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You're listening to the Downbeat on ninety
seven one the freaks coming up in thirty

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minutes. A couple of things important
in the world of news. There was

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a huge plume. He's just a
big plume. I like to tell you

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about that. And do we have
competition for BUCkies coming to North Texas?

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Get into that maybe, If not, we'll get into it later. Plus

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we're about to get smacked with that
cold front. Cold front coming in like

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an hour. It's coming. The
bad man is coming to town with big

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rain, Mikey, big rain,
big weather. Covered extensively here on the

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downbeat. Also covered is some defense
for Julie, which we were not taking

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shots. We all know everyone peas, but we were discussing dudes having the

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Norton anti lock. Yes, per
having guys having two factor authentication before we

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pee ourselves. It's called the last
line of defense. Yeah, and some

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of us have more time than others. Yes, Kevin, Yeah, Kevin,

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Okay, as long as has you
know full five seconds five seconds sounds

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I'm making all the way down to
our bathroom, the red zone away.

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But the main defense was that once
you have the kiddos, all things change.

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This is why I've been saying women
deserve more rights when it comes to

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bathrooms nearer to the studios and other
work't places. I've never heard him say

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that, and that's a big advocate
for that. And if you he's you're,

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you're, you're usually out of the
studio. And Kevin I talked about

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important issues. When he's standing on
that platform, we know you're not equipped

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to deal with these important biological issues
and only heavy And I find interesting in

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Kevin. I also think that in
nineteen sixty one, along with their Caucasians

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only lifting, I thought the PGA
Tour should have gotten rid of their men

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only rule. Two. Well they
did. And nineties right when the great

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Anachist warns down what it just like
invites only though I don't know. Hey,

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did old girl who played in a
tournament a couple of weeks ago,

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did she make the cut? I
don't think she made it. There wasn't

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Paula Kreamer, it was Did you
watch it? And you're talking about my

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friend Paula Creamer. She's one of
the best golfers of all time, the

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pink Panther, Paula Kreamer. If
anyone was gonna get invited to play in

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a men's tournament. It would be
her because she could legitimately go win it.

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Yeah, but in her prime not
so much, now, wasn't it

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Lexi? It was Lexi Thompson,
known for being a choke artist. Why

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on the female writer cup. I'm
just saying that's what happened. Lexi Thompson

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shoots sixty nine on PGA tour.
Yeah, nearly makes historic cut. That's

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badass. Well, I mean it's
still failed. Still sell them along out

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there on the weekend with them boys. Yeah, it appears maybe you know,

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we'll see. Let's cover that right
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popular than reverse basketball, no doubt. Which was my final thought as my

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eyes closed last night and I drifted
off to never never Land. Was Danny's

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reverse basketball running around with backboards trying
to throw them at stationary balls. I

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didn't think about that a lot yesterday
too. I was like, it's just

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fabulous, Kevin. Can you name
one woman in the top ten rated women

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golfers on planet Earth? You have
three seconds? Some shoe weee anymore?

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Huh? No, Lexi Thompson,
not so much anymore. No, I

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couldn't. Okay, Oh no,
no, the girl, the Stanford girl

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Rose, She's not in there yet. Really, o, Nellie Corda,

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I think would have been your only
maybe Lydia Coe. But we celebrate women

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this morning, y'all. It est
MAVs played the last night and they lost

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it by eleven, but Derek Lively
was out, and the big story of

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last night's game is if Derek Lively
is going to miss time, the Mavericks

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are going to get destroyed in the
paint. So that's kind of what happened.

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Siakam went off and Mavericks played,
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They played a lot of Grant Williams
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and the MAVs lose by eleven,
so they missed him a lot, and

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there was no one in the paint. And we've learned real quickly through eight

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games, which is the maps are
six and two that Derek Lively is a

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key piece to them winning games.
If he ain't there, then they got

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to figure out a way to defend
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and rachel On Holmes who barely played
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the start. Maxi's back right,
he had a dislocated toe. Yeah,

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he's back. That's good. I
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any the game. Obviously. We're
at the Iron Claw the new movie about

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the von Eric family that will be
reviewing in one hour, I mean one

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of the first reviews in America.
Yeah. Absolutely, the world premiere last

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Night Entertainment Tonight was there and it
was at the Texas Theater, and thank

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you for the Texas Theater for for
letting us come enjoy that last night.

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She looked good Texas Theater. She
looked she looks fun. That old girl

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still got it. Oh, dude, hot bitch. When I got in

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the car from your house, Mike, though I was driving home, I

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was immediately checked into the Chuck Cooperstein
post game show. Yeah, so he's

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laying out the game right after the
game had happened. As I was driving

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home, I was like, Oh, this is nice. I got the

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recap from Chuck. Mavericks outscored in
the paint last night, seventy two to

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forty. Derek Lively is awesome.
We need him, dude, I agree,

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And he's him and Grant Williams have
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I mean, they're the two new
contributors, so obviously they're going to be

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significant to a MAVs fan. But
yeah, is it too fragile of a

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team if you're very inexperienced? Very
And I don't just say that because he's

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a rookie, I mean because he
hardly played in college too. Is so

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essential? You know, like if
if, oh, how can we win

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a game without Derek Lively? Is
your sentence? Yeah, I don't know.

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That just doesn't feel real good.
And maybe it's credit to him,

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because the dude is great. I
love him in the matchup, maybe though,

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what's siakam? You know? Yeah? And maybe against the Raptors it

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matters a little more. But that's
not a good thing. If you can't

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pull off a dub at home without
Derek Live. Maybe he's just in the

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short amount of time that they've been
together, just meshed in so well,

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with the chemistry so fast. I
think they're shocked at how productive he is

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him and when you take him out
of that mix, it's like a stool

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with two legs can't sit on it. Also, though, if you if

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you can actually play team defense and
do what you're supposed to do rather than

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just kind of wander around and float
to wherever and then whatever happens on defense,

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as long as you get me the
ball on offense, I'll be fine.

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Yes, that is a direct shot
at Christian Wood. That is the

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biggest problem from last season. Christian
Wood was a terrible team defender, just

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awful, and he puts everyone in
a bad space and makes everyone look bad

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because he did not do his job
on the defensive end of the floor on

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assignment based defense like Derek Lively is
absolutely doing that and helping helping cover up

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if you're a second late back where
you're supposed to be helping out on switches

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and things like that. I haven't
even seen a big difference Christian Wood,

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it was just a space cadet man. He was lazy. I remember so

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many times he would go top of
the key and try to set a pick

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and they would get called for the
foul because he wouldn't just move his feet

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to get in their position. But
a rookie and one like Lively who's got

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a big old brain on him,
and you can tell the motor is running,

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he gets in the right spots.
I don't have the tweet up.

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I should try to find it.
But Coop's tweet, Chuck Cooperstein's tweet last

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night about the game kind of set
at all because it's not normal that you

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see such a damning assessment of your
basketball team from I don't know the radio

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play by playboys, but he essentially
said that the MAVs got spanked tonight and

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was talking about how great Toronto actually
is. I don't know all that much

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about the Raptors, so I don't
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going on this thing. Kyrie said
that when Kyrie had a couple interesting quotes,

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and one of them was we were
soft to the paint. When you

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have your head coach calling you soft, you've got to take that personally,

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take that as a challenge. Well, interesting. Tomorrow night should be fun.

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I would love to sneak out to
that game tomorrow night, Clippers MAVs.

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The Clippers who just got James Harden. So you have James hard and

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Paul George Kawhi Leonard and Russell Westbrook
all on the same team taking on the

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MAVs. Here, we'll have the
Trinity blue City uniforms. Now. Is

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it in a mid season tournament game? Are they doing the court all funky

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like they did last week? Yeah? Is the court gonna be just blue?

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Yeah, we'll have the jack it's
a mid season tournament game. Yeah.

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Absolutely, the court's gonna look nuts
tomorrow. Yes, kind of cool.

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Here's Coop's tweet. Real quick,
you watch a game like tonight,

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you see exactly why the rest of
the NBA wants their team to get its

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hand on Pascal and Og and why
Toronto has wanted a King's ransom in any

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trade. They are terrific and just
pulverize the MAVs tonight. That's from their

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play by play guy. Yeah,
yeah, I'm pretty honest. Take annihilated

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in the paint, smoked on rebounds. But yeah, I mean it's our

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branch bank and new big Man is
important six and two through eight games though,

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Clippers tomorrow night. Here on the
Freak, the Angels have hired Danny.

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You know who the Angels hired?
I do, okay, Ron Washington,

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because if you didn't know, I'd
be excited for us to tell you.

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I figured you knew. But if
you didn't know, I think we

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talked about this last night, didn't
we have? Me and Danny talked about

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it and sitting away in the back, So I wasn't talking with you guys.

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I wasn't in the same spot as
you in the last row, the

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dead last row. Yeah, you
were in the second to dead last row,

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right third, okay, j J. Where were you sitting last night?

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Rode one two O Geez center the
Connections. No, I was on

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the side. I saw the guys
like I saw the cast walk up the

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stage, and I was like right
by the door. Kind of by the

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where they were all standing, Yeah, where they would walk it, when

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they were walking up on the stage. Yeah, you have big eyes on

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everybody. Yeah, who are you? Who are your eyes drawn to the

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most? I mean, come on, I don't know. He's Dickinson.

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Who By the way, we're gonna
talk about that at the after party because

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I have a photo with him.
But no, it's like garfround looked good.

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I saw him when he came on
the red carpet because I stayed around

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to, you know, try to
get footage, and I was like,

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he's so short. I was looking
for I was like, man, he

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looks good. Okay, yeah,
he's not as buff onion as bulky as

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he is in the film God,
because that's not really it's kind of a

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little sometimes. Yeah, when he's
specially because he's so small. He's short.

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But he looked like he had Plato
pressed all over his face in that

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movie Have Mushroom Head. They did
those hairstyles. Oh my god, so

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good. That's how it was back
thing. Guys, jesus, how could

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Danny not us we're young bucks.
Well anyway, sorry, guys were in

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the dead last row. So yeah, I didn't know what you were talking

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about. We were having a good
baseball talk right there. So, yeah,

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he will be the manager of the
Los Angeles Angels, who you know

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will likely lose Otani as we've talked
about a little bit the last few days.

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But uh, the fifth manager in
seven years for the Angels is they

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just run through them like nothing?
What a story. We'll get to see

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Wash eleven to fifteen times next year. How we are the Bruce Bochie is

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sixty eight, Wash is seventy one. Crazy, Like when we got Boachie

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it felt like you're getting it.
I mean, respectfully, an ancient dude

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is a manager. I don't know, but she's only sixty eight. Sixty

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eight Wash is seventy one. But
I will speak for all of us when

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we say sports, baseball everything a
better world. When Ron Washington is in

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it and this is great, it
is that it is great. And I

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kind of actually liked that he's in
the division because it's like we knew his

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around. If we play the Braves
once a year for three games, it's

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like he's the base coach. So
he might be in town and he'll get

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some headlines and stuff. Yeah,
but a manager of the Angels when you

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see him at third base, I
I it's I like seeing him, yea,

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just like looking down and knowing that
Ron Washington is somewhere close and boys

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still to this day, the best
kept sports controversy secret that I've that I'm

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aware of is the real story on
why he left. Yeah, what's out

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there and not out there? I
mean, let's just spill whatever. I'll

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spill everything you got. All I
know is yeah? Is that all it

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is? Though? There was Yeah, reckless, unsubstantiated rumors of some thing

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inappropriate that had happened, sex sexually
inappropriate, stuff that happened within the organization

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and within the media with the media, international media member. Yeah, may

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have been pixelated at the time of
the year. Actually, that's fair,

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right, my big job for these
new goggles that I got. Yeah,

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maybe not a lifelong Rangers reporter maybe
here because of a picture that they might

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have signed. Those were all rumors. Now, I remember in twenty fourteen,

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which was that was the gas leak
year twenty fourteen. That's all we

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will refer to it as got hurt, traded for Prince Fielder and found out

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he didn't have a neck, so
he couldn't play anymore. Because he could

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get hurt. He'd have no vertebrae
or something. Everyone got hurt. That

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was the Tom Drish Tommy John year. Terrible year. So I don't know

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that the Rangers were going to fire
him. And he steps down late that

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season, and I remember in that
press conference he made seemed like infidelity,

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that's what he claimed, which the
Rangers didn't. They like, they let

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you like they caught you with cocaine
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They weren't getting rid of him or
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No, when was the cocaine thing? Was that not that year seven

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oh r eight when there was a
couple of years before they sevens when he

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got hired. I bet so.
I think he's probably nine oh seven through

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fourteen was his tenure. I bet
owned eight or nine was a cocaine year.

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That was the weirdest thing when we
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Rangers organization tested positive and we found
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And his claim is that he did
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Nine, that was nine, so
he was someone do the math. He's

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seventy one now July of nine and
the news ten years, so he was

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fifty eight something like that. So
fifty seven tested positive for cocaine and July

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of nine, but that story did
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I didn't get out in the middle
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Arizona. I was in Arizona when
it happened. Yeah, who broke that?

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I mean, remember the team didn't
have to disclose since it was the

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first time. Yeah thing, but
boy they had uh they had their response

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ready to go, didn't they.
I just did it one time, and

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I regret it, Okay, Wash
twenty ten Rangers manager Ron Washington tested positive

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for cocaine last July, and this
article was twenty ten March of twenty ten,

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that's when it broke. So it
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spring training of the first World Series
year that it broke. And I remember,

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I remember being in Arizona that week
and going, where is they abant

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to fire the manager here in spring
training? And they're saying that he tested

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positive in July of the previous year, so like right in the middle of

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the season. So it was kept
under wraps for almost a year from didn't

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he say that? He was just
like chilling with his homies, and it

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got you know, it was produced, and he said, yeah, why

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the hell not, I've never done
this before. I mean, he had

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a whole little narrative that went along
with the he knew he was due for

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age just after the All Star break, okay, yes, that's right.

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On All Star break is when he
I think he claimed that, do you

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have that in front of you?
I have a lot a big article.

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I don't know what, specifically anyone. I'm just curious what his story was.

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Because I called major League Baseball.
He said, I could have waited,

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he said, I've always been honest. He said, I knew,

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okay, I could have waited for
things to come back and had a scandal

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happen. But the only thing I
knew to do was call somebody. And

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the first thing I thought was to
call major League Baseball. So he knew

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it was going to be in a
system, so he called him. Lbing

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told him that might have saved his
job. Honestly, absolutely now, but

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the Rangers went, the Rangers went, you did the right thing here,

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and we should not punish you for
that. I'm reading the following information that

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I did not know prior to reading
this cocaine generally clears the system three to

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five days after use. Heavy users
could take ten to fourteen days after one

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time use. A person usually tests
positive positive for only two to three days.

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That so, come on, okay, you really think you dinged him

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in the three day window after the
first time he used it. Clearly no

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one thinks that, so two weeks
worth it was an unfortunate coincidence. He

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suspected they would just hammer and blow
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Okay, it says he suspected.
This is an article ten. He

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suspected they would fire him on the
spot in two thousand and nine, so

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he asked John Daniels and no One
Ryan to come to his office after a

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game, and the next day was
an off day, so he thought he

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was getting fired. He told him, he explained everything. He told him

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that he had a weak moment,
spared no detail. He then began crying.

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John Daniels described it as a punch
in the gut. Daniels also said

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that he was pissed because this was
his hire. He had to say to

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hire Ron Washington Nolan Ryan in that
meeting, can you imagine what the hell

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you think you're doingsh doing a bunch
of cocaine on all storms, right walk

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when you. Wash portrayed his trust
but potentially exposed the team's premier player,

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Josh Hamilton, a recovering addict to
drugs on the road. So let's separate

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what Wash did that one time from
Josh. Yeah, I bet Josh'll sit

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over there just with his hands over
his mouth. Got it's not me,

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it's not me, I think,
manager. Oh my god, this is

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the best boy. They definitely thought
about firing him and decided not to.

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They said Wash even offered to resign
when that happened, and well, damn

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it, Wash, Melan can't fire
you. I'm done, reported it.

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MLB told John Daniels. They assured
him that Wash had never had a prior

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positive test, so well, maybe
it was his first time using cocaine,

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but he had never tested positive before, so didn't he know when the test

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were. They're testing managers, which
is kind of weird. Why just let

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him do it? I don't understand
more shocking If Bruce Bochie pops for cocaine

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in spring training, I mean,
you just want a title party. It

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was incredibly shocked at the time,
but then I don't know. Then you're

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like, all right, okay,
I mean how many coach, head,

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coaches, managers, whatever have been
dinged for that? I mean I can't

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think of one. I don't know
of another. One. Usually booze with

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those guys, A lot of booze, booze and all they booze so hard.

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Yeah, well, Wash is back
in our lives. Imagine the reception

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he's going to get when the Angels
come to town for the first time next

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year. They're going to give him
a ring. What I think they will

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coming up next? Something that's got
canceled today and Nowaly's due to this.

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I'll tell you next time. Ninety
seven won the Freak