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This is a downbeat on ninety seven
one the Freak all right, joining us

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now on the Freak Hotline. It
is former Rangers outfielder Ya also works over

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at bally Given some Rangers now so
as you catch them on some Rangers broadcasts

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throughout the year. You know him, you love him. It is our

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friend David Murphy. Good morning,
Murph. How you doing good? How

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are you all? We're doing excellent, thrilled that the Rangers are back in

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the playoffs after a few years a
few years off, and thank you so

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much for taking the time before I'm
gonna be a little unprofessional here before I

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start asking you questions for me and
Danny started asking questions. I just want

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to say thank you to you because
you don't know me from Adam, although

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I've interviewed you a few times.
And I used to be on the Bennet

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Skin Show back in the day.
But when I was, you know,

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chasing a career, I was an
intern, go in the locker room,

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and I was a clubhouse. I
was is a clubhouse, yes, And

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I was always a little uncomfortable about
invading the privacy of athletes because I think

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I respect what you do too much
and you were always a guy that I

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could lean on if I needed a
ten to fifteen second sound bite, just

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so I didn't get in trouble by
my bosses at the corporation I worked for.

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So I just want to say thank
you for always being a stand up

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dude and someone who got it and
would be there to, you know,

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kind of talk to the media whenever, well, no problem. And I'm

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feeling I'm feeling what you felt on
this side of it, because even though

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even though I was a player,
I'm now media and so whenever I'm in

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the clubhouse, there's some guys I
talked to, but I get it,

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you know, I don't want to
disturb anybody's routine. And it's weird,

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you know, on this side of
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see where you can kind of fit
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you know, Kevin and Hike,
David this, Danny, Kevin and

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I were talking about this earlier,
and it is kind of We'll get to

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some Rangers raise preview and maybe talk
about their season in a nutshell here in

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a moment, But that dynamic that
the team has with the media and how

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I don't know like maybe uncomfortable or
awkward. It kind of can be for

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both parties because they're kind of necessary, I guess, to one another's success.

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The team kind of needs the media
to be promoted, where the media

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needs to access to players to be
able to get eyes on their on their

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paper or their website or podcast or
whatever that may be. I feel like

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the percentage of people that want to
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the guys in the clubhouse that enjoy
talking to the media is probably a direct

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parallel to the number of guys in
the media that are chasing tape. It's

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probably a small percentage of them that
actually really want to do it. But

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it always seemed, like Kevin said, you're in our experience with you,

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man, you are always just so
gregarious and kind and giving. I think

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that's kind of rare for the most
part to that you seem like you always

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actually enjoyed that. You would you
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I would just say, you know, I never showed up to the ballpark

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a single day and didn't realize how
blessed I was. You know, how

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many kids, how many kids grow
up with a dream of being professional athlete,

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a professional athlete, and such a
small percentage make it. So.

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You know, when I was at
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high on life. I do.
I knew that it was only going to

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be for a period of time and
then it wasn't gonna last forever, and

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so I just tried to soak up
every minute. And so I just think

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that any day at the ballpark was
a great day, and I was just

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always in a good mood. And
you know, there's some guys that are

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that were really good at the game
of baseball that that didn't actually love it,

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and I just, man, I
loved baseball from the second that I

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was three years old. So whether
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talking about it whatever, and especially
not to mention you know, it's one

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thing to get to fulfill and live
your dream, but it's another thing to

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be on an amazing team, which
I always was with those Texas clubs,

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and so that made it even better. We all go through like ebbs and

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flows sometimes, I know, like
with our jobs. But I love this

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job. It's all I ever wanted
to do is do radio. But if

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you ever get down, A guy
told me, it's a long time ago

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he's a Hollywood writer, but he
said to me one time via email,

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he said, who could dream of
getting to entertain thousands? And that's stuck

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with me forever. I'll never forget
that, and I try to remember that

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every single day. But you know, you know, we'll have for good

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days and bad days. Absolutely so, so, David, before we get

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into some hard hitting baseball content,
our friend Alex Tran, who works up

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here, is the guy gonna hook
this up. I mean, I had

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your number. I just want him
to know that that I had your number

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and could have texted you, but
I didn't want to, like again,

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because I think I respected to it. I like beating people down out of

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nowhere because I think if you got
my text, you go, who is

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this again? Yeah? I've known
you for twenty years and I still do

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that, Kevin. Yeah, thank
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Tran and will you say his name
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I went to high school together,
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have a good group of friends that
Alex and I are in. There's three

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other guys and so Alex, you
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five and that's stuck since what since
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I don't remember exactly when I was
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and uh, you know, he
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be to be to be mine,
but my brother, I have one brother,

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so he was mine. But Alex
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years, and he would even you
know, he would always pick a road

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trip to come on throughout the course
of my career. So you know,

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we had just you know, guy's
trip, spent some time together and man,

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just we we've had some great memories
throughout the years. That's not surprised

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because I don't know you, David, but you always carried yourself and came

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across as a really, I don't
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And it's not I don't think it's
any coincidence that you probably surrounded yourself

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with like or similar people. Because
we feel the same way about Alex getting

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to work with him every day,
that don't man, don't give him too

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much credit though, especially on the
air now, I just I just want

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twenty dollars By getting you to say
his name a couple of times. It

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was a challenge and it was accepted. So, okay, Rangers are in

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the playoffs. Obviously weird because I
don't know how much does momentum even mean

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in baseball? Baseball feels like a
day to day proposition. But you know,

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you kind of feel good about where
you were on Thursday night and then

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you blow the lead, and then
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on Saturday, and then a dud
on Sunday and you end up not getting

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a full week off and then having
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to Tampa Bay. And here we
two pm this afternoon, we're getting started.

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What in the world can we even
take from the last few days of

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Rangers baseball? And how does that
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I'll say this, and this is
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know, I feel like momentum is
real. But I feel like whatever whatever

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you thought during the last week,
or any fans around here thought during the

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last week of the regular season,
or if you even want to go back

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to the last months or the last
two months, the way that you know

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the season didn't quite end up the
way that Rangers fans have hope. You

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know, after such a you know, a blistering start in the first three

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months or so. But I think
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is O and O today, So
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And I love, you know,
I've i've I love baseball, so I've

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I've had MLB Network on, I've
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just love the fact that that everybody
is cheering for Tampa because you know,

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the south of everybody right where they
need them. Tyler Glass now is a

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great pitcher, and so they're going
to have their handsful today. But TJ.

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Mittowski mentioned something great on radio yesterday, and it's the fact that the

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Rangers offense is such a big part
of this equation. When they scored five

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runs or more throughout the course of
this season, they won about at an

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eighty percent clip. When they scored
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six percent of their games. So
I think that's the key number right there.

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And we know that power pitching and
really good pitching shows up in the

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postseason. So can the Rangers offense
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against some premium arms in the postseason. I think that's going to be a

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big part of this first series against
the Race. David Murphy, former Ranger

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great joining us here on ninety seven. So this is the second year that

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the wild Card has expanded and taken
this format. And I know you now

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working in media US in media and
as fans, I guess we kind of

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like this because it means it's kind
of extra baseball, it's free baseball.

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It gives other teams a chance because
right now, had the Rangers had this

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format not been available to them,
they would be excluded from the playoffs.

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As a player, though, what
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guess maybe kind of fantasize and put
yourself into this position one that you would

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have never had to deal with in
your career. But that quick turnaround of

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the season's over. Now we've got
to play potentially three games on the road

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just to really kind of get into
the real big boy tournament. Do you

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really just take it one game at
a time or I think or is it

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unavoidable to just look ahead and think
about the bigger picture of the playoffs as

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a whole man? How do you
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this series. I mean you can't
look ahead, you don't you don't know

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if you're gonna win or not.
And you know, I do like the

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new format where in the wildcard round
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because we were in the wildcard game
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and we lost. And you know, baseball is not a one game type

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of thing. That's why you have
a World Series and not a super Bowl.

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And so I think it's just uh, you know, you you're gonna

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run it take uh. You know, the San Diego Padres, they were

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they were a good team on pay
for that underachieved this year. They're they're

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gonna have the likely sty Young winner
and Blake Smell. So what if what

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if the Padres, you know,
a non playoff team, if you put

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them up against the Atlanta Braves,
who is the team that is favored to

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win the World Series this year and
Blake Smell has has his a game,

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You're talking about a non playoff team, you know, in a one game

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playoff that is you know, could
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you know, baseball is a game
that you've got to do it with

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consistency. You play a one hundred
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Uh, it's it's a marathon,
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the season, and then you get
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it's more of a sprint. So
it's kind of a it's a little bit

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of a different format. But I
liked I liked that there's that there's a

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three game series that you know,
if the team comes out they don't play

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their best baseball in Game one,
they still have life and they still have,

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you know, a game to win
and hopefully take it to Game three.

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But let's hope that the Rangers just
go ahead and win in two.

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That's David Murphy joining us here on
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Do you ever sit around man these
days like this, David, I

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can't help but think about twenty ten
and twenty eleven and back then clearly it

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was the Alds. You ever just
kind of reminisce on those days, those

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day games at Tropicana Field in twenty
ten and twenty eleven to kind of get

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the ball rolling on yours World Series
runs. Yeah, some good memories,

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you know. In twenty ten that
was obviously our our first the Rangers first

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time in the postseason in about fifteen
years or so, and so we didn't

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know what to expect. We had
a lot of guys that did not have

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postseason next year. And then we
were going up against the Rays, who

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were just two years removed from the
World Series in which they lost to the

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Philadelphia Phillies in two thousand and eight. So I knew that those guys had

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experience on their side, but at
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much that was going to play out. And sure enough, we came out

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swinging against David Price. You know, I didn't I didn't start that game

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with a lefty on the mount,
and but man, our our offense was

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on fire, and just I was
so pumped and proud of our guys for

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the way that we showed up from
from the word go. And then sure

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enough, same thing in game two. The Rays caught us in three and

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four and that was just a weird
series because no no team won a won

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a home game. And then you
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facing Matt Moore, who was a
big young stud at the time the series

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started at home. Another good series. You know, Adrian Beltrey hit three

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home runs and the clincher and Tampa
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I know, whether it's Tampa,
you know whatever, you go to

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those playoff games back in ten and
eleven, I'm gonna have a lot of

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great memories of all of them.
Well, we reminisced earlier about that that

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twenty ten ray series that you you
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team won, and with Cliffley against
Price in the clincher, it just took

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me back to getting the news when
you guys were able to make that trade

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and get Cliff, which at that
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arguably the most important, biggest a
mid season acquisition that this team had ever

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ever ever done. Man, you
guys had to have been just freaking stoked

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when you knew Cliff was coming to
this team and then to see it manifest

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the way it did to get out
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five against David Price to move on
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that point, right, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean,

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not just to be an exhilarating feeling
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you guys to make a move to
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never seen anything like it around here, man, nothing, nothing like that,

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And to see it workout was just
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so so cool. You know.
It was funny too because we traded for

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Cliff and it's funny because we're in
a rain delay that night and we got

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the news, the announcement was given. The clubhouse was fired up. A

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lot of times. You know,
when you work out in the weight room

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throughout the course of one hundred and
sixty two games, you kind of keep

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it light and minimal. But I
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excited that I got in the weight
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gonna last, and Josh Hamilton was
with me, and there was just this

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sense of energy that you don't feel
every day throughout the course of a major

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league season. And then Cliff comes
and he actually we lost the first game

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that he's threw to Baltimore, and
but sure, I've never played with the

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guy who was so cool, calm
and collected on the big stage, and

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he was we saw the previous year
when he was thrown in the World Series

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for Philly and they ended up losing
that to the Yankees. But man,

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what And the funny thing was I
faced him in triple A. He got

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sent down in two thousand and seven, and I faced him in Triple A

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and he comes back up in two
thousand and eight. He's the Sight Young

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Award winner, pits some big games
for the Phillies in two thousand and nine,

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and then obviously just was was huge
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Well, hopefully tonight, dude,
is the start for a new generation

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of Rangers fans to experience what we
did back in the day, back when

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you guys were making those runs in
two thousand and ten, two thousand and

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eleven, because those times nothing compares
to it in sports, when your team

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is hot and you're in the playoffs. And hopefully this is tonight is the

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start of something like that for for
the next gang. You know, I'm

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stuck on board, yeah one hundred
percent. You know when I run across

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fams, you know, uh,
in DFW, they still talk about the

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two thousand and ten, two thousand
and eleven teams. You know, we

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didn't achieve the Ultimate Prize, but
man, it was fun for us as

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a team. And you can tell
that the Metroplex bought into it too,

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because they really enjoyed it. Well, David, we really appreciate you taking

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the time to hang out with a
couple of jackwagons like us this morning,

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and uh, we'll be catching you're
you're working on Ballyanni this week, getting

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getting some work, getting some reps
in if yeah, if they get to

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if they get to Game three,
I'll be doing post game that day,

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all right. Yeah, Well,
we'll be ready to check you out in

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hopefully celebrating your Rangers victory. Uh, David, really appreciate the time.

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We'll talk to you next time.
Enjoy the guys. I always love talking

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baseball thing. Take care of Bud
there. David Murphy, the great David

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Murphy unless he said he enjoys talking
baseball nine as everything talking to us.

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So yeah, and thank you to
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the next few weeks. On the
October Movie of the Month for the net

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let's Freaking Chill series, so that
we'll get that going with a please,

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it'll be the Benn and Skin Show
for this month. That'll be later on

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in the month, Thursday Night,
the big freak party at the Echo Lounge.

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We're gonna start something real quick.
Let's do and then we'll probably carry

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it over the next break. Okay, the Tampa Bay Rays are our opponents.

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Who's the greatest ray of all time? Well, I mean Lugario would

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probably be. You're selling out names
here. There's only one way to determine

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this. A bracket. Okay,
it's Ray Madness. David Price would be

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on it for sure. No,
I guess I don't understand the game.

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You were trying to say Longoria.
Minute to go to say Lugario Lagario?

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Yeah, yeah, Carl Crawford,
Yeah, maybe gives no. No,

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the greatest ray of all time?
I'll start. JJ would like for you

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to get a vote in on this
because we're gonna need an odd number number

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one seed Christine Ray versus number sixteen
Mikes Roy's favorite golfer, Raymond Floyd.

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I mean I'm going with I'm going
with k Ray two all day of course.

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The number one seed I mean oatmeal
pizza Thursday night at the Echo Lounge,

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come see is free for there by
six number eight seed Ray J And

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I'll tell you what if the Rangers
go down one Oh, no one will

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appreciate a comeback story more than ray
J. Number eight, ray Ja gets

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number nine. Billy ray Cyrus,
ray J all the way because ray J

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started be of something. Oh,
he opened up a lot of doors.

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JJ got a vote here. That
is the worst round every what's eight and

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nine seed is? You know,
it's right in the middle's involved in a

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lot of like iconic relationships. I
don't think people realize, like when he

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uston, I mean he's Brandy's brother. Was Look, if there's no ray

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J, there's no keeping up with
the Kardashi. Well, if there's no

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Billy, if there's no Billy ray
Cyrus, there's no Miley. In fact,

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my I got a wild Billy ray
Cyrus theory because Aki Racky Hart's not

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an original, it's a cover And
if that song doesn't hit, he don't

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make it Like I'm sorry, What
are the other Billy ray Cyrus songs?

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Aren't any? There aren't any exactly, So he doesn't become a star,

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she doesn't become a star. Incredible
there catalysts, he's shows to do a

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cover song or the record label forced
it up on him. Okay, with

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Ray J Ray J. He's Brandy's
brother. Okay, Number four Ray Lewis

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and it's number thirteen, Ray Guy. I'm voting Ray Guy. Or are

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the great punters of our time to
rest in peace? He lost last year?

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No offense to Ray Lewis, but
he might have killed a guy.

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Yeah, let's go. Let's play
it safe and go with mister guy.

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You don't I want to be on
the wrong side of history on that one.

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He does have a great like opening
like walk out, iconic danced.

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Oh, I no doubt absolutely the
greatest of all time. Number five Sugar

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Ray Leonard against number twelve Ray Colmbs, the former Family Feud host. No

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offense to Sugar Ray Leonard. I'm
gonna go and vote first time voting for

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Ray Combs, the former Family Feud
host who he killed himself head into the

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troubles. Yeah he uh yeah,
he was an angry guy, but he

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was solid. I mean for he's
I know, Steve Harvey, Richard Dawson,

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but he did a better job than
al Borland did. Or the guy

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who was on the soap operas on
Seinfeld's Data to Land to get with the

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White Hair. Yeah, forgot his
name. I'm gonna go with Sugar Ray

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Leonard, just because I'm going back
in time to those great even though I'm

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the one that recommended Ray Combs to
be in this bracket, I gotta go

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with Sugar Ray. Come on,
Ray Colmbs destroyed the inside of his house

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and then started hanging his head against
the walls and then told police that he

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fell into his jacuzzi. Troubled man, She was a troubled many hung himself

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with the bit sheets in the person. Sugar or Ray and Leonard gets the

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advancement, and we will finish this
up, maybe with the help of Benin's

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