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did. Base went on the road one game six and seven to upset the
Phillies. And your Arizona Diamondbacks are your World Series. No, you at
your National League representative in the World Series. Despite going eighty four and seventy
eight in the regular season, the Rangers were ninety and seventy two better.
Rangers already the favorite. There was a lot of discourse throughout the playoffs because
the this is kind of a new style of playoffs where you have your three
game series, then you have your five game divisional series, then your seven
game championship series, and they're like, well, is this penal enough for
teams that didn't win their division? And I'll just say, if we had
two series that went to the championship game, or two series and this ALCS
and n LCS that went to game seven, there should be no questions at
all. This was all awesome. Yeah, all of it. Don't change
a thing. I all deserved it. You guys watched some of that last
night. I had a little bit of it, a little bit at the
end. I watched the last few innings in the celebration and the lights out.
Maybe it was just the crowd, you know, but I was found
myself pulling for the Phillies, which it would have been. I don't know
if I've been sexy or whatever. I didn't get a crap. Well,
I mean, we're in, so yeah, we're in. I didn't really
care. I could at least name a Philly Yeah, yeah, a bunch
of Phillies. Yeah, you know, a bunch of them Schwarber, Bryce
Harper, Castillanos. As I know that Phillies fans were like, come on,
man, come on the play by play guys, Brian Anderson. Brian
like, please break the news of a celebrity death so Castanos can go yard.
Just refreshing their phone real quick? Would someone says something shocking one?
So casts Yeah? You know, do you think there was a fist on
the table in the league office? I think there was probably something like damn
in the East Coast League office. Yea Arizona in Texas. Yeah, they
didn't love Tech. Well, I don't like they loved Houston at least Houston.
Yeah, they got it. Seems that they do though. Weirdly,
yeah, they do. And Houston's been really good for a number of years,
and they won a couple of World Series, so they've been at least
top of mind in the baseball world. You know, I think they really
wanted Phillies and the Astros for sure. Over this. They could have had
a lot of fun because if the you know, next week, this is
crazy to talk about because Game one of the World Series is Friday, Game
two Saturday, a Game three, four and five Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
If it was Rangers Phillies and we got a series after game five and
game six is Friday, Game seven is Saturday, and then Cowboys and Eagles
is the Sunday after that. I mean it's kind of beautiful. Yeah,
but give us Arizona. Fine, Fine, I found a couple things out
about Arizona last night. Well you might maybe find out more and talk a
little more about them tomorrow. I wanted to do it a whole thing on
the Diamondbacks, but my scouting report was stolen this morning. Yeah, front
of your room door. I leave it on my front porch, you know,
so it's like the right there when I go to work, but it
was it was missing. Did the MAVs have a scouting report stolen from their
team hotel? Yeah, eight o'clock. The Uh. First of all,
the Diamondbacks stole one hundred and sixty six bases this year. That is second
in baseball. They like to run, so I know that. And Kettle
Marte had nineteen hits in the NLCS. That's a lot. And then uh,
oh, I don't really know much. I know what they were saying,
what the announcers are saying, and apparently they've got a pretty sweet bullpen.
I heard all that, yes, and I think some good starters too.
H So what that tells me is you hope the Rangers continue their offensive
production that they started flashing, you know, and a number of games in
that series, especially in Game seven, get early leads that way if you
uh, it doesn't really matter if you have to go to their bullpen.
I think early leads are key. Top five odds for World Series MVP.
Corey seeger A Duley, Scarcia Kettle, Marte, Corbyn Carroll and Marcus Sibbyan
Corbyn Carroll is the I believe National League Rookie of the Year. I said,
have they given out those award yet? I don't think that's the front
runner to be Rookie of the Year. There's a good story there Corbyn Carroll
and Josh Young, and I guess you could throw Evan Carter into that Nowan
Josh Young played a full year and before he broke his thumb was probably on
face to be your American League Rookie of the Year. Corbyn Carroll's great twenty
five home runs, seventy six RBIs he hit two to eighty five. How
many home runs did Josh Young have? Im pulling it up because I need
to know he had twenty three and seventy RBIs and he played like five weeks
less than Corbyn Carrol. I mean, if Josh Young doesn't break his thumb,
he's a thirty home run guy. Do the Rangers start three rookies now?
Yeah, Josh Young? And is that it? Who's your other rookie?
I guess there wouldn't be one, no, okay, yeah, but
yeah, it's pretty good. It is pretty fun. I will find out
more about them tonight. I'm and have some more for you tomorrow on it's
weird or cool that the Rangers are favored and they don't range. It would
have been against the Phillies, No way, no way, they would have
been. You know, so just that alone is pretty pretty sweet. And
I've read a couple quick preview type things and the thought is just Rangers mash
that's kind of it. And I think Diamondbacks and the Rangers are similar,
and then they have two reliable starters and then it gets a little dicey after
that. But you know what, though, I bet before the or the
NLCS, the predictions were Phillies really mash. Yeah, because God, when
that thing started and you were seeing the vibes around Philly and that team,
it weren't they. I was a little intimidated. It seemed like they were
hitting a home round every single inning. They played like nobody's gonna beat this
team in the playoffs. And I'll be damned if the freaking Diamondbacks take them
to seven and win on the road. They also have a solid, like
you said, bullpen, but it was a the guy made a reference the
announcer last night, And I don't know if there's an official nickname that I
really think is cool for like we have our you know, I wouldn't put
it sports Chapman, like whoever they use sports Chapman laclerk right, Like once
we get to that's he called them for the Dimebacks, the diamonback circle of
trust. Oh wow, Yeah, there is not a circle of trust for
us, No, not for a circle of pepto. But they're back out
of their bullpen is uh trusted and very solid, so like you have to
do your damage outside of that. Well they kind of uh their closer.
Yeah yeah, they acquired him late, correct, Sea word is that correct?
Yeah? Yeah, they only had him a couple of months. Yeah.
Yeah, what's his last name? Seawordde He's a good picture Sea wald
O, Sea wald I was like, oh, which one? Just a
few sea words. Yeah, just stay away from the nuclear bomb, sea
word or one of the others. One that you might use as a compound
word. Well, there's that. I'm Kevin with Danny, Mike's Roy got
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Cowboys are now back, so by we kind of over tun to you't ready
for the rams. I got a couple concerning Cowboys things I wanted to run
by you guys, and I realize that it's becomes not worth a damn if
I say anything bad about McCarthy. So if I at least quote it from
somewhere else, is that okay? It's not meat crapping on him. Yeah,
but it's just you illuminating that those those opinions exist. You're the one
reporting them. I mean, me and Mikey are reporting things that people are
saying about you know, Mike McCarthy, it's just you. Then I'll save
that as I'll save that as the sea footnote of my three Cowboys things here
number one. Mozzi Smith, Mozzie Smith whatever we're calling him. I I
call him Mozzi Smith. Kevioll calls him Mazy Smith. He's playing twenty six
percent of their snaps, so nothing out of him of their like overall snaps.
Yeah, scoon Maker, nothing out of him. Third round pick to
Marvia and over shown towards ACL, nothing out of him. In a year
when you were kind of fancying yourselves and we were even doing it, or
I was, I thought they were one of the best teams in football.
You were kind of hoping that, you know, they would they would draft
with the mindset of picking guys that would push them over the edge. I
was hoping they would do that. I was not a huge fan of the
draft in the moment, But they did nothing out of their first three draft
picks, and I just think in the NFL these days, that is a
huge waste. Teams have to get stuff from the rookies immediately agreed, unless
the ceiling's just huge, and the ceiling on all of these guys was never
huge. I mean, you draft one of two ways. I think you
draft when you're a team right on the cusp and you need to draft for
immediate need to improve your current roster, or you draft as they rebuild from
the inside out, Like, were you the team that ends up taking an
offensive lineman in the first round or you know, something where you kind of
build from the interior out. I was really confused by their draft this year.
I can think of that at all. That's very interesting. Those dudes
are doing not uh Scoomaker has one catch one yard, yeah, one touchdown
on granted was for a touchdown, but one reception on the flip side.
Jalen Carter of the Eagles, who's the number nine pick, He's got three
sacks, two forced fumbles. Now, granted that's the number nine pick in
the draft. They did trade up from twenty to go get him, yep.
But and Nolan Smith is it Nolan Smith and he has one sack,
but he plays a little bit, you know, like they're getting something out
of him. I mean even can't even look at San Francisco didn't have a
draft pick to the third rounds. I mean you can. It's not just
like, oh, they're getting nothing, they're the only team that's getting nothing.
But in a year when you actually he'd done some unorthodox things to go
trade for Brandy Cooks and Stefan Gilmour amp that up with one or two of
your first couple of draft picks hitting. Yeah, you know, And I'm
a fan of the way the Cowboys draft over all the last ten years with
wil mcglay. So I'm not taking a complete crap. I'm just saying,
gona get something, Gonna get something, Gonna be nice if Mazzie Smith started
doing something. Didn't love the tight end in a second. I didn't get
that, Okay. Number two, Jerry did an interview. Trade deadline is
Tuesday at three pm, just before the kids go trigger treating. We gotta
get the trade deadline over with. And here's a couple of quotes from Jerry
in an interview that he did. I like where we are with our personnel
today, so I'm not thinking any way that we need to upgrade our roster.
We belong in the upper echelon. I'm not gonna say that we belong
on the field with San fran And we haven't played Philly yet, but I'm
anticipating Philadelphia being what they look like, so I don't want to go that
far. But we're in the upper echelon. So we're in the upper echelon.
We don't belong on the field with San Francisco, and I'm also not
contemplating improving the roster. Then you're not in the upperl are we nine and
eight? I mean, what now, I've grown older and more mature as
we all have. When did that happen? To know not to worry about
anything Jerry says too much? I mean, I'm always fascinated to people come
in here from out of town and they're like fascinated with Jerry, which I
get. But you know this Jerry Jones sexual assault case. I'm like,
yeah, lots of them, Like there's been a bunch, there's been a
lot of allegations. Just a weird quote. Though we belong to the upper
echelon, we don't belong on the field with who. By the way,
San Francisco, if you win your five and two, which San Francisco is
now, if you beat the Rams this week, your same record in San
Francisco. Do you have another quote trades? No? I don't so I
heard that audio and he followed that up with it. I don't have the
quote. I'm not looking at it. But they asked them about potentical trades.
Is Halloween, you know, deadline comes up and he's like he said
twice, he's like, that would have to come from the other side.
Yeah, someone would have to be calling them for something I don't I don't
know why. Yeah, and he didn't follow up like, you know what
we'd be we're answering the phone, we're always looking to get better, but
that would have to come from the other the other side. I think I
got it twice, just oil Guide talking in negotiation terms at all times.
Yeah. Still, I don't know. I don't care too much about what
he says. Here's the one that got me though. You ready for your
coach? Yes, he was doing a radio show which not on the home
not on the flagship network at the Cowboys. Was he on Who Moved My
Cheese? The Popular He did not podcast. No, I had been able
to book him on that. I don't think you would accept that. He
was on with David Moore, all right. He wasn't on with Billy the
Kid. He was not on with Billy the Kid. He was doing a
show which I think they talk about throwing it away when under pressure, with
David Moore Dallas Morning News. Here's what he said. He's talking about if
you remember you got to go back to the last game, not taking a
shot at the end zone with eight seconds left and two timeouts when they elected
to just kick the field goal, and he said it was a little popular,
but at the end of the day, when you make decisions of the
game that results a win, it's the right decision, whether you agree with
it or not. So if you make any decision you end up winning,
then whether you agree with it or not, it was the right decision.
So let me have Oj committing murder. But he it was a winds fro
J. He was found innocent or he was found not guilty, so it
was the right decision. That's strange and a stretch. I got blasted at
the bar last night. You know what, I think I'll drive home.
Made it home. What a win. That was a way closer decision.
You keep going, let's do one just in sports. I think we didn't
need to leave. I'm on a diet, man, I've been on this
diet for three straight weeks. I might keep at it. I should get
a salad for lunch, but I think I'm going to stop by Cat's Deli.
Yeah, unless it's huge sandwich, you break that. But you know
what, I was happy with my meal, so a win. No,
no, you rock the diet. The lost five pounds and your scale said
you were two pounds down. That would have been that as you're gnawing on
a fried piece of bread with melted cheese in it while dipping it into oil
the tomato soup which you were embarrassed to order. Tho, you guys are
gonna make fun of me for ordering a grial cheese supreme. He just pointed
on the menu trip the way he wouldn't order in front of us. Yeah,
you name the item. Do you think we wouldn't know it was a
grilled cheese when they put it down. I just thought it added some intrigue
to what would have been a very normal and boring lunch. So we went
to Cat's Deli on the way home, right outside of Houston, I guess
it was in Woodlands, and we got the giant ass menus. By the
way, it's not the Cat's Delhi that I remember. They franchised those out
and there. Basically it's like a nicer Denny's now. But anyway, Katie
has got his little menu, her giant menu, and he's holding it away
from me and Mikey and just pointing, and he goes, don't tell them,
but I want that right there, right there? Can I have that?
And we're like, what are you getting? And he wouldn't tell us,
And then you got the server to you know, align with him,
and she wouldn't tell us. So we're kind of looking at our news on
where he pointed, and then we figured that he ordered a menu item called
the Three Stooges Sandwich. I like, which is kind of funny. I
like turning lunch into free fall two inferno. And we kept waiting for the
three Stooges sandwich to arrive. And then I'll be damned if she doesn't set
down a child's grilled cheese with tomato soup for him to dip his sandwich and
then blame us for busting his diet. She said it was a top three
sandwich on the menu. How was it? You like? It was amazing?
I wouldn't. I wouldn't. No regrets, really, Yes, The
point is if you make decisions, as long as it works out, Okay,
it was the right decision. Remember that in life. I think he
meant in football. Yeah, it's still the wrong way to think. It's
the most it's the same line of unaccountability. I think you're making him literally
I am, but they won by three points that same weekend. Brian day
Bole screwed up right before the half and they were at the one yard line
with the ball and they screwed something up with time and time expired. Like,
I'm not defending him, but he is. I don't know if he's
wrong in that case, Like had they blown that thing? Take a shot?
I do agree, didn't have any timeouts? Yeah, I understand that,
but take a shot? Was taking a shot? I yes, I
do agree with taking that. He doesn't trust his quarterback. I agree with
that too. That's a problem something's going on. Only he trusts a lot
of people on that team. Also, it's not just about his quarterback.
Why didn't we kick the field goal at fourth and one? Why even try
to get closer to the end zone? Then if it were just kicking a
field goal the fourth and one when they tried the tush push and failed,
or the ham ram and they tried it and failed, whit and kicked the
field goal then Like it's just so he talked about like it's hard to not
be aggressive. It's also hard to be that conservative. You had two timeouts
left. Jerry was pissed about No, he's doubling down in interviews and he
like told them to wind the clock down. Yeah, like they asked him.
He's like, no, no, no, I don't want all those
seconds. This cooreboard operator eight seconds? I eight seconds? Why just stalk
the clock? Yeah? Why aren't you taking your time out? The reps
and scoreboard operators had a better strategy. They assumed that he was going to
do the right thing, which is save time, take a shot in the
end zone, and then kick your field goal. All right, funny Cowboys
concerns, uh, more of than MAVs chaos at the MAVs team hotel.
Next. No, that's at eight o'clock. Yeah, you got coming up?
Oh my god. And we've got a hurricane that has been upgraded to
a Cat five, a Cat five, and it's nearing Acapulco. How about
that, Mike, the vacation delight of the seventies. Ah, this scuttle
butt is all next. I simply cannot wait