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Get into that maybe, If not, we'll get into it later. Plus
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an hour. It's coming. The bad man is coming to town with big
rain, Mikey, big rain, big weather. Covered extensively here on the
downbeat. Also covered is some defense for Julie, which we were not taking
shots. We all know everyone peas, but we were discussing dudes having the
Norton anti lock. Yes, per having guys having two factor authentication before we
pee ourselves. It's called the last line of defense. Yeah, and some
of us have more time than others. Yes, Kevin, Yeah, Kevin,
Okay, as long as has you know full five seconds five seconds sounds
I'm making all the way down to our bathroom, the red zone away.
But the main defense was that once you have the kiddos, all things change.
This is why I've been saying women deserve more rights when it comes to
bathrooms nearer to the studios and other work't places. I've never heard him say
that, and that's a big advocate for that. And if you he's you're,
you're, you're usually out of the studio. And Kevin I talked about
important issues. When he's standing on that platform, we know you're not equipped
to deal with these important biological issues and only heavy And I find interesting in
Kevin. I also think that in nineteen sixty one, along with their Caucasians
only lifting, I thought the PGA Tour should have gotten rid of their men
only rule. Two. Well they did. And nineties right when the great
Anachist warns down what it just like invites only though I don't know. Hey,
did old girl who played in a tournament a couple of weeks ago,
did she make the cut? I don't think she made it. There wasn't
Paula Kreamer, it was Did you watch it? And you're talking about my
friend Paula Creamer. She's one of the best golfers of all time, the
pink Panther, Paula Kreamer. If anyone was gonna get invited to play in
a men's tournament. It would be her because she could legitimately go win it.
Yeah, but in her prime not so much, now, wasn't it
Lexi? It was Lexi Thompson, known for being a choke artist. Why
on the female writer cup. I'm just saying that's what happened. Lexi Thompson
shoots sixty nine on PGA tour. Yeah, nearly makes historic cut. That's
badass. Well, I mean it's still failed. Still sell them along out
there on the weekend with them boys. Yeah, it appears maybe you know,
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popular than reverse basketball, no doubt. Which was my final thought as my
eyes closed last night and I drifted off to never never Land. Was Danny's
reverse basketball running around with backboards trying to throw them at stationary balls. I
didn't think about that a lot yesterday too. I was like, it's just
fabulous, Kevin. Can you name one woman in the top ten rated women
golfers on planet Earth? You have three seconds? Some shoe weee anymore?
Huh? No, Lexi Thompson, not so much anymore. No, I
couldn't. Okay, Oh no, no, the girl, the Stanford girl
Rose, She's not in there yet. Really, o, Nellie Corda,
I think would have been your only maybe Lydia Coe. But we celebrate women
this morning, y'all. It est MAVs played the last night and they lost
it by eleven, but Derek Lively was out, and the big story of
last night's game is if Derek Lively is going to miss time, the Mavericks
are going to get destroyed in the paint. So that's kind of what happened.
Siakam went off and Mavericks played, had to play some small ball.
They played a lot of Grant Williams at the five in the second half,
and the MAVs lose by eleven, so they missed him a lot, and
there was no one in the paint. And we've learned real quickly through eight
games, which is the maps are six and two that Derek Lively is a
key piece to them winning games. If he ain't there, then they got
to figure out a way to defend the paint with Dwight Powell, Maxi Kleiba,
and rachel On Holmes who barely played a little bit. So Powell got
the start. Maxi's back right, he had a dislocated toe. Yeah,
he's back. That's good. I mean a little bit. I didn't see
any the game. Obviously. We're at the Iron Claw the new movie about
the von Eric family that will be reviewing in one hour, I mean one
of the first reviews in America. Yeah. Absolutely, the world premiere last
Night Entertainment Tonight was there and it was at the Texas Theater, and thank
you for the Texas Theater for for letting us come enjoy that last night.
She looked good Texas Theater. She looked she looks fun. That old girl
still got it. Oh, dude, hot bitch. When I got in
the car from your house, Mike, though I was driving home, I
was immediately checked into the Chuck Cooperstein post game show. Yeah, so he's
laying out the game right after the game had happened. As I was driving
home, I was like, Oh, this is nice. I got the
recap from Chuck. Mavericks outscored in the paint last night, seventy two to
forty. Derek Lively is awesome. We need him, dude, I agree,
And he's him and Grant Williams have been sort of the eye open.
I mean, they're the two new contributors, so obviously they're going to be
significant to a MAVs fan. But yeah, is it too fragile of a
team if you're very inexperienced? Very And I don't just say that because he's
a rookie, I mean because he hardly played in college too. Is so
essential? You know, like if if, oh, how can we win
a game without Derek Lively? Is your sentence? Yeah, I don't know.
That just doesn't feel real good. And maybe it's credit to him,
because the dude is great. I love him in the matchup, maybe though,
what's siakam? You know? Yeah? And maybe against the Raptors it
matters a little more. But that's not a good thing. If you can't
pull off a dub at home without Derek Live. Maybe he's just in the
short amount of time that they've been together, just meshed in so well,
with the chemistry so fast. I think they're shocked at how productive he is
him and when you take him out of that mix, it's like a stool
with two legs can't sit on it. Also, though, if you if
you can actually play team defense and do what you're supposed to do rather than
just kind of wander around and float to wherever and then whatever happens on defense,
as long as you get me the ball on offense, I'll be fine.
Yes, that is a direct shot at Christian Wood. That is the
biggest problem from last season. Christian Wood was a terrible team defender, just
awful, and he puts everyone in a bad space and makes everyone look bad
because he did not do his job on the defensive end of the floor on
assignment based defense like Derek Lively is absolutely doing that and helping helping cover up
if you're a second late back where you're supposed to be helping out on switches
and things like that. I haven't even seen a big difference Christian Wood,
it was just a space cadet man. He was lazy. I remember so
many times he would go top of the key and try to set a pick
and they would get called for the foul because he wouldn't just move his feet
to get in their position. But a rookie and one like Lively who's got
a big old brain on him, and you can tell the motor is running,
he gets in the right spots. I don't have the tweet up.
I should try to find it. But Coop's tweet, Chuck Cooperstein's tweet last
night about the game kind of set at all because it's not normal that you
see such a damning assessment of your basketball team from I don't know the radio
play by playboys, but he essentially said that the MAVs got spanked tonight and
was talking about how great Toronto actually is. I don't know all that much
about the Raptors, so I don't know, but they were three and four
going on this thing. Kyrie said that when Kyrie had a couple interesting quotes,
and one of them was we were soft to the paint. When you
have your head coach calling you soft, you've got to take that personally,
take that as a challenge. Well, interesting. Tomorrow night should be fun.
I would love to sneak out to that game tomorrow night, Clippers MAVs.
The Clippers who just got James Harden. So you have James hard and
Paul George Kawhi Leonard and Russell Westbrook all on the same team taking on the
MAVs. Here, we'll have the Trinity blue City uniforms. Now. Is
it in a mid season tournament game? Are they doing the court all funky
like they did last week? Yeah? Is the court gonna be just blue?
Yeah, we'll have the jack it's a mid season tournament game. Yeah.
Absolutely, the court's gonna look nuts tomorrow. Yes, kind of cool.
Here's Coop's tweet. Real quick, you watch a game like tonight,
you see exactly why the rest of the NBA wants their team to get its
hand on Pascal and Og and why Toronto has wanted a King's ransom in any
trade. They are terrific and just pulverize the MAVs tonight. That's from their
play by play guy. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty honest. Take annihilated
in the paint, smoked on rebounds. But yeah, I mean it's our
branch bank and new big Man is important six and two through eight games though,
Clippers tomorrow night. Here on the Freak, the Angels have hired Danny.
You know who the Angels hired? I do, okay, Ron Washington,
because if you didn't know, I'd be excited for us to tell you.
I figured you knew. But if you didn't know, I think we
talked about this last night, didn't we have? Me and Danny talked about
it and sitting away in the back, So I wasn't talking with you guys.
I wasn't in the same spot as you in the last row, the
dead last row. Yeah, you were in the second to dead last row,
right third, okay, j J. Where were you sitting last night?
Rode one two O Geez center the Connections. No, I was on
the side. I saw the guys like I saw the cast walk up the
stage, and I was like right by the door. Kind of by the
where they were all standing, Yeah, where they would walk it, when
they were walking up on the stage. Yeah, you have big eyes on
everybody. Yeah, who are you? Who are your eyes drawn to the
most? I mean, come on, I don't know. He's Dickinson.
Who By the way, we're gonna talk about that at the after party because
I have a photo with him. But no, it's like garfround looked good.
I saw him when he came on the red carpet because I stayed around
to, you know, try to get footage, and I was like,
he's so short. I was looking for I was like, man, he
looks good. Okay, yeah, he's not as buff onion as bulky as
he is in the film God, because that's not really it's kind of a
little sometimes. Yeah, when he's specially because he's so small. He's short.
But he looked like he had Plato pressed all over his face in that
movie Have Mushroom Head. They did those hairstyles. Oh my god, so
good. That's how it was back thing. Guys, jesus, how could
Danny not us we're young bucks. Well anyway, sorry, guys were in
the dead last row. So yeah, I didn't know what you were talking
about. We were having a good baseball talk right there. So, yeah,
he will be the manager of the Los Angeles Angels, who you know
will likely lose Otani as we've talked about a little bit the last few days.
But uh, the fifth manager in seven years for the Angels is they
just run through them like nothing? What a story. We'll get to see
Wash eleven to fifteen times next year. How we are the Bruce Bochie is
sixty eight, Wash is seventy one. Crazy, Like when we got Boachie
it felt like you're getting it. I mean, respectfully, an ancient dude
is a manager. I don't know, but she's only sixty eight. Sixty
eight Wash is seventy one. But I will speak for all of us when
we say sports, baseball everything a better world. When Ron Washington is in
it and this is great, it is that it is great. And I
kind of actually liked that he's in the division because it's like we knew his
around. If we play the Braves once a year for three games, it's
like he's the base coach. So he might be in town and he'll get
some headlines and stuff. Yeah, but a manager of the Angels when you
see him at third base, I I it's I like seeing him, yea,
just like looking down and knowing that Ron Washington is somewhere close and boys
still to this day, the best kept sports controversy secret that I've that I'm
aware of is the real story on why he left. Yeah, what's out
there and not out there? I mean, let's just spill whatever. I'll
spill everything you got. All I know is yeah? Is that all it
is? Though? There was Yeah, reckless, unsubstantiated rumors of some thing
inappropriate that had happened, sex sexually inappropriate, stuff that happened within the organization
and within the media with the media, international media member. Yeah, may
have been pixelated at the time of the year. Actually, that's fair,
right, my big job for these new goggles that I got. Yeah,
maybe not a lifelong Rangers reporter maybe here because of a picture that they might
have signed. Those were all rumors. Now, I remember in twenty fourteen,
which was that was the gas leak year twenty fourteen. That's all we
will refer to it as got hurt, traded for Prince Fielder and found out
he didn't have a neck, so he couldn't play anymore. Because he could
get hurt. He'd have no vertebrae or something. Everyone got hurt. That
was the Tom Drish Tommy John year. Terrible year. So I don't know
that the Rangers were going to fire him. And he steps down late that
season, and I remember in that press conference he made seemed like infidelity,
that's what he claimed, which the Rangers didn't. They like, they let
you like they caught you with cocaine and said you can still be our manager.
They weren't getting rid of him or asking him to leave because of infidelity.
No, when was the cocaine thing? Was that not that year seven
oh r eight when there was a couple of years before they sevens when he
got hired. I bet so. I think he's probably nine oh seven through
fourteen was his tenure. I bet owned eight or nine was a cocaine year.
That was the weirdest thing when we started getting reports that somebody in the
Rangers organization tested positive and we found out it's wash for blow what so.
And his claim is that he did it one time in Pe dirty Yeah.
Nine, that was nine, so he was someone do the math. He's
seventy one now July of nine and the news ten years, so he was
fifty eight something like that. So fifty seven tested positive for cocaine and July
of nine, but that story did not break until spring training of twenty ten.
I didn't get out in the middle of the year as I was in
Arizona. I was in Arizona when it happened. Yeah, who broke that?
I mean, remember the team didn't have to disclose since it was the
first time. Yeah thing, but boy they had uh they had their response
ready to go, didn't they. I just did it one time, and
I regret it, Okay, Wash twenty ten Rangers manager Ron Washington tested positive
for cocaine last July, and this article was twenty ten March of twenty ten,
that's when it broke. So it was nine that he did it a
spring training of the first World Series year that it broke. And I remember,
I remember being in Arizona that week and going, where is they abant
to fire the manager here in spring training? And they're saying that he tested
positive in July of the previous year, so like right in the middle of
the season. So it was kept under wraps for almost a year from didn't
he say that? He was just like chilling with his homies, and it
got you know, it was produced, and he said, yeah, why
the hell not, I've never done this before. I mean, he had
a whole little narrative that went along with the he knew he was due for
age just after the All Star break, okay, yes, that's right.
On All Star break is when he I think he claimed that, do you
have that in front of you? I have a lot a big article.
I don't know what, specifically anyone. I'm just curious what his story was.
Because I called major League Baseball. He said, I could have waited,
he said, I've always been honest. He said, I knew,
okay, I could have waited for things to come back and had a scandal
happen. But the only thing I knew to do was call somebody. And
the first thing I thought was to call major League Baseball. So he knew
it was going to be in a system, so he called him. Lbing
told him that might have saved his job. Honestly, absolutely now, but
the Rangers went, the Rangers went, you did the right thing here,
and we should not punish you for that. I'm reading the following information that
I did not know prior to reading this cocaine generally clears the system three to
five days after use. Heavy users could take ten to fourteen days after one
time use. A person usually tests positive positive for only two to three days.
That so, come on, okay, you really think you dinged him
in the three day window after the first time he used it. Clearly no
one thinks that, so two weeks worth it was an unfortunate coincidence. He
suspected they would just hammer and blow for the thirty years prior to that day.
Okay, it says he suspected. This is an article ten. He
suspected they would fire him on the spot in two thousand and nine, so
he asked John Daniels and no One Ryan to come to his office after a
game, and the next day was an off day, so he thought he
was getting fired. He told him, he explained everything. He told him
that he had a weak moment, spared no detail. He then began crying.
John Daniels described it as a punch in the gut. Daniels also said
that he was pissed because this was his hire. He had to say to
hire Ron Washington Nolan Ryan in that meeting, can you imagine what the hell
you think you're doingsh doing a bunch of cocaine on all storms, right walk
when you. Wash portrayed his trust but potentially exposed the team's premier player,
Josh Hamilton, a recovering addict to drugs on the road. So let's separate
what Wash did that one time from Josh. Yeah, I bet Josh'll sit
over there just with his hands over his mouth. Got it's not me,
it's not me, I think, manager. Oh my god, this is
the best boy. They definitely thought about firing him and decided not to.
They said Wash even offered to resign when that happened, and well, damn
it, Wash, Melan can't fire you. I'm done, reported it.
MLB told John Daniels. They assured him that Wash had never had a prior
positive test, so well, maybe it was his first time using cocaine,
but he had never tested positive before, so didn't he know when the test
were. They're testing managers, which is kind of weird. Why just let
him do it? I don't understand more shocking If Bruce Bochie pops for cocaine
in spring training, I mean, you just want a title party. It
was incredibly shocked at the time, but then I don't know. Then you're
like, all right, okay, I mean how many coach, head,
coaches, managers, whatever have been dinged for that? I mean I can't
think of one. I don't know of another. One. Usually booze with
those guys, A lot of booze, booze and all they booze so hard.
Yeah, well, Wash is back in our lives. Imagine the reception
he's going to get when the Angels come to town for the first time next
year. They're going to give him a ring. What I think they will
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