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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Updating the baseball going on right now. Astros and Tigers
are scoreless as the Astros bats with the leadoff man aboard.
I said that, and he's now forced out at second.
Tigers weren't able to get the double play, and in
fact the man sliding in the second once a review,
he thinks that the out wasn't recorded, even though the
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umpire says it happened on the transfer as Spencer Gats
was pulling the ball out of the glove. So I
don't know if they're going to review that or not.
But anyway, it is scoreless between the Tigers and the
Astros in Game two. Yeah, there's no doubt it. It
was on the transfer. Looking at a replay there, so
one out will be recorded and the Astros will still
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have a runner at first base with one out. We'll
keep you updated on the baseball the other the other
game getting ready to start Baltimore and Kansas City. Detroit
is now making a pitching change with a runner at
first in one out, so we'll see how that goes.
No score and that is in the bottom half of
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the fifth inning. Tiger's winning yesterday three to one behind
Tarik Skuball, who's proven was this year anyway, the best
starting pitcher in all of baseball League won Baseball's Pitching
Triple Crown wins E ra A and strikeouts. So the
Astros backed into a corner and they have to figure
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out from there. All right, let's hear from long orange
Head football coach Steve Sarkisia. Now this is going to
be from the SEC teleconference. Remember Sark did his news
conference on Monday. Because this is an open date week
on the schedule. They're bye week on the schedule. There
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are no more media availabilities local for Sark Like normally
on Thursdays he does a media zoom with the local
there's player availabilities, none of that stuff on this open date.
Only the news conference sat on Monday. However, the SEC
has a man Data teleconference where every coach is on
it every week regardless of whether they're playing or not.
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So that applied to Texas also applied to Oklahoma. Remember
the Sooners are going through an open date on the
schedule this week as well, leading up to the two
teams meeting in Dallas a week from the Saturday in
the All state Red River Rivalry matchup, and our coverage
will begin at eleven thirty from the Fairgrounds of the
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State of text We'll actually be up there on Friday
with coverage and then from the Fairgrounds on Saturday morning
with Longhorns game Day coverage with an inclusive of Cameron
Parker and Mike Hardbollharge and Mark Henry from the fairgrounds
at the State Fair of Texas. So they'll get to
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sit out there in the open while the Sooner fans
walk by and flip them off and stuff like that.
That's a regular, regular behavior there, and I should point
out they are longer fans who go buy and flip
off the Oklahoma game day broadcast teams that are on
the on the field, and this is part of that
whole deal.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I can remember for years, and I do mean years,
if you asked uh Texas people. One of the one
of the humorous things, whether it was Mac Brown or
long worn players, they talk about riding in on that
bus and seeing these like eighty something year old grandma's
flipping them off from the fairgrounds or little kids flipping
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them off for the fair grounds. And then I would
go up and I'd cover the Oklahoma news conference and
Bob Stoops was the coach back then, and he would say,
yeah that Texas, oklah th oh you Texas week is
something pretty special. Get there and those fans are, you know,
their behaviors pretty special. They're they're flipping the off and
telling you who's number one and all that. So they
experienced it also from their side as well. It's part
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of the victory. All that happens between Longhorns and Sooners.
It just works that way. That's just how that is.
But anyway, it's an open date this week for Boath
Texas and Oklahoma. So Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarkisian
asked for some opening thoughts and comments about his team
coming out of the win over Mississippi State and going
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into the bye week.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, it's always great going into a bye coming off
with victory, you know, having started the season the way
we had.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It's good to be undefeated.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But naturally you endure some of the bumps and bruises
and things that that all teams endure. And so I
think the buy is coming out a really good time
for us to get some guys healthy, to refresh out
of our minds and our bodies, to get ready for
another kind of three game block in the season here
coming up here in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Now, because this is an open date on the schedule
and a bye week for Texas, the time that they
were going to keep Sark on the SEC Teleconference was
going to be short. It wasn't going to be very long.
So I don't know if he was puzzled by the
answered the question. Fine, but remember this is the SEC
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Teleconference is a national call, so writers, in broadcasters, media
from across the country can dial in and they can
ask a question. So they're all welcome to do that.
They can do that. As you might imagine, the preponderance
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of the media participating in this thing are going to
be from SEC markets and outlets, and that includes in
the Deep South, and it certainly include the state of Alabama.
So the first question that Sart got was not about
his football team, but it was about the team they
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beat last year and the quarterback they beat last year,
Jalen Milroe of Alabama, who, of course Jalen is native Texan,
played at Katie Tompkins but and had originally committed to
Texas before quinn Ewers transferred in and then Milroe changed
his commitment ended up going to Alabama and Milroe has
really progressed and had a big game last Saturday night
in Tuscal loose against Georgia. So Sark was asked for
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his thoughts going all the way back when he was
recruiting Milroe, when he was still on the Alabama staff
and what he has seen Jalen Milroe accomplish and progress
in his time as Alabama's quarterback.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, we had Jalen in camp at Alabama and uh,
great kid, great parents, obviously got athleticism was there, the
arm talent was there.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I've give him a lot of credit. You know, he
really working with developed into the revers the player. You know,
he just doesn't rely on athleticism. He's a great de
ball passer, extend plans in his arm, extend plenties, use
his legs.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
They use him for direct run.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
So, uh, you know, you haven't a win thinking ki
it could be early on in his high school career
and then to watch it kind.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Of come to fruition.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I guess I'm happy for him, but I also validate
some of the things that you see and that you're
looking for and the next prop of guys coming up.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
That's a good point too. Because those were the things
that they were looking for from Jalen Milroe. And remember
he had his stumbles and growing pains early on, and
he drew a lot of heat after Texas beeed Alabama
in that game last year in September in Tuscalusa. But
he's come a long way since. He helped guide Alabama
to the College Football Playoff, the SEC championship in College
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Football Playoff berth and now he's the quarterback of the
number one team in the country and the AP pole
number two in the coaches, Texas number two and the
AP number one in the coaches. It's that close right now.
We'll hear more from Logrorns head coach Steve Sarkashan a
little later on in the program. We've got some other
topics we'll get to. We'll update the baseball for you
as well as we continue here on this Wednesday afternoon
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and I've talked about that. We think he kind of
surrendered into it a little quickly, so maybe something was
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going on there. I don't know. I mean he has
a rock star so and this is another guy whose
hair is amazed you, right, yes, when you look at
the three guys from Ambrosia, right, all four of them
ross off. Ambrosia sounds like it's one person. No, it's
it's a bad it's a bad from the seventies and eighties.
And they're performing in Arlington tomorrow, and since Linda and
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I had to go up to the Dallas Forward area anyway,
and they're performing at the Arlington Music Hall, which is
kind of like going to the Paramount here. It's a
small venue, a theater. And she said, oh, look, I
was like, you want to go to see Mbrosia? She said,
because I'm a yacht rock fan. Although Ambrosia is not
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my favorite, but I don't dislike them. So she was
interested in him, so I said, okay, so we got tickets,
so we're gonna go see Ambrosia tomorrow. And I that's
part of it, So that's why I wanted. That's exciting.
We see a lot of shows together since we've been
together since twenty eighteen, and I my first wife. She
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also liked music, and we went to some concerts together.
And next week will be eight years since she passed away,
so and then I was two years beyond that before
Lynda and I bumped in each other at a going
to see that we went to see an old friend
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play and as the first time i'd seen her in
I think since nineteen ninety four, so it'd been like, yeah,
I think it was twenty six years or twenty four year,
twenty whatever. It was twenty four years I guess, since
we'd even seen each other or something like that. And
then it just kind of took off from there. And
(10:25):
we had dated back in the early eighties for about
a year and a half, split up state friends. She
was at my wedding, I was, Me and my wife
were at her wedding in ninety four. She and her
husband had decided to divorce and then I just happened
to randomly run into her, and it started from there well,
once we got together, and then when she moved down here.
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Because she's a special ed counselor and was also a
licensed professional counselor, so she has a client list that
she counsels does mental health counseling, we started going to
these concerts and it was because I had gotten to
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the point of my life where there were some people
that I had and bands and artists I either had
never seen before and always wanted to or wanted to see,
or it was a band or artist that in my
college days in the early eighties, I worked the concerts
selling T shirts for the band or for the arena.
(11:28):
And I did that for four years and in the
early eighties, and so I used to tell people that
I worked everything from ac DC to Lawrence Welk, which
was pretty much true. I wo had worked a C
d C concert or worked, Prince worked, Prince Yeah, Prince
Wow right. It was the Purple Rain tour. Wow went
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on to her journey in eighty three in the Frontiers tour.
Worked Frank Sinatra, Barry Manilo, worked All Kazizy Top All
met Doobie Brothers, Rolling Stones, all of these, all of
these great bands, Bob Seeger so did all these, and
now years later, having put myself through college by working
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those shows, I wanted to have the opportunity to see
some of these because when you're working it, you don't
really you see glimpses of the show. You walk in
during a song, they walk back out to your stand
while your partner watches the stand, and then you swap off.
So I wanted to see some So I just happened
to mention because my broadcast partner for Long Worn Basketball,
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Eddie Orrin, and we were going to go see Bob Seger,
who was on his last tour, and then Eddie couldn't
do it, he had a work related conflict. So Linda
and I by then had started to see each other,
and I said, do you want to go see this concert?
It's Bob Seeker and she's like, yeah, I'll go. She didn't,
and then when she went, she loved it. She says,
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oh I remember that song, and oh I remember that song,
and oh I remember that song. I said, I got
a whole file folder of of shows like that that
I want to see coming up. If you're up for it,
she said, yeah, So then it became Eric Clapton while
we went to that. Uh, then we saw a little
river band in a casino then and then saw the
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Boss Gags at at at the Paramount. She gave me
as a Christmas present because she knew how much of
a Billy Joel fan was, and she was somewhat of
a fan. She gave me two tickets to see Billy
Joel at Fenway Park. At Fenway, Yeah, so I said,
I said, it was a Christmas gift, she said, and
opened it up. Two tickets Bill Joseah, Wow, can I
take anybody? She says, as long as I'm the other anyway, Say,
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I was just joking. So we went. We saw Billy
Joel there and uh and so we've seen a lot
of concerts. It's the old Master, Herb Albert, who is
eighty nine years old and still touring. We saw him
last year. We've seen it, seen him a couple of times.
Play that trumpet was great, that's what all the music
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and inconceivable that it's Herb Alpert and Tijuana brass stuff.
So we've seen a lot of concerts and I even
had tickets for Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks at Jerry
World in Arlington. Couldn't go because one of Stevie Nicks's
band members had COVID and so they postponed the show,
and when they rescheduled the show, I couldn't go. So
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she went and took a friend of her. So I've
kind of, you know, pulled her into the concert thing
and then for her because she always wanted to see
Joni Mitchell, one of the great rock legends of the
early seventies. The day after The Long Words played Georgia year,
We're flying to Los Angeles. I'm going to see Joni
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Mitchell at the Hollywood Bowl and then come back on
a red eye that night, talking me back in position
the next day when we have Sarks press conference to
get ready for Vanderbilt. So there's that. So we're we've
become big concert goers to the extent if we see
other other bands and every things like oh, hey, maybe
we want to go say and you know, and so yeah,
tomorrow night it'll be Ambrosia. We'll go see Ambrosia tomorrow night. Hey.
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Update from Houston. The Tigers are now up one nothing
on the astross Houston Bats in the bottom of the
sixth inning. Top of the sixth inning, Parker Meadows with
a solo homer to put Detroit in front. So the anxiety,
you might say, for Astros fans might be ratcheting up
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a bit now, although they jord On Alvarez is just
trying to walk, so they have the tying run on
and that's just the lead off the bottom of the
sixth inning, So still a lot of baseball left to
be played in that one. But the Astros are down
one nothing in the sixth inning to Detroit, and again,
because the Tigers won Game one yesterday, if they win
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this one this afternoon, it's over. Remember, the Wildcard Series
is just a best of three, best two out of three,
and it's all at one site. So these first two
games are at Minute May Park, and if there is
a third game, that game would be at Minute May
Park tomorrow if that happens, if there is a game three,
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but the Astros have to win to force a game three. Meanwhile,
Kansas City and Baltimore are getting ready to start Game
number two of their series that starts here really in
about ten minutes. The Royals winning Game one one to nothing,
so they lead the series one game to nine, then
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at six point thirty this evening or Mets and Brewers,
And then at seven thirty tonight are the Braves and
the Podres going for that? Do you have a favorite
baseball team? By the way, I do? Yeah? Which one isn't?
Do you want to guess first? Well, isn't your favorite?
Did I hear one morning on when it was the
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hard Knox life before what it is now morphed into
with the addition of Mark Henry to the program is
now in the morning kick call? But didn't I hear
you say that your favorite NFL team is New England
the Patriots. That is correct? Do you have a background
in in the New England area in the northeast? Did
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you just take did you just glom onto the Patriots
because it was easy to bandwagon them because they were winners?
Speaker 5 (17:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
In about fifth grade or so? Okay, so like two
thousand and four or something like that. Yeah, make me
feel little, Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
All my friends were playing a pee peewee football while
I was running track and they all played for the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Oh okay.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
And then the high school I was supposed to go
to before they rezoned everything, their mascot was the Patriots.
I went to Google, and I was like, oh, I
wonder if there's a football team for the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
There it is that's might and you happen to get
them right in their wheelhouse when they were winning Super Bowls. Yes, okay,
all right, no, I can respect that. I respect a
kid locking into it team. I did that with the
Dodgers when I was a kid because my dad used
to tell me stories of the Yankees versus the Dodgers.
My dad was a Yankees fan and he went to
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a couple of World Series games in the early fifties
when the Dodgers played the Yankees. And my favorite color
back then when I was a kid was blue, and
the first package of baseball cards opened, it was Bill
Russell the Dodgers short style. So I was locked in then,
so they yet have been forever. You know, as kids,
we tend to lock in on teams, but over time,
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I guess people get kind of frustrated if their teams
have a stretch of losing. That's true. My oldest son,
when he was a kid, was a Jaguars fan, and
that was colors and logos, and they were pretty good
back Fred Taylor, Mark Brunell had a couple of AFC
Championship game appears. Then he went through this long dry
spell being awful. So he just decided, I'm changing my
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favorite team to the Cowboys because I love I said,
you're letting yourself in for a lot of heartbreak. So
he became a Cowboy fan, and he's really a big
Cowboy fan. My younger son was originally a Tennessee Titans
fan because of Vince Young, but then when Vince left
and the Titans fell off, he swapped to the Packers
and he's been a Packer fan. I don't know how
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people just switch teams like that. I couldn't do it.
I couldn't do it. But I know some people get
tired of a team losing and say I'm out on him.
Why should I devote my energies to supporting a team
that consistently lose. This is a question, by the way,
the Cowboys fans ask themselves annually for almost thirty years,
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that Cameron Parker, a producer regular producer of this program,
is having his own self examination as a Cowboys fan.
That's why he's not watching them this year at all
at all, unless they reach the NFC Championship he watched
him in the preseason just to see how the rosters
come together. But he told us after they lost to
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the Packers last January in the playoffs, he said, I'm
done with him. I said, are you done with a fan? No,
there's still my team. I'm done watching them for now.
Wow at the foot out the door. Yeah yeah, yeah.
So there's some self examination going on here as a
Cowboys fan. Now, the man for whom you produce in
the morning, Mike Hardball Harch, he's a long suffering Cowboys fan. Correct, longtime,
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long time, by fifty years of it. Okay, well that's
like me with the Rams. You know, went through a
lot of Leaneers now, uh Kurt uh Yeah. But it
predates that he goes all the way back when I
was nine years old. In those days, what kids used
to do is we would write letters to pro football
and baseball and basketball teams asking for autograph pictures if
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you can get them. And I sent off several to
different teams. The only team that responds the Rams, and
I got this eight by ten black and white glossy
photo autograph the quarterback Roman Gabriel. A champ never quits.
Roman Gabriel probably immedia relations or PR person actually did that,
but and signed his name. But it didn't matter. I
was hooked in on the Rams day in nineteen sixty nine.
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They started that year eleven and oh and ended up
losing in the first round of the playoffs. But I
was hopelessly drawn into being a Rams fan with through
a lot of heartbreak in the seventies and then didn't
see him win a Super Bowl until they were in
Saint Louis. But I let my fandom follow the jersey
to Saint Louis actually win the several games in Saint Louis,
including the Super Bowl year and and then and and
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stayed with him and that's when Kurt Warner was playing
for them, and then following him back to LA and
going through some lean times right now because of all
the injuries, and they don't be good right now. But
you you just got your sid. I feel like, I know, hey, yeah,
they won a Super Bowl three years ago, so I'm
I'm okay for a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah, That's how
I was with the Dodgers winning one in eighty eight.
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But I'm going to tell you, by the time I
got the twenty twenty, I was like, I come on.
So they finally broke through in one one, so hopefully
they can do it again this year. So anyway, nothing,
It's unusual when your favorite teams, uh, when they let
you down as not unusual when they finally went And
I've said this, I said this after the Rams win
the Super Bowl. I said after the Dodgers won the
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World Series. Every sports fan, every one in the United States,
every American sports fan who is a real dedicated fan
of eighteen should get to experience at least one time
in their lifetime their team winning a world championship. Oh definitely,
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you know, as a reward for that. Now, you never
did tell me you're your favorite baseball team, the Red Sox. Well,
that makes sense. And my youngest son is a Red
Sox fan because his first two t ball teams and
little league team were Red Sox or Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So you've gotten a chance to see them win multiple titles,
which is funny since he went eighty six years without
winning one and then two thousand and four, in two
thousand and seven and thirteen and eighteen. You know, so
you got a chance to see them win multip over
and over. Yeah. Yeah, So it's been nice. You've had
an embarrassment of riches there all right, more coming up,
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will update the baseball for you. Going on with the
playoffs here on Sports Radio Am thirteen D Here on
this yacht Rock Wednesday. Astros with a golden opportunity right now.
John Singleman at the plate. The bases are loaded and
nobody out for Houston in the bottom of the seventh inning,
and the Astros just got the tying run home. There
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was a tried for a force of the plate off
a hot smash and they couldn't hold it. So the
Astros have tie it, tied it. The bases are still
loaded and there's still nobody out. So here's the opportunity
for the Astros to bounce back. We'll keep you updated
on that. Orioles and Royals just now getting started. When
you hear from long worn men's basketball coach Rodney Terry,
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this was from the media availability yesterday and one of
the things that we asked Rodney about was injury updates.
Tremont Mark, who is the transfer who had been at
Arkansas and an excellent player, had had to fight through
some injury. But it looks like he is very much
on the man in. Nick Cody is a guy, a
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freshman coming in that they say they're doubt not going
to rush. But here's Rodnie Terry talking about those two guys.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Yeah, you know, Trey mant is one of the you know,
he got nicked up Ernie uh and uh in in
in our workouts to start last week. And uh had
just a really just my mild kind of growing area
a little bit and everything. But he's coming along right now.
Training staff has done a great job working with him.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Uh. We look to have him back in in.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Forll tilt here over the next couple of days. Uh,
nothing major with him and stuff. He's played a lot
of basketball and and things, but we need to get
him out there and get used to playing with his teammates.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
But but we looked to have him here shortly. Uh.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Nick Cody has made a lot of progress. He's a
guy again, a young player that has a high ceiling.
We're not gonna rush him back. He had surgery uh
in February, and and uh we're gonna we're gonna play
the long game with him and at the short game.
So so we have the luxury kind of doing that
right now a little bit. But getting him stronger. Uh,
and just he's really taking out of.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Time with him. Haven't been around these guys. So that's
that's a one bit of sound right there. We'll let
you know. Also, the Asters are now taking a lead.
Jose Altuve with a sacrifice five is a pop up
deep in foul territory down the first baseline, but it
allowed the time run to score from third. So Houston
now has its first lead of the postseason. And the
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young man job, the rookie that so much excitement about him,
he's the one that had the struggle in the inning
now and he is out of the ball game right now.
Houston has the lead as they bat with one out
of runners on the corners in the bottom of the
seventh inning, it is two to one. The Astros lead
the Tigers. Now. One other piece of sound for Brodney Terry.
And this was a question that I actually asked him
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yesterday because Ronnie mentioned when somebody somebody asked him. I
think it was our friend Thomas Jones of the Austin
American Statesman who asked him, you know, what are your
impressions here? And he goes, well, I've been with these
guys for three months though, it's not early presents for me,
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he said, it'd be more like for you. But as
a follow up to that, later I asked him, I said,
because you've been around these guys several months now, it
has anyone progressed or accelerated their development a little faster
than perhaps you might have anticipated to be as it
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was yesterday on the first of October. Originally, well, I.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Think you know even you know, last year, you guy,
I saw a great version of Kendall Weaver, you know
from from a guy who came in and made winning
plays to help us win games, especially from the defensive
side of the ball. But as the season continued to
go and we got deeper in the conference play, we
asked him to score the ball a little bit more
as well driving the basketball, you know, shooting the ball
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when you're open. I thought he did a great job
attack in this spring, in this summer. I mean, he's
a very confident player right now, and and and a
guy that's gonna keep a lot of defense honest right now.
In terms of scoring the basketball, I mean, he had
twelve points a game and in NC tournament played for
us last year, you know, so he was a guy
that that that stepped up and scored for us as well.
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So I look for him to be a guy that's
more offensive minded. We know what he's gonna do defensive wise,
and the effort that he's gonna give us, multiple efforts
he's gonna give us, Uh out there on the floor.
You know what I'm thinking of anyone? I think, you know,
Devon Pryor has made a lot of progress as a
young player. He's still just scratching the surface on how
good he's really gonna be.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
But but a good young player who you know, has
had a full year with us now didn't have a
summer last year. He's gotten stronger. Uh and uh, you
know he's a guy that has a very high center
as a as a young player.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
All Right, So there it is. Some comments from Rodney Tabor.
Will have some more from RT coming up next hour,
uh and some more from Longbarns head coach Steve Arqisian.
The bottom of the seventh is now over. The Tigers
got the final out there, but the Astros have taken
the lead two runs in the last of the seventh
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and Houston is on top by a score of two
to one. And again the Astros have to win that
game in order to force a third game tomorrow. Meanwhile,
Kansas City jumped on top of Baltimore again. You know,
they won game one yesterday with getting just one run
and that was on an RBI single on the top
of the sixth inning from Bobby Witt Junior. Yesterday. That
(28:33):
happened today. The Royals have wasted no time as they
got an RBI single in the top of the first
inning and as a result of that, they now have
the lead. It is one to nothing off that Benny
Pasquentino had the RBI single to put Kansas City in front.
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It's won nothing the Royals and if they win that game,
that series ends in Baltimore and they would move on
to New York to take on the Yankees. Winner of
this Houston Detroit series will then travel to I'm trying
to remember who's the Cleveland to take on the Guardians,
who get a bye. So the winner, the winner of
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this series between the Astros and the Tigers would take
on Cleveland. In the American League Division Series, the Yankees
face the winner of Baltimore and Kansas City, and then
in the National League that Mets Brewers series winner will
travel to Philadelphia in the Division Series this weekend against
the Phillies. The Padres Brave Series winner will take on
the Dodgers beginning Saturday night in Los Angeles. We'll be
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back to wrap up hour number two of the program
here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of
the IRT Radio app Again eyebrow raising results happening so
far in Major League Baseball in the playoffs and the
Wildcard so the only thing, the only one that has
not been any kind of real surprise, has been the
(30:04):
one in San Diego. The Padres shut out the Braves
last night four to nothing. Fernando Tattis Junior at a
monstrous home run in the game. Michael Kelly pitched really
well at the start for the Padres. It will be
hard to beat. Gene Watson, you know, our MLB insider
from the Chicago White Sox front office, joined us on
the program yesterday. He picked the potteryis to win the
World Series, all of it. He picked him to win
(30:28):
the Wildcard series of the Braves. He picked them to
beat the Dodgers in the Division Series and then to
beat the Phillies in the National League Championship Series. And
then he said the San Diego Padres would win the
World Series over the Cleveland Guardians. He thinks the Guardians.
And again, the Guardians get the winner of this Detroit
(30:48):
Houston series. And again, if the Tigers find a way
to win this thing, and it's two to two in
the eighth right now, and they've got two runners on
with two outs, including the go ahead running and scoring
position at second, Ryan Presley's out of the pen. Now
for Houston, if they find a way to get the
lead in this and now the bases are loaded on
a walk. If they find a way to get the lead,
(31:08):
and then they win that series, you'd have one of
the favorites, one of the hotter teams going into the postseason.
Houston out and too straight at home. But it's not
done yet. There are two outs in the inning and
there's going to be a pitching change there at minute
they park. The Astros have to win to force a
final game tomorrow, so that that has to happen. And
(31:34):
then and Josh Hader I think is coming out of
the Houston pen. And then same thing with Baltimore. Baltimore
was one of the hotter teams. They had slumped a
little bit and then got hotting in right toward the end.
Kansas City had done the exact same thing after having
this incredible season, what with Kansas City losing over one
hundred games last year and a great season this year
(31:57):
for the Royals to get to the Wild Round. And
we'll see what happens in that series in Baltimore and again,
if they win one more than they go on to
New York. So now we go on. We get ready
to go on to the next next hour of the program.
(32:18):
We got one more hour of the program to bring you,
and when we get going in this final hour of
the program, we'll be joined relatively early in the hour
by the play by play voice of the Houston Texans,
(32:40):
Mark Vandermere. He'll join us. Well, here's some more from
Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarkeesian. We will also care
more from Rodney Terry coming up, and we'll keep you
updated on these baseball playoff games going on as well. Listen,
you only got me for one more hour of the
rest of the week because of in fact, I'll be
(33:00):
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hour of the show if you come, and so that's
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Third and final hour of the program here on sports
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hour of the program, the Updating the baseball for you
right now. Houston and Detroit tied it to Tiger's batting
with the bases loaded and two outs on the top
(34:45):
of the eighth inning. Most of the scoring has happened
late in this contest. In fact, a basis loaded walk?
Is that what? It was? A basis loaded walk issued
by Josh Is it well? I said, no, I guess
it was just time called out of that. So the
base is still loaded with two outs. Yeah, it was
a basis loaded walk, and the Tigers have taken the
(35:06):
lead again. It's three to two. Josh Hater just issued
a basis loaded walk with two outs in the eight
Spencer Torklesen drew the walk and has just gone the
first base, and Detroy has now gone back in front
of Houston. It is three to two. Is the Tiger's
bat in the top of the eighth inning with two outs,
and that against Josh Hater, the closer. So that's what's
happened in this game. I say it was a basis
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loaded walk torkles and went down the first I guess
it just loaded the bases there and the graphic headed
walks on the bases are still two two. Sorry and
mena Panicastros fans there watching on a very very small
monitor and it didn't have the out UH indicator listed
on there. They do now it's still just two two.
It's not a three to two Bogging it's two two.
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The bases are loaded now though, as Josh Hater issued
a two out walk, so Tiger's still batting two to two.
Top of the eight two outs. Kansas City continues to
leave Baltimore. It's one to nothing as the Royals lead
the Oriols. That's in the top of the second inning,
and that contest at the Oriel Park at Camden Yards,
So we'll keep you updated on those. Walmart's head coach
(36:13):
Steve Sarkisian took part in the SEC teleconference today and
one of the questions that he was asked was about
the thing about learning to play with emotion but not
play emotion is It's something we've heard sark mentioned quite
a bit in the past. He says, we want our
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guys to play with emotion, but we don't want them
to play emotionally, and he explained how he came into
that mindset. Like with so many other things, all roads
lead back to Nick Saban.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
I had a hard time putting it into words. Coach
Saban more eloquently used this term that I'm referencing that
I kind of took with me because it really resonated
with me. I didn't know how to say it, but
I knew and then once he said it the way
that he said it, like I said, it resonated with
me and I'll kind of carried it with me ever since.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Okay, all right, that was That was one thing, and
then one other question he was asked. And is a
lot of experience in this, and it's all about the
backup quarterback. When Sartan played at BYU, really, even when
he played at El Camuno Community College in California, he
had been a backup quarterback and then and then had
(37:28):
a great sophomore season. Then he went to BYU and
rolled in initially as a backup and then became the
starter and had a great finish to his collegiate career
at BYU. UH since he has been the head coach
at Texas, he has had to turn to the backup
quarterback on several occasions. That has happened as well. So
(37:51):
because of that, it has been a situation where he's
you know, you think about it when he had had
some card on back and Casey Thompson was there and
all of that sort of thing. And of course since
Quinn Yours has been the starter, he's had to turn
to the backup quarterback, but that was due to injury,
Malik Murphy having to come on for Quinn the last
(38:15):
couple of seasons, and then of course earlier the season
arch Manning having to step in when Quinn was injured.
So he was asked about that and about getting the
backup quarterbacks reps so that they can be well prepared
for the eventuality if he has to go to a
backup quarterback.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
And when I was a starter, I never wanted the
backup to coming to the game, even for a play.
And I remember my senior year of college, I have
been banged up and the coaches wanted to run a
quarterback draw. Honey, you're not. They called the play, and
they called the play and I scored a touchdown. So
(38:55):
I've got respect for a guy who's the starting quarterback
and the rhythm that it's needed to play with. So
now that's not something I've ever entertained.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Okay, So there it is, and some thoughts there from
Longhorn's head coach Steve Sarkishan. Okay, in Houston, it has
been broken open, at least for the moment. A big
two out bases clearing double by Pinch hitter andy A
(39:29):
Bonyez has cleared off the bases and the Tigers have
taken a five to two lead on the Astros. Astros
just recorded the final out of the inning, but at
Bonyees with a bass clearing double to score three runs,
and the Astros are down to six outs left in
their season right now, going to the bottom of the eight.
Tigers up five to two, having one game one yesterday
(39:50):
three to one. We'll keep you updated on that, all right.
Coming up next, we'll visit with the play by play
voice of the Houston Texans, Mark vandermir to talk about
the Texans and their battles in the AFC South. That's
next when we continue here on this Wednesday afternoon on
Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app.
Updating the baseball going on right now. Astros and Tigers
are scoreless as the Astros bats with the leadoff man aboard.
I said that, and he's now forced out at second.
Tigers weren't able to get the double play, and in
fact the man sliding in the second once a review,
he thinks that the out wasn't recorded, even though the
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umpire says it happened on the transfer as Spencer Gats
was pulling the ball out of the glove. So I
don't know if they're going to review that or not.
But anyway, it is scoreless between the Tigers and the
Astros in Game two. Yeah, there's no doubt it. It
was on the transfer. Looking at a replay there, so
one out will be recorded and the Astros will still
(00:44):
have a runner at first base with one out. We'll
keep you updated on the baseball the other the other
game getting ready to start Baltimore and Kansas City. Detroit
is now making a pitching change with a runner at
first in one out, so we'll see how that goes.
No score and that is in the bottom half of
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the fifth inning. Tiger's winning yesterday three to one behind
Tarik Skuball, who's proven was this year anyway, the best
starting pitcher in all of baseball League won Baseball's Pitching
Triple Crown wins E ra A and strikeouts. So the
Astros backed into a corner and they have to figure
(01:27):
out from there. All right, let's hear from long orange
Head football coach Steve Sarkisia. Now this is going to
be from the SEC teleconference. Remember Sark did his news
conference on Monday. Because this is an open date week
on the schedule. They're bye week on the schedule. There
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are no more media availabilities local for Sark Like normally
on Thursdays he does a media zoom with the local
there's player availabilities, none of that stuff on this open date.
Only the news conference sat on Monday. However, the SEC
has a man Data teleconference where every coach is on
it every week regardless of whether they're playing or not.
(02:11):
So that applied to Texas also applied to Oklahoma. Remember
the Sooners are going through an open date on the
schedule this week as well, leading up to the two
teams meeting in Dallas a week from the Saturday in
the All state Red River Rivalry matchup, and our coverage
will begin at eleven thirty from the Fairgrounds of the
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State of text We'll actually be up there on Friday
with coverage and then from the Fairgrounds on Saturday morning
with Longhorns game Day coverage with an inclusive of Cameron
Parker and Mike Hardbollharge and Mark Henry from the fairgrounds
at the State Fair of Texas. So they'll get to
(02:53):
sit out there in the open while the Sooner fans
walk by and flip them off and stuff like that.
That's a regular, regular behavior there, and I should point
out they are longer fans who go buy and flip
off the Oklahoma game day broadcast teams that are on
the on the field, and this is part of that
whole deal.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I can remember for years, and I do mean years,
if you asked uh Texas people. One of the one
of the humorous things, whether it was Mac Brown or
long worn players, they talk about riding in on that
bus and seeing these like eighty something year old grandma's
flipping them off from the fairgrounds or little kids flipping
(03:32):
them off for the fair grounds. And then I would
go up and I'd cover the Oklahoma news conference and
Bob Stoops was the coach back then, and he would say,
yeah that Texas, oklah th oh you Texas week is
something pretty special. Get there and those fans are, you know,
their behaviors pretty special. They're they're flipping the off and
telling you who's number one and all that. So they
experienced it also from their side as well. It's part
(03:54):
of the victory. All that happens between Longhorns and Sooners.
It just works that way. That's just how that is.
But anyway, it's an open date this week for Boath
Texas and Oklahoma. So Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarkisian
asked for some opening thoughts and comments about his team
coming out of the win over Mississippi State and going
(04:16):
into the bye week.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, it's always great going into a bye coming off
with victory, you know, having started the season the way
we had.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It's good to be undefeated.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But naturally you endure some of the bumps and bruises
and things that that all teams endure. And so I
think the buy is coming out a really good time
for us to get some guys healthy, to refresh out
of our minds and our bodies, to get ready for
another kind of three game block in the season here
coming up here in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Now, because this is an open date on the schedule
and a bye week for Texas, the time that they
were going to keep Sark on the SEC Teleconference was
going to be short. It wasn't going to be very long.
So I don't know if he was puzzled by the
answered the question. Fine, but remember this is the SEC
(05:10):
Teleconference is a national call, so writers, in broadcasters, media
from across the country can dial in and they can
ask a question. So they're all welcome to do that.
They can do that. As you might imagine, the preponderance
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of the media participating in this thing are going to
be from SEC markets and outlets, and that includes in
the Deep South, and it certainly include the state of Alabama.
So the first question that Sart got was not about
his football team, but it was about the team they
(05:54):
beat last year and the quarterback they beat last year,
Jalen Milroe of Alabama, who, of course Jalen is native Texan,
played at Katie Tompkins but and had originally committed to
Texas before quinn Ewers transferred in and then Milroe changed
his commitment ended up going to Alabama and Milroe has
really progressed and had a big game last Saturday night
in Tuscal loose against Georgia. So Sark was asked for
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his thoughts going all the way back when he was
recruiting Milroe, when he was still on the Alabama staff
and what he has seen Jalen Milroe accomplish and progress
in his time as Alabama's quarterback.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, we had Jalen in camp at Alabama and uh,
great kid, great parents, obviously got athleticism was there, the
arm talent was there.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I've give him a lot of credit. You know, he
really working with developed into the revers the player. You know,
he just doesn't rely on athleticism. He's a great de
ball passer, extend plans in his arm, extend plenties, use
his legs.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
They use him for direct run.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
So, uh, you know, you haven't a win thinking ki
it could be early on in his high school career
and then to watch it kind.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Of come to fruition.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I guess I'm happy for him, but I also validate
some of the things that you see and that you're
looking for and the next prop of guys coming up.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
That's a good point too. Because those were the things
that they were looking for from Jalen Milroe. And remember
he had his stumbles and growing pains early on, and
he drew a lot of heat after Texas beeed Alabama
in that game last year in September in Tuscalusa. But
he's come a long way since. He helped guide Alabama
to the College Football Playoff, the SEC championship in College
(07:35):
Football Playoff berth and now he's the quarterback of the
number one team in the country and the AP pole
number two in the coaches, Texas number two and the
AP number one in the coaches. It's that close right now.
We'll hear more from Logrorns head coach Steve Sarkashan a
little later on in the program. We've got some other
topics we'll get to. We'll update the baseball for you
as well as we continue here on this Wednesday afternoon
(07:56):
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and I've talked about that. We think he kind of
surrendered into it a little quickly, so maybe something was
(08:35):
going on there. I don't know. I mean he has
a rock star so and this is another guy whose
hair is amazed you, right, yes, when you look at
the three guys from Ambrosia, right, all four of them
ross off. Ambrosia sounds like it's one person. No, it's
it's a bad it's a bad from the seventies and eighties.
And they're performing in Arlington tomorrow, and since Linda and
(08:58):
I had to go up to the Dallas Forward area anyway,
and they're performing at the Arlington Music Hall, which is
kind of like going to the Paramount here. It's a
small venue, a theater. And she said, oh, look, I
was like, you want to go to see Mbrosia? She said,
because I'm a yacht rock fan. Although Ambrosia is not
(09:18):
my favorite, but I don't dislike them. So she was
interested in him, so I said, okay, so we got tickets,
so we're gonna go see Ambrosia tomorrow. And I that's
part of it, So that's why I wanted. That's exciting.
We see a lot of shows together since we've been
together since twenty eighteen, and I my first wife. She
(09:42):
also liked music, and we went to some concerts together.
And next week will be eight years since she passed away,
so and then I was two years beyond that before
Lynda and I bumped in each other at a going
to see that we went to see an old friend
(10:03):
play and as the first time i'd seen her in
I think since nineteen ninety four, so it'd been like, yeah,
I think it was twenty six years or twenty four year,
twenty whatever. It was twenty four years I guess, since
we'd even seen each other or something like that. And
then it just kind of took off from there. And
(10:25):
we had dated back in the early eighties for about
a year and a half, split up state friends. She
was at my wedding, I was, Me and my wife
were at her wedding in ninety four. She and her
husband had decided to divorce and then I just happened
to randomly run into her, and it started from there well,
once we got together, and then when she moved down here.
(10:47):
Because she's a special ed counselor and was also a
licensed professional counselor, so she has a client list that
she counsels does mental health counseling, we started going to
these concerts and it was because I had gotten to
(11:07):
the point of my life where there were some people
that I had and bands and artists I either had
never seen before and always wanted to or wanted to see,
or it was a band or artist that in my
college days in the early eighties, I worked the concerts
selling T shirts for the band or for the arena.
(11:28):
And I did that for four years and in the
early eighties, and so I used to tell people that
I worked everything from ac DC to Lawrence Welk, which
was pretty much true. I wo had worked a C
d C concert or worked, Prince worked, Prince Yeah, Prince
Wow right. It was the Purple Rain tour. Wow went
(11:49):
on to her journey in eighty three in the Frontiers tour.
Worked Frank Sinatra, Barry Manilo, worked All Kazizy Top All
met Doobie Brothers, Rolling Stones, all of these, all of
these great bands, Bob Seeger so did all these, and
now years later, having put myself through college by working
(12:12):
those shows, I wanted to have the opportunity to see
some of these because when you're working it, you don't
really you see glimpses of the show. You walk in
during a song, they walk back out to your stand
while your partner watches the stand, and then you swap off.
So I wanted to see some So I just happened
to mention because my broadcast partner for Long Worn Basketball,
(12:32):
Eddie Orrin, and we were going to go see Bob Seger,
who was on his last tour, and then Eddie couldn't
do it, he had a work related conflict. So Linda
and I by then had started to see each other,
and I said, do you want to go see this concert?
It's Bob Seeker and she's like, yeah, I'll go. She didn't,
and then when she went, she loved it. She says,
(12:52):
oh I remember that song, and oh I remember that song,
and oh I remember that song. I said, I got
a whole file folder of of shows like that that
I want to see coming up. If you're up for it,
she said, yeah, So then it became Eric Clapton while
we went to that. Uh, then we saw a little
river band in a casino then and then saw the
(13:17):
Boss Gags at at at the Paramount. She gave me
as a Christmas present because she knew how much of
a Billy Joel fan was, and she was somewhat of
a fan. She gave me two tickets to see Billy
Joel at Fenway Park. At Fenway, Yeah, so I said,
I said, it was a Christmas gift, she said, and
opened it up. Two tickets Bill Joseah, Wow, can I
take anybody? She says, as long as I'm the other anyway, Say,
(13:40):
I was just joking. So we went. We saw Billy
Joel there and uh and so we've seen a lot
of concerts. It's the old Master, Herb Albert, who is
eighty nine years old and still touring. We saw him
last year. We've seen it, seen him a couple of times.
Play that trumpet was great, that's what all the music
(14:00):
and inconceivable that it's Herb Alpert and Tijuana brass stuff.
So we've seen a lot of concerts and I even
had tickets for Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks at Jerry
World in Arlington. Couldn't go because one of Stevie Nicks's
band members had COVID and so they postponed the show,
and when they rescheduled the show, I couldn't go. So
(14:21):
she went and took a friend of her. So I've
kind of, you know, pulled her into the concert thing
and then for her because she always wanted to see
Joni Mitchell, one of the great rock legends of the
early seventies. The day after The Long Words played Georgia year,
We're flying to Los Angeles. I'm going to see Joni
(14:41):
Mitchell at the Hollywood Bowl and then come back on
a red eye that night, talking me back in position
the next day when we have Sarks press conference to
get ready for Vanderbilt. So there's that. So we're we've
become big concert goers to the extent if we see
other other bands and every things like oh, hey, maybe
we want to go say and you know, and so yeah,
tomorrow night it'll be Ambrosia. We'll go see Ambrosia tomorrow night. Hey.
(15:07):
Update from Houston. The Tigers are now up one nothing
on the astross Houston Bats in the bottom of the
sixth inning. Top of the sixth inning, Parker Meadows with
a solo homer to put Detroit in front. So the anxiety,
you might say, for Astros fans might be ratcheting up
(15:29):
a bit now, although they jord On Alvarez is just
trying to walk, so they have the tying run on
and that's just the lead off the bottom of the
sixth inning, So still a lot of baseball left to
be played in that one. But the Astros are down
one nothing in the sixth inning to Detroit, and again,
because the Tigers won Game one yesterday, if they win
(15:50):
this one this afternoon, it's over. Remember, the Wildcard Series
is just a best of three, best two out of three,
and it's all at one site. So these first two
games are at Minute May Park, and if there is
a third game, that game would be at Minute May
Park tomorrow if that happens, if there is a game three,
(16:12):
but the Astros have to win to force a game three. Meanwhile,
Kansas City and Baltimore are getting ready to start Game
number two of their series that starts here really in
about ten minutes. The Royals winning Game one one to nothing,
so they lead the series one game to nine, then
(16:33):
at six point thirty this evening or Mets and Brewers,
And then at seven thirty tonight are the Braves and
the Podres going for that? Do you have a favorite
baseball team? By the way, I do? Yeah? Which one isn't?
Do you want to guess first? Well, isn't your favorite?
Did I hear one morning on when it was the
(16:55):
hard Knox life before what it is now morphed into
with the addition of Mark Henry to the program is
now in the morning kick call? But didn't I hear
you say that your favorite NFL team is New England
the Patriots. That is correct? Do you have a background
in in the New England area in the northeast? Did
(17:17):
you just take did you just glom onto the Patriots
because it was easy to bandwagon them because they were winners?
Speaker 5 (17:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
In about fifth grade or so? Okay, so like two
thousand and four or something like that. Yeah, make me
feel little, Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
All my friends were playing a pee peewee football while
I was running track and they all played for the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Oh okay.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
And then the high school I was supposed to go
to before they rezoned everything, their mascot was the Patriots.
I went to Google, and I was like, oh, I
wonder if there's a football team for the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
There it is that's might and you happen to get
them right in their wheelhouse when they were winning Super Bowls. Yes, okay,
all right, no, I can respect that. I respect a
kid locking into it team. I did that with the
Dodgers when I was a kid because my dad used
to tell me stories of the Yankees versus the Dodgers.
My dad was a Yankees fan and he went to
(18:08):
a couple of World Series games in the early fifties
when the Dodgers played the Yankees. And my favorite color
back then when I was a kid was blue, and
the first package of baseball cards opened, it was Bill
Russell the Dodgers short style. So I was locked in then,
so they yet have been forever. You know, as kids,
we tend to lock in on teams, but over time,
(18:29):
I guess people get kind of frustrated if their teams
have a stretch of losing. That's true. My oldest son,
when he was a kid, was a Jaguars fan, and
that was colors and logos, and they were pretty good
back Fred Taylor, Mark Brunell had a couple of AFC
Championship game appears. Then he went through this long dry
spell being awful. So he just decided, I'm changing my
(18:50):
favorite team to the Cowboys because I love I said,
you're letting yourself in for a lot of heartbreak. So
he became a Cowboy fan, and he's really a big
Cowboy fan. My younger son was originally a Tennessee Titans
fan because of Vince Young, but then when Vince left
and the Titans fell off, he swapped to the Packers
and he's been a Packer fan. I don't know how
(19:11):
people just switch teams like that. I couldn't do it.
I couldn't do it. But I know some people get
tired of a team losing and say I'm out on him.
Why should I devote my energies to supporting a team
that consistently lose. This is a question, by the way,
the Cowboys fans ask themselves annually for almost thirty years,
(19:32):
that Cameron Parker, a producer regular producer of this program,
is having his own self examination as a Cowboys fan.
That's why he's not watching them this year at all
at all, unless they reach the NFC Championship he watched
him in the preseason just to see how the rosters
come together. But he told us after they lost to
(19:54):
the Packers last January in the playoffs, he said, I'm
done with him. I said, are you done with a fan? No,
there's still my team. I'm done watching them for now.
Wow at the foot out the door. Yeah yeah, yeah.
So there's some self examination going on here as a
Cowboys fan. Now, the man for whom you produce in
the morning, Mike Hardball Harch, he's a long suffering Cowboys fan. Correct, longtime,
(20:16):
long time, by fifty years of it. Okay, well that's
like me with the Rams. You know, went through a
lot of Leaneers now, uh Kurt uh Yeah. But it
predates that he goes all the way back when I
was nine years old. In those days, what kids used
to do is we would write letters to pro football
and baseball and basketball teams asking for autograph pictures if
(20:39):
you can get them. And I sent off several to
different teams. The only team that responds the Rams, and
I got this eight by ten black and white glossy
photo autograph the quarterback Roman Gabriel. A champ never quits.
Roman Gabriel probably immedia relations or PR person actually did that,
but and signed his name. But it didn't matter. I
was hooked in on the Rams day in nineteen sixty nine.
(21:00):
They started that year eleven and oh and ended up
losing in the first round of the playoffs. But I
was hopelessly drawn into being a Rams fan with through
a lot of heartbreak in the seventies and then didn't
see him win a Super Bowl until they were in
Saint Louis. But I let my fandom follow the jersey
to Saint Louis actually win the several games in Saint Louis,
including the Super Bowl year and and then and and
(21:23):
stayed with him and that's when Kurt Warner was playing
for them, and then following him back to LA and
going through some lean times right now because of all
the injuries, and they don't be good right now. But
you you just got your sid. I feel like, I know, hey, yeah,
they won a Super Bowl three years ago, so I'm
I'm okay for a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah, That's how
I was with the Dodgers winning one in eighty eight.
(21:43):
But I'm going to tell you, by the time I
got the twenty twenty, I was like, I come on.
So they finally broke through in one one, so hopefully
they can do it again this year. So anyway, nothing,
It's unusual when your favorite teams, uh, when they let
you down as not unusual when they finally went And
I've said this, I said this after the Rams win
the Super Bowl. I said after the Dodgers won the
(22:05):
World Series. Every sports fan, every one in the United States,
every American sports fan who is a real dedicated fan
of eighteen should get to experience at least one time
in their lifetime their team winning a world championship. Oh definitely,
(22:25):
you know, as a reward for that. Now, you never
did tell me you're your favorite baseball team, the Red Sox. Well,
that makes sense. And my youngest son is a Red
Sox fan because his first two t ball teams and
little league team were Red Sox or Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So you've gotten a chance to see them win multiple titles,
which is funny since he went eighty six years without
winning one and then two thousand and four, in two
thousand and seven and thirteen and eighteen. You know, so
you got a chance to see them win multip over
and over. Yeah. Yeah, So it's been nice. You've had
an embarrassment of riches there all right, more coming up,
(22:58):
will update the baseball for you. Going on with the
playoffs here on Sports Radio Am thirteen D Here on
this yacht Rock Wednesday. Astros with a golden opportunity right now.
John Singleman at the plate. The bases are loaded and
nobody out for Houston in the bottom of the seventh inning,
and the Astros just got the tying run home. There
(23:19):
was a tried for a force of the plate off
a hot smash and they couldn't hold it. So the
Astros have tie it, tied it. The bases are still
loaded and there's still nobody out. So here's the opportunity
for the Astros to bounce back. We'll keep you updated
on that. Orioles and Royals just now getting started. When
you hear from long worn men's basketball coach Rodney Terry,
(23:40):
this was from the media availability yesterday and one of
the things that we asked Rodney about was injury updates.
Tremont Mark, who is the transfer who had been at
Arkansas and an excellent player, had had to fight through
some injury. But it looks like he is very much
on the man in. Nick Cody is a guy, a
(24:01):
freshman coming in that they say they're doubt not going
to rush. But here's Rodnie Terry talking about those two guys.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Yeah, you know, Trey mant is one of the you know,
he got nicked up Ernie uh and uh in in
in our workouts to start last week. And uh had
just a really just my mild kind of growing area
a little bit and everything. But he's coming along right now.
Training staff has done a great job working with him.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Uh. We look to have him back in in.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Forll tilt here over the next couple of days. Uh,
nothing major with him and stuff. He's played a lot
of basketball and and things, but we need to get
him out there and get used to playing with his teammates.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
But but we looked to have him here shortly. Uh.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Nick Cody has made a lot of progress. He's a
guy again, a young player that has a high ceiling.
We're not gonna rush him back. He had surgery uh
in February, and and uh we're gonna we're gonna play
the long game with him and at the short game.
So so we have the luxury kind of doing that
right now a little bit. But getting him stronger. Uh,
and just he's really taking out of.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Time with him. Haven't been around these guys. So that's
that's a one bit of sound right there. We'll let
you know. Also, the Asters are now taking a lead.
Jose Altuve with a sacrifice five is a pop up
deep in foul territory down the first baseline, but it
allowed the time run to score from third. So Houston
now has its first lead of the postseason. And the
(25:24):
young man job, the rookie that so much excitement about him,
he's the one that had the struggle in the inning
now and he is out of the ball game right now.
Houston has the lead as they bat with one out
of runners on the corners in the bottom of the
seventh inning, it is two to one. The Astros lead
the Tigers. Now. One other piece of sound for Brodney Terry.
And this was a question that I actually asked him
(25:47):
yesterday because Ronnie mentioned when somebody somebody asked him. I
think it was our friend Thomas Jones of the Austin
American Statesman who asked him, you know, what are your
impressions here? And he goes, well, I've been with these
guys for three months though, it's not early presents for me,
(26:07):
he said, it'd be more like for you. But as
a follow up to that, later I asked him, I said,
because you've been around these guys several months now, it
has anyone progressed or accelerated their development a little faster
than perhaps you might have anticipated to be as it
(26:30):
was yesterday on the first of October. Originally, well, I.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Think you know even you know, last year, you guy,
I saw a great version of Kendall Weaver, you know
from from a guy who came in and made winning
plays to help us win games, especially from the defensive
side of the ball. But as the season continued to
go and we got deeper in the conference play, we
asked him to score the ball a little bit more
as well driving the basketball, you know, shooting the ball
(26:55):
when you're open. I thought he did a great job
attack in this spring, in this summer. I mean, he's
a very confident player right now, and and and a
guy that's gonna keep a lot of defense honest right now.
In terms of scoring the basketball, I mean, he had
twelve points a game and in NC tournament played for
us last year, you know, so he was a guy
that that that stepped up and scored for us as well.
(27:16):
So I look for him to be a guy that's
more offensive minded. We know what he's gonna do defensive wise,
and the effort that he's gonna give us, multiple efforts
he's gonna give us, Uh out there on the floor.
You know what I'm thinking of anyone? I think, you know,
Devon Pryor has made a lot of progress as a
young player. He's still just scratching the surface on how
good he's really gonna be.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
But but a good young player who you know, has
had a full year with us now didn't have a
summer last year. He's gotten stronger. Uh and uh, you
know he's a guy that has a very high center
as a as a young player.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
All Right, So there it is. Some comments from Rodney Tabor.
Will have some more from RT coming up next hour,
uh and some more from Longbarns head coach Steve Arqisian.
The bottom of the seventh is now over. The Tigers
got the final out there, but the Astros have taken
the lead two runs in the last of the seventh
(28:10):
and Houston is on top by a score of two
to one. And again the Astros have to win that
game in order to force a third game tomorrow. Meanwhile,
Kansas City jumped on top of Baltimore again. You know,
they won game one yesterday with getting just one run
and that was on an RBI single on the top
of the sixth inning from Bobby Witt Junior. Yesterday. That
(28:33):
happened today. The Royals have wasted no time as they
got an RBI single in the top of the first
inning and as a result of that, they now have
the lead. It is one to nothing off that Benny
Pasquentino had the RBI single to put Kansas City in front.
(28:53):
It's won nothing the Royals and if they win that game,
that series ends in Baltimore and they would move on
to New York to take on the Yankees. Winner of
this Houston Detroit series will then travel to I'm trying
to remember who's the Cleveland to take on the Guardians,
who get a bye. So the winner, the winner of
(29:16):
this series between the Astros and the Tigers would take
on Cleveland. In the American League Division Series, the Yankees
face the winner of Baltimore and Kansas City, and then
in the National League that Mets Brewers series winner will
travel to Philadelphia in the Division Series this weekend against
the Phillies. The Padres Brave Series winner will take on
the Dodgers beginning Saturday night in Los Angeles. We'll be
(29:39):
back to wrap up hour number two of the program
here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of
the IRT Radio app Again eyebrow raising results happening so
far in Major League Baseball in the playoffs and the
Wildcard so the only thing, the only one that has
not been any kind of real surprise, has been the
(30:04):
one in San Diego. The Padres shut out the Braves
last night four to nothing. Fernando Tattis Junior at a
monstrous home run in the game. Michael Kelly pitched really
well at the start for the Padres. It will be
hard to beat. Gene Watson, you know, our MLB insider
from the Chicago White Sox front office, joined us on
the program yesterday. He picked the potteryis to win the
World Series, all of it. He picked him to win
(30:28):
the Wildcard series of the Braves. He picked them to
beat the Dodgers in the Division Series and then to
beat the Phillies in the National League Championship Series. And
then he said the San Diego Padres would win the
World Series over the Cleveland Guardians. He thinks the Guardians.
And again, the Guardians get the winner of this Detroit
(30:48):
Houston series. And again, if the Tigers find a way
to win this thing, and it's two to two in
the eighth right now, and they've got two runners on
with two outs, including the go ahead running and scoring
position at second, Ryan Presley's out of the pen. Now
for Houston, if they find a way to get the
lead in this and now the bases are loaded on
a walk. If they find a way to get the lead,
(31:08):
and then they win that series, you'd have one of
the favorites, one of the hotter teams going into the postseason.
Houston out and too straight at home. But it's not
done yet. There are two outs in the inning and
there's going to be a pitching change there at minute
they park. The Astros have to win to force a
final game tomorrow, so that that has to happen. And
(31:34):
then and Josh Hader I think is coming out of
the Houston pen. And then same thing with Baltimore. Baltimore
was one of the hotter teams. They had slumped a
little bit and then got hotting in right toward the end.
Kansas City had done the exact same thing after having
this incredible season, what with Kansas City losing over one
hundred games last year and a great season this year
(31:57):
for the Royals to get to the Wild Round. And
we'll see what happens in that series in Baltimore and again,
if they win one more than they go on to
New York. So now we go on. We get ready
to go on to the next next hour of the program.
(32:18):
We got one more hour of the program to bring you,
and when we get going in this final hour of
the program, we'll be joined relatively early in the hour
by the play by play voice of the Houston Texans,
(32:40):
Mark Vandermere. He'll join us. Well, here's some more from
Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarkeesian. We will also care
more from Rodney Terry coming up, and we'll keep you
updated on these baseball playoff games going on as well. Listen,
you only got me for one more hour of the
rest of the week because of in fact, I'll be
(33:00):
out tomorrow on Friday, but we do have one more
hour of the show if you come, and so that's
coming your way. Here our number three of the program
right here on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone'm
where you can always listen to for free on the
iHeartRadio Act.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
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Speaker 1 (33:33):
Teen hundred the Zone.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Listen on the free iHeartRadio app for all your sports
podcasts and music. It's the Craig Wave Show with the
voice of the Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame broadcaster
Craig Way.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Third and final hour of the program here on sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone and Craig Way with you here.
Hopefully the producer Cameron Parker will be feeling better tomorrow.
I hurt his back and so we'll see how he
does and hopefully he'll be better. Also, Andrews m will
(34:23):
be on the program tomorrow'm mount tomorrow and Friday. But
we have Khalil Randall running things and keeping us on
the air of this afternoon, so we have one more
hour of the program, the Updating the baseball for you
right now. Houston and Detroit tied it to Tiger's batting
with the bases loaded and two outs on the top
(34:45):
of the eighth inning. Most of the scoring has happened
late in this contest. In fact, a basis loaded walk?
Is that what? It was? A basis loaded walk issued
by Josh Is it well? I said, no, I guess
it was just time called out of that. So the
base is still loaded with two outs. Yeah, it was
a basis loaded walk, and the Tigers have taken the
(35:06):
lead again. It's three to two. Josh Hater just issued
a basis loaded walk with two outs in the eight
Spencer Torklesen drew the walk and has just gone the
first base, and Detroy has now gone back in front
of Houston. It is three to two. Is the Tiger's
bat in the top of the eighth inning with two outs,
and that against Josh Hater, the closer. So that's what's
happened in this game. I say it was a basis
(35:30):
loaded walk torkles and went down the first I guess
it just loaded the bases there and the graphic headed
walks on the bases are still two two. Sorry and
mena Panicastros fans there watching on a very very small
monitor and it didn't have the out UH indicator listed
on there. They do now it's still just two two.
It's not a three to two Bogging it's two two.
(35:50):
The bases are loaded now though, as Josh Hater issued
a two out walk, so Tiger's still batting two to two.
Top of the eight two outs. Kansas City continues to
leave Baltimore. It's one to nothing as the Royals lead
the Oriols. That's in the top of the second inning,
and that contest at the Oriel Park at Camden Yards,
So we'll keep you updated on those. Walmart's head coach
(36:13):
Steve Sarkisian took part in the SEC teleconference today and
one of the questions that he was asked was about
the thing about learning to play with emotion but not
play emotion is It's something we've heard sark mentioned quite
a bit in the past. He says, we want our
(36:33):
guys to play with emotion, but we don't want them
to play emotionally, and he explained how he came into
that mindset. Like with so many other things, all roads
lead back to Nick Saban.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
I had a hard time putting it into words. Coach
Saban more eloquently used this term that I'm referencing that
I kind of took with me because it really resonated
with me. I didn't know how to say it, but
I knew and then once he said it the way
that he said it, like I said, it resonated with
me and I'll kind of carried it with me ever since.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Okay, all right, that was That was one thing, and
then one other question he was asked. And is a
lot of experience in this, and it's all about the
backup quarterback. When Sartan played at BYU, really, even when
he played at El Camuno Community College in California, he
had been a backup quarterback and then and then had
(37:28):
a great sophomore season. Then he went to BYU and
rolled in initially as a backup and then became the
starter and had a great finish to his collegiate career
at BYU. UH since he has been the head coach
at Texas, he has had to turn to the backup
quarterback on several occasions. That has happened as well. So
(37:51):
because of that, it has been a situation where he's
you know, you think about it when he had had
some card on back and Casey Thompson was there and
all of that sort of thing. And of course since
Quinn Yours has been the starter, he's had to turn
to the backup quarterback, but that was due to injury,
Malik Murphy having to come on for Quinn the last
(38:15):
couple of seasons, and then of course earlier the season
arch Manning having to step in when Quinn was injured.
So he was asked about that and about getting the
backup quarterbacks reps so that they can be well prepared
for the eventuality if he has to go to a
backup quarterback.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
And when I was a starter, I never wanted the
backup to coming to the game, even for a play.
And I remember my senior year of college, I have
been banged up and the coaches wanted to run a
quarterback draw. Honey, you're not. They called the play, and
they called the play and I scored a touchdown. So
(38:55):
I've got respect for a guy who's the starting quarterback
and the rhythm that it's needed to play with. So
now that's not something I've ever entertained.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Okay, So there it is, and some thoughts there from
Longhorn's head coach Steve Sarkishan. Okay, in Houston, it has
been broken open, at least for the moment. A big
two out bases clearing double by Pinch hitter andy A
(39:29):
Bonyez has cleared off the bases and the Tigers have
taken a five to two lead on the Astros. Astros
just recorded the final out of the inning, but at
Bonyees with a bass clearing double to score three runs,
and the Astros are down to six outs left in
their season right now, going to the bottom of the eight.
Tigers up five to two, having one game one yesterday
(39:50):
three to one. We'll keep you updated on that, all right.
Coming up next, we'll visit with the play by play
voice of the Houston Texans, Mark vandermir to talk about
the Texans and their battles in the AFC South. That's
next when we continue here on this Wednesday afternoon on
Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app.
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