It's the Downbeat Free Good Morning DFW. We have breaking news Sarah in the
Metroplex. I'm going live into the field with our reporter, Danny Bayliss.
I'm Danny and I'm standing in a field. I thought he was here.
He's not here. No, I'm actually standing. I'm a field reporter.
I have to report from a field. Are you a Globe Life field?
No, it's just a random field. I think I'm just like, right
outside of our office, there's a field, and I mean thanks. Yeah,
the connection is incredible. There has been a pretty massive Dallas police chase
that has just ended, and there's a possibility that the suspects that were involved
in this chase are hiding in my house, making friends with my dog,
playing my bass, thumbing through your albums. Uh huh. I like this
one because Dallas police are currently searching for three suspects who led officers on a
police chase that just ended moments ago. It started around four to twenty am
in downtown Dallas. It made its way around the entire east side of Dallas
County. Now. It ended when the suspects tried to leave the main lanes
of I thirty to cross the grassy median and get to the service road near
Jim Miller Road. That is where I live. Yes, I live at
Jim Miller in thirty. Could you hear the highway from your house? Uh?
Yes, especially if you've got crawch rockets. Oh yeah, but yeah,
I can hear it, you know, if it's a lot of traffic.
Yeah, I can definitely hear it. They crashed their suv at Jim
Miller in thirty in the little grassy median and then three suspects got out of
the car and took off running. Two of them jumped a fence. One
of them ran into a heavily wooded area. Now sounds to me like they
were going eastbound and they tried to they missed their exit and then tried to
jump up that There is a grassy median right there that will get you back
on that exit ramp. It sounds like they crashed their car out there,
So they're probably on the south side of thirty. Yeah. It says they
were trying to make their way back on south towards I thirty. Okay,
so oh, they were trying to make their way yeah, okay, it
sounds to me like they're on the south Side. But yeah, people,
police are still looking for all three of these people in the area. So
Dallas County Sheriff's deputies briefly joined the chase, and they tried to stop the
suspects with spike strips on northbound forty five, just past both of them Jean
Boulevard, and they were not successful and ended up damaging another driver's vehicle instead.
Imagine that's slump oh who throws out the spike strip yeap? And what
about the driver that's done nothing? It just takes four flat ones trying to
get to work. Yep. And that incident caused some delays in traffic.
But that's basically where we stand right now. Three suspects at large following a
police chase that ended at I thirty and Jim Miller. So, yeah,
if you got some random knocking on your door over there and the Claremont neighborhood,
maybe no answer, It says, Yeah, eastbound lanes of I thirty
this morning, traffic delays. Okay, let's uh, let's get the latest
on this and go out to Danny in the field. Yeah, I'm back
in the field, and you're ridiculous, it says. The story is developing
at the bottom right right I was looking at and if we get more details
on this developing news story, I will go back out into the field and
report back. Is that all right with you guys? Works for that's our
We'll give you the details on the other big crash that happened on Saturday about
six twenty pm that involved Chiefs rookie wide receiver I guess now second year wide
receiver Rashi Rice, who went to SMU. We think maybe it didn't.
The details are nuts and it's happened again right in the daytime. There's dash
cam footage and there's a bit of a man hunt for him as well as
he just kind of walked away. With the details on that. It's seven
thirty five plus an update on this chase that's in thirty minutes. But now
let's do this and now sports, all right, we'll do MAVs a little
bit along with the audio from the NC State Wolfpack fan at the American Airline
Center yesterday for the Elite eight because that was nelse of audio rangers obviously had
Friday off, they had big opening day win Thursday, then Saturday they get
their rings. Now, you guys, if you're experiencing baally issues. I
will tell you right now, your play would be Fubo. Yeah, like
you just like the first couple weeks of like the season. Maybe Fubo's offering
if you're a Ranger fan, fourteen free days of games, right yeah,
well free trial. Now you probably have to remember to cancel it, which
might be the problem. But Fubo could get you through the dog days of
April if you're only with that early season Rangers urgency. The Rangers play at
five point fifty tonight against Tampa Bay. But here's what happened Saturday. They
got their rings and did you guys see the rings? Yes, I looked
at the whole chart with the little arrow pointing at parts of the ring explaining
it all. Very impressive. Okay, so let me just say when they
put these rings on, when they announced all the players, the beautiful coaches
and everyone who gets a ring and brought them out on the field, and
then they all had them bring in their box and they put them on their
finger. I went that ring's too big because it doesn't look right. It
looks so uncomfortably big. And but it is interesting what they did. There
is a lot of features Kevin a lot of features, including on one part
of it, it's got a the eleven and OH record, and they used
the logos of the Rays, Orioles, Astros and Diamondbacks to create a thing
a feature on the ring. This is eleven and OH road dominance, Rays
Orioles, Astros, Diamondbacks. So you'll never forget the teams you whipped up
on in the playoffs. Oh that was kind of thing. I think that's
incredibly fortuitous and very cool that the spells road, Like, who's the first
person to figure that out? Who do you think? Right when the Diamondbacks
series started, somebody figured it out, maybe Astros, maybe ro A And
then they're like, oh, hold on if they play the Diamondbacks. Yeah,
but at that point you're not thinking we're gonna win every game on the
road. Just had to win two in Houston because it was Diamondbacks and Phillies.
That's a pretty incredible coincidence. Yes, yeah, it is kind of
cool, and I like that they embraced it enough to emblazon it on their
ring, their giant ring eleven and zero in the playoffs, I forgot on
the road, right, they had to go in fifteen games, They want
eleven of them on the road, rays Orioles, Astros, Diamondbacks, right,
three to four Fells Road, Kevin, that's pretty cool. Let's go
on the road for our road correspondent Danny Baylis with more on those. I'm
in the road. No new updates on the police chase. I will Actually
I did watch a video of this. This is on the north side of
thirty and it is a block from where I live. Yes, you have
like a nanny cam or something. Oh, I call it your milf neighbor.
Yeah, and get enough. All my neighbors are gay men. Oh
you said you had one lady who wanted to talk to you. Oh,
god, Sally something like that. Remember Sally? And You're like, she's
a total milf. You're winking at me. What are you saying today?
Who fools? Gotcha? He was putting it in a coffee made coffee cup
in the break room while saying that story. What one hundred and three blue
sapphires are on the top of the ring. What's the significance of one hundred
and three? Well, one hundred and three. That's interesting, Danny,
You got it. They won one hundred and ninety games in the regular season.
Wait, no, they didn't win one hundred and ninety. I'm sorry.
They won ninety games in the regular season and they won thirteen in the
postseason. Do my mathrone there, you're one hundred and three total wins regular
postseason. About one hundred and three diamonds. All right, Let's see if
ninety, if they won thirteen when they have to win twelve to fifteen games
to win the World Series? Three four four time encounter got this right?
Twenty three Red Rubies, Danny, what do you think that means? Twenty
three, twenty three? I have no idea. Twenty twenty three, the
year the Rangers won their first World Series. It makes sense. I have
a problem with this thirteen thing. Hold on real quick. Ninety regular season
wins, thirteen post season wins. I did mathron four series to beat the
Rays. Oh, the rais is a one game series. Yeah, so
one three, four to four, that's twelve. They definitely got it right
on the ring. Maybe it was one four, four, four four,
Okay, I'll give them benefit of the doubt. Eleven big stones make up
the tea, the white Ta eleven that represents the road wins. I mean,
everything on here has got a bit, says Danny, looks like,
so you can see it. That's a big ass ring, dude. You
should see it on their fingers of a huge man. This is too flimsy.
Sixteen emerald cut diamonds on the outside like of the main top recognizes the
sixteen consecutive postseason games the Rangers homered in. Okay, do you think they
were just like a little bit of a stretch count up with some stuff?
Yeah? How much? What are these valued at? And are they all
exactly the same? Are they personalized? No? Yeah, they're personalized with
the player players. Yeah, okay, the one they showed us as Segers,
so it doesn't My guess is these are what about twenty twenty five grand
ten chairs of Apple. I don't know, because it's the tears again,
you know, like different employees get different tiers of ring. I'm talking the
big one they get like, I don't know that Seger got much too big
on their on their fingers. Yes, the one that looks too big on
their fingers. I don't know, And I mean I turned it down,
but we could have had the guy who designed the ring on, but I
didn't figure. Oh wow, I don't know. I doubt he cares.
They seem like a like a lot. He was super into the ring.
So I think our buddy Noah Bullard, who's a foxtog around these parts and
a stud tweeted this out. You can I think he's telling the truth.
You can purchase a limited edition ranger. You could purchase this, Yeah,
that resembles the players for ten nine hundred and fifty dollars. There's one hundred
and three of them, and that number once again represents the number of wins
last season. So apparently they've made one hundred and three of these for purchase,
just short of eleven thousand dollars. Also doing five player replica ring giveaways
on May fourteenth at corey seeger Ring June fourth and Morgasimian Ring. What I
kind of don't like on that is like, don't to merchandise the rings.
The ring should be special to the people that achieved the thing. Don't start
letting everyone have a ring, even if they're different. I don't know,
just just a small bitch. They kicked ass. Wait, JJ, you
want a conference championship in college? I did football? Yeah, I have
a ring. Wells to look is it big? It's I mean, obviously
it's not the size of a MB World Series Championship ring, but it's a
good size. I mean I went to a smaller school and a smaller conference,
so yeah, I think it's a good it's it looks pretty big on
my hand. Did they give it to you or do you have to pay
for it? No, they give it to us. School pays for it.
And so you get measured for the ring and then they did a ceremony
for us, and I mean I wore it for like a month. I
didn't come to your booklet choose. No, they just like measured our fingers,
you know, for the ring size. And yeah, you don't choose
obviously the design or anything. It has our eye, like our logo on
it, and it's yeah, it's pretty cool. It's not. Yeah,
I'll bring it small. It's not as exciting as that. But it's a
Loyal Series ring. But well, I'm proud of it. I broked my
ass off for it. Oh yeah, that's crazy. Okay. So when
I when we won stay in football, we all got medals, like gold
medals from the UIL and then you had the option if you wanted a ring,
you could get one, but you had to buy it. You have
no idea how much. I think it was around sixty bucks. Okay,
and this is nineteen eighty four, So I swear every time we talk about
something, NBC five is sixty seconds later starts talking about it. Well,
their show is laid out long before our show starts, Kevin, So I
don't think they're listening and on the fly changing there. Oh yeah, yeah,
they've got stars footage. We're definitely not talking about them until talkbacks happen.
No, you Texas folk love some rings. Yeah, high school rings
and college rings. Never did any of that stuff, never any of them.
Did you have seniors when you were I don't know, freshman or sophomore
that had the high school rings and they'd flip them over and then like whack
you on the head. No, that didn't happen. Don't say you Texas
folks like it's a bad thing. Florida. Man, I'm just saying,
colle I see A and M rings on adults, and boy, the Aggies
are proud of those. That's maybe them more than any other school. That's
maybe what I'm thinking. Yeah, because they used to put them on their
penis. Let's send Kevin Turner out into a field. Kevin Turner about to
be headed to a field to see this on this the Rangers Saturday get a
good pitching performance from Cody Bradford, bullpen comes in and handles up, but
the offense really started mashing. I think the Rangers already lead the league in
home runs. And then yesterday, basically a decision was made by Bochie because
the Rangers had Friday off. They're back at it tonight. They have this
Thursday off, but then after that they have seventeen straight games. They had
kind of a tough April schedule. The grind begins, Kevy Oh, it
begins, and when John Gray tells you that his arm's feeling tired and he
can't get you four innings, they had to go to the bullpen, and
the bullpen of another big names like the guys they want to use Kirby Ray,
Kirby Yeats and David Robertson. It was like a lot of your spare
bullpen parts holding it down until it was five to five. Headed to the
top of the ninth and jose Leclerk decided he wanted to walk everyone. And
that's kind of how it ends. The Rangers lose nine to five because Leclerk
spit the bit, but they made a decision let's kind of save the bullpen,
and they have Tampa Bay tonight at five point fifty on the road.
So it was kind of a good series win two to one. But you
can already starting to play the long game of like, let's not have these
guys pitching every game in the series if we can, And I kind of
appreciate that, honestly. Whitelankred at a triple yesterday. Evan Carter's your one
guy on the offense who hasn't hit yet, and he hasn't hit the ball
hard yet, but he's walked five times, which is enough to have like
a good, crazy good on base percentage in Rangers minor league news. Your
guy Jack Lder was great. He didn't start, He came in in the
fourth inning. I believe it kind of it was set that way because a
guy who they're gonna add to the roster of Michael Lawrens and got the start.
He pitched five innings. Jack Lder struck out nine, hit ninety seven
miles per hour, only walked oh nobody, which had been his problem,
not having any idea where the ball's going and I'm not telling her we'll get
their hopes up. But if he does this two or three more times,
let's go. Yeah, what's the point in waiting. That's the best he's
ever looked in the Ranger system. Was open tonight. Now, if this
is the Jacklider that's been a Ranger, that means he's gonna suck next start.
So but that's good news. Yeah, good news, good little start.
Astro's went on four too, they all four to the Achies. Yeah,
four game sweep, sucky, sucky, Okay, and that just remember
that no matters in five months when we're at war trying to win a damn
division. WIT's a half game. Remember this. We'll play Houston seven times
in the next two weeks, so three at Tampa off Day and then four
against the Astros. So that's exciting. Early season, early season. You
know, Ray Davis did a big interview the other day. He did never
talk so it's interesting Ray Davis as the Rangers owner. If those didn't know,
here's what he said when he was asked about the in terms of money,
he said, it's a terrible position to be in. We didn't put
ourselves in this position. We're scrambling to try to know what our broadcasting revenue
is gonna be for twenty five and beyond. Hopefully before we have to construct
our roster for twenty twenty five, we'll know what it's going to be for
some future years. I told you guys the other day that he was asked
about building your own regional sports network, and he said it could happen.
It's about one of four options that they have, but he would not say
what those options were. He also said, when it went to the roster
contract of Evan, Grant said, you're a billionaire. Why would you not
spend more money at this point? What is your perspective on the business running
a baseball team? And he said, none of our fans want to hear
this. That's just not the way you successfully run a business. So what
a ballsy question, Yeah, I and a ballsy answer too. Here's an
answer you're not gonna like. But we're being counters and that's not gonna that's
just not how we're rolling here right now. He said that the Jordan Montgomery
thing, so they had debt because of opening the stadium during COVID year,
all right, so that was already a problem. He said, the way
the taxes work for them. If Jordan Montgomery signed a one year, twenty
five million dollar deal with Arizona, it would have been like a one year,
forty million dollar deal with the Rangers. Now, I don't know if
I believe that or not, And I don't know if he might be telling
the truth. Actually, is that the state income tax thing kind of overvalued?
I don't know. I hear that all the time. Well, you
signed in California, it's much less money because state income tax. I think
it is on a one year thing, but on a big tenure, seven
year contract or whatever. And don't they pay that really matters? They pay
taxes when they play road games too, don't they. I think I think
that's true. Yeah, like you worked in Baltimore. Can you imagine the
account Yeah, Oh that would suck. Does a team do all the accounting
for you or you have to figure that out yourself. I don't know.
It's a good question. Yeah, I truly don't know. He asked about
Oh, Chris Young doesn't have a contract, and he's asked asked about that,
like why does he have a contract? And Ray Davis said he's gonna
be here a long time. He wants to be here. We just haven't
sat down and done the contract. I'm like, well, if Chris Young
gets offered a job at a cooler place, I mean, maybe there's no
cooler place. I'm sure Gris Young wants to be here. Yeah, but
what I hate when people talk about sitting around. It's just a matter of
us getting down to it and doing it. We'll do it it, just
do it. I don't know, just like I feel like things, I
don't know. I'm gonna do do it now. Guy, though I don't
like to. I'm sure there's reasons until the Thursday. You know, I'm
doing it now. Oh what about you? What's your long term plan here?
He said, I just want to keep winning championships. But he also
said that COO Neil Leiebman has stepped up and has taken more and more off
me in the business side. So keep your eyes on Neil Leebman, fans,
Let's get him on. We'll get Neil Leibman on if you want,
We'll probably do that. He talked about do you want to keep the team,
and he said, I don't know. Just the taxes on owning the
team too, like an individual players refusing enough if there's road and home and
you have to differentiate. But just the all the stuff, I mean,
the cooes that mean tax, that means money man probably has something. Yeah,
CFO is probably your chief financial officer. Yeah, but COO is do
you have tax? The whole tax team that works for the Rangers. And
Neiliman's been there for a long time and he's invested in a lot of stuff.
And everyone always talks about Bob Simpson. Bob Simpson's not near as involved
as he's been. He's been not that involved for a long time now,
like Joe or just Davis is the owner now SIPs and it's just even more
invisible than he was. I says he made a good points every tear.
He said, Look why I bought the team. We were in bankruptcy.
So we're talking about getting mad at me for not signing a guy. He's
like, it's the same team. Besides, right now we added two rookies
and Nate Low's hurt. Right now we're fielding the same roster. It's like,
okay, as long as you're willing to make moves of the deadline in
the second half like you did last year. I'm actually okay with that.
There's a Rangers update Maps update at eight, incredible exclusive audio from inside the
AAC last night where a fan was going nuts. But coming up next it's
the Scuttle but there's a huge crash involving we think a chiefs Wide receiver who
went to SMU and the details on this are all murky and it's led to
a man hunt. Details A nice everyone. The first