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May 21, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome in to the Thursday edition of The Big Show.
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Speaker 1: We have got a lot of stuff to get to today.
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Speaker 1: This portion of the program roanch you by Central Texas
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Speaker 1: Sports Medicine. Coming up, We're going to preview the Aggies
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Speaker 1: start at the SEC tournament in Hoover. We've got a
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Speaker 1: high school report. We're going to preview the women's Golf
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Speaker 1: in Cuba Championships in Carlsbad, just north of San Diego
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Speaker 1: intern Raleigh Dorsey has that we have got the Clark
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Speaker 1: Eisenhower Outdoor Edition, a terrific book by Matt Sapidski, combining
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Speaker 1: fly fishing and eating all over the world. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's as good as it sounds. Animals attacking and more
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Speaker 1: so we've got that going for us, which is nice.
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Speaker 1: Rain forecast tonight in Hoover, which could play havoc with
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Speaker 1: the schedule. Florida and Alabama are supposed to play the
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Speaker 1: late game. Georgie and Mississippi underway tomorrow. Texas and Arkansas
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Speaker 1: schedule to play in A and M and Auburn tomorrow
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Speaker 1: night scheduled to play, and we'll see how the weather
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Speaker 1: affects that. If it does and works works out. The
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Speaker 1: Rangers off today after coming from behind with two runs
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Speaker 1: in the ninth yesterday in Denver to beat the Rockies
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Speaker 1: five to four. Josh Young with the go ahead RBI single,
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Speaker 1: back to back home runs by Ezekiel Durant Jake Berger
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Speaker 1: and the Rangers win five to four to take that series.
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Speaker 1: Jacob Latz a little over two innings of work gets
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Speaker 1: the win out of the bullpen. The Astros are off
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Speaker 1: today as well. They need it. They got beat by
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Speaker 1: the Twinkies four to one yesterday Victor Kartini with the
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Speaker 1: home run, Ryan Kriidler with the home run, and the
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Speaker 1: Stros continue to struggle eleven games under five hundred. In
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Speaker 1: case you missed it, last night showy Otani first place
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Speaker 1: on the line. Five scoreless innings. His era is zero
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Speaker 1: point seven to three. That's the sixth lowest through eight
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Speaker 1: starts since nineteen twenty. By the way, first pitch of
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Speaker 1: the game, he had a home run. Second time in
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Speaker 1: MLB history a starting pitcher hit a leadoff home run.
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Speaker 1: The other time Game four last year at LCS, Otani
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Speaker 1: the seventh time, including postseason, Otani has homered in a
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Speaker 1: game where he also posted a scoreless start. Bob Gibson
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Speaker 1: had done it because he was a pretty good hitter.
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Speaker 1: But you need to pay attention. I know it's a
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Speaker 1: West Coast. I didn't know this either until I read
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Speaker 1: about this this morning. But my gosh, at eer of zero.
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Speaker 1: Remember when he wasn't hitting, he was in a slump,
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Speaker 1: but he hasn't quit pitching. Zero point seventy three earn
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Speaker 1: run average, leadoff home run pretty good. There's this LSU
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Speaker 1: can't not make headlines. Will Wade did it? Now? Ed
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Speaker 1: Orgerod has finalized a deal to be part of Lane
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Speaker 1: Kiffin's coaching staff. The former head coach who led the
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Speaker 1: Tigers to the national title in twenty nineteen, reunites with Kiffen,
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Speaker 1: his longtime friend and colleague. He worked with him at
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Speaker 1: US and at Tennessee. Ogeron's role will be special assistant
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Speaker 1: to recruiting and defense. Recent changes and recruiting rules will
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Speaker 1: allow Orgeron to go out on the road and given
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Speaker 1: at the number one class of recruits and transfers in
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Speaker 1: his first year. And now ed O is there and
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Speaker 1: he can legally buy guys. Now that's the scary part.
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Speaker 1: Edo has always been able to recruit. I don't know
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Speaker 1: how they understand him. I'll be honest with you. I
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Speaker 1: don't know how parents understand, but he speaks their language
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Speaker 1: in Louisiana. They do understand him in Louisiana. Speaking of
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Speaker 1: the SEC, there's this. Eagles linebacker Nolan Smith was arrested
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Speaker 1: this past Friday. He accused of speeding and reckless driving
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Speaker 1: in Georgia. What is it about Georgia football players? His
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Speaker 1: teammate Jalen Carter was given twelve months probation and one
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars five after pleading no contest of misdemeanor charges
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Speaker 1: of reckless driving and racing that killed Georgia offensive lineman
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Speaker 1: Devin Willock and recruiting stafford Chandler Lacroix in twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 1: and there have been numerous arrests for speeding for Georgia
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Speaker 1: football players. Smith was clocked going one hundred and thirty
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Speaker 1: five miles per hour in a seventy mile per hour zone.
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Speaker 1: He bonded out was released an hour after he was booked.
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Speaker 1: A court date set for July fourteenth. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: it's just I don't know why it's endemic in Georgia,
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Speaker 1: and with Georgia football player. I mean, people are dead'
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Speaker 1: that's some serious stuff. And going one hundred and thirty
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Speaker 1: five miles per hour, that's crazy. It wasn't two am
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Speaker 1: in the morning where there was no one on the road.
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Speaker 1: It was ten forty one in the evening apparently. And
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Speaker 1: I don't know exactly where this. I don't know where
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Speaker 1: Twigs County is in Georgia. I don't care if there's
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Speaker 1: anybody on the road, you can't go one hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirty five in a seventy, but I guess you can
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Speaker 1: if you're in the NFL. Meanwhile, the Georgia men's basketball
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Speaker 1: program got a ten million dollar check from alum. Adam Wexler,
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Speaker 1: founder of one of the nation's largest daily fantasy sports companies,
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Speaker 1: Prize Picks, says it's always been his favorite sport college basketball.
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Speaker 1: The largest commitment by a single donor in Georgia athletics history. Interesting.
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Speaker 1: It goes to the basketball program. It will support personnel
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Speaker 1: and operating expenses. Wexler said his father's ties to the
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Speaker 1: university as a former football player track athlete fueled his
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Speaker 1: passion for the Bulldogs. Wow ten million to the basketball program.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of college basketball, We've got a big event being proposed.
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Speaker 1: It's in the planning stages, an eight team event called
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Speaker 1: the Diamond Cup in twenty seven to twenty eight. Diamond
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Speaker 1: Cup will be laden with blue but bloods Arizona, Connecticut, Gonzaga, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan,
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Speaker 1: North Carolina. Seven of those schools have been in talks
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Speaker 1: with the Diamond Cup since last summer. Duke bowed out
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Speaker 1: earlier in the spring because of a three game contract
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Speaker 1: with Amazon Prime Video which starts later this year. May
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Speaker 1: have to pay to see it. You're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: pay to see a lot of college sports from here
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Speaker 1: on out. We've talked about that, and I'm just telling you.
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Speaker 1: Hockey tonight, Game one Eastern Conference Finals, Montreal Carolina. It
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Speaker 1: will have been eleven days since Carolina played a hockey
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Speaker 1: almost two weeks actually since Carolina played. Last night, Las Vegas,
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Speaker 1: the Vegas Golden Knights VGK beat Colorado in Denver four
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Speaker 1: to two. Knights had a three to zero lead in
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Speaker 1: the third period, the Avalanche scored two goals made it
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Speaker 1: very close three to two. The second goal came with
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Speaker 1: the pulled goalie, but the Golden Knights with an empty
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Speaker 1: netter with about forty seconds to play four to two.
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Speaker 1: They win Game one, get home ice. Cale mccarr did
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Speaker 1: not play in that game for Colorado, so that Game
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Speaker 1: two will be tomorrow night. Back back in Denver. They're
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Speaker 1: playing the Byron Nelson at Craig Ranch in McKinney. Twenty
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Speaker 1: five million dollar upgrade for that course. Players seem to
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Speaker 1: like it. The scores are low Keepka minus eight, Emiliano
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Speaker 1: Grilow minus seven, Michael Fiorbornson minus seven, Doug Gimm minus six,
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Speaker 1: Seawou Kim minus six, Clark minus six, lots of low scores.
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Speaker 1: Scotty was on the course at minus four. Ryan Palmer,
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Speaker 1: the former aggie who gets by on exemptions. Right now,
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Speaker 1: Jordan Speath teeing off this with the afternoon group. There
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Speaker 1: is talk that with the revamped PGA and how many
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Speaker 1: events are going to be played, is the Barron Nelson
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Speaker 1: going to be left out? At one time one of
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Speaker 1: the great stops on tour for all the players Byron Nelson,
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Speaker 1: of course, the stories are legendary, personally picking up Tiger
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Speaker 1: Woods at the airport and Tiger played each year that
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Speaker 1: Byron Nelson was host. The year after he died, Tiger
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Speaker 1: quit playing, as did a lot of the other golfers.
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Speaker 1: They have changed courses a couple of times. Used to
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Speaker 1: and I don't know what it is now, but you
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Speaker 1: used to the Salesmanship Club who hosted Gabe that this
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Speaker 1: tournament generated more for charity than any other tournament on tour.
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Speaker 1: And it may be in danger of not being a
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Speaker 1: PGA Tour event anymore. We will see, but that would
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Speaker 1: be be a shame I've said many times I saw
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Speaker 1: Nicholas and Palmer play thirty six holes together on a
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Speaker 1: Sunday because of rain, and it always rains at the
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Speaker 1: Byron Nelson. But I mean a lot of history, a
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Speaker 1: lot of history with that tournament. Hate to see it
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Speaker 1: go away. And there's this hot dog eating champion. Joey
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Speaker 1: Chestnut will be part of the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating
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Speaker 1: Contests July fourth, under probation after recently pleading guilty to
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Speaker 1: misdemeanor battery over a bar altercation. Rich Shay, who's with
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Speaker 1: us every year co founder and president Major League Eating,
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Speaker 1: said in a statement the incident did not violate ML's
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Speaker 1: code of conduct and he is eligible to have been
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Speaker 1: the crown. There wouldn't be a hot dog eating contest
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Speaker 1: without Joey, Mario Masslemini, chestnuts attorney telling the Associated Press
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Speaker 1: it truly was just a misunderstanding. Joey understood he wanted
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Speaker 1: to accept responsibility for his actions, and he did. He's
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Speaker 1: won seventeen times. He is accused of striking a man
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Speaker 1: at a bar in Indiana in March, leading to the charges.
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Speaker 1: He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery last month, sentenced to
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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty days probation. The man who was
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Speaker 1: struck says he exchanged a handshake with Joey before he
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Speaker 1: was struck on the left side of his face. Per
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Speaker 1: the Affidavid Chestnut told law enforcement the following day jury
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Speaker 1: questioning he was quote pretty drunk and didn't remember. He says,
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Speaker 1: after watching the incident on video, his slap quote look
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Speaker 1: like a joke and he didn't realize it was going
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Speaker 1: to be reported. Law enforcements review of the tape says
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Speaker 1: the accused pulled the victim forward, moves closer, uses his
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Speaker 1: right hand to strike the victim in the face with
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Speaker 1: an open hand. The victim is observed reacting and moving
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Speaker 1: his head downward and holding it there while the accused
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Speaker 1: stands over him and his friend. Chestnut moves towards the
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Speaker 1: victim again, and the victim moves away from the accused. Joey, Joey, Joey,
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Speaker 1: stick to the hot dogs, put the beer down. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we know Joey can eat seventy hot dogs right in
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Speaker 1: ten minutes or whatever it is. You don't want to
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Speaker 1: be drinking seventy beers in ten minutes, so I hope
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Speaker 1: Joey's sobered up. I hope he's ready to go July fourth.
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Speaker 1: I have no doubt we will have Rich Shay on
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Speaker 1: the show the last week of June, right before the
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Speaker 1: fourth of July hot dog eating contest. I have been,
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Speaker 1: as you well know, a judge in that contest. I
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Speaker 1: have judged Joey Chestnut eating hot dogs. So maybe we'll
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Speaker 1: get Joey on. Get his explanation.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to take a break. We're going to
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Thursday edition. Happy to have you
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Speaker 1: with us. Don't forget tomorrow Tomorrow Caleb is filling in
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Speaker 1: for Ryan. Who's filling in for me? But my weekly
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Speaker 1: visit with Kirk Bowles the Houston Chronicle on the show tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: The Writer's Roundtable Monday, and supermodel Kim Alexis joins me
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Speaker 1: on the program on Monday. Coming up, the Clark Eisenhower Outdoor. Addition,
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Speaker 1: we've got a high school report and we have a
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Speaker 1: preview of the A and M Women's Golf National tournament
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Speaker 1: in Carlsbad, just north of San Diego, within turn Riley, Dorsey.
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Speaker 1: So that is coming up here in this hour right now.
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Speaker 1: We want to get you ready a little bit for
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Speaker 1: Aggie baseball tomorrow evening. A and M scheduled to play.
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Speaker 1: Auburn beat LSU last night, and an M and Auburn
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Speaker 1: play scheduled at seven o'clock. Doubtful it'll be seven o'clock.
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Speaker 1: That will be after the Texas Arkansas game, but it'll
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Speaker 1: be sometime tomorrow night. The Aggies in after the double
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Speaker 1: by into the quarterfinals in who take on Auburn, a
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Speaker 1: team that beat them two out of three earlier. And
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Speaker 1: we want to hear from head coach Mike Early.
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Speaker 3: You maneuver a few times, so what makes this event
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Speaker 3: so special? And also what does it take to when
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Speaker 3: they're open the past and now in the single elimination formatbers.
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Speaker 7: Like time, it's just a really cool event. It's really
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Speaker 7: like it's like a kind of mini version of Omaha.
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Speaker 7: You get the police as score and they do it.
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Speaker 8: They still a really nice job of how they take
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Speaker 8: care of the teams in the hotel to why you're
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Speaker 8: at the field, like.
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Speaker 7: It's just a I mean it's very very well put
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Speaker 7: on what it takes. It's really just you usually got
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Speaker 7: to have a pitcher of someone that hasn't had a
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Speaker 7: big role on the team have one of those games
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Speaker 7: along with just playing it game by game and doing
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Speaker 7: what you've done all season. You just got to play
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Speaker 7: good baseball. But usually now for us a little different
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Speaker 7: than the scenarios I've been in before, just with second
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Speaker 7: year single nation. I'm sorry, second year single elimination. You know,
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Speaker 7: last year we started off no buyas now we got
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Speaker 7: the double. So it's three games, So it is different
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Speaker 7: for us and the teams that are already playing.
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Speaker 8: But I just gotta just gotta play good baseball.
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Speaker 3: And then it's five games now with ABS and college baseball.
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Speaker 3: What have you seen and then also since we talked
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Speaker 3: to you a few weeks ago, what have you guys
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Speaker 3: learned and studied as far as what your strategy's going
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Speaker 3: to look like?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's it's good. I mean, like I
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Speaker 7: said before, like you gotta you gotta try it out.
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Speaker 7: I think there was in order to do that, there's
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Speaker 7: gonna be a mistakes. Someone was telling me about a
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Speaker 7: play I didn't see it where the guy walked where
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Speaker 7: they challenged the guys stole and yeah, I mean it's
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Speaker 7: it is.
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Speaker 8: What it is, right.
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Speaker 7: It's just there's teams like playing and competing to get
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Speaker 7: in and there's still these experiments going on.
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Speaker 8: That's my that's my kind of gripe on it.
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Speaker 7: I guess a little bit, but then again, there's no
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Speaker 7: better time to do it, and I think it's what's coming.
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Speaker 7: So yeah, I saw some I think it's good for
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Speaker 7: the guys to see too, like see the ones where
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Speaker 7: people get wrong and they're clearly in this elm so
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Speaker 7: knowing when to use him. So that strategy is I'm
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Speaker 7: not gonna give our strategy completely, but.
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Speaker 8: Something we'll talk about today and tomorrow when we get there.
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Speaker 7: We just haven't been focused on it at all until honestly,
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Speaker 7: the last twenty four hours.
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Speaker 9: What does the pitching outlook look like, pitching strategy look
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Speaker 9: like so far to right now.
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Speaker 7: We're gonna kind of wait and see who we match
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Speaker 7: up against. Everyone's ready to go, though, and you know,
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Speaker 7: just kind of make sure we put guys in the
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Speaker 7: right spot and spots with There is a little bit
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Speaker 7: of next weekend in mind. In days to an extent,
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Speaker 7: but I mean Friday or Saturday, or Saturday or Friday,
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Speaker 7: there's not much So I would say that's not a
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Speaker 7: huge wait into it. But there's gotta be a little
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Speaker 7: bit of a thought process. But I think, yeah, it
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Speaker 7: just depends he could possibly see And I've never seen
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Speaker 7: before in my life that one guy started three out
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Speaker 7: the last four games.
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Speaker 8: I don't think that's I don't think that's out of
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Speaker 8: the question. So, but just not there.
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Speaker 10: Yet, and that includes Aby being ready.
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Speaker 8: No, he's gonna pitch this weekend.
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Speaker 11: He's great.
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Speaker 8: I mean, it looks great.
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Speaker 7: He's gonna pitch this season again this Season's gonna pitch
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Speaker 7: in the postseason.
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Speaker 8: But we're gonna keep him.
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Speaker 7: He's gonna throw what he's there, he's gonna throw on
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Speaker 7: Thursday and Friday. Yeah, so we're just gonna probably I
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Speaker 7: would say, unless he just feels great, I would say
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Speaker 7: we're gonna lean way, way heavy towards that. We're just
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Speaker 7: gonna keep him for the regional.
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Speaker 12: So kind of what you've been saying a little bit,
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Speaker 12: just what's the balance of you want to play to win,
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Speaker 12: but you know there's more stuff ahead.
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Speaker 8: We're playing to win.
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Speaker 7: Now, there's certain factors that are different in this tournament
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Speaker 7: than what would be in a regional, Like you might
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Speaker 7: ask someone to stretch a little for or comeback earlier,
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Speaker 7: do something you want to normally ever do in a regional,
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Speaker 7: Like we're not gonna do that in the SEC tournament,
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Speaker 7: you know what I mean. So it's like that's the
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Speaker 7: biggest difference, right, Like if a guy's super banged up
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Speaker 7: or something like, you're just not gonna push it as
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Speaker 7: far as you would if it's go home because we
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Speaker 7: got more games to play. You know, to that point,
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Speaker 7: what is the last few days, ben Lake, And how
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Speaker 7: beneficial has it been for you guys to get some rest.
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Speaker 8: It's been good. It's been good. It was It's honestly
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Speaker 8: similar to last week.
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Speaker 7: You know, we had that doubleheader against Auburn that got
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Speaker 7: done on Friday and no Saturday, Saturday, excuse me, And
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Speaker 7: we got a couple of days off, and yeah, it
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Speaker 7: was good. We did the same exact thing this week
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Speaker 7: as we did last week. We took took Sunday off,
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Speaker 7: pretty off Monday. But they were all in here anyway
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Speaker 7: doing stuff, light stuff on their own. Make sure they
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Speaker 7: played catch pitchers through because they don't can't take the
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Speaker 7: new days off, but yeah, it was good.
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Speaker 12: What's the what's the biggest group you've seen in Jorian's
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Speaker 12: game from when he first stepped onto campus to now
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Speaker 12: being able to have the season he did through SEC.
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Speaker 7: Play, I think just like learning the game and anywhere
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Speaker 7: from base running to where to throw the ball in
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Speaker 7: the outfield to work in counts and on pitches, and.
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Speaker 8: He's done just a tremendous job. Like it's it's just
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Speaker 8: been cool to see.
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Speaker 7: And he has the talent that's evident, but bigger than
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Speaker 7: the talent he's got, you know, an elite mindset.
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Speaker 8: He's very very coachable, and he just wants it like
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Speaker 8: he wants it.
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Speaker 7: He's not just the guy that is talented and this
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Speaker 7: is enough, Like he's always shooting for the next thing.
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Speaker 7: And I think that's the biggest thing is you don't
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Speaker 7: know that too much when you recruited guy and he's
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Speaker 7: he's kind of blown me away with those attributes.
24:25
Speaker 12: Were you surprised at maybe how under the radar he
24:27
Speaker 12: was throughout the recruiting process until you guys have kind
24:30
Speaker 12: of found him.
24:31
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I've never I've never seen anyone of
24:35
Speaker 7: that potential in our game and how it is now.
24:39
Speaker 8: Kind of sneak by like that.
24:41
Speaker 7: But he again like he didn't play a lot of
24:43
Speaker 7: travel ball, So yeah, like extremely surprised just because I mean,
24:49
Speaker 7: how often have you heard that type of story in
24:50
Speaker 7: the last few years, Like you don't, So very surprised,
24:54
Speaker 7: but good surprise for us.
24:56
Speaker 12: Just one more with him, just is there a player
24:58
Speaker 12: comp that you think of, like when when you look
25:00
Speaker 12: at him and that maybe reminds you of someone whether
25:03
Speaker 12: you've coached or someone you've watched in the pros or anything.
25:11
Speaker 11: I don't know.
25:11
Speaker 8: I'm not a big comp guy, I don't.
25:14
Speaker 7: I mean him and Braiden have a lot of similarities
25:16
Speaker 7: except he's not a switch hitter, but as far as
25:18
Speaker 7: like when they hit the ball, how they hit the ball,
25:20
Speaker 7: a similar speed and runner similar arm. So I would say,
25:24
Speaker 7: like if you just want to keep it to like
25:25
Speaker 7: a guy here, I think besides being a switch hitter,
25:27
Speaker 7: like now you're seeing Braiden as a junior, right, Jordan's
25:31
Speaker 7: a freshman, so he's not there yet.
25:32
Speaker 8: But I think if you look at it to actually
25:34
Speaker 8: have I.
25:35
Speaker 7: Bet they run about the safe speed similar arm Braiden's.
25:40
Speaker 7: I would say, Braid's more accurate, but he's three years older.
25:44
Speaker 7: But yeah, I think that I think he could develop
25:45
Speaker 7: into that type of guy as long as his plate
25:48
Speaker 7: disc one continues to get better.
25:49
Speaker 8: So I have a bit of a cold sense of
25:51
Speaker 8: how much.
25:52
Speaker 3: Did his time at the Bombers kind of help them
25:53
Speaker 3: understand what he had been in the area over the summer.
25:58
Speaker 7: Our biggest saying with that was just like he hadn't again,
26:02
Speaker 7: he hadn't played a lot of baseball, and we just
26:03
Speaker 7: wanted him to play baseball.
26:05
Speaker 8: We you know, we talked a little bit, but we.
26:07
Speaker 7: Were not coaching during that time, and just get him
26:09
Speaker 7: out there, get him at bats. So yeah, I think
26:11
Speaker 7: it helped a lot as much as and once he
26:13
Speaker 7: committed to us too, we were like pushing him to
26:16
Speaker 7: do these different events.
26:17
Speaker 8: And do stuff.
26:18
Speaker 7: Just we wanted him to play more. And it's a
26:21
Speaker 7: big reason why. Like I think I said it before,
26:23
Speaker 7: but like when Gavin was rehabbing, we had all those
26:25
Speaker 7: rehabit bats, Jordan was. It was Joring and Gavin the
26:29
Speaker 7: whole time, because we wanted the pitcher, whoever it was,
26:31
Speaker 7: have a left handed hitter, and we wanted Jordan just
26:33
Speaker 7: we just thought, you know, and like and at bats
26:36
Speaker 7: like an investment, right, as many as you can get in,
26:38
Speaker 7: as many as you can get in, and we just
26:40
Speaker 7: kind of.
26:41
Speaker 8: That was playing all along and he's got to execute
26:43
Speaker 8: and do well. Can you get better? And he has?
26:46
Speaker 12: Does he project to maybe move to center field next year?
26:49
Speaker 12: At all?
26:49
Speaker 8: If y'all even thought about that, I'm not even figuring.
26:52
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, that's Mike Carley and again tomorrow. Gavin
27:00
Speaker 1: Grohovac named earlier SEC All First Team also Scholar Athlete.
27:08
Speaker 1: He has racked up the awards. He has had an
27:11
Speaker 1: incredible season, pick for the US national team. He has
27:16
Speaker 1: had a lot of honors. They may not be finished yet.
27:21
Speaker 1: Let's hear what Gavin Grohovac had to say day before yesterday.
27:27
Speaker 3: Just let's do all of those conference accolades, posts and
27:31
Speaker 3: athletes mean to you, and more specifically the Scholar Athlete
27:34
Speaker 3: of the year as well.
27:35
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean scholar athlete. Very exciting. I'm sure my
27:39
Speaker 13: mom is very proud. No, that's an exciting one to win.
27:43
Speaker 13: Obviously I didn't really know I was in the running
27:45
Speaker 13: for it, But that's a cool, cool honor. All the
27:48
Speaker 13: other ones that attest to how good the team's been
27:50
Speaker 13: this year. Give me a chance to go out there
27:52
Speaker 13: and play play as best as I can be the
27:54
Speaker 13: best version of myself. So yeah, I think the guys
27:57
Speaker 13: for helping me get to that point.
27:58
Speaker 3: You've been out to Hoover a couple of times play
28:00
Speaker 3: this event one, So how does this event compare to
28:03
Speaker 3: College World Series? From pump and circumstances? And then also
28:05
Speaker 3: what does it take to win here versus the other
28:08
Speaker 3: postseason foremots?
28:09
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I would compare
28:11
Speaker 13: it to the World Series. Obviously it's a completely different environment,
28:14
Speaker 13: but obviously it's all postseason baseball at this point, so
28:17
Speaker 13: it's all the best teams.
28:19
Speaker 11: You know.
28:19
Speaker 13: SECS, I would say, is one of the best conferences
28:22
Speaker 13: that you could be in and roll in one area
28:24
Speaker 13: playing for one title. So that's just exciting baseball right there.
28:27
Speaker 13: But it's always been fun to go out there every year.
28:30
Speaker 13: I see what they're doing with all the renovations, so
28:32
Speaker 13: it's cool seeing that place get built up. But it's
28:34
Speaker 13: fun baseball you to go watch other teams, meet the
28:35
Speaker 13: other guys, to greet the other people. It's all respect
28:38
Speaker 13: at that point.
28:39
Speaker 3: A big talking point is ABS this week, So what
28:41
Speaker 3: have you guys done to prepare for it, and what
28:44
Speaker 3: have you thought about watching these first five games or so?
28:47
Speaker 13: Yeah, we haven't done much. I mean we trained the
28:49
Speaker 13: strike shown every single day like that. That's the biggest
28:51
Speaker 13: thing of being part of the offense here is train
28:53
Speaker 13: the strikes on. Knowing the strikes on. Obviously, I know
28:54
Speaker 13: the striketion is a little different when it comes to
28:57
Speaker 13: metrics wise, but it's part of it. I don't We're
29:00
Speaker 13: going to talk about strategy once we get there, how
29:02
Speaker 13: we want to use it and what we're gonna do
29:03
Speaker 13: with it. But at the day, we still got to
29:05
Speaker 13: play baseball. Guys got to throw to the play. We
29:06
Speaker 13: still got something that well.
29:07
Speaker 7: So you know, speaking to your accolades, have you given
29:09
Speaker 7: yourself a chance to kind of think about what this
29:11
Speaker 7: year has been, especially after everything you went through last year?
29:15
Speaker 13: I mean, yeah, I think being in it, you realize
29:17
Speaker 13: the difference of what we've done this year compared to
29:20
Speaker 13: last year. But at the end of the day, we
29:22
Speaker 13: want to play winning baseball. We want to play the
29:24
Speaker 13: best baseball that we can every single day. And I
29:26
Speaker 13: think to this point we've done a really, really good
29:27
Speaker 13: job and put ourselves in a good, good situation.
29:30
Speaker 8: You mentioned training the strikes on what does that, what
29:31
Speaker 8: does that look like? What is some of the ways
29:33
Speaker 8: that you'll do that.
29:34
Speaker 13: Just little things in the cages, like when we're hitting
29:36
Speaker 13: off machines, just knowing like you got someone always behind
29:38
Speaker 13: home play telling you a striker ball and try and
29:41
Speaker 13: not swing at the balls. You take the ball, swing
29:44
Speaker 13: with the strikes. It's just little things like that. And
29:46
Speaker 13: obviously during the fall we did a bunch. Obviously you
29:48
Speaker 13: have track man so you can see the zone, but
29:50
Speaker 13: it's just every day little things for us hitters that
29:52
Speaker 13: we know what our strike zone is, but again it's
29:56
Speaker 13: not our strike zone, but we got to be able
29:57
Speaker 13: to swing's when it's our time to.
29:58
Speaker 14: Swing, a lot of questions about freshman this season, but
30:02
Speaker 14: I wanted to ask you one more about Jorian's what
30:04
Speaker 14: what's something you feel like people maybe don't understand about
30:07
Speaker 14: him and just what he's been able to bring to
30:09
Speaker 14: the table this season.
30:10
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's one of the best kids I've I've ever
30:12
Speaker 13: been around. Like just the type of human being he
30:14
Speaker 13: is outside of baseball's unbelievable. I think that when it
30:17
Speaker 13: comes to the baseball side, I think I still don't
30:19
Speaker 13: think he knows how good he really is. He's super raw.
30:22
Speaker 13: The guy's just ultra talented, super athletics. So watching him
30:27
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30:29
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30:31
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30:34
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30:37
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30:40
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30:43
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30:46
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30:49
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30:52
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30:55
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30:57
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Speaker 17: Welcome into the High School Report.
34:20
Speaker 21: I'm Kayler Brapley, and today we are jumping out to
34:23
Speaker 21: the Player's Fun Center phone line to visit with the
34:25
Speaker 21: head coach of the Iola Bulldogs baseball team, Coach Eric Blenden.
34:30
Speaker 17: Coach, thanks for joining me today.
34:32
Speaker 11: Yeah, pleasure to be here. And you know, just excited
34:35
Speaker 11: for tonight's game.
34:37
Speaker 21: Yes, sir, So your Bulldog's very good season so far
34:41
Speaker 21: twenty four and four overall and getting ready for tonight's
34:45
Speaker 21: regional final matchup against Schulenberg.
34:49
Speaker 17: So what have been some of the keys to success
34:51
Speaker 17: for your Bulldogs this year?
34:53
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, our picture staff, mainly Brody Vaughn. You know,
34:57
Speaker 11: he's kind of our ace of our staff, and you know,
35:00
Speaker 11: they do a good job of not putting people on
35:02
Speaker 11: for free. You know, in high school baseball, that's a big,
35:05
Speaker 11: you know, big thing is you know, make everybody earn
35:08
Speaker 11: everything they get. And we don't put on people for
35:10
Speaker 11: free with walks, they're hit by batters and things of
35:12
Speaker 11: that nature. And you know, our lineup does a good
35:15
Speaker 11: job of not striking out and making people throw us out.
35:19
Speaker 11: And you know, we're just just very very fundamental in
35:23
Speaker 11: everything we do, and the kids play hard, and when
35:26
Speaker 11: you can do those things, you know you've got a
35:28
Speaker 11: chance to be successful. And luckily it's worked out for
35:30
Speaker 11: us so far this year.
35:31
Speaker 21: Your Bulldogs coming out of District twenty six in Region four,
35:36
Speaker 21: and you know the top three teams in that district
35:39
Speaker 21: between Iola, Mumford, and Burton all really solid teams. Burton
35:44
Speaker 21: also will be playing in the regional finals in Division
35:47
Speaker 21: two this weekend and Mumford got to the area around
35:51
Speaker 21: for getting knocked out.
35:52
Speaker 17: So having those that top.
35:55
Speaker 21: Three of really competitive teams, how much was is that
35:59
Speaker 21: a benefit for your team to get those experiences during
36:02
Speaker 21: the regular season and now be able to have success
36:05
Speaker 21: in the playoffs.
36:07
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, anytime you can challenge yourself against good
36:10
Speaker 11: opponents and come on out. You know, on top of
36:14
Speaker 11: those games, you know, our district was very deep. You know,
36:17
Speaker 11: barton is Is is obviously real good and Mumford's been
36:20
Speaker 11: good for the last you know, five to ten years
36:22
Speaker 11: in baseball. And you know, anytime you can challenge yourself,
36:25
Speaker 11: it just prepares you for playoffs and kind of big
36:28
Speaker 11: game atmosphere. And and you know, our kids has done
36:31
Speaker 11: a good job of just treating it like another game
36:33
Speaker 11: and not making it too big of a deal. And
36:36
Speaker 11: you know, I couldn't be more proud of the way
36:38
Speaker 11: we're representing our district because it was a really good
36:40
Speaker 11: baseball district this year.
36:41
Speaker 21: So last weekend in the regional semi finals, took down
36:45
Speaker 21: the Referrio Biobcats a six to one win and then
36:48
Speaker 21: a six to one loss, and following it up in
36:51
Speaker 21: Game three with a three to one win. So how
36:54
Speaker 21: much does that mean to you with a team like
36:56
Speaker 21: Grafferrio being a perennial contender and say championship contender. How
37:01
Speaker 21: big was that victory in the series last weekend?
37:03
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, anytime you can be the program like Refeeo,
37:06
Speaker 11: that's you know, not only in baseball, but football and
37:09
Speaker 11: track and pretty much anything they do, you know, and
37:11
Speaker 11: and to to win a series against them, and and
37:15
Speaker 11: winning is all they know how to do. And uh,
37:17
Speaker 11: you know that just proves what we're what we're doing
37:19
Speaker 11: here is is uh, you know, is what we're trying
37:23
Speaker 11: to build. You know, we're trying to face down these
37:26
Speaker 11: programs that are successful in every sport. And uh, you know,
37:29
Speaker 11: we've had a pretty good year here in all three
37:31
Speaker 11: and and uh, you know, I couldn't be more proud
37:34
Speaker 11: of the way the guys kind of battled back after
37:36
Speaker 11: you know, the first game of the of the Saturday
37:39
Speaker 11: not going our way and finding a way to win
37:41
Speaker 11: that game late, you know, in the seventh inning against
37:44
Speaker 11: a really good baseball team. You know, you you're You're
37:48
Speaker 11: proud as of the coach anytime guys can can compete,
37:50
Speaker 11: you know, for for eight hours and get after it
37:53
Speaker 11: and do everything you ask and uh, you know, hopefully
37:56
Speaker 11: that serves us well moving forward.
37:57
Speaker 21: So in your role at IOLA, you are the head
38:00
Speaker 21: coach for baseball and football and also the boys athletic director.
38:05
Speaker 21: How difficult does that make being able to focus on
38:07
Speaker 21: one season at a time.
38:09
Speaker 17: How are you able to uh handle that?
38:11
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, I just I treat every sport, you know,
38:15
Speaker 11: the same way I would want somebody to coach my son.
38:18
Speaker 11: And uh, you know, I tell kids all the time,
38:20
Speaker 11: I said, look, you know, at some point your career
38:24
Speaker 11: is going to be over, whether it's after your senior
38:27
Speaker 11: year or after your senior in college or whatever it is.
38:30
Speaker 11: You know, I get another I get another season. Most
38:33
Speaker 11: of the time as a coach, and uh, you know,
38:36
Speaker 11: so I have to give one hundred percent focus to
38:38
Speaker 11: these kids and uh, you know, give them everything, uh
38:41
Speaker 11: that that I can for them to be successful. And
38:44
Speaker 11: you know, it's my goal here for us to be
38:46
Speaker 11: good at every sport. And I just won. And uh
38:48
Speaker 11: if that requires me to coach you know, more than
38:51
Speaker 11: one sport, uh, you know, then that's what I'll do.
38:53
Speaker 11: And uh, but these guys have have done a great
38:56
Speaker 11: job of whenever I'm off doing something else, you know,
38:59
Speaker 11: as the different hats I have to wear it throughout
39:01
Speaker 11: the day pulls me. They do a good job of
39:04
Speaker 11: staying focused. And my assistant has done a great job
39:07
Speaker 11: of when those times come up, of handling my absence
39:10
Speaker 11: and you know, really doing a good job of helping
39:13
Speaker 11: me coach this team.
39:14
Speaker 1: As well.
39:14
Speaker 21: So we talked about it a little bit earlier, but
39:16
Speaker 21: tonight regional final matchup with Schulenberg, and this will be
39:21
Speaker 21: a one game playoff matchup instead of the three game series.
39:27
Speaker 21: So you know, when when you're talking to the other
39:30
Speaker 21: coach for a playoff series like this and you've already
39:33
Speaker 21: done it once this year against Johnson City doing the
39:36
Speaker 21: one game playoff instead of three game series, what goes
39:39
Speaker 21: into that decision?
39:40
Speaker 17: What's the thought process there?
39:42
Speaker 11: You know, I think you just have to be honest
39:43
Speaker 11: about who you are as a team, you know, and
39:48
Speaker 11: what I feel what's best for us is to play
39:51
Speaker 11: a one gamer if we can. You know, Ruddy Vaughan
39:54
Speaker 11: has been pretty dominant this year as a pitcher and
39:58
Speaker 11: he's going on to play at Blene Junior College, and
40:01
Speaker 11: you know, he's a big piece of what we do.
40:03
Speaker 11: And you know, I have full trust and our other
40:06
Speaker 11: pictures as we get along, But you know, I think
40:08
Speaker 11: you've got to be real honest about what your team
40:11
Speaker 11: is and who you are and how how you play well.
40:13
Speaker 11: And you know, I just think one game gives us
40:16
Speaker 11: the best opportunity to advance. And we're lucky enough to
40:19
Speaker 11: win a coin flip and you know it may not
40:22
Speaker 11: work in our favor, but you know you have to
40:24
Speaker 11: do everything you can before you play the game to
40:26
Speaker 11: put yourself in a position to be successful, and we
40:29
Speaker 11: believe with one gamer is the best thing for us.
40:31
Speaker 21: So on the other side of the diamond is going
40:34
Speaker 21: to be the Schulenberg short Horns. A really really strong
40:38
Speaker 21: season for them, twenty eight and six overall, twelve and
40:41
Speaker 21: one in district play with the only loss to Shiner,
40:44
Speaker 21: which is a state championship favorite in Division two this year.
40:49
Speaker 21: So another team from a really tough district. What do
40:52
Speaker 21: you expect to see from them?
40:53
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know they they they're almost like a mirror
40:55
Speaker 11: image of us. You know, they have a kid that's
40:59
Speaker 11: dominant on the on the as well, and you know
41:01
Speaker 11: one through nine can hurt you at the plate, and
41:04
Speaker 11: you know they don't make mistakes. You know that that
41:07
Speaker 11: other teams make that you can kind of capitalize. So
41:09
Speaker 11: you know, to beat a team like Shilenberg, you're gonna
41:12
Speaker 11: have to play well. There's no going to be there's
41:14
Speaker 11: not gonna be anything given to you, and that's what
41:17
Speaker 11: you should expect at this time of the year. Whenever
41:19
Speaker 11: you're in the fourth round of the playoffs. You know,
41:21
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Speaker 27: talk the text Saying i'm women's golf team is headed
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Speaker 27: to THE Ncaa championships This friday In San diego after
46:59
Speaker 27: putting together one of the strongest stretches of golf all season.
47:02
Speaker 27: Long The aggies are coming off the second place finish
47:05
Speaker 27: at THE Ncuba regional In, waco where they continue to
47:09
Speaker 27: build momentum against some of the top teams in the.
47:11
Speaker 27: Country throughout the, Spring TECHS a AND m has consistently
47:14
Speaker 27: shown flashes of being one of the more dangerous teams
47:17
Speaker 27: in college, golf and now they'll have the opportunity to
47:20
Speaker 27: prove that on the national. Stage this YEAR'S Ncuba championship
47:24
Speaker 27: appearance feels especially meaningful for this group after falling short
47:28
Speaker 27: Of nationals last. Season both players and coaches have talked
47:32
Speaker 27: throughout the postseason about using that disappointment as motivation for this,
47:36
Speaker 27: year and according to head Coach Jared, chadwell this team
47:40
Speaker 27: has responded with a different level of focus and. Energy,
47:43
Speaker 27: now another thing that stands out about this group is
47:46
Speaker 27: just how close they. Are chadwell repeatedly emphasized the chemistry
47:49
Speaker 27: and confidence that this team is built over the course
47:52
Speaker 27: of the, season saying that connection becomes even more important
47:55
Speaker 27: once postseason pressure begins to. Rise and now With Nationals
47:59
Speaker 27: affai surely, here The AGI's head To San diego believing
48:02
Speaker 27: their best golf may still be ahead of. Them earlier this,
48:05
Speaker 27: WEEK i had the chance to speak with text And
48:07
Speaker 27: i'm head Coach Jared chadwell and Sophomore Sky sidberry about
48:11
Speaker 27: the igi's mindset heading into THE Ncaa. Championships, hi how
48:16
Speaker 27: do you.
48:16
Speaker 12: Feel about your club going into this and just what
48:20
Speaker 12: do you think it's going to take to make a
48:21
Speaker 12: run at it for?
48:23
Speaker 9: Us really, ENERGY i think our best golf is still
48:27
Speaker 9: ahead of. US i thought we saw more glimpses of
48:30
Speaker 9: that In, waco BUT i really like where they're.
48:33
Speaker 7: At this is a really really.
48:36
Speaker 9: Close, group AND i think when you get into weeks like,
48:39
Speaker 9: this that's that carries you through some of the hard.
48:41
Speaker 9: Stuff so they cultivate that and they put in the
48:45
Speaker 9: time and working At so that's just imported as any golf.
48:48
Speaker 12: Show we're going to, Hit are y'all rolling with the same?
48:51
Speaker 8: Lineup The, yeah we'll go with the same.
48:52
Speaker 9: Lineup loues still in substitute and looks really. Good so,
48:55
Speaker 9: Man i'm excited with that. SIX i would say that's
48:58
Speaker 9: the best six at The National. Championship and so she
49:02
Speaker 9: has done really really well in that Role, luis's which
49:05
Speaker 9: is not an easy role because she could be playing
49:07
Speaker 9: for a lot of teams in this, tournament so we'll
49:10
Speaker 9: keep a safe line up and keep going with that
49:11
Speaker 9: until something.
49:12
Speaker 12: Changes your teams have had some success at The, championships
49:17
Speaker 12: getting close to knocking on the door getting in that title.
49:19
Speaker 12: Matches what have you learned about what it takes to
49:22
Speaker 12: to try and get to that final stage and just
49:25
Speaker 12: what it might take to get over that hump this.
49:27
Speaker 9: YEAR i think what we learned from those first couple
49:29
Speaker 9: of years is just really how important energy is towards
49:32
Speaker 9: the end of. That and it's not really be getting along,
49:35
Speaker 9: energy it's really just are you sleeping? Well are you healing?
49:38
Speaker 9: Well that first, year we ran out of gas in
49:41
Speaker 9: that in that semi final, match and THEN i thought
49:43
Speaker 9: we were really good against A wake team that second
49:46
Speaker 9: year that won national. Championship so the last, time what
49:50
Speaker 9: was the year before, last we were there and we
49:53
Speaker 9: just didn't play well AGAINST. Ucla But i'm excited for this.
49:56
Speaker 9: BUNCH i saw a really good version of him at
49:58
Speaker 9: THE sec match, Play so we just kind, of, uh
50:02
Speaker 9: really really just monitor how we're feeling and and sleeping
50:05
Speaker 9: while we're.
50:06
Speaker 25: There then that's a sort of called back on the
50:07
Speaker 25: loss Of tennessee as a big, MOMENT i guess for team.
50:10
Speaker 11: Unity have have you SEEN uh any difference in them
50:13
Speaker 11: SINCE i?
50:14
Speaker 27: Lost?
50:15
Speaker 8: YEAH i think.
50:18
Speaker 9: You, know we we have talked a lot about uh
50:21
Speaker 9: our regular. Season they accomplished a lot of great, things
50:23
Speaker 9: but in some ways it really hadn't gotten hard.
50:25
Speaker 17: Yet AND secs was their first taste of.
50:28
Speaker 9: That AND i, thought, man were they really good Against
50:31
Speaker 9: texas and we were really good Against tennessee and everybody
50:34
Speaker 9: really knows what, happens and you, know that's the way scour.
50:38
Speaker 9: Goes AND i thought they took that AND i saw
50:41
Speaker 9: an extra gear and then when we got, back SO
50:44
Speaker 9: i thought that really propelled us In, waco Cause regionals
50:47
Speaker 9: is such a hard week and you go there and
50:49
Speaker 9: you're you're you have everything really to lose when you get.
50:52
Speaker 9: There SO i saw a really good side of.
50:54
Speaker 8: Them there and maybe it unified them a little bit more.
50:58
Speaker 9: As what they said how close they, Are but, YEAH
51:01
Speaker 9: i know they really wanted another shot of them when
51:03
Speaker 9: they saw them pop up in The waco.
51:05
Speaker 27: Regional that confidence has continued to grow throughout the, postseason
51:10
Speaker 27: especially after The agis just barely missed THE Ncaa championships
51:14
Speaker 27: a season. Ago players say that disappointment helped motivate this
51:17
Speaker 27: year's team and now Entering, nationals there's a growing belief
51:21
Speaker 27: inside the program that this group is capable of making
51:24
Speaker 27: a serious postseason. Run Sophomore Sky sudbury says one of
51:28
Speaker 27: the biggest keys for the AGI's heading Into San diego
51:31
Speaker 27: is staying confident and treating the national stage like they
51:34
Speaker 27: would any other.
51:35
Speaker 12: Tournament, skuy just what's kind of the feeling going into
51:40
Speaker 12: THESE Nuba.
51:41
Speaker 9: Championships, yeah we.
51:42
Speaker 28: Had a really successful. REGIONAL i think all the girls
51:44
Speaker 28: feel super, confident SO i think we're in the best
51:47
Speaker 28: spot of even in as a, team and we feel
51:49
Speaker 28: like we still haven't even played our best golf, yet
51:51
Speaker 28: so we're ready to have that this.
51:52
Speaker 12: Week you mentioned not playing your best golf. Yet just
51:55
Speaker 12: what do you think is there left to be had
51:58
Speaker 12: and just get into that next. Level is this kind
52:00
Speaker 12: of crescendos serious?
52:02
Speaker 27: End?
52:02
Speaker 28: YEAH i think you, know, obviously, golf you, know you
52:04
Speaker 28: make a lot of mistakes that we're really trying to
52:06
Speaker 28: minimize our mistakes and you can always get. Better so
52:08
Speaker 28: we've been practicing really hard the last few weeks and
52:11
Speaker 28: just tuning up the little things that we know we
52:13
Speaker 28: can improve on and ready to see if it pays.
52:15
Speaker 25: Off getting a one suit originals obviously a big deal
52:17
Speaker 25: with to back that up and win to win the,
52:19
Speaker 25: Regional just how?
52:20
Speaker 8: Much how much does that help? Confidence and why do
52:22
Speaker 8: you fee the guys you play in such a golf right?
52:24
Speaker 28: Now, Yeah so we got second in the, regional but
52:26
Speaker 28: we still had a really low. Round so we did
52:29
Speaker 28: really well and obviously coming in as a one season
52:31
Speaker 28: we have a lot of, pressure but we knew all
52:33
Speaker 28: we need to do is just gets top five and
52:35
Speaker 28: that's what we.
52:35
Speaker 9: Did so it's.
52:36
Speaker 12: Great you, know what's kind of the approach to a
52:38
Speaker 12: tournament like this where you, know very competitive, field there's
52:41
Speaker 12: a lot of golf to be, played and you're just
52:44
Speaker 12: trying to get get in.
52:45
Speaker 28: Advance, yeah, Absolutely coach she always, says we're just trying
52:48
Speaker 28: to get one more key, Time so that's what we're
52:50
Speaker 28: trying to. Do we talked about it this morning with the.
52:52
Speaker 12: Girls it's just another.
52:53
Speaker 28: TOURNAMENT i think it really hasn't even said in yet
52:55
Speaker 28: that we're going to The national champions At. Chip so
52:57
Speaker 28: if we just think of it's one other, tournament we'll be.
52:59
Speaker 28: Good how motivated are you by the by the PREVIOUS
53:03
Speaker 28: ncaa timemus that you've Been, yeah absolutely super. Motivated you,
53:06
Speaker 28: know this is the first one That i'll actually be
53:08
Speaker 28: able to. Play in my first, YEAR i was a
53:09
Speaker 28: sixth and then last year we didn't make, it so,
53:12
Speaker 28: Me kathain And vanessa were on that team that didn't make.
53:14
Speaker 28: It SO i know that we're really hungry to have
53:16
Speaker 28: a good.
53:16
Speaker 8: Week please in.
53:17
Speaker 28: The course of, Course, yeah what do you? Say the
53:20
Speaker 28: course is. Great, yeah it's a really tough. Test the
53:22
Speaker 28: greens are really. Hard WHEN i was there my first,
53:25
Speaker 28: year it was really. Firms it was hard to stop the.
53:27
Speaker 28: Ball you have to be a really good ball. Striker
53:29
Speaker 28: you have to have great up and. Down so it
53:31
Speaker 28: will test your entire game this.
53:33
Speaker 27: Week so as the agis prepare for one of the
53:36
Speaker 27: biggest stages in college, golf that confidence has only continued to.
53:40
Speaker 20: Grow For.
53:41
Speaker 27: Techsam this trip to THE Ncaa championships come at a
53:45
Speaker 27: time we're belief Across aggie's athletics is at an all time.
53:48
Speaker 27: High just weeks after The techsay And i'm women's tennis
53:51
Speaker 27: team won a national, Championship chadwell says this group has
53:55
Speaker 27: embraced a similar mindset heading Into San. Diego why not Us,
54:00
Speaker 27: Well the aguis understand the challenge that comes with competing
54:03
Speaker 27: against some of the top programs in the. Country childwell
54:06
Speaker 27: believes this team has the, talent, chemistry and experience to
54:10
Speaker 27: make a serious postseason run if they continue playing the
54:13
Speaker 27: kind of golf that they've shown throughout the, Spring and
54:16
Speaker 27: according to Coach, chadwell once the teams reach match, play
54:20
Speaker 27: anything can.
54:21
Speaker 8: Happen i'll motivated or, new and some of the teams
54:23
Speaker 8: just sped.
54:24
Speaker 9: Away the years play out very very AND i think
54:28
Speaker 9: when you go through the heartbreak that we did last,
54:31
Speaker 9: YEAR i think we can take things for. Granted and
54:34
Speaker 9: so missing last, YEAR i think we kind of got.
54:37
Speaker 9: Schooled you, know when we got, here we were nineth
54:39
Speaker 9: in the country AND i don't know the last time
54:41
Speaker 9: they're at the national. Championship and for that bunch when
54:44
Speaker 9: we started out to go to the semi, finals first
54:46
Speaker 9: two years kind of like kind of spools you a
54:48
Speaker 9: little bit and then you have the disappointing your last.
54:51
Speaker 9: Year BUT i think they're very, hungry and you guys
54:54
Speaker 9: Asked vanessa question about. TENNIS i think they're seeing is
54:57
Speaker 9: what is possible, here and so yeah it.
54:59
Speaker 11: Is why not?
55:00
Speaker 9: Us you've got to get there, First but they're good
55:02
Speaker 9: enough to go get into match, play and what's with match,
55:05
Speaker 9: Play anything can.
55:05
Speaker 12: Happen that's what you see from this course and just
55:08
Speaker 12: the challenges it.
55:09
Speaker 9: PRESENTS i think in some, way shape or, form it's
55:14
Speaker 9: a very challenging golf. Course the interesting challenging to it
55:17
Speaker 9: is In San, diego the weather is so different in
55:19
Speaker 9: the afternoon, Morning so you really got to play well
55:22
Speaker 9: in the morning when you have the, opportunity because in
55:24
Speaker 9: the afternoon and it gets pretty firm and, fast and
55:26
Speaker 9: if you play, well you kind of find yourself in
55:28
Speaker 9: the afternoon on that third and fourth.
55:30
Speaker 20: Day so.
55:32
Speaker 9: Really you just need to be playing good once you get.
55:34
Speaker 9: There these young ladies have. Adjusted our schedule has been
55:38
Speaker 9: From Pebble beach To orlando To michigan to, here so
55:43
Speaker 9: they'll be ready to go once we get. THERE i
55:45
Speaker 9: think that's just you got to handle your afternoons pretty.
55:47
Speaker 27: Well after just missing THE Ncaa championships this season, ago
55:52
Speaker 27: The aggie's now had To San diego with a different
55:54
Speaker 27: level of confidence and momentum surrounding the program throughout the,
55:58
Speaker 27: Postseason texting has continued to play some of its best
56:01
Speaker 27: golf of the, year building off a strong showing At
56:04
Speaker 27: regionals In waco and carrying that energy into the national.
56:07
Speaker 27: Stage and with the chemistry and belief this group has
56:11
Speaker 27: developed over the course of the, season The aggi's now
56:13
Speaker 27: arrive At nationals feeling capable of making a serious postseason
56:17
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56:20
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56:24
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