This is the downbeat on ice A one the Freak, the triumphant return of
food Court. At nine o'clock this morning, I have a very hot,
very hot woman picking us up food from a brand new place that I've been
curious about. I want to try. So new they don't even offer online
ordering yet. You gotta go there and get her done. But it might
be something that is uh, you know, like very very popular in the
uh years to come. Nine of them opening up in Texas this year,
and the very first one opened up. And we're gonna sample the delicious wares
of of this this particular restaurant that just open. We're doing the food Court.
That's we got news. We got we got fast food, a fast
paced, exciting food based quiz for YouTube to participate in. Not to mention
all the other cool stuff. No, that was it. There are the
three things I know. I meant the other segments that it's not just that
segment that's gonna be awesome today. Like I mean you like, like Kevin,
Look he's sitting right there. Can you just be nice, Kevin?
We tell everyone how nice we all are to each other. Everyone's real nice
to each other. No, but I feel like because sometimes people be nice
to Kevin. You will get that a lot. And I don't like,
has anyone who's ever been mad at anyone else, not that I know of.
I don't think nothing real. No, a few blue eyed white devils.
A listener did last night after the movie say, I kind of felt
the other day you're irrit irritated at them, You're kind of showing I was
like, well, if I was in the moment, that was definitely real.
But the time the segment ends, or by the time the conversation ends,
I've pretty much moved on. I think in a past life you,
I'm had people who would gang up on you and do things that were on
toward. But I don't think any more. I think of us as like
a group of brothers, like step brothers, three step brothers. Yeah,
make sure that the relationship started with, you know, a karate fight here
or there. Yeah, But now we've learned to the death in the front
yard, with the neighborhood folk gathering around, we learned that not only do
we love each other, we rely on one another, and we need each
other one of us one perry, the other one alive. But ye,
I forgot that happened. I did too stupid, so much I forgot.
We'll talk a little step Brothers at eight o'clock, and not just twenty year
old movies. Hot new movies, Jjsen, a couple of them, Roadhouse,
the New Ghostbusters. I don't know if that's it. Maybe a couple
more. We'll see. Well, I'll do some movie talk, have a
little fun there. Don't miss food Court at nine o'clock. But right now
it's time scuttle by. We have time too. We might talk about the
Cowboys for a second at eight as well. Maybe we'll see Okay, if
not the end night thirty, we'll figure it out. Got down the docket
too, so much stuff. Tomorrow's opening day again, Ben and Skinchow on
the Speakeasy will be out there thanks to Sunday Side, Chicken Touch, Credit
Union and as and Coffee Roasters, which does have Java John. But they
Rangers did announce a few things. The standard you know, Wade Bowen will
be performing your national anthem, all right I have. They're gonna raise a
twenty twenty three World Series Championship banner measuring twenty feet in high thirty feet in
width. How is that size? Wise? That seems huge. Does this
seem huge like the MAVs banners nowhere? Well, I mean obviously different sized
parks. We're talking, Yeah, money buy thirty feet wide. That's the
size of a good sized boat, it says a j sent to the right
field video board. And I gotta say I've always struggled a little bit with
adjacent is adjacent across or next next to? Okay, next, So it's
gonna be next to it, left or right right field? The big one?
Oh? Left or right of the right field? Oh? Keep reading
it says adjacent. I bet it's gonna be to the left of the right
field, probably because right would be too far. You want it more centralized,
so it's hanging by the one though that hangs out over the right fielder's
head. You want to sign adjacent to center field. Now here's where I
have a problem. It's not towards this specific person. It's just that I
would prefer a lottery system or something. Because your first pitch. Have y'all
seen this, by the way, good, No, do y'all know who's
thrown out the first pitch? No, here's the easy one. Who's catching
the first pitch? Push? Of course, push opening day after winning the
World Series. And this might be the sweetest man in the universe. Is
it Tom Glavin, who's well deserving? Is it Tom Greave? Tom Griove's
a better guess the is it Ben Greave person throwing out the first pitch?
Is it Ben Rogers? Is it Kenny Rogers? Is it Rogers? Staubach,
So you're a pickle now at Stapbach. It's hard to get into that
descendant of the great musician Bach Sebastian a Chewbacca in a cinema quality mask,
cinema quality Michael Carter, Right, you guys know Michael Carter, right,
I feel like he was a basketball player. By the way, let me
just say ESPN, okay, National Broadcast, whole world will be watching six
thirty five tillmorrow night. And Michael Carter's throwing out the first pitch. You
guys know, Michael Carter, the great Michael cart Well, before he even
tells us, I want to like, I'm sure there's I really don't know.
I'm sure I don't either, but I'm sure there's a story bear trap
that if we comment any further, we're gonna get stung by. Michael Carter
is a Rangers fan. He's been attending game since nineteen seventy three, became
a season ticket holder in nineteen seventy nine. Is he that old guy that
keeps showing on TV? I haven't seen him. Is he the guy in
the Indian headdress that bangs on the drum? Oh? Is it is he?
Zong? No? Zong gets bas Oh? Is he miss Price?
He's not miss Prized. Is he one of the nuns? No? I
think one of the nuns died took lady? No, I don't know of
cookie? I mean, is he a cookie? Lady? I don't know.
You're an idiot? The south field. All the things I said were
really really good. He's from south Lake. He's followed Major League Baseball since
the fifties and has witnessed the majority of the Rangers' biggest home game moments while
being at the three Arlington ballparks with his three children and ten grandchildren. Okay,
so he ain't throwing a strike. Michael Carter is a sweet guy and
might be deserving of it. He's been a huge Ranger supporter since nineteen seventy
nine, not nineteen seventy two, but nineteen seventy nine, and I just
think, Hey, Game seventeen, let him fire one out there opening night
after winning the World Series. We're going with a just a random guy.
I just I have questions. I love the Rangers. They make me question
things often, the parade strategy, so the things they do, I just
go, what are you guys thinking? You know who they should have had
do the first pitch? Josh Spores. Oh, interesting, Okay, that
is interesting. I mean, I'm serious. That kind of would be amazing.
You know what, I would have liked. Nelson Cruz. Did he
retire? I don't know. Probably not. Yeah, he's probably in the
lineup so much. Forty eight years, twenty six dolls this year he finally
retired. No, he didn't. He did. Really, he's forty three.
But I bet he's still working out and staying in Shade debsfinitely on a
plane to Japan right now to play baseball for another five years. His phone
will ring about the middle of the season. Yeah, exactly, we just
need that one extra offensive push he finally quit. Can you use a current
player to throw out the first ceremonial first pitch? Do you know anything you
want? Right? Anything you want? You didn't have to throw it from
the mound. So the rules are very loose here. Yeah, but are
you with me? It's I'm not mad about it. No, I'm not
mad about it. It's strange. It is showcase your organization on national television.
Yeah. You make a good point where in Game seventeen, have the
fan do it? And may I doubt they're doing Ranger fans throughout the first
pitch all year, But that's not bad bit if they are. I kind
of like Pluck one of us. Pluck a representative who's their whole life has
been waiting for this. I hear it. It's nice. Yeah, but
you're right, it's not sexy or it's not make the news. Well,
especially when fifty cent was right there. Yeah, I'm not trying to crap
on this guy's gold coolest moment ever. I'm just saying, like Game two
three, whatever it is, you know what, zero joke. How about
the kid of a how about Adrian Beltray? I was gonna say, like
Shannon Stone, right, the kid. Yeah, and he has a statue
outside of the ballpark, the father who passed away years ago. I mean
he's probably twenty now, or do we need to bring that up again?
I don't know that would be assue what you're saying. Magical Maybe maybe I
don't know, maybe magical. I still got too like they have them save
for corporate sponsorships and celebrities. So you know, there's only eighty one home
games. We could have made another date for Michael Carter because let Jamila the
little chimp throughout the first pitch before she is to go off to Cleveland.
Okay, the c Section Gorilla, Like, there's there's things you could have
done. Look, the standard thing is, you know George W. Bush
goes out there and throws the first pitch again or so we've done all these
things, but why not that? Wow, Ranger fans just hate this.
John Daniels, who helped make some of those trades to win the World Series,
who's now employee with the Devil Rays That whatdn't make sense? He works
for another team, Kevin, it doesn't matter part time. In two thousand
and four, after the long, long, long, ass long suffering drought,
the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in forever, like a
million years. Who do you think throughout the first pitch? Phill Butckner at
their first at their game into the opening day two thousand and five, Ted
Williams, Mark Wahlberg, Bill Buckner, Bill buckaner'd be great. I can
tell you this. It wasn't a random fan. It wasn't a diehard lifer
athleic of the socks. You guys are these are great guesses. No.
They brought out Bill Russell, Yeah, okay, Bobby or Ray Bork No
and Tom No. Uh. And they were joined by at the time Patriots
defensive stars Richard Seymour and Teddy Bruce. Kid, Teddy, I've almost had
Teddy Bruce. That's cool. Dirk Madonno, Troy Stabuch, whatever you want
to do. Tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, absolutely, tattoo, like,
dude, bigger. How about Scottish Flair, Scott that would have been like
new it would have been It would have been cool. He's like, I'm
too busy dominating the field at the Valero Open. Yeah. Sorry, he
can't make it. I'm winning my third straight. You bring out two other
champions, You bring out Dirk, and you bring out Eckman or Roger.
You could do Dirk, Madonna, maybe Madonna two statues, statues. M
H. I don't hate it. I don't hate it either, there's no
hate at all, just an opportunity to showcase this really relish it. Instead.
Here's Michael Carter fan. Yeah, fan for or you were born.
He was cheering for the Rangers. You're more excited. Someone said they should
have let David Freeze throw up first, bitch, that's really funny. Not
allowed. So he was a fan since nineteen seventy nine. What was he
doing in the previous seven years? Mike old card if that is your real
name. Trying to figure out which team to pull forward, waiting on a
good year. Yeah, worst team ever. It's all that they got great
either, but just a small curious just a small bone to pick, curious
decision. It is fine, that's the best of It's fine. But also
huh, but I mean when you march Bill Russell and Bobby or Yeah,
it's kind of like that's not that's that's basketball and Hockey Royalty, not just
New England specific. I'm doing the research project tonight. Now, every team
that won the World Series who through the opening day first pitch the next year,
well, it's also got to be a team that's like either never wanted
or it's been a massive drought. No, Kevin should do every team of
all time do the research. I mean, if you want to do that
to the agent the Oakland the Yellow Stockings marched out the Rhode Island Yellowstocket.
Yes, the marched out handle bar McGillick, hotty, that right out the
first pitch for the Charleston Bricklayers. Okay, if you do that, you
will be up all that to make up. Yes, I want it,
No I don't. Okay, hold on, first, guess when was baseball's
first pitch ceremonial first pitch? Seventeen ninety one? No, it was after
the Constitution team ninety well, yeah, eighteen ninety nine. Was it in
the eighteen hundreds? Yeah? No, yeah, I was about to say,
it's probably something that happened in like nineteen fifty pre Hitler, pre nineteen
twenty seven, pre nineteen twenty one, pre nineteen nineteen, pre nineteen thirteen,
pre pre nineteen four, post seven, post post nine. Yeah,
boy for Danny. Okay, you get who was it? You get one
more bite of food at nine o'clock? Was it Michael Carter? He was
twelve harter, a young fan season tickets seeking his own team. It was
President the President nineteen ten Truman, I don't want to play any more games.
President William Howard Taft draft throughout the raft, throughout this first ceremonial pitch.
On Baseball's opening day April fourteenth, nineteen ten, Truman was like,
in forty five right, I don't know. He uh. If we want
to get popular on TikTok, we should play William Taft music and do the
dance, shake that laffy Tafty. My god, I'm just trying to get
more engagement on TikTok. I don't hate it. You shouldn't hate it.
Don't you hate it? Boy? It was no one else had the if
you step out there, look down and the fall could be a bloody mess
on the street. I looked down, and I said, he hits a
seeing eye single, or he just strikes out on three pitches. He said.
I looked down and see a bloody mess on the street, and I
said it. Tafted the first two Vice president James Sherman. It's all presidents
Woodrow Wilson for four years straight. Yeah, Warren G. Harding for four
years. So this is like the presidents for their whole terms. Calvin Coolidge,
Herbert Hoover, FDR. Harry Truman. Geez, when do we get
they're all presidents? They are all presidents Nixon, Hoover and US. Doing
George W. Bush is common. We do that around here every once in
a while, playoffs, things like that. So that they're looking at this
as wait, am, I let me get presidential ceremonial first pitch. I
don't know what you're looking at. I think there's a for the season.
There's a ceremonial first pitch for the entire league. Oh really, car,
it's not just well, let's back when they had like five teams anyway.
Yeah, and that's the only sport they had. Yeah, that in boxing
facing Baltimore again, forty eight games series with the Oreoles Baltimore in town,
thirty five games set. That's not the play one hundred and sixty two games
too. Like it is very much the forty hour work week from one hundred
years ago. It's like, now we just did it to fill out the
year. Something do beautiful, it's beautiful. Quickly, this will be a
sixty second story. It's an update on the uh it's an update on the
Baltimore Bridge. You guys cool with that real quick, We'll just pize that
in real quick because it has been pretty much confirmed. Uh, it lost
power. The ship lost power at what would have been twelve twenty four Central
time here twelve twenty four, lost power four minutes later, hit the bridge.
The ship was basically rudderless, uh, at the mercy of currents and
then you know, hit the pillar. The bridge goes. They did have
you know, they did fire off the may day. They did everything they
were supposed to do, and so there were people construction workers were working on
potholes on the street, like we kind of thought on the yeah, on
the pavement on the bridge. I saw an interview with thee I think it
was the governor of Maryland, and uh, he had a really good interview,
like he was like, what people need to know is that we had
first responders rushing the action to block off the roads to stop cars from being
on the bridge, and that prevented and it worked. Yes, Okay,
that prevented more lives from being said, No, that sounds crazy that that
could happen in four minutes. But I think I said one twenty four is
when it lost power. I think that's the second time it lost power because
yeah, I think they saw it flash off, and then you saw it
flashback on again, and then it went off and then and then there was
smoke coming out of the out of the ship. Yeah. Yeah, But
dude, like I said that one video, did you see that one?
It's a wider shot, and I see a car like ten seconds or less
before the boat hits. There is kind of regular traffic. It's not like
crazy pack traffic, but there's two three you would expect in that area at
mid Yeah, you'd expect maybe consistent traffic on a very busy bridge, but
nothing insane. But two or three cars passing over within ten seconds of it
hitting. But then it looks like about three seconds before it hits, the
traffic stops. And I watch a video, I'm like, wow, how
lucky is that? But if there's freaking cops or however they do it,
or they have the poort authority, I don't know who's right there on site
and slid their damn car in front of traffic and said stop, and then
milliseconds later the entire bridge collapse. That's fascinating and an amazing response. It
makes me also think the construction workers there did not get the heads up.
Well, no, like I said, I think they did it within ten
seconds. I mean there was regular traffic going. Yeah, like they couldn't
clear the bridge. It wasn't an option, but stop traffic was. And
there's probably some siren or something then. I don't know. I mean,
it's awful to think of the people on the bridge obviously, but they prevented
a lot with that movie. Six Presumed Dad. They're basically calling off the
recovery mission. This will be searching, of course, but the recovery mission
call. If there's any one that develops, we'll let you know. You
know, throughout the day, we have Dingo's Morning News eight thirty as well.
But we all had Win'sall Stepbrothers last night for the Almo draft House Let's
Freaking Chill series And it was a fun to go watch a movie like that
in a crowded theater with some listeners and things like that. But it's had
me thinking, what's the greatest comedy movie of all time? If you want
to add into that conversation two one four eight one seven seven eight seven one
nine seven one collar texting as well, what's the greatest comedy movie of all
time? And to Step Brothers even hold up next on ninety seven won the free