The Doug Pike Show 6-9-2024

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This is the Doug Pike Show,brought to you by American Shooting Centers Guns
Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine. Now here's Doug Pike. All right.
Here we go, eight o'clock ona Sunday morning, with lots going
on. I haven't even looked atthe beach front, but I want to.

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I was trying to get some stuffdone right before the show, and
now that that's done, I'm gonnamove that little mouse and cursor over there.
I'm going to open up this siteright here, and I am the
first thing I'm gonna look at,said Beef from I already know about the
golf tournaments and all of that,so I want to go to Saltwater Recon
and I want to see what thesurf looks like because it calmed yesterday.

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It calmed like I was not lastnight. It's a long story. I
won't get into it right now.I'm deciding whether or not to share this
story. I shared it with Melvin, and I don't want to never mind,
I don't want to give up toomany details. Actually, it is
beautiful down there. I can't seewater color yet. I'm gonna switch cameras
over to the surfside jettycam and I'llbe able to tell. I'll be able

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to tell by how many people areout at the end of the of the
jetty, whether there's clean water outthere or not. It's it's I have
to laugh. I have to laughat how crowded it's gotten down there,
which virtually impossible actually to fish itnow. This shot here, it looks
like the tides kind of low.I haven't looked at a tide schedule yet

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or a tide chart here it isright here. Actually, no says it's
high tide right now. High tidewas at eight thirty or we'll be at
eight thirty, so we're almost therenow. And then dumping dumping out all
the way to sunset. Not thebest conditions for wadefishing, even if it
is clean and pretty. But nonetheless, if the water's clean, I if

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I had the time and could godown there, I would probably do it
just to see because that surf hasn'tcleared up in so long. There's a
jetti look on. Somebody's got controlof the camera right now. By the
way, Saltwater Ricon is. Ihaven't talked about them for a while,
but it's the best site I've foundas a fisherman, as a coastal fisherman,

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a beach front fisherman, somebody wholikes peers, somebody who likes rock
groins and jetties and wading straight intothe surf. I don't know where you're
gonna find a better place to determinewhere you should go if you're planning on
going. It's got tied charts,it's got all the good stuff. And
the cameras there are I don't know, eight or ten cameras just right along

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the Galveston beach front, and you, the subscriber to Saltwater Ricon, can
actually take control of that camera andmove it left or right or pan in
or pan out to get a littlemore detail. Right now, I'm looking
at the surf side jetty out towardthe end. Oh good gosh, she
zoomed right in on it. One, two, three, four, five,

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six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
thirty two. There are approximately fortyfive or fifty people on the last fifty
or sixty yards of those rocks.So pretty crowded. I'd say, not
my cup of tea. I longfor the days back in the day,

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and even as much older as Iam now, back when it was precarious
at best trying to get to theend of the jetty to fish, because
every step was a brush with deathor at least a snapped ankle. The
rocks got slimy and slippery the theywere. They're all just irregular granite boulders.

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And if you didn't learn what theslippery stuff looks like and what the
firm stuff looks like, and ifyou didn't wear sense shoes, a lot
of guys started wearing the old metalgolf spikes. You'd buy your pair of
cheap metal golf spikes, which youcould get back when I'm talking about for
I don't know, twenty five thirtybucks. You could probably get them in

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the good Will store for less thanthat. And those metal spikes got better
grip on that granite than any tennisshoe or any hiking boot. They might
as well all have been ice skates. I saw a few people go down
pretty hard on those rocks before theyput that nice flat top on there.
All the way and to end,well, almost end to end. The

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last fifty yards or so maybe seventyare not sidewalked, but everything else is,
which makes it really easy if youwant to lug five wagons full of
stuff out there, which is whata lot of people do, and then
they get out there and take upa lot of rooms so that nobody else
can fish comfortably around them. AlthoughI had no problem with that. I

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was pretty was and still am apretty good caster. I can cast in
a straight line. So I wouldjust walk right out where two guys were
taking up forty feet of space withguy it had their five or six large
rods and rod holders, and theyhad their couple of trout rods they were
trying to throw and just intimidate peopleinto staying out of their space. I

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just march right down on the rocksbetween them, and more often, well
I would say as often as not, just pull a speckled trout out from
under them and just walk off.Yeah, good luck boys. It bothers
me. It bothers me. Howmany people now are fishing? Who who

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think they own the jetty or therock groin, or they own thirty or
forty feet of the pier. Backwhen the San Luis past Peer was up,
had no problem at all. Whenit was really good at night,
we literally would stand almost shoulder toshoulder with perfect strangers, each of us
minding our business, each of ustrying to cast straight out and real straight

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back, because that's all you couldreally do to keep from tangling up four
or five lines. And we wouldjust find ways to get along and make
sure everybody had an opportunity to catchfish. And now it's it's it's an
entire generation of younger people, typicallymostly younger people, who just think that

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if they turn their hat backwards,they owned the whole thing. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninetyEmail me Doug Pike at I heartmedia dot
com speaking of backward hats. Iwent out to Live Golf yesterday and just
true to form what Reese McCall,the general manager of Golf Club of Houston,
and I talked about on Friday orno its yesterday, wasn't it that

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I talked to Reese. It's afantastic event out there at Golf Club of
Houston, this Live Golf Houston tournamentthat's ongoing today and wraps up. It's
guaranteed to wrap up at before fiveo'clock. They have the all well,
they live Golf's traditional shotguns start atI think twelve ten after the skydivers come

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in. If your walk, ifyou've parked out there around noon ish and
you think, gosh, I needto hurry up and get out there.
I don't know if they've started yet. Just watch the sky because they won't
start until those skydivers come in withtheir big American flags, and once that's
done, off they will go.I'll get to the leaderboards in a little
while. I did get some Igot a couple of emails yesterday from people

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who are still skeptics, who arestill not on board at all with Live
Golf because of the source of itsmoney. And I understand that I do,
but I also I also see thesame players we used to see at
the PGA Tour events here and somenew ones coming up, especially out of

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Europe. It was a twenty yearold, a twenty year old way up
high on the leaderboard yesterday. Nowthat the usual names are there, Johnson,
Kepka de Shambeau, rom Smith,all the guys, all these guys

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who went to live golf, andI have a hard time blaming them.
I have a hard time giving themgrief for making decisions that while sometimes you
have to sometimes you have to dowhat's right for your family, and they

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did what was right for their familiesand the format for live golf, just
on the golf side, never mindingthe political aspects of it, never minding
some of the disagreement with people wholive halfway around the world and think differently
than we. The atmosphere out thereis fantastic. Everybody's having a good time.

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I met a guy yesterday. Iwas standing right on the side of
the eighteenth green, right at therope, and there was a guy standing
next to me talking to a prettygirl. This guy's he's in his forty
late forties, fifties. He's playingin his fifties actually, because he did
say he was retired. He'd movedto Las Vegas, comes back here to

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his credit to take care of hiselderly mother. And he's standing there chatting
up a pretty girl and not payingattention at all to the golf. And
he kind of turned to me andsaid, oh, am, I in
your way. I'm sorry, I'mtalking to her. I think you can
see why. Yes, I couldsee why and so, but I just

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couldn't do it. So anyway,he strikes up a conversation with me,
Hey man, as this is yourfirst live golf event, and yes it
is Ashley so well. I'm fromVegas, man. I go to a
lot of them, Like, waita minute, there aren't that many of
them in the United States. Evenso, this guy's he's doing well and
having fun. Long story short,he comes here a lot. He plays
a lot of the same golf coursesI had Avid Golfer, Avid Golfer,

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and I think we're gonna try andmake a loop around Blackhawk at some point.
He's still in town for another coupleof months. He's dealing with some
some medical things for his mom.Uh but after that, or but sometime
between now, in those two monthsfinishing up, we swapped contact info,
and I bet you we end upplaying a little golf. And I bet
you he's a little bit of asandbagger. I bet you he's better than

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he. I get some guys youcan just look at, and that guy's
a hustler. And so I'm notgonna let him play me for any money.
Just hand him my wallet before westart. Let's just get this over
with. Let's just cut to thechase here. We'll just we'll just jump
right over all the hurdles and gothe finish line here here, whatever you
can buy with this this is yours? Uh yeah? Or or what I

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can do is find a couple ofmy old cronies out there who think they're
good. Because this guy, ifI were to call him and say,
hey, look dressed down, dresseddown for this one, because there's gonna
be a little money out there wecould make. I guarantee he'd show up
looking like the worst golfer in theworld. Some beat up old head covers
on his wood. I have beatup head covers on all three of the

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metals that I carry. My goodwill wouldn't take these things. They just
say no no, I just tossit over at a dumpster. It's okay,
And I have I even have anoff brand cover on my I think
it's my five wood, but Ireally don't care. It's how I play

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that matters to me. The clubs. There was a time Melvin when I
didn't have a cover for I thinkit was my three wood I was doing
this with. So I just grabbeda little two so ran it down there.
Work just fine. They look atme. I'm showing up. It's
a pretty fancy place, it's toplay golf, and they just that your

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bag. Yeah, you want tothrow it on the car for me?
Uh, okay, it's just this, just this long pause. You sure
you sure? Those are your clubsand the irons look good. They're not
state of the art anymore, butthey're still they're still operational functional for me,
I do need to I think Imay need to get fitted again because
I'm not getting any younger and Ithink I'm losing some clubhead speed. We'll

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take a break. Let's do that, and then I'm gonna come back.
We're gonna talk some fishing again.I've got a couple of I got another
guy who was it was, don'ttell me who it was. Yesterday Felipe
called and wanted to get some information. I still haven't heard from him by
email. If you're listening this morning, you need to email me and I
will respond. I promise answer thosequestions for me. Where do you think

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you're gonna be fishing most? Whatdo you want to catch? Do you
want to use natural bait? Doyou want to use lures? What?
How much patience do you have?All of those things. Once I get
those questions answered, I can helpyou out a pretty good bit. I
would say, I don't know,maybe if Roberts listened this morning, maybe
he would back me up. Ifeel pretty confident that I helped him out

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a little bit. Seven one threetwo point two five seven ninety Email me
Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com all theway out. Shooters Corner down at Palmer
Highway in twenty nine Street in TexasCity is owned by Jerry and Jay TK
father and son team. Between thetwo of them, two of the best
gunsmiths in this region. In thisregion, I have had so many people

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call me and say, hey,I took my rifle, I took my
shotgun. I took my pistol toa gunsmith, and that gunsmith told me
it's going to cost me darn nearthe same price that I paid for the
gun to fix this problem that Ididn't think was that big. That's and
I just kind of puff up,real proud, say, you know what,

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take it down to Shooter's Corner,get Jerry and Jay to take a
look at it and see what theysay. The most recent case, I
have never had anybody call me backand say, well, that was a
dumb idea. They can't fix it. The most recent case. The best
case scenario is when You take itin there expecting to hear what you've already
heard, that it's going to costhundreds of dollars to fix your rifle,

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and you find out it's something sosmall that it was fixed in five minutes
and you weren't even charged. That'show you make customers. That's how you
make lifelong customers. You take careof them. And that's exactly what Shooter's
Corner does. Palmer Highway in twentyninth Street. They've been there forty plus
years, forty plus years. It'san old school gun store. That's all

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they do, guns and stuff thatyou need to shoot guns. These Shooters
Corner TX dot com. If youwear a badge for a living, you
get a discount, which I thinkis very nice. The Shooter's Corner t
X dot com. This is SportsTalk seven ninety a Houston sports fan on
air and on Facebook. They contactback to the Doug Fike Show. The

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song has been around a long time. It'll never get old. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at Aheartmedia dot com.
Let's get it started with Bill.See what's on his mind? What's
up Bill, Doug? I needyou to help me file a complaint.
Okay, bye. By the manufacturerof the greatest fishing rod in real combo

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in the world, Zemco two Otwo. Oh man, how many of
those did you have as a kid? And then just tear up. I'm
not a hunter of fisherman, butI bought it from my kids fifteen years
ago. Okay, they were tenninety nine, they were ten ninety nine
at Walmart. And I can't tellyou, Doug, we called a million
panfish of half a million in castis. I don't doubt an occasional bass,

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Oh my gosh. Yeah. Andnow we were just throwing a bober
out there, sure, little wormon it. Yeah. And now that
roden Real Combos twenty four ninety nine, there were eleven ninety nine. Oh
my god. Well let me goback even farther than that. Okay,
when I was about eight or nineyears old, the Zebco two O two

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had come out and on the samelittle blister pack that that you put bought
those on. I'm sure it wasless than eight dollars for the roden a
reil. It was just nothing.Because I know, because I got my
I got my parents. I'd convincedmy parents down at the down at our
grandparents house in Florida on the waterwhere I fished every day. I convinced

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my parents that my sister wanted forher birthday a Zebco two O two,
and so I handed it to herand she just looked at me like,
I'm little, but I'm not stupid, you know, And that is about
I don't know. Twenty four hourslater she was she and her mom and

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my grandmother were off to the mallto go buy her something more appropriate,
and I was out in the backyardfishing with her. I mean my brand
news Zupco too two. Yeah,I called you and everything. Sure,
twenty bucks just to get a kidlike we did. My kids were five,

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four and six at the time.Yeah, and you know when you're
when you're fishing with those kids,there's an old trace Atkins Songs that says,
she thinks we're just fishing. Ohyeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
I'm convinced to this day that whenmy dad and I were fishing, he
started me on a cane pole.And I suggest that for any little kid,
because it holds their attention. Theycan't run around with that, and

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they don't have to have any coordinationwhatsoever. If they can pick it up
and put it down, they're fishing. And I'm convinced that sometimes he would
flip that barber out there and tellme to hold that rod or that pole,
and there'd be no bait on itat all, because he wanted to
talk to me and he didn't wantthat court going down and messing up one

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of his speeches. He had toteach me on. That's something i'll teach
you, Melvin. Melvin and Iare going to take his son to one
of the lakes by my house andI'll just ask him if you got something
important you need to talk to himabout. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
And I'll I'll throw it unbaited lineout there and just tell him to watch
it and if if it gets tight, pick it up. And as long
as we yeah, an any grandparent or parent who you know has young

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kids, go buy the Zepco twoO two pack. That's a good starter.
You ain't just you're exactly right.Thank you so much, Bill.
A very wise man you are,and a very astute menday. Thank you.
Who could miss going from ten bucksto twenty four dollars for a two
O two? Oh my god?Thanks bill. Let's see man, all
right, let me go get Davehere. So wait a minute, there

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we go. What's up, Dave? What about the Zipco four oh four?
Well, oh, you're just misterfancy pants now you're bragging that talk
My biggest finish, that that fourfour foot drum? Bad? You know,
god on a four four? Yes? Oh my work, somebody with

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the loop. You know they hada down deal. They drop on them
deals down there. But anyway,you get a bigger way if you catch
it on a four or four fishthat big. You should get a bigger
trophy than you got. Well anyway, but oh, you were talking about
Sam begging what about a pool shark? Like, oh, yeah, don't
don't play my older brother man,because he's a survey or boy. Back

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yeah, back in high school,man, we should go to a pool
hall in a bowling alley up onGuesner fifty nine and turn our turn our
five dollars a week in lunch moneyor whatever it was into about twenty five,
because there were some really bad,really wealthy guys who used to come
in there and we just just emptytheir wall. It's just fun. I

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got hey. No, we weretalking about on you know on safety and
stuff. Yes, sir, youknow, even in whenever, even though
we got good weather right now.But when it does rain in your street
is flooded, or a street isflooded in this neighborhood that you're just driving
through, even in your big truck, you were responsible for your wake going

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into the le's house. That's agood point. That's a very good point.
Yeah, I hadn't thought about that. But in a flood situation like
that, you're exactly right. Becausea lot of these guys who buy these
big trucks think it's fun to driveup and down the street and look at
me. I can drive through floodwater. But if you run water into
somebody's house, that's on you.You're exactly right. Go ahead. I

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remember I told you about what yearsago when I went fishing with text Bone
and on this pontoon boat and Iwas sitting in the back, you know,
on a cushion, see, youknow, underneath the car. But
one of my buddies was up thereand he was a veteran and he was
really kind of frail, dude jaw, and then we had there was a

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couple of other people in there.But man, I'm sitting there. We
were just doing straight drop down catfishing man. All of a sudden,
this dude comes around the corner andwe were like fifty yards from the grass
over there and everything. And hecomes around in a speedboat with the sunglasses

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on, doing about forty miles anhour or four girls in bikinis. And
I could have reached out. Icould have reached out and touched his boat.
You were going to say, youcould have reached out and grabbed a
bikini. Well, I could havetouched one with my rod. Yeah,
hey, but anyone, why bother? I hear you. But hey,

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but as soon as he went by, I mean, thank god. In
that pontoon boat, there's plenty ofthings you can hang on to. Because
Jr. Was up there in thefront. He's real frail, So you
know, I made my way upthere just to make sure that when that
way hit that he wasn't going tofly into the water. Sure you know
me speak I was going to say, speaking of crazy places where the water

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can get dangerous, have you everheard of haulover inlet? No, sir,
h a u L haul over allone word haulover inlet. Look it
up and look up the videos fromthere. That's probably one of the roughest
jetty systems and roughest inlets on thecontinent. And there are people with no

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brains trying to drive boats through thereconstantly. And there are probably one thousand
hours of video on how close someof them come to doing stupid stuff and
how some of them actually do getinto really really bad trouble out there.
There's people flying out of boats andeverything. Man, one more thing we

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did. We we lost our cableover there or the TV go over there,
and the cable dude comes over thereand guess what he comes walking in
And I looked at him. Hehad snake boots on up to his knees,
and I said, those are snakeboots. He goes, yeah,
I hadn't had to try him out. Ye. Yeah, as long as
he's got him, he'll never needhim. But the first day he walks

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out there in tennis shoes, he'sgonna get popped by something. I got.
How you got a camera? Isthere a camera to the Texas City
dyke? I don't know that theyhave one on the dike, but I'll
take a look. I'll take alooking a break. I gotta take a
break I'll take a look. Whyare you thinking about going down there?
Always? Always I'm dreaming, I'mdreaming. I got I go down there.

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Why not hang on? Only fortyfive minutes away, you know,
so you know, I don't thinkhe has the Texas City Dyke, Bollivar,
Jetty, Clear Lake, clear LakePark, Chemi, Seabrook, Port
O'Connor, Sandluis past surfside Jetty.Let me see if there's anything below that,
uh Tiki Island, Trinity Bay,everything, but I think and then

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there's about six or eight of themin galveson on top of those. Yeah,
go look at that site, Dave, and you'll see what I'm talking
about. It's pretty cool. Onemore thing, everybody out there listening,
if you're trying to finish practice,practice, practice, well yeah, and
enter the Star Tournament too, soin case your practice turns into profit.

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Good All right, man, ThanksDave, I'll see you, buddy,
Audios. Oh Man, Texas City, Dike. I don't think we have
a camera down there, not thatI know of. I'm sure there is
one somewhere. And really the thingthat I'm gonna check during the break here,
actually I'm gonna get kind of holdon, dad, gummut. Oh

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yeah, Allen Ways head haul overin. What a show, What a
video show. Oh my gosh.If you think it's fun to sit around
boat ramps in the afternoon when drugpeople are trying to put boats back on
trailers, go look at some ofthat video from haulover. It is nuts.
Bellville Meat Market great place to goon a day like today if you

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would like a barbecue lunch the patio. It's interesting. The patio out there
at Bellville is not air conditioned,but there are some big giant ceiling fans
if I remember correctly, and theway it's configured somehow, someway, it's
always about in the summertime ten degreescooler than the air temperature. In the
wintertime, somehow it's a little bitwarmer. But anytime you're out there,

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it's a great time to sit onthe patio and eat barbecue for lunch while
they're putting together the order you're goingto take home from Belleville Meat Market so
that you can enjoy the stuff theydo for the next couple of weeks.
Two dozen plus play plus flavors ofpremium sausage. They have got appetizers cheap
spices, beef, chicken, andpork cut however you like, they'll send

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you a half a cow to you. I think they'll send a half a
cow to your house. I'm notsure. I may have to double check
with them. But anything else inthe store, let's just put it.
Anything you could put in your ina shopping cart, they can send to
your door. How's that. Ithink that's a reasonable way to put it.
And one of the best, oneof the best bunches of people you'll
ever meet. There's samples of thesausage. By the way, don't go

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in there and make a pig ofyourself. It's not not a box store.
No, just get a couple oftoothpicks full, and as you reach
for the to put the toothpick intoyour mouth with the sausage on it.
Go ahead and start reaching for yourwallet because they're all really really good wild
game processing year round as always.They're on Highway thirty six, about fifteen

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minutes north of Sealy, fifteen minutessouth of Hempstead. Been serving most of
Central Texas and East Texas. GoodHeavens for probably the last what is it
forty plus years now? Belleville MeetMarket Dot com. You can get a
lot of that stuff just sent rightto your house. Belleville, MeetMarket dot
com, bools. This is SportsTalk seven ninety breaking sports news on Facebook

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twenty four or seven. We'll getthat information to them. This is the
Doug Pipe Show. Hey thirty fiveon Sports seven to ninety The Doug Pike
Show. Thank you for listening.I'm looking at the jetticam at Saltwater Ricon
and there's one person. Gulf ofMexico is nearly flat. Okay, it's

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nearly flat, and there's one personsitting on a surfboard. I don't or
maybe even standing next to it.The camera's off him now, and I
guarantee you that is somebody from Arkansaswho is visiting a cousin who has a
beach house in Surfside. And thatguy's not going back to Arkansas without being

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able to tell his friends that hewent surfing. That's what's going on there.
He's not from Texas. There's justno way pretty day down there,
it really is. I haven't evenlooked at the wind. I'll do that.
And then there's a couple of otherthings I wanted to get to.
Oh, I got to open anew tab for this. Then I gotta
scroll down to iwindsurf dot com.That's another one of my favorite sites to

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look at on the beech Front.Got a couple of tens up here,
even a thirteen down at Port O'Connorand a fourteen at Port Arenses. Everything
else is either ten or single digits. Not bad at all, not bad
at all, and it is onshore flow. Now. The bad news

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for the beachfront fishing today would bethat it's a dumping tide almost still dark
tonight, just one big old fallingout tide, so not much going on
there. However, tomorrow morning,if this wind stays like this, it
just might be cleaned up. I'mnot gonna make any guarantees because I haven't

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actually been down there to get afirst hand look at it. I haven't
studied the tide table. But yeah, it's the The cars are beginning to
line up a little bit, thestars are lining up to get something kicked
off in the surf, and I'mcertainly ready for it. Some two five

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seven ninety email me Dugpack at iHeartMediadot com. I talked about this yesterday
and I want to bring it upagain because it it's just another. It's
it's another Finally somebody's getting something righttoward the conservation of the fisheries that we
all love all around the Gulf Coast, all the way up the East Coast
and the West Coast and really allaround the world. But there's these victories

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that have to come in little smallbites, from not from port to port,
not from venue to venue, butat least statewide, because that's how
the rules are made. There wastalk here in Texas for a long time
about chopping the the shoreline, orchopping our coast line into three sections upper
coast, Coast, and lower coastand regulating them that way. And there

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have been some regional restrictions made inrecent years that have helped our fisheries.
But the best news for redfish,at least in a long time, comes
this week from Louisiana, where onJune twentieth. On June twentieth, the
limit on redfish will go from wellit's not that big a deal five to

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four per day, but the goodnews is they're also taking away the five
fish or four fish that almost everyguided trip would have had. Additionally,
to the fishermen's catches, the sportfishermen's catches, because the guys and crew

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on these boats were allowed to alsothrow five into the bucket. And some
of these people there are bad applesin every barrel. And some boats would
with a wink and a nod,take three fishermen and have a captain and
two deckhands on board on a twentytwo foot boat. Oh, instead of

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having now they'll be able to bringhome twelve redfish for a piece for just
a three fishermen, whereas well itwas starting June twentieth, but prior that
would have allowed them five times tosix people on board. And there's a
lot of difference between twelve and thirtyredfish, a lot of difference. They've

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come around on their trout limits.They've figured it out. They've been watching
redfish numbers just like we have sinceforever. And in night or in twenty
twenty one, the numbers of redfishcaught in Louisiana the lowest sense of nineteen
eighties. Oh something else they did, which I mentioned yesterday, and I'm

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not gonna I certainly can't gloss overthis. No more commercial fishing for redfish
in Louisiana, or let me restatethat no more legal commercial red fishing for
red fish in Louisiana. They waiteduntil the numbers hit the bottom. Almost
Unfortunately, if they had done somethingabout this in the nineties or at two

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thousand or even twenty ten, itmight have been a little easier to keep
things on and even keel and maintaina good population. But kind of like
people over here who are my age, we remember when we were catching a
lot more fish. My observation oflate is that I think we may have

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hit bottom and are recovering better.And will I believe eve under the new
limits more quickly than before. Threespeckled trout is not a lot, but
it's enough to take home to eat, if that's just you want what you
want to do. And when youcouple that going from five fish to three

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fish, and when you couple thatwith the growing number of people who are
in my camp and really almost neverkeep a speckled trout unless it's bloodied up
and you had to yank a gillout of it to get the hook.
But get your twenty cent hook back. Uh, boy, don't get me

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on my little tambourine for barbleous hooks. That's just so easy and such a
great way to take care of fish, such a great way to make sure
they don't get all ripped up andtorn up. You can with needle loosed
plyers and barblous hooks, you canrelease almost anti fish at the side of
the boat without even touching it.If you have to wet your hands and

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grab it around the shoulders for alittle bit better look down in that throat
if the hooks finally or happened tohave gotten that far. But once you
get there, you should be ableto just back them out the same way
they went in and almost just minimaldamage if any, to the fish,
and it's got a lot better chanceof surviving and growing up to be two

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three, four, five, six, eight, ten twelve pounds, and
someday you and I might live longenough to catch one of those fish.
The younger people in this audience havea really good shot in three to six
years of catching a thirty inch trout, much better than they have today,
much better than they'll have than theyhad three years ago. You'd have to

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go a long ways back to wherethere was a even a better than about
a one in a thousand chance ofbeing even in the right place in catching
a thirty inch trout in the middleof baff And Bay. It's still it's
still was no guarantee you're gonna gothrough it. And the good news is,
the good news is to get tothat thirty inch fish when you finally

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figure out where to go get itand how to go get it, and
what to throw and when to bethere and all of those things. The
good news is, the way we'reheaded, you're gonna catch a whole lot
of two three four, five sixpound fish, of sixteen eighteen, twenty,
twenty twos, twenty fours, acouple of twenty six's a few twenty
eights before you catch that thirty fishthirty inch fish, and all of that's

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gonna be a ton of fun,and there will be room for all the
people who are gonna be fishing,because our population of fishermen is not gonna
get much smaller anytime soon. Peopleare moving here from states where fishing is
not good. It's not nearly asgood what we have in Southeast Texas alone,

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just between the bass fishing and thebay fishing is spectacular. Shore fishing
great when you can get out.It gets a little bumpy around here,
but it's good. Speaking of offshorefishing snapper season, Oh wait, I
think I just heard another ten poundssnapper hit the deck offshore. I don't

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know that it's gonna take very longto get to whatever the Feds are gonna
give us in federal water. Butat that point you can just retreat into
state water and keep fishing. BlackHorse Golf Club, Fry Road. You
go two ninety to Fry Road.My son's on two ninety right now.
No, he better be all theway to the baseball field by now.
Had to go out two ninety toWaller, Texas this morning. He did.

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They had a baseball game out there. Shortly. They'll be warming up
right now. Two courses, twocourses off Fry Road, the North and
the South, both entirely different inthere. I'll call it personality One to
the North course, hmm, that'sfun. That's nice and easy. South
course, ooh, I gotta payattention a little bit more. North course

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you can kind of free wheel itand get away with it. Slicing drives,
hooking drives. You still be ableto see them when they hit the
ground and where they go. Southcourse, you better buckle up a little
bit. It's not unplayable at all. Just be sure you're at the right
tea box for you and your game. And if you're still having problems,
you're still losing golf balls, godown to the far end of the range

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and get some help. Those peopleare just waiting for you down there.
Great instructional team at black Horse GolfClub. There's a membership option available too
now, and that's a very veryadvantageous thing. Frankly. You get preferred
tea times, you get discounts inthe pro shop, and my favorite part,
unlimited range use. You could justhit balls to your fingers bleed.

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Black Horse Golf Club dot com.Great for tournaments, Great for just you
and a buddy running over there becausethey're going they're getting twice as many people
out at the same time as othercourses are, so chances are by the
time you two can hit a bucketof ball, it'll be your turn to
go enjoy it. Black Horse GolfClub dot com. This is Sports Talk

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seven ninety Houston Sports online at Sportsseven ninety dot com. Back to the
Doug Pike Show. Right now,guitar Davis tappiness foot he is maybe even
playing air violin air fiddle. Ibet you he is there's no such thing

(38:27):
as air fiddle? Why not?He's a that would be a maybe a
Kentucky bluegrass kind of thing, youknow, air fiddle. What was that
guitar game? Did you ever playthat a guitar? Did you play that?
Okay, well, yeah I wouldboy, No, that was way

(38:47):
after I would have had any interestin standing there and playing air guitar.
How was it was? It?Was it loud or could you keep it
quiet? It was mostly uh controlledby the TV? The volume? Yeah,
okay, so you could turn itdown if you had to turn it
down, or yell at him alittle bit and say, you know,
I wonder how many bars in thiscountry at the peak of popularity of Guitar

(39:13):
Hero had like okay, Friday nightis karaoke night, and Saturday night is
Guitar Hero Night. As I remember, I think there was something like that.
I'll bet there was, because youget a bunch of guys in a
room, bunch of metal headbanger whateveryou call them back then had big on

(39:37):
gamers and drinking and they can playa game and bet amongst each other who's
gonna win. Yeah, there was, it was there. It was there
seven one three two two five sevennine. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. I told Melvin rightas I came back into the studio I
had to run down and grab somemore coffee out of the KTRH newsroom and

(40:00):
said, I could have gone backthere blindfolded, Melvin, and I could
have told you whether or not NickyCourtney was doing the news today on kt
r H, because when she's here, she maintains a fresh pot of coffee
that typically stays very hot when it'sa bunch of dudes back there, which
it is today. The first,the first cup of coffee I got out

(40:24):
of there lukewarm at best, lukewarm. And when I went and I finally
I had to go during this breakand grabbed cup number two of the day,
and without even blinking, I justleft about an inch of room in
the top and went over to thekitchen and piped in some boiling near boiling

(40:45):
water, so it'll be slightly warmerthan Luke. However, warm Luke is
why do they Why did they namethat after some guy named Luke? A
warm fellow was he don't try toohard, but don't try too hard.
We don't need to ah no,No, that's you know what, here's

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your task, Melvin. Look uporigin of the term lukewarm. Let's see
what it comes up. Let's goback to fishing, shall we. I
did a story, and this issomething that gets a little bit overlooked around
here on the offshore trips because youdo have to go pretty far to get

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to where you need to be.But this is also now that the weather
is finally calming down. If you'venever gone tuna fishing off the Gulf coast,
you can do it here. Youcan do it from here with the
boat rides pretty far. If yougo to South Texas, you don't have
to go so far. If yougo to Louisiana, you don't have to

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go super far. But the bottomline is it's a lot of fun,
and it's a daytime, nighttime thing. It's not like you you could go,
oh, out there, drive outthere forever and ever. You finally
get where you're gonna fish, andthen you fish till dark and then you
sleep until dawn. No, you, if somebody's tough enough, you can
you can just stay up and keepfishing the whole time, because the bite

(42:13):
can turn on at night just aswell. As it can during the day.
I did a story for Saltwater Sportsmenon this, and I want to
say it's gonna run. I thinkit's June. No, not June,
that's now. It must be aJuly July ish thing. But it's a
fantastic way to go out and catchsome really big tuna. I talked to

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a couple of guys. I talkedto Sharky, and I talked to Cameron
Plogg, who is James Flog's sonabout this, because they both do quite
a bit of that, and andboth of them thumbs up, Yeah,
let's go. There's a lot oflive baiting for that, and it's it's
it's really good. And occasionally outaround these big, huge platforms way offshore,

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these semi submersible things that are likesmall cities out in the middle of
the Gulf of Mexico, you goout there and everything's all lit up,
and because it's all lit up,it draws little fish. Little fish draw
medium sized fish, medium sized fishdraw big fish, and then bigger fish
followed them. And when those mediumsized fish and big fish pushed that bait

(43:27):
to the top to take away someof its escape routes, and you can
throw top waters out there and catchthirty forty fifty seventy five one hundred pound
tuna if you dare, I don'tbetter be hanging on tight when a big
too. I've had tune of hittop waters. I've been there, done
that more than once in the Gulfof Mexico, and it is it is

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jaw dropping. It's so fun,it's so fun. There were some guys
tried to get me to go dosome blue fin tuna top water fishing over
off the East coast years ago whenI was editing Tide magazine, and I
never could get over there to makethat trip. Never quite could get it.
But they described it as what theydid was they rolled the hooks down

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or took them off of these bigplugs just because they did not want to
have to deal with They wanted tostrike, That's what they wanted, because
that was the most impressive part ofthe thing, of the whole deal.
And so they took the hooks offor rolled them back, or filed them
down, or did whatever they hadto do to not actually hook one of
these giants. But they said,the top water strike on these things,

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and you can't really cast with suitableblue fin tackle any lure on the planet,
it's just not going to happen.So they would have these big,
heavy casting rods, big big plugsand just reel them as fast as they
could. When these fish came upthrough that mess, and every one of
them sw that the strike of abluefin on a top water lore looks as

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though someone in a helicopter has droppeda coke machine in the water. It's
just that big and that violent.And what these fish would do is they
would grab it and immediately go downto start their next site. They were
gonna eat that and then start theirnext cycle chasing something up to the top,
and they would feel the pressure ofthe line and just spit the plug

(45:28):
out and so on the surface,holding that giant spinning rod or casting rod
or whatever it was. You said, oh, that one got off,
and just about the time you saidthe word off, they're the one that
had been chasing it trying to catchthe same bait, grabs it and you
get another ten to fifteen seconds apull. I can't imagine how fun that
would have been. And if Iever get the call, if I ever

(45:51):
get the chance again, I'd godo it in a heartbeat. I would
love to see that top water bite. The top water bite here off the
jetties is not as dramatic, butit's really good. When the king mac
will show up a little later insummer, a little closer to the beach,
and there'll be some off the endof the surf side jettie, there's

(46:13):
no question about it. Now,there'll be one hundred people out there trying
to catch them. That's the downside. But if you can find the time
when the crowd is low and thefish pull in, the earlier they pull
in, or the earlier you're therewhen they do pull in, the better
chance you have. And any topwater plug you have, bigger is better

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than smaller for these guys because youneed to cast it a long ways.
You need some weight at the endof that rod, and you'll need a
pretty sturdy rod. A Magnum bassrod is enough, and you'll want a
reel. You could use a bassreel, but you'll throw all the line
off the spool when you cast abig plug. You're gonna need something with
a little wider spool, something that'llhold maybe well actually with braid. Now

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it's not so bad if you canget two hundred and twenty five yards of
braid on there. You should beokay with a fairly heavy rod that you
can put a little pressure on thefish with. The bottom line is,
though, if you're skipping that littletop water along that the guys who are
throwing spoons will get more bites.But when you get a hit on that
top water at the jetties, usuallywhat that fish is doing is coming from

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twelve to fifteen feet down and atfull speed in a dead sprint, hitting
that lure. And when a kingmackerel leaves the water and gets about six
or seven feet out of the water, shaking that head with that lure flashing
in his face and its mouth,everybody on the jeties just goes woo.

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It's fun, it really is.I'm getting all excited. I got to
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Doug Pike. Second and final hourstarts. Now, Holy cow man,
there's so much going on in thisworld of outdoors. Oh, by the

(48:58):
way, I want to remind anybodyand everybody who is going to be outside
today, and especially outside if you'regoing to live golf up there at Golf
Sube, Houston. I was walkingfrom the Media Center yesterday afternoon over toward
the eighteenth Green, just wanted tokind of get a feel for what it
was like to be out there watchingthese guys play and whatnot. And I

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saw two utility carts passing close tome and they slowed down and we're going
to talk to each other, andthe outbound in the same direction I was
going toward eighteen person said how isit? And the inbound person coming back

(49:44):
from that direction said it's bad.And I thought, oh, some's going
on, some's going on. Ineed to get over there. So I
started walking a little faster, andI actually found their carts riding around all
over the place out there, pickingup people media people like me who're too
lazy to walk over to eighteen.Not really, but I just thought i'd

(50:05):
hurry up and get over there andsee what was up and what it turned
out what they were talking about.And I'm going to caution all of you
who are going today, it's hot, Okay, it's really hot, and
to walk around that golf course cancan get to you. The heat can
get to you. I got totalking to some people out there, and

(50:30):
there were there were several people whohad to be ambulanced out of there because
they just got overheated, out ofshape, not really used to walking,
not really used to being in thatheat. And when you're walking a golf

(50:50):
course and the sun is almost straightup there really is. If you're in
the middle of that golf course,there'd almost no place to hide. From
the sun and certainly no place tohide from the heat. Be hydrated when
you get there. Try to limityour alcohol intake because that does no favors

(51:14):
for you in the heat, contraryto what you might think, and just
take some breaks, get off yourfeet. There are some comfort areas out
there where you can at least getin some shade and maybe get a little
There's one place I saw over onthe It would be on the gosh,
what ways the compass going there?North side? I think of eighteen Green

(51:37):
and Fairway where there are there's abig tent set up and just couches and
giant fans blowing air through there tokeep people from getting overheated. So be
really careful. It's a fun event, it's a great event, and the
last thing you want is to haveto be hauled to a hospital to get

(51:57):
an IV drip a saline solution fortwo hours, rather than being out there
cheering on the leaders and the winnerswhen they come around. I do like
the idea of the of the shotgunstart at this tournament, by the way,
I really do, and what itdoes is allowed. Like I was
talking to a woman near where Imet that guy Bobby yesterday and she was

(52:22):
out there, she goes, whenwill this be over? And where can
I go? See so and so. If you sit here long enough,
you'll see everybody. Now that's presumingyou're there from jump from twelve fifteen or
twelve ten, whenever they start.But if you are there when they start
and you stay until they stop,you will have seen every player and you

(52:43):
don't have to worry about staying nineor ten hours like there are on Thursdays
and Fridays in the PGA Tour event. There are tea times at seven am,
and there are tea times at twopm, and the four and a
half hours after that. You're talkingabout ten eleven hours on the golf course
to see everybody and see them allthrough. Nobody stays that long, not

(53:05):
that unless you're working there, notthat I know of. That's a long
day on the golf course, especiallyif it's hot. But this way you
get in, you get to watchall these guys play and hit great shots.
Boy, I saw some good shotshit into eighteen yesterday. Holy cow.
I think it was Cam Smith.Maybe came out of a bunker on
eighteen, the right hand bunker,uh it probably that's probably one hundred and

(53:28):
eighty maybe one hundred and ninet yardshot from where he was. Maybe a
little bit less than that, butnot much. They're way back there when
they're in that bunker. Put itto about ten feet if memory serve,
somebody did in his group. Ican't remember who it was. It wasn't
Jason Kokorrak. He was in themiddle of the fairway, uh and and
down there pretty good ways. Sevenone three, two, one two five

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seven ninety. Let me see ifI can get that leaderboard up quickly,
because I got stuck over in theat my desk. Live godf Houston,
Houston leader Board. Here we go, tell you what's going on out there
in just a second. Yeah,I got stuck at my desk early trying
to do some stuff, and it'sone hundred degrees over there almost, and

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so I had to grab all mystuff and come in here a little early.
And I'm not leaving here until I'mdone with all my work. Today.
I usually go back over there tothe other desk, but increasingly,
now that summer is trying to creepup on us and slap us in the
face, it's kind of hard towork over there on the weekends. When
they turn off the AC Live GolfHouston. Round two play complete on the

(54:37):
player's scoreboard. David Pwick, PaulCasey, Carlos Ortiz, and Adrian moronk
All at ten under par. That'splaying some pretty good golf on this golf
course. That just shows you howhard the golf courses play. They're only
going to play three rounds. Thisis it today is the last one.

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Patrick Reid, local boy sleeping inhis own bed alone at nine under par.
Matthew Wolfe at eight, Joaquin Neemanat eight. He had a good
t shot at eight. Team itmight have been I think it was he
who was in that group with Smithand co correct Jason Cokrak speaking of Graham
McDow, Lucas Abert, Sergio Garcia, and Martin Kaimer all at seven under

(55:23):
par. Handful of guys at six. Oh, this thing is slow playing
me. Now, let's look atthe where's the team play hold on?
This is this is the complicated part. You have to go from leaderboard a
leaderboard B and I need the leaderboardfor the it's not giving it to me.

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I'm gonna have to go back andresearch that. I want to do
it right Leaderboard Tour live. I'mgonna try this live teams the board,
Oh gosh, now the pages I'mresponsive. Please come on, by the
way in other golf news and I'mtrying to bring this up. You you

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know what's coming here. I hopeyou do. It's coming up like a
house fire. Come on, whereis it? Oh? Well, let
me go to an email. Ijust got an email from Sam, and
I want to take a look atthat real quick. Sam says, faithful
listener, Thank you very much.I appreciate that somebody told him that I
authored a book on fishing and hewould like to purchase a copy. Yes,

(56:36):
that can be done. That's easyenough. Now. The book,
I'll be first to admit, isa little bit old. It's about bass
pishing, and it was written aconsiderable number of years ago. But I
would contend that the information in thereis still valid. I don't get into
livescope because it wasn't invented then,I don't get into a lot of different

(56:59):
things that weren't around when I wrotethe book. But I'll do this for
you, Sam, if you'll sendme an address, i'll send you one
of those books, because I havesome at the house. I'm pretty well,
I say that, I'm pretty sureI still do. And if I
can find one at the house,I'll send it to you. So send
me your address and I'll see ifI can hunt one down at the house.

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You know who'll know where they areis my wife. She knows where
everything is in that house. Shedoes. Indeed, I'm gonna go dum.
Yeah, I'm gonna go to thisbreak a little bit early because I
want to go get some stuff uponline while i'm so, I don't have
to talk about it. Oh wow. Yeah. Allen was in working off
shore in the Gulf in the earlyeighties. We roused abouts, would fight

(57:42):
to go down onto the crew boats, which were always fishing, and many
kings were hauled aboard. Ribbonfish wasthe bait and I saw many big kings
twenty plus miles out in about seventyfeet of water. Oh yeah, And
this is something worth noting anybody who'sgoing kingfishing offshore. If you look up
and you see something that you thinkyou got to rub your eyes because you

(58:05):
think you saw a sailfish, youprobably did. There have been sailfish caught
off off surfside off Freeport within tenmiles of the beach. That's rare.
It's on those rare days when thatblue waters all the way up to the
beach. But it happens, butat about from about fifteen to twenty five
thirty miles. Sailfish not out ofthe question at all. And the sailfish

(58:28):
we get in the Golf of Mexicoaren't that big. You can catch one
on any roden reel on which youwould catch a kingfish, and you'll catch
it faster than you will a twentypound kingfish. Sailfish are cool too,
They jump, they are acrobats.There are a lot of fun, beautiful
fish. Great to get pictures ofa sailfish if you catch one off the

(58:50):
golf coast anywhere. But to beable to catch them in a little boat
off Galveston or Surfside or Freeport whatever, or now even down like Port of
ramsis Way, you don't have togo far. You just have to be
fishing for them. And maybe we'llget into that one day. As far
as details go. If you aredriving down the highway, listen to this

(59:10):
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on one of our stations, anda big truck swerves in front of you
and you think, gossh that doggone guy, and then all of a
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(59:34):
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You know what's happened. A rockhit your windshield and now you got
to look at every inch of yourwindshield, try and figure out whether it's
cracked or not. Just pray it'sor not. Maybe say some words you
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There's so much gold. I can'tI can't ignore ignore golf when there's so
much of it going on. Letme see, I'll double check. Okay,
I got that good. I gotthe address from Sam. That's good.
Jayabar, Yes, I did,Yes, I did long time ago.
I'm thinking of Bobby Hibbert. Ithink this is Jay a Bear.

(01:02:37):
I'm pretty sure that's the right name. Yeah, super people, super people,
for sure. There's that that's takencare of. That's taken care of,
that's taken care of. Did youever find out? Oh wait,
let me see what Dan says aboutthe origin of lukewarm, because Melviy just
blew me off. Um. Ohwell come on, then, I'll let

(01:02:59):
you do it. It says it'sa redundant appendance from the days of your
Yes, indeed, it is aMiddle English adjective. Okay, it shows
here. Now what Dan dump truckDan to you? Because you can be

(01:03:19):
his friend like I am. Wecan call him that. He used to
drive dump trucks and then drove bigold eighteen wheelers full of bananas, and
yeah, he's a great guy.So here there's an old English word h
l E with an accent mark overat O W, which is probably fuke

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pronounced I'm guessing, and that evolvedinto that Middle English word luke l e
w uk l e w uk andthen fast forwarding through the English language,
the word luke, it says herewas once used on its own to mean
warm, and this youth survives inthe word lukewarm. Thank you both.

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That's my research department, man,I got some of the greatest researchers,
Melvine. The longer you're here,the more you'll you're here, you'll hear
from some of these sources I havewho find some of the coolest stuff of
all. Starting well, I thinkthe benchmark gets set by Rudy, and
then everybody else is like a Rudy'sone alone, and then everybody else is

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tied per second. I got togive Rudy credit where it's due, because
he comes up with some of themost bizarre stuff. Man. Every time
I turn around, Oh that's fromRudy. I'll look at the headline and
go, oh my God, andRudy, Yeah, okay, all right,
let's get to this live leaderboard becauseI promised i'd get back to it.
And the Fireballs that's Puig answer Jaikaraand Sergio Garcia are leading. They

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are twenty six under par with afour shot lead over Torque and then tied
Torqus at twenty two. Tied forthird at twenty one are the Crushers that's
De'shambo's group. The four Aces that'skind of puffed up that one. That's

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Dustin Johnson, Pat Perez, PatrickReid and Harold varner Id. I guess
that's appropriate for them, I guess. And then the Clicks that's Samoojah,
Khimer, MORONK and Bland are alsoin third place at twenty one under par.
And then you go, these arethe different names Smash, the Rippers,

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the High Flyers that's Michelson's group.The range Goats that's the one I
like the most. If I hadan opportunity to play one hole one day
for one of those teams, itwould be an honor to be on the
range Goats because I hit for myage a lot of balls on the range
I do. There are the Majestics, and the majestic is spelled with a

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K out there, so it's theMajestics that's kind of cute and different.
The Legion that's Hatt and Sir RodVincent and Campbell iron heads. I wonder
if that has anything to do withmusic or just golf clubs, and then
sadly bringing up the rear this weekStinger Golf Club. And the interesting part

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also the team competition is going onand all the teammates are rooting for each
other, but they don't play together. The golf is played in threesomes,
and it's one there's a different.There are three different clubs represented in each
threesome, which I think is fine. They all have an entourage following them

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and making sure everybody's getting around andgetting through. They got their scorekeeper and
all that stuff. They got theperson with the board that keeps the numbers
where you and I can see asthey walk by. Tons of videos,
greens out there, tons of placesto keep yourself refreshed and hydrated. And
by all means, please do teatime today for everybody. All aboard is

(01:07:13):
twelve oh five twelve oh five CentralTime, and you actually you can watch
it on TV on I think it'son channel thirty nine, if I'm not
mistaken. I'm pretty sure it isthe CW network. Is that thirty nine,
Yes it is. Yeah, that'swhere you'll find them. That's where
I was watching them yesterday, andit was fun to looking at the coverage.

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They They have to have cameras.Think about this, you can't just
follow a feature well, they dofollow featured groups, but any featured group
might be on any hole at anytime. So they have a ton of
television production staff out there trying tomake sure that any great shot that's hit

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by anybody is available at least forrelay if they can't show it live.
It's it's a big operation. It'sa really big operation. It's been fun
to watch. I'll probably be watchingfrom TV today. I don't know if
I'm gonna make it back out there, but I'll see I certainly will.
As Roger weighing in from all theway up in New York, hope you're

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not having to do that from NewYork City. Roger, Oh wow,
very nice. Holy cow, he'sgot got deer in his backyard. A
deer in. A squirrel, that'swhat it is. He's propped up on
the back porch somewhere up there inNew York. Got a deer in one

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shot and a squirrel maybe in thesame photograph. It is same photograph.
Oh, it's a little chipmunk,that's what it is. Not a squirrel.
I know better. Even though I'mnot from up where chipmunks are.
I know better. Seven one threetwo one two five seven ninety Email me
Doug pick Adiheartmedia dot com. Iam having to use more and more of
my fifty to fifty mix of ofvanilla and water to keep the gnats off

(01:09:03):
me. I don't know if it'sjust me or if we are having a
it's like the cicada hatch over onthe East coast. If this is a
bumper crop of gnats this year.Either way, if you have any other
ideas on something that might keep natsoff me, I'm willing to try it.

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I'm growing almost the smell of vanillabecause I'm having to wear it so
much. It's starting to bug mea little bit, I gotta say,
But every time a gnat gets closed, I just if I could dip myself
in it. I think I would, I honestly do. They are just
that scary to me because they doto me what they do. One little

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gnat will bite me, Melvin,I know you've heard me talk about it
before, and it'll swell up acrossan area that's at least the size of
a nickel and maybe a quarter,and that swelling will be a full quarter
of an in off my face ormy arm or wherever it is. My
face gets it worse. And theworst net bite of all was the one

(01:10:06):
where the guy the little net gotto the corner of my mouth and got
into the corner of my lift onthe inside and bit me right there.
It looked like Tyson hit me,sucker punched me. Like dang man,
I can hardly talk. My wifesaid, what happened to you? I
don't know what are you talking about? He said, go look at a
mirror. They're like, ah,who's that? And who hit him in

(01:10:30):
the face. It was bad,man, it was so bad. All
right, I'm gonna take a littlebreak here. I'm gonna go through these
emails while we're out, and we'llget back and talk about the There's a
good tournament going on up in DoublinOhio too. I can't overlook that one.
I'll do that. Maybe talk alittle bit about the US Open,
which is coming up. All whenwe get back on the way out,

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I'm gonna tell you about Alpine,Texas, way out there in the big
Bend, a little teeny time witha big old heart, in a beautiful,
beautiful landscape in all directions. Ifyou could stand on your tippy toes
in or in Alpine and look around, you would see some of the most
beautiful stretch of Texas you'll ever see. And the beauty continues when the sun

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goes down, because Alpine also hasone of the darkest night skies on the
North American continent, and not awhole lot out there, Let's just put
it that way. You get outof town a few miles, lose what
little city lighting there is in Alpine, and you can see stars that you
had no idea existed. All thattalk you heard in school about how many

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stars there are in the sky andyou didn't believe it because you lived in
Houston and you can only see six. It's gonna be about sixty thousand over
you in Alpine, and you justlie out there and you can watch them
move. You can watch the nightsky move out there, or you can
enjoy the Fourth of July and goto the parade and enjoy the fireworks,

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take in a professional baseball game outthere with the Alpine Cowboys. Over at
Cochernotte Field. There's ghost tours.There's a ghost two ghost tour nights coming
up. I believe it's next weekend. Actually, if you want to go
out there, boo. They actuallydo it in a cemetery. The cemetery
and what you're gonna learn is thelife stories of some of Alpine's most colorful

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characters from the long ago past,when that little town was even littler than
it is today. There's some prettygood stories out of there. They also
have a theater in Alpine, anoutdoor theater run for the summertime, July
run of Sherwood The Adventures of RobinHood, written by a guy named Ken
Ludwig. That's going on all summerlong on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and

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Sundays. It's a big city thissummer. Enjoyed the Big ben by Day
and a fantastic production of robin Hood. Under the cool, starlit sky of
Alpine. Go to Alpine Well,go to visit alpinetx dot com. That's
where you go. Check it out. Visit alpinetx dot com. If you

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don't mind a little bit of heatand you love the shooting sports, run
out to American shooting centers, takea shotgun, go up into the woods
a little bit and get some shadeand try out their three sporting clays courses.
Or go over to the rifle pistolarea. It's covered. They're gonna
have a roof over your head.Might be a little warm up in there,
I don't know, but you canshoot from five yards out to six

(01:13:33):
hundred yards six hundred yard range wideopen, and bring an umbrella and a
fan if you can do it.It's gonna be hot, okay, but
you can still get out there andjust enjoy the shooting sports, have some
fresh air rolling through your lungs,and maybe smell a little gunpowder if you're
lucky. Ten. I think itis trapping skiet fields. Several five stands

(01:13:54):
setups around the around the property.They have got a beginner's wing shooting area.
They have got a little pop upsilhouette range for rimfire shooting. That
is a lot of fun. Andfantastic instruction They are, in addition to
being a shooting facility, an instructionalfacility. Whatever it is you need to
do. You want to break moreclay targets, you want to hit more

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doves come September one, you wantadot more bulls eyes out at three hundred
yards. Every bit of that selfdefense for around the house. There are
instructors out there, professional instructors whocan upgrade your ability very quickly and very
confidently, so that you know you'regonna hit the targets you're shooting at.

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American Shootingcenters dot Com is the website. They're on West Timor Parkway between Katie
and Highway six. The largest nonmilitary shooting facility in the entire state of
Texas, and that's a pretty bigstate of Texas. American Shooting Centers dot
Com. Go there, check itout. American Shootingcenters dot Com. Your

(01:14:59):
rockets and astros live here. Weare Sports Talk seven ninety. The conversation
continues this as the Doug Pike Show. No, you know what. Interestingly,
when I get kind of the startof a cold or something, a
little bit, just a little bitgets in my throat, my voice goes
down almost like a half octave.It just dumps, and I can,

(01:15:20):
boy, that would be the nightto go to karaoke karaoke night and do
Berry White or something. I coulddo it, man. You could see
me singing Berry White? Can't youhim? Melvin Boys? Come on man,
you yeah go man, See youcould do it. You could do
it. All right. Let's goto the leaderboard at the PGA Tour,

(01:15:43):
the Memorial up there in Dublin,Ohio, Jack's Tournament, the Memorial.
Guess who's on top by four?Now? He had a putt on eighteen.
Scottie Scheffler did to walk onto thet box today alongside Morecow with a
five shot lead, but it didn'thappen. He I don't know. I

(01:16:05):
don't know what happened to him oneighteen, but a little chip shot from
off the green ran past the holeby a good I didn't see it,
but I heard it called on radioto be about I don't know, twelve
fifteen feet something like that, andhe just didn't make that puck coming back,
so he bog. He's eighteen,but still just kind of just yawns

(01:16:27):
and walks onto the t box todayfour shots ahead. Of Colin Morcau and
Sepstraca and Adam hadwin all three ofthose guys. Right, well, you
can't really say on his heels he'sgot a four shot lead into Scotty Scheffler,
he could probably he could probably playwith three clubs in the first nine
holes and still win this thing.The way he's playing lately, I heard

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yesterday he is, it's just someoutrageously silly thing. In the last seven
tournaments, his worst finish has beenI think eighth. They're all top ten,
and he's got four. I thinkhe's got four wins, one or
two runner ups and eight and that'svery tiger like when you get right down

(01:17:13):
to it, it's very tiger like. If he could keep this up for
a little while, somehow, someway, and I sure hope he can.
If he can keep it up,they're gonna be there's he's gonna come
into the into the discussion at leastof potentially if he can, Like I
say, if he can, ifhe can last long enough one of the

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greats. Does he threaten Jack Nicholas'sMajors record? Probably not, because the
competition around him is just too good, and I think to stay at the
top, you know, when you'reat the top. And I was talking
to somebody about this yesterday, everybody'saiming at you. It was a baseball
thing. It was a baseball tournamentthing, actually a softball tournament thing.

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For one of the guys here iscoaching a team, his daughter's team,
in the national playoffs somewhere over onthe East Coast this weekend. And when
you're number one, everybody's looking atyou, everybody's trying to catch you.
But in golf, it's a littledifferent because although they are trying to catch
you, you can start the race, like Scotty does today, four steps

(01:18:21):
ahead of the people who are tryingto catch him. And if he's already
four shots ahead, that means he'salready playing better than you, considerably better.
So we'll see, we'll see.But I have very little doubt.

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Boy, I'd take Scotty Scheffler andgive you the field today easily. I
would take Scotty Scheffler and maybe evengive more a cow Astraka and had win
a stroke and put them seven underpar coming out, and still take Shuffler.

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He's just that good right now.And you have to always say that
about golfers. You can't just sayhe's that good, he's that good now,
because tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, anywhere along the line, it
also can turn south on golfers andthey can hit a rough streak where they
just can't hit a lick, justcan't. Boy, I hit a shot

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yesterday that even made me go,where did that come from? Holy Cow?
I just went out and played late. I played after I got home
from Golf Club of Houston. Ifor some reason, I still felt like
I had enough energy and ended upgoing out and playing six holes and then
fished for bass for a few minutesand then came on home. Twenty twenty
four. US Open next weekend upat Pinehurst. Pinehurst number two, North

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Carolina. Fantastic course. Everybody knowsit. And that's another one where these
guys are going to be tested prettywell. It's not now. I won't
even make the comparison I was gonnamake. I'll just leave it at that.
It's the US Open. You knowit's gonna be set up hard.
You know it's gonna the greens aregonna be hard, the fairways are gonna

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be narrow, the rough's gonna bedeep because nobody hates their golf course being
ripped up with birdies and eagles morethan the USGA. For the US Open
that they has been, it hasbeen in and I think should be maybe
the competition challenge standard, competitive challengestandard, uh, for the entire world.

(01:20:42):
Why not some some tournament every yearhas to be the toughest, and
if it's the same one every year, it ought to be the US Open,
and it has been for many years. I like that actually about the
US Open. I don't mind seeingthose guys struggle a little bit. Now.
There have been years when they're whereasthey've let the greens get so dried
out that they become almost unplayable.There have been years when the rough has

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been so thick that it's almost impossible. But I like taking them right to
the edge. I like taking itjust right to the edge where these guys
have to hit fairways. They haveto put the ball in the right part
of the green, not just onthe green, but on the right level

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of the green to be able totuput and get out of there. I'd
make them work, make them sweat. They're the best players in the world.
Nobody's gonna think any less of them. I certainly don't. Anybody who
goes into the US Open, firstof all, is qualified to be there,
And second of all, if theyare there and qualified to be in

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that tournament, I already know they'reone of the best in the world.
And I don't care if they shoota hundred at the US Open. That
won't change my opinion of them.It just wasn't their day, which kind
of goes back to what I wastalking about earlier. Right now, right
now, they're not playing as wellas they can, but if they do,

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one of them, well, oneof them will walk out of there
with that trophy. And uh andboy you talk about No, I don't
know that there's a harder to earntrophy than that one in golf. All
Right, we got to take thislast little break of the program seven one
three two one two five seven ninety. I will check emails during the break
and see if we've got something weneed to go over there, and would
be happy to do so. Yes, it is a chipmunk. Oh hence

(01:22:34):
the name OL. I should haveknown. I didn't even make the connection
when I he's sent me the namesof the deer and the chipmunk in the
photo and Roger from up in NewYork said, the chipmunk's name is Alvin.
Oh, now I get it,now, I get it, okay,

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all right, But boy between AlvinTexas and Alpine Texas and Alvin the
chip Monk in Rogers' backyard and onTV and on forty five rpm record.
My somehow that record got into myfamily's home when I was a little kid,
and my little sister played it onehundred times a day, and I

(01:23:17):
was ready to go find Alvin andhis chipmunks and just punch them all in
their little noses. Just shut up. I didn't want to hear it ever
again. Man Timmercreek Golf Club FNtwenty three fifty one in Friends with twenty
seven holes. No chipmunks. Theyhad lots of squirrels, but no chipmunks.
Beautiful wooded track if you will.There's a little live water on there.

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There's some other water features on there. A handful of bunkers, not
so many as to intimidate anybody,but just enough to get in your way
if you start hitting bad shots,and if you start hitting too many bad
shots. After your round, slideover to JJ Wood's golf Performance Center at
timber Creek. They are up andrunning. They are ready to help you
and anybody else who walks through thatdoor start shaving strokes off your scores,

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and who doesn't want to do that? Honestly, been going down to timber
Creek since forever. I guess it'sbeen a goodky Lee twenty five thirty years
almost now, long long time timberCreek's been there. Like I said,
FM twenty three fifty one in Friendswood, great place, great fun place to
go play golf. Timber Creek GolfClub dot com. Make your own tea

(01:24:31):
time right there right now. Played. I bet I played down there fifty
times over the years. Timber CreekGolf Club dot Com are sports Stock seven
ninety Houston Sports Where you go withiHeartRadio Now now get more. Doug all
right, welcome back Doug Pike Showon Sports Talk seven ninety. We are

(01:24:54):
lordy, We've rounded third and areheaded home. What did the Astros do
last night? Melvin? Do youknow I had to go to bed at
about the sixth inning. I justcouldn't stay up anymore. I couldn't do
it either. Let's go sol Ibet I can find that well, I
won't even I won't ask somebody.I bet I can get it before you.

(01:25:15):
Oh, where's last night's game?What the heck? Where's the score?
It's telling me all about today,but it's not telling me about yesterday.
Oh no, now I gotta go. What six to one? We
won? Yeah? Didn't we?Because yeah Los Angeles Angels. Yes,
indeed, because I know we hadfour when I left. That's good boy.
If they'd have blown a four runlead again, I would have been
really disappointed. I don't know whogave up that one run. I hope

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it wasn't Hunter Brown because he pitchedso well and he I think he threw
six innings of no hit or not. I think one hit, maybe one
or two hits and no runs,and that that's the way I remember it.
Anyway, I was very tired anddealing with my son trying to get
home from a friend's house later thanI wanted him to. But all in

(01:25:59):
all, it went very well well. Someone three two one two five seven
ninety email on me Doug Pack atAiheartmedia dot com. The Astros play again
today or tonight. I guess it'llbe over there. That's what I do
have up here? What time dothey go six forty five, do they
play tonight? Or oh no,yeah, there it is. There's some
box in there. Okay, yeahtoday, oh three oh seven today,

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that's way easier to do. Imight be able to see the end of
that one. They are. They'reshowing signs of life. And I don't
mean to get away from from fishingand golf and whatnot right now, but
the Astros I do follow because Ilove baseball. My son's playing a game
right now. My sister in lawand her husband are out there at that

(01:26:44):
game, and I greatly appreciate thembeing there for him because I couldn't be
this morning, my wife couldn't bethis morning. But nonetheless, I'm I'm
back to the Astros. They Iboy, if we can just get through
this, we can hold our nosesand get just decent pitching or good pitching

(01:27:05):
doesn't have to be great from theguys we have in that starting rotation right
now. Just limp along, don'tgive up too many runs for five or
six innings, like, just justdo what Hunter Brown did last night.
Maybe give up one or two that'sokay, and then get this offense started
again. I saw Sawy Alvarez hithis home run last night, and that

(01:27:28):
was kind of fun to watch boywhen he knows when he hits one that's
gonna get out too, there's noquestion he knows. I like watching John
Singleton hit him, actually, becausehe's got that little bat flip of his
it's kind of somewhat unique. Butall these guys are. The bats are
starting to work, Bregmann starting tohit a little bit, thank goodness.
Holy cow, we still have thathiccup over at first base. And I

(01:27:54):
don't know how long this experiment isgoing to be allowed to continue, but
from my seat, I think we'veseen enough. Jose O Brea a great
guy. Okay, he's a greatguy, but no, he's not our
first baseman anymore. He's not.He just can't. He couldn't hit his

(01:28:14):
way out of a burlap sack Man. Yeah, that's well, it's better
than where we started off, youknow, and we're What I like is
that we're trending upward now. Thatlast homestand where we go three and three,
that's that's kind of a waste oftime, you know, if you're
gonna have a six game homestand andyou're gonna make progress moving up the ladder.

(01:28:38):
You got to go four and twoor five and one. You can't
just break even every time you turnaround, or you're gonna end up with
a record of eighty one and eightyone. That doesn't work. That's not
gonna get you anywhere. So they'vegot to get their ducks in a row,
as they say, and I thinkthey will. I'd still I wish
I could find somebody around here who'sa total pessimist when it comes to baseball,

(01:29:01):
because I would bet them a dollarthat the Astros end up in the
playoffs again. Somehow, some way, may be a wild card. They
may not win the division seven timesin a row. Holy cow, I
don't know how many times that's beendone. But even if they don't,
even if they don't, if theymake the playoffs, I could win a
dollar from some sucker bet person aroundhere who thinks they can't win, because

(01:29:27):
before it's all said and done,they're gonna trade for some starting pitching.
They're gonna trade for a bull bullpenarm or two, and they'll be in
good shape. Seven one, three, Well, no, oh my gosh,
we're almost out of time, aren'twe. All right, so the
surf is trying to clear. Sowe've got that going forwards. Bayfishing getting
better. Most of the runoff thatwas pinning the fish down toward the coast

(01:29:50):
and into the surf has kind ofdissipated. Now there's still salt water fresh
water coming out, but at leastit's just it's now and it's not from
top to bottom. Okay, Sothe places that you might have gone a
couple of years ago to go catchyou a couple of speckled trout, especially
if they are closer to the actualcoast and to an actual god. I

(01:30:15):
wish we hadn't knocked off Rollover Pass. We need Rollover Pass right now more
than we ever needed it before theyclosed it off, because we need more
exchange in that bassystem. We reallydo. This whole runoff thing could have
been remedied a lot faster than ifwe'd have had that, But we don't.
We take what we get. Meanwhile, down there around Corpus, just

(01:30:38):
north of Corpus, they've got severalnew cuts opened up to the Gulf of
Mexico, and from what I hear, fishing is just getting better and better
down there. Not a long drive. I may make that drive pretty soon,
all right, that's going to wrapit up for me. I hope
you all enjoy the rest of yourweekend. If you're going out to see
the live golf tournament, I stronglyrecommend it. It's a lot of fun.

(01:30:59):
It's very different. Everybody's on thecourse at the same time. Go
find your favorite players and watch them, or camp out closer to the coolest
place you can find and then justlet them come to you. That's it
for now. Stay safe while you'reout there. Please, it's gonna be
hot, it's gonna be difficult.Make the best of it, and enjoy
some time outdoors. I'll see youTuesday on fifty plus and back here next

(01:31:20):
Saturday. That's it. Ideas

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