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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the capital city, you were traveling safely. Hopefully, if
you're traveling around the state of Texas today, you are
traveling safely as it is that time of the year
where the traffic will be absolutely awful. If you are
sitting and bumpered upper bumper traffic on three sixty or
mopack wherever, just know that you have a friend in
me because we have been bumper to bumper before and
(00:21):
will be bumping to a bumper again. So don't worry
about that. But until you get where you need to go,
you have US Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone. Well,
we have a jam packed show for you. We have
our friend from the West Coast, Zachariah joining us talking
a little NBA action about fifteen minutes. The former Warriors
pre and post game host five years on the Home
of the Warriors ninety five to seven, the game out
(00:43):
there in the Bay Area. He's going to tell us
a little bit about what's happening on the West Coast
as the NBA Free agency has hit its fever pitch.
You know it's getting hot, you know it's getting heavy.
When Lebron James at age forty one is talked about
as potentially the big name free agent. We'll explain all that.
We'll talk to zach Arya in about fifteen minutes. Also
(01:05):
coming up this hour is inconceivable and we will be
talking to our ACE producer, Cole Dixon about Fourth of
July traditions. Do you have any we want to hear
from you? Use the free iHeart Radios talkback feature to
tell us your Fourth of July tradition? You're Burger's in
brox person or do you put catchup on your hot dog?
We want to hear all of it. Use the iHeartRadio
(01:27):
apps talkback feature to talk to us. And until we
get there, let's hear from call our ACE producer. How
are you today, buddy.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm doing well man.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'm glad the key cart still works here, so that's
always a plus. But I mean, it's a Thursday, Thursday,
getting ready for Fourth of July. I'm pumped up to
be here, man. I'm excited to share these airways with
you exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I always find it very interesting the day before a holiday.
Everybody times it out perfectly. Our morning show down in
the Alamo City, I feel like they wrestle to figure
out who has the day before Fourth of lyoff and
have the day after fourth of July off because that
is a lucrative holiday, especially when it lands on a Friday,
and try to get that four day maybe even a
five day vacation if you can swing it. But we
(02:10):
got to start here. This is the biggest story of
the day. And it's ironic that our friend Craig Way
is not here to talk to us about it, because
it is a Dodgers baseball story that is right on
fifteen occasions. Clayton Kershaw had two strikes to an opening
hitter in front of fifty three thousand fans. They clapped,
they yelled, they hopped up and down, they got excited
(02:32):
until finally he reached the historic mark. And here's what
it sounded like when he had his three thousandth career strikeout.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Gravine risers ready to erupt, and you.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Can hear that applause. You can hear those cheers of
the fifty three thousand fans in attendance to see Kershaw's
three thousand strikeout. Now he has all exaclades. It's three
times styt Young, a winner, the former MVP in twenty fourteen,
ten All Star Games five era titles, A Championship ring.
(03:34):
He might be the greatest pitcher of his generation. Fourth
left hander to reach three thousand strikeouts, joining in my
mind the goat of pitchers. It's Randy Johnson, Steve Carlton
and C. C. Sabathia, which I will tell you when
you go to your fourth or July party tomorrow, throw
that little tidbit out there, say that there is a dimingback,
(03:55):
a Philadelphia Philly and a Yankee who joined Kershaw. And
I want to see how many people actually get it right,
because technically, Ran Johnson played for a bunch of teams.
He's probably most famous for winning World Series MVP in
two thousand and one with Kurt Shilling. Steve Carlton obviously
he's affiliate, but you know he also played for the
Cards and CC Sabathia. I thought of him as a
(04:16):
Cleveland Indian, maybe a brewer. They threw out he was
a Yankee, and I was like, okay, I guess he's
a Yankee. So all of these guys played on different teams.
Kershaw currently the only one who is going into the
Hall of Fame as a Dodger, The only one of
those three, I should say, who's played for one team
his entire career. He's also the third active player to
(04:38):
join the three thousand strikeout list. He joins Max Schurzer
and Justin Verlander, who are the two others in many
people's mind. The quote goats the greatest of all time,
of his generation. It's ironic that this you have these
three guys Scherzer, Verlander, Kershaw. For the longest time I
(04:59):
would have put really had a Kershaw in a different
class insurreser. But now all three of them World Series champions,
all three of them World Series winners, three thousand strikeouts,
they're all gonna be Hall of famers as well. It's
one of those things that is just truly incredible. He's
one of five to accumulate with one team. So the
(05:20):
others who played espied a little earlier, carl Or Johnston,
Carlton Sabbathi all played multiple teams. Kershaw joins Walter Johnson,
Bob Gibson, Carlton obviously and John Smoltz all as guys
who did it all with one team.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Kershaw went on to talk about how he put up
a ton of stocking his team early on. He felt
very good and oh, by the way, the Dodgers ended
up winning that game five to four in a comeback victory.
You wonder how much you had to pay to get
into the stadium for a game like that when you
know there's a chance that Kershaw gets strikeout number three thousand.
It's a Dodgers team that is filled to the gills
(05:58):
with talent, coming up a World Series championship, filled to
the gills with payroll, and it all paid off last night.
I continue to think to myself as we've gone through
Kershaw's career because if you remember, he came in as
a flamethrowing lefty. He's worked his way into having an
incredible curveball. He's an MVP obviously, and he was also
(06:21):
a playoff choker for the longest time. He was a
guy that when you talked about the big moment, there's
a lot of guys on the list you would have
picked ahead of him. He gets that World Series ring
last year, he kind of is able to shrug off
some of those doubters. He's able to shrug off the
playoff choking label. And now, look, I'm a big baseball guy, obviously.
(06:43):
You hear me wax poetically about the game anytime I
come on the air. I love baseball. I wonder where
this pert's Kershaw all time, because he's still to me
in that list of all time great pitchers for the
twenty first century. I don't know if I put him
on that list of guys all time with Bob Gibson.
Of course, former Dodger City Kofax would be on my
(07:04):
Hall of Fame Mount Rushmore as well. But it feels
like this was an accumulation of an entire career and
last night, in front of fifty three thousand fans, strikeout
number three thousand for Kershaw feels more like a coronation.
If there was any sort of question about this guy
being a first ballot Hall of Famer, that those completely
(07:24):
evaporate with him being able to get to this mark.
And I'm excited. Obviously. The Dodgers are the preemptive favorite
to win the World Series, even in early July. When
you look at the standings, they are a team that
it is battled back from a slow start fifty five
to thirty two on the season. Right now, eight and
a half game lead on the Padres, a nine game
(07:44):
lead on Cole's Giants. They feel like the team in
the National league that is primed to make a deep
rum and as we get into a quote unquote the
dog days of summer, right, this is a time period
where there's not a lot of other sports going on.
I implore you with the way that baseball has been played,
(08:05):
especially in the National League, there are a lot of
very good teams the National League Central, not the best
teams in the world, but it's a very tight race
currently for that division. And you wonder as we get
closer to the trade deadline coming up in a couple
of weeks, if there will be some movement, if there
will be some players getting moved. So if there's a
time to get on the baseball bandwagon, if there's a
(08:26):
time to get on to watch some of these guys
and some of these players and some of these teams
move around, this would be the time to do it.
In my mind, and I'm happy for Kershaw. I'm very
anytime any of these guys who I saw and grew
up with and watched for a long period of time,
any of these guys who have a chance to do
something the legendary and cement themselves in the history of
(08:48):
the game, especially a game like baseball that is so
rich and so the tapestry is so magnificent when those
guys can get into that list and put themselves in
those conversations. I personally very excited to say that I
was able to watch their career from start to finish.
And we'll see where Kershaw and the Dodgers end up
(09:09):
in the regular season. If they win the Pennant again
this year, if they win the World Series again this year,
then Kershaw is a no doubt Hall of Famer. But
to stick around for as long as he has to
get strike out number three thousand, it means something to me.
It does, It truly does. So. Okay that we've waxed
poetically enough about the sport of baseball and Kershaw, and
we'll talk about what this means for the Dodgers a
(09:30):
little bit later on in the show as well. But
we join by zach at zach Sports on Twitter. Zacharya
from the Bay Area is going to join us to
talk NBA. As free agency continues to heat up. There's
talk about a potential buyout for Lebron James. What would
this mean if Lebron becomes a free agent for the
first time since twenty nineteen, and do you have to
(09:51):
buy his kid out as well. We'll talk about all
that next to Zacharya on Craig Wait's show, as andrewsi
Will sits in for Craig on Sports Radio AM thirteen
hundred The Zone
In the capital city, you were traveling safely. Hopefully, if
you're traveling around the state of Texas today, you are
traveling safely as it is that time of the year
where the traffic will be absolutely awful. If you are
sitting and bumpered upper bumper traffic on three sixty or
mopack wherever, just know that you have a friend in
me because we have been bumper to bumper before and
(00:21):
will be bumping to a bumper again. So don't worry
about that. But until you get where you need to go,
you have US Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone. Well,
we have a jam packed show for you. We have
our friend from the West Coast, Zachariah joining us talking
a little NBA action about fifteen minutes. The former Warriors
pre and post game host five years on the Home
of the Warriors ninety five to seven, the game out
(00:43):
there in the Bay Area. He's going to tell us
a little bit about what's happening on the West Coast
as the NBA Free agency has hit its fever pitch.
You know it's getting hot, you know it's getting heavy.
When Lebron James at age forty one is talked about
as potentially the big name free agent. We'll explain all that.
We'll talk to zach Arya in about fifteen minutes. Also
(01:05):
coming up this hour is inconceivable and we will be
talking to our ACE producer, Cole Dixon about Fourth of
July traditions. Do you have any we want to hear
from you? Use the free iHeart Radios talkback feature to
tell us your Fourth of July tradition? You're Burger's in
brox person or do you put catchup on your hot dog?
We want to hear all of it. Use the iHeartRadio
(01:27):
apps talkback feature to talk to us. And until we
get there, let's hear from call our ACE producer. How
are you today, buddy.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm doing well man.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'm glad the key cart still works here, so that's
always a plus. But I mean, it's a Thursday, Thursday,
getting ready for Fourth of July. I'm pumped up to
be here, man. I'm excited to share these airways with
you exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I always find it very interesting the day before a holiday.
Everybody times it out perfectly. Our morning show down in
the Alamo City, I feel like they wrestle to figure
out who has the day before Fourth of lyoff and
have the day after fourth of July off because that
is a lucrative holiday, especially when it lands on a Friday,
and try to get that four day maybe even a
five day vacation if you can swing it. But we
(02:10):
got to start here. This is the biggest story of
the day. And it's ironic that our friend Craig Way
is not here to talk to us about it, because
it is a Dodgers baseball story that is right on
fifteen occasions. Clayton Kershaw had two strikes to an opening
hitter in front of fifty three thousand fans. They clapped,
they yelled, they hopped up and down, they got excited
(02:32):
until finally he reached the historic mark. And here's what
it sounded like when he had his three thousandth career strikeout.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Gravine risers ready to erupt, and you.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Can hear that applause. You can hear those cheers of
the fifty three thousand fans in attendance to see Kershaw's
three thousand strikeout. Now he has all exaclades. It's three
times styt Young, a winner, the former MVP in twenty fourteen,
ten All Star Games five era titles, A Championship ring.
(03:34):
He might be the greatest pitcher of his generation. Fourth
left hander to reach three thousand strikeouts, joining in my
mind the goat of pitchers. It's Randy Johnson, Steve Carlton
and C. C. Sabathia, which I will tell you when
you go to your fourth or July party tomorrow, throw
that little tidbit out there, say that there is a dimingback,
(03:55):
a Philadelphia Philly and a Yankee who joined Kershaw. And
I want to see how many people actually get it right,
because technically, Ran Johnson played for a bunch of teams.
He's probably most famous for winning World Series MVP in
two thousand and one with Kurt Shilling. Steve Carlton obviously
he's affiliate, but you know he also played for the
Cards and CC Sabathia. I thought of him as a
(04:16):
Cleveland Indian, maybe a brewer. They threw out he was
a Yankee, and I was like, okay, I guess he's
a Yankee. So all of these guys played on different teams.
Kershaw currently the only one who is going into the
Hall of Fame as a Dodger, The only one of
those three, I should say, who's played for one team
his entire career. He's also the third active player to
(04:38):
join the three thousand strikeout list. He joins Max Schurzer
and Justin Verlander, who are the two others in many
people's mind. The quote goats the greatest of all time,
of his generation. It's ironic that this you have these
three guys Scherzer, Verlander, Kershaw. For the longest time I
(04:59):
would have put really had a Kershaw in a different
class insurreser. But now all three of them World Series champions,
all three of them World Series winners, three thousand strikeouts,
they're all gonna be Hall of famers as well. It's
one of those things that is just truly incredible. He's
one of five to accumulate with one team. So the
(05:20):
others who played espied a little earlier, carl Or Johnston,
Carlton Sabbathi all played multiple teams. Kershaw joins Walter Johnson,
Bob Gibson, Carlton obviously and John Smoltz all as guys
who did it all with one team.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Kershaw went on to talk about how he put up
a ton of stocking his team early on. He felt
very good and oh, by the way, the Dodgers ended
up winning that game five to four in a comeback victory.
You wonder how much you had to pay to get
into the stadium for a game like that when you
know there's a chance that Kershaw gets strikeout number three thousand.
It's a Dodgers team that is filled to the gills
(05:58):
with talent, coming up a World Series championship, filled to
the gills with payroll, and it all paid off last night.
I continue to think to myself as we've gone through
Kershaw's career because if you remember, he came in as
a flamethrowing lefty. He's worked his way into having an
incredible curveball. He's an MVP obviously, and he was also
(06:21):
a playoff choker for the longest time. He was a
guy that when you talked about the big moment, there's
a lot of guys on the list you would have
picked ahead of him. He gets that World Series ring
last year, he kind of is able to shrug off
some of those doubters. He's able to shrug off the
playoff choking label. And now, look, I'm a big baseball guy, obviously.
(06:43):
You hear me wax poetically about the game anytime I
come on the air. I love baseball. I wonder where
this pert's Kershaw all time, because he's still to me
in that list of all time great pitchers for the
twenty first century. I don't know if I put him
on that list of guys all time with Bob Gibson.
Of course, former Dodger City Kofax would be on my
(07:04):
Hall of Fame Mount Rushmore as well. But it feels
like this was an accumulation of an entire career and
last night, in front of fifty three thousand fans, strikeout
number three thousand for Kershaw feels more like a coronation.
If there was any sort of question about this guy
being a first ballot Hall of Famer, that those completely
(07:24):
evaporate with him being able to get to this mark.
And I'm excited. Obviously. The Dodgers are the preemptive favorite
to win the World Series, even in early July. When
you look at the standings, they are a team that
it is battled back from a slow start fifty five
to thirty two on the season. Right now, eight and
a half game lead on the Padres, a nine game
(07:44):
lead on Cole's Giants. They feel like the team in
the National league that is primed to make a deep
rum and as we get into a quote unquote the
dog days of summer, right, this is a time period
where there's not a lot of other sports going on.
I implore you with the way that baseball has been played,
(08:05):
especially in the National League, there are a lot of
very good teams the National League Central, not the best
teams in the world, but it's a very tight race
currently for that division. And you wonder as we get
closer to the trade deadline coming up in a couple
of weeks, if there will be some movement, if there
will be some players getting moved. So if there's a
time to get on the baseball bandwagon, if there's a
(08:26):
time to get on to watch some of these guys
and some of these players and some of these teams
move around, this would be the time to do it.
In my mind, and I'm happy for Kershaw. I'm very
anytime any of these guys who I saw and grew
up with and watched for a long period of time,
any of these guys who have a chance to do
something the legendary and cement themselves in the history of
(08:48):
the game, especially a game like baseball that is so
rich and so the tapestry is so magnificent when those
guys can get into that list and put themselves in
those conversations. I personally very excited to say that I
was able to watch their career from start to finish.
And we'll see where Kershaw and the Dodgers end up
(09:09):
in the regular season. If they win the Pennant again
this year, if they win the World Series again this year,
then Kershaw is a no doubt Hall of Famer. But
to stick around for as long as he has to
get strike out number three thousand, it means something to me.
It does, It truly does. So. Okay that we've waxed
poetically enough about the sport of baseball and Kershaw, and
we'll talk about what this means for the Dodgers a
(09:30):
little bit later on in the show as well. But
we join by zach at zach Sports on Twitter. Zacharya
from the Bay Area is going to join us to
talk NBA. As free agency continues to heat up. There's
talk about a potential buyout for Lebron James. What would
this mean if Lebron becomes a free agent for the
first time since twenty nineteen, and do you have to
(09:51):
buy his kid out as well. We'll talk about all
that next to Zacharya on Craig Wait's show, as andrewsi
Will sits in for Craig on Sports Radio AM thirteen
hundred The Zone
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