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

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Speaker 1: It's all on my Wednesday. Thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 1: Glad you're here. We're gonna do a little baseball post
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Speaker 1: game from last night. Also, Scott clin Dinnon is here.
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Speaker 1: We'll hear from Mallory and apparently the Rangers are not
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Speaker 1: going to have the al Wes clenched by the time
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Speaker 1: I'd get there on Friday. Nativaldi's off to a disturbing
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Speaker 1: start to begin the season. Nate gave up five two
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Speaker 1: out base hits, left the game early, and Balmer salvage
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Speaker 1: just one game of the three game series, eight to three.
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Speaker 1: The final in that one Bisalo Beavers homering for the Rangers.
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Speaker 1: Seeger had his third home run. Nemo's continuing to hit,
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Speaker 1: but the Rangers pitching staff is already taxed because the
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Speaker 1: starters aren't going deep enough. But they'll get a day
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Speaker 1: of rest tomorrow before opening at home against the Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: Reds on Friday. We will be at that game providing
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Speaker 1: reports for you Friday afternoon. The Astros have won five
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Speaker 1: in a row. In a game you may or may
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Speaker 1: not have heard right here on the zone, six to four.
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Speaker 1: The final big hit a Carlos Correa three run Jimmy
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Speaker 1: Jack in the fifth inning. The Astros win it, and
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Speaker 1: the Red Sox have lost five in a row. The
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Speaker 1: Aggie baseball team continues to play really well on Tuesdays,
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Speaker 1: especially seventeen hits, nine for extra bases. They bomb Sam
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Speaker 1: Houston sixteen to two in a run rule game. Gavin
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Speaker 1: grohovec is still hitting really well, as is Nico Partida,
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Speaker 1: as is Caden Serell. So you know that's gone pretty
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Speaker 1: well for Texas. A and m Jory and Wilson had
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Speaker 1: a home run as well a bomb, his fifth of
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Speaker 1: the season. Cole Hubert two and a third innings had
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Speaker 1: help their am. Now twenty three and five, they will
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Speaker 1: host Vanderbilt beginning with three games Tomorrow night and Friday night,
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Speaker 1: five point forty five on the air on the Zone.
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Speaker 1: Caden Sorel, Nico Partida, and Boston Kellner earning mid season
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Speaker 1: recognition from Baseball America. Sorell selected the mid season College
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Speaker 1: Player of the Year, Partiita named Freshman of the Year.
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Speaker 1: Kellner also getting mentioned as well. He was Freshman All
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Speaker 1: American Second Team n C DOUBLEA Division One Cabinet. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what that is approved emergency legislation today. You
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Speaker 1: know it's got to be important designing to stop programs
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Speaker 1: from side players who circumvent the transfer portal, but the coaches, gms,
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Speaker 1: and attorneys who know the issue are divided on whether
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Speaker 1: that will hold up in court. The legislation approved and
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Speaker 1: poses severe penalties on programs that accept players who transfer
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Speaker 1: without entering the portal, a half season suspension for the
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Speaker 1: head coach, a fine equal to twenty percent of the
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Speaker 1: school's football budget. These are the stiffest fines ever proposed,
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Speaker 1: by the way, But again, will they make it through
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Speaker 1: the courts? Yeah? Probably not. Kaylin de boorr Is telling
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Speaker 1: on Three Sports he knew Michigan was interested in hiring him,
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Speaker 1: said to Bor, I'd have to be living under a rock.
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Speaker 1: I'm not naive. I never talked to anyone, not one time.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how you could live with yourself and
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Speaker 1: look into the player's eyes if you're looking at other
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Speaker 1: opportunities in the midst of the season and getting ready
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Speaker 1: for for a playoff game and making a run at
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Speaker 1: a national championship. Meanwhile, you know this is going to
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Speaker 1: continue to happen. John Andrachek is the head coach at
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Speaker 1: Campbell University, home of the Camels. He resigned today saying
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Speaker 1: they're not going to pay to keep up. Despite months
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Speaker 1: of intense work in collaboration with athletic director Terrific Athletics administration,
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Speaker 1: several creative options proposed explored, there are no pathways that
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Speaker 1: the institution will support to fund the program appropriately moving forward. Again,
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Speaker 1: I don't think we have seen the last of this happening.
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Speaker 1: Tiger Woods has made his first public comments since his
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Speaker 1: crash at Dui Charge on Friday, said Tiger on his website.
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Speaker 1: I know and understand the seriousness of the situation I
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Speaker 1: find myself in today. I am stepping away for a
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Speaker 1: period of time to seek treatment and focus on my health.
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Speaker 1: This is necessary in order for me to prioritize my
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Speaker 1: wellbeing and work toward lasting recovery. I'm committed to taking
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Speaker 1: the time needed to return in a healthier, stronger, more
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Speaker 1: focused place personally and professionally. I appreciate your understanding and
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Speaker 1: support as for privhaecy for my family, loved ones, and
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Speaker 1: myself at this time. The Masters have put out a
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Speaker 1: statement saying, hey, Tiger ain't going to be here this
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Speaker 1: next week, and basically we hope he get help. And
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Speaker 1: the PGA Tour posted a nothing burger response today to
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Speaker 1: Tiger's announcement. But if he is serious, we hope it
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Speaker 1: takes and we hope he can get off the paid
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Speaker 1: edication to which he's been addicted for quite a while.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of the Masters, which starts next week, it's a shocker,
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Speaker 1: but Scotty Scheffler is the listed favor favorite on Bovada
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Speaker 1: betting at plus five hundred. Bryson d Chambeau and Rory
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Speaker 1: are plus eleven hundred, John Rohm plus twelve, Ludwig Oberg
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Speaker 1: plus eighteen along with Xanders Schoffley. Then Cameron Young and
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Speaker 1: Matt Fitzpatrick are on the list. It's a long list.
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Speaker 1: Chris Gottrup, who's been playing well, is plus fifty five hundred,
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Speaker 1: George Speed plus four thousand, along with Brooks Koepka and
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Speaker 1: right now at least again right now, the University of
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Speaker 1: Texas has four of the top ten most expensive football
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Speaker 1: tickets for the coming season. Number one on the list
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Speaker 1: averaging at six No. No, I don't think averaging. I
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Speaker 1: think this is the get in price versus Oklahoma and
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Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl at six hundred and thirty four dollars.
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Speaker 1: The Texas A and M game at Kyle Field second
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Speaker 1: place at six hundred and thirty one dollars, Wisconsin Notre
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Speaker 1: Dame five hundred forty one dollars, Ohio State at Texas
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Speaker 1: five hundred twenty nine dollars, Army Navy four hundred eighteen dollars,
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Speaker 1: lsu Ole, Miss oh That'll be delicious for sixteen, Alabama,
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Speaker 1: Tennessee for fifteen, Michigan, Ohio State for ten Texas Tennessee
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Speaker 1: three ninety and Oklahoma, Georgia at three fifty five. That
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Speaker 1: means teams in the SEC one, two, three, four, five, six,
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Speaker 1: seven have seven of the top ten most expensive get
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Speaker 1: in ticket prices. Right now, kickoff is a long way away,
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Speaker 1: and the Big ten has two and then there's Army
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Speaker 1: and maybe so there you go. Okay, that will catch
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Speaker 1: you up a little bit on some things going on.
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Speaker 1: Scott Clandennon is here at the bottom of the hour.
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Speaker 1: We'll have some topics. We will compare notes on our
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Speaker 1: bracket and his was so similar to mine. I know
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Speaker 1: he's busted out. By the way, if you're playing Sports
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Speaker 1: because I love the one Shining Moment. We will hear
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Speaker 1: and see one Shining Moment Saturday evening, probably not till
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Speaker 1: On the Clark Eisenhower edition of Sports Talk, I visit
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Speaker 1: with Chronicle outdoor writer Matt Wyatt about the devastating freeze
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Speaker 1: in February of twenty twenty one that killed an estimated
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand speckled trout.
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Speaker 5: That freeze and the fishkill that resulted from it, it
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Speaker 5: really put in motion a conservation movement, and what resulted
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Speaker 5: from that is a bunch of regulation changes that have
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Speaker 6: Well, Hello there, my.
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Speaker 1: This is Early Willie. He has done many versions of
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Speaker 1: this great song over the past, but this wouldn't one
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Speaker 1: of the originals.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I guess that I'm doing fun It's been so
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Speaker 6: long now, but it seemed now.
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Speaker 7: That it was all.
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Speaker 6: Yesterday. Gee had it funny.
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Speaker 8: Times?
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Speaker 9: How's your new love?
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Speaker 6: I hope that he's doing fine.
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Speaker 1: So tomorrow we have got our Clark Osenawer Outdoor Edition.
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Speaker 1: We are going fishing on Big Lake Linke Calcashew out
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Speaker 1: of Hackbury, Louisiana tomorrow. Also we'll have a high school report.
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Speaker 1: We will have a preview of Vanderbilt Texas A and M.
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Speaker 1: We will have some spring football, of course, and then
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Speaker 1: on Friday, Ryan will be here and I will be
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Speaker 1: up at Globe Life for the home opener. Finally, the
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Speaker 1: home opener for the Texas Rangers on Friday, and Heaven Grant.
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Speaker 1: Let's see. Mackenzie Gore is going to start that game
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Speaker 1: and have been set up before that. Jacob de Grom
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Speaker 1: was going to start, but de Gram was scratched from
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Speaker 1: his weekend start and last weekend, and so he pitched yesterday.
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Speaker 1: So back to back, what's a little troubling. And if
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Speaker 1: you're a Ranger fan, of course, I'm excited about the
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Speaker 1: four and two start and the fact that they've won
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Speaker 1: two road series. Maybe the stats are staggering, but I
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Speaker 1: don't know. It's been like forty something years since they
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Speaker 1: won two road series to start the season. But the
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Speaker 1: two aces have not been good. This was a second
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Speaker 1: start today of Nate and Valdi. He wasn't good. De
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Speaker 1: Gram had great stuff the way he always does in
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Speaker 1: last night's win, but he didn't make it through five
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Speaker 1: full innings. And I talked to Will, I talked to
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Speaker 1: Louis on his show today and you know, the disturbing
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Speaker 1: part about de Gram is he's got, you know, all
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Speaker 1: world stuff. But he had the issue last year of
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Speaker 1: going deep into games, right, I mean seldom a couple
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Speaker 1: of times. Was seldom to go past six innings. In fairness,
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Speaker 1: most starters don't go past six innings these days. But
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Speaker 1: he just had a hard time. He accumulated lots of pitches,
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Speaker 1: a lot of it because he's a strikeout pitcher. That's normal.
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Speaker 1: Avaldi was not like that. I mean, Avaldi was dominant
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Speaker 1: last year except for the Rangers season. In a better season,
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Speaker 1: may have won the Cy Young But man, he has
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Speaker 1: gotten two off to two really bad starts here in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. He must be better. De Gram is
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Speaker 1: going to be the Grom. His stuff is good. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: that's that. Let's get to Aggie baseball sixteen to two
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Speaker 1: last night. What did I say yesterday? Man, that south
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Speaker 1: wind's blowing out, there's going to be some balls leaving
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Speaker 1: the yard. What happened? Well, there were nine extra base
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Speaker 1: hits by this Aggie team. They haven't had a lot
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Speaker 1: of problems hitting the polotas so far. A couple of
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Speaker 1: home runs Nico Partida is in foygo four more hits,
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Speaker 1: three hits from Goehope, Grahovk. Gonna hear from him here
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Speaker 1: in just a minute. In fact, i'll tell you what
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Speaker 1: Trey We're gonna hear from Gavid Grohovc. First, we'll hear
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Speaker 1: from Michael Early here in just a minute. Grohovic hit
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Speaker 1: a bob like I don't know, seven thousand feet something
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Speaker 1: like that, uh, four hundred and forty three feet and
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Speaker 1: left the bat at one oh nine. I'm telling you
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Speaker 1: that ball was hurting when it got hit. Here's Gavin
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Speaker 1: Grohovc afterwards.
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Speaker 10: Gavin, what's the baseball look like when you're up there?
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Speaker 11: I'm not gonna say a beach ball because that's cliche,
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Speaker 11: but now I'm seeing it, well, right now, it's a
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Speaker 11: little bigger than a cherry, a little smaller than a
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Speaker 11: like more of a bowling ball, a little smaller than that.
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Speaker 10: So so one house the handfield after Friday night.
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Speaker 7: It's good.
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Speaker 11: It's good, obviously, the scary situation, but you know, we
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Speaker 11: may do with what it was, and we're all good now.
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Speaker 10: And then for you, you've had a nice year, but
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Speaker 10: you hadn't seen the ball go out since until least
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Speaker 10: last three games. So how does that feel and how
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Speaker 10: does that allow you to get back to fielding maybe
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Speaker 10: more like your normal something.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's awesome.
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Speaker 11: I wouldn't say I didn't feel like myself. I just
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Speaker 11: you know, I needed to become a more all around
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Speaker 11: player and I felt like I was doing that. And
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Speaker 11: you know, I've gotten good pitches to hit the past
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Speaker 11: couple of games, and I've been producing for the team.
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Speaker 11: So that's really all that matters to me.
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Speaker 12: Away somebody who's been out to hit the ball all
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Speaker 12: your life, Like, what right now feels different? Is that
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Speaker 12: to feel different or is there a moment that clicked
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Speaker 12: for you?
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Speaker 11: Honestly, there was a swing that I took when I
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Speaker 11: was in Missou that I fell straight off to the
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Speaker 11: right side. Uh yeah, there was a story behind that,
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Speaker 11: but that swing honestly got me dialed in. Just keeping
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Speaker 11: me behind baseball is knowing that I can catch a
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Speaker 11: basketball de you can still do damage. So but overall,
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Speaker 11: it's just the mindset I got going right now, just
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Speaker 11: and you know, the trust that this this team and
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Speaker 11: the coach all having me, and you know, I want
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Speaker 11: to produce for the team. So that's what That's what
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Speaker 11: we're doing.
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Speaker 9: Where is this mindset of this team right now?
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Speaker 7: Especially on offense?
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Speaker 9: Just fourth you know, fourth straight double digit love scoring games.
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Speaker 11: Just continue to do damage, don't make any moment too big,
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Speaker 11: treat every inning like we're losing. So you know, we're
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Speaker 11: just gonna go up there were and to continue what
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Speaker 11: we do. We have a great lineup one through nine.
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Speaker 11: Obviously we see that with guys like Jorian hitting balls
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Speaker 11: you know, a mile long. But no, it's a great
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Speaker 11: offense right now, and I'm happy with what we're doing.
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Speaker 10: Who do you think went further yours?
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Speaker 11: Or statistically it said mind by three feet?
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Speaker 9: So have you already read that in this space?
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Speaker 10: Not yet?
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Speaker 2: Y'all hit multiple doubles tonight?
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Speaker 7: Can I know them meeting behind the selly.
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Speaker 11: It's more like we're rocket. It's like a rocket and
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Speaker 11: we're launching the rocket, so more like a rocket launcher.
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Speaker 11: I'll leave it at that.
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Speaker 7: Anything else.
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Speaker 13: As a player, how does it feel to see a
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Speaker 13: young kid like na go PARTI that being able to
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Speaker 13: hit four tonight?
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Speaker 11: It's awesome, man, I love. I mean, they don't feel
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Speaker 11: young like those guys came in and they were ready
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Speaker 11: to work. Those guys they show up like they're it's
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Speaker 11: nobody else's business and they get their job done. And
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Speaker 11: Nico Boston and Jory and whoever else you want to
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Speaker 11: thro out that as a freshmen or younger, like they've
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Speaker 11: done a great job all year.
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Speaker 1: So that's Gavin Grohovic. I just it was just flashed
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Speaker 1: up here. Baylor is playing Minnesota in the college that's
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Speaker 1: that postseason tournament in Vegas where they're paying people. It's
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Speaker 1: the quarterfin Well, I know they're paying people, but I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know, extra, what's it called.
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Speaker 7: The College Basketball Crown?
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Speaker 1: College Basketball Crown. That's in Vegas, right, it is in Vegas.
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's a postseason tournament. And they got
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Speaker 1: some teams together, and I'm probably the first one to
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Speaker 1: ever talk about it outside of Waco. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: didn't even know Baylor was playing. Honestly, maybe this is
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Speaker 1: the first game. If it's the quarterfinals, maybe they have
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Speaker 1: you know, like eight teams in the tournament. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how many teams are in the tournament. And do
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Speaker 1: we know is it televised somewhere? I mean, these games
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Speaker 1: are almost always televised, but FS one is doing well.
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Speaker 1: I knew somebody had to be doing it, and who
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Speaker 1: else is playing? We've got the bracket. The field is set,
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Speaker 1: is what it says.
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Speaker 14: Oklahoma, Colorado, Oh you Colorado, Stanford, West Virginia, Rutgers, and Creighton.
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Speaker 14: So's there's four games, right or did they start before that?
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Speaker 1: That's got to be the only teams playing. I mean
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Speaker 1: eight teams, right, and they're playing two, four, six, eight
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Speaker 1: eight teams? I think anyway, it doesn't matter. I I
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Speaker 1: didn't know this was going on until I saw it
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Speaker 1: scrolled eight teams. Yeah, wow, Okay, hey, you know, is
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Speaker 1: this going to take over the n I because you
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Speaker 1: know the NCAA owns and runs the n IT as well. Right,
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Speaker 1: they took that over up I don't know how many
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Speaker 1: years ago, and depending I guess on how much money
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Speaker 1: they pay. I mean that's the incentive, right, you go
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Speaker 1: to Las Vegas, you get some extra cash. That's not bad.
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Speaker 1: Guys are going to be playing basketball anyway, you know,
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Speaker 1: even though they're not in the tournament. The season's over.
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Speaker 1: It beats practicing. How much winner gets three per per
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Speaker 1: per person the team? Okay, the team gets three hundred thousand, Okay,
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Speaker 1: so what twelve players? Thirty twenty five.
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Speaker 9: A man is an NL prize pool.
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Speaker 1: Oh it's a pool. Okay, Okay, Well, I mean, hey,
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Speaker 1: like you go to Vegas. How many of those guys
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Speaker 1: have already given back twenty thousand dollars at the tables? Right?
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Speaker 1: Because normally you'd say, hey, they're all freshmen, but mostly
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Speaker 1: all these guys are twenty four and twenty five and
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Speaker 1: twenty six years old these days, so they're they're legal
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Speaker 1: to be at the tables. Maybe next year instead of
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Speaker 1: going to the NCAA, Bucky can take the team to
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas. We can go cover that. Yeah, he probably
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Speaker 1: probably wouldn't go for that. Okay, back to baseball. Sorry,
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Speaker 1: we got diverted. I didn't. I mean I had read
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Speaker 1: about this tournament. I didn't know what was going on.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know who was playing in it. But hey,
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Speaker 1: pay the man. Okay.
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Speaker 15: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Let's hear from the skipper, Michael Early after last night's
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Speaker 1: beatdown of Sam.
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Speaker 10: Houston, coach, what has been the key to the offensive
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Speaker 10: success over the last a week and a half or so?
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Speaker 13: Now thing, I mean, we got a secret we got
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Speaker 13: I think we got some really good players and on
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Speaker 13: the balls in the zone, they're hitting hard. I think
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Speaker 13: they gave us a few tonight, just not some great
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Speaker 13: outfield play by them, but balls didn't play, hitting hard
23:53
Speaker 13: and for the most part, scoring runners.
23:55
Speaker 7: When he was supposed to score.
23:56
Speaker 10: When it comes to Gavin Grohovic in the last three games,
23:59
Speaker 10: he said, what are you seeing from him that's leading
24:02
Speaker 10: the success?
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Speaker 7: He's like ball's travel. He avan's got a really tight,
24:05
Speaker 7: short swing, and when he gets out in front, that
24:07
Speaker 7: doesn't play. So he lets ball's travel.
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Speaker 13: And get to him get deep because he works hard.
24:12
Speaker 13: He's blessed to be big and strong. That's a recipe
24:14
Speaker 13: for success. And I think he's dode a really good
24:15
Speaker 13: job controlling and strike something.
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Speaker 12: Another guy who's seen the ball well, Jordian Wilson, what
24:19
Speaker 12: do you see in.
24:20
Speaker 7: Front the own pressman.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean it's hard to look past a couple
24:25
Speaker 13: of his plays on the on the field right now.
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Speaker 7: I mean, he's got to be better than that. And
24:28
Speaker 7: I know he's better than that. He's got to play
24:29
Speaker 7: more aggressive.
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Speaker 13: But yeah, I mean he's I know he can hit
24:33
Speaker 13: homers right, and that's awesome, that's great, But over the
24:36
Speaker 13: course of time, homers hommers winny games. But we need
24:39
Speaker 13: to play good defense, So not to shy away from
24:42
Speaker 13: the question, but I'm still got that in my mind.
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Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean he's he's a very extremely talented kid.
24:48
Speaker 13: When that's when that ball finds the barrel, where that
24:51
Speaker 13: barrel finds the ball.
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Speaker 7: He's got a chance to hit it really hard.
24:53
Speaker 13: Going back to that number, one's the last time he
24:55
Speaker 13: saw a ball play right field bleachers. We've had some
24:58
Speaker 13: pretty good left handed pretty good have tanned hitters here
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Speaker 13: over the course of a couple of years.
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Speaker 7: So it's an impressive homer.
25:03
Speaker 13: But I've seen a couple of our guys go on
25:05
Speaker 13: the road a few times, and Sorell sure has a
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Speaker 13: few in there as well.
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Speaker 9: It's kind it feels like when you guys score sometimes
25:12
Speaker 9: you score a drove. Just what is about this group
25:14
Speaker 9: that they just st are able to win? Everything's good,
25:16
Speaker 9: it's it's really good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: I just think we got a deep line up. I
25:18
Speaker 13: mean that's you know right now, one through nine, it's
25:22
Speaker 13: pretty it's you know, we want to be relentless, we
25:25
Speaker 13: want to be methodical throughout the lineup, and I think
25:28
Speaker 13: they do that and they kind of feed off it.
25:30
Speaker 13: And you've got a lot of talented guys when it's
25:32
Speaker 13: not doing great, you don't know who's going to be
25:34
Speaker 13: the guy that started. I think Labuda let off a
25:36
Speaker 13: couple of those innings hit by pitch or a walk,
25:40
Speaker 13: and I think you might have come back around once
25:41
Speaker 13: or twice. But just it takes one guy to spark it.
25:44
Speaker 13: And I mean, you got a deep line up. There's
25:47
Speaker 13: times where you don't know when we're starting them. You
25:50
Speaker 13: know the leadoff hitter, right, you know, lead off once
25:51
Speaker 13: in a game, it can it can be anywhere.
25:53
Speaker 7: And that's that's what they've been doing so far and lately,
25:56
Speaker 7: and it's been great.
25:57
Speaker 5: Blake Bitroup has a hit in all but one of
25:59
Speaker 5: his start Just what does he bring whenever?
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Speaker 9: You know he does, got the opportunity.
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Speaker 7: That for one he's producing, he's producing.
26:07
Speaker 13: And I said to Monaco earlier, and I loved the
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Speaker 13: Steve Smith quote, like people say we have depth, and
26:12
Speaker 13: like you're just a guy. You're a jag if you're
26:14
Speaker 13: just playing right, You only have depth if you play well.
26:17
Speaker 13: Right now, he's you know, his players lay into place.
26:19
Speaker 13: He's he's playing, he's doing well. And those guys are
26:22
Speaker 13: bringing up off the bench like they're finding ways to
26:24
Speaker 13: contribute and too. Like again, it's only depth if they
26:27
Speaker 13: play well or contribute in somewhat.
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Speaker 10: Would you see from the two arms in the back
26:31
Speaker 10: off of the game, Vincent and Power.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, Vincent had the good one ink and then after
26:35
Speaker 7: that like that was him.
26:37
Speaker 13: After that he kind of lost a little bit, uh clearly,
26:41
Speaker 13: so he's still work in progress. I mean, I'm not
26:44
Speaker 13: sure how many times this year he's pitched in two
26:45
Speaker 13: different innings, so learning experience from him.
26:48
Speaker 7: Pitched down a little bit because we were scoring. He
26:52
Speaker 7: just lost it.
26:52
Speaker 13: But Powell was great, He was great. We wanted to
26:54
Speaker 13: get him out there today and I'm glad we did so.
26:57
Speaker 13: He did a nice job. I told him after the
26:58
Speaker 13: game too, I don't I don't look at the scoreboard
27:02
Speaker 13: when you come into pitch or when you're hitting, like
27:04
Speaker 13: you have a job to do. So if that's a
27:06
Speaker 13: one run ball game, he comes in with nobody, nobody
27:09
Speaker 13: out to guys.
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Speaker 7: On and he gets out of it.
27:10
Speaker 13: And that's why you know he got the lineup card
27:12
Speaker 13: today because I thought that was a huge, huge thing
27:15
Speaker 13: to come in and do.
27:16
Speaker 12: To that point, you talk about just how deep in
27:18
Speaker 12: you than one through nine as a manager, how challenge
27:21
Speaker 12: is to kind of put a line up, you know
27:23
Speaker 12: what's so many guys and so many options that should
27:25
Speaker 12: have deserve to be in that line up, and.
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Speaker 13: A given night once on well one, two, three is
27:29
Speaker 13: pretty easy and you always get when you're laying those
27:32
Speaker 13: guys in there, and.
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Speaker 7: Then after that it's you know, we've been mixing around
27:34
Speaker 7: with right field and d h.
27:36
Speaker 13: I think this weekend the trio of t K, Jorian
27:40
Speaker 13: and Bendy all played in two games, so that's that
27:44
Speaker 13: part's good. And then when you know, getting bare off
27:46
Speaker 13: his feet, we did it last week. Just you know,
27:47
Speaker 13: we got a shorter week this week and we want
27:50
Speaker 13: to keep it fresh. But when that, I think part
27:52
Speaker 13: of it too is like that bottom the order is
27:53
Speaker 13: getting on base. I think Kellner might be leading the
27:56
Speaker 13: team in waltzers leading then walks Bear might have the.
27:58
Speaker 7: Ice on base. Mood is on base twice today, so
28:01
Speaker 7: that eight nine getting on for you know, the top
28:04
Speaker 7: is really good.
28:04
Speaker 10: You mentioned the short week. How nice is it to
28:06
Speaker 10: be done early in your midweek when you have a shortest.
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Speaker 13: It's always nice to be done early. I prefer to
28:12
Speaker 13: play seven as long as we win.
28:13
Speaker 7: They had one more re dinner. But yeah, it's good.
28:16
Speaker 7: It's good because it's a Wednesday.
28:18
Speaker 13: Practice changes this week and that's why I told them
28:20
Speaker 13: after the game, like Wednesday's usually we're pretty light kind
28:24
Speaker 13: of guys, kind of just hitting the cage, do our
28:27
Speaker 13: live abs, get him.
28:28
Speaker 15: Out of here.
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Speaker 7: Thursday focused on the other team.
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Speaker 13: Well, it's a lot quicker, right, we're gonna be going
28:32
Speaker 13: over all the Vanderbilt stuff and then getting ready to go.
28:34
Speaker 12: Yeah to that point short week, use four arms today?
28:37
Speaker 12: Is that how you executed and wanted to go? And
28:39
Speaker 12: you know what type turn around there?
28:42
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean we've you know, our bullpen's our bullpen,
28:45
Speaker 13: and why I think it's enough.
28:46
Speaker 7: It's just enough, right, And we got to in.
28:49
Speaker 13: Times like that when you get other guys out there,
28:50
Speaker 13: plus you get to see guys and how they can
28:52
Speaker 13: help you.
28:52
Speaker 7: And Grant was great again, and I thought Cole was fine,
28:56
Speaker 7: Like Cole is fine. Not not as good as it
28:58
Speaker 7: was last week, but he got us off to.
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Speaker 13: A decent start. And seeing Vincent should have flashed of
29:04
Speaker 13: what he can be. Right, he's ninety three, ninety five
29:05
Speaker 13: with a.
29:06
Speaker 7: Big breaker, just got to get a little more control.
29:08
Speaker 7: And then getting a guy like Cooper out there.
29:10
Speaker 13: It's another left He's going to run it up three
29:11
Speaker 13: to four and has a good little cutter and it
29:13
Speaker 13: gets split.
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Speaker 7: I don't think he threw to day, but yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's Michael Early after the win. Again, Vanderbilt in for
29:21
Speaker 1: three starting tomorrow evening at six. We're on the air
29:25
Speaker 1: at five forty five tomorrow and five forty five on
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Speaker 1: Friday and then Saturday afternoon to complete the three game
29:34
Speaker 1: Easter weekend series. And this team continues to hit. It
29:39
Speaker 1: looks like the wind is going to still stay in
29:44
Speaker 1: the south at least until Saturday. So pop it up,
29:48
Speaker 1: blow it out. But when you're hitting the ball one
29:51
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29:54
Speaker 1: don't really need the south wind to help. It just
29:57
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30:01
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Speaker 1: Having Kanty and Michelle are unsportsmanlife.
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Speaker 8: There is a little bit of a choke factor when
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33:32
Speaker 1: Hello Walls, Hello Walls. If I'm not mistaken, and I'm
33:42
Speaker 1: seldom mistaken about this this kind of stuff. These songs
33:47
Speaker 1: came out of an album called and then I wrote
33:55
Speaker 1: Funny How Time Slips Away? Hello Walls Crazy. Those are
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Speaker 1: the three of the songs that are on that album.
34:04
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking as about nineteen sixty one when that
34:09
Speaker 1: album came out. Scott Glndennon is here. It is all
34:13
Speaker 1: Willie Wednesday. We were just talking some Major League baseball.
34:20
Speaker 9: But before we go there, Yeah, I did hear a
34:22
Speaker 9: Willy song today.
34:24
Speaker 1: That you had not heard?
34:25
Speaker 20: Oh no, that okay, it from my all time favorite. Okay,
34:28
Speaker 20: don't hear it enough?
34:29
Speaker 1: What is it?
34:31
Speaker 9: Well? It's in his top ten songs, and I don't
34:35
Speaker 9: hear it enough Okay, okay, I'd have to be crazy.
34:39
Speaker 1: Oh I love that song.
34:40
Speaker 9: I love that song.
34:41
Speaker 1: Seve from Holtz wrote that song, yes, and performs on
34:44
Speaker 1: that song in the background.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
34:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great song. It's a great song. Do
34:48
Speaker 1: you know when I first heard that song, it wasn't
34:50
Speaker 1: Willy singing it. I heard Steve Fromholt sing that song.
34:54
Speaker 1: And I saw him a couple of times when I
34:56
Speaker 1: was in school. He was a big deal. He's a
34:59
Speaker 1: great song. But he opened for Steven Stills in Dallas
35:06
Speaker 1: in the early seventies. Okay, it was a summer and
35:10
Speaker 1: I went and saw that and he opened for Stills.
35:15
Speaker 1: And when he announced the title of that song, you know,
35:19
Speaker 1: there was laughter in the audience. I'd have to be
35:21
Speaker 1: crazy to fall out of love with you, basically. And
35:28
Speaker 1: so I remember that song distinctly when he backed up
35:33
Speaker 1: Stephen Stills. So, and I think Steve Fromholtz, I believe
35:39
Speaker 1: this is right, died in an accident.
35:44
Speaker 9: I'm going to look it up.
35:44
Speaker 1: Okay, look and see. I feel like he died in
35:49
Speaker 1: an accident, falling out of a deer stand or something
35:52
Speaker 1: like that. I could be wildly wrong, could be another
35:56
Speaker 1: singer songwriter I'm thinking about from that area. I know
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Speaker 1: he died fairly young.
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Speaker 20: Yeah, no, he did Texas Music Hall of Fame in
36:04
Speaker 20: two thousand and three.
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Speaker 9: Okay, twenty fourteen, temple. Let's see here. Uh yes, rifle
36:17
Speaker 9: fell from its case and discharge.
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Speaker 1: Oh I didn't. I didn't remember that.
36:21
Speaker 9: I didn't route to the hospital.
36:22
Speaker 1: Oh good gosh.
36:23
Speaker 20: He was preparing to hunt Farah Hoggs who were killing
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Speaker 20: the baby goats on his ranch near his residence outside
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Speaker 20: El Dorado.
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Speaker 1: Okay, amazing, Okay, I knew it was an accident. I
36:36
Speaker 1: thought it involved hunting. I didn't remember it was that.
36:39
Speaker 1: But that's but anyway that today it's just yeah, you know, yeah.
36:45
Speaker 9: Why don't I listen to this song enough?
36:47
Speaker 1: Right? Right?
36:49
Speaker 20: I get that he not Willie only has a thousand
36:53
Speaker 20: of those he does.
36:54
Speaker 1: And I pulled I pulled out the the Shotgun Willy
36:59
Speaker 1: album like last year when I'm traveling, right, and I
37:02
Speaker 1: just I just threw that up because I've got about
37:04
Speaker 1: one hundred of his albums downloaded. I don't know, but
37:07
Speaker 1: I just pulled that one up. And my wife goes,
37:10
Speaker 1: that's a really good album. After it's done, right, yes,
37:13
Speaker 1: and go yeah, that's a really good album. It He's
37:16
Speaker 1: got a lot, He's got a lot of those, and
37:19
Speaker 1: he's not finished. He has a new one coming out
37:21
Speaker 1: at the end of this month, just in time for birthday.
37:25
Speaker 1: Birthday and the picnic Yep Yep coming out this month. Okay,
37:32
Speaker 1: major League Baseball, Okay, let's do major League Baseball and
37:35
Speaker 1: I have this is this is very difficult. No, yeah,
37:38
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm apologizing. I had. It's difficult to do.
37:43
Speaker 1: I had the Rangers clinching the Als by their seat,
37:47
Speaker 1: by their home opener on Friday. You did, I did.
37:50
Speaker 1: I said it. I'm not I'm not walking it back.
37:54
Speaker 1: I said it. I believed it at the time.
37:56
Speaker 9: But now, but I think it's changing a playoff Berth.
37:59
Speaker 1: No, I'm thinking that it's it's going to be mathematically
38:04
Speaker 1: impossible for that to happen by Friday. I'm thinking since
38:07
Speaker 1: they lost today.
38:08
Speaker 9: But a playoff Berth.
38:09
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, definitely.
38:12
Speaker 9: Okay, Oh yeah, I mean you can shift it to
38:14
Speaker 9: a playoff.
38:15
Speaker 1: Birth No, I'm not shifting anything. I thought they were
38:17
Speaker 1: going to clinch the division by by Friday. A Valdi
38:23
Speaker 1: was terrible.
38:24
Speaker 9: Second, mean, he's going to with a one point fourteen.
38:27
Speaker 1: I don't know he'll get it. He'll get it going.
38:29
Speaker 1: Maybe he will. He's too good and less unless there's
38:33
Speaker 1: something bothering him that we don't know about, right, because
38:36
Speaker 1: that would explain a lot, because this is we haven't
38:40
Speaker 1: seen this but a Ranger fans have not seen this
38:44
Speaker 1: native Yes, Rangers, they have not seen that native ball.
38:47
Speaker 20: Mean, the Red Sox did eventually and they said your
38:50
Speaker 20: career is over, let's get rid of you.
38:52
Speaker 1: And then well that was stupid, was it? Yeah? That
38:56
Speaker 1: was stupid?
38:57
Speaker 9: No, because he went to the Rangers.
38:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're you're hoping he's gonna be like this all
39:01
Speaker 1: season and unless unless there's an injury, there's no way
39:04
Speaker 1: he'll be like this. He's too good.
39:06
Speaker 9: Why do I have to hope of that?
39:08
Speaker 1: Because of these like this all season? The Rangers are
39:11
Speaker 1: gonna have trouble. They're their bullpen has already shot and
39:14
Speaker 1: there's six games into the season, right, because again, I
39:18
Speaker 1: know it's early.
39:19
Speaker 6: Uh uh.
39:20
Speaker 1: Last night, to Gram was limited to eighty pitches and.
39:25
Speaker 9: This was to make up for the start he didn't
39:27
Speaker 9: do on the weekend.
39:27
Speaker 1: That's correct, He was still limited to eighty pitches. Okay,
39:31
Speaker 1: because it was his opening opening start, and for the
39:36
Speaker 1: most part he was really, really good. But the home
39:42
Speaker 1: run ball has bothered him. It's bothered both EVOLDI and
39:46
Speaker 1: to Grom at times.
39:49
Speaker 20: But unless you play somebody better than Baltimore, doesn't really matter.
39:53
Speaker 1: Well, I mean he was, he was sailing. I mean,
39:56
Speaker 1: you know when he's pitching well and right, it's like, good, gosh,
40:01
Speaker 1: he's unhittable, right, I mean he was unhittable stations. Oh no, no, no, no, no.
40:07
Speaker 1: Now they won their game last night even though he
40:09
Speaker 1: had a three Yeah, yeah, they won two out of three.
40:12
Speaker 1: They won two out of three against at Philly. They
40:14
Speaker 1: won two out of three here, first time they've opened
40:17
Speaker 1: the road with two back to back road winning series
40:22
Speaker 1: to open the season, and like maybe the history of
40:25
Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers.
40:26
Speaker 9: So why are you not.
40:29
Speaker 1: I'm a little concerned about about the two best pictures
40:32
Speaker 1: that they have on this roster right now. I'm not
40:36
Speaker 1: concerned about de Gram. His stuff was filthy last night.
40:39
Speaker 1: It was his first start. I think he'll be fine.
40:42
Speaker 1: I'm more concerned about a VOULDI. It doesn't add up
40:45
Speaker 1: right now, and that's why I'm concerned. There may be
40:47
Speaker 1: something going on with him that we don't know about,
40:51
Speaker 1: because that's just not what we've seen from him. And
40:55
Speaker 1: he's just getting lit up. He had five he gave
40:59
Speaker 1: up five two strike hits today. Okay. Usually his stuff
41:03
Speaker 1: is way good enough to put stuff away, right, to
41:06
Speaker 1: put batters away, right, And he gave up five two
41:09
Speaker 1: strike hits and that's really unusual for him. Okay, we
41:13
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Speaker 21: Make it four wins in a row for the Houston
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Speaker 21: Astros as Hunter Brown tossed six smooth innings and Jordan
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Speaker 21: Alvarez continue to rake offensively, smashing his third home run
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Speaker 21: win over the Red Sox by a score of nine
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Speaker 21: to two. Brown earns his first win of the year.
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Speaker 21: His final line red six innings, just wonder and run.
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Speaker 21: his first home run of the year as the Astros
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Speaker 3: Of our batch being able to get into bullpen's it's
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Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 9: A two on the.
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Speaker 6: Zone live is a picture and I play the lead.
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Speaker 1: But my can you see the difference and can you
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Speaker 1: understand why Willie eventually left Nashville with with these highly
44:22
Speaker 1: produced songs, strings in the background, the echo and the mic.
44:30
Speaker 1: You know when when he when he turned in Redheaded Stranger,
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Speaker 1: they said, hey, uh, you know we like the songs.
44:38
Speaker 1: When when is the final cut cut gonna come? You
44:41
Speaker 1: know it? I mean we we kind of like it,
44:44
Speaker 1: but but when are you going to do all of
44:45
Speaker 1: the production and when do we get to hear that?
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Speaker 1: And Willie's like, no, no, no, you have the album.
44:51
Speaker 1: The album is finished. They're like, no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: no no, you can't turn anything like that in. But
44:58
Speaker 1: I mean just different day difference, right, and and the
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Speaker 1: production and everything.
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Speaker 9: Maybe we can hear I have to be crazy. We
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Speaker 9: can do that back.
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Speaker 1: We could do have to be crazy. It's not oh no,
45:11
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's it's later Willy. It's Austin Willy.
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Speaker 9: It's Austin will Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Compared to compared to this, Yeah, compared to the big
45:19
Speaker 1: production Nashville Willie, Yes, Okay.
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Speaker 20: Do you have the thing where he uh talks Texas history?
45:26
Speaker 20: Do you have that album?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I think I do, Yes, Yeah, and then he he
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Speaker 1: he has the Texas song, yeah, and a couple others. Yeah,
45:37
Speaker 1: he does the u uh Davy Crockett I think on
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Speaker 1: that album pretty sure. In fact, I know he does
45:43
Speaker 1: because I heard Paula play it not too long ago. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we'll do, we'll get to I'd have to be crazy,
45:50
Speaker 1: that's by request. Okay. Astros baseball, they won five in
45:54
Speaker 1: a row. They're they're hitting the ball. Yes, they're pitching
45:59
Speaker 1: pretty decent.
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Speaker 9: Pretty decent. Yeah, you were exactly right, But Garrett.
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Speaker 1: But I said, Garrett Crochet, you know who had been
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Speaker 1: who was lights out in the opener at Brilliant last year,
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Speaker 1: and the Astros let him up today. I didn't listen
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Speaker 1: to the game or watch it, right, I know Correy
46:17
Speaker 1: has three run shot home run in the fifth was
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Speaker 1: the end of Garrett Crochet.
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Speaker 20: Crochet is seventeen and fifteen and two in his last
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Speaker 20: seventeen starts and his two loss or to the s.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so the Astros have his number, Yes, I have
46:32
Speaker 1: his number. Okay, I didn't know that going in too bad.
46:34
Speaker 1: They don't have his agent's number. Yeah, probably got the
46:39
Speaker 1: devil anyway, so they know how to hit him.
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Speaker 20: Well, knowing how to hit crochet and actually do it
46:44
Speaker 20: are two different things.
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Speaker 9: But no, after the first two games they have.
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Speaker 1: Figured him out. No, I'm saying, oh the first two
46:53
Speaker 1: games that they lost. Yeah, yeah, yes, you were there
46:56
Speaker 1: last week, right, travesty. You had just said there's no
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Speaker 1: way on the air. You had just said there's no
47:03
Speaker 1: way they pitched the Mike Trout in a scoreless game.
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Speaker 1: Pitch Did I say, no way they pitched Mike Trout?
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Speaker 20: Why would you pitch the Mic Trout? Was I incorrect
47:11
Speaker 20: in my.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember what you said. No, I said you'd
47:16
Speaker 1: have to be I pitched to Mike Trout and a
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Speaker 1: scoreless Dame Nelson could change the word the words. The
47:22
Speaker 1: words hadn't gotten out of your mouth until until uh
47:26
Speaker 1: he he hit one a moonshot, right, yes, I mean
47:32
Speaker 1: just the go what are you doing? And then somebody else, Homer,
47:35
Speaker 1: I forget that they had another solo home.
47:37
Speaker 9: The guy behind me. Was it back to back?
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Speaker 15: No?
47:41
Speaker 1: Okay? The three run home run okay.
47:44
Speaker 20: Because they went back to walking Trout and saying, well, well, yeah,
47:46
Speaker 20: he's not going to beat us. No, he's not gonna
47:48
Speaker 20: beat us. And was that guy did hit it? Off
47:52
Speaker 20: of Christian Row.
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Speaker 1: So I was upset, okay, but you off you were
47:59
Speaker 1: on Christian Walker's case. Yes, And the following game he
48:03
Speaker 1: went on that game, No, No, I know he got
48:06
Speaker 1: a hit.
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Speaker 9: He gotta hit.
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Speaker 1: He's horrible, and I understand what I'm talking about. On
48:11
Speaker 1: the weekend he like had two or three rabbis, I know.
48:15
Speaker 1: So you think it was your calling him out that
48:16
Speaker 1: woke him up.
48:17
Speaker 20: Well, they're not playing Jeremy Pangy yet only played that
48:20
Speaker 20: one game.
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Speaker 1: And did he get hurt? Is that why he hadn't
48:23
Speaker 1: played it?
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Speaker 9: No, he was.
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Speaker 20: He was hurting, and I think that they figured out that,
48:27
Speaker 20: you know, maybe we need to give what's.
48:28
Speaker 1: Wrong with him again? Broken finger okay, broke it in
48:32
Speaker 1: the okay? Oh yeah? And Baseball Classic yes okay, yes, okay,
48:38
Speaker 1: but so played short yes okay.
48:44
Speaker 9: But this league really does not want to.
48:47
Speaker 1: See has been pretty good by the way.
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Speaker 20: Uh yeah, well this is the batting averages through the
48:55
Speaker 20: game today.
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Speaker 1: Now he had a knock at an RBI today, yes, okay.
49:01
Speaker 9: Jordan Alvarez four seventeen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's smoking home run six RBIs.
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Speaker 9: Which really should be four home runs.
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Speaker 1: I think yesterday al TV had four hits.
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Speaker 9: Right, Yes, he had four hits, two home runs.
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Speaker 1: He had another hit today, yep, so.
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Speaker 9: Three forty eight.
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Speaker 1: Christian Walker, I don't know how Oh I've got I've
49:20
Speaker 1: got the ba's right here. Three thirty three. Christian Walker
49:24
Speaker 1: is hitting three thirty three. The guy that you want
49:25
Speaker 1: to give up.
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Speaker 20: Yes, he's hot trading now.
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Speaker 1: He had a single an RBI today.
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Speaker 9: What about parades?
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Speaker 1: Parades had a double a an RBI and he is
49:35
Speaker 1: hitting two twenty seven.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, he was two seventeen to four.
49:38
Speaker 1: Okay, so he kepped his average today.
49:40
Speaker 9: Yeah, Korea three ninety six.
49:42
Speaker 1: What do you have? Correa is hitting two ninety six. Yeah,
49:47
Speaker 1: and then the bottom of the order really falls off. Yeah.
49:51
Speaker 1: Den Myers, Matthews, z uh and Diz didn't play today.
49:57
Speaker 1: Viasquez caught today. U. But the bottom third of the
50:02
Speaker 1: order is is like Bendoza territory.
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Speaker 9: Yes, but it doesn't really matter.
50:07
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter to scoring.
50:10
Speaker 20: You know, Valvarez and al Tuve are doing what they're doing. True,
50:18
Speaker 20: that is not what the American League West wants to see.
50:21
Speaker 20: Is a healthy ord On Alvarez play one hundred and
50:23
Speaker 20: fifty games?
50:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, The question is Canny I mean, that's the question, right,
50:28
Speaker 1: can't he do it?
50:28
Speaker 9: He's got stolen base is your chip?
50:30
Speaker 1: No way he does That's awesome.
50:34
Speaker 20: But I think that you know, pitching, pitching, middle relief
50:38
Speaker 20: has been good, okay. You know, starters have been okay.
50:44
Speaker 20: You know you have Burroughs today, Burrows.
50:49
Speaker 1: Five, five hits, two runs. Yeah, not terrible, struck out six.
50:52
Speaker 1: But he did walk three.
50:53
Speaker 9: Yes, uh, quality start for Hunter Brown.
50:57
Speaker 1: By the way of all, they walked three today. That's
51:00
Speaker 1: that's about two and a half more batters per game
51:02
Speaker 1: than he walks in eight innings. Right, yes, so I'm
51:06
Speaker 1: that's why so you say something's wrong, That's why I'm concerned,
51:09
Speaker 1: because he just doesn't walk batters. And again he didn't
51:13
Speaker 1: give up you know, hits with two strikes very often,
51:16
Speaker 1: and so that, yeah, there there is some concern there.
51:19
Speaker 20: And you were exactly right with your commentary yesterday about
51:26
Speaker 20: las m.
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Speaker 1: Kullers.
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Speaker 9: That was not overthrowing pitching, cutting up the Red Sox
51:34
Speaker 9: lineup over and over again.
51:37
Speaker 1: Well, look, when he's been healthy, he can he can
51:40
Speaker 1: do that to any any lineup, right, He's done that
51:43
Speaker 1: historically to any lineup. But that's a huge phrase when
51:46
Speaker 1: he's been healthy, yes, because he missed two years.
51:49
Speaker 20: But he's also But the other thing is, is he
51:51
Speaker 20: been healthy? Well, I don't want to see him go
51:55
Speaker 20: out and try to do more than he can and
51:58
Speaker 20: put his health at risk. He was not trying to
52:01
Speaker 20: reach back and throw ninety five miles an hour. Okay,
52:05
Speaker 20: he doesn't throw the curveball like he used to. That
52:08
Speaker 20: was causing strain on his elbow. He has a different picture,
52:12
Speaker 20: and you can be a successful pitcher.
52:14
Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 1: A lot of these guys learn that. A lot of
52:17
Speaker 1: them don't learn it right, But a lot of them
52:19
Speaker 1: do because they use the experience that they've had and
52:23
Speaker 1: they've become crafty veterans, right, Yes, and they understand they
52:27
Speaker 1: don't have to strike every batter out that they face,
52:30
Speaker 1: and when you're younger, a lot of guys don't. There.
52:33
Speaker 20: He also posted out nine because he was still able
52:37
Speaker 20: to stay away from the walk.
52:38
Speaker 9: I think he had a walk in his last inning
52:40
Speaker 9: he was out there.
52:41
Speaker 1: How many innings you throw yesterday? Seven? Yeah? You know
52:45
Speaker 1: Rangers would kill for a pitcher to go seven innings
52:47
Speaker 1: right now? So the Aggies, yeah, no kidding, what are
52:51
Speaker 1: they going to do with SIDEO? We talked about this
52:54
Speaker 1: every week. They're gonna leave him, Yes, they're gonna leave
52:56
Speaker 1: him for now. Yes, okay, Chip.
53:00
Speaker 20: It's kind of funny because in twenty twenty two, week
53:04
Speaker 20: after week we talked about the fact that A and
53:06
Speaker 20: M cannot continue to win by bashing people when you
53:11
Speaker 20: don't have pitching starting pitching because it wasn't there. Okay,
53:16
Speaker 20: you can't do it at some point in time, it's
53:19
Speaker 20: gonna fail you. Well, it failed against Oklahoma and the.
53:23
Speaker 9: Cult World Series.
53:24
Speaker 20: They lost the two games they played Oklahoma in the
53:26
Speaker 20: Cult World Series, they made their run. This offense and
53:30
Speaker 20: how it's going is significantly better than that. And I
53:33
Speaker 20: don't know, if you want to talk deeper, yes, and
53:37
Speaker 20: the bad with more guys that have pop and more
53:40
Speaker 20: guys at that pop, still more guys on the.
53:42
Speaker 1: Bench right deep deep? Yeah, I mean, uh, what about
53:48
Speaker 1: labudhat Catcher last night?
53:51
Speaker 9: I gave Bear some time off.
53:52
Speaker 1: I mean it's not yeah, yeah, I know it was
53:54
Speaker 1: a big deal, but yeah, you know, I thought.
53:58
Speaker 9: It was kind of interesting considering how Sam Houston wants
54:02
Speaker 9: to run.
54:03
Speaker 20: That's given you put some trust out there, and Labuda
54:06
Speaker 20: is going to be able to control the running game.
54:09
Speaker 20: And you know, Sam had a couple of steals, but
54:11
Speaker 20: it wasn't and also the score got out of hand.
54:17
Speaker 1: Jorian Wilson in the field has not been particularly pretty yet.
54:22
Speaker 20: Jorian Wilson will do something in each game that you
54:25
Speaker 20: sit there and say, that's a young.
54:27
Speaker 1: Shake your head, and you shake your head. But then
54:30
Speaker 1: he'll hit one five hundred feet you go, fo nine.
54:33
Speaker 20: They added a foot to that. It was four thirty nine.
54:36
Speaker 20: I have a picture of the track man that says
54:38
Speaker 20: it's four thirty nine, and here we are fluffing stats
54:41
Speaker 20: and making it four forty when it was only four
54:44
Speaker 20: hundred and thirty nine feet.
54:45
Speaker 1: Well, Grahovic mentioned, you know with my postscape comments that
54:49
Speaker 1: that hey, his was three feet more. So now you're
54:51
Speaker 1: saying officially four feet it was four feet bore.
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Speaker 9: I mean, I'll show you the picture here during the break.
54:57
Speaker 1: But that's funny. No.
55:00
Speaker 9: I just think that you know, four teams, four teams
55:06
Speaker 9: that at either.
55:08
Speaker 20: The BIGS or the top of college baseball. If you
55:12
Speaker 20: can slug like this, you have a chance to win
55:15
Speaker 20: all the time. Seattle won last year because they slugged,
55:19
Speaker 20: not because all of a sudden they they'd always been pitching,
55:22
Speaker 20: but they went out and got guys at the at
55:25
Speaker 20: the you know, at the trade deadline that would hit
55:28
Speaker 20: and they became the team that you know, nobody wanted
55:30
Speaker 20: to see.
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Speaker 9: I mean, the Yankees didn't pitch very well last year.
55:34
Speaker 20: They did, but they still slugged. Yeah, so that's basically
55:38
Speaker 20: what the game is now. Your Rangers could pitch last year,
55:42
Speaker 20: but you couldn't slug.
55:43
Speaker 1: Could not couldn't hit anything. So you're right, Okay, we
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