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May 7, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: We've got Steve Denton on because I forgot him yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I remembered at eleven o'clock last night. It was too
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Speaker 1: late by then. We've got a high school report, and
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Speaker 1: coming up in this hour, Bob Herrig, the golf writer
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Speaker 1: from Sports Illustrated, is going to join me. His brand
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Speaker 1: new book is called Tiger v. Jack The Great Debate.
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Speaker 1: Bob Herrig will join us, And in the second hour
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Speaker 1: O m G is the Clark Eisenhower Outdoor Edition. We're
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Speaker 1: going on a float trip on the North Platte River
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Speaker 1: out of Casper, Wyoming. And then we have a community
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Speaker 1: real live animals attack story from our very own community
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Speaker 1: to talk about, which happened less than twenty four hours ago.
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Speaker 1: So phone the neighbors, wake the kids. The NCAA, which
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Speaker 1: hasn't made a good decision in about one hundred years,
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Speaker 1: has decided that the basketball tournament has broken. So they're
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Speaker 1: going to add eight more teams. Seventy six teams, the
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Speaker 1: largest since it moved to sixty four in nineteen eighty five,
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Speaker 1: went from sixty four to sixty five and oh one
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Speaker 1: added three more in twenty eleven, and now eight more teams.
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Speaker 1: Doubleheaders on back to back days in Dayton, the Tuesday
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Speaker 1: and Wednesday. The men's tournament will feature twelve games played
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Speaker 1: by twenty four teams in two different cities. There will
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Speaker 1: now be three games each day in Dayton, three games
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Speaker 1: each day in a second city to be determined. Just
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Speaker 1: it makes my head hurt. These people make my head hurt.
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Speaker 1: It's just so frustrating. Aggie Baseball getting ready to play
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Speaker 1: Ole Miss in Oxford.
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Speaker 3: That is tomorrow evening.
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Speaker 1: That is a six thirty start, so it'll be six
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Speaker 1: fifteen here on the zone. The Rangers lost two out
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Speaker 1: of three to the Yankees, including today nine to two.
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Speaker 3: The final nine to two.
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Speaker 1: Mackenzie Gore pitched five really good innings and then he didn't.
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Speaker 3: But actually the bullpen was terrible.
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Speaker 1: Stop me if you've heard that before. Beaks was terrible,
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Speaker 1: Alexander wasn't very good. Gray wasn't very good. They ended
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Speaker 1: up giving up fourteen hits in nine runs, nine to
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Speaker 1: two to the final and still not hitting with men
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Speaker 1: on base. I tell you, Ezekiel Durant is hitting. He
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Speaker 1: had a home run and both RBIs with the dinger.
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Speaker 1: But other than that, no, the Rangers get beat by
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Speaker 1: the Yankees nine to two. The Astros have the day off.
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Speaker 1: They need more than one day off, and they learned yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Carlos Correas out for the year after getting whooped by
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers twelve to two.
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Speaker 3: They got a run rule. They don't do that in
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Speaker 3: Major League Baseball, but they should.
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Speaker 1: And another casualty with the nine game conference schedule, Florida
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Speaker 1: State and Georgia have canceled their home and home series,
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Speaker 1: which was scheduled.
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Speaker 3: For twenty seven and twenty eight.
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Speaker 1: They're working on a neutral site matchup according to the schools,
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Speaker 1: so the ACC is quote easy into a nine game
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Speaker 1: conference schedule this season as well. Colorado Avalanche star Cale
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Speaker 1: mccarr will seek his second straight Norris Trophies, one of
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Speaker 1: three finalist name for the defensive player who demonstrates the
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Speaker 1: greatest all round ability at the position. Zach Wriinsky of
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Speaker 1: the Blue Jackets and Rasmus Dollin of the Sabers is
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Speaker 1: also on that list. Tonight one game Hurricanes Flyers. The
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Speaker 1: Canes lead two games to none. The series shifts to Philadelphia.
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Speaker 1: Last night, Buffalo at home won its first game of
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Speaker 1: the series against the Canadians for two the final and
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Speaker 1: those Ducks of Anaheim even the series with a three
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Speaker 1: to one win over the Golden Knights in Las Vegas.
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Speaker 1: Jim Nill, the fine general manager the Stars, met with
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Speaker 1: the media today. Talked about the disappointment because of high expectations,
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Speaker 1: the frustration of the season, the demanding compressed schedule because
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Speaker 1: of the Olympics, and the injuries.
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Speaker 3: My gosh, the injuries.
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Speaker 1: Neil announced that Miko ranton and tore his MCL at
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Speaker 1: the Olympics, yet he's still played Oscar back wrist injury,
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Speaker 1: Nathan Bastian broken finger with surgery. Jamie Benn collapsed lung,
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Speaker 1: Leon Bishell fractured leg and ankle, sprains shoulder, Michael Bunning
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Speaker 1: groin injury, Matt Dushane concussion, Let's see Thomas Harley broken foot.
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Speaker 1: Let's see who else? Arturo Ury high ankle spring Game
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Speaker 1: five Deals Lunk was fractured from a leg and ankle
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Speaker 1: facial laceration in the playoffs, Tyler seg acl Sam Steele
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Speaker 1: groin injury, Tyler Miles, Elia Lubushkin. All of these injuries
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Speaker 1: by the Dallas Stars this year. They are golfing in
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Speaker 1: North Carolina at Quail Hollow. Sun Jam is leading at
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Speaker 1: six under parr. Kevin Rattan I've never heard of is
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Speaker 1: minus five. I believe he may have just finished his round.
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Speaker 1: Mack McCarty on the course at minus five, Tommy Fleetwood
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Speaker 1: on the course at minus four. Let's see Tony fen
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Speaker 1: now at minus three. Justin Thomas on the course at
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Speaker 1: minus three. Rory hasn't been doing too well. He is
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Speaker 1: even par right now for his round. The top tennis
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Speaker 1: players already upset they're not receiving a bigger piece of
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Speaker 1: the pie at the French Open. Now they're hoping Wimbledon
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Speaker 1: and US Open will respond to their demands. Janick Center,
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Speaker 1: the number one men's player, has joined number one arena Sablinka,
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Speaker 1: saying the players may consider a boycott. He's at the
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Speaker 1: Italian Open. He wouldn't commit to a boycott, saying it's
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Speaker 1: tough to say. I can't predict the future. The players
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Speaker 1: have targeted the French Open for reducing players share of
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Speaker 1: the revenue to a alleged fifteen percent compared to twenty
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Speaker 1: two percent at ATP and WTA events. And there will
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Speaker 1: be no triple Crown this year. Kentucky Derby winner Golden
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Speaker 1: Tempo will not race in the Preakness. Sherriy Debo, the
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Speaker 1: trainer announcing in a statement that Golden Tempo would not
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Speaker 1: be racing May sixteenth so her horse could have a
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Speaker 1: little more time following a tremendous effort in the Derby,
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Speaker 1: saying Golden Tempo's health, happiness and long term future will
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Speaker 1: always remain our top priority. We are looking forward to
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Speaker 1: pointing him toward the Belmont Stakes.
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Speaker 3: So there you go.
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Speaker 1: Last year's Derby winner, Sovereignty, also skipped the Preakness after
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Speaker 1: winning at Churchill Downs, So there you go.
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Speaker 3: I think that's all.
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Speaker 1: I will tell you that we've got Bob Harry coming
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Speaker 1: up talking about his book Tiger v.
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Speaker 4: Jack.
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Speaker 1: We're going to visit with Steve Denton because I forgot yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Next Tuesday, to Doyle is going to join us. His
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Speaker 1: book is called Ringo A fab Life. I have just
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Speaker 1: started on that book. It is terrific on Richard Starkey
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Speaker 1: Nay Ringo, star of the Beatles, So we will be
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Speaker 1: visiting with him on a Tuesday of next week. Of course,
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Speaker 1: we have the Writer's roundtable on Monday tomorrow. Ryan Starr
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Speaker 1: will be here and I will visit my weekly Friday
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Speaker 1: visit with Kirk Bowles of the Houston Chronicle on the
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Speaker 1: program tomorrow. Okay, we're going to take a break. We're
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Speaker 1: going to come back and visit with Steve Denton after this.
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Speaker 6: football team and the recruiting profile right now they're just
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Speaker 7: It feels like it can continue for a while.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to The Steve Denton Show, featuring the min's tennis
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Speaker 1: We're going to go out to the Players Fund Center
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Speaker 1: phone line where Steve Dentton has patiently waited for the
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Speaker 1: last twenty four hours for me to call him.
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Speaker 3: Steve, How are you.
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Speaker 10: I'm doing great?
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Speaker 3: How are you better today?
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Speaker 1: I told you at eleven o'clock last night, I remembered
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Speaker 1: that I forgot to call you yesterday.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, well, I mean that's those things happens. I've probably
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Speaker 10: done it to you several times over the years as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you have an excuse. You're actually working for
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Speaker 1: a living. I just have to sit here and talk
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Speaker 1: on the radio. And I had your name on my
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Speaker 1: calendar yesterday even and I thought about setting my alarm
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Speaker 1: and I said, no, I don't need to set my alarm.
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Speaker 3: It's Wednesday. I know Steve Denton.
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Speaker 1: Is on and I didn't remember until I'm laying in
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Speaker 1: bed with the lights out last night.
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Speaker 3: Pretty funny, you thought it was funny.
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Speaker 1: I was just like, oh, man, I can't believe I
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Speaker 1: did that. So I just had a story about sab
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Speaker 1: Linka and Sinner both talking about a possible boycott on
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Speaker 1: a professional tour because the French opened, according to them,
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Speaker 1: decreased the percentage that they're going to pay in winnings
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Speaker 1: this year for that tournament. Having played on that tour
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Speaker 1: a lot, what's your opinion about something like that, Well, I.
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Speaker 10: Mean, uh, the first the first word that comes to
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Speaker 10: mind is greed as being a bit greedy. I think
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Speaker 10: you know they they they make their living and their
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Speaker 10: endorsement money based on all the majors.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 10: The Grand Slams are the most important thing for visibility,
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Speaker 10: not only for them but but also for UH for
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Speaker 10: the tournament as well, and uh, I guess they may
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Speaker 10: be not keeping up in terms of Grand Slams typically
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Speaker 10: raise that prize money, you know, five per year, Yes
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Speaker 10: for these for these players and apparently I guess as
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Speaker 10: the top players in the world, that doesn't seem that
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Speaker 10: that's quite enough yet. And you know, I you know,
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Speaker 10: they're making lots of money, uh and uh, you know,
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Speaker 10: kind of holding the tournament's hostage, especially at this late
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Speaker 10: late stage, is pretty pretty tough rhetoric. I think.
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Speaker 3: So I'm I'm, I'm.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but from the outside, I
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Speaker 1: would I would think it would be pretty hard to
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Speaker 1: get all of those people in a room to agree
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Speaker 1: on much of anything.
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Speaker 10: Oh, absolutely, the all the IF tournaments, the federations as
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Speaker 10: well as uh, the players and the players unions and
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Speaker 10: all those types of things and the ATP. It is
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Speaker 10: difficult to get everybody together to agree and uh, but ultimately,
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Speaker 10: you know, the the game has been great to to
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Speaker 10: me obviously, it's been even even greater for those guys,
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Speaker 10: and uh for them to have those types the opportunity,
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Speaker 10: it's really amazing. And I think that you know, their
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Speaker 10: careers actually are going to be judged on how many
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Speaker 10: Grand Slams they win, right and you know, for I
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Speaker 10: don't think they want to get in that type of
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Speaker 10: situation where they end up with an argument. Like for example,
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Speaker 10: back what happened in the sixties when there was professional
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Speaker 10: tennis and Rod Labor, you know, won the Grand Slams
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Speaker 10: in sixty two, and then because of pro tennis coming
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Speaker 10: into play, they didn't play again until sixty nine. So
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Speaker 10: there were twenty eight Grand Slams that were played without
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Speaker 10: some of the top players in the world. And sometimes
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Speaker 10: people kind of forget about history a little bit and
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Speaker 10: don't recognize the ramifications of it. And you know, there's
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Speaker 10: a case right there. Both sides probably didn't fare very
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Speaker 10: well during that time because the top players in the
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Speaker 10: world were not allowed to play it at the Grand
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Speaker 10: Slan and there was pro tennis, and those guys were
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Speaker 10: going around this that going around the world playing kind
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Speaker 10: of exhibition tennis amongst themselves.
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Speaker 1: You went to the Australian Open finals twice. Do you
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Speaker 1: remember what your runner up checks were those times that
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Speaker 1: long ago?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I do, wasn't you know? It was less
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Speaker 10: than one hundred thousand dollars for both of them, right
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Speaker 10: after you pay and after obviously you get taxed and
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Speaker 10: stuff in their country significantly less than that. But you know,
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Speaker 10: at one time, and it's kind of laughable. You know,
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Speaker 10: John Newcomb had one of the best careers ever, one
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Speaker 10: of the great names in the sport, and you know,
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Speaker 10: just shows you what's happened over different eras. At one
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Speaker 10: time and maybe early nineteen eighty two, I was the
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Speaker 10: number eight in all time prize money and John Newcomb
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Speaker 10: was behind me, and that's kind of laughable of how
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Speaker 10: much better a career he had than I had. But
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Speaker 10: it just shows you the difference and the way the
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Speaker 10: prize money has translated over the years, and how much
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Speaker 10: more the guys of today have opportunities, and obviously it's
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Speaker 10: millions and millions of dollars different.
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Speaker 1: You know, if you would have had your own clothing
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Speaker 1: line like Nuke did you, you probably wouldn't be talking
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Speaker 1: to me right now, likely not.
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Speaker 10: Or a guy or another guy like Sam Smith for example. Yes,
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Speaker 10: you know he had that Adida shoe that yep, he did,
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Speaker 10: turned out to turned out to be addressed shoe as well,
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Speaker 10: and there were millions and millions of hues that he's
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Speaker 10: still getting royalty's on I'm sure nice from from way
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Speaker 10: back when. So yeah, it's you know, some of it
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Speaker 10: is residual. You know, you don't realize just what you've
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Speaker 10: gained from the sport by having the notoriety and being
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Speaker 10: out in the public eye and having the opportunities and
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Speaker 10: being able to cash in on all those all those
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Speaker 10: opportunities you know, as well and above whatever the prize
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Speaker 10: money is.
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Speaker 1: Today we're visiting with Steve Denton kind of wrapping up
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Speaker 1: the season Steve, let's go back to your first round
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Speaker 1: match last weekend against Wagner.
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Speaker 3: And start from there.
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Speaker 1: And and that that first match that you guys played
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Speaker 1: in one four to nothing.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it was great for us because we
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Speaker 10: got to play some players in that match that you know,
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Speaker 10: did a lot for our team this year. We got
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Speaker 10: to play Chris Thiagi and Ritesh Patil and singles, and
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Speaker 10: we also got to play Ethan Silva and doubles with Togan,
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Speaker 10: and so it was an opportunity for us to really
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Speaker 10: say thank you to them for all they contributed to
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Speaker 10: the team. To I guess the twelfth n didn't get
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Speaker 10: to see them play as much as year, but they
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Speaker 10: were integral parts of our team and success, and it
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Speaker 10: was an opportunity to give them one last chance to
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Speaker 10: get on the court and represent the Aggies. And so
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Speaker 10: for me that was the highlight, especially seeing as a senior,
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Speaker 10: seeing Ethan Silva, who had been so much for us
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Speaker 10: off the court, has been really a true ambassador to
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Speaker 10: our sport. To be able to have that opportunity, to
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Speaker 10: be able to play in front of his family and stuff,
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Speaker 10: that was a tremendous thing and I was super happy
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Speaker 10: that that got to happen, and then you know.
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Speaker 1: Once again the weather plays a factor. You guys had
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Speaker 1: to play at ten o'clock in the morning. I know
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Speaker 1: that certainly wasn't ideal. It wasn't the crowd that you
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Speaker 1: would have had have you had an indoor facility, been
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Speaker 1: able to play when you're supposed to. I'm not making
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Speaker 1: excuses for that because Stanford had to play there as well.
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Speaker 3: Tell me about the Stanford match.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, well, first of all, you know, we knew that
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Speaker 10: that was going to be a really tough match. Stanford
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Speaker 10: had got to the semifinals the year before at Baylor
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Speaker 10: and had their team back, and we're able to add
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Speaker 10: number one player from cal that ended up playing number
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Speaker 10: six in that match, and their number one player from
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Speaker 10: the most out throughout the season was Severe Banergee, who's
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Speaker 10: a senior and he won Wimbledon Juniors and still a
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Speaker 10: really good player, but he was not able to play
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Speaker 10: his best finis for throughout the season just because he
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Speaker 10: had a left rist injury, so he was having to
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Speaker 10: play a lot of guys with the splice back in
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Speaker 10: and unfortunately for us, he got healthy right before the
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Speaker 10: tournament and he hadn't had a lot of success, but
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Speaker 10: we knew his level play and so uh he ended
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Speaker 10: up uh, you know, dismantling. Colo played a great match
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Speaker 10: and I think he beat him sixty one six one,
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Speaker 10: and obviously that was a blow to us. And then
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Speaker 10: THEO at number one played in form Alex Verzegi. Uh,
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Speaker 10: you know, had a close match with him, and I
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Speaker 10: think he he lost maybe six four seven five, Uh,
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Speaker 10: And we were just you know, they were a little
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Speaker 10: better than us in a couple of other courts where
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Speaker 10: they won tight first sets. I know Alex Versina uh
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Speaker 10: and uh uh he uh had a chance to win
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Speaker 10: the first set, lost the tiebreaker and one break in
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Speaker 10: the second, and you know, we had another match or two,
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Speaker 10: and then of course Togan uh beat Lindsey Davenport's son,
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Speaker 10: Jagger Leach, and then we had a great doubles point
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Speaker 10: and we kind of stolen doubles point from them late
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Speaker 10: to give us a shot. And then of course Lathan
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Speaker 10: Scrivarsik was late and the third on serve four or
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Speaker 10: five when they when they got the fourth point. So
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Speaker 10: you know, we needed one of those matches to turn
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Speaker 10: in our favor. We knew they were a really good team. Uh,
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Speaker 10: unfortunate for us, but uh, you know it, it was
24:30
Speaker 10: kind of a lot what happened this year, a lot
24:32
Speaker 10: of closenesses, a lot of opportunities. And yet having said that,
24:36
Speaker 10: we're still ranked pent in the country. Yeah, and so
24:40
Speaker 10: I can't be too upset about that other than obviously
24:45
Speaker 10: sure would like to be playing this weekend at TCU
24:49
Speaker 10: and giving them heck there. But you know, Stanford's a
24:54
Speaker 10: really good team and you know they're certainly uh, that'll
24:57
Speaker 10: be a heck of a match against h against TU
25:01
Speaker 10: on Saturday in Fort Worth.
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Speaker 3: Are are you going to have anybody at the individual
25:07
Speaker 3: Steve Well.
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Speaker 10: That actually you know they've switched that to the fall.
25:11
Speaker 10: Oh okay, so the A tournament. Alex Parstina was in
25:16
Speaker 10: that for us earlier in the year. And do you
25:20
Speaker 10: like that?
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Speaker 3: Do you like the fact they did that?
25:26
Speaker 10: I prefer it in the spring obviously, but but you know,
25:30
Speaker 10: I'm a purist and I like it at the end
25:32
Speaker 10: of the year. But they have moved it. It seems
25:36
Speaker 10: it seems like they've had a pilot for two years
25:39
Speaker 10: and I think they've moved it permanently now to the spring,
25:44
Speaker 10: to the fall. So we'll have to adjust there and
25:47
Speaker 10: get guys ready to play in it and then and
25:50
Speaker 10: then get guys ready to play on the on tour.
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Speaker 1: So, speaking speaking of that, how let's let's start with
25:57
Speaker 1: kind of the end of the season and how you
25:59
Speaker 1: would describe your season. You, as you mentioned, tenth in
26:04
Speaker 1: the country and you live with a little disappointment because
26:07
Speaker 1: you didn't advance, But that's the level that I think
26:11
Speaker 1: everybody that you've come to expect from this program.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean we have. You know, we've always been
26:19
Speaker 10: super competitive and and you know we've been in the
26:23
Speaker 10: tournament every year and our goal obviously is to make
26:26
Speaker 10: a deep run, and you know that didn't quite happen
26:29
Speaker 10: this year, but I'm proud of some things that we did.
26:33
Speaker 10: We beat, you know, at one time, the number five team,
26:37
Speaker 10: the number six team, and the number eight team in
26:39
Speaker 10: the country, and I think that's one of the reasons
26:42
Speaker 10: why we were as highly ranked as we were. You know,
26:46
Speaker 10: we got to twenty wins, but you know, still had
26:51
Speaker 10: some things out there that we wanted to kind of
26:53
Speaker 10: accomplish with the team and didn't quite get that done.
26:55
Speaker 1: And so.
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Speaker 10: You know, go back and kind of reflect on it
26:59
Speaker 10: and try to get a little bit better for next year.
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Speaker 10: The good news is we've got to, you know, up
27:05
Speaker 10: the team that played against Stanford in that match. I
27:08
Speaker 10: think we've got five starters coming back, with the exception
27:13
Speaker 10: of Togan. Yeah, and that's gonna be a big blow
27:16
Speaker 10: because Togan was a really good doubles player. He was
27:20
Speaker 10: kind of the hard and soul of our team this year.
27:23
Speaker 10: Uh and uh, and you know he held down that
27:27
Speaker 10: number five spot for us, and so that's that's a
27:31
Speaker 10: tough one to overcome. But uh, you know, looking forward,
27:35
Speaker 10: I'm pretty pleased about you know, what we've got coming
27:38
Speaker 10: back and uh and the level of the team to
27:42
Speaker 10: to get us ready for the next season.
27:46
Speaker 3: So are you are you going to take it a
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27:50
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm probably gonna go over the French
27:53
Speaker 10: Open and watch the juniors, but also watch quite a
27:59
Speaker 10: few of our guys will be in the tournament. I
28:01
Speaker 10: think we'll have Patrick Gibson and Ballantin Basho and Arthur
28:05
Speaker 10: Renderdeck playing in singles, and Austin Kritcheck and Jackson Withrow
28:09
Speaker 10: and maybe another guy or two in doubles. We're gonna
28:12
Speaker 10: have a bunch of guys playing there. And uh, and
28:17
Speaker 10: maybe another guy or two in the quality. And so yeah,
28:21
Speaker 10: I'm gonna go over there and support them and and
28:23
Speaker 10: watch them and then watch the juniors, and probably will
28:26
Speaker 10: do the same at Wimbledon as well.
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Speaker 1: I say this every year because I don't think about
28:32
Speaker 1: it in time, but I'd sure like to go with
28:34
Speaker 1: you one of these days.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a great trip. I mean, it really is
28:38
Speaker 10: an amazing Those are amazing venues and obviously iconic city. Yeah,
28:45
Speaker 10: and it's worth the world of tennis decend, you know,
28:50
Speaker 10: for two weeks at the French at Wimbledon, and then
28:54
Speaker 10: obviously at the US Open a little bit later in
28:56
Speaker 10: the in the summer. But they're all amazing turn I'm
29:00
Speaker 10: a totally different atmospheres and incredible tennis and athleticism and
29:07
Speaker 10: drama to watch.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I wouldn't I wouldn't have to wear a tie
29:11
Speaker 1: or dress up anything if I went to Wimbledon, would I.
29:15
Speaker 10: Well, if you wanted to sit, you know, in the
29:17
Speaker 10: Royal Box.
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Speaker 3: To dress up, I don't think they'd let me in there.
29:23
Speaker 10: Probably you probably couldn't wear your fishing hat.
29:27
Speaker 3: Well shoot, okay, well I'll have to rethink that whole thing.
29:31
Speaker 4: Then.
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Speaker 1: I always appreciate your time. Steve, thank you very much
29:35
Speaker 1: for doing this every spring.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, my pleasure, and thanks again to the twelfth Man
29:41
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29:44
Speaker 10: And we'll look to be even bigger and better this
29:48
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Speaker 17: Welcome into the High School Report. I'm Kayler Brapley, and
34:19
Speaker 17: today we are jumping out to the playerifs fun center
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34:24
Speaker 17: Brinham Cubs baseball team, mister Chase Wheaton, coach, thanks for
34:28
Speaker 17: joining me again.
34:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me, Kevin.
34:30
Speaker 17: A great regular season for your Cubs, locking down the
34:34
Speaker 17: District seventeen championship. Clinched it pretty early, relatively speaking, with
34:39
Speaker 17: pretty much the next four teams in the standings being
34:42
Speaker 17: very close to each other and kind of cannibalizing themselves
34:45
Speaker 17: a little bit there and taking themselves out of that
34:47
Speaker 17: district race. And your Cub's doing a great job of
34:49
Speaker 17: winning the games that you're supposed to win. And taking
34:52
Speaker 17: on that district championship. So congratulations on that. What were
34:55
Speaker 17: some of the keys to what great year y'all had?
34:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, And you know, for the most part,
35:02
Speaker 4: especially in district, we got great starts from Luke Hardy
35:06
Speaker 4: and Braden Steel all year long, and then Dawson Tom
35:10
Speaker 4: was really strong on the back end, and then we
35:13
Speaker 4: just had a veteran group that has just gotten a
35:18
Speaker 4: lot stronger, a lot more physical and handled the bat
35:20
Speaker 4: really well and we were able to hit a lot
35:23
Speaker 4: of home runs, a lot of extra base hits, and
35:27
Speaker 4: really did a good job of getting pitchers to shrink
35:30
Speaker 4: the strike zone and throw it over the big part
35:32
Speaker 4: of the plate and getting some good swings off and
35:34
Speaker 4: making it really tough on opposing pitchers, and then playing
35:38
Speaker 4: clean defense, you know, taking care of the baseball, playing
35:41
Speaker 4: catch at a really high level. And when this group
35:44
Speaker 4: does that, they put themselves in a position to win games,
35:46
Speaker 4: and they won a lot of them this year.
35:49
Speaker 17: The first round of the playoffs last weekend against Dayton,
35:52
Speaker 17: getting the series win in three games. So what were
35:58
Speaker 17: some of the takeaways from the Bier throw.
36:01
Speaker 4: Well, I thought we got a really good start by
36:03
Speaker 4: Luke Cardy, once again. I think the inning that they
36:06
Speaker 4: scored four, we had a strikeout pass ball. We have
36:10
Speaker 4: actually gave him four outside inning and they got two
36:12
Speaker 4: big swings off The wind was blowing out to right
36:15
Speaker 4: that night and they hit two backside home runs seven
36:18
Speaker 4: to four. I didn't feel like it really felt as
36:21
Speaker 4: close as the score. Well, I felt like we put
36:24
Speaker 4: them away a lot early and the score made it
36:25
Speaker 4: look kind of close. But for the most part, there
36:28
Speaker 4: wasn't threats on their end. Outside of that inning. I
36:31
Speaker 4: thought our hitters did a really good job of getting
36:34
Speaker 4: after a good senior pitcher who had a lot of innings,
36:37
Speaker 4: who's going to play at the next level at Angelina. Unfortunately,
36:42
Speaker 4: in that game are kind of our spark plug, our catalyst,
36:45
Speaker 4: Dalton Hard, our shortstop leadoff, goes down with the overthrown
36:50
Speaker 4: at first base. He's making a turn to second and
36:53
Speaker 4: his knees buckles gives out and we've confirmed that that's
36:56
Speaker 4: a c L partial PCL, so he's gonna have to
37:00
Speaker 4: surgery as early as next week. Definitely a bloat to us,
37:04
Speaker 4: So we were kind of reeling after canceling the game Friday,
37:07
Speaker 4: going into Saturday, moving some guys around changing the lineup around,
37:11
Speaker 4: and ultimately it was just a dog fight and Braydon
37:15
Speaker 4: Steel gave us a good sort Senior Dawson Tom, who's
37:18
Speaker 4: been nails for us his whole career here, was just
37:22
Speaker 4: unbelievable in game three, and we were able to get
37:26
Speaker 4: a couple of big hits and make a couple of
37:28
Speaker 4: big plays and got out of there with the series victory.
37:31
Speaker 17: So moving into this week's matchup tonight at seven o'clock,
37:35
Speaker 17: going to be kicking off the series in the area
37:37
Speaker 17: around against Portnitchus Groves. This team very very solid, the
37:44
Speaker 17: higher seed out of District nineteen, and you know, I
37:47
Speaker 17: think they're one of the top ranked teams in five A.
37:51
Speaker 17: Soy with this new playoff format splitting it into divisions
37:55
Speaker 17: one and two, I feel like we see a lot
37:58
Speaker 17: more of these early round heavyweight matchups like this. So
38:02
Speaker 17: what are your thoughts on that facing a team of
38:05
Speaker 17: this caliber in just the second round of the playoffs.
38:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a tough draw. You said it. I guess
38:11
Speaker 4: sometimes it could work out in your favor this time
38:13
Speaker 4: that does not from the standpoint that you're getting the
38:16
Speaker 4: first place team from a very solid district over there,
38:20
Speaker 4: sweeping Neederland, Barbara's Hill, Baytown, Sterling. They're a good team
38:25
Speaker 4: and they're a top ten five a team. Their records
38:29
Speaker 4: twenty seven and four something like that. They are number one.
38:35
Speaker 4: Is as good of a high school arm as you'll see.
38:37
Speaker 4: And Eli curtis committed Arison the state. He's got a
38:41
Speaker 4: handful of scouts at all his starts does a really
38:45
Speaker 4: good job for him and they're a really confident team
38:47
Speaker 4: behind him. Their number two, Lunchford, is also a big,
38:52
Speaker 4: big kid, ultra competitive, really good high school arm as well.
38:56
Speaker 4: So they're a solid team. It's a tough draw, but
38:59
Speaker 4: you know, we feel good about our starting pitching. It's
39:03
Speaker 4: the next man up mentality as far as replacing Dalton
39:06
Speaker 4: in the lineup, and I think everybody kind of feels
39:09
Speaker 4: that they've got to pull a little extra harder or
39:14
Speaker 4: you know, fill some gaps that the holes that Dalton
39:17
Speaker 4: leaves within our lineup and leadership and you know, getting
39:22
Speaker 4: off the Dayton Series and being able to kind of
39:25
Speaker 4: decompress and let that think in. I think our guys
39:28
Speaker 4: are extremely focused and ready to play, and they know
39:30
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39:34
Speaker 4: and their ice, and we are definitely looking forward to
39:37
Speaker 4: the challenge.
39:38
Speaker 17: So when a team has, you know, two absolute studs
39:41
Speaker 17: like that on the mound, what does victory look like
39:44
Speaker 17: for your cubs? What's it going to take to win
39:46
Speaker 17: this series?
39:47
Speaker 4: Well, I've told the guys we feel pretty good about
39:50
Speaker 4: our starters as well, and they've been good for us
39:52
Speaker 4: all year long. I think we're fully capabable of beating
39:57
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39:59
Speaker 4: ball game with hardy on the mound, and so you know,
40:03
Speaker 4: if that's what it takes, and that's what it takes.
40:05
Speaker 4: But you know, this group has also shown the ability
40:08
Speaker 4: to get after really high level arms and collegiate level
40:12
Speaker 4: arms that have good fastballs. So they're a confident group.
40:16
Speaker 4: We've built a tough schedule over the years that has
40:19
Speaker 4: allowed them to see just about every kind of high
40:21
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40:24
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40:29
Speaker 4: pitcher and he's got a really bright future. But our
40:33
Speaker 4: guys are a confident group, and like I said, we
40:36
Speaker 4: are excited about the challenge.
40:38
Speaker 17: All right, coach, Well, appreciate your time today and good
40:40
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Speaker 4: I appreciate it, Caleb, thank you.
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Speaker 1: Bob Sieger turned any one years young yesterday, still working
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Speaker 1: on night moves.
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Speaker 3: Glad to have you with us.
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Speaker 1: This morning, I was able to catch up with Bob
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Speaker 1: Herrick the Golfer, a golf writer for Sports Illustrated. His
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Speaker 1: book is called Tiger the Jack the Great Debate, and
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Speaker 1: I don't think I think the title says pretty much
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Speaker 1: all of it.
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Speaker 3: Here's my conversation earlier today with Bob Harry.
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Speaker 13: Bob, how are you, I'm good. How are you doing
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Speaker 13: this morning?
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Speaker 3: I'm great?
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Speaker 1: It's great to catch up with you again. I've read
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Speaker 1: about half so far. I didn't get the book in time,
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Speaker 1: but I really really enjoy it. One of the several
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Speaker 1: things have stood out. First of all, the idea of
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Speaker 1: major championships and what was a major and you talk
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Speaker 1: about it really didn't coalesce till Ernie won at Cherry
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Speaker 1: Hills in nineteen sixty.
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Speaker 3: Am I right about that?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, it's a great point. It's I do get into that.
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Speaker 9: And you know, it was sort of in the fifties
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Speaker 9: people started talking about the four Majors as we know
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Speaker 9: them now. Gene Sarazen had done that in a book
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Speaker 9: that he wrote in nineteen fifty.
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Speaker 22: You know, he was the first.
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Speaker 9: Player to win what's called the career Grand Slam, but
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Speaker 9: he didn't know that he had done it at the
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Speaker 9: time because he won the second Masters and nobody was
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Speaker 9: talking about it like that. But around you know, by
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Speaker 9: around the nineteen fifties it started to gain traction. And
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Speaker 9: but Arnold Palmer was really the first one who put
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Speaker 9: the four together and said, hey, this can be a
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Speaker 9: modern Grand Slam, like nobody had really thought of it
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Speaker 9: in those terms.
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Speaker 13: The Bobby Jones Grand Slam of nineteen thirty, which was
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Speaker 13: the two Opens and the two Amateurs was was was
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Speaker 13: the standard, but the game evolved beyond that, Like amateurs
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Speaker 13: sort of lost some of their standing, and you know,
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Speaker 13: professional players couldn't play in those amateur events, so it evolved.
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Speaker 9: And and Arnold was the first one along with a
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Speaker 9: writer named Bob Drumm, who kind of put the idea
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Speaker 9: together of hey, if I win the Masters, US Open,
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Speaker 9: British Open and PGA, that would be a modern Slam.
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Speaker 13: And that took hold and that was nineteen sixty.
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Speaker 9: He won the first two and then he went to
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Speaker 9: Saint Andrews and he and he finished a shot back.
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Speaker 13: And that was his first British Open.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, playing the way open, Playing the Open in those days,
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Speaker 1: I mean, guys didn't go over there and do that
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Speaker 1: mostly from the US did they.
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Speaker 9: It was a money loser mostly, you know, the the
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Speaker 9: you know, the the fields were not very strong. And
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Speaker 9: Ben Hogan went to the Open once and won it
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Speaker 9: one time.
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Speaker 12: That was it.
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Speaker 13: He never went He never went back, you know.
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Speaker 9: And so and even into the sixties and even as
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Speaker 9: late as like the nineteen eighties, Curtis Strange won the
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Speaker 9: US Open it didn't go to the British Open like
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Speaker 9: he I think he regrets that, but it was just
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Speaker 9: sort of you know, again, I think there wasn't always
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Speaker 9: the emphasis on the majors at every point in time.
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Speaker 9: When Tiger came long, the majors were a huge deal,
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Speaker 9: and he knew how big they were, and that's why
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Speaker 9: I think the pressure to do it was harder. You know,
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Speaker 9: Jack even himself is admitted, I didn't really know that
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Speaker 9: I was chasing anybody. Yes, I I just knew these
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Speaker 9: were the biggest tournaments and I was trying to win them.
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Speaker 9: He didn't realize he had passed Jones's record or Walter
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Speaker 9: Hagen's record until he was told, and.
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Speaker 1: The US Amateur was considered a major for a long time.
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Speaker 9: Correct, Well, I mean in some way, in some places
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Speaker 9: it still is like Jack wonders, how did I go
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Speaker 9: from twenty to eighteen?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, you know so.
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Speaker 9: But when he got to Jones is credited with thirteen
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Speaker 9: if you give him his amateurs. When Jack got to
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Speaker 9: fourteen with the amateurs, that was that sort of became
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Speaker 9: a talking point. It also happened to be that when
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Speaker 9: he you know, if you take if you take away
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Speaker 9: the amateurs. It was his twelfth major. Well, that passed
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Speaker 9: Walter Hagen. So like at that time, though Jack will
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Speaker 9: tell you nobody ever, I never was thinking I'm chasing
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Speaker 9: Walter Hagen. Yes, no, So whereas obviously every time Tiger
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Speaker 9: won a major, Hey, well now you've got to Lee Trevino,
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Speaker 9: you know, now you got to Nick Faldle.
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Speaker 13: Oh, now you've matched Arnold Palmer. Now you've matched Tom Watson.
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Speaker 13: So that was very, very part of the Tiger pursuit
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Speaker 13: that might not have been there for Jack. You know.
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Speaker 3: The The other issue was, hey, could you do it
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Speaker 3: in one year?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 3: I mean, drum I think talk to Arnie about doing that?
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Speaker 13: Did he not? Sixty one?
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Speaker 9: That sort of became a thing like can you win
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Speaker 9: all four in the same yeah, and any time any
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Speaker 9: but you know the truth of the matter. Then the
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Speaker 9: order was the Master's US Open. Nobody won the first
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Speaker 9: two in a year until Jack did it in seventy two, yes,
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Speaker 9: so like and then and then after that, nobody did
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Speaker 9: it until Tiger did it in.
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Speaker 13: Two thousand and two.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then okay, sorry about that, now that's fine.
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Speaker 1: Jordan Speith did it in twenty fifteen, right.
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Speaker 9: Yes, yes, he did. And he went to Saint Andrews
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Speaker 9: with a great chance to win that one.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 9: You know, he missed a playoff by a shot. That's
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Speaker 9: you know, that's a great underrated accomplishment. And then he
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Speaker 9: he finished second at the PGA twenty fifteen was in
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Speaker 9: a remarkable year for him. You know, I we'll see,
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Speaker 9: We'll see with Rory this year if he you know,
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Speaker 9: obviously next week is the PGA Championship.
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Speaker 13: You know, I imagine if he were to win that. Yeah,
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Speaker 13: how all of a sudden, that ratch up, that that
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Speaker 13: that type of thing.
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Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, Nicholas didn't deal with that kind
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Speaker 1: of scrutiny when he was winning those majors, did he.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I don't think at the same level. There just
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Speaker 13: wasn't the same level of media.
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Speaker 3: Yes, you know there was.
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Speaker 13: There was There was no cable TV, there was no Internet.
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Speaker 9: He dealt with the written press, which was a lot,
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Speaker 9: but you know it was like, you know, you couldn't
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Speaker 9: read somebody via text.
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Speaker 13: You know, he wasn't doing you know, endless, endless interviews.
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Speaker 13: Even though Jack was very very good with the media.
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Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that really another thing
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Speaker 1: that stood out that I had forgotten completely. Is in
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, at the age of fifty eight, Jack
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Speaker 1: on the back nine on Sunday was right there forgetting
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Speaker 1: another green jacket, wasn't he?
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Speaker 3: And he ended up beating Tiger.
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Speaker 9: I love the fact that Jack, at age fifty eight,
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Speaker 9: a year after Tiger won the Masters by twelve, finished
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Speaker 9: it ahead of Tiger at the Masters.
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Speaker 13: And he likes that too.
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Speaker 9: I mean, Jack down plays it and he'll say, well,
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Speaker 9: I didn't win, yeah, but I'm sorry. That was an amazing,
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Speaker 9: amazing accomplishment. It was a you know, in some some
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Speaker 9: places people have to remember, well who actually did win.
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Speaker 9: It was Markomera. But but Jack tied for six, and
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Speaker 9: you know he was he was. He was right there
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Speaker 9: a shot or two back during that final round, and
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Speaker 9: he just didn't quite have the same magic that he
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Speaker 9: had in eighty six when he won. But man, it
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Speaker 9: was it was great. He played the final round with
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Speaker 9: Ernie Els, you know, Tiger was was was in a
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Speaker 9: group ahead of him and and Tiger obviously finished. You know,
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Speaker 9: it's the only time they played in a major together
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Speaker 9: as pros where Jack finished ahead of Tiger, which is
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Speaker 9: I mean, come on, he was fifty eight is incredible accomplishment.
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Speaker 9: And so you know, it was that that's a that's
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Speaker 9: a you know, I recount that in the book, and
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Speaker 9: it was it's a great it's a great sort of
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Speaker 9: you know, a bullet for for Jack in his career,
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Speaker 9: that that he was able to beat Tiger and what
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Speaker 9: you know, Tiger was twenty two at the time.
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Speaker 13: It is incredible.
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Speaker 3: I'll end with this.
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Speaker 1: One of the more remarkable stats to me is, of
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Speaker 1: course the eighteen majors, but nineteen runners up. Nineteen times
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Speaker 1: he was a second place finisher in a major.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean Jack could have easily won twenty five majors. Yeah,
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Speaker 13: you know, that's what's that's what's remarkable.
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Speaker 9: I mean, I think we can look at Tiger and
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Speaker 9: go because he won fifteen and because he missed so
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Speaker 9: many due to injury or personal issues. You know, he
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Speaker 9: could have gotten to eighteen or twenty. But I mean,
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Speaker 9: so could Jack have gotten to twenty or twenty five?
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Speaker 9: You know, I mean nineteen seconds he lost one in
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Speaker 9: a playoff. He had incredible duels with Tom Watson and Trevino.
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Speaker 13: You know, he there's a couple early on he felt
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Speaker 13: he gave away.
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Speaker 9: You know, you know, Tig Tiger felt he gave a
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Speaker 9: few away too, sure, but it is remarkable to think
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Speaker 9: Tiger had seven seconds in majors.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 9: Jack nineteen and one of them that was at age twenty,
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Speaker 9: when he was an amateur. He finished second Arnold Palmer
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Speaker 9: at Cherry Hills playing with Ben Hogan the final thirty
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Speaker 9: six holes. I mean that in and of itself is
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Speaker 9: an incredible, you know, kind of factoid that that that's
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Speaker 9: really interesting at age twenty. I mean Ben Hogan paraphrase said, hey,
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Speaker 9: if if the kid I played with today had any brains,
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Speaker 9: want he'd want.
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Speaker 1: The book is called The book is called Tiger v.
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Speaker 1: Jack Goff's Great Debate. Bob Harrig is the author. Great book. Bob,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for the time.
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Speaker 13: Appreciate you having me. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 3: Yep Uh Tiger v.
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Speaker 10: Jack.
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Speaker 1: When it's really cool when you think about Jack playing
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Speaker 1: with Ben Hogan, I mean, it's it's just crazy some
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Speaker 1: Generations in golf overlap because you could still play golf
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