Zimmel Hour: Texas Baseball Rolls, NBA Playoff Action Figure

Andrew Zimmel fills in on the Craig Way Show. Mike Craven joins in Hour 1 to talk about the change in the Spring Game format and the money in college football. Plus, Craig joins from Arkansas to talk Razorback and Longhorn baseball. Ross Villarreal from SportsTalk 790 joins to talk Houston Rockets

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone Andrews Zimmill hanging
out with you on a Thursday edition of The Craig
Way Show. Craig will be joining us later in the
program at three seventeen from Arkansas, as University of Texas
Baseball goes to Arkansas, the number one team in the country.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Roll In, roll In, Rolling, roll In, Rolling along.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Ten straight winsh don't talk about it. It's baseball. It's superstitious.
You don't want to scare off the baseball gods, so
we're not going to We'll talk to Craig. He will
give us insight. If you missed the Jim Slostangle on
the morning Kickoff this Morning with Hardball, Harj and Mark Henry,
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(00:45):
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preset so you do not miss a single thing. Don't
want to miss a thing. Later this hour, we also
have Mike Craven from Dave Campbell's to talk to us
about the fall of spring football, as every single university
across the state of Texas, it seems, is moving away

(01:08):
from the traditional spring game, and as college football itself
kind of in a weird spot. What do we do?
Do we go to scrimmages? Are we going to play
other teams? Are we're going to have fan days like
the University of Texas did.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Where do we go from here?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
He will help us explain how the rest of the
state is doing it and what this means for college athletics.
And I'm only slipping a question about how much does
it cost to put a national championship program on the field,
because we saw conflicting reports. One report says it's forty
five million. Another report says that's lutacy. So I want
to know not only for the University of Texas, obviously

(01:46):
I'm curious about that, but I want to know about
the rest of college football because I saw what SMU
did last year getting into the College Football Playoffs after
being a group of five team and then turning themselves
into an ACC program, and then an ACC program that
had to go on the road to Happy Valley ended
up losing the Penn State. But I still stand ten
toes down that if that game is played in a

(02:08):
neutral zone, in a neutral stadium, that I think SMU
has a better shot of winning. I think SMU has
a better shot of winning if they don't have to
go to Happy Valley. So we'll talk about all that
with Craven from Dave Campbell's Football magazine coming up in
the next segment.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Also Inconceivable and the.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
University of Texas basketball program and they're rolling along as well.
Three new players signed today. We will talk about what
they bring to the table and all of that. But
speaking of basketball, we got to talk NBA playoffs and
we have to talk about the man. I know, I
know a lot of people today want to talk Lakers basketball.

(02:47):
The loser of the first round series, the three seed
coming into it, Bye Bye goes home after a one
h three ninety six loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
And Anthony Edwards.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Who is getting all of the accolades rightly so as
he's getting all of the press, all of the hype,
totally understandable, had one of his worst nights in this
game in his first round series last night in a
fedwards forty three minutes of action fifteen points on five
of nineteen shooting in the Staples Center. He's gotten compared

(03:20):
to a bunch of different guys. He's gotten compared to
Dwayne Wayne when he came out of a Georgia he
got compared to Kobe Bryant at twenty three years old,
looking at how good and how polished he's looked. And
I said to myself last night watching the game's putting up.
Kobe Bryant ted numbers more or fewer points on more shots.
That's my guy, what Kobe used to do. That's what

(03:41):
he used to do, used to have a swagger about him. Yeah,
I'm gonna shoot this out of this game, but I'm
gonna do it looking cool.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Luckily for ant Man and the Minnesota Timberwolves, they had
the French Man the Eiffel Tower. Rudy Gobert twenty seven points,
twenty four rebounds, his best player off game probably in
the last six or seven years since he's joined the
timber Wolves, and I am ecstatic. I'm so happy that

(04:07):
we are turning the page on the Los Angeles Lakers.
I like Lebron James, a Maluca guy. You know when
they went over When Luca got traded to the Lakers,
ninety nine point nine percent of me was disgusted.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
I was like, how do we let this happen?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
How do we let Luka Doncik top five player in
the game end up on the Lakers. Is this what
we're doing? Is the NBA conspiring against the rest of
the league. Is the Lakers conspiring against the rest of
the league to just hand over a championship to Los Angeles?
But one percent of me was holding out hope that
this was all going to blow up, and luckily with

(04:45):
a rookie head coach and JJ Reddick in a team
for the Lakers that desperately needed a center. Last night
that desperately needed some sort of interior presence, they didn't
have it at all. And I want to talk about
Anthony Edwards. I want to point out the confidence that

(05:07):
this guy has.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Let's start here.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
All week, all year, we've been hearing Lakers in the title.
It's Lakers and Celtics. It's back to the eighties. We're
taking the time machine. And we also heard the rhymes
doesn't matter, it's Lakers and five Lakers and five listeners.
Anthony Edwards last night talking about some Lakers in five nonsense. Uh.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
You know what makes it feel even better is that
they said Lakers.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
In five and the Wolves won in five.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
So I think that makes it feel tea times better.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
That's like maya answer.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
We love Anthony Edwards and of course a swagger that
comes with it to be a twenty three year old
who now crosses off the list of the guys he's beaten.
He's knocked off Kevin Durant last season, you can cross
off that name on the top twenty five list. He
took out Nickle like Jokic last year, you can cross
that name off the list. The Western Conference five else
he lost to Luca. Well, guess what he got his

(06:02):
get back. He knocks Luca and Lebron off. So we'll
take two more pencil crosses off there. And now it's
gearing up. It's lining up that we're gonna get Anthy
Edwards versus Steph Curry in the second round. And I
know the NBA's ratings this year were a talking point.
You couldn't turn on the television without Shaq and Chuck

(06:23):
on TNT talking about the bad ratings. He couldn't get
on X or social media without somebody arguing about the
bad ratings. I went to Thanksgiving family members, oh man,
what happened to the NBA? I heard the ratings are
really low. The NBA probably wanted the Lakers to move on.
But it helps your ratings. It's gonna help Box off
his TV to have Anthi Edwards in the second round.

(06:47):
And he said earlier this year, I don't want to
be the face of the league. That's what winn bin
Yama's for, that's what Jokic is for. Luca can be
the face league. I don't want to be the face
of the league. I want to play basketball. I want
to sell all my shoes. I don't want to be
the face of the league. I'm sorry, brother. When you
play like a superhero, hey, sometimes we got to put
the cape on you. And Anthony Edwards played like a

(07:10):
superhero last night. He played like a man. He rose
to the occasion. He didn't shrink. He rose to the
occasion in this series. And now the Timberwolves are right
back fighting for a title. And look you're here to
say to yourself, Well, look Zimble, Okay, Oklahoma City. They're
set up for the success. They got Sga, he's going

(07:31):
to be the MVP of the league. They got Chet
who's from Minnesota. By the way, everybody forgets Minnesota, hotbed
for basketball, hotbed for amateur basketball, for youth basketball. Minnesota.
They got all these different players. They can throw it Minnesota.
The Wolves, okay, see is by far and away the
most talented team. That's what people are telling me. But

(07:52):
when you have a player like Anthony Edwards on your team,
you're set up for success. And this guy after the
Netflix last year, the starting five with him and Lebron
and a bunch of other some bonus was in there.
I want to say the King's Ford Andby Edwards left
that Netflix series last year with a better Q rating

(08:13):
than he came into it with average people. I call
it the mom test. Does my mom know who this
guy is? If she does, he's a superstar. You go
on a Netflix series and you perform as an excitable
young man the way that he did, you're getting mom points,
you're getting Brownie points for the average NBA fan, for

(08:33):
the average sports fan. And then you have a series
against Lebron James, where if there's anybody who's a casual fan,
it's a Lebron James fan. If there's ever a type
of a casual fan, it's a guy who just turns
on NBA Playoff Basketball to see what Lebron's gonna do.
He's been in the league twenty something years now. It's
a staple for early spring. So we'll turn on the

(08:56):
Lebron's what Lebron doing, and you perform like that and
you knock off him. Your heir apparent, Anthony Edwards is
putting his name firmly in that conversation to be the
next face of the NBA, if not already. And yeah,
there's a couple other guys in the mix, right, Yes,

(09:17):
she is winning the MVP this season. Yokich might be
the best player on the planet. That probably helps when
you talk about face of the league, But doesn't seem
like either one of those guys really wants it. Jason
Tatum desperately wants it, plays for a legacy franchises Boston,
and it seems like everybody consensus is like, hey, we're
not giving it to you. You want it too bad.
It's the guy that wants to hang out with the

(09:38):
older crew, and the guys are just like, hey, man, sorry, kid,
you're not hanging out with us. It's just a little
bit too much like leave it to Beaver, right, it's
just a little bit too much like the beef. He
wants to be around the older kids. It's just too
much for us, and that's what Jason Tatum has kind
of felt like, Andy Edwards is too cool for school.

(09:59):
Andy Edwards Duncanot guys have a cool commercials knocking off
the Lakers that earns Brownie points to me. I firmly
believe that the Timberwolves can win the championship this year
after what they just did to the Lakers. They have
a recipe for success. They've got Julius Randall and Rudy
Goberrett interior defensive guys a lot of teams don't have

(10:20):
on the wings, Anthony Edwards, Jade McDaniels one to two
punch coming into the playoffs. Okay, yeah, maybe maybe the
Wolves have something here now after the first round. I
don't want to over react, but I feel really good
about where Minnesota is currently. All Right, speaking of feeling
really good, do we feel really good about where college

(10:41):
football is heading? As the spring games start to disappear?
As it starts from spring games to spring practices to
fan events, what is going on in college football? Well,
Mike Craven from Dave Campbell's He'll tell Us What's happening
next Craig Way Show rolls on Zimmel's sitting in for
Craig on Sports Radio A thirteen hundred The Zone Sports

(11:02):
Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Craig joins us in
the three o'clock hour from Arkansas's Texas Baseball Pitches Tonight
first pitch six pm on one O three one, Austin's
eighty station. On the on line with us right now
is Mike Craven from Dave Campbell's Football Magazine to talk
Texas Spring. Essentially across the state, Mike, more and more

(11:26):
programs are moving away from the spring game into spring practices.
What was your takeaway when you wrote this article for
Dave Campbell's.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Well, I think for a lot of things in college
football right now, we're living in two different worlds.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
And so my.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
Biggest takeaway is, you know, what is good for Mike
Elcho at A and m Or Sarkesian at Texas or
even Joey MacGuire Tech may not be, you know, good
for GJ. Kinney at Texas State or Trailer at UTSA.
And so when you go around to these schools in
the spring and sit down with all the coaches, what's
always interesting to me is, you know, college football can't
be decided upon because it's such a big organization with

(12:06):
so many different schools, with so many different budgets, with
so many different needs, and springball just falls in.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Line with that.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Now, what's interesting is, and you were the first person
that I had ever heard kind of give us take
about the split between the haves and the have nots,
the power for and everybody else. Do you think it
is easier to be a power for team in the spring?

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Is that? Is that kind of where I'm getting where
you're coming.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
From, right, Because like at Texas A and M, they
know their numbers and they have plenty of them. You know,
the guys who leave Texas A and M or Texas
or Texas Tech TCU, those are typically backups. They're not
the frontline players. Every now and then they may lose
a store rolling into spring with sixty seventy eighty guys
that they're comfortable playing football with. That's not true at

(12:51):
Texas State, that's not true at North Texas, that's not
true at UTSA. And you can just watch the spring
portal and see who jumps in.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
You know you're you're.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
Lose and real starters at the G five level. And
so I think the biggest contention for the G five
coaches is, why are we going through a whole fifteen
spring practices and having a spring game with a roster
that's not even the one we're going to play with
in the fall. Why would we do third down install?
Why would we do red zone specific stuff? Why would
we put in blitzes and schemes? And so they're using

(13:21):
it more for evaluation than they are for install and
for really preparation for twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
As GJ.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
Kinney said, they signed three new quarterbacks over that last
Bortal window. They just wanted to see who could drop
back and throw it to an open receiver, much less
going through progressions and next level stuff. So I just
think we're operating in two different worlds. And you know,
what's true in College station isn't true.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
In San Marcus.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
And you know there's plenty of examples of that being
the case.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
And now you and I didn't play, so we're coming
from a fan point of view. But I got to imagine, Mike,
that none of these coaches are going to have the
playbooks that they'd like to have week one of the
collegeable seasons, or let's say this ten years ago, they
could have more complex playbooks versus what they're going to
have to go with going forward. If they're not doing
install during the spring, right.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
That the spring, you're losing that those fifteen days. I
think it's that you're just not having a roster for
two or three years. Your quarterback hasn't been there for
three or four years, your wide receivers haven't organically grown
up into the system by the time their upper class,
and they know the playbook by the back of their hands.
So I think college football in general has been simplified
over the last twenty to twenty five years, and that's

(14:33):
probably true at the NFL level as well. But they
do so much of that install in the summer, you know,
on fall camps, the month long and it was built
you know, that's another archaic you know thing is a
month long fall camp. Now that was made back when
you know, athletes went home for the summer and didn't
work out, you know, and they had to come back
and get whipped into shape. They're all staying there all summer.
They're doing install. You know what your roster is come June.

(14:55):
You just don't know what your roster is in March
when you're having spring ball. How many resources? How much
time do you want to invest into a bunch of
guys who you know you may or may not roll with?
Come you know, August thirtieth.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Now we saw that Colorado and Dion wanted to have
a little bit of a scrimmage type Do you did
when you talk to these other coaches, Mike, did you
see any of them or hear any of them say like, hey,
that's something we'd like to do.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah. I think about half of them want to do
something like that, and half of them, you know, think.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
It's too risky.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
You know. I think as budgets grow and as payrolls come,
you know what happens the first time you lose your
started running back because you're intersquad scrimmaging against Indiana or
something like that. Right, Like the pushback is going to
be big. But also college football is the only level
of football where you don't play anybody else until the
season starts to matter, right, I mean even in seventh

(15:44):
and eighth grade, you're playing scrimmages against other schools. High
school obviously, NFL has preseason games, So in college you
just kind of roll out and play other I think
I think you could find support for more of a
split squad kind of what the NFL does, more so
than the Colorado Syracuse idea of holding like a real
spring game against each other. I don't think we ever

(16:06):
see that, but I wouldn't be surprised if in a
few years TCU can give North Texas a million dollars
to come practice for two or three days and North
Texas can use that towards nil and revenue share like
they're going to have to get creative to make some
money because the gap is so big and what the
revenue share is about to be. I wouldn't put anything
past trying to trying to figure out ways to make

(16:28):
some money in the spring and and get some other competition.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
We're talking to Mike Craven from Dave Campbell's Football Magazine,
and Mike, you mentioned that revenue sharing split. You talked
about the haves and the have nots and the and
the split here. Could you see a world where if
I'm a unt fan, I don't want the Mean Green
to go scrimmage against SMU were TCU, because I don't
want one of those coaches to see our backup running
back who could be, you know, a sneaky sneaky good player.

Speaker 4 (16:56):
Yeah, you'd have to come up with ways to you know,
if we practice against you can't sign on one of
our players for a full cycle or something like that.
And you know, I don't think any of this stuff
happens until they're employees, right until like you can put
them under contract. And then once they're under contract, and
then it would be harder for that. You know, there's
rules in the NFL when the Bills and the Texans

(17:16):
practice against each other, the Bills can't just go straight
signed a practice squad player from the Texans or something.
And so I think once that's kind of figured out,
and also the other deal is there may not be
a second spring window for very much longer. It may
just be a one window situation in the winner. And
if that's true, I think springbald becomes to have, you know,
kind of a resurgence and importance. The issue isn't when

(17:39):
it is and having the practices like they want the
rest they want to do. Insult to your point earlier
about kind of having to simplify offenses. They want to
have as many practices as possible. They just don't want
to do it with a roster that's still fluid.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
So we've been seeing conflicting reports here, Mike about the
cost or the amount of it's expected to cost the
roster for the twenty twenty five season for the Texas
Lawhorns between thirty five and forty million that we hired
another report that said, that's crazy. What is your take
on this and how much does it cost to run
a football program like the University of Texas.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
Well, I think we need to start at the rev
share number. So the rev share number for power for
schools is going to be probably thirteen to fifteen million dollars.
Obviously Texas is gonna is going to maximize that. I
think when we go to like the American Athletic Conference,
I think schools are going to have a budget about
two to five Sun Belt maybe two to three Conference USA,
maybe in the one million to two million range at

(18:36):
the top. Right, So there's a huge gap there and
just kind of where you're starting at. I just from
talking to coaches, and that's all I can go by
is what head coaches around the state think. You know,
they don't see that as a as a cap. You know,
they don't think LSU is all of a sudden going
to start working under the same operating budget as Vanderbilt, right, Like,
they're going to spend their money. And last year it's

(19:00):
reported that Texas spent about twenty million dollars in NIL,
twenty two million dollars in NIL. If you add a
thirteen to fifteen million dollars in REBISH share, you get
to the mid thirties. I think, OHI State walk erate
at that same level as well. If you've if you
created this system to funnel in that money and the
donors aren't fatigued and they're fine with putting in that money,

(19:20):
Like why wouldn't you use that for a competitive advantage?
It used to be putting waterfalls in the locker room,
and now it's funneling money to the players. And so
I guess I refuse to believe that college football is
going to stop trying to cheap the wrong word because
it's within the rules now. But I just think the
programs that have always spent more are going to continue
to spend more.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
If it's going to equal.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Out to thirty five million dollars, Like, I don't know,
we're probably splitting hairs in terms of like what's technically
money and what's not because some of this stuff is
like a house that you're getting to live in or
a car that you're getting to leave, So it's not
like real cash when they're when they're throwing out these evaluations,
and so we could probably split hairs on that number.
But I would imagine Texas continues to spend the amount

(20:03):
of money that it's always spent in comparison to the
teams around it.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
And I think that this is gonna be one of
those I want to say, like almost like a bragging
rights when you go to hang out with your friends
at other places, because I can't imagine that a Texas
alum and an SMU alum and a Baylor alum and
a Tech alum are all going to get together and
go like, hey, we outspent you or you or you
that that's gonna happen. I think that's going to be

(20:26):
more of an interesting angle to me.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yeah, And you know, I think if you have that
kind of money, right, like, I mean, you see what
NFL owners do, like Jerry Jones likes to play GM.
Like if I had a billion dollars or like enough
money to spend it on a roster, like I'd probably
try to try to make utsa really good you know,
and spend some players and brag about that and all
that kind of stuff. And so you know, you used
to give money to the athletic department for whatever fill

(20:54):
in the blank, and now you can give money to
the athletic department or to the nil to help get
the running back or the tight end from cal or
like whatever the case may be. Personnel matters, you know,
more than the look of the weight room or the
name on a building. And you know, once when you
have a proven commodity like Stark has proven that it's winning,
like the places that lose, like Old Miss goes all

(21:15):
in and it doesn't work.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Maybe if that.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
Happens one or two more times, you get fatigue. We
saw what happened at Florida State. Maybe there's fatigue. Let's
say tex Bus this year, maybe you see some fatigue.
But Texas has gone to back to back semi finals,
Like I just don't think that they're running out of money,
Like I don't. I don't think they're having a bunch
of donors going like, well, you know, we ponied up
the last couple of years for this roster, but we're
going to pull back now, like, I just don't see

(21:38):
that happening. So it wouldn't surprise me at all if
Texas had a roster of thirty plus million dollars. But
Texas won't be alone there, So will Ohio State, so
will Georgia, so will a lot of the programs that
have always spent more money on on you know whatever
around the football program they were allowed to spend.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
The arms race continues. You can follow them on Twitter.
Mike Craven and Dave Campbell's Football magazine. Hey, do you
have any updates for us on the magazine?

Speaker 4 (22:04):
Well, May it's kind of when we start turning everything in.
All the interviews are done. Transfer portal make that hard,
especially for the G five team. So I'm just doing
a lot of writing. I've passed the twenty five thousand
word mark. I got probably about fifteen twenty thousand left
to go, and then we send it off kind of
that first week in June, and then it's out in July.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
There he is read the magazine, read his stuff online
as well. Mike, thanks so much.

Speaker 4 (22:29):
Appreciate you all.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Right, when we come back Inconceivable, the wildest stories we
can find all coming up next to the Craig Way Show,
Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
Inconceivable, inconceivable, inconceivable, inconceivable that I don't think I miss
what you're thinking.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Miss Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone, Andrew Zimmil
hanging out with you. Not inconceivable to be in the
big chair? Is it inconceivable for Tech Baseball to keep
their winning streak alive? Ten game win streak? Currently going
to Fayetteville against Arkansas, first pitch, six pm. Craig Way

(23:09):
will be on the program in the three o'clock hour
to give us a preview of it. All Right, now,
many of us don't bend over for loose change anymore.
This is a lesson that my mother's hobby a long
time ago. If you see loose change on the ground,
pick it up. Doesn't matter if it's a penny, a quarter,
But how about a dime? Because yesterday the Texas Department

(23:30):
of Transportation they had a very difficult, very unusual cleanup
operation after an overturned truck lost Get this, eight million dimes, yes,
eight million dimes spilling out all over the roadway, which
was about eight hundred thousand dollars worth of change. Now

(23:52):
I don't know about you. Ten cents. If I'm leaving
the grocery store and I see it, I might not
pick it up, right. But eight hundred thous dollars worth
of dimes, yeah, I'm picking them up, all right. The
Texas Department of Public Safety says an eighteen wheeler rolled
onto its side to the southbound lane of US eighty one
to eighty seven near Farm Road sixteen fifty five. Okay,

(24:15):
now we're gonna have to talk to Craig about where
that exactly is. He has the entire Texas Transportation Highway
system memorized. He'll tell us exactly where it was, and
maybe where the closest BUCkies is too. All right, The
department said the truck lost got off the road and
the driver over corrected, causing the vehicle to overturn. Uh oh,

(24:37):
the driver pastor, we're taken to a hospital with minor injuries. Now,
the Alvoid Fire Department confirms the truck lost its load
of eight million freshly minted dimes. This entire thing sounds
like an old story from the nineteen twenties, doesn't it
seem like some sort of body inclyde type.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Of robbery deal.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Oh hey, they tried to steal all the actually minted
dimes in the middle of the Great Depression. Doesn't that
what this whole story sounds like to you? The highway
is closed for several hours while the Department of Transportation
closed the highway to pick up the loose change. Now again,
you get up in the morning on a crisp Wednesday morning,
you say to yourself, Oh, I hope this day brings

(25:20):
me something fun.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Picking up loose change in.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
The smallest of currencies too, because if you remember, I
don't know how many of you have change on you
right now, in your cars, or in your pockets or
in your couches. The dime is tiny, so to pick
them up. I'm looking at a photo here there's a guy,
hands and knees picking up dimes to put them in
a plastic bag.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
What a pain in the neck, all right, Now.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Alabama's been known to have some strange things. I think
we've all driven through Alabama at some point. You just
kind of keep driving, keep your eyes on the road,
don't look over off the sides. Well, this actually the
Alabama Highway was temporarily closed yesterday thanks in part to
a kangaroo. Yeah, a kangaroo hopping on Interstate eighty five
between Tuskegee and Auburn on Tuesday cause not one, but

(26:14):
two vehicles to crash amid the chaos. No injuries were reported.
This isn't a good sign, though officials closed off a
section of the highway and a sheriff's deputy live streamed
the kangaroo on Facebook. Again, you know, maybe we focus
on getting the kangaroo off the road. Fellas all right,

(26:35):
So the kangaroo was tranquilized, captured by its owner.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
When somebody said there was a kangaroo, of course I
didn't believe them, the deputy said, But now I'm looking
at him. Brunson says that the kangaroo escaped from its
home petting zoo in Lee County. Quote, we were chasing
him for quite a while. Traffic was stopped for a
long ways. Now, this is a lesson to all of
those who want to rubberneck.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
If you see some.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Thing on the side of the road, do not stop.
Do not swerve in and out of the lanes to
try to get a better glimpse of the kangaroo. Continue
to drive, because yes, you don't want to hit the kangaroo. Obviously,
but by the evasive maneuvering of the cars, they caused
a little bit of a piloup. Multiple cars ran into
each other, all trying to get a better look.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Of the kangaroo. This is not good.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Now, Kangaroos are very powerful animals, so you do not
want to get into any sort of tango with any
of them. But I will say if there was a
debate online about could one hundred men take a kangaroo,
I think we would agree we're taking that kangaroo. So
luckily it's fine was able to get back to his owner.
But the wallaboo wallabee way of the kangaroo jumping around

(27:47):
it is something to behold. Now, finally, we've all had
an annoying person, maybe on a plane with us. Maybe
you're in public and you're going to a restaurant and
the kid across the dining area is causing a little
bit of a stir. I think we've all been there before, right, Well,
this British kid might be the most annoying person on
the planet. So this British boy his name nicknamed Seagull Boy.

(28:11):
He's won his second consecutive title at the European Championship
gull screeching event in Belgium. Now, how do you know
that you have that type of I don't even want
to call it a talent, but we'll call it a talent.
Let's say Cooper Wallace. He's ten, He's dressed in a
seagull costume. He performed his bird imitation at the Sunday competition,

(28:34):
scored him his second consecutive win in the junior category.
Now Wallace, who's seagulls screeching career began when he was
bitten by one of the birds, turned to not only
be an ear perse piercing performance in the family, as
his seven year old sister Shelley, otherwise known as Seagull.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
See girl seagull, she plays fourth quote. I was very nervous,
but I was happy. I like being on stage. I
was kind of annoyed that I didn't get a medal,
but I'm very happy for Cooper Shelby Wallace told the
local news. Now again, I say, how do you find
that you have this sort of skill, this sort of talent. Well,
imagine you have to practice, right, and if we know

(29:15):
anything about little kids, they're not practicing in their home.
They're practicing in public. Obviously they're practicing other places. Obviously
I watched the video from this event so you didn't
have to. And I thought about, hey, maybe I should
pull some of this audio and we can play it here.
And I decided against it because when I go to Galveston,
when I go to Corpus, when I go to the coast,

(29:37):
the seagulls screeching probably one of my least favorite sounds
in the world. It's like chuck or it's the nails
on chalkboard for me. And this seagull boy is the
closest I've ever heard to anybody getting that screech, perfect pitch,
just right, and I can't stand it. I hope nothing

(30:00):
about the best, but I will say that the award
that he won was much larger than any award I've
ever won. I could believe how big the medal was.
It was like the size of a dinner play. It
was a giant medal for the British seagull Boy. All right,
what's the most inconceivable story?

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (30:14):
The dimes on the side of the road. Would you
stop to pick up eight hundred thousand dollars worth of
dimes on the side of the road after eight million
dimes spill earlier this week.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Is it the Kangaroo Store?

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Is that the most inconceivable driving down the road you
see the kangaro on in the side of the road
or is it seagull boy are when we come back?

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Not inconceivable?

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Texas Long Worm Basketball retooling and reloading with Sean Miller.
They get three new commits. We'll talk about it next
on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Sports Radio
AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Want to thank Mike craven
for joining us in the first hour of The Craigway Show.
If you missed any of it, go back and listen
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(30:56):
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Make AM thirteen hundred Zone your number one preset so
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you very much. Do not want to miss tonight's matchup
as University of Texas Baseball Travis to Fayetteville take on
the Razorbacks. No love loss there. Texas the number one

(31:19):
team in the country taking on the Razorbacks and Craig
Way will join us at three seventeen from the ballpark
to give us a little bit of a preview of
what we can expect. First pitch tonight six pm, airtime
five forty five on one oh three to one, Austin's
eighty station, and Craig will be there. It will be
a lot of fun. I'm excited for it. A ten

(31:41):
game win streak on the line, lot a lot riding
on this game, and he will give us a little
bit of behind the scenes of what is happening as well. Okay, So,
University of Texas basketball after losing in the first four
game against Xavier, bringing in their head coach Sean Miller.
Al Miller is off to the races. Three signees today

(32:05):
and I feel pretty confident in what the game plan
is when it comes to coach Miller. All right, so
we'll start here. Candon Heidi. He signed his athletic scholarship agreement,
which is what we're calling it now, to play basketball
next season at the University of Texas. Heidi played his
last two years at Purdue. He's joining for this upcoming

(32:28):
season from Minnesota. We talked a little bit of Minnesota
basketball earlier. Right, Hey, hotbad for youth talent. Seventy five
career games, about four points per game and about three
rebounds per game in his career at Purdue. But he's
a very good shooter from the floor fifty two percent
from the floor and forty one percent from downtown. During

(32:51):
his sophomore season at Purdue, played in all thirty six games,
starting eight of them. He was third on the team
and rebounding, fourth in minutes, and seventh in scoring. What
you're looking for if you're Miller, is you're looking to
build a roster of guys who can play at the
Power four level. Last year, Texas had a struggled a

(33:13):
little bit, we'll say, having guys who can play consistent
minutes in the SEC. There's a couple of games last
year where the long Horns were, you know, outs played
by some of the talent on the floor. Now, I
would go as far as to say that of the
Power four conferences, the Big Ten is one of those
conferences that is a historic program. Like historic programs, and

(33:38):
when you're in the Big Ten and when you're in
basketball country, whether it be Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, when you're
in basketball country, every single one of those amateur games,
of those high school games, they matter. They carry out
a lot of weight. And when you play it Purdue,
when you're fighting for supremacy in the state of Indiana

(34:00):
against the who's yours like, it matters. So I want
a guy like Heidi who can show up, give me
consistent minutes and play at a consistent level. Okay, I
like that signing. Mathuse Mattu what cuitis. Mcoitas is from Lithuania.
That's why we messed up his name right there. The

(34:20):
seven foot center from Lithuania played in thirty four games
last season for Florida Athletic or Yeah Athletic Atlantic Florida Atlantic,
I'm sorry. Played in thirty four games, starting twenty of them.
He was the AAC Freshman of the Year. He was
All Freshman Team. He ranked second of the team in reboundings,
in third in blocks. He helped the Owls get to

(34:43):
the n T first round. He was a important player
for that team to get to this to get to
the postseason. The Owls last year eighteen to sixteen record.
But again, you want guys who can play consistent minutes
and stay on the floor, and that's what he did
last season. He was on the under twenty national team

(35:05):
as well for Lithuanian competed in the Under twenty euro
Basketball Tournament in twenty twenty four, and Poland played international basketball. Again,
these aren't guys, at least in Mattouthis and Heidi who
you're asking to play major minutes for you. But you
want guys on the court who can stay on the
court and can d up and play tight defense. And

(35:28):
then finally Dalan Swayn. He played four Miller at Xavier
last season. Swayn is a six foot eight two twenty
forward guard from Colomos, Ohios. Played in twenty three career
games thirty six starts, averaged about eight points wall at
Xavier last season, played in all thirty four games, led

(35:48):
the team in steels, and was second in rebounding a
third in scoring. This is a guy who has played
in the Sean Miller system. He knows what it means
to compete at that level at Xavier, and this is
the one that I'm probably the most excited for, Dalan Swayin.
I'm most excited for this because, like I said, when

(36:09):
Miller came in, he was the name that most Texas
fans knew obviously from that first four game, that was
a team in Xavier that you wanted to You saw
across the court, Hey, this coach, this cross, late's dot
of the eyes. Guys, guys ready to play. We like
where the Xavier program is. If you're a Texas fan,

(36:30):
you bring that guy in and now you expect him
to kind of lead the charge. And you listen to
Crystal Conte, the athletic director for the University of Texas,
talk about the competitiveness in all of the programs that
the standard is a standard obviously, but your goal is
to compete and your goal is to win in the
SEC And Miller already going out and getting guys gives

(36:54):
me a little bit of hope, makes me encouraged, gives
me a little confidence in what's coming down the pipeline
for Texas basketball. That's really the biggest thing to me
is what's coming down the pipe? Where are where's this
program going? New captain at the helm? Where is Texas
basketball going? Is a trending in the correct direction. And

(37:17):
with the signings today, I'd like to think so other
news and this came down the pipe yesterday, It came
across my desk, and it's worth mentioning. I think University
of Texas they clinched the Cotton Holding Lone Star Showdown
Rivalry Series already. The Cotton Holding lone Star Showdown is
the official moniker for all varsity men's and women's athletic

(37:40):
competitions up to nineteen sports between Texas and Texas A
and M. And after that sweep last weekend, the Longhorns
currently have a eleven to five advantage. There's only two
total points remaining a competition that's men's and women's outdoor
field points in the sec Channe Ship that's coming up

(38:01):
later this month. Of fifteen to the seventeenth marks the
seventh time in all nine Showdowns, long courts have claimed
the Rivalry Series trophy. Startuck in the two thousand and
five you'll remember, this is what everybody was most excited for,
and it helps you beat little brother. Home series against

(38:21):
Texas A and M last weekend gets the baseball program
feeling pretty good as a take on Arkansas tonight in
a three game series. All right, when we come back
our number two of the Craigway Show, Nixon Pistons get
excited for it tonight next fours Radio AM thirteen hundred,
his own The Craigway Show rolls on, Andrew zim Will
hanging out with you this Thursday. Had to do my

(38:43):
quick mathter how to make sure I was on the
right day. Okay, So Thursday May first, and we have
a lot going on in our number two. Craig wait
joins the program here in about seventeen minutes from Arkansas.
University of Texas continues to do what they do, which
is win SEC ballgames. Ten game win streak currently on

(39:05):
the line as they go to Arkansas, the consensus number
one team in college baseball, and I'm excited to see
how this will continue to go for the University of Texas.
This is gonna be good. This is gonna be a
great series. Craig Waite joins us in seventeen minutes. You
can hear the game on one of three to one
Austin's eighty station five forty five hour time, six pm.

(39:27):
First pitch, and then from Houston, our guy Ross Valerie
comes on to talk Houston Rockets Golden State Warriors. Because
things got chippy last night between the Warriors and Rockets,
Dylan Brooks says, hey, if I had a bad ankle,
I'd be going after my ankle. What does it matter
if Steph Curry has a bad thumb, I'm going after

(39:47):
the thumb. So we'll talk about that. We will see
did the Rockets have a chance to rebound to come
back three to one against the Warriors to potentially win
that series? Now, remember they're the two seed in that series,
the young, up and coming Rockets versus the old dogs
on the block, the Golden State Warriors. Do the Rockets
have enough for the tank to get the job done.
We'll talk to Ross about that, But I want to

(40:10):
start here when we talked NBA playoffs tonight's matchups. This
will be a deciding game tonight, potential deciding game tonight
between the New York Knicks going to Detroit three to
two up on the Pistons, and then the Nuggets three
to two up on the Clippers. That games later to
net as well. But let's start Nix and Pistons here,

(40:30):
because it is what everybody has wanted from the NBA
since about the turn of the century. Let's be honest here,
we all wanted nineties basketball back. We were begging for it,
we were pleading for it. We want physicality. We want
old school rivalries, we want those teams that we grew
up watching. Well, here you go Nicks and Pistons, and

(40:51):
it feels as close to nineties basketball as you can
get without getting a time machine. The Knicks came into
this series. They're gritty. They lost last year in the playoffs.
They decided to move off of Randall, bring in karl
Anthy Towns, give them a secondary scorer, and Town's has
been playing incredible like he legitimately might be the best

(41:14):
scoring big left in the Eastern Conference. With him being
out for the majority of the season, he has looked
like the best big man on the Eastern Seaboard this season.
And now he goes into a series against the Pistons
that don't have the glitz. They don't have the glam.
They don't have the player that you're gonna put on
your wall. They don't have the guy who's cute. He's

(41:38):
gonna get to the free throw line twenty thirty times
a game.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
But they gut is hard.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
They got hard hats, they got hard hearts, they got
Isaiah Start willing to throw a hard right hook. Okay,
the Pistons are as close as you're gonna get to
the bad boys of the NBA at this point. Isaiah Steorart,
I've seen them on more of those fight videos on
Twitter that I have seen highlights of him play okay,
And that's why I think the series is so interesting,

(42:06):
and I think it's so interesting with where the Knicks are.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
The winner of the series plays the two seed Boston Celtics,
the defending champion Boston Celtics, and in a series that
is as physical as it has been in New York
and in Detroit. Between these two teams, in a series
that has been as physical as you can ask for,
as physical as you can win, you gotta wrap it
up tonight if you're in New York, because you cannot

(42:34):
afford for this series to go to a game number seven.
Everybody has always said it's been a common knowledge at
this point. The playoff basketball is just different. It takes
more out of you. That's why we have to give
them games in between, and weeks in between or days
in between games, because if you are playing a back

(42:55):
to back in a playoff series, somebody's gonna have to
go to the hospital, get an IV drip, go get
some oxygen, because guys are going all out. Doesn't matter
if it's game one, Game five, or god forbid, in
this series, a game number seven, you can't afford it
if you're in New York because you need to close
the book tonight. You cannot let Detroit back into this series.

(43:18):
Game number six, I should say game numbers yeah six
Tonight the game is in Detroit, so you know those
fans are going to go absolutely wild. They haven't had
a team to really cheer for in almost a decade.
This is one of the worst run franchises over the
last ten years. And now with Kate Cunningham, a former

(43:41):
number one overall pick, running the show for Detroit, they
look like a whole different type of ball club. They
look like the type of ball club that is going
to fight you tooth and nail to keep their playoff
hopes alive. New York Castle close the door tonight because
if you open it up for a game number seven,
anything can happen. Anything can happen if you open the

(44:02):
door up for a game number seven. New York has
to win it tonight. They can't afford to lose, and
then they have to go up against the defending champs,
the Boston Celtics, who did easy work, a gentleman's sweep
of the Orlando Magic. They're sitting back and they're enjoying
watching the NBA playoffs. They're sitting back and they're resting up.

(44:23):
Jalen Brown's busted.

Speaker 5 (44:24):
K me.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
Hey, he's getting some more icy hot on it. Jason
Tatum's wrists, he's got it in a bucket device as well.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
He's fine.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
They're watching the playoffs from the sideline, just deciding who
is going to be the team that has to face us,
has to come to the Garden and play us, Calves
and Pacers. That'll be another Midwest showdown. But it's fun.
It excites me that we have gotten to the point
now in the NBA, in the Eastern Conference where it

(44:52):
used to just be all of the big name cities
on the coast. It used to be just all the
big name cities on the Eastern seaboard. Oh hey, we're
rooting for the Celtic and the Knicks and the Philadelphia
seventy six ers in the Miami Heat. But now pendulum swung.
We're back in the Midwest. We're excited for Midwest basketball.
It's gonna be good tonight. Also, Denver and La the Clippers.

(45:16):
Lakers are out, Clippers trying not to join them. They're
down three games to two in the series. And with
the Denver Nuggets, you think about the two games that
they've won in the series to this point, right, they
were down two games to one. The two games that
they've won since one of those games came on a
tip in. Nikola Jokic just said, Hey, that wasn't a

(45:39):
three point or that wasn't a pass attempt. That was
a three point attempt that I took at the last
second that Aaron Gordon was able to dunk in to
win US game number three. And then in game number four,
I'm sorry, Game number four, Game number five, it was
the Jamal Murray Show. I didn't think we were ever
going to get a performance like that out of the
best export candidate might have ever had. Jamal Murray not

(46:02):
an All Star, but an all star performer in the playoffs, okay,
and all world performer in the playoffs. That is what
he was able to do in game number five to
get to this point for Denver.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
Now, Denver, they have championship pedigree, but they're looking at
their way. Their brackets filled out to this point and
they're staying to themselves. We got to get the job
done to day as well. We're up three games two,
we're going to LA. We're sending the Clippers home. The
next opponent for them Oklahoma see Thunder, And I think
that this is exciting. Actually, I know this is exciting

(46:37):
because SGA Jake Gis Alexander for the Thunder is the
de facto MVP this season. It seems like you did
the straw polls before the playoffs started. He was the
guy that everybody was picking to win the MVP award.
It doesn't matter that yokiship better numbers. It doesn't matter
that Yokichi one of the best offensive seasons ever seventy

(46:59):
five years of NBA basketball. Yokic just season ranks as
one of the five best when you do the advanced stats,
the true shooting percentage, the efficiency rating, the way that
he averaged a triple double. Hey, remember when triple doubles
means something. Remember when Oklahoma c Thunder, where the fan
base that was banging the pots saying, hey, look at
our MVP, Brissell Westbrook. He's the MVP because he got

(47:22):
a triple double. Remember that now, Thunder fans don't care
anymore because Westbrook's on the Nuggets, because Yokic is averaging
the triple double this season as a center. They don't
care anymore because their guy Sga got them the number
one seed. They care more now about the wins. Okay,
but for the Nuggets, Okay, Hey, we get the job
done tonight in game number six. We get a chance

(47:45):
to dance with the number one seed. We get a
chance for our multi time MVP, for arguably the best
player on the planet. We get a chance to knock
off the guy that everybody says is the MVP. We
get a chance to knock off the guy that everybody's
been touting as the best small guard. Hey, we got Sga.

(48:06):
We're won sixty plus games. We're the team that everybody
wants to dang our chests on. No, the Nuggets are
trying to hush all of that. The four seed versus
the five, it's supposed to be a good series. But
I'm taking Denver tonight. I think that they have the
heart of the champions, something the Clippers lack historically speaking,

(48:29):
but also on this team, Yeah, Kauhai is a champion. Yeah,
he had a great series almost what seven years ago now,
when he was playing for the Toronto Raptors. That's the
last time Kawhi actually was on a team that could
win a title. Since then, it's been injuries, it's been
guys not showing up. And yeah, I think Kawai's gonna
have a good game tonight. But the rest of the Clippers,

(48:51):
you're expecting me to root for James Harten. James Harden
and Game number five looked more like Jim Harten. He
looked like the guy that could work in the accounting department.
He looks like the guy that didn't want to be there.
So it's gonna take James Harden, Powell, Zubac, it's gonna
take all those other Clippers to win the game tonight

(49:13):
for LA Game number six, anything can happen, obviously, But
I got my rooting interest in the Denver Nuggets. I
want to see Nuggets and Thunder in the second round.
I want to see what Jokic looks like when he's
looking across the court of the guy that everybody has
just given the MVP two. They just hey, here, here's there,

(49:33):
here's the trophy. Sgeah, you can take it. It's fine.
Your team won sixty games. The best player on the
planet plays for the Nuggets. But yeah, you're the most
valuable player. But the air quotes on that one, all right.
When we come back, Craig Way talking about the MVP.
Craig Way and the Texas Longhorns. Who will be the
MVP tonight in the SEC rivalry between number one Texas

(49:55):
and number eleven Arkansas. First pitch, six pm on one
oh three to one time five forty five. Listen to
it on the free iHeartRadio. When we come back, Craig
joins the program NAX in the Craigway Show on Sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Sports Radio AM thirteen
hundred The Zone. Well, it's the Hackfields and the Quays.
They've been playing each other for over one hundred years.

(50:16):
It's Texas and Arkansas tonight and Craig Way is on
the call. Craig, how are you doing in Fandville?

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Man?

Speaker 3 (50:24):
I'm great.

Speaker 5 (50:25):
One slide added on that Arkansas went without baseball for
a long time, so they really only have been playing
in baseball since nineteen seventy four, a little over fifty
years now. But you're exactly right about football. It goes
way way way back in basketball as well, and you know,
but they made up for lost time here in Arkansas.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
They're really good.

Speaker 5 (50:46):
Every year they've had I mean, I'm looking at their
outfield board. That's one, two, three, four, five, ten, fifteen, twenty,
twenty five, thirty appearances in the College World Series in
the fifty one years I guess that they've had, uh
collegiate baseball program. So they've been they've been really really
good and uh, they they're they're going to be and

(51:07):
they've been good again this year. They've had a stumble
or two of late and some of these weekend series
and some of that has to do with the injuries.
But every team in the in the throughout the uh
the course of the country, including Texas and the SEC,
has had to deal with the injury bug.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
So uh, that's that's been part of it.

Speaker 5 (51:25):
But they've got some guys back healthy and this ought
to be a fun series.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
Well, speaking of really really good, Texas Longhorns cracked ten
straight wins, number one team in the country three straight
weeks in a row. I didn't know it could get
this good, but boy, I'm loving it.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
Well what they're doing, if if if you ask people.
And I brought this up last weekend to keep Morland.
I said, if if someone were to tell you, uh,
what's it the older ESPN thirty for thirty. What if
I told you that, uh, with nine games to go

(52:02):
in the season, nine conference games to go in the season,
the Texas would be thirty eight to five, that they
would be ranked number one in the nation in all polls,
and that they would have a five game lead in
the conference standings with nine to go.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
You know, and the answer nobody would believe that. Nobody,
including Jim's last tangle.

Speaker 5 (52:24):
He would tell you that, you know, they thought they
could be good, and especially to be up five with
your number one Friday Night started gone for the year
and your best hitter who's been out for over a
month now. They hope to get Max Blue back on
the field, if not for the Oklahoma series in a
couple of weeks, then certainly in time for conference tournament

(52:46):
play in Hoover, Alabama, the SEC Tournament. But to be
where they are, to do what they have done without
some key pieces has been mind boggling to a lot
of people.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
And I would just tell you this.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
Zim, It's it's some might think it's smoking mirrors because
it's different guys doing different things on a different day.
There's no with Blue out of the lineup. There's no
real big boppers on the team. In terms of the offense. Uh,
there's no picture that who singularly is mowing people down

(53:20):
other than Dylan Valantis, who was the last freshman really
to sign a scholarship offer with Texas. So he kind
of appeared from nowhere after signing and has been absolutely phenomenal.
So it's been different guys doing different things. You know,
Schloss has developed this this phrase, it's either a three

(53:41):
word phrase or a two word phrase. With all the
injuries they sustain, the two word phrase applies win anyway,
you know, you just win anyway. Then in finding the
different routes to victory, it's three words, win any way.
So they've had to find different ways to do it.

(54:02):
And whether it's a late game hit, you know, somebody
out of the bullpen giving them four innings of work unexpectedly,
things like that, all of that I think has added.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Up to where they are right now.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
Well, it sounds like you already have the thirty for
thirty title done. Craig win anyway, sounds we figured it out.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
Yeah, yeah, something like that. If they if they go
on and win this thing, you know.

Speaker 5 (54:22):
But they have three difficult series remaining. Obviously, this one
with Arkansas is going.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
To be tough.

Speaker 5 (54:32):
While the Razorbacks have dropped to the last three or
two of three in the last three series, and they
played good teams, you know, in playing Florida last weekend,
in playing Texas A and M and playing Georgia. You know,
while they've done that, they can still they can mash
the ball. They've got some guys who can still pitch

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very well. This is a real hitter friendly ballpark here.
It's beautiful ballpark, by the way, and whether if the
weather's were going to looks like it's blowing out a
little bit toward left today, so that could be. It's
only three twenty down the lines here, so it's quite
hit or friendly here at this ballpark. So they're really

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good team. And then the Long Horns have to play Florida,
who's surging, who comes off taking two of three from Arkansas. Yeah,
they're only eight and thirteen in the league, but they
have been surging of late. And that would be at
home on Senior weekend. And then they're going to finish
it Oklahoma. And that's where that phrase it is what
it is applies. When it's long orange against the Sooners,

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they're going to have to deal with that. And Oklahoma's
a really solid ball club too, So to be up
five with nine to play in conference, that's a solid thing.
That's very good because they may need some cushion. They
might really need some cushion when they get down the stretch.
Here as it stands now, it's kind of a floating

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magic number.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
It's been.

Speaker 5 (55:59):
It's either four or five, depending on how you're looking at.
For example, Arkansas and LSU are both tied for second
in the league. The magic number versus Arkansas four. If
they win two of these games, had they had they
eliminate Arkansas from it. LSU Texas has the tie break
on them, so it would be a magic number four

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for clinching at least a tie and the number one
seed since they owned the head to have tie breaker
on LSU having won the series back in March in Austin,
But to win it outright, the magic number would be five,
So four or five whatever, And they're not dialed into
any of that.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
That's just what media people like me.

Speaker 5 (56:40):
That's what we do is we figure out the numbers
and hey, what do they need to do to do
this or do that or whatever. And this group has
just gone about playing baseball, which is part of the
reason why they're having so much success.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Well, part of the reason I love baseball, Craig is
you get to use phrases like big Bopper talks about
Rylean galvaugh because he has been I think the bopper
who stepped up now that Blue is.

Speaker 5 (56:59):
On, well he's you know what he's done is he's
become a much more accomplished hitter. When he was in
high school in Centon, which is down by Corpus Christie,
he was coached by Adrian Alanize, who was a freshman
right hander twenty years ago when Texas won the national championship.
Adrian was an outstanding pitcher for the Longhorns, and now

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it has proven.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
To be a great high school coach.

Speaker 5 (57:24):
He's won three or four state championships, including one with
Ryland Galvan on the team. Ryland was a hit the
all fields guy when he played them. When he got
to Texas, he got a little bit one dimensional for
a time. But Troy Tilwitsky has worked diligently with Galvan
and he's gotten to the point where he can hit
the all fields and hit some with power, and that's

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what's made him a much more discipline hitter this year.
And he's you bring him up, he's a veteran. Then
you got younger guys and transfers. You know, you have
a guy in Ethan Mendoz who in the leadoff spot
for Texas.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
He's a native Texan. He played at South.

Speaker 5 (58:03):
Lake Carol, but he started at Arizona State, but he
always wanted to be a long one. When the coaching
change happened and he put he was in the portal
and when Schlas had interest in he wanted to come
back home to Texas. He's a real interesting case. Here's
a guy who's the long one's leading hitter right now
among the active players. He's batting three fifty three. He
leads the team in batting average, he leads them in triples,

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he leads them in multi hit games. He has twenty
one multi hit games. This is the same guy who
three weeks ago at Kentucky injured his shoulder playing second
base diving for a ball, and so the shoulder is healing,
but he's unable to play the field right now. So
he goes in and he's and he's the DH. Then

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you got a guy and Adrian Rodriguez who came in
and just lit it up as a freshman switch hitter,
was tearing it up, was looking great, and then he
took a pitch in off the top of his hand
right by the handmate bone. Fortunately it didn't break the bone,
but it did have an edema, and he's had a
hard time coming back for that. Now he's been able
to go back in the field and he alternates between

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playing second base and.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
In left field.

Speaker 5 (59:15):
And a rod as they like to call him, has
to bat exclusively from the left side of the plate,
and he's always hit well against right handers from that
left side of the plate, but he couldn't hit left
handers from that left side of the plate. In fact,
ZIM going into the Texas A and M weekend series

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against left handed pitching, Adrian Rodriguez was batting, had had
two hits two total, two for twenty seven against left handers.
Then over the weekend he got five hits. So he
got four over the weekend and one on Tuesday, night.
So now he's seven for thirty four against left handers.

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He's batten in two oh six against left he's that's
better than fifty one, and he's hitting three point thirty
seven against right handers. So it's been an interesting mix
of different guys who've had to contribute. Jalen Flores probably
has not had the type of offensive season folks thought
he would have. The right now, Jalen is batting two

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seventy six, but he's second in the SEC in doubles,
and he's developed a knack for the clutch and leads
the team in hits that have either tied or given
Texas to lead this season. For what that's worth, so
that different guys win any way, different guys who contributed, a.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Lot of different guys. The pitching staff is going to
be kind of I think set after this weekend going
into next week as well as the SEC regular season
wraps up. First pitch Tonight, six pm, five forty five
airtime on one of three one, Austin's agy station. Craig,
Have I missed anything?

Speaker 5 (01:00:57):
No, this but this this is going to be a
I think a very well tightly contested series. I think
throughout the course of the weekend and uh and we'll
do this again tomorrow as ZIM and recap kind of
game one and look ahead the game too.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
I love that it's a Thursday, Friday, Saturday because I
get to talk to you after a game. This never happens, Creig.

Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
I like it because I'm back in my living room
by late Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
Greg Way, thanks so much, Greig. All right, we'll see
Andrew all right when we come back. Rockets and Warriors.
That might be the half fields of McCoy of the
NBA all coming up next on sports Radio AM thirteen
hundred Zone Sorts Radio AM thirteen hundred of the Zone
is our number two of the Craig Way Show. Rolls
along and on our phone line right now, friend from

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Sports Radio seven to ninety in Houston. I figured i'd
get the Houston side of things. It's Ross Villareal.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
How you doing today, buddy. How the Houston Rockets feeling
after beating up Steph Curry last night?

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
Yeah, we're feeling a lot better. Obviously, getting down three
to one not the way you wanted to play out,
but you do get two of the three games out
of at home if you can win a game number
six on the road and force a game seven. So
a big test coming up on Friday. But feel a
lot better than we were, say pre tip off.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
Yesterday, which I think is so funny. So let's start here.
The Golden State Warriors took a three to one lead,
the game goes back to Houston, and Houston absolutely dominated
Golden State last night one thirty one, one sixteen, and
Steve Kerr for the first time in a long time,
felt like he was way in over his head.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (01:02:35):
I think part of the reason that the season the
series turned the way that it did is that the
Rockets are the younger team. They're very physical and perhaps
wearing down the Warriors a bit. I mean, you have
Draymond Green thirty five years old, Jimmy Butler with a
hip injury, and thirty five years old Steph Curry thirty seven,
and they looked every bit that age. In Game five

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at home in Houston was the third game in five nights,
first couple of games of this season. You were getting
this series, I should say, getting a couple of days
in between games. Now it's every other night, and that
to me tips the scale to the young Rockets. Advantage
to where they can get out on transition. Steph Curry
looked like he didn't even want to be there. And
then by the middle of the third quarter, five point

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fifty mark of the third quarter, Steve Curse said, we're
packing it in. We were having the veterans sit down.
We're going to try to win this bad boy in
San Francisco on Friday. Now, of course, the Rockets bench
unfortunately didn't hold out there into the bargain. They had
to have the starters check back in for a little
bit there in the fourth but no harm, no fouts.
Rockets get to win, and I think they're in a
great position to get a win in San Francisco on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
The human victories to guard reached. Sheppard got minutes ross
like this is huge.

Speaker 4 (01:03:47):
Reached Shepherd man, Bless his soul, he got seven. He
was in there for six and a half minutes. He
didn't score a point and he was a minus fifteen,
so not a great playoff debut for him. They had
to check the starters back in as like it was like, Okay,
why is who the heck is Kevin Knox and why
is he going off? Moses Moody and Pat pat Spencer,

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who's this guy? Like?

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
It was all these nobodies at the end of the.

Speaker 4 (01:04:10):
Bench for the Golden State Warriors playing like they were
the eighty six Celtics and just destroying the rockets. Say
that checked the starters.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
Back in all right?

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
Now, the national media obviously is against you guys, mostly
because of Dylan Brooks, Dylan the villain, and he was
accused on the Golden State broadcast of going after that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Right thumb of Steph Curry.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
Now, Brooks came in in the post game and said, Hey,
if I had a bum ankle, they'd come after my ankle.
I know that you're gonna look at things maybe through
a little red sunglasses here, Ross, But what is your take?
Do you think that Dylan Brooks is going after Steph
Curry's thumb?

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
I honestly don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
I'm gonna tell you it wouldn't shock me if that
was the case. I saw the slow down. This is
the thing too, This is the thing we do too
much in twenty twenty five. We put everything in super
slow motion and then we think we can figure things out.
Sometimes you gotta look at things in full speed. If
you look at that play where people are trying to
act like he swiped that it in full speed. You know,
people are breaking this down, like, look, Steph Curry clearly

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gets the shot off and Dylan Brooks five seconds later
he's swiping at his hand. It's like, well, if you
played in real time, the ball just leaves his hand
and he's swiping at him. So I don't know, it's
a gray area to me. Would I be shocked if
if Dylan Brooks is trying to key in on Steph
Curry's thumb, No, I wouldn't. But I mean that's just
wayoff basketball.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
That's that's how it goes. That's I mean you had
I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
Kevin McHale back speaking of the eighty six Celtics back
in the day, Kevin McHale was out there trying to
play a break and broken foot and Detroit business players
are literally stomping on his foot the whole game. So
this is just kind of part of the game. It's
the way that it goes. And and Draymond Green on
the flip side, I mean, that guy will go after anyone.
There is a clip from a twenty seventeen series I
think it was where Draymond Green literally punches James Harden

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in his injured hand and then admitted as much after
the game. So, if you know, you don't want to say,
you know, an eye for an eye in this situation,
but it's just kind of the way of the world
in any sport. If you're going to go out there
and you're not a one hundred percent, the other guys
are going to find a way to find an advantage.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
We're talking about Friend Ross from Sports seven ninety Sports
Talk seven ninety in Houston about the Rockets and Warriors series. Now, Ross,
the other part that's kind of fascinating to me about
this series is that it is one of the longest
rivalries in the modern NBA. Like we've got in ten
years of Rockets and Warriors in the playoffs going back
and forth against each other. How much of that plays

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into this do you think?

Speaker 4 (01:06:34):
I think very little for this team. I mean maybe
for the fans and.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
For me as well.

Speaker 4 (01:06:39):
Like and also, is it a rivalry If the Rockets
never beat the Warriors, liked, doesn't rivalry? And it kind
of imply that it's been a little bit of a
back and forth. I mean, the Rockets has been beat
down by the Warriors for the last ten years. It
definitely hangs over our heads. Like when you see Steph
Curry throw up another prayer fallaway shot, not even looking
at the basket. This is the thing to me, Andrew,

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it's not even that like it rattles in or for
banks in, like it just splashes in, no net, no nothing,
Like how does he make these shots so perfectly? He
is just from another planet, Steph Curry. So we're definitely
sick of him. We're sick of Draymond Green beating up
and starting altercations all over the time. Like getting over
the Warriors hup would be huge. Meant, it would be

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huge for the Rockets to get to the conference semifinals
and have home court advantage against the Minnesota Timberwolves. It
would also just be huge for all of us to
breathe a sigh of release of this reign of terror
that Steph Curry, Steve curR and Draymond Green have been
putting on us here in Houston for a decade.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
It's funny that you talk about the Wolves, because I
was talking about him Men Thompson for the Rockets, and
I was saying that I like the way he's progressed
and grant. He's a little older coming into the league
than Anthony Edwards was, But I think that that's kind
of Thompson's ceiling. What have you liked at him in
this series?

Speaker 4 (01:07:53):
Yeah, I've been talking that he had real bad game
in Game three. I think it was where they were
just completely hanging off of them. Jimmy Butler was out
of the starting lineup. They went with Quinton Post and
they were giving him a runway and saying, hey, we're
going to back up all the way to the basket.
If you can make anything in the mid range, good
luck on you and men. Thompson was poor in that
game and he shot five to sixteen from the field.

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But in the next couple of games he's been knocking
down some of those shots with confidence. But also part
of his game isn't really.

Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
Just being in the half court.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
That's not where he thrives because he is not a
half court player. He's not a really good shooter at
this point in his career. So he's been getting out
more in transition. He's been getting more of the basket
cuts and those and putbacks and easy baskets for him
to be able to score. And he's been a big
part of well keeping in the game in Game four
and then winning the game in Game five to where

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he had five steals in that first half. He was
just a minute on the defensive end of the floor
and creating some of his own offense with those steels that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
He was getting.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
Do you think that this series can get to a
game seven?

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Ross?

Speaker 4 (01:08:55):
Yeah, absolutely. To me, this is the coin flip game
coming up on Friday. Vegas has the Rockets and open
in five and a half. I think it's sitting in
four and a half right now. To me, it's a
coin flipper. Anything can happen. Steph Curry could very well
go off. I do think those are the fatigue and
the wear down factor of the veteran players of the
Warriors is real. So if I want to kind of
invent an edge for myself, in my mind.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
It lies there.

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
And then if they come back to game seven and
play in Houston again, that's I think it's wraps. I
think the Rockets take it in Game seven at home.
The Warriors will be defeated in my opinion, so they
have to win it in game seven tomorrow. To me,
coin flipper game. We'll see how it goes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
You can follow him on x Sports r V. You
must have jumped on that immediately. I don't think anybody
else is looking for that handle their Ross. Congratulations on that,
and congratulations and Rockets. Hopefully you can get a game seven.

Speaker 4 (01:09:47):
Yeah, we'll see. I will be rooting for them. So
we are the home of the Rockets at Sports Talk
seven ninety in Houston. We like, you know, the teams
in Houston that win championships, we carry on Sports Talk
seven ninety. So I'm hoping to have them back in
he Houston for a game seven.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
Yes, you listen to on the free iHeartRadio app as well. Ross,
Thanks man, thank you. It's time all right. When we
come back, we will wrap up our number two of
the Craig Ways Show and put a bow on it.
War coming up next on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
of Zone Them, We'll hanging out with you. This is
Thursday after noon. Hour Number three of the Craigway Show

(01:10:22):
rolls on Craig Is in Fayanville, Arkansas, as the Texas
Baseball Program travels to take on the Razorbacks.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
First pitch six pm.

Speaker 1 (01:10:34):
To night five forty five airtime on one oh three
one Austin's eighty station.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
It's gonna be a good one. Craig told us.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
A little bit behind the scenes, was saying that he
expected this to be a very competitive series, which is
something that we like. I also like a Thursday, Friday,
Saturday three game series because I get to talk to
Craig in between the games. He likes the three game
serious because he gets to go back to his house.

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He gets to be home on a Saturday afternoon. I
totally get that. I understand that Sunday Sunday evening you
want to be where you need to be. You don't
want to have to be traveling. I totally understand that.
So all three games can be heard on one of
three one Austin's Day station, and of course on the
free iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
Make the zone.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
This station you're listening to currently your number one preset.
But if I had to look, I don't want to
tell you what to do, but I would give you
a suggestion to make Austin' Day Station one of three
one preset number two. You can do the presets the
same way you do on in your car. It makes
it easier for you to get to the station you

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need to get to to listen to the University of
Texas Athletics.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
Just a suggestion.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:11:52):
News out of college football today, Trey Taylor, the number
one top passer in the class of twenty twenty seven,
will he announced where he's gonna go today. He decided
to stay in the Midwest. Covety recruit out of Illinois,
He's going to Nebraska. Folks, Yeah, Nebraska. Taylor becomes the

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first player to commit to the Huskers in the twenty
twenty seventh cycle, giving his verbal pledge RUSS roughly twenty
months before the eligibility form needs to be signed. Now
six foot three hundred and eighty five pounds, he follows
Ohio State pledge Brady Emmons as the second elite quarterback
prospect to announce already. Taylor shows between the Huskers. He

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also had offers from Illinois, LSU, and Texas A and M.
Now he's the former or he's the son of the
former Eastern Illinois Husky's running back j R. Taylor, who
ran for fifty one touchdowns as a college teammate. A
former four time Pro Bowl quarterback Tony Romo talked about

(01:12:58):
a sixty Degrees of Operations story Trey Taylor has thrown
for three thousand yards, twenty touchdowns, seven interceptions, and only
his sophomore season. What makes this a little bit more interesting,
of course, is that he's going to sit behind Dylan Royola,
who is the current quarterback, who is I guess related
to Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
I think their cousins.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
He dresses like him, which is kind of weird to me,
but whatever, Glenn Thomas is the quarterback coach.

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Quote, sitting down.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
Next to coach Thomas and getting the offense, seeing how
the coaches how they coached Dylan to the next level.
I really can't wait, Taylor told ESPN earlier today. So
the Husky or the Huskers get their quarterback for the future,
future future. I don't know what this means for Big
Ten football. What I do know what this means is

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that the hype around Nebraska, which has not been very
quiet over the last decade after they bring in Scott
Frost and now Matt Ruhl is running the pro they
have tried to kind of figure out where do they
fit in college football, and with NIL and the transfer
portal and everything that goes with that and comes with it,
you have to imagine that programs that were very successful

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in the eighties and nineties are now going to probably
have a resurgence. I find it quite fascinating in fact,
that the University of Nebraska has a lot of donors
in their state. I think I read somewhere that of
all of the universities at the power for level, I

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think they hold the record for most in state donations
to their program. So that means that other schools that
they might have big donors who are outside of the state.
I think Nebraska they were either number one or they're
in the top ten when it comes to donors inside
the border of the state that the school is in.

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It's one of those fascinating statistics that you have for
college football that, yeah, it doesn't matter a ton, but
it is something to kind of consider when we talk
about Nebraska football. And again in the Big Ten, where
you have Ohio State and Michigan both winning national championships,
in Penn State making the playoffs last year, the competitiveness

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in that conference is second only to the competitiveness of
the se seed. All Right, all other news and notes,
NBA playoffs continue to roll on Tonight, we get two
big games New York Knicks Detroit Pistons. Game is in Detroit.
New York holds a three to two series lead in
the seven game series against the Pistons, and I think

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Detroit is going to give everything blood, sweat and tears
to make sure that they continue their season tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
It'll be curious.

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
It will be interesting to see how guys like Kid
Cunningham show up in his first playoff experience. Jalen Brunston,
Karl Amfty Towns both have played in big games before,
but to close Detroit out in Detroit would mean a
lot for this team going forward. And if I know
anything about Tom Thibodeau, the head coach of the New

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York Knicks, I hope that Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, Karl
Anthony Towns. I hope that entire starting five they get
used to playing. Because they're playing forty eight minutes today
in a close out game. Thibodeau is going to run
those boys into the dirt. He's gonna run them until
they're raw. So I'm hoping that the Knicks get the
job done, if for no other reason that I do

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not want to see them run out.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
For a game seven.

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
As fatigued as I know that they potentially could be
if they don't get the job done tonight. Speaking of fatigue,
you're gonna be fatigued. I'm gonna be fatigued because Detroit
or Denver and LA the Clippers the final LA team
left after the Lakers lost yesterday to the Minnesota Timberls.
The Clippers and Nuggets tonight nine pm tip. So that

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game is not gonna get done until almost one am
Central Standard time, but it's gonna mean a lot. I
had to fight sleep. I was fighting off the sandman
to see a game winning dunk from Aaron Gordon in
game number four, and now game number five, Jamal Murray
showed up, got put the Nuggets on his back, took

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them to now the brink of chance to match up
with the Oklahoma ce Thunder and round number two. Yeah,
you fight and fight and fight this Clippers team that's
not going away, and then yeah, congratulations, you get the
number one seed that won sixty plus games and has
the preeminitive MVP, the guy who we all have said

(01:17:34):
that SGA will be the MVP of the of the
NBA this season. So yeah, talk about getting a nice break.
A better team that had a break would be the
to Minnesota Timbrels, who won last night's game against the
LA Lakers, a team that with Luca a little bit

(01:17:58):
banged up. He was sick in Game three, he had
a bad back. Last night, Wolves showed up, showed out,
dominated essentially from start to finish. Almost made JJ Reddick cry.
At one point in the pre game, he was very
upset that he was getting questions about how his team
was set up to win this series after not playing

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a center, after deciding to play Maxi Kleeber last night,
JJ Redick is getting a lot a lot of grief today,
and rightfully so. I think when you're a rookie head
coach and you're giving the keys to one of the
premier franchises in not only the NBA but in North
American sports, expectations come with that. There's a lot of expectations.

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There's a lot of eyeballs, especially when you fail to
have good rotations, especially when you're making decisions that the
guy on the couch could say, I don't agree with that,
and when the results, again, it's the result driven business.
You and I working dollars and cents. NBA franchises, Yeah,
dollars and cents matter, but wins and losses matter more.

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Wins and losses are the results that you're looking for
when you're the head coach of an NBA franchise, and
the Lakers under JJ Reddick better than last season, but
not where you want to be. When you have a
guy like Lebron James, and when you have a guy
like Luka Doncick, you can't lose games. You can't lose
in the first round. You sure cannot lose as the

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higher seed Lakers with a three seed in the matchup,
the Wolves have to go to the Western Conference finals.
Last year trade away Carling. If the town's struggled throughout
most of the season, they now were in the second round.
Anthony Edwards is getting all of the flowers, as he
rightfully should. JJ Reddick is getting all the tomatoes, probably

(01:19:51):
as he rightfully should as well. So the funniest part
to me is the Lebron James angle of all of this,
where people were asking him are you going to retire?

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
Are you done? Where do you go from here?

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
All those type of questions that a guy like Lebron
will get, and he's been able to bat him away. Oh,
I'm going to make my decision later. We all know
that he's not going anywhere if no other reason. Next
season will be year number twenty three. He's worn twenty
three his entire career. Michael Jordan wore number twenty three.
And oh, by the way, the All Star Game is

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in LA next year. And if there's anything you can
pretty much mark in right in permanent marker, it's Lebron
James will be an All Star. There's no way that
Lebron is going to give up a chance to play
his final All Star Game in LA in year number
twenty three. There's no way that he's not playing one

(01:20:50):
more season.

Speaker 6 (01:20:50):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
Are the Lakers going to be competitive team next year
and try to win a title next year?

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:20:55):
Probably not even with Luca. This team feels many, many
pieces away from being a true title contender, especially in
the Western Conference. But I can guarantee you that Lebron
James will play one more season, all right, when we come.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
Back more NBA.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
In fact, perfect segue into which small market superstar is
most likely to get moved this offseason. We'll talk about
next to the Craigway Show on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred,
The Zone Sports Radio Am thirteen hundred The Zone Andrew
Zim will hanging out with you this Thursday. Texas Baseball

(01:21:30):
plays tonight six pm, first pitch, five forty five airtime
on one of three one Austin's eighty station. Craigway will
be on the call from Arkansas consensus number one Texas
baseball team taking on number eleven Arkansas. As long Horns
have won ten consecutive games, ten straight games. It's their
second winning streak of ten plus games this season. But

(01:21:53):
we're not gonna talk about it. We don't want to
jink some We'll talk to Craig tomorrow after the Longhorns
get the job done and hopefully win. According to Craig,
every one of these games are going to be down
to the water. They're going to be very exciting games
for the University of Texas. So if you have a chance,
you should have a chance. You should be listening on

(01:22:13):
one oh three to one Austin's Ady Station, five forty
five hour time, six pm, first pitch. All right, we
were talking about Lebron james potential retirement. Many people have
been clamoring for this for the Beast, I don't know,
probably half decade they've been asking when will Lebron retire?
While the old man ever slowed down in every single
step of the way, he said, not so fast. But
now after three consecutive first round exits, things are starting

(01:22:37):
to get a little crazy in La La Land now.
Seam Sharani was on the Pat McAfee show earlier today.
He was talking about Lebron and potential hanging up the
uh the old Jays.

Speaker 2 (01:22:51):
There's no expectation for Lebron James over retirement.

Speaker 7 (01:22:53):
I will say that my sense, my understanding is he
will play at least.

Speaker 2 (01:22:57):
Another NBA season.

Speaker 7 (01:22:59):
You think about here, twenty five to twenty six, it'll
be year twenty three. That would settle league record year
twenty three for number twenty three. The All Star Game
is in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
He potentially playing in Los Angeles.

Speaker 7 (01:23:11):
There's a lot of stars that would align for next
season potentially. If that's what Lebron James decides, he'd be
forty one years old in December. He's forty years old
right now. So the expectation is he's going to be
playing at least another season, but again, how long And
the other thing Pat is does, the Bryce James, his
son does that factor play into it at all.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
His son is going to be potentially.

Speaker 7 (01:23:35):
Draft eligible in twenty twenty six next year. So if
he feels at some point next year, Bryce James might
be an NBA player, might be a draft eligible player,
does he extend that window?

Speaker 1 (01:23:50):
Oh boy, here we go again. Will Lebron play with
his son? He's playing with Ronnie right now. Will he
stay around for Bryce? That's exactly what every single NBA fan,
casual and die hard alike loves to hear from Sham Sharani. Now,
of course, some things do catch your attention. Yeah, twenty

(01:24:12):
three for number twenty three, that makes sense. All Star
Game in LA, that makes sense. The kid thing. Man, Look,
I was defending Ronnie James's draft pick at number fifty five.
How many other number fifty five picks does anybody know
in the league? Unless you are locked in, locked in

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on your favorite franchise, most of us do not know
where our second round picks go. We know if we
have a lottery pick, we know if we have a
late first round pick, we hope that those guys will be.

Speaker 2 (01:24:43):
Contributors to our teams.

Speaker 1 (01:24:45):
But for the most part, we kind of have the
idea that if you are a late round pick, enjoy
the G League, continue to develop, Maybe you turn into
somebody that's decent. Maybe you turn into a role player
near the end of the bad Maybe lightning strikes and
you get a monaging nobly second round pick. This guy's

(01:25:06):
a future Hall of Famer type of steel. But those
are one in a billion. When Ronny got drafted at
fifty five, I was like, Okay, great, this doesn't really
mean that much. But of course media, social media, hype
everything behind it. It turned into an entirely different story.
What does matter to me is the productivity, because if

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you stripped away the name, the accolades, the championships, the MVPs,
it's about what you're doing on the court. And for Lebron,
this season, he's averaging the second fewest points of his career.
His second his fewest points recorded as the NBA player

(01:25:49):
was his rookie season. He had twenty one points per game,
won the Rookie of the Year, played seventy nine games
at year forty. Now this does go to the longevity
of Lebron. Year forty, he plays seventy games, averages twenty
four points, the second fewest points of his career. His
scoring drops year over year over year. His fewest points

(01:26:10):
scored have all come while he is in LA. After
turning thirty five, you can see a significant dip in
the productivity of Lebron James. Now he is better than
most guys. He's better than every forty year old basketball
player ever. Right, But is he better than every twenty
five year old basketball player ever? Which is the answers?

Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:26:32):
Is he a serviceable player? Sure, but if we're holding
into the standard that he has to carry a team,
he's not going to pass that standard. That bar is
too high. It pains me to say I like Lebron,
I like rooting for greatness. I've always been on the
side of I want to complain to my kids the
same way that the other older generation complained to me

(01:26:54):
about how things.

Speaker 2 (01:26:54):
Were better when I watched him.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
And if I get to see a Tom Brady and
a Patrick Mahomes and the Lebron James and the Serena
Williams and a Tiger Woods, and I can turn around
and tell my kids one day, well, you don't know
anything about how good the old days were. Now I'm
gonna do it. I'm always rooting for greatness. I want
to see the dynasties. I want to see the best players,
even if those players tend to be a little whiny

(01:27:16):
and you know, tend to be not as funny as
you'd like them to be. Like, let's hear this joke
from Lebron last night. Lebron got asked a question in
the post game about what this team needs going forward.

Speaker 8 (01:27:30):
Basically, from mid January on, right when Ad got injured,
you guys started playing a lot of centerless basketball and
not required a lot from you and Doe and Ruie
and then Van Doll once he got back, just from
a physical like taxing standpoint, How how tough was that
for the last three and a half months to play

(01:27:50):
that style?

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
And do you feel like that caught up at all
in this series?

Speaker 3 (01:27:54):
Oh, no comment. I'll never say that, because.

Speaker 6 (01:28:00):
My guy eighty said what he needed and h that
he was gone the following week, So.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
I got no comment. I put that uniform oil every night.

Speaker 4 (01:28:12):
I gave everything I had And.

Speaker 1 (01:28:17):
Now you obviously can tell. Towards the end, he's laughing
a little bit. He's having fun with the media. The
media is asking him, Hey, is it taxing to have
to play power forward to play. It is a big
man role. Again, you're forty. You're asking a forty year old, Hey,
is it hard to bang down low against guys like
Rudy Gobert and nas Reed and get absolutely demolished and

(01:28:37):
physicaled up by a guy like Anthey Edwards who's twenty
three years old. It could be your son. Does it
bother you?

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (01:28:48):
Do you need more? And he goes no comment, which
is again fair. Lebron is a pretty well spoken guy,
the guy that talks a lot, probably to the chagrin
of some other people, probably not out what every NBA
fan loves to hear all the time is from Lebron James.
But give him credit. He does talk to the media.
We want our superstars to be upfront and honest with us,

(01:29:10):
and Lebron again, to a fault, might be a little
bit too honest. Look, I want him to have fun.
I want him to make JOKINGI jokes and but of
course the angle is, hey, this guy is making a
joke about getting traded. He's throwing another first round exit
at the feet of Rob Polenka and Genie Buss in
the front office of the Lakers. Even though the Lakers

(01:29:31):
are able to make a massive swing and go get
him a guy like Luka Dacik to play next to.
This would be the perfect plan for the Lakers going forward.
Is you have to lock Luca into some sort of
device where he has to follow Lebron around throughout the offseason,
because even a year forty, I know that Lebron is

(01:29:52):
taking better care of his body than Luca has in
the last twenty five years of his existence.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
I know that Lebron.

Speaker 1 (01:29:58):
Yeah, he might have a last of wine and every
now and then maybe has a cigar on a yacht
somewhere on the south of France. But for the most part,
he is doing more with his body. He's keeping himself
in shape. He's taking care of the greatest body the
NBA has ever seen. But possibly Luca needs to take

(01:30:19):
some pages of that. I'm not asking you to turn
into Lebron. I'm not asking you to become a super
freak athlete and to only have a keto diet and
to never have any fun. But when we lose in
the first round, and yeah, Lebron very much struggled in
Game five against the Wolves, but Luca also struggled, and

(01:30:40):
he also dealt with the illness and injury throughout the season,
and his body started to break down again in the playoffs,
and you look across the street and what the Clippers
are dealing with Kawhi Leonard takes pretty good care of
his body. He's just genetically.

Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
Hurt.

Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
I guess by the fact that he has the injury
bug every single season, like we are essentially sinking our
watches to him having some sort of injury here pretty soon.
That's just the way that his career has gone. He
cannot stay healthy. Luca, you still have a little bit
of runway here. You potentially could stay healthy, Which leads
us to this offseason. Because Lebron and Luca the Lakers' core.

(01:31:22):
I don't see a world where the Lakers are making
any more big moves. And with Giannis maybe the largest
small market star we have had since Tim duncan Tea,
leaves are saying is unhappy, reports are saying he's unhappy.
We know how this game goes. When a superstar is unhappy,

(01:31:43):
they start packing their bags, they start getting on Zillow,
they start looking for other places to play. So if
there is a small market superstar available, I don't think
the Lakers are the team that are gonna be able
to go get them. However, I do think that a
guy like you will be moved this offseason to which team, well,

(01:32:04):
the team that has the biggest haul. I would like
him to stay in a small market. I would like
him to go to Oklahoma City if they don't win
the title this year, I'd like to see a Yannis
and SGA match up. A team up there, a superstar
group in Oklahoma City, an organization who has been very
successful this season. They have been successful since they moved
to Oklahoma City. But to get a guy like Giannis

(01:32:26):
would be very very good for again small market teams,
And that's what I want. If we're going to rob one,
let's not give him to another big market team. Let's
not send him to New York or Boston or Miami.
If he's going somewhere, let's keep him in a small market.
It's my point, all right. When we come back, I'm
going to talk to you about my favorite NFL pick

(01:32:47):
this season, and it is, by far, I think, the
most entertaining guy. We'll talk about it next on sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Sports Radio AM thirteen
hundred The Zone. Andrews and we'll hang out with you
this Thursday as we continue to work our way through
the work week together. First pitch tonight, six pm on

(01:33:10):
one oh three one, Austin's eighty station. Craigway will be
on the call as the Longhorns, the number one ranked
team in the country in the country, take on the
Arkansas Razorbacks from Fayetteville. First Pitch, six pm, five forty
five hour time on one three one, Austin's eighty Station. Okay,
now the NFL Draft is coming gone, and I have

(01:33:34):
found myself falling in love with Will Campbell, the LSU
offensive lineman who went to the New England Patriots. Let's
start here. This is was Will Campbell after getting drafted.
What he had to say about his quarterback, Drake May.

Speaker 8 (01:33:52):
Basically from mid January on.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
You are brought to New England to protect Drake May.
What kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
Tone are you going to set up in this offensive line?

Speaker 3 (01:34:01):
I'm all fighting to protect them with everything like that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
I love a guy like that.

Speaker 1 (01:34:07):
It's rare, very very rare for me, and I think
for most people to get super excited for an offensive
lineman like my favorite team in the minist of the
Vikings picked the offensive lineman. I couldn't tell you the
first thing. If it's a good pick, if it's a
bad pick. I read a couple of the draft blogs.
They team to give the Vikings good grades. But Will
Campbell top five pick, goes to the Patriots after the

(01:34:30):
Patriots win in the final week of the season to
drop from the number one overall pick to number four. Okay,
the go get Will Campbell and I am head over heels.
I don't know a ton about them. I knew he
had short arms at one point. I think that's what
people were talking about at the combine. Hell, you know,

(01:34:50):
offensive lineman need to have long arms. What about big heart,
because that's what Campbell sounds like he has.

Speaker 5 (01:34:55):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:34:56):
Drake May spoke to the media today and talked about
what his offensive lineman, what it meant to him.

Speaker 5 (01:35:04):
Yeah, you know, listen to a love I mean, man,
you could go into juice going.

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
I think it makes someone to go out there to
play football.

Speaker 4 (01:35:11):
Now, so you'll pump that we picked Will and we
got a chance immediate when he came in influence on Friday,
so and pumped to get things going.

Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
And obviously, you know, seeing football players.

Speaker 1 (01:35:21):
Were going around here now, Drake May is the premier
example of you'd rather be the guy who follows the guy.
Uh for to follow the legend, right, you don't want
to be the guy that immediately follows Bruce Springsteen on stage,
but she wouldn't mind being the guy that follows the
guy because everybody's already forgotten about Tom Brady or you know,

(01:35:42):
they're not comparing you to Tom Brady as quickly off
the jump. There was a little bit of time right
Mey gets drafted in twenty twenty four. Between him and
the goat was Mac Jones and Cam Newton, any of
other quarterbacks that kind of rotated through New England before
Drake May shows up. In the twelve games that May

(01:36:04):
started last season, he played pretty well fifteen touchdowns, ten interceptions, not.

Speaker 2 (01:36:09):
Bad for a rookie.

Speaker 1 (01:36:13):
You would hope that the New England Patriots continue to
get a little bit better, a little bit better, a
little bit better, and I think with a guy like
Will Campbell on the offensive line, they will get better.

Speaker 2 (01:36:22):
That this is the first step.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
People were really excited with Joe Thomas in Cleveland when
the Browns had this iron man who's playing every single
down and it was even more liked because the Browns
stunk for the most part Owens sixteen season, and Joe
Thomas is out there every single snap, every single game,
fighting for a team that's going nowhere, right, And then

(01:36:47):
people fell in love with Jason kelcey. They even gave
him a TV show on ESPN, a late night show
on ESPN, because we liked the big guy. We liked
the offensive lineman, the center who dressed up funky to
go to the Super Bowl parade, and we liked him
because they had the push push and he was crying.
He's playing his brother in the super Bowl, and it

(01:37:07):
is all we like.

Speaker 2 (01:37:09):
Jason kelce an offensive lineman.

Speaker 1 (01:37:11):
I'm telling you right now, both those guys are going
to take a seat behind the love that Will Campbell
will get because if he continues to play and fight
as hard as he talks from LSU, listen to this quote.
This is him at LSU talking about Amazon being an
Amazon worker. If he doesn't do a better job like
this is an incredible quote.

Speaker 6 (01:37:32):
You give up one sack a game for twelve games,
you're gonna work at Amazon.

Speaker 3 (01:37:36):
Nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 6 (01:37:37):
But whenever we're here, this is what we're striving for
If you ever got the time, go back and watch
my first player college football. I got my face ran through, punished,
and that's just what it is. I mean to be
thrown in the fire like these this against good teams.

Speaker 3 (01:37:52):
These dudes are.

Speaker 6 (01:37:53):
Trying to get paid and all they got to do
is get to the quarterback. One thing we live by
in the Ovine room at b Diman get one sack
a game and that's the only thing he can do.
Twelve games, he'll be a top five pick. You give
up one sack a game for twelve games, you're gonna
work at Amazon.

Speaker 2 (01:38:10):
What a quote. What a guy.

Speaker 1 (01:38:12):
And I know he played for the Tigers, but still
I'm all in now that these out of the college ranks.
This is the guy that I'm watching this season. If
there was a way to vote for an offensive lineman,
like it'll never happen, Like it will never ever happen
that offensive lineman wins Rookie of the Year. But if
there was a way for us to get behind this
kid and root for him.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
I think.

Speaker 1 (01:38:34):
I don't even like the Patriots. I don't really care
how the Patriots do, but this is the rookie that
I am all in on while everybody else was worried
about Shador Sanders as he dropping in the draft and
prank phone calls, and you see that. We finally figured
out who was doing it. It was the sun of
the defensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons. Cost him one
hundred and k cost the Falcons two hundred and fifty

(01:38:56):
thousand dollars. Look, if you scratched your parents on Prom night,
you were chipping, you're chewing your fingernails off, You're worried.
Oh man, I can't I can't look at my dad
in the eye because I scratched the car. This kind
of costs his family one hundred thousand dollars three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars overall for a prank phone call.

(01:39:19):
While everybody else is worrying about those stories and worried
about what's cam Ward gonna do in Tennessee? And will
Travis Hunter play both ways? I've been locked in on
Will Campbell. I've been locked in on where was this
kid gonna go? I knew he was going to go early,
I didn't know if he was going to go to
the New England Patriots or not. Then he gives me
a quote that I'm going to fight and die, leave

(01:39:39):
it all on the field for my quarterback. That's what
I want to hear. That's what I love to hear.
This guy has a fan for a life in me,
and that's rare. It's very rare. That Draft night is
when I decided to pledge my allegiance to a guy.

Speaker 2 (01:39:53):
I pledged my allegiance to Will Campbell, New England.

Speaker 1 (01:39:57):
If you win ten games this season or three games
this season, I'm watching every one of them because I
want to see how my boys doing on that offensive line.
All right, when we come back, we'll put a bow
on it. Send you on your way to The Craigway
Show rolls on continues in a moment on Sports Radio
AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred

(01:40:20):
The Zone Andrew Zimmel wrapping up The Craigway Show on
a Thursday edition. Craig will be back on the program tomorrow,
most likely in the three o'clock hour as we preview
Game number two of Texas and Arkansas and recap tonight's
matchup six pm. First pitch five forty five Ever time

(01:40:41):
on one of three to one. Austin's eighty station Craig
Ways on the call from Fayetteville as the number one
ranked Texas Longhorns take on the Razorbacks.

Speaker 2 (01:40:52):
It's gonna be a good game.

Speaker 1 (01:40:53):
From everything that they've told us, this is going to
be one of the better games down the stretch. And
Longhorns take on a series against Florida that has started
to kind of gear in the right direction. And you
also consider they finished the season against Oklahoma, which is
a team it has been very good. Historically speaking, they're

(01:41:16):
a program that has given Texas trouble in the past,
we'll put it that way. So these are two series
coming up that are exciting. This weekend series is exciting
down the stretch. Every one of these games matters as well.
When you talk about RPI and potential's final seeding. The
five game lead for the Longhorns in the final stretch

(01:41:36):
nine games, you feel comfortable. You feel confident that they
could win the regular season and go into the SEC
tournament as a one seed and then of course going
into the regionals and super Regionals that come afterwards in
Omaha and everything else. You got to do it one
series at a time, one weekend at a time, one
inning at a time. But I'm looking ahead because I'm

(01:41:58):
the type of person who likes to prepare and plan,
and I also like to get hotel rooms. So I
would like to know as soon as possible what the
deal is. Also breaking news out of Texas women's basketball.
According to coach Vic Shaeffer, freshman forward Alea Moore will
have surgery that will sideline her the entirety of the
twenty twenty five to twenty six season. The plan for More,

(01:42:21):
who battle ten a ninety cent a right knee throughout
the past two seasons, is to return for the twenty
twenty six twenty twenty seven campaigns. So not what we
would want to hear from the Texas women's basketball program.
It's good to get that adjusted, to get that fixed.
It's sad that we're gonna go through the twenty twenty
five to twenty six season without a Lea Moore, that
is according to Vick Shaeffer. Also, all right, so this

(01:42:44):
is kind of how I wanted to do in the
show today on a Thursday. If you've been online recently,
you've been seeing this debate rage on. I cannot get
enough of it. This has been something that I have
been very, very very much locked in on And I'm
not only locked in on it because it's the topic
of conversation currently. I'm locked in on it because this

(01:43:06):
is something I've been thinking about for a very very
long time, longer than I'm kind of embarrassed with. Man, honestly,
the one hundred v one debate, one hundred men versus
one gorilla? Could it happen? How would it go down?
Why where would the games before the fight happen? All this,
I have been as locked in on any conversation as

(01:43:29):
I've had ever. This is this is the biggest Internet
debate going on right now, and this is something that
I've thought about pragmatically for a very long time. And
I liked that there's now a mix too, where at
first it was okay, it's one hundred strangers, and then
it was like, okay, well can we get people all time?

(01:43:50):
And then could it be you know, can we pick
certain people like, hey, can I go get Connor McGregor right,
who's set on social media that it would be him
versus one hundred gorillas and you would take himself.

Speaker 2 (01:44:00):
So he's confident. I went through historically speaking who would
I want?

Speaker 1 (01:44:06):
And I've come down to one historical figure that I
think would change everything. I think would completely change how
this fight would go down if it was one hundred
v one. Everybody's always going, oh, I want Prime Mike Tyson,
I want Prime Mark Kennedy, the world's strongest man who
can listen to on the morning kickoff seventy nine am

(01:44:27):
right here on the zone. I want Prime hul Cocin. Right,
you go through down the list, and everybody wants these
combat veterans. Bruce Leie, right, you want to go, I'm
going further back if you gave me Prime William Wallace. Yeah,
I'm going all the way back to Scotland. Give me
Prime William Wallace in a fight against the gorilla. Because yeah,

(01:44:47):
all those other guys they're great individuals, they're great individuals,
and if it was one v one they might have
a shot. To be completely honest with you, But if
I need one hundred random guys, I'm picking one hundred
guys off the street, ninety nine other guys on the street,
and I got one of them with William Wallace as well,

(01:45:08):
who led a freedom march in Scotland centuries ago.

Speaker 2 (01:45:13):
Get the history books out, kids, I'm going with him.

Speaker 1 (01:45:16):
Because I need somebody that is going to be able
to rally the troops. I need somebody who's going to
be able to get everybody excited, everybody on the same page,
everybody fighting for a similar cost. Why are we fighting
this grilla? I don't know where are we fighting? It
beats me. When is it happening that could happen tomorrow.
I need somebody who's locked in, who can get all
these strangers to pull in the same direction. I think

(01:45:40):
William Wallace is my answer, and I want to get
your answers as well. So I want you over the
next twenty four hours. We're gonna be back on the
show again tomorrow. Craig's still in Fayetteville in Arkansas. For
Texas and Arkansas over the next twenty four hours or
I guess twenty hours. Ish tweet at me at Andrew Underscore,
Zimbo on Twitter, at Andrew Underscore, Zimo on x you

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can follow me over there. I want to get your answers.
We're gonna compile them. We're gonna get some of those tomorrow.
You also gonna use the free iHeart radio apps talkback feature.
I want to use the talkback feature. It's a little
red button. Go on the free iHeart radio app, Go
to the zone should already be a pre set, use
the talkback feature, and give me your person who you
would want in this one hundred v one against the gorilla?

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And look, is it kind of crazy?

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
Yeah?

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Is it the number one pressing topic in the world
right now? Probably not. You know, we got a lot
going on, we got tariffs, we got a lot going on.
But this, to me is the thing that's gonna unite
us and for all those people. And because again I've
been on the other side of this debate a long time.
I've been fighting this fight since I was in fifth
grade and I saw Coco the Gorilla signing. I was like, really,

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this is what we're spending my precious time library time on,
is watching this video. Ever since then, I've been against
the gorilla propaganda that has been pushed out our throats,
gorilla versus grizzly bear. Give me the grizzly bear one
hundred v one, Give me the one hundred dudes. And
if you are one of those people who is saying, hey,
you know what, Zimmo, you know what, Zimmo, I'm going

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the gorilla. I think the gorilla could beat you when
you're ninety nine. Friends, I tell you this, you don't
have the heart of the champion. You don't have the
desire to go out and try to win something. You
need to rethink how you are going about your life.
If you're picking the gorilla over one hundred of mankind,

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what does that say about you? Just consider that. So
tweet at me at Andrew unders square Zimo on Twitter.
You can also use the free iHeartRadio apps talk back
feature because I want to get your answers when we
do the show again tomorrow. I think that's a good
way to end the week. I think that's a good
way to wrap up a Friday show is kind of
here's some of those answers. I want you to think
about it critically. I with you. If I have the

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way back machine, if I could get the time machine
and go grab somebody, I'm grabbing Scotland's greatest William Wallace,
because I need a leader. I need somebody who's gonna
lead us into battle, all right. Also happening tonight NBA
playoff Basketball. It's the best time of the year. You
get the playoffs and basketball, you get the playoffs. In hockey,

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both happening at the same time. The wonderful, wonderful time.
Tonight's matchups is Nicks and Pistons. I'm gonna leave here
and try to go find a place that's gonna be
playing that game, and then tonight Nuggets and Clippers. Nuggets
need to get this game done. They cannot afford to
be tired trying to go up against the number one

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seeded Oklahoma seed Thunder. They got to get the job
done tonight. Win tonight in LA, knock out both the
LA teams, and let's see you in Oklahoma City. You
can't give the Thunder that much time off. All right,
thanks guys, We'll be back again tomorrow. We'll talk to
Craig Will recap NBA basketball, we'll get geared up for
the weekend. All that coming on tomorrow's edition of The

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Craigway Show. Until next time, I'm Andrew Zimble. Don't forget
I'm not wrong. I'm just early Peace.