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Dallas Mavericks vs Their Fans, The Latest With UT Baseball · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Well, it's whatever, fifty some odd degrees outside and pouring rain,
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  Speaker 1: it must mean it's baseball season, right or sort of
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  Speaker 1: kind of something like that. Good afternoon, everybody, Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the program here on AM thirteen hundred the Zone. The
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  Speaker 1: reason why I say baseball as we bring you the
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  Speaker 1: program this afternoon from UFCU dish fog Field, home of
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  Speaker 1: the Texas Long Runs. No, they're not playing a game today.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, their home opener is exactly one week from
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  Speaker 1: the day against the Houston Cougars. But their season opener
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  Speaker 1: is Friday night up in Arlington at Globally Field, home
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  Speaker 1: of the Texas Rangers, as part of the Shriner's College Challenge,
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  Speaker 1: and they will be playing three opponents in three days.
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  Speaker 1: Friday night against the Louisville Cardinals, Saturday evening against the
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  Speaker 1: Old Miss Rebels. Yes, an SEC opponent, but it won't
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  Speaker 1: count as a conference game. In fact, Texas and Old
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  Speaker 1: Miss aren't even on the schedule against one another this year.
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  Speaker 1: In SEC play Sunday evening against Oklahoma States. They have
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  Speaker 1: three games that they will be playing Friday night, Saturday night,
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  Speaker 1: and Sunday night. So today here at UFCU dish falk Field,
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  Speaker 1: was Baseball Media Day, a chance for media come out
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  Speaker 1: and visit with players. Head coach Jim Schlasnegel is meeting
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  Speaker 1: with the media right now, and we'll have his comments
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  Speaker 1: either later in the program or on tomorrow show.
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  Speaker 2: We will hear from some long worn players.
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  Speaker 1: Today, a couple of the newbies pitchers Jared Spencer, Rugeriojas.
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  Speaker 2: We'll hear from a couple of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Also, we'll hear from Andre de Plantier, who is back
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  Speaker 1: for another season. And we will also here from Will Gasparino,
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  Speaker 1: long Worn's outfielder as well, So we'll hear from those
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  Speaker 1: guys coming up this afternoon. We've got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things to get to on the program today. Among the topics, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: there's a long worn basketball game tonight, and a big
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  Speaker 1: one as Texas takes on the number two team in
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  Speaker 1: the country, the Alabama Crimson Tide. And Texas really in
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  Speaker 1: need of a win after dropping back to back games
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  Speaker 1: to Arkansas at home last Tuesday and or last Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: and then on Saturday in Nashville against Vanderbilt. So they
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  Speaker 1: drop both of those games and they do need a
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  Speaker 1: win tonight. Will update things that are going on in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the bracketological prognostications will do that, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: have a closer look at this matchup with the Alabama
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  Speaker 1: Crimson Tide. Also, we will take a look at pro
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  Speaker 1: basketball the NBA. Now, I'm not sure how many of
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  Speaker 1: you got a chance to watch either of two games
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  Speaker 1: or both of two games, because they were separated by
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  Speaker 1: a time frame. The Dallas Mavericks, for those of you
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  Speaker 1: are Mavericks fans, had a home game against the Sacramento
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  Speaker 1: Kings last night that went overtime.
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  Speaker 2: The Kings ended up winning a one, nine eight in
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  Speaker 2: overtime last night.
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  Speaker 1: So it was that and then as as that game
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  Speaker 1: went into overtime, and it was in the late stages
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  Speaker 1: of things, and as it went into that, the other
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  Speaker 1: thing that happened was the Los Angeles Lakers had a
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  Speaker 1: home game against the Utah Jazz, and.
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  Speaker 2: Of course that.
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  Speaker 1: Game had a lot of hooplaw and attention surrounding it
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  Speaker 1: with the Lakers debut of Luka Doncic in a Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles uniform, and it.
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  Speaker 2: Was rather entertaining to watch.
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  Speaker 1: There were times that that game for the Lakers to
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  Speaker 1: be what they are, they're thirteen about five hundred and
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  Speaker 1: so they are building things, but I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: they were viewed, certainly going into the season as a
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  Speaker 1: serious contender for the NBA title or even Western Conference
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  Speaker 1: title or whatever. Now with Luke on it, I think
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  Speaker 1: things will be different. And even though he still has
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  Speaker 1: a ways to go in terms of developing his comfort
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  Speaker 1: level in the Lakers system, he still had a very
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  Speaker 1: productive game with LA last night, as did Lebron James.
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  Speaker 1: The two seem to compliment each other well, they seem
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  Speaker 1: to work together well, and we'll give you numbers and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that on down the line.
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  Speaker 2: But there was.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing that came to mind, and I read
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  Speaker 1: some similar things about this today, was that many folks
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  Speaker 1: thought it kind of gave the resemblance of the Showtime Lakers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Showtime Lakers had Magic and Kareem and
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  Speaker 1: you know Michael Cooper and James Worthy and Byron Scott
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  Speaker 1: and Norman Nixon before him and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: Kurt Rambus had all those guys that were part of
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  Speaker 1: that part of that Lakers show Time era. And they
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  Speaker 1: aren't to that, but they do have one of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest players of all time in Lebron James. Minifield is
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  Speaker 1: the greatest, certainly one of the greatest players of all time.
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  Speaker 2: And then obviously now they have Luca so.
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  Speaker 1: Who could in time become one of the greatest players
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  Speaker 1: of all time in NBA history. And they kind of
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  Speaker 1: played like it last night. They had seventy two points
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  Speaker 1: in the first half of the game. Now you toss
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  Speaker 1: in a complete rebuild, so it's going to take some
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  Speaker 1: time for the Jazz to, you know, to build back
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  Speaker 1: into a contender, but there's the belief that they will
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  Speaker 1: probably get there. They've got good leadership, they've got from
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  Speaker 1: a good front office, all.
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  Speaker 2: Of those things, and we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, there'll be some thoughts on the Lakers where
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  Speaker 1: they are, the Mavericks where they are, because it.
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  Speaker 2: Was a pretty ugly scene.
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  Speaker 1: As I rolled back to talking about the Mavericks, it
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  Speaker 1: was a pretty ugly scene last night at the American
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  Speaker 1: Airlines Center. If you were if you saw it, you'll
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. But we'll recap it because
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually putting it in inconceivable because as inconceivable as
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  Speaker 1: it might seem that the Dallas Mavericks would trade away
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  Speaker 1: Luka Dancic and watching the games last night. It at
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  Speaker 1: times seemed a little bit surreal. I'm sure it did.
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  Speaker 1: For what do they call them, mffls, mav fans for life.
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  Speaker 1: Although that's taken the hit, there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: say that that they should dump that because they've lost
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  Speaker 1: fans by the scores left and right after this trade
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  Speaker 1: toward that end was an example of it last night,
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  Speaker 1: and how things have gotten ugly between the new ownership
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  Speaker 1: and Mavericks fans, as demonstrated at American Airline Center last night.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into that a little bit later on. That'll
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  Speaker 1: be in our Inconceivable segment, so we'll have that. In
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  Speaker 1: women's college basketball, Texas continues on the uptick up to
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  Speaker 1: number three, and they're going to go to Kentucky. They'll
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  Speaker 1: leave tomorrow for the game that's on Thursday, and they're
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  Speaker 1: going to play a Kentucky team that'll be angry, a
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  Speaker 1: team that had had only one conference loss until last night.
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky kind of fell apart down the stretch and All
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  Speaker 1: Miss won the game in Oxford beat Kentucky, So now
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky has two losses. There's a three way tie atop
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  Speaker 1: the SEC women's standings between number three Texas, number four
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina and number five LSU. All three teams are
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  Speaker 1: ten and one in the league. And this week after
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  Speaker 1: Texas has a difficult road test on Thursday night in
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  Speaker 1: Lexington at Kentucky, they turn around, come home and play
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  Speaker 1: fifth ranked.
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  Speaker 2: LSU on Sunday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: This all coming after, of course, that huge win two
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  Speaker 1: days ago when they beat South Carolina at Moody Center
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  Speaker 1: to split the season series with the game Cocks. It
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  Speaker 1: was very very big there, So we'll have some updated
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  Speaker 1: things there on that as well, and as always we're
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  Speaker 1: if there are Maverick fans, and I know there are
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Andre du Plantier, you know, who's
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  Speaker 1: a veteran here now at the University of Texas, both
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  Speaker 1: as a pitcher. He's been out there also as an infielder,
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  Speaker 1: but mainly as a pitcher, and his thoughts on playing
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  Speaker 1: for Jim Schlasnegel now and this new culture and the
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  Speaker 1: new environment around the long worn baseball team. It's be
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  Speaker 1: his fourth season in the Longhorn uniform. So we'll hear
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  Speaker 1: here on a cold, drippy, rainy Tuesday afternoon where at
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  Speaker 1: on their baseball media day. We'll get to all that
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  Speaker 1: Good thing there isn't a baseball game schedule tonight here
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  Speaker 1: difficult to get this one in because of the cold weather,
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  Speaker 1: but it was media day here and we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: a conversation here in a moment. Well, one other baseball
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  Speaker 1: notes This just came down just a little while ago.
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  Speaker 1: The defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed
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  Speaker 1: the terms on a new contract with Clayton Kershaw that's
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  Speaker 1: going to bring him back to the Dodgers for an
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  Speaker 1: eighteenth season. It is pending a physical. Kershaw turns thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven next month. He had foot and knee surgeries back
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  Speaker 1: in November after he was limited to just seven games
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  Speaker 1: last season and did not pitch in the postseason. But
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  Speaker 1: of course he's been really a mainstay in the Dodger rotation.
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  Speaker 1: He has spent his entire major league career in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: He's only thirty two strikeout shy of reaching three thousand
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  Speaker 1: for his career, and he had pitched on one year
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  Speaker 1: contracts in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: He did sign an incentive.
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  Speaker 1: Laden deal for last year, a five million dollar deal
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  Speaker 1: that included an option for ten million, but he declined
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  Speaker 1: that and with the insis he did pick up seven
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  Speaker 1: and a half million. So he has agreed to terms
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  Speaker 1: pending on physical on the outcome of that physical, on
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  Speaker 1: a new contract with LA that We'll have some other
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball notes coming up but about this long
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  Speaker 1: worn baseball team as they start to put things together
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  Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty five season. This team, as you
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  Speaker 1: would imagine, is going to have a lot of brand
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  Speaker 1: new to it, new faces, not only with real young
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  Speaker 1: faces like freshmen, but also through the portal. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to hear from a couple of those guys a
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  Speaker 1: little bit later on, some attorneys and some real veterans
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  Speaker 1: wh've been here, like Andre Duplantier, who technically is a
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  Speaker 1: six year senior. He redshirted it in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: remembered as a true freshman in twenty twenty. They only
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  Speaker 1: played seventeen games that year because of the shutdown due
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  Speaker 1: to the pandemic. They had started at fourteen and three,
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  Speaker 1: and he had appeared in a few ballgames that year,
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  Speaker 1: so he's actually in his sixth year in the program.
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  Speaker 1: Last year as a red shirted junior, in twenty nine appearances,
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  Speaker 1: he was two and two with a three point nine ERA.
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  Speaker 1: He had three saves, he had fifty three strikeouts of
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  Speaker 1: our forty three innings, and opposing hitters hit one ninety
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  Speaker 1: two against him. And of course he has had to
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  Speaker 1: battle the injury bug during his career.
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  Speaker 2: As well.
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  Speaker 1: But here he is back for his sixth year in
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  Speaker 1: a long worn baseball uniform, in the first under new
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  Speaker 1: head coach Jim Schloasnegele. And that was part of what
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  Speaker 1: the conversation was all about, just a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: go the media availability with the Longhorn sixt years senior
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  Speaker 1: right hander Andre de Plantier Junior.
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  Speaker 3: We've got right handed pitcher and Andre to plenty At
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  Speaker 3: a second, well jumps trading to questions Stip Lovely an
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  Speaker 3: absolutely nak.
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  Speaker 4: But there we go, Gray, Why did you decide to
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  Speaker 4: come back for another season?
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  Speaker 5: It's hard not to want to be a Longhorn.
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  Speaker 6: And then the opportunity present itself with the new coaching
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  Speaker 6: staff and didn't look back and went for it.
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  Speaker 7: What were those conversations like with the new staff as
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  Speaker 7: we were trying to pick.
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  Speaker 8: Up your mind?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, they were just.
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  Speaker 6: They they they reassured that they'd be able to help me, uh,
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  Speaker 6: help the help the team.
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  Speaker 5: Uh. They they thought I could be a big part
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  Speaker 5: of that, and I was. I was bought in from
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  Speaker 5: the drunk there.
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  Speaker 9: You're realg on this team.
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  Speaker 8: What does it mean to have a have schlatsnangle here?
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  Speaker 2: You know, just twenty years since.
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  Speaker 4: You guys won a national championship.
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  Speaker 10: This is a guy that lives in Omaha.
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  Speaker 5: Basically, Uh, it's a it's a blessing.
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  Speaker 6: I'm grateful for, you know, the last staff getting me
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  Speaker 6: here and what they were able to do. But to
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  Speaker 6: be able to hang around for six years and experience
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  Speaker 6: some of this change with the new staff and Slash
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  Speaker 6: and what he's been able to do. Like, I'm just
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  Speaker 6: so grateful for what he brings, what he brings.
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  Speaker 5: Cause it's a different it's a different perspective.
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  Speaker 8: What what did What'd you seen a lot about that?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 10: What does he bring? Do you think it's different? The culture?
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  Speaker 10: You know it?
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  Speaker 6: It's I definitely like we re sparked s that that
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  Speaker 6: energy in in certain areas that that we needed and
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  Speaker 6: it's just been great team bonding the whole time.
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  Speaker 3: You've seen a lot of these shops in Arlington and
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  Speaker 3: maybe some struggles you guys have had in nine years
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  Speaker 3: past in that stadium. How do you view this to
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  Speaker 3: start the season now as a re any scar tissue
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  Speaker 3: from over years past.
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  Speaker 6: We get to go one for one, well, game one,
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  Speaker 6: we get to go one for one. We're not We're
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  Speaker 6: not looking to go whatever number for whatever number. We
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  Speaker 6: got one for one and they'll wake up the next
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  Speaker 6: thing and go one.
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  Speaker 5: For one tree.
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  Speaker 10: What's it him like?
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  Speaker 2: Working with Max?
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  Speaker 5: Incredible. I could go on and on about that, but
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  Speaker 5: what we've been able to.
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  Speaker 6: Do as a staff, I'm grateful to be a part
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  Speaker 6: of this group.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I want you on and on, but maybe what's
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  Speaker 7: one thing that stands up that's incredible.
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  Speaker 6: About, something that's right on top of my mine right now,
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  Speaker 6: is just dominate his own It's it's something we talk
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  Speaker 6: about daily and that's what you'll see from all of
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  Speaker 6: our guys.
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  Speaker 10: What does it mean though, to dominate the league and fun? Smile? Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: you know, there's a lot of things with that.
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  Speaker 6: I won't I will say that on the camera, you know,
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  Speaker 6: but we're gonna we're gonna have fun.
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  Speaker 9: We're gonna play the game the best way you know
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  Speaker 9: how to and smile.
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  Speaker 8: A couple weeks.
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  Speaker 11: Ago, Jalen said that you had a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 11: kind of over your place and he was doing burgers,
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  Speaker 11: you were doing wings.
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  Speaker 10: Purss off, how are your wings?
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  Speaker 11: And then secondly, how important was it for you older
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  Speaker 11: guys you bet to kind of bring these new guys
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  Speaker 11: in and kind of get everyone together.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, that was fun. Chef jFlow, he did whip up
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  Speaker 6: some good burgers. That's where un kind of became a name. Uh,
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  Speaker 6: she's just whipping up those wings. I say, they're they're
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  Speaker 6: a plus wings. Anyone's welcome to try those. But yeah,
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  Speaker 6: that's that's always been something that's important to me. Like
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  Speaker 6: when I got here as a freshman, the older guys
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  Speaker 6: took us in. And whenever you come into a place
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  Speaker 6: like Texas, when whenever the older guys can make you
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  Speaker 6: feel like this is your home from from the jump,
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  Speaker 6: that meant a lot to me when I was young.
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  Speaker 6: So talking with some of the older players about that,
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  Speaker 6: like let's let's just have some food, get with the guys, Like,
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  Speaker 6: I know what that did for me. And it's been
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  Speaker 6: good to keep just a team bonding going.
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  Speaker 12: Playing baseball with your brother at the University of Texas.
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  Speaker 8: I mean obviously as kids, y'all played together.
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  Speaker 11: But then to be able to chase your dreams and
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  Speaker 11: come to the University of Texas, what's that.
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  Speaker 9: Been Like I view it like everything happens for a reason.
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  Speaker 5: We've been able to go through ups and downs together.
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  Speaker 10: Uh, be on the same team.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, it's just it's just good like.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, I can't I can't complain about that being on
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  Speaker 6: the same team together.
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  Speaker 8: During this team. This program's from built on pitching. You know,
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  Speaker 8: staff had a Y or a O before last year.
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  Speaker 8: Do you ever like the pitching as kind of the dominant
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: part of the program that's slipped a little bit? You'll
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: put that way. As a staff.
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: I it was it was tough.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Uh, but at at the end of the day, Uh,
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: the Longhorns win and loose, so we're not losing a
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: game and saying that it was one side of the ball.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: We we all understand that by the time the scoreboard's done,
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: it's the long Horns win or loose.
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: What was the flavor of wings?
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: Oh we had we had some lemon pepper, and then
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: we just had the signature.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Uh, you have to try it, you know, bring the Yeah, yeah,
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: I gets you, right, I guess you're right.
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: Future entrepreneur.
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: You know, maybe maybe maybe any any of the newcomers
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: that jump out of you, they're.
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: Gonna make a big splash this year.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: Wow, pitching all of them. You know, we we brought in,
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: we brought in a lot of people. You know, there's
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: let's say, Drew, great guy. Everyone I'm thinking of It's
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: just is just a great human everybody. Drew Hayes around
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: with Bryce, you know, Connor.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: I could go on and on and on.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: But I'm so excited for everyone who we brought in
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: because they're really good players.
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: Thank you. Right.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Conversation with Andre Duplantier, the second who's now a sixty
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: year senior on that long warn baseball team, and he
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: talked about Max we are the new pitching coach and
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: what a what a difference he's.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Made with the stuff.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: You're gonna hear that from a couple of the other
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: pitchers that we're going to hear from this afternoon on
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the program. But by and large, that's been the universal conversation.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: And these are guys coming from different backgrounds. Of course,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Duplantier is, as I mentioned, a six year senior, so
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: he's a returning veteran. But some of a couple of
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the other guys you're going to hear from Ruga Riojas
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a transfer, Jared Spencer a transfer. Those are guys that
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: are coming into the program for the first time, and
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: yet across the board, all of them are in unanimity
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and talking about the impact that Wiener has made on
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: this on this pitching staff, and I'm sure we'll hear
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Jim Schlosnegle talk about it and other players as well
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: in the coming days leading up to the season opener
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: on Friday night at Globelife Field against Louisville. So it'll
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: it'll uh, that'll be a big part of it as well.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And we'll also hear from Will Gasparino this afternoon and
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: talking about it. So there's some some conversation from some
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Longhorn from one of the Longhorn pictures.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Andre to Plante there hoping for good things out of him.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Of course, he had to be shut down and had
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery when he went through that in twenty
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: twenty one and was red shirted and had some great
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: moments like that in the regional in Miami, and had
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: some good moments last year where he had a couple
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: of multi inning saves for Texas, and they're going to
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: need him as well as the other guys who are
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: a big part of that all right, coming up next.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: It would be well inconceivable in the minds of some
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Mavericks fans that think their world has turned upside down.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Like this, and that the new ownership has turned on
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: them as well. You'll hear all of that and more
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: coming up here on a Tuesday afternoon on Sports Radio
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Glad to have you with us here this afternoon. My
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: name is Craig Waite.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Thanks to Havings Ronald Savage producer this afternoon in the studio.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Cameron Parker, regular producer, will be back into Mark Cam
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: will be with me tonight across the freeway from where
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: we are right now at Moody Center. Tonight is Texas
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: will take on Alabama. More on that in a moment.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I feel compelled because I'm here in the ballpark in
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the radio booth, which I always enjoy spending so much
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: time up here during the course of the season, and
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I do always feel compelled whenever there is a ballgame here,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: especially if it's a later in the day start, whether
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: it's late afternoon or early evening, because when I look
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: over to my left, I look at the upper deck
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: of I thirty five invariably, especially in the late afternoon starts,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the upper deck of I thirty five and you have
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: a bird's eye view of it. From where we are
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: in the broadcast booth is usually a parking lot by
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  Speaker 1: late afternoon.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: It is actually moving at.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: A relative pace.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's moving. Put it that way.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: It's slow, but it is moving, as opposed to a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: lot of times when I look over there and it's
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: just gridlocked or just bare early crawling on.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: They're doing more than crawling. You're moving.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I'd say, eh, twenty twenty five miles an hour, maybe
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: something like that. But I always feel compelled to say,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: whenever I'm doing a ballgame here that be careful there
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: on that upper deck of I thirty five for those
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: of you listening on your drive home or wherever you're headed,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: but to be a little bit careful, and especially on
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the day like this because it is raining, but we're
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: here at the ballpark because today was Texas Baseball Media Day.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: The Longhorns open the season Friday evening in Arlington as
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: they'll take on the Louisville Cardinals in the Shriners College
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Baseball Challenge. That is Friday evening scheduled for seven o'clock
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: first pitch, and Keith Morrelan will join me for the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: game broadcast of that on Friday night as Texas will
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: take on the Louisville Cardinals. They'll play Louisville Friday, they'll
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: play Ole Miss on Saturday, and Oklahoma State on Sunday.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: By the way, you probably if I just give it
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a little more boost, you can probably really hear it there.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: It is, Yes, siren's there because something's happened. It looks
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: like it's on the lower deck there. So ambulance and
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: MS and you know, first responders on their way. Hopefully
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: everybody's okay there. But so that's so. They had Texas
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Baseball Media Day today and we heard from Andre to Planti,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the second in the first hour of the program. Coming
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: up with a few minutes, we'll hear from another one
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: of those longhorned pitchers, left handed, Jared Spencer, the transfer
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: from Indiana State, and we'll hear from him coming up
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: here in just a few moments. We will also before
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: the program's done this afternoon here from Ruger Riojas transfer
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: in and we'll hear from Will Gasparino, a long Ward's
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: outfielder as well. So we'll hear from from those guys
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: this afternoon. So we'll look forward to bringing you those
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: conversations coming up here. Also, as I mentioned, our text
• 25:03
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• 25:04
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• 25:05
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• 25:11
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• 25:15
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• 25:22
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• 25:28
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• 25:33
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• 25:39
  Speaker 1: this is a good question, wanted to know when are
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the media timeouts in women's basketball. It's a fair question because,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: as you know, women's basketball has different timing than the men. Yes,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: they play forty minutes, just like the men, but unlike
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the men, the women play four to ten minutes at quarters.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: They don't play two to twenty minute halves. They play
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: four minutes four to ten minute quarters. And for those
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: folks that well, what's the difference, it's still it's It's
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: kind of like what my parents used to say when
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: we were, you know, eating, and I did I didn't
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: want my peas mixed up with my mashed potatoes, and
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: they would say, what differences and make it's all going
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: to the same place. But there is a difference. There's
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: a difference in the way the fouls are adjudicated.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: In the men's game. Of course, when you get to.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: The seventh team foul and a half, there's a one
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: in one that follows on the seventh, eighth, and nineteen fouls.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: If they're not shooting fouls, if they're just common fouls,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: loose ball fouls, defensive fouls that aren't in the act
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: of shooting, or if they're not offensive fouls, then it's
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: a one in one. However, on the tenth foul, then
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: you're shooting two free throws. Well, in the women's game,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: they have done away with the one in one. There
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: are five fouls per quarter, and when you get to
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the fifth foulw the offended team walking to the free
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: throw line has two free throws, so there's no one
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: in one. In the women's game, it's five fouls per quarter.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: And what I discovered is that the game actually makes
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: for a little faster pace, a little quicker pace. Sometimes
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: there are more fouls involved. That was the case in
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the first quarter of the Texas South Carolina game the
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: other day. There was a lot of conversation about that,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: but by and large it moves a little quicker, the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: pacing moves a little bit quicker on that. Now, as
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: to the timeouts, as you know, in the men's game,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: it's at the under fours, the timeout at the first
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: dead ball at or below sixteen minutes, the sixteen minute
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: mark and a half, the twelve minute mark, the under eight,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and the under four, So the first dead ball from
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the sixteen minute mark or below is a media timeout.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Then at the twelve minute markable the eight minute market
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  Speaker 1: below or the four minute market below, a team can
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: call a thirty second timeout that does not carry over
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  Speaker 1: to the second half. If it's inside of the window
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: inside of thirty seconds to the full media timeout, they
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: go ahead and just take that as the full media timeout.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: The women's game, it's a little bit different their timeout.
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  Speaker 1: The media timeouts are at the under five halfway mark
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  Speaker 1: of each quarter. However, called timeouts, especially the first call
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: timeout on the second half, like with the men, is
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: then utilized as a full timeout, a full timeout when
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: it's called, but it's mainly at the five minute mark
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: of the first, second, third, and fourth quarters and then
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: additional timeouts that are called.
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  Speaker 2: So hopefully that answers the question for you there a
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: little bit, all right.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I wanted to get to the men thing here before
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: we get to the break. Of course, the Texas men
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: play Alabama the night number two Alabama this evening at
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Moody Center, and you can hear the contest or right
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: here on AM thirteen under the Zone. You can hear
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: it seven thirty air time, eight o'clock tip. It's also
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: available on ninety eight point one Fmkvett and one O
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: three point one FM, Austin's eighty station. So however you
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: used to listening to us in town, all those signals,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: all three of those signals are available tonight here on
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the Zone and then also on ninety eight one Cavett
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: and also on one O three to one. They're playing
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the number two team in the country. It's a really
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: good team. What's really interesting is that the number one
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: team in the country is still Auburn despite the loss
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: of the weekend and Alabama's number two. You've got Iron
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Bowl basketball happening this Saturday in Tuscaloos. In fact, the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: ESPN College Game Day is going to be for it
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: there for that, but Alabama's game before that is the
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: one tonight, and Texas will have to deal with their
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: outstanding guard, Mark.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Sears, who's their leading scorer.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: He averages eighteen points per game, he averages five assists,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: can just scoot through a defense, outstanding shooter, all of
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: those things, so they'll have to deal with that as
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: well as the two guard. The grad transfer Chris young
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Blood is good. Grant Nelson, their six to eleven grad
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: transfer forward who had come in from North Dakota State
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: who averages thirteen points and eight boards.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Some of the parts really big.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: They've got two guys who averaged double digit scoring coming
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: off the bench, including an Auburn transfer in Aiden Holloway.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: So the long words are gonna have to deal with that.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: We could see a little.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Bit different look in the lineup tonight, Julian Larry perhaps
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: instead of Jordan Pope going at the guard spot. Tremon
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Mark is going to be back in the lineup tonight.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: He couldn't play Saturday in the game at Vanderbilt dude
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: to banged up shoulder. But Tremon Mark will be back
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: on the floor. Of course, Trey Johnson will start, Cayden
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Schderick will start, Arthur Klowe will start tonight, and the
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Loghorns are gonna have to shoot a good percentage and
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: they're going to have to defend well to have a
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: chance to win this basketball game for the Loghorns. We
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: were talking a little bit about it yesterday because Jerry
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Palm one of the two bracketologists, he's the one from
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: CBS Sports Line. He has the log Horns in Dayton,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Ohio playing in the play in in the first four,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: playing Georgia in fact, and there is a provision in
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament rules that do allow two conference teams
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: to meet in the first four if it works out
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: that way.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: And he has it listed that way.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Joe Lnardi, of course, is really the highly acclaimed bracketologist
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: and who is right in that ninety six, ninety seven,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: ninety eight percent pile every year and getting the teams
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: down and usually gets some really close within their seed line.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: He has Texas still in the field, and he does
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: not have Texas in Dayton, but he does have them
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: listed of what he calls last four byes, meaning the
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: last four teams that don't have to play in Dayton,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and the other three teams are Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Vanderbilt.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Because of Vanderbilts went over Texas.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: His last four inn are Georgia, San Diego, State, Wake Forest,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: and BYU. First four out Arkansas, VCU, North Carolina and
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: SMU and the next four out Pittsburgh, Xavier, UC, San
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Diego and Boise State.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Those are the next ones you've got.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Now, this this was as of this morning, and as
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: of this morning, Joe Lenardi has Texas in the field
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: in Cleveland as the number ten seed playing Louisville, and
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: if they were to win that game, according to Lenardi,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: they'd have to play Florida in the second round. See
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: and again, there's a provision in the NCAA tournament that
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: allows conference teams to play as early as the second
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: round if there are more than eight teams that make
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the tournament. Well, he's got thirteen teams projected from the
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Southeastern Conference to be in the NCAA Tournament.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Texas included the four.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Number ones Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee and Duke, three of the
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: four being out of the SEC. The four number twos
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: that he has are Houston, Purdue, Texas, A and m
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: another SEC, and Florida another SEC. The four number threes
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: that he has projected are Michigan State, Iowa State, Arizona,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: and Texas Tech and the four number four seeds Saint John's, Kansas, Wisconsin,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: and Kentucky. Another SEC school in Kentucky, of course, will
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: be here in Austin on Saturday to take on the
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Long Horns on Saturday. So there's a look at the
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: bracketology just to give you an idea of where Tech
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: is is right now and how important these games are.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Even if they were to lose tonight against the number
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: two team in the country, it's not going to really
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: do devastating damage to their net ranking, but they're going
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: to have to perform well in one of these games
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: coming up against the ranked opponent, be it Alabama or Kentucky,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: and then the games that follow in the coming days,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: and we'll talk more about that in the coming days.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Up next, we shift back to baseball. Let you hear
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: from Jared Spencer, Longhorn transfer left handed pitcher. That's next
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: when we continue here on Texas Baseball Media Day from
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: UFCU Dishfault Field on AM thirteen under the Zone, and
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: we're talking Longhorn baseball among other ut related things. We
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: were just finished talking about men's basketball. We've hit on
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: women's basketball as well. This afternoon Texas women will play
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Thursday night in Lexington against eighth rank Kentucky. They're ranked eighth,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: and they will be ranked eighth going into the game,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: even though they did.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Lose last night to Ole Miss.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: But Texas can put distance between themselves and Kentucky and
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: kind of solidify their bid to be a number one
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: seed coming off the winnever South Carolina. And they have
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: the huge game Sunday against LSU. So those are two
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: massive games for Texas, one on the road, one at home,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: and they're closing three games. To be quite honest, they're
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: all quite winnable games. They have a road game at Georgia,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: they have a road game at Mississippi State, kind of
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: a homecoming for Vic Schaeffer, and they have a home
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: game against Florida to close out the regular season. Those
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: are all games in which the Longhorns stand to be
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: the favorite to win those games. But those the two
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: games in front of them, the Kentucky game on Thursday
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: night in Lexington and the game Sunday against LSU, those
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: two could both be up for grabs, big big games
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: in both situations. Long Horn men tonight against number two Alabama,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: speaking of big games, and then Kentucky comes to town
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: to play Texas on Saturday, so they have those two
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: games directly in front of them. For Long Gorn Baseball,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the home openers a week from tonight here at UFCU
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: dish Falk Field against the Houston Cougars. Prior to that, however,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Texas will be at Globe Life Field in Arlington and
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: they'll play Louisville, Louisville, Ole Miss, and Oklahoma State three
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: consecutive opponents. Oklahoma State the preseason choice to win the
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Big twelve ranked Louisville Old Miss traditional powers.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: The Old Miss game will not count as an SEC game.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: In fact, Texas and Ole Miss aren't even on the
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: conference schedule to face one another this season. That's part
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: of the reason why they can go ahead and play
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: this game like this. It would count as a non
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: conference game. So that's coming up Friday, Saturday Sunday at
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Globe Life Field in Arlington. And as we pointed out,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: the Long Orange Bill have some new faces on the
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Among those is a junior left hander Jared Spencer.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and uh, he's excuse me.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Senior left hander Jared Spencer, who transferred in from Indiana
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: State's interesting and you're gonna hear Jared make reference to
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: this that the Longruns have dipped into the Indiana State
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: pool because of the two basketball players that are on
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the Texas squad in Julian Larry and Jason Kent and.
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  Speaker 2: Jared Spencer.
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  Speaker 1: The left hander knows those two guys, so we got
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: a chance to reacquaint himself with him. He's from Centerville, Michigan,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: six ' three, two hundred ten pound left he who
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  Speaker 1: can throw hard and was All Missouri Valley Conference. Pitched
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: in eighteen games last year, made nine starts. He was
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: six and zero with a four point h eight ra
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: had two saves, thirty three walks, seventy two strikeouts, and
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: fifty three innings. Opposing hitters bat batted two sixteen against
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: him and the team the Long Wrns are playing on
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Friday Night Louisville UH. He pitched against in the season
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  Speaker 1: open last year for Indiana State and got the save
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: in the season opener on that So Jared Spencer brand
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: new addition to this Texas pitching staff. And here's the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: conversation you had with the media just a little while ago.
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  Speaker 10: A you got left handed pitcher Jared Spencer well up
• 38:19
  Speaker 10: straight into.
• 38:19
  Speaker 11: Well Jeremany decided to transfer to Texas. Why was this
• 38:23
  Speaker 11: the place you wanted.
• 38:24
  Speaker 9: To After looking at a couple of my options and
• 38:28
  Speaker 9: finding out Max Wiener was a head coach or a
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: pitching coach. To hearing all the great news about him,
• 38:36
  Speaker 9: I wanted to better myself and put myself in a
• 38:38
  Speaker 9: better place with the.
• 38:40
  Speaker 11: Texas fans who want to know about you, How would
• 38:42
  Speaker 11: you describe what you can do in the mound?
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  Speaker 9: I'm ready to get after it. I don't know, I
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: feel like I don't show as much emotion out there,
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: but you know, I'm willing to continue this tradition.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: And culture here at Texas.
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: Max max a bunch of good things, just from the
• 39:01
  Speaker 9: way he coaches to the ability of teaching players step
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: by step, and that's something that I wanted to continue learning,
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: especially with the track man too. How much did the
• 39:15
  Speaker 9: culture here in the new head coach after do.
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: With provi decision A lot?
• 39:20
  Speaker 9: I mean I came from a small min major so
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: there wasn't many fans there, and coming to a place
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: like Austin, I mean, there's no better place than that.
• 39:29
  Speaker 12: Jared, I'm not asking to compare, you know, any previous coaches,
• 39:31
  Speaker 12: but how what stands out about Max as far as
• 39:34
  Speaker 12: his technique or wait and dewelos the.
• 39:35
  Speaker 9: Pictures, I'd say the teaching ability, being able to learn
• 39:39
  Speaker 9: one on one and uh, just the way he teaches.
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: I mean it's a fun.
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: Way to learn. And Uh, I've learned a lot of
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: new things about track man, I've never learned before.
• 39:50
  Speaker 8: What's the biggest crowd you would get in.
• 39:53
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna say on a good Friday night, I'd say
• 39:55
  Speaker 9: close to twenty five hundred maybe three thousand.
• 39:59
  Speaker 11: What'll sell there is a small major, but it made
• 40:01
  Speaker 11: a super regional What did you kind what did you
• 40:02
  Speaker 11: guys kind of what did you learn at Indiana State?
• 40:05
  Speaker 11: And kind of how did that help develop you?
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: I compare like Indiana State to like Adju Goo. I
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: mean the greediness there. I mean we were taught to
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: worker butts off each and every day. I think that's
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: kind of what has stuck with me here.
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: To do it? To go back to your act real quick?
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: Do what what do you interpret when he says dominate
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: the zone?
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: What?
• 40:25
  Speaker 10: What in your mind does that mean?
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: Throw it through the middle.
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: I mean, don't be afraid to say here it is,
• 40:30
  Speaker 9: try and hit this.
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: Really okay, don't do don't be afraid to just challenge
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: you guys straight up.
• 40:34
  Speaker 10: Yes, sir, what is your most lethal pitch?
• 40:38
  Speaker 9: I would say my fast far slider. What did it
• 40:42
  Speaker 9: mean to dominate in fun as well? Dominate in fun,
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: dominate the zone.
• 40:47
  Speaker 10: Basically, it's just.
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: Throwing as many strikes as possible and having fun while
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: doing it. Don't take this game too serious.
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: What's the fastest you've been cocked?
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: Fastest I've been cocked. I've been up to ninety Jared Rin.
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  Speaker 8: Question?
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  Speaker 12: Did you have to know any of the Indiana State
• 41:03
  Speaker 12: gouys in the basketball team?
• 41:04
  Speaker 9: Budy Chance, Yes, Jason Kenton and uh, Julian Larry.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Did they kind of talk to you about Texas?
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 41:10
  Speaker 8: What did you tell me?
• 41:11
  Speaker 9: I mean, great, great things. It's way different than Indiana
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: State for sure, way bigger, And they said that's something
• 41:18
  Speaker 9: that you gotta get used to.
• 41:19
  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 41:20
  Speaker 9: I think the biggest thing was finding a scooter because.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: He can't walk.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: Do you all on campus?
• 41:26
  Speaker 10: Uh?
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 41:27
  Speaker 9: So at Tank I always see him. I'll say, what's
• 41:29
  Speaker 9: up to them? I'm up gone to the basketball game.
• 41:31
  Speaker 9: It's pretty cool to see him again.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: So as a new guy.
• 41:34
  Speaker 11: How the older that's kind of brought you in and
• 41:36
  Speaker 11: you talked to the culture and just kind of embraced you.
• 41:39
  Speaker 9: Any other new comers at this term, I'd say, I mean,
• 41:42
  Speaker 9: first day I met Jalen Flores, I mean, and I
• 41:47
  Speaker 9: felt like everyone was welcoming. I mean, everyone kind of
• 41:49
  Speaker 9: takes you uno their wing at first, and then you
• 41:52
  Speaker 9: kind of understand your role here, whether it's your leader
• 41:56
  Speaker 9: or you're one of those guys to always talk to
• 42:01
  Speaker 9: and from the leaders that I've met, I mean, it's
• 42:05
  Speaker 9: awesome to understand the culture and the traditions here, and
• 42:08
  Speaker 9: that's something that I never knew about Texas before.
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: Describe your style of pitching.
• 42:14
  Speaker 9: I'd say fastball heavy, trying to attack early and then
• 42:19
  Speaker 9: try and use my whiteout slider for the end. What
• 42:22
  Speaker 9: excites you about your team? I guess everything. I mean,
• 42:26
  Speaker 9: a bunch of new faces, new culture here, and I'm
• 42:30
  Speaker 9: I'm excited to see what we can.
• 42:31
  Speaker 10: Do this year.
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: Are you the age of the staff.
• 42:35
  Speaker 9: That I don't know yet? You know, when coach gets involved,
• 42:39
  Speaker 9: I'll be ready for it. Whether that's relieving or I'll
• 42:42
  Speaker 9: start this weekend, I'm not for sure yet.
• 42:44
  Speaker 8: Since you been here. Is there anything you can identify
• 42:47
  Speaker 8: that is taking you to another level of the new
• 42:49
  Speaker 8: coaching and being of Texas.
• 42:51
  Speaker 9: I'm'a say, like the buying end standpoint, whether that's buying
• 42:56
  Speaker 9: into the standards here, but I mean the coaches here
• 43:00
  Speaker 9: they try and have as much fun as possible with you.
• 43:03
  Speaker 9: And that's something that I enjoy the most. Because you
• 43:06
  Speaker 9: take this game too serious. I mean it's gonna.
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: Act very quickly.
• 43:10
  Speaker 8: That's likely you have an experience in the path.
• 43:12
  Speaker 9: I'd say yes to know. I mean Indiana State was
• 43:16
  Speaker 9: I mean hard knows greedy and here, I mean you
• 43:22
  Speaker 9: can mess up sometimes and understand that.
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: And that's what I'm learning right now.
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: Did you visit other schools?
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: I didn't.
• 43:30
  Speaker 9: I didn't go on any visits.
• 43:31
  Speaker 8: Did you consider other schooling? Did I consider?
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 43:36
  Speaker 9: But I don't know Texas After I called him twice.
• 43:39
  Speaker 9: I think that was as soon as I made my decision.
• 43:43
  Speaker 8: Anything else for Jared cool.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's the conversation with Jared Spencer the senior
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: transfer left hand or again, very gaudy numbers that he
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: put up, and you heard him ask if somebody asked him,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: you know, what's the fastest you've been clocked.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: He said in ninety eight.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: He's a guy who can bring the heat, a left
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: hander who can bring the heat. And you know, he
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: said he doesn't know exactly what the role is yet,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: and most of the pitchers, and you're gonna hear coming
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: up next segment, segment from another one, we'll tell you.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: And we heard Andre de Planky you say this earlier.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: They're more than happy and willing and excited and eager
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: to accept whatever role they're asked to accept, whether it's
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: as a starter or as a reliever. It would probably
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: be reasonable to assume that Jared Spencer will be a starter,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: but we don't know that yet. We'll know by the
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: time we get to the other weekend.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Things also, rolls.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Modify and change a bit, especially early in the season.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: His roles are defined, and.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Max Weener, the pitching coach, and Jim Schloasnagel obviously going
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: to great detail on what these guys are able to provide.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: And you're gonna hear that coming up from our next guy,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: who is primarily reliever and may well be reliever and
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: could possibly be closer for Texas, but he's willing to
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: do whatever the situation calls for him. That's Ruger Riojas,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: who is an area of product originally from Wimberley but
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: went to middle school and in the in the Greater
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Austin area. You'll hear him talk about that coming up.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: We're here at UFCU just far Field. At least the
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: brain has stopped. It is chilly outside today, but no
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Noball game today. It was just Texas Baseball Media Day
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: and giving you an opportunity to hear from long worn players.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: And we'll hear from Jim Schlasniegel coming up tomorrow as
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: we draw closer to Friday's season opener in Arlington.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Up next, we'll.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Hear from the junior transfer right hand to Ruger Riojas.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: That's that's up next when we continue here on AM
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: thirteen under the Zone. About an hour ago that I
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: commented on the fact I was gazing up with the
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: upper deck of I thirty five and say it's moving along, okay,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: maybe thirty miles thirty five miles an hour. Ye, now
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: it's about fifteen to twenty, I would say. And I'm
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: watching an emergency vehicle go down the upper deck right now,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: so it's probably going to slow down even more so,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: we do be careful if you're out there for that
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: interesting that they're trying out and doing a lot of
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: different things here in preparation for the start of the season.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I mentioned that there it was kind of a partner
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: dust mode and they had a lot of equipment and
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: power tools and stuff like that, even here in the
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: radio broadcast booth that we're being used as storage as
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: they put together in a new television booth here, and
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: they're working on some things on the video board as well,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: but on the regular scoreboard, and baseball fans who come
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: out here a lot, they know exactly what I'm talking about.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: The regular one beyond the left field fence behind the
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: yetty yard has that signature script Texas on the front illuminated.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Then it's got the you know, the line.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Score listened there the first inning to the ninth inning,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: and they still have it up from the last home
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: games the Longhorns played as a Big twelve Conference school
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: with the Kansas Jayhawks.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: They have the Jayhawk logo up there.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: And of course the home opener for Texas will be
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: a week from tonight against the Houston Cougars.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: That will be next week.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: They will open the season in Arlington on Friday against
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Louisville Friday night at seven, then Saturday evening against Ole Miss,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: and then Sunday evening against Oklahoma State. We heard a
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: few minutes ago from Jared Spencer, the left handed transfer
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: coming in from Indiana State. There's another transfer, right handed transfer,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: a junior, Ruger Riojas, who's an area product. He's from
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Wimberley and was a two year letterman at Wimberley. Two
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: time All State selection, had a one point two eight
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: ERA as a senior, led the Texans to back in
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: back to back district titles and then went to UTSA.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: In his first season twenty twenty three years of freshman,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: he appeared in twenty games with one start, five and
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: zero record, four to eleven er A. Last year as
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: a sophomore, he led the team in appearances twenty six appearances,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: had one start, mainly used out of the bullpen, but
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: he led the team in wins with ten ERA at
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: three point twenty five, saves with seven, and strikeouts with
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: seventy five. He was All Conference second team in an
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: American Athletic Conference play. So this is a guy who
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: can fulfill a variety, can fill a variety of roles,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: although many feel that he could wind up in being
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: the closure. That was one of the questions asked among many.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: As we hear from the junior right hander Ruger Riojas.
• 48:54
  Speaker 11: Jump straight into questions when he decided you on the
• 48:58
  Speaker 11: transfer come up to Tantungy.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: What kind of made Texas the place you wanted to
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: you wanted to come to me?
• 49:04
  Speaker 13: Yeah, so, not only is it forty five minutes away
• 49:07
  Speaker 13: from my hometown of Wimberley, but the catching staff here
• 49:09
  Speaker 13: truly made this place feel like a tided family and
• 49:13
  Speaker 13: was just so comforting to me during the you know,
• 49:15
  Speaker 13: recruiting process and really helped me.
• 49:17
  Speaker 10: Like it was almost like how could you not come here?
• 49:22
  Speaker 10: It's just you know, all the resources and staffed here
• 49:25
  Speaker 10: support you. It's it's unbelievable. I mean, there's no brainer
• 49:29
  Speaker 10: to come to UTA.
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: Did you ever get a pitch against Texas?
• 49:31
  Speaker 10: Really said, I did not?
• 49:33
  Speaker 8: What was the sales pitch like from shlost and staff?
• 49:35
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean Texas is historically the greatest baseball program
• 49:41
  Speaker 13: in college baseball. I'd compared to the Yankees of the
• 49:43
  Speaker 13: college baseball and schlast kept you know, wanted to bring
• 49:47
  Speaker 13: back to the standard of you know, the glory days
• 49:48
  Speaker 13: that you know, like the Clemons era and the gust Faller,
• 49:51
  Speaker 13: And that was something that you know, woul really resonated
• 49:54
  Speaker 13: with me. Cause if I I my goal here in
• 49:57
  Speaker 13: college is, you know, go to home Hall and win
• 49:59
  Speaker 13: the whole thing. I mean, it's always something I've wanted
• 50:02
  Speaker 13: to do. And I think that's the staff here is
• 50:05
  Speaker 13: that's their goal, and they're very goal oriented with you know,
• 50:08
  Speaker 13: meaning it.
• 50:09
  Speaker 8: You look at the staff, you look at the roster.
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: Is that a reasonable expectation in year one for this
• 50:16
  Speaker 7: for the staff to.
• 50:17
  Speaker 8: Go to on on the whole thing?
• 50:18
  Speaker 10: I think so.
• 50:19
  Speaker 13: I think so we're very we're very very good pro program, staff, team, everything,
• 50:24
  Speaker 13: you know, We're excellent down to the core.
• 50:26
  Speaker 10: So I think this is for a year one. I
• 50:29
  Speaker 10: think the expectations are perfect.
• 50:31
  Speaker 8: Culture is a.
• 50:31
  Speaker 10: Word that's going on a lot, just kind of the
• 50:33
  Speaker 10: Hubris and side.
• 50:34
  Speaker 8: What specifically about the culture kind of stands out and
• 50:36
  Speaker 8: resonates with you.
• 50:37
  Speaker 13: Yeah, excellence is number one. I think you know, the
• 50:40
  Speaker 13: entire staff and uh, everybody that is associated with Texas
• 50:45
  Speaker 13: Baseball is a big believer in excellence in all aspects
• 50:49
  Speaker 13: on the field. Off the field and everything you do,
• 50:51
  Speaker 13: and you know, breaking it down to the very you know,
• 50:54
  Speaker 13: core is just having good routines and you know, staying
• 50:57
  Speaker 13: with those routines and all those will compound to eventually
• 51:01
  Speaker 13: build up to excellence.
• 51:03
  Speaker 10: What's your first memory of Texas baseball?
• 51:06
  Speaker 13: Yeah, so I would say it was in eighth grade.
• 51:11
  Speaker 13: Me and Buddy came to a game they played TCU
• 51:15
  Speaker 13: and it was the game I remember that Cody Clements
• 51:18
  Speaker 13: did that walk off and went over the Taco Shacks sign.
• 51:20
  Speaker 10: That was my first memory of Texas baseball.
• 51:22
  Speaker 8: That was your first game here. That's a hell of
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: an introduction.
• 51:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, so so would you when you you
• 51:28
  Speaker 7: still probably have that capture in your mind of the fans.
• 51:31
  Speaker 12: And the scene and all that, and it's just how
• 51:34
  Speaker 12: do you impart to like new players, like, hey, we're
• 51:37
  Speaker 12: trying to get to this spot in your mind and
• 51:39
  Speaker 12: it's gonna be awesome.
• 51:40
  Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, taking everything one day at a time,
• 51:46
  Speaker 13: not looking too forward into the future and just truly
• 51:49
  Speaker 13: living out each day to the best of your ability.
• 51:52
  Speaker 13: And you know, like I said, having good habits with it.
• 51:55
  Speaker 13: You know, just making the right choices every day will
• 51:58
  Speaker 13: eventually build up to you know, Texas at Since.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: What's your participation for this weekend?
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: Is everything new?
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: Your first time? I mean to finally take the field.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: What's it gonna be like for you?
• 52:07
  Speaker 13: Yeah, just take it one day at a time, one
• 52:11
  Speaker 13: pitch at a time. I don't know what to expect.
• 52:13
  Speaker 13: I don't know if anybody knows what to expect. But
• 52:16
  Speaker 13: our goal is to win.
• 52:17
  Speaker 8: Do you have a final role?
• 52:20
  Speaker 13: Whatever coach wants me to do, I'll do. I just
• 52:23
  Speaker 13: want to help this program win. And you know, whatever
• 52:26
  Speaker 13: role he trusts me to do, I think I believe
• 52:28
  Speaker 13: is what he believes it will help the team wins.
• 52:30
  Speaker 10: So whatever coach wants us to.
• 52:32
  Speaker 8: Do, what is the slashest message for this weekend.
• 52:35
  Speaker 13: Yeah, he's big into the routine. So you know, have
• 52:39
  Speaker 13: your routine going into this weekend starting. You know, way
• 52:42
  Speaker 13: back when we first got here, I wouldn't say it
• 52:46
  Speaker 13: was everything building up to this weekend. I would say
• 52:48
  Speaker 13: everything building up to today, and then once today's over,
• 52:52
  Speaker 13: everything building up into tomorrow. So it's really just taking
• 52:55
  Speaker 13: everything one day at a time. And we're not there
• 52:57
  Speaker 13: to play. The team are there to play the game.
• 52:59
  Speaker 13: The team's just who we have to get through to
• 53:03
  Speaker 13: win the game.
• 53:04
  Speaker 12: When Texas hired Sloss, you were an outside observer of
• 53:07
  Speaker 12: the whole situation.
• 53:09
  Speaker 10: Were you following what was going on with that?
• 53:11
  Speaker 12: And have you ever seen a college baseball story kind
• 53:14
  Speaker 12: of get that much attention?
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 53:16
  Speaker 10: No, I have not.
• 53:17
  Speaker 13: I mean, I think the day I entered the portal
• 53:20
  Speaker 13: was like the day he got the job. And I mean,
• 53:23
  Speaker 13: of course there are some some backlash, but I think
• 53:27
  Speaker 13: it was a great move for him. You know, he's
• 53:29
  Speaker 13: a great coach, and I don't think he deserves any
• 53:31
  Speaker 13: of that hate. I mean, I'm sure anybody else anywhere
• 53:33
  Speaker 13: would have, you know, done what he did. But he's
• 53:36
  Speaker 13: a very excellent coach and is you know, he cares
• 53:41
  Speaker 13: about his players regardless of where they are.
• 53:43
  Speaker 10: He is. He's amazing.
• 53:46
  Speaker 13: Oh you coach Winner, He's great. He's really I mean,
• 53:51
  Speaker 13: I would say his point, you know, to be was
• 53:54
  Speaker 13: the uh the mental approach of the game. And you know,
• 53:57
  Speaker 13: just believing that you're good enough to pitch in the
• 53:58
  Speaker 13: sec and you know, when it's your time to be
• 54:00
  Speaker 13: on the mountain, you're the best picture in the world.
• 54:02
  Speaker 10: And that's really what he hones in on.
• 54:04
  Speaker 13: And you know, just being present with yourself on the game,
• 54:07
  Speaker 13: you know, not trying to look too forward ahead or
• 54:09
  Speaker 13: you know, in the past, just being yourself in the moment,
• 54:12
  Speaker 13: one pitch at a time.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: How do you how would you describe yourself as a picture?
• 54:18
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I'd say relentless. I you know, if I'm giving
• 54:22
  Speaker 13: a game plan, I'm gonna stick to that game plan.
• 54:23
  Speaker 13: I'm gonna I'm gonna fail with that game plan regardless of,
• 54:26
  Speaker 13: you know, the outcome. I don't look forward to the outcome.
• 54:29
  Speaker 13: I just you know, try to win in the present.
• 54:32
  Speaker 13: Win one pitch at the time.
• 54:34
  Speaker 8: What are all your pitch what are all your pictures? Yeah?
• 54:37
  Speaker 13: So I throw a forcing fastball, a slider, a splitter,
• 54:40
  Speaker 13: and a curve. The slider, the curve, and the splitter
• 54:42
  Speaker 13: actually new. I started developing them this fall.
• 54:46
  Speaker 10: Going back to what you said about flaws for a second.
• 54:48
  Speaker 7: When you spoke with him a couple of weeks ago,
• 54:50
  Speaker 7: he said that doesn't any hobbies want to.
• 54:51
  Speaker 13: Be your fault part of you guys, Oh yeah, no,
• 54:53
  Speaker 13: that's like yeah, yeah. Every during the winter he was like, man,
• 54:56
  Speaker 13: this is the worst time because I just can't heal
• 54:58
  Speaker 13: with you guys. That's just to get back to the ballparking.
• 55:01
  Speaker 13: We were all went there with them too. We just
• 55:02
  Speaker 13: couldn't wait to get back and you know, be together
• 55:04
  Speaker 13: work out our goal.
• 55:06
  Speaker 8: Did you pitch the first game of the series with
• 55:09
  Speaker 8: a tesay?
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Was that right?
• 55:10
  Speaker 8: Did you pitch the first game of every serious of
• 55:12
  Speaker 8: the ut So?
• 55:14
  Speaker 10: Yeah? So the I was a reliever so always Yeah.
• 55:20
  Speaker 13: So I mean I could pitch Friday, Saturday, Sunday, all
• 55:22
  Speaker 13: the all three days. I might not even throw the
• 55:24
  Speaker 13: ball Tuesday. I mean, just whenever they needed me. So
• 55:27
  Speaker 13: you would you like to be the closure?
• 55:30
  Speaker 10: I mean, I don't really care about a particular role
• 55:33
  Speaker 10: to have this year.
• 55:35
  Speaker 13: I'm I mean, I just love this team so much
• 55:37
  Speaker 13: and I really wanna just be the best teammate I
• 55:41
  Speaker 13: can and you know, help other guys around me, you know,
• 55:44
  Speaker 13: just be impactful to them and help them, you know,
• 55:47
  Speaker 13: have the winning mindset too.
• 55:49
  Speaker 11: Since you've been here, is there something that you could
• 55:51
  Speaker 11: have tentified that help you raise your game?
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: And then what is it?
• 55:55
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I would definitely say the uh the mental train
• 55:58
  Speaker 10: that we have been doing.
• 55:58
  Speaker 13: It started back in the fall with a guy named
• 56:01
  Speaker 13: Brian Kane who is a mental strength coach, and I
• 56:04
  Speaker 13: think some of the you know routines he's helped us
• 56:06
  Speaker 13: get into and brought us into, have helped out a lot,
• 56:10
  Speaker 13: and uh definitely just you know some of the things
• 56:13
  Speaker 13: we're working on.
• 56:14
  Speaker 10: In practice with you know Max community.
• 56:16
  Speaker 13: The big thing is, you know, taking it one pitch
• 56:17
  Speaker 13: at a time or one inning, save one pitch at
• 56:19
  Speaker 13: a time. Just really helping you stay present and not
• 56:21
  Speaker 13: trying to you know, get far away or get away
• 56:25
  Speaker 13: from your anchor, which is you know you and that's
• 56:27
  Speaker 13: what makes you the best, you know, the best version
• 56:30
  Speaker 13: of yourself.
• 56:32
  Speaker 8: Anything else for your help.
• 56:34
  Speaker 11: Slashed at your first game was the the Clemens game
• 56:37
  Speaker 11: against CaCu team he was coaching.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: I did not did not.
• 56:43
  Speaker 10: Thank you, thank you.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: All right there it is Riojas uh the one time
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: Wimberley Texan and U t s a roadrunner. Now taxes
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: long worn look for a ruger in all probability to
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: be a man out of the bullpen who could really
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: uh make a big difference for this longer team. All right,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: We'll be back to wrap up our number two from
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: here at UFCU Dish falk Field on Texas Baseball Media Day.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Here on sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone, coming
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: away from UFCU Dish falk Field. It is Texas Long
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: Worn Baseball Media Day here at the ballpark, so we
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: had opportunity to hear from long Worton players, also from
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: head coach Jim schlastneg we'll hear from shlast Tomorrow. We
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: have one more player we're going to hear from this
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: our Will Gasparino, the LONGRRN sophomore outfielder coming off that
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: freshman campaign last year. We'll hear from Will a little
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: bit later on this half hour Long worn basketball. Tonight,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Texas men hosts the number two team in the country,
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: the Alabama Crimson Tide. It is interesting I find that
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: Auburn is number one and Alabama's number two, those two
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: our rivals. Whatever happened to Uke in North Carolina, right Carolina,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: by the way, in a bad way right now after
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: losing by twenty at Clemson last night. I think they're
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: fourteen and eleven now and they're listed as being a
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: bubble team. I mentioned some of Joe Lenardi's bracketology last
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: hour where he still has Texas in the field and
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: has them as one of the last four buys, meaning
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: not slated for Dayton and the first four, but the
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: schedule doesn't get any easier right now with upcoming games
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: against Alabama tonight in Kentucky on Saturday. So it's it's
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: going to be a difficult grind for Texas coming up,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: but that's where he has it right now. And Auburn
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: and Alabama one and two they play Saturday in Tuscaloos,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: and I think ESPN College Game Day is going there,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: whereas they've never been for an Alabama Auburn basketball game,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: but they will this they will this week.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: For game Day. Now.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Another thing I wanted to get to I mentioned the
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: court storming thing, that that that Vanderbilt is trying to
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: what they call it kind of almost legalized court storming
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: in a way that it doesn't end danger the players,
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: the teams, the coaches, the officials, things like that, because
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: they have been the most fined school in the country
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars in fines, and so
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: they have this new policy where they let fans enjoy
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: a big win and come on to the floor, but
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: they're not allowed to come on to the floor until
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: there's a what they say is a one minute delay
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: at the end of the game in order to give
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: the players coaches and officials time to lead the floor. Now,
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: I will tell you this in the case of Vanderbilt,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: because this is what they did Saturday. It isn't so
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: much about letting the Vanderbilt players lead the floor because
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: they want to celebrate with the students and the fans.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: It's to allow the opposing team to safely depart the floor.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: Same thing with the officials and the because the players
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: are doing a victory laugh.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: I pointed this out on.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: The broadcast because they had security personnel extend this long
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: rope down the length of the floor. And of course
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: we talked quite a bit last week about how unusual
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: Vanderbilt's media setup is anyway, because the arena where they
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: play in Memorial.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Gymnasium is less of gymnasium and.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: More like a concert hall triple deck, and it's almost
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: like one like a Carnegie Hall type of thing, and
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: so as some have called it the old opera house.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: Well, anyway, it's.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: Almost like the game itself is contested on a stage
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: and we're kind of almost below level there at like
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: thigh level or whatever, and so stretching the length of
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: the floor of the rope were the security personnel now
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: they really didn't have to worry about a court storming
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: because again Vanderbilt being an unranked Texas team and that's
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: not necessarily worth storming a court over uh Texas name notwithstanding.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: So they didn't do that, but the players did a
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: victory lap. But I pointed out that if they're really
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: that concern about court storming, having the players do a
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: victory lap probably doesn't help them achieve their rejective.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: What I did not know at the time.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: And then and again, this was an ESPN story that
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: came out that was their guinea pig game for this
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: new policy where they allow the players and coaches and
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: officials time to safely leave the floor. And again, the
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: fans didn't storm the court, but it could be put
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: to the test tonight because Auburn plays at Vanderbilt, so
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: we'll see, you know, fans stormed the court after Vanderbilt
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: beat Tennessee and Kentucky, so they have wins there. So
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: so now they're they're trying to, you know, do that
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: in a different way where it makes a little more sense.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: That's one basketball note to point out. The other one
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: that I wanted to point out was something I mentioned
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: in the first hour of the program, and that was
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: this business with Dallas Mavericks ownership and management treatment of
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: its own fan base, not just because of the trade
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: which has sparked all of this, the trade of Luka
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Doncic to the Lakers, and it kind of, you know,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: had a flash point, if you will, last night.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: The flash point.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Happened in two places, Dallas, where the Mavericks were hosting
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings, and Los Angeles, where the Lakers were
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: hosting Utah in Luka Doncict's debut, and by all measures
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: in La it was successful. Luke had fourteen points, He
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: played twenty four minutes, added some rebounds and assists. He
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: and Lebron James seem to work well together. They're very
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: excited in Los Angeles and they should be. Rob polink
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: At the general managers said it was a gift that
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: they got by way of this trade.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: And it is the general.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: Perspective of those who analyze the trade that the Mavericks
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: were fleeced. Now, it's not that Anthony Davis's chop liver.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: In fact, he played well until he hurt. It got hurt.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: But the problem is is that Anthony Davis and the
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: long ones do need or excuse me, the Mavericks do
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: need a low post presence inside. He really struggles to
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: stay healthy, and he's out again and could be out
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: a few weeks with an abdominal injury, so he could
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: be out for a time. So all that has done
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: is ad to the frustration. And then last night Maverick
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: fans expressed the frustration a lot of booze. There were
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: a couple of fans that held up signs that said
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: fire Nico, as in Nico Harrison, the general manager who
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: made the deal. Those fans were removed from the arena
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: and one fan's face got on the big jumbo tron
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: and he was mouthing the words fire Niko. Well, they
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: went down there and removed him. The Mavericks management kind
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: of hid behind an NBA rule that says if you're
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: displaying either obscene or distasteful or threatening thing toward any
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: one specific person, you can be removed and that and
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: that was their uh, the reasoning behind that. There were
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: other fans who were rejected as well. One guy who
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: had I thought a really good take on this. Now
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: he gets pretty incendiary in his comments and I have
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: to clean it up a little.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: Bit as I read it to you.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: If you've ever if you remember the Dallas Stars in
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: their heyday, had just a wonderful play by play voice
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: in Ralph Strangers. He eventually retired, and h and Josh
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: Bogorat does an outstanding job in podcasting the Stars along
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: with Darryl Razor. Ray and Ralph and Razor worked together
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: for several years. Ralph still does a column for Substack,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: and he went after the Mavericks management and ownership guns
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: Ablazon last night.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: The headline was MAV's.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: Follow incredibly bad with horrifically stupid, and they said, following
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: the Luka Doncicch trade, the Dallas Mavericks insult be a
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: little and muzzle their fan base while publicly trashing the
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: generational icon they shipped away.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: So he wrote this. He actually wrote this before Luca
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: was on the floor.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: It started with Luka Doncicch returns to the NBA tonight
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: or returns to NBA action tonight. He said a week
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: ago that sentence, reported on the air on a local
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: radio sports ticker would have been welcome news to the
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: Dallas sports community. Today, it's another violent blow to a
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: shaken fan. And then I'll skip on down to some
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: of this.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: He said. It's a very sad day for Dallas Mavericks fans.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: He said, for Luka doncis at the very least, he
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: was summarily screwed out of one hundred million dollars and
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: jerked out of his home without a moment's notice. Reports
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: of him recently buying a new house in the community
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: only adds to the sadness. I believe he had no
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: idea any of this was remotely possible. We could go
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: this was unthinkable. Now it's reality, and the fan base
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: is hurting, big time hurting. And the worst part, the
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks don't care. In fact, they've gone out of
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: their way to show exactly how little regard this new
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: ownership group and GM have for their fan base and
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: for the player who led them to the twenty twenty
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: four NBA Finals and led them in the NBA Finals
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: and most scoring categories, And they keep doubling down on
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: the lazy Luca narrative, and that now and that now
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: they have players who can.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: Get them into the NBA finals.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: If Mavericks ownership regards their fans at all, it is
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: only with contempt The trade was one thing. But the
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: way this organization has mishandled the blowback, which apparently they
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: didn't think was going to be a thing, is disrespectful
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: and disgusting. The way they've treated their fans is offensive,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: he said. Here's what I've gleaned the message from the
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: team to the fans since the deal was made. Number
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: one f off, Like I said, I have to clean
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: up some of this. Number two Luca was fatten out
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: of shape. Number three, we will not be accountable to
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: any of you. Who do you think you are? And
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: again this is Ralph Strange's writing this, he said. And
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: because they're such sleazy cowards, they leave a lot of
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: the explaining to others inside and outside of their organization.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: Some team adjacent media aren't even bothering to hide their
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: intimacy with these corrupt pillagers. They've traded actual reporting for
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: daily work as stenographers and parrot company lines. They attack
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: other media for not falling in line with them or
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: their storylines. This type of reporting, these type of relationships,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: sadly are everywhere in sports. My old colleague and friend,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: Mark Followell, was used as a shield at the introductory
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: press conference for the players coming in they were too
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: scared to face objective reporters. Mark is a good soldier
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: and a good man. They put him in a bad spot,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to guess they didn't even think about
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: what they were asking him to do. I'm a guy
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: who's had the job like that, telling you how it
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: usually is. The arena workers, these wonderful people, many of
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: whom I created deep bonds with over the years while
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: calling Dallas Stars games at the building, were asked to
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: turn on the people they have real relationships with, the fans.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: These jobs are second jobs for most of them, and
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: they work so hard they're tired. But they always smile
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: with speak with celebrate, and commiserate with everyone in the building.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: There are only a few things I miss, but I
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: miss all of those people.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: The workers, some became real friends, all care deeply about
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: being there.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: But by all accounts, arena and staff and security people
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: were the ones who were told to ask people to
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: remove shirts, hats, and to not speak or chant derogatorily
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: toward ownership or the GM. These snowflake executives are apparently
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: so scared of hearing any descent or having anyone question
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: him if gasp, Nico Harrison had to see T shirts
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: in the stands that weren't reverential to him and the owners.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: What the world stopped spinning?
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, we seem to be in an age of the
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: powerful shutting down or attempting to shut down opposition voices
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: shutting down you us fans.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: We saw it Saturday. They don't want to own the trade.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: They wouldn't deliver the message themselves and have the executive
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: team man the doors, greet the fans, offer kind words
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: and let them grieve together.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: However they needed to do that. No empathy at all
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: from this bunch. No brains either.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: Likely this is being at least partially handled by some
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: expensive outside PR firm. In my experience, those kinds of
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: outfits are wrong way more than right on strategy. If
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: the Mavericks had let the fans get it out, and
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: it won't be just one game, but if they face it,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: this will fade and then they can start the healing
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: and work to bring everyone back together around a team
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: that they think is even better now after the trade. Instead,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: they decided to muzzle their fans and customers. How chicken
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: bleep is that. I've worked in professional sports for for
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: forty years. I wish I could tell you that this
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: isn't typical sports executive behavior, because while this is on
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: a level of its own, the behavior and mindset of
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  Speaker 1: these and he uses another word is extremely typical. But
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: few things compare to this and their frontman, this Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Dumont person. I get PTSD just looking at him. I've
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: never met him, but I know this out of shaped
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  Speaker 1: guy with a bad hair in the front py suit
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  Speaker 1: who thinks he's the bleep too.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is a hit piece. Continue at your own discretion.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: Again, that's Ralph Strangis who wrote that former play by
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: play voice of the Dallas Stars, and there are similar
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: pieces right now, absolutely roasting the Mavericks. A for the
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: trade obviously, B for how they've treated the fans and
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: removing fans for booing, and removing fans for saying fire
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Nico highly highly hyper sensitive. All right, up next, we'll
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: shift back to log horns. We'll shift back to the
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: log horn baseball. We're gonna hear from Will Gasparino, Texas
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: outfielder coming up next when we continue on this Texas
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  Speaker 1: Baseball media day at UFCU dish fouk field.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thirteen under the zone on.
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  Speaker 1: The two after Longhorn baseball team is actually out on
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  Speaker 1: the field. Now you can hear the pop of the
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: ball into the mid is some early throwing going on
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: today they had the mediada and we're gonna hear from
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: Will Gasparino in just a moment, the Longhorns outfielder, a
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: couple of other things wanted to get to one already
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: quite a bit of response there to that blog, that
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: piece written by Ralph strangis a lot of folks feeling
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: that it is indeed spot on by the former Dallas
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: Stars play by play voice who writes for Substack, and
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: his absolute evisceration of Mavericks' new ownership.
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  Speaker 2: And management less.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, definitely criticism for the trade, but it
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  Speaker 1: was more about the way in which they've treated the fans.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I think shocked so many people last night,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: that the Mavericks, who've always had a really good relationship with.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: Their fan base.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, it goes all the way back when I
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: was in college, the Mavericks expansion year nineteen eighty eighty one.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: I was in college and my best friend Alex and
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: I who you know, people know my story to know
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: that I sold t shirts at concerts at Reunion Arena
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: in Houston and other places, put myself through school, and
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: we also worked that Mavericks expansion season eighty eighty one.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: We sold merch sold merchandise for the Mavericks. Didn't selling
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: awful lot in a fifteen and sixty seven expansion year,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: but we worked it. But even from that first day
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  Speaker 1: when Don Carter was the owner, they were and Rick
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: Son was the general manager, they were always about trying
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  Speaker 1: to make sure they had a great relationship with the fans.
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  Speaker 1: And it went all the way even through the lean
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: times when they had some ownership that wasn't the best.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: And then when Mark Cuban took over, he was determined
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  Speaker 1: to rebuild that relationship with the fans and they did
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: and that's where the MFFL the MAVs Fans for Life
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: thing came about and their drive toward a championship and
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: all of that. But you know a lot of people
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: upset with what happened last night with fans being removed
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: from the arena just for saying fire Nico or having
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: the sign up a little placard or a T shirt
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: or whatever that kind of thing, and that they will
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: brook no opposition whatsoever on this deal, and have a
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: feeling the final chapter has not been written on this.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: There's going to be more about this in the days
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: and weeks to come. All right, let's roll it back
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: to long Horn baseball. Will Gasparino, of course, is entering
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: his sophomore season as a Texas Longhorn, and Will clearly
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: made his impression in his first season as a Loghorn
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: as a freshman last year, coming in from Los Angeles,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: and you know, there was all that talk about him
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: possibly winding up with Oklahoma State, with Billy Gasprino's dad
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: having been there and all that, and so that you'll
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: hear some of that asked of him, because Texas will
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: play Oklahoma State the third game of that Shriner's Children's
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: Baseball Challenge this weekend in Arlington. But last year he
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: hit two fifty two, twelve home runs, forty seven runs
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: batted in, had ten multi hit games, twelve multiple RBI games,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: big fellow at sixty six, and he's put on some
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: pounds as well, and he talks about that. So here's
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: the conversation with the Walgorn's outfielder, Will Gasprino.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, don't raise up through if everyone needs a second,
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  Speaker 3: is the race take.
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  Speaker 8: Dang? I mean, if.
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  Speaker 7: Everyone's good, goods one second, that's good.
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  Speaker 5: Corey good, very good.
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  Speaker 7: Outfielder Will Gasparino will jump straight into question.
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  Speaker 10: I think we can pass you this question.
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  Speaker 11: Last year and they came down here, but you talked
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 11: to a smack your dad about Sunday's Sunday's game.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 10: Sunday's game was Sundays game Foklahoma State.
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  Speaker 12: Oh oh yeah, he's he'll be there so, I mean
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 12: last year he flew in town for the Oakland State
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 12: game as well.
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  Speaker 10: But it's just a fun series.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 12: We're very close family friends with the Holidays, so it's
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 12: kind of funny playing against each other. But I've always
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 12: respected them and nothing but good things to say and
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 12: looking forward to Sunday.
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  Speaker 11: How at you're kind of looking forward to this whole
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 11: weekend and the season started and kind of seeing what
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 11: the team looks like with the new coaching said.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 10: I'm excited.
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  Speaker 12: We did a really good job in the offseason getting
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 12: portal guys, and I feel like we've prepared for the
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 12: last five to six months and we can't wait to play.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 10: It's been a while. How new do things feel? Just
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 10: with a new staff and so many new players.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 8: Is there a lot of newness here?
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 10: Not really.
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  Speaker 12: It kind of feels like we've known all the guys
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 12: for the last few years. I think we get along
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 12: very well and she's a great group of guys.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 13: Coach said that you've invested a lot of time in
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 13: your body and really understood what the weight program is
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 13: all about.
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  Speaker 8: How do you feel and did you really get after
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 8: it in the weight room? Yeah?
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  Speaker 12: I think coach couches a really good job this offseason
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 12: and getting a sec ready and building our bodies to
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 12: the max and to what we've always wanted to. So, yeah,
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 12: I gained fifteen twenty pounds this offseason and I always
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 12: knew being a longer guide and.
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  Speaker 10: To stay strong, but Coach Cotch is done a really
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 10: good job of that.
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  Speaker 8: What is the mail plans? LA line?
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 10: Oh, eating a lot? The tank? We have the tank here.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 10: It's like our dining hall for athletes.
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  Speaker 12: And very fortunate enough to have that, well your head
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 12: coach at Pace Texas in Nebraska, because he's always there
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 12: in the summer.
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  Speaker 4: On how big an inside the visit for you guys,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 4: given his resume, how much hope.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 8: Does that give you to get back there.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 12: I think it's really cool to have a coach such
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 12: great as all the accomplishments he's done and had, and
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 12: I respect him a lot, and both coaching staff is
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 12: last year as well, nothing but the best. They've always
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 12: supported me and yeah, I can't wait to get after
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 12: it this year.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 8: What was your first conversation with schlast line?
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 12: Probably this summer. Just can't wait too after things. I
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 12: think he was super busy. You know, it was so
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 12: last minute, so it was a quick like hello, how
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 12: you doing? But yeah, it was just stoked to have
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 12: you looking forward to see you're on the field. So
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 12: we have to guess what the secret to his success
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 12: is to get into you know, the final days in Omaha,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 12: what you've been on the inside. What makes him such
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 12: a great coach? How does he get the team? I
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 12: think coach Slosh just the way he leads. He's a
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 12: very good leader. We just take every day set by
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 12: step and day by day. There's no getting ahead, and
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 12: no matter who we're playing, it's just we play to
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 12: a standard, not to a scoreboard. And I would say
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 12: just the way the structure is and how you pay
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 12: attention to little details.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 10: It's a big difference.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 12: What do you think is could be the biggest difference
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 12: between you and your first year and you entering the
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 12: second season as kind of a full time starter or
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 12: one of the one of the best returns on this team.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 12: I think having a little more experience definitely helps. For sure,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 12: putting on physically helps.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 8: For sure.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 12: We're lucky enough to have coach too Low this year
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 12: and we've done a lot of great things and with
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 12: all the hitters and cages this year, and so I
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 12: think all those things will have a big impact and change.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 13: And what have you seen from a Tommy Farmers that
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 13: some whey things gonna be going after position a little
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 13: bit playing.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 8: Some gage there.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 12: Yeah, that's my roommates. So we were always competing against
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 12: each other. But we have a great group of outfielders
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 12: and everyone could be starting an outfield you never know.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 12: So I think it just motivates us to work harder.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 12: And it's honestly a good thing with such a good
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 12: amount of great outfitters.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 8: What is being sec ready me and you?
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 10: Honestly, it's just playing the best of the best.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 12: I've always wanted to playgainst the best of the best,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 12: and I love the competition and that's what I played
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 12: this game for. I love to win, but I think
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 12: it's just the biggest baseball in college.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 7: And yeah, we was just out here and he said
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 7: that he believed that getting to Omaha winning the College
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 7: World Series are reasonable goals for a year one of
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 7: his cultures there.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 8: Do you agree are those reasonable goals?
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 5: I mean that's the main goal and we're gonna do
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 5: whatever it takes to win.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on Easton and what he brings
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 4: to this winfield.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 10: Oh, it was a great pickup off the portal this summer.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 10: Super talented, good kid. I think he's an help with
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 10: our team a lot this year. Obviously a lot of
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 10: it faces on the pitching staff.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 12: What have you kind of seen him when you're facing
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 12: those guys, But so are some of the things that
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 12: you've noticed about them. I think they just they got
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 12: good stuff. And there's no there's no guy that's like
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 12: an easy at that. It's every single out bad is
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 12: super tough and you can't slack off at all.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 10: It's a great pitching staff. Coach Winer does a really
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 10: good job with that.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 12: Well, what stands up about Adrian Rodbras, Oh, he's I
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 12: think he's still seventeen eight he's young, but he's almost
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 12: like an older guy. He's not scared of anyone. Came
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 12: in super confident, he's performed, super talented. I mean, he's
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 12: just really good as that for a guy.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 10: Who's seventeen eighteen to kind of have.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 12: That mentality, Yeah, I think it's really hard coming I
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 12: mean I experienced it last year. It's really hard coming
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 12: into college baseball, big time session in the SEC and
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 12: just being able to have confidence and just be yourself
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 12: around all the guys. I mean usually it takes a
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 12: few years for some kids. But he's done a really
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 12: good job of being comfortable and just doing what he does.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 8: And you have to provide him a little guidance.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 12: Not that you do that a little bit, Yeah, especially
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 12: when he struggles like which I'll try to support him
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 12: if he ever needs anything.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 10: He's more with the.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 12: Infielders a lot, but yeah, I mean him being he's
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 12: going to be big time player for us this year,
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 12: so whenever he needs help, I try to talk to him.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 8: Do you think you are going to shock people this year?
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 10: I think so.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 12: I mean I think in your University of Texas kind
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 12: of do what we usually do yeah, anything else for well, I.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 8: Got a one more of the added weight. What have
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 8: you seen the effects? Just have to play.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 12: Just consistency. My body is a fatigue as much. I'm
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 12: just stronger, still able to run, throw and I mean power.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 12: Uh that helps a little bit, but honestly, just being
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 12: able to be more consistent every day just it helps.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 10: For sure.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 8: You don't have any calaries your reading today?
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 12: Oh, watching fla A Nuggets for sure, watch probably six
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 12: maybe bottom milkshakes at night. Pretty much eat whatever you want,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 12: just as much as you can.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 10: It kind of took out.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: I accept that from the guy six feet six inches
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: in height that he's told eat as much as you can,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: as long as you can. Can you imagine consuming six
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: thousand calories a day.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: That's a lot.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: I try to stay away from that much consumption myself.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: All right, that's Longhorn's outfielder, Will Gasparino. We've got some
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: more coming up. I got a couple of women's basketball
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: notes to get to and it's more as well in
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: the NBA when we continue here on this Tuesday afternoon
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: on thirteen under the Zone, got somebody on the tax
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: line menting on my my recollection of that Dallas Mavericks
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: expansion season of nineteen eighty eighty one that had guys
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: on that team like Abdul Jelami, Brad Davis, Tom Leguard,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: the late Bill Robinsine and then and Jim spinarcle and
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: and Scott Lloyd was another one on that expansion Mavericks
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: team from eighty eighty one. And somebody said the expansion
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: Mavericks would have made a killing selling Jim's spinacle hair gel.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: Spando had that as they knew him, had that had
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: his hair just kind of like Jimmy Johnson's, perfectly quaffed.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: It was up to the way he could play with
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: it like that, So there had to be considerable amounts
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: of gel involving in that involved in that expansion season
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: of eighty eighty one.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: Jumping to.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: Women's college basketball, I mentioned this yesterday, but the updated
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: bracketologies had not yet been released yesterday, even with the
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: Logorns coming off that win over South Carolina on Sunday. Well,
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: and at the time I mentioned that going into the
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: Sunday game, Texas was already listed by Charlie Cream, who's
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: kind of pretty much viewed as the lead bracketologist of
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: those who cover the women's game, there's two. There's two,
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: or there's actually three that I kind of followed, but
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: the one, the one that Charlie Cream does, is probably
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: closer to being on point.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: I would not say his.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: His hit rate, his on point percentages as high as
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: Joe Lenardi with the men, but Leonardi has been doing
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: this for, you know, twenty five thirty years.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: Joe's been doing it for long time.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: He's written a book about it, and that's why he's
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: in that ninety six to ninety eight percentile where he's
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: hitting nearly.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: All of them just about.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: And I think last year or was the year before,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: he got ninety nine percent of them and had the
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: vast majority of the ones, also seeded properly, and most
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: of them in the regions, which is really difficult to
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: figure out because the tournament selection committee tries to balance
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: out the bracket as best it can in terms of
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: where they're sending teams. It's a little bit easier to
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: do that with the women because the women, the top
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: four seeds in each of the four regions get to
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: play at home the first weekend, so it's a little
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: bit easier call to make on that, but beyond that,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: it gets into a big guessing game as well.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: Going into the weekend prior to the South Carolina game,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: Charlie Kream had Texas as a one seed. He had
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: him in Spokane, and it made me smile to hear
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: that because it made me think about Vick Schaeffer, the
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: log One's head coach, when I had him on the
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: show last week. We're talking about this and for those
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: of you who don't know that, one of the major
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: differences with the women's sixty eighteen bracket as opposed to
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: the men's sixty eighteen bracket is that the women play
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: first and second round on home sites, as we mentioned,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: the top four seeds in each region, whereas the men's
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: tournament is completely.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: You know, neutral courts.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: Now, let's be honest, there are some courts that are
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: more neutral than others, ones that are closed. Like, for example,
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  Speaker 1: Raleigh is one of the first and second round sites
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  Speaker 1: for the men. There's a real good chance Duke is
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  Speaker 1: going to be playing there. That's twenty minutes from the
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  Speaker 1: Duke campus. It's not their home floor, it's in fact,
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  Speaker 1: it's in c State's on floor. But it's a chance
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  Speaker 1: for their fan base to be there. And it's like
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  Speaker 1: that across the country in different places where teams that
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  Speaker 1: are really really good get a chance to play close
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  Speaker 1: to home but not on their true home court. Well,
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  Speaker 1: in the women tournament, the top four seeds in each
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  Speaker 1: region do play on their home floor. That is, to
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  Speaker 1: be quite honest to bolster. Attendance is a big part
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  Speaker 1: of it, and it's also to reward the teams that
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  Speaker 1: are near the top of their regions.
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  Speaker 2: So there's that, and so Texas of course.
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  Speaker 1: Would figure to be at home, which they have been
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  Speaker 1: all four years that prior seasons of Big Shaffer as
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  Speaker 1: the head coach, and they will be again this year.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond that, it'll be interesting to see where they go.
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  Speaker 1: But and here's the other major difference between the women's
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  Speaker 1: tournament the men's turnament. The men's tournament has eight different
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  Speaker 1: neutral sites as we know, for first and second round.
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  Speaker 1: Then they have four completely different sites for the Sweet
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  Speaker 1: sixteen and the Elite eight the regional sites. The women
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  Speaker 1: who have sixteen first round sites because it's on home courts,
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  Speaker 1: then follow that up with only two regional sites.
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  Speaker 2: But they do have four regions.
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  Speaker 1: They just happened to have two at each site, and
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  Speaker 1: they did this last year for the first time, and
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  Speaker 1: they utilized in those two regions Albany and they utilize
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  Speaker 1: which is not far from the Yukon campus obviously, and
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  Speaker 1: they utilized Portland, Texas in the past had gone even
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  Speaker 1: when they were using four different regional sites, has been
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  Speaker 1: sent West pretty consistently, spoke Ine Washington in the past
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  Speaker 1: and Portland last year. This year the two regional sites
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  Speaker 1: are Birmingham for two of the spots and Spokane for
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  Speaker 1: the other two. And when I brought this up to
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  Speaker 1: Vic Schaeffer, I said, last year you mentioned going into
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  Speaker 1: this when somebody asked you what you thought of this
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  Speaker 1: concept of two regions at the same site, and you said,
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  Speaker 1: I want to go through it a year and see
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  Speaker 1: what I think of it.
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  Speaker 2: First asked me. Afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: I said, so I'm asking you now one year later,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, I don't like it. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: he didn't like it is because it really compresses the
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  Speaker 1: practice time and the court time and all that sort
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. Because you have eight schools utilizing that same floor.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a first and second round for the men's site.
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  Speaker 1: And he brought up the fact that they had the
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: late game Friday night against Gonzaga beat them in Portland,
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  Speaker 1: and then had the first practice time on the off
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: day on Saturday, and it had to be in the
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: morning because they had the other regional going on in
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: the afternoon the Saturday Monday, and so that was the
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: problem there. So he and he said, you can get
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  Speaker 1: dollars to donuts. They're going to send us to Spokane.
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  Speaker 1: They'll send us way out west. Well, this is why
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  Speaker 1: I said, I chuckled, and I smile when I looked
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  Speaker 1: at Charlie Kream's bracket projection. The four number one seeds
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  Speaker 1: he has of the this morning are UCLA, South Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame, and Texas. He has UCLA in Spokane, he
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  Speaker 1: has South Carolina in Birmingham, he has Notre Dame in
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  Speaker 1: Birmingham in that separate regional but in the same city,
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  Speaker 1: same arena, And he has Texas in Spokane.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why I was kind of chuckling about that.
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  Speaker 1: Now doesn't mean it's gonna stay that way, but for
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  Speaker 1: now he has that, and he has the long WRNS
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  Speaker 1: is the number one seed in what's called Region four
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  Speaker 1: Spokane as opposed to Region one Spokane, meaning the winners
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  Speaker 1: of those two regionals, both being played on the same floor,
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  Speaker 1: would then meet in the Final four in Tampa. If
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  Speaker 1: they advance. In this case, it would be Texas in UCLA.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll be honest with you, I've said this. Ucla
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  Speaker 1: is number one, They're undefeated, they have a win over
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina, so I have no quipple with them being
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: number one. But I think South Carolina is a better team.
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  Speaker 1: Vick Schaefer said as much on a post game the
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  Speaker 1: other day. He said, no slide against Ucla. Just think
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  Speaker 1: South Caroline's a better team.
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  Speaker 2: I do too.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen them a play and I know they beat
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: South Carolina early in the year. I think if they
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: were to play now, it'd be different. I think it
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: might be different if Texas were playing Notre Dame right now.
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  Speaker 1: They remember they lost to the Irish in South Men
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: in overtime back in December in that acc SEC Challenge.
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  Speaker 1: But they have Texas has the one seed, with the
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  Speaker 1: other teams coming to Austin being Tennessee Tech, who they
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: would face in a one versus sixteen matchup, and the
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: eight nine matchup would be Louisville and Iowa. So that's
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: what he's got there, and he has ten teams from
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: the SEC getting into the tournament. So that's an updated
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: bracketological prognostication for the Texas women as them is a
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  Speaker 1: one seed, has them in Spokane from here at Ufcu
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  Speaker 1: Diish falk Field on Am thirteen under the Zone