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Balls, Bats and Rackets · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: If you've ever seen the movie Stripes with Bill Murray,
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  Speaker 1: there's a scene where the drill instructor, the old krusty
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  Speaker 1: Warren Oates, gets blown off a tower and he's gone
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  Speaker 1: for a while, and they complete their basic training on
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  Speaker 1: their own, and then he walks back in which none
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  Speaker 1: of them expected to see. And you hear Bill Murray say,
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  Speaker 1: it is a live It's kind of how I feel
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  Speaker 1: being back in the studio today. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the program here on AM thirteen under the Zone.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Craig Way. I am back in the
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  Speaker 1: studio today. Feels good to be back in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: The producer of the program, Cameron Parker, is on his
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  Speaker 1: way as we speak to Greenville, South Carolina. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's in the Nashville International Airport connecting flights,
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  Speaker 1: changing planes to get to Greenville. He'll join the Texas
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  Speaker 1: women's basketball team there and he'll call the game tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: at five o'clock as Texas will take on the winner
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  Speaker 1: of the game between the seven seed and the ten
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  Speaker 1: seed Ole Miss and Mississippi State, and he'll he'll have
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  Speaker 1: the call of that with Kathy Arson tomorrow at the
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  Speaker 1: Long words advance, he'll have the call of the Saturday
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  Speaker 1: Summerfinal game for Texas, and if they advances the championship,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be there on Sunday to join him in Kathy
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  Speaker 1: to call that one. But Cam is out. That means,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the producer of the program is none other
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  Speaker 1: than the guy I referred to as the sixth Man.
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  Speaker 1: He's Andrew Zimmer and when he does it by himself,
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  Speaker 1: we like to say it's the zimal hours. But today
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  Speaker 1: he's just at the bridge in the captain's chair making
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  Speaker 1: sure that everything goes smoothly, and it's gone smoothly the
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  Speaker 1: past couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing today's m I'm doing great, Craig.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad that you're both feet on the ground ready
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  Speaker 2: to do a show today. This is exciting in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's good to be It's been a so
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad to be back.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the people who have listened to the.
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  Speaker 1: Programs that I've done over the years, the you know,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was here the first time when I was
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  Speaker 1: here for nineteen years, and then when I was across
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  Speaker 1: town for six and a half years, and then back
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  Speaker 1: here over almost two years back here. It's been almost
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  Speaker 1: two years back here in the iHeart Family and back
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  Speaker 1: at a thirteen.
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  Speaker 3: Under the Zone.
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  Speaker 1: During all of those years, I think fans, we've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of loyal listeners. They get what this time
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  Speaker 1: of year delivers. They get what it delivers to them
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  Speaker 1: as fans, and they get what it challenges me as
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  Speaker 1: a broadcaster to do, especially as the play by play
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  Speaker 1: voice of the University of Texas, because as you know, I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, broadcast the football games, the men's basketball games,
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  Speaker 1: the women's basketball games when there's not a conflict, and
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  Speaker 1: the baseball games, and so it means especially there's two
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  Speaker 1: times a year, and people who have heard this program
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  Speaker 1: have heard me refer to them, there's two times a
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  Speaker 1: year that I refer to as the overlaps. One starts
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  Speaker 1: about around the tenth of November or so until now
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  Speaker 1: because of the extended college football playoff, it could go
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  Speaker 1: as late as early January. There's that, and it overlaps
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  Speaker 1: football with men's and women's college basketball. The one that's
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  Speaker 1: even a little more maniacal and a little crazy starts
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  Speaker 1: like Valentine's Weekend last month, and it'll run all the
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  Speaker 1: way probably till the end of March, maybe even in
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  Speaker 1: early April if the Texas women make a final four
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  Speaker 1: run or something like that happens. So there's almost two
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  Speaker 1: months of that where there's a lot happening, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: jumping between airports and commercial flights and charter flights and
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  Speaker 1: rental cars and you know, things like that, and getting
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  Speaker 1: to where I need to be to call a game.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what happens this time of year. So for that,
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Zimmel, I am grateful for your service as the
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  Speaker 1: sixth man who can step in and carry the program
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  Speaker 1: as you will tomorrow when I head out to the
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  Speaker 1: ballpark to do ufc Uish falk Field's presentation of Long
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  Speaker 1: Worn Baseball as Texas will open the series against Santa Clara.
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  Speaker 1: I will check in with you from the ballpark. But
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Have you had fun these past.
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  Speaker 2: Several days, Oh, a ton of fun. I had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of fun yesterday because we had so much audio
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  Speaker 2: from Vick Schaeffer and Madison Booker and that was great stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And I love Madison Booker. I think that she is
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  Speaker 2: maybe my favorite athlete right now. On the forty Acres Craig.
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  Speaker 1: She's well be high praise, but certainly well founded given
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  Speaker 1: the fact that she's the SEC Player of the Year,
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  Speaker 1: she was the Freshman the Year last year, she's a
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl Miller Award finalist again, and she's the scoringly I
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  Speaker 1: would submit to you that while she is the machine
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  Speaker 1: that makes this Texas women's team go, the heart and
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  Speaker 1: soul of it is going to be Rory Harmon with
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  Speaker 1: what she does and what she has come through. And
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  Speaker 1: then you have the other pieces that makes such a
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  Speaker 1: big difference, Shay Holly, who's really kind of the brains
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  Speaker 1: of the operation, and Taylor Jones who's kind of the
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  Speaker 1: might and the muscle inside, along with Kyla Oldacre, and
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  Speaker 1: then they've got the depth that they have. That's why
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  Speaker 1: this is a serious final for a contender. Now, in
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  Speaker 1: order to continue to be a final four contender, you
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  Speaker 1: have to have a good seed in the NCAA Tournament,
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  Speaker 1: and a favorable draw helps that kind of stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: your team has to be playing well. So I think
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  Speaker 1: all of that stuff will be out there in front
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  Speaker 1: of Texas. Right now, they're the number one ranked team
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  Speaker 1: in the country the polls. That's not the NCAA Tournament
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  Speaker 1: selection thingam. However, we saw a week ago last Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: the second early reveal for the NCAA Tournament selection Committee,
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  Speaker 1: and they had moved Texas up to the number two
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  Speaker 1: on the seed line. Charlie Cream, the bracketologist for ESPN,
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  Speaker 1: then after UCLA lost that night to USC moved Texas
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  Speaker 1: into the one slot.
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  Speaker 3: He still has them in the one slot. We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: The main thing I think for is Texas women's team
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  Speaker 1: has to continue to play at a high level. They'd
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  Speaker 1: love to win the SEC championship, the tournament championship. If
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  Speaker 1: already claimed their share of the regular season title, they
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  Speaker 1: would love to win to win that tournament title as well.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think if they win a game, especially
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  Speaker 1: if they win two, but winning at least one should
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  Speaker 1: probably cement their status as a one seed. And if
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  Speaker 1: they get to the final, I think it's cements their
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  Speaker 1: status as one.
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  Speaker 3: Getting to bracket its way to Birmingham.
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  Speaker 1: We've explained this before that there are two regional Sweet
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  Speaker 1: sixteen slash Elite eight sites in women's basketball.
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  Speaker 3: They run two.
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  Speaker 1: At each regional site. So the two regional sites this
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  Speaker 1: year are Spokane in Birmingham, and since Texas has been
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  Speaker 1: up to the Pacific Northwest the past three of the
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  Speaker 1: past four years. They'd love to have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: play closer to home, and they would like to be
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  Speaker 1: in Birmingham. I think they're in really good shape to
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  Speaker 1: do that. I think I'll win tomorrow of the old
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  Speaker 1: miss Mississippi State winner probably cements it. It's certainly I
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  Speaker 1: think cements them as the number one seed if they win.
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  Speaker 1: If they are to win a semi final, which could
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  Speaker 1: be against LSU on Saturday, I think it probably would
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  Speaker 1: lock them into being in Birmingham. And if they win
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing, I think they're locked into being the
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  Speaker 1: number one overall seed.
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  Speaker 3: I think they could have all that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see just to update you on the women's tournament,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're going to tell you what else we've
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  Speaker 1: got coming on the program today. They are in the
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  Speaker 1: second round. There's already been a final this morning. There's
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  Speaker 1: already been a lower seed advance. Actually it's higher seed,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me. Vanderbilt, the eight seed beat the nine seed
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee eighty four to seventy six. Vandermilt now has to
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  Speaker 1: take on South Carolina. That would be tomorrow at eleven o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: In the morning our time, and the game that has
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  Speaker 1: followed that one is going on right now between the
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  Speaker 1: five seed Oklahoma and the twelve seed Georgia, and there's
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  Speaker 1: about seven and a half minutes to go in that game,
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  Speaker 1: and right now Oklahoma leeds A by fifteen points. They
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  Speaker 1: are at fifty five to forty, so seeds going to
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  Speaker 1: form so far winter That game will play at one
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  Speaker 1: point thirty tomorrow afternoon against the number four seed Kentucky.
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  Speaker 3: Then you get to the bottom of the bracket.
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi plays Mississippi State, oh miss against Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 3: That'll be this afternoon at five o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: The winner of that game we'll play Texas tomorrow at
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  Speaker 1: five union here on one of three point.
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  Speaker 3: One FM, Austin's EIGHTES station.
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  Speaker 1: And then the night cap tomorrow night will be the
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  Speaker 1: sixth seed Alabama against eleven seed Florida and the winner
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  Speaker 1: of that will get LSU at seven point thirty tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 1: So that gets you caught up on the SEC women's tournament.
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  Speaker 3: We'll keep you updated on that. Now.
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  Speaker 1: With regard to the men's tournament, we talked quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit about this. The Longhorn men did themselves a great
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  Speaker 1: Service helped themselves out tremendously by virtue of that win
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  Speaker 1: at twenty fifth rank Mississippi State on Tuesday night, winning
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  Speaker 1: it in overtime eighty seven eighty two.
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  Speaker 3: It does not have them in the NCAA Tournament field yet.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, most bracketologists, including Joe Lenardi, who's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the chief among all of this, still have Texas on
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  Speaker 1: that line of first four out. Doesn't mean they won't
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  Speaker 1: get in, but it means they go from one must
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  Speaker 1: win game to another. I would submit to you Saturday night,
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  Speaker 1: Senior Night at home against Oklahoma, another bubble team on
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  Speaker 1: the outside trying to play its way into the field.
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  Speaker 1: That's Saturday night at seven o'clock, and Texas is in
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  Speaker 1: the situation of needing to win that game.
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  Speaker 3: And even then I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know that they would be in unless there were
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of losses from other bubble teams. It would
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  Speaker 1: probably take a win Saturday and a win next week,
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  Speaker 1: at least in their first game at the SEC Tournament,
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  Speaker 1: which looks like it's going to be against Georgia, and
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  Speaker 1: it looks like it'll be at two thirty in the
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  Speaker 1: afternoon next Wednesday afternoon. Of course, you would hear that
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  Speaker 1: right here on thirteen under the zone. It'd be next
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon. They're almost certainly locked into that two thirty
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  Speaker 1: time slot as either the twelve seed or the thirteen seed.
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  Speaker 1: It's not mathematically for sure, because if they were to
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  Speaker 1: lose local whomens some other things happened, they could wind
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  Speaker 1: up actually as the fourteen.
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  Speaker 3: They'd take other tie breaks.
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  Speaker 1: But if they win, they're definitely in that twelve versus
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  Speaker 1: thirteen matchup next Wednesday afternoon at two thirty. And I
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  Speaker 1: think a win that game, if they win Saturday, win
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  Speaker 1: that game might be enough to get them into the field.
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  Speaker 1: Might be depends on what else is going on. And
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  Speaker 1: at this time of year. You know how this works
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  Speaker 1: if you are a fan of college basketball and a
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  Speaker 1: fan of March Madness, and a fan of what's called
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  Speaker 1: Championship Week throughout all of next week. It actually really
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  Speaker 1: began this week. And there are, by the way, men's
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  Speaker 1: not just women's. There are men's Division one conference tournaments
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  Speaker 1: going on right now that will help shape the field
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  Speaker 1: of sixty eight. Some of the mid major and smaller
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  Speaker 1: conferences have already started their tournaments so they can get
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  Speaker 1: their championship games on national television on the ESPN. But
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  Speaker 1: you want chalk to happen if you're a team in
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  Speaker 1: that kind of bubble situation as the Longhorns are, So
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  Speaker 1: they got to handle their business and then they may
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  Speaker 1: need a little bit of help as well. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: tonight is our final seasonal edition of Longhorn Weekly with
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  Speaker 1: Rodney Terry from Pluckers the West Campus. Last chance of
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  Speaker 1: the season to come out and visit with RT. Submit questions,
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  Speaker 1: you have question cards, you have questions for the coach,
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  Speaker 1: and as always, we have a special guest tonight, Arthur Kluma.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, Art is getting ready to play his
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  Speaker 1: final home game as a Texas Longhorn the Senior and
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  Speaker 1: he will join us tonight at Pluckers the West Campus
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  Speaker 1: locations at six o'clock. You'll hear it live here on
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  Speaker 1: thirteen under the Zone. So if you can come on
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  Speaker 1: out and enjoy some great wings and great conversation talking
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  Speaker 1: long worn basketball headed into this final week of the
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  Speaker 1: regular season. All right, a couple other things coming up
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  Speaker 1: after this break. You're talking about a shift. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: Texas Men's tennis, the outstanding men's tennis program with head
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  Speaker 1: coach Bruce Burg. They are hosting Mississippi State tonight and
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  Speaker 1: Bruce is nice enough to take a few minutes to visit.
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  Speaker 3: With us to preview that.
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  Speaker 1: They also have Auburn coming in on Saturday, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: do that. We have inconceivable later on this hour, in
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  Speaker 1: the three o'clock hour, we're going to hear from Jim
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  Speaker 1: Schlosnagle some sound from the long WRN baseball head coach,
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  Speaker 1: whose team is now won ten in a row and
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to open their final non conference weekend series
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  Speaker 1: before they start conference play with Santa Clara coming into town,
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos from the West Coast Conference. That's tomorrow evening
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  Speaker 1: at six thirty Saturday at two o'clock, Sunday at one o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll hear all three games here on the zone.
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  Speaker 1: And so we'll hear from Jim Schlosnagel coming up next
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  Speaker 1: hour and in the four o'clock hour.
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  Speaker 3: Among other things that we'll do.
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  Speaker 1: Gene Watson from Chicago White Sox front office joins us
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  Speaker 1: we're getting closer to the start of baseball's regular season.
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  Speaker 1: We're actually only about twelve days away.
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  Speaker 3: From an actually beginning.
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  Speaker 1: It'll begin in Japan with the Cubs and Dodgers playing,
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  Speaker 1: but that'll be the first series. But we're three weeks
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  Speaker 1: out really from the start of the Major League Baseball season,
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  Speaker 1: so Gino will join us in the four o'clock hour
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  Speaker 1: to get us updated on them on that. All right,
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  Speaker 1: up next, we visit with Bruce Burg, Texas men's tennis coach,
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  Speaker 1: when we continue right here on thirteen under the zone
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  Speaker 1: to twenty here on this Thursday afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad to have you with us on the program.
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  Speaker 1: We said there was an awful lot to discuss with
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  Speaker 1: the University of Texas athletics, both the men's and women's
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  Speaker 1: basketball teams, Baseball, softball going really well, and he she
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  Speaker 1: had noticed long worn men's tennis has ranked fourth in
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  Speaker 1: the country and they have a big SEC match tonight
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  Speaker 1: against Mississippi State and then Auburn coming in on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Very pleased to be joined on the hotline by our
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  Speaker 1: good friend the head coach of Texas men's tennis, Bruce Burg. Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time on the match day.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: And we might have lost him there, Andrew could we'll
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  Speaker 1: see if we can bring Bruce back can on this
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  Speaker 1: uh to do this the the long worn tennis team
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  Speaker 1: by the way, uh is is Bruce?
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  Speaker 3: You back with us now?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well we'll see if we can uh
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  Speaker 1: we can get him back on board was in the meantime.
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  Speaker 1: What I can tell you about. Uh, we'll try one
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  Speaker 1: more time. Hey, Bruce, she with us?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Bruce, she with us? Okay, Uh, he might not
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  Speaker 1: be able to hear us Andrews. We'll we'll try to
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  Speaker 1: see if we can uh uh make that work. I
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  Speaker 1: know we had a little bit of issue that when
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  Speaker 1: I when I was calling in yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, but we'll see if we can get that all together.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, what we were saying about Texas men's tennis, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they are uh six and one since the last time
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  Speaker 1: we visited with Bruce. That one loss was to Wake
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  Speaker 1: Forrest in the summifinals of the i T eight indoors
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  Speaker 1: uh and that was four three and Wake went on
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  Speaker 1: to win the championship. They're currently the number one ranked
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  Speaker 1: team in the country. But Texas has worked really well
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  Speaker 1: and they have wins against number one at the time
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  Speaker 1: TCU fourteenth ranked Texas A and M. That was a
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  Speaker 1: non conference match at the ITA Indoors, number five Virginia
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  Speaker 1: and they're three and oh in the SEC with wins
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  Speaker 1: over Vanderbilt and ole Miss at home and Florida on
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  Speaker 1: the road. All right, let's see if we can drive
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  Speaker 1: one more time. Hey, Bruce, you able to hear us?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 5: I can?
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  Speaker 3: I can?
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  Speaker 5: No one there to keep us apart.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I appreciate you take you the time
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  Speaker 1: on the match day. Let me get your let me
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  Speaker 1: get your thoughts on the way things have been going,
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  Speaker 1: because I know that you have to be pleased since
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  Speaker 1: the last time we visited. Your group is six and one.
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  Speaker 1: That one losses to Wake Forest, a pretty good team.
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  Speaker 1: They're number one, and that was in that semifinals with
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  Speaker 1: the ITA Indoors. But I was just recapping how things
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  Speaker 1: had gone with wins over TCU, Texas A and M
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  Speaker 1: fifth rank Virginia three and o in the SEC. Now
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  Speaker 1: and then we always like to say everybody's first foray
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  Speaker 1: from the University of Texas into the SEC. And you're
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  Speaker 1: off to a good start with the wins over Vanderbilt
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  Speaker 1: and Ole Miss at home and Florida on the road.
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  Speaker 1: So how would you characterize how your club is playing
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Now, I've been really happy with the results, but
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  Speaker 6: especially with the way the guys are out there striving
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  Speaker 6: to get better every day and taking ownership in the team.
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  Speaker 6: And it's really accept for several of them stepping up
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  Speaker 6: his leaders, which is kind of interesting because we had
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  Speaker 6: so much turnover from last year's team that it's really
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  Speaker 6: nice to see that the culture is staying strong and
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  Speaker 6: we're striving to be the best by the end of
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  Speaker 6: the year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've got some guys who have some outstanding dual
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  Speaker 1: match records in their singles. I look at Tim melugu
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  Speaker 1: Is nine and one, Sebastian Gorney's niney four, nine and four, and.
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  Speaker 3: Then Pierre Eves.
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  Speaker 1: Bailey really seems to have found his game both physically
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  Speaker 1: and mentally.
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  Speaker 3: He's ten and oer right now.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have a good few about him going into
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  Speaker 1: those dual match records this season?
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  Speaker 6: I did, mostly because of the way he seems to
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: have matured. Not that he was an imagery kid before,
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: but you know, he would be very much in a
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: victim sometimes of the way things were going, you know,
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: whether he was healthy or not healthy.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: He thinks, you know, if.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: He lost the last match or won.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: The last match.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: Sometimes he would be very much at the mercy of
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: his circumstances and that would affect his mental game. And
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  Speaker 6: he's just seemed to come into his own with respect
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: to his maturity and prepares very well for each match,
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: and it's very hard to rattle him. And he's been healthy,
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: So with that in mind, he's got you know, he's
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: proven over the years that he can beat a lot
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: of great players. So yeah, it doesn't shock be given
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: the way I saw his mentality evolve over the fall.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you also have had some veterans show how good
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: they can be. Jonah braswell, we've talked about before, and
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: he's eight and two, and Timo I mentioned and Sebastian
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I got to ask you about your freshman Oliver. It's
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: it's owed your car, isn't it? From Estonia? And he's
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  Speaker 1: off to an eight.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, No, he's been great, and it's the nice thing
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  Speaker 6: about him is, you know, it's tough.
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  Speaker 7: To come in in January and be thrust right.
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  Speaker 6: Away into the dual matches. You're playing dual matches within
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: a week from being on campus. It's not always an
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  Speaker 6: easy thing to do, especially for those guys who are
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: coming from a different country and culture. But it's been
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: fun because we've really seen him improving virtually week by
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: week and almost every time he steps on the court,
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: and he's got a he's a big guy with a
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: big game, and he's sitting seamlessly with the team.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: So yeah, it's been a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 6: I think he's going to be, no doubt, a star
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: and an upper lineup player during his career here.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got a couple of guys splitting time at
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: single Sebastian Eerics in his seven and three Lucas Brown
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: a seven to one.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: How's that. It looks like it's worked out well so far.
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  Speaker 8: So far.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, sometimes the issue.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: About which of them is going to play takes care
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: of itself because maybe somebody is a little banged up,
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: either one of them or somebody else. And we're fortunate
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: to have at least seven guys that we feel really
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: comfortable with being out there. My goal for each of
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: them is to never have just like it was last
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: year for Lucas. I never want them to go more
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: than a week without competing. I still don't know which
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: one is, you know, the right one to be out there.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: So in many, many days they'll both been playing. Some
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: days just wonderful movie playing, but they've they've had a
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: really good mentality about it.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Or super supportive of each other.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: So yeah, So Bastan Erickson is a really good player also,
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: and he's he's done very well for us, and he
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: didn't have a good match the last time you played,
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: but that's just one day. And Lucas is just a
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: fiery kid and a fighter, and he's you know, really
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: to me, he epitomizes everything it means to be a
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: Texas Longhorn.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: You have been able to get two of the three
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: doubles points in the SEC matches.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Do you like what you have there?
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Are you still looking for an uptick in terms of
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the double side of things?
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean we've been winning most of the double points.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: We've probably lost one, you know.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: For we've probably lost We've probably.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Got one or two less wins and doubles points than
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: we do wins in dual match records, and.
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: So yeah, no, we're not quite satisfied with it.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: We definitely think we.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: Have the skills and the ability, but we're still not
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: thrilled with the consistency of the level of our execution.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: So tonight it's going to be a little different. We're
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: changing the lineup a little bit again. This time it's not,
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: you know, it's not so much a search for some
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: magic chemistry that's going to be the answer. I think
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: sometimes that's pivot, but I think more important is just
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: the consistency of our execution and understanding about how physical
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: and intense you need to be in what you know,
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: in what really is a sprint for about thirty minutes
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: of doubles play. So tonight we're going to have, most
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: likely we're going to have Oliver and Pierre playing together
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: at number one, and Lucas and Timo at two, and
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: most likely Sebastian Korsny with either Jonah or Eric Sin
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: at three.
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  Speaker 5: So it's a little bit different.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: My goal is for after this weekend to be kind
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: of set and just have our three teams and just.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Go with them for the rest of the season. That's
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: what we look to do.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Texas Tennis men's head coach Bruce Burger joining us here
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: on thirteen under the Zone. Let me get your thoughts
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: in Mississippi State looks like they're off to a really
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: good start. Twelve and two, two and one in the conference.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: What kind of challenge does the do the Bulldogs present
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: for you tonight?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, they're good.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: I mean, they're definitely They're definitely one of the teams
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: that we think is going to be the stiffest competition
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: for us in the SEC. There's no doubt that most
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: coaches would agree that they're a top three SEC team
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: and with one of the tea programs that has a
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: chance to compete for the championships with a lot of
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: respect for their coaches.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: And the consistency.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: In the consistency with which they compete every match, it's
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: been a high level program for a while. They're really
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: good at the top of the lineup, and they're really.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Good in doubles.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: And I think we're gonna have to be on our
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: best mental, mental game tonight.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: To have a good shot.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: And then you got to turn around.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: You got Auburn coming in on Saturday, and it's it's
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: not exactly that I mean, they're they're ranked thirty seconds,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: so it's not exactly like you're you're taking on chop
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: liver there too. It looks like it's a good, uh
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: front end, back end series of challenge this.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: Weekend sure, sure, I mean really, all the SEC teams
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: are good, but you know, Auburn's has definitely got a
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: good got a good program, so we have respect for
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: them too. And we just you know, we just came
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: back from Florida. We only had two days of practice here,
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: but we're ready and Mississippi State's gonna be tough. Like
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: you said, we turn it around and play Auburn, and
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: then two days later after that we're on the road
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: back to TCU for our last non conference match against
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: against TCU again, so we got a lot coming out.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, all right, again, it's tonight at six o'clock.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Why not head over to the Texas Tennis Center to
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: see what should be a splendid match tonight with Mississippi
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: State and then Saturday afternoon at one o'clock against Auburn. Bruce,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: it's always a great deal of pleasure to visit with you.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time and best of luck
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: tonight and over the weekend.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: I appreciate it.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: Thanks for having me on you bet.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: All right, that's Bruce Park, Texas men's tennis head coach,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: coming up. Will bring you today's edition of Inconceivable and
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: we continue on thirteen under the zone.
• 24:37
  Speaker 10: Inconceivable, inconceivable, inconceivable, inconceivable.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Us in that far. I don't think I miss? What
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: do you think of miss?
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Here's what inconceivable means on a Thursday afternoon, as we
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: roll through it, whenever possible, whenever possible, we like to
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: bring you out aplickable a fast food update. Andrew Zimmil
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: strikes me as the kind of guy who occasionally dabbles
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: in the fast food arts?
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Am I correct on that? Zim?
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: You caught me craig I ate in and out today?
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Did you really? Okay?
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Lunch?
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Okay? Where do you stand with Chick fil A?
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm just getting back into it. I'm a fan.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I got a gift card over Christmas.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Well that's good, okay, I should let you know that.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: In addition to the regular offerings on the menu, which include,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: you know, the regular grilled or the original chicken sandmich,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, they're bringing back a couple of things.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: First of all, the Smokehouse barbecue bacon sandwich.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: There's that. Then they've got.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: One, two, three, four new Spring drinks. Tell me if
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: any of these strike your fans. There's a pineapple dragon
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: fruit frosted lemonade.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: That sounds like a lot.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: There's just a regular pineapple dragonfruit lemon lemonade, a pineapple
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: dragon fruit iced tea, and a pineapple dragon fruit sunjoy.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Any of that hold any interest for you?
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: There?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: The iced tea catches my attention. But the problem is
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: that's a mouthful. If I'm trying to do that at
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: the drive through.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: That's a good point.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Let me have that pineapple dragon fruit frosted lemonade. You
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: know that that might take a little time even just
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: to get it out of your mouth. Okay, while we're
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: on the subject of junk food. When these last couple
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: of days, and this really even goes back to late
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: last week because our man CB sent this story to
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: me and of course hadn't been in.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: To be able to do this. Did you do the Cheeto.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Story the U went up for a major sale?
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yesterday? Yeah?
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, So did you get did you get the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: story in and with the yeah? Yeah, the Pokemon it's
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a cheeto. I guess what a hot cheetah? Right, a
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: flaming hot cheeto in the shape of the Pokemon charizard.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Were you were you.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Into the whole Pokemon thing when you were younger, because
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: you would kind of fall into the age group.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was really popular when I was a kid.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I collected the cards, I went back to my parents'
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: house threw them all the way.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Oh that's not good.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, my two oldest had him for a while anyway.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: So the Cheeto that was shaped like the Pokemon charizard
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: was sold at auction for eighty seven forty bucks. Just
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: don't drop it on the floor and have your dog
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: eat it or something like that. I guess it would
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: be just under plastic or whatever, but that it's.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Weird kind of looking anyway, And I'm not in the flaming.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Hot cheetah, so I'd probably pass on it, but not
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: that i'd be interested in eating it. But if it
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: could fetch that kind of money, it might be interesting.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: We'll see, all right, I've got a couple of sports
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: related things for you. First of all, did you do
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the story? And the only reason I put this in
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: inconceivable is because of the solution. Have you done the
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: story about Kevin Durant and Booing fans the fans of Boo?
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Have you done that story? No, I didn't see that.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: One didn't see that one.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's only come out in the last twenty hours,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: so now that I look at it, Okay. So the
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Suns beat the Clippers last night. Now it was only
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: their fourth win in their last fifteen games. As we know,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Phoenix has been struggling. The Footprint Center is where they play,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: and the fans there used to be called talking stick
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: resortive as I remembered Arena, but it's the Footprint Center
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: there in Phoenix. Booed the team early on and they
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: were way down in the game. They came back and
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Kat had a lot to do with it, and they
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: had a strong fourth quarter and they closed out the game.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: So he was aske during the news conference afterwards. What
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: did he think about and how did he feel about
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the fans booing the team at home? And this was
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: his answer. This sounds like KD threw and through quote.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I always wondered what booing is going to do for
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: your team. It actually makes no sense. If you really
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: want to make your voice be heard, just get up
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: and leave. We'll feel that more than you booing. We
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: need energy, you know what I'm saying. When we're down twenty,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: we need you all to get a little louder and
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: there and cheer a little louder. Booing has been a
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: part of the sports culture for the last fifty to
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: sixty years.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: I think it's about time we put that up.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Just get up and leave
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: if you don't like feel like watching this team play
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: bad basketball, and we would understand, and that would make
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: us feel even worse seeing y'all getting up and leaving.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: So there was a there was a moment when he
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: was gesturing to the crowd. He said he was trying
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: to ignite the fans and tell him quote, get your
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: you know up to provide the team with a spark.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: And he said he has nothing but love for the
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Sun's fan base. So that learned twenty nine and thirty three.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: But how about that idea, you know, if you don't
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: like what you see, you.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Can teach a class. You can teach a class, you
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: see Craig about being a sports fan.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, if you don't like a movie, it's
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: really bad. You know, you can get up and walk
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: out of a movie or a concert, right and do that.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: And so he said, why not do that if the
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: team's play about he goes, We'll understand and it'll make
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: us feel bad too. But if you just sit there
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and boo, that isn't doing anybody any good. Maybe it
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: makes the fan feel better to do it. Maybe it's that,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: but it's not making the team feel any better about
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: that anyway. All Right, So there's one deal. Here's one
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: that's kind of sports where late you're very young. So
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: you were very young when the movie came out originally.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: In fact, you might not even have been born. What
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: year were you born, nineteen ninety seven. Yeah, so this
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: came out before you were born. But you're familiar with
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the movie Happy Gilmore, of course, Yeah, yeah, Okay. The
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: release date has been set for Happy Gilmore two. It's
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: coming out July twenty fifth, exclusively on Netflix.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Of course, the sequel.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Not only will Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Ben Steeler,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Dennis Dugan, and Alan Covert be reprising reprising their roles,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: but a handful of professional golfers are going to be
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: on it as well.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: How about these golfers in this.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Movie, Keegan Bradley, Bryce and Deshambeau, John Daly, Tony Fenow,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Keith Foller, Brooks, kept Rory macklework Colin Morikawa, Jack Nicholas,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Corey Paven, Xander Schoffley, Scottie Scheffler, Jordan spe Justin Thomas,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the Great, Lee Trevino, and Will's Alatoris. And there's also
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: going to be other cameos from eminem Reggie Bush, Travis Kelcey,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: dan Patrick and Becky Lynch.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Interested and that.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm still hung up on the fact they didn't
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: call it Happy Gilmore Eagle, you know, for two shots.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right exactly, so that would make sense. But anyway,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: it's it's coming out July twenty fifth, Netflix only. Okay, finally,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: you know we're we're US citizens and you know you've
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: heard of people having dual citizenship, like in a couple
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: of countries or whatever. There is a tiny island out
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: the South Pacific that's willing to sell citizenship to you.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: You don't have to go through a long waiting process
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: and this and this. It's Nauru, which is an island nation.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: It's only eight square miles in the Southwest Pacific Ocean,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: but you can become a citizen of it for one
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: hundred and five thousand dollars. That's all one hundred five
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars the reason why they're doing it. It has
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: a golden passport initiative, so to speak. They're trying to
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: raise money to fun climate action. They're facing an existential
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: threat from rising sea levels, storm surges, and coastal erosion.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: So they're thinking that if we don't do something, we're
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: going to wash away.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: So they're trying to get it done.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: And you can be a citizen of the Sinking Island
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Nation for a mere one hundred five thousand dollars. All right,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: So there's your inconceivable for today. When we pack to
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: wrap by power number one on thirteen under the zone.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: And we're back again. There we are Forrior number two
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  Speaker 3: here on the program.
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  Speaker 1: Have a little technical standard right there at the top
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: of the hour, Craig Way with you. Andrew Zimmel jumped
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: right in there to try to make a kick save,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: you know, and soccer or hockey there how to go.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Over those final five minutes there's zim did you you
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: pull it? Keep it all together, keep it, keep it
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: between the lines.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: We fumbled through. We did a good promo for the
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• 34:28
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  Speaker 1: next segment from Jim Schlasnigle, the long wornes head baseball coach.
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  Speaker 1: Well from him coming off of the win on Tuesday
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: night against Texas A and M Corpus Christy that has
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: run Texas record to ten and one overall, ten consecutive
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: wins after they had that season opening tenanting loss in
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Arlington and Louisville. They've won ten straight since then. So
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: we'll hear from coach Slash as Schloss and the Longhorns
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: get ready for the Broncos of Santa Clara who come
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: in from the West Coast Conference. It's weird there's two
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: teams from the West Coast Conference coming to within one
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: hundred miles of each other in Central Texas this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Have Santa Clara here in town and Loyola Marymount is
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: playing one hundred miles up to road in Waco against Baylor.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: So anyway, both of that is going on there. Okay,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: there was a coaching there's been a coaching move made.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Johnny Harris, who was an assistant for Vic Shaefer here
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: in her first year in Vic's first year of the program,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: then got the Auburn job. But Auburn today announced that
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: it has parted ways with coach Harris. She went fifty
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: eight and sixty three and four seasons. Last year they
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: got to the NCAA Tournament, but they went twelve and
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: eighteen this year, three and three in SEC competition. They
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: got beat last night by Florida. That was seven straight losses.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: They finished in a four way tie for last place
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: with Missouri, Arkansas and Texas A and M SO. Anyway,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: she'd been associated coach for Vic Shaeffer Mississippi State for
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: eight years from twenty twelve all the way up to
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and then she followed coach Schaefer here to
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Texas and was associate head coach's first year here twenty
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one before taking over the Auburn program. So
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: she went ten and eighteen first year. They'd gone five
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: to nineteen the year before her arrival. Then they went
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: to sixteen and fifteen or second year, and then went
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: twenty and twelve twenty twenty two. Twenty twenty three was
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: her when they went sixteen and fifteen. That was the
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: first winning season in four years, and then they went
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: twenty and twelve last year, but fell off this year,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: and of course they had Dianna Gaston, who had been
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: on the Texas team and who had recruited had been
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: recruited to Texas by Johnny Harris, so she went ahead
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: and transferre there. She was their leading scorer and she
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: had a really good year individually, but Auburn not so much.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: And so now they made the change their parting ways
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: with Johnny Harris the head coach there.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Also.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard about this, Andrew. You know,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: with all of the difficulty the Dallas Mavericks have had
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: of late, you know, starting of course with the Luca trade,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: and Luka Doncic is faring quite well in Los Angeles,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: thank you very much, and so.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: Are the Lakers. They're really on a roll there.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: I was listening to you yesterday after i'd popped on
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: with you right after it i'd hit the ground back
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: in Austin late in the afternoon, and you were talking
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: about the Luca trade, as many have, and how things
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: have kind of gone south, and how Nico Harrison is
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: really taking the brunt end, the blunt end of this
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: and the brunt of the criticism about all of this.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: And I have to tell you I'm in agreement with
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: you because you said. It was their perspective, at least
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: that's what's being reported pretty much, their perspective, that Luca
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: wasn't improper shape, that he was injured too easily, that
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: he was it was he wasn't taken in taking it
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: seriously enough.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: And I don't think that was the case.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: He Sure he may have gotten worn down a bit
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: by playing, you know, uh in the summer in Slovenia
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: and forced Slovenia for their national team, But I didn't
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: you know, and and and you've heard You've heard me
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: say this before, Andrew. It's not that his legs and
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: calves where he's had these calve strains are so out
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: of shape.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: It's just that he has cankles.
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: His calves go straight into his ankles, so you call
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: those cankles.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: So he's got cankles, you know. It's just one long,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: big cankle, you know, on each side of his legs.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: So it makes it more susceptible to injury anyway. So
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: you had that, had the trade Anthony Davis gets hurt
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: then even his other rash of injuries, most notably unfortunately
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving. You know what I have to say, Uh
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: not most recent. It's not the most recent because they
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: just picked up the former long worn Kai Jones signed
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: an attend day deal and he couldn't go last night
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: due to a quat strain, so he couldn't play well.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Now after all of that, they're also losing a member
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: of the coaching staff. Alex Jensen has agreed to a
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: deal to become the next head coach at the University
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: of Utah. Utah had fired Craig Smith right near the
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: end of his fourth season. It was right at the
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: end of last month, so it was just, you know,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: a little over a week ago. They went sixty five
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: and sixty two without an NCAA tournament appearance. They won
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: twenty two games last year they played onto the bubble,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: but they lost to eight of their last twelve regular
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: season games.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: They fell out of consideration.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: So they had hired him to replace Larry chris Koviak
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: and they haven't advanced to the NCAA tournament since twenty sixteen,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: and he'd made only four appearances since Rick mcjeri's stepped
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: down for health reasons back in two way back in
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: two thousand and four, well he played for Majeri's. Jensen
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: is a Utah native. He was mister Basketball in the
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: state of nineteen ninety four. He played in Majeris. He
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: was the Mountain West Player of the Year in two
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: thousand and he helped lead the program to four NCAA
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: tournament appearance.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: He was also a starter on.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: That Utah team that played for the national championship in
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: ninety eight when they lost to Tubbe Smith, Kentucky team.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: So he had been on Jason Kiff's kids' staff. He
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: was in his second year after a decade as an
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: assistant with the Utah Jazz, and he has experience coaching
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: in college. He spent four seasons as an assistant under
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: mcjerrison Saint Louis before he moved to the professional rank.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: So the hits just keep on coming, ZIM.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: For the Dallas Mavericks, they're losing players dropping left and right,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: and now they lose an assistant coach.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Coaching in college basketball. Craig is like really really hard
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: right now with nil and transfer portal. So I would say, like, oh,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: stay is a professional coach well as you can, except
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: if it's Dallas Mavericks, then I would say leave as
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: quickly as possible.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Run run away, run, run, far away, that kind of thing.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: So anyway, it's it's been a tough go for the Mavericks.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: And like I said, Kai Jones, the former Longhorn, was
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: signed to a ten day deal and.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: He couldn't get and they had just signed him.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: In fact, Mark Followell, who's the play by play voice
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: on Dallas Mavericks Television, had texted me while I was
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: in Starkville and wanted to know that I have any
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: other you know, factoids, information, uh, you know, pertinent stuff
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: that I could share about Kai Jones. And I told
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: him because they were preparing for Kai to be able
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: to play. And I texted him back and I said,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: you know, here's I said. This is kind of weird
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: to be able to say this, but there isn't a
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: great deal. I can tell you about his time here.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Kai was it really nice. Young man came from the Bahamas,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: had no family here in the States. But it was
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: very affable, friendly, warm, pleasant to be around. Was a
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: willing worker. He would get in the gym and really
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: work that sort of thing. Two seasons with the Longhorns,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Kai Jones averaged six points and four rebounds per game.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: So when you're drafted nineteenth overall in the NBA draft,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: as he was, and you averaged six points and four
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: boards over two seasons as a freshman and sophomore. Clearly
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: you're being drafted on length, which he has plenty of,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: and potential, which he's had, but.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: It hasn't gone that well f him in the NBA.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: He also lost a very close i think friend of
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: the family that was like a family member to him,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: and that put him in a bad way, and he
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: had some difficult times in Charlotte. By his own admission,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: he said those were some missteps he made, but he'd
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: kind of tried to turn his turn everything back around
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: his career and that's what he's trying to do right now.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: But then he couldn't get on the floor because of
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: the quad.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: Strained last night.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: So it's just unfortunate, and the unfortunate things continue to
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: happen to the Dallas Mavericks, so hopefully they can get
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: themselves straightened out there. But it's a difficult go right
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: now for the Mavericks as they have been clinging to
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: the possibility of being able to get into the playoffs.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: But it's getting leaner and leaner right now, all right,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: coming up we'll talk to Long ONRM Baseball.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: We'll hear from Jim Schlosnagel, the head coach of.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: The Longhorns, as they prepare for the Broncos of Santa Clara.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: This is the final non conference weekend series. And if
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: it seems like it's come on pretty quick and that
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: the advent of conference play is quicker than normal, you'd
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: be exactly right, because they'd play thirty Now with the
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: expanded SEC thirty conference games, they'll play ten series. So
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: that means the Longhorns aren't playing everyone in the.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: SEC this year.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: They're not playing the defending national champions from Tennessee. They're
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: not playing South Carolina, They're not playing Vanderbilt, They're not
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: playing Alabama, and I think everybody else are playing. They
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: have Auburn and home. They have Georgia at home, they
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: have Florida at home. They play at Kentucky, they play
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: at Missouri, they have Texas A and M at home,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: and they open next week in Mississippi State, so they
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: also have to play at Arkansas and they close at Oklahoma.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: So anyway, that's where that is. But SEC conference play
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: begins next weekend for Texas baseball. On the Road in Starkville,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Mississippi at Mississippi State, and we will hear from head
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: coach Jim Schlastangle coming up when we continue here on
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: thirteen under the Zone. Glad to have you with us
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: on a Thursday afternoon. A reminder six o'clock tonight from
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Long Worn Weekly with Rodney Terry from Pluckers the West
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Campus location, our final show of this season, and Arthur Caluma,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: a long Horn's power forward who had I believe this.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Sixth double double of the season the other night.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: We'll join us tonight, So at six o'clock Pluckers the
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: West Campus location here in Austin's twenty two twenty two
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: Reo Grand and we'll begin promptly at.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Six o'clock and it's live right here on the Zone.
• 47:43
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: We shift to baseball when we get to tomorrow because
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: the Longhorns have one more non conference.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: Series weekend series.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: They of course they'll still play the midweek non conference
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: games they have those, but this is the final non
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: conference weekend series to start before the start of SEC
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: League play when they opened in Starkville in conference play
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: next weekend at Mississippi State. So Jim Schlostangle, the head coach.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: After the game, he visited with our Keith Mortland and
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: then had his media availability afterwards. And remember what Tuesday
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: night's game was. It was a game where the Longhorns
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: jumped out to a four to nothing lead, promptly gave
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: up five runs in the top of the fourth after
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: two outs. There were errors, wild pitches, walks, all of
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: those things, and all of a sudden you looked up
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: and Texas A and and Corpus Christy had a five
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: to four lead, and the long Horns promptly put that
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: away with six runs in the bottom of four ten four,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: and they ended up with a fifteen to five, eight
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: inning run rule victory. It was called after eighty ings
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: when the Long Horns pleted their fifteenth run of the night,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: which gave them a ten run margin in that end
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: of the ball game. So the ups, the downs, the misplays,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: the stuff that went good, all that was recapped as
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: well as what the Long Ones did right from head
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: coach Jim Slosneigle.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: These were his opening comments about it.
• 49:19
  Speaker 8: A lot of different feelings about that ball game, mostly positive.
• 49:23
  Speaker 8: Certainly caught Flores was really good, pitched deeper into the game,
• 49:28
  Speaker 8: mixed his pitch as well, made some nice plays. Somehow
• 49:32
  Speaker 8: he was using a new glove which apparently worked on
• 49:36
  Speaker 8: the first couple of ones and then it ejected the
• 49:38
  Speaker 8: other one. A lot of really good at bats obviously,
• 49:43
  Speaker 8: you know, hit some homers, and I thought we ran
• 49:46
  Speaker 8: the base as well. When you're trying to steal bases
• 49:49
  Speaker 8: and do some things on bases, there's gonna be some
• 49:50
  Speaker 8: outs made on the bases. But it's more about the
• 49:53
  Speaker 8: percentage of your step stolen bases than it is every
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: now and then making it out. So it's pleased about that.
• 50:01
  Speaker 8: I don't know if I've ever been a part of
• 50:02
  Speaker 8: a team giving up sixteen free bases in one inning.
• 50:04
  Speaker 9: So that was ugly.
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: But the positive was that it's awesome to be in
• 50:09
  Speaker 8: the dugout that never panics and that's a trait that
• 50:12
  Speaker 8: we're gonna need throughout the course of the rest of
• 50:15
  Speaker 8: the season, and so really proud of the team that way.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, so there was that, obviously, you start from that baseline,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: and so then Schloss was asked, what is the good
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: that comes out of the fact that they had to
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: come back in the game because of the sixteen free
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: bases and all the mess that happened in that top
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: of the fourth inning.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: So what's the good that comes from this?
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, you know, the seasons, it's an imperfect
• 50:45
  Speaker 8: game played by imperfect people.
• 50:47
  Speaker 9: So it's it doesn't matter who you're playing.
• 50:49
  Speaker 8: You look across college baseball, there's you know, if you
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: don't play well, you lose. And so the fact that
• 50:55
  Speaker 8: I've been on plenty of teams that panic in those
• 50:57
  Speaker 8: moments and the at bats get worse, and you know,
• 51:00
  Speaker 8: you start thinking about, oh my goodness, where you know
• 51:03
  Speaker 8: we're losing this team and losing to somebody that everybody
• 51:05
  Speaker 8: says we should be. Well, if you don't play well,
• 51:07
  Speaker 8: you are going to lose something. You know, it doesn't
• 51:08
  Speaker 8: matter who you play. So so yeah, I think there's
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: a confidence there. And certainly playing at home helps and
• 51:14
  Speaker 8: the ball flying a little bit, but the wind died
• 51:17
  Speaker 8: down the rest of the game, and those the rest
• 51:20
  Speaker 8: of those other homers were legit. So yeah, I mean,
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: you don't like self imposed adversity in the free bases
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: because that's that's going to get you beat over time.
• 51:29
  Speaker 8: But it's also this is our opportunity to figure out
• 51:32
  Speaker 8: who can do what, and the players will tell us
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: who they are. The guys that pitch the best, pitch
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: the most. The guys that play the best play the most.
• 51:38
  Speaker 8: And neither way to find that out is to get
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: guys out there.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So speaking of guys who pitched pretty well,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: Jason Floores this is the freshman, not Jaling Floors, the
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: junior short stot, but Jason Floores, the freshman right hander.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: He's looked good so far.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Even in shorter outings, and he I think went four
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: four and three and two thirds before he was taken out.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: But Schloss asked what made Jason Flores effective while he
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: was out there?
• 52:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean he was.
• 52:08
  Speaker 8: He was throwing, you know, two and three pitches for strikes,
• 52:12
  Speaker 8: and he didn't panic when he got behind counts except
• 52:16
  Speaker 8: on the one ball that kicked out of his love field.
• 52:17
  Speaker 9: His position. Well he hit, he hit a guy or two.
• 52:21
  Speaker 8: But you know, for a young picture with that kind
• 52:23
  Speaker 8: of arm, that's back to back good starts. Now, you know,
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: one three innings, one four or so four plus. I
• 52:31
  Speaker 8: wanted to you know, we were I think you could
• 52:33
  Speaker 8: have kept going. I just wanted to see McCreery. We
• 52:35
  Speaker 8: wanted to see McCreery. Earlier in the early in the game,
• 52:37
  Speaker 8: just to try to take a little heat off him.
• 52:40
  Speaker 8: He's finished games. He's going to be a good pitcher
• 52:42
  Speaker 8: for us. But I thought Flores was awesome.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Well, that's good. You mentioned Connor McCurry who was out there.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: And then there's another guy out there who certainly did
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: the Longhorns some good when he was out there. Uh
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: and and and in so doing, Ruger Riojas got the
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: win for Texas. But additionally, as Schlosh pointed out, there
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: were other guys who helped out.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: And one of the guys that.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Schloss pointed out was Bryce Navario, who got the final
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: two outs of the ball game.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: He walked on, he struck.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Out one, and so since he closed out the game,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: since he finished the game. Jim Schlastingle, the head coach,
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: then was asked, you know what kind of future does
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Bryce Lavari have?
• 53:38
  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah, I think navar can. I mean I think Navarre.
• 53:40
  Speaker 8: As he gets bigger and stronger, he can be a
• 53:43
  Speaker 8: really good starting pitcher. And you know he's got he
• 53:46
  Speaker 8: really knows how to spin the ball. He's one of
• 53:47
  Speaker 8: the best guys in the country last year in high
• 53:49
  Speaker 8: school baseball in terms of just spinning the baseball, and
• 53:52
  Speaker 8: and that's that's a lost art today. And you know
• 53:56
  Speaker 8: he can throw his break and ball, two different breaking
• 53:58
  Speaker 8: balls behind the count to a really good change up
• 53:59
  Speaker 8: to and he's starting to ride the fastball sund and
• 54:02
  Speaker 8: so as he gets strongers, it would.
• 54:03
  Speaker 9: Be really good. All right.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: So, speaking of spinning the ball, back to Jason Flores,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: there's a guy who throws. And Keith Morland and I
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: were talking about this on the air when we were
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: out in Las Vegas last Friday night, and we were
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: talking about it as it related to Jared Spencer. The
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Lorrens Friday night started a left hander, and this seems
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: to be a growing trend in college baseball where pitchers,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: whether they're lefties or righties, now are starting to throw
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: for one of a better term. It's almost kind of
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: a hybrid. It's not quite a slider, not quite a cutter.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: It might be a little faster than a slider, but
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: it might not have quite the break of a slider
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: or quite the break of a cutter. So Schloss was asked,
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: is ja sitting floor is breaking ball? There's another one
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: of these guys who throws that kind of hybrid pitch.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Is it what kind of breaking ball it is as
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: a slider or a cutter.
• 55:10
  Speaker 9: He does a.
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  Speaker 8: Cutter and a little slider split, but it's the cutter
• 55:15
  Speaker 8: that he's able to throw in the strikes on easy
• 55:19
  Speaker 8: and then plays his fastball off of it.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: See and veteran coaches, they know exactly, you know what
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: they what that other you know even you know just
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: you might say subtle break might be whether you know
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: it falls between the lines of being a cutter or
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: a slider. He mentioned split, and several of these guys
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: throw a pitch that kind of does a lot of
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: those things, depending on you know, how well the breaking
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: ball is working and what the weather conditions are like
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: on a given night. So oh, next, Schloss was asked
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: what does he want to see from Jason Flores going forward?
• 56:06
  Speaker 8: He needs to keep going, you know, it's always those
• 56:09
  Speaker 8: decisions are always relative to everybody else, right, And so
• 56:13
  Speaker 8: we give a series this weekend against Santa Clara. Haven't
• 56:18
  Speaker 8: made a final decision on Sunday, but we may give
• 56:19
  Speaker 8: somebody else an opportunity to start on Sunday, not because
• 56:23
  Speaker 8: Caid's been horrible, but just so that if we want
• 56:26
  Speaker 8: to start somebody further down the line, then they have
• 56:29
  Speaker 8: a starting experience, right and so uh so we'll get
• 56:32
  Speaker 8: through that, maybe see how the weekend goes. Uh you
• 56:38
  Speaker 8: know next week, I know UTSA has got a really
• 56:41
  Speaker 8: good team, so we'll just see heading the conference play.
• 56:45
  Speaker 9: But normally you wanna you want.
• 56:47
  Speaker 8: To be loaded for bear going in those SEC weekends
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  Speaker 8: and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna sit Jason Flores
• 56:53
  Speaker 8: in that bullpen and watch us lose an SEC game.
• 56:56
  Speaker 8: If we if he can help us win one, we'll
• 56:57
  Speaker 8: worry about the next Tuesday that when that day comes.
• 57:00
  Speaker 9: So you know, you could see him jump into you know, any.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: Role really, yeah, I would imagine.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: So all right, so that brings us back to Sunday,
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: because we know what the Friday and the Saturday starters are.
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: We know who those guys are.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: So Jared Spencer is going to start the game tomorrow
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: night against Santa Clara, and Luke Harrison will start the
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Saturday ball game against Santa Clara. So Schloss was asked
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: what's his mindset on what he thinks he might want
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: to do with his starter for Sunday.
• 57:34
  Speaker 8: You know, potentially valanis you know I'd like to see
• 57:37
  Speaker 8: him start a game and then we can see just
• 57:40
  Speaker 8: to give him that experience and then go into the
• 57:44
  Speaker 8: following weekend and.
• 57:45
  Speaker 9: Just kind of see how it plays out.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so there's some thoughts from Jim Silas Nigle.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: We'll get to a couple more next hour. Of course,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: next hour we'll talk to Major League Baseball with Geene
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Watson from the Chicago White Sox front office. We've got
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: some pro football notes NBA notes to get to when
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: we continue here on thirteen under the Zone, three thirty
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: five here on this afternoon, now three thirty six, on
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: this Thursday, Andrew Zimmo, I haven't asked you lately because
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: I've been out of town so much. Give me a
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: little pulse on what you're seeing, thinking, feeling, hearing and
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: understanding about your hometown team, the San Antonio Spurs these.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: Days, brother, when Wimby went down, a lot of era
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: left my sales. And it's been fun to watch dearon Fox.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: But this is not what I was hoping for from
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: this season.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and then of course not having Pop, you know,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: it's a big part of that. Of course, it was
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: recently announced he's not going to be back for the
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: rest of this season, but there's hope about what he
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: might be able to do coming back forward. Do you
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: get the sense that they figured, you know, once Wimby
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: gets you know, the thing with the blood clot thing
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: and getting that under getting that eradicated as Spurs management
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: management seems to think it will that the medication will
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: handle that, that that'll get rid of that, and getting
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: a chance to work with the Aaron Fox, that this
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: thing might continue to build Ford, especially with the other
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: guys that they have right now that are contributing.
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: One hundred percent, Like, once we can get the entire
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: band back together, there, Wimby's healthy, Fox is healthy. Pop
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: is on the sideline. Sky's the limits. But right now
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: I'm just trugging through the next twenty games and looking
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: for my ping pong balls.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing. Look at you, hoping lottery, I understand,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: all right. So I'm asking right now, top of your head,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: best team in the NBA right now.
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: Is Oklahoma City Thunder?
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, Hi, where do you stand with the Cleveland Cavaliers
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: right now?
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: I am I'm excited for the Calvs. I just think
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: they need to get some playoff lumps Boston Celtics defending champions.
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: I'm not betting again, stem you know what you sound like.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: I was a Colin Cowherd was just saying that right
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: before he came on the air, and he said, because
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: they are so young right now, that he's not he's
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: not going to be putting all his eggs in that
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: basket for Cleveland. But he really does like Cleveland. Jared
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Allen's playing great right now, the former long Yes, really
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: really playing well for them right now. So that's that's
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: It's good to see him playing well and we'll see,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: you know how it is going down the stretch of
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: the regular season. Meanwhile, they've popped back up again the
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant trade proposals as well. Of course, he's in
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: the last year of a four year, one hundred ninety
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: eight million dollar extension that he signed in Brooklyn. He
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: doesn't have a no trade clause like Bradley Beal does there,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: but he pretty much holds the leverage on where he
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: can go. For example, he said, and this was a
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: quote that he said last month, when he leaves on
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: Draymond Green Show, which I find quite it's Draymond Green
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: with Baron Davis. Yeah, I find it ironic given the
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: acrimonious time that was spent in the Bay Area when
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: the two were part of Golden State's teams that won
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: titled out there. But he said, I want my career
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: now on my terms. That's the only thing I'm worried about,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: because I see a lot of dudes that don't get
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: that opportunity. So I want to keep putting in that
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: work to make that choice on my own. It's been
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: reported by multiple outlets that the Sons are willing to
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: work with Katie on a deal if there's a decision
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: to move him after the season.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: But there's a couple of factors that go into this.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: The first is, is he willing to sign a two year,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty two million dollar extension with the
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: team that trades for him, And because he can be
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: a free agent twenty twenty six, it's unlikely that a
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: team would trade draft capital and players for one year rental.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: You know, they want a little more than just one year.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: That's one thing.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: And then the other thing is this, would the team
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: that trades for him still be in contention, would would
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: he still be available, would he still be in position
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: to really help them make a major push because he's
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: thirty six and his next team is likely to be
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: his last opportunity to add that third ring. So the
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: teams that have been mentioned Mavericks have been one, Rockets
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: have been one, Miami, the Knicks. Those are the teams
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: apparently that would seem best suited for him a deal.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Do any of those teams Mavericks, Rockets, Heat or Knicks
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: seem likely to you is a group that might be
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: willing to deal with Phoenix to get KD.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: I think all those teams would make a deal, Craig,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: I just don't think any of those teams are competing
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: for a title with KD. That's where my issue would
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: be the Knicks. That feels like a very over the
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: top move after especially just after trading for Karl Anthony Towns.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: But I think the Rockets, probably of those four teams,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: makes the most sense.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. I think probably so it might.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: I was thinking Rockets also if it were to happen,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: and the hype of the hypotheses that come forward on
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: a deal like that would include, say, for example, if
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: the Rockets were willing to do a deal, maybe KD
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: goes to Houston in exchange for this is one thing
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: I read Dylan Brooks, Reed Shepherd, Cam Whitmore and Jack
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Landale plus two first round draft picks twenty twenty five
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: and twenty twenty seven via Phoenix. The twenty twenty five
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: first would be conveyed after the draft lottery, which comes
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: up in May. So it's a lot, but maybe it
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: isn't a lot when you consider what Kevin can bring
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: to a team, So that that might be the most
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: logical scenario, you know, Miami, Maybe.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: That there could be a deal involved with that.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: You know, the Knicks and an Obi and Mitch Robinson
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: might be involved in that deal.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: And where the Mavericks are concerned.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: Gosh, you know, to take a pick of lots of
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: guys to Klay Thompson, PJ Washingt, Igi Marshall, Derek Lively
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: first round pick.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: Of course, the Mavericks have already kind of gutted themselves
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: with what Nico did with the with obviously with the
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: Luca trade.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: But we'll see how it is going forward on them
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: all right.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: We will be back to wrap up hour number two
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: right here on Am thirteen hundred the Zone. A couple
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: of things before we get toward the top of the hour,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: and then we have one more hour of the program.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 5: To go.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: On the SEC Women's Basketball Tournament. The first two games,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: the day time games, are in the books. In the
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: second round, Vanderbilt, the eight seed, beat Tennessee the nine seed,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: eighty four to seventy six. So now Vanderbilt draws the
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: number one seed. South Carolina, of course, had the co
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: championship with Texas, and it took the commissioner, Greg Sanky
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: flipping a coin to decide who would get the one seed.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: South Carolina got the one seed. By the way, I
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: still think way way too much was made out of that.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: Folks that were besides themselves are highly critical or whatever
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: about breaking that time, and there's to be another way.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: It really doesn't matter a great deal because both are
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: headed for the NCAA tournament. Both have a real good
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: chance to be number one seeds in the n A tournament.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: That matters most. So I don't think it matters that much.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: You know, you'd say, well, Texas is the two might
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: have a tougher se final match having to go potentially
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: against LSU, but LSU is going to be without Flaje Johnson,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: even if they're outstanding guard who got injured last Sunday
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: in their regular season finale against Ole Miss, So who knows,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: maybe it'll be an easier up, maybe not. South Carolina
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: will play Vanderbilt in the quarterfinals on the top side
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: of the bracket. Also on the top side of the bracket,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: it'll be the four seed against the five seeds, so
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: the seed's holding the form. Kentucky, which got a double
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: by the four seed, will now play the five seed Oklahoma.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma won this afternoon over Georgia seventy to fifty two.
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  Speaker 3: The evening session.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: Actually begins a little over an hour from now, and
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: this is the game that long Corn fans will want
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: to pay attention to. The seven seed Old Miss the
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: ten seed Mississippi State, so a little egg bowl basketball
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: rivalry stuff. The winner of that game will face Texas
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: tomorrow afternoon at five o'clock. Will be that one at
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: five o'clock tomorrow afternoon. You can hear that on one
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: of three point one FM, and so that that will
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: be the first of the evening session and the first
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: of the evening session tonight. The six seed Alabama the
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: eleven seed Florida. The winner of that will play the
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: three seed LSU. That game would be at about seven
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: point thirty tomorrow night, and that would complete the quarterfinal setup.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: So that's where it stands right now. Texas awaits the
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: winner of this matchup that will get underway a little
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: over an hour from now, Ole Miss against Mississippi State,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: So those two would get together and it could be
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: pretty that could wind up being being quite entertaining about that,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: just to see how those you know, how these games
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: match up before Texas gets an opportunity. So that's something
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: else to keep track of. Okay, there was one other thing.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I wanted to get to this. Of course,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: this is also your station for Round Rock Express Baseball.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: And so the Express will of course be opening their
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: new season very very soon. And as they get ready
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: to start their new season, they've announced their top twenty
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: five Express team. In other words, this is their twenty
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: fifth season team, so it's you know, they're getting ready
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: to celebrate the twenty fifth season of baseball at Dell
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: Diamond and that they'll and this is.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: Following an offseason fan vote.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: So the Express have announced their top twenty five Express
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: team and they're going to give out a trading card
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: set for the game on May thirty first, when they
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: host Reno the Reno Aces, which is the Diamondbacks Triple
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: A affiliate, the first two thousand Express fans through the
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: gates on that Saturday, May thirty first, we'll get a
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: card set for that. Okay, first of all, I've never
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: seen an all time whatever team, or an all decade team,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: or an all whatever team that has two managers.
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  Speaker 3: But they do, and both are deserving.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: Jackie Moore the original manager from two thousand to two
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: thousand and seven, and he went into the Hall of
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Fame in twenty fourteen. He was the original manager, led
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: the first ever Express team to the Texas League Championship
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: in two thousand.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: He earned Manager of the Year awards.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: He had division titles in two thousand and one, in
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: two thousand and four, had a playoff berth you know,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: two three seventy six and three twenty four Lifetime and
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: two twenty and two ten in the Pacific Coast League.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: And so he's one of the managers. The other is
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Bobby Jones, who's going to go into the Hall of Fame.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: And of course he had played with the Rangers. I mean,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: there was all the way back. I think the Washing Senators.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: He was in there before then when they moved in,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: and then he was the skipper of the Express for
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: three seasons.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: They went two twenty nine and two or three.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: All right, the catchers, two of them I took. Kintaro
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: of course, played twelve seasons in the Bigs. Bret Nicholas
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: as well, seeing time of the Rangers. At first base,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: Mark Sacamano, who's of course former Baylor Bear, and Chris
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: Davis drafted by the Rangers, and Blaine Krim So there's
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: three first basemen.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: At second base Keith Ginner.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: A member of that original Round Rock Express team that
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: won the championship. Brooks Conrad there as well at shortstop,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: just won and he's a good one. Jerkson Profar, who
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: of course is playing right now for the Padres. Third base,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: Morgan Ensburg on that original championship team, Royce Huffman who's
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: an Express Hall of Famer, Mike Coolball, also Matt Cotta
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: and Joey Gallo in the outfield, Jason Lane, Luke Scott,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: Joey Butler, and Jared Hoying. Also Kyle Tucker, Jordan Alvarez. Yeah,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: these are all very familiar names. And Bubba Thompson starting
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: pitcher about roy oswalt An Express Hall of Famer, Kirk
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: Sarlows of course, the head coach of TCU now Bud
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: Norris out of the bullpen, Travis Driscoll and Jimmy Ras.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: So there it is your top twenty five Express team.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: So that's pretty impressive to see, and they'll have that
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: going into their twenty fifth season. I also wanted to
• 1:11:20
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• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: their partnership. Final hour of the program coming up here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thirteen hundred Zone Craig Wade with you on alongside
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  Speaker 1: the producer andrews Emma.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a busy Guylade. We kept him busy as we've.
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  Speaker 1: Had the overlap between baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, all
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  Speaker 1: that's been going on, and Zimmo has been equal to
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  Speaker 1: the task, and we're going to make sure he's equal
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  Speaker 1: to the task again yet Tomorrow, as we have the
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  Speaker 1: program for you, and Andrew will be at the Helm,
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  Speaker 1: I will check in for the ballpark. I'll be over
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  Speaker 1: at UFCU dish Faul Fields to do that and correct
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  Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong about this him. You're also going
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  Speaker 1: to get a little drop in live visitation from one
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  Speaker 1: Cameron Parker there at the Bond Secure's Arena Wellness Center
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  Speaker 1: in Greenville, South Carolina, prior to the Texas Women's SEC
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  Speaker 1: Tournament quarterfinal against either role Mississippi State tomorrow afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: Correct, that is correct.
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  Speaker 2: Plus he gets me to produce his game for him too,
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  Speaker 2: So me and Cameron are going to be two pizza pod.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. You'll beat the studio. That's Marathon Man there
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  Speaker 1: you go. Okay, So that's good. That's good.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I got some other things we're gonna hear from. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna visit with Gene Watson A Framlin the Chicago White
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  Speaker 1: Sox coming up here in just a few.
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  Speaker 3: Minutes, so we'll visit with him. Talks in Big League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: We will hear some more from Jim Schlosnagel as well,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: the Longhorns head coach. And of course Texas has their
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  Speaker 1: matchup coming up with Santa Clara tomorrow evening at UFCU
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  Speaker 1: Dish Fault Field at six thirty. Also a couple other
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  Speaker 1: programming reminders for you. Our final Longhorn weekly program of
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  Speaker 1: the season with head basketball coach Rodney Terry, comes away
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: from Pluckers the West Campus location and that's a twenty
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  Speaker 1: two to twenty two rear grand that's coming up at
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  Speaker 1: six o'clock this evening. Arthur Kaluma, Longhorn's senior Ford, one
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  Speaker 1: of the seniors who will be honored on Senior Night
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday Night, will be our special guest. So Kaluma
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  Speaker 1: will be with us tonight. So we have that coming
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  Speaker 1: away tonight at six o'clock. And I mentioned Long Worn
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  Speaker 1: Baseball tomorrow at six thirty here on the Zone Texas
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  Speaker 1: Women on one oh three point one FM. It's a
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  Speaker 1: four to forty five pre game start time at a
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  Speaker 1: five o'clock tip. Saturday Long Worn Baseball one forty five
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  Speaker 1: air time, two o'clock first pitch against Santa Clara and
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  Speaker 1: then Saturday Night both here on the Zone and on
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight point one fmkvet long worn men's basketball, the
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  Speaker 1: regular season finale against Oklahoma and a huge, absolutely very
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  Speaker 1: very important game tomorrow or Saturday for Texas. They really
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  Speaker 1: are in need of a win. I would say this
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  Speaker 1: in terms of being considered for an at large bid,
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  Speaker 1: and of course, you know, if you win the conference tournament,
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  Speaker 1: you win the automatic bid that punches your ticket.
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  Speaker 3: You're already in.
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  Speaker 1: But if we're being real, the odds of a team
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  Speaker 1: winning five games and five nights are extremely low, especially
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  Speaker 1: if you're a double digit seed going into it.
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  Speaker 3: It's not good odds for you. It has happened.
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  Speaker 1: It happened last year with North Carolina State the ACC,
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  Speaker 1: it happened to the ACC well I think a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years before that with Virginia Tech. It's happened in
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: the Big East. Both Yukon and I think Syracuse have
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  Speaker 1: pulled it off. But that's examples that you can count
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  Speaker 1: on one hand. So the odds are greatly against winning
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  Speaker 1: five games and five nights.
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  Speaker 3: Hard enough to do it with four.
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  Speaker 1: But now with the super conferences, you know, the power
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  Speaker 1: fives being as large as they are, that expand expands
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  Speaker 1: the tournament to four days and five days instead of
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  Speaker 1: just being used to be like you three days. But
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  Speaker 1: you know you can win the automatic bid by doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Failing that and trying to get in as an at large,
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  Speaker 1: you have to couch yourself the best way possible to
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  Speaker 1: do it and toward that in I think the Long
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  Speaker 1: Orangs pretty much are in a must win situation in
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  Speaker 1: terms of from an at large perspective for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of reasons. One, they're seventeen and thirteen and they need
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  Speaker 1: another Quad one victory. Two, they are playing an Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: team that's in almost the identical situation that they are in.
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma is only one I think it's what five conference
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  Speaker 1: games this season, the Long Orange have won six and
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: Oklahom has one more overall win. Remember the Sooner started
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  Speaker 1: thirteen and oh but they're eighteen and twelve now, so
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: they're five and twelve in se play, so they're in
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  Speaker 1: a desperate situation. So I think the Long Runs have
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  Speaker 1: to win that game as well, so that would be
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  Speaker 1: two in a row. They got a nice Quad one
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  Speaker 1: road win at Mississippi State on Tuesday night, beating a
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  Speaker 1: ranked team, getting and for Quad for people who are
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: not quite getting what that means. Quad one. There are
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: four quadrants in the quad of the computer rankings, and
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: what are the net rankings that are.
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  Speaker 3: Monitored by the NCAA.
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  Speaker 1: And if you are in Quad one, then in the
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  Speaker 1: top I guess it's seventy five. That's a good win.
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  Speaker 1: That's considered a good win. Quad two less so, Quad
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  Speaker 1: three less so. And the one thing you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to lose is lose a Quad four game because that
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  Speaker 1: really hurts you. So it's important to try to garner
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  Speaker 1: as many Quad one wins as you can, and in
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  Speaker 1: addition to just losing as few as possible, overall loses
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  Speaker 1: few of the lower quad games as possible. So long
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  Speaker 1: Wards could use another Quad one win, that would and
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  Speaker 1: it would hurt Oklahoma, it would probably knock them off
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  Speaker 1: the bubble. Then they go to Nashville and they would
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  Speaker 1: take on probably it looks like it'll be the Georgia Bulldogs,
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  Speaker 1: and it looks like it'll be next Wednesday afternoon at
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  Speaker 1: two thirty is when it would be, So it'd be
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: kind of during this space when we normally bring in
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  Speaker 1: the program, we bring a basketball game instead, So it'd
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  Speaker 1: probably be next Tuesday Wednesday, I said Tuesday, beg pardon
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  Speaker 1: on that next Wednesday from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Texas
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  Speaker 1: is gonna, in all probability be in the twelve slash
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  Speaker 1: thirteen game. There's a mathematical chance it could even slide
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  Speaker 1: as low as fourteen, but it's probably not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: Probably gonna be in the twelve thirteen game that would
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  Speaker 1: be at two thirty in the afternoon, probably against Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple other premier day chase that can work
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: into it. It's probably going to be Texas and Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: And of course the long Wrns lost to Georgia at
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  Speaker 1: home last Saturday, so they would need to win there.
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  Speaker 1: It would balance the books they were Georgia. Also, Georgia
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  Speaker 1: is another one of those teams that's trying to fight
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  Speaker 1: its way onto the bubble and into the field, so
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  Speaker 1: you could, you know, personally eliminate another one with a win.
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  Speaker 1: That's why these next two games are absolutely critical to
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  Speaker 1: the Longhorn's hopes of landing an NCAA tournament bid as
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: an at large.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, catch lighting in a bottle.
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  Speaker 1: Win five games in five days, you get your ticket
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  Speaker 1: stamped to get the automatic bid. Failing that, bolstering your
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  Speaker 1: resume as as one of the best sixty eight in
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  Speaker 1: the country, they need a couple more wins to feel
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  Speaker 1: better about that. Even then, not guarantee, but at least
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  Speaker 1: they would probably be right by the plus side of
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: the bubble, depending on what happens in the other conference
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: tournaments across the country.
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  Speaker 3: And again, as I mentioned in the first hour of
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 3: the program.
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  Speaker 1: If you're one of these bubble teams like Texas, you
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: want as much chalk as possible. In other words, you
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: want Duke to win the ACC tournament. You want Saint
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: John's to win the Big East Tournament. You want Houston
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  Speaker 1: to win the Big twelve tournament.
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  Speaker 3: You want.
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  Speaker 1: Michigan State I guess to win the Big Ten tournament.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, you want those teams that are definitely
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: going to be in the field anyway winning the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: And you want as few of those bubble teams that,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: like Texas, are trying to get some wins in the
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: conference tournament, if not win the whole thing, to boost
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  Speaker 1: the resume.
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  Speaker 3: You want chalk. You want those teams that are supposed
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 3: to do well to do well. In the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: All right, up next we'll talk to Major League Baseball,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: will visit with Geene Watson from the Chicago White Sox
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: front office when we continue on thirteen under the zone.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Here on this Thursday afternoon, as I mentioned Longhorn Baseball,
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: we be back in action tomorrow as the Longhorns trying
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  Speaker 1: to make it eleven in.
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  Speaker 3: Row after dropping that.
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  Speaker 1: Season opener in extra innings to Louisville, which is gosh,
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: it'll be two weeks ago tomorrow. They haven't lost since
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: they won ten in row, so they're ten and one
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  Speaker 1: under Jim schlas Nagle, and they'll be back at work
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night, Santa Clara coming in for the first of
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: a three game weekend series. But we want to talk
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: baseball from the Major league perspective.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 3: We do that.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: During the course of the season on a weekly basis
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: with a good friend from the Chicago White Sox front office,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: Geene Watson, who joins us now from California. GINO at California, Arizona, Arizona,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: I should say, not California, but warm weather. Nevertheless, right
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  Speaker 1: out in the Cactus State.
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  Speaker 10: It's actually freezing here today. It's been raining half the day,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 10: and we're in bad shape for tomorrow. I don't think
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 10: games are gonna be played out here tomorrow, but we'll.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: See your kidding.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 4: Whether I can ever remember, it has been just crazy
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 4: weather from day to day. I wear a hoodie it's hot.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 10: I don't wear a hoodie it's freezing. So that's the
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  Speaker 10: way it goes out here.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with a badge. It's so all right.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: I want to There's a variety of topics I want
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: to get to here with you, but one of them
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: is a piece that I was fascinated by today, written
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: by our good friend Jet Passing, who I got a
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: chance to meet and get to know at the Sportscaster
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: of the Year banquet last year. He was the Sports
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: Writer of the Year, the National sports Writer. You're a
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: great guy, I know you know him. And he wrote
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: a piece about what and I don't know how much
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: thought folks had put in this from a collective perspective,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: but he wrote a piece on what it's going to
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: mean for Major League Baseball with the A's playing in
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: Sacramento and the Rays playing in the Yankees UH Minor
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: League and spring training ballpark in Tampa, and what it's
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: going to mean for that in terms of the ramifications
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: of you know, what the the building up of the ballpark,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: and you know, I guess with Tampa Bay playing at
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: Steinbrenner Field and they're having to.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 3: Do a lot of different things, what is it?
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: What are the things that you're hearing about, how how
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: easy or uneasy folks are feeling about how this is
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: going to play out with two major league teams playing
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: their full schedules home schedules at two minor league facilities
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  Speaker 1: this year.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I'm very familiar with both ballparks. I've been to
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 10: both ballparks probably one hundred games each. I think the
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 10: one thing you're going to see more than anything is
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 10: offensive increase with both in both ballparks, I think you're
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 10: going to see very high offensive outputs. I don't think
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 10: pitchers are gonna be very happy about pitching in these parks.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 10: But I also think they're both too kind of very
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  Speaker 10: intimate ballparks. And you know, I mean, we have these
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 10: ballparks that are thirty five forty five thousand seed stadiums,
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 10: and most nights, you know, a lot of the seats
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 10: are empty. You know, unless your team's in first place,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 10: are competing for a World Series. And so in this instance,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 10: most nights these ballparks are gonna be very full. It's
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 10: gonna be very intimate, and I know that teams are
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 10: gonna be working hard to make a great game day
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 10: experience for them. But certainly the offensive outputs are gonna
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 10: be extremely high. And uh, it's gonna be, you know,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 10: something to pay attention to.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: How do you think that that the parks are gonna
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: play for for for both the A's whatever we're calling them.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: I guess they're just saying just call them the A's, uh,
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: and and and for the race?
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  Speaker 3: How will these two ballparks.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: Play especially I'm really kind of really interested in Tampa
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: Bay because they've been playing home games obviously indoors at
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: the drop before the hurricane damage, and so now they're
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: playing outside as many do obviously during the spring.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 3: But you're but I've been.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: Told it could be multiple double headers this year because
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: of those late afternoon thunderstorms that moved through Tampa the
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay area. How do you think that ballpark's gounda
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: play for the Rays?
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  Speaker 10: That's gonna be the more unique management situation from the
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 10: race standpoint in that you know, The last thing you
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 10: want to do, especially with your top of rotation guys,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 10: is get them hot, get them into the game, and
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 10: then you have an hour and fifteen minute rain delay
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 10: and they're shut down.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 3: For the night.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 4: And I covered the Floridas Day League.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 10: For fourteen years, and that was certainly a daily occurrence,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 10: especially in the months of June and July. I think
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 10: if you look at that April schedule, they're home a
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 10: bunch to try to combat some of that. But certainly
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 10: there's gonna be some management standpoint from the pitch. There's
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 10: gonna be some management standpoint from pregame work.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 4: Uh. But they're both very.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 10: Quaint, very inimate ballparks, and other than what I think
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 10: the offenses are gonna do, I think we're gonna see
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 10: a lot of home runs. I think that the fans
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 10: are gonna enjoy it.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know where.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know where corregt Len Jean Andrews, iim of
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: the producer stepping in here. So you're talking about the
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: the A's do, so we don't know what we're gonna
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: call him this year.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Hey, Gene So andrewsim.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: Of the producers stepping in because I think we have
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 2: another connection issue with with Craig, but I caught my attention.
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  Speaker 2: So we don't know what we're gonna call Oakland this year,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: if they're gonna be the A's or something else.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 4: They're they're calling them the Sacramento Athletics.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: Interesting. Okay, So what do you think, Uh, how do
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: you think that's gonna go over?
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  Speaker 10: Well, certainly in northern Californias, there's gonna be a lot
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 10: of pride around the Sacramento team.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 4: What's gonna be interesting about the ballpark.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 10: Is there's gonna be a game there every night, and
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 10: it's a grass field, and so you're gonna have when
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 10: when the A's are not home, the Triple A team
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 10: is going to be playing there, and so the Triple
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 10: A Giants will be playing there, and so you're gonna
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 10: have an instance where you've got grass fields and there's
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 10: a game every night, and they're probably gonna be replacing
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 10: it at some point in JUNI or July.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: So that what does that mean for like the uptick
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: because I imagine that's going to take a lot of
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: a lot of work to make sure that stadium looks
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: as good as it needs to for a major League stadium.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 10: Yeah, but these guys are really really good at their
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 10: jobs and they'll uh don't have it ready to go.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: So you're talking more about like what the weather looks
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: like down there.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 9: Man.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: I know it's lame to talk weather, but how does
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: this affect guys when you're trying to get in that
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: warm up, you're trying to get those pitches, you're trying
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: to get your cadences down, and you know you might
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: not be able to play. What does that mean?
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think from a from a health standpoint, you've
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 10: got to be very careful in that you're not you know,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 10: getting your your especially top to mid rotation type starters up.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 10: Certainly over two or three starts where they're getting up
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 10: and getting hot and then they're forced they're sitting there
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 10: with a one hour one hour halfway to lay and
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 10: they're scratch for the night. And you look over five
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 10: or six starts at home and you you've been shut
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 10: down for three of them because of weather. So there's
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 10: certainly going to be some management to it over time,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 10: especially early.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: I think Craig is getting back on it now, but yeah,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: I guess mine, I'm here. All right, There we go
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: there's Craig Way all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, H.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: Geno was going to ask you with as we head
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: down the home stretch here of spring training, Uh, to
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: get your thoughts. And teams always ask you because there's
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: a great deal of curiosity always about the Yankees, and
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: now with Luis Heel being sidelined for at least three
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: three months because of that lap strain and uh and
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: Gean Carlo Stanton, Uh, they're kind of you know, your
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: your old pal, Brian Cashman's having to think about whether
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: he has surgery on his elbows.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: DJ Lem Mayhew has a left calf strain. What about
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: your thoughts on the Yankees right now?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's tough because they've got so much expectations going
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 10: into the year and just in you know, part of
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 10: my job is reaching out to the twenty nine other
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 10: clubs and and what the needs are. And a lot
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 10: of clubs are looking for starting pitching and a lot
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 10: of clubs are looking for right handed bats right now.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 10: So the acquisition costs to improve your club right now
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 10: externally is going to be extremely high. And so it's
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 10: not something that a lot of clubs are going to
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 10: be willing to jump out and do they're gonna have to,
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 10: you know, go with the internals and try to you know,
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 10: evaluate their teams, you know, the first thirty forty games
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 10: of the season, and so it's certainly gonna be something
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 10: that they have to manage.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, and and you.
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  Speaker 10: Know it's it's marks, you know, six or whatever it is.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 10: And you know, we've got to get to the end
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 10: of this month and the injuries have really hampered a
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 10: lot of teams right.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: Now, position switches among brand names. Of course, we've been
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: hearing about Al Tuvey being willing to go to left field.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 3: Nastro he's looking at it.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: And now Bryce Harper said yesterday in The Athletic that
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: he said he visited with Phillies management about going back
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: to the outfield if the Phillies can significantly upgrade at
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: first base.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, you know.
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  Speaker 1: There's other guys, there's he said, when Pete Alonzo was
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: still on the block, I kind of sat there and
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: was like, hey, why not.
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  Speaker 3: And when we talked about it, I just.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: Reiterated to the Phillies and Scott Boris is age and
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: I'd be willing to move out there if it's going
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: to help us. I love playing first base. It's been great,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: but if it's going to help us win, I'd go
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: back out there. Of course, Alonzo resigned with the Mets.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: He could be available after this season if he opts
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: out of the two year deal. You got Vladimir Guerrera
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: Junior scheduled to become a free agent. He didn't get
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: to a deal as well. What do you make about
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: this with veterans now, I mean this goes on back.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know you'll even remember, like I did,
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: reading about you know, Mickey Mantle switching the first base
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: late in his career, even prior to that, Yogi Bearra
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: moving from behind the plate to the outfield, Johnny Bench
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: doing the same thing as well. A bunch of thoughts
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: about this and what it means to these teams.
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  Speaker 10: It can be somewhat of a double edged sword. It
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 10: can be good in the fact that a lot of
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 10: guys it just takes a lot of pressure off the
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 10: defense and they can go out to the outfield and
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 10: they can just relax and focus on offense. It can
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 10: be a double edged sword and the fact that some
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 10: guys they lose the focus of being into every pitch
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 10: on the dirt and the concentration levels can affect their offense,
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 10: and so it's something that it affects every player a
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 10: little bit differently. From a health standpoint, it's certainly better,
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 10: you know, unless you're moving in the center field. It's
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 10: certainly better on their health to be in the outfield.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 10: You know, I'd be handling the ball on the grind
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 10: of playing on the.
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  Speaker 4: Dirt every day. But but some guys need that focus.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 10: It's the same as you know, some guys can sit
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 10: on a bench and take four at bats to night
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 10: and be very very good at it.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 4: Some guys have to do on the field.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 10: So every player is different in this regard, and I
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 10: think what you're seeing now as a group of players
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 10: that are trying to do with the best they can
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 10: to make their teams as good as they could possibly
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 10: be defensively well.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 3: And then also.
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  Speaker 9: The deal is.
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  Speaker 1: With the Dodgers with Mookie Batts going back over to
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: shortstop as well. He started it short last year, then
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: of course got injured, and then when he came back,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: he went back into the outfield. But now with the
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: deals of Dodgers and Mookie's gone back to shortstop. I
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: remember last year you met a great point when you said,
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: this is going to be really interesting to watch to
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: see how comfortable he can be at short and it
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: looked like he got pretty comfortable before.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 3: He got hurt.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if we got an enough of a
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: sample size about that, But how about your thoughts on.
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  Speaker 10: That, Well, they have two really young shortstops that even
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 10: if he can buy the time for them to get
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 10: up there, they're they're very very good defenders in Freeland
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 10: and Noah Miller. They're not going to be the offensive
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 10: players that you would want, but they're going to catch
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 10: everything and play above average defense. So this can buy
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 10: some time for the development of those two players and
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 10: or evaluate a shortstop from another club that they may
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 10: want to go add. But Mookie's just such a gifted player.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 10: He's a once in a generation type player, and you
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 10: know he's obviously going to do whatever he has to
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 10: do to help his team win. And and they know
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 10: he's athletic enough, and he's certainly prepared, and with today's positioning,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 10: they feel like it's something he can continue to do.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 10: And so I'm sure that they will exhaust every effort
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 10: to make that possible in this season.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, and then the final thing I wanted
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: to ask you about because you know this subject only
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: too well, and it's changes announced by the Baseball Hall
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: of Fame to the ERA Committee eligibility required it. So
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, for folks who didn't know, announced
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: changes to their ERA Committee selection that allows players who've
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: been retired for more than fifteen years to be considered
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: for the Hall of Fame as well as managers, umpires
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: executive So, beginning this year, any Hall of Fame candidate
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: on an ERA Committee ballot who does not receive at
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: least five votes from the sixteen member ERA Committee will
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: not be eligible to be placed back on the ballot
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: in its next three year cycle. Now, a candidate can
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: still return to an ERA Committee ballot after skipping one cycle,
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: but any candidate who does not receive five votes on
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: multiple ERA Committee ballots will no longer be eligible for
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: any future ballots. Do you think that this would be
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: an issue that might have some guys that are out
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: there on the bubble as possibility, because remember last year
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: that Classic Baseball Era Committee elect Dick Allen and the
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: Parker out of an eight player ballot, and then they
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: allowed Alan and Parker to earn induction in the Cooperstown
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: through that alternate path to the Traditional Writers Association America ballot.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel about that?
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  Speaker 10: Well, you know, I worked with Jim, Tony and Tony
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 10: Larus every day and we actually talked about this yesterday
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 10: at breakfast for a very very long time.
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  Speaker 4: And what I would say is.
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  Speaker 10: That there's a there's enough communication and there's enough I
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 10: don't want to say rallying around or campaigning, but you know,
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  Speaker 10: this is a very very prideful group. Uh, it's it's
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 10: obviously a very educated group when it comes to the
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 10: criteria of being in Cooperstown. And so I don't feel
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  Speaker 10: like if a if a player has fallen off the ballot, uh,
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 10: that it's it's a player that that did deserve to
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 10: be in the Hall of Fame. These guys talk way
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 10: too much. There's too much communication, there's too much uh
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 10: you know, they meet all the time, they break down
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 10: the crime here. You they'll they'll balance out what one
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 10: guy's career in air was versus others. So I think
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 10: this is just kind of a way of filtering out
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 10: that borderline player, that that very very good player that's
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 10: not good enough being the Hall of fame and kind
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 10: of just cutting the list down a little bit over
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  Speaker 10: the long term.
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  Speaker 3: Gino, I'll leave you with this today.
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  Speaker 1: Today, one of a kind autograph baseball card featuring a
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: patch of the number thirty jersey that Paul Schemes wore
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: during his major league debut is headed to auction. What
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: kind of world are we living in now? I mean,
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: what kind of money do you think this thing is
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: going to fetch for the first time? First year that
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: it says there's no reserve on the card. You can
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: put in a twenty dollars bit if you want, but
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: it's probably not going to stick for very long.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 10: Something tells me the Pirates organization is gonna have something to.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 4: Say about it.
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  Speaker 10: Really yeah, I think that's something they want to get
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 10: their hands on, so it'll be interesting to all Right.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Gino, I appreciate the time. Thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: We'll look forward to visiting next week.
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  Speaker 4: Greg, take care bye.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: All right, that's Gean Watson from the Chicago White Sox
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: front office. You know this, this card has generated a
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: great deal of discussion. Normally it's the kind of discussion
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: it goes over like a Mickey Mantle card or a
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: Honnice Wagner or Kim Griffy Junior or something like that.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: But this is it's the advantage to this Schemes card
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: is that social media has kind of amped it up
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: a little bit. That those other cards do not enjoy
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: that kind of advantage. So we'll see how that rolls through.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: All Right, we got more coming up and we continue
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: here on thirteen under the Zone. All right, thanks again
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: at Geene Watson from the Chicago White Sox front office
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: joining us.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad our resident Guardians fan checks in.
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  Speaker 1: So, speaking of position changes, the Guardians signed Tyler Naquin
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: as a pitcher. Yeah, remember when he played a text
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: A and M. It's a pretty good outfeeler. Naquin was
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: good played third base. So anyway, let's let's hear some
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: more from Jim Schlasnigle the Long Horns, uh head coach.
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  Speaker 3: Uh and uh. This again.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: Goes to uh coming off the win on Tuesday night
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: over Texas A and M Corpus Christie and uh. It's
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a recap, but it's also with an
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: eye toward what's gonna happen with the upcoming series starting
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night against Santa Clara. So I want to start
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: off with a guy who has served the Long Horns
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: as a starter as a reliever. He looked great in
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: the Friday night series opener, the three games they played
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, Max Grubbs. He retired Washington on ten pitches,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: and that was after Washington had really taken some real
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: hard licks against a Texas bullpen. But Grubs has also
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: kind of had a little bit of a bumpy ride
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: throughout his career. Would be it as a starter or
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: as a reliever, So the question for Schloss was how
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: pivotal is Max Grubbs, whether he's coming out of the
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: bullpen or more importantly as a starter.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, i'd be I mean, he certainly could start. But again,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 8: you saw Ruger with a little bit of rest. Who
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 8: gave him that rest? Grubbs gave him that rest. Ruger
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 8: was infinitely better tonight than he's been in the last
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 8: ten days because he just had his legs under him
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 8: a little bit, ran the fastball up to ninety five,
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 8: and breaking pitches were had more bite and crisp.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 9: And that's he's good.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 8: But it's also because of Grubs picking up a little
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 8: bit of flack and so and Andre, you know, so
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 8: that'd be fun if you had Grubs, Ruger Flores sitting
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 8: down there as your three pretty good rieties, you know,
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 8: and you know that's just trying to put together staff
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 8: over the course of time and then hopefully we'll knock
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 8: on wood would be injury free. But you know, when
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 8: you give guys opportunities like that, if somebody does need
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 8: a break or something something happens, then you have guys
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 8: with some experience.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Now to the fielding and the long Orange
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: struggled in fielding the other night. Now, to be fair, also,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: you had an incredibly windy ballpark, and that even played
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: to when Easton Windfield was coming over to catch the
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: ball in left field and had it drop or.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 3: Was it the lights or was it both?
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 8: You know, I think that I think he we had
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 8: talked about we did fly ball, you know, we did
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 8: some pop up practice before the game today, and how
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 8: the wind was pushing ball, and talk to him about
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 8: when the win's pushing it that way, you can't run
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 8: really fast at it because it ends up behind you.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 8: And I think that's what he did. Originally, he was
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 8: waiting for the ball to come back to him and
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 8: the win had died a little bit on that one,
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 8: and and then you know he just kind of overran it,
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 8: tried to catch it with two hands.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 9: So we got work to do there. But he's a
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 9: good player.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 3: He'll be fun, all right.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: So extrapolating that out further beyond just the singular nation
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: of the singular nature of that one specific game, how
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: does schloss Field about feel about his team's slug his
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: start in terms of feeling percentage and some of the
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: mistakes they made in the field, not just in the outfield,
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: but also in the infield, some of the mistakes that
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: they made early on.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's just the fielding percentage is it's not
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 8: it's horrible, obviously, but it's it's relative to who's making.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 9: The errors, right. So Jalen's playing awesome.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 8: I mean he had one kick out of his glove
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 8: on that fast surface in Vegas. Mendoz's playing great, Shooter's
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 8: playing awesome. Gasprino is as good as there is, Ballow's
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 8: as good as there is. So I've been on teams
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 8: that one year at TCU we had a horrible fielding percentations,
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 8: but pitchers made seventeen errors. They're throwing the ball over
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 8: the field, so you know, you got to look at
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 8: each one individually. Should we be better, for sure, But
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 8: there's also some really good things in there too than
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 8: Ryland's catching awesome, So the you know, fielding percentage doesn't
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 8: tell the whole story. But I understand what you're saying
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 8: in your offense is.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah. That They went on to talking about the offense
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 3: after that.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: A couple more from Jim Schlasniegel, one of those being
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: what he's getting out of his catching position. Rylan Galvan,
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: of course, is the unquestioned leader behind the plate, and
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: he's really starting to hit now hit two home work
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: the other night batting in that nine hole. But his
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: biggest value, of course is thrown out would be base
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: runners and feeling that position and tough as nails.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 3: Took a.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: Foul ball that was close to the most vulnerable part
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: of a guy's body, if you know what I mean.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: But it wasn't quite there was just a little bit
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: inside on the thigh. Anyway, it was tough, but he
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: is tough as nails and goes.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 3: Back to work.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: So Schloss was asked, what's the importance of the role
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: behind the plate and how important is the catcher to
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: this particular long worn team.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 8: I mean, there's never been a good team without a
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 8: good catcher. Ever, There's never been a good baseball team
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 8: with a bad catchers.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 9: Never been a good baseball team with a bad shortstop.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 8: And so you know, when I got the job here, obviously,
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 8: the most important guys to hold on to outside of
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 8: Max Blue was the two catchers, which one of them
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 8: is playing now playing first base. But Galvon and Flores,
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 8: I mean those a big in gas Brando. Those are
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 8: the biggest recruits you could possibly have. There's no transfer
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 8: portal guys that are going to be better Longhorns than
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 8: those guys.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 9: So I'm holding onto those.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 8: Guys, and whether it be the draft Jalen or guys
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 8: that could transfer massive.
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 9: So Ryland, he's so steady and had some good ones
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 9: at A and M Jackson.
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 8: Appelle, Troy Klantz. Obviously we had awesome catching at TCU
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 8: for a long time. On on your on those great teams.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you guys like Brian Holliday and some
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: of those other guys he had there at TCU, they
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: were they were tough behind the plate. But again, Ryland
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  Speaker 1: Galvon pretty pretty dog on solid there as well, and
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  Speaker 1: he mentioned the other guys played first base.
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  Speaker 3: It's Kiball Schuschler. Of course you could catch, but he's
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  Speaker 3: playing first right now for Texas. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the log Horns play Santa Clara three game
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  Speaker 1: weekend series six point thirty Tomorrow night, two o'clock Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: one o'clock. Someday you'll hear all three games here on
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  Speaker 1: the Zone U Tomorrow six fifteen, airtime, six thirty, first pitch.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back to wrap up today's edition of the program.
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  Speaker 3: I'm thirteen under the Zone.
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  Speaker 1: We had down the home stretch of this one as
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  Speaker 1: we get ready to head toward the weekend. Felt good
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  Speaker 1: to be back in the seat today. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: had a little technically, and for folks who care to know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you can have a little bit of those technical
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  Speaker 1: challenges when the host is sitting in one chair and
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  Speaker 1: the producer is sitting in another chair. But instead of
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  Speaker 1: eight feet from me, he's eighty miles from me. So,
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  Speaker 1: for being honest with our man, ANDREWS Himmel, he is
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  Speaker 1: running the show from me.
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  Speaker 2: We did a good job today, Craig. Considering everything else,
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was a pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: First time we ever tried this, like this, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we just had a little bumper two with something. The
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  Speaker 1: computers that run everything sometimes didn't want to fully cooperate,
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  Speaker 1: so it took a little quick logging back in to
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  Speaker 1: make sure everything worked out.
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  Speaker 3: So it was fine, and it'll and tomorrow, I.
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  Speaker 1: Know you'll be on the host side of it all
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  Speaker 1: the way through, although we're gonna have one segment tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: with me from the ballpark in the three o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 1: and we may have the old grizzled baseball playing coaching
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  Speaker 1: legend Ty Harrington joining me.
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  Speaker 3: Tomorrow in one segment there.
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  Speaker 1: And then, like I said, you'll have Cameron Parker joining
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  Speaker 1: you prior to his call of the Texas women's quarter
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  Speaker 1: final game in the SEC Tournament against the winner of
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  Speaker 1: the game that's going to start in about eight minutes
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  Speaker 1: between Ole Miss and Mississippi State. Winner of that game,
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  Speaker 1: we'll play Texas more afternoon at five o'clock and Cameron
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  Speaker 1: will be joined by Kathy Harston for the call of that.
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  Speaker 1: You should know, Zim, that Cameron has safely touched down
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  Speaker 1: in Greenville. Not only has he safely touched down in Greenville,
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  Speaker 1: more importantly, from Cameron's perspective, he has been picked up
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  Speaker 1: from the airport and spirited off to join the team
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  Speaker 1: just in time for an early team dinner.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why it's not text me back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so you know, he's he's he's with the
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  Speaker 1: team dinner. So that's that's good. That that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I sent again, here's a department of true confessions.
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  Speaker 1: I sent Andrew a photo of Cameron Parker