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Fallout from the Luka Doncic Trade and Texas Softball Coach Mike White joins the program · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: If Wednesday is your true hump day, getting over the
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  Speaker 1: hump and down the hill toward the weekend, I hope
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  Speaker 1: it went well for you. For those of you for
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  Speaker 1: who Wednesday is a Friday, good on you, Good for you,
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  Speaker 1: Good for you, and enjoy those next few days off
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  Speaker 1: after that. And for those of you maybe Wednesday's the
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  Speaker 1: start of your week. If that's the case, hope it
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  Speaker 1: goes well for.
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  Speaker 2: You as well.
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Welcome to the program here on thirteen under
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  Speaker 1: the Zone. My name is Craig Way. Glad to have
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  Speaker 1: you with us, and.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to have the producer back in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: First time we've been back in the studio together since
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  Speaker 1: I was since before I got violently ill over the weekend, and.
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  Speaker 3: Especially on violently it violently well, the coughing was violent.
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  Speaker 1: Put it that way. Cameron D. Parker is the producer.
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  Speaker 1: The D on the per certificate stands for Dallas as
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  Speaker 1: in a city in uproar. Still an uproar about that,
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  Speaker 1: and it was so pain meaningful for my wife. Wanted
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  Speaker 1: to watch Luka Doncic there at a Lakers news conference
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  Speaker 1: yesterday talk about how he's excited about this, and I
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  Speaker 1: know for a lot of Mavericks fans. Did you see
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  Speaker 1: where the Mavericks have offered refunds on season tickets? I did, Yeah, Like,
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  Speaker 1: if you're that upset about it, we'll refund your season tickets.
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  Speaker 1: And there's people like you think, really really upset about
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  Speaker 1: this deal. You know, so you and I haven't had
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  Speaker 1: a chance really to talk that much about the actual
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  Speaker 1: trade itself. And uh and in your first of all,
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  Speaker 1: here's here's the question that everybody's asking. Did the Mavericks
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  Speaker 1: get fleeced? Okay, all right, I don't think it's humn
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  Speaker 1: the question anymore. Yeah, I started saying, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to disagree with you on that. You know, they needed
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  Speaker 1: a post president, needed a bigger presence inside and Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Davis Gibson. Then, but when you got your your team,
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  Speaker 1: I know they have Kyri Yarby, But when you got
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  Speaker 1: your team by having kind of really the heart and
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  Speaker 1: soul and some would say the calves of your of
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  Speaker 1: your franchise that appeared on your doorstep at age nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: and you built so much equity into him and heat
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  Speaker 1: into you, and then you turn and send him packing.
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  Speaker 1: Fans were going to be extremely upset about it. And
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  Speaker 1: then the other ancillary parts of that deal don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: seem to favor the Mavericks as well.
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  Speaker 3: Did Jerry Jones send Nico Harrison a fruit basket? Everybody
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  Speaker 3: asked that question first GM in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: If you've seen all the jifts that had, like Jerry
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  Speaker 1: at a Mavericks quarter zip, stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Like that, making these incredible it was incredible content.
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  Speaker 2: I still trying to make sense of it.
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  Speaker 3: Craig and I just keep coming back to the fact
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  Speaker 3: that the Mavericks trade away a top three player. I
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  Speaker 3: understand the condition, the concerns about his conditioning and being
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  Speaker 3: overweight and the injuries, and not wanting to pay him
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  Speaker 3: three hundred and forty eight million dollars. He's still a
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  Speaker 3: top three player in the league. It's just inexcusable and
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  Speaker 3: the worries, Yeah, we don't want to pay him that
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  Speaker 3: he's twenty five years old.
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  Speaker 2: He's twenty six years old.
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  Speaker 3: Luka donca to a thirty years old is still going
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  Speaker 3: to be a top five, top ten player. Now, maybe
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  Speaker 3: Nico Harrison will be right. Maybe in five years to
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  Speaker 3: the Lakers will be dealing with the same issues. In
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  Speaker 3: first take, we'll be talking about you know, what does
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  Speaker 3: Luca have to do? They get into shape and the
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  Speaker 3: Lakers trade him all this stuff, But he's gone the
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  Speaker 3: two Western Conference finals in the past three years. He's
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  Speaker 3: gone to the NBA Finals a year ago. They had
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  Speaker 3: a great roster this season. I know they had the
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  Speaker 3: injuries with I think Lively and Kyrie and obviously Luca,
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  Speaker 3: but still felt like they were going to contend for
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  Speaker 3: the finals this season if all those guys were healthy,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe they just aren't going to be healthy. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: Mavericks know, Hey, this team, it's reached its ceiling to
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  Speaker 3: the finals last season and we're completely outplayed by the
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  Speaker 3: Boston Celtics who are right there, and the Caves are
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  Speaker 3: back this season.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's it.
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  Speaker 3: And of course we're hearing all these murmurs that the
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  Speaker 3: relationship was beyond fractured, and maybe it is. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we don't know what it's like to be in that building, Craig.
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  Speaker 3: You know, maybe it was just it was incomprehensible what
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  Speaker 3: was happening with Luca and the organization and the teammates.
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  Speaker 3: But still I keep coming to the fact, coming back
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  Speaker 3: to the fact that one you traded away a top
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  Speaker 3: three point in the league in two you only spoke
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  Speaker 3: to one team.
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  Speaker 2: You spoke to one team, that was it. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: they found what they wanted out of the one deal.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that. I think they had just gotten
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  Speaker 1: frustrated and just were just done with him having the injury. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've joked. I said this again on the
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  Speaker 1: Area yesterday. I joked about the fact that Luca with
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  Speaker 1: the calf injuries. I said, it's because he has cankles.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he has those calves that go right into
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  Speaker 1: the ankles there. But even so, the conditioning thing was
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  Speaker 1: something that were really becoming exasperated with as it also
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  Speaker 1: related to off season diet and conditioning, and so that's
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  Speaker 1: what they were, you know, apparently frustrated with that he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't following the conditioning plan and training plan that they
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  Speaker 1: had for him. So I think I think there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of But still, I mean, I'm sure, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure Nico Harrison thought we're going to get backlash from
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  Speaker 1: fans on this, But did he count on it being
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  Speaker 1: as prolific as it was?
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  Speaker 2: Does it sound like it? Yeah? Does it sound like
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  Speaker 2: I suppose not?
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  Speaker 1: And at the same time, you feel bad for an
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Davis he's just showing up to work. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he was surprised by it as well, So you
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  Speaker 1: know what, you know, what are they going to get
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  Speaker 1: out of this going forward? Was also what twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine first round pick out of the deal.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't even get the twenty thirty one first round pick,
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  Speaker 3: just one first round pick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, it's that's you know, that's unfortunate there, But we'll
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  Speaker 1: continue to watch it and see I go. As they
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  Speaker 1: lost by two last night, Davis was not available for that,
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  Speaker 1: but he could be available for their next game, and
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  Speaker 1: Luke could be could be ready for the Lakers next matchup.
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  Speaker 1: All right, coming up on the program here in just
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes, what a visit with Texas softball head
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  Speaker 1: coach Mike White, the preseason number one team in the country,
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  Speaker 1: although coach White said yesterday in a media availability, how
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  Speaker 1: can that be?
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  Speaker 2: So we'll get his thoughts on all of that. We'll
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  Speaker 2: do that. We have inconceivable this hour, we'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll hear a little bit from Vick Schaeffer, Texas women's
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  Speaker 1: basketball coach, because they played tomorrow night, and of course
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  Speaker 1: tonight for the Longhorn men, big match up against the
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  Speaker 1: Arkansas Razorbacks, an Arkansas team coming off of the win
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  Speaker 1: over Kentucky and Texas with a big test on tap.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll look forward to that all right.
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  Speaker 1: But up next, Mike White, Texas softball coach, will join
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  Speaker 1: us here on the Craigway Show on am D team.
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  Speaker 2: Under the Zone.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to take this opportunity because we are right
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  Speaker 1: on the cusp of the start of a brand new
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  Speaker 1: season for Texas. Off all, the Longhorns open in the
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana Classic Friday afternoon at three point thirty against Longwood
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  Speaker 1: and you can hear that on our HD three signal
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  Speaker 1: FM signal here through iHeart and also online at Texas
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  Speaker 1: Longhorns dot com. As they play the long Horn Lancers
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  Speaker 1: on Friday, and then they'll take on Louisiana, the host
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  Speaker 1: school on Friday night. So the two games Friday and
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  Speaker 1: then on Saturday against Saint John's at noon, followed by
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  Speaker 1: a matchup against Lamar and then you know it's on
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  Speaker 1: the Huntsville for the Bearcat Classic on Sunday Tulsa and
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  Speaker 1: Sam Houston, with a couple of games there before returning home.
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  Speaker 1: So right out of the gate on the road, and
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  Speaker 1: we're so pleased to have Mike White, Texas head coach
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  Speaker 1: join us.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Mike, I appreciate the time. How are you today.
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  Speaker 4: Doing great things?
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  Speaker 2: Craig?
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  Speaker 4: Obviously the widd of this week's has been awesome for us, awful,
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  Speaker 4: So I get you thinking about it and now we're ready.
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  Speaker 1: To go, no doubt about it. The first thing I
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  Speaker 1: got to ask is this, And I know from talking
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  Speaker 1: to to Sark, from talking to Rodney Terry, from talking
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  Speaker 1: to Vic Schaeffer, scheduling has become more and more a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing with coach Las Nicole.
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  Speaker 1: Scheduling has become more and more challenge and Intercollegiate Athletics
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  Speaker 1: d SEAS for any number of reasons would would would
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  Speaker 1: you say that this year was also one of those
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  Speaker 1: more challenging years for you in terms of you and
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  Speaker 1: your staff getting together the type of schedule that you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to have for this season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, I mean we if we changed the schedule so
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  Speaker 4: much this this full and kind of got late into it,
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  Speaker 4: and that's why we've had this this fist matchup when
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  Speaker 4: we were stopping in three different cities, which I've never
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  Speaker 4: done before. Cert not something you really want to do,
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  Speaker 4: you know, out of the gate, but something we had
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  Speaker 4: to do. Its been difficult to get teams to come
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  Speaker 4: in to play us, and then uh and also you know,
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  Speaker 4: to play in other venues with some teams just don't
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  Speaker 4: want to play you, and that's it makes it very tough.
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  Speaker 4: So but we've been able to kind of work around
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  Speaker 4: it and Coach Laski has done an awesome job with that.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, we even going to Ohio State and
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  Speaker 4: and you know late Uly match there and this could
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  Speaker 4: be you know, it could be chilly up that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now you answered my first question because in looking at
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  Speaker 1: the schedule, I thought, I don't think I've ever seen
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  Speaker 1: that where you've played three consecutive uh you know, tournaments
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  Speaker 1: or classics whatever. Uh and back to back to back
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  Speaker 1: in three different cities.
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  Speaker 2: Laugh. Yette Beaumont in Huntsville.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I know that's the I ten corridor until you
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  Speaker 1: get to Houston and go up an hour to Huntsville.
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  Speaker 1: But still, in all that that could take a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of toll on the team. How do you how
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  Speaker 1: do you and the training staff and everybody make sure
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  Speaker 1: that everybody stays fresh. I guess it's also helpful that
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  Speaker 1: it's starting out at the season and this isn't happening,
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  Speaker 1: say two thirds of the way through, where it could
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  Speaker 1: be a grind exactly.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's going to be a difficult season as
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  Speaker 4: far as travel goes anyway, going into the SEC schools
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  Speaker 4: and having to travel a little bit more, I mean
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  Speaker 4: having to take three flights plus the SEC tournament. So
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  Speaker 4: that's this could be a good way for us to
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  Speaker 4: get used to traveling, but you know, it's something we
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  Speaker 4: had to do, and we just got to kind of
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  Speaker 4: focus on doing the basically can during this stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I want to get your thoughts on the team.
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  Speaker 1: I got a chuckle out of seeing the sound bite
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  Speaker 1: yesterday from you when I guess somebody asked you about
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  Speaker 1: this preseason number one thing and you brought up the
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  Speaker 1: fact that, well, there is a four time defending national champion,
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  Speaker 1: and as far as we're concerned, you're the CHAMPI until
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  Speaker 1: you get beat.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what's your overall.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling about this kind of thing and about preseason polls overall?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think sometimes the preseason polls people just want
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  Speaker 4: to see someone different, you know, and create some sort
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  Speaker 4: of uh yeah sort of story. And so this is
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  Speaker 4: a good one for them, obviously taking us from last
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  Speaker 4: year being ranked one going into the College World Series,
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  Speaker 4: so just to carry over there, but also has a
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  Speaker 4: lot about players and our program and how that how
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  Speaker 4: hard they've worked, and it's an on it, don't get
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  Speaker 4: me wrong, for sure, but we also know there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of work ahead of us and a lot of
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  Speaker 4: really good teams to get to play.
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  Speaker 1: Heard Resatwood talking about it and saying, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's nice and we remember last but we remember how
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  Speaker 1: last year ended, and so we've got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: work to do. Has that been the attitude that you've
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  Speaker 1: seen from your group reflected early on about yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff is nice, but uh they know the
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  Speaker 1: challenges and the task ahead of them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it really is. And we've talked about it. It's
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  Speaker 4: just a big elephant in the room, right and you know,
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  Speaker 4: we know what it is. It's there. Now let's just
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  Speaker 4: go play like it's not there and just play good softball.
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  Speaker 4: Do the things we need to do to be able
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  Speaker 4: to create, you know, good records.
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  Speaker 2: One is to qualify for.
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  Speaker 4: The postseason, Two is to get in the top sixteen,
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  Speaker 4: and three is the top eight then hopefully win a
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  Speaker 4: national championship on the end of it. But it's a
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  Speaker 4: progression and it only rewards us if we play well.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to get your thoughts on this. I was
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  Speaker 1: I was stunned, not only by the fact that, like
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  Speaker 1: you said, here's here's Oklahoma, four time defending national champion.
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  Speaker 1: They're not number one, They're not even number one or
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  Speaker 1: number two in their own league. They're number three. But
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  Speaker 1: does that also say something about how good Florida is
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  Speaker 1: since the Gators are picked number two in the league.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Well, also, don't forget about Tennessee and and
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  Speaker 4: m and you know all the others that are in
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  Speaker 4: that league. And then of course outside of it, you've
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  Speaker 4: got Jordi Ball coming back, you know, the Bill all
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  Speaker 4: Americans for Okcahoma that transferred and was injured. And then
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  Speaker 4: you've got Niga Canaday for Texas Tech now, and then
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  Speaker 4: you've got UCLA and so you know, you've just kind
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  Speaker 4: of looked past teams. And I'm sure they hope we
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  Speaker 4: do look past them, but we certainly not. And we understand.
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  Speaker 4: You know, any day you can get beat if you're
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  Speaker 4: just done play good softball.
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  Speaker 1: No question about visiting with Mike White, Texas softball head
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  Speaker 1: coach here on AM thirteen hundred The Zentner.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned injuries.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you about when
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  Speaker 1: you got the news about Vivi Martinez. How uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: how difficult was that for you and for the team
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  Speaker 1: to understand or to deal with the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: weren't going to have her as important as she was
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  Speaker 1: to your group last year, and I would imagine as
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  Speaker 1: important as everybody figured she would be to your ball
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  Speaker 1: club this year.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, she just uh, you know, she's kind of
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  Speaker 4: one of those players you'd pay to come watch. She's
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  Speaker 4: so smooth and does everything well, you know, offensively, defensively,
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  Speaker 4: great kid on and off the field, you know, doesn't
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  Speaker 4: get rattled. And to see that happen was kind of devastating.
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  Speaker 4: It was hard, you know, especially you feel more for
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  Speaker 4: the kid than anything else because obviously she had big,
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  Speaker 4: big expectations having a really good junior year and now
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  Speaker 4: it's going to be put off another year. I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: she's going to got back stronger. We have great medical
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  Speaker 4: stuff and care and everything, but it is tough. And
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  Speaker 4: then the only good thing is is Craig, Is it
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  Speaker 4: happened in October where we've had time to now I
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  Speaker 4: currently really work some players in and out of that
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  Speaker 4: position and be ready for the spring.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh so toward that end, that's where I was
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  Speaker 1: going to go with. I know it takes a team
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  Speaker 1: thing all the way around, but off the top of
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  Speaker 1: your head, who steps in Who's the one who gets
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  Speaker 1: the first responsibility of trying to not necessarily fill her shoes,
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  Speaker 1: but be able to step into the role and do
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  Speaker 1: what's needed of that position.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we obviously have some athletic players, and we bought
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  Speaker 4: in Katie Bennett the transfer from Abilene Christian as a
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  Speaker 4: backup middle endfielder for second and short and possibly you know,
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  Speaker 4: third base.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: So that was one as we had trying out there,
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  Speaker 4: and then Katie Stewart was another one. She'd played attle
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  Speaker 4: bit of short stop and travel ball. Uh and then
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  Speaker 4: Lynn Brister another freshman coming in. But eventually we decided
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  Speaker 4: to go with Leanne Good at this point and it
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  Speaker 4: could change, but you don't know, but Lian's played it
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  Speaker 4: and travel ball before and she looks really good. Uh
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  Speaker 4: So that's the way we're going to go right now.
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  Speaker 4: And start with LeeAnne, and she looks so much stronger
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  Speaker 4: this year. Last year she was still recovering from that
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  Speaker 4: risk injury. Yeah, but this year she looks a lot stronger.
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  Speaker 2: Let me get your thoughts on your pitching.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's between Tea and Cavan and mac mooregan
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  Speaker 1: and said, LOLLI Goodierras, You've you've got, uh, You've got
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  Speaker 1: in Sophia Simpson. You've got some some known commodities in there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also curious about your freshman, Cambria Salmon and and
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts on her.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Cam Salmon's someone we looked at for a couple
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  Speaker 4: of years and we're excited to get her, you know,
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  Speaker 4: committed and finally in a Texas uniform and reminds me
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  Speaker 4: a lot of Jess Mullins, has you know, upper sixties
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  Speaker 4: velocity with a really good change up, good demeanor. I
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  Speaker 4: think she's uh, you know, she struggled a little bit
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  Speaker 4: coming into full as far as like location and you know,
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  Speaker 4: people not swinging at some pitches that we should be
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  Speaker 4: swinging at and travelable. But she's learning quickly, and obviously
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  Speaker 4: she has some seniors to kind of guide her along
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  Speaker 4: the way. Cabin is awesome that way, So as Mac Morgan.
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  Speaker 4: Sophia Simpson's been a big help and said Loly Gucci
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  Speaker 4: Areas has really come on here lately this spring, and
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  Speaker 4: I like what she's doing. So we had that solid stuff.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, That's something I think I've heard you speak of
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: in the past, is the mixture, uh, of what the
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: talent pool is from your pitchers in terms of the
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: gifts they bring to the party, meaning their specific out
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: pitches or how they're setting up hitters to get them out.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Do you like what you have in terms of the
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: variety of how your pitchers are working in the circle
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: with their different array of gifts to opposing hitters.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no doubt. They're complimentary to each other, and you
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: want some of this a little bit different, you want
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: them all the same. The only thing were missing is
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: a lefty, of course, and with Check graduating, that's when
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: we don't have. But I think they have enough variety
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: amongst the group to be able to give us some
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: different looks and different options. You know, when it comes
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: to the time.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Of visiting here with Mike White for a couple more minutes.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: I'd also be remiss if I didn't ask you about
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Reese Atwood and what you're expecting at her coming off
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: of what she did and now she's preseason player, the
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: national player of the your watch list again and everything
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: that she did in an All American season last year
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: is to be someone now who has stepped up through
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years. How important is what not
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: not just the leadership thing, but also the productive side
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: of it. I guess both sides of it in terms
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: of leading your ball club on the field with what
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: she gives you.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Reese is one of those kids you
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: want to take it before and after pitcher, you know.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: I think when she first came in, you know, she
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: she was pretty slight, and now you know, she's solid,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: you know, and it's got a lot of home run power.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Every swing is an opportunity to leave the fields. And
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: you know, she just is not satisfied with her performance
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: at all, even though she was obviously one of the
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: best hitters, if not the best hit her in the
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: country last year. And she's pushing herself. And you know,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: when you do that, you're pushing your teammates. Your teammates
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: are seeing that. And what I like about her is
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: she's wanted to step up and become a leader on
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: the program, leader a little more vocally as well. And
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: she's doing that, and so I like that we have
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: a group of leaders right now with her at Cavan,
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: you know, Jolie Mitchell and Katie Simmis. I think those
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: or really kind of pushing for that leadership role. We
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: probably won't name a captain this year. I don't think
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: we need one, but I think they're gonna lead by committee.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: You know that play a lad is what you want,
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: And that's kind of what I had an Oregon there
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: towards the end was you know, it's kind of like
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: a snowball, it gets rolling, uh and and they kind
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: of kind of pushing each other, and that's what you want.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: You want that internal motivation.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: It's an interesting thing you bring up about the captain thing.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Is that is that do you is your philosophy on
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: that is if your team needs one as an appointed
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: captain to be the leader, as opposed to a team
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: that you have right now where you've got several, uh,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: several players who are wanting to accept that mantle of leadership,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: so you just let them run with it and display
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: their own leadership.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Well, I think that's it just let them run with
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: it and see what happens. And you know, hopefully they're
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: learning from from from being in these big tournaments. Now,
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: I mean the uh you know, you look at at
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Woods as a junior. She's been there a colleor World
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Series and that final. You know, several of them have
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: been in that being in that atmosphere, you know, playing
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: in the and they're playing in the Big twelve. So
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: they have that confidence about them. And that's what we want.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: We want now to feel like we belong. You know,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: we're not just you know, hey we got here, now
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: what do we do. It's like, hey, look this is
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: this is an opportunity for us to really take the
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: next step.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: One more thing for you here, Mike.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: It's when you have a team ranked as highly as
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: yours is there are very few quote unquote secrets or
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: unknowns or or something like that to a lot of folks.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: But if there is a player on your roster that
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: maybe not that much has been said about or written
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: about that you think really could be on the precipice
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: of having a really big or breakout year, who might
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: that be?
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I kid, I say it by everybody. I think
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: you might have a different answer for you all too.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Think Vic Hunter is another one I haven't really mentioned before.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: So yeah, Vic Hunter.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Josh's the one that got that big hit in the
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: super Regional off of you know, the lifty for for
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Texas A and M Kennedy.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: So that was a big one for us. And she's
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: sitting the ball. But she sometimes she just tries to
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: do too much. So if we can get here just
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: to keep an eating keel, you think you could see
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: some big things from here, you know. So I'm excited
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: for her to see what she does.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Texas opens the season on Friday afternoon. They're in the
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Louisiana Classic. They'll play Longwood and Louisiana on Friday. They'll
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: get in the bus and motor from Lafayette, west On.
• 20:34
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• 20:37
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• 20:41
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• 20:44
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• 20:47
  Speaker 1: with you as always, I appreciate the time and as
• 20:49
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• 20:51
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• 20:53
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• 20:55
  Speaker 1: That is the head coach of Texas Softball, Mike White,
• 20:58
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• 21:02
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• 21:04
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• 22:21
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• 22:24
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• 22:30
  Speaker 1: mentioned that Mason Crosby of Georgetown, Texas USA, Georgetown, the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: high school product University of Colorado, seventeen seasons in the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: National Football League as a kicker for the Green Bay Packers.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: The packers all time leading score announced its retirement yesterday.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: He didn't he didn't play last year, didn't wind up
• 22:47
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• 22:50
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• 22:53
  Speaker 1: For reference, old school Vikings kicker Fred Cox only made
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: fifty five percent of his career fel Mason Crosby hit
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: eighty one percent. Here's for reference, old school Vikings kicker
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Fred Cox only made fifty five percent of his career
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: field goals. But he did invent the nerve football and
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: he looked like.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: A gooda.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Old school people ava gooda played fish. I'm Barney Miller.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: He was Tessio and the godfather you've seen the late
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• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Fred Cox for there for you number fourteen straight on kicker,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Fred Cox.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: All right, here's here's.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: The part that I really shouldn't even bother with saying,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: but I'll do it anyway, because every now and then
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I'm okay, Cameron with allowing a little bit of sophomoric
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: high school humor on the program. I try to be
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: a little bit above it, and every now and then
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I get pulled in, just like anybody else. When I
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: was a kid, I was a as always like I
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: am now a big Rams fan. Well, the Rams foil
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs all those years in the centuries of
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the Vikings mainly and the Cowboys, but the Vikings. They
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: just couldn't get past the Vikings. And I have friend
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: of mine who had moved down from Minnesota. He was
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: big Vikings fans. He used to give me a lot
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: of grief all the time. And and you know, here
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: we are thirteen fourteen year old kids, right and he
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: says to me, hey, hey, he goes, you know a
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Vikings kicker is Fred Cox. I'm like, yeah, he goes,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you know, who are big a big linebacker is I said,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Wally Hilgenberg And no, no, no, no the other one. And
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I said Grady Alderman, No, no, no, no the other one.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: What Jeff Seamen? I said, Oh, yeah, s I E
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: m O N. Jeff Semen was a linebacker. He goes,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I'm Minnesota. We used to say, you know, when they
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: had to kick a field, go when Cox goes in
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: to Seamen come out.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: And I was like, stop that he goes to If
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I's just that's just it, you.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Know, I said, it wouldn't make sense because that would
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: be on the offensive side.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: But he did. He did play on special teams as well.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: C B on the text line says, when you I'll
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: go to Dallas, do you stop at the famous check stop?
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I know it's a must stop for Texas fans. And
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: he said, and is Katie going to be a son
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: when they come to the mood in a few weeks. Okay,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: two separate questions. That second one. I was going to
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: get into at Cameron on this, but let's go to
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the first one.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: First.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Do we stop at the famous check stop? Yes, it's
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: still there. It's still alive, and well so too. CB
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: is the big modern glitzy one across the freeway, which
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: is Slavachics. Now, I know some long worn people who
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: won't go to Slavatics because it's a you know, it's
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: kind of an Aggie creation. The original Slavatics is in Snook,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you know, just just west of College Station. And that
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: dude that does the Texas Bucket List TV show, which
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: is based in College Station, he's a big Aggie and one,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: and they're like one of their big sponsors in Slavatics.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I don't let that bother me if I want to
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: if I want a good klachi, I'll go there, or
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I'll go to the check stop.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: So it's kind of.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Also like going to kind of one of those kitchy
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: kind of BUCkies type of places with all that kind
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: of have you ever did you ever go to Slovachics?
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Okay? And check stop? This is that always? Why that
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: always stops at check stop? Okay?
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Your dad would appreciate this. You will probably be grossed
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: out by it. My wife at first was kind of
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: turned off by it. Then she tried it and then
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: she kind of liked it. Uh, if you go to
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the check stop, they you just like at Slavotics. Both
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: of those places on either side of I thirty five,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and we're talking about in the lovely little town of
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: West West Comma, Texas, West Texas. It's on there and
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I thirty five. The name of the town is West.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: It's named after a person named West. That's why it's there,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: West Texas. One of my favorite signs, by the way,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: all those years are doing the high school show and
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: being on the road, was pointed out at me one time.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: One of my favorite signs in the entire state of
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Texas is the sign when you get off the exit
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and you're coming from the south or from the north, whatever.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: But if you're coming from the south and you pull
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: up to the stoplight and I have West, you got
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: to turn right to go into town and West it's
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: the sign of West pointing east. Same game, if you're
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: coming to North, it's it's pointing to the left, so
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: it's the sign to go west. You got to go east.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite signs in the state of Texas.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Small things anyway, they have both of these places have
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: sandwiches of various and sundry kinds. You know, they have
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: some barbecue sandwiches and they have some you know meat,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: different meat sandwiches, and they have all these different kinds
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: of salad sandwiches, like egg salad sandwich, and tuna salad
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: and chicken salad and ham salad. They have all these
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: salad sandwiches. My favorite one is a sandwich they call
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: the Arnold Palmer.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I've not had that one. Yeah, now was it blowney? No? Now,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: explain everybody what an Arnold Palmer is?
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: So sweet tea or on sweet riding on your what'd
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: you like in lemonade?
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: That's it And it was supposedly popularized by the immortal
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Arnold Palmer, one of the greatest golfers of all time.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: He was He was my family's favorite golfer when we
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: were real young, partially because he kind of bore a
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: somewhat striking resemblance to my dad. My dad and Arnold Palmer,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: we were both from North Carolina, both from the same area,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and they they kind of looked a little like the
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: sandy air and all that other kind of stuff. There
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: was a lot of people who have thought that my
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: dad kind of looked a little like Arnold Palmer. But anyway,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: that was the drink iced tea and lemonade, and it's
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: very popular. You can get at the store, and I
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: can get it wherever he get it. Ut club get it,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you know, a restaurant, whatever. Can I have an Arnold
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Palmer place? Yeah, they know exactly what you me an
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Arnold Palmer sandwich. According to the check stop in West
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the Arnold Palmer sandwich is egg salad. Okay, all right,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: So you take And this is the part that my
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: wife didn't understand it first, and then she saw it
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: in practice, and at first she was uh taking it back,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and then and she tried it.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: She liked him. So you have it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: You have a piece of bread and you have egg
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: salad on one side. Then you have another piece of bread.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Instead of it being egg salad, it's tuna salad. And
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: then you put it together. It's half and half. She thought.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: By when I said the Arnold Palmer's half tuna salad
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and half egg salad, she thought one half of the
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: sandwich was tuna salad and one half of the sandwich
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: was egg salad.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, no, it's put together. She's like, yeah,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: I don't want to. I said, it's right, and then
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: she tried. She was that's pretty good.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't think I would like that, but it is
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I get that almost every time I go through there.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I know that probably gows out with some people because
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: some people that don't like egg salad.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: There's some people that don't like tuna sound.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people I know they don't like
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: filling the blank salad sandwich. They're not in the chicken
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: salad or eggs. I like all of those chicken salad,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: ham salad, egg salad whatever.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: I like all of those. But they have an Honorabd
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Palmer there, so c B.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, I do stop at the check stop and when
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I stop there, I usually get an Honorld Palmer sandwich
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: if I'm gonna have something to eat. Now to his
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: second point and his second question, he said, is Katie
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: going to be a son when they come to the
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: mood in a few weeks. We're rolling up on the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: trade deadline. When does the deadline hit? It was Thursday night. Yeah, okay,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: tomorrow Kevin's name has been mentioned or tomorrow at two
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: pm or something. And and you've been bagging on the
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: co Harrison And I don't blame you for it. What
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: if the Cohrrison and Lens Kevin Durant, Well, that's one
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: of the rumors.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Ryan Windhorse from ESPN just reported that either Katie will
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: be a Phoenix Sun tomorrow night or Miami Heat. So
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: down the two teams. I don't do not think Mavericks
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: have enough to get Katie from from Dallas, and I
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: think Dallas, or rather I think Katie from decide where
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: he wants to go. Yeah, does not want to go
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: to Golden State, he said, yeah, So no return to
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Golden State with Steph Curry, Drummond Green not going to
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: be a Phoenix Sun. So it appears either he's going
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: to be a member of the Miami Heat or or
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Phoenix will just hold on to him and see what
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: happens this year.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Wow. I hope he's not wind up in Miami, but
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I think it'd be kind of cool to see him
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: play for pat Riley.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: That's true. That's that's that's a good point. I just
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: don't think about that because Polster is the coach, That's why.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: And I have nothing against Eric Spolstra, but you know,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I just think about, you know, in the past with
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the Heatles and all that other kind of stuff.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Okay, you don't like that. Yeah, A very interesting, uh,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: very interesting history. If if Kevin Durant somehow wins a
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: championship bring with the Miami Heat was also won by
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Lebron James at one point.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And he's on the verge of hitting the thirty
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: thousand point mark, isn't he believe he's pretty close? Yeah,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: he should be getting pretty close to that. Obviously a
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: bona fide future Hall of Famer, no, no doubt about it.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: But but this the Suns do it, then that's it's
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: a just admitting defeat and kind of just we're gonna
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: tear down this team, probably keep Devin Booker, but wait
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: for Beal's awful contract to expire.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: And you know, if they if they.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: Of our you know, I guess they Jimmy Butler would
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: probably be a part of that deal. So I don't
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: think Butler, Beale, and Booker are gonna win your NBA championship,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: But I don't know. Well, we'll see a lot of
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: This is a very active trade deadline.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: So you're feeling that if he, if Durant winds up
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: going to Miami, Butler will be in the Okay, all right,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: we've got some football notes we've got to get to.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: It is, after all, Super Bowl Week We'll get to
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: that coming up next here on A thirteen under the Zone.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: We continue here on this Wednesday after day. Hey, we
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: were talking about Luka Doncic and how he's now in
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles. But you need to know that even though
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Luca is gone, he certainly is not forgotten, as we
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: know in Dallas, to the extent that even though that
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Luka Doncic tribute outside American Airlines Center was torn down
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: thrown away, the Doncic banners on the Arena and at
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: love Field were taken down, But that doesn't mean everybody
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: else around Dallas is going to forget about him, and
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: that includes the staff at Luca's favorite restaurant in the city.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Oh do you know what his favorite restaurant was?
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: McDonald's. No. Some might argue that Nick and Sam's steakhouse.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, I've heard great things about you, and I rolled
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: right past it when we were there for SEC football
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: media days, rolled past Nick and Sam's. They have posted
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: on social media today that his signature dish is staying
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: on the menu Nick and Sam's. You know where Nick
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: and Simson, It's very close to where we did.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: The The.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Did the show on Friday, the day before Texas ou
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: on Maple Avenue. It's very close to that because it's
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: on Maple, it's in the that Oaklawn area. So the chef,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Samir Durandar has said that in my twenty five plus
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: year career, I feel blessed to say I've met some
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: interesting and incredible people who have walked through the doors
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: of Nick and Sam's. But it's not often that you
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: come across someone as special as Luka Doncic. Luca is
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: one of the most caring, warm and funniest guys. I
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: know his love for Dallas shine through with every conversation
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: in every game. That's why we created the Luca a
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: dish we will continue to serve because his impact isn't
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: defined by his profession, but by his character. Okay, so
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: and there he is right there, that's the that's the
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: that's Luca with the executive chef there on that. There's
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: a reason why Luca likes this guy. You know what
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the Luca is?
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, Now, Nick and SAMs is A is a famous
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: steakhouse in Dallas.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: As we know, it's a it's a really really high
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: end to start with.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Well, then say that this is just a dish okay,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: but who knows if that was part of it?
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Sure it was.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: It is a seventy seven ounce dry aged New York strip.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Seventy cent seventy seven is number right, sevent decent Who.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Can eat a seventy seven ounce stek. Luca obviously could.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: That's part of the problem, right, The Mavericks will tell
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you too many of the Lucas eating too many.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Of those, Fine, it's I mean, what are the sides though,
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: If we're getting like I want to hear it, like
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: lobster mac and cheese.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's supreame.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Spinish maybe, and yeah, but the dish itself is the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: steak itself.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: So it said.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: It's no secret that Luca loved grabbing an ice meal
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: at Nick and Sam's. In fact, most North Texas athletes
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: like the longtime Dallas restaurant.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Seventy seven ounces.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's probably first team all Night and fourth
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Mike and forth be as Eddie Ornan likes to say,
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Eddie Eddie. Sure, I'm sure those restaurant owners are going
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: to be very sad to see Luca leve because now
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: you're bringing in because Kyrie's vegan, right, so he probably
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: only goes to you know, yeah, certain restaurants, right right,
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: and I don't.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know about ad.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: You know, he gets injured so much, he's probably like
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: pescatarian or something.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you could see that.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Luca, I mean, shoot seventy seven ounces, Yeah,
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: I would. I can't imagine the bills the check for
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: about his restaurant appearances.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, uh ca't made it reference to it.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Eddie Orton, a broadcast partner in Long Win men's basketball,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: says that Cameron is a charter member of the All
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Knife and Fork team because when we're on the road,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Cameron is pretty impressive.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: And how he can you know, put away the chow
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: he can, I think he is on that team. And
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: he'll go back for seconds. I've seen that.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I usually just try to, you know, get a plate,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: a pretty healthy sized portion and just limit it to
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: one serve. He can take it to the play. I'll
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: go back for dessert, but that sort of thing. But yeah,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: and he'll go back for seconds. He will if he
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: got some beef and go back and get a little
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: piece of fish on that. But he's impressed with how
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: you can have a good size play clean and off.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Then go back.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: And refill it with the same items and then polish
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: it all back off again, and they say it's pretty impressive.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: They feed Texas basketball very well.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: They do. And I learned a long time ago. If
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I tried to keep up with that, I would weigh
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: four hundred pounds. So I stopped. I learned that a
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: long time ago. In fact, when I got married the
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: first time, when Laurie and I got married back in
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, I'm six feet tall and I'm still
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: six feet tall, six feet tall, one hundred and forty
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: seven pounds. I was rail thin. Now I did gain
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: like twenty four pounds the first year we were married.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I went to like one seventy one.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: But I didn't.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: But it was a slow climb to get me to
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: where I am now. But I had to stop eventually
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: because it would just, yeah, it would get too difficult
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: on that. Here's something else that Cameron is feasted on.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Well, real quick, getcha is There's always cheeseheak available, There's
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: always cookies.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: And I had to cut back.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: You did that puzuokie thing last Friday night. Matton Rouge didn't.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, me and coach Byron Jones we split a zookie
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: with a healthy scoop of vanilla ice cream line, which
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: was very good.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I think it was called Slabs or Stabs
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: in the name of the restaurant in Baton Rouge.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Which if you're in that area, you gotta check that
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: out here. Yeah, I was really impressed with it. It's
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: called Stab Stab that's the name of it.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Stab Sta yep, like in the Dallas Forward there a
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: knife is a is a well known steakhouser. Stab is
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the name of it. It reminded me a lot of
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: a place I go to in Myrtle Beach. In fact,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: went there the night before Lyndon I got married, or
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: a couple of nights before, called New York Prime, which
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: is really not They have three locations, ones in New York,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: ones in uh Atlanta, and ones in Myrtle Beach. And
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: uh it's it's it's a really it's a really nice steakhouse.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Uh. And we have some very very nice steakhouses in
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: this town.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Uh Vin Junks Steakhouse is really really good.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Jake Carver's Jake Carvers you can go to, you know, Flemings,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: you can go to. There's any number that you can
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: go to that are really really good. Uh No, no
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: complaints about.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Any of those.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Another thing that I mentioned that camera would sink his
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: teeth into headline. Live Golf announces major change to its
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: scoring system. They announced a major scoring change today on
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: the eve of their season opening event in Riod in
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Saudi Aradia. That whenever I think a Riod, remember Riod
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: is where the US base was. My younger brother was
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: in the Air Force in the Persian Gulf War, and
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: there was all of this concern on the first night
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: when the January sixteenth to ninety one, when the US
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: launched Operation Desert Storm and went in and attacked Iraq
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: and all of that. The was all of this question is, well,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Iraq has these scud missiles and let's see and they're
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: going to.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Launch them at it.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: And my brother the way, my brother tells that we
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: had these Patriot missiles which we hadn't even tried out yet,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: so we weren't one hundred percent sure.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: They were going to be okay.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: But they put them in, they put them in practice
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: on the first night when Iraq tried to launch the
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: scuds and the Patriots took them all out and they're like, hey,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: it works. That's pretty cool. So he was at Riodd
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: and was one of the people that would be sounding
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: the alarm and stuff would come in. So anyway, here's
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Live Golf as a season opening event in Riodd in
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia. For the first time in Live Golf's history,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: every player scorer in every round will count toward his
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: team's total score. Why does that seem Why would that
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: be such a hard thing to adopt? Anyway, last season,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: the best three scores were taken in the first two rounds,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: with all four team members scores counting only for the
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: final eighteen. Live Golf acknowledged several potential ramifications related to
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: the format change, including increased volatility on the leader board
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: range goats GC captain Bubba Watson said it does make
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: volatility bigger, crazier.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Nobody can hide. You're gonna have to be committed on.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Every hole, every shot I scorers will be a killer. Previously,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: any golfer who had a bad day in the first
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: two rounds could hope to be bailed out by his
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: three teammates, and Louis use Taysen said there's no more
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: looking at the scoreboard and thinking, Okay, I'm Okay, my
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: team's playing well.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: That definitely changes things.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Depth now at a premium Legion thirteen captain John Rahm said,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: I like it. I think it benefits a team like ours.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I think we have four really strong players that are
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: really consistent.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: What do you make of that? I don't know, Craig.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not a big live golf guy.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: I mean it does kind of make sense to you know,
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: have all the guys points count towards the team when
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: you play the Ryder Cup?
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't take away well, well, ever had the
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: worst match doesn't Those points don't count, you know.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: I mean they have best ball when they play best
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: ball or alternate shot, right, but.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Each match points count towards the total. And with this,
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: you know, the lowest score didn't count. So again, this
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: is not going to change the way I view live
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: golf or do not golf. The big thing, Craig, is
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: that the USGA is going to offer up a special
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: exemption now to live for the US Open starting this season.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: All right, So is that a step closer to this
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: whole merger thing? Is this thing gonna happen or what?
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: It's a great question, Craig.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: It's been We're close on what two years, Yeah, and
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: nothing's really changed, you know. Kind of reading through the
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: press conference scripts from this year of guys like Rory
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: and JT and Speeth and Scotty, and it's it seems
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: like it's getting closer, but we're still seem to be
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: some far you know, far away.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: I don't. I'll tell you this, Craig.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: If we do get some sort of merger between Live
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: Golf and the PGA Tour, it's not going to be
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: everyone playing the same tournaments each week. Live Golf is
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: going to have their schedule. Phil Mickelson, Bryson, Brooks, all
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: those guys will continue to play on the Live Golf Search.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: So it's not going to be emerging then. No.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: They might be part of the same ownership group or
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: something like that, but there will still be separate tours,
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: separate tours, separate tours for sure.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: In the pg Tour will continue to navigate.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: What they want to do is possibly be able to
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: have these guys like maybe Brooks and bryceon want to play.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: They might schedule it to where the week of the
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Phoenix Open instead of having a Lift Golf tournament this week.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: They might have won the week of I don't know.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: They are sim classic and that way, guys like brooks In,
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Bryson and Phil and whoever can go play the WM
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: Phoenix Open upon for the tournament. They continue to play
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: their lift golf schedule. But I don't know how it
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: would work for PJ Tour guys who want to play
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: the live golf schedule. And I don't think PJ Tour
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: players want to go play in Ria, Dad, or go
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: play in in Europe, or play in South America or
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: South Africa. They want to be able to play in
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: the US because they live in the United States. So
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: if we do get some sort of framework framework agreement,
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: they're still going to be two separate tours. The thing is,
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: can we get these guys on live back in the majors.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of difference between Pebble Beach and Riodd
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: to tell you that, although some would say there's not
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: much difference between Phoenix and Riott, it's pretty warm in
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: both places, all right. More coming up here on AM
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: thirteen hunder the Zone, ares we continue on a yacht
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: rock Wednesday here on thirteen hundred Zone. Speaking of yacht rock,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: some of these said is Michael McDonald the Michael Jordan
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: of yacht Rock? I believe it to be true. Well,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: that would depend on if you feel that Michael Jordan
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: is the greatest NBA player of all time, the greatest
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: basketball player of all time.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: And if you think that his.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Sculpture, like the George Washington one, should be the first
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: one on there, because Michael McDonald absolutely is that. Absolutely,
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: there's no question about it. And again I felt that
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: long before I saw the documentary and I saw the
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Lennon and I watched the documentary two three weeks ago,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: and it confirmed everything that I always thought and felt
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: about yacht rock, how it kind of melded together in
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: a mishmash and really starting the seventies, and that all
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: roads led back to Steely Dan, the session musicians, Michael
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: McDonald and even Toto, all other musicians who played on
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: so many of these other things. So it all kind
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: of led back to if you're talking about bands on
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: the Mount Rushmore, obviously Toto would would be the lead
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: one on that, but there were several as well. But
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: that also depends on how you feel about, you know,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: whether Michael Jordan is the greatest player of all time
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: where do you stand on I've forgotten where do you
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: stand on that?
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Greatest of all time? Yep, Lebron's best career of
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: all time.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I'm glad you said it that way
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: because I'm I'm not going to say I had a
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: struggle with it, or we're even beginning to have a
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: struggle with it. I've always felt that that Michael Jordan
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: was the greatest player of all time, and I still
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: believe that. But the the more Lebron James does, and
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: the more he continues to achieve, and the more he
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: continues to age and yet continue to achieve. Now he's
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: forty and he's still hitting milestone after milestone, you know,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: and the greatest scorer of all time. There are people
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: that will argue that and say that he's the greatest, greatest.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Encompasses a lot of different things. It's not just statistics,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: it's how you affect the game. Lebron was always at
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: his best, I thought, when he had really good players
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: around him, who then elevated his greatness to super stratospheric
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: levels at times. But he had guys with him who
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: could make that And that could be said for just
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: about any great great player, you got to have a
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: supporting cast, but he seemed to benefit from it even
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: more than others. Or Michael Jordan could have some absolutely
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: spectacular moments even when he didn't have the.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: Best cast around him. Is the way.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: By the way the game last Wednesday went all miss
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: was that was Scottie Pippenson across the floor from us.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: Right it was.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was behind me in the check in line
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: after I ubered up to Memphis to fly home. Yeah,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: I didn't notice it until after I checked in, and
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: then I turned around and there was Scottie. They had
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: had a bucket hat on hanging out with he had
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: somebody with him on that.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: So he was there to take in the.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: Game on Wednesday and then was back out there on
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Thursday morning on that So to answer the Texters question, yeah, yeah,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: I guess you could. I guess you could say that
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: that also, you know applies you could do that. Somebody said,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: as a former member of the sports media during my twenties,
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: the best parts of the job are free tickets, free food,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: and mileage reports. Well, uh, the mileage reports have kind
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: of gone the way of the dinosaur. In large measure.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: There did did some still like writers still kind of
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: deal with it. We don't really tickets don't really you know,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: we get those on a on occasion, that sort of thing. Food, Yeah,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: there's media meals. Some media meals are better than others.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: The barbecue chicken at Baton Rouge the other day wasn't bad. Good, Yeah,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: that was that was okay. I don't always eat the
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: media meal for the same reasons that we were talking
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: about earlier. If I if I ate every meal that
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: was offered to me on a trip, i'd weigh four
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: hundred pounds. So I don't, you know. But but yeah,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: there's there's that. So I get that. I I understand that,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: and I understand how that means a lot that some
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: guys on there they sure they eat to. My oldest son,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Andy is a is a videographer and an editor at
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: k x AN. When he came out of college and
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: he was the baseball team videographer at Angelo State, one
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: of the top Division two programs in the country. In fact,
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: they're the defending national champions, I believe, and they're number
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: two in the country in the preseason. Polar're really good
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: and they were good when he was there, and you know,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: for the old quote unquote typical poorole college student or whatever,
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: you know, one of the baseball team on the road
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: and they're getting everybody, you know a burger and fries
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: and something whatever at McDonald's whatever.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: That mental life.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: And then when he got out of college and he
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: was working in minor league baseball for the Lexington Legends
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: Royals low a ball team. When he was working for them,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: he made sure he ate at the ballpark in the
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: clubhouse every day because otherwise, you know, if you's gonna
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: eat that day or whatever.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: So I get that. I understand that. That makes sense.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Somebody said, I hope you tip your Uber driver, because
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: I sure didn't. Sincerely, Scotty, no tipping, Pippin. I did
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: tip my Uber driver because that was an eighty mile
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Uber driver. It was an eighty mile trip on Uber
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: to get me up to Memphis to where I could
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: fly home, and I did. I tipped him. Oh, he
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: did a good job on that. Pippin probably didn't tip.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: I think I told this before.
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: I have my brother and sister in law are retired
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: now and they live in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: But for twenty five almost thirty years. My older brother
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: managed the hotel and casino shuttle drivers at all of
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: the station casinos in Las Vegas, Boulder Station, Sunset Station,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: all of those in Las Vegas. My sister in law
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: dealt Bakara in the high limit room at the Venetian.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: So she got a chance to to, you know, deal
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: baccarat to some big names like Mike Kruszewski, who was
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: always a really good tipper, she said, Charles Barkley, great tipper,
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, good tipper.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: Tiger Woods.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Eh, you know, not much, but okay, Dennis Rodman, fabulous tipper.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Scottie Pippen, no tipping Pippin. There's a reason he is
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: the name. So yeah, so, and she said she never
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: said anything or anything anybody. She kind of knew in
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: advanced what was going to be the case there. So anyway,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: all right, we'll be back to wrap up hour number
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: two here on thirteen under the Zone, and then don't
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: forget Longhorn basketball tonight as long. Oorne's take on the
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Arkansas Razorbacks at Moody Center seven point thirty is our
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: pregame star time here on AM thirteen under the Zone,
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: as well as on ninety eight point one FMK vett
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: uh and the tip off at eight o'clock important game
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: for Texas and I opportunity to draw even in conference
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: play at five and five, and the way the SEC
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: is going these days. Listen, if you can be around
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: the five hundred mark, you're going to really enhance your
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: opportunity to make the NCAA tournament. We talked about the
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: bracketological prognostications yesterday from both Joe Lenardi at ESPN and
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Jerry Palm from CBS Sports, and Lenardi at Texas is
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: a nine seed matched up with Baylor.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, Baylor and eight sea.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Of course, Taylor didn't do itself any favors with its
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: loss in Luba last night to Texas Tech, but they
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: had that match up in Raleigh with the winner to draw. Duke,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: you'd be all right with that, though, North Carolina native
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: that you are. You'd be okay with going to Raleigh
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: for the NCAA tournament.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: I would be okay as a basketball fan getting to
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: see Cooper Flag play.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: Now, as a worker employee of the University of Texas,
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: you know, not facing the second round would be ideal
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: or even even Baylor, but it probably wouldn't be too bad.
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, we were just there a few months ago.
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: I mean looking at the other locations for the first round.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Craig not not too excited about it, to be honest.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: With you, but part up about which star are you?
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: Not from what I've heard from you and some of
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: the other guys. But hey, if you're dancing, you're dancing right,
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: that's exactly right. Cleveland would be all right because rock
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: and Roll Hall of Fame. I've never been there before
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: I got up there. I have anything Cleveland that might
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: be worth going to.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: Seattle is Seattle. None's wrong with Seattle. I heard that
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: this year they're going to be inducting your supply, so
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: maybe we can. I'm not going then if that's I'm
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: just kidding out.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: If they ever get into that, that's when I boycott
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame if it happens
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: that way. But anyway, yeah, we'll see important game, definitely
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: for Texas tonight. To try to draw it in Arkansas
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: with the winter For Kentucky, now, some might question how
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: well that's going to agents Kentucky. He was summarily flattened
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: by Ole Miss last night. Boy, they just could not
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: miss from three point range. It was good that the
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: log Wrens defended the three pretty well against them, and
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: they didn't make that many threes, but they made some
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: in that game a week ago tonight over in Oxford.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: But they just they blasted Kentucky with that. So, you know, again,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: if the log Worns were able to keep pace with
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: some of these other teams, and that would include Kentucky
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: right out about the five hundred mark in conference play,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: if they're able to do that, that enhances their tournament profile,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: and their tournament profile is being upraised and uplifted simply
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: because of what they are capable of doing, what they
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: have done, and what they can still do in conference
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: play because as we know, the non conference schedule wasn't
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: one of the top of the line non conference schedules.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: They had a difficult time trying to schedule some really
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: top flight non conference opponents. Was the best of those
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: and you kind has even fallen off some and inn
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: C State it's it's a five hundred n C State
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: team that they played in the sec ACC Challenge, you know,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: playing Syracuse and Saint Joe's.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, you know, in.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's not playing Saint Leo's or something like that,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: or a D two school or anything like that, but
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: it's you know it, it puts a real push on
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: you to make sure that you can continue to get
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: quad one victories. And almost not maybe not every game,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: almost every game in conference playing the SEC is a
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: quad one game for Texas. So tonight they play Arkansas
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: and again that comes your way at eight o'clock and
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: we'll have it for you. You're on the zone beginning
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: at seven thirty. And of course the Texas women play
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night against anderbill As they try to keep things
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: rolling there. They're up to number four in the country
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: most of the I think most there's only a couple
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: on the women's side. For the bracketologists have Texas as
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: a two seed right now. When we had Vic Shaeffer
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: on last week, he said, you could bet your bottom
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: dollar that if they defend their home court, if they're
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: a two seed or even a one, and defend their
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: home court, win their first two games at Moody Center,
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: he said, you can bet your bottom dollar that. And
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: of course, in the way, in the women's turn of
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: the way they do it, they put two Sweet sixteen
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: slash Elite eight regional sites in the same city, in
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: the same building. They tried that last year for the
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: first time with Portland and Alby this year it's Spokane
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: in Birmingham and Vic says, you bet your bottom dollar
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: they won't be in Birmingham.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: He goes, oh, they'll send us out west.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: And he told the story about when they were one
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: seed and missus state and got sent to Eugene, Oregon
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: where Oregon had Sabrina Unesque and all them and they
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: had to play as a one seed basically in a
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: hostile environment there in the Elite eight and got knocked out.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: And he's right, it makes a good point. A one
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: seed should not have to deal with that.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: But he thinks that And if you look at those
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: prognostications they have Texas slated to go to Spokane. I
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: think everybody can probably figure out South Carolina would be
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: one of the ones that would be slided to Birmingham,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: and probably LSU would be the other, unless Texas handles
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: its business down the stretch beating LSU and then beating
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: perhaps one of the other two big heavyweights that are
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: still to come on their schedule. Obviously, South Carolina the
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Sunday Super Bowl Sunday, a week from tomorrow, they go
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: to Lexing and Tuck and play Kentucky.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: That's a big game.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: Kentucky has only one conference loss, LSU has only one
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: conference loss. South Carolina has no conference losses as we know,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: and Texas has one loss. So they're all chasing South Carolina.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: But there's these other teams. LSU and Kentucky were right
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: there with Texas. And as I said to Kathy Harston
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: the other day on Sunday after the win in College
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Station over Texas, A and M, all the Logorns did
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: was to hold serve and they did do that and
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: stay with only one loss in conference play as they
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: turned the corner toward the second half of conference play.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: So anyway, that's tomorrow night. That's an eight o'clock game
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night at Moody, and we'll make the same suggestions
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: you that we did last week and even the week before.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: This is a three consecutive eight o'clock starts for Texas. Well,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: it was supposed to be the Tennessee game got moved
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: up one hour as we know, because of the travel
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: issues with the snow and everything that LSU had trying
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: to get to South Carolina. But as we said, we
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: make the same suggestion to you that we did last week.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: Walghorn Weekly with Rodney Terry is tomorrow night at six
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: o'clock at Pluckers, the West Campus location. So why not
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: go out there to Pluckers and get yourself ready for
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: the ball game. Listen to Coach Terry talks some Longhorn
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: men's hoops action, and enjoy some great wings and then
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: when it's over at seventies, still got plenty of time
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: to go right down the road over to the movie
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: center to see this Texas women's team in actually against Vanderbilt,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: which will be a good test for them. Vanderbilt ranked
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: twenty fourth and they have a win over Tennessee this year.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: Shay Routh the former big time post player for Yukon
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: in the early days of Geno Rims dynasty building in Stores, Connecticut.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: She's the head coach at Vanderbilt. So anyway, that's for
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night. But for the Long Corn men, it's tonight
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: against Arkansas. And then speaking of Vanderbilt, and then the
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: Long Wrorn's gone on a plane Friday fly to Nashville.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: They played Vanderbilt at noon on Saturday, so noon.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: On Saturday for them, and then come back after that
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: and then they go back to that Tuesday of rotation
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: at least for one week because the Alabama Crimson tied
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: number four in the country, come in the following Tuesday.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: And then they have another Wednesday game that would be
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: against Arkansas in Fayetteville, so they still have that.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: So there's still a lot to come on the schedule.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: Some big games for Texas, Kentucky at home, like I said,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Alabama at home, and they have to go to Arkansas again.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: But a chance if the Longhorns handle their business, they
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: have Georgia at home and they have Oklahoma at home.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: If they can finish at or pretty close to five hundred,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: like eight and ten, if not nine and nine or
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: ten and eight would be even would be fabulous in
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: this league. But if they if they're able to finish
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: somewhere in that neighborhood, I think it would lock them in.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: It would cement them in into being in the NCAA tournament.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: But you know Rodney talks about you know, live where
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: your feet are today, and so that means tonight in
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: getting ready for an Arkansas team that comes off it's
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: very impressive win over Kentucky on Saturday night, and they
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: have the three former Kentucky Wildcats on that team as well.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: We've talked quite a bit about that earlier in the program,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: and it'll be it'll be a good test for Texas
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: tonight at eight o'clock. All right, We've got some other
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: things to get to when we get to some NBA
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: coming up, and and then there's kind of an important
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: birthday to take note of, and I'll I'll pass this
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: along to Cameron Parker, the producer, because it might have
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: some interest for him.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: I'll just leave it at that, and I'll put it
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: I'll put it that way, so we'll get to all
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: of that.
• 1:03:59
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  Speaker 1: All right, more coming up here on this Wednesday afternoon
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: here on AM thirteen hundred the Zone. I mentioned Vick Schaefer,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: Texas Women's head coach, and we want to give you
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: a little bit of what.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: He completed in his his media zoom availability. Today.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: We'll give you a little snippet of the bulk of it,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: because you know, Vic, Vic is a volume. You know
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: he's it's a solid it's a solid chunk of material.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: And it's pretty good too. It's really good listening. You
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: learn a lot, not only about basketball, but about human
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: relations with basketball players and history and all sorts of things.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: So we're going to bring you the bulk of that tomorrow,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: but we did want to give you a little taste
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: of it today as Texas is coming off of the
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: win last Saturday and Sunday excuse me in college station
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: over Texas A and M, and now getting ready for
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: this matchup with Vanderbilt tomorrow night at eight o'clock at
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: Moody Center, a game you can hear on one oh
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: three point one FM, Austin's eighty station.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: We'll be on the air at seven forty five with
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: that one. So I'm going to give you a little bit.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: This is from some of the Q and A that
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: the media had with Vic talking about specific players, talking
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: about the matchup, talking about what his team needs to
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: do here down the stretch of the regular season, not
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: only in terms of enhancing their NCAA tournament seating profile
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: trying to get to that one seed, but also just
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: to be playing their best basketball going into the postseason,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: because you have to have that on hand when you
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: go into the NCAA tournament.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: He's some thoughts from Vick Schaefer.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 6: Do you worry about losing that a key element of
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 6: your defense, like in the men's game, the full court press,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 6: like you said, because of the ball handler shooters, it's
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 6: all but disappeared from men's college basketball. Do you worry
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 6: about losing that from your team someday?
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: No, I don't, you know, Mark, even.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 5: Even when people, you know, we see every press attack
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 5: in the country, you know, and m was screening this
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 5: the other night with their five player or they were
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 5: breaking their five player up, you know, to get the
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 5: inbound even getting your five player. Think about it that
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 5: five players used to what Okay, they scored, Let me
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 5: run down to the other end, getting my cubby hole
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 5: down here and do my thing. Now they got to
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 5: worry about Okay, I got to set the screen. It
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 5: has to be legal, which a lot of them aren't.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 5: I got to make sure it's legal so I don't
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 5: get a file. If I do catch the inbound pass,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 5: I gotta have ball skills to be able to get it.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: Back to my guard.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 5: So the stress of even breaking to get open, the
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  Speaker 5: energy exerted you do that over a forty minute game,
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  Speaker 5: even that can wear on you. And that's sometimes where
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  Speaker 5: you see in the last five ten minutes where.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes teams are just giving it to us. They're just
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  Speaker 2: so tired of dealing with it.
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  Speaker 5: So it can be as good in the first five
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  Speaker 5: minutes as it is in the last five some nights.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you again.
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  Speaker 2: From what you've seen on film. What do you like
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: about michaeleb Blake's and just her what your thoughts on her? Overall? Game?
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  Speaker 2: Boy means all three levels.
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  Speaker 5: You know, plays really hard, smart, reads defenses extremely well,
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  Speaker 5: great in transition, So I mean, you know, she's got
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  Speaker 5: the total package and uh, you know again a three
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  Speaker 5: level score that again can make the pass as much
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  Speaker 5: as make the shot. So she's she's a really really,
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  Speaker 5: really tough match up and uh, you know, we'll you know,
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  Speaker 5: you you have to try to. And the thing is
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  Speaker 5: they have three players, y'all that have taken over one
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  Speaker 5: hundred shots in conference, and so you know, our players
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  Speaker 5: are very familiar with that, and it really stresses you.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody usually has one player that's a good defender. You know,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of good teams have two. Not many teams
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  Speaker 5: can go three D going, hey we can shut with
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  Speaker 5: this kid, this kid, and this kid. And I think
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  Speaker 5: that's the challenge, you know for people guarding us, because
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  Speaker 5: we have multiple offensive players. You know, the kid at
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  Speaker 5: A and M said it the other night in the
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  Speaker 5: press room, you got to pick your poison with them
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  Speaker 5: because they have a lot of weapons. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I think anytime you get into a team like a Vanderbilt,
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  Speaker 5: who's got but then you better not take your eye
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  Speaker 5: off the other two.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're shooting it at a high level.
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  Speaker 5: They're good players, they're obviously smart and heavy, and so
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  Speaker 5: you know, it's just a really good team.
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  Speaker 2: And they're an NCAA tournament team. And I don't think
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  Speaker 2: anybody wants.
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  Speaker 5: To see a kid that can get fifty seven or
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  Speaker 5: fifty three whatever she got that night. I mean, but
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 5: she's done it all year. I mean in conference alone,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 5: twenty seven points a game. That's our average. And then
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  Speaker 5: you go eighteen in sixteen, So it's not just her.
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  Speaker 5: You got to keep an eye because you know what,
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  Speaker 5: eighteen and sixteen can both go for thirty and so
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  Speaker 5: you you know, it's really going to put some pressure
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  Speaker 5: on our kids to really be focused. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 5: all of us. You know, I'm not sure you do
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  Speaker 5: it one on one with any of them. I think
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  Speaker 5: you have to really be cognizant and try to try
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  Speaker 5: to do it with five.
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  Speaker 7: Bright Yeah, I think I just wanted to ask you about,
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  Speaker 7: you know, Vandy itself. You know, you're you're one of
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  Speaker 7: the few coaches that I know that that took over
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 7: a struggling SEC program and lifted them back into the spotlight,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 7: like what Shay has done at Vandy. I mean, what's
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 7: the secret for her? Is it just sprinkling yukon magic
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 7: all over the place and it worked?
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  Speaker 1: Or what.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see in their rise that you either admire
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: or don't like or love. I don't know. Well, as
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  Speaker 2: y'all know, the only thing harder than building it is
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: sustaining it. I mean, that's it's really hard.
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  Speaker 5: And to build a program in the SEC from the
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 5: ground up, you know, like we did at Mississippi State,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 5: she's doing it now at Vanderbilt. I mean you have
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 5: to respect and admire the job that she's done, her
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 5: and her staff.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, I.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, I have a lot of respect for
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 5: and we've had you know, we don't know each other
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  Speaker 5: real well. I've only been back in the league, you know,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 5: this season. But you know, I know how hard it is,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 5: and I know the job she's doing. I mean, they're
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 5: they're just really good. And you know it's hard to do, y'all,
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  Speaker 5: and so you have to you have to admire that.
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  Speaker 5: And uh, you know, she seems like, you know, a
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  Speaker 5: great part soon when I've had a chance to visit
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  Speaker 5: with her and talk with her and at meetings and
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 5: and so it's hard, you know. But the only thing
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 5: built harder and building it sustaining it. And I think
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  Speaker 5: that's true no matter where you are.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's this, y'all heard me say this. We
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  Speaker 2: talk about all the time.
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  Speaker 5: The standard is a standard, right, and it's you know,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 5: for y'all, you're probably going to it's another cliche, it's
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 5: something else coach says. It's you know, he's got a
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 5: bunch of T shirts over there that got all that
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 5: on there and and and part of that's true.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the thing, y'all, Like.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 5: The standard is so different for so many different people,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 5: for so many different programs, like it. It's I pick
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 5: up the newspaper and read about teams and coaches and
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 5: how they're evaluated in what they consider a great season.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 5: And it's so different for everybody, sometimes not even fair,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 5: but it is what it is.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: And you know, it's almost comical.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 5: But you know, for us, for anyone who lives in
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 5: the SEC and tries to survive, because that's what you're doing.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 5: I mean, you're you're living in the biggest, baddest conference
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 5: in the country.
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  Speaker 2: You're living in a.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 5: Fish pond full of sharks, and every night can be
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 5: a dog one bloodpath and so you've got to have
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 5: that edge, that mentality, and y'all, that's what I'm telling you.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 5: It's so it's so hard to keep that with eighteen
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 5: to twenty two year olds just don't have any idea.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't have.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 5: Any idea what they're doing on campus other than you
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 5: know they're going to class. They got study all. I
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 5: got kids that got study all at eight and eight am.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 5: They got tutors. Then they go to class. We're trying
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 5: to get them to eat right, and they come over
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 5: here and we get them for a couple two three
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 5: hours try to go through film practice, then they got
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 5: more studying. I mean, it ain't like we're at some
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 5: three named directional school that's you just show up and
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 5: learn by osmosis. It's a hard place to learn, hard
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 5: place to to you know, it's a great education, but
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 5: it's really hard, so.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: It's a it's a challenge.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: So there's just a taste of it there with Vic Shavor,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: the long wards head coach, and we'll hear more from
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: Vic tomorrow on this matchup with the Vanderbilt Commodores and
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: the down the stretch portion of the regular season. All right,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: we have more coming up as we continue here on
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: this Wednesday afternoon, so stay with us here on AM
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: thirteen one hundred the Zone. Tomorrow on the program, Bill
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: Sheney's going to join us talk about the new edition
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: with the Spurs, and the Spurs of course play tonight
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: against Philadelphia and then I think turned Charlotte tomorrow, so
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: Bill will join us on the program tomorrow. We'll hear
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: more from Vic Schaeffer on the program tomorrow as well.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll look forward to bringing you the program tomorrow
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: afternoon with those guests and features and a couple of
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: other things that we'll get to as well, now, a
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: couple other notes I wanted to get to since we
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: were talking about the NBA in the trades like the
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: Mavericks Lakers trade and the Spurs trade. There was more
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: before the trade deadline with the Bucks trading Chris Middleton,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: the former Texas A and m Aggie to Washington. And
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: he was a guy who was really kind of a
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: cornerstone of that of what was built there for that
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks World championship team a few years back. Kyle
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: Kuzma will go to Milwaukee in exchange, the Bucks also
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: sending rookie guard A. J. Johnson, the first round draft
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: selection last year and a pick swap to Washington. They
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: also sent Ford Patrick Baldwin junior and second round draft
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: compensation to Milwaukee. So again teams getting into the act
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: here before this thing is done and rolling right up
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: on the trade deadline.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: So yep, you had another NBA note made there.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: And then there's then there's this interesting note from the
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: National Football League Players Association.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a little bit OCD like me, you probably.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: Are just a little bit off put or let's just
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: say out of balance, not necessarily you know, irritated or
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: anything like that. But just just kind of feel a
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: little bit out of balance with a seventeen game NFL schedule.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: I've been like that ever since they went to it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's odd. It's an odd number, seventeen. It's
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: a prime number. Remember, we all learned about prime numbers
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: in school in math. Prime numbers. It's only that number,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: you know, that is divisible to itself, to the number one.
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  Speaker 1: Seventeen is one of those numbers. Well, they've been playing
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: seventeen games, so naturally it's the very logical thing for
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: Texas fans and for not Texas at Cowboys fans. I
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: started to say, excuse me, and Texans fans and NFL
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: fans in general, to say, if you're going to have
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: seventeen games, why not just go ahead and make it
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: eighteen like they do in the Canadian Football League. Go
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: ahead and play eighteen, get rid of one more of
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: those preseason exhibition games.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: Cut it down to two. You'd have nice round numbers.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: Two preseason games.
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  Speaker 1: Every team can play one at home, one on the road,
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  Speaker 1: and then you play eighteen games, and you'd get back
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: to a balance schedule, at least pretty close to a
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: balance schedule. Right, made sense, and Roger Goodell, the commissioner
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, was having conversations with the NFL Players
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: Association about it. So in a week and I mentioned
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: this yesterday on the program, where there's a lot of
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: conversation that goes on in news conferences and things of
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: that nature during Super Bowl week. So like Godal's already
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: had one news conference, he'll have his big State of
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: the NFL address coming up on Friday. Players Association they
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: have their big news conference. Then if you've ever been
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: on radio row for the Super Bowl, it's just this
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: one continuous cavalcade of current and former NFL players representing
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: a product or service, and they'll hop on with you
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: for a few minutes if you let them, you know,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: you know, push their product or service on the air.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: So it's kind of a trade off on that deal
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: they're doing that you're getting it for the interview. It's
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: that sort of thing. They hop on and they get
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: a chance to mention who they're representing and so on
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: and so forth. All right, So anyway, all of this
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: stuff happens during the course of the week, and so
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: the media never ever has as much access to the
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: commissioner of the National Football League as they do this week.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: The media never has as much access to the players
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: Association as they do this week Super Bowl week.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: So quick show of hands out there.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: If you know who the executive director of the NFL
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: Players Association is, put your hands down.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: I know you don't know. It's Lloyd Howel Junior.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, this whole thing about the eighteen games makes
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: perfect sense to you and me. Right, eighteen games makes sense.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: Nice round even numbers. Get back on more of a
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: balance schedule.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: Lloyd Howell Junior pushed back today against Roger Goodell's statement
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: that safety data favors expanding the regular season. Quote, Frankly,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: we're not sure how he's reaching that conclusion based on
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: the data we've been given access to.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: He had his news conference today.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: Howell was asked about the nflpa's current stance on an
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: eighteen game season, two days after Goodell had a news
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: conference where Godell said that eighteen regular season games and
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: two preseason games might be a possibility, citing safety data
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: that put concussions at a historically low level during twenty
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: twenty four. But how came back said players are against
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: another regular season expansion after expanding the seventeen games in
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one quote, no one wants to play an
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: eighteenth game. No One. Seventeen games is already for many
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: of the guys too long. Seventeen games is also so
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: lengthy that you're still dealing with injuries going in the
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: next season, So there are a variety of issues that
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: hang off of the length of the season before any
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: formal negotiations. Howl and Gadell both said this week that
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: any discussions regarding eighteen games has been informal. The current
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: collective Bargaining Agreement, which was ratified in twenty twenty, expires
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: after twenty thirty. The length of the season is written
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: into the CBA, so it would have to be voted
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: on and agreed to by both the owners and the players,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: and Howell said any commentary outside of a former negotiation
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: is just commentary.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: It's a player's decision to what they will agree to
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: do or not.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: Hou said several issues would have to be addressed before
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: any true negotiations could be open into expanding the season.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: He cited the number of bye weeks, roster.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: Size, practice squad size, the length of the offseason, and
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: the amount of international games played, which the CBA currently
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: caps at ten. He said, when you talk about eighteen games,
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: what does the international composition look like at where there's
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: evidence that they would like us to go as far
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: away as Australia, in Middle East, India, you name it.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: They truly want to look at the international aspect of
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: the game. So how does that fit into eighteen games?
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: We could fit in in eighteen games. What I'm not
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: understanding is if you're dumping a preseason game to do it.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: It's one last game.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: And I get it.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: There are teams that don't allow their starters even to
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: play a snap of the preseason. The team I root for,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: the Rams, Sean McVay, his starters never play in the preseason.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: So you're saying it's apples and oranges. You may pull
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: out a preseason game and go to eighteen regular season
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: games in two preseason, but that's still the wear and
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: tear on the players because they're not even playing in
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: just about all of those preseason games anyway. Well, everything
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: revolves around money, so that's what it would come back
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: to to see if they would go to But it's
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: just me. I'm thrown off a little bit by the
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: odd number of games of seventeen. You know, I think
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: eighteen would make sense with two preseason games. You play
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: two preseason games and you can get after it. But
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: the Players Association is not seeing it that way. All right,
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: We will be back to wrap up today's edition of
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  Speaker 1: the program here on AM thirteen under the Zone