The Downbeat on ninety seven to one the Freak. I got my priority straight
this morning. We doing this show, the World Series tonight in Arlington and
we'll be covering that for a good portion of the show lot of some other
stuff throughout the thing as well. Dingha's Morning News eight thirty. I'll give
you the latest on the shooting in Maine that was still it's really it's turned
into a manhunt now and I had the latest on that at eight thirty for
you, amongst other things throughout the show. But let's do the most important
thing in the world. Let's get our priorities straight. Now. Wake up
your little sleepyhead. It's time to get your stupid ass out of bed.
To you about the most importing, the most important thing in and with that,
the Dallas Observer Radio host of the Year one Mike Siroy thank you.
Oh come man, but I'm giving it now. You want to uh sure,
I'm gonna go ahead and say World Series. Isn't that? It nailed
it? Okay? Good? Coming up? NeXT's break down those World Series.
Yeah. I mean we always kick around some you know stuff for this,
and you know, sometimes it has to be something of significance. Sometimes
it's a joke, but this time it's a I mean, it's right in
the middle, I guess. I mean, this is not the most important
thing on earth. But my god, we the people of the Metroplex are
hosting the World Series tonight with our team playing. Because it is still kind
of weird that we hosted the World Series a couple of years ago. But
yeah, I don't know, it's the most important thing in our subjective world.
Yeah, exactly, for sure, Mike. We were at the same
game in twenty twenty. There's Dodgers and whoever they were playing. We were
at the World Series. My buddy John John's like, hey, I got
an extra ticket, and they were kind of like, if you're a Ranger
season ticket holder at the time, you were getting hooked up. And my
buddy John John got hooked up that way and he was like yeah. I
was like absolutely, World Series game, that'll be great. And Corey Seeker
just demolished the baseball and remember that. I remember, No, it was
Dodgers and it was it was it Astros. I don't think it was Astros
that maybe it was maybe it was. I remember it being the most timid
World Series crowd I could have ever imagined how many people did they let ind
do you remember that was the Rays? Oh Dodgers raised no wonder because I
went to the u NLCS there too, which was I think Dodgers. Yeah,
it was weird. Yeah, my buddy Dave David Becka had our season
ticket holders and was it limited attendance? Oh? Completely? Yeah, yeah,
it was spaced out. What were they calling it? What were they
socially distant social distance? Yeah, I mean there was like ten people per
section, oh wow, something like that or maybe four it was, I
don't know, but there was no one within a couple of rows of us
in any direction. Kind how weird. So your group got to sit together,
right, but you weren't allowed to be within a few aisles of other
people. There was probably no one else in our row maybe and then yeah,
they had it just smartly spaced out. It was very bizarre. But
yeah, I went to both that and the World Series and it didn't feel
I don't feel like I've been I mean I went to the World Series in
twenty ten. That felt like going to the World Series. Yeah, twenty
ten and twenty eleven that did what we did in twenty twenty For that was
not. It just didn't feel right at all. No, even watching like
the Dodgers celebrate, it was like, yeah, they don't feel like they're
having a lot of fun. All of the championships around that time so bizarre
because you had the Stars were in the freaking Stanley Cup finals that year in
front of like the darkened arena with nothing crazy. NBA was in the bubbles
maybe I think it was Lebron's Lakers, that's right, one in the bubble
crazy. Maybe one day we'll understand how is history that happened those two years?
How was history going to look back on those two years and make any
sense out of it at all. I think we're very good at adapting to
whatever. I don't know if we are collectively good at adapting whatever life throws
it is, but some of us are, you know, are you kind
of try it make the best of it. And that's just how it was.
So I think that's how we look at it, you know, It's
just what we had to deal with. But god, that's weird. I
mean, just having a neutral site Championship Series and then World Series, and
why did we get it? Just because it was new and centrally located located
ye brand new right in the middle, very easy in Tampa against each other.
That makes pretty good sense. Actually saw those Rays fans could get on
the plane and travel over when flying was very easy to do it at that
time as well. I wonder how de looted it feels to those players who
want it not at all as far as like their legacy whatever, It doesn't
matter you're a World Series champ. It depends, But I bet it just
didn't feel the same. Man, It depends how material the person is.
Like I'm sure to Corey Seeger it was a win, a win with his
with his dudes, and I'm sure to someone else who might not, who
might have less of a baseball robot robot mind and might be more into it.
Their talent took them there, but they're into it because look at all
the fame and the fun and probably probably did feel lackluster to them. You
know what I feel like I don't see much of is when playoff time World
Series comes around, when you go back to the history of the of the
game or the event, I don't recall seeing any highlights highlight packages from any
of those championships. Because baseball has This is why everyone. There's a lot
of people. There's been tons of articles written about Rangers and Diamondbacks one of
the most boring World Series ever. Blah blah blah, terrible matchup because here's
what us and the media do in baseball. If it ain't your team ain't
paying a lot of attention to it, You're just not And that's a baseball
problem. Yes, I agree. Basketball does not have that problem as much
as maybe it used to. It doesn't have that problem as much anymore.
Football does not have that problem at all. Now people know I will watch
every minute of every playoff game in football. Yes, you're right, Basketball,
I will follow the series. I will probably watch much much of it.
It's still a bit of a problem, but it's not even close to
where baseball and no, it's notice baseball. I will be done. I
don't think I watched any World Series last year, or I don't think I
did either. I just don't really care. And also I don't care anything
about ratings or whatever. Blah blah whah. We were immersed in Game seven
of Rangers Astros last week, and we were there thanks to prosper Ford hooking
us up with a ride. The fact that we were all immersed in that
and thinking about that in the whole state of Texas was and then you branch
out when we were talking about what happened in Vikings forty nine ers last night.
No idea that game tripled the ratings of ALCS Game seven, and that
was an ALCS Game seven or I think the whole series was actually the highest
rated league Championship series in ten years or something like that. I saw that
it was really Game one or something like that. Yeah, maybe it was
Game one. Yeah, but I remember that a lot of folks were watching
it, you know, relatively speaking. But yeah, NFL's king man,
it's always gonna trump everything. Baseball fixes that because yeah, I don't if
it was, if Rangers weren't involved, whatever, it would not be the
most important thing in the world. Was the World Series just happening tonight.
We would if we were watching anything tonight, we'd watch the MAVs over Oh
my god, one hundred percent. That would be the most important thing in
the worlds MAVs opening night at home, yeah home. I mean, if
it was Baltimore and uh, whoever, that's a baseball thing and they have
to figure that out. Now. The pitch clock helps. I think the
game's been slower in the playoffs, and they were in the regular season.
With the regular season, those games were easy to watch. Yeah, but
those playoff games, the one that we were at, and that a lot
of runs scored in that game. The old rules, we wouldn't have gotten
home till after midnight. Oh, no doubt. That game would have been
a four plus hour game. Yeah, it was a slow game within the
new rules, But in the playoffs it's okay too. I don't mind a
playoff game taking its time a little bit. You just can't have it all
night, every night, all summer. Yeah, like that's where the value
is. Like, fine, take your time in the damn World Series.
I remember watching a World Series game a few years ago, as random game
has been twenty twenty one maybe, and I remember sitting here going, it's
been two hours and we were in the fourth inning. This thing's never gonna
end, and I was bitching about it on Twitter. I remember Jamie Newberg
was like kind of asking me some questions, like why do you not like
baseball anymore? Like because I think I fell out of love with it,
and maybe because our team stopped doing business for six years but his big part
of it. I think your team's good, you kind of watch whatever.
But the attention, our attention spans, we always talk about the younger generation's
attention spans. Our attention spans are worse. Two Yeah, you know,
uh, millennials and gen xers, you know, it has It's not near
as bad as you know. The gen zers are coming up with that and
living with their phone from you know. The age a you know, but
it's still hours is deteriorated too. I think we kind of forget that.
But I'm excited. It's a societal thing. It's not. It becomes a
societal thing and less of an age thing. You know, it just ends
up permeating all all demographics. It's true. Yeah, it's a true.
It's a true. Are you all going? You made any plans to try
to go to any of these games? I saw a couple posts on how
much tickets are, right, so I looked last night and was not in
my budget. That's just me now, who knows. Maybe an hour before
the game doo dooo. Seats are starting in around six hundred bucks. I
have standing rumors for three point fifty. If you want to get triple deck
or six oh eight. Yep there What are standing room? Is that left
left field? Kind of like that thing they had at the minute made Where
was that standing room though? It was out there in left field over that
little Crawford corner or whatever. There's something right field too, where all those
people were gathered. Bar was, Yeah, where the bar was the worst
A left field is where it's at here. It's kind of out by the
you know where they do like the Bally Sports. Yeah, pregame show.
It's out by That's where a lot of it is. And you just got
to kind of elbow up and try to find a little nook and cranny.
Yup, that's how much. Three fifty three fifty is the cheapest I'm seeing
on guys. And that's on seat geek more secondary marketing too. I went
to so it was two, three, two, and twenty eleven. I
went to two of the three home games in eleven and one of them was
a gift from somebody that can afford them that was unable to go, and
the other one I paid for. And I paid for a pair because my
girlfriend at the time and I went. She's a huge Rangers fan. And
I think I paid seven hundred for the two and they were in lower level
third between third base and left field, like really good seats, and they've
those seats now are fifteen hundred bucks, twelve hundred bucks. I've seen some
behind home plate going for as much as seven grand. Yeah, but that's
loco. Ticketmaster has yeah, under three hundred for those standing rooms. I
mean you're looking at nine hundred bucks for like good, good seats on the
first baseline right near first base in the one hundred section, which is the
second section at our ballpark, I mean the ballpark in three hundred. We
set of Game five the Alcs, and those tickets were about one hundred and
fifty dollars. But I was about where we sat for Game seven in Houston
the Alcs. Those seats were cool, man, I had no problem with
where we sat in Houston. That's about six hundred buck. Gee, so
four times what it was the A against the Ash. Jesus ramped up.
Jesus, I've been saying that, Jesus. Yeah. So no, that's
at least for Game one. You know, we'll see too. I mean,
look at it that about five pm today, take a look at the
tickets and see, yeah, they'll come down and if you're solo or just
two dudes or people are on the move, easy you go down there,
have some drinks. Wait, yeah, get that standing room for probably a
buck fifty, like wait out an inning or two. Yeah. Yeah.
I felt like when we were when Katie was looking at the tickets for Game
seven, that the prices didn't go down, the tickets just became more scarce.
I don't think we had the fortitude required. We were distracted. Well.
Also, even with our strategy, we still showed up ten minutes before
first pitch to our seats, but we still bought the tickets over an hour
before first pitch. If you had the courage to wait until like minutes or
yeah, national anthem. I think that's why I didn't either, especially because
we travel all the way down there. I did that point feel like,
let's just get some damn tickets. And I had to put my Mario gloves
on, so it was becoming increasingly harder to use my phone. So I
was like, before I put these gloves on, you better buy these tickets.
Click, because if you had had your Mario gloves on, then me
the cow would have had to use my utters. Yeah, to manage the
stub hub ass squirt milk to the buttons. He will never try to work
a wet phone. Impossible. Yeah, Neil, Well, people listening are
going and they're all fired up right now, you know, go work for
a couple hours and then destination Arlington, Texas for the I have some stuff
at seven point thirty on the economic impact and something that Arlington was maybe not
yet prepared for. But that's coming up at seven thirty, Mike, I'm
going to be here for that. What are you seeing in terms of food
about that? Now? Yeah? I want that. Now. We do
have a couple brand new It's like every series they add another another dish.
We have a pair of new food items. You did the first pitch and
everything. So her is doing the national anthem. Yes, George w thrown
out the first pitch to pud Rodriguez. First thirty thousand fans get a rally
towel? Is that an MLB thing? Because the Astros are doing it too,
and what the towel or everyone's doing a rally towel in the playoffs?
Yeah, but I mean that's if it does say World Series on it and
the year, that's sure. That's kind of cool. Stay got one they
gave they get him out of the Astros and it didn't. It just said
go go Astros or whatever. I just had the ragers tea on it.
Yeah, okay, so that's that's crud. But if it says World Series
and there's a picture of the trophy on it, that's worth it. I
just not on the jumbo trump. At the Astros game, they kept going
to this graphic that's at rally towel, and then I would look at the
crowd. It was weird rally towel. The people who actually listen to the
big screen at games is still bizarre. Make some noise. Yeah. The
fact that the production crews at MLB stadiums underestimate their knowledge or smartness of their
fans to have to let them know that it's time to sling a rag around
your head. The giant graphic is pretty insane. We're down ten to three,
rally towel. This will fix it. We've never been great about that
here. I know now. I agree. Watch of Boston or Chicago Cubs
or New York Yankees game. They know when we need to see the decibel
meter and we need to see what makes some noise with Rangers champ the horse
going, get up, get up. We do need prompting. We need
it, We need it. At the ballpark tonight, for first time ever,
you can enjoy the three strike lobster roll. Okay, okay, finally
getting some lobster incorporated in my ballpark experience in Texas. In Texas, I
wonder if they could make a bisk out of it. Jesus, this is
it. I love me some Gulf Coast lobster, Jesus. A two foot
long damn twenty four inches right, that's like this? Yeah, yeah,
thereabouts two foot long, soft, freshly baked bun generously filled with lobster and
a light sauce, and crowned with tender loin medallions. Serpent turf, I
got you steak on top, steak on a lobster roll. Is that what
that means? Yes? Twenty four inches Jesus, that is wild tenderloin medallions.
Yeah, that sounds kind of groady. A little mini surloin burgers a
companying this culinary masterpiece and a package of deal are the Boomstick Burger and Boomstick
hot Dog, creating an impressive six foot feast. All right, six feet
of fun designed to feed a small group. A limited number of only ten
per game, are available for two hundred and fifty dollars at stand twenty four.
Okay the top of section one thirty three. What okay, so they're
doing they're only making ten of them. Well to buy the combo? Yeah,
for two hundred and fifty dollars, you get a six foot feast.
Does that work out? How many people are going to the game in groups
of ten? Okay, so that's twenty twenty six inch subs? Yeah?
Right, so twenty into two fifty. No, it's their loss. Me,
it's twelve times six what seventy two? There's six feet? Yeah,
six feet, six feet totally my bad. No, only a limit number
of ten per game. Ya, that's where I heard the ten. So
it's six feet long if you're going to do six inch subs, Yeah,
that's twelve sandwiches out of this whatever the hell it is. And it's two
hundred fifty dollars or twelve into two fifty. I'm trying to figure out how
much. Oh my god, drop my headphones. How do you look?
How many people who gets? What? Yeah? Yeah, it's like twenty
other twenty bucks of sandwich. I think you're getting about a foot per person
and about six people it feeds, it says a small group. Yeah,
twenty times twelve's two forties. But if I get there and that's all sitting
there, I'm going for the damn boomstick and then we all go for the
boomstick burger and we're all staring at the three strike lobster roll, Like,
is that meat on top of the lobster roll? I'm not even hungry anymore.
No, I'm good. You go ahead, go ahead. Will they
sell rag, Yeah, they'll sell all ten. Also new to Globe Life
Feels Culinary lineup, The him Hammer, Yeah, named after Jonaheim, featuring
a substantial beef shank that is hand carved to create delectable street tacos. All
right, the Hime The Hime Hammer is available for ninety nine dollars. Yeah.
At Hurtados, what is this, They're gonna give you tortillas cilantro,
and it's gonna turn into everyone just kind of making their own tacos based off
the shank. That's how I would see. They're giving you the substantial beef
shank. Yeah, this is gonna end up with someone just throwing a substantial
cut of beef onto the playing field. They should have called it the Hurtado
Hammer. I know they want to name it after him, but given that
there's already a heim barb Q in this town. Yeah, it's confusing that
her Tato has the like U. And by the way, her Tato and
him both awesome, both great. I went to before game five, I
went over to Hurtado, the actual, not the ballpark one. I went
to the actually really good. I'm looking at the picture of this stuff,
my Robster roll Jesus. It's got a red bolt red bun because let's put
some food dye into everything. Sure it looks Does it have a Does it
have a carving of Vladimir gross face on it? Yeah? A little singed
into the side. Everyone talks crap about Nelson Cruz, but then they eat
a boomstick hot dog. Still you ever eat a boomstick hot dog. It's
intimidating to see someone even walk with it. I'm always scared they're gonna spill
it on someone. Yeah, it's like a high wire act. The guy
the wallenda hole in the giant pole as he crosses Niagara. That should be
a payoff the loser has to get a boomstick on Doug. I always wanted
one, but you need something. You need someone else to get down on
it with you, though, and tell you what. I'm not into his
ballpark cheese product the worst dude you like Rico's cheese. No, I don't
want these bags of fluorescent cheese. I can't handle it. I can handle
it if it's piping hot, but the minute it begins coagulation in any form,
I am so out. Does get cloded fast for sure. Yeah,
just to see just acres of those things underneath seats half eaten, which he's
solidified. You're leaving the ballpark and you just see like half eaten nachos With
that, I will hold never well anyway much more. Think of the world,
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