Texas Baseball SWEEPS Auburn and reactions to the NBA Playoffs

Craig Way and Cameron Parker host on Monday's show! Texas Baseball sweeps Auburn and is holding steady at No. 1. Plus, reactions to Game 1 of the NBA Playoffs.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From UFCU Dish falk Field. It's game two of the
three game weekend series. The Texas log worns against the
Auburn Tigers. Harrison from the stretch and the one two
swing in a miss struck him out. Luke Harrison gets
out of the inning by picking up his first strikeout
of the ball game and.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Dodges a bullet.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Here in the top of the third, three balls, two strikes,
two outs, two on. Here's the payoff pits from Luke
Harrison to Eric Stone.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
And he takes strike three.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Harrison painted it and Louke Harrison works his way out
of trouble for a second consecutive inning with US strikeouts.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Nothing and won the count of the Plantier. Here's a stretch.
The pitch to.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Jadey swings here and sends that one in the right center.
That's gonna fall for a base hit. Farmerle score Chaydon
turns on the Jets, he slides.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
He's safe.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
RBI double from Good and bow and the Lockhards grab
at one nothing league and the one two swung on
and that's lying in the right center of base hit
the pontier around third being waved the plate. Here comes
the throw it's airmailed backed up. Flores will take second
on the throw. Galvan Is at third. A RBI opposite

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field single from Jalen Flores extends the Texas lead to
two nothing, and they got the runner picked off a
throw to Schusler down the second attack, the bloodgate puts
it on him, hitting over caught stealing one, three, four,
and that will retire Auburn. Here in the fourth out
of the stretch, the pitch swung on and that's hit
toward the alley left center. That will get down. Tommy

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Farmer is gonna double again. Trotting in the score is
Kimball Schusler Farmer two for two with a pair of doubles,
extending the Texas lead to three nothing. Stretch from the
left hander Kate Fisher.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Here's the pitch swung on it that is lying in
the left center.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
A base hit rounding third, coming in the score as
Tommy Farmer. There's the first collegiate hit for Jonah Williams.
It drives in a run and it's four nothing Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Nothing in won the count burns the stretch.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
One swung on at a ball hit on a sinking liner
and center coming on sliding to make the catches Gasparino
and the inning's over will Gasparto fielding his position so expertly,
a sliding catch and out towards Hire Auburn. In the sixth,
the two ball, two strike pitch to Jonah Williams swings

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here and.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Lines it in the center field.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
It will trot for a a hit and it will
drive in two runs. How about the freshman Jonah Williams.
He has his first career hit, then his first career
two hit game, and his first three RBIs two there
and the log Worns push back with two when they lead.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Six to two. There's the two two pitch swung.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
On the grounder threw on the right side of ase
hit floors around third, being waved to the plate.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
The throw is gonna go to third, but it's high
and it sails away.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Gasparino trots in opposite field RBI single, one RBI for Schusler,
the second on the error, and the log Horns, now
leaded eight to three. Fans rise to their feet, wanting
to see the final strength of the night. One ball,
two strengths, two outs. Milanis the stretch. Here's the one

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two pitch to mc murray swing ame in, struck you out,
and that will do it. The Loghorns take the game.
The log Warns have won the first two games. They've
won the series against the Auburn Tigers, and tomorrow they'll
go for the sweep. Final score tonight from UFCU dish
Faunk Field, the Texas Longhorns eight, the Auburn Tigers three.

(03:37):
From UFCU Dishfunk Field. It's the Texas log Horns against
the Auburn Tigers in the finale of the three game
weekend series. The pitch swung on in a ground ball
hit and off the glove of a third basement snow.
It'll score the run. Gasparino's safe at first. Ryland Galvon
scores from third and the game is tied at one.

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A one ball, one strength pitch swum onto the ball
hit well up toward lamp.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
You can say good night to this one.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Kimball's Shustler's second home run of the weekend, a monstrous
blast beyond the left field fence, and the log Horns
take a four to one lead. For Rodriguez. It was
one out of three in the Thursday night opener. Swings
to the verse bitch and he hits this ball well,
this one out to deep center, back to the warning

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track and off the top of the wall. Rodriguez will
stop at second base. Four consecutive hits. Actually, they're gonna
call it a round tripper. Yep, hit it hit the
back wall. That's a home run.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Kimball.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Schusler hits a home run, and now Adrian Rodriguez comes
up with a home run.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
It hit the back.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Wall, and the Lawgorns now lead at five to one.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Swum on in. That's lying down the left field line.
That's fair in the corner. It'll score two runs.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Kimball shoes where another extra base hit, his fourteenth double
in the year, drives in two more and extends the
Texas lead to seven to one. The sec swing on
and that's three on the left side of a hip.
One run scores. Wave to the plate. Here comes John
of Williams. He slides, he is safe, the ball so
popped out of the mits and Williams speeding home. A

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two run single from Ryland Galvan, and it's a nine
to one Texas League. Here's the two zero swung on.
The ball hit well out toward left. If it stays fair,
it's gone.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
It is fair. And it is gone. Two run homer
for Casey Borba.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Here's a stretch from Jet Johnston first pitch to Shusler,
swings here and hits a fly ball well out toward left.
This one back to the warning track. Say good night
to it. This ball game is over. I don't know
what else is going on around the SEC, but I
can tell you one thing. Kimball's Shustler is as deserving

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is anybody in the conference for being SEC Player of
the Week.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's a two.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Run game ending walk off homer and the Loghorns run
rule the Auburn Tigers and Kimball Schuschler was rewarded for
his efforts over the weekend. Good afternoon, everybody, Welcome to
the program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.

(06:26):
My name is Craig Waite, Thanks for joining us. Highlight
montage so its spurtly crafted by the producer of this program,
Cameron D.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Parker.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
The D on the burst of certificate stands for Dallas,
as in his favorite pro football team that he's giving
the cold shoulder to these days for their misadventures and misdeeds.
But the D could stand for any number of other things.
I'm not sure what other than the fact that the

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Long Worners have delivered again another sweep as they sit
on top of the SEC baseball standings.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
And I think for the first time and I don't
know how many weeks, the number one team in college
baseball is the same number one as it was last
week because it's been so much overhaul the top of
the rankings as Texas has slowly climbed their way up
to number one. And after a perfect week including a
sweep of one of the hotter teams in the country
and the eighth ranked Dobin Tigers. What a weekend series

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for the Texas long Gorns and now a real fun
one in Santa Marcus tomorrow night against Texas State. That's
always the labored action, that excellent baseball. And then I
forkid who's coming in next Oh, the Texas and m
agus well for their first conference series and quite some time.
They are playing just as good as anybody else in
the country.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah they are.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
They took two out of three from Arkansas in Fayetteville
over the weekend, and it's there's going to be There
was going to be great anticipation of the series. Even
if A and M would start a Conference play one
and nine. They were one and nine in SEC play,
but they've now won seven of their last eight SEC games,

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so they're eight and ten coming in and realistically, all
kinds of crazy things would have to happen for them
to be a contender to win the conference time, but
the mere fact that they flipped the script is kind
of put them back in the minds of people doing
projections and will run down some of those coming up.
But the mere fact that they're hot and they're playing well,

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that just adds to that. As as Cameron mentioned, Long
Orange will play Texas State.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
That's there.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Only road midweek non conference game is tomorrow night at
Bob cap Ballpark in San Marcus at say five forty
five pre game star time. It is a six o'clock
first pitch, which we will have for you on one
o three point one FM, and so that'll be tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
More on that a little bit later.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
There's a lot of things to get to and then
I'm going to roll it back to college baseball after
our first break, but there's a lot of things to
get to. NBA playoffs are underway. I would say you
had to be pleased with a fifty one point margin
of victory for your team, the Oklahoma City Thunder and
laying the Memphis Grizzlies to waste yesterday afternoon.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Playoff record largest game one victory in NBA history, and
there are seven points away from the largest playoff victory
overall in NBA history. And you know, I'll say this, Craig,
the Grizzlies played two playing games. They went from Memphis
to Golden State to Dallas up the Oka C so
they played three games in what ninety six hours.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
And they got the host Dallas. But that's still what's
going along Memphis back to Yea to Memphis, then a
lot of travel. You could tell they were just tired,
dead legs, weren't ready for it. But all in all,
pretty embarrassing that a professional basketball team in the playoffs
loses like that. But hey, it's a testament to okac's

(09:54):
depth and coaching. I mean, shake Gilders Alexander, who might
be the MVP this year. At least he was named
to the top three finalists. He played awfully, he made
four shots from the floor in okase. He's still won
by fifty one points, So that kind of tells you
how scary and how deep this OKAC team is and
I think after watching the weekend of basketball, you know,

(10:16):
I feel a little bit better about their chances of
making it to the NBA Finals and certainly contending. We'll
see what happens with Jason tatum'sself and the Boston Celtics.
That was a tight game all the way up to
about the third quarter in Boston able to use their
depth to run away from it.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
So we'll see about Tatum's risks. Hopefully he's okay. But
you know, Lakers did not look good defensive Timberwolves.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Which result was more surprising to you last night or
over the weekend Lakers Timberwolves or last night's Rockets Warriors?

Speaker 3 (10:49):
I would say Lakers t Wolves. I mean it's the
first playoff game for the Rockets, a really young team,
you know, hosting Golden State, and Steph Curry, you know,
had a crazy game and if not for STI being
Steph Houston, you know, almost came back and won that game.
I think for me, I was more surprised by the
t Wolves and Lakers because the Wolves were just so
much more physical and looks so much more athletic than

(11:10):
the Lakers. Had A buddy text me that Luka Doncia's
defense is like the Golden Corral. It's always open. Yeah,
and that's how it was. I mean, Luca just looked awful.
He looked lost offensively, just lack of effort there. And
that series will probably go seven. I could see Rockets
Warriors going seven, but I think both teams who lost
Game one will turn it around in this series. I

(11:31):
don't know though, I don't know if they'll come back
and win it. But if I'm a Rockets fan, I
feel okay about our chances. And if you're a Lakers fans,
you know you still got Lebron and Luke. They're gonna
have a game where they're gonna figure it out offensively
and they'll be okay.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, all right. We'll have more on the NBA playoffs.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
We are three days away from the NFL Draft, and
of course we have our annual big draft show coming
away from Twin Peaks and Round Rock will be there
on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
We're gonna be there, what two to six fifty if
I were six fifty, So.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
We're there all the way up to at the time
when the draft is just on the cusp of getting underway.
But we'll set the table for you as we always do,
and we'll have the whole crew out there on Thursday.
So we'll look forward to being there for you with
at Twin Peaks around Rock. Also this week coming up,
like I said, tomorrow, I will be at Bob cap

(12:23):
Ballpark in sam Marcus Keith Mortal will be with me.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
We have we have the Zimbel hours tomorrow, right okay.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
All right, and I will I will check in with
a six man Keith and I will check in. So
that's tomorrow, Wednesday, Long WRNS hit Football Court. Steve Sarkishian
will be on with us right out of the gate,
and so sark will be with us to wrap up
spring practice and to look ahead to the offseason work.
So we'll visit with Sark on Wednesday. Thursday's the Draft Show. Friday,

(12:52):
I'll be out at UFCU dish Fog Field with the
lead into Texas against Texas A and M. We have
in conceit eievable coming up this hour. We've got some
Major League baseball to talk about. What a good series
and I'm not just saying as a Dodger fan, what
a good series it was between the Dodgers and Rangers
of the weekend. Three really well pitched, well played, hotly

(13:17):
contested games between those two and the Astros seem to
becoming the life now as you know, they've been good
of late, although Fernando Tatisse had his way yesterday with
a pitch.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
But we'll talk some Major League baseball.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
All of that stuff is underway, and we'll get to
all of that coming up up next, the recap of
the weekend in college baseball and where it stands in
terms where the long runs are on the national scene
and the SEC weekly awards, all of that kind of stuff.
It's all just around the corner here on thirteen under
the Zone.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
It's the craig Way Show with the voice of the
Texas Longhorns and Hall of Broadcast.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
There Craig Way.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Beginning a new week, coming off an action packed weekend,
obviously NBA Playoffs, Major League Baseball pretty busy, and obviously
college baseball and softball. How about the weekend for Texas
softball having that crazy went on Thursday with the walk
off grand Slam from Resatwood on Thursday, dropped the game Friday,

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came back Saturday, they were down three to one. Jolie
Mitchell with a three run homer in the bottom of
the sixth to put Texas up four to three on
the LSU. LSU comes back scores too in the top
of the seventh, and they get to the bottom of
the seventh and the long runs continue attack and Kate
Henry scores the winning run just coming all the way

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around from second on a round ball come backer into
the circle that Mia Scott was able to beat out
into the circle and then the throw to the plate
not in time and it popped out of the mit
and Texas takes two out of three, So it was
it was pretty cool weekend for them. Texas men's tennis,
congratulations winning an SEC championship, the SEC tournament title in

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addition of the regular season title for Texas Men's tennis.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
So that's that's cool.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Tower was lit orange last night, so that was that
was a good thing there as in their first season
the SEC, they're doing really well. Beach volleyball swept through
the weekend. They did well, which brings us to baseball
and this team continues to perform in spite of the
injuries that they have had to deal with mainly mainly

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not exclusively or entirely, but mainly through the position players.
We know about Max Blue and the and the thumb
injury and the stitches are out as as Jim Slosna mentioned,
and he's he's making progress and they're hoping certainly to

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have him back by SEC tournament time.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
That that's kind of the timetable.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Other guys have healed quicker and so maybe there's an
outside hope that he could be ready to say by
that final series of the regular season in Norman against Oklahoma.
Don't know that yet. It'll just depend on his continued
ready to recovery. So he is still out of the lineup.

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Adrian Rodriguez is back in the lineup, as we know,
came back last week, only able to He's a switch hitter,
only able to swing the bat left handed right now
because of that hammate a demon that he had that
that bone bruise, bad bone bruise right on top of

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the hammock forcing Fortunately it did not break the bone.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
He is able to play the field now, and so
he has played at second base and he's playing left
field and he has d eight some So he's back
uh and and playing again, although he's not at full
tilt because he's not able to swing the bat right handed,
but he is able to swing the bat left handed.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Uh then uh whom I leaving out?

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Thank you Mendoza who injured a shoulder a week ago
yesterday in the final game of the series of Kentucky.
And it was a shoulder injury that he had originally
had in high school while playing at South Lake. Carolyn
had surgery on it, and Ethan uh missed out on

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some action. He is back in the lineup swinging the bat,
but he's going to have to serve as the DH
for a time because the shoulder is not healed enough
to where he can throw with it yet, So he
goes into the D eight slot because you need his
bat in the lineup. So it still opened up holes

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in the outfield and infield. Now Jamee Deplantier is a
guy who can swing back and forward wherever you need him.
But as you heard in the highlight montage at the
top of the show, and what has been the talk
of the rest of the weekend starting on Saturday, starting
on Friday, in the Friday and Saturday games and that
Thursday Friday Saturday series is the emergence of Jonah Williams.

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Jonah had played had been in I think he'd had
two official at bats and there was one walk in there,
but he didn't have a collegiate hit.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
He'd been used very sparingly.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
So we got his first collegiate start on Friday, he
got his first two collegiate hits, and so that was cool.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
And then comes back with a couple of.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Hits on Saturday and drives in three runs, played well
en off the outfield, aggressive on the base pass, round
a third, and came in home on a soft base
hit to center. So there was a great deal of
excitement about that. So he now, at least in Jim
Slasnegel's words for the foreseeable future is the way the

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words were framed is the starter in left field. So
they're stepping up in that area and that has helped
a lot. Now, the other unfortunate thing, this is why
I said it wasn't entirely the position players, but predominantly
is Jared Spencer because they're waiting on some more of
medical evaluation from him. Jared started the game on Thursday,

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had to come out of the ball game after only
forty three pitches, felt some soreness in the army. He
was coming back one day early. So in talking to
Schloss about this, he said, it wasn't like one of
those alarming things where he felder we all heard a

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pop or.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
A snap or anything like that. There was nothing like that.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
He was just going along and he'd given up home
run and then came back to the next hitter and
was working. But they could tell with all of their
metrics and all of their technology his VLO was down,
not significantly, but down a few miles per hour. So
then they went out to visit with him. He said

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he felt a little sore. They didn't want to take
any other chances, and they pulled him out of the
game and then piecemealed it from there. Max Scrubs did
a tremendous job, and then Dylan Lantis got the save
or finished it out. Yeah, he did get the save
on Thursday. Did a great job, did Grubbs. But the
concern obviously will be for Jared Spencer until they hear more,

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and Schlas said he couldn't really right now envision him
pitching this weekend against Texas and him they are going
to air on the side of caution whenever possible with
their guys. So Spencer in a likelihood won't be on

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the mound this weekend. And what that also means is
it brings about a flip in the rotation. There will
be there will be other things done in the rotation.
That's why when Ruger ri Ojas started the game on
Saturday and was dominant through the three innings, only pitched
three innings. He did give up the one home run

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like Iris, just you know, he teed off on everybody.
If it had not been for Shustler and by the way,
the guy who's going to be the co player of
the week in the SEC, we'll tell you about that
coming up. It hadn't been for those two guys, Ike
Irish would have been the SEC player of the week.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
He had, he had a weekend.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
It's just that Shustler out shining him there in the
final in the final day of it. So you know,
Grubs pitch pitched well. Rugery Ohas pitched well, but he
only pitched only through thirty eight pitches. That is because
the plan will be to move him forward in the
rotation from the third weekend starter, either to the second

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or the first. If I were guessing right now, I'd
say depending on how he responds again.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
The only three thirty eight pitches.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
He might be in line to be the Friday starter
Friday night against Texas A and and with Luke Harrison going
Saturday and probably Jason Flores on Sunday, that's kind of
how it would seem to set up right now.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
We'll know more.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
We'll know more after Tomorrow night's game against Texas State.
Kate Bing will start tomorrow and we'll just we'll just
kind of see who else works and things of that nature.
So that's where that is, Okay, than the SEC Players
of the Week we were announced, and you heard me

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say in the in the highlights that I don't know
what else who else is doing, you know whatever else
in terms of the individual exploits over the weekend, but
that that Kimball Schusler was as deserving as anybody was

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four Player of the Week, and sure enough, Kimball Schuschler
did win Player of the Week.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
He won co Player of the Week. There was a
tie in the balloting.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Between Shustler, who hit seven fourteen over the weekend and
hit three home runs ten RBIs he had eight yesterday.
He reached safely in thirteen of his seventeen played appearances,
with four multi hit efforts going back to the Tuesday

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game against UTRGV, and then of course had the two
homer eight RBI performance yesterday with the run roll win
over Auburn. He also had a two run double in
there with a pair of three run homers, including the
game ending shot. Okay, but he's only the co player
of the week because Jace Lavalatte of Texas A and
m Loveolette hit five home runs, scored ten runs, drove

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in eleven in the Aggies three in one week which
included the road series win at Arkansas. So how fitting
is it that Kimball Schusler and Jace Laviolette will go
mono almano or their teams will this weekend. They'll go
head to head this weekend. They're the players, the co
players of the week. Here's another interesting thing. The pitcher

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of the week is Nick McKay of Kentucky. In seven
and two thirds innings, he only allowed two hits in
beating Tennessee and Knoxville on Saturday. This is a guy
the Longhorns finally were able to get to in the
Sunday game, and they were able to get to him
and wind up winning the ball game the two freshmen

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of the week. It was co freshman Brendan Lawson of
Florida who hit four to twelve during the week, and
Drew Dickerson of Oklahoma who went hit five hundred seven
to fourteen, three extra base hits, including a home run.
So those were the SEC Player Awards. And then, as
I mentioned, where does all of this stand in terms

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of the SEC and the Longhorns place. Well, not only
did Texas handle its business, there were some other teams
that stepped back a little bit further away from them,
Arkansas being one of those by losing two out of
three at home to Texas, A and M. Now the

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Razorbacks are still in second place behind Texas, but the
three games back of the long runs with twelve conference
games remaining, so there's still a long way to go
in Texas obviously has to go to Fayetteville weekend after
this one, the first weekend in May a Thursday Friday
Saturday series. But Texas is sixteen and two in the league.
Arkansas is thirteen and five. Tennessee which dropped two of

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three to Kentucky. And this is why when those are saying, well,
Texas really hadn't played anybody rough on the road.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
They really haven't done in.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
The taking two out of three in Lexington, with the
only loss being a fifteen inning game to Kentucky. That's
agent pretty well after Kentucky went to Knoxville and took
two out of three from Tennessee. As a result, Tennessee
is twelve and six. LSU took two out of three
from Alabama. Of the weekend, the Tigers are twelve and six.
Those two teams are four games back of Texas. Vanderbilder

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has read high. They just got through sweeping Georgia. Next
in fifth place, they're eleven and seven. They're five games
behind the Long Horns. Georgia, after being swept by Vanderbilt,
dropped the ten and eight oh Missus ten and eight.
They dropped two of three at South Carolina. Oklahoma has
been hot and they swept Missouri. They're ten and eight

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in the league. Then you have Alabama at nine and nine,
Auburn at ninety nine, Kentucky and Texas A and M
are both eight and ten. Florida won two out of three.
Assissippi State Bulldogs won yesterday's game, but both of those
teams are six and twelve. And South Carolina's four and
fourteen in Missouri is oh and eighteen in the league.
So as it stands, Texas a three game lead on

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Arkansas with twelve games to go in SEC play. And
we'll talk more about that, the updated rankings, tournament projections,
all that kind of stuff a little bit later on
up next, we'll bring you inconceivable on a Monday afternoon
here on thirteen under the Zone, Craig w A alongside
the producer Cameron Parker, glad to have you with us.
How did you You stayed pretty busy during the weekend,

(28:03):
didn't you? You had stuff going on, right?

Speaker 3 (28:06):
It was a it was a fun and inter relaxed weekend.
They will just to watch watch a lot of golf,
watch a lot of professional basketball, watch a lot of
Texas baseball.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
It was a fun weekend.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
And I had a couple of graduation parties for some
friends at a family in town.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
So it wasn't wasn't too stressful.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
You know, I get asked a lot now during this
time period, so what do you what do you do
now that you're not traveling for basketball?

Speaker 2 (28:30):
It's like, yeah, you know, that's a fair question.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Usually I just you know, monitor the station and make
sure that you know, Craig and Keith sound good for
UT baseball, make sure Andrew sounds good with UT softball,
make sure that Roland Cobra is everything he needs with
the Express and Lincoln Rose with the Austin FC. So,
you know, it's kind of it's not it's still busy.
I'm not traveling across the country with you, Craig, but

(28:55):
you know there's still work to be I.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Just got the feeling you were probably by the time
we got done a date in Ohio, you'd probably had
enough of travel for a while for.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
A little bit well.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
And then of course you went with me to Birmingham obviously, Yeah,
for Women's Sweet sixteen and Laite eight, So you you
probably definitely had by the time we got done with that,
and you had, by other obligations and responsibilities, had to
come back. You couldn't and of course we all flew
back from Birmingham, but you couldn't go on to the

(29:24):
final four in Tampa because you had had other obligations
and responsibilities and things of that nature. But I also
have a feeling maybe by then maybe you were a
little travel weary.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Yeah, you know, get used to the schedule, right, It's
kind of like, you know, year two, so I felt
like I was more routine adjusted for this time around.
But you know, the month of March, you know, that
was crazy for us because we you know, that kind
of really started with the first trip to Starkfield for
me with women's basketball. But then we kept getting stuck
there and so the travel wouldn't have been as bad,

(29:56):
but we kept that to spend an extra day, and
then you know, we came back and then we went
back and we get stuck again in Starkville. And then
from Starkville with the men's team, it was all right, Greenville,
South Carolina, then Nashville.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
We also had with Old miss Yeah, in Oxford. Everything
in Mississippi. There's something going on in that state. Something
weird's happening in Mississippi.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
But you know, it's it's part of the job, and
it's honestly, the travel is really fun now. Of course,
when you're waiting the tarmac and it's like, yeah, actually
we're going home. We're going back to the hotel. We're
not going home. We're going back to the hotel. We're
coming back home the next day, and it's like, oh
my goodness, which that's.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Part of it though, well, and to be fair, to
be fair to the state of Mississippi, it wasn't that
state or that airport's fault in Oxford. That was because
of fog here in Austin. I remember, we couldn't leave
because they said because of weather conditions here, and so

(30:52):
they weren't going to be able to leave until the
next day. And then that's when the decision was made
just to go ahead and go on to baton route.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
And that's right.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Stuff happened by going to the state of Mississippi.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
That did happen.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Long worn Baseball kind of squared all that up when
they when they went in there and swept that three
game series, including a double header sweep on Sunday at
Mississippi State. And even then, even then there was a
little bit of uncertainty, a little bit of nervousness because

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they were worried about the length of the double header.
Because even though the airport in Starkville, I think it's
called Starkville Regional Airport, the airport is big enough, the
runways are long enough to accommodate like seven thirty seven
sized jets. That's how why and how football teams can

(31:48):
fly in there. Logworn football team have to fly in
there this fall, even though that's there. They closed the
airport down at nine o'clock at night on Sunday night,
and that word was made clear to the Long Run
baseball team that we're going to So you got the
double header to play, and we were starting what at

(32:11):
eleven am I think we were, and then it was
a double header, so you had that, or maybe it
was noon and we had a double header working, so
it was you know what was gonna It was noon,
but it was two seven inning games, so it was like,
can you get it all done in time and get
everybody there? And they did get an assist from Mississippi
State who called over the airport went hey, we throw

(32:33):
you guys a lot of business. How about you keep
the doors open so they can fly out, and they're
like okay, And as it turned out, the Long Run's
played so well.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Things got done pretty quickly.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
I mean it was done by even before I think
seven o'clock or not long after, and so they were
able to go over to the airport and we were
wheels up before nine o'clock anyway, so it all worked
out well. So travel does have its pluses and its minuses,
and it was good to have a home weekend this

(33:06):
past weekend with Thursday, Friday, Saturday now as travel would
have it. Linda and I drove up to the Metroplex
on after the third game of Auburn, which we were
pleased if that was a new game. We still didn't
get out of town till about six thirty on Saturday evening.
We drove up there, had dinner in Dallas Saturday night,
and then spent yesterday with family with grandkids on both sides,

(33:31):
with my daughter and son in law and their four kids,
my four grandkids, and then that was in They lived
in Flower Mounts, so we met kind of in between
Dallas and Flower mount and then over the Planeo where
Linda's daughter and son in law and her grandson lived.
So we went over there and had an Easter Sunday

(33:51):
dinner there. Needless to say, during the course of the
day we ate more than we needed to eat, but
drove back and of course, you know Easter on day
traffic is when you're driving down the High thirty five.
Oh yeah, it gets slow for no reason at all,
And I say, no reason, you know when so we
got bumper to bumper and I'm thinking, oh my gosh,
I guess there's been a bad rag. No just people

(34:16):
going slow for no reason. And it seems to happen
the most when you're going you're getting to a rise,
then you have to be a steep hill just to rise,
and people can't see immediately everything going to breaks. Then
if there's a curve and I know a lot of
you nodding your heads, like the big curve in Belting
when you're going around that curve, everybody just kind of

(34:39):
tenses up on that. So you know, you deal with it.
You go forward and move on to the next thing.
NBA playoffs are under it.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Who impressed you the most first day of the game Once,
I'll say, okay, see yeah, just because you know last
season the Ones the youngest team in NBA history to
be the one seed in the Western Conference, and you know,
they looked a little jittery against the Dallas Mavericks in
that second round series and just look like the moment

(35:12):
was too big for them. Ended up losing in six games.
Probably could have won.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
I probably could have forced a game seven if not
for that huge corner. Three from from PJ. Washington, But Mavericks,
you know, they went in six, and it felt like okay.
You know a lot of times it takes at least
one one playoff for an NBA team that's super young,
takes them, you know one. You know, it took Jordan

(35:37):
a few years with the Bulls before they finally were
able to get over that hump. And so you know,
my question going this playoffs was is that does that
count or does OKC still need to at least prove
they can win a couple of series and then they're
gonna get their heart broken and then that'll set them
up for success later on.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
But what I saw yesterday was like, now this team's
ready to go.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
I mean they came out and just dominated from from
start to finish. You know, led by by thirty points
at halftime, ended up winning by fifty points. None of
the starters played in the fourth quarter, which is crazy.
Against the Grizzlies team that you know, I'm not gonna
sit here and say, hey, you know, their NBA Finals contenders.

(36:19):
You know they of course they fired their coach, you know,
three quarters of the way into the season. There's all
the drama with John Moran and his celebrations, whether he's
shooting in AK forty seven or throwing grenades into the crowd,
there's loss of us still, you know, still it's a
grizzly team that you know, hey two three years ago
they were the two s in the Western Conference Finals

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or the Western Conference, so you know there there is
that potential for them. But for the okay, see that
come in and is completely destroy them. I mean, very
impressive for me. Now, of course, you still got to
you know, take care of them and then you will see,
you know, in the second round against whether it's the
Clippers or Denver, and he still got up, you know,
play the Western Conference Finals to get there. But I

(37:00):
left yesterday feeling the most impressed about the Thunder out
of any of the other teams in the first round.
I feel like with Detroit in Houston, it's two teams
just kind of like like, okay, see last season that
still have not been there before. You know, I don't
care who's playing for the next There is nothing Craig,

(37:21):
nothing like playing a playoff game at MSG and the
Garden was rocking in the fourth quarter to the next
twenty one nothing run. I think you kind of see
the Pistons players kind of all right, tense up a
little bit, got nervous because they were the better team
for three quarters and then the fourth quarters completely fell apart.
In the next were able to go on that twenty
one nothing run and then shut the door on Detroit.

(37:42):
In for Houston too, I mean at one point, they
had what like forty one points. Yeah, in the second half.
I mean, that's just so low for an NBA team.
But you know, I think they kind of you know,
Fenfleet was like oh for nine, oh for ten before
he hit that first three pointer, and Jalen Green really
struggled in that game against Golden State. Need more offense

(38:02):
out of him if you're a Rockets fan. But it
kind of felt like, Okay, you know, Detroit Houston two
teams that kind of just need to, you know, grow
up in the moment. Now, will they grow up in
the series or will they grow up next season? And
that's what I'm hopeful for. Okay, ses they're going to
grow up this season. Denver over the Clippers. It felt
like Denver had to win that game in overtime. Clippers

(38:22):
just a better team. They're up double digits for a
while and then Denver comes roaring back. You know, Westbrook
gets to clutch corner three and then Fellas get a
shot off the last player. Regulation I missed a couple
of big shots in overtime, but you know, Jokic was
just unstoppable overall. He's the best player in the planet
right now, and I think he's the serving of the
MVP Award. Even though I'm a thunder fan, I think
Jokic is by far the best player on the planet.

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But for Denver, get that win is huge. I screg
I mean, I look at these series in the Western Conference,
outside of OKC Memphis, I could see all of them
going possibly six or seven.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Wow. Okay, all right, it's that close. Wow? Okay.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Well, and then in the East, I mean I thought
Boston in Cleveland were very impressive.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Yeah, say with Boston, I think Orlando's defense is good
enough to maybe win them a game or two. Again,
I'll you know, I want to see, like what's up
with Jill and Tatum's wrist will be okay, but outside
of that, their death is so big. I don't see
too much with that series. Indiana Milwaukee. Uh, I can't
believe Doc Rivers has a has a coaching job. I mean,
it was a malpractice in the first half. In that

(39:28):
first game, Milwaukee kind of like Memphis just looked like
they had no idea what was going on outside of
what Giannis was doing. I think Indiana wins that series,
possibly even five, maybe six, and then Cleveland Miami. You know,
that was a little bit tighter, and then Cleveland pulled
away in the fourth quarter. I think Cleveland's gonna breeze
through that series. So the only one that could really
see going seven right now in the Eastern Conference is

(39:50):
possibly Nick Pistons. So the Eastern Conference, they may have
all their series wrapped up well before the Western Conferences.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Interesting, Okay, all right, well I'm more on the NBA
playoffs later coming up some college baseball updated information for you,
we'll do that.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
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Speaker 2 (40:52):
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college baseball, and we continue on thirteen under the Zone.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
Welcome back to the Craig Way Show and the Voice
of the Longhorns.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Craig Way.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
Follow Craig on social media at Horn Voice Total.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Monday afternoon, coming out of the weekend here, I hope
you're Easter weekend or your weekend overall was good.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Hope it all worked out for you there.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
I had mentioned that I was going to bring up
some college baseball things for you, first of all, and
we said this last hour that Texas is still obviously
on top of the SEC standings sixteen and two with
four series remaining, and there are some.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
Historical comps.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
I guess is the best way to describe this simple
water here, Okay, Keith Morland, Roger Wallace, Ty Harrington, those
who have worked with me on Longhorn Baseball broadcast pretty
much share the same view, and ty will join us

(43:07):
tomorrow when we're down in his neck of the woods
down in San marcos As, Texas will play tex say
he'll be working the telecast with Brant Freeman tomorrow evening.
Keith Morlan be working with me on the Texas radio broadcast.
But anyway, Tye and Keith and Roger and others have

(43:29):
largely said alive at Kendall Rogers d one baseball dot
com is pretty much said in the past, if you
have an above five hundred record in conference playing the SEC,
which the Longhorns have clinted that now.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
I mean even if they lost all remaining twelve games.
They finished sixteen and fourteen.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
But if you're at if you're at five hundred or above,
pretty much you're almost locke to be in an NCAA regional.
If you to in this case, it would probably be
twenty wins out of thirty, you're almost certain to be hosting.
And if you get much more beyond that, you're gonna

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be a top eight national seed. So Texas is obviously
well positioned to be in that kind of situation, and
normally it's this time of year where I start looking
at projections, and I usually wait until like late April

(44:34):
to do this, just to kind of get a better,
you know, just a better feel for it and have
it not be.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Too Only four series left, but which is still a
lot a lot can happen.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Twelve games, twelve games. I would say this, If Texas
went six and six of the remaining twelve games, they
would have twenty two conference when they'd be twenty two
and eight conference play, I would say, and if they
they've got three non conference games left tomorrow night in
San Marcus, the following Tuesday against Prairie View, and then

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the Tuesday after that against Lamar.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Lamar, by the way, pretty good ball club. They won
over thirty games.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
But if they won those three games and then split
the remaining twelve, so that'd be nine more wins. They're
at thirty three and five right now, they would be
forty two and eleven going into the conference tournament. I
would say, for sure, obviously they're in the field. I

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would also say they're almost for certain to be a host,
and they stand a real good chance to be a
top eight national seat. That's just if they go five
hundred the rest of the way. If they were to
say when eight of the twelve, I'd say they would
definitely be a national seed. Could they be the national seed? Well,
according to the projections right now, they are the number

(45:59):
one national seat. And as Cameron just pointed out, there's
still some baseball to be played.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
There's twelve games for mating.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
They are a unanimous number one, well unanimous among the Poles.
They're not not unanimous in the balloting, but they are
number one ranked.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
I'm not talking about the projections right now.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
I'm just saying that the voting polls, and they are
a consensus number one, number one in D one baseball
dot com, number one imperfect game, number one in the
National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association rankings, number one in Baseball America,

(46:41):
number one in the ESPN Usaday Coaches Balls. That's five
and they're number one across the board in those poles,
which is all well and good, and I will readily
admit to you it's been in quite a while since
I can remember them being ranked at high. Josh White,
who does a tremendous job in his first season. He
came in from Miami, so where they have their own

(47:03):
baseball tradition. But Josh does an outstanding job as the
media relations contact for Long Worn Baseball, and he does
a lot of digging and researching and things like that.
He points out, I think in just about every set
of game notes that he does at the start of
a series, that Texas is off to its best start

(47:26):
through I think it was through thirty seven games. Now
it's through thirty eight games since two thousand and four. Now,
what happened in two thousand and four? The Long Horns
were really, really good. They did not win the Big
twelf tournament. I think they won the regular season. He
did not win the Big twelve tournament. Oklahoma State actually
won that tournament. But Texas I'm pretty sure was the

(47:47):
number one overall seed that year, or they were in
the top two or three. They got all the way
to the National Championship series, did not drop a game,
beat Georgia along the way. I think they beat Stanford
the law the way they didn't. They didn't lose any games.
So they got to the championship and they ran into
a stone wall of pitching from cal State Fullerton where
Ricky Romero and Jason windsor Kurt Suzuki was catching Justin

(48:13):
Turner was playing for them, and they shock Texas and
they swept them two games. But that's the last time
they were kind of a consensus number one in that mindset,
and that's where they are right now in the voting
polls and also in the projections. And back in two
thousand and four, I really didn't look at tournament projections much.

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Those didn't really start coming into vogue until you got
around twenty ten or so, so I can tell you
this is the first time I remember seeing this in
every set of projections that I've looked at, that Texas
is the number one overall seed in all of those projections.
I'll give you some examples. D one baseball is the
one that most folks follow. Now, there are differences in

(48:59):
the minds of those who compile these projections as to
which teams would be coming here to Austin to play
in a regional and also the ranking and placement of
other teams out of the top sixteen who would get
to those regionals, including the top eight national seeds. So
there are differentiations there, but the one thing that is

(49:23):
unified is that Texas at the number one in all
of these projections. So for example, in D one baseball,
they have Texas As they're overall number one.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
The other teams they have coming here.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
The two seed would be Kansas State, who's been kind
of sliding back because they just got swept by Cansas
of the weekend. Number three we just saw them ut
Rio Grand Valley they project UTRGV to win the Southland Conference.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
And number four New Jersey Tech. That's a real school.
It's a real program.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
It's not something where you can get you get your
degree online by calling an eight hundred number.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
It's an actual program of that aet.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
They're in Newark, New Jersey, and the winner of that
region would match up with the winner of a regional
in Los Angeles, where UCLA is projected as the number
sixteen overall seed with UC Irvine Duke Confession of State
the other teams there. The number two national seed they
have is Arkansas with Arizona the fifteen. The number three

(50:18):
national seed Clemson with Coastal Carolina the fourteen. Now don't
have an updated set of projection come out later this weekend.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
That might change based on the.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
Fact that Clemson won two out of three I guess
over the weekend over Louisville and Arkansas dropped two or
three at home to Texas, A and M. They had
Tennessee as the four and george is the five. Again
that could change. Auburn's the sixth, Georgia Tech the seven,
Oregon State the eight. So that's like that's d one
Baseball dot Com that they have that, and you say, okay,

(50:49):
well what about some of the others. Well, Baseball America
another one that has been doing projections a long time.
They have Texas is the number one, with the other
teams coming in. North Carolina State is a two. USC.
It's just from the Big ten. It's so weird to
see that. Southern California for the Big ten. And again

(51:11):
New Jersey Institute of Technology New Jersey Tech as the
America East winner.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
When I see New Jersey Tech here they have they
have a decent baseball program. Remember Mike Tico and Tico
he played there.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
Yeah he played Saint John's right, Yes, yes, yes, he
did so. The Ricords are most still in bases in
the season of Texas baseball history.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
Yeah, so so anyway, he's uh, he played there, so
anyway in jiuh, they haven't matching up with a field
at number sixteen. See they have uc Irvine, whose list
is a two see behind UCLA.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
So they have Irvine. Is that.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
With Oregon in the two, Virginia the three president of
the four and again there could be changes later this
week because of Tennessee, Georgia and Arkansas two three four,
All three lost their series of the weekend. Georgia got
swept Vanderbilt, Tennessee lost at home in Kentucky, and Arkansas
lost two out of three at home to Texas, A
and M H North Carolina, Clemson, Auburn and LSU the

(52:11):
top eight. There with the other seed, they have TCU
hosting with A and M in the field. It's a
three seat. TCU dropped two of three at UCF. Not
a good weekend for the horn Frogs, losing to a
sub five hundred losing two out of three to a
sub five hundred team in UCF.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
So there's an example.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
Then there on three has also its set of projections,
and Texas is the number one overall number one seed.
Like you, like we said you might you might imagine that.
Uh so uh they I'm just trying to make sure

(52:51):
I pulled this up. But I just had this here
and let's see if I can get it.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
If not, I'll get it during the break. I'll look
during the break.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
But there's But the bottom line on this is what
I was saying, is that that they are the number
one overall national seat across the board.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Now there's a waste to go. We've pointed that out.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
My point about all of this is that it's been
a long time since Texas has been viewed in that
national prism. Can it change? Sure, Texas A and M
comes in here and has a big weekend, Yeah, it
could change. Remember Texas also has lost two midweek games.
They've lost a UTSA at home at UTSA. By the way,

(53:36):
really good team, good chances. They are going to be
in a regional that depends on what happens in the
American Athletic Conference.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
But there's that. And in addition.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
To that, they've got you know that the Texas State
lost and they have to play Texas State tomorrow in
sand Market. So we'll see how that all shakes out
over time. But obviously it trends up team wise for
Texas individually. We ran this down earlier with the injuries
they've had to sustain in the latest being Jared Spencer,
and we don't know what the situation is with him

(54:10):
yet until they get some more medical evaluation back. You know,
that could change things as well. So we'll see how
it goes from there. But so far, they continue to
hunkered down, play well. They've responded to Jim schlos Nigles
coaching and the staffs coaching. Max Wieners done a heck
of a job with the pitching. Nolan Kane and Troy
Tchilowitzky had done a tremendous job with the hitting with

(54:33):
the guy. So yeah, it's it's been impressive to see
so far. All Right, we got some other topics to
get to, which we will do when we continue on thirteen.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Out of the Owner, We're back.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
It's the Craig Way Show with Hall of Fame broadcaster
in voice of the Texas Longhearts, Craig Way.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
On the text line, somebody commenting on the John Daly
windfull seven or eighty thousand dollars he took in last
year just hanging out at Hooters signing autographs, selling autograph
golf balls.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
It's American dream, craw just hanging out at Hooters and
getting paid for.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
It, right, Cigar boxes because he's a big cigar guy.
So if you had an autograph cigar box from John Daily,
that's something else. I wo'ld say its two hundred and
fifty bucks to get one of those hat for forty bucks,
golf ball for ten dollars. So John Daily's worked it

(55:44):
out really well. There's a golf course at Myrtle Beach,
and people know who know me, know that I really
enjoy golf. But the only time I really get the
plays when they go on vacation, like you know. And
I used to play a lot more than I do now.
I used to go and I'd played three four days,
and now I'm one two days. I guess, you know whatever.

(56:06):
And then I play some miniature golf, but I mean
just regular golf. And there was there's a golf course
down there, and there's many There's one hundred and ten
in a thirty five mile stretch, and in fact, I
used to play four or five or six of them
religiously every summer for over twenty years.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
So it got.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
To the point where I have played like eighty of
one hundred and thirty.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Well, this goes back to like nineteen eighty still Okay,
so I haven't played.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
I've really slowed down the pace on that.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
But anyway, the point I was gonna make is one
of the golf courses that I wanted to play. I
can't even remember the name of it now, but it
was a John Daily design and this was right in
his heyday when he won the Open in England and
then and then he won a PGA during that time

(57:03):
as well, so it was it was a really nice
golf course at the time there, and I planned to
play it, and naturally it was designed for long hitters,
and my problem really isn't distance, it's accuracy. I mean,
you know, I've got a bad slice, so it's you know,
it's it's not good.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
I mean I can hit a long waist to the right.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
But anyway, somebody had pointed out on the text line
that with Daily making that kind of money, it says
that's enough for Daily for a trip to a casino,
because he had that issue too, is going on with that?
So uh, we were just talking about regional projections of baseball,
and I did find that other set that I was
going to go over. But somebody pointed out when I

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was mentioning New Jersey Institute of Technology n J. I
t mister Mescott, it's something pretty basic. I'm guessing it's
like Nights. It's I mean, it's not like the Goodfellas
or anything like that. Oh, the Sopranos. I don't know,
you know, it's what is it? Highlanders?

Speaker 2 (58:05):
Yeah? Highlanders? That's is that basic? Yeah? Yeah, I don't know.
I think I want to think of basically. I think
it like tigers. Yeah. Well it's put it this way.
It's not unknown. Yeah you know, so it's not the catamounts. Yeah,
so Virginia, yeah, or from excuse me?

Speaker 1 (58:23):
So pointed that out, and then somebody said, I think
Tony Masselli took uh night courses at New Jersey Tech.
Tony Miscelli was the character played by Tony Dans And
Who's the Boss?

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Now that predates you. You're not old enough to I'm
familiar with the show. But okay, would Judith Light and
Tony Dan said, Who's the Boss?

Speaker 3 (58:43):
Was on?

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Who was the Boss? Right? Well, they tried to make
it sound like he was, but he really was. Was it?
Janet was her name? Was her name? What was her name?

Speaker 1 (58:51):
Judith Light was the actress's name, And then they and
then they they had the kid too there, So who,
indeed was it was the universal question on that anyway,
I did locate that other set of regional projections, and
again it goes right to what we were saying that

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it's unanimous about Texas. Now these projections are from on
three and they're a little more current than those other ones,
which was their latest ones at the end of last week. Now, again,
the weekend results like Tennessee losing two out of three
at home to Kentucky, Georgia being swept at Vanderbilt, Arkansas
losing two out of three at home to Texas, A

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and M those were not reflected in those other projections
of it later in the week. It will be reflected
this week, and there'll probably be some shuffling around. The
point being made is there's going to be ongoing movement
and shuffling around, but for now, for now, Texas isn't
one of those teams. I mentioned this comment to Keith

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Morland after the the other day about being in first
place in the league, and he could appreciate it because
he was a NASCAR fan. You could appreciate, Cameron, because
you're an NASCAR fan. And that was the term. If
you're out front like that, you're running on clean air.
You're not you're not drafting others behind and getting the
dirty air coming off. You're running clean air. You're out
front of the field. And that's and that's where Texas

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is right now. Well that includes in all these regional projections.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
So in these.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
Regional projections coming from on three and they have a
staff that selects and follows and covers college baseball. They
have the SEC getting thirteen bids in the NCAA, followed
by the A SEC with ten. Other multi bid leagues
the Big Twelve with six, the Big Ten with four,
of the Big West with three, the Sun Belt with three,
in Conference.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
USA with two.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
I used to say that I thought the Southern Conference
back in the day was perhaps the best mid major
baseball conference in the country. I don't think that anymore.
The Big West probably is, but the Sun Belt has
three ranked teams, so they're really good, and Conference USA
is good. And on the hosting line, the SEC has

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five of the top eight and eight of the top sixteen.
Half of the field of regional hosts coming from the SEC,
the ACC with three hosts, the Big Twelve is two,
the remaining hosts come from the Big West, the Sun Belt,
and an independent. The independent is Oregon State. They're having
to play an independent schedule and it's kind of fascinating
to see what they're having to deal with because of

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the dissolution and the complete, you know, breaking a part
of the PAC twelve. So Oregon State is having to
play an independent schedule. Now they were able to cobble
together and play some of the former PAC twelve teams.
They've been able to play some other ones as well

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that have helped the RPI and for an independent to
have what they've had, their RPI has been really good.
In fact, today the RPI for Oregon stations they're number eleven.
That's good considering what they've had to go through. By
the way, you'll probably still can found some people to

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see how Georgia can get swept over the weekend and
be the number one RPI team. That that's the value
they place on road games, even though you lost all three,
Long Run's number two in the RPI. Also, the strength
to schedule for Texas is twenty five. The strength of
schedule for Georgia is four, Vanderbilt is three. Auburn despite
getting SWEPT is number four in the RPI. They have

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the number one schedule strength in the country. So those
are some of the things that go down. And so
that's where I mentioned how Oregon State is one of
those teams that are getting that all right, So with
regard to the rest of those regional projections, Texas is
the number one overall seed. And here's the difference that

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I was talking about, how there are different teams projected
to come to Austin in these very projections. In this one,
it's two of the branch campuses. You might say, ut
S A is the two, UTR GV is the three,
Bethune Cookman is the four. And their analysis of this

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is there's no new top overall seed this week. That
honor still belongs to Texas, who improved the thirty three
and five overall, sixteen and two in the SEC and
number two in the RPI. If the log Worns go
on to win the SEC regular season, they are likely
to be the top seed. So there are people ask
that question, so, well, you know, what good does it
do to win the SEC?

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
Well, it positioned you to.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
Have a better run to try to get to Omaha
because the winner of the SEC, and Keith Morland said
this on Saturdays. I'm gonna tell you right now, ever
wins the SEC, whether it's Texas or Arkansas or Tennessee,
whoever it is, whoever wins the SEC is gonna be
the number one overall seed with the strength of this league,
and right now that belongs to Texas. It also says
they also have a big resume boosts with fourteen. They're

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a fourteen and three quad one record. I remember we're
talking about basketball. Texas had the struggle with the quad
one wins and losses. Fourteen and three. That's the most
Q one wins in the country at this point. So
for anybody wants to say, well, but they played at home,
they did. They have fourteen quad one wins. The interesting
thing is they've got this. They've got Texas matched up

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with the sixteen seats and say be the one. They
have Oklahoma as the sixteen seed with Kansas Southern missing
ball state there. So, like I says, Texas versus Oklahoma
would be a fun potential super regional matchup, wouldn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
So they've got them there.

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
They have Clemson as the two, Auburn would be the
fifteen dropping with TC as the two seed there. Du
can high point the other teams in that Auburn Regional
LSU is the three seed, with NC State, East Tennessee
State in Maine, they're matching up with a fourteen seed
Arizona which whatever UCLA you see, Santa Barbara and Grand Canyon,

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Arkansas is the number four seed, with Western Kentucky, Miami
and Missouri State matching up with Vanderbilt the thirteen seed
with Louisville USC.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
And Rhode Island.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
Tennessee is the five seed in Knoxville, with Iowa Xavior
Southeast Missouri matching up with wanted you see Irvine, You
see Irvine, Oregon and wait for it, Texas A and
M the three and Fresno State.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
As the four. As they have been climbing the Aggies.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
This weekend could do an awful lot for Texas A
and M for their chances to be in the field.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
After the dreadful start they had.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
If they have a successful weekend in Austin, Oregon State
is projected as the number six overall seat, pretty impressive
for a team having to play an independent schedule. With
Cal Polly, Arizona State, and Zaga the other teams they're
matching up with a regional hosted by West Virginia. They're
tops in the Big twelve right now, have them as
the number eleven overall seed, with Ole Miss, Virginia Tech,
and or Roberts the two three and four seeds in

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that regional. Then after that the seven seed Florida State
with Dallas Baptist Kentucky and Central Connecticut there matching up
with one Coastal Carolina hosting and Conway with Georgia, Tech,
Florida and Austin p there, he said, Florida, aren't they
six and twelve in the SEC.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Yes, they are. They're six and twelve.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
It'll be similar to like basketball right where yes, you
see set a record for most teams in the tournament.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Yeah, with taxes getting in. Yeah, thirteen, number thirteen. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
And then finally Georgia as the number eight overall seed
in Athens with Wake Forest Northeastern Colombia. They say, George's
in the midst of a bit of a stumble, having
been just been swept by Vanderbilt. Still they are ten
and seven in Quad one games, and they move back
up to number one in RPI, and it would match
up with and they would have a match up with

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the number nine seed, which would be North Carolina, which
has Alabama, Kansas State, and right state there.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
So there it is. There's, like I said, that gets
you caught up.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
That set of projections from on three is more current
because it was just made up coming off of the weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
The other major.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
Ones will be updated, maybe as early as tomorrow, but
certainly during the course of the week.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
All right, we'll be back to wrap up hour number two.
I'm thirteen under the zone from UFCU, just fog Field.

Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
It's game two of the three game weekend series the
Texas Loghorns against the Auburn Tigers. Harrison from the stretch
and the one two swing in a miss struck him out.
Luke Harrison gets out of the inning by picking up
his first strikeout of the ballgame and dodges a bullet
here on the top of the first three balls, two strikes,
two outs, two on here's the payoff pits from Luke

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Harrison to Eric Snow and he takes strike three. Harrison
painted it and Louke Harrison works his way out of
trouble for a second consecutive inning with us strikeouts nothing
in one of the Plantier.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Here's the stretch.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
The pitch to Jade swings here and sends that one
in the right center.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
That's gonna fall for a Bay's hit. Farmer will score.
Chaydon turns on the jets, he slides. He's safe.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
Harbi double from gud and bow and the lockhorns grab
at one nothing lead and the one two swung on
and that's lying in the right center of base. Hit
the pontier around third being waved to the plate. Here
comes the throw. It's airmailed backed up. Flores will take
second on the throw. Galvan is that third an RBI

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opposite field single from Jalen Flores extends to Texas lead
to do nothing and they got the runner picked off.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
I throw the Schusler down the.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
Second attack that Plotay puts it on him, heading over
caught stealing one, three, four, and that will retire Auburn.
Here in the fourth out of the stretch of the
pitch swung on and that's hit toward the alley left center.
That will get down Tommy Farmer is gonna double again.
Tromming in the score is Kimball Schusler Armor two for

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two with a pair of doubles. Extending the Texas leave
the three nothing stretch from the left hander Kate Fisher.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Here's the pitch.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
Swung on and that is lying in the left center
of base hit rounding third, coming in the scores Tommy Farmer.
There's the first collegiate hit for Jonah Williams. It drives
in a run and it's four nothing, Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
Nothing in won. The cap burns the stretch.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
Here's the one swung onto, the ball hit on the
sinking liner and center coming on sliding to make the
catch his.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
Gas Marino and the inning's over.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
Will Gasparto fielding his position so expertly, a sliding catch
and outwards Hire Auburn in the sixth, the two ball,
two strike pitch to Jonah Williams swings here and lines
it in the center field. It will drop for a
a cent and it will drive in two runs. How
about the freshman Jonah Williams. He has his first career hit,

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then his first career two hit game, and his first
three r They's two there and the log warns push
back with two.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
When they lead six to two.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
Here's the two to two pitch swung out of the
grounder threw on the right side of ase hit floors
around third being waved to the plate.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
The throw is.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
Gonna go to third, but it's high and it sails away.
Gasparino trots in opposite field, RBI single, one RBI for Schusler,
the second on the error, and the log warns down.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
Leaded eight to three.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
Fans rise to their feet, wanting to see the final
strength of the night. One ball, two strengths, two outs,
galanis less tratch. Here's the one two pitch to mc murray,
swing and am In struck you out, and that will
do it. The Log Warns take the game. The log
Warns have won the first two games. They've won the

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series against the Auburn Tigers, and tomorrow they'll go for
the sweep. Final score Tonight from UFCU Deschamaunk Field, the
Texas log Worns eight the Auburn Tigers three. From UFCU
Dishpunk Field. It's the Texas Longhorns against the Auburn Tigers
in the finale of the three game weekend series. The

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pitch swung on a ground ball hit and off the
glove of the third basement snow.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
It'll score the run.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
Gas Barno's safe at first Ryland Galvan scores from third
and the game.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
Is tied at one. A one ball, one strike pitch.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
Swung on to the ball, hit well, help hard left.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
You can say good night to this one.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
Kimballs Schustler's second home run of the weekend, a monstrous
blast beyond the left field fence, and the Loghorns.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
Take a four to one lead.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
For Rodriguez, it was one out of three in the
Thursday night opener. Swings of the first pitch and he
hits his ball well, this one out the deep center
back to the warning track and off the top of
the wall. Rodriguez will stop at second base. Four consecutive hits. Actually,
they're gonna call it around up. Yep, hit it hit

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the back wall. That's a home run. Kimball's Schusler hits
a home run, and now Adrian Rodriguez comes up with
a home run. It hit the back wall, and the
Longhorns now lead at five to one.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
Swung on it. That's lying down on the left field line.
That's fair in the corner. It'll score two runs.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
Kimball Schusler another extra base hits his fourteenth double of
the year, drives in two more and extends the Texas
leave to seven to one because swung on it. That's
three on the left side of base hip one run scores.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
Wave to the plate. Here comes Johan Williams.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
He slides, he is safe. The ball so popped out
of the mits Williams speeding home. A two runs single
from Ryland Galvan, and it's a nine to one Texas League.
Here's the two zero swung on the ball hit well
out toward left. If it stays fair, it's gone. It
is fair, and it is gone. Two run homer for

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Casey Harba. There's a stretch from Jet Johnston. First pitch
to Shustler swings here and it hits a fly ball
well out toward left. This one back to the warning track.
Say good night to it. This ball game is over.
I don't know what else is going on around the SEC,
but I can tell you one thing, Kimball Schustler is

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as deserving as anybody in the conference for being SEC
player of the weegue.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
It's a two run.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
Game ending walk off homer and the Loghorns run rule
the Auburn Tigers, and with that they remain number one
atop the College Baseball polls. They remain number one in
all the NCAA regional projections right now, and maybe they've
developed the next budding star. This is our number three

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of the program here on thirteen under the Zone. My
name is Craig Waite. Thanks for joining us. Of course,
the producer put everything together. There is Cameron Parker, our
friends at Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine. Their latest thing
is to call the rising Texas Tornado. And there is

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Jonah Williams and Mike Craven wrote the story on it
and said he's the next Texas Longhorns, next great two
sports star. Of course, before we got to Austin five
star athlete from Galveston Ball and he is on football
scholarship to Texas and did not.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
Participate in spring practice.

Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
In fact, he is of the age where he would
be finishing his high school. As I said to Linda
at Alas, I said, dude probably should have been in
his senior prom or something if it's come up already.
But he's playing baseball for Texas and got his first
multi hit games over the weekend and at least for
the time being, or as Jim Slosnagel says, for the

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foreseeable future right now is the start in left field.
He had pretty exciting weekend. Everybody was excited to see
him perform well and he did.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
He did do that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
So that's online at Texas Football dot com, Dave Campills
Texas Football Magazine where they have the piece on Jonah Williams.
Jonah and the Long Orange will be twenty eight miles
to the south of US down in San Marcus a
bobcat Ballpark tomorrow evening As Texas will take on Texas State.
They're only midweek road non conference game of the Season'll

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be down in Hayes County, six o'clock, first pitch. You
can hear it one o three point one FM, as
well as connecting to it to listen to it online
through the iHeartRadio app. You can listen to the Texas
longrns app, the LHN app I think also in Varsity
Network app too, and online at Texas Long Runch dot com.

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So that'll be tomorrow evening's game. Keith Mortland will join
me for the call of that one the latest you
heard me say there on that last highlight. I don't
know how the rest of the SEC is doing. The
Kimball Schustler is as deserving as anybody to be SEC
Player of the Week, and the voters who vote on
that agreed. But they also agreed that Jayce Laviolette of

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Texas A and M was as deserving, so as a
result of that, they are the sec CO Players of
the Week. And he said, well, how could he have
done any better? At Schusler. Schusler batted seven to fourteen
over the weekend, and over the week three homers, ten

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runs batted in. He reached safely in thirteen of his
seventeen plain appearances, four multi hit efforts, one in each game,
highlighted by that two home run eight RBI performance on
Saturday in the run rule win over Auburn lavio Lette.
You ask hit five home runs, he scored ten times,
drove in eleven runs. He hit four to twelve, so

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he hit about three hundred points left, but he hit
two more home runs. He homered in all four games
that matched a career high. He also had a multi
hit game in three of the four contests, and he
drove in multiple runs in all four games.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Over the weekend, he had four home runs.

Speaker 1 (01:17:14):
And seven RBIs As the Aggies picked up their first
series winning Fayetteville in nine years twenty sixteen, last time
that happened. So it'll be interesting with both of those
guys going head to head this week as Texas will
play Texas A and M on Friday evening at seven o'clock,
Saturday afternoon at three, and Sunday afternoon at two, So

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look forward to that. Saturday is going to be a
big day, you know, because the the end of football
spring practic. As we know, there's no Orange white spring game,
but there's a fan fest.

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Is there a scrimmage that night fen day closed scrimmage
or will it be I they were in the week
done by it?

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
Okay, tell you what last Steve sarkisian when he's on
with us on Wednesday afternoon. Yeah go, Sark will join
us to kind of do a little wrap up of
how things have gone with spring ball. So obviously he
joins us here on the flagship for the long worn
radio network from Learfield. So Sark will be on with
us Wednesday afternoon in a two o'clock hour, So we look.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Forward to that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
Back to baseball, the latest polls have come out, Texas
number one in all of the polls. Interesting, the d
one baseball rankings. Texas is number one. Then it's Clemson two,
Oregon State three, Florida State four. Then it's Arkansas five,
Tennessee six, LSU seven, North Carolina eight, Vanderbilt nine, Georgia ten.

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Second tim begins with Auburn at eleven, filed by UC Irvine, Oregon,
Oklahoma at fourteen, then UCLA Arizona, West Virginia, Alabama at eighteen.
Then it's Louisville, Troy, Coastal Carolina and Southern Miss three
Sun Belt Schools twenty twenty one and twenty two, Ole
Miss twenty three, Georgia Tech twenty four, NC State twenty five.

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TCU dropped out after dropping two of three at UCF
of the weekend. But if you're counting from the SEC,
the Longhorns have four of the top seven, five of
the top nine, six of the top ten, seven of
the top eleven, eight of the top fourteen, nine of

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the top eighteen, and ten of the top twenty three.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
So they have ten ranked schools.

Speaker 1 (01:19:33):
This week in this week's rankings. So impressive stuff there
that Texas had. I mentioned last hour about Walker Bueler,
and he started today for the Red Sox. Of course,
he went to Boston in the offseason, signed with them
after coming off the World Series Championship with the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
He's also three and one start. He's pitching well and
had longest outing. He went seven innings, he struck out nine.
He threw one hundred pitches.

Speaker 1 (01:20:03):
And it was kind of a weird thing because today's
Patriots Day, so they had that early start in Boston
because of the Boston Marathon, and they start the game
at eleven am Eastern, so it starts at ten o'clock
in the morning. So I was watching the game in
my home while having coffee at ten o'clock this morning
and watching Walker Buller pitch, and he looks good.

Speaker 2 (01:20:25):
He looks looks healthy and looks good.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
And I mentioned this as a note going into the
top of the hour, but they didn't mention everything. He
was a little uptight because it was his first time
to be in Boston on Patriots Day and he was
concerned about traffic if he drove it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
He lives in Newton, Massachusetts, not that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:42):
Far away, but was concerned about getting caught in traffic
or road closures or knee tours and all that other
kind of stuff when he has to pitch a game
at eleven o'clock in the morning, So he took his
family to a hotel near Fenway Park, and he said,
I stayed at a hotel last night just so that

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I didn't have just so that I kind of didn't
have to worry about it too much. My wife and
kids stayed with me, and everything was kind of normal
for us. We're all kind of used to sleeping in hotels,
so we're all good. So he did that, and he
talked about, so, how did you prepare for the game
differently if you're at the hotel for a home game.

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Obviously on the road you're in a hotel, But is
it any different? He said, well, I had all my
stuff done. I took an iPad home and I read
it last night where I typically do. I scouted their
whole lineup and every guy on the bench, and then
he went to the hotel. He said he set his
alarm for six forty five in the morning. He got
to the park at seven fifteen this morning local time.

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It was the earliest game that Walker Buehler had pitched
in since he was pitching in Double A for the
Dodgers in twenty seventeen. That would have been Tulsa. The
Tulsa Drillers are Double A. And that was when he
was in the Dodgers farm system. And listen to this.
They said, do you remember much about that? And he said, yeah,
I was going up against Jack Flaherty. It was SpongeBob

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square Pants Day that we faced each other in. He said,
I was thinking about that earlier. So it was Detroit's
Double A that he was going up against, which is
the Eerie Sea Wolves there the Eastern League. So it was
that was the Dodgers Double A and he was going

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on that. Okay, speaking of that, Every year there are
new minor league baseball teams. Now I'm not talking about
the independent minor leagues, and I'm glad those still exist,
because when Minor league baseball was contracted by I think
forty two clubs a few years ago by Major League

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Baseball and it got cut from one hundred and sixty
one hundred and sixty two of them to one hundred,
I think it was Geene Watson.

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
I've talked about this at length.

Speaker 1 (01:23:04):
It took away a lot of opportunities for what would
be later round draft. The draft's only a twenty round
draft now, so it was a problem for a lot
of guys. It also meant some reworking of teams. Our
friend Andrew Haynes, who's the voice of Long Worn Softball,
he was the voice of the Ogden Raptors who were

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in the Pioneer League.

Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
That whole league was contracted.

Speaker 1 (01:23:29):
It was a Rookie League team, and it was a
Dodger Rookie League team, and it got pulled out. So anyway,
there had been a contraction and reworking of a lot
of the minor leagues, and some teams actually got promoted up. Greensboro,
my hometown, got promoted up into the Carolina League. Others
got promoted or demoted down. There's one other and every

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year there's a new team. Have you heard, Cameron, since
you grew up in Charlotte, have you heard of the
minor league team in Spartanburg, South Carolina? Now they've had
off and on minor league teams for years.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
Spartanburg.

Speaker 1 (01:24:11):
Keith Morland played there when he was in the Phillies organization.
Oh really, Okay, yeah, they're no longer called Spartanburg. The
need that the team name is the Hub City Spartanburgers. Now,
first of all, did you know that Spartanburg was known
as a hub city, the hub city.

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
I guess because it's next to Greenville. I suppose it
says what is a hubs city? Well, it's good that
you mentioned that, because on their website says why hub city.
Hub city is the primary most utilized nickname for Spartanburg.
The reason Spartanburg was nicknamed hubcity is directly tied to
the rail industry and the importance it played for Spartanburg

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as a community in the late eighteen hundreds of over
seven rail lines running into and out of the center
of Spartanburg.

Speaker 1 (01:24:58):
That's made Spartanburger true huh u for transportation of goods
and people across the southeast in the country. So that's
why it was called that. The only hub cities I
knew of Boston hub City. Boston is the other Lubbock
hub city. In fact, they had a summer league team
called the Lubbock Hubvers. Keith Moreland played for that when

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he was coming out of high school, the Lubbock Covers.
So anyway, they have I think they have a new
downtown ballpark called Fifth Third Park, named after Fifth Third Bank.

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
But they're the Hub City Spartan Burgers.

Speaker 1 (01:25:32):
Interesting, yeah, is the name is the name of that team,
So you're a minor league update for the day round.
Rock Express off today, right, because the PCL is off
on Mondays, right, so they'll be back in action tomorrow night.
All right, We've got some football notes. We gotta get
to NFL Draft just around the corner. We'll get to
that when we continue on thirteen under the zone.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
We're back.

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
It's the Craigway Show with Hall of Fame broadcaster and
voice of the Texas Longheards Craig Way.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
A couple of things before we talk from NFL.

Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
The NCAA Division One Board of Directors today, just a
little while ago, proposed deleting one hundred and fifty three
long standing rules from their handbook. Just strike them out
of the book. One hundred and fifty three. The reason

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why it's that particular number is is that they are
all connected in one way or another to prevent schools
from sharing financial benefits directly with student athletes.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
So it's still.

Speaker 1 (01:27:00):
Contingent upon the approval of the House settlement. The nc
Board of Members board members met for about four hours
today and they emerged with nine major proposed legislative changes.
Now listen to these. Here's what they're proposing to change. One,
including permission for schools to provide direct financial payments to players.

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He said, well, what's the difference from what's going on
in al is different the way it's funneled and set up,
and this would be just a school just writ in.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
The check.

Speaker 1 (01:27:37):
Also includes free use of their nil. NC leaders are
aiming to reshape the role of the organization. They are
poised to effectuate sweeping changes by July first. If the
settlement is approved. Schools have until June fifteen to decide
whether or whether to opt to provide benefits that would

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be permission under the settlement for the coming academic year.
Proposed legislation also includes sports specific roster limits, allowing full
scholarships to all student athletes on a roster. So don't
to worry about the eleven point seven anymore or whatever
to anybody that's on a roster gets full scholarship. The

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NCAA said it's going to double the scholarships available in
women's sports. It would also align with this expected House settlement,
and that it would allow the power for schools sec
ACC Big ten, Big twelve. It would allow the Power

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four schools and others who choose to offer settlement related benefits.
This is that number that we've been hearing, twenty million,
twenty point five million dollars in direct financial benefits to players.
Not all Division one schools are going to choose to
operate in that new system enabled by the settlement. The
IVY League is chosen to opt out and they will

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continue to operate under the current structure. But the new
NIL clearing House and the enforcement arm that's aiming to coexist.
This is Heather Dinnis who wrote this up for ESPN,
and she always does find job it said. Was also
included that NIL clearing House, along with the rules, intended
to bring clarity instability of the NIL environment for all

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Division one schools to prevent schools from trying to circumvent
that cap of twenty point five million, the NCAA has
proposed rules to help add stability and accountability.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
All players will be required to.

Speaker 1 (01:29:40):
Disclose their NIL agreements if they are greater or equal
to six hundred bucks. Like if you you know, if
you call a game Cameron for somebody and they pay
you six hundred and more, you got to clear that
on your taxes. So that's that magic number six hundred.
Agreements between the player and the third party outside of
the school will be reviewed. The board also approved new

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rules that would create technology platforms for the schools to
monitor their payments to players and for the athletes to
report their third party INIL agreements. There are also steps
the players can take if an NIL agreement is considered
outside of the range of compensation developed by the external
independent clearinghouse. Players will still be allowed to hire agents

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for NIL purposes. An enforcement group that would be created
and operated by these conferences would aim to, as they say,
provide oversighther rules relating to the terms of the settlement,
including third party and NIL and the annual benefits cap.
The NCAA will still use certain eligibility rules that have

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been used to distinguish Division one athletics from pro sports.
For the athletes to receive these benefits, the NCAA will
require them to be enrolled full time and meet Division
I progress towards their degree and are in the benefits
during the five year eligibility period.

Speaker 3 (01:31:04):
So that's what they came out of the meeting with today. Yeah,
So the NCAA is basically, you know, they're getting in
line with this potential house settlement. Yeah there, now they're
officially look like they're officially done fighting this and so
now accepting into Okay, let's go ahead and get in
a position to where when this gets approved, which should
be I thought it was going to be this past weekend,
but I guess maybe a little bit in a couple

(01:31:26):
of days or so, maybe a little bit a couple
of weeks. But eventually this the hustlement, will get approved.
It's not if it's more about when it will get approved.
The nca is going to have to be ready to
go because I mean, Craig, this is going to be
such a crazy period this next year or two and
just figuring out what the schools can do, and you know,
with this twenty point five million dollar cap so to speak,

(01:31:48):
and house schools are going to decide to divvy up
you know which program gets what.

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:31:56):
Look, folks have been saying with this nil thing, it's
been wild west and that their need there's a real
need for guardrails on it. Well that's what this is.
The NCAA is trying to put some guardrails down. Now
you can take this to the bank that some folks
will have a problem with it regardless. And I would

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also tell you that the smaller Division one programs are
going to have a problem meeting that twenty zero point
five million dollar cap. But you know they're making an effort,
like you said, to fall in line with a house settlement,
so that there are indeed some guardrails, like you've got
to be enrolled as a full time student, like you

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have to have progress towards your degree, like the fact
you got to get it done in five years. Those
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Speaker 1 (01:35:19):
Okay, so we're drawing closer to the NFL Draft. We
have our big NFL Draft preview program coming up Thursday
from Twin Peaks and Round Rock. It's the best way
to say it's it's basically in the shadow of the
flyover from Toll forty five on to Buy thirty five.

Speaker 2 (01:35:40):
Right, it's right there on that corner there.

Speaker 3 (01:35:42):
Yeah, it's kind of what you would say, what the
northeast corner if you're looking like going up from Austin,
the Dallas you know, there's the there's a Chick fil
A there, the McDonald's, dependa Express, Taco Plenk, Taco Peleenk,
and then it's Twin Peaks. It's across from the Walmart,
so that side. So if you're going northbound to get
off that what lewis henna right.

Speaker 2 (01:36:02):
Able service right through the light yep, going to the bridge,
you have a pair of lights you go across and
it's right there on that right hand side.

Speaker 3 (01:36:09):
So, uh, there's gonna be uh specials as well. To
Craig always you know, Twin Peaks always sets us up
very well.

Speaker 2 (01:36:17):
But great time last year and a lot of people
showed up for it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:36:20):
But but but this year I think they'll do some
specials with with uh of course with being Draft night
and looks like that's what Thursday, So three ninety nine
bud Light and Budweiser's four dollars Shiner box, five dollars
Mexican candy shot.

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
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Speaker 3 (01:36:38):
That, and then a five dollars Jamison and Jamison Orange
and plus some some great happy hour for food too
as well. So it's it's gonna be it's gonna be
a lot of fun. Of course, meet and Craig and
Mike Harjes and Mark Kenry beout there also Norman Watkins
livetime long Corn Dorman.

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
Norman got a handful I think.

Speaker 3 (01:36:58):
A special guests that are gonna stop by, and also
some interviews too that we're gonna hear from some special
insiders and former Texas players too, because you know there's
gonna be a lot of Texas players selected in this draft.

Speaker 1 (01:37:10):
True enough, the draft itself begins at seven o'clock, so
we will have just left there when it starts, but
we'll set the table for.

Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
You on that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:20):
So I'm always fascinated by the mock draft stuff because
I'm here to tell you, Cameron Parker, this would have
been a full eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve years before
you were even born, that I was producing the talk

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show for Bradsham in Dallas on KRLD. I just started
out in full time there and he was the host
of Sports Central was the name of the show. And
Brad was the first one I ever heard in the
state of Texas do a mock draft, and this was
in the mid eighties. And what he would do is

(01:38:01):
he would get what was called the NFL Black Book
that had the names and phone numbers contact info for
the beat reporters, writers, broadcasters, and would turn that book
over to me and say line up. At the time,
I guess there were twenty six teams in the NFL.

(01:38:22):
Line up, twenty six reporters. And he would give me suggestions. Hey,
you know, I usually.

Speaker 2 (01:38:29):
Use Jack buck to to pick for the Saint Louis Cardinals.
I usually use.

Speaker 1 (01:38:37):
Gary Myers to pick for the New York Giants from
the New York Daily News and all this. And so
when I would contact all these people and line them up,
and we would do it live mock draft over two nights,
do the first thirteen picks the first night, and then
a second and it would just go bank bank bank,
like five minutes for each wine and roll it through.
So that was in the early pioneering days of doing

(01:38:58):
mock drafts now mock drafts. And by the way, we'd
have Mel kiper On too. Mel was just really starting
out and he would send his draft guide in. He
was young and fledgling, but we would do this mock draft. Nowadays,
mock drafts are done all the time by any number

(01:39:18):
of outlets, podcasts and websites and over the ear linear
ESPN and several others. So you can take your choice
on NFL dot com and NFL Network. I've followed Jordan
Reid quite a bit on ESPN plus on the deal
because his mock draft this is some exhaustive work. He

(01:39:43):
made all two hundred and fifty seven picks. Now, when
I used to do this mick draft for a Brad,
we did the first round and he couldn't make trades.
Just one round, twenty six picks took two nights. He
did his final mock draft two hundred and fifty seven picks,
and some of them are pretty obvious, like cam Ward

(01:40:06):
he has number one overall, one to Tennessee. I think
pretty much everybody's expecting that right that the Titans will
take Camore number one.

Speaker 3 (01:40:11):
Yeah, he's been he's been doing a lot of uh,
he's been dropping a lot of name dropping a lot
of Tennessee Titan players and like his live streams and stuff.
So it seems like he knows that the Titans are
going to take him.

Speaker 2 (01:40:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:40:22):
Now Jordan Reid points out, he said, uh, he has
Abdul Carter, the edge rushier from Penn State and Travis
Hunter of Colorado both ranked higher on his board, but
he said the general manager, Mike Borgonzi, appears ready to
tie his early tenure to the top ranked quarterback in
the class. All right, So then he's got Travis Hunter
go winning Sacka to Cleveland. He's got Abdul Carter going

(01:40:43):
to the Giants, and number three Will Campbell to the
Patriots at four, Mason Graham from Michigan to the Jaguars
at five, Ashton Genty the Boys, he's stayed running back
to the Raiders at number six. So he goes on
down from some of the Jalen Walker for Georgia going
to Carolina. Number eight, Shador Sanders. He has going ninth overall,

(01:41:05):
the Colorado quarterback Beyonsa going to the Saints. He's got
mikel Williams from Georgia going tenth over all to the Bears.
He has Kelvin Banks going eleventh overall to the forty
nine Ers eleventh overall. Have you seen who he's got
the Cowboys taking at number twelve? Let me guess, Okay,
I think it's got to be a receiver.

Speaker 2 (01:41:25):
So uh huh.

Speaker 3 (01:41:26):
The hot name that I've seen lately is our own
Matthew Golden. Is it Matthew Golden. It's not Matthew Golden.
It's a receiver. It is a receiver.

Speaker 1 (01:41:35):
Is it Tita Row McMillan. Yep, interesting, Yep, yep, he's
got him. He's got McMillan there at twelve, and then
he's got Jatte Baron going to the Dolphins the very
next pick at thirteen thirteen rather uh huh. Just scrolling
through a few, he has Matthew Golden going eighteenth overall
to the Seahawks, So that would be three long horns

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in the first eighteen.

Speaker 2 (01:41:57):
Picks if it happens that way.

Speaker 1 (01:42:00):
He's got the Steelers taking Jackson Dart, the Omens quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
At twenty one.

Speaker 1 (01:42:06):
He has the Texas a and m edge rusher Shamar
Stewart going to the Packers.

Speaker 2 (01:42:10):
At twenty three.

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
He's got the Texans taking Tyler Booker, the guard from Alabama.

Speaker 2 (01:42:15):
Twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:42:16):
He has the Rams taking Malachi Starks, the Georgia safety
at twenty six. There's many outside of this first round.
It just kind of screams off the Josh Simmons, the
Ohio State offensive tackles of the Chiefs at thirty one,
and the last pick number thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:42:32):
Two, he has Walter Nolan.

Speaker 1 (01:42:34):
So anyway, he's got Jaylen Milroe from Alabama going to
the Browns with the first pick in the second round.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
Off of that, a couple other names.

Speaker 1 (01:42:46):
Travion Henderson, the running back from Ohio State going thirty
ninth overall to the Bears in the second round. Let's
see what it was it quin Shawn Judkins, the Ohio
State running back going to the Cowboys in the second
round at number forty four overall.

Speaker 3 (01:43:01):
I got a feeling it'll be receiver, running back, defensive
line or maybe receiver defensive line running back in the
first three rounds for the Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (01:43:11):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:43:12):
He has the Chargers taking Alfred Collins at the fifty
fifth overall pick in the second round. So that's four
in the first two rounds for the for the Longhorns.
And of course, like we said, they had eleven he's got.
He's got the Giants taking Tyler Shuck, the Louisville quarterback
in the third round.

Speaker 3 (01:43:29):
He's I saw a thing today about could he go
in the first round? What do we do in your guys?

Speaker 2 (01:43:35):
Kidding me? Tyler shuck. He's he's I'm almost the same
age as him. Yeah, I remember he was coming out
of high school, because yes, you're exactly right.

Speaker 1 (01:43:45):
My goodness, he's got He's got Andrew mccouba going to
the Bears early in the third round, seventy second overall pick,
so that's five. He's got the Cowboys taking Shamar Turner
from A and M the defensive tackle in the third round.

Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
So that's just kind of a cross section in in
uh looking.

Speaker 1 (01:44:09):
Uh He's got the Rams taking Jack Back, the wide
receiver from TCU in the third rounds got Devin ne
L the Kansas running back, going to the Texans in
the third round as well. Uh so that's kind of
a cross section of what that's just one one mock
draft pick there, just so you know. Also, let me

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look for the Cowboys. Cowboys don't have a fourth round pick.

Speaker 2 (01:44:35):
I think it was given up in a trade if
I remember correctly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:44:39):
Ye, he has the Cowboys taking Denzel Burke, the Ohio
State corner in the fifth round. Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:44:48):
Then in round six, gosh.

Speaker 3 (01:44:53):
I got a lot of Rams, a lot, a lot
of compensatory compensatory, compensatory, compensatory that's a tough pick.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
Yeah, yeah, I got like two of those in the
sixth round.

Speaker 1 (01:45:03):
He has the Rams taking Dylan Gabriel and he has
the Chargers taking Jake Majors in that sixth So anyway,
there's that. And by the way, in case you're wondering
who mister irrelevant would be, last pick, Max and Hook

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a safety from Toledo going to the Chiefs number two
fifty seven.

Speaker 2 (01:45:28):
So there you are. There you all right. We'll be
back to wrap it up at thirteen hundred zone.