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Speaker 1: let's go from the Bengals to some hoops. Miami SMU

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Speaker 1: tonight from you d Arena. My next guest is the

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Speaker 1: longtime voice of the Miami RedHawks. His name is synonymous

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Speaker 1: with Miami Athletics. He's a member of the Athletics Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame. He's the pride of Brookville High School. Let's

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Speaker 1: welcome in Steve Baker.

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Speaker 2: How are you Lance? I'm doing great, man. How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm well. I know you Unfortunately won't be on the

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Speaker 1: call tonight. You had a shoulder surgery, dealing with some issues,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to go deep on that. I

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Speaker 1: just want you to tell listeners, how are you feeling?

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Speaker 1: How you doing?

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Speaker 2: Feeling great? Had surgery a week ago and I'll be

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Speaker 2: ready to get back to it this fall.

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Speaker 1: And football excellent, good news, good news. Take me back

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Speaker 1: to Sunday. How confident were you as the as the

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Speaker 1: selection process and the show was unfolding on CBS that

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Speaker 1: Miami was in.

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Speaker 2: You know, I was as confident as I could be.

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Speaker 2: You know, the system is the system, and you know,

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Speaker 2: there's no real way to take advantage of it unless

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Speaker 2: you're in a Power five conference. And yeah, I had

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Speaker 2: confidence that we would be in, but you never know,

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Speaker 2: especially when the teams that we were supposedly ahead on

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Speaker 2: the bubbles started showing up at twelve seeds and ten

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Speaker 2: the last in. And you know, just to have a

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Speaker 2: seat at the table. It's not always fair, but just

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Speaker 2: to have a seat at the table put you in

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Speaker 2: the tournament. Mess best thing, Steve.

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Speaker 1: We talked about Travis the last time you joined me,

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Speaker 1: and I continue to believe his his messaging, his handling

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Speaker 1: of all that this season has brought has been pretty

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Speaker 1: dang impressive to me. You're around him every day. What's

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Speaker 1: it been like watching him navigate this season for this team?

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Speaker 2: I tell you what, It's not an easy thing for

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Speaker 2: anybody to do. And Travis will tell you it drove

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Speaker 2: him crazy. And there were times where he said, I

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Speaker 2: just go where people tell me to go. I go

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Speaker 2: talk to people that people tell me to talk to.

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Speaker 2: And it becomes that way, especially when you get into

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Speaker 2: undefeated possibility and that sort of thing is just built

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Speaker 2: into this huge mountain. But you're right, he handled everything

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Speaker 2: in terms of the media exposure, in terms of you know,

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I thought he did an excellent job all

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Speaker 1: I was watching a channel local Channel five interview with

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Speaker 1: Evan Ipsorrow earlier in the week, and I think people

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Speaker 1: realize he was the starting point guard and then went

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Speaker 1: But he's almost adopted like the role of assistant coach.

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Speaker 1: He's certainly still plugged in and very much involved with

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And you know I asked him about that

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Speaker 2: that role. And you know, he said, you know, going

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Speaker 2: And you know, I think it made him a lot better.

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Speaker 2: And certainly having Evan he said, they're best friends. They

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Speaker 2: them have you know, an ego as it's concerned, and

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Speaker 1: I hear these players talk throughout the season. I talked

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's it's amazing to me. I've never seen

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Speaker 2: But this team from the very beginning of the season

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Speaker 2: And I've never seen it, because you know, I think

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Speaker 1: Steve Baker checking in a couple more minutes on Sports

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Speaker 1: Talk tonight, longtime voice of the Miami RedHawks. What do

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Speaker 1: you think of the matchup against SMU tonight.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a good matchup. I think Terry's going

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Speaker 2: be one of those games. Whoever plays the better defense

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Speaker 2: I think wins. The big guy scares me. I may

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Speaker 2: Their two main guards are very, very difficult to guard.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I like our chances if we play

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Speaker 2: think it's going to be a good one. Can't wait

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Speaker 1: Steve, take me back in the memory bank. Tell me

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Speaker 1: about memories of Maryland, Miami. Len Bias goes for twenty five,

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Speaker 1: Ron Harper Goes for twenty six, d Arena Terrapin sixty

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Speaker 1: I said all that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was actually the second game that I had

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm sitting courtside watching Bias warm up, watching

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Speaker 2: and no, he's capable of but you know, so much

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Speaker 2: had what happened to him happened to him, excuse me, Uh,

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Speaker 2: he would have I think done very very well. Uh.

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Speaker 2: But uh, to call the posterization of Ron harper Lin

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Speaker 2: I was going to do the rest of my life.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was just amazing. And to go back

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Speaker 2: Iowa State and to be part of those memories for

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Speaker 2: these guys and stuff, that's that's what That's what's my

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Speaker 1: Oh man, I got I got chills. And you said

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Speaker 1: that that's that's awesome. So I assume you will be

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Speaker 1: glued in front of the TV tonight.

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Speaker 2: Yes, as a matter of fact, I will be and uh,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I uh, I can't wait to see it.

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Speaker 2: And uh, I think I think it's gonna be a

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Speaker 2: great game. I hope we can pull this, but out.

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Speaker 1: It's always a treat catching up with you. Heal up,

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Speaker 1: rest up, take care and enjoy tonight, and I hope

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Speaker 1: we can talk again soon.

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Speaker 2: Always a pleasure. Lance. Appreciate you man, Thank you, Thanks Steve.

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Speaker 1: Steve Baker, longtime voice of the Miami RedHawks four plus decades,

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Speaker 1: Athletics Hall of Fame and unfortunately not on the call

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Speaker 1: tonight as he recovers, but cannot wait tip off probably

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Speaker 1: closer to nine to thirty when it's all said and done,

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Speaker 1: by the way. An update from Gordon Wittmeyer of The

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Speaker 1: Brady Singer threw three and two thirds innings of scoreless baseball,

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Speaker 1: with a what appeared to be a blister. Brady talked

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Speaker 1: March twenty ninth against the Red Sox. So that's the

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Speaker 1: latest from Gordon Whitmeyer of The Inquirer. Up next, Hunter

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Speaker 1: Green talked yesterday. You're gonna hear what they did to

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Speaker 1: his el elbow, the timeline and why he chose the

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Speaker 2: That's next.

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