You're listening to the Downbeat on ninety seven to one the Freak. It's a
happy morning in the Metroplex as your Texas Rangers are going to the World Series.
What is happening? Oh my god, I've never seen Tim do what
Dannies are doing. That's called undulating, mikey u late, Okay, Friday
tickets go on sell. They've scattered tickets left. Yeah, game one and
two or six and seven? You mean of the World Series? In the
World Series, why would we want to go to the World Series? Who
could possibly be in it? And the World Series would be in Arlington this
Friday and Saturday. Good morning two next Friday and Saturday for Game six and
seven, and at ten am this morning at Texas Rangers dot com slash postseason
tickets are on sell wild. So I was going like, okay, what
could I be suckered into? I was surprised as we were scrounging up,
you know, wastely we were playing a waiting game on the secondary market about
our tickets. Because I was surprised how long that we waited to actually pull
the trigger on tickets? Were you mad that I kept saying, wait,
no, no, I wasn't old. I was actually on board with you
just watching it, uh, just watching it. It wasn't dropping necessarily.
Yeah. But then when we got to about five o'clock and I tried to
get a certain three sum of tickets and then it goes, oops, your
tickets are off the market. I went, Okay, so they're starting to
they're starting to go. Now, they're starting to go to It didn't feel
like I mean, they can be described as they sold out Crown a lot
of empty seats when the game started. Put it that way, man,
I mean I was. I was at game five, a four o'clock start
on Friday. It was packed in Arlington, So I thought that was kind
of odd. Yeah, right, I think it was sold out, like
all the tickets were sold, But as far as attendance goes, there was
a lot of empty seats, a good portion, a large handful of empty
seats. And I think it was just the people that rolled the dice put
their stuff on the secondary market, and look, there were plenty of secondary
market seats left when we bought our tickets. Like you can see the whole
stadium and what's available, and it's a pretty large smattering of empty seats that
probably just went unsold. Yeah, you know they're spoiled, man, Yeah,
they are spoiled. It is World Series or bust. Like Dallas has
the late arriving crowd vibe, and I never associated that with here, but
I think at the very beginning first pitch, yes there were some empty seats,
but I think by the second inning, I took another look around to
some of the areas that were empty and it was mostly packed. And that
could have been people that were doing what we were doing and waiting to the
last minute to see if the prices would go down on the secondary market,
you know, hitting their PayPal and getting them and then showing up an inning
or two in into it already. Is this segment sponsored Danny or no?
Uh? Sports at seven? If it is, we'll play the intro.
But if it's not, we can do sports. Keep talking brought to you,
buy your butt. Okay, it's Sparkes tomorrow, but we don't need
the intro today. J Ja's just keep going because it's part of what we
want to talking about the vibe of things. And Danny did say something last
night. He was like, we remember seven straight ALCS appearances for them?
This what this means to them is nothing compared to what it meant to us
as Rangers fans, who had quite frankly taken the last six years off of
doing business and haven't sniffed anything like this in over a decade and tried to
and the patting the Rangers on the head for most of that time. But
we did them a little bit when they took seven years off to Yeah,
yeah, but it's cyclical, but it's been a while since they met.
It's cool that maybe the Astros are kind of at the end of their run.
And I don't know, I hope that's the case. They've got some
pitching prospects coming to Yeah, they're probably gonna be. They're going to remain
good, I think. But even if, in fact, like how Mikey
was saying, these things are cyclical, if the Astros are which they you
know, if they are, this would be the time that they'd be at
the end of their run. It is great to have some overlap where the
Rangers are getting good, Astros are still good, and those that that kind
of that Venn diagram is kind of colliding a little bit. It's cool,
you know, because I love the fact that maybe our biggest al rivalry is
you know, four hour drive. It's kind of awesome, and that we
the Rangers came here and exercise some demons and took it and they did it.
Came and Logan be damned. They came down and they go and take
took it. Oh, it was so glorious. Soh ten second reset.
We decided yesterday morning, right about this time, and screw it, We're
gonna leave DFW and come down here. And thanks to prosper Forward for providing
a vehicle, and Zack and everybody for stepping up and getting us hotels and
everything, and got tickets to the game, and in we go. But
part of that deal was you two idiots. I don't know which one is
a larger idiot. I'm technically larger, but he's taller. Yeah, we'll
call you guys, equal idiots. Where the Laurel and Hardy you two are.
I'm head at this table just looking at both of you. You really
are a couple of funny dudes. But Kevo for some reason was like,
I'm I'm gonna dress up for this thing. I think we should throw that
in. If we're gonna talk about the experience of the ballpark, right,
so Kevin acquire I don't speaking of we may kill Kevo at the end of
the baseball season because we got a problem, Danny and I. We can't
stop with a Kevo thing. Like we didn't say any sentences to each other
in a normal voice yesterday, with just some sort of Italian mixed with Borat
voice. Every sentence gets delivered like I'm bought the bathroom like no one's listening.
Kevin's not even around. You don't even need to make that announcement.
You just want to hear your your fake Italian head rattle. It is not
good. It was better Italian a month ago. It morphs into bat like
in two seconds, Like I lay in bed, thinking we're gonna have to
kill Kevio. It's gotta be over. Oh no. But Kevin decides he's
gonna wear this super Mario outfit that he recently acquired, which is a onesie.
Essentially, he put his arms through. I was wearing normal shorts underneath
them, but I didn't have pockets on the outside, so if I wanted
to walk anywhere, I actually had to hold my wallet and phone. Right,
I had these white gloves with it. I had the Mario hat and
the fake mustache. Every time I took a drink of my beer, the
bottle of beer would stick to the top of my lips. It was sticking,
it would hurt. I mean, you definitely had Saturday Night Live mustache
problems. Yeah, it was rough, but he looked hilarious. And he
comes down to the lobby when we were again forty minutes till first pitch and
hustling to an uber and his full Mario gear, and he looked incredible.
Although I had to hold his mustache and his gloves for half the night,
Like fine, dude, I've taken the video posted to social media. Yeah,
hold his gloves, hold hold my beer and my wallet. It was
hard to get in. And also using the bathroom was quite a test.
Yeah, but it was the girl that ops for the jumper on the night
out. Yeah, I've heard that. Props the ladies. Yeah, props
to the ladies that go with the jumper, because I from my understanding is
when they go to the lady's room, they have to completely disrobe to pee.
Yeah, yeah, which you know I do anyway, Yeah, Danny
also does. And then Danny decides to you know, raise or I don't
know call Kevio's Mario bet with the sentence I have a cow outfit that I
can wear, and I'm just sitting back with zero commitments in hands, saying
yeah, all right, We're dress is a cow. This is stressing you
out a little bit too, though, well again, it came together so
quickly. I don't have a go to ready costume at my house, despite
having a couple of things I've worn in the past. It's all patched together
with borrowed stuff in this word and I tried to get the damn Garland richardson
racing suits. I'm like, screw it, I'll shave it down a mustache
at the best. I can't what a trite I tried walking through the con.
It's bad enough with you just wearing your Ranger hat and your Ranger shirt
flanked by Mario at the cow, which sounds like a iHeart Houston Morning Show.
Hey it's a me Mario boomboo in the Italian Hey sad day here and
here was on the Astros loads of the Rangers wives. Hey we got Mario
and the cow here getting the guy texted in that it's ding MoU ding move.
I love it. It's just stupid looking too, because there was a
part I was talking to Mike as Danny wanting to get a water at the
contession stand and you're by yourself in a line, and after Mike and I
said, look at this idiot. Yeah, he was looking at cow getting
a water, hal purchasing a guy dressed as Cavio, going we'll get this
moron cow. Well okay, so yeah. Cow costume was a Halloween thing
that I got on Amazon last year because my two year old last Halloween wanted
to go as the moon. Yeah, the moon, Yes, yeah,
I thought, you know what, cow jumped over the moon. All go
as a cow. It'll be cute. Yeah. Yeah. He cared about
trick or treating for I don't know about eleven seconds. So I'm stuck with
this damn cow outfit. Well. One miscalculation on my part was I'd forgotten
that this cow costume had the the equivalent of the insul of a sub zero
sleeping bag. And I'm in Houston, Texas. So this thing was hot
and itchy and it sucked, and I couldn't make it through the entire game.
I think by about the fifth I think fifth or sixth, I had
to peel off the cow outfit. But I think for the most part,
the effect was, you know, was there, and I just thought it
would just be so funny to see Mikey just walking with it, with Mario
on one side and a cow on the other, and some of the looks
that we got. Yeah, and I didn't see anybody else dressed up weird,
and it is a week before Halloween. You know, that's what I
thought you'd blame. The story is not about the cow. Although I did
take a moment to go fist bump some of my colleagues at the Chick fil
A kiosk, I can record that it was spur of the moment. They
were like, do we know this guy? He peeled off and his cow
outfit and fist bumped the Chick fil A employees, And they did it as
if like yeah, like yeah, what's up man, Like he's a normal
like he would normally be there at an appearance or something. Yeah, you
know, handing out sandwich. You guys are doing a great shop. Thanks,
many are doing a great job. Thanks. I told Danny, I'm
like, you could go to that kiosk and say I need forty sandwiches.
I gotta bring him over to two twelve and they were just hand you two
thousand dollars worth of Chick fil A sandwiches. But the star of the night
was not col It was keV Oh. I have to agree, dude.
There was a moment about halfway through where Kevin and I were walking through the
concourse. We took a little tour, maybe a fourth inning range, had
a decent lead and whatever. Yeah, and we're walking, you know,
we didn't even say anything for you know, a good thirty feet and he
just kind of leans over and whispers, he goes, hey, KEVYO is
a hit. Like everyone was saying, hey, Madio there and Mario yeah,
although a handful of people did know him as Kevio and yeah. Came
up and took pictures and stuff, like people from Dallas. Children were wanting
to shake his hands, they were wanting to post for photographs. The child
that had the mom that looked like Megan Fox even stopped by for a Kevio
visit. He was an unbelievable moment, an unbelievable moment for all of us.
Kevio a kid, this seven year old kid is just all struck.
But he's looking up at me, and they're leaving because the game's over pretty
much, you know, it's eighth inning. And then I'm just like,
oh, hey kid, I'm trying to do the right thing, be nice,
but you just like we were just I don't know why. I don't
don't get you know, I don't get shocked very often. You know.
Look, the woman is a powerful thing in this world. We all know
that. But yeah, I've you know, still like, uh, they're
all walking among us. I don't get taken aback that often anymore. Right,
I'm not as horny as maybe I used to be. Put it that
way. There's four different and this lady, lady mom clearly with a seven
year old boy or a much younger brother. Okay, she did. I
don't know why, and I was just like she was. The Kevio costume
got considerably smaller for a quick minute. Did you see he tried to suck
in the fake belly a little bit. I was just like, as they
were making eye contact. It was funny because Kevio is kind of down on
uh you know, he have the angled aisle staircase that goes down and then
you're down where you can go to the next level. And Kevin's kind of
standing there is like greeting the children. Yeah, like all of them.
I five all teams. I mean because you didn't really, I mean you
were wearing red and blue, but it wasn't necessarily team associated. No,
I wasn't. You were just there for everybody. I decided to wear the
mar hat. I was thinking about not worrying the Mario had and having a
ranger hat on, and I was like, no, I need to like
in Houston too. It could go bad, sure, Mario hat on,
But when you're down there and the little kid comes by with Kmart, Meghan,
Fox, Mikey and I are sitting behind you going hi, mommy.
I looked back at you guys, and Danny's eyes were bulging out of his
boobs and ass was opening his tongue and rolled out like a red car man.
She's probably just normal, like you know, just a normal goal.
Yeah, going going to work her job. It wells Fargo today, no
doubt. But in the moment, it was a big moment for all of
us, and I think the whole stadium, the entire city of Houston was
standing on their feet. There was other moments when the game looks the thing
about blowout games, you know, GA games of the clause. I mean
there's a lot of line and you're clearly seventh or eighth inning. A couple
of mass exodus has happened, and it also opened up in stages. The
stages like after the Astros would kind of go scoreless where we did some damage
control. It's there's eight to two and then it's ten too. But they
didn't create this like thing where now all the girls can go to the front
row and be Instagram models. That was add ten minutes too. You know,
we were at like the Kodak photo station the front of that stair.
They would all stop at the front and do There was like a line waiting
to just take the beauty shot of the stadium, which I mean, it's
a good background, the fields you know, behind you and in the moment
looks good. But I was like, there there's a bunch of influencers here.
I guess right, very strange. But the card gave up pretty quick.
I mean we it was maybe the sixth inning when we started going.
I think they're kind of starting to leave. Yeah, and the seventh inning,
you took a video d and then I took a video in the eighth
inning. I ain't even be posted it. In the eighth inning, it
was clear people were starting to make a run for to which the usher mark,
the usher in our section told us, if you guys want to go
down by the Rangers dugout, you can, And we went down there and
but I the cours seeker's home run first inning, and then Evan Carter gets
on and then a Doulies who hits a single and watches it after he hits
it for about five seconds. Dude, it's the top of the wall.
Didn't even make any progress down the first baseline, launches it the left field
and just stares. It's the easiest stand up double for every player in MLB
history. It's the easiest stand up double for Kevio in cost costume with the
big white dumb shoes on, just running. Yeah, Keveo would have been
standing on second base, no slide. But Adoley somehow got a single out.
It wasn't he pimps it harder than anyone. It was legit. Four
and a half seconds of just watching it and then he takes off sprinting.
Yeah, because he reized. Oh crap, oh crap. But then that
happened. So it's like two nothing very quick, and you're like, okay,
we get to the starter. That's really incredible. And then Mitch Garver
hits a single to center, which we thought was from where we were in
right field. I haven't seen the TV copy of this. Actually I thought
that, by the way, no, it's steal second base to make up
for what he did. But then Mitch Garver that we thought it was like
a basic fly ball out to center field, and it's what it looked like
off the bat where we were sitting, and it just kind of fell in
and we were like, boy, I forgot about it. It was just
boneheaded right now? Or what happened? Are they drunk? That was a
weird remember that one. Yep, for sure. And it looked like an
easy can routine totally. I saw the left fielder like he was. I
think he was kind of jogging. Then he sprinted and then he dives and
he ends up a yard short of I think it was a case of where
the ball when it left the bat, it was in it was going to
land in no man's land. And I don't think either one of them committed.
I think they they thought the center in the right fielder thought the other
was probably gonna get to it. That's why your center fielder kind of took
a lazy jog towards it and then realized out of his periphery, right fielder's
not really moving towards this thing, I need to haul ass and then they
both kind of convergedon it was too late. I think you're probably right,
and they may have been set up deep too. Yeah, that's true.
That was very odd play. I'm glad you brought that very and that's one
that you from our seats, which feels like the All twenty two cam,
like you'll never see that angle of that play again, you know, Yeah,
because I am really curious how they both broke on that ball. And
it was three nothing after the top of the first inning, so yeah,
we kind of took the wind out of their sales. They got a run
in the first inning. You got an l two a home run, right,
yeah, then you had a third and then double. It was a
home run. He was a c off double, beat off double, and
then they got him in that. I want to ask listener and text if
you have any info on this and or what you guys think. But I
don't know. We were just fired up. But I feel like that Corey
Seekert home run was one of the like deepest or hardest hit home runs ever.
And I don't know, We're just pumped. And then it was the
first one, I guess of the game. But it flew the bullpen and
went halfway up that next section, Like I don't have any of the advance.
Okay, forty feet Okay, that's a launch for context, the the
Altuve one, although Evan Grant it's a typo. In the Dallas Morning News
it says it hurdled four four hundred feet in the year got he hit the
longest ball ever. But everyone, Yeah, I did say the exit velocity
velocity was one hundred and thirteen miles per hour. You get anything over one
hundred and ten, you're mashing it. That hits everything hard. Yeah,
even when he's slumping, he's hitting the ball hard. That was a sight
to see that home run and the outfielders barely moved. It's one of those
Oh there it goes. What'd you say on the L two B three sixty
three. That's it. On the ninth inning Altuve home run that went past
the tr It went onto the train track because that ballpark it's a weird ball
man, that is a weird ballpark, and it's our ball Our new ballpark
dunks on them. You know, it was built up so it looks just
like minute made park. And I don't know. I mean, there are
elements of it that does go. You can go, dude, all of
it, including game presentation. We dunk on them. But the Yeah,
although I really liked it all right. I thought it was a good park.
It's nothing wrong with it. It's it's almost like a ten year old,
more or more version of our park. I mean, they expanded the
concourses at ours and you know, it's bigger and wider and there's a little
more round. But man, I thought it was awesome. It was.
It was way better than I expected, I guess. I don't know if
I thought it was older. In my head, it's pretty kick ass to
walk out of that ballpark after a game. Oh my god, look and
you're in the middle of a city. Yes, yeah, bars great And
that was after a lot, you know, a lots for the home team.
Like that's like everything about it. I really didn't. Yeah, three
fifteen to left field, though, it's a a high school field. Like,
yeah, verylis. I'll say this, the Crawford boxes are smaller than
I pictured on TV, or smaller than I thought they were. Yeah,
they're not as deep as you as you mainly, and like that little nook
where Evan Carter made that catchway up against the wall in on TV, it
looks deeper like that little side of the Crawford box is not that deep.
Especially how much bigger our stadium is compared to THEIRS. How much bigger our
stadium seems compared to THEIRS. Yeah, but but yeah, pop ups as
proven by that was that was a on the road? Right? Was that
game six when the they did the whole stat of only two ballparks that would
have gotten out of Yeah, one of the home runs with Nate Lowe's Maybe
they're like that would have only gone out in two ballparks in the MLB,
with that one in Boston. Maybe why don't even know, because I mean
it is right field and left field short, but centerfield's cavernous. I mean,
because we had a left field walls three fifteen, Like the right field
walls deeper than three fifteen for sure. Yeah, no, I know.
Yeah, but when you're as strong as like Garcia is, you can hit
a towering pop up that just carries and the next thing you know, it's
a home run. And Josh Young did it. Don't a three to zero
pitch that he swung at and we were like, don't swing at it.
Three oh, And he swung at it and he looked up and he go,
God, if that was fair, that would have been a home run.
Was foul? It's gonna easy to do. A texture man says on
TV. The secret bomb looked like it was leaving the ballpark. Wow,
Yeah, because that's it looked like to us to like no doubt that side
angle, like the ball peaked above the between the right and center fielder,
like it peaked where they were standing, you know, like for them to
even turn around and a run it was pointless. So we're kind of like
from the game standpoint, gonna leave you at three to one and at eight,
will kind of pick it up the third inning when a Doley's came to
the plate and we had another legend born last night and many more legends born
along the way. More on that at eight, but let's step aside for
a minute. Dual news. Yeah, those we've got some news stories.
You had some plane airplane chaos, so we got a big pile up,
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