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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's the stretch from the left hander Scott Rous. The
one zero swung on and that's gonna be a little
looper in a shallow right field. It's gonna fall for
a base hits and then the ball gets past the
right fielder Montoya rounding third.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Here comes Farmer. The log warns score two runs and
Texas takes a three to two lead. Three balls and
two strengths.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The gown to Island Galvan, the Mendoza and the runner
and second after his Arbi doubles put Texas back in front.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Here's the stretch.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The payoff pitch to Galvan swings and lines it through
on the left side of ase hit and those around
third being waved to the plate. Here comes the throw,
not in time, Galvan hustling down the second and he's
out at second base.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The run scores.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
They're two down now and the log worns lead it
four to two, no walls, two strikes, two outs.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Lanth is ready. Here's the go two pitch to Hudson Brown,
strike three.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Good morning, good afternoon, and good night. As Dylan Valantis
shuts the door to save the ball a game and
Texas takes the series opener from the Kentucky Wildcats. They're
gonna try to steal the run and throw back the second.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
The tag is there for an hour, two down. A
great job of stepping off.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
They were trying to create a bog and so smart
at veteran player. He steps off with his back foot,
then he can throw the baseball anywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Really nice job of not panicking.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The two ball, two strike. Pitch to Burkes swinging a man,
struck him out. Big strikeout there, big defensive playing the
log Horns out of trouble in the bottom of the
first and the pitch swung on it, that's gonna be
lined in the center field of base hit coming in
the score from thurdis du Quay Stewart stopping at second
base is Ryland Galvon rbi single from Jalen Flores puts
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the log Horns on top one to nothing. Galvon at
second ars versus, here's a high flight off. This one
hit the to the alley and left center field, and
that is going to be off the wall. One run
scores rounding third headed for the plate floor's evil score
Will Gasparino.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
A cap shot to left.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Center field gives the log Horns a three to nothing lead.
Here's the first pitch to Devin Burks, swings here, pops
it up in the infield, calling for Riojas, makes the catch,
slams his glove down to the turf in triumph, and
Riojas gets out of danger. In the fifth, buyers the
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first pitch swung on ant is line toward the alley
in right center, slicing catch made by Montoya, tagging at
third and coming in. The score is Gasparino. It's a
sacrifice fly in an RBI from Tommy Farmer and it's
four to one. Texas Sonier out of the stretch. Here's
the pitch and it's chopped on the ground to third.
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Charging up with it is.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Borba throws the first in time to.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Get him and the log Hoorns out of trouble. Here
in the seventh, Gasparino wit second the first pitch and
he swings and sends a sinking liner down the right
field line.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It is in the corner.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
It's fair, it will score Gasparino, shustler. We'll slide in
the second with an RBI double on the first pitch
he sees from James McCoy and the log Horns do
pick up an important run in outleat five to three,
two balls, two strikes, two outs. Sonier the stretch and
the two to two pitched Ethan hindle. He swings and
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pops it up, calling for it right side.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Of the diamond.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
His bendoza Ethan settles under, makes the catch and Grayson
Sonier works a one two three bottom of the eighth.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Dylan coon Son deck.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
One out the stretch from Grayson Soignier in the pitch
swung on ground ball hit up the middle, could be
two stepping on the back.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
For one relay the first pen time double play.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The ball game is over and the Loghorns take the
game and the series. A floor is feeling its steps
on the bag at second, fires to first and the
ballgame is over. On a double play six free to
end it. Texas wins the ballgame five to four, and
with that the Loghorns take the series. And not only
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do they take the series, they move up. They were
number two, so there's only the other one other place
that could move to. Yep, they're the new number one
team in the nation. Good afternoon, everybody, Welcome to the
program here on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred of the Zone.
My name is Craig way, glad to have you with us,
as always pleased to be joined by the producer Cameron D.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Parker.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
The D on the birth certificate stands for Dallas as
in his favorite pro football team that he does not
keep up with on purpose because he has shunned them
for a while until they prove that they are worthy
of being unshunned. But the D could stand for the
dedication of Rory McElroy to surviving, surviving d for double
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bogie two during the final round and coming up with
a historic win at Augusta at National How are you today?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Probably the most important major championship victory since Tiger won
the Masters back in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Wow for Roy mclroy. Good afternoon, Craig.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
What a fantastic golf tournament, my favorite tournament of the year,
and what a up and down roller coaster ride it
was for Roy mclroy the entire week, but super excited
and happy for him to be able to get it
done in that nineteen hole one whole playoff against Justin Rose,
who ten years ago finished runner up to Jordan Speith
and ten years later finished his runner up to Roy mcclroy.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah when and obviously he was traveling back with the
long run baseball team. You heard the highlight montage there
that Cam so expertly crafted. But when we were at
the airport and loading up the charter plane to head home,
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several of us were keeping track of what was going
on in Augusta. And it was right after Rory made
the double bogie at thirteen. I looked at it and
I saw on a car a seven. I said, he
must have found that tributary of Race Creek, which is
exactly what happened there, because the only way you're going
to make seven on that par five is if you
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hit it in the water, hit it in that creek
that crosses in front of the green instead of hitting
the shot left to set it up because the righting
bounces in. So that was right then that he was tied.
And then we were closing the doors and taking off,
and so.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
No more.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
There were no more updates until we landed, and Roger
wallas attexted me and said, who knows what all will
have happened by the time you land And he couldn't
have been more spot on with all of the crazy
things that happened there in the final hour. You might
sell on the back nine. You know that that you're
quite acquainted with that old uh saying the Masters doesn't
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start until the back nine on Sunday. Uh. Some could
make that kind of case because it had all of
the theater, all of the drama, all of the ups
and downs, not only for Rory McElroy, uh, but for Scotti,
Scheffler making a late run, for Justin Rose bouncing back
and having an opportunity to win it, for Bryson to
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Shambeau just kind of falling off the cliff.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Uh there.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I don't think too many people were expecting that. I
think a lot of people thought Bryson would have been
right there all the way to the end.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
But he had his struggles.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Early and then and then even uh Ludvig Goldberg who
was tied at one point before he kind of unraveled
on the final two holes there. But in other words,
that back nine had every bit of kind of drama
no matter who you were interested in or watching or
rooting for, and.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
For Rory, you know, the drama began on Thursday. I mean,
going into this week, I thought he was going to
win because he's been playing the best golf of anybody
on the planet. And it comes off of a couple
heartbreaks in major championships over the last few years. He
had a heartbreak at the at the British Open at
St Andrews the Old Course where Cameron Smith shot a
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Sunday round sixty two and Rory didn't do anything. Lost
that a great chance to win the US Open at
the LACC, lost that win and Clark won. And then
last year at Pinehurst against Bryceton the Chamba, where Rory
had two three putts and two miss putts inside of
three four feet before the shambo, ultimately got up and
down from the bunker on the eighteenth hole. Though the
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won the US Open, and myself, a lot of the
people wondered, like, you know, maybe it's just never going
to happen for Rory. He just mentally cannot get over
the hump of major championship golf. But this season two wins,
including an a credible final round of the Players Championship,
it felt different in Thursday. You know, his Thursday's rounds
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have been awful. I think he only had shot under
seventy two times in Master's history on the opening round.
Just a lot of seventy twos and seventy threes and
just seventy four is just my numbing awful opening rounds.
And there he was at four under par through was
he think, fifteen holes on round one, sorry, four under
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par through fourteen holes. He gets to fifteen and just
makes an awful double bogie after chipping into the green
on the back of fifteen, makes double on seventeen, and
it's just like there he went from four under the
even parts like there is the Roy McRoy claps, but
he comes back with sixty six on Friday, at sixty
six on Saturday of scorching sixty six in the final group.
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And on the opening hole yesterday, Craig he just makes
an awful, awful six on the par four three, puts
the green and after two holes Bryce and the Shambo
somehow finds himself in the lead by one. But Roy
came battling back, and he had his up and down
moments throughout the entire round. He would hit some of
the best golf shots we've ever seen, followed by some
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of the worst shots. I mean, his shot on thirteen
with a wedge in hand into Ray's Creek might be
the worst golf shot at the tournament. But He came
back with the just incredible six iron on fifteen, missed
it by the round the trees, a snap pub just
a beautiful golf shot. That probably the reason why he won.
Great shot in sixteen. Then my favorite was seventeen. In
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seventeen a fantastic shot, and then eighteen in the wedge
in hand, all he has to do is get up
in down one hundred and twenty five yards out the
wedge in hand, dumped it into the bunker, ends up
two putting and you're in a playoff, and just how
in the world is this in a playoff right now?
But he did not make the same mistake twice, hit
it to three feet on the eighteenth hole. You know,
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Justin Rose didn't play the whole bad, but you know
Roy just absolutely hammered his drive.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Had a wedge in hand.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Rose playing probably a little bit of a short iron,
but still, you know, with that pin location, it's tough
to get it to where where he Rose got it
to in the playoff is actually a really good shot.
But the three feet Rose missed the putt, and you
saw Rory's reaction where he said in the in his
post round press conference, it was moy more relieved than
it was joy the way he kind of fell to
his needs, but he deserved it, and it's awesome to
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see him finally join the career Grand Slam club.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah. So now it's what six guys who are in
that club? Where does he make?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Seven?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I think he's six? Right, Okay, so there Ben Hogan, Hogan,
Jack Tiger, Gary Player.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
So six.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That's why when I answered the text the other day
when they said Jack was playing with uh, you know,
back in the day, playing with guys that weren't that good,
I was, like, you ever hear Gary Player? Gary Player
won a bunch of night. Yeah, he won a bunch
of majors and and one and and one was the
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career Grand Slam guy. And he did it at a
relatively early age. I mean he did it at bellryven
Saint Louis at the US Open in nineteen sixty five,
and then after that he still won.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Gosh, how many more masters he won?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
The one one of the most memorable masters other than
this one, and of course Jack Nicholas, both in nineteen
seventy five, and then the Immortal won in nineteen eighty six.
Is nineteen sixty one. Arnold Palmer had it was up
two shots on the going to the final hole, and
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or is up one shot and final hole looked like
he had it. He was out in the fairway kind
of like Rory was. He wound up hooking it into
the bunker, left blasted over the green and then and
then got on the green and then two putted for
a six. And Gary Player won that Masters. But he
also wanted in nineteen seventy four, and he also wanted
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at age forty two, I believe in nineteen seventy eight
when he shot like sixty four in the final round.
So he was one of the greatest golfers, but he
was before Tiger. He was the last one to achieve
the career Slam until Rory McElroy did it yesterday. Like
you said, very deserving. Some other things that come to
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mind about that final round there.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I mentioned bryceon to Shamba.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I don't think you know with all the determination he
had in that thrilling finish he had on Saturday to
his round. We had just got back to the hotel
after the Saturday fifteen inning long worn baseball game, and
got back to the hotel and I turned it on
to see like the last two or three holes and
saw the shambo knock in what was that a forty
eight footer they said, yeah, in eighteen Yeah, And I thought, Okay,
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this guy's going to be tough to deal with tomorrow
for Rory or anybody else. And it just kind of
just kind of went just went away from him all
of a sudden, Like you said, he had the lead
after what three holes?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
After two holes? Yeah, two holes.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
His issue was his iron play let him down. I
think going in the Sunday he'd only hit like fifty
nine percent of his greens and regulation and no Masters
winner had won it shooting below sixty percent since like
Mike Weir in two thousand and four and yesterday, he
just did not have it with his ball striking. He played,
he played awful, He played like Rory played in final rounds,
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and the Masters yesterday just fell apart at the end,
kind of like Oberg as well.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And then a tip of the cap does Scottie Scheffler
just kind of quietly behind the scenes, wound up finishing fourth,
and he had for him what everybody figured was an
off weekend, and he still winds.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Up in the top five C plus game and he
finished eight under with three shots back of Rory.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
So look out for Scotty this year.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, and we'll see how Rory does. Where's the Open
this year?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
The US follow the US opened to Oakmont? Okay, Pj's
up next to Coui Hollo, which is where he's won
a million times, to the West Flare and the favorite
there Oakmont and then Port Rush.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Oh yeah, Royal Port Rush Choices. That's in Is that
Northern Ireland where Rory? Yeah, so it's the stars are aligning.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, we'll keep it.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Do you think that someone will ever win the Grand
Slam in one year.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Four in a row. No, it's the way the technology
is advanced. It is too difficult. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
What Jordan's speed that in twenty fifteen is. I don't
think we'll ever see that.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And the Tiger Slam even Yeah, yeah, I think that's
probably the best that's gonna come to it. And Jack
one year one three. I think Hogan won three, but yeah,
I agree with you. I don't think it'll ever happen.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
All right. Coming up on the program, got a lot
of things.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
We will recap the Long War and Baseball weekend update,
sh on the new College poll. We'll hear from Jim Schlasnigl,
we'll hear from Will Gasparino kind of broke out with
a big day yesterday.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
We'll do that.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
We'll get a lot of other things to get to,
so we'll do that. The NBA regular season is in
the books as well as the NHL, so we'll talk
about what's to come with the playoffs, all that and
more here on a Monday afternoon here on thirteen out
of the.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Zone, it's the Craig Way Show with the Voice of
the Texas Longhorns in Hall of Fame Broadcasting.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Craig Way, I knew it left something out right before
the break, tell you what we had coming up on
the program. I said, we're gonna hear from Jim Slasniger,
We're gonna hear from Will Gasprino, and we will coming
up here in just a few moments.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Of course, we have inconceivable this hour as well.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
What I left out was to tell you if fresh
sound from Sark long Orne hid football priach Steve Sarkisian
following this morning's workout. We'll hear from sark in both
the three o'clock hour and the four o'clock.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Hour of the program.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
This afternoon, Let's turn to baseball, and the Long Horn
baseball team toughed its way through a weekend series against Kentucky.
Won the opener six to three on a just a
brutally cold Friday night here it was it was on Friday,
was at high seventies, low eighties, I guess on Friday
or mid eighties on Friday here in Austin something like that.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
It was really hot here. It was forty three.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I think it was forty six at first pitch time,
and dropped a forty three with a fifteen miles per
hour wind blowing, so the wind chill was in the
was in the low to mid thirties, and it was
just very cold even sitting in the broadcast. But because
the wind was blowing out of the north, it was
kind of blowing right at Keith Morland and me, and
it was cold. And Long Orange found away got some
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clutch hits. Elan Valantis came up with the save off
of Jared Spencer, and also Max Grubbs did a really
fine job in the Friday game pitching and he he
wound up getting the win and Valantis to save in
Long Orange win sixty three. Saturday game was a little
warmer daytime game, and that was a good thing because
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it was a marathon five hours and twelve minutes.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It went fifteen innings and.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Kentucky ended up winning it bizarre sequence, and they had
Texas had a four to three league one to the
bottom of the night. Valantis, who had not allowed an
earn run, not allowed to run of any kind since
in sec play since going to the bullpen, gave up
a leadoff homer in the bottom of the night that
tied the score, and then the extra inning parade started longwards.
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Had a chance strained a runner at third base, I believe,
in the fourteenth, and so it gets to the bottom
of the fifteenth and the first two guys get on
with a hit and a hit batter, and then at
the plate there's a bunt laid down and Ryland Galvan
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struggled to pick it up at first out front of
the plate and then kind of hurried the throat and
it was close to the runner being in the line
of the throw, but the ball glanced off Kimball Schusler's glove.
It goes down the line in the right field, and
the winning run scores, and so Kentucky wins the game
at fifteen innings five to four. We would tell them
the story on the air because it was the Longhorns
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longest longest game that they had played by innings in
ten years. The last time they had played the game
at least fifteen innings happened ten years ago, almost to
the day. It was like able to third of twenty fifteen,
and it was in still Water and it was against
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Oklahoma State. And you may have heard, if you were
listening over the weekend, you heard me tell this story,
but I think I've told it on this program in
the past. That was the day when Shaka Smart was
introduced as to who had basketball coach at Texas, and
I needed to be back here to anchor our coverage
of the news conference, which it did, and it was
going to be on a Friday.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
However, we set this up.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Where our good friend and colleague David Garrett, who's in
Oklahoma City, would call the game or until I got there, whatever,
because I had a commercial flight it was going to
go in afterwards. So press conference comes and then Shaka
comes over and we do the interview. As soon as
it was over, I raced to the airport and I
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catch a flight change at DFW. I land in Oklahoma
City around nine fifteen, nine thirty. By the time I
get in the rent car to drive to Stillwater, the
game is tied. I think it's three to three in
the bottom of the ninth inning. So I start driving
north to Stillwater, which is about an hour and fifteen
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minute drive from the airport in Oklahoma City. And as
I'm driving up there and I'm listening through we edit.
This was in the days before there were apps on
phones that would allow you to listen to games. I
had a dial in number where I could listen to
what was going on. And I'm listening to Dave call
this game, and he's called it all by himself. So
it was the ninth, the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, the thirteenth.
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I pull in to the parking lot at Alip Reynolds
Stadium in Stillwater as the game is going to the
bottom of the thirteenth inning. To get out of the car,
I go up to the boot. Dave is finishing off
calling the bottom of the thirteenth. He's called thirteen innings
of baseball. He pitches the break, turns to me and goes,
it's all yours, big boy.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
So then.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I had kept up with it, so I picked it
up and then I called five innings of baseball affort.
Oklahoma State won the game in eighteen innings and won
that one. There were their other games. Keith Moore than
I did a game in Manhattan, Kansas when it was
thirty eight degrees a chilly night in April back in
two thousand and three.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That went twenty innings.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It was five to five, and then the Longhorns scored
five in the top of the twentieth and Kansas State
scored won in the bottom of the twentieth and had the.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Bases loaded when the game ended.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And then, of course, obviously the twenty five inning regional
game which was so memorable in two thousand and nine
against Boston College. That was just amazing, that three to
two Texas game that night, seven hours and six minutes
in that one. So there was all of that, and
yet the Longhorns dropped the game on Saturday, came back
Sunday and and and just kind of toughed their way
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through it. They got up three to nothing, and it
got cut to three to one, then it was four
to one. Then Kentucky scored two in the seven to
make it four to three. Loghorn's got the RBI double
from Schustler in the eight to make it five to three,
and then Kentucky it's the first two guys on in
the bottom of the ninth inning, and then afterwards there
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were runners on the corners. There was a sack fly
to make it five to four, and then you heard
the double play call to end it. So Texas with
the win five to four, tough their way through it.
They're not healthy, as we know. Max Blue is out
of the lineup. Adrian Rodriguez still has that recovering from
that a deemon that he had right near the handmake bone,
so it limited him. He did come back, but he
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wasn't able to play, did not play yesterday.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
And.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Really right now is not in a position to be
able to swing the bat right handed. He's a switch hitter,
but really can't bat against left handed pitching right now.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
They hope that that'll be he will have healed well enough, if.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Not by tomorrow night against ut Rio Graham Valley, certainly
by Thursday when Auburn comes to town for the Thursday
Friday Saturday series. So they had those guys get banged up. Also,
they had a tough time keeping guys healthy on the
field who were out there playing in the field, and
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the other guys got banged up as well. So Ethan
Mendoza was one who fielding the ball, dived and kind
of banged up a shoulder or something. But he finished
out the game. And will Gasparino had a big game.
He went two for four, or excuse me, he went
three for four and drove in two runs and scored
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two runs as well. First, let's hear from long Oorne
head coach Jim Slasnagel visiting on the field will keep
Moreland right after the game.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
There is none of these series in this league that
are not down to the wire, down to the pitch,
down to the moment, And you had guys step up
today that hadn't been in that moment.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Yeah we did, and we feel like, I don't know,
I think you and I have maybe the only ones
that remember that Joe match, but feel feel like a
mash unit guys getting hurt and can't do this or
can't do that. But uh, really proud of obviously Ruger
was outstanding, and super proud of Sonya guy's been buried
for a while. Made some changes, been working really hard,
has been a great teammate, has never pounded and made
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some really good pitches today.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
And then then the other part of that is getting
those hits at opportune times. I mean, obviously not pounding
the ball this weekend, but right time, big hits will.
They had struggled some in the weekend, comes up with
two gigantic knocks today.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
He did, ye had too.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
And then I mean Flores and him, the back, back
to back two out hits got us the first three runs.
And you know, considering where we are with our injuries,
you know those any way we're really going to score
is if everybody else gets on base and the very
best players drive them in. I mean that's really our
lineup isn't that deep at the moment. So we need
those guys who were at the bottom to get on
base and then the guys like Mendo's and Flores to
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drive him in.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, and then you're looking at Ethan. He's like a
mash unit today. Man, I feel I hope he's okay.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
But I just moved him a little bit to the
pool side because Bell hits so many balls in the
four hole and we're throwing them off speed pitches. I
had just moved them two steps. If I don't move him,
it's four to sixty three that will play. But that's
how that's how crazy this game is.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
The Last thing I have for you is we were
at the halfway points.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You get to go back home. Now you have two
consecutive series at home. It's gonna be nice to get
back in the yard.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
It's gonna be good to be back in Dishfalk and
some good weather and hopefully we can get some guys
healthy and but certainly need all the fans.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
To come out. Thanks for taking the time for congratulations.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
All right, there is Jim's Lasnager would keep moreland after
the game. And yeah, Texas is in sole possession at
the halfway mark of the SEC conference season. They're thirteen
and two in conference player Arkansas dropped two out of
three of the weekend at Georgia, and it also dropped
the Razorbacks from number one in the D one Baseball
of rankings to number two. And Texas is number one
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in the nation in the poll right now. We'll run
down more of the poll later on because it is
as you might imagine, SEC heavy up. Next, we bring inconceivable.
Here in the Monday afternoon, I'm thirteen under the zone.
Glad to have you with us on this Monday post
masters pre NBA playoffs, in the midst of long worn
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baseball season. They hit the exact halfway mark of SEC
play How about this a team that was picked depending
on which poll and preseason prognostication and consulted, Texas was
either seventh or eighth in the preseason picks, and here
they are number one, not only in the conference, but
in the latest polls number one in the nation. More
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on that. At a moment, I we did inconceivable, and
when we did it, I always have a fast food
update in there. I neglected to mention the photo tweeted
to us friends CB. The twitters have arned who sent
us the photo of the brand new delicacy at Toronto
Blue Jays home games, Cotton candy French Fries.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
No, GAM's not having it. Not up on the cotton candy.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Fries no, because that kind of gets into my deal
about mixing the too diametrically a post taste. I don't
I don't really don't want candy mixed with my salty
snack stuff anymore than I want fruit with my meat.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I don't. You know. I can deal with.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Slice of pineapple on top of a glazed hand that's okay.
But I'm not big into things like mango chutney, glazed
stuff like that. It's just it's not for me to
put on top of you know, some meat dish you
have that's just not my Yeah, just just trying a
little too hard, trying to get something else there.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
You know.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I have a friend who's going to be up in
Arlington actually for a work conference, and there're things. I
was going to a ranger scheme and I was like,
if you go, you got to get the boomstick.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
And he's like, what is it?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Don't don't ask, just go look for the boomstick in
order to split it with some of your co workers.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
All right, so you can get the one that's got
the cheeseburger in it too, you know, you have that one,
you have that that.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Really ridiculous one. I'm hoping he does that. I don't.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I don't know if he will, but I'm hoping he does.
And then I can report back on whatever well with
a picture of it, so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
You know what a Dodger fan I am a big Dodger.
Dodgers are in Arlington this weekend. Yeah, you going up, Well,
we've got long worn baseball. Of course, Friday and Saturday
Sunday would be open, but Sunday is Easter Sunday, and
I have a pledge not only to my wife, but
to my grandkids and to her grandson and her daughter
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and all that. So we're double teeming metroplex stuff like
we do with Easter Easter breakfast slash brunch with my
side of the family, my kids, my grandkids, and then
at Easter Sunday dinner over and playing on with her.
So I'm passing on Dodgers Rangers try to catch up
to them later in the NBA playoffs get underway. Okay,
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Your team, the Oklahoma City Thunder finished sixty eight and fourteen,
best record in all the NBA. They'll have home field
advantage throughout a home court advantage throughout the playoffs. So
if I asked you, are you taking the Thunder or
the field? Who would you take to win or make
the fine? Yeah, to win it, to win it, I'm
taking the field, Okay, But you do feel good about
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the Thunder reaching the NBA finals as the one seed.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
All right, who bothers you? Lakers bother me? Okay, number
three seeds?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
What they have with.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Luca and Lebron and Austin Reeves, I think their offense
is really good in matchup Bull against the Thunder in
my opinion, even I mean, the West is so tough. Honestly,
I think it will be between OKAC and LA in
the Western Conference finals. But you know, looking at that
second round matchup between Denver and the Clippers, we'll see Denver,
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you know, they fired Mike Malone, going to three game
win streak, Clippers coming in on an eight game win streak.
But of course, you know Los Angeles health wise, and
I don't know if Denver has the shooting to make it.
But I think it'll be Boston. Okay, see, but honestly,
I could I can't believe I'm saying that I could
see it being Boston La Craig.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Okay, So you don't have faith in the Cavaliers then
to reach the final.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
No, I think Boston is the best team in the league.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Ring Okay, all right. One thing I like on NBA
dot Com. They have a like a flow chart with
kind of a bracket. They have arrows all over. It
looks like a big algebraic equation. So I really really
going on, Yeah, that's cool. Of course the team I
root for if reluctantly right now since the trade the Mavericks.
They're the tendenc They just creaked in. Yeah they got in,
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slipped in. Yeah, they're in the play in. They go
to Sacramento and play on Wednesday night. If they win
and stay alive, lose, then they're done. If they win,
then they play the loser. This is one thing I
like about the play and is kind of is kind
of weird with how they do it. But they play
the loser of the seven v. Eight matchup, which is
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tomorrow night the Warriors and Grizzlies, which is in Oakland.
So if here's the weird thing. If the Warriors win
that game, they automatically go in as the seventh seed
and would play Houston. Right, they automatically go in at
the seventh seed. Okay, if they lose, and that would mean,
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by the way, the Mavericks would then have to travel
to Memphis and play the Grizzlies if the Warriors were
to lose. If they were to lose, the Grizzlies would
be the seven. They play the Rockets, and then the
Mavericks would only need to take a bus ride from
Sacramento to Oakland. It's about an hour to go and
play Golden State. After that, who knows. And then in
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the East the play in is the Bulls in the heat,
the nine and the ten.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
The winner.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Gets to play the loser of the seven versus eight
matchup the Magic and the Hawks. I heard a lot
of people saying the Hawks are a dangerous eight seed.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Do you see that? I could see it. I could
see them beating Orlando because the Magic's offense has just
just been abysmal.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Towards but not taking out Boston. Yeah, no, I think
Boston's gonna have a really good path. I mean, honestly,
if I'm a Knicks fan, I'm very concerned about playing
Detroit in the first round. I mean, the Troit's just that,
you know, that young team, no nonsense, well, actually a
lot a lot of nonsense, especially Isaiah Stewart and Ron Allen,
who are a dangerous one to two punch and I
mean literally they might punch you on the basketball court.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I'm you know, Milwaukee has the five seed. If they can.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
You know, I know, offensively they aren't great, and you know,
with Dame and his clot but still Giannis in the
seven game series, that's tough. But I just think Boston's
playing great basketball, Craig. They've been in the finals, it
feels like a million times the last decade. They are
the defending champs since.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
The All Star Break.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
You know, there's a lot of mentors out there that
have them as you know, the best offense and defense
and the league. And I think they're locked in and
I don't think they're too afraid of whether it's gonna
be Orlando or Atlanta. And so I think Boston's gonna
gonna have a real, real easy path.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
And once they get to the conference final, the Knicks
of the three seed, do you see them beating Detroit?
I would take Detroit right now, Okay, all right, and
you like the Bucks the five seed over the four seed.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Indiana, Give me Indiana. I know, I've just kind of
gassed at Milwaukee. I just think with Lillard not playing,
give me Indiana.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
And in the West Nuggets are Clippers. That's gonna be
a really, really good series.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
I think Denver in seven, just because you're banking on
Kawhi Leonard staying healthy. Now, if you guarantee, like, hey,
he's gonna be all to play all seven games, then
give me the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
But because I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
That, I'll take Demns all right, And you like the
Lakers to beat the Timberwolves.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
They have such a good path.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
They get the Timberwolves, who I know ant's been playing good,
but with Julius Randall, I'm not afraid of them, and
then they're gonna play either a really young Rockets team
in the second round possibly or a Warriors team that
they match up pretty well against, or Memphis, but I
don't think Memphis will find a way to make the
second round of the playoffs. So Lakers have such a
good path. And then they get the conference finals against whoever.
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You know, they're gonna have all the confidence in the world.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
So if I'm hearing what you're saying, it sounds like
you're saying the NBA Finals are going to be Celtics Lakers.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
I think so, Craig, But of course you know, I'm
an Okac fan, so I have a lot of PTSD.
So the numbers are saying, okay, see, but you know,
when the thunder Lakers just played each other a couple
of weeks ago and awful, awful in Los Angeles, and
then they did beat them the second time. But you know,
Luca was ejected with the Lakers up by one, so
you know, he can play revision his history there. You know,
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maybe Lakers win be okay, see wins, but I'm kind
of leaning towards the Lakers now. Of course, you know,
Lebron at forty years old, who knows, you know, with
seven game series, maybe his body does not hold up,
and the Lakers depth finally, you know, rears his ugly head.
But you know, I'm kind of liking the Lakers, man.
I mean, Luca and Reeves are so spicy offensively, and
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then you just have Lebron James, you know, possibly the
second greatest basketball player of all time, just chilling at
forty years old, right there.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Okay, all right, so we'll see how all of that
turns out. Probably I'll also solicit some NBA opinion from
our good friend Bill Shooning, who just completed his twenty
four year run as to play by play voice of
the San Antonio Spurs. His final game was yesterday, a
home win for them, so congratulations to Bill.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Was a great, great run.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
And we'll have Bill join us on the show to
talk some playoffs and talk some other stuff because he's
got the rest of his life to figure out.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Well, Jerry has most of that store. She she has
a lot of that stuff figured out for him. So
that's a good thing, all right. Up next, we're gonna
hear from long worn shied football card Steve Sarkesian when
we continue on thirteen under the Zone
Here's the stretch from the left hander Scott Rous. The
one zero swung on and that's gonna be a little
looper in a shallow right field. It's gonna fall for
a base hits and then the ball gets past the
right fielder Montoya rounding third.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Here comes Farmer. The log warns score two runs and
Texas takes a three to two lead. Three balls and
two strengths.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The gown to Island Galvan, the Mendoza and the runner
and second after his Arbi doubles put Texas back in front.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Here's the stretch.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The payoff pitch to Galvan swings and lines it through
on the left side of ase hit and those around
third being waved to the plate. Here comes the throw,
not in time, Galvan hustling down the second and he's
out at second base.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The run scores.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
They're two down now and the log worns lead it
four to two, no walls, two strikes, two outs.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Lanth is ready. Here's the go two pitch to Hudson Brown,
strike three.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Good morning, good afternoon, and good night. As Dylan Valantis
shuts the door to save the ball a game and
Texas takes the series opener from the Kentucky Wildcats. They're
gonna try to steal the run and throw back the second.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
The tag is there for an hour, two down. A
great job of stepping off.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
They were trying to create a bog and so smart
at veteran player. He steps off with his back foot,
then he can throw the baseball anywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Really nice job of not panicking.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The two ball, two strike. Pitch to Burkes swinging a man,
struck him out. Big strikeout there, big defensive playing the
log Horns out of trouble in the bottom of the
first and the pitch swung on it, that's gonna be
lined in the center field of base hit coming in
the score from thurdis du Quay Stewart stopping at second
base is Ryland Galvon rbi single from Jalen Flores puts
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the log Horns on top one to nothing. Galvon at
second ars versus, here's a high flight off. This one
hit the to the alley and left center field, and
that is going to be off the wall. One run
scores rounding third headed for the plate floor's evil score
Will Gasparino.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
A cap shot to left.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Center field gives the log Horns a three to nothing lead.
Here's the first pitch to Devin Burks, swings here, pops
it up in the infield, calling for Riojas, makes the catch,
slams his glove down to the turf in triumph, and
Riojas gets out of danger. In the fifth, buyers the
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first pitch swung on ant is line toward the alley
in right center, slicing catch made by Montoya, tagging at
third and coming in. The score is Gasparino. It's a
sacrifice fly in an RBI from Tommy Farmer and it's
four to one. Texas Sonier out of the stretch. Here's
the pitch and it's chopped on the ground to third.
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Charging up with it is.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Borba throws the first in time to.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Get him and the log Hoorns out of trouble. Here
in the seventh, Gasparino wit second the first pitch and
he swings and sends a sinking liner down the right
field line.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It is in the corner.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
It's fair, it will score Gasparino, shustler. We'll slide in
the second with an RBI double on the first pitch
he sees from James McCoy and the log Horns do
pick up an important run in outleat five to three,
two balls, two strikes, two outs. Sonier the stretch and
the two to two pitched Ethan hindle. He swings and
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pops it up, calling for it right side.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Of the diamond.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
His bendoza Ethan settles under, makes the catch and Grayson
Sonier works a one two three bottom of the eighth.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Dylan coon Son deck.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
One out the stretch from Grayson Soignier in the pitch
swung on ground ball hit up the middle, could be
two stepping on the back.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
For one relay the first pen time double play.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The ball game is over and the Loghorns take the
game and the series. A floor is feeling its steps
on the bag at second, fires to first and the
ballgame is over. On a double play six free to
end it. Texas wins the ballgame five to four, and
with that the Loghorns take the series. And not only
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do they take the series, they move up. They were
number two, so there's only the other one other place
that could move to. Yep, they're the new number one
team in the nation. Good afternoon, everybody, Welcome to the
program here on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred of the Zone.
My name is Craig way, glad to have you with us,
as always pleased to be joined by the producer Cameron D.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Parker.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
The D on the birth certificate stands for Dallas as
in his favorite pro football team that he does not
keep up with on purpose because he has shunned them
for a while until they prove that they are worthy
of being unshunned. But the D could stand for the
dedication of Rory McElroy to surviving, surviving d for double
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bogie two during the final round and coming up with
a historic win at Augusta at National How are you today?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Probably the most important major championship victory since Tiger won
the Masters back in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Wow for Roy mclroy. Good afternoon, Craig.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
What a fantastic golf tournament, my favorite tournament of the year,
and what a up and down roller coaster ride it
was for Roy mclroy the entire week, but super excited
and happy for him to be able to get it
done in that nineteen hole one whole playoff against Justin Rose,
who ten years ago finished runner up to Jordan Speith
and ten years later finished his runner up to Roy mcclroy.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah when and obviously he was traveling back with the
long run baseball team. You heard the highlight montage there
that Cam so expertly crafted. But when we were at
the airport and loading up the charter plane to head home,
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several of us were keeping track of what was going
on in Augusta. And it was right after Rory made
the double bogie at thirteen. I looked at it and
I saw on a car a seven. I said, he
must have found that tributary of Race Creek, which is
exactly what happened there, because the only way you're going
to make seven on that par five is if you
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hit it in the water, hit it in that creek
that crosses in front of the green instead of hitting
the shot left to set it up because the righting
bounces in. So that was right then that he was tied.
And then we were closing the doors and taking off,
and so.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
No more.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
There were no more updates until we landed, and Roger
wallas attexted me and said, who knows what all will
have happened by the time you land And he couldn't
have been more spot on with all of the crazy
things that happened there in the final hour. You might
sell on the back nine. You know that that you're
quite acquainted with that old uh saying the Masters doesn't
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start until the back nine on Sunday. Uh. Some could
make that kind of case because it had all of
the theater, all of the drama, all of the ups
and downs, not only for Rory McElroy, uh, but for Scotti,
Scheffler making a late run, for Justin Rose bouncing back
and having an opportunity to win it, for Bryson to
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Shambeau just kind of falling off the cliff.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Uh there.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I don't think too many people were expecting that. I
think a lot of people thought Bryson would have been
right there all the way to the end.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
But he had his struggles.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Early and then and then even uh Ludvig Goldberg who
was tied at one point before he kind of unraveled
on the final two holes there. But in other words,
that back nine had every bit of kind of drama
no matter who you were interested in or watching or
rooting for, and.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
For Rory, you know, the drama began on Thursday. I mean,
going into this week, I thought he was going to
win because he's been playing the best golf of anybody
on the planet. And it comes off of a couple
heartbreaks in major championships over the last few years. He
had a heartbreak at the at the British Open at
St Andrews the Old Course where Cameron Smith shot a
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Sunday round sixty two and Rory didn't do anything. Lost
that a great chance to win the US Open at
the LACC, lost that win and Clark won. And then
last year at Pinehurst against Bryceton the Chamba, where Rory
had two three putts and two miss putts inside of
three four feet before the shambo, ultimately got up and
down from the bunker on the eighteenth hole. Though the
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won the US Open, and myself, a lot of the
people wondered, like, you know, maybe it's just never going
to happen for Rory. He just mentally cannot get over
the hump of major championship golf. But this season two wins,
including an a credible final round of the Players Championship,
it felt different in Thursday. You know, his Thursday's rounds
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have been awful. I think he only had shot under
seventy two times in Master's history on the opening round.
Just a lot of seventy twos and seventy threes and
just seventy four is just my numbing awful opening rounds.
And there he was at four under par through was
he think, fifteen holes on round one, sorry, four under
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par through fourteen holes. He gets to fifteen and just
makes an awful double bogie after chipping into the green
on the back of fifteen, makes double on seventeen, and
it's just like there he went from four under the
even parts like there is the Roy McRoy claps, but
he comes back with sixty six on Friday, at sixty
six on Saturday of scorching sixty six in the final group.
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And on the opening hole yesterday, Craig he just makes
an awful, awful six on the par four three, puts
the green and after two holes Bryce and the Shambo
somehow finds himself in the lead by one. But Roy
came battling back, and he had his up and down
moments throughout the entire round. He would hit some of
the best golf shots we've ever seen, followed by some
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of the worst shots. I mean, his shot on thirteen
with a wedge in hand into Ray's Creek might be
the worst golf shot at the tournament. But He came
back with the just incredible six iron on fifteen, missed
it by the round the trees, a snap pub just
a beautiful golf shot. That probably the reason why he won.
Great shot in sixteen. Then my favorite was seventeen. In
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seventeen a fantastic shot, and then eighteen in the wedge
in hand, all he has to do is get up
in down one hundred and twenty five yards out the
wedge in hand, dumped it into the bunker, ends up
two putting and you're in a playoff, and just how
in the world is this in a playoff right now?
But he did not make the same mistake twice, hit
it to three feet on the eighteenth hole. You know,
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Justin Rose didn't play the whole bad, but you know
Roy just absolutely hammered his drive.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Had a wedge in hand.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Rose playing probably a little bit of a short iron,
but still, you know, with that pin location, it's tough
to get it to where where he Rose got it
to in the playoff is actually a really good shot.
But the three feet Rose missed the putt, and you
saw Rory's reaction where he said in the in his
post round press conference, it was moy more relieved than
it was joy the way he kind of fell to
his needs, but he deserved it, and it's awesome to
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see him finally join the career Grand Slam club.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah. So now it's what six guys who are in
that club? Where does he make?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Seven?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I think he's six? Right, Okay, so there Ben Hogan, Hogan,
Jack Tiger, Gary Player.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
So six.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That's why when I answered the text the other day
when they said Jack was playing with uh, you know,
back in the day, playing with guys that weren't that good,
I was, like, you ever hear Gary Player? Gary Player
won a bunch of night. Yeah, he won a bunch
of majors and and one and and one was the
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career Grand Slam guy. And he did it at a
relatively early age. I mean he did it at bellryven
Saint Louis at the US Open in nineteen sixty five,
and then after that he still won.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Gosh, how many more masters he won?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
The one one of the most memorable masters other than
this one, and of course Jack Nicholas, both in nineteen
seventy five, and then the Immortal won in nineteen eighty six.
Is nineteen sixty one. Arnold Palmer had it was up
two shots on the going to the final hole, and
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or is up one shot and final hole looked like
he had it. He was out in the fairway kind
of like Rory was. He wound up hooking it into
the bunker, left blasted over the green and then and
then got on the green and then two putted for
a six. And Gary Player won that Masters. But he
also wanted in nineteen seventy four, and he also wanted
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at age forty two, I believe in nineteen seventy eight
when he shot like sixty four in the final round.
So he was one of the greatest golfers, but he
was before Tiger. He was the last one to achieve
the career Slam until Rory McElroy did it yesterday. Like
you said, very deserving. Some other things that come to
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mind about that final round there.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I mentioned bryceon to Shamba.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I don't think you know with all the determination he
had in that thrilling finish he had on Saturday to
his round. We had just got back to the hotel
after the Saturday fifteen inning long worn baseball game, and
got back to the hotel and I turned it on
to see like the last two or three holes and
saw the shambo knock in what was that a forty
eight footer they said, yeah, in eighteen Yeah, And I thought, Okay,
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this guy's going to be tough to deal with tomorrow
for Rory or anybody else. And it just kind of
just kind of went just went away from him all
of a sudden, Like you said, he had the lead
after what three holes?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
After two holes? Yeah, two holes.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
His issue was his iron play let him down. I
think going in the Sunday he'd only hit like fifty
nine percent of his greens and regulation and no Masters
winner had won it shooting below sixty percent since like
Mike Weir in two thousand and four and yesterday, he
just did not have it with his ball striking. He played,
he played awful, He played like Rory played in final rounds,
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and the Masters yesterday just fell apart at the end,
kind of like Oberg as well.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And then a tip of the cap does Scottie Scheffler
just kind of quietly behind the scenes, wound up finishing fourth,
and he had for him what everybody figured was an
off weekend, and he still winds.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Up in the top five C plus game and he
finished eight under with three shots back of Rory.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
So look out for Scotty this year.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, and we'll see how Rory does. Where's the Open
this year?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
The US follow the US opened to Oakmont? Okay, Pj's
up next to Coui Hollo, which is where he's won
a million times, to the West Flare and the favorite
there Oakmont and then Port Rush.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Oh yeah, Royal Port Rush Choices. That's in Is that
Northern Ireland where Rory? Yeah, so it's the stars are aligning.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, we'll keep it.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Do you think that someone will ever win the Grand
Slam in one year.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Four in a row. No, it's the way the technology
is advanced. It is too difficult. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
What Jordan's speed that in twenty fifteen is. I don't
think we'll ever see that.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And the Tiger Slam even Yeah, yeah, I think that's
probably the best that's gonna come to it. And Jack
one year one three. I think Hogan won three, but yeah,
I agree with you. I don't think it'll ever happen.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
All right. Coming up on the program, got a lot
of things.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
We will recap the Long War and Baseball weekend update,
sh on the new College poll. We'll hear from Jim Schlasnigl,
we'll hear from Will Gasparino kind of broke out with
a big day yesterday.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
We'll do that.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
We'll get a lot of other things to get to,
so we'll do that. The NBA regular season is in
the books as well as the NHL, so we'll talk
about what's to come with the playoffs, all that and
more here on a Monday afternoon here on thirteen out
of the.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Zone, it's the Craig Way Show with the Voice of
the Texas Longhorns in Hall of Fame Broadcasting.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Craig Way, I knew it left something out right before
the break, tell you what we had coming up on
the program. I said, we're gonna hear from Jim Slasniger,
We're gonna hear from Will Gasprino, and we will coming
up here in just a few moments.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Of course, we have inconceivable this hour as well.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
What I left out was to tell you if fresh
sound from Sark long Orne hid football priach Steve Sarkisian
following this morning's workout. We'll hear from sark in both
the three o'clock hour and the four o'clock.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Hour of the program.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
This afternoon, Let's turn to baseball, and the Long Horn
baseball team toughed its way through a weekend series against Kentucky.
Won the opener six to three on a just a
brutally cold Friday night here it was it was on Friday,
was at high seventies, low eighties, I guess on Friday
or mid eighties on Friday here in Austin something like that.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
It was really hot here. It was forty three.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I think it was forty six at first pitch time,
and dropped a forty three with a fifteen miles per
hour wind blowing, so the wind chill was in the
was in the low to mid thirties, and it was
just very cold even sitting in the broadcast. But because
the wind was blowing out of the north, it was
kind of blowing right at Keith Morland and me, and
it was cold. And Long Orange found away got some
(17:23):
clutch hits. Elan Valantis came up with the save off
of Jared Spencer, and also Max Grubbs did a really
fine job in the Friday game pitching and he he
wound up getting the win and Valantis to save in
Long Orange win sixty three. Saturday game was a little
warmer daytime game, and that was a good thing because
(17:43):
it was a marathon five hours and twelve minutes.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It went fifteen innings and.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Kentucky ended up winning it bizarre sequence, and they had
Texas had a four to three league one to the
bottom of the night. Valantis, who had not allowed an
earn run, not allowed to run of any kind since
in sec play since going to the bullpen, gave up
a leadoff homer in the bottom of the night that
tied the score, and then the extra inning parade started longwards.
(18:14):
Had a chance strained a runner at third base, I believe,
in the fourteenth, and so it gets to the bottom
of the fifteenth and the first two guys get on
with a hit and a hit batter, and then at
the plate there's a bunt laid down and Ryland Galvan
(18:34):
struggled to pick it up at first out front of
the plate and then kind of hurried the throat and
it was close to the runner being in the line
of the throw, but the ball glanced off Kimball Schusler's glove.
It goes down the line in the right field, and
the winning run scores, and so Kentucky wins the game
at fifteen innings five to four. We would tell them
the story on the air because it was the Longhorns
(18:59):
longest longest game that they had played by innings in
ten years. The last time they had played the game
at least fifteen innings happened ten years ago, almost to
the day. It was like able to third of twenty fifteen,
and it was in still Water and it was against
(19:19):
Oklahoma State. And you may have heard, if you were
listening over the weekend, you heard me tell this story,
but I think I've told it on this program in
the past. That was the day when Shaka Smart was
introduced as to who had basketball coach at Texas, and
I needed to be back here to anchor our coverage
of the news conference, which it did, and it was
going to be on a Friday.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
However, we set this up.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Where our good friend and colleague David Garrett, who's in
Oklahoma City, would call the game or until I got there, whatever,
because I had a commercial flight it was going to
go in afterwards. So press conference comes and then Shaka
comes over and we do the interview. As soon as
it was over, I raced to the airport and I
(20:02):
catch a flight change at DFW. I land in Oklahoma
City around nine fifteen, nine thirty. By the time I
get in the rent car to drive to Stillwater, the
game is tied. I think it's three to three in
the bottom of the ninth inning. So I start driving
north to Stillwater, which is about an hour and fifteen
(20:23):
minute drive from the airport in Oklahoma City. And as
I'm driving up there and I'm listening through we edit.
This was in the days before there were apps on
phones that would allow you to listen to games. I
had a dial in number where I could listen to
what was going on. And I'm listening to Dave call
this game, and he's called it all by himself. So
it was the ninth, the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, the thirteenth.
(20:46):
I pull in to the parking lot at Alip Reynolds
Stadium in Stillwater as the game is going to the
bottom of the thirteenth inning. To get out of the car,
I go up to the boot. Dave is finishing off
calling the bottom of the thirteenth. He's called thirteen innings
of baseball. He pitches the break, turns to me and goes,
it's all yours, big boy.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
So then.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I had kept up with it, so I picked it
up and then I called five innings of baseball affort.
Oklahoma State won the game in eighteen innings and won
that one. There were their other games. Keith Moore than
I did a game in Manhattan, Kansas when it was
thirty eight degrees a chilly night in April back in
two thousand and three.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That went twenty innings.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It was five to five, and then the Longhorns scored
five in the top of the twentieth and Kansas State
scored won in the bottom of the twentieth and had the.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Bases loaded when the game ended.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And then, of course, obviously the twenty five inning regional
game which was so memorable in two thousand and nine
against Boston College. That was just amazing, that three to
two Texas game that night, seven hours and six minutes
in that one. So there was all of that, and
yet the Longhorns dropped the game on Saturday, came back
Sunday and and and just kind of toughed their way
(22:02):
through it. They got up three to nothing, and it
got cut to three to one, then it was four
to one. Then Kentucky scored two in the seven to
make it four to three. Loghorn's got the RBI double
from Schustler in the eight to make it five to three,
and then Kentucky it's the first two guys on in
the bottom of the ninth inning, and then afterwards there
(22:24):
were runners on the corners. There was a sack fly
to make it five to four, and then you heard
the double play call to end it. So Texas with
the win five to four, tough their way through it.
They're not healthy, as we know. Max Blue is out
of the lineup. Adrian Rodriguez still has that recovering from
that a deemon that he had right near the handmake bone,
so it limited him. He did come back, but he
(22:46):
wasn't able to play, did not play yesterday.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
And.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Really right now is not in a position to be
able to swing the bat right handed. He's a switch hitter,
but really can't bat against left handed pitching right now.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
They hope that that'll be he will have healed well enough, if.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Not by tomorrow night against ut Rio Graham Valley, certainly
by Thursday when Auburn comes to town for the Thursday
Friday Saturday series. So they had those guys get banged up. Also,
they had a tough time keeping guys healthy on the
field who were out there playing in the field, and
(23:27):
the other guys got banged up as well. So Ethan
Mendoza was one who fielding the ball, dived and kind
of banged up a shoulder or something. But he finished
out the game. And will Gasparino had a big game.
He went two for four, or excuse me, he went
three for four and drove in two runs and scored
(23:48):
two runs as well. First, let's hear from long Oorne
head coach Jim Slasnagel visiting on the field will keep
Moreland right after the game.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
There is none of these series in this league that
are not down to the wire, down to the pitch,
down to the moment, And you had guys step up
today that hadn't been in that moment.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Yeah we did, and we feel like, I don't know,
I think you and I have maybe the only ones
that remember that Joe match, but feel feel like a
mash unit guys getting hurt and can't do this or
can't do that. But uh, really proud of obviously Ruger
was outstanding, and super proud of Sonya guy's been buried
for a while. Made some changes, been working really hard,
has been a great teammate, has never pounded and made
(24:29):
some really good pitches today.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
And then then the other part of that is getting
those hits at opportune times. I mean, obviously not pounding
the ball this weekend, but right time, big hits will.
They had struggled some in the weekend, comes up with
two gigantic knocks today.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
He did, ye had too.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
And then I mean Flores and him, the back, back
to back two out hits got us the first three runs.
And you know, considering where we are with our injuries,
you know those any way we're really going to score
is if everybody else gets on base and the very
best players drive them in. I mean that's really our
lineup isn't that deep at the moment. So we need
those guys who were at the bottom to get on
base and then the guys like Mendo's and Flores to
(25:05):
drive him in.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, and then you're looking at Ethan. He's like a
mash unit today. Man, I feel I hope he's okay.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
But I just moved him a little bit to the
pool side because Bell hits so many balls in the
four hole and we're throwing them off speed pitches. I
had just moved them two steps. If I don't move him,
it's four to sixty three that will play. But that's
how that's how crazy this game is.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
The Last thing I have for you is we were
at the halfway points.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You get to go back home. Now you have two
consecutive series at home. It's gonna be nice to get
back in the yard.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
It's gonna be good to be back in Dishfalk and
some good weather and hopefully we can get some guys
healthy and but certainly need all the fans.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
To come out. Thanks for taking the time for congratulations.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
All right, there is Jim's Lasnager would keep moreland after
the game. And yeah, Texas is in sole possession at
the halfway mark of the SEC conference season. They're thirteen
and two in conference player Arkansas dropped two out of
three of the weekend at Georgia, and it also dropped
the Razorbacks from number one in the D one Baseball
of rankings to number two. And Texas is number one
(26:06):
in the nation in the poll right now. We'll run
down more of the poll later on because it is
as you might imagine, SEC heavy up. Next, we bring inconceivable.
Here in the Monday afternoon, I'm thirteen under the zone.
Glad to have you with us on this Monday post
masters pre NBA playoffs, in the midst of long worn
(26:26):
baseball season. They hit the exact halfway mark of SEC
play How about this a team that was picked depending
on which poll and preseason prognostication and consulted, Texas was
either seventh or eighth in the preseason picks, and here
they are number one, not only in the conference, but
in the latest polls number one in the nation. More
(26:48):
on that. At a moment, I we did inconceivable, and
when we did it, I always have a fast food
update in there. I neglected to mention the photo tweeted
to us friends CB. The twitters have arned who sent
us the photo of the brand new delicacy at Toronto
Blue Jays home games, Cotton candy French Fries.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
No, GAM's not having it. Not up on the cotton candy.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Fries no, because that kind of gets into my deal
about mixing the too diametrically a post taste. I don't
I don't really don't want candy mixed with my salty
snack stuff anymore than I want fruit with my meat.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I don't. You know. I can deal with.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Slice of pineapple on top of a glazed hand that's okay.
But I'm not big into things like mango chutney, glazed
stuff like that. It's just it's not for me to
put on top of you know, some meat dish you
have that's just not my Yeah, just just trying a
little too hard, trying to get something else there.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
You know.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I have a friend who's going to be up in
Arlington actually for a work conference, and there're things. I
was going to a ranger scheme and I was like,
if you go, you got to get the boomstick.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
And he's like, what is it?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Don't don't ask, just go look for the boomstick in
order to split it with some of your co workers.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
All right, so you can get the one that's got
the cheeseburger in it too, you know, you have that one,
you have that that.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Really ridiculous one. I'm hoping he does that. I don't.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I don't know if he will, but I'm hoping he does.
And then I can report back on whatever well with
a picture of it, so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
You know what a Dodger fan I am a big Dodger.
Dodgers are in Arlington this weekend. Yeah, you going up, Well,
we've got long worn baseball. Of course, Friday and Saturday
Sunday would be open, but Sunday is Easter Sunday, and
I have a pledge not only to my wife, but
to my grandkids and to her grandson and her daughter
(28:55):
and all that. So we're double teeming metroplex stuff like
we do with Easter Easter breakfast slash brunch with my
side of the family, my kids, my grandkids, and then
at Easter Sunday dinner over and playing on with her.
So I'm passing on Dodgers Rangers try to catch up
to them later in the NBA playoffs get underway. Okay,
(29:16):
Your team, the Oklahoma City Thunder finished sixty eight and fourteen,
best record in all the NBA. They'll have home field
advantage throughout a home court advantage throughout the playoffs. So
if I asked you, are you taking the Thunder or
the field? Who would you take to win or make
the fine? Yeah, to win it, to win it, I'm
taking the field, Okay, But you do feel good about
(29:39):
the Thunder reaching the NBA finals as the one seed.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
All right, who bothers you? Lakers bother me? Okay, number
three seeds?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
What they have with.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Luca and Lebron and Austin Reeves, I think their offense
is really good in matchup Bull against the Thunder in
my opinion, even I mean, the West is so tough. Honestly,
I think it will be between OKAC and LA in
the Western Conference finals. But you know, looking at that
second round matchup between Denver and the Clippers, we'll see Denver,
(30:12):
you know, they fired Mike Malone, going to three game
win streak, Clippers coming in on an eight game win streak.
But of course, you know Los Angeles health wise, and
I don't know if Denver has the shooting to make it.
But I think it'll be Boston. Okay, see, but honestly,
I could I can't believe I'm saying that I could
see it being Boston La Craig.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Okay, So you don't have faith in the Cavaliers then
to reach the final.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
No, I think Boston is the best team in the league.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Ring Okay, all right. One thing I like on NBA
dot Com. They have a like a flow chart with
kind of a bracket. They have arrows all over. It
looks like a big algebraic equation. So I really really
going on, Yeah, that's cool. Of course the team I
root for if reluctantly right now since the trade the Mavericks.
They're the tendenc They just creaked in. Yeah they got in,
(31:00):
slipped in. Yeah, they're in the play in. They go
to Sacramento and play on Wednesday night. If they win
and stay alive, lose, then they're done. If they win,
then they play the loser. This is one thing I
like about the play and is kind of is kind
of weird with how they do it. But they play
the loser of the seven v. Eight matchup, which is
(31:22):
tomorrow night the Warriors and Grizzlies, which is in Oakland.
So if here's the weird thing. If the Warriors win
that game, they automatically go in as the seventh seed
and would play Houston. Right, they automatically go in at
the seventh seed. Okay, if they lose, and that would mean,
(31:43):
by the way, the Mavericks would then have to travel
to Memphis and play the Grizzlies if the Warriors were
to lose. If they were to lose, the Grizzlies would
be the seven. They play the Rockets, and then the
Mavericks would only need to take a bus ride from
Sacramento to Oakland. It's about an hour to go and
play Golden State. After that, who knows. And then in
(32:07):
the East the play in is the Bulls in the heat,
the nine and the ten.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
The winner.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Gets to play the loser of the seven versus eight
matchup the Magic and the Hawks. I heard a lot
of people saying the Hawks are a dangerous eight seed.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Do you see that? I could see it. I could
see them beating Orlando because the Magic's offense has just
just been abysmal.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Towards but not taking out Boston. Yeah, no, I think
Boston's gonna have a really good path. I mean, honestly,
if I'm a Knicks fan, I'm very concerned about playing
Detroit in the first round. I mean, the Troit's just that,
you know, that young team, no nonsense, well, actually a
lot a lot of nonsense, especially Isaiah Stewart and Ron Allen,
who are a dangerous one to two punch and I
mean literally they might punch you on the basketball court.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I'm you know, Milwaukee has the five seed. If they can.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
You know, I know, offensively they aren't great, and you know,
with Dame and his clot but still Giannis in the
seven game series, that's tough. But I just think Boston's
playing great basketball, Craig. They've been in the finals, it
feels like a million times the last decade. They are
the defending champs since.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
The All Star Break.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
You know, there's a lot of mentors out there that
have them as you know, the best offense and defense
and the league. And I think they're locked in and
I don't think they're too afraid of whether it's gonna
be Orlando or Atlanta. And so I think Boston's gonna
gonna have a real, real easy path.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
And once they get to the conference final, the Knicks
of the three seed, do you see them beating Detroit?
I would take Detroit right now, Okay, all right, and
you like the Bucks the five seed over the four seed.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Indiana, Give me Indiana. I know, I've just kind of
gassed at Milwaukee. I just think with Lillard not playing,
give me Indiana.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
And in the West Nuggets are Clippers. That's gonna be
a really, really good series.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
I think Denver in seven, just because you're banking on
Kawhi Leonard staying healthy. Now, if you guarantee, like, hey,
he's gonna be all to play all seven games, then
give me the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
But because I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
That, I'll take Demns all right, And you like the
Lakers to beat the Timberwolves.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
They have such a good path.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
They get the Timberwolves, who I know ant's been playing good,
but with Julius Randall, I'm not afraid of them, and
then they're gonna play either a really young Rockets team
in the second round possibly or a Warriors team that
they match up pretty well against, or Memphis, but I
don't think Memphis will find a way to make the
second round of the playoffs. So Lakers have such a
good path. And then they get the conference finals against whoever.
(34:28):
You know, they're gonna have all the confidence in the world.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
So if I'm hearing what you're saying, it sounds like
you're saying the NBA Finals are going to be Celtics Lakers.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
I think so, Craig, But of course you know, I'm
an Okac fan, so I have a lot of PTSD.
So the numbers are saying, okay, see, but you know,
when the thunder Lakers just played each other a couple
of weeks ago and awful, awful in Los Angeles, and
then they did beat them the second time. But you know,
Luca was ejected with the Lakers up by one, so
you know, he can play revision his history there. You know,
(34:59):
maybe Lakers win be okay, see wins, but I'm kind
of leaning towards the Lakers now. Of course, you know,
Lebron at forty years old, who knows, you know, with
seven game series, maybe his body does not hold up,
and the Lakers depth finally, you know, rears his ugly head.
But you know, I'm kind of liking the Lakers, man.
I mean, Luca and Reeves are so spicy offensively, and
(35:20):
then you just have Lebron James, you know, possibly the
second greatest basketball player of all time, just chilling at
forty years old, right there.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Okay, all right, so we'll see how all of that
turns out. Probably I'll also solicit some NBA opinion from
our good friend Bill Shooning, who just completed his twenty
four year run as to play by play voice of
the San Antonio Spurs. His final game was yesterday, a
home win for them, so congratulations to Bill.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Was a great, great run.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
And we'll have Bill join us on the show to
talk some playoffs and talk some other stuff because he's
got the rest of his life to figure out.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Well, Jerry has most of that store. She she has
a lot of that stuff figured out for him. So
that's a good thing, all right. Up next, we're gonna
hear from long worn shied football card Steve Sarkesian when
we continue on thirteen under the Zone
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