Michael Taafe, Anthony Hill, and Colin Simmons talk spring practices, players to watch and Arch Manning

It's a Fire Me Up Friday on The Craig Way Show. Craig and Cameron talk Texas Baseball's comeback victory after Auburn last night and look ahead to the final two games of the series. Hear from Texas Football players Michael Taafe, Anthony Hill, and Colin Simmons with just a week left in spring practices. Our resident MLB insider Gene Watson joins to share his thoughts on the MLB season to this point.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So what is Resat would have in her a walk
back in the first roundouts up the middle in the
fourth and sixth.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
If she reaches, Texas wins. Who if she's put out,
we go extra three to three.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Bottom of the seventh, Verson first pitch, swinging the.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Drive left field. It's a walk off.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
Thrand slam off the wall of the building across the street.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Texas wins, and.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
The Longhorns down three nothing going to the sixth, come
all the way back. They beat LSU seven to three.

Speaker 5 (00:33):
In the first game.

Speaker 6 (00:35):
From UFCU diche falunk Field. It's the Texas long Horns
against the Auburn Tigers in the weekend three game series open.
The first payoff pitch of the evening is strike three,
called right on the outside corner on a change up
that Irish did not like the call of the home
played umpire Jason Bradley. But it's a strikeout and the

(00:55):
inning's over stretch.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Here's the pitch and that's hit.

Speaker 6 (00:59):
On the ground, sharp like, knocked down by Borba. His
only clay will be the first if he can get
it there in time, and he does a one hopper
from Casey Borba into Kimball Schusler at first to record
the owls won in over count the Ethan Mendoza.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
The stretch in the.

Speaker 6 (01:15):
Pitch, swung on in the ground ball and that's gonna
make it up the middle of ace hit Rounding third,
Tommy Farmer will come in the score. Ethan Mendoza dries
it right up the middle for an RBI single. The
Longhorns are on the board. It's now two to one.
Are no balls, two strikes to count and the two
hitch to Cooper McMurray and he swings.

Speaker 7 (01:31):
It lines it.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
Oh my goodness, was that caught. Oh my goodness, what
a catch by Max Grubbs.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
I caught it, hit him in the head.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
He caught it in the glove for out number one.

Speaker 6 (01:43):
Amazing, no balls, two strikes, two outs. Here's the wine
up from Grubs and the two swing and a miss.
He struck him out one, two, three. Max Grubbs, with
the help of his own self defense.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
Clears out the inning. Here's flores pitch.

Speaker 6 (02:00):
Jalon Squintson drives this one toward the alley of the
right center. He'll get down for extra bases. Rounding third
to tie the game is Ethan Mendoza floors around second
trouble for the center fielder to pick it up. Shalen
will make it the third. The game is tied to two.
Shalen floors triples into the alley. Three balls, two strikes,
two outs from the stretch, the payoff pitch from Max

(02:23):
Grubbs with the runners in motion.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
Swinging a miss struck him out.

Speaker 6 (02:27):
All of the big strike out from Max Grubbs and
Max and the log Hoorns are out of the top
of the seventh inning.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
The down full of Kimball Schusler.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
Here's the pitch swung on the ball hit well out
toward left.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
You can say good night to.

Speaker 6 (02:40):
This one off the back wall of the ballpen, driving
it out of the ballpark. Kimball's Shusler puts the log
Horns in front for the first time that I Texas
leads it three to two. Many fans rising to their
feet now looking for the strike out. No balls, two strikes,
two outs, the two good morning, afternoon of good night,

(03:01):
three pitch swinging strikeouts. Bob Terrell goes down swinging, and
Dylan Valantis sets the Tigers down one, two three. In
the eighth let's stretch from Valantis. Here's the go two
pitch swing and a miss Freylik strikes out, they'll completely
put out with a throwdown the first and the Texas
log Worns have taken game one of this weekend SEC

(03:25):
series from the eighth ranked Auburn Tigers. Final score Texas three,
Auburn two. And I'll tell you this, if all of
our weekends starts, all the ones that we have to
start on Thursday, start off that nicely. From a Texas perspective,
I'll take it. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the program

(03:48):
here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zoners, we
come your way from UFCU dish fark Field yet again,
where the Texas long Worns will play the Auburn Tigers
game two of the three game weekend series here at
the ballpark.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
It'd say six o'clock first pitch.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
If you're holding tickets for that, and I know it
says on your ticket, it probably says, well, I say
the digital tickets, since everything's digital these days. But on
the schedule where it said seven o'clock, remember it was
moved forward by one hour to six o'clock tonight. And
then tomorrow's game instead of being two in the afternoon,
we'll have a first pitch.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Of high noon.

Speaker 6 (04:26):
It'll be at noon tomorrow for the third pitch or
the third game, first pitch of the third and final
game of that series. My name is Craig White. Thanks
so much for joining us this afternoon. Of course, the
producer back in the studio did such an outstanding job
bringing in that little highlight montage is the one and
only Cameron D.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
Parker.

Speaker 6 (04:46):
The D on the birth certificate stands for Dallas, as
in his favorite pro football team that he steadfastly refuses
to watch, at least for the time being. But here
it is a very warm afternoon, and Cam, this is
like being at this ballpark in June for a regional

(05:07):
hot and windy with the wind blowing out toward left.
You know, everybody was kind of surprised that last night's
came was not more high scoring and that more balls
did not leave the ballpark. Only Kimball Schusler out to
left where the wind was blowing. Now, Ike Irish blasted
one over deep right center into the tree beyond the
four h five portion indinge of that right centerfield wall.

(05:32):
But it is hot, it is breezy. Hey, you made
it out here last night for a little bit of baseball.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
I did, Craigan, I'm right there with you.

Speaker 8 (05:40):
I thought there was gonna be a couple more home
run blasts last night. Ike Irish's home run off the bat.
I thought, okay, maybe a pop up to left center.
But that thing got up in the wind and it
just took it over the right field fence. And but
fortunately for Texas Kimball Schusler, who went yard over the
left hand side of Dishfalnk Field. So we'll see the night.

(06:00):
But yeah, this weather, it does not feel like April eighteenth.
It feels more like June eighteenth. So I'm guessing the
bats will be a little bit more more popping today
and tomorrow, depending on the weather.

Speaker 6 (06:13):
Well, and it's funny you mentioned that popping the bat
and depending on the weather.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
And here's where I'm going with this.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
Both the Oklahoma Missouri and Texas A and m Arkansas
series are having to play double headers today. They're expecting
some really inclement weather tomorrow in both the state of
Missouri and in the state of Arkansas. Of course, they
bordered one another, and so they're playing right now, game

(06:40):
one of a double header. Oklahoma's up ninety four at Missouri.
That's in the bottom of sixth Missouri. By the way,
it's owen sixteen in the SEC, but it's nine to
four Oklahoma. Now, for those who did not hear last night,
Texas A and M beat Arkansas seven to four. That,
coupled with the law Horn victory, now has Texas in

(07:02):
front by two full games in the SEC standings.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
But I think a more I don't know notice, certainly.

Speaker 6 (07:13):
To take note of is the fact that Texas A
and M now has won seven in a row. They
turned their season around. Of course, the Aggies will be
here next weekend, and so they're playing Game two, Game
two of the series, the first of a doubleheader, and
what happens. Jay s Laviolette just did a two run
homer in the top of the first, So the Aggies
are already out again on Arkansas. It is two to

(07:35):
nothing and they're still batting in the top of the
first inning.

Speaker 5 (07:37):
On that A and M is seven and nine in
the league.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
Remember they were one and nine, And they've actually won
eight straight games, six straight in SEC play, eight in
a row overall, and they're twenty two and fifteen, so
they're climbing back into respectability. If you finish five hundred
in the SEC and get beyond thirty wins, you stand
a decent shot of landing in a regional, which seemed

(08:02):
absolutely impossible as recent as two weeks ago. But for
A and M, winning that series in Knoxville against then
at the time number one right in Tennessee has proven
to be a real jump starter for them. So the
Aggies starting to play like the team that was the
preseason number one. The current number one team, of course,
is Texas, and they won here last night a thrilling ballgame,

(08:25):
a three to two. And you know, that's one of
those games, cam where if you're a neutral observer or
even if you're rooting for Auburn, this is where you
insert that phrase it was a great ballgame if you
didn't care who won the game.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
You know, one of those deals.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
And I think you could say it even from the
Texas perspective, although obviously long worn fans are delighted to
get the win down to nothing and turned it around.
And you right here to see that huge crowd over
seventy two hundred, and this whole series is sold out
of the weekend.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, fantastic environment.

Speaker 8 (08:57):
The dish last night, I mean, what a great cred
out on deck for last night, and there was some
fantastic baseball being played. The Max Grubbs catch off the
hot shot right back to him. I could not believe
he caught that in the moment I thought for sure
he took something to the hedge and older and then

(09:18):
the way he kind of turned around and held the
glove up and then got down on one knee to
the umpart of the show.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, that's right, I caught that.

Speaker 8 (09:25):
I mean, I want to play the entire Texas infield
and outfield turned around to the scoreboard to look at
the replay on that. It was a fantastic play and
for taxes, good to see Adrian Rodriguez pick up a
big hit during that game. Then Kimball's you know, big
home run. So fantastic comeback for Texas. There at was

(09:45):
thirteen now fourteen comebacks on.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
Fourteen come from behind wins.

Speaker 6 (09:50):
Yeah for this team and and.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
They're having it. And we heard Jim Schlasnagel.

Speaker 6 (09:57):
Talk about this after the game with Keith last night,
and that was that this particular incarnation of this Texas
team within the season itself different ball club than it
was early in the year when they were playing in
Arlington in Las Vegas and the start of SEC play

(10:18):
down in Startville.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
Because of the.

Speaker 6 (10:19):
Injuries, this team has to go about it differently in
terms of finding ways to win. Jim said something to
me a week ago about you know, just you know,
win any way, and you can say win anyway or
win any way three different words. And and so that's

(10:42):
that's kind of what they're having to deal with, is
try to find a way to win because they've got
three guys, one of which is completely out of the lineup,
and the other two guys are banged up but are playing.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
Now.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
They've had to go to Ethan Mendoza in the d
eighth spot because of that banged up shoulder, so he's
not ready to go into the field.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
He'll be day to day.

Speaker 6 (11:04):
And and and of course Ethan, you know, all he
does last night is a pick up two hits and
an RBI and a run scored. So Mendoza continues to
swing the bat really well, but he's not one hundred
percent because of the shoulder, and that's why he's having
a DH. So if you d H him, then you
look at the thing with Max Blue out of the lineup,

(11:25):
and then Adrian Rodriguez, who they did DH at the
start of the weekend series in Kentucky, but now the
necessity is to play him in the field so that
they can DH Mendoza. So he was in the left
field and so that means Jade to Plantier at second
bason while the Plantier is struggling at the plate. He
flashed his range last night and was able to make
some plays and that was good to see as well

(11:47):
help the ball club in whatever way you can.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
So there's all of that now.

Speaker 6 (11:52):
Having said all of that, and we're going to take
a break here in a few minutes and then you're
we're gonna have some football conversation coming up. But uh,
the other thing that you had in the highlight montage
was the walk off grand slam. That was that was
something else to see and because it was as as
you heard on the call by Andrew Haynes, Texas was

(12:15):
down three nothing one of the bottom of the six,
me Scott hits a home run, get back to back
homers to tie it at three, and then of course
hit the wall. They get the walk off grand slam
in the bottom of the seven with two outs to
win so h a great moment there for saftball. That's
what I meant when I said I if if an
early start to a weekend, in this case case a

(12:36):
holiday weekend, if an early start to the weekend includes
moments like that, you know, like Reese Atwood's walk off
grand Slam and the Longhorns rallying back to win, and
Shuster with that rocket of a home run he hit
out to left. If you're a Texas fan, you'll certainly
take that all right. Speaking of being Texas fan, if

(12:58):
you're a long Horn football fan, stay tuned because we're
gonna hear from three different Longhorns throughout the course of
the program this afternoon who've been involved in spring practice,
which has one more week to go. And in the
four o'clock hour, we'll hear from Anthony Hill, who is
of course preseason top rated linebacker, preseason All American. In

(13:21):
the three o'clock hour, we'll hear from Colin Simmons, the
returning sack leader and probably going to be a preseason
All American. But coming up here in just a few moments,
the everyman for this long Gorn football program, especially on
the defensive side, Michael taff Will we'll be up and
we'll hear him from spring football. Also, this being a Friday,

(13:44):
we do have inconceivable. Cam, you know what Friday with
inconceivable means for everybody.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Florida, Florida Man, Friday Baby.

Speaker 5 (13:51):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 6 (13:52):
And we've got a couple of doozies because it is,
after all, Florida Man.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
So we've got that.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
And uh and then and also we'll have you'll hear
from Jim Schlossnegel again as well prior to Game two
of this series. So all that and more coming up.
Stay with us. Got an action pack Friday. Glad to
have you with us here from the ballpark. I'm thirteen
under the zone. This is to fire me up Friday.
And that's why Cam is rolling back with Don't Fear
the Reaper, because it fires him up there. Even though

(14:21):
I don't know about you, Cameron, I can't hear that
song anymore without thinking of Saturday Night Live and Will
Ferrell and the Great Christopher walkin.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
I gotta have more cow bell.

Speaker 8 (14:31):
I'm right there with you, but she now like you
can hear the cow bells and that's all you can
think of.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
But hey, it's still a rocking song. It is, it is,
It is a great deal.

Speaker 6 (14:41):
Updating that game going on in Fayetteville, A and m
now up three nothing on Arkansas with the basis lotus
is they battened the top of the second. If the
Aggies win that game, they win the series, and then
there's one more game to be played. They're playing the doubleheader.
Two dodge the weather in Arki's always able to get
out of the inning. So it's three nothing and them
going to the bottom of third. Texas with a two

(15:02):
game lead on Arkansas in the SEC standings and Oklahoma's
up eleven to four in Missouri that's top of the
seventh as the Sooners are closing on winning that series,
and I'll try to win the doubleheader and sweep that
one as well. All right, we'll step away from baseball
for a moment and talk some Longhorn football. But before

(15:23):
we do that, I do want to mention, since we
were talking music, you mentioned, Cameron that you're a fan
of Laney Wilson. Correct, of course. Okay, all right, So
the reason why I say this is because you've got
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(15:43):
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Speaker 6 (15:48):
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It's free, and there's even.

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(16:19):
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Speaker 5 (16:39):
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Speaker 6 (16:43):
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Speaker 5 (16:50):
Today's keyword is nose dive. Nose dive? Now is that
the song? Is it a lyric?

Speaker 7 (16:58):
Is it? Do you know?

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (17:01):
Man, you know you always ask him what his keywords mean,
and I never have. I never really have.

Speaker 9 (17:06):
You do.

Speaker 6 (17:06):
Sometimes I'm totally clueless on a lot of them. That's
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Speaker 8 (17:11):
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Speaker 6 (17:19):
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(17:39):
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Speaker 5 (17:48):
Which is nose dive.

Speaker 6 (17:50):
All right, Uh, let's let's dive right into hearing some
long worn football talk. The man who's the veteran, the senior,
the former walk on uh and became an All American
last year.

Speaker 5 (18:02):
Long worn safety Michael Tapp.

Speaker 10 (18:05):
What's it like about today?

Speaker 11 (18:08):
It's kind of sad.

Speaker 12 (18:09):
Uh, Like we always talk about how fun that was
playing together.

Speaker 11 (18:16):
You know, when you're.

Speaker 12 (18:17):
Three of the top five dbs ranked on some of
these you know sources in the country. You all play
on the same team, and you also are all best friends.
Like that's a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Speaker 11 (18:29):
So it's sad. I text him a lot, like missing
you guys.

Speaker 12 (18:33):
We also were always on the same page, so that
was that was a lot of fun. But I mean
it's cool to you know, branch out to different avenues
of friendships. You know, I never would have thought me
and Jolwanne, you know, coming into this, me and Jolene
would have been best friends. And now we're, you know,
like brothers, and just because the positions that we've been
put in, and so you know, it's so cool to

(18:55):
see like where God has put you in your life.

Speaker 11 (18:57):
Because like two.

Speaker 12 (18:59):
Years younger than me, I thought I was coming out
in four years, so I never really would have crossed
paths with Johnny. He came in as a linebacker, played quarterback,
in high school and now we're playing side by side
best friends. So it's sad that we're missing those guys,
but I'm glad and excited for the new new friendships.

Speaker 13 (19:18):
Money seems pretty happy, good latch because you turn it
on when he's on the field.

Speaker 12 (19:23):
Yeah, just go watch the tame he can he can
turn it on for sure. He's he's put on a
show this year.

Speaker 14 (19:27):
I'm kind of picky back up the ship's question because
of the two of your best friends and one with
the team, did that force you can kind of quarter
as a.

Speaker 10 (19:33):
Bigger branch out to different guys who you wouldn't finish
right to live by a wise.

Speaker 11 (19:39):
Yeah, good question. I think you know.

Speaker 12 (19:42):
I try to do a really good job of, you know,
the guy that maybe doesn't talk to a lot of
people in the locker room, go reach it out.

Speaker 11 (19:47):
Hey, how are you doing? What school are you from?

Speaker 10 (19:50):
Again?

Speaker 11 (19:50):
Like how many are you the oldest, youngest?

Speaker 12 (19:52):
I try to try to get those questions out there early,
just because you know, I know what it's like being
a freshman, and even more, I know it's like being
a freshman walk on where nobody even really knows who
you are, so you don't have the stars to, like,
you know, be on social media, coming in as a freshman,
so I know what that's like. I know what it's
like just being you know, just kind of going through things,
going through adversity, and not a lot of people know

(20:13):
about it because you don't talk about it, and but
maybe somebody notices. So I try to do that my best.
But yes, it has been a great step for me
to note. I think it's gotten me out of my
comfort zone. It's kind of the way to say it,
because there's times where I could just rely on Andrew
and Jodday, like they know what I'm talking about here,
but you know, I got I gotta get different ways

(20:36):
of communication and got to get out of my comfort
comfort zone in some aspects.

Speaker 15 (20:40):
What are some of the fighting details that you're.

Speaker 16 (20:42):
Working out of your game?

Speaker 11 (20:44):
Is consistent tackling.

Speaker 12 (20:48):
This might get a laugh at some of y'all, but
I tend to tackle high at times, so I'm trying
to work on lower pad level tackling, lower striking, you know,
the hips instead of maybe the helmets sometimes, So you know,
I consistent tackling for one to just mastering your crafts.

Speaker 11 (21:07):
I always try to preach on get.

Speaker 12 (21:09):
Really really good at what you're good at, and try
to stay really good at that, and then bring up
all the weaknesses so you don't really have any weaknesses
in your game. So not only am I try to
up my weaknesses, but like the things that I'm really
good at, I still harp on those all the time,
because you can't lose the things that you're good at.

Speaker 7 (21:26):
Ever.

Speaker 12 (21:28):
I believe I'm good at, you know, having a really
good sense of the game of football, zone coverage and
knowing where the quarterback is gonna go with the ball,
a getting a step in the ground before anybody else.
I believe I'm really good at communication and knowing what
the offense is trying to do. I believe when the
ball's in the air, I try to go get in.
I always believe it's mine.

Speaker 9 (21:48):
Anfield, there's a good chance last season's both in off
How would you describe the roles that you play office uns?

Speaker 12 (21:55):
Yeah, and is a phenomenal player, a phenomenal person, but
always brings a lot of juice. He's one of those
guys like I never knew anybody personally on that twenty
twenty one Georgia team, but it seemed like when they
stepped on the field, it was like, all right, dog status.
That's kind of how Anthony Hill is like when he
steps on the field. He can joke around, but when
he steps on the field, it's like, nobody's my friend here.

Speaker 11 (22:18):
If you're across the ball from me, you're not my friend.
I don't care.

Speaker 12 (22:21):
If you're my best friend in the locker room, you're
not my friend. So he's got that juice to that dog.

Speaker 10 (22:25):
Too, the energy and like juice that a lot of
these young guys are bringing.

Speaker 8 (22:29):
And Colin I know he's not the youngest anymore, but
like that's what everyone's been talking about.

Speaker 10 (22:33):
How much Juic said was bring me.

Speaker 8 (22:34):
How does the coaching staff kind of try to bring
that out of everybody and play with that energy and
that juice.

Speaker 12 (22:40):
Yeah, well, the I think it's really cool learning from
different coaching staffs, learning from different coaches individually. They've kind
of hit on this part of it where it's like,
if you have a young team, yes, it's gonna be
really difficult to get the playbook down early in spring,
to get the culture set early. It's to get the

(23:00):
little minute details early in the spring.

Speaker 11 (23:03):
But the one thing you can't lose. Is everybody's got juice.

Speaker 12 (23:05):
Everybody's hyper, everybody's so excited to be at the University
of Texas playing the game that they love.

Speaker 11 (23:11):
So collect all that stuff that's really.

Speaker 12 (23:13):
Positive that young guys bring and then add the veteran
ship that you have, put it together and you got
you got a juice up squad. So trying to bring
the benefits out of everybody.

Speaker 10 (23:23):
Michael, what's the first month really been like?

Speaker 11 (23:25):
Like Dwayne Tina, Yeah, it's been awesome.

Speaker 17 (23:29):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (23:29):
He demands excellen.

Speaker 16 (23:30):
Side of you.

Speaker 11 (23:30):
He uh.

Speaker 12 (23:32):
He doesn't do a lot of patting on your back,
which I love and I appreciate because you know, I've
been in that spot all my life where it's like look.

Speaker 11 (23:40):
Down, look down, look down, and then.

Speaker 12 (23:41):
I have a really good season and it's all American
sadd's you're the guy, You're the guy, You're the guy. Well, now,
Dwayne Keena coach Akina comes in. He's like, no, your
standard's up here. You're here, your standards all the way
up here. If you wanna, if you want to act
like you're good, I've coached Michael Hough. The standard has
been upped and up and up. And the other thing

(24:02):
is we have really, really good gas. I want to
point those out, you know, Malik, Malik and Pat. You
can look them up on on Safari. Those guys have
been working their tails off because what they do is
nobody will ever notice, but they do a lot for
this team. They do a lot for this defensive back room,
and it's so cool. They're up here till nine pm

(24:23):
on February and in time where we're not even playing, and.

Speaker 11 (24:27):
So they've taught me a whole lot.

Speaker 12 (24:30):
I love, you know, bsing with them and hanging out
with them and talking ball with them because they're they're
every every person on this in this room has a job,
and no jobs too small, new jobs too big. So
obviously coach Akina is one of the best coaches I've
been around, and he's taught me so much already.

Speaker 11 (24:49):
But he elevates everybody's game.

Speaker 12 (24:52):
He elevates everybody in the room, not if you're just
a player, but also staff, and Milik and and Pat
have been doing a heck of a job.

Speaker 11 (24:58):
I want to shout those guys out.

Speaker 10 (25:00):
Someone moved to corner.

Speaker 18 (25:03):
What have you seen from him out there?

Speaker 14 (25:05):
And I guess Wardel Max was playing a lot at
nicol What have you.

Speaker 18 (25:09):
Seen from him?

Speaker 12 (25:11):
Yeah, Gilbert came in as a corner, so I feel
like it's pretty natural for him. That switched the star
was definitely natural for him freshman sophomore year, and now
that he's back at corner, playing a little bit of corner.
You know, the the starting five in set with positions,
with strings, nothing set right now. There there gonna be

(25:33):
a time where coach Akina says, you know, sixteen, you're
one of the best five safeties and we have four
of the best five safeties. I mean best five DB's
are safety, so you gotta go play corner. How Coach
a Kina does it is the best five dbs. So
if you're in that best five dB category, then you'll
trut out with the ones. So there's no set in stone.

(25:53):
Who's the starters, who's the ones, who's the two's, who's corner,
who's nickel, who's safety? You gotta be the best five
dbs and that that helps you grow your game to
be ersatal.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
He's been the.

Speaker 14 (26:04):
Biggest hurdle without Dana.

Speaker 12 (26:10):
Man, you are making me give too much credits to
Jody Andrew. Just the comfortability that I had with them,
and they were guys that could lead, that can communicate,
but also you cut on the tape, they're making plays
and so and every defense you need guys like aunt Hill,
like Colin Simmons that are just making plays. And that's

(26:30):
what Jody Andrew were. So you know, having to rely
on other guys to really step in and make those
plays and see who can make those plays.

Speaker 19 (26:37):
You have an appreciation and a knowledge of Texas football
history in his recent year. So like you hear that
Akina is coming on board, You're probably the super jacked,
but the other guys in the room, he's probably just
another coach. Did he have to like sell himself like, hey,
you know, here's who I am, here are my credentials
or how did that go first first re meeting?

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (27:00):
Coach a kinda has always preached trust is earned. So
no matter what how many draft picks I've had, no
matter forty people off put in the league since I've
been coaching, I got to earn your trust.

Speaker 11 (27:12):
You got to earn my trust. And so it goes
both ways.

Speaker 12 (27:16):
And so he's always trying to you know, if I'm
gonna rip somebody, I'm also gonna love him just as
much because I need that connection with them in order
to rip them, so they know where I'm coming from.
And so he didn't come in talking about, you know,
how many draft picks he's had, how many national championships
he's won, how many you know, top five defenses he's coached.
He came in, I want to gan y'ell's trust, so

(27:38):
then y'all can believe me when I say, Hey, I
coach Michael Huff, I coach Kwandre Diggs and so forth
and so on.

Speaker 15 (27:45):
Michael last year, about this time, Jade this year, you
talked about his competitive spirit and he said he's spoken
to Quinn. He says, my job, my old goal is
to get an interception on your friends.

Speaker 12 (27:56):
Have you had that same conversation with Art, Yeah, I
mean talking a lot of trash, So definitely share words
about I'm gonna pick you off. He's doing a heck
of a job in spring right now. Arch freshman year
to Arch now is nine and day difference. He's playing
so smart, so mature, so calm, and then also, oh,

(28:17):
by the way, he's also got a really good arm.
He can throw, and he's you know who he is,
and he's a ballplayer. So he's doing a really good,
really good job. We talk a lot of trash, but
it's it's so cool. I saw what he said to
y'all about you know, this is where I want to
be and so in the in the day and age
of college football right now, that is that is so cool.
The cool thing about here is everything going on colorable.

(28:41):
Everybody's freaking out. What's happening with culturable. We're so naive
to that. Like our locker room is so naive to that.
Nobody talks about financials. Nobody talks about really the transfer
portal and who's gonna leave, who's not gonna leave, who
are we gonna bring in? We talk about like like
if Kandrey Diggs came into the locker room, he'd be like, yeah,
it's pretty much the same as when I when I played,

(29:02):
and there's no transfer portal, there's no n I L
because we're just so you know, we have a great culture,
We're bonded with one another, we have strong in our faith,
and we just love the game of football. We love
the University of Texas. So that's the coolest thing. That's
something to look forward to if you're a Longhorn fan
is like, yes, college football is crazy right now, but
I don't see a lot of that going on in

(29:22):
out of the locker room, which is really cool in the dB,
you know, across.

Speaker 18 (29:27):
The whole DV room, who stood out to you? Shown
you little.

Speaker 12 (29:33):
Sucking Grayson Littleton plays with his hair on fire. He's
he's a really good player. He's gonna be a stud
for us, whether that's this year, whether that's a couple
of years down the road, He's gonna be a really
good player. Uh knows the game, plays physical, plays with
a you know, a great amount of effort. And the
other player that's been here a lot but keeps showing

(29:54):
up every spring fall camp is Warren Robson playing really
really good man coverage, showing great deal maturity and his
own coverage and disguising his pictures.

Speaker 11 (30:06):
So he's he's a guy to look out.

Speaker 17 (30:08):
For the left head of the offense. Because the offense
lost four line starters and flave receivers and died.

Speaker 12 (30:16):
Yeah, you would think so on paper, but they also
got a pretty good guy by the name of Arch
Manning if you've ever heard of him. So he yeah,
he makes some plays on his own but I mean,
you know, the game of football is the greatest game
on this earth because it's a team It's one of
the only team sports that you really need everybody to go.

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You need your left tackle for for Arch to throw
a great pass, you need the receiver run the right route,
neither running back to block or you know, get out
whenever he needs to get out to throw the check down.
And so they've they've won their days. We won our days.
We like to make you competitive. You know, I'm a
defensive guy, so I would say that we won more
days than lost. But you know, if Arch got up here,

(30:59):
he'd probably say that he won more days in loss.

Speaker 11 (31:01):
So it's kind of going back and forth. It's fun.

Speaker 14 (31:03):
What's it been like to just hear Archie voice louder
and being more of that leader in the locker room.

Speaker 10 (31:08):
Compared to your time.

Speaker 11 (31:10):
Yeah, I think Arch is a natural born leader.

Speaker 12 (31:13):
You could tell freshman sophomore year when he really wanted
to lead, but he knew that his time was gonna come,
and he knew that.

Speaker 11 (31:21):
You know, QB one is the one that has.

Speaker 12 (31:23):
The voice, so it was cool to see him be
QB two and you know, walk up to somebody and
be like, Hey, this is what you want to do,
This is what you need to do, this is what
you know I do if I was in your position,
and so on and so forth. So it's really cool
to see him go from you know, kind of a
silent leader but still being a leader to now the
guy you know, running up to everybody, you know, motivating them,
you know, pumping them up, but then also talking trash

(31:45):
to other people to get them going, get their gears started.

Speaker 11 (31:48):
So it's been so cool to see that transition, for sure.

Speaker 6 (31:51):
Ah, in wisdom of Michael Taff the long horns of
veteran safety. All right, let me take he's gonna come
out to get us back on track here or we're gonna.
I don't want to rush through Inconceivable because it's really
good obviously on Friday, meaning Florida man, and there's a
couple of items that we just can't short change. So

(32:15):
what we're gonna do is, I'm gonna move. We will
move Inconceivable back by one hour. It'll be right about
this time, in the three o'clock hour. But we've got
something good for you coming. I just went downstairs and
visited with Jim Slosnakle, the Long Horns head coach, and
we're gonna get his thoughts on tonight's second game of

(32:35):
this series between Texas and Auburn. That's up next when
we continue on thirteen under the Zone. I was down
on the field and had an opportunity to visit with
Long Horns head coach Jim Slasnangle. I think you were
probably as surprised as a lot of people have thought
looking at that wind blowing out and it was like
that last night, that a three to two ball game.
But it was a well played baseball game, no matter
who you were rooting for.

Speaker 20 (32:55):
Yeah, I thought it was just an incredibly well pitched game.

Speaker 21 (32:58):
You know, we had to two out hits, and I
think Shooster's homer was with one out, maybe two outs. Uh,
And of course they had the big two run homer.
But I thought that Dutton did a great job of
keeping the ball on the ground against us and Max
obviously when he had to come in and he's that's
what he does is to sink the ball. So uh yeah, uh,

(33:20):
but I imagine's probably gonna flip around the day.

Speaker 17 (33:23):
Uh.

Speaker 21 (33:23):
That's how usually baseball goes. But we'll see.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
One thing that Kimball said in the post came with
Keith I found pretty interesting, and I know coaches probably take.

Speaker 5 (33:32):
Some pride of this.

Speaker 6 (33:33):
He talked about the scouting reports and looking and he said,
and I knew if he got two strikes on me,
he's going to try to try to do that. That
slider or that breaking bottle made me think of the
whole thing about Ecker's leady Kirk Gibson in the back,
the back door slider on three two, that.

Speaker 5 (33:48):
Kind of thing. But I mean, that doesn't coach is heartgood?

Speaker 6 (33:50):
Isn't it though that the guys remember, recall the scouting
reporter and then use it to their advantage.

Speaker 20 (33:57):
Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 21 (33:57):
I mean, I think you know, he can't be a
slave to it, because we also had this kind of
report that Dunton was mostly four seam fastball and likes
to ride his fastball, and then he comes into the
game and he's sinking his fastball. So, uh, you go
into it with a plan, then you have to adjust
as it goes. But yeah, I think that may have
been the first breaking ball the guy through of his appearance, Myers,

(34:19):
because everything else he had the good fastball going so yeah, thankful.

Speaker 20 (34:23):
You know, it's not just that he was on the
breaking ball. He was a bad breaking ball.

Speaker 21 (34:26):
You know, if you I'm sure, if you know, nobody
hits the good ones, you hope to be able to
hit the mistakes.

Speaker 6 (34:30):
I always asked you about your pitching playing off of this.
Of course, Landi's only had the first twenty pitches. I know,
if you needed him to get the win, to win
the series, you'd go for it. You'd like to avoid him.
But it all starts with Luke.

Speaker 5 (34:42):
And I don't.

Speaker 20 (34:43):
Yeah, it does. He's got to. You know, there's such
a talent lineup.

Speaker 21 (34:48):
The fact that I told Keith last night, the fact
that there are too many college programs or just have
enough player good enough players where you can stack all
your lefties right in a row, and that just tells
you that they handle the.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Left handed pitching. You know.

Speaker 21 (35:00):
Errol hits the ball all over the field, Irish hits
the ball all over the field, and McMurray hits it over.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
All the fields.

Speaker 21 (35:06):
But yeah, we're gonna I mean, Luke's got to do
a good job of throwing strikes and limiting the damage
with the wind blowing out.

Speaker 6 (35:13):
Yeah, it's as simple as that. Because the wind is
blowing out. It's eighty nine degrees right now here the ballpark,
so it's hot and breezy, and that wind is blowing
out of the south like it normally does, so it
is really going to help fly balls hit out to left.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Now.

Speaker 6 (35:31):
Shustler's home run last night didn't need any help. It
was a missile and it got out. But anything that's
just sent in the air, and there were a couple
that were put into the air by Auburn that drifted
toward the warning track that were definitely helped by the breeze.
Anything that's hit like that last that was hit like
it was last night, hit tonight, it'll probably leave the ballpark,
so we could have a high scoring game on our hands.

Speaker 7 (35:52):
We'll see.

Speaker 6 (35:53):
Luke Harrison's task will be to keep the ball down
and try to go from there. All right, we'll be
back to wrap up our number one from here at
UFCU dish falk Field. I'm thirteen out of the hour
number two of the program. Here, I'm thirteen under the zone.
Craig Way with you from UFCU dishwauk Field, Texas.

Speaker 5 (36:10):
Longhorns going through some early work on the field.

Speaker 6 (36:14):
And then of course there's Game two of the series
tonight against the Auburn Tigers. It is a six o'clock
first pitch, I know, on all the schedules at seven,
but they moved it, made the adjustments to the schedule
this week because of Auburn's travel situation, and so as
a result of that, Tonight's game will start at six,

(36:36):
one hour earlier, and you can hear it on one
oh three point one FM here on the zone. Tonight
it will be the Round Rock Express. Are they still
in Reno, Yeah, yeah, all right, so yeah, playing the
Reno Aces and obviously Ryland Cobra will have a call
of that for you and that comes your way at

(37:01):
seven fifty tonight. And then Tomorrow's game, which was originally
scheduled for two in the afternoon, has been moved forward
to noon again to accommodate the travel schedule for Auburn.

Speaker 5 (37:15):
So as a result of the game will be at noon.
You'll be able to.

Speaker 6 (37:19):
Hear it right here on this signal on this station
on AM thirteen hundred the zone, and you'll be able
to hear that beginning at eleven forty five tomorrow morning,
with the first pitch at noon. By the way, and
I mentioned this before, we do have a ballpark frequency
here inside of UFCU, just fartfield. If you want to
bring your headset radio out or your buds with your

(37:41):
portable radio, you can do that and tune it to
eighty seven point seven inside the ballpark eighty seven. So
hit somebody on Twitter last night address me and say, hey,
I can hear you, but it's not real clear on
eighty seven to five, and TYE sounds kind of garble,
I replied, And I said, well, it's eighty seven seven,

(38:04):
not eighty seven to five, and it's key, not tie
in the boot.

Speaker 5 (38:08):
But appreciate you listening. So anyway, now that'll be the case.

Speaker 6 (38:13):
And so again six o'clock this evening, and then to
tomorrow at noon. Texas Softball which had that dramatic walkoff
grand slam from Reesapwood to bt LSU yesterday seven to three.
They were down three to nothing one to the bottom
of six, and they got back to back home runs,
one of those from me a Scott, a two run
shot and a follow up homer, and then with a

(38:35):
tie three to three in the bottom of the seventh
Atwood with a walkoff Grand Slam and Texas with a win.
So they are now forty and five and they'll play
Game two of that series, and you can hear that.
You can connect to it through the iHeartRadio app, and
you can hear it online at Texas Long Orange dot
com and on the Texas Long Orange app as well.

(38:57):
Game two of that series four team pregame start time.
Four thirty is the first pitch for Game two, as
it was yesterday, and Andrew Haynes will be on the
call on that.

Speaker 5 (39:09):
And then tomorrow, it's.

Speaker 6 (39:12):
A really busy time here, uh in this you know,
in this very tight vicinity, meaning both baseball and softball,
because softball's game time tomorrow will be at eleven am.

(39:33):
And prior to that, they're gonna have what they call
the tailgate at the Comal Street block party. So they've
got a block party going on tomorrow. They'll have photo
ops with Bevo. They'll be there, Smoky the Cannon'll be
there as well as Texas Cowboys all rollout smoking and

(39:56):
that will run from nine five to ten forty five
because the game starts at eleven, so the.

Speaker 5 (40:05):
For those photo wops.

Speaker 6 (40:06):
Now, the block party will go till noon from nine
am to noon.

Speaker 5 (40:09):
And you know it's.

Speaker 6 (40:10):
Right in between the Texas Tennis Center and UFCU Dish
falk Field and also Macomb's Field.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
It's in that grassy area out there.

Speaker 6 (40:21):
A lot of folks set up, so that's where the
block party will take place Tomorrow. They'll be tailgate games
Texas branded inflatables for kids age twelve and under. The
food trucks will be there, and Cameron's favorite, Big Bertha,
the draft beer truck featuring ten or more beers on
tap will be there. You again, you've you've partaken from

(40:45):
Big Bertha before, right, Actually.

Speaker 8 (40:47):
I don't think I have some things I have because
you know, usually I work every home game, so I
don't know if I you know, in between working and
spotting for you have a couple of beers. You know,
I don't want to accidentally, you know, miss spot to
do that. Sober so after one or two who knows. Okay,
there's no football game this Saturday, so you know why not?

Speaker 6 (41:08):
Yeah, I was thinking that one of the you know,
one or two of those home games where you weren't
the spot or either for me or for because you're
in high demand Westwood One, you know, they they want
somebody who can point with an accurate finger, and you've
given the finger to many people, so.

Speaker 5 (41:29):
So you can.

Speaker 6 (41:29):
You can definitely point with the index finger as well
as with the middle finger.

Speaker 5 (41:33):
But anyway, I figured on.

Speaker 6 (41:35):
One or two of those deals where you didn't have
a duty after after our long worn game day programming,
that you might, you know, quaff a beverage or two.
I thought you might head over for a malted beverage
from Big Beer.

Speaker 7 (41:55):
Th M.

Speaker 6 (41:55):
That's that's what I was thinking about. I know, when
when you're working, you're on the clock, and you're not
going to do that. I was just thinking that maybe
on some of those when you when you you know,
some of those home games where you didn't have a
post pregame assignment in other words, to spot or do
stats or whatever for one of the broadcasts that would
m andate from DKR, that maybe you might just kind

(42:17):
of stroll over there and do them.

Speaker 11 (42:18):
You know.

Speaker 8 (42:18):
I think I went to two games last year, like
just just as a fan. Regular fan went with your dad,
didn't you?

Speaker 3 (42:24):
I went.

Speaker 8 (42:25):
That was the Clemson college football playoff game. But I
had the flu. I didn't know I had the flu,
but I felt awful, and so I don't think I
had anything because I just felt disgusting. I ended up
leaving at halftime, waking up seeing that Clemson is only
down by a touchdown in the second half. In the
Kentucky game, I think I went with my cards. Of course,
who hosts a morning kickoff on this station, said the
nine Am. But we went to you know, you know,

(42:47):
my cards. He's got a suite and stuff. So I
did partake in beverages in the luxury suite in the
North End zone with mister Hardball. But outside of that
only you know, did not did not get the ten
too many Texas football game right as a fan and
thinking and funny enough, today I was thinking about the
schedule next year. There's a span because Texas when they

(43:10):
play Oklahoma, they are the home team, so that technically
is a home game for them, even though they're playing
the Cotton Bowl. But from September twentieth, when they play
Sam Houston to close out non conference play, they won't
play another home game for over a month. That's until
November one, when they host Vanderbilt. So the entire month
of October they do not play a single game at

(43:31):
DKR that.

Speaker 5 (43:33):
Is correct, and I know some folks.

Speaker 6 (43:36):
You know that, there was some folks that tweeted and
responded to tweets and stuff about that. I'm like, where
you've been. The schedule's been out for a while. But
there's there's a couple of things. It's not just a
blanket and people should know this. It's not just a
blanket thrown over and said. Texas doesn't have to play
a home game in the month of October.

Speaker 5 (43:57):
That's not how it works.

Speaker 6 (44:00):
First of all, they really front loaded the home games
like most of the teams in the conference too, except
you know what is normally reserved for Cupcake Weekend with
several other schools, Texas does not participate in Cupcake Weekend.
They play Division one FBS programs. They haven't played an
FCS program. Here's your irony, Cameron. The last time that

(44:21):
Texas played an FCS program.

Speaker 5 (44:24):
Do you know what it was?

Speaker 8 (44:26):
FCS program? Man, I'm trying to I'm trying. It's had
to be the Mac brown Er correct, yep.

Speaker 5 (44:33):
And you were single digits in your age.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Oh okay, if.

Speaker 6 (44:38):
I'm remembering correctly, you were born in nineteen ninety seven, right,
that's correct. Okay, you were barely in single digits, but
you were in single digits.

Speaker 5 (44:46):
It was two.

Speaker 6 (44:46):
Thousand and six, and the FCS opponent had to be
added because that was the year that it was going
to twelve games on the regular season schedule, coming off
the national championship, and so it was going to twelve games. Also,
they had a school I want to say it was
Minnesota that was scheduled to come in, or maybe it

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was cal somebody these pushed to come in and they
pulled out. So Texas had to scramble and all that
was available was FCS opponents and the opponent was Sam Houston,
Sam Houston State.

Speaker 5 (45:20):
They came in this year when.

Speaker 6 (45:23):
Texas had to add an extra non conference opponent last
year and this year when they when they joined the SEC,
last year they added Uel Monroe.

Speaker 5 (45:32):
This year it's Sam Houston.

Speaker 6 (45:35):
But of course their Division one FBS now is SAM
so they were in Conference USA the first year I
guess a couple of years ago.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
But anyway, so they.

Speaker 6 (45:48):
Have Sam Houston on the schedule as one of the
non conference games.

Speaker 5 (45:52):
But to my.

Speaker 6 (45:52):
Point, what I was going to say is is it
can be a misnomer to say, well, they don't have
a home game and talked over. There's a couple of
things to keep in mind for anybody who says there
they don't have a home game for six weeks after
September twentieth, and they're right.

Speaker 5 (46:10):
But there's a couple of things to keep in mind.

Speaker 6 (46:12):
First of all, September twenty seventh, the week after their
fourth game, is an open.

Speaker 5 (46:16):
Date on the schedule.

Speaker 6 (46:18):
So the last Saturday in September is an open date.
Did I tell you what I'm doing on the open
date that weekend?

Speaker 3 (46:26):
Wedding?

Speaker 6 (46:27):
Do you have a wedding? No, no weddings. My son
is getting married next year. Congratulations Andy and Chantel. They
announced their engagement last week. They're getting married next year. No, no, no no.
In observance of you might call kind of an important,
if not milestone, type of birthday for me, which is

(46:47):
in September, Linda and I are going to fly that weekend,
on the open day weekend, We're going to fly to
Las Vegas, ooh and see Ringo Star and his All
Star band at the Venetian. In fact, it'll be the
final night of their residency at the Venetian. We did
a very similar thing. It's been six years May of

(47:07):
twenty nineteen, we flew out to see I think it
was the next to last night of Steely Dan's residency
at the Venetian. Great place to see, you know, iconic
musicians perform. When Texas played baseball in Las Vegas back
in February, Keith Morland after the Saturday game, he and

(47:27):
his wife Cindy raced over to the Vedsian. They saw
Chicago playing there, so it's a great venue to see it.
So we're gonna do that on the open date week
in September, we're gonna we're gonna fly to Las Vegas
and have a nice weekend there and we're gonna we're
gonna see Ringo Starr and his All Star band.

Speaker 5 (47:46):
So we're gonna do that.

Speaker 6 (47:47):
But that's an open date now to the rest of
this so it's an open date on the schedule. Then
you have to remember after they open SEC play the
following week in Gainesville, Florida is the OU game, the
Red River rivalry game, and Texas is the designated home

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team this year, so technically they have a home date
in the month of October.

Speaker 5 (48:15):
We all know better.

Speaker 6 (48:15):
Of course, the games played to the Cotton Bowl at
the State Fair of Texas. They're in Dallas, but that's
not the SEC's problem. You're granted a home game in
October where you choose to play that is up to
you in Texas and Oklahoma play.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
That game in Dallas.

Speaker 6 (48:30):
So that's where the situation is after that, and then
and then there's road contest after that. That's why there's
no true home game at dk R Texas Memorial Stadium
in the month of October, but there's plenty in September,
and then they have them and don't forget in November.

Speaker 5 (48:49):
Uh, you know, they'll.

Speaker 6 (48:51):
Have Arkansas and Texas A and M coming to town.
So that's that's uh, that's something to keep.

Speaker 5 (48:57):
In mind there, all right.

Speaker 6 (48:59):
Coming up next, we're gonna hear some more long speaking
of Long Horn football.

Speaker 5 (49:04):
We're gonna hear some more long worn football talk.

Speaker 6 (49:07):
We'll hear from Colin Simmons, the long WRNS outstanding edge
rusher who no doubt I'm sure will be a preseason
All American coming off a freshman All Americans. In fact,
he was the National Freshman of the Year award winner
past season. So we'll hear from Colin Simmons coming up
updating the baseball score before he Texas A and M

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leading Arkansas four to three top of the fourth inning.
That's game two of that weekend series in Fayetteville. Aggie's
won the opener last night, seven of four. That coupled
with the Texas win here over Auburn, puts the long
Horns two games up on the Razorbacks. But I think
perhaps more significant is that A and M is surging

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right now. Eight straight wins for the Aggies, and you
know they've they've won the you know, the first the
first game of that series. They lead the second game
of that series. Right now, Texas A and M is
seven and nine in the league. They're twenty two and

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fifteen overall. They won eight in a row. So they
have really climbed back into things, if not necessarily the
conference race, certainly into a respectability and b yeah, on
the outside edge of being a postseason regional contender. There's

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still a lot of baseball left to be played. We've
been talking about that. There's been a lot of baseball
left to be played, and the Aggies will be here
next weekend. Friday Saturday is Sunday series against Texas, so
A and M is up four to three on Arkansas
Aggies are batting in the top of the fourth inning
in Fayetteville, Oklahoma, and they're playing a doubleheader because of
the advent of inclement weather coming in tomorrow into the

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natural state Arkansas and also the advent of bad weather
in the show me state in Missouri and Oklahoma. And
Missouri are playing a doubleheader and that first game looks
like it may end in a run rule Sooners are
up seventeen to seven when Missouri batting in the bottom
of the eighth inning in game number one, and they
have one more game and Ole Miss in South Carolina underway.

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South Carolina surprised the eleventh rank Rebels with a win
yesterday afternoon. They're playing all day games. They're in Columbia,
and Ole Miss leads South Carolina won nothing going to
the bottom of the first Kentucky and Tennessee later and
also Florida and Mississippi State will begin their series and
Vanderbilt in action as well.

Speaker 5 (51:41):
But Kentucky and Tennessee will be coming up. So anyway,
we'll keep you.

Speaker 6 (51:44):
Posting on all of that, but we'll hear from Colin
Simmons up next when we continue on thirteen under the Zone.
I saw The Who in concert. This would have been
when Reunion Arena was in its infancy early nineteen eighty
and it was a great showing all that. But what
I do remember most, Cameron Parker, is that I worked

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in my concert vending days to put myself through college.
I worked the Who's and I'm not kidding, this is
what it was called farewell tour in December nineteen eighty
two in the Cotton Bowl.

Speaker 5 (52:25):
I had a hoodie actually that they gave.

Speaker 6 (52:27):
They gave hoodies to the crew because it was you know,
it was December, it was kind of chilly, and on
the back it says the Who Farewell Tour. I think
it was like December fourth, nineteen eighty two, Farewell Tour,
Cam Farewell Tour. Do you know how many times The
Who has toured since then?

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Do you still have that hoodie?

Speaker 5 (52:51):
There's a story behind that hoodie, man ext girlfriend has it.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (52:58):
It was a deal.

Speaker 6 (53:00):
It was a deal where I went up to see
some friends, several friends in Pittsburgh the next May May
of eighty three, and that was the week and it
was in May, so school was pretty much out. Other
than I can't believe I'm gonna tell a story, but

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I'm gonna tell it. Schools out other than like some
final exams, and this college had.

Speaker 5 (53:31):
As dorms.

Speaker 6 (53:32):
They weren't even really I mean, they were kind of
dorms for they were like big houses.

Speaker 5 (53:37):
And I went up there.

Speaker 6 (53:40):
I thought I was gonna stay with a buddy of mine,
but they had some renovations going on, and so this
one girl said, where you can stay in the dorm,
there's nobody, you can have your own room, there's nobody
even in the dorm, that kind of thing.

Speaker 5 (53:54):
So that was the week.

Speaker 6 (53:55):
I spent five nights in an all in a dorm
and an all girls college five nights. Yeah, yeah, And
I know the story. Yeah yeah, yeah, she knows, Yeah, yeah,
she knows.

Speaker 5 (54:08):
I mean it was it was May of nineteen eighty three,
for goodness sake, you know. And so yeah, and and.

Speaker 6 (54:18):
She got my hoodie and I never got it back.
So that was the biggest loss of that whole trip.
I can tell you that Pittsburgh. I did get to
see the Pirates play play the Reds one night. I
did go see Pittsburgh played Old three River Stadium, So
that was cool. It's the first time I've ever been
to that anyway. That's the story behind the Who. Hoodie
but the But But the Who was always one of

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my favorite bands, and they've had so many tours since
and every year it's like a farewell tour. I saw
him at the Irwin Center back back several years ago.
So Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend and that whole groove
was something else, obviously, legends of rock and roll.

Speaker 5 (54:57):
All right, enough about that kind of stuff. Uh, let's uh, let's.

Speaker 6 (55:01):
Hear from Colin Simmons, the Loghorns edge rusher, and his
thoughts on what he's done in spring practice his number
switch from number eleven to number one in the coming season.

Speaker 16 (55:15):
If you've grown up in a year on and off.

Speaker 22 (55:17):
The field, I feel like I've grown mentally, physically, and
spiritually all in one year being here at the University
of Texas.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
Yeah. Hell, how did I grow? In the Marias?

Speaker 22 (55:36):
Just being around these coaches, this coaching staff, and being
around the players that that and being around the strength
staff also just builds the mental and the physical process.
And just waking up praying a guy, talking to guy
throughout my day helped me from my spiritual point of view,
How would you assess your freshman.

Speaker 5 (55:54):
Year and what you take me somewhere?

Speaker 22 (55:57):
I feel like I need to prove improve on a
lot everything, honestly, you know, I get off my hands,
my eyes, uh, being physical, just playing the run, playing
the past, everything, help yourself. How I feel like I
had a pretty solid freshman year. It could have been
way better, could have been way way better, just knowing

(56:17):
just knowing my my talents, you know, knowing myself, knowing
my abilities.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
So you know, it.

Speaker 9 (56:23):
Seemed like you and him got pretty tired last year.
How would you all? How would you describe y'all relationship?
And what does he do for you?

Speaker 16 (56:30):
Personally?

Speaker 3 (56:32):
Me and that's my brother. That's my brother.

Speaker 22 (56:34):
Like even during the raccoon process, like I would go
go on visits with and and stuff like that. So
me and I always had a relationship. And can I
hear that second question again?

Speaker 16 (56:44):
What does he do for you? Like mentally on the field,
how does he help you with the help as well?

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Mentally? Will all the players go through him? Honestly?

Speaker 22 (56:50):
You know he's the middle linebacker, so he runs the defense,
you know, and from a mental standpoint, you know, just
everything goes to him. How does a hard lot of
juice he he's and him him being? And is the
juice just his playmaking? You know, the way he carried yourself,
the way he talked all that.

Speaker 18 (57:11):
What was your biggest addressment from high school to college?

Speaker 16 (57:14):
You know all got fust hit.

Speaker 22 (57:16):
Uh just schedule, schedule, honestly, you know, I feel like
all the drills and stuff like that, I've seen it before,
you know, having all the trainers that I had in
my life time and stuff like that, and all the
tough coaching that I had growing up and stuff like
That's I was prepared for it.

Speaker 3 (57:29):
But it was just the schedule.

Speaker 23 (57:31):
If you came in with Xena, how is he coming
along in year two? And you know physically he looks
the part. What have you seen so far?

Speaker 3 (57:38):
Zena has really grown from year one to year two?

Speaker 22 (57:40):
And this year you will see you will see you'll
see a lot was.

Speaker 15 (57:45):
A hard practice like today or any other day.

Speaker 16 (57:48):
What's your favorite.

Speaker 7 (57:48):
Beal to eat?

Speaker 22 (57:50):
Oh that's too I really you know it's had the
wing stopping pluckers. You know, y'all give me a ten
ten count ten count limp pipperwing fall.

Speaker 10 (58:01):
If you were really confident. I think after you a
one game last year talking about how you know you
were undeniable.

Speaker 13 (58:08):
Or something like that, you still have that confidence? Or
were there times last year where you're like, Okay, this
is a little bit tougher, what about it?

Speaker 22 (58:15):
I think, honestly, I never lose my confidence playing this
playing in sport. You know, you you gotta have confidence
playing this sport, going into them games, going into practice,
going in walking into this facility, you have to have
the utmost confidence.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
Does the coaching staff try to encourage you to kind
of show that side of you, that confident and energetic
side when it comes.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
To name on the field, Yes, sir, they want us
to be ourselves.

Speaker 16 (58:37):
Speaking of your confidence, how how many sacks you're gonna
get this?

Speaker 17 (58:39):
Ye?

Speaker 3 (58:40):
Inflations, I'm trying to break the sack record. I just
say that.

Speaker 16 (58:46):
Okay, So what is.

Speaker 10 (58:47):
The key to getting in an offensive line in to head?

Speaker 3 (58:50):
Where is the key?

Speaker 16 (58:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (58:53):
I mean, honestly catching them off guard, you know, when
they least expected. You know, as the game goes on,
you start chirping and chirping, and you know, they start
chirping back, and then they lose focus on what their
their play cause is and so yeah, is it just
as much a.

Speaker 19 (59:12):
Part of your game for your own confidence that that
that comes out like that's your natural personality?

Speaker 22 (59:19):
How much does that fuel your own Yeah, it feels
me a lot, honestly like that. That's That's how I
grew up playing football, honestly, you know, coming fromhere I
come from That's just how I.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
Grew up playing football.

Speaker 16 (59:29):
What's my own question?

Speaker 3 (59:30):
So fast into your amazing that's my dog.

Speaker 22 (59:33):
I love him die and you know he's taught me
a lot since since him being here, and you know,
he gonna really develop me as a person on and
off the field.

Speaker 23 (59:44):
Once he liked in the fields here an energy guy
is here technician anything like that?

Speaker 22 (59:49):
You know, he has the days where he has energy,
and he has the days where he laid back. You know,
it depends on what type of practice, what type of
practice we have, so we gotta we bring it out
of him.

Speaker 18 (59:57):
What are you seeing from Lance Jackson Man?

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Lance is something special?

Speaker 22 (01:00:02):
Honestly, Honestly, I see something special on Lance and he's
definitely going first round in the next the next two
three years.

Speaker 14 (01:00:08):
I saw Mike felt some type of way about you
changing your number. But what was that interaction like.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
For you, uh, me and Mike.

Speaker 22 (01:00:16):
I actually had that conversation early on at the Super Bowl.
He knew I was changing my number, and I kind
of told him that I wanted to take my own
path in my own lane, and he understood it, but
you know, he don't want me to change it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
But I had to die.

Speaker 10 (01:00:30):
What was it like to kind of have.

Speaker 14 (01:00:32):
Something like that though, to be in your corner so
you can look up to you, but also like.

Speaker 18 (01:00:35):
Stop I did off.

Speaker 22 (01:00:37):
Now it feels great for Shure having somebody by my
side and you know in my corner, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
Giving me, giving me the.

Speaker 22 (01:00:45):
Giving me that courage and giving me the give me
that advice and stuff like that.

Speaker 10 (01:00:50):
So why number one?

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
Why number one? Because I'm the one Carlin?

Speaker 9 (01:00:55):
Last year in hindsight, we went against two NFL tackles
who in your own What did you learn from going
against bags?

Speaker 22 (01:01:03):
I learned a lot, honestly. Like I played high school
at Bigcamp. I played high school with Big Camp. So
it was just like sending him transition from high school
to college, making that big jump as a as a
player that he is. You know, he he wasn't like
how he was in high school. Like he's way different,
Like he's way way more talented, way more you know,

(01:01:25):
you know, just way more better as a person. So
like I already like already learned a lot from him. Kelvin,
that's a bit. That's a dog. That is a dog,
Like I've never seen a player like him before, and
just going against him every day like that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
That really it's gonna it helped me for this year.

Speaker 18 (01:01:41):
What you seeing from Goosby and.

Speaker 22 (01:01:43):
Baker a dog a dog, especially Gooseby and especially Baker,
like them are two dogs.

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
And Baker's gonna be very talented this year.

Speaker 22 (01:01:52):
And Goosby he already showcased his skills and he's gonna
be very talented.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
This year too.

Speaker 18 (01:01:57):
More about Nick Brooks.

Speaker 22 (01:01:58):
Nick Brooks gonna be very talented this year in the
next two to three years.

Speaker 13 (01:02:02):
Comm I supposed to you last year, one thing you
talked about what wanted to grow was it wanted to
ban How have you kind of seen yourself growing before
the kind of next ups in that the garden.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
You let repeating that one more time.

Speaker 19 (01:02:10):
Yeah, when I talk with you last year, you said
more the aspects of your game you feel you have
to grow.

Speaker 16 (01:02:13):
In is defending the ruff.

Speaker 10 (01:02:14):
You know, how do you kind of see yourself growing
in that garden.

Speaker 22 (01:02:19):
I feel like my new cause helped me a lot
with defending the Run this year and the things that
he taught me and and told me and showed me.
And honestly, you just gonna have to watch the film.
You're gonna have to watch the film with the run.

Speaker 10 (01:02:32):
Without getting me the secret office. This, Yeah, one thing
you can kind of provided that maybe.

Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
You give me t defend the Runner.

Speaker 13 (01:02:38):
Facts, go really go with that last ones for Godland,
go back to get off for a second, did you?

Speaker 7 (01:02:44):
I can't?

Speaker 19 (01:02:44):
I ask you would probably didn't wanna change your mechanics
that much, but how how how do you even improve
that technically from a technical stamp, but to get faster
or come out and flatter?

Speaker 7 (01:02:53):
How do you how do you fee that?

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
So la? He had me switch on my stands.

Speaker 22 (01:02:59):
He had means with you're my stance to work on
different get offs and stuff like that, with different moves,
And I think doubt that that helped me going into
this next year.

Speaker 14 (01:03:08):
You ready to get that seohn, Alexander or last month,
what would you like to finally just happened or had
to look.

Speaker 22 (01:03:14):
At that was That was a special moment, don I'm
gonna be real. It was a special moment for me
and my family because my family was there also.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
It was just a special moment for me, I hope.

Speaker 22 (01:03:24):
I'm pretty sure it was a special moment for mister
Alexander also.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
And it just felt great. It felt great.

Speaker 22 (01:03:30):
Holding that trumphy in my hand out because I feel
like I worked so hard for it and I feel
like this school helped me get it.

Speaker 13 (01:03:37):
How cool is it to have there's a colle strins
to be with your family, especially your brother, for him
to be there with you and be able to celebrate
your college stress.

Speaker 22 (01:03:45):
Honestly, it just made my heart smile. It made my
heart smile. Just making my family smell makes my heart smile.
And I feel like that's that's what drives me most
is my family.

Speaker 18 (01:03:54):
Who's a young guy to good surprise.

Speaker 22 (01:03:58):
It's a lot of them, honestly, just as Terry, just
as Terry on the defense and Jamie French on the offense.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
What do you like? Go justice? That dog and him he.

Speaker 22 (01:04:09):
Just wanted, he wanted, he lighted the grind, He like
the he like he like cut. What comes with this sport.
He like the the he like the process.

Speaker 6 (01:04:18):
Yeah, all right, there's some good stuff from Colin Simmons.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
We said we'd bring it to you, and we will
up next inconceivable one hour later.

Speaker 5 (01:04:27):
But it's still worth the wait. On thirteen under the zone.

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
A walk back in the first roundouts up the middle
in the fourth and sixth. If she reaches, Texas wins.
If she's put out, we go extras. Three to three,
bottom of seven prison first pitch, swinging the.

Speaker 20 (01:04:45):
Drive left field.

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
It's a walk off brand slam off the wall of
the building across the street. Texas wins, and the Longhorns
down three nothing going to the sixth, come all the
way back.

Speaker 3 (01:04:57):
They beat LSU seven.

Speaker 5 (01:05:00):
In the first game.

Speaker 6 (01:05:01):
From UFCU disch Fawuk Field. It's the Texas Longhorns against
the Auburn Tigers in the weekend three game series. First
payoff pitch of the evening is strike three, called right
on the outside corner on a change up that Irish
did not like the call of a home played umpire
Jason Bradley. But it's a strikeout and the inning's over stretch.

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Here's the pitch and that's hit on the ground. Sharply
knockdown like Gorba. His only play will be the first
if he can get it there in time. Pen he
does a one hopper from Casey Forba into Kimball. Schusler
at first to record the outs, want to know the
count and Eathan Mendoza the stretch and the pitch swung
on in a ground ball, and that's going to make
it up the middle of ace hit rounding third, Timmy

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Farmer will come in the score. Ethan Mendoza drives it
right up the middle of corn RBI single.

Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
The long horns are on the board. It's now to one.

Speaker 6 (01:05:54):
All the balls, two strikes the count and you go
two pitch to Cooper McMurray and he swing.

Speaker 5 (01:05:58):
Said, lights it. Oh my goodness with that caught.

Speaker 6 (01:06:01):
Oh my goodness, what a catch by Max Grubs.

Speaker 5 (01:06:04):
I thought it hit him in the head. He caught
it in the glove for out number one.

Speaker 6 (01:06:10):
Amazing, no balls, two strikes, two outs. Here's the wind
up from Grums and the O two swing and a miss.
He struck him out one, two, three. Max Grubbs, with
the help of his own self defense.

Speaker 5 (01:06:23):
Clears out the inning.

Speaker 6 (01:06:25):
Here's Florence pitch Jalalin swings and drives this one toward
the alley and right center, and he'll get down for
extra bases, grounding third to tie the game is Ethan
Ndosa floors around second, trouble for the center fielder to
pick it up.

Speaker 5 (01:06:37):
Shalen will make it the third. The game is tied
to two.

Speaker 6 (01:06:42):
Shalen floors triples into the alley, revolves two strikes, two
outs from the stretch. The payoff pitch from Max Grubbs
with the runners in.

Speaker 5 (01:06:51):
Motion, twing and a miss struck him out.

Speaker 6 (01:06:53):
Oh in a big strike out from Max Grubbs and
Max and the log Worns are out of the top
of the seventh.

Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
The down full of Kimball' Schusler. Here's the pitch swung
on the ball hit well.

Speaker 6 (01:07:05):
Out toward left. You can say good night to this
one off the back wall of the bullpen. Driving it
out of the ballpark. Kimball's Shusler puts the log Horns
in front for the first time tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:07:16):
Texas leads it three to two.

Speaker 6 (01:07:19):
Any fans rising to their feet now looking for the strikeout,
no balls, two strikes, two outs, the two good morning,
good afternoon of good night. Three pitch swinging strikeouts. Bob
Terrell goes down swinging, and Dylan Balantis sets the Tigers
down one, two three in the eighth the stretch from Valantis,

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here's the O two pitch swing and a miss. Freylik
strikes out. They'll complete the put out with a throwdown
the first and the Texas Longhorns have taken Game one
of this weekend SEC series from the eighth rank Auburn Tigers.
Final score Texas three, Auburn two. That was yesterday and

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last night, and now it's today and the evening to come.
We welcome you back here as we continue from UFCU
Dish falk Field this hour of the program, our final
hour here on thirteen hundred the Zone, the highlight montage
so expertly crafted and put together by the producer Cameron Parker.
I'm Craig Way Longhorns on the field, taking ditting practice

(01:08:24):
right now and getting ready for Game two of this
weekend series against Sommer. First of all, it has started
off with the walk off grand Slam for Texas Softball
yesterday in the game that preceded this one, and just
like today, the game across the street at Macombsfield will
precede this one. In fact, it will start in about
twenty five minutes Game two of that weekend series between

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Texas and LSU. The Longhorns were down three to nothing,
one to the bottom of six. They got a pair
of home runs to tie the score in the sixth,
and then Reese Atwood with I think she's got one
hundred and ninety four career RBIs down a walk off
grand slam. Now, I gotta say this. I love my man,
Andrew Haynes. In fact, I'm the one who brought him

(01:09:07):
on to do softball several years ago. Does a fabulous job,
and they love him over there. But Andrew, you disappointed me.

Speaker 5 (01:09:13):
Man.

Speaker 6 (01:09:13):
You got to know the name of that building across
the street.

Speaker 7 (01:09:17):
I can't say it with a straight face.

Speaker 6 (01:09:19):
The building across the street, as he said on the
on the resat with home run, isn't that the graduate
student housing building?

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:09:26):
It is so like hoop, I can look at the
name right now. Actually, okay, it's yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:09:32):
I was told that that that those new buildings that
were built over there, and there's a there's a coffee
shop over there.

Speaker 5 (01:09:37):
I got to try that out.

Speaker 6 (01:09:38):
But I think it's for graduate student housing over there,
because housing, as we know, is always at a premium
in this town for students, for ut especially the grad students.

Speaker 5 (01:09:48):
But they kind of have a place of their own now.

Speaker 8 (01:09:50):
So CAMPI East Campus Graduate Apartments. Okay, yeah, I don't know.
I mean, that'd be a mouthful to say. Yeah, I'm
with you.

Speaker 6 (01:09:57):
There it's off the East Campus Graduate apartment.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
It's the ECGA.

Speaker 5 (01:10:02):
Yeah, there you.

Speaker 7 (01:10:03):
Go, there you go.

Speaker 6 (01:10:05):
Okay, all right, well, okay, we'll give him some.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
Grace on that one.

Speaker 6 (01:10:10):
He had a great call of it, great call of
that walk off grand slam. And you can hear Game
two of that softball series on the Texas Longorns app
on and you connect to it through the iHeartRadio app
and online at Texas loongornge dot com to hear Game
two of that and again it starts at four point

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thirty at the bottom of the hours.

Speaker 5 (01:10:32):
Texas tries to win that series.

Speaker 6 (01:10:34):
Here, Texas tries to win the baseball series with Auburn.

Speaker 5 (01:10:38):
They won last night three to two.

Speaker 6 (01:10:40):
Rallied back from the two nothing deficits and managed to
get a couple of runs you heard me say, a
triple for Jalen Flores and initially it was put up
as a triple, but it was changed to a double
in an er, and I think that was the correct
call on that because Bristol Carter, the centerfielder, had a
difficult time coming up with the ball, so I think
it was but it it got the run home and

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the game ended up being tied. And then of course
Kimball Schusler with the home run that hit the back
of the visiting bullpen wall. And as briskly as this
wind is blowing out here, and it's ninety three degrees
here the ballpark, so it's a hot, windy afternoon and
it'll still be a hot windy evening. That ball didn't

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need any help. I mean it flew right out of there.
So Texas gets to win in Game one, and they
get Game two coming up, and it's gonna be a
battle of lefties in the contest. Kate Fisher will start

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for Auburn and Fisher one and oh on a three nine.
He'll make his ninth appearance and start of the season.
Hadn't worked an awful lot twenty five and a third innings,
but he'll start for Auburn and Luke Harrison will be
on the mound for Texas Luke two and zero and
the two nine to three earn run average for the Horns,
and he'll be making his tenth appearance and tenth start

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of the season. So that's the com It's a six
forty five pregame start time, and it is a seven
o'clock first pitch, and you can hear that on one
oh three point one FM, Austin's eight station, our sister station,
one oh three point one FM. You can also hear
it on the Texas Longhorns app, on the the Lahn app.

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Of course, you can connect to it through the iHeartRadio app.
You can do that, and additionally, you can hear it
online at Texas long Horns dot com. And if you're
coming out of the ballgame, if you want to bring
your you know, your earbuds with with your portable radio
or your headset radio, whatever you want to do with that,

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you can hear it in our ballpark frequency of eighty
seven point seven FM.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
So that's the case there. Now, that's what my dad
did last night.

Speaker 8 (01:12:57):
You brought us AirPods and you didn't really put on
the stream and he was like, wow, the stream is
far behind, And I was like, what do you expect.

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
He just he needs to.

Speaker 5 (01:13:09):
Just bring bring, bring the little portable radio thing.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:13:13):
There's lots of fans you like to do. Our friends,
the Roses, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:13:15):
They rose, you know, and Marshall Kirkland, who doesn't. She's
over at softball a lot listen, but they you know,
they do that. They've got that down with women's basketball,
and a lot of the fans do that with football.

Speaker 5 (01:13:29):
Uh and in the in house frequency as well. So
an app for.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
That, right you think? Or maybe not?

Speaker 6 (01:13:36):
It's kind of hard to do that in real time though,
off of an app, you know what I'm saying. To
do that in a real time app, I think that
would be extremely difficult to do because there's got to
be a delay if you're doing it off of an app,
as opposed to just listening to a frequency that's pulling
it off almost as quickly as it comes out of
my mouth, and and Keith Morland's as well. So here

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are the stakes. Texas going into today had a two
game lead on the Arkansas Razorbacks on top of the
SEC standings two games Texas fourteen to two. Arkansas was
lost to Texas A and M last night in their
series opener seven to four. Arkansas, like Texas, scheduled for

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a Thursday Friday Saturday series. I can tell you right
now that's not going to happen in Fayetteville. They've had
to make further adjustments. That more on that in a moment.
Arkansas's twelve and four Tennessee begins its series at home.

Speaker 5 (01:14:34):
Against Kentucky tonight.

Speaker 6 (01:14:37):
If they win the first one, that would get them
to twelve and four, but then it's a real log jam.
LSU is eleven and five, Georgia is ten and six,
Auburn and Ole miss are each nine and seven. In
Vanderbilt as well. Oklahoma is now nine to eight after
winning their first game to day of a doubleheader. So,
as I mentioned, I started to say, weather has already

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made its presence felt in this league. And as a
result of that, two series that were scheduled for Thursday
Friday Saturday, Oklahoma at Missouri and Texas A and M
at Arkansas both were then shifted into a Thursday nine game,

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which they all played, and then a doubleheader today because
they're expecting really in clement weather in the states of
Missouri and Arkansas, among other places. So first game the
day between Oklahoma and Missouri no problem for the Sooners.
They blasted Missouri seventeen to seven, run ruled them in

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the eight innings. So Oklahoma got the win to get
them to nine and eight in conference play, and they
go for the sweep of the series in the second
game that I think is about to get under way.
It's going to get underway here in a few minutes,
but it hasn't started yet. Missouris now owen seventeen in

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the league. They have not yet won a conference game.

Speaker 7 (01:16:09):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:16:11):
The Arkansas Texas A and M series, which saw the
Aggies win the opener last night seven to four, and
like I said, it pushed Arkansas down to twelve and
four and two games back of Texas. It gave the
Aggies an eighth straight win and their sixth straight in
conference play to get to with the victory seven and

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nine in the league. Second game of that series, and
the first of a doubleheader is underway right now, and
they've just finished the bottom of the sixth inning. A
and M started off hot again. They got out to
a three to nothing lead and it was four to one.
The Razorbacks have come back with nine unanswered runs spread
out out of the course of three innings, and they've

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just finished the bottom of six and Arkansas's up ten fours.

Speaker 5 (01:16:58):
They go to the seventh.

Speaker 6 (01:17:00):
So if Arkansas wins that game, they will have split
the two games and then they'll have one more game
to be played this evening at ball Walker Stadium in Fayetteville.
So Texas, you know, they picked up a game on
Arkansas last night. Arkansas may pick up a half game

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on Texas if they hold on and win the first game,
penning the outcome of the Longhorns game to night, and
it's going to start right around that same time as
the long worn game. Now, actually, the Texas game, I
believe is going to start early. I think it's earlier.
I think it's going to be at six. And remember
that contest. The Texas game was moved forward by one

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hour from seven.

Speaker 5 (01:17:44):
O'clock to six o'clock.

Speaker 6 (01:17:46):
That's because they had to move tomorrow's game, originally scheduled
for two in the afternoon forward to noon. And since
they did that moving it forward to noon, who wanted
to give the two teams at a little more time tomorrow.
So that's why they moved this evening's game foward by
one hour. To six o'clock. So that's the situation there,

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and because of that, the Texas game will start an
hour I believe before that second Arkansas Texas A and
M game. But again razorbacks up ten to four in
the seventh inning. The other one a bit of a surprise.
Eleventh rank Old miss which lost at South Carolina yesterday afternoon,
is trailing the game Cocks in game two of that series.

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It's four to one South Carolina leading. That's in the
top of the fourth and as I mentioned, Kentucky and
Tennessee will get underway at five point thirty. That's the
first game of their weekend series. Also, the first game
of a weekend series will be Florida and Mississippi State
and start bill to night. Georgia and Vanderbilt Big Series
will start at six o'clock tonight. Vanderbilt won the series

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opener last night and LSU, which came back with a
couple of three run homers late to be that. Alabama
will host the Crimson Tide. Game two of that series
is at six o'clock tonight. So that gets caught up
on baseball. There's one other thing we need to tell
you about, and we'll do that when we come back,
because it's going to be a bridge between baseball and

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long worn football. Think about it as we go to
the break. And then we're also going to hear from
Anthony Hill, Longhorn's linebacker. But up next we're going to
visit with Geene Watson, and he is, of course our
man with the Chicago White Sox. That's next when we
continue on thirteen hundred Zone. But of course it's Major
League Baseball weekend as well, and a big one, a

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big weekend for several teams, including the Texas Rangers, who
have the Dodgers at a home this weekend. Here to
join us with our weekly conversation about Major League Baseball,
straight out of Temple, Texas, USA, but from the Chicago
White Sox front office Gene Watson, who joins us. You're

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in Triple A country again tonight, are you not, Geno?

Speaker 24 (01:20:05):
No, I'm actually at Edmund Santa Fe High School watching
uh ethan Holiday and and Eli Willets play. There's a
big first round match up here, high school matchup, So
I'm on the amateur scene tonight.

Speaker 6 (01:20:17):
Okay, Now, Eli Willets, is he the son of Reggie yep?

Speaker 7 (01:20:21):
I thought then and Ethan is the son of Matt Holliday.

Speaker 24 (01:20:25):
So there's a Ian Kinsler's here, Phil Nevin's here, Jim
Tomey's here.

Speaker 7 (01:20:29):
There's a lot of star power here at this game today.

Speaker 6 (01:20:33):
Do you notice do you ever notice Gino when you
go to watch prospects and I'm talking to high school
not necessarily collegiate level though could possibly apply to college games,
but especially high school guys. Uh, when you go to
watch it and they're aware of your presence, do they are?
Do you ever notice that they notice? And that it

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gets a little bit you know, nervous for them or whatever,
that that sort of thing.

Speaker 24 (01:21:01):
You know what, Funny enough, it's for the prospects, it's not,
But for the kids that aren't the prospects it is.
And it's really fun to see the innocence of the game.
And really I personally try to, you know, yesterday, meeting
with Eli Willitts, tried to say hello, every kid on
his team, He's from Fort Cobb, Oklahoma and they were

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playing in Low Grove, Oklahoma, to you know, two dots
on a map, and you know, so you want to
respect any time of players in uniform. You want to
show them proper respect and just honor them for the
work that they put in to be a part of
the team. And so it's a lot of fun, especially
when you get into the smaller towns across the United States.

Speaker 6 (01:21:41):
All Right, I'm I'm I'm going to ask you a question.
You fill in the blank by this, not pictures, not pictures.

Speaker 5 (01:21:50):
The best young.

Speaker 6 (01:21:53):
Major league prospect who's already in the bigs right now?
The best young Major league are right now, regardless of league,
regardless of the vision, regardless of club. The best young
major league player right now is.

Speaker 7 (01:22:08):
Oh my gosh, you putting me on the spot now.

Speaker 6 (01:22:11):
And I'm saying not established stars and superstars as well.

Speaker 24 (01:22:15):
Jackson Holiday, who's still kind of scuffling offensively, has got
all the star power in the world. We've got a
young catcher named Edgar Quero that's from Cuba that.

Speaker 7 (01:22:25):
Was acquired by the La Angels.

Speaker 24 (01:22:27):
It's really going to be a high potential offensive upside player.
I mean, h zach Netto with the La Angels is
not quite yet established yet. This guy is going to be,
you know, a ten year, fifteen year major league shortstop.

Speaker 7 (01:22:40):
And so.

Speaker 24 (01:22:42):
I will tell you the game is getting younger it's
there's so much star power on the way, and they
do such a great job of promoting these prospects now
and now more than ever, prospects that sign out of
the draft, they get to the big leagues quicker than
ever now, And so the game is in in really
good shape from a talent standpoint, and you know, the Major.

Speaker 7 (01:23:04):
League Baseball has done a great job of securing that.

Speaker 6 (01:23:07):
Here's why I bring that up because you mentioned this
young man last week. He's in his third he just
started his third major league season.

Speaker 5 (01:23:13):
I'm talking about Tyler Soderstrom of the Athletics.

Speaker 6 (01:23:17):
What are the kinds of things because I've seen a
lot of stuff where folks talk about him having real
not just star power potential, but superstar power potential.

Speaker 5 (01:23:27):
What do you agree with that? And do you see
that one hundred percent?

Speaker 24 (01:23:30):
And you know what he and I mean this, he
might hit fifty this year because they're playing in Sacramento
and when Andy heats up, he's got a chance to
hit fifty home runs. Tyler's brother actually worked for me
in Kansas City. He was one of my scouts in
Kansas City and went back to law school and their
family owns an Almond, an almond factory in Almond Farm
in northern California, and Tyler was actually it was between

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Garrett Crochet and Tyler Salderstrum for the Chicago White Sox pick.

Speaker 7 (01:23:59):
And obviously we drive greup for Shay.

Speaker 24 (01:24:01):
But what a tremendous talent and what a fun team
we just played in three games they swept us.

Speaker 7 (01:24:07):
We play them again three games next week.

Speaker 24 (01:24:09):
And I'm telling you, if you want to watch a fun,
young team that can beat you a lot of different ways,
pay attention to the athletics because they're coming and he's
going to be a big part of what they're doing.

Speaker 7 (01:24:19):
But he's got a chance to hit fifty this.

Speaker 24 (01:24:22):
Year with the ballpark they're going to be playing in
and the pace he's on right now.

Speaker 6 (01:24:27):
Yeah, there's another guy that I want to ask you
about because I was watching.

Speaker 5 (01:24:35):
The Blue Jays play the other and.

Speaker 6 (01:24:40):
The guy that I was interested in getting your thoughts
on is Alan Rodin. And he's a guy who's hitting
three twenty right now, and he's he's a guy that
all of a sudden has attracted a lot of attention
and he's only a rookie. The blue Jay's left fielder
Alan Roden. What can you tell us about him?

Speaker 24 (01:25:00):
Well, he's just a young offensive player. You know, he
he really slings the bat. Well, he was a third
round pick out of Creighton University and and you know
he's going to be more hit than power.

Speaker 7 (01:25:12):
Uh but but he's a baseball.

Speaker 24 (01:25:13):
Player consission and they really like him, and you know,
he's a big part of what their future is going
to be in as they you know, now they've locked
up Vladimir Guerrero Junior.

Speaker 7 (01:25:21):
Not sure what's going to happen.

Speaker 24 (01:25:22):
With Boba Shd, but but he is certainly a big
part of what the future is going to be in.

Speaker 7 (01:25:27):
A really nice college player out of create University.

Speaker 5 (01:25:30):
YEP.

Speaker 6 (01:25:31):
Talking to Baseball with Gene Watson here on thirteen under
the Zoner. Okay, let's get some analysis from you early tests,
not only for the Rangers, but also for the Dodgers,
who kind of went through after they started eight to no.
They dropped six of nine. Now they've won three in
a row. Colorado's a slump buster, we know that they
and they beat the Rockies to so they've gone five

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hundred since that eight no start. They're six and six
and they're playing the Rangers who have been red red hot,
and you have picked the rain Years right from the
start as being a legitimate not only division contender, but
American League contender. You've picked picked them right from the
start as being a team that could win the whole thing.
How do you see this weekend series in Arlington shaping up?

Speaker 24 (01:26:14):
Well, you know, you can't win the division in April,
you can't win the World Series in April, but you
can lose it in April.

Speaker 7 (01:26:20):
And the other thing is.

Speaker 24 (01:26:21):
Is like when you get these series that are taking
place right now, like what the Cubs did to the Dodgers,
I don't think anything anybody saw that coming. And I
think it's a great measure for the Chicago Cubs. And
you look at the Dodgers and Rangers this weekend, I
think it's going to be a measure because I think
when you look around the league, it's really about two
maybe three teams purp the division that really have a

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strong chance to win. And so when you're matching up
against those teams, even though it's April, you want to play.

Speaker 7 (01:26:48):
Your best baseball.

Speaker 24 (01:26:49):
But why you're playing these series, you're also saying, Okay,
should we play this team again.

Speaker 7 (01:26:54):
In October, beat in the playoffs or in the World Series.

Speaker 24 (01:26:57):
What are we going to have to do to improve
to beat these So they're they're not you know, Winter
Guy series, but they are a little bit of statement
series early in the season, just to find out as
you begin to separate the upper tier of clubs from
the lower tier clubs, like who's good? What are the
strengths of weeknesses of those teams? And what are we
gonna have to do to improve come July?

Speaker 6 (01:27:16):
All Right, I know I've thought about you when I
read this story, because we talked about this a week ago,
the weird, freaky injuries that can happen to baseball players.
And then I read the story about Patrick Corbyn picking
up his first win of the season on Wednesday and
he almost didn't get to pitch because there was venom

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from a bite on his foot. And he said the
quote yesterday was they said something bit me. I still
don't know what it was. I've never had anything like that.
It's super weird. Bruce Bochy said it was fifty to
fifty whether he would even pitch against the Angels, and
he went five to the third in the llowed one
run and he got the win over that the swelling

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came up through a visible bite mark on his foot.
He said it was tolerable. He said it was really
bad in the morning. Just weird what what teams and
players go through, isn't it during the course of a season,
Not just the regular injuries that happen through playing the game,
but injuries away from the game.

Speaker 24 (01:28:15):
Well, we'll think about in a given day. You know,
you wake up, you go to the ballpark, you play
a game, you're in a you're in a hotel room
that you're not familiar with. You're in ubers and and
buses that you're not familiar with. You don't know what's
on them. Your bags are moving all over hotel back
lobbies and and airport transports and and so you're constantly

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intrensient and and you just never know what you're going
to run into. I mean, it's it happens all the time.
We're all find things in my bag or find things.
You all be on a on a sitting in a
plane and a spiral run across. I mean, it's just
because you're constantly in motion, your bags are constantly in motion,
You're constantly in unfamiliar environments. That that strange things seem

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to happen. We're all sitting here waiting for to drop
down and right now everybody's prepared for that. I mean,
it's just you're constantly It's I said today, you're constantly
out of.

Speaker 7 (01:29:08):
Adrilline rush because you just never know what's going to
happen next.

Speaker 24 (01:29:11):
But but I think it's hilarious because you know, it's
the ways that the guys somehow get injured.

Speaker 7 (01:29:16):
It's just it's it's crazy how it happens.

Speaker 5 (01:29:18):
Yeah, no doubt about.

Speaker 6 (01:29:19):
All right, So you know the restaurants see nashally better
than I do. But I but I do know that
if you're in the Oaklhom City area, if you got
a day game, you know, Mahogany is a good stake option.

Speaker 5 (01:29:28):
And I that's for sure.

Speaker 24 (01:29:30):
We had a great breakfast at Hatch, and I think
that there.

Speaker 5 (01:29:34):
You go, gotta have Nick's all right. Final thing here?
What would be? And it's early.

Speaker 6 (01:29:40):
I preface all this by saying it's very very early
that the most teams have not even played twenty ballgames yet.
So but in your estimation, what would be the biggest
surprise to you by virtue of early struggles? Would it
be the Orioles at eight and ten, Would it be
the Astros at eight and ten, or to be the

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Braves at five and thirteen.

Speaker 24 (01:30:03):
Well, no question, it's the Braves. I don't think anybody
saw that one coming. And it was just such a
weird start for them to have to go to Arizona
and play those early exhibition games against the Cubs, and
then start out in San.

Speaker 7 (01:30:14):
Diego and then go to La and just.

Speaker 24 (01:30:17):
Not being fully healthy, their rotation not being as set
as possible, the know Zuna situation, you know, Brian Snicker
coming out and saying he may.

Speaker 7 (01:30:25):
Not return for twenty six.

Speaker 24 (01:30:26):
I think there's just kind of a lot of anticipation
around the organization right now. But they're ultra talented in
a very tough division, and that will and they will
settle in. I think with Houston, we talked about, you know,
you don't lose Alex Reregman and.

Speaker 7 (01:30:40):
Kyle Tucker without digressing somewhat. Still a very talented team.

Speaker 24 (01:30:44):
They definitely improved their future financially, and with a prospect
like Cam Smith coming back in that deal.

Speaker 7 (01:30:52):
But Atlanta, that would be a biggest.

Speaker 24 (01:30:55):
Surprise of all right now in Baltimore. You know, I
think that they just have to you know, they got
look at Uh, they have arguably one of the best
systems in baseball. I think they have to look at
the subtractions that they lost from that major league team,
and then you look at Boston what they did to
add to that major league team.

Speaker 7 (01:31:12):
So you're you're gonna have to evaluate.

Speaker 24 (01:31:14):
Your system and decide, you know, which way you're gonna
go to give up some prospects to try to get
back in the hunt with with the Boston and with
the Yankees and with Toronto the way they're playing right now.

Speaker 5 (01:31:23):
No doubt about it.

Speaker 6 (01:31:24):
Hey, uh, take cover if you need to over there,
and uh yeah, uh have that burger at Nicks, because
that's something else. As you and I both know, that's
that's that's an amazing Uh, that's an amazing uh burger. Hey,
I appreciate it. Gena, will visit again next week.

Speaker 7 (01:31:40):
All right, Craig, have a great weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:31:42):
You bet you too.

Speaker 6 (01:31:43):
Uh we're talking about the Hamburger Nick Grill in Oklahoma City.
It's uh, it's it's quite a nice yeah. Yeah, you
had it, you had it. Yeah, So it's it's something else.
You went when you went up there to do the
express game, right, Yeah, I did recommendation he went to Knicks,
probably had several recommendations to go to Knicks.

Speaker 5 (01:32:04):
But it's quite something.

Speaker 7 (01:32:07):
All right.

Speaker 6 (01:32:08):
Coming up, we're gonna hear from Anthony Hill and we'll
talk about that connective tissue I mentioned between long worn
baseball and football when we continue here from UFCU deush
Falkfield and thirteen under his own.

Speaker 5 (01:32:19):
This should fire you up before we hear from Anthony Hill.

Speaker 6 (01:32:22):
Like I said, there's a connective tissue between Longhorn baseball
and football. And if you followed it and follow the
recruiting of it very very well, you know all about
Joanah Williams.

Speaker 5 (01:32:33):
Jonah, of course, was an all.

Speaker 6 (01:32:35):
District baseball player, but he was a consensus five star
football prospect, rated the number one safety in the nation
in his class and the number six overall recruit in
his class, number eight overall prospect in the ESPN three hundred.
Tremendous football talent, but obviously a really good baseball player
as well, and he's been on the roster, hasn't played

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much well. Tonight, Williams gets his first start on the
baseball field as a Texas Longhorn, he will be the
starting left fielder.

Speaker 5 (01:33:06):
Die.

Speaker 6 (01:33:06):
Remember the Longhorns really banged up right now, and Texas
has had a regular rotation of guys in left field,
including Adrian Rodriguez coming off the injury. But Adrian not
in the lineup with a left hander on the mound
for Auburn, at least not initially not in the lineup.
And Ethan Mendoza has to d age he is unable

(01:33:30):
to play the field position with his banged up shoulder
right now. So Jade de Plantier will start at second
base and over in left field where we've seen the
Plantier and Rodriguez and Easton Winfield and Tommy Farmer before
the injury. Of course, the fractured thumb for Max below
that moved Farmer over the right. Now Joan Williams will

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get an opportunity, so he'll be the starting left fielder tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:33:54):
Will Johan Williams before the Longhorns.

Speaker 6 (01:33:57):
All right, let's talk some longer football and doing the
talking right now. The guy does the talking on the defense.
He is that defensive captain, the guy who has the
defense run through that central nervous system. Of course, the
preseason All American linebacker Anthony Hill.

Speaker 16 (01:34:13):
First impressions of defense so far, Like, where are y'all?
Four week sits?

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
Man?

Speaker 25 (01:34:16):
Well, we're a pretty young group, but I feel like
we got a lot of young guys putting it together
and getting better every day.

Speaker 3 (01:34:21):
So that's really all we can ask for.

Speaker 16 (01:34:23):
Who's a young guy that's really caught your eyes?

Speaker 3 (01:34:26):
Mmm, Kobe Blackman having a good one.

Speaker 25 (01:34:28):
They're not young guys, but warning, Terry Lan's been having
some good days.

Speaker 16 (01:34:34):
I said. Brad Spens been fitting in with you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:34:36):
Oh, he's been fitting in perfect.

Speaker 25 (01:34:38):
He was coming off an injury, but he's been doing
real good since he came back. I mean he's been
playing a little bit of linebacker rushing off the is
so he's been doing a good job kind of doing
both and he's been making like a real impact on
the field.

Speaker 10 (01:34:47):
Spring practice flit for you. What he been working on?

Speaker 25 (01:34:50):
Mostly me, I just been kind of working on the details.
I mean, I already know I can make the big players,
but just trying to refine my game, work on the details,
full work, hand place men, little stuff to just make
sure I can take the next step.

Speaker 3 (01:35:01):
Next year.

Speaker 10 (01:35:02):
Is DTS a big party don't keep me. Yeah, you
make players.

Speaker 18 (01:35:05):
How are the U g ts and transfers to along.

Speaker 10 (01:35:07):
By those guys?

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
They've been doing good. They're learning. I mean it's a
new scheme, so.

Speaker 25 (01:35:10):
They're just trying to get better every day and that's
really all we can ask for.

Speaker 10 (01:35:13):
Cool, they're cool.

Speaker 25 (01:35:14):
Oh yeah, even he's been having some good days. Man,
he's a he's a hard worker.

Speaker 10 (01:35:17):
What's it like not that's all what you called into
that interview?

Speaker 16 (01:35:20):
What is it like?

Speaker 10 (01:35:21):
What's it like not being the young players?

Speaker 7 (01:35:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:35:23):
I mean, uh, it's a little different. I mean, be
surreal J four, None of them guys here. I mean
I'm looking around in this me and like younga Like
it's like, okay, now we're the we're the older guys now.
I mean they've been doing a good job getting us there,
so now we're kind of prepared and ready to be
in the moment.

Speaker 7 (01:35:38):
What even should that?

Speaker 13 (01:35:39):
You know, it to a chance for young players and
young teams to take leadership.

Speaker 21 (01:35:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:35:43):
Help Does that help you with this process as well?

Speaker 16 (01:35:46):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (01:35:47):
Like what do when you see the young guys so motivated?

Speaker 10 (01:35:50):
Does that help the whole team?

Speaker 7 (01:35:51):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
Yeah? Makes it makes it easier on us.

Speaker 25 (01:35:53):
I mean, we don't have to force guys to work hard,
so they come in working hard. They can just integrate
in and right on in and just get the working.

Speaker 18 (01:36:00):
What are you seeing from Trey Moore and fly back here?

Speaker 3 (01:36:02):
He's been he's been progressing really good.

Speaker 25 (01:36:04):
I mean, he came in playing off the ball this year,
so he's been doing really good working on that and
still getting a.

Speaker 3 (01:36:09):
Little bit off the edge.

Speaker 25 (01:36:09):
And so he's been doing a good job kind of
working both in working on stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:36:13):
And getting better. So you, Spencer kind of like a
little combo you know, Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:36:17):
There's a pants rush one area that you want to
really emphasize this ball.

Speaker 25 (01:36:22):
For you, Uh, just kind of work on a little
bit of everything. I mean, my I feel I can
get better in pass coverage, a little pass rust. So
I've just been trying to work on little stuff every
day just to try to get better.

Speaker 10 (01:36:31):
And bel the old guy again.

Speaker 16 (01:36:32):
Do you do you sort of.

Speaker 19 (01:36:34):
Feel like you sort of like PK's on field guys
and years like, do you know, are you to the
point where you know what the tire front seven is
supposed to do?

Speaker 10 (01:36:42):
Like you direct traffic.

Speaker 11 (01:36:44):
If need be?

Speaker 3 (01:36:45):
Yeah, I try to direct traffic here and there.

Speaker 25 (01:36:46):
I mean, I try to let guys in the spring
kind of make mess up and make their mistakes, but
after the playoff try to be like, you know, you
did this and then that, because I want guys to
kind of learn by theyself instead of getting corrected on
the field and make the same mistakes again. So I
try to let guys mess up and try to correct
them after.

Speaker 15 (01:37:02):
Certainly one on the team that's like you, somebody with
the intensity you know, IQ that that kind of goes
along with your.

Speaker 3 (01:37:09):
Style play, like on the offense side, or just in general,
just in gentlemen.

Speaker 25 (01:37:14):
I mean that's the one my twin uh I guess
Trey Watson and me. He comes to work every day,
uh wingo DeAndre Colin. I mean a lot of them guys.
We come with the same intensity and we come to
work every day.

Speaker 9 (01:37:26):
And you know, last year at this time, Start and
Kelvin Banks, they're pretty open like this, Parke Kelln last year. Yeah,
are you treating this as your last season coming up
that ut considering you're gonna an Austen since spring.

Speaker 3 (01:37:37):
I'm just coming to work every day.

Speaker 25 (01:37:38):
He's working hard, and I think about that at the
end of the season, and.

Speaker 3 (01:37:43):
Yeah, I was up there. It was what was cool?

Speaker 16 (01:37:44):
What was that about?

Speaker 18 (01:37:45):
How did you get invited? Who else will?

Speaker 3 (01:37:47):
It was like a symposium. It was me and Malik Muhammad.

Speaker 25 (01:37:49):
We kind of learned about some of the draft process
and it was a it was a fun experience. I
met up with Jady and some of them guys wants
to combine. It was a it was a cool experience.

Speaker 14 (01:37:57):
In that interview on the Pivot, you mentioned how you
suggested the young guys to find an older guy to
flash onto. Yeah, so now that since you're one of
those older guys, is there a younger guy that's kind
of lashing.

Speaker 16 (01:38:06):
On you and following your route?

Speaker 25 (01:38:07):
Like pretty much the whole linebacker crew, we all kind
of help each other a lot, like bo and a
lot of the let me see, that's a good question,
Like pretty much, both both me and him. We help
him a lot and try to push him through and
help him get better.

Speaker 10 (01:38:18):
Every players talk to you.

Speaker 13 (01:38:19):
But when we asked about like the players talking having
fun in after y'all mentioned Colin, like, yeah, get it
get old.

Speaker 10 (01:38:25):
Or are you like pretty all every time when he's
kind of churchy.

Speaker 25 (01:38:29):
I mean, we kind of have fun on the field
all together, so I mean we all compete with all
having fun and there's not really nobody that's just overdoing
too much. So it's all competitive. So it's it's pretty.

Speaker 14 (01:38:37):
Easy that competition though, Like during practice, how has heart
kind of change that dynamics of off of stefense and
talking chirping at each other.

Speaker 3 (01:38:44):
I mean it's pretty competitive after I.

Speaker 25 (01:38:46):
Mean we go to work every day, like DJ Campbell,
they're always talking Nato, We're always talking with each other,
poking fun. So it's been pretty fun practice. Oh, he's
coming really good. I mean even working on his like
passing drops and working on block destruction. He been coming
along really good, working some sam, working a little bit
of everything.

Speaker 3 (01:39:01):
So he's been having a good spring.

Speaker 16 (01:39:03):
Who's been winning the most of the scrimmage of the offense.

Speaker 3 (01:39:06):
Both both been winning.

Speaker 25 (01:39:08):
Everybody been winning, everybody's getting better, everybody's winning.

Speaker 13 (01:39:12):
I think the pivot of the Ohio State scream Player, Yeah,
is that something that the program like, is that playing
the TV's back there or is that something that's brought
up now that you're gonna play it?

Speaker 10 (01:39:21):
Then were born?

Speaker 25 (01:39:22):
I mean we brought it up one or two times,
but we're moving on. We're ready to go to the
next year. And we knowed about the play. We looked
at and discussed it, talked about it, but we moved
on and we're ready to focus on the next year
and whatever.

Speaker 16 (01:39:32):
You can see it from some of these younger running backs.

Speaker 25 (01:39:34):
Uh Simon been having a pretty good spring. Jared Gibson,
they've been having really good springs. They both run really
hard and making good cousin reading stuff right, So I
feel like they're gonna be two.

Speaker 3 (01:39:42):
Great players, different than the last year.

Speaker 25 (01:39:47):
I feel like we're a little younger, but we have
a lot of juice. I mean a lot of guys competing,
a lot of guys having fun. So I feel like
we're gonna have a little bit more juice and we're
gonna be, of course a younger team.

Speaker 18 (01:39:55):
The young DT Spent Justice Terry Josiah Sharman.

Speaker 3 (01:40:00):
They've been doing good. I mean, they getting better every day.

Speaker 25 (01:40:02):
They're so young, so you can't really just say that
this and this is the first ten practices. You don't
really want to judge somebody up ten times. But they're
working hard and getting better.

Speaker 18 (01:40:10):
At Alex January, Oh.

Speaker 25 (01:40:11):
He's doing he's doing a good too. He's been working
with the ones and twos. He's been doing a great job.

Speaker 17 (01:40:15):
Individual goals that you want to yet next year, I.

Speaker 25 (01:40:18):
Just want to win the national championship. That's not really
all I'm focused on right now.

Speaker 6 (01:40:22):
Well, that's a good focus, uh for Anthony Hill and
his defensive Makestab as well as the offense as well.
And that's a pretty much universal sentiment from all of them,
focusing on day to day getting better and competing for
an SEC championship and a national championship. We'll be back
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