August 6, 2024 • 13 mins
Craig gives an update on the olympics! He also otalks about the medal counts for not only USA but also a update on the Longhorns who are competing in the games
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the show here on Sports
(00:03):
Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone. By name is Craig Way.
I do thank you very much for joining us as
we try to navigate all that Tuesday and Tails. The
producer at least for one more day is Cole Dixon.
The reason why it's one more day is Bot Cameron
Parker is back Tomar and Cole gets to like go
back to being, you know, doing something really really meaningful,
(00:26):
you know, working with the kids there dripping springs and
so you know that's I guess maybe it's a good
palette cleanser for you to kind of come over and
you do this and you're like, Okay, now I get
a chance to go back to some work that really
matters here, right Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I mean both jobs matter of obviously, you know, not
discrediting this, but I'm ready to get back to class, man,
I really am. I miss the kiddos, I miss the
camaradity and the you know, structure of it. I need
structure in my life. You can't just let me off
the rails.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And if there's one thing that the radio business can
be from time to time, it is unstructured. You know.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It can be that way sometimes.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So that's good, No, I kid, because we do have structure,
and we do a lot of things, we format things
and the like.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
And there was meeting after meeting today.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Where we were, you know, talking over things that are
going to happen during the during the autumn, during the
football season. So there was a lot of structure and
all that kind of stuff today. But I will say
the same thing about your regular nine to five that
I say about my wife, Linda's regular job. And she
works as a specialized counselor and does that, and she's
(01:45):
also a licensed professional counselor, so she has clients and
she sees them and does sessions and.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
All that kind of stuff. And I always tell her, let.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Me tell you some your work is infinitely more important
than mine. I enjoy my work. I have a job
to do. I do take my work seriously. I do
try not to take myself seriously, taking my work seriously
my preparation for calling games or doing this show, that
(02:14):
sort of thing. But I also understand the difference between
some things. It's just like, here's another example of this
last night. And people who've listened to this program know
that I'm a bit of a Dodgers fans, I think
I think people know that, and so.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I'm I'm really a fan of them.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And they had a pretty first of all, they had
a pretty big series with the Philadelphia Phillies that began
last night, the top to the top two teams in
the National League, at least the two best records in
the National League, and so that was important. Point number one.
Point number two was for the first time in ten days,
(02:52):
they got Freddie Freeman back in the lineup, and and
that was really cool and all. But if you understand
the reasons why he was not in the line of
last ten days, it gives you even more perspective. Freddie's son, Maxibus,
it was all of three years old, had just a
rare neurological disorder come up that pretty much paralyzed him.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
And it was touch.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And go for several days, and so Freddy left the
team to be with his wife and.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
A little boy in.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Orange County, California, and it was it was pretty scary
and pretty serious for a long time. On Sunday he
started to have good recovery to the point where Freddie
could go back to work. As the Dodgers came off
a road trip, and so they were back in the
LA area. So Freddie got emotional with the news conference,
(03:55):
kind of got choked up. His teammates all had had
t shirts that said Max Strong. In fact, the television
broadcasters were those. Last night, when he went to the plate,
there was a standing ovation, it was arring, and he
had to step out and kind of catch himself a
little bit as it was an emotional moment. He ended
up he ended up striking out that time. Then he
(04:17):
came up later and he got a base hit, and uh,
he was He had been, like I said, emotional in
the news conference prior to so as as people said,
you know, there are things that are infinitely more important
in life than a baseball game. There are things that
are infinitely more important in life than what we do
(04:37):
and what we talk about. And I try never to
lose perspective on that. And and maybe, and you know,
maybe it kind of makes some sense to have some
(04:58):
have a little bit of perspective even as we are
very much involved in the successes of the athletic programs
and professional teams that we have a vested rooting interest in.
Some have more than a rooting interest, some have whatever
a financial interest, or maybe they're an alumnus of a
(05:20):
certain school, so it means an awful lot to them.
And I've never lost sight of that, because you invest
a lot of yourself, be it financial and or emotional
and or the time element all the things that So
I never want to downplay that.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
But I think most folks, even those who are fans
of those kinds of big pro sports teams or even
college teams, and the athletic program, the totality of the
athletic program at the collegiate level is no bigger than
the one in this town. In terms of the total
(06:00):
athletic program. I'm talking about specific success or failure of
a football team or basketball team for Texas. I'm just
saying the totality of the athletic program is enormous, as
we know. And so there are many many alumni who
are so very much wrapped up in the success of
(06:21):
the program and get very very excited when things go well,
and sometimes get pretty unhappy when things don't go well.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You get that.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I understand that same thing that's been going on here
with the Olympics as well. Folks get really wrapped up
and excited about what's going on with Team USA, and
we've got more and updated stuff to get to and
we will here in a few minutes. But there is
a perspective element, I think, and I think it's important
to do that even as a guy as I sit here,
(06:50):
a guy who does.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Play by play for a living. A large part of
what I do is.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Calling Texas long worn football and men's basketball and women's
basketball and baseball games. Uh, doing those things, and doing
coaches shows, and and then and then of course the
regular daily job here, the day job, to talk about it,
to engage with the audience, be it through social media
or you know, through our uh you know, through our
(07:19):
text line, however it might be. And I really enjoy it,
and I understand my responsibility in it, and and I
do take all of that very very seriously. By the
same token is also understand what's the difference between that
and some of the other challenges that we may go
through in life. We've all been there, We've all had
those types of things where a sibling or a parent
(07:41):
or a child is facing a health crisis, and that's
the thing that has to drive you to that that
moment in time to take care of that so I
try not to lose sight of all of that while
at the same time understanding my role and my responsibility
to help folks. I've heard people tell me that, you know,
(08:04):
they they like it as being able to check out
of some of the difficulties of a day to day life.
I will never forget, and I think I've shared the
story on the air, but it's been a while that
if anybody, if I ever needed and I've never really
felt this way, but if I ever felt like I
(08:25):
needed any kind of validation that what I do is important.
But I've had a lot of people say, you know,
it's really they enjoy lists in the game or this
or that. But if I ever needed any other kind
of validation, there was no better one than the one
I got. And this was in December of nineteen ninety five.
(08:48):
I was doing high school football state championship game on radio.
And if it's between the number one and number two
teams in the state in Class two, a small clas classification,
Salina number one in the state, Alto number two in
the state, number one number two in the state. The
(09:09):
game pitted two communities, neither of which had more than
like twenty eight hundred residents in each community playing at
Texas Stadium, and there were eighteen thousand people there that
night because they knew it was important in the communities
knew and other people that knew that it was going
to be probably going to be a really good game,
(09:30):
and it was. It had seven league changes, It went
back and forth. It was this tremendous game, and in
the end Solina won it to win the state championship.
They won thirty two to twenty eight. It was this
great game. Okay, fine, let's call the game.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
And that was that.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
A few days later I got A few days later,
I received the latter, and it was from a gentleman
who was in a VA hospital in Bottom, which is
up astride the Red River, and it was the station
in Bottom that happened to Carrie Salina's broadcast which I
was working. And he wrote a letter to me and
(10:08):
and said in the letter that he was a Vietnam
veteran and had lost both of his legs. I think
it was a landmine something like that. He said he
was also blinded by it, and he was in the
hospital and he said, I have.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
A lot of bad days up here.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I just wanted you to know, but I also want
you to know for three hours, I didn't think about
any of it, and it didn't really come to mind
because I was so caught up in the broadcast that
you did. And he said, I just want to thank
you for and that's when I said, Okay, I've done
my job.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That's when you know you've done your job. That's now.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
We don't get visible audible you know out of boys
like that that often we don't and we don't need them.
I mean, we know if we've done our job and
all that kind of stuff, but that sort of thing,
that's a making a difference kind of thing. And I know, Cole,
you you have visible, tangible moments with those you work
(11:08):
with students who have very in degrees of autism, that
that you have tangible, visible moments where you know the
work paid off and was a bit validated.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Oh yeah, I mean even the smallest victory, at least
to me, is huge, sure, because if we're working on
something for nine months and then you know, comes to fruition,
even if it's just for you know, we're trying to
work on like a word, and then they say part
of whe I'm like, that's there. You go good, that's
my weekly win. I'm good with that. Yeah, exactly, count
(11:43):
the small victories exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So that's what I'm talking about, those kinds of things
and those kinds of victories in life that we all
look forward to. Okay, just wanted to say that now
we're going to go to victories on the on the
field of play in the Olympics. Big news for the
US women's soccer team today, Men's basketball playing it's metal
Round game in the quarterfinals against Brazil. There's baseball and
(12:07):
football notes to get to. So we've got a lot
of things to get to on the program. But I
just wanted to say that I hope you know, on
a Tuesday, which tends to be for me and I
think for a lot of people. I know, Tuesday tends
to be the real grinder day of the week. You say,
why wouldn't Monday be, Well, a lot of time. Ever
since the pandemic, many more folks have taken the working
(12:28):
from home. So I've noticed the traffic isn't quite as
crazy on Monday as it is on Tuesday. Same thing
with Fridays, it's not as crazy as Wednesdays and Thursdays
might be Tuesday usually seems to be the worst day
for traffic, and it's.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
A real heavy duty grinder.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
A lot of companies have their big employee meetings on
Tuesday morning and that sort of thing, and in part
because some folks take three day weekends or whatever. So
Tuesday's a grinder of a day. I get it, and
we all have those as well. So within the context
and the work of the grinder of a Tuesday, there's
some other good things to get to and we'll do
(13:04):
that this afternoon. If you want to text us, feel
free to do so on the text line. What you
do is you text the word Texas follow by your
question or comment to eight one five three zero. Again,
text the word Texas follow by your question and comment
to eight one five three zero.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Standard messaging in data rates may apply. We'll get to
some of that.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
We've got stories to get to and a lot more
here on a Tuesday afternoon on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the zone of the IR Radio app.
Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the show here on Sports
(00:03):
Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone. By name is Craig Way.
I do thank you very much for joining us as
we try to navigate all that Tuesday and Tails. The
producer at least for one more day is Cole Dixon.
The reason why it's one more day is Bot Cameron
Parker is back Tomar and Cole gets to like go
back to being, you know, doing something really really meaningful,
(00:26):
you know, working with the kids there dripping springs and
so you know that's I guess maybe it's a good
palette cleanser for you to kind of come over and
you do this and you're like, Okay, now I get
a chance to go back to some work that really
matters here, right Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I mean both jobs matter of obviously, you know, not
discrediting this, but I'm ready to get back to class, man,
I really am. I miss the kiddos, I miss the
camaradity and the you know, structure of it. I need
structure in my life. You can't just let me off
the rails.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And if there's one thing that the radio business can
be from time to time, it is unstructured. You know.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It can be that way sometimes.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So that's good, No, I kid, because we do have structure,
and we do a lot of things, we format things
and the like.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
And there was meeting after meeting today.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Where we were, you know, talking over things that are
going to happen during the during the autumn, during the
football season. So there was a lot of structure and
all that kind of stuff today. But I will say
the same thing about your regular nine to five that
I say about my wife, Linda's regular job. And she
works as a specialized counselor and does that, and she's
(01:45):
also a licensed professional counselor, so she has clients and
she sees them and does sessions and.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
All that kind of stuff. And I always tell her, let.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Me tell you some your work is infinitely more important
than mine. I enjoy my work. I have a job
to do. I do take my work seriously. I do
try not to take myself seriously, taking my work seriously
my preparation for calling games or doing this show, that
(02:14):
sort of thing. But I also understand the difference between
some things. It's just like, here's another example of this
last night. And people who've listened to this program know
that I'm a bit of a Dodgers fans, I think
I think people know that, and so.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I'm I'm really a fan of them.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And they had a pretty first of all, they had
a pretty big series with the Philadelphia Phillies that began
last night, the top to the top two teams in
the National League, at least the two best records in
the National League, and so that was important. Point number one.
Point number two was for the first time in ten days,
(02:52):
they got Freddie Freeman back in the lineup, and and
that was really cool and all. But if you understand
the reasons why he was not in the line of
last ten days, it gives you even more perspective. Freddie's son, Maxibus,
it was all of three years old, had just a
rare neurological disorder come up that pretty much paralyzed him.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
And it was touch.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And go for several days, and so Freddy left the
team to be with his wife and.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
A little boy in.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Orange County, California, and it was it was pretty scary
and pretty serious for a long time. On Sunday he
started to have good recovery to the point where Freddie
could go back to work. As the Dodgers came off
a road trip, and so they were back in the
LA area. So Freddie got emotional with the news conference,
(03:55):
kind of got choked up. His teammates all had had
t shirts that said Max Strong. In fact, the television
broadcasters were those. Last night, when he went to the plate,
there was a standing ovation, it was arring, and he
had to step out and kind of catch himself a
little bit as it was an emotional moment. He ended
up he ended up striking out that time. Then he
(04:17):
came up later and he got a base hit, and uh,
he was He had been, like I said, emotional in
the news conference prior to so as as people said,
you know, there are things that are infinitely more important
in life than a baseball game. There are things that
are infinitely more important in life than what we do
(04:37):
and what we talk about. And I try never to
lose perspective on that. And and maybe, and you know,
maybe it kind of makes some sense to have some
(04:58):
have a little bit of perspective even as we are
very much involved in the successes of the athletic programs
and professional teams that we have a vested rooting interest in.
Some have more than a rooting interest, some have whatever
a financial interest, or maybe they're an alumnus of a
(05:20):
certain school, so it means an awful lot to them.
And I've never lost sight of that, because you invest
a lot of yourself, be it financial and or emotional
and or the time element all the things that So
I never want to downplay that.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
But I think most folks, even those who are fans
of those kinds of big pro sports teams or even
college teams, and the athletic program, the totality of the
athletic program at the collegiate level is no bigger than
the one in this town. In terms of the total
(06:00):
athletic program. I'm talking about specific success or failure of
a football team or basketball team for Texas. I'm just
saying the totality of the athletic program is enormous, as
we know. And so there are many many alumni who
are so very much wrapped up in the success of
(06:21):
the program and get very very excited when things go well,
and sometimes get pretty unhappy when things don't go well.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You get that.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I understand that same thing that's been going on here
with the Olympics as well. Folks get really wrapped up
and excited about what's going on with Team USA, and
we've got more and updated stuff to get to and
we will here in a few minutes. But there is
a perspective element, I think, and I think it's important
to do that even as a guy as I sit here,
(06:50):
a guy who does.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Play by play for a living. A large part of
what I do is.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Calling Texas long worn football and men's basketball and women's
basketball and baseball games. Uh, doing those things, and doing
coaches shows, and and then and then of course the
regular daily job here, the day job, to talk about it,
to engage with the audience, be it through social media
or you know, through our uh you know, through our
(07:19):
text line, however it might be. And I really enjoy it,
and I understand my responsibility in it, and and I
do take all of that very very seriously. By the
same token is also understand what's the difference between that
and some of the other challenges that we may go
through in life. We've all been there, We've all had
those types of things where a sibling or a parent
(07:41):
or a child is facing a health crisis, and that's
the thing that has to drive you to that that
moment in time to take care of that so I
try not to lose sight of all of that while
at the same time understanding my role and my responsibility
to help folks. I've heard people tell me that, you know,
(08:04):
they they like it as being able to check out
of some of the difficulties of a day to day life.
I will never forget, and I think I've shared the
story on the air, but it's been a while that
if anybody, if I ever needed and I've never really
felt this way, but if I ever felt like I
(08:25):
needed any kind of validation that what I do is important.
But I've had a lot of people say, you know,
it's really they enjoy lists in the game or this
or that. But if I ever needed any other kind
of validation, there was no better one than the one
I got. And this was in December of nineteen ninety five.
(08:48):
I was doing high school football state championship game on radio.
And if it's between the number one and number two
teams in the state in Class two, a small clas classification,
Salina number one in the state, Alto number two in
the state, number one number two in the state. The
(09:09):
game pitted two communities, neither of which had more than
like twenty eight hundred residents in each community playing at
Texas Stadium, and there were eighteen thousand people there that
night because they knew it was important in the communities
knew and other people that knew that it was going
to be probably going to be a really good game,
(09:30):
and it was. It had seven league changes, It went
back and forth. It was this tremendous game, and in
the end Solina won it to win the state championship.
They won thirty two to twenty eight. It was this
great game. Okay, fine, let's call the game.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
And that was that.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
A few days later I got A few days later,
I received the latter, and it was from a gentleman
who was in a VA hospital in Bottom, which is
up astride the Red River, and it was the station
in Bottom that happened to Carrie Salina's broadcast which I
was working. And he wrote a letter to me and
(10:08):
and said in the letter that he was a Vietnam
veteran and had lost both of his legs. I think
it was a landmine something like that. He said he
was also blinded by it, and he was in the
hospital and he said, I have.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
A lot of bad days up here.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I just wanted you to know, but I also want
you to know for three hours, I didn't think about
any of it, and it didn't really come to mind
because I was so caught up in the broadcast that
you did. And he said, I just want to thank
you for and that's when I said, Okay, I've done
my job.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That's when you know you've done your job. That's now.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
We don't get visible audible you know out of boys
like that that often we don't and we don't need them.
I mean, we know if we've done our job and
all that kind of stuff, but that sort of thing,
that's a making a difference kind of thing. And I know, Cole,
you you have visible, tangible moments with those you work
(11:08):
with students who have very in degrees of autism, that
that you have tangible, visible moments where you know the
work paid off and was a bit validated.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Oh yeah, I mean even the smallest victory, at least
to me, is huge, sure, because if we're working on
something for nine months and then you know, comes to fruition,
even if it's just for you know, we're trying to
work on like a word, and then they say part
of whe I'm like, that's there. You go good, that's
my weekly win. I'm good with that. Yeah, exactly, count
(11:43):
the small victories exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So that's what I'm talking about, those kinds of things
and those kinds of victories in life that we all
look forward to. Okay, just wanted to say that now
we're going to go to victories on the on the
field of play in the Olympics. Big news for the
US women's soccer team today, Men's basketball playing it's metal
Round game in the quarterfinals against Brazil. There's baseball and
(12:07):
football notes to get to. So we've got a lot
of things to get to on the program. But I
just wanted to say that I hope you know, on
a Tuesday, which tends to be for me and I
think for a lot of people. I know, Tuesday tends
to be the real grinder day of the week. You say,
why wouldn't Monday be, Well, a lot of time. Ever
since the pandemic, many more folks have taken the working
(12:28):
from home. So I've noticed the traffic isn't quite as
crazy on Monday as it is on Tuesday. Same thing
with Fridays, it's not as crazy as Wednesdays and Thursdays
might be Tuesday usually seems to be the worst day
for traffic, and it's.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
A real heavy duty grinder.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
A lot of companies have their big employee meetings on
Tuesday morning and that sort of thing, and in part
because some folks take three day weekends or whatever. So
Tuesday's a grinder of a day. I get it, and
we all have those as well. So within the context
and the work of the grinder of a Tuesday, there's
some other good things to get to and we'll do
(13:04):
that this afternoon. If you want to text us, feel
free to do so on the text line. What you
do is you text the word Texas follow by your
question or comment to eight one five three zero. Again,
text the word Texas follow by your question and comment
to eight one five three zero.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Standard messaging in data rates may apply. We'll get to
some of that.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
We've got stories to get to and a lot more
here on a Tuesday afternoon on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the zone of the IR Radio app.
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