This is a downbeat. I'm Lady seven with the Freak. We got a
phone call in the last segment from a good friend of ours DINGUS Morning News,
but I didn't want to interrupt Dingu's rant against Pat McFee. He's getting
a lot of support to via the text. Not a lot a lot of
people that like that. There's a lot of fee he's a polarizing figure for
there's a lot of people like him, a lot of people don't. But
that person they called us was Emily Jones. And Emily Jones is uh here
now? Ms gems hi Ah, that brings back memory one of the great
handicappers of the Metroplex. M gems What was that guy's name that we tried
to follow? You and I and Clark the pit viper man. He was
hot for a while. He had a hot handicapper. Dude, we would
I'm not saying I won't. He got real cold, real fast. I
want to incriminate Emily, but me and Clark, who's a friend of ours,
the crow bar looks over at Fox Sports back in the day. I'm
sure he doesn't do this anymore, but we would just bet on these games
as we're doing Rangers and Emily's you know, the big on air talent,
and we would bet a lot on Eastern Washington basketball whatever. And we're just
remember we got we got in on Appy State early in the over over with
Happy State was a big play Appy State. We're just high five and saying
Appy State in the hallways, talking Rangers the best. Well look at this
all these years later and we're both still medium moguls in this town. Okay.
So the reason I originally called in because Danny was talking about his secret
way to the Cotton Bowl. And I can confirm years and years and years
ago Danny shared with me the secret way, and you're here to report it
live for everyone. And you still use it when you go to the Cotton
Bowl, right. I can't even tell you the last time the Cotton Bowl,
but I do use it. Actually, I would forget. I'd have
to ask you again. So you really he does have a magical way into
the contonent. I learned it from Krby. Corby taught me and then I
followed his direction. And yeah, it's kind of like the way to go
and it just dump you avoid all of the highways and it dumps you right
there. It's beautiful. Yeah, is it Ash Street? Is it one
of the streets. I don't even know your name right now, sir,
you're just a guy. And Danny told me, like, you can't,
you can't. You have to call me or text me like I cannot tell
you this, and you have to keep it close to the best. We
can't have everyone knowing it's called the super Secret way. Wait, you should
have it only call like you do you want to write this down? This
needs to be a verbal transfer of information. I think I care about the
listener, but I mean if Danny doesn't, that's look now, Danny,
Emily, don't keep in mind that this was also during a time before we
had, you know, widespread GPS technology, So honestly, it would probably
tell you how to do it if you just say avoid highways as far as
one of your filters. When you go to your maps, it'll probably tell
you the same way. Because it is the fastest you've had a well,
I don't even know. I was out of town and then I get back
in town and among the things I see burning up my Twitter is that Emma
has put your thing on pause because people are giving you as or something.
Do you want to talk about that or not even I don't care. Oh
I don't care. I mean I just deactivated it. I'm done with Twitter.
I was looking for an excuse. And after the whole accusation that the
Rangers partied on Saturday and then that made them lose on Sunday and I,
you know, corrected that, and then Astros fans, I assume they were
Astros fans came after me. I haven't been called a skank in a while,
so it brought me back to my college day. Really, that was
like, wow, kang Man, I haven't heard that in a while.
So I was looking for an excuse to delete Twitter because I think it's a
total fest pool and so I just decided to deactivate it. And the other
thing that really got me kind of catapult to this decision is that people like
Brian mccaggart, they're making money on comments. So X if you pay to
get verified and you have a tweet and it gets high engagement with lots of
comments, X will help place an ad in those comments or multiple ads,
and then that person, the author of that tweet, gets paid based on
that. So you find people now that are saying outlandish things. Maybe even
if they don't know them or believe them in order to incite people to comment,
and then they make money. So it's kind of like, Okay,
if sports reporters are doing this, who else is doing this? Like super
gross and so anyway, I'm just I'm just out on it. Taylor Kelsey
thing is that some people are just writing crazy stuff about Taylor Swift knowing that'll
just make these Swifties insane and they'll go nuts yelling at this person. But
that's like the greatest thing for them. Okay, I'm going to start doing
this because I don't care about anything. Are you You're in town right,
You're not in Tampa. Oh, I'm in Tampa. I'm in Tampa with
very limited clothing. I mean, I'm wearing clothes, but I just don't
have many left. Put a piece of tape over the little eye hole in
your door your hotel. Yeah, no, one's trying to see all this.
I'm forty six years old. Guys in Tampa and you're listening to us.
That is very sweet. So you were among a handful of your closest
friends at the game yesterday. Was that the weirdest playoff environment you've ever taken?
It? In person. So I texted Dave and CJ and Jared Sandler
and I are all on a text string, and I texted them that it
felt like I texted high school football game the cow bells, and it just
was. There was nineteen thousand people there, which is about the crowd at
Texas high schools before games. They you know, they cheer when prompted.
It's you know, it's a strange atmosphere. But I will say it's not
an imposing one. I mean, this team Pampa has been so good at
home because they're a good team. But let me tell you something. The
atmosphere had zero to do with it, and they took them out of it
early, but it was it's just a strange environment. Mikey was saying earlier
that it's the most poorly attended baseball Major League Baseball playoff game in one hundred
and five years. Yeah, oh, I didn't know that, but I
would not be surprised. Yeah, one hundred and four years and four.
And we were saying before you even read that stat like, is that the
worst playoff environment I have ever seen in any sport ever? And I mean
you were boots on the ground, so definitely the worst one I've been a
part of because I feel like even when we were making those runs in ten
and eleven, I did I didn't remember it being this day. Uh,
you know, in the start time doesn't help. And I'm not trying to
rip rays fans at all. I mean, I get it. The start
time doesn't help. And this is just not a very you know, it's
it's just not a very big fan base, honestly. Yeah, you're not
worried about Ray's Twitter coming after you for that comment there. And I feel
like it's an older demographic, so they may call me like a hoochy,
yeah hussy, a street walker out there gallivanting around town. It's not wearing
any clothes, all right. I said, so on the radio, how
are we feeling about today? We're going to wrap this thing up? And
I don't know, I like, it's so weird. I came into you
know, I thought, as long as we make the playoffs, like,
I feel like it's in success. I mean, it sucks that we didn't
win the division, but I was like, you know what, I mean,
we're playing baseball in October. For the first time in a really long
time, we're playing We've played meaningful games all season long, and I just
want to enjoy it. And so I really I was so much more nervous
that entire series in Seattle than I was yesterday. And I think now and
I don't trust me. The players do not feel this way. But for
me personally, having done this for twenty years now, covered the team for
twenty years, like to me, it's like for me personally, this is
gravy and so, like I said, they don't believe that, but for
me, I'm just like, I'm just going to enjoy it and hope that
we play well and if we get beat, we get beat. You know,
it is what it is. But you know, I so much has
to do with Nathany Valdy. He has not been the same guy since,
you know, since he came back from the injury. I think Bruce Bochi
will have a very very quick hook today, you know, just because and
I'm so anxious to see him manage a game like this or even a game
like tomorrow if it happens, because he's such a he's known for that how
he manages the bullpen, and so you know, hopefully maybe it won't come
to that. You know, we'll be up to six to nothing in the
in the sixth inning and be able to cruise. But you know, I'm
I'm excited about it. You know. The crazy thing right now is just
like I mean, every morning I talk to my kids and they're like,
so, tell when are you coming home again? Mom? And I'm like,
well have the pens? And you know, we've been having these conversations
for you know, ten days now of when when are you coming home?
And so that's that's that and the lack of clothing are the biggest, biggest
struggles I'm facing. If we got this done today or tomorrow, would that
mean Saturday in Baltimore. Yes, So if we win today or tomorrow,
regardless, we will travel tomorrow. We are not so even if we win
tonight, we will not travel to Baltimore tonight, so that we would travel
on Thursday. We lose tonight and then when tomorrow we would travel to Baltimore
obviously on Thursday after the game. If we lose the next two, then
we obviously travel home. So Mom's venus is hoping they win today and then
have a night to kill in Tampa this evening. Uh, but that's fine,
Sure, I'll take it. Well, one good thing is, you
know, with all this time off that Baltimore has, they've been doing nothing
but partying the entire times, because that's all these guys do. Yeah,
and they're not playing baseball. They're just mainlining vodka, yeah, and champagne
Rangers. Let's put that out there. But you know what I feel like
too, as crazy as it sounds, and I floated this out there too.
You know, some of the players in boats yesterday, you know,
you're pissed off with the way the season ended. You had had the division
the entire way and you lost to the stinking Astros, and you know,
and then you had the whole controversy about the partying and all that kind of
stuff. I feel like that kind of like motivated them that they felt like
they had something to prove, and they they you know, weren't resting on
their laurels and all that kind of stuff. And you know, that's probably
just narrative created by me and floated out there to them, and they're kind
of like, yeah, I mean whatever, it's we're just playing in another
game. So I don't think they're they're they're over analyzing anything the way everyone
outside of the guys actually playing, are over analyzing it so sweet. Emily
Jones live from Tampa Bay as we are right between game one and two of
this three game set against the Rays. Evan Carter like a month you've now,
I don't know, you may have met him prior to that, but
dude's been around for a month and he seems to be like a thirty three
year old, twenty one year old, like at least the way he plays
just so mature, so calm. I wanted to just ask you, what's
that dude like in real life? He's just totally unfazed by anything, which
is crazy at this level. I mean it's at his age in these situations,
like you know, important games. He's been us there for like three
weeks. It's it's ridicted and so you know, he's just he's adorable.
His god, his wife is adorable. I mean she look, they look
she looks like she's you know, maybe seventeen. Just he just doesn't seem
faith. I told him yesterday, I'm like, you know, the great
job. I'm like, you're you're kind of making this look a little too
easy. And he's like, oh, I mean, I'm just you know,
he's just real sweet and humble and sweet little family. I met his
parents and his in laws when he made his debut, and you know,
it's just hard not to root for a kid like that, And it's a
great story. I had dinner with John Daniels last night and I asked him.
I was like, who's found Evan Carter? And he said so.
Back in twenty twenty, right before the shutdown, Danny Clark, who is
one of our I don't even know his title anymore in our organization. He's
from Tennessee, tipped off Kip fag who's our director of scouting, and told
Kip about this kid, Evan Carter. Well, Evan was supposed to go
to Duke. Kip got in with the family like a couple of weeks before
the shutdown, spent some good time with them, and then basically after that,
the world's shut down, and so no one else got to have faith
to faith with Evan Carter and his family. And so when it came time
and A drafted him, he decided to forego college at Duke and sign with
the Rangers. And so that it's just kind of the way things worked out
where for a family like that, having that face to face and that interaction
with Kip before everything shut down was huge, and so you know, you
fast forward three years later and look at what he's doing. I mean,
it's insane. He just seems so mature at the plate, and I know
he's like the model for the kind of batter the Rangers want in this new
era, if we're even calling it that. The dude who just works,
counts and finds a way to get on base. But for a debut to
go two for two with two doubles of stolen base, an incredible catch in
the outfield, the dude just seems way ahead of schedule and he's a pleasure
to have a guy like that in the nine hole nine hole. It should
be probably that shouldn't be overlooked too, the fact that they now have strength
in the bottom third of their order, that that helps the team so much
offensively and makes pitchers have to really consider more than their than they normally would.
It's a it's a it's a definite asset that he's I think it's a
definite asset that he that he's hitting so far down. Yeah, I love
it. Yeah, you can turn the lineup over and when you look at
who you've got at the top of the lineup with Marcus and Corey. I
mean, that's a that's a dangerous thing, and it's such an important job,
you know. But yeah, he's he has fit right in. And
I was telling somebody this too. You know, it's so different in baseball
now. And you two, when you got up, you kind of to
the big leagues, you kind of just mind your own business and you don't,
you know, kind of there's a little bit of a transition process and
got to earn your keep. And it's not that way anymore, especially in
our clubhouse. I mean, Marcus and Corey are very very adamant about you
know. I to quote Marcus Simeon, it's hard enough to make it in
this game. Why on earth would we make it more difficult on someone who
is on our team and trying to help us Wine. It's almost like he
doesn't realize he's not supposed to be this good right now. Yeah, obliv
In can be a beautif thing. Emily, thank you for calling into our
show. Drop. I heard you just dropped something. What was No?
I closed the elevator or the hotel room door. I'm headed to the back.
Are you gonna go close shopping. If you run out of crap,
I've got a rental runway shipment coming today. Awesome, you're the best.
Thank you randomly much and stop let me and stop skanking up Twitter, Emily.
I will let me know if pit By for has any good pictures hot
plays. I'll just say his play is Rangers to win today. How about
that? All right? Love you guys. There she goes Emily as damn
Gems. She's the best, Live from Tampa. Celebrity guest picker will spit.
Oh yes please Niagara Falls. Yeah, yeah, fine, whatever,
we can do it tomorrow more time. Niagara Falls is not going anywhere,
so we're at warming. Well that just means more water. Every Thursday at
eight am, we do picks with Glenn's. We've had celebrity guests pick and
here's the standings, by the way celebrities and the Glenns five and three first
place, second place, Kevin, Mike and Danny's two and a half year
old son, Malcolm. Okay, Danny and Jay, good weekend three and
five. You're in third place. Had a very good weekend. He went
to and oh he's back to five hundred. Yeah? Is he stoked about
that? He picked his Bills and his Cowboys. I picked the Fins,
and I told y'all it was a dumb play and you should bet the Bills
in this game. Everything about it scream, including all the money pouring in
on the Dolphins. They got smacked. But I'm an idiot. Well,
one thing that we do is we spin a wheel every Wednesday and it'll give
us a letter, and then we kind of go through our phone or think
of some names and try to see who our mystery celebrity guest will be on
Thursday. So you see what local bass player I'm gonna book pick games tomorrow,
Danny get a musician. The letter this week is pee pee. So
we just kind of start scanning through phones, contracts. Con Oh, that'd
be great, that would be really good. I bet he'd do it too.
I bet he would. Pete Delkas Channel eight weather man, Peter Gammons,
Uh, Patrick Creighton, Peter, Peter I Peter Gammons as well.
Okay, why do we all have Peter Gammon booked? Pat Green? Okay,
Pat Green, he's a friend. We could probably do that. Drew
Pearson, Drew Pearson, be great. I have a member for Patrick Mahomes
I don't think he can pick NFL games. Okay, you're not going to
get Patrick mahomes On. I have Philip, the drummer from the old ninety
seven's. Okay, Bill definitely do it. The backup pop Eye Jones.
I'm pretty interested in that. Yeah, Peter King. How about Jeff Pazen,
the guy who did the Randier a Rosarina song. You have Jeff Passen.
Yeah, I have one that says Phil Mickelson, but I'm quite sure
that's like some contact or something else. I think that one counts. Gary
Patterson, former TCU head coach. How about Toby Pipes of Deep Blue something?
You only have musicians Drew Pearson, Rich Phillips, Martin Piller, professional
golfer David Pigeon. I do you have the uh former Cowboys linebacker Brady Okay,
I think I have the right answer. I have a radio celebrity named
Pugs Padres, gm aj Preller. I have Ms. Carolyn Price, Missus
Price. All right, Missus Price is a pretty good he's picking the Cowboys.
Rodriguez. Oh, I just have Ski Patrol written in my phone.
May be an old connection, Pat Summer, Paul var Geese. I have
Tim ticket stock, push up guy. There's a lot of a lot of
options there for for p uh, what do we think? What's the lead
dog here? Peter gammons he will not pick NFL games with us, will
you. I don't know if he has a phone. I have not heard
from him in years. Miss miss Price would be pretty easy to book.
I think, yeah, we're not going off what's easy to book? And
she'll yell stuff or Pat Green That's what I can offer you. Paul Coin
is pretty dope though. Okay, Pat Green's probably even more more famous than
you say. Yeah he is, for sure for not even close. But
he may not. Pat would do it. I think he would do it.
Pat would do it. He knows you guys. Yeah, you don't
know me. You know I was a number. What do you keep on
a pat? Then, very conversation, mister Green Green, Patrick Starr.
You know Pat Green was on the same tour as the famous Dave Matthews Doodoo
bus in Chicago. He was there and he told me, told me some
stories and witness Matthew's banned doo dooo but and eyewitnessed to Dave Matthews himself.
Yeah, disembarking the bus. No give enough thumbs up to the driver to
stop. Here. We're right over the river, over the Chicago River.
That's falsome. Let's be honest. Press the brown button, sir, as
a guy who tries to get your back. That not all fish fans are
barefooted, because Carter Beaufort just dropped the biggest duce. It was Boyd Tinsley's
bus. So let's get that straight. By the way, if you had
a dead pool, if you had one Boyd Tinsley, who twenty twenty four.
Now I'm looking good, But let me say this is a guy who
does get your back. I can't believe that you're going to hackey stuff like
that. He does. He tries to give you half points day for nothing.
I earn points bottom of the barrel. They're hippies. Pat Green came
up and I remember him telling me the story of the day, Matthew's buss.
That's why I brought it up. Yeah, and they've had nothing to
do with it and vindicating Leave Dave out of it. All right, all
right, we'll figure out our celebrity picker. Yeah, any of those James
or George coming up next, who would win in a race between Randy or
Rose arena and a horse plus other things from the trip to below. Are
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