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Texas Baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle, Max Grubbs and Dylan Volantis talk No. 1 rankings and upcoming series against Auburn · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: What a big weekend coming up, not only for the
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  Speaker 1: Texas log Worns, but for other athletic pursuits on the
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  Speaker 1: UT campus and outside of that, pro sports, college sports,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the situation might be.
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  Speaker 2: And we're glad to have you with us this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, and welcome to the program here on Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio AM thirteen hundred of the Zone.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Craig Way.
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  Speaker 1: Glad to have you with us as we bring you
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  Speaker 1: the program this afternoon from UFCU dish fog field. Kind
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  Speaker 1: of quiet right now on the fields. Some early field
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  Speaker 1: prep is being done, but the team will be out
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  Speaker 1: in about an hour to begin it's warm ups. It
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  Speaker 1: is a seven o'clock first pitch tonight for Texas against
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  Speaker 1: the Auburn Tigers, Number one in the country, is number
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  Speaker 1: eight in the country. The Auburn is ranked as high
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  Speaker 1: as number six and one of the polls, but in
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  Speaker 1: D one baseball dot com, which is usually recognized as
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  Speaker 1: the as the most pre eminent of the collegiate polls,
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  Speaker 1: Auburn is number eight. Texas is number one. Another top
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  Speaker 1: ten matchup in the SEC. What else is new? You'll
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  Speaker 1: three point one FM, Austin sad station, our sister station
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  Speaker 1: one oh three point one FM. You can also listen
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  Speaker 1: to it on the Texas Longhorns app and also you
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  Speaker 1: can connect to it via the iHeartRadio app. So baseball
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  Speaker 1: here tonight across the street from us getting underway in
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  Speaker 1: two and a half hours. Texas Softball which fell from
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  Speaker 1: the number one spot, which fell from the top of
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  Speaker 1: the SEC standings, which are pretty tightly bunched after dropping
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  Speaker 1: two of three at home to Tennessee last weekend, and
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  Speaker 1: Texas at number three will host LSU a three game
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  Speaker 1: weekend Thursday, Friday, Saturday Easter weekend series at Red and
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Macombs Field and that gets underway at four thirty
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon. You can listen to Andrew Haynes with a
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  Speaker 1: call on that on the Texas Longcorns app as well.
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  Speaker 1: Our producer who is in the studio I know he'd
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  Speaker 1: probably rather be out at the ballpark where it's sunny
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  Speaker 1: and warm, is Cameron D.
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  Speaker 3: Parker.
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  Speaker 1: The D on the birth certificate stands for Dallas. That's
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  Speaker 1: his middle name, as in being named for the NFL
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  Speaker 1: team that he doesn't care to follow right now, even
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  Speaker 1: though it's his favorite team because he's upset with what
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  Speaker 1: they did, He's probably happy with what they did with
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  Speaker 1: the one day contract to bring Tyron Smith in to
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  Speaker 1: retire as a Cowboy?
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  Speaker 2: Am I right about that? Cam?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? For sure?
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  Speaker 4: I mean Tyron Smith should be a first ballot Hall
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  Speaker 4: of Famer that serves a spot in the Cowboys Ring
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  Speaker 4: of Honor, Hall of Honor, whatever it's called. So awesome
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  Speaker 4: to see Tyron Smith come back. He never should have
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  Speaker 4: even left for the Jets in my opinion, but glad
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  Speaker 4: to have him back. And good afternoon in La. I'll
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  Speaker 4: be at the ballpark after our show in So.
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  Speaker 5: You're coming out, coming out? Excellent, excellent? You need a
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  Speaker 5: parking pass, I think always? All right, I got you
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  Speaker 5: an extra one. Yep, yep, yep, yep, I've got one.
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  Speaker 5: I'll send it to you.
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  Speaker 2: So good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad, all right, I'm glad you're coming out. The
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  Speaker 1: other thing was say is the D could also stand
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  Speaker 1: for Dallas, as in the Mavericks, as in how about
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  Speaker 1: that ten seed looking like higher than a ten seed
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  Speaker 1: and blasting the Sacramento Kings last night in the plane? Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know, it's only the play in and they got
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  Speaker 1: to go to Memphis and try to win. In the
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  Speaker 1: reward for that if they win, that is to get
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  Speaker 1: fed to Cameron's favorite team, the Oklahoma City Thunder in
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  Speaker 1: the first round. But at least they'd be in the
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  Speaker 1: field of sixteen if they were to pull off that win.
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  Speaker 1: But how impressive was that Dallas Mavericks win to you
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  Speaker 1: last night?
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  Speaker 4: Camp, Yeah, it seemed that the Sacramento Kings are ready
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  Speaker 4: for can Kun is what I got from watching that
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  Speaker 4: game last night.
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  Speaker 3: The Kings have just I mean, it's funny thing about that.
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  Speaker 4: A few years ago they were the three seed in
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  Speaker 4: the Western Conference with the bonus, and here they are
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  Speaker 4: an early exit. But hey, you know, all the crap
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  Speaker 4: that we've given Nico Harrison, and we've given Patrick Dumont
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  Speaker 4: and Rich Welts and Jason Kidd, the entire team for
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  Speaker 4: Luca Trade brightly deserved. The players on this team. They
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  Speaker 4: play hard. And you could say, well, of course they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna play hard. They're an NBA team. Why wouldn't they
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  Speaker 4: play hard, But you can kind of tell that Klay Thompson,
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  Speaker 4: Anthony Davis, you know, they take all of this stuff
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more personal.
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  Speaker 3: Than I think a lot of people understand. So we'll
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  Speaker 3: see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: I believe they play with Memphis tomorrow night, and Memphis
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  Speaker 4: they might be a one two three can coon team
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  Speaker 4: as well, so I would not be surprised if it
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  Speaker 4: is Dallas, Okay see in the first round.
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  Speaker 1: It'd be interesting if it does turn out that way,
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  Speaker 1: if it wants up being the Mavericks against the Thunder.
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  Speaker 1: If it turns out that way, however, impressive to see
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  Speaker 1: what Klay Thompson did last night, a guy who had
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  Speaker 1: had what was it the nightmare game there in the
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  Speaker 1: play in last year for Golden State, and was what
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  Speaker 1: the zero for ten from three point range?
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  Speaker 2: That was just a miserable night. And the Kings won
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  Speaker 2: that game.
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  Speaker 1: And uh and and he said something I believe the
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  Speaker 1: Scott Van pell And Sports Center right after after the
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  Speaker 1: game abouts good. He said something like exercise the demons
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  Speaker 1: or the ghosts or whatever like that. But when he
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  Speaker 1: shoots like that, and when they can rebound the way
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  Speaker 1: they do, and we know they try hard on defense.
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  Speaker 1: When they do those things, they give themselves a chance
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  Speaker 1: to win.
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  Speaker 3: They definitely do.
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  Speaker 4: Craig, and you know, I think the Warriors actually was
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  Speaker 4: Steph Curry until they beat the Grizzlies. They were Steph
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  Speaker 4: was winless in the playing game, which is crazy to
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  Speaker 4: think about considering there's an NBA Championship sandwiched in there.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, it's nice to see Clay exercise his
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  Speaker 4: demons when he's hot.
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  Speaker 3: He is absolutely hot.
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  Speaker 4: And you know they're a team that if they can
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  Speaker 4: get by Memphis, you know they can steal a game
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  Speaker 4: or two against Okay. See, but again, you know it's
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  Speaker 4: a team without Kyrie Irving, which it's you know, super
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  Speaker 4: unfortunate that the playoffs will be Kyrie Irving less. But
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  Speaker 4: with with Gafford and in a dy you know, they're
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  Speaker 4: a formidable, a formidable front court and uh.
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  Speaker 3: They might they might give Memphis some trouble. We'll see it.
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  Speaker 4: It'll be uh a battle of Jaron Jackson and Zach
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  Speaker 4: Edie against Gafford and lively Anthony Davis. So it actually
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  Speaker 4: should be suiting up to be a real, real fun
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  Speaker 4: playing game tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, you know. The the other thing that.
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  Speaker 1: Really strikes me about this is, uh, we we get
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  Speaker 1: you know, like you said, when when Anthony Davis is
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  Speaker 1: playing really really well, uh and uh, and and then
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  Speaker 1: gafford able to help inside and then obviously getting uh
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  Speaker 1: the outside shooting from Clay Thompson. It makes a big difference.
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  Speaker 1: How about Brandon Williams last night, Uh, Brandon Williams for
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  Speaker 1: the Mavericks and the job that he did A guy
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  Speaker 1: didn't didn't. He go through a couple of ten day
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  Speaker 1: deals before the Mavericks added him to the regular roster,
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  Speaker 1: and and and he hit some big time shots for
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  Speaker 1: him last night.
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  Speaker 4: He's been playing in the G leagues the past now
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  Speaker 4: two three years, an undrafted player out of Arizona. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's had a pretty interesting story. You know, I think
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  Speaker 4: he played a lot uh in the G League for
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  Speaker 4: the Knicks, for the Magic as well. And here he is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, in the play in getting his shot and delivering.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a it's a real, real fun story. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, again this is you know, courtesy of you know,
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  Speaker 4: Kyrie Irving not being available and Jason Kidd turning to
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  Speaker 4: the bench. But what a what a nice find for
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  Speaker 4: for Jason Kidd. And you know, I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: give Anico Harrison too much credit, but you know, hey,
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  Speaker 4: he's he played excellent and could be a huge X
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  Speaker 4: factor tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's where I stand about this, and people know
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  Speaker 1: how I feel. I'm I'm not any different than any
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  Speaker 1: other Mavericks fan who feels that, uh, you know that
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  Speaker 1: that you know, Nico Harrison did did a horrible thing
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  Speaker 1: with the trade. It was a bad trade. It's still even.
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  Speaker 1: And that's nothing against Anthony Davis. He'll give us them things,
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  Speaker 1: but on all accounts across the board in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the production, the superstar talent and uh and and and
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  Speaker 1: then obviously the popularity of of Luca uh and how
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  Speaker 1: it's driven fans away. Like like my wife she was,
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  Speaker 1: she grew up in Dallas and as a died in
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  Speaker 1: a wool Mavericks fan was until this happened now and
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  Speaker 1: she's following Luca and the Lakers closely right now. She
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  Speaker 1: she feels as disenfranchised as many Mavericks fancies. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want anybody anybody mistaking what I'm about to
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  Speaker 1: say for how I feel about Nico Harrison and Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Dumont and the and the Mavericks family in the whole bed,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want anybody to mistake how I feel about that.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm standing right with everybody else. The only
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  Speaker 1: thing that I will add is it is only fair
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  Speaker 1: and right to if he made some deals, and he
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  Speaker 1: did with the trades he made last year, to give
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  Speaker 1: him some credit for that, and to get a guy
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  Speaker 1: like Brandon Williams on the roster, Like you said, don't
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  Speaker 1: want to give him too much credit, but you give
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  Speaker 1: him credit where credits due on that deal. Now, is
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  Speaker 1: that enough to overcome the horrific mistake of the trade
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  Speaker 1: that he'd been of course not.
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  Speaker 2: And it's bad.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm as disenfranchised a Mavericks fan as anybody else.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, their expansiencies. In nineteen eighty eighty one,
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  Speaker 1: I was in college and I sold merchandise for them,
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  Speaker 1: worked at Reunion Arena, and that helped put me through college.
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  Speaker 1: I became a big Mavericks fan then it had been
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  Speaker 1: ever since. I just think of the interest of fairness
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  Speaker 1: if a guy did make a couple of nice movies, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you recognize that. At the same time also recognizing and
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  Speaker 1: continuing as we all do, as Mavericks fans do, to
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  Speaker 1: feel completely torn asunder by the Luka Doncis trade A
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  Speaker 1: that number one first and foremost, and then b Nico
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  Speaker 1: Harrison doubling down on all of it. Like we talked
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  Speaker 1: about the other day when he had that whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to call it, clandestine off the record news conference
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  Speaker 1: or what it wasn't off the record, but you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: record it. There were no cameras and no recording devices
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  Speaker 1: in there when he did it, which is a cowardly move.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And that's and that's.
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  Speaker 1: Dodging civic and media responsibility as a as a front
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  Speaker 1: office man. And I'm I'm very adamant when I when
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  Speaker 1: when I point that out. So uh that so number one, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the trade itself stands on its own destructive merit for
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  Speaker 1: what it did. And then b for them taking the approach,
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  Speaker 1: the we really don't care about the fans approach for
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  Speaker 1: him to say, I don't work for the fans, to
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  Speaker 1: work for the Mavericks, and the comments that he has made,
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  Speaker 1: the comments, the few that have come out, and the
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  Speaker 1: actions that they had at first ejecting fans from the
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  Speaker 1: stands who are chanting fire and Nico or wearing the
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  Speaker 1: T shirts, you know, that sort of thing, and then
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  Speaker 1: they realize what a public or relations disaster that was,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, kind of peeling back walking that back
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  Speaker 1: of bits, but still a mess, and it's a mess
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  Speaker 1: that won't be cleaned up ever. I don't think as
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  Speaker 1: long as this group is in here, it would have
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  Speaker 1: to take something along the lines of them some in
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  Speaker 1: some miracle way in a year or two or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: bringing him back and then winning a world title to
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  Speaker 1: even erase some of the stain that we know that's
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  Speaker 1: not going to happen, So this is probably never going
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  Speaker 1: to be erased off of that. But you give credit
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  Speaker 1: to the team for playing as hard as they did
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  Speaker 1: and finding as hard as they did on the road
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  Speaker 1: to win the game in sacramentolast night. Now, to be
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  Speaker 1: fair to your point, Cameron, and to what I think
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  Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith pointed out others, Sacramento looked like they
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  Speaker 1: didn't care and didn't want to play anymore. They did
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  Speaker 1: make one run. I think they get it down to
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  Speaker 1: sixteen in the third and then in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: but the Mavericks had every answer after that, and even
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  Speaker 1: though they wound up winning by fourteen, they were in command.
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  Speaker 1: They were leading by over twenty with about two minutes
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  Speaker 1: to go, and then kind of emptied the bench. The
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  Speaker 1: players played very hard. They play hard for Jason Kidd,
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  Speaker 1: We know that, and I think they'll play hard tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: night in Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I don't know that they're going to win. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be difficult.
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  Speaker 1: They're flying across the country today and they'll get into
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  Speaker 1: practice probably a workout later today, and then they'll they'll
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  Speaker 1: play the game tomorrow night if they win, just to
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  Speaker 1: get in the field of sixteen, to get in that
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  Speaker 1: first round against you know, obviously the the heavy heavy
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  Speaker 1: favorite Oklahoma City, is quite an accomplishment given everything they
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  Speaker 1: have been through this year, not only with the Luca trade,
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  Speaker 1: but also losing Kyrie Irving and others to injuries, Irving
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  Speaker 1: obviously through probably the end of next year or at
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  Speaker 1: least until the latter part of next season, and then
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  Speaker 1: losing other guys as well. So tip of the hat
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  Speaker 1: of the Mavericks for fighting hard and getting that win
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  Speaker 1: last night. All right, up next, we're gonna hear from
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  Speaker 1: long Orange Head coach Jim Slasniegel talking about this baseball series.
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  Speaker 2: It's weird.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't there yesterday for the media availability, and I
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  Speaker 1: think I was told Cameron, you dived into it to
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  Speaker 1: edit all the sound. Was there not one question asked
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  Speaker 1: about Auburn, not one. It was all about the team
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  Speaker 1: and how they're playing and things like that. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: hear him discuss that. Obviously, the condition of Ethan Inndos's
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  Speaker 1: concern since he's been banged up and we don't know
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be day to day.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll see where it is with him going forward.
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  Speaker 1: But we're gonna hear from Schlats we do have inconceivable
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  Speaker 1: this hour. Next hour we'll hear from Max Grubbs of
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  Speaker 1: the Long Worn Pitching Staff, and we will also next
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  Speaker 1: hour we'll go through some of that as well, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll hear more from Jim Schlasnagle coming up in the
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  Speaker 1: four o'clock hour as well. So a lot to get
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  Speaker 1: to here on the program this afternoon as we continue
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  Speaker 1: from u FCU Dish falk Field on thirteen under the Zone.
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  Speaker 6: It's The craig Way Show with the voice of the
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  Speaker 6: Texas Longhorns in Hall of Fame Broadcasting Craig Way on a.
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  Speaker 1: Warm, breezy Thursday afternoon. It's a Thursday, Friday, Saturday. He's
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  Speaker 1: for Texas and Auburn here on this Easter weekends. Eighty
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  Speaker 1: five degrees right now, and it's going to colm a
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  Speaker 1: couple more degrees Hi tomorrow will be around ninety. But
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  Speaker 1: then on Saturday, which is a noon first pitch, they
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  Speaker 1: had a game time starts on that there will be
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  Speaker 1: later in the day on Saturday a chance of range,
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  Speaker 1: so it's probably a good thing that they're going to
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  Speaker 1: play at noon on Saturday. They make changes to the
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday games not because of the threat and
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  Speaker 1: thought about impending weather, but because of Auburn's travel situation,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's seven o'clock to night as scheduled. Tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: night was originally scheduled for seven, but now it is
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  Speaker 1: going to be one hour earlier, six o'clock tomorrow evening
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  Speaker 1: seven o'clock tonight, six o'clock tomorrow, and then on Sunda
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday, when it was scheduled for two.
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  Speaker 3: It will be high noon noon on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: And of course you'll be able to hear the games
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  Speaker 1: Texas Long WRNS app and then over the year on
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  Speaker 1: one of three point one FM tonight and tomorrow night,
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  Speaker 1: Saturday's game here on AM thirteen hunderd the Zone, and
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  Speaker 1: again on the apps as well, all right, let's hear
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  Speaker 1: from long WRNS head coach Jim Slastnangle this from the
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  Speaker 1: media available to yesterday and talking to setting up this
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  Speaker 1: series and really kind of the state of the team,
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  Speaker 1: because the questions that came to Sloss were about the
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  Speaker 1: current state of the team and not so much about
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  Speaker 1: the series against Auburn. But here are Slastnangles opening comments.
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  Speaker 7: Has pitched in a while, so that was a very
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  Speaker 7: big highlight for Texas. And looking forward to the weekend, Auburn's
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  Speaker 7: got a great team, short week, which is good.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think anybody should play on Easter, but.
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  Speaker 7: We're having some jumbled game times due to different events
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  Speaker 7: on campus and Auburn's flight schedule for Saturday, so.
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  Speaker 8: I've got to be ready for that.
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  Speaker 7: But we've the way things have gone on the road
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  Speaker 7: for us, with long games or doubleheaders and early morning
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  Speaker 7: games in Kentucky, we should be well prepared for it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So now the questions for coach slashtego
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  Speaker 1: as this team has moved forward to now thirty and five.
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  Speaker 1: The question came about the growth, the growth, the success,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, the confidence and how it feeds off one another.
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  Speaker 1: So he was asked, how has he seen this team's
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  Speaker 1: confidence grow.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think, you know, it's like chicken
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  Speaker 7: or the egg. You know, what comes first, doing it
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  Speaker 7: or thinking you can do it right? Confidence or results?
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  Speaker 7: Confidence or success. So I think it's probably a little
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  Speaker 7: bit of both. You have to believe in yourself enough
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  Speaker 7: that you're capable of doing it. But especially you know,
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: this year, there's a lot of unknowns for the program,
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: going into a new conference, playing in new places, playing
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: in new environments, and I think they've figured out quickly
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: that it's still just it's still baseball. And I think
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: the mental skills and the investment that we've put in
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: the mental game helps them with that, gives them tangible
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: tools to handle anything that comes their way. Certainly winning helps,
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: but we've come from behind. We've played in every scenario
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: you can play. We've had bad games, we've played poorly
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: and still won, and we've played well and lost. So,
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: you know, I think we still have half the conference
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: season left, So I'd love to think that it's going
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: to continue like the first half, but more than likely,
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: you know, we're going to have our ugly stretch or
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: ugly weekend, and that's when it will truly be tested.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: So then a couple of questions about Dylan Balantis, who
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: has just been so strong, so sparkling, although obviously his
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: last having was when he gave up that game tying
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: home run in the bottom of the night to Kentucky
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: in that fifteen inning game on Saturday, when the long
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Ones are up four to three. He was pitching on
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: back to back days, but in the case of that
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: home run, you know that that was something else. First
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: of all, though, the question about Volantis and his release
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: point and how he can do several different things with
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: his release and what makes Balanti's release.
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: So special, I think I think you know that It's
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: part of his deal is you know, release height.
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: So he's he's already tall, and.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: He kind of throws extremely over the top, so it's
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: a different He's very unique in terms of those aspects.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: Got great angle to his pitches, and then you don't
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: see that true overhand curveball as much anymore, and it's
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: more sliders or cutters in which he does throw those pitches.
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: But he got true overhand curveball and he can throw
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: for strikes, so you have to respect it. That's that's
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: that's the key, is he Even some of the better
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: hitters we face don't get great swings on him because
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: they have to respect the pitch. If it's if it's
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: a pitch that you can't throw for a strike, all hitters,
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: but especially the good hitters, are going to just spit
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: on it. And so you know, he throws endless strikes
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: and even when his fastball may be a little bit down,
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: he's still able to land the breaking ball, and that's
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: ultimately what I think gives them success.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Now, it was a fastball that Valantis three that was
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: hit for that game tying home run in the bottom
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: of the night the last time out there on Saturday.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: So the question was schloss? Was that game tying home
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: run for Kentucky? Was that a good at bat? Was
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: it a bad pitch for Valanthis his analysis of it.
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, I mean I give yeah, give a guy credit.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: I think he's got like a two thirty something about
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: an average, but he had like an over nine hundred and.
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: Fifty ops like he's got some power.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: They have some guys in their team that haven't shown
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: it yet, and their ballpark plays pretty big like ours does.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: But with film a three to two fastball. It was
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: a strike, it was down and he got to it.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: So it's going to happen in the course of the season.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Those things do happen on occasion.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Now, after the game on Sunday, and I asked Schloss
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: about this the other day, the whole thing, he made
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: a comment to keep more than on the post game
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: about his team resembling He said, I don't know if
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: anybody other than you or I remembers the TV show
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Mash Now. I obviously remember it being old enough, but
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: his reference to his team resembling a Mash unit, at
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: least in terms of the patients because of the wounded
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: nature that they have. Max Blue is out until who knows,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: maybe on the tail end of the regular season, perhaps
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: more than likely in the postseason. Nobody knows right now,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and it depends on the rate of healing of that
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: broken thumb. So that's one thing. Then there's a couple
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: of pictures out injured. Then on top of that, you've
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: had the injuries that have happened over the past week
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to ten days, and that includes and I guess it
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: would be two weeks coming into this weekend. With regard
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: to Adrian Rodriguez, who was injured in the Missouri series,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and it was that a deema uh on a right
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: at the hammate there right where the hand meets the
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: wrist uh and uh where that was a problem for
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: him and he had to get passed that. And still
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: is to the point where you know, he's a switch hitter,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: but still is to the point where he's only able
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: to swing left handed. Right now he's unable to swing
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: right handed. He is, however, able to play in the field,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: so he's played back at his regular position of third base.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: He is played.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: He played in left field one game in the Kentucky series.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: He was at second base the other night against gut
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: r GV. And a question was asked of Jim Slastnegel yesterday.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Could a rodd as I like to call him, uh
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: play even in right field?
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: Definitely possibility. But with Mendoza out, you know, then it
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: presents a whole nother challenge. So we've got to figure out,
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: you know, what's the best who's playing, you know, what's
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: the best possible combination.
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: To give us the best chance to score.
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: But also, you know, play good defense, and sometimes that
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: means you might have to play defense early and take
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: your chance to see if you can get a lead,
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: and if you're not, then you got to play offense late.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: Or maybe it's the opposite, you know, where we play
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: the best available bat or at least the best that
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: we have, maybe give up something from a defensive standpoint. Uh,
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: and then and then and then and then do something
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: differently later. But uh, Adrian, I mean, he's a baseball player.
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: Like he had a sliding catch against Kentucky, he made
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: a competitive throw on a play at home plate. So
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: it's it's funny how just our true baseball player can
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: really be put it anywhere on the field and do well.
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: I think Adrian's that.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one one of those guys certainly does Okay, So
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: he said some of that depends on Mendoza situation. So
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: we mentioned obviously Ethan Mendoza a diving attempt in fact
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: knocked down the ball, kept it from getting into the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: outfield in the finale on Sunday, but he landed on
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: a shoulder that it had some problems in the pass
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: going all the way back to high school and got up,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: was able to finish the ball game, but was held
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: out of Tuesday's game, and that shoulder is still trying
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: to heal up, and the question is, you know, does
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: it affect him at the plate?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Will it affect him in the field.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: In short, slastn aglast for an update the latest that
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: he had on Ethan Mendoza, It'll be.
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: Day to day.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I haven't seen him yet today. I think he's
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: gonna try to take some dry swings today. I think
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: the hitting him hitting is will probably but yeah, it's
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: just going to be day to day and see how
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: it feels. And we also got to make sure he
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: doesn't re injure it, so we'll have to have to
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: just kind of wait and see him. He's he's certainly
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: tough and he's a he's a very bag baller player.
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: So if anybody can play through something, he gets him.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: And he's been wanting to play as well. And the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: indication is that he might be ready to swing and
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: could still swing as opposed to playing in the field
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: of being able to swing first, which would indicate that
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: maybe he might be available for d H duty.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: But I don't know.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: They'll assess that on a day by day basis and
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: we'll we'll try to find out here before we leave
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: their today. If there's an update on Mendoza, he's listed.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Remember that SEC Student Athlete Availability Report, the injury update.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: You know, there was so much, so much bally hood.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, very very much ballelyhood with regard to football.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: During the football season, there was an awful lot talked about, uh,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: you know, who was available on a week by week
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: basis in football and also from time to time in basketball. Well,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: that SEC Student Athlete Availability Report applies to all sports,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: so you should know that Ethan Mendoza on today's injury
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: report actually was the one released yesterday evening has been
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Thoza listed as probable. The only two guys on the
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: report of Max Blue, who of course is out, and Mendoza,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: who is.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Listed as probable.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: But there's one more report that comes out and it'll
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: be out two hours before game time, so that could
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: change one way or the other.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: So we'll see, uh with regard to that.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: And one other thing from Schlosnage before we take the break.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: And you know, we we've mentioned it because it's a
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: fact and worth mentioning. This team is ranked number one
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: in the country. We know they're number one in the country,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: so they're at the halfway mark of SEC play. Does
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: it really mean that much. And for that matter, Slas
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: was asked, does the team really talk much about being
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: in the top spot at number one?
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah, nothing, not at all. Don't even mention it. I
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: don't hear anybody talking about it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: I had one player ask me, coach, how many times
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: is one of your you know, one of our teams
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: been number one or whatever? And I was I was like, well,
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: I remember it happening, but it's never at the end
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: of the season, so it doesn't really matter. I've had
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: a couple of b preseason. One doesn't matter. So it's
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: it's nice for the programs. It's a snapshot in time
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: of what things look like.
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: But you know, I mean it's nice for recruiting.
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: Maybe gets you a little exposures things like that, but
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: I mean we're at Texas week we have plenty of exposures.
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: So but I don't think the players, you.
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: Know, they don't talk about it when we have a
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: bad weekend, and they shouldn't talk about it when we're playing.
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: Well.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so there it is. That's where they are, even
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: even being ranked number one. All right, up next, we'll
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: have Inconceivable for this Thursday afternoon. We'll hear more from
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Jim Slasnagle coming up in the four o'clock hour. We'll
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: hear from long Warm players on three o'clock hour. But
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: up next inconceivable for a Thursday afternoon on AM thirteen
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: under the Zone. Pregame start time is going to be
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: at six forty five. Again, the first pitch will be
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: at seven o'clock and you can hear that on one
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: oh three point one FM, Austin's eighty station. So we'll
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: we'll have that for you coming up tonight at six
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: forty five on one oh three point one FM. Tell
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: you what else we have coming up for you one
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: week from today. And if you're down with and into
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the National Football League Draft, the NFL Selection Meeting I
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: think is the actual name for it.
• 28:33
  Speaker 10: And.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Uh, then then you can come to the right place
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: for it, and the right place will be at Twin
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Peaks and Round Rock, uh, and it'll be next Thursday.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: What are we going to all the way up to
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: is it a six fifty cam with the draft show
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: or is it two to six I'm trying to remember
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: with our draft show.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Next all the way up to two six fifty, So
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: the Roundrock Express are in action that night so unfortunately
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: we cannot cut over the start of the draft live
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: as we wish we could, So we're gonna be up
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: until about seven o'clock six p fifty ish at the
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: Twin Peaks and Round Rocks, so deathly come out and enjoy.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: There's gonna be some some specials that include a course
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: of cold ice ice cold beer, and along with some
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: of other stuff. You could come out and say hi
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: to you, Craig, to me, Mark, Henry will be there,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: my cards will be there, and we're working on some
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: special guests as well.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: We did it last year. We had an awful lot
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: of fun and I know what you said.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: You know, we step aside once the Express takeover at
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: six fifty for the broadcast. But what we do with
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: this program is to set the stage for you, to
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: set the table for you so that you know the draft,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: analysis of the of the picture pics you may hear,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: and then of course everybody can see and hear the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: picks going on and Twin Peaks good place to watch
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the draft. They've got on all those big screens. So
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: it should be a lot of fun next Thursday. And
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: for people who just dive head first into the draft,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: it'll be a program worth tuning into, no question about it.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: You're you're you're kind of big into the draft, aren't you.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: You know, honestly, Craig with the Cowboys just demise, you know,
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: I you know, I used to be, you know, trying
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: to think of, you know, a mock draft, Marvin, you know, constantly,
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: you know, every mock draft that was coming out, you know,
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: reading it, rereading it. You know, whether it's Matt Miller
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: or you know, uh, Todd McShay or melk khyper Junior,
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: all those guys you know, constantly going through it, and
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: now less and less so. But of course, you know,
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: I am excited to see you know, where Jade Baron
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: ends up.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: He's going to be a first round draft pick.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Calvin Banks of course, and then a lot of other Longhorns,
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: including you know, Isaiah Bond, Matthew Golden. You know, I mean,
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: Texas is going to set up program records for most
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: draft picks likely this season, which is very very exciting
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: and kind of tells you where you've sar Keshan in
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: this program?
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Is that right now? Yeah? And I mean I never ignored.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: The fact that when Texas had several first round draft picks.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I never you know, that it was a sign of
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the upward mobility of the football program. I never, I
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: never dismissed that, But perhaps I didn't give it as
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: much credit, as much credence as as it might deserve.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Because the simple truth is this, if there are guys
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: being drafted, what was it, eleven guys last year? If
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: that were drafted eleven long words that went drafted last year.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: If if there are players being drafted, student athletes being
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: drafted into the NFL to become NFL players from your program,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: that means that as they entered the they enter the
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: draft having been properly prepared at the collegiate level, clearly
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: on their own and with their coaching. And if if
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and this follows, if they have been properly prepared and
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: uh you know, did their own due diligence and their
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: own work and their own preparation leading up for it,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: If they did do that, then that means it probably
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: benefited the program in terms of wins and losses. Now,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people said, you know, there
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: were programs that you know, they hadn't had many uh
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: you know, first round draft picks or second round draft picks,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: and yet we're successful the collegiate level, and that is
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: certainly possible. It is, after all, the sum of the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: parts and not any one or two specific guys. Listen,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: we need only look at what's happened at Tennessee with
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Nico Iomaliaba to see and to hear from Josh Haipel
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: that no one player is bigger than the program overall.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: But if you have a collection, if you have a handful,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: if you have a number of players who could wind
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: up being drafted, and even perhaps one or maybe two
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: that might go in the first round, if that happens,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: then it's a reflection not only of the success of
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the problem, but the success of the program in terms
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: of how it's being built and how it's being constructed.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: And here's that sea word culture of it in all
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: of those things. And I think we've seen the living
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: proof of that here over these past couple of seasons
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: with what sark has done. After all, the long ORNs
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: in the last two years under Steve Sarkise center twenty
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: five and five, with two trips to the College Football Playoffs,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: are the only program to make the program the playoff
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: in back to back years, and of course in the
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Final four and back to back years.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: But you know, I think that is a.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Step forward and a show with the progress there because
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: not just the media, but fans are looking for tangible
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: sign of how the pro how the program is trending upward.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: They want to see tangible signs. Obviously, wins on the field,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: contention for conference championships, UH, getting into the College Football Playoff,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: getting into the Final four or New Year's Six Bowls
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: or whatever. Those those are all tangible outward signs of
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the UH of the UH, you know, the the program's
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: upward mobility. And another one is number of players being drafted.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: So eleven being drafted is it's a pretty cool deal.
• 34:45
  Speaker 11: UH.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Therefore UH last year for Texas and Sark said there
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: might be even more. You could see possibly even more
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: being drafted in this coming draft. So that's a really
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: cool thing to see with what's going on with UH.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: With long worn football.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: And again, we'll be out at Twin Peaks in Round Rock,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: and it'll be a week from the day and it'll
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: be from two o'clock up till six fifty. So we'll
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: get you properly prepared for it as you come out.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: So we'll look forward to seeing you out there at
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: twin Peaks of Round Rock. While I'm on the subject
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: of college football, I did want to bring this long.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: It was announced today that Lee Corso is going to
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: retire from ESPN's College Game Day in August. Of course,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: he began back at nineteen eighty seven, so nearly forty years.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: He'll turn ninety on August seventh. And of course, you know,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: everybody knows him for his picking of team win with
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the head gear in the not so Fast my Friend,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: when he disagreed with somebody on the panel as well. Incidentally,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: in case you were wondering, he made his first headgear
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: pick in Columbus, Ohio back in October nineteen ninety five.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: He's had four hundred and thirty elections and he has
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: gone to eighty six and one forty four uh in
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: those selections all time, to eighty six and one in
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: those picks. That's sixty six percent. Cam, that's two out
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: of three.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Not bad.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Good, it's pretty good. Yeah, yeah.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: And and the story talked about how he's worn the helmets,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: the mascot heads, the other hats. I liked him when
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: he when he would really stretch it out there like
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: when he dressed up as the Leprechaun from Notre Dame
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: or the tree from Stanford, when he dressed up like
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: James Madison or Benjamin Franklin. Remember when he got on
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the motorcycle with the Oregon Duck mascot.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: He's done that.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: He once held a live baby alligator in his hands,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: picking Florida to win, and then he and Katy Perry
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: were picking from the Girl at Ole Miss. So anyway,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and here's something else I didn't know about it. Now
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I knew we'd seen him always have that pencil in
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: his hand. He always picked with a pencil, a number
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: two pencil. Okay, cool, I use I've got one in
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: my hand right now.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I picked.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I like the feel and the writing of the number
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: two pencil, plus the ability to erase. We like when
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I score a baseball game. But the other reason for
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: that is I did not know this. He was the
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: director of business development for Dixon Tekwonder Roga, which makes
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: those famous yellow pencils.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Did you know that?
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: I did not know that.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that either.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: So anyway, his final broadcast will be on August thirtieth.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: And you talk about something being I guess fitting because
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the first time he made a selection was in Columbus.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Is there any doubt in anybody's mind that College Game
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Day is going to be in Columbus for the actually
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the Ohio State game on August thirty. I think everybody's
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: expecting that.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: I think Craig, you know, Lee Corso, for a lot
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: of people like me who grew up, you know, watching
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: college game that's how you come to love the sport
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: and you come to love, uh, there's the pageantry of
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: college football. Because Lee Corso and Rhees Davis and Kirk
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: kurb Street and Desmond Fowler, I think have done always
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: a fantastic job of really telling the story of college football,
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: all the storylines, you know, traveling to different stadiums. As
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: a kid, you know, growing up in Charlotte, you know
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: I was gonna be able to go to the Big
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: House or the Horror Shoe, and you know even you
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: know dk R or out to the West Coast or
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: down to the south of the SEC school. So that's
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: how I got to know about the swamp and the
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: boot and you know, the rolls bawl stuff like that.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: And it was the story the College Game Day that
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: told and a lot of it too was you know,
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: the head gear and lee corso. So you know, it's
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: sad to see him retire, but also it's been so
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: much fun to be able to to see him on
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: the set and see what the show has has become.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Absolutely all right. Coming up next, we're gonna hear from
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Dylan Valantis, the Longhorns pitcher and the outstanding reliever that
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: he is and we are. Also we'll hear some more
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: from Jim Schlastnaego a little later. I'm gonna, like I
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: normally do here when we're at the ballpark, pop down
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: at one point during the program to have my pregame
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: conversation wi Schloss and we'll hear more from him coming up.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: So we'll do all of those things coming up, and
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: we've got some other topics to get to as well.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: It is a Thursday afternoon tonight seven o'clock six to
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: forty five pre game start time on one of three
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: point one FM. Tomorrow six o'clock. It was moved forward
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: one hour from seven o'clock to six o'clock six o'clock
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: with a five forty five pre game and a first
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: pitch at six o'clock on one of three.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Point one FM Saturday.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: It is a noon first pitch and we'll be on
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: the air at eleven forty five Saturday morning with a
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: noon first pitch. And you heard that right here on
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: this single thirteen hunderd the Zone.
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: Welcome back to the Craig Way Show and the Voice
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: of the Longhorns. Craig Way, follow Craig on social media
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: and horn.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Voice that came in hot just then?
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Was it like that automatically?
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: Man the volume and we're just rocking out here on
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: this Thursday.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: I guess so, I guess so.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: All right, this is gonna be a big series this
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: weekend and part of a big weekend in the SEC
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: on but two of the series are Thursday Friday Saturday.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Because of the Easter weekend.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: There are two series that are set for Friday Saturday Sunday.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: One of those is Kentucky at Tennessee and the other
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: one is Florida at Mississippi State. Those are those are
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: the other two series that'll be going on this weekend
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: on Friday Saturday Sunday. Everything else is Thursday Friday Saturday,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: including Arkansas and Texas.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: A and M.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: A and M has been hot of late. That series
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: will be up in Fayetteville. So obviously we'll have an
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: eye on that, and we'll have an eye on a
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: lot of the things going on in college baseball and
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: in the SEC. And I would say also that we'll
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: keep an.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Ear and an eye during.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Especially you know, right when it starts, because we'll still
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: be on the air in the four o'clock hour. Texas
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Softball has a crucial SEC series with lsu happening across
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: the street from US at Macombs Field.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: That's a four thirty first pitch.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Help me out on the HD signal where folks can
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: find that on the dial cam. I know, they obviously
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: can get it on Texas loong oornge dot com or
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: excuse well, they can, and they can also the Texas
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Longrorns app and then connect to it through the iHeartRadio app.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: That's how a lot of folks follow Andrew Hayes calling
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: LONGWRN Softball. But also we have an HD signal. Right, No,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: it's only on the app. So if you down three
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: radio app, it's Retro Austin. That's what I was thinking of. Okay,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: so it's Retro Austin off of the app when you
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: download off the app. Okay, all right, I just wanted
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: to make sure I had all all of that correct
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: on that with folks will listen. And it's in a
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: crucial series because you know, Texas comes off dropping two
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: out of three at home to Tennessee last weekend and
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: they're now thirty nine and five, and Long Worn Softball
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: has fallen out now only a half game back of
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Texas A and M for the top of the SEC standings.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: And also there are only one game up on Oklahoma,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: so they're half game behind UH, They're one half game
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: behind UH, Texas A and M. And they're one half
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: game up or one full game up on Oklahoma in
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: the conference standing. So it's tight race enseoftball. Just it
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: is as it is in baseball as well. All Right,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: speaking of baseball, a guy who's just been lights out
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: on the mountain for the Long Warrens freshman from California
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: out of the bullpen for Texas from Thousand Oaks went
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: to Harvard West Lake.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: This is a guy.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Who has has just posted monster numbers for Texas. Dylan Valantis,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the freshman lefty, is three and oh with a one
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: point one five and eight saves in thirty one in
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: the third innings, He's allowed nineteen total hits scattered through
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: thirty one and a third innings. He's allowed six total runs,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: four of those earned. He's walked, five, struck out forty,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: allowed four extra base hits to doubles, to homers, and
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: opposing inners are only batting one seventy six against him
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: in conference play. Phalanthas hays a zero five to five ERA.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: It was zero zero zero until he gave up that
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: game time home run in the ninth on Saturday Kentucky,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: but he's one to oher with seven says. Seven of
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: his eight saves have come in conference play, so he'll
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: He's made nine appearances, seven saves in the nine appearances
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: one and oh with a zero five to five ERA,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: sixteen and a third innings and conference play, scattering eight hits.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: That's won every other inning He's allowed with only one
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: run that was the homer, two walks, twenty four strikeouts,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: has given up one other extra base hit a double.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: So Dylan Valantis has just been tremendous and he's been
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: obviously a pleasant surprise to.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: A lot of folks this season.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: And he had a chance to meet with the media
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: and answered some questions yesterday about how things have gone
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: for him in this freshman season Scrubs and he was.
• 45:19
  Speaker 12: Wearing the bowling championship. Sure, what was your bowling skills Like?
• 45:25
  Speaker 13: In the beginning, it's kind of rough, But towards the end,
• 45:28
  Speaker 13: I actually kind of helped the team out a bit
• 45:31
  Speaker 13: with a couple of strikes back to back to back,
• 45:33
  Speaker 13: so that it was a really fun tournament you had.
• 45:38
  Speaker 13: Kind of towards the beginning though, was a little rough.
• 45:41
  Speaker 13: I got a couple of gutter balls, but towards the Yeah,
• 45:45
  Speaker 13: at the end, it was way better.
• 45:48
  Speaker 14: Grubbs just said at the midpoint of SECLA, can't vote
• 45:52
  Speaker 14: for yourself. You know who would be the MVP this
• 45:55
  Speaker 14: team right now? He said, you, So, I'll ask you
• 45:58
  Speaker 14: the question, who would.
• 46:00
  Speaker 9: You vote for? As that gay?
• 46:03
  Speaker 13: Yeah, it's so hard just naming one player, especially on
• 46:05
  Speaker 13: this team. I mean Grubs, he's been phenomenal, being able
• 46:12
  Speaker 13: to go in long relief multiple Indians have just shut
• 46:15
  Speaker 13: out baseball and throwing strikes like he always does. It's
• 46:18
  Speaker 13: just it's just awesome to watch. It's just hard between
• 46:22
  Speaker 13: Galvan and Grubs. I mean, I want to say both
• 46:24
  Speaker 13: of them for sure, just both phenomenal players.
• 46:27
  Speaker 15: Galvan brings the energy and gets the.
• 46:30
  Speaker 13: Spirit going and just catching and hitting has been unbelievable.
• 46:34
  Speaker 15: So I would say definitely Grubs and gouv On.
• 46:38
  Speaker 16: He also mentioned that if you were probably the player
• 46:41
  Speaker 16: that they asked why your successful, probably that he's never
• 46:46
  Speaker 16: met somebody who loves the game.
• 46:47
  Speaker 9: As much as Yun. Yeah, what does that look like
• 46:49
  Speaker 9: to you?
• 46:50
  Speaker 16: How much do you love this game and how does.
• 46:52
  Speaker 13: That play out on a few Yeah, I love this
• 46:55
  Speaker 13: game a ton, and I do anything to get better
• 46:59
  Speaker 13: each and every day. So I go on with the
• 47:00
  Speaker 13: mentality of just coming to practice and learning something new,
• 47:05
  Speaker 13: just recovering and getting stronger each every day and each
• 47:09
  Speaker 13: and every day. So I love this game. I do
• 47:11
  Speaker 13: it for, you know, myself, my family and my friends
• 47:14
  Speaker 13: back at home. And I'm just super grateful to beat
• 47:17
  Speaker 13: where I am and I think I take the advantage
• 47:20
  Speaker 13: of it to the most of my ability.
• 47:23
  Speaker 9: Where did that look help from?
• 47:26
  Speaker 15: I'm just growing up.
• 47:27
  Speaker 13: I'm starting to play when I was yeah, three and four,
• 47:30
  Speaker 13: and then my dad was just always there with me
• 47:32
  Speaker 13: and by my side, and you know, he wants to
• 47:35
  Speaker 13: see me succeed, and I hope I succeed too, So.
• 47:39
  Speaker 9: I just do it for me and my dad.
• 47:41
  Speaker 13: Really, it's just he's just always been there for me,
• 47:44
  Speaker 13: and I want to prove to him how good I
• 47:46
  Speaker 13: can be.
• 47:47
  Speaker 9: How much you enjoy. But the late game, on especially
• 47:49
  Speaker 9: SEC play.
• 47:51
  Speaker 15: You can't really beat it.
• 47:52
  Speaker 13: I mean, like one run game, two run games, Todd games,
• 47:55
  Speaker 13: I mean, those are just you can't beat those feelings.
• 47:58
  Speaker 13: And you're on that mound and go And I'm just
• 48:03
  Speaker 13: super lucky to be in a position to where they
• 48:05
  Speaker 13: can trust me to be in that spot and give
• 48:07
  Speaker 13: me that ball and it's ninth inning, THI game, or.
• 48:10
  Speaker 15: Try to get a quick couple outs.
• 48:12
  Speaker 13: I'm super grateful to be in that spot where I
• 48:15
  Speaker 13: can go out there and just throw strikes, take.
• 48:17
  Speaker 17: Us through the you give up the home run in
• 48:21
  Speaker 17: the ninth against Kentucky, you just mow down the rest
• 48:25
  Speaker 17: of the guys in that inning, take us through your
• 48:28
  Speaker 17: your mindset and pandeling that.
• 48:30
  Speaker 15: I mean, I mean, yeah, baseball, it's not going to
• 48:33
  Speaker 15: go your way always.
• 48:34
  Speaker 13: So yeah, him having that home run, there's a there's
• 48:38
  Speaker 13: a good hit here in that one, so you can't
• 48:41
  Speaker 13: be mad about it. And it's in the past now,
• 48:42
  Speaker 13: so you know, I when I go out there, and
• 48:46
  Speaker 13: you know, it's bound to happen to everyone.
• 48:48
  Speaker 15: No matter how good you are or anything. So it's
• 48:52
  Speaker 15: just it's bound to happen.
• 48:53
  Speaker 13: Just be able to control your feelings after that happens,
• 48:55
  Speaker 13: and just forget about it.
• 48:57
  Speaker 15: Is played the biggest thing doing.
• 49:00
  Speaker 18: Y'all are obviously ahead in first in the SEC and
• 49:03
  Speaker 18: at a half what point?
• 49:04
  Speaker 9: What what's it gonna take to still be there in
• 49:05
  Speaker 9: five weeks from now?
• 49:07
  Speaker 15: I think, just keep on doing what we're doing, you
• 49:09
  Speaker 15: know how fun.
• 49:11
  Speaker 13: Or our bond together it's just like a brotherhood almost,
• 49:14
  Speaker 13: so it it it helps a ton, Uh when around
• 49:17
  Speaker 13: that mound and I got all my infielders and Galvan
• 49:21
  Speaker 13: just cheering me on and just helping me out to
• 49:24
  Speaker 13: go through the just to get through it. So I
• 49:27
  Speaker 13: I think just hitting, you know, pitching and hitting has
• 49:30
  Speaker 13: been really good.
• 49:31
  Speaker 15: So just keeping those up and having a good time.
• 49:33
  Speaker 18: Is that? Is that something y'all are talking about what
• 49:35
  Speaker 18: it would like, what would be like to to win
• 49:37
  Speaker 18: win the SEC?
• 49:38
  Speaker 15: In your work?
• 49:39
  Speaker 13: Uh, we don't really like to. I mean I don't
• 49:42
  Speaker 13: really like talking about it. You know, winning anything, we
• 49:44
  Speaker 13: just gotta earn it. So I Uh, we take it
• 49:47
  Speaker 13: one game at a time. Each day's opening day that
• 49:50
  Speaker 13: we have a game, so it's just a first game
• 49:52
  Speaker 13: of the season. So we maybe after the fact if
• 49:55
  Speaker 13: you do, but as of right now, it's just opening day.
• 49:59
  Speaker 8: Well is always.
• 50:03
  Speaker 14: Well, what does Ruger bring to this pitching staff, to
• 50:06
  Speaker 14: this team? You're already smiling? Yeah, would you know, just
• 50:12
  Speaker 14: describe him and his impact.
• 50:14
  Speaker 13: He's just he's the funniest guy for sure. He's always
• 50:17
  Speaker 13: got something new to say. I always got something to
• 50:19
  Speaker 13: make you laugh. If if he sees you like a
• 50:22
  Speaker 13: little bummed out about something, maybe something outside of baseball,
• 50:24
  Speaker 13: he's always there and he'll cheer you up and give
• 50:27
  Speaker 13: you a hug or a little smack on the butt
• 50:30
  Speaker 13: or something, just saying like let's let's keep going. And
• 50:32
  Speaker 13: he just he's a jokester for sure, always has a
• 50:35
  Speaker 13: nice joke to say.
• 50:37
  Speaker 14: Do you have a nickname for him?
• 50:41
  Speaker 9: Not?
• 50:41
  Speaker 13: I mean it's it's usually just like rude. But I mean,
• 50:45
  Speaker 13: we got a couple of nicknames about his mustache. Yeah,
• 50:50
  Speaker 13: that's a nice mustache he's got, so we we kind
• 50:52
  Speaker 13: of got some nicknames about that, and just about his
• 50:54
  Speaker 13: personality as well.
• 50:55
  Speaker 15: That's a better him or.
• 50:57
  Speaker 13: Groups that's hard. I like Ruger's. I think it's just
• 51:07
  Speaker 13: it fits his personality a lot. I mean, I don't
• 51:10
  Speaker 13: even remember what he's like without him having a mustache anymore.
• 51:13
  Speaker 15: So, uh, I love that look on him for sure.
• 51:16
  Speaker 19: It feels like a lot of your success, it's not
• 51:18
  Speaker 19: velocity to kind of like, what do you think has really.
• 51:20
  Speaker 18: Helped you as far as development here on the mound
• 51:24
  Speaker 18: here this season?
• 51:26
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean it's just always getting ahead of the hitter, like,
• 51:29
  Speaker 13: don't don't get behind that. That's when the hit start
• 51:31
  Speaker 13: to happen and you.
• 51:33
  Speaker 15: Get walks as well. So just kind of not giving anyone.
• 51:36
  Speaker 13: Free basis and making him earn for it, winning the
• 51:39
  Speaker 13: O and the one to one, just to get ahead
• 51:41
  Speaker 13: of them and you know, it's just gonna make it
• 51:43
  Speaker 13: a lot tougher for them.
• 51:44
  Speaker 15: And being able to throw my pitches for strikes. It's
• 51:47
  Speaker 15: it definitely helps a ton.
• 51:48
  Speaker 10: When you get a call to throw a particular pitch.
• 51:51
  Speaker 10: What is your most favorite pitch to throw up? That
• 51:53
  Speaker 10: curve ball for sure? Like one, one, like one, two
• 51:57
  Speaker 10: oh two? Those are my favorite for sure.
• 51:59
  Speaker 13: I just a lot of confidence in that and I
• 52:01
  Speaker 13: can usually land it for strikes on much every time,
• 52:03
  Speaker 13: So it's it's it's a nice pitch to have for sure.
• 52:06
  Speaker 12: Going back to what Chip said earlier with Max picking
• 52:09
  Speaker 12: you to be MVP, I mean, what does that feel
• 52:11
  Speaker 12: like to have an older guy like him say that
• 52:14
  Speaker 12: about you?
• 52:15
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it it it means a lot.
• 52:17
  Speaker 13: I mean, I he's he's such a nice guy and uh,
• 52:21
  Speaker 13: just a hell of foot ball player.
• 52:23
  Speaker 15: So he's he's a.
• 52:25
  Speaker 13: It means a lot, and it really helps me, you know,
• 52:29
  Speaker 13: just be positive about everything.
• 52:32
  Speaker 15: But yeah, it's just you.
• 52:33
  Speaker 13: Know, job's not finished, so it's kind of I hope
• 52:35
  Speaker 13: I can, you know, continue to do how I'm doing
• 52:37
  Speaker 13: and you know, just have fun out there and enjoy
• 52:40
  Speaker 13: it like it's my last.
• 52:41
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 52:41
  Speaker 12: And and then he he also mentioned that you also coaches,
• 52:44
  Speaker 12: specifically Max, I think kind of told you as to
• 52:46
  Speaker 12: do yourselves as a number one team in the country
• 52:48
  Speaker 12: at the beginning of this season, Did you expect to
• 52:51
  Speaker 12: be number one in the rankings?
• 52:53
  Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean with the team that we have, I mean,
• 52:55
  Speaker 15: I I knew it was bound to be. We're we're
• 52:58
  Speaker 15: bound to be.
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  Speaker 13: Number one at some point, you know, just the way
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  Speaker 13: that we perform and act and have fun and do
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  Speaker 13: our jobs as hitters.
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  Speaker 15: It's not We're not selfish at all, or you know, for.
• 53:09
  Speaker 13: The team that helps the times do your job, you know,
• 53:12
  Speaker 13: not trying to hit the big home runs, big big swings,
• 53:16
  Speaker 13: just kind of get base runners and timely hitting.
• 53:19
  Speaker 17: You and gas Brino are from the same area.
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  Speaker 9: Did you know him before you came here?
• 53:27
  Speaker 15: What was I didn't really know him like like that.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, I knew the name from Harvard Westlake, but
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  Speaker 13: I never actually got to talk to him during high
• 53:37
  Speaker 13: school or anything.
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  Speaker 15: Back at home. I did know Tommy.
• 53:40
  Speaker 13: He was at our rival high school across the street,
• 53:44
  Speaker 13: so I knew him and faced him a couple of
• 53:47
  Speaker 13: times in high school, so it was it was fun.
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  Speaker 15: But yeah, I didn't really know Will too too much.
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  Speaker 14: As anyone said that your curve looks like a fastball, like.
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  Speaker 13: Out of the hands or yeah, because I think it
• 54:02
  Speaker 13: has more like late break towards it, and some curveballs
• 54:05
  Speaker 13: you kind of see it pop up out.
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  Speaker 15: Of the hands.
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  Speaker 13: But yeah, I haven't really asked many like hitters or
• 54:12
  Speaker 13: catchers about that, But yeah, I think it looks more
• 54:15
  Speaker 13: like a fastball than it does kind of pop out
• 54:17
  Speaker 13: of the hand.
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  Speaker 15: So how did these match ups with PM carmer Go
• 54:21
  Speaker 15: in high school. Yeah, not too good for me. I
• 54:26
  Speaker 15: think he was. He got two doubles off the wall
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  Speaker 15: in one game off me.
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  Speaker 13: It was my junior year. One was a fastball and
• 54:33
  Speaker 13: one was a curveball. Yeah, he did ownly that that series.
• 54:37
  Speaker 15: But I, you know, I struck him out.
• 54:40
  Speaker 13: I think like twice he got two hits off me
• 54:42
  Speaker 13: or something, so I guess it's even, but not really.
• 54:45
  Speaker 13: I think he's kind of got the upper hand on
• 54:46
  Speaker 13: me on that.
• 54:47
  Speaker 12: What was the animals like when you guys became teammates
• 54:50
  Speaker 12: and you were actually.
• 54:51
  Speaker 13: Interacting, it was it was cool, you know, it's it's
• 54:54
  Speaker 13: really it's nice time with someone from back home on
• 54:57
  Speaker 13: the team.
• 54:57
  Speaker 15: You can relate to back at home from high school,
• 54:59
  Speaker 15: and it's it's really nice.
• 55:02
  Speaker 13: I was during fallball scrimmages there's I was looking forward
• 55:06
  Speaker 13: to face Tommy because I wanted that revenge and I
• 55:08
  Speaker 13: got a couple at bats or I got a pitch
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  Speaker 13: to him a couple of times in fall, so I
• 55:13
  Speaker 13: was just to get to get that revenge back at him.
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: At the beginning of the interview, you may have heard
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: Falantis he was asked about the Bowling Champs. Sure, nope,
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: you're not tripping. The reporter did ask about bowling. That's
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: because Max Grubbs, who you might hear in the four
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: third hour of the day's program, was wearing a tank
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: top Texas Baseball Bowling Champs shirt. Now, I don't think
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: you can they settled at the ut co op or
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: a Nike and so he was asked about it. And
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: I guess from the offseason. At some point during the
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: fall season, the team had a team bonding exercise where
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: they went bowling in Max Scrubbs allegedly won the bowling
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: championship the bowling tournament, and so that's why Dn Falantis
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: was asked about the bowling. And when we do play
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: the audio for Max Grubs, you get to hear who
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: he called the two worst bowlers on the team. They
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: may they may surprise you. Craig is visiting with Jim
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: Slowsnegle right now, the Texas Baseball head coach, as the
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: Longhorns are hosting a red hot Auburn Tigers baseball club.
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: We're gonna hear more from Jim Slashnagle and Max Grubs
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: throughout the program here on this Thursday afternoon you're listening
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: on the free iHeartRadio app.
• 56:39
  Speaker 9: We're back.
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: It's the Craig Way Show with Hall of vame broadcaster
• 56:43
  Speaker 6: and voice of the Texas Longhearts Craig Way.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, we aren't even too repped up Friday yet, you
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: know yet? Cameron Parker continues to rev us up here
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: on the Maybe maybe you're feeling the same way I am, Cam,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: because there's gonna be a baseball game, and I keep
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: having to remind myself today is Thursday, not Friday, because
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: I'm used to being at the ballpark on Tuesdays and
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Fridays to do the program Tuesdays and Fridays pretty regularly.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: But it's a Thursday.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: In fact, the Loghorns have three of their five remaining
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: there's a halfway point of SEC play and three of
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: their five remaining series or Thursday, Friday Saturday.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: This one is Thursday through Saturday.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: Now next week weekend against Texas A and M is Friday,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday.
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: Then Arkansas.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: The big Showdown series in Fayetteville is Thursday, Friday Saturday.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: Then their home finale series when they have seen Your
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: Day and all of that, that's a Friday Saturday Sunday,
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: second weekend in May against Florida, and then they conclude
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: the regular season in Norman at Oklahoma on a Thursday
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: Friday Saturday, because the SEC Tournament begins early the next week,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: so everybody's playing Thursday through Saturday, that final weekend of
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: the season. So they're getting ready to play the Auburn Tigers.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: And you've heard me discuss the situation with regard to
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: the injured Longhorns. We know Max Blue is out for
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: a while. We know that Adrian Rodriguez has come back
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: from that bad bone bruise there around the hamate and
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: has been able to play some in the field and
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: can swing from the left side. And then of course
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: the updated situation with regard to Ethan Mendoza diving for
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: the ball and landing on his shoulder has him listed
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: as day to day now in the SEC Student Athlete
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: Availability Report, the injury report, he's listed as probable for.
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: The nights game.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: So that was one of the questions.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: Just a moment ago, I was down on the field
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: with head coach Jim slas Nagel, And here's the conversation
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: I had with Jim, not only with regard to the
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: injured guys, but how his team has played through thirty
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: five ball games at thirty wins and five losses. It's
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: all about I know, through thirty five ball games that
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: we please well, the team that's played thirty wins and
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: thirty five games and overcoming, I think is probably what
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: stands out as much as anything else.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: With all the guys you've had banged up.
• 59:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I think, uh, you know, I think
• 59:14
  Speaker 7: most teams could probably say that. There's certainly teams out
• 59:17
  Speaker 7: there they've had big injuries, but we've had a lot
• 59:19
  Speaker 7: of them.
• 59:19
  Speaker 8: Uh. And on a team that, you know, the first
• 59:22
  Speaker 8: year of a new.
• 59:23
  Speaker 7: Coaching staff where your depth of talent isn't you know
• 59:27
  Speaker 7: where we'd like for it to be at least sec level.
• 59:30
  Speaker 7: It's you know, you no disrespect to anybody, it's just
• 59:33
  Speaker 7: a fact, uh, we got you know that the frontline
• 59:36
  Speaker 7: talent is significantly further ahead of the rest of the talent.
• 59:39
  Speaker 7: And so you know, the win into the season saying
• 59:41
  Speaker 7: to be real tough for us to be super successful
• 59:44
  Speaker 7: if we lose guys like Ballou and you know, you
• 59:48
  Speaker 7: know the marquee names. But we've you know, we've pitched,
• 59:50
  Speaker 7: we're pitching. I knew, I knew we would pitch. Well,
• 59:53
  Speaker 7: I didn't think we would, you know, it wasn't. We've
• 59:55
  Speaker 7: had some good surprises on the mound and and uh
• 59:58
  Speaker 7: so when.
• 59:58
  Speaker 8: You can pitch, you always give yourself a chance.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: We give you an opportunity.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: Just to update fans a little bit on where things
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: stand the injury wise, the sec AS it's Student Athlete
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Availability Report and Ethan was listed is probable for tonight,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: And I know you mentioned yesterday's day to day and
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: with regard to his shoulder and then of course blup
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: trying to make progress with the thumb and then then
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: a rod also with his hand and where can you
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: bring everybody up there?
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: Just on where things are with those guys.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I would say Mendoza is going to be able
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 7: to hit before he can throw, and then his hitting
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 7: will be day to day relative to how he feels.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 7: You know, he may have a day where he feels
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 7: awesome and then maybe takes some swings or I don't know,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 7: swings through a pitch or something happens on a particular
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 7: pitch that aggravates him a little bit, maybe down for
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 7: a little bit. So you just have to wait and see,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 7: but if anybody can play through anything, it's him.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 8: The defense to throwing, you know, that may be a
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 8: little bit.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 7: Max is progressing every days, he's rehabbing his thumb. The
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 7: stitches are out, he's you know, doing whatever it is
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 7: that the trainers do, grip strength and getting movement, full
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 7: on movement and strength back in his thumb to the
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 7: point where he's we think, especially since it's since the
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 7: injury is in his top hand on his back. So
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 7: he's a right handed thrower by a left handed hitters,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 7: so that's actually a good thing for us. Not as
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 7: much pressure on that hand when you hit, So maybe
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 7: he can hit before he can before he can play
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 7: the field.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 8: Of course, you're only allowed to with dhs, so what.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 7: May have to get creative on that end, and then
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 7: a rod is he's making progress every day. It's just
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 7: a bone bruise that there are some days where are
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 7: some particular swings where it bothers him in other days
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 7: where he's totally fine. And so it's one of those
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 7: deals where like he's seventy percent of a rod better
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 7: than one hundred percent of the other option relative to
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 7: the defense and relative to the options. So I think
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 7: a Rod will be in there more often than not.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 7: I think Mendoza should be in there tonight unless something
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 7: happens between now and game time, and Max is probably
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 7: at the earliest I would say three weeks away and
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 7: as much as five weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday's media availability.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: One thing was notable is that nobody Auburn and and
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: you said, it's a really good team coming in and
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: it's a team that just finished sweeping LSU. What about
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: your impressions of the Tigers.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah, really strong baseball team, so we've played. I thought
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 7: LSU had a really strong baseball team, not a typical
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 7: l s U big thumper through through the lineup team,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 7: So really good baseball team that could play baseball in
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 7: a lot of different ways.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 8: They could thump you, they could get the safety.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 7: Squeezes down, they run bases, play really good defense with
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 7: Milam and Dickinson. And the reason I say that is
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 7: Auburn swept them, so they're pitching lights out, especially out
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 7: of the bullpen, and they have two one. I think
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 7: the best hitter in our league is Ike Irish. I
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 7: don't I actually don't think it's close.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 8: I think he's a superstar big league player.
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  Speaker 7: He doesn't. You can't pitch him the same. It doesn't
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 7: matter left or right, it really doesn't. You can't defend them.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 7: You can play shifts if you want, but he's gonna
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 7: take his hits the other way or he'll just hit
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 7: it over the shift.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 8: So really really good player.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 7: And then mc murray behind him is is he's performed
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 7: as well.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 8: Uh and and so they have speed.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 7: They just play really really really sound baseball, like you know,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 7: like I would like to think people say about us,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 7: and and they're playing well.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 8: So I'm playing with a lot of confidence.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: So there's your scouting report, if you will, with regard
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: to you know, to uh to Auburn, because nothing was
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: really asked about the Tigers yesterday. So uh now you
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: know a little bit more about this Auburn team that
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: comes in batting three oh three is a team e
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: r A t e r A is four four five
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: n SEC play where they are nine and six. They're
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: batting two seventy one, but they're on an uptick and
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: uh they're they're e r A. They've given up some runs,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: but they didn't against LSU. They give up two runs
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: a game and that brought their uh TM E ra
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: a in SEC games down to five to one.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: One.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. The other thing is you heard him talking about
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: Ike Irish. Irish is a junior from Michigan and is
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: a catcher and outfielder in conference play well. First of all, overall,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: he's bat three forty five impressive enough, put seven homers
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: in thirty runs, bat at ays, drown nineteen walks, and
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: been hit by a pitch five times. He got an
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: on base percentage of four fifty one and a slugging
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: percentage of six twenty two. In SEC games, ike Irish
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: is batting four oh eight with four of his seven
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: homers and eleven of his thirty RBI is coming in
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: conference play. He has a slugging percentage in SEC games
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: of eight sixteen eight sixteen. The slugging percentage so this
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: is a team that can swing the bats and get
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: some key pitching, as they did.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: To sweep LSU last weekend.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll be back to wrap up our number
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: two here from UFCU Dish fault field.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: I'm thirteen under the zone.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: The Texas Longhorns will be in action tonight as they
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: take on the Auburn Tigers, and that game will come
• 1:05:01
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• 1:05:03
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  Speaker 1: six forty five with the pregame start time, and the
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: first pitch will be at seven o'clock and the Longhorns
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: will be of course going with Jared Spencer. They're left hander.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: The senior transfers four and one and a three point
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: oh a d ra A. Auburn's right hander Samuel.
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  Speaker 3: Dutton will go.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: Dutton is a senior right hander and he began his
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: collegiate career at LSU before he transferred in He's five
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: and two of a two three four earn run average,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: and he has a complete game this season as well.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: In fact, he's pitched fifty innings and Spencer's pitched forty
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: nine and two thirds innings, so those numbers pretty much
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: check out. But he'll be on the mound for Auburn
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: right hander. In fact, Auburn is going to go right
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: left right right hander scheduled for tonight's contest a left
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: hander tomorrow evening Kate Fisher against the long Orange lefty
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: Luke Harrison, and then on Saturday, Auburn has a right
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: hander Andreas Alvarez going and Ruger Riojas, the right hander
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: will go on Saturday for Texas. You heard from Jim
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: Schlasnegel the conversation I had with him just a few
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: minutes ago, and we brought that to you there and
• 1:06:23
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  Speaker 3: You can do that.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: But we're gonna hear some more from Jim Schlasnagel coming
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: up in a few minutes from the media availability yesterday
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: with some other specific questions about specific players and the team,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: So we'll bring that to you. Also later this hour,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: we'll hear from Max Grubbs, the long Orange junior right
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: hander who has looked really good of late on the mound.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: He's five and oh with a one seven to one
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: ERA with four saves. He has been their long and
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: middle to closing guy to fit the show games, and
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: he was big in the Friday night went over Kentucky
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: because it was very cold and hard for pitchers to
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: get a grip on the ball and Jared Spencer did
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: not have his best outing had to come out after
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: four and two thirds innings. He had thrown a lot
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: of pitches and in those incredibly cold and windy conditions.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: It was forty three degrees with fifteen mile an hour wins,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: the wind chills in the low thirties. It felt awful.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: But Grubs did a good job settling things down after that.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: We'll hear from Max Grubs a little bit later on
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: this hour. Okay, Cameron, I know what a big fan
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: you are of Aaron Rodgers. And when I got here
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: to the ballpark and I turned on the television and
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: there he was, you know, on with Pat McAfee, who,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: of course, you know, his his whole deal is his shtick,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: his show, you know, even though it could come across
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: as somewhat clownish from time to time, but.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: He does have that deal with roder.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: Well aren't they paying Aaron Rodgers a million bucks ESPN
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: to do that segment every week with McAfee. Okay, so
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: he had him on, and you know how Aaron Rodgers
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: can be.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: He can be.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: Evasive, you know, doesn't really answer a lot of the
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: questions even when he gives you a long answer, that
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: kind of thing. But he did speak for the first
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: time since the Jets released him, and he was on
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: for about forty five minutes, and he said he was
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: really surprised by what the Jets did. He said, I
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: wasn't stringing anyone along, I wasn't holding anyone hostage. I
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: was honest from the jump about where I wasn't mentally
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: and some of the constraints I have in my life
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: right now that warrant my attention. So he talked about that,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: and all of that's well and good, and you can
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: choose whether to take him at his word or not.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: And let's just say we do take him at his word.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: That doesn't necessarily mean that NFL teams are supposed to
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: sit idly by and wait for him to make up
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: his spot. They have their own timetable. They have to
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: decide what they're doing going forward. That's why I think, Cameron,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: this thing is going to be fascinating to see if
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Steelers are willing to wait
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: long enough, well into the spring, for Aaron Rodgers to
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: decide if he wants to play football and a thing
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: come to an agreement and him signed with Pittsburgh.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: Because that seems to be all the rumor.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 4: It's funny because when I think of quarterbacks that would
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 4: work under Mike Tomlin's system, like personality wise, Aaron Rodgers
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 4: does not come to the top of that list in
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 4: my opinion, especially with how he's handling this offseason, the.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: Whole Yeah, you know, I might retire.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 4: And then you're hearing reports from Chef doing everyone else
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 4: that you know, talks are getting, you know, deeper and
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 4: deeper and more significant. And then here's Rogers going on
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 4: Pat McAfee and throwing Aaron glenn in the Jets organization
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 4: under the bus once again and complaining about this and
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 4: that and all of this talk. And it's like, man,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 4: it's it's pretty funny. But then again, if you look
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: at the Pittsburgh Steelers death chart, you see Mason Rudolph
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 4: and Skyler Thompson at the starter in second trin position,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 4: then you understand why Mike Tomlin is entertaining the idea
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: of signing Aaron Rodgers, because look, hey, their quarterback draft
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 4: history outside of Ben Roethlisberger has not been great the
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 4: last decade or so, so they're they're desperately looking for
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: a quarterback and you know, I don't know if Tomlin's
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: filling the heat. You know, obviously it feels like the
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: organization is very comfortable with Mike Tomlin, and Mike Tomlin
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: is very comfortable with the Rooney family. I believe that
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: owns the Pittsburgh Steelers. But at a certain point, Craig,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: you know, you got to, you know, Pooper, get off
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: the toilet, because the Steelers, you know, they're making the playoffs,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: but they're not winning playoff games.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: They've been, you know, kind of mediocre.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 4: And hey, maybe the organization is fine with just you know,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 4: going to the playoffs every year, and you know there's
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: teams like the Browns who are just bagging to get
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: in the playoffs. But at a certain point you wonder, okay,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: will the organization shouldn't get tired of these eight and
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: nine seasons or nine and eight seasons and making the
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 4: playoffs and losing a game. And I think a lot
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: of the issues, you know, since Roethlisberger retired has been
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 4: they haven't had a true quarterback that they can count on.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 4: Russell Wilson last season was okay, you know, I think
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 4: he did a fine job, and Justin Fields was okay.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 4: He did an okay job, but you know, as you
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 4: do need a quarterback. You look at the teams that
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 4: have won the Super Bowl, They've been guys like Patrick
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 4: Mahomes who have been able to elevate their team, and
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 4: the Steelers have not had that quarterback. So I think
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 4: that's why Mike tom and the Steelers are okay with
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 4: this whole charade from Aaron Rodgers.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: And then again with regard to the deal with the Jets,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: you know, making their plans and going in a different
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: direction as quote was, I was kind of shocked. Now,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not shocked because I didn't think that was a possibility.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: Listen.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: Of course, so they want to move on, that's totally fine,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: but shocked because I just flew across the country. You
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: could have told me this on the phone if we
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: weren't even going to have a conversation. Seriously, And then
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: he said he was refuting reports that he asked for
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: a significant amount of money or a multi year deal.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: He said, quite say, He said, I told every single
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: one of the teams I talked to it ain't about
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: the money. I'll play for ten million dollars, I don't care.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: I never once said I need a multi year deal,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: thirty forty million. That's absolute bull bleep. I said, I'll
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: play for ten wherever.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: So just write him a check for ten million and
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: you're good. You're ready to go. So he did confirm
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: he's had conversations with the Vikings, the Giants, and the Steelers.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: He likes Brian Daboll with the Giants, and he has
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of respect, he said, for Mike Tomlin and
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh organization. But he just made up his mind
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: on whether he's ready to play or wants to play
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: or whatever. Pat mcavie at one point asked him, how
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: often do you think about football? Like every day, every
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: waking minute. He goes very little, very little. I don't
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: know about that. I I don't know about that.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: Well, here here's what I think.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: I think he thinks about a contract and the money
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: that he can make playing football a lot.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: But in terms of playing.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: Football and you know, helping a team win, I don't
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: think he thinks that much about it. I think he
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: thinks that if the time comes and I get to
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: a point where I can make a deal, and I
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: make a deal, then I'll worry about who I'm dealing with.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 3: He did.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: He brought up a point.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: About going to a workout all in California with DK
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: metcalf and showing up and he and he said he
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: has a lot of respect for DK. And he asked DK,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: when do you start your workout and he said six am?
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: And he said, you have a lot of guys work
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: with you.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: And he said, oh, there's a few that have come
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: through and they last for a week or two or
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: a few weeks, but then they end up bailing. And
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers said that K metcalfell, Listen, I'm not gonna
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: come at six am, but but I would really like to.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: Work with you. And so they did a deal where
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: they worked for a few days at eight am. So
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: that's an example what I'm saying.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think he I think he believes that it
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: won't take him long to be in playing shape and
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: playing condition if he decides to play one more season
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. I think he believes it's not gonna
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: take me long at all. It's not gonna take me
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: long at all to do it. And that's what I
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: think he means when he says he doesn't think about
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: football the mess?
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: Now does he think about the money in the contract.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I do think he does think about that, So
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 4: I think he thinks about himself.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, the money that he would make I totally agree.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: I completely agree with you on that. That's that's him.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: That's the Aaron Rodgers. We've come to dough So anyway,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: all right, coming up, we're going to hear more from
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: Jim Schlosnangle, the long orange head coach on the eve
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: of this important weekend SEC series against the Auburn Tigers Thursday,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: Friday Saturday series tonight at seven.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow at six.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: Time, change move forward by one hour, and Saturday at
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: noon time, change move forward by two hours from two
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: o'clock to noon. That's to accommodate Auburn's travel schedule. Wind
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: is blowing out here by the way, cam. This is
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: what we normally.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: See, okay, right the left wind.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's a little more straight out. It's a little
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: more straight coming out of the south. In fact, I'm
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: looking at it right now. It says south to southeast,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: steady at sixteen gust up to twenty six. It looks
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: like it's steady at about twenty looking at it right now,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: and it's almost blowing straight out. So we could see
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: a monster shot tonight cam we could see somebody hit
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: it over the batter's eye in dead center tonight. It
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: would get some help put it that way. I could
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: see jaylen Flores, who's not one over there before sending
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: one out over there. I could see them knocking one
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: out or Gasparino, both of whom hit the ball you
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: know well to all fields, but they do hit the
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: center and the left. They pull to left and hit
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: the center more often than they do to right. So
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me see one put one up in
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: that jet stream and see if they could drive it
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: out up next we'll hear more from Coach Lass when
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: we continue here from UFCU Dish falk Field on thirteen
• 1:16:25
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  Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon of.
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  Speaker 1: The ballpark here at UFCU dish falk Field. It is
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: Texas in action tonight against Auburn, and you'll hear its
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: sixty five air time seven o'clock first pitch. Keith Morland
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: will joined me for the call of that one before
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: we get to hearing more from Jim Slastnngle even and
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: I hadn't had a chance to talk about this. It
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: came out a couple of days ago. It's not just
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: a story. It's going to happen that Colorado is retiring
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: the jersey numbers of Travis Hunter and should do her Sanders. Now,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: you just stop me where I go off the tracks here, Cam. Nobody,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: absolutely nobody is questioning the decision to retire the jersey
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: number of Travis Hunter.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: He won a Heisman Trophy.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 9: If you've done.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: That, I think that that does merits the credit and
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: the attention given for that. It should Doer Sanders that
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: everybody who is criticizing this thing is having a problem with.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: They would be only the fifth and six players in
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: Colorado's one hundred and thirty five year history to have
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: that honor. And a lot of the past players and
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: graduates who heard when they announced that the number twelve
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: for Hunter and the number two for Sanders would be
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: retired before the spring game has some you know people upset.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: You know, guys like Dion Figures and some other guys
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: who played and were great players of Colorado have never
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: had Byron Wizard White, Rashaan Salam who won a Heisman Trophy.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: By the way, those guys have had their jersey numbers retired,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: along with Bobby Anderson, Joe and Joe Romig. Those are
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: the only guys, but there's a lot of other guys
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: who haven't had their jersey numbers retired. And coach Prime
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: Dion Sanders started off after practice today with a quote,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: can we start off with me just shaking everyone's hand
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: that played here before?
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: Just give them a hug.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: They got to come back for that, right, Let's start
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: with That's what I want to do. So anyway, it's
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: it's It's been brought about quite a bit of conversation.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: Pretty interesting, uh, that that bean has decided that his
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: son deserves to have his number retired.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm curious, Craig, if s Door Sanders wasn't the
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 4: son of the head coach, would his jersey number be retired?
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's the question I think a lot of
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 4: people are asking. You know a lot of guys. I'm
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 4: looking at the career passing yards list for Colorado. There's
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 4: four guys who are ahead of Shador's name now of course,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 4: granted they played four years and Shador only played two years.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 4: So if Shador played four years, would he probably have
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 4: let the university as the all time passing yards leader? Probably?
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 4: But he only played two years. And what did Colorado accomplish?
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: What do they win?
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 4: If you want to say, well, they went from a
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 4: one win program to you know, seven eight wins and
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 4: Bowl eligible and this, and then yeah, that's great, You're
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 4: so you're you're lying. Your standard is just being buligible?
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 4: Is what makes you a good enough quarterback to have
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 4: your jersey retired? I'm not sure about that. Like Joe
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 4: Klapp is ahead of George Sanders in passing yards, I'm
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 4: sure Joe Clotte is thinking, you know, what the heck,
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 4: why isn't my jersey number retired?
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's a lot of players asking that question.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: Dion says he's he's never come across backlash. On on
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: a play on the announcement of any player's number being retired,
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: he said, first time I've ever seen it sore like
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: it being a sore subject. I don't know if you
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: know it, but I think every jersey I darn Near
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: played in is retired. So I'm pretty familiar with this.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: It's never been sore. Uh that okay, well that that's
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: Dion playing, but that not to do or so anyway. Uh,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: it'll uh it'll continue to cause some conversation, no doubt
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: about that. All right, Let's hear some more from Longhorn's
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: head coach Jim Slason Aegele. This from the media availability yesterday.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: And uh we heard Jim last hour when I went
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: down and had a quick visit with him, talking about
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: the day by day routine that his guys are under.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: And he was asked, you know, as this team has
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: risen up and has been able to achieve this number
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: one ranking, what do they do intentionally? What is the
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: intent on the practice field every day? What do they
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: do intentionally to be good?
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah? I mean it's great you say that. We have
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 8: a saying.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 7: It doesn't happen by accident, happens by intention, you know,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 7: just we don't just grab things out of the air
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 7: to work on them each day. It's okay, where are
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 7: we as a team? We self scout ourselves a ton.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 7: Who are we playing? So obviously we're doing some defensive
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 7: work in left field right now. We're going to have
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 7: probably someone new playing second base, whether it be Rodriguez
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 7: or do Plantier or somebody like that. Got to get
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 7: them turning double plays. We got to get them to
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 7: make sure they're in the right position on a bunt defense,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 7: on a first and third defense. You know, what are
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 7: the things that if I was coaching against Texas, knowing what.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 8: I know, what would I try to expose?
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 7: You know, and you want to put players in position
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 7: to be successful. So it's hard for Adrian to know
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 7: where to go in a bunt defense.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 8: We don't practice it. So just just things like that.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 7: We put some We put something good in last week
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 7: before we played Kentucky. We were anticipating them doing something
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 7: and we executed it and got a free out in
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 7: the game on Sunday. That was a huge play. So
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 7: we're constantly believe me, you know my job. You know,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 7: most people that know me may say he's kind of
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 7: a half empty guy.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 8: It's not half empty.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 7: I feel like when you're the leader as the coaches,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 7: your job is to look at the op what are
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 7: the obstacles, Where are we weak?
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 8: Where can we be better?
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 7: And you just attack those all the time, knowing that
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 7: these guys hit like crazy, like they're in the cages
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 7: on their own.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 8: We don't need to really hit that much.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 7: It's more about playing good situational baseball and what are
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 7: those defensive things where we can get better.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: So here's a team that's thirty wins and five losses.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: They're sitting on top of the SEC standings at thirteen
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: and two in conference play at the midway mark. Three
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: of the five remaining conference series are at home. So
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: things would appear to be set up really nicely, really
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: well for this team going forward. But Schloss is going
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: to caution everybody on the adversity that is sure to
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: be just around the corner in the second half of
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: the season.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 7: Well, I respect our opponent, I respect our league, I
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 7: respect the game. To think that the way some of
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 7: these guys have pitched against the competition that we play,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 7: you know, I mean, there's just going to be days
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 7: where they get you. You know, Kate Anderson goes out
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 7: and throws the CG shutout against Oklahoma and goes to
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 7: Auburn last.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 8: Week and you see how close the game games are.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 7: I mean, look at the traffic that Spencer's had on
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 7: the basis for example, and this past weekend and he
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 7: just kept making pitches to get out of it.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 8: And so it's just the time, you know, the timely hits.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 7: The games are so close, and where we are offensively,
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 7: you know, there's where we're down a couple of bats
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 7: that that are good, but there are also bats that
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 7: change the game with one swing, and so when you
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 7: lose some of that, then you're gonna have to play
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 7: really good situational baseball. The scores of the games could
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 7: be a little closer and a little more tight, and
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 7: so just baseball itself doesn't lend it to win in
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 7: all those games. So, I mean, you look at the
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 7: teams we play, Auburn, A and M. Florida is still
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 7: super talented. Arkansas's easily, well not easily, one of the
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 7: top two or three most talented rosters in the country
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 7: by far. Oklahoma's having an unbelievable year, just swept Bandy.
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  Speaker 7: So to think that the back half is going to
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 7: be like the first, I mean, I hope it would
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 7: be great, But again, my goal, we're still trying to
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 7: get to that fifteen wins and sixteen seventeen maybe beyond
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 7: that and.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 8: See what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Now we are talking about a guy who has SEC
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: coaching experience. Of course at Texas A and M, he
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: doesn't have, you know, a great wealth of it, but
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: he's got three years over there. And so Schloss was asked, how,
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: in his opinion, have other SEC teams handled that adversity
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: that he just referenced in the second half of the season.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 7: I mean I've only been in the league three years,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 7: so I'm pretty new to the conference. But but yeah,
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 7: you just see him. You just got to get off
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 7: the mat and you respect.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 8: What it is.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 7: And truly, like I heard Tim Gorban, the coachy Vanderbilt
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 7: has been in the league for over twenty years, say
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 7: one time at the end of the conference tournament, he's like,
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 7: I don't care what regional we're in. Put me in
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 7: the American League East. I just don't want to play
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 7: any SEC teams anymore. And that it really does. It
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 7: really is that way, you know, to where you're like,
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 7: hey man, really the I would love to win conference championship.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 7: That's awesome, but that doesn't get you to Omaha. It
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 7: puts you in a regional. It might get you a
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 7: good seed, but you've got to get in a regional
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 7: and then you see what happens and we've all seen,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 7: you know, we've all seen plenty of teams that aren't
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 7: highly seeded get to Omahall or even win a national
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 7: title like Oh Miss. So that's the goal is we
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 7: just have to We've got to get to that point
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 7: of the year, hopefully get in a regional, have our
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 7: team healthy, maybe we get some of those guys back,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 7: and then play our best baseball.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: Any coach will tell you that it's the sum of
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: the parts that make the team that makes for winning.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: That one guy doesn't do it all, or two guys
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: don't do it all, It is the sum of the
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: parts overall. That said, you've heard Slash talk about how
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: the best players he's had, the ones who've had to
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: fight through the injuries, are the ones that they're looking
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: forward to continue to lead the way. So, in Jim
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: Slasnagel's mind, has there been a team MVP to this
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: point in the.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 7: I mean be hard not to say, you know, Spencer
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 7: or Galvan, I mean Galvan. There's never been a good
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 7: baseball team without a good catcher, and there's never been
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 7: a great baseball team without a great catcher. So you know,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 7: two of the best I mean, I've had. We've had
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 7: some really good coat, really good catchers at different places
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 7: I've been, but there's two that really separate themselves. And
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 7: one's Brian Holliday from TCU, one of the greatest pure
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 7: leaders and catchers that I've ever been around, played in
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 7: the big leagues. And then Galvan is right there, right
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 7: there with him right now, and we will see how
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 7: it plays out, but Galvan's right there with him. Had
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 7: a kid named Troy Claunch at A and M who
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 7: was elite. Jackson Appel was that kind of player. But Galvan,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 7: especially here and who he is and how he's handled
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 7: himself and how he's handled the pitching staff, I'd have
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 7: to pick him well.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: In talking about Galvon, I mean, what a season he's been.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: He started off the season at number nine in the
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: batting order, and he just slowly worked his way up
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: toward he's batting second in the lineup, and right now
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: he's hitting three thirty seven with eleven homers and thirty
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: two runs battered. On He's leading the Long Horns in
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: batting average in SEC play. Galvan is hitting three seventy
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: in conference play, with six of his eleven homers and
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: twelve of his thirty two RBIs coming in SEC games.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: So what change?
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: Why has Galvan's approach been different in what has worked
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: for him?
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean he had after his third at BET,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 7: I think he saw twenty six pitches. So I think
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 7: that starts with removing the fear of striking out, and
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 7: that's why we you know, I believe that that's the
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 7: first thing you have to remove from a player. And now,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 7: if you're a coach who doesn't you just can't stand
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 7: strikeouts and just wants the ball put in play, that's
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 7: okay too, But for us, it's it's it's removing the
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 7: fear of the strikeout. Understanding you can do damage with
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 7: two strikes just as much as you can with less
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 7: than two, and so when you're not in a when
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 7: you're not in a hurry to hit, then you can get.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 8: Pitches to hit.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 7: And then he's put himself in a physical position with
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 7: his work with Troy to allow himself to be on
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 7: time for fastballs and adjust to off speed pitches and
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 7: he'll swing through a pitch, but he doesn't panic. And
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 7: I think in years past he was so panicky about
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 7: striking out and not seeing the breaking pitches to where
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 7: he would get his bats over quick and now he
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 7: understands if he strikes out, he strikes out and move on.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 8: To the next one.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's that. And you heard him mention Troy
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: a Troy. Of course he's talking about too Low. Troy Tulowitzki,
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: who was on David Pierce's staff, was a great addition.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: You could just see how the players gravitated to him.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: Remember just vividly in Greenville at the super Regional on
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, how in the just in the hotel
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: lobby where all the guys would just gather around him
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: with list into Tuloh and all this sort of stuff.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: And Tula was bound for leaving after the coaching staff
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: had had been dismissed at Texas, but he came back
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: and Selas Stageles was asked how that whole process worked
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: where too Low ended up returning to Texas.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so first got here, got in the office, after
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 7: all the you know stuff that went on, Troy was here.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 7: Obviously we're going thousand miles a minute recruiting and trying
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 7: to get settled in and get things get players here,
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 7: and had a chance to sit down with Troy for
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 7: a couple of hours and just say I just want
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 7: to get to know you, you know, and at you know,
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 7: I said, at this time, you know, at that time,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 7: we had you know, Mike was here, and and we
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 7: had two other staff members coming, Chuck Box and another
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 7: guy on the A and M staff, and then and Troy,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 7: you know, he obviously wanted to stay, and I think
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 7: he he he had other options too, and I respected
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 7: that and had nothing to do with who I thought
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 7: was the better coach or not. It was about loyalty
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 7: to to the coaches from me, you know, from from
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 7: A and M that wanted to come and uh, and
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 7: so I didn't. I wasn't gonna leave any of those
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 7: guys without a job. And then I said, you know,
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 7: let's just sit tight and see what happens here the
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 7: next couple of days. And and then things started to
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 7: you know, move in Mike's way, uh at A and M.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 7: And and then I got the phone call on that
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 7: Saturday morning and we were I was at a head
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 7: coach's retreat, uh with del Conteent and all this, all
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 7: the other coaches and had to duck out of that
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 7: thing and said, hey man, I gotta go hire a
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 7: coach and so I had Nolan Kane and meet me
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 7: out at Troy's house, and uh we talked for several
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 7: hours and it wasn't about necessarily about baseball. The baseball
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 7: is the thing I was concerned with the least. It
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 7: was more about, Hey, this is what our program will
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 7: look this is what working in the hour program will
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 7: look like from a recruiting standpoint, from a time investment
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 7: from recruiting weekends and football weekends and how long those
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 7: are from the time the recruit show up on Friday
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 7: to leave on Sunday. And he's got a young family
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 7: and a super talented young son who's a great player
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 7: that he wants to see play. And so it just
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 7: kind of I wanted to meet his wife, wanted her
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 7: have you you, wanted to make sure it's a good,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 7: good relationship, like you know, these are people you see
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 7: every day more than your family. So we had those
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 7: conversations and gave him some time to think about it,
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 7: and then he called within an hour or so and
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 7: set them all in and we rolled from there. So
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 7: it's a you know, everything in life happens for you,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 7: not to you, so you know, it's worked out great,
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 7: worked out great for Mike uh and Will Fox, Who've
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 7: got to promote it over there to be a coach,
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 7: And uh, it's worked out great for us.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 8: I couldn't imagine it being any better.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, worked out really really well.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, So then the final thing is what is the
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: most impressive thing that Jim Slavsnagle finds in Troy Kilowitzki.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, passion for the game, passion for teaching, passion for
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 7: truly wanting to be a coach. Right, there's so there's
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 7: very very few, very I mean you can count them
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 7: on one hand in my opinion, the guys who have
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 7: been successful, not just major league players, but successful major
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 7: league players and come back to college baseball. Most of
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 7: most of those guys want to hit a fungo and
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 7: play golf in the morning, and at least they used to. Uh,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 7: there's more now that are invested because they well, number one,
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 7: you can make good money and college baseball now, I
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 7: think they're attracted to that. But Kirk Sarlos was a
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 7: great one, did a great job for us at TCU,
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 7: and now he's done an awesome job at as the
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 7: head coach at TCU, and and Troy's right, I mean,
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 7: Troy was here you know, he was here really late
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 7: last night working both with his son and a few
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 7: and a few of the guys that that wanted some
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 7: extra help. And he's he's he's he's here as much
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 7: more than anybody else in our on our staff.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: So the coaching staff has congealed nicely and it's it's
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: a big part of why this team has won thirty
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: of its first thirty five ball games under Jim Schlosnagel.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll hear from one of the guys who
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: hasn't received the greatest amount of tension.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: He's not a front line guy.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: In terms of what his role is in terms of
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: what he's has to perform, but he has performed it
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: really well. That's next when we continue on thirteen under
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: the Zone.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's see on this Thursday afternoon, Adrian Rodriguez in
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: with that first group, Tady taking batting practice of course
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: from the left side right now. Yep, good solid rip
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: out there to right field for a rod who.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: Will be playing.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: We have not received the lineup chat, but I would
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: imagine we'll see him either at second base or in
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: left field to night for Texas, one or the other
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: in the lineup, and I would imagine that we will
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: probably see Ethan Mendoza back in the lineup and playing
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: as the DH, because that shoulder is not allowing him
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: at least not at the moment to be able to
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: be back in the field fielding a position, but no
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: trouble swinging a bat. So we'll see la Is Ryland Galvan,
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: the aforementioned Ryland Galvan taking his VP cuts. Right now,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: Longhorns softball is going on across the street from US
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: at Red and Charlie McCombs Field. They've gone to the
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: bottom of the first and he no score. Texas and
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: lsu key series there for the Longhorns at thirty.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: Nine and five and a half game behind Texas A and.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: M for first place in the SEC standings and one
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: full game in front of Oklahoma, who is in third place.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: So we'll keep you up dated on that.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: But back to baseball and one guy we said that
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: isn't a front line guy in terms of of what
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: his contributions are being asked of. In other words, he's
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: not a Friday night starter, he's not a shutdown closer,
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: but he is a guy who can start a ball game,
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: and he is a guy who can shut you down.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: That's back Scrubbs, who is five and zero in a
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: one seven to one era and he has not made
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: the start this season. He was a spot midweek starter
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: last year, and he had been a Friday night starter
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: for Texas before and he has four saves this year.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: He's a guy who's just kind of gone along and
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: done what was asked him.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: And this was his media availability.
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: With the media yesterday with the long orange right handed
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: from Arlington Martin Max Grubbs.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 15: So, Texas balling the champion is that?
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 9: That's the one thing. That's the one thing I need
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 9: to ask. What's that?
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 11: We had a competition in the fall, We had I
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 11: think like six different teams.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 9: Just led my team to victory. It's all I can say.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 9: Got the shirt?
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 15: Alright, sir.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 9: You can get close to three hundred or not even close.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 9: Anybody notably bad.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 11: Kimball Schustler and Jared Spencer Jared Spencer unbelievably bad, but
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 11: good pitchers.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 15: So it's okay.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 11: Yes, bumpers, No bumpers, No bumpers maybe for Spencer.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 14: Though, Max, what's impressed you most about.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 15: The pitching staff?
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 11: I think our ability to recommit and just make every
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 11: day our opening day, you know, like we don't stack
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 11: days on top of each other. There's no there's no
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 11: past bad outing, there's no looking forward to the future.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 9: It's all you have is today.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 12: Who talks about maximin hers so much, but what about
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 12: him as a coach makes him as successful as.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 11: He's been, Just his mental aspect of the game and
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 11: what he brings to life on and off the field.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 9: Just allowing us to recommit and make every day our
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 9: opening day.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 11: It's it's it's always fresh with him, It's always new,
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 11: and it's always exciting.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 15: You had a.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 19: Couple guys this past week and that had like either
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 19: pitched ones an SEC player not at all and came
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 19: in and were there for multiple innings and we're really impressive.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 19: What impress you most, whether it's Thomas or Sonier that
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 19: this weekend about what they were able to.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 11: Do and d like them too, Yeah, I mean definitely
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 11: just like impressed and proud of those guys. You know
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 11: that I know they can do it up a mental season.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 11: They can do it, and I think that's most important
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 11: is that they knew they could do it. You know,
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 11: they had that belief in their in their minds and
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 11: everybody had that belief in them.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 9: Is that they could do it, and you know they
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 9: went and did it.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 18: There are certain mentality to have as a reliever, knowing
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 18: that hey, maybe asked to go three four innings or
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 18: you know, pitch pitch along as opposed to just give
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 18: in one or two outs.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 11: I'd say there is some mentality difference between a starter
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 11: and a reliever. But at the same time, it's one,
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 11: you know, just one pitch at a time. You're just
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 11: recommitting to another pitch. You're not thinking about the next
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 11: inning or the you know, the next out. You're just
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 11: making you out pitch one at a time and then
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 11: recommitting to the next You.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 18: Guys, sorry, go ahead, go ahead.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 19: You guys were a confident group earlier this season, but
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 19: how have you seen that kind of grow with wins
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 19: and tangible evidence that you guys are the team you
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 19: thought you were gonna be.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 11: Max has always said something great, and you know, it's
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 11: like we might be ranked the number one team in
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 11: the country right now. But we've known that since the
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 11: beginning of the season, regardless off we lose ten games
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 11: in a row, if we win ten games, or we
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 11: know in our hearts, in our minds that we are
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 11: the number one team in the country at the end
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 11: of the day.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 16: So you're in the mind and you get a call
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 16: and throw pickular pitch or prison you don't like that
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 16: pitch to throw used to throw it, or.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 9: Say no, I don't check off Max.
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  Speaker 11: I trust him completely, and at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 11: like there's no such thing as a pitch shape or
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  Speaker 11: a velocity.
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  Speaker 9: It's just a you know, it's just a profile strike.
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  Speaker 8: You know.
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  Speaker 9: That's all we want is just to get out and.
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  Speaker 11: So whatever whatever he calls the things to think that
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  Speaker 11: we can get out to, I'll throw it.
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  Speaker 14: What are you most proud of in your you know,
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  Speaker 14: kind of changing your mindset and your approach.
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  Speaker 15: To this year.
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  Speaker 11: I'm proud of the team. Like it's not even about me,
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  Speaker 11: it's about everybody. I'm just proud of everybody's trusting one
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  Speaker 11: another and they're buying to this team.
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  Speaker 9: This is something, you know, it's special to me.
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  Speaker 11: I think we've got an amazing staff and an amazing
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  Speaker 11: pitching staff, everybody.
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  Speaker 9: I'm just am proud of. I'm just proud of everybody.
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  Speaker 18: Honestly, mat Is obviously y'all or on copy the succeed
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  Speaker 18: five weeks in. What's it going to take to still
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  Speaker 18: be there five weeks from now?
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  Speaker 11: Like I said before, just recommitting to the day by day,
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  Speaker 11: you know, taking care of our routines, taking care of
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  Speaker 11: our bodies, and just you know, making sure we're ready
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  Speaker 11: to go each and every day.
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  Speaker 14: At the midpoint of SEC play, you can't vote for yourself.
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  Speaker 15: Who would you vote for as MVP?
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  Speaker 11: I definitely wouldn't vote for myself, but if our team, I'd.
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  Speaker 9: Say Dylan Blantis. I think he's the MVP.
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  Speaker 11: I mean, you know, to come in as a freshman
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  Speaker 11: and do and to do what he's doing is amazing.
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  Speaker 9: I've never seen anything like it. What do you think
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  Speaker 9: it is about him that makes him so.
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  Speaker 15: Hard to hit?
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  Speaker 11: I think he enjoys the game more than anybody. It's
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  Speaker 11: not anything special about what he does. It's just he
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  Speaker 11: has got a love for the game that I haven't
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  Speaker 11: seen before, and I'm really impressed by it.
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  Speaker 12: You said the game of the season, Bell's coaches told
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  Speaker 12: you to view yourselves or.
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  Speaker 15: Something as the.
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  Speaker 12: Number one team in the country.
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  Speaker 15: But did you expect to beat the.
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  Speaker 8: Number one team in the country at some point?
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  Speaker 9: I mean, I don't really know.
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  Speaker 11: I just think of playing the game one pitcher at
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  Speaker 11: a time, and you know, being where my feet are.
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  Speaker 11: But like we said, like I knew we could do it.
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  Speaker 11: I knew we could be the number one team, and
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  Speaker 11: I think we always were, always will be. You know,
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  Speaker 11: it doesn't matter what the ranking is. It's just how
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  Speaker 11: we treat ourselves, how we talk to ourselves.
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  Speaker 12: Have y'all had any extra conversations this week about, you know,
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  Speaker 12: maybe some of the pressure of the weight that comes
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  Speaker 12: with being number one.
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  Speaker 11: I mean there's always a target on your back when
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  Speaker 11: you're here at the University of Texas. I mean it's
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  Speaker 11: the greatest, the greatest school in the country, so there
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  Speaker 11: is pressure, but it's nothing we've never felt before.
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  Speaker 16: You mentioned that the web just has this love for
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 16: the game you've never seen before. How does that play
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  Speaker 16: out on the field, How does a play.
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  Speaker 11: On more I think it's just confidence in himself. But
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  Speaker 11: at the same time, he's not even thinking about it.
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  Speaker 11: He just is going out there and having fun. Doing
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  Speaker 11: what he does, wouldn't a couple more what.
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  Speaker 14: Stands out about Gasparino and maybe some of the you know,
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  Speaker 14: progress he's made this year.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, I think Gasparino is a great player.
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  Speaker 11: He's obviously, you know, one of the leaders on our team,
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  Speaker 11: Barry Toolsy, just an all around good guy. And you know,
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  Speaker 11: it's just his progress to me is you know, it's
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  Speaker 11: just Gasparino, Like that's all I can say. He works hard,
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  Speaker 11: and you know, I think he plays the game the
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  Speaker 11: right way.
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  Speaker 14: So and Shustler has moved to first and how well
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 14: he's you know, fielding that position, and you know, just
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  Speaker 14: your thoughts on his impact.
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  Speaker 11: I mean, Shoester will play anywhere. He's stick him, he
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  Speaker 11: always says, put him on the mountain too. He'd love
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  Speaker 11: to pitch, but I'll just tell him, you just played
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  Speaker 11: first base. Keep doing your thing.
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  Speaker 9: But he's a he's a roughneck, that's what we call it.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good way to describe him, for sure. Long
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