August 15, 2024 • 9 mins
Hour 2 begins with Craig and Cam and they open it up with more Major League Baseball talk. First, updates from around the league and second, a look at the AL West battle and if the Texas Rangers still have hope to defend their World Series Championship.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our number two of the show, Craig Way, alongside the
producer Cameron Parker. Glad to have you with us, and
we'll update a couple of scoreboards here, the baseball scoreboard
and the FedEx Cup leader board here in just a
few moments in the four o'clock hour, Greg Tapper, managing
enter Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine joins us. We'll talk
(00:21):
some football from the magazine perspective, and also we'll get
a preview. We've been previewing high school football in every
classification the past four weeks, six A, five A, four A,
and three. I said today is two A, the smallest
classification in eleven man, So you folks out in Granger,
(00:43):
pay attention. So we'll do a little two A preview
as well. The baseball scoreboard right now. There are three
games underway at the moment, and come on order to
start pretty soon. Right now on top of the seventh inning,
(01:04):
A's lead the Mets seven to six. Mets very much
in the wildcard picture. The A's not so much, but
at seven six Oakland, that's in the top of the seven.
You know one thing that kind of died on the vine,
can remember you may remember this, and now this has
been probably two months ago.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It was before I left Talent on vacation. There was this.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Email that was found a printed out copy of it
in Oakland about the dues and don'ts and how we're
handling this last year, this Lane Duck year in Oakland
with regard to merchandise sales and all that other kind
of stuff. And part of that thing said that they
(01:50):
were not to where the Oakland jerseys, just a's or athletics,
which which to me I thought was kind of bizarre
that they would that they would do that, because when
you want to just wear out the ones you got,
you're not gonna have them. It's not gonna be Oakland anymore,
(02:11):
So why not go ahead and and uh and wear them. Well,
supposedly that was the directive, but if you saw any
of the highlights of the game last night, they're wearing
those bright kelly green Oakland uniforms last night, and I've
seen them wearing those of late, So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Was that just for like the staffers, I mean, the
ball club was wearing them in the field, I mean
like the like the act of the ushers and stuff.
I thought I thought that was directed to this well
for them for sure, but I thought it said something
like as the team is being directed, not something about
do not wear Oakland because the team won't be wearing
(02:51):
Oakland uniforms or jerseys either or something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I thought it said something like.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That, maybe them will be kind of got involved and said, hey,
you're gonna have the where sething you're playing.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You're screwing them over. You're gonna have to You're gonna
have to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You're still playing games in Oakland, even though they're staying
away in drugs. Anyway, they're up on the Mets, who
were in the wildcard race.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But it's seven to six Oakland.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Top of the seventh Dodgers and Brewers seesaw back and forth.
Or in the top of the seventh in Milwaukee, uh,
Dodgers have taken a four to three lead. They scored
a couple of two outruns in the sixth, the need
to go in front after the Brewers had jumped to
an early three nothing lead. But now it's four to
three Los Angeles Dodgers batting in the top of the seventh.
They're at American Family Field. I think it's called.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And then.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
The Braves and Giants are playing their fourth game like
lam Milwaukee, and the Braves, who were just struggling mightily,
had fallen to just five over five hundred and blew
that game on Sunday in Colorado when they were up
eight to two going to the bottom of the eighth
(04:01):
inning and gave up seven runs, and it was this
weird Here's another thing I love about baseball. They have
this bizarre thing about because baseball is very linear and
number and stat related has been forout the balance of
its existence for over one hundred years. And they had
(04:22):
some number that when when Colorado rallied from down six
runs to score seven in the bottom of the eighth
inning and they ended up beating Atlanta nine eight, it
was only the second time in franchise history that the
Rockies were down by six or more going into in
(04:45):
the eighth inning and rally back to when the the
record was something like two and four thy five hundred
and thirteen or something. It was some crazy number about that.
So anyway, that's the Braves had flipped the script. They've
won three in a row in San Francisco. It was
pretty hot going into it, and they're underway in their
(05:07):
scoreless in the second inning. Starting about an hour Baltimore
and Boston important four game series starting in Camden Yards.
Phillies and Nationals have one more game or have a
game to start a series in Philadelphia after the Phillies
ended up knocking out the Marlins, and the Rangers open
a series tonight against the Minnesota Twins in Arlington.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Is it safe to say this is do or die
that they have to.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Win this series or at the very least no worse
than split the four games with the Twins, one would imagine,
and maybe even win the series just to have hope.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
At this point, yeah, I mean we may even be
past the point in overturning. I mean right now they're
percentage of making the playoffs one percent percent.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Not great.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Nine and a half back from the Astros in the
Al West, and you go to the wild card spot
ten games back. So gonna have to start not just
winning series, Craigs, but actually going on a big wind
streak here As the calendar gets closer and closer to September,
but have some you know, winnable series coming up. They
have the White Sox lept on the schedule. You have
(06:22):
the Angels. You got seven games against them, You got
three against the As, so a chance there in two
teams standing in front of them in the wildcard spot,
the Twins obviously, and I believe Cleveland as well, but
then also some some big Al West games as well.
Got the Mariners seven games against them. No Astros up
(06:43):
in the schedule. So that's the one good thing.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You can look at.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Done with that one, by the way, you speaking of
the Mariners, they lose today the Tigers to one. That's
good news for the Astros who are traveling back home.
Are back home by now. Obviously they swept all light
games on the road trip. In the Astros open a
home series with White Sox tomorrow, but in the West
right now, Houston will take a three game lead on
(07:09):
the Mariners into that into that weekend series with Chicago,
and the Mariners have dropped three in a row now,
so Houston now with its largest lead of the season
in the Division.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Three games. They're up by three.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Guardians, up by four and a half on the Twins, Yankees,
up by a half game on Baltimore. In the National League,
Philly's up six on Atlanta. It was nine not long ago.
Brewers with the biggest lead. They're a B eight and
a half on the Cardinals and the Reds. The Reds
have been surging of late, they won four in a
row and seven of their last ten, and the Dodgers
up two and a half on both Arizona and San Diego,
(07:47):
penning the outcome of that game going on right now
this afternoon. The wild card race is more fascinating than
the division races really because if the season ended today,
the Orioles and Twins would be the top two in
the wildcard and can the City would be the third.
They held a two game edge on Boston, three and
a half on Seattle. The rest are kind of dropping
off now, Tampa Bay, Detroit, Toronto, and the Rangers, like
(08:10):
we said, they're further back in the wildcards than they
are in the division race. They're ten back. And then
in the nationally the Diamondbacks and Padres have identical records,
they'd have the first two. Atlanta would have the third
spot with the Mets. That's why I said this game
is important today against Oakland. They're two back, and then
you have the Giants, Reds, and Cardinals all four and
(08:30):
a half back in the division race. So anyway. That's
that's where that is right now. All right, Cameron, you've
been keeping track of.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'll tell you what. We need a break. When we
come back. I'm gonna have Cameron.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Updates the first of the three tournaments to conclude the
FedEx Cup and the FedEx Cup Championship season in pro golf.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
He'll do that.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
We've got some other topics we'll get to as well
as we continue here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under
the Zone, the Heart Radio app
Our number two of the show, Craig Way, alongside the
producer Cameron Parker. Glad to have you with us, and
we'll update a couple of scoreboards here, the baseball scoreboard
and the FedEx Cup leader board here in just a
few moments in the four o'clock hour, Greg Tapper, managing
enter Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine joins us. We'll talk
(00:21):
some football from the magazine perspective, and also we'll get
a preview. We've been previewing high school football in every
classification the past four weeks, six A, five A, four A,
and three. I said today is two A, the smallest
classification in eleven man, So you folks out in Granger,
(00:43):
pay attention. So we'll do a little two A preview
as well. The baseball scoreboard right now. There are three
games underway at the moment, and come on order to
start pretty soon. Right now on top of the seventh inning,
(01:04):
A's lead the Mets seven to six. Mets very much
in the wildcard picture. The A's not so much, but
at seven six Oakland, that's in the top of the seven.
You know one thing that kind of died on the vine,
can remember you may remember this, and now this has
been probably two months ago.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It was before I left Talent on vacation. There was this.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Email that was found a printed out copy of it
in Oakland about the dues and don'ts and how we're
handling this last year, this Lane Duck year in Oakland
with regard to merchandise sales and all that other kind
of stuff. And part of that thing said that they
(01:50):
were not to where the Oakland jerseys, just a's or athletics,
which which to me I thought was kind of bizarre
that they would that they would do that, because when
you want to just wear out the ones you got,
you're not gonna have them. It's not gonna be Oakland anymore,
(02:11):
So why not go ahead and and uh and wear them. Well,
supposedly that was the directive, but if you saw any
of the highlights of the game last night, they're wearing
those bright kelly green Oakland uniforms last night, and I've
seen them wearing those of late, So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Was that just for like the staffers, I mean, the
ball club was wearing them in the field, I mean
like the like the act of the ushers and stuff.
I thought I thought that was directed to this well
for them for sure, but I thought it said something
like as the team is being directed, not something about
do not wear Oakland because the team won't be wearing
(02:51):
Oakland uniforms or jerseys either or something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I thought it said something like.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That, maybe them will be kind of got involved and said, hey,
you're gonna have the where sething you're playing.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You're screwing them over. You're gonna have to You're gonna
have to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You're still playing games in Oakland, even though they're staying
away in drugs. Anyway, they're up on the Mets, who
were in the wildcard race.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But it's seven to six Oakland.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Top of the seventh Dodgers and Brewers seesaw back and forth.
Or in the top of the seventh in Milwaukee, uh,
Dodgers have taken a four to three lead. They scored
a couple of two outruns in the sixth, the need
to go in front after the Brewers had jumped to
an early three nothing lead. But now it's four to
three Los Angeles Dodgers batting in the top of the seventh.
They're at American Family Field. I think it's called.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And then.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
The Braves and Giants are playing their fourth game like
lam Milwaukee, and the Braves, who were just struggling mightily,
had fallen to just five over five hundred and blew
that game on Sunday in Colorado when they were up
eight to two going to the bottom of the eighth
(04:01):
inning and gave up seven runs, and it was this
weird Here's another thing I love about baseball. They have
this bizarre thing about because baseball is very linear and
number and stat related has been forout the balance of
its existence for over one hundred years. And they had
(04:22):
some number that when when Colorado rallied from down six
runs to score seven in the bottom of the eighth
inning and they ended up beating Atlanta nine eight, it
was only the second time in franchise history that the
Rockies were down by six or more going into in
(04:45):
the eighth inning and rally back to when the the
record was something like two and four thy five hundred
and thirteen or something. It was some crazy number about that.
So anyway, that's the Braves had flipped the script. They've
won three in a row in San Francisco. It was
pretty hot going into it, and they're underway in their
(05:07):
scoreless in the second inning. Starting about an hour Baltimore
and Boston important four game series starting in Camden Yards.
Phillies and Nationals have one more game or have a
game to start a series in Philadelphia after the Phillies
ended up knocking out the Marlins, and the Rangers open
a series tonight against the Minnesota Twins in Arlington.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Is it safe to say this is do or die
that they have to.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Win this series or at the very least no worse
than split the four games with the Twins, one would imagine,
and maybe even win the series just to have hope.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
At this point, yeah, I mean we may even be
past the point in overturning. I mean right now they're
percentage of making the playoffs one percent percent.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Not great.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Nine and a half back from the Astros in the
Al West, and you go to the wild card spot
ten games back. So gonna have to start not just
winning series, Craigs, but actually going on a big wind
streak here As the calendar gets closer and closer to September,
but have some you know, winnable series coming up. They
have the White Sox lept on the schedule. You have
(06:22):
the Angels. You got seven games against them, You got
three against the As, so a chance there in two
teams standing in front of them in the wildcard spot,
the Twins obviously, and I believe Cleveland as well, but
then also some some big Al West games as well.
Got the Mariners seven games against them. No Astros up
(06:43):
in the schedule. So that's the one good thing.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You can look at.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Done with that one, by the way, you speaking of
the Mariners, they lose today the Tigers to one. That's
good news for the Astros who are traveling back home.
Are back home by now. Obviously they swept all light
games on the road trip. In the Astros open a
home series with White Sox tomorrow, but in the West
right now, Houston will take a three game lead on
(07:09):
the Mariners into that into that weekend series with Chicago,
and the Mariners have dropped three in a row now,
so Houston now with its largest lead of the season
in the Division.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Three games. They're up by three.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Guardians, up by four and a half on the Twins, Yankees,
up by a half game on Baltimore. In the National League,
Philly's up six on Atlanta. It was nine not long ago.
Brewers with the biggest lead. They're a B eight and
a half on the Cardinals and the Reds. The Reds
have been surging of late, they won four in a
row and seven of their last ten, and the Dodgers
up two and a half on both Arizona and San Diego,
(07:47):
penning the outcome of that game going on right now
this afternoon. The wild card race is more fascinating than
the division races really because if the season ended today,
the Orioles and Twins would be the top two in
the wildcard and can the City would be the third.
They held a two game edge on Boston, three and
a half on Seattle. The rest are kind of dropping
off now, Tampa Bay, Detroit, Toronto, and the Rangers, like
(08:10):
we said, they're further back in the wildcards than they
are in the division race. They're ten back. And then
in the nationally the Diamondbacks and Padres have identical records,
they'd have the first two. Atlanta would have the third
spot with the Mets. That's why I said this game
is important today against Oakland. They're two back, and then
you have the Giants, Reds, and Cardinals all four and
(08:30):
a half back in the division race. So anyway. That's
that's where that is right now. All right, Cameron, you've
been keeping track of.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'll tell you what. We need a break. When we
come back. I'm gonna have Cameron.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Updates the first of the three tournaments to conclude the
FedEx Cup and the FedEx Cup Championship season in pro golf.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
He'll do that.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
We've got some other topics we'll get to as well
as we continue here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under
the Zone, the Heart Radio app
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