Stories Inside the Man Cave
Stories Inside the Man Cave
Ep 468: The Pass Rush with Stevie Lee, an OKC Thunder tribute & Texas Longhorns football recruiting
The Thunder clinch their first NBA championship since relocating from Seattle, with the Larry O'Brien trophy making its way to Oklahoma City after their Game 7 victory over Indiana. The young squad's inexperience showed in their championship celebrations as veteran Alex Caruso had to teach his teammates how to open champagne bottles properly.
• Oklahoma City becoming NBA champions after 17 years, with 12 postseason trips and 4 Western Conference Finals appearances
• Aaron Wiggins' powerful speech addressing how the Thunder went from being called "the black hole of the NBA" to champions
• Young Thunder players struggling with opening champagne bottles during celebrations, with Alex Caruso guiding them
• Texas football's impressive recruiting class of 2026, with special focus on defensive linemen
• Texas State potentially moving from the Sun Belt to the restructured Pac-12 Conference
• LSU winning their eighth College World Series with controversial umpiring decisions against Coastal Carolina
• The deep significance of the Thunder championship for Oklahoma City, with memorial tributes connecting to the city's painful history
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Speaker 2:Man the Larry O'Brien Trophy headed to well. It is in Oklahoma City, my 1B favorite community. But, stevie, regardless of my love for the Thunder, a historic team, and here's a stat that a lot of people don't even think about this region of the country, texas, oklahoma and. I guess you can include Louisiana with New Orleans Hornets. That's nine NBA championships total.
Speaker 3:Wow, that's good, that's a lot, but let me ask you a question. Yeah, is that the Thunder that won it, or the Seattle Super Sun?
Speaker 2:Oh, pull on the Thunder, bro. I have heard. I am so tired of the Seattle fans whining you know what? I get it. I get it Home of the 1979 NBA champions. Great history in Seattle and the Emerald City Beautiful city had a great, proud tradition.
Speaker 3:Let go, Let go. I'm joking man. Yeah, you're right, though they want to celebrate it like it was theirs, but no, it's gone. Oh, they're not celebrating it.
Speaker 2:They're ignoring it and being whiny and pissy about it. When you had an opportunity to build a new arena and you didn't do it, yeah and okay, clay Bennett, I know he's from Oklahoma he said all right, if you don't build the arena, I'm moving this to Oklahoma City. Yeah, and it did. And 17 years, 12 trips to the postseason, four trips to the Western Conference Finals, two NBA Finals trips and the elusive NBA championship. Quickly, what are your real because we're going to dive deep and have some fun with this and your thoughts on that team Game seven, indiana, I mean they went full seven games.
Speaker 3:Oh man, real young team. It would have been been if they weren't so young and making young team mistakes. It would have been done in six or five, you know, but they got it done with a very, very young team. If they keep it together, they can do it again With the old man being Alex Caruso. It was really fun to watch Caruso come off the bench Peace, but he played like a starter. You know what I mean. Yeah, yeah. So he's kind of like the heart and soul of the team. It was funny how he had to help people, teach people how to open champagne bottles.
Speaker 2:Oh, we're going to get into that.
Speaker 3:It's fun man.
Speaker 2:It's a lot of fun to watch him. Watch him, uh, win it. That is so. We're gonna talk about that. We're gonna look at that, larry o'brien, would you just look at it? Would you look at it? We're gonna have a good up close view and conversations about the nba championship trophy. Plus, we're gonna get into te, into Texas football, recruiting Stevie Far from finished for the class of 26, but they're kind of killing it in a good way.
Speaker 2:And you know what? Before we, I got to show you more of the thunder. More of the thunder, because this is a tribute to the team that calls the state above the Red River. Look at this Beautiful graphics, nba world champions. Your boy Caruso's in there with the headband Love it. So I'm going to remove this and we want you to follow us on Facebook, all of our social media platforms, and subscribe to YouTube free. Man, this is well worth it. Episode 468 stevie 32 episodes away from half a thousand. Half a thousand, bro, that's. It's unbelievable man. This has been a long journey, but it has been fun. You ready, ready man, let's ride brother.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, OKC, okc, okc, okc.
Speaker 2:That's fun. Woo Estimated 5,000 to 600,000 fans showed up in downtown OKC.
Speaker 3:That's fun, that's awesome man.
Speaker 2:That was beautiful.
Speaker 3:Good for the state of Oklahoma.
Speaker 2:Man. I'm telling you what, man. The beauty of that city was on full display and the modernization of it, and you know what else arrived this week already?
Speaker 3:There you go.
Speaker 2:Man look at this baby.
Speaker 3:That's perfect.
Speaker 2:NBA champion hat the hat you saw on the celebration of the players.
Speaker 2:It was such a good day. I looked up and I saw the Goodyear blimp and it read Ice Cubes of Pimp. There you go, oh my God. Hey, big shout-out to all of our sponsors as we're now entering Episode 468. We're going to have some fun with Stevie. It's been a little bit since you and I have had an episode, but you know, shout-out to everybody who supports this podcast here on the left-hand side of the screen. But for the pass rush with Stevie Lee. We love our people and our fam at Hargrove Roofing, stevie, yeah.
Speaker 3:We do love our people and our fam at Hardgrove Roofing, stevie, yeah, we do love our people and our fam. In fact, billy's texting me right now. Hardgrove Roofing, hardgrove Roofing. Know who's on my roof? Take two.
Speaker 4:Take two.
Speaker 3:Hardgrove Roofing Know who's on your roof.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's the truth. What's Billy Hardgrove having toing know who's on your roof? Oh, that's the truth. What's Billy Hardgrove having to say this morning or today?
Speaker 3:Checking in with me, man. I told them they made a mistake on that post.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and he brought it to my attention. Thank you. Yeah, I wasn't aware. I thought you were always 93, and you were 65 before it. But hey, to their defense, I'd be lying if I said I didn't, that I haven't made an error in judgment on a picture, thinking it was somebody else or that person.
Speaker 2:It happens, hey, oklahoma City, shout out to that great organization. And you know, after they won it on saturday, on sunday night, they had the parade in okc on tuesday morning and it all began with a ceremony at the arena before all the outdoor activities and I thought aaron wiggins had one of the best speeches, uh, to begin that morning. I mean, think about those guys. Probably hadn't slept much since Sunday night, even into Tuesday morning, and it was beginning to the realization that they were truly champs full emotions. Aaron Wiggins talking about how that great organization had so much winning early on. And then, in 2021, is when Sam Presti, the GM, imploded it for the rebuild after Russell Westbrook left. And then they hit. They experienced times that they had never experienced before. And Aaron Wiggins boy, he addressed it like an evangelical preacher, in a way a motivational speaker. Oh my God, the hair on my arms, back, neck whatever few follicles were remaining were standing tall.
Speaker 1:It was a point where they tried to call us the black hole of the NBA. But four years later, when they mention the Thunder organization, when they mention Clay Bennett, when they mention Sam Preston, when they mention Rocky Magna and every single one of you in this arena, they gotta mention you. That's gonna be it.
Speaker 2:Mike drop.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no question, oh, no question, and he's absolutely correct. You're an NBA champion Now. You are a champion for life. Call yourself champ from here on out.
Speaker 2:Nothing will ever change that, ever Ever. So Stevie alluded to it. This young Thunder team, they just don't have a lot of experience with beer and champagne. In fact, michelob Ultra is one of the corporate sponsors and they stopped the locker room in anticipation of a championship, but over two-thirds, I would say almost two-thirds of the beer on ice in the locker room were remaining afterwards. They didn't drink much and you know they have two Jalen Williams on the team. They have J-Dub, which is the one who went off for 40 in the previous game or game five, and then he's from Santa Clara University. And then there's J-Will, who played for Arkansas. Well, j-will he. Clearly, after the game and the celebration, clearly he could not hide his emotions over the fact that J-Wills not a beer guy. Where did the kids go? Yeah, those boys over at Michelob didn't like that.
Speaker 3:No, I think they're like man. What do we do with this?
Speaker 2:Well, they were talking about how they love 1942 tequila, but I think you and I could come up with better tequila options. How?
Speaker 3:about Lalo. Oh yeah, I got a bottle of that right now. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2:Shout out to Norman Watkins Gave it to me for my birthday a year ago.
Speaker 3:There you go, and you haven't finished it.
Speaker 2:No, I like tequila, but I'm not a big tequila guy.
Speaker 3:Sure.
Speaker 2:But I like it.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I like Lalo. Yeah, it's a good tequila, it's smooth, yeah. So your boy, caruso, former Aggie, won a ring with the Lakers during the bubble season in 2020. So he's had some experience popping bottles. So he's had some experience popping bottles. These kids did.
Speaker 4:they had, they did not know how to open the bottles of champagne in the locker room.
Speaker 2:You got to remove the foil, you got to twist pop. Well, caruso said you know, with experience, man, anything's better with experience.
Speaker 6:Through the learning experience of taking the foil off, undoing the metal and having the cork ready. There's like three or four guys that pop their corks and then it happened again and we're like all right. We went through the process a couple times and eventually we got everybody on the same page. But yeah, it was a good first try. We'll get some rest, reset, try to go again next year and see if we can do it again and we'll be better next year.
Speaker 2:It just shocked me. So what does that tell you? Is that a generational thing? Is that what this is?
Speaker 3:Absolutely. It is Absolutely. No one well no one that age drinks champagne. They will when they get older, but not knowing how to open one, that's absolutely a generational thing, for sure.
Speaker 2:My dad taught me at age eight.
Speaker 3:It was a different time back then, especially here in Austin.
Speaker 2:Shout out to Joe David Clinch.
Speaker 3:There you go.
Speaker 2:Teaching me life essential lessons in the backyard while he was barbecuing and we're popping bottles of Andre in the backyard and I'm not going to say anything. But I may or may not have had a few sips pools off that bottle of champagne at AJ.
Speaker 3:Absolutely, you had to.
Speaker 2:Mama C didn't know about it.
Speaker 3:That's all right. It's dad and son time. My dad called it Viking time. I got to be a Papa.
Speaker 2:Lee, papa Lee sounds like my kind of dude.
Speaker 3:He and I will go out. It's Viking style. We don't have to use utensils. We don't have to say, excuse me, we can do whatever we want to it's Viking style. We don't have to use utensils. We don't have to say, excuse me, we can do whatever we want to it's Viking style. That's what we did. I had a couple pulls off of his beard at that time too.
Speaker 2:My dad's company parties at Beast Park.
Speaker 3:I had.
Speaker 2:What is it? The course heavy, those old banquet yellow OG yellow bellies. So, stevie, I got to get your thoughts. It's really hard to win championships and it's really hard to really truly have a dynasty. I know Golden State had the latest one, but with the new collective bargaining agreement, salary cap teams that, like Oklahoma City and even the Spurs, really try to avoid going over the cap to pay the luxury tax. But there's a unique situation. This is not me, this is not Sean the fan of the Thunder talking. They're in a unique position because they've got most of these guys back for at least two more years before contract renegotiations have to occur. I mean SGA Shai Gilgis, alexander he's going to get probably the super max I would imagine coming up here very soon, I think as early as this summer. But you look at it, can they make a dynastic type of run where we're talking about multiple championships over the next five years?
Speaker 3:The short answer is yes, I think that they can. The long answer is yes, but the league was riddled with some big-time injuries this year, and so, even in the last game that Oklahoma played, with Halliburton going down, I think OKC still wins the game. I think so. But there's some big-time talent that's coming back. Kyrie Irving's coming back in Dallas with Cooper Flagg right. So you got and.
Speaker 2:Anthony Davis will probably be back.
Speaker 3:Yeah, ad will be back, and so it's some dynasties out there. That's going to be healthy, so their road to a dynasty can happen, but it's going to be a little bit harder.
Speaker 2:Yes, and now Houston has KD, now.
Speaker 3:Houston has KD.
Speaker 2:He's on the back end of his career. San Antonio is getting better. People need to quit discounting the leap that San Antonio made this year. Yeah. They quit discounting the leap that San Antonio made this year. Yeah, even they didn't make the play in, but they, from your first, from the two years ago to now, they only they only didn't make the play in because Wimby was out with the blood clot. Well, that was a significant loss.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a significant loss, but what the same thing that I'm saying is injuries are going to be over Like, so there's's some you have to really think about. Will they make it back and make it a dynasty when you have all these people healthy and all these healthy teams? Where do you fall in there now? I mean right now, man. If we're being honest, the last five years of the NBA, it's who got lucky and made all their players make it to the end of the NBA. It's who got lucky and made all their players make it to the end of the season. Great point.
Speaker 3:I agree with that that's where we are in sports, but OKC is a young team. The younger you are, the more healthy you are, except Caruso. Caruso was out a few times this year too, though. I think that, being young, though, that they can handle all that, but it's going to just be harder when everyone's healthy and elite.
Speaker 2:Right, and the thing that OKC also has in their tool belt or going for them, is the simple fact that Sam Presti has compiled over a dozen draft picks. It started, like you know, when the Cowboys traded away Herschel Walker to Minnesota, and then that's what started the Cowboys dynasty, when Sam Presti traded away Paul George. That's when all these draft picks started compiling, and I mean they had a lottery pick last night, or two nights ago the NBA draft.
Speaker 2:So, they've got it and they've got tons of picks. They have some conditional picks, so they're not lacking. They're not lacking, they've got a lot of opportunities. So our guy, kendrick Perkins, who's a former Thunder, won a championship with the Boston Celtics. He's the one that really gave them that toughness that led them to the 2012 NBA Finals. He's been doing a great job on the media side. He adds a great fun to these, to the NBA Finals broadcast on ABC and ESPN. Well, he didn't book his flight in time from Houston to OKC so he had to drive. That's over six hours. I mean, it's five and a half six hours from Austin, so they were giving him a hard time on a podcast. And Perk, in his own way, he's from beaumont, but he was. He had to leave from houston.
Speaker 4:you know perk, he's got a unique way of doing things, but he is definitely texas through and through you know it, you fucking know it got me a cream, dr pepper and a snicker and I kept it moving. You hit the br. Nah, it was too early in the morning to be eating that type of stuff. You know what I'm saying? Gotcha, my stomach don't take that type of stuff early in the morning.
Speaker 2:Because he did make a stop at Bucky's. There you go, he said once he got to Denton, which is 110, 111 miles from OKC, there's a Bucky's nearby.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Anytime you hit the road in Texas you got to stop at Bucky's On the way to Houston From Austin.
Speaker 2:On the way to Houston, yeah, or on the way to Dallas.
Speaker 3:You yeah, or on the way, on the way to Dallas.
Speaker 2:So you could eat off their toilet. Lids are so clean. I wouldn't recommend it. I wouldn't recommend it. All right, stevie, offseason. We're in the slow low, the calm before the madness, truly, where we go back through the busy cycle. The month of July is the slowest sports month of the year no doubt it is brutal, but I do enjoy F1.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I love F1. So I woke up this morning and watched practice one and practice two today, and then tomorrow will be qualifying and then Sunday I'll watch the race. But it's dead out there. Man, I was looking around like what to do. I went to a Round Rock Express game I told you Great Two nights ago and I was like, well, maybe I should go back tonight because it was actually fun. Tacoma they played Tacoma.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the.
Speaker 3:Rainiers, tacoma Rainiers. Yeah, how do you know that? Yeah, you're a professional. I'm sorry, but they were jawing at each other. So I was like let me go back, I might see a fight or something. Man, they were jawing at each other.
Speaker 3:There was one in the first inning. The pitcher pitched and the this is my first time seeing it. I'm sorry I'm getting off topic a little bit. No, no, you're good. The pitcher pitched and the this is my first time seeing it. I'm sorry I'm getting off topic a little bit.
Speaker 3:The pitcher pitched and the umpire called a strike. Well, the batter can challenge, right? Yeah, the batter challenged the strike and it was upheld. So he turns to the umpire, umpire has a mic on and he tells the crowd that the batter is challenging and then it comes up on the screen. It's a slow pitch and everybody oh, yeah, and it was a strike.
Speaker 3:Well, the pitcher got upset that he challenged his pitch. The next pitch, he hit him with the ball. He beamed him, yes, beamed him, and he knows on purpose, because it was a 70 mile an hour. He was throwing um, you know 80 and 90, but it was a 70, 72, 73 mile an hour ball that hit him in the thigh and the guy just dropped his bat and walked on. So it's those little things in baseball. That was fun and funny and I have to explain it to my daughter. He was upset that he challenged his strike. So I mean he could have just thrown another strike and he would have gotten him out. But he was like no, you're not going to do this this was the first inning Like, no, you're not going to do this. It was a first inning. He was like no, you're not going to do this, and hit him with the ball and let him take his base.
Speaker 2:That's the beauty of baseball, man.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You can brush people back, yep, you can beat them, but retaliate. Unwritten rules in baseball are funny, yeah. So during this time frame, man commitments building for college football, building the for college football, uh, building the class of 26 it's.
Speaker 2:I mean, I know texas is still young in certain areas, but my god, stevie, you know you build from the interior out and they've had a lot of people drafted lately, a lot of people at those positions yeah okay, what can you tell us because I I know it has been hard for me to keep up with all of the commitments and those narrowing down their decision to three or four and Texas is among that three or four.
Speaker 3:One thing that I really, really, really enjoying is that Sark and PK put a huge emphasis on the defensive line, as they should. As they should, there are times at the University of Texas that we were like second fiddle, you know, and so I love that there's an emphasis on the defensive line. We just signed three defensive tackles and one edge rusher, and then one from my home state of Louisiana, which I want to get to know. That kid, I'll go out to practice and induce myself, but it's a lot that's going on in recruiting. But right now these defensive tackles are a hot commodity, and nowadays you can kind of say commodity because they're getting paid. You know, yeah, and nowadays you can kind of say commodity because they're getting paid. So they are a premium too. They are a premium to get some big, fast defensive linemen in your program, and we got three of them. I'm so happy with that because, I'm telling you, football has always and never will change be about big on big hand-to-hand combat, that's what it is.
Speaker 3:Investing in your defensive line is going to pay dividends in your defense as a whole, same as the O-line. You invest in the O-line and then the quarterback and then the rest of the team will be really good after that.
Speaker 2:That's how it works In tears, yep, the game each play is won or lost at that line of scrimmage. Line of scrimmage yeah, so I'll do my best. On the at stories man cave on Twitter X. I want to make a list of the commitments recently. Obviously, the 2025 class was solid, but these commitments recently are very impressive. It's a slow go, I think. The running backs I think they offered quite a few. I think one has committed to A&M and several others, but I think at running back, texas is in a good place and you saw CJ Baxter. He's been cleared, which is a great thing, and we'll see how he handles coming off that major leg injury. Arch Manning Everybody he's being pumped. He's humble, he's being put on a pedestal by so many and he has a lot of potential. And to show you, he's got some street cred too, he went up to St Louis to help out with Wingos. Hey, there's that random thumbs up. I have no idea how that happens.
Speaker 3:I don't know, man, I think something's going on with your computer.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know, man, I think something's going on with your computer. Well, I don't know why, all of a sudden I am dark. That's not a melanin deal. Ryan Wingo has a youth football camp back in his hometown, say in the Louvre, and here's some video. Man, it looks like Arch fits right in hey.
Speaker 4:Who you on the Whoa, what Whoa?
Speaker 1:Whoa.
Speaker 2:Man, what's that? Tell you, man, when you've got, leave out the position. But when your high profile, a high profile teammate is willing, I'm not going to say sacrifice, but go, support you, your community, because it goes deeper, to those levels.
Speaker 3:Yeah, for me, man. It tells me that you're locked in with your teammate. You know, not only did he go there, they probably flew together. Yeah, probably not in the same room, but stayed at the same hotel or whatever. They are not just X's and O's, they're friends outside of football. That's the kind of chemistry you need, that a quarterback needs, with everyone that he's throwing the ball to, handing the ball off to whatever. What's telling me there is, he's putting the the we before me and I and I like that I like that a lot, man.
Speaker 2:I. I love the little cliches and acronyms sports and locker room material, because it's true, man, it's programmed, it's part of your when you hear it a lot. I know it gets tiring hearing about culture, but it's honest to God truth. I want to pull up a graphic Stevie that I made. We don't have to spend too much time on this, but everybody's excited about preseason. The toughest SEC road schedule. This is what Texas has, and I picked out a few others, but I clearly think OU has the toughest road SEC schedule.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:At South Carolina, alabama and Tennessee.
Speaker 3:Okay, I think that you think Alabama is still Alabama.
Speaker 2:I mean, there's still a nine-win program.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:They may get back up to 10. I don't know.
Speaker 3:They may drop down to 7-8.
Speaker 2:Oh, that would be horrible to see. And what happens to Tennessee with Lomolova out?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think Georgia is still going to be Georgia Kirby's going to get those boys right.
Speaker 2:The Swamp is not easy.
Speaker 3:The Swamp is not easy. I was recruited there and I went to a game down there and they have passion in that stadium.
Speaker 2:Well, their quarterback situation Texas it's not going to. It's going to be a very tough game for Texas.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Very tough and at Mississippi State you know they're going to be improved Starkville, Stark Vegas.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you got to look at Vandy with that schedule too. Oh Lord, have mercy, that's a hard one. Bro Vandy has a. They got to come to us, they got to go to Tennessee and then, if Alabama is stillennessee and then, if alabama is still alabama, and then south carolina.
Speaker 2:That's four tough, extremely tough road games yeah, absolutely four tough places yeah you know it's so that's it just kind of to appease those.
Speaker 2:give you an appetizer as we enter the slowest sports month of the year. But down the road from Austin, stevie, there's some big news. It could happen. Hopefully it's not news when you're watching this, but it could happen very soon.
Speaker 2:All right, my brother, texas State, has been in a carousel of conferences Getting back to their FCS days. They were in the Southland with Stephen F, austin and programs like that. Then they made the leap about 2012 to FBS. I believe they were in the WAC and then here recently been in the Sun Belt, which is a good league, a good league. Well, you know about conference realignment, the Pac-12 is not what it used to be. I mean, the only two schools remaining that we associate with the pac-12 is oregon state and washington state, um, so they've been expanding to save it. They have to have at least eight football playing members to remain an FBS conference.
Speaker 2:I believe the CBS network, their platforms, have made a commitment. If I may stand corrected, from what I understand Texas state, they've got to make a decision that the offer has been extended and they have to make. I want to say they got to make a decision by July 1st. If they don't, the buyout that Texas State owes the exit fee to the Sunbelt Conference would go from $5 million to $10 million. So we're on the last few days of June. They got to make this decision quickly.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh man, I don't know bro. You know one, they're jumping around a lot. You're right, they have a carousel. They're not planning routes to be the traditions of whatever conference that you're in. In the same breath, you got to look at the Pac-12 and what teams are going to come in and pack your stadium out. I don't know, man, I think you make that jump. $5 million is a lot of money to you and I, or to me, I don't know about you Today it is.
Speaker 3:To a football program that's looking on the upside. The Pac-12 is a historic conference. The Pac-10 was the Pac-10 at first right.
Speaker 2:Pac-10, then it evolved to the Pac-12.
Speaker 3:It's a historic conference. I think it's a no-brainer. Let the Pac-12 try to help you pay that bill. I do understand that you want to grow roots and and and have some tradition with a conference, but I think you do that with the big 12.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, the PAC See, and that and that's the thing they'll be playing. So they have, from my understanding, they'll have two non football playing members. Gonzaga is going to go from the West Coast Conference to the Pac-12 in basketball.
Speaker 1:And so is Grand.
Speaker 2:Canyon, which is a good mid-major, and it's only going to elevate their revenue. But then you have Jay Norvell, colorado State football program, and Nevada. They're going over to the Pac-12. And there's some other schools, but you still have Oregon State and Washington State. Oregon State has been fairly consistent over the years and Washington State has had some great years every now and then. So you bring those programs in. And places like Colorado State has made the commitment to football they had a renovation of their stadium and Boise State they're in this league.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm looking up all the teams that's in here and it's not shabby and so, like I said, you want to pack out their stadium, you want to pack out your stadium, get those teams down here, yeah, but now we're also just talking that. Or football, what about basketball and all the other sports and baseball, I think?
Speaker 2:baseball. I mean, think about this. Texas state's had a good track record of success in baseball. Think about programs like oregon state, who goes to the college world series a lot, playing conference series in San Marcos. Think about Grand Canyon. They've had good runs in basketball coming to the 10,000-seat straight-hand Coliseum. Even Oregon State, Washington State they've had NCAA tournament teams. Nevada they've had great basketball.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, conference realignment is never-ending. It's really weird to see USC, ucla in the Big Ten and it's weird, much weirder if you will, to see a cow playing on the ACC on the East Coast.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Makes no sense.
Speaker 3:It makes no sense.
Speaker 2:That's where we are today. Real quick. You know we talked about football recruiting. Ut Baseball right now is currently the top five in the country with their transfer portal class that they've assembled Amazing. And then Ace Whitehead, the pride of Lampasas, who's been a pitcher, a position player, just a really good, wholesome, great player, was injured of this past year, couldn't play this whole season. He's a stories inside the man Cave VIP alumni. He's transferring to USC. So that's what we got there. So keep an eye as UT baseball and Jim Slosnego, and then continue to construct their roster in this new era of college baseball.
Speaker 2:Hey, your home state LSU Tigers won their eighth College World Series National Championship, beat Coastal Carolina, but not without controversy. Lsu was up one game to none, so game two Coastal had to win in Omaha to force a game three. The very first two innings there was a disagreement on balls and strikes chattering from the first base coach for Coastal Carolina with the first base umpire. It resulted in some trash talking between the two. Kevin Snell, the head coach of Coastal Carolina, had some words. He was ejected. He and the first base coach were both ejected. Come on, man, I get it, but it's the national championship. Tensions are high. Have a conversation. Don't eject people unless it's just egregious. So here's Snall after the game. And what is up with this lighting man? That's weird. We're getting a little red fireworks too.
Speaker 2:That's freaking amazing. Check this out.
Speaker 1:Watch the video. There was a guy that came in extremely aggressively, tripped over Campos' foot, embarrassed in front of 25,000, immediately goes two-game suspension, and said bumping the umpire Immediately does that. There was no bump, he was embarrassed. I shouldn't be held accountable for a grown man's athleticism.
Speaker 2:Or lack thereof, Like that was the best man for lack of athleticism.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna go ahead and say stevie utter bullshit.
Speaker 2:Call to eject a coach unless he's up in your face.
Speaker 4:yeah yeah, somebody's agreeing with me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, you're exactly right, man. I think these umpires sometimes get in their feelings. This is the national championship he injected himself into these kids' games. I agree with Coach Coastal Carolina. The guy fell on his own. He's the one that ran in aggressively, like he said. I don't know, man, these umpires like I was talking earlier about the Round Rock Express game, they sometimes eject themselves into the game a little bit too much. In the same breath, they are a part of the game. They sometimes eject themselves into the game a little bit too much, but in the same breath they are a part of the game because they do make it fun sometimes.
Speaker 2:They're essential, but you're supposed to control the game.
Speaker 3:No question.
Speaker 2:Control the game. Have conversations like that, brother. It's been a while we're going to do this moving forward, because you have stories, stevie Lee. We usually save these for guests, but we need more, stevie Lee, random man cave stories. Is there any one story that you can think of, maybe from your locker room days or anything in life? That's just as funny now as when it happened.
Speaker 3:Oh man, I got so much.
Speaker 2:And it used to be a quick one.
Speaker 3:Well, I'll tell you this. You know my best friend, my brother Phillip Geiger. Phillip and I went to high school together and then we came to college together and we are still basically together. I'm Uncle Stevie, he's Uncle Phillip. We went to a football camp in high school in Tallahassee at Florida State.
Speaker 3:University, and so you know me being a big silly that I am, I was just jarring with him and poking at him and just aggravating him all day, All day. But he goes by the end of the day he's like I got something for you and I didn't think anything of it, just poking him. And we're in this rinky-dink dorm room all right. At night we're asleep, you know, getting ready for camp the next day. I'm dead asleep, dead asleep, and I hardly ever sleep on my back. At the time, and I'm sleeping on my back, all of a sudden I get a dash of water in my face. I thought, coming out of my sleep, I thought the ceiling had caved in on me. I thought that I had, like I was. The ceiling tiles was coming down on me. I thought he's in the corner bawling, laughing as I come to. He said see, I told you I was going to get you. I never messed with him after that, ever again.
Speaker 5:Where did?
Speaker 3:the water come from the sink. The water came from the sink. Another reason why I thought it was a ceiling is because it got in my mouth and it had this metallic taste to it. It's an old building, so it had the old pipe taste to the water. That's why I thought the ceiling was caving in, because it was dirty water. I don't know man. It was hilarious. He and I laugh about that still to this day.
Speaker 2:man, oh, Geiger, we need to text him. You saturated Stevie's face.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That could be misconstrued many ways.
Speaker 3:It very should. But I did not mess with him ever again after that because I was just poking at him all day and I didn't get mad because I deserved it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got jokes. Everybody's got jokes, right, got jokes. Everybody's got jokes right, geiger's got jokes. Hey, how risky. What type of risk? How far would you go? What? As far as a dirt road at a high elevation, just to have a view, would you risk it?
Speaker 3:if I had a four by four truck, I truck I would. I did it before.
Speaker 2:All right, let me see if it's anything like this. Humor me on this Black Bear Pass in Colorado. Would you do this?
Speaker 6:I am chilling on the dirt road, laid back, sweating like I'm George Jones Smoke, rolling out the window An ice cold beer, sitting in the console.
Speaker 3:That's tough, bro. That's tough because in my head I don't know how stable that ground is coming off that cliff, you know. So I don't know if I'll do that one. The mountain I went up is Sandia Peak, over in Albuquerque, new Mexico. Beautiful area, yeah, beautiful area.
Speaker 3:I was going up Sandia, but the further I went up the more snow was on the ground. And, being from Louisiana and living in Texas, I was like I don't really do this snow very well and the phone, your cell phone, goes out after a while going up those mountains, yeah, and I didn't have any cell service. I looked at my wife, I looked at my two little kids in the back. I was like we can go back down now. So I turned around a narrow street it was like a 12-point turn just trying to turn around, turn around, and I made it back, turned around and went right back down the hill. And the other thing is they tell you to check your brakes before going up because you're going to be riding your brakes all the way down. So it's scary up there, man, but I think I would do that in a Jeep, a 4x4 Jeep. Yeah, I can do it.
Speaker 2:Man, I had an incident in flagstaff, arizona, on that mountain and I don't know if I'll. I'll be a passenger, but I am not gonna drive ever again. Yeah, I, I, it was me. I took my focus off the road and, uh, almost, oh man, almost ran off the side of that mountain.
Speaker 3:Oh, oh man well, I'm glad you're still here, man, and I'm glad I am here too.
Speaker 2:Hey, no doubt about it. Oh my God. Hey, we're going to take a quick break, but on the other side, man, we're going to. We got some. You know, we got tick talking. The secret to an elder couple's happiness? It involves dentures or lack thereof.
Speaker 5:We'll see you on the other side here at Hard Grow Roofing we try to think outside the box to kind of get the creative juices flowing. So I brought in my friend Stevie Lee, former defensive tackle for the Texas Longhorns. He's gonna help the team strategize, really motivate them. Light a fire.
Speaker 3:This guy's gonna block down. This guy's going to block down. This guy's going to block down. You.
Speaker 5:Put your butt into the guard and that way my Mike linebacker gets free to do what not only are they going to learn a thing or two, but they're going to also leave with a great attitude and a bunch of smiles on their faces.
Speaker 4:I'm sorry. What does this have to do with roofing exactly?
Speaker 1:get out right now.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry what does this have to do with roofing exactly?
Speaker 5:Get out Right now I said get out For me. That's what it's all about. It's just having fun, making our employees have a great time. Hargrove Roofing Know who's on your roof? There you go, Gloating baby. You got to gloat.
Speaker 3:Absolutely, it's not gloating, it's just celebrating man. Champion, baby, you got to gloat. Absolutely, it's not gloating, it's just celebrating man.
Speaker 2:Champion baby. I am so happy for that city, that franchise, God, this is the highlight of 2025.
Speaker 3:There you go. It is there you go. Good, hey, Stevie.
Speaker 2:TikTok in the man cave. There you go. It is there you go. Good, hey, Stevie TikTok in the man cave. I love listening to elder couples who are older than us and what's the secret to their longevity. You know, when you get older, sometimes you face the how can I say this? The fact that you need to have your teeth pulled and have dentures, but in some ways that can get in the way of some activities, or not.
Speaker 6:You keep your husband happy for so long.
Speaker 1:I'd take my teeth out and give him a no denture adventure. I'd gobble that thing up Like it was a canned ham Bingo.
Speaker 3:No denture adventure. I've never heard that one man. No denture adventure. I've never heard that one man. I've never heard that one. Golly, the internet is getting unhinged right now.
Speaker 2:It's off the chain, ridiculous yeah.
Speaker 3:No denture adventure. Oh man, I got to use that one.
Speaker 2:That's got to be a good old product of AI. It has to be.
Speaker 4:There you go. Yeah, it has to be.
Speaker 2:Oh, my 100%. That was well done. Well done, my friend.
Speaker 3:Hey man, Tell me something good.
Speaker 2:Stevie Lee, we're near the end of this episode, but we know what we do. You know how we do it. We got to end with positivity. Tell me something good, my brother.
Speaker 3:Man, golly, I don't know. Really, man, I'm having a hard time right now because, you know, my daughter's leaving to go to college here in about a month and there's no basketball on, no football on. You know, I can watch baseball, I can go to baseball games, but I can't sit and watch baseball all day on the couch, so sports is real thin right now. I found myself watching women's basketball, which is fun, that's fun, but I don't know a lot of the players. I need to get more into the players. But I guess, telling me something good, it is the dog days of summer.
Speaker 2:Love it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the dog days of summer, I need to make myself get up and get out and do something. But this Austin Heat will hold you hostage a little bit. It'll hold you hostage but you don't want to go outside. But something good man is. A lot of our viewers most of our viewers maybe are in the Austin area. Just get out and go and experience your city, man. You live in a world-class city. Go and experience it. Lady Bird Lake, walking trails with a lot of shade on it so you don't have to be too hot. Go to Zilker Park. Go to all the watering holes.
Speaker 6:Deep Betty.
Speaker 3:Pool, deep Betty Pools, man and Barton Springs Pool and then you can also hit up some old-school bars Me and I, cat Brougham Spoke and then you got some new age bars out there, man. So go, enjoy your city. Something good is, if you live here, that you live in a good city, that you can go out and do things.
Speaker 2:I like it. And Crousey Springs, wimberley, blue Hole. I don't think Blue Hole's open. That's at Sacred Waters, jacobs Well, I don't know if it's even it finally replenished with the recent rainfall we've had, and there's a lot of great places to get and go hike around Bull Creek.
Speaker 2:There's some other just beautiful outdoor venues as well. Might tell me something good, kind of a two-part. You know, something that I've really learned and I think a lot of people need to hear is for people who people or things reveal themselves that they should be in your life, let them like mel robbins says. I'm fully into it. Let people be and let things be how it is. You're not going to change it. Yeah, don't let anything be the thief of your happiness.
Speaker 4:And your joy? Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:My big. Tell me something good To the great. We have quite a following in the state of Oklahoma. We do, and that organization I know we dedicated a lot the Oklahoma City Thunder winning that first NBA championship. I want to go a little deep here because I got emotionally tied to that city. I was there for roughly six years. That city, I was there for roughly six years.
Speaker 2:That city, the city of Oklahoma City, has been through hell historically. Obviously, the bombing in the 90s, timothy McVeigh at the Murrah Federal Building cost a lot of lives and a lot of children's lives. The Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial is one of the most moving experiences that I've ever had and while I was there, I only went three times. There was a story here recently, one man who was killed in the Murrah building and there's chairs which memorialize each victim and the little bitty chairs for the children. Well, one of the men who lost his life in that bombing, his children nowadays put a thunder jersey on that chair, oh wow, to signify what he would have loved. Some of the most passionate, forward-thinking, comical, salt of the earth, business minds, great human beings in Oklahoma City, what that was with the Thunder winning, and the most passionate and prideful people. 30 years ago, that bombing happened years ago. That bombing happened 30 years later. They are now.
Speaker 2:If I know, they've had the thunder for 17 years, but now officially yeah, across the world, oklahoma city is known for something different yeah that bombing yeah oh, much love to the.
Speaker 2:I don't, I've never understood what do you call a person from oklahoma city? Uh, okc people. Let's just call them okc folks. Much love to you, yeah, congratulations. And to the thunder organization. You did it right. You develop your, your own grown people. That's a beautiful story and it's a beautiful tribute to that wonderful city.
Speaker 2:When you get a chance, visit OKC. There is a lot more to it than you would ever imagine. It's a controversial take. I think the live music scene there is better than it is here in Austin, yeah, so shout out to OKC. Much love to you and thank you for watching and sharing our content. Thank you for all. And to the great city of Shreveport, louisiana, the hometown of the Stevie Lee and the hometown to Hargrove Roofing you know they've migrated over and they have quite a presence here in central Texas. And to the town of my college alma mater, the home of the red brick streets of nacogdoches in downtown. And to my lovely hometown, the pristine and beautiful austin, texas. And to each of you, the stories inside the man cave, viewer, follower, listener much love to you and your family. Enjoy this great summer, enjoy every day. And to the OG man Cave boys, that being Harbaugh Harge Big Mike and me, coach Mo. What do we tell them, stevie Lee?
Speaker 3:We out.
Speaker 5:You see the drip and I'm fitted up.
Speaker 3:I'm in my car, in a Gideon I said get out.