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You're listening to the down Beat on
ninety seven the Freak Morning, Morning Morning.

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This is the Morning down Beat,
six thirty five in the am,

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Kevin Turner, myself, Daniel bayliss
Man. We'd got some big shoes to

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fill. Our compatriot Mikey Serroy is
on a little mini vacation. He'll be

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back Wednesday. He needed a couple
of days to decompress after his big weekend

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following the Fins up in two Bill's
territory to watch the Dolphins take on Buffalo

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his first time up there, and
saw some videos online. Looks great,

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Looks like they had a ball man. Just what I can tell, what

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I can glean from vicariously, you
know, living through his experience. That

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stadium looks amazing, that crowd looks
amazing. And there might not be an

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NFL experience closer related to the college
football experience than that one. Yeah,

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that open air stadium and just everybody's
super tight and close together. It looked

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like an old school college football atmosphere. It always looked like a cool place

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to go, especially when you go
on a day when the weather's like what

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sixty five degrees or whether whatever was
It looked perfect. And I went to

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Lambeau last week and it was sixty
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like that as well, I'm sure. I mean, I don't know,

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I've never been an Arrowhead in Kansas
City. Everyone says that's a cool one

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to go to. I think those
are probably the three closest related markets that

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do it that way, you know, super old school, smaller market teams.

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You know, Kansas City, it's
it's considered a major city, but

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it's not that big by comparison to
you know, obviously Dallas or Houston or

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San Francisco, La, New York. It's a smaller market team. And

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it just it seems really cool that
those those cities have that vibe to them

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when it comes to their NFL experience, because you know, I know what

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ours is like and it ain't that, you know. I wonder if Kansas

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City is now about to just take
a big boost in popularity. Did it

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just get the most female fans ever
for a while, we'll see. I

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mean that was crazy last night.
Oh and I was just watching how they

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would handle it. I didn't know
that they were just gonna just go It's

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the Taylor Swift Show. Featuring the
Jets and the Chiefs. That's how ABC

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chose to handle it, and you
could tell that they were uncomfortable doing it,

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but it's what they did. Yeah, and I'm sure that was a

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directive passed down to them by people
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I don't last night. It was
probably the first night, not the

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first night, but the night that
had the most number of wives going,

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you know what, I really want
to watch Sunday Night football while the husband's

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like, I really want to watch
this new episode of the Simpsons. I

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don't care about tonight's game. Family
guys on it. I'm thirty. Let

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me get that. And don't forget
the premiere of crap Opolus. Oh yes,

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of course, crap Opolus, the
Dan Harmon show featuring one of the

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guys from What We Do in the
Shadows. It looks terrible reviews. It's

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got terrible reviews. The previous looked
like it could be. It looks like

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it's part of that Fox Edgy Sunday
Night animation. I don't watch too much

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of that stuff anymore, but there
was a time. Yeah, it would

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have taken in some crap Opolus once
BoJack Horseman happened. I was like,

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I don't need to see anything animated
again. It's difficult, too too good.

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Yeah, to to outdo that for
adult animation for sure. I guess

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it is six thirty eight, and
that means it's time for if you're ready,

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Kat, Yeah it Oh, thank
you, Danny. Fantastic. So

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the Rangers made the playoffs. I
mean, give it up for the Rangers.

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How about that seven years, seven
year drought win season? Why does

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it feel disappointing? I don't know. I guess if you put the entire

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season that picture inside the frame,
you're kind of being greedy if you are

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disappointed. But I'm also of the
mindset that as a season progresses, I

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think that your your expectations of the
outcome of that season, you have every

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right to change them. Yeah.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

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You know, this is this was
not the same team that we thought

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we had in April and the ups
and downs that they went through as far

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as you know, losing their ace
pretty early on, making a big trade

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and getting a horse that you were
hoping was going to take you to the

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Promised Land and be that number one
guy in a series see him two maybe

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three times if the series went long
enough in the playoffs. Speaking of Matt

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Scherzer, him to see him go
down, to watch other injuries affect your

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offense for a while, then see
that kind of come back, you know,

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incrementally, just to watch your bullpen
be exposed as one of historically one

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of the worst bullpens in baseball,
not just this year but in the history

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of the game, so bad.
Somehow, at the end of the season,

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they put all those pieces together and
you're thinking, holy crap, this

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team built a two and a half
game lead in the AL West with only

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what was it at the time,
four games to play, four games to

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play, and to watch them squander
that away, which was fate a complete

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that they were going to win their
division and all they had to do was

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a tick above the bare minimum to
do that. And all they did was

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the literal bare minimum just to get
into the playoffs. And now they got

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to turn around play three, possibly
three games on the road in Tampa against

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what's a pretty damn good Tampa team
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It just seems I'm a little disappointed
considering what they were set up for in

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the middle of last week to where
they are now. It's just I'm a

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little disappointed. But I didn't think
they'd be here this early either, So

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I don't know, I really don't
know how to weigh those two two outcomes.

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This should have been the best team
in Rangers history with their bullpen prevented

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that. I mean, it should
have been better than the record of the

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Josh Hamilton years that we kind of
think about. Okay, now there's a

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couple of things. I've thought about
it a lot. And and Mike was

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kind of questioning you and I on
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things, You're gonna be bad because
we were coming in off them. On

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last Thursday night, in game one
of a four game series Againt Seattle or

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all this, Chapman dropped trou and
took a dump on the on the pitcher's

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mouth, allowed to walk off,
walk off win for Seattle. Me put

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a bunch of people on base,
and they took him out of the games

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and they couldn't even pinch anymore.
And it ended up going on Jonathan Hernandez

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Ledger after he get a couple outs. But whatever, they lost. Well,

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the Yes, the Inherited Runners were
his. He didn't actually give up,

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give it up at the guys that
were on base were belonging to It's

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easy to point at him and go, you did this Friday. He has

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sucked abolutely stable. The fact that
they even let him into high leverage games

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at this point in the season shows
not. Yes, they literally have nobody

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else to go to Friday night,
the bats don't operate. I think they

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lost eight and nothing or something.
Okay, I mean while the Astros went

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on Friday. So if all these
outcomes that had to have, the Rangers

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needed two positive outcomes to happen.
And by positive outcomes I mean either a

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win or an Astro's loss, or
two Astro's loss or two Astro's losses.

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That ain't gonna happen. Well,
sure didn't because Astros went ahead and one

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Friday, but one Saturday and then
one Sunday. Rangers went on Saturday night.

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So they are The wind puts them
in the playoffs in a wild card

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spot. So awesome, And in
baseball it's tradition. You pop bottles,

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you celebrate because it's one hundred and
sixty two games, and then as it

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grind and held pitchers and catchers reported
in the middle of February, and here

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you are in October. Absolutely you
celebrate, but also at the time the

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corks were popping off. I'm just
saying. They had live footage of this

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on Valley. I was watching it. I looked at my phone. It's

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going on with the Astros. Top
of the ninth The Astros are beating the

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Diamondbacks one to nothing. And I
just couldn't help but go, we're gonna

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have to win tomorrow. Well,
why are we partying. We can party

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tomorrow no matter what happens, lose, even if you lose, we can

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party tomorrow. I kept thinking that, and then you're no fun guy if

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you think that, especially if you
tweet it out, You're no fun guy.

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You're negative guy. Why don't you
let them have fun? Man?

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And I'm like, because tomorrow they
have a game at noon on the West

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Coast. It was two here,
It's noon in Seattle where they are,

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And what they were playing for is
a week off to not have to go

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to Tampa Bay and have a three
game series. It's maybe the best team

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in baseball. There was a lot
to play for yesterday, and they showed

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up and sucked and didn't hit and
didn't look like they wanted to be there,

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and they lost one nothing. They
got shut out twice in that series.

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Right, Yes, yeah, I
believe. So what's your definition of

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partying, because look, if you
if you clinch a playoff spot, I

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don't think there's anything wrong with having
some flutes of champagne set up and you

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know, spray the clubhouse whatever,
have a couple of SIPs. But I

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mean, do we know that they
went absolutely crazy and went out on the

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town and took in all of the
things that Seattle has to offer and showed

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up yesterday just drag an ass hung
over for that game. We don't know

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that. In fact, here's what
we do know if we're to believe when

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Emily Jones, I believe Emily Jones, Here's what she said to me on

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Twitter, and I'm finding it because
it's important that it be found. Basically,

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she was alluding to the fact of
because she saw my tweet. I

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saw a tweet of third catcher and
sometimes bullpen member Austin Hedges, who they

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put in the game when they're losing
ten nothing a lot, and I saw

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him just getting riffed, just going
at him, which is always fun.

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Watching those videos to see who goes
hard who doesn't. And I said this

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on Twitter. I found it here
we go, I gotta get destroyed tomorrow.

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Wait, I guess Emily deleted to
tweet she wouldn't do that. I

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don't think she would, but wasn't
showing up. We'll just paraphrase. Well,

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it was said to the point of
there was no partying. The champagne

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popping, bottle popping was thirty minutes. No one went out after no party.

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I believe that. I absolutely believe
Evan Grant tweeted something about that,

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because I don't know who it was
that kind of tweeted what you were intimating

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a little bit earlier about the Rangers
partying and they they got one more game

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to win, and he said,
hey, there was no partying. They

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popped some bottles in the in the
clubhouse immediately went to have dinner. He

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said that they watched the conclusion of
the Astros game, which you said is

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logistically probably unlikely because of the timing
of everything. Maybe some of the players

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did made it in there while they
were in the final inning. I don't

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know, but he said that there
nobody went out, and in fact,

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I think he said, Marcus Simeon
was crushing a Chick fil A sandwich.

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That was the extent of the partying. Yeah, and I believe that.

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I believe it too, because I
think that they probably did realize, dude,

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we we got to come in and
win tomorrow. But look, why

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did they look like such ass yesterday? Why did they look like such ass

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for up and down for the back
half of this season or the last third

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of this season. I mean,
this is just kind of who they are.

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This series He's was in a way, kind of a micro microcosm of

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the way that the last third of
this season is gone. Yeah, So

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I'm not really surprised by it.
It's like, look, it's very ranger

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of them too, kind of I
don't want to say back into the playoffs,

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because they did win the game necessary
to clinch their their playoff berth.

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But it's a very ranger and it
does remind me of the time. And

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I can't remember the year. You're
probably got a clear image of this in

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your mind, the time that they
won their division because of something else that

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happened in the league and they were
still playing their games. Yeah, and

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I think they looked up at the
scoreboard and maybe it was Seattle or Anaheim.

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It was it was Oakland. They
were they were in Oakland, Okay,

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and then they celebrate that was twenty
eleven. But they you know,

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they're in the middle of the game
and they realize, oh my gosh,

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we're going to the playoffs, and
they kind of just look around at each

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other like all right, and then
when the game ended, it's it's anticlimactic

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too to celebrate, So it's kind
of like, what do we do that

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happens in the nineties two it seemed
very Ranger. It's that they got into

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the playoffs this year and then follow
it up, which also takes you back

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to you know, everybody talks about
Game six in the twenty eleven World Series.

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It's like, well, you know
what, that just tied the series.

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Saint Louis didn't win the World Series
after Game six. The Rangers had

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a chance to come back the next
day and win the World Series when they

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just absolutely didn't show up. This
was maybe a baby version of that.

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You know, I want to read
a text to you please because you can

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text us in at all times two
and four or eight one seven seven eight

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seven one nine seven one. This
is good this guy says, would you

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stop bitching him at the partying if
then partying too hard was the reason for

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Sunday, then explained Thursday and Friday, when they scored a grand total of

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two runs, that's I'm not bitching
him aout them partying. I'm bitching about

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them being the Rangers. Because if
Thursday night, one thing happens Thursday night,

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okay, and again they don't have
the most historical bad bullpen of all

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time, then Thursday's handled. You
went on Saturday, you're good, and

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now you can go home for three
or four days. And then you go

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and you worry about round two.
You could spend the early part of the

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week with a with a Champagne IV. Yes you want. Who cares?

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That says, I just get the
business taken care of. The business was

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not taken care of. We're just
saying this now. This is very Texas

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Rangers of them, and to kind
of explain that if you don't know what

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we mean, Boston for the longest
time, and the Cubs too, pretty

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much the you know until like two
thousand and four, Boston and Chicago until

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a little bit later than that,
you know, you could claim some type

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of curse. How this team's cursed
the Rangers. They don't really have anything

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a curse to blame the way that
things have happened to them have happened.

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No, it was long before that. It's it's just like it's just a

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strange air about this team that,
for whatever reason, you know, they're

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not going to be able to get
out of their own mind. They're just

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gonna they're gonna have the shotgun pointed
safely down at the ground and somehow it's

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gonna go right into their foot.
Did you know they called Matt Bush up

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again this weekend? No, I
didn't even know the guy was still yea

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even in the system. I was
like, did they have a ginger Ale

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celebration for him? Because as the
story ten years ago, the Josh Hamilton

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ginger Ale celebration. I was like, what about him because he can't be

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around alcohol either, like underreported because
it happened on Friday. John Gray's on

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the injured list. John Gray's not
in your playoff rotation. They went from

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having a week to get their pitching
in order in some form to kind of

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not knowing who's starting Game one of
the playoffs, where you didn't think it

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was gonna get any worse. It
did. Now I got big. I

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got big problems with baseball and the
way they roll Sunday at two pm.

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At all games happen at once.
Okay, love when all games happen at

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once, and playoff situations great,
Do it on a Wednesday night, like

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people are watching football on Sunday.
Do it on a Wednesday night. Make

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one game one sixty two on a
Wednesday night at seven pm. Now,

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another thing I have a big grap
about. Most people have jobs. Most

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people go to work. Game one, two, and probably three. If

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there is a game three for the
Rangers two pm Tomorrow, two pm Wednesday,

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two pm Thursday in Tampa Bay,
all three games in Tampa Bay the

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same way seven years ago, playing
in Toronto, I believe Toronto, every

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every game was one at one o'clock, one oh five. By the time,

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you know, when I was working
out afternoon, drive over with the

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ticket. By the time we got
on the air at three thirty, the

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games were basically over. Yeah,
yeah, going right into postgame show.

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Seriously, by by four o'clock we
were we were in the middle of of

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faux diamond talk at that point.
There's another good text Champagne is crap.

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Why do we still use it to
celebrate evolve people? It depends, It

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depends on the champagne. Yeah,
if they're if they're getting a qt champagne

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like you were. Yeah, it's
probably not the best, but there is

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some decent stuff. It was a
lot of beer just being popped and just

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thrown on your head, and I'm
like, God, that's got to burn

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your eye a little bit. It
isn't fact the best way to celebrate.

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I guess, yeah, I don't
know. Maybe it would be. I

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don't know. I've never gotten with
thirty of my closest friends who are all

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athletic and of some sort, and
also old coaches as well. Let's keep

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in mind thirty of my closest friends
and then all the old coaches, let's

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all hang out and start popping bottles. Maybe that would be fun. And

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then you here you have Bruce Bocci, who just had what an incredible run

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with the Giants in the in the
two thousands, just kind of looking around,

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going, guys, really we clinched
a wild card berth I put the

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drinks away, please. Yeah,
champagne doesn't taste the best. I think

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it's just the effect of the bottle
popping, which is yeah, because I

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know when I mean, it wasn't
champagne. In college when we won our

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conference, it was like, was
it like the cider the obviously we couldn't

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drink, but this is like the
pop and yeah, that's what it is.

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It's not necessarily the taste thomy bubbly. Yeah. Well, I don't

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have a hard time. They weren't
hungover yesterday. If you watched the game,

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you're like, this is a hungover
baseball team. They all looked tired.

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Everybody had flu like symptoms. I
don't know, man, just good

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luck and go Rangers, and we're
happy. Are you stranger? Things have

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happened? You should have won more
than ninety games this year, but you're

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and it's and it's back to back
to back. It's Wednesday, Thursday,

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and it's oh no, it's Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in Tampa at two

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pm. All three games in Tampa. You lost. That you would have

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had home field, you would have
won one game. You would have been

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home field in the series would start
on Saturday. But on the upside,

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Kevin, it's not going it's not
going to be on Lifetime Network. Or

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Court TV. Yeah, they are
going to be on a major network.

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So for those of you that are
non bally subscribing the season long, not

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being able to watch your team sufferers, Well they fix that. We got

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that back ABC, ABC tomorrow,
get two o'clock Game one. I wish

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I could tell you who was starting
for the Rangers. They don't know yet.

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That's awesome, that's such And we
still love the same team. Don't

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get us wrong. We love our
Rangers. We do. And you know

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what, we've earned the right to
kick them in the nuts whenever we want.

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They square us right in the nuts. They just square us up and

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put a boot to our nads.
We can do it to them back coming

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up next. Oh boy, the
Cowboys still can't score in the red zone.

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I found a negative about yesterday's game. It's the only one. Next

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time, ninety seven one the freak