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NFL Draft, Longhorns Selected, Texas Baseball, Schlossnagle Meets Media · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Friday has arrived, a big day and a big weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It is good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the program. Here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thirteen under the Zone. We bring you the program
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon from UFCU dishfog Field, prior to tonight's series
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  Speaker 1: opener tonight in the Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown Rivalry
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  Speaker 1: series Who Else with the Longhorns and Aggies, Texas against
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  Speaker 1: Texas A and M. My name is Craig Wait glad
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  Speaker 1: to have you with us this afternoon. Yes, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot to get to with regard to this series matchup
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  Speaker 1: between Texas and Texas A and M, and we'll certainly
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. We'll updateh on the SEC. There's a
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  Speaker 1: game going on right now in the SEC. And then
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  Speaker 1: additionally there'll be a lot more to discuss with regard
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  Speaker 1: to the NBA Playoffs and hl Stanley Cup Playoffs, but
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  Speaker 1: also clearly and obviously the twenty twenty five NFL Draft.
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  Speaker 1: If you were tuned in yesterday to our program or
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  Speaker 1: one of the many who made their way out to
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  Speaker 1: Twin Peaks and Round Rocket I thirty five and Louis Henna,
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  Speaker 1: we were glad to see you out there and of course,
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  Speaker 1: we set the stage for that with a four hour
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  Speaker 1: and fifty minute draft preview special that included not only
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  Speaker 1: Cameron Parker with me, but also my cardboll Harge. Mark
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  Speaker 1: Henry was with us as well, the two guys certainly
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  Speaker 1: from the morning kickoff. Speaking of the morning kickoff, our
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  Speaker 1: producer today is not Cameron Parker. He has some family
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  Speaker 1: business attending to today. So you talk about a guy
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  Speaker 1: doing the marathon shift, he did it yesterday as our
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  Speaker 1: on site engineer. And here he is in the studio
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  Speaker 1: after being at it in the morning, and here he
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  Speaker 1: is the one and only Marcus Spears.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's our first.
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  Speaker 1: Time together doing a show together outside of that draft thing.
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  Speaker 2: But I appreciate it. Marcus. How are you holding up today?
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  Speaker 3: He am getting it in, getting it in, starting it
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  Speaker 3: in the groove, you know how it is?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really curious to get your thoughts because I
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  Speaker 1: know you follow the NFL very closely hard, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get solicit your opinion on things. Also, for folks who
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  Speaker 1: don't know about Marcus, it's a little bit different than
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  Speaker 1: what we have with Cameron. You see, Cameron, of course
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  Speaker 1: went to the university of Texas. But Cameron was originally
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  Speaker 1: grew up in the Charlotte, North Carolina area, and Cameron
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  Speaker 1: is a long suffering and I do mean long suffering
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys fan of late of late, Houston Texans fans
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  Speaker 1: have not had to suffer nearly as much, so it
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been nearly as bad in terms of the suffering.
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  Speaker 1: The Houston Texans fan base includes none other than our
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  Speaker 1: producer today, Marcus Spears. You're an h Town native, aren't you?
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  Speaker 1: Or originally a resident.
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  Speaker 2: Born and raised Houston, Texas North Side? North Side? All right?
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you go to high school? Want to? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Formally known high school as Forestbrook High School? It is
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  Speaker 3: no longer in high school right now, it is junior
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  Speaker 3: high school.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, Forestbrook, That's right. Uh okay, yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm quite familiar with that with all of my
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  Speaker 1: whatever high school duties and the things that I that
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  Speaker 1: I deal with.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, okay, so you're.
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  Speaker 1: A Texans fan, yes, And the Texans traded out around
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  Speaker 1: wanted made that made that deal with the Giants, and
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  Speaker 1: that was after they had earlier made a deal with
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  Speaker 1: the Browns and they were kind of swapping amid the
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  Speaker 1: lake round draft choices, but the Texans traded out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Not only did the Texans trade out of the first
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  Speaker 1: round my team. I'm a Rams fan, and the Rams
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  Speaker 1: traded out of the first round as well. So, UH,
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you that I wasn't I really wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that unhappy that that the Rams traded out of the
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  Speaker 1: round because they picked up an X their first round
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  Speaker 1: draft choice. I think they wanted to get Omari and Hampton,
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  Speaker 1: the North Carolina running back and when the team crossed town, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the carpetbackers known as the Los Angeles Chargers took uh,
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  Speaker 1: took Omari and Hampton. Then I think the Rams kind
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  Speaker 1: of re evaluated and said, all right, what else can
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  Speaker 1: we do? And they made a deal with the Falcons
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  Speaker 1: where they swapped basically into the second round or relatively
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  Speaker 1: early in the second round, picked up another pick, and
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  Speaker 1: they picked up the first round pick from the Falcons
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  Speaker 1: for next year. So I think the Rams said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: what about the Texas. How do you feel about the
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  Speaker 1: Texans and the deal they made with the Giants? To UH,
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  Speaker 1: I guess you might say build for on down the road.
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  Speaker 3: My opinion is is if you can't get the guy
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  Speaker 3: that you want, you might as well trade to pick
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  Speaker 3: get as many access as uh, you know.
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  Speaker 2: As you want.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the guy that was looking at is
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  Speaker 3: the is the the guard what's the guy named Donovan
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  Speaker 3: Jackson which was selected right before them. I think they
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  Speaker 3: probably had some interest in in uh in Golden because
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  Speaker 3: they do need some some receiver help with UH with
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  Speaker 3: tank deal going down last year, and Diggs also no
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  Speaker 3: longer with the teams. But those two picks right before
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  Speaker 3: the Texans they just basically had to trade down and
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  Speaker 3: get more assets.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it kind of took their interest out of it
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  Speaker 1: right once, uh, you know, once the Garden went and
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  Speaker 1: then I think, especially with Matthew Golden, there was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of conversation that Matthew, of course, being an h
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  Speaker 1: Town native, would have been a perfect fit for what
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  Speaker 1: uh the Texans wanted, and once the Packers took him,
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  Speaker 1: and how popular a pick was that at lambeau Field last.
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  Speaker 2: Night, Yeah, they was. They erupted.
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  Speaker 1: They were pretty excited about it, and Matthew was pretty
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  Speaker 1: excited about it as well. So uh so you know,
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  Speaker 1: so that happened, and and and I agree with you,
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  Speaker 1: I think At that point, the Texans said, let's let's
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  Speaker 1: see if we can improve for all on down the
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  Speaker 1: road and made the deal with the Giants. The Giants
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  Speaker 1: did exactly what they wanted to move in and then
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  Speaker 1: all of the draft experts and the draft draft knicks,
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  Speaker 1: both from the collegiate side of it and from the
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  Speaker 1: NFL side of it, said, okay, the Giants are traded
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  Speaker 1: here because they want a quarterback. And given the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you saw you know, Shador Sanders slide all the
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  Speaker 1: way to that point that was at number twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: that the that the sentiment and the thought process becaing, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe this is where the Giants opt for shad Door Sanders.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't happen. They went with Jackson Dart.
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  Speaker 1: Shad Door Sanders winds up not being drafted in the
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  Speaker 1: first round.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I do expect him to go very early.
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  Speaker 1: I think if he's there when the Browns or Browns
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  Speaker 1: have three second round pitch and they have one I
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  Speaker 1: think at number three in the second round, I think
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland's going to go for him, if if, if.
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  Speaker 2: He's still there.
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  Speaker 1: And but did it did it surprise you that Shuldaris
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  Speaker 1: Anders was passed over by all the NFL teams.
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  Speaker 3: To be honest, nothing surprises me when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: NFL teams when it comes to drafting quarterbacks, because every
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  Speaker 3: team has the little ideal what they want, big guy.
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  Speaker 3: Some teams want the big guy that sits in the pockets,
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  Speaker 3: stairs the defense, downfields, throw, you know, and some teams
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  Speaker 3: want a mobile quarterback move around, and I think Shadurance
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  Speaker 3: kind of you know, he's a guy that moves around
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  Speaker 3: the passes it. So I think it's kind of a tweener.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of kind of a tweener between what most
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  Speaker 3: GMS want, most teams want. But I think, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: more unlikely because I saw recently h Garrett Miles, Garrett
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  Speaker 3: pretty much excited about who the Browns may bring in
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  Speaker 3: as quarterback and maybe he shouldure is that guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just have a feeling that that's probably going
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  Speaker 1: to be the case if he's still there. So I
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  Speaker 1: have a feeling that's probably going to be the deal.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let me tell you what we have coming up,
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  Speaker 1: because like we like to do on this program is
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  Speaker 1: bring you a variety of things and topics and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that, because not everybody's into the NFL draft and
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  Speaker 1: not everybody's into the NBA, and not everybody's into.
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  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, and not.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's even into in the Longhorn Baseball, even as big
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  Speaker 1: as this series is between Texas and Texas. And and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to hear from Jim Slasnagle a little bit later
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  Speaker 1: on in the program. But uh, coming up, we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: major League Baseball. Our good friend and member of the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox front office, Gene Watson, will join us
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  Speaker 1: to talk about major League Baseball, our weekly conversation.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: As I mentioned, we're also going to hear from Jim Slasnagle,
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  Speaker 1: the long WRNS head coach.
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  Speaker 2: We do have inconceivable.
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  Speaker 1: of the other inconceivable elements. I'm a little excited right
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  Speaker 1: now now, Okay, I think you'll enjoy that. So we
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  Speaker 1: have that coming up, and then in the four o'clock
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  Speaker 1: hour joining us, Ty Harrington's calling the game with me tonight.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be on the call with me on the.
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  Speaker 1: Broadcast for Texas and Texas A and M and T.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be here and we'll have our weekly segment talking
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  Speaker 1: college baseball. We'll do that in the four o'clock hour.
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  Speaker 1: As I mentioned, we'll hear from Jim Schlosnegle coming up
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  Speaker 1: at the three o'clock hour. But up next we talk
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  Speaker 1: major League baseball with Gene Watson. Is we continue from
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  Speaker 1: UFCU Dish falk Field here on Friday afternoon on thirteen
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  Speaker 1: hundred the zone. It's a Friday afternoon as we continue
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  Speaker 1: here from UFCU Dish falk Field. Craig wait with you
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  Speaker 1: here this afternoon at the ballpark. And as always always
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  Speaker 1: we enjoy talking major League baseball with a man who
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  Speaker 1: has oh forty plus years in it or right around there.
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  Speaker 1: That's of the resume of our man, Jeen Watson in
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago White Sox front office who joins us.
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  Speaker 2: Now, did I exaggerate that forty years?
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking you started like around eighty five working
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  Speaker 1: with the Rangers, right six years? Okay, all right, so
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  Speaker 1: only exaggerated a little bit there. Okay, let me get
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts first of all. On well, I'll put it
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  Speaker 1: to you this way. I'll ask you to fill in
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  Speaker 1: the blank. The most unexpected element of the Major league
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  Speaker 1: season so far is blank, And then the most surprising
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  Speaker 1: element of this Major League baseball season so far, since
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  Speaker 1: we're basically a month into it, is blank. Let me
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  Speaker 1: start with the most non surprising. What you expected and
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  Speaker 1: what you've seen so far?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think.
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  Speaker 5: That for even the little struggles that the Dodgers have had,
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  Speaker 5: I think that everybody has expected them to be the
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  Speaker 5: team to beat this year, and what Yamamoto is doing
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  Speaker 5: is absolutely unbelievable. He has turned into arguably the best
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  Speaker 5: pitcher in baseball. And I think that they're even for
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  Speaker 5: the struggles that they've had against the Chicago Cubs, which
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  Speaker 5: might be the biggest surprise in baseball.
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  Speaker 4: For whatever theody thought they might be.
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  Speaker 5: I think the Dodgers, you know, they're just it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 5: You almost wish the season away April October, and then
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  Speaker 5: when the bell rings in October, the really good teams
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  Speaker 5: come out and they're ready to play, So the Dodgers
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  Speaker 5: would not be a big surprise. And the Cubs and
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  Speaker 5: the way they've handled the Dodgers and the fight that
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  Speaker 5: they've shown in some of the great games we saw
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  Speaker 5: at Wrigley Field this week. I think that they now
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  Speaker 5: become a team with the minor league system that they
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  Speaker 5: have to go out and make a very big splash
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  Speaker 5: to acquire one and or two starters to really put
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  Speaker 5: them in contention as a favorite in the.
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  Speaker 4: National League this year.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and.
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  Speaker 1: You brought up the Dodgers are asking you the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Blake Snell has to back off of his throwing
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  Speaker 1: program right now because that left shoulder inflammation. Clayton Kershaw's
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  Speaker 1: going through rehab warm up, Tony Gonsolin's going through rehab
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  Speaker 1: warm ups right now. The one guy who really is
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  Speaker 1: toting the mail from is Yamamoto on the mound, and
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  Speaker 1: Sasaki pitch pretty well the other day. But if there's
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  Speaker 1: an achilles heel with La right now, is it the
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  Speaker 1: starting pitching.
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  Speaker 4: It would be.
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  Speaker 5: I saw Gonsolyn's last rehab start and he was outstanding.
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  Speaker 5: So he's gonna be a big lift for them when
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  Speaker 5: he gets ready.
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  Speaker 4: But but that's kind of what makes.
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  Speaker 5: The Dodgers so good, is you know, they take an
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  Speaker 5: injury and it's just the next man up, and their
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  Speaker 5: depth is so incredible, and they're they're constantly looking for
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  Speaker 5: more depth and they've got guys in their minor league
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  Speaker 5: system that they could just say, hey, let's let's give
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  Speaker 5: this guy a shot, and that guy would be better
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  Speaker 5: than a lot of team's best best options. So it's
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  Speaker 5: not anything to be panicked about. Kursol's been just okay
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  Speaker 5: in his rehabs. The velocity's been down a little bit,
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  Speaker 5: but Gonsolin's been outstanding. And so the one thing they
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  Speaker 5: do have going for them is very good depth and
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  Speaker 5: a very strong system.
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  Speaker 1: All right, since we're talking about pitching at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: before I jumped to the unexpected for you and we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about pitching, you were a major part of building
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  Speaker 1: up what the Royals did for several years, including winning
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  Speaker 1: the World Series. How big a blow is it that
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  Speaker 1: Cole Reagan's is going to have to have testing on
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  Speaker 1: the left groin?
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  Speaker 2: He had to leave last night.
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  Speaker 1: Start after what three innings and sixty two pitcher pitches
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  Speaker 1: allowed four runs on three hits, a couple of them
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  Speaker 1: were home runs and two walks. And if this is serious,
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  Speaker 1: howficult is this for Kansas City?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's very serious, and that's kind of been the
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  Speaker 5: concern all along. When you're talking about Michael waka Cole
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  Speaker 5: Reagan's who's had two Tommy Johns, Seth Lugo, who's had
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  Speaker 5: some injuries in the past, Like that was kind of
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  Speaker 5: the house of cards is the health of the rotation.
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  Speaker 5: But second to the health of rotation has been the
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  Speaker 5: production of the outfield. And the offense is coming from
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  Speaker 5: the outfield. So, uh, the one thing when you're not hitting,
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  Speaker 5: when you can lean on the pitching, that's a big plus.
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  Speaker 5: But if your pitching starts to break down, it it
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  Speaker 5: really turns into a house of cards. So hopefully Cole,
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  Speaker 5: you know, he'll be it won't be a major injury,
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  Speaker 5: and he'll be back sooner than later.
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  Speaker 1: All right, And I don't think this necessarily belongs in
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  Speaker 1: the surprise category, but I'll transition over to it and
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  Speaker 1: get your thoughts on this. Since we were talking about pitching,
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  Speaker 1: and since we were talking about, uh, the Dodgers now now
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  Speaker 1: Walker Buehler of course is applying his trade h in Boston, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 1: He looked fabulous the other day in the Patriots Day starting.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's three and one right now, So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know it's necessarily a surprise, but it's certainly a
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  Speaker 1: pleasant development for Boston because everybody wasn't quite sure what
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  Speaker 1: Bueller was gonna have even though he had the good
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  Speaker 1: postseason for LA last year. About your thoughts on what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing with Boston.
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  Speaker 4: Well, two things.
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  Speaker 5: One, the pitching infrastructure in Boston is as good as
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  Speaker 5: there is in the game of baseball, you know, going
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  Speaker 5: back to when Brian Banister was there, who now works
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  Speaker 5: with us, but just the some of all the parts,
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  Speaker 5: and he was used to it in LA, high expectation,
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  Speaker 5: great talent around him, and so to be there with
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  Speaker 5: a great infrastructure in the pitching department, high expectation of
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  Speaker 5: the organization, and great pictures around him every day is
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  Speaker 5: kind of, you know, a work in progress and training
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  Speaker 5: for him.
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  Speaker 4: And so Walker Bueller.
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  Speaker 5: As good as he is, is not a finished product.
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  Speaker 5: And the sky is the limit for what this guy
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  Speaker 5: could be. And for them to be really really good
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  Speaker 5: and survived in October, which they have the team to
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  Speaker 5: do it, Walker's gonna have to continue to perform.
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  Speaker 4: At the rate that he has.
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  Speaker 1: Talking Major League Baseball with Jean watch him from the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox front office here on thirteen hundred zent. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let me go to part two of that because you
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  Speaker 1: answered the part about what has not surprised you through
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  Speaker 1: the first month of the season, what has what's open
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  Speaker 1: your eyes the most geno maybe unexpected, not only for you,
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  Speaker 1: but for anybody else that's looking at what's going on
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  Speaker 1: in the big leagues right now. What has stood out
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  Speaker 1: to you as a surprise element, good or bad with
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  Speaker 1: this major league season.
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  Speaker 5: I think the Atlanta Braves has been a very big surprise,
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  Speaker 5: and I think we all knew that that was going
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  Speaker 5: to be a very difficult decision with the Mets and
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  Speaker 5: the Phillies and the Nationals.
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  Speaker 4: Having a very good young team.
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  Speaker 5: But I think the expectations were extremely high on the Braves, and.
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  Speaker 4: You know what kind of fell out of rhythm early.
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  Speaker 5: You have to go to Arizona and play a couple
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  Speaker 5: of spring training games against the Cubs who were coming
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  Speaker 5: back from Japan. You've got to start on the West Coast,
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  Speaker 5: a very brutal schedule, going into San Diego and into
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  Speaker 5: La and then travel back east, and they just haven't
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  Speaker 5: really found.
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  Speaker 4: Their rhythm yet.
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  Speaker 5: And then you have the situation with Clinic last week
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  Speaker 5: where he did run the home run with the double out,
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  Speaker 5: thinking it was a home run and then you've got
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  Speaker 5: some you know, infrastructure controversy with players tweeting certain things,
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  Speaker 5: and so I think this is a team that's really
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  Speaker 5: gonna at some point get their backs to the wall
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  Speaker 5: and have to look each other in the mirror and say, look,
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  Speaker 5: we're way too good.
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  Speaker 4: Of a team for this.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: And I know the goal right now is win every
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: day and get to five hundred, but even in the
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: last four or five days, it's been a very very
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: very difficult run for them.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: All Right, Yeah, you brought that up. And I'm not
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: in any way, shape or formasking you to whatever single
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: anybody out or point any fingers anything like that. I'm
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: more interested in the philosophical side of this, because you've
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: been in a lot of Major league clubhouses, both when
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: things are going well and when things are not going well,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: And I'm just kind of curious about this. You made
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: the reference there with Clinic not running out kind of
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: not running out the ball, and then Ronald Lacoona making
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: the making having the tweet about it, and I thought
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Brian Stinker handled it very very well when he said, look,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: you know, we've addressed it and not gonna worry about that,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff. Is it your in
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: your experience over time, what you've seen that things like
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: that that, like the old John Nadden thing, winning is
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: a great deodorant. I mean, you win, things kind of
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: sift away. If you're not winning immediately, things can still
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: kind of bubble and simmer beneath the surface. A little
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: bit about when something like that happens about a player
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: who says something or in this day and age and
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: social media tweet something out or something like that. How
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: depending on how the ball club is going to go
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: as to how long something like that lingers.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: What you're really hoping for is that you have the
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: kind of culture where the players police themselves and that
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: clubhouse with the twenty six players in the clubhouse is
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: a living, breathing organism and you cannot you cannot fake it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: It's organic. You cannot fake great culture.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: What you want to have is a clubhouse where the
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: players police themselves, They hold each other accountability, and even
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: in situations, and most good teams situations, you kind of
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: connect the dots on accountability. One player manages this player,
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: and this player manages this one, and you know one
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: knows when to tell the one player, Hey, keep your
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: mouth shut and hey, this is not the way we
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: do things around here. That's what you hope for. And
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: when you don't have that and you're not playing well,
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: things can spiral out of control quickly because then your
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: coaches and your manager have to get involved. And it
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: is forever a player's game, and so that can be
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: a very slippery slope for coaching staffs. But you hope
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: that in the twenty six man roster you have the
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: type of clubhouse that everybody's kind of policing each other
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: and holding each other accountable, and they've got that real
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: big mirror to look at themselves in the eyes and say,
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: we got to go forward, boys.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Let me keep it. In the National League East, you
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: mentioned in the Phillies, you mentioned the Mets in the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Nationals as well. The Mets have won five a seven
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: in a row. They've won eight of their last ten.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: They're the only team leading a division that has fewer
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: than eight losses this year, and they have a five
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: game lead on Philadepha. Now it's early, like you said,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: we're barely a month into it, but I know you
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: have to be impressed with what you've seen for the
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Mets so far.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Very much impressed. And they don't have two hitters.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: They have two hitters with over an eight hundred ops
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: and Lon Soto in one of them. And you know,
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: they've they've had some injuries in their rotation. What they
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: do have is a really good manager and they've got
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: great expectations from last year, and they've got some young
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: players that have kind of not achieved to the level
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: that you would hope to this point that are kind
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: of coming out right now, and the Brett Badies and
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: the Atunas, and they've got a very good system, and
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: so if they can continue to trend the way they're doing,
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: you know, they're gonna spend money. So they're not afraid
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: of adding at the deadline. They've got the system to
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: trade away.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Players to add.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: They've got major league talent and depth to trade away
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: if they need to. So they're kind of overperforming for
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: the health that they've had and the offense production they've
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: had and the injuries they've had to that rotation. They're
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: kind of finding a way to win games every night,
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: and that's.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: A real positive sign as you move into May.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Keeping it in the American League.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: You've been talking about how aj Hinch does a fabulous
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: job with the Tigers, and they are up. I have
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: game on Cleveland a resident Guardians fan, I'm sure, or
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: with text in to get your your impressions early on
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: of what you see from Cleveland right now.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Half came back of Detroit in the central.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll tell you what this division it's It hasn't
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: really gone the way it's thought. Everybody thought Minnesota was
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: gonna be a lot to at least contend for the Vision.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: They've had a really a tough time.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: But actually the Tigers are really really good and they've
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: got good young starting pitching. Jackson job could arguably be
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Rookie of the Year. Flaherty's done a tremendous job. This
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: is a really sneaky team, not the most talented team
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: in the world, but they play so well together, and
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: they played great in that ballpark, and they really got
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: a quick eye opener as to where they need to
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: be early in the season when they went out west
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: and they faced the Dodgers. I think for aj that
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: was kind of a measuring stick for them, and they
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: didn't play great, and so I think that that it
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: kind of gave him a little, you know, a little
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: way to tell his team.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Look, we're not there yet. For everything that we.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: Did in October, this is the measure, and we're not
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: there yet. And they played really well since then, and
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: so I think that they've got a really really good
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: system at the upper levels, arguably the best manager in baseball,
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: and a really really good young club that's going to
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: be dangerous in October.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: You what do you see him from the Guardian so far?
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Well, they just do what they always do. They hit,
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: and that's what they're doing again this year. They the
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: pitching hasn't been healthy. The DFA of Tristan McKenzie was
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: a little bit of surprise for what they thought he
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: was going to be long term. But Cleveland just kind
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: of does their own thing all the time. And the
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: one thing they do do is they play good baseball
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: and they hit all right.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Let me jump to the American League West. Now, I'm
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: curious to get your thoughts on this. Seattle's fourteen eleven.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: The Rangers were fourteen eleven lost a heartbreaker last night.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I had that three to two lead in the ninth
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and uncharacteristic for Leoti ta veris to misplay the fly
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: ball that wound up opening the door to two runs
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: coming in in Oakland or the A's as they call themselves, Athletics,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: not Sacramento just Athletics won that ball game and ended
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: up winning that series. And so you have the Mariners
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and the Rangers are both fourteen to eleven, the Astros
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: half game back at thirteen eleven, Angels twelve and twelve,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a game and a half off the pace, and the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: A's are two games back. My question is this, how
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: many teams will stick in this race in your thought?
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: And for how long will it be like this all
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the way in the October between two, three, four, or
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: maybe even five teams.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Well as it begins, the heat up help will be
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: a major issue for every club. The advantages would go
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: to Seattle Texas in Houston because they play indoors.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Their home games are indoors. It's funny about this division.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: What makes it so unique is that each team finds
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: a different way to win. Seattle tremendous pitching, lack a
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: lot of offense.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: The bullpen's okay.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: The Angels arguably some of the best young position players
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: in the game at premium positions.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: When you talk.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: About Zach Nato, who's just getting back from injury and
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Logan o'happy, Naytan Shanwell, and they've got some really good
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: young pitching. Look for a kid named Caana Dana A
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: Dana Cayden to come up and impact that rotation soon.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: And then for the Astros to lose Kyle Tucker and
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Alex Bregman and still be hanging around. Just from a
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: morale standpoint of what losing two players like that does
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: to your clubhouse. From a leadership standpoint, it just speaks
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: volumes to again what a great system the Houston Astros
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: have at the major league level and the way they
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: go about the expectation level and how the expectations drive
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: the results. And Texas for me is arguably not just
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: the best team in the in the American League West,
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: but also the American League.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: And when they can get everything right.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: With their pitching and get healthy and start scoring runs,
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: I think that this is the team that kind of
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: they're the most balanced team, and I think they're the
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: ones that are gonna pull away at some point, but
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: all different ways of winning ball games each night, and
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: it's gonna be really funny. And when the when the
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: summer hits and the heat starts to take over, whoever
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: can stay the healthiest is gonna be the team that
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: pulls away.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: He's team Watson, the director play a personnel for the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Chicago White Soxs toes is each week to talk Major
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: League Baseball? Does does does your travels? And they have
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and they have just voluminous travel. But do your travels
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: manage to take you back this way for any of
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the games of this rather large series this weekend between
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: long Horns and Aggies.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: I can't wait. I'm gonna be there tomorrow.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: I've I've I've knocked out the Aggies and this is
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: gonna be a great, great series. I haven't been able
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: to see Texas yet this year, know how super talented
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: they are.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: But this Texas A and M club.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: I was in Knoxville when they got ten runs on
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: Friday night. And you wake up on Saturday morning, and
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: Ryan Prager's dad and I were teammates at UT Arlington,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: and you wake up on Saturday morning and you think
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: they're up against the Ropes and about to be knocked out.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: And they sweep Tennessee those two games, they sweep South
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: Carolina and they've kind of found their way again. And
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: it is a super talented baseball team. And you're gonna
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: have arguably as many major league prospects on the field
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: in one weekend as you could have tomorrow.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: And that's why I will be there.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, all right, Hey, I appreciate that, GENO. Look
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: forward to seeing out here at the ballpark tomorrow. Okay, correct,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: take care man, all right. That's Geene Watson. He is
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the director of player person out out of the Chicago
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: White Sox front office.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Talks Major League Baseball with us every week.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Up next, we bring Inconceivable on a Friday afternoon when
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: we continue from UFCU Dish falk Field.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I'm thirteen hundred the zone.
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  Speaker 6: Inconceivable, inconceivable, inconceivable, inconceivable.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Us in the horn.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: I don't think it, miss, What do you think it?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Miss? I?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Yes, inconceivable for a Friday. We know what inconceivable means
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: on Friday. Obviously, it means, as we like to say,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: we go to the lowest of the forty eight states,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the most flacid of those, to pick the low hanging
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: fruit that is Florida, Man. And we'll get to Florida
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Man soon enough. However, there's other things we get to
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna ask the producer of Marcus and Marcus
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and I have known each other for a little bit,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: but I don't know that much about Marcus because we
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: haven't had a chance to work together that much. So
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to toss a couple of things at you, Marcus,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: and you tell me, because I have discovered over time
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: that people are either into cereal like breakfast Cerea, or
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: they are not into breakfast Cereal. And I like to
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: do a fast food and junk food update as part
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: of Inconceivable. So I put the question to you, my friend,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: are you a breakfast cereal kind of guy? Where you
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: ever into the breakfast Cereal thing?
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I'm more in and out with it. Sometimes I'm in
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: a heavy move for Cereal. Sometimes I'm not. Right now,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I'm not, but in a month or two, I'd probably
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: be eating some fruity prep pebbles or some Captain Crunch,
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: like every day when I wake up.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: All right, So there you go. You just hit on
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: what I was gonna ask about Captain Crunch. Right, So
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: you like Captain crunch?
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah? One is the roof of my mouth. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Well I should let you know that it says the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: weight is over Captain Crunch is bringing back it's original
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: summertime flavor that they had back in twenty sixteen as
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: a limited edition release to bringing it back for the
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: summer Orange cream pop crunch orange cream up like like
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: a dreamsickle type thing?
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Does that? Does that hold any interest for you?
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: There?
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: I might give it a try. I used to love
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: the Dreamsuckles when I was young, So yeah, I give
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: it a try.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, the folks say, quote, this isn't simply an orange
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: colored Captain Crunch, But it isn't simply a cap'n Crunch
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: shaped orange cereal either. It's an orange coated Captain Crunch
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: that carries the best of both worlds. According to a reviewer,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: it tastes eerily like an orange cream sickle or dreamsickle
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: by combining a sweet and juicy bite of orange fruit
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: flavor with a delightfully creamy, yet subtle vanilla finish. So yeah,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: maybe you may have to review it for us and
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: let us know.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Let us know which. I By the way, I am
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: a breakfast cereal guy. I like those which.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: It's so your favorite would either be, you said, fruity
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Pebbles or Captain Crunch if you were to pick a
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: favorite breakfast.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Cereal, say, Lucky Charms is probably I used to love
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: pops as a kid, but uh yeah, I kind of
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: grew out of that. But I would say Lucky Charms
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: is probably my favorite.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: You and my wife and Crisp Beard all Lucky Charms people.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: So there you go.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I like it too, all right, all right, jumping from
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: junkie cereals to junk food in general.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: How do you stand with oreos? Um it's cookies? Okay?
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, all right? Do you like pretzels? Only
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: pretzels buy stuff. I don't like mixing it with anything.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: So you would not be down with a chocolate covered
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: pretzel favored flavored Oreo.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: No, I have to pass on.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: That, okay, because that's coming out in a couple of weeks.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: The chocolate covered pretzel flavored Oreo will launch nationwide on
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: May fifth, and they're all fired up about this thing.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I've never been really that much into I like the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: maybe the small mini chocolate covered pretzels, but I'm not
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: really big into mixing my sweet and salty that much. Yes,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: so that's coming out.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: That's just like the trail mixes that have, like the
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: candy in and it's just it's bad.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: That doesn't work for you. Yeah, okay, all right? Are
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: you much into collecting or at least following the sports
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: card and sports memorabilia collectible scene?
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Are you just like looking at my childhood and just
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: bringing up stuff that I used to do it.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I have a reason.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I have a reason for all these questions.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Like I asked you about the I asked you about
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the oreos, I asked you about the breakfast here, and
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I have a reason for asking you this question. Were
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: you into have you now been or have you ever
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: been into the collectible scene?
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: I used to collect car sports cards as a kid, Okay,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: any I had a Barry Santa's Rookie card when I
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: was a kid and one of my family members did
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: bad things to it and I'm still upset about it.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: But everybody that collected cards at one time or another
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: has a horror story like mine with my mom. Throw
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: bring out a sack of cards, had over two thousand
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: cards in it, had a Willi Nayes and a hancarrot
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, the reason
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: why I asked this is for those who are into collectibles.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: This week, by the way.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I'm sure not many people knew about this, but this
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: week it was two days ago. Wednesday was William Shakespeare's birthday. Now,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: he was born in fifteen sixty four, so that would
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: make him what five one hundred and forty eight years old?
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I think if it worked out an add to one. No, right,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: but his collected works an original. In fact, all four
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: of William Shakespeare's folios will be offered at auction in
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: a single lot for the first time since nineteen eighty nine.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Sotheby's is planning to sell the first four editions of
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: William Shakespeare's collected works next month. Care to estimate what
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: that might fetch? Marcus?
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: This is in what currency?
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: Uh?
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Just if it just said an American if we said
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: American money, what do you think it would How much
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: money do you think that that would fetch?
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Twenty five million? I don't know.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: It's going to start around six million dollars. Oh, okay, okay,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: overshot it.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: That's all right.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: The first folio, which was published in sixteen twenty three
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: after his death, is among the most significant books ever produced.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Is described.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: It contains thirty six of Shakespeare's plays, including Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: and Juliet in a Midsummer Night's Dream. There are about
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty copies of it printed. There's about
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty believed to survive today, and of
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: those two hundred and thirty, most are in public institutions
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: like the British Library. In the New York Public Library,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: very few copies are described as complete.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: But and due to the Great Fire of London.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: By the way, the third folio is actually the rarest
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: of the bunch's only an estimate one hundred and eighty
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: two surviving today. But if you got a spare six
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: million and up, you know, and you're into Shakespeare, now
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: you can do it. I took a Shakespeare analysis course
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: in college. I used to tell people I got out
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: of there on new Hamlets underwear size. I mean it
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: was it was pretty detail stuff, all right. So here
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: we are to Florida Man Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy, here we go.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, you have the you have the
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the usual really disturbing, troublesome Florida man fee headline Florida
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: man kills father and wounds mother over video games.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Argument game. That's a good question.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Let's see Florida Man admitted the police he fatally shot
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: his father wounded his mother, allegedly over comments his parents
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: made about him spending too much time playing video games
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and not having a job. Joseph Voyd, twenty three years
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: of age, told Polk County Sheriff's deputies that his followers
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: upset about him spending the majority of his time playing
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: video games and was quote writing his ass about making
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: something of himself and getting job. So then he shot
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the dad, sixty three year old Barvin Boyd, killed him,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: wounded his mom, fifty eight.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Year old Susan Voight.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: So they got him by the way, his criminal history
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: included arrest for firing a weapon in a residential area
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: and battery. No word as to.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Whether that had anything to do with video games.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: And then, finally, if you know a lot of things
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: about the state of Florida, you also know that, of course,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Florida is the home of disney World, and we always
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: hear about weird things that happen at or around disney World.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: This is one of the stranger ones.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Headline Former Disney World employee sentenced to three years in
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: prison for hacking menus. Former Disney World employee Michael Schuer
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: was sentenced to three years in federal prison for hacking
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: in the Walt Disney World's computer system to manipulate menu information.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Former employee accessing the menu system following his termination from
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the company a month prior. He worked as a menu
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: product manager and was accused of hacking into the system
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: over three months and manipulating menus in various ways that
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: included changing prices, adding profanity, and altering the allergen information.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: That's just what we all need, right, I think it's
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: allergen information.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I got, yeah, with some with some profanity in there,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: with a with an overpriced item. There, all right, there
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: it is. There's your inconceivable for Friday, complete with Florida.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: We'll be back to wrap up hour number one on
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: thirteen under the zone. All right, we come to the
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: end of hour number one, but still a lot to
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: go in hour number two and hour number three. Of course,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: we're here with you up until five o'clock, and then
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: we'll be back at six forty five with the pregame
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: start time. In the first pitches at seven o'clock, Texas
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: against Texas A and M. More on this matchup between
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Longhorns and Aggies coming up in our number two of
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the program. Well, update, there's a pretty important SEC game
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: going on right now. They moved it up I think
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: to dodge some weather, and we'll sell you about that
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: coming up. But obviously day two of the NFL Draft,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: how many more Texas Longhorns will go, you know, for
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the first time since nineteen eighty three went in the
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: first round. So we'll get to that coming up, NBA
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: playoffs and more so, stay with us our number two
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: of three hours on a Friday, coming up here on
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: thirteen hundred the Zone, our number two of the program
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: here on thirteen hundreds. I almost said round two, because
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Round two of the NFL Draft continues and gets underway tonight,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: and I don't know how this is. Well I know
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: how it's possible, but I can't say as I remember
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: the same question going into round two being the exact
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: same question.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Going into round one. And you know where I'm going
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: with this.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: The question is where and when wolves should Sanders be selected,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: because there were those who thought that he could go
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: as high as top five, that somebody might make a
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: deal to take him the top five, possibly top ten.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I did say on our Draft Day special yesterday that
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: it would not surprise me, and our producer just afterd
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Marcus Spears echoed the sentiments that it would not surprise
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: me to see should do or Sanders slide deep into
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: or perhaps even completely out of round one and for
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: any number of reasons.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what happened.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: And as we look at what's to come in round two,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: that's that's going to be a topic of conversation. How
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: long Wolve should Ur Sanders still be on the board.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at one mock draft that says he's coming
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: off first pick, first pick number thirty three over roll
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: of round two, because the first pick belongs to the
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns, and the Browns did not want to take
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: a quarterback in round one, and they made that deal
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: with the Jaguars of the Jags could move up and
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: get Travis Hunter. So now maybe as a second round pick,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: they might be a little more amenable to that. But
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: the thing that I found out last night and looking
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: at all of the draft analysis afterwards, because last night
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: and the way it usually kind of works in my
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: house is I keep a pretty loose thumb on the
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: remote and flip around and I watch a lot of things.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Now I watch. I watched quite a bit of NBA playoffs.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I watched NHL Stanley Cup playoffs. I watched their friend
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: and Collie Keith Morland called the Georgia Oklahoma series opener.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: He's working that.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: It's a Thursday, Friday, Saturday series in Athens, Georgia. And
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: obviously and predominantly I was watching the NFL Draft. I
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: got to where I could time it pretty good between
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: in the you know, in the ten minutes downtime in
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: between picks, to flip back over and see it in
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: time for the pick. And here's some of the analysis
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: afterwards all of that. But I also stayed up pretty
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: late and was watching a lot of the post draft
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: analysis and a lot of that seemed to center around
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: why did shaduor Sanders go completely out of the first round,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: And then of course there were the requisite shots of
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: him out and at the place there in Canton out
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: near Tyler Out in East Texas where he was situated
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: with his family. And then he issued a statement and
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: I thought he handled it pretty well and talking about, hey,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: exactly how he thought this would go. But there's a
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: plan for everything, and we'll be fine. It'll all be fine.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: So it was that kind of thing, and I thought
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: he handled it pretty well. But then there are a
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: lot of the draft experts were asked why why did
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: he fall this farm? And there's probably two or three
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: reasons that folks could make for it. And I'm not
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: comfortable with somebody saying, well, well, Scotts just didn't think
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: he was that good. There's reasons beyond that, and there's
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: reasons why they might not have thought that he was
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: first round material, whatever those reasons are, and folks control
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: their own conclusions with this. I thought they handled it
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: pretty well. Nick Saban made a great point last night
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: when he said, you know, we all do all of
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: this speculating this and that that in the end, a
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: team decides when they want a guy, and then it's
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: up to them when they take it for the for
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: the young man to go and play and play well.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: For that That's that's all that matters on this thing.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: The rest of it is details and the details surround
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: money first round money as opposed to you know, falling
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: out of the first round and not getting that kind
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: of first round money. But that's basically what talking about
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: is if it was going to be first round money
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: otherwise you know, he's going to be drafted, He's going
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: to go somewhere, and he's going to be projected to
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: be a contributor. So we'll see if that's the case
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: with the Browns taking in with the first pick in
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: the second round. Put it this way, as much attention
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: as was focused on Shoudeur Sanders in the first round,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: it wasn't as much as say, you know, waiting on
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: the inevitable Camore to be selected and then what other
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: trades might happen. But Sanders was always a piece of
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: it going into round number two. Today it's more than
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: just a piece. He's the centerpiece of it now about
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: you know, what happens with him and how far there.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: There was even speculation, I think this morning among some
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: of the draft analysts on ESPN who were speculating what
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: might happen if he slid all the way to the
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: third round h and that may the Pittsburgh Steelers, who
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: many thought would take him if he was available at
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: twenty one, and he was not. I mean he was,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: but they did not select him. You know, would they
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: would he still be there? I can't imagine him being
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: there and available in the third round. I was able
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: to imagine him not being selected in the first round
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: for any number of reasons, among those to fit, what
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: people wanted from certain positions, what their draft needs were,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: and where he rated among other quarterbacks who were available.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Folks can have their own argument and discussion and debate
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: about whether the Giants should have taken shudor Sanders instead
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: of Jackson Dart. But the end result about this is
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: that you know, the very few quarterbacks were taking a
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Round one. This was not expected to be a heavy, heavy,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: high round quarterback draft.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: It wasn't going to be like this.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: This was not nineteen eighty three with the magical draft
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: that that was for quarterbacks. But there are quarterbacks available
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: that are still available, including Quinn Ewers, which also brings
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: us to the Texas thing. How many long Warns will
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: go On Day two of the draft. Day number one
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: of the draft saw three long Worns go in the
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: first round. Kelvin Banks ninth of roll selection to the
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints, and you saw the emotion there from
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: his family. I love seeing that, by the way, on
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: draft day, when the families get a chance to see
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: not only their you know, their son, or their their
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: son or nephew, or whatever or close friends dreams come true,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: but in some ways their dreams come true as well.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Matthew Golden had said something about, you know, wanting a
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: dream he had was to purchase the home that his
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: grandmother had lived in for a long time in Houston
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: and lost lost that home later, and he drove past
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: that house as recent as about a week ago, and
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: that he was interested in the possible purchase at that home.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: But hearing those things, John ay Baron the great story
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: and just a fabulous young man. You know, I've had
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of pleasure not only broadcasting his games as
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: a long worn but even going back to covering him
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: when he was a standout at Conley High in the
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: flug of eliasd and just what a great dude. And
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: to see that come true and for him to be
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: the twentieth overall selection and go to Denver, it's a
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: great story. And then I mentioned Matthew Golden obviously going
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: to the Packers, and that brought about a great deal
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: of excitement there in Green Bay.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: They got lit up about that.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: So three long Worns selected in the first round of
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: the draft for the first time since nineteen eighty the
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: only other time it happened. Happened on this and I
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: will tell you that Cameron Parker had all of us
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: chuckling and completely thrown off when he mentioned, can you
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: name the only other time the Longhorns had three players
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: selected in the first round of the NFL Draft? And
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: the answer was nineteen forty two. Well, nineteen forty two,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: in addition to being a war year, was the only time.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: It wasn't the only time, but at the time there
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: were only the draft was only six years old, so
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: even the draft was different back then than it is now.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty is much more representative time. And the Longhorns had,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: you know, the Longhorns had an opportunity to repeat history
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: and they did and so that was really cool. So uh,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: looking at our text line because I asked Marcus about
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: his collecting days, Marcus, but he said, I have a
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: dan uh dan pastor any card worth about twenty five cents.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Uh because from his time of playing with the Oilers,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: or maybe later after the trade for Stable when he
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: went to the Raiders or something like that, do you
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: remember how valuable your most valuable card was?
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: I remember having a little books h And I don't
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: know how accurate they were I had.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: I don't remember even the card.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: I remember I had one card that was like worth
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: like ten bucks, but that's fit as high as it got.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, Uh well, uh you know that's
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: you know, I, like I said, I had some cards
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: that were worth some things and and and ended up
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: losing out on all of that.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: But we all we all kind of have that story.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: It's almost kind of like a fish story.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: We all kind of have that that story about Oh
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: I had this card, or I had that comic book,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: or I had this collectible and uh somehow I got
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: lost or the dog ate it, or my mom threw
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: it out or whatever. So that's always gonna come back.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: And as I bring it back full circle to the
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: NFL draft, that's why you have so many people with
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: trying to get those rookie cards. Can imagine what the
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: rookie card for cam Ward could and I do stress
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: the word could could be worth someday. We'll see, we'll
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: see how that all turns out, all right. I mentioned
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: that there was an SEC baseball game going on right now.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: It is Oklahoma and Georgia, the three game series in Athens.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: They both went into the weekend with ten and eight
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: conference records. Oklahoma won last night's game eight to six.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: The Sooners were up eight to one and Georgia cut
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: it back to an eight to six ball game before
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma was able to close that out and get the win. Well, today,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: it's almost an inverse even though the game is still
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: going on. Georgia jumped to a nine to two lead
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: on Oklahoma, and they moved the start time up by
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: like six hours because they were concerned about weather in
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: the area. So Georgia jumps to a nine to two lead.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma cuts it to nine to seven in the seventh
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: before Georgia gets out of the inning. Now they're in
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: the top of the top of the eighth inning and
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: george is still leading oklum it's ten to seven right now,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: and again the Sooners are now eleven and eight in
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: the conference and Georgia is ten and nine in the league.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: So they have game two of that series well underway.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Of course, the Longhorns and Texas A and M have
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: their series opener tonight here at UFCU dish Fowk Field,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: and coming up will take a closer look at the
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: matchups on that a little later on we'll hear from
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: Jim Schlasnagel to Long Horns head coach, will visit with
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Ty Harrington as well, and will work the broadcast with
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: me tonight.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: So we've got all that and more coming.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Up when we continue here on hour number two from
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: UFCU dish falk Field.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: I'm thirteen under the zone.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: You're on a Friday afternoon, bring you to the program
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: from UFCU dish falk Cup bright sunny skies right now.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: There was some chance of some showers in the area.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: That could happen, but.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: It was only a minor chance of that happening at best,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: and even if it did, it probably wouldn't be anything prolific.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: In other words, it wouldn't it shouldn't be anything that
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: would prevent the game from being played tonight, or being
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: played to its completion tonight, or any anything like that.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: I think it'll all, you know, at this point, it
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: should all come off with out a big issue, should
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: be able to be played without any real big problem.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: All right, As I mentioned, it's a big weekend for
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: college baseball here in Austin across the state of Texas,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: and there's another big series. By the way, I'll tell
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: you about with regard to the possibility on down the
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: road to postseason. There's another series outside of the SEC
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: that's pretty important as well, and we'll get to that
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: coming up in a little bit also. But as we mentioned,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: it's a pretty big weekend for Texas and Texas A
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: and M. It's the first time that they will have
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: met as conference foes since twenty twelve. As we know,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: before Texas A and M went off to the SEC
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: and the log Orange, we're still in the Big Twelve
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: and they continue to play every year. This is different
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: than the years between football games where the two teams
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: did not meet at all in football between twenty twelve
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: and twenty twenty four, and they finally got together in
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty fours. We know Thanksgiving weekend last November when
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: the Long Wrorns beat Texas A and M in College
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Station seventeen to seven to renew the Cotton Holdings Lone
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Star Showdown rivalry series. Cotton Holdings became the sponsor for
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: that and this is the first year that they've reupt
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: this Lone Star Showdown series. And I should let you
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: know that if you're a long Wrn fan, it's good news.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: If this thing means something to you because even before
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: the two teams take the field tonight, Texas has already
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: clinched winning the Lone Star Showdown Series. They're up ten
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: to four in the series, and this weekend baseball series
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: counts for one point out of that and it's a
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: ten to four edge for Texas, so they've already clinched
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: winning it as it's come back around. But what I
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: have found about that with regard to the Lone Star
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Showdown Series is it's important when it's convenient for folks,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: whether you're a Longhorn or an Aggie, to bring it up.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: It's that kind of thing.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: I understand that, and long worn fans will also point
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: out that the Director's Cup, which of course is a
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: national award for the top overall athletic program in the country,
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  Speaker 1: and the Longhorns have won that three of the last
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: four years, or they're closing in on making it for
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  Speaker 1: the last five. They have a pretty healthy lead in
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: the points in that as well, and that's the nationally
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: for having the best overall collegiate athletic program in the
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  Speaker 1: country and winning some national championships that the Longhorns have
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: during the season as well as the proliferation of conference championships,
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: most notably of late men's tennis winning as well, and
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: obviously baseball is in the thick of the fight for
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: it A softball.
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  Speaker 2: Is as well.
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  Speaker 1: But they need a good weekend in Norman, Oklahoma against
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  Speaker 1: the defending national champion Sooners. They need a good weekend
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  Speaker 1: they're to strengthen their possibility. They're they're very close to
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  Speaker 1: the top. And and by the way, it's Texas A
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  Speaker 1: and M who leads the SEC softball standings right now.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, Texas needs a good weekend in Norman.
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  Speaker 2: Uh at what's it called. It's called.
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  Speaker 1: It's named uh. I think it's called Loves Park or whatever,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: named after the truck stop, uh, you know loves Loves
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  Speaker 1: truck stops, which are headquartered in Oklahoma. But anyway, they
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  Speaker 1: need they need a big weekend in uh, Oklahoma to
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: stay in the thick of the fight of the SEC race.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: The log Oorns sit in first place on top of
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: the SEC standings going into the weekend by three full
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: games over Arkansas. But as we know, the long Orangs
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: will be in Fayetteville next weekend to play Arkansas next weekend,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: so that could be a critical series. In fact, it
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: will be one or another, not only in terms of
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: who might or could possibly win the SEC, but also
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: you know, we could be talking about placement on national
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  Speaker 1: seeds as well. So that's an important series. But the
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  Speaker 1: other series began this weekend. Last night, Missouri had a
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  Speaker 1: five to I think it was a five to one
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  Speaker 1: lead or five to two lead on Alabama. They ended
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  Speaker 1: up losing seven to five. Missouri is now oh and
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  Speaker 1: nineteen in the SEC oh and nineteen as they played
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  Speaker 1: that series in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with the win went to
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  Speaker 1: ten and nine in conference play with the win.
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  Speaker 2: The rest of the series get underwraty to night.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously this one here, but additionally South Carolina is at Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: Both of those programs have bent resurgent. South Carolina comes
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  Speaker 1: off winning a series against Ole miss even though they're
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: in fifteenth place at four and fourteen in the conference.
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky, after dropping.
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  Speaker 1: Two out of three at home to Texas, turned around
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  Speaker 1: and took two out of three in Knoxville over Tennessee.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: That was a huge win for them. Mississippi State is
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: at Auburn. Mississippi State comes off dropping two out of
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: three at home to Florida. Auburn of course swept by Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Auburn's ninety nine in the league, Misissippi state of six
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  Speaker 1: and twelve in the conference. Tennessee is at LSU. Big
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: series there, both teams trying to bounce back after having
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: some difficult weekend series. LSU twelve and six in the
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: league and Tennessee is twelve and six in the league.
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  Speaker 1: In Tennessee dropped two out of three, as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: at home last weekend against Kentucky, so that's about positioning
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: as well. Vanderbilt plays at Ole Miss. Vanderbilt had dropped
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: two of three at OUI were eleven and seven in
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: the league, and like I said, Oklahoma now eleven and
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: eight after winning last night. They're going to the bottom
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: of the eighth inning in Athens and Georgia after dropping
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: last night series opener to Oklahoma, leads by a score
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: of ten to nine. In that Oklahoma's rallied back from
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: nine to two to pull them within a run at
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: ten to nine. And then of course there's Texas A
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  Speaker 1: and M in Texas and the Aggies have been red
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: hot of late. Texas A and M has won three
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: consecutive series over well they've won. They've won ten of
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: their last eleven games, and they've won three straight series,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: including back to back series on the road against number
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: one and number two in the country, winning two out
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: of three at Tennessee. And you heard Geene Watson if
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: you were listening last hour, discuss how big it was
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: for Texas A and M after being no hit and
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: run ruled in the series opener on Friday to come
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  Speaker 1: back and playing a doubleheader on Saturday to escape the rain.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: And they won both ends of the double header, including
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: run ruling Tennessee in that last game. That was huge.
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  Speaker 1: Then they went to Arkansas. Well, they went home and
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: swept South Carolina, had that crazy game and hit the
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: two Grand Slams and won that last game to sweep
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  Speaker 1: the series. Then they would go to Arkansas and win
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  Speaker 1: two out of three of the Razorbacks.
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  Speaker 2: Very impressive there.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: So, as I mentioned, they have won road series against
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: the number one and number two teams in the country
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  Speaker 1: and now here they are in Austin facing another number
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: one team in the country. They're looking for their third
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: straight road series win over a top two rank school.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: And the Aggies had flipped the script. They were actually
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: sub five hundred. At one point around the midway mark
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: of the season, they were one and nine in SEC
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  Speaker 1: play and they have turned it around. As I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: they have won ten of their last eleven games and
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: that has gotten them the twenty four and sixteen because
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: they were fourteen and fifteen before getting those wins in
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  Speaker 1: Game two in Game three to turn things around. So
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: it's pretty impressive stuff for Texas A and M. They're
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: going with their their veteran left handed Ryan Prager who's
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: two and two with a four to two nine ERA.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: And you've probably heard the news with regard to Texas
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: that the Longhorns are going to be without Jared Spencer
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: for the rest of the season shoulder injury. He got
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: i think three separate independent medical evaluations and opinions and
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: they all yielded apparently the same result that it's a
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: shoulder injury and he will not be able to return
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: from the shoulder injury.
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  Speaker 2: So his season is done.
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  Speaker 1: So what that has brought about is the Longhorns have
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: to do a flip of the script and a flipping
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: the rotation and they'll move Ruger Riojas from the Sunday
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: starter to the Friday start. That's why Ruger only threw
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: thirty eight pitches last Sunday and only three innings in
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: the series sweeping clinching win against Auburn because Jim Slasnigl
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: and Max Wiener wanted to have him completely fresh and
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: ready to go for tonight's series opener. So it'll be Ruger,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: Rio Hassel the man for Texas, and Ryan Prager left hander.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: In fact, the Aggies are going to go with three
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: left handers over the weekend, three straight lefties, Ryan Prager tonight,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Justin Lambkin who's three and four on a four to
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: one three ERA tomorrow and Miles pat Nehw's three and
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: three with a four eight five ERA. And these guys,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: even though the numbers, a lot of the numbers are not,
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  Speaker 1: like incredibly impressive.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of that is due to.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: The difficult they had at the start of SEC play
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: when they started one to nine in conference play. Well
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: that's turned around and now they're posting much better numbers
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: on this and the back of their bullpen is better,
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  Speaker 1: and they're hitting the ball well.
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  Speaker 2: As we knew.
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  Speaker 1: So in fact, I mentioned, you know when Kimball Schuschler
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: hit the home run to end Sunday's game in seven
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  Speaker 1: innings with that fourteen to two winterver Auburn actually sit
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: in the home run call. I don't know what else
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: is going on around the SEC, but I know there's
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: nobody more deserving of SEC Player the Week honors than
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: Kimball Schusler. Well, it was partially correct. He did win
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: SEC Co Player of the Week honors. The guy that
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: he shared the honor with is Jace Lobolette, who has
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: also been on a tear of late, and he hit
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: five home runs last week and he one co.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: Player of the Week.
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  Speaker 1: He right now leads the Aggies with fifteen home runs,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: fifty two RBIs, He's drawn forty three walks, he scored
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: forty eight runs. He has sixty five career home runs.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: That's an all time Texas A and M record, one
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five walks. That's a first in A
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: and M program history. So anyway, there's lots of impressive
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: numbers of late of late that Texas A and M
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: is posting. We'll have more on that coming up as
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  Speaker 1: we bring it to you here on a Friday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: from UFCU Dish falk Field here on thirteen under the
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  Speaker 1: Zone here on a Friday afternoon, getting you ready for
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: a big baseball weekend.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked a little bit about it.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned that it's an important weekend in the state
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: of Texas, not only on baseball for Texas and Texas
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: A and M, but a couple of other schools meeting
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: head to head this weekend are TCU and Baylor playing
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: in Fort Worth. And even though the Long Words are
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: no longer in the Big Twelve Conference, it's a bit
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: fascinating to see what's going on there because it's a jumble,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: and on any given well game one or game tuvas series,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: let alone after the completion of a three game weekend series,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: you could have a different team leading the standings. Right now,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: it's West Virginia. They're thirteen and three, Kansas, Arizona and
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: TCU are all twelve and six. There's going to be
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: an uneven amount of games because West Virginia was only
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: able to play one of its three games and still
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: water against Oklahoma State, which is, by the way, been
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: the most stunning surprise this year. The Cowboys, with a
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: preseason choice to win the Big Twelve. They're six and
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: nine in the league and they are eighteen and nineteen overall.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: The second biggest surprise would be Taxes Tech. You're always
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: to be a contender. The Red Raiders are eight and
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: ten in conference play and they're thirteen and twenty three overall.
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  Speaker 1: The only way Texas Tech is going to make it
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: into a regional and the same can be said for
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma State is to first qualify for the Big Twelve
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  Speaker 1: tournament and then second win it to get the automatic bid.
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  Speaker 1: And I say qualified because only twelve slots of the
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: fourteen baseball playing institutions of the Big Twelve land a
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: spot in the postseason tournament at Globalie Field in Arlington.
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  Speaker 1: I said fourteen because remember Colorado and Iowa State do
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: not field baseball programs. The last time Iowa State field
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: of the program I believe was nineteen ninety nine. Colorado
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: hasn't fielded a baseball program since nineteen eighty. They've got
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: a skiing team, but they don't have baseball, So no
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: baseball for Colorado and Iowa State right now. The teams
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: are at the bottom are Utah and BYU, but UCF
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: is very close to it, Houston's very close to it,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: mistakes not far from that bottom as well. And again
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  Speaker 1: the top twelve will advance into that tournament.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So against that backdrop, TCU is twelve and six in
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  Speaker 1: the league, twenty nine to twelve overall. Right now, if
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: you look at tournament projections, they're in the field, and
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: not only in the field. One of the sets of projections,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: it might be Baseball America, as I pulled that up here,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: one of the sets of projections, it's not Baseball America,
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  Speaker 1: it's D one. Baseball has tc hosting a regional, but
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: they're really kind of on the bubble for that. Jim
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: Slawstangle made a very good point to me the other
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: day when we were recording the pregame interview when he
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: said that there's always a situation where a team is
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: on the bubble. You're either on the bubble to try
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: to get into the tournament in a regional, or you're
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: on the bubble to host a regional, be a top sixteen,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: or you're on the bubble to be a top eight
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: national seed. There's always and in the case of Texas,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: may be on the bubble to be the number one
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: overall seed as well. It depending on how they do
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: with the rest of their conference season. Remember, after this
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: weekend against A and M. They go to Arkansas, then
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  Speaker 1: they come home for a senior weekend against Florida, and
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: then they finished the regular season in Norman against Oklahoma.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the Sooners, Georgia just put down Oh You
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: in the night to win ten nine. So in both
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: cases last night and tonight, the winning team built a
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: seven run lead and then held on for dear life.
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  Speaker 1: Last night, Oklaoma won the series opener eight six. Today
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  Speaker 1: Georgia takes a second game, ten nine. They've got one
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: more game out of that series tomorrow. Keith Morland will
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: be on the call for that, and then he'll fly
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: back and join us for the Sunday broadcast of the
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: game here between Texas and Texas A and M. Ty
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: Harrington will join me for tonight's Carl Roger Wallace will
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: be with me to for tomorrow's call. But in getting
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: back to that TCU Oklahoma TCU Baylor thing, here's tc
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  Speaker 1: which right now is projected to host a regional but
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: again it's kind of on the bubble, and it's gonna
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: be very very important for the horn Frogs to have
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: a good weekend at home against Baylor. It's going to
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: be very very important for Baylor to make sure they
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: continue to win to stay away from that bottom part
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: of And they're eight and ten in the league, so
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: they're probably in pretty solid shape to make the Big
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: twelve tournament, but they have designs on making an NC regional.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bears are twenty six and fourteen, TCUs twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine and twelve. TCU's twelve and six in the conference.
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  Speaker 1: Baylor is eight and ten in conference play, so all
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  Speaker 1: of that is important stuff, and we'll see how those
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  Speaker 1: weekend series go as well. All right, coming up, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna hear from Loggorne's head coach Jim Slasnegle down on
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: the field as well.
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  Speaker 2: The Longhorns are down on the field.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Jim Slastnigle talking about this matchup
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: between Texas and Texas A and M. When we continue
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  Speaker 1: on thirteen under the Zone. We welcome you back here
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  Speaker 1: to the program. You're a partam you FCU dish fault
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  Speaker 1: field on thirteen one hundred the Zone. Texas getting ready
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: to take on Texas A and M. And yesterday Longhorns
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  Speaker 1: take coach Jim Slastnigle got a chance of media availability
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: to visit with the media and talk about this big
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: matchup between the Longhorns and the team he used to coach,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: the Aggies of Texas A and M.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks everybody for coming super excited about a weekend ahead.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 6: Feel really good about how our team's playing at this point.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 6: I thought Tuesday night was a great test for us,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 6: and I told him after the game, if we didn't
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 6: win a game the rest of the season, Tuesday night
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 6: may be my favorite win of the year. So hopefully
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 6: we can get some guys with their feet under them,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 6: get healthy for the stretch run here and and then
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 6: you know, obviously having the opportunity to be a part
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 6: of the rivalry series this weekend, what a great thing
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 6: for our players and A and m's players to uh
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 6: to be a part of a Texas and Texas A
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 6: and M baseball series in the SEC and they'd be
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 6: the very first one.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 7: Wow, what a what a great life experience.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 6: So I'm sure this place will be rocking and and
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 6: I hope we play well.
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  Speaker 7: Which is an update on jar A Spencer where you
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 7: guys are. Yeah, he's on his way back from Houston.
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  Speaker 6: We're gonna meet when he gets back, and you'll let
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  Speaker 6: us know what he's what he's deciding. I think at
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 6: some point today as soon as he gets a chance
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 6: to talk to his family.
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  Speaker 5: Other than with Kimball gestured to the dugout last year
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 5: in the regional what's the biggest memory of like that
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 5: atmosphere and what that original mat.
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  Speaker 7: Over in College Station.
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  Speaker 6: My biggest memory, Uh, La Baron pitched really well.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: I remember we knew JT.
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  Speaker 6: Swung loved to swing at the first pitch of the game,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 6: and Prager was having a great year, and I was like,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 6: I let him just wanna get the first pitch of
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 6: the game, and he hit a homer, and then Kimball
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 6: hit the homer and then of course the weird, weird
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 6: play at third base. But it was just an awesome game. Uh,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 6: incredible atmosphere. To have those two teams play each other
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 6: in an interregional winners bracket game was great. And uh
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 6: of course we also got to play in the College
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 6: World Series that was even better.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 7: You know, if if it was.
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  Speaker 6: Up to me, these two teams would be cool to
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 6: meet in Omaha and that's that's the best place to play.
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  Speaker 4: Are you ready for this because a few personally.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm you know, I've been I've
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 6: been around a little bit, and I've been through this before.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 6: I had to uh at TEA at A and M
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 6: the first year, had to coach against tcuh. You know,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 6: within a year of leaving there in a in a
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 6: regional in a regional final, and so you know, this
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 6: is an SEC series, this is three games versus one.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 7: But uh yeah, I mean I'm the game.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 6: Uh you let the fans in and everybody else enjoy
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 6: all the peripheral stuff.
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  Speaker 7: Our job, you know, my job is to coach the team.
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  Speaker 6: And it's not to coach team any differently on Friday
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  Speaker 6: night than I did Tuesday night. And if we win
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 6: a game, it's it's worth one. It's not worth one
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 6: point five. And if we lose, it doesn't cost any
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 6: more than one. So I'm not trying to downplay it.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 6: But for my own you ask me, my own personal
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 6: role in this thing is to coach our team. And
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 6: I can't get and I'm not going to get caught
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 6: up in the other stuff general, like the coaching.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: Perspectives, whether it's injuries or having to go in different
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: environments and environments like this weekend, How does that create
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: coach how does it help bond, especially in the first year.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: Point.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 6: Adversity and going through those experiences, the failure of it,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 6: the success, the travel, the newness, the anxiety of waiting.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 6: There's no anxiety during the gagame. It's just waiting for
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 6: the game to get here, you know. And so yeah,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 6: I mean our team's battle tested. A and M's teams
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 6: obviously incredibly battle tested. They have championship pedigree from their
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 6: team last year and then.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 7: Got off to a slow start.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 6: I never doubted what kind of season they were gonna have,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 6: not for one second, and so it doesn't surprise me
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 6: at all that they're playing well, and you know, we're
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 6: playing well. And but yeah, I think all those things
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 6: baseball lends itself to what you have.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 7: To go through to bring your team closer together. Do
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 7: you th chans live there and your players know if.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 4: They hate you, How do you, as a head coach
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 4: keep from being the story because it's a baseball series
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 4: and that's the.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: Most important part. How do you keep them level ahead
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: it because they kind of know the history.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 6: Of this runs ye, yeah, yeah, I mean we had
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 6: a I mean, I think it's foolish to put your
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 6: head in the stand and and not at least address it.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 6: I addressed it with our team during the course of
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 6: this week about you know, if we're gonna talk all
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 6: year about playing to a standard, not a.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 7: Scoreboard, then when you get to these moments, then you
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 7: better do it.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 6: And I thought that that's why I thought Tuesday night
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 6: was incredible. We had, you know, we were pitching some
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 6: guys that hadn't pitched in a while. We were in
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 6: a really tough environment, not as big, but tough.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 7: It was tough.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 6: Fans were right on you, the students were right, and
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 6: the Texas State students were right on us. We get
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 6: down five runs, would have been super easy to cash
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 6: that in and go home and get ready for this weekend,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 6: and these guys kept playing. So uh, to answer your question,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 6: I think, you know, this is the ultimate test. And
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 6: I told him this week would be the ultimate test.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 6: But then next week we go to Arkansas.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 7: I don't think.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 6: I don't think those fans like this very much either,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 6: from what I've been told. I mean, I've had long
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 6: time Longhorns say that Arkansas fans are tougher on you
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 6: than the Aggie fans. So and then the last weekend
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 6: of the season played Oklahoma, so uh, and.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 7: Each week you will Oklahoma, same.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: Act.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 6: Your fashion choices are questionable, but but now it's uh,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 6: it's great experience, you know, and we may get it.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 6: The weekend may not go our away. We'll learn from
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 6: that too.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 4: That's Los Angeles.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: Since the day you arrived today, What have you.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: Done specifically could of bond this team to have the
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 4: outcome of this team play like they are right now
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: being what they did tuesdays? I mean, that's opendon me
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 4: on probably what you would try to learn.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I was very blessed that coach Pierce had
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 6: guys like gal Vaughan and Schusler and Flores and Gasparino
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 6: and Duplantier, dre and and and Jayden and Luke Harrison,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 6: guys that they love this school so much and they
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 6: have such a great passion for leaving it, Max Bulow,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 6: leaving it in a as good or better place than
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 6: they found it. And so that's where it's to me,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 6: that's where it all starts. It starts with really good
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 6: players who have a passion for being better. And then
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 6: then what you're talking about culture, and that's just a
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 6: day to day. From the very first day we get here,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 6: we set what we want to do, and then each
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 6: single day we're super intentional. It's the most important thing
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 6: I do every day is continue to push this massive
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 6: battleship forward and keep these guys.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 7: Accountable, but also keep them confident.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 6: And they're confident bunch, and there's no doubt about it.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 6: They believe they can win every game and the whole
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 6: win anyway, or win any way. Mentality has really caught
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 6: on within within this particular team. And what a great
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 6: trait to have that when you keep taking blows, you
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 6: just keep getting off the map.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be like you working across and seeing Mike over.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: There, and.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I've you know, seeing Mike over there.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 6: I'm happy for him and his family. You know, he
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 6: earned the opportunity to be the head coach over there.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 6: Will Fox as well, was on our staff last year,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 6: and happy for him that he got promoted into a
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 6: baseball position. But you know, when you coach thirty five years,
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 6: I mean I've already, for three or four times this
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 6: year coached against you know, guys that worked with us,
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 6: or or even players that I coach. So that part
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 6: of it is fine, you know, it's what's what's a
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 6: little it's not harder once the game starts. But what's
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 6: tougher is, you know, is seeing the players that you
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 6: love and care for so much, but you can't really
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 6: talk to them or you can't you know, it's not
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 6: the time and place to to kind of catch up.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 6: And we will have our moments, uh when they're finished playing.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 6: There's guys from the team last year at A and
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 6: M that have they've been over here and we've had
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 6: a good time together and gone to football games and
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 6: stuff like that. But that's that's the tougher part is
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 6: I would never wish bad on a guy like Jace
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 6: lovel At, like I don't want him to play portly,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 6: but I do want our team to win.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 7: So that's the challenge.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 5: Because you know those guys so well, what have you
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 5: seen that's allowed them to.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 8: Turn it around?
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  Speaker 4: What are the biggest challenges they'll present?
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 6: Well, first of all, they've always they've had good starting
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 6: pitching the whole season. I mean they had, you know,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 6: and they've been those guys have been consistent. Preger Lampkin
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 6: and what's the guy from Long Beach the left the
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 6: other left him and he's, uh paton yet he they've
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 6: they've been great. So when you have good starting pitching,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 6: you give yourself a chance. I think the you know,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 6: I think getting off to a slow start, and guys
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 6: start to press, and I know Hayden shot and I
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 6: know Jason, I know Surrell was injured, and and guys
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 6: that are they just start to press because it means
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 6: a lot to him. And I said all along, all
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 6: it's gonna take is one day, one day of them
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 6: starting to feel confident about themselves. And once that happens,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 6: look out and of course getting healthy, getting Currell back
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 6: uh Lanthen's their lineup, and Bender up feeling better about himself.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 6: So and then they had that day at Tennessee and
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 6: haven't really No one's really slowed him down too much since.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 6: So they have they know how to win, and they're
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 6: certainly they've gone to Arkansas, they've gone to Tennessee. So uh,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 6: coming over here is you know they've I don't think
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 6: they're gonna be I know they're going to be ready
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 6: to play.
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  Speaker 1: Warren's head coach Jim Slasniga. We'll be back to wrap
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: up hour number two. I'm thirteen under the Zone thirty
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  Speaker 1: final hour of the program here on thirteen hundred of
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: the Zone. Greig Way with you and glad to be
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: with you here on this final hour of the program.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: And I actually have a treat tonight, and that is
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: and this is really weird because it's the first time
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: it's happened this season, but Ty Herrinkin's going to work
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: a baseball game with me now, So I'm very glad
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: and and I'm glad for the reasons that you haven't
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: been able to work a baseball game, because you've been
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: You've been a TV mogul and TV personality on the
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: SEC Network plus telecast the Long Horning Game.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: So I'm really happy for you for that.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: I like how we've kept it all in the family,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: whether it's you or Keith or Roger or my car
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: or whoever whoever happens to be the analyst at the time.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: It's it's it's good. So I'm I'm glad of that.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: And we've been doing our weekly segment regardless of any
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: of that stuff anyway, So it's it's good.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 8: It's been fun. I mean, it's been it's been a
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 8: little bit different.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: And what's the biggest difference for you working huh TV
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: as opposed to radio.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: I bet I know some of them, but I want
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: to hear it.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 8: Some of it is And this is not in a
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 8: bad way because I've I've I've worked with six, maybe
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 8: seven different play by play guys now okay, and uh
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 8: so that's part of it. The other piece is the
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 8: radio part is smaller pieces of conversation because you're having
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 8: Your part is to describe what they can't see, as
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 8: opposed as you know it's on TV, they see it,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 8: so you can cut. You can keep discussing whatever it
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 8: is that may be going on.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: So I have to do the who, what, where, and when,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: and then you do the why.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 8: That's right, and when it's TV, you can kind of
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 8: keep going even in the conversating. Let's say a foul ball,
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 8: let's say a pitch gets taken, let's say even a
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 8: plays made. Sometimes you keep conversating and then you you're still.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: Talking about it as a pop flyout to left field
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: and folks can see it. So the play by play
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: gud doesn't have to say there's a high fly ball
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: to left field and have to see it. They could
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: see that while you finish a point.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, And I mean, I just that's probably the
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 8: difference the most, truthfully.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: And it's not like this is your first time in
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: first year ever doing TV. You've been doing it for
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: years on the Texas State telecast.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, but yes, that's correct.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 8: And that's where I you know, I was probably fifty
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 8: to fifty working games with you on radio, and then
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 8: the schedule had it.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: That it worked out at Texas State.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 8: I was able to go down there and do a
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 8: lot of TV down there and often this year was
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 8: the most games that Texas State had on the road.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: Texas was at home and.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: And then you know, and not like which adds up
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: to you doing a lot more games.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 8: And luckily for me this weekend, I get to work
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 8: with you because linear TV came in as we all know,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 8: and took over the weekends.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: The names of Tom Hard and Kyle Peterson and Chris
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: Burke and uh yeah.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 8: They all came in and took all three games, and
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 8: but it all worked out anyway. I want to get
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 8: to work radio with you and too, I got to
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 8: go to a wedding tomorrow and uh in Houston and Douglender,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 8: my longtime college roommate and friend and teammate here at TOUCH.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 8: His daughter's getting married. So I'm gonna go to wedding tomorrow,
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 8: but I'll be back on Sunday to watch the game
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 8: as a fan and sit and watch a game. Don't
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 8: do that, do that very often. And so I'm gonna
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 8: get to do that. And then but it's you know what,
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 8: So what's interesting about this? They they Linear TV picked
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 8: up these three games before the season got started.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 8: Then it looked like it was gonna be a who
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 8: knows what kind of.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: Series because of what was happening in college ash correct
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: and then somehow and it's been You can see it
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: when you watch the games, but you don't know what
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: was going on behind closed doors or on a bus
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: or whatever happened in Knoxville, Tennessee.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 8: That you know that you get no hit, run ruled,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 8: your wheels are no longer wobbling.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: You would assume the wheels were off. That's the complete
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: nator of the season. The complete bottoming out of Texas
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: A and M season was after the Friday night game.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: And who could have possibly imagined that the flip of
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: the script and completely turning it around.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: What happened starting the next day with a double banner,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: no question about it.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 8: And now you could look into the future and say
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 8: when Surrell got back in the lineup, that that was
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 8: gonna make a difference. Okay, he's played fifteen games now,
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 8: and in those fifteen games, what has happened.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: They've they've won. He came into I think.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 8: The Alabama Series or something like that, they hit a homer,
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 8: but they didn't win. They still lost the series or something,
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 8: and then you know, and they since then, since that
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 8: the game in Knoxville, man, they'd have been You watch
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 8: them offensively, they've been really good. They're better. Defensively, they
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 8: were not. Let's see another piece of this that I
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 8: don't I think.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: You you would know it.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 8: People that pay attention, close attention to the game they
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 8: put they didn't play great defense that first month and
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 8: a half of the season as well.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: They've cleaned that part of it on the infield up.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 8: And it will never know emotionally what unless you were
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 8: in that bus or in that locker room or in
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 8: those team meeting, you won't really know what was discussed
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 8: or how it all transformed.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: The physical side of it. Getting two guys back was huge.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 8: And then the other piece of is uh Moss has
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 8: been in the bullpen has been pretty.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: Good, which has helped make a difference, uh for a
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: team who when you look at the eras of the
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: starting pitchers in the record, it's not that impressive though.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: I mean you were talking a two and two of
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: the four to two nine, a three and four with
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: a four to one three, and the three and three
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: with a four eight five. But as I said on
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: the program earlier, a lot of that's frontloaded from the
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: struggles early in conference.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 8: That's right, it's one hundred percent right. And then you
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 8: know the to me too, Now you know you go
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 8: through there digging there even more, which I know you
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 8: have that the eras and the sec are higher than
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 8: what that is unbelievable.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: The team era is over six.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, and you say, how in the world could they
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: have won seven of their last eight conference games and
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: ten of their last eleven overall. Well, one, I think
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: of the Sunday game against South Carolina outslugging that slam.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they found it happened. No, that doesn't happen.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: So they found the way to out slug and then
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: and then there were other games where you know they
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: pitched well enough, but the e R. I would like
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: to have seen what the e RA was after the
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: Friday night run rule loss to Tennessee. What the team
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: e RA was after that Friday night game compared to
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: where it is right now had to be above eight.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, So if you're so, if.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: You're erasing two full runs off a team e R
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: in a span of eleven, twelve thirteen ball games, you've
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: done something.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 8: You've done something, and then and then again they they're
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 8: depending the ball better if you look at the pitching stats.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 8: So one thing I will even with the ERA being
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 8: a little bit higher, I will say about their stats,
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 8: whether it's coming off of last year with Max Wiener
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 8: or a continuation I should I should say for Max
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 8: and or who they what they're doing now, they throw
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 8: the ball in the strikes on them. They're starters around
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 8: that twelve fourteen walks a game, that's not very many
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 8: with fifty something innings under their belt, and then you
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 8: go in there. But what they are do, they're going
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 8: to give up hits. So if they defend the baseball
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 8: at a higher level, and you're putting the ball in
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 8: play and you keep defending it, then you got a
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 8: chance to hold runner your whole games to five runs.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 8: So now your offense which is now stretching its legs,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 8: and now Jay s lava Lette is really stretching his
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 8: legs over the last two weeks and not trying to
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 8: carry the whole team on his shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, makes a big difference on that. All right, Ty
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  Speaker 1: Herring is with me, and in this next segment we're
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: going to talk about the rest of the SEC.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 1: Georgia beat Oklahoma today. They moved the start time up
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: by six hours because they're worried about rain their storms
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: in Athens. So it was very similar to last night's game,
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: where Oklahoma built a seven run lead held on in
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: one eight six. Today george have built a seven run
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: avenger up nine to two and held on to win
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: ten to nine. We'll talk about the SEC and about
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: the national scene. As I mentioned, there's another huge series
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: in the state of Texas and it's not even in
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: the SEC. Tonight at ten fort Worth with TCU and Baylor.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that. We've got a lot more than
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: we'll get to here. On a Friday afternoon again, Texas
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: and Texas A and M first game of the Cotton
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• 1:28:28
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• 1:28:34
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• 1:28:38
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  Speaker 2: So more on.
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  Speaker 1: This and a lot more coming up when we continue
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  Speaker 1: on a Friday afternoon from UFCU, just fogg Field, I'm
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  Speaker 1: thirteen under the Zone.
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  Speaker 8: Well, all right, dotcha citizens Universe recording, as we have
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  Speaker 8: returned to claim here and now.
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  Speaker 1: Pop in on the mother I am on this Friday afternoon.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: I'm thirteen under the Zone Craig Wave joined by the coach,
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: Ty Harrington, who will join us for the game broadcast tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Update.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Saftball plays Oklahoma in Norman. Game one is at
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: five o'clock this afternoon. That's a crucial series of the
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: long Worns, just behind Texas A and M and just ahead
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: of Oklahoma in the conference standings. That's going to go
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: to the wire and depending on what happens this weekend,
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: we'll see how the big twelve race goes in terms
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: of going to the wire as well, Ty, I don't
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: know with too many people.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know of anybody who would.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: Have said, yes, twelve games left in conference play, Texas
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: will be thirty four and five and they'll have a
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: three game lead in the conference standings. Could you have
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: foreseen that?
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 8: No, No, no, I don't think. I mean, everybody can see.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 8: They want to say they were coming. Sure, yeah, but
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 8: there's no way. I mean, look when they got off
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 8: to the first month and a half start, and you
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 8: could you could see that the older hitters, which is
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 8: what Jim talked about at the beginning of the year,
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 8: like he often said, look like what I walked into
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 8: at an m having the older hitters, and so you
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 8: could see that, you could see that, you know, there
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 8: was the defensive side of the game is going to
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 8: be good. I think now, I don't know what's going
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 8: to happen this weekend. I think you would at least
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 8: acknowledge you whether you agree or not, you're entitled. We're
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 8: all intelegent own thoughts. But to me, one of the
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 8: two of the biggest pieces of this the guys that
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 8: have been here before, Grubs has been excellent, not just good,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 8: he's been excellent. His demeanor on the mound is so confident,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 8: so patient, So I mean just you know, confident might
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 8: be the best word describe it. And his execution obviously
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 8: follows his mindset right now. But the second guy for
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 8: me that has been I would not have got no offense.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 8: I don't think I would have said it's the beginning
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 8: of the year as Luke Harrison m I just.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: To be as as consistent, yep. I mean he hasn't
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: been dominating by any stretch, hadn't been spectacular, but he's
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: been solid. He's been consistent, getting the long words into
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: the middle innings where they either by then have been
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: able to build a lead or stay close enough for
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: where they could overhaul whoever was in the lead in
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: time to think of the Georgia series in that and
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: then the bullpen has been solid.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: Enough to hold the water the rest of the way.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 8: But he's a big piece of why the bullpen's been
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 8: able to stand so Friday night it has you know,
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 8: it's it's.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: Been really good.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 8: Spencer's been good, but he's had moments in the fifth, right,
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 8: or fifth or sixth they go out goes in and
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 8: there's valances. So now Saturday becomes stressful because if you
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 8: got to go to your pen in the second inning
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 8: or the third inning on a Saturday, you're in trouble.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 8: For you might string it out and win that game,
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 8: but now you've exhausted your pen. Now that rolls into
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 8: that Sunday roll and that's when the games get really goofy, right,
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 8: really can get crazy. To me, he has kept them
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 8: from having to go early in the bullpen on Saturday.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: Stretch the bullpen, and.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 8: Then you know who knows, Flip a coin now you
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 8: know because now Reojas has been good on Sunday or
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 8: but in the same breath, you don't.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: He hasn't stretched it or stretched.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 8: Them out, in my opinion, and most coaches will. Most
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 8: coaches will say they're obviously the Friday night's the big game.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 8: Because I've seen coaches give up Friday nights and go,
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 8: we're not gonna beat their guy. They've got a guy
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 8: over there, We're not beating him.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: Let's build it toward the back end of the week.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: Let's go play Saturday Sunday.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 8: Right, So, and I've seen guys do that, but I
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 8: mean each time I would go, oh, I wonder how
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 8: that's going to be this Saturday. We I don't wonder
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 8: how it's going to be this Saturday. It's been pretty good.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: There were years seasons when Augie would do that.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: Uh now, not when he'd have like a Taylor youngman
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: going on our Parker French. Everybody else was the gall
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: on Friday night.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: They're throwing young men we're gonna go through.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: Or a Parker French or you know, even Nathan Thornhill,
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, those those kinds of guys. But
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: there were seasons when he would build it towards Saturday
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: and Sunday doing that. And and I've been asked this
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: by long worn fans this week, everybody expected the other
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: shoe to drop it. It did officially yesterday that Jared Spencer's
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: out for the year's shoulder injury. So Ruger Riojas flips
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: from Sunday to Friday. And I asked, Jim Schlasney just
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: busied with him a few minutes ago, and we recorded
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: our pregame a conversation for tonight, and and I said,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: you like Ruger in that role because some people said, well,
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: why don't you just move Harrison to Friday, and then
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: put and then put Ruger. He's been solid enough, why
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: don't you do that? And and put Ruger in. Just
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: move him up one day on Saturday. And the answer
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: pretty much that Schlass has had is emotionally, mentally psychologica,
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: however you want to describe it. Ruger, he feels, and
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: Max Wiener feels is better built for the aura of
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: what the Friday night game is all about as opposed
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: to the Saturday.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: I would agree with that.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 8: And I think also, look, I'm not gonna speak for
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 8: coach Flash and go okay or Max Wiener when I
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 8: say this, but there's times when coaches find a guy
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 8: that's comfortable in that moment, in that day, in that game,
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 8: and you.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 2: Just go, let's he's been so good that let's don't
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: move him. Right.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 8: I played on the eighty four team that this is similar.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 8: But Jamie Dowdy was hitting in the nine hole, and
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 8: he was by the end of the year, he.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: Was chasing the home run record at University.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 8: Of Texas, and coach moved him off to the four
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 8: hole for a couple of games.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 2: He didn't do it.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 8: He moved him right back, and it was just like
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 8: so there are coaches who get My last year in nineteen,
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 8: our best guy was on Saturday. I didn't move he
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Sunday, I'm sorry. He was Picture
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 8: of the Year on Sunday out of the Sunday slot.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 8: I was like, I'm not I don't want to move
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 8: in there, Like what if we moved on?
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: You know who you just described Cole Green, Yes, Picture
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: the Year Sunday starter.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: I tried, No, I tried.
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  Speaker 8: I just I think sometimes there's a comfort level for
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 8: the player, there's a comfort level for the coach. Let's
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 8: just let's leave him right there. He's doing good, right,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 8: Let's let's just so. And that's why this this weekend
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 8: is going to be fun again on you know, tomorrow's game,
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 8: to see how he does match up several left handed bats. Again,
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 8: some of their better bats are left handed, and so
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 8: we'll see how they go.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: Here's the other question I got from fans.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: Max Grubbs has been so great, why don't you just
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: move him into the rotation? And the answer that I said,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: without having asked Jim about it, because I hadn't had
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: a chance of the time, was with what he has
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: done on those occasions when Jared Spencer didn't have his
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: best stuff in the middle innings and Max came in
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: and just stabilized everything. That it that it made a
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: big difference. The other question I got for people said, hey,
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: by the way, what was the deal with k Bing?
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: Why didn't he pitch on Tuesday? He always pitches on Tuesday,
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: And so I said, when we talked on Tuesday, you
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: don't know they're entering a different zone. Now guys have
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: pitched well, but you don't know now when now that
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: we do know that Spencer's done, you don't.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: Know how the rest of the guys are going to respond.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: And having another arm and a left hander at that
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: at your disposal may speak to what you just talked
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: about about the quandary of Saturday and Sunday if you've
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: got another arm and in this case, a left hander
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: and being available, which is why he didn't pitch Tuesday night,
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: which is why Grayson Sannier, who's had some good outings
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: especially in Kentucky, started, and which is and they were
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: able to piece it together somehow with all of those
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: guys and find it offense to come back and win
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: that ball game on Tuesday night, all the while saving
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: a k bing for any sort of time that they
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: might need him this weekend.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 8: Well, this state's back. I'm gonna just I'm guessing now,
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 8: I don't have nobody else told me anything kind of
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 8: before I go to the I think this goes back
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 8: to Riojas coming out of the game earlier last weekend.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 8: I think they sensed that, hey, you know, we may
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 8: need to we may need to overexpose him. He's on
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 8: short rest, remember, because he pushed up a day to
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 8: Eastern Kay pushed up a day. And then now you
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 8: may move one of your guys to the front of
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 8: the rotation possibly, so let's don't overexhaust him, which is.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: Why only weekend, which is why only threw thirty eight
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: pitches and slaps, even said and when I just said
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: to him, that went into his mind. Not when they
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: made the move to move Ruger up. That went into
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: his mind as Jared Spencer walked off the mound on
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: Thursday day night, that they were going to have to
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: do some shuffling and something because they knew, like he said,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: he didn't know at the time that that Jared was
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: done for the year. In fact, he even told us
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: on the post game, he said, he's a little sore,
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: it'd be all right. They never heard a discernible pop
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: or anything like that. Jared didn't feel anything weird or strange.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: It was just a little sore, and they thought, okay,
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: he's coming back a day early. He's a little sore,
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: he'll be okay. But his law said, even if he's
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: quote unquote okay, and maybe it's a slight strain, you
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: know he's not gonna pick next weekend. That's right, So
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: you got to start making plans.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 2: Nine percent, So go back to now.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 8: To me, this is part of why I think Jim
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 8: is the best, one of the best, if not the best,
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 8: in our business, is because he's a forward thinker. He's
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 8: a continual, you know, progressive thinker. In his mind, it
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 8: was already translating and communicating his Okay, now, wait a minute, Well,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 8: if that's real, and he we know that, and I
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 8: agree with you, I know he probably knew that he
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 8: was not going to throw this weekend right now.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: He said, even in the best case scenario, if you
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: moved him back a couple of days, it's.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 8: Still wasn't gonna be still gonna be Friday.
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 2: It was not gonna be Friday.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 8: So that started that day and then all of a sudden,
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 8: if you watch how they now, that's also confidence, right,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 8: and then and your staff that week to finish off
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 8: that weekend last weekend conference wise, right, So he had hits.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 8: You know what we've got. I'm sure they sat in
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 8: there in the conversation and the dougout going, hey, coach, look,
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 8: we we've got enough bullets to get through this this weekend.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 8: We've got in a bullpen, we've got enough guys. But
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 8: you know, we've got our six guys, which is what
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 8: they've been kind of rallying around six seven guys on
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 8: the mount. He goes, well, we've got our guys. Let's
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 8: let's do it, and let's get it set up. We
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 8: know he's not gonna be able to throw. Let's get
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 8: Ruger set up to go into the Friday game with
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 8: the Aggies at home. And so they started translating. They
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 8: rolled the dice in in uh sant Marcus Kay being
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 8: who has been really good on Tuesdays, were good enough
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 8: on Tuesdays. Let's hey, let's let's it's take them out.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 8: We may need him against the Aggies. It's a conference series.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 8: And we need to get some We now are forcing
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 8: ourselves to put some other guys on the mound. And
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 8: you saw guys go out Tuesday night, I did you
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 8: And Sam Marcus that had done not a ton of innings,
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 8: not a ton of.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: Work, had not pitched much on Tuesday. Connor McCreery had
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: barely seen the field.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, that's right.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: And Drew Rerick hadn't pitched my Cody Howard winds up
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: getting the win, that's right. And it was his first
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: time to pitch in the ball game since March twenty first.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: It was the first time for Hudson Hamilton to pitch
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: in the game since March eleven, six weeks.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: We're talking.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, now you're gonna see those guys again Tuesday if
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 8: they don't get used for some reason partially this weekend.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 2: Not over exposive for being.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 8: So they'll be used on Tuesday. But what that does
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 8: is that that gave them being for this weekend. Who
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 8: can use his breaker on the left tended hitters because
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 8: they have you know, it's on that tended hitters in
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 8: this lineup that are a challenge and you at least
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 8: feel better about Well, let's go at and whatever breaker
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 8: and let's go to you know, armside, I'm sorry, extension
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 8: side fastballs, third base side, make them empty their barrels
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 8: the other way.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: And so I felt like that when.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 8: They did that, or like, we've got enough guys were
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 8: we know the ballpark in Texas State as an offensive park.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: We're older hitters, let's go out score them.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 8: And it just happened that it worked out that way
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 8: late in the game, it worked out that way for them.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 8: And then to me, one of the guys that I
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 8: think you and I talked about this too, one of
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 8: the guys to me that I felt like, was gonna
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 8: be possibly valuable to this team. But he hadn't He
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 8: kind of had done it, hadn't done it, kind of
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 8: done was Burns.
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 2: Kind of done it.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 8: Then he did it on the road Kentucky, Kentucky. That's right,
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 8: even though he took the loss, but he was he
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 8: threw the ball inning, that's right. He threw the ball good.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 8: And to me, he was that guy's like, golly, when's that?
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 8: When's that guy gonna really appear?
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: When when is that?
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 2: And now you don't have a choice. And he goes
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: out there Tuesday night and was wamm bam.
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  Speaker 8: Game over right, any game that was Look, it was
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 8: a tugger war, both teams going back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: When's the last time you worked a game that had
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: two Grand Slams in it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know if I ever I don't know, I
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 8: don't know if I ever had. And I've been involved
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 8: in a game coaching wise, but not not to that.
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  Speaker 8: And I mean it was just like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: The crazy game.
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  Speaker 1: When you think about this, things like, uh, you know,
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: I neither Keith nor I nor anybody else that I
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: would know would be grudge Joanah Williams for trying to
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: get the second on that ball he scorched and it
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: took a perfect throw and did a one hop and
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: a perfect throw from Brightfield to get him, and it did.
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  Speaker 2: It was a great It was a great play.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You have two outs of the plate the Texas statement.
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  Speaker 1: Once on a sharply struck ground ball that Florest was
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: able to snag and come home.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: That was a big out.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: And then obviously the ball that just trickled a few
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: feet away and Galvan's able to flip underhand, and then
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: the tag from Cody Howard was down to get to
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: to get the out.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, that was what the basis loaded.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and with two outs and was more up.
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  Speaker 2: He was up. He was right.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 8: I think he was up because because he as he'd
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 8: already hit the Grand Slam. And I don't know anyway,
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 8: I think they were in the middle part of the
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 8: order if I remember right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was the bottom part of the order
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: to end the game, and that was in the eighth
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: when that happened that ninety and so there was a
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: lot of it.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 8: To me, the play Floras made was a dynamic, which
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 8: if you're a long warm fan, you're getting used to it.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did, be honest with me.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 8: And now if you ask Jonah Williams, I would assume
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 8: if he if he took he thought that proble ball
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 8: was probably out after he got closer to first base,
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 8: not when he first hit it, but after he got
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 8: a little bit closer, and then all of a sudden
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 8: when it hits the gear that he went into was like, I.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 2: Mean, just like I don't know, it was like warp speed.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 2: He was flying.
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  Speaker 8: To your point about how good the throw was and
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 8: to play off the off the fence to get him
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 8: second face. Well, I gotta be honest with ye. I
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 8: was shocked that they didn't go look at it. I
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 8: thought he was safe. I thought his hand went around
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 8: the tag, or one of the other went around it,
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 8: or it was close enough that.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 2: But you know, anyway, a back and forth game.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: Is Alan Shibley that good an outfielder. He's the one
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: who made the throat.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, but you remember now, it doesn't have the Texas
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 8: State Stadium. The fence doesn't have the deeper angle like
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 8: here is three twenty five, and you start describing the
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 8: field before the game street twenty five, but it jets
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 8: out to three forty probably pretty quickly, pretty quickly.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 2: It doesn't do that there. Yeah, it's pretty symmetrically. Yeah,
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 2: that's right. So you don't have that the deeper alleys
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 2: and so.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 8: And and subsequently, when the ball bounces off this fence,
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 8: it's going one a different direction. There, it has a
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 8: chance that it's gonna ricochet and bounce right to you.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 8: And now obviously it has something not taking anything away
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 8: from Shibley because it was a tremendous play, but I've
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 8: seen a lot of guys thrown out from right field
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 8: and to second base on the line in the air.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: Throw guys with less speed than Jona Williams, Yes, and
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: then Jonah and he gets Jonah there.
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 2: So was that of a play all right? Again?
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: Like I said, we're gonna look at the national scene
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: for college baseball leading up to this series opener between
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: Texas and Texas A and M. When we continue from
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: UFCU Diish falk Field, I'm thirteen under the zone here
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: on a Friday afternoon from UFCU Dish falk Field, and
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: continue with Ty Harrington here. As the long words go
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: through batting practice, long one's going to face three left
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: handers at least as starters for Texas A and M.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 2: How do you see that affecting?
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: Obviously, Adrian Rodriguez unfortunately's only able to hit from the
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: left side. So I don't know how much if he's
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: going to be in the lineup or how much or
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: that sort of thing. I don't I don't know how
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: old that will be. But it's three left handers are
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: facing tonight and tomorrow afternoon and Sunday after that.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: You know that this has been years ago.
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 8: I had two freshmen and a junior or something like
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 8: theyver all I was starting three left handers. Frank Anderson,
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 8: who was in the pitching coach here and I ran
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 8: into each other, and Frank and I've known each other
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 8: for a really long time, and he questioned me, He goes,
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 8: why are you starting three left handers?
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 2: It was a question of you know what church is
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 2: the reason?
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 8: And well I said, I said, well, Frank, first of all,
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 8: they're probably my three best strike throwers.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 2: They just happened to be left handed.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 8: And he said does he what effect do you think
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 8: it has on the other team or what effect do
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 8: you you know? And he goes, do you worry about
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 8: you know, the left handed hitters seeing the same thing
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 8: over and over and repeated three games in a row,
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 8: and we went it was a forty five minute discussion
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 8: about it. And if that that three rotation of left
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 8: handed broke up about oh, week five or six, and
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 8: the one guy, a freshman, didn't you know how that
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 8: it just changes?
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 8: I mean, you know you're starting rotations about his flood?
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 8: Is his fluid as a top twenty in college baseball historically?
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 8: And but it was interesting that he asked me that,
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 8: and the answer became for me a little bit later on.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 8: The majority a lot of college baseball's best hitters are
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 8: left handed. A lot of the majority of the middle
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 8: of a lineup in college baseball is left handed. So
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 8: I felt like that if I was starting three left handers,
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 8: maybe it made those guys think about it.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 2: Maybe it got into their head.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 8: If they had a bad night on Friday night, they
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 8: didn't like you know, maybe they were trying to change.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 8: I don't know, like I just I did. It did
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 8: not bother me, and I actually liked it. Now, the
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 8: flip side of it is we talk about on not
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 8: the flip side. Let me finish that side of it first.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 8: We talk about the matchups all the time. We don't
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 8: talk about the right right matchup as much as we
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 8: talk about the left left matchup. And that's just the
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 8: way baseball is, and that's the way it's always been.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 8: In the averages, go down left on left, historically go
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 8: down left on left occasionally.
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 2: Who was it was unity, I wasn't, kidd Who was
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 2: it a year ago? Two years ago? That was left handed?
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 2: He was hit It wasn't.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he was hitting as high now he runs some
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 8: of that. He was running some of that average right.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 8: And but so it is a challenge and for I
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 8: was just when you and I were looking at I
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 8: was watching Rodriguez take VP. You know, he was hitting
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 8: left handed, and I was thinking to myself, I wonder
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 8: if he's gonna move over to the right side, but
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 8: I guess not this weekend.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah, And so he's obviously would be better off if
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 8: he could go to the other side of the plate
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 8: right handed, because I do think it can. It can
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 8: have a fan in fact, because prayer is also the
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 8: to the prayer. And then, uh, what's the second guy
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 8: they'll start tomorrow? They are they are breaking ball heavy guys.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 8: They're breaking ball heavy guys. So if they're change up
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 8: left handed pitchers, if their best pitchure is a change up,
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 8: then you'd leave your left handed hitters in there. Because
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 8: a lot of old school coaches would say they pit
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 8: leet handed pitchers don't like having to execute a left
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 8: handed change up to the third base side of the play.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 8: They're historically doing it to the right handed hitters on
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 8: the first base side.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 2: They don't I don't like going back across.
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 8: They don't like going extension side back across. So having
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 8: said that, some guys would take Wayne Graham would take
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 8: a left handed hitter and put him in the lineup.
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 8: If your guy was a left handed changeup guy, to
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 8: take that pitch away. Now you were narrowed down to
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 8: two pitches against your left handed hitters. So there's there's
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 8: starts of going now. Like I said, name Cannon. If
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 8: they're more breaker heavy guys than they are change up,
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 8: they have it. But I will tell you what you
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 8: will see this weekend might be one of the best
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 8: change ups in college baseball. And in command of the
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 8: change up as Moss. It is any count at any
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 8: right hitter, left handed hit, it does not matter. And
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 8: to back it up, and he's he's probably I bet you,
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 8: and I don't know. I don't have in front of
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 8: me the data. I bet you he's seventy five percent
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 8: change up. There, seventy percent change up. Well, the ninety
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 8: five min our heater behind it. Wo, but it is
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 8: change up. He'll throw a change straight change up and
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 8: then he gets that finger in front of that thumb
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 8: underneath it and I'm sorry, in front of it and a.
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 2: Man and it'll disappear. Wow. And so he'll throw two
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 2: different types this week.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: And I mentioned TC's playing Baylor in Fort Worth and
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: is like you said about check the rankings every week.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: Check the standings every week in the Big Twelve. Now
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: West Virginia is on top, but they have an uneven
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: amount of games. They're only able to play one of
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: their three games in still Water, and I think unfortunately
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: that's a disadvantage for West Virginia. You'd say that they
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: didn't play the other two games in Stillwater. Oklahoma State
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: struggling this year. So West Virginia is thirteen to three,
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: so there's going to be an uneven amount of games.
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: But the three teams Kansas, Arizona and tc are all
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: twelve and six. TCU comes off losing a series at
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: Central Florida, which is struggling to make the tournament field.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: Because remember only the top twelve make the Big twelve
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: tournament field. The other two schools since Colorado and I
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: was stay, don't field baseball programs. There's fourteen baseballing UH
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: schools in the Big twelve, and UH they're trying to
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: make sure they're in the field. They dropped two or
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: three on the road. Now they're home and they're playing Baylor.
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: Baylor has been up and down and up and down.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: They're eight and ten in the league going in there,
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: but you've got some in Kansas comes off sweeping Kansas
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: State after really struggling. I got swept in Fort Worth,
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: and UH dropped two out of three in another series.
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 2: It's hard to figure out that league.
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 8: Early in the year, I thought K State was the
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 8: team that everybody I saw him early in UH in
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 8: Arlington had watched them. And then they went on ah,
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 8: you know, the first month of February and half of March,
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 8: and I was like, you know what, they're physical, They're
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 8: good enough on the mound, and I think they went
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 8: to Lubbock and watch which, as it turned out, you know,
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 8: Texas not very good. And and so I was kind
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 8: of like, K State maybe is that team? And then
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 8: the name I didn't know it was West Virginia. That's right,
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 8: that's right. The team I didn't know much about was
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 8: and maybe just assume because Mazie wasn't there anymore, Andy
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 8: wasn't coaching anymore, it was West Virginia.
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 2: But West Virginia does what West Virginia always does.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: They open the season running away from the home state weather, right,
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: they go chasing the sun. So they play in Myrtle
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: Beach or they play in Florida. They've even played in Arizona,
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: but mainly on the East coast in the South, so
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: they can get some games. And that's why they've only
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: lost five ball games. But there aren't PI in that
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: great and but they won the conference games they have
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: to win. They're thirteen and three right now. Arizona's been
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: up and down. Kansas State got back on the roll
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: before being swept by Kansas. That's why say, go figure
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: this out. Arizona State has been up and down. Baylor
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: won two out of three at Arizona and dropped two
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: out of three at home to Houston.
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 2: Figure that out.
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 8: You're not gonna and I will say this because you know,
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 8: Texas State went in there the Tuesday before you have
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 8: aged came in and beat them up on a Tuesday,
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 8: I mean really just beat them up. And so you
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 8: don't know what picture is missing. You don't know what
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 8: guys down. You know, men, we know the dynamic here
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 8: because you're respenter being out. We all know that most
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 8: people do because it's such a highly publicize you know,
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 8: program number one and number one in the country. But
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 8: then in near the Friday night guy, everybody in the
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 8: world's gonna hear about it, yep. But you don't know
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 8: what that looks like at Case State. You don't know
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 8: what that looked like at Beata.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 2: I know that.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 8: I know that the last three weeks, four weeks or
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 8: last month, Bader started giving up more runs than what
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 8: they were doing earlier.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 2: In the year.
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 8: And you know, they had a little bit better I
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 8: thought they had better arms this year going into the season.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 8: So I don't we don't know what they've done it,
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 8: but it is that conference. Are you talking about fluid
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 8: as you are? You couldn't mind you. We're gonna look
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 8: up in three weeks and there's no tonne what it's.
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 2: Gonna look like.
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, go and figure that out. Like I said,
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be It's gonna be a Derby all the
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: way to wire. All right, we've got one more segment
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: of the program to go, tying. I'd be back to
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: wrap it up. As we continue from UFC Yudish Fowk Field.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: I'm thirteen under the zone. We get ready to wrap
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: it up from here at UFCU just fog Field with
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: the longhorns taking doting practice right now. Well, the guys
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: taking swings right now. Hit one of the boomingest home
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: runs we've seen this here, the one that Casey Borba
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: hit the other night that just flat out crushed it
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: off of that back wall.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, and that's not common. I mean they hit one year.
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 8: No, it's just not you know what you was interesting.
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 8: I think you'll agree with me on this. The majority
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 8: of his homers or pull side, yep. And that was
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 8: when he hit it, and I mean he got full
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 8: extension and it was like he was lined up, I'm
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 8: hitting this ball the other way or I'm gonna stay
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 8: on it one or the other. And he got to
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 8: the bottom middle of the baseball and it just kept
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 8: going and kept going. And I mean that's not an
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 8: easy part of the park to hit a homer.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: There's a reason teams shift way over for him. Yes, yeah, No,
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: one shift over to the other side because to to
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: the left side, because they're expecting him to pull pull
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: the ball. And then and then one of the lesser
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: mile per hour hits, but was one of the bigger
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: hits of the ball game. Is the guy at the
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: play right now, Gasparino, who's had big hits, but he
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: hit that little blue fly and keep mentioned that, Uh,
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: it was kind of a it was a difficult ball
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: for I'm looking for him now, Samsung qu to pick
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: up because he started back and then about he.
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 8: Started back because you're used to Gasparino took a big
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 8: swing at it. Yep, wasn't It wasn't a soft out
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 8: of balanced sling. It was an imbalanced sling. He just
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 8: capped it and caught.
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: Off the end of the bat and so by the
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: time he got to it, dropped in and kept the
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: inning alive and got run home. That sort of thing. So,
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: all right, the uh, let me ask you this. There's
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: four weekend series left for this team, and none of
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: them are going to be easy. Florida has been hot
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  Speaker 1: of late. They took two or three of Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 1: So the last home series, the senior weekend series, that'll
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  Speaker 1: be Florida here, and then you've got three rival series
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  Speaker 1: end the season with OU. They go to Arkansas next
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  Speaker 1: weekend and obviously these guys here at Texas A and M.
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  Speaker 2: So the question is, as a coach, what do you
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  Speaker 2: do to keep your guys.
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  Speaker 1: Level consistent but but but up and spired enough? How
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  Speaker 1: do you strike the balance with all of that?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I would tell you that this that part of
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  Speaker 8: Jim slash Nagel's magic and influence is they have a
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  Speaker 8: mental coach and Brian Kane, who's really good. He's been
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  Speaker 8: with you know, he's worked with Jim for since he
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  Speaker 8: was way back at TCU. We had him for two
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  Speaker 8: years with us, and he works with Brian works with a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of people.
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  Speaker 8: My point is they they stay so engaged in their routines.
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  Speaker 8: How many times, DEVI, I ass you this, How many
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  Speaker 8: times did Jim slash n Angle use the word routine
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  Speaker 8: around you? Yeah? Yeah, Sai right, So he he thrives
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  Speaker 8: in and his players and they thrive in that routine
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  Speaker 8: and it keeps their emotions at at a level you
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  Speaker 8: know for them and in checks not the right word,
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  Speaker 8: but it helps them stay in that moment through their routines.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I just robbed you in an hour of your day.
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  Speaker 1: You're okay with that? And still doing a ballgame.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll be fun, you know that? All right? It
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  Speaker 2: comes to college baseball, I'm in.
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  Speaker 1: Ty Harrington is all in. He'll be here with us tonight.
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  Speaker 1: We'll bring you the game six forty five pre game
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  Speaker 1: Star time, seven o'clock, first pitch, Texas and Texas A
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  Speaker 1: and M and the Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown Rivalry Series,
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  Speaker 1: Game one of it. Tonight, Ruger Riojas on the mound
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  Speaker 1: for Texas Ryan Prager to go for Texas A and M.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much to Marcus Spears stepping in as our
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  Speaker 1: producer this afternoon. Thanks to Geene Watson joining us as
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  Speaker 1: well in the first hour of the program. We invite
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  Speaker 1: you stay tuned. Cavino and Rich Fox Sports Radio up next.
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