Episode Transcript
We're bad.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's the Craig Way Show with Hall of Fame broadcaster
and voice of the Texas Longhards Craig Way.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
About five minutes away from Game two. That and it'll
be the final game of the twenty twenty four baseball
regular season. Major League Baseball Game two of the doubleheader
between the Mets and the Braves. Both games became necessary
because of the stuff that happened over the weekend. These
were games that were rained out for Wednesday and Thursdays.
They had to playing both and drama. In Game one,
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Atlanta was cruising along behind Schwellenbach. They were up three
to nothing going to the eighth. Mets scored six runs
on the top of the eighth, including a three run
homer or two run homer in that one by Brandon
Nemo and they went up six to three, only to
see it Atlanta come back and score four runs in
the bottom of the eighth, highlighted by a basis clearing
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double from Ozzie Alby's. They were up seven to six
going to the top of the ninth. Francisco Lindor with
a two run homer to put the Mets up eight
to seven, and they hold on to win Game one
eight to seven, so that win put the New York
Mets in the playoffs. The Atlanta must win game two
to get in. If they lose, the Mets become the
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five seed. San Diego is the four seed, the top
wild card. The Mets would be the five seed and
go to San Diego, and Arizona would slip in as
the number six seed and would go to Milwaukee to
begin tomorrow. However, if the Braves do win, Atlanta will
be the five seed.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And the Mets would be the sixth seed.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It'd be the Mets going to Milwaukee and the Braves
would go to San Diego.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
That's where it is.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Also, we learned within the last hour that Chris Sale,
the starter for Atlanta, the ace of their staff has
been scratched from pitching this now necessary final game due
to backspas and so it looks like it's.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Gonna be a bullpen game.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I know there's somebody on the text line said they
thought Bryce Elder would pitch, but it looks like starting
for Atlanta is going to be Grant Holmes.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
He's a reliever, so it's probably.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Gonna be a bullpen game for them and the Mets
also made a change.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
They're going to have Joey La Casey start game two
of that.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So anyway, that's that's where that is, and we'll keep
you posting on that. Atlanta has to win again. If
they don't, it'll be Arizona getting in on that. On
the text line, we'd gotten some questions somebody, you know,
with regard to the officiating. When I asked Sart the
question about whether he had noticed any appreciable difference in
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how games were called with SEC Cruis as opposed to
the Big Twelve, and he said, not really, he said,
when he sent in a couple of plays for some explanation.
I'm sure the one where they called the hold on
Gunner Hilm was one of those. But you know, he said,
other than that, he hadn't noticed much. Somebody said in
that game, and in a couple others, there were some
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blatant face masks not called.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
There were a couple.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
There were a couple that were called, but maybe a
couple others that were not.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Somebody else asking the question.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Navy and Army are both four, and oh, when's the
last time that happened?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Care to guess?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, I don't have a guess nineteen forty five. Wow,
Army won the national championship that year. Wow, Army had
mister inside and mister outside. You know who mister inside
and mister outside were. By the way, it's one of
those college football history book type of questions. Should Doc
Blanchard and Glenn Davis? Doc Blanchard was mister inside, Glenn
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Davis was mister outside? And they won back to back
Heisman Trophies. Blanchard I believe in forty four and Davis
in forty five or forty five and forty six. But anyway,
they won back to back national titles in nineteen forty
four in ninety and those two won each won the
Heisman Trophy. The two headed rushing attack for Colonel Red
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Blake's Army teams the teams at West Point that won
back to back national titles. So get this, here's something
I think that's that's really pretty cool that you have
Army is four and oh and Navy's four and oh.
It's the first time that both have been four and
oh since nineteen forty five. Okay, that's a nice note.
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And then some folks would say, well, you know, what
does it really mean? In the in the grand scheme
of things with regard it doesn't have any impact on
the college football playoff, does it.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
They're both both service academies are in the American Athletic
Conference now, so they could have a shot to get in.
They're the last remaining undefeated teams in the AAC and
an A also amongst a dwindling number of unbeaten group
of five teams entering week five, the only other unbeaten
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group of five teams James Madison, Liberty and UNLV.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Those are the only other ones.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So and you say, okay, well, what do they still
have tough schedules?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
They still have to do it? Well, there is a
little bit of that because Army still has to.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Play under Dame.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
But other than that, Army doesn't have to play Memphis
or tu Lane in American Conference play this year. And
Navy's already beaten Memphis and they get too Lane at home.
So consider this possibility here. Cam we know the annual
Army Navy date game is the last regular season game
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in college football, right every year, and this year it's
December the fourteenth, the week after all the conference championship games.
That is correct, and not only that, not only that,
it is the week before the new twelve team college
football Playoff begins. In fact, it actually begins six days
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after the Army Navy game. It begins on Friday the
twenty There's one game on the twentieth, and all the
other games are on the twenty first. The other three
first round games are on the twenty first. Okay, so
Army Navy play on the fourteenth. And in the past
there might have been one little issue about one team's
bowl eligibility or another going, but it was never really
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that big a deal. So here's a scenario that could happen.
I just laid out what they still have left to
have in conference play.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It is.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'll just say it's a distinct possibility. I'm not saying
it's a definite or probable, but it is worth taking
note of that. Army and Navy could wind up playing
for the American conferen French Championship on Friday December sixth,
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eight days before they play the regularly scheduled game. Because
when they play the regularly scheduled game, it doesn't count
as a conference game, So they could play in the
AAC Championship game for a chance to go to the
college football Playoff and then have their regular game kind
of almost like a bowl game the next week. That
really could happen if they both, you know, finished well
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enough in the American Conference play that they wind up
playing in the conference championship, and then they played a
week later. It'd be eight days later, and so it'd
be one of the teams, however, could could have by
that time qualified for the college football Playoff. Here's the
other weird deal. Let's just say one of the teams
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beats the other, wins the conference, and as the highest
ranked conference champion, gets a bid to the College Football
playf Then they get beat the next week, it wouldn't
count against them, that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
They would already be in the playoff. So that's just
something to keep in mind.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
We'll be back to wrap a hour number two here
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