August 15, 2024 • 12 mins
Join Craig Way and Cameron Parker for Thursday's program as they catch you up on the latest at the Texas Longhorns fall camp, recent news from around the NFL including contract negotiations with the Dallas Cowboys a few recent signings, rule changes in the MLB, the ongoing Jordan Chiles controversy, FedEx Cup Championship, Inconceivable, and talk High School Football with Greg Tepper.
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
Get afternoon. Everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to a Thursday edition here of the program here
on sports Radio AM thirteen hunderd The Zone. My name
is Craig Way. I thank you very much for joining
us here on a Thursday afternoon, joined by the producer
Cameron D.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Parker.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The D on the birth certificate stands for Dallas, as
in his favorite NFL team that he.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Refuses to watch this ball.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But we'll keep tabs on and he will join us
as he does every day here in the crib, getting
ready for a Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
How's your Thursday going so far? I don't think I've
ever heard you say the crib before. It's a new one. Well,
I had four kids that spent time in a crib.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
In the crib, in the crib, the home, the home
of the home turf.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
That's all right.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Maybe I'm just feeling good about the fact we're geting
lead a little closer to the weekend now here on
a Thursday afternoon. Uh, there's a lot to get to
on the program. There's afternoon baseball, will keep you updated
on that. We'll talk obviously long worn football, college football,
as well the never ending saga. I'm beginning to believe
it's going to be that way. The never ending saga
(01:10):
of Jordan Chiles and the Olympic bronze medal thing. You
may be tired of hearing about it. The only thing
that's that even kind of keeps it fresh in my
mind is the fact that new and bizarre details continue
to emerge on an almost daily basis about this. If
it was just the same thing where one side against
the other side and waiting for another hearing and all that,
(01:32):
I get it. But there's there's more weird stuff coming
out about that. So we'll have that coming out, but
we'll save it for inconceivable as well. And and there
the there's golf underway. The FedEx Cup is underway at
the FedEx Saint Jude Classic.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
There is it TPC south Wind there in Memphis.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Uh and and Cam is keeping close tabs on that,
So we'll be updating you on all of that.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
We'll go we'll go forward on that.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Did your heart well to see the rookie White Langford
get a three run bomb for the Rangers last night
to tie the score down to their last out and
the ninth to tie it and then they end up winning.
The thing that was that was kind of a unique thing.
Every time I turned it over, I was watching the
Dodgers Brewers game and watch it keeping up with a
couple of other games, And every time I flipped over,
(02:30):
I was also watching the Astros Rays game. Every time
I flipped over, the score had changed. Something that happened.
The Red Sox had a run and the Rangers came
back to tie on something else. Well, it looks like
it was going to be another really tough the stomach
loss to the Red Sox. I mean, you'd already lost
an extras and what the second game, the first game
of the series, they're all starting to run together, and
(02:50):
you're just like, man, let's let's just go ahead and
get swept it over with the white Langford, who's hasn't
had the best year. He's dealt with injuries and you know,
he's had a couple of weird calls from Empires all
year long. But I mean came through with two outs,
two on and just crushed one over the Green Monster.
Rangers eventually win and extras And this is the ball
(03:10):
club obviously not having the same success as last year.
A lot more injuries, the plate production has not been great,
but they're a team that still believes, still believes they
can make a playoff push. I'm not so sure if
it's just it's just kind of been the year from
hell from them with injuries and just Garcia and Heim
(03:31):
and everyone else just not having the same production as
last season, including Corey Seeger and Marcus Simon.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
But there's still hope. There's still hope, and that's what
keeps us watching. Keep watching our teams.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Right, Yeah, And in fact, I will I will tell
you this.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
This is how you know.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
That the Rangers are in, if not desperate straits, they're
in really serious, serious peril of missing out on the postseason,
being as far back as they are in both the
wild card and the division race. This is how you know, because,
like I said, I was flipping back and forth, and
(04:10):
I do that quite a bit, keeping up with a
lot of ball games on a Tuesday night or a
Wednesday night or a Thursday or whatever, and Lyndon and
I were watching We were watching Dodgers Brewers. We were
watching where we saw a bizarre, kind of weird rule
thing happen in the game. We were watching the Astros Rays,
(04:34):
and then they were watching the Rangers. Every time, it
seemed like anyway, it seemed like every time I flipped
over to the Rangers games, two things were in play.
One the score had changed or was about to. And
two at some point why we were watching. The broadcasters
began to talk about teams who were way back in
the standings in August and somehow found their way back
(04:59):
to postseason. He was a mention of the ninety five
Mariners who were twelve out in early September and wound
up being a wild card. And there's you know, there's
all kinds of stuff like that, So keep hope alive.
I get it, absolutely, And weird things happened, Folks point
out if you want, if you want to talk about
(05:19):
baseball collapses, because they have happened over the years. Probably
the most well known, most celebrated, at least from baseball
historians perspective, is nineteen sixty four when the Phillies are
up six and a half with twelve to play and
blew it and they lost ten straight and the Cardinals
(05:40):
wound up sliding their winning it, and the Cardinals ended
up winning the World Series, beating the Yankees in seven games.
There was a Mets team several years ago that was
up seven like on the tenth of September.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I believe, and blew the division lead and did not
win it.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You know, obviously a lot of folks pointed to what
happened to the Rangers last year, except they flipped the
script in the postseason, went on and won the whole thing.
So it's not necessarily where you are when the postseason begins.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's how you do in the postseason.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And that's why that lesson continues to be driven home
about just find a way to get there, get into
the playoffs, and you have a shot. Arizona was a
shining example of that as well last year, just barely
getting in with a late surge to get in the
Nation League playoffs and go to Milwaukee and whin a
wild card series. Then they go to Los Angeles, win
the first two games there and then beat the Dodgers
doing to sweep the division series. Then they beat the
(06:37):
Phillies and get to the World Series where the Rangers
had knocked them out. So it happens in baseball. There's
quite a lot. So there's those kinds of things, and
we'll talk about that. There's also football news. You're ANFL team,
Dallas Cowboys some moves, trying, Hey, you got to give
(06:58):
that front off of some credit. Trying to do something
to get a little bit better. They signed former Jets
defensive end Carl Lawson second edition for the Cowboys along
the defensive line in the past two days after they
traded with the Giants for defensive tackle Jordan Phillips yesterday.
Lawson worked out for the Cowboys in Ixtard yesterday, And
(07:21):
actually he had worked out for them after they lost
Sam Williams to that town ACL and then they signed
el Kady Mohammad and Shaka Toni instead and Tony's been
out with a groin injury.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Lawson three year, forty five.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Million dollar contract for the Jets and free agency in
twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Didn't do that well.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Played only twenty three games and three seasons. He's twenty
nine years of age, So trying to do something anyway
to shore up the defensive line.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And Jordan Phillips for those who unless you're a football
absolute sick of I mean I really didn't know who
it wasn't made the trade. He is a defensive lineman
who is responsible for the famous Aaron Rodgers meme when
he's laying down on the turf, sideways in the helmet
and the chin straps up to his nose. It's a
it's a fair. He got penalized for rough in the
pasture on it. So Cowboys adding a big body I
(08:15):
think he's like three hundred and sixty pounds for fifty pounds,
but also someone that's responsible for creating an Aaron Rodgers meme.
So win win on both fronts. And Andrew Booth as well.
I don't know we talked about it last week, but
the Cowboys swapped nay Shan Wright for Andrew Booth from Minnesota,
which he was I believe a Mike Zimmer draft pick,
(08:36):
so Fitzwell in the Zimmer system, a second round draft
pick out of Clemson. I mean, he was a fantastic
cornerback for Dadlos Sweeney on some good Clemson teams, So
maybe some upside here. Here are these picks, but the
Cowboys fensive line and cornerback spot two upgrades to say,
(08:56):
low risk, high reward possibilities.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, and then the case of loss, And it's another
example of a connection there. He had played for Paul Gunther,
the Cowboys run game coordinator, at the start of his
career in Cincinnati. He was with the Bengals for four years.
He had twenty sacks, but he missed thirteen out of
sixty four games, mainly in twenty eighteen when he had
knee surgery.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
There.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
So he's a guy that they think can be there,
can be the help for them. So anyway, there's a
couple of moves for the Cowboys. All right, coming up,
We've got some college football notes we'll get to and
some other baseball notes as well, updated power rankings and
(09:41):
things like that. And there's the potential, the potential of
a rule that could I can't imagine that this thing's
going to get enough traction to go through, but if
it does, it could drastically change what happens with pitching
in baseball. We'll get to that more of this afternoon.
If you'd like to join in the conversation or at
(10:03):
least communicate with us, you feel free to do that.
All you have to do is reach us one of
two ways. You can text us via the text line.
So you text the word texas follow by your question
or comment to eight one five three zero. So you
text the word texas follow by your question or comment
to eight one five to three zero. Standard messaging and
(10:25):
data rates may apply. And incidentally, Greg Tepper, managing editor
of Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine, joins us for a
weekly conversation that's coming up at the four o'clock hour.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
If you have a question for Tep.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Like somebody texted not too long ago wanted his thoughts
on Odessa Permian or whatever. If you have a question,
you can certainly text us that and we'll pass it
along to him as well. So Tepper will be on
with us in the four o'clock hour, and you can
text the program again, text the word Texas follow by
your question or comment to eight one five three zero. Also,
(11:03):
you can use our talkback feature where if you have
the iHeartRadio app really ease. If you don't have it,
it's a free download, it don't cost you anything. And
then you just go to AM thirteen hundred zone audits.
There's a couple of buttons, a white one that you
push to listen to us, and then there's a red
button with a little white microphone. And all you have
to do with that is when you go to AM
(11:25):
thirteen hunderd the zone and I'm showing it to those
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If you just want to listen to us and you
push that. There's a little red butt with a white microphone.
You push that, and then you can leave us a
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you have a question or comment, that's on that talk
(11:45):
back feature. And by the way, that's how we're also
going to utilize that when we give away tickets to
log worn football games this fall would be part of
the contest, so understand that as well.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
All Right, got a lot of topics to get to.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
We'll do that when we continue on Sports Radio AM
thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app.
Get afternoon. Everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to a Thursday edition here of the program here
on sports Radio AM thirteen hunderd The Zone. My name
is Craig Way. I thank you very much for joining
us here on a Thursday afternoon, joined by the producer
Cameron D.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Parker.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The D on the birth certificate stands for Dallas, as
in his favorite NFL team that he.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Refuses to watch this ball.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But we'll keep tabs on and he will join us
as he does every day here in the crib, getting
ready for a Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
How's your Thursday going so far? I don't think I've
ever heard you say the crib before. It's a new one. Well,
I had four kids that spent time in a crib.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
In the crib, in the crib, the home, the home
of the home turf.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
That's all right.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Maybe I'm just feeling good about the fact we're geting
lead a little closer to the weekend now here on
a Thursday afternoon. Uh, there's a lot to get to
on the program. There's afternoon baseball, will keep you updated
on that. We'll talk obviously long worn football, college football,
as well the never ending saga. I'm beginning to believe
it's going to be that way. The never ending saga
(01:10):
of Jordan Chiles and the Olympic bronze medal thing. You
may be tired of hearing about it. The only thing
that's that even kind of keeps it fresh in my
mind is the fact that new and bizarre details continue
to emerge on an almost daily basis about this. If
it was just the same thing where one side against
the other side and waiting for another hearing and all that,
(01:32):
I get it. But there's there's more weird stuff coming
out about that. So we'll have that coming out, but
we'll save it for inconceivable as well. And and there
the there's golf underway. The FedEx Cup is underway at
the FedEx Saint Jude Classic.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
There is it TPC south Wind there in Memphis.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Uh and and Cam is keeping close tabs on that,
So we'll be updating you on all of that.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
We'll go we'll go forward on that.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Did your heart well to see the rookie White Langford
get a three run bomb for the Rangers last night
to tie the score down to their last out and
the ninth to tie it and then they end up winning.
The thing that was that was kind of a unique thing.
Every time I turned it over, I was watching the
Dodgers Brewers game and watch it keeping up with a
couple of other games, And every time I flipped over,
(02:30):
I was also watching the Astros Rays game. Every time
I flipped over, the score had changed. Something that happened.
The Red Sox had a run and the Rangers came
back to tie on something else. Well, it looks like
it was going to be another really tough the stomach
loss to the Red Sox. I mean, you'd already lost
an extras and what the second game, the first game
of the series, they're all starting to run together, and
(02:50):
you're just like, man, let's let's just go ahead and
get swept it over with the white Langford, who's hasn't
had the best year. He's dealt with injuries and you know,
he's had a couple of weird calls from Empires all
year long. But I mean came through with two outs,
two on and just crushed one over the Green Monster.
Rangers eventually win and extras And this is the ball
(03:10):
club obviously not having the same success as last year.
A lot more injuries, the plate production has not been great,
but they're a team that still believes, still believes they
can make a playoff push. I'm not so sure if
it's just it's just kind of been the year from
hell from them with injuries and just Garcia and Heim
(03:31):
and everyone else just not having the same production as
last season, including Corey Seeger and Marcus Simon.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
But there's still hope. There's still hope, and that's what
keeps us watching. Keep watching our teams.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Right, Yeah, And in fact, I will I will tell
you this.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
This is how you know.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
That the Rangers are in, if not desperate straits, they're
in really serious, serious peril of missing out on the postseason,
being as far back as they are in both the
wild card and the division race. This is how you know, because,
like I said, I was flipping back and forth, and
(04:10):
I do that quite a bit, keeping up with a
lot of ball games on a Tuesday night or a
Wednesday night or a Thursday or whatever, and Lyndon and
I were watching We were watching Dodgers Brewers. We were
watching where we saw a bizarre, kind of weird rule
thing happen in the game. We were watching the Astros Rays,
(04:34):
and then they were watching the Rangers. Every time, it
seemed like anyway, it seemed like every time I flipped
over to the Rangers games, two things were in play.
One the score had changed or was about to. And
two at some point why we were watching. The broadcasters
began to talk about teams who were way back in
the standings in August and somehow found their way back
(04:59):
to postseason. He was a mention of the ninety five
Mariners who were twelve out in early September and wound
up being a wild card. And there's you know, there's
all kinds of stuff like that, So keep hope alive.
I get it, absolutely, And weird things happened, Folks point
out if you want, if you want to talk about
(05:19):
baseball collapses, because they have happened over the years. Probably
the most well known, most celebrated, at least from baseball
historians perspective, is nineteen sixty four when the Phillies are
up six and a half with twelve to play and
blew it and they lost ten straight and the Cardinals
(05:40):
wound up sliding their winning it, and the Cardinals ended
up winning the World Series, beating the Yankees in seven games.
There was a Mets team several years ago that was
up seven like on the tenth of September.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I believe, and blew the division lead and did not
win it.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You know, obviously a lot of folks pointed to what
happened to the Rangers last year, except they flipped the
script in the postseason, went on and won the whole thing.
So it's not necessarily where you are when the postseason begins.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's how you do in the postseason.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And that's why that lesson continues to be driven home
about just find a way to get there, get into
the playoffs, and you have a shot. Arizona was a
shining example of that as well last year, just barely
getting in with a late surge to get in the
Nation League playoffs and go to Milwaukee and whin a
wild card series. Then they go to Los Angeles, win
the first two games there and then beat the Dodgers
doing to sweep the division series. Then they beat the
(06:37):
Phillies and get to the World Series where the Rangers
had knocked them out. So it happens in baseball. There's
quite a lot. So there's those kinds of things, and
we'll talk about that. There's also football news. You're ANFL team,
Dallas Cowboys some moves, trying, Hey, you got to give
(06:58):
that front off of some credit. Trying to do something
to get a little bit better. They signed former Jets
defensive end Carl Lawson second edition for the Cowboys along
the defensive line in the past two days after they
traded with the Giants for defensive tackle Jordan Phillips yesterday.
Lawson worked out for the Cowboys in Ixtard yesterday, And
(07:21):
actually he had worked out for them after they lost
Sam Williams to that town ACL and then they signed
el Kady Mohammad and Shaka Toni instead and Tony's been
out with a groin injury.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Lawson three year, forty five.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Million dollar contract for the Jets and free agency in
twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Didn't do that well.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Played only twenty three games and three seasons. He's twenty
nine years of age, So trying to do something anyway
to shore up the defensive line.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And Jordan Phillips for those who unless you're a football
absolute sick of I mean I really didn't know who
it wasn't made the trade. He is a defensive lineman
who is responsible for the famous Aaron Rodgers meme when
he's laying down on the turf, sideways in the helmet
and the chin straps up to his nose. It's a
it's a fair. He got penalized for rough in the
pasture on it. So Cowboys adding a big body I
(08:15):
think he's like three hundred and sixty pounds for fifty pounds,
but also someone that's responsible for creating an Aaron Rodgers meme.
So win win on both fronts. And Andrew Booth as well.
I don't know we talked about it last week, but
the Cowboys swapped nay Shan Wright for Andrew Booth from Minnesota,
which he was I believe a Mike Zimmer draft pick,
(08:36):
so Fitzwell in the Zimmer system, a second round draft
pick out of Clemson. I mean, he was a fantastic
cornerback for Dadlos Sweeney on some good Clemson teams, So
maybe some upside here. Here are these picks, but the
Cowboys fensive line and cornerback spot two upgrades to say,
(08:56):
low risk, high reward possibilities.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, and then the case of loss, And it's another
example of a connection there. He had played for Paul Gunther,
the Cowboys run game coordinator, at the start of his
career in Cincinnati. He was with the Bengals for four years.
He had twenty sacks, but he missed thirteen out of
sixty four games, mainly in twenty eighteen when he had
knee surgery.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
There.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
So he's a guy that they think can be there,
can be the help for them. So anyway, there's a
couple of moves for the Cowboys. All right, coming up,
We've got some college football notes we'll get to and
some other baseball notes as well, updated power rankings and
(09:41):
things like that. And there's the potential, the potential of
a rule that could I can't imagine that this thing's
going to get enough traction to go through, but if
it does, it could drastically change what happens with pitching
in baseball. We'll get to that more of this afternoon.
If you'd like to join in the conversation or at
(10:03):
least communicate with us, you feel free to do that.
All you have to do is reach us one of
two ways. You can text us via the text line.
So you text the word texas follow by your question
or comment to eight one five three zero. So you
text the word texas follow by your question or comment
to eight one five to three zero. Standard messaging and
(10:25):
data rates may apply. And incidentally, Greg Tepper, managing editor
of Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine, joins us for a
weekly conversation that's coming up at the four o'clock hour.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
If you have a question for Tep.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Like somebody texted not too long ago wanted his thoughts
on Odessa Permian or whatever. If you have a question,
you can certainly text us that and we'll pass it
along to him as well. So Tepper will be on
with us in the four o'clock hour, and you can
text the program again, text the word Texas follow by
your question or comment to eight one five three zero. Also,
(11:03):
you can use our talkback feature where if you have
the iHeartRadio app really ease. If you don't have it,
it's a free download, it don't cost you anything. And
then you just go to AM thirteen hundred zone audits.
There's a couple of buttons, a white one that you
push to listen to us, and then there's a red
button with a little white microphone. And all you have
to do with that is when you go to AM
(11:25):
thirteen hunderd the zone and I'm showing it to those
of you watching on YouTube or Facebook, there's the white button.
If you just want to listen to us and you
push that. There's a little red butt with a white microphone.
You push that, and then you can leave us a
voice message fifteen twenty twenty five seconds. You don't want
to go over thirty it'll cut you off, but anywhere
between fifteen and thirty seconds, leave us a message if
you have a question or comment, that's on that talk
(11:45):
back feature. And by the way, that's how we're also
going to utilize that when we give away tickets to
log worn football games this fall would be part of
the contest, so understand that as well.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
All Right, got a lot of topics to get to.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
We'll do that when we continue on Sports Radio AM
thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app.
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