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SEC "Any Given Saturday" Tom Kakert talks Hawkeyes & Mitch Holthus on the Chiefs along with the Chicken Coop Contest · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  All right, good afternoon. Welcome, Miller and Condon on a
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  Friday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
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  Network back to talk sports with you, Trent Condon, myself, Ken
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  Miller for the next couple of hours.
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  Thanks for starting your afternoon here with us.
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  Coming up at 2:00 off the bench. They're both coming off the
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  bench. They'll be at the fair.
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  Sean Roberts, Lucas Strain broadcasting from the Iowa State
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  Fair today, but Sean is back after parental leave and good to
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  have him back in the building. Well done, Lucas Strain
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  navigating those waters for the last couple of weeks.
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  Coming up on our program in about 20 minutes.
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  We'll get Tom Caker in advance of Hawkeye Football Media Day.
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  That gets underway this afternoon.
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  So we'll get Tom in early this morning or early this afternoon.
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  1220 some Hawkeye topics with Tom Caker coming up at 12:20.
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  Look forward to hearing from Thomas.
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  That gets under way here with Kirk Ference.
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  What'd you say, 145? I believe so, yeah. 1:45 Then we
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  will hear a couple of minutes from Mitch Holtis.
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  He's not available to join us Live Today as the team is
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  travelling to Arizona where they will play tomorrow night.
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  Chiefs about a three 3 1/2 point favorite as they will play their
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  starters. That, by the way, will be one of
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  the questions that comes up in the chicken coop giveaway.
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  We'll do that after we hear from Mitch about 10 minutes or so
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  before 1:00, give you an opportunity to win a either a
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  $50.00 gift certificate from the chicken coop or 20 wings.
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  You know the drill. If you haven't played in the
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  last 30 days, you're eligible to do so and we'll give you the cue
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  to call here. All coming up, about 1451240512
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  50 somewhere in that neighborhood.
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  Travis Hines covers Iowa State for the Des Moines Register.
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  He will be in Dublin. So we'll talk to Travis Hines,
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  recap the week with the Iris Iowa State related topics and do
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  that at 1:00. And then Mike Palm off to Vegas.
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  We will go. I'll get the latest on comings
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  and goings in Vegas with point spreads, etcetera, get they
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  updated on the numbers as far as the contest.
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  And by the way, if you want to get kind of a feel for what
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  Survivor means on any given Sunday, this is the second
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  straight year that the camera crews have been at Circa over
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  the football season on Sundays. Last year to kind of chronicle
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  the ups and downs, the sweats, the highs and lows.
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  And it's a really good series. Admittedly, I've not got to this
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  year's, but last year's was very well done.
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  I will get to it. But if you want to just see what
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  we're talking about and just kind of the the ebbs and flows
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  and what goes into a massive contest, it's going to be of $20
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  million in Survivor this year. Maybe a tad short, maybe a tad
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  more, but somewhere around that number. vsin.com is where you
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  can find it on. It's on YouTube.
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  You said yesterday, Trent. Yes, on the V sin page.
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  On the V sin page at YouTube, so on on their Twitter account,
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  etcetera. On circus Twitter account, I'm
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  guessing you can find it there as well or certainly be directed
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  to the right spot. Trump will make some plays of
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  his plays of the day before we turn things over to the boys at
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  the fair. Coming up at 2 off the bench
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  with Sean and Lucas. So kind of a light night in
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  sports Last night certainly was baseball wise.
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  There was only one night game, so I found myself on the NFL
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  Network watching the Ravens and the Colts.
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  Well done. Thank you.
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  By the way, that was a money line play, he said.
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  Tell the points I don't need them.
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  Let's go. Plus 250.
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  Plus 250, so nice hit on the on the Ravens.
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  It was it was a fun game. I watched most of it last night.
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  Higgins getting involved late in the game tackling machine that
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  he was in Iowa City and on the Big 10 stops in his career
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  certainly seems to carry that over, at least in preseason game
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  #1 you know what's stands out to me as I watch him on the field?
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  Just the size difference. He's little, isn't he is?
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  Yes. It didn't strike me in the Big
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  10 last year. No, it for whatever reason right
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  in shrink. No, not at all.
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  But the other dudes at that level, they're just.
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  Both him and Nick Jackson both. Him and Nick Jackson, bigger,
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  stronger, faster at that level. And Higgins was, you know, doing
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  what he always does, sticking his nose in there, getting
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  involved and making some plays in the game last night.
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  Did you watch much of that game? Little bit flipped it on,
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  watched the beginning so I was actually here until.
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  Doing what? Football season, dude, I got
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  work to do. Oh yeah.
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  High school Scotch what not next week the following.
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  A couple weeks away from that, but yeah, I mean, I got 20
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  proposals to put together and trying to set up meetings and
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  all that stuff. So it's a busy time.
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  So I was well, right where I was where he saw me when got in the.
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  Prize You beat me to work this. Morning I This is the time.
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  Well, you took your wife's Mustang, so yes, you beat a lot
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  of people to work with that bad boy.
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  My God. You got to see that thing in
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  action. My God I ran over a lady who saw
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  that leaving TVA couple weeks. Ago, it was not going to be
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  pretty. No, not at all.
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  But yeah, so it's a busy time. So I had it on, but I really
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  wasn't watching closely. It was a perfect night, though.
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  No baseball to speed, none the outside of my Marlins bed.
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  They're up 6/2. Oh, did you blow that?
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  Yeah. 8-6 yeah, cool. Yeah, regular's easy.
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  Yeah but 2 + 250 on A on the NFL pre season got you.
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  Got you. Well, yeah, got back on the good
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  side of things. But yeah, overall, watching it,
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  you know, Anthony Richardson, I just wanted to see him help, you
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  know, just. Go ahead and block that dude off
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  the edge. Yeah, I mean, he got jacked up.
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  That would have been, I mean, remember back in the day, ESPN,
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  was that that guy? I think it was. 90 yeah, I think
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  it was a former kid from Michigan yeah, coming off the
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  edge just untouched, unblocked. Yeah yeah, yeah, and just just
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  buried them so we'll see where it goes.
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  Daniel Jones may have won the starting job last night for you
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  fantasy players will it cult quarterback going fantasy
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  drafts. I guess you probably got to at
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  some. Point right?
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  You don't have to, no. I mean, it depends on your
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  league and the way it's set up, but you're probably not.
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  No, it's a back, back, back up in case both of your guys are on
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  buys that week. If don't do that, just wait.
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  Don't don't wait to waste a roster spot with that, go
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  forward. Yes, go for the 7th running back
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  or wide receiver on your roster and hope that you can hit a
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  lottery ticket there. Do not sit until week 12 because
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  you're going to need a quarterback that we just see
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  who's available at that time and go back.
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  After week 11 and pick somebody up for that week, I guess.
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  Is there any hope at all for Anthony Richardson?
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  Is it just done? You know, I watched the Denver
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  game, that was the only time I saw the Colts play last year and
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  and he made a couple of just head scratchingly bad, bad
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  throws. But there were sometimes, but
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  you know, I kind of felt like that about other quarterbacks in
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  the past. But you know what?
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  You can't have the amount of bad, you can't you, you have to
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  be. I mean, the, the margin fair is
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  so slim that if you make a couple of mistakes, it's, you
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  know, you maybe get by with one. But when they start to add up as
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  they did in that game, no, I don't.
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  I'm starting to think that this was a wasted pick.
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  And I thought it was going to be a good player and throw the ball
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  a mile, you know, that cuts through the air.
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  You can hear it when it's when it's in the air.
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  And that always moves a quarterback up in my book.
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  But anyways. Great athlete.
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  Yeah, he is not a very good. Quarterback.
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  No, I don't think he is. So I watched what I thought was
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  a really good quarterback last night.
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  I can't get enough of this series any given Saturday.
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  I know you'd like it. Absolutely love it.
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  It just kind of backs up my feelings toward that sport and
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  it it's, I mean, I, I still think the NHL by an inch is my
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  favorite sport, but if The Jets didn't come home, it would have
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  been the college football. It just, it's the one thing I
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  wish I feel like I missed out on by not growing up in here in
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  Iowa in particular or anywhere, because it just means so much to
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  people that go to those. I understand it and thank God
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  for it because we wouldn't have jobs without it.
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  I don't believe, I truly believe the college sports move the
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  needle here, but it's just it just kind of magnifies watching
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  that series and what it means and the pressure on these
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  coaches. And I'm not saying there's more
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  pressure on SEC coaches than there is on any other power for
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  conference coaches and just the players.
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  But watching Pavia and watching Nick Saban when he was asked
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  about, you know, road stops in the SES, is there any place
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  that's easy to win on their own? Well, yeah, Vanderbilt.
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  And then to watch Alabama go into Vandy as a three touchdown
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  favorite and lose last year. I mean, I know what I knew what
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  the outcome was going to be. Yes, right, right.
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  These games have taken place yet I found myself in the tear
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  rundown. But just because what it must
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  have meant at the time to be a fan of Vanderbilt or a player or
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  just, you know, the the brunt of joke after joke after joke and
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  finally able to slew Goliath. And not just beat any number one
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  team, beat Alabama. Beat Bama, right, Bama.
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  Beat Bama who just just toys with you, who laughs at you.
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  When you went to center field for the coin flip, they were
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  laughing at the Vanderbilt players.
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  Clark Lee, a kid that grew up in National.
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  Not root for him. Grew up going to games as GM
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  their buddies and that was general manager and they're
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  working together to build this thing up the way that they
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  Vanderbilt Diego Pavia was like this he was this very deep down
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  if you were into gambling Twitter he was the guy that was
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  talked about a ton when he was at New Mexico State.
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  Here's this little guy, he was arrested, 59, but he's at New
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  Mexico State, right? But you watched him play where?
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  Was he before that New Mexico School of Mines or something?
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  It was he has a junior college and that's why he's hoping for
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  more eligibility that those JUCO years won't will not count
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  against him paid. Young man, I hope I hope it
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  works out for you. Because it's not going to happen
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  at the next level. No, it's no. 59 quarterbacks?
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  No, not going to happen. There, he doesn't have a strong
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  enough arm, Fisher. I mean, you love his, you love
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  his gamesmanship, but boy, the series train.
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  You know what? I'm I'm going to give Hard
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  Knocks another chance on Tuesday.
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  Yes, they get one more. They get one more, but I'll have
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  I'll, I'll have any, any given Saturday cranked up on the iPad.
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  If it's if it's kind of letting me down a little bit because
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  this is so much better. The behind the scenes stuff and
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  the fact that they're moving throughout the SEC.
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  Oh, it's so I wish the big 10, I wish the Big 12 would do
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  something like this. Oh, I would be.
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  Oh, you didn't love it? Especially people who wish we
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  wouldn't talk about it because it doesn't move their needle.
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  But then they would see what it what what we talked about when
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  it was the SEC in the spotlight. It is so well done.
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  What who did it? This isn't a Omaha production,
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  is it? It's not Peyton Manning's
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  company. I mean, it's on Netflix.
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  So I don't know if that if it's Netflix production, whoever's
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  behind it. And was the availability the
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  teams were able to provide the access to.
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  I mean, I don't would would Matt Campbell do it?
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  No, I don't think he would. I mean he would have to be
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  forced. Would Kirk Ference do it?
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  Yes, he would now. He would.
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  He would now. 20 years ago? No.
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  Not a shot in hell, no. McCartney would, yes.
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  McCartney would. Yes.
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  He absolutely. Would yeah, that carnival
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  Barker, he would have been the 1st.
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  But you know what? And I'll always give him credit
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  for this because he, he knew that his program needed
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  attention and not bad attention. Mm hmm.
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  And he was willing to do whatever, take on whatever radio
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  show, whatever time, as long as you want.
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  And he would always, you know, at the at the end of the
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  interview, lie and say, God, I love your show.
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  Guys, never lose the door show ever.
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  Dad, love your show. Yeah, I just got a kick out of
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  that. But but Ference would now I
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  don't think Campbell would be good.
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  Goddess, good TV and I can't wait to watch somebody said a a
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  a tweet, a tweet to us earlier and said wait till you see
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  episode 5. I don't even know what it.
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  Is yeah, I don't. I have to look that far ahead to
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  see which one that one is phenomenal.
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  And Arkansas is good too 'cause we both like Sam Pittman and the
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  pressure on him to to win and coming up with the money to the
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  buyout anyways, so. The production of this it comes
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  from a place called Box to Box Films.
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  It means nothing to me. Same until I started reading a
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  little bit more. These are the ones that put
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  together the documentary Inside the PGA Tour Full swing.
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  I got a ton of buzz. I watched a few episodes.
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  I did not see that it was good. You will.
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  Netflix production as well. It was on Netflix, yes.
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  Here's one that might hit you up because you like the production
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  you saw so far. 3 episodes. It's unbelievable.
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  How about this documentary that they did race for the Crown?
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  The high stakes world of Triple Crown racing.
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  Yeah. I think I've how many episodes
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  are there? I don't.
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  Know I just said just have. Some time I think I might have
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  watched it, but this is unbelievable.
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  Yeah, they've done Tour de France, they've done inside MLS
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  and this latest one inside the SEC.
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  Well, for my money, that's as good as it's going to be.
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  Speaking of horse racing, if you're out at Prairie Metal,
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  stop by and say hi to me. This.
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  Weekend. Oh yeah, working hard this.
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  Weekend hard? Well, the track handicapper, his
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  name is John Hernandez. I know he shows up on on Sean's
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  shows periodically with Lucas. His daughter's getting married.
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  What was he going to say? No, right?
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  Yep. No, I'm not going to help you
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  out. Here, figure it out.
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  Not with me. Not with me.
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  I'm going to stay home and do nothing this weekend again, as I
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  always do. So congratulations to John,
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  whose daughter's getting married.
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  But I'll be I don't think they've been in the paddock.
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  She's going to be a little warm. The old man might play pull a
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  little. Some AC.
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  Yeah, a little card and then do it inside anyways.
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  So a really good baseball weekend, Trent.
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  I think it's highlighted at least tonight by the Dodgers and
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  the Blue Jays. And I say that for no other
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  reason than the pitching match up because you don't see very
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  many of these, right? This is an all timer.
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  Max Scherzer going up against Clayton Kershaw.
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  Kershaw was really good in his last start.
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  Scherzer was it was good in his last start.
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  You know what kind of is personified when you watch some
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  of these guys who've been around for a long time?
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  We think that they've been as good as they've, you know, we've
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  seen in some time, we may never see another pitcher win 300
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  games. Justin Verlander is the active
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  leader in Major League in wins this year in the majors, he's at
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  263 and Scherzer is 218. I mean, that's fifty wins.
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  Not quite, but you get my point. But but there's no way Verlander
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  other things are going to get to 265.
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  But we may never see another pitcher win 300 games in his
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  career. We might not see a guy get to
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  250. We may not.
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  After the guys that we may not that have wins already under
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  their belt, belt, when you go through and you look at some
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  guys that have been around for a long time, they got 152 career
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  wins like. This, this, these two dudes
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  here, they're going to face off against each other tonight are
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  two and three. Scherzer has 218, Kershaw 217.
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  Speaking of that, Garrett Cole is 4th on the list at.
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  At how many is he? Is he hit 200 yet?
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  153 yeah, he's 34, by the way, and he's coming off another
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  major injury. Let's go a little bit.
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  Let's try to find somebody in their 20s.
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  How about? How about?
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  And find ski well, Ski doesn't win games.
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  This team sucks. Exactly, I'm looking for my
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  first guy in their 20s still. That's on a good team.
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  Just that is in their 20s period.
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  That's the end of the conversation.
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  In their 20s. I have gone now 40 deep.
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  I found somebody. Oh what teams he play for the
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  Brew Crew. Who is it?
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  Freddy Peralta Freddy Peralta is 29.
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  He is the first guy to show up in this list with how many
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  active wins? 66 career victories?
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  Nobody's getting to 200 again. Give me the list of 300 recent
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  three hundreds. Is it on there?
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  No, this is just an active list. This is just guys active career.
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  Well, we know that there's nobody on that list, but it's
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  been a while, isn't it? Been a while since we've had a
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  300 win pitch Maddox. Yeah, maybe.
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  I'm going to Google it. I worked their Google machine
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  too. All right, you get that going.
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  I'm just, I'm baffled with 66 victories leading the 20 year
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  olds right now. And I believe, oh, we also got
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  Logan Wave, who's 28 and he's got 65 in his career.
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  That's it. Everybody else is 30 years old
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  or older. Lucas Giolito, he's got 69 in
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  his career. Let's go for some veterans that
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  have been around for a long time.
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  How many career wins does Rich Hill have?
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  I don't know, 90 does he Not even.
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  You could have said 150, you could have said 42.
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  Wouldn't be surprised, all right?
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  Here's the list of guys that people would know.
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  I'm not going to give you a PUD Glavine, who pitched in the
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  1800s. Sounds like my uncle.
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  Rodger Clements, 354. He achieved that milestone in
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  2003. Steve Carlton, the lefty in
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  1983. Some of you remember him, of
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  course. Nolan Ryan, Don Sutton, Phil.
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  Necro Tom from Seaver. Where's Maddox?
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  He's on the list. I know he's got it. 355 Maddox.
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  He's one head of of, of Roger Clements, Tom Glavin, and the
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  last guy to do it, if I'm looking at this right, was Randy
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  Johnson 2009, 2009. He's he fund his final game.
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  That was game #303 we won't see another one.
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  We will not see a 300 game winner.
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  Nope, we might not see a 200 game winner.
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  You. Will hear from Tom Keikert when
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  he joins us next. Miller and Condon underway on a
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  Friday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
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  Network. I'm Mary Condon, welcome back,
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  Iowa Sports Radio Network. Still to come this hour, we will
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  hear from Mitch Holtis, his two or three minute report on the
• 17:53
  Chiefs as they board the plane here to Arizona, take on the
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  Cardinals. That'll come up here in about
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  1215 minutes or so, Give you an opportunity to win some grub
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  from the chicken coop as well. Three locations throughout
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  central Iowa. Let's talk some Hawks.
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  Tom Caker joins us as we are about an hour more than an hour
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  away from the start of media day.
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  Kirk Ference meets the media 1st and then off they go to talk to
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  players. Hello, Tom Keckert, How are you?
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  I'm doing well, just pulled into Big Grove here, going to have.
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  A nice little. Little bite to eat with my my my
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  friend pet anger before we go over to media day.
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  That's awesome. Keep him in line.
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  I mean, he can't be slugging beers before he goes to media
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  day. He's a media member now.
• 18:36
  Come on, anger. I know, I know, I know, I know.
• 18:39
  So we're just we're just kind of chilling out.
• 18:42
  Yeah, that's good, good. Good to see.
• 18:44
  Well, I guess what, what, what's the question that lingers in
• 18:48
  your mind, Tom is as you know, maybe Ference will address it or
• 18:52
  not. I'm sure you'll have an
• 18:53
  opportunity to ask them what's the, what's the one question
• 18:56
  that that you want would like to hear maybe a little clarity on
• 19:00
  maybe a little insight too. What's what's kind of out there
• 19:02
  for you, boy? That's a great question.
• 19:06
  Last year it was like the suspension stuff or whatever.
• 19:09
  Yeah, you know, it's a little wild.
• 19:11
  Still the wildest thing, but yeah, I would guess probably
• 19:18
  open jobs. What job I know he'll have, as
• 19:21
  always, his pat answer. Boy, you know, every job is open
• 19:25
  really. But you know, if Logan Jones
• 19:27
  loses it boys being it'd be something, you know, just he
• 19:30
  kind of dances around it. But what's the corner
• 19:33
  competition? I mean, we all saw the video.
• 19:35
  So, you know, and they strategically put out a positive
• 19:40
  video for for for Sean Lee the the next day, which was nice of
• 19:45
  them to do. But I think defensive back, you
• 19:49
  know, in the interview he had on the the fight for Iowa podcast
• 19:55
  thing that they did the other day with Dolph, he mentioned
• 19:59
  defensive tackle being up in the air.
• 20:00
  I'm curious about that position because he said Jeremiah Pittman
• 20:03
  still done healthy. So you know who is, who's going
• 20:07
  to get reps there besides Aaron Graves and then.
• 20:11
  You kind of mentioned linebacker, so I'm curious about
• 20:14
  what's going on there too. So I think there's there's some
• 20:17
  stuff mainly on defense and then, you know, the offense less
• 20:20
  tackle. I'm curious about.
• 20:23
  I haven't seen and again, we get these little clips and we look
• 20:27
  at the blankets. There's a pruder film, but but
• 20:31
  it's is, you know, I haven't seen both Stevens in anything
• 20:37
  and there's been a little bit of rumbling that maybe one of the
• 20:40
  offensive lineman is dinged up and so maybe we'll get some
• 20:44
  clarity there too. Oh, boy.
• 20:46
  And as we look at them tomorrow, of course, open practice, the
• 20:49
  only real look that we're going to get at this team, you know, I
• 20:52
  was just hopeful more than anything.
• 20:53
  Well. Monday Big 10 networks there.
• 20:55
  Right, but the one that we actually get, not the ones that
• 20:57
  the big 10 network and cut and dice, we get our eyes on
• 21:00
  something and I just want to see five offense alignment out
• 21:03
  there. Well, Stevens is out and you're
• 21:05
  moving people over. Maybe Bryce George is then
• 21:07
  playing guard instead of tackle and it just it's going to lead
• 21:10
  to well, what we do anyway. A lot more speculation.
• 21:13
  It doesn't look like tomorrow, at least with the offensive
• 21:15
  line. Then we're probably probably
• 21:16
  going to get many answers. Tom, is that fair?
• 21:18
  Yeah, I think I, I'm curious what he's going to say about any
• 21:22
  potential people missing or no guys are just temporarily out or
• 21:28
  if it's long term. I kind of my sense is just
• 21:31
  talking to a few people that if anybody's out, it's, it's more
• 21:35
  short term than long term and it's just kind of being careful
• 21:39
  and camp. And so I, I don't suspect that
• 21:43
  there's any alarm bells yet, but frankly, probably good for guys
• 21:48
  like Clayton Jones to get. I'm with the ones, you know, or
• 21:52
  maybe my Solinsky gets a shot there or, you know, Bryce
• 21:56
  George, somebody like that. I think they'll be OK.
• 22:00
  But it's just it's interesting what's going, you know, just
• 22:03
  because we read into everything these these days because we
• 22:06
  don't have access. So we're looking at every little
• 22:09
  grain of of video to to to find out if we can figure something
• 22:13
  else out. I'm I'm anxious to read the
• 22:16
  reports on Mark Gronowski, you know, see him for the first time
• 22:19
  and see how the what the receivers are doing.
• 22:22
  If he's you know, if he maybe is picked out a favorite or
• 22:26
  something, maybe a favorite target at this point.
• 22:28
  I'm anxious to see him. What happened to McNamara?
• 22:31
  What did he get hurt in this practice two years ago?
• 22:34
  Right. It was right.
• 22:35
  Two years ago, Oh boy, took off in the middle of practice and
• 22:40
  went down in the heap and everybody went.
• 22:43
  There was a collective groan, groan like, oh, no.
• 22:47
  And then, you know, they it was obviously hindered him early on
• 22:52
  and then, you know, eventually gets hurt again.
• 22:54
  And it's just, yeah. Those were the days it did not
• 23:00
  go well. The Iowa quarterback position
• 23:02
  since Nate Stanley left this and you know, I although you know
• 23:07
  what? I'm with you.
• 23:10
  Say it. Say it.
• 23:12
  Wasn't terrible. He wasn't.
• 23:14
  He got worse and then he got hurt and and then it was just
• 23:19
  sort of got messy. And he answered every single
• 23:21
  question. I give him a hell of a lot of
• 23:23
  credit for that. He did.
• 23:24
  He stood in there and took all it took.
• 23:26
  Every AB absolutely stood in there.
• 23:29
  Better. Than Kate McNamara running away
• 23:32
  from the team and quitting. Yeah, Fairpoint and nobody will
• 23:34
  ever commits me that he did not quit on that team a year ago.
• 23:37
  That's where Spencer Petrus gets credit, the football side of
• 23:40
  things. Hard to do, hard to do.
• 23:42
  Well, we're into here and now, you know, one thing that I've, I
• 23:45
  guess maybe stumbled upon here in the last week or so talking
• 23:48
  about Gronowski and Tom, as you know, I have my daily podcast
• 23:51
  and we're looking for content locked on Hawkins every single
• 23:55
  day. So sometimes you're repeating
• 23:58
  yourself doing that every single day, no?
• 23:59
  Way. Really.
• 24:00
  Talking Gronowski, though, you know what's the running ability?
• 24:03
  I went back and watched a it was like a condensed version of a
• 24:05
  full game. It was like cut down to 30
• 24:07
  minutes and watching him in the game, I think he only ran it
• 24:10
  like 10-11 times. But it's not just he's physical.
• 24:14
  We knew that he's a big dude. He's got some wiggle to him.
• 24:17
  I I think the running ability just as a whole, maybe we forgot
• 24:22
  about her, has been unrepresentative and, and coming
• 24:24
  off that shoulder injury, I guess that might be a question
• 24:26
  too. Is he ready to take that
• 24:28
  pounding now physically? Because that's one of his
• 24:30
  stronger attributes, running the football.
• 24:33
  I think if you're going to ask Tim Lester how much he wants
• 24:36
  Mark Granowski running, it's going to be not much.
• 24:40
  But I think if you ask Granowski, because we did like,
• 24:44
  yeah, I'll go get I'm, you know, if that first reads not there,
• 24:47
  I'm willing to talking under my shoulder and get those 3 or 4
• 24:51
  yards and I need to get on 3rd down and short to get the first
• 24:54
  down and get the chains moving again.
• 24:56
  So I think he's more than willing to do that.
• 25:00
  I think there might be a little bit of a tug of war with him and
• 25:04
  Tim Lester, but I don't think Lester's opposed to it.
• 25:07
  I've, you know, I've thrown out the old bridal Leonard
• 25:09
  comparison since since he arrived.
• 25:12
  I think that's an apartment comparison.
• 25:14
  But then I looked, I was like, wait, how much did Riley Leonard
• 25:18
  run? So I wrote a piece this week
• 25:20
  about the expectations this year statistically for for Gronowski.
• 25:25
  Ryan Leonard ran for 900 yards last year.
• 25:27
  I was like holy cow, Iowa hasn't had a guy run over 400 since
• 25:31
  Brad Banks had 4/20. 3 Has it been that long?
• 25:35
  And and Gronowski averaged just about it was 397 as last three
• 25:40
  years at SBSU. So I think that's probably a
• 25:45
  realistic number for him is around 400.
• 25:47
  And if he did that, that would be boy, that would be a positive
• 25:50
  for the Iowa offense. And just to have a guy who can
• 25:52
  extend plays. He saw that one clip of him
• 25:56
  rolling out and throwing on the run when when the last time we
• 25:58
  saw that confidently done by an Iowa quarterback.
• 26:02
  It's been it's been a minute. It's been a family probably
• 26:05
  since that was really an executed play and he hits, you
• 26:08
  know, Weege on the sidelines and perfect spot.
• 26:11
  And I, I, I think I think we're in for some, some good times
• 26:16
  with this quarterback. I really do.
• 26:17
  I think he's, I think nationally he's going to get some talk
• 26:22
  fairly early, especially if they go to Ames and win and he plays
• 26:25
  well there. You mentioned Kaden Weichen,
• 26:27
  obviously back as a kick returner, punt returner after he
• 26:30
  what he did a season to go. He's on all the watch list, as
• 26:32
  you'd anticipate, but in the spring we heard one of the ways
• 26:35
  that he was going to come back or was assurances that they were
• 26:38
  going to try to use him at least a little bit more offensively.
• 26:42
  A wide receiver room, though, that has Reese Vanderzee and
• 26:44
  Jacob Gill and healthy Seth Anderson and Sam Phillips coming
• 26:47
  in out of Chattanooga and Howard and KJ Parker, who we've heard
• 26:50
  are there going to be many reps available for him.
• 26:52
  What have you heard about his fall practice and if they're
• 26:55
  going to find a role for Weegin in the offense?
• 26:58
  Yeah, I think he's been really good.
• 27:00
  Parker's been really good. Vanderzee obviously saw the
• 27:03
  video highlight of him. He's been he's been solid.
• 27:07
  You know, Kirk admitted in the the thing with golf, that's the
• 27:10
  first couple days Mark was a little shaky, you know, just
• 27:13
  kind of shaking from the rust off.
• 27:15
  And and that would make sense. I mean, he hasn't been out there
• 27:18
  in 1111 since the end of the South Dakota state season.
• 27:22
  So it, you know, he's got a little rust, didn't do spring
• 27:24
  ball. So he's stepping up a little bit
• 27:27
  here and and, you know, and now he's he's adjusted and I think
• 27:32
  pretty comfortable offensively and, and developing that
• 27:35
  chemistry. You know, he went on that trip
• 27:37
  with, I think it was Trent, you'll have to come in.
• 27:40
  I think it was Gil Parker, Phillips and Ostrenka I think
• 27:45
  were the guys that went with. But was it Texas?
• 27:48
  OK. Yeah, with, with to work with
• 27:51
  Jeff Christensen. Oh, sure, yeah.
• 27:54
  Of all people, Yeah. Really.
• 27:55
  The Jeff Christensen? Yeah.
• 27:57
  Of all people, Jeff Christensen. Yeah.
• 27:59
  Holy cow. Can't shake them.
• 28:00
  You can't shake them. You know, you used the word
• 28:03
  expectations earlier. Tom is this, and I hate to say
• 28:06
  it, phrase the question this way because I don't think that the
• 28:10
  the expectations were unfair when it came to Xavier Wamp.
• 28:12
  I mean, Trent, you said you ever seen a player like this in high
• 28:15
  school? No.
• 28:15
  And you've covered high school football for a long time.
• 28:17
  He covered as much found as anybody I'd I think.
• 28:20
  Both sides of the ball and and did so effectively.
• 28:25
  What, what kind of years do you expect from him or is this the
• 28:28
  year that Tom, that he comes close to those lofty
• 28:31
  expectations? I think so I, you know, just
• 28:34
  talking to him the spring, it's felt like playing strong safety
• 28:39
  was like asking him to play left-handed and he just was
• 28:42
  never comfortable with it to the level that that you would hope
• 28:46
  he would be. And, and now he's, he's at 3 and
• 28:50
  he feels comfortable and, and I think we're going to see a
• 28:54
  really good year from him. I think he's going to have, you
• 28:57
  know, 5 or 6 interceptions and, and I think it's going to make
• 29:01
  some big plays for the Iowa defense this year.
• 29:04
  And, and yeah, I, I think he and Enteringer potentially we'll see
• 29:09
  where Enteringer ends up if it's strong safety or cash, but I
• 29:14
  think that back end is going to be pretty fun to watch,
• 29:17
  especially thin trainers back there.
• 29:19
  Full circles. We started talking a little bit
• 29:21
  about the linebackers and one thing that I heard is feels like
• 29:25
  Jade Harrell is going to be that guy in the middle.
• 29:26
  Don't sleep on Montgomery. That was something I was told
• 29:28
  the other night, which I found interesting.
• 29:30
  But that aside, do you anticipate, I mean they've moved
• 29:34
  to, it's not full time, but they go cash what 70% of the time,
• 29:38
  80% of the time that they're going to rely on that even more
• 29:42
  because of the questions that linebacker that they like
• 29:44
  Luckmer, they obviously like the other two safeties we just
• 29:47
  talked about with Enteringer and Wampa that we see even more cash
• 29:50
  this season. You know, I asked Phil this
• 29:55
  summer, I said how much did you guys run cash last year?
• 29:59
  And he said 80% of the time, I don't know.
• 30:03
  I don't know if they can go any higher and then and, you know,
• 30:07
  unless they did it full time, but I think it's it's probably
• 30:12
  something where they're going to go cash about 80% of the time.
• 30:15
  And, and I think that's the way they like it.
• 30:19
  I think that's the way college football is going in.
• 30:22
  And they'll, you know, there'll be some teams or some situations
• 30:26
  or third and short, they'll bring in an extra linebacker and
• 30:30
  Rex Ross will get some time. But yeah, I'm really curious
• 30:33
  about the middle linebacker. The Montgomery thing was made
• 30:36
  sense too, because I, you know, that video clip the other day, I
• 30:39
  saw Montgomery was out there, middle linebacker.
• 30:41
  So I think he's given a little push right now.
• 30:46
  I know they're super high on excited about Preston Reese too,
• 30:49
  so that's another guy to watch. And we'll watch it and we'll
• 30:52
  read it about it at hawkeyereport.com, part of on
• 30:55
  three media day coverage today and the Kids Day tomorrow.
• 31:01
  And away we go. Tom Caker, you got a busy
• 31:03
  weekend ahead of you. Tom, thanks for doing this.
• 31:05
  We'll keep up to date at hawkeyereport.com.
• 31:08
  OK. Thanks guys.
• 31:09
  Thank you, Tom. Appreciate you coming on.
• 31:10
  Talk to you next week. Take care.
• 31:13
  Tom Kakert hawkeyereport.com Bennett Sturtz got engaged.
• 31:16
  Yes, saw that. Can I ask a question Sure it's
• 31:19
  not just related to him? Because it was.
• 31:21
  If you've seen the picture, you saw where he got engaged.
• 31:23
  Beautiful lake. Yeah, Lake McBride.
• 31:25
  Lake McBride's nobody around his fiance kind of shocked.
• 31:30
  Yes, yes. He's down.
• 31:33
  Does the photographer 10 feet away not kind of tip it off?
• 31:36
  So I. You get my point.
• 31:38
  Yes, I I've seen this done similar.
• 31:40
  Millions of times, yes. And.
• 31:42
  You're all alone except for the photographer.
• 31:44
  Well, normally the photographer is hiding somewhere.
• 31:47
  Really. Yes, that is normally how it's
• 31:50
  done. Now it's not possible at all
• 31:52
  places. The guy or the gal with a big
• 31:53
  camera around their neck? Yeah.
• 31:55
  Well, and it doesn't anymore. It doesn't have to be a big
• 31:57
  well, that's. True.
• 31:58
  I OK, that's showing my age. That's a fairpoint.
• 32:00
  Come on, old Miller. Yeah, that's.
• 32:02
  But it just cracks me up all the time.
• 32:04
  Just the They're so surprised. Except 10 feet away, away from
• 32:08
  me, there's that person with the camera.
• 32:09
  Like my cousin, he proposed to his wife in Central Park in New
• 32:12
  York. Well, that's easy because
• 32:14
  there's. Millions of people.
• 32:15
  Right, right. Yeah, That's a little bit
• 32:16
  different. And he did the whole thing and
• 32:18
  he had the. So where's the lake that he got
• 32:20
  engaged over? Bio City?
• 32:21
  Yeah, but what's it called? Lake McBride.
• 32:23
  McBride, It's awesome. Is it deep?
• 32:25
  Yes. We used to really flip jump in
• 32:27
  there all the time, yeah. Really.
• 32:28
  Can you fish? Yeah.
• 32:29
  I'm sure Orville Reservoir and cool area over there.
• 32:34
  There are other things outside of central Iowa, no, in our
• 32:37
  great state. Come on.
• 32:39
  I know you like to go past Iowa City as you cross the border to
• 32:41
  Illinois and go antiquing. Antiquing.
• 32:45
  And a few other things. We'll take a time out, we'll
• 32:47
  come back and we're going to hear from Mitch Holtis, but it
• 32:50
  just cracks me up. And I'm not picking on Bennett
• 32:51
  Sturtz, just. But it's just a beautiful lake.
• 32:55
  If you're clear the scene, who is this person that keeps
• 32:58
  following Mountain? You know, and it's just you and,
• 33:01
  and there's this other person with the camera.
• 33:03
  Walking up the trail, why is this person following nearly 15
• 33:06
  feet behind us? Best of luck to you and your and
• 33:10
  your fiance, Bennett, and have a good year.
• 33:12
  And on the hardwood, I'm guessing he will.
• 33:14
  Miller and Conn, We'll come back.
• 33:15
  Hear from Mitch Holtis, the voice of the Chiefs daily.
• 33:18
  Chiefs training camp reports on tape today with Mitch.
• 33:21
  That's next. We're on the Iowa Sports Radio
• 33:23
  Network. All right, welcome back, Miller
• 33:26
  and Condon. 1st 4 callers. If you'd like to play for the
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• 33:32
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• 33:50
  It's a travel day today for the Chiefs as we all head to Phoenix
• 33:53
  and play preseason game #1 tomorrow, tonight against the
• 33:56
  Cardinals. Here's your checklist for things
• 33:58
  to listen for and watch for in this game.
• 34:01
  One, obviously the offensive line, especially rookie left
• 34:04
  tackle #71 Josh Simmons and 2nd year left guard who's moved
• 34:08
  inside number 76 Kingsley Sumatiya.
• 34:11
  The Cardinals have a really, really good defensive front.
• 34:14
  It's going to be a big test, but also pay attention throughout
• 34:16
  the game. The Chiefs have to find good
• 34:18
  depth on the offensive line, something they did not do a year
• 34:22
  ago. The second area to focus on is
• 34:24
  the red hot battle at white and receiver.
• 34:26
  There are 14 wide receivers in camp.
• 34:28
  The team will probably keep only 6 #2.
• 34:31
  Taekwon Thornton's been a camp darling, but how will he do
• 34:34
  tomorrow night in a game? And he's in a battle with kick
• 34:37
  returner Nico remigio #81. Remember his 63 yard kick return
• 34:41
  in the playoffs? A sneaky wide receiver to watch
• 34:44
  number 89 Jason Thornly. He looks like Otis Taylor
• 34:48
  wearing that number when he breaks the huddle.
• 34:50
  He's been spectacular this week in camp.
• 34:52
  Tight end, we all know about Travis Kelce and Noah Gray, but
• 34:55
  who's next On the defensive side?
• 34:57
  It's a battle for spots in the secondary.
• 34:59
  For example, Joshua Williams is in his fourth year.
• 35:01
  He's got 2 Super Bowl rings, 9 post season wins, and right now
• 35:05
  he's trying to play his way on the team.
• 35:08
  Young players will be under scrutiny like rookie cornerback
• 35:11
  #20 Noel Williams and #30 Christian Roland Wallace in his
• 35:15
  second year. Finally, pay attention to every
• 35:18
  kick return by both teams. The new rules tweaked this year
• 35:22
  are going to determine games. The Chiefs need to be stellar in
• 35:25
  return returns and in coverage. It's the Valley of the Sun, it's
• 35:28
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• 35:32
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• 35:38
  this next week. I look forward to a catching up
• 35:41
  with him and finding out what went right, what went wrong,
• 35:44
  etcetera, etcetera with the voice of the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 35:47
  He joins us every single day throughout the Chiefs training
• 35:51
  camp, kind of one of those rites of passage in the month of
• 35:55
  August. Chiefs are 3 1/2 point favorite.
• 35:57
  So that's going to come up in the chicken coop giveaway as we
• 36:00
  switch gears to the chicken coop.
• 36:01
  Steve and Tom, you're all set to go here.
• 36:03
  Trent's lining up the other two contestants as we speak.
• 36:07
  The tiebreaker for both of you, it's going to be Mets Brewers.
• 36:12
  They've got a three-game series. I don't think these two teams
• 36:14
  have played. They certainly haven't been in
• 36:16
  Milwaukee obviously since the Mets ended the Brewers season
• 36:21
  last year with that dramatic home run when they were down and
• 36:24
  as we know ended the radio career of 1.
• 36:28
  Bob Euchre, who sadly would pass away before the season started
• 36:32
  this year, Steve, Tom, Grant and Matt in that order.
• 36:36
  Three locations for the chicken coop, 60th and Ashworth, West
• 36:38
  Des Moines on Oral Labor Rd. just South of the DMAC campus
• 36:42
  and 12725 Meredith Drive in Urban.
• 36:46
  Half off wings all month long. It's extended, extended it
• 36:50
  through August, through all of August, half off both bonin and
• 36:53
  boneless wings at the chicken. That's that's, that's huge.
• 36:55
  And they're so good. They're my favorite wings.
• 36:58
  Hello Steve, How are you? Awesome.
• 37:00
  How are you? Guys, good.
• 37:01
  Scherzer versus Kershaw tonight, Jays versus the Dodgers in LA.
• 37:06
  Who do you want? Kershaw.
• 37:10
  The Cubs. Sorry, that's OK, That's all
• 37:12
  right. Cubs Cards three-game series in
• 37:15
  Saint Louis. Who wins the series?
• 37:18
  Got a root with my heart Cardinals.
• 37:19
  All right, the Chiefs are a 3 1/2 point favorite pre season at
• 37:23
  Arizona tomorrow. We'll go Arizona.
• 37:29
  Cal Raleigh for Seattle. Will he hit a home run either
• 37:32
  today or tomorrow? No.
• 37:37
  All right, here's the tiebreaker.
• 37:39
  Mets, Brewers How many runs will they score in this three-game
• 37:42
  series this weekend? Three-game series. 22 Have a
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  good weekend, Steve. Thank you.
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  Yep. Thank you guys.
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  Yep, Tom's up next. Hi, Tom.
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  Hey guys. How you doing good Jays or
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  Dodgers tonight? We're going to go with the
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  Dodgers. Cubs Cards three-game series
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  this weekend. Who wins it?
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  I'm actually going to go with, I'm also going to go with my
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  heart and say Cubs. All right, Chiefs are 3 1/2
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  point favorite at Arizona. Keith, Cal, Raleigh.
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  Does he hit a home run today or tomorrow?
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  Yeah. Mets, Brewers total runs
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  tiebreaker Closest without going over. 28.5. 28.5 Why not?
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  Thank you Tom, you have a good weekend.
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  Grants with Miller and Condon. Hi Grant, how are you?
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  Good Jay's Dodgers tonight. I'll take the Jays.
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  Cubs Cards three-game series. Who wins it?
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  Cubs, Chiefs 3 1/2 point favorite at the Cardinals
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  tomorrow I'll. Take the chief.
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  Cal Raleigh home run tonight for Seattle or tomorrow?
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  Tomorrow. Well, yes or no, So that's a
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  yes. There you go.
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  Mets, Brewers Mets Brewers total runs Tiebreaker closes without
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  going over Grant seven and a half 7 1/2 Thank you, buddy.
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  Low scoring affair. Matt, how are you?
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  Matt Musix playing Jays or Dodgers tonight?
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  Jays, Cubs Cards three-game series Cubs, Chiefs 3 1/2 to
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  Arizona Cardinals Raleigh home run today or tomorrow.
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  No. Mets Brewers How many runs this
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  weekend? 23 Have a good weekend.
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  Matt C, Our two next Miller in Condon.