October 30, 2024 • 11 mins
Get over the midweek hump with Craig Way and Cameron Parker on Wednesday's show! They discuss the Yankees' Game 4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers and look ahead to what's on today's show including Steve Sarkisian's media availability on the SEC Teleconference and Craig's report from the College Football Playoff webinar.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Wednesday, getting over the hump if that is indeed
your regular Wednesday doings. And if that's the case, we
hope you get over the hump and then get on
the down. He'll run to the weekend. If Wednesday for
you means your Monday, we'll hope it starts off well.
And if Wednesday's or Friday, well, good on you. I
hope that you enjoy the next couple of days. Good afternoon,
and welcome to the program here on Sports Radio AM
(00:21):
thirteen under the Zone. My name is Craig Way. I
thank you very much for joining us, and us, of
course includes the producer of this program. That would be
Cameron D. Parker. The D on the birth certificate stands
for Dallas, as in his favorite football team that he
refuses to watch except on highlights if at the occasion warrants.
(00:42):
He was named for the Dallas Cowboys by his father,
who is equally disgusted, although he does watch. He was
watching the other day. You just happen to notice, right
when you it's like hate watching. It's kind of weird
when he hate watches. Does he want to see them
do poorly?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I think so? Really, I think so. Now when I watch.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
If I do watch, I think I would have a
you know, I kind of want them to win, right
mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I think like I'll hear like him laughing and it's like, oh,
good play appid nope, fall start. Oh okay, that's that's
weird laughing again.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh yeah, no, Dak Prescott sacked for six yards, so
it's it's kind of a it's a weird, weird thing.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I just don't want to watch. He and the hen
wats to watch to make fun of it.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So, yeah, things are going greatest Cowboys fans, Craig, it's fantastic, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Fantastic, gloom and doom and all this. You know, if
he was hate watching. I know people who hate watch
their teams, but the reason they do it is, and
this is not going to apply to your dad or
your situation, the reason a lot of people hate watch
their favorite teams is they want to see them lose,
that the change will be made, usually with the head coach,
(01:52):
sometimes with the front office. We know that, you know,
while a change might be in the offing for head
coach of the Cowboys don't turn their season around, we
know there is no change coming in the front office.
That is abundantly clear, and we hear the reaffirmation of
it every week when we bring folks sound from Jerry Jones,
(02:14):
as we did yesterday, where he's all day in and
he's you know, or so he claimed, and so that's
where it is. And yesterday what came out of that
was that he believes all the pieces are there to
have a really good season and what do he say,
storybook turn this thing around. Yeah, he believes that. And
(02:36):
a lot of the national media who played some of
those sound bites on some of the national networks like
ESPN and Fox and some of the other ones, they
laugh at that. They're like, no, you don't have the
pieces because you didn't invest in the pieces other than
what you did with DAK and CD.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I'm mostly one of those people laughing exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Because you believe that also they haven't invested in that. Anyway,
we've got NFL to discuss. Certainly, we'll do that. And
because we're getting closer to not quite at but closer
to the midway mark of the season, speaking the midway
mark of the season, I know it kind of it
was one of those things. It was not intended to
(03:18):
be a comment to initiate shock value. It was not, however,
on Monday, when Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarkisian said
they're looking at this deal. We could wind up playing sixteen,
maybe even seventeen games. He goes, that means we're halfway
through right now. A lot of people go, wha wait,
what just now halfway eight games? Two thirds of the
(03:42):
way through the regular season. But depending on he said,
if we go, if we get to where we want
to go, meaning getting all the way to the national
championship game, yeah, it could wind up being as as
many as nine more games. You figure four in the
regular season. If it qualify for the SEC Championship, you
(04:03):
play that, then all right, so that's five and then
you get into the college football Playoff. Unless you get
a bye and you're in that five through twelve realm,
then that would mean as many as four more games
in order to try to play for a national championship.
So yeah, there could be as many as nine more
toward that end with a college football playoff. This is
(04:25):
gonna be the first of two days where we attempt
to get you a little closer to the impact and
meaning of what all goes into the college Football Playoff.
I know we've talked about it. You probably know the
initial breakdown and stuff. But here's where I'm going with this.
(04:46):
This morning, there was a webinar. That's another one of
those twenty first century terms, is a webinar. Anyway, there
was a webinar in and I was one of many
many media I think, invited to participate in it and did.
(05:06):
And the webinar was hosted by two people. One is
the brand new director of the college football Playoff, Richard
Clark Rich Clark, and he was kind of the lead
guy on it. The other guy on it is a
(05:28):
guy I've known for gosh forty years. I got Brett Daniels,
who was a media relations director at SMU, was in
their sports information right then. He worked with the Cowboys
for years during the Glory but he was like the
number two to rich Dalrymple for years with the Cowboys
during Jerry and Jimmy's time and then on throughout. Brett
(05:49):
was there for a long time. Brett works now pretty
much in that role as the chief lead guy, media
relations guy with a college football playoff. Brett really impressed
me on this webinar, how much of the intricacies. He knows.
There were some things even that were catching Richard Clark
a little bit unto wares, but Brett kind of helped
(06:10):
him out, said yeah, it's this and this and so
on and so forth. So it was good hearing from
both of them. So I was on this webinar for
a little over an hour and they went through a
lot of this scenario for an hour, oh a little
over an hour. It was by the first solid twenty
five maybe thirty minutes was just rich Clark, go on,
(06:35):
you hear me. He There was some of that, by
the way, but not from him. It was from the
reporters anyway. Rich Clark was going and going and going,
and Brett Daniels explained a few other things and a
few other things. I thought it was pretty well versed
on the playoff, and I'd say I'm reasonably well versed,
(06:56):
but there were things I did not know that are
going to surprise log worn fans, in specific where Texas
might play games and we're gonna we're gonna get into
that now. The reason why I say this is a
two day process. We'll we'll run down some of the
things today and recap some of the things from the
webinar that rich Clark talked about. Tomorrow, rich Clark joins
(07:21):
us on the program. He'll be on with us tomorrow
afternoon in the four o'clock hour, and uh, I will
get him to echo and repeat some of the things
he said today that I think are really really pertinent,
and then I'll ask him some things that weren't asked
of him. So, uh, he will actually join us on
(07:41):
the program tomorrow afternoon. So we'll look forward to having that.
So I would encourage you to make make sure to
kind of listen because it might answer some questions you have,
it might might put more questions in your mind, but
also it might give you some insight. I know it
did me today, some insight into things that you did
(08:05):
not know about this playoff and what a different world
this is going to be for college football. And I'm
very excited about it when I see it. Even if
Texas were not in the mix, and they very much are,
but even if they were not, if the Long Worne
were not in the mix, I'd be pretty excited about
this about what this playoff has the potential of doing.
(08:28):
So we'll get into more of that, but we're going
to hear coming up from a long ORNs head coach
Steve Sarkisian from the SEC teleconference, because remember we said
he did the news conference on Monday and that was
his only local media availability of the week. In other words,
no post practice media zoom on Thursday. We don't have
(08:50):
a long worn weekly with him this week. We do
have one Tomorrow night with Rodney Terry, Texas men's basketball coach.
Another basketball preview show, so we'll have that lie from
Pluckers the West Campus location twenty two to twenty two
Rio Grand That'll be from six to seven tomorrow night,
so we do have that. However, no Sark show tomorrow night,
(09:12):
No Sark media zoom tomorrow, but he did participate per
mandate in the SEC teleconference and we're gonna hear comments
from Sark on that coming up. Also, the World Series,
it's still going. There's another game tonight the New York
Yankee Stay Alive. Last night finally got the bats going.
(09:32):
The Dodgers went with a bullpen game, and you know,
the Dodgers have had mixed results with the bullpen game.
It drew a lot of attention because it was magnificent
when they had to have it against San Diego and
got that in Game four of that best of five
series when they were down two games to one. It
blew up in their face in game two of the
(09:57):
or I guess it was Game five of the nl
CS against the Mets, and they had they had one
win and one loss with it in the NLCS. They
won in game two and they lost in Game five.
I think it was. I can't remember exactly anyway, Uh.
And then and now they've taken a hit on the air,
the Yankees got after him. And then and then one
of the most talked about that. There were two things.
(10:18):
There were a couple of things that were really laid
out there. First of all, Anthony Volpie's Grand Slam, which
really got the got the Yankees up and running. Took
him from down two to one to up five to two,
and they'd never looked back. It got cut to five four.
And then the Yankees blew up the back half of
the Dodger bullpen late in the game. There was that
(10:39):
Freddie Freeman hit another home run, six consecutive World Series
games going for him, going back to his days with
the Braves with a home run that's a major League record. Now,
there was that, and then there was the incident in
the first inning when Mookie Betts is chasing a flyball
down the right field foul out in filatair. He goes
(11:00):
up against the ball, has the ball in his glove,
makes the catch, and two fans grab his arm if
you saw it. One holds his arm while the other
prize open his glove and tosses the ball out. Now,
fan interference was called, the battle was out, and the
fans were ejected from the game. And the reactions on
(11:23):
social media is, you know what a couple of nimrods,
you know, and these guys should be prevented from coming
back and they should, they should, you know, have their
tickets or blah blah blah. So and so we'll have
an update on that on what their status is for
tonight's game that's coming up and inconceivable. So we got
a lot of things to get to on the program,
but up the next one year from long Worn's head
(11:44):
coach Steve Sarkisha here on a Wednesday on sports Radio
AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app
It's Wednesday, getting over the hump if that is indeed
your regular Wednesday doings. And if that's the case, we
hope you get over the hump and then get on
the down. He'll run to the weekend. If Wednesday for
you means your Monday, we'll hope it starts off well.
And if Wednesday's or Friday, well, good on you. I
hope that you enjoy the next couple of days. Good afternoon,
and welcome to the program here on Sports Radio AM
(00:21):
thirteen under the Zone. My name is Craig Way. I
thank you very much for joining us, and us, of
course includes the producer of this program. That would be
Cameron D. Parker. The D on the birth certificate stands
for Dallas, as in his favorite football team that he
refuses to watch except on highlights if at the occasion warrants.
(00:42):
He was named for the Dallas Cowboys by his father,
who is equally disgusted, although he does watch. He was
watching the other day. You just happen to notice, right
when you it's like hate watching. It's kind of weird
when he hate watches. Does he want to see them
do poorly?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I think so? Really, I think so. Now when I watch.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
If I do watch, I think I would have a
you know, I kind of want them to win, right
mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I think like I'll hear like him laughing and it's like, oh,
good play appid nope, fall start. Oh okay, that's that's
weird laughing again.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh yeah, no, Dak Prescott sacked for six yards, so
it's it's kind of a it's a weird, weird thing.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I just don't want to watch. He and the hen
wats to watch to make fun of it.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So, yeah, things are going greatest Cowboys fans, Craig, it's fantastic, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Fantastic, gloom and doom and all this. You know, if
he was hate watching. I know people who hate watch
their teams, but the reason they do it is, and
this is not going to apply to your dad or
your situation, the reason a lot of people hate watch
their favorite teams is they want to see them lose,
that the change will be made, usually with the head coach,
(01:52):
sometimes with the front office. We know that, you know,
while a change might be in the offing for head
coach of the Cowboys don't turn their season around, we
know there is no change coming in the front office.
That is abundantly clear, and we hear the reaffirmation of
it every week when we bring folks sound from Jerry Jones,
(02:14):
as we did yesterday, where he's all day in and
he's you know, or so he claimed, and so that's
where it is. And yesterday what came out of that
was that he believes all the pieces are there to
have a really good season and what do he say,
storybook turn this thing around. Yeah, he believes that. And
(02:36):
a lot of the national media who played some of
those sound bites on some of the national networks like
ESPN and Fox and some of the other ones, they
laugh at that. They're like, no, you don't have the
pieces because you didn't invest in the pieces other than
what you did with DAK and CD.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I'm mostly one of those people laughing exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Because you believe that also they haven't invested in that. Anyway,
we've got NFL to discuss. Certainly, we'll do that. And
because we're getting closer to not quite at but closer
to the midway mark of the season, speaking the midway
mark of the season, I know it kind of it
was one of those things. It was not intended to
(03:18):
be a comment to initiate shock value. It was not, however,
on Monday, when Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarkisian said
they're looking at this deal. We could wind up playing sixteen,
maybe even seventeen games. He goes, that means we're halfway
through right now. A lot of people go, wha wait,
what just now halfway eight games? Two thirds of the
(03:42):
way through the regular season. But depending on he said,
if we go, if we get to where we want
to go, meaning getting all the way to the national
championship game, yeah, it could wind up being as as
many as nine more games. You figure four in the
regular season. If it qualify for the SEC Championship, you
(04:03):
play that, then all right, so that's five and then
you get into the college football Playoff. Unless you get
a bye and you're in that five through twelve realm,
then that would mean as many as four more games
in order to try to play for a national championship.
So yeah, there could be as many as nine more
toward that end with a college football playoff. This is
(04:25):
gonna be the first of two days where we attempt
to get you a little closer to the impact and
meaning of what all goes into the college Football Playoff.
I know we've talked about it. You probably know the
initial breakdown and stuff. But here's where I'm going with this.
(04:46):
This morning, there was a webinar. That's another one of
those twenty first century terms, is a webinar. Anyway, there
was a webinar in and I was one of many
many media I think, invited to participate in it and did.
(05:06):
And the webinar was hosted by two people. One is
the brand new director of the college football Playoff, Richard
Clark Rich Clark, and he was kind of the lead
guy on it. The other guy on it is a
(05:28):
guy I've known for gosh forty years. I got Brett Daniels,
who was a media relations director at SMU, was in
their sports information right then. He worked with the Cowboys
for years during the Glory but he was like the
number two to rich Dalrymple for years with the Cowboys
during Jerry and Jimmy's time and then on throughout. Brett
(05:49):
was there for a long time. Brett works now pretty
much in that role as the chief lead guy, media
relations guy with a college football playoff. Brett really impressed
me on this webinar, how much of the intricacies. He knows.
There were some things even that were catching Richard Clark
a little bit unto wares, but Brett kind of helped
(06:10):
him out, said yeah, it's this and this and so
on and so forth. So it was good hearing from
both of them. So I was on this webinar for
a little over an hour and they went through a
lot of this scenario for an hour, oh a little
over an hour. It was by the first solid twenty
five maybe thirty minutes was just rich Clark, go on,
(06:35):
you hear me. He There was some of that, by
the way, but not from him. It was from the
reporters anyway. Rich Clark was going and going and going,
and Brett Daniels explained a few other things and a
few other things. I thought it was pretty well versed
on the playoff, and I'd say I'm reasonably well versed,
(06:56):
but there were things I did not know that are
going to surprise log worn fans, in specific where Texas
might play games and we're gonna we're gonna get into
that now. The reason why I say this is a
two day process. We'll we'll run down some of the
things today and recap some of the things from the
webinar that rich Clark talked about. Tomorrow, rich Clark joins
(07:21):
us on the program. He'll be on with us tomorrow
afternoon in the four o'clock hour, and uh, I will
get him to echo and repeat some of the things
he said today that I think are really really pertinent,
and then I'll ask him some things that weren't asked
of him. So, uh, he will actually join us on
(07:41):
the program tomorrow afternoon. So we'll look forward to having that.
So I would encourage you to make make sure to
kind of listen because it might answer some questions you have,
it might might put more questions in your mind, but
also it might give you some insight. I know it
did me today, some insight into things that you did
(08:05):
not know about this playoff and what a different world
this is going to be for college football. And I'm
very excited about it when I see it. Even if
Texas were not in the mix, and they very much are,
but even if they were not, if the Long Worne
were not in the mix, I'd be pretty excited about
this about what this playoff has the potential of doing.
(08:28):
So we'll get into more of that, but we're going
to hear coming up from a long ORNs head coach
Steve Sarkisian from the SEC teleconference, because remember we said
he did the news conference on Monday and that was
his only local media availability of the week. In other words,
no post practice media zoom on Thursday. We don't have
(08:50):
a long worn weekly with him this week. We do
have one Tomorrow night with Rodney Terry, Texas men's basketball coach.
Another basketball preview show, so we'll have that lie from
Pluckers the West Campus location twenty two to twenty two
Rio Grand That'll be from six to seven tomorrow night,
so we do have that. However, no Sark show tomorrow night,
(09:12):
No Sark media zoom tomorrow, but he did participate per
mandate in the SEC teleconference and we're gonna hear comments
from Sark on that coming up. Also, the World Series,
it's still going. There's another game tonight the New York
Yankee Stay Alive. Last night finally got the bats going.
(09:32):
The Dodgers went with a bullpen game, and you know,
the Dodgers have had mixed results with the bullpen game.
It drew a lot of attention because it was magnificent
when they had to have it against San Diego and
got that in Game four of that best of five
series when they were down two games to one. It
blew up in their face in game two of the
(09:57):
or I guess it was Game five of the nl
CS against the Mets, and they had they had one
win and one loss with it in the NLCS. They
won in game two and they lost in Game five.
I think it was. I can't remember exactly anyway, Uh.
And then and now they've taken a hit on the air,
the Yankees got after him. And then and then one
of the most talked about that. There were two things.
(10:18):
There were a couple of things that were really laid
out there. First of all, Anthony Volpie's Grand Slam, which
really got the got the Yankees up and running. Took
him from down two to one to up five to two,
and they'd never looked back. It got cut to five four.
And then the Yankees blew up the back half of
the Dodger bullpen late in the game. There was that
(10:39):
Freddie Freeman hit another home run, six consecutive World Series
games going for him, going back to his days with
the Braves with a home run that's a major League record. Now,
there was that, and then there was the incident in
the first inning when Mookie Betts is chasing a flyball
down the right field foul out in filatair. He goes
(11:00):
up against the ball, has the ball in his glove,
makes the catch, and two fans grab his arm if
you saw it. One holds his arm while the other
prize open his glove and tosses the ball out. Now,
fan interference was called, the battle was out, and the
fans were ejected from the game. And the reactions on
(11:23):
social media is, you know what a couple of nimrods,
you know, and these guys should be prevented from coming
back and they should, they should, you know, have their
tickets or blah blah blah. So and so we'll have
an update on that on what their status is for
tonight's game that's coming up and inconceivable. So we got
a lot of things to get to on the program,
but up the next one year from long Worn's head
(11:44):
coach Steve Sarkisha here on a Wednesday on sports Radio
AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app
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