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been created. We think no one believes your claims anymore. Kevin Well.
I I violated the twenty one to thirty four second recommendation that we got yesterday.
Yeah, I went, this one's four seconds. Okay, you're all
over the place yesterday, and it wasn't. It was ambitious, but it
was it wasn't what we're looking for. This is you agree that's what we
should do. I know it didn't adhere most of what I was saying.
Well, then you went and played golf at a luxurious golf course. I
what were you doing out there? Danny? I got the invite yesterday to
Dallas National, which is the crown jewel. It's the gold standard, man.
Yeah, around these are your parts. From what I understand, it
is every couple of years I will somehow weasel my way into an invite to
Dallas National. I'm nervous whenever I even go on property. But it is
heaven. It's down what south of Harding, It's kind of where I live.
It's west of nont Oak Cliff. I don't know what. I would
never be invited, So I don't know. No one likes me, No
people like you love But presidents play there. Presidents play there. You're you
could run into George W. Bush. It's right south of thirty right east
of Loop twelve thirty east. Okay, right, yep, Like right there?
What is that? What would you call that? I mean, I
guess that's west of South No West oak Cliff, Yeah, sure, West
Ollcliff. And it's just this jewel and that's got to be the hilliest part
of the metroplex. Yep, no doubt. And it is flawless. And
they're actually closing the course I think for like a year on Sunday because they're
redoing, not redoing too much. They're not like changing the layout because it's
perfect in every way. But I think they're putting some tubing onto the greens
or whatever trick they use to keep it cool, keep the hot side hot
and the cold side cold. The MGDLT of golf courses golf. But like
the last time I was out there, I was with a group and we're
sitting there eating everything you do. It's one of those places where you feel
like someone's about to kick me out of here. And Jordan Speedth was just
eating at the bar and then he got up and walked by our table and
he said, it's guys, And I thought it was cool because he knows
that we're all like but at that built it Well, No, we weren't
doing that. We were talking, you know, it as normal. But
I think he knows that there's a group of dudes who look like us.
Definitely know he's there. We were the only people in the whole bar restaurant
thing, you know. And I think it was nice of him to be
like, hey, guys, because there's like you don't talk. They're regular
memor there, Like it's rural hymn Scheffler will z ala taurus. I mean,
that's Bryce in d Chambeau, my very good friend. They that's where
they kind of practice and play, you know. I mean, that's there,
they're they're working. That's there, you know. And it's it is
that unwritten rule where you just you're not gonna no zero gawk and you're not
gonna ask him to sign your pinnacle. That's how I was when Klayton Kershaw
went to my birthday party. I wasn't gonna like ruin his nights again.
It's the flimsiest celebrity appearance at a birthday party I've ever heard. He said,
hey, guys, and did you guys go, oh, it's that
guy from Netflix Full Swing? No, we didn't say anything, was it
ay? And it was cool? Did you say hi Jordan? Again?
This was last time. I was just like a year ago, but I
had friends out of town and I'm like, guys, this is cool.
Scotty Scheffler place here, Jordan Sweeth place here, and I's like, oh,
okay, cool. And then he said at the bar, if you're
a golf ner, that's amazing, right, It's great. So that was
the last time I was there. And then yesterday I go to Dallas National
played with my my good friends the McMillan's amazing people and we had a quick
meal and then stand up and it's not quite Jordan speed, but for Kevin,
he'll understand Tom Kim, the Great, Tom Kim, the Funny Tom
Kim, the Great and the Funny Tom Kim, who's a very young PGA
tour player. He is of Korean descent, but he does live in Dallas.
Top fifty in the world for sure, definitely top twenty. Yeah,
and a President's Cup hero for the international squad last time he was. He's
awesome. He in the new Full Swing. I know you will watch it.
Well, he has a full episode ill two of them. Okay,
he twenty two maybe, yeah he is. He's super young. Is he
from here? No? He he's from now, South Korea. Yeah,
well, I mean, like does he live here? Otherwise why would he
be at Dallas. He's twenty one years old. He's from Soul, South
Korea, and I don't where do you go to school? I mean he's
not that it matters, but he speaks perfect English, like he's he's twenty
one one. Yeah he's he's already won three times on Tour two like he's
he's an up and comer. Yeah, he's one of the next ones that
you look at like, Okay, this dude could be the guy better than
more Cowba already. Sure, but he's just right there and then we're out
there kind of Tom Kim. Yeah, you could add him to your next
golf song. He goes by Thomas the tank Engine. No, but that
is okay. Does he look like a tank No, he kind of doesn't
tank really, he's stocky. Yeah, he's got a little beef to him,
but no, he is. His real name is uh is quite Korean?
Yeah, it's it's Kim ju hung. Right. His name is Tom
because of Thomas the tank Engine and in his Dallas home he has like a
giant Thomas the tank Engine. That's bad. Yeah, so that was coincidental
your joke, But that's no, that's his nature joke. I knew that
was his name. You know, it's from Thomas the Tank Engine. No,
no, okay, that is why he's named Tom Kim I because he
was kind of a stout fella. No. So we were out by the
putting Green about to tee off, and then Tom Kim rolls behind a cart
and behind him is another cart with like three camera man and these really futuristic
cameras and I'm like, they're shooting next season A full swing. That's it.
That's incredible. And was he so good in season two that you would
want him back for season three? I think so, Like I think they're
gonna run out of gas on Joel Damon. Yeah, maybe, but he
kind of got his own episode all about this young guy. And you know
how you're adjusting to this life and whatever. It was a very prominent almost
the whole episode was all Tompkin. But yeah, so I'm like, that's
got to be Netflix. Not like they had stickers on the cameras that said
Netflix. But who else is doing it? That's amazing? Yeah, dide,
you need to get invited more often, and let's know who else you
run into out there. I can't get invited more often. There's one they're
closing Sunday for a year. Yeah, it's pretty full. You got to
sneak in before where they shut down operations. Yeah, well I was invited.
You ain't sneaking in with you see the gate out front of this place,
Sniper's. I violated a rule that I didn't realize I violated within one
minute of being on property. You know what one of the rules is take
your shoes off, well kind of you don't change your into your golf shoes
in the parking lot. Yeah, I can't do that. Yeah, I've
never known that. I always do that because I just want to get rid
of my pair of shoes that I have. Where do you do it?
In the lockers? We're supposed to go to the gentleman's locker round them.
But they don't want some shlub and just hopping on one foot and pulling his
sneaker off and trying to put his golf. It's not a good look,
right, you know what. Honestly, I'm very like any in anything I
do. I try to be very respectful and adhere to whatever the rules are.
I've never even I've never heard that one, but the second I heard
it, I'm like, yeah, that kind of does make sense. Yeah
it does. Otherwise you look like a goof. I also feel makes your
parking lot look like a goof parking lot right with a bunch of one legged
middle aged man just popping around like like Ostrich is a bunch of flamingos,
I feel like more like a goof. If I'm in the locker room at
all with Tom Kim, Jordan Spieth and President George W. Bush, Yeah,
does that? Don't deserve to be in there with them. I didn't
even go in the locker room. I don't belong in there. Where'd you
put your shoes on? I did it at the car, like I said,
I violated that rule. Now did someone call you out? No?
No, I do it? I did it fast. But then we were
inside talking and we were discussing some of the rules of the club and not
he didn't bring it up because I did it, Like you're not supposed to
wear your hat in the clubhouse, and I don't. I always take my
hat off because I've heard that rule before, you know, And it's actually
not even adhere too too closely there. But but yeah, I didn't know
about the shoe things, so I violated that. It was beautiful. I
don't know. I love it. It's a treat. And anyone who golfs
and hears this like, of course, dude, it's golf heaven man fast.
Yeah, you dream of two putting any of them. It struggled so
bad. I played really well and I shot a ninety. Ouch and your
body hurts. I'm dying, Are you really? Golfers are absolutely athletes.
They are. I couldn't play golf today if they invited me back to Dallas.
What what part of your body is the most sore? Lower upper,
lower back? I'm just hunched over walking around here all day. I'm sorry,
little buddy. You have strong hands, don't you? No weak week
Every part of me is weak? Is your neck sore. I don't need
you to rub me off. A little rub you down the paint? No
on my back, rub rubbed? Do you want to rub down? Not
a rub off. I don't have the paint off of me. Why do
you make everything bizarre? Talk wrong? How's your neck? Everything hurts?
I don't know. I'm just thankful that I got invited out and it was
cool to see Tom Kim. That's the point a local athlete. I had
an interaction with the yesterday. That's why it matters, and that's why we're
talking about it. And it's not time for the most important thing in the
world. His nick, his back, his BOOCHI oh his crack all hurt.
Tom Kim my very good friend. Oh he's not your good friend.
You know what, He's not my good friend. He's not even my friend
because I didn't have a personal interaction with him like I did my very good
friend Briesmonde Schambaud a Shambau. He played frisbee for one toss with Bryson,
and all of a sudden, I played best friends because somebody caught a grainy
bigfoot video of him. I played fifteen minutes of shirt off football on the
fourth of July, just the two of us in a yard. That's what
friends do, and that is what best friends do too. Okay, yeah,
thank you, Kevin. Absolutely, man, would you play fifteen minutes
or shirt off football with someone who you wouldn't consider a friend? Yes,
I wouldn't play fifteen minutes a shirt off football with anybody. See I just
throw throwing it around though. Yes. Like the other day, I was
like, so there, I saw some kids shoot some hoops at a church
that's kind of near my house. The other day they're outside. I was
like, man, I think I'm gonna go there when no one's in the
parking lot and just go shoot some hoops. I thought about buying a basketball,
didn't do it. Come over to my house. I've got a basketball.
We'll go down to Saint Francis Park, will shoot some hoops. One
of the goals is ten and a half feet high. But I don't know
who they met who measured that. Bill tired, it's harder to get out
of I'll go play a horse with you guys. Let's go. I mean,
that sounds fun, but I would Right now in the springtime, I
want to have a catch with a glove and a ball I'm ready for that
too. I don't have a glove anymore. What how can you not have
a glove so I don't have friends? You know what, I've got a
right handed glove that you can use, or for a right handed thrower's glove
you can use. Come over, we'll have a catch. You can hit
Malcolm's plastic ball off of his tea and then say incredible and flip your bat
and I get some cuts in incredible. All right. Most important thing in
the world today, clearly it is the return of the defending World Series champion
Texas Rangers. Because tonight is opening night, It's Opening Day, but also
it's a six thirty five star national TV ESPN. Yeah, get the little
treatment tonight. We told you to stay a few things, national anthem,
Wade Bowen, the big banner that's gonna be unveiled. But also you will
have the I think they're doing rings on Saturday. I think they're doing the
rings. Yeah, I think. Have we seen the rings yet? I
haven't. I gonna tell you, I don't care too much. I just
hope they don't like to look at them. Not really, okay, but
maybe I'm a jerk. I don't know. The point is, you know,
to see your team and with encrusted in diamonds and what they do.
Yeah, I guess yeah. They generally all look the same, the big
and bigger. Okay, this might be it. No, that's just on
it. I'll see. I'll see when it goes to our buddy Jared Sandler
and he gets one, just on a tear down or DJ stats, or
when Emily Jones gets gets Emily. Plus, you can pretend you're looking at
the ring and just stare at her beautiful hands. I don't love that they
have a Okay, okay, I don't like that they have a tear system
for their employees. At least I quit creeping on Emily after her second kid,
you're still at it my hands, guy, I just realized, you
know what, I've accepted the fact that I have zero chance. It's over.
I'm just gonna stop. I gave up the dream. It's probably a
good call by you. You're keeping it alive. If you do anything even
creepy toward Emily, she would just punch you in the face. Out of
line, dude, And yeah, out of line, dude, punch and
extended the line. The long undeniable tension that's existed between Emily and me dates
back twenty years. Yeah in your head, yeah, asker, insignificant,
no get her on as yehension between her and Jeff. But she's been trapped
in that marriage, you know, and she can't get out. He's a
wonderful man, trapped come to Dingo. It's hard to leave with the kids.
I get it, and how to make corn bread. It's complicated.
Well, I wish you to the best. Thanks. I wish the three
of you the best, you Emily and her husband. Okay, so it
was announced that Michael Carter is throwing out the first pitch, to which we
all went, huh. Michael Carter's a big Ranger fan, season ticket holder
for a long time, been a Ranger fans. It's nineteen seventy nine,
so I don't know much more about his story than that, but he's had
a lot of TV time. I felt like, hey, man, and
we could have got him on back. I don't know that. I don't
really think anyone cares. No. I think he's just a symbol. He's
a symbol for the long suffering Ranger of fame. Yeah, and I think
that's a nice thing, aren't we all though. You know, if you've
me, have you lived and died with the team, which I have?
I mean for they didn't die with the team. Uh yeah, yeah,
technically many did. But yeah, Danny, I'm gonna turn that TV off
if you don't. I'm looking at Kevin. Would you focus? Man?
I am looking It's just temperatures. I'm looking at you. The forecast is
important, Kevin oh roof open tonight, No, I think it's good in
the sixth. I think it'll be closed, really, but I wish because
seventy is beautiful, but it's gonna get down to sixty five points. Michael
cars at the first pitch and I'm like, I'm like, e okay,
that's fine, but Opening Night World Series Champion, your biggest slab out there?
Yeah, unless really spread the word that being a Rangers fan is cool.
I liked your point yesterday. I like, Michael Carter can do April
fifteenth, and do it. Will save a date for you in two weeks.
Bro. All right, this homestand should be a list A list B
list on Sunday. You know what? Maybe is ala Taurus Hilly playing playing
on Sunday. Scheffler's plying, but Speith is off, Okay, what do
you do about Dirk Madonna? Whatever? You know, whatever. So I
jokingly said, you know, it'd be funny to see you with the other
teams because Danny brought up the Red Sox from one year, Yeah, because
they won their big World Series, their first of a pretty good string after
that. Yeah, and four, and then in five there they brought out
Bill Russell and Bobby or to throughout the ceremonial first pitch, and I thought,
well, that makes a lot of I mean not only just icons of
the sport of Boston and New England, but I mean true top tier icons
of their perspective sports as being basketball and hockey. If you didn't know they
were doing it and they announced them, you go, oh, you would
gasp the crowd just if you just said Bill Russell, deefen, Bill Russell,
Wow. Yeah. And then Bobby or Yeah, I mean top three
all time, right, So I went back twenty years because it was little
easier go back a little further. Actually, can you make it thirty years?
I want to the Angels one in two. So their three first pitch
was their manager Mike Soosha, throwing it out to his fourteen year old son
Matthew. Heart felt, but also a little you could do better. You're
in LA, you know, I don't know. Two thousand and four of
the Marlins went with Andre Dawson, who had just gotten the job as special
assistant to the general manager manager. Two five the Red Sox sportsman that you
mentioned. Two thousand and six the White Socks, Ryan Devlin. See that
first base coach that goes ass. He's not the first base kiss that got
jumped. Oh that had to be in gambling. There's gotta be something there,
Ryan Devlin. And he was a fan who went down to He had
World Series tickets in five. He sold them so he could get money to
go down to New Orleans and help out with Katrina recovery. And he got
acknowledged for that. They picked up the tab for his season tickets for the
next season, and he threw the first pitch because it was kind of a
heartfelt store. Okay, well that's nice, and that's on par I guess
with what we're doing. April twelfth, Wild been good for you know,
all right? Dousand seven I couldn't find the Cardinals seven eight Red Sox again.
Bill Buckner. Yeah, that's a great one that was that's a demon's
be gone. I like that. That's a that was fun. I maybe
got a round of applause. Now, no one people have been more wrong
than that guy by their fan base. Did Bartman do it for the Cubs?
I'll tell you in a second. I'm Kevin. Kevin's taking a break.
Couldn't find the Phillies nine, twenty ten Yankees Bernie Williams okay, twenty
eleven the Giants picture Matt Kin screw it. Let Matt Kane do it?
Was he retired? I don't think so. Was he he don't look it
up. I think he was still around. But maybe he did retire.
No, he was still with him, but he had heroic So he just
got one of their pictures to throw out the first pitch. Yeah, but
I think it's because he the second pitch, which was the first, was
the first games try. I want to I want to laugh at you,
at me. That's a pretty cool way to economize the bit right. It
was just a warm up. They have no moving parts here at all,
seamless efficient. Something happened in the playoffs that I think allowed him like he
was the maybe the playoff hero. Maybe I don't know, man, but
he did it. Okay, so there we go. Oh yeah, was
he? It does matter? Okay. Twenty twelve, I couldn't find the
Cardinals again. The Cardinals keep everything private apparently. Twenty thirteen the Giants again,
Pablo Sandoval and Marco Scutero. Okay, uh, simultaneous first pitches where
everyone Pablo's Sandoval had braces on and he took a bouncer to the face and
he ripped his mouth, pressed all of his lips into his braces and he
was like, oh, Cols. He was never the same after that Red
Sox. In twenty fourteen, what with Mayor Marty Walsh? Okay, the
mayor of the city. Yeah, the great Marty Walsh. Mikey. Oh
the stories I could tell. Another seen Marty oversaw the big dig he may
have. God, I was dry driven in that city during that construction.
Yeah, that whole area was a nightmare. Nice Now though it's great park,
you've been in it. I've walked in that park, like over it.
I don't yeah, I guess probably drove under it. Twenty fifteen Giants
the daughters of their Hall of Fame. Broadcaster Lawn Simmons, what he passed
away. The daughters go out and throw the first pitch again. May uh,
May sixteen Royals. They did a video bit George Brett kicks it off
as fans threw balls to each other for ten thousand miles for the longest first
pitch ever suport for opening day. That's that's cool. What is that?
Ten thousand? How many miles? Ten thousand miles of videos and they say
no one dropped it? Someone six. Yes, it's all a lie because
they were long toss in. Either they threw across America or just the ten
thousand miles ring around Hoffman. I think across America. Okay, I don't
hate that bad, but it's not like they actually did it. Okay.
Twenty seventeen the Cubs, but the owners of the team, Tom Laura and
Todd Ricketts throughout the first pitch. I think they made that decision. Twenty
eighteen the Astros former first base coach Rich Dower, after surviving a hematoma heartfelt.
You know it did funny if they had to Oscar the Grouch launching a
first pitch from his trash can oh good? Yeah? Twenty nineteen Red Sox
Gronk Julian Edelman and Stefan Gilmore. There you go. Okay, there you
go. But Boston embraces, yeah, the former athlete. They're like the
only one. Most of these are kind of spare. Then it ramps up
though twenty twenty, The Nationals twenty twenty. The season started in July.
President Doctor Anthony Fauci. You gotta be kidding me. Wow, I was
like, oh, nu, sh of the vaccines even out yet. I
think about when it came out twenty one, I can find the Dodgers twenty
twenty one, And I was also tired of doing the exercise by that time.
Twenty two The Braves Chipper Jones love It, twenty three the Astros and
making the stallion all right twenty four of the Rangers Michael Carter saw, I
mean we're following, We're hitting Houston Dunck on this right now. You just
love celebrity. They had celebrated pop Star making the stallion throughout the first pitch.
And we have a guy, we have a fan, we have a
fan. We're all fan. His whole life to supporting this team and finally
got what he wanted. What did you want? Eric Badu throw out the
first Eric he pulls out the ball from her hat of fruit. God,
I've been great. Yes, actually yes I did. This is what we
need. I didn't follow what Nadell doing it. Yeah, but whatever,
this is fine. This is a nice bitch. Chuck Morgan's another one who
you know, other Chuck Morgan did the leaf for a year. I really
don't care. You do care, but find it a lot of time talking
about it. But as much as I criticized them for not spice get up,
once we saw their promotional items for the season yesterday, I went,
man, I should take it back what I said yesterday about this organization.
So at eight o'clock we will have on the assistant to the Assistant VP of
marketing. His name is Marshall Mescato, and he will tell us about some
of the big games dates if you're gonna go lock in your tickets, nights
that you should go, or days you should go out to the ballpark and
support the Rangers. He's going to give us that insight at eight o'clock.
We'll also give you a chance to win tickets to see Crete at eight as
well. But coming up next the baseball things is going to kind of continue
a little bit here because Vegas is even hyped up on the Rangers rookies.
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