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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Says.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
We kick off the program for the next three hours.
All kinds of sports stuff to get to. We've got
more Project Marvel stuff to get to. Phil Steele says
he's got his top four or five in the SEC
and you're not going to believe one of the teams
that he thinks is in the top five. He's the
college football guru. We've got some NFL outlook to look at.
I've been thinking that the Rams are the best team
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in the West, but I may have to change that
with some of the things going out in Los Angeles,
and we'll also get into the Spurs and Michael Porter,
the player for Denver, the only one of that Porter
family that's not in jail, has some thoughts about gambling
and sports gambling and of course basketball gambling too and
how dangerous it can be for some of the players.
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Our audio disseminator today, Shane Carter is in the control room.
Michael Bartlet's taken the day off. We have summoned the
services of doctor Jason Garrett from a ROSTI. He's normally
on with us for a segment on these days on Wednesdays,
but today he's going to sit in for the whole show.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Welcome, How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
That's awesome. Your studio is really nice.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, got plenty of TVs and we kind of upgraded
from the old building eight or nine years ago, big upgrade.
So and you're coming in a little hurt. You got
to bump on your head. What I know, you train
a lot, but maybe a slight concussion.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So the best way to understand most injuries is to
experience them so you can explain them pretty well.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
You've had a lot of those currently.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I think I have a concussion I was taking a
bar bell from the ground to try to bring it
over my head to my back to do back squats,
and I missed timed where my head was in relation
to the bar as it was traveling up pretty quickly,
hit me right in the crown of the head, split
it open a little bit of a white blinding light,
and had some headaches since then. So if I do
ramble on today, it's probably because I still am a
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little confused.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
There you go, all right, We're going to talk as
we normally do in the next segment about all the
things that we can do to get people back in
the field of play in the six o'clock hour. We'll
touch on some other stuff and talk more about a
ROSTI later on too. But I did not know this,
but before Michael Bartlett left today he told me that
it was National left Hander's Day.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You're not left handed, are you?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
But my wife and daughter are, so I don't know.
I guess everybody has to have a day. I can
do a few things left handed. I can't do a
lot left handed. Is there anything that you do that
with the offhand that you would not do with the
main one.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I'm pretty good with corn hole. Left handed, okay, pretty
good dark left handed. I can throw most things left handed.
You can't write left handed.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I can't write left handed at all.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I had to teach myself to eat left handed because
I was eating too fast right handed and I was
getting indigestion because I mean, the plate would be empty
in five seconds. Now I'm pretty proficient at eating fast
left handed too. Because that was about twenty years ago.
We'll get it to we'll talk maybe about that in
a little bit. We've also got some thoughts on Project Marvel.
What are You've been around the Spurs for a long
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time with some of the players. Obviously you treated Tony
Parker and some of the other athletes that they've had.
I know this is a hot topic around the city.
There's a lot of people that want to know more
answers about it. To me, if the hotel, motel techs
and the car rental tax or what is being the
funding mechanism for it, I don't see how it's costing
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anybody money unless you rent a car or stay at
a hotel. But how about you have you followed Project
Marvel and the Spurs Arena.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Not really much at all, So you have to enlighten me.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
All right, Well, they want to build an arena, they
want to update the dome, they want to have a
more convention space, and for however many years it takes,
they want to put on a hotel motel tax and
a cardinal tax. That's the way that I get it
to the kind of the gist of it. It makes
the best inst to me because Oklahoma City is doing one,
and they're doing it by funding it with a sales tax,
So that would affect everybody in Oklahoma City and the
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surrounding area, whereas this would not.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, but you know how politicians are.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
There's likely to hear that word tax.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, there's likely it also that it will expand outside
just the tourist tax. I's a gonna be surprised if
later on it's like, wow, we didn't expect it to
cost us much, so we had to raise.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Just keep the just keep the tax on for a
couple more years. I mean, I don't know what the
fine night number is with the sales tax. When we
did the Alamodome from eighty nine to ninety four, it
started on day one and five years to the date
later it ended, and it was a one sent sales
tax for five years. It raised about three hundred million.
The dome was about two to seventy five when it
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was built. Now stadiums are much more You are a
much more sophisticated. You got to be able to use
your phone in those buildings.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, and they really need to move the eighteen C
Center too. I think they're going to find a better
location for that.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And I this is the problem those this is the
problem that we have. I think people tend to forget.
And I'm either blessed or cursed with a pretty good memory.
There's sometimes I feel like, Okay, I'm glad I remember that,
and there's times I'm glad that I don't. But basically,
in nineteen ninety nine, the city and the leadership in
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the city said we're not going to talk to the Spurs,
we don't care.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And the county, knowing.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That the Spurs were potentially on the block to be
sold to another city, stepped up and Cindy Kryer and
Judge Wolfe said we got to do something. And since
they couldn't put it on city land, they had to
put it on county land.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And that's why it was there. I was very.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Skeptical about the fact that they were ever going to
build infrastructure around that, and twenty five years later they
have not.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
But I don't know why you would want to.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
As well, you got Willow Springs golf course and other
than that, you've got a lot of industrial stuff in
that area of the of the Frost Bank Center. But
it makes more sense to go downtown because I think
the Spurs games are events. When they're downtown, you get
to go out to eat before and after and make
a day of it.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah. Right now, going to a game, you get there,
you get in, you get out, you leave. You do
not want to hang out in that area.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Typically it's and even for the rodeo, you're there and
as soon as you get out of the parking lot,
it's straight to thirty five or ten and go home
whichever direction that you're going. So anyway, Gina Ortiz Ortiz
Jones was on case at yesterday. I've got some thoughts
on what she said on the interactions she had with them.
Some of it I get, some of it I don't
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necessarily agree with, but we'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Are you ready for football to start?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Am?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
What's your football watching days?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Like? Saturday? And Sunday whatever I get done with my
honeydew list that my wife gives me. Then I try
to sit on the couch and watch as much as
I can, even take a little nap.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Now, you went to the Coastal Carolina. That's your college
Coast Carolina. So it's home of Dustin Johnson and others.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Anyway, so do you have a college team or a
pro team that you must watch?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I mean, if all the Chanda Clears Coastal Carolina. They've
done pretty well last few years. They've been a top ten,
Top twenty team, which, considering their size and how long
they've been around, has been pretty impressive, especially not only
their size at the school, but the size of the players.
They're half the size of Penn State and other players
NFL Wise, I used to have like San Francisco forty
nine ers I grip in California. Loved watching them. I
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still do. But my passion for following any one team
it kind of goes season a season based on who
the personnel is, where the story is. I think there's
always some pretty compelling stories that you want to follow,
and some teams have them one year and some teams
they don't.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Do you play fantasy football.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I don't. I've never had the I guess the concentration
long enough to spend the time to be good at it,
So I didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Back in the day when Peter Burns was with us
and doing the morning show with me, he insisted that
I get into his fantasy league for I think I
did it for three years, maybe four, and I think
whatever the last year of it was, I went.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I came home on a red.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Eye after the UTSA game on Saturday, and on Sunday afternoon,
about two o'clock, I said, let me see how my
team's doing. Oh, we're losing. Oh, and I've got seven
inactive players. I didn't update the roster, and that's when
I shut the team down. I haven't done it since,
I guess probably I don't know, twenty eleven or twenty twelve,
twenty thirteen, somewhere around and there. But it takes time
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and you have to you have to really work at it.
I've heard a lot of general managers will say, yeah,
you guys play fantasy football for fun. We play fantasy
whatever sport for real.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah. I mean my friends that do it when they
get into it. It just sounds like so much work
and they get so angry unless you're winning, which yeah,
only one guy does. It seems like a lot of
effort for very little payoff.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, it's a lot of people like to have action
on games, and there's a lot of betting that goes
along along those lines.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
But well, I just don't.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I just still get into I don't have time for
fantasy football. If I have time to do something in
football season, it's not football. I'm finding a golf course
someplace by the way. How's your golf game?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Like it always is, it's a pretty good and pretty
bad depending on the hole on the swing.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah. Have you been anywhere this summer not for golf.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I've been to Switzerland, went there for a few weeks.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, what was that like?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Oh, the most beautiful place you can imagine. It seems fake.
Every view is real. The water is too pretty, too blue,
the mountains are too beautiful, it's too sunny, it's too clean.
It literally looks like a movie the entire time. It's
you've got to go and see it at least once
in your life.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I've seen pictures of Switzerland in the winter time and
like the snow scenes and the little quaint villages and
stuff that looks.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Pretty enticing, even though I'm not a big fan of
cold weather.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah, it's it is picturesque. You can't imagine a more
beautiful place.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
All Right, we'll get into some we'll ask the question
a little bit. Are you starstruck or have you ever
been starstruck? The Portland Trailblazer have been purchased now for
around four billion dollars. That's what sports teams are going
for these days. I mentioned Phil Steele was on today
with Colin Coward. He's got some teams that he thinks
are going to be sure things in the SEC. But
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he has a dark horse candidate who he thinks could
be the fourth best team and make the college football
playoff and actually win ten games. It's that school north
of here where I went to. I'm doubting that he's
going to be that successful with his picks. We'll also
talk about the next two tournaments on the PGA Tour.
We've got the Tour Championship next week. In the BMW
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Championship coming up this week, Rory is going to play
in this event, and we'll get to all of that
plus we've got to get to a Project Marvel update,
and we'll do our regular segment with Dog Garrett coming
up in the next segment when we talk about all
the things injury wise around the NFL and how more
and more people can get healthy with that, all of
those things on the docket today, all coming up.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
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