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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on the Royals and player performances?
You are listening live to the program. Your teams, your town, your program. And now Bobby Wood Jr. out with the sore knee. And now Caglione. Wow. Where will that land? How about in the catwalk? That is a Caglione jack. He almost hit it out of the stadium. And that's it. Well, deep into left center field. And. Off the top of the wall. And now they make the call that it's gone.
It was the second base umpire, but it is a two-home run game for Jack Caglione.
What a homecoming. That's the fact, Jack. That's the fact, Jack. B-b-b-b-b-basketball, give it, give it, give it.
With the first pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, the Washington Wizards select Anise Debanza Jr. from Brigham Young University. With the second pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, the Utah Jazz select Darren Peterson from the University of Kansas. With the fifth pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, the LA Clippers select Keaton Wagler from the University of Illinois.
With the 16th pick in the 2026 NBA draft, the Memphis Grizzlies select Bennett Sturtz from the University of Iowa.
And now, still drunk off the Sooners World Series title, metaphorically at least, Todd Lebo. Not even a metaphor, K-Dawg. Not even a metaphor.
It's literal.
BAC is what right now?
Probably 1.3. I mean, I'm well over legal.
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Chapter 2: How did Jack Caglione perform in the recent game?
I will tell you this right now. I did not see one second. You were down for the count. I was tired yesterday because I did... Co-host, new day with SSJ on Monday, as I do on Mondays. And then I went up to Omaha and I watched the Oklahoma Sooners win a national championship in baseball. When did that run start?
Well, that started against Georgia Tech, but they really got hot out in Lawrence, didn't they, Darcy? Didn't they, Kyle? Didn't they? And they just rode the wave all the way through. And so I didn't get home until like 1 something. And that was a ā I don't mind going to sleep at 1 o'clock. That's all good.
But driving the up and back and all that stuff, I was a little tired when I got home yesterday. I watched... A little bit? I watched... I'll tell you this right now. Here's what we wanted to look at last night. We talk about this show all the time. I tell you people, you've got to watch this show. This show called Alone.
It's the thing where they take the people, they put them out in the woods, and you've got to survive on your own. And the first episode of season 13 dropped like last Thursday, and it's on History Channel. And I don't have History Channel on... So you can watch it on the app for free. But I don't know how long they stay up for free. Anyway, so I told my wife, here's the deal.
We've got to watch this first one. And it was like an hour and 50 minutes long. We only made it halfway. And then I went to sleep. So that's all I made it. So you should be watching Alone. Alone is a great show. It's the only true reality show there is. I'm sure it is. How long would you last if I just dropped you off in the Arctic?
Ten minutes.
Oh, you'd make it a night.
Maybe. If it rains the first night, maybe not. I would probably make it longer being there than I would watching the show. I mean, I don't, you know, crap on stuff. If people like it, they like it. But no desire to watch that. I don't watch Survivor. No, this isn't like Survivor. Survivor's dumb. Any of that fear factor.
None of that reality stuff. No, this is not like that. This is real reality.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Nate Bukaty share about the World Cup?
They have to shoot their own video. Yeah. And you're just on your own. It is great. Find out, can you find some food? And then the other part is, can you be alone? I'd be like truly alone. So that's what Petro's doing this week. He's alone. He's out there. You know what? He'll tap out. No chance. No chance he'd make it more than a night. He'd be like screaming in himself. Nah, he's probably not.
He'd be yelling at the grass. I don't think it's a game for him. I know this. My wife wouldn't make it one minute. The very first season of Alone, no one really knew how the game was going to work. And they had this guy. They had this guy, and they were doing it up in Canada. There's this area of Canada. They call it Bear Island because there's a bunch of bears on it.
And one of these guys was like, I'm a police officer or something like that. I'm tough, all these things. The guy quit in like six hours. He heard a bear growling, and he was like, I'm out. Anyway, that's what I was watching last night. I did not see the draft. But a great night for the locals.
Darren Peterson is a local, but I don't feel like he's a local local like Keaton Wagler or Bennett Sturtz. Unbelievable that those two guys in particular got drafted in the first round in Wagler's case in the top five. Insane. He couldn't get a sniff of a D1 scholarship. Then he's in the Final Four and he's getting picked fifth in the draft one year into the game.
I noted last night that 13 months ago he was walking across a stage somewhere getting his high school diploma 13 months ago. And since then, he has taken a team to a Final Four and been the number five overall pick in the NBA draft. That's a hell of a ride.
And it's a wild thing, too. Now, listen, Sturtz ended up going to three schools, but he followed his coach. It's a different kind of deal. But both of those guys just went to their little school that was by their house.
Yep.
And there's not many of these guys just got on the bus and went to the school in the little neighborhood they lived in for high school.
It's pretty crazy. They didn't go to Oak Hill Academy or IMG or whatever the heck the best players go to these days. Sunrise.
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Chapter 4: How have injuries affected the Royals' lineup?
Yeah, Sunrise. No, they just went to the school. Went to the place where they go. And I remember watching Wagler play when he was a sophomore in college. And you said to yourself right then, you know what? Number five overall. Looks like the number five overall, probably in 26. He's a good player. He's got some skill. He's got some smarts. Kind of thin. Getting better. Getting better. Wow.
He's got some room to grow, too, because he will get bigger and stronger.
Awesome for him. And he's going to be ā And awesome for Bennett Sturtz also. I mean, just like to go to not really get anyone to offer you anything. You go D2. Now, it's a great D2 program, especially ā And Ben McCollum was the coach.
And then just to kind of like stick with the coach and go through and then end up at, you know, Big Ten school, make a little NIL money, all that stuff, and then play well enough to get picked in the first round. And then, oh, you end up where? Oh, it's one of the best franchises that there is.
Great stuff for him. And neither one of those guys or for both of those guys, it's going to be just about.
transferring their game to the nba they're neither one of them are going to be have any other issues they're both smart both hard workers i mean they're both going to be guys that are good in the locker room good on the court it's it's can they you know do they have the game to play in the nba so that's nice for both franchises that you don't have to worry about either one of them too i don't think
And just as, like, when you get to the NBA, I just saw this roll across a little bit earlier. Austin Reeves, the kid who started at Wichita State, went to Oklahoma, was undrafted. Yeah. Okay? He just got a four-year, $185 million contract. So if you get to the league and you find a spot, you score some points or whatever...
Undrafted. I don't think anybody saw him being the player he is. Clearly, he was undrafted.
$185 million? Yep.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the NBA Draft for local players?
You know, this isn't like a first ballot Hall of Famer or something.
But that's 46 mil a year. Yeah. I mean, Patrick Mahomes makes about 10 million more per year. This is Patrick Mahomes. Wild stuff.
So great for them. There is some money in the league. Great for them. We will today set the show up here. Nate Bucati is going to join us. He's got the Crossroads Soccer Show coming up tonight on Sports Radio 810, but we're recording some of these on site. So he and Matt Beisler and Allie Trost are going to be at Dick's Sporting Goods just down the road here.
So if you're out in Overland Park, they're going to be recording the show three-something, okay? Cool. So we'll catch up with Nate on his way over there. And if you'd like to go over there to Dick's Sporting Goods at 119th and Knoll, And see Matt, Nate, Allie. Swing on by there and do that. The show will be on the night at 7. But they record this thing on site so people can come out and hang out.
So go check that out today at Dick's Sporting Goods.
Say hello to those folks.
So you can get a copy of Nate's book from them. Well, he might have some. He sells them right out of his car if you want. We're going to play the family feud. But since I... am here and Serena's not here, we have a special guest. Now, our special guest. Do I know who it is? You do know who it is, and he does not like this game because he doesn't know as well as this game.
Oh, I know who it is now.
Shane. Yes. So Shane, normally when Petro's out of town, or I'm out of town, or you're out of town, he's pretty good at chumps. Very good. But he can't play chumps tomorrow because he's got to take his mom to the doctor, so he said he could play feud. And listen, I told him we're not going to make fun of him. I'm looking at you, Curtis. I'm not going to make fun of him. Okay. No.
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Chapter 6: How does the World Cup impact local fan engagement?
He'll be all right. Okay. Good for Shane categories. What is your name? But so then he can't play tomorrow. So now we've had to instruct Darcy on how to play chumps tomorrow. And I told him already, don't be coming in here with six answers like Jack Johnson did. Yeah. You best have 10 plus answers. Yes. Because we're feeding. We're feeding.
You can't show up to the smorgasbord with like a plate of four nuggets.
The only person that gets to do less, fewer... Use the proper grammar. Is Pete. That's right. But Pete invented the game. He did.
And they're playing. He's showing up with some more stuff now.
Yeah, he's getting three or four. Yeah. Sometimes. Sometimes it's, you know, name the entire team of the 1955 Kansas baseball team. And I'm like. This will be a layup for you guys.
Maybe not. Maybe not. But that's tomorrow. So we will have Shane in here to play the feud. Tim Grunhardt, as normal, on Thursdays. We've got him down now. He knows what day to be here and what time. So we'll talk to Tim then. We'll tell you what you need to know at 5. And then our guest at 5 is Dan. Am I saying this right? Zimborski? Zimborski. Good enough. Good enough.
We'll talk a little data, a little analytics, a little baseball with him. On the baseball, these Red Hot Royals. Red Hot Royals and very much so Red Hot Jack Caglione. We were yesterday on The Zone. One of our factor fictions that Sterling had was that Jack Caglione was going to get a home run yesterday off of McClanahan. And I think we all said fiction, and then he had two home runs.
The first one, it was just like... What?
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Chapter 7: What are the key strategies for the upcoming matches?
Your eyes almost couldn't, and your ears, because the sound was just like video game sound effects. You know, the show 2026 or whatever. And that sound just echoed all over that ballpark. And they said, they say it was 450. Mm-hmm. Please. I mean, that was every, well beyond that. Lands in the catwalk beyond... beyond the seats in right field. It's just easy power.
And he shows, although we kind of discussed this yesterday, that that's kind of the kind of home run he needs to start tailoring himself to. But then the next one, that shows...
the power as much as the first one did the length wasn't there but that was a pitch he was not swing even swinging at earlier in the season and definitely not swinging at last year and now he takes that pitch you know thigh high pitch on the outside edge and just launches it 400 feet the other direction see we've been talking about like ridiculous you know easy power with
I like Vinny Pasquantino, but it's not fair to compare these two players. Vinny Pasquantino was an 11th-round draft pick who's worked very hard to get where he is, and he has to swing from the heels to hit a home run.
That's why he has the hammock. That happens to guys who really have to swing. This dude's power is so natural that he can just... Lowers the bat head, swings it through the zone.
And it looks like he's figuring it out now. I think last year he was trying to swing a lot. He doesn't need to swing very hard.
No, and I think it's one of the things, and we'll revisit it again because he's still a topic. But... Back in, it was May, no, it was June 9th, Tuesday night, he had two homers against Texas at the K, and I was out there that night, and I noted that it was just a little less than a week after the one-year anniversary of his debut.
And I asked Matt Quattraro, and I asked Vinny Pasquantino and Jack, how is he a different hitter? And they all kind of had different answers, but it was all the same theme, and it was the mentality part of it. You know, Quattrero talked about how he's better at controlling his adrenaline in the batter's box, and Vinny talked about how he's not...
trying to put too much on him because Vinny said, you know, he was coming up last year and was immediately, I think the start that Nick Kurtz got off to, a guy who was two picks ahead of Caglione, I think that may be, it sounded like that was working on him. I got to match this guy because...
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Chapter 8: What are the predictions for the future of the Royals this season?
And right now, he's got a good little string of being comfortable. So that's a great thing to do.
That ball has to look like a beach ball when you're in a zone like that. I mean, he's not ā I mean, the ā The best, I guess, leading stat to it was that the on-base, even when he wouldn't hit the ball out of the park like crazy, the on-base was going up, 330, 340, 350-ish. Like, well, that's a good sign. The strikeouts were dropping.
So, like, at some point, you'd think the power was going to come along. And in the last four weeks or three weeks, it has. Nine homers in the month of June, six in his last five games. And they're not just, they're not wall scrapers. I mean, he's just crushing the ball.
Well, yeah, I mean, like the second one last night was just like, I'm just going to hit the ball where it's pitched. And he's so strong that it just went out to left center field. Crazy. Now, the first one was unbelievable. That may be the, I'm going to use a word that's not real, the wrongest estimation I've ever seen on a home run. Yes.
That's a 450 what? The most impressive one that I'd seen him hit at this point was the one that cleared the third fence at the K earlier this year.
There's something about hitting it into your face on the big jumbotron.
Yes, he almost banged it off of his own dome on the screen. And he had the ones back, I mentioned the June 9th night where he went 420 and then he went, oh yeah, let me go 430. And so you're going to see... He's going to put a lot of balls in the drink. Yeah, for sure.
I mean, by the time he's done, if he continues on anything resembling the, I guess, tear he's on now, he's going to set an all-time record for baseballs hitting two. Oh, well, actually, maybe not. He's not going to play that long.
Yeah, it's going to be a little different. And listen, that's the good part. Listen, they're still in last place, but it's good to see some players like him who you feel are going to be a part of this team.
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