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today. Yes, a whole bit about Rangers Opening Day, Opening night.
I guess off tonight. Back at it tomorrow at six and Sunday afternoon game.
By the way, we do MAVs basketball for you. Tonight we have
Sacto again. It's Sacto. Yeah, the revenge of some bonus. I
fear him. We're back home though, back No, No, in Saco.
It's a way away. They had a whole week in Sack like this.
Had to stay in Sacramento. What do they do? Go kart racing,
mini golf? All right? The place sucks, right, Ever been
Sacramento? That's not great. Tahoe though, here it just sucks. It's
like super close to Tahoe, super close. Okay, Yeah they ever been
to Lake Tahoe, Kevin, No, but I've I could see myself doing
that at some point. It's awesome. Yeah, yeah, so good.
Yeah. At a friend who got married at the Calnava, which is a
hotel right on the border of California. And and they have underground tunnels that
you know, they used to cross the border and moonshine probably moonshine in them.
Yeah, Frank Sinatra pictures all over the place, the cal Neava.
That's one of the best drives is just driving the perimeter. It's the loop.
Yeah, yes, of the lake. It's amazing. You've got to
have some bread to live on that some bitch money. Does I have Sweet
sixteen in town tonight? Yes, like two games Duke in Houston play and
nes. That'll be a lead eight on Sunday here in town right here,
Dallas. And then I should mention this before we get into a couple more
ranger things, including exclusive audio from inside the Globe, secret audio. The
Dallas Stars won last night and clinched a playoff spot. That's six wins in
a row. They're the number one seed in the West. And I'll just
say this, nineteen out of thirty years that this franchise has been here,
they've made the playoffs nineteen out of thirty. Yeah, and that pretty They've
been to the finals two or three times, uh two three, three?
Yeah, they had the one in the Favors Lightning. Yeah, but that
is that that has to be the percentage record, right, nineteen out of
thirty. Well, I tell you what, that's way better than the Rangers
killed the Rangers. My mas MAVs probably did it. I mean when in
fifty games for dozens straight years or average made it for like ten years straight.
So but that's good. I think you'd take that. Yeah one,
did the playoffs start tonight? Nope? Say eight regular season games left?
All right, Mike, But it's not that mentioned that nineteen thirty. There's
your Dallas Stars coverage for today. See, no one can say we don't
do it. See you can't say that we don't, not anymore, not
after Jim yelled at you before he turn it over to Danny's audio. We
should have a little bit of a white length for discussion, and then I'll
play some Josh Young audio from live on the national broadcast last night. My
first RBI sackfly, Yeah, well, sackfly. He first hit is a
running his ass, busting his ass down the line infield single? Did he
wreak? A fan favorite already already. But the best part of the night,
and I don't think this is even questionable, is the respect he was
shown to get intentionally walked. Yeah boy, yea again, as we said
earlier, baseball So everything's happens and new stuff hat whatever, first game ever
played intentional walk that's gotta be kind of a rarity, right, like his
reputation. How many people? Yeah, they were clearly pitching around him.
Yeah, and then it gets to the fourth pitch and then what's his name
Cubs manager council, Harry Carey, No to Cubs creak council. That's what
I thought. He throws up the four as I put him on. They
just put him on, and it's like, hell, yes, the amount
of respect that you're showing a kid that has never played in a Major League
baseball this is his first one, and you're scared that he's gonna freaking rope
one. I bet he was nervous. I mean, he didn't swing in
his first at bat, right, He struck out looking and I don't think
he took the bat off his shoulder, which is fine. But then it
all built up to that bottom of the ninth or tenth whatever. Yeah,
the tenth bottom of the tent his chance to win it, right, Yeah,
and you know whatever, But it's kind of cool that that him got
the game walk off based on what had happened, grapping at the umpire and
justice maybe right, what a teaching moment too? Oh yeah, it's all
I was like, it needs to be. Last night's game needs to be
a microcosm for the way that we as fans approach this season. Steady hand,
just wait it out, see what happens. It may not work out
for you. They could easily have just lost that game. It's baseball.
But they didn't. Guys. But if they lose that game, how many
Rangers fans? Ranger Twitter man, we got screwed by the ups and and
Cardy pulls head ups O. Yes, there's so many of these things.
No. I was a party no matter what last night, Yeah, for
sure. And the Astros lost, are they? Yeah? All right?
One game up the coast. You can't go coast to coast if you're not
leading after game one. It's pretty juicy. Next week we have four game
series with them. That's here. We had to go to Tampa after this
weekend for three and then four with the Astros. I think Friday, Saturday,
Sunday, Monday. That'll be fun, all right? Clips to day
on the eighth. Yeah, okay, So here's a in the game.
This is Josh Young. This is not the secret audio that we're gonna this
happened on ESPN. The world could see and hear it. Yeah, I
got two clips here and it's just basically the uh, you know, the
in ear with Karl Ravitch. I can't believe they're doing this right, this
is the only golf I guess it doesn't now. I like how there's meetings,
right. I imagine before every baseball season, ESPN or whoever, they
have meetings. They're like, let's go any ideas to make the television broadcast
better, no bad ideas. And I bet these are fun meetings. And
they've been changing the sport rules and everything for the last couple of years.
But I bet they have meetings, and they've done this in the All Star
Game before. Hell, they probably did it last year on Sunday Night Baseball.
But you're talking in game, live action, ear piece conversation while is
possibly making live plays. What a very cool advancement that even what five ten
years ago didn't have it. They would have laughed and said, excuse me,
Noah, you kind of can't do this with football. You can mic
the guy up and look at the footage after the game, but live,
yeah, but you can't interview the you know it's not a Q and A
exactly. Oh. I think it's amazing. I mean I couldn't look away.
I think it could only happen in baseball just because of the pace of
it, because there's enough downtime in between pitches to have an actual conversation.
This conversation was going on in the middle of the plays because they miked up
Josh Young at the hot corner, and he made two out of the three
plays, made two out of the three outs, and it was beautiful.
He kind of play by plays it himself. Yeah, well, actually I
have three. Here's one where he's talking about Fortnite. He said about playing
the game Fortnite, and then we'll get to the ground balls. Here we
go this on YouTube. Josh, here's a question from a better ball player
you and your little brother. Ooh, I'm gonna have to go meet you.
Know what I'll say is I'm a better Fortnite player and that's all that
really matters at the end of the day. Okay, okay, So they
took a question from a fan. So the previous inning ended and they said,
hey, if you want to ask Josh Young anything, you hashtag ask
SNB. Yeah, right, asked Senate Baseball. I thought about it.
I was like, damn it. I was gonna say, Josh, can
you straighten out that banner in right center field? I don't think I would
have used it, But how like, that's great think of baseball. They
go to break, go ahead and ask a question, and you might ask
it to the dude baseball Like that's ambitious as hell, Like Josh Young is
answering viewer mail while he's doing his job during that's they're doing before. You
know, like you and White Langford are roommates. You have a clean house.
Yeah, I mean a little banter. But that's so good because that's
something baseball distance from. And maybe this is a ESPN thing, I don't
know, but to get a kid on social media or a person on social
media to ask the question to make baseball fun, because baseball had lost it
when the games are three and a half hours, right, here's the groundball
one. Those first two weeks are amazing, you know, on top of
the world, celebrating with the guys that last little who rong before everyone goes
their separate way. That was just incredible. Why would you for you,
guys, baby perfect? I bot you out perfect man. Maybe I'll need
to be in more often. I'm gonna for you guys. So that whole
sentence was before he released the ball to throw at the first he's charging the
ball, talking to them and work and doing the interview. What beautiful play
it again because they remember he said, he's saying this before the balls released
and ringing with the guys that last little who rang before everyone goes their separate
way. That was just incredible. Oh why would you all for you guys?
Baby? Perfect you out? That's so good baby. Oh here's the
second one, go get it. That's me all right, guys, I
appreciate it. That's a new record, cross two. Thanks Josh, don't
think you guess you've got it? Yeah, because it was a high chopper
easy one. Yeah, that's me. I love those all right. Now,
Danny, I'm gonna take Danny play this part. Okay, here we
go, ready, boom boom? Now where you were at the game,
Danny or no, no, no, no no. But I have a
correspondent to Mikey and you you've actually acted as a correspondent a field reporter.
Yeah, uh to some of my wild ideas. But I had a couple
of friends out there at the game, and I said, look, man,
I'm not gonna be able to go. I'm kind of curious how different
the in game presentation might be because it look they dropped the banner, they
had rings. Uh. ESPN covered the player introductions. It was a lot
of hoopla last night because look, this team won the damn World Series.
Now you've you've stepped up. This team has stepped up, and I expect
things to change. Kevin already mentioned that they've gotten rid of cotton Eye Joe,
so that's one change. And I'm just wondering as far as the in
game presentation what might be different. What what does a World Series team look
like on the other side of winning that championship. Are they still the same
Rangers or maybe have they elevated things a little bit. So I've got some
audio and these are just some you know, simple recordings of mostly it's a
it's just Chuck Morgan kind of doing some announcements and there's some neat things that
are going on at the ballpark. So I thought the let's get a little
insight into what's going on out there at Globe Life Field. Here's a here's
the first one. This is like right at the very beginning of the game.
Welcome Ranger fans to Globe Live Field, home of your World champion Texas
Rangers. Now for those of you fake ass fans out there that jumped on
the bandwagon late last year just for the playoffs, and this is your first
visit ever to Globe Live Field. The stadium's nickname is the Guilt And if
you're a complete baron that stands for Grandma, I'd like to fuck leading off
and playing second base Marca Simian. Okay, I a lot of weirdness going
on there, huh. I thought that was like an unofficial nickname, not
something they'd announced in stadium. Well, apparently since they've won the World Series,
they've embraced it. And doesn't sound like Chuck Morgan really gives a damn
does he let everybody know what it stands for? And Simeon chose Lasagna by
weird al that's yeah, he's out a ton of bits. Yeah, welcome
is Lasagna. That's insane. Wow, And I like calling out the fake
ass fans. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, let's go to
another one live last night from opening day. Please direct your attention to the
right field roller Town Beer Worts, Jumbo Tron Play with My Balls for instructions
on how you can register to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at an upcoming
Rangers home game. As you've probably learned today, there are literally no requirements.
You could be a school teacher, drive for Uber. You could even
be a meth head living under an oberpassage Spring Valley in the tollway. If
you're alive, you've got a really good chance betting fit designated hitter. Whyant
Langford? Whyatt Langford's walk up music is Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonders, Ebony
and Ivory. I heard that on the SPN. Yeah, but I didn't
hear the announcement of the of the candidates to throw out first pick out.
I mean, I wonder if DJ stats has been a little overwhelmed by these
new requests for walk up songs this year. You're not expecting that, But
I don't have that in your laptop. It seems like, should I tell
him, I'm sure before he can get the he can get ladagna and Chuck
Morgan sounds unhinged a little bit, right, He's got yeah eritisch kind of
like maybe feels the same way that Kevo does about Michael Carter the rando just
going out there throwing the first pitch. Apparently anybody can do it. All,
Right, here's another one, and don't forget Ranger fans. If you're
in section two fifteen, you won a complimentary hot dog. You can redeem
your coupon at the Brasiers Kiosk on the third concourse and receive a savory all
beef hot dog covered in creamy white case, served by celebrity chefs Randy Spears
and t T Boy batting sixth catcher jonah Heim Crown in that part that's weird
ores to the free hot dog randomly. And if there's actually two fifteen,
as I do this year, I guess, so let's new like they don't
like because they don't want to stampede, right, they just kind of announced
it. And then if you're right by there, you have a you get
a cupon and you can go to the third concourse and get your hot dogs.
And and who knew jonahims walking up to the theme from Titan, I
think that was playoffs last year. I think you did that. And it's
the World Series Champs game one of course there's gonna be celebrities there, celebrity
chefs. That makes sense. Yeah, I just didn't know they're gonna of
course, I MLB's gonna drag tt boy out. All right, it's opening
night. Well, in the new food items, it was just not mentioned
that it was a you know, the hot dog with the spicy white caso
that was great too. You never had creamy wo it until you tried it
too. Have it's in them. Promote the creamy white caeso dog. Interesting.
Maybe go to the ballpark sometimes, haven't. Here's more Chuck Morgan unhinged
promoting a fan favorite event that happens every year at the ballpark. Hey,
friendly, reminder that April twenty fifth against the Mariners is a one thirty five
pm start and our first Dog Day afternoon of the season. That's right,
you and your pooch will be admitted for a fun day of Rangers baseball.
It's exciting for the whole family. But here's the deal. Make sure you
bring your own poop bags and clean up after your four legged friend, because
I'm not about to go through what I did last year when I had to
stick around cleaning up dog shot until eleven at night because you were too damn
lazy to pick up your rout Weiler's manure. I mean, come on,
Jesus Christ, we went your stupid mutt into a brand new stadium. It's
the least you can fucking do batting eighth and playing left field. Evan fucking
Carter weird. Wow. I don't know what I'm more confused by Chuck Morgan's
flurry of profanities or the Evan Carter walks up to James Brown's black and proud.
Why did he have to clean up the dunk crab like they usually that
like community service hours? Anytime that Chuck Morgan wears many hats, right,
But anytime the stadium an ouncer like talks about a promotion, pauses and says,
but here's the deal. That's a very unlikely thing for him to say.
But dude, confidence, you're the champs, and that that goes all
around the diamond and all the way up to the announcer booth, and you
can hear it in his voice. Good for him, He've been there a
long time, seeing a lot of losing. Yeah, should say what he
wants. Wow, that's something else. He sounds great, That's it.
That's all we got. Maybe there will be more as the season progresses.
If your source goes out there to another game in about two weeks, I
think maybe we should hear some more announcements they get made at Globe lay Field.
Well, Gilf also know now, jeez, well, hey, I
kind of support this newfound confidence by our little Texas Rangers. I do too,
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