It's the downbeat on ninety seven one the freak. All right, Mike Siroy
has thrown out an idea and we're starting to see if it has wheels as
He's like, screw it. Why wouldn't we just go to Houston after the
show today and you go, oh, this is a great idea, but
then you have to get through logistics. But we just touched our boss Zach.
He's at least willing to start looking at options. Yeah, during the
break, Danny and I went down and inspected the station vehicle. You two
did, and you could see that live video on the at ninety seven won
the freak TikTok he posted at ninety seven on the Freaking in Fact Instagram and
Twitter. Uh so, yeah, did it pass the Bayliss's inspection? No?
Probably not? No, Dan Nan, did it to you? You're
the car guy? Did it pass the inspection? The car? Uh?
You know what I think it. I didn't start it up. It was
locked, and it's it's dirty. It's like covered in dust. It doesn't
look like it's been used in about six months. But there's good tread on
the tires. Current inspection. Uh so if it starts in runs, I
mean, is there crappy lawn lawn signs in the back seat and you know
posters and I didn't you know what. It's got that wrap on it,
so you can't even see in the windows other than the drivers and the passenger
side, So like the back seat and whatever is beyond that you can't see
in because it's kind of like privacy. Yeah, so I don't know what's
in the damage. I love this, let's go. I know it's a
maybe right now, it's or logistics. But you know a lot of people
watching that game had for one second the thought, oh wow, what if
we went to Houston and we have a job that maybe we can pull it
off. You know. A couple of texts have come in. One says,
rent a car, split it three ways. It isn't that bad.
But that's the whole thing is we don't want to pay for any of it.
No US three, but I got to fuck it. Yeah, guy
says the fact that you don't have a reliable vehicle to get to Houston and
back is both hilarious and sad. Yeah, well, we both we all
drive I think somewhat reliable cars. But they're all like, we're all normal
innocent big men. You know, y'all toller me more wide. But the
point is, you know, three guys in a Hondai cord does not make
for a great nursery rhyme, much less a bathtub weird one growing up?
What are they doing bathing together? Odd? I mean we did shower together
in junior high. I guess point of it all is highly confusing, believe
it to day. Jay's got confusedly the mic. Why aren't you taking Mikey's
jeep? According to a text message two and four eight, we could take
my jeep. It's just top down. I don't know. Wrangler is a
he want to go on a massive I don't know. I think so right,
doesn't it feel like an odd? Yeah? You've seen my cards.
I think yours is just too small. It's just too damn small. And
I don't know if Kevin will fit in Malcolm's booster. See. Yeah,
we need a baby seat for Kevin. He's rear facing. Yeah, I
can't see yet. He's gotta pack up on my formula too. Yeah,
I'll just nurse you Kevo. Okay, Well, it's at least up.
We'll let check in on zach In about an hour or so and see if
there's a chance the down beats going to Houston. He liked it. That's
the he was step one, not an immediate shutdown, and the vehicle seemingly
passed the eyeball inspection. We don't know if it actually runs, but we'll
find out. Yeah, another caller called in. JAD told me Coller called
in and said, just rent it and ride it off of your taxes.
But again, none of us want to deal with that. Yeah, Boie,
thank you for your alternate suggestions. JJ's checking your phones all day two
and four or eight one, seven, seven, eight seven nine one.
I had skull a buck coming up at seven thirty five. Couple updates on
some missing animals. I've been talking to the Fox reporter in Oklahoma City about
the python. I tried to tell him the tip the detected the detective Dick
Shale tip. Yeah, I don't feel like we're helping the investigation a whole
lot. I told him I'd give him the tip as long as he called
in and the offers still out. Will that offer be accepted? Seven thirty
five? Hear that, Let's talk Rangers Astros now in sports at seven Just
go and now Sports at seven. If you need to unsafely get to Houston
in the spur of the moment, consider a freak vehicle Hi Miley, expired
inspection and bald tires. What could possibly go wrong? Freak vehicle? At
least it's free. Perfect. Thank you so much, freaking vehicle for jumping
up over the station this morning. Thank you, freak vehicle. Uh oh,
I was trying to leave the parking line. It's not good. I
think there's a homeless man living in the parking garage right next to freak vitica.
Really yeah, like when I hit my hood to see if there's a
cat sleeping on my radiator, you don't want to whack the freak vehicle a
couple times before we back out. Okay, let's start. It's warm next
to the transmission. This is my home. I live here. Totally looked
up the iHeart stations in Houston Tube about fifteen ten to fifteen minutes away from
Minute Made Park. Was this doable? This is doable? I looked up
Sports Talk seven to ninety am, which is not the one that my friends
work force, but they're iHeart, so I guess they are on our team.
Well more on that later. I guess let's work chronologically here. Coming
off a weekend, because Friday we had a Game five situation with a four
pm first pitch, I decided to go. And I will tell you that
while I definitely had worse seats than my cad for Game four on Thursday,
I got more more money and value. I guess I got more value one
hundred and fifty fifty and I paid four hundred for Game five nosebleeds. But
man, I had an awesome time. Even though we got our heart ripped
out. There was a lot of juice in that game. That was a
action packed evening at the ballpark. I mean, you had Verlander versus Montgomery,
and then we give the first run, first inning home run to Bregman,
down one thing, and then you're like, okay, one time through
the lineup, Okay, our bats still suck. You're like, okay,
we're going down three to two. We're not gonna hit today. And then
Nate Low just lays one out over the left field wall, one to one,
just kN opposite field, barely swung, and then we're tied. And
then the Astros got up again to one, and I forget how that happened,
but then we get to what really matters, and that is the Adoley
s Garcia three run home run two to one momentum, changing no outrunners on
first and second. And this happened in the last fifteen minutes or so of
the Speakeasy show that it was Jeff and Julie and Jesse Holly in groups out
of Pluckers and Plano and they went nuts on the air and Adoles hits a
three run bomb. Pimps it. I'm going nuts, losing my head whole
place. Just incredible. Four to two. I mean, I remember going
four to two, and I remember telling rock So over to the game with
and I told her, I said, even if we lose this game,
we will always remember that what just happened. You'll never forget that she looked
up at you from her phone. Yeah, it was really fun. Kevin,
just tiktoking. Still, that's pretty into it. I don't know why
there was, like, Okay, lots of Astros fans, lots of Astros
fans. I don't think there's anything you can do about that because they live
here right way more Astros fans they're telling us down in Houston than there are
Rangers fans, Like by a lot, dude. But that's because they they're
programmed to go to playoff games every year. We aren't. They're programmed to
go to league championship series seven years in a damn row. Yeah, and
boy, you were right. I don't want to fast forward too much,
but it was not an even balance comparatively of visiting fans representing I would agree
one hundred percent. It was nuts. Before the game, Astros fans were
making a lot of noise in the concourse. They were all getting together strangers.
You could tell they were strangers. There was this odd thing for a
sold out game, and I did put this on TikTok. It got a
little bit of put this on the freak TikTok. You got a little bit
of traction out there that's going through and then just randomly in some two hundred
section, just like four rows all the way across with no one in it,
And I'm like, who bought these seats? It didn't show up or
who were they saved for? They saved for players wives? Maybe that just
didn't go sold out station and still out stadium. And then there's just like
one section with empty rows that was nuts to Maybe those were supposed to be
for Creed maybe yeah, Creed and Friends, Creed and Friends, and they
didn't show that game four to two, were up, saw the home run.
It at least pimped it out about as much as you can pimp out
a home run bat spike better than bat flip either, fine, because baseball
and golf or two sports that don't need to get caught up and not being
fun. Well, they've made the changes though, because if Adoles did the
stuff that he does, even like ten years ago, A sure, yeah,
there would be like a gang initiation at home plate the next time he
came up. But now you can kind of do whatever. And I think
they've all decided that, you know, well maybe not as we saw how
the game played out. But yeah, the policing of pimping is is plummeted,
which is nice. Yes, they know it's good for TV, good
for everything, good for all of us like put on a damn show.
It's literally bad for the picture. Who's getting humili feel just sad for one
second son, you know, don't give up the home run. So we
get up later in the game and it's top of the eighth. It is
I'm sorry, it's bottom of the eighth, it's four to two Rangers.
Chapman's wiggled out of what he had to wiggle out of. Laclerk had to
come on to help get him out of it. Okay, and Leaclerk gets
the final out of the of the top of the eighth. We go to
the bottom of the eighth. First guy gets on Evan Carter and then it
always comes to the plate and he is pegged right in the really left bicep.
We end up hitting him. But in the moment, I'm going that
absolutely was intentional. There's no effing doubt about it. And then when I
got home that night and watched it on TV, I was like, there's
no way to do that on purpose. I finally realized there at the game,
you were looking for action. Well, he was clearly looking for action
because his reaction time, his response time to getting hit was immediate. He
had He went up there knowing full good and well that he was probably gonna
get plunked, and if he did, he had he had a plan.
I fully believe that he didn't take one second to even ponder the situation.
He had that in his head for since the last Yeah, and he turned
to Maldonado, the catcher who they've had beef with already earlier in the year.
You had to go back to July for that. But Adolis and Martine
Maldonado had beef. But if you watch on TV real closely, Maldonado goes,
come on, man, why would we do that here? Dude?
When I watched it on TV, I went, oh, there's no way
they meant to do that. Yeah. I don't think as much as it's
more fun to think it was intentional. Yeah, I think that was just
got up and in away from him a little bit. I could not believe
that MLB suspended Bobby or Bray, not Bobby a Bray, You a Bray,
You the pitcher, YEP for two games and then he appealed and he
pitched last night and he has a hearing today and we don't know if he's
going to be allowed to pitch. He's their second best relief pitcher. We
don't know if he's allowed to pitch tonight. Well, it's funny MLB,
because of their suspension, they determined that there was a tent. Yes,
and those are you know, I guess far more brighter and connected Baseball minds
than the three of us. Sure they found enough evidence in their view to
suspend him for two games. He's appealing, they'll likely cut that in half,
which will mean he'll probably be unavailable tonight. Yeah, that's typically how
these things go. I don't think they'll absolve him of all responsibility and just
eliminate the suspension in its entirety, but I think they'll cut it in half.
But it was the aftermath of the way all that went down that was
most perplexing. I think is the Dusty Baker refusal to leave the field,
which also spurned a lot of conspiracy theories on Twitter that he hit him intentionally
so you could elongate the time in between the clerk's mount pen. I don't
believe that at all either, because, like you said, I don't think
it was intended hit him intentionally. Do I think he meant to pitch him
way inside. Yes, and if he hit him that was a byproduct of
pitching inside. Absolutely, But he did not go there up there with the
intent to drill him. He meant to pitch inside. It probably got away,
and that was just collateral damage of being, you know, being in
a box in a Major League Baseball game. Do you I agree that that
wasn't all done intentionally, But do you think once the hit by pitch happened
and the freak has happened and Dusty's long argument and then kind of refusal to
leave, that could have been strategy. Yeah, a little strategy of possibly
because that did it hit me during the whatever the commercial backing, like Jesus,
the clerk's been sitting in there for a long time. Yeah, yeah,
And I don't know if that's just like assigning genius after the fact or
that's just genius of Dusty's like screw it, well, boach you shirt didn't
like it, and he said as much. He thought it was a mess.
He thought that it was way too long for the clerk to be sitting
And I don't know if there I don't know what Evan there is. I'm
sure there is that a relief pitcher that spends a lot of time in between
pitches. It affects him adversely, I don't know. It seems to me
it's like, yeah, I kind of want the rest. I'd want to
be I'd want to take a little breather and go back out there a little
fresher. But maybe it doesn't work that way. I mean, it only
says the one who's the aggressor though, like he was thrown out and the
watch I watched when I watched it back on TV, I was like,
no one should have been thrown out. This is not like in Games one
through four we've had problems with these teams, you know, getting chippy.
We haven't had any of that. The first sign of it. We're just
throwing people out like that was terrible. I don't think the pitch. I
don't think the Houston pitchers should be suspended. I don't either, But whatever
happens when they do give you first and second with no outs, you got
to get one of those runs in. And they didn't. No, they
didn't. And that's been the story of why this this series is going to
a game seven, in my opinion, is because the amount of potential insurance
that the Rangers have left on base. They could have and if they have
just cleaned up a little bit, if they'd have just hit their their season
average with runners in scoring position or just with runners on base. We route
Houston every damn game, but they just haven't situationally hit at all until you
know, last night. But so it's just better late than ever. I
guess, well, go go ahead, mind no, I want you to
continue because they didn't get runners in there. And then also on the ninth
well, and then you get to the ninth inning, you give up a
base hit to who is that? It was Maldonado, Maldonado, and then
a four pitch walk to your number nine hitter, a four pitch who was
a pinch hitter. Character actor John Singleton, known for his role in many
movies, including Boys in the Hood. Then al Tuove and then it happens
and then you know, I mean, if there is one guy in the
world who probably shouldn't be allowed to participate in the sport, like banned for
life type thing, it is him. And that's frustrating. But god,
you just luclerk did that to himself. He absolutely did that to himself.
So you lose, you think it's over. You stew on it Saturday,
and then you play game six and we'll have more on that a little bit
later. Anything else on I'll two base home run. Just the it was
very dramatic. Oh you know what, let me say this. There was
some time at the bottom of the ninth ending, though the reason you get
the first two guys on right, and it's Semi and who hasn't done much
with the with the bat, although he did have a diving stop that saved
two runs earlier in the game, and a lot of people were like,
why didn't they bunt? Well, if they bunt there, then they're just
gonna intentionally walk your best hit or seeker. So bunning was not an option.
You had to let Simon hit. And he hit a line drive that
if it's one foot higher in the air, it's a base hit and it's
probably bases loaded or tie game. Yeah, with no outs. I mean,
you almost made it through it. It's baseball. You just need a
good wood and he hit that great yep, and it just happens. It
is wild that baseball is the one sport where if you did the same action
out in the parking lot, you'd be thrown in jail for a long time.
You would get aggravated assault charges. But like baseball is there, Like,
look, it's just kind of how we do things. If you offend
me, I throw a one hundred mile per hour baseball at your head,
and it's just kind of grandfathered in. And they're trying to stop it with
what happened, And I kind of disagree with what happened, But I do
also disagree with the idea of like retaliating and throwing at people. I think
that's stupid and childish, especially now. And I also think you shouldn't be
allowed to do something that the people attending the game, if they did that
just in public, would get thrown in jail for multiple years. For if
you got mad at someone because they dinged your car and you lined up from
sixty feet away and throw a baseball ath them as hard as you could and
hit them and hit them, you would go to jail for a long time.
Yeah, it's the rules don't apply. Man, It's so crazy.
But well, it's disappointing and shocking. Is that defeat in Game five was
it's sent our boys back on the road to do what they did last night.
And I think eight o'clock we'll jump into that right because good god,
that was amazing. And we are right on the doorstep of all of it.
I mean, you're almost numb to it because it's happening right now.
But you have Game seven of the ALCS tonight. Like all these there's not
that many, but these epic moments in Ranger history like these. This is
it. I can't believe it, man, Like I know you. You
guys are freaking out as lifers here. This is it And I always do
this thing. But imagine telling you a month ago, much less six months
ago. Hey, guess what, here's a flash to the future. You're
gonna be in Game seven of the Alcs. You would have esked your pants,
yeah, for sure. And we have it tonight against the Blanken Astros
and you have Max Scherzer. Imagine me telling you that six months ago.
Yeah, hey, you're gonna have Max Schurzer as a Ranger pitching Game seven.
You couldn't write it any better. You know. As far as the
way this series, this playoff run so far as gone. It's what you
want. It's one game. You get to play one baseball game and if
you win it, you go to the World Series. That's it. Yeah,
And look, dude, you can say what you want about this team's
inability to hit with guys on base in the series. Say what you want
about the the weaknesses that the bullpen has seemingly had in a couple of a
couple of areas, but they're they've shown that they are Hella good enough to
belong. They do belong there. They're good enough to beat Houston. They
haven't lost a damn game on the road in these playoffs at all. I
don't know what more you want. And Houston sucks at home. Yeah,
they're thirty at home games. And if you didn't, I mean we're listening
earlier. There's a chance that we might be there, Like we might haulballs
right after the show, hop in the damn freak wagon and drive to effing
Houston and just win it. We'll get an update from our boss at eight,
as he's said he's working on it for the last hour and we're talking
about last night's game and more. Let's get up at eight, come out
next to scuttle Butts, a couple of missing animal situations that we need to
uh, we need to approach. Next to ninety seven won the Freak