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You're listening to the down beat on
ninety seven one the free, Today's gonna

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be different. We're partying all damn
day here. Ninety seven won the free

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sipping champagne at six am. I
never thought I would really feel this joy

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than tasting champagne in the six am
hour. No rundown, right, no

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rundown. Besides, we are gonna
do picks with glenns at eight with Ranger

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fan Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite,
because you was kind of our letter,

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yeah, sort of. You know, don't fight it, just let it

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happen. Uncle Rico is awesome.
After John guys from the White Lotus and

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been watching Napoleon Dynamite, Big Ranger
fan, Well, join us. You're

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gonna pick a couple football games.
We'll probably do it faster than we normally

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do it. We'll have a pick
with the Glen as well, because it

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just picks with Glenn's and the Glens
are in second place. We're gonna do

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ours tomorrow, right, is that
what you were saying? I think was

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rammed through ours quickly. Yeah,
we'll just do it quickly tomorrow. Also

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have our Ranger's predictions from last night
and we'll get through that a little bit

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later in the show as well.
Yeah, see if anyone got a point,

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Oh, there's some points coming,
hot dog, there sure is.

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And also we want you to send
your talkbacks in all throughout the show.

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Call us two one four or eight
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seven one or text all damn day. We will introduce to you at seven

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o'clock the wheel which will have a
lot of chaos on it, the Commissioner's

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Wheel, the Commissioner's Wheel of baseball, Manfred's wheel. All right, at

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seven, at seven, we'll tell
you what's on it. Maybe we'll spend

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it, maybe we'll add some more
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like some of the things on there. Well, I at any of it.

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It's it's danger. I like taking
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That's an easy one, you know, to take a talkback. That's

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gonna be fun. Okay, So
we got a wheel that we're gonna be

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spinning all throughout the day, and
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up from us, assuming you have
venmo more on that at seven, Danny,

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you tease this out of the first
segment. You are the longest tenured

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lifelong Ranger fan on this show,
in this room, since I'm thirty five,

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I bet there are some people that
are listening right now. Well that

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might be an assumption already just stop
right there, that doesn't track Danny.

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I bet there's a lot of folks
that have been in the room around another

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person when maybe the highlight that we
all I know, I dread dreaded seeing

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of the ball flying over Nelly Cruise's
head, the Rangers being one strike away

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two times from winning their first World
Series in twenty eleven, or people or

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that being brought up and and a
person being so affected by it where they

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say, dude, don't even say
no, stop talking about that, or

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they'll post a photo or something like
that, or just allude to it and

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they talk about how they can't stand
to see that, and you think,

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ah, you're just being dramatic,
that's just you know, you're you're just

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doing bits or whatever. I don't
know that that is, and maybe to

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a certain extent that's true. But
for me personally, I know that it

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does sting still when I would see
those highlights or hear people talking about it,

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or I don't want to I don't
want to go back and watch Game

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six of twenty eleven, or even
though yeah, just Game six, you

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just that that just makes you feel
kind of yucky because unless you had spent

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your entire childhood and adult life investing
and caring about this franchise, which I

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think is one of the most profound
things Kevio's ever said, they're just a

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bunch of strangers wearing the same clothes
on you spent you know, a bulk

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of your your freaking lifetime investing in
these strangers that wear the same clothes and

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then feel what it felt like that
night when you were that close. Unless

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you were that kid that lived in
a rural town in Texas that your one

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trip to the metroplexa year was to
maybe go to six Flags and get all

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stinky and sweaty all day, and
then your parents dump you off at Arlington

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Stadium and you're sitting out there and
it's one hundred and eight degrees and you're

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sitting on metal bleachers getting the back
of your legs, you know, second

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degree burns on the back of your
legs, and your little kid shorts watching

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some garbage team that's getting pounded by
the White Sox. But you love it.

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But you love it. Yeah,
and it's basically a dollar to get

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in, and then going through what
we went through to get a team that

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was good enough in the nineties to
actually make the playoffs and thinking, wow,

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this is what this feels like.
We're actually okay with this. We

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won one playoff game in three appearances, and then you make it to the

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late you know, twenty ten,
you go to that World Series and you're

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just happy to be there. None
of us gave a damn that we didn't

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win that World Series. I stayed
the night that they got eliminated, the

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windows open and watched the San Francisco
Giants and Bruce Bochie celebrate on that damn

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ballfield for an hour after the final
pitch, just soaking it all in because

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I had never been to a World
Series game before. I'd never seen somebody

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win a championship before. I will
be damned if I was gonna put my

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hat in my hand and walk to
my car and be sad. It was

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awesome. But then twenty eleven,
the expectations were height and your team was

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better. You did what you did
in the playoffs, You freaking got the

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Yankee demon off your back and advanced
to the World Series. You know,

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the year before, but you know, getting the Yankee demon off your back

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and going to the World Series the
first time, but the way they ran

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through the American League and make it
to the World Series, and then what

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happened seeing David Freeze scramble around those
bases and make it to third on a

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triple after what happened to Nelly Cruise
and right field, and then you know,

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they had a chance to win it
in Game seven, but it didn't

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happen, And that just stuck with
people. And I just really feel like,

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now I really believe this, and
I hope this is the same for

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everybody else that felt that way in
November October November of twenty eleven, that

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what happened last night, I think
I can now hear about Game six,

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I can watch that moment happen,
and I'm not gonna feel a damn thing.

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I really just put my mind in
that place of what what's that gonna

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feel like? When you see or
hear about Game six, or somebody talks

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about it, or you see the
video of Nelly Cruz or you see the

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Cardinals, you know, celebrating winning
in seven, I'm gonna be like,

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yeah, cool, Yeah, I'm
fine. Like you said about Bartman was

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forgiven when the Cubs finally won their
World Series in what was the twenty sixteen

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Yeah, it's over, man,
The demon is exercise, the ghost is

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buried. Twenty eleven, doesn't matter
anymore. Now it doesn't matter anymore.

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I don't care. You can talk
about it all you want, and I'm

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just gonna look at you and with
a little seat and grin in my face

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and go all right, I'm bulletproof. I won. We won. Yeah,

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Mike, over where you grew up
in Florida? Did you have the

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Dolphins won? Were you old enough
when the Dolphins won Super Bowl? So?

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No, so you have seventy three
was their last Super Bowl. I

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was born in seventy six, So
I've never You've never had that. I've

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never won a championship, like as
a fan. Yeah. Ever, I

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think the MAVs. I think you
were here long enough and you were almost

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sort of working with them. Yeah. No, And I like I've told

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you guys, I mean it's in
i''s not about me. But in Florida

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there was only the Dolphins. I
told you guys. Yeah, you know

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there was no other the only other
what professional sports team was the Bucks?

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For for my life, it's the
Heat. Well, they didn't exist.

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They killed when they came around the
eighties. Yeah wow, I mean the

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Panthers didn't exist, the Lightning didn't
exist, the Jaguars didn't exist, Orlando

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Magic didn't exist. Just the Tampa
Bay Rays didn't exist, and the Bucks

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didn't exist till seventy seven. Yeah, so when I was born, the

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only Jesus, It's weird. The
only professional sports team was the Miami Dolphins

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in the entire state of Florida,
which is really kind of bizarre study of

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expansion and you know, human relocation
to Florida and how they were you know

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in the seventies or eighties, are
like, what are we doing? And

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they all the teams that have either
relocated or been given expansion teams there.

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But yeah, all we have is
the fans. So I have the Dolphins

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on like a different level in my
world. That's the on my only real

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whatever team anything else. They're they're
late ads. I consider them, and

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I do consider the Mavericks and the
Rangers. I don't have a baseball team,

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so they didn't grow up with a
baseball team. Yeah, and the

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closest I had. I loved the
expos and then they disappeared, you know,

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they turned into the Nationals. So
there's a lot of stuff that I'm

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going back to my childhood. But
that's just kind of where a day like

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this will take you. I think
sometimes I remember, So I grew up

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weirdly. I like call the local
teams, but I grew up Packers fan.

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It's all ever new. It's who
my dad liked. Okay, so

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my dad's always liked so a Packers
fan. But now I watch the Cowboys,

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and I want the Cowboys to win, you know, every time I

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watch them. But the I won
my first championship. Okay, like we

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have ownership in it at dab Reselt. But that night Super Bowl thirty one,

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the Packers win, and I remember
because I didn't really sleep in my

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bed. I slept on the couch
pretty much growing up, because they had

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a rubber sheet on the couch.
Yes, I like the that's said,

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it's just better TV, better TV
access. You know, you have to

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mess with the cable box. You're
still walking the big huge satellite. The

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point is I remember that night my
dad going, don't ever forget this,

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No, one can ever take it
away from me. You're eight years old,

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you think you'll never remember that,
but I did. I remember that

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forever. And then you go through
all these years and I remember you talking

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about just the going to the ballpark
for you, getting dumped off for me.

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You know, my parents, I
can't tell you how many times Dad

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would just make our day and being
my brother six years younger than me,

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okay, and a Sunday, the
Sunday two thirty game, you know,

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and it would be like eleven am, and again we're two hours away,

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and Dad goes, let's go range
your game, and we just get the

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car and go. We're like,
that's the best thing he could have said

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today. And I remember how long
was that the drive? About two hours

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or so, maybe two and a
half, yeah, depending, you know,

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but like what a cool thing to
wake up to on a Sunday,

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the jet and had planned or we
would go on it for they, you

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know, on a Friday night or
a Saturday every once in a while,

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but you know, not all the
time. It was the rare thing.

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I went to two three games a
year maybe, And my parents because back

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in the day before beIN Laden ruined
everything back in the day. You could

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bring in your own like you can
ring out a cool you still can't bring

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in a cooler. Actually you can
ring in like bottles of water, but

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you could bring in soft rinks.
You couldn't bring in alcohol. You got

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about alcohol the game. So my
parents would stop at a gas station.

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They'd get a six pack of Mountain
dew bottles, okay, and they'd tell

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me and my brother to start chugging. They'd buy beer, and then the

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Mountain new bottles were green, right, so you can't really tell. And

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they're in the parking lot here we
are just kind of pouring out mountain dew.

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I mean, my brother just chugging
mountain dew. Okay, I'm about

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to go crazy on you, like
a spider monkey chip and just pouring the

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beer out and then getting beer.
And they're putting beer in the mountain dew

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bottles and siphon and get into the
mountain dew bottles put them in the carrying

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cooler. And my god, we'd
save twenty bucks, you know, amazing,

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And it was just twofold because it's
gonna get you guys jacked. Oh

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my god, for the game,
which is fine, like we want you

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to crash hard on the ride home
or when we get home and we put

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Kevin on the plastic couch. But
for now, get jacked. Make some

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room in that bottle because Daddy needs
it. Also, growing up in the

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time where and with parents and you
know, in the country where we bought

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these mountain dew bottles, you're going
to drink every drop, whereas now in

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modern parenting, I'm not letting my
child mountain. We're just buying the bottles

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and pouring it out on the damn
ground, toxic neon. This is just

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a waste. This is a casualty
loss. You know, cafe sure,

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sure, remember old enough to handle
it. And by the time my brother

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was old enough to like know what
was going on, or I was old

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enough to know what was going on
to explain to my brother six years younger,

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like I'm elevenies five, and I's
like, we got to do it

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now, Like it's all like a
challenge, like sandwich mountain dew you could

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drink because we hate these bottles empty. So mom and dad could get tanked

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on this account being a whiz by
Decatur. And how old are you,

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dude, I mean under before pubic
years. Okay, So eleven, give

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or take. Yeah, an eleven
year old just wired kt your dad being

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like, chug it, finish it, don't waste the new room and being

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in a crowd like that was an
event where you're from where I'm from.

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Yeah, I mean for any kid, that's an event, but a little

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extra even you're not around that many
people ever, and all of a sudden

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that and it was just it was
spectacular. And that's why. That's the

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that's the whole thing. Baby.
There's something about baseball two that has a

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little bit of that old school thing
that I'm kind of talking about. It's

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probably also it's probably the first game
you really ever play with your dad.

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Yeah, you know, you have
a catch and that's just it's easy.

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You can do it in the yard. You need a glove and a ball,

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and it's a great way to connect
with your old man. And because

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it's not like a super competitive thing
where you're playing against each other like one

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on one in basketball or something like
that, it's just something that starts with

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you at a very young age.
It's leisurely. It's the pace of it

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slow, so there's time for conversation. There's time for Yeah, it's a

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talking sport. But yeah, much
much like Kevin. One of my best

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buddies parents were massive cowboys and Rangers
fans out in Knox City, and they

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would invite me to go on there. They've made one or two trips a

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year, and invariably when you know, ten, eleven, twelve years old,

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they'd invite me to go with them
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and then taking a Ranger game.
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their country Squire station wagon, which
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and we'd sit alarmingly riskily in the
back of the station wagon while Walter,

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his dad's got you know, a
giant tall boy of yellow belly in

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his lap, cruising going eighty nine
yeah lucky strikes to get to Arlington,

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and we're just sitting in the back
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what kids do, playing grab ass, talking, playing cards, farting,

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whatever you do. And then you'd
get to that ridiculous stadium and you didn't

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know any better. You thought it
was the greatest thing in the world.

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You thought Arlington Stadium was the greatest
thing in the world. If you came

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from where kevioh and I did when
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you loved it. You're out there
watching a bunch of guys with mustaches and

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beer bellies wearing matching powder blue outfits
play a kid's game and you're loving it,

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and you fall in love with it, and you follow that stupid ass

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team your entire life and it,
and the only thing you hope for is

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what happened last night. Hell yeah, And that's where the tears come from,

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part partially. Yeah, I got
someone else now in the free catline.

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Who knows where tears come from?
A proud Texas tech graduate, ladies,

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gentleman Emily Jones right now, Oh
my god, good morning, Hye

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you guys, Good morning. There
she is, Gym. So, I

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actually flew home. I got home
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They have an employee plane that I
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my family. So I was supposed
to play home later today on the family

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plane, and I decided to jump
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home to my to my fam.
You got home forty minutes ago, yep.

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I unpacked my bag and I just
made a Starbucks run from my fam

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and uh, yeah, I haven't
slept, but I feel great. Emily.

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I will say that real quick.
I saw a tweet a photo that

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you posted of you on the the
employee plane, and I've spent the greater

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part of your career fighting my natural
instinct to sexualize you. But considering everything

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that you have gone through in the
celebration of and the magnitude and the emotion

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of what happened last night, you
look freaking great. Oh thanks, seeing

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you did, I was like,
Emily has just been run through the ringer

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of this entire playoff run. And
it's three in the morning, and that

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lady is on a damn airplane and
she looks like she just walked down an

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f and runway. Ah, well, you're sweet. It was. It's

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been such a fun run. It
was tonight was just ridiculous. I don't

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know that I've even like comprehended it. I sat on a toilet in chase

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Field and cried by myself for a
little bit n after the clubhouse celebration.

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Yeah, I mean, it's a'ting
amazing. You guys like it's nineteen seasons.

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I've done this, and I thought
about leaving, and you know,

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retiring and how long do I want
to do this? And you know,

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I have my kids like send me
text messages and they're celebrating, and you

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know, it's just like God,
it's so thinking cool and it's like,

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you know, I don't know,
I don't know what else to say.

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It's just such a cool thing and
experience. And I'm so she's so what

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she was so p it was a
P word. I'm so pit now it

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was p r. I'm so proud. Proud. I don't think it was

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proud. I'm so again prejudice.
I'm so prejudiced. Yeah, goes for

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the first time today. I'm so
prejudiced. I wonder if battery ran out

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on her phone. I know,
I think this is what. Oh,

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she's back. Hold on, Emily, what's the code word? So we

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know it's you and it's not someone
pretending to be you. Ari, what

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just happened? Did y'all hear that? Yeah? Yeah, you said we

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couldn't hear you got cut off midward. It's all good. I like how

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you mentioned nineteen seasons because we talked
in that very first segment and we are

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just jaying around in partying. We
have champagne in the studio all day long.

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But that's one of the first things
we mentioned is the longest tenured ranger

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who was the clerk, right,
And he didn't even play in the game,

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but we just talked about all of
you guys and Nadelle, you know,

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doing this since nineteen seventy nine,
and John Blake. I even John

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Blake crossed my mind, but you
did as well, and Danny brought you

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up and god, I can't believe
it's nineteen years and that puts you pretty

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high up on the tenure list.
But I'm just so happy for all of

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you. What was so I didn't
see you on the field? Were you

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on the on the field right at
the end of the game. Yeah,

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So we go, we were down
in the tunnel to kind of go and

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wait for you know, the people
who get to go on the field to

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do postgame interviews, and so we're
watching from I'm basically looking under seat to

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see the final inning and then we
go out there and you get to kind

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of soak it all in and try
to get as many interviews as you can

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before you know, they do the
podium stuff, and then get as many

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interviews as you can before they go
into the clubhouse and then Boach does the

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toasts and then they pop the champagne
and everybody goes nuts and yeah, and

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then everybody goes back out on the
field to be with their families and kind

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of take in everything. And it
just was you know, it's just been

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such a ridiculous run and you know, so much fun and also so exhausting.

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I mean, we left town on
September twenty fourth, and we've played

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six home games in that span,
and so it's just been it's been nuts.

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But you know, I'd love this
team all season long. But you

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gain a new appreciation for them when
you when you're when you spend as much

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time with them and with their families
and you see them so much. You

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see how hard they work and how
much they want it, and to see

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it payoff like that last night was
just so stinking special. We're having Mimosa's

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up here this morning and can get
bored, Yes, spend time over to

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Addison down rocking the coffee right now
since I'm going on zero sleep. Oh

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we're double fishing memosa in one hand
and coffee in the other. That might

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be in my future. So you
didn't sleep on this damn plane ride home?

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Was everyone partying on that thing too? No, No, they weren't,

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and you know, we don't.
They don't serve alcohol on plane rides

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home because we have to drive.
So I had had a half of a

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bottle of wine that I did not
drink in my hotel, so I took

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that on the plane with me and
Dave Raydon and I poured ourselves a glass

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and cheers before we took off.
So yeah, there wasn't. And we

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did have a tiny small champagne toast
on that plane, But no, I

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wasn't. There wasn't. There wasn't
any hardcore parting partying. Everybody was obviously

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excited, but you know, I
mean it was just so late, and

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knowing the day I had ahead of
me today, I wanted to be fresh.

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What's today? Fresh as you can
be on zero paper? What's today?

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You get to kick back and chill
today. Well, I'm going to

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get my kids to school, I'm
gonna h do some things around the house,

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and then I'm gonna probably meet some
girlfriends for lunch, and then I'm

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going to take a very long nap. That refrigerator is not going to reorganize

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itself. Fair I get that pantry
is probably a mess, just disorganized,

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odd numbers for four days, non
alphabetized plates, odd numbers everywhere. Who

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was a did you see anyone?
I don't know, like like the weirdest

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person you saw cry or being emotional, or just something you saw after the

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game in the locker room, whether
it be a a hug between people,

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are just someone having an introspective moment. I mean, what's something that you

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saw and you even took a moment
to just sort of say, Wow,

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that's something I never thought i'd see. Well, I mean, I think

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I think Marcus on the field,
him getting so emotional. You know when

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I got him right after I think
Ken Rosenthal had him first, and then

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I got him right afterward, and
you know, he was kind of tearing

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up, and it made me tear
up. And you know, to see

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that out of a guy like Marcus, who is you know, so routine

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oriented, He's just he's the same
guy every single day, had been for

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the last two years. And so
to see that, like that sense of

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accomplishment and relief and really just pure
joy was really really cool. And then

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you know, Josh Fores and I
have a little thing that we do before

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every game and I tell him,
you know, I love you and I

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believe in you, and it's kind
of joking and then he says, thanks

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Mom, And so you know,
he I hoked to him and I'm like,

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dude, you you were do you
really if you were just on the

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mound for the final out of the
freaking World Series? And he'd be like,

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I know, dude, can you
believe it? And I mean it's

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just, you know, stuff like
that is awesome. Then you know,

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Adulis and Jose and you know those
guys that have that have fought through so

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much and you know, just knowing
them as people, Uh, it's just

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it brought me so much joy to
see, you know, ultimately them them

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live out their ultimate dream, you
know. And it's like y'all were talking

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about this so that you can't you
can't you ever take that away from them.

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You know, they'll have that forever
and ever. And you know,

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one of the things I was sure
to ask and I told the and that

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I told Julie and and and Jeff
and Mike this yesterday when I talked to

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him, that it was important to
me. I didn't really think of much,

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but you know, I wanted to
be sure to ask, like what

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it meant. You know, they
haven't been around for but this fan base

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has been waiting forever for a championship, and what was it like to be

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a part. You're you're the ones
that did it. You're the ones that

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brought it here, you know,
and you know, every one of them,

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to a man, you know,
doesn't take that for granted. And

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the fact thought it was, you
know, pretty f and cool that they're

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they're the ones, they're the ones
that pulled it off. They're the ones

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that did it well, they did
it, and it was an incredibly magical

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night. I'm jealous, but I'm
just happy for you that you were there,

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and you know, congrats to players, but dude, congrats to you

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and the front office and all your
friends and the people behind the scenes and

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just the thousand people that this is
their livelihood. I mean, the truth

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is, Emily, you were never
going to play major League baseball. Neither

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was I. And this is the
closest you can get in to dedicate kind

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of your professional life to this and
have the ultimate achievement, and having to

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happened last night has just got to
feel good. So congrats to you.

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And uh and everybody so cool,
Thanks you guys, and you know what,

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and congrats to those families. I
mean, you know, a million

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times like being married to a Major
League Baseball player or or staff member,

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coach, whatever. I mean that
those guys go through, these women go

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through the grind their families, like
I mean, it's it's it's insane,

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the things that they that they do
and and the stability that they provide at

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home so their husbands are able to
go out and do what they do.

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And I have the ultimate respect for
for those women and those kids. And

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uh and and you know, the
parents who have done everything to make these

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dreams possible for their kids. And
it's just it's such a cool thing for

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them, it's such a cool thing
for our fan base. And I'm just

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so excited for for for us,
I'm excited for anyone who who's ever you

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know, been invested in this,
in this team. It's it's a it's

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a special thing. And like we
said, can't take it away as far

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as now, you're a champion,
Emily, you are a freaking World Series.

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Oh my gosh, that's crazy.
That's ironically, that is the first

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thing my daughter asked me this morning
when I will correct where's your ring?

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A? Mommy? Are you going
to get a ring? Like? I

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think so? Baby? She's like, oh my gosh, so cool.

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Hell yeah, get that playing,
Emily, We love you. Get some

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rest. We'll see it's the pride
tomorrow. Okay, be good, all

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right? Okay, So today at
simply Jones. So today at nine to

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am, every iHeart station in America
is debuting at debuting the new Beatles song,

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The Final, the final Beatles song. Mikey, did you know this?

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Yeah, nine o'clock. It's called
now and then. Yeah. I

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was in the meeting. Yeah,
okuite cool. So the Rangers got here

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a year after the Beatles broke up. I think it's pretty fitting that the

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day that the Rangers win the effing
World Series, that the Beatles released their

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final song. We have a Texas
Rangers Championship song that I got inspired to

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do last night before Game five with
the full confidence that they were going to

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win. That sucker. And it
is inspired by the Beatles, and we

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will hear it next