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Texas Baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle previews upcoming season and Vic Schaefer discusses win over No. 2 South Carolina · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: My name is Craig Way. Glad to have you with
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  Speaker 1: us this afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: And us, of course includes the producer of this program,
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  Speaker 2: that would be Cameron D.
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  Speaker 1: Parker.
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  Speaker 2: The deal on the birth certificate stands for Dallas as
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  Speaker 2: in his favorite NFL team that he hasn't been rooting
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  Speaker 2: for or has been rooting for but hasn't been watching
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  Speaker 2: in recent years. I have to open with this. Have
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  Speaker 2: you seen Dak Prescott's comments?
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  Speaker 1: Not recently?
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  Speaker 3: I did see the bombshell yesterday the Cowboys are apparently
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  Speaker 3: shopping Michael Parsons. Okay, Sax's comment related to that, No, it.
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  Speaker 2: Was related to the Philadelphia Eagles and what it did.
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  Speaker 2: I'd heard about this last night when I got home
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  Speaker 2: after the basketball game last night. But then because this
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  Speaker 2: was comments he made yesterday, and then they played them
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  Speaker 2: on Sports Center this morning, and uh, the anchors were
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  Speaker 2: kind of laughing in the NFL because his comment. He
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  Speaker 2: was asked weigh in on where the Cowboys are as
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  Speaker 2: championship Contenders's. First of all, that's an unfair thing to
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  Speaker 2: ask him because they're just not there. But his question,
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  Speaker 2: he said he does not believe they're far away from
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  Speaker 2: where the Eagles are he said, and they quote, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like we've competed with the Eagles and beat them
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  Speaker 2: for the most part when we played them. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to say, check the record when the other guy's
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  Speaker 2: holding the trophy, right, So credit to them. They've earned
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  Speaker 2: it and they deserve it by all means. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're very close. I'm okay with that. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's this quarter it's the quarterback. You gotta be confident.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's gonna he's gonna speak on behalf of his team.
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  Speaker 1: Now we all know that. Is it close?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: Not really.
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  Speaker 3: Eagles are winning super Bowls and reaching super Bowls every
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  Speaker 3: other year. The Cowboys are reaching the wild Card Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: every other year at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and be.
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  Speaker 3: Trading away possibly one of the top five top ten
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  Speaker 3: best players on defense in the league this offseason.
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  Speaker 2: So I hope that doesn't happen. My goodness, Let's say
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  Speaker 2: trade him to the Rams.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I feel like that would be a
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  Speaker 3: perfect Aaron Donald's replacement. Yeah, Michael Parsons, pair him with
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  Speaker 3: Jared Verse. Yeah, that'd be good. I'd be all right
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  Speaker 3: with that.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it was used to the word very that
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  Speaker 2: had people like smirking and snickering very you're very close really,
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  Speaker 2: so that's that was kind of the react to that.
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  Speaker 2: But again, yeah, he's gonna speak on behalf of his team.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna, you know, say the things that he believes
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  Speaker 2: his team is capable of.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, so there was that. A couple other headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, let me tell folks we have
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  Speaker 2: coming up on the program in a few minutes. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna hear from Jim Schlosnangle, the long Orange new head
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  Speaker 2: baseball coach.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I was at baseball media day yesterday for the University
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  Speaker 2: of Texas. We got to hear from a variety of players.
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  Speaker 2: Will Gasparino also uh Ruders, Luke Harrison, Jared Spencer. Uh
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  Speaker 2: So we got we got to hear from a variety
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  Speaker 2: of players yesterday. And I mentioned yesterday we would hear
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  Speaker 2: from Jim Schlosnekle today and we're going to do that.
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  Speaker 2: We're also going to hear from Vic Schaffer, Texas women's
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  Speaker 2: head coach. Third rank Longhorns I think are in the
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  Speaker 2: air right now. We're about to be on a plane
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  Speaker 2: going to Kentucky. They play the eighth rank Kentucky Wildcats.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow night in Lexington. We'll hear from VIC this afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: We will also also visit with our good friend Ty Harrington.
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  Speaker 2: Tye uh is gonna be by and large the lead
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  Speaker 2: analyst on those Longhorn baseball telecasts that you'll watch on
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  Speaker 2: SEC Network Plus. And uh, you know, I had several people,
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  Speaker 2: including somebody yesterday on the program text in said, are
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  Speaker 2: we going to be able to watch home baseball games
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  Speaker 2: with no More long More network?
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  Speaker 3: Nope, radio only, Uh listen to Crag and Keith all
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  Speaker 3: year long. No, No, no, I don't want to. I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to mislead people.
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  Speaker 2: If if they want to watch the delicates and listen
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  Speaker 2: to us, I'd certainly be okay with that. But no,
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  Speaker 2: there are ways. It all depends on, like your ESPN
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  Speaker 2: Plus subscription and all.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: It's the same way that if you try and watch
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  Speaker 3: Texas women's or men's basketball game that's not on ESPN
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  Speaker 3: or YESPN two or SEC Network, that's correct SEC Network
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  Speaker 3: Plus on ESPN Plus.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's that's.
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  Speaker 2: How that's gonna Now there will be some games that
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  Speaker 2: are going to be on SEC Network and.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe ESPNU or ESPN two or even ESPN.
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  Speaker 2: There'll be some games on those, but for the ones
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  Speaker 2: that aren't on the regular over the air linear offerings
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  Speaker 2: by the ESPN family of networks, the telecasts will be
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  Speaker 2: streamed through ESPN Plus and the SEC Network Plus, so
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  Speaker 2: that's how you would watch those. So Tie is going
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  Speaker 2: to be basically the lead analyst on those. Tie is
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  Speaker 2: going to join us in the four o'clock hour, so
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk some long worn baseball. And the Longhorns are
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  Speaker 2: a little over forty eight hours away from their season
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  Speaker 2: opener Friday night at Global Life Field in Arlington and
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  Speaker 2: the Shriners Children's College showdown As Texas will play Louisville
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  Speaker 2: Friday night at seven.
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  Speaker 1: I do say scheduled for seven.
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  Speaker 2: It is the third game of the day, so it
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  Speaker 2: is possible that it might start a little after that,
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  Speaker 2: but we're hoping that it'll start pretty close to seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: So that'll be Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Saturday night at seven they play Ole Miss and Sunday
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  Speaker 2: evening at six thirty they play Oklahoma State. And so
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna hear from Jim Schlosnagel talking about it. We'll
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  Speaker 2: visit with Ty Herring talking about it. So we'll do
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  Speaker 2: that as well. I know you're aware of this. I
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  Speaker 2: know you certainly saw the highlights. You asked me last
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  Speaker 2: night at the Longhorn basketball game if Kevin Durant was
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  Speaker 2: at the game, because it was a throwback game and
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  Speaker 2: there were former players who were in.
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  Speaker 1: Attendance, and I said no, I said, I think they
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  Speaker 1: have a game. Yeah, they had a game.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize he was also in the process of
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  Speaker 2: scoring his thirty thousandth career point. Did it from the
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  Speaker 2: foul line last night? He played really well. He had
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  Speaker 2: thirty four points. But the Suns, who've had their struggles
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  Speaker 2: this year, lost to the Grizzlies won nineteen to one twelve.
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  Speaker 2: But Kadi becomes the eighth player all time in NBA
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  Speaker 2: history to reach the thirty thousand point plateau. He was very,
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  Speaker 2: very humble and deferential about it and talk about the
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  Speaker 2: guys who went ahead of him and paved the way
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  Speaker 2: and things of that nature. I think he was asked
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  Speaker 2: at one point about comparing himself in the modern era
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  Speaker 2: to like Lebron, and he laughed, it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Lebron does his own things. Think about Lebron's at forty
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  Speaker 2: one thousand points, so, but he was very he was
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  Speaker 2: really good about it in talking about his place in history,
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  Speaker 2: and also that it was interesting when I was watching Sports Center,
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  Speaker 2: because I'll watch it late at night before I go
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  Speaker 2: to bed, and then I'll watch it in the morning
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  Speaker 2: just to you know, and make notes and things like
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  Speaker 2: that of the topics of the day. And they were
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  Speaker 2: asking Brian Windhorst, who is of course their bleed NBA reporter,
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  Speaker 2: and they were asking him about where did he think
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Durant's place in NBA history, And he was extremely
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  Speaker 2: complimentary and talked about him being I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: miss quote him, but it was something along the.
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  Speaker 1: Lines of.
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  Speaker 2: The greatest e Z shooter in NBA history, but the
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  Speaker 2: way he does and of course there's that what that
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  Speaker 2: easy sniper?
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  Speaker 1: Easy when he sniper was he's a stream handle.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And they talked about then he said he thought
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  Speaker 2: it was very very apropos and he said, you know, Kevin,
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  Speaker 2: he said, really should take more shots than he does
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  Speaker 2: throughout his career's average I think twenty shots a game
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. He said, he really should be
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  Speaker 2: around twenty six twenty seven, like many he said, But
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  Speaker 2: the fact of the matter is he's an unselfish player,
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  Speaker 2: so that's why he said he should really have a
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  Speaker 2: lot more points than he has, but because of the
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  Speaker 2: way he plays, in his unselfish nature, that's why he's
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  Speaker 2: sitting at thirty but still eighth player all time. Only
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  Speaker 2: seven others have reached the thirty thousand point Plaid said.
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  Speaker 1: They asked John Moran about it.
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  Speaker 2: Because they lost to Memphis, and he talked about when
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  Speaker 2: an impact Kevin had had, and he said, I hope
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  Speaker 2: he keeps playing, he said. He said, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: does it nice and easy, he said, but thirty k
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  Speaker 2: is not that easy to come up with, he said,
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  Speaker 2: So I hope he's around for a while. And when
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  Speaker 2: the horse said, he still got a lot left in
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  Speaker 2: the tank. So hopefully we'll continue to see Kevin play
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  Speaker 2: for several more years.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, hopefully we can to see him play next Thursday
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  Speaker 3: at Moody when the Suns come to town and play
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  Speaker 3: the San Antonio Spurs as Wemby and the team makes
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  Speaker 3: their trip up I thirty five, Yeah, that would be good.
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  Speaker 3: What's the mascot's name, Coyote? What's yeah, coyote or he's
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  Speaker 3: just he's just the Coyotes there last night. He was
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  Speaker 3: he was at the game last night. The coyote.
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  Speaker 1: He's pretty tall, like he's got to be like six
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  Speaker 1: or five.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. That's the athletic. Those ears stick
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  Speaker 2: up a little ears help. Yeah, and uh and that
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  Speaker 2: halftime entertainment. Those guys, the acrobatics that they didn't they
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  Speaker 2: didn't do too well. They were missing lots. I saw
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  Speaker 2: him miss a few. Yeah, but they were you know,
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  Speaker 2: jumping off those trampolines and slam dunking and all of
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  Speaker 2: that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I think I could do that. I can.
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  Speaker 3: I can go out there a halftime, miss a couple
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  Speaker 3: of shots, and then dunk from a trampoline.
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  Speaker 1: I think I could do that. Okay, all right, maybe
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  Speaker 1: we get to get your shot at that someday.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, when I tear my hamstring, then he might
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  Speaker 3: have another near the second half of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh uh huh yeah, yeah, probably gonna do all right.
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  Speaker 2: Up next, we'll hear from Jim Schlasnegle, Texas Long Orange Baseball,
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  Speaker 2: which we do have inconceivable this hour. So we've got
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  Speaker 2: a lot to get to on the program today. We're
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  Speaker 2: glad to have you with us. Also, the text lines open.
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  Speaker 2: let's hear from long Orte's head coach Jim Slasnagel talking
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  Speaker 2: from Texas Baseball. Now, this was yesterday from the media
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  Speaker 2: day availability. We were there, but his availability was pretty
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  Speaker 2: late and the thing we were already on the air
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  Speaker 2: in fact, and that's why I said we would bring
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  Speaker 2: in the comments today.
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  Speaker 1: So here they are, starting with his opening statement.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, despite the weather, super excited, getting what three days
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  Speaker 5: away from first ball game, first road trip, which is
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  Speaker 5: always uh, which is always a good experience. I think
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  Speaker 5: when when guys look back when you have alumni games
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  Speaker 5: and and alumni events and you hear baseball players telling
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  Speaker 5: stories that are usually from road trips. So hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 5: behave ourselves and be in by curfew.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: But but yeah, it's it's exciting, uh to get to play,
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  Speaker 5: to know you're going to get to play, that's that's
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  Speaker 5: super important, just to know that we're gonna be able
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  Speaker 5: to get the games in with the roof and the
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  Speaker 5: and the and the facility there, and the Rangers do
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  Speaker 5: such a great job. The Shriners being involved really adds
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  Speaker 5: a lot to it. And so we're staying in Fort Worth,
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  Speaker 5: which I'm personally super excited for. I'm going to get
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  Speaker 5: to see some friends, see my children. Coach Sarlow's at
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  Speaker 5: TCU has been kind enough to allow us to go
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  Speaker 5: use the batting cages at TCU on on Friday morning
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  Speaker 5: and get and kind of get out of the hotel
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  Speaker 5: a little bit. So thankful to to coach Sarlow's there
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  Speaker 5: at TCU and and wish them the best to look
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  Speaker 5: in their season opener.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, then the questions he was asked at this point,
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  Speaker 2: and now we're, like I said, a little over forty
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  Speaker 2: eight hours away from the season opening, does he have
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  Speaker 2: a starting lineup set in his mind, adding order positions
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  Speaker 2: on the field, things.
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  Speaker 5: Like that, Oh, you know, I think we're trying to
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  Speaker 5: win the games. You know, you know, I'm not into
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  Speaker 5: exhibitions and just doing things to do things. But I
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  Speaker 5: think on this particular team at this moment, the first
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  Speaker 5: I would say, ten to twelve ish position players have
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  Speaker 5: really separated themselves from everybody else. And so you know,
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  Speaker 5: at different positions. Some of this will depend on Max
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  Speaker 5: be Low's availability and what that looks like for him,
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  Speaker 5: which we're learning getting good. We're getting more and more
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  Speaker 5: good news every day. But we'll play some different guys,
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  Speaker 5: but we're trying to win the games. I mean, this
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  Speaker 5: is a huge weekend for us. If it doesn't go well,
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  Speaker 5: it doesn't kill you, but certainly you can take a
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  Speaker 5: lot of confidence from from it if you do well,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, non conference RPI really matters. And again
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  Speaker 5: it's not the end all either way, but it is
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  Speaker 5: a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Then he was asked about if you're going to ask
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  Speaker 2: about starting lineup, So you're going to be asked about
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  Speaker 2: starting pitching and the rotation and if that is set
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  Speaker 2: up ready to go for this weekend.
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  Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure I know who the first two pitchers
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  Speaker 5: are going to be. We're waiting to see how some
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  Speaker 5: guys feel today and tomorrow. I'm not quite ready to
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  Speaker 5: announce it yet, just want to I want to get
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  Speaker 5: through today, but we should be announcing something tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And you heard him, mensa Max Blue being out
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  Speaker 2: of the lineup and being ill of late, So he
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  Speaker 2: was asked for a little more explanation on what Blue
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  Speaker 2: has been going through in terms of illness.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's just been off and on sick, and he
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  Speaker 5: got cleared for full activity yesterday and so now it's
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  Speaker 5: just you know, once he starts running and swinging about
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  Speaker 5: a lot and moving around as long as he handles it, okay,
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  Speaker 5: mostly flu Yeah, I think I think it's I think
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  Speaker 5: he should be fine. He's super tough kid, and if
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  Speaker 5: he tells me he's ready to go, he'll be ready
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  Speaker 5: to go.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So that and then one other from
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  Speaker 2: Jim Slawsnekle this hour, and then I'm gonna hear from
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  Speaker 2: Vick Schaefer a little bit as well. So Texas has
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  Speaker 2: been in the habit of playing these early season for
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  Speaker 2: want of a better term, classics. Really they're not really
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  Speaker 2: tournaments because it's not Winter versus Winner. There are three
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  Speaker 2: games set up against three opponents, so that's more of
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  Speaker 2: a classic or a showdown, whatever you want to tournament,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not really a tournament. But he was asked
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  Speaker 2: if he likes this one because Texas has been alternating
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  Speaker 2: playing either at.
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  Speaker 7: What's the new name for a minute, May Park. Either
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  Speaker 7: it's Dakin or Dykin. I think it's j A, I
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  Speaker 7: k I N. I think he's d I think it
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  Speaker 7: is OK. And uh, you know, they played there last year.
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  Speaker 7: They've been alternating, that's only even number of years, and globally,
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  Speaker 7: Field has been on the odd number of years. So
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  Speaker 7: they've had the early season events because they know they
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  Speaker 7: can get the games in. Like Schloss just mentioned, because
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  Speaker 7: they're played under a roof, you don't have to worry about,
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  Speaker 7: you know, weather delays or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: And so Schlats was asked for his thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Does he like doing his Texas has been in the
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  Speaker 2: habit of doing this the past several years under David Pearson,
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  Speaker 2: even prior to that under Roggy Garrito. So the question
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  Speaker 2: was asked, does he like playing and having his team
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  Speaker 2: playing these kinds of events.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So I would prefer not to do it in
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  Speaker 5: the first weekend of the season. I love the tournament
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  Speaker 5: and set up, I love the challenge of it. I
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  Speaker 5: would prefer to do it like the third week, but
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  Speaker 5: in which I believe maybe next year we're in Houston
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  Speaker 5: that third week. But it is such an awesome opportunity.
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  Speaker 5: You do know you're going to get to play. But
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  Speaker 5: to answer your question, yes, it was already on the books.
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  Speaker 5: Our opener next year at the University of San Diego
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  Speaker 5: that was already under contract. Tell content keeping us to
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  Speaker 5: a tight budget, so I tried tried.
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  Speaker 1: To pay our way out of one of them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he got a deal on the front end.
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  Speaker 5: But no, I'm super thankful for everything, you know. Don't
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  Speaker 5: get me in trouble with that.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, so they are going to open at San Diego.
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  Speaker 2: That's a real unique ballpark. The long Worns did that. Gosh,
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  Speaker 2: let me think about this. It was either two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and three or two thousand and four. I want to
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  Speaker 2: say it was three, coming off the National Championship season
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  Speaker 2: of two, and Keith Warland and I were out there
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  Speaker 2: and it's had a place called Cunningham Stadium. It's on
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  Speaker 2: the campus of USD and it's sunk down like into
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  Speaker 2: a valley, and it's really cool and there are dorms
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  Speaker 2: beyond the right field fence. And the reason why I
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  Speaker 2: remember this is because Dustin Maeski hit one of those
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  Speaker 2: dorms on the fly with a home run that weekend,
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  Speaker 2: So it was something else. We also saw the Longhorns
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: have a tough time against the outstanding left hander who
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: just tragically passed away pretty recently, Brian Mattis.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: He pitched for San Diego in that weekend series.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: And also because Keith Morland, being as tight as he
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: is with the Chicago Cubs at the time, had joined
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: us on the broadcast for like three innings. The one
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: and only Mark Pryor, who at the time was the
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: ace of the Cub staff and had pitched at San Diego,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: and he just happened to be out there because it
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: was before pitchers and catchers reported and all that other
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff, and he was out there and he
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: joined us prior, of course now the pitching coach for
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers, but it was so they did open a
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: season out there at at.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: USD and they're going to do that again next year.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: All Right, we'll hear more next hour from from Jim Schlostangle.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Let's hear something from Vick Schaefer as his team comes
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: off that emotionally charged and well executed, you know, big
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: time win of our second rank South Carolina on Sunday
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: afternoon in front of a sellout crowd at Moody. And
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: now they go to Kentucky to play an angry eighth
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Frank Kentucky team that comes off being surprised on the road,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: lost a couple of nights ago at Old Myth. So
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: here's Vick Schaeffer starting off with his opening comments.
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: Oh man, uh well, obviously had a really demanding and
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: tough week last week, and uh more, kids were so special.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Just love their toughness. I love how they're their will to.
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: Win, you know, they just they were, especially Sunday. But
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: as I've talked to you all before about I like
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: our preparation, like my staff.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Is, y'all have to know.
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: I mean, it takes so much to get your team
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: ready for these games that are back to back to
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: back against these quality opponents, top ten, top fifteen, great coaches,
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: and so my staff is just doing an incredible job,
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: probably the best I've ever had. And again, you can't
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: be great without great people, and that's for players as
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: well as coaches. And boy, my staff is just doing
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: an unbelievable job in preparation, being ahead of the curb,
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: being ahead of the game. We never look ahead. We're
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: always locked into the team that's in front of us.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: But behind the scenes, you've got two more coaches that
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: are doing their job so that when Thursday night's over,
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: we're onto the next one and we're ready to go,
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: or when sunday's over, we're ready on Tuesday. So our
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: kids are just I'm so proud of them. They've really
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: shown some toughness and resilience. They know, especially when you're
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: going to play a team like South Carolina on Sunday,
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: it's a non.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Negotiable, y'all.
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: If you don't bring that toughness and competitive spirit, like,
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: you've got no chance. I mean, not only do they
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: have a team full of McDonald's all Americans, and they're
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: highly skilled and talented, but when the great equalizer, y'all,
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: is the toughness piece. It's the competitive spirit. Like that's
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: what separates those people living in the top five, top
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: eight versus the rest of the country. And I like
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: to think that my teams over the years have had
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: that toughness piece as well.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: And again, it's really a non negotiable.
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: As I tell my kids all the time, and I
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: told the other night in pregame, if people walk out
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: of the Moody when this game's over and they walk
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: out and they go, wow, Texas plays really hard to
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: man they're.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Tough, like I'm good, like I can live with.
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: Whatever happens, but not that like you've got no chance
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: on Sunday to win that game if you don't bring
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: those components to the table. So again, obviously a great
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: week for us, but you can't sit here and slap
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: yourself on the back and have everybody else walking around
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: telling you the next best thing since sliced bread. You
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: got to move on because we got number eight in
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: the country on the road Thursday night. And that's the
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: most important thing. I told them after the game. Enjoy
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: it Sunday with their families and friends. You could even
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: enjoy it Monday. But when Tuesday, when you walk into film,
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: when you walk into that weight room, it's Kentucky. And
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: I sent them a note this morning, you know, and
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: send them a thought for the day, and then told
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: them in one word, I said, Kentucky exclamation point, just
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: want them.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: And they've been good about that, y'all.
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: Like they've really been good in their preparation and their focus.
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: So I really don't expect anything other than that this week.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: All Right, We're gonna here's some more from Vic Shaffer
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: coming up a little later on Up next inconceivable here
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: on a Wednesday afternoon on thirteen under the zone. Glad
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: to have you with us as well, on a chilly,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: kind of.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Dank and cold Wednesday.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: We are in February after it all, I mean, it
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: could be a lot worse some other places.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Was it was it two years ago where we had that?
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Well, we had a couple of major ice storms. I
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: guess what twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two or
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Maybe there was.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: The one that was really paralyzing. I think that was
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: What was the one where I had to sleep in
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: our old old station studio? I think that, Well, how
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: about twenty twenty two?
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think you're right.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: One of those years was the Texas women had a
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Game at Baylor, and it.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Was Vic Schaffer's first year, so that would have been
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: two three, twenty four, twenty five, it would have been
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: twenty one, And they got stranded there in Waco because
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: the roads were so impassable, and I said, you know,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I thought, I'm not sticking around Waco. It's to my house.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: And I was living in Cedar Park at the time,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: and so that was definitely twenty one and I thought
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: I can make it there.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: And it took a while, and it was. It was
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: a little diicy.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: It took me probably to go a little over one
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: hundred miles.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: It took me four hours, I think, crawling through it.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: It got got home.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was. That was really bad. And then, like
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: you said, I guess it was three years ago where
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: we had it. That that was and that really bothered
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: me because that was the trip where we'd had the ice.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: And then it got a little bit less icy.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: And this maybe this was two years ago, and I
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: was walking out to get things that I'd left in
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: my truck to do the show.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, I remember this.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: And I walked out on three separate occasions, all about
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: ten minutes apart. Went down, got something, when down, got something,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: went down, got something.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Was the way it ended up working out. But there
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: was more to it than that.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Every single time I went out, no matter how carefully
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I stepped or used a handrail, as soon as I
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: stepped away from the handrail, my feet went out from
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: under me and I landed, and you know, legs fly out,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: land on my butt or on my back.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: So the first two times it was no big deal.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I got up and fell a little silly or whatever.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: The third time I landed on my right elbow. I
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: didn't think anything of it at the time except that
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: it swelled up like a like a grapefruit and got
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: all discolored and all that kind of stuff. And I
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: had to get on a playing to go with women's
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: basketball to West Virginia, and the trainer looked at it
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: and said, yeah, you you, you know, ruptured your versa
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: sack or whatever they're you know, right there by the
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: elbow and had to wrap it up and it was.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: It was a mess for about a week. So that
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: was a thin.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Me and Jeff Hall had a lot of fun talking
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: about your bursa sack for the next couple of weeks.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure you did all its sophomore humor and
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. How is your sack by
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the way, now, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just fine.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I can throw fine, you know whatever.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I know we're gonna make a little change
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: on a couple of things. Ty Herrington was gonna come
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: on with us at four fifteen. Uh, We're gonna call
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: him in about ten minutes because it's gonna work out
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: better for his schedule, and so we'll we'll visit with
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Tye here coming up in a few minutes, and uh,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: and then we're gonna we're gonna continue to hear from
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Vic Shaeffer. In fact, I'd like to hear a couple
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: of comments from Vick right now and then and then
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: we'll talk to Tie about some long winn baseball. We'll
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: hear more from Jim Schleisneigel coming up as well. But
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: with regard to Vic Shaffer, we heard his opening comments.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: They also and we'll hear some comments from Brianna Preston,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the long Orange freshman guard tomorrow who's continuing to make strides.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: And Vic was asked what Bree brings to this team
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: and how she's meshed with the older players.
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: I agree completely she I couldn't say it better. You know,
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: when I was recruiting her, man, I could just look
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: at her. She's like my kind of player. Y'all know
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: you've been in the arena. She just brings an energy
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: and you know, I'm blessed with a two headed monster
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: at five, I'm blessed with fast and electric at point guard.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Like that's what we have.
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: Typically, you have a point guard that's kind of your
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: half court speech and run your stuff. But and then
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: you've got one that changes gears a little bit. Well,
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: I got one that's already in that chain, and then
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: I got another one that's even in another gear.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: And so we're really blessed with that.
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: But replays with such emotion, such passion. She's got all
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: the sayings, y'all, Like you know what the kids say,
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: and they're cliches.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: And all that.
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: I mean, I can't keep up with all of them,
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: but she's got them all. You know, whether it's her
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: money thing or whatever it is, it's but you know,
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: that's what's fun. Like, that's fun for me to watch kids.
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: As long as they're not disrespecting our opponent or disrespecting
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: the game, they're having fun with it.
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: They're having fun with.
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: Each other, Like her and Jordan, it's like an aerobics
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: class over there on the sideline when they're not in
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: the game, Like they're just having so much fun. They're
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: into what they're doing, they're supporting their teammates. They're great teammates.
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: And so she's right, she is. She plays with that
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: passion and that emotion and she's got a smile on
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: her face, you know, and I've got a lot of
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: confidence in her. You know, she played some big minutes
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: for us last week and those minutes will continue to grow.
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: And again Jordan Lee, same thing. She obviously has done
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: it most of the year. We got Justice in the
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: other night and she played a little bit for So
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: it's nice to have somebody that can give Rory a
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: breather because it's hard to play at this level thirty
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: five minutes in those highly intense competitive games, and so
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: we're really blessed to have breath.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: We'll hear more from vic shafor talking about Brianna Preston,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: some of the other players as well as the Longhorns
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: get ready to take on Kentucky to travel to day
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: to Lexington and they'll play the Wildcats tomorrow night.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: And you can hear that on one of three point
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: one FM.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Austin Cites station five forty five air time at a
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: six o'clock tip off. All right, up, next, we'll shift
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: to college baseball. We're going to talk with Ty Harrington
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: and get some thoughts from him on this brand new
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: baseball season, not only for the Longhorns, but for the
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: game overall.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: When we continue on AM thirteen under the Zone, we're back.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: It's the Craig Way Show with Hall of Fame caster
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: in Voice of the Texas longhearts Craig Way.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Back here on a Wednesday afternoon and something comes to
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: mind for me.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Several years ago, this was probably.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Around two thousand and five or thereabout, we on the
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Longhorn Radio Network gave an opportunity to a twenty year
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: old young man because we liked his sound, to be
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: our studio anchor, and he did it for eight years
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: and was really really good at it. He was so
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: good at it, in fact, that he was so good
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: at it, in fact, that he moved on.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: As a part of.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: What we were doing and ended up going to Westwood
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: One and then ESPN, and he works now for ESPN
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: and does more Westwood One things now.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: His name is Ted Emrick.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: And Ted was able to do what he did for
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: us very very well, served us very very well, and
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: took it and ran with it and expanded his profile.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: The reason why I bring this up is because our
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: next guest kind of followed a similar pattern. No, Ty
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Herrington did not make his on air debut with us.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: He was working Texas State telecast. He had been doing that,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: but Ty got a chance. We were thrilled to have
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: him work with us last year on a lot of broadcasts,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: a lot of our broadcast and Ty was so good
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: at it that now Ty Herrington is going to be
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: the lead analyst on those telecasts Longhorn Baseball home games
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: as produced here for SEC Network Plus. So he dropped
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: us like a hot rock, and he's moved on the
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: TV and he joins us now on the hotline.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: How you doing, Coach, Well, I'm great.
• 31:09
  Speaker 9: I don't like a hot rock.
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: And I've gotta be honestly, man, a lot of my
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: associates and friends who know me best always felt like
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: I had a face built for.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Radio more than TV.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: I'm not going a lot to you, So I'm stepping
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: out of balance from their advice, and I'm gonna be
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: a little bit more of the TV side of it,
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: as you mentioned.
• 31:32
  Speaker 10: And it's certainly excited to do all the above. And
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: I'm sure at some point in time you and now
• 31:40
  Speaker 10: get a chance to work together on a couple of games,
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: and things evolve and changes, you know, because you've got
• 31:45
  Speaker 10: to handle the schedule and changing things all.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: The time as it evolves. But I'm excited for to
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: be involved with to do the Texas games and the
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: Texas State games, and.
• 31:59
  Speaker 9: I'm selfishly.
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: I'm excited, like college baseball is finally here.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: And you know how.
• 32:09
  Speaker 9: Big a football fan I am.
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: I grew up in a football family. My dad of
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: a high school and college football coach. I you know,
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: I loved football. You know, there's always I love baseball.
• 32:21
  Speaker 9: But man, it's time.
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: And it's it's time to start ringing the bells and
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: start talking about the path, the Oma Hall and and
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: conference championships. And uh, you've already experienced the SEC and
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: a couple of sports, and I franky blee. You know,
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: people can talk about different sports and how tough.
• 32:46
  Speaker 9: They are in the SEC. I think they all are. Certainly.
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: You know football comes to mind basketball now because we're
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: in season, But you and I had discussions before when
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: you know, before during last year, the last year of
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: the Big Twelve for the Texas baseball program, that the
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: baseball and the SEC is unbelievable.
• 33:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and the facilities, the.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: Influence, the national champions the crowds. Man, it is going
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: to be an unreal experience for this first year for
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: Texas fans.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: No doubt about it.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: And by the way, it was just joking on that
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: about the about dropping us like a hot rock. And
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Ty is still going to be able to help us
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: on some selected radio broadcasts here, so we look forward
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: to that as well. But uh, and I want to
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: get into talking about the SEC and I and I
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: want to ask you about slots, and I want to
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: ask you about some.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Other things as well.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: That's why I wanted to have you on here two
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: days before the season opener. But first let me let
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: me circle back to you, because for folks you don't know,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: you're still going to work on the Texas State telecast
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: with Brant Freeman as well, So that's really cool you're
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: getting a chance to work both. The schedules kind of
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: worked out that way, didn't they wear you buying large
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: could still work a pretty regular schedule in Texas State
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: and work the regular schedule long n home games.
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I did, And ironically this year worked better than
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: it's ever worked. It seemed like when Texas State was
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: on the road, Texas Is at home, vice versa, and
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: some Tuesday matchups seemed to work.
• 34:18
  Speaker 9: Out as well.
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: And uh, and then obviously, you know, timing lives for
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: me to to be able to handle my day job,
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: my real job too, and so it all worked out
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: really good.
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: Uh. And then also getting this year, I'll i'll.
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: Actually bet in Arlington for the opening uh for the
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: Texas Longhorns at the Globe Life. I'll be working for
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: Flow Sports and uh and doing uh the opening weekend
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: there and as if you are accustomed to knowing that,
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: regardless of what the leather is like opening weekend at
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: Central Sun Life.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a nice that's a nice thing. Uh.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: And uh, as Tigh Harrington joins us the Shriners Children's
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: College Baseball Showdown. Uh, we'll have three games a day Friday, Saturday,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: and Sunday. It starts off on Friday. Pretty good matchup
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: between a lot of a couple of teams that wear orange.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Fifteenth rank Clemson, number seventeen Oklahoma State. That's the noon game,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: and then what follows at four o'clock is number twenty
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: one Arizona against Old Miss, and then of course the
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: night game is Texas and Louisville. Now, which which are
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: you doing? Two games a day? Is that how that's
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: working for you?
• 35:32
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: Well, we'll do two to one two, And I gotta
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: go back and remember which one minor or I don't
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: I don't actually get the opener for Texas. I keep
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: them on Saturday and Sunday.
• 35:44
  Speaker 9: And but man, you're right, I mean, you know, it's
• 35:48
  Speaker 9: a it's a it's a true test.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Look.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: I mean, you're you're opening up against you know, everybody
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: in there is going to be ranked, and you know
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: and postseason pasted and pedigrees, and.
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: You know, we've already had a handful of.
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: Coach UH conversations in the interviews, and you know, everybody's
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: you know, this time here is incredibly excited about their
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: teams UH and their personnel, and everybody is ready to
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: try to go on the field and see what it
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: looks like. But well, you tell you it's it's a
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: tough tash. You're gonna find out in a hurry. A
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: lot of good things are going to get exposed and
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: some some challenges will get exposed.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: A little bit earlier, visiting with Ty Harrington here on
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: AM thirteen hundreds, All right, Ty, let me get your thoughts.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: We talked about it after Jim Slosmigel was hired at Texas.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: UH since we last conversed all their about that. Of course,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: he's uh assembled his team, put it together. Our good
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: friend David Pearce is on uh on on the staff
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: of Stephen Trout down at Texas State, and uh that
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: looks like that's going to be a good fit and
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: all that. How about your thoughts on the you know, now,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: as these two programs get set to go forward with
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: their seasons, Texas was Schloss and then Texas State.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Getting ready to start it season as well.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: I think we lost him there, so we'll, uh, we'll
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: try and reach it back right when I got to
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: the really good.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Question there, So we'll.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: We'll get him back on line there and and we'll
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: ask him and again. The first matchup will be Oklahoma
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: State and Clemson.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Uh that's at noon.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: The second matchup is Ole Miss Arizona, and then Texas
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: and Louisville.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, So so.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Now UH ties back with us right when I got
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: to the meat and potatoes question for you, tye, and
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: and and it was it was the question of uh
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: now with uh, you know, with when we you know,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: visited in the off season right after Schloss had taken
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: the Texas job and and got some fill in from
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: you on that, and then since then our good friend
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: David Pierce now on uh uh, Stephen Trout's after your
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: former assistant, the head coach at Texas State, and I
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: wanted to get your thoughts on both of these programs
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: as they get set to embark on somewhat new frontiers
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: for this coming season.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:12
  Speaker 9: You know, I had a chance to see Texas State.
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: In the fall play a couple of times outside competition
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: and had some early preseason practices or I got to
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: stick my head in there and watch, and they are
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: really talented, very physical, incredibly athletic on the infield side
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: and with depth as well, and I you know, the
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: pitching side of it was exciting and fun to watch.
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: They ran some guys out there. I watched the Lost
• 38:41
  Speaker 9: Kids run out.
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: There at ninety nine ninety eight to ninety nine miles
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: an hour. And so they've done a really good job
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: of putting together a really good, really good looking, physical,
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: athletic pitching depth team. And so it's going to be
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: exciting for coach Strout and his bo I do think
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: with the addition with the staff they already have in place,
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: but then also the addition of coach Bierce, who is
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: a longtime friend of mine, who's been in this business
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: a long time, and you know, was able to move
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: down the road thirty miles And look, I think anytime
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: you can get anybody with his kind of experience on
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: your staff and knowledge, it's a huge help. And I
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: think it'll be I think it'll work out great.
• 39:25
  Speaker 9: For Texas State.
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: I really do it, and Coach Trout to have somebody
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: there that to bounce different things off of and to
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: talk about different scenarios, and so I do. I think
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: that's a win win for everybody and for them at Texas.
• 39:39
  Speaker 9: State, to be honest with you.
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: And look, we've already you know, we've talked a little
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: bit about coach Slashenegle, and look, he's a really innovative,
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: cutting edge coach.
• 39:52
  Speaker 9: I mean it's rare that he's chasing the trend.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: He's usually leading the.
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: Way and pushing the envelope.
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: Uh to create success, to stay on the front end
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: of an ever changing sport, and baseball has changed, even
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: though the fundamentals of it are similar and it will
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: always be, but the data and being able to get
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: to you know, the different frontiers of of of you
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: know how you know, spin rates, exit via all these
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: things that have come into play and being able to
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: communicate them and being able to make sense of it
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: is huge, and I think it's a tremendous strength. Uh
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: of course Los Angles and his staff and uh and
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: so that look, I think if you're a Texas fan,
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: you've got a lot of things to be incurdibly excited
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: and looking forward to, particularly going into the SEC how
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: that happened. And you know everywhere Jim has been he's one,
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: So that's a care I mean, he's got the formula right,
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: He's got something that and I know and having faced him,
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: you you get to see a lot of it. It's
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: a very detail oriented program.
• 41:02
  Speaker 9: Uh, the players are very detail.
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: Oriented game day wise everything and practice wise.
• 41:08
  Speaker 9: And you'll see you know, last.
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: Year, you and I talked about this, remember back in
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: middle of March last year, and we were talking about
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: who's the best team in the country and a lot
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: of you know, people, a lot of listeners of yours
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: and on the program or Longhorns obviously for being in
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: an Austin area and people that pay attention, and it
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: was it was hard for them, you know, people to
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: understand kind of what you and I were talking about
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: that you know emotionally that A and M was probably
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: the best team in the country at that point in time.
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: And I felt very strong and I think you did too,
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: that they were and they certainly played out that way.
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: Who knows what happens at Montgomery doesn't get hurt, yep,
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: And you know, prior to the World Series, that's their
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: best player.
• 41:48
  Speaker 9: It's hard.
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: It's hard to imagine going into a World Series, UH
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: without your best player and uh and then you lobby
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: Lette was even you know, limping down the end of
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: the season life year as well. So point being the
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: offensive side of what they did, I was really impressed with.
• 42:05
  Speaker 9: The way their patients at the plate.
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: Their ability to take walks, their ability to command the
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: strike zone offensively, and then obviously on the pitching side
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: of what coach Weener has been able to do on
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: the data side of it, and being able to engage
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: his players and to communicate to his pictures, the ability
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: to throw the ball in the strike zone. It is
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: so relevant, Craig, and you notice you've seen more baseball
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: games than anybody probably it's so relevant to be able
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: to command the strike zone offensively and pitching wise, and.
• 42:38
  Speaker 9: If you can do that and you can dominate the strike.
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: Zone them both sides of the baseball, you have a
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: chance that is a true formula for success.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: You brought up a real interesting point, and I was
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: going to ask you a more broad based question about
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: what wrinkles might we see in college baseball this year,
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: what might be different, But I want to circle back
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: to something just pointed out because this kind of fits
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: in the category and it's about pitching, and it's about
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: pitching coaches and strategies and styles. Now you know, it,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: like so many other parts of the game, has evolved
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: over the years.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: But I'm curious to get your thoughts.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Has it evolved even further with what you talked about
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: with the metrics and the things that Max Wiener does,
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Because all of his pitchers who were interviewed on media
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Day yesterday could not stop gushing about Coach Wiener and
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: what he does. So I'm wondering, are there in your mind,
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: from what you know and as close as you are
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: to several of these guys pronounced differences in styles between oh, say,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Max Wiener and a Skip Johnson or or some other
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: uh you know, outstanding pitching coaches across the country.
• 43:52
  Speaker 9: Yeah, just briefly you said between.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Max and.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he pronounced differences in styles and strategies and how
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: they go about it, because you talked about the metrics
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: and what and and they all use different formulae and
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: metrics and things of that nature. But uh, but for
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: that to be a situation where his pictures to a
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: man yesterday just gushed about Max Weener and what he does.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: And I'm just wondering.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: If if this is a different way of building a
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: mouse trap as opposed to say, a more traditional approach.
• 44:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I thinks yes.
• 44:31
  Speaker 11: So the answer your question is it goes back when
• 44:34
  Speaker 11: you were just talking about the game evolves and changes, right,
• 44:37
  Speaker 11: and but the basics of it are still formulated through
• 44:41
  Speaker 11: all of this, even the metrics, the data, you know,
• 44:45
  Speaker 11: what the what the it all shows you and and
• 44:48
  Speaker 11: tells you about it. If you can translate it and
• 44:51
  Speaker 11: understand it right, it can really be helpful.
• 44:54
  Speaker 9: But you have to be able to communicate it.
• 44:57
  Speaker 11: So when you I think, and this is a personal
• 44:59
  Speaker 11: opinion and and only been around coach, mean know.
• 45:02
  Speaker 9: Just a little bit, but watch him.
• 45:03
  Speaker 11: But when you do watch him, he communicates He's able
• 45:07
  Speaker 11: to communicate some really sophisticated, important information. He has found
• 45:12
  Speaker 11: a way to get it to his players where it's useful.
• 45:14
  Speaker 11: You're not talking over them, you're not talking around and
• 45:17
  Speaker 11: by them, you're talking to them, and you're.
• 45:19
  Speaker 9: Communicating to him.
• 45:20
  Speaker 11: I think he does a beautiful job of doing that,
• 45:23
  Speaker 11: and I think you see the results of it by
• 45:25
  Speaker 11: the way his pictures perform. Now to the importance of
• 45:29
  Speaker 11: your your question, Yes, Skip Johnson, who's known as one
• 45:32
  Speaker 11: of the better pitching coaches, and go down to modern time,
• 45:35
  Speaker 11: our time as being one of the better college pitching
• 45:38
  Speaker 11: coaches there is too.
• 45:39
  Speaker 9: I think he Skip does the same thing.
• 45:41
  Speaker 11: They've been able to capture a lot of this metrics,
• 45:44
  Speaker 11: a lot of information that takes a lot of study.
• 45:47
  Speaker 11: It takes a lot of time to get it and
• 45:50
  Speaker 11: to be a part of it.
• 45:51
  Speaker 9: And then you make it useful, Kraig, that's the hard part.
• 45:55
  Speaker 11: How do you make it important, useful and how do
• 45:57
  Speaker 11: you communicate it to the to the people that they
• 46:01
  Speaker 11: can take it to the to the practice field first,
• 46:04
  Speaker 11: take it to a mindset, second, and then translate it
• 46:07
  Speaker 11: on the field in competition motions.
• 46:09
  Speaker 9: Are running hot. How do you do that?
• 46:11
  Speaker 11: One of the other things I think you'll recognize this
• 46:13
  Speaker 11: year too about coach tw heenor when when you see
• 46:16
  Speaker 11: pictures of him in the dugout, those players like to
• 46:20
  Speaker 11: be around him, Like if you'll watch him, they're communicating
• 46:23
  Speaker 11: with him, they're talking to him.
• 46:25
  Speaker 9: He doesn't have a grumpy look on his face.
• 46:28
  Speaker 11: He's got a really fresh look on his face about hey,
• 46:30
  Speaker 11: here's here's what we're trying to do.
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 46:32
  Speaker 11: There's always a positivity to him that I think attracts
• 46:36
  Speaker 11: him his players to him as well.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of almost like a pictures version of
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: what you see with those long horn players gathered around
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: Troy Tulowitski right the way they like to listen to
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: too low in the in the knowledge and wisdom, he
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: can impart to them.
• 46:54
  Speaker 9: Very much, so very much. So look out.
• 46:57
  Speaker 11: This happened during the game of Gain Alumni game. We
• 46:59
  Speaker 11: were talking and Daylem Flora is on during the inning
• 47:02
  Speaker 11: and uh, which to me was as a player out
• 47:04
  Speaker 11: the bet. I was so distracted anyway, it was hard
• 47:06
  Speaker 11: enough to stay engaged. But he was doing such an
• 47:09
  Speaker 11: unreal job and I asked him, I said, he goes
• 47:11
  Speaker 11: with with all five fingers in the glove. He doesn't
• 47:13
  Speaker 11: take the traditional uh index finger out and uh.
• 47:17
  Speaker 9: And he started to explain why.
• 47:19
  Speaker 11: How he does it and why he does it, and
• 47:21
  Speaker 11: it was all built and based around too Low and
• 47:24
  Speaker 11: how he did it, and.
• 47:26
  Speaker 9: So he he likes to emulate him too.
• 47:28
  Speaker 11: So that tells you that there's not only just a
• 47:31
  Speaker 11: physical side of what he's teaching them, there's an emotional
• 47:34
  Speaker 11: uh attraction to it too.
• 47:36
  Speaker 9: They they want to they want to be like him.
• 47:38
  Speaker 9: They they're bought in.
• 47:40
  Speaker 11: That means not only that they bought in by his
• 47:42
  Speaker 11: actions and how he does things, but they want to
• 47:44
  Speaker 11: be like.
• 47:44
  Speaker 9: Him, So they answer you quick. Yeah, it's very much
• 47:46
  Speaker 9: so the same.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very good. Uh, he's ty Arrington.
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Again, you'll get a chance to enjoy his work on
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: those Hometel and cast Longhorn games on SEC Network. Plus
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: he'll he'll also help us out still and we're still
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: going to do our weekly visit, right, we are still doing.
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: That, right.
• 48:01
  Speaker 11: Well, I'll tell you what this Yeah, there's gonna be
• 48:05
  Speaker 11: there's gonna be so much information out there this year
• 48:09
  Speaker 11: about SEC, about college baseball, about.
• 48:12
  Speaker 9: Everything I went through.
• 48:15
  Speaker 11: And I know you're a big fan of D one baseball,
• 48:17
  Speaker 11: and you spend time, you know, you know, digging into there.
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: And if there's so much information.
• 48:22
  Speaker 11: Uh from those guys as well, I started going through
• 48:25
  Speaker 11: and started looking at the SEC for the first time.
• 48:27
  Speaker 11: I mean, I've always paid attention, but now I really
• 48:30
  Speaker 11: got to pay attention. And there's so much in depth
• 48:32
  Speaker 11: information out there. And I think that I think the
• 48:36
  Speaker 11: true Longhorm fans are gonna be really excited about that.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: I really believe that.
• 48:39
  Speaker 11: I think they're gonna be excited about there's more, you know,
• 48:42
  Speaker 11: more information out there the people that come to Dishfalk.
• 48:45
  Speaker 11: And I will say this too, having visited with with
• 48:48
  Speaker 11: coach slish than go about this a couple of weeks ago.
• 48:52
  Speaker 11: He talked about all the all the programs in the
• 48:55
  Speaker 11: SEC since he'd been in it for the two years
• 48:58
  Speaker 11: at A and M, and just how the crowds were
• 49:01
  Speaker 11: and how excited he was about being at a place
• 49:03
  Speaker 11: where two where the crowds have always traditionally been big
• 49:06
  Speaker 11: at the University Texas, right, it's important college baseball here
• 49:09
  Speaker 11: has been important well way before.
• 49:12
  Speaker 9: I got here, way before you and I got here.
• 49:14
  Speaker 9: It'll be important way beyond us being here.
• 49:18
  Speaker 11: And he was excited about that, that building that crowd,
• 49:22
  Speaker 11: getting it even bigger and bigger each time through the
• 49:24
  Speaker 11: excitement of the SEC UH and the game day experiences
• 49:28
  Speaker 11: you know, has grown, has become really important and fun
• 49:30
  Speaker 11: there at UFC Dishfalk, and so I just think it's
• 49:35
  Speaker 11: just going to electrify it now with the SEC teams
• 49:38
  Speaker 11: coming in and you start looking at that schedule, that's impressive, right,
• 49:41
  Speaker 11: I mean, that's that's.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: Pretty that's fun. Yeah, looking forward to it. Hey, I
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: appreciate it. I'll see you up in Arlington this weekend.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: I look forward to it, all right. That's Ty Harrington,
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: the coach, and he joins us each week to talk
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: college baseball, and again he'll be working the telecast UH
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: there on the SEC network plus telecast of Longhorn home games,
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: and again he'll we'll work him in also as available
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: with our Long Run radio broadcast. Keith Morland rejoins us
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: as our primary analyst for Long Horn Baseball this season.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: We're looking forward to that with the season opener on
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: Friday night, Texas against Louisville.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: We're going to hear more from.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: Vic Shaeffer coming up when we continue on AM thirteen
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: under the Zone. I want to jump back to college
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: baseball for a moment before we hear more from Vic Shaeffer.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, Very Augur and Austere group.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: Outstanding Guys.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: The National Collegiate Baseball Right Association have announced the Stopper
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: of the Year preseason watch list. And there's a bunch
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: of guys on the list, and I think they're nine
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: out of the SEC alone who are on the list.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: One returning first Team All American ben a Belt of
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: TCU is part of that, but John Armstrong of Auburn,
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: Andrew Benke of Tennessee is part of that group.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Brian Curley of Georgia.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: These are SEC guys, Kristin Vouch of Arkansas, Simon Gregorson
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: of Kentucky, Miller Green of Vanderbilt, Robert Hogan of Kentucky.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: So there's two Kentucky Wildcats on that list. Two Auburn Tigers.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: Hayden Murphy is on that list. And let's see Nate
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Sneaed of Tennessee is on that list. I guess that's
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: all of the SEC other than Ruger Riojas, the UTSA transfer,
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: who was a long one. We heard from him yesterday
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: he is on this preseason Stopper of the Year watch list.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: On that on the text line, somebody said, could you
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: ask Hi how the Bobcat shape up this season? We did,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: and he did this said he really likes but this
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: is somebody else stated talking about Matt Patricia taking over
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: his defensive coordinator, Ohio State said his New England defenses
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: were always effective in shutting down the likes of Steve
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Van Buren and Hugh mcallaney. All Right, so I feel
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: compelled to ask you do you even know who's for
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: the Okay? Steve Van Buren was a great running back
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: for the Philadelphia Eagles in the late forties into the fifties,
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: the forties into the fifties. In fact, his name came
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: up during the Super Bowl on Sunday because wasn't it
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: Cooper Jean the Jean's birthday?
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he had to pick six.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, only the second man to score a touchdown in
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: a quote unquote World championship game on his birthday, the
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: other being Steve Van Buren, who did it against the
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: Chicago Cardinals in nineteen forty seven, a game the Eagles
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: lost that year, and then the next year to beat
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: the Cardinals in a blizzard in Philadelphia seven nothing and
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: he scored I think it was late third or early
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: fourth quarter. He scored the only touchdown in that game.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: And then he had like one hundred and sixty five
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: rushing yards against the Rams in a driving rainstorm in
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: nineteen forty nine in Los Angeles. He was from LSU.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Hugh mcalaney was like Steve Van Buren, a Hall of Famer.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: So I think Matt Patricia did a pretty good job
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: against some modern day running backs as well. He just
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: it didn't work out for him as a head coach.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: I thought he was always pretty good coordinator that he
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: worked out there. All right, let's hear some more from
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: Long Orange head coach Vick Schaeffer. Now, we were hearing
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: him talk about Rihanna Preston and she had a buzzer
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: beater against Vanderbilt, and Vick was asked if the team
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: tries to celebrate little things that happened within the game
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: that was at the end of the first half when
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: she had that.
• 53:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we try to celebrate all those those things like that. Connor,
• 54:03
  Speaker 8: my video coordinator, he makes a highlight film after every game, y'all.
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: He's really good.
• 54:08
  Speaker 8: I wish we could put them on social media, but
• 54:10
  Speaker 8: we can't. But uh, they're really, really good and our
• 54:15
  Speaker 8: kids that today when we go to film, they'll be
• 54:17
  Speaker 8: on the edge of their seats looking forward to seeing
• 54:20
  Speaker 8: to seeing that one that he creates from from obviously
• 54:23
  Speaker 8: from from Sunday.
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: But we do.
• 54:25
  Speaker 8: We try to celebrate and show all those things. And
• 54:28
  Speaker 8: I you know, I'm I always want my camera opposite
• 54:30
  Speaker 8: my bench because I want to watch and see what
• 54:34
  Speaker 8: my bench is doing. If they're over there sitting on
• 54:36
  Speaker 8: their hands, I'm gonna I'm on Gridham. You know, whether
• 54:41
  Speaker 8: you're a starter or you're coming off the bench, whatever
• 54:44
  Speaker 8: your role is, when you're over there on that bench,
• 54:46
  Speaker 8: I want to see you into your teammates because I
• 54:50
  Speaker 8: know what they're doing. Especially those kids that start over there,
• 54:52
  Speaker 8: they're into the starters. When you're a starter and you
• 54:55
  Speaker 8: come over there, I need you to be into whoever's
• 54:57
  Speaker 8: in on the on the floor at that time too.
• 54:59
  Speaker 8: It's it's only fair, and that's what being a good
• 55:02
  Speaker 8: teammate's all about.
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: So there is there's a lot of good things that
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: we like to show.
• 55:09
  Speaker 8: And again we've had a lot of good things to
• 55:11
  Speaker 8: show here lately.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, we'll hear more from Vick Shaeffer coming up. What
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: be We will be back to wrap up our number
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: two here on thirteen under the Zone. But here was
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: a question that was asked of him about how does
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: he balance because he talks about how proud he is
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: of his team, and he takes his team is really
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: really good, but by the same talk and he talks
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: about how they're still work in progress and trying to
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: get better and all those kinds of things. So he
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: was asked, how do you balance believing having your team
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: believe they're the best in the country while also preparing
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: for what's ahead.
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, that's my job. It's a it's a
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: it's a balancing act, you know.
• 55:47
  Speaker 8: I got to try to keep them grounded and focus
• 55:51
  Speaker 8: one day at a time. That's that's what I tell
• 55:53
  Speaker 8: him every day. Let's just focus on today, Let's try
• 55:57
  Speaker 8: to get incrementally better one percent day, and just again,
• 56:02
  Speaker 8: when you start thinking ahead two three four days, two
• 56:06
  Speaker 8: three four games, that's when when you're stepping and we're
• 56:08
  Speaker 8: trying to climb them ountain right and get to that
• 56:10
  Speaker 8: ultimate level, that ultimate championship. That's when you miss a
• 56:15
  Speaker 8: step and you follow the way down and so.
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: Keeping them confident. You know, I have to tell them all.
• 56:21
  Speaker 8: The time, guys, you have no idea how good you
• 56:26
  Speaker 8: can be. But at the same time, man, it's it's work,
• 56:30
  Speaker 8: like there's there's no easy way. Winning is really hard.
• 56:34
  Speaker 8: Y'all heard me say that a million times, Like it's hard.
• 56:37
  Speaker 8: It's supposed to be hard. There are supposed to be
• 56:39
  Speaker 8: struggles when you're a freshman, a sophtoboard. There are that's
• 56:45
  Speaker 8: part of the journey. And so and I tell them
• 56:49
  Speaker 8: each year when we're at this point, we're always it
• 56:52
  Speaker 8: seems like we're always at this point where we're having.
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: A great year.
• 56:55
  Speaker 8: You don't take it for granted. Nothing is guaranteed for
• 57:00
  Speaker 8: us standing here. Tomorrow ain't guaranteed. So embrace and live
• 57:07
  Speaker 8: the moment right now today, because you don't know what
• 57:13
  Speaker 8: tomorrow brings, what next year brings, what the next team brings.
• 57:17
  Speaker 8: So embrace it right now. I know Shay Holly, she's
• 57:21
  Speaker 8: living every day. She's embracing every day, every moment, And
• 57:27
  Speaker 8: so that's what you want your kids to do. I
• 57:30
  Speaker 8: think Taylor Jones, she knows this is it, this is
• 57:33
  Speaker 8: the last ride. So We've got to get everybody to
• 57:37
  Speaker 8: really embrace that.
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: And live it.
• 57:40
  Speaker 8: I want them to live the success that we're having,
• 57:43
  Speaker 8: live it, but own it and realize humble and hungry.
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: That's it again.
• 57:50
  Speaker 8: Sunday's over hope they enjoyed it, But today it's Kentucky
• 57:54
  Speaker 8: and that has to be your mindset. And I told
• 57:58
  Speaker 8: them Sunday, we're gonna find out what are maturity levels
• 58:01
  Speaker 8: like next week. This week, we're gonna find out by
• 58:06
  Speaker 8: how they come in on Tuesday, their approach, their focus,
• 58:09
  Speaker 8: how hard they play, because that's what it's gonna take.
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: It's gonna take a mature group.
• 58:16
  Speaker 8: And again we're always talking about consistency. I think we've
• 58:20
  Speaker 8: got some kids that I feel good about. If they
• 58:22
  Speaker 8: know where the bus is loading and what time we're loading,
• 58:25
  Speaker 8: as long as they're on the bus, I feel good.
• 58:29
  Speaker 8: But now I'm trying to develop some consistency with the
• 58:32
  Speaker 8: next group, the next part of the team. When you
• 58:35
  Speaker 8: get that consistency with all fourteen of them, now we
• 58:38
  Speaker 8: got a chance.
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: And there's so many plays.
• 58:41
  Speaker 8: I'm so tempted to show film today and show them
• 58:46
  Speaker 8: here's one play we didn't make.
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: This one could have cost us a game.
• 58:50
  Speaker 8: I could probably show them double digits, you know, one blockout,
• 58:55
  Speaker 8: one layup, missed, one turnover, one bad pass to a
• 58:59
  Speaker 8: post player. It's wide open, like I could do that.
• 59:02
  Speaker 8: I'm not going to, but I want them to understand.
• 59:06
  Speaker 8: That's how fragile, that's how perfect you almost have to
• 59:11
  Speaker 8: play in those moments to win those games. And I
• 59:15
  Speaker 8: thought our execution down the stretch was perfect. Got the
• 59:19
  Speaker 8: ball in, got it the right people's hands, we met
• 59:21
  Speaker 8: our free throws, got a great stop.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: It's perfect.
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: That's what it takes to win those games.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: It's always maniacal this time of year. It's about to
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: get what I call overlap number two crazy because the
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: baseball season starting on Friday. So like tomorrow night, Roger
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: Wallace will be with the Texas Women they play at
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: Kentucky tomorrow night.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: I'll be here.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: We'll have Long Run Weekly with Rodney Terry tomorrow night,
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: and then I'm going to go right after the show.
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: I'm driving straight to Arlington Tomorrow night, Friday Long One
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: baseball season opener against Louisville ge Life Field in Arlington,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: and then I'll come back and Saturday night, the Long
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Horn Men play Kentucky and then Sunday the Texas women
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: play LSU. Roger Wallace will kind of tag team and
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: he'll go up by thirty five and work Saturday and Sunday.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Long Horn Baseball will keep Morland that weekend.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: And then and then we come back and there's a
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: home opener against Houston and then a home series against Dartmouth.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: But we go to South Carolina and then it comes
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: back and anyway, it goes on and on and on,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: and then it gets real crazy once we get to March.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: But those of us who those of you who have.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: Listened to the program, you know that you listen to
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: us and hear us a just on the fly and
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: do all the things that we do, and it's a
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: lot of fun. Obviously, we we have a take a
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: great deal of enjoyment and a great deal of we
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: put a lot of ourselves into it because we're really
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: invested into it and we really enjoy it. Otherwise we
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: wouldn't do all the games and the things that we
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: do and the travel and all that other kind of stuff.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: It's it's it's a great reward and we uh and
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: we you know, have to work at it pretty uh,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: pretty diligently.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: And stay up on things. But it's an awful lot
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: of fun we really enjoy.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: I wanted to jump very briefly to Major League Baseball.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: You know, pitchers and catchers for a couple of teams
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: have already reported, except for Anthony Rendome. He will not
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: be reported. Yeah he could be out for a point
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: of the Angels are They're really in a bad way
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: And but that team across town from him is doing
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: pretty good. The Dodgers are in uh. Uh, pitchers and
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: catchers reporting they are. Uh and because they play the
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: Cubs in Japan before anybody else does, like when they
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: played the Padres in Korea last year. So uh, they
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: do that and then ESPN just put this out today,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: the off season winners and losers. As you would imagine,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: they were gonna rate Dodgers very highly, and they did.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: But they say, yeah, yeah, I know.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: I won't spend too much time here, but they have
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: to be mentioned first. After starting the off season with
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: a roster fresh off of World Series title, the Dodgers
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: added Kirby Yates and Tanner Scott to the bullpen, Blake
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: Snell and Roki Sasaki to the rotation. By the way,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: they're looking at starting probably Yamamoto and Sasaki for the
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: games in Japan, which I think is a really cool
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: gesture if they did that. Yeah, and adding Michael confordo
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: he signed Kim to the lineup. They lost only Walker
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: Bueller and Jack Flaherty and free agency and Gavin Lux
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: via trade, with all three of those players replaced by
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: one of their free agents signings. They also just resigned
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw, that did that yesterday. You'll get a kick
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: out of this. Maybe I've told you about this. Karl
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: Ravitch was doing the Longhorned Men's basketball game for ESPN
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: last night. Rab As so many know, his main Baileywick
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: really is baseball baseball tonight baseball guy does baseball, but
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: he does some basketball, and his son is a basketball
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: play by play guy. Uh and so I was chatting
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: with him last night and I said, Hey, I'm a
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: big Dodger fan.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: Heaes, yeah, I know, so he did.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: I said, I said, you think Kershaw is going to
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: pass that physical? And he goes, oh, yeah, he goes.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: But you know he's like your ninth pitcher. He said,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't worry too much about that. So but they
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: did resign Kershaw. They also resigned to Oscar Hernandez Key
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: k Hernandez Blake Trining. They also extended Tommy edmund and,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: while not a free agent deal, this winner. They also
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: will be getting the pitcher version of Shoe a Otani
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: this season. Keep an eye, it says on top one
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: hundred prospect Alex Freeland as a potential edition this summer.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: Right to clear the Dodgers from from the Ledger. Because
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: everybody knows what they had. Here's the other teams. They
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: like what they did the Mets. They brought back Sean Manyah.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: They lost Luis Severina in a multi year deal, but
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: they signed Pete Alonzo, Frankie Montas and Clay Holmes. They
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: like the Tigers. Glaber Torrez landed him and they resigned
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty as well. They added Alex Cobb to the
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: rotation and Tommy Kingley to the bullpen Losers. If you
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Dodger Fanny love this Padres. It's pretty widely known that
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: Padres had a number of penning free agents and not
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of flexible payroll flexibility, so they weren't expected
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: to have a loud winner. That said, they've done almost
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: nothing merely resigning elast Dies and adding Jason Hayward and
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: Connor Joe on one year deals to platoon in left field.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: At the same time, they lost Tanner, Scott Jerks and
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: Profar Kyle Higgey, Shioka, Donovan Solano, Martine Perez, and Hayesan
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: Kim to Rivals via free agency. They're projected to be
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: a couple of million over the lowest luxury tax threshold,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: and that might well be the target, so I wouldn't.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: Expect much in the way of editions the rest of
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: the winter.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: They also identify the Cardinals and Braves as losers, and
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: they said the Mariners also haven't done too much.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: Rockies have no direction right now.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: The Pirates, they say, they're not that far away from
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: being competitive, of course, led by Paul Skeins as well,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: so there's some there's something to be said about that.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: They did not mention the Rangers either as winners or
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: losers on that so is that a plus?
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: I honestly do not know what to think, because we
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: were so banged up this past season.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: I got to get people healthy.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously, I'm totally fine letting go of scherz Er.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: I really think he is on the tapped out. Yeah,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: but can de Gram stay healthy? That's a huge key, Like,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: can can we get a healthy season from the Gram?
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: And not only a healthy season Craig, Can we get
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: a good season from him? I think will be a
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: huge plus. And also offensive. You know, the injuries were
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: one thing, but the offense cratered as opposed to the
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: World Series championship year. So I think this team will
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: end up being a buyer at the trade deadline. But
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: we'll see. I don't think there are winners are losers
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: yet as of right now.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: How do you feel about Jack Peterson in a Ranger uniform?
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: Like that move a lot.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: I think he's he's going to be obviously in a
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: hitters ballpark at Home Depot slash Globe Life Park Field
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: where they call it now much needed addition obviously.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know him very well off what he
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: did for the Dodgers.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he always looks on and he actually won the
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: World Series with the Dodgers in the in the COVID
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: year in the COVID you were there, yep, twenty twenty
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: he was there. Did he win the World Series with
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: the Braves the next year twenty twenty one? He might
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: have two World Series rings. He's been with the Giants,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: he's been with the Cubs and now with the Rangers.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: And he's always a good left handed bat. But he's
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: gonna strike out a lot too. I mean, you know,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: that's just that's the way it is. But with the
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: way that right field porch is situated a globe life,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: it might be pretty conducive to a wing.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: He always looks like he's about to make love to
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: his baseball bat as he steps to the plate. He
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: just gazed as lovingly at his bat as he steps
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: to the plate. Lindon and I get always a chuckle
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: out of that. Watch him, and it's part of his routine,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: just like you know, no Mar you know, doing all
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: the gloves and all the stuff he did.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: Part of his routine is just he stares at his
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: bad and then he then he digs in.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: Is it barely does that? Or like from Major League
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: where what's his name was, you know, had a foodoo shrine.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: No, it's not quite like Pedro Serrano. Yeah, it's not
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: not quite like Pedro Serrano, you know. Uh, but uh,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: I always like Jock and I think I think he'll
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: be good for the Rangers. All right, coming up, we're
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: gonna hear more from Texas Longhorns baseball coach Jim schlagles
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: Long Orange prepare to head north to Arlington to open
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: their season on Friday night at Globe Lie Field as
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: they'll take on the Louisville Cardinals.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: That's next. When we continue on thirteen.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: Out of the Zone, let's hear more from Long Horns
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: head baseball coach Jim Schlasnagel getting ready for the season.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: Earlier in the program, we heard Schloss talking about when
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: he was asked about Texas continued to take part in
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: these early season whatever tournament's classics, things like that, and
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: he likes the fact that they'll play in Houston at the.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: What is it again? Renamed Ballpark for a minute, made
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: kateon what is it? Kate? What is it? Dacon davidon Field.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: There formerly known as ben at May Park. Next year,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: like on the third weekend, they're going to open at
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: Globe Life. He said he'd rather not open with an
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: event like that, but he does like it and will
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: continue to alternate. He was also asked he mentioned that
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: they would be opening the season at the University of
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: San Diego next year. So he was asked, does he
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: know that foreign advance what the opponent's going to be like, say,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: for next year's non conference schedule.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 5: No, they tell you a couple of years out. I
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 5: think Coach Pierce probably agreed. It's weird that we're playing
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 5: in an SEC school in a non conference game. I
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 5: think Coach Pierce probably agreed to it because we don't
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 5: play Ole Miss this year in the regular season, so
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 5: that's that makes total sense. But yeah, you know, in
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 5: the future, I mean, I think you're at the University
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 5: of Texas.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: You know we should if we.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 5: Only get four non conference weekends Texas, you know, the
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 5: home opener should be here, I mean the opener to me.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 5: To me, it should be at Dishfalk and then we'll
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 5: go on the road the second or third weekend, play
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 5: at home right before conference play begins, and then go
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 5: hit that gauntlet.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: Yew uh.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: So here he is about to begin his first season
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: as head coach at Texas and of course he started
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: his head coaching or at UNLV and then he arked
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: on what he did at TCU and then from there
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: at Texas A and M. So is the setup for
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: him this first season at Texas similar to what he
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: encountered when he began his first season at TCU and
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: then Texas A and.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: M oh Man.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, two completely different programs at different stages, you know,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 5: when I got to A and M. When I got
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 5: to TCU actually very very similar. When I got to TCU,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 5: they had won thirty six games a year before and
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 5: had a lot of older players returning, and that first
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 5: year we set a school record of thirty nine wins.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 5: Can you believe that thirty nine wins was the school
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 5: record that year in two thousand and four, and we
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 5: won a conference tournament. And then get to A and M,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 5: and you know, they had a rough year the year
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 5: before the year before that was COVID and then had
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 5: an awesome group of older players very similar to this
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 5: core group of players here at Texas who totally bought in.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 5: We had a lot of things go right that season,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 5: and we had our best players had great seasons, and
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 5: we ended up you know, I think we were preseason
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 5: picked thirteenth out of fourteen the SEC and won the
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 5: SEC West, finished third and Omaha. So could I see
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 5: something like that happening with this team?
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: For sure? But that team also.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 5: Started out ten and eight and getting ready to play
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 5: the SEC play, and I felt like we were going
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 5: to lose twenty five games in SEC plays. A matter
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 5: of fact, no one came told me that. He told
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 5: me you're about to go. You just know you're about
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 5: to go five and twenty five in the SEC That's
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 5: what we felt like on that night after we lost
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 5: to Houston. But we went down there at the baton
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 5: Rouge one, two out of three guys got confident, felt
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 5: good about themselves. And I don't ever underestimate young people.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 5: So I have a lot of belief in the core,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 5: the core group of players that we inherited here, like
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 5: the gal Vans and the Shustlers and Balloo and Flores
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 5: and do Plantier, will Mercer like, I mean, there's more
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 5: than that, but just awesome humans. And but we're going
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 5: to be challenged, like really, like this program has never
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 5: been challenged before.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: Schwatz talked about confidence and how important confidence is for
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: a young baseball team, so he was asked, how does
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: he go about doing this?
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: How does he get the team to be confident from
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: day one?
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think it just confidence comes from doing it,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 5: and you have to go out and do it.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: You know, it's the chicken or the egg deal. Does
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: the confidence?
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 5: Are you confident before you play the game or are
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 5: you only confident when you have success? And so the
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 5: challenge I think is, you know, we call it opening
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 5: day mentality. How does every you know, I'm sure there's
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 5: some teams in the major leagues that start off knowing
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 5: they're going to lose one hundred games these days, But
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 5: in college baseball, on opening Day or like, no one's
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 5: going over four, no one's, no one's has a bad era,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 5: you're super confident. And the challenge of baseball is can
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 5: you bring opening day mentality to every day? And why
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 5: why does yesterday's over four have to affect today's? And
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 5: that's easier said than done. But I think that's the
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 5: challengeallenge in all of baseball. But it's really the challenge
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 5: in the SEC because if you lose the first two games,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 5: godly man, just try to grab one on a Sunday.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 5: And because if you can come through this thing at
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 5: or near or above or maybe in the ballpark of
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 5: a five hundred record, I mean, you're setting yourself up.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 5: And then if you talk to every SEC coach at
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 5: the end of the season, they're like, we're prepared for everything.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 5: There's no pitcher, there's no atmosphere, and that's why you
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 5: see so many teams do so well. I mean, the
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 5: SEC has a lot of the best players, but they
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 5: also they're so battle tested. And so I think my
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 5: challenge as the coach, even for myself because I'm super
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 5: competitive too, but at least having been through it for
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 5: three years, it's just, hey man, it's a new day.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: Because if you've.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 5: Done really well for one day, you better watch out
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 5: because you'll get your doors blown in the next day.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 5: And so it's just really trying to keep them in
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 5: the moment and keep them present because it can snow
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 5: ball on you super fast.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: One of the interesting stories with this Longhorn baseball team
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: is Kimball Schuschler. Schusler started his collegiate curre at A
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: and M and then transferred to Texas UH and the
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: worst some hard feelings. He transferred in he had that
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: eye injury that basically took him completely out of two
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: seasons ago, and then came back and was so reliable
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: and dependable as the backup behind the plate and UH
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: and could come up with a clutch hit like in
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: the regional and college station. And he kind of pointed
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: to Schlasnagel in the Yaggie dugout when he ran to
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: the bases and all that sort of stuff. Well, Kimball
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: now is in the transitioning one from catcher to first base,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: and Schlast was asked, would have much difference in his game?
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: Does would his game elevate?
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 4: How?
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: Would he see you know, significant difference in his game
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: transitioning from behind the plate to first base?
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 5: Not necessarily. I mean, I think Kimball. Kim's a really
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 5: good catcher. Obviously, when you move out of that spot,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 5: then there's less to think about. It's kind of like
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 5: a lot of times you'll take an infielder and move
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 5: them the outfield and he starts swinging the bad a
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 5: little bit better because there's less to think about. When
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 5: you're playing the outfield, you got to pay attention. It
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 5: can get boring out there. But no, Kimball, Kimball just
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 5: loves It's important for Kimball to be around the baseball.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 5: I mean, and I judge a first basement's defense by
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 5: the lack of throwing errors of the other infielders. Right,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 5: if a first baseman can field a ground ball. I mean,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 5: we want him to field a ground ball, but all
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 5: you got to really do is tackle it and flip
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 5: it to the pitcher. Most of the time, the key
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 5: is how do you play around the base and when
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 5: that ball gets thrown on a short hop, that's an error.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 5: Can you pick it and keep it from being an error?
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 5: And so he's worked really, really hard. He's had a
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 5: history of arm issues, so we need to protect him.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: Will he catch some this year?
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 5: I'm sure he will at times, But that's why the
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 5: development of Chamberlain the service is super important. But Kimball
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 5: was kim has been through a lot in his career.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: Uh you know.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 5: I was a part of recruiting him at TCU. We
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 5: tried to get him to come to TCU, and then
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 5: I get the A and M and and we didn't
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 5: have a spot for him at A and M.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: And that was a tough conversation.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 5: And and then we played him last year in the
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 5: regional and he hit a homer and he rounded third
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 5: base and had a few awesome words to me, which
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 5: I love. I actually love that. I love Kimball. He's
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 5: an ultimate competitor. He never takes off a pitch, and
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 5: so we just have to keep He's an example. We
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 5: have to keep those guys healthy because those for us
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 5: to have success, our best players have to be on
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 5: the field. Uh yeah, no, I can't. My mother would
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 5: be pretty disappointed if. Yeah. So, And they're glad they're
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 5: back on the same side.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: The mental part of the game always important, always so
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: so important, and Schloss asked how this group has responded
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: mentally in his first off season with them.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been awesome.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 5: I think you know they've Mental skills are things that
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 5: can be practiced. And if you've been around this program
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 5: with coach Gurrito and you know that. And we've spent
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 5: more time, effort, and money in developing mental skills than
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 5: anybody else in the country since two thousand and six
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 5: at TCU A and M and now here. And I
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 5: believe that you can't be in control of your performance
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 5: unless you're in control of yourself. That's why this upcoming
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 5: tournament is such a I mean, you talk about stepping
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 5: into deep water, and you're going to play in a
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 5: big league park against great teams on TV, great crowds,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 5: and so the challenge, I mean, somebody asked me Yeshually,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 5: what do you want to see out of the weekend
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 5: besides three wins or wins? And it would be just
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 5: how our players handle adrenaline and adversity which you face
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 5: in every baseball game. And you're really going to see
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 5: it this weekend. And so you know, we've practiced those things,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 5: we talk about them, we show them videos like we've
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 5: waited every day. It's the first thing we work on
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 5: in the fall, along before swings or pitches or anything else.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: And so it's that important to us. And they've bought in.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 5: Now they have to go put it to practice in
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 5: the most you know, competitive environment, at least what they
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 5: we'll see now.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: You're going to hear a word used a few times
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: in this next piece of sound with Jim Schlasnagel, and
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: it applies to the run up to this season, everything
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: that happened from last June when Texas A and M
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: season ended in Omaham, and we know what happened next,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: and we know with you know, Schloss meeting up with
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: Crystal Kanti over and Snook Cemetery and the deal got
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: done and it comes over and there's.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: All kinds of.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: Uh manic things and conversations that happened. That wasn't the word.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: There's a different word, and you'll hear it when he
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: was asked when the things began to feel normal for
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: him after a and here's that word, chaotic arrival.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 5: They started to feel normal when I got to Once
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 5: I'm on the field with the players, then it's awesome.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 5: You know, everything outside of that is just it's slowed
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 5: down some, but it's just been super chaotic. And you know,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 5: the one word, you know, I guess my one word
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 5: for twenty twenty four looking back would be, you know,
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 5: chaos or drama or whatever. And there was just so
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 5: much of it, you know, from the middle of June
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 5: on and that's you know, I mean, it's a decision
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 5: I made too, So it's not like, you know, someone
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 5: held a gun to my head. It was a choice
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 5: I made, but or we made as a group, Nolan, myself,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 5: Max and Mike for a couple of days and and
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 5: and Chuck. So but once you get on the field
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 5: with the players, that's the best. That's the best part
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 5: of my day. The worst part of my days leaving here.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 5: The best part of my day is coming to the ballpark.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 5: And so once you're on the field. It has always
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 5: felt no on the field, it's away from the field
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 5: that it's it's not quite there yet.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, chaotic, you might say, but it'll probably settle in
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: once the season gets going. Schloss also has how he
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: wants his older guys, the returning veterans of this team,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: to lead this team in the clubhouse and on the field.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just helping him through those tough times. And they've
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 5: already done that. They've the first thing they've done is
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 5: they've established an unbelievable blue collar work ethic at an
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 5: incredibly white collar school, you know. And what I mean
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 5: by that is it's Texas. Like you know, everybody thinks
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 5: Texas has the most and the grandest of all things
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 5: in college athletics, which we have a lot. We do
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 5: have a lot of cool stuff here, but it's I
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 5: call it white collar appearance and a blue collar approach.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 5: And we have this awesome facility on a day like
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 5: this where we can still go get work in and
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 5: like I said a couple days ago, like on a
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 5: day off, I actually I literally have to take the
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 5: balls out of the batting cage because these guys want
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 5: to be here and want to spend time here and
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 5: want to be in those cages all the time. And
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 5: so I think those older players have taught those young
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 5: players this is what it looks like to work at Texas.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 5: This is our standard of how we work. And then
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 5: now it's going to be this is our standard on
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 5: how we act on a road trip. This is going
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 5: to be our standard of how we act in a dugout.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 5: Some of that iowall influence, but it's also going to
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 5: be when a Rod or Chamberlain or whomever has their
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 5: first really rough day. You know, hearing it from your
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 5: coach is one thing, but hearing it from your peer
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 5: it has a lot more weight.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: And so those guys will do a great job with that.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: And so to follow up on that, why was it
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: important to establish that team culture?
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 5: I think you know when you go through I mean
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 5: went to original last year, so it wasn't a horrible season,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 5: you know, I mean, I take the four seat in
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 5: Anchorage right now, but but you know, I just think, seriously,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 5: I take it. Wouldn't you take can't get domb Hall
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 5: unless you're an O regional. So as of now, I'd
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 5: take four season Anchorage and take it from there. But Uh,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 5: but no, I mean, you know, I think you know.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 5: We all learn as we get older, and and you
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 5: got it. The one thing I've learned is you've got
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 5: to have empathy for the players. And I fail at
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 5: that too. I'm super competitive. And the game sure is
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 5: easy from the dugout. It's sure is easy from section
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 5: one oh seven or two o eight or whatever the
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 5: old saying. The further you are away from the field,
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 5: the more you know. And and with the player, man,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 5: it's it's hard, like you know the man. They're the
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 5: ones in the arena, and I want them to feel supported.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 5: I have to hold it. I have to hold them
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 5: accountable to help to their attitude and their effort, but
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 5: in terms of support and just knowing like you're gonna
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 5: get punched in the mouth. And that's why we create
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 5: these mental skills, to give them something, a process and
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 5: something tangible to go to so they can get better.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: And one final thing from Jim Schlashnagel again rolling back
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: to this whole thing about the chaos and in moving
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: to Texas and it's shock waves across college baseball and
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: the college baseball landscape.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: Schloss is that.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: A good thing is is it good because of the
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: attention the game and the institutions garnered as a result.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: It is it a good thing for college baseball that
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: his moved to Texas created waves?
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 5: You know, I think, yes, I wish it wasn't as
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 5: I don't know what word would you use, polarizing, poisonous
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 5: in some ways, toxic, you know, I get it.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: It was fun for you guys, I'm sure.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 5: But I didn't make the decision because I was looking
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 5: to stick it to anybody. I loved it there, I
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 5: loved it. I loved the twelfth Man. They were so
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 5: good to me. A portion of fan is short for fanatic,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 5: that's short, you know, And it's okay. But you know,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 5: I wasn't trying to like make some statement or do
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 5: anything like that. Just made a career decision that was
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 5: based on relationships and based on alignment. And it's you know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't believe in better or worse. I just believe
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  Speaker 5: in different. Going to TCU, going from TCU to A and.
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  Speaker 1: M wasn't better or worse.
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  Speaker 5: If anything, TCU was in a way better position than Texas.
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  Speaker 1: A and M at the time.
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  Speaker 5: It's just different, and so so yeah, it's it'll probably
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  Speaker 5: always be a part of it, but there was no
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  Speaker 5: I don't I don't have any animosity whatsoever towards Texas
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  Speaker 5: A and M, especially General Welsh's. He's one of my
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  Speaker 5: favorite people I've ever been around.
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  Speaker 2: All Right there, it is from Jim slasnakem and the
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: season opener just a little over forty eight hours. Just
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: a tiny bit over fifty hours from that. It's fifty
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  Speaker 2: and a half hours from now for the scheduled season
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  Speaker 2: opener for Longhorn Baseball on Friday night in Arlington against Louisville.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna remove from Vick Schaeffer coming up when we
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: continue on AM thirteen under the Zone. Let's hear some
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: more from Texas women's head coach Vick Schaeffer. He was
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: asked about Georgia Amore, who averages nineteen points per game,
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  Speaker 2: the long Orange Face.
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  Speaker 1: Another outstanding guard.
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  Speaker 2: They've seen great guards all season long, and they're going
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: to see another one.
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  Speaker 8: Georgia Moores obviously one of the best guards in the country.
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  Speaker 4: She's playing at such a high level.
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  Speaker 8: She's a veteran, she's been with coach Brooks all her career,
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  Speaker 8: and you know, you got to really love and appreciate
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  Speaker 8: a kid like her that's loyal to him, and she knows,
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  Speaker 8: he knows how they both know each other, she knows
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  Speaker 8: how he wants her to play, what their style of
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  Speaker 8: play is, you know, and so you know, she's really
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  Speaker 8: good and player that can do it at all three levels.
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  Speaker 8: Just a really special player. So that they got size,
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  Speaker 8: I mean, they got length. You know, they're a complete team,
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  Speaker 8: got almost five players in double figures.
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  Speaker 4: And so it's there's a reason why.
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  Speaker 8: They're who they are, where they are, why they're ranked
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  Speaker 8: where they're ranked. And so we're gonna have to go
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  Speaker 8: on the road and and you know, obviously execute have
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  Speaker 8: great focus concentration, and again we'll be now in an
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 8: environment that probably hadn't hollered for us.
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  Speaker 4: So how do we handle that?
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  Speaker 8: You know, we handled it fairly good at times throughout
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 8: the course of the season, but in some venues it's
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 8: way worse than others. And this is gonna be one worst,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 8: probably gonna be way worse, and there's probably not gonna
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 8: be a lot of long ones in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of questions about focus and being grounded coming
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  Speaker 2: off that big win over South Carolina at first, he
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: was asked, how did this he keep his team on
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: target for Kentucky tomorrow night and LSU on Saturday coming
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  Speaker 2: off to Winever, South Carolina.
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  Speaker 8: Just just what I've said. I you know, winning is hard.
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  Speaker 8: Winning that game is hard. Being in the position that
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 8: we're in right now is hard. Look, I want them
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 8: to enjoy it. It's one game, and I said that
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 8: going into the game Sunday, y'all, this is one game,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 8: win or lose. It's one game. It's not going to
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 8: make or break our season. We have so much after
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 8: that and so much left to play for. And so
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 8: that's my message to our kids. You know, the only
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 8: thing that success affords you is the opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: To work hard again, to go get more. That's it.
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  Speaker 8: And so for us, that's where we're at. And so
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 8: again I want them to enjoy it. But at the
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 8: same time, I'm always a guy that tries to keep
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 8: people grounded, keeps you focus focused, and.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's just who I am.
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  Speaker 8: It's hard for me to sometimes enjoy it as much
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 8: as I should because I'm always worried about the next one,
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 8: you know, because I've been down this road so much
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 8: and so often in my career. So it's really nothing
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 8: new for me, and I know what it takes, not
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 8: in night out, day and day out.
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  Speaker 4: I know what the preparation is like.
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  Speaker 8: I know that if you look past anybody, that's when
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 8: you can get popped. So it's really easy for me.
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  Speaker 8: What's hard is and you see it all the time.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 8: I'm watching other games, and to me, I see it
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 8: with other teams. You just take things for granted, you
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 8: take teams for granted, you take your opponent for granted,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 8: you don't respect them, and the next thing you know,
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 8: you're in a dogfight, you know. And so I just
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 8: think for me, it's really easy, and that's my job
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 8: is to convey it to our players. Okay, that one's over.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 8: I gave you the two days, and that's time for
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 8: the next one. If we don't get ready for this
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 8: next one, everything we've worked for up until February tenth,