You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one. The freak Game three
is tonight on the Devil's Night. You guys know what the Devil's Night is,
don't you? Assuming it's the night before Halloween. Kevin, it is
the night before Halloween. But what I did, I used context clues.
Mikey, you did that was very detective, dick of you. I learned
from the best Tonight that originated in Detroit. This is like the Purge.
I mean, it's less violent than the Purge. Do you wish the Purge
was real? No, it'd be amazing. If it was amazing as in
the definition of the word amazing, not really good it look, get your
juice going a little bit. You know, one day you got to be
ready, gotta be ready to play offense or defense. This year, a
lot of people are just gonna slumbering through life, hiding out hick. Not
on Purge night, you would be. That's a wild idea for a movie
or book or whatever. The part Why are you so wide eyed at me?
JJ? It's probably it's a crazy idea. Ever, Okay, I
guess the murder part, obviously that's a big issue. But if there's one
twenty four hour period where all crime was legal minus murder. I mean,
yeah, I would like I would like that, I guess. But just
the concept of it is a crazy idea that some writer came up with.
I think the Hunger Games is something crazy like Okay, that's not even the
kids. And yeah, and fight for your district, Jess. It's really
creative idea. Your job is not to help the kids survive, it's to
make them a spectacle. That's your job. I would fight for our radio
station. And I'm not saying I'd be the best choice, but I'm willing
to do it. I would nominate you to fight. Really, I don't
want to fight for it. Don't want to either, but Son leave me
out. I mean, Kavanaugh is a good choice, but he's all busted
up. He has got of a guimp well of his legs can't fully straight.
He would fail the pre fight physically. I know, I feel like
I have to do it. I don't know. Skin would get yeah mangled.
He can barely get it in out of his car and up the elevator.
Yeah, I bet been would do well if the fight last under fifteen
seconds. I've been in a fifteen second stamina be rough, go for Ryder
and Julie. You know, Groubs wouldn't stand a chance. I wouldn't stand.
It's really up to you. Mike's a bit of a string bean.
Yeah, you are a string bean. These are the times we wish we
saw Catherine. Yeah, because at least he'd go in their psycho style.
Yeah, looking for action. Yeah, well we don't have the perch.
It is merely devil's night. What is it? It's a night of miss
it's miss mischief night. Yeah, in nineteen eighty four, there are a
bunch of fires, but outside of that, it's almost just like one of
the kids that went away to a church retreat get together and started throw an
eggs at people's house, like justin Bieber. It's surely just that. It's
kind of where all of the you know, the pranks that we did as
little kids, egging toilet papering houses, leaving fiery bags of dog crap on
people's doorsteps, that's where all that originated. I've actually ever done that.
I've never done that. It just seems like a prank. That's I don't
know, it seems like an odd thing to something you'd see happy together and
go all the way through it. Stop mentioning happy days? Wrong with you?
Is it tonight that the eggings and nights? Yeah? Traditionally, Yeah,
this started, Yeah in the thirties and forties. All right, let's
go somebody to night. Then it's like the one night it's allowed, the
where the bad boys of radio go out there and egging the police. Why
why'd you do it? It's the Devil's night. Oh, all right,
get home, then get Dale travels on the way out, they'll travel wacky
kids. Okay, enough, goof and let's do the most important thing in
the world. And you put your TV on Fox behind you. Yeah,
sorry, Danny's off kilter. Look, we wanted to test the NBC talent
man. I think they are respected newspeople, fumparison. Danny wants to go
younger. I'm a fox Man's man. Guy over there. Well, whatever
happened in game two when Merrill Kelly was on his A game. First of
all, it's tough to lose to a guy named Meryll. That that didn't
sit well with me because his name's Merrill. But I was distracted by Matthew
Perry News and didn't think about it. Too much Game one though, hot
Dog, I mean, is that the best moment? It's up there,
the best combination of moments in franchise history. God, that's unlis greatest World
Series games played, or you know, the most exciting greatest moments in World
Series history. It's there, right. What was the score when Nefty struck
out a rod? It's like sixty two. Not even say all right,
because that's everyone's kind of number one, but it's more like the symbolism of
the moment. Yeah. But yeah, dude, when Seeger cranked that and
he knew it, that was magic, flew off the chair first pitch right
after they I mean they I think it was Smoltz that barely ended his sentence
talking about him going after a first pitch and launching one. Yeah. And
they were also raving about Paul Seawold at the time, who, as Danny
told us in our scouting reports on Friday when we did a big World Series
preview, Paul Sewold, who was in that was a Southern rock cover band
called Molly Hatchet Wound. In his spare time, I don't know if he
was thinking about a new song or what that he was trying to learn but
he wasn't focused on doing the right thing, and he gave a meat ball
to Corey Seeker. This is after Leodi Taveres drew a lead off walk to
start the inning. So it's five three and we told you the numbers eight
scoreless innings in the preseason, six for six and saves. Paul Sewold is
pretty dominant, all right, and he walks. Leodi Simkin got out.
I forgot how Simeon got out. Struck out. Uh oh, Marcus,
we're gonna need you to hit the ball soon. And then Corey and that's
the whole discussion. Is like even after the game, people were like,
why did they throw it to him? Just Corey Seekers getting into that boat
of in that situation, just walk in and we'll take our chances with Evan
Carter, who we'll hear from later in the show, and then we'll go
to extra innings. And I was, I mean, I had a feeling
like something good could happen here once Leodi get the lead off walk. But
you're not thinking we're gonna tie the game and win it. You're probably thinking
we're probably gonna lose Game one. And then that happened, and that was
the biggest bomb. There's just something about the dude who's as calm as Heeger
is him showing that instant emotion, knowing it before they even switched camp.
I mean not that you have to be very astute to understand what happened,
yeah, but this because you know, it's hard to tell on contact sometimes,
you know, like some shots that look like, oh my god,
oh that happened a bunch and on Saturday you're right, and they're kind of
lazy flies or warning track even, and some are no doubters, and some
look good then they're way foul. I don't know, it's kind of hard
to tell, especially on TV. Yes, yeah, listen to this.
This is Game seven in Houston that we went to. Okay, we're sitting
up in the four hundreds again Game seven ALCS, but it's the first inning
home run that Corey Seeker hit. Here's a clip on a play from Austin
Hedges on a podcast he did with Chris Rose, talking about Corey Seeker being
calm all the time and then that moment that that happened in Game seven of
the Houston series in the first inning, like Corey doesn't show emotion, like
never really shows emotion. He's just the same guy every day. And when
he hit that homer and comes into the dugout crazy excited, like let's go,
boys, Like I swear that was an eleven run homer. Like he
hit that homer and everyone was like and then he gets fired up. Okay
he said, what you know, he sounds like Jeorts. Yeah, he's
funny. Big time is like George, yes, wait again, I want
to hear it. Think George. It was like everything shifted, like,
oh okay, let's go. Like he saved it for the right moment,
and in that moment, everybody just like, I feel like, just raise
everybody's level of play and so like like to me, that was a that
was a solo shot worth eleven runs and eleven run solo home run because he
was like he walks in with crazy eye to the dugout and they're like,
oh my god. The calmest dude on the team is geeked, you know,
Joe Joe Davis dude. I wish he would just go hurl himself off
a shed, you know, like I don't want to die injury. Is
that what we're I mean? Here we go another cigarette baseball robot Corey Siegert
hitting Robot back in the box, stop calling him that they did a whole
interview before the game with him where he is talking about Yeah, I mean,
I don't like to Joe' motion. It doesn't like come natural to me.
But when I do feel it, I will show it. I'm not
you know, I'm mute. It means it's amazing that Joe Davis keeps doing
that thing, and I'm like, God, shut up, go away for
a little bit, go find the nearest shed. Yeah, maybe maybe twist
an ankle after falling I don't know seven feet up there. I mean,
I want to be clear. I don't want him to die just to like
you said, of some type of injury that's not serious in nature anyway.
Is he just fell off? Maybe he slipped, you know, I don't
want him to be intentional. Can we go to extras? Boy? So
they rode a clerk for another inning to get through the tenth and the eleventh.
He goes two innings and he was damn near perfect. I mean,
that was the good version of Jose. Yeah. That was the least wild
ride that we've seen from him. Yeah this postseason. And then we get
nothing in the tenth and I'm trying to think, remember what happened in the
tenth inning? I don't think we got yeah because Nate Low. We had
a lead off walk, Naylo walk, and then Young hitting a double play
the jungle Cat Josh Young grinned into a double play. And then but we
had action because the Tavaris walk and Simeon single. Yeah, and then and
then stupid anything grounded out the second like a real third. Can he do
it again? And then we get to the eleventh and the legend of El
Bombi continues, Yeah to right field, weird and we win, And that
was just holy count. Well, that's one that I wasn't sure about when
it left the bat. That just illustrates how effing strong that guy is to
reach out and muscle that thing that is all those lats, whatever those strange
muscles are that he has growing on top of each other. Yeah, one
by one, which I don't need any more information on. He's just a
big, strong athlete. He is playing baseball. Are you trying to do
the l Bombay workout series? Would you buy it? If he saw something
so now by the thigh master, would you buy it a DVD? Or
a A bop it or whatever product he sells it. Yeah, I would
love those lats. But yes, you're right that that allows what would be
a maybe lazy fly at a deep right field. That turns that into a
damn walk off World Series home run. Incredible, Oh beautiful, And then
it took I think ten walks we needed to get the six runs. Did
you see his immediate reaction because it kind of we remember his his launch off
of the wall that should have been a double, a stand up double that
he just stood and watched in Houston. You saw him for a minute about
to do that, and then he caught himself real quick and started busting it
to first base. He remembers mister Bruce yelling at him. Yeah, mister
Bruce, I need to be on second base. I bet he calls him,
mister Bruce, I move on next time. Get your head out of
your head. I love when they interviewed him after the game. He had
his translator and it was completely unnecessary. Didn't need him. He's getting comfortable.
Yea uh so awesome. We uh and then sucking Game two. I
mean, there's not a lot to say about Game two. Merrill Kelly pitched
a Jim. I didn't think George was that bad. He made a couple
of mistakes, but overall, you'll take that start, man, you will
take that start out of out of this staff. Hell yeah, Diamonbacks are
good. They're they're weird, They're weirdly good. They are a team that
looks like they shouldn't be there. But when you see him play, you
realize why they are and you wonder, you kind of are afraid because it's
been sustainable this why wouldn't it continue to be sustainable. Because that's a strange
brand of baseball they're playing. That is old school it is, and I
know you're gonna talk with some of the small ball, but like going into
it, there's like, oh, watch the defense. The defense is great,
And I'm like, really, all right, that's what you're gonna The
first thing you're gonna say is how good their defense is. I'm like,
that kind of wash itself out and might not even really decide one seven game
series. Like, fine, if you're a great defensive team over the course
of one sixty two, it's gonna show itself. But okay, the first
thing you say is great defense, and then their first baseman bare hands one
that bounces off first base was momentum going the opposite direction. It recovers that
throw the guy out by what's eight feet? Yeah, the only thing that
they lack is big power. It seems like, and maybe they're starting pitching
isn't the best, but boy, when their bullpen is on all cylinders,
my god, good luck with that. Man. Yeah, I know those
guys, the guy with the hair he looks almost a little bit amish or
a little bit like Jeff Daniels with the haircut and dumb and dumber. Ginkle,
yeah, yeah, Ginkle, And they're kind of ripped. And then
that side arm with Ryan Thompson's his name, That side arm guy. Yeah,
it's not full side arm, but it's just coming at you. Like
they called the frisbee on the broadcast. That was a good term for it,
throwing those up there, like, oh my god, I wouldn't want
to hit that. After seeing a guy pitch normally all night when I talked
we're talking about this before the show, it's like, man, when when
you had when you're a pitcher and you can exhibit the kind of control that
Merrill has or had on Saturday Night, it's amazing how much. The home
plate umpire just kind of trusts you, the pitcher, to make the call
for him, because we saw it a bunch on Saturday night where pitches were
clearly three to four inches out of outside of the strike zone and they were
automatic. He the umpire was calling them strikes, and you saw the Ranger
batters getting frustrated with that, even more so when the same luxury wasn't afforded
to them when their picture was on the mound. But it's kind of the
benefit of showing that kind of that was Maddox esque type control. I mean,
he was painting and changing speeds and keeping those guys off balance and they're
timing off for what was it? Did he go full seven? Six?
He went? He went full seven right seven, three hits, one earned.
Anytime you see that no walks, a lot of k's is so scared.
Nine k's no walks. It was the Garber home run. Yeah,
I thought for a minute that Nate Lowe, because Nate low hit won to
left field, and I thought he did kind of what he did in Houston
when he went I'm sorry we didn't Texas. In Game five, the left
field just barely gets it over homer and he almost did. I was like,
that would have tied the game that moment. They had a lot of
warn track home runs. The Rangers had three or four on Saturday night that
just didn't quite have enough. But you can't say enough about that pitching performance,
dude, it was sick. What do you guys think about the their
willingness, especially early in games, just to start moving runners. I don't
love it. I mean there's part of me that loves it, you know,
kind of growing up with baseball being played that way. But there's another
part of me that thinks it's it can bite you in the butt, especially
if you're playing a slugging team like Texas. I am highly against giving away
outs. Yep. But their manager even said it, and this is a
couple of weeks ago in the playoffs, he was asked about that and he
was like, I don't love playing small ball either, but sometimes that's it
suits what we have best. He's bestly just saying we don't have a big
power hitter. Yeah, they're drive in everyone all the time, So I
mean, you play to your strengths and that fast. The one thing about
what they have is if they can get on base That's the thing is just
get on base infield single uh you know, Baltimore pop ups or chops or
whatever you call it. Wormhop. You know these guys are able to leg
out. What otherwise would it be, you know, putouts at first,
then the chaos can can begin. The only problem you run into is if
you've got a mashing team on the other side, that's you know, hitting
their cylinders, you're gonna get clubbed. It hadn't happened yet. I yes,
it guess it happened on Friday. But you know that they were in
the lead. They were about to win that game if it weren't for Corey
Seeger. And you were about to be down two to oh going out there
if it weren't for Corey Seeger. So I don't know, man, this
team's a little scary. That's a scary It's a scary truth that you know
that they won whatever sixteen innings or however you want to figure it out.
Yeah, and yes, we are frighteningly close to being down oh two,
and then panic would ensue and I would understand, but it's not the case.
It's one. One the taste we have in our mouth is Game two,
which is not a delicious one. But we're fine. We're absolutely fine.
We're fine. And we saw everything that happened in the Houston series when
we went two oh in Houston, thinking, oh my god, holy calcul
that happened was all three games at home? Oh my god, holy cow,
how could that happens? And then you went to very very simple,
a big question both teams. I don't know who's gonna start Game four,
So we're still rocking A two be determined right now, so it's Sures reversus
fat tonight. Maybe we'll hear the game three preview song a little bit later
eight thirty. Also at eight thirty an interview that Evan Carter did after game
one, and we'll we'll have to count the times that he said the word
gosh, oh my gosh, oh gosh. That might be the sweetest,
most innocent, normal man. Coming up next, Did you guys know the
Cowboys played yesterday? I did? Did you guys know that the MAVs played
the other night barely until I saw that damn box score? Holy crap.
More on that next. In ninety seven one, the Free