and
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Speaker 1: who got great goaltending, gave up nine that is, nine
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Speaker 1: goals to the Avalanche last night. One of them was
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Speaker 1: empty netter, the other eight not wild game fifteen goals scored.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from the Canadians Martin Saint Louis coming
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Speaker 1: up here in just a little bit. But fifteen goals
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Speaker 1: in a Stanley Cup playoff game. That's some crazy stuff.
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Speaker 1: That was Game one. Colorado leads the series one game
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Speaker 1: to none. At one time the Avalanche were up three
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Speaker 1: to nothing, and then they tied the game, and then
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Speaker 1: Colorado went up for to three, and then Minnesota scored
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Speaker 1: two goals and went up five to four, and then
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Speaker 1: Colorado came back. It was crazy Corra a z Okay,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break. When we come back, we're
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Speaker 1: going to be joined by Joe Popolardo, the author of Boomtown,
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Speaker 1: the true story of the wickedest town in Texas. This
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Speaker 8: What is wrong with y'all.
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Speaker 4: I think it's cool as you go outside.
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Speaker 7: And record, I'm wondering if it's I had that.
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Speaker 9: Going on over my neighbor the other days, like two
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Speaker 9: old bombers chasing each other all morning.
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Speaker 7: That's cool.
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Speaker 8: I just wanted to know what's that?
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Speaker 7: Hey, wish you a head break here.
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Speaker 7: It's not a UFO. It's not UP or.
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Speaker 4: UAP or.
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Speaker 8: No, I mean, I don't know where I stand on UFOs.
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Speaker 7: Chuck, are we going to do much they say can
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Speaker 7: be done?
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Speaker 1: We've got you know, We've said this for thirty two years.
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Speaker 1: Our show is not great, but the music is. That's
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Speaker 1: every day. You can count on the music. By the way,
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Speaker 1: UFOs are now called UAPs Unidentified aerial phenomenon. The reason
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Speaker 1: they changed it the government changed it so they could
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Speaker 1: talk scientifically about the flying saucers that are hovering over
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Speaker 1: our heads and all of the for lack of a
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Speaker 1: better term, martians who are running around because they thought
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Speaker 1: people who mentioned UFOs were crazy, And now we know
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Speaker 1: that there's a lot of people that really aren't crazy,
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Speaker 1: that are very smart people who are talking about these
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Speaker 1: UFOs now called UAPs, because we have had lots of
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Speaker 1: people on our show over the years talk about this stuff.
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Speaker 1: By the way, Jet make a note, we have to
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Speaker 1: get Linda Moulton Howe on the show. It has been
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Speaker 1: way too long. We have got to get her back
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Speaker 1: on the show. All Right, We're going to jump out
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Speaker 1: to the Players Fund Center phone line. We're going to
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Speaker 1: visit with Joe Papollardo. His book is called Boomtown, The
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Speaker 1: True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas. Joe, how
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Speaker 1: are you.
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Speaker 4: I'm doing great. How are you doing?
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Speaker 1: I'm doing well. This is wild. I grew up in
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Speaker 1: this state, been here all my life, did not know
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Speaker 1: the story. How did this story come to you?
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Speaker 9: It was an Once you sort of get introduced to borgery,
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Speaker 9: it kind of sticks with you. And I was looking
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Speaker 9: at Frank Hamer quite frankly. I was writing about the
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Speaker 9: Texas Rangers, and I definitely wanted to do something a
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Speaker 9: little bit more modern and build into the sort of
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Speaker 9: more of the evolution of the Rangers. And he's the
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Speaker 9: best bridge between the past and the future. And you know,
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Speaker 9: he had been brought into the Rangers by captains who
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Speaker 9: worked in the eighteen hundreds when I had book set
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Speaker 9: in there, so he was part of the Ranger continuity.
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Speaker 9: But then I hit Borger right and he was sent
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Speaker 9: there by the governor to clean up Borger. And it's
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Speaker 9: a couple of pages in most biographies, which are good.
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Speaker 9: I like the biographies, but those two pages are my
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Speaker 9: entire book.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 9: I tried to slow it down to really try and
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Speaker 9: show the trade craft and the challenge and what happened
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Speaker 9: in that town and who was there and what they
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Speaker 9: wanted to get out of it, and you know, why
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Speaker 9: was it so bad, and you know, and just get
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Speaker 9: into all those questions. And I realized that that's all
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Speaker 9: you needed for an entire book, was just profiling one
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Speaker 9: year of this insane place and during this insane time
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Speaker 9: with one of the best, you know, foils for that
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Speaker 9: kind of revelry and violence. And here comes Frank Hamer,
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Speaker 9: the most famous Texas Ranger, is the one who is
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Speaker 9: tasked to clean it up.
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Speaker 4: And it was just too perfect.
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Speaker 1: Tell our listeners who as Borger was.
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Speaker 9: So ace Borger is. I still try and think of it,
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Speaker 9: like these guys are all still alive. As Borger was
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Speaker 9: a Stockholm syndrome for authors.
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Speaker 4: It's a real thing. So he was a land speculator
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Speaker 4: who heard a well.
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Speaker 9: First of all, he ran a He ran a town
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Speaker 9: in Oklahoma called Cromwell, which was famously corrupt, and he
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Speaker 9: fostered that it was called an open city where they
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Speaker 9: basically ignored prohibition and laws forbidding prostitution and gambling and
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Speaker 9: selling opium to pretty much as long as you paid
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Speaker 9: off to the local law. So they got pretty much
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Speaker 9: shut down. It ran out of Oklahoma, even to the
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Speaker 9: point where locals had burned down some of their buildings,
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Speaker 9: and they found their new home based off of an
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Speaker 9: oil development tip in Border in Texas. So that whole
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Speaker 9: infrastructure of cops and crooked cops and crooked land speculators
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Speaker 9: who want to be politicians, and the underclass of bootleggers
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Speaker 9: and prostitutes all documented started there and all came to
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Speaker 9: Border all at once. Ninety days after its founding, it
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Speaker 9: had grown to forty five thousand people. So you know,
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Speaker 9: it was by design, a you know, a place that
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Speaker 9: was born to sort of be bad, you know, not
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Speaker 9: as bad as it became. Probably the violence became a
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Speaker 9: little out of control, and that became not good for business,
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Speaker 9: but business included all of that vice, and the vice
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Speaker 9: industry was one of the reasons why they wanted to
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Speaker 9: have a city to begin with. And it attracts people,
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Speaker 9: and those people attract people who want to feed those
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Speaker 9: people bread and provide services to them. It's the straight people,
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Speaker 9: you know, So it's not just the underworld all of
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Speaker 9: a sudden, You've got this whole other class of people
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Speaker 9: who just want a second chance. So, you know, the
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Speaker 9: dynamics of the town became very interesting the more I
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Speaker 9: dug into it.
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Speaker 1: I want to repeat what you just said. In ninety days,
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Speaker 1: there were forty five thousand people in Border.
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Speaker 9: It's just an irresponsible level of growth. It's just you
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Speaker 9: can't and it starts selling itself. Wiley all there, and
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Speaker 9: it's snowballs. But yeah, there was no lights, you know,
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Speaker 9: open sewers, the dereks were next to the houses that
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Speaker 9: were ram shackle. You know, you're walking down main street
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Speaker 9: and there's you know, you've got plenty of you know,
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Speaker 9: prostitutes hanging out, you know, selling their wares, and and
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Speaker 9: then you know you're hitting the speakeasies a little bit
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Speaker 9: and you notice that the drug stores are still open.
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Speaker 9: They're selling things and including booze and other drugs. And
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Speaker 9: then you get to the really bad street Dixon, you know,
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Speaker 9: you know that's border back then, and those are all
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Speaker 9: again based on contemporary accounts, you know, you know, the
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Speaker 9: descriptions of people who loved it there in their boosters
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Speaker 9: and people who you know, hated it or visited once
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Speaker 9: and had an opinion. And I tried to bake it
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Speaker 9: all into the scene setting because it's all true. You know,
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Speaker 9: depending on where you're sitting. You know, a dance hall
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Speaker 9: operator has a whole different idea about the town's worth.
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Speaker 9: And you know, if you wanted to get a prosecute,
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Speaker 9: you get a prosecutor. You want to go in a
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Speaker 9: dance hall for a diamond dance, that's a whole different setup, right,
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Speaker 9: And there's variations within the within the black that are very,
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Speaker 9: very gray. And it was interesting when Frank Hamer saw
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Speaker 9: that too. Sometimes in the Kansas case of the dance halls,
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Speaker 9: not so much, but in other things he.
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Speaker 1: Did aside from the bootleggers, the gamblers. By the way,
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Speaker 1: this is during prohibition, is it not, And it was
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Speaker 1: just openly blatantly ignored.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely blatantly ignored.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, they declared it basically an open and open town,
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Speaker 9: and the locals weren't going to do anything about it.
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Speaker 9: And the prohibition people can only come in without local support.
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Speaker 4: There's not much that they.
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Speaker 1: Can do aside from the oil field workers. How did
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Speaker 1: forty five thousand people show up so quickly in a
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Speaker 1: world where news did not travel that fast?
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Speaker 9: News was traveling fast by wire and by newspaper all
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Speaker 9: the ways that they when you read how the advertised
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Speaker 9: for it, Yeah, and they said land for sale. Come
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Speaker 9: and stake your new future at the Pittsburgh of Texas
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Speaker 9: or whatever they're calling it, you know whatever that you know,
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Speaker 9: we're on a train line.
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Speaker 4: We're going to be great.
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Speaker 9: And hey, by the way, we're a bunch of guys
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Speaker 9: from Oklahoma who just set up an insanely popular boom town.
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Speaker 4: Get in on it now.
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Speaker 9: And people showed up, you know, in droves, because they
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Speaker 9: wanted good, bad, ugly across the spectrum. They wanted another opportunity.
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Speaker 9: They want to make something to themselves. It's a very
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Speaker 9: human I don't care if you're Shine Pope Joy, the
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Speaker 9: King of the Texas Bootleggers, or if you're Maddie Castleberry
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Speaker 9: that you know who wants to go operate a legitimate
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Speaker 9: who's defending his title as a hometown you know, professional
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Speaker 9: wrestling hero. You got something, someone's going to try and
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Speaker 9: build it in border right if you can defend it,
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Speaker 9: you gotta against all circumstances and all comers. But you
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Speaker 9: know that's the shared ethos amongst all these people except
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Speaker 9: Frank Hamer. He just wants to get the hell out.
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Speaker 9: The Rangers just want to leave. So against all of
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Speaker 9: that is the you know, the people who their reward
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Speaker 9: is just leaving, and that is part of why it
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Speaker 9: was such a challenge. And if you want to view
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Speaker 9: it as their undoing of this particular effort, that's part
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Speaker 1: I know that the name Frank Hamer rigs a belt
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Speaker 1: with some people. I will remind them that he was
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Speaker 1: famous frankly as a Texas Ranger, but became worldwide famous
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Speaker 1: when he killed Bonnie and Clyde in nineteen thirty four.
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Speaker 9: Yes, he's the one of the central characters in it.
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Speaker 9: It was really interesting to see him in the stage
25:46
Speaker 9: of his career when he's the senior captain.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, when.
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Speaker 9: When they when the governor called him in the you know,
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Speaker 9: hunt down Bonnie and Clyde, was after he was out
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Speaker 9: of the Rangers.
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Speaker 4: But it was a very similar sort of a.
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Speaker 9: Hall that he was used to getting, which was something
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Speaker 9: is out of control. You know, we need someone with
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Speaker 9: some some grit and some heft who can go in
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Speaker 9: there and establish some order.
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Speaker 1: And he didn't buy shooting people.
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Speaker 9: He didn't mind shooting people. That was but I always
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Speaker 9: think of that as one of the tools in his toolkit.
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Speaker 9: So if that was the shortest distance between the two
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Speaker 9: lines of justice and we would achieve what the governor needed,
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Speaker 9: Oh yeah, okay, that's what you do. But if that
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Speaker 9: means you know, unraveling you know, a bombing, you know
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Speaker 9: some you know, and using his investigative skills, his holster
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Speaker 9: doesn't come out, if that means you know, step by
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Speaker 9: step like we described in the book, Yeah, we described
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Speaker 9: in the book, you know, trying to tie a noose
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Speaker 9: around a corrupt politician who's accepting money and doing a sting. Well,
26:50
Speaker 9: he's going to do that too. If he's going to
26:52
Speaker 9: take out his gun out of the holster. He could
26:54
Speaker 9: be pistol whipping someone in the street to get, you know,
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Speaker 9: get everyone's compliance in a situation instead of shooting or
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Speaker 9: held be you know, putting someone down for a reason.
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Speaker 9: It's all part of his toolkit. And as he got older,
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Speaker 9: he was more selective in which one of those tools
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Speaker 9: he'd reach for, because with age some sort of wisdom,
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Speaker 9: but he would still reserve that option of putting you down.
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Speaker 9: That was never not in the toolkit, if you know
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Speaker 1: The book is called Boomtown, The True Story of the
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Speaker 4: It was a real pleasure. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: I knew nothing about this, right, Like I said, I've
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Speaker 1: continuing without the Dallas Stars. At A friend text me
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Speaker 1: over the weekend. He said, I don't keep up with
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Speaker 1: them day to day like you do. What happened? I said, Well,
33:39
Speaker 1: here's what happened. Number One, they played a really good team.
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34:32
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34:36
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Speaker 1: about the great goaltending, and then last night Colorado scores
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Speaker 1: nine goals. Look, Colorado is the favorite to win the Cup.
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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any doubt. That doesn't mean they're
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Speaker 1: going to win. I'm just saying they're the favorite to
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Speaker 1: win the Cup. Their offense is lethal, okay lethal, and
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Speaker 1: they showed it last night. They scored nine goals, eight
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Speaker 1: of them with a goaltender. On the other side, they
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Speaker 1: scored a late empty net goal, but they scored nine
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Speaker 1: last night. And the best series so far other than
35:19
Speaker 1: the Stars and the Wild was Montreal and Tampa Bay.
35:28
Speaker 1: Tampa won fifty games. Okay, to give you an idea,
35:32
Speaker 1: the Stars won forty eight the while one forty six.
35:35
Speaker 1: The Avalanche won fifty five games. But Tampa Bay, former
35:40
Speaker 1: Cup winners with an outstanding goaltender, lost Game seven at
35:49
Speaker 1: home two to one to Montreal. Martin Saint Louis has
35:54
Speaker 1: done an unbelievable job coaching the Canadians. It is it's
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Speaker 1: been a while since Montreal has had any success. They
36:04
Speaker 1: win two to one last night at Tampa Bay. Uh
36:13
Speaker 1: Yakub Dobish was terrific, twenty eight saves. Suzuki got the
36:21
Speaker 1: first goal, the all important first goal in the first period.
36:24
Speaker 1: He's the captain. Afterward, Martine Saint Louis, the coach, talked
36:29
Speaker 1: about him and the rest of the team.
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Speaker 13: Marty, early in this series, your captain was putting a
36:34
Speaker 13: lot of heat on himself for producing and all these things.
36:37
Speaker 13: And you know, I think at a certain point he
36:39
Speaker 13: flipped a switch and became a really impactful player.
36:41
Speaker 4: But tonight he gets on the board.
36:42
Speaker 13: You see in his celebration it was a little bit
36:44
Speaker 13: more enthusiastic than normal. He blocks a shot at the
36:47
Speaker 13: end that kind of seals it just you talk about
36:50
Speaker 13: your revolution, I mean his evolution as a leader, as
36:52
Speaker 13: a player, as a guy who's leaned on a lot
36:55
Speaker 13: by your team. What did you see in the series
36:57
Speaker 13: from beginning to end?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean I feel like you just kept getting
37:00
Speaker 14: better as a series went on. I feel like players
37:03
Speaker 14: like Susie, I think he they just adapt and evolve.
37:08
Speaker 14: They learned from the previous game, they understand how the
37:12
Speaker 14: other team plays, you know, and they just find I
37:16
Speaker 14: felt he was better and better at finding pockets and
37:20
Speaker 14: you know, defensively. I mean I felt like he competed
37:23
Speaker 14: so hard and you know, very courageous and stepping in
37:26
Speaker 14: front of big shots.
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Speaker 1: You know.
37:29
Speaker 14: I think he led us through this series. You know,
37:32
Speaker 14: I think everybody you know follows him well. Did pretty
37:36
Speaker 14: more questions every also done.
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Speaker 7: He talked a lot throughout the year about being able
37:41
Speaker 7: to win any type of game.
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Speaker 15: What does it take to win in the playoffs, to
37:46
Speaker 15: beat a team like the Lightning, What does it take?
37:48
Speaker 7: What is the type of game that wins?
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Speaker 14: Well, it's never Yeah, I mean obviously like playing strong defensively,
37:53
Speaker 14: which I think we did. But if you look at
37:57
Speaker 14: the four wins we got right first went to me was,
38:02
Speaker 14: you know, three power play goals, you know, good goaltending,
38:06
Speaker 14: three power play goals.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 14: The second win is it was you know, bottom six
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Speaker 14: line bouncing back, you know, in the big overtime goal.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 14: The third win was was game five, right, it was
38:25
Speaker 14: a game five third win. Yeah, it was Game five.
38:27
Speaker 14: You know, it was two to two and the third
38:29
Speaker 14: and we caught him on the bad change, and you know,
38:33
Speaker 14: text makes a big goal. And tonight obviously we you know,
38:37
Speaker 14: we had nine shots, ten shots, right, and and so
38:42
Speaker 14: I felt like tonight they deserved better. I felt like
38:46
Speaker 14: Game six, we probably deserved better. And uh, you know,
38:50
Speaker 14: Dobs DoBeS kind of stole the game, you know, probably
38:53
Speaker 14: similar to the way Vassie stole the game Game six
38:57
Speaker 14: in my mind, so you need a little bit of everything,
39:00
Speaker 14: you know, And I think that's what we got this series.
39:03
Speaker 14: Like tonight, big old by Susie, and we got to
39:06
Speaker 14: bounce with Nui, right, So it's not one thing. Got
39:11
Speaker 14: to find a way, and I feel like we did
39:13
Speaker 14: it differently.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Marty Ei.
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Speaker 16: There's footage after the game of your running into the
39:19
Speaker 16: dressing room and pounding your chest or your players like that.
39:22
Speaker 16: They're screaming. Just you know, some of them were just
39:27
Speaker 16: the origins of that. And your players are saying like
39:31
Speaker 16: you have a special bond with them, Like I don't
39:33
Speaker 16: know if Tortz has ever done that, but we haven't
39:35
Speaker 16: seen any footage of it. And just you know, how
39:38
Speaker 16: you can sell, how you can sell the relationship you
39:42
Speaker 16: have with your players. And what a special moment that was,
39:45
Speaker 16: because one of the most special moments you had in
39:47
Speaker 16: your career was just down the hall in the other
39:49
Speaker 16: dressing room.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, I feel like you can't take the
39:52
Speaker 14: player out of me a little bit, right, And I
39:54
Speaker 14: tried to I don't try to be in the locker
39:57
Speaker 14: room a lot, Like I just to me, this is
39:59
Speaker 14: the this is their space. It's their team, it's not
40:02
Speaker 14: my team. I'm trying to steer them. But every now
40:05
Speaker 14: and then I've got moments with them and I try
40:07
Speaker 14: to pick my spot and obviously like and I like tonight,
40:10
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40:13
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Speaker 1: Martin saying Louis what a job he has done his
40:17
Speaker 1: head coach at Montreal. They had nine shots on goal
40:24
Speaker 1: that is a record low. Two of them went in
40:28
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40:31
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40:35
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45:42
Speaker 5: a little longer than he's been. We thought it was.
45:45
Speaker 5: I just thought he looked tired. For me, he thought
45:47
Speaker 5: he looked tired. And then you know, his freylik was
45:49
Speaker 5: coming up. He said number four hundred against righties, a
45:53
Speaker 5: lot different against left handers. So I mean, we didn't
45:56
Speaker 5: want to be a batter late. And you know Dark
45:58
Speaker 5: came in and got that out and got the job
45:59
Speaker 5: done there. But yeah, man, just I don't think I
46:03
Speaker 5: don't know what he was his last outing, he just
46:05
Speaker 5: he's such a little gas.
46:06
Speaker 19: What have you seen that maybe people haven't in the
46:08
Speaker 19: middle of the week from Weston where he gets moved
46:11
Speaker 19: from that Saturday rule, but he's still able to come
46:13
Speaker 19: out on Sundays and has killed the forms.
46:15
Speaker 5: He can't change his mindset and about being about the team.
46:18
Speaker 7: That's not all it's easy to hear, just competit.
46:20
Speaker 5: But yes, he's just continued to try to get better
46:22
Speaker 5: and it definitely shows.
46:24
Speaker 7: How how greedy has Cris been this weekend.
46:27
Speaker 19: You know, he's not one hundred percent, but still able
46:29
Speaker 19: to get a ball out of the park that ends
46:30
Speaker 19: up being the difference in a game like that.
46:32
Speaker 5: Yes, he's a he's a I mean I've said a
46:34
Speaker 5: million times, but he's a really tough kid.
46:36
Speaker 7: He's he's a he's a team guy, and he's a
46:38
Speaker 7: really good player. So he's just struggle.
46:40
Speaker 5: Can't run his full speed, but that was never the
46:42
Speaker 5: the carrying tool for him anyway. So then just keep
46:45
Speaker 5: getting him healthier and healthier day by day so we
46:47
Speaker 5: get him back out of second base.
46:49
Speaker 18: I mean, what are you from your perspective, what are
46:51
Speaker 18: you feeling, what are you seeing? During the ninth inning
46:53
Speaker 18: as Auburn tries to plow.
46:54
Speaker 7: Up a rally.
46:56
Speaker 5: I was just waiting for us to get them to
46:58
Speaker 5: him to a double play at the end. I knew
46:59
Speaker 5: it was and I thought it was gonna go short,
47:01
Speaker 5: but it went to second. So I was a little
47:03
Speaker 5: wrong there. But I had a complete belief in the
47:05
Speaker 5: fresh Crow. I mean, they had a couple credit to them.
47:08
Speaker 5: They put it in and play and got some balls on.
47:09
Speaker 5: So I just I believe in the law of averages
47:12
Speaker 5: in this game, and I knew something with bound to guardwin.
47:14
Speaker 19: You know, it's a long time ago, but Gavin Stalett
47:17
Speaker 19: still there in that first sitting.
47:18
Speaker 7: Was that called or is that just something he saw there?
47:21
Speaker 7: It wasn't. It wasn't a delayed steel. It was just something, just.
47:26
Speaker 5: Something within the game, and he didn't see it.
47:29
Speaker 7: He didn't see it the right way.
47:30
Speaker 5: But you know, it worked out. So he did one
47:33
Speaker 5: thing right there though he should not have went. But
47:37
Speaker 5: when you go, you go, you see a lot of
47:38
Speaker 5: guys a lot of times trying to stop me jobs
47:41
Speaker 5: and you're getting out in the rundown.
47:42
Speaker 7: Or nineteen ninety percent, I'm sure. So it's like, so
47:44
Speaker 7: he did do that correct.
47:45
Speaker 5: You make a pitcher dove out a third base, so
47:48
Speaker 5: there's a positive on that in nine year he said,
47:50
Speaker 5: when you knew that double play was coming, is not
47:52
Speaker 5: just pitch calling coach intuitional.
47:54
Speaker 4: I was.
47:55
Speaker 7: I was being a little facetious.
47:56
Speaker 5: I just I wanted it, So I think I probably
47:58
Speaker 5: wanted it more than I knew. But I just, you know,
48:01
Speaker 5: I have complete faith and played freshmore on the mountain,
48:04
Speaker 5: and there's the guys out there on the field, so
48:06
Speaker 5: it just happened to be a hit right out of
48:07
Speaker 5: guy and then we had to make a punch.
48:09
Speaker 19: Did y'all learn any more about how Niko is doing
48:11
Speaker 19: and how long you might be out for?
48:12
Speaker 9: I don't.
48:13
Speaker 7: We won't know that today. You know, he's obviously pulled something,
48:17
Speaker 7: so I've got to get that.
48:18
Speaker 1: We'll get a look at tomorrow and move forward. So
48:20
Speaker 1: I don't I don't have.
48:21
Speaker 7: The severity of it. I mean, he's walking around. It's
48:24
Speaker 7: not for his don't want to make sure you're getting
48:26
Speaker 7: healthy getting back.
48:27
Speaker 11: From this season.
48:28
Speaker 18: I've heard you say that, you know, every every single
48:31
Speaker 18: SEC game matters and every single game counts the same.
48:33
Speaker 18: So after winning this one and what turned out to
48:36
Speaker 18: be a dog fight, but now you've got fifteen wins
48:39
Speaker 18: with two weeks to play, How are you feeling?
48:41
Speaker 4: We need to keep grabbing him?
48:42
Speaker 5: And that's why I told him, like, yeah, then we
48:45
Speaker 5: talk about it all the time. Yes, there's a series.
48:47
Speaker 4: For sure.
48:47
Speaker 5: We did not win the series at home. We always
48:49
Speaker 5: want to do that, but it's just grabbing one of
48:51
Speaker 5: those sturdy wins when you can't. We had to grab
48:53
Speaker 5: one today. I mean, he just want to keep you know, play.
48:56
Speaker 4: A game by game.
48:57
Speaker 5: We got a game Tuesday, but these conference games are
48:59
Speaker 5: sooked off as you can see, being we lost. We
49:02
Speaker 5: had one game that got out of hand. Wasn't a
49:04
Speaker 5: game lost in one run game?
49:06
Speaker 7: Won a one run game. He's got to keep grabbing
49:08
Speaker 7: because hard beginning. How satisfying the one run wins a kid.
49:13
Speaker 5: I don't know if there's I mean, they're satisfying, but
49:15
Speaker 5: they I'm now forty five years old after that.
49:19
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I just like to win in general.
49:21
Speaker 5: I prefer to win by like five or six, but
49:23
Speaker 5: I'll take.
49:24
Speaker 1: Those mock yeah. Uh yeah, any win in the SEC
49:29
Speaker 1: any time. Uh and uh, it's been a while since
49:33
Speaker 1: Yeaggy's lost his series. Quite frankly, they'll play tomorrow night.
49:37
Speaker 1: I think at six o'clock I got that right, five
49:41
Speaker 1: forty five for US trade. Okay, Western Moss was was
49:46
Speaker 1: just terrific his second conference win, a career high six
49:51
Speaker 1: and a third six strikeouts, just two base runners. He
49:59
Speaker 1: was was terrific. Let's hear from Weston Moss.
50:04
Speaker 7: Well, you definitely didn't take it easy on Augurt.
50:06
Speaker 4: So we'll just.
50:07
Speaker 7: Working for you today that you were able to get
50:09
Speaker 7: in that group. Pictures wise, it is, you know, a
50:11
Speaker 7: basketball secret change up. I think we went cutter a
50:15
Speaker 7: couple of times. The first guy of the game, you know,
50:17
Speaker 7: threw a nice cutter there three two. He wasn't expecting it,
50:21
Speaker 7: just let it fall down in the middle.
50:23
Speaker 4: You know.
50:23
Speaker 3: Kind of you kind of.
50:23
Speaker 19: Handled these last three weeks where you moved off the
50:26
Speaker 19: Saturday spot.
50:27
Speaker 7: But you've had some good outings on its Sunday starts.
50:30
Speaker 7: You know, you know, I'm enjoying now I can just
50:32
Speaker 7: what I'm in. You know, I think towing the rubber,
50:34
Speaker 7: I mean, no matter what day, saying you though, sure, yeah,
50:39
Speaker 7: I just you know, we'll think much about it. It'd
50:42
Speaker 7: be when.
50:43
Speaker 18: Pictures and athletes are working on something great like you
50:46
Speaker 18: were today, they helped to talk about entering the zone.
50:48
Speaker 18: So my question is did you enter that little realm
50:52
Speaker 18: that us your mortals can't.
50:53
Speaker 7: And how did it feel if you did? Yeah, today
50:56
Speaker 7: I just was looking down.
50:57
Speaker 20: I you know, I towed the rubber and then I
50:59
Speaker 20: look at That's pretty much it.
51:01
Speaker 7: You know, it's thinking.
51:01
Speaker 20: Nothing, think about nothing, but you know, one pitch at
51:05
Speaker 20: a time. But yeah, it's just you know, tunnel vision
51:08
Speaker 20: pretty much too.
51:09
Speaker 7: That's what it was.
51:10
Speaker 18: How are you able to interview that, that tunnel vision
51:12
Speaker 18: that you speak of when they're so almost seven thousand
51:15
Speaker 18: screaming people and there's a lot of anxious nerves given
51:18
Speaker 18: how the earlier part.
51:19
Speaker 20: Of the weekend, and you know it just control the
51:22
Speaker 20: mental games, you know, just think less, you know, do more.
51:25
Speaker 20: You know, That's how it is. I think that just
51:29
Speaker 20: the mental part of the game is what's been slowed me.
51:31
Speaker 7: Down this year.
51:32
Speaker 3: Uh.
51:32
Speaker 7: And I think the last you know, three three games
51:35
Speaker 7: have been good. You know, just go out there, have fun.
51:38
Speaker 20: Really like my one goal by one objective if it
51:41
Speaker 20: is to win, and no matter what my stat line is.
51:44
Speaker 4: We win.
51:44
Speaker 7: At the night thinning, you know, it's over. You know,
51:47
Speaker 7: I'm good, God.
51:48
Speaker 18: You're coming up the mound and the crowds cheered before
51:50
Speaker 18: you took your cabs. What was that moment like and
51:52
Speaker 18: take us through?
51:53
Speaker 7: You know felt good?
51:55
Speaker 20: You know, It's it's been a while, you know, you know,
51:57
Speaker 20: not the the year I dreamed of.
52:00
Speaker 7: But you know, I'm just you know, stay locked in.
52:04
Speaker 7: I know the people here love me, they love us,
52:06
Speaker 7: they love the players. But you know, sometimes when you're
52:08
Speaker 7: not succeeding, you know, you know, they start talking a
52:11
Speaker 7: little bit. But I think, you know, it felt rewarded.
52:14
Speaker 7: You know, I felt like I deserved that through a
52:17
Speaker 7: lot recently, and I think that was it felt great
52:21
Speaker 7: going on that. You were pretty hype when you were
52:23
Speaker 7: leaving them out. What was the mindset during that? You know,
52:26
Speaker 7: I was just proud of myself.
52:28
Speaker 20: I think, like I said, the mental game been the
52:30
Speaker 20: hardest part and I think I completely dominated No.
52:34
Speaker 7: Eight plus, you know, so I was just you know.
52:37
Speaker 20: Really happy, really happy to just curious and the first
52:41
Speaker 20: a bat that you had at the very first.
52:43
Speaker 19: Seeing you got into them two and then it went
52:45
Speaker 19: to three two do you got to strike out?
52:46
Speaker 7: I'm just curious. Was that a big a bath for you?
52:49
Speaker 7: And if so, just what what did you do for
52:51
Speaker 7: you given that one, you know, you know it felt good.
52:54
Speaker 7: You know, I feel like I've had that.
52:56
Speaker 20: You know, a throuble with three, so you know, throwing
52:59
Speaker 20: out of a good and you know, and when I do,
53:02
Speaker 20: you know, I knew.
53:03
Speaker 7: Make the last bit. I think we got three two
53:06
Speaker 7: by stuggle on. You know, did think much about it.
53:10
Speaker 18: But don't get the struggle out.
53:13
Speaker 19: If you're talking about some of the things you got
53:14
Speaker 19: to overcome this season, I'm curious to be be away
53:17
Speaker 19: from the game or the baseball field. Is there anything
53:19
Speaker 19: that's kept you level or grounded through that to the
53:21
Speaker 19: first of year.
53:22
Speaker 20: In those moments, you know, I think God is testing
53:25
Speaker 20: you know me for sure, He's you know, putting my
53:29
Speaker 20: back against the wall.
53:29
Speaker 7: He's you know, making me humble, making me grateful for
53:33
Speaker 7: the things that I have off the field.
53:35
Speaker 20: And I think, how you just trust his playing if
53:38
Speaker 20: that's what I'm doing, I'm.
53:39
Speaker 7: Trusting is playing. You know, this world, you know, tough
53:42
Speaker 7: a gap, but I think if.
53:43
Speaker 16: You stick with Goud, stick with.
53:46
Speaker 7: Your family, and people would love. I think, uh, that's where.
53:51
Speaker 19: But mind it, okay, taking the game, you know, after
53:56
Speaker 19: a day like he had yet the team had yesterday
53:58
Speaker 19: to come back and then win, Like.
54:00
Speaker 7: Is what what does it do for a team before?
54:02
Speaker 4: You know?
54:02
Speaker 7: That's great? I mean like you know Salvage series, you know. Uh,
54:07
Speaker 7: but I think, you know, getting swept not good. So
54:10
Speaker 7: I like my role. I like I like going out
54:12
Speaker 7: and competed.
54:13
Speaker 11: Uh.
54:14
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's a big game. Still happy to win it.
54:18
Speaker 7: The good team a really good game and my U
54:21
Speaker 7: Petrovic starter we played you know growing up. He did good.
54:25
Speaker 7: You know that pretty mme round whatever, but he did
54:27
Speaker 7: real good. So I'm proud of him. Yeah, I was
54:30
Speaker 7: gonna ask you know, him being this some Cypress.
54:32
Speaker 20: Talmhall area and went to the Accordingly, we played a
54:34
Speaker 20: travel ball together, okay growing up.
54:36
Speaker 7: Which the trout teameral Premier Baseball.
54:39
Speaker 19: Okay, she she gets to talk to him after the game.
54:42
Speaker 20: No, not really, but you know, I wish I could,
54:44
Speaker 20: but you know.
54:45
Speaker 7: If I have I think I have a phone number.
54:47
Speaker 7: I don't know, I'll give him a text.
54:48
Speaker 1: On that's uh, lesson Moss. And again he was really
54:52
Speaker 1: good yesterday. They needed him to be good. They needed
54:56
Speaker 1: to get a win yesterday, which they did.
54:59
Speaker 8: Uh.
55:00
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55:03
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55:08
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55:15
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55:18
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55:21
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55:24
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55:29
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55:34
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55:37
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55:41
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