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July 28, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 2: Chip Howard is not here again for anybody you know,
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Speaker 2: go to the internet. There's still pictures out there. You
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Speaker 2: can see him. He does exist, and I heard there
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Speaker 2: was a sighting of him in Brian College Station today.
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Speaker 2: So we'll see Chip is on vacation, which means yeah,
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Speaker 2: as a listener, you probably should have taken a vacation,
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Speaker 2: but instead you're here with Robert Sessa, the Brian College
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Speaker 2: Station Eagle. I will be joined eventually by cohort Alex Miller.
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Speaker 2: You know, College Station is a big place. It's not
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Speaker 2: like he grew up here. It's easy to get lost
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Speaker 2: and those things happen. And I know we're all fighting
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Speaker 2: this deal that it's really hot out there. The good
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Speaker 2: new news is this show will be even hotter than
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Speaker 2: that once Alex gets here. But until he gets here,
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Speaker 2: I forget it. You got to put up with I'm
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Speaker 2: not going to talk about the meetings today. I moved
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Speaker 2: on from that, but talking about the heat to start
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Speaker 2: out with, I'm a Yankee. I grew up Pennsylvania. What
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Speaker 2: I like about heat? It does get hot in humid
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Speaker 2: in Texas, and you never sometimes really know how hot
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Speaker 2: it is until you leave and come back, like Alex
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Speaker 2: and I went to SEC Media Day. As soon as
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Speaker 2: you get off that plane in Austin, you're going, yeah,
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Speaker 2: welcome back to Texas. But I have to laugh at
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Speaker 2: is people say it's never hot at the beach. You know,
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Speaker 2: I'm not a beach person. Can't even swim. Why would
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Speaker 2: you learn to do that there wasn't you know, why
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Speaker 2: would I learn to do that? Alex could attest to,
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Speaker 2: I don't want to learn anything more than I need
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Speaker 2: to know. So anyway, the wife grew up in Tampa.
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Speaker 2: She went to the Bahamas every summer, so the beach
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Speaker 2: is part of her name. So we have to go
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Speaker 2: to the beach every summer. Spent two weeks in Naples
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Speaker 2: and guess what, it was ninety five ninety six every day,
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Speaker 2: which was great because you want it to be hot
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Speaker 2: when you're at the beach, but it's fun when you're
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Speaker 2: not at the beach. You don't want it to be hot.
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Speaker 7: Now.
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Speaker 2: Of course, when you're at the beach, you know, when
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Speaker 2: you're a news beach, you let it all hang out,
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Speaker 2: you know. And we wanted a news beach, and I
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Speaker 2: could tell everybody my wife's office just fell off their chair,
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Speaker 2: like you guys wants beach. No, it's Naples. At Naples
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Speaker 2: had some cos my age, it's hard just to get
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Speaker 2: our clothes on. Why would you take them off? But anyway,
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Speaker 2: it was unconditionally warm actually for Naples, so it was
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Speaker 2: a good deal. But you come back here and you
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Speaker 2: have to work and it's this hot, uh not not
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Speaker 2: a good deal in Alex. Welcome in Alex right now,
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Speaker 2: hey sees, and Alex spent time at a cooler beach
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Speaker 2: on his honeymoon because Alex married Alex. Flip them it's
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Speaker 2: Alex and Alex. Congratulations again on the wedding. But you
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Speaker 2: guys went to Monterey, not Mexico, California. Right was it
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Speaker 2: thirty degrees?
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Speaker 7: It was cool. It was upper sixties and sunny the
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Speaker 7: whole week. It was amazing. And while we were there,
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Speaker 7: we uh, we saw something that Texas has had had
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Speaker 7: had its first one hundred degree day of the year,
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Speaker 7: and I thought, thank goodness that we are not in
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Speaker 7: college station right now.
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Speaker 2: But you know, let's be honest. I sign up for heat.
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Speaker 2: When I grew up, I always said this, and I've
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Speaker 2: said this a million times on the air of my show.
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Speaker 2: You wait for a school bus with snow up to
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Speaker 2: your knees, You'll find a way to get where it's hot.
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Speaker 2: I will not complain about the heat. I will gladly sweat.
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Speaker 2: Even though I've been here more than five decades, I
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Speaker 2: still remember those bone chilling times out waiting for the buses,
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Speaker 2: have to get up to go to church, and I
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Speaker 2: go do you have to go to church today? It
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Speaker 2: looks like it's snowed in. Get up, We're going to
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Speaker 2: church and go. Okay, I'll take the heat any day.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 7: One of the best parts of going to SEC media
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Speaker 7: days is getting to catch up with your rider colleagues
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Speaker 7: from around the league. And so I was talking with
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Speaker 7: one of my rider buddies. He covers Auburn and he
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Speaker 7: had gone to Missou and so I was talking to him,
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Speaker 7: and see, I think when you were deciding where to go,
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Speaker 7: you were between A and M and Missouri back in
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Speaker 7: the nineteen seventies, Is that right? Those were two of
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Speaker 7: the schools you were looking at.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they were. I got accepted at Missouri, I was
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Speaker 2: taking going to take undergraduate. I had a degree, it
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Speaker 2: was gonna take some journalism courses. I got accepted in Missouri,
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Speaker 2: A and M. And the fact I'm so old I
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Speaker 2: forgot the third.
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Speaker 7: Well, fast forward forty years, a young Alex is deciding
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Speaker 7: where to go to school. I got into A and M,
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Speaker 7: Auburn and Missouri, and one of the reasons I chose
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Speaker 7: not to go to Missouri was I decided that there
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Speaker 7: was no way I'd survive winner no way. And I
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Speaker 7: I was telling this sports writer buddy that and he's
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Speaker 7: He's like, yeah, man, there were a couple of times
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Speaker 7: that it got down in like negative fifteen twenty degree
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Speaker 7: windschill And I said, and that is why I did
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Speaker 7: not go to school there.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you got to look at the quality of life.
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Speaker 2: I never came here thinking I would spend the rest
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Speaker 2: of my life here. But I came here because of
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Speaker 2: the heat, because of a major university.
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Speaker 8: Uh.
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Speaker 2: And when I got here, the sports was great, the
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Speaker 2: the heat was great. I love the heat. I love
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Speaker 2: the fact you get out in the cargo ninety mile
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Speaker 2: an hour and you get get a lot of places
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Speaker 2: Back in Pennsylvania Hills you couldn't do that. And that
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Speaker 2: is time of all is great place to raise a family,
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Speaker 2: and you're part of that. You you're a hometown boy,
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Speaker 2: so you understand how that goes. But the heat. I'll
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Speaker 2: take the heat, and uh but I hope I don't
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Speaker 2: have to go out and cover a lot of And
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Speaker 2: in practice, that's the beauty of being old. Alex can
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Speaker 2: be out there when they need to be. I as
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Speaker 2: I get older, I get out the less and less
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Speaker 2: practices because uh, I wait to say, played Missouri State.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, football practice it's brutal, but hey, you
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Speaker 7: learn some of the best stuff out at practice, and
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Speaker 7: that's where you really get to You get to see
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Speaker 7: what's going on, who's who, who's making waves, who's rising
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Speaker 7: up the depth chart. You know. I can remember a
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Speaker 7: couple of years ago, a lot of people wanted to
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Speaker 7: talk about what Donovan Green was gonna bring to the
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Speaker 7: table coming off his injury. Well, you went out to
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Speaker 7: practice and it's like, Hey, there's this guy named Trey
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Speaker 7: Watson and he's really getting all the looks and I
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Speaker 7: think he's gonna be the guy in LO and behold
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Speaker 7: it was him.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I just want to give Arabella synopsis. This is
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Speaker 2: you know, a lot of days A and M Missouri
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Speaker 2: Texas would take over the SEC network. The Eagle has
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Speaker 2: taken over Chips Show today. So if you want to
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Speaker 2: join in, you can go and text us, which is
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Speaker 2: probably better because who has a phone anymore except me?
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Speaker 2: Nine seven nine almost almost cave up my own cell
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Speaker 2: phone number. No one would ever call that nine seven
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Speaker 2: nine six.
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Speaker 7: Nine seven nine six nine three eleven fifty.
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Speaker 2: And tell your audience who who just jump popped in
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Speaker 2: there talking.
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Speaker 7: I'm the guest host, the producer, the whatever you want
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Speaker 7: me to be.
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Speaker 2: When does your host your last show host yesterday?
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Speaker 7: Oh wow, yep, I was.
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Speaker 2: So busy I didn't listen.
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Speaker 7: But that hurts.
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Speaker 2: He had part of the Riders round table.
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Speaker 7: Then right, yeah, so you're the other half today.
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Speaker 2: You're even part of the Riders round table? Whatever? Man,
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Speaker 2: I guess man, I hate to miss Rusty. I would
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Speaker 2: like to go ahead and call in and point out
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Speaker 2: that today, if the Major League Baseball playoffs started, the
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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Pirates would be in the playoffs. Am I gonna
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Speaker 2: get struck by lightning? Holy cow? Unbelievable?
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Speaker 7: And then schemes would give up eleven runs and the ski.
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Speaker 2: But you'd also strike out eleven. He'd strike out eleven,
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Speaker 2: give up eleven and uh, It's like, did he forget
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Speaker 2: the pitch? Has he been to many brothers too many times?
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Speaker 2: I'd like to know what his weight is?
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Speaker 8: Is?
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Speaker 2: What's the deal? I mean, it's like, how could you
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Speaker 2: take the best pitcher in baseball and suddenly everybody else
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Speaker 2: around I mean, okay, let me brack this off. Probably
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Speaker 2: about six or seven people around him in one of
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Speaker 2: the worst Major League franchises in the last ten years
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Speaker 2: are playing better than he is. Now I'm glad they are,
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Speaker 2: but I go, Skemes is gonna kick in. And of
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Speaker 2: course I was so busy at aus L and I
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Speaker 2: don't I don't buy MLB online or whatever. You get
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Speaker 2: too addicted. I just do game tracker because it's nice
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Speaker 2: about game tracker. Is I got busy. I wasn't able
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Speaker 2: to watch the Pirate Game. I day, I turn on
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Speaker 2: a hit game tracker. It's like seven eight, now, okay,
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Speaker 2: forget about that. Don't have to worry about the rest
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Speaker 2: of the next hour. And you go like, what did
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Speaker 2: he do? Did he not even show up? And then
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Speaker 2: I find out he struck out eleven and they lose
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Speaker 2: eleven enough. That's hard to do.
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Speaker 7: That is hard to do.
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Speaker 2: It's hard to do. But anyway, get you caught up
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Speaker 2: on the show. You can join us, you can address
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Speaker 2: any one of us three here in the booth. And
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Speaker 2: it gets real bad. He is a producer, so suddenly
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Speaker 2: it goes it goes dead.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, blame me.
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Speaker 2: He figured the dead air is better than what we're saying,
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Speaker 2: which might not be that bad an idea. And uh,
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Speaker 2: if you actually want to talk to a human being.
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Speaker 2: Rowley would answer your phones at six nine three eleven
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Speaker 2: point fifty, and she could probably tell you where to eat,
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Speaker 2: if what movies you need to go see, things like that.
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Speaker 2: You know exactly. Oh, this is a crowded booth. This
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Speaker 2: has happened before. Stand the Man Okay here remember Stand
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Speaker 2: the Man musical going off the air. Okay, we've got
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Speaker 2: Stand the Man is learning to be the next producer.
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Speaker 2: And I can honestly say, God bless you. You know
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Speaker 2: you work for Chip Whoo man. You gotta be able
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Speaker 2: to know music, sports, politics.
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Speaker 7: Chip's a renaissance man. He's a renaissance man and.
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Speaker 2: He's probably been the Renaissance Festival too. They probably have
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Speaker 2: him on display about down there.
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Speaker 7: Huzza, hussa.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna hop right. I don't need a board.
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Speaker 2: You're just gonna tell me what we do? Is we go?
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Speaker 2: No problem? I know everybody. I know my full little
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Speaker 2: listeners from the old days out there. You're not going
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Speaker 2: to blay this. But I walked in about three minutes
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Speaker 2: before we ready to go on there? Am I right?
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Speaker 2: What was it? Two?
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Speaker 9: Hey?
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Speaker 7: Those three? Those three more minutes for me?
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Speaker 2: True but you're not hosting, you're the celebrity to be doing.
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Speaker 2: Here a couple of things bookkeeping today, the Bombers Browsers
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Speaker 2: Valley Bombers made the TCL Playoffs for the twentieth straight year.
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Speaker 2: You know how many times I've seen Bombers games, twenty
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Speaker 2: years I can remember. I was like to tell people
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Speaker 2: they played their first playoff game at the Kapel Copperhens
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Speaker 2: and they played I Want to See Baby on Compel
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Speaker 2: High School. They played on a high school field.
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Speaker 7: Did you go up and cover it?
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Speaker 2: I went up and cover it for the Eagle, And
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Speaker 2: I was doing color with a guy named gay Bach
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Speaker 2: who went on World World Famous the gay Buck. Not
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Speaker 2: gay Buck that was on tech SAgs and it is
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Speaker 2: mister raggy and all that. But gay Buck who was
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Speaker 2: sold half the real estate Brian Cotn Station. Well maybe
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Speaker 2: only maybe only two thirds, but maybe the only Uh
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Speaker 2: we go four tenths and give Hunter Goodwin the other
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Speaker 2: I gotta be careful who I'm who I make mad
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Speaker 2: or say whatever Hunter did the other six tenths.
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Speaker 7: You know, have you have you seen the mock up
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Speaker 7: of these game day houses suites that that Gabes posted
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Speaker 7: about on social media. They've got like they're gonna build
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Speaker 7: this new like area of Uh they're like they look
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Speaker 7: like they're game day sweet houses and where they got
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Speaker 7: to build them out like Villa Maria. It's like kind
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Speaker 7: of right behind traditions, kind of your brass is Christian, Okay,
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Speaker 7: and uh but look at you. I mean they look phenomenal.
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Speaker 2: They take food stampsters.
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Speaker 7: There's probably a little higher than that.
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Speaker 2: See, but I'm sure gay let me stay there free
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Speaker 2: a weekend or something. You know, when they're playing Missouri
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Speaker 2: State or someone powerful like that, you know what the
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Speaker 2: band might.
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Speaker 7: Hey, hi, Hey, don't talk about Missouri State like that.
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Speaker 7: Big bad Bears come into town.
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Speaker 2: They don't have Patina, Patrino Patino or Patrino coaching. Hey,
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Speaker 2: that's why you're alone. Just to correct me as always.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, the Bombers play tonight at seven o five
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Speaker 2: at Avinsota's Bunker Bunker or Bunkerfield.
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Speaker 7: Or bunker Field where the Savannah Bananas played too long ago.
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Speaker 2: And what's amazing is I've covered enough Bombers games when
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Speaker 2: they played Victoria Generals a lot of times a brand
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Speaker 2: new rosters, but just something with the Victoria plays. The Bombers.
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Speaker 2: They get after it. They don't really like each other,
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Speaker 2: which is good anytime you have a rivalry. Just like
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Speaker 2: I'll talk a little bit later about the USL Championship.
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Speaker 2: It was the Talons. I think that's right, Talons, Talons,
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Speaker 2: How are you pronounced it versus I can always pronounce
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Speaker 2: the Bandits. You could tell they had history. So it's
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Speaker 2: always good when you play somebody like that that has history.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, Bombers, tonight might be the last game of
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Speaker 2: the year because obviously the best of three series switches
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Speaker 2: down to Victoria, and Victoria since they've entered the league,
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Speaker 2: they've just been about as successful as the Bombers, and
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Speaker 2: it's tough to win down at Riverside Stadium. I've never been.
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Speaker 2: But getting back to going up to do the game
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Speaker 2: with Bot, with with Gabe, if I'm not mistaken, Randy
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Speaker 2: my Son went with us. He rode up there and
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Speaker 2: I met a gave up there. Of course, of course
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Speaker 2: we did the game. And to just think twenty years
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Speaker 2: they're still playing Tip you're out to Ury and the Bombers,
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Speaker 2: And of course there's a lot of controversy. I don't
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Speaker 2: know the controversy. The news with two teams this summer,
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Speaker 2: and he's going to Avisota. I'm just gonna say, which
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Speaker 2: I can't say because I'm a JOURNALI it's gonna be
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Speaker 2: much better when the bombers you're back in town next
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Speaker 2: year for everybody, because now Avnsota was great what have you.
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Speaker 2: But it's hard to get in the car and go, hey, hey,
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Speaker 2: let's let's drive. I don't care if it's only fifteen
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Speaker 2: miles and say what you will. I've lived. I've lived
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Speaker 2: in both towns. If you go from one end to
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Speaker 2: the town the other end, sometimes the wife will go,
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Speaker 2: do we have to go to a dinner over there?
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Speaker 2: That's the other side of town. That's fifteen minutes. So
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Speaker 2: you know, sometimes you can get Tonvinsota quicker than you
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Speaker 2: can get from North Bryan to South College Station or
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Speaker 2: vice versa. Traffic.
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Speaker 7: So well, that's certainly true where I live.
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Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, he lives out on the other side
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Speaker 2: of Novisota. I go through the Nevisaouda, Oh, I went
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Speaker 2: to Nevisoda. I went too far. I need to turn
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Speaker 2: around and go back and pick up Alex. And then,
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Speaker 2: speaking of things to cover or watch tomorrow night A
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Speaker 2: and M has their celebrity softball game the football team
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Speaker 2: and I went last year and you go. Ah, I
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Speaker 2: strongly recommended if you're an A and M football fan
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Speaker 2: or a softball fan, to go out for a couple
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Speaker 2: hours because everybody's relaxed, nobody's wearing helmets, and you know,
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Speaker 2: last year you could see Trey zoom up closed. You
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Speaker 2: can see all the players. They have a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: I forget the coach that runs runs things and give
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Speaker 2: them a mic and uh.
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Speaker 7: Was a trueer tailor trooper tailor.
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Speaker 2: But I'm just saying this. They're gonna have food trucks there,
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Speaker 2: so don't worry about dropping over in the heat or
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Speaker 2: whatever like any A and M event. Uh, while this
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Speaker 2: one's free, still bring your wallet for some for some
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Speaker 2: deals and you'll be covering it. Yeah.
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Speaker 7: I'll be out there tomorrow night. And I didn't get
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Speaker 7: to go last year. I think I was on vacation
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Speaker 7: when when we when they had that. But I do
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Speaker 7: think that this year they're gonna have a bigger crowd
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Speaker 7: because it's been it's been publicized and marketed a little
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Speaker 7: more in advance. I remember last year it kind of
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Speaker 7: came together all very quickly, at the last minute.
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Speaker 2: You didn't know what you're gonna get, and you didn't you.
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Speaker 7: Didn't know what it was gonna be. It was the
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Speaker 7: first time they'd done it, and it seemed like it
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Speaker 7: was a success, and they're bringing it back again this year,
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Speaker 7: and you know, just a fun way to kick off
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Speaker 7: things before the start of preseason practice. Guys are going
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Speaker 7: to go home this weekend one last time. They report
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Speaker 7: next Tuesday. Practice starts next week and yeah, it's gonna
18:13
Speaker 7: elcoes relax.
18:14
Speaker 2: Head coach Mike Elkoes relaxed. He gets along well with
18:17
Speaker 2: softball coach trisia Ford. He usually comes to a couple
18:20
Speaker 2: of games every year, So you'd like to see that
18:24
Speaker 2: among coaches that respect what the other does. And it's
18:28
Speaker 2: just hard when they're having their seasons, and you can
18:30
Speaker 2: be honest with football Mike, Mike Elko goes twenty four
18:35
Speaker 2: to seven, so it's hard. He doesn't really have that
18:38
Speaker 2: much of a vacation, so these are times when he
18:41
Speaker 2: can relax as well and have a good team. Oh
18:44
Speaker 2: my gosh, is that Louis Blina? Is it celebrity day?
18:47
Speaker 2: Like you said, Chip Howard was in here earlier and
18:49
Speaker 2: Louis and is the Louis Bellina right, Oh my god.
18:53
Speaker 7: Hey, I need to get a guest appearance when he's
18:55
Speaker 7: testing these Bluebell flavors with Tony Catalina. Oh really, they've been,
19:00
Speaker 7: they've been. They've been getting these ice cream reviews over
19:03
Speaker 7: the last few months and blue Belt and they've got
19:08
Speaker 7: They've got a good nil deal with Bluebell apparently.
19:11
Speaker 2: So it looks like Louis's been going to the A
19:13
Speaker 2: and M workouts. He looks like he's in shape. I
19:17
Speaker 2: mean hopefully he sharpened his mind too with the body,
19:20
Speaker 2: so we'll see how that works. So hopefully we'll get
19:23
Speaker 2: him on PROG panel again this year. And I can't
19:26
Speaker 2: think if I was ahead of him this year or
19:28
Speaker 2: not that that was I put last year behind. I'm
19:30
Speaker 2: just worried about this year.
19:32
Speaker 7: Look, the only there's one thing that matters in Prague.
19:35
Speaker 7: Well there's two things. If you get on the top row,
19:38
Speaker 7: that's a win, right, But the thing that matters the most.
19:41
Speaker 7: Do not finish behind the dog. Don't finish behind the dog.
19:45
Speaker 7: And so far I may not have been on the
19:48
Speaker 7: front row every year, but I have not finished behind
19:50
Speaker 7: the dog in my three years doing progue and.
19:52
Speaker 2: Here's uh you talk about much like a football season.
19:57
Speaker 2: A lot of people, when I do talk to the
19:58
Speaker 2: masking and beyond the panel whatever, they want to be
20:01
Speaker 2: Chip Howard. So I give Chip props for you know,
20:04
Speaker 2: be having that rep. A lot of people want to
20:07
Speaker 2: beat him, and adding Louis the last few years, I
20:10
Speaker 2: know a lot of people want to beat Louie too.
20:13
Speaker 2: So when you you you want to be where people
20:16
Speaker 2: want to be. You want to be that Nick Saban
20:18
Speaker 2: whatever you do, you want to have that people have
20:21
Speaker 2: that edge, and you want to be the best producer
20:24
Speaker 2: and top this guy off. You know, you got a
20:26
Speaker 2: ways to go. Man, stand a man, you got to
20:29
Speaker 2: you gotta. You're falling the legend there in the producer's world,
20:32
Speaker 2: so him.
20:33
Speaker 7: You've also just reminded me though that my dad's approval
20:37
Speaker 7: of me over the next four months is about to
20:39
Speaker 7: be determined abound where I'm standing in the prog panel.
20:43
Speaker 2: So well, that along with and sometimes it's funny because
20:49
Speaker 2: media gets reflected what the team you're covering is doing.
20:54
Speaker 2: It's like if A and M has another great years.
20:57
Speaker 2: Oh man, you read the legal or day? Did you
21:00
Speaker 2: turn on KBTX, did you watch Tech sag oh Man.
21:05
Speaker 2: Whereas if they lose someone man that's Susana sucks, so
21:09
Speaker 2: does Miller. Louis doesn't know Louis and Luci, they don't
21:13
Speaker 2: know what they're talking about. It's amazing what wins and
21:16
Speaker 2: losses will do or not do for the media. And
21:20
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Speaker 11: Electric Brett need to know your how you rank strength
22:03
Speaker 11: of conferences? Do you need the national champ? Is it
22:06
Speaker 11: about your middle and bottom? Because you know that's the
22:09
Speaker 11: SEC versus Big ten debate?
22:10
Speaker 9: Right, Yeah, Yeah, that's how it goes. Trust me. I
22:13
Speaker 9: hear about it all three hundred and sixty five days
22:15
Speaker 9: there on Twitter. It's the never ending battle. Yeah. So
22:19
Speaker 9: a couple of different ways you can look at it, And
22:21
Speaker 9: I mean some people just look off the who wins.
22:23
Speaker 2: The national title.
22:24
Speaker 9: If that's the case, then how come nobody told told
22:27
Speaker 9: us that the ACC was the hardest when Clemson kept
22:29
Speaker 9: winning national titles. I think it goes deeper than just
22:31
Speaker 9: who wins the national title. The way that I like
22:34
Speaker 9: to do it is how many teams you know are
22:36
Speaker 9: playoff contenders? Because we saw last year it's just getting
22:40
Speaker 9: into the bracket and see what happens. Sometimes it's the
22:42
Speaker 9: crap shoot, you know, who gets hot in January, who's
22:45
Speaker 9: dealing with injuries? Or now, I hate to say it,
22:48
Speaker 9: but coaching changes. I think the SEC still because hang
22:51
Speaker 9: out with.
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Speaker 5: Louis weekdays eleven to two on the z on elevel
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Speaker 5: and fifty AM and ninety three point seven FM.
23:08
Speaker 2: Out in the s EXAs town of al Passo. Good song.
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Speaker 7: I wouldn't have picked that one for you.
23:16
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's great.
23:18
Speaker 8: Time would find me in Roses Canteen music would play
23:22
Speaker 8: and nude.
23:25
Speaker 7: See when we go on road trips, you. I always
23:28
Speaker 7: ask you, what do you want to listen to? And
23:30
Speaker 7: you're kind of just like love that song?
23:31
Speaker 5: I love?
23:32
Speaker 2: They did another one. Uh, they did a lot of
23:34
Speaker 2: songs with the cantina. Did you think of their name? Right,
23:37
Speaker 2: Jane Americans?
23:38
Speaker 7: Right, this is Marty Robbins. But the remake of it.
23:46
Speaker 2: Somewhat okay, And that voice you hear, it's like anybody
23:52
Speaker 2: that knows me's gonna shock this. I forgot Caleb's name,
23:57
Speaker 2: you know, And and I said first, like I said,
23:59
Speaker 2: I know your name, Biblical Connor. You know, it's like
24:03
Speaker 2: wherever you seeing Connor in the Bible, maybe the one
24:06
Speaker 2: you lost, Maybe it's that you left. Maybe it's that
24:09
Speaker 2: Bible you left.
24:09
Speaker 7: It in the message Bible.
24:11
Speaker 2: What's up?
24:12
Speaker 7: Could be the message bable?
24:12
Speaker 2: Okay, he left in our room. He left his Bible
24:16
Speaker 2: in the room, and I left my dress shoes and
24:20
Speaker 2: some people say I probably left my brains there, but.
24:22
Speaker 7: Yeah, and your phone in the ubercr but I.
24:24
Speaker 2: Got that right back. Yeah. Other than that was a
24:28
Speaker 2: great trip, you know, Yeah, I didn't leave my phone
24:31
Speaker 2: in the uber car. That was that was panic time.
24:34
Speaker 7: That was an all times cease cease moment. And the
24:37
Speaker 7: funniest part was, you know, ceases in the hotel lobby
24:40
Speaker 7: trying to figure out what to do, and here comes
24:42
Speaker 7: the woman who was the next passenger, and she goes,
24:45
Speaker 7: is this your phone didn't ce Yes?
24:48
Speaker 2: The guy that helped me at the Marriotte, really nice guy.
24:54
Speaker 7: He helped us several times.
24:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, and when we checked in, he.
24:57
Speaker 7: Probably thought these bozos have no clue how to When.
25:00
Speaker 2: We checked in, my credit card was declined, which it
25:04
Speaker 2: shouldn't have been. And this wasn't my fault. But of
25:06
Speaker 2: course when your credit card gets declined, you just we
25:09
Speaker 2: just flew in from Austin. I go, what uh? And
25:13
Speaker 2: so this guy was real nice. I can't believe that.
25:15
Speaker 2: So I had to call my wife make sure whatever,
25:17
Speaker 2: make a long story shirt. So we got all worked
25:18
Speaker 2: out and it was my fault. So when I leave
25:21
Speaker 2: my credit card in the in the uber, we see Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
25:27
Speaker 2: four days later, I go into and the guys and
25:30
Speaker 2: the guy's working the desk again and I go, you're
25:33
Speaker 2: not gonna believe this, LaMarcus. But I just let my
25:36
Speaker 2: phone in the uber and he was never missed to be.
25:39
Speaker 2: He goes, oh, we'll work on that. Mister says, it's
25:42
Speaker 2: really nice, guy, just it's it's nice. And I said,
25:46
Speaker 2: you know, on this trip, I told him you're my
25:48
Speaker 2: guardian angel and I need lots of them, and he
25:51
Speaker 2: was laughing.
25:52
Speaker 7: You know, when Seas retires, all the fun stories could
25:57
Speaker 7: be put into a book of all the crazy shenanigans
26:00
Speaker 7: that went down on these trips.
26:02
Speaker 2: But you know the word ceases in the Bible too.
26:05
Speaker 2: You know a lot of times some people say, I
26:08
Speaker 2: need to see what I'm doing right now. But Caleb, Caleb,
26:11
Speaker 2: if you want to text this or I want to
26:13
Speaker 2: give a shout out to Caleb the biblical name, and
26:17
Speaker 2: uh not Caleb and and Abel or Cain and Abel
26:21
Speaker 2: Caleb and Jacob or Joshua. But it's ninety seven nine
26:25
Speaker 2: six nine oh eleven fifty right, I think sixt nine
26:29
Speaker 2: three close enough. They know where they're at. But anyway,
26:32
Speaker 2: and Alex is here and stand the man and uh Riley,
26:37
Speaker 2: I hope we've got more listeners than we got people
26:39
Speaker 2: in the office. I mean, Louis counts as a fourth.
26:42
Speaker 2: He went by, so man, we I should have brought
26:45
Speaker 2: food for everybody. But anyway, moving forward one place. Unfortunately,
26:51
Speaker 2: Alex and I will not be next week, and we
26:54
Speaker 2: offered to go. We wouldn't have been have any hesitations.
26:58
Speaker 2: The A and M men's basket ball team gets to
27:01
Speaker 2: go play some exhibition games over in the Bahamas. I've
27:07
Speaker 2: never been to Bahamas. Jessica has been the Bahamas countless
27:10
Speaker 2: time since their mother's from there, but I've never been
27:12
Speaker 2: to the Bahmas.
27:13
Speaker 7: I've never been either. But hey, this is the first
27:16
Speaker 7: of two trips that the men's basketball team has taken
27:19
Speaker 7: Obahamas because they're playing in that tournament over Thanksgiving week
27:23
Speaker 7: as well. No, this is a really good thing, I
27:26
Speaker 7: think for Bucky McMillan's team, because, look, the fact of
27:30
Speaker 7: the matter is that last year it took him about
27:34
Speaker 7: a month to really get going and figure things out,
27:37
Speaker 7: and this just gives them some, you know, game experience
27:42
Speaker 7: to get a new group gelling together, playing with one another.
27:48
Speaker 7: Mackenzie and Bacco's back from injury, Zach Clements is coming
27:52
Speaker 7: back from a little bit of a minor foot deal
27:55
Speaker 7: that he had to have surgery on. They've got a
27:59
Speaker 7: ton of incoming talent. They did a phenomenal job in
28:03
Speaker 7: the transfer portal, as I'm sure Chips listeners remember hearing
28:07
Speaker 7: about in the spring, But this is a great chance
28:11
Speaker 7: for them to go down and just have a good
28:13
Speaker 7: team bonding experience and get to get to work as
28:17
Speaker 7: a team as well.
28:20
Speaker 2: Most important, is there one thing you think is more
28:25
Speaker 2: important than the other that Bucky's looking to get accomplished
28:30
Speaker 2: gone down there.
28:31
Speaker 7: I really just think that that they just need the
28:34
Speaker 7: game reps so that when the season starts they can
28:38
Speaker 7: hit the ground running. And I think that they've got
28:43
Speaker 7: they've got a really solid non conference schedule, and not
28:47
Speaker 7: that not that they suffered any horrific losses last year,
28:52
Speaker 7: but maybe they if they play a team like Oklahoma State,
28:56
Speaker 7: they won't lose by twenty seven because they're out of sorts.
28:59
Speaker 7: Or if they're playing a team like Central Florida and
29:02
Speaker 7: they've got a twelve point lead in the second half,
29:04
Speaker 7: like they're not going to surrender that and lose that game.
29:07
Speaker 7: And maybe that's the difference between a seed line or two.
29:09
Speaker 7: When it gets to March and you're looking at non
29:12
Speaker 7: conference resume, holistic body of work, that maybe that's two
29:16
Speaker 7: more wins quad win wins and on your your your
29:20
Speaker 7: team sheet that gets you a seed line or two.
29:24
Speaker 7: Up on selection Sunday.
29:27
Speaker 2: If I'm not mistaken, I looked this up when I
29:29
Speaker 2: did go to a couple of BUCkies presses when you
29:32
Speaker 2: were on your honeymoon vacation. I think all programs are
29:37
Speaker 2: allowed to take one foreign trip now every year. It
29:39
Speaker 2: used to be like once every four years.
29:41
Speaker 7: Correct.
29:41
Speaker 2: So my question is how many you think of SEC
29:44
Speaker 2: of conference out there in the Cunning Edge? You know
29:48
Speaker 2: how many approximately the sixteen or taking one of those
29:51
Speaker 2: trips this year? Is a lot of them? Or you
29:53
Speaker 2: don't know.
29:53
Speaker 7: I'll be honest, I haven't really looked into it because
29:56
Speaker 7: I've been away, but I'm interested to know. But on
29:59
Speaker 7: one hand, like if they're gonna lot you to do
30:01
Speaker 7: that and you're an SEC program, I mean, I don't
30:03
Speaker 7: see why you wouldn't because yeah, it's a win win,
30:08
Speaker 7: And I mean I don't think anybody's gonna complain about
30:11
Speaker 7: getting to go to the Bambas for five weeks and
30:13
Speaker 7: get to play three games of basketball with your buddies.
30:16
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I know, some people in my wife's office
30:20
Speaker 2: is gone, and you know this would be a good
30:23
Speaker 2: time for honor if Gary Blair's gone. So you can
30:25
Speaker 2: set up and standing and coach from the stands, you know,
30:28
Speaker 2: like like we do, like make decisions and be a
30:31
Speaker 2: great place to And I know Gary's got a busy
30:35
Speaker 2: schedule all the time, but he's given up his guest
30:39
Speaker 2: celebrity hitting deal, so he won't be taking a few
30:42
Speaker 2: swings at the Bombers game. So I know he does
30:44
Speaker 2: have some time left in his clock, so i'd imagine
30:47
Speaker 2: he'd go down to the Bahamas and help help Bucky out.
30:51
Speaker 2: I imagine trev Alberts is gone. I mean I'd find
30:54
Speaker 2: a way to get to the Bahamas.
30:56
Speaker 7: Well, if Bucky or any one of their staffs listening
30:58
Speaker 7: on an extra spot on the play and you want
31:01
Speaker 7: a reporter to go, give me a call.
31:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that that schedule. I saw their playing.
31:08
Speaker 2: I don't think they'll have any problem with those teams
31:11
Speaker 2: when you look at the talent that A and M has,
31:15
Speaker 2: and we'll we'll see what happens. Any update on the
31:21
Speaker 2: guard former A and M players, what they might be
31:25
Speaker 2: doing in the summer leagues, You got any any any
31:27
Speaker 2: scoop on that or any inside.
31:29
Speaker 7: At all, nothing too crazy. You know, I know that
31:33
Speaker 7: several were playing in the summer rashwan Age had signed
31:37
Speaker 7: with with one of the Summer League teams, Wade Taylor
31:40
Speaker 7: and Anderson Garcia. They were back together playing in the
31:44
Speaker 7: Summer League, and you know, I think the thing about
31:47
Speaker 7: those guys is that they're just such hard workers that
31:51
Speaker 7: if they stay at it, they're going to get a
31:53
Speaker 7: chance to compete and get a chance. I mean they
31:57
Speaker 7: to me, those type of guys, they're kind of cut
31:59
Speaker 7: from this same cloth as Alice Caruso, who, as we know,
32:03
Speaker 7: it took him a few years to get to the league,
32:04
Speaker 7: but now that he got there, I mean, oh my gosh.
32:07
Speaker 7: I mean, what a story Caruso has been. And so
32:10
Speaker 7: it would not surprise me if four or five years
32:13
Speaker 7: down the road one of those guys has has a
32:16
Speaker 7: similar path of that nature, just because of you know,
32:20
Speaker 7: the work ethic that those guys bring to the court.
32:22
Speaker 2: What's funny is, I want to say, whatever the situation was,
32:25
Speaker 2: I watched maybe three minutes of the last Summer League
32:32
Speaker 2: game of the year, which was his championship, and I
32:34
Speaker 2: even forget who was in it. But I had to
32:36
Speaker 2: laugh because you do pay attention because like you said
32:39
Speaker 2: of Crusoe, I always remember we were paying a little
32:42
Speaker 2: more attention because it's a hometowm boy. It wasn't just
32:44
Speaker 2: you know, a n Aggie. You know he was, We
32:47
Speaker 2: covered him in high school and here he is. You
32:49
Speaker 2: pay a little more attention to the summer league. But
32:52
Speaker 2: I was laughing that summer league they gave away rings.
32:56
Speaker 2: Those players got huge rings for winning the NBA Summer
33:02
Speaker 2: Championship League championship. And I looked and like most of
33:05
Speaker 2: those teams played six games or whatever. For like six games,
33:08
Speaker 2: you go five and one and you get a ring,
33:11
Speaker 2: And I go like, oh my gosh, I wonder if
33:14
Speaker 2: Bucky's team will get rings for going down and win
33:16
Speaker 2: the Bahamas, you know that three games. I just laugh
33:19
Speaker 2: at certain things and I go, that's how much money
33:22
Speaker 2: the NBA as They're given rings to these rookies for
33:25
Speaker 2: what in the summer league. I don't know if you
33:27
Speaker 2: saw that, but I just died laughing.
33:28
Speaker 7: Now I didn't. You know what did come out this
33:31
Speaker 7: week though? Where the SEC men's basketball schedule dates?
33:34
Speaker 2: Oh and it was yesterday.
33:36
Speaker 7: Yeah, AM's got a really good homeslate when you when
33:39
Speaker 7: you look at it, they've also got a They just
33:42
Speaker 7: got a pretty challenging schedule in general, I mean, gotta
33:46
Speaker 7: play Texas twice. They got to play Vanderbilt twice. Texas
33:50
Speaker 7: man Sean Miller did good work in the portal and.
33:53
Speaker 2: No, he did great work. And I know that the
33:55
Speaker 2: people we got it.
33:57
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean he he did a phenomenal and what
34:00
Speaker 7: he did last year with that team too, I mean
34:03
Speaker 7: they were just so up and down and then I
34:05
Speaker 7: mean they were they were one shot away from getting
34:09
Speaker 7: to the Elite eight. And so uh, Aam's gonna have
34:13
Speaker 7: a really good home schedule for men's basketball this year.
34:17
Speaker 7: And uh, you gotta be excited for what buck he's building.
34:21
Speaker 7: I mean it's it's fun to watch. He's very personable
34:27
Speaker 7: and look it got to the second round of the
34:29
Speaker 7: NSA A Tournament his first year as head coach. Uh
34:32
Speaker 7: that that's something to build on.
34:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, the last time I did the show is Uh,
34:36
Speaker 2: Bucky's the kind of guy I think you have a
34:40
Speaker 2: chance to see him sometimes out in the community. I'm
34:44
Speaker 2: not gonna say he's gonna show up at your kid's
34:46
Speaker 2: little league game or that, but I just think, uh,
34:50
Speaker 2: he's got the personality. He's going to be seen win
34:54
Speaker 2: or lose, and you can interact with him.
34:56
Speaker 7: He's approachable. I think he's very approachable.
34:59
Speaker 2: I think Buzz was too much of a recluse that
35:02
Speaker 2: infamous deal and he said they weren't going to church
35:06
Speaker 2: because uh, you know, just people recognize like who he
35:10
Speaker 2: was or whatever. That's if you feel that there's certain
35:13
Speaker 2: things maybe you shouldn't share on the air or different
35:16
Speaker 2: things like that, because this is this is your community.
35:19
Speaker 2: I see all these eyes staring at me up here,
35:21
Speaker 2: like there's too many people up here. But anyway, so
35:23
Speaker 2: I was just laughing. But but you know, that was
35:26
Speaker 2: sharing too much. And I think Bucky's the kind of
35:28
Speaker 2: guy is if you're filling your car up with gas
35:30
Speaker 2: and you go like, hey, it looks like Bucky the
35:34
Speaker 2: best you need to go a lot. Yeah, probably give
35:37
Speaker 2: you a hug.
35:37
Speaker 7: Come over, man, what's yeah?
35:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's up?
35:40
Speaker 9: You know?
35:40
Speaker 2: I mean that's the kind of guy is so uh
35:43
Speaker 2: you want that in a Brian college station. I get it.
35:45
Speaker 2: This is a quarter of a million people. But still
35:48
Speaker 2: there are certain people in this town that you recognize.
35:53
Speaker 2: And uh, when I went to I went to supper
35:57
Speaker 2: on Saturday night with my with my youngest daughter. She
36:01
Speaker 2: got a charge out of I said, you know, there's
36:02
Speaker 2: a lot of people with the softball game, and you
36:05
Speaker 2: know it's like people always come and go hey see no, no,
36:08
Speaker 2: no no. And one guy comes and goes, hey, Tom,
36:11
Speaker 2: good to see you, and I go, hey, good to
36:12
Speaker 2: see you too. Obviously thought I was Tom Turboiville. We'll
36:15
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what I'm doing is I'm going through my older
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Speaker 7: Today's Tuesday. Why don't you give us your final thoughts
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Speaker 7: on the aus CEL Championship at Davis Diamond this weekend?
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Speaker 2: Thank you, mister Miller. Anyway, I wondered how the AUSL
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Speaker 2: the Athletes Unlimited Softball League would do or is my
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Speaker 2: co other co Jake, We pointed out one time, I
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Speaker 2: call it the in the paper of the Athletes Limited
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Speaker 2: Softball League. But you know, hey, everything has has two
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Speaker 2: sides on it. Professional softball coming to Brian College station.
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Speaker 2: I would give it a huge A for the weekend
41:18
Speaker 2: I missed the playing game. I was at SEC media
41:22
Speaker 2: days were flying home, flying home, and three Aggies were
41:28
Speaker 2: involved in the playing game. You had Torri Vidallas, longtime
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Speaker 2: professional player going on a decade now.
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Speaker 7: She's had quite a successful pro career.
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Speaker 2: Crit a career, cred a career, and you always wondered
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Speaker 2: when professional softball came around, how these athletes when they
41:48
Speaker 2: were so good And this is the same way in
41:51
Speaker 2: baseball from eighteen to twenty two. When they're playing in
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Speaker 2: like the SEC, the Big twelve, a power conference like this,
41:59
Speaker 2: they've playing since they were seven years old and travel
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Speaker 2: ball to get here, and some of them did burn
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Speaker 2: out along the road, and you'd wonder what they're gonna
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Speaker 2: do at the next level. And as you mentioned, Tory
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Speaker 2: v Dallas has been a the pro. And when Lisa Fernandez,
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Speaker 2: if you don't know college softball, look up, as I
42:18
Speaker 2: would say, Kurtnetti, just just google Lisa Fernandez. She's synonymous
42:23
Speaker 2: with winning softball. She is the GM for the Utah
42:27
Speaker 2: Talows back to back champions and when she talked about
42:31
Speaker 2: coming back for second year. One of the players she
42:33
Speaker 2: hated to lose through the expansion Draft was Tory Vadallas
42:37
Speaker 2: that went to the Portland Cascade. So once again, when
42:40
Speaker 2: somebody hates somebody that caliber hates to lose you. But
42:43
Speaker 2: she had a great career. And then Mac Barbara, who
42:45
Speaker 2: only played an A and Them one year she was
42:47
Speaker 2: on the Chicago Bandits. But and here Kennedy poll when
42:52
Speaker 2: I covered Kennedy Poell, this was she was a senior
42:54
Speaker 2: this last year at A and M. Great ballplayer, great leader,
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Speaker 2: great person, the thing that you always like, at least
43:03
Speaker 2: I do, Alex. I know you cover baseball, about covering
43:07
Speaker 2: diamond sport. They play so many games you get to
43:10
Speaker 2: talk to the players. They can't hide who they are.
43:14
Speaker 2: This is who they are. And she's a perfect teammate,
43:18
Speaker 2: hard worker and what have you? And I said, she
43:21
Speaker 2: had an All American year. But people who bat four
43:26
Speaker 2: to ten and all they do is have singles, play
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Speaker 2: the infield, not a lot of home runs. They're not
43:32
Speaker 2: going to make All American. It's just the way it goes.
43:35
Speaker 2: She didn't steal forty bases to go what have you?
43:38
Speaker 2: And I really wondered if she was gonna make it
43:40
Speaker 2: as a pro and here it all and beyond rookie
43:42
Speaker 2: and she was a starter the whole year for a cascade,
43:47
Speaker 2: better in the high two eighties, whatever, but just a
43:49
Speaker 2: great year. And that's what you're looking at this level.
43:52
Speaker 2: And so when I saw the games in Montana Files,
43:56
Speaker 2: I was very impressed. Montana Files as a collegiate.
43:59
Speaker 7: Pitcher, Oh so good at Alabama.
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Speaker 2: And then you watch her now that she's been out.
44:06
Speaker 2: I think they said she's now twenty eight or what
44:09
Speaker 2: have you, and they've really won two championships. She's the
44:14
Speaker 2: lead cog. But once again, is to see the caliber play.
44:18
Speaker 2: All these women that I saw play in SEC or
44:23
Speaker 2: major college softball have elevated their game. And once again
44:27
Speaker 2: it's like they were that good. It's like the fire
44:33
Speaker 2: and something falls into forest. Did you hear it? Well,
44:36
Speaker 2: now there's a falling for softball. When you saw ninety
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Speaker 2: five degrees out there, people are sweating profusely. There's probably
44:47
Speaker 2: I'd love to know how many people are there. You know,
44:49
Speaker 2: I said sell out, But what a sellout mean? Was
44:51
Speaker 2: there twenty two thousand? There was there twenty two hundred?
44:53
Speaker 2: Was there eighteen hundred. I would say there were hundreds
44:57
Speaker 2: that had seats that were standing in the concourse because
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Speaker 2: it was ten to fifteen degrees warmer. And these people
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Speaker 2: are just fanning themselves crazy. But they're there because of
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Speaker 2: the caliber of softball, because they're bringing their kids out.
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Speaker 2: It's a fast game, two hours three hours at the most.
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Speaker 2: So that being said is I give the AUSL a
45:20
Speaker 2: lot of credit, and I andrew Major League Baseball as
45:23
Speaker 2: a partner. It's like the WNBA hooking up with the NBA.
45:26
Speaker 2: You got to have a good leader, and they market
45:29
Speaker 2: it well. You saw all the kids out there. I
45:32
Speaker 2: mean they made it killing the concessions. Then they made
45:34
Speaker 2: a killing at the Souverirs. They went to Alabama last year.
45:39
Speaker 2: I look for them next year. Maybe go to Tennessee.
45:42
Speaker 2: You would go to places that love college football, I
45:45
Speaker 2: mean college softball. And you're right, I gotta pay attention
45:48
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Speaker 12: It was a rough start for the Houston Astros last night,
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47:40
Speaker 12: the final score of six to four. The win went
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Speaker 2: All right, Welcome back the Chip Howard Show. The Chipper
49:04
Speaker 2: is very chipper today because he's not here. Filling in
49:08
Speaker 2: for Chip is Robert Sesta, an Eagle cohort. Alex Miller
49:13
Speaker 2: recently married Alex Miller. You only have about let me
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Speaker 7: Lord, I'll be there.
49:27
Speaker 2: Well, there we go, there we go, and Caleb is
49:30
Speaker 2: working the board and he's teaching Stan all the right
49:34
Speaker 2: things to do while I'm doing all the wrong things.
49:38
Speaker 2: To see when Stan takes over the board, we'll see
49:40
Speaker 2: if he can take control. So glad you can join us.
49:44
Speaker 2: Right now, I'm going to finish my thoughts on the
49:47
Speaker 2: AUSL great, great weekend. Hard to believe you. I think
49:55
Speaker 2: about a lot of things I can remember, and so
49:57
Speaker 2: can your mother. Remember when we set out at AG
50:00
Speaker 2: Softball Complex, I mean, you think and Lisa Fernande and
50:04
Speaker 2: now you look at Davis Diamond and Lisa Nandez is
50:09
Speaker 2: no spring chicken though she's younger than me. And so
50:11
Speaker 2: we got done doing the main interview and I said, hey,
50:14
Speaker 2: I've been here for five decades. I covered A and
50:17
Speaker 2: M softball games when they were out at b Creek
50:21
Speaker 2: and when they were out in the city parking, because
50:23
Speaker 2: oh wow, yeah, you know, she's heard the horror story.
50:26
Speaker 2: So when A and M and they had money, Davis
50:28
Speaker 2: thought one of the pitches, So what A and M
50:31
Speaker 2: was done in softball? But also I was going to
50:33
Speaker 2: tie this in when you were talking about, you know,
50:36
Speaker 2: A and M's great basketball schedule, that they have the
50:40
Speaker 2: beauty of a men's basketball playing Texas twice, really the
50:44
Speaker 2: beauty of Texas softball winning two championships. Defunk the thunk,
50:50
Speaker 2: the the throning, the throning, Oklahoma A and M wants
50:56
Speaker 2: to be right there to the same place Texas is,
50:58
Speaker 2: whether it's men's basketball, whether it's women's basketball or softball.
51:02
Speaker 2: And uh, Treasure Ford has done a great job in
51:06
Speaker 2: her time here, but Mike White has come in and
51:09
Speaker 2: done a better job. And nothing beats the SEC. And
51:12
Speaker 2: I said to what's great about the SEC is A
51:15
Speaker 2: and MS can't focus anymore just on Texas. You got
51:18
Speaker 2: to focus on the whole country. But yet you got
51:23
Speaker 2: to beat your rival well.
51:25
Speaker 7: And Adam took a huge step forward this last year
51:27
Speaker 7: by winning the Lone Star Showdown, the All Sports competition.
51:30
Speaker 7: I mean that was that's a huge deal. Frame that's
51:32
Speaker 7: one in years and beating Texas matters to the Haggies
51:36
Speaker 7: a lot.
51:37
Speaker 2: And I was going to tie that into you. You
51:39
Speaker 2: were going to talk about volleyballs just around the corner
51:41
Speaker 2: when you talk about people who have elevated programs, because
51:46
Speaker 2: Texas for years has been a championship volleyball program. Because
51:50
Speaker 2: a lot of times when I think of volleyball, and
51:53
Speaker 2: I'm just a novice person, I think of Nebraska, I
51:57
Speaker 2: think of Penn State, I think of Wisconsin. In Texas
52:01
Speaker 2: and now A and M is a national champion.
52:03
Speaker 7: Yeah. I mean, what Jamie Morrison has done with the
52:06
Speaker 7: A and volleyball program is just incredible. I mean, and
52:10
Speaker 7: what he's what he is building, not only what he
52:13
Speaker 7: built in three years, but what he's building for in
52:16
Speaker 7: the years to come. I think it's gonna be sustainable.
52:20
Speaker 7: This isn't just a one hit wonder now aam's gonna have.
52:24
Speaker 7: They got a lot of holes to fill, and it's
52:26
Speaker 7: gonna be a young, but talented team this year that's
52:29
Speaker 7: led by a couple of veterans and people like Kendall Stowers,
52:32
Speaker 7: and they got they got some really good pieces out
52:34
Speaker 7: of the transfer portal. But what Jamie's doing is just phenomenal.
52:40
Speaker 7: And you talk about softball being exciting, women's volleyball is
52:45
Speaker 7: extremely exciting. You know, Jamie's talked about how you know,
52:49
Speaker 7: in the sport, it crescendo's up to that twenty fifth
52:51
Speaker 7: point in a set. Right you go to a match.
52:54
Speaker 7: The longest matches are just over two hours. It goes
52:57
Speaker 7: very quick, it's it's high paced, it's easy to follow,
53:03
Speaker 7: and you can see that people here have really gravitated
53:08
Speaker 7: toward that just by how the crowd started growing throughout
53:11
Speaker 7: last season, and you got to think that A and
53:14
Speaker 7: M's gonna have some big attendance games. You mentioned Wisconsin.
53:17
Speaker 7: That's A and m's big non conference game at home
53:21
Speaker 7: the night before A and M football host Arizona State
53:24
Speaker 7: on September twelfth, which, by the way, they announced today
53:26
Speaker 7: it's going to be a red, white, and Blue game
53:29
Speaker 7: honoring two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States
53:32
Speaker 7: and the twenty fifth, you know, anniversary of nine to eleven.
53:34
Speaker 7: So it's gonna be another big volleyball season, of course
53:39
Speaker 7: for Jamie, and I wouldn't be surprised if you know,
53:43
Speaker 7: A and M's able to replicate some of the success
53:45
Speaker 7: that they got last year in the years to come.
53:47
Speaker 2: Well, what you like is the sport stands on itself.
53:52
Speaker 2: I consider myself a local guy all the way. I'd
53:54
Speaker 2: go out and need one meal a day, whether I
53:57
Speaker 2: need it or not. And it's amazing. Many people talked
54:01
Speaker 2: to me and said, well, hey, I went to volleyball
54:02
Speaker 2: games last year for really the first time, and they
54:05
Speaker 2: they're hooked and everybody likes a winner, and like you say,
54:10
Speaker 2: is and I get it. A lot of people don't
54:13
Speaker 2: want to see softball or women's basketball, or you know,
54:16
Speaker 2: I like hockey. People don't like hockey, but it's amazing
54:19
Speaker 2: what winning will do. Winning brings people out and then
54:23
Speaker 2: when you see it's an entertaining, exciting way of sport.
54:26
Speaker 2: As you mentioned, I've never been a huge volleyball fan,
54:31
Speaker 2: but I had to start covering more high school games
54:34
Speaker 2: as I get older. And you know, most all those
54:37
Speaker 2: great college stars had to start somewhere in high school.
54:39
Speaker 2: And the high school level of volleyball in this one
54:43
Speaker 2: hundred mile radius getting down to Houston is awful good
54:46
Speaker 2: when you look at the AAU teams, then you look
54:48
Speaker 2: at the bleeds over into the high school teams, then
54:50
Speaker 2: you look what happens in college. That's what you're seeing,
54:54
Speaker 2: and so people are really hook. This is a great
54:57
Speaker 2: volleyball community.
54:59
Speaker 7: It's a fantasticvolleyball community.
55:00
Speaker 2: Because people like Jackie pants law to high school and
55:03
Speaker 2: some of the AAU coaches we.
55:04
Speaker 7: I mean, ain't consolidated in college station high They've been
55:08
Speaker 7: some of the state's best the last couple of years.
55:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, so once again you look at this. So there's
55:12
Speaker 2: a lot of people. I've heard a couple of people say, hey,
55:15
Speaker 2: when does volleyball start. I mean, we all know when
55:18
Speaker 2: the football season starts, you don't have to worry about that.
55:21
Speaker 2: But now there's another sport. If you don't want to,
55:24
Speaker 2: if you don't have X amount of money for football tickets,
55:28
Speaker 2: which a lot of people don't, you can get volleyball tickets,
55:30
Speaker 2: or you can go see the volleyball and you're gonna,
55:32
Speaker 2: like you said, see some pretty good matches. And soccer
55:35
Speaker 2: is the same way. Soccer is always a great crowd.
55:37
Speaker 2: And so once again is we're just right around the
55:40
Speaker 2: corner from seeing some games that are actually gonna count. Indeed, indeed,
55:46
Speaker 2: Caleb Man, when do I need to leave.
55:48
Speaker 7: Us anytime in the next couple of minutes?
55:51
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, second hour, we're going to switch gears. I
55:54
Speaker 2: want to talk a little bit about more football. Big
55:57
Speaker 2: ten football media days are going on. I want to
56:00
Speaker 2: talk about that. We've got some uniforms, We've got some
56:02
Speaker 2: sec media leftovers. And once again is if you guys
56:08
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