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You're listening to the downbeat on ninety
seven to one the Freak. I'm Kevin

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with Danny and Mike Siroy. We
got JJ with you. JJ will be

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back there taking your calls two and
four eight when seven seven eight seven one

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nine seven one, keeping us on
the rails so we don't screw up.

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Thank you JJ for that. Thank
you JJ. We have game five to

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day and it's at four pm.
Well I think it's a four oh seven

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first first pitch. I'll be in
the house today. So if you're out

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at the ballpark and you see Kevin, just be like, what's up,

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man, and I'll be yo,
no little chat, maybe old cheers.

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Mikey was there last night though.
Yeah. He has offered us hope for

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the Rangers to snap out of this
two game skid, to save the series

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and to still have a chance at
going to the World Series. We will

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discuss that now in Sports at seven, which is sponsored by boy Now.

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Sports at seven. Sports at seven
brought to you today by Hope. And

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with that, here's Mike Siroy.
Please give us some because mine is effing

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waning. Thank you Hope for jumping
on board with um. I'm gonna start

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with this. I'm fine with it. I think we should. Yeah,

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everybody knows what happened. The Rangers
got absolutely smushed last night. Yeah,

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embarrassing, almost and exposed. Did
it feel that way on the telly?

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It did. It felt like kind
of Game three ish. It made you

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know, and look the in MLB
playoffs, it is such a momentum swing.

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If momentum actually exists. Jury still
out, but it's definitely an emotional

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swing. And as confident as you
can be after one game, you can

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think your team is the worst team
in the world after the next. Yeah.

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Yeah, I think that's where a
lot of people are at today.

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They're probably looking at games one and
two and being like, Okay, that's

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what happened in Games one and two
was the anomaly, long long outings from

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starting pitching, a bull that didn't
that bent but did not break, and

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enough offensive output to push them over
the goalposts. And then what you saw

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in the last two games was,
Oh, that's what that's the team from

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the last couple of weeks. That's
the team that lost this division in really

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embarrassing fashion. That Okay, we're
back to what we are now. And

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I can't argue with that because that's
what it feels like. Well, essentially,

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what you just said is the root
of the source of my optimism,

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and it's that think. And this
I don't know if this applies more to

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this team than any other team in
any other sport that I've you know,

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followed closely, But the twenty twenty
three Rangers the story is wild ride and

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it always has been. And we
have had the ups and the downs all

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year long, so much so that
we have thought, you know, oh

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my god, is this team gonna
just kind of go coast to coast and

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win the division? And we had
that, and then we have oh my

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god, the free fall is on. Oh my god, we're getting swept

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by teams we shouldn't get swept,
and we're getting smashed by teams that are

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good, like the Astros in the
regular season toward the end. And then

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there's been oh my god, they're
missing the playoffs. The freight train of

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the Seattle Mariners is coming. And
there's been highs and lows, and in

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each of those we've had moments of
believing this team is good, Oh my

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god, this team might be great, Oh my god, this team's not

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losing at all. And we've had
the moments of oh my god, this

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team's missing the playoffs, Oh my
god, this team's frauds. We've had

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all those things ups and downs,
and this series is sort of a microcosm

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of this entire season in that,
yeah, it started good. Oh s,

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we're gonna win. We can win. We just won two games on

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the road, and now we're in
the one of those low spots that we've

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had many, many of this year. And in every one of those low

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spots to date, this team is
fought back and they need to do it

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again. But we have precedents throughout
this season to believe that this team will

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fight back. And whether it's Botchee
keeping everyone calm and cool, I mean,

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whether it's the more tangible things of
all right, well, we're teed

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up now with Montgomery and Evaldi,
We're okay. Absolutely, It's not as

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bad as it feels right now.
And we've learned this season that this team

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battles back from those low spots.
And look where we are. I mean,

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you've won two series essentially playing not
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this team, if you do only
believe in Montgomery and Uvaldi, is built

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for shorter series, of which we
now have a three gamer in front of

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us. That's sort of the root
of my optimism is that we have had

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to talk you guys off a cliff
before that, thinking this thing is done.

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When they were what what's the worst? They were three back, three

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and a half back, and and
they always find a way. And now's

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the time they need us to believe
in them more than ever. And it's

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hard, and it's hard to believe
in a team when they're losing. Hard

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to believe in a team when their
backs are gonna the wall, which they're

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really not. I mean, you're
tied, it's not like you're down three

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to one or anything like that.
You haven't even lost home field advantage yet.

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Well, yeah, I mean you
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win today, well they still two
in Houston, right, I don't know

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how we quantify that exactly. Yeah, technically, I guess it would be

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now Houston. Houston's eight and one
at Global I Field this year. They've

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scored seventy seven runs at Global I
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to get them out of here.
That sounds insane, but that might be

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where we're at. And ultimately this
comes down to this, can you beat

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Verland or twice. Can Jeordan,
Montgomery and Valdi do there? And if

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one of those guys fails, can
Max Sures or Bell you out in games?

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Okay? And that's not that's where
we're at. That's for me,

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that is not a terrifying consolation prize
is to have Max Sures are climbing the

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hill in game seven. Yeah.
Again, the taste in your mouth is

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the freshest, but that's not the
only one you need to remember. Max

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Scherzer he can find it and he's
pitched really dominant games this season wearing Ranger

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jersey. I don't know. I
don't want that to happen. And I've

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far more, much more confidence in
Montgomery and Hellyvaldi, Like, let's give

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the Evaldi a chance in Game six
to win this thing, and we're gonna

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be feeling pretty damn good. I
mean, if they pull off today I'm

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Montgomery, which shouldn't be insane of
a request or a thought, then you

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have the Evaldi climbing the climbing the
bump on Sunday in Houston, and we're

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like, all right, let's go. And if your worst case in that

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scenario is a Game seven with yeah, We'll be scared if it goes then

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to Game seven with with Sures or
I get it, but I can think

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of worse scenarios. We're okay.
You don't just only taste the last two

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games and think that's who this team
is, because we've done it this year

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so many times times and they've always
found a way to rally and be alive,

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be one of the final four teams
and still be battling with the defending

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champs. It's hard. It's hard
for fans to buy in like that,

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for most fans because it is such
an emotional ride that the players they're that's

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what they think. Good. Yeah, of course they are. They mean,

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they're in they're living it every day. They know that steady hand and

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measured, measured reaction is is the
key to success, and that they yeah,

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typically I'm not worried about them,
you know, I'm not worried about

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them at all at all. But
we've seen it, and you know what,

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seeing this team look like they're down
and out. And and here's the

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thing too, is got Verlander this
afternoon. And it's not like Verlander's coming

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off of a bad start. He
was really good in the in the opening

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game of the series. The Rangers
are just a little bit better. What

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was it two nothing game? Yeah, but shut them out something like that.

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Yeah, yeah too. Zip.
What it comes down to is you

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got to get what do you need, Kevin to be successful starting pitching to

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go six innings? Right, yeah, that's your starting pitcher. To go

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six innings and give up two runs
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Avoid mental relief for this team.
I mean, their biggest weakness is

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that get some hits, get some
hits, string some hits together. They

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just send me into it going.
Yeah, we may have a little sign

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of that. Maybe it going.
It's not like the offense fully died.

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I mean they were trying to rally
even after the Abrey you homer the mid

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seven to three that seeger pitch uh
secer hit hit where you lined it to

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the first baseman was ripped. It
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It sucks about the game. The
most regrettable thing about the game to me

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is you are in the fourth inning. It's not the Cody Bradford throwing a

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three to two pitch over the middle
of the play for a bray. You

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to rip out of the part that
hurts. It's the fact that heting started

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with their number nine hitter, Martin
Maldonado, and you had him O two

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and you end up walking him.
I mean day nning after the game,

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he was like, he hits ninth
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can't walk him there. You know, Dane put Cody Bradford in a terrible

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position. Here's Jordan Alvarez and Jose
air Bray. You have fun, bases

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are loaded, buddy, and I
mean like you're not gonna win that.

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Yeah, And it's just the way
it went. I mean, he wasn't

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trying to walk him, he wasn't
throwing balls on purpose. He just missed.

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And that's the human element. Sometimes
you you get him and sometimes you

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don't. You know, when you
uh and when you hit a fly ball

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to the center fielder, yeah,
if it was ten feet one way,

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then it's a base hit in the
alley. You're not trying to hit it

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directly to the center fielder. It's
just the it's it's man, It's largely

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a game of luck and a game
of chance, right, yeah, it

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is. And this is this is
the burned soul. And I think you're

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trying to to stop me from thinking
this way, Mikey and I actually appreciate

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that. But there's a bit of
us as Ranger fans who have almost been

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falconed twenty eight to three. Granted
wasn't that big of a thing these to

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Super Bowl twenty eight three, but
we lost the World Series in twenty eleven,

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and then just all the things that
kept saying yesterday, the just crazy

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stuff that this organization has thrown at
us since we've been alive. It makes

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you just not expect anything good to
happen, and that's not the right way

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to be. Their margin of error
is now gone, Like at some point

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Chapman or Spores or the clerk's probably
going to blow a game. That margin

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of error is gone now. And
you had that at two oh, so

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you know, I know, but
if I told you before the series started

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this thing, we'll be tied to
too. I've been like, that's probably

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about right. We said that's about
right, and you probably would have taken

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it. Yep, yep. Yeah. And you've had that this year already.

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You've had those moments and I don't
even need to say this, but

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you realize that anything that's happened in
this franchise's past does not affect what's going

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to happen today. It does.
That all lives between your ears, Kevio,

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and in the brain of scorned Ranger
fans. And we do this with

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the Cowboys all the time, all
the drought and whatever. The last doesn't

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matter. It does not matter.
And these guys were barely born. Ye,

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things happen. They don't care.
Those guys. To those guys,

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Troy Aikman's a dude that they grew
up watching, you know, call games

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on Fox. Yeah, he's the
TV star. Yeah. You're telling me

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the fact that this team couldn't pay
for their own baseballs twelve years ago in

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bankruptcy court and they were out of
gum and sunflower seeds. That doesn't matter.

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That doesn't matter. You're telling me
the fact that the one Major League

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Baseball team who holds the record for
slowest strike throwne the Texas Rangers, when

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brock Holt through a thirty one mile
per hour fastball one time. You're telling

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me that has nothing to do with
today. That helps me a little bit.

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But you're still wearing the shirt of
the team that did all that stuff.

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That is I mean, it's like
okay, but that doesn't matter that

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we're probably gonna suck. There's no
overarching curse, there's none of this.

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No, it's that's bad for us
to talk about on the radio and stuff

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for you ranger psychos distress. It
does not affect what's happening today. What

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does matter is Jordan Montgomery was pretty
good to the mound and pitching good baseballs.

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Today there's no Boogeyman. There's no
ghost of the Astros. Now there

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is monsters walking to the plate that
are really good at smashing baseballs. Alvarez

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is ridiculous. Did anybody honestly think
that that lineup was going to remain quiet?

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Right right after the first two games? We said that, I mean,

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after the first two games, we
hadn't lost a playoff game. We're

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gonna sweep our way through the entire
thing. Was there any doubt in anybody's

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minds that if if they got to
our middle relievers, that you were gonna

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show a lot of holes in that
in that in that bullpen. Yeah,

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it was gonna happen. Right,
All of these things are true. You

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know, all of these things have
happened consistently through the year. The Astros

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are really effing good. The Astros
can knock the snot out of a baseball.

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The Astros have a pretty decent bullpen. You know, we can do

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the same things though, you know, we have some a couple of really

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good starting pitchers, and our guys
can hit as well. Now, the

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fact that Astros are defending champs,
I mean that adds confidence. Yeah,

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I mean there's something real about that, about having been there and kind of

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knowing how to comport yourself as seven
straight alcs. This is the last on

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the broadcast that was out two Bay's
one hundredth playoff game. Yeah, one

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hundred. He's on the whole season. But but and they have Dusty Baker

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to keep them calm and all this
stuff. But we have Bruce Bochie and

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it's working. The series is even, it's probably where it should be even.

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And we're playing at home today with
our one a best picture. We

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need Country Shippy to throw some gravy
today. And look, I think this

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is kind of a loser's thing to
say, but I'm gonna say it anyway.

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But you're not even supposed to be
here, Hey man, don't say

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that not supposed to be We're supposed
to be there and not in March.

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You weren't. We had no,
We're supposed to be here in March.

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In March, oh in March,
Yes, in March. Okay, yeah,

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so you started the year with this
thing. You were not looking at

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this year to be knocking on the
door of the world effing series. Right.

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And the other thing I would remind
people is a very norm thing.

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But to enjoy this absolutely, you're
on the biggest stage at home. That's

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another thing losers say too, you're
in the ALCS. No, I would

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tell fans to enjoy this. Don't
just be stressed all day. Oh,

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we're screwed. We're screwed, we're
screwed. Playoff baseball. You need to

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have blood pressure up. You need
to be unhealthy. There's something about that

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I disagree with you there. You
need to be stressed out, you need

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to be pulling hair out, you
need to be thinking about your credit score.

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I think I think the emotional ride
is a huge part of playoff Baseball.

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I'm different than I was twelve years
ago. I'm a little more flatlined

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these days watching this, just because
I kind of want to expect the worst

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and if the good thing happens,
it's like, hell, yeah, way

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to go, little Rangers. Y'all
did it? Finally, congratulations. But

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if they don't, it's like,
all right, we're good. You.

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Also, because A Bally did not
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it's take on to get to know
them. But like, think back

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to the years of twenty ten and
twenty eleven and then there were a lot

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of up and ups and downs in
those years too. We don't remember them,

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but there were. I didn't.
I snapped out of it and there

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because there's a rally Mantis in Baltimore, Well I didn't. I didn't.

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I didn't invest days and hours with
this team like I have in the past,

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just because I don't. I don't
want to freaking go through the the

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Waltz to set up my illegal streaming
components to watch them on a day to

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day basis. I'll do it for
the MAVs, but not for this.

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It's just too much. So yeah, no, I don't have the I

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don't have the time investment into this
team in twenty twenty three that I have

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in the past I have. You're
right, Oh, go ahead, what

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about the vibe? If they had
dropped the first two games in Houston,

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and then they won the last two
games here. Oh dude, right,

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oh my god, you know what
I mean. It's just it's all kind

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of what we just saw, and
we freak out about what we just saw.

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It's almost in a way better that
they won two in Houston and dropped

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the first two. Being a two
three two series, they kind of you

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can convince yourself, there's no way
they're going to lose three in a row

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at home. They've got to take
one of these and then it's a coin

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toss. Astras are our daddy,
as this ballpark, they are our dad

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dad. Maybe it's that until Jordan
Montgomery changes all throwing gravy starts squirting gravy.

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Yes, you see country basket before
he goes out. It's this pregame

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meal cream gravy Montgomery, by the
way, the gravy and the country basket.

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At least back in the eighties,
powdered is that right? Yep,

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just mixed with water over a stove. You can go for some creams.

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It's fine. Yeah, it's great. I love salted. Since we got

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everyone to wear two different color shoes
for sures ers start the other day,

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and that worked so well. Should
we all make sure we have cream gravy

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in our lunch today. I'll find
a way. Yeah, Actually thinking,

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I'm thinking about going up early and
going to the actual Hurtado and just launching,

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not the one in the stadium,
the actual one. I didn't get

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any of the crazy food. All
I got was one jumbo dog. You

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didn't have a torta. I didn't
even find torta egg torta. I don't

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even know where that stuff is.
I'm sure it's not that hard to find.

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I don't seek out the torta in
real life, so right, I

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don't want a twenty six dollars torta. I have three blue I have three

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who oh, go ahead. I
need to just finish on Montgomery because assuming

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he's pitching, well, did will
they effing leave him out there and get

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him to one hundred pitches like his
last three starts in what eighty nine ninety

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ninety one pitches like within this very
tight window? But that time you knew

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you were gonna need him again this
series. I mean, assuming he kicks

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ass tonight, he's gonna have plenty
of rest time like one oh five,

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one ten, like don't do the
bullpen thing, today if Montgomery is dealing

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and he depends on the score though, right, yeah, I mean the

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gunnyes is sports, Chapman and Clerk
should be able to go, like they

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will be able to go. Yeah. You just don't want to have to

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burn any of those other dudes,
right, But if you have the opportunity,

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I think stretch out Montgomery a little
bit further. Maybe it's a dozen

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pitches, but for real, he's
been exactly ninety eighty eight, ninety three,

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ninety four in his last like they
have that window. Fine one hundred

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and five, but you know,
yeah for reel one hundred and five,

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seriously, like he can do it. I have some questions about some things

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you might have seen or not seen
at the game last night. Now you

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went with ten bros. Did you
brows? Were you at your seat by

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you know games started seven? Were
at your seat at six forty five,

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six fifty? Yeah? I saw
national hands starting lineups, good presentation there,

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all that stuff. It's fine,
how they go. Okay, we

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had Mike Young thrown out the first
pitch to Colby Lewis. Yes, Mike

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Young with the silk salt and pepper
beard. Yeah, Now was it a

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laser or did he bounce it in? He did it smooth. He just

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casually went up and looked real cool, like he always does. It looked

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like a strike from my perspective.
But judging balls and strikes from deep right

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right field is not easy because there's
a lot of pitches where you're like,

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oh, but I have no clue
inside outside. You know, dude,

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if I'm an ex ballplayer and i
get to throw out the first pitch and

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I'm not eighty one, I am
spiking a curveball and making that catcher do

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some damn wark. Yeah, I
think knuckleball is the answer. McK him,

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earn it, throw your dirty knuckler. Rest in peace, Tim Wakefield.

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Okay, so I have three things
I won't know if you saw or

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if this happened at the stadium fire. Did you see Dirk? Did they

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put him on the jumboach They put
him on the jumbo tron? Everyone freaked.

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He was sitting next to Michael Finley
and a local comedian, Brian DeMars.

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Okay, and of course we're like, son of a Bedamars? Does

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he do it? How? But
has he done it for all these years?

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Yes, they showed Dirk and the
crowd went banana Luca absolutely. One

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halfening later they showed Luca and the
crowd went banana as well. And then

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you saw a hand on his shoulder
shaking him and I think he was sitting.

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Yeah, he was one seat in
front of Dirk. But they wisely

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split up the celebration and gave one
one video hit to Dirk infintly and Bran

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and then the next inning they gave
a solo hit to Luca. Who were

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they louder for Dirk? Okay,
last one? Did you see banana man?

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Only? I think this morning on
social media? Did I see banana

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man? Who? I definitely look
closely to see if it was you?

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What there is a banana man?
Did you not see Bananama? Did not?

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Like I said, after became seven
to three, I was probably looking

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at my phone more than my TV. Yeah, yeah, I didn't notice

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until someone texted me though. It
should have been very notice because in the

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sweet level behind home plate, not
directly behind, but still in the shot

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before it is a guy in a
banana costume before every pitch. I mean

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you could see him regularly oh yeah, wow, have banana costume, and

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occasionally the banana would not be there, and then you would notice that someone

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else is in the banana costume.
Some type of elaborate bit was happening in

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a banana costume behind home plate last
night. As dumb as banana suit is,

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it's equally genius. My favorite comedy
bit stupid that I'm now like,

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it's hilarious, My number one favorite
comedy bit of all time. And I

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think it was like a two thousand
and seven Flower Mountain High school games.

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Two kids ran on the field and
it was a banana chasing the gorilla.

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Yeah, I think I remember.
And it's amazing because banana leap frogs the

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fence and the gorilla has a little
trouble getting over the fence as the cops

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are chasing it during a game.
It is spectacular. And this day I

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seek out people who are showing a
banana costume or a gorilla costume for Halloween,

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and I just like want to ask
if I can borrow it or if

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they'll to take part in the bit
with me to recreate because it's just amazing.

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Imagine a banana running down a hallway
here in the office, chasing the

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gorilla. Banana needs to eat the
gorilla. Can we change can we change

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the cliche man's bite man bites dog
to banana chasing your gorilla. Well,

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we got a real banana chasing the
gorilla situation here, ron, But in

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a sea of red and blue and
orange and white, the banana's hoot just

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pops. That was outstanding. When
you've got a suit of some sort of

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some sort of fruit and or vegetable
at home and you're going to the game

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today, mister egg a planteau,
please plant egg plant, egg plant,

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egg We need an egg plant three
four? What about the pickle? See,

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the eggplant won't pop that much.
Pickle will pop, right, The

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pickle would pop way more than the
eggplant today. Yeah, if you want

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to just go dress as a pickle, I don't want to know. But

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that's great. That's great for us. It's something I want to do.

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Is how do we know that it's
We can't quantify it for me. Okay,

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so I can quantify that you don't
have a banana suit. Why not

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do you just have pickle and egg? Play plan? You got one more

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right, I got a few other
side might like a rabbits the grouse.

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What do you where you store this
crowd? Where do you keep it at

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your house now, I got a
key to Costume Worlds that back back closet.

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Okay, that's enough of that,
Rangers. Thank you, Rangers,

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said Sport seven. Brought to you
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scuttle Butt and which I have once
again another update on the Oklahoma City Missing

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Pie. I thought it's getting bigger, it's getting longer and girthier. Where

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is it next to? Ninety seven
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