Texas Softball Falls in Game 3 Thriller, Haliburton Shocks Thunder, Rodgers to Steelers

Today, the guys talk about the Texas Longhorns Softball team falling to the Texas Tech Raiders 4-3 in game 3 tonight for all the marbles. The Pacers shocked the Thunder in game 1 with a Haliburton game-winner with .3 left. Aaron Rodgers finally signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Sean Miller met with the Longhorn basketball team yesterday. “The World’s Strongest Take!” Plus, there were conversations with Zach Symm of Orangebloods.com and KVUE’s Anne-Parker Coleman. You can hear it all here on “The Morning Kickoff Show!”

Episode Transcript

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This is a feel good Friday edition of The Morning
Kickoff right here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
Texas Softball falls short to Texas Tech to force a
winner a game for the winner to win it all.
The drama of Aaron Rodgers is over. Indian okay a

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start the NBA Finals off like we thought they would.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Lifetime Longhorn.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Vince Young joins us at seven thirty four Top Football,
and he's got some things that are going on that
you might want to pay attention to. We've got Zach
Sims of Orangebloods dot Com joining us at eight o'clock
to wrap up the Texas baseball season. And Ann Parker
Coleman will be of KVU will be joining us at

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happenings around there.

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Speaker 3 (02:15):
Well in Oklahoma.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
City, things didn't go as planned for your Texas Longhorns.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
First off, the weather was bad. They were dealing with
bad weather. Game got pushedback. Was supposed to start at seven,
ended up being able to start at like seven fifty buck.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Because of the weather.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
They had the tarp on the field until about seven o'clock,
took the tarp off, got the field ready, and when
the lineups were announced, we found out that Mac morgan
was the starting pitcher. When you if you missed the
show yesterday, we talked to Mike White, head softball coach
for the Texas Longhorns, and I didn't want to go
into the pitching rotation because he wouldn't have told us,

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but he went with Mac Morgan. I think she did Okay,
it wasn't It wasn't like Texas lost because of what.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Mac was able to do on the bump.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
But a lot of people had questions about it, and
rightfully so, I mean, teaking Cavan is your ace. But
why are you gonna question what Mike is thinking when
Mike has done everything. Coach Mike White has done everything
to get his team to this. So the formula was
good because she Mac Morgan beat Tennessee so to get

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them into the College World Series. So there is a
lot to digest, but Texas played well. Texas did enough
to win the game, I thought, except for defensively they
didn't play well.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, they had some mirrors, but you know what, man like,
that's that's the game. Yeah, you're not always gonna do
everything one hundred. So let's let's not make let's not
make them the villains because they've you know, babbled the
ball or the ball you know, got away a couple
of times.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, but in these particular moments, and if you go back,
that's six errors in the last two games for Texas softball.
They gotta play cleaner than that, because if you think
about it, a lot of the runs are unearned. Texas
has given up unearned runs and those are the moments
that you sit back in your life. Got to be

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a lot lot cleaner in those situations. But Texas has
been put to the test. They've been going back and
forth and doing different things throughout this series. So now
the pressure is on both teams. I mean, Kennedy is
their ace for Texas Tech Texas has struggled against them.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
The one thing that Texas has to clean up is
kind of the same thing that happened with the baseball team.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
You cannot continue to strike out.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
You have to put the ball in play, because when
you put it in play, the pressure is on for
them to catch it, throw it and catch it again.
There's a lot that can happen in that process, and
we've seen that happen.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Can leave all those people on Baby.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Cannot But one of the things that continues to be
sharp is our Mia Scott.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
As she continues to hit the softball.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
Teddy Battings Senior first pitch, so ring going to line,
shot to center at back, goes David. She looks up
at sails over the wall. Scott gets the Longhorns on
the board in the top of the sixth inning and
it's now two to one Texas Tech.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Texas Tech gets a couple more runs, but Texas comes
up in the bottom half of the inning and try
to make it.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
A lot harder for Texas Tech to win the game.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Leon Good had another good at bat, the.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Old one off speed, lifted in the left, hustling over
toward the gap into a dive. It's off the glove
of elder Stuart rounding bag at third. She goes to
the plate, hunter to third and it's a two run
ball game. Good into second with no one out, not

(06:15):
hit all that hard, just in the right spot. Demi
Elder went over into a dive off her glove. Good
gets the double and an RBI and now represents the
potential tying run.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Is she standing on second base? And you think Texas
has an opportunity? So what do they do? They call
on the bench for a pinch hit opportunity one and two.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Now the right hander deals swinging a line drive to
left that goes to the left fielder. She'll make the catch,
tagging Hunter, she goes to the plate, Good stays put
put it now a one run ball game on the
sackfly by Simmis.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Texas fight continues, but they come up just a little
bit short.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
As the game comes to an end, and.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
It's oz and two on Henry.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
Five to five Sophomore two pitch and that's the ball game,
swinging to miss and the Longhorns unable to complete the
comeback and win the National championship Tonight. Two runs in

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the seventh for Texas, just not quite enough after the
pitching and defense fell apart in the fifth and the sixth.
And there will be one more game for all the
marbles tomorrow night again at seven o'clock.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Seven o'clock, winner take all matchup, Texas versus Texas Tech
the million dollar pitcher versus Texas who everybody thinks has
all the money.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
So this is going to be a big time matchup.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
And as you watch this game and you start to
see how many people actually tune into the ball game,
they said that the game won. There was two point
one million viewers in that ball game. Wow, two point
one million viewers for softball, and a.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Lot of folks continue to be like.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh, nobody watch everybody's watching softball, everybody's watching women's basketball.
Women's sports are blowing up because the level has changed
so much. Those athletes are so different than what they were.
Not taking anything away fro the Golden Ages when we
were growing up, but we can see it. Everybody's getting

(08:52):
to that next level entertain television.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah, like you know, things are better and more opportunities,
and that's that's the thing that women have been fighting
for for years. It's the opportunity to be able to
have that time to entertain. And there was so much
that went on in that first ten minutes that we
talked hard, Like, you know, Mia Scott is one of

(09:16):
the most unbelievable athletes I've seen in years.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
The eye hand coordination.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
You even said it yesterday that you know you played
with guys that was like, listen, I don't care how
fast you throw the ball, Like if I can see it,
if I can catch it, then I can hit it.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
And she she exemplified what you said.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, I mean, she is one of the most talented
players out there and she continues to be in the
record books for everything that that softball has to offer
at the University of Texas.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
She is very entertaining. And now we have this is tonight.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Tonight is the last time that we get an opportunity
to see her in Texas. This is their time because
of what they've been up against for so many years.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
They were up against Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Now they're getting an opportunity to play rival and a
team that this is the first time they've ever been
to this situation. Canaday can't be as effective as she
was two nights in a row. No, you get a
chance to see her for the third time, you should
be you should be ready to go, and you'll have
all the stuff and you will have all the game
planning that you need. Yeah, I mean, this is what

(10:27):
it's all about. This is like why you're saving it. Yeah,
there's nothing left. There's nothing left. It is all going
to be on the table tonight and I can't wait
for it. I wish you would have happened last night.
I know a lot of Texas fans are still talking
about the decision that was made to go with Mac Morgan,

(10:48):
to go with by committee, to pitch that many people
last night.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
But what did you think about Patrick Mahomes and Brittney
Mahomes being there?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
I mean, they're huge busters. Boosters got uniforms with Patrick Mahomes.
He got them to deal with Adidas. He helped bring
Kennedy to the to Texas Tech. So they asked him
to come. He came, and he was glad to be there.
You can tell they were enjoying them. Yeah, Mahomes is

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a big supporter of the university and always will be.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
That's why they name a lot of stuff after him.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
So coming up next, we're gonna talk NBA another come
from behind victory, and can we now put some respect
on the Indiana Pacers name.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
I've been trying to tell y'all, tell you.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Right here on the morning kickoff on sports Radio AM
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Speaker 1 (11:52):
We don't talk a lot of music, but we're gonna
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Speaker 2 (11:56):
I gotta go out of town, so I'm gonna be
rolling listening to to Lil Wayne. But coming up in
the next.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Segment, we can get the thoughts a little Wayne from
Vince Young. Vince Young will be joining the show in
the next segment talking some football. He's got some things
going on that he wants to let you know about,
so make sure you tune in to that. At the
top of the eight o'clock hour, we'll be talking to

(12:23):
Zach sim of Orange Bloods to wrap up Texas baseball season,
and Ann Parker Coleman will be joining us from OKAC
to talk Texas softball. Wow, man, you talk about back
to back weeks. You got Vince Young this week and
we got Earl Campbell next week.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
We got Earl next week coming on on our Legends
of the Locker Room segment next Thursday, so you'll be
hearing more about that as well.

Speaker 6 (12:51):
Well.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Right now, I want to get into this conversation hallack Burton,
hallab Burton.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
I've been saying it the whole time.

Speaker 7 (12:58):
Listen.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
I know that the numbers dictated that OKC had probably
one of the best teams historically in the game from
the numbers, but I kept saying, you can't give up
on what Indiana has been able to do throughout this season,
the unexpected, mister overrated versus the MVP.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Why are we not on the Halliburton fan club? Why listen?
We we both have been talking serious about this dude
since before the playoffs started. So it's not like you
and I are new to this. Like you go back
and you look at the takes that we've made. I've
made at least several Mark Henry world strongest takes about

(13:47):
Halliburton and his influence.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
And we talked about his dad one time. But you
know that.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Free Street, Yes, and and and that's that's something that
I feel like the NBA is just now starting to
do a good job of is putting him in a
place where uh more eyeballs are on him. But it
takes for him to get to the playoffs. It takes
for him to have moments like he had last night

(14:15):
in order for the world to really know who this
guy is, because he's he's amazing man.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
I don't know how he slipped.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
I don't know why he didn't he got passed over
in the draft, but nonetheless we got him now and
he's paying dividends.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
He's been able to play at a very very high level.
But he didn't do it by himself. This was a
team that was down fifteen. They did not lead in
the ball game at all, and it all started with
some big shots by a couple of players.

Speaker 8 (14:51):
A Ree is not even the main ball handler at
this point in time.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Because the defense has been so aggressive.

Speaker 8 (14:56):
Park said, got up three, Hunter flint hard.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
That's a three point game with one fifty nine remaining.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
And that's not the end of it. Miles Turner, our.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Guy University of Texas long representative from the University of
Texas being able to make a big bucket as well.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
It was his man that has.

Speaker 6 (15:17):
Left himself tack.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
What you're looking for is that open man Turner side step.

Speaker 9 (15:22):
Thanks in the pray, Miles Turner. It's a four point game.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's when it puts the mid what point of.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
A fourth and they continue to get it done. And
like I said, it's only one guy that can continue
to move the needle. Halle Burton, Halle Burton, Come.

Speaker 6 (15:41):
On, man, not an easy spot on the floor to
try to inbound it from Mike.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
That's Ga Hasard. It's about a nine second difference.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
Shot blocker, game block Kildas.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Alexander Spins pulls up jumper.

Speaker 8 (15:57):
Off of ar gon go rebound knee, spending a paces
little chance.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
To win it.

Speaker 8 (16:02):
Finle second so found again Halliburton looking Haliverton driving plus
off coup. Shot that's gone put three tons of a
second reverting tie him out. Okay, see Tyres Halliburton's toes
it again.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
There, Larstle the game.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
This boy good, that boy good, Boys good, that boy good?

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Did you start? Did you see the defense that boy good?

Speaker 1 (16:38):
His hand was in his face, Yeah, I mean in
between his arms didn't touch him. Perfect defense, but the
perfect there's no defense for the perfect shot. Well Mark,
you were talking about the fact that a lot of
folks didn't understand about Halliburton. So last night SVP Scott
van Pelt was interviewing to Halliburton and he had to

(17:02):
eat some humble pie as well.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Make it please.

Speaker 10 (17:05):
The other night on the show, I put my hand
up and I said, look, I.

Speaker 5 (17:07):
Was late to the party on you.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, you're a real one for that. Well yeah, I
heard that for that, but a lot of hey, a
lot of your counterparts won't admit that.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Now.

Speaker 10 (17:14):
Well, so okay, now I'm gonna get myself a little
wigger room here and say, you guys are under five
hundred Christmas am I right?

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah we're rough. So were you bad at the start? Okay? Yeah,
yeah we were? Okay.

Speaker 10 (17:24):
So all I said is I was a little late
to the party, but I put my hand up. We
relate to the party too, Okay, Well, and I'm gonna
be I'll be a real one right now. Every single
note I had on this card getting ready for this
show is about Oklahoma City winning this game.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
And I'm sitting here with you.

Speaker 10 (17:37):
It's an amazing show that you all are putting on,
and the belief is amazing to watch as well. I
appreciate you taking the time. Thanks so much, Tyres Halliburton.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
They have to be right there, gotta get it.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
I mean, the truth of the matter is it doesn't
take a rocket scientist to see exactly what has transformed
in front of us. You know, we talk about shortening
the season and all these different things.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
If you shorten the season, we're not getting this.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
That's true. You shorten the season and you're not playing
things out. You don't give teams an opportunity. He mentioned
last night that the team has played together now for
two years, two years together, same same roster, same everything.
You start to understand and you start to believe because
you've seen it happen multiple times time in time out.

(18:28):
You show up and you show out. That's a beautiful
thing right there.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
And you know, I respect the fact that my brother
was able to say, hey, look, this card was all
about OKC, and here.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
I am with you.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
A lot a lot of the media would not do that.
They would not put themselves in a situation where they
were at a deficit in front of the player. I
have to command him for that, Yeah, I mean, at
the at the end of the day, man, the one
thing that I continue to try to understand and try

(19:05):
to live by is.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Where's the Why is it so hard to admit when
you're wrong? I don't know, I don't I don't get it.
You're all wrong. I mean, I mean it's like you're wrong.
So I mean, unless you say hey, I'm never wrong. Well,
we don't live I think I can speak clearly about this.
We don't live in We're trying to give.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
You a hot take, right, We're trying to give you
what we see and make you understand from our point
of view on what going on.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
And we'll trespect.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
I'm not going to disrespect somebody just because I don't
like Aaron Rodgers, because I don't like Aaron rod So
I mean, so you.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Just move on.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
But watching this basketball team, the Indiana Pacers and people
we talked about on the show yesterday about all of
the conversation about the ratings and how people aren't gonna
want to watch.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
It and you're missing out on these.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Types of moments just because of the game. It could
have been easy to turn the game off when they
were down fifteen. They did not lead in the ball
game until that shot was made. They were down until
point three seconds left in the ball game.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Crazy, and they win the win.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Probability of what we have seen from a team like
Indiana has defied logic the entire way.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
And it was good basketball, but it wasn't great basketball, like.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
They had nineteen turnovers in the first half.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
There was probably seventy five percent of that game that
was you know it was below board.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
YEP.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
I expect the next game everybody to be clicking.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
J Williams best of the best of the best, sir,
no doubt. Jay Williams said, the Pacers continue to break
all basketball rules. They have now won four playoff games
with less than a two point one percent win probability.
He also goes on to say that's not just improbable,

(21:08):
it's statistically irrational. And what we're witnessing is some of
the greatest come from behind victories. But then you also
have some of the worst defended. That team that they
beat last night is one of the statistically greatest defensive

(21:29):
teams in the history of basketball, and they came from
behind to beat them, being down fifteen and did not
lead until point three.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
I'm telling y'all quit turning off.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
The TVs when you think the game is over.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
The game is never over until she starts singing game.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
She was warming up. She didn't get to that high note.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
I promise you that coming up next, we've getting to
a high note.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Vince Young joins us right.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Here on a feel good Friday edition of The Morning Kickoff.
Right here on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
Welcome back to a feel good Friday edition of the
Morning Kickoff right here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
The Zone.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
He is a legend.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
He has done unbelievable things on the forty acres. He
represents h Town with the get down, and he's always
been a fan favorite. And now he's trying to help
the kids, the youth of America do some great things
in age Town. He's the one and only Vince Young,
v y How you doing man?

Speaker 3 (22:42):
He loop?

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Hey loop, Oh man, how I'm a waste my intro
with that doc? What a great intro. I mean, hey, listen, man,
I want to go on record right now. I'm saying
that was one of your one of your better pieces
of work. I mean, you did everything, you did everything,

(23:05):
but say listen. He's he's a youth pastor at the church.
He said everything he said for like he helps old
ladies across the street, like he has come up with
the cure.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
He's come up with the cure, and he's been able
to do some things in his life. Well, the reason
why we're gonna have Vince on and I'm sure he's
gonna hop on here in just a minute is he's
having He and seven young are putting on their first
first annual Young Boys seven on seven tournament this weekend

(23:43):
at ce King High School.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
It will start at nine am and it's from ages.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Ten U to eighteen U and they're having a seven
on seven tournament. You and I had this conversation about
seven on seven and you were saying that, Jacob was
you didn't really like seven on seven because of the
fact that they don't do much with the lineman right
with the.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Line, But mostly my issues were with flag football. Seven
on seven is very good football for structuring where you're
supposed to be lined up offensively and defensively, working skills,
how to be in and out of your back pedal
on defense, and.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Being able to read.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
I watched Dion Sanders coach a couple of guys in
the seven on seven game and he's like, why is
your hands on your knee? And it's just those fundamentals,
and it's good that Vincent Selvin are able to do
something like this. They're helping a lot of kids that
otherwise would probably not have something to do constructive during

(24:47):
the summer.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
And the other part of it is being able to
do it in front of your hometown. You know what
I'm saying, being able to give back to h town
in that particular moment, quick.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
To criticize athletes for not doing stuff. So let's let's
be very very quick and very diligent in supporting these
guys and getting behind them. I'm I'm I'm upset that
I didn't get invited. Man, I would have came down to.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
See he came. But I mean, what what was you
gonna do? Mark? Man?

Speaker 1 (25:19):
I just support the kids? Man, just getting pat on
the back. Good job, guys.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
You gonna drop some of the plays you had drawn up?

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Hey, man, I got my place right here, man, I
got my plays right here. Hey, coach Sark, I got
some plays. Listen, I got a whole list of plays.
They're awesome place that you're just gonna show up for
other people.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
This want of work. That one was from Madden. Yeah,
no it's not. It's from my brain. This one will work.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
The mug was over there looking at Shotty's play calls,
oh Madden, listen, that's.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
That's where I need to go. I need to go
to Dallas and say, hey, coach Shatti. They called him Shotti.
That's what they call him, shatty. Can we can we
talk for a minute? I got I got some stuff
I want to show you. Yeah, so put me on
the board man. So okay, So we're gonna his camp.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
I'm trying to find out where the website is for
you to go on there to be able. I'll post
the link up on our social media page right after
this conversation. But we shall see what what is going
to be like. But Bence Young and Selvin Young being
able to give back to the community is something that
has always been a major part of what's going on.

(26:34):
So we'll try to get him next time and try
to promote this uh camp. So so we'll figure that out.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
But I do want to bring this up, Mark, because
you and I are going to continue these conversations.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Aaron Rodgers has now made his decision.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
He's talked about the fact that he is going to
be the quarterback for for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now that
the saga is over, now, what what are your thoughts?

Speaker 1 (27:04):
I think hard that Aaron Rodgers is one of those
guys that is taking a long time, but it was
strategic in what he did.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
He didn't want to do.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
The everyday Mundane. You know, letting the young guys work
that wasn't going to help him. And as a vet
all these years, he didn't want to be a part
of that. Now the mandatory, the things where you're implementing
and you're putting people in position, now he wants to
be there.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
Well that's a.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Good thing because now again two things have been done.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
The conversation is over.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
He's Aaron Rodgers is the quarterback, which we thought was
going to happen. All signs was pointing to him being
the quarterback. He's agreed to a one year deal. He
will be forty one years old, and now you to
look at who he is as a quarterback, the thought
process of him as a quarterback being part of that team.

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He now will play in the NFL for Green Bay,
the Jets, and now the Pittsburgh Steelers. Aaron Rodgers is
becoming a journeyman. Brett Farv two point zero.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, Brett Farv two point oh. And the reason why
I say that is because now he's on mercenary deals.
He's trying to be that guy that everybody they don't
fear him anymore, and you lose. I was talking to

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to DJ my son yesterday about this, because he's this
Pittsburgh Steeler fan. I told he couldn't he couldn't follow
Russ to New York.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
I told him. He came down.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
No, he can't follow him. There are too many jerseys
in our house. I mean, he got like twelve Russell
west Brook jersey because that's his dude, Russ, you can't
wear no giant stuff in my house. Sorry, he could
still be your guy. Can't wear no giant stuff in
my house. But here's the deal. He said, we don't
have anything.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
I said, didn't y'all just get a wide receiver? He said, yeah,
we got DK, but we lost George Pickens.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
You do have friar Mouth. You don't have Nase Harris
anymore in the backfield.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
As far as the leadership is concerned.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
What exactly is this Pittsburgh Steeler team? Last night there
was a bet that was placed our guy, Rob Parker
was talking about a bet that Rob Parker said that
they will win a playoff game and eleven wins this
season here because of Aaron Rodgers ros.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Rob Parker said that he said that, and guy people
were calling him out there.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
You know, he might have been standing next to somebody
smoking one of those one of those.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Those filefires. But here's the deal, man, is he that
much much of a difference. I don't think so. He
used to be.

Speaker 11 (30:04):
My thoughts on Aaron is that still is gonna stay
that running team because they're that running team.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Uh put put teams on the back.

Speaker 11 (30:12):
I think Aaron can perform in a less structured pass
attack offense, as in just make plays when needed.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
But but Aaron Rodgers, we all know that Aaron Rods
to throw it.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
You are now you have now decided that you're gonna
go into a conference with Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow, Cleveland.
We don't know what their quarterbacks, let's not talk about.
And you're gonna be going up against that twice twice.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
You're gonna be.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Looking across the line at.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Miles Garrett not favorable twice. Wow, still trying to figure
it out. I don't don't that maths is not mathing.
We're not gonna be able to map that. Coming up
in the next segment, we're gonna continue to these conversations
about the NFL.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
We'll hear about what people think about Aaron Rodgers, and
I'm ask Mark on the top twenty five quarterback Countdown
Chris sim Style right here on the morning kickoff on
Sports Radio and thirteen hundred The Zone. Coming up at
the top of the hour, we will have Zach Simoororrangebloods
dot Com get his takeaway about what happened to the

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Texas baseball team over the season, and some portal news
as they are active, active, active in the portal. But
I want to continue the conversation about this Aaron Rodgers
signing and what the perspective is across the league.

Speaker 12 (31:41):
We have some breaking news rippling throughout the land of
the NFL. What we've been anticipating for what feels like
months now is finally going to happen. According to the
NFL Network insiders, Aaron Rodgers is finally heading to Pittsburgh.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Long overdue.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
We've just been this is one of the long drawn
out dramas, like daytime soap operas, like you just can't
get rid of it.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
It's going to be there. He's going to show up.
But here's what Tom Pelisero had to say about the
Aaron Rodgers signing.

Speaker 9 (32:14):
Well, you're right, Omar, this is something that these Steelers
had been focused on four months and as much as
Aaron Rodgers willed his options, including retirement, including potential other
playing options. It had been a pair for a couple
months that if he was going to play, it was
going to be in Pittsburgh. So what I can tell
you today is that Aaron Rodgers now plans to fly

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on Friday to Pittsburgh, finalize and sign his contract, and
be on the field for next week's mandatory minichamp. Now, obviously,
the fact that Rodgers is not currently under contract means
that he would not have had to show up for Miniicamp.
But by coming in now it accomplishes a couple of
different things. One, it removes all the uncertainty that then
would have lingered for the next five to six weeks

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before training camp began in late troll. The second part
is he's a little bit of time around the facility,
in the locker room, on the field with his teammates,
getting to know a bunch of players who he has
never met before. He has been throwing out in California
with DK Metcalf, We saw some photos of that several
weeks ago. He's been in communication with Mike Tomlin and
other members of the coaching staff. Now Penning the finalizing

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of what it expected to be.

Speaker 5 (33:21):
A one year contract.

Speaker 9 (33:22):
Aaron Rodgers, at age forty one, is set to play
his twenty first NFL season in the Black and Goal.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Okay, now, going into this season, how many games had
you had the Pittsburgh Steelers winning eight at the most
before Aaron Rodgers was being asked to come and play
for them. Correct, Yeah, eight at the most. So you

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were saying that was going to be Mike Tomlin's first
first loses losing season. Okay, well, now let's see what
these odds are for these future bets. So winning the
Super Bowl Pittsburgh is I'm going over the draft Kings.

(34:14):
They're not even in the top ten, so they are
plus four thousand. They have just about it the same
odds as the Chicago Bears.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
So you start to look at this team and you
look at their schedule. They open the season against the
New York Jets. Imagine that, but it's a day game.
So the first.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Game of the season against the New York Jets.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Then you play Seattle, then you go to New England,
you host Minnesota, you go to Cleveland, you play at Cincinnati,
you play at home against Green Bay, you host Indianapolis.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Yeah, this schedule is not easy.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
They're not gonna They're not gonna run through not only
that schedule, but even a soft schedule they would have trouble.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Their rosters format is depleted.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Yeah, they got dk Metcalf and Robert Woods and Calvin
Austin the third. They have Friar Mouse, who I'm a
big fan of, and Darnelle Washington, who's getting better. Their
offensive line has been kind of banged up a little bit.
And you were talking about the running game during the commercial.
They got Jalen Warred and Caleb Johnson who they drafted.

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They brought in Kenneth Gainwell, Trey Sermon is there. Cordell
Patterson junior. Cordell Patterson is there. I don't know what
his role is going to be, but you start to
look at this squad and you say, oh, he's a
Swiss Army knife, but he's getting up there in years.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Well, yeah, I was just about to say he's a
little old to be Swiss Army knife. Now he's just
a knife. He ain't even part of the army, he
ain't Swiss. He a para knife, he not even a
full knife. He's the one that he's peeling potatoes. Just
take the core out of apple? Can you take a
core out of apple? Can you could have divid out.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
Of a potato. That's what he's dealing with.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
So yeah, it is one of those things that you
watch and you try to figure out what is this
going to do? Do you feel that Mike Tomlin is
now a desperate head coach, that his selling of his
soul got rid of us, got rid of Justin Fields,

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and now he's going with a guy that from the
outside doesn't seem to be a very good person.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Well, I think that Tomin's time is up. That's all
it is to it. I mean they the Steelers have
not awarded you from They've only had three coaches in
their franchise history exactly, and I think it's time for
the fourth because they've emasculated him.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
They took way is power.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
There's no way that he would have made the decisions
that they made.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Mike Tomlin is too smart.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
He knows that he needs talent to win, and you
trade away talent. They are putting him at a place
where he will have a losing season. And it's nothing
that you can say to change my mind. You cannot
tell me that if you get rid of Mike Tomlin
and he's never had a losing season, this is your out.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
I want him out.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
We're gonna take away all this toys. We got contracts.
They have three contracts, harde that like Anon Rodgers. One year,
next year, all that money goes off the books. They
can go into free agent mark and get us whatever they.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
Want and it'll be Christmas. And if they're bad, you're
gonna have a high draft pick. And you're gonna have
a high draft pick.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
The Pittsburgh Steelers aren't taking man, they are not tanking.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
You can say whatever you want to do. I didn't
bring it up. I didn't say that they were. You
said it. You just you just wait a minute. The realization,
Oh my god, they aren't tanking. That's what you just
said in your brain. You said, my realization came to you. No,
it came to you. How did How did you influence it?

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Did you try to influence me?

Speaker 3 (38:26):
The draft pick? Tanking?

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Are you how you.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Gonna get a hot draft pick?

Speaker 1 (38:30):
You did? How you getting a hot draft pick by losing?
But I didn't say it.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
He's never had a losing season. They're taking away his toys.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
And he's gonna have a losing season for the first time.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
In his life. You want to put a little wager
on that? Yeah, I got dough nuts for you, all right?
We got a long term no, well, I'll tell you
pick what you want. National Donut Day. By the way,
it is. Yeah, where you at, ship, please? Where you're
at ship, please?

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Come on advatise so we get that get that don
neck coming up.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
We got our guys, Zack sim of Orangebloods dot com.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Our number one is in the books.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Welcome back to our number two of a feel good
Friday edition of the Morning Kickoff right here on Sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. We talked Texas fall
into Texas Tech to force a Game three, winner, take
all matchup tonight at seven o'clock. We've also talked the
Pacers versus the Thunder and the come from behind victory

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as you cannot sleep on Indiana. And we talked Aaron
Rodgers and is he gonna get Mike Tomlin fired?

Speaker 3 (39:39):
But right now we're.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Gonna recap the Texas baseball season once again and put
a bow on this thing with our guys, Zack sim
of Orangebloods dot com. You can follow them on social
media at Zach at the Dish Zach, Texas baseball comes
up a little bit short utsa a very formidable opponent,

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continues to make moves and show that they are here
to stay, but nobody really wants to hear that. They
want to know more about why Texas is done in
this particular time.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
And what is your takeaways from this baseball season?

Speaker 13 (40:19):
Yeah, good to talk to you all this Friday. You know,
Texas kind of ran into the team that gets hot
at the right time.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
They've been good all year long.

Speaker 13 (40:28):
Obviously they put an impressive record together, but you know,
going into the NCAA tournament, it's not always about the
best team it's about or the most talented team.

Speaker 5 (40:35):
It's the team it's hot and playing well.

Speaker 13 (40:37):
And you know, unfortunately for Texas, the offense just didn't
have quite enough and then there was enough you know,
laps in the pitching and or defense to you know,
to to help them keep them off the board at
certain times.

Speaker 5 (40:53):
And it wasn't even that the offense was bad.

Speaker 13 (40:55):
It was you know, I thought they were really good
in spots, but they couldn't get together.

Speaker 5 (41:00):
They couldn't get hits in bunches. And hits back to back.

Speaker 13 (41:03):
And so they were all scattered apart, and you know,
that ended up being the game.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
It was.

Speaker 13 (41:08):
You know, it was crazy that Texas inevitably would score
you know, seven runs in that first loss and and
then what is it six or seven runs and the
second loss because a record all year long, especially at home,
has been excessional, and so they played a team that
had a lot of veteran leadership and and you know,
they got out played unfortunately, just couldn't get any breaks.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Zach, we're losing some guys. You know, Blue is going
to be gone. Who's going to be the guy to
step up and play his role or is there somebody
that's in the portal that we could bring in to be.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
As effective as as Blue was.

Speaker 13 (41:53):
Yeah, I mean the thing about Blue is he was
just such a he was such a competitor. He gave
you a lot there in the middle of the heart
of the lineup and could change a game at any moment.
I don't think there's one guy that can necessarily replicate
him every single time. I mean, you're talking someone that
would have to play at a very very high level.
But I think there are a couple of names in

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the transfer portal that certainly could get you there close there,
And then when you combine them with other folks, yeah,
it starts to looks a little different.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
You know.

Speaker 5 (42:23):
You think about last year to this year, a guy.

Speaker 13 (42:26):
Like Jalen Floors had a close to one hundred point
drop in his batting average, and so if they're able
to bring in some folks that can help kind of
bring it back to that average, you know, it starts
to offset. So it's not all about replacing it at
one place. It's about replacing it across the board in
a number of positions. But certainly you would expect the

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guys like you know, Casey borbo over at third base
to have, you know, continue to work on being a
better poll hitter and be able to really get back
to his roots because he's changed a lot as a
hitter from his time in high school to his time
of Team USA to the time that he's been here
at Texas. He's continued to develop. So a guy like

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him can certainly provide you some more pop. But then
I think, more importantly than Blue, it's going to be
what does Rylean Galvan do behind the plate? You know,
he's he was the Lynchkin to this team. He was
kind of that heartbeat like we talked about, but man,
he was also a warrior.

Speaker 5 (43:25):
He caught a lot of.

Speaker 13 (43:26):
Innings, he was deemed up at different times and just
continue to roll out there. So how you replace a
guy like that from a leadership standpoint and a production
standpoint will be will be really big.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
We're talking to Zach Simoorrangebloods dot com.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
You can follow him at Zach at the Dish and Zach,
you know, we talked about some of the guys that
are going to be leaving, but a lot the youth
can be served when you look around and you see
what Dylan Valantes has been able to do. You can
look at what Jonah Williams has been able to do
in some of the young pitchers that have had an

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opportunity to make some moves.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
So the future can be okay.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
But all those guys that have jumped in the transfer
portal and now you've got to feel those voids. What
are some of your areas of concern that needs to
be addressed immediately?

Speaker 5 (44:21):
I think for me it's mostly on the hitting side.

Speaker 13 (44:23):
Actually, if you think about the signing class that they
have for twenty twenty five. There's two guys at the
top that, if you were to happen to get on campus,
would be instantaneous game changers. I mean they from an
offensive and defensive standpoint, they are exceptional and that's why
they're top of the first round type guys. But then
the rest of the signee class very likely makes it

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the class, and you know, there's.

Speaker 5 (44:48):
Some really really good pitching talent in there.

Speaker 13 (44:51):
I think the day and night that you're going to
see kind of the pitching staff transform from this freshman
class is really important to me. And so it goes
back to the hitting side. You know, how do they
get support for a Rod? How do they get support
from Mendoza and Borva? You know, they already got one
guy out of the transfer portal, Josh Livingson.

Speaker 5 (45:11):
He's a he's a big guy with pop.

Speaker 13 (45:13):
He's a left handed hitter, which the staff you know,
is certainly going to put a priority on, if I
had to guess, because they didn't have enough left handed
hitters in the lineup this year, so they're certainly going
to be looking for guys that. But he's got pop right,
so he can play a corner. He's played all over
the infield. My guess would be more of a first
baseman if I had to project forward at the moment.

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But you know, getting a guy like him, for more
guys like him that can pop, and then probably looking
to get a you know, an outfielder with a loss
of blue and then Tommy Farmer hitting the transfer portal.
They're gonna want another guy that can run out there
and you know, make some plays defensively for him.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
Zach, I wanted to ask you too, because you know
it's it's I'm curious about the thought process. This is
year number one under coach Slas Nagel, and obviously they
had those exit meetings with the players hints the reason
why some of these guys probably decided to jump in
the transfer portal. But now having that full off season,

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so to speak, where you can really get into trying
to fill out this roster, do you see a lot
of impact that can be made from the portal as
well as those players that you were talking about from
the high school side.

Speaker 5 (46:29):
Yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 13 (46:30):
The way I kind of view this upcoming season, the
twenty twenty six season, is that they're going to set
the foundation for the year to come right, So they're
going to go out and they're going to try to
get some impact guys from the portal. And you know,
just because they haven't announced a bunch of guys yet, like,
do not fret. I mean there, I've talked to a

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couple of agents and other folks and these guys like
every single.

Speaker 5 (46:54):
Time, Texas is right there.

Speaker 13 (46:57):
Yeah, those representatives are all talking and mentioning Texas, They're
mentioning Florida. I mean it's they're right there at the top,
competing for some of the top names. So I see
this as probably a big portal year from a hitting standpoint,
But for me, it's the foundation is being laid for
that twenty twenty seventh season with this freshman class of pitching,

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and then when they get to that twenty twenty six
class and get them on campus for twenty twenty seven,
I mean, it's going to put Texas in a very
different stratogyre from a talent perspective.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
So yeah, I.

Speaker 13 (47:31):
See this as a big impact year for the Texas
coaching to be really kind of put their mark and
kind of get their guys in. Not that they didn't
enjoy and love the guys they had on campus, it's
just you know, it's it's a little different when you're
inheriting a roster, right.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
So with that being said, what would your grade be
for the Texas Longhorns and their season as a whole.

Speaker 13 (47:56):
I thought it was an a I know everyone's going
to tell me that, look, they didn't make it to Omaha,
how can you give them a high grade? But you know,
some of the nonsense I've seen online, like these guys
won the SEC in their first year at Texas. That's
not just impressive, that's ridiculously impressive. And the fact that
it's the first year in the FC for Texas and

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some of the teams are going up against Arkansas or
Tennessee or some of the others that are still playing.
I mean, it was a really deep field for the SEC.
There was a lot of parody. I felt like this
season there was a lot of talent out there, and
so I thought they did an amazing job pulling everything
together in such a type time frame.

Speaker 5 (48:39):
You know.

Speaker 13 (48:39):
I know coaches talked about the buy in. He was
able to get all these kids to buy in and say, hey,
we're here for the university, We're here to play for
each other.

Speaker 5 (48:47):
This is what we're going to go do and they
did that right, So I thought it was a very
successful season.

Speaker 13 (48:53):
And trust me, if they're going to talk to recruise
right now, they're certainly pointing out and saying, hey, look
what we did in year one and what we can
do with you in your two and your three.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Yeah, I really, I really kind of agree with you
as far as the expectations coming into the season. You
and I each had conversations with coach Slasnagel, and he
kind of laid it out for us.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
He needed some key things to happen.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
For the most part, a lot of those things did
happen for them to stay healthy. And you lose a
Max not a Yeah, you lose a Max blow for
twenty six games and you still find a way to
piece it together and win the SEC by two games. Yeah,
you did one hell of a job in your first year.
So as always, man, I appreciate you jumping on with us.

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We'll give you a break for a little bit, but
we will ask you some questions during the week and
ask about some of the games that you're going to
be paying attention to on the College World Series run
as the Super Regional start today.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
Thanks brother, I appreciate you.

Speaker 5 (50:00):
Appreciate you, Michelle Friday.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
All right, Coming up next, we're gonna go to OKC
and talk to Ann Parker Coleman of CAVU to get
the latest news and her thoughts on last night's game
as Texas falls to Texas Tech. Coming up next right
here on the morning kickoff on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
This is all let's go to OKC as we get
a chance to recap Texas softball with our girl and
Parker Coleman of CAVU. You can follow her at Ann
Parker Cold the number one on social media and then Parker,
let's get right into it. A lot of people walked

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into the ballpark last night thinking they were going to
see Teagan Cavan.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
They end up seeing Mac Morgan. And to be honest
with you, I had no problem with it. It is
something that coach has done throughout. She pitched to get
Texas to the College World Series Championship Series.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
Didn't give up any runs.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
The game just changed because Texas couldn't field the ball.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
But it started off with the weather delay.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Tell us how you and Jeff Jones survived during the weather.

Speaker 7 (51:16):
Delight, Well, we barely did.

Speaker 6 (51:20):
It's so funny. It was raining.

Speaker 7 (51:24):
That bad yet raining and thundering into lightning in the arena.

Speaker 6 (51:28):
And then of course, as.

Speaker 7 (51:30):
As they would have it, as soon as we get
on camera and.

Speaker 6 (51:34):
We are doing our live shot, they're literally tossing to us.

Speaker 7 (51:39):
In the stadium from the.

Speaker 6 (51:41):
Desk in Austin. And as soon as they start doing that,
all of a sudden, I'm feeling a lot of wind
at my back. Rain picks up.

Speaker 7 (51:50):
Like Jeff and I both kind.

Speaker 6 (51:51):
Of look at each other and we don't even get
thirty seconds into our whole spiel for our lights start
falling in.

Speaker 7 (52:00):
Jess is, you know, lunging for the light and I'm
trying to, you know, keep keep.

Speaker 6 (52:04):
The ship on track.

Speaker 7 (52:06):
And it was it was pretty crazy there.

Speaker 6 (52:10):
For a little bit, but luckily it settled down. And
I mean it's from that moment.

Speaker 7 (52:15):
I was like, oh, playing a ballgame site like, I
don't I don't know if that's gonna have a That
fule field looked pretty nasty. And then of course you're
we're asking about contingency plans and if they don't play
or if they don't start playing for eleven pm last night,
then they would not play double letter today. They would

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have played game two today, game three on Saturday, and
then you know, for a bunch of fans and maybe some.

Speaker 6 (52:43):
Media who was expecting this to be over.

Speaker 7 (52:46):
In two games, being here until like.

Speaker 6 (52:49):
Saturday was like, oh boy, like maybe buckle up.

Speaker 7 (52:51):
But it was good to go settle down. And it
really wasn't that bad. It was la if they felt
first pitch by believe it was seven to fifty some
not not too bad.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
We're here with Anne Parker Coomen and that for all
the weather delays and all of the bad weather, it
didn't seem like anybody left. I mean, the crowd looked
as full as I've ever seen one.

Speaker 6 (53:16):
Yeah, I don't think it deterred anybody won by definitely
deter Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Mahomes they were there, but uh, yeah,
it's still completely full stadium. And you know we've gone back.

Speaker 7 (53:29):
And forth, uh, Jeff and I about whether we thought
more tex Tech fans or more long run fans we're here,
and of course I'm in the press rocks during this,
so I could I could be wrong, but I think
it seems free.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Even wow should they start like uh and then the
next game the game tonight, maybe split the crowd like
Texas ou.

Speaker 6 (53:53):
Well, you know, it's funny.

Speaker 7 (53:54):
They kind of have been to.

Speaker 6 (53:56):
It to a degree.

Speaker 7 (53:57):
I feel like wherever, you know, whichever dug out Texas
in and whichever dug out Tech is in, that's where
their fans sit. Of course, it's not completely like that.
It's not as straight down the middle like Texas O you, but.

Speaker 6 (54:13):
You know, you can see it's one side is more
Longhorn than one side is more Red Raiders.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Heart Heart said he didn't have a problem with the
pitching choices.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
I thought that it was a good deal because if
I'm a father, or if I'm a mother of a
kid that's playing UH on a on a team and
my my kid gets to play and UH and one
arguably the greatest baseball spectacle for college softball.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
I think that'd be a great recruit employ, don't you think?

Speaker 1 (54:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (54:50):
I think so.

Speaker 7 (54:51):
I I personally I agreed with the choice to.

Speaker 6 (54:55):
Go with Mac Morgan and to rest he and I think.

Speaker 7 (54:59):
It gives you way more flexibility because now you are
playing in a game three, and you would be in.

Speaker 6 (55:04):
A tough place if Hegan had started last night and
then She's gonna be tired tonight. You know, a Texas tech,
I can admire the idea of not wanting to lose
with your ace on the bench. But even last night
after Game one, I mean I thought Kennedy.

Speaker 7 (55:25):
Looked a little a little rough.

Speaker 6 (55:27):
And granted rough for her, it's.

Speaker 7 (55:29):
Everybody else's best day ever. But she gave up two
hits in the first inning. You know, there was a
hit by pitch, she was walking girls, and those are
on characteristic things for her. So I expect her to
look pretty tired tonight. I don't know how she couldn't
be exhausted. Whereas Texas, I don't think that.

Speaker 6 (55:49):
You're gonna have that problem with Kegan, And you're right
if you're looking to go to Texas.

Speaker 7 (55:55):
I'm more interested because I know that I'm going to
get some playing time. It's not just going to be
a one trip.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
It's amazing to me that this is where we are.
Going back to what you said about thinking it was
going to be two games. Both games have come down
to the final let bat, so you can't as far
than that. But talk about the energy around the Texas fans.
I've seen some of the interviews I've seen you talking

(56:23):
to the players, but talk about the players in their
mindset and what some of the fans were talking about
after leaving the game last night.

Speaker 7 (56:32):
Well, I'll tell you the one thing that really stands
out in all of this is, I mean, it was
a disappointing loss of and yet still after the.

Speaker 6 (56:40):
Team came out of the dugout and we're heading to.

Speaker 7 (56:42):
The buses, here's all the fans and.

Speaker 6 (56:44):
All the kids on the wall wanting their ball.

Speaker 7 (56:48):
Signed and taking selfies with the players. They also went
down the wall signed.

Speaker 6 (56:54):
Every ball, signed every autograph, and Reese Outwood and Teguing Devon,
I mean they were the last to leave. They probably
stayed for an extra thirty minutes just talking to all
these fans after a really tough night for them, and
I just, I mean, I thought that that was that
was so impressive, And if you're a fan, you.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
Gotta look at yeah, especially because of those young ladies
being able to separate game from fans and being able
to have that conversation. Uh So, take games absolutely, Game three, winner,
take all tonight, seven pm on ESPN.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Can't wait for that.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
But I wanted to ask your opinion about the Texas
baseball season. You have been immersed in all things Texas
since you've gotten here, and you got a chance to
be around the team, be there for those final moments.
What was your thoughts on how the season ended for Texas?

Speaker 6 (57:54):
You know, disappointing. If you would have gone back.

Speaker 7 (57:58):
And said Texas is going to go zero and three.

Speaker 6 (58:01):
Against UTSA in you know, mid March.

Speaker 7 (58:05):
Or April, you would have thought that I was crazy,
just how hot this.

Speaker 6 (58:10):
Team was going back to maybe round you.

Speaker 7 (58:13):
Know, the Texas A and M Series, or when they
played Georgia.

Speaker 6 (58:17):
It's wild the.

Speaker 7 (58:19):
Way that it petered out.

Speaker 6 (58:23):
But yeah, yeah, you know, I think if you're.

Speaker 7 (58:27):
Looking from looking at it from a stand perspective, the
first year of Jim Slashnikl, you did not have pitching depth,
and yet they were still able to accomplish what they did,
you know, number two national feed as you see regular
season champs. I think that there's a lot to be
optimistic about in the future.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
Yeah, and a.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Lot of players are obviously getting a transfer portal. There'll
be more that will be coming to the University of Texas,
So we are going to be busy as all get
out during the offseason. Before we let you go. I know,
I know the weather was kind of rough. Did you
have to bunk her down last night after the game?

(59:06):
Are all skies clear for today?

Speaker 1 (59:10):
You know?

Speaker 6 (59:11):
We left the stadium probably around eleven thirty eleven forty
five last night, and we're good to go. No bad weather.
I think it started storming. I'm not sure.

Speaker 7 (59:24):
Sometime in the middle of the night. I woke up
at some point there was thunder and lightning. But so
park the clear skies when we were checking the weather
last night.

Speaker 6 (59:33):
I believe it's supposed to maybe storm this morning and
cool off by game time.

Speaker 9 (59:39):
So good with me.

Speaker 7 (59:40):
As long as we're starting on time today, I'm good
with it storm any other time.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
And no doubt about it. As always, we want to
thank you for taking the time to jump on with us.
Make sure you're following her on social media. She keeps
you up to date on everything. And Parker Cole the
number one, appreciate you.

Speaker 6 (01:00:03):
Thanks guys. Take him all right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Yeah, it's the weather has been kind of rough up there,
and they've been trying to find a way to get
it done and make things happen.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
And I watched that hole in entire interview where the
camera was. About the fall, Jeff had to grab it.
She was talking. They were trying to move, and Jeff said,
we're just gonna leave us this light down because it
is gonna get thrown over, It's gonna get brokenbody.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
Needs to stay in the press. Boy, that's where she
wanted to be. I can tell that for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
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That was a little intense right there. I have to
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Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
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Speaker 13 (01:01:23):
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World's Strongest take by the world's strongest man man. Guess
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because something that I've been really.

Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
Dying for is being talked about right now.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
And my take today is give it to me.

Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
I want more of it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
The NBA is considering expansion two teams and emerging right
now the leading candidates or cities like Mexico City, Montreal, Vancouver,
San Diego, Seattle, which I really feel.

Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
Like it needs a team again.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
Uh, it's a historical city that fits into what they
want to do. But they wan't passionate fan bases, and
they want cities that already have the infrastructure for a
new stadium and say new because that was the breaking

(01:02:50):
point in Seattle, they didn't. They didn't want to do
a new stadium. They wanted to renovate the Rose Arena.
The other thing is the things that draw them is
historical content, which we talked about Seattle. They want to

(01:03:11):
do Las Vegas as well, so there's no historical content
there other than the A, B, A. But they want competition.
They want the potential league wide revenue and possible a
timetable for these teams. The teams that they want, they

(01:03:35):
want to make sure that the market size and fan
base is proper, the infrastructure is proper, and the financial visibility,
our viability is there. I'm all for it. My take
is that I want it. We need two more teams
to make it thirty two. And what say you?

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
I mean, I've always been for expansion because I think
the opportunities for everyone to to get a chance to
play in this wonderful league we call the NBA is important.
You know, I've been part of baseball franchises that have
cut teams that have been able to downsize. Major League
Baseball has downsized some of the minor league teams. So

(01:04:22):
you're missing out on opportunities to continue the quest. If
you have expand the league, that gives more players an
opportunity to play in the league, more opportunity to develop
and get paid while you're in the NBA, and probably
create a new creat career for yourself as you start

(01:04:45):
to expand these teams. Location. Obviously, I'm glad you brought
up Seattle. Those fan base. That fan base is one
that is amazing when you think about it. They were
heart heartbroken when and the SuperSonics went to Okay. See,
they still feel that's their team playing for the NBA

(01:05:07):
championship because they end up losing that great franchise. I
do believe that Seattle should be one of those spots
that is awarded a franchise.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
I think that Seattle is number one for me. Yeah,
and that other spot. I know this is gonna be
a hot take, but I think it should be out
of the country. I don't think that's that San Diego
and one of these small Las Vegas would be the one.

(01:05:38):
I think it should be Mexico City. I'm not for that. Wow,
Why I'm not for that? I want a team here.
When your team want Las Vegas to have a team,
I want Austin to have a team, an NBA team.

Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
Why that Antonio is seventy miles away from you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
What does that mean that they share a say Marina
in La that's a perfect rivalry.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Why do you think they keep bringing the Spurs here
for us to see them in the Moody Center. I
think the Moody Center would be a perfect place for
an NBA team. We were talking about the w NBA. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
because of the support of women's sports.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
I agree with that too. I agree with that too,
But both.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
But La Sparks they got a team and they got
the LA Lakers.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
You got those, so you could have two teams.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
I just don't San Diego. I mean they had baseball
and they ran baseball out.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
They got the No you're thinking of Oakland Oakland San Diego.
I get season ticket requests from San Diego. We were
out there so much at one point going to baseball.

Speaker 11 (01:06:44):
Plus, the league really want a team in Las Vegas.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
They really do want Vegas to have that spot Vegas
and I can see Vegas. So now you have you're
gonna have in Las Vegas. In the near future, you
could have Major League Baseball. You're gonna have that because
the A's are moving there. That's the team you were
thinking about. Yeah, you got the Silver or whatever they're
what are they called the women's basketball Aces. You got

(01:07:12):
the Aces with Becky Hemon. You have the Las Vegas Raiders.
You've got the Golden Knights of Las Vegas in hockey.
So now you need the infrastructure. Is there you talking
about infrastructure, There's plenty of it there in Las Vegas.

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
And the entertainment value.

Speaker 11 (01:07:31):
What's kind of funny to me is Vegas was the
first I mean Vegas. The NBA was the first to
actually put a dot on Vegas and.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
They're the only one that's not there now.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
Right Well, that's because they couldn't do it because they
didn't know what the legal betting ramifications were going to be.
Now that that's all past, now they're in that phase
that they can.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Take that back.

Speaker 11 (01:07:53):
In the early odds, I remember Sacramento, the Maluke Brothers
was one of wanting to move the Kings there, but
that fell through.

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
Right and now you have an opportunity to do so.

Speaker 1 (01:08:06):
I wonder if there's teams right now that they're like, no, no,
we want Vegas and want to move their team to Vegas.
That could be true too. And don't forget about Dallas.
Dallas was trying to get a casino. The people that
own the Dallas Mavericks now are casino owners, so.

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
That would be that would be messed up. That's why
the conversation was being had.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
That's why all of this, But it was initially because
they want to bring gambling.

Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
Whatever the state of Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
They're meeting about this right now, and I'm just so
happy that they're having the conversations. Hard because like you
want thirty two teams. I mean, it's just better with
more and Seattle deserves it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
They deserve it. It is not they're the only team
that is a lot. Give it to them. Yeah, I'm
all in for that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
Seattle has always been one of those places that when
you look at their history and what they were and
the fans support, all you needed was a new.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
Arena, and they didn't want to do a new arena.
And now they go.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
And now they have to. Now they're about to win
a Chace.

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
No, I ain't gonna do that. I stopped myself.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
Another great take by the WWE Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
When we come back, we'll close out the show.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
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Got a chance to meet with his basketball team and
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it's like to compete.

Speaker 15 (01:11:07):
Every day's fellas, how you guys doing great?

Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
To see everybody?

Speaker 15 (01:11:12):
People ask me all the time, like, coach, what's your
culture like? What are you going to build a Texas
What do you want your players to think about? Who
are they like? What are you going to preach? What's
that word right? And it's really simple for me, it
comes down to two words. Always compete. Our job is
to build the fire. Your job is simply to put

(01:11:34):
your head down, trust the process, on the process, and
just really compete in everything that you do. When you're
in the University of Texas, there's nowhere to hide.

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
Every sport is either.

Speaker 15 (01:11:46):
Trying to win a national championship or on the threshold
of winning it. When you have a team full of competitors.
When we have a group, what's truly about that you're
going to develop, We're going to have a great time,
and we're going to become that program on this campus
that we're supposed to become.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
All right, Compedo three one two three, And that's what
the Texas Longhorn softball team is going to be doing tonight.
They will be competing as to win a national championship
and on the cusp of winning a national championship. And
it's not just us that believes that Texas is going

(01:12:24):
to win Jessica Mendoza of ESPN believes that Texas is
going to win tonight, and so does you know someone
else They believe that Texas will win, and they went
the route of one Shannon Sharp to let you know
all about it.

Speaker 6 (01:12:40):
Heylo, I'm gonna give you the floor.

Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
Who you got on Friday's game?

Speaker 7 (01:12:43):
Three?

Speaker 3 (01:12:43):
Give me my one.

Speaker 9 (01:12:43):
Try here a million dollar arm, a little Texas charm,
Red Raiders disarmed Texas.

Speaker 6 (01:12:50):
And three there she is for funny. She's been practicing
that all night.

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
All night long. It's gonna be I love it. I
love it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
Million dollar arm, Texas Charm, Texas Tech disarmed Texas in three.

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
Let's go. I'm with it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
I'm anytime you try to entertain as well as do sports.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
You got me. You had me at hello. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
The beautiful thing about it, though, Mark, and you know
as well as I do. All you want to know
and what all you want to have happen is the
opportunity to play for a national championship, any championship. You
get a chance to be out there and get it in.
Texas had that opportunity.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
I know a lot of people were again a little
upset with the thought process of not going with teaking Kavan.
The thing about it is if they get through that
and they get the win, nobody's complaining because they were there.
They had the opportunity. Now this would be the third
game that they have seen. Uh Nauja Kennedy. This is

(01:14:02):
the opportunity that Texas has been playing for. I think
Texas comes out and they play at an elite level
and I think they play cleaner softball and Texas wins
the World Series. And that's not me being a Homer.
That's me watching both of these teams go at it.
Their leadoff hitter Davis for Texas Tech, She's absolutely unafraid

(01:14:23):
of any situation. She has been on fire in every
ball that she's hit has been hard the entire time.
But you look at what Texas has been able to
do throughout the season.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
These are the moments that you are built for.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
These are the moments that you practice and got up
early and ran and had that extra time where you're
getting blisters on your Hand's time to go, and I
think that this team is ready for the moment and excited.

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
About it all.

Speaker 13 (01:14:53):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
I'm excited hard. I just feel like that ms Canaday.
She she's gonna be tired tonight and Texas is gonna
be pressure and and you, like you said, not being
a homer, it's just you know, looking at people's bodies,
you get tired. Yeah, And you can't expect this woman

(01:15:17):
to go out here and put on a starlight performance
three nights in a row, right, and be the same
that as she was in the first game. It's just
not gonna happen. Yeah, it's even Ironware is out. Yeah,
there's it's a lot of I'm not gonna say pressure.
She's been built for this. That's that's why they went
out and got her and and have been building towards this.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
But at the end of the day, you know as
well as I do, when when the competitive juices for
both sides start going, the mindset has to be critical,
critical focus, and sometimes you can wear yourself out from
from thinking too much.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
And just continues to play into it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
So I'm excited about it because if not, we wouldn't
be having a game tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
It would be boring. You'd be watching baseball again. And
we're gonna get into baseball next week. We're gonna have
Chipper Jones on next week for next we're talking.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
Next Thursday, we're gonna have Earl Campbell on the Legends
of the Locker Room segment, breaking it down and talking
all things Texas football and some other stuff as always,
But the weekend is here. It's a feel good Friday.
We made it.

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Have a great, great weekend, and.

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
Just remember don't believe everything you see, because even salt
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Speaker 3 (01:16:58):
Peace.