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Heartbreak in Boston and OKC, Texas Baseball's final midweek game, and Texas Softball head coach Mike White · The Craig Way Show

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the program here on thirteen
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Speaker 1: hundred of the zone. My name is Craig Way. Glad
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Speaker 1: to be with you, and right now as we bring
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Speaker 1: you the program from UFCU dish forag Field, it's seventy
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Speaker 1: six degrees. I know there's till parts of the area
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Speaker 1: that are technically technically under a tornado watch until four
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Speaker 1: o'clock this afternoon. And it was monsoon like Build the
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Speaker 1: Arc style conditions this morning all around the Greater Austin,
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Speaker 1: Central Texas area, heavy heavy rain. I got drenched like
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Speaker 1: a drowned rat taking a vehicle to get repaired this morning.
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Speaker 1: But now the skies have cleared, and you know, it's
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Speaker 1: beautiful sunny conditions here at the ballpark. Traffic's even actually
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Speaker 1: moving a little bit on the upper deck of I
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Speaker 1: thirty five. So anyway, we're out of here because the
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Speaker 1: Long Corn baseball team has its final non conference game
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Speaker 1: of the regular season coming up tonight. They'll play a
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Speaker 1: really good Lamar Cardinal team that's won thirty seven ballgames
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Speaker 1: this season, and it's the final midweek game of the
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Speaker 1: season for Texas. They don't play a midweek game next
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Speaker 1: week with the Quick turnaround in the Thursday game to
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Speaker 1: start off that final regular season concluding series in Norman,
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma against the Oklahoma Sooners next weekend, which could wind
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Speaker 1: up being.
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Speaker 2: Really really important.
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Speaker 1: Certainly, the series this weekend at home on Senior Weekend
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Speaker 1: against the Florida Gators will be very, very important toward
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Speaker 1: the log Warrens continued hopes to lead wire to wire
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Speaker 1: to win the SEC Championship. Of course, those plans and
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Speaker 1: hopes took a hit, a sizeable one in the series
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Speaker 1: sweeping lost weekend at Arkansas, and Arkansas passed Texas and
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Speaker 1: two of the pole this week. The Longhorns were number
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Speaker 1: one in two of the other polls including D one
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Speaker 1: baseball dot Com, and I think Texas.
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Speaker 2: Is number three.
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Speaker 1: Imperfect game, but the most important thing right now is
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Speaker 1: trying to get this team back on the uptick, finish
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Speaker 1: out the regular season strong to hopefully win the SEC
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Speaker 1: regular season championship locked down a top eight national seed,
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Speaker 1: if not the overall number one national seed, which is
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Speaker 1: also still very much in play, but it'll depend on
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Speaker 1: how the Longhorns play the rest of this week and
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Speaker 1: then certainly next.
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Speaker 2: Week as well.
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Speaker 1: All right back in play and back in the studios
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Speaker 1: at the Zone at the Iheartcompound is our producer Cameron D.
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Speaker 2: Parker.
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Speaker 1: The D and the birth certificate stands for Dallas, as
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Speaker 1: he was named for his favorite pro football team that
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Speaker 1: he is refusing to watch and follow right now as
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Speaker 1: he continues his disgust in the way that team has
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Speaker 1: been operated. So the D this morning stood for deluge
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Speaker 1: because we had all the rain. But maybe it stands
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Speaker 1: for I don't know, you're coming off a little little
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Speaker 1: break of a weekend, So how that go for you?
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Speaker 1: By the way, you're able to step away for a
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Speaker 1: few days and kind of catch a breath before we
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Speaker 1: get to the stretch drive of baseball season.
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Speaker 3: Craig, the D stands for don't foul, Dad, Now, don't
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Speaker 3: foul up by three, especially if you're gonna foul, don't
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Speaker 3: foul immediately so that no time comes off the clock.
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Speaker 3: It could stand for Denver with that incredible win. Or
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Speaker 3: it could stand for the Dallas Stars who had that
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Speaker 3: incredible come from behind victory in Game seven. Uh, what
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Speaker 3: a victory for the Stars. And now we'll face the
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Speaker 3: Winnipeg Jets in round two. So it contend for a
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Speaker 3: lot of things on this Tuesday afternoon.
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Speaker 2: But good afternoon.
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Speaker 3: Glad to be back with you guys here and looking
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Speaker 3: forward to Texas baseball, hopefully recovering from a dour weekend
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Speaker 3: in vaytte film.
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Speaker 1: There's another d word, Okay, a dour weekend dotted with
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Speaker 1: three defeats. So hopefully they turned that around. All right, Uh,
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about all those topics that you
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Speaker 1: brought up. Uh, certainly that would be uh the Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: City Thunder that was inexplicably seeing an eleven point lead
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Speaker 1: in the final minutes slip away.
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Speaker 2: I think you made a very good.
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Speaker 1: Point, although I thought, you know, on the on the
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Speaker 1: TMT post game show, H Kenny Smith did a really
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Speaker 1: good job of pointing that out. On the inside of
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Speaker 1: the NBA Charles Barkley didn't agree with it. He said, Hey,
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Speaker 1: it's as simple as who missed the two free throws
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Speaker 1: for the thunder? Yeah, you make the two free throws.
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Speaker 1: It's not it's not an issue. Well maybe it wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have been. Maybe maybe you know, Gordon hits the three
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Speaker 1: anyway two uh, and then it would tie and send
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Speaker 1: an overtime.
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Speaker 2: Who knows.
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Speaker 1: But I do agree with you that the early fouling
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Speaker 1: leaving time on the clock, I think was And they
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Speaker 1: asked him about it in the post game and he
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Speaker 1: said he liked their plan for what they did, they
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Speaker 1: didn't execute quite the way. I think when they go
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Speaker 1: back and review that, they're gonna look at that and go,
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Speaker 1: you know, we fouled too early. There was one time
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Speaker 1: in less than ten you know, a few tenths of
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Speaker 1: a second, less than a second went off the clock
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Speaker 1: from like what ten points something to nine point seven,
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Speaker 1: So I think they'll probably look at that.
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Speaker 2: You mentioned the Dallas Stars.
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Speaker 1: They played a night in Winnipeg, and if the Stars
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Speaker 1: inexplicable finish down to nothing in the third period in
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Speaker 1: Game seven of Colorado before scoring four unanswered goals, three
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Speaker 1: from Eko Ranton and who it was just amazing what
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Speaker 1: he did. If that was incredible enough Sunday night, the
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Speaker 1: finish for Winnipeg down in the third with a couple
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Speaker 1: of goals, including one with one second to go in regulation,
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Speaker 1: then winning it in the second overtime might even be crazier.
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Speaker 1: But that is setting the table for what could be
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Speaker 1: a fabulous Western Conference summifinal series there. So we'll talk
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Speaker 1: about those two things we'll also discuss the other NBA
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Speaker 1: playoff series, Nix with an eyebrow raising win in Game
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Speaker 1: one in overtime at Boston. Of course, on Sunday, the
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Speaker 1: Pacers lost at home in Game one to Indiana. So
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Speaker 1: three the first three series, the lower seeded team has won.
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Speaker 1: Now we'll see what happens tonight, And it's kind of
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Speaker 1: a little bit different anyway, because Minnesota and Golden State
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Speaker 1: are the six and seven seeds anyway, so it's a
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Speaker 1: little it's a little bit different in their case.
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Speaker 2: But we'll kind of follow that.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to a couple of Major League Baseball things,
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Speaker 1: and obviously we're going to talk long Worn Baseball.
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Speaker 2: And we'll do that.
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Speaker 1: But but coming up next, we're going to talk Tackta
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Speaker 1: Softball with a head coach of the Long Orange, Mike White,
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Speaker 1: as his team prepares to head for the SEC Tournament
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Speaker 1: in Athens, Georgia. And don't we have a broadcast of
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Speaker 1: a game of that coming up cam.
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Speaker 3: We do Opening Round for softball, which is technically Day
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Speaker 3: three of the SEC Softball Tournament. We're going to bring
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Speaker 3: it to you actually live on this station right here,
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Speaker 3: thirteen hundred on Thursday three forty five pm first pitch. Now,
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Speaker 3: of course, if they do win, they'll play a little
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Speaker 3: bit later in the day on Friday, and then if
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Speaker 3: they're in the SEC Championship on Saturday, it will conflict
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Speaker 3: with Texas Baseball and round Rock Express. But we're hoping
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Speaker 3: for another long postseason run for Mike White, and when
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Speaker 3: we are a bit able to, we will bring it
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Speaker 3: to you right here on thirteen hundred zone.
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Speaker 1: Good, all right, So we'll have that on Thursday afternoon.
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Speaker 1: It'll be a quarterfinal game since they're getting one of
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Speaker 1: the double buys, and so we'll have that for you
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Speaker 1: on Thursday afternoon. Up next, we visit with the head
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Speaker 1: coach of Texas Softball. Mike White, will join us when
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Speaker 1: we continue on thirteen under the zone. It's the Craig
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Speaker 1: Way Show with the voice of the Texas Longhorns in
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Craig Way. Just let me know where.
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Speaker 1: Back here at UFCU Diish Folk Field as we get
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Speaker 1: ready for long Horn Baseball tonight, as Texas will take on.
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Speaker 2: The Lamar Cardinals.
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Speaker 1: That'll be a six fifteen pregame start time and a
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Speaker 1: six thirty first pitch. But as we mentioned, it's postseason
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Speaker 1: time for collegiate softball, and that means it's postseason time
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Speaker 1: for the Texas Longhorns SEC tournament time, getting ready to
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Speaker 1: play in their first ever SEC softball tournament at Jack
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Speaker 1: Turner Stadium in Athens, George. Now that'll be coming up
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Speaker 1: on Thursday. The long Horns will head over there tomorrow
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Speaker 1: to get ready. We're pleased to have joining us on
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Speaker 1: the hotline right now, and they head coach of the Longhorns,
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Speaker 1: Mike White, has joined us, and Mike, I appreciate the time.
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Speaker 1: And after the Noah's ArcLight conditions of the morning, with
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Speaker 1: all of that out of the way, where was your
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Speaker 1: group able to get in some work even indoors before
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Speaker 1: you know, getting ready to head out to Georgia tomorrow?
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, well, for fortunately we're able to get in
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Speaker 4: yesterday morning before the monsoon started, and then this morning
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Speaker 4: we were in the bubble and then finished up on
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Speaker 4: our indoor facilities, so we're able to get some pretty
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Speaker 4: good practice time in, so you know we're ready to go.
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Speaker 2: Excellent.
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Speaker 1: How would you describe I mean, your your team is
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Speaker 1: no longer a knea fight so to speak, in the
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Speaker 1: SEC if you've been through an entire regular season. Now,
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Speaker 1: it's just like when coaches say that freshmen aren't freshmen
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Speaker 1: anymore by the time you get to the end of
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Speaker 1: the freshman year. All that said, do you get a
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Speaker 1: sense of excitement from your group? I mean, anytime you
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Speaker 1: get in the tournament play, I'm sure there's excitement, but
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Speaker 1: the fact that this is their first ever foray into
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Speaker 1: the SEC tournament, you do you get that kind of
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Speaker 1: sense from them, the excitement of participating in this event
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Speaker 1: for the first time.
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Speaker 4: Yes, definitely. I mean it's almost like a many college
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Speaker 4: World Series. You know, this ESPN's present and there's a
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Speaker 4: lot of media and you know, the same kind of
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Speaker 4: stuff that goes on in the College World Series. So
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Speaker 4: it's a great opportunity to pray people one and hopefully
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Speaker 4: for a postseason run and we'll get ready and get
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Speaker 4: back there to Oklaoma City.
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Speaker 1: Well and one of the things, Yeah, and I guess
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Speaker 1: that's that's the nice into the road thing for folks
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Speaker 1: who might have missed your team or will miss out
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Speaker 1: on seeing them, like in Oklahoma City during conference tournament play,
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Speaker 1: there's always that light at the end of the tunnel
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Speaker 1: that carrot there to get a chance to play there
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Speaker 1: anyway for the national in the Women's.
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Speaker 2: College World Series.
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Speaker 1: Let me start with how you feel about your group
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Speaker 1: now coming off the sweep of Kentucky, getting through the
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Speaker 1: weekend after a grinder of an SEC schedule. How do
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Speaker 1: you feel about your group right now and the way
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Speaker 1: they're playing as you head on endo the conference tournament.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the three weeks here we were in l s U,
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Speaker 4: Tennessee and Oklahoma. There was that was a tough stretch
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Speaker 4: that was like a goolant there of the you know,
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Speaker 4: three of the top teams in the conference and kind
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Speaker 4: of beat us up a little bit. You know, we
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Speaker 4: took a took a sweep there at Oklahoma and we
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Speaker 4: split that. We won the series against LSU in Tennessee.
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Speaker 4: So it was difficult, but I think we learned a
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Speaker 4: lot and we're able to kind of reset a little
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Speaker 4: bit against against Kentucky and loot some stuff and hopefully
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Speaker 4: we can come out and play relaxed, to play aggressive
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Speaker 4: type softball. I think they let uh let things get
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Speaker 4: away from us a little bit there. I gave up
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Speaker 4: too many runs on the pitching stuff, and hopefully we
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Speaker 4: can do a lot better going into this tournament.
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Speaker 1: Well, one of those players who seems to be playing
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Speaker 1: really lose for you and and free and easy, and
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Speaker 1: we saw it when she was a freshman. But how
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Speaker 1: about Katie Stewart and the things she's done. Uh, she's
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Speaker 1: sec player of the week, the player of the week
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Speaker 1: for the NFC A. Uh, what what do you seeing
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Speaker 1: from her that has her just on fire of late?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we saw that about two or three weeks ago.
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Speaker 4: She started to get a lot more confident. She was
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Speaker 4: down on herself there. We moved her down the lineup
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Speaker 4: from you know, fifth behind at what into the sixth position,
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Speaker 4: just to take a little bit of pressure off and
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Speaker 4: and now she started to really bounce back and like
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Speaker 4: what she's at behind Reese. It takes Reese quite a
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Speaker 4: bit and she's coming into her own and she's really
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Speaker 4: swinging the bat well, and that gets us pretty excited.
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Speaker 1: Mike, do you see that as one of the challenges
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Speaker 1: of coaching is not only for a head coach, but
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Speaker 1: for assistant coaches, for any of your other group, for
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Speaker 1: Steve Singleton or Kristen Zeleski or Patti rut Taylor, any
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Speaker 1: of your other members of your coaching staff. When you're
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Speaker 1: working with someone in trying to get them to get
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Speaker 1: the performance level up, and sometimes it necessitates a move
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Speaker 1: down in the lineup, some coaches up in the lineup,
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Speaker 1: depending on where you wanted him. For them to understand,
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Speaker 1: it's not a punitive thing, but it's a thing that's
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Speaker 1: going to help out not only the kid, but it's
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Speaker 1: certainly going to help out the team in the short term,
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Speaker 1: if not also for the long term.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, everything is based around the team. We tell
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Speaker 4: them that it's not a personal decision, you know, even
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Speaker 4: though it may seem like it at times, but certainly
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Speaker 4: not punishment. It's just, you know, just to kind of
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Speaker 4: maybe get you relaxed and reset and get to get
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Speaker 4: your your mind back to where it needs to be.
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Speaker 4: And fortunately, you know, we haven't had made too many
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Speaker 4: changes at the top of the line up. You know,
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Speaker 4: the top four have kind of stayed the same. It's
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Speaker 4: just a bottom hop there. We've got to kind of
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Speaker 4: mix and match just a little bit, and you kind
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Speaker 4: of go with your gut feeling and you kind of,
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Speaker 4: you know, play some players in certain positions depending on
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Speaker 4: the pitching that you're facing. But fortunately, the top four
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Speaker 4: have been really pretty steady.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I was going to ask you to talk
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Speaker 1: about those top four, but before I get you to
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Speaker 1: dive into that, I'm curious to get I heard it
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Speaker 1: saw a couple of the sound bites with Mia Scott
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Speaker 1: playing all of the positions. Baseball did that several years ago,
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Speaker 1: where we had a guy named Jake McKenzie who did
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Speaker 1: all nine one night, but that was a non conference
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Speaker 1: game on a Tuesday night against I think U t
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Speaker 1: R G V and things. We're gonna be well in
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Speaker 1: place on I mean, you're doing that or she's doing
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Speaker 1: that in the in the down the stretch of a
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Speaker 1: conference regular season. How did that whole thing generate into
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, here's me of playing every position
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Speaker 1: on the field.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well me has always kind of joked about wanting
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Speaker 4: to pitch, and she wanted to catch, and she wanted
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Speaker 4: to do these different things. So I was like, okay, Kiffer,
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Speaker 4: what you mentioned, we're going to put you into it.
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Speaker 4: So it started off, we said let's go, you know,
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Speaker 4: see what you got and you put your money with
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Speaker 4: your mouth this kind of thing, and uh, you know,
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Speaker 4: I didn't know much about it until we started actually
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Speaker 4: the game. So it was kind of kept for me,
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Speaker 4: but coach a Leski was was the one behind it
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Speaker 4: a lot of it, and so it just evolved into
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Speaker 4: its own little beast there and we unfortunately we're able
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Speaker 4: to do it. And you know, the game still meant
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Speaker 4: something because I mean difference between third and fourth place
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Speaker 4: and who we played, you know, in the in the
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Speaker 4: matchups for the now on Thursday, so you know it
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Speaker 4: didn't mean something, but she was able to kind of
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Speaker 4: come through it unscathed and we're able to win the
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Speaker 4: game with some comfort and you know with as we scored.
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Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: This is when Mike White, Texas Softball coaching for a
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Speaker 1: few more minutes. Mike, let me get you to give
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Speaker 1: a little detail what you were talking about with regard
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Speaker 1: to the pitching, because for a lot of the season
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Speaker 1: had been really really good and then there was a
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Speaker 1: struggle or too and a stumble or two down the stretch.
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Speaker 1: Was it anything acutely identifiable that that you could see
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Speaker 1: and and how did you and the staff go about
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Speaker 1: addressing it with your staff to try to get things
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Speaker 1: turned and flipped back around.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's it's sometimes you're going know, is
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Speaker 4: this a physical thing or does a mental thing and
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Speaker 4: you kind of like bouncing different stuff around trying to
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Speaker 4: figure it all out. And you know the other thing,
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Speaker 4: it was a combination. You know, there was some physical
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Speaker 4: things that we looked at, you know, some some stuff
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Speaker 4: that Teagan was doing, you know, and then also just
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Speaker 4: getting behind just walking too many batters. You're putting a
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Speaker 4: lot more pressure on yourself. And you know, the the
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Speaker 4: zones are pretty tight. You know, they shrunk a little
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Speaker 4: bit in the SEC for sure, and then coming the postseason,
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Speaker 4: so just adjustments we had to make. I like where
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Speaker 4: Tigan's at right now, and you know that's the one
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Speaker 4: we need. We need Teagan to be firing and all
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Speaker 4: celling us absolutely.
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Speaker 1: And is that also something too that you've noticed. And
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm speaking about this from the perspective of somebody
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Speaker 1: who just called three games in Arkansas of the weekend
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Speaker 1: that saw the pitching staff issue thirty one free passes,
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Speaker 1: there were twenty two walks and nine hit batters. So
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Speaker 1: I so so I'm I'm hearing exactly what you're saying.
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Speaker 1: And in the case of some of those one thing
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Speaker 1: that coach Los Negle talked about and Max weener, the
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Speaker 1: pitching coaches, guys just trying to be too fine sometimes
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Speaker 1: instead of just cutting loose and doing what they do best.
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Speaker 1: Was there some of that also, not only with Tigan
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Speaker 1: but with the rest of the staff.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, definitely. We're talking them about, you know, perfect pitching. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: that can really cause you some issues. You're trying to
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Speaker 4: be perfect all the time, and you know, good hitters
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Speaker 4: are good at not swinging that stuff and straightening the
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Speaker 4: strike zone. So you really got to trust your stuff
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Speaker 4: and attack. And you know, the number or pitches we
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Speaker 4: were thrown, we give them even better looks at us,
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Speaker 4: you know, So it's kind of like a catch twenty two.
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Speaker 4: You've got to really kind of like take your chances
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Speaker 4: and say I'd rather get you earlier than later. So
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Speaker 4: it's definitely something we leve from and something we're told
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Speaker 4: Tatiak and then the rest and stuff about as well.
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Speaker 1: Let me get your thoughts now on this SEC tournament.
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Speaker 1: You're not going to play until Thursday, and not yet
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Speaker 1: sure who it is you'd be playing. It could be
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Speaker 1: you know, two of the two teams is that that
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Speaker 1: start their game this afternoon, Missouri and Old miss It
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Speaker 1: could be Florida obviously waiting on the winner of that,
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Speaker 1: you get the double buys as well. How about the
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Speaker 1: challenges for you and for your staff. Uh, there's the
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Speaker 1: benefit of the double buy and you started in the quarterfinals.
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Speaker 1: But by the same token, there's a lot to examine
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Speaker 1: in terms of those teams. How much does the familiarity
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Speaker 1: of playing those teams during the season help shorten the
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Speaker 1: curve a little bit?
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Speaker 2: There?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it certainly helps without a doubt. Obviously we haven't
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Speaker 4: played Old Miss, but we've played we've played the other two,
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Speaker 4: so that kind of makes it a little bit easier.
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Speaker 4: But then you get into the semis and it could
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Speaker 4: be Texas A and M and could be on CO
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Speaker 4: and so it could be any one number of the
18:04
Speaker 4: teams that we that we haven't played, you know. So
18:08
Speaker 4: it's it's like one of those deal you know, you
18:09
Speaker 4: kind of take fifteen folders with the MVP PID, so
18:12
Speaker 4: some of it we's got to kind of wing it,
18:14
Speaker 4: you know, and just do the best we can.
18:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about Now.
18:18
Speaker 1: For folks who fans who are interested in how a
18:21
Speaker 1: team goes about the on site preparation, you travel tomorrow
18:26
Speaker 1: and of course you wouldn't play till Thursday, and how
18:29
Speaker 1: much of what you have to do in terms of
18:32
Speaker 1: your off site prep before you get into the stadium itself,
18:35
Speaker 1: plus the scouting that goes on, Just to give long
18:37
Speaker 1: warn fans a little bit of an idea how all
18:39
Speaker 1: of that works for you and for your staff as
18:41
Speaker 1: well as for the team as you travel tomorrow.
18:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's actually it's quite difficult because we're staying over
18:47
Speaker 4: an hour away because you know, obviously we didn't know
18:49
Speaker 4: about it till late and you know, it's a graduation
18:52
Speaker 4: weekend there and you know in Athens and so all
18:56
Speaker 4: all the hotels rooms are booked up. So the closest
18:58
Speaker 4: we get was over an hour away. So and then
19:00
Speaker 4: we can't get to practice on that the actual Athens field,
19:03
Speaker 4: so that we've got to practice on another high school field.
19:06
Speaker 4: So we've got that organized. So you know, it's really
19:08
Speaker 4: kind of going into that game against you know who
19:11
Speaker 4: we play, it is going to be a little bit cold,
19:13
Speaker 4: playing on a new new surpas and new area, so
19:16
Speaker 4: you know, that's what we've got to look at. Fortunately,
19:18
Speaker 4: we've got some software programs where we can scout teams
19:21
Speaker 4: and obviously we'll be watching TV this afternoon and then
19:24
Speaker 4: obviously tomorrow if we have an opportunity to watch those
19:27
Speaker 4: games going on and pick up some stuff from that.
19:29
Speaker 1: Depending on the matchups and what has happened and who
19:33
Speaker 1: you might match up with, does that also affect on
19:38
Speaker 1: how you want to set up your pitching for this
19:41
Speaker 1: or is it just starting with Teagan and seeing where
19:43
Speaker 1: it carries you.
19:44
Speaker 4: You know, we haven't made that decision yet, but it
19:47
Speaker 4: could depend on who we have come through. I know
19:49
Speaker 4: Mac Morgan's pitch pretty well against Florida, you know, so
19:53
Speaker 4: that could be a choice we have with Florida comes through,
19:56
Speaker 4: you know, almost hasn't seen any of us right now,
19:58
Speaker 4: We've got to look at your hitters little bit more. Obviously,
20:01
Speaker 4: we played Missouri and we were able to do a
20:03
Speaker 4: pretty good job against Sam. Sit Riley did well against Sam,
20:05
Speaker 4: So so it could depend on who comes through that
20:08
Speaker 4: side of the bracket.
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Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Mike, I really appreciate you taking the time.
20:11
Speaker 1: I know it's a busy time. Glad you you were
20:14
Speaker 1: in your group were able to get dried out a
20:15
Speaker 1: little bit and then get ready to get on the
20:17
Speaker 1: plane tomorrow to go to Georgia, and we wish you
20:20
Speaker 1: all the best luck. We're looking forward to having Andrew
20:23
Speaker 1: Haynes bring everybody the broadcast live here on the Zone
20:26
Speaker 1: on Thursday afternoon.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate you taking the time.
20:29
Speaker 4: Oh, thanks great, We appreciate you. And Andrew does a
20:32
Speaker 4: great job.
20:32
Speaker 1: So and welcome, Yeah, welcome, thank you, and of course
20:36
Speaker 1: Andrew Haynes a voice of Texas Softball. We'll have the
20:39
Speaker 1: play by play call on that and we will bring
20:42
Speaker 1: that game to you on Thursday afternoon from Athens live
20:46
Speaker 1: here on the Zone. Andrew will have the call of
20:48
Speaker 1: that Texas against either Florida or Old miss or Missouri.
20:52
Speaker 1: It is kind of interesting in that here's Missouri or
20:56
Speaker 1: excuse me, Old miss As you just heard might say
21:01
Speaker 1: they didn't play them.
21:02
Speaker 2: That's one of the teams they didn't play.
21:03
Speaker 1: It's interesting too, like Long Horn baseball team did play
21:07
Speaker 1: Missouri this year, but they played him in Arlington the
21:10
Speaker 1: second game of the year. And what didn't count in
21:13
Speaker 1: the conference standings. It was a non conference setting in
21:17
Speaker 1: that classic, the Shriners Hospital Children's Classic up in Arlington.
21:23
Speaker 1: It didn't count in the conference standings. Texas won that
21:26
Speaker 1: game ten nothing, but it did not count in conference play,
21:29
Speaker 1: but they didn't play Ole Miss in a conference series.
21:32
Speaker 1: The teams at Texas. You know, with sixteen baseball playing institutions,
21:38
Speaker 1: not every team can play every team because you're going
21:43
Speaker 1: to have a ten game or a ten series conference schedule,
21:49
Speaker 1: so there's going to be five that you don't play.
21:52
Speaker 1: And the five teams that Texas does not face this
21:55
Speaker 1: year are Tennessee, Vanderbilt, also South Carolina, Ole Miss, and Alabama.
22:04
Speaker 1: So those five schools Texas does not face in baseball
22:08
Speaker 1: this year. But anyway, that's and softball goes to the
22:12
Speaker 1: same thing, and the tournament setups are very very similar
22:16
Speaker 1: as there is the bracketing done for it. It is
22:20
Speaker 1: you know, single elimination now and with the size of
22:24
Speaker 1: these conferences, single elimination tournaments really have become the vogue.
22:29
Speaker 1: Same thing in the Big Twelve. Fourteen of the sixteen
22:32
Speaker 1: teams in the Big Twelve play baseball. Colorado does not
22:35
Speaker 1: play baseball, Iowa State does not play baseball, but the
22:38
Speaker 1: other the other fourteen schools do, so they have a
22:43
Speaker 1: single elimination event as well, and their event starts on
22:48
Speaker 1: Tuesday and goes all the way through Saturday. They must
22:51
Speaker 1: compete on Saturday because of BYU being in the league,
22:55
Speaker 1: and of course BYU does not play have athletic contests
22:58
Speaker 1: on Sundays.
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Speaker 2: They go Tuesday through Saturday.
23:01
Speaker 1: The unique setup of the SEC tournament is such that
23:06
Speaker 1: while it begins on Tuesday and the Longhorns are in
23:09
Speaker 1: really good position to get a double by just like
23:11
Speaker 1: Mike White's softball team has that the Longhorns would then
23:19
Speaker 1: play look to play on Thursday, and if they win
23:22
Speaker 1: that game, they would get Friday off and the semifinals
23:24
Speaker 1: would be Saturday, with the championship game set for Sunday.
23:28
Speaker 1: So nuances and wrinkles there. Because it's a sixteen team
23:32
Speaker 1: field as well, the one to four quarter final winner
23:37
Speaker 1: would play on Saturday, and the or the one versus
23:42
Speaker 1: eight nine I guess, and the four versus five twelve
23:45
Speaker 1: win or whatever would be would be on Thursday, and
23:49
Speaker 1: the winner that would then get a buy into the
23:51
Speaker 1: semifinals on.
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Speaker 2: Saturday in the championship game on Sunday.
23:56
Speaker 1: So that's the nuances and the differences with regard to
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Speaker 1: the baseball and softball tournaments this season for the University
24:04
Speaker 1: of Texas in their first season in the SEC. All right,
24:08
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24:13
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24:41
Speaker 1: thirteen under the Zone, the second hour of the program.
24:44
Speaker 1: Here on a Texan Tuesday, at least I think it's
24:49
Speaker 1: supposed to be a Textan Tuesday here on thirteen hundred
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Speaker 1: the Zone. I'm Craig Way out at Ufchu Dish fogg Field.
24:58
Speaker 1: But the show as always always in the capable hands
25:02
Speaker 1: of the producer Cameron D. Parker, who established Texan Tuesday
25:07
Speaker 1: with the decree that the musical offerings on the return
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Speaker 1: cuts would certainly include, but would not be limited to,
25:17
Speaker 1: the following. In the four o'clock hour of the King
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Speaker 1: George Strait, in the three o'clock hour, the iconic Willie Nelson,
25:25
Speaker 1: and in the two o'clock hour the immortal Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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Speaker 2: But I didn't hear any Steve Ray. Did we have
25:30
Speaker 2: Stevie Ray in the first hour?
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Speaker 3: Honestly, CRACKETU, today was Monday. So that's on me just
25:36
Speaker 3: learning today's actually Tuesday. So we'll get back to it.
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Speaker 2: I'll make it up. I'll make up for it here
25:41
Speaker 2: in the second hour. Okay.
25:45
Speaker 1: The reason why I brought that up also is because
25:50
Speaker 1: when I was in fab of Arkansas last weekend, it
25:55
Speaker 1: was a Thursday, Friday Saturday series and we flew in
25:59
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and the weather conditions when we flew in
26:03
Speaker 1: were much like they were here this morning. I mean
26:06
Speaker 1: it was you know, the rain was in sheets, torrents
26:11
Speaker 1: coming down. And remember when I was on with you
26:15
Speaker 1: Keith and I, we were we were actually driving through
26:18
Speaker 1: a monsoon at the time, leaving the airport up in
26:23
Speaker 1: northwest Arkansas and headed into Fayetteville. Well, it was really
26:26
Speaker 1: really raining, but then it cleared out by Wednesday night
26:31
Speaker 1: and we went to eat on the on the advice
26:34
Speaker 1: and the suggestion of many to a rib place, I
26:37
Speaker 1: thought about, you can because the next time that we
26:40
Speaker 1: go to Fayetteville for basketball probably instead of eating with
26:45
Speaker 1: the team, we probably need to go to Herman's rib
26:47
Speaker 1: House and uh and and you know, really, you know,
26:52
Speaker 1: engage in some serious uh rib consumption. So we go
26:58
Speaker 1: when we do that on Wednesday night, right, So Thursday,
27:01
Speaker 1: we get to the ballpark and you had taken off
27:06
Speaker 1: for Nashville for the weekend, so we had the Zimbel
27:08
Speaker 1: hours going on. So he had Andrew Zimmle at the
27:11
Speaker 1: switch and I was checking in and it was a nice.
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Speaker 2: It was a nice evening. It was going to be
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Speaker 2: for baseball.
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Speaker 1: And I kept thinking it was Friday because I'm used
27:21
Speaker 1: to Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Friday seemed like Saturday. And
27:26
Speaker 1: Friday was Keith Morland's birthday. So and I told this
27:29
Speaker 1: story yesterday, But you need to know about this game
27:32
Speaker 1: because you were flying back. If we ever go to
27:35
Speaker 1: Fayetteville again, you should know that if you wind up
27:40
Speaker 1: having a late night dining experience, and it's difficult to
27:48
Speaker 1: find one up there because most of the place is closed.
27:52
Speaker 1: And the Friday night ball game started more than an
27:55
Speaker 1: hour late because of storms and lightning delays and things
27:59
Speaker 1: like that. So by the time we got off the
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Speaker 1: air and got out of the broadcast booth. It was, oh,
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Speaker 1: I think eleven fifteen, eleven twenty, something like that.
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Speaker 2: And so we leave there, and you know, and I wanted.
28:20
Speaker 1: To buy dinner for Keith because it was his birthday.
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Speaker 2: So I said, let's let's, you know, let's go out
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Speaker 2: and find a place to eat.
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Speaker 1: When we'd had a couple of places in mind, and
28:28
Speaker 1: one of those was actually, you know, one of those
28:32
Speaker 1: late night diner type situations. They were already closed when
28:37
Speaker 1: we got there. So then we went to another place
28:42
Speaker 1: we thought would be open, and it was closed. And then,
28:44
Speaker 1: you know, because we're just two older men, and we
28:46
Speaker 1: didn't even bother to check, you know, check check the
28:49
Speaker 1: apps and check online.
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Speaker 2: So then we did.
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Speaker 1: So we checked and saw that there was one place
28:54
Speaker 1: that was open and it was called Arts Place and
28:58
Speaker 1: it was on College Avenue. And the thing that it
29:01
Speaker 1: said was the way it was described was local dive
29:05
Speaker 1: bar with great burgers. So we said, okay, all right,
29:09
Speaker 1: we'll do that. We'll go to the local dive bar
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Speaker 1: with great burgers. So we pull up and sort of
29:14
Speaker 1: there's one sign that said great burgers there, and there
29:17
Speaker 1: was another sign not right near the front door that
29:19
Speaker 1: said notice or attention, and it said this is a
29:24
Speaker 1: smoking establishment. Now, I was surprised that smoking establishment establishments were.
29:32
Speaker 2: Still in We're still around.
29:35
Speaker 1: But went in there and it was like a cumulus
29:39
Speaker 1: cloud of smoke in there. But we were hungry and
29:43
Speaker 1: they weren't lying about their burgers. They were good, and
29:46
Speaker 1: we each had a burger. But when I walked out
29:48
Speaker 1: of there, I think my eyes were burning or something
29:50
Speaker 1: after that. So those are just a couple of things
29:53
Speaker 1: to keep in mind the next time we head for
29:55
Speaker 1: the Hills and favle Arkansas. Fortunately, Longhorn football won't be
29:59
Speaker 1: playing there this fall. They'll have the Arkansas Razorbacks coming.
30:03
Speaker 1: In basketball, of course, is a home and home with them.
30:06
Speaker 1: Women's basketball only played Arkansas once in the prior season
30:11
Speaker 1: and that was at home, so they might be headed
30:13
Speaker 1: up there in the coming season, and then baseball, of course,
30:16
Speaker 1: would have them at home. And speaking of baseball, Arkansas
30:21
Speaker 1: going into the weekend is a mere two games back
30:26
Speaker 1: of Texas in the SEC standings. That was the importance
30:31
Speaker 1: of building the cushion the prior weekend with the long
30:34
Speaker 1: worn sweep of Texas A and M, while Arkansas was
30:36
Speaker 1: dropping two out of three at Florida because then it
30:39
Speaker 1: built a five game lead with nine to go.
30:42
Speaker 2: Well, now it's a two game lead with six to.
30:44
Speaker 1: Go, and that magic number hasn't really changed for Texas,
30:50
Speaker 1: So they're going to have to, you know, have a
30:54
Speaker 1: good weekend series against Florida, and then of course LSU
30:56
Speaker 1: is playing Arkansas and the two will probably I doubt
31:02
Speaker 1: one will sweep the other, especially in baton rouge, but
31:06
Speaker 1: I could see one winning two out of three Texas
31:10
Speaker 1: if they win all three games during the weekend. If
31:16
Speaker 1: they were to win all three games of the series
31:18
Speaker 1: during the weekend, and say Arkansas were to lose twice
31:21
Speaker 1: to LSU, then Texas could wrap up the SEC regular
31:25
Speaker 1: season title if that happens. If they win the first
31:28
Speaker 1: two in Arkansas, say loses the first two, Texas could
31:30
Speaker 1: clinch at least a tie for the title. But remember
31:33
Speaker 1: they don't have the tie break on Arkansas for what
31:36
Speaker 1: would be the top seed based on losing the series
31:39
Speaker 1: to the Razorbacks, but they do have the tie break
31:42
Speaker 1: on LSU and LSU is four games back. LSU was
31:46
Speaker 1: only able to pick up one game on Texas over
31:50
Speaker 1: the weekend because the Tigers dropped two out of three
31:52
Speaker 1: to Texas.
31:53
Speaker 2: A and M.
31:54
Speaker 1: So there's some things to keep in mind about this
31:58
Speaker 1: going into this weekend with Florida. But they have Lamar first,
32:04
Speaker 1: and Lamar comes into it with a record of thirty
32:07
Speaker 1: seven and fourteen, so they've they've been really solid, even
32:12
Speaker 1: though it looks like they're not going to win the
32:15
Speaker 1: Southland Conference regular season title.
32:18
Speaker 2: That looks like that's going to.
32:19
Speaker 1: Go to ut Rio Grand Valley, that UTRGV is going
32:23
Speaker 1: to wind up winning that tide. Of course, the long
32:25
Speaker 1: Wruns beat UTRGV here back. I think it was three
32:28
Speaker 1: weeks ago when they beat them, and beat them pretty soundly,
32:32
Speaker 1: beat them eleven to four in that game. But ut
32:36
Speaker 1: Rio Grand Valley has been good. They have an RPI
32:38
Speaker 1: of thirty one right now and an overall record of
32:43
Speaker 1: thirty three and fifteen, so they're good. Lamar will come
32:45
Speaker 1: in with an RPI of fifty eight, and this tells
32:51
Speaker 1: you something about RPI and the teams you're playing and
32:53
Speaker 1: in the conference you play and where you play. Lamar
32:57
Speaker 1: is thirty seven and fourteen, but their strength of schedule
33:02
Speaker 1: is two hundred and six, and that's by and large
33:06
Speaker 1: due to the relative weakness of the Southland Conference. So
33:13
Speaker 1: they are thirty seven and fourteen. Texas Tech, which is
33:18
Speaker 1: a number one strength of schedule but has just been
33:21
Speaker 1: dreadful at times this year and is twelve below five hundred.
33:24
Speaker 1: At sixteen and twenty eight, they're two below five hundred,
33:28
Speaker 1: and Big twelve play they're eleven and thirteen and so
33:31
Speaker 1: normally below five hundred. Numbers like that, both overall in
33:34
Speaker 1: conference that will get you knocked way, way way down,
33:36
Speaker 1: But because they're playing the schedule that they are, they're
33:40
Speaker 1: fifty seventh in the RPI and Lamar's fifty eight in
33:44
Speaker 1: the RPI. And as far as the SEC teams, and
33:47
Speaker 1: we gave you the rankings that came out yesterday, Texas
33:51
Speaker 1: is still number one in two of the polls, and
33:56
Speaker 1: then they are number two in two poles, and they
33:59
Speaker 1: are number three in the Perfect Game rankings. They're number
34:02
Speaker 1: two in the RPI, And you say, how can they
34:06
Speaker 1: only fall one spot getting swept.
34:08
Speaker 2: I talked about this last week before they left town.
34:11
Speaker 1: I said, the teams are judged and maybe a little
34:17
Speaker 1: more weight given to if you're playing on the road
34:19
Speaker 1: as opposed to home. Because Georgia had gotten swept over
34:24
Speaker 1: the weekend had gotten swept by Texas and moved to
34:27
Speaker 1: number one in the RPI. Georgia swept a road series
34:31
Speaker 1: at Missouri last weekend, and I know Missouri is now
34:34
Speaker 1: oer and twenty four in SEC play, but it was
34:38
Speaker 1: on the road, so Georgia hopped back Texas hoped by
34:43
Speaker 1: Texas into the number one spot even though they are
34:45
Speaker 1: four games back of the long runs. In the SEC standings,
34:47
Speaker 1: Texas is two, Vanderbilt three, Arkansas four, are Auburn four
34:51
Speaker 1: in Arkansas five in the RPI. So SEC teams occupy
34:56
Speaker 1: the top five places in the RPI. Then you have
35:00
Speaker 1: Florida State six, Oregon State seven, Clemson eight.
35:03
Speaker 2: Then you have.
35:04
Speaker 1: LSU nine, North Carolina ten, and other SEC schools Alabama thirteen,
35:10
Speaker 1: Tennessee at fourteen, Ole miss at seventeen, and in Oklahoma
35:16
Speaker 1: at twenty two.
35:18
Speaker 2: For teams in the RPI.
35:20
Speaker 1: By the way, UTSA is twenty one in the RPI
35:25
Speaker 1: and they're in line to win the American Athletic Conference.
35:30
Speaker 1: How they're thirty seven to ten and even with a
35:32
Speaker 1: strength of schedule of one three that they've done so
35:36
Speaker 1: well in some of the other games and including fifteen
35:40
Speaker 1: and eight in road games and that has helped out
35:42
Speaker 1: their RPI there. So those are some of the machinations
35:46
Speaker 1: that go into that. All right, coming up, we're going
35:48
Speaker 1: to talk some NBA playoffs also a little bit later on,
35:52
Speaker 1: we're going to hear from Jim Schlosnigl, the long Warrens
35:54
Speaker 1: head coaches Texas gets ready to go back to work
35:58
Speaker 1: tonight against Lamar Cardinals. We'll do all that and more
36:00
Speaker 1: when we continue on thirteen under the Zone here at
36:02
Speaker 1: UFCU Dish Falkfield. All right to the NBA, and we
36:08
Speaker 1: kind of scratched the surface on it a little bit
36:10
Speaker 1: at the top of the show cam when we were
36:13
Speaker 1: talking about the issues that the Oklahoma City Thunder had
36:17
Speaker 1: with Denver, and in terms of a more detailed analysis
36:23
Speaker 1: of that, I think there were three or four things
36:26
Speaker 1: that went into play.
36:27
Speaker 2: On this first and foremost, I.
36:31
Speaker 1: Would say, really even more so than what happened down
36:34
Speaker 1: the stretch in the final two to three minutes of
36:37
Speaker 1: the game and the fouling that happened relatively early in
36:42
Speaker 1: possessions for Deptford that allowed them to shoot free throws.
36:46
Speaker 2: In addition to that.
36:48
Speaker 1: They just it was almost almost I'm gonna say not entirely.
36:52
Speaker 1: It was almost like the thunder were encountering Kola Jokic
36:57
Speaker 1: for the first time ever, because that dude was just
37:01
Speaker 1: and stoppa what they said, it was only the sixth
37:03
Speaker 1: time in NBA history that a player in the playoffs
37:07
Speaker 1: had forty or more points, twenty or more rebounds, and
37:11
Speaker 1: at least five block shots. And he would he get
37:13
Speaker 1: forty two to twenty two and six I believe in
37:16
Speaker 1: the game last.
37:16
Speaker 2: Night, that's correct. He was a monster, Craig.
37:20
Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's the best player on the planet
37:22
Speaker 3: right now, and displayed that last night the fourth quarter.
37:26
Speaker 3: Even though okay See went in up I think by
37:28
Speaker 3: fourteen and Denver started coming back, they simply could not
37:32
Speaker 3: stop Jokic offensively.
37:35
Speaker 2: He was incredible.
37:36
Speaker 3: He had timely shot or timely shot, the hook shot
37:38
Speaker 3: and then the three pointer and then you know, ultimately,
37:42
Speaker 3: you know, we got into a little bit at the
37:43
Speaker 3: beginning to show the decisions to foul by okay See,
37:47
Speaker 3: it's the game. They definitely let stip away and I'm
37:50
Speaker 3: curious to see, how does you know Dagnal and ok
37:53
Speaker 3: See counter because they just could not stop Yokic at all.
37:56
Speaker 3: And also you give a lot of credit to what
37:59
Speaker 3: Aaron Gordon did. Obviously, that three pointer will be replayed
38:02
Speaker 3: for a long time, especially the Nuggets have a big
38:04
Speaker 3: playoff run this season and you can upset okay See.
38:07
Speaker 3: But Gordon was phenomenal and Yokicic was incredible. And it's
38:11
Speaker 3: surprising Greg because you know, Denver had just played Game
38:14
Speaker 3: six two days ago, so I was thinking, Okay, okay See,
38:17
Speaker 3: he's coming in off. You know, a week's rest. Denver's
38:21
Speaker 3: got to be exhausted. You know, it's such such a short,
38:25
Speaker 3: you know, turnaround, and Denver has a you know, pretty
38:28
Speaker 3: limited rotation. Only eight players played last night, but seven
38:32
Speaker 3: in double fakers. All their starters pretty much played forty minutes.
38:35
Speaker 3: But they look fresh, and you know, okay See looked okay,
38:38
Speaker 3: But it is Denver looked like a team that had
38:42
Speaker 3: been in that situation before in okay See did not.
38:45
Speaker 3: And that's what scares me as a Wether fan going
38:46
Speaker 3: forward in this series.
38:47
Speaker 1: Well, and I think they'll read, they'll bounce back from that,
38:51
Speaker 1: and I think they'll play really really well in Game
38:55
Speaker 1: two on this And there there's something something I believe
39:01
Speaker 1: to the whole rest versus rust thing I mean, I
39:04
Speaker 1: saw it happen when my team in the baseball playoffs
39:06
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago with the Dodgers and didn't
39:07
Speaker 1: get up off the deck and the Diamondbacks took him out.
39:11
Speaker 1: So there's something to that, I think. But but you know,
39:18
Speaker 1: they built the fourteen point lead before it started to
39:20
Speaker 1: slip away. Also, the Nuggets were able to overcome several
39:27
Speaker 1: different things, not the least of which is the usually
39:32
Speaker 1: uber selfish play of Russell Westbrook, since you know, the
39:36
Speaker 1: former Oklahoma City thunder Man.
39:37
Speaker 2: And it was interesting, wasn't.
39:39
Speaker 1: It how they they gave him a robust round of
39:42
Speaker 1: applause when he was out there, and then he was
39:44
Speaker 1: on the free throw line they were cheering when he
39:45
Speaker 1: missed as well, And it made me think about how
39:50
Speaker 1: thunder fans had really just kind of dumped on Kevin
39:54
Speaker 1: Duranmeny left and caught him cupcake and all this. This
39:56
Speaker 1: is a guy who gave over a million dollars for
39:59
Speaker 1: tornado relief victims there in More, Oklahoma, but they that
40:02
Speaker 1: didn't matter to them at that point. And yet here
40:07
Speaker 1: was the critical possession in Westbrook racing up the right
40:10
Speaker 1: sideline and the thing that went in my mind is
40:12
Speaker 1: he's going to try to take on two defenders and
40:14
Speaker 1: put up a shot where he's going to stop and
40:17
Speaker 1: go hero ball and launch a three that'll clang out. Instead,
40:20
Speaker 1: he goes to Gordon, who nails the three. Now, if
40:22
Speaker 1: he hadn't missed that, I think Folks was an eye
40:25
Speaker 1: hero ball, he shouldn't have been shooting that three. And
40:28
Speaker 1: I can't remember her name. The reporter asked him, you know,
40:30
Speaker 1: why did you shoot the three on that? The answer
40:33
Speaker 1: was it was the open shot. It was the right
40:35
Speaker 1: shot to take for him, Now I did. I also
40:38
Speaker 1: think it was funny cam that Shack asked him in
40:43
Speaker 1: the ask Jamalt Murray in the post game if he
40:45
Speaker 1: was going to be better than six for sixteen, and
40:50
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, I'll be better, but this is about
40:51
Speaker 1: a team win, so I hear you, but it'll be
40:54
Speaker 1: six for sixteen. And that was after they all had
40:56
Speaker 1: a lot of fun at Ernie Johnson's expense, who had
40:58
Speaker 1: that long winded statement but didn't ask a question, and
41:01
Speaker 1: Murray just said, I'm not sure there was a question there,
41:05
Speaker 1: but blah blah blah. Ernie owned it and said it
41:09
Speaker 1: wasn't it wasn't I just went on and I fillibustered
41:11
Speaker 1: and all that other kind of stuff. It's that cardinal
41:14
Speaker 1: rule of interviewing CAM. Unless you're in a regular conversation
41:18
Speaker 1: with somebody, you don't make a statement.
41:20
Speaker 2: You ask a question.
41:22
Speaker 1: And at least Jamal Murray was smart enough, I guess
41:27
Speaker 1: to to and sharp enough to say, I'm not sure
41:30
Speaker 1: there's a question there, but yeah we've been.
41:31
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah. So that's that's journalism one
41:35
Speaker 2: O one on display there. Cam. Don't make a statement,
41:38
Speaker 2: ask a question, yeah, And that's always a tough spot.
41:41
Speaker 3: And that's why, like if you ever have watched Late
41:44
Speaker 3: Night with Scott Van Pelt, you know he always does
41:46
Speaker 3: those postgame interviews and a lot of the times for
41:50
Speaker 3: Van Pelt, you know, you don't know you're gonna be
41:52
Speaker 3: interviewing until probably I don't know, sixty seconds before he
41:56
Speaker 3: comes on the air, or maybe they have an idea
41:58
Speaker 3: of who they're going to get, and you know, it's
41:59
Speaker 3: always an awkward situation at times because you sometimes a
42:02
Speaker 3: player can't hear you, or they don't want to be
42:04
Speaker 3: doing the interview. And Van pel is such a pro
42:07
Speaker 3: at it, it's it should be taught in journalism school
42:11
Speaker 3: if if you want to be a broadcaster, or if
42:13
Speaker 3: you even have to do anything with interviewing people at all,
42:17
Speaker 3: or just speaking face to face. What famed Help does
42:20
Speaker 3: on a nightly basis is what makes him such a
42:23
Speaker 3: great sports anchor. And it's it's funny because we all think,
42:26
Speaker 3: we know, we all know EJS want one of the
42:28
Speaker 3: best ever to do it, and he's fantastic, especially his
42:31
Speaker 3: ability to navigate Shaq and Chuck and Kenny because who
42:35
Speaker 3: knows where they're going to go with anything they ever say.
42:39
Speaker 2: But yeah, funny.
42:40
Speaker 3: Moment, And it's it's why everyone is drawn to those
42:44
Speaker 3: four guys.
42:45
Speaker 1: Yep, and agree that the ability to make light of themselves,
42:51
Speaker 1: I think. And sometimes you see that, you know when
42:52
Speaker 1: the you know when when fans tweet out different things
42:57
Speaker 1: like they did like on earning last night, showed mister
42:59
Speaker 1: being their state by the side of the road.
43:01
Speaker 2: That kind of deal.
43:02
Speaker 1: You know, it's it makes sense, it makes absolute sense,
43:05
Speaker 1: and and and and your spot on about that that uh,
43:09
Speaker 1: you know, it can be a deal where it's it's
43:13
Speaker 1: can be very very uncomfortable if you're if you're not
43:18
Speaker 1: understanding what they're trying to pull off there.
43:21
Speaker 2: So I get it. I you know, I understand it.
43:23
Speaker 1: And again I have an appreciation for a guy like
43:26
Speaker 1: Ernie Johnson to be able to poke fund at himself
43:29
Speaker 1: for that, for making a statement instead of asking a question.
43:33
Speaker 1: It makes makes a big different, all right. So, uh,
43:36
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City is down one game to another. Hey, do
43:38
Speaker 1: you put any stock into the you know me? You
43:42
Speaker 1: know me, I put zero stock in superstition.
43:46
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't buy in the superstition.
43:48
Speaker 1: I got into it with my brother the other night,
43:50
Speaker 1: who had given up on the Stars when they were
43:53
Speaker 1: down to nothing in the third period, and we landed
43:57
Speaker 1: on the charter and I got in the car, and
44:00
Speaker 1: when I got in the car, they had already given
44:06
Speaker 1: up that goal to start the third period, to fall
44:08
Speaker 1: behind to nothing, and they had a brother who had
44:10
Speaker 1: given up on him and he was ready to fire
44:12
Speaker 1: Pete de Boor and all this other kind of stuff.
44:14
Speaker 1: And they come back and win, and we're on a
44:16
Speaker 1: group text with his son and.
44:20
Speaker 2: One of our other brothers.
44:21
Speaker 1: So there's four of us on this group text, and
44:24
Speaker 1: I'm saying things like, h yeah, even though you gave
44:26
Speaker 1: up on him, they came back and they won, and
44:29
Speaker 1: his response was to say, well, the reason they turned
44:31
Speaker 1: the game around was that, you know, I turned off
44:33
Speaker 1: the game. I turned it on something else, you know.
44:35
Speaker 1: And he's one of those superstitious dudes, and there are
44:37
Speaker 1: people like that. So against that backdrop, I put this
44:40
Speaker 1: question to you, Kim. Folks were asking if Oklahoma City's
44:46
Speaker 1: weird uniform thing the dark the black jersey that just
44:50
Speaker 1: said Oklahoma on it, and it kind of and they
44:53
Speaker 1: were black T shirts. It was kind of a blackout
44:56
Speaker 1: the other fans wearing it, and they said it just
44:59
Speaker 1: kind of like dark can smokey. The arena kind of
45:02
Speaker 1: looked like the bar I was in in Fayetteville the
45:04
Speaker 1: other night with Keith and and uh and and and
45:07
Speaker 1: how it just kind of put a real bad vibe
45:11
Speaker 1: over the bell.
45:11
Speaker 2: I didn't.
45:12
Speaker 1: I didn't buy that. I would tell you this. You
45:15
Speaker 1: know what that color scheme said to me, Love's Truck Stop.
45:19
Speaker 1: That's their colors. They're black, yellow, and red and that's
45:22
Speaker 1: and they had the little logo on there. So I
45:24
Speaker 1: wasn't buying the superstition on that, were you.
45:26
Speaker 3: No, I don't think the jerseys had anything to do
45:28
Speaker 3: with Jokics completely dominating the Okay See in the fourth quarter.
45:31
Speaker 3: I won't say this though, Craig, you know I do.
45:35
Speaker 3: I've I always loved alternate uniforms. You know, whenever I
45:38
Speaker 3: would play Madden or college football or FIFA, I would always,
45:42
Speaker 3: you know, switch the team jersey to whatever alternate jersey
45:45
Speaker 3: or throwback jersey they've had. We've gone too far, I
45:48
Speaker 3: think once we reached the postseason, you stick to your
45:51
Speaker 3: home and away jerseys.
45:53
Speaker 2: In that set.
45:54
Speaker 3: I when these teams, especially in the NBA, they go
45:57
Speaker 3: to their city alternative connect Cares jersey and it's it's
46:01
Speaker 3: it just looks weird. Especially I think it was it.
46:04
Speaker 3: I remember the team in the first round series. It
46:07
Speaker 3: might have been who the thunderplay in the first round.
46:10
Speaker 3: I already forgot. It feels like Memphis Memphis. They I
46:14
Speaker 3: think Game three, which was their first home game, they
46:18
Speaker 3: went back to the throwback uniforms from the nineties two thousands,
46:23
Speaker 3: their Vancouver Grizzlies era, and in Game four, I think
46:27
Speaker 3: they were in their Memphis Hustle.
46:29
Speaker 2: The ABA team there.
46:31
Speaker 1: Well, or the it was Memphis Pros and it was
46:35
Speaker 1: Memphis Tams. I mean they were they were gonna be
46:37
Speaker 1: the hustle, and then the league folded, what.
46:39
Speaker 2: Are we doing? Why why can't you just why don't
46:41
Speaker 2: you just wear your home jerseys?
46:42
Speaker 3: But you know, maybe it looks good and the kids
46:45
Speaker 3: love it and stuff, but it's gone too far. It
46:48
Speaker 3: should be home in a way, just two uniforms throughout
46:50
Speaker 3: the entire playoffs. But hey, that's just me and I'll
46:53
Speaker 3: get off my front porch yelling at the cloud I.
46:56
Speaker 1: Started to saying as I head down to the dog
46:57
Speaker 1: out now to visit with Jim Shlasnagel for this next
47:00
Speaker 1: during this next segment, I'll shake my fist at the
47:02
Speaker 1: clouds for you.
47:02
Speaker 2: Thank you. There.
47:03
Speaker 1: Camp will take a look at the other NBA playoff series.
47:05
Speaker 1: I thought that Nicks beating the Celtics in overtime, and
47:09
Speaker 1: then of course Golden State and Minnesota getting ready to
47:12
Speaker 1: crank it up, and you got Indiana and Cleveland. He'll
47:14
Speaker 1: take a look at that, and then we are going
47:17
Speaker 1: to have the conversation with Jim Schlosnagle coming up early
47:20
Speaker 1: next hour as well, but I'm going to get it
47:21
Speaker 1: down and visit him and we'll continue on thirteen under
47:24
Speaker 1: the zone.
47:25
Speaker 3: Wanted to quickly talk a little golf and shout out
47:29
Speaker 3: to Scottie Scheffler, who absolutely torched TPC Craig Ranch this
47:34
Speaker 3: past weekend as he picked up his fourteenth career PGA
47:38
Speaker 3: Tour victory last week, shooting thirty one under part. I
47:43
Speaker 3: believe it tied his lowest score on the PGA Tour,
47:47
Speaker 3: thirty one under par. We're kind of been waiting for
47:51
Speaker 3: Sky the wake up, right. Remember he had the off
47:54
Speaker 3: season injury making Ravioli, we got the shards of glass
47:59
Speaker 3: in his room, missed the start of the season, missed
48:02
Speaker 3: a couple of tournaments, including the trips in Hawaii and
48:05
Speaker 3: out in the West Coast.
48:06
Speaker 2: Swing came back and.
48:08
Speaker 3: He's played alright, hadn't won yet. Got to Augusta, where
48:13
Speaker 3: he was the defending champion. We were hoping that he
48:16
Speaker 3: would end up going, you know, back to back, but
48:19
Speaker 3: just did not have it. He played well eight under par,
48:23
Speaker 3: finished fourth, but never really was in contention to win.
48:26
Speaker 3: In fact, kind of busted in the top ten after
48:30
Speaker 3: a really solid sixty nine on Sunday, But you know,
48:33
Speaker 3: the ball striking wasn't there, the driving wasn't there, and
48:37
Speaker 3: you know, you know it might have ended up waking
48:39
Speaker 3: him up as he shot out with a sixty two
48:43
Speaker 3: on Thursday's round TPC Craig Ranch and just did not
48:48
Speaker 3: look back. The CJ Cup Byron Nelson, by the way,
48:51
Speaker 3: actually where both Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Speed made their
48:54
Speaker 3: PJ Tour debuts as amateur golfers, playing at the University
48:59
Speaker 3: of ten Axis at Austin, but finished with minus thirty
49:03
Speaker 3: one shot eight under on the final day, ended up
49:07
Speaker 3: winning by eight shots. And it's the best Scotty has
49:10
Speaker 3: looked all season.
49:11
Speaker 2: Now.
49:11
Speaker 3: You can argue that he wasn't the greatest field, not
49:14
Speaker 3: the greatest course, but I think you feel really good
49:19
Speaker 3: about Scotty's chances heading into quilhala Ware, the one hundredth
49:23
Speaker 3: and seventh PGA Championship will be played in two weeks
49:27
Speaker 3: as Scotty looks to pick up his first major that
49:31
Speaker 3: isn't a master's green jacket. Feel pretty good about his
49:35
Speaker 3: chances going into that tournament. Obviously, Roy McElroy, who has
49:40
Speaker 3: won at Quilhalow. Usually it's the home stop for the
49:44
Speaker 3: Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. Roy's has dominated
49:48
Speaker 3: there in years past. Is the first time this is.
49:51
Speaker 3: We're actually playing the PGA Championship at Quohala since twenty seventeen,
49:57
Speaker 3: where Justin Thomas won, and hey, Justin Thomas a few
50:01
Speaker 3: weeks ago at Harvard Town at the Hilton Head. So
50:05
Speaker 3: a lot of golfers who have played well at the
50:07
Speaker 3: pass in this tournament are playing pretty well coming into
50:10
Speaker 3: form JT.
50:11
Speaker 2: Scotty Roy is.
50:12
Speaker 3: It should make for hopefully an entertaining tournament overall, as
50:17
Speaker 3: far as the golf course goes. Not the biggest fan,
50:22
Speaker 3: it's long, they grow the rough up pretty high. It
50:25
Speaker 3: turns into kind of a bomb and gouge fest, similar
50:27
Speaker 3: to what we saw last year at the PGA Championship
50:31
Speaker 3: AFL Holland, which zenershoftly won by one shot over Bryson
50:34
Speaker 3: the Shambo. But hey, Dunday's tournament, that was an entertaining
50:39
Speaker 3: final round and hopefully that's what we'll get at the
50:42
Speaker 3: PGA Championship this year. Four total Longhardons will be playing
50:46
Speaker 3: in that tournament, outside of Scotty Scheffler Jordan Speith, who
50:50
Speaker 3: of course just needs the PGA Championship to complete the
50:54
Speaker 3: career Grand Slim. Hey, we saw Roy do it this
50:56
Speaker 3: year winning that elusive green jacket and that he was
51:01
Speaker 3: searching for to capture the career Grand Slam. Why not
51:04
Speaker 3: Jordan Speed, Hey, he played well at Quo Hollow the
51:08
Speaker 3: President's Cup a few years ago.
51:10
Speaker 2: Not certainly his his course to sign him.
51:13
Speaker 3: He played there in twenty seventeen after he had won
51:15
Speaker 3: the Open Championship. I think he finished like T twenty second.
51:20
Speaker 3: T twenty four doesn't really suit his game too much.
51:24
Speaker 3: But remember he's coming off risk off season risk surgery,
51:28
Speaker 3: of course, and has had a couple of top tens,
51:31
Speaker 3: top twenties T fourteen at Augusta, I believe. And it
51:36
Speaker 3: came in this week at the Byron Nelson, you know,
51:39
Speaker 3: looking for something and ended up shooting a sixty two
51:43
Speaker 3: also on Sunday, nine hunder got him into the top five,
51:47
Speaker 3: where he finished fourth. That tied his career low for
51:51
Speaker 3: a golf round. And is looking for something as well.
51:54
Speaker 3: So maybe Jordan Speed finding some sort of game heading
51:56
Speaker 3: into major championship season. He did say his post on
52:00
Speaker 3: press conference because he played with Scotty Cheff with the
52:02
Speaker 3: first two rounds and his quote was, yeah, seeing Scottie
52:07
Speaker 3: beat my butt for the first two days of the tournament,
52:10
Speaker 3: really makes me want to get better and play harder,
52:12
Speaker 3: because hey, when you know, when they were both amateur
52:15
Speaker 3: golfers on the younger circuits, it was Jordan's beef was
52:18
Speaker 3: was dominating, and it was the Scotti's, the Jts, the
52:21
Speaker 3: salad Toruses that were trying to catch up to him.
52:23
Speaker 3: Now everybody, not just Jordan's pele, with everybody trying to
52:26
Speaker 3: catch up to Scottie Scheffer who likely Scottie and Roy
52:31
Speaker 3: probably gonna be the top two favorites heading into quote Hollow.
52:35
Speaker 3: We'll see with Jordan, you know, I'm looking forward more
52:38
Speaker 3: to possibly the Open Championship later this season. PJ at
52:43
Speaker 3: QO Hollow, the US Open at Oakmont. It's definitely uphill
52:48
Speaker 3: battle for him, but just hoping to get some more
52:51
Speaker 3: consistency out of Jordan Sped. The other two golfers competing
52:54
Speaker 3: the PGA Championship of former ut golfers Jonathan Vegas, who
52:58
Speaker 3: continues to have a fantastic to golf career in Bo Hostler,
53:02
Speaker 3: who had a really good twenty and twenty four season,
53:05
Speaker 3: still looking for his first PGA Tour win of the year.
53:09
Speaker 3: One notable golfer who will not be playing at the
53:12
Speaker 3: one hundred and seventh PGA Championship is Billy Horschel, who
53:15
Speaker 3: actually is undergoing preventative hip surgery and will miss most
53:20
Speaker 3: of the season. Horsechell, who withdrew two weeks ago from
53:27
Speaker 3: a PJ Tour event, cided on Twitter that it's an
53:30
Speaker 3: unfortunate situation with so many great events up in the schedule,
53:33
Speaker 3: but this is a preventative measure. I'm already looking forward
53:35
Speaker 3: to getting the rehab started, getting back to practicing, and
53:38
Speaker 3: hopefully returning to the golf course in late summer early fall. Horsefell,
53:42
Speaker 3: by the way, who you know, was battling for the
53:45
Speaker 3: Open Championship this past year before Sanders Schoffley pulled it
53:49
Speaker 3: off to win his second major of the twenty twenty
53:51
Speaker 3: four campaign. So not only does this take away you know,
53:57
Speaker 3: Billy's ability to complete in major championships, see also hurts
54:01
Speaker 3: his chances of making the Ryder Cup.
54:03
Speaker 2: Of course, Billy Horschell, who you watched him play, He's
54:07
Speaker 2: pretty emotional.
54:09
Speaker 3: He's always got some sort of red, white and blue
54:11
Speaker 3: on if he's not wearing Florida Gaylor color Florida Gator colors.
54:15
Speaker 3: It's one of his big goals. Of course, has been
54:17
Speaker 3: making the Ryder Cup team and with this surgery may
54:21
Speaker 3: not happen. He's played on two President's Cups teams played
54:25
Speaker 3: on in twenty twenty two. He's got two top tens
54:29
Speaker 3: this season and came in actually this week sixteenth in
54:32
Speaker 3: the US Ryder Cup points standings. But with this surgery,
54:37
Speaker 3: who knows his chances? He might be on the outside
54:39
Speaker 3: looking in. As the US team will host the Europeans
54:43
Speaker 3: at Bethpage Black and trying to avenge the loss in
54:48
Speaker 3: Rome two years ago, not just really a loss in
54:50
Speaker 3: absolute drubbing to the Europeans. So no Billy Horschell going forward.
54:55
Speaker 3: More to come here at hour two. Already here from
54:58
Speaker 3: coach Jim Sloshnegos, Texas Baseball host Lamar University their final
55:02
Speaker 3: midweek non conference scheme of the twenty twenty five season.
55:06
Speaker 2: We'll be back wrap up hour two here on the
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Speaker 2: Craigway Show.
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Speaker 1: Cam Parker for the last time this season, and it's
55:48
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55:51
Speaker 1: For the last time this season, he got you good
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Speaker 2: In this evening.
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Speaker 1: more than I should be talking, I think a Dan
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Speaker 1: He goes, you know, Craig, you you're you're really good,
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Speaker 1: name simulcast because it's being broadcast both on radio and
57:20
Speaker 1: the UH and the telecast of it. So just wanted
57:24
Speaker 1: to give you the heads up on that. So if
57:25
Speaker 1: you're watching me, gosh, can't the dude realize when he's
57:29
Speaker 1: on TV and don't call it like a radio broadcast, No,
57:32
Speaker 1: because it is a radio broadcast.
57:34
Speaker 2: TV's just picking it up. So hopefully that's ago most.
57:37
Speaker 1: Of the people say they like it that way, Kim,
57:39
Speaker 1: because they can get a good understanding about it, whether
57:42
Speaker 1: I'm saying something or whether Keith Morland saying something that
57:45
Speaker 1: they get a good understanding of it. We have we
57:48
Speaker 1: have several fans that we know, uh some we've become
57:52
Speaker 1: friends with over over time as well that like to
57:54
Speaker 1: take their headset radios to the ballpark and listen to
57:57
Speaker 1: our ballpark frequency, which is eighty seven point seven FM
58:01
Speaker 1: here inside of the ballpark and then at DKR Texas
58:06
Speaker 1: Memorial Stadium. I think it's eighty nine to nine inside
58:10
Speaker 1: the stadium.
58:10
Speaker 2: I think so.
58:13
Speaker 1: Folks say they get a better understanding of some of
58:15
Speaker 1: the things, especially if you've got questions about ruling or
58:20
Speaker 1: rules or something, or just an explanation that maybe you
58:25
Speaker 1: might not otherwise get from a telecast, or if you're
58:29
Speaker 1: just sitting in.
58:29
Speaker 2: The stands watching.
58:30
Speaker 1: So we're all in it, and it's all in the
58:34
Speaker 1: interest of making for a better broadcast all the way around.
58:37
Speaker 1: So hopefully, like I say, if you're watching tonight, understand it.
58:40
Speaker 1: If you're listening to Keith Morland and me, and if
58:42
Speaker 1: you're watching the telecast night, you will be because it's
58:44
Speaker 1: a simulcast, it'll be broadcast on radio and television, that
58:48
Speaker 1: it's the radio broadcast that we're doing. That they're feeding
58:51
Speaker 1: to the pictures. There's not a separate TV announced team.
58:55
Speaker 1: That's been the case. Not not a lot this season,
58:57
Speaker 1: but some and it's happened. And also with women's basketball.
59:02
Speaker 1: I think we had it on one men's basketball game.
59:04
Speaker 2: I know.
59:05
Speaker 1: Also what is it uh cam for the bowl games?
59:09
Speaker 1: They had it for the Peach Bowl and again for
59:11
Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl where they have was that they call
59:14
Speaker 1: it the hometown radio broadcast on one of the what
59:16
Speaker 1: on one of the ESPN channels where they carry our
59:18
Speaker 1: network broadcast.
59:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, usually like it's either on ESPN U or now
59:23
Speaker 3: it's probably just all the ESPN Plus because you know
59:25
Speaker 3: they did it for Texas, Ohio State where you had
59:28
Speaker 3: that you and Roger and then they had Big Data
59:31
Speaker 3: on the other one.
59:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Big Daddy was yeah, for the Ohio State
59:35
Speaker 1: for the Cotton Bowl.
59:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had had that one.
59:37
Speaker 1: And then of course we also had it for the
59:39
Speaker 1: Peach Bowl as well with my good friend Tim Heaey,
59:43
Speaker 1: the voice of the Arizona State Sun Devils. They had
59:45
Speaker 1: his call and his crew on one channel, him and
59:49
Speaker 1: Jeff Van Raphorst UH and on on UH one one
59:55
Speaker 1: of their networks, be it the ESPN News or ESPN
59:57
Speaker 1: Plus or ESPN U or whatever.
1:00:01
Speaker 2: And then and then.
1:00:02
Speaker 1: Our broadcast with Roger and UH also with Will Matthews
1:00:07
Speaker 1: on one of their channels as well. This one isn't
1:00:09
Speaker 1: quite as the tailed as that because it's just me
1:00:11
Speaker 1: and Keith call it talking to baseball here, but UH
1:00:15
Speaker 1: that that'll be the case tonight, final non conference game
1:00:20
Speaker 1: of the season, and they're glad to get this ball
1:00:22
Speaker 1: game in and and and you'll hear Jim Sloss Nekle
1:00:25
Speaker 1: talk about that because you know, some folks feel that,
1:00:28
Speaker 1: you know, late in the season, late in the season,
1:00:31
Speaker 1: if you've got a Tuesday night non conference game, a
1:00:35
Speaker 1: lot of coaches, especially coaches of UH winning teams, contending teams,
1:00:42
Speaker 1: they'd almost just assume not play the game because maybe
1:00:45
Speaker 1: it might hurt their RPI or maybe it won't do
1:00:48
Speaker 1: them much good. And if you lose the game, then that's,
1:00:50
Speaker 1: you know whatever, and then there's always the question of injury.
1:00:53
Speaker 1: That's not the case with this particular team, with this
1:00:55
Speaker 1: particular coaching staff. Schloss has has said that, you know,
1:01:00
Speaker 1: he wants them to play and to get better. And
1:01:02
Speaker 1: you'll hear him talk about this that they after what
1:01:05
Speaker 1: happened over the weekend in the series against Arkansas, they're
1:01:10
Speaker 1: pretty eager to get back on the field and to
1:01:13
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, turn things around and make things
1:01:17
Speaker 1: better coming off of that series loss and being swept
1:01:21
Speaker 1: by the Arkansas Razorbacks. So they're they're pretty anxious to
1:01:25
Speaker 1: try to do that, to get back to get back
1:01:27
Speaker 1: at it.
1:01:28
Speaker 2: And we'll see as they go to it. Now, Like I.
1:01:31
Speaker 1: Said, the lineup may be a bit altered this evening.
1:01:34
Speaker 2: He hasn't.
1:01:36
Speaker 1: He had not made out the lineup when we were visiting,
1:01:39
Speaker 1: but he's considering. And some of that will also depend
1:01:42
Speaker 1: on a couple of the guys who are battling a
1:01:46
Speaker 1: flu bug that's been going on. And normally I hear
1:01:49
Speaker 1: about that, you know, during like the dead of winter,
1:01:55
Speaker 1: like in January February, we hear a basketball coach say, yeah,
1:01:58
Speaker 1: their team is fighting through a flu bug. I know
1:02:01
Speaker 1: that the Big Shaffer's team went through that, I want
1:02:04
Speaker 1: to say early February or something.
1:02:06
Speaker 2: They had one of those deals.
1:02:07
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, you know that that could
1:02:12
Speaker 1: affect the lineup on the field to night.
1:02:14
Speaker 2: We'll find out on our text line.
1:02:17
Speaker 1: Somebody reminded me, as did Cam, that that Star Series
1:02:20
Speaker 1: does not open until tomorrow.
1:02:21
Speaker 2: Night, and I'm an impatient waiting for that thing to start.
1:02:24
Speaker 1: Ever since they won Saturday night and then Winnipeg one
1:02:27
Speaker 1: Sunday night, I was thinking, you know that it was
1:02:30
Speaker 1: beginning to.
1:02:30
Speaker 2: Night, but it doesn't.
1:02:32
Speaker 1: It does not start until tomorrow, so you know that
1:02:37
Speaker 1: that'll be the case. In the East, the team I
1:02:39
Speaker 1: root for, the Carolina Hurricanes, begins their Eastern Conference semifinal series,
1:02:43
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be difficult. They're going to be having
1:02:45
Speaker 1: a deal with the greatest of the great Alex Ovechkin,
1:02:50
Speaker 1: the all time goal scoring leader passed winning Gretzky this year,
1:02:54
Speaker 1: and the Washington Capitals, so that they'll be playing. The
1:02:57
Speaker 1: other Eastern semifinal series got under last night, the Toronto
1:03:01
Speaker 1: Maple Leafs getting to win. Do you know Cam the
1:03:06
Speaker 1: last time the Toronto Maple Leafs were in a Stanley
1:03:10
Speaker 1: Cup final? Ooh, I'll help you out with some me
1:03:16
Speaker 1: It predates your bird.
1:03:17
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, like seventies, eighties. I don't know
1:03:21
Speaker 3: my hockey history, but I know it's been quite some time.
1:03:23
Speaker 2: Put it this.
1:03:24
Speaker 1: Way, it predates anybody born after nineteen sixty eight. Okay,
1:03:33
Speaker 1: the Toronto Maple Leafs have not been in a Stanley
1:03:37
Speaker 1: Cup Final, let alone won one, but it happened both
1:03:40
Speaker 1: the same year nineteen sixty seven, the Maple Leafs got
1:03:44
Speaker 1: in it and that was the last.
1:03:46
Speaker 2: But here this will really set it for you.
1:03:49
Speaker 1: The last time the Toronto Maple Leafs were in the
1:03:52
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup Final. Now they've got to win this series
1:03:54
Speaker 1: the one seed there in the East. They've got to
1:03:57
Speaker 1: win this series over over Florida, the defending Cup champions.
1:04:04
Speaker 1: So they have to win this series, and then they
1:04:07
Speaker 1: have to win the Eastern Conference finals against the winner
1:04:10
Speaker 1: of the Carolina Washington series, which I would think you
1:04:14
Speaker 1: have to give the edge to Washington on that. But
1:04:16
Speaker 1: they'd have to win those two series just to reach
1:04:19
Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup Final and play the winner of the
1:04:22
Speaker 1: Western Conference, which would either be Winnipeg the one seed,
1:04:27
Speaker 1: Dallas the four seed, and then the other one is
1:04:30
Speaker 1: what Vegas and Edmonton, right, that's the other that's the
1:04:33
Speaker 1: other conference semifinal series. So Toronto would have to win
1:04:39
Speaker 1: this series in the next series to reach the fine.
1:04:40
Speaker 1: But the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs reached a
1:04:45
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup Final was when the NHL had six teams,
1:04:50
Speaker 1: the original six.
1:04:51
Speaker 2: That was it. Wow, you know, can you name the
1:04:55
Speaker 2: original six NHL franchise?
1:04:56
Speaker 3: No, there's no chance you're a hockey fan in.
1:05:02
Speaker 2: That sentence right now? Okay, all right?
1:05:03
Speaker 1: The original six of Toronto, Montreal, the New York Rangers,
1:05:06
Speaker 1: Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Red Wings, and Chicago Blackhawks. That's
1:05:11
Speaker 1: the original six. I probably could have gotten those, That's
1:05:14
Speaker 1: what I would have thought.
1:05:14
Speaker 2: Okay.
1:05:15
Speaker 1: So the next season in Toronto won the Cup in
1:05:19
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven, and it was a surprise. They were
1:05:21
Speaker 1: kind of an underdog in those days. The top four
1:05:26
Speaker 1: made the playoffs.
1:05:27
Speaker 2: That was it. You had semifinals and finals. That was it.
1:05:31
Speaker 1: And Toronto was won the Stanley Cup nineteen sixty seven.
1:05:36
Speaker 1: It's the last time that they won a Stanley Cup.
1:05:40
Speaker 1: Last time they were in the Cup final. The next year,
1:05:43
Speaker 1: sixty seven sixty eight, the NHL doubled in size. That's
1:05:49
Speaker 1: that's unprecedented in sports history that a league actually doubles
1:05:53
Speaker 1: in size. Well, and then when you take a closer
1:05:56
Speaker 1: look at it, they went from six to twelve teams.
1:05:59
Speaker 2: So and they.
1:06:00
Speaker 1: Added can you name any of the six teams they
1:06:02
Speaker 1: added in the original expansion. Some of them were stars
1:06:08
Speaker 1: that back then the Minnesota North Starsky so you later
1:06:11
Speaker 1: moved to Dallas, So that's one yepy. Some were pretty
1:06:15
Speaker 1: household names in Saint Louis, the Blues, Saint Louis Blues.
1:06:18
Speaker 2: That's two. Okay.
1:06:20
Speaker 1: Was there a Buffalo team. There was, but they did.
1:06:24
Speaker 1: They were not in that expansion. The Savers didn't come
1:06:26
Speaker 1: in until nineteen seventy with the Vancouver Canucks.
1:06:29
Speaker 3: They both came in nineteen third, so okay, Blues and
1:06:34
Speaker 3: was Winnipeg's first team.
1:06:36
Speaker 1: No, they were in that the rival league, the WHA
1:06:39
Speaker 1: for a while, the Jets, along with what was the
1:06:43
Speaker 1: New England Whalers which became the Hertford Whalers and we
1:06:45
Speaker 1: now know them as the Carolina Hurricanes, they were in
1:06:49
Speaker 1: that group. The Edmonton Oilers were in that group. The
1:06:52
Speaker 1: Calgary Flames actually Calgary moved from Atlanta, which.
1:06:57
Speaker 2: Was an expansion team in seventy two.
1:06:59
Speaker 1: They tried mansion in the NHL twice in Atlanta and
1:07:02
Speaker 1: it didn't work either time, both with the Flames in
1:07:05
Speaker 1: the early seventies who moved to Cavriy and they've been
1:07:07
Speaker 1: there ever since. And then the what were they the
1:07:10
Speaker 1: Thrashers who became the replacement franchise for Winnipeg, whose franchise
1:07:16
Speaker 1: had moved to Phoenix, who's now in Utah as Utah
1:07:20
Speaker 1: Hockey Club.
1:07:21
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So.
1:07:22
Speaker 1: Any of the other teams you might have about Philadelphia
1:07:24
Speaker 1: or pis both. So that's four. So there's two more.
1:07:28
Speaker 1: There's there's two more.
1:07:29
Speaker 2: One is the team.
1:07:31
Speaker 1: One is a team that's currently where it is that year.
1:07:35
Speaker 1: The other is the team that's changed addresses twice. In fact,
1:07:39
Speaker 1: that team, i'll give you a hint, is now the
1:07:41
Speaker 1: new Jersey Devils. But they weren't back then. In fact,
1:07:43
Speaker 1: they weren't even on the East coast.
1:07:44
Speaker 3: Okay, I was going to say either the Devils or Islanders,
1:07:47
Speaker 3: weren't one of those two.
1:07:48
Speaker 1: Islanders came in seventy two with Atlanta. So the Devils
1:07:52
Speaker 1: in their original incarnation were known as the Oakland Seals.
1:07:56
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
1:07:57
Speaker 1: And then they became known as the California Golden Seal.
1:08:00
Speaker 1: They then moved to I believe the Kansas City and
1:08:04
Speaker 1: became the Scouts for a year or two, and then
1:08:07
Speaker 1: moved to Jersey, or they were the one that moved
1:08:09
Speaker 1: to Colorado the original Colorado franchise, which was known in
1:08:12
Speaker 1: the early seventies as the Colorado Rockies, but it didn't last,
1:08:17
Speaker 1: and so it was different than the Avalanche. The Avalanche
1:08:19
Speaker 1: came from another one of those rival league franchises, the
1:08:22
Speaker 1: Quebec Nordiaks, out of the WHA, and they moved to
1:08:27
Speaker 1: Denver after the ninety five season, and they won the
1:08:30
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup in their first year as the Colorado Avalanche.
1:08:34
Speaker 1: But anyway, those were the six teams. When they doubled
1:08:37
Speaker 1: in size in sixty seven sixty eight, they added Buffalo, Vancouver.
1:08:42
Speaker 1: In seventy they added the Islanders, and like I said,
1:08:44
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Flames, who would later moved to Calgary in
1:08:47
Speaker 1: seventy two. So anyway, that there's a little bit of
1:08:49
Speaker 1: your hockey history, lesson for it. But the point of
1:08:52
Speaker 1: all this is to say, the last time Toronto was
1:08:54
Speaker 1: even in or let alone win, and both happened the
1:08:58
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup finals was nineteen sixty seven. It's been a
1:09:01
Speaker 1: long time and a lot of really bad hockey played
1:09:04
Speaker 1: over the years in Toronto. But of course they have
1:09:07
Speaker 1: I think the best player in all the NHL in
1:09:09
Speaker 1: Austin Matthews. Certainly the best, the best scorer in the NHL.
1:09:14
Speaker 1: And uh and and they're a good club this year,
1:09:17
Speaker 1: they're gonna be. They're gonna be, They're gonna be hard
1:09:18
Speaker 1: to beat. I'd love to see the Stars play them
1:09:21
Speaker 1: if if Carolina doesn't get to the finals, and I
1:09:24
Speaker 1: don't think they will, I don't even think they'll get
1:09:25
Speaker 1: past Washington, let alone beat Toronto in the Eastern Conference finals.
1:09:29
Speaker 1: So uh, I think Toronto may wind up there, and
1:09:32
Speaker 1: if they do, it'd be great to see the Stars
1:09:34
Speaker 1: take them on.
1:09:34
Speaker 2: That'd be a lot of fun.
1:09:36
Speaker 1: All right, up next, Uh, the conversation had just a
1:09:39
Speaker 1: few minutes ago with Jim Schlostnegle, the head coach here.
1:09:45
Speaker 1: Somebody said that, by the way, uh, just so you know,
1:09:50
Speaker 1: I listen when I watch when and when in the
1:09:53
Speaker 1: park because I like to hear you talk whatever it is.
1:09:56
Speaker 2: Thanks Carrie, I appreciate that.
1:09:59
Speaker 1: And somebody else said, you do a great job interviewing
1:10:02
Speaker 1: all the UT coaches.
1:10:03
Speaker 2: Well done. Appreciate the good content you do for his band.
1:10:05
Speaker 2: Thank you kind words.
1:10:08
Speaker 1: So appreciate that You're going to hear a conversation coming
1:10:11
Speaker 1: up with Jim Slostangle. That's next. When we continue on
1:10:14
Speaker 1: thirteen under the zone on a textan Tuesday. That was
1:10:16
Speaker 1: that was the King George Strait Which which number? Which
1:10:19
Speaker 1: number one? Did you cull for that particular return cut?
1:10:22
Speaker 2: What? Right or wrong? Okay? All right?
1:10:26
Speaker 1: And now when I was downstairs visiting with Jim Schlostangle,
1:10:31
Speaker 1: is that when you bump back with Willie Nelson?
1:10:35
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, I want to make sure we did Whiskey River, Okay, good.
1:10:39
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure we didn't short change the
1:10:42
Speaker 1: great Willy Nelson, who turned ninety two last week, ninety two,
1:10:46
Speaker 1: and he's still performing. He's doing his Fourth of July
1:10:51
Speaker 1: picnic out of Cota, isn't he. I think Bob Dylan's
1:10:54
Speaker 1: going to be in it?
1:10:55
Speaker 4: Okay?
1:10:56
Speaker 2: All that.
1:10:56
Speaker 1: If if I wasn't going to be on the North
1:10:58
Speaker 1: Carolina coast on the fourth of July, I can tell
1:11:01
Speaker 1: you that's where I would be.
1:11:03
Speaker 2: I would I would be wanting to.
1:11:06
Speaker 1: Hear Willie because who knows how many more opportunities we'll
1:11:09
Speaker 1: have to see Willie Nelson. That which, by the way,
1:11:15
Speaker 1: goes into saying that in September, when I hit a
1:11:21
Speaker 1: certain milestone birthday, lind and I are going to celebrate
1:11:26
Speaker 1: it on the open date weekend for football by going
1:11:32
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas to see Ringo Star.
1:11:35
Speaker 2: Because we wanted to haven't and and.
1:11:37
Speaker 1: And Ringo will be finishing up his his residency at
1:11:44
Speaker 1: the Venetian, which is where we saw Steelee Dan a
1:11:47
Speaker 1: few years ago and where Keith Morland went back in
1:11:49
Speaker 1: February with his wife during when Texas was in Las
1:11:52
Speaker 1: Vegas playing baseball, they went to see Chicago play. There's
1:11:54
Speaker 1: a great menu for that as well. Tomorrow, by the way,
1:12:00
Speaker 1: on the program, now tomorrow when when we come on,
1:12:05
Speaker 1: it's gonna be after there's an early Express game. Correct, Yes,
1:12:09
Speaker 1: they play at noon, so so we'll be gone after
1:12:14
Speaker 1: that and take it to five. But in the time
1:12:17
Speaker 1: we have tomorrow, with some of the some of the
1:12:22
Speaker 1: return cuts we have, we we won't exactly be doing
1:12:30
Speaker 1: yacht rock. We're we're we're gonna zero in on one
1:12:36
Speaker 1: specific artist tomorrow, who's some of this artist work can
1:12:42
Speaker 1: be put into the category of yacht rock, but this
1:12:47
Speaker 1: artist doesn't necessarily qualify, uh, you know, on on own
1:12:56
Speaker 1: merit as a yacht rocker. It's a different it's a
1:12:59
Speaker 1: it's a it's a little bit different era. Although some
1:13:02
Speaker 1: of the offerings can fall into the yacht rock category,
1:13:06
Speaker 1: and I'll just leave it at that, and there's I
1:13:08
Speaker 1: have a very specific reason for doing this tomorrow, So
1:13:12
Speaker 1: that'll be on tomorrow's program, and then on Thursday's program.
1:13:18
Speaker 2: We'll be on at the.
1:13:19
Speaker 1: Start of the program for nearly the same amount of
1:13:24
Speaker 1: time as we will be on Wednesday, but from the
1:13:27
Speaker 1: front up until three forty five. And we have long
1:13:30
Speaker 1: worn softball. Texas will be in the SEC tournament as
1:13:35
Speaker 1: the number three seed, and we know now that they
1:13:38
Speaker 1: will be playing the winner of the matchup between the
1:13:41
Speaker 1: sixth seed Florida and the eleven seed Ole Miss. Ole
1:13:49
Speaker 1: Miss scored a run in the bottom of the first
1:13:52
Speaker 1: to make it one nothing. That was the final score,
1:13:55
Speaker 1: one to nothing, as Ole Miss eliminated the fourteen seed Missouri.
1:14:01
Speaker 1: So Ole Miss will play Florida tomorrow and the winner
1:14:05
Speaker 1: of that matchup will play Texas on Thursday. The other game,
1:14:10
Speaker 1: by the way, today the twelve seed Georgia run ruled
1:14:13
Speaker 1: the thirteen seed Kentucky ate nothing to advance. Tonight, the
1:14:18
Speaker 1: ten seed Alabama plays the fifteen seed Auburn. So that's
1:14:24
Speaker 1: where that is. But in terms of the actual tournament
1:14:28
Speaker 1: for Texas. Then the Longhorns will be taking on the
1:14:32
Speaker 1: winner of the match up tomorrow, and that matchup tomorrow
1:14:39
Speaker 1: will be at four o'clock in the afternoon, same time
1:14:42
Speaker 1: that the Longhorns will play schedule to play on Thursday.
1:14:46
Speaker 1: The sixth seed Florida the eleven seed Old miss The
1:14:50
Speaker 1: Auburn Alabama winner tonight will play the seven seed South
1:14:53
Speaker 1: Carolina tomorrow evening at seven. Georgia of the twelve seed
1:14:56
Speaker 1: advance by beating the thirteen seed Kentucky eight nothing, so
1:15:00
Speaker 1: they will play Arkansas the five seed, and it'll get
1:15:04
Speaker 1: started tomorrow with the eight to nine match up Mississippi
1:15:07
Speaker 1: State in LSU tomorrow. So Oklahoma is the one, Texas
1:15:12
Speaker 1: A and M is the two seed, Texas is the three,
1:15:14
Speaker 1: Tennessee is the four. For those of you wondering, Texas
1:15:17
Speaker 1: could see Texas A and M in the semifinals if
1:15:19
Speaker 1: they advance, and they could well see Oklahoma in the
1:15:22
Speaker 1: championship of the SEC Softball Tournament if they advance there.
1:15:26
Speaker 1: The SEC Baseball Tournament isn't for another two well two
1:15:31
Speaker 1: weeks from the day actually. It begins at Hoover Metropolitan
1:15:35
Speaker 1: Stadium in Hoover, Alabama, that's on the south side of Birmingham,
1:15:40
Speaker 1: and Texas is trying to lock down the double by
1:15:44
Speaker 1: finishing in the top four.
1:15:45
Speaker 2: In fact, they're trying to lock.
1:15:46
Speaker 1: Down being the number one seed in the tournament and
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Speaker 1: the number one overall seed for the NCAA Tournament, which
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Speaker 1: begins the following week. But first things first, they have
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Speaker 1: two more series in SEC play. They play this weekend
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Speaker 1: Friday night here at UFCU dish Fowk Field against the
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Speaker 1: Florida Gators, and that contest on Friday will be at
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Speaker 1: six thirty, and then a Saturday game at one o'clock
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Speaker 1: and a Sunday game at one o'clock, and then they
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Speaker 1: have no midweek game next week. They play at Oklahoma Thursday, Friday,
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Speaker 1: and Saturday. Six thirty, six thirty, and two o'clock are
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Speaker 1: the three start times for that. So tonight's game against
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Speaker 1: Lamars we mentioned is the final non conference game of
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Speaker 1: the regular season against that backdrop. Let's hear the thoughts
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Speaker 1: that this was just a few moments ago. I was
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Speaker 1: down in the Texas dugout visiting with the head coach,
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Speaker 1: Jim slas Nagle. As long worn fans get to know
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Speaker 1: you and your coaching staff even more during the course
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Speaker 1: of the season. I'm sure they'd be kind of curious
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Speaker 1: to get your philosophy on because you haven't had this
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Speaker 1: situation like this where you come off the disappointment of
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Speaker 1: what happened in faevl over of the weekend. Do you
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Speaker 1: and your guys as well as your players. Are you
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Speaker 1: as anxious to get back on the field right away
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Speaker 1: or you're more into the.
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Speaker 2: Evalue that we look at it and then go back
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Speaker 2: at Where where do you stand with that?
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Speaker 5: Oh, you want to get back on the field, for sure,
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Speaker 5: you want to you want to play. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 5: I think it varies from time to time, team to team.
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Speaker 5: You could have a you could have a team where
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Speaker 5: you're looking for rest.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 5: Sometimes I've just depends on how banged up you are,
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Speaker 5: that kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 5: We've had the flu running through our team a little
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Speaker 5: bit in the last week, so that affects some things.
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Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, getting back on
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Speaker 5: the field and hopefully getting a better taste in your mouth.
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Speaker 5: Even though we're playing and we're playing an awesome team
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Speaker 5: tonight thirty seven wins, and we know how tough they
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Speaker 5: always play during the midweek games and what they're going
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Speaker 5: to roll out their pitchingise. So it's good for us.
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Speaker 5: You need to play and it's such a pretty day
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Speaker 5: an any any game in dishwalks a good day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, especially after this morning it looked like we need
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Speaker 1: an art to get to the ballpark, but now it's now,
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Speaker 1: it's good.
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Speaker 2: With regard to the conversations that.
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Speaker 1: You and Max have with your guys, mean, like you
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Speaker 1: said repeated throughout the weekend, you can't have the type
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Speaker 1: of free passes that happened the course of the weekend.
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Speaker 2: What's what's the message of the.
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Speaker 1: Guys about how you avoid that and be able to
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Speaker 1: get them back on the being the way they've been doing.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think we just remind them of
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Speaker 5: who we are and what we stand for. And I
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Speaker 5: mean we haven't. We have We've hit some We've hit
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Speaker 5: a fair amount of guys this year. Obviously that's a
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Speaker 5: whole different conversation. I think it's player to player. Uh,
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Speaker 5: but we haven't really, we haven't walked a ton of guys.
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Speaker 5: We're not gonna as great of a strike throwing team
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Speaker 5: as I would like for us to be. But I
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Speaker 5: think Max, you know, I had a conversation with the
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Speaker 5: team in general, uh yesterday about getting back to your
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Speaker 5: I mean, that's why you have core values. That's why
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Speaker 5: you have an anchor. That's why you have an identity.
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Speaker 5: Is you when things, when you know what hits the fan,
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Speaker 5: you have something to go to. And so, uh, two
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Speaker 5: of our core values are toughness and excellence. And toughness,
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Speaker 5: we need to show some toughness. I didn't think we
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Speaker 5: were the toughest team on the field. I think we
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Speaker 5: thought we got punched in the mouth on the first game,
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Speaker 5: and we didn't respet on very well, especially in the mound.
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Speaker 5: Guys were hesitant to throw the ball in.
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Speaker 2: The strike zone.
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Speaker 5: And and then, from an excellence means the best version
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Speaker 5: of yourself, and we certainly weren't the best version of
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Speaker 5: ourselves on the mound. I thought we played solid defense,
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Speaker 5: had the one miscommunication on the pop up on the
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Speaker 5: fly ball on the right field, but we were just
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Speaker 5: completely out of character. And that's you know, I guess
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Speaker 5: that that can happen in a season. It's way more
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Speaker 5: about how you respond to it. So and then Max,
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Speaker 5: I think had some reminding conversations with the pictures about
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Speaker 5: for example, when we throw, you know, the ball in
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Speaker 5: the strike zone, just in the strike zone, and they
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Speaker 5: put it in play, what is the batting average? It's
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Speaker 5: actually under one hundred. When we throw the ball to
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Speaker 5: the middle of the strike zone, middle middle of the
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Speaker 5: strike zone, what is the batting average, Well, it's a
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Speaker 5: little bit over one hundred. Right, So we all remember
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Speaker 5: the ones that get hammered. But just reminding them about
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Speaker 5: when you throw the ball in the strike zone, you're
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Speaker 5: gonna win more often than not.
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Speaker 2: All and all you.
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Speaker 5: Get a look at is a guy like being you know,
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Speaker 5: and you know he just throws strikes. You know, there's
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Speaker 5: no super elite pitch, but especially in these Tuesday games,
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Speaker 5: depending on who you're playing, depending on the conditions, strikes win.
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Speaker 5: And we're you know, most teams are trying to try
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Speaker 5: out pitchers and you're trying to figure out hoping this
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Speaker 5: guy does this, or this young pitcher catches fire, and
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Speaker 5: you know, like it Drew Rerick or Flores earlier in
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Speaker 5: the year. And now you know we're at the point.
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Speaker 5: I mean, Cody, when Cody Howard gets in the game tonight,
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Speaker 5: he should be pitching with a lot of confidence. He's
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Speaker 5: been pitching awesome, ye, I mean really good and so
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Speaker 5: and we're gonna need guys like that if we're gonna
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Speaker 5: advance in a postseason. So yeah, there were some real
1:20:34
Speaker 5: heartfelt conversations yesterday, but at the end of the day,
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Speaker 5: you got to go prove it on a baseball field,
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Speaker 5: and that's what the game gives you tonight.
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Speaker 1: And so they have that opportunity this evening, Texas against
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Speaker 1: Lamar six fifteen airtime, six point thirty first pitch. Kate
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Speaker 1: Being will start for the log Warns this evening, and
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Speaker 1: he is obviously developed into that fourth starter for Texas.
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Speaker 1: So Being will start for the log Warns this evening,
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Speaker 1: you know, on a two nine to one ERA, and
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Speaker 1: Lamar will go with a right hander in Carter Sutton,
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Speaker 1: who is a senior right hander. Actually began his collegiate
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Speaker 1: career at Winthrop and then transferred in. He's five and
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Speaker 1: two and a four six eight er. All right, We've
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Speaker 1: got some more NBA and some college football notes to
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Speaker 1: get to when we continue here.
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Speaker 2: I'm thirteen under the zone