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July 27, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 7: Chip Howard Sports Talk here on a Monday afternoon on
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  Speaker 7: Caleb Rapley here filling in for Chip on this Monday
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  Speaker 7: edition of the show. Gonna have Rusty Berson with me
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  Speaker 7: in the second hour at five o'clock. The Aggie historian
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  Speaker 7: and author. Chip will be back next Monday, August third,
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  Speaker 7: the return of Sir Howard himself, so get excited for that.
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  Speaker 7: We're actually going to hear from Chip here in this
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  Speaker 7: first hour of the show. At four fifteen, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 7: play his interview from earlier this morning. He talked to
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  Speaker 7: Kendall Berna about Shark Week over on the Discovery Channel,
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  Speaker 7: so stay tuned for that. About four fifteen, we'll get
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  Speaker 7: into that. We're also going to hear from what the
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  Speaker 7: head coach of the Mississippi State Bulldogs had to say
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  Speaker 7: at SEC Media Days last week, Jeff Levy going into
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  Speaker 7: i believe, his second year with Mississippi State. So we'll
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  Speaker 7: hear from that later in the hour, and like I said,
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  Speaker 7: Rusty will join us at five o'clock. Caleb Rapley here
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  Speaker 7: guest hosting got some headlines from around the world of sports,
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  Speaker 7: starting with the MLB. The Houston Astros General manager Dana
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  Speaker 7: Brown reiterated once again on the Astros pregame radio show
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  Speaker 7: yesterday that quote, we would anticipate that we're going to
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  Speaker 7: be buyers. The division is wide open, the wild card
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  Speaker 7: is wide open. There's some parody there. There's a lot
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  Speaker 7: of teams bunched up. I think the team that gets
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  Speaker 7: hot is going to be the team that takes the run.
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  Speaker 7: So the Astros to be buyers at the trade deadline,
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  Speaker 7: which is something that has been in question a lot
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  Speaker 7: this season. It was a really rough start for the Astros.
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  Speaker 7: I think the most they were under five hundred was
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  Speaker 7: eleven games back when they were twenty and thirty one.
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  Speaker 7: I think that was back in June or May. It
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  Speaker 7: was a really rough start. We thought that they were
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  Speaker 7: going to be sellers. But even then, Dana Brown said
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  Speaker 7: that they are going to try to add at the deadline,
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  Speaker 7: and I think that's partly because his job might be
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  Speaker 7: on the line if the Astros missed the playoffs again,
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  Speaker 7: I wouldn't be surprised to see him get let go,
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  Speaker 7: but the Astros have called their way back. They are
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  Speaker 7: fifty two and fifty five, just had their five game
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  Speaker 7: winning streak snapped last night by the White Sox. They
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  Speaker 7: are starting a road series with the Angels tonight, and
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  Speaker 7: I believe that's gonna be here on the zone at
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  Speaker 7: eight ten, I think is when our pregame coverage starts,
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  Speaker 7: so we will have that for you later tonight. Astros
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  Speaker 7: and Angels out in La as the Astros try to
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  Speaker 7: claw their way up into a wild card spot. They
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  Speaker 7: are two games out of the playoffs at the moment,
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  Speaker 7: the Cleveland Guardians holding the final wild card spot at
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  Speaker 7: fifty four and fifty three. But the Astros have a
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  Speaker 7: lot of needs if they are going to be buyers
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  Speaker 7: at the deadline. And again, that deadline is only a
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  Speaker 7: week from today, August third, the same Monday that Chip
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  Speaker 7: will be returning, so he'll have a lot to talk about,
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure, and they're going to be looking for. I
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  Speaker 7: think the primary concern needs to be a left handed
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  Speaker 7: hitting outfielder. The Astros outfield has been pretty much the
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  Speaker 7: worst in the league offensively anyway. Defensively, I think they've
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  Speaker 7: been pretty solid, but they have not had a whole
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  Speaker 7: lot of production at the plate from the three outfield
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  Speaker 7: spots outside of when Jordan plays left field, which doesn't
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  Speaker 7: happen very often, and I personally don't want that to
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  Speaker 7: happen ever, because he's the only consistent hitter we've had
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  Speaker 7: this year, so keeping him healthy needs to be priority
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  Speaker 7: number one, and the way you do that is by
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  Speaker 7: going and getting another outfielder that can actually hit. La
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  Speaker 7: Mottway Junior has been okay, Taylor Tremmeel has been great
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  Speaker 7: at times, but there has not been a consistent hitter
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  Speaker 7: in any of the three outfield spots.
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  Speaker 3: I love cam Smith.
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  Speaker 7: I think that he will be great one day, but
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  Speaker 7: he's still very young and still trying to learn, and
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  Speaker 7: he is a right handed hitter, and we never have
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  Speaker 7: enough lefty bats. So a guy like Jake McCarthy is
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  Speaker 7: my personal favorite, that my personal number one that I
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  Speaker 7: want them to go after. He's having a career year
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  Speaker 7: with the Rockies right now and very speedy, so you're
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  Speaker 7: not giving up anything on the defensive side. But he's
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  Speaker 7: one of the few guys in MLB that I think
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  Speaker 7: he's still hitting three hundred.
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  Speaker 3: He was the other day when I looked so He's
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  Speaker 3: my number one want on my board.
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  Speaker 7: Mickey Moniac also a Rocky Dalton Varshow or Hazus Sanchez
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  Speaker 7: on the Blue Jays are also names to watch. With
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  Speaker 7: the Blue Jays really kind of a crazy collapse after
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  Speaker 7: their World Series run last year. They're ten games below
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  Speaker 7: five hundred, fourteen and a half games back of the
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  Speaker 7: Rays in the AL East, five and a half out
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  Speaker 7: of a wild card spot, so they're looking to be sellers.
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  Speaker 7: It would be very interesting if the Astros reacquired Jesus Sanchez,
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  Speaker 7: who spent the second half of last season with the squad,
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  Speaker 7: but a left handed hitting outfielder number one priority for
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  Speaker 7: Dana Brown obviously pitching. Everybody always needs pitching if they
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  Speaker 7: want to contend. But you know, we'll see if that's
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  Speaker 7: if that's possible. The Red Sox reportedly made a play
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  Speaker 7: to try to acquire shortstop Jeremy Payna and were shut
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  Speaker 7: down immediately. According to Ari Alexander, so Paanya is off
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  Speaker 7: the board, which is interesting. I think, being as close
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  Speaker 7: to the playoffs as we are right now, it's the
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  Speaker 7: right move. But if we have a little bit of
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  Speaker 7: a collapse here in the next week, I don't see
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  Speaker 7: a world where we signed Jeremy Panya to an extension,
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  Speaker 7: So I would rather if we're a bad team, I'd
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  Speaker 7: much rather trade him and get some prospects out of
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  Speaker 7: it then just let him walk. Something similar to what
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  Speaker 7: happened with Kyle Tucker, I think would be okay with
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  Speaker 7: me getting a big name prospect and also some major
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  Speaker 7: league ready players. When we traded Kyle Tucker the year
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  Speaker 7: before his contract ran up, we got Esak Pretas, who
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  Speaker 7: has been a big contributor for us in these the
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  Speaker 7: last two seasons. Hayden Westnski, who hasn't contributed much, but
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  Speaker 7: that's been more to injury than anything else, and then
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  Speaker 7: Cam Smith, who is a very promising young hitter. So
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  Speaker 7: if we get a similar return to that with Penya,
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  Speaker 7: then I would be okay with them making that move.
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  Speaker 3: But they do not seem very keen to do that
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  Speaker 3: right now, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 7: Speaking of Astro's Lance mccullor's junior has been released by
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  Speaker 7: the Milwaukee Brewers after the Astros traded him to Milwaukee
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  Speaker 7: along with Colton Gordon in what was pretty much a
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  Speaker 7: salary dump. The Astros retained most of the contract, but
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  Speaker 7: the Brewers did take on two point five million dollars.
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  Speaker 7: Mccullor's was set to be a free agent at the
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  Speaker 7: end of the season anyway, so the Brewers not really
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  Speaker 7: wanting to deal with him, they designated him for assignment
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  Speaker 7: yesterday and then announced that they are officially releasing him today,
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  Speaker 7: so he will be a free agent. He will probably
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  Speaker 7: have to sign a minor league deal with the club
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  Speaker 7: if he wants to stay in professional baseball, perhaps with
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  Speaker 7: the Astros, which would be interesting. Wouldn't hate that. Mccullor's
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  Speaker 7: has said that he does care about that team. That's
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  Speaker 7: part of why he waived his no trade clause, according
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  Speaker 7: to Brian McTaggart, is that he does care about the
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  Speaker 7: city of Houston and the Astros franchise. So I would
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  Speaker 7: be perfectly okay with bringing him back in a minor
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  Speaker 7: league on a minor league deal, because I love Lance mcculors.
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  Speaker 7: It's just been very, very sad the way his career
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  Speaker 7: has turned out after being a really big contributor for
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  Speaker 7: us early in his career, being a big part of
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  Speaker 7: both of our World Series runs. He signed that extension
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  Speaker 7: back in March of twenty twenty one. It was a
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  Speaker 7: five year eighty five million dollar deal the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 7: two through twenty twenty six seasons, and he's barely played
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  Speaker 7: in that time, and when he has, it's been a
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  Speaker 7: pretty rough performance. I think all of his pitches have
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  Speaker 7: been about three miles per hour below where they used
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  Speaker 7: to be. The last two seasons, he's thrown ninety nine
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  Speaker 7: and a third innings a six five two ERA, so
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  Speaker 7: not really a usable arm, unfortunately. But it was a
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  Speaker 7: very professional move for him to understand the situation he's
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  Speaker 7: in and let that deal go through. So I would
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  Speaker 7: like for us to go ahead and sign him to
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  Speaker 7: a minor league deal if he decides to retire at
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  Speaker 7: this at the end of this season, at least he
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  Speaker 7: retires as a member of the Astros organization. In the
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  Speaker 7: Al East, the Atlanta Braves have activated Ronald Acunya Junior
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  Speaker 7: from the IL. He was on the ten day injured
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  Speaker 7: list due to a hamstring strain that was back in
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  Speaker 7: early June that they actually put that put him on
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  Speaker 7: the IL, so about a month and a half ago.
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  Speaker 8: Now.
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  Speaker 7: Ronald has always been one of those guys that has
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  Speaker 7: been similar like a Mike Trout, very electric when he's
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  Speaker 7: on the field, but has had a very tough time
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  Speaker 7: staying on the field. That was his second sin on
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  Speaker 7: the injured list this season with the same hamstring injury,
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  Speaker 7: so hopefully with him staying out that full month and
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  Speaker 7: a half, he's fully recovered from that. The Braves still
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  Speaker 7: in a position to be one of the best teams
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  Speaker 7: in the National League, leading the ALE East at the
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  Speaker 7: moment five and a half games above the Atlanta Braves,
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  Speaker 7: but they are the worst division leader right now, with
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  Speaker 7: the Dodgers at sixty seven thirty nine and the Brewers
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  Speaker 7: at sixty six and thirty nine, and those two teams
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  Speaker 7: have been the class of the MLB for pretty much
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  Speaker 7: the entire season, so it's gonna be tough for anybody
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  Speaker 7: to run them down. Athletics catcher Shay Langeliers suffers a
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  Speaker 7: torn meniscus, which will likely keep him out the rest
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  Speaker 7: of the season.
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  Speaker 3: He has yet to decide.
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  Speaker 7: Whether or not he will undergo surgery. If he does,
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  Speaker 7: then that's at least a six to eight week recovery time,
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  Speaker 7: and I don't think the A's would bother bringing him
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  Speaker 7: back for the last few games of the season, just
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  Speaker 7: because there's no reason to risk his health. As you
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  Speaker 7: know they're pretty much completely out of the playoff race
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  Speaker 7: at this point, nine games behind the Rangers in the
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  Speaker 7: Al West, so no reason to rush him back. It's
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  Speaker 7: very unfortunate. Again, anytime there's an injury to a player
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  Speaker 7: like this, it's very unfortunate. Landeliers had been having a
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  Speaker 7: career year, hitting two sixty three with twenty three homers.
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  Speaker 7: One of the best hitting catchers in baseball this season,
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  Speaker 7: so hopefully he comes back stronger next year. In the NFL,
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  Speaker 7: it is almost time for preseason camp to begin, and
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  Speaker 7: the last remaining unsigned first round pick from the twenty
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  Speaker 7: twenty six draft. It was announced yesterday I believe that
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  Speaker 7: Ty Simpson, the Rams number thirteen pick, agreed to terms
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  Speaker 7: on his rookie contract, a four year, twenty five point
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  Speaker 7: four million dollars deal with a fifth year option that
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  Speaker 7: includes a fourteen point nine to four million dollars signing bonus.
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  Speaker 7: Some other contract news, Jacoby Brissette of the Arizona Cardinals
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  Speaker 7: reworked his contract a fifteen point five million dollar contract
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  Speaker 7: for this season. That's just the garan teed money, though
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  Speaker 7: he has a chance to make up to twenty one
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  Speaker 7: million dollars with incentives so no more years on his deal.
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  Speaker 7: He will be a free agent after the season, but
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  Speaker 7: a large increase of what he was scheduled to make,
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  Speaker 7: which was just four point eight eight million dollars base salary,
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  Speaker 7: but only one point five million dollars if that was guaranteed.
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  Speaker 7: So definitely a big win for Jacoby Brissett. He was
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  Speaker 7: really good for that for the Cardinals last year once
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  Speaker 7: they decided to bench Kyler Murray. Brissette made twelve starts
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  Speaker 7: through for about thirty three hundred yards, twenty three touchdowns,
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  Speaker 7: just eight interceptions, so very solid player. The Cardinals looked
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  Speaker 7: to be, you know, one of the worst teams in
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  Speaker 7: that division, if not the entire league they're in, you know,
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  Speaker 7: one of the tougher divisions in the NFL, the NFC
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  Speaker 7: West with the forty nine Ers, Seahawks, and Rams, so
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  Speaker 7: not a whole lot of opportunity for them to compete in.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 7: But Brissett doing his best to make the most of
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  Speaker 7: the opportunities that he has.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's been around for a while.
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  Speaker 7: The first time we heard the name Jacoby Brissett was
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  Speaker 7: back when Tom Brady was suspended for Spygate or the
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  Speaker 7: fleet gate. I can't remember which one of the gates
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  Speaker 7: it was, but that was the first time we'd heard
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  Speaker 7: Jacoby Brissett when he got to make those first four starts,
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  Speaker 7: and he was pretty solid. Then he's bounced around a
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  Speaker 7: bit of a journeyman quarterback, but has always been a
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  Speaker 7: pretty solid option. And good for him for getting this
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  Speaker 7: deal done and making the Cardinals actually pay him, even
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  Speaker 7: though he will mostly just be a tank commander. But
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  Speaker 7: good for him for sure. When we come back, we
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  Speaker 7: will hear Chips interview with Kendall Berna. But right now
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  Speaker 10: David Edmund said this comment to you, David Nunya last week.
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  Speaker 11: He said that you would be happy if you never
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  Speaker 11: visited Okay, see again when.
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  Speaker 12: We go on trips now, Like I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 12: going to Norman for the game, right, Like that's different,
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  Speaker 12: but we're talking about like visiting a city. Look, I
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  Speaker 12: love living in College Station.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: When I tell people that, they're like really, like what
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  Speaker 12: is her to do? I was like, what the hell
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  Speaker 12: do you do in your big city?
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  Speaker 8: Like do you like go dancing?
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  Speaker 13: Like what do you do? Like?
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  Speaker 12: My life is simple. I go to work, I go
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  Speaker 12: to church, I go to the gym, I go to
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  Speaker 12: my kids activities.
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  Speaker 3: That's my life.
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  Speaker 12: I can do that in Alaska. I can do that anywhere.
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  Speaker 12: So Oklahoma City is a place that if I probably
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  Speaker 12: lived there, I'd probably like it. When we talk about visiting.
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  Speaker 12: I want something different, Okay, I want the beach. I
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  Speaker 12: want the culture of Nashville, right Like I grew up
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  Speaker 12: in Houston.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I love.
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  Speaker 5: Tech SAgs live weekdays from eight to eleven on the Zone.
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  Speaker 14: To put my.
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  Speaker 11: Brook it out at the gym to fit my nd
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  Speaker 11: makes this ship.
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  Speaker 7: Welcome back to Chip Howard Sports Talk here on the
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  Speaker 7: Zone eleven fifty A ninety three point seven FM. Caleb
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  Speaker 7: Brapley here filling in for Chip today and we will
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  Speaker 7: actually have a little bit of Chip Howard for you
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  Speaker 7: out there, as he did an interview earlier this morning
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  Speaker 7: that I'm going to play right now. Kendall Berna, she
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  Speaker 7: is doing a show tonight night, part of Shark Week
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  Speaker 7: where they're talking about Mako Sharks. Here is Chips interview
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  Speaker 7: with Kendall.
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  Speaker 8: Kendall, how are you good?
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  Speaker 13: Thank you so much for having me on.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you very much. It's always great to catch up.
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  Speaker 6: I started last night. It's my favorite week of the year.
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  Speaker 6: And let's talk about tonight's show if we can. When
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  Speaker 6: were you guys taping this in California?
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  Speaker 14: So we filmed this year in May. Actually we've filmed
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  Speaker 14: a similar Maco.
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  Speaker 13: Show the last four years, yep, and it's.
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  Speaker 14: Always early May, which is actually a very quick turnaround
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  Speaker 14: to edit for a July Shark Week. But this year
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  Speaker 14: in particular, the makos showed up way earlier than they
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  Speaker 14: usually do because we were having a marine heat wave.
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  Speaker 14: So very often in May we can't push it any
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  Speaker 14: further because you just don't have time to edit. So
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  Speaker 14: we kind of have to film it in May to
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  Speaker 14: give us two months to edit it. But very often
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  Speaker 14: that's still a little too cold for macOS. But this
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  Speaker 14: year we had a marine heat wave and it was hotter,
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  Speaker 14: and so it was like the best year forgetting macOS
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  Speaker 14: because they just aren't on the production you know, you
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  Speaker 14: try to put them on the production timeline or like
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  Speaker 14: lunches at twelve and they're like, sorry, I didn't get
• 18:23
  Speaker 14: the email, But this year they got the email.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: It seems like that great whites prefer cooler water. Am
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: I right about that? And you're telling me that macOS
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: prefer maybe it to be a little warmer.
• 18:37
  Speaker 13: Yeah, So macOS and white sharks overlap here.
• 18:40
  Speaker 14: I have seen macOS and white sharks together, but macOS
• 18:45
  Speaker 14: like waters above sixty one degrees par and height, so
• 18:49
  Speaker 14: they will come up here in summer, but then they'll be,
• 18:54
  Speaker 14: you know, somewhere like Cabo, where we filmed the other
• 18:59
  Speaker 14: part of the Sho show.
• 19:00
  Speaker 13: In the more winter months.
• 19:03
  Speaker 14: So yeah, so May is kind of a borderline month
• 19:06
  Speaker 14: where where the macOS aren't super abundant yet, except this
• 19:09
  Speaker 14: year they were.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: So they traveled between that corridor, generally speaking on that side.
• 19:18
  Speaker 14: Yeah. So, yep, they the Pacific, they go, Yeah, they
• 19:22
  Speaker 14: go down Mexico and then up towards towards US.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: They exist in a lot of different areas of the world.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: We're not but we're just talking about a certain area,
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: are we not.
• 19:33
  Speaker 14: Yeah, So macOS exist all over the world. They have
• 19:36
  Speaker 14: a large geographic range, and there's also long fin macOS
• 19:39
  Speaker 14: and short fin macOS. We know a lot more about
• 19:42
  Speaker 14: about short fin macOS, but we were studying these macOS
• 19:46
  Speaker 14: in particular because this area of California.
• 19:49
  Speaker 13: Just holds such an abundance of prey.
• 19:52
  Speaker 14: Because most macOS are eating like Humboldt squid, they're eating
• 19:57
  Speaker 14: large fish, tuna. We think the maco's here also eating
• 20:01
  Speaker 14: marine mammals because we have large sea lion and seal
• 20:05
  Speaker 14: populations here, especially off the California Channel islands.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: And again, great whites love seals. macOS, is that surprising
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: that they have that there are large enough fish to
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: eat those sea lions?
• 20:23
  Speaker 15: Or not.
• 20:25
  Speaker 14: Yeah, so you know, they I don't think it's their
• 20:28
  Speaker 14: main food because that's not what they're eating around the world.
• 20:31
  Speaker 14: But we do know, like we've looked at seals and
• 20:34
  Speaker 14: sea lions that have very distinct maco bite patterns on them.
• 20:38
  Speaker 14: You can see the bite pattern of a maco versus
• 20:41
  Speaker 14: a white shark or very different.
• 20:43
  Speaker 13: They have very different teeth. macOS are more like.
• 20:47
  Speaker 14: I sometimes picture you know when you go to the
• 20:49
  Speaker 14: arcade and you have that little claw that you go
• 20:52
  Speaker 14: over to the pick the stuffed animal up with.
• 20:56
  Speaker 13: That's what maco teeth look like.
• 20:58
  Speaker 14: And they've kind of shake it in the same way
• 21:00
  Speaker 14: that you would the vending machine.
• 21:02
  Speaker 13: Claw to try to to try to knock it off.
• 21:04
  Speaker 14: So yeah, they just capture prey in a very different
• 21:07
  Speaker 14: way than than white sharks.
• 21:08
  Speaker 13: Do they really have to kind of like thrash it around.
• 21:11
  Speaker 14: Yes, but yeah, we we have observed that macOS will
• 21:16
  Speaker 14: will attack a marine mammal.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: So we don't hear very seldom, I believe, of maco
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: shark bites like we do great whites or bull sharks,
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: maybe even tiger sharks.
• 21:33
  Speaker 14: Why is that because macOS aren't really in the areas
• 21:37
  Speaker 14: that humans.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: Overlook with so they're deeper.
• 21:41
  Speaker 14: Great, Yeah, they're deeper, they're more pelagic, so great. Whites
• 21:45
  Speaker 14: love a coastal area.
• 21:47
  Speaker 13: So that's why, you know, in the summer months.
• 21:51
  Speaker 14: Right now in California, especially through up to like October,
• 21:55
  Speaker 14: this is kind of going to be our peak white
• 21:57
  Speaker 14: shark juveniles, especially in the shallows, whereas macOS are in
• 22:02
  Speaker 14: deeper waters that people really just aren't and so that's
• 22:05
  Speaker 14: why they're also not very well known.
• 22:08
  Speaker 13: And I think this.
• 22:09
  Speaker 14: Is one of the reasons that this show has gone
• 22:12
  Speaker 14: for four years is because it's such a treat to
• 22:14
  Speaker 14: get to see mako footage, just because it's something that
• 22:17
  Speaker 14: otherwise you don't get to see.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: So what have you learned about the species over these
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: last four years that you've that you've studied them for
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: the program?
• 22:26
  Speaker 13: Gosh, everything, you know.
• 22:28
  Speaker 14: I really didn't know much about macOS before this, truthfully,
• 22:32
  Speaker 14: and now I think they're the coolest shark out there
• 22:35
  Speaker 14: and they're so underrated. They're the fastest shark in the ocean. Yes,
• 22:39
  Speaker 14: they're warm blooded like a white shark. I think they
• 22:43
  Speaker 14: could Yeah, they can charge a specie, you know, if
• 22:46
  Speaker 14: they're going after prey, they can charge it really quickly.
• 22:49
  Speaker 13: I think their teeth are.
• 22:50
  Speaker 14: So crazy looking, their bodies are kind of crazy looking,
• 22:54
  Speaker 14: and they're like these little torpedoes. They're just a really
• 22:57
  Speaker 14: really cool species that not that many people are ever researching.
• 23:01
  Speaker 14: So that's why it's it feels very special to get
• 23:04
  Speaker 14: to them, to study them and show them to people.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: So when you heard that there may been one pushing
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: fifteen feet, what was your initial reaction?
• 23:14
  Speaker 13: Probably excitement. I mean, I believe it.
• 23:17
  Speaker 14: We've seen some really big sharks out here, and again,
• 23:21
  Speaker 14: like I said, because they're not really being you know
• 23:24
  Speaker 14: that that well studied and well funded.
• 23:29
  Speaker 13: We don't have all that much research.
• 23:31
  Speaker 14: You know, it tends to be like hearsay from buy
• 23:35
  Speaker 14: catch from fishermen because they are they are in by
• 23:38
  Speaker 14: catch quite often, but very often it's the smaller ones
• 23:41
  Speaker 14: that are. So, you know, we've seen some huge sharks,
• 23:44
  Speaker 14: and we don't always get to to measure them accurately.
• 23:48
  Speaker 14: That's always a challenge, even on Shark Week, is like
• 23:51
  Speaker 14: how do you get a shark's exact measurements unless you're
• 23:54
  Speaker 14: actually catching it and.
• 23:56
  Speaker 13: Bringing it to the boat. But we're trying on Shark
• 23:58
  Speaker 13: Week to not actually catch the sharks.
• 24:01
  Speaker 14: We like the interactions to Like when you're normally researching
• 24:04
  Speaker 14: a shark, you're catching it, bringing it to the boat,
• 24:06
  Speaker 14: measuring it, putting a tag on it. For Shark Week,
• 24:09
  Speaker 14: we're trying to do more in water interactions with them
• 24:11
  Speaker 14: and not hook them, so that it's really just a
• 24:14
  Speaker 14: peaceful interaction for the sharks. And the sharks aren't harmed
• 24:18
  Speaker 14: in that sense in any way. Speaking of I think
• 24:21
  Speaker 14: it harms them normally.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: But speaking of tagging, have there been macOS that have
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: been tagged?
• 24:28
  Speaker 13: Certainly?
• 24:28
  Speaker 14: And Keith Poe, who we work with on this show,
• 24:32
  Speaker 14: has tagged many macOS and many great whites, And.
• 24:36
  Speaker 13: I think he's.
• 24:37
  Speaker 14: A guy who spends most of his life out on
• 24:39
  Speaker 14: these waters, yeah, tagging sharks, and I think he I
• 24:42
  Speaker 14: don't want to speak for him, but I think he
• 24:44
  Speaker 14: might even think macOS are cooler than white sharks.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Kendall Berna studies makos and sharks, and you can see
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: the premiere episode at nine o'clock Texas time this evening
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: on the Discovery Channel as part of Shark Week. Kendall,
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: thanks for the time, really appreciate it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 13: Thank you.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: That was Chip's interview with Kendall Berna of Biggest Mako
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• 25:15
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  Speaker 7: August third, and right now, I want to get into
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  Speaker 7: some NASCAR talk here. I know that NASCAR is a
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  Speaker 7: sport that you know, might have kind of fallen by
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  Speaker 7: the wayside as far as fans go. But if you've
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: been listening to the Zone this summer. You've heard me
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  Speaker 7: talk about NASCAR plenty. I think it is starting to
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: make a little bit of a comeback, which I love
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: to see.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: I'm a big motorsport fan. Yesterday was one.
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: Of the crown jewel events in the NASCAR Cup Series
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: as they raced the Brickyard four hundred at Indianapolis Motor Speedway,
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: and the winner was part time racer in the number
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: sixty seven car, Corey heim. Heim isn't even a true
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: rookie this year. With the way the NASCAR, the NASCAR
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: Series works, you have to be a full time driver
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: to be eligible for points, and Corey heim is not
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: a full time driver this year. He has raced I
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: want to say, maybe eight or nine starts this year
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: in the number sixty seven car for twenty three eleven racing. Yes,
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: that's a lot of numbers. But he's had two wins
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: this year already. The first of those was at Naval
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  Speaker 7: Base Coronado, which was the first time NASCAR head race
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  Speaker 7: there ever. That's a road course in San Diego. That
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: was back in June, I think, yeah, June twenty first
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  Speaker 7: he got that win, which was his first career win,
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: and then yesterday at Indy got his second career win
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: and again as a part time driver. This is not
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: something that happens very often. I think it's the first
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: time in like forty years. I want to say is
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: what I read that at part time driver won multiple
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: races in the same season, so him is poised to
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: be a full time driver next year. I believe he's
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: replacing Riley Herbst in the number thirty five for twenty
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: three eleven Racing, and that's the third car for that team.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Bubba Wallace and Tyler Reddick.
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: The other two drivers for twenty three eleven, both established
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: veterans in the NASCAR Cup Series. Reddick actually won the
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: first three races of this season, so herbs has been
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: the weakest of those three drivers for sure. Both Reddick
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: and Wallace are currently in the Chase, which is the
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: NASCAR playoff format. For those that don't know, the top
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: sixteen drivers and the point standing at the end of
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: the year or at the end of the regular season
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: make the Chase, and then those are the only sixteen
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: drivers eligible for the championship. So right now, twenty three
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: eleven has two of their three cars in the Chase.
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: In second place is Tyler Reddick and fourteenth place is
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: Bubba Wallace and then their third car, Riley Herps is
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: down in twenty fifth place.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: So Heim this year, in the.
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: Few races that he's raced, I think actually has scored
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: more points or close to the same amount of points
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: as Herbs, who has been racing a full season, which
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: is kind of unheard of and also a bit of
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: an indictment on why Riley Herbs will be losing his
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: seat next year. I think he already has a ride.
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: I think he's driving the eighty four is what I saw.
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: But you know, Corey Heim, he's almost definitely gonna be
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: the Rookie of the Year next year. I really don't know
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: how many other rookies there's gonna be, just because with
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: the way the way motorsports works, it's very different from
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: you know, football, baseball, basketball, where there's rookies every year.
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: If the seat doesn't open up, there's not gonna be
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: any rookies. So there's already one that's guaranteed or two
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: that are guaranteed. With the number twenty one, Wood Brothers
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: Racing bringing in Jesse Love replacing Josh Berry, and then
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: Corey Heim will be replacing Riley Herps in the number
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: thirty five car, But other than that, those are those
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: are the only two cars right now that we'll have
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: a rookie driver, and both of those rookies are very
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: highly touted, very solid drivers, So it will be an
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: interesting race between those two guys to see who ends
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: up being the Rookie of the Year. But him has
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: already shown that he has the talent necessary to win
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: at this level. Jesse Love has been a very very
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: good driver in the O'Reilly Series, which is the second
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: series of NASCAR, basically Triple A if you want to relate.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: It to baseball.
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: But a lot of times guys that have lots of
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: success at the O'Reilly Series level or at the truck
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: series level, they make it up to Cup Series and
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: they're not the same guy we saw it with somebody
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: like Noah Gragson, who was very successful in the O'Reilly
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: Series with Junior Motorsports. The last few years with the
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: number four car in the Cup Series, it's been pretty mediocre, So.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: You really never know what's gonna happen with these guys.
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: But Corey Heim already looks to be one of the
• 34:54
  Speaker 7: most talented drivers in the sport, only fifteen career Cup
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: Series starts and now two wins.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Very impressive from him.
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: This race also marked the end of the NASCAR in
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: season tournament, so there were the top thirty two drivers
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: in the standings were eligible for the tournament, and they
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: just they were matched. The way it worked, you're matched
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: up against one driver each race and whoever finishes higher
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: moves on. So the winner ended up being Todd Gilliland,
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: who I think the highest finish that he had in
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: these races that were during this tournament was eighteenth. So
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: he really got lucky a bunch of times because he
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: never had a very high finish, but he always finished
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: higher than the man he was matched up against. He
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: finished two places ahead of Ryan Blaney that yesterday to
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: win the million dollar prize. So congratulations to the gillionaire
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: Todd Gilliland with a big check coming his way. And
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: Ryan Blaney's probably not too torn up about it. You know,
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: he's a Cup Series champion. He could probably find a
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: million dollars in couch change at Pinski Racing headquarters.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: One of the top teams in the sport. Year after year,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: the chase for the Cup.
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: It looks like it's gonna come down to the wire
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: between who will end up as the one seed. Denny
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: Hamlin and Tyler Reddick have been going back and forth
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: this year. Hamlin does have a pretty sizable lead right
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: now with eighty four points, and you know, probably the
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: best of the past generation of drivers that's still in
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: the sport, you know, guys like Hamlin's contemporary of guys
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: like Jimmy Johnson, Kyle Busch who we unfortunately lost this season,
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: but he's kind of the only one left that's still
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: competing at a high level. Brad Brad Keselowski has is
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: still a full time driver, but he has not been
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: the same guy since he left the number two car
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: of Penske and went to RFK Racing, which he is
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: a art owner in. That's the k at the end
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: of RFK for those who are wondering, it's Ralsh Finway
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: Kesalowski Racing. But since he's been an owner driver, Brad
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: k really hasn't had as much success. He's nineteenth right
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: now in the standings, three spots out of the chase,
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: so Hamlin is, and Hamlin has announced that he probably
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: will retire at the end of next season. I think
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: if he wins the championship this year, he probably will
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: just go ahead and ride off into the sunset, I
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: would imagine, because he has never won a championship and
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: he's probably one of the best. He's one of the
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: best drivers in NASCAR history to never win a championship,
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: similar to a guy like Mark Martin, longtime driver, longtime
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: top of the sport race winner, just never won the
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: big one. So I would be really happy for Denny
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: if he could get that done this year, and.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: He probably would just go ahead and retire.
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: But he's announced that he probably will retire regardless at
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: the end of next season. Like I said, Tyler Reddick
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: in second place the forty five car for twenty three
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: eleven Racing, which again Denny Hamlin part owner. So there's
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: a lot of drivers in NASCAR who are also owners.
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: The funny thing about Hamlin is that he's a driver
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: for Joe Gibbs Racing in the number eleven car, but
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: an owner for twenty three eleven Racing, where he is
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: co owners co owners with basketball legend Michael Jordan. And
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: that's a whole other topic to get into that I've
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: talked about some this summer. So if you're interested in that,
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: look up the twenty three eleven lawsuit against NASCAR that
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: was that was a lot of drama that went down
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: and ended up a lot of positive gain for the
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: owners of NASCAR teams.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: That's going to make it, you know, a little easier for.
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: Them to continue to own teams, which is good to
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: just for the sport in general. Right now in third
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: place is Ryan Blaney, the number twelve car for Pinske,
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: and the fourth place driver and the final driver that
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: has clinched a chase spot so far is the number
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: fifty four car with Gibbs also Joe Gibbs Racing, Ty Gibbs,
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: the grandson of Joe Gibbs. So four cars have clinched
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: their spot. Next, the next four guys right now Carson
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: Hosavar in fifth place, number seventy seven car for Spire,
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: Chase Elliott, the number nine car for Hendrick Motorsports, Chase Briscoe,
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: the number nineteen for Joe Gibbs Racing, and Kyle Larson,
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: two time champion, number five car for Hendrick Motorsports.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: All pretty near clinching.
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: I believe Josavar has had a He's been storming up
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: the standings this season. He just gained two spots with
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: his I think it was ninth place finish in the
• 39:40
  Speaker 7: Brickyard four hundred yesterday, so continues to climb up the leaderboard.
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: Very much in contention for the Chase for the Cup
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: and my favorite personal driver. So excited to see where
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: this season goes next on the docket for NASCAR.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: After the Brickyard four hundred.
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: E Indie yesterday, they will take a week break and
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: then August ninth, they will be at Iowa Speedway for
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: the Iowa Korn three point fifty, which is probably the
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: best name of a race in NASCAR right now, just
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: being Iowa Korn.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: That's a pretty solid sponsor. So excited for that.
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: I think it's one of the last races in the Chase. Yeah,
• 40:25
  Speaker 7: so there's four more races in the regular season and
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: then the Chase will start Sunday, September sixth, the Southern
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: five hundred in Darlington, another one of the crown jewel
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: races for NASCAR. With that, we're going to take another break.
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  Speaker 21: Astros keep it close. Yesterday time things back up two times.
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  Speaker 21: First was JP three getting a second home run of
• 41:51
  Speaker 21: the day for his eleventh of the season.
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  Speaker 22: This Paul hit pretty well in the right center field.
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  Speaker 3: That has a chance. Cheremyan's done it again.
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  Speaker 1: What a run.
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  Speaker 8: Jeremy peg is on.
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  Speaker 22: He's accounted for both Astro's runs with home runs.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: That's one of the right center work.
• 42:07
  Speaker 21: Tied in two, and Taylor Tremmell tied it up again
• 42:11
  Speaker 21: later in the fifth to keep it close.
• 42:13
  Speaker 8: Oh wow, that's cool. Is amazing?
• 42:14
  Speaker 22: This ball hit well. Taylor Trammelle trying to tie the game,
• 42:17
  Speaker 22: and he does. Taylor Chammelle with this port pop run
• 42:20
  Speaker 22: of the year, inspired by the Julia hit on the
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• 42:26
  Speaker 8: To right center. Trammell's got that sushi pop.
• 42:29
  Speaker 21: Astros were unable to complete the sweep of the White
• 42:31
  Speaker 21: Sox as things got way out of hand after the fifth,
• 42:33
  Speaker 21: falling to the Socks twelve to three. Astros start a
• 42:36
  Speaker 21: series with the Angels tonight at eight thirty five. I'm
• 42:39
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  Speaker 7: Welcome back, to Chip Howard Sports Talk here on the
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: Zone eleven fifty A ninety three points seven FM. Kayler
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  Speaker 7: Rapley here on this Monday afternoon. The last week of
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: July is upon us, and this summer has absolutely flown by.
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: Last week was SEC Media Days as we come down
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: the final stretch of the college football offseason, and we're
• 43:29
  Speaker 7: going to hear what the head coach of the Mississippi
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: State Bulldogs, Jeff Levy, had to say at SEC Media Days.
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: Levy is going into his third season with Mississippi State.
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: Year one in twenty twenty four was really rough, two
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: and ten to eight, and conference play last year an
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: improvement five and seven in the regular season, getting one
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: conference win and almost two. They were right there almost
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: took down the Texas Longhorn, which would have been fantastic
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: for me and every other Eggie fan out there, but
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: unfortunately they did not get that win. But they did
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: go five and seven, one and seven in conference play,
• 44:10
  Speaker 7: and normally the threshold to be eligible for a bowl
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: is six wins, but every year sometimes there's a little
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: bit of differences on how many teams actually have six wins.
• 44:23
  Speaker 7: This year there weren't enough, so the Bulldogs were invited
• 44:27
  Speaker 7: to play in the Duke's Male Bowl and they lost
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: to Wake Forest forty three to twenty nine in that game.
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: So final record of five and eight, so it was
• 44:36
  Speaker 7: an improvement on last year. Leb be looking to lead
• 44:40
  Speaker 7: the Bulldogs to take another step this season. Let's hear
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: what he had to say at SEC Media Days last week.
• 44:46
  Speaker 23: Commissioner, thank you, it is it's a privilege to be
• 44:49
  Speaker 23: here SEC Media Days. You know, as I think about
• 44:53
  Speaker 23: year three for us, I think about taking the next step,
• 44:55
  Speaker 23: and that's that's what it's all about this fall. And
• 44:58
  Speaker 23: as we talk about taking the next step inside our program,
• 45:02
  Speaker 23: I think back to the beginning of January and where
• 45:06
  Speaker 23: everything started to give us the opportunity to go change
• 45:09
  Speaker 23: the outcome and do what we're trying to do this fall.
• 45:12
  Speaker 23: And as you think about January, probably the thing that
• 45:14
  Speaker 23: I'm most proud of since walking in the door and
• 45:17
  Speaker 23: Startville is the fact that we were able to retain
• 45:20
  Speaker 23: the way we retain this past portal window and the
• 45:24
  Speaker 23: three guys that are with me today a huge piece
• 45:26
  Speaker 23: of that, but a lot of layers inside our locker
• 45:29
  Speaker 23: room that chose to be a part of what we're
• 45:32
  Speaker 23: doing because there is there's great belief, there's great confidence,
• 45:35
  Speaker 23: there's great energy, focus and edge on going to chase
• 45:39
  Speaker 23: it and putting our best foot forward to get ready
• 45:41
  Speaker 23: to go win games. As we talked about retention, then
• 45:44
  Speaker 23: it was player acquisition. It was being able to go
• 45:46
  Speaker 23: address the needs that we had both lines of scrimmage
• 45:50
  Speaker 23: and in our secondary. We were able to get that
• 45:52
  Speaker 23: done and excited about those groups as we're now man
• 45:55
  Speaker 23: just two weeks away from being able to be back
• 45:57
  Speaker 23: on the grass and get ready to go to go practice.
• 46:01
  Speaker 23: Another big thing for us in the offseason was it
• 46:03
  Speaker 23: was staffing, and there's been a ton of talk about
• 46:06
  Speaker 23: bringing back Zach Barnett as our defensive coordinator. What he's
• 46:11
  Speaker 23: done for me and for us on that side of
• 46:13
  Speaker 23: the ball since January has been huge. His experience, the
• 46:18
  Speaker 23: play calling ability, and him being able to create stress
• 46:22
  Speaker 23: for the other side of the ball is something that
• 46:24
  Speaker 23: we needed in a great way. Alongside Matt brock cole
• 46:28
  Speaker 23: defensive coordinator and linebacker coach, another guy that again has
• 46:33
  Speaker 23: called defense in our league that has great experience. That
• 46:37
  Speaker 23: has been another great asset for us inside our walls
• 46:40
  Speaker 23: and then on the offensive side, adding over twenty five
• 46:43
  Speaker 23: years of experience from a coordinator standpoint with you look
• 46:48
  Speaker 23: at Philip Montgomery and you look at Kevin Johns, both
• 46:50
  Speaker 23: guys that have called plays for a really long time
• 46:53
  Speaker 23: have had a ton of success and bring an incredible
• 46:56
  Speaker 23: amount of experience to our room offensively, which has been great.
• 47:00
  Speaker 23: So we're gonna keep talking about it. We're two weeks away.
• 47:04
  Speaker 23: Great confidence and what we've got going inside our walls.
• 47:07
  Speaker 23: I think as you talk to our three guys that
• 47:09
  Speaker 23: are here today, man, they're gonna be a great voice
• 47:12
  Speaker 23: for us and the belief and the energy that's happening
• 47:15
  Speaker 23: inside our walls. So again, incredibly grateful to be here.
• 47:18
  Speaker 23: With that, I'll open it up.
• 47:20
  Speaker 8: Thank you, Coach Levy. If you have a question, raise
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: your hand. We'll get a microphone to you. We're gonna
• 47:24
  Speaker 8: start here Lauren here in the center aisle about halfway back.
• 47:30
  Speaker 10: Hey, coach Nick Lausa from wog and Athens, Georgia.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: You've made it a priority on offense to win with speed.
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: Can you tell us a little bitt how Marquis Johnson
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: attributes to that methodology.
• 47:39
  Speaker 23: Yeah, Marquise is a guy that does He's got great
• 47:42
  Speaker 23: top end. He's a guy that can he can stretch
• 47:45
  Speaker 23: the field. What I'm excited about in that room is
• 47:47
  Speaker 23: the depth in that room. There's an incredible amount of
• 47:50
  Speaker 23: competition and that's gonna be fun to see sword out
• 47:53
  Speaker 23: through through fall camp. So got some real tools inside
• 47:57
  Speaker 23: that room where there will they'll be great competition.
• 48:00
  Speaker 8: Okay, we'll stay in the center. L Just over on
• 48:03
  Speaker 8: the other side.
• 48:04
  Speaker 24: Coach Hunter Dawkins the gazebo, zat super talking with Sippy News. Coach,
• 48:09
  Speaker 24: You're offensive line doesn't have a whole lot of experience,
• 48:11
  Speaker 24: but you, being a former offensive lineman, talk to me
• 48:14
  Speaker 24: about having a duel threat quarterback and what you're teaching
• 48:18
  Speaker 24: schemes or strategy for the offensive line.
• 48:20
  Speaker 23: Yeah, for us, you know, as we're building that offensive
• 48:25
  Speaker 23: line right now and continuing to develop it. As we
• 48:27
  Speaker 23: sit here today, we're in a much better spot than
• 48:30
  Speaker 23: we were a year ago. Today, we've got very capable
• 48:34
  Speaker 23: people inside that room. I was saying it earlier, but
• 48:38
  Speaker 23: we do. We've got six guys that I'm incredibly excited
• 48:41
  Speaker 23: about having the ability to go play winning football for us.
• 48:44
  Speaker 23: Being able to continue to develop the depth in that room, Man,
• 48:47
  Speaker 23: that's gonna be huge even the next two weeks and
• 48:50
  Speaker 23: then into fall camp, so that we do have the
• 48:52
  Speaker 23: depth that we need, We're gonna be able to do
• 48:54
  Speaker 23: it all up front, though, We've got to have great balance.
• 48:57
  Speaker 23: That's gonna be a huge part of our success.
• 49:00
  Speaker 8: Which we'll go down in front of me in section
• 49:03
  Speaker 8: third row.
• 49:04
  Speaker 10: Good afternoon, Coach Levy. I'm Jelina with Jelina Porta Communications.
• 49:07
  Speaker 10: It's nice to see you today. So you are going
• 49:09
  Speaker 10: into your third season with the Bulldogs. They say third
• 49:11
  Speaker 10: times to charms. So first things first, what gives you
• 49:14
  Speaker 10: the most confidence going into this year versus the past
• 49:16
  Speaker 10: two seasons? And just to the side, Mississippi as a whole,
• 49:20
  Speaker 10: as we know, has made a lot of national news lately.
• 49:22
  Speaker 10: So I just like you to shed some light on
• 49:25
  Speaker 10: what's so special about Starkville or stark Vegas as y'all
• 49:28
  Speaker 10: like to caud I hear, and you know why you
• 49:31
  Speaker 10: and your players enjoy being there.
• 49:33
  Speaker 23: Yeah, the first part of the question, The thing that
• 49:35
  Speaker 23: creates the most confidence for me is our roster. Our
• 49:38
  Speaker 23: roster is in a much better place than it's been
• 49:41
  Speaker 23: the last two seasons, so that immediately gives you a
• 49:43
  Speaker 23: chance to upgrade and change the outcome. I think the
• 49:47
  Speaker 23: next thing that I'm again most excited about that I've
• 49:50
  Speaker 23: already talked about a little bit is just the retention.
• 49:52
  Speaker 23: So guys being back that had to live some of
• 49:55
  Speaker 23: the things that we lived last year and go through
• 49:57
  Speaker 23: some of the things that we went through. And I
• 50:00
  Speaker 23: hate using the word, but being close and having the
• 50:02
  Speaker 23: ability to go change the outcome and take that next
• 50:05
  Speaker 23: step as a program, but be able to change the
• 50:07
  Speaker 23: outcome on those Saturday afternoons. So great confidence starts with
• 50:11
  Speaker 23: the roster and the retention of the guys that we
• 50:13
  Speaker 23: needed to come back. The thing that makes Starvells so
• 50:16
  Speaker 23: special is the people. There's great connection, there's a great community,
• 50:20
  Speaker 23: there's great support, and there's a lot of love in
• 50:23
  Speaker 23: a small college town where and people are pulling the
• 50:26
  Speaker 23: rope the same direction, and I love that. I love
• 50:29
  Speaker 23: it for my kids and for my wife to be
• 50:31
  Speaker 23: able to be there in such a such a cool community,
• 50:34
  Speaker 23: and it's how I was raised, it's how I grew up,
• 50:37
  Speaker 23: and same thing for my wife. So that's why it's
• 50:40
  Speaker 23: special to us.
• 50:41
  Speaker 8: Okay, we'll go back down the center l to our
• 50:43
  Speaker 8: right hand side.
• 50:45
  Speaker 25: Hey, coach Brian's Power Columbia Missourian. You talk about taking
• 50:49
  Speaker 25: that next step as a program, but during the mid
• 50:51
  Speaker 25: season this year, you have a really tough stretch starting
• 50:53
  Speaker 25: with Alabama and then three straight road games in very
• 50:55
  Speaker 25: hostile environments. What would you consider successful during that stretch
• 51:00
  Speaker 25: to help you get to that next step.
• 51:03
  Speaker 23: Yeah, I haven't thought about necessarily that stretch. We've got
• 51:08
  Speaker 23: a twelve game regular season schedule that is incredibly difficult,
• 51:12
  Speaker 23: and so for us, it's about truly being able to
• 51:15
  Speaker 23: reset one at a time. And everybody says it, but
• 51:18
  Speaker 23: it's such a real thing as you live it and
• 51:20
  Speaker 23: then you look up on Sunday morning and you hope
• 51:23
  Speaker 23: you had the outcome that you had on Saturday, and man,
• 51:25
  Speaker 23: you're ready to get right back to work and go
• 51:27
  Speaker 23: chase it for that next Saturday. So as we look
• 51:30
  Speaker 23: at it, every single week is going to create challenge.
• 51:33
  Speaker 23: It's about how we handle it. It's about how we
• 51:35
  Speaker 23: prepare to give us a chance to go execute and
• 51:37
  Speaker 23: go win.
• 51:38
  Speaker 8: Okay, well, stay in the section over to our right
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: hand side. About three quarters the way back.
• 51:42
  Speaker 26: Hey, coach Landon Tucker MPW digital, some of your players
• 51:46
  Speaker 26: went somewhat viral with a TikTok dance. Recently, I was wondering,
• 51:49
  Speaker 26: is there a scenario or maybe even a win total
• 51:52
  Speaker 26: that would somehow get you in one of those videos
• 51:55
  Speaker 26: with them?
• 51:55
  Speaker 23: Absolutely not.
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: Ask Kelly, if you have a question, raise your hand.
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: We'll get a microphone. We'll bring one up here for
• 52:06
  Speaker 8: th row to Barry. Yeah, Jeff, Barry Trammel from.
• 52:12
  Speaker 13: The Tulsa World.
• 52:14
  Speaker 27: You guys ran it pretty good last year, but a
• 52:17
  Speaker 27: lot of teams did, a lot of traditionally strong teams.
• 52:20
  Speaker 27: Something going on with college football defenses now that are
• 52:23
  Speaker 27: sort of clogging up the running game for a lot
• 52:27
  Speaker 27: of people.
• 52:28
  Speaker 23: I think, and again in this league, I do. I
• 52:31
  Speaker 23: think the lines of scrimmage and what is going on
• 52:34
  Speaker 23: in the defensive lines along with scheme has made it
• 52:39
  Speaker 23: really hard for people to line up and just go
• 52:42
  Speaker 23: run the football in traditional ways. I think you've got
• 52:46
  Speaker 23: to put air in the defense. I think you've got
• 52:47
  Speaker 23: a scheme to set your guys up for success. And
• 52:50
  Speaker 23: I think the defensive lines again in this league, and
• 52:53
  Speaker 23: how people are cutting the front and changing structurally makes
• 52:56
  Speaker 23: it really really hard to be able to go execute
• 53:00
  Speaker 23: and play one, to play seventy five and run the
• 53:02
  Speaker 23: football the way you need to. But that's gonna be
• 53:05
  Speaker 23: critical for us. We're gonna have to run the ball
• 53:07
  Speaker 23: really really well, want to be explosive in the run game,
• 53:10
  Speaker 23: but we're gonna have to be great situation and get
• 53:12
  Speaker 23: done what we want to get done.
• 53:14
  Speaker 8: Coach will gobot back over here to our right hand side,
• 53:17
  Speaker 8: over to the right.
• 53:20
  Speaker 28: Over here, Hey, coach Brad. With college sportscasts, you've talked
• 53:25
  Speaker 28: about bringing Zach Arnett back into the fold. Just run
• 53:29
  Speaker 28: through the process of how that happened and just bringing
• 53:33
  Speaker 28: him back into Mississippi State.
• 53:36
  Speaker 23: Yeah, the biggest thing for me was wanting to add
• 53:38
  Speaker 23: a piece inside that defensive staff room to be able
• 53:41
  Speaker 23: to go run it, that had ran it, that had
• 53:43
  Speaker 23: called it, that had called it inside this conference. That's
• 53:45
  Speaker 23: what I wanted first, and had the experience of being
• 53:50
  Speaker 23: a defensive coordinator and having to adjust and understood the
• 53:54
  Speaker 23: grind of what we do every single week. Obviously, Zach
• 53:58
  Speaker 23: has that, and I coached against him and didn't enjoy
• 54:02
  Speaker 23: going against him. He made it really really hard, and
• 54:05
  Speaker 23: that for me was just another great stamp and a
• 54:08
  Speaker 23: check the box situation where I knew what I was
• 54:12
  Speaker 23: getting and I've talked a ton about being the aggressor,
• 54:15
  Speaker 23: being able to affect the quarterback create negative plays. He's
• 54:19
  Speaker 23: done that and he has been awesome in the building.
• 54:22
  Speaker 23: He's been great from a leadership standpoint on that side
• 54:26
  Speaker 23: of the ball for us, and I feel like it
• 54:28
  Speaker 23: does free me up in a great way, which has
• 54:31
  Speaker 23: been awesome.
• 54:33
  Speaker 8: Okay, we'll go in the section in front of me
• 54:35
  Speaker 8: about three quarters of the way back.
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  Speaker 15: Hey, coach Chris Marler, Louisiana Sports Sutton A yet I
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  Speaker 15: had to follow up the TikTok question, but I'm not
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  Speaker 15: going to do that to you. Mario Taylor last year
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  Speaker 15: put up video game numbers since two starts at the
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  Speaker 15: end of the season. What's his ceiling this year and
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  Speaker 15: what's one thing he has to work on most going
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  Speaker 15: into the season.
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  Speaker 23: Yeah, I don't necessarily put a ceiling on K one.
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  Speaker 23: He's a special young man. He's a special talent, but
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  Speaker 23: he's a special young man. We're going to be incredibly
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  Speaker 23: aggressive from an install standpoint, the way this guy retains,
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  Speaker 23: the way he goes about his business on the day
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  Speaker 23: to day to be able to prepare to put himself
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  Speaker 23: in position to go have success in between the White lines.
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  Speaker 23: It's elite, and that's one of the things I'm probably
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  Speaker 23: most excited about for him. I would like to think
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  Speaker 23: that if you asked him his number one goal this year,
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  Speaker 23: the first thing is the start a minimum of thirteen games.
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  Speaker 23: That means stay healthy, that means not take unnecessary hits
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  Speaker 23: and finding ways to get down to get out of
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  Speaker 23: bounds and understand. And it's about the next place.
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  Speaker 8: So I am.
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  Speaker 23: I'm incredibly excited. I'm proud of who he is and
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  Speaker 23: how he's led for being a young guy man. He
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  Speaker 23: done nak young and he does he got a big
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  Speaker 23: time future and really excited about what he's going to
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  Speaker 23: be able to do for us.
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  Speaker 7: All right, that was part of what Jeff Levy had
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  Speaker 7: to say at SEC Media Days last week. We're going
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  Speaker 7: to take a break and we will send you to
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  Speaker 7: the five o'clock hour. This is Chip Howard Sports Talk
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  Speaker 7: on the Zone.