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eight thirty. But right now, we had something big happen sort of locally
in the world of sports yesterday, and we'll discuss it in this very segment.
And now, Lord, we're living in the end times, Kevin,
So let's make this segment count a better or last. We'll put that in
that vault in Switzerland. First, somebody did I'm sorry a text her I
said, well, if everyone here, let me read it properly. If
the apocalypse happens, happens and everyone's wiped out, who's going to tell the
next inhabitants there's a box in Switzerland. That's the whole thing. You just
have to find it. Yeah, that's it, and someone will they do.
It's about when they find it. Not how so, some form of
life will repopulate here on Earth, and then they will evolve into a civilization.
Kevin. Then one day they'll just stumble upon this vault. Ye,
it obviously begs the question we need to stumble on the last vault? Okay,
Wow, that is somewhere. So we'd like to announce the downbeat.
We'll be broadcasting live from Switzerland. It'll all next week. It'll be a
bunch of on the hunt. Who's paying for that? I'll talk to Dak.
It'll be a bunch of dinosaur facts from the last vault. Right,
that's what no, No fully evolved. How about a society evolved millions of
years beyond ours that we don't know, We have no idea of knowing.
We can comprehend it. I can what they're going to read up to.
They're going to read up and see sports highlights on these discs they're going to
see and it'll be like Biffs. Yeah, they're gonna see the Biff's book
with all the finals, and we'll become rich because we know who wins the
future super Bowl. Think about this, though this planet's been around for what
four and a half billion years, think about this. If there was a
time before the dinosaurs that we were populated by a civilization that was far more
advanced than we are right now, and we just haven't found that vault to
show us the way to enlightenment and peace. And then somehow that civilization was
wiped out, and from their their demise sprang forth the era of the dinosaur.
And that's really just all we know, taking one advil cures cancer,
Alzheimer's everything. What if that's what if we kind of are working in reverse
as a society when all of the answers were billions of years ago. I
think we sell it all along of stoners. No, it's all very possible.
There is a avilization that is probably twenty million years ahead of us somewhere,
and who knows they might have been here, although I think we would
have found some remnants of that, right, I mean, couldn't have been
pure annihilating, not if it was just one one box in a cave in
Switzerland somewhere you know, who knows where this box could exist, right,
but somewhere else on Earth? Who would have found some remnants of some civilization
that was millions of years ahead of us. The rest of the planet couldn't
have been so annihilated that there's not even a writing implement of sor or they
were so evolved they saw the writing on the wall that the Earth was about
to be pseudo destroyed, and they just left without a trace, taken only
photograph footprints. What we do know is it was a good day for a
I don't care about Hall of fame stuff. Never have. Neither does Roger
Clemens probably never will. I just don't look cool but cool when it happens
right to one of your local dudes, Adrian Belchray, who signed here in
twenty ten and helped kind of lead the way to a World Series run.
I don't know, he's one of the many leaders that team was stacked,
but he was so fun. And here is him being fun with his wife,
his three kids. He's sitting on the couch. They all knew that
he was going to get in because most baseball writers had already tweeted out their
ballots anyways with him on it. So here comes the phone call you would
didn't answer voicemail, and they're all just answered, idiot, proving that even
somebody as cool as Adrian Beltray is not above dad jokes. He's like,
no, boy, I'm like I just kept thinking too, like what if
he really just just chilled for minutes? And then they goes to voicemail together,
then finally picks it up. Hello, Oh speak with Adrian belch Yes,
sir, this is him, Adrian. This is Uncle Connell Baseball calling
you from the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. New York. You do
second home. The Baseball Writers have elected you to the Hall of Game.
Thank you so much. So official's official. I might need to play gas.
Right when you restarted it, did someone whisper to Adrian Beltray speak here.
That's his son saying speaker put in speak? Thank you? Okay,
yes, I thought you speak here. Let's hear the prank though again.
Just I'm not prank, but h you're ready, answered John. I'm hello,
okay, pretty good. Hello, Hello, that's a good hey.
Hello, Oh Adrian, Adrian. Now, I do want to say this,
and I swear I'm not being a at all revisionist guy here, but
I think there's a lot of people in this town who now, I'm gonna
be receipts guy and all that stuff, and I don't like being that guy.
But people acted like what you get to know him and love him that
they were always there were people bitching when we signed him. He only plays
good in contract years. Oh yeah, And I'm like, okay, first
of all, you haven't been following anything that closely because we played the Mariners
nineteen times a year, and he's a beast, He's a monster. I
was thrilled when we signed him, you were biased because he used to kill
us, he used to destroy us, and then he went to Boston,
you know, And I think that's what happened. Signed a big contract,
goes to Boston, puts up big numbers, and everyone's like, oh,
yeah, because he had he had a great year in Boston too. But
everyone's like, he only plays good in contract year, which is not true
at all. But that was a hot take around here from writers, from
people who had platforms. Yeah, Twitter was kind of earlier on that time.
To be honest, it wasn't that loud, but people are talking,
Oh, he strikes out a lot, and he just swings weird and he's
kind of crazy because no one knew anything about him. I was like,
dude, watch him play nineteen times a year and he's fun playing for the
other team. Watch him play every day, and that's that's when you kind
of get to learn what the other other teams that he was on already knew.
And he was such a treat he when he was in Boston. I
know, he had fifty doubles I think, and he just bashed hard hit
balls off the Green Monster that didn't go out, and I think that's why
the Rangers knew like this dude, give him the right park and he's dialed.
And they also signed into a six year, ninety six million dollar deal,
which already sounds at the time like the greatest value of all time.
Yeah, at the time, that was a ton man. I read a
big La Times article about him just last night, and he signed before he
was sixteen, which is illegal. But I think there was some questions about
the birth certificate twenty three thousand dollars in nineteen ninety four. He had a
slow recovery from a botched appendectomy and the Dominican Republic when he first started and
Sean Green, the great left, the slugger and all around great player,
talked about the development of beltrain and like he had this foot injury that kind
of saved his career because he had such happy feet in the box and he
was just so ready to go and freaking out that this foot injury on his
lead foot, his left foot, I guess forced him to calm, have
a calm lower body in the box. And he's like, this is a
real thing that happened that turned him into essentially a Hall of Fame hitter.
That was kind of interesting. Yeah, I had no idea about the ether.
Yeah, that's really I mean, because again I do get like when
we did sign him, we didn't know a ton of him personally. I
guess, yeah. That way. He also was he had one big Brady
Anderson type jump, not break nothing's like Brady Anderson, but he had a
big home run jump in the steroid era, and I think that raised a
lot of questions. But the Dodgers, I think he had a year I'm
pulling upsize see it. Yeah, he went to yeah, twenty three and
then to four. He went forty eight home runs, and then back down
to nineteen the year after that. Yeah, he made a lot of people
go home. He had one hundred and twenty one RBIs and he in his
first fifteen to twelve years that's the only time he had one hundred plus RBIs.
So there was there was questions. But right when he got to Boston
and then when he got here, he was just so consistent and so good.
And the key is so fun. Yes, I mean, it's like
we all know it, but the dude made baseball fun, which is exactly
what they need. He had bits and he did him kind of dry,
you know, with that serious look on his face, but you know,
talking to teammates and Elvis and Michael Young always just like you, so fun
to be around, and such a pro such a leader that you kind of
follow, even if you don't know you're following, because I don't know how
vocal necessarily the man, he was a team. That's what I was always
remembering for. But Kevin kind of mentioned this earlier, but I want to
expound on a little bit. He also helped raise the bar of expectations of
the organization because you think about the Rangers in seventies and eighties, you know
they they would be in the conversation in certain years where they might be fighting
to uh for a division but always fall short. But sometimes they'd be actually
pretty good, you know, and come in second and miss the playoffs.
And if finally the Rangers raised their bar within the Johnny Oats era where they
went to the playoffs, I believe what three out of four years first round
eliminations, all three times against the Yankees, only one game win in all
three of those series. And then you kind of had the doldrums for a
little bit. But then when Beltray got here, it kind of ushered in
oh wow, We're not only going to make the playoffs consistently, We're going
to the damn World Series. So that bar got raised even more or during
that Beltray era era, and now we have finally, you know, the
World Championship, which is still unbelievable to me. Yeah, I know,
how does that make sense? That last night even I was just like,
I still don't know that it's fully sunk in. Yeah, I know it
will maybe it just I guess, yeah, I think so, And I'm
still in sports shock over it to a certain degree. But he was man.
He was a key component in raising the expectations, raising the bar,
and making this franchise kind of in the conversation, you know, pretty much
every year, even if they were sucking, you still had that We at
least went to two World Series back to back, and Adrian Beltrae was a
massive part of that. Now and it's the one knee home run just an
incredible defense just in general, the matchups with him and Felix Hernandez on those
years just kind of you know, Felix Hernandez would kind of throw at him,
but you know, he wasn't going to hit him. But and you
just like exaggerated rush back of course moving the on deck circle. I mean,
I have a T shirt that says on deck is wherever the circle is,
and it's him just dragging it. I'll watched that video this morning when
I woke up, and there's no bigger at My nerd of the day is
the umpire who was like, no, you're ready here, you dragged it
on deck. So I don't think so like it's Adrian Belfer. He's already
an established veteran. You almost know. It's sort of a bit is that
that we need him out of this game? There is no photolou right because
he got mags. He wasn't in it because he wanted to get a better
look at the pitches coming in, which there probably is something to that.
Yeah, he's like, get in the on deck circle. He dragged it
ten feet. Still leave him alone. I have no choice but to send
you to the showers. Don't make me hey, no, gone, what
the dork of the day. And not to mention, I mean, just
the weird chemistry and bits and camaraderie between field between him and Elvis right pretending
to catch pop ups, get pretending to get mad at him. It was
so fun. Yes, wh glove at him and then the head touch as
weird as that was, and in like third base stats like one in batting
average, one in total bases. I mean he was like he was almost
I don't think was he anonymous? Was he uh unanimous? No? It
wasn't ninety five point one percent okay and one who? No, it was
it was like a few douches does or so. But I looked that up
to and for the people mad about that, almost no one gets in unanimously
first ballot. Mariano Rivera did, Derek Jeter didn't. Ken Griffy Junior was
three votes short. Nolan Ryan was six votes short of a unanimous first ballot
Insane. Nolan, Griffy and Jeter were not unanimous either. So it's who
cares? Who cares? I do not care about the Hall of Fame and
how they get in and yelling about. But I look forward to his speech
too. I think that'll be kind of fun. Oh there he is sliding,
looking there's the umpum. You're out of here? I don't think so,
Adrid. Then Banisher goes out and yells at him. It was the
bottom of the eighth inning and we were losing eighteen to eighteen to six.
The scuttle butt, Hey, we'll do it, now, you do it.
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eight seven one nine seven one. This was all over my timeline yesterday,
so I'm gonna do this story quickly. Here only ISD, my hometown,
two hours west of here. I would consider them in the Metroplex, though
you'll see them on the weather sometimes. I wouldn't do that. I would
not, they announced on Facebook yesterday. I'd barely consider all need to be
in Texas. What don't be mean? They're good people out there and they're
going through a hard time. Are they hard? Man? I don't know.
I just don't want to know many people there. Uh, people I
really know they're now are families uncomfortable? Insurge your quick? Uh? They
announced on Facebook yesterday they're canceling classes as the district is impacted by an outbreak
of illnesses. Schools were closed yesterday and again today. This should give students
and staff some time to recover, the district said in the post, and
here's what it says in the article. Only is a rural community of about
three thousand people, located one hundred miles west of Fort Worth. So they're
going to try to resume class tomorrow. I was talking to a fella,
I know, good friend of mine who got knocked down with the flu.
I mean, he got wiped out and he's out there. No now he's
actually here in town. Well, what is this string of illnesses av Maybe
I don't know, I don't know. Are the quarantining the entire village the
rest of You're saying everyone in town is sick. You know what, it's
probably teachers don't enough teachers to handle this, right, And so that's I
mean, I've seen that and along since the eighteen hundreds, No school this
week, everyone's sick. Well, in the eighteen hundreds, you just had
the one teacher in the big room that had kindergarteners and seniors learning learning,
writing and reading together. But my friend who got what knocked down at the
flu said it was like nearly ten days. He said. My rest of
my family had it for like a day, and they were good. Yeah,
now I'm not. I wanted to say, there's no vax stance coming
from me. I did not get the flu shot. I have never gotten
it. I also just got a real doctor like three months ago, so
I don't you know us. It was like, oh, they're giving them
away in the work office. I've never got a flu shot. But he
told me, he goes. The rest of my family got the flu shot
one day. He has. I didn't. I was working a trial,
not one of the Frinkles, but it's lawyer friend of mine, and he
got super sakes. I just got wiped in as I didn't get a flu
shot and because I had it for ten days. I've had this flu a
type A or oh yeah, have you ever had a bad bout with the
flu? No? I don't think I have either. No. I've had
it two times in my life where it was like legit flu that I had
to take time off work. One of them was probably about ten years ago,
and I hadn't had it since I was in my twenties and I got
it and I had to miss an entire week, five work days of work,
and it was it was like it was like I was detoxing from Heroin
is what I can only imagine that feeling feeling like like quitting heroin cold Turkey,
where it's the sweats and it's the hills and you're hot and you're cold
and you're seeing visions and you're dehydrated and it's like the And I kept telling
myself during that experience and go, this must what it feels like right before
you die. What's garnerd Where only is no? Because I'm seeing that it
says only Garner ized t cancel classes And they said Garner, which is that?
Is it? That must be the county. Garner must be a small
town that's consolidated with all me, I would have heard of that. Now
you've never heard of Garner. Eh No, well me Either're Garner, Texas?
Where is it? I mean, yeah, that's in Parker County,
northwest of Weatherford in Parker County. Yeah, only is in Young County.
Okay, well maybe these are unrelated. Then they're just letting lated. Okay,
yeah, I can tell now Garner in between mineral Wells and Weatherford.
Yeah, okay, gotch So they just had the article that those are the
two places only iced and Garner. Iceed Tea sent a bunch of Fourgner sent
people in Garner to the hospital whoa with flu with flu a forty percent increase
from the prior week outbreaks of flu, covid nineteen and other illnesses four hundred
and seven or forty seven four hundred and seven. It's a population of around
one hundred Garner according to the Internet. Okay, well be careful out there
everyone. That's what we can tell you. Coming up next, a double
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