Draymond at it Again, Texas Football, Texas Baseball, Texas Softball, Paul Pierce Loses a Bet

Welcome to "The Morning Kickoff Show" with Mike "Hardball" Hardge & "The World's Strongest Man" Mark Henry. Today the guys talk about Timberwolves defeating the Warriors but Draymond is being Draymond once again, More of Coach Sarkisian with Josh Pate, Texas upcoming battle against Florida, Texas Softball celebrates walk off winner against Ole Miss, Paul Pierce pays off his bet, a “Hardge Knocks Life” & “World’s Strongest Take!” Plus, conversations Zach Symm of Orangebloods.com & KVUE’s Anne-Parker Coleman. You can hear it all here on “The Morning Kickoff Show!”

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It better starts for Minnesota Shottha Kaminga a little redemption
on the other end.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
He pushes it. Here's Kaminga exploding to the basket for
a jam. It's a match that they want. They clear
it out.

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Father picked up this dribble and now six to shoot.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Cominga gets a step on Colbert and dunks it down
on Colbert.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
With the fouls he's expecting to kick all soft contact.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Curious Randolph the pet Kirk calls the timeout and the
white flag is off. Minnesota Timberwolves come back with an answer,
and they response in Game two and they win it.

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(01:39):
Draymond must be stopped. Texas Softball has a scare and
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(02:02):
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The timber Wolves come back and get a victory against
the Golden State Warriors one's seventeen to ninety three. Uh,
this was much needed. They got better play out of
the guys that they needed it from. Anthony Edwards was

(03:07):
more efficient. Still not aggressive enough for me, but it's okay.
His team went out and won one seventeen ninety three.
Julius Rando led the way with twenty four points. Jimmy
Butler took control of that situation. He went seven. He
had seventeen points. They finally played Jonathan Kaminga in the
absence of Steph Curry. He had eighteen points. But the

(03:31):
story of this matchup was at one point, Anthony Edwards
gets landed on. He goes out of the game and
everybody's worried about him. He comes back, it looks like
it was nothing. Dude landed on his leg, but the
story continues to be one.

Speaker 6 (03:48):
Draymond Green a tough call because all he's trying to
do is draw the foul, and now Draymond is just
yelling at the official warring dury frustrated, got.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
To get control of his emotions. I understand the frustration is.
I don't think there was any intent there, but the
referees are calling the game the.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Way they expected him to.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
Steph Curry now trying to calm him down. Raymond making
his case, which step understands.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
And for the fifteenth year, Draymond Green gets the Oscar
for the act the most likely to succeed in sports
by not get acting like he really is trying to
hit somebody, but he's really trying to hurt somebody and
hit somebody. I'm so tired. I'm done. I'm absolutely done.

(04:42):
When is somebody gonna whoop his ass? I'm done with it?

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well, old boy tried to and he got knocked out
at practice.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
No, he.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Didn't have what it took right right. Somebody has to
somebody has to stop Draymond.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
See now, now he didn't have all hardcore and willy
nilly when run Our Test was out there and run
Our Test pulled his punk card. And then and then
he's gonna go on hard and pull the black card
on somebody. Listen, we don't need you pulling the black card.
I have one, and if I decide to use mine,

(05:21):
it's gonna be for the benefit of somebody's welfare, somebody's
you know, being injured or taking advantage of not not
a basketball game, not me defending me flailing my arms,
or me kicking people as I'm going down, or me
diving on Joel and Bead's leg and injuring him. For

(05:43):
the Jolan Bed has missed the glass. He don't need
any help from Draymond to miss games, but he did.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Draymond Green is stacked up as a history.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's a history of of of uncontrolled, I mean, just
irreprehensible behavior.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yes, so I'm done with him, and you can you.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Can you hey, listen, if somebody out there from Associated
Press and and uh, they know Draymond and they hear this,
tell Draymond Dream Green to call anti show because I'm
a debate with him on the fact that.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
He does that.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
The people that he know won't whoop him, that won't
challenge him. He wouldn't have He wouldn't have lasted a
He wouldn't have lasted a season in the nineties.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
He would have fought Charles Barkley. He would have fallt Shack.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
He would have fought roun Our Test, Kevin mcuh, Antonio mcdice,
he would have faught. I mean, there's about thirty guys
he would have had to fight. Lah Oh, my goodness,
great you get in the beginning of the nineties.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
It is one hundred. It's one hundred guys. These guys
today just like it. He would have had to be
the gorilla man, being Wallace. I double dog dag you
to do that to being Wallace. Rashie, are any of
the Waller anybody named Wallace?

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Leave alone, young Hakeem Man. I'm telling you like, it's
disrespectful to the game. It's disrespectful to me as a
black man.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
For him to go out there and say what he said.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
The NBA is painting a picture of the angry You
painting a picture of the angry black man by doing
all this garbage and take you listen, if you want
to fight, Oh my god, there's so many celebrity fight leagues.
Show me that Gore would knock your face in Gord

(07:47):
whooping everybody.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
If you're a.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Celebrity and football player basketball, he'll punch you in the mouth.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Don't call him out.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
But leave these basketball players alone and go and play
the game the way is supposed to be played.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
And I'm done with it. Well, Draymond Green obviously is
the story. And they say Draymond will never ever stop
being who he is. They review here, Yeah, he's got
a chance, got a chance to be upgraded to wall
the flavor.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
I want to stand on Nasrid. He fouls him right there.
And so you're looking at after the call, what happened
in Draymond Green.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
And not only that, here's the statement about the quote
unquote angry black man. He looked like the angry black man.
I'm not an angry black man.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
I'm a very successful, educated black man with a great family.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
And I'm great at basketball. I'm great at what I do.
To the agenda.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
To try to keep making me look like an angry
black man is crazy.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
I'm sick of it is ridiculous. Well, here's the deal.
Here's the deal when it comes to that conversation. And
I'm glad you voiced it the way that that you did, Mark,
and I'm glad you got that off your chest. But
here's the here's the truth of the matter. You walk
like a duck, you sound like a duck. You're ad,

(09:14):
and you are a duck. I mean, that's exactly what
it is. If you look at your history. Everybody always
talks about innocent until proven guilty. You have been guilty
on all accounts. And to your point, Draymond, why is
it that you feel like you have to use that

(09:35):
type of conversation about you. The truth of the matter
is you are the problem. We gave you love when
you deserved it. You went out there, you played hard
the other night, but your actions continue to be borderedline. Yes, yes,

(09:56):
you are a suspect in every situation. You are normally
found guilty in every series. Here's the biggest thing for me,
in this particular conversation, you were on the verge of
being suspended if you would have got another technical. Your

(10:18):
teammates have told you, your coach has told you, and
I'm sure the front office has told you dremont learn
to walk away. And here's my last thing on this.
When has a technical after they go and review it

(10:39):
been reversed. Never, Bro, They've already gone to the monitor.
They gave you the benefit of the doubt by even
going to the monitor. Not never. And now here you are,
and our conversation is taken away from the fact that
number one, you're you're missing your best player. Number two,

(10:59):
you've already won a game in a series that people
didn't have you in. At number three, if you get suspended,
you're not helping your team. No.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
And you know what on top of it, you know
what looked really disrespectful to me is when Steph Curry
comes to tell you, ay, man, chill, you gloss by him,
You pushed by him.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
The coach dra mind relaxed. Yeah, man, it's not that
gloss by him. You push.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
You show no respect for your team, You show no
respect for black people when you say something like you said.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
This climate that we living in, the last thing we
need is for more foolery. Yeah, he's definitely giving us that.
Coming up next, we're gonna hear from coach Sark a
little bit more of that interview, and of course we've
got a special announcement about a football game that happens
that season right here on the Morning Kickoff on Sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Welcome back to the

(11:59):
Morning Kickoff right here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
The Zone. Coming up in the next segment, we'll talk
Texas baseball a little bit, as we got an update
on one Texas Longhorn as he might be making a
return sooner than later. But right now we want to
listen to more of Coach Sark as Coach Sark had

(12:20):
his time with Josh Pate. But before we get into that,
I wanted to let you know that an announcement was
made yesterday regarding Texas and Texas A and M football
game coming up next season. And one of the things
that everybody was trying to figure out is this is

(12:40):
the game gonna be on a Friday? Is the game
gonna be on a Saturday? Well, yesterday it was announced
that the Longhorn I mean, excuse me, lone Star Showdown
Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown will be set for Friday,
the day after Thanksgiving Friday to twenty eight at six,

(13:01):
with the Texas Longhorns hosting the Texas A and m
Aggie's as they make their return trip to Austin. It'll
be the first time that the game will be played
on the holiday weekend on Friday since two thousand and seven.
Two thousand and seven was the last time that this
game was played on a Friday, So a lot of

(13:24):
folks there won't be any high school games during that
day with I don't I wouldn't think so, and Texas
plays at night, so we'll see what ends up happening
during that time. So it's gonna be fun to get
that game back on Black Friday. Black Friday, folks is
gonna be careful out there. But I wanted to let
you hear a little bit more of Josh Pate's conversation

(13:46):
with coach Steve Saks, and Coach Sark talked about what
it was like in the good old days.

Speaker 7 (13:54):
Your point, you know, you're talking about having a sense
of time. There's that quote from the office. I wish
I knew I was the good old days before I've
left them. But the nature of the good old days
is most of the time you have to be removed
from them to reminisce on how great.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
They were, sore.

Speaker 7 (14:08):
There's a lot to be gained from knowing you're there
in the moment you're talking about it in your walk
of life. I know I'm in a sweet spot in
my walk of life right now.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Do you have like.

Speaker 7 (14:18):
An appreciation of a sense of time like that? You
can't slow it down, it's always marching, But do you
have an appreciation of time like that? Given how hectic
your day to day is as a head.

Speaker 8 (14:27):
Coach, much better today than it was, you know, fifteen
years ago, much better?

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Look at this.

Speaker 8 (14:36):
I'm the head coach at University of Texas. Right fifteen
years ago, man, I didn't think that way. I was
thinking about what's next, you know where we headed what's
next fo the focusing on the end result rather than
the process.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
But now I'm much.

Speaker 8 (14:51):
More equipped to slow down and to take each day,
each moment within the day, and give it the appreciation
that it deserves. Because I don't think I used to
do that in my past, But I definitely today feel
comfortable in saying that and knowing that, Man, I appreciate
this opportunity right. Uh, you know, four years ago, guys

(15:14):
like you weren't coming here to interview me before the season,
and now here you.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Are, right, would be a very.

Speaker 8 (15:19):
Different Yeah, yeah here, And so like I don't I
don't lose sight of that, Like we've earned a lot
of these things. Let's not let's let these things blow by.
Let's let's let's appreciate them for what they are and
appreciate the people that that do want to be around
our program for all the right reasons.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
That's a that's that's a powerful statement with great insight.
That's a powerful statement when you sit and you think
about the fact that this interview would be doing a
lot different if Texas would have stayed in that five
and seven range. And he may not may not even
be coach of the University of Texas, but we.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Look around the landscape of Texas sports, you don't see
many coaches going five and seven anything.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
And they, yeah, they keep it, they keep it moving
in the right direction. So for coach Stark looking at it,
and I appreciate what Josh Pate said too. I mean,
his brand has grown so much because he's got the
ability to talk about high level stuff and success. And
that is where we are too. We're part of a

(16:30):
we're the flagship station for the University of Texas athletics,
and we're in a sweet spot. Can we can? We
can we pat ourselves on the back a little bit
like trying to help it. We're yeah, we're not gonna
be Steven We're not gonna be Steve Smith. We're doing
all right, though, I mean, yeah, we're we're doing We're
in the right spot right now with the the craziness

(16:54):
in college athletics and the ability to talk about it
every day and got this platform. But you know, one
thing that I've always appreciated with Sart is his ability
to be honest with his players about his past.

Speaker 7 (17:10):
The teams that we watch that win every year, one
of the commonalities.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Is the group of guys is really.

Speaker 7 (17:16):
Willing to go over the cliff because they believe in
their leadership, they believe in the head coach. They're willing
to play extremely hard for him. When you get guys here,
when you talk to them, I know, you guys do
like culture Wednesday for example, and you're trying to open
the hood beyond football. Just talk about life.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
You've lived one jel yah.

Speaker 7 (17:35):
How brutally open are you with your players?

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Just about your past.

Speaker 8 (17:40):
I'm very open, you know, because they all have an
idea and now especially some of the players that are
in year three, right, they had a pretty good idea
of the life that I've lived. And I wouldn't change
my life for anything. If it weren't my life, I
wouldn't be here today. But I want them to know
what shaped me and how I got here, and so

(18:03):
to do that, I have to be really honest with them.
I have to be open. I have to share. I
have to talk about the adversity in my life, some
self inflicted wounds, some not self inflicted wounds. But I
believe the really good teams, to your point, do take
on somewhat the personality of the head coach. I need
them to know who I am and what I've been through,
and because that's what I'm trying to instill into them.

(18:26):
This level of grit, this level of resiliency, this level
of mental and physical toughness, the ability to respond to
the adversity that gets thrown at us, not only in
real life but on the football field. That's kind of
who I am, right, That's been my story, that's been
what I've had to do. And so what's my best
way to instill that into our team. Get to know me,

(18:48):
get to know what I'm about, all right, and then
let me get to know you. And then let's work
on some of those things, and let's create an avenue
between each and every player that they can share with me.
They can get close to me in a way where
maybe it's unique, maybe it's not, I don't know. It
feels unique to me. I feel like we have something
special here that way that allows me to tap into

(19:08):
them in a way that's differently than than maybe any
other coach tapped into me.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
You know who he is. He's a he's a preacher.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Because you know he's a he's a preacher that's an
expert at football. That that's expert at getting people together
in the same room. It's hard to do, it's hard
to get everybody on the same page. He's a great
conduit to get everybody together. You know, you don't go
to a church and the preacher has been without sin.

(19:42):
That he's been so he's been pristine, clean period. As
the driven snow. You can't tell me how to fix
me if you ain't never been nowhere and had no struggles.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
This dude had struggles. He been somewhere.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
He fought the demons, the big demons, not the baby demons.
He fought the big ones in one I'm gonna listen
to him, right, He's a leader of men.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, And you got to be honest with yourself before
you can be honest with anybody else. And that is
where Coach Shark has really taken the bull by the
horns in that fashion to the point that hey, man,
I've got scars, and this is how I've scarred myself,
and this is how I've repaired. This is the certain

(20:30):
things that I've had to do to get to this point.
So it's enlightening to so many other people that are
coming in with all of these struggles. But one of
the struggles that he has had, and a lot of
people are very critical of it, is his play calling
at times. And he's an elite play caller. I know
we always give him a hard time in certain situations,

(20:52):
but every thirty seconds he has to go through it
for four hours.

Speaker 7 (20:57):
Alarm clock goes off on a game day. Yeah, to
the time you're on team bus, you're getting to the building,
you're going through warm ups, you're back in the locker
room five minutes four minutes, three minutes, take.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
The field, they give you the headset.

Speaker 7 (21:09):
You may do a pregame interview, two questions, and you're
out and then it's boom.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
And everything like, oh.

Speaker 7 (21:14):
And it's got to clear the mechanism. And it's four
quarters and to us it's three and a half or
four hours.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
To you, what does that time even feel like?

Speaker 8 (21:22):
Well, first of all, there's nothing better than game day.
Like I get up like it's Christmas morning. I'm so
excited on game day when I step on the grass
before the game, I go out probably a little earlier
than most head coaches, because there's, to your point, there's
so much other stuff. You got recruits there, you've got
donors there, you got all you know, the stuff. The
music's playing, and sometimes I just want to get into

(21:44):
my space and to my zone. I have to kind
of get myself into this space. To your point, that
is almost a little bit of a silo to think
very clearly and to be clear minded and to be focused.
But then when the moment hits, right, when when that
ball gets kicked off. To put it into perspective, think
about making a decision every thirty seconds. Imagine if you're

(22:09):
sitting at home and for the next four hours, your
wife asking you what you want to eat every thirty seconds, man,
and when you and when you say, I don't know,
that's called a delay again, every thirty seconds. You're making
a decision every thirty seconds for the next four hours.
And so what happens is when it's all said and done,

(22:30):
you this this odd feeling of you're exhausted, but yet
you're still amped up, like it's you have to find
a way to get yourself to come back off of
that because you're you're on. You know, you're you're literally
on for four straight hours.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
I'm gonna set my alarm for every thirty seconds. I
want to alert every thirty seconds for just one hour
today and see what that feels wrong. Well, don't do it.
During our show no up. Coming up next, we'll continue
the conversations great insight by our guy Coach Stark and

(23:07):
Josh Peik. That's a great interview. Coming up next, we're
gonna talk Texas baseball last home series as they take
on the Florida Gators right here on the morning kickoff
on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred. The soccer coming up
in the next segment, we'll be talking Texas softball. If
they get as, they get a huge, huge victory. But

(23:28):
right now we want to talk a little bit about
the Texas baseball team. It is their last home series
of the year in SEC play. In Texas playing its
first year in the SEC, We've had a lot of success,
so I want to put it out there right now.
We want to apologize, well, I want to apologize completely

(23:51):
messed up and did not have our call yesterday with
coach Slosnagel. Kind of got caught up in the MRI
situation and now we are looking at one of the
best series for Texas coming up this weekend. There's a
lot of good baseball that will be played this weekend,

(24:12):
but right now we want to focus on Florida Gators.
The Florida Gators are eleven and thirteen on the season
in the SEC. Texas, the number one team in the
LAMB is nineteen and five thirty nine and eight overall,
and Florida is thirty three and seventeen. This Florida baseball

(24:35):
team is kind of unpredictable, kind of like the entire
conference when you sit back and think about it, because Texas,
although coming into the conference we did not know exactly
what Texas was going to be. We knew they were
going to compete. They got the best coach in the league,
and now they are sitting at the top of the conference.

(24:56):
And yesterday we got a chance to meet with a
couple of the players, Andre Duplantier and Kimball Shustler, two
guys that are the cornerstones of this Texas baseball team,
and the conversation was surrounding Senior Day. To be quite
honest with you and a lot of these guys. Dre,

(25:19):
who has been referred to as Unk, is a sixth
year senior who will be participating in Senior Day this weekend.
You also had a report on Kimball Shustler. Kimball Shustler
a guy who started off at Texas A and m
ended up having a real hard conversation with coach Sloss

(25:44):
at that time, transferring to the University of Texas and
now becoming one of the fan favorites. There's just so
many different guys that have been a part of the
success and the turnaround of not just this season, but
the success of the program. You look at through the

(26:04):
years and you look at what David Pierce was able
to do here at the University of Texas. Taking him
to Omaha. Didn't win it, but he got him there.
Coach Slopsnegel coming in with the first season, bringing a
new staff, bringing new pitching coach, and changing the way
that this team prepares. It has been a one hell

(26:27):
of a ride and it's shocking because the season now
is almost over. As I said, this is the last
home regular season, and you get this team at home,
you get the Florida Gators at home Tomorrow. Tonight's game
will be at six thirty first pitch. You can watch
it on ESPNU, but you can hear Craig Way and

(26:51):
I believe Keith Moorland on one three one. Tomorrow's game
will be at one o'clock. That game will be on
Seen Network Plus, but you will have you will listen
to it on AM thirteen hundred the Zone right here
on the Zone and then on Sunday one pm first pitch,

(27:12):
you can listen to that game on one three to one.
But during that depressor yesterday, we got a chance to
talk to coach Schlossenegel and he brought up Max Blue.
And here's the latest on Max Blue, former Big twelve
player of the year who was off to a hot
start before he injured his thumb, and we got an update.

Speaker 9 (27:34):
Yes, yeah, so Max has been progressing. He's swinging the bat,
he's hitting. He's doing light hitting right now to try
and build up tolerance, and got to be careful in
volume of swings. Since he's been off for so long,
we've sped up. We've done more of him standing in
against live pitching so he can he can get his

(27:56):
timing and go in see you know, move, get his
eyes accustomed to live pitching. If he keeps progressing at
the manner that he has this week to this point,
maybe next weekend a little bit. Maybe just it's his
thumb is kind of it's fully healthy now, it's just
a matter of handling the paint paint callers as that can.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
That'll go away over time. Wow, I gotta get acclimated.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, And that's that's always as an for an athlete,
the fine tuning is always point of contention.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
I'm happy that he's at the point to where he
can actually focus on that rather than the healing and
rather than the getting well.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, because you know, you start to look at the
timing at the plate is a big thing, So him
being able to go up to the plate see live pitching,
because yesterday he got a chance to face live pitching
while we were there, so he got a chance to
actually see it. Tracking getting a timing back, the swinging

(29:00):
is going to take care of itself. It's that hand
eye coordination while you're at the plate and being able
to recognize certain pitches, whether it's lefty or lefty, righty
versus lefty. However, he goes up there and you want
to be prepared because, as coach said, I believe he's
going to be ready for the Oklahoma weekend, but not

(29:24):
really ready, but he'll definitely be ready for SEC tournament
and of course the regional as Texas. More than likely
we'll be hosting a regional. We'll talk to We talked
about that briefly yesterday. Yeah, like getting used to the
speed of.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Pitches, and you know, I told you I went to
that machine, Yeah, and eighty miles an hour scared me
to death. Like, so I'm sure that him coming back,
he's got to start at the you know, you know, eighty.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Miles an hour, the ninety miles an hour, see what
one hundred looks like and It's all about the release
point too, being able to get back to knowing where
you want to watch and look for the ball to
be able to be released because you can go in
there and see it. It could come in there. But
you want to make sure that you're tracking properly to
get your eyes trained to be back in the heat

(30:13):
of battle, because the one thing you don't want to
do is come back too soon, take a bad swing
and then you end up messing up with tomb again.
We will have our guy Zack sim at the top
of the hour. We will ask him about Texas chances
for a regional who might be in it, and of
course this huge senior weekend for the Texas Longhards. When

(30:36):
we come back, we will talk Texas softball. That's right,
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(31:45):
let's get into it. Yesterday, big time matchup in college softball,
as the Texas Longhorn softball team was up against it.
They jumped out to a huge lead and ended up
having to have kind of a miracle worker happened at
the end.

Speaker 10 (32:05):
Bitch Henry hits it high and deep to right field.
That's not coming back over the scoreboard. A two run shot,
six to one.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Texas big time home run early early in the ball game,
as Texas jumped out to a you heard it correctly,
a six run, six to one lead, but they ended
up having to come from behind and clutch is clutch.
Mia Scott, who ended up playing all nine positions earlier

(32:34):
this week, well, she just does what Mia Scott does.

Speaker 10 (32:38):
Three two pitch, Scott drives up the center back goes duke, it's.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Over her head, one hops the wall. Maloney scores and
the Longhorns walk it off.

Speaker 10 (32:48):
Mia Scott comes through and keeps Texas alive in the
SEC Tournament, a walk off double for the senior, seven
to six win for the Long six and nine on.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
The season, forty six and nine on the seed and season,
and Cayden Henry who go ahead? Mark ahead, Kevi, there
you go, she said after the game. You get punched
in the mouth, and its adversity at that point, but
it's still being able to make those adjustments, trusting each
other in making sure you do what you can on

(33:24):
the field, and at the point you're able to push
through and get a win that was much needed. It
was important for Texas to get that w because now
it gives us another opportunity for a big time matchup
as Texas will now take on guess who folks Texas
A and M tonight at five forty on ESPN two.

(33:47):
The number three seeded Texas Longhorns take on the two
seed Texas A and M fighting Aggie's and the winner
will play the in the Championship of the SEC against
the winner of Arkansas. Arkansas who hit a grand slam
yesterday to get their victory, as did Oklahoma gets a

(34:09):
victory for to one over LSU. So now Texas and
Texas A and M will follow the Arkansas and Oklahoma game.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
You played quarterback, you threw a touchdown before? Did you
ever throw a touchdown to win a game? You played basketball?
You ever hit a shot to win a game? You're
a hardball hard so I know you hit one to
win a game? Which which fil the best? Which which
gave you the heat that the sense of accomplishing was

(34:40):
a fieldment, it's the it's all of the above, really
because being in that situation at that time, you know
what is needed for you at that particular moment.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
There's a reason why they called that play. There's a
reason why you were able to get to that point.
But at the batter's box, it's different because it's unpredictable.
You don't know what pitch you're gonna get. You don't
know they got nine guys out there or ladies out
there to try to stop you from getting that particular hit.

(35:13):
So I think it's more fulfilling when you hear the
roar of the crowd of that after, yeah, after you
get a game winning base hit or a home run
or whatever it is, it's kind of exhilarating. And if
you go back and you get a chance to watch
her at bat, she knew she was gonna get a hit.
You can just tell by her approach. Her approach was perfect.

(35:33):
She was quiet, she was calm, She didn't look overly
excited about the at bat or the situation. And all
she did was get barrel there, Baul took off, hit
it straight over the center fielder's head, and they walked
it off for the victory.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
But you make that sound so easy, But everybody knows
that the hardest thing to do in sports is a
hit of past ball.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Right.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
But if you look at what if you like I said,
if you if you got a chance to watch the
video her approach the entire at that at that I
was watching it live. While she was up there, she
was calm, cool, collected, didn't get over excited at the
plate where she would jump out to the front side
like she was gearing up for a certain pitch. She

(36:18):
was just like, I'm gonna see the ball, I'm gonna
hit the ball. I'm gonna win this game.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
What is the advantage of playing every position? I mean,
I know you can play every position, but you said
she played She played every position in.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
A week, she played in the game one game. She
played every position in one game. Is that just showing off?
But you really needed her to go do that. Sometimes
it can be I can do that, I can do
that's showing off. I guess you would say that. I
guess you could. You can't. You played first, second, third,

(36:54):
you play all the outfield? Yes, yep, she did it
all at one game. Come on, man's showing versatility as well.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Hey, but I tell you what, man, I'd rather have
that person on my team than for that person to
be on somebody else's.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
She was definitely it was a It was a I
talked about subject the Monks, the media members, it was
a talked about subject the Monks fans. But as someone
who was fortunate enough to do that, I thought it
was pretty cool, you know what I mean? Just the
ability the one thing that you always worry about though

(37:32):
in those situations. It's not about the pitching part of it.
It's more about being the catcher because if you're not
used to doing that, you can jam your thumb, you
can get hit foul ball. I mean, there's just so
many different things that you're not used to right right,
So it was Yeah, it was a little interesting. You know,

(37:55):
people like a little bit. It was earned, not given.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
And you know, for a coach to allow that is
a lot of comp shows a lot of confidence in you.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Well, coach wasn't sure that they were going to do it,
and it was not discussed until the game was actually
going on and she was like, hey, I want to
play every position today. She was a senior last time.
She was like, this is this is the mark. Yeah,
this is the mark that I want to leave. So
it was it was interesting, but she got it done

(38:28):
and now Texas takes on their old rival, the Texas
A and m fighting Aggie's our number one is in
the book. Coming up, We've got Zach sim of Orangebloods
dot Com talking baseball. We got Ann Parker Coleman coming
up at eight seventeen as well to talk all things
Texas and forget what got the world's strongest take and

(38:52):
so much more right here on the Morning Kickoff on
Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Welcome back to
the Morning Kickoff, Hour number two of the Morning Kickoff
right here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone
and hour number one, we talked about how we are
tired of Draymond Green and his antics. We also got

(39:12):
a chance to let you know that Texas and Texas
A and M football rivalry will be on Friday this year.
And of course we've talked a lot about Texas softball.
But right now we're going to get into the Texas
baseball conversation as Texas baseball takes on Florida this weekend
as the last home regular season matchup takes place starting

(39:36):
tonight six point thirty. But right now we are joined
by Zach sim of Orangebloods dot Com. You can follow
him at Zach at the Dish and Zach, let's get
right into the conversation. This Florida Gators baseball team is
a team that in the past has brought a lot
of energy to the ballpark and former champion. They've done

(40:00):
so many different things. But now they're coming in and
they're playing some really good baseball as well.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
Yeah, Florida Gators.

Speaker 11 (40:10):
I mean, they had a one and eleven start to
kick off the season in conference play, which is not ideal,
but they've bounced back and they've swept three of their
last four series, winning all of the series obviously, and
that includes beating Arkansas. So they're playing some really good baseball.
They've had a ton of injuries. They're they're missing their
second base and their shortstops. They had one of the

(40:30):
pitchers out for two months. But you know, they've had
young guys step up, They've had kind of bit part
players step up, and so they're playing hot baseball right now.
And yeah, they're gonna they're gonna bring some energy to
the ballpark because they look to continue that push back
into the TCAA tournament conversation.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Well, you brought up the conversation about Fayetteville and the
Horns not playing well. Obviously that it was the first
series that Texas really looked like they got handled. But
it wasn't necessarily that they got handled. They just couldn't
pitch well. And that has not been the fourte of
this Texas baseball team. What is it that you thought

(41:06):
you might have seen during Texas struggles on the mound
last weekend and what do they need to do to
get it fixed.

Speaker 11 (41:14):
Yeah, when you look at Rugor starting off, he didn't
really seem to have his sharpest stuff. That was his
third appearance in the last I think it was eleven
or twelve days, and that accumulates.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
You know, you know how it feels to.

Speaker 11 (41:26):
Get out there grinding, and so it just wears on you,
and maybe you're not as sharp with your fastball. And
what I saw was that they were staying off his
fastball completely because he couldn't really land it was missing
too far inside.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
And so then they just started sitting breaking ball.

Speaker 11 (41:41):
And again, if you don't have your best stuff, and
Sawston Nigel talks about this all the time, you don't
hit the good breaking balls. He hit the ones that
are over the plate, that aren't landed perfectly. And that
happened and so that kind of started the almost like
a spiral right where everything just kind of felt like
it got away from him really really quickly, and they
weren't able to match the energy and they just they

(42:04):
never could kind of get into a rhythm. And then,
you know, on the opposite side, I think all the
credit goes to Arkansas pitching is just Zach Rute had
his best performance of his entire career. Gage Wood coming
back from injury as he slowly rebounds, looks like from
a metrics standpoint, one of the most elite pitchers in
the nation. So just an accumulation of all the bad

(42:24):
things at once, which, Hey, the good news is they
got it out of.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
Their system hopefully and they're able.

Speaker 11 (42:29):
To kick things back off right. So you usually have
one of those every season.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Hard to ask the question that I was going to ask,
but coach talked about Blue being back from injury and
getting acclimated.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
What about the rest of the guys.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
That are injured, Like, can you give us a status
report on where everybody stands?

Speaker 11 (42:52):
Yeah, so I think at this point you're not going
to see a guy like Will Mercers this season, just
hasn't been able to really rebound after aggravating his arm.
Ace Whitehead has made the decision he's going to take
a red shirt the season so he didn't burn his eligibility.

Speaker 4 (43:07):
Mendoza is, you know, he's feeling really good.

Speaker 11 (43:10):
The shoulders feeling a lot better than what it was
last time we talked to him. He just said, look,
I'm waiting for the approval from Sam the trainer, and
he you know, he may need to get there sooner
just to figure out who's going to play where.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
But as far as Blue.

Speaker 11 (43:24):
Goes, I honestly I would be very surprised if we
saw him except for maybe one or two at bats
against Oklahoma. I just don't think they're going to try
to rush him back. They've been extremely careful with him,
and so Oklahoma was always kind of seen as that
earliest series that he'd be available. But depending on how

(43:44):
this sweekend goes, you may not see him at all,
you know. Ex So, like I said, except for a
couple at bats, just to kind of see a live pitching.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Yeah, and that's what kind of what coach was talking
about yesterday. We met with coach los Nagel and he
had kind of mentioned maybe a couple of bats against Oklahoma,
But I do expect to see him in the SEC
tournament and of course in the regional We're talking to
Zach sim of Orangebloods dot com. You can follow him
at Zach at the Dish on social media, and Zach,

(44:14):
speaking of regionals, coach Losnego said something yesterday that was
actually pretty enlightening. He had mentioned the time when he
was at Tulane where he thought for sure his team
was in, and he found out right before that that
his team wasn't in. And then he found out when
at one time at TCU that he thought he wasn't

(44:37):
in and then they got in. So he doesn't take
anything for granted at these particular moments. That's where you
and I come into it. So my question to you
is number one Texas seems to be still at that
number one seed in the projections for regionals. Is Texas
in your eyes, still going to be able to hold

(45:00):
the regional? And if they win it all or win it,
they would be able to host a super regional as well.

Speaker 11 (45:08):
For the regional, absolutely they're locked in as a top
sixteen seed. They could go zero to six the rest
of the way, and I think they would still get
the benefit of the doubts for what they've done to date.
Now the argument becomes are they a super regional host.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
Or one of the top eight seeds?

Speaker 11 (45:23):
And I think this is where I probably differ or
differ from a lot of other folks. Everyone else is saying, look,
there one win away from forty wins. They've got nineteen
wins in conference. That's basically a lock for a top eight.
I've seen a lot of wonky things out of the
committee over the years, right, and so there's a lot
of recency bias that I see in the committee. And

(45:45):
people have to remember there are athletic directors on that
committee that there's just like football, there's a lot of
folks out there that haven't paid attention.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Yep.

Speaker 11 (45:52):
They haven't watched every game of the season. They certainly
haven't been tracking you know, consistency or RPI or strength
to schedule or ELO or any of the other stats.
And so if you don't finish strong, typically that's a
really bad indicator of what's gonna happen to you from
the committee standpoint. So, I mean, at a minimum, they
need to at least get one game from both of
the next two series if they win against Florida or

(46:16):
they win the series against Oklahoma. Yeah, I think you
probably will lock up the top eight seed because you're
gonna be at twenty twenty one wins. And I just
you know, last year, if you look at it, A
and M had nineteen wins and they were the number
three overall seeds, so you know, again, get a win,
get two wins, and you're pretty well locked up for
super resonal Zach.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
In other sports, it's common to see coaches hold people
out and just wait until the playoffs. So wait until
the championship? Is that the same in baseball? Is that
if Texas goes and wins the next three or four
games in a row, and like you said, if they

(46:58):
lost the next six, still be in good standing.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
Do you hold your good guys out?

Speaker 11 (47:07):
Not really know, unless you've got a guy that's orderline,
just you know he's trying to fight through a little
bit of injury, but you know that he needs an
extra day of rest. Now you just you continue to
roll those guys out. Getting that rhythm, keeping seeing the pitches,
and just being live in baseball is so important.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
Now.

Speaker 11 (47:25):
What you do see often is, especially around the conference
tournament time, is if a coach that feels really comfortable
where they're they're at, they'll start aligning their pitching rotation
to match up to the conference tournament or to the
regional to make sure that everything is just how they
want it, because sometimes you don't want to pitch your
number one guy in a regional. Now there's a calculated

(47:45):
risk there right there. You know the other team is
going to definitely be pitching their ace against especially if
you're the host, So you can't just roll out, you know,
a Tuesday night arm that has their own five innings
off season.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
But that's the only.

Speaker 11 (47:56):
Time you really start to see folks get held out
or you know, things change, drown and again, next week's
going to be a short week for Oklahoma and they
have to travel again, and so yeah, you might see
some guys move around, but I think for the most part,
Pierces are peers Los Angeles. You know, kind of stated
he really wants to keep things as is because you

(48:18):
keep those guys in those routines.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Well, it's funny that you said that. Being a short week,
it kind of plays itself out because you get to
be at home this weekend and there is no midweek game,
so that will kind of help get that rotation back
on track. Before we let you go, I wanted to
ask you about a couple of seniors. Yesterday we got
a chance to talk to Andre do Plantier, big Unk

(48:42):
as they call him, and of course Kimball's shustler. What
do you think about those guys and their meaning to
this program.

Speaker 11 (48:52):
I mean, Dre has just been, you know, such an
incredible story where he came in with such hype his
freshman year and he showed so much promise with that
fastball and what he was able to do with the
breaking ball, that curve of his and then you know,
he unfortunately got you know, time stolen by injury, which
happens to some players, but the resiliency to come back

(49:13):
and not just come back, but fight through not being
the same pitcher, right like his arm slat changed his
v LO, change the way he threw, change like everything
had evolve for him.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
It wasn't easy, like it was his freshman year.

Speaker 11 (49:28):
And then, you know, to make that decision to come
back this year after kind of riding off high last year, right,
he didn't the team didn't go out high, but he
himself probably had his best year as a as a
Texas player. And so making that decision of you know what,
I'm going to put my body through the grind one
more time. I know I probably don't have a professional career,
but I love the sport, I love the team, I

(49:50):
love the players, like I'm gonna do.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
This for the team. Like that's that unselfishness is just amazing.

Speaker 11 (49:58):
And then from Kimball's standpoint, you know Softnangles mentioned before,
but this guy is just the ultimate competitor. He loves
playing baseball. He too has fought through injuries. He you know,
he made the transfer when he didn't make the team
at A and M. And you know there's always been
guys ahead of him, whether it's been Silas ar dwand
whether it's been Riley Galvan or others. You know, he

(50:21):
stayed true to himself, right, He just competes, and he says,
I'm gonna go put my best foot forward every single
day whatever the team needs. Hey, you need you need
me to be at first base? I got you right,
I'm going to go become the damn best first basement
you could possibly want, right, And he did. Like he's
statistically he's way up there in terms of defensive stats
at first base. And so yeah, just you know he's

(50:44):
I think Saftnagle said it once before, but he set
the standard for first baseman at Texas first Softnankele going forward,
no doubt. I think that says a lot because he's
coached some really really good first baseman in his career.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
No doubt, man, As always, we appreciate you. In one
nugget forgot, Drake came in and he actually played some
third base when he got to the University of Texas
and was in the batting lineup as well. So he's
done a lot for this university and we're thankful for that.
And we're thankful for you taking the time today and
hopefully we have a great weekend as the Longhorns take

(51:17):
on Florida. Appreciate you that.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
Thank you' all having a great one.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
All right. Coming up next, we've got and Parker Coleman
of Cavee and we'll get her take on this Texas baseball,
some softball and Austin FC. She had a time like
no other right here on the morning kickoff on Sports
Radio and thirteen hundred the ZIGN. It's a crazy, crazy
time of year with so much sports that are going on.

(51:45):
So what better way to spend your Friday than bringing
on and Parker Coleman of Cavee. You can follow her
on social media at a Parker cole number one on
her social media And yesterday Ann Parker, we had a
conversation with coach Schlas Nagel about this uncomping up coming

(52:09):
weekend against Florida, and you asked a question about, you know,
being refocused and getting that screw behind you, and what
was your takeaway from what coach Kimball, Schusler, and Andre
Duplantier all had to say about that.

Speaker 12 (52:29):
Yeah, you know, they kept talking about seeing it as
a positive, which I think is is the best way
that you can handle something like that.

Speaker 13 (52:38):
That happened, and nobody wants Sous pretty much said, you know,
nobody wants to get sweached.

Speaker 4 (52:45):
That's not the goal.

Speaker 13 (52:46):
But I do think that there is this underlying mindset
of like the teams that have a really and when
I say easy, Texas has played some really hard opponents.
They've gotten some hard fought wins, but for the most part,
they haven't. You know, as far as the series gone,
they haven't faced any hardship in the terms of losing

(53:07):
or getting slept. They've been dominant. And I think when
your path is it's kind of easy like that once
you get to the postseason, like you need to have
gone through a hard loss or a disappointing sweep to
know how to deal with just all the ups and
downs that postseason brings them. That's kind of what they

(53:29):
echoed was just, hey.

Speaker 12 (53:30):
You know what, didn't want it to happen. We kind
of knew at some point it happened.

Speaker 13 (53:33):
We're playing in the SEC like this is just a
reminder of how hard this conference is.

Speaker 12 (53:38):
And he said somebody asked if.

Speaker 13 (53:41):
It served as like a wake gug call, and he
said it wasn't a wake up call.

Speaker 12 (53:45):
But was the chance for them to refocus.

Speaker 5 (53:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
And he also brought up the fact too that I
thought was key is that it happened now, and if
it would have happened in a couple of weeks, the
season is over. So it's it's you know, yeah, you
still have that opportunity to go back out there and
go back into the battle for this weekend and not
necessarily this weekend, but the following weekend against Oklahoma. There

(54:13):
was a conversation that was had about Max Blu and
his injury. We got a chance to watch him take
a little bit of tracking practice yesterday and it looks
like he might be ready to go, pending on how
that hand feels next week. Yeah, exactly, That's that's what
Thaw said.

Speaker 13 (54:32):
I mean, he was walking up for our media availability.

Speaker 12 (54:36):
And we could see Max Blue taking.

Speaker 13 (54:38):
Some pitches behind us, and of course that was the
thing that we started talking about first, and coaches said, yeah,
you know, he's progressing well.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
He was, you know, starting to.

Speaker 13 (54:50):
Take some live pitches and right behind us, as he's
saying that he's taking pitches from Dylan Valantis, so they're
getting them back, and there's just more about seeing getting
it I'm back and having him do some light hitting
and make sure that that's not going to irritate his
thumb or make anything worse. And you know, if he
keeps progressing.

Speaker 12 (55:10):
The way that he has thus far, Kuk said.

Speaker 13 (55:13):
That we might see him next weekend and if not
see him by sec turn it, which is is pretty
long time. I think when we first heard.

Speaker 12 (55:20):
About this, it we you know, hope to assume that.

Speaker 13 (55:23):
To be back by the postseason, to n get him
back a week before that.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Right, we're here in ann Parker Cooman and I'm going
to go to football. I wanted to find out your
opinion on Texas bringing another quarterback in.

Speaker 12 (55:39):
I knew you guys did ask him.

Speaker 13 (55:41):
Well, honestly, I I am a fan of it. I
think anytime you can bring in more competition. And when
I say competition, I mean, let's be honest, I'm talking
about competition for that backup role. I think it elevates
the entire room. I still think trey.

Speaker 12 (55:59):
O will probably win that position battle.

Speaker 13 (56:02):
I think it'll be Tray that is the backup. But
I think the competition you need it. Plus, as the
Sarkegan has been here this entire time, He's never had
quarterback that played through the entire season. Odds are that
Arch might be banged up one game and need to
sit out. I hope that's not the case. That would
be amazing if it's not. But you know, there is

(56:25):
going to be a time where a backup, even if
it means that we're you know that Texas is beating
a team by however many points, and you want to
put the backup in, like you need to have a
backup ready. So I supported that decision. I thought, you know,
I thought it was a good, good move.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Yeah, and everybody else has echoed your sentiment as well
as far as the injury and everything else that is
concerned with that. I want to go back to the diamond,
but this time on the softball side of it. Texas
softball with the big walk off victory to set up
a even bigger matchup against Texas A and M. And

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this softball team has shown a lot of resilience. You know,
they've gone from what eight to number one and been
there for a while, and now they're back to number
three and four, and now they get a chance to
right the ship against Texas A and M. And Texas
A and M is in a place where they have
become one of the best teams in the country. I

(57:25):
proven it. So there's going to be a big battle tonight.

Speaker 11 (57:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (57:29):
I mean, this is what you live for in the postseason,
right You're got to walk off with in the night
before today, you're taking on your rival to survive in advance.

Speaker 12 (57:39):
And I think you hit the nail on the head right.

Speaker 13 (57:41):
There where you said Texas softball has been resilient. They've
gone through a little bit of a tough patch. Before
last weekend, they were on a three series losing streak.
They hadn't been hitting the ball as well.

Speaker 12 (57:53):
And so last night for them to have performed the.

Speaker 13 (57:58):
Way that they did, to be billiot and come back
and get that that that walk off win, I mean
that says a lot about the character of Mike White's team.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
So we wanted to ask you a question. You got
a chance to go to Austin FC. You you had
your moments there, but there was a moment where it's
got a little sketchy for you during that time you
talk about your trip to Austin FC.

Speaker 13 (58:26):
Oh my gosh, Yeah, guys, I it is, you know,
fifteen minutes into the second half and I'm get to
go back upstair.

Speaker 11 (58:35):
I'm on, I'm on.

Speaker 13 (58:36):
Uh, I'm on the sidelines, and I'm going to go
back upstairs to the press box, grab my camera and
stuff for post game, get into the elevator.

Speaker 12 (58:44):
With There's one other guy in the olevator.

Speaker 13 (58:46):
My good my now good friend Mitch, And the elevator
like goes up and it stops and it lurches. I mean,
let kind of go through those motions like a couple
of times, and like me and this stranger start to
look at each other being like, oh, this is strange.
And then a little sign on the elevator flashes and
says out of service, and we're both like, oh my gosh,

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in an elevator. If you've never been in this situation,
I know, I know what to do. There's like an
emergency button that you push that sounds an alarm, and
then you do there's another button that you call for help.
So we called for help, and you know, they went
through asking us tough questions and then it said, okay,
don't worry, just patches on their way. They're going to

(59:29):
get you out. They'll be here in an hour. And
I thought myself, I was like, I cannot be in.

Speaker 4 (59:35):
This elevator for an hour.

Speaker 13 (59:37):
Remind you, I went into this elevator and I'm getting
ready for like a solemn post game locker room interaction
because Austin FC is down to zero to l passo,
which is just should.

Speaker 12 (59:53):
Be frank is not a little embarrassing for not good.

Speaker 13 (59:57):
For Austen FT. And you know, luckily they somebody came in,
they pried opened the door.

Speaker 12 (01:00:03):
We were able to get out.

Speaker 13 (01:00:05):
So I was probably only in there for about fifteen
twenty minutes mass.

Speaker 12 (01:00:09):
It's not an hour. We were good to go, but
that did.

Speaker 13 (01:00:12):
Mean I missed the most I think prolific austnifty comeback
in history.

Speaker 12 (01:00:18):
You know that down to it When I get.

Speaker 13 (01:00:19):
In the elevator and I get out and they.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
Are up three to two. Oh my god, best game
ever set and.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Parker, we we we we wish we share something.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
The same thing happened to me in Hawaii and oh
my gosh, I was stuck for three hours. Oh wow.

Speaker 12 (01:00:41):
Okay, so I was by the way.

Speaker 13 (01:00:44):
And I'm all I was okay.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
But someday we'll appreciate you. We'll appreciate you and thank
you for sharing that. And we look forward to next
weekend as we find out what's going to happen with
Texas Baseball, Texas Softball, and we'll talk a little bit
more football as always. Well, appreciate you, Thank you, Thanks guys,
Take care all right when we come back, World's Strongest

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Man brings you his world's strongest take right here on
the morning kickoff on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
Welcome back to the morning kickoff right here on Sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. You heard the beat dropping,
You know what that means. WWE Hall of Famer and
World's Strongest Man, d Mark Henry brings you his world's

(01:01:32):
strongest take. Take it away, big fella. Right, what's up man?
You know what time it is? Well, Thomas's Mother's Day
weekend and it's time for the world's strongest take by
the world's strongest man.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
My guys, back then they didn't know me. Now I'm hot,
they all on me. I just told you, guys, what
this take is about. It's about the mothers. It's about
Mother's Day. We always associate our sporting events with what

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the fathers do, with what the sons do, what the
daughters do, and daddy daddy daycare and all of that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
But you know it, you know it in your heart
of hearts.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
That without the mothers doing the quality control, the prep.
And then there's also been many incidents of mothers assuming
the role as coach, not just the cheerleader, not just
the person that's in the support role, but being the

(01:02:54):
one that actually initiates the passion and the kid tells
the you could do, you could do more, you could
do better. And both of our wives are sports moms.
Your wife she travels with your son doing soccer in

(01:03:16):
basketball and you and I'm sure that as soon as
Jazzy picks whatever she wants to do, y'all will both
be in full support of it. But Mom will be
there on the day to day, every minute when me
and you are on this show. My wife right now
is in Oklahoma helping my son move out of one
dorm to an apartment. All moms. If I go back

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to my mom, my mom used to embarrass me because
my mom was the loudest person in the crowd.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
I don't know if y'all know the.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
Mom that everybody has to like kind of hold her
down because my mom would jump over the fence and
come onto the fields.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
She was wild.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
I've seen so many videos of mothers grabbing their son
and working, showing him how showing the kids how to
kick step I just recently saw that video the other day.
There's mothers that know as much about football as the
dads are more. You know, I got friends that are

(01:04:21):
softball players. Michelle McCool, the Undertaker's wife, she brings her
daughter out to football practice with coach Boswell, where my
son goes and works when he's home. I see all
these mothers with this power over these kids, and all

(01:04:44):
the kids want to do is is win so they
can say Hi Mom on TV, not how dad. They
want to say Hi Mom. That's the thing. Happy Mother's
Day to all the women out there that sacrifice their

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own personal times for their kids. And to be there
not only for their sons and daughters, but also be
there when the husbands can't be there.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
What's say you, oh, one hundred percent? I mean you
you hit the nail on the head. And this is
more than just Mother's Day. This is every day. I mean, yeah,
they get represented the one day of the year, but
it's every day. I mean, that's what it's all about.
And I can't pick a restaurant they get every day.

(01:05:45):
So yeah, I agree with you about them being able
to do more than just the sports aspect of it too.
I mean, you teach. You always say you can't teach
a boy how to be a man if you're a woman,
And I disagree with that. My mom didn't want to
hell of a job doing that. I believe that Lindsay's
done an unbelievable job with my kids and teaching them

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the rights and wrongs. And there's so many other mothers
that are taking their kids the football, baseball, basketball, soccer,
all types of practices and being able to do that,
but more importantly being present. You just got to be
present a lot of times. And I know that you know,
as a father, you wish that they would say more
to you the kids, that is. But sometimes I'm like, hey,

(01:06:31):
I'm and I'm gonna find out anyway, you know, because
the communication is there, so it is wherever the comfortability is.
But without them, they, I mean, they do everything, whether
it's your grandmother, which my kids have great grandparents, and
I mean outstanding grandparents that just happen to be great today.

(01:06:53):
I'm a grandfather because of my son, and my son
learned a lot from the women that I've been a
part of his life. Yeah, I'm that baby pappy. So
you know, you start to look at life as a whole,
and you're right. Everybody always goes on the television and says,
hey mom, and that's okay. It's okay, because yeah, barely,

(01:07:19):
but yeah, I think that was an outstanding way.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
I missed state championships before working, Yeah, I missed it all.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
And Janna was always there for them and the kids.
The kids, I mean, obviously daddy is mean and Mama
is sweet. You know what I'm saying, It's okay. I'll
take good cop back hoop all day long if the
success and the leadership is all at the same place.

(01:07:49):
So other than that, I'm cool with it. As our
boys Sean Adams used to say all the time, my
job is not to be your friend. My job is
to be your and try to make sure that you're
doing things the right way. And that's what mom Mom
always talks about as well. My mother is in Louisiana

(01:08:09):
watching one of her grandkids walk today. I mean not
in Louisiana in Missouri, from Louisiana in Missouri, to watch
one of her grandkids walk today. So it has been
a great look, a great thing. And I'm glad that
you pointed that out for everybody. So to all the
mothers there, the mothers that work here with us, the

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mothers that work in the industry that we are in,
the ones that I know throughout my life, Happy Mother's
Day and I hope that y'all have a great, great time.
And guess what, most of you mothers will be at
the ballpark watching your kid play us for this weekend.
And so hey, that's where we'll be. We'll be watching

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our kids play sports on Mother's Day. So good stuff
by Mark Henry. As always, we're gonna close out the
show and send you to Patrick. But if you say
you go do something, you better do it. Do it
and that's what this man did, and we'll talk about
it right here on the Morning Kickoff on Sports Radio

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AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Welcome back to the Morning
Kickoff right here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
If you missed any part of the show, make sure
you get over to our podcast page and where you
could get some of the great interviews that we've had
all week long. Today we had Zach Zim of Orangebloods

(01:09:34):
dot com talking about Texas baseball. We had Ann Parker
Coleman of caview talking about Texas baseball, Texas football, and
of course she got a chance to talk about her
life getting stuck in the elevator at the Austin FC
as they made that win. Also, the world's strongest take
by Mark Henry was to let the ladies know, Happy

(01:09:56):
Mother's Day to all of you. The NBA has been exciting.
There's been so many tough games and close buzzer beaters,
and one of the biggest stories right now is the
Boston Celtics. The Boston Celtics have come up short. And
the reason why we want to talk about this is

(01:10:17):
because if you say you were going to do something,
you better do it, and that is what Paul Pierce,
former Celtics great did Pelticks Blues Gang two at all.

Speaker 10 (01:10:30):
I promise you walking here tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
I'm walking here fifteen outs in my role. No shots, Tata,
paula Wayne, I think Stocks past, Kyle Bridges and the
Knickson good it again and the New York.

Speaker 12 (01:10:43):
Dicks some two games to none.

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
All right, goin to give this man welcome to this journey.
There I go.

Speaker 4 (01:10:53):
I can't believe it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
Celtics got me out of here like this dog. I
tried to tell him not to do it, but he
was hard hit it. Didn't want to listen.

Speaker 13 (01:11:02):
This is graze.

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
I can't believe this.

Speaker 10 (01:11:05):
You be cast out here, man.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
Folks were talking to him on his walk. People were
sitting on the side watching him walk. He kept his word,
and he walked from his apartment, from his condo all
the way to the studio, and Mark you call ing
BS on this. I got a call bull. Shut your mouth.

(01:11:33):
It ain't no way. He I'm serious. He did a
little clips and he got in the car and drove
a little bit with somebody, and then he jumped out.
He wasn't sweating. Some people don't sweat bro it was California.
It's cool in California, and he started in the morning time.
It's cold chili. He walked in his robe. I believe him.

(01:11:57):
I don't. I believe him. I believe that he.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
Got some farman, I got some farm land in Florida.
I want to sell you.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
Hey, where's that. Let's talk about it. We might sump
over there. Hey, let me get some of them gat us.
I need some new shoes. Listen, man, need some new shoes.
He did, There's no way, and he renegged on the
fact that he was gonna not wear shoes. Well that
I don't blame him because he's a moron. I'm making

(01:12:26):
that kind of I believe hairless, careless. Bet. He had
thirty three thousand, four hundred and sixty five steps yesterday.
I'm not mathematician because my math ain't mathew.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
But he obviously he walked a little bit. He walked
a little bit. He walked fifteen miles to work is
a lot different.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
Than walking four miles. My math is mathing tying the truth.
And then he told the truth. They gave him the truth.
They will let him walk in and they well, they
didn't walk him in. They actually put him in a
wheelchair to walk him to the studio citation, and I

(01:13:16):
was just about to say, this is a guy that
chair off the floor, he's just taking a fall. He
did it, He's at the studio. He made it. He
walked all the way in. Then he tried to run
like Rocky at the end of it, and it looked
like he was trag gadling. But he was definitely on

(01:13:36):
the struggle bus. He made it in. So Paul Pierce,
I appreciate you. Whether Mark believes it or not. Paul Pierce,
you got the respect of everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Is gonna come out, Yeah, I can't want to come out,
and then next week you're gonna you're gonna tell everybody. Hey, guys,
due to some information that I was introduced to that
I was not pretty to.

Speaker 1 (01:14:04):
Last week, Mark Henry said that Paul Pierce was bullshoting
all of us, and he was right. Thirty three thousand,
four hundred and sixty five steps on math and get
back at me. Yeah, yeah, Mark Henry on everything. Yeah,

(01:14:27):
hit him up on his social media. And speaking of
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us and I continue to spread the word. He does
great work with UT Athletics as well, So shout out

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(01:15:10):
course I am hardball hard on all of my social
as well. Texas Baseball Big Matchup, last home series. A
lot of seniors will be recognized this weekend. Get over
to the dish. First Pitch tonight at six thirty. You
can watch it on ESPN YOUU, but you can also

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hear it on AM. I was not AM thirteen hundred
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First Pitch. You can hear it on AM thirteen hundred,
The Zone Tonight, Texas Softball, Texas Softball, Texas Texas A
and M five forty on ESPN two. What's up hey?

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
Before we get out of here, you want to break
the news about Bill Belichick.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
I told you all, I told y'all I was gonna
do it. I told y'all I was Since let you
do it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
Since you're not gonna do it, Ladies and gentlemen of
the morning kick off. Bill Belichick's beautiful, young twenty four
year old girlfriend has been banned from all n CE
sporting events, u n C football games and sporting events.

(01:16:32):
They don't want her at basketball, baseball, golf, marbles, tittley winks, jacks, anything.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
Stay away. Oh look at he fighting to say say
he want to say something so bad. But guys, it's over.
I bid you a fine the dude. I'm glad that
y'all talked about it because I've been fighting my time.
This said us out out out about it.

Speaker 10 (01:17:01):
I will have more.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
I will break my silence on Monday and talk a
lot about Bill bela Jay, but of course we're gonna
talk a lot about Texas Athletics says. There's a huge weekend.
Shout out to all the mothers out there. Great stuff
from Mark Henry on Mother's Day. Shout out to all
the graduates. There's a lot of guys and girls who

(01:17:22):
got their key rings yesterday. Congratulations on all that from Marcus.
From Mark Henry, I'm Harball hars. Have a great weekend,
Happy Mother's Day, and just remember this. Don't believe everything
you see, because even salt looks like sugar. Peace,